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That if she has but left her leading-strings,
Learns not the art of striking and of pleasing,
And killing with those pleasing arts, and knowing
What arms she wears, and which dispenses death,
And which is healing and restores to life?
Learns not the art of striking and of pleasing,
And killing with those pleasing arts, and knowing
What arms she wears, and which dispenses death,
And which is healing and restores to life?
DAPHNE.
And who is master, pray, of all those arts?
And who is master, pray, of all those arts?
THYRSIS.
Thou feignest ignorance to try me. Well:
The master is the same that teaches birds
Their singing and their flight, fishes their swimming,
The ram his butting, tossing to the bull,
And shews the stately-loving peacock how
To open wide the pomp of his eyed plumes.
Thou feignest ignorance to try me. Well:
The master is the same that teaches birds
Their singing and their flight, fishes their swimming,
The ram his butting, tossing to the bull,
And shews the stately-loving peacock how
To open wide the pomp of his eyed plumes.
DAPHNE.
And this great master's name?
And this great master's name?
