her sport a general Revel keep Let trembling Mortals now go curse or pray Be good or wicked which they will today I care not what disorders there shall be Let Heaven and Earth slide into Anarchy All politick Cares of every kind I 'le from my Breast remove And will to day perplex my mind With never a Thought but Love Enter Strephon Corydon Daphne Sylvia Cho. of Shepheards Str. HArk Hark I hear the merry Hunters Horn. Cory The Sound from yonder Hill by Winds is born Daph. Diana and her Nymphs are all that way A Hunting gone Syl. So soon e're break of day Chor. Let 'em let e'm go Lovers better pleasures know Stre. Let the cold Nymphs run dabling in the Dew Kind Love to warmer Pleasures us invites Daph. I do not envy their Delights Whilst my dear Strephon does continue true Cor. Whilst thus severe my Sylvia does remain I envy not the Hunters but the Slain Sylv. Poor Corydon thy Flame remove I pity thee but cannot love Yet I own I have something in every Vein Which moves me to Love could I meet with a Swain Who were to my mind and would love me again Sire See Shepheards the day is begun Come with our Sports let 's welcom the Sun An Entry of Basques Sylv. Kind Lovers Love on Least the World be undone And Mankind be lost by Degrees For if all from their Loves Should go wander in Groves There soon would be nothing but Trees Chor. Kind Lovers Love on c. Exeunt omnes Finis Actus I. ACT. II. Jupiter Mercury JVPITER WHen shall I get this Vision in my sight She flyes from Love as Shadows from the Light Whilst I pursue her flaming with desire And o're these Hills rowl like an Orb of Fire Making the Sun the Rule of Day resign To these more bright and pearcing Beams of mine Mer. 'T is folly longer o're these Hills to stray 'T is noon and now the Golden Dust of Day Dissolved does from the Heavenly Mountains flow In fiery Streams and drowns the World below In the Cool Groves our Nymphs we now shall find Wading in Shades and bathing in the Wind Whilst Phoebus shoots his Arrows round And vainly seeks the Nymphs to wound The Groves he vainly does invade His fiery Darts are quench'd in Shade Fit your disguise and thither let 's repair Jup. At small expence I from the Wealthy Air My self with any Figure can supply Or I can fix an Image in the Eye Come here you wandring Atoms of the Air. You that are fittest for a Form so fair And now my Beauteous Ambuscade prepare â—nto Diana's Shape your selves Congeal Under that Ice the burning Jove Conceal There let me all lie cover'd like the Brow Of some high Flaming Mountain hid in Snow Mer. See! the assembling Atoms do obey Or rather the great Jove is fled away And the fair Goddess of these Woods is here Hail Beauteous Jup. Oh! Thou Rallyest now I fear But canst thou any where Descry one Beam of Jupiter Mer. Not one by your own self I swear There 's nothing but Diana can be seen Her Habit Feature Shape Proportion meen Nay and your Voice exactly tun'd I hear And past discovery deludes the Ear. Jup. Now you cool Atoms from your Ranks disband Flow to loose Air again at my command Thither return like Rivers to the Main And let me now be Jupiter again Mer. Again the Atoms Loyally obey The Snowy shape is all dissolv'd away Jup. Poor God! No shape at all thou didst discry I only Grav'd a Figure on thy Eye And the soft Voice which you believe you hear Was form'd but in the Concave of your Ear. Mer. Ah! Jove How useful and of what delight Is Sovereign Power 't is that determines Right Nothing is truly good but what is great A Mortal you would punish for this Cheat. Jup. I would and justly shall the thing I make Presume the Freedom of a God to take I cannot erre what e're my Actions be There 's no such thing as good or ill to me No Action is by Nature good or ill All things derive their Natures from my will If Vertue from my will distinct could be Vertue would be a Power Supream to me What no dependency on me will own Makes me a Vassal and usurps my Throne If so I can revenge me in a Trice Turn all the Ballance and make Vertue Vice Mer. Jove like himself with Reasons firm and strong Upholds the Port does to a God belong For I have ever of opinion been Gods only should be priviledg'd to sin We guild sower Vertue with fine Titles still To make men swallow the unpleasant Pill But from the Sweets of sin they 'l ne're be chac'd E're since the Liquorish Slaves have got a tast But let us hasten now to seek our Loves And first examine all the neighbouring Groves Jup. See! something swiftly darted by my sight Cal. goes over the Stage Was it a Nymph or sudden Glance of Light Mer. A Nymph I swear Jup. Oh! whither is she run Mer. See! See! to yonder Grove she 's gone There like a glittering Star in Night She tempers all the Shades with Light Fair Streams of Light seem after her to stray Like the bright dawning of some Beauteous day Jup. It is my Nymph none else is half so fair Fly thou whilst thither I repair Fly or thou ruin'st my design Mer. Nay stay perhaps the Nymph is mine If mine she will to mock me stay Jup. If mine thou chacest her away Mer. I in a Cloud my self will hide Jup. I 'm ruin'd if thou art descry'd Mer. And I if mine discover Jove Jup. But mine will fly Mer. But mine may Love Jup. I 'le be so hid she shall not Jove surprize Mer. But Jove may peep through his disguise Jup. It shall no damage to thee bring Mer. Oh! no one can resist a King Jup. I will not tempt thy Nymph I swear Mer. Your Glory will if you forbear Jup. Oh! thy Impertinence the Nymph is gone Thy sawcy wrangling has my Hopes undone Mer. For what should all this anger be Perhaps 't is you have ruin'd me Jup. Surely you ought at my commands to move Mer. Love understands not either King or Jove Jup. What Monarch will endure this from a slave Mer. What constant lover but is bold and brave Jup. Begone thou wilt provoke my rage In foolish strife no more engage Mer. Thrice happy Jove your Nymph I now espy Jup. Where where Mer. In yonder neighbouring Wood Jup. So nigh Happy Contention which my flight delay'd For I had lost her if I had not stay'd Mer. To me the Obligation then confess And chide no more a Lovers haughtiness Jup. Be gone be gone and thy own Nymph pursue Or once again thou wilt thy King undo Ex. Mer. Now all you Troops of Winged Loves come see Your selves reveng'd on your fair Enemy Exit Calisto Cal. Under the days oppression tyr'd I grow The Sun to day does no compassion shew In
