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SILVIA-, Or,
Such are your Afflictions ; and they, from their excef-
five Greamefs, fhall, like fome dreadful Virion, find their End.
Sil. Good Man! He knows not that all has been difcover'd
to me already. ]_Afide.'] Shall I deceive the belt of Fathers, and
by Hypocrify make that my Crime, which is but my Misfor-
tune? No. Whatever Difcovery you make of his Faults, for-
give me, if I fay, that I muft love him (till. True, Virtue for-
bids all Converle with* him, and I obey ; his Grimes 1 hate;
his Fall from Virtue I hment ; his Perfon, tho' 1 never fee, nor
wifh to fee again, 'tis itill certain, I mull ever, ever love.
A I R XLIX. One Night, when ail the Village flept.
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Tou happy Maids, who never knew,
The Pains of conflant Love,
Be wart? d by me, and never do
'The lingering Torture prove.
IVtfdom, here , brings no Relief,
And Refolut ion's vain ;
Oppofwg, we increafe our Grief
And f after bind the Chain.
SCENE
SILVIA-, Or,
Such are your Afflictions ; and they, from their excef-
five Greamefs, fhall, like fome dreadful Virion, find their End.
Sil. Good Man! He knows not that all has been difcover'd
to me already. ]_Afide.'] Shall I deceive the belt of Fathers, and
by Hypocrify make that my Crime, which is but my Misfor-
tune? No. Whatever Difcovery you make of his Faults, for-
give me, if I fay, that I muft love him (till. True, Virtue for-
bids all Converle with* him, and I obey ; his Grimes 1 hate;
his Fall from Virtue I hment ; his Perfon, tho' 1 never fee, nor
wifh to fee again, 'tis itill certain, I mull ever, ever love.
A I R XLIX. One Night, when ail the Village flept.
e^^#
§ ^ 4MHm ^ = h* ¥
m
-«rr»-
Ymr^^m
i
I
fMii gtii&ijtm sm
Tou happy Maids, who never knew,
The Pains of conflant Love,
Be wart? d by me, and never do
'The lingering Torture prove.
IVtfdom, here , brings no Relief,
And Refolut ion's vain ;
Oppofwg, we increafe our Grief
And f after bind the Chain.
SCENE
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| Description | An opera. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn Fields. With the musick prefix'd to each song. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.149(2) |
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| Description | Containing The works of Mrs Davys: consisting of, plays, novels, poems, and familiar letters, and Silvia; or, the country burial. An opera, and The jovial crew. A comic-opera, and The cobler's opera |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.149(1-4) |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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