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5F CHOI CE SONGS. 6s
Forget all your furrows, your cares, and your labours^.
And let ev'ry heart beat W'th rapture to-day.
Ye votaries all attend to my call.
Come revel in pleafures that never can doyj
Come fee rural felicity,
Which Love and Innocence ever enjoy.
Come fee. Sec.
Let envy, let pride, let hate and ambition.
Still crovi'd to, and beat at the breaft of the great j
To fuch wretched paffions we give no admiffion.
But leave them alone to the wife ones of flate.
We boaft of no wealth but contentment and health.
In mirth and in friendHiip our moments employ,
Co;me fee, Sec.
With reafon we tafte of each heart ftirring pleafure 3
With reafon we drink of the full-flowing bowl,
A^e jocund and gay, but all within meafure.
For fatal excefs will enflave the free foul.
Then come at our bidding to this happy weddifig,
No care (hull obtrude here our biifs to annoy,
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SONG LXXIV.
P L A T O's Advice.
SAYS Plata, Why fhouid man be vain ?
Since bounteous Heav'n hath made him great <:
Why took with infoient difd nn
On thofe undeck'd with Vv'ealth or ftate I
Can coftly robes, or beds of down,
Or all the gems that deck the fair j
Gan all the glories of a crown
Give health, or eafe the brow of Care ,?
The fcepter'd king, the burden'd flave,
The humble and the haughty die ;
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