LOVE. But should I give thee charms t'obtain No, Love-I ne'er will love again. POET. No, charming God, prepare a chain Yet ftill know every fair but fhe, 1 B EHOLD where weeping Venus stands ! And Echo fighs, with mimick found, Again the goddess raves, and tears her hair; AIR. Dear Adonis, beauty's treasure, Now my forrow, once my pleafure; O return to Venus' arms! Venus never will forfake thee; RE RECITATIVE. Thus, Queen of Beauty, as thy Poets feign, Transform'd by heavenly power, The lovely fwain arofe a flower, And, fmiling, grac'd the plain. And now he blooms, and now he fades Venus and gloomy Proferpine Alternate claim his charms divine; 20 25 By turns reftor'd to light, by turns he feeks the shades. CAN TATA. PASTOR A L. SET BY DR. PEPUSCH. RECITATIVE. YOUNG Strephon, by his folded sheep, Sat wakeful on the plains: Love held his weary eyes from sleep, While, filent in the vale, The liftening nightingale Forgot her own, to hear his ftrains. And now the beauteous Queen of Night, Unclouded and ferene, Sheds on the neighbouring sea her filver light; The neighbouring fea was calm and bright; The shepherd fung inspir'd, and bless'd the lovely scene. AIR. While the sky and feas are fhining, Secret night, my joys divining, Pleas'd my amorous tale to hear; RE RECITATIVE. Ah, foolish Strephon! change thy ftrain; Behind a cloud retires. Flora is fled; thou lov'ft in vain : Ah, foolish Strephon! change thy strain. AIR. Hope beguiling, Like the moon and ocean smiling, Flora ranging, Like the moon and ocean changing, BEAUTY, ANO D E. I. FAIR rival to the god of day, Beauty, to thy cœleftial ray A thousand sprightly fruits we owe ; I II. Not |