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must leaue them, yong nouice, thou must, they are a fort of poore ftaru'd rafcalls; that are euer wrapt vp in foule linnen; and can boast of nothing but a leane 220 visage, peering out of a feame-rent fute; the very emblemes of beggerie. No, doft heare? turne lawyer, Thou shalt be my folicitor: Tis right, old boy, ist? OVID. fe. You were beft tell it, Captaine.

Tvcc. No: fare thou well mine honest horse-man, 225 and thou old beuer. Pray thee Romane, when thou commest to towne, fee me at my lodging, vifit me sometimes thou fhalt be welcome, old boy. Doe not balke me, good fwaggerer. Iove keepe thy chaine from pawning, goe thy waies, if thou lack money, I'le lend 230 thee fome: I'le leaue thee to thy horse, now. Adieu. OVID. fe. Farewell, good Captaine.

Tvcc. Boy, you can haue but halfe a share now, boy. OVID. fe. 'Tis a strange boldneffe, that accompanies this fellow: Come.

OVID. iu. I'le giue attendance on you, to your horse, fir, please you—

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OVID. fe. No: keepe your chamber, and fall to your studies; doe fo: the gods of Rome bleffe thee.

OVID. iu. And giue me ftomacke to digeft this law,
That should haue followed fure, had I beene he.
O facred poefie, thou fpirit of artes,
The foule of science, and the queene of foules,
What prophane violence, almost facriledge,
Hath here beene offered thy diuinities!
That thine owne guiltleffe pouertie should arme
Prodigious ignorance to wound thee thus!
For thence, is all their force of argument.
Drawne forth against thee; or from the abufe

225 horse-man] Knight Q Romane] Knight Q 236 iu.] om. Q

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[284] Of thy great powers in adultrate braines :
When, would men learne but to diftinguish spirits,
And fet true difference twixt thofe jaded wits
That runne a broken pase for common hire,
And the high raptures of a happy Mufe,
Borne on the wings of her immortall thought,
That kickes at earth with a difdainefull heele,
And beats at heauen gates with her bright hooues
They would not then with fuch distorted faces,

And defp'rate cenfures ftab at poefie.

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They would admire bright knowledge, and their minds 260 Should ne're descend on fo vnworthy obiects,

As gold, or titles: they would dread farre more,

To be thought ignorant, then be knowne poore.

"The time was once, when wit drown'd wealth: but

now,

"Your onely barbarisme is t'haue wit, and want.

"No matter now in vertue who excells,

"He, that hath coine, hath all perfection elfe.

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VID? OVID. Who's there? Come in. TIBV.

Good morrow, Lawyer.

OVID. Good morrow (deare TIBVLLVS) welcome: fit downe.

TIBV. Not I.

what's here?

Nay, I will fee it

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What: fo hard at it? Let's fee,

OVID. Pray thee away

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TIBV. If thrice in field, a man vanquish his foe,
'Tis after in his choice to ferue, or no.

How now OVID! Law-cases in verse?

OVID. In troth, I know not: they runne from my
pen

Vnwittingly, if they be verfe. What's the newes
abroad?

TIBV. Off with this gowne, I come to haue thee
walke.

OVID. No, good TIBVLLVS, I'm not now in case,
Pray' let me alone. TIBV. How? not in cafe!
S'light thou'rt in too much case, by all this law.

OVID. Troth, if I liue, I will new dreffe the law,

In fprightly poefies habillaments.

TIBV. The hell thou wilt. What, turne law into
verse?

Thy father has school'd thee, I fee. Here, reade that

fame.

There's fubiect for you: and if I mistake not,

✓ A Superfedeas to your melancholy.

OVID. How! fubfcrib'd IVLIA! ô, my life, my
heauen!

TIBV. Is the mood chang'd?

OVID. Mufique of wit! Note for th'harmonious
spheares!

[285] Celestiall accents, how you rauish me!

TIBV. What is it, OVID?

OVID. That I must meete my IVLIA, the Princesse

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TIBV. Ile faue your paines: it is at ALBIVS house, The iewellers, where the faire LYCORIS lies.

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OVID. Who? CYTHERIS, CORNELIVS GALLVS loue?

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TIBV. I, heele be there too, and my PLAVTIA.
OVID. And why not your DELIA?

TIBV. Yea, and your CORINNA.

OVID. True, but my fweet TIBVLLVS, keepe that fecret:

I would not, for all Rome, it should be thought,

I vaile bright IVLIA vnderneath that name:

IVLIA the gemme, and iewell of my foule,

That takes her honours from the golden skie,

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As beautie doth all luftre, from her eye.

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The ayre refpires the pure elyzian sweets,

In which the breathes: and from her lookes defcend

The glories of the fummer. Heauen she is,

Prays'd in her felfe aboue all praise: and he,

Which heares her fpeake, would fweare the tune-full

orbes

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Turn'd in his zenith onely. TIBV. PVBLIVS, thou❜lt lose thy felfe.

OVID. O, in no labyrinth, can I fafelier erre,

Then when I lofe my felfe in prayfing her.

Hence Law, and welcome, Mufes; though not rich,

Yet are you pleasing: let's be reconcilde,

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And now made one. Hencefoorth, I promise faith,

And all my serious houres to spend with you :
With you, whose musicke striketh on my heart,
And with bewitching tones steales forth my spirit,

In IVLIAS name; faire IVLIA: IVLIAS loue

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Shall be a law, and that fweet law I'le ftudie,

The law, and art of facred IVLIAS loue:

All other obiects will but abiects prooue.

TIBV. Come, wee fhall haue thee as paffionate, as PROPERTIVS, anon.

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OVID. O, how does my SEXTVS?

TIBVS. Faith, full of forrow, for his CYNTHIAS death.

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OVID. What, ftill?

TIBV. Still, and ftill more, his grieues doe grow

vpon him,

As doe his houres. Neuer did I know

An vnderstanding spirit fo take to heart

The common worke of fate. OVID. O my TIBVLLVS,

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[286] Let vs not blame him: for, against such chances, The heartieft ftrife of vertue is not proofe.

We may read constancie, and fortitude,

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To other foules: but had our felues beene ftrooke

With the like planet, had our loues (like his)
Beene rauifht from vs, by injurious death,
And in the height, and heat of our beft dayes,

It would haue crackt our finnewes, shrunke our veines,

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And made our verie heart-strings iarre, like his.
Come, let's goe take him foorth, and prooue, if mirth

Or companie will but abate his passion.

TIBV. Content, and I implore the gods, it may.

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ALBIVS, CRISPINVS, CHLOE,
MAYDES, CYTHERIS.

After CRISPINVs, you are welcome: Pray', víe a

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stoole, fir. Your coufin CYTHERIS will come downe prefently. Wee are fo bufie for the receiuing of these courtiers here, that I can scarce be a minute with my felfe, for thinking of them: Pray you fit, fir, Pray you fit, fir.

CRIS. I am verie well, fir. Ne're truft me, but you are most delicately feated here, full of sweet delight and blandishment! an excellent ayre, an excellent ayre!

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