125. A CONJURATION: TO ELECTRA

By those soft tods of wool,

With which the air is full;

By all those tinctures there

That paint the hemisphere;

By dews and drizzling rain,

That swell the golden grain;

By all those sweets that be

I'th' flowery nunnery;

By silent nights, and the

Three forms of Hecate;

By all aspects that bless

The sober sorceress,

While juice she strains, and pith

To make her philtres with;

By Time, that hastens on

Things to perfection;

And by your self, the best

Conjurement of the rest;

--O, my Electra! be

In love with none but me.

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