Context:

Location: London?, London, England (TQ3079)
Year: 1707
Time of Occurrence: [Not given]
Collective Name: [Not given]

Source:

Joseph Addison (1707)
Rosamond. An Opera [2nd ed]
London, Jacob Tonson, 1707

Cast:

Text:

{Act I, Scene i.}

Queen.

What place is here!
What scenes appear!
Where'er I turn my eyes,
All around
Enchanted ground
And soft Elysiums rise:
Flow'ry mountains,
Mossy fountains,
Shady woods,
Chrystal floods,
With wild variety surprise.
As o'er the hollow vaults we walk,
A hundred echoes round us talk:
From hill to hill the voice is tost,
Rocks rebounding,
Caves resounding,
Not a single word is lost.

{Also}

Page.

Behold on yonder rising ground
The bower, that wanders
In meanders,
Ever bending,
Never ending,
Glades on glades,
Shades in shades,
Running an eternal round.

{And}

Page.

Hark, hark! what sound invades my ear?
The conqueror's approach I hear.
He comes, victorious Henry comes!
Hautboys, Trumpets, Fifes and Drums,
In dreadful concert join'd,
Send from afar
A sound of war,
And fill with horror ev'ry wind.

{See also}

{Act 1. Scene ii}

Rosamond.

From walk to walk, from shade to shade,
From stream to purling stream convey'd,
Through all the mazes of the grove,
Through all the mingling tracts I rove,
Turning,
Burning,
Changing,
Ranging,
Full of grief and full of love.
Impatient for my Lord's return,
I sigh, I pine, I rave, I mourn.

{Cf. the concluding words of Act I, sc. iv.}

Sir Trusty

'Tis Henry's march! the tune I know:

Notes:

These are extracts of the parts of this work that are used in the play from Truro, Cornwall (formerly assigned to Mylor).
Not yet fully proof-read against the original - 27/08/2020

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1995-07-01 - Scanned & OCRed by Peter Millington
1998-05-09 - Roughly encoded by Peter Millington
2002-05-28 - Reference and notes added by Peter Millington
2020-08-27 - Speech designations added by Peter Millington
2021-01-15 - TEI-encoded by Peter Millington

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