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SCENE III.
The Enchanted Tower.Enter Jillian and Nurse.
Nurse.
Alack, my love, all earthly joys are fleeting!—
Don't vex and fret that pretty heart, my sweeting.
Jill.
Fret me, no frettings, nurse—I vow and swear it,
No saint, so tempting, and so young, could bear it,
To be thus used!—
Nurse.
Take patience to you, madam—
Jill.
Shut up from every son of Father Adam!
AIR XXI.
Tune. “Hosier's Ghost.Jill.
Where are now your Knights so laden,
With applause from young and old,
For relief of tender Maiden,
From the gripe of Giants bold?
With applause from young and old,
For relief of tender Maiden,
From the gripe of Giants bold?
I, a flower, fair, fresh, and blooming,
In a lonely vale must lie,
All my virgin sweets consuming,
Far from every sense—O fye!—
In a lonely vale must lie,
All my virgin sweets consuming,
Far from every sense—O fye!—
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I, a flower, &c.
A well a-day!—in true and honest speaking,
It is, as one may say, a piteous taking!
AIR XXII.
Tune. “Chevy Chace.”Jill.
But since by mortals 'tis confest,
The shafts of fate must fall;
I'll take firm patience to my breast,
And smile secure from all.
Why, that's well said—were Solomon distrest,
He could of markets bad but make the best.
AIR XXIII.
Tune. “My Miny thought lang.”Jill.
My spirit revives—my heart it does say,
It is not so bad as my fears would betray;
And fortune may yet, on some frolicksome day,
Send a pretty young lad to take me away.
And fortune may yet, &c.
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Hush, hark my lamb—no more of your sweet humming—
Methinks I hear the ugly Giants coming!
[They run in—Jill. looks out at a Gallery
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