With Jiggs, and rural dance refort; We shall catch them at their sport, Will double all their mirth and chear. The Scene changes, prefenting Ludlow Town and the Prefident's Caftle; then come in Country Dancers, after them the attendant Spirit, with the two Brothers and the Lady. SONG. Spir. Back, Shepherds, back, anough your play, "Till next Sun-fhine holiday; Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod Of lighter toes, and fuch Court guife As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades, On the Lawns, and on the Leas. This fecond Song presents them to their Father and Mother. Noble Lord and Lady bright, Three fair branches of your own; To triumph in victorious dance The Dances ended, the Spirit Epiloguizes. Spir. To the Ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that ly All amidst the Gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three Along Along the crifped fhades and bowres Revels the spruce and jocund Spring, The Graces, and the rofie-bosom'd Hours, There eternal Summer dwells, And Weft-winds, with musky wing About the cedar'n alleys fling Nard, and Caffia's balmy fmells. Iris there with humid bow Waters the odorous banks, that blow But far above in spangled sheen Celestial Cupid her fam'd Son advanc'd, T 3 After After her wandring labours long, And from her fair unspotted fide Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin flow doth bend; And from thence can foar as foon To the corners of the Moon. Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, fhe alone is free; She can teach ye how to clime Higher than the Sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heav'n it self would stoop to her. ON ΟΝ ΤΗΕ MORNING O F CHRIST'S NATIVITY. T I. HIS is the Month, and this the happy Morn Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great Redemption from above did bring; For fo the holy Sages once did fing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. II. That glorious Form, that Light unsufferable, He laid afide; and here with us to be, |