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I course the fleet stag, unkennel the fox, And chace the wild goats o'er fummits of rocks,

With fhouting and hooting we pierce through the sky,

And Echo turns hunter, and doubles the cry.

Cho. of all. With fhouting and booting we pierce through

JANUS.

the fky,

And Echo turns hunter, and doubles the cry..

Then our age was in' t's prime,

CHRONOS. Free from rage:

DIANA.

And free from crime.

MOMUS. A very merry, dancing, drinking,

Cho. of all.

MARS.

Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
Then our age was in't's prime,

Free from rage, and free from crime,
A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
[Dance of Diana's attendants.]

Enter MARS.

Infpire the vocal brass, inspire;
The world is past its infant age:

Arms and honour,

Arms and honour,

Set the martial mind on fire,

And kindle manly rage.

Mars has look'd the sky to red;
And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.
Plenty, peace, and pleasure fly;

The

The sprightly green,

In woodland-walks, no more is feen;

The sprightly green has drunk the Tyrian dye.

Cho. of all. Plenty, peace, &c.

MARS.

Sound the trumpet, beat the drum;

Through all the world around,

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

Cho. of all. Sound the trumpet, &c.

MOмUS. Thy fword within the fcabbard keep,
And let mankind agree;
Better the world were fast asleep,
Than kept awake by thee.
The fools are only thinner,
With all our coft and care;
But neither fide a winner,
For things are as they were.
The fools are only, &c.

Cho. of all.

Enter VENUS.

VENUS. Calms appear, when storms are past;
Love will have his hour at laft:

Cho. of all.

Nature is my kindly care;

Mars destroys, and I repair:

Take me, take me, while you may,

Venus comes not every day.

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.

But,

But, fince the queen of pleasure left the ground,

I faint, I lag,

And feebly drag

The pondrous orb around.

MOMUS. All, all of a piece throughout;

Point

ing to

Diana

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Thy chace had a beast in view;

[To Mars] Thy wars brought nothing about;
[To Venus] Thy lovers were all untrue.
JANUS. "Tis well an old age is out,
CHRONOS. And time to begin a new.
Cho. 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,

And time to begin a new.

Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriors, and lovers.

SONG

XIV.

SONG of a SCHOLAR and his MISTRESS, who being cross'd by their Friends, fell mad for one another; and now first meet in Bedlam.

[MUSIC within.]

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

PHYLLIS. LO

OOK, look, I fee-I fee my
'Tis he

'Tis he alone;

For, like him, there is none:

love appear!

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

AMYNTAS. Hark! the winds war;

The foamy waves roar;

I fee a fhip afar :

Toffing and toffing, and making to the fhore:
But what's that I view,

So radiant of hue,

St. Hermo, St. Hermo, that fits upon the fails?
Ah! No, no, no.

St. Hermo, never, never fhone so bright;
'Tis Phyllis, only Phyllis, can fhoot so fair a
light:

"Tis Phyllis, 'tis Phyllis, that faves the fhip

alone,

For all the winds are hufh'd, and the ftorm is overblown.

PHYLLIS. Let me go, let me run, let me fly to his arms.

VOL. II.

AMYNTAS.

AMYNTAS. If all the fates combine,
And all the furies join,

I'll force my way to Phyllis, and break
through the charm.

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

PHYLLIS. 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 vapors leave my brains.

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

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

PHYLLIS. But fuppose he should stay—

AMYNTAS. At worst if he delay,

'Tis a work must be done,

We'll borrow but a day,

And the better, the fooner begun.

Cho. of both. At worst if he delay, &c.

[They run out together hand in hand.}

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