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My business now is with Montano her father,
To bring him where they are; for his consent
Alone is wanting to their mutual love.
To bring him where they are; for his consent
Alone is wanting to their mutual love.
CHORUS.
Alike their age, their gentle blood alike,
And now their wishes harmonize. The old man
Has wished, I know, for grandchildren, to make
A happy circle round about his age;
So that his wishes must conform with theirs.
But oh, Elpino, what kind God or chance
Rescued Amyntas from that perilous leap?
Alike their age, their gentle blood alike,
And now their wishes harmonize. The old man
Has wished, I know, for grandchildren, to make
A happy circle round about his age;
So that his wishes must conform with theirs.
But oh, Elpino, what kind God or chance
Rescued Amyntas from that perilous leap?
ELPINO.
I shall delight to tell ye. Hear, then, hear,
What with these eyes I saw. I was in front
Of my own cave, which lies beside the hill,
Just where it parts on meeting with the valley,
And makes a kind of leap. I was conversing
With Thyrsis upon one, who in her net
I shall delight to tell ye. Hear, then, hear,
What with these eyes I saw. I was in front
Of my own cave, which lies beside the hill,
Just where it parts on meeting with the valley,
And makes a kind of leap. I was conversing
With Thyrsis upon one, who in her net