fear at every shreek proclaim Tha. Am I alone to blame Do you not see Augusta Rich and Fair Though to her Lap I all my Treasure bear Will for no comfort stay her Tears The following Stanza is properly part of the Genius's Speech being a pertinent Reply to Thames but being set extreme pleasantly and for a treble voice it was sung by Thames Augusta is inclin'd to fears Be she full or be she waining Still Augusta is complaining Give her all you can to ease Her You shall never never please Her Chor. Augusta is enclin'd to fears c. Gen. These fears do not belong to Her nor You Europe onely should lament The Nymphs of his fair Continent Some Gyants now pursue But this sweet Isle no Monster can invade Tha. Oh send those poor distressed Nymphs some aid Eur. From the mild power of this happy place Who is inclin'd To make the World as peaceful as his mind They have already gain'd the grace Two Heroes of his own Celestial Race Are sent the one to Triumph o're the Seas And all the watery Divinities The other Monsters of the Land to quell And make the Nymphs in safety dwell Gen. The first in War has all Perfections gain'd That can by humane Nature be attain'd The second promises to be All that in the first we see Eur. Mars to the first does all his Glory lend The second Beauty Youth and Love attend Gen. Both in high perfections shine Valor Glory Race Divine Wait awhile and you shall see Both return with Victory Pea. Hark hark the Triumph's near And see they both already Crown'd appear Enter one Crown'd with a Naval Crown attended by Sea-gods and Tritons Rejoice you watry Deities The mighty Monsters of the Seas This valiant Prince has slain The God of this fair Isle shall now Command as all his Right allow The Empire of the Main Enter one Crown'd with a Mural Crown attended by Warriors Ye Gods and Nymphs of Plains and Groves Of Springs and Streams enjoy your Loves This youthful Heroe has subdu'd The Satyrs now of ev'ry Wood Has kill'd or ta'n 'em all for Slaves And chac'd the Giants from their Caves Chor. of all Let us both their praises sing Whilst we both in Triumph bring Let us all contend to grace 'em With our loud and joyfull'st thanks Whilst upon the flow'ry Banks Of this beautious Nymph we place ' em Two Entries are Danc'd One of Sea-gods and the other of Warriors Gen. Now welcome Heroes to my blest abode And to my Nymph belov'd by ev'ry God Tha. Welcom to my Love and me Now we all shall happy be Cho. Now we all shall happy be A Temple of Fame appears Plen. Now you whose Valor gives the World repose See what Fame on you bestows Her shining Temple shall preserve your Names And thence her Trumpet your Renown proclaims Gen. To our Divinity now let us go And at his Feet your Crowns and Trophies throw Eur. I will my thanks in Offerings proclaim Asi I 'll lend you Spice Amer. I Gold Afr. And I the same Tha. I 'll be your Guide My Streams beneath his Palace hourly slide There it is not far before you Pleasure Arts Religion Glory Warm'd by his propitious Smile Flourish there and bless this Isle Gen. But stay what wonder does my spirit seize Turning to the King Queen See! here are both the great Divinities Tha. The God and Goddess too of this bless'd Isle Chaste Beauty in Her Aspect shines And Love in His does smile Gen. Quickly Heroes as 't is meet Throw your Trophies at their Feet Fall down and adore 'em Whilst with speed we hither call The Gods of Neighb'ring Groves and all Their Nymphs to dance before ' em An Entry of Rural Gods and Nymphs When the Prologue is done and all gone off the Stage Enter two who sing this following Song Now for the Play the Prologue is done The Dancing is o're and the Singers are gone The Ladies so Fine and so Fair it surpasses Are dress'd and have all tak'n leave of their Classes Where are the Slaves should make ready the Stage Here here are the Slaves should make ready the Stage An Entry of Carpenters IT having been the manner of all those who have had the Honour before me to serve the Court in Employments of this Nature to adorn their Works with the Names of those Great Persons who had Parts in the Representation I hope I shall not be condemned if I following their Examples Consecrate this of mine to Posterity by the same Policy The Persons of the Play The Personators Calisto a chaste and favourite Nymph of Diana beloved by Jupiter Her Highness the Lady Mary Nyphe a chaste young Nymph Friend to Calisto Her Highness the Lady Anne Jupiter in Love with Calisto The Lady Henrietta Wentworth Juno The Countess of Sussex Psecas an envious Nymph Enemy to Calisto beloved by Mercury The Lady Mary Mordant Diana Goddess of Chastity Mrs. Blagge late Maid of Honour to the Queen Mercury in Love with Psecas Mrs. Jennings Maid of Honour to the Dutchess Nymphs attending on Diana who also danced in the Prologue and in several Entries in the Play The Countess of Darby The Countess of Pembroke The Lady Katharine Herbert Mrs. Fitz-Gerald Mrs. Frazier Maid of Honour to the Queen The PERSONS of QUALITY of the Men that Danced were His Grace the Duke of Monmouth The Viscount Dunblaine The Lord Daincourt Mr. Trevor Mr. Harpe Mr. Lane In the PROLOGVE were Represented The River Thames by Mrs. Davis Peace by Mrs. Knight Plenty by Mrs. Butler The Genius of England by Mr. Turner Europe by by by Mr. Hart. Asia by Mr. Richardson Africa by Mr. Marsh junior America by Mr. Ford. In the Chorusses betwixt the ACTS Strephon The Part sung by Mr. Hart. Coridon The Part sung by Mr. Turner Sylvia The Part sung by Mrs. Davis Dophne The Part sung by Mrs. Knight Two African Women or Blacks The Part sung by Mrs. Butler Mrs. Hunt The SCENE of the PLAY is ARCADIA The DURATION of it An Artificial Day CALISTO ACT. I. Jupiter at a distance Mercury IVPITER HOW am I tir'd thus vainly to pursue A Nymph I cannot keep in view I daily through Arcadia rove O're every Hill through every Grove But in her Ears to Sigh my Love And may as well the Shades and Ecchoes chace The Shades I easier can embrace Which grieves me too whilst I this Maze have trod There 's none to pity a dispairing God Mer. In these Arcadian Woods I 've lost my Heart Aside Whilst I the Nymph by whom I smart Pursue some little Ease to get This Jove I've oft a wandring met He makes my Jealousie grow strong What does he do out of his Heav'n so long I 'm sure on some fair Nymph he has Design And all my fear is lest it should be mine Can no soft Beauty be Embrac'd But he must still desire a Tast That the Old Titans from his Throne had hurl'd This general
grievance of the World But I too soon to rage am won Perhaps there is no injury done Another Nymph has snatcht his Eye I 'le go discourse with him and try Jupiter discovers him Jup. Ah! Mercury What Fortune brought thee here Thou faithful Envoy of the Gods Come near Plung'd deep in sorrow with despair opprest I now was wishing for some Breast Where I my Secrets might repose And Fate has sent the best I could have chose Mer. What wondrous pain Is it can make the King of Gods complain Jup. My old Affliction Love Mer. What do I hear Aside This News I did not vainly fear Now dare not I what Nymph he loves enquire Lest we should both of us the same admire Jup. Thou seem'st disturb'd what does thy passion move Mer. Only my Loyalty for Jove And Rage at the Tyrannick Boy That dares great Jove's Repose destroy His Boldness Jove too mildly bears Though us poor Vassal Gods he dares Into his Chains and Fetters bring He is too sawcy with our King You ought to make his very Godhead cease For yours and Heav'ns universal Peace Jup. Oh let thy vain Discourses dye Loves is delightful Tyranny There is more pleasure in his pains Than all the Joys our Heav'n contains If Love I out of Heav'n should chace It would appear so dull a place My self and all the Gods would be even tir'd with Immortality Mer. I own these Joys sometimes I try To pass away Eternity But are they not for Jove too low Jup. The World must not the Secret know We boast great