Words for an entertainment at the music-feast on St. Ceceila's Day being the 22d of November, 1695 / set to music by Dr. John Blow ; written by Mr. Motteux ; perform'd by two choirs. Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A51511 of text R31052 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing M2965). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A51511 Wing M2965 ESTC R31052 11769746 ocm 11769746 48831 2240861990

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A51511) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 48831) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1489:17) Words for an entertainment at the music-feast on St. Ceceila's Day being the 22d of November, 1695 / set to music by Dr. John Blow ; written by Mr. Motteux ; perform'd by two choirs. Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718. 1 sheet (2 p.) s.n., [S.l. : 1695] Reproduction of original in Chetham's Library. eng Saint Cecilia's Day. eebo Words for an entertainment at the music-feast, on St. Ceceila's Day being the 22d of November, 1695. Set to music by Dr. John Blow. Written by Mr. Mot Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1695 3 506 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
WORDS For an Entertainment at the MUSIC-FEAST , ON St. Cecilia's Day , Being the 22d of November , 1695. Set to Music by Dr. John Blow . Written by Mr. Motteux . Perform'd by Two Choirs . GReat Choir of Heav'n , attend , and bear a Part ; We praise our heav'nly Patroness and Art . Be grave , our Lays , then sprightly ; soft , then strong ; Like the great Double Subject of our Song . I. For St. Cecilia . Cecilia , great by native Right , As Angels pious , and as bright , Rais'd charming Music's Fame . II. For Music . Music , by native Right divine , Makes Beauty with new Glory shine , And rais'd Cecilia's Name . I. Cecilia did our Art improve . II. Our Art encreas'd her sacred Love . The Charms of Music made her long To joyn in the Seraphic Song , And her Example drew the ravisht Throng . So , when the Trumpet sounds to Arms , Britons , whom Native Valour warms , Are doubly fir'd , and doubly run to Arms. To Arms , they cry , and all around Ten thousand Braves return the welcome warlike Sound . I. Cecilia taught new Graces to the Choir , And made all Instruments in one conspire . II. By Music taught , in her harmonious Mind , All Vertues in full Consort join'd . Faith , Hope , and Love the Trebles were : Reason the Tenor still was there ; And ev'ry Part to grace , Humility the Basse . I. While the Musician serv'd the Saint , What could she ask but Heav'n wou'd grant ? II. When Pray ▪ rs on Music's Wings arise , Heav'n ▪ granting , does but sympathise . I. Let such a Beauty sing and play , Angels themselves will run astray ! II. None by such heav'nly Beauty stray'd , 'T was Heav'n where e're Cecilia play'd . Music's best Image was her Face : In ev'ry Feature ▪ an harmonious Grace Disclaim'd the Ear , and thro the quicker sight ▪ Inform'd the Soul with fierce delight : Nay , Music's self in silent State was there . There reign'd the peaceful softness of the Flute ; The melting sweetness of the Lute ; The Violin's prevailing lively Air ; And moving Charms diffus'd around , Inimitable like her Voice ; With something solemn , like her Organ's Sound , At once to give and heal a wound , And , grieving , to rejoyce .
Grand Chorus . Hail , Music ! still our Thoughts employ , Love's Food divine , Life's purest Joy , Blest Speech of the Celestial Throng , Thou best and universal Song , Thou Wing of Zeal ▪ and ev'ry Passion 's Queen , Thou Spring , thou Rule , and Soul of Nature's grand Machine !
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