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Ninth Entry

Enter a Sett of Recorders & play Seuerall Dances to ye Seuerall Riuers who for Ioy of their happy Reception & Success Goe out Skipping & leaping in Figures answerable to ye Cuntrys They run from.
Exeunt Flum:
Cristallina:
to Oceanus
Sr, your benign Aspect towards my Subiects
Makes Them to leese Themselus in Actiuenes
Of Ioy-expressing-thanks: Nor fits it Me
Defectiue in Acknowledgments to be
For Soe Great fauours: wherfore I'le retire
Muster vp all my Nayds or Nimphs to Gather
Flowers to weaue into a Garland for you
The Cowslip of ye mead, ye Spottles Lilly
And to becalme yr waues ye Daffadilly
Or else Narcissus whose hard fate it was
To doat Soe much on His owne looking glass
A Frend to rest & quiet: True Loues fancy
The fowr-leaud Primrose, & ye Thoughtfull Pance,
Roses & Eglantine They too Shall twine
For to Incense ye Rest to wc h they ioyne
And Violets in Souraign Purple dress
To add more Fragrancy to All ye rest
And when Their Skillfull fingers haue disposd them
Into a Chaplet to adorn yr Browe
I'le Send it to performe my thankfull Vowe.

Exit: Cristal