Dance o'er our heads, their voices have such charms They'll all stand still to listen. Ray. Excellent. Enter FOLLY (to him a Forester). Fores. Back! whither go you? Fol. Oyez! this way. Fores. None must pass: Here's kept no open court; our queen this day She will not have rude throngs to stifle her. SCENE III. Sum. The heart of my dear mother-nurse, the I'll break his heart for 't: had she not a face, Del. The Graces sat On her fair eyelids ever; but his youth, (They call her Humour, and her parasite Folly), Yet his celestial kinsman (for young Raybright T attend upon you, and spend all my hours [Recorders. 1 Recorders, according to Sir John Hawkins, were flageolets, or small Butes. The SUN appears above. Sum. Obey your charge !-Oh, thou builder Kneels. Of me, thy handmaid! landlord of my life! Now I but see thee. Sun, Rise!-[She rises.]-Is Raybright come yet? Del. Not yet. Sun. Be you indulgent over him; Enter PLENTY. And lavish thou thy treasure. Plen. Our princely cousin Raybright, your Darling, and the world's delight, Is come. Sun.. Who with him? Plen. A goddess in a woman, Attended by a prating saucy fellow Call'd Folly. Sun. They'll confound him But he shall run [his course ;] go and receive him. [Exit PLENTY. Sum. Your sparkling eyes, and his arrival, draw Heaps of admirers; earth itself will sweat To bear our weights. Vouchsafe, bright power, to borrow Winds not too rough from Æolus, to fan Our glowing faces. [Hautboys.-The SUN takes his seat above. Enter RAYBRIGHT, HUMOUR, PLENTY, FOLLY, country fellows, and lasses. SONG. Haymakers, rakers, reapers, and mowers, Dress up with musk-rose her eglantine bowers, Daffodils strew the green; Sing, dance, and play, The Sun does bravely shine Comes every girl, This is mine, this is mine, this is mine; Bow to the Sun, to our queen, and that fair one, Each bonny lass here is counted a rare one, With country glee, Will teach the woods to resound, Skipping lambs Their bleating dams, 'Mongst kids, shall trip it round; Wind, jolly huntsmen, your neat bugles shrilly, Spring up, you falconers, the partridges freely Over ridge, over plain, So ho ho! through the skies And sousing kills with a grace! Now the deer falls; hark! how they ring [The SUN by degrees is clouded. Sum. Leave off; the Sun is angry, and has drawn A cloud before his face. Del. He is vex'd to see That proud star shine so near you, at whose rising The Spring fell sick and died; think what I told you, His coyness will kill you else. Sum. It cannot.-Fair prince, Though your illustrious name has touch'd mine ear, Till now I never saw you; nor never saw A man whom I more love, more hate. Ray. Ha, lady! Sum. For him I love you, from whose glittering rays You boast your great name; for that name I hate you, Because you kill'd my mother and my nurse. [Flourish.-Exit, followed by PLEN. and DEL. Ray. Divinest! Hum. Let her go. Fol. And I'll go after; for I must and will have a fling at one of her plum-trees. Ray. I ne'er was scorn'd till now. Hum. Be ruled by me once more; leave her. As she does me. Hum. Thou shalt have nobler welcome; for I'll bring thee To a brave and bounteous housekeeper, free Autumn. Fol. Oh, there's a lad !—let's go then. Re-enter PLENTY. Plen. Where is this prince? my mother, for the Indies, Must not have you depart. Ray. Must not? Re-enter SUMMER. Sum. No, must not. I did but chide thee, like a whistling wind, Unlock my garden of the Hesperides, Plen. Love but my mother, I'll give thee corn enough to feed the world. All beasts whom the earth bears are to serve me, Plen. She's too good for thee. When she was born, the Sun for joy did rise Which having touch'd, he stole from them such store Of lights, he shone more bright than e'er before; He'd snatch them up, and in his sister's sphere And leave this gipsy. Sum. Oh, I am lost. Ray. Lost? Sum. Scorn'd! Ray. Of no triumph more then love can boast. [Exit with Humour and Folly. [Recorders. The SUN reappears, with CUPID and FORTUNE. Sun. Is Raybright gone? Sum. Yes, and his spiteful eyes Have shot darts through me. Sun. I thy wounds will cure, |