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A54404	Ariadne, or, The marriage of Bacchus an opera or a vocal representation / first compos'd by Monsieur P.P., now put into musick by Monsieur Grabut ... and acted by the Royall Academy of Musick at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden.; Ariadne. Libretto. English	Grabu, Louis, d. 1694.; Perrin, P. (Pierre), ca. 1620-1675. Ariane.; Cambert, Robert, ca. 1628-1677.	1673 (1673)	Wing P1593; ESTC R20472	15,261	71

valiant God! march march we 'll all follow Mars To our just wrath let 's sacrifice them now Bellon Let 's drench the Earth with streams of tears and blood As once Deucalion did by 's watry flood All them together To fight to fight to battel to arms Let 's fill the World with thousand harms SCENE VII Enter Bacchus Silene Euphrosyne who had stayed hid till then Mars to Bacchus Invincible Heroe great Bacchus thou Whose valiant Sword whole crops of Palms did mow Who o're the World such mighty Conquests made Wilt thou alone refuse to give us aid Euphrosyne runs to him O heavens what d'I hear help I 'm amaz'd To quench his Love they have his valor rais'd Poor Ariadne alas what is thy Fate Ariadne passes over the Theatre without speaking only sighs Aria Alas Bacchus spying her offers to run after her Bac. She 'l die she 'l die help e're it be too late She 's gone she 's gone alas He runs after her but is hindred by Mars Mars Wilt thou forsake Bacchus My soul alas which party canst thou take Shall Valour still or must the god of Love Over my heart this day triumphant prove Love I confess th' art sweet but Glory 's strong Bellon Follow Glory Love's Charms will lead thee wrong Euphro Love proves a guide more sweet more sure by far Bellon Honour and Triumph are the fruits of War Euphro O! follow follow Love Bellon O follow me Bacchus I 'le take thy counsel I 'le to glory flee Euphor runs to stop him What dost thou mean shall she perish alone Whom Heaven kind design'd to be thy own It 's done it 's done Cupid has got the day Let 's to her aid Euphrosyne lead the way Ex. Bacchus and Euphro Ritornella by Instruments Mars Well! since Bacchus will love let 'm please his mind Diana and Apollo More noble pleasures we will find To war to war arm arm let 's go Let 's extermine our daring Foe They all march away in order of battel Mars at the head of them Colours flying and Trumpets sounding SCENE VIII Enter Silene alone weeping Alas alas my chiefest joy My Foster-child my dearest Boy Must Love prevail then canst thou quit The sweet juice of the Grape to follow it What will become of thee dear Vine Now Bacchus for Love forsakes Wine And thou Bottle my secret friend Thy Pomp thy Glory 's at an end Bid adieu to all mirth and sport What man hereafter will thee court Since Bacchus for Cupid leaves Wine Thy Doom's now come as well as mine Ye Satyrs Fathers of the Grape Weep with me for this fatal Rape Bacchus alas is stoln away Come let 's in Earth poor Bottle lay Let 's mourn let 's sigh let 's grieve and pine Since our god for Love forsakes Wine Satyrs dancing and singing end the third Act. The third Intermede A Mask of Satyrs These Satyrs covered with Mourning Crepe in dancing take the Bottle out of Sylene's hands and joyning Lamentation with him do bury the same in a Tomb covered over with Cypress-branches and sing at its Funeral a mournful Ditty ACT VI. The Theatre is changed again Venus's Garden and Grotto appears where an Eccho answers SCENE I. Enter Damon a Shepherd Damon FArewel perfidious Love my flame is gone Thy cruel pow'r I will for ever shun That Soul who lives under thy Tyranny Lives not alas but dies continually Too long too long I 've prov'd a slave to thee Reason alone methinks should make me free But yet alas who can those wounds e're cure Thy Arrows make or liberty procure To hearts by thee subdued or loose those chains Thou fastnest once No no! I 'l bear thy pains And should my Fate always thus cruel prove Yet I 'm resolv'd to live and die in Love SCENE II. A Symphony of Flutes and Hoboys is answered by the Echo Cloris Phillis Damon Clitton hid among the Trees Cloris For one single pleasure a thousand pains A silly Shepherdess obtains When she to Courtship gives her mind And then alas if she proves kind The silly Shepherdess obtains For that single pleasure a thousand pains A second concert of Flutes echoed as before Clitton at the Echo For one short grief a thousand joys A discreet Shepherdess enjoys If she to Amoret does yield After sh 'as once resign'd the field A discreet Shepherdess enjoys For that one grief a thousand joys Cloris and Clitton at the Echo Griefs and pleasures joys and pains Are the sure portions of Love Whatever