COMUS A Maske Here be without duck or nod, Of lighter toes, and such Court guise With the mincing Dryades On the lawns, and on the leas. THIS SECOND SONG PRÆSENTS THEM TO Noble Lord, and Lady bright, Their faith, their patience, and their truth, And sent them here through hard assays To triumph in victorious dance THE DANCES ENDED, THE SPIRIT SPIRIT. To the Ocean now I flie, Along the crisped shades, and bowres That there æternall Summer dwells Nard, and Cassia's balmie smells. Iris there with humid bow But now my taske is smoothly done, Quickly to the greene earths end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soare as soone To the corners of the Moone. Mortalls that would follow me, Love vertue, she alone is free, She can teach yee how to clime Higher then the Sphærie chime; Or if vertue feeble were Heav'n it selfe would stoope to her. COMUS A Maske THEPRINCIPALL PERSONS IN THIS MASKE; WERE THE LORD BRACLY, MR. THOMAS EGERTON, THE LADY ALICE EGERTON. THE END. |