But, Charming _Nymph_, beware,
Whilst _I_ your Victim die,
Some One, my Perjur’d Fair,
Revenging my Despair,
Will prove as false to thee;
Which yet my wandring Ghost wou’d look more pale to see.
For I shall break my Tomb,
And nightly as I rome,
Shall to my _Silvia_ come,
And show the Piteous Sight;
My bleeding Bosom too,
Which wounds were given by you;
Then vanish in the Shades of Night.
SONG.
_On her Loving Two Equally._
_Set by Captain_ Pack.
I.
How strongly does my Passion flow,
Divided equally ‘twixt two?
_Damon_ had ne’er subdu’d my Heart,
Had not _Alexis_ took his part;
Nor cou’d _Alexis_ pow’rful prove.
Without my _Damons_ Aid, to gain my Love.
II.
When my _Alexis_ present is,
Then I for _Damon_ sigh and mourn;
But when _Alexis_ I do miss,
_Damon_ gains nothing but my Scorn.
But if it chance they both are by,
For both alike I languish, sigh, and die.
III.
Cure then, thou mighty winged God,
This restless Feaver in my Blood;
One Golden-Pointed Dart take back:
But which, O _Cupid_, wilt thou take?
If _Damons_, all my Hopes are crost;
Or that of my _Alexis_, I am lost.
_The Counsel._ A Song.
_Set by Captain_ Pack.
I.
A Pox upon this needless Scorn:
_Sylvia_, for shame the Cheat give o’er:
The End to which the Fair are born,
Is not to keep their Charms in store:
But lavishly dispose in haste
Of Joys which none but Youth improve;
Joys which decay when Beauty’s past;
And who, when Beauty’s past, will love?
II.
When Age those Glories shall deface,
Revenging all your cold Disdain;
And _Sylvia_ shall neglected pass,
By every once-admiring Swain;
And we no more shall Homage pay:
When you in vain too late shall burn,
If Love increase, and Youth decay,
Ah _Sylvia_! who will make Return?
III.
Then haste, my _Sylvia_, to the Grove,
Where all the Sweets of _May_ conspire
To teach us ev’ry Art of Love,
And raise our Joys of Pleasure higher:
Where while embracing we shall lie
Loosly in Shades on Beds of Flow’rs,
The duller World while we defie,
Years will be Minutes, Ages Hours.
SONG.
_The Surprize._
_Set by Mr._ Farmer.
I.
_Phillis_, whose Heart was Unconfin’d,
And free as Flow’rs on Meads and Plains,
None boasted of her being Kind,
‘Mong’st all the languishing and amorous Swains.
No Sighs or Tears the _Nymph_ cou’d move,
To pity or return their Love.
II.
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