No More Learning

A chaste soul can never miss't.

DORINDA.

I know no way but one ; our home
Is our Elysium.



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THTRSIS.

Cast thine eye to yonder sky,
There the milky way doth lie ;
*Tis a sure, but rugged way,
That leads to everlasting day.

DORINDA.

There birds may nest, but how can I,
That have no wings and cannot fly ?

THTBSIS.

Do not sigh, fair nymph, for fire
Hath no wings, yet doth aspire
Till it hit against the pole ;
Heaven's the centre of the souL

DORINDA.

But in Elysium how do they
Pass eternity away ?

THTRSIS.

O ! there's neither hope nor fear,
There's no wolf, no fox, no bear.
No need of dog to fetch our stray.
Our Lightfoot we may give away ;
And there, most sweetly, may thine ear
Feast with the music of the sphere.



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DOBINDA.

How I my future state,

By silent thinking, antedate !

I prythee let us spend our time, come.

In talking of Elysium.

THTRSIS.

Then I'll go on ; there sheep are full
Of softest grass, and softest wool ;
There birds sing consorts, garlands grow,
Cool winds do whisper, springs do flow ;
There always is a rising sun,
And day is ever but begun ;
Shepherds there bear equal sway,
And every nymph's a queen of May.



DOBINDA.



Ah me I ah me I



THYRSIS.

DoRiNDA, why dost cry ?

DORINDA.

I'm sick^ Fm sick^ and fain would die.

THTRSIS.

Convince me now that this is true
By bidding, with me, all adieu.



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DORINDA.