to go is staid by Juno Jun. Rather she is brave Stay gen'rous Psecas I thy friendship crave Bury not all thy worth in a Retreat Give me thy Love and I will make thee great Jup. A most harmonious friendship this must prove The Fates design'd 'em for each others Love For none love them and they have love for none Their kindness centers on themselves alone And they are so exactly of a make Each may the other for her self mistake Now must the last and heaviest sentence fall Upon my self the greatest Criminal My wretched self as to my Crimes is due I doom to part eternally from you To Calisto And to the pain of heav'nly joy to go But yet I must not leave you here below In pity to the World I must remove Those fatal eyes out of the reach of Love Love must not here those killing darts retain To wound and torture Gods and murder Men. And yet to place you in my Heav'n would be Not your Reward but my Felicity Some middle Region I must prepare Where all may with some ease your Beauty bear I then entreat you will to end this War Accept the small dominion of a Star There you and beautious Nyphe may dispence With cooler beams your light and influence On the great Ceremony Hermes wait Let all the Gods give their appearance strait These Virgins Consecration nought debars I 'll in a full Assembly crown 'em Stars Ex. Enter Strephon Corydon Daphne Sylvia Chorus of Shepherds as from the Temple Cho. Happy Lovers happy Live And all the Gods their blessings give Cor. Lead along and with Delight Let us hasten on the Night Enter two African Women Stre. What Vision 's this is come to greet us Cory See! the Night is come to meet us 1 Afr. Stay gentle Swains be not afraid To see our Faces hid in shade We but lately were as fair As your Shepherdesses are Did not a frantick Youth of late O'reset the Chariot of the Sun Cory He did and his deserved Fate He met when he had done 2 Afr. It is he that hath undone us He powr'd whole streams Of melting beams Red and glowing hot upon us And now we range the World around To see if our lost Beauty can be found Enter a third African Woman 3 Afr. Rejoyce Rejoyce our Beauty 's found Our lovely White and Red To two chaste Nymphs of Cynthia's Train is fled And they must Stars be crown'd And now instead of what we sought Our Black with us must fair be thought All three This happy Fate who could Divine Our Beauty then in Heav'n must shine 1 Afr. No Losers we shall prove By parting with our Red and White If black will serve the turn of Love For Beauty 's made for Loves delight 3 Afr. See! See! the Nymphs are coming here Sylv. But Oh! what glorious Apparition's near The Clouds amazing Glories gild All the Clouds with Gods are fill'd And all the Gods appear Calisto and Nyphe enter under a Conopy supported by Africans immediately upon their entrance a Heav'n is discover'd fill'd with Gods and Goddesses The whole concludes with an Entry of Africans and this Song Daph. Must these be Stars And to Heaven remove Before they have tasted the pleasures of Love That the Gods so ill such Beauty should use What mighty Cost must Nature lose Syl. I cannot so much Beauty show But what I have I 'll better bestow Not upon Gods or Glories above Or empty Renown but Pleasure and Love All pleasure but love from our hearts we 'l be chasing We 'l kindle our selves into Stars with embracing We 'l every moment our pleasures renew Our Loves shall be flaming and lasting and true The Epilogue spoken by Jupiter who descended out of the Heaven and addressed himself to Calisto and Nyphe THE Stars for your Reception now prepare And the ambitious Heav'ns expect you there But I will spoil their hopes and break my vow For I 've consider'd there are Stars enow And this inferiour World can scarce dispence With the entire loss of so much Excellence With each of you I can oblige a Throne I 'll keep you then to grace some Fav'rite Crown On that design you here shall still remain Turning to the Company And I 'll dissolve into a Nymph again Which will no less this fair Assembly please For Nymphs in Courts have sway like Deities You Wits who think you Gallantry display To laugh at ev'ry thing a God can say Will in good manners to a Nymph submit And own whatever Beauty speaks for Wit Perhaps the power of Beauty to express We choose our Language careless as our Dress None should come hither to attend but gaze Here Beauties charms not Wits you ought to praise And 't is your safest course judge you of Show Fine Cloaths and Faces Tunes and Dances too For those are things which you may chance to know There is no doubt but you have ears and eyes Your understanding most in question lies But what do I here trifling thus with these There are the Powers to whom we sacrifice To the King and Queen In whose great Presence I may well allow To lay aside my useless Godhead now You Sir such blessings to the World dispence We scarce perceive the use of Providence And since Your Rule such joy to all procures All should contribute what they can to Yours Wit by Your Smiles a Lustre do's maintain And Beauty keeps a long and happy Raign Your Right in them is therefore so entire They above all Your Pleasure should conspire FINIS * London anciently so called
