Dorilus.
To swerue vp one of Cynthias_ beames,
90
And there to bath
thee in the streames.
Discouerd in the
Moone._
Doron.
Come frolick Youth and follow me,
My frantique boy,
and Ile show thee
The Countrey of
the Fayries.
Dorilus.
The fleshy Mandrake where’t doth grow
In noonshade of
the Mistletow,
And where the
Phoenix Aryes.
Doron.
Nay more, the Swallowes winter bed,
The Caverns where
the Winds are bred, 100
Since thus thou
talkst of showing.
Dorilus.
And to those Indraughts Ile thee bring,
That wondrous
and eternall spring
Whence th’
Ocean hath its flowing.
Doron.
We’ll downe to the darke house of sleepe,
Where snoring
Morpheus_ doth keepe,
And wake the drowsy
Groome._
Dorilus.
Downe shall the Dores and Windowes goe,
The Stooles vpon
the Floare we’ll throw,
And roare about
the Roome. 110
The Muses here commanded them
to stay,
Commending much the caridge
of their Lay
As greatly pleasd at this
their madding Bout,
To heare how brauely they
had borne it out
From first to the last, of
which they were right glad,
By this they found that Helicon
still had
That vertue it did anciently
retaine
When Orpheus Lynus
and th’ Ascrean Swaine
Tooke lusty Rowses, which
hath made their Rimes,
To last so long to all succeeding
times. 120
And now amongst this beauteous
Beauie here,
Two wanton Nimphes, though
dainty ones they were,
Naijs and Cloe
in their female fits
Longing to show the sharpnesse
of their wits,
Of the nine Sisters
speciall leaue doe craue
That the next Bout they two
might freely haue,
Who hauing got the suffrages
of all,
Thus to their Rimeing instantly
they fall.
Naijs.
Amongst you all let us see
Who ist opposes
mee, 130
Come on the proudest
she
To answere my
dittye.
Cloe.
Why Naijs_, that am I,
Who dares thy
pride defie.
And that we soone
shall try
Though thou be
witty._
Naijs.
Cloe I scorne my Rime
Should obserue
feet or time,
Now I fall, then
I clime,
Where i’st
I dare not.
140
Cloe.
Giue thy Invention wing,
And let her flert
and fling,
Till downe the
Rocks she ding,
For that I care
not.
Naijs.
This presence delights me,
My freedome inuites
me,
The Season excytes
me,
In Rime to be
merry.