COMUS
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Elder Brother
Ile hallow;
If he be friendly, he comes well; if not,
Defence is a good cause, and Heav’n be for us!
If he be friendly, he comes well; if not,
Defence is a good cause, and Heav’n be for us!
Enter the attendant Spirit, habited like a Shepherd.
That hallow I should know. What are you? speak;
Com not too neer, you fall on iron stakes else.
Com not too neer, you fall on iron stakes else.
Spirit
What voice is that? my young Lord? speak agen.
Second Brother
O brother, ’tis my father Shepherd, sure.
Elder Brother
Thyrsis? Whose artful strains have oft delaid
The huddling brook to hear his madrigal,
And sweeten’d every muskrose of the dale?
How cam’st thou here, good Swain? hath any ram
Slip’t from the fold, or young Kid lost his dam,
Or straggling weather the pen’t flock forsook?
How couldst thou find this dark sequester’d nook?
The huddling brook to hear his madrigal,
And sweeten’d every muskrose of the dale?
How cam’st thou here, good Swain? hath any ram
Slip’t from the fold, or young Kid lost his dam,
Or straggling weather the pen’t flock forsook?
How couldst thou find this dark sequester’d nook?
