The Singers' companion, a choice selection of fashionable songs/Cease thus to palpitate

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CEASE THUS TO PALPITATE

Sung by Madame Fasta. Music,—"Di tanti palpiti."

Cease thus to palpitate,
Cease, silly flutterer, pray;
Though on thy future fate
Love decides to-day,
Cease to alarm me,
Fond fears, away,
Duty must arm me
My sire to obey.

Though sighing and dying,
Pursuing and wooing,
Diseover to lovers
ch treasure and pleasure;
Yet Virtue's power you'll find
Above poor Cupid's sway,
While Love, most truly blind,
Too seldom finds his way.

Reason then guide me,
Cupid away,
Mine be the lover,
Who, prudent as kind,
Aims to discover
A charm in the mind:
Who, prizing ever
The heart alone,
Will build his love on Virtue's throne,
And never, never
That love disown.