What a notable mistake
Providence would have committed!
To adore thee, sweetest Cynthia, [aside
Is the height of all my wishes:
As it well may be, for am I
Worthy, worship even to give her? [Exeunt.



SCENE THE SECOND
A Wood near Rome.


(Enter NISIDA and CHLORIS, the latter with a lyre).

NISIDA.
Have you brought the instrument?

CHLORIS.
Yes.

NISIDA.
Then give it me, for here
In this tranquil forest sphere,
Where the boughs and blossoms blent,
Ruby blooms and emerald stems,
Round about their radiance fling,
Where the canopy of spring
Breathes of flowers and gleams with gems,
Here I wish that air to play,