things to be ador'd and sought There is some Pleasure to be happy thought But for all Joys of our abode From Earth I would not move Nor be content to be a God To be depriv'd of Love Without that Joy Two vast Extreams would joyn Things without Sense would equal things Divine 'Twixt us and Plants there would be little odds And sawcy Mortals be more Bless'd than Gods Mer. Oh! let not Jove submit to such a Fate Poorly to envy things he does Create Jup. No if to Mortals I present Delight I to the Feast will still my self invite Mer. Yes Yes we know Joves Appetite Aside E're quite abstain from Loves sweet Feasts Hee 'l humbly dine with Birds and Beasts Jup I still provide with care We Gods in all Delights should share Besides the Loves by us embrac'd Would kill a poor weak Mortal but to tast We know what pleasure Love affords To Heavy Beasts and Mettled Birds Here and there at will we fly Each step of Natures Pearch we try Down to the Beast and up again To the more fine delights of Man We every sort of pleasure try So much advantage has a Deity Mer. Nay if Jove Rents the World to Man and Beast He may preserve the Royalty at least And freedom take to Hunt in any Grounds The Pleasures of great Jove should have no Bounds This distant talk still keeps me sweating here In Agonies of Jealousie and Fear And if I do not put an end Aside The day he thus will gladly spend I 'le not torment my self in vain I 'le boldly ask and end my pain All Joys the World must own their Sovereigns due But yet the Story does untold remain What Beauty did the Glory gain Once more the Worlds great Ruler to subdue Jup. Oh! Mercury the fairest Nymph of Humane Race All former Loves of mine she does so far surpass I them for Beauties scarce allow And never truly lov'd till now Mer. Astonishment Jup. Did they all live again I would not take the pain To vex my self into a shape For all the pleasure of a Rape Except it were to sharpen my desire And to return to her with greater fire Mer. What should she be and where does she remain Jup. Oh! that 's my grief she 's one of cold Diana's Train Mer. Oh! I am stabb'd my fear prophetick proves I am assured it is my Nymph he loves Aside Jup. Thou know'st what ills of late were done In Heav'n and Earth by Phoebus Frantick Son I from high Heav'n descending to survey The half-burnt World and with a God-like care All ruin'd places to repair Came here to view my lov'd Arcadia As I in every place did pass To cloath the wither'd Fields with Grass To all the Woods new Leaves and Shades to bring Set Rivers running fill each empty Spring I chanc'd to spy This Young and Beautious Nymph trip often by Mer. And has great Jove her Name yet ever heard No opportunity I yet have got She swiftly by like some bright Meteor shot Dazled my Eye and streight she disappeard Mer. And whither ran the vanishing Vision still Jup. Or to the Woods or o're some Hill To Hunt some Dear or swifter Roe Still in her Hand a Dart or Bow Her Garbe did negligence express For oh she had no need of dress Conceal'd I oft pursued her but in vain For still at last she mixt with chast Diana's Train Mer. Can she be gain'd Jup. By no Inchantment can She flies the very Shadow of a Man She thinks it does her Vertue stain If she but sleep where one has lain That she is of some purity beguil'd If she but tast the Air the Breath of one defil'd If any wandring Loves by chance T' approach her be so bold Away the naked Cupids dance She makes them shake with Cold. Mer. This in my Soul does some small comfort breed What then to gain her will ye do Jup. I do not know It does the skill of one poor God exceed But ha I see 'em come from yonder Grove Diana all the Train this way they move Mer. They are preparing for this Mornings Chace Jup. Let 's hide our selves in Clouds apace Lest we our being here betray And quickly chace 'em all away Exit Mer. But as they pass I 'le watch your Eye And your lov'd Nymph that way discry Exit Scene II. Diana Calisto Nyphe Psecas Attendants DIANA COme Come away my Nymphs too long we have repos'd The Morning has her Golden Doors enclos'd And there stands blushing on us Come away Let us not loose the gentlest part of day Princess Calisto most admir'd belov'd The Fairest Chastest most approv'd Of all that ever grac'd my Virgin Throng You who of great and Royal Race are sprung Born under Golden Roofs and bred to ease To every kind of soft delight To Glory Power and all that might A Royal Virgin please What could your tender Years to pain so soon enure And how can you this hard and toilsom life endure Cal. Divinest power Can any pleasures be Compar'd to Innocence and Chastity From Toyls of greatness I discharge my mind And only in these Shades true ease I find Pse Oh! with what pride and feign'd neglect of Art Aside This Royal Favourite storms our Goddess Heart Conquers it too and rules her Power Divine Whilst all our Merits unregarded shine Dia. I never such a Victim had before Crown Beauty Youth what all
the World Adore You bring at once in Sacrifice to me The Offering exceeds the Deity Pse Our poor deluded Goddess is undone Aside This Favourite has her Heart and Empire won Ny How am I pleas'd my Sisters praise to hear Though like a little Star I near appear Aside Nature and Friendship do enough prefer My Name to Honour whilst I shine in her Cal. The Crown and Glory at your feet I throw Are for your favour offering too low And giving only what I scorn and hate I gain your Service at too cheap a rate Pse Oh! how for praise she spreads a spatious Net Not one regard to us can passage get Aside Our Vertues will not go for Vertues long I neither will nor ought to bear this wrong Dia. You Princess do adorn enrich my Shade Ne're was so great so early Triumphs made At once o're Beauty Glory Youth and Ease All of 'em fair delightful Provinces None e're so young such Courage did express The Macedonian Victories were less And better to Adorn and Guard my Groves This fair young Warriour ' gainst Ease and Loves You bring to Train up here before whose Eye I see already vanquish'd Cupids flie With Wounds a bleeding and with broken Bows A fair Comparison in Arms you chose Ny She to much Honour me in this prefers And though my Courage cannot equal hers None to your Service shall more zealous be Nor still to love a greater Enemy Pse Hark how they bandy Praise and Flattery round Aside Each takes her turn to catch it at rebound Whilst we desertless Fools must patience feign And Praise our selves if any praise wee 'l gain Our Youth I find we wisely wast and are to mighty purpose chast Since these our kind rewards must prove I will in pure Revenge go love A God-like Youth and Vassal to my Eyes Has long with patience born my Tyranies The Humble Slave each Moment I torment And Rage which others slight on him I vent But now his Sufferings I 'le requite I 'le go and Love him out of spight Dia. Now Nymphs before the Rosy Morning fades And the dayes Fury chase us to the Shades Let 's Hunt the nimble Dear without delay We have decreed the Martyrs of the day And what you all shall kill together bring And meet when Sun declines at yonder Spring Ex. Di. Mâ—… Pse Pse Nor I 'le about another