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ODE 13.
[On the plaines]
On the plaines
Fairie traynes
Were a treading measures:
Satyres plaide,
Fayries staide
At the stoppes set leasures.
Fairie traynes
Were a treading measures:
Satyres plaide,
Fayries staide
At the stoppes set leasures.
Nymphes beginne,
To come in
Quickly, thicke, and three fold:
Now the daunce,
Now the praunce,
Presente there (to behold)
To come in
Quickly, thicke, and three fold:
Now the daunce,
Now the praunce,
Presente there (to behold)
On her brest
That did best
A iewell rich was placed:
Flora chose,
Which of those
Best the measures graced.
That did best
A iewell rich was placed:
Flora chose,
Which of those
Best the measures graced.
When he had:
Measures lad
Parthenophe did get it:
Nymphes did chide
(When they trye'd)
Where the iudgement set it.
Measures lad
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Nymphes did chide
(When they trye'd)
Where the iudgement set it.
Thus the sayd,
This faire mayd
(Whom you gaue the iewell)
Takes no pleasure,
To keepe measure,
But it is too to cruell.
This faire mayd
(Whom you gaue the iewell)
Takes no pleasure,
To keepe measure,
But it is too to cruell.
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