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Salmacis
and Hermaphroditus
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Tow'rds the declining of the parting
day:
Therefore he lights and mends them
in the sea,
And though the Poets fayne, that
Ioue did make
A treble night for faire Alcmena's
sake,
That he might sleepe securely with
his loue;
Yet sure the long night was vnknowne
to Ioue:
But the Sunnes wheeles one day
disordred more,
Were thrise as long amending as
before.
Now was the Sunne inuiron'd with
the Sea,
Cooling his watrie tresses as he
lay,
And in dread Neptunes kingdome
while he sleeps,
Faire Thætis clips
him in the watry deeps,
The Mayre-maids and the
Tritons of the West,
Strayning their voyces, to make
Titan rest.
And while the blacke night with
her pitchie hand,
Tooke iust possession of the swartie
land:
He spent the darksome howres in
this delight,
Giuing his power vp to the gladsome
night:
For ne're before he was so truely
blest,
To take an houre or one poore minutes
rest.
But now the burning god this pleasure
feeles,
By reason of his newly crazed wheeles,
There must he stay vntill lame
Vulcan send
The fierie wheeles which he had
tooke to mend.
Now al the night the Smith so hard
had wrought,
That ere the Sunne could wake,
his wheeles were brought.
Titan being pleas'd with
rest, and not to rise,
And loth to open yet his slumbring
eyes:
And yet perceiuing how the longing
sight
Of mortals wayted for his glittring
light,
[Signature [D2v], end of page 26,
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