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2U POEMS.
LADY.
As fmooth as Hebe's their unrazor'd lips.
COMUS.
Two fuch I faw, what time the abour'd ox
In his loofe traces from the furrow came,
And the fwinkt h^dger at his fupper fat;
I faw them under a green mantling vine
That crawls along the tide of yon fmall hill.
Plucking ripe clutters from the tender fhoots;
Their port was more than human, as they flood :
I took it for a fairy virion
Of fome gay creatures of the element,
That in the colours of the rainbow live,
And play i'th' plighted clouds. I was awe-ftruck,
And as I paft, I worihipt; if thofe you feek,
It were a journey like the path to Heaven,
To help you find them.
LADY.
Gentle villager,
What readied way would bring me to that place >
COMUS,
Due weft it rifes from this ihrubby point.
LADY.
To find out that, good fhepherd, I fuppofe,
In fuch a fcant allowance of ftar-light,
Would overtafk the beft land-pilot's art,
Without the fure guefs of well-pra&is'd feet.
COMUS.
I know each lane, and every alley green,
Dingle, or bufhy dell of this wild wood,