32241. K. Leade couragiour Cosin.

32251. 2. K. Wee'l follow cheerefully.

3228Mess. Hold, Hold, O hold, hold, hold.

3230Pir. Hold hoa: It is a cursed hast you made

3231If you have done so quickly: noble Palamon,

3232The gods will shew their glory in a life.

3233That thou art yet to leade.

3234Pal. Can that be,

3235When Venus I have said is false? How doe things fare?

3236Pir. Arise great Sir, and give the tydings eare

3237That are most early sweet, and bitter.

3238Pal. What

3239Hath wakt us from our dreame?

3240Pir. List then: your Cosen

3241Mounted upon a Steed that Emily

3242Did first bestow on him, a blacke one, owing

3243Not a hayre worth of white, which some will say

3244Weakens his price, and many will not buy

3245His goodnesse with this note: Which superstition

3246Heere findes allowance: On this horse is Arcite

3247Trotting the stones of Athens, which the Calkins

3248Did rather tell, then trample; for the horse

3249Would make his length a mile, if't pleas'd his Rider

3250To put pride in him: as he thus went counting

3251The flinty pavement, dancing as t'wer to'th Musicke

3252His owne hoofes made; (for as they say from iron

3253Came Musickes origen) what envious Flint,

3254Cold as old Saturne, and like him possest

3255With fire malevolent, darted a Sparke

3256Or what feirce sulphur else, to this end made,

3257I comment not; the hot horse, hot as fire

3258Tooke Toy at this, and fell to what disorder

3259His power could give his will, bounds, comes on end,

3260Forgets schoole dooing, being therein traind,

3261And of kind mannadge, pig-like he whines