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t; By the hearts of gold that deck Thy breast, thy shoulders, and thy neck: From thy sleepy mansion rise, And open thy unwilling eyes, While bubbling springs their music keep, That use to lull thee in thy sleep._ _God of Dreams rises_. _God_. Seek not to know what must not be revealed; Joys only flow where fate is most concealed: Too busy man would find his sorrows more, If future fortunes he should know before; For, by that knowledge of his destiny, He would not live at all, but always die. Enquire not, then, who shall from bonds be freed, Who 'tis shall wear a crown, and who shall bleed: All must submit to their appointed doom; Fate and misfortune will too quickly come: Let me no more with powerful charms be pressed; I am forbid by fate to tell the rest. [_The god descends_. _Zemp_. Stay, cozener, thou, that hat'st clear truth like light, And usest words dark as thy own dull night. You tyrant gods, do you refuse to free The soul, you gave, from its perplexity? Why should we in your mercies still believe, When you can never pity, though we grieve? For you have bound yourselves by harsh decrees; And those, not you, are now the deities. [_Sits down sad_. _Ism_. She droops under the weight of rage and care: You spirits, that inhabit in the air, With all your powerful charms of music, try To bring-her soul back to its harmony. SONG SUNG BY AERIAL SPIRITS. _Poor mortals, that are clogged with earth below, Sink under love and care, While we, that dwell in air, Such heavy passions never know. Why then should mortals be Unwilling to be free From blood, that sullen cloud, Which shining souls does shroud? Then they'll shew bright, And like us light, When leaving bodies with their care, They slide to us and air_. _Zemp_. Death on these trifles! Cannot your art find Some means, to ease the passions of the mind? Or, if you cannot give a lover rest, Can you force love into a scornful breast? _Ism_. Tis reason only can make passions less; Art gives not new, but may the old increase; Nor can it alter love in any breast, That is with other flames before possessed. _Zemp_. If this be all your slighted arts can do, I'll kindle other flames, since I must burn, And all their temples into ashes turn. _Ism_. Great queen-- _Zemp. If you would have this sentence staid, Summon their
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