C Α Ν

Ν Τ Α Τ Α.

T A T

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 surprize :
But, cruel goddess ! when I find

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Diana's coldness in your mind,

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

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

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But see! while to my passion voice I give, 15

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

And looks, as she would let me live;
And yet the chides, but with so sweet an air,
That while the Love denies, the yet forbids Despair.

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 :ot, doubting fair, t' approve me;

Can you love me?
Smile, and every fear forego !

RECITATIVE. Y generous Arts and Muses, join ;

While down yourcheeks the Atreaming sorrows flow, Let murmuring Atrings with the soft voice combine T'express the melody of woe.

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And thou, Augusta ! rise and wait

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

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Queen of cities ! leave a while

Thy beauteous sinile,
Turn to tender grief thy joy.
From thy shore of Thames replying,
Gentlest echoes fainting, dying,

Shall their forrow too employ.
Queen of cities! leave awhile

Thy beauteous imile,
Tura to tender grief thy joy.

RECITA TÍ V E.
'Tis fame's chief immortality,
Britannia, to be mourn'd by thee.
I know the loss; from midnight skies
Ill omens ļate did ftrike my eyes ;
Near the radiant northern car
I look'd, and saw a falling Atar.

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Lands remote the loss will hear ;

From rocks reporting,

Seas transporting,
Will the wasted soi row bear.

Winds that fly,

Will softly sigh,
A star has left the British sphere.

Lands remote, &c.

BRITANNI A.

RECITATIV E.

Great George! whose azure emblems of renown

Are the fair gifts of Britain's crown,
Patron of my illustrious ise!

Thou saw'lt thy order late exprest
With added brightness on Devonia's breast; 35
Meet the companion knight, and own him with a smile.

DUETTO FOR BRITANNIA

AND AUGUST A. Brit. To fhade his peaceful grave,

Lit growing palms extend ! Aug. To grace his peaceful grave, Let hovering Loves attend !

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