CANTAT A. Set by Mr. GALLIAR D. WHILE on your blooming charms I gaze, Your tender lips, your foft enchanting eyes, How can I bear that fix'd difdain? AIR. Tyrant Cupid! when, relenting, RECITATIVE. But fee! while to my paffion voice I give, Th' applauded beauty, doubly bright, Seems in the moving tale to take delight, And looks, as fhe would let me live; And yet fhe chides, but with so sweet an air, That while the Love denies, the yet forbids Despair. 15 AIR. Fear not, doubting fair! t'approve me; Frown not, if you answer no; If you answer, frown not, no. If you'll stay and fee my ruin? Blush not, doubting fair, t' approve me; Can you love me ?> Smile, and every fear forego !A 25 30 AN Y [OVERTURE OF SOFT MUSIC. ] BRITANNI A. RECITATIVE. E generous Arts and Muses, join; While down your cheeks the ftreaming forrows flow, Let murmuring ftrings with the foft voice combine T'express the melody of woe. And Thy voice could best the joyful tidings tell; . Immortal Mercy! boundless Love! A God defcending from above, To conquer Death and Hell. VII. There yet remains an hour of fate, When Music muft again its charms employ; Shall call the numerous nations under ground. 80 Appear; and fome with grief, and fome with joy, 85 Their final fentence wait. GRAND CHORUS. Then other arts fhall pass away : Proud Architecture shall in ruins lie, And Painting fade and die, Nay Earth, and Heaven itself, in wasteful fire decay. 9o The world's last blaze. The tuneful fifters fhall embrace, And praise and fing, and fing and praise, In never-ceafing choirs to all eternity. 95 APOLLO DAP Along the winding fhore of Peneus flew, To fhun Love's tender, offer'd joy; Though 'twas a God that did her charms purfue. While thus Apollo, in a moving strain, Awak'd his lyre, and softly breath'd his amorous pain. The River's echoing banks with pleasure did prolong The fweetly warbled founds, and murmur'd with the fong. 15 La Daphne |