A Dialogue betwixt PHILLIS and STREPHON.
Phillis.
〈♫〉〈♫〉 AH! what can mean that ea—ger Joy, transports my Soul when you appear? Ah Stre—phon! you my Thoughts employ, with all that's charming,
The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.
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- The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.
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- London :: Printed by J. Playford for Henry Playford and R.C. ...,
- 1685-1687.
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- Songs, English -- England.
- Songs with continuo.
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"The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54969.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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all that's dear: When you your pleasing Sto—ry tell, a Tenderness in—vades each part; and I with Blushes own I feel something too mel—ting at my Heart.
Strephon.
〈♫〉〈♫〉 Ten thousand Wishes, Joy—es, Desires, seize on me still, when thee I view; Ah! may but thine be re-al Fires, as mine shall be so—r e—ver true. My Heart, like thine, is soft and kind, 'twould sain, but yet it cannot speak; I sigh, and leave my Words behind, for Love that ca—n be told is weak.
Phillis
〈♫〉〈♫〉 Each Sigh my Reason does sur-
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prize, and I at once both wish and sear, my wounded Soul mounts to my Eyes, as it would part—tle Sto—ries there. Take that Heart that needs will go, but Shepherd see it kindly us'd; for who such Pre—sents would be—slow, if this a—las! should be abus'd?
Strephon.
〈♫〉〈♫〉 If Sighs or Tears thy Pi—ty move, or if thine Eyes thy Love confess; thy Sighs do make me dye for Love, and sure mine Eyes betray no less. Thy charming Heart with joy l'le take, a Gift I love, because 'tis thine; I'le use it gently for thy sake, A—h! Ah! be but thou as
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kind to mine.
〈♫〉〈♫〉
Chorus together.
Now all ye list'ning Gods above, bear witness of our mutual Love;
on your gay Wings the joy—ful Tydings bear, to ev'—ry bright In—ha—bi—tant o'th' Air:
Tell'em, in all their blest Cabals, they see nothing so happy, so belov'd as we.
〈♫〉〈♫〉 Now all ye list'ning Gods above, bear witness of our mu—tual Love; on your gay Wings the joyful Tydings bear, to ev'ry bright In-ha-bi-tant o'th' Air: Tell 'em, tell'em, in all their blest Ca—bals, they see nothing so happy, so belov'd as we.