EUL. Bless'd be these means, and happy the success! Now 'gin I rear my crest above the moon. And in those gilded books read lectures of The feminine sex. There moves Cassiope, Whose garments shine with thirteen precious stones, Types of as many virtues: then her daughter, Whose beauty without Perseus would have tam'd The monstrous fish, glides with a starry crown: Then just Astrea kembs her golden hair: And my Landora can become the skies As well as they. O, how my joys do swell! He mounted not more proud whose burning throne Kindled the cedar-tops, and quaff'd whole fountains, Fly then, ye winged hours, as swift as thought Or my desires: let day's bright waggoner Fall headlong, and lie buried in the deep, And (dormouse-like) Alcides night outsleep: Good Tethys, quench his beams, that he ne'er rise To scorch the Moors, to suck up honey-dews, Or to betray my person. But prythee, tell what mistress you adore? HIR. The kind Cordelia, loving and belov'd: Only some jar of late about a favour Made me inveigh 'gainst women. Come away, Our plots desire the night, not babbling day. EUL. We must give way: here come our reverend bards To sing in synod, as their custom is With former chance comparing present deeds. [_Exeunt._ SCENE V. _Chorus of five Bards-Laureate, four Voices, and a_ _Harper; attired._ 1. _Song._ 1. _At the spring_ _Birds do sing:_ _Now with high,_ _Then low cry._ _Flat, acute;_ _And salute,_ _The sun, born_ _Every morn._ ALL. _He's no bard that cannot sing_ _The praises of the flow'ry spring._ 2. _Flora queen,_ _All in green,_ _Doth delight_ _To paint white,_ _And to spread_ _Cruel red_ _With a blue,_ _Colour true._ ALL. _He's no bard, &c._ 3. _Woods renew_ _Hunter's hue._ _Shepherd's grey_ _Crown'd with bay,_ _With his pipe_ _Care doth wipe,_ _Till he dream_ _By the stream._ ALL. _He's no bard, &c._ 4. _Faithful loves,_ _Turtle-doves,_ _Sit and bill_ _On a hill._ _Country swains_ _On the plains_ _Run and leap,_ _Turn and skip._ ALL. _He's no bard, &c._ 5. _Pan doth play_ _Care away._ _Fairies small,_ _Two foot tall,_ _With caps red_ _On their head,_ _Dance around_ _On the ground._ ALL. _He's no bard, &c._