The wily lover did devife this flight:

Firft into many parts his streame he fhar'd,

That, whileft the one was watcht, the other might

Paffe unefpide to meete her by the way;

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And then, befides, thofe little streames fo broken
He under ground fo closely did convay,
That of their paffage doth appeare no token,
Till they into the Mullaes water flide.
So fecretly did he his love enioy :

Yet not fo fecret, but it was defcride,

And told her father by a fhepheards boy.

145

Who, wondrous wroth for that fo foule defpight,

In great avenge did roll downe from his hill Huge mightie ftones, the which encomber might His paffage, and his water-courfes fpill.

151

So of a River, which he was of old,
He none was made, but scattred all to nought;
And, loft emong thofe rocks into him rold,
Did lofe his name: fo deare his love he bought."

Which having faid, him Theftylis befpake; 156
"Now by my life this was a mery lay,
Worthie of Colin felfe, that did it make.
But read now eke, of friendship I thee
What dittie did that other shepheard fing: 160
For I do covet moft the fame to heare,
As men use most to covet forreine thing."

pray,

“That shall I eke (quoth he) to you declare? His fong was all a lamentable lay

Of great unkindneffe, and of ufage hard, 165
Of Cynthia the Ladie of the Sea,

Which from her prefence faultleffe him debard.
And ever and anon, with fingulfs. rife,
He cryed out, to make his underfong;

Ah! my loves queene, and goddeffe of my life, 170 Who fhall me pittie, when thou doest me wrong?"

Then gan a gentle bonylaffe to speake,

That Marin hight; "Right well he fure did plaine,

That could great Cynthiaes fore difpleasure breake,

And move to take him to her grace againe. 175 But tell on further, Colin, as befell

Twixt him and thee, that thee did hence diffuade."

"When thus our pipes we both had wearied well,

(Quoth he) and each an end of finging made, He

gan to caft great lyking to my lore, And great diflyking to my luckleffe lot, That banisht had my felfe, like wight forlore, Into that waste, where I was quite forgot.

Ver. 164. His fong was &c.] See F. Q. iv. vii. 6.

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TODD.

The which to leave, thenceforth he counfeld

mee,

Unmeet for man, in whom was ought regardfull, And wend with him, his Cynthia to fee; 186 Whofe grace was great, and bounty most re→ wardfull.

190

Besides her peerleffe skill in making well,
And all the ornaments of wondrous wit,
Such as all womankynd did far excell;
Such as the world admyr'd, and praised it:
So what with hope of good, and hate of ill,
He me perfwaded forth with him to fare.
Nought tooke I with me, but mine oaten
quill:

Small needments elfe need fhepheard to prepare.
So to the fea we came; the fea, that is 196
A world of waters heaped up on hie,

D

Rolling like mountaines in wide wilderneffe, Horrible, hideous, roaring with hoarfe crie."

Ver. 188. in making well,] In poetical compofition. See the notes on the Shep. Cal. June, ver. 82. Puttenham highly commends, as " paffing fweete and harmonicall," a Ditty by her Majefty; which is reprinted in Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poets: And, in Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, her verfes, written with charcoal on a fhutter while he was prifoner at Woodstock, are reprinted from a corrected copy of them as preferved by Hentzner. TODD.

Ver. 197. A world of waters] Milton's expreffion alfo, Par. L. B. iii. 11. T. WARTON.

Ver. 199. Horrible, hideous, roaring with hoarfe crie.] This is a verfe of fine effect. TODD..

"And is the fea (quoth Coridon) fo fearfull ?” "Fearful much more (quoth he) then hart can

fear:

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Thoufand wyld beafts with deep mouthes gaping direfull

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Therin ftil wait poore paffengers to teare.
Who life doth loath, and longs death to behold,
Before he die, alreadie dead with feare,
And yet would live with heart halfe ftonie cold,
Let him to fea, and he fhall fee it there.
And yet as ghaftly dreadfull, as it feemes,
Bold men, prefuming life for gaine to fell,
Dare tempt that gulf, and in those wandring
ftremes

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Seek waies unknowne, waies leading down to hell.
For, as we flood there waiting on the ftrond,
Behold, an huge great veffell to us came,
Dauncing upon the waters back to lond,

As if it fcornd the daunger of the fame; 215

Ver, 200. And is the fea, quoth Coridon, fo fearfull?] A judicions queftion and natural from a thepherd. T. WARTON. Ver. 213. Behold, an huge great vefjell to us came,

Dauncing upon the waters &c.] Cicero, De Nat.
Deor. II. 35. "Ille apud Attium paftor, qui navem num-
quam ante vidiffet, ut procul divinum et novum vehiculum
Ar
Argonautarum e monte confpexit, primo admirans & per-
territus, hoc modo loquitur:

Tanta moles labitur
Fremebunda ex alto, ingenti fonitu et ftrepitu :

Præ fe undas volvit; vortices vi fufcitat;

Ruit prolapfa; pelagus refpergit; profluit, &c."

See the notes of Dr. Davies. 'Tis likely Spenfer had thefe lines in his mind. JORTIN.

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Yet was it but a wooden frame and fraile, * Glewed togither with some subtile matter. Yet had it armes and wings, and head and taile, And life to move it felfe upon the water. Strange thing! how bold and fwift the monster

was,

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That neither car'd for wynd, nor haile, nor

So proudly, that she made them roare againe.
The fame aboord us gently did receave,
And without harme us farre away did beare, 225
So farre that land, our mother, us did leave,
And nought but fea and heaven to us appeare.
Then harteleffe quite, and full of inward feare,
That shepheard I befought to me to tell,
Under what skie, or in what world we were,
In which I faw no living people dwell.
Who, me recomforting all that he might,
Told me that that fame was the Regiment
Of a great fhepheardeffe, that Cynthia hight,
His liege, his Ladie, and his lifes Regent.— 235
"If then (quoth I) a fhepheardeffe she bee,

230

Ver. 226. So farre that land, our mother, us did leave,
And nought but fea and heaven to us appeare.] Vir.

gil, Æn. iii. 192.

Poftquam altum tenuere rates, nec jam amplius ullæ
Apparent terræ, cælum undique, et undique pontus.'

JORTIN.