CANT A T A.

Set by Mr. GALLIA R D.

WHILE on your blooming charms I gaze,

Your tender lips, your soft enchanting eyes,
And all the Venus in your face,

I'm fill'd with pleasure and furprize :
But, cruel goddess! when I find
Diana's coldness in your mind,

How can I bear that fix'd difdain?
My pleasure dies, and I but live in pain.

AIR.

Tyrant Cupid! when, relenting,
Will you touch the charmer's heart?
Sooth her breast to soft confenting,
Or remove from mine the dart!
Tyrant Cupid! when, relenting,
Will you touch the charmer's heart?

RECITATIVE.

But fee! while to my paffion voice I give,

Th' applauded beauty, doubly bright, Seems in the moving tale to take delight,

And looks, as she would let me live;

And yet she chides, but with so sweet an air,

That while the Love denies, the yet forbids Despair.

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AIR.

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

Frown not, if you answer no;

If you answer, frown not, no.
When again I ask, pursuing,
If you'll stay and see 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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RECITATIVE.

YE 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! rife 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 fimile,
Turn to tender grief thy joy.

AUGUST A.

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.

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

Patron of my illustrious ifle!

Thou faw'st thy order late expreft

With added brightness on Devonia's breast ; 35 Meet the companion knight, and own him with a smile.

DUETTO FOR BRITANNIA

AND AUGUSTA.

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

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

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