On thy buds of roles playing,
All thy breathing sweets displaying,
Hark, his amorous breezes blow!
Fragrant Flora! haste, appear!
Goddess of the youthful year!

Zephyr gently courts thee now.

RECITATIVE.

Thus on a fruitful hill, in the fair bloom of spring,
The tuneful Colinet his voice did raife,
The vales remurmur'd with his lays,
And liftening birds hung hovering on the wing,
In whispering fighs foft Zephyr by him flew,
While thus the shepherd did his fong renew.

AIR.

Love and pleasure gaily flowing,
Come this charming season grace !,
Smile, ye fair! your joys bestowing,
Spring and youth will foon be going,
Seize the bleffings ere they pas;
Love and pleasures gaily flowing,
Come this charming feafon grace!

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MIR A ND A.

RECITATIVE,

MIRANDA's tuneful voice and fame

Had reach'd the wondering skies;

From heaven the god of Mufic came,
And own'd a pleas'd furprize;

Then, in a foft melodious lay,
Apollo did thefe grateful praises pay.

A,I R.

Matchlefs charmer! thine fhall be
The highest prize of harmony.

Phoebus ever will inspire thee,

And th' applauding world admire thee ;

All shall in thy praise agree.

Matchlefs charmer! thine shall be

The highest prize of harmony.

RECITATIVE.

The god then fummon'd every Mufe t' appear,

And hail their fifter of the quire;

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Smiling they food around, her foothing ftrains to hear,

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

AIR.

O harmony! how wondrous fweet,

Doft thou our cares allay!

When

When all thy moving graces meet,

How foftly dost thou steal our easy hours away!
O harmony! how wondrous fweet,
Doft thou our cares allay!

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V.

CORY DON.

RECITATIVE..

WHILE Corydon the lonely shepherd try'd His tuneful flute, and charm'd the grove, The jealous nightingales, that ftrove

To trace his notes, contending dy'd;

At last he hears within a myrtle shade

An echo anfwer all his strain;

Love stole the pipe of fleeping Pan, and play'd;
Then with his voice decoys the liftening fwain..
AIR. [with a flute]

Gay fhepherd, to befriend thee,
Here pleasing scenes attend thee,
O this way speed thy pace!
If Mufic can delight thee,
Or vifions fair invite thee,

This bower's the happy place.
Gay shepherd, to befriend thee,

Here pleafing feenes attend thee,

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O this way speed thy pace!

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RECITATIVE.

The fhepherd rofe, he gaz'd around,
And vainly fought the magic found;
The God of Love his motion spies,
Lays by the pipe, and fhoots a dart
Through Corydon's unwary heart,
Then, fmiling, from his ambush flies;
While in his room, divinely bright,

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The reigning beauty of the groves furpriz'd the shep

herd's fight.

AIR.

Who, from Love his heart securing,

Can avoid th' inchanting pain?

Pleasure calls with voice alluring,
Beauty foftly binds the chain.

Who, from Love his heart fecuring,
Can avoid th' inchanting pain?

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RECITATIVE.

AIRY Cloe, proud and young,

The fairest tyrant of the plain,
Laugh'd at her adoring swain.

He fadly figh'd-She gayly fung,

And, wanton, thus reproach'd his pain.

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AIR.

Leave me, filly shepherd go;

You only tell me what I know,

You view a thousand charms in me ;
Then cease thy prayers, I'll kinder grow,
When I can view fuch charms in thee.
Leave me, filly fhepherd, 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 fcorner fwore,

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And vow'd, he'd be Love's fool no moreBut Cloe fmil'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 refign.

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But ungrateful is the paffion,

And destroys our inclination,

When, like flaves, our lovers whine.
Shepherd, this I've done to prove thee,
Now thou art a man, I love thee,

And without a blush resign.

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