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"Oh! facred be her memory,

"For ever dear her name!
"There never was, nor ere can be,
"A brighter, juster dame.

"Bleft be my fons, and eke all those
"Who on her praises dwell!
"She conquer'd Britain's fierceft foes,
"She did all queens excel.

"All princes, kings, and potentates,

"Ambaffadors did fend:

"All nations, provinces, and ftates, "Sought Anna for their friend.

"In Anna they did all confide,

"For Anna they could trust:
"Her royal faith they all had try'd,
"For Anna ftill was juft.

"Truth, mercy, juftice, did furround
"Her awful judgement-feat,
"In her the Graces all were found,
“ In Anna all compleat.

"She held the fword and balance right,
"And fought her people's good :

"In clemency he did delight,

"Her reign not ftain'd with blood.

"Her gracious goodness, piety, "In all her deeds did fhine,

"And bounteous was her charity; "All attributes divine.

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"Confummate wisdom, meekness all, "Adorn'd the words fhe spoke;

"When they from her fair lips did fall; "And sweet her lovely look.

"Ten thoufand glorious deeds to crown, "She caus'd dire war to cease:

"A greater Emprefs ne'er was known,
"She fix'd the world in peace.

"This laft and godlike act atchiev'd,
"To Heaven fhe wing'd her flight:
"Her lofs with tears all Europe griev'd;
"Their strength, and dear delight.

"Leave we in blifs this heavenly Saint,
Revere, ye juft, her urn;

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"Her virtues high and excellent, "Aftrea gone we mourn.

"Commemorate, my fons, the day

"Which gave great Anna birth:

"Keep it for ever and for

aye,

"And annual be your mirth!"

Illuftrious George now fills the throne,

Our wife benign good King:

Who can his wondrous deeds make known?
Or his bright actions fing?

Thee, favourite Nero, he has deign'd

To raife to high degree!

Well thou thy honours hast sustain'd,

Well vouch'd thy ancestry.

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Can they e'er make thee white?

Don't Gaphny's blood, which thou haft shed,

Thy guilty foul affright?

Oh! is there not, grim mortal, tell,

Places of bliss and woe?

Oh! is there not a heaven, a hell;
But whither wilt thou go?

Can nought change thy obdurate mind?

Wilt thou for ever rail?

The prophet on thee well refin'd,
And fet thy wit to fale.

How thou art loft to fenfe and fhame,.
Three countries witness be:

Thy conduct all just men do blame,

Libera nos, Domine!

Dame Juftice waits thee, well I ween,
Her fword is brandifh'd high:

Nought can thee from her vengeance fcreen,
Nor canft thou from her fly.

Heavy her ire will fall on thee,
The glittering steel is sure :
Sooner or later, all agree,

She cuts off the impure.

To her I leave thee, gloomy peer!
Think on thy crimes committed :
Repent, and be for once fincere,

Thou ne'er wilt be De-Witted.

SONGS,

SET TO

N G S,

MUSICK

BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS.

I. Set by Mr. ABEL.

READING ends in melancholy;

Wine breeds vices and diseases;
Wealth is but care, and Love but folly;
Only Friendship truly pleases.

My wealth, my books, my flask, my Molly;
Farewell all, if Friendship ceafes.

II. Set by Mr. PURCELL.

WHIT

HITHER would my passion run?
Shall I fly her, or pursue her?

Lofing her, I am undone;

Yet would not gain her, to undo her.

Ye tyrants of the human breaft,
Love and Reafon ! cease your war,
And order Death to give me reft;
So each will equal triumph fhare.

VOL. II.

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III. Set

III. Set by Mr. DE FESCH.

STREE

TREPHONETTA, why d' ye fly me,
With fuch rigour in your eyes?

Oh! 'tis cruel to deny me,

Since your charms I fo much prize.

But I plainly fee the reason,

Why in vain I you pursued;
Her to gain 'twas out of season,
Who before the chaplain woo'd.

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IV. Set by Mr. SMITH.

OME, weep no more, for 'tis in vain ;
Torment not thus your pretty heart :
Think, Flavia, we may meet again,
As well as, that we now must part.

You figh and weep; the Gods neglect
That precious dew your eyes let fall :
Our joy and grief with like respect
They mind; and that is, not at all.

We pray, in hopes they will be kind,
As if they did regard our state:
They hear; and the return we find
Is, that no prayers can alter Fate.

Then

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