A New Dramatic Entertainment Called the Royal Chace or, Merlin's Cave With several new Comic Scenes of Action Introduced into the Grotesque Pantomime of Jupiter and Europa |
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SCENE IV.
Merlin's Cave.Merlin.
O solitude! O pleasing Solitude!
Here Contemplation holds her sacred Seat;
And to her studious Sons the Knowledge deep,
Of Nature's Laws unfolds! Here with Content,
And Converse sweet with Sages of old Time,
Merlin hath many a creeping Winterpast,
With Joys to Luxury and Power unknown:
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With sweet Prophetick Strain.
[The Sound of French-Horns is heard.
But hark! what Sound
Disturbs the awful Silence of my Cell?
[French-Horns continue, and Diana enters with her Followers.
Enter Diana.
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O Virgin Goddess of these Shades, accept,
After the toilsome Pastime of the Chace,
Refreshment from an old, but honest Heart,
And with thy Presence grace my humble Cell.
Diana.
Merlin, Thy honest Offer I accept
With thankful Pleasure.
Merlin.
Merlin's Art shall try
To cheer thy Spirits, wearied with the Chace.
[Merlin waves his Wand, and discovers the Inside of the Cave.
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Appear, ye pleasing Shapes appear,
With all your Arts the Goddess cheer;
And fill her with Delight:
In Antick Vision round her play,
In Chace fantastick light and gay,
And charm her ravish'd Sight.
With all your Arts the Goddess cheer;
And fill her with Delight:
In Antick Vision round her play,
In Chace fantastick light and gay,
And charm her ravish'd Sight.
[Enter the Graces and the Hour, bringing in Cupid, followed by the Zephyrs, bearing in Pshyche, &c. as Aerial Spirits, who express their Love and Honour to Diana.
[The DANCE ended, they disappear.
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rises.
Good Merlin, Thanks, such as thy Art deserves,
And fits a Goddess to bestow, receive:—
—No more.—I'm summon'd to my nightly Sphere.
Merlin.
This Courtesy, this Honour done my Cell,
With Pleasure I acknowledge. Ne'er before
Cou'd this my humble Roof the Presence boast
Of such Divinity, nor ever shall,
'Till Pallas, like a British Queen, descend,
And her great Mind from Toils of Empire here unbend.
[Exeunt severally.
The Comic
Scene continued.
| A New Dramatic Entertainment Called the Royal Chace or, Merlin's Cave | |