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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 fill
Your Sayles (subdu'd by Navigators skill;)
Can teach thee rule thy Helme, 'till't waft us o're
Pacifique 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 can
Boast 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 rely
On some majestick, Epick-History;

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