RECITATIVE. Thus, in a melancholy fhade, A penfive lover to his aid Invok'd the god of warm defire; Love heard him, and, to gain the maid, AIR. Take her humour, fmile, be gay, In her favourite follies join, That's the charm will make her thine. Freely courting, Toying, sporting, Sooth her hours with amorous play. In her favourite follies join, That's the charm will make her thine. 10 15 20 PASTORA, PASTOR A, A CANT AT A. SET BY MR. PEPUSCH. RECITATIVE. N fam'd Arcadia's flowery plains, ON The gay Paftora once was heard to fing; Close by a fountain's cryftal spring, She warbled out her merry strains. AIR. Shepherds, would you hope to please us, Sometimes flatter, fometimes teaze us, You must every humour try. Are but trials, You must follow when we fly. Shepherds, would you hope to please us, You muft every humour try. RECITATIVE. Damon, who long ador'd the sprightly maid, Yet never durft his love relate, Refolv'd at laft to try his fate; 5 10 15 He figh'd!-She fmil'd!-He kneel'd and pray'd! She frown'd; He rofe, and walk'd away, 20 And fung and danc'd, and on his pipe a cheerful echo play'd. AIR. [with an echo of flutes.] Pastora fled to a shady grove; Damon view'd her, And pursued her; Cupid laugh'd, and crown'd his love. The nymph look'd back, well pleas'd to fee That Damon ran as swift as fhe. Paftora fled to a shady grove; Damon view'd her, And pursued her; Cupid laugh'd, and crown'd his love. 25 30 A PASTORAL MASQUE. SCENE, A PROSPECT OF A WOOD. Enter a Shepherd, and fings. YE nymphs and fhepherds of the grove, Leave your flocks, and hafte away, To celebrate Cupid and Hymen's holiday. 5 Enter a band of fhepherds on one fide with garlands; on the other fide, fhepherdeffes with canisters of flowers, CHORU S. From the echoing hills, and the jovial plains, To celebrate Cupid and Hymen's holiday. [A dance here.] Scene opening discovers a pleasant bower, with the God of Love afleep, attended by Cupids, fome playing with his bow, others sharpening his arrows, &c. On each fide the bower, walks of cypress trees, and fountains playing; a diftant landscape terminates the profpect. Verfe for a fhepherdefs, with flutes. See the mighty Power of Love, Nymphs and fhepherds, gently fhed Spices round his facred head; 15 ♦ 2 On his lovely body shower Leaves of rofes, virgin lilies, And with garlands drefs the bower. 20 Rittornel of flutes. After which Cupid rifes, and fings with his bow drawn. Yield to the god of soft defires! Throughout nature With fprightly joys and genial fires. Chorus of the fhepherds and nymphs. Hail, thou potent deity! Every creature Throughout nature Owns thy power as well as we. 25. 30 Enter Hymen in a faffron-coloured robe, a chaplet of flowers on his head, and in his hand the nuptial torch; · attended by priests. |