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As before we haue decreed,
That the Goddesse and her Child,
Be for euer hence exild,
Which _Lelipa_ you shall proclaime
In our wise _Apollo's_ name.

_Lelipa._ To all th' Elizian Nimphish Nation,
Thus we make our Proclamation,
Against _Venus_ and her Sonne
For the mischeefe they haue done,
After the next last of May, 260
The fixt and peremtory day,
If she or _Cupid_ shall be found
Vpon our Elizian ground,
Our Edict, meere Rogues shall make them,
And as such, who ere shall take them,
Them shall into prison put,
_Cupids_ wings shall then be cut,
His Bow broken, and his Arrowes
Giuen to Boyes to shoot at Sparrowes,
And this Vagabund be sent, 270
Hauing had due punishment
To mount _Cytheron_, which first fed him:
Where his wanton Mother bred him,
And there out of her protection
Dayly to receiue correction;
Then her Pasport shall be made,
And to _Cyprus_ Isle conuayd,
And at _Paphos_ in her Shryne,
Where she hath been held diuine,
For her offences found contrite, 280
There to liue an Anchorite.

The eight Nimphall

MERTILLA, CLAIA, CLORIS.

_A Nimph is marryed to a Fay,
Great preparations for the Day,
All Rites of Nuptials they recite you
To the Brydall and inuite you._

_Mertilla._ But will our _Tita_ wed this Fay?

_Claia._ Yea, and to morrow is the day.

_Mertilla._ But why should she bestow her selfe
Vpon this dwarfish Fayry Elfe?

_Claia._ Why by her smalnesse you may finde,
That she is of the Fayry kinde,
And therefore apt to chuse her make
Whence she did her begining take:
Besides he 's deft and wondrous Ayrye,
And of the noblest of the Fayry, 10
Chiefe of the Crickets of much fame,
In Fayry a most ancient name.
But to be briefe, 'tis cleerely done,
The pretty wench is woo'd and wonne.

_Cloris._ If this be so, let vs prouide
The Ornaments to fit our Bryde.
For they knowing she doth come
From vs in _Elizium_,
Queene _Mab_ will looke she should be drest
In those attyres we thinke our best, 20
Therefore some curious things lets giue her,
E'r to her Spouse