MASQUES AND ENTERTAINMENTS

BY

BEN JONSON.

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AND

ENTERTAINMENTS

BY

BEN JONSON

EDITED BY

HENRY MORLEY, LL.D.

IDiltRITUS PROFESSOR OP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE UNIVKRSITY COLLEGE, LONDON

LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LIMITED

BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL

GI;ASGOW, MANCHESTER, AND NEW YORK

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MASQUES are said to have been unknown in England before r 5 1 2- r 3, when they were first added to the luxuries of the English Court by King Henry VIII. as a new fashion out of Italy. Edward Hall the chronicler reports, that in that year," on the day of the Epiphany, at night, the king with eleven other were disguised after the manner of Italy, called a Mask, a thing not seen afore in England. They were apparelled in garments long and brOad, wrought all with gold, with visors and caps of gold; and after the banquet done these Masquers came in with six gentlemen disguised in sjlk, bearing staff-torches, and desired the ladies to dance. Some were content, and some that knew the fashion of it refused, because it was a thing not commonly seen. And after they danced and communed together, as the fashion of the Masks is., they took their leave and departed; and so did the Que~n and a)l the ladies." The novelty w~ not in the disguising, but in the fact that the persons disguised were the Kin~ and gentlemen of his Court, who opened a masqued balL D1sguisings and ingenious machmery had already ~n introduce~d at the Court of young Henry the Eighth, for in the first Christmas he kept, rsro,'tbe disguisings cost s84t I9So 7tl, and in the next Christmas, rsu, there was a costly pageant that may be placed in the direct line of the ancestry of decorations.described in this volume of Ben Jonson's Masques. "Against the Twelfth Day, or the day of the Epiphany, ai: njght," says Hall, "before the Elquet in the Hall at Richmond, was a pageant devised like a M . untain, glistering by night as though it had been all of gold and t with stones ; on the top of the which mountain ~ a tree

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of gold, the branches and boughs rysed with gold, spreading on every side over the mountain with roses and pomegranates : the which mountain was with vices brought up towards the King, and out of the same came a lady apparelled in cloth of gold, and the children of honour, called the henchmen, which were freshly disguised and dartced a mortis before the King, and that done re-entered the mountain : and then was the wassail or banquet brought in, and so brake up Christmas." Here the dancing!xaa not by the King f.Jld his nobles, but by their henchmen or pageL At the same festival the minstrels also daneed in disguises, but the King and his lords entered the Hall in a ear upon wheels, which was pulled to pieees by the people in rough scramble for its anery. The King desired his nobles, after dancing, to tear the gold letters from their dresses and throw thetn to the trowd ; but the crowd broke in and &tripped the King 11 to his hosen and doublet, and all his companions in likewise." The King's guard had to Interfere. 'l'bis closing scran.l!?le for a largess from the decorations was ll part of the old ~tom, arising, like it, Crom the Carnival ; and when lteney the Eighth and his nobles entered the room at Christmas x5u, in a fine ,!fecorated car, and danced with the ladies, they had gone very far in the direction o( the masque of xsu-xJ, which first brought the word 11 tnasque" into use by the side of the old word "diSjUising." The disguisings were furnished with cOstly dresse~ often with addition of machinery, but they were presented by the children o the chapel and other players of interludes. In d~ign, the following interlude, described by Hall as part of the polllp of Henry the Eighth's Court in May 1527,--set forth in a c:ostly banqueting house designed and built for the occasion,-dilf'ers no -otherwise from the general conception of a masque in James the First's reian than in being acted for amusement ol the co~pany J>y children o( the chapel. "There entered eight of the ~g's chapel with a. song.' and brought with them one richly apaparled j and in likewise at the other side entered eight other of tb said chapel, bringini with them another ~n likewise ap Ued. These two persons played ~the e!ect whereo . was,

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whether Riches were better than Lo.e, fthd wheb they co'dld not agree upon a eonclualon, etch ealled ln three knights all arttled. Three oC them would have ent~d the gate o( the arch In the middle of the cl1ambet, md the other three reslllted ; and suddettly, be~n the aix knigbta, out o( the arch fell down a: bar all gilt, at the which bar the alx hlghtt fought 11 !ait battle, tnd then they weft!~ departed, and 110 went but of the place. 'rheh eatne In lh Old Man with a sliver beArd, tnd he eoncluded that '~..cite and R.tchea both be n~1114r1 tor l'rlnee!l j that is to uy, by Love to be obeyed lldd &eh'ed, lbd with Rlchea to reward his lovers and friends ; and with this concl\ltion the dialogue ended.'' The Italian Dlasque gt~ out or {the Cunifal{ and Wall at first eSpecially lSS()eiated with the Feut ol the Epiphany, old Christtnal Day, our Twei.M Day. The EngliiJh custom of drawing Twelfth Night ebaracters, that came down il\to this century, was in ~me setts! 1 Stlr\'ital f'tom the eustomt out o( whieh our early nldqUetl arose. Before its genl!tallirnltatlon to a few days before Ash Wednesday, Carnifal btgllh ol1 the day after the Feast of Epiphany, ~d la.sted tmtil midnight on Shrove Tueaday, Lent beginning with Ash Wedne!ldty. 'l'hls whole time was, among the rich, 1 time ot feasts. The rich bc!gan at Epiphany their Keason of festiYity; hild those who bad to tarn their livings were content with theit own llniltation of the c:oatly 1eason to the last eek before Unt. 'tbere was at CartsfYAl' tfm~ 111 the Italian cities, more espe~taliy 1ft Veniee tnd In lnorenee, an almost uttvaried form of soni and dance.hJ_womM hablted tc;, repte5ent ~M Yll&in. 'l'hia early usage was developed lnto nu~ny forms of song and dance, JSSoclated with !nllhy ttt!w Inventions classicAl And tnythologi~. The easily continuation of the outdoor maaquing by the tnen of hlghect rank id their own palaeea, to et~ the day after their banqueting, was deeloped ,jth great Ingenuity at Florence at the Court of Lorenzo de' Medici.l The retULisllantc! gAve promltleftec! to classteat mthoton: lrfnbleeJi add tlt~t~wer~ in highest thYOur. "Embl~~ 1' Bald :Ptane B~on, iidueet.h eo~

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ceptions intellectual to images sensible, and that which is sensible _ more forcibly strikes the memory, and is more easily printed than that_which is intellectual" Thus the dolphin and anchor device of the Aldine press was made to suggest on title pages union of quickness with weight and stability, and in the decoration of a masque such emblem work abounded. Masques were presented at the Court of Queen Elizabeth, although the Queen her.iel was not among the masquen ; and there is record of the plannuig of a masque, in September 1589, by order of the Queen, to grace the marriage of King James VI. of Scotland, who was to succeed her _ James I. of England. as King James was"'llarried in that year to Anne, second daughter of King Frederick II. of Denmark and Norway, the Queen Consort whose name frequently occurs in association with Ben . Jon5on's Masques. She was the good genius who gave him his prosperity as a masque writer. On occasion of her m~J'l'iase, compliments from England were to be spoken by gentlemen of Elizabeth's Court, who took with them for the purpose this array of frippery, provided by Her Majesty's command, as signified to the office of the Revels by the Lord Treasurer, the Lord .Chamberl11in, and Mr. Vice-Chamberlain :-"A mask of six coats of purple gold rinse~ guarded" (trimmed) "with purple and black cloth of silver striped. Bases" (short garments like kilts that hang from the waist to the knees) u of crimson cloth of gold, with pendents of mailed" (net worked) u purple silver tinsel. Two pair of sleeves to the same, of red cloth of gold, and four pair of sleeves to the same, of white cloth of copper, silvered. Six partlets" (neck ruffs-the hen was called Dame -Partlet from her ruff' of neck feathers) "of purple cloth of silver knotted. Six bead pieces, whereof four of cloth of gold, knotted, and two of purple cloth of gold, branched Six feathers to the same head pieces. Six manties, whereof four of orange cloth of gold, branched, and two of 'purple and white cloth of silver, branched. Six visards, and six faulchions, gilded. u Six cassocks for torch-bellrers of damask; three of yellow,. amd three of red, guarded with r~ and yellow damask counter

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chaslged. Six hats of crimson cloth of gold, and six feathers ta the same. Six visards. "Four haires" (sylvan goats' hair dresses) " of silk, and f~ur garlands of flowers, for the attire of them that are to utter certain speeches at the showing o(the same mask." Such entertainment sent from England would have been well pleasing to James and his bride. King James was given to luxurious pleasures, and Anne of Denmark, second child in a family of seven, as a lively Queen Consort, was afterwards found to delight much iri masques and revels. Shewas a beautiful dancer, at a time when dancing was regarded as a l.i'ine Art, and had also a beautiful handwriting. The name of.!_nn~y which she is known in Ben Jonson's Masques, is the form of her name which she herself preferred, and used in signatures. A foolish tradition says that she was so tenderly cared for at home that she was nine years old before she was 'allowed to move on her own feet. When she was but eleven years old, and King James twenty, the Danish Court had, through a great embaSsy about the res~itution of the Orkney Islands, opened a question of marriage, with suggestions that such an alliance between Denmark and Scotland would cause the claim upon the -Orkneys to be set aside. After many delays, the marriage was settled, and on the 2oth of August 1589, Anne of Denmark was married by proxy at Copenhagen, and soon afterward set sail for Edinburgh. Queen Elizabeth's Mpque was to make part of the rejoicing after her arrival, but a storm drove her ship to the coast of Norway, where she was detained, waiting for favourable winds. The storm that drove her aside on her way to King J ames "was allegit to have been made be the witches of Deninark, be the confession of sindre of them, when they were brunt for that cause." As the Queen did not arrive at the expected time, there was no use for the six coats of purple tinsel and the bases of crimson cloth of gold. The winds that were against leaving N onray favoured voyage ~o its coast. King J ames, therefore, sailed off to find his bride. They met at Upslo (where Christiania ilfterwards was built by

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Chrilitian lV.), and were there Jnal'lied Pn the a3rd af N9vcmbcr, i.n Scottish form, but French language, by ~ Scottish Jllini&ter, The wind still wa~~ pgainst passage to Sc:otlaud. The bride and bridegtOOtn wintered, therefore, in Denmark, and we.te apin: married, according to Danish rit~ at KronenbQrg. They landed at Leith on May Day in J59o, Queen Anna being then a girl of sixteen. She had a brilli~~,ntly fair skin and reUQw hair, but, no grea.t beauty of feature. Her eldf;!lt SQn1 Prince: Henry, was OO.rn at Stirling on the 19th. of Februal')' J594- Her daughter, the Princess :f;lizabeth, was born on the JSth of August 1596, 'A. &ecQnd daughter, Mar garet, who died in int'ancy, was born on the a4th of Decemb:r 1598. Her Gecond &Qn, Chart~ afte.twardlf CbiU'les the First, was born at Dunfermline on the J9th af November J6oo. A fifth child was a son, Ro~ b()m in J6o1 1 who died in infancy, The s~tb and last was a da.ughter, Mary, born in 16<>5, who died in 1607 Appended to the Masques in thie volume IU'~ several ''Enter tllinmen~" by Ben J onson, which differ from the Me,squea in presenting emblems, disguisea, and vel'$es of complimi:Pt either as pageants for the street, or as interlude. intended to pay honour to tho King and Queen. Fint we have :DenJonson's part, in the IUT9Jlgement of insqiptiQnll, eUlhlema, allegoric;al groups, and Speechea of Gratulation for tho pomp of KiPg ]IUD~'Ii p~ge through t4c street~~ of LondQn to his coronati<:~P on the 25th of July J6o3. Jonaon wu joined in this work with Tboma~~ Dekker1 who produced more than half the designs fw the occe,. sion, ea.ch poet publishing bia OWll part of the work. When the time camo for display of the pomp~~, ~efully prepared by poet and Qlachini&t, joy had ~en tu.-ned into mourning by the entry intQ London of a Peetilence, Eight hundred and tifty ~c:ven J>ef sons died of th~ plague: in London in tho w~k of tho ronatiQn of King James the First. For safeguard against spread of iofec tion, the Londone%'11 wen: forbiddep by proc;lalnllotion to com~ to Westminster and see the pagean~ there. The " MaxilnUII B.ex " of th in$Criptions WBA ~ l:llan of thinf!

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seven, who represented the results of high culture of l>alren soil, for he would have been little better than a cunning idiolt strong in fleshly appetites, if Georgo Buch~an and otlier good scholars, careful of his education, had not succeeded producing early in life the few changes necessary to traneform llD. idiot to a pedant. Hill Majesty's consort, the 11 tanto vix JDinor Anna viro," was a Queen of nine and twenty, whose progress to London, before the coronation there, had cost two thousand po~n~ for the mere charges of the lords and ladies in Attendan~ o~ her. During that progrea, when Her Majeaty had reAChed North ampton, IUld was entertained by Sit Robert Spencer at .l\lthorpe, there was produced f'or her pleasure the eQtertainment of ' 1 The Satyr," which here follows the record of Ben Jonson' part in the Corona~ion pageants and his " Panegyre " upon the J{iJlg's first going to open Parliament. Ben Jonson'e entertainJDent of ''The Satyr" {presented at Althorpe) is known also as the" Masque of the Fairiea,'' or the "Masque of Oriana," from tho song in it which celebrates the Queen in her pro~ aa Orian ;-fii4S,. orietu .A.t~na, says its author in a note. This piec:e WIUI placed by Ben ] onaon among the Entertainments written by him, not among the Masques, beca111e it was a fairy disguilling, planned to be shown in a spinet {a little wood) at Althorpe, through which the ~een and her eldest son, Prince Henry, then a boy in his tenth year, were to bo brought, and in the course of which I' jewel was to be presented to her in remembrance of her visit to Althofl)eo That Saturday entertainment, with the Monday'a niorris-dancing, the speech of Nobody, and the parting words from young gentlemen of the place, which will be found following one another on pages 408 to 417 of this volume, diJfered from the true Masqu~ like the next following Entertainment of " The Penates,11 in the conditions under which it was presented. "The Penatea,"-presented on May bay in the house and g&rden of Sir W"illiam Cornwallis near Higbgate,-was written for occa sion of'a \'isit Paid to Sir W"illiam by King ] ames with his Queen and Court, after Her Majesty had come to London. May hC,flelf sat in her bower, the birds, the floweiB, and the mornJPg bteeJC

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sang welcome, and Pan offered his cup of greeting from a fountain that ran wine. The two remaining entertainments were both written fot Theobalds. Theobalds in Hertfordshire was a beautiful house inherited by Robert Ceci~ Earl of Salisbury, from his father, Williatn Cecil, Lord Burleigh. Robert Cedl had been knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1591, at an entertainment given by Lord Burleigh to Her Majesty at Theobalds. After the accession of James 1., Robert Cecil, who inherited great wealth, was made Lord High Steward to Queen Anne of Denmark, and, following other advancements in titular rank, he was created in May x6os Earl of Salisbury and Kttight of the Garter. In July 1606 the Queen Consort's brother, Christian IV. of Denmark, visited England, and King James delivered himself up with his brother-in-law to a round of hospitable feastings. For a feast given to the two kings at Theobalds by Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, Ben Jonson planned the entertainment that will be found on pages 426-7 of this volume. History says that on this occasion the two kings went to bed drunk. King James had to be carried to bed in the arms of his courtiers, arid King Christian blundered into the bed-chamber of the wife of the Lord High AdmiraL Sir John Harrington, who was present, reports, in his Nuga AnlifJua, that on the ~e occasion "men who had been shy of good liquor before, now wallowed in beastly delights i- the ladies abandoned their sobriety, and were seen to roll about iljl intoxication." Queen Anne of Denmark was not of the company. King James liked himself so well at Theobalds that in the following year, 1607, he offered Robert Cecil the Queen's dower house of Hatfield in exchange for it. The Earl of Salisbury,whom the King called his pigmy, beause his height was under five feet three, through bodily deformities,-could not refuse the offer of his IGng, and the last of Ben ]onson's Entertainments (pages 428-3o),-except two written for teceptions of Charles I\ in 1633 and 1634 at Welbeck and Bolsover,-was that written to be presented.to King James and. Queen Anne on the und of May 16o7, when possession of Theobal4& was formally delh-ered

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to the Queen. There is, under loyal readiness, in the words spoken by the Genius of the place, a touch of the regret with which Lord Salisbury gave up his father's house for Hatfield. But the King's good-will must be preserved. In May of the next year he succeeded the Earl of Dorset as Lord Treasurer. He never lived at Hatfield, but began there the palatial building that was not completed when he died in May x6x:a, leaving adebtofabout38,ooo to be cleared by sale of part of his estate. King James 'himself spent lavishly upon his pleasures, and Queen An ne was never out of debt. She spent on progresses-one royal progress of hers to Bristol is said to have cost thirty thousand pounds-on buildings, dresses, jewels, and on the production ofthese costly Masques. In 16u she owed nine thousand pounds to her jeweller, and when she die4 of dropsy, in March 1619, her jewellery-much of it received in gifts-was valued at 400,000. It was aliO estimated that King James saved 6o,QOO a year by being freed from the expenses of his consort and her Court. But he ~ her; for her liveliness had made her a pleasant companion. Her luxury made her a patroness, in her own way, of poets and architects. To Ben Jonson especially, but not exclusively, she looked for the invention of her masques, and to Inigo ]ones, the great architect, not only for the planning of their costly machinery, but also for the direction of her building works at Greenwich and elsewhere. Inigo jones was the son of Ignatius Jones, a clothwork.er in London, and he was of about the same age as Ben J onson-one born in 1572, the other in 1573- He was apprenticed to a joiner, but showed genius as an artist. This won for him patrons, by whom he was sent to study art in Italy. The reputation he acquired at Vepice, as an architect, caused Anne of Denmark's brother, King Christian, tQ invite him to Copenhagen, and established him there as his chief architect. King Christian of Denmark., like his sister, had a turn for building works. He put it afterwards to good use when Opslo, the old capital, was destroyed by fire, and he reple.ced it in 1624 with the modem city of Christiania. When King Christian visited England in x6o6, lnigo Jones came with him,
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and was easily persuaded by King James>s consort to remain in his own country and transfer his services as builder from her brother to herself. Ben J onson'a entertainments at Althorpe and elsewhere had commended him to the Queen's notice as a deviser of masques, and he had already produced at Court TAe NIISIJW Df BIM!uuss in the yea:t before Inigo J ones returned to England. The chief composer of the music for Ben Jonlion's Masques was Alfonso Ferrabosco, son of a famous Italian. musician of like name, who bad a pension granted to him by Queen Elizabeth in 1567, and who, twenty years later, went back to Italy and took service with the Duke of Savoy. Alfon5o Ferraboaco, the younger, must have gone with his father to Italy, whence he return~ to England. He was appointed under Jamea L, on the und of March I6os, extraordinary groom of the Privy Chamber and teacher of music to Prince Henry, with a pension of so a yea:t. Other members of the Ferrabosco family were distinguished as professional musicians, and the son of Alfonso the second carried the credit of the Ferraboscos as Court musicians into the third generation, when he was appointed, on the 19th of March 1628, musician to His Majesty, Charles I., for the Viols and Wind Instruments, in place of his father, then lately deceased. The genius of the second Ferrabosco, who furnished music for Ben Jonson's Masques, is said to have been especially well suited to dramatic expression. He joined in a reaction against the more learned work, such as that on madrigals and motets, and was of a new school that cultivated rather a light, easy monody. He published 11 Airs" in 1609, many of them set to words from the Masques which he bad .illustrated with his music, chie1ly' arranged for the accompaniment of song with lute IJ.Ild 'fiol. The viol was six stringed, with the position of the fingers marked on the finger board by frets ; and it was used in different sizes, for treble, mean, counter-tenor, tenor, and base. Music 'of stringed instruments played without a bow was known as "broken inusic," because that manner of playing could not produce long and sustained notes. ' The famous lutenist and composer, John Dowland,-who took

INTRODUCTION. the degree of Bachelor oC Music at Oxt'ord together with Thomas .Morley in xs88,-had been much abroad, and was lutenist to the King of Denmark at the beginning of King ] am ea's reign. In x6os he dedicated to Anne of Denmark ~ w S#tJm Tearu jigrlnd ;,. UIZfllll passi4Mu .PaoaiU. In x6o9 he had left Denmark, and was living in Fetter Lane. He became lutenist to Lord Walden; eldest son of the Earl of Suffolk, but found no encouragement at Court, for all his skill as a composer and his "heavenly touch upon the lute." A chief inventor of the dances in Ben Jonaon'a Masques was Thomas Gilea, aided by J erome Herne. Thomas Giles may have been a kinsman of Nathaniel Giles, a religious and learned musician, who died in 1634- Nathaniel Giles wrote church music that was in very high esteem, and had a son who became canon of Windsor and prebendary of Worcester. Fame is not to be won at the point of the toe, and the name of Thomas Giles the dance-master is no longer inscribed in the temple of Fame. Bat much thought was spent in his days upon the invention of concerted pieces of dance, apart from the lively movement of the galliarde and la volta that had come in from Italy by way or France, whither they had been brought by Catharine de' Medici. Sir John Daviea, who was King James's Attorney-General for Ireland, and who died in x6:a6, inscribed to Prince Charles, in I 62 :a, his Ordl4strtl, an unfinished poem, "ezpressing the Antiquity and Excellency of Dancing in a Dialogue between Penelope and one of her Wooers." Sir John Davies had Court Masquesin mind when he told the Prince that he gave his mind to all he didu

And hence it is that all your youthful train In activeness and grace you do excel ; When you do courtly dancings entertain, Then dancing's praise may be presented welt"

.The world, said Sir John Davies, is called the world for being whirled round in a dance. The sun " Doth dance his galliard in his leman's sirht, Jloth back, and forth, and sideways, passing light."

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The moon dances thirteen measures every year ; and " What are breath, speech, echoes, music, winds, But dancings of the air in sundry kinds." Ben Jonson's first Masque, :nte Maspe of Blaehuss, wa,s produced on Twelfth Night in x6os, at the beginning of the old Carnival time, the usual date for the beginning of such Revels. The four year old Prince Charles, then a sickly chil~ who had been brought to England from Dunfermline in the preceding summer, was on that day formally installed as Duke of York. It was the time also of the marriage of Sir Philip Herbert to the Lac;ly_ Susan V ere. It had pleased the Queen's fancy, by way of change from her fair ivory skin, to masquerade on that occasion with eleven of her ladies, as negresses. She danced, it is sai~ with the Spanish ambassador, who, when he kissed Her Majesty's ban~ was not sure what might become the colour of his lips. The Princess Mary, who died in her childhood, was born on the 7th of the next following April. The masque of the preceding year had been furnished by Samuel Daniel as Yisimc D/ tile Twe/w GDtllkssu, when the Queen had appeared as Pallas, the Countess of Suffolk as Juno, Lady Rich as Ven~ the Countess of Bedford as Diana, the Count~oserpine, Lady Walsingham as Astnea, Lady Elizabeth Howard as Thetis, and Lady Susan Vere as Flora. There were only four ladies in Ben Jonson's masque who had not been seen the year before in Daniel's. Among the Royal MSS. in the British Museum is a copy of Tlu Maspe D/ Bladmus in Ben J onson's handwriting. The machinery of the masque was thus described by Sir Dudley Carlton : "There was a great engine at the lower end of the room which had motion, and in it were the images of sea-horses, with other terrible fishes, which were ridden by the Moors. The indecorum was that there was all fish, and no water. At the farther end was a grea,t shell, in the form of a scallop, wherei~ were four seats. . On the lowest sat the Queen with my lady Bedford : on the rest were placed the ladi~s Suffolk, Derby, &:c: On St. John's Day W'e had tbe marriage of Sir Philip Herbert

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and Lady Susan performed at Whitehall with all the honours that could be done a great favourite." Next year came Inigo Jones to Lond<?n1 who provided the machinery for Ben Jonson's Masque of Christmas, 16o6, the HjmeiiiZi for the marriage of young Robert Devereux, third Earl or Essex, who, by desire and arrangement or the King's, was married at the age or fourteen to Frances Howard, younger daughter of the Earl of Suffolk. That was the unhappy marriage ended in 1613 by a divorce and the lady's marriage to the King's favourite, Robert Carr, who was created Earl or Somerset. Tk Barriers followed on the night after ne MastpU of Hy1M11. Tile Maspe of B~a~~ty, produced at Court in Christmas t6o8, met the Queen's wish for a sequel to ne Maspe of Bladmus, after which, therefore, it is placed. The next masque in the series, Tk Hw aNi C1')1 ajtw Cupid, was presented at Whitehall on Shrove Tuesday I6o8, with especial pomp, upon the marriage or Sir John Ramsay, w"bo was at the beginning or the reign the King's chief r~vourite. It was he who bad, as the story went, beitlg then his henchman, searched for King James in Gowrie House, found him in the clutch of Alexander Ruthven, rescued him, and stabbed the aggressor. For the aid then given, to which Ben Jonson refers in the masque (page 94 or this volume), the King made Ramsay Viscount Haddington, ~nd be was now married, by the King's desire, to "the Maid of the Red Cliff"-Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex. Towards the end of James's reign Ramsay was made an English peer as Earl or Holdernesse. T,t, MtlSIJW of Qumu is, like fil .Masp4 of Bladtu~t (which is there called only TM 'l'ttltlftll Mgllfs RtfJtlls), to be round in Ben J onson's own handwriting among the RoyAl MSS. in the British Museu~n, where it includes the Dedication to Prince Henry. Thia masque was presented at Court on the :and of February 1609 (New Style). In a brier official note or extraordinary payments at Court to th~ end of the year 1609, there is an entry or 4215 for the cost of masques. On the 4th of June 6Io, Prince Henry, then in his sixteenth year (be was bom on

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the 19th of February 1595), was formally created Prince of Wales, and on the night of the following day there was a Cd\ut Masque on the occasion, of which Ben Jonson was not the author. It was. the Tdkys FutifJaJ of Samuel Daniel. Daniel, who, in 1600, becawe tutor to Lady Anne Clifford, then in her eleventh year, ~d-some office at Court as a licenser of plays, and was in the Queen's service as Groom of the Privy Chamber. In verses to ~he Queen, he speaks of himself as I who
" By that most bless&~ hand sustained, In quietness do eat the bread of rest."

