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 To roule with pleaure in a enuall stie. Therefore, when any favour'd of high Iove Chances to pae through this adventrous glade, Swift as the Sparkle of a glancing Starre I hoote from heav'n, to giue him afe convoy, As now I doe: But firt I mut put off Thee my skie robes pun out of Iris wooffe, And take the weeds and likenee of a Swaine, That to the ervice of this houe belongs, Who with his oft Pipe, and mooth-dittied Song, Well knows to till the wild winds when they roare, And huh the waving woods, nor of lee faith, And in this office of his Mountaine watch, Likeliet, and neeret to the preent aide Of this occaion. But I heare the tread Of hatefull teps. I mut be viewlee now.


 * Comus enters, with a Charming rod in one hand,
 * his Glae in the other, with him a rout of
 * Monters headed like undry orts of wilde Beats,
 * but otherwie like Men and Women, their apparell
 * glitring, they come iuin [sic] making a riotous and unruly
 * noie, with Torches in their hands.


 * Comus. The tarre that bids the Shepheard fold,

Now the top of heav'n doth hold, And the gilded Carre of Day His glowing Axle doth allay, In the steepe Atlantik treame, And the lope Sun his upward beame Shoots againt the duskie Pole, Pacing toward the other gole Of