Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
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MER. Stay, let me observe this portent yet. AMO. I am neither your Minotaur, nor your Centaur, nor your satyr, nor your hyaena, nor your babion, but your mere traveller, believe me. ECHO. Leave me. MER. I guess'd it should be some travelling motion pursued Echo so. AMO. Know you from whom you fly? or whence? ECHO. Hence. [EXIT.] AMO. This is somewhat above strange: A nymph of her feature and lineament, to be so preposterously rude! well, I will but cool myself at yon spring, and follow her. MER. Nay, then, I am familiar with the issue: I will leave you too. [EXIT.] AMOR. I am a rhinoceros, if I had thought a creature of her symmetry would have dared so improportionable and abrupt a digression. -- Liberal and divine fount, suffer my profane hand to take of thy bounties. [TAKES UP SOME OF THE WATER.] By the purity of my taste, here is most ambrosiac water; I will sup of it again. By thy favour, sweet fount. See, the water, a more running, subtile, and humorous nymph than she permits me to touch, and |
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