Already he was living much at his farm, called Ridge, near Beckington, in Somerset, to which he finally retired, and where he died in 1619- Besides his Yisi'on of tile TwelfJe Gotitiesses, already mentioned, Daniel had produced for the Queen's pleasure. a "pastoral tragi-comedy," Tile Qrlem's Arazdia, presented to Her Majesty and her Ladies by the University of Oxford at Christ Church in August I 6os. Te/Ays Fulival, or llu Qll#tis Wah, produced in I6Io, at the Creation of Prince Henry, Prince of Wales, was followed by only one more piece from Daniel;-not a masque, but another "pastoral tragi-comedy," in five acts,HyrMn't Tri~mpll, acted at Court on occasion of the marriage of Lord Roxburgh. Ben Jonson's Nasp4 of O/Jero11, preceded by TAl Ba,.,.Urs, was written for Prince Henry, and produced on the ut of January I6II (New Style). At the same Christmas time, Ben J onson'a masques of .!Pve Fmd from Igt~Wt~na allli FoOy, and .LJw .RuttJntl, were produced for the Queen. John More, writing to Sir R. Winwood on the 15th of December I6xo, recorda of the preparation of these pieces for the coming festivities : "Yet doth the Prince make but one masque, . and the Queen but two, which doth cost Her Majesty but 6oo; neither do I see any likelihood of any further extraordinary expense that this Christmas will bring." In the course of the next yeax the C1141k11Ke at Tilt was produced at CourL In October 1612 the Elector Palatine of the Rhine came to

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be married to the Princess Elizabeth. Prince Henry, at the age of nineteen, died of typhoid fever on the 6th of the next following November. The days of mourning for the deatha mourning which Prince Henry's character bad made sincere and national-clouded the first weeks of rejoicing for the marriage. There were no masques till Shrove Tuesday, when the Court produced a masque by Dr. Thomas Campion, T.te .LmU Nall}tu. There was a masque also written by George Chapman, produced by the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, with another by Francis Beaumont, produced by the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn, Inigo Jones providing the machinery and decorations for all three. Ben Jonson's Jrisll Naspe was presented at Court on the 29th of D~ber x6x3, three nights after a masque by Campion on the marriage ofCarr, Ead of Somerset, with the Countess of Essex, who bad by a majority of seven to five obtained a decree of nullity of marriage with young Robert Devereux on the ~5th of September. Daniel's HyiiUfis Tri'umpll, on the marriage of Lord Roxburgh to Mrs. Drummond, followed at Court on the 3rd of February x6x4o A Court Masque by Ben Jonson was produced on Twelfth Night x615, Mn'&r~'Y Yitllliaded frqm tlu Akllemilll. Inigo Jones, who was in Italy from x6u to x6xs, did not design the machinery. Then followed Tlu Gqfden Age .Rutoml, twice acted, on New. Year's Day and Twelfth Day 1616 (New Style); Tlu Nasp1 o/ Cllristmas, on Twelfth Night x6x7, repeated on the 19th of January; and .T.tl N1111J114 o/ Le/Ae, for the entertainment ofthe French Ambassador, on the und of February x617. In March x6x7 King James set out for Scotland, and reached Edinburgh in May. He took with him the children of the chapel, with other players and singers, for his entertainment. The Scots were .surprised at his pleasure in shows, and he was surprised at the Scots' want of wit for the invention of them. At Linlithgow they entertained him with a hollow red lion in plaster, that had a IChoolmaster inside, James Wiaeman, who spo~ for the beast ,'in manner following:--

INTRODUCTION. " Thrice royal sir, here I do you beseech, Who art a lion, hear a lion's speechA miracle, for since the days of ..sop No lion till.these times his voice dared raise up To such a Majesty. Then, King of Men, The King of Beasts speaks to thee from his den, Who (though he now be here enclosed in plaster), When he is free, is Lithgow's wise schoolmaster." His father, no doubt, was a joiner, and his name was Snug ; be is in Shakespeare's Chronicle. On Twelfth Night x6x8 (New Style), Tlu Vision ofDelight, called also Tlu Prinds Masqru, was produced, and repeated on Shrove Tuesday. Prince Charles was a chief actor in it, and it was his "firsrexerclae in that kind." Queen Anna's days of health were gone. She died on the 2nd of March x6r9, and after long lying in state, was buried on the 13th of May. Ben Jonson's next masque, Pkasure .R~ikd to Tlirlue, was produced on Twelfth Night x6x9, and repeated on Shrove Tuesday, when it had a new Introduction written as Antimasque, The H()flwr of Wales. _'fhe News from the New Wqr/d in the .Moon also was presented tWice-before King James, on Twelfth Night and Shrove Tuesday x6u; and it was followed in x6u by the Masrl'u of Gipsies Mtlamorplwsed, in which His Majesty found great delight. It was presented to him twice in August at Burleigh on the Hil~ and Belvoir Castie, and once in September at Windsor." In October of this year, x6u, King James, by letters patent, granted to Ben J onson the reversion of the office of Master of the Revels, to be held for life, "from and after the death of Sir George Buc and Sir John Ashley, or as soon as the office should become vacant by resignation, forfeiture, or surrender." A letter written by Joseph Mead, on the rsth of September x6u, shows that at this time Ben Jonson, by the help of friends whom he got to beg hilll off', narrowly escaped being knighted. On the three next following Twelfth Nights, Ben Jonson produced at Court his three next following Masques-ne Masque of Augurs, on Twelfth Night x6u, repeated on the 6th of May; Time Yindicattd, of which the production was postponed from Twelfth Night to Sunday, the

INTRODUCTION. 19th of January 1623, when the French Ambassador was pre.;ent; and Nejt11nls Triultlpll on t/14 .Rdum of .AlliUm. Albion was " Baby Charles," the Prince of Wales, who, on the I 7th of February 1623, had gone off with Buckingham as John and Thomas Smith, disguised in beards-" BIVeef boys," as the King called them, "and dear venturous knights, worthy to be put in a new romanse "-to see the Spanish Infanta, Donna Maiia. Neptune restored them safely to land at Portsmouth on the 5th of October. Ben Jonson's masque was not acted on Twelfth Night becau~e the King was absent. It was deferred till the next Sunday, the gth of January. There was one more masque of Ben Jonson'a, Pall's A,,;.. fllrl(lry, presented before King James. It was in the last year of the King's life. James died at Theobalds on the 27th of March I6:as, and at,the court gate of that liouse Charles the First was proclaimed King. King Chailes lived much at Theobalds, which was about twelve miles from London, north of the road to Ware. Under the Commonwealth the whole house, except the room in which J ames L died, and a few rooms near to it, came to be broken up for building material. What had been left standing in 1650 was cleared away in 1765, and new houses were built upon the site. In 1625 Ben Jonson had a stroke of palsy, from which he recovered enough to produce in 1626 the antimasque of Jophiel with the masque of Tlu ForhiMie Islu. Neglect at Court and failing health then caused him to be silent until 1630. In January 163o, after having ceased to write plays for the theatre since the year of Shakespeare's death, 1616, he produced the play of Tlu 1\~ew It fell on evil times. But King Charles sent him a hundred pounds as a present, and in March 1630 turned marks into pounds in the renewal of KingJames's pension ofa hundred muks to Ben Jonson, and added to it an annual tierce of canary. 'cite King bad also commissioned him to work again with Inigo Jpnes in the production of a Masque at Court, the result being ~~ 1"rit~~~~jll tlln~~~gll Callijolis, produced on Twelfth Night, II.Dd followed on Shroyo Tuesday, 163o; by Clllor-idi4. That was

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INTRODUC'fiON.
his last masque. His wife was dead, his children were dead, and he was "sick and sad." Only, he said, there was no palsy in his brain. He prpduced on the public stage another p1ay, T/16 .Mapdk Iml~, in October 1632, and his last play, Tlu Ta/6 of a T.W, in 1633- He died on the 6th of August 1637.

CONTENTS.
~UQUU.
PAG'D

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V

1)nc_ M UQUR or BJ.ACK.NltSS

THE MASQUE 01' BEAUTY THB MASQUE OF HYKE!t

r'.
V

35-45 46-57 58-79

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So-87 88-loO

THB Hm AHJ) CRY Arf.&R CUPID V, THE MASQUE 01' QUE~S

~PEBCHES AT PRINCE HENRYS BARRIERS

TB&

MASQUE 01'

Ouuolf.

l..OVB FRltKD FROM: IGNORANCE AND FOLLY

~LENGE

LoVE REsToRED AT TILT

THE IRISH MASQUE

MERCURY VINDICATED P'ROH THE ALCHEMISTS THE GOLDEN AGE RESTOREDJ TmrMASQUB 01' CHRISTMAS TB& MASQUE 01' LETBz'X

101-129 IJ0-142 143-155 156-165 166-173 174-1Eo 181-186 187-IQ1 194-200

201-208

.LJv~.._ .r,

f1' 1:'f:H ~)-f ' :.:.

THE VISION OF DELIGHT

.PW5UM REg>NCILED TO VIRTUE

i;ja~

HONOUR

01' WALES

NEWS P'ROH THE NEW WORLD IN THE M;ooN

;I"Bk 6IPsJBS MBTAMORPHO&BD THE MASQUE OF AUGURS ,

TIME VINDICATED NEPTUNE'S 1'1UuKPH J'OR THE R1t'ruRN 01' ALJUON

2()9-214 215--221 222-230 231--241 242--252 253--291 292-305

~19

PAN's ANNIVERSARY THB~r;r,OWLS

320-331 332-339 340-345

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THE FORTUNATE ISLES

CONTENTS.

346-36o

...,..

LoVE'S TRIUMPH THROUGH CALUPOUS 'CHLORJDIA

36r-366 367-374

:entertainments.
PAr 01' KIN<l JAMES'S ENTERTAINMENTS IN PASSING TO HIS CORONATION,

377-402
,

A P ANEGYRE ON THE KINO'S ENTRANCE TO HIS FIRST

SESSION 01' PARUAMENT THE SATYR (jmlmltd al

All""'fH)

THE PENATI!.S (jwumktl al Hig/Jgall) THE ENTERTAINMENT 01' THE TWO KINGS 01' GREAT BRITAIN AND DENMAlllt (at T/uollaldr)

flNU gifltn

AN ENTERTAINMENT 01' KING JAMES AND QUEEN ANNE

(at Tltto6alds, 'lllltm po11tSiitm of tlu HtnUt

to tlu (bum)
GLOSSARY

428-430

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THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS,

PERsoNATED AT 'l'HK CouRT AT WHIT~HALL, ON THE TwltLrrHNIGHT, 1605.

&lve feata dlea, mellorque reverteie lelllper,-Ovm.

THE bono~ and splendour of these spectacles wu su1=h in the performance, as, could those hours have lasted, this of mine, now, had been a most unprofitable work. But when it is the fate even of the greatest and most absolute binhs, to need and borrow a life of posterity, little had been done to the study of magnificence in these, if presently with the rage of the people who, as a part of greatness, are privileged by custom to deface their carcasses, the spirits had also perished. In duty therefore to that Majesty, who gave them their authority and grace, and no less than the most royal of ptedecessors deserves eminent celebration for these solemnities, I add this"later hand to redeem them as well from ignorance as envy, two common evils, the one of censure, the other of oblivion. Pliny,l Solinus,t Ptolemy,a and of late Leo' the Afric:au, remember unto us a river in )Ethiopia famous by the name of Nigei'; of which tbe people were called Nigritz, now Negroes, and are the blackest nation of the world. This river a ta.keth spring out of a certain lake, eastward; ud after a long race, falleth into the westem ocean. Hence, because it was Her Majesty's will to have them blackmoors at first, the invention was derived by me, and presented thus:

First, for the scene, was dra'!VIl a IanbtiG!Jap (landscape) consisting of small woods, and here and there a void place
I Poly. Hist. c. 40 and 43' ~p. Afric. Some take h to be the aame with Nilus, which Is by Lucaa c:alled Welas, 1iruifyiag Nipt. Howaoin-er PUny In the place above noted, bath this: Nierl duYio eadem DAtura, qUill Nilo, calamum, pap7f111Dt et eudem Jlph ulm&Dtea. 1 Nat. Hlat. I. lJb. ... c; So

s. c. a.

See Sollnua aboVOOIDCDtiODed.

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filled with buntings; which falling, an artificial sea was .een to shoot forth as if it flowed to the land, raised with waves which seemed to move and in some places the billows to break, as imitating that orderly disorder which is common in nature. In front of this sea were placed six tritons, 1 in moving and sprightly actions, their upper parts human, save that their hairs were blue, as partaking of the sea-a>lour : their desinent parts fish, mounted above their heads, and all varied in disposition. From their backs were borne out certain lilht pieces of taffata, as if carried by the wind, and their music made out of wreathed shells. Behind these, a pair of sea-maids, for song, were as conspicuously seated ; between which, two great sea-horses, as big as the life, put forth themselves, the one moUnting !lloft, and writhing his bead from the other which seemed to sink forward j so intended for variation, and that the figure behind might come off better : upon their backs, Oceanus and Niger were advanced. 1 Oceanua presented in a human form, the colour of his ftesh blue, and shadowed with a robe of sea-green j his head grey, and homed,' as he is described by the ancients: his beard of the like mixed colour : he was garlanded with alga, or sea-grass j and in his hand a trident. Niger, in form and colour of an ..tEthiop ; his hair and rare beard curled, shadowed with a blue and bright mantle : his front, neck, and wrists adorned with pearl, and crowned with an artificial wreath of cane and ~per-rush. These induced the masquers, which were twelve nymphs, negroes, .
1 The form of tbae trltooa, with their trumpets, you may resd U.ely de~etlbed in OY. Met. Ub. s, Caeruleum Tritou. vocal, .tc. ; &Dd In Virg, &dd. 1. so, Hunc weblt lmmanls trltoo, et lleQueDL I Lada.o In PRTOP. Adu. ptae~~ta Nnu 10, equo fhmatUI lnalderltem. ADd Statiu NeptUDe, In Tbeb. 1 Tbe aacieata Induced Ooeanas al-71 11ith a bull' bead : Propter Wll torum, & qulbal lncltatur, et lmpellltar: el quia taDrls llmllem lremltllm emittal; wl quia t&Dqum taurua furibundaa, In lluora feratar, Euripld. In Oral., 'O.w01 4llo 'N1.11p6tcpuw ll-yn>..u nv,,.,, lnllf~fi XB-. And riven IOIIIOtimes were 10 clled. Look Vlra. de nberi et Erid&Do. 0eoq. ., ..Ddd. a, Hor. ear. lib. + ode 1-4- and Euripid. ill lODe.

ea-

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and the daughters of Niger, attended by so many of the Oceaniz,l which were their light-bearers. The masquers were placed in a great concave shell, like mother of pearl, curiously made to move on those waters and rise with the bi119w ; the top thereof was stuck with a cheveron of lights, which, indented to the proportion of the shell, struck a glorious beam upon them, as they were seated one above another : so that they were all seen, but in an extravagant order. On sides of the shell did swim six huge sea-monsters, varied in their shapes and dispositions, bearing on their backs the twelve torch-bearers, who were planted there in several graces ; so as the backs of some were seen ; some in purfle, or side ; others in face ; and all having their lights burning out of whelks, or murex-shells. The attire of the masquers was alike in all, without difference : the colours azure and silver ; but returned on the top with n scroll and antique dressing of feathers, and jewels interlaced with ropes of pearl. And for the front, ear, neck, and wrists, the ornament was of the most choice and orient pearl : best . . setting off from the black. For the light-bearers, sea-green, waved about the skirts with gold and silver; their hair loose and flowing, gyrlanded with seagrass, and that stuck with branches of coral These thus presented, the scene behind seemed a vast sea and united with this that flowed forth ; from the termination or horizon of which, being the level of the state which was placed in the upper end of the hall, was drawn by the lines of prospective, the whole work shooting downwards from the eye; which decorum made it more conspicuous, and caught the eye afar off with a wandering beauty: to which was added an obscure and ~oudy night-piece, that made the whole set off. So much for the bodily part, which was of Master Inigo Jones's design and act. By this, one of the tritons, with the two sea maids, began to sing to the others' loud music, their voices being a tenor and two trebles.
1 The daughters of Ooeanus and Tetbys. See Heslod. lu Tbegoli., Orph. lu Hym., and Virgil in Oeorg.

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SONO.

Sound, sound aloud The welcome of the orient flood Into the west; Fair Niger,l son to great Oceanus, Now honoured thus, With all his beauteous race : Who, though but black in face, Yet are they bright, And full of life and light, To prove that beauty best Wbich not fhe colour but the feature Assuli!s unto the creature.

Ocea. Be silent, now the ceremony's done, And, Niger, say, how comes it, lovely son, That thou, the A!:thiop's river, so far east, Art seen to fall into the extremest west Of me, the king of floods, Oceanus, And in mine empire's heart, salute me thus? My ceaseless current, now, amaz~d stands To see thy labour; through so many lands, Mix thy fresh billow with my brackish stream ; ' And, in the sweetness, stretch thy diadem To these far distant and unequalled skies, This squar~ circle of celestial bodies. Niger. Divine Oceanus, 'tis not strange at all That, since the immortal souls of creatures mortal Mix with their bodielJ, yet r~rve for ever A power of separation, I should sever
1 All riftr'l are l8ld to be the 10111 ol tbe Ocean ; (Of', u the audents thought, out of the ftPOI1lS exhaled by the heat of the sun, riftr'l aud fountains were begotten. .\nd both by Orph. In Hym. aud Homer, 11. f, Ocean us Is celebnlted tauqaam pRter, et orlgo dils, et rebus, quia nlhU sine bumeetatlone nasdtur, aut putresclt. 1 There wants not enough, In nature, to authorise this pan or our fiction, In separating Niger from the ocean, (beside the fable of Alpbeus, aud that, to which VI!Jil alludes ol Arethnsa, In his xo Eclog. Sic tlbl, eum ftuc:tus subter labere Sieanos, Dorls amara IIWUD non lntermlsoeat UDdam.) Ezamples of Nn111, Jordan, aud others, wbfteoC aee Nlean. llb. r, de ftamfn., and Plut. in vlta Sylllle, even or this our riwr, as some think, by the n1111e of M!llu.

THB MASQUB OP BLACKNBSS.

My f'resh streams from thy brackish, like things fixed, Though, with thy powerful saltness, thus far mixed. Virtue, though chained to earth, will still live free ; And hell itself must yield to industry. Oaa. But what's the end of thy Herculean labounr, Extended to these calm and bless&! shores ? Niger. To do a kind and careful father's part, In satisfying every pensive heart Of these my daughters, my most lov~ birth : WhO, though they were the first formed dames of earth 1 And in whose sparkling and refulgent eyes The glorious sun did still delight to rise ; Though he; the best judge, and most formal cause Of all dames' beauties, in their firm hues draws Signs of his fervent'st love, and thereby shows That in their black the perfect'st beauty grows ; Since the fixt colour of their curl~ hair, Which is the highest grace of dames most fair, No cares, no age, can change, or there display The fearful tincture of abhorred grey ; Since Death herself (herself being pale and blue) Can never alter their most faithful hue : All which are arguments to prove how far Their beauties conquer in great beauty's war ; And more, bow near divinity they be That stand from passion or decay so free. Yet, since the fabulous voices of some few Poor brain-sick men, styled poets here with you, . Have, with such envy of their graces, sung The painted beauties other empires sprung ; Letting their loose 11nd wing~d fictions fly To infect all climates, yea, our purity ; As of one Phaeton,' that fired the world

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1 Read Dtod. Sleul. llb. 3- It Is a conjecture of the old ethnlcs, tbat they which dwell under the south, were the first lwgotten of the earth. I Notlalma fabula, OYid. Met. Ub, a.

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And that, before his heedless flames were hurled About the globe, the .tEthiops were as fair As other dames; now black, with black despair: And in resi>ect of their complexions changed, Are eachwhere, since, for luckless creatures ranged ; 1 Which, when my daughters heard, (as women are Most jealous of their beauties) fear and care Possessed them whole; yea, and believing them, I They wept such ceaseless tears into my stream That it bath thus far overflowed his shore To seek them patience: who have since, e'ermore. As the sun riseth,a charged his burning throne With vollies of revilings; .,cause he shone On their scorched cheeks with such_ intemperate fires, And other dames made queens of all desires. To frustrate which strange error, oft I sought, Tho' most in vain, against a settled thought As women's are, till they confirmed at length By miracle, what I, with so much strength Of argument resisted ; else they feigned ; For in the lake where their first spring they gained, As they sat cooling their soft limbs, one night, Appeared a face, all circumfused with light ; (And sure they saw't, for .tEthiops 4 never dream) Wherein they might decipher through the stream, These words : That they a land must forthwith seek, Whose termination, of the Greek, Sounds TANIA; where bright Sol, that het Their bloods, doth never rise or .set,a

1 Alluding to that a venal, Satyr. S Et cui per medlam nolls OCCUrreT"e noctem. I 'The poets. a A cuatom the &hlops, notable In Herod. and Dlod. Sic:. See PUn. Nat. Hist. llb. cap. B. Plin. Nat. Hlst. lib. cap. 8. Contult with Tac!tua, In Yita Aerlc:. and the Paneg. ad Collltant.

or ]

s.

or

s.

THB MASQUB OP BLACKNESS. But in his.journey passeth by, And leaves that climate of the sky To comfort of a greater light, Who forms all beauty with his sight.

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In search of this, have we three princedoms past, That speak out -Tania in their accents last; Black Mauritania, fizst; and secondly, Swarth Lusitania; next we did descry Rich Aquitania : and yet cannot find The place unto these longing nymphs designed. Instruct and aid me, gteat Oceanus, What land is this that now appears to us ? Oaa. This land, that lifts into the tempemte llir His snowy cliff, is Albion the fair; 1 So called of Neptune's son,I who ruleth here: For whose dear guard, myself, four thousand year, Since old Deucalion's days, have walked the round About his empire, proud to see him crowned Above my waves.-AIIIIis 1/u M(J()n fllat dis&(Jf)eretl ,, llu 11/J/Jer pnrl of 1/u htm,

tnilmplranl in a n'lver tlr,.one, made in figure of a -py,.nmis. Her garments fllltill and silver, llu dresn'ng of lur luatl atliigru, and &r0fl1111tl flliiA a /mllitUJrYI or ~lure of /i'glll: 'Wlri&A stn1dng on tJu &itnufs, and llngAtmed flli/A silver, rejle&ted as nalr~,.a/ &IDfllls do !Jy tlu ~lendotw of 1/u 11UJ01I. Tile luiJ'flen a!J~I Iter fllat ''afllled flliiA 6/ru si/6, and set 'WiiA stars of n1ver, wlli&A And ;, tlum tlu.',. slf/era/ licAis !Jflrning. Tlu Sfldtim n"gAI of flllli&/J made Niger to inler1'71pl Oaanus a'I/J IAis jJresml pasn'on.

0 see, our silver star, Whose pure, auspicious light gteets us thus far! Great }Ethiopia goddess of our shore,s Since "ith particular wozship we adore
Orpbe\111, In bis Argonaut., calls it AmriUOI' xlf#flll Alluding to the rlgbt of ltyling princes after tbe name of their princedoms : so Is be lllll Alblon, and Neptune'1 son tbat gmerns. J.. also bls being dear to Neptnne," In being so embraoed by him. Tbe &bloplana worshipped tbe moon by that sarname. See Step. W".,C
1 I

.-6>.-, In TOOe AI9IOIDON.

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Thy general brightness, let particular grace

Shine on my zealous daughters : shew the place Which long their longings urged their eyes to see, Beautify them, which long have deified thee. .tlu: Niger, be glad : resume thy native cheer. Thy daughters' labours have their period here, And so thy errors. I was that bright face Reflected by the lake, in which thy race Read mystic lines; which skill Pythagoras First taught to men, by a reverberate glass. This blessed isle doth with that T ANlA end, Which there they saw inscribed, and shall extend Wished satisfaction to their best desires. Britannia, which the triple world admires, This isle bath now recovered for her name ; Where reign those beauties that with so much fame The sacred Muses' sons have honoured, And from brig!lt llespel'\ls to Eous spread. With that great name Britannia, this blest isle Hath won her ancient dignity, and style, A WORLD DIVIDED PROM THE WORLD : and tried The abstract of it, in his general pride. For were the world, with all his wealth, a ring, Britannia, whose new name makes all tongues sing, Might be a diamant worthy to inchase~~it: Ruled by a son, that to this height doth grace it : Whose beams shine day and night, and are of force To blanch an iEthiop, and revive a corse. His light sciential is, and, past mere nature, Can salve the rude defects of every creature. Call forth thy honoured daughters then : And let them, 'fore the Britain men, Indent the land, with those pure traces They flow with, in their native graces. Inyite them boldly to the shore ; Their beauties shall be scorched no more :

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This sun is temperate, and refines All things on which his radiance shines. Her6 tlu TrilotU Joutuktl, aNI tluy tfaNttl"" JMrt, lfi"J' eofl/llt, trJ tlrey advanad, Jlflerrdly premrtit~g tluir fiUu: in tme of ft!W6 it~J&rihtl 1/uir mix/ t1a111U1 ; , tlu otlur a 1111116 llierorfYJIIi&, exprun,r tllnr mizttl t;uabnu.1 TAn'r Oftltl #f~Kh t11ma nuhtl, a.r tluy ftlert a!Jout to make elwkt of tllnr mm: 01U1 from tJu J6a, ftla.r luartl to &all 1/um 'lllitll litis CHARM, JUfiK ~ a tmor voiee. Come away, come away, We grow jealous of your stay; If you do not stop your ear, We shall have more cause to fear Syrens of the land, than they To doubt the Syrens of the sea. Here t!uy daNttl'lllit!J t!Jnr mm Jlfleral mta.rrwu aNI &tWatiiM. All ftllri&!J nuled, 1/uy fl.lnY agait~ aaiud lo Jta, 'lllit!J a SONO of tvJo lrt~lu, ftiMJe &atimaJ ft!WI iterated~ a dou6h ~eAt~ from JlflerrU pari~ of tlu land. Daughters of the subtle flood, Do not let earth longer entertain you ; I Ee!J. Let earth longer entertain you. :a Edl. Lopger entertain you. 'Tis to them enough of good, That you give this little hope to gain you. I Ee!J. Give this little hope to gain you. :a Ee!J. Little hope to gain you. If they love, You shall quickly see; For when to flight you move, They'll follow you, the more you flee. I Ee!J. Follow you, the mo~ you flee. 2 Ee!J. The more you flee. lf not, impute it each to other's matter; They are but earth, and what you vowed was water. I Ee!J. And what you vowe4 was water. 2 Ee!J. You vowed was water,

.,,;p,

1 Which manuer at IJDlbol I rather chose, than lmprae, as well fOI' ltrallgenesf, ns re1ishiDg at autlqulty, and more npplylng to that original !SoctriDe of sculpture, which the EtiJptlana are aald first to have brought from the .tEthloplanL Diod.

