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20 scene. In a few moments a bevy of elegant nymphs dancing two by two, issued from the wood on the right and an equal number of warlike knights, accompanied by a band of minstrels from that of the left. The knights were clothed in green, on their bosoms shone a plate of burnished steel, and in their hands they grasped a golden targe and lance of beamy lustre. The nymphs whole form and symmetry were beyond whatever poets dream



were dressed in robes of white their zones were azure, dropt with diamonds, and their light brown hair decked with roses hung in ample ringlets. So quick, so light and airy was ther [sic] motion, that the turf, the flowers,