Grave the poor despairing Breast But never lets the Murderer have Rest Juno I fear will all our Plots prevent But I will stand behind and see th' Event Jupiter Juno Calisto Jup. What Sawcy watchful Spies Does Juno place on me where e're I go I think the Trees of every Grove have Eyes And Winds breath Stories as they blow Jun. Is this your Business mighty Jove below Are these the Secrets none must dare to know For this does Jove in Clouds his Glory hide Is thus his great Omnipotence employ'd How will th' Arcadian Nymphs his Praises sing And Crown with Garlands the Almighty King But what need Shapes conceal the wandring Jove He is transform'd too much with shameful Love Jup. The Love I to this Royal Virgin own I take a greater pride in than my Throne And all my shapes do but adorn me more As shining Armour does a Warriour To fight this Field under the Power of Love Is greater Glory than to Reign above Jun. Oh! Blasphemy above an Atheists Tongue Should Men in Thought your Glory so much wrong The Impious Slaves you quickly would destroy Your Thunder now against your self employ Or rather there against those Traitrous Eyes That have depos'd the King of Deities Jup. She has Exalted me above my Throne In the short time I have her Vertues known The Joy I felt in loving her was more Than endless Eyes blest me with before Jun. Then all my Beauties are forgot it seems And Jove for her his Goddess disesteems A long Fruition has a Loathing bred Of me for Ages you have surfeited Jup. I own I have of your impetious mind Which to your so much boasted Charms I find No small indifference in my Breast Creates Jun. My haughty mind not half so much abates The passion in you for my Beauty 's due As your low mind does my esteem for you I scorn my Beauties should descend to please One who degrades himself to such as these With whom if strife were for my Grandeur meet I now would trample her beneath my Feet But that resentment I disdain to shew And think the Nymph for my Contempt too low Cal. Great Queen all Honour to your Rank is due But please to know I am a Princess too And do in that respect your Image wear Nor does that State from me dishonour bear You scorn not more your Monarch should forsake Your Bed for me than I his Love to take And if for Love the high Contention be You scorn strife less than I the Victory Not that my hate on Jove alone does fall But I disdain and hate to Love at all Jun. When first begun in you this hate to Love This mighty Pride in the Embrace of Jove Cal. That raise my Pride True Honour you Blaspheme An Insect or a Plant in my Esteem Are Nobler Beings and of higher Price Than Nymph or Goddess that descends to Vice Jun. Oh! how in favour boldly you presume When had it then beginning Cal. From the Womb. Rather from Fate which did my choice foresee And durst not other Natures frame for me For fear I should 'twixt Horrour and disdain Have started to my nothing back again Jun. Was ere such Insolence by Mortal shewn What then it may be you disdain my Crown Cal. I do nor by your Glory would be bought To sin against my Honour but in Thought All kinds of Love to me are so impure I hate the Marriage Bed which you endure Nor would exchange my Vertue for my Power A Virgin is a Queens Superiour Jun. Amazing haughtiness This sawcy scorn If thou wert vertuous were not to be born Jup. As Queen she is more Vertues in her shine Than you and all the Female Powers Divine Jun. What Vertues yielding easier to your Will And pleasing you perhaps with greater skill Jup. She gives me greater pleasure in her pride Than ever Juno did in being enjoy'd Jun. Oh! how he Tortures me what secret pain I feel to counterfeit a brave disdain Your pleasure with the artful Nymph pursue If Pride so pleas'd what did Fruition do Jup. Her Vertue 's more untainted than your own And less of yours advanc'd me to my Throne Jun. What stay'd you then together in the Grove Vertue is but of little use to Jove Jup. Rapt with her Beauties but her Vertues more I tarry here her Vertues to adore They us'd that force upon my vanquish'd mind Which once on her bright Beauties I design'd The fire these kindled th' other did put out Jun. To Vertue you are seldom so devout And scarce for such insipid Joys would stay Jup. Cease your contention without more delay Lest you provoke me in this Nymphs defence To prove too fatally her Innocence Jun. Give her my Crown the trifle I despise By being depos'd from thee I higher rise To thee no more I will my self debase But here condemn thee to this Nymphs Embrace Jup. Do we shall both be gainers by the strife You get