care I 'le seek my Love discover me who dare On the whole Train the shame shall fall I 'le swear we are Dissemblers all From Men we only seem to fly To meet 'em with more privacy That I sincerity approve And boldly own to all the World I Love Exit Scene V. Jupiter Mercury MERCVRY THanks to the Fates my Heart is now at ease Two different Nymphs our Inclinations please Aside Jup. Ah! Mercury what Beauty have I seen Mer. I have with Jove in equal Raptures been Jup. I in so hot an Agony did stay The Cloud in which I hidden lay Dropt and Melted half away That she such Beauty should on Shades bestow And careless Love should let her scape his Bow Mer. And is it she Jup. Why dost thou so enquire Mer. Because I one of the same Train admire Jup. Art thou by these Cold Beauties wounded then Mer. Yes by the scornful'st of the Train Your Nymph is yielding if compar'd to mine Yours hates she knows not why mine with design Yours only flyes you mine returns and fights Yours lets you dye but mine to kill delights You have but One Aversion to subdue I Thousands have which every Hour renew Jup. Poor Hermes how are we by Love opprest Two wounded Gods here desolate appear Each with an Arrow sticking in his Breast Goes wandring round the Woods he knows not where Chacing his Nymph some little ease to find And may as well pursue the Fleeting Wind. Mer. Pursue the Wind rather a Storm I chace Which turns to dash her Fury in my Face Not in wild shapes but in all Beauty drest That ever did a Humane Shape adorn I 've met my Nymph and have my Love exprest And never any thing obtain'd but scorn She meets me true but 't is to mock me still And if she ever smiles it is to kill Jup. Oh! Hermes you your self may happy call When Maids shew scorn they oft are near to yield And they who venture once to fight may fall But mine will not be drawn into the Field Could I intice her thither any way I only for a little scorn would pray I 'le not to Heaven till I obtain some ease Let Jealous Juno watch me as she please Mer. What will ye do you no attempt must dare Jup. Prithee what God or Mortal can forbear T' enjoy such Beauty I 'de no Shape refuse Nay if I knew what form most pleas'd her Eye I 'de not deny To be that thing and my whole Godhead loose Mer. O wondrous power of Love Too hard for Jove I wonder not he baffles my defence He is too Mighty for Omnipotence Jup. Hermes I 've thought I can my self relieve Starts Mer. What new Minerva does Joves Brain conceive Jup. A sure and pleasant Ambush I will lay I 'le in Diana's shape the Nymph betray My wanton Kisses then she 'l ne're suspect Nor my design detect No Vice but for a Vertue may escape If it be acted in a Holy Shape Disguis'd like her I 'le Kiss Embrace be free Mer. Yes and perswade her too 't is Chastity All Actions finely guilded o're succeed Men still the Doers mind and not the Deed The Nymph will all Diana does allow Nay think she liâ—'d in some mistake till now Jup. 'T is Sacred Truth then firmly I decree I will serve her as all Mankind serves me When on the World they would impose some Cheat Most strict Devotion they will counterfeit Look grave on all Men and then whine to me With such absurd and apish Mimickry I scarce from Laughter spight of Rage forbear And take Diversion in the Villains Prayer This Trick of Mortals shall be learnt by me I to serve Love will mimick Chastity What Form wilt thou assume for thy design Mer. What better Form than one that is Divine In Humane shape no more to her I 'le go My own true Form I thus attir'd will shew When she perceives it is a God does Love Perhaps Ambition the proud Nymph may move This satisfaction too I shall enjoy 'T is not a shape embraces her but I Whilst our delights we in disguises chuse We half the pleasure of Enjoyment loose Jup. I like thy plot thy Thoughts agree with mine Come let us each with speed to his designe Now vanish from my Thoughts all vexing cares And rule of Humane or Divine Affairs Let Gods and Mortals what they will pursue And Fate and Fortune their own Business do Let wrengling Eliments contend their fill And all the Wheels of the Worlds Frame stand still Let toyling Nature if she please go sleep Or for
these cool shades I am compell'd to stray To shun the merciless fury of the day My Goddess up the Mountain's farther gone The Nymph's dispers'd and I left all alone My hopes to find 'em I will now forsake And tyr'd with hunting too will gladly take The invitation of this Bed of Flowers In soft repose to pass away some Hours There lye my Bow and take thy ease unbent Thy weary Arms I 'le not this hour torment And you my Arrows in your Lodging keep And there from mischief lull your selves to sleep Mine and your travel for an Hour shall cease And now poor Herds go browse awhile in peace She lies down to sleep Enter Jupiter Jup. Oh! Love what pleasure dost thou here prepare Dull Heaven I shall return to thee no more Here is a Pleasure I prefer before All the delights I am possess'd of there Now Juno thy disgrace with patience bear And to disturb my Pleasures do not dare My former Loves I yielded to thy Rage I was contented they should be remov'd Alass I find I only thought I lov'd No Nymph but this did e're my Heart engage Thou might'st contend for Beauty with the rest But this shakes all thy Interest in my Breast Keep in thy Heaven and do not cast an Eye There gnaw thy self with rage and jealousie Thou art already half undone Be glad thou dost enjoy my Throne For plague me now Iâ—le chace thee from my Bed And place thy Crown upon thy Rivals Head Cal. wakes But I have wak'd my Nymph from her repose Her opening Eyes a sparkling Heaven disclose Wherein a Thousand Captive Cupids lye Opprest and fetter'd all with Chastity In those Two Temples full of Heavenly Light At the bright Christal Portal of her sight Let me in fair Diana's form appear And let my Voice dissolve into her Ear And thither in those pleasing accents flow The Goddess speaks when she does kindness shew My Huntress here at her repose which way Did you pursue the Chace to day Cal. My Goddess here so nigh Hail Power more great than Jove though Jove stood by In my esteem Jup. Till now what Lover heard Aside Himself with pleasure to himself preferr'd Oh! now my Fire does rage within I for the pain No longer can my self contein Without more forms I must begin Princess Calisto pleasure of my sight Grace of my Train my pride and my delight What Courteous God will lend me Words and Art To speak the amazing passion in my Heart Thy dazling Excellence each moment breeds Cal. My Goddess now in praise of me exceeds That I from Fate or Nature did obtain Any Deserts that might your favour gain Must in my Soul a Noble pleasure raise But now you quite oppress me with your praise Jup. Not half my sence of your desert I speak My Heart can never shew it till it break Which swell'd with kindness it will do e're long If Love can find no passage but the Tongue Cal. Chaste Power I beg you let these praises die Take some compassion of my modesty Jup. Oh! Princess it is I that pity need shall I the secret tell your merits breed In my last Heart a strange uncommon flame A kindness I both fear and blush to name