Lirope. Vie and reuie, like Chapmen profer’d,

Would’t be receaued what you haue offer’d;
Ye greater honour cannot doe me,
If not building Altars to me:  340
Both by Water and by Land,
Bardge and Chariot at command;
Swans vpon the Streame to rawe me,
Stags vpon the Land to drawe me,
In all this Pompe should I be seene,
What a pore thing were a Queene: 
All delights in such excesse,
As but yee, who can expresse: 
Thus mounted should the Nimphes me see,
All the troope would follow me, 350
Thinking by this state that I
Would asume a Deitie. 
There be some in loue haue bin,
And I may commit that sinne,
And if e’r I be in loue,
With one of you I feare twill proue,
But with which I cannot tell,
So my gallant Youths farewell.

The third Nimphall

DORON.  NAIJS.  CLORIS.  CLAIA. 
DORILVS.  CLOE.  MERTILLA. 
FLORIMEL.

With Nimphes and Forresters.

Poetick Raptures, sacred fires, With which Apollo_ his inspires, This Nimphall gives you; and withall Obserues the Muses Festivall._

    Amongst th’ Elizians many mirthfull Feasts,
    At which the Muses are the certaine guests,
    Th’ obserue one Day with most Emperiall state,
    To wise Apollo which they dedicate,
    The Poets God; and to his Alters bring
    Th’ enamel’d Brauery of the beauteous spring,
    And strew their Bowers with euery precious sweet,
    Which still wax fresh, most trod on with their feet;
    With most choice flowers each Nimph doth brade her hayre,
    And not the mean’st but bauldrick wise doth weare 10
    Some goodly Garland, and the most renown’d
    With curious Roseat Anadems are crown’d. 
    These being come into the place where they
    Yearely obserue the Orgies to that day,
    The Muses from their Heliconian spring
    Their brimfull Mazers to the feasting bring: 
    When with deepe Draughts out of those plenteous Bowles,
    The iocond Youth haue swild their thirsty soules,
    They fall enraged with a sacred heat,
    And when their braines doe once begin to sweat 20
    They into braue and Stately numbers breake,
    And not a word that any one doth speake
    But tis Prophetick, and so strangely farre
    In their high fury they transported are,
    As there’s not one, on any thing can straine,
    But by another answred is againe
    In the same Rapture, which all sit to heare;
    When as two Youths that soundly liquord were,
    Dorilus and Doron, two as noble swayns
    As euer kept on the Elizian playns, 30
    First by their signes attention hauing woonne,
    Thus they the Reuels frolikly begunne.