Doct.  Thus low I fall to thank their Royal Goodness.

[Kneels.  They take him up.

Bell.  Came you, most reverend Bards, from the Moon World?

Kep.  Most lovely Maid, we did.

Doct.  May I presume to ask the manner how?

Kep.  By Cloud, Sir, through the Regions of the Air, down to the fam’d Parnassus; thence by Water, along the River Helicon, the rest by Post upon two wing’d Eagles.

Doct.  Sir, are there store of our World inhabiting the Moon?

Kep.  Oh, of all Nations, Sir, that lie beneath it in the Emperor’s Train!  Sir, you will behold abundance; look up and see the Orbal World descending; observe the Zodiack, Sir, with her twelve Signs.

[Next the Zodiack descends, a Symphony playing all the while; when it is landed, it delivers the twelve Signs:  Then the Song, the Persons of the Zodiack being the Singers.  After which, the Negroes dance and mingle in the Chorus.

  A Song for the Zodiack.

Let murmuring Lovers no longer repine,
But their Hearts and their Voices advance;
Let the Nymphs and the Swains in the kind Chorus join,
And the Satyrs and Fauns in a Dance. 
Let Nature put on her Beauty of May,
And the Fields and the Meadows adorn;
Let the Woods and the Mountains resound with the Joy,
And the Echoes their Triumph return.

Chorus.

For since Love wore his Darts,
And Virgins grew Coy;
Since these wounded Hearts,
And those cou’d destroy,
There ne’er was more Cause for your Triumphs and Joy.

Hark, hark, the Musick of the Spheres,
Some Wonder approaching declares;
Such, such, as has not bless’d your Eyes and Ears
This thousand, thousand, thousand Years. 
See, see what the Force of Love can make,
Who rules in Heaven, in Earth and Sea;
Behold how he commands the Zodiack,
While the fixt Signs unhinging all obey. 
Not one of which, but represents
The Attributes of Love,
Who governs all the Elements
In Harmony above_.

Chorus.

For since Love wore his Darts
And Virgins grew coy;
Since these wounded Hearts,
And those cou’d destroy,
There ne’er was more Cause for your Triumphs and Joy.

The wanton Aries first descends,
To show the Vigor and the Play,
Beginning Love, beginning Love attends,
When the young Passion is all-over Joy,
He bleats his soft Pain to the fair curled Throng,
And he leaps, and he bounds, and loves all the day long. 
At once Love’s Courage and his Slavery
In_ Taurus is expressed,
Though o’er the Plains the Conqueror be,
The generous Beast
Does to the Yoke submit his noble Breast;
While Gemini smiling and twining of Arms,
Shews Love’s soft Indearments and Charms;
And Cancer’s slow Motion the degrees