Nay one for which no name I ever knew The Passion is to me so strange so new Cal. My wondring thoughts you into mazes guide And your dark meaning close in Riddles hide Jup. You are not half so much amaz'd as I My self am frighted at the Prodigy I daily stand and wonder at my pain And do not know of what I would complain I always sigh when I your Beauties view And wish but wonder why I wish for you Something I fain would crave but do not know What I should ask or what you can bestow Some Charms about you for my ease you bear But know not how they cure nor what they are But I am certain they could give me ease Cal. Oh! Gods how came you by this strange disease Weary with hunting you to day in hast Of some accursed Plant did rashly tast On which some Viper left his deadly sting Or else you drank at some infectious Spring Jup. Some Spring where Cupid wash'd his bloody Darts When the young Tyrant had been murdring Hearts That that the Author of my grief does prove The poisnous gore has tainted me with Love Cal. Who to that fatal Spring your steps betray'd Call Call to Aesculapius for some aid Jup. Oh! none can give me any ease but you Sick Sick I grow Cal. What would you ha' me do Jup. Look kindly on me with a pleasing Eye Smile smile upon me sweetly or I die Suppose me now some Beauteous God or Jove The King of Gods and think your self in Love Cal. You do not speak your own desires I 'm sure You 'd rather dye than ask me such a Cure Jup. Yes once I would but I am alter'd now Some kindness now you may you must allow Cal. What kindness can I shew what can I do Stand off or I shall be infected too Jup. That is the reason why I press so nigh To Cure me you must be as sick as I. Cal. Yes were your sickness but the Plague I wou'd This for a World shall never taint my Blood Jup. In this necessity you must submit It will be only one tempestuous Fit And we shall both be well you must you shall Cal. She raves I to the Nymphs for aid must call Or she will do some horrid act I fear Help help my Goddess is distracted here Come both to mine and to my Goddess aid Jup. I will not wrong you be not thus afraid Cal. You cannot help it you distracted grow Loose me or this into my Heart shall go Shews a Dart. Jup. I find my stratagem is fond and vain By other Arts I my design must gain Or in despair and shame must vanish hence Glory has most victorious influence On Womens Hearts that seldom is deny'd For that subdues their only guard their pride I 'le try how that will work upon her mind And rush with Troops of Glories from behind The Ambush where I lye in vain conceal'd And fight her Vertue fairly in open field The wondrous Vertue Royal Nymph you shew Deserves your Glorious Fortune you should know From fair Diana's vanish'd form see here Low at your Feet thus prostrate does appear Paying his homage to your conquering Eyes No less than Jove the King of Deities Who so unfortunate 't is true did prove At Two Coelestial Springs to drink in Love But they were these Two bright ones of your Eyes From which he bears such tortring miseries Unless you quickly some compassion shew You will the World into confusion throw Cal. Oh! Gods have I been cheated all this while Talked with a God and of a thing so vile As Love I might have guest by all his words As Men by horrid shreeks of ominous Birds Their deaths foretel some fate in secret lay To make
to thy despairing Love But I 'm afraid my trouble I may spare The Cure's already wrought by one more fair Some of the Charming Goddesses above From me have Spirited away my Love Venus has chose thee for her Page and she Has drest thee in this shining Livery Mer. Oh! what amazing Change is this I am a dreaming now in Paradise Or this is some kind Image of my Fair My Charming Nymph that pities my despair Act on this sweet delusion pretty shade What pleasure does my Heart invade My panting Heart is on the sudden eas'd I since I was a God was ne'r so pleas'd Pse If in my Love be any Bliss Thou shalt have more delight than this A kindness equal to my former hate Thou shalt not wish thy self a happy Fate Mer. Can Psecas then do any thing but kill Psecas be kind and yet be Psecas still Pse The very Psecas who did hate thee once But now does all her cruelty renounce And with it both my Goddess and her Train Whom now I shun I hate disdain Throw off the Yoak of her unnatural Law And all my Beauties from her Camp withdraw And now in Loves and Natures Cause will fight And do my Sex and injur'd Beauty Right Mer. Oh! with what Noble Courage art thou fir'd What Courteous God these Thoughts in thee inspir'd Lead on we will begin the War to day I 'le fight the Cause and thou shalt be my Pay These pois'nous Fumes wee 'l from the Earth remove And cleanse the Air with the hot Fire of Love All Beings are concern'd in our just Cause To kill these Rebels against Natures Laws Who if they be not to Confusion hurl'd Will begger Nature and lay wast the World And to encourage us my Love the more Great Jove himself in person now adore Does Execution for her proud disdain Upon the fairest Criminal of the Train On her who only sways your Goddess Breast And thou my Nymph hat'st more than all the rest Look in that Vale and thy revenge delight Pse Oh! how I am transported with the sight Oh! that some God now my revenge to please Would summon hither all the Deities All Beings Mortal and Immortal too And shew her shame to universal view Mer. My Nymph not yet her Empire understands See here a God attending her Commands Pse Ha! what great brightness does around thee shine Something beams through thee like a Pow'r Divine Mer Such Glorious Vassals are your Beauties due And less than Gods should not pretend to you Pse This is a Fate more great than I would crave Have I a God then for my Beauties Slave Mer. One of highest Rank and next the Throne Pse This is a Love I may with Honour own For petty Gods like Mortals I despise But yet I understand not Deities I fear your passion I must disapprove Gods always make dishonourable Love Mer. By Love by Styx I true to thee will be And lose my Godhead e're be false to thee Pse Suppose you constant to your Love remain I know not how a God to entertain Or if I did perhaps Divine delight May not agree with Humane appetite Mer. The Joys of Gods exceed the Thoughts of Men. Pse Oh Gods and shall I be a Goddess then Mer. As great as Juno more belov'd and prais'd And have more Altars to thy Beauty rais'd Pse What and have power to Torture all I hate That will not dye with envy at my state Mer. All All Pse Oh! then the Nymphs I will torment But for Calisto I will plagues invent By my Great self this does so pleasing prove Aside My ravish'd Heart begins almost to Love Come to my Coronation streight proceed Call all the Gods and Goddesses with speed Let the whole Air with the bright Throng abound To shame Calisto and to see me Crown'd Mer. I fly my Queen and will your Will obey But oh some present Kindness you must give To bear my Charges in this way To Heaven and back again in this one kiss I 'le give Enter Nyphe Ny I heard a dolefull Cry not far from hence Of one who in some great distress must be The Voice seem'd like Calisto's to