PRetty Floramel, no Tongue can ever tell,
The Charms that in thee dwell;
Those Soul-melting Pleasures,
Shou’d the mighty Jove once view, he’d be in Love,
And plunder all above,
To rain down his Treasure:
Ah! said the Nymph in the Shepherd’s Arms,
Had you half so much Love as you say I have Charms;
There’s not a Soul, created for Man and Love,
More true than Floramel wou’d prove,
I’d o’er the World with thee rove.
Love that’s truly free, had never Jealousie,
But artful Love may be
Both doubtful and wooing;
Ah! dear Shepherdess, ne’er doubt, for you may guess,
My Heart will prove no less,
Than ever endless loving:
Then cries the Nymph, like the Sun thou shalt be,
And I, like kind Earth, will produce all to thee;
Of ev’ry Flower in Love’s Garden I’ll Off’rings pay
To my Saint. Nay then pray
Take not those dear Eyes away.
A Song. Set by Mr. Robert King.
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BY shady Woods and purling Streams,
I spend my Life in pleasing Dreams;
And would not for the World be thought
To change my false delightful Thought:
For who, alas! can happy be,
That does the Truth of all things see?
For who, alas! can happy be,
That does the Truth of all things see.