Ah! cruel nymph

Purcell, Henry

Ah! cruel nymph! you give despair,

When with delight I should approach thee,

Still with Sylvia you reproach me,

Still with that deluding fair.

Too long I own, she has maintain'd

Her conquest when her love was feign'd.

But charming, airy, humorous and gay,

You from my eyes have driven the mist away.