more Glory I a fairer Wife Jun. A fairer Wife though I with scorn look down On thy lost Heart and on my falling Crown Above thy Throne my Beauty I surprise I will revenge on thee these Blasphemies I will ascend and leave thy hated Bed But mounting thus I 'le on thy Goddess tread Jup. Hold lest indeed I raise her to my Throne And to thy Rival make thee Vassalage own Jun. Thy Throne and Heart on whom thou wilt bestow Without revenge from hence I will not go Revenge to my enraged Soul shall be My Throne my Jove my Heavenly Dignity Jup. Nay then I 'le govern your Imperious hate You Airy Spirits that on Tempests wait That all the Forces of the Air command Rain Thunder Lightning Muster or Disband Employ 'em when and against whom I please Vice-roys of all the spreading Provinces 'Twixt Earth and Moon quick with your Guards appear And take the loudest of all Tempests here Your Queen from hence and keep her close confin'd In the cold Rooms where Hail and Snow you grind Where with more fit Companions she may be With Storms that can reply as loud as she Enter Airy Spirits Where she her fill of noise may take Rail as she will and no disturbance make And do not dare to let her scape from thence Till of her duty she has learnt a sence Spirits seize Juno Jun. So then thy Queen must be confin'd above That thou below may'st Revel with thy Love Loose me you Slaves I will not bear this wrong I will not stir till I have him along Jup. Oh! the Eternal Plague my will obey This Tempest from my Ears with speed convey Jun. I will not go you Rebel Slaves forbear Jove to confinement send me if you dare All the Coelestial Powers shall quickly know On what Affairs you are employ'd below I 'le make 'em chuse another in thy Throne To save both Heav'n and Earth from be'ng undone Jup. Guard wait a while Jun. Nay now I will not stay Jup. Will you your Queens
Wonder gaze Believ'd the World once more with Fire undone And Jove lookt round for a new Phaeton Pse The World for Ruine surely must prepare Let her destroy it ere Calisto spare Oh! I 'm impatient till she does appear Why tarries Juno when will she be here Mer. Ere you can think again I left her now This instant standing on the shining brow Of a Celestial Arch of wondrous height With her Robes girt and ready for her flight Calisho's dead by this time or at least Roaring beneath the figure of a Beast Pse Oh! Shall she be a Beast Mer. If any ease It will give you she shall what Beast you please Pse Oh! Let me think Some very ugly one Uglier than yet by Nature e'r was shewn With all her skill and power let Juno try To outwit Nature in deformity Mer. She shall observe your pleasure to the full She shall discover Natures fancy dull Pse My most obedient Deity But stay May not Calisto have escap't away And found our Goddess whil'st you fled above Mer. I charm'd both her and Nyphe in that Grove There round they wander chac't by panique fear Take for a sighing Ghost each wind they hear At their own Voices start and Shadows stare And think the lofty Trees tall Fantoms are Pse Observ'd to every tittle my Command Nay guest my very wishes take my hand Here pay thy self for thou hast pleas'd me so My Favors unpetition'd I 'll bestow Now Nyphe's Ruine I must next contrive For no one my displeasure shall survive Mer. For her disgrace do not disturb your thought Go let your Goddess to the Grove be brought To shew her Fav'rites virtues there pretend My jealous Queen will soon your Cause defend Calisto's fall will some dishonour throw On her young Friend and to pursue the blow Charge her with confidence of Love to me Then I as if I fear'd discovery And of my Mistriss Honour cautions were Will gently call but so as all may hear Nyphe my Love My Nyphe why so slow Come to me here for I impatient grow Pse How active in Invention dost thou prove Thou half deserv'st the glory of my Love I could descend to smile now if I durst But that 's too great a Favor at the first And to rash Youth 't is an unhappy Fate To come too early to a great Estate Much Wealth much Honour I design my Slave But I the management of all will have Mer. My glorious Mistriss does her kindness shew With the vast wealth I should distracted grow But yet some mark of Favor let me wear This little Arrow from your Quiver spare Pse 'T is thine But stay not that the Dart you have My Goddess in reward of Service gave No matter take it I her Favors slight Nay to affront her wear it in her sight Mer. How will I strut among the Powers Divine With this and make 'em at my Fortune pine Psecas Knight my self I now declare And this the Badge of my Queens Order wear But see the Nymphs walking their Fairy round This of their Circle is their utmost bound Enter Calisto Nyphe Pse Oh! Let me run and wound e'm with my Eye But now I think on 't by my Frowns to dye Will be a Fate too glorious and sublime And I shall look e'm dead before their time They are