All that the forest, or the field

Or deeper lakes and rivers yield. CHORUS. Still round, and round, and round, Let us compass the ground.

What man is he who feels
Any weight at his heels?

Since our hearts are so light, that all weighed together

Agree to a grain, and they weigh not a feather.

2.

PERU. The lord of the sea is welcome to land, And here shall command

All our wealth, and our arms;

For his name more alarms

The Spaniards, than trumpets or drums:
Hark, how they cry, Drake comes ! Drake

CHORUS.

comes !

Still round, and round, and round,
Let &c.

3.

PERU. Though to his foes like those winds he is

rough,

That meet in a huff:

Yet that storm quickly ends,
When embrac'd by his friends:
Then he is calm and gentle made,

As love's soft whispers in a shade. CHORUS. Still round, and round, and round, Let &c.

THE FOURTH ENTRY.

A wild air by way of symphony, prepares the change of the Scene: which having continu'd a while, the Scene is chang'd; wherein is discern'd upon a hill, a wood, and in it a tree, which was famous in those times for extraordinary compass and height; on

the top of which, Pedro (formerly a slave to the Spaniards, but now employ'd by the Moorish King to conduct Sir Francis Drake towards Panamah) had promis'd Sir Francis Drake to shew him both the North and the South Atlantic Seas.*

English soldiers and mariners are reposing themselves uader it. At distance the natives are discern'd in their hunting of boars; and at nearer view, two Peruvians are killing a stag. This object having remain'd a while,

Enter DRAKE senior, DRAKE junior, PAGE. DRA. senior. A boar so fierce and large

No hunter e'er did charge.

Advance thy spear,

And turn him there!

DRA. jun. This last encounter he has bravely

stood;

But now has lost his courage with his blood.
DRA. sen. He foams and still his tusks does whet,
As if he still disdained retreat.

DRA. jun. The wound you gave him makes him turn his head,

To seek the darker shades, where he was bred.

PAGE.

DRA. sen.

Follow, follow!

Stay, my victorious boy! When a courageous beast does bleed, Then learn how far you should proceed To use advantage where you may destroy: To courage even of beasts some pity's due; And where resistance fails, cease to pursue. Enter PEDRO.

PEDRO. Our men have firmly stood and swiftly

run:

The game was plenteous and the chace is done.

*See Preface.

DRA. jun. Pedro in sev'ral forms has all
That ev'ry where we merit call.

DRA. sen. Wary in war as chiefs grown old;
And yet in sudden dangers bold.
Civil and real too in Courts;
Painful in bus'ness and in sports.

PEDRO. Behold that tree which much superior

grows

To all that in this wood

Have many ages stood :

Beneath whose shade your warriors may repose.
DRA. jun. There let us stay

The

And turn our prey

Into a feast

Till in the west

cypress curtain of the night is drawn; Then forward march as early as the dawn!

DRA. sen. Is this that most renown'd of wes

tern trees

On whose main-top

Thou gav'st me hope

To view the north and south Atlantic Seas?

PEDRO.

It is therefore with speed
Thither, my chief, proceed!

And, when you climbing have attained the height,
Report will grow authentic by your sight.
DRA. sen. When from those lofty branches I
The south Atlantic spy

My vows shall higher fly,

Till they with highest Heav'n prevail,
That, as I see it, I may on it sail.

DRA. sen. No English keel hath yet that Ocean ploughed.

PEDRO. If prophecy from me may be allow'd, Renowned Drake, Heav'n does decree

That happy enterprize to thee:

For thou of all the Britons art the first

That boldly durst

This western world invade;

And as thou now art made

The first to whom that ocean will be shown,
So to thy Isle thou first shalt make it known.
CHORUS of all. This prophecy will rise
To higher enterprise.

The English lion's walk shall reach as far
As prosp'rous valour dares adventure war,
As winds can drive, or waves can bear
Those ships which boldest pilots steer.

[Exeunt

This SONG is sung by two Land Soldiers and by two Sea-men.

SEA. How comes it you Landmen, and we of

the sea,

Though oft mixt together yet seldom agree?

LAND. A riddle, which we can find out no more Than you can why seas contest with the shore. SEA. We give a shrewd guess how our quarrels have grown;

For still when at land we are jointly design'd To the dainty delight of storming a town,

You run to the plunder, and leave us behind. LAND. Alas, our dear brothers! How can we forbear?

But aboard when you have us, where wonderful gold

Is shovell'd like ballast, y'are even with us there : We fight on the decks, whilst you rummage the hold.

SEA. But now we shall march where the Diegos though loth

To part with it civ'ly may soon oblige both. LAND. They so much are scar'd from their wits with their dangers,

That now they want wit to be civil to strangers. CHORUS OF ALL.

Come let us join hands then, and ne'er part asunder, But, like the true sons of trusty old mothers, Make equally haste to a snap of the plunder, Then justly divide, and spend it like brothers. This song being ended, the two Land-Soldiers and two Sea-men dance a jig to intimate their future amity.*

THE FIFTH ENTRY.

This Entry is prepared by an air and corante; and then the Scene is chang'd, in which is discover'd the rising of the sun through a thick wood, and Venta-Cruz at great distance on the south side. This being discern'd a while,

Enter DRAKE senior, DRAKE junior, PAGE, SOLDIER.

DRA. jun. Bold Rouse, doubting our safety by our stay;

Thinking his patience longer than our way;

And having well secur'd our port,

Our trenches digg'd, and rais'd our fort,

Is here arriv'd, resolving still to be

A sharer in your worser destiny.

He was conducted by a Symeron;

And bows for what his rasher love has done. sen. I shall be very slow

DRA.,

When I must backward go

With punishment to overtake

The errors which my friend did make.
Tell him I know his fault is past;
And now I cannot but go fast,

"Their future agreement," 1st Edition.

A lofty, sprightly dance. "It is harder to dance a corante well than a jigg: So in conversation, even, easy, and agreeable, more than points of wit."--Temple.