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Deare sparke of beauty make not so fast away:
Away.
Stay let me obserue this portent yet.
I am neither your Minotaure, nor your Centaure, nor your Satyre, nor your Hyaena, nor your Babion, but your meere traueler, beleeue me:
Leaue me.
I gest it should be some trauelling Motion pursu'de Eccho so.
Know you from whom you flye? or whence?
Hence.
This is somewhat aboue strange: a Nimphe of her feature and ••ineament to be so preposterously rude; well; I will but coole my selfe at yon' Spring and follow her.
Nay then I am familiar with the issue; Ile leaue you too.
I am a Rhinoceros, if I had thought a creature of her Symmetry would haue dard so improportionable and abrupte a digression. Liberall and deuine Founte, suffer my prophan•• hand to take of thy bounties. By the puritie of my taste, heere is most Ambrosiack water; I will sup of it againe. By thy fauor sweete Founte. See, the water (a more running, subtile, and hu∣morous Nimphe then shee) permits me to touche, and handle her: what should I inferre? If my behauiours had beene of a cheape, or customary garbe; my Accent, or phrase, vulgar; my Garmēts trite; my Countenance illiterate; or vnpractizd in the encounter of a beautifull and braue-attirde Peice, then I might (with some change of coullor) haue suspected my faculties: but (knowing my selfe an Essence so sublimated, and refin'de by Trauaile; of so studied, and well exercisde a gesture; so alone in fashion, able to make the face of any States-man liuing, and to speake the meere extraction of language; One that hath now made the sixth returne vpon venter; and was your first that euer enricht his countrey with the true laws of the Duello; whose Optiques haue drunke the spirit of beauty, in some eight score and eighteene Princes Courts, where I haue resi∣ded, and bin there fortunate in the Amours of three hundred, fortie, and fiue Ladies (all nobly discended) whose names I haue in Catalogue: to conclude; in all so happy, as euen Admiration her selfe dooth seeme to fasten her kisses vpon me: Certes I do neither see, nor feele, nor taste, nor fauor, the least steame, or fume of a reason, that should inuite this foolish fastidious
Nymph so peeuishly to abandon me: well let the memory of her fleete into Ayre; my thoughts and I am for this other Ele∣ment, water.