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elds there's none can finde the way, But onely those the Muses will permit. _Corbilus._ 'Tis true; but oft, the sacred Sisters grace The silly Satyre, by whose plainnesse, they Are taught the worlds enormities to trace, By beastly mens abhominable way; Besyde he may be banisht his owne home By this base time, or be so much distrest, That he the craggy by-clift Hill hath clome To finde out these more pleasant Fields of rest. 40 _Naijs._ Yonder he sits, and seemes himselfe to bow At our approach, what doth our presence awe him? Me thinks he seemes not halfe so vgly now, As at the first, when I and _Claia_ saw him. _Corbilus._ 'Tis an old Satyre, Nimph, I now discerne, Sadly he sits, as he were sick or lame, His lookes would say, that we may easly learne How, and from whence, he to _Elizium_ came. Satyre, these Fields, how cam'st thou first to finde? What Fate first show'd thee this most happy store? 50 When neuer any of thy Siluan kinde Set foot on the Elizian earth before? _Satyre._ O neuer aske, how I came to this place, What cannot strong necessity finde out? Rather bemoane my miserable case, Constrain'd to wander this wide world about: With wild _Silvanus_ and his woody crue, In Forrests I, at liberty and free, Liu'd in such pleasure as the world ne'r knew, Nor any rightly can conceiue but we. 60 This iocond life we many a day enioy'd, Till this last age, those beastly men forth brought, That all those great and goodly Woods destroy'd. Whose growth their Grandsyres, with such sufferance sought, That faire _Felicia_ which was but of late, Earth's Paradice, that neuer had her Peere, Stands now in that most lamentable state, That not a Siluan will inhabit there; Where in the soft and most delicious shade, In heat of Summer we were wont to play, 70 When the long day too short for vs we made, The slyding houres so slyly stole away; By _Cynthia's_ light, and on the pleasant Lawne, The wanton Fayry we were wont to chase, Which to the nimble clouen-footed Fawne, Vpon the plaine durst boldly bid the base. The sportiue Nimphes, with shouts and laughter shooke The Hils and Valleyes in their wanton play, Waking the Ecchoes, their
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