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Back in the dark, by Brompton-park,

He turn'd up through the Gore ¡
So flunk to Camden-house so high,
All in his coach and four.

Mean-while duke Guise did fret and fume,
A fight it was to see,
Benumb'd beneath the evening dew
Under the green-wood tree.

Then, wet and weary, home he far'd,

Sore muttering all the way,

“The day I meet him, Nic fhall rue
"The cudgel of that day.
"Mean time on every piffing-post
"Pafte we this recreant's name,
"So that each piffer-by fhall read
"And pifs against the same."

Now God preserve our gracious king,
And grant his nobles all

May learn this leffon from duke Nic,
That pride will have a fall!

DIONE

N E.

DIO N

PASTORAL

A

TRAGEDY.

"Sunt numina amanti,

"Sævit et injuftâ lege relicta Venus."
TIBULL. Eleg. v. Lib. 1.

DRAMATIS PERSONEÆ.

MEN.

EVANDER under the name of LYCIDAS.

CLEANTHES.

Shepherds.

WOMEN.

DIONE under the name of ALEXIS.

PARTHENIA.

LAURA.

Scene, ARCADIA.

ACT I. SCENE I..

A Plain, at the Foot of a fleep craggy Mountain.

DIONE. LAURA.

LAURA.

WHY doft thou fly me? Stay, unhappy fair,

Seek not these horrid caverns of despair;

To trace thy steps, the midnight air I bore,
Trod the brown defert, and unfhelter'd moor:
Three times the lark has fung his matin lay,
And rose on dewy wing to meet the day,
Since first I found thee, ftretch'd in penfive mood,
Where laurels border Ladon's filver flood.

DIONE.

O let my foul with grateful thanks o'erflow!
'Tis to thy hand my daily life I owe.

Like the weak lamb, you rais'd me from the plain,
Too faint to bear bleak winds and beating rain;

Each day I fhare thy bowl and clean repast,
Each night thy roof defends the chilly blast.
But vain is all thy friendship, vain thy care;
Forget a wretch abandon'd to despair.

LAURA.

Defpair will fly thee, when thou shalt impart
The fatal fecret that torments thy heart;

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