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ln hard besetting need, this will I try
And adde the power of som adjuring verse.

SONG.
  Sabrina fair
    Listen where thou art sitting
  Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
    In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
  The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,
    Listen for dear honours sake,
    Goddess of the silver lake,
Listen and save.

Listen and appear to us
In name of great Oceanus,
By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace,
And Tethys grave majestick pace,
By hoary Nereus wrincled look,
And the Carpathian wisards hook,
By scaly Tritons winding shell,
And old sooth-saying Glaucus spell,
By Leucothea's lovely hands,
And her son that rules the strands,
By Thetis tinsel slipper'd feet,
And the Songs of Sirens sweet,

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