heart bears its chains Will at length certainly prove That the sure portions of Love Are griefs pleasures joys and pains SCENE III. Damon Cloris Clitton Phillis Damon Am I design'd alas the only wretch Whose Martyrdom eternity must reach Clit. Clor. Change Shepherd change thy affections remove Dam. Thou wrongest me cruel thy Martyr I 'le prove Clit. Yield Shepherd yield there 's no revenge Does taste so sweet as that of a Love-change Dam. Shepherd thou wrong'st me much I 'le constant be Clor. and Clit. By often change thou 'lt find one may love thee SCENE IV. Enter Ariadne Phillis Cloris and Clitton Ariad. Weep weep my wretched eyes weep your selves blind Clitton Love love a god most charming and most kind Aria 'T was Love alas that made my cruel pain I 'le suffer death rather than love again Phillis When a Shepherd proves unkind He must be serv'd in his kind When a Shepherd proves unkind I 'd do so if th'case was mine I declare I 'm one of those Who could ten false Lovers lose And yet never grieve nor pine SCENE V. Enter Venus and the three Graces Venus presenting Ariadne a Girdle that hath the vertue to inspire Love Venus From the Goddess of Love this gift receive It hath a pow'r to charm the greatest grief It can inspire a heart with mirth and love Ariad. That very name my soul to wrath does move Venus Fear thou nothing Ariadne this new fire Shall in thy soul nothing but joy inspire Ariad. Who can who shall alas my faith secure That though a god his flame will still endure Venus Conjugal vows he 's now ready to give As soon as he thy consent shall receive Ariadne suffers the Graces to tye Venus's Girdle about her Cloris Fairest Goddess who can'st inspire With thine own charms the hottest fire What need hast thou t' use other ties Than the sweet glances of thine eyes Ariad. Good gods what blessed change is this I find What sudden joy d'I feel possesses my mind Transports of bliss you do by far exceed Those cruel ones of grief ye did preceed Thou charming God! the more I think on thee The more I love But Heavens this is he I blush SCENE V. Enter Bacchus Clitton and Coribants Bacc. O cruel Ariadne who is 't you love Aria My mortal hate for one I 'le ne're remove My heart my soul shall ever him abhor Bacc. And yet you love Aria That 's little I do adore Bacc. Who then alas

can this blist Lover be Aria The best of gods the most charming that 's thee Bacc. Cruel Princess ye 're vext that you must owne My faithful passion is to your heart known Aria My looks my words will soon my soul betray Bacc. What bliss is mine Aria What honour Bacc. Happy day Ariad. O blessed change Bacc. How can 't possible be Aria So great a god should give himself to me Bacchus Can I believe my bliss is true Aria Dare I hope mine shall continue Clit. Euphro Hail happy pair of Lovers hail May your ardent Love never fail Long may you live under this sacred tie Till by Hymen you do each other enjoy SCENE VI. Enter Silene Coribants Venus and Graces Silene weeping Alas alas Venus What grief does thee possess Silene Prithee Venus thou canst my grief redress If thou'dst restore my Foster-Son again Venus to the Graces I will do so Pray Graces ease his pain Euphro He 's shrewdly hurt can he be kindlier us'd Silene How can he be by Love amus'd And court his dearest Bottle too Euphro Love well and drink well both Bacchus he may do Venus Good Father Silene let 's all agree Bacc. So he drinks brimmer still I 'le yield to thee All together His glory thus we 'l share in Wine 's delights He 'l spend the days in those of Love the nights Silen and Corib. repeat In Wine 's delights He 'l spend the days in those of Love all nights All the same again Satyrs dancing end the fourth Act. The fourth Intermede A Mask-Entry A Company of Satyrs having their heads crown'd with Ivy the Leaves of which are gilded their Horns twisted about with Chains of Flowers a Cup in their hand bring the Bottle which they buried before triumphantly out of the Tomb where it lay They set the same dancing on a little Throne made of green Turff strow'd with Flowers whilst other Satyrs are singing The Triumph ending a small Cloud comes down from above that steals away their Bottle up into Heaven leaving the Satyrs gazing with admiration ACT V. SCENE I. Enter Hoboys and Coribants drunk coming to the Feast the Hob●ys and Flutes joyn with the other Instruments A Corib. COme come see the new Bride Away Our god's Minion this is her day Blest be brave Theseus for his pain Who brought her hither Again again Another Corib. He leaves the Earth and with his Love Goes to live with the gods above O let 's all we his warlike Band Follow him thither glass in hand A third Corib. Let 'em drink Nectar