_Phil._ Look, look, I see--I see my love appear! 'Tis he, 'tis he alone, For like him there is none: 'Tis the dear, dear man, 'tis thee, dear. _Amyn._ Hark! the winds war, The foaming waves roar: I see a ship afar, Tossing and tossing, and making to the shore. But what's that I view, So radiant of hue, St Hermo, St Hermo[68], that sits upon the sails? Ah! no, no, no. St Hermo never, never shone so bright; 'Tis Phillis! only Phillis can shoot so fair a light; 'Tis Phillis, 'tis Phillis, that saves the ship alone, For all the winds are hushed, and the storm is overblown. _Phil._ Let me go, let me run, let me fly to his arms. _Amyn._ If all the fates combine, And all the furies join, I'll force my way to Phillis, and break through the charm. [_Here they break from their Keepers, run to each other, and embrace._ _Phil._ Shall I marry the man I love? And shall I conclude my pains? Now blessed be the powers above, I feel the blood bound in my veins! With a lively leap it began to move, And the vapours leave my brains. _Amyn._ Body joined to body, and heart joined to heart, To make sure of the cure, Go, call the man in black, to mumble o'er his part. _Phil._ But suppose he should stay-- _Amyn._ At worst, if he delay, 'Tis a work must be done; We'll borrow but a day, And the better the sooner begun. _Cho. of both._ At worst, if he delay, &c. [_They run out together, hand in hand._ FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 68: The meteoric appearances, called by sailors in the Mediterranean the Lights of St Elmo, and by the ancients, Castor and Pollux. Their appearance is supposed to presage the safety of the vessel, and the termination of the storm.] THE SECULAR MASQUE. The moral of this emblematical representation is sufficiently intelligible. By the introduction of the deities of the chace, of war, and of love, as governing the various changes of the seventeenth century, the poet alludes to the sylvan sports of James the First, the bloody wars of his son, and the licentious gallantry which reigned in the courts of Charles II. and James his successor.