Lyrics: Anonymus
Music: John Ernest Galliard
(Enter Pan)
PAN
What do I see?
What form divine?
SYRINX
But why delay the nymphs? Here were they summon’d
To attend the Goddess; th’appointed Hour is fled.
I grow impatient.
PAN
Bright Nymph!
SYRINX
Ha!
PAN
Let not awfull Love affright thee.
Behold the Sylvan King adores thee.
SYRINX
Wert thou the King of Gods
I must not hear thee.
Am I not sworn a Foe to Love?
PAN
Disclaim that silly Vow:
Nature condemns, and Venus will resent it.
Believe me lovely Maid.
SYRINX
Fond God! forbear; and leave me.
PAN
Let not idle fears possess thee.
Pan will protect thee on the lonely Glade.
SYRINX
The Goddess is my Guard:
Diana and my Innocence protect me.
PAN
Relentless Nymph!
O Listen to my passion and let me press thee.
See the place,
The gentle Season,
and thy blooming years,
Invite to Love,
and dictate pleasing Joys.
SYRINX
Desist, rude Sylvan,’tis in Vain.
Syrinx contemns thy passion.