and Ambrosie Their bliss I never shall envy Provided they send me good Wine Sweet Malvezy and Muscadine Ritornella with Instruments SCENE II. Enter Hoboys and other Coribants with Silene drunk Silene Hold is it day or is it night Every thing 's dark no! e're thing 's light It is day sure I hear the Swallows pratle It 's night I see a thousand Candles sparkle With o're thinking my thoughts distracted be My ears do tingle and buz what 's that I see What be these beasts or men here we may find Nymphs of all sorts and sizes some too kind Other too rough yet I 'm afraid Mong so many one scarce should find a Maid SCENE III. Enter Bacchus Ariad. Clitton with Hoboys Bacchus Ariad. both O sweetest pleasures blessed change From sighs and moans of madness and revenge To sighs and tears of greatest joy and bliss Ariad. My dearest god what happy change is this Bacchus My fairest goddess let 's now and ever live Under Love's Law and bliss on bliss receive My faith I pledge thee now here take my hand Ariad. For pledge of mine both life and soul command SCENE IV. Enter Phillis Clowns Hoboys Silene Coribants Clitton and Cloris Phillis Gather your Roses fair Nymphs do Gather Roses and Lillies too Bring whole heaps of Flowers newly born And strow the ways this glittering morn Let 's to our divinities pay Our joyful vows this happy day A Corib. Leave leave your Cells ye Sylvan gods With your shrill voices fill these woods With love with mirth and joy let 's all Celebrate this high Festival Cloris holding a Nosegay in her hand For an Offring here I have brought This fine Nosegay with my hands wrought Of Orange-flowers and Jasmies All I beg of your deities Is to keep me from hurtful fall From Wolves from Thieves and Love that 's worse than all She presents her Flowers to Ariadne who accepts them and gives the Girdle that Venus gave her The Shepherdess not knowing its vertue accepts and puts it on Ariadne Fair Shepherdess I do kindly receive Thy sweetest gift and in return I give This curious Gem to thee Silene presents his Bottle And as for me I give my Nurse my chiefest joy My kindest Miss my pretty Toy The object of my tenderest love Who did always my pain remove My Minion my sweet delight Whom I hug'd both day and night Ritornella Whilst the Instruments are playing the Ritornella Silene goes and fetches the honest Clowns his Neighbours whom be presents to the new married Couple Silene Please your godships divine These good Neighbours of mine Are come now To pay their vow SCENE V. Enter Clowns who being all drunk fall a dancing after their manner These Rusticks come to dance at Bacchus's Wedding bringing with them Presents of such things as their Village affords some bring in their Baskets Sausages others Eggs dy'd in several colours and other Truffs Old Silene while they are dancing changes their Baskets and gives them others where instead of Sawsages they find live Eels instead of Eggs Frogs and for Truff live Rats SCENE VI. Enter Damon Clitton Cloris Hoboys Clowns Damon What can alas a Shepherd to gods give Whose wretched heart does always pine and grieve What can a Lover full of trouble and fears Offer this day but only sighs and tears Clit. Cease Shepherd cease to trouble our joy Thou shalt e're long thy Love enjoy Heaven hath heard thy plaint and thou shalt see This joyful day thy Cloris kind to thee Every thing here both gods and mortals too Laughs loves and strives each other to outdo Dam. How does my Shepherdess From her levity cease Clit. This day this day of love Shall a day of wonders prove Dam. Thy cruelty is gone Cloris Sing sing thy work is done All together This is the day this day of Love This day of love Will a day of great wonders prove Ritornella with the Instruments SCENE VII All the Actors are seen in this last Scene Hoboys and Symphonists of Venus playing Shepherds Sheph rdesses and Clowns A glittering Palace comes down from Heaven on the middle of which is seen a Royal Throne over the Throne hands a Crown made of seven Precious Stones the Crown suspended by four little Cupids flying Venus with the three Graces sits on the Throne with Bands of Symphonists about her During the Symphony the Palace and Throne descend slowly upon the Theatre where being fixt Venus and the Graces come down from the Throne and taking the new married Pair lead them by the hand and place them on the same Bacchus in the middle Ariadne on his right Venus on his left hand and the Graces at their feet Symphonists play Venus Bacchus at last yields to our Arms A Beauty by her pow'rful Charms With my help makes his heart her own Little Cupids therefore give her the Crown Euphro Flie flie to this great Festival Ye little Loves flie