This was fung admirably well: And when the fhepherds had done, feveral fhepherdeffes came out of the wood. They advanced to the fleeping beauty in graceful measure, as the mufic played, and when they came up to the bank of flowers she reclined on, one of them fung incomparably fine these words

Come, Califta, with your charms,
Come view the innocent delights,
To which with.fmiles and open arms,
Our peaceful wilderness invites.

Here feek no grandeur of a court,
Love's alone our harmless fport:

Love crowns the nights, love crowns the
day,

And love's the burthen of the lay.

Love crowns the nights, love crowns the day,

And love's the burthen of our lay.

Here Calista awakened, and finging faid to Thyrfis, who stood gazing on the wonders of her face, and admiring

O what cruelty you show,
To follow me where e're I go.

THYR

What is it, fhepherd, that you mean?

THYRSIS.
Fair fhepherdefs, I mean to die,
Die at your feet, and end my pain,
Since at your feet I figh.

CALISTA.

Hence, Thyrfis, hence, I fear that I fhall prove, Pity within my breast transform'd to love.

Two other shepherds together.

Or from pity, or from love,
It is graceful to be tender :
Shepherdefs, enough you've ftrove,
To his flame you must surrender,
Or from pity, or from love,
It is graceful to be tender.

CALISTA to THYRSI S.

Too long I've been, too long severe,
Your ardent vows have treated ill,
Here take my heart, here, Thyrfis, here,
Of just revenge here take your fill.

2

THYR

THYRSIS.

O heavens! Ofhepherds! O, Calista, why Transport me thus! If joy can kill, I die.

LYCASTU S.

This prize is worthy thy fidelity.

The other shepherd.

Thus blefs'd, who but muft

envy thee?

This scene of a comedie ballet was finely performed, and beautifully improved by the conclufion taken from Shakespear's Tempeft; that is, when the shepherds had done, then Juno, Iris, and Ceres appeared, defcending in a defcending in a machine of clouds, to blefs this twain, and fung their bleffings on them. Iris called the Naiads of the winding brooks, and by command of Juno, fummoned the fun-burnt fickle-men to put their rye-straw hats on, and encounter those fresh nymphs in country-footing. The nymphs and reapers in a moment entered, properly habited, and concluded the scene with a graceful dance.

In this manner was the time paffed away till midnight, and then the ladys waited upon me to my apartment, and left a genteel young woman to attend me. I began to afk her many questions, and was in hopes of re

ceiving

ceiving fome affistance from her towards my delivery, but I foon found the was well in→ structed, and well payed; fo I had done. I faftened my chamber door, prayed to God, and went to bed. Slumber however I could not, and therefore lay with my curtains open, and the candles burning. The house was very ftill. For half an hour I could not hear the leaft noife: but at three quarters after twelve, little taps were given at chamber door, which alarmed me very greatly, and inftantly I arose. I asked who was there, and a woman's voice foftly anfwered me, Califta, your friend. Hereupon I opened the door, and faw the handfome young creature, who had played the fleeping beauty in the mufical paftoral, and fung her part extremely fine; the fame Califta we have now on board, in the office of my maid, and who has fo often joyned us in our concerts, great delight of this company.

my

to the

She told me her bufinefs was to inform me I was in the hands of the moft debauched man alive, and to aid me in an escape that night, if I would take her for my woman, when we were free: that her heart melted within her with compaffion, from the moment the faw me appear in this wicked manfion, as a victim to the god of luft; and in refpect of herself, that as neceffity, or want of fortune, had compelled her into the

French

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French opera-houfe, from whence Sir L. M. N. O. had brought her to England, so her reafon and confcience now called her to another kind of life; not only to leave the company of comedians this great man kept in high pay and fulness of bread; but to flee the finful connexion fhe was obliged to have with him, as he had debauched her in France : fhe told me the had been bred a French proteftant, and received a religious education; and that, in conjunction with the divine mercy on her foul, never ceafed to call her, and made her often feel the strongest defires to recover an intereft with God: She found it impoffible by any means to difmifs the prefent difquietudes of her mind, and had often fuch an impreffed fenfe of after-punishment as harrowed her foul, and could not be defcribed. She informed me farther, that the ladys who fupped with me were ruined women, and by bad arguments, and impious converfation, were become as unprincipled as doctor Bullock and doctor Bull; who were two dragoon officers, and wicked beyond all men: that counsellor Fairbrother was an attorney, first minister to Sir L. and a monster of a man: In fhort, if I could not get away, that it was not poffible for me to remain in fafety long, and when Sir L. had ruined me, I should likewise be the property of doctor Bullock and doctor Bull.