Sic:uL Hetod.

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11U. Enough, bright nymphs, the night grows And we are grieved we cannot hold You longer light ; but comfort .take. Your father only, to the lake Shall make return : yourselves, with feasts, Must here remain the Ocean's guests. Nor shall this veil the sun hath cast Above your blood, more summers last, For which you shall observe these rites : Thirteen times thrice, on thirteen nights, (So often as I fill my sphere With glorious light throughout the year) You shal~ when all things else do sleep Save your chaste thoughts, with reverence, steep Your bodies in that purer brine, And wholesome dew, call'd ros-marine: Then with that soft and gentler foam, Of which the ocean yet yields some Whereof, bright Venus, beauty's queen, Is said to have begotten been, You shall your gentler limbs o'er-lave, And for your pains perfection have : So that, this night, the year gone round, You do again salute this ground ; And {n the beams of yond' bright sun, Your faces dry,-and all is done.
~;>ld,

AI wlu"cA, in a tlanee, 1/uy returned lo sea, wltere 1/uy look lhi'r slu/1, and willl lllis full SONG wml out. Now Dian, with her buming face, Declines apace: By which our waters know To ebb, that I!Lte did flow. Back: seas, back: nymphs ; but with a forward grace, Keep still your reverence to the place; And shout with joy of favour, you have won, In sight of Albion, Neptun~s son.

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So mtl1d tJu jinl M asgue , '1/J"kla, IJ'UUU tlu sinpw K'f'll" ".! MIUk and datlas, !lad 1/u nl&&us in 1/u no/Ji/ily ofpn:formatt, as Mtlu"ttg tu1tls to 1/u i//uslralion., /Jut 1/u IJy '1/JMm it '1/Jas personalld.

""'IW1'Y

Till&

11.uua.

1 { THIICQuuK ' 01' BEDJ'ORD LA. HUBUT a. { 01' DUBY

3-

eo. eo. LA. RICH { eo. oJ' SuJ'J'OLit

8EvtLL

EUPHORIS, AGLAIA, DIAPHANE, EUCAMPSE,

, 0CYTE.
,

4-

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6.

LA. { LA. {LA. LA. { LA.

DI'IHGHAM

Sus. Vua
WORTH

EL. How.uo

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LA. W ALIIHGHAM

KATHARE, rlver. NOTIS ' } PSYCH,ROTE, Tbe SAl.AKANou simple. GLYCYTE, }A cloud full of rain dropMALACIA, plor.

} A ~}t.llen llee, laden with frw } 'Ibe figure lsocaedroa of crystal. } A pair of naked feet ID a

IYII-.a.

~:XWE:RE,

}An urn apbered with wiDe.

IANTHE, LYCORIS, PLEXAURE.

TA# N - of/M OCEAN LE

DORIS, PETRARA, OCYRHOE, CYDIPPE GLAUCE TYCHE,
1

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BEROE. ACASTE, CLYTIA,

Hesiod. ID Tbeo(.

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Two years being now past, that Her Majesty had intennitted these delights, and the third almost come, it was her highness's pleasure again to glorify the court, and command that I should think on some fit presentment, which should answer the former, still keeping them the same persons, the daughters of Niger, but their beauties varied according to promise, and their time of absence excused, with four more added to their number. To which limits, when I had apted my invention, and being to bring news of them from the sea, I induced BOREAS, one of the winds, as my fittest messenger; presenting him thus :

In a robe of russet and white mixt, full and bagged ; his hair and beard rough and horrid; his wings grey, and full of snow and icicles : his mantle borne from him with wires, and in several puffs ; his feet 1 ending in serpents' tails ; and in his hand a leafless branch laden with icicles. But before, in the midst of the hal~ to keep the state of the feast and season, I had placed JANUARY 1 in a throne of silver; his robe of ash-<:olour, long, fringed with silver ; a white mantle ; his wings white, and his busk.ins ; in his hand a laurel-bough ; upon his head an anademe of laurel, fronted with the sign Aquarius, and the character : who, as Boreas blustered forth,

discovered himself. Bonas. Which, among these, is Albion, Neptune's son?

Jan~~aniu. What ignorance dares make that question? Would any ask, who Mars were in the wars, Or which is Hesperus among the stars? Of the bright planets, which is Sol? or can A doubt~ 'mong creatures, which is Man~
1 So Paua. la Ellacls, reports him to have, u he See lcoaolotr. dl Caare Rip..

v.u carved ID arct Clpaelli.

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Behold, whose eyes do dart Promethean fire Throughout this All ; whose precepts do inspire The rest with duty, yet commanding, cheer; And are obey~ more with love, than fear. Boreas. What Power art thou, that thus informest me? Ja,~. Dost thou not know me? I too well know thee By thy rude voice,1 that doth so hoarsely blow; Thy hair, thy beard, thy wings, o'er-billed with snow, Thy serpent feet, to be that rough North-wind, Boreas, that to my reign art still unkind. I am the prince of months called January ; Because by me, JIU).US 1 the year doth vary, Shutting up wars, proclaiming peace, and feasts, Freedom and triumphs; making kings his guests. Boreas. .To thee then thus, and by thee to that king That doth thee pn:sent honours, do I bring \, Present remembrance of twelve .iEthiop dames, Who, guided hither by the moon's bright flames To see his brighter light, were to the sea Enjoined again, and (thence assigned a day For their return) were in the nves to leave Their BLACKNESS, and true BEAUTY to receive. Jat~u. Which they received, but broke their day: and yet Have not returned a look of grace for it, Shewing a ~-and most unfit neglect. Twice have I come in pomp here, to expec;:t Their presence ; twice deluded, have been fain With other rites 1 my feasts to entertain : And now the third time turned about the year Since they were looked for, and yet are not here I Boreas. It was nor will, nor sloth, that their stay; For they were all prepar~ by their day,

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caused

1 OYid Metam. lib. 6, oear tile eod ae,-horridus lra, Que 10Uta est nu, Dlmlumqae domestica, 'ftiiiO, ltc. I See tbe offices Uld power of ]IIDIIS, ()yid, Fut. L 1Wo marrll&es, tbe oae of tbe Earl of Eaez, 16o6; the otber ol tbe Lord
Ha)'oi6G?o

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And with religion forward on their way, When Proteus,1 the grey prophet of the sea, Met them, and z:nade report, how other four Of their black kind (whereof their sire had store) Faithful to that great wonder so late done Upon their sisters by bright Albion, Had followed them to seek Britannia forth, And there to hope like favour, as like worth, Which Night envied, as done in her despite,1 And mad to see an lEthiop wash~ white, Thought to prevent in these ; lest men should deem Her colour, if thus changed, of small esteem. And so, by malice and her magic, tost The nymphs at sea, as they were almost lost, Till, on an island they by chanee arrived ~t floated in the main ; a where, yet, she had gyved Them so in chains of darkness, as no might Should loose them thence but their changed sisters sight. Whereat the twelve, in piety move~ and kin~ Straight put themselves in act th~ place to fiqd ; Which was the Night's sole trust they so will do, That she with labour might confound them too. For ever since with error bath she held Them wandering in the ocean, and so quelled Their hopes beneath their toil, as (desperate now Of any least success unto their vow, Nor knowing to return to express the grace Wherewith they labour to this prince and place) One of them meeting me at sea, did pray That for the love of my Orithya,'
l ~d his description, Y&tes, Ceruleus Proteus.

with Vir. Geor. 4, Est ID Carpathio Neptunl gurgite

Because they were before of her complexloD. ~ To give authortty to this part of our flctloll, Pllny bath a char, 95 or the ::and boOk, Nat. Hilt. de IDSU!is fluctuantlbus. Et Card. Ub. 1, de rerum ftli. et cap. 7,
reportl one to be In his time known, iD the lake of Lomond, ID ScotlaDd ; to let paas that or De101, a:c. ' The daughter of Erec:tbeus, ldng of Athens, wbom &reas ravished rtway Into

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Whose very name did heat my frosty breast, And made me shake my snow-filled wings and crest, To bear this sad report I would be won, .And frame their just excuse ; which here I've done. Jtlllfl. Would ~ou hadst not begun, unlucky Wind, That never yet blew'st goodness to mankind ; But with thy bitter and too piercing breath, Stn"k'st 1 horrors through the air as sharp as death.

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Htrt a stctmd 'IIJind caiiU iil, VULTURNUS, in a 6/111 colwrtd riJIJ.J and mantu, jrlfl as 1/u /llf711W, 6111 stmU'IIJAIU S'IIJttler; Au fau 6/ad, and on Ais /uat/1 a rtd 111n, slw'fln'ng lu CIIIIU from 1/u tasl: Ais 'IIJirws f1.! several co/wrs./ }l;s lltlsiins 'IIJ!Iill, and 'lllrOIIg/11 'lllilll gold.

Yllil. All horrors vanish, and all name of death I Be all thihgs here as calm as is my breath I A gentler wind, Vultumus, brings you news The isle is found, and that the nymphs now use Their rest and joy. The Night's black channs are flown. For being made unto their goddess known, Bright )Ethiopia, the silver moon, As she was Hecat~ she brake them soon :a And now, by virtue of their light and grace, The glorious isle wherein they rest takes place Of all the earth for beauty. There, their queen' . Hath I'llisbi them a throne, that still is seen To turn unto the motion of the world; Wherein they sit, and are, like heaven, whirled
Thmce, u lbe WllS playing with 9tber \ugl\u by the flood llissns: or, IUI son1: will, by the fountain Cepbisus. 1 The 'rioleoce of &teas OYid ezcellently descn'bes In the pJ.ce ahoft quoted. Hie nublla pello, Hie freta CODCUtlo, DOdou.qae robora Yerto, Iuduroque nlves, et tenu grandine pulso. I According to that of Vlrgil-Denuntlat lgneus Euroa. I Sbe IJ called ~" 'LAT1f, by Eurlp. In Helena, whlcb IJ Ludfera, In wbicb name we here praently allude.. ' For the more full and clear Ullderatanding of that wblc:h follows, have rec:oano to the mcceedlug pqes, where the ICeDe pre~entlltaelf. D

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BBN JONSON'S MASQUES:

About the earth; whilst to them contrary, (Following those noble torches of the sky) A world of little Loves, and chaste Desires, Do light their beauties with still moving fires. And who to heaven's concent can better move, Than thost that are so like it, Beauty and Love? Hither, as to their new Elysium, The spirits of the antique Greeks are come, Poets, and singers, Linus, Orpheus, all That have excelled in knowledge musical ; 1 Where set in arbours made of myrtle and gold They live again, these beauties to behold. And thence in flowery mazes walking forth, Sing hymns in celebration of their worth; Whilst, to their songs, two fountains flow, one bight Of Lasting Youth, the other Chaste Delight, That at the closes, from their bottoms spring, And strike the air to echo what they sing. But why do I describe what all must see ? By this time; near the coast, they floating be ; For so their virtuous goddess, the chaste moon, Told them the fate of the island should, and soon Would fix itself unto thy continent, As being th.e place, by destiny fore-meant, Where they should flow forth, drest in her attires : And that the influence of those holy fires First rapt from hence, being multiplied upon The other four, should make their beauties one. Which now expect to see, great Neptune'~ son, And love the miracle which thyself hast done.
Hen a curlain '1114S dra-, in 'IIIAicA 1/u Ni'gAI 'lllas painted, ad 1/u smu disc0111rtd, .'111/r.icA (6ecause tAt ftW'11Ui- 'lllas man'ne, tmd /lust, yel of necessity, to come frDm lire sea) I dtvisea slundd IN at~ island j/oalr'ng m a calm 'lllaltr. It~ tAt mt'dsl 1/uref!! 'lllas a Seal of Stale, called tAt TllrOtJt of Beatlly,

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wtdetl: tliflitlltl 1"nno dglll sparu, atl tlish"flg'Uislutl 6y so In tlrese SfJIIIITU, llu sizttm IIUUfJIIWS w1r1 plautl 6y ctl*plu : 6elu'NI tluttl ,, tlu C6nlre '!/ tlu tlrronf was a lralt1cml pillar, slu'ning fl.litll St'lltral t:t~ltl*r~tl li'gllb, tltal rljle&tetl 0t1 tlrdr 6ach. From llu f4P of wlu'ck pillar wml st'llual arc/us 14 llu pilasters, tllat Stldait~ttl 1/r.e r(l()fq llu tllrDt~t, wlu'cll was liA1111ise atitlnutl fllilll ligllb fllfll garlands: and hlfl.lem 1/u pi/asllrs, in frotJJ, little CfljJitls ;, ffing poslrln, wtn~ing of wreallls and /iglUs, lore 11/J tlu t:or111U: (J'IIU wlu'cll 'fllln placed ei'gllt jipwes, reprumting llu ekmmts of Beauty, wlu'cll ad11anutl 11/Jon tlu IOnic, aNI 6dng fnnales, llad tlu Con"ntlu'at~ ortlw. Tlu first was

""'"J' lofiU pi/astus.

SPLENDOUR,

in a robe of flame colour, naked breasted; her bright hair loose flowing : she was drawn in a circle of clouds, her face and body breaking through : and in her hand a branch, with two roses, t a white, and a red. The next to her was
SBRBNIT.4S,

in a garment of bright sky-colour, a long tress, and waved with a veil of divers colours, such as the golden sky sometimes shows : upon her head a clear and fair sun shining, with rays of gold striking down to the feet of the figure. In her hand a crystal, 1 cut with several angles, and shadowed with divers colours, as caused by refraction. The third,
GBRMIN.4TIO,

in green, with a zone of gold about her waist, crowned with myrtle, her hair like~ flowing, but not of so bright a colour : in her band, a branch ofmyrtle. 8 Her socks of green and gold The fourth,
LTITI.4,

in a vestUre of divers colours, and all sorts of flowers embroidered thereori : her socks so fitted. A garland of flowers ' in her hand ;
1 The role Is called elegantly, by Achll. Tat. lib. a, ~vnfw a,.>..ucrpa, tbe lpien dour or plants, and Is efti'JWbere taken for the hierog{ypblc or apla~dour. I M this of serenity, applying to the optic. reaon of tbe rainbow, and tbe mythologists maldng her the daughter of Electra. I SO Hor. Ub. I, od. 4, makes lt the ensign of the Spring, Nunc decet aut Yirldi nltldum caput lmpedlre myno, Aut Bore. terre quem ferunt solute, &:c. f They are eve!JWbere ~be ~kena of gladneaa, at all feuts and aporta.

BBN JONSON'S MA.SQUBS: her eyes turning up, and smiling : her hair flowing, and stuck with flowers. The fifth,
'I'BJIPBRIBS,

in a garment of gold, silver, and colours, weaved ; in one hand she held a burning steel,1 in the other an urn with water. On her bead a garland of flowers, corn, vine-leaves, and Qlive-branches, interwoven. socks, as her garment. The sixth,

Her

VBNUS'I'.A.S1

in a silver robe, with a tliin subtle ven over her hair, llnd it: pearl about her neck, and forehead. Her socks wrought with pearL In her hand she bore several coloured lilies.a The seventh was
DIGNIT.A.S,

in a dressing of state, the hair bound up with fillets of gold, the garments rich, and set with jewels and gold; likewise her bus~; and in her hand a golden rod.' The eighth,
PBRFBC'I'IO,

in a vesture of p~ gold, a wreath of gold upon her head. About her body the zodiac,& with the signs : in her band a compass of gold, drawing a circle. On the top of all the throne (as being made out of all these} stood
H.A.RJIONI.A.,

a personage, whose dressing bad something of all the others, nnd bad her robe painted full of figures. Her head was compassed with a crown of gold, having in it seven jewels equally set. In her band a lyra, whereon she rested. This was the ornament of the throne. The ascent .to which
1 The ai(ll ol.tempelalwe, as also ber garland mixed or the roar ISIOIII. Pearllwilh the aucieull were the special hieroglyphicl or loYellDell ; In qulbul nitor tantnm et 1amlr expetet.Dtur. So wu the lily, or bleb the moat dellcat.e city or the Ptrsi&DI wu called suse : lipiCylJIB that kind or Bower, In their tongue. 4 Tbe 11(11 of honour IIJid dignity. Boch that, aud the compau, are known eualgus ol perCecllon. Sbe ~ 10 deacribed In Icoaolog. dl Csare Rlpa ; biJ reuon ol aeten jewela, In the crown, allndes to Pylbagoraa'a COIIIJIIellt, with M-=-. Ub. 11, Som. Sdp. of the plaDeta and their lpberel.

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consisting of six steps, was covered with a multitude of Cupids, 1 (chosen out of the best and most ingenious youth of the kingdom, noble, and others) that were the torch-bearers; and all armed with bows, quivers, wings, and other ensigns of love. On the sides of the throne were curious and elegant arbours appointed ; and behind, in the back part of the isle, a grove of grown trees laden with golden fruit, which other little Cupids plucked, and threw at each other, whilst on the ground leverets ll picked up the bruised apples, and left them half eaten. The ground-plat of the whole was a subtle indented maze: and in the two foremost angles were two fountains that ran continually, the one Hebe's, 1 the other Hedone's : in the arbours were placed the musicians, who represented the shades of the old poets, and were attired in a priest-like habit of crimson and purple, with laurel garlands. The colours of the masquers were varied ; the one half in orang~tawny and silver : the other in sea-green and silver. The bodies and short skirts on white and gold to both. The habit and dressing for the fashion was most curious, and so exceeding in riches, as the throne whereon they sat seemed to be a mine of light, struck from their jewels and their garments. This throne, as the whole island moved forward on the water, bad a circular ~otion of its own, imitatihg that which we call malum m11Nii, from the east to the west, or the right to the left side. For so Ho111. Ilia.~. understands by"'~'"' Orienlalia mwuii: by &e11mea, Oaidmta/ia. The steps whereon the Cupids sat had a motion contrary, with analogy atJ malum planetannn, from the west to the east : both which turned with their several lights. And with these three varied motions, at once, the whole scene shot itself to the land. Above which, the moon was seen in a silver chariot, drawn by virgins, to ride in the clouds, and hold them greater light : with the sign Scorpio, and the character, placed before her.
1 Tbo Inducing of muy Cupids wants not defence, with the best llDd most rec:elw:d of the ancients, besides Prop. Stat. Claud. Sido. ApoiL especia,lly PbiL in Icon. Amor. whom I baYe particularly followed in this description. ' They were the notes of lowliness, and sacred to Venus. See Pbi1. In that place mentioned. I Or youtb. ' Of plea~~ure.

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The order of the seen~ was carefully and ingeniously disposed ; and as happily put in act (for the motions) by the king's master carpenter. The painters, I must needs say (not to belie them) lent small cplour to any to attribute much of the spirit of these things to their pencils. But that must not be imputed a aime, either to the invention or design. Here the loud music ceased ; and the musicians, which were placed in the arbours, came forth through the'mazes to the other land : singing this full song, iterated in the closes by two Echoes, rising out of the fountains.
Whea Love at first, did move From out of Chaos,l brightened So was the world, and lightened, All now. I Eclt. All now 1
2

Edl. As now I

Yield Night, then to the light, All BLACKNESS hath to B,EAUTY : Which is but the same duty. It was for Beauty 1 that the world was made, And where she reigns, Love's lights admit no shade. I Eclt. Love's lights admit no shade. 2 Em. Admit no shade. Which ended, Vulturous, the wind, spake to the river Thamesis, that lay along between the shores, leaning upon his urn, that flowed with water, and crowned with flowers ; with a blue cloth of silver robe about him ; and was personated by Master Thomas Giles, who made the dances. Yul. Rise, AgM Thames, and by the hand Receive these nymphs, within the land. And in those curious squares and rounds Wherewith thou fiow'st betwixt the grounds
1 So Is he feigned by Orpheus, to have appe!Ued lint of all the goda, awakened by Clotho; and Is therefore called Phanes, both by him and Lactantlua. An qreelng opinion, both with divines and phUosophen, that the great anl6~, In loYe wlfh his own Idea, did therefore frame the world. I Alluding to the name of Hlmerus, and his signification In the name, which Is DeSiderium peat upectum ; and more than Eroa, which Is ouly Cupldo, ez upec:tu amare.

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Of fruitful Kent and Essex fair That lends the garlands for thy hair ; Instruct their silver feet to tread, Whilst we, again, to sea are fled. With which the Winds departed; and the rive.. received them into the land, by couples and fours, their Cupids coming before them.

These dancing forth a ~ost curious dance, full of excellent device and change, ended it in the figure of a diamond, and so, standing still, were by the musicians with a second SONG, sung by a loud tenor, celebrated.
So Beauty on the waters stood, When Love bad severed earth from flood Jl So when he parted air from fire, He did with concord all inspire I And then a motion be them taught, That elder than himself was thought. Which ~bought was, yet, the child of earth, 1 For Love is elder than his birth.
Tlu ltmg mdeti,. 1/uy dalfud forlA IAeir lt&ond dalfu, """' 1116lk and foil of &luJngt 1/um tlu fonne.r; aiUI1o ezpil#e/y perf01"mtd, 111 llu king' 1 majuly (i11&iltd firll 6y Ail ovm liking lo tAal 'flllliell a// ollun tlun pruml 'fllil/ud) refjflirul 1/wn 6otA agai"' after IOmt timt of dancing 'flliiA llu /ordl. MUll #me, lo f{ive lll.tm re.rpile, 'flltU intermilted 'fllil!l a SONG ; jinl, 6y a tre6k voiu, in lllil manrur.

If all these Cupids, now were blind, As is their :wanton brother : a Or play should put it in their mind To shoot at one another: What pretty battle they would make, I( they their objects should mistake, And each one wound his mother I
1 AA, ID the c::rat1011, be la said by the anclenll to have done. 1 'lbat ia, bom since tbe world, and out of thole duller appreheaalona that did not thiDk be was before. I make the~e different from him which they feign i:llecum Cupldlnem, or petuletem, u I c:zPress bellellth in the third song, tbele being chasto Lova tlw.t attend a more diviDe ~t)' than that ol Love' commOA parent.

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Which was seconded by another treble, thus : It was no policy of court, Albe' the place were charmed, To let in earnest or in sport So many Loves in, armed. For say, the dAmes should, with their eyes Upon the hearts here mean surprise ; Wc1c not the men like harmed? To which a tenor answered : Yes, were the Loves or false or straying; Or bea11ties not their beauty weighing : But here no such deceit is mixed, Their flames ~re pure, their eyes arc fixed : They do not war with different darts, But su ikc a music of like hearts
.After wAii:A songs 1/uy tiat~ad ga/liards mu/ &oratllos ~ a1UI 'WU A tltolt er.ellml graee~, IIMJ tlu musk appoitlled to .ele6rate tlum, sllowed it &(111/d 6e silent 110 lollg"er , !Jut, 6y tlu first lmor, admiud 1/um tAus:
SONG.

Had those that dwelt in error foul, ,f\.nd bold that women have no soul,l llut seen these move; they would have then Said, women were the souls of men : S 1 ti1ey do move each heart and eye, With the world's soul, true barmony,ll

Here 1/uy tia~~&ed a lAird most eligatll and e~~rious tia~~&e, and 1101 to 6e descri6td again /Jy atl,Y art !Jut IAal of 1/uir O'Wtl f()()h'ng, wltii:A endi'ng in lite figure IMJ 'Was to prodte tilt f(lflrlA, JANUARY from Ais stale saluted tlum tAus:
Janu. Your Grace is great, as is your Beauty, dames; Enough my feasts have proved your thankful flames. Now use your seat: that seat which was, before, Thought straying, uncertain, floating to each shore,
1 There bath been sttcb a profane paradox published, The Platonic' opinion. See Rlso Mac. lib. x and ~ Som. Se.

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And to whose having 1 every clime laid claim, Each land and nation urg~ as the aim or their ambition, Beauty's perfect throne, Now made peculiar to this place alone ; And that by impulsion of your destinies, And his attractive beams that lights these skies : Who, though with the oeean compassed, never w:ets His hair therein, nor wears a beam that sets. Long may his light adorn these happy rites, AB I renew them ; and your gracious sights Enjoy that happiness, even to envy, as when Beauty, at large, brake forth, and conquered men I

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At flilli&ll 1/uy danad tluir last da"" itllt~ tluir t!lrfiiU agtU, , atui lllallummr. t/u scnu cltlud witll tlris full SONG.
Still tum and imitate the heaven In motion swift and even ; And as his planets go, Your brighter lights do so; May youth and pleasu1e ever fiow. But let your State the while, Be fix~ as the isle.

CIID. So all that see your beauties sphere, May know the Elysian fields are here. J Ec/1, The Elysian fields are here, 2 Ecll. Elysian fields are here.

The person" who were received on land by the river god wereThe Qt. kN. Countei;f .ARUNDEICountess of DERBY. Countess of BEDFORD, Countess of MONTGOMERY. Lady ELIZ. GUILI'ORD. Lady ELIZ. HATTON, Lady Euz. GARRARD.
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Lady Lady Lady Lady Lady Lady Lady Lady

AllABELLA. KAT. PETER. ANNE WINTER. WINSOR. ANNE CLIJ'J'OJlD. MARY NEVILLE. CHICHESTER. W ALSINGHAK.

For what COWitr)' la it thinks not her own beauty falnst, ;yet?

HYMEN.iEI;
OR,

THE SOLEMNITIES OF MASQUE AND BARRIERS 'AT A MARRIAGE.

IT is a noble and just advantage that the things subjected to understanding have of those which are objected to sense ; that the one sort are but momentary, and merely taking; the other impressing, and lasting : else the glory of all these solemnities bad perished like a blaze, and gone out in the beholders' eyes~ So short .lived are the bodies of all things in comparison of their souls. And though bodies ofttimes have the ill-luck to be sensually preferred, they find afterwards the good fortune (when souls live) to be utterly forgotten. 'This it is bath made the most royal princes and greatest persons (who are commonly the personators of these actions) not only studious of riches, and magnificence in the outward celebration or show, which rightly becomes them ; but curious after the most high and hearty inventions, to furnish the inward parts; asd those grounded upon ahtiquity..-ahd -solid teamil)g: which though their voice be taught to S.OI,!nd to present occasions, their sense or doth or should always lay hold on more removed mysteries. And howsoever some may squeamishly cry out, that all endeavour of learning and sharpness in these transitory devices, especially where it steps beyond their little or (Jet me not wrong them) no brain at all, is superfluous : I am contented, these fastidious stomachs should leave my full tables, and enjoy at home their clean empty trencbers, fitteljt for such airy tastes; where perhaps a few Italian herbs, picked up and made into a salad, may find sweeter acceptance than all the most nourishing and sound meats of the world. For these men's palates, let not me answer, 0 Muses. It is not my fault, if I fill them out nectar, and they run to metheglio.
VaJi&aiUI lli6ant, si dtucte11hlr.

All the courtesy I can do them, is to cry again : PrfZierea~~l, si fJIIW 11011 fadl ad sloma&lwm : ~ I will from the thought of them, to my better subject.

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59

On the night of the Masques (which were two ; one of men, the other of women), the scene being drawn, there was first discovered an altar, upon which was inscribed, in letters of gold,
1

I. Q._ M'UNIOML
SACR.

To this altar entered five pages., attired in white, bearing five tapers of virgin wax ; 1 behind them, one representing a bridegroom: his hair short, and bound with party-coloured ribands, and gold twist; his garments purple and white. On the other hand, entered HYMEN (tbe god of marriage) in a saffron-coloured robe, his under vestures white, his socks yellow, .a yellow veil of silk on his left arm, his head crowned with roses and marjoram,' in his right band a torch of pine-tree.& After him .a youth attired in white, 0 bearing another light, of
1 Mystically implying that both it, the place, and all the su~ng ceremonies were 111cred to marriage, or Union, over which ]uno was president : to whom there was the Uke altar erected, at Rome, as she was Called Juga ]uno, In the street, which thence was named J ugariua. See Feat.; and at which altar, the rite wu to Join the married pair with bands of ailk, In aign of future concord. t 'Those were the Quinque Cere!, which Plutarch in hla Quest, Roman. mentions to be uaed in nuptials. I The dressing of the brldegtoom (with tbe ancients) was chiefly noted In that, quod tonderetur. Juv. Sat. 6, Jumque tonaore magistro Peeterls. And LllCIUl, !lb. 2, where be makes Cato negligent of the ceremonies ID marriage, aalth, Ille nee horriflai.m sancto dimovlt ab ore Ca=sarlem. 'See how he la called out, by.Catullua In Nup. Jul. et Man!. Clnge tempora florlbua Saave olentiJ amaracl, .tc. I For 10 I preserve the reading there In Catul Pineam quate taldam, lather than 10 change it Splneam ; and moved by the authority of V~rgllln Clri. where he a&JI, Pronuba nee cutos lnccndet Plnua amores. And Ovld, Fast. !lb. 2, Ezpectet ~ plnea teda dla. Though I deny nQt, there was also apinea teda, i:c., which Pllny calla Nuptiarum facibua auaplcatlasimam, Nat. Hilt. Ub. 16, cap. 18, and wh~f Sextua Pompeiua Feat. bath left 10 particular testimony. For which see the following note. ThiJ (by the ancients) was called Camlllua, quul minister (for 10 that alinflled In the Hetrurian tongue), and was one of the thiee, which by Sex. Pompel were sald to be Patrlml et Matrimi, Puerl prllltutati trell, qui nubentem deducunt : unua, qnl facem pnelert ex spina alba. Duo qui tenent nubentem. To which confer that of Vano, lih 6, de lingua Lat. Dlcltl}l' In nuptiia camillua, qnl CIUD enun !ett: as aiio that of Feat. Uh. 3, Cumerum yocahant antiqul vu quocldam

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JONSO~S

MASQUBS:

white thorn ; under his arm, a little wicker flasket shut : behind !Jim two others in white, the one bearing a distaff, the other a spindle. Betwixt these a personated bride, supported, her hair flowing, and loose sprinkled with grey ; on her head a garland of roses, like a turret ; her garments white : and on her back, a wether's fleece hanging down : her zone, o~ girdle about her waist, of white wool, fastened with the Herculean knot. In the midst went the Auspices ; 1 after them, two that sung, in several coloured silkS. Of which one bore the water, the other the fire; last of all the musicians, diversely attired, all crowned with roses ; and with this SONG began.
Bid all profane away ; None here may stay To view our mysteries, But who themselves have been, Or will in time be seen, The self-same sacrifice. For Union, mistress of these rites, Will be observed with eyes As simple as her nights.
Cllo. Fly then all profane away,

Fly far off as bath the day ; Night her curtain doth display, And this is Hymen's holy-day.

Tlu song 6nng mtkd, HYMEN presmlld Aimselj' foremost, a1111, a.{Ur soiiU ng11 of admiration, 6egan lo speak. _
Hy. What more than usual light, Throughout the place extended,
quod OpertlliD In nuptiis fereblmt, in quo erant nubeD.tls uteusrua. quod et camlllum dicebaDt : eo quod sacrorum minlstrum ~rclp&Uw appellabant. l "'usplces were thole that baudfasted tbe IDIUTied couple ; that wlabed them good luck : that took care for the dowry ; aud heard them profess that they came together for the auue of children. ]uYeD.. SaL 10, Veoletcumalguatonbuaauspe.. And Lucau. llb. 11, ] WlgUDtur tacit!, coutentlque auspice Bruto. They are alao atyled Pronubl, Piozeaet~~~, ParanymphL ' . Tbe custom ~ music at nuptials Is clear In all antiquity. Ter. Adel act. Verum hoc mihl mora est, Tibiclna, et HymeDIIeUIIl qui cautent. And Oaud. lu

s.

epithal., Ducant pervigila carmina tlbiee, l:c.

THB MASQUB OP HYMBif.

Makes Juno's fane so b~ght I Is there some greater deity descended ? Or reign, on earth, those Powers So rich, as with their beams Grace Union more than ours; And bound her influence in their happier streams ? 'Tis so : this same is he, The King, and Priest of Peace: And that his empress, she, That sits so crown~ with her own increase I 0 you, whose better blisses Have proved the strict embrace Of Union, with chaste kisses, And seen it flow so in your happy race ; That know, how well it binds The fitting seeds of things, Wins natures, sexes, minds, And every discord in true music brings : Sit now propitious aids, To rites so duly prized; And view two noble maids, Of different sex, to Union sacrificed. In honour of that blest estate Which all good minds should celebrate.
H~r~

6r

0111 of a 1t11CroJn11 or g-lok, fig-wn"tlg- a matr, fllitll a 1:1"1111 11./ t:MIIm#tnu mtUk, unua fort A t1u fint ""'sfJfU 11./ ng-ltt

TMI1

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rlfrum~d

tlu ftn~r

Ht~m()llrs 1

tUUl ftn~r Affidiotu, all

I That !her wtft perwoaated lo men bath already come under 1011111 pmmatlcal esceptioo. But there la more tbao grammar to releue iL For, t-Ides t:tlnt buiDOftl IUid afliect111 are botb IIIUCIIIIne lo geoere, not one ol the apedala but io luguap la 1mown by a muculloe word. Aplo, wbell tllelr ma- are to botb - . and more geoerally impetaoaslo the male, 1 - DOt wby

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jlqriotuly attired, auhilpislud tmiy by Jluir UflmU nuigJu

tuUJ coltlflrs ; tuUJ, datrdt~J: Old t111 llu stage, ;, lluir nhlnl a/ llu nul oflluir dtmu, drlfll all lluir Sfllords, offend Ill mcomptUs /M altar, fiNl dilhu'6 1/u uri11UIIIiu. AI fllilkll HYMEN, lrodud, spaM:

Hy. Save, save the virgins ; keep your hallowed lights Untouched; and with their ftame defend our rites. The four untemper'd ~umours are broke out, And, with their wild Atrections, go about To ravish all religion. If there be A power, like Reason, left in that huge body Or little world of inan from whence these came, Look forth, and with thy bright and numerous flame 1 Instruct their darkness, make them know and see, In wronging- these they have rebelled 'gainst thee.
Hereal, REAsoN, s1aud t111 1/U 14/J o/ 1/u gloh, tU ;, 1/u 6rtWJ, or lriglusl part of ma~~, jigund ,;, a vnuralu pnsfJtU~P, Air !lair w!liu, alld lrm1i~~g lo Air fllaisl, cr()fl1111d 'lllil!l /i'g!ll, Air gt11'11U1111 !Jiw, tuUJ sntlitud fllil!l stars, girded fl11111 Air fllil!l a ~/rife !Ja?Ul ji/11d 'lllil!l an'IAIIU#cal jipns, ill 01U Aalld han't~g a lamp, ;, 1111 oilier a !Jrig!ll Sfllord, descmded tuUJ spde:

.R1a. Forbear your rude attempt; what ignorance Could yield you so profane, as to advance
they ibould not 10 be more properly presented. And, for the alle&ory'. though here it be very clear, IUid such as might well escape a candle, yet because there nre some must complain of dal'lmess, that ha'ftl but thick e,-es, I am contented to hold them thll UghL First, u in natural bodies 10 likewise In minds, there la no dlRase or diltemperature but 11 canaed either by 10me abounding hWDOilr or penene afl'ectlon; after the same manner, in politic bQdies (where order, ceremony, state, re'ftlrence, devotion, are pu11 of the mind), by the dift"erence 01' predominant wUI of what we metaphorically call humours and afrectlon5, all thlnp are troub~ and confused. These, therefore, were tropically brought In, before Marriage, as disturbers of tlw.t mystical body, and the rites, which were soul unto it ; that after" wards, In marriage, being dutifully tempered by her power, they might mOre fully celebrate the happiness or such u live In that aoreet Unioo, to the hannonloualan of nature aild reason. 1 Allndlng to that opinion or Pythagoras, who held all reason, all knowledge, all diiCOUne of the IOU! to be mere number. See Pint. de Plac. PbiL

. THB MASQUB OP HYMBN. One thought in act against these mysteries ? Are Union's 1 orgies of so slender price? She that makes souls with bodies mix in love, Contracts the world in one, and therein Jove ; Is spring and end of all things : 1 yet, most strange, Herself nor su1fers spring, nor end, nor change. No wonder they were you, that were so bold; For none but Humours and A11'ections would Have dared so rash a venture. You will say It was your zeal that gave your powers the sway ; And urge the masquM and disguised pretence Of saving bl~ and succouring innocence: So want of knowledge still begetteth jars, When humorous earthlings will control the stars. Inform yourselves with safer reverence To these mysterious rites, whose mystic sense, Reason, which all things but itself confounds, Shall clear unto you from the authentic grounds. At t!W tlu Ht~m(lfln aNI Affictitnu sluat/ud IMir .l'lllflf'tb, emd nlirtd tuniJ6td lo llu side of tlu slagt, wlu1t HYKEN kgnn IIJ ,--k tlu jllrsiiiU, fliJd ordtr tlu &ermumus: fliJd R&\soN prouttiltllo sptd.

Rta. The pair, which do each other side, Though yet some space doth them divide, This happy night must both make one; Blest sacrifice to Union. Nor is this altar but a sign Of one more soft, and more divine. The genial~~ where Hymen keeps The solemn orgies, void of sleeps :
1 with the Greeks, ftlue tbe ame that ceremonie wllh the Lat!Ds ; and Imply all 10r11 of rites : ho,__. (abuslftly) they haft beeD made panlcalar to Bacchas. See Sen-. lo thAt of Vlrg ..neid. 4o Quails commotla n:dta acris Thyas. Macrob. In Som. Sclp. h"b. s. Properly lhat which wu made ready for lbe new.marrlecl brid~. anc:l wu called Oenialh, a FJifftJldil Uberll. Serf, In 6 Atn.

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And wildest Cupid, waking, hovers With adoration 'twixt the lovers. The tead of white and blooming thorn, In token of increase, is born : As also, with the ominous light,1 To fright all malice from the night. Like are the fire and water set ; That, e'en as moisture, mixt with beat, Helps every natural birth to life : So, for their ni.ce, join man and wife. The blushing veil a shows sbamefac'dness The ingenuous virgin should profess At meeting with the man ; her hair, That flows so liberal,' and so fair, Is shed with grey, to intimate, She entereth to a matron's state, For which those utensils e are born. And, that she should not labour scorn, Herself a snowy fleece doth wear ; And these her rock and spindle bear, 7 To show, that nothing which is good Gives check unto the highest blood. The zone of wool about her waist, Which, in contrary circles cast, Doth meet in one strong knot, 11 that binds, Tells you, so should all married minds.
See Ovid. Fut. lib. 6. Sic fatus aptnam, quA tristes pellere ~t A foribus nous, bee erat albn, dedit. Plulllr. in Quest. Rom. and Va:r. lib. of, de ling. Lat. I PUn. Nat. Hlst. lib. lU, cap. 8. ' Pomp. Fest. Briss. Hotto. de Rit. Nup. Va:r. lib. 6, de llnr. Lat. and Fest. tn Frag. FI!!IL ib. ' Plutar. In Qwest. Rom. et in RomuL PJJn. N at. Hist. lib. 8, cap. 48. That was Nodus Hen:uleanus. wblch tbe husband at night untied, in sign of good fortune, tllllt be might be bappy in propagation of Issue, as Hen:ules was, 11 ho left .eventy chlldren. See Feat. In woe. Clu&UL
t

XHB JIASQUB OP HYJIBN.

And lastly, these five waxen lights, Imply perfection in the rites : For five 1 the special number is, Whence halloW'd Union claims her bliss. As being all the sum that grows From the united strength of those Which male and female numbers we Do style, and are first two and three. Which, join&! ~us, you cannot sever In equal parts, but one will ever Remain as ~mmon; so we see The binding force of Unity : For which alon~ the peaceful gods In number always love the odds, And even parts as much despise, Since out of them all discorda rise.
H1r1 t/u fljJ4r jarl

6s

t!f 1/u smu, flllli&A fiNU all t!f d#fllll, and 11111M arllfldally 14 lfiiiU, and ritU liM t/u rM6, 61gflll /(1 IJjm, and t/u air dMiri~~g, i11 tJu IIJjJ tluruf flltU di#tltl~r1d Jflll0,1 sittillg u. tl IArme, 111/Jitlrlld 67 ltiJ(J /Ntlldiflll Jt uW J I /ur t:IJtin ri&A, fiiUi JiM tl pull,I tl '#1/UU dilldna tm lur /ufid, fro"' llnlu daUNUd a t1eil, IIIUl t!Jat IHIIItlll flliiA o fascia t!f U'flmU t:o~Mu-111 sili3,' ul flliiA all sflrll fl/

l Plufan:b. ID Qwest. Rom. See Mart. Cape!. Ub. 6, de Napt. Pbl1. et Mar. ID namero Peatade. Wlthtbo Greeb, ]ano wu laterpretod to be tbo air luel ADd 10 Macr. de ~ L z, c. 17 caDI her. Mar. Cap. 1Un1a111e1 her Ask, Q/ nllpiDg
~.

ac,a.

''J'be1 air,

-=red to ]liDo, ID nllpeCt Q/ their coloan ucl temper, 10 like the Orid de Al'te AmaDcL I..adalu Oltelldit aWJS JDDOIIia pe111111 ; aDCl Met.

lib. a.

Hahill 8atarDJa CGml

lugredltar llquldam paYODibus JEtbera pictll.

Sbe wu ealled Retrfua Jauo with tbe IAtfDa, beclulla wu 10ror et -Jaz ]oril, deorwD et ballllDam np. Read ApaL delc:ribiag her, ID bJa 1oth Q/ the "A& ' After tbo Q/ tbo antique bead, tbo Yarled coloan imp1J~Da. tbo lmn1 maladQas Q/ tbo air, u lbowen. dewl, ..Uty, r - Q/ wiDda, cloadl, IISDpest, ~. haii,JJablDIDg, thwader, all wbkh bad their DOIISIIp!Aed ID ber dlllbnl:

.BBN jONSON'S MA.SQUBS:

jlfllels, arid raiud ;, tlu top witA li/iu and rou~ : 1 ; , lur riglll lumtJ siu lu/tJ a saptn, ,..,. tJu oilier a ti,Jrel, al 1lw goldm fed tlu IUtU of a lio11 1 was p/aad: rtiUtul ~tlfd lur sal llu spirits of 1/u air ,..,. sl'llmzl ullnln, t11Uit~g t!IIUi&: ~()Ve lur tlu regioll oj fire, .,..,, a &t>b,IIIZI t11olio11, was sem to wlrir/ dr&r~/arly, and Jlljitw staNii~~g ill llu lop (/iprit~Jr tlu ,!lla'llm) 6ratulislrit~g Iris tii11Nilr: 6mealll 1lw llu railfiJt1111, Iris, aNI 011 tile lvJo sides ei'glll la4iu attired ri&Aiy, aNI al1u, ;, tile t110sl ulutia/ co/o11rs, 'IIIM reprumted Airpt1111ers, as sAl is 1111 ~tnUSs of tlllll'riare11 mul tiiiiiU tire se&orlli tNUfJfU. All 'IIIIU&A1 upo11 tile tiis&4flet71 REAsoN tNid4 narralio11 of. Rea. And see where Juno, whose great name Is Unio, in the anagram, Displays her glittering state and chair, As she enlightened' all the air I Hark how the chaiming tunes do beat In sacred concords 'bout her seat I And lo I to grace what these intend, Eight of her noblest Powers descend, Which are enstyled her faculties,' That govern nuptial mysteries; And ~ear those masques before their faces, Lest, da.zzling mortals with their graces As they approach them, all mankind Should be, like Cupid, strucken blind. These Order waits for, on the ground
the fac1llty or '*~lli .tbele being~ to.ber b7 Vlq. &leid. Jib. .... :wbere be makes ber uy, Hll eao nlgrautem commlsta graucllue lllmbum . . Desuper iD!uudam, et toDitru c:aelum OJDDe clebo. l ~'were -~ to )uno, u being made whit~ with her milk that fell upoa the earth wbeD Jove toolt Hen:ales away, wbom b7 atealth he had laid to ber, breast: the rose wu also c:alled Junoaia. I So sbe wu figured at Argos, u a llepmother, buultiDg on the apoDs of ber two pri.tgnl, BILccbua 811d Hen:ules. I See Vug. &Deld. lib. 4, Junoul ante omnes cui .tncla jugalla c:ane; aDd in another place, Dant signum prima et Tellua et Pronut.Juno; and Ofid. ID PbU. Epllt. JUDODeliaque terria que paldet alma 'Marltis. ' They were aD e!Jht called b7 particular sumama of ]uno, ucri~ to ber for aoaM poealiar propel'tJ ID marriap, u 10mewbere an.t la mon 8tJr dec:larecL

.THB M_ASQUB OP

HYMB~.

To keep, that you should not confound Their measured steps, which only move About the harmonious sphere of love.
TMir tleseml.fiNU madl ;,. lvlo grltll e/oudz, tllal p1# for/A llumsei7J:~s slfleraily, 11114, flliiiiiJIU fiUIISUri of tiwu, 'tllere sem to stqop, all{/fa// g-ml/y dtntm t~/Joll tlu earlll. Tlu ma~~~~er of tlltirluWils came qfler some stahus ofJuno, no Ius airy tluz11 gloritllu. Tile tiressi11gs oftluir luads, rare; so /iUwise of tllnrfut: all(/ all full Of splmtlour, swereigp~J7, atul tj&/w. WAilst llley 'tllerl tiesundtilg, t!lis SONO 'Wtu lfiiJK 41 t/u tJi11v. These, these are they, _ Whom Humour and Affection must obey; Who come to deck the genla.l bower, And bring wlth them the grateful Hour That crow~ such meeiin&s, and excitea The JDILI'Jied pair to fr~h delights : As courtings, killings, coyinga, oaths, and vows, Soft whiaperings, embracements, all the joys And melting toys, That chaster love allows. Clip, Haste, haste, for Hes,Perus his head don bows, T/Us so"l mtled, tlu,y lia11&4tlforlll ,;, fours, atul eacll pair fllit!l 4 'llaried atul noll/e grace, to a ran atulfoJI music of htlelfle lt~UI, kd 011 ll,y ORD&R, tile servan.t of REAsoN, 'lllko 'lllq.s tlure rallur a pers011 of ceremony t!la11 .ue. His t~ntler garwwu 'IIIIU llltu, !lis fl#w fllllill, and paimed foJ/ of an't!lm4ti&a/ atul geometrical.fipru ; /lis !lait' atul lleard /011g, a star 011 IUs foreluad, alld ;, Ais Aalul a geometri&a/ sta.lf: to 'IIIMm. tg'ter tile liall&1, REAsoN spalu
.Rtt~. Conv~y them, Order, to their placei, And rank them so, in several traces, As they may set their mix~ powers Unto the music of the Hours, And these, by joining with them, know In better temper how to .6ow : Whil$t I, from their abstracted names, Report the virtues of the dames. Y'U'St, Curis 1 comes to deck the bride's fair tress,
l Tbla surname Jano received of the Sabines; Crom ~ the Rom8as p~ it ..,, of tlle ap.i, wbiah {ill tbe &abUio lODpe) ... callecl curia, ud wu- that

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Care of the ointmeitta Umia 1 doth profess. Juga,1 her office to make one of twain : Gamelia sees that they should so remain. Fair Iterduca' leads the bride her way ; And Domiduca home her steps doth stay: Cimia o the maid, quit of her zone, defends ; Telia,' for Hymen, perfects all, and ends.
which the)' JWDed buta ceUbarls, which bad lt1lck lll the body ol a llalll lword player, and wbemrith the brlde'a bead wu dnlst. wbereol Fat. lll 'fOC8 cellt.r. lft'ei thae rea10111: Ut quem1dmodam Dla conjullcta faerlt cum corpons gladlalorta, ale ipea cum 'riro lit; Yel ~ ~ Juuoull curitla In tutelA. sit, que Ita appe11abatUr .. ferenda buta; Yel qub4 ronea Woa paituru omlDetur; Yel quod llllptilll Jure Imperio Ylrl aab:Jicltur nuheDI, quia buta IWIIIIIIl armorum, e& imperH eat, To most or which Plutucb, lll bil Q1llelt. Rom., CODIStl, bat adds a better In Romul. That when the)' diYided the bride'a hair with the point or tbe ~pe~r, fTIJII/loNw .r.w TOO p1.""' Mill -roMp.uc~ ,.a., -rpG;rw ..,y. -rw-'a&o 1t DOled their fint nuptlala (with the Sablnel) were contracted br force. and u with euem1ea. H~, that it wu a CllllOIIl with them, thla ol Otld. Fut. lib. a, CODllrms, Comat .qlneu buta recuna comu. I Far the 111n1aD1e ol Ulllda, we b&Ye Mart. Cape!. bil teatlmoay, De Nap. PbiL e& Mercu. lib. a, qubcl llllctkmlbat pneeat : u alto Serrius, llbro qlll11o ..neld., wbere they bolh report it a fuhloll with the Roma111, that befons the new-llllll'ried biclea eatered the hollaea or their blllbanda, the)' adomed the poat1 or the gatea with woollen tawdries, or fillets, and anointed them With oDa, or the f'at or wolftl and boars; being superatitlously poaest that such oiDtmeDta bad ~ Ylrtlle of ezpel1iDg erila from the family: and that thence were the)' called u - . quul UDmn~o . 1 Sbe wu zwned Juga, propter Jugum (u 8efyj111 I&JI), for the yoke which wu lmpoeed, ID matrimony, on thole that wen:IDIU'ried, Ol' (with Sex. Pomp. FesL) qabd ]up~IIIDt ejuadem Jugl Pares, IUlde e& Coajups, Ol' lll respect of the altar (which I b&Ye declared befe) ~ to ]llllO, ID VICO ]ugulo. A. abe was Game1la, ID IIIUlriAdng to her, they took away the pD, and threw it behiDd the altar; llltlmatiDg, tha.t (after IDIITiqe) then! lhoald be lmown no bitterness, DOl' hatred, between the joined couple, which might diYide Ol' leJI& rate them. See Plutan:h. Colmub. Pne. This rite I haw aomewbere following

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' Tbe title or Iterduea abe ~ amongst them, qubd a4 1p0111l aedes 1po111U comltabatur, Ol' wu a protecUell ol their JOIU'DeJ. Mart. Cape1. de Nupto Pbflol. e& Mercur. llbro IIICUildo. Tbe like of Domlduca, qabd a4 optatal dom111 duceret. Mart. Ibid. a~ the tame author giYesllllto her, u the defeaclresa of maids, when the)' bad pat off their giidle, in the btldal chamber; to which Featua, Cimlas ]UDODII nomea llllCltUm hlhebatur ID lluptill, quM IDitio coajugia aohltlo erat clngulf, quo llOY& uupta erat c!Dcta. ADd Amoblus, a man 11101t leamed In their moules,llb, s. ad--. Gent. abb, UoctioDibatlllpel'elt Uula. CIDgulonun Cllala
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B,1IMIHIIU 1/u ltullu .,,_ Jalrlll flliiJIIM """ flllllllu fiiMI# sizlmll"'mMtlftwiA, ;, twtln-, lo fitlllu .. 111111 .,., flliiA 1/JU SONG prO'IIoMd.

Now, now, begin to set Your spirits iD active heat ; And, since your hands are met, Instruct your nimble feet, In motions swift and meet, The happy ground to beat ; . Clto, WhUst all this roof doth ring, And each discording string, _
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With every. varied voice, In union doth rejoice.

