COMUS
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What readiest way would bring me to that place?
Comus
Due west it rises from this shrubby point.
Lady
To find out that, good Shepherd, I suppose,
In such a scant allowance of Star-light,
Would overtask the best Land-Pilots art
Without the sure guess of well-practiz’d feet.
In such a scant allowance of Star-light,
Would overtask the best Land-Pilots art
Without the sure guess of well-practiz’d feet.
Comus
I know each lane, and every alley green,
Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wilde Wood,
And every bosky bourn from side to side,
My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood:
And if your stray attendance be yet lodg’d,
Or shroud within these limits, I shall know
Ere morrow wake, or the low roosted lark
From her thatch’t pallat rowse; if otherwise,
I can conduct you, Lady, to a low
But loyal cottage, where you may be safe
Till further quest’.
Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wilde Wood,
And every bosky bourn from side to side,
My daily walks and ancient neighbourhood:
And if your stray attendance be yet lodg’d,
Or shroud within these limits, I shall know
Ere morrow wake, or the low roosted lark
From her thatch’t pallat rowse; if otherwise,
I can conduct you, Lady, to a low
But loyal cottage, where you may be safe
Till further quest’.
Lady
Shepherd, I take thy word,
And trust thy honest offer’d courtesie,
Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds
And trust thy honest offer’d courtesie,
Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds
