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Poems on Several Occasions

With some Select Essays in Prose. In Two Volumes. By John Hughes; Adorn'd with Sculptures

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THE Soldier in Love.
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THE Soldier in Love.

A CANTATA.

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Set with Symphonies by Mr. PEPUSCH.

AIR.

Why , too amorous Heroe! why
Dost thou the War forego,
At CELIA's Feet to lie,
And sighing tell thy Woe?
Can you think that Sneaking Air
Fit to move th'unpitying Fair?
She laughs to see thee trifle so.
Why, too amorous Heroe! why
Dost thou the War forego,
At CELIA's Feet to lie,
And sighing tell thy Woe?

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Recitative.

CLEANDER heard not this Advice,
Nor wou'd his Languishing refrain.
But while to CELIA once he pray'd in vain,
By chance his Image in a Glass he spies,
And blushing at the Sight, he grew a Man again.

AIR.

[With a Trumpet.]
Hark! the Trumpet sounds to Arms!
I come, I come, the Warrior cries,
And from scornful CELIA flies,
To court VICTORIA's Charms.
CELIA beholds his alter'd Brow,
And wou'd regain her Lover now.
Hark! the Trumpet sounds to Arms!
I come, I come, the Warrior cries,
And from scornful CELIA flies,
To court VICTORIA's Charms.