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 show,

What the patriot was below.

Here, let a weeping Cupid ftand,

And wound himself with his own dart; There place the ducal crown, the sword, the wand,, The mark of Anna's truft and his command..

A IR.

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.

BRITANNIA.

RECITATIVE.

Behold fair Liberty attend,

And in Devonia's lofs bewail a friend.
See! o'er his tomb perpetual lamps the 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 just,
"Yet fcorn'd his freedom to betray;
“And, hated by all tyrants, chofe
"The glory to have such his foes.”

AUGUST A.

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.

BRITANNIA.

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 flight, Otime!
BOTH. And as thou flying groweft 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 auspicious powers.
BRIT. Gently smooth thy flight, O time!
AUG. Smoothly wing thy flight, O time!
BOTH. And as thou flying growest old,

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Still this happy race behold

In Britannia's court fublime.

PILOG GUE

Spoken by Mr. MILLS,

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

WHETHER our stage 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 difplay ;

Such worth confpicuous, beauty fo 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 shall 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 infpire'

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

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

Then as by you, in folid glory bright,

Our envy'd ifle through Europe fpreads her light,
And rifing honours every year fustain,

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And mark the golden track of Anne's diftinguifh'd reign;

So, by your prefence here, we'll ftrive 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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WRITTEN IN A WINDOW

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GREEN HIT HE.

GREAT prefident of light, and eye of day,
As through this glafs you caft your visual ray,
And view with nuptial joys two brothers bleft,
And fee us celebrate the genial fcaft,

Confefs that, in your progrefs round the sphere, You've found the happiest youths and brightest beauties here.

THE TOASTER S.

WHILE

HILE circling healths infpire your sprightly
wit,

And on each glass fome beauty's praise is writ,
You ask, my friends, how can my silent Muse
To Montague's foft name a verfe refuse?
Bright though the be, of race victorious sprung,
By wits ador'd, and by courts poets fung,
Unmov'd I hear her perfon call'd divine,
I fee her features uninfpiring fhine;
A fofter fair my foul to transport warms,
And, the once nam'd, no other nymph has charms.

TOFTS AND MARGARETTA.

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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 just, 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 the shakes:

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