You shall see me catch the Moone in the clips like a Conny in a pursnet.
Astron. I will teach thee the Golden number, the Epact, and the Prime.
| Raffe 〈aside〉. I wil meddle no more with numbring of gold, for | 70 |
Astron. That I must cast by our Iudicials Astronomicall; therefore come in with me, and thou shall see euerie wrinkle of my Astro
| logicall wisedome, and I will make the Heauens as plaine to thee as | 75 |
| Raffe. Then I shall be translated from this mortality. | 80 |
Astron. Thy thoughts shall be metamorphosed, and made haile fellowes with the Gods.
Raffe. O fortune! I feele my very braines moralized, and as it were a certaine contempt of earthly actions is crept into my minde,
| by an etheriall contemplation.--Come let vs in. Exeunt. | 85 |
〈Enter〉 DIANA, TELUSA, EUROTA, RAMIA, LARISSA.
Diana. What newes haue we heere Ladies; are all in loue? areDianaes Nimphes become Venus wantons? is it a shame to be chast, because you be amiable? or must you needes be amorous, because you are faire? O Venus, if thys be thy spight, I will requite it wyth
| more then hate, well shalt thou know what it is to drib thine arrowes | 5 |
| is Cupid: if any print on her backe like a leafe, it is Medea: if any | 10 |
Tel. I will goe with speede. 〈Exit TELUSA.〉
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Publication information:
Book title: The Complete Works of John Lyly.
Volume: 2.
Contributors: R. Warwick Bond - Author.
Publisher: The Clarendon Press.
Place of publication: Oxford, England.
Publication year: 1902.
Page number: 453.
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