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ODE to Gog and Magog, at the end of the fourth act.

MADRIGAL.
Guardian LARES of Guildhall,
Hear a mournful suppliant's call!

TRULLETTA.
Hear a mournful suppliant's call,
Guardian LARES of Guildhall!

CHIEF PRIEST.
With guardful eye, great Gog attend,
The health of our endanger'd friend!
Magog, attend with guardful eye,
Poor Sculliona's agony!
Magog and Gog, each, both attend,
The health of our endanger'd friend!

Chorus of Priests and Virgins.
Magog and Gog, each, both attend,
The health of our endanger'd friend!

CHIEF PRIEST.
Permit not death, with cruel strife,
To blast her in the spring of life;
But, in compassion to our prayers,
To summer's verge extend her years;
And when so far you've kindly brought 'em,
Protract her mortal date to autumn;
And do not then, like niggards, stint her,
But let her live to age's winter.

CHORUS.
And do not then, &c.

CHIEF PRIEST.
The longest life of mortal man,
Is but a short, a little span;
Then send not death, your ghastly porter,
To cut that little span yet shorter.

CHORUS.
Then send not death, &c.

CHIEF PRIEST.
Gog and Magog, hear, O hear!
Gog and Magog, lend an ear!
Gog and Magog hear, and save,
Scully from a present grave!
Scully's danger'd health restore,
Gog and Magog, we implore!
Gog and Magog, we implore,
Scully's danger'd health restore!

CHORUS.
Gog and Magog hear, O hear! &c.