Hissing snakes,
Fiery lakes
Would be a pleasure, and a cure:
Not all the hells,
Where Pluto dwells, 35
Can give such pain as I endure.
To some peaceful plain convey me,
On a mossey carpet lay me,
Fan me with ambrosial breeze,
Let me die, and so have ease! 40
XXII.
THE FRANTIC LADY,
Mad Song the Sixth.
This, like Num. XX., was originally sung in one of D'urfey's comedies of Don Quixote, (first acted about the year 1694) and was probably composed by that popular songster, who died Feb. 26, 1723.
This is printed in the Hive, a Collection of Songs, 4 vols. 1721, 12mo. where may be found two or three other Mad Songs not admitted into these Volumes.