it; but rather, if you would
have me live, send me not from you, without a Confirmation of that
little Hope. See, Madam, (said he, more earnestly and trembling) see we
are almost arriv'd at our Homes, send me not to mine in a Despair that I
cannot support with Life; but tell me, I shall be bless'd with your
Sight, sometimes in your Balcony, which is very near to a jetting Window
in our House, from whence I have sent many a longing Look towards yours,
in hope to have seen my Soul's Tormentor.' 'I shall be very unwilling
(said she) to enter into an Intrigue of Love or Friendship with a Man,
whose Parents will be averse to my Happiness, and possibly mine as
refractory, tho' they cannot but know such an Alliance would be very
considerable, my Fortune not being suitable to yours: I tell you this,
that you may withdraw in time from an Engagement, in which I find there
will be a great many Obstacles.' 'Oh! Madam, (reply'd _Rinaldo_,
sighing) if my Person be not disagreeable to you, you will have no
occasion to fear the rest; 'tis that I dread, and that which is all my
Fear.' He, sighing, beheld her with a languishing Look, that told her,
he expected her Answer; when she reply'd, 'Sir, if that will be
Satisfaction enough for you at this time, I do assure you, I have no
Aversion for your Person, in which I find more to be valu'd, than in any
I have yet seen; and if what you say be real, and proceed from a Heart
truly affected, I find, in spite of me, you will oblige me to give you
Hope.'

They were come so near their own Houses, that he had not time to return
her any Answer; but with a low Bow he acknowledg'd her Bounty, and
express'd the Joy her last Words had given him, by a Look that made her
understand he was charm'd and pleas'd; and she bowing to him with an Air
of Satisfaction in her Face, he was well assur'd, there was nothing to
be seen so lovely as she then appear'd, and left her to go into her own
House: but till she was out of sight, he had not power to stir, and then
sighing, retired to his own Apartment, to think over all that had past
between them. He found nothing but what gave him a thousand Joys, in all
she had said; and he blest this happy Day, and wondred how his Stars
came so kind, to make him in one hour at once see _Atlante_, and have
the happiness to know from her Mouth, that he was not disagreeable to
her: Yet with this Satisfaction, he had a thousand Thoughts mix'd which
were tormenting, and those were