A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Various
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SUM. Vertumnus, call Orion. VER. Orion, Urion, Arion; My lord thou must look upon. Orion, gentleman dog-keeper, huntsman, come into the court: look you bring all hounds and no bandogs. Peace there, that we may hear their horns blow. _Enter_ ORION _like a hunter, with a horn about his neck, all his men after the same sort hallooing and blowing their horns_. ORION. Sirrah, was't thou that call'd us from our game? How durst thou (being but a petty god) Disturb me in the entrance of my sports? SUM. 'Twas I, Orion, caus'd thee to be call'd. ORION. 'Tis I, dread lord, that humbly will obey. SUM. How happ'st thou left'st the heavens to hunt below? As I remember thou wert Hyrieus'[61] son, Whom of a huntsman Jove chose for a star, And thou art call'd the Dog-star, art thou not? AUT. Please it, your honour, heaven's circumference Is not enough for him to hunt and range, But with those venom-breathed curs he leads, He comes to chase health from our earthly bounds. Each one of those foul-mouthed, mangy dogs Governs a day (no dog but hath his day):[62] And all the days by them so governed |
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