thither all Ye were th' Authors of her desires Put on her your richest Attires Place on her head that glittering Crown She has deserved it it's her own The seven Gems which compos'd her Crown are inflam'd of a sudden and chang'd into so many bright Stars known in Heaven by the name of Ariadnes Hair Venus Euphro Hail Hail new goddess hail Silene Clitton Coribants Cloris Damon Damon Hail for ever fair Princess hail Cloris O may we like them spend our days Free from trouble and pain always Euphro In midst of loves and smiles and sports Silene In all pleasures the Table affords Let 's drink Venus Let 's love All together O let us love and drink and sing And let the Echo's ring Venus Euphro For ever hail our new goddess Silene Clit. Corib. Cloris Damon For ever live our most lovely Princess All together again with the Instruments Let 's drink let 's love and sing all day Let Love and Bacchus live alway The Clowns dance to the sound of voices and Instruments all the while the Palace is drawing up FINIS

valliant Heroes spring As could New-Worlds under my Power bring Thousands of Beauties on the same are found Far greater than you 'l find search the World round Tyber Such Prudent-SPEAKERs thy happy Albion bears As its great State secures from storms and fears Seine The god of Vallor sure governs thy Soil Tyber If Vallor rules Themis does share the Toil. Thamice Vallor and Justice both may act their parts But Love makes Charles to Rule his Peoples hearts Tyber To Him therefore and Thee I come this day My Tributes and my Homages to pay Seine I from my smiling Shoars new Pastimes bring New Airs new Dances to please thy great King All three together O let our Voices and our Concerts move These Royal Eares to mind our tender Love May heaven-kind ever and ever smile And Blessings poure upon this happy Isle The same over again by all These three Nimphs having near done singing a fourth appears born as the former representing the River Po. Po to Tham. Hail Queen of Flouds Thou Silver Thamis Who in that Pitch of highest Bliss Thy Glorious King thy state has rais'd Above all other Flouds art prais'd Suffer this happy Day that I May through thy Chrystal Waves draw nigh And my Princess divine To thy great Heroe joine I Through the fierce Billows have past Of two Seas deep and vast By Rocks and Mountains ran To Mortal-men unknown Leaving my fertil Plains and Shoars to bring A Royal Sister to thy Greatest King Thamis Sweet Nimph thy friendly care and pain Of this Great King their just reward obtain And thou maist see his People now To thy Princess both love and honor shew This Bliss thou ow'st to her alone whose Charm In ' spight of Fate all resistance disarm And makes Envy it self t' adore Her now whom it oppos'd before All these Four joine and sing as before O Let our Voices and our Concerts move These Royal Ears to mind our tender love May heaven-kind c. ARIADNE OR The MARRIAGE of BACCHVS AN OPERA ACT I. A Symphony preceded by a Flourish opens the Scene The Theater is chang'd and discovers a stately Portico before Bacchus's Palace SCENE I. Several Hoboyes belonging to Bacchus coming out of the Portico follow'd by Clyton and a Band of Corybants some singing others dancing joyn Concert with the Instruments After which Clitton sings alone Cliton HE 's now return'd the World 's Great Conqueror Valliant Bacchus who fill'd the Earth with terror The god of Wine and tir'd with Warlick-toil Seeks Peace and Ease in this most happy Soil With Wreaths of Ivy then your Foreheads Crown And pay your Vowes to him whose Pow'r's known Sing Dance and Leap his Alters round And worship him as you are bound Clyton to the Bacc. Leave leave your smoaky Cels ye Bacchants all In careless-dress let your hairs fall And with your dreadful voices make These Rocks these Woods and hollow Valeys shake They all with Hoboyes Flutes and Violins Sing and Dance with Clytton Sing Dance and Leap his Altars round And pay to him your Vowes as ye are bound SCENE II Enter Silen and mixes with them upon which they sing the same and dance it over again All together Sing Dance and Leap his Altars c. Silene alone How prudent was that mighty god of Wine Who first planted the blessed Vine When he Heaven forsook to dwell on Earth Here the sweet clash of pots and cups rise mirth Above loud storms of winds and tempests crack And Olimpus's lofty-head shake and wrack While we Mortals below drink Wine in Bowl And let great Iove above his thunder roul Silene 2. All th' Indian Gold he got who dare To that Liquor divine compare Le ts therefore neither faint nor shrink But thousand thousand brimmers drink Clytton and the Corybants Let 's thousand thousand brimmers drink Silen Let 's