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The choice spirits feast

a comic ode. By George Alexander Stevens
Stevens, George Alexander (1710-1784)

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PROLOGUE,
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The Choice Spirits Feast.
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[FIRST PART.]
  
RECITATIVE.
  
DUETT.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
CHORUS.
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SECOND PART.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
RECITATIVE.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
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EPILOGUE.

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RECITATIVE.

Now the Heart-raising Horn at Distance blew,
Swift to the Chace, away the Sportsmen flew:
Shouting they rend the Air, each Hill resounds,
Loud neigh the Steeds, and louder ope the Hounds,
From babbling Eccho back the Noise rebounds.
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Sooth'd with the Sounds, young Buck grew vain,
And hunted every Chace again,
And Cover thrice he broke; and thrice he slew the Slain.
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