Sabrina rifes, attended by water-nymphs, and fings.

Of unbleft inchanter vile.

SAB. Shepherd, 'tis my office beft

To help infnared chastity :
Brightest Lady, look on me;
Thus I fprinkle on thy breast
Drops that from my fountain
I have kept of precious cure,
Thrice upon thy finger's tip,
Thrice upon thy rubied lip;

pure

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Next this marble venom'd feat,

Smear'd with gums of glutenous heat,
I touch with chafte palms moift and cold
Now the spell hath loft his hold;

And I must hafte ere morning hour

To wait in Amphitrite's bower.

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Sabrina descends, and the Lady rises out of her feat.

SPI. Virgin daughter of Locrine,

Never fcorch thy treffes fair;

Nor wet October's torrent flood
Thy molten crystal fill with mud;
May thy billows roll afhore
The beryl, and the golden ore;
May thy lofty head be crown'd

With many a tower and terras round,
And here and there thy banks upon

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With groves of myrrhe, and cinnamon.

Come, Lady, while Heav'n lends us grace,

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I shall be your faithful guide
Through this gloomy covert wide,
And not many furlongs thence
Is your Father's refidence,
Where this night are met in state
Many a friend to gratulate
His wifh'd prefence, and befide
All the fwains that near abide,
With jigs and rural dance refort;

We shall catch them at their sport,

And our sudden coming there

Will double all their mirth and chear;
Come let us hafte, the stars grow high,

But night fits monarch yet in the mid sky.

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The Scene changes, presenting Ludlow town and the Prefident's caftle; then come in country dancers, after them the attendent Spirit, with the two Brothers and the Lady.

SPI. Back, Shepherds, back, enough your play,

Till next fun-fhine holiday;

Here be without duck or nod

Other trippings to be trod

Of lighter toes, and fuch court guise

As Mercury did first devise

With the mincing Dryades

On the lawns, and on the leas.

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This fecond Song prefents them to their Father and Mother.

Noble Lord, and Lady bright,
I have brought you new delight,
Here behold fo goodly grown
Three fair branches of your own;

Heav'n hath timely try'd their youth,

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Their faith, their patience, and their truth,

And fent them here through hard affays

* With a crown of deathlefs praise,

To triumph in victorious dance

O'er fenfual folly, and intemperance.

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The Graces, and the rofy-bofom'd Hours,

Thither all their bounties bring;

That

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Than her purfled scarf can fhew,
And drenches with Elysian dew
(Lift mortals, if your ears be true)
Beds of hyacinth and roses,
Where young Adonis oft repofes,
Waxing well of his deep wound
In flumber foft, and on the ground
Sadly fits th' Affyrian queen;
But far above in spangled sheen

Celestial Cupid her fam'd son advanc'd,
Holds his dear Pfyche sweet intranc'd,
After her wandering labors long,
Till free confent the Gods among
Make her his eternal bride,
And from her fair unfpotted fide
Two blissful twins are to be born,
Youth and Joy; fo Jove hath fworn.
But now my task is smoothly done,

I can fly, or I can run

Quickly to the green earth's end,

Where the bow'd welkin flow doth bend,

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And from thence can foar as foon

To the corners of the moon.

Mortals