T:THE HAPPY LOVERS, OR, Caelia won by Aminta's Loyalty. A New SONG in great Request at Court.
This maybe Printed, R.P.
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W[h]y are my Eyes still Flow-ing? Why does my heart thus trembling move?
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Why do I sigh, when go-ing? To see the Darling Saint I Love:
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Ah! she's my Heaven, and in her Eyes, The Dei-ty, There is no Life
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Like what she can give, Nor any Death like taking my leave.
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I.
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Tell me no more of Glo-ry,
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to Courts Ambition I've resign'd,
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But tell a long long Sto-ry,
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of Celia's shape her face and mind:
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Speak too of Raptures that will Life destroy,
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to En-joy,
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Had I a Diadem Scepter and Ball,
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for that dear minute I'd part with them all.
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II.
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Why am I not injoy-ing
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my self, delighting in thy Arms?
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My painful Love destroy-ing,
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with killing pleasures from thy Charms:
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Come, come dear Celia, now let Storms be gone,
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and o-ver-blown;
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There's no delight like thy transporting Love,
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No joy below, what e're there's above.
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IV.
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Why does my heart thus grieve-me,
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as I lye panting on my Bed?
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Why does my hopes deceive-me,
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when cruel Fate[s] pronounce me dead?
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Speak, speak, dear Saint, and by those conq'ring eyes
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that- -surprize:
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Give, give me favour in thy fight again,
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Or kill me quite to ea[s]e my pain.
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V.
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Her ANSWER.
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HOw can I seek to co-ver
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a flaming heart o'rewhelm'd with grief?
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See, see a Constant Lo-ver,
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thus fainting, plead for some relief!
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No, no, Aminta, cease now to implore
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sigh-no more:
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Had I ten thousand hearts in my Breast,
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I'd part with all to give my Love rest.
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VI.
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Why does Aminta sigh-ing,
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think I will coyly Love deface?
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But can there be deny-ing,
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to such a Person, such a Grace?
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Ah! such becoming boldness too is found,
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to-be Crown'd,
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That no fair Nymph that lives upon the plain,
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Can have a heart to give my Dear pain.
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VII.
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Amint. Who can express the joy-ing,
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that my poor heart doth leaping find?
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Fly hence all heart-annoy-ing,
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and fatal grief, for Celia's kind:
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Come then dear Celia, let us now enjoy,
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Cel. Ay, dear-est Ay:
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While we have Breath let Mortals wonder this,
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Envy they may, but not spoil our Bliss.
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