Follow me: I will bring you where she sits, Such a rural queen All Arcadia hath not seen. III. SONG. Nymphs and shepherds, dance no more Bring your flocks, and live with us; To serve the lady of this place. Though Syrinx your Pan's mistress were, Yet Syrinx well might wait on her. Such a rural queen All Arcadia hath not seen. COMUS, A MASK, PRESENTED AT LUDLOW CASTLE, 1634, BEFORE JOHN, EARL OF BRIDGEWATER, THE PERSONS. The Attendant Spirit, afterwards in the habit of Thyrsis. Comus, with his crew. The Lady. First Brother. Second Brother. Sabrina, the Nymph. The chief persons who presented, were The Lord Brackley. Mr. Thomas Egerton, his brother. COMUS. The first Scene discovers a wild wood. The Attendant Spirit descends or enters. BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court In regions mild of calm and serene air, To such my errand is; and, but for such, But to my task. Neptune, besides the sway By course commits to several government, And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns, And wield their little tridents: but this isle, The greatest and the best of all the main, X |