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Songs, Duos, Trios, Chorusses, &c.

in the Comic Opera of the Carnival of Venice, as it is Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane [by Richard Tickell]

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AIR by Miss PHILLIPS.

I

Ah! think me not unfeeling Love;
If still from thee I hide each pain,
'Tis but that thou may'st better prove
The fancied peace I strive to feign.

II

I would not have thy generous breast
Pierc'd with a pang beyond its own;
'Twou'd point thy griefs were mine confest
Ah! leave me then to weep alone.