BRIT. And wakeful Fame defend,
AUG. And grateful Truth commend,
BOTH. The generous and the brave!

AUGUST A.

RECITATIVE.

Now fhall Augufta's fons their skill impart,
And fummon the dumb fifter art,

In marble life to fhow,

What the patriot was below.

Here, let a weeping Cupid ftand,

And wound himself with his own dart;

There place the ducal crown, the fword, the wand, The mark of Anna's truft and his command.

AIR.

Lofty birth and honours shining,
Bring a light on noble minds.
Every courtly grace combining,
Every generous action joining,

With eternal laurel binds.
Lofty birth and honours fhining,
Bring a light on noble minds.

BRITANNIA.

RECITATIVE.

Behold fair Liberty attend,

6 And in Devonia's lofs bewail a friend.
See! o'er his tomb perpetual lamps she lights,

Then, on his urn the goddess writes:

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"Preferve, O urn his filent duft,,
"Who faithful did obey
"Princes like Anna good and juft,
"Yet fcorn'd his freedom to betray;
"And, hated by all tyrants, chofe
"The glory to have fuch his foes."

AUGUSTA.

RECITATIVE.

Genius of Britain! give thy forrows o'er.
A grateful tribute thou haft paid
To thy Devonia's noble shade;

Now, vainly weep the dead no more!
For fee the duke and patriot ftill furvives,
And in his Great Succeffor lives.

BRITANNI A.

RECITATIVE.

I own the new arifing light,

I fee paternal grandeur fhine,

Defcending, through th' illuftrious line,
In the fame royal favours bright.

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Laft DUETTO, with all the inftruments. BRIT. Gently fmooth thy flight, O time! AUG. Smoothly wing thy fight, O time! BOTH. And as thou flying growest old, Still this happy race behold In Britannia's court fublime.

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BRIT. Lead along their smiling hours;
AUG. Long produce their smiling hours;
BOTH. Bleft by all aufpicious powers.
BRIT. Gently smooth thy flight, O time!
AUG. Smoothly wing thy flight, O time!
BOTH. And as thou flying growest old,
Still this happy race behold

In Britannia's court fublime.

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Spoken by Mr. MILLS,

At the Queen's Theatre, on his Benefit-Night, February 16, 1709; a little before the Duke of Marlborough's going for Holland.

WHETHER our ftage all others does excell

In ftrength of wit, we'll not presume to tell:
But this, with noble, conscious pride, we'll fay,
No Theatre fuch glories can display ;

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Such worth conspicuous, beauty so divine,
As in one British audience mingled shine.
Who can, without amazement, turn his fight,
And mark the awful circle here to-night?
Warriors, with ever-living laurels, brought
From empires fav'd, from battles bravely fought, 10
Here fit; whofe matchless story fhall adorn
Scenes yet unwrit, and charm e'en ages yet unborn.
Yet who would not expect fuch martial fire,
That fees what eyes thofe gallant deeds inspire'

Valour and Beauty still were Britain's claim,
Both are her great prerogatives of Fame;

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By both the Muses live, from both they catch their flame.

Then as by you, in folid glory bright,

Our envy'd ifle through Europe spreads her light,
And rifing honours every year sustain,

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And mark the golden track of Anne's diftinguish'd

reign ;

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So, by your prefence here, we'll strive to raise

To nobler heights our action and our plays;

And Poets from your favours fhall derive
That immortality they boaft to give.

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GREENHI THE.

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REAT prefident of light, and

eye

of day,

vifual ray,

As through this glafs you caft your
And view with nuptial joys two brothers bleft,
And fee us celebrate the genial feast,

Confefs that, in your progrefs round the sphere,
You've found the happieft youths and brightest beau-

ties here.

THE TOASTERS.

WHILE circling healths inspire your sprightly

wit,

And on each glafs fome 'beauty's praife is writ,
You afk, my friends, how can my filent Mufe
To Montague's foft name a verse refuse?
Bright though the be, of race victorious sprung,
By wits ador'd, and by court-poets fung,
Unmov'd I hear her perfon call'd divine,
I fee her features uninfpiring fhine;
A fofter fair my foul to tranfport warms,

And, the once nam'd, no other nymph has charms.

TOFTS AND MARGARETT A.

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USIC has learn'd the difcords of the state,

And concerts jar with whig and tory hate.
Here Somerfet and Devonshire attend

The British Tofts, and every note commend,
To native merit juft, and pleas'd to fee
We've Roman arts, from Roman bondage free,
There fam'd L'Epine does equal skill employ,
While listening peers crowd to th' ecstatic joy:
Bedford, to hear her fong, his dice forfakes,
And Nottingham is raptur'd when she shakes:

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