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- 1. Overture
- 2. Accompagnato: See, Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain (Pleasure)
- 3. Aria: Come, blooming boy, with me repair (Pleasure)
- 4. Aria: There the brisk sparkling nectar repair (Pleasure)
- 5. Solo and Chorus
- a. Solo: While for thy arms that Beauty glows (Pleasure)
- b. Chorus: Seize, seize these blessings, blooming boy! (Chorus)
- Recitative: Away, mistaken wretch, away! (Virtue)
- 6. Aria: This manly youth's exalted mind (Virtue)
- Recitative: Rise youth! exalt thyself and me (Virtue)
- 7. Aria: Go, assert thy heav'nly race (Virtue)
- Recitative: In peace, in war, pursue thy country's good (Virtue)
- 8. Solo and Chorus
- a. Solo: So shalt thou gain immortal praise (Virtue)
- b. Chorus: The golden trump of Fame
- Recitative: Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage? (Pleasure)
- 9. Solo and Chorus
- a. Solo: Turn thee, youth, to joy and love (Pleasure)
- b. Chorus: Why, ah why this fond delay?
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- Recitative: Short is my way (Pleasure, Hercules)
- 10. Aria: Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay (Hercules)
- 11. Aria: Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove (an Attendant of Pleasure's)
- Recitative: Oh! whither, Reason, dost thou fly? (Hercules)
- 12. Trio: Where shall I go? (Pleasure, Virtue, Hercules)
- 13. Accompagnato: Mount, mount the steep ascent! (Virtue)
- 14. Aria: Mount, mount the steep ascent (Virtue)
- 15. Chorus: Arise, arise!
- Recitative: The sounds breathe fire celestial (Hercules)
- 16. Aria: Lead, Goddess, lead the way (Hercules)
- 17. Chorus: Virtue will place thee in that blest abode
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