SCENE V.

_Chorus of five Bards-Laureate, four Voices, and a_ _Harper; attired._

1. _Song._

1. _At the spring_ _Birds do sing:_ _Now with high,_ _Then low cry._ _Flat, acute;_ _And salute,_ _The sun, born_ _Every morn._

ALL. _He's no bard that cannot sing_ _The praises of the flow'ry spring._

2. _Flora queen,_ _All in green,_ _Doth delight_ _To paint white,_ _And to spread_ _Cruel red_ _With a blue,_ _Colour true._

ALL. _He's no bard, &c._

3. _Woods renew_ _Hunter's hue._ _Shepherd's grey_ _Crown'd with bay,_ _With his pipe_ _Care doth wipe,_ _Till he dream_ _By the stream._

ALL. _He's no bard, &c._

4. _Faithful loves,_ _Turtle-doves,_ _Sit and bill_ _On a hill._ _Country swains_ _On the plains_ _Run and leap,_ _Turn and skip._

ALL. _He's no bard, &c._

5. _Pan doth play_ _Care away._ _Fairies small,_ _Two foot tall,_ _With caps red_ _On their head,_ _Dance around_ _On the ground._

ALL. _He's no bard, &c._

6. _Phillis bright,_ _Cloth'd in white,_ _With neck fair,_ _Yellow hair,_ _Rocks doth move_ _With her love,_ _And make mild_ _Tigers wild._

ALL. _He's no bard that cannot sing_ _The praises of the flow'ry spring._

_2d Song._

_Thus spend we time in laughter,_ _While peace and spring do smile;_ _But I hear a sound of slaughter_ _Draw nearer to our isle._

_Leave then your wonted prattle,_ _The oaten reed forbear;_ _For I hear a sound of battle,_ _And trumpets tear the air._

_Let bagpipes die for want of wind,_ _Let crowd[276] and harp be dumb:_ _Let little tabor come behind:_ _For I hear the dreadful drum._

_Let no birds sing, no lambkins dance,_ _No fountains murmuring go:_ _Let shepherd's crook be made a lance._ _For the martial horns do blow._ [_Exeunt._

FOOTNOTES:

[260] Bring you back. _Reduco_, Lat.--_Steevens._

[261] _Dux_ Nennius. The leaders of armies are on this account styled Dukes by many of our ancient English translators; as Duke Æneas, Duke Hannibal, &c.--_Steevens._

[262] [Natives of Gallia Belgica, a province comprising the Duchy of Treves, part of Luxembourg, and the departments of the Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe, and Vosges. Hazlitt's "Classical Gazetteer," 1851, p. 71.]

[263] The same turn of thought occurs in Mr Gray's celebrated ode called "The Bard"--

"Think'st thou yon sanguine cloud, Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day?"

--_Steevens._

[264] Imitated from the first speech of Gloster in "King Richard III."

[265] "In bis fuit Ariovistus, qui naviculam deligatam ad ripam nactus ea profugit."--Cæsar "De Bello Gallico," lib. i. s. 53.

[266] See Cæsar "De Bello Gallico," lib, iv., s. 17, for an account of this bridge over the Rhine.

[267] Alexander the Great. Pella was a city of Macedon, where he was born.

[268] A term in archery.

[269] Erynnis is the common name of the sister Furies, but is frequently used by the poets for mischief in general.--_Steevens._

[270] The ancient name of London.

[271] [Old copy, _my_.]

[272] There is no place oftener mentioned by the ancients than _Thule_, nor any one about the situation of which there has been a greater variety of opinions. Sir Robert Sibbald, in the additions to Camden, has given a discourse concerning the _Thule_ of the ancients, in which the sentiments of different writers on this subject are considered, and many of them refuted. Camden supposes _Shetland_ to be the place so often distinguished by the name of _Thule_; and Bishop Gibson appears to agree with him in the conjecture. See Camden's "Britannia." vol. ii. p. 411, edit. 1772.

[273] So in Shakespeare's "King Henry VIII."--

"These are _stars_ indeed, And sometimes _falling ones_."

--_Steevens._

[274] _Pandora_ was a woman formed by Vulcan, with the joint contribution of all the gods, every one of whom bestowed on her some grace or beauty.--_Steevens._

[275] In the old copy the four last letters of _breath_ have dropped out by accident, but they are no doubt rightly restored.--_Collier._