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Did all his fongs and heavenly skill impart ;
The boy, to recompenfe his art,

Repeating aid each song improve,

And breath'd into his airs the charms of love, And taught the mafter thus to touch the heart. AIR.

Love, infpiring

Sounds perfuading,

Makes his darts refiftleis fly :
Beauty aiding,

Arts afpiring,

Gives them wings to rife more high.

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YE tender powers! how fhall I move

A careless maid that laughs at love?
Cupid, to my fuccour fly!

Come with all thy thrilling darts,
Thy melting flames to foften hearts;
Conquer for me, or I die!

Ye tender powers! how fhall I move
A careless maid that laughs at Love
Cupid, to my fuccour fly!

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RECITATIVE.

Thus, in a melancholy shade,

A penfive lover to his aid

Invok'd the god of warm defire;

Love heard him, and, to gain the maid,

Did his fuccefsful thought inspire.

AIR.

Take her humour, fmile, be gay,

In her favourite follies join,

That's the charm will make her thine.

Caft. thy serious airs away,

Freely courting,

Toying, sporting,

Sooth her hours with amorous play.
Take her humour, smile, be gay,
In her favourite follies join,

That's the charm will make her thine.

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PASTOR A,

PASTOR A,

A CANT AT A.

SET BY MR. PEPUSCH.

RECITATIVE.

ON fam'd Arcadia's flowery plains,

The gay Paftora once was heard to fing;

Close by a fountain's crystal spring

She warbled out her merry ftrains.

AIR.

Shepherds, would you hope to please us,

You must every humour try;

Sometimes flatter, fometimes teaze us,

Often laugh, and sometimes cry.

Shepherds, would you hope to please us,

You must every humour try.

Soft denials

Are but trials,

You must follow when we fly.

Shepherds, would you hope to please us,

You must every humour try.

RECITATIVE.

Damon, who long ador'd this fprightly maid,

Yet never durft his love relate,

Refolv'd at last to try his fate,

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He figh'd--She fmil'd ;--He kneel'd and pray'd;

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She frown'd;-He rofe, and walk'd away,
But foon returning look'd more gay,

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And fung and danc'd, and on his pipe a chearful

echo play'd.

AIR. [with an echo of flutes.] Paftora fled to a fhady grove;

Damon view'd her,

And pursued her;

Cupid laugh'd, and crown'd his love.

The Nymph look'd back, well pleas'd to fee

That Damon ran as fwift as the.

Paftora fled to a fhady grove,

Damon view'd her,

And purfued her :

Cupid laugh'd, and crown'd his love.

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PASTORAL MASQUE.

SCENE, A PROSPECT OF A WOOD.

Enter a Shepherd, and fings.

YE nymphs and thepherds of the grove,

That know the pleasing pains of love,
Eager for th' expected bleffing,

Sighing, panting for poffeffing!

Leave your flocks. and hafte away,

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With folemn ftate

To celebrate

Cupid and Hymen's holiday.

Enter a band of shepherds on one fide with garlands; on the other fide, fhepherdeffes with canisters of flowers.

CHORU S.

From the echoing hills, and the jovial plains,
Where the pleasure, and plenty, and happiness reigns,
We leave our flocks, and hafte away,

With folemn state

To celebrate

Cupid and Hymen's holiday.

[A dance here.]

Scene opening difcovers a pleasant bower, with the God of Love afleep, attended by Cupids, fome playing with his bow, others fharpening his arrows, &c. On each fide the bower, walks of cyprefs trees, and fountains playing; a diftant landikip terminates the profpect.

Verfe for a fhepherdefs, with flutes.

See the mighty Power of Love

Sleeping in a Cyprian grove!

Nymphs and fhepherds, gently fhed
Spices round his facred head;

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