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And learn by it to fish in Hellicon. 



Who, when that their fair eyes shall chance to view 



Your active fancy, will with haste pursue 



After the same, to see its utmost flight ; 



And so involve a progress of delight. 



Kerens nothing to offend their eyes or ears, 



Nor fill their tender breasts with dismal fears. 



No horrid plots, nor base conspiracies, 



Nor noise of arms from Mars his nurseries : 



No fields of blood, nor air disturbed with tones 



Of harshest discords sent from dying groans. 



Arnoldus and Theophilus will lead 



Them in more pleasant paths : They now may tread 



On Scotish ground with pleasure ; for that place 



Looks brisk and fair, since you have wash'd its face. 



'Twill please them when they do behold the state 



Of this new structure bravely situate : 



And then immediately they"! fall in love 



With that alluring and delightful grove ; 



And those harmonious birds that sit and sing, 



Whilst evVy pretty purling pleasant spring 



Doth murmur as it glides, and loth to be 



Deprived the sweets of such societie. 



Here may be found those vertuous harmless sports, 



That far transcend the vanities of courts. 



Here may be seen each huTs majestick brow 



Smile on the amorous valley that's below. 



Here may a man enjoy such pleasant naps, 



As poets have upon the Muses Japs : 



Whilst gentle Zephyrus from rosie lips 



Sends whispers, which through fragrant bushes skips 



Upon the gentle streams, that glide away 



Whilst lambs do bleat, and pretty fishes play. 