my Sence Oh! all the Gods forbid it should be she Ha! Psecas here a Lover entertain Oh! the vile Nymph she will disgrace our Train Pse Oh! now I long till I my Reign begin To plague the Nymphs I hate and act the Queen And see Already here a Subject for my power Thrown in my way by Fortune to devour What brings you here my secrets to discover Ny Not your design to entertain a Lover Pse How dare you so presumptious be to spy My Royal nay my Divine privacy Ny Royal Divine and how dare I presume Good Heavens what mighty thing are you become Pse A thing too Sacred for your Tongue to Name The mighty Glories of my swelling Fame You shall not once into your Mouth receive Nor dare to look on me without my leave Ny Since when were you so great so Sacred grown Surely if any Honour must be shewn The Right is mine who am a Princess born Pse That 's Natures Gift whose Charity I scorn On my own Treasure of desert I live And all my Glory from my self receive Ny No from your Lover you some Glory gain I 'le do you Right and spread it through the Train Pse How do you threaten me stop stop her flight Although my Fame is spotless as the Light My Goddess from dishonour less secure I 'le not th' affront of a dispute endure Ny Oh! Blasphemy Oh! Prodigy of Pride Crimes black like these do you once hope to hide Pse Continue still in a Contempt so great Confine her till my pardon she intreat For daring thus my anger to despise And ' gainst my Honour to believe her Eyes Ny Thy pardon Mer. Will you all you saw deny Ny I 'le tell it all though I that moment dye Pse Then kill her Ny Do thy Infamy and shame My walking Ghost shall to the World proclaim Pse To what a height will this young Courage grow The shame to me design'd on thee I 'le throw From hence I charge you let her not remove I 'le call the Nymph and swear you are her Love The Lye is Sacred and prevents a Crime Her boyling blood will sure commit in time I 'le quench the Love is springing in the Bloud And blast her vitious Nature in her Bud. Exit Mer. Run run with speed I 'le Charm her in this Grove shew her with me Calisto there with Jove Ny Oh! Traytress Mer. Go obey my Charming Rod Know 't is but vain contending with a God! Ny Exit Whilst in this Grove this Nymph with Charms I tye Streight on my Loves Commands to Heaven I 'le flye To call my Queen But oh what do I see Juno already here Oh Jealousie This Jealousie 's the Ghost of murdered Love Which turn'd all Spirit does outragious prove Groans o're its
or my Commands obey Once more I do instate you in my Throne Once more this Royal Virgins Vertues own Though had she lov'd it is sufficient plea For Innocence that she 's belov'd by me For I will be controul'd in no amour My Love is arbitrary as my power I bound all Minds and Beings but my own Am place to all things but my self have none On you my largest share of Love shall fall But no one Heart has room enough for all I like my Sun my Beams will not confine Nor starve all Beings by my self to shine And like him too where e're I shed my light I Nature do not alter but excite When on a loose and wanton Nymph I smile Her Blood breeds Monsters like the Mud of Nile But when to Flowers and Gardens I repair With fragrant Odours I perfume the Air. Such were the Sweets I from her Vertues drew And you shall own it yes and thank her too Do it I say and her deserts proclaim She of a Goddess only wants the Name Jun. I will embrace her since I must obey But she by Heaven shall dearly for it pay Aside Jup. Farewell Fair Nymph To Cal. To that I call my Heav'n I now must go Jup. Juno Guards Ex. But leaving you I leave true Heav'n below Cal. From what a horrid Dream do I awake I am afraid my Sense does yet mistake From these Coelestial Tyrants I amfreed But still the Thought does horrour in me breed I cannot yet compose my restless Soul The Storm is ended but the Billows rowl But oh which tears my Soul a shame remains My rising Blood does almost break my Veins A fiery blushing flame 's around my Face I 'm all on fire with rage at my disgrace For I 'm enough dishonour'd and asham'd To breath but in the Air where Love is nam'd But be disgrac'd with an attempt so foul I hate this place the World the Gods my Soul Enter Mercury Mer. The Tempest ended and no mischief done Calisto's Innocence unshaken stand This horrid Storm must be again begun I 'le fly to Heaven as Psecas gave command And to my Queen with Lyes my self address And bring again that raging Lioness Mean while I 'le charm the Nymphs within this Grove Around around here let 'm rove And Visions guard the Sacred ground To fright 'em still within their bound Exit Enter Nyphe Ny How am I kept a Prisoner in the Power Of this base God Oh! that revenge to have I were some mighty Goddess for an Hour Oh! how I would torment the Heavenly Slave But see my Sister here and oh my Fears Her lovely Face all delug'd o're with Tears Ah! what means this Cal. My Sister here be gone Leave me to my disorder'd self alone And fly these Groves they are the curst abodes Of Satyrs Fiends or worse of Impious Gods Ny Oh! how you fright me I grow pale with fear What fatal accident has happ'ned here Cal. I 'm too disorder'd now Replies to make Ny No matter I will no denial take What has befallen you since I parted hence Cal. What you to hear have too much Innocence Ny Not let me know it this unkind appears I will both hear it and have all the Tears To yonder mournful Shades let us repair Which to our sorrows some resemblance bear And there to tell your Griefs your Task shall be And I will sit and weep for you and me Enter Daphne and Sylvia Sylv. COrydon is a Noble Swain And too long has felt disdain But since scorn I once did show My Love I 'm too proud to let him know Daph. Ah Sylvia Sylvia my Heart like yours Pain from foolish Pride endures I angry with Strephon to day did appear And now long to reconcile Yet in pride for a time will seem severe Though it breaks my Heart the while Enter Strephon Corydon Chorus of Shepheards Daphne and Sylvia offer to go as they Enter Stre. Oh whither does my lovely Daphne fly Cory How long will Sylvia Corydon deny Daph. It is my Will my kindness to remove Sylv. And I shall never never Love Daphne and Sylvia Exeunt Stre. Oh! what has chang'd my Daphne's mind Cho. Oh false and cruel Woman-kind 1. Shep. Come Shepheards do not complain See see yonder a merry Train Of Gypsies dancing over the Plain Call 'em straight Call 'em straight to comfort these poor Swains An Entry of Gypsies No longer complain If your Loves shew disdain Be proud and disdain 'em again The Fools you will find Will be glad to be kind When they once are despised by the Men. Gipsies go off 1. Shep. Hark Hark! in yonder Woods the Satyrs Play The Ecchoes bring their Laughs this way They with some pleasant sport are pleas'd The wanton Demy-Beasts some Nymphs have seiz'd Enter Two Shepheards Laugh Shepheards Laugh and Sing Joyful Tydings now we bring The Fair Calisto is disgrac'd Gods and Mortals hate the Chast An Entry of Satyrs Stre. All this to me but little ease does give Coryd All Joys are dead to me why do I live Stre. In death alone we ease shall find Coryd In death alone we ease shall