Then let us join hands and unite.

Laft Chorus of the fhepherds and nymphs.
How happy, how happy, how happy are we,
Where Cupid and Hymen in confort agree!
We'll revel all day with sports and delight,
And Hymen and Cupid fhall govern the night.
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SET BY MR, GALLIARD,

RECITATIVE.

ENUS! thy throne of beauty now refign!
Behold on earth a conquering fair,

Who more deferves Love's crown to wear!
Not thy own ftar fo bright in heaven does shine.
Afk of thy fon her name, who with his dart

Has deeply grav'd it in my heart;
Or afk the god of tuneful found,
Who fings it to his lyre,

And does this maid infpire

With his own art, to give a furer wound.

AIR.

Hark! the groves her fongs repeat;

Echo lurks in hollow springs,

And, transported while fhe fings,

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Learns her voice, and grows more fweet

Could Narciffus fee or hear her,

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From his fountain he would fly,

And, with awe approaching near her,
For a real beauty die.

Hark!

Hark! the groves her fongs repeat;

Echo lurks in hollow fprings,
And, transported while fhe fings,

Learns her voice, and grows more sweet.

RECITATIVE.

Yet Venus once again my fuit attend!

And when from heaven you fhall defcend,

This fhining empress to array,

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When you prefent her all your train of Loves,
Your chariot, and your murmuring doves,

Tell her she wants one charm to make the reft more gay,
Then fmiling to th' harmonious beauty say:

IN every age, to brighter honours born,
Which lovelieft nymphs and sweetest bards adorn,
Beauty and Wit each other's aid require,
And poets fing what once the fair inspire;

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The fair for ever thus her charms prolong,
And live rewarded in the tuneful fong.
Thus Sachariffa fhines in Waller's lays,
And fhe, who rais'd his genius, fhares his praise.
Each does in each a mutual life infuse,

Th' inspiring Beauty, the recording Muse.

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CLAUDIANUS.

IN EPITHALAMIO HONORII ET MARIÆ.

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UNCTATUR ftupefacta Venus. Nunc ora puellz,
Nunc flavam niveo miratur vertice matrem.

Hæc modo crefcenti, plenæ par altera lunæ :
Affurgit ceu fortè minor fub matre virenti
Laurus: & ingentes ramos, olimque futuras
Promittit jam parva comas: vel flore fub uno,
Ceu geminæ Pæstana rosæ per jugera regnant.
Hæc largo matura die, faturataque vernis
Roribus, indulget fpatio: latet altera nodo,
Nec teneris audet foliis admittere foles.

TRANSLATED.

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Venus coming to a nuptial ceremony, and entering the room, fees the bride and her mother fitting together, &c. On which occafion Claudian makes the following defcription.

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'HE Goddess paus'd; and, held in deep amaze, Now views the mother's, now the daughter's

face;

Different

Different in each; yet equal beauty glows,
That, the full moon, and this, the crescent shows:
'Thus, rais'd beneath its parent tree is seen
The laurel shoot, while, in its early green,
Thick-fprouting leaves and branches are essay'd,
And all the promise of a future fhade.
Or, blooming thus, in happy Pæftan fields,
One common stock two lovely roses yields;
Mature by vernal dews, this dares difplay
Its leaves full blown, and boldly meets the day;
That, folded in its tender nonage lies,

A beauteous bud, nor yet admits the skies.

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CANT AT A.

SET BY MR. PEPUSCH.

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AIR.

OOLISH Love! I scorn thy darts,
And all thy little wanton arts,

To captivate unmanly hearts.
Shall a woman, proud and coy,
Make me languish for a toy?
Foolish Love! I fcorn thy darts,
And all thy little wanton arts,
To captivate unmanly hearts.

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