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SCENE I.

SCENE, A pleasant Grove,
Xarino, Cratander.
Xarino.
Cratander , this divine and sweet Retirement
Makes me abhor the Glories of a Court;
These Groves are render'd far more pompous,
By charming Teraminta's Presence,
Than all my Father's Palaces.


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Cra.
'Tis wondrous strange,
A Prince of such high Birth
Shou'd so demean himself,
To quit his Father's Court,
And live in such Obscurity
For a poor Shepherdess.

Xar.
Forbear, my Friend! can Courts, or Pomp, or Titles,
Give me that Joy I find in Teraminta?
AIR.
In a Plain with the Nymph I adore,
'Tis sweeter, much sweeter to be,
Than to reign, with Dominion and Pow'r,
A Monarch o'er Land, and o'er Sea.
No Throne can my Passion remove,
Or tempt me to change my Condition;
Her Heart is the Empire of Love,
Her Favour my only Ambition.