MARS.

Sound the trumpet, beat the drum ;
Through all the world around,

Sound a reveillé, found, found,
The warrior god is come.

CHORUS OF ALL.

Sound the trumpet, &c.

MOMUS.

Thy fword within the scabbard keep,

And let mankind agree;

Better the world were fast asleep,

Than kept awake by thee.

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The fools are only thinner,

Calms appear,

Enter VENUS.

VENUS.

when ftorms are paft;

Love will have his hour at last:

Nature is my kindly care;

Mars destroys, and I repair;

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Take me, take me, while you may,
Venus comes not every day.

CHORUS OF ALL.

Take her, take her, &c.

CHRONOS.

The world was then fo light,

I fcarcely felt the weight;

Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.

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But, fince the queen of pleafure left the ground,

I faint, I lag,

And feebly drag

The pondrous orb around.

MOMUS.

All, all of a piece throughout:
Thy chace had a beast in view;

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CHORUS OF ALL.

All, all of a piece throughout;

Thy chace had a beast in view:
Thy wars brought nothing about;

Thy lovers were all untrue.

"Tis well an old age is out,

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And time to begin a new.

Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriors, and lovers.

SONG

OF A

SCHOLAR AND HIS MISTRESS,

WHO BEING CROSSED BY THEIR FRIENDS, FELL MAD FOR ONE ANOTHER; AND NOW FIRST MEET IN BEDLAM.

[Mufic within.]

The Lovers enter at oppofite doors, each held
by a Keeper.

PHILLIS.

LOOK, look, I fee—I see

"Tis he-Tis he alone;

For, like him, there is none:

my

love appear!

'Tis the dear, dear man, 'tis thee, dear.

AMYNTAS.

Hark! the winds war;

The foamy waves roar;

I fee a ship afar,

Toffing and toffing, and making to the shore:

But what's that I view,

So radiant of hue,

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St. Hermo, St. Hermo, that fits upon the fails?

Ah! No, no, no.

St. Hermo, never, never fhone fo bright; "Tis Phillis, only Phillis, can shoot so fair a light; 'Tis Phillis, 'tis Phillis, that faves the ship alone, For all the winds are hush'd, and the storm is overblown.

Let me go,

PHILLIS.

let me run, let me fly to his arms.

AMYNTAS.

If all the fates combine,

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And all the furies join,

I'll force my way to Phillis, and break through

the charm.

[Here they break from their keepers, run to each other, and embrace.]

PHILLIS.

Shall I marry the man I love?

And fhall I conclude my pains?
Now blefs'd be the powers above,
I feel the blood bound in my veins ;
With a lively leap it began to move,

And the vapours leave my brains.

AMYNTAS.

Body join'd to body, and heart join'd to heart, To make fure of the cure,

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Go call the man in black, to mumble o'er his

part