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63:. The song "Nymphs and shepherds, come away" occurs in a pastoral interlude at the beginning of Act IV, after an orchestral introduction – a "Symphony of Rustick Musick". In the nineteenth century it became a popular concert piece, generally for soprano voice, and a second stanza, by
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