SONG OF A SCHOLAR and his MISTRESS, Who being cross'd by their Friends, fell mad for one another; and now firft meet in BEDLAM. [MUSIC within. ] The Lovers enter at oppofite doors, each held by a Phillis. L Keeper. OOK, look, I fee-I fee my love appear? For, like him, there is none : 'Tis the dear, dear man, 'tis thee, dear. Amyntas. Hark! the winds war; The foamy waves roar ; I see a ship afar : Toffing and toffing, and making to the fhore : But what's that I view, So radiant of hue, St. Hermo, St. Hermo, that fits upon the Ah! No, no, no. St. Hermo, never, never fhone fo bright; 'Tis Phillis, only Phillis, can shoot so fair a light; 'Tis Phillis, 'tis Phillis, that faves the ship alone, For all the winds are hufh'd, and the ftorm is overblown. Phillis. Let me go, let me run, let me fly to his arms. Amyntas. If all the fates combine, And all the furies join, I'll force my way to Phillis, and break thro the charm. [Here they break from their keepers, run to each other, and embrace.] Phillis. Shall I marry the man I love? And shall I conclude my pains? And the vapors leave my brains. Amyntas. Body join'd to body, and heart join'd to heart, To make fure of the cure, Go call the man in black, to mumble o'er his part. Phillis. But fuppofe he should stay "Tis a work must be done, We'll borrow but a day, And the better, the fooner begun. Cho. of both. At worst if he delay, &c. [They run out together hand in hand.] |