Poems on Several Occasions With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures |
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PASTORA,
A CANTATA.
Recitative.
On fam'd Arcadia's flow'ry Plains,The gay PASTORA once was heard to sing;
Close by a Fountain's Crystal Spring
She warbled out her merry Strains.
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AIR.
Shepherds, wou'd you hope to please us,You must every Humour try;
Sometimes flatter, sometimes teaze us,
Often laugh, and sometimes cry.
Shepherds, wou'd you hope to please us,
You must ev'ry Humour try.
Soft Denials
Are but Trials,
You must follow when we fly.
Shepherds, wou'd you hope to please us,
You must ev'ry Humour try.
Recitative.
DAMON, who long ador'd this sprightly Maid,Yet never durst his Love relate,
Resolv'd at last to try his Fate.
He sigh'd;—She smil'd;—He kneel'd and pray'd;—
She frown'd;—He rose, and walk'd away,
But soon returning look'd more gay,
And sung and danc'd, and on his Pipe a chearful Echo play'd.
AIR.
[With an Echo of Flutes.]PASTORA fled to a shady Grove;
DAMON view'd her,
And pursu'd her;
CUPID laugh'd, and crown'd his Love.
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That DAMON ran as swift as She.
PASTORA fled to a shady Grove,
DAMON view'd her,
And pursu'd her;
CUPID laugh'd, and crown'd his Love.
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