Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, Beyond the bliss of dreams. Be wise, and taste. The BROTHERS rush in with swords drawn, wrest his glass out of his hand, and break it against the ground; his rout make sign of resistance, but are all driven in. The ATTENDANT SPIRIT comes in. SPIR. What, have you let the false inchanter 'scape? O ye mistook, ye should have snatch'd his wand, 819 There is a gentle nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream, Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure; Whilome she was the daughter of Locrine, 826 816 revers'd] Ov. Metam. xiv. 300. 'Conversæ verbere virge. This Sandys translates, 'her wand reverst.' Warton. 826 Sabrina] Rob. of Gloucester's Chron. 61. p. 25. ed. Hearne. 830 835 She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit 840 845 And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream For maidenhood she loves, and will be swift 855 829 She] So ed. 1645, and MS. Eds. 1637, and 1695, The.' Tickell, Fenton, Ed. 1713, and Warton, 'She.' In hard-besetting need; this will I try, Sabrina fair, SONG. Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save. Listen and appear to us In name of great Oceanus, By th' earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys' grave majestic pace, By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look, And the Carpathian wisard's hook, By Leucothea's lovely hands, 860 865 870 875 803 amber-dropping] Consult Warton's note. Todd gives an extract from Nash's Terrors of the Night, 1594. Their haire they ware loose unrowled about their shoulders, whose dangling amber trammells reaching downe beneath their knees, seemed to drop baulme on their delicious bodies.' 868 great] Hes. Theog. 20. 'Qɛɛavóv тe μéyav. Newton. 871 hoary] Virg. Georg. iv. 392. 'Grandævus Nereus.' Newton. 872 Carpathian] Carpathius vates.' Stat. Ach. i. 136. Val. Flacc. ii. 317. And her son that rules the strands, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answer'd have. Listen and save. SABRINA rises, attended by water-nymphs, and sings. By the rushy-fringed bank, Where grows the willow and the osier dank, My sliding chariot stays, Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen That in the channel strays; Whilst from off the waters fleet, Thus I set my printless feet 890 rushy] I would read 'rush-yfringed.' Warton. 893 azurn] Ital. 'azzurino.' Todd. 694 green] On gems in Sabrina's stream. Silva, p. 46. 880 885 890 895 See Cowley's 897 printless] Shakesp. Temp. act v. s. 1. And ye, that ou the sands with printless foot.' Warton. י: Of unblest inchanter vile. SABR. Shepherd, 'tis my office best To help insnared chastity: Brightest Lady, look on me; Thus I sprinkle on thy breast Drops that from my fountain pure Next this marble venom'd seat, Smear'd with gums of glutinous heat, I touch with chaste palms moist and cold: Now the spell hath lost his hold; And I must haste ere morning hour To wait in Amphitrite's bow'r. 910 915 920 907 inchanter] Faer. Q. iii. 12, 31. And her before the vile enchaunter sate.' Todd. 915 rubied] Wither. Mist. of Philarete, (Percy's Rel. iii. 1 264.) Wanton eye or lip of ruby,' Todd. 918 moist] 'The moone though moist and cold she be.' Randolph's Poems, p. 49. |