For you have princes now to entertain, NEPTUNE, AMPHITRITE, OCEANUS, and TETHYS, appear in a Chariot drawn with Sea-horses; on each side of the Chariot, Sea-Gods, and Goddesses, Tritons, and Nereids. Alon. This is prodigious! Anto. Ah! what amazing objects do we see? Gons. This art doth much exceed all human skill. SONG. Amph. My lord, great Neptune, for my sake, Nept. Nept. and Amph. Ocean. Let this enraged element be still, Let him his boisterous prisoners safely keep Let your serenest looks appear! Be calm, ye great parents of the floods and While each Nereid and Triton plays, revels, and sings. Confine the roaring winds, and we Tie up the winds, and we'll obey; Upon the floods we'll sing and play, [Here the Dancers mingle with the Great nephew, Eolus, make no noise, [AEOLUS appears. Amph. Let 'em not bluster to disturb our ears, Nept. As pleasantly may swell each sail. Amph. While fell sea-monsters cause intestine jars, This empire you invade by foreign wars. Nept. But you shall now be still, And shall obey my Amphitrite's will. Eolus You I'll obey, who at one stroke can make, descends With your dread trident, the whole earth to quake. Come down, my blusterers, swell no more, [Winds from the four corners appear. Let all black tempests cease, And let the troubled ocean rest: Let all the sea enjoy as calm a peace, Down, down you must go: You in the earth's entrails your revels may keep; But no more till I call shall you trouble the deep. [Winds fly down. Now they are gone, all stormy wars shall cease; Then let your trumpeters proclaim a peace. Amph. Tritons, my sons, your trumpets sound, And let the noise from neighbouring shores rebound. Sound a calm. Sound a calm. Chorus. Sound a calm. a calm. Sound a calm. [Here the Tritons, at every repeat of Sound a calm, changing their figure and postures, seem to sound their wreathed trumpets made of shells. A symphony of music, like trumpets, to which four Tritons dance. Nept. See, see, the heavens smile; all your troubles are past, Your joys, by black clouds, shall no more be o'ercast. Amph. On this barren isle ye shall lose all your fears, Leave behind all your sorrows, and banish Both. your cares. S And your loves and your lives shall in safety enjoy; No influence of stars shall your quiet destroy. Chorus And your loves, &c. of all. S No influence, &c. [Here the Dancers mingle with the Singers. Ocean. We'll safely convey you to your own happy shore, And your's and your country's soft peace will restore. Tethys. To treat you, blest lovers, as you sail on the deep, Both. The Tritons and sea-nymphs their revels shall keep. On the swift dolphins' backs they shall sing and shall play; Son They shall guard you by night, and delight you by day. Chorus (On the swift, &c. of all. And shall guard, &c. 203 [Here the Dancers mingle with the Singers. [A dance of twelve Tritons. Mir. What charming things are these? SCENE III.-Changes to the Rising Sun, and a number of Aerial Spirits in the Air; ARIEL flying from the Sun, advances towards the Pit. Alon. Heaven! What are these we see? Prosp. They are spirits, with which the air abounds In swarms, but that they are not subject Το feeble mortal eyes. poor Anto. O wondrous skill! Gonz. O power divine! ARIEL, and the rest, sing the following Song. Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bed I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the swallow's wings I fly, After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Song ended, ARIEL speaks, hovering in the air. Ariel, My noble master! May theirs and your blest joys never impair! I will be still your Ariel, and wait From your still faithful Ariel you shall learn. [Exeunt. |