Acis and Galatea

Acis, a Sicilian shepherd, loved by the nymph Galatea. The monster Polypheme, a Cyclops, was his rival, and crushed him under a huge rock. The blood of Acis was changed into a river of the same name at the foot of mount Etna.

Gay has a serenata called Acis and Galatea, which was produced at the Haymarket in 1732. Music by Handel.

Not such a pipe, good reader, as that which Acis did sweetly tune in praise of his Galatea, but one of true Delft manufacture.--W. Irving.

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Acis and Galatea. Opera, 1683 by Campistron.
Opera, 1735, by Handel.

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