No More Learning

Since thou disdain*st not then to share
On sublunary things thy care,
Rather restrain these double seas'.
Mine eyes, incessant deluges.

CYNTHIA.

My wakeful lamp all night must moye.
Securing their repose above.

ENDYMION.

If therefore thy resplendent ray
Can make a night more bright than day.
Shine thorough this obscurer breast,
With shades of deep despair oppressed.

CHORUS.

Courage, Endymion, boldly woo I
Anchises was a shepherd too,



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Yet is her younger sister laid
Sporting with him in Ida's shade :

And Cynthia, though the strongest,
Seeks but the honour to have held out longest.

ENDTHION.

Here unto Latmos' top I climby
How far below thine orb sublime I
O why, as well as eyes to see.
Have I not arms that reach to thee ?

CTNTHIA.
Tis needless then that I refuse,
Would you but your own reason use.

. ENDYMIOK.

Though I so high may not pretend.
It is the same, so you descend.

CYNTHIA.

These stars would say I do them wrong.
Rivals, each one, for thee too strong.

ENDYMION.

These stars are fixed unto their sphere
And cannot, though they would, come near.
Less loves set off each other's praise.
While stars eclipse by mixing rays.

CYNTHIA.

That cave is dark.



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ENDTMION.

Then none can spy :
Or shine thou there, and 'tis the sky.