CUPID AND SCARLATI.

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CANTATA.

SET BY MR. PEP US CH.

RECITATIVE.

ON filver Tyber's vocal shore,

The fam'd Scarlati strook his lyre,
And ftrove, with charms unknown before,
The fprings of tuneful found t' explore,
Beyond what art alone could e'er infpire;
When fee-the sweet effay to hear,
Venus with her fon drew near,
And, pleas'd to ask the master's aid,
The mother goddess fmiling faid.

AIR.

Harmonious fon of Phoebus, fee!
'Tis Love, 'tis little Love I bring.
The Queen of Beauty fues to thee,
To teach her wanton boy to fing.

RECITATIVE.

The pleas'd musician heard with joy,

And, proud to teach th' immortal boy,

Did all his fongs and heavenly skill impart ;
The boy, to recompenfe his art,
Repeating did each fong improve,

And breath'd into his airs the charms of love,
And taught the mafter thus to touch the heart.

AIR.

Love, infpiring
Sounds perfuading,

Makes his darts refiftless fly:
Beauty aiding,

Arts afpiring,

Gives them wings to rife more high.

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YE

A careless maid that laughs at love?
Cupid, to my fuccour fly!

Come with all thy thrilling darts,
Thy melting flaines to foften hearts;
Conquer for me, or I die!

Ye tender powers! how fhall I move
A careless maid that laughs at Love?
Cupid, to my fuccour fly!

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RECITATIVE.

Thus, in a melancholy inade,

A penfive lover to his aid

Invok'd the god of warm defire;

Love heard him, and, to gain the maid,
Did his fuccefsful thought infpire.

AIR.

Take her humour, fimile, be gay,

In her favourite follies join,

That's the charm will make her thine.

Caft thy ferious airs away,

Freely courting,

Toying, fporting,

Sooth her hours with amorous play.
Take her humour, fmile, be gay,

In her favourite follies join,

That's the charm will make her thine.

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PASTORA,

PASTOR A,

A CANTATA.

SET BY MR. PEPUSCH.

RECITATIVE.

ON fam'd Arcadia's flowery plains,

The gay Paftora once was heard to fing;

Close by a fountain's crystal spring
She warbled out her merry ftrains.

AIR.

Shepherds, would you hope to please us,
You must every humour try;
Sometimes flatter, fometimes teaze us,
Often laugh, and fometimes cry.

Shepherds, would you hope to please us,

You must every humour try.

Soft denials

Are but trials,

You must follow when we fly.

Shepherds, would you hope to please us,

You must every humour try.

RECITATIVE.

Damon, who long ador'd this fprightly maid,

Yet never durft his love relate,

Refolv'd at laft to try his fate,

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He figh'd!--She finil'd ;-- He kneel'd and pray'd;

She frown'd;-He rofe, and walk'd away,
But foon returning look'd more gay,

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And fung and danc'd, and on his pipe a chearful

echo play'd.

AIR. [with an echo of flutes.]

Paftora fled to a fhady grove;

Damon view'd her,

And pursued her;

Cupid laugh'd, and crown'd his love.

The Nymph lock'd back, well pleas'd to fee

That Damon ran as fwift as flie.

Paftora fled to a fhady grove,

Damon view'd her,

And purfued her :

Cupid laugh'd, and crown'd his love.

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PASTORAL MASQUE.

SCENE, A PROSPECT OF A WOOD.

YE

Enter a Shepherd, and fings.

́E nymphs and shepherds of the grove,
That know the pleasing pains of love,
Eager for th' expected bleffing,

Sighing, panting for poffeffing!