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Careful Philoponus, I approve your pains And have already recommended you Unto Apollos self. Oh that the rest Of those, that undertake this worthy task , Pretending to the liberal sciences, Could so acquit themselves. But all seeing in circling round About bot Hemispheres of this large world, Hath spied that some (Oh too too great a sum) Have S lie crept within the verge and pa Of his dominions. In truth they strangers are, Nay enemies and rebels to his laws; Yet would be counted Natives of his school, By them his tender plants corrupted are, Distorted, brui ed, hindered of their growth. Think they that these oundations have been l These Cells erected, and those Temples dight To harbour such foul el es? Shall snorting sloa Think here to nestle, fixed to his bed, As is the slow-pac'd snail unto his shell? Shall wanton pleasure think to revel ere? Shall toying apish p ating Compliment Outface the Muses, tear Apollos locks, Entice away the tender brood, with shows Of empty words, and bubbles vanishing? Shall shifting sharks defraud their innocence? Shall hasty heady Novices outl ap their Master's lo , Presuming on their wit, and undertake To read a lecture to their teacher? No. It's well that some have heretofore for this Been made examples of such hastiness. Nay let them backward go, that thus have run. If there be evidence that in this time, he hath retired and plied what formerly he overslipped in his rudiments. Siren, then thus for Siren. We shall not needs to trouble you noble Clio nor you sweet Euterpe. This search is only of her up per garment. I auriger lift up er vam le. Pull off her head of yallow locks. This seeming glossing Nymph is nothing else, but and ugly sea Monster. She is damed to return to the sea, and there to be tossed, and do ssed, together with S ylla, that monstrous shame of nature. But, be before you icke her out, let her take a message to car ry to Dame Head e, if ere they meet again. That is, that Hedone shall ever unseparably be manacled to Lupe. P oh do your office. Apollo pronounceth that his lot must be, before he be forty years old, to spend all his five Manors upon the five Senses: Except the Mansion house of oolingham, which is intailed to the heirs of his bo die woe fully begotten. Then has he saved us a labour. For Apollo had doomed him to be blown up with Vulcan's bellow into the middle Region of the air. Thou that never mayest infect the Muses habita cion, Apollo does banish thee into Lubberland. , I think thou dr amest of Lubberland. Why worser not y u p sse on? from man, and thy follies come of simple , and are not de pely rooted in thee, there is hope oh thy . or three ye es thou shalt p y but and hour in the week, and all thy scho le fr m the presence and dance of Ph onus. Obseru and imitate his pam ll diligenc : so shalt thou get the Muses love, and ord Apollo fau ur. Apollo would acc pted thy submission, and cum oh the third year of thy punishment. Ari e, and S ewe thy face, Thy tongue may now run right, & speak as others do. You may be a forward child. But see thou holdest the scholars even path, nor st iding f st, nor wandr ng from the way. Now is Apollos garden weeded quite, Composed in order, swept, and cleanly dight. Now may each tender plant, and goodly flower Grow up, and that e, by heavens assisting power. Pr continued, dissolve the Session. Vincat Apollo. Regnet Apollo. It may be that Apollo will consider him. But let us hast up to Per assus top. The time is come, the Court must now begin. On Pr continued. Who is next? Thou bold else, that canst ot at thy trial for get thy play. Apollo fit thee with a doom, that thou shalt pl y uncessantly. And thou sh lt we fifty . They are the fi ty daughte S of ; whose play is still to fetch and fetch water in a sieve. Thou must play still at dice. But thus. Thy dice must put into a bot tomlesse box. So, when throwest, they fallen to the ground: and thou must to ke them up: they fallen a gain, thou again. Thy the M ll h e ring, wherein thou must und eternally. Does she not appear? Let her four w eels carry Apollos curse with her, that none of her kindred shall ever get above the petty form of Apollos school. Pass oh . Thou nightbird, in whose sly nest all Books and Inkhorns, and all things else are m ul die, but thy bed. Yet there dost thou pig in, and pig out, without molesting the feathers by con cussion. Ou great Apollos Palace seems Like A spacious garden set with choicest flowers, Wherein creep up by small vnleene degrees Unum ull, hurt ull, and unsavoury weeds; Which overgrow and choke the better plant , And make the tender flowers to hang the head. Himself chief Gardener hath, from yonder top Of this our sacred ll, even now viewed All that his herbage, and with cutious eye Discerned and designed by his doom, What must be cherished, and what weeded out. Me, his unworthy servant, he appoints, As under-gardiner, with that wholesome hook. To check, or nip, or toot up what he damed. by oracle he did unfold, What lot attends on every name enrolled. Pr continued, read the Record, and cite the names. Siren must first be sea cht. Thy Son Come hither Retro. The next name . How right this boy meets with Apollos Thy lot I for the school again: but there for one whole year thou must smooth out the dogs care of all thy fellows books; And vow to ply thy book as nimbly as ever thou didst thy Mast Ap ry, or the haughty vaulting horse.