Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair;

Listen for dear Honor's sake,

Goddess of the Silver lake.
Listen and save.

Listen and appear to us

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In name of great Oceanus,

By th' earth-shaking Neptune's mace,

And Tethys' grave majestic pace,

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By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look,

And the Carpathian wisard's hook,

By scaly Triton's winding shell,

And old sooth-saying Glaucus' spell,

By Leucothea's lovely hands,

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And her son that rules the strands,
By Thetis' tinsel-slipper'd feet,
And the songs of Sirens sweet,
By dead Parthenope's dear tomb,
And fair Ligea's golden comb,
Wherewith she sits on diamond rocks,
Sleeking her soft alluring locks,
By all the nymphs that nightly dance
Upon thy streams with wily glance,
Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head
From thy coral-paven bed,

And bridle in thy headlong wave,

Till thou our summons answer'd have.

Listen and save.

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SABRINA rises, attended by water-nymphs, and

sings.

By the rushy-fringed bank,

Where

grows

the willow and the osier dank,
My sliding chariot stays,

Thick set with agat, and the azurn sheen
Of turkis blue, and emrald green,

That in the channel strays;
Whilst from off the waters fleet

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pure

Brightest Lady look on me;
Thus I sprinkle on thy breast
Drops that from my fountain
I have kept of precious cure,
Thrice upon thy fingers' tip,
Thrice upon thy rubied lip;
Next this marble-venom'd seat,

Smear'd with gums of glutenous heat,

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I touch with chaste palms moist and cold:
Now the spell hath lost his hold ;

And I must haste ere morning hour
To wait on Amphitrite's bower.

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SABRINA descends,and the LADY rises out of her seat.

SPI. Virgin, daughter of Locrine

Sprung from old Anchises' line,

Come, Lady, while Heav'n lends us grace,

Let us fly this cursed place,

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Lest the Sorcerer us entice
With some other new device.
Not a waste, or needless sound,
Till we come to holier ground;
I shall be your faithful guide
Through this gloomy covert wide,
And not many furlongs thence
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Is your father's residence,
Where this night are met in state
Many a friend to gratulate
His wish'd presence, and beside
All the swains that near abide,

With jigs and rural dance resort; 1.
We shall catch them at their sport,
And our sudden coming there

Will double all their mirth and cheer;
Come let us haste, the stars grow high,

But Night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

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The scene changes, presenting Ludlow town and the president's castle; then come in country dancers, after them the attendent SPIRIT, with the two BROTHERS and the LADY.

SONG.

SPI. BACK, Shepherds, back, enough your play Till next sun-shine holiday;

Other trippings to be trod

Here be without duck or nod

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Of lighter toes, and such court guise

NOBLE Lord, and Lady bright,

I have brought you new delight,
Here behold so goodly grown
Three fair branches of your own;

Heav'n hath timely try'd their youth,
Their faith, their patience, and their truth,
And sent them here through hard assays

With a crown of deathless praise,

To triumph in victorious dance,

O'er sensual folly, and intemperance.

The dances ended, the SPIRIT epiloguizes.

SPI. To the ocean now I fly,

And those happy climes that lie
Where Day never shuts his eye,
Up in the broad fields of the sky:
There I suck the liquid air

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All amidst the gardens fair

Of Hesperus, and his daughters three

That sing about the golden tree;

Along the crisped shades and bowers

Revels the spruce and jocund Spring,

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The Graces, and the rosy-bosom'd Hours,

Than her purfled scarf can shew,
And drenches with Elysian dew
(List mortals, if your ears be true,

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