Overture
[Bass solo]
Hail monarch, sprung of race Divine,
Up let your sprading honours shine,
Awake from loves and beautys Charms
Awake, awake glorie your softer hours alarms
Cho:
Awake from loves and beautys Charms
Awake, awake glorie your softer hours alarms
Ritor
Slow[Tenor solo]
See the pausing luster stand
Seasons and years a goodly band
Ready to march at your command
See of light the glorious God
e’re he comes on to rule the days
waits the Omen of your Nodd
And for instructions stays
Cho:
T’inform himself from your reign
Here how to govern all the year
Ritor
[CT & B Duet]
He with advantage must dispence
O’re the world your influence
When he starts to speak your fame,
When he posts to spread your name/fame
Through distant climes and worlds below
Where your fame only: and his sunbeams goe
Cho:
Through distant climes and worlds below
Where your fame only: and his sunbeams goe
[CT solo]
Wake goddess born of heavenly race
Diffuse the Glories of your face
Your beauteous stock of charms unfold
And dress the age once more in gold
Wake goddess born of heavenly race
Diffuse the Glories of your face
To you old laurell’d Janus bows
The winter honours of his brows
His next return what he will doe
What greater happiness bestow
Is yet too much for us to know
Slow [Ritor]
[B & B Duet]
Till then make bright your warriour’s shield
His Shining arms and helm prepare
Severely grac’d with plums of war
And dress your Heroe for the field
And bid his emulous virtue soar
Where never mortal dar’d before
[CT, T, B unison]
And to make his arms more sure 3/i
And his triumphs to secure
Double arms him for the prize
Join to his thund’ring arms
The lightning of your eyes.
Ritor
[CT solo]
Rise mighty monarch
Rise and adorne
the thronging glories of the morn
From the pavilion to the throne
Arise to dazzle and delight
All human eyes
Cho:
Lett each new year new blessing bring
And evry Winter prove a spring
And may the sun in his bright progress view
No happier monarch on the earth than you
Dr Blow /
December ye
21/ 1685 /
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