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Show S O N G, in Two Parts. He TlO >V nitbafpy a Lover am If • • • ri mk l^h for My ph w All my hopes of Delight Are another Man's Right, , _ Jf/w w H*//ywhile ! m l"fattt 2. She Since her Honour allows no Relief But to pity the pains which you bear. 'Tis the beft of your Fate, (In a hopelefs Eftate, ) To give oer, and betimes to defpair. 3« He I have try'd the falfe Med cine tn vain; For I wifi what I hope not to win; From without my Defire Has no Food to its Fire; But it burns and con fumes me within. 4- She. Tet at leaft 'tis a Pleafure to know That you are not unhappy alone : For the Nymph you Adore Is as wretched and more, And accounts all your Suf rings her own. 5- He. 0 ye Gods, let me fuffer for both ; At the Feet of my Phillis Tit lie: I'll refign up my Breath, And take pleafure in Death, To bepittyd by her when I die. She. What her Honour denyd you in Life, In her Death fix will give to your Lovc\ Such a Flame as is true After Fate will renew For the Souls to meet clofer above. Enter Efperanza again after the Song. Almanz. Accept this Diamond, till I can prefent Something more worthy m y Acknowledgment. And now, farewel; I will attend, alone, Her coming forth, and make m y Suff'rings known. Solus. [Exit Efperanza. A hollow W i n d comes whiffling through that Door; And a cold fhiv'ring feizes m e all o'er. M y Teeth, too, chatter with a fuddain fright: Thefe are the Raptures of too fierce Delight; The Combate of the Tyrant's Hope and Fear; Which Hearts, for want of Field-room cannot bear. I grow impatient, this, or that's the Room: I'll meet her; now, methinks, I hear her come. [He goes to the Door • the Ghoft of his Mother mcrts him: heflarts bacb^^ the Ghoft ftands in the Door. Almanz. Well may'ft thou make thy boaft, what e'er thou art; Thou art the firft e'er made Almazor ftart. M y Legs Shall bear me to thee in their o w n defpight I'll rufh into the Covert cf thy Night, And pull thee backward by the Shrowd, to light. $ Or elfe I'll fqueeze thee, like a Bladder, there : And make thte groan thy felf away to Air. [JU Qhsfl retires So, art thou ' thou canft no Conqueft boaft : I thought what was the Courage of a Ghoft . The- _Jhe Conqueft of Granada. 4.5$ The grudging of my Ague yet remains: M y Blood, like Ihcles, hangs in m y veins And does not drop: Be Mafter of that Door- W e T w o will not difturb each other more. ' I err'd a little, but Extreams may join ; That Door is Hell's, and this is Heav'ns and mine. A . . r. TT __ . , [Goes to the other Door, and is met again by the Ghoft. Again! By Heavn I do conjure thee, fpeak. W h a t art thou, Spirit, and what doft thou feek ? [ The Ghoft comes en foftly after the Cofijitration : r^T n T . __-. „ „< WAhnanzor retires tothemiddle of the Stage. Ghoft. I am the Ghoft of her w h o gave thee Birth - The Airy Shadow of her mouldring Earth. Love of thy Father m e through Seas did guide • O n Seas I bore thee, and on Seas I Dy'd. I Dy'd ; and for m y Winding-iheet a W a ve I had, and all the Ocean for m y Grave. But, when m y Soul to Blifsdid upward move, I wander'd round the Chryftal Walls above. But found the Eternal Fence fo fteeply high, 7 That, when I mounted to the middle Sky, C 1 flagg'd, and flutter'd down, and could not fly. \ Then, from from the Battlements of the Heav'nly Tow'r, A Watchman Angel bid m e wait this Hour; And told m e I had yet a Task afiign'd, To warn that little Pledge I left behind ; And to divert him, e're it were too late, From Crimes unknown, and Errors of his Fate. [Almanzor bowing, Almanz. Speak, Holy Shade, thou Parent Form, fpeak on; 7 Inftruct thy Mortal Elemented Son; > ( For here I wander to m y felf unknown.) •> But O, thou better part of Heavenly Air, Teach me, kind Spirit, (fince I'm ftill thy Care) M y Parents Names! If I have yet a Father, let m e know To whofe old Age m y humble Youth muft b o w ; And pay its Duty, if he Mortal be, Or Adoration, ifa Mind like thee. Ghoft. Then, what I may, I'll.tell From ancient Blood thy Father's Lineage fprings. Thy Mother's thou deriv'ft from Stemms of Kinss. A Chriftian born, and born again that day, W h e n Sacred Water wafh'd thy Sins away. Yet bred in Errors thou doft mif-employ That ftrength Heav'n gave thee, and its flock deftro Almanz. By Reafon, M a n a Godhead may difcern : But, h o w he would be worfhip'd, cannot learn Ghoft. Heaven does not n o w thy Ignorance reprove, But warns thee from known Crimes of lawlcfs Love. That Crime thou know'ft, and knowing, doft notfhuri. Shall an unknown, and greater Crime pull on : But, if thus warn'd, thou leav'ft this curfed place Then fhalt thou know the Author of thy Race. Once more I'll fee thee; when m y Charge is doic.. Fir hence, upon the Mountains of the M o on Is m y Abode, where Heaven and Nature Smile, And ftrew with Flowers the fecret Bed of Nyle. Bleft Souls are there refln'd, and made more bright, And, in the {hades of Heaven prepar'd for Light. [Exit Ghofts Almanz. 0 Heaven, how dark a Riddle's thy Decree, Which bounds our Wills, yet feems to leave em free 1 : knowl mnot be in vain, muft be what thou did'ft firft ordain i fe confin'd, i at large, a Pris tier of the Mi .1: ^ |