of use that Huntress to disgrace Which ' cause she is of a Celestial Race Usurps the Title of a Power Divine Though her Deserts inferiour are to mine Howe'r by Birth she 's not below my hate I 'll shew her Folly and dismiss her strait Then these may live Mer. See! See! I have descryed Your Goddess Pse Where Mer. There by that Rivers side Run Run my Queen Pse In yonder Thicket stay Till my Return Mer. My Queen I shall obey Ex. several ways Cal. How long shall we this black this cursed place The hated horrid Scene of my disgrace In wild and frightful Mazes wander round Ny Sure we are here by black Inchantments bound Cal. Where ere we go wild shapes around us move And every Tree appears to me like Jove Ny These frightful shadows are his Guard I fear And for some black design imprison us here Cal. They are What shall we for our safety do Run and the Fantoms swiftlier pursue Shoot and our Arrows flie we know not where Are lost in Mists or onely wound the Air. They come Stand off ye Fiends Ny How pale they shew Cal. And every thing is blasted where they go That some brave Man of the old Tytans Race Would help me to revenge my great disgrace If any God will tempt my Soul to Love Let him depose that hated Tyrant Jove Ny Oh! That the Gods should be such wicked things Now this into my Soul the Reason brings Why Heav'n is hated by the Young and Fair It seems the Deities abuse 'em there For which the old and slighted do not care Is it for this Priests bid us worship Jove Are these the Joyes they promise us above But we are safe my Goddess does appear Looks within Cal. Disguis'd again the Tyrant Jupiter Ny Do you not see the Nymphs around her there Cal. Cheats Fantoms all Delusions of the Air. My heart of fears for you sweet Nyphe ease Leave me to suffer my own miseries Ny Why with unkindness do you Love repay I hope you do not think I will obey Besides I 'm fetter'd in Inchantments too Though I need none to fasten me to you The foolish Gods may their Inchantments spare Stronger than theirs about your self you bare Cal. Fortune who sends me Suff'rings does in you Send me the sweetest of all comforts too Ny Discourse no more I cannot bravelier dye Than in your aid and by a Deity Cal. Then let us bravely perish in defence Of injur'd Chastity and Innocence And when we both are dead oh if there be In Heav'n but any Friend to Chastity Some Goddess of our purity have care And to some private Tomb our Bodies bare Ex. Diana Psecas Nymphs Dia. The chaste Calisto sin if thou woud'st try To scare us with some frightful Prodigy Thy stories within bounds of Reason feign Those who out-talk their mark derision gain Who use Invention must with Art proceed They of all Merchants the most cunning need Pse I scorn the Traffick and your Friend nay you May Love ere I speak any thing untrue Dia. Of one most useful Virtue you have store Of Confidence to charge you with no more But know no ill can her fair Soul invade Her whole Composure is for Virtue made Her Body of so pure a mold is wrought Her very Body may a Soul be thought A Soul to highest Purity refin'd Visible Virtue a Celestial Mind Condens't to Beauty in that fair disguise Descending to the view of humane eyes Gross Passions can no more find dwellings there Than Men can breath in the Aetherial Air. There is no Fuel there for earthy Fire The starving Flame must
till he sees Me there he shall stay longer than the Trees Ex. Enter Daphne and Sylvia Daph. Oh! whither are our poor despairing Shepherds gone I fear I have my Strephon slain Sylv. And I my Corydon Daph. Oh my sorrow Oh my pain Could I my Strephon find Could I my dearest Strephon find I 'd never be unkind I 'd never be unkind to him again Sylv. And I my Love would passionately own Could I find my Corydon Daph. Do I Dream Do I Rave Look towards yonder Cave Sylv. Our Shepherds come from yonder Cave Sylv. Daph. Our Shepherds come from yonder Cave Sylv. From empty Pride I 'll be free It shall bring no more mischief upon me Since I Love as well as he I 'll not hazard my joy In being foolishly coy It had like to have undone me Daphne and Sylvia go and meet Strephon and Corydon each brings in her Shepherd Daph. Dear Strephon give despairing o'res Vnkindnesses are gone I never will be cruel to thee more Sylv. Nor I to Corydon Cory O what kind God does Sylvia's hate remove Str. And made at length my Daphne grateful prove Sylv. The God of Love Daph. The God of Love Sylv. Daph. The gentle God of Love Cory Oh happy Tydings Str. Blessed hour Ever kind and gentle Pow'r Cor. Even kind and gentle Pow'r Enter Chorus of Shepherds follow'd by Bacchusses Chor. Joy Shepherds Joy Diana's disgrac'd Love has had to day Revenge on the Chaste The Bacchusses here our mirth to improve Come hither to follow the Triumphs of Love No mirth without Bacchus nor joy without Love An Entry of Bacchusses After the Dance Cor. Since all our Grief thus joyfully