find Chor. of all oh false and cruel Woman-kind Exeunt omnes ACT. IV. Enter Psecas Pse HOW long will these malicious Woods in spight Conspire to hide my Goddess from my sight Were the Truth known she is in private gone To some blind Cave with her Endimion For busie Tongues are with her Honour bold Or she with Love does Correspondence hold Some beautious Youths that do her fancy please Have reconcil'd those bloody Enemies I scorn and hate her though these falshoods be That she delights in anything but me At her my generous Revenge does aim I in Calisto would my Goodess shame Enter Mercury But ha my Vassal Mercury so nigh Put me in humor with some pleasing Lye For my lost Goddess I can no where find Mer. I bring you News my Nymph will tune your mind Much better News then did I only aim To please and flatter you my wit could frame Pse Oh! Speak the Expectation does delight Mer. The minute that I parted from your sight Our jealous Queen descended from above And found Calisto as you wish't with Jove Pse Oh! Joy and kill'd her streight Mer. She was debarr'd The Nymph was then under her Lovers Guard Pse What strange Event must that Encounter have Mer. All his Queens Rage my Monarch did outbrave With her fair Rival forc't her to comply Nay ask her pardon for her Jealousy Not daring then to truth her with his Love Compell'd her to return and fled above Pse Tyrant That I had been his Queen an hour I would have plagu'd and exercis'd his power Will Juno then put up Affronts so rude Mer. No No the angry Queen I strait pursu'd Fir'd all the Mines of Sulphur in her Soul The active Flame through ev'ry Vein did rowl That she wept Fire and her whole Soul did blaze The frightned Gods did at the
instantly expire Pse Oh! How much curious Art you make appear How finely you would paint us nothing here Your Colours are so fine your Strokes so small That they no Strokes nor Colour have at all I know not how invisible and pure Her Body may be 't is not so obscure But you may see her now in yonder Grove There but this instant in the arms of Jove She humbly condescended to my view Dia. I say 't is false Nay it is Nonsense too Pse Nonsense to see That does indeed surprize Nymphs in your service must have witty Eyes Dia. That it is Nonsense I again proclaim The Gods for her must a new Nature frame Ere Sin in her the least possession gains No longer then Calisto she remains Who sayes Calisto then does spot her Fame Sayes she 's at once another and the same Pse How for Calisto you employ your Wit How virtuous 't is to be a Favourite Her Crimes with glosses as you please disguise You shall not argue me out of my Eyes Dia. Proceed in insolent Contention still Cease your Disputes And know it is my Will You never more presume to touch her Fame Nor mention but with high Respect her Name Pse Gods Gods to rev'rence her I much incline What pity 't is she is no Power Divine Yes I will spread her Virtues and your own What Virtues too they are shall well be known Dia. Call in dispute my Virtues Seize her there Nymphs seize Psecas Pse Is this the Love to Chastity you bear Dia. Who boast of it so much oft-times have none Pse My Chastity is equal with your own Dia. Amazing Pride Confine her Pse If you dare I 'll work on Flowers the story with my hair Which round the World some courteous wind shall blow Till it with Zeal into a Tempest grow Dia. With Pride and Malice she begins to Rave Conveigh her to some Beasts forsaken Cave I doom her by her restless self to dwell And that at once both Fury is and Hell As they are guarding her out Enter Juno who stops them Jun. Hold Goddess Do you thus your Nymphs reward That with such Loyalty your Honour guard Is this the place where Chastity's profest Has Love so strong a party in your Breast Dia. Has Love in any Breast a greater Foe Jun. Do you your Hatred to that Passion shew By guarding those who wrong my Bed and Throne Am I excepted from your Rules alone Dia. On any such did e'r my Favour fall Who will not bear my Nymphs should love at all Jun. Does not this Nymph in seizure here remain For charging the most Vicious of your Train Whom you from Infamy defend with Might For no desert but being your Favourite Dia. The merits of Calisto well I know My Favour rashly I on none bestow Jun. And shall my Eyes then be affronted too Dia. It was some shape abus'd both her and you Jun. That cursed shape still somewhere haunts this Wood And it shall bleed if it be flesh and blood Pse See! with Dart fixt and Bowe completely beat She comes from yonder Grove Jun. As if she meant To give us an Assault Dia. And Nyphe there Pse Of Virtue she has much her Sisters share I thought to tell you if I durst proceed How Mercury her forward Youth does breed And make already most expert in Love But I perceiv'd I should your Anger move Dia. Ignorant Nature if these Nymphs be ill To temper spotless Chastity wants skill Or flesh and blood is of too course allay And she may waste the fires of Souls away And in her vain Experiments grow old Ere that base Metal will be turn'd to Gold In them I 'm sure she did at Virtue aim And never yet so near Projection came Enter Calisto and Nyphe in a posture of defence Cal. Now now the Satyr comes let us prepare Ny Guarded around with Spirits of the Air In shape of Nymphs Cal. Let 's make a brave defence Who knows what Charms may be in Innocence 'T was Virtue to the Gods their Godheads gave Dare they what made 'em impiously outbrave Ny If that gave Godheads we who Virtue have Are above Gods and Jove is but our slave Cal. Fear not but valiantly our selves defend Jun. See! See! I think for Battel they intend Dia. Amazement let us their intention know Princess what mean you by that bended Bow Cal. Tyrant I mean to guard my self from you Dia. Do you not know me Cal. Yes and hate you too And will my Honour to the death defend Jun. This is your Royal Virgin Pse This your Friend Jun. She knows her guilt too publick to be hid So does to Honour bold defiance bid Dia. Why sacred Honour do you dare to name Is Honour since we parted turn'd to shame And Vice grown Virtue Riddles you express Cal. That Virtue is a Vice which you profess Ny Practise no more on us that stale deceit You wear that shape of Chastity to cheat Dia. The wonder almost stupifies my Sence Run Nymphs and bring 'em here by violence Cal. Stand off you shapes and do not venture near Ny Go play your Masquerading tricks elsewhere Cal. Stand off I say if further you proceed If shapes have any blood I 'll make you bleed Dia. See! to the height they Insolence pursue Now to all honour and esteem for you And everlasting farewell now I 'll know If against me you dare to bend your Bow Ny We dare and will Cal. And could we make you fly From your strong Guard of Immortality Let Heaven and Nature of themselves take care Or stand or fall to kill you we would dare Both strike Diana with their Darts Dia. I 'm wounded Jun. They to Violence proceed And have presum'd to make a Goddess bleed I Immortal blood runs trickling from her veins Pse Oh! the infernal deed fetch Engines Chains Jun. They shall this instant at my Altars dye I will revenge my injur'd dignity Not Jove himself shall his lov'd Mistriss save Pse And I the honour of the Priesthood crave Jun. 'T is thine the glory to thy zeal is due Pse Now all my malice is devotion too Cal. Like one from strong infernal Chains unbound Whose Soul is after long distractions found To Sense and Reason I begin to wake And doubt and tremble at my sad mistake Is it our Goddess are you Nymphs indeed For Heav'n for goodness sake reply with speed Yet if you do delusions still I fear Who will secure me it is you I hear I dare not trust my cheated ears or sight Dia. Ah! Princess do you thus my Love requite Do I displease you then in being too kind And is this wound a punishment design'd Cal. Am I betray'd into so black a guilt Is it your sacred blood which I have spilt Oh! Look not on me with that wounding Eye Speak not unless to sentence me to dye No other word but death I can endure My impious hands from farther ill secure
