Dorilus. _Why nature forth did neuer bring
A man that like to me can sing,
If once I be enraged._
Doron. _Why _Dorilus_ I in my skill
Can make the swiftest Streame stand still,
Nay beare back to his springing._
Dorilus. _And I into a Trance most deepe 60
Can cast the Birds that they shall sleepe
When fain'st they would be singing._
Doron. _Why _Dorilus_ thou mak'st me mad,
And now my wits begin to gad,
But sure I know not whither._
Dorilus. _O _Doron_ let me hug thee then,
There neuer was two madder men,
Then let vs on together._
Doron. Hermes _the winged Horse bestrid,
And thorow thick and thin he rid, 70
And floundred throw the Fountaine._
Dorilus. _He spurd the Tit vntill he bled,
So that at last he ran his head
Against the forked Mountaine,_
Doron. _How sayst thou, but pyde _Iris_ got
Into great _Iunos_ Chariot,
I spake with one that saw her._
Dorilus. _And there the pert and sawcy Elfe,
Behau'd her as twere _Iuno's_ selfe,
And made the Peacocks draw her._ 80
Doron. _Ile borrow _Phœbus_ fiery Iades,
With which about the world he trades,
And put them in my Plow._
Dorilus. _O thou most perfect frantique man,
Yet let thy rage be what it can,
Ile be as mad as thou._
Doron. _Ile to great _Iove_, hap good, hap ill,
Though he with Thunder threat to kill,
And beg of him a boone._
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 Phœnix 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
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