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The looſe traine of thy amber-dropping haire,
Liſten for deare honours ſake
Goddeſſe of the ſilver lake
Liſten and ſave.

Liſten and appeare to us
In name of great Oceanus,
By th earth ſhaking Neptun's mace
And Tethys grave majeſticke pace,
By hoarie-Nereus wrincled looke,
And the Carpathian wiſards hooke,
By ſcalie Tritons winding ſhell.
And old ſooth ſaying Glaucus ſpell,
By Leucothea's ovely hands,
And her ſon that rules the ſtrands,
By Thetis tinſel-flipper d feet;
And the ſongs of Sirens ſweet,
By dead Parthenope's deare tomb,
And faire Ligea's golden comb,
Wherewith ſhe ſits on diamond rocks
Sleeking her ſoft alluring locks,
By all the Nymphs that nightly dance
Vpon thy ſtreams with wilie glance,
Riſe, riſe and heave thy roſie head
From thy coral-paven bed,
And bridle in thy headlong wave
Till thou our ſummons anſwerd have.
Listen and ſave.

Sabrina riſes attended by water Nimphes and ſings.

By the ruſhie fringed banke,
Where growes the willow and the oſier dancke
My ſliding chariot ſtayes,

Thick