By scaly Triton's winding shell, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answered have. Listen and save! 880 With some other new device. Not a waste or needless sound His wished presence, and beside Will double all their mirth and cheer. Come, let us haste; the stars grow high, But Night sits monarch yet in the mid sky. 950 The Scene changes, presenting Ludlow Town, and the President's Castle: then come in Country Dancers; after them the ATTENDANT SPIRIT, with the two BROTHERS and THE LADY. Song. Spir. Back, shepherds, back! Enough your play Till next sun-shine holiday. Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod Of lighter toes, and such court guise As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades On the lawns and on the leas. This second Song presents them to their Father and Mother. 960 970 980 Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring; The Graces and the rosy-bosomed Hours (List, mortals, if your ears be true) But far above, in spangled sheen, Celestial Cupid, her famed son, advanced And from her fair unspotted side But now my task is smoothly done : I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, 1000 ΙΟΙΟ 1020 LYCIDAS. In this Monody the Author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their height. YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Begin, then, Sisters of the sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring; So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn, And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud! For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill; ΙΟ 20 Oft till the star that rose at evening bright 30 Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. Tempered to the oaten flute From the glad sound would not be absent long; Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel |