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<text> <front> <tPage> <dTitle type=main>Volpone</dTitle> <byLine>by <dAuthor>Ben Jonson</dAuthor></byLine> <dImprint>Prepared from 1607 Quarto (STC 14783) by Hugh Craig, D of English, U of Newcastle. OTA A-1433-A</dImprint> </tPage> </front> <body> <div1 type='act' n=A1> <div2 type='scene' n=S1.1> <sp><spkr>A</spkr> <l>Good morning to the Day; and, next, my Gold: <l>Open the shrine, that I may see my Saint. <l>Hayle the worlds soule, and mine. More glad then is <l>The teeming earth, to see the longd-for Sunne <l>Peepe through the hornes of the Cælestiall Ram, <l>Am I, to view thy splendor, darkening his: <l>That lying here, amongst my other hoordes, <l>Shew'st like a flame, by night; or like the Day <l>Strooke out of Chaos, when all darkenes fled <l>Unto the center. O thou Son of Sol, <l>(But brighter then thy father) let me kisse, <l>With adoration, thee, and euery relique <l>Of sacred treasure, in this blessed roome. <l>Well did wise Poets, by thy glorious n . . .
