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First Line: Shepherdess: tell me thirsis, tell your anguish
Last Line: Still the more 'tis melted down.
Subject(s): Love; Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Songs


Shepherdess. Tell me Thirsis, tell your Anguish,
Why you Sigh, and why you Languish;
When the Nymph whom you Adore,
Grants the Blessing of Possessing,
What can Love and I do more?

Shepherd. Think it's Love beyond all Measure,
Makes me faint away with Pleasure;
Strength of Cordial may destroy,
And the Blessing of possessing
Kills me with Excess of Joy.

Shepherdess. Thirsis, how can I believe you?
But confess and I'le forgive you;
Men are false, and so are you;
Never Nature fram'd a Creature
To enjoy, and yet be true.

Shepherd. Mine's a Flame beyond expiring,
Still possessing, still desiring,
Fit for Love's imperial Crown;
Ever shining, and refining,
Still the more 'tis melted down.

Chorus together. Mine's a Flame beyond expiring,
Still possessing, still desiring,
Fit for Love's imperial Crown;
Ever shining, and refining,
Still the more 'tis melted down.





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