Their notes are cheerful, nor with sighs depress’d;

In concert join and soothe your cares to rest.

ALMEDA.

[No] warblers can give me delight,

How mournful and pensive their strain;

Nought sweet can appear to my sight,

Since Strephon’s forsaken the plain.

With joy I these banks did survey,

With pleasure I’ve por’d on the stream:

Young Strephon then with me did stray,