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Skilful in music and in amorous lays,

As fair as was Pygmalion's ivory girl

Or lovely Io metamorphosed:

With naked negroes shall thy coach be drawn,

And, as thou rid'st in triumph through the streets,

The pavement underneath thy chariot-wheels

With Turkey-carpets shall be covered,

And cloth of arras hung about the walls,

Fit objects for thy princely eye to pierce:

A hundred bassoes, cloth'd in crimson silk,

Shall ride before thee on Barbarian steeds;

And, when thou goest, a golden canopy

Enchas'd with precious stones, which shine as bright

As that fair veil that covers all the world,

When Phoebus, leaping from his hemisphere,

Descendeth downward to th' Antipodes:—

And more than this, for all I cannot tell.

ALMEDA. How far hence lies the galley, say you?

CALLAPINE. Sweet Almeda, scarce half a league from hence.

ALMEDA. But need 35 we not be spied going aboard?

CALLAPINE. Betwixt the hollow hanging of a hill,

And crooked bending of a craggy rock,