ODE. 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 ! For wondrous hard is our condition, Thy strains to hear; To drink, To hear, And keep awake! SOLO BY THE DOCTOR. Hear but this strain-'t was made by Handel, 15 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 While the nymphs and swains delighted 5 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, "Stranger to the arts of malice, "Malice never taught to treasure, "Censure never taught to bear; "How can they of humble station "Vainly blame the pow'rs above? "Or accuse the dispensation "Which allows them all to love? 10 15 20 "Love, like air, is widely giv'n: "Peers can no such charms discover, "Pinks and roses in profusion, "Hark to yonder milkmaid singing "Never yet did courtly maiden "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, NANCY OF THE VALE. A BALLAD, Nerine Galatea! thymo mihi dulcior Hyblac! O Galatea! Nereus' blooming child, More sweet than thyme by Hybla bees exhal'd, THE western sky was purpled o'er 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. 45 50 52 * Hybla-a moutain in Sicily, famous for producing the finest honey. Volume II. E |