AIR.

Fear not, doubting fair! t'approve me;
Can you love me?

Frown not, if you answer no ;

If you aniwer, frown not, no.
When again I ask, pursuing,
If you'll stay and fee my ruin?
Fly-but let me with you go!

Blush not, doubting fair, t' approve me;
Can you love me?

Smile, and every fear forego!

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BRITANNIA.

RECITATIVE.

E generous Arts and Mufes, join;

While down your cheeks the ftreaming forrows flow, Let murmuring ftrings with the foft voice combine T'exprefs the melody of woe.

And

And thou, Augufta! rise and wait

With decent honours on the great; Condole my lofs, and weep Devonia's fate.

AIR. [with flutes.]

Queen of cities! leave a while
Thy beauteous finile,

Turn to tender grief thy joy.
From thy fhore of Thames replying,
Gentleft echoes fainting, dying,
Shall their forrow too employ.
Queen of cities! leave awhile

Thy beauteous smile,

Turn to tender grief thy joy.

AUGUSTA.

RECITATIVE.

'Tis fame's chief immortality,
Britannia, to be mourn'd by thee.
I know the lofs; from midnight skies
Ill omens late did ftrike my eyes;
Near the radiant northern car
I look'd, and faw a falling ftar.

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AIR.

Great George! whose azure emblems of renown Are the fair gifts of Britain's crown,

Patron of my illustrious ifle!

Thou faw'ft thy order late expreft

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With added brightness on Devonia's breast; Meet the companion knight, and own him with a smile.

DUETTO FOR BRITANNIA

AND AUGUSTA.

BRIT. To fhade his peaceful grave,
Let growing palms extend!

AUG. To grace his peaceful grave,
Let hovering Loves attend!

BOTH. To fhade, &c

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To grace, &c.

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

AUGUSTA.

RECITATIVE.

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

In marble life to show,

What the patriot was below.

Here, let a weeping Cupid stand,

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 fhining,

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

BRITANNI A.

RECITATIVE.

Behold fair Liberty attend,

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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