IM,1 tilltludjorlA a IIIDSI 111111111111 alritiiU 11Ututlr11 fo/l of Nfiii.Y alld tln!k11 w!li&la flll:ll 10 ue111m11,1 Jn;ftwmld, 111 il s1mudlolah tJflla,111ud spirit jmtltlr1 itl'flmlitm, wAk/1 1/u ill'llmllllll raw to il: ad kjlll thll6(ftd, wlutllw tlu ftm~U j/tJtiNtJ t1111n Jll:fld/.1/"""' 1/u llld!atw's 6nli11, tw 1/uir j1d, Tlu llnlilll fl/11'1 all 1101116/_y tlijfn-1111, 101111 of IAnll ftwm~d ;1114 kltw1, ""7 nr'"bJ"r to 11r1 Mtlll of 11u Brilllgrt~tn~~, ad nu/Id;,. llrl "'""""of a &laaill, lidlllg laalliU: lo fllilkla t!W wu spohtl.
And not these links more even,

R1a. Such was the golden chain 1 let down from heaven;
Onomut. ~ riAcc& ftluel ]11110 I Pr-. Nuptlarum: who llltb, the attribato depends d f'IMI.OI, which (with the ucleuta) llignl8ed marrlap, ud tbeDoe were they called riAno& that eatered IDto that state. &nlas lnterpmalt the IllUDe with GameUa JueJd. 4o ad verb. Et ]1111one liec:imd& But lt Implies much more, u lacludluf the faculty, too, Diature ud perfect. See the Greek Schollut on PIDcL Nem. ID H:ym. ad 'Ibyreum Ulla! fllium Argl. rlAfiDf N &~ leA f'tl

nnw-l' ,... n~a6n,nl 7'00 fJlw ; that Is, Nupdals are therefore c:alled 'I'IAculc, beca111e they all'ect perfection ol Ufe, ud do DOte that maturity which aboaJd be ID matrlmoay. For bef'ore nupdala, she Is called JUDO npfb, tbat _11, VirJO; ~ nupdall, rlA-, wbkh 11, Adulta, or Perfec:ta. l Meudoaed by H-, //i4. I, wbJch IDIUIJ' haft Interpreted dltenely, alii]Je.

garblly. Pia. ID Tbeteto, llllderltallds I~ to be the Sun, wblch while be clrdel tbe world ID hll coane, all thlnp are aafe, ud preRrYed: othera ft1J lt. ~b. (to whole Interpretation I am specially all'ected ID my allualou) COIIIIderi 1t thua ; In Som. Sclp. llhr. r, cap. 14o ErJU cfun a IUDIJDO Deo mens, a mn~te ulma lit ; ulma ftftl et coudat, et Ylta c:ompleat omnia q11111 BeqUIIIItur, cunctaque hie iiuua lUJp IDmuluet, et ID un!Yersis appareat, ut In multls apeculll, per on:llnem polltls, Yultas unas : cumque omnia CODtlnula auccesslonibus 1111 aequautur, de'paeruda per OldiDem ad !mum meaDdl : ID-.eDietur preBIJI lntaeutl l IUDIDlO

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Than these : so sweetly tempered, so combined

B:1 union and refined. Here no contention, envy, grief, deceit, Fear, jealousy have weight; But all is peace, and love, and faith, and ~liss : What harmony like this'? The gall behind the altar quite is thrown ; This sacrifice bath none. Now no affections rage, nor humours swell ; But all composM dwell 0 Juno, Hymen, Hymen, Juno I who Can merit with you two? Without your presence, Venus can do nought, Save what with shame is bought; No lather can himself a parent show, Nor any house with prosperous issue grow. 0 then, \Vhat deities will date With Hymen, or with Juno to compare~ TAil speec!J 61i11g mtletl, t!Jey dissolved: anti all_t,oll forl!J otlur pers01U (Jnm aNI womm) to tlanu otlur measures, ga//iardr, anti &twa111os . tlu '111/u'/st t!Jis SONG imporlunetlt!Jem to a fit remem6rat~ee of t!Je lime.
Think, yet, how night doth waste, How much of time is past, What more than wing~ haste Your selves would take, If you were but to taste The joy the night doth cast (0 might it ever last) On this bright virgin and her happy make.

Tluir t/tmus yet laslt"~fK, tluy '~~~"' tlu sectmtl 11"1111 lmJHwtunetl 6yspee&"
Deo uscjue ad ultlmam rerum fecem una mutuis se vinculis relipns, et nusqiWII intetrupta connuia. Et haec est Homerl Catena aurea, quam pendere de ceelo in tenas Deum jusslsse commemorat. To which strength and evenness ot coonezlon, I have not absurdly likened this uniting or Humours and Afrect!OIIS b7 the iacred Power.s of IDII1Tiage.

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Rea. See, see I the bright 1 Idalian litar, That lighteth lovers to their war, Complains that you her influence lose ; While thus the night sports you abuse. 'Hym. The longing bridegroom, in the porch, Shows you again the bated torch ; And thrice bath ] uno 1 mixt her air With fire, to aummon your repair. Rea. See, now she cl~ withdraws her light; And, as you should, gives place to night, That spreads her broad and blackest wing Upon the world, and comes to bring A' thousand several-coloured loves, Some like sparrows some like doves, That hop about the nuptial-room, And fluttering there, against you come, Warm the chaste bower, which a Cypria strows With many a lily, many a rose. Hym. Haste, tlierefore, haste, and call, away I The gentle night is prest to pay The usury of long delights, She owes to these protracted rites.
AlllW, tlu wlw/4 smu !Jn11g tlrt1t1111 aga/11, tuul all &tlfJWitl filii"
&ID*Iis, tu a niglll, lluy lift iJjf tluir inlwlllintl tltm&u, t111d
1 Stella Veaeris, or Vena, which wben ft 1oe1 before the IWl, 11 celled Pboaphoru, or Lucifer; wbeo it follows, Hespmu, or Noc:tffer (u Cat. tral)l]ats it). See Cic. a, de Nat. Deor. Mar. Cap. de Nap. PhiL et Mer. L 8. The nature of tbllatar Pytbqoras fint foaDd out: aud tbe prae~~t office Claa. ~ lll F - . Atolleua tbalamil Idalium, jubar Dilectua Veneri aaacltur Hesperus. It was a custom for the man to r.tand there, expecting the approilcb of hll bride. See Hotto. de RJt. Nupt. Alluding to that of Vlrg ...Eueld. 4o Prima et Tellu, et Pronuba Juuo Out slgunm : fulse:re !goes, et consclua -=ther Coanubli, i:c. ' Stat. ID Eplt. Fulcra, torosque dtee, teuenun pmult .,mm AmOI'IDD. And Claad. ill Epitb. Penuatl paulm puerl, quo quemque voc:arit Umbra, Jaoent. Both wblcb pnmd tbe ancients feigued many Cuplda. Read also Prop. eteg.

li9.L o. . . Venu 1110 Induced br Stat., Claad., aud otben, to oele:brate nuptlall.

BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS: ,.,lunutl to llldr finl Jlaui: a~lten, tU tlrey "'"" 1111 hgi""''"K IIJ """"' tAis SONG, l"f tllirtllim~, t1rpd t!lnr.

0 know to end, as to begin : A minute's loss iD love is sin. These humours will the night out-wear In th~ own pastimes here; You do our rites much wrong, In seeking to prolong These outward pleasures : The night bath other treasures . Than these, though long concealed, Ere day to be revealed. Then, know to end, as to begin ; A minute's loss in love is sin.
Hn'e llrey dalz&etl tlldr last tlancu,fuJ/ of ezallml tkliKM t11ttl &lump, anti, ;,. llldr latter strait~, fell i11to a fair orl or dr&U ~ REASON slalu#'11g ill llu mitlst, aNI speaiit~g. Rea. Here stay, and let your sports be crowned : The perfect'st figure is the round Nor fell you in it by adventure, When reason was your guide and centre. This, this that beauteous 1 ceston is ()f lovers' many-coloured bliss. Come, Hymen, make aa inner ring, And let the sacrificers sing ; Cheer Up the faint and trembling bride, That quakes to touch her bridegroom's side : Tell her, what Juno is to Jove The same shall she be to her love ; His wife: which we do rather measure A 1 name of dignity than pleasure. Up, youths i hold up your lights in air, And shake abroad 1 their flaming hair.
1 Venus's pdle, mentioned by Homer, Jli. f, wblcb was feigned to bnariOU!ly wrollill.t with the ueedJe, and lu it '!'Oell love, desires, aweet~, 110ft parley, ~. persuulou, and all the powers ol Venaa. I l:!ee the wordl of AWaa Verua In Spartian. So Cat. In Nupt. JuL et ManUI bath IL Vlden' ut races splendidu qaatiant

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Now move united, and in gait, Aa you, in pairs, do front the State, With grateful honoun thank His Grace That bath 8o glorified the place : And as, in .circle, you depart Linked band in band ; so, heart in heart, May all those bodies still remain Whom he with so much sacred pain No less bath bound within his realms Than they are with the ocean's streams. Long may his Union find increase, As he, to ours, bath deigned his peace I
WiiA' IIW1 lo a sf!/1 slraU. of 11111SI&1 1/uy jaad Ma a!Hnll, ,., IMir ring, eve17 pair mailing IMir ~n, tu 1/uy &111111 lif"e llu Slate: and llun dissolw"nr, fllltll thrlm ;, enplu, led on I)' HYMEN, 1/u llridl, aild aiiSJkufolltJwilrg, tu IIJ llu 11Uplia/ 6()f//lf', .llfllr llum, llu 11111n'dtuu fllii!J IIW $0MO.
Glad time is at his point arrived, For which love's hopes were so long lived. Lead, Hymen, lead away; And let no object stay, Nor banquets, but sweet kisses, The turtles from their blisses. 1 'Tis Cupid calls to arm ; And this his last alarm.

Of IAu SOM01 llull, (Jn/)' (}Ill slajf aw m11g, lml k&alue I tllaile il IHJIA ,., f""' atUl mal/er /(} mn~lale 1/uil kind of ponn, 'll!lu"eA aw &a/led Ep;tlralamlum,1 tmd 67 llu fllldlnls ll#d lo IN IU"ff tvAm lite llritle f1NP led U./4 Aer &Aam6er, I Aave lure sel it tl4tvn tvAo/4; atUI do luilrlil)' forgive 1/uir ig11QrfJ11U '11/Mm il &Aanui!J rMI lo pletul. Hojling 1/ral nemo doctus me jubeat Thalassionem verbis dicere non Tbalassionis.
1 Tli1a paem bad for the most part 'fei1UJD IDtercalarem, or c:ar,nen IIDiaeblleam : yet that DOt alnys ODe, bat oftentlmel ftried, and IIOIIIetlmes Deglectecl ID the IIUDIIIOJI8', u ID oan yoa lhall 6od obserfed. I It bad the uame 1 Tba1amo: dictum est autem I~ cablcalam Nupdale primo 1110 llplficatu, ll'llpA ri ID.IU' ~ qaod est llmul genlalem 'ritiiJII ..... Seal. ID PoeL

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EPITHALAMI ON,

Glad time is at his point arrived, For which love's hopes were so long lived, Lead, Hymen, lead away; And let no object stay, Nor banquets, but sweet kisses, The turtles from their blisses. 'Tis Cupid calls to arm ; And this his last alarm. Shrink not, soft virgin, you will love, Anon, what you so fear to prove. This is no killing war,. To which you press6d are; But fair and gentle strife, Which lovers call their ljfe; 'Tis Cupid cries, to arm ; And this his last alarm. . Help, youths and virgins, help to sing The prize which Hymen here dotb'bring. And did so lately ~ rap , From forth the mother's lap, To place her by that side Where she must long abide. On :Hymen, Hymen call, This night is Hymen's all See I Hesperus is yet in view. WJ!at star can so deserVe of you ? . W1Jose light doth still adorn your bride, that, ere the niom, Shall far more perfect be, And rise as bright as he ; When, like to him, her name Is changed, but not her flame. Haste, tender lady, and adventure; . The covetous house would have you enter,
' 1 Tbe bride wu at-:ps feigned to be ravished eE gremio matrfs: or (If she were waJ!lfD&) a pozim& neceuitudlne, becanse that bad succeeded wen .to Romnlns,: wbo; bJ fora~, gat wiYeB Cor bim and bls, from the Sabinea. See Fatt.:abd that of C. tu! . Qui rapla teileram ad virum Yirginem. . When be is Pbospb01111, yet the I&I'De llar, as I bave noted before.:

 THB MASQUB OF HYMEN. That it might wealthy be, And you, her lmistress, see: Haste your' own good to meet J . And s lift yov golden feet About the threshold high, With prosperous augury. Now, youths, l~t g? your pretty arm\; The place within chants other charmS. W~ole showers of roses fiow ; And violets seem to grow, Strewed in the chamber there, As Venus' mead .it were.. On: Hymen, Hymen call, This night is Hymen's all Good matrons, that so well are known To ~ husbands of your own, Place you our bride to-night ; And a snatch away the light : That' she not hide it dead Beneath her spouse's bed ; Nor ' he reserv.e the same To help the funeral fiame. So I now you may admit him in; The act he covets is no in, But chaste and holy love, Whicll Hymen doth approve; Without whose hallowing fires All aims are base desires. On l'lymen, Hymen call, This night is Hymen's all Now free from vulgar spite or noise, May you enjoy your mutual joys ;
1 At tbe entrance o the bride, the custom WRS to gi'l!l her the keys, to lllgnlfy that she was absolutely ruiltress of the place, lllld the whole disposition of the family at her care. Fest; I Tbil wu also IUIOtber rite: that lhe might not touch the threshold RI lhe entered, bat was llfted over it. Serri111 181th, because it wu laered to V esta. P!.ut. In QlliiiiSt. R.om. remembers dlvens caUIICS. But that, which I take to come nearest tbe truth, wu only the aYOldlng of 10rcerowi drugs. used by witches to be buried under that place, to the destroying of IIIIU'liage iuDity, or the power ol generAtion, See Aleund. In Genialibus, and Christ. Landus upon CatuL I For tbit, l!XIk Fest. in Voc. RapL ' Quo utroque mons proplnqua alterlus ulterius captarl putatar, Pest. lb.

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But Upe may mingle IOU1s; And 10ft embrace~ blod To each the other'a Whicb may no power untie, Till oae 01' both must die I Aad look, before you yield to slumber, That your dellghta be drawn put number; ]ora. got with strife, lncreue. Meet DO sleepy peace; Bat keep the bride' fair eyes Awake with her own criea, Which are bllt maiden f'ean : Aad ldises dry such tears. Then colD them 'twist your lipe 10 tweet, Aad let not cocldes c:loaer meet ; Nor may your murmuring loves Be drowned by 1 Cypria' cloves : Let ivy not 10 bind ~ when your arms are twiDed : That you may bo11 ere day, Rise perfect every way. And, Jano, whose great powers protect The marriage-bed, with good eft'ec:t, The labour of this night Bless thou, for future light : And thou, thy happy clwge, Glad Genius, I enlarge ; That they may both ere day, Rise perfeCt every way. Aad Venus, thou, with timely seed, Which may their after-comforta breed, Inform the gentle womb; Nor let it prove a toinb:

Now, you DO feu cootroll,

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1 A lrequeat IIW'IWII8 oe veims, DOt oe the plaae. u Cyprla: but qubd r-rere ladat, r i - W"llfi'XOIIn, Tbeopb. Pbamat. IUid thepammadua UpaD Homer,

- tbelll. Natune, Deal rtr-Uo ADd Is the ID the male, u ]DDO ID the lemaJe. H._ GeDia1ls Lectu, qui mapdll ltenlltllr, ID ~ GelllL Fest. OeDiua - - . quia me ~uft. Sbe lwh tbla faculty glftll by all the lllldnta. See Hom /lW. 1, Lacret. ID pia VlrJ. ID a Gecq,, b.

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But, ere ten moons be wasted, The birth, by Cynthia basted. So may they both ere day, Rise perfect ~err way. And, when the babe to light is shown, Let it be like each parent ~own ; Much of the father's face, More of tlJ,e mother's grace ; And either grandsire's spirit, And fame, let it Inherit. That men may bless the embraces, That join~ two such races. Cease. youths and virgins, you haYe done ; Shut last the door : and u they IOOD To their perfec:tiou haste, So may their ardoUl'l last. So either's strength outlive All loss that age can give : And, ~ougb full years be told, Their forms grow slowly old.

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Hitherto extended. the first night's solemnity, whose grace in the execution, left not wh~ to add unto it, with wishing: I mean (nor do I conrt them) in those that sustained the nobler parts. Such 'Was the exquisite performance, as, beside the pomp, splendour, or what we may call apparelling of such presentments, that aloue (bad all else been absent) was of power to surprise with delight, and steal away the spectators from themselves. Nor was there wanting whatsoever might give to the furniture or complement, either in richneu, or strangeness of the habits, delicacy of dances, magnificence of the scene, or divine rapture of music. ODly, the envy was, that it lasted not still ; or, now it is past, cannot by imagination, much less description, b!' recovered to a part of that spirit it had in the gliding by. Yet, that I may not utterly defraud the reader of his hope, I am drawn to give it those brief touches, which may leave behind some shadow of what it was : and first of the attires. That of the lords, bad part of it, for the fashion, taken frozn the antique Greek s~es, mixed with aome modem additions : which made it both graceful and strange. On their heads they wore Persic crowns, that were with scrolls of gold plate tumed outward, and wreathed about with a carnation and silver net-lawn ; the ODe end of which hung careleally op the left shoulder ; the other 1ras tricked

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up before, in several degrees of folds, between the plaits, ~oud set with rich jewels &J:l4 great pearl Their bodies were of carnation cloth of silver, richly wrought, and cut to express the naked, in manner of the Greek tho~ ; girt under the breasts with a broad belt of cloth of gold, embroidered, and fastened before with jewels : their labels were of. white cloth of silver, laced, and wrought curiously between, suitable to the upper half of their sleeves ; whose nether parts with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, cheveroned all over with lace. Their mantles were of several-coloured silks, distinguishing their qualities; as they were coupled in pairs ; the first, sky-colour ; the second, pearl-colour ; the third, flame-colour ; the fourth, tawny; and these cut in leaves, which wete subtilly tucked up, and embroidered with O's, and between every rank of leaves a broad silver race. They were fasten,ed on the right shoulder, and fell compass don the back' in gracious folds, and w'ere again tied with a round knot to the fastening of their swords. Upon their legs they wore silver greaves, answeting in work to their labels. And these were lheir accoutrements. The ladies' attire wu wholly new, for the invention, and full of glory ; as having in it the most true impression of a celestial figure : the upper part of white cloth of silver, wrought with ]uno's birds and fruits; a loose under garment, full gathered, of carnation, striped with silver; and parted with a golden zone; beneath that, another flowing garment, of watchet cloth of silver, laced with gold 1 through all whic~ though they were round and swelling, there yet appeared some touch of their delicate lineaments, preserving 'the sweetness of proportion, and expressing itself beyond expression. The attire of their heads did answer, if not exceed ; their hair being carelessly (but yet with more art than if more affected) bound under the circle of a rare and rich coronet, adorned with all variety, and choice of jew~ ; from the top of which flowed a transparent veil, down to the ground ; whose verge returning up, was fastened to either side in most sprightly manner. Their shoes were azure and gold, set with rubies &J:ld diamonds ; so were all their garments; and every part abounding in ornament. No less to be admired, for the grace and greatness, waa the whole machine of th!= spectacle from whence they ~e : the fint part of which yas a MIKPOKOJ.MO:Z, or globe, filled with countriet, and those gilded; where the sea was exprest, heightened with silver waves. This stood, or rather hung (for no axle was seen to support it), and turning softly, discovered the fint masque (aa we have before, but too runningly, declared), which was of the men, Bl.tting in fAir com ~ti~u, withm a miD~ of several meta1l : to which the lightl were

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so placed, as no one was seen ; but seemed as if only Reason, with the splendour of her crown, illumined the whole grot. On the sides of this, which began the other part, were placed two great statues, feigned of gold, one of Atlas, the other of Hercules, in varied postures, bearing up the clouds, which were of relievo, embossed, and tralucent as naturals : to these a cortine of painted clouds joined, which reached to the utmost roof of the hall; and suddenly opening, revealed the three regions of air : in the highest of which sat Juno, ma glorious throne of gold, circled with comets, and fiery meleors, engendered in that hot and dry region ; her feet reaching to the lowest : where was made a rainbow, and within it musicians seated, figuring airy spirits, their habits various, and resembling the several colours caused in that part of the air by reflection. The midst was all of dark and condensed clouds, as being the, proper place where rain, hail, and other watery meteors are Jlllie; out of which two concave .clouds ~rom the rest thrust forth tlttmselves (in ;JI&ture of those Nimb~ wherein, by Homer, Virgil, , ~. the gods are feigned to descend), and these carried the eight ;l~iei over the heads of the tw9 1erms ; 1 who, as the engine moved, - /~eemed also to bow themselves (by virtue of their shadows) an~ dis' ~arge their shoulders of their glorious burden : when havillg set them on the earth, both they and the clouds gathered themselves up again, with some rapture of the beholders. But that, which (as above in place, so in the beauty) was most taking in the spectacle, was the sphere of fire, in the top of all, encompassing the air, and imitated with such art and industry, as the spectators might discem the motion (all the time the shows lasted) without any mover ; and that so swift, as no eye could distinguish any colour of the light, but might foim to itself five hundr'ed several hues out of the tralucent body of the air, obj~tl;d betwixt it and them. And this was crowned with a statue of Jupiter the Thunderer.

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OK the

next night, whose solemnity was of

BAllttiJUlS

(all mention

of the former being utterly removed aDd taken away), there appeared, at the lower end of the ball, a mist made of delicate perfumes ; out of which (a battle being sounded under the atage) did aeem to break forth two ladies, the one representing TRUTH, the other OPIKIOlf ; but both ao liD attired, u they could by no note be diatingulahed. The colour of their gannents was blue, their aocb white; they were crowned with wreath of palm, aDd In their hand each of them austaiDed a palm-bough. These, after the mlat wu vaniabed, began to eumiDe each other curiously with their eyes, and approaching the State, the one expottulated the other in this manner:

.7hlt.l Who art thou, thus that imita\'st my grace, In steps, in habit, and resembled W:e? Ojin. Grave Time 1 and Industry my parents are; My name is Truth, who, through these so~ of war, Which figure the wise mind's discursive sight, In mists by Nature wrapt, salute the light. Dwt.l I am that Truth, thou some illusive spright; Whom to my likeness, the black sorceress Night Bath of these dry and empty fumes created. Opi11. Best herald of thine own birth, well related. Put me and mine to proof of words and facts, In any question this fllir hour exacts. nwt.l I challenge thee, and fit this time of love, With this poiition, which Truth comes to prove ;
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t. felgaed to be the daqhter ol SatllrD : who IDdeed, with the uc:leDta, 10 hla Dame alludes, K,oMot. PiaL ID Qaaa. To whlcb coafer tbe Greek Map, 4oya N wpar fGit yop ll>.lfBt&U ~
t Truth

other than time, and

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That the most honoured state of man and wife, Doth far exceed the insociate virgin life. Opin. I take the adverse part ; and she that best Defe~ds her side, be Truth by all confest. :Frutn. It is confirmed. With what an equal brow To Truth, 1 Opinion's confident I and how Like Truth her habit shows to sensual eyes ; But whosoe'er thou be, in this disguise, Clear Truth, anon, shall strip thee to the heart ; And show bow mere fantastical thou art. Kriow, then, the first production of things Requir&l two; from mere one nothing springs : Without that knot the theme thou gloriest in (The unprofitable virgin) had not been. The golden tree of marriige began In Paradise, and bore the fruit of man ; On whose sweet branches angels sat and sung, And from whose firm root all society sprung. Love (whose strong virtue wrapt heaven's soul in earth, And made a woman glory in his birth) In marriage opens his inflam&l breast ; And lest in him nature should stifled rest, His genial fire about the world he darts, Which lips with lips combines, and hearts with hearts. Marriage Love's object is ; at whose bright eyes, He lights his torches, and calls them his skies. For her he wings his shoulders ; and doth fly To her white bosom as his sanctuary: In which no lustful finger can profane him, Nor any e$rth with black eclipses wane him. She makes him smile in sorrows, and doth stand 'Twixt him and all wants, with her silver hand. In her soft locks his tender feet are tied ;
1 HlppOcrat. in a certain epistle to Pbllopcem. delcrlbeth her, Mulierem, que non mala Yideatur, led andaclor aspeetu et condtatior. To which Cesare Ripa; in his IcoooJotr, allndeth in these words, Faccla, M bella, n~ dilpiac:evole, !:c.

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BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS.

And in his fetters he takes worthy pride. And as geometricians have approved That lines and superficies are not moved By their own forces, but do follow still 'Their bodies' motions, so the self-loved 'frill Of man or woman should not rule in them, But each with other wear the anadem. Mirrors, though decked with diamonds, are nought 'ROrth If the like forms of things they set not forth ; So men or women are worth nothing neither, If eithers eyes and hearts present not either. Opi11. Untouched Virginity, laugh out; to see Freedom in fetters placed, and urged 'gainat thee. What griefs lie groaning on the nuptial bed? What dull society? in what sheets of lead Tumble and toss the restless married pair, Each oft offended with the others air? From whence springs all-devouring avarice, But from the cares which out of wedlock rise? And, where there is in lie's best-tempered fires An end set in itself to all desirea, A settled quiet, freedom never checked ; How far are married lives from this effect? Euripus,1 that bears ships in all their pride 'Gainst roughest winds with violence of his tide, And ebbs and flows seven times in every day, Toils not more turbulent or fierce than they. And then what rules husbands prescribe their 'Rives I In their eyesi circles they must bound tlleir lives. The moon, when farth~t from the sun she shines, Is most refulgent ; nearest, most declines : But your poor wives far off must never roam; But waste their beauties near their lords at home 1 And when their lords range out, at home must hide,
1 A narrow - . between Aulia, a port of BaJotla, Pomp. Mela1 Ub, !it llld

the lale Eubca.

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Like to begged monopOli~ all their pride. When their lords list to feed 11. serlowi fit; They must be serious ; when to show their wit In jests and laughter1 they l:nt18t laugh and jest ; When they wake, wllke ; and when they rest, must rest ; And to their wives men give such twro 8Copes, As if they meant to make theilt walk on ropeti : No tumblers bide more peril of their necks In all their tricks, dwi wives in husbands' cheeu. Where virgins, in their sweet and peaceful State, Have all things perfect; spin th~ir own free fate; Depend on no proud second 1 are their own Centre and circle; now and always one. To whose example we do still hear named O~e God, one nature, and but one world framed, One sun. one moon, one element of fire, So of the rest; one king, that doth inspire Soul to all bodies, in their royal sphere. Trutn. And where is marriage more declared thah there ? Is there a band more -strict than that doth tie The soul and body in such unity? Subjects to sovereigns; doth one mind display In the one's obedience, and the other's sway? Believe it,. marriage suffers no compare; When both estates are valued as they are. The virgin were a strange and stubborn thing, Would longer stay a virgin than to bring Herself fit use and profit in a make. ()pin. How she doth err, and the whole heav~n mistake I Look, how a flower that close in closes grows, Hid from rude cattle, bruised with no ploughs, Which the air doth stroke, sun strengthen. shower. 1heot higher, It many youths, and many maids desire; The same, when cropt by cruel band 'tis withered, No youths at all, no maidens have desired: So a virgin, while untouched she doth remain;

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Is dear to hers ; but when with body's stain Her chaster flower is lost, she leaves to appear Or sweet to young men, or to maidens dear. That conquest then may crown me in this war, Virgins, 0 virgins, fly from Hymen far. Truth. Virgins, 0 virgins, to sweet Hymen yield, For as a lone vine, in a nake<i field, Never extols her branches, never bears Ripe grapes, but with a headlong heaviness wears Her tender body, and her highest sprout Is quickly levelled.with her fading root ; By whom no husbandman, no youths will dwell; But if by fortune, she he married well To the elm her husband, many husbandmen And many youths inhabit by her, then : So whilst a virgin doth, untouched, abide, All unmanured, she grows old with her pride ; But when to equal wedlock, in fit time, Her fortune, and endeavour lets her climb, Dear to her love, and parents she is held. Virgins, 0 virgins, to sweet Hymen yield. Optn. These are but words ; hast thou a knight will try, By stroke of~ the simple verity? Trn/11. To that high proof I would have dar&i thee. I'll straight fetch champions for the bride and me. Oji11. The like will I do for virginity.
I!n-e 1/uy IDI!I tksmu/ed llu ltn/1, wltn-1 alllu IMIIn-md, a mnrc/J on'nr ttJUIUied willl drums nml jifu, llurl mln'ld (1"1 ftwt/J oy tlu Earl Df No/li11gltam, wAD was Lord Hig/J Consla61e for /!tat nigAI, and tlt1 Earl of Worcestn-, Earl Manltal) sixteen lmig/Jts anMd '1111'111 pilus and Sfi/Drds; tlln'r plumes and coltJUrs, carnali'"" nnd wlu't1~ all ricllly atn~lred, tuld "'aking IMir /wntJUn to llu Slnt1, as 1/uy marclud oy in pairs, wn-1 nil radtd "" otu n'de of llu !tall. Tluy plaud #mm ollun, lilu a&CM1Ir1d for n"t:lus and arms, Dtl/y tltat tluir coltJUrs wn-1 varied to tunic/ut and w/Jite / wAD were lJy llu .SaMI earl.s kd -up, and jJtus11Jg ,., 11'/u ma11ntr ly tlu Slate, /Jiac1d"" tAl o#tJnu dde.

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By tiW tit~~~, tlu BAR MMg lmnlg/11 t~p, TRtiTH~ TruiA. Now join ; and if this varied trial fail To make my truth in wedlock's praise prevail, I will retire, and in more power appear, To cease this strife, and _make our question clear. Wlur6111 OPINION iiUUihilg,folltnvld lur 'lllitll /Iris sju&ll.

Op.n. Ay, do-.; it were not safe thou shouldst abide: This speaks thy name, with shame to quit thy side
H1r1

1114 ckamP,oiU on lloi!J sides atldrtsl 1114nutlvls for figlll, firs/ n"11gu, ajl.lr, t!Jru lo U.n1: atld pnfonrud il 'llliln t!Jal a/aaily tmd?Jigour, as Mars !Jims11j AatJ """ /o lrit~mp!J IJ'.fon Vnuu, aNi 'Mimlld a 1U'lll masgue. WMtl 011 a suddm (1114 last six !Jawilg scarct/y nui4tl), a striltillg /ig/11 Slnrwi lo ji/1 a/11114 na/1, aNl qui qf il at~ ANGEL or mtssmgrr qfgltwy aJIIanilg.

:t

A11gd. Princes, attend a We of height and wonder, Truth is descended in a second thunder, And now will greet you, with judicial state, To grace the nuptial part in this debate, And end with reconcil~ hands these wars. Upon ):ler head she wears a crown of stars, Through which her orient hair waves to her waist, By which believing mortals hold her fast, And in those golden cords are carried even Till with her breath she blows them up to heaven. She wears a robe enchased with eagles' eyes, To signify her sight in mysteries : Upon each shoulder sits a milk-white dove, And at her feet do witty serpents move : Her spacious arms do reach from east to west, And you may see her heart shine through her breast. Her right hand holds a sun with burning rays, H;r left a curious bunch of golden keys With which heaven's gates she locketh and displays. A aystal mirror hangeth at her breast, By which men's consciences are searched, and drest:

BEN 10N30N'S M-iSQUBS.

On her CIQICb..wbe~tla Rypoaisy lies rae1lec1 1 And aqui~~ Slao~. with V~ory lw;ftd, Her bright ~J~ bllrQ to d~ iP whiclb thiftet F~ 1
An angel ushen her triqmp~t gait. Whilst with her fipgenl fil,na of stars she m~ An~ with them be&lts ~ ErrQr, c;lad in P.l~ Eternal Unity behind her shines, That fire and water, earth and ili combi,Jles. Her voice is like a trumpet loud and shrill, wPieb bida all sounds in earth and h~ven be still And see I ~escended from her chariot pow, IQ. this re~te.4 pomp sh~ yisi~ yoq.

Pllkr 'l'1ltrnt.
Trlltll. Honour to all that honour nuptials, To whose fair lot, iP ju.tice, now it (Jlls, That this my OOIUltoneit be here disclosed, Who, for virginity, bath be111elf oppoted. Nor though my brightness do undo her chums, Let these her knights think that their equal arms Are wronged thoroin t for valour wins applause, That daros but to maintain the weaker cause. And princes, aee, 'tia mere Opinion That in Truth's ford robe, for Truth ha~ gone I Her gaudy colours, piecod with many folds, Show what ~certainties she ever holda : Vanish, adulterate Truth I and never Qa.re With proud maids' praise to press where nuptials are. And, cbampioftl, since you see the truth I bold, To sacred Hymen, reconcil~, yield: Nor so to yield think it the least despigbt : It is a conqu~t to submit to right. This Royal Judge of 0\11' contention Will pt'QP, I know, what I have undergone ; To whose right sacred Highness I resign, Lc:?w at his feet, this starry crown of mine,

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To show his rule and judgment is divine; These doves to him I consecrate withal, To note his innocence, without spot or gall; These serpents, for his wisdom : and these rays, To show, his pier~ splendour: these bright keys, Designing power to ope the ported skies And s~ their glories to his subjects' eyes. Lastly, this heart, with which all hearts be true: And Truth in him make treason ever rue.
WiiA IlW 1/uy flltrl led fortlr, /rand ;, /rand, lriumpll. ANi tlttu lire stJiemniliu mtild.
rtetJt~dled,

as m

Vivite concordes, et nostrum discite munus.

THE HUE AND CRY AFTER CUPID.

THr. worthy custom of honouring worthy marriages with these noble aolemnities, bath of late years advanced itself frequently With us ; to the reputation no less of our court, than nobles ; expres:1ing Qelides (through the difficulties of expense and travail, with the cheerfulness of undertaking) a most real affection in the personators to those for whose sake they would sustain these persons. It behoves then us, that are trusted with a part of their honour in these celebrations, to do nothing in tbem beneath the dignity of either. With tbis proposed part of judgment, I adventure to give that ab1oad which in my first conception l intended honourably fit : and, though it bath laboured since under censure, I, that know truth to be always of one stature, and so like a rule u who bends it the least way must needs do an injury to the right, cannot but smile at their tyrannous ignorance, that will olfer to slight me (in these things being an artificer) and give themselves a peremptory licene to judge, who have never touched so much u to the bark or utter ahell of any knowledge. But their daring dwell with them. They have found a place to pour out their follies ; and I a seat to sleep out the passage.

The scene to this Masque was a high, steep, red cliff, advancing itself into the clouds, figuring the place, from whence (as I have been, not fabulously, inf<?rmed) the honourable family of the Radclitrs first took th~ir name, a divo ru!Jro, and is to ~ written with that orthography; as I have observed out of Master Camden, in his mention of the Earls of Sussex. This cliJf' was n1so a note of height, greatness, and antiquity. Before which, on the two sides; were erected ~!J'O _p_ilas~ charged with spoils and trophies of Love and his mother, consecrate to marriage : amongst which, were old and young persons figured, bound with roses, the wedding garments, rocks and spindles, hearts transfixed with arrows, others flaming, virgins' girdles, garlands, and worlds

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of such like ; all wrought round and bold: and overhead tw~ personages, Triumph and )Tictocy. in _flfo.!&. ~ and twice so big as the life, in place of the arch, and holding a garland of myrtle for the key. All which, with the pillars, seemed to be of bamished gold, and embossed out of the metal. Beyond the cliff was seen nothing but clouds, thick and obscure; till on the sudden, with a solemn music, a bright sky breaking forth, there were discovered first,~Q ~Q~es,I then .~o-s~s, 1 with silver gears, drawing forth a triumphant chariot in which Y,enus sa!, aowned with her star, and beneathher the. ~ee <::;.~~ or Cbarites, Aglaia, Thalia, Euphr~ne, all attired according to their antique figUres. These, from. their chariot, alighted on the top of the cliff, and descending by certain abrupt and winding passages, Venus haviiig1effher.ilfar only flaming in her seat, came to the earth, the Graces throwing garlands all the way, and began to speak.

Yen. It is no common cause, ye will conceive, My lovely Graces, makes your goddess leave Her State in heaven, to-night, to visit earth. Love late is fied away, my eldest birth, Cupid, whom I did joy to call my son ; And, whom long absent, Venus is undone. Spy, if you can, his footsteps on this green; For ,here, as I am told, he late bath been, With divers of his brethren, 1 lending light From their best fiames to gild a glorious night; Which I not grudge at, being done for her Whose honours to mine own I still prefer. But he not yet returning, I'm in fear, Some gentle Grace, or innocent Beauty here, Be taken with him : or he bath surprised A second Psyche, and lives here disguised. Find ye no qack of his strayed feet?
l Both dOft!land swam were aacred to thla goddess, and u Well with the one u the other, her chariot Is Induced by OYid, }lb. 10 and 11 Metamor. Alludlnr to the Lo\a (the torch-bearers) In the Queen's Masque belore.

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I

Gf'YI. Not I.
2

Gra. Nor I.

3 Gra. Nor 1. Stay, nympha, we then will tzy A nearer way. Look all these ladies' C,RS, And aee if there he not conceal6d lies; Or in their bosoms, 'twixt their swelling breasts ; The wag affects to make hinuelf such nests : PeJ"chance he bath got some simple heart, to hide His subtle shape in; I will have him cry'd, And all hill virtues told I that, when they'd know What spright he is, she soon may let him go That ~ him now ; and think herself right blest To be ao timely rid of such a guest. Begin, soft GucES, and proclaim reward To her that brings him in. Speak to be hear;!. I Graa. Beauties have ye seen this tc;>y, Calle<I Love, a little boy,l Almc;>st pak~, ~t~n, blind ; Cruel now, and then as kind? If he be amongst ye, say? He is Venus' runaway. ~ Gtua. Sh~ tha~ will but now discover Where the wing~ wag doth hover, Shall tO:-night receive a kiss, How or where herself would wish : But, who brings him to his mother, Shall have that kiss, and another. 3 Graa. He bath marks about him plenty: You shall know him among twenty. All his body is a fire, And his breath a flame en~ That being shot. like lightning, in, Woqnds the heart, but not the skin.
Yn~.
1

la this Lo-.e, I

apes~

Cllpld, u he la

followlll.- qaali~ uc:ribed Jal111 bJ the antiqlle and later poets.

v-u

filius, &Del

OWBer

ol ' &be

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Gnm. At hia sight the sun ~th tumeda~ Neptune in the waters burned; Hell bath felt a greater heat; ll Jove himself forsook his seat : :ffbm the centre to the sky, Are hia trophies rear~ high.ll 2 Graa. Winga he bath, which tho\lgh 'ye clip, He will leap from lip to lip, Over liver, lights, and heart, But not stay in any part ; .'\nd. if chan~ his 1\llQW ~ He will shoot hi~ in kisses. 3 c;raa. He doth bear a golden bow, .1\nd a quiver, hansing low, Full of arrows, that outbrave Dian's shafts ; where, if he have head more sharp than other, \lvtth that first he strikes his mother. I Gract. Still the fairest are his fueL When his days are to be cruel, Lovers' hearts are all his food ; And his baths their warmest blood : Nought put wounds his hanci dpth sea.sqn, An<i he. h~tcs. pon~ like to Reason. a Gra;~ T~ him not J his word$, tbo~gh 1!'1'~~ Seldc;un with hill heart do meet. All his p~<:tice ill d~eit i Every gift it is ~ bait ; Not ~ kiss but poison beans ;

/Any

And mos~ treascm ill hiq

t~

3 G;aa. Idle minute$ llr~ bia reigti; Then, the straggler makes his gain,
See Lucian. Dial. Deor. I ADd Cllwd. la raptu Proeerp. Such wu the power ascribed him, by alii he ancients 1 whereol thtN 11 utaDt ~ elegant Greek epigram. Phlt Poe. wbereln he mallet Rll the other deltla despoiled by him, or their eoslgna j ]OYe or his thunder, PbCIIbul al Ilia ariiOWB,
1

Hcrcolel oC hil club, i:Q.

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By pr~nting maids with to~ And would have ye think them joys : 'Tis the ambition of the elf, To have all childish as himsel 1 Grace. If by these ye please to know him, Beauties, be not nice, but show him. :a Graa. Though ye had a Will to hide him, Now, we hope, ye'll not abide him. 3 Graa. Since you hear his falser play ; And that he's Venus' runaway.
Allllis,from llelund 1/u lrojiiUs, CUPID dis,tnered lumselj, and 'aau fori!J arwud~ allltuled fllii!J l~s, MOSI tmli,kly allirld, I!Jal repnsented flu ~fJ1.1, and .Jre!ly .l.fg/JI11UW. I!Jal "'ompany Love, utuler 1/u lit~ ofJ od and Risus j atul are said to wail on VENUS, as slu is Prmft'l of Marn"age. 1

Cup. Co'IJle, my little jocund Sports, Come away ; the time now sorts With your pastime: this same night Is Cupid's day. Advance your light. With your revel fill the room, That our triumphs be not dumb. W!Jn'ewii!J I!Jq fell ii#o a .rulllle &a/Jridous ~e, lo as odd a musk, eadt of 1/um llearing lwo lor~llji., and noddiflg wii!J 1/uir anti' faces, 'lllii!J oi!Jn' variiiy of ridi&u/ous gesture, w!Ji&!J gave "'"'" o&~:asiim of lllirl!J a11d de/will to 1/u spe'lalors. Tlu dana etuled, CUPID went forward. Ct~p. Well done, anticks I now my bow, And my quiver bear to show ; That these beauties, here, may know, By what arms this feat was done, That bath so much honour won Unto Venus and her son.
AI w!Ji&!J, !Jis mot!Jn' appre/rmded !Jim: and drc/iflg llim ;,, 'lllitlt 1/u Gra&es, llegan lo dematrd.
l

Which Horat.

CODJelltl

to, CRr. lib. 1, ode a, -Erycina ridenJ, Quam Jocua c:ircum volat, et Cupido. .

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Ym. What feat, what honour is it that you boast, My little straggler? I had given you lost, With all your ga.JpeS, here. Cup. Mother J Vm. Yes, sir, she. What might your glorious cause of triumph be? Have you shot Minerva 1 or Ule Thespian dames P Heat ag~ Ops again,1 with youthful ftames? (Or have you made the colder Moon to visit ~?nee more a sheepcote? Say, 'Yhat conquest is it Can make you hope such a renown to win? Is there a second Flercules brought to spin? Or, for some new disguise, leaves Jove his thunder ? Cup. Nor that, nor those, and yet no less a wonder-a [He espies
Which to tell, I may not stay : Hymen's presence bids away; 'Tis, already, at his night, He can give you further light. You, my Sports, may here abide, Till I call to light the bride.
HYMEN.

Enkr HYMEN.
Hj. Venus, is this a time to quit your car? To stoop to earth, to leave alone your star, Without your influence, and, on such a night,' Which should be crowned with your most cheering sight, As yo~ were ignorant of what were done By Cupid's hand, your all-tridmphing son ?
1 Sbe urges these u miracles, beca~~~e Pullas, and the Muses, are most contrary to Cupid. Se!t Lue. Dial. Veo. et Cupid. Rbea, the mother ol the gods, whom Luclan, in that place, makes to haft! CaneD fnultlcally in 10911 by Cupid's means, with Atys. So of the M0011, with Eodymkm, Herc:ules, i:c. Here J;lymen, the god of marriage, enterm ; and wu so induced here, u you haft! him described I~ my J;lymeoael. ' When she la nuptlla pnel'ecta, with Juno, Suadela, Diana, and Jupiter hhnaetr, Paul. mMesscolac. et Plut, In Problem.

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Look on this State ; and if you yet not know1 What crown there shines, whose sceptre here doth grow ; Think on thy loved .iEneas, and what name, Maro, the golden trumpet of his fame, Gave him, read thou in this. A prince that draws By example more, than others do by laws : 1 ia so just to his great act and thought; To do, not what kings may, but what kings odght. WhoJ out of piety, unto peace is vowed, To spare his subjects, yet to quell the proud ; And dares esteem it the first fortitude, T have his passions, foes at home, subdued That was rese~ed, until the Parae spun Their whitest wool ; and then his thread beguri, Which thread when treason would have burst, t a soul TCHiay renowned, and added to my roll,1 Opposed ; and, by that act, to his name did bring The honour to be saver of his king. This king whose worth, if gods for vjrtue love, Should Venus with the same affections move As her .iEneas ; and no less endear Her love to his safety, than when she did cheer, After a tempest,' long-affiicted Troy, Upon the Lybian 11hore, and brought them joy. Vm. I love, and know his virtues, and do boast Mine own renown1 when I renown him most. My Cupid's absence I forgive, and praise1 That me to such a present grace could raise. His champion snau. hereafter, be my care i
1 ..neu, the son or Venus, VirKII makes throughout, the most exquisite pattem of piety, Juatlce, prudence, and all other princely virtues, with wbom (in -y or that ezcellence) I c:onrer my aoverelgn, applying In his description bla GWD word usnrped or that poet. Parcere subjectll, et debellanlauperbos. I In that moustrous COIIIpiracy or E. Gowry,

ntnlo tuDc crescere poUei;

Nnnc per te tltulus.

Vlrg. &oeld. lib. r,

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But speak hia bride; and what her virtues are. By. She is a n<>ble virgin, styled, the Mllid Of the Red~ and bath her dawty welghtd No less in virtue, blood. and fortti; tbm gold : Thence, where my pillar's reared, 1ou may ~libld Filled with love's trophies, doth 11he take bet l\i.tile Those pillars did uxorious V ulcan frame, 1 Against this day, and underneath that bill He and his Cyclopes are forging still Some strange and curious piece, to adom the Dight And give these grac&l nuptials greater light.
Her1 VULCAN prm11uti IUtm1lf, ru rnJtrMarillg HYKEN, altirtti ; , 11 aus#u girl I# Aim, wiiA 61Wt an;u, lW Aa/;> anti /Jearti rtn~gA; lW AaJ tJ/ 61w, anti md,.,g ;, a cm!; i11 Au luuuJ 11 M111111W anti ttmgs, ru C#11U'11gfr#m tluf#rgl.

Ylli. Which I have done ; the best of all my life; And have my end, if it but please my wife And she commend it to the laboured worth. Cleave, solid rock l and ..ri!!K the .!'Q~c;l~r forth. AI 'IIIAicA fllitA a /#UII antifull music1J/U djffJJedr'ti tlJusiJIJt, anti discfJ'Vend a11 iOrulritlfU c~jiJ/#11 flliiA a11 ampl1 and gluteri"r 7iit.i. ;, 'IIIAidl f!!}_!!f"tiffi:!.a/ .pAw~ '11/tu made

#/silver, tiglltemf##l ,, IA6 diam~ler, 1/uJJ hmiiJp11'j1hmlly: IM C#lllri Wtrt Migllktitd filiiA g#/di S# 'lllirt fAt ardi& and nmnrdit: &irclu, IAt ir#/Jks1 1/u l(jfliMcliaJ, IM f'!Urltlian JUUI Mrim; mly tlu #ib'tU 'llltu Of p11rt .fOld: ,., '111/u"c!l (_tAt tPuuiJII"S, utstiw lilt c!laraclers o/ 1111 lvltlv1 sipu, 'llllrl ~lac~tl, aiU'(IItrittK tAtm ,, 1111iderl 'IIIM.te #Jiias, '1111'111 IAt '11/Mie.frame, as # lrlnutl, VULCAN 'lllefll forward I# tiest:ri/Je;

It is a sphere I've form~d round and even, In due proportion to the sphere of heaven,
1 11le aociCDt poets, wheiiiOeft'l' they Intend llll1thlllf m be dooe with an', mAde Vulcan the aitlllcer, Hom. Z. In the forging of Achilles' armour, and Vlrg. for ..neu, ..neld. 8. He la also lllid to be tbe rod of fire and ~ht. Sometime takea for the purest beam : and by Orph. la H11JI. celebrated for the aun and moon. But more especially by Eurip. m TJoad. be la made Facifer In Naptlis. Which present oflioe - gift him here, as being Calor Naturie, and Pi1leses Lumlnls. See Plat. In Crat)'l. For hla deecrlpdoa, read PaiiiiUl. la Ellac.
~t mastery, or -uent

'*ould

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With all his lines and circles, that compose The perfect'st form, and aptly to disclose The heaven of marriage : which I title it : Within whose zodiac, I have made to sit, In order of the signs, twelve sacred powers, That are presiding at all nuptial hours : The first, in Aries' place, respecteth pride Of youth, and beauty ; graces in the bride. In Taurus, he loves strength and manliness; The virtues which the bridegroom should profess. In Gemini, that noble power is shown, .That twins their hearts, and doth of two make one. In Cancer, he that bids the wife give way With backward yielding to her husband's sway. In Leo, he that doth instil the heat Into the man : which from the following seat Is tempered so, as he that looks from thence Sees yet they keep a Virgin innocence. In Libra's room, rules he tliat doth supply All happy beds with sweet equality. The Scorpion's place he fills, that makes the jars And stings in wt!dlock ; little stnfes and wars : Which he, in th' Archer's throne, do~h soon remove, By making with his shafts new wounds of love. And those the follower with more heat inspires, As, in the Goat, the sun renews his fires. T wet Aquarius' stead, reigns be that showers n Fertility upon the genial bowers. Last, in the Fishes' place, sits he doth say, In married joys all should be dumb as they. ' , And this bath Vulcan for his Venus done, ; ' To grace the chaster triumph of her son.
Vm. And for this gift, will I to heaven return,

And

VGIW

for ever that my lamp shall bum

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And long perfectiotl see : And such ours be. Shine, Hesperus, shine forth, thou wiaMd atar 1 The solemn state t:>f this one night Were fit to last an age's light j But there are rites behind Have less of state but more of klild: Love's wealthy crop of ldsses; And fruitul harvest or his mother's bliases. Sound then to Hymen's war: That what these are, Who will perfection see, May haste to be, Shine, Hesperus, shine forth, thou wishtSd star I Love's CommonWealth consists of toys ; His Council are those antic boys, Games, Laughter, Sports, Delights, That triumph with him on these nights : To whom we must give way, For now their reign begins, and lasts till day. They sweeten Hymen's war, And, in that jar, Make all, that married be, Perfection see. Shine, Hesperus, shine forth, thou wishtSd star I Why stays the bridegroom to invade Her that would be a matron made ? Good-night, whilst yet we may Good-night, to you a virgin, say : To-morrow rise the same Your mother is,l and use a nobler name, Speed well in Hymen's war, That, what you are, By your perfection, wo And all may see. Shine, Hesperus, shine forth, thou wishtSd star 1 To-nigl)t is Venus' vigil kept. This night no bridegroom ever slept ;
1 A wife or matron : which Is a ~ of more dignity than ill Nup. OttoDII Heurnli. Ctu matrlllimllll tua redlbll.

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And i the fair bride do, The married say, 'tis his fault too, Wake then, and let your lights Wake too; for they'll tell nothing of your nights, But that in Hymen's war You perfect are. And such perfection, we Do pray should be. Shine, Hesperus, shine forth, thou wish~ star I That, ere the rosy-fingered mom Behold nine moons, there may be born A babe, to uphold the fame Of Ratcliffe's blood and Ramsey's name : That may, in his great seed, Wear the long honours of his father's deed. Such fruits of Hymen's war Most perfect are : And all perfection, we Wish you should see. Shine, Hesperus, shine forth, thou wish~ star I

THE MASQUE OF QUEENS;

CELEBJtATED PROM THE HOUSE OJ' P'AME

BY THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH HER LADIES

AI Wlliululll, Fe6. 2,

(l)ebtcatton.)
'1'0 TBil GLORY 01' OUR OWM, AHD ORlKJ' 01' OTBJlR HATIOHI, MY LORD

1009.

HENRY
PRIHCK 01' OR&AT BRITAIN, ll'I'C,

Snt,-When it bath been my happiness (as would it were more frequent) but to see your face, and, as passing by, to consider you; . I have with as much joy, as I am now far from flattery in professing it, ealled to mind that doctrine of some great inquisitors in Nature, who hold every royal and heroic form to partake and draw much to it of the heavenly virtue. For, whether it be that a divine aouJ, being to come into a body, first chooseth a palace for itself; or, being come, doth make it so ; or that Nature be ambitious to have her work equal; I know not : but what is lawful for me to understand and speak, that I dare ; which is, that both your virtue and your form did deserve your fortune, The one claimed that you should be bom a prince, the other makes .that you do become it. And when Necessity (excellent lord), the mother of the Fates, bath so provided, that your form should not more insinuate you ,to the eyes of men, than your virtue to their minds : it comes near a wonder . to think how sweetly that habit flows in you, and with 80 hourly testimonies, which to all posterity might hold the dignity of examples. Amongst the rest, your favour to letters, and these gentler studies, that go under the title of Humanity, is not the least honour of your ,.,.....,,). ... a, if once the "orthy professors of these leaminga shall eretofore they were) to be the core of princes, the aowna

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their sovereips wear will not more adorn their temples ; nor their stamps live longer in their medals, than in such subjects' labours, Poetry, my lord, is not born with every man, nor every day: and in her general right, it is now my minute to thank your Highness, who not only do honour her with your care, but are curious to examine her with your eye, and inquire into her beauties and strengths. Where though it bath provecJ a work of some difficulty to me, to retrieve the particular authorities (according to your gracious command, and a desire born out of judgment) to those things which I writ out or fuliDess and memory or my former readings : yet, now I have overcome it, the reward that meets me is double to one act : which is, that thereby your excellent understanding will not only justify me to your own knowledge, but decline the stiffness of other's original iporance, already armed to censure. For which singular bounty, if my fate (most excellent Prince, and only delicacy or mankind) shall reserve me to the age of your actions, whether in the camp or the council-chamber, that I may write, at nights, the deeds of your days, ~I will then labour to bring forth some \orork as worthy of your fame as my ambition therein is or your pardon. By the most true admirer of your Highness's virtues, And most hearty celebrater of them,
BEN JONSON.

It Increasing now to the third time of my being used in these services to Her Majesty's personal presentations, 'Yitb ~be lal!!es whom she pleaseth to honour ; it was my first and special ~~ to see that the nobility o the invention shoM be answerable to the dignity or their persons. For which reason chose the argument t6 be, A ulelwatio11 of Aonourdu and lnle F. :, bred ou/ of Y{rhle: observing that rule of the best artist,l to sufl'er object of delight to pus without his mixture of profit and example. And because Her Majesty (best knowing that a principal part of life, in these spectacles, lay in their variety) had commanded me to think on some c!ance or show, that might precede hers, and bave the place of a foil, or false masque; I was careful to decline, not only from others, but mine own steps in that kind, since the last year II had an anti-masque of boys; and therefore now devised, that twelve women, mthe )u~bit of bage, or witches, sustaining the persons or Ignorance, Suspicion, CredtJlity, &c., the opposites to good Fame, should fill that part ; not as a masque, but a spectacle of strangeness, producing multiplicity of

uo

~ Hor. ID Art. Poetic. ID die muque at my lore$ Haddlugton'a wedding.

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gesture, and not unaptly sorting with the current, fall of r _ the device. His Majesty, then, being set, and the whole company in full expectation, the part of the scene which first presented itself was an ugly Hell; which Baming beDeath, smoked unto the top of the roo And in respect all evils are morally said to come from hell ; as also from that observation of Torrentius upon Horace's Camdia,l pm tot instruda fiiiUm's, u Ora' fat~allut proftda 'llilllri possit: these witches, with a kind of hollow and infernal music, came forth from thence. First one, then two, and three, and more, till their number increased to eleven ; all differently attired : some with rats on their heads, some on their shoulders; others with ointment-pots at their girdles ; all with spindles, timbrels, rattles, or other venefical instruments, making a confused noise, with strange gestures. The device of their attire was Master ]ones's, with the invention and architecture of the whole scene and machine. Only I prescribed them their properties of vipers, snakes, bones, herbs, roots, and other ensigns of their magic, out of the authority of ancient and late writers, wherein the faults are mine if there be any found ; and for that cause I confess them.

~whole

These eleven WITCHES beginning to dance (which is an usual ceremony 8 at their convents or meetings, where sometimes also they are vizarded and masked), on the sudden one of them missed lheir chief, and interrupted the rest with this speech.

Hag. Sisters, stay, we want our Dame ; 1 Call upon her by her name, And the charm we use to say ; That she quickly anoint,' and come away.
VIde ~vln. Tor. comment. In Hor. Epod. lib. ode .5 See the King's Maj~;~ty'a book (our sovereign) of Demonology, Bodin. Remlg. Delrio. Mill Malefi. and a world of others In the ,general : but let us follow par1

ticulars.
I Amongst our wlgar witches, the honour of dame (for so I translate it) Is given with a ldnd of pr&oeminence to some apeolal one at their meetings ; which Delno Insinuates, Diaquia. Mag. llb. 11, quaest. 9, quoting that of Apnleius lib. de 1 Asin. aureo. de quadam caupona, regina Sagarum. And adds, ut 110iu euam tum quasdAin ab Ill hoc tl:ulo bonorataa. Wbleh title M. Phllipp. I.:udwlgus Ellcb. Dilemonomaglee, qwest. ro, doth also remember. ' Wbeil they are to be transported from place to place, they use to aoolnt themselves, anc~ sometimes the things they ride on. Beside Apul testimony, see these later; Remlg. Dsemonolatri&e, llb. 1, cap. 14- Delrlo, Dlsquls. Mag. l 11, quaest. 16. Bodln. Deemonoman. I. 11, c. 14- Barthol. de Spina. qiiBeSt. de Rtrigib. Phlllppo

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Clla,.,, Dame, dame I the watch is set : Quickly come, we all are met.From the lakes, and from the fens,l From the rocks, and from the dens, From the woods, and from the caves, From the churchyards, from the graves, From the dungeon, from the tree That they die on, here are we I

Comes she not yet? Strike another heat.

2

Clltvm. The weather is fair, the wind is good, Up, dame, on your horse of wood : I Or else tuck up your grey frock, And saddle your goat,B or your green cock,'

Ludwigus Elich. quaest. IO, Parace1sus in magn. et occul. Phllosophia, teacheth the confection. Unguentum ex caroerecena natorum infantium, in pulmenti forma coctum, et cum herbis somniferls, quales aunt Papaver, Solanum, Cicuta, .tc. And Giov. BaptL Porta, lib. 2, Mag. Natur. cap. 16. 1 These places, in their 0/'n .nat.ure dite and dismal, are reckoned up u the fittest from whence such ~os should come, and were notably observed by that ~llent Lucan in the descrlptiozi-of bls Erichtbo, lib. 6. To which we may add this corollary out of Agrip. de occult. philosop. L 1, c. oJll, Satumo correspondent loca q1111evis fmtida, tenebrosa, subterraue:~., religiosa et funesta, ut coemeterla, busta, et hominibus deserta babitacula, et vetustate caduca, locn obscura, et borreoda, et solitaria antra, cavemee, putel ; praeterea plscinae, stagna, paludes, et ejusmodl. And in lib. 3 c. 42, speaking of the like, and in 111.1. 4o about the end, Aptissima sunt loca plwiinum experientia visionum, noctumarumque incursionum et consimilium pbantasmatum, ut coemeteria, et In quibus fieri solent executlones crlminalis judicii, In qulbus recentibus annis publicae strages factae aunt, vel ubi occlsorum cadavera, necdum explata, nee ri~ sepulta, receotlotibus annls subhumata sunt. Delrio, Disq. Mag. Ub. 11, quaest. 6, has a story out of Triezius of tbja bone of wood : but that which our witches call so, ia sometimes a broom;ta1f', sometimes a reed, sometimes a dista.IE See Re'1Jig. DaemonoL lib. J, cap. 14- Bodin. I. a, cap. 4o a:c. The goat Is the Devil himself, upou whom they ride often to their solemnity, as appears by their confessions In Rem. and Bodin. ibid. His Majesty also remembers the story of the deYil's appearance to those of Calicut, in that form, Daemodol. lib. 11, cap. s4 Of the green cock we have no other ifOUDd (to confes1 ingenuously) than a vulgar fable of a witch that with a cock 'c5rtbat colour and a bottom of blue thread, would tra11sport herself through the air; and so escaped (at the time of her being brought to execution) from. the band of justice. It wu a tale wben I went to school; and somewhat there is like it in Mart. Delr. Disq. Mag. lib. 2, qUBt. 6, ol one Zyti, a Bohemian. that, among other his dexterities, allquoties

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And make his bridle a bottom of thread, To roll up how many miles you have rid. Quickly come away ; For we all stay. Nor yet? nay, then, We'll try her agen. 3 Cllann. The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad, And so is the cat-a-mountain, The ant and the mole sit both tn a hole, And the frog peeps out o' the fountain ; The dogs they do bay, and the timbrels piay, The spindle is now a turning ; 1 The moon it is red, and the stars are fled, But. all the aky is a burning : The ditch is made, and our nails the spade, With pictures full, of wax and of wool ;
equis rbedariis ftCtum, gallis gallinaceia ad epirrbedlum suum lllligatls, subsequebatur. 1 All this Is but a periphrasis of tlie night, in their charm, and their applying themselves to it 11itb tbelr instruments, whereof the spindle in antiquity was the chief: and beside the testimony or Tbeocrltus, In Pbanuaceutria (who only Uled it In amorous afl'alrs) was or special act to tbe troubling of the moon. To which Martial alludes, lib. 9, ep. JO QIUie nunc Thessallco Lunam deduoere rbombo, etc. And lib. 111, ep. 57, Cum secta Colcbo Luna vapulat rbombo. I This rite also or making a ditch with their nails is. frequent with our witches, whereof see Bodin. Remlg. Delr. Malleas Mal Godelman. 1. 11, de Lamlis, u also tbe antiquity or it most vl'fely ezpreist by Hor. Satyr. 8, llb. 1, where be mentions the pictures, and the blood of a black lamb. All wblcb are yet In use with our modem witchcraft. Scalpere terram (speaking Canldia and Sagana) Ungulbus, et pullam dlvellere mordlcus agnRm Cc2perunt : crnCX' In !ossam confusus, ut lode Manes ellcerent, animu responsa datwu. Lanea et efligles erat, alter& cerea, etc.

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And then by-4lDd-by, --Serpentes atque vlderes Infemu errant canels, Lunamque rubentem, Ne f'oret his testis, post mapa la!ere sepulchra. or this ditch Homer makes mention In Circe's speech to Ulyaes, Odyu. K, about the end, BoiJKII' ~"'> etc. And Ovld. Metam. lib. 7, in Medea's magic, Hand procul egesta scrobibus tellure duabus Sacra W:lt, cultroeque In gutture velleris atri Conjlcit, et patulu perfundlt sanguine raaas. And of the waxen images, In HypsiJl1le'a epilltle to ]UOD, where be expresseth that mlacbief also or the needles:

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Their livers I stick with Jeedles quick: There lacks but the blood, to make up the flood. Quickly, dame, then bring your part in, Spur, spur upon little Martin,l Merrily, merrily, make him sail, A worm in his mouth, and a thorn in his tail, Fire above, and fire below, With a ~hip in your hand, to ma'ke him g~:.

0, now she's come I I..et all be dumb.

AI tlus flu D.um 1 mtwetl to llum, nalutl ~tl, 6anfoofetl, Aer frock trlutl, Aer Juu'r lmolted, andfoltiltl 'lllilll vipers; ,;, Aer Aa1UI a torcll made of a dead malis arm, li'gllletl, g'rdetl 'llliln
Devovet absentes, llmulacraque cerea fiDgit ; Et mlserum tenues In jecur urget acus. Bodin. Demon. lib. 11, cap. 8, bath (beside the known atory of king Duft'e out of Hector Bol!tlus) much of the witches later practice In that kind, and reports a relation of a French ambassador'a, out of England, of certain pictures of wax found in a dunghill near Islington, of our late queen' : which rumour I myself (being theD ver}r young) can ~ mnember to have beeli current. 1 Tbe!J' little Martin la be that calls them to their coaventlda, which la done In a human voice, but coming forth, they find him In the shape of a gteat buck goat, upon whom they ride to their meetinga, Delr. Dlaq. Mag. qua!St. I6, lib. a. And Bod. Daemon. Jib. 11, cap. 4o have both the aame relation from Paulua Grlllandua, of a witch. Adveniente nocte et hora evocabatur voce quadam Yelut humana ab Ipso Daemone, quem non vooant D~~m~onem, aed Magiaterulum, ali8D Magistrnm Martinettum,alve Maninellum. Qulllalc evocata, moz aumebat pyxidem unctlonls et linebat corpus auum In qulbusdam partibua et membria, quo linito exlbat ex domo, et inveniebat ~terulum auum In forma hlrei lllaui ezpeclantem apud oatium, super quo mulier eiqultabat, et applicare aolebat fortlter man111 ad crinrla, et atatlm blrcus llle adacendebat per aerem, et brevlssilbo tempore deferebat lpsam, &c. I Tbla dame I make to bear the person of Ate, or MIIChlef (for 10 I Interpret it), out of Homer'& description of her, Il A, wbere-be-taalces her swift to hurt III&Dkind, atrong, and aound of her fret; and Iliad. T, walldng upon men'a beads ; In both placa using one and the aame phrue to algnlfy her power, BA.carroOcr' UfpWrovt, !Mdena homines. I present her barefooted, and her frock taclted, to make her seem more expedite, by HQz!.ce'a autjlority, Sat. 8, lib. r, Succinctam vadere palla Canldlam pedlbus nudls, ~ caplllo. But for her hair, I rather rapect another place of his, Epod. lib. ode 5 where she appears Canldla brevlbus Implicata 'riperil Crinels, et lncomptum caput. And that of Lucan, lib. 6, apeaking of Erichtbo'a attire, Dlaoolor, et ftrlo Furlalla cultas amlctu Induitur, wltlllque aperftur crlne nmoto, Et coma yiperela subltrlngitur horrlda llertia. For her torch, 1ee Remlg. !lb. a, cap. 3-

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1/uy all d1il rwwmee, ,s/u zpde, of fJ'IPhon, tile 11Jd wllnl:fore tllq mme.1

Dame. Well done, my Hags I And come we fraught with spite, To overthrow the glory of this night? Holds our great purpose? Har. Yes. Dame. But wants there none Of our just number? Hags. Call us one by one, And then our dame shall see. Dame. First, then ~dvan~e,' My drowsr servant, stupid~
1 Which If lt had been done either before, or otbenrlle, bad not been 10 n-'ural. For to bans made themselva their own declpherm, and each one to have \old upon their entruce what they were, and whiiher they would, had been a piteous bearing, and utterly unworthy any quality of a poem: wherein a wrjter ahoald alwa71 truat somewhat to the capacity of the apoctator, espoclally at these apectaclel ; where men, beside Inquiring eyes, are understood to bring quick ears, and not those sluggish ones of ponen and mechanics, that must be bored through at every act with narrations. I In the chaining of these vices, I make IS If ono link produced another, and the Dame were born out of them all, so IS they might say to her, Sola tenes scelerum qulcquld possedlmus omnes. Nor Will it appear much vlolencod, If their series be cion~ldered, when the opposition to all vlrJ~W begin~ out of Ignorance, thAt Ignorance begets Suspicion (for Knowledge .. nor open and charitable), that Suspicion, Credulity, IS lt ill a vice; for being -finue. and free, it ill opposite to it: but such u are jealous of themael9e1, do easily crecnt anything of others whom they bate. Out of thil,. Credulity springs Falsehood, whlcil begets Marmur: and that of Murmur presently grows Malice, which begell Impudence: apd that Impudence, Slander: that Slander, EDcratlon: Ezecratlon, Bittemeu: Bitternea, FlU)': and Fwy, Mlachlef. Now for the personal preaentatloq of them, the authority In poetry Is linl-.). But in. the absolute Claucllan, there is particular and eminent place, where the poet not only produ~th such peraoas, but almost to a like purpoee, in Ruf. lib. 1, w~ AJecto, envious of the times,

---lnfernu ad limlna tetra IIOI'Orell Conclllum deforme vocat, glomerantur In unum Innumeraa peatel Erebl,quascunque slniltro N ox genult fe2tu : nutrix dilcordia belli, Imperlosa fames, leto vlclna aenectus,
lmpatiensq~W sui morbUs, llvorque seeundls

Anxlus, et IICiS!o moeren1 velamh10 luctus, Et tlmor, et ceco precept audacla vultu,
whh manY others, fit to dls~ the "orld, u oun the night.

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Known by thy scaly vesuife; and bring on Thy f~l sister, wild Susp_icion, . [As 1/u names tlum tluy &Omejoffllard. Whose eyes do never sJeep ; let her knit hands With quick Credulfur, that next her stands, Who bath but one ear, and that always ope; Two-facM falseh<>ggjollow in the rope; And lead on Murmur. with the cheeks deep hung; She, )!alics. whetting of her forkM tongue ; And Malice, Imp_uden<;~, whose forehead's lost ; Let Impuderi""ce lead Slander on, to boast Her oblique look i and to her subtle side, Thou, black-mouthed Execraiiwt, stand applied ; Draw to thee Bitterness, whose pores sweat gall; She, flame-eyed; Rage, M~. Bags. Here we are all. Dame. Join now our hearts,6re faithful opposites 1 To Fame and G)PrY~ Let not thbrigbt nights Of honour bl~ thus to offend <5\lr eyes : Show ourselves truly envious, and let rise Our wonted rages: do what may beseem Such names, and natures ; Virtue else will deem Our powers decreased, and think us banished earth, No less than heaven. All her antique birth, As Justice, Faith, she will restore; and, bold Upon our sloth, retrieve her age of gold We must not let our native manners, thus, Corrupt with ease. Ill lives not, but in us. I hate to see these fruits of a soft peace, And curse the piety gives it such increase. Let us disturb it then/" and blast the light;
1 Here again by way of Irritation, I make the dame punue the purpose or their coming, and disco.er their natwes more largely : wbich bad been nothing, iC not done as doing another thlug, but moratlo cln:a ~ilem patulumque orbem : thnn which, the poet cannot know a greater 'lice : be being that ldnd or artificer to whose work 11 required so much exactness, as lndifl'erency 11 not tolerable. I 'Ibele powerl or troubliug ~are, frequently ascribed to witches, and challenpd

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Mix hell with heaven, and make nature fight Within herself; loose the whole hinge of things ; And cause the ends nm back into their springs. Hag~. What our Dame bids us do, We are ready for. Dame. Then fall to. But first relate me,1 what you have sought, Where you have been, and what you have brought. I Hag. I have been all day, looking after I A Ji!SJ feeding upon a quarter ; And soon as she tum'd her beak to the south, I snatched this morsel out of her mouth.
by themtelftS wberner they are Induced, by_jiomer, OYid, "nbullus, Pd. Arbiter,

Se-. Lacan, Claudlan, to whose autllclff'""tiel I aha1l refer more anon. For the
prelellt, bear Socrat. lu Apal. de AsiD. aureo, 1. I, deacriblng Meroe the witch, Sap et dlrinipoteus caium deponere, terram IUipelldere. routes durare, montes diluere, manes ~nbllmare, deos lufimare, sldera ezt!Dgnere, Tartarum lpRUD illumlnare: and 1. a, Byrrbeua to Luclus, of Pampbile, Map prim! nominis, et omnls carmluls 1ep11lc:ralls ma.glstra credltux, que 1Urculls et laplllls, et Id genus frholis lnbalatll, omuem lstam luoem mundl lideralls, lmls Tartarl et lu ftttlltnm Cbaoa merglt : as also this latter or Remlglus, In his most elegant arguments before his Dllemonolatria, Qat posait etertere flmdltus orbem, Et manels IDperis mlscere, bee uulca cnra est. And Lucan, Qnarum quicquld non credltur, ars est. 1 This Is also aolemu lu their witchcraft, to be examiDed, either by the de.U or their dame, at their meetlup, of what mischief they have done: and what they can confer to a future hurt. See M. J?b!Uppo Ludwlgus Ellcb. I>lemonoruaglla llb. quest. IO. But Remlglus, iu the wtry Corm, llb. I, Dlemonolat. c. !Za, Qne!DIIdmodnm aoleut herl lu Y1111cls procuratorlbus, cam eornm ratioDes expendunt, .epldem negllgentlamqae dur:lus cutlgare : Ita Daemon, In IDil oomltlll, quod tempas ...... mlnMis cujaaque rebus atqae actloulbus lpee coostftuit, - pesslm6 habere c:onsae.it, qui Dlh1l afl'erunt quo ee uequfores ac flqitlll c:umulatlores doceult. Nee cuiquam iadeo lmpuue est, si 1~npertore OOD'felltu nllllo .- aoelere IIOYO obstriuerit: led eemper oportet, qui gratwl esse wlet ID llllnm, JI!)YIIm alJquod facln111 feciDe : and this cloth ezceedlnglyaollclt them 1111, at IIICh times, lest theJ llboaJd onme unprepared. But we apply this eamlnatloo of OID'I to tbe particular use; wbereby, also, we take occasion, DOt only to ezprea the tblnp (a npoun, liquors. berbl, bones, flesh, blood, Cat, and IUch like, which are ca11ed Media lllllgic:a), bat the rites of gatherlllf them, and f'rom what places, reconciling, as near as we can, the practice of antiquity to the neoterlc, and maldng lt familiar wltb our popular witchcraft. For the gathering pieces of dead flesh, Corne1. Agrlp. de oocalt. PbDoeopb. llb. 3t c:ap. .p, and Jib. 4o cap. ult. oblenes, that the use wu to c:all up gboltl and spirit~, with a famlptlon made of that (ud bones or carcastes) which I make my wltcb here, DOt to cut benell, bat to watch the ra'NIII, u Lac:an'1 Erichtbo, llb. 6:

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2 Hag. I have been gathering wolves' _jlra, The mad dog's loam and the adder.tm; The spurging or a ~man's efe8j And all since the e\'elllbg star did riaeo 3 Hag. I last night lay all alone On the ground, to hear the DW1~ And plucked him up, though he grew Cull low ; And, as I bad done, the cock did crow.

Et qaodcaDqao j.cet nuda tellun~ Clldaftl' ADte feru 'fOlucraqao ledet: nee carpere membra Vult feno mauibalque luls, IIIOr1UiqDO luporum Ezpectat llccli raptara .. fauc:lbul artUI.

Aa if that piece went aweeter which the wolf bad bltteu, or the ra'f'eD bad plcbd, and more efliectuous : and to do lt, at her turning to the lOUth, u with the prediotlon of a ltoml, Wblch, tlloufh they be bat iumutetlD cieremooy, bc:iugoblened, make the act mOftl dark and full of horror. a. SpamaCIUium,lupl criues, nodus b,_, oc:ull dracouum, ~erpe~~tll illembraua, upldll lllirelo are all mentioned by the andeutl iD witchcraft, And LuC1U1 par ticularly, 1lb. 6 : Hue qulcquld f~Mu ~Cult natura linlatro Mllcetur, non lpi1DI& Cllllbm, quibus UDd& tlmori ell, Vbcera nOD lyncla, DOD dune nodiU hJIIIIIIII Defult,clc. ADd o.id. Metamorpb. lib. 7, reckom up otben. Bat for the spu!Jiq of the eyea, let 11.1 return to Luaut, In the lUDO book, which piece (u all the rat) is wriUcll with an aduilrable heigbi. Aat ubi lel'ftntttr lUll, qulbuslntimtis hwuor Ducltur, et trac1a diU'eiCUnt tabe medulle Corpora, tulle om- a.!~ deslmt bs artiU, Immenitque manus oculls, gaudetque &el&tol Eft'odlue orbes, et IICCIII pellida rodlt Eacremeuta Dwllllo So PllnyWrit!ngoftbeinandrake, Nat. Hbt.l. si5, c. r3, andofthedlgglugltup, bltb this cnemony, Ca'9eut eftOsauri contrarium ventull1, et tribus clrculls ante gladlo dtcun1acrlbant, postea fodlant ad occUuiD apectaniel. But- bawe iater tradition, that the forclilg or lt up is .0 fatally dangerous. u the rioau ldlla, IIDd tlaefelcn t!le1 do lt with clop, which I thlitk bat borrowed from Joeepbua'a report of the root Buns, lib. 7, de Bel. Jodalc:, HowtOm:r, lt being 10 priilclpal an IDpdleut iD their iDiglc, it 'II'U fit ahe ahould bout, to be tbe plucker up of lt henel(, ADd, that the cock did c:roW, alludel to a pritne circllmstaDCe In their work: for they all conl'ea, that nothing Is ao croa, or baleful to them in their ntpts, u that the ~ lllould cro before ther ha'fti doae. Wblch makes !bat their little awterl or mart!rteta, whom I have mendoned before, 1110 this form In dilmlulut their coil'teadoua, Bj&, laceuite propere hlue olimei, namjam gall! CIUiere lDclpiutit. Which I In~ to be, becaU!: that bird 11 tlie ~ ot Uibt, aDd ao, Cdntnij tO ib8li Kt& ol

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4 Hq. And I have been choosing out ~ From ~el bo.uses that were Cull, From private gro~ public pits : And {righted a sexton out of hia wits. 5 Hag. Under a cradle I did aeep,

III

and

By day; and when th~, At night, I auc;Jccd...the breath ; and rose, And p~ed th~diq,purse b]r ~ nose. 61iq. I had a dagger : what did I with that? Killed an infant to have hia fat. A piper it got, at a chureh-ale, I bade him again blow wind in the tail
darlal-. See R.emig. Demonolat. lib. 1, cap. 4o wbere be. quotes that or Apolloalul, cSe aml:n Acbillll, Philoltr. lib. 4 cap. 5o ADd Eueb. c-teDs ID coof'utat.- contra Hicrecl. 4o de pWcinlo. 4- I ba.e touched at tbla before, iD my note upon the lirat, or the tile of ptberlng llelb, boDel, and lkal1a: to wbicb I DOW briug that piece or ApuleiuJ, b"b. S. cSe Aslno aureo, of Pampblle, Priusque appanuu solito iosuwdt fcralem o81d.aam, omne gen111 aromada, et lgnorablllter lemiDls literatls, et huoellciam uav!am d111'1Ulb"bua cla't'll deletorum, eepultorum etlam cadaverum exposltis multia ldulodam membria, blc nares et digiti, llllc caruosi clavi pendentlum, alibi trucldatorilm aervatUi cruor, et ntona dentlbul ferarum trunca ca1JIIrla: and for such place~, l...ucaD makes bll witch to lnbablt them, llb. 6, Desenaque basta Incolit, et tumulos upulais obdnet umbrls. 5o For tbla rite, see Be.rthol. de Spina, quat. de Striglbus, clip. 8, Mal.. Malefic. tom. I! wbere be disputes at large the transformation or wltcbel to cats, and their IIICidug bath their spirits and the blood, calllug them Strlgea, which Godelman, lib de Lamlia, would lla.e a atrldore, et avibus foedlaaimla ejusdem nomitlls, which I the rather Incline to, out or Ov!d' antbor:lty, F.ast. lib. 6, wbere the poet uc:ribel to thole birds, the same almoet that tbele do to the witcbel.

Nocte volant, puerosque petant nutricll epntes, Et Yltiant cunla corpore rape& llllia 1
Carpere diCUDtur lacteada viscera roltria, Et plenum poto laDgDlDI guttul babent.
6. Tbelt ldlllnl ol iDladd Is common both for eoufectlon of their olntmeat (wbereto lnlfedlent 11 the fat boiled, ul haft lhoWed before oat or Parlceliul and Porta) e1 fJIO oUt ola lult to do murder. SprengeriD Mal MaleSc. reports that a witch, a midwife In the dloceae of Bull, coafe:lled to bate ldiJed abote forty IDWits (eYer u tber were DeW born, with prlcldug them ID tbe bralu with a needle) wbltm abe bad oft'eftd to the clml. See the jtoty ol the three wltchel lu Rem. Demonola. Jib. cap. 3, about tbe end of tbe chapter. And M. Phlllppo Ladwliua Ellc:b. QuelL 8. ADd that lt llllo llt!W rl~. read the pnctlce of Cenldla, Epod. Hint. Hb. ode 5, and Lucan, lib. 6, wh016 tdmlreble eraa I can n.wer be weary to traiiJCrlb.l
ODe

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7 Hag. A murderer, yonder, was hung in chains, The sun and the wind had shrunk his veins; I bit off a sinew ; I clipped his hair, I brought off his 1'!&!. that danced in the air. 8 Hag. The screech-owl's ~and the feathers blac!. The blood of~ and the bOne in his ~ I have been getting; and made of his~ A pl!rset, toteeDsit.~n in. 9 Hag. And I have been pluciin&' plapts amQPg, H~ock, henbane, ~to!}$tle,
FM opus, erumpat Juiu1o qal prlmus apettCI. Nee refaelt cedel, Yi'fUJD Ill ac:ra cruorem Ex1aque funeree poKUDt trepldaDtla Vulnere alftlltrla, DOD qu& natura ~ Eztrahltar part111 ealldls poaeudus ID arts ; Et quotiel ums opus est, et fortibul umbrtl Ipea fadt IIIIUlel. Homblum mors omnis In usa est.

Nee ces.Dt 1 cede manus, IIII&Dguine YIYO

The abuse or dead bodielln their witchcraft, both Porphyrlo and Plellus are grave authors of'. The one l1b. de acrlt de 'l'ei'O c:ultu. Tbe other lib. de Daemo. which Apulelus toucheth too, l1b. 11, de Alln. aureo. But Remlglas, who deals with later penooa, and oat or their own mouths, DaemonoL lib. 11, cap. 3 afllrms, Hec et noatrm llltadl maleficls homlnlhus morls est facere, ~ at cujna sappllclo alrecti cadaftf exemplo datum eat, et In crucem sublatum. Nam non aolum IDde aortlleglis lllis materlam mutuantur ; sed et ab !pall camlfidne inatrumentia, reate, vinculla, palo, fenamentls. Slquldem lis YUlgi etlam oplnlone lnease ad lncantatloaea maglcu vim quandam et potestatem. And to this place I dare not, out of rellgloa to the divine Lucan, but bring his vel'llll from the same book. Laqneum nodoaque nooentea Ore suo rupit, pendentla corpora carpalt, Abrasltque cruces, percussaque vilc:era nlmbls Vulalt, et, lncoctu admisso aole medullas. Insenum manibus chalybem nlgramque per artus StlllaDtla tab! aanlem, virnaque coactnm Sustullt, et nerYO monua retlnente pependlt.
S. Tbeae are Cauldla'a famlture, In Hora. Epod. lib. ode Et unota tw pis Oft rane sanguine, plumamque nocturDII! atrlgia. And pan of Medea'1 confection in Ovld. Metamorph. lib. 7, Strlgls infames, Ipills cum camibus, alas. That or the a1dn (to make a pune for ber fly) wu mea~~t rldicaloal, to mock the keeping of their famllian. 9- Clcuta, hJ01C71UDus, ophlogloaon, solanum, IIIU'tlgon, doronlcum, acooltunt. are the com111011 ftlllefieal Ingredients remembered by Paracelsus, ~ Agrtppa, and othera; which I make her to have gathered, u about a caatle, church, or aome 'ftlt baildlng (kept by dogs) among ruins and wild heapa.

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Night-shade, moon-wort, libbard's-bane ; And twice, by the dogs, was like to be ta'en. ro Hag. I, from the jaws of a gardener's bitch, Did snatch these bones, and then leaped the ditch : Yet went I back to the house again, Killed the black cat, and here's the brain. I I Hac. I went to th~taad bJ.eedunder the wall, I cbanned him out, and be came a!..m.I.Sfill ; I scratChed out t~ ~ owl belore, I tore the bat's wing ; what would you have more ? Dame. Yes, I hive brought, to help our vows,
H~y,

cypress bo~bs,
t

efiwil And juice

10. Ossa ab ore rapta jejune canls, Horace gives Canldla, In the plaee before quoted. Which jejune, I rather change to gardener's, u Imagining such ~ to keep lilaltlflil for the defence of their grounds, whither this bag mlcht also go for almplel : where, meeting with the bones, and not eontent with them, she would yet do a domestic hurt, In getting the cat'a bralna: which is another lpecial Ingredient; and of 10 much more efficacy, by how much blacker the cat la, If JOU will Cftdlt Agr. Cap. de Saftidbus. JL These alto, both by the eonfessiona of witches, and teltimony of writers, are of principal 1110 In their witchcraft. The toad mentioned In Virg. Geor. lib. I, Inveutasque canls Buf'o. Which by PUny il called Rubeta, Nat. Hist. L 32o c. 5 and there celebrated for the force lu magic. Juvenal toucheth at it twice within my memory, Satyr. I and 6 ; and ol the owl's eyes, aee Corn. Agrlp. de occult. PhfiO!IOph. L J, c. I,S. AI ol the bat's blood and wings there : and In the sth chapter with Bapt. Porta, L a, c. a6. u. Alter all tbelr boasted labours, and plenty of materlall, u they Imagine, I make the dame not only to add more, but stranger, and out of their meana to get (acept the flnt, Papan:r eomutam, which I have touched at In the eonfectlon), u Sepalchrls capriflcoe emtu, et cupreaua fuuebris, a5 Horace calls them, where he lll'llll Canldia, Epod. Ub. ode 5- Then Ap.ricum Luicis, of which aee Porta, lib. a, de Nat. Mag. aplnat PUny. And Basililcl, quem et Saturn! IIBngnlnem YOCBnt ftlllficl, tantuque vires habere feruut. Cor. Agrip. de occult. PhiIos. I. 1, c. .p. With the Ylper remembered by Lucan, Ub. 6, and the aJdna of aerpeutl.

Innataque rubris Rquoribul CllllOI pretiole Ylpera couche, Aut Ylftlltls adhuc Ly'blc:e membnma oerute,
Aod OYid Ub. 7

Nee defnlt Wis

S q - clnlpbel teanll membrana cbelydrl.

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The basilisk's blooQ, and the vi~in 1 And now our orgies let us begin.
H1r1

tlu Dame jullunelf ,,. tlu midst of tlum, allll !Jegan lur fo/IM~~J;,g Invo"'#on : 1

You 1 fiends and furies (if yet any be Worse than ourselves) you that have quaked to see Th~eJmots untied, and shrunk, when we have channed You;til&t to arm us, have yourselves disarmed, And to our powers resigned your whips and brands When we went forth, the scourge of men and lands I You that have seen me ride, when H~t~ Durst not take chariot ; when the boisterous sea, Without a breath of wind, bath knocked the sky; And that bath thundered, Jove not knowing why 1 When we have set the elements at wars, Made midnight see the sun, and day the stars; When the winged lightning, in the course bath staid; And swiftest rivers have run back, afraid To see the corn remove, the groves to range, Whole places alter, and the seasons change ; When the pale moon, at the first voice down fell Poisoned, and durst not stay the second spell I
1 Wherein she took oc:c:uion to bout all the power attributed to witches by ancients, or which every poet (or the most) do give some: Homer to Clrce, In the Odyss ; Theocrltus to Simatha, In Pharmaceutrla ; Vug!l to Alpheslbaeus In his Eclogue, Ovld to Dipsaa, In Amor. to Meck'a and Circe, In Metamorph ; Tabullus to Saga ; Horace to Canldla, Sagana, Vela, Folia; Seneca to Medea, and the nurse, In Here. <Ete. ; Petr. Arbiter to his Saga, In Frag. and Claudlan to Meglllrll, lib. r, in Rufinum, who takel the habit of a witch, as they do, and supplies thRt historical part In the poem, beside ber moral peison or a Fury, conflnning the same drift In ours. These Invocation are 10Iemn '1\ith them, whereof we may - the fol"'m In o.!d. Metam. lib. 7. In Sen. Trag. Med. In Luc. lib. 6, which of allll the boldest and most horrid, beginning, Eumenida, Stygiumque nefu, paen111q11e nocentum, lt:c. The untying of their lmots la, when they are going to some fatal bUalness: Sapna 11 presented by Homce : ezpedlta, per totum domum lparJeDI Avernallla aquas, horret caplllil ut marlnus aapetls echlnua, aut Clitl'eU aper.

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us

You, that have oft been conscious of these sights ; And thou,1 three-(orm~d star, that on these nights Art only powerfu~ to whose triple name Thus we incline, once, twice, and thrice the same ; If now with rites profane, and foul enough, We do invoke thee ; darken all this roof, With present fogs : exhale earth's rottennest vapours, And strike a blindness through these blazing tapers I (Come, let a murmuring charm resound, "rbe whilst wet bury all i' the ground I But first, see every a foot be bare; And every knee:') Har. Yes, Dame, they are.
4 Clrarm. Deep,4 0 deep we lay thee to sleep; We leave thee drink by, if thou chance to be dry;
1 Hecate, who la c:alled Trivia, and Trlformls, or whom Vlrgil, .o<Eneid. lib. 4, Tergeminamque Hecateu, tria virginis ora Dlanae. She was believed to govern in witchcraft ; and la remembered in all their invocations : aee Theocr. In Pbannaceut. X"-'P' 'Bir4T4 3U'I"XijT&, and Medea in Senec. Mels vocata sacris noctium aidus veni, pessimos lnduta vult us : fronte non un& mlnax. And Ericbt. in Luc. Persephone, nostnJeque Ho:catis para ultima, l:c. This rite or burying tbelr materials Is often conf~ in Remiglus, and described amply in Hor. Sat. 8, lib. I, Utque lupi barbam variae cum dente colubnla abdiderint furtim terris, l:c. The ceremony also, or baring their reet, is expressed by Ovid. Melamorph. Ub. 7 as or their hair: Egmlltur tectis vestes lnduta recinctas, Nuda pedem, nudos humeris inusa caplllos.

And Horat. Ibid. Pedlbus nudla passoque capillo. And Senec. In ti"BffML Med. Tibi more gentls, vincUlo aolvens comam, secreta nudo nemora lustravi pede. 4 Here they speak, as 1 the)< were creating some new feature, which the devil persuades them to be able to do often, by the pronouncing or words and pouring out or liquors on the earth. Hear what Agrlppa says, De occul. PhD. lib. 4, near the end. In evocatlonibus umbtv,rum fumigamus cum sanguine recent!, cum osslbus mortuorum, et came, cum ovts lacte, melle, oleo, et simDibus, que aptum medium tribuunt anlmabus, ad sumenda corpora; and a little before. Namque anillllll cognitls mediis, per quae quondam corpon"bus auis conjungebantur, per similes npores, liquores, nidoresque facile alllciuntur. Wblcb doctrine be bad from Apuleius, witbout all doubt or question, who in lib. 3 de Asln. aureo, publlaheth the same. Tunc deCRntatia spimntlbus fibris litat vario latice ; nunc rore rontano, nunc lacte nccino, nunc melle montano, libet et mubt. Sic Ulos capiDaa In =utoos nexus obdltos, atque nodatos, cum multls odoribWi dat vt\'ls

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Both milk and blood, the dew and the flood. breathe in thy bed, at the foot and the h~; We cover thee warm, that thou take no harm: And when thou dost wake,

Dame Earth shall quake, And the houses shake, And her belly shall ache ~ her back were brake, Such a birth to make ~ is the blue drake : Whose form thou shalt take.
Dame. Never a star yet shot I Where be the ashes? Hag. Here in the pot. DtllrU. 1 Cast them up ; and the flint-stone Over the left shoulder bone Into the west. Hag. It will be best.

5 Cltarm. The sticks are across, there can be no loss,

The sage

is rotten, the sulphur is gotten Up to the sky that wns in the ground. Follow it then with our rattles, round;

carbonlbul adolendoa. T1111c protlnualnexpugnablll maglce dbclpllne potestate, et c:aec:a vamlnwn coactorum Ylolentla Ula corpora quorum fama!aot stridentes capilli, 1plritum mutuantur humanum et aentlunt, et audiunt, et ambulant. Et qua nldor IIUIUUM duoebat ezuvi&J um venlunt. All which are mere arts of Satan, when either hlmaei( will delude them with a false form, or troubling a dead body, makes them Imagine tbete vanities the means : u, In the rldiculoas c:ln:umstances that follow, be dotb daily. 1 This throwing or ubes and I&Dd, with tbe filntllone, cross atlcb, a11d burying of aage. l:c., are all used (a11d bellned by thmll) to tbe ~ng of atorm and tempest. See R.emig. lib. r, Demon. cap. 115, Nlder Formlcari. cap. 4, Bodln. Demon. lib. 11, cap. 8. And here Codelman. lib. 11, cap. 6. Nam quando Daemon! grandines clendl potestatem facit Deus, tum maleficu lnstruit ; ut quandoque ailicea post tergum In occldentem venua projiciant, aliquando nt arenam aque tortcntll In al!rem conjiclant, plerumque acopu in aquam intlnpnt, coelumque versus spargun t, owe! fossull facta et lotio infuao, vel aqu& digltum moveant : subinde In ollA porcorwn pil.os bulliant, nonnunquam trabes vel ligua In ripa transvenl. e collocent, et alia Id genua deliramenta elliciant. And when they the succeaa, they are more confirmed, u if the eowent followed their working. Tbe like illusion Is of their pbantRiie, in sailing In rgg4helli, creepiJII through anger-boles, a11d IIUCb like, 10 vulgar In their confessions.

THE MA.SQUB OF QUBENS. Under the bramble, over the brier, A little more heat will set it on fire : Pu.t it In mind to do it kind, Flow water and blow wind. Rouilcy is over, Rabble is under, A flash of light, and a clap of thunder, A storm of rain, another of hail. \Ve_j!.)imust home jn the egg-sh~ sail; tile mast is made of a great pin, The tackle of cobweb, the sail as thin, And ifwe 1go through and not fall in-Dame. 1 Stay, 11111 our charms do nothing win Upon the night; our labour dies, Our magic feature will not riseNor yet the storm I we must repeat More direful voices far, and beat The ground with vipers, till it sweat. 6 Cluzrm. Bark dogs, wolves howl, Seas roar, woods roll, Clouds crack, all be black But the light our charms do make I Dame. Not yet I my rage begins to swell; Darkness, Devils, Night and Hell,

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1 Tbls stop, or Interruption, showed the better, by causing that general sllenoe, which made all the follow'lng noises, lnforoed. in the nut charm, more dlreful, first Imitating that of Lucan, Mlratur Erichtho Has fati1 liculue moras ; lrataque mortl Verberat lmruotum vivo serpente cadaver. 6. And then their b!lrklng, howling, hissing, and confusion oJ noise ezpreuecl by the same author, In the same person.

Tunc voz Leth11e01 cunctls pollentior herbis ~tare deos, confundlt murmura primiun Dlssonn, et human1111 multum dlscordia linguae. Latriltns habet Ilia canum, gemitusqueluporum, Quod trepidus bubo, quod striz noctuma queruntur, Quod strident ulu!Rntque ferae, quod sibllat anguls Ezprimlt, et planctus llllsae cautibus undllll, Syi\'IUUIDque sonum, frll.cueque tonitrua nubls. Tot rerum voz una fuiL

See Rem! g. too, Dllllmonolat. !lb.

I,

cap. 19-

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BBN ]ONSON'S 114SQUBS: Do not thus delay my spell! I call you once, and I call you twice ; I beat you again, if you stay my thrice : Thow~ these crannies w~ere I peep, I'll let in the light to see your sleep 11 \ And all the ~ts of yQur sway Shall lieu open to the day, As unto me. Still are you deaf I Reach me a bOugh 1 that ne'er bare 1~ To stri~ the and Aconite 8 To hurl ;upon ,UuJ ~ light ; A rusty fnife f to wo'Ond mine ann; And as it drops I'll speak a chann Shall cleave.:the ground, as low as liee Old shrunk.up Chaos, and let rise Once more his dark and reeking bead To strike the world, and nature dead, Until my magic b~ be bred.

arr ;

7 Cluvm.. Black go in, and blacker come out 1 At thy going down we givo thoe a about
1 'Jbil! 11 one o( their common maaces, whep tbeir magic ~ves the least atop. Heu Erichtho apln, ibid.

T'ibl peaime mlllldl Arbiter lmmlttam ruptil T'itaua c:aftl'Dia, At IUblto !erlere di~ ADd a Uttle beCore to ProeerpiDa: Eloqaar lm111e1110 tern~~~ sub pondere q11111 te Contineant, Enne, dapes, .tc.

That withered malght, u lt lhot oat, wllich Is calle4 ramus 1el:alil, bf 10111e, and trll~ by Senec. Tl'll(. Med. A deadly poiloDoul herb, felcned by cntd. Metam. lib. 1 to lpriDg oat ol Cerberua'a foam. Pliny gives lt another beJ!nninc of name, Nat. Hilt. llb. ~. cap. 3 Nucitur nndls cautlbas, quu uonas ~t, et lode aconitum diere, nullO Juxta ne pulftn quldem nutrlente. HOWIOe9er tho juice cl lt Is like that liquor which the detil gives wltchel to lpinkle abroad, and do hurt, In the opinion -of all the magic muters. A rusty lmife I rather glte her than any other, u llttest for mch a dnillsb ceremony, wblcb Seneca mJ&bt mean by iac:ro cultro In the trapdy, where ho &nlll Medea to the h1te rite (for anything I !mow), nblnudato pectore M<~~~~a~, MCrO ferlam brachia cultro: manet 1101ter -.nauillld araa.

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Hootl At thy rising again, thou shalt have two, And if thou dost what we wnuld have thee do, Thou shalt have three, thou shalt have four, Thou shalt have ten, thou shalt have a score. Hoot Harl Harl Hoot 8 Charm. A cloud of pitch, a spur and a switch, To haste him away, and a whirlwind play Before and after, with thunder for laughter, And storms for joy of the roaring ~y ; His head of a drake, his tail of a snake. 9 Charm. About, about, and about, Till the mists arise, and the lights fly out, The images neither be seen nor felt ; The woollen burn, and the waxen melt .i Sprinkle your liquors upon the ground, And into the air ; around, around I Around, around, Around, around, Till a music sound,' And the pace be found To which we may dance, And our charms advance.
AI w/Udl, 'liJI'tll a slranp and suddm music, 1/uy ft/1 into a
1 These &bouts and clamours, u also the voice bar, bar, are vert particular with them, by the testimony of Bodln, Remlg. Delrlo, and M. Pbll. Ludwlgus Ellch., wbo out of them reports it thus, Tota turba colluvlesque peaima fescenniDos In bonorem Demonum cantat obscamlsslmos : bee canlt Har, Har. Ilia, Dlabole, Dlabole, salta hue, salta Uluc; altera, Lude hie, lude lllic; alia, Sabaotb, abaotb, &c. lmo damoribua, albllls, ululatfbal, poPJSIIII fmit, ne debaccbatur : pal YCrllJus, ft1 YeDeDis acceptls, que homlnibos pecudlbutque aparpnt. I Nor do theJ wallt music, and In a ltl'lnge manner ghen them by the deril, If we credit their confeaslons in Remlg. Dllem. lib. I, cap. 19- Such u the Syrbenean Qulreil were, wblcb Atheaaeua rememberl out of Cearch111, Deipnos. lib. xs, where rm.ry one sung what be would, without hearkening to hil fellow : like the nolle ol dlftl'l oars, falling lD the water. But be patient of Remllfua' relation. Mlria modis Rile miscelitur, ac turbantur omnia, nee ull& ot1ltiope lalls apriml qae&t, qu1m atrepant 11()1111 lncondltil, absurdls, ac dlscrepantlbus. CaDit blc Dlllmon ad tlblam, ftl ftl'ius ad contum, aut baculum allquod, quod tom bami repenum, bGcc. aeu tlbiam admom. IIIe pro lyra equl calftriam pallat, ao ciJB!tll coaczepat. Allus fulte wl da-.t graviore qaercum tundlt, uude naudlt!Jr son111, ac boatus ftlutl tympanorum whementllll pallatornm, Interclnunt raucldh, et compoaito ad lltul morem dacgore Dllelllonea, lpsumqae co=lam fra&oa arldaque voce (eriUDt.

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Magl'&al

BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS:

tlaiJa,l full 11/ fJnllosl#'riiU dump alld guti&w/1.1Mn. In tlu Mal 11j 1/uir tlalla, m tlu nultJm flltU Mtlrtl a stNntl 11j ll1u4 wauie, as if """'7 inslnlmmb luul trUIIU II1U 6/asl; fl1iiA flllum ff!JI 11nly t1u Hap JAnnselflu, 6111 tlu lull i1WJ fllilkA 1/ux ran, pr'u flanillutl, alld t!u fiiMU faee 11j 1/u smu altered, swu suff,.;,r tlu 1IU1IIOfY 11/ su&A a IAinr; 6111 U. 1111 p/4a' 11/ it apjJiaretl a rforiinu alld ma,pifoml lnlildinr, Ji.fllrlnr t/u HOUSE OF F AXE, U. tM ttJP 11j flllu'&A fiiWI tfis. ((J'lln'lt/ tlu lfllelfle M aspws, sitlillr ujJtm a tlar111U triumpw, n:e&Utl in jl1r1N 11/ a pyramid, alld drchtl fllitA all sl11re 11/ lipt. Frf!JI' trl.bi tl IAi:!_ti'wu tlu.!!!JIII!J..!'fl 14!

1'"1rlru,6lgrm 111 sp, .

So sh

fo,.,.;~u,.,

11U'm'';i:=

4-!;!ym qtru#M Jymic ~

~ICYIRTUB.
fl the light. rrow Hennes' wings, .,nor as His crook\ sword, nor put on Pluto's casque, Nor on mine arm advanced with Pallas' shield (By which, my face aversed, in open field I alew the Gorgon) for an empty name: Wben Virtue cut off Terror, he gat Faine.
l Tbe manner ~lr dancing Is ooafest la Bodla. !lb. 11, cap. 4- ADd Remig. !lb. x, cap. 17 and xB. ~ IUiil or which M. PbiL Lud. Ellch. relates thas, In his Dlllmonom. quest. xo, Tripudlil laterdum lntenaat facie llbert et apert&, lnterdum obdnct& !ant, llnteo, cortlce, retlcnlo, peplo, -vel allo ftlamlae, 1111.t fanlnarlo excemlculo lavolut.l. And a little after, Omnia flaat ritu absurdiallmo, et ab omnl ccmsuetudlue homlnum alleuisalmo, dorsis laYicem obvertls, et la orilau Junctlt III&Dibus, altaado clrcumeunt perlnde sua Jac:tantes capita, ut qui -trn a.gltaatlir. ,Remlglat adds oat of the confession of Sibylla Morelia, Gym!!! 1e111per In III!Yili'A ~L Which PUny oblenes In the priests of Cybele, Nat. Hist. lib. aS, cap. a, and to be done with great religion. Bodln addt, that they ate brooms In their hands, with which we anned our witches ; and here we lcaft them. But most applying to their prop,erty : who at their meetingt do all thingt contrary to the c:ua1001 of men, dancing back to back. and blp to hip. thdr bands joined, and maldn~t their circles backward, to the left band, with strange faatutlc: motloas ol their bcadt and bodies. All which were acelleutly Imitated by tbe maker of the daac:e, M. Hlerome Herue, wb01e right it Is here to be ~ The ancients ~ a brate and mucullae Ylrtue In three ftgurs (ol Hercules, IWieat, and Belleropboa). Of which 1l'e choose thAt of~ armed u we haft described blm out ol Heslocl. Scut. Here. See Apollodor." th~ pn1 marlaa, lib. 11, de Peneo.

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And i~ when bme Jr!S ~tten, Terr~ What black Erynnis or more hellish Pride Durst arm these hags, now she is grown and great, To think they could her glories once defeat ? I was her parent, and I[ am her strength, Heroic Virtue sinks not under length Of years or ages ; but is still the same While he preserves as when he got g90<i fame. My daughter, then, whose glorious house you see Built all of sounding brass, whose columns be Men-making poets, and those well-made men Whose strife it was to have the happiest pen Renown them to an after-life, and not With pride to scorn the Muse, and die forgot ; She, that enquireth into all the world, And bath about her vaulted palace hurled All rumours and reports, or true or vain, What utmost lands or deepest seas contain, But only hangs great actions on her file; She, to this lesser world and greatest isle T<>-night sounds honour, which she would have seen In yond' bright bevy, each of them a queen. Eleven of them are of times long gone. 1 PENTHESILEA,t the brave Amazon,
1 And here we cannot but take the oppottuolty to make some more particular desc:tlptloa or ~ aceae, as also or the persona they praeoted ; whlcb, though they were dlsposm rather by chