To be no elder then he is, Then sure he is some sprite I straight replide, againe at this, The Goddesse laught out right; It is a mystery to me, 230 An Archer and yet blinde; Quoth I againe, how can it be, That he his marke should finde; The Gods, quoth she, whose will it was That he should want his sight, That he in something should surpasse, To recompence their spight, Gaue him this gift, though at his Game He still shot in the darke, That he should haue so certaine ayme, 240 As not to misse his marke. By this time we were come a shore, When me my Fare she payd, But not a word she vttered more, Nor had I her bewrayd, Of _Venus_ nor of _Cupid_ I Before did neuer heare, But that Fisher comming by Then, told me who they were. _Florimel._ Well: against them then proceed 250 As before we haue decreed, That the Goddesse and her Child, Be for euer hence exild, Which _Lelipa_ you shall proclaime In our wise _Apollo's_ name. _Lelipa._ To all th' Elizian Nimphish Nation, Thus we make our Proclamation, Against _Venus_ and her Sonne For the mischeefe they haue done, After the next last of May, 260 The fixt and peremtory day, If she or _Cupid_ shall be found Vpon our Elizian ground, Our Edict, meere Rogues shall make them, And as such, who ere shall take them, Them shall into prison put, _Cupids_ wings shall then be cut, His Bow broken, and his Arrowes Giuen to Boyes to shoot at Sparrowes, And this Vagabund be sent, 270 Hauing had due punishment To mount _Cytheron_, which first fed him: Where his wanton Mother bred him, And there out of her protection Dayly to receiue correction; Then her Pasport shall be made, And to _Cyprus_ Isle conuayd, And at _Paphos_ in her Shryne, Where she hath been held diuine, For her offences found contrite, 280 There to liue an Anchorite. The eight Nimphall MERTILLA, CLAIA, CLORIS. _A Nimph is marryed to a Fay, Great preparations for the Day, All Rites of Nuptials they recite you To the Brydall and inuite you._ _Mertilla._ But will our _Tita_ wed this Fay? _Claia._ Yea, and to morrow is the day. _Mertilla._ But why should she bestow her selfe Vpon this dwarfish Fayry Elfe?