drink his health in that Liquor divine The same again Who first planted the precious Vine SCENE III. Whilst these remain enter Bacchus Venus and Euphrosine Bacchus Come down come down long wisht-for Peace Come dwel on Earth let War for ever cease And ye Mortals unto Our Altars bow For such a Bliss each ought t' offer a vow Coribants Bacchus ye see resolves to Court no more The god of Arms as he has done before Venus and Euphrosine In Love he 'l find far sweeter charms Than in the toil of War and noise of Arms. Coribants He leaves War that with delight He may drink both day and night Venus and Euphrosine His greatest glory is to love Corybants Wine will his highest triumph prove Venus In serving us his chiefest honor layes Coribants True honor stands in drinking nights and dayes Bacchus Sings Bacchus How highly blest must that Conqueror be Whose vallor crown'd with Palms of Victory And satisfi'd with his acquired Fame His Mind at last to calm and Peace can frame Who resting from all Warlike trouble and toil In love and quiet governs his Native Soil Bacchus 2. And yet how happier far is he Who from Love's Passion being free Can a less-cruel Object find To fix his thoughts and please his mind My Liberty I count the highest Bliss I 'l flee from love and all his charms I 'll miss Thus o're my self as ore the World I 'le raigne And of my heart prove the true Soveraign Exit Hoboyes Bacchus and Clytton following them with the Cory bants leaping and dancing about Bacchus SCENE IV. Enter Silene and Coribbants dancing Enter Venus and Euphrosine Venus Shall haughty Bacchus now To Love's Altars refuse to bow And he alone persist Our Soveraign Power to resist No no the god must yield And to my son resign the Field I 'l make a mortal-beauty wound him so That Cupid's power and mine he 'l quickly know Euphrosine He 'l find all resistance proves vain When once Love dooms a heart to bear his chain And if that heart will not submit T' obey his Law he can compel him to 't Venus and Euphrosine No no the Conqueror must yield And to the god of Love resign the Field SCENE V. Enter Silene and Coribantes again laughing and singing Silene and Coryb Ho! ho it's true he will resigne But to the sweet Juice of the Vine Fond Love at best proves but a Toy It 's Wine he 'l make his chiefest Joy Coryb Why should India's Great Conqu'ror now To childish Cupid's Empire bow Silene Should Bacchus burn with any other Flame Than that of Wine he 'd lose his glorious Fame Coryb The god of Mirth and Liberty Can't yield to Love's captivity Silene Should he that wisdom do's inspire Endure the smart of Cupid's fire All together Follow follow-we Champions brave That Noble Pattern which he gave Let 's flee from Love as well's from Arms In Wine we 'l find far sweeter Charms The Wounds of Mars and those of Love Equally-mortal often prove We may seem fierce and gallant but the way To live at ease is to feast night and day Until we die

then make our Grave I' th' bottom of some cool Wine-Cave Whilst they are singing Mars appears in the Clouds riding on a Chariot speaking to Bellona who rides on another SCENE VI. Mars Help Sister help and let weak Mortals now Thy dreadful rage and matchless-vallor know Bellona What Mortal nay What god is it that dare Provoke to wrath the mighty god of war Mars The Scithian-Monarch raises armes amaine And with his num'rous Force does fill the Plain Bellona O Mighty Jove Why proves thy wrath thus slow Why dost not thou thy fiery vengeance show And by thy Pow'r these mortal-rebels grind As small as dust that 's driven by the wind Mars Sister let 's fill the World with thousand harms Let nothing scape the furie of our Arms Le ts gods and men to our assistance call And in our quarrel let them stand or fall Bellona Break loose break loose ye grim Furies of Hell Come to our aid leave your Infernal Cel And to amaze our most audacious foe Bring Envy Death and horror from below SCENE VII Three Furies breaking forth from beneath flee up into the Aire to meet Mars and Bellona upon which they all come down Mars Victorious Bacchus will no longer fight But 's now resolv'd to taste Peace and Delight Of his great Soul let 's interrupt the calm VVith noise of Arms and hope of some new palme SCENE VIII Enter Silene and Corybants laughing and singing Ha! ha ha ha let Great Mars know Bacchus is far better imployed now All the VVar he 's resolv'd to make And sweetest pleasures he will take Is not to fight your bloody Battels But to encounter with Cups and Bottels Bellona seeing them draws her sword Bellona It 's you it's you Infernal Crue That his Great Soul to Vice subdue Flee flee be gon approach the god no more The Furies with their Whips drive away