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Henry Purcell
King Arthur or The British Worthy (1691)
Sacrificial Scene from Act 1
Text by John Dryden

Deller Consort
The Deller Choir
Alfred Deller, director

The King’s Musick
Roderick Skeaping, director

The musical sections of Purcell's semi-opera form interludes within the main action mostly at the ends of each of the acts of Dryden's text. In Act 1 there is a Sacrificial Scene, in which Saxon Priests and Chorus prepare to sacrifice horses and people to the gods Woden, Thor and Freya.
From Synopsis in http://www.boosey.com/

FIRST ACT ~ Sacrificial Scene
Bass
Woden, first to thee
A milk-white steed, in battle won,
We have sacrific'd.

Chorus
We have sacrific'd.

Tenor
Let our next oblation be
To Thor, thy thund'ring son,
Of such another.

Chorus
We have sacrific'd.

Bass
A third (of Friesland breed was he)
To Woden's wife, and to Thor's mother;
And now, we have aton'd all three.

Chorus
We have sacrific'd.

Tenor & Alto
The white horse neigh'd aloud.
To Woden thanks we render,
To Woden we have vow'd.

Chorus
To Woden, our defender, thanks we render?

Soprano
The lot is cast, and Tanfan pleas'd;
Of mortal cares you shall be eas'd.

Chorus
Brave souls, to be renown'd in story,
Honour prizing,
Death despising,
Fame acquiring
By expiring,
Die and reap the fruit of glory.

Alto
I call you all
To Woden's Hall,
Tour temples round
With ivy bound
In goblets crown'd,
And plenteous bowls of burnish'd gold,
Where ye shall laugh
And dance and quaff
The juice that makes the Britons bold.

Chorus
To Woden's Hall all
Where in plenteous bowls of burnish'd gold
We shall laugh
And dance and quaff
The juice that makes the Britons bold.