Ayres and dialogues For One, Two, and Three Voyces; To be Sung either to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol |
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A Dialogue between a Shepherd and a Nymph.
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A Dialogue between a Shepherd and a Nymph.
What busie Cares too timely born (young Swain) disturb thy sleep?Nymph.
What busie Cares too timely born (young Swain) disturb thy sleep? Thy early Sighs awake the Morn, thy Tears teach her to weep.
Shep.
Sorrows, fair Nymph, are full alone, nor Counsel can endure.
Nymph.
Yet thine disclose, for until known, sickness admits no Cure.
Shep.
My Griefs are such as but to hear, would poyson all thy Joys; thy Pity which thou seemst to bear my Health, thine owne destroys.
Nymph.
How can diseased Mindes infect? say what thy Grief doth move.
Shep.
Call up thy virtue to protect thy Heart & know 'twas Love.
Fond Swain.
Shep.
By which I have been long destin'd to meet with Fate.
Nymph.
Fie Shepherd fie, thou dost love wrong to call thy Crime thy Fate.
Shep.
Alass! what cunning could decline, what Force can Love repell?
Nymph.
Yes, there's a way to unconfine thy Heart.
Shep.
For pity tell.
Nymph.
Choose one whose love may be allur'd by thine: Who ever knew inveterate diseases cur'd but by receiving new?
Shep.
All will like her my soul perplex.
Nymph.
Yet try.
Shep.
O! could there be but any softness in that Sex, I'd wish it were in thee.
Nymph.
Thy prayer is hear
Learn now t'steem the kindness She hath shown, who thy lost freedome to redeem hath forfeited her own.
Chorus.
Then to some shade we will remove, let Pan and Pales Pan and Pales keep our Orphan sheep, whilest we perform, whilest we perform the rites of Love.
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