RECITATIVE.

Thus on a fruitful hill, in the fair bloom of spring, 10
The tuneful Colinet his voice did raise,
The vales remurmur'd with his lays,

And list'ning birds hung hov'ring on the wing.
In whisp'ring sighs soft Zephyr by him flew,
While thus the shepherd did his song renew.

AIR.

"Love and pleasures gaily flowing,
"Come, this charming season grace;
"Smile, ye Fair! your joys bestowing,
66 Spring and youth will soon be going,
"Seize the blessings ere they pass.
"Love and pleasures gaily flowing,
"Come, this charming season grace.”

CANTATA IV.

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MIRANDA.

RECITATIVE.

MIRANDA's tuneful voice and fame
Had reach'd the wond'ring skies;
From heav'n the god of Music came,
And own'd a pleas'd surprize!

Then in a soft melodious lay

Apollo did these grateful praises pay.

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AIR.

"Matchless Charmer! thine shall be
"The highest prize of harmony:
"Phoebus ever will inspire thee,
"And th' applauding world admire thee;
"All shall in thy praise agree.

"Matchless Charmer! thine shall be

"The highest prize of harmony."

RECITATIVE.

The god then summon'd ev'ry Muse t' appear,

And hail their sister of the quire;

Smiling they stood around her soothing strains to hear,

And fill'd her happy soul with all their fire.

AIR.

"O, Harmony! how wondrous sweet

"Dost thou our cares allay!

"When all thy moving graces meet,

"How softly dost thou steal our easy hours away!

"O, Harmony! how wondrous sweet

"Dost thou our cares allay!",

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CANTATA V.

CORYDON.

RECITATIVE.

WHILE Corydon, the lonely shepherd, try'd
His tuneful flute, and charm'd the grove,
The jealous nightingales, that strove
To trace his notes, contending dy'd.
At last he hears, within a myrtle shade,
An echo answer all his strain:

Love stole the pipe of sleeping Pan, and play'd,
Then with his voice decoys the list'ning swain.
AIR, with a flute.

"Gay Shepherd! to befriend thee,

"Here pleasing scenes attend thee;
66 O, this way speed thy pace!
"If Music can delight thee,
"Or visions fair invite thee,
"This bow'r's the happy place.
"Gay Shepherd! to befriend thee,
"Here pleasing scenes attend thee;
"O, this way speed thy pace!"

RECITATIVE.

The shepherd rose, he gaz'd around,
And vainly sought the magic sound;
The god of Love his motion spies,
Lays by the pipe, and shoots a dart
Thro' Corydon's unwary heart.
Then, smiling, from his ambush flies;

"Can avoid th' enchanting pain?
"Pleasure calls with voice alluring,

"When I can view such charms in thee.

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"Leave me, silly Shepherd! go;

"You only tell me what I know;

"You view a thousand charms in me.”

RECITATIVE.

Amyntor, fir'd by this disdain,

Curs'd the proud fair, and broke his chain:
He rav'd, and at the scorner swore,

And vow'd he 'd be Love's fool no more--

But Cloe smil'd, and thus she call'd him back again.

AIR.

"Shepherd! this I've done to prove thee;

"Now thou art a man I love thee,

"And without a blush resign:

"But ungrateful is the passion, "And destroys our inclination,

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"When like slaves our lovers whine.

"Shepherd! this I've done to prove thee,

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"Now thou art a man I love thee,

"And without a blush resign."