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all to choke, So greeuous was the pother; So that the Knights each other lost, And stood as still as any post, _Tom Thum_, nor _Tomalin_ could boast Themselues of any other. But when the mist gan somewhat cease, _Proserpina_ commanded peace: And that a while they should release, Each other of their perill: 660 Which here (quoth she) I doe proclaime To all in dreadfull _Plutos_ name, That as yee will eschewe his blame, You let me heare the quarrell, But here your selues you must engage, Somewhat to coole your spleenish rage: Your greeuous thirst and to asswage, That first you drinke this liquor: Which shall your vnderstanding cleare, As plainely shall to you appeare; 670 Those things from me that you shall heare, Conceiuing much the quicker. This _Lethe_ water you must knowe, The memory destroyeth so, That of our weale, or of our woe, It all remembrance blotted; Of it nor can you euer thinke: For they no sooner tooke this drinke, But nought into their braines could sinke, Of what had them besotted. 680 King _Oberon_ forgotten had, That he for iealousie ranne mad: But of his Queene was wondrous glad, And ask'd how they came thither: _Pigwiggen_ likewise doth forget, That he Queene _Mab_ had euer met; Or that they were so hard beset, When they were found together. Nor neither of them both had thought, That e'r they had each other sought; 690 Much lesse that they a Combat fought, But such a dreame were lothing: _Tom Thum_ had got a little sup, And _Tomalin_ scarce kist the Cup, Yet had their braines so sure lockt vp, That they remembred nothing. Queene _Mab_ and her light Maydes the while, Amongst themselues doe closely smile, To see the King caught with this wile, With one another testing: 700 And to the _Fayrie_ Court they went, With mickle ioy and merriment, Which thing was done with good intent, And thus I left them feasting. FINIS. THE QVEST OF CYNTHIA What time the groues were clad in greene, The Fields drest all in flowers, And that the sleeke-hayred Nimphs
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