Doron.
Come Dorilus_, let vs be brave,
In lofty numbers
let vs raue,
With Rymes I will
inrich thee._
Dorilus.
Content say I, then bid the base,
Our wits shall
runne the Wildgoosechase,
Spurre vp, or
I will swich thee.
Doron.
The Sunne out of the East doth peepe,
And now the day
begins to creepe, 40
Vpon the world
at leasure.
Dorilus.
The Ayre enamor’d of the Greaues,
The West winde
stroaks the velvit leaues
And kisses them
at pleasure.
Doron.
The spinners webs twixt spray and spray,
The top of euery
bush make gay,
By filmy coards
there dangling.
Dorilus.
For now the last dayes euening dew
Euen to the full
it selfe doth shew,
Each bough with
Pearle bespangling.
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Doron.
O Boy how thy abundant vaine
Euen like a Flood
breaks from thy braine,
Nor can thy Muse
be gaged.
Dorilus.
Why nature forth did neuer bring
A man that like
to me can sing,
If once I be enraged.
Doron.
Why Dorilus_ I in my skill
Can make the swiftest
Streame stand still,
Nay beare back
to his springing._
Dorilus.
And I into a Trance most deepe
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Can cast the Birds
that they shall sleepe
When fain’st
they would be singing.
Doron.
Why Dorilus_ thou mak’st me mad,
And now my wits
begin to gad,
But sure I know
not whither._
Dorilus.
O Doron_ let me hug thee then,
There neuer was
two madder men,
Then let vs on
together._
Doron.
Hermes the winged Horse bestrid,
And thorow thick
and thin he rid, 70
And floundred
throw the Fountaine.
Dorilus.
He spurd the Tit vntill he bled,
So that at last
he ran his head
Against the forked
Mountaine,
Doron.
How sayst thou, but pyde Iris_ got
Into great Iunos
Chariot,
I spake with one
that saw her._
Dorilus.
And there the pert and sawcy Elfe,
Behau’d
her as twere Iuno’s_ selfe,
And made the Peacocks
draw her._ 80
Doron.
Ile borrow Phoebus_ fiery Iades,
With which about
the world he trades,
And put them in
my Plow._
Dorilus.
O thou most perfect frantique man,
Yet let thy rage
be what it can,
Ile be as mad
as thou.
Doron.
Ile to great Iove_, hap good, hap ill,
Though he with
Thunder threat to kill,
And beg of him
a boone._