May thy billows roll ashore Come, lady, while Heaven lends us grace, Where this night are met in state Will double all their mirth and cheer: But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky. 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 With the mincing Dryades, On the lawns, and on the leas. This second song presents them to their Father and Mother. Noble lord, and lady bright, I have brought ye new delight; Three fair branches of your own ; To triumph, in victorious dance, O'er sensual folly and intemperance. The dances being ended, the Spirit epilogises. Spir. 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, All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three There eternal Summer dwells, And west-winds, with musky wing, Nard and cassia's balmy smells. Waters the odorous banks, that blow Make her his eternal bride, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, ARCADES. PART OF A MASK, OR ENTERTAINMENT, PRESENTED TO THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF DERBY, AT HAREFIELD, BY SOME NOBLE PERSONS OF HER FAMILY. |