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his goodwife come forward and sing a duet on the delights
of love. One gay scene follows another. Three young
gentlemen are decking themselves with green boughs; five
officers are making merry; two rustics come rollicking
from market; a gardener’s ’prentice sings, a poet sings, and
finally six persons play some sprightly music on rather
fantastic instruments.
This leads up to the last scene, which is played by eleven
shepherdesses, their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Anne
Sofie, Friderica Amalie, and Vilhelmina Ernestina, Madam
Gyldenlöve, and seven young maidens of the nobility.
With much skill they dance a pastoral dance, in which
they pretend to tease Madam Gyldenlöve because she is
lost in thoughts of love and refuses to join their gay minuet.
They twit her with giving up her freedom and bending her
neck under the yoke of love, but she steps forward, and, in
a graceful pas de deux which she dances with the Princess
Anne Sofie, reveals to her companion the abounding
transports and ecstasies of love. Then all dance forward merrily,
winding in and out in intricate figures, while an invisible
chorus sings in their praise to the tuneful music of stringed
instruments:
“Ihr Nümphen hochberühmt, ihr sterblichen Göttinnen,
Durch deren Treff’ligkeit sich lassen Heldensinnen
Ja auch die Götter selbst bezwingen für und für,
Last nun durch diesen Tantz erblicken eure Zier
Der Glieder Hurtigkeit, die euch darum gegeben
So schön und prächtig sind, und zu den End erheben
Was an euch göttlich ist, auff dass je mehr und mehr
Man preisen mög an euch des Schöpfers Macht und Ehr.”
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