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dom, and a king. _Chorus._ Hark! the peals the people ring, Peace, and freedom, and a king. _Aug._ and _Tham._ To arms! to arms! _Archon._ I lead the way! _Merc._ Cease your alarms! And stay, brave Archon, stay! 'Tis doomed by fate's decree, 'Tis doomed that Albion's dwelling, All other isles excelling, By peace shall happy be. _Archon._ What then remains for me? _Merc._ Take my caduceus! Take this awful wand, With this the infernal ghosts I can command, And strike a terror through the Stygian land. Commonwealth will want pretences, Sleep will creep on all his senses; Zeal that lent him her assistance, Stand amazed without resistance. [ARCHON _touches_ DEMOCRACY _with a Wand._ _Dem._ I feel a lazy slumber lays me down: Let Albion, let him take the crown. Happy let him reign, Till I wake again. [_Falls asleep._ _Zeal._ In vain I rage, in vain I rouse my powers; But I shall wake again, I shall, to better hours. Even in slumber will I vex him; Still perplex him, Still incumber: Know, you that have adored him, And sovereign power afford him, We'll reap the gains Of all your pains, And seem to have restored him. [ZEAL _falls asleep._ _Aug._ and _Tham._ A stupifying sadness Leaves her without motion; But sleep will cure her madness, And cool her to devotion. _A double Pedestal rises: on the Front of it is painted, in Stone-colour, two Women; one holding a double-faced Vizor; the other a Book, representing_ HYPOCRISY _and_ FANATICISM; _when_ ARCHON _has charmed_ DEMOCRACY _and_ ZEAL _with the Caduceus of_ MERCURY, _they fall asleep on the Pedestal, and it sinks with them._ _Merc._ Cease, Augusta! cease thy mourning, Happy days appear; God-like Albion is returning Loyal hearts to chear. Every grace his youth adorning, Glorious as the star of morning, Or the planet of the year. _Chor._ Godlike Albion is returning, &c. _Merc._ to _Arch._ Haste away, loyal chief, haste away, No delay, but obey; To receive thy loved lord, haste away. [_Ex._ ARCH. _Tham._ Medway and Isis, you that augment me, Tides that increase my watery store, And you that are friends to peace and plenty, Send my merry boys all ashore; Seamen skipping, Mariners leaping, Shouting, tripping, Send my merry boys all ashore! _A dance of Watermen in the King's and Duke's Liveries._ _The Clouds divid
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