Did all his fongs and heavenly skill impart ; Repeating aid each fong improve, And breath'd into his airs the charms of love, And taught the matter thus to touch the heart. AIR. Love, infpiring Sounds perfuading, Makes his darts refiftless fly: Arts afpiring, Gives them wings to rife more high. 20 25 YE E tender powers! how fhall I move Conquer for me, or I die! Ye tender powers! how fhall I move K 5 RE RECITATIVE. Thus, in a melancholy fhade, A penfive lover to his aid Invok'd the god of warm defire; Love heard him, and, to gain the maid, Did his fuccessful thought infpire. AIR. Take her humour, fmile, be gay, In her favourite follies join, That's the charm will make her thine. Caft thy ferious airs away, Freely courting, Toying, fporting, Sooth her hours with amorous play. That's the charm will make her thine. 10 15 20 PASTOR A, PASTORA, A CANTATA. SET BY MR. PEPUSCH. RECITATIVE. ON fam'd Arcadia's flowery plains, The gay Paftora once was heard to sing ; Clofe 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. You must every humour try. Damon, who long ador'd this fprightly maid, Yet never durft his love relate, Refolv'd at laft to try his fate, He figh'd!--She fmil'd ;--He kneel'd and pray'd; She frown'd;-He rofe, and walk'd away, 20 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 lock'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 pursued her : Cupid laugh'd, and crown'd his love. 25 30 A PASTORAL MASQUE. SCENE, A PROSPECT OF A WOOD. YE Enter a Shepherd, and fings. E nymphs and fhepherds of the grove, Sighing, panting for poffeffing! Leave your flocks. and haste away, 5 With folemn state To celebrate Cupid and Hymen's holiday. Enter a band of thepherds on one fide with garlands on the other fide, Mhepherdeffes with canifters of flowers. CHORUS. From the echoing hills, and the jovial plains, With folemn ftate 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 árrows, &c. On each fide the bower, walks of cyprefs trees, and fountains playing; a diftant landskip terminates the profpect. Verfe for a fhepherdess, with flutes. See the mighty Power of Love Sleeping in a Cyprian grove ! Nymphs and fhepherds, gently fhed 15 |