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To be performed by Dr. Brettle, and a Chorus of Hales Owen

Citizens. The Instrumental Part a Viol d'Amour.

AIR BY THE DOCTOR.

AWAKE! I say, awake, good people!

And be for once alive and gay;

Come, let's be merry; stir the tipple ;

How can you sleep

Whilst I do play? How can you sleep, &c.

CHORUS OF CITIZENS.

Pardon, O! pardon, great Musician !
On drowsy souls some pity take,

For wondrous hard is our condition,
To drink thy beer,

Thy strains to hear;

To drink,

To hear,

And keep awake!

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SOLO BY THE DOCTOR.

Hear but this strain-'t was made by Handel,
A wight of skill and judgment deep !
Zoonters, they're gone-Sal, bring a candle-
No, here is one, and he 's asleep.

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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH,

A Ballad, alluding to a Story recorded of her when she was Prisoner at Woodstock, 1554.

WILL you hear how once repining

Great Eliza captive lay,

Each ambitious thought resigning
Foe to riches, pomp, and sway?

While the nymphs and swains delighted

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Tripp'd around in all their pride,

Envying joys by others slighted,

Thus the royal maiden cry'd:

"Bred on plains, or born in vallies,
"Who would bid those scenes adieu ?

"Stranger to the arts of malice,
"Who would ever courts pursue?

"Malice never taught to treasure,

"Censure never taught to bear;
"Love is all the shepherd's pleasure;
"Love is all the damsel's care.

"How can they of humble station "Vainly blame the pow'rs above? "Or accuse the dispensation

"Which allows them all to love?

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"Love, like air, is widely giv'n:
"Pow'r nor Chance can these restrain
"Truest, noblest, gifts of Heav'n!
"Only purest on the plain!

"Peers can no such charms discover,
"All in stars and garters drest,
"As on Sundays does the lover
"With his nosegay on his breast.

"Pinks and roses in profusion,
"Said to fade when Chloe's near;
"Fops may use the same allusion,
"But the shepherd is sincere.

"Hark to yonder milkmaid singing
"Cheerly o'er the brimining pail,
"Cowslips all around her springing
66 Sweetly paint the golden vale.

"Never yet did courtly maiden
"Move so sprightly, look so fair;
"Never breast with jewels laden

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"Then with him o'er hills and mountains, Free from fetters, might I rove,

"Fearless taste the crystal fountains, "Peaceful sleep beneath the grove.

"Rustics had been more forgiving,
"Partial to my virgin bloom;
"None had envy'd me when living,
"None had triumph'd o'er my tomb."

NANCY OF THE VALE.

A BALLAD,

Nerine Galatea! thymo mihi dulcior Hyblac!
Candidior cygnis! hecera formosior alba!
IMITATION.

O Galatea! Nereus' blooming child,

More sweet than thyme by Hybla bees exhal'd,
Fairer than swans, more beauteous to behold
Than ivy's purest white.

THE western sky was purpled o'er
With ev'ry pleasing ray,

And flocks reviving felt no more

The sultry heats of day;

When from an hazel's artless bower

Soft warbled Strephon's tongue;

He bless'd the scene, he bless'd the hour,

While Nancy's praise he sung.

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* Hybla-a moutain in Sicily, famous for producing the finest honey.

Volume II.

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