ends Let each Shepherdess make her Shepherd amends To the Temple let 's go And then we will show What every Lover by Loving intends Exeunt omnes ACT. V. Enter Mercury Mer. THE time is past whil'st vainly round I pace As yet encountring nothing in this place But the long Evening shadows of the Grove And shadows are but slender food to Love Not it is substance substance must delight Loves wholsom frame and eager appetite Malicious Fortune must this stay contrive Some sudden ill to Psecas must arrive Nothing that 's common could my Nymph retain For when Nymphs love they fonder grow than Men. Their melting hearts in kindness does excell And I am sure my Psecas loves so well That were she dead her spirit would appear And leave th' Elizian joyes to meet me here Well patience patience time rides proudly by And looks upon me with a scornful eye But I in spite of all his swift Career Will overtake him when my joyes appear Enter Psecas Pse The mighty Victims ready to be slain Heavens Queen a Vassal to my merits grown Diana now no more my Soveraign The shady Empire of these Woods my own Th' impoverisht Stars have nothing to bestow But what for my acceptance is too low My next affair is quickly to Casheer My loving patient Slave that waits me here Mer. My Nymph appear oh now my Planets smile What has detain'd thee from me all this while 〈◊〉 have been wandring here in grief and fear Pse Who bid you do 't Could you expect me here Mer. Can the kind Vows my Queen was pleas'd to make Her just and noble Thoughts so soon forsake Pse Do I such trifling Contemplations use Will I my Memory with you abuse Mer. Though I deserve not such a glorious place My Goddess will not from her Mem'ry chace The noble Creatures which she being gave I mean the promises she made her slave Pse Well if I did I 'll break 'em if I please Am I oblig'd to keep my promises Mer. Nothing can sov'reign Power oblige 't is true But it s own will that sov'reign Power have you But yet there is one mighty thing above Even your own pow'rful Self and that is Love Pse Can any one such Insolence endure Love above me You would affront me sure Who should or can I Love Where is there ought Except my Self that 's worthy of my Thought Mer. True But since Love to me you did express Your Love confers on me some worthiness Pse My Love Why can you think 't was Love I meant Dare you to hope it be so insolent Mer. Why should I rudely think you speak untrue Pse Am I oblig'd to speak my Thoughts to you Mer. Do you not Love then Pse Dare you hope I do Mer. Are you in earnest Pse What should I intend Should I with my own Slaves to Mirth descend Mer. And am I fool'd then Pse Well! What if you be Is 't a dishonour to be fool'd by me Mer. And will you all my service thus requite Pse Challenge Reward as if it was your right Mer. Your service then is with it self re-paid Pse Supposing not What service did you do Invent a Falshood Shame a harmless Maid Well! when you please I 'll lye as much for you Mer. Exceeding well Did I then toyle and sweat At last this Mockery to get None serve you for your Fools but heav'nly Powers Pse Mortals are yours you may sometimes be ours Mer. What then I must to your Contempt submit Pse I cannot help another's want of Wit Mer. You do continue in your boldness still Pse 'T is you are bold who dare dispute my Will Mer. Thou empty foolish Female who to please Thy sickly Longings with the fond delight Of thy vain Sex or rather their disease Of Pride resists thy nobler appetite Though now when thou so coy pretend'st to be thou 'dst give an Empire I would ravish thee But I 'll not stoop to gratifie thee so That joy some bestial Satyr shall bestow Ho! there Pse A Rape here Mer. Call out if you dare I 'll all your Lyes and Villanies declare Pse Rape Rape here Enter Juno Diana Nymphs So 't is well you do appear Virtue has excellent protection here Much safety your good Government affords The spreading Trees are not so full of Birds The Caves of Beasts as all the Woods around Of wanton Gods who ev'ry where abound Waiting to make our Chastities a prey And Gins and Toyles do for our Honours lay On our occasions we can no where move But strait we fall into some Trap of Love Dia. Dare you affirm it is a Fault of mine Can I the Gods to their abodes confine If they be weary of their heavenly bliss Must I be guilty Pse You are too remiss And both our Honours and your own neglect Dia. You are too bold and full of disrespect Pse Wherein do I that confidence express Is hate to Love and Vice grown sauciness Your pardon for my dullness I implore I never knew they were your Friends before It seems your meaning we must backward read And we a Key to all your Cyphers need By Chastity you zealous Love intend By Hate and Coyness Kindness to a Friend Your nimble Wits have found it out but I Dull Fool am hardned in my
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