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SCENE III.
Enter Shepherds and Shepherdesses in a Train.They all kneel to Jack.
1st Shep.
O champion great,
As ever compass'd wondrous feat!
Hero of every wake and fair,
Of many a mighty ancestor the mighty heir!—
Upon the prowess of thine arm we call;
And at thine honour'd feet fall low, thine humble suppliants all.
Chor.
Upon the prowess, &c.
Jack.
Alas, my friends, what ill hath chanced?—reply!
And quick as lightning, or as thought, to your redress I fly.
Shep.
The Giants!—O the Giants Three,
Have seized, secured, and born away
Our Lady Justice, queen of men and May!
Chor.
Have seized, &c.
Jack.
Trust me, if found she be,
Above or under ground, she's free!—
[Shepherds rise.
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AIR XIX.
Tune. “My heart is awa with the Highland Laddie.”1st Shep.
O knight of knightly errants prime,
To dread atchievements bold and ready;
No knight of ancient time or clime,
E'er fought or fell for such a Lady!
To dread atchievements bold and ready;
No knight of ancient time or clime,
E'er fought or fell for such a Lady!
No Knight, &c.
She's fair and soft as new drop'd lambs,
More sweet than garlands on a May-day;
And gifts as free as milk from dams,
Flow from the goodness of our Lady.
More sweet than garlands on a May-day;
And gifts as free as milk from dams,
Flow from the goodness of our Lady.
And gifts, &c.
Enough, enough!—break not your champion's heart,
Lest his arm fail to act a soldier's part.
Ch. Beg.
Mean you to fight all three?
Jack.
Yes, hand to hand,
And chase their very shadows from the land.
1st Shep.
Then blest once more beneath our Lady's eye
We might in pleasure live, and learn in peace to die.
Ch. Beg.
It would, indeed, be curious then to view
A turn in things—so very strange and new!
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A turn in things—so very strange and new!
AIR XX.
Tune. “A Cobler there was.”Ch. Beg.
How curious to mark the surprize of the town,
To see Truth elated, Dishonour pull'd down!
Jack.
All tricks low and little despised by the Great,
And Honesty fix'd for a Maxim of State!—
Derry down, &c.
CHORUS.
All tricks, &c.
Ch. Beg.
To see Worth and Talents to Office preferr'd,
The Virtuous rewarded, the Vicious deterr'd;
Jack.
And the Streams of Pollution, where people resort,
New fed from the clarified springs of our Court!
Derry down, &c.
CHORUS.
And the streams, &c.
Ch. Beg.
To see our laced Lordlings deserving of Trust,
Our Clergymen pious, our Justices just;
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Our Court Ladies blush; and our thing of a Beau,
A something, besides a mere nothing but shew!
Derry down, &c.
CHORUS.
Our Court Ladies, &c.
Jack.
To see Freedom loyal, Elections unbribed,
All Faction exiled, and Corruption proscribed.
Ch. Beg.
Pure Nature exalted o'er masking and art,
And Dominion possessed of its seat in the Heart!
Derry down, &c.
CHORUS.
Pure Nature exalted, &c.
Jack.
To see Mirth with Innocence walking the land,
And Probity taking Free Trade by the hand.
Ch. Beg.
And the Courts of our Law from Iniquity clear—
O Jack, what a rare revolution were here!
Derry down, &c.
CHORUS.
And the Courts, &c.
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