C O M U S. 639 Other trappings to be trod Of lighter toes, and fuch court guile As Mercury did firft devife With the mincing Dryades On the lawns, and on the leas, 965 This fecond Song prefents them to their Father and Mother. Noble Lord, and Lady bright, I have brought ye new delight, Here behold fo goodly grown Three fair branches of your own ; Heav'n bath timely try'd their youth, Their faith, their patience, and their truth, And fent them here through hard affays With a crown of deathlefs praife, To triumph in viaorious dance. O'er fenfual folly, and intemperance. The dances ended, the Spirit epiloguizes. Spi. To the ocean now I fly, And thofe happy climes that lie Where day never (huts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the Ilky There I fuck the liquid air 980 All amidft the gardens fair Of Hefperus, and his daughters three That ling about the golden tree : Along the crifped fhades and bowers Revels the fpruce and jocond Spring, The Graces, and the rofy-bofom'd Hours, Thither all their bounties bring ; That there eternal Summer dwells, And weft-winds with rnufky wing About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and Caffia's balmy fmells, 970 975 985 990
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