Silene and the Corybants First Interlude First Mask-Entrey Indian-Kings slaves to Bacchus glad to see themselves subdued by so charming a god dance round about his Statue erected upon an Altar in the middle of the Theater Second Entrey Whilst the Indian-Kings are dancing Enter Saliens Priests of Bacchus who joyning dance with them do skip and leap both upon the Altar and round the same ACT II. SCENE I. Enter Cloris and Philis after a Symphony of Flutes and Hoboyes Cloris holding a Fishing-Angle Cloris COme little Fishes come to me Catch at my baite it 's faire you see You 'l find it sweet if you 'l draw near Yet if that pleasure costs you dear Your Life I mean O let not me Be blam'd for too much crueltie My Shepheard thus I did inthral When he into my snares did fall And ever since that fatal day For what his Love could plead or say All the kindness he could ever obtain Of love and me hath prov'd torment and pain Phillis holding a Cage in her hand Come ye little Birds of the skie Into my Cage Why don't you flie Come little fools you may trust me Your loss will be but small You 'l feel no hurt at all But lose your liberty Flutes and Hoboyes again then Philis 2. A kind Mistress I 'll prove I 'm wholly made of Love A kind Mistress I 'l prove My heart is young and knows no cruelty Your loss will be but small You 'l feel no hurt at all But lose your Liberty Flutes and Hoboyes again SCENE II. Enter Damon Damon How kind how blest would prove my Fate If after all thy cruel hate I like these happy Birds could die Thy Prisoner to end my misery Cloris Hope Shepheard hope for better dayes Thy torments sure won't last alwayes Damon Ha! Cloris thou mayst end my grief Cloris My rigor should methinks prove thy relief Thy patience will be tir'd and that will cure The pain and smart thou dost endure Damon Faithful to thee Cruel I 'l live and die In spight of thy severity Cloris Thy own reason sure will one day The ardor of thy passion lay Damon No no! be thou n'er so unkind Constant to thee Death shall me find Cloris Prethee Shepheard be gon Thy Presence and thy moan Do scare the Fish away Pray thee go do not stay Whether thy love be true or fain'd My heart by thee 's not to be gain'd SCENE III. Enter Bacchus and Ariadne Clitton Silen Philis Cloris and Damon aside Ariadne He 's gon alas the Traytor 's leaves me here In this Desart possest with grief and fear His cruel soul could not in pity be Mov'd to resent my pain and misery He 's gone he 's gone and would not alass stay To bid me adiew before he sail'd away Here I am left on a most dreadful shoar Where horror dwels and Bears and Lions roar Both help and honorless Where shall I find Any succors Silene afar off shewing her a Bottle Silen In this Juice sweet and kind This precious Balm which heals the greatest pain When all remedies else prove vain It 's Wine it 's Wine that cures all grief And can alone give thee relief Ariana continues not minding him Ye dul and senseless gods How could you see This cruel wrong the Traitor hath done me And not on him a severe vengeance take Ah! ye 're unjust unless you quickly make These Rocks these Sands and these merciless Waves To prove at once his hangmen and his Graves And ye fierce Tygers far more kind than he It 's you that now must end my misery Come rend my heart and from these purple Veines Suck with my Blood my Soul and all my Paines Silene afar off Fairest of Princesses thy Blood VVas not made to be Tygers food Such dainty flesh deserves to be From VVolves and Dogs fierce hunger free Ariadne continues not seeing them But why should I alass compassion crave Of Gods and Monsters who no pity have No more than Pow'r to give me ' ny relief No no! my Rage alone must end my Grief But hold heaven methinks hath heard my moan 'T hath so my spirits fail one sigh one groan Then Death welcome my Soul now steals away She falls into a Trance Silene Despair and grief prevail Unhappy day Clitton She swouns help help Bacchus Alass Silene She 's dead Clitton She 's gon● Silene runs and offers her Wine If thou canst drink one drop the cure is done Ariadne coming to her self But I do live alas my hopes are vain I see these Rocks these Woods these Hils again I see the Sea and with prosperous Gales My Ravisher o'r the fierce Billow's sails My wretched eyes must still with horror see That dreadful Object caus'd my misery That Monster of men O grief O rage O pain Ariadne growing furious of a sudden rushes into the Woods SCENE IV. 〈…〉 remain f●ll where they lay bid Bacchus Silene and Clitton come forward Bacchus O! What a Pow'r do sighs and tears obtain Over a tender Heart A weeping Eye Can soon disarm the greatest cruelty Poor Ariadne alass thy fatal