Kill me if you design Revenge to gain Ere I grow mad and have no sense of pain Ny My Goddess cannot save me if she wou'd For I am fainting in her loss of blood If to her self she does Revenge deny I of her bleeding wound alone shall dye Pse Now they begin again their Syrens Song The Tunes which charm'd my Goddess Soul so long Jun. Hope they to be forgiven Crimes like these Abuse at once two mighty Goddesses The spotless blood of chaste Diana shed And yet more horrid durst invade my Bed Cal. Believe it I will scorn to make defence Nor to beg Life pretend to Innocence Pse The reason for it is but too well known In spite of you you are ingenious grown This injur'd Queen my Goddess here and I May thank your guilt for so much modesty Cal. Your Office Nymph I do not understand Who to implead us gave you the command From whom do you derive a place so high Ny I shall inform you 't is from Mercury Her Charms that God her humble Vassal make He would not be a God but for her sake And she that she may kind and grateful prove Revolts from Chastity and sides with Love Nature has to th' amphibious Creature lent An art to live in either Element Pse Malicious Will you wipe your stains on me And soyle my Honour with your Mercury Though could I bow to Love my Noble Sence Love then would be a thing of Excellence My Nature is so Godlike and Sublime That nothing I can do can be a Crime Ny My Mercury Pse Yes yours who should he be He durst not have presum'd to think on me Ny Did I not find him with you making Love Pse Did I not leave you with him in the Grove Ny You did but do you not the Reason know Pse Must I a Reason for your Vices shew Ny Oh! Gods Are there such things as wrong or right As Truth and Falshood And is Seeing Sight If Truth be true and Seeing be to see You love and are belov'd of Mercury Pse Which way can I such confidence confute But yonder 's one will finish our dispute Dia. See Mercury indeed in yonder Grove Jun. Listen he gently calls Mer. within Nyphe my Love Steal to me I will help thee safe away Ny Steal to thee who art thou Mer. within Haste haste away Ny Villain Impostor Had I but a dart I 'd steal to thee and fix it in thy heart Pse Now Truth is true I hope and Seeing sight Now pray inform us who is in the right Ny I am and this some wicked Plot must be Invented by thy lying God and thee Jun. Astonishment So soon to Vice begin Your youth an early riser is in sin Love is in so much haste he cannot stay But must set with you ere break of day Pse Now where 's your Chymistry your beaten Gold Your spiritual flesh and blood A finer mold To Dia. Than Souls are made of All 's a Cobweb Cell Where her black Soul does like a Spider dwell Dia. Embitter not thy words with Gall like this Treacherous Love has rob'd my Paradise And pluckt the fairest Fruit that there did grow The Gods in vain plant Virtue here below It ripens not by any Sun or Time This World for Virtue is too cold a Clime Jun. Her thoughts still for her Favourites partial stay Virtue can sooner faulty be than they You may forgive the blood of yours they shed But she shall dye for injuring my Bed Cal. Yes let me dye I many deaths would bear Rather than once these foul Reproaches hear Ny Death on a Rack would be a greater bliss Than Life in such a lying World as this Cal. Chaste Goddess my Petition is to dye Hearken no longer to your Clemency Death for your sacred blood alone is due Let me not live to wound your Honour too I can a Plea produce yet if I please Not only all my clamorous Enemies Could vanquish quite but silence if I wou'd The loudest cryes of your immortal blood Not only quell my Foes injurious hate But make your blood become my Advocate That very dart would I the truth reveal Which wounded you my bleeding Fame would heal But that would too much love for life display And I so hate the evils of this day My self I out of Fortunes way would hide My Innocence will for it self provide If that shines by me in my shady Tomb I shall sleep sweetly in that mournful Room And dream not of the Worlds censorious doom Dia. Unhappy Princesses your Fate 's severe Your Prayers I most unwillingly must hear Your Cause I cannot with my Honour own A torrent of misfortunes bear you down In spite of all my kindness you must dye Nay I must banish too your memory What Plea you have your Innocence to clear I cannot guess but I have cause to fear None that can all these Witnesses oppose At least subdue the malice of your Foes If you shall suffer an injurious doom Oh! may your Honour blossom from your Tomb I 'll build my Arbor there and every hour Come and bedew with tears the sacred Flower If you be faulty and disgrace your due Eternal shades conceal your names and you Diana goes off weeping Nymphs Guard of Calisto and Nyphe Jun. See! in deep sorrow she is parted hence Her love to Virtue is but a pretence She is unchaste her self Pse Is that unknown Have you not heard of her Endimion Nor of her young Hippolitus that fled From every Nymph in private to her Bed She to the World has been a long mistake Pretends to Chastity for pleasures sake For secret Love does in the Forests dwell They understand each others meaning well Jun. She shall disgrace our dignity no more I will depose her from her heavenly Power And crown thee in her stead a Power divine I will the Empire of these Woods is thine Mean while I to my first Revenge will flie Thy Foes and mine shall at my Altars dye Ex. Pse Oh! how I am transported with success Courted and sought by Fame and Happiness Enter Mercury But how malicious does my Fortune prove Now he comes here to pester me with Love Mer. My fairest Queen Pse Thou troublest me be gone Mer. What change is this Pse I 'm busied in fruition Of a new Love Mer. Do you say this to try If with despair I at your feet will dye Name him Pse My self Mer. Oh! Now farewell despair I hope in that fruition I shall share Pse I must feign Love that I may freedom gain Aside Another time you shall Mer. Oh! where and when Pse Perhaps this Evening Mer. Where Pse In yonder Grove Mer. Will you not fail me Pse Ask a Maid in Love If she will fail to meet with her delight Mer. With expectations of this pleasant Night Till it arrives my thoughts I will employ Ex. Pse Do Expectation's all you shall enjoy If in the Grove he tarries