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ARIGO.Let the assembled Winds in their next warre,Blow out the light, of thy old guiding Starre;Whilst on uncertaine Waves, thy Bark is tost,Untill thy Card is rent, thy Rudder lost.Nor Star, nor Card; though with choyce Winds you fillYour Sayles (subdu'd by Navigators skill;)Can teach thee rule thy Helme, 'till't waft us o'rePacifique Seas, to the Elizian Shore.
ENDIMION.Who to that flow'ry Land, shall search his way,No mortall Pilots Compasse must obay;Nor trust Columbus art, although he canBoast longer toyles, than he, or Magilan:Thoug in Sea-perils, he could talke them dumbe,And prove them lazy Criples; bred at home,By's travailes, he could make the Sunne appeare,A young, and unexperienc'd Travailer.
ARIGO.If thou wilt Steere our course, thou must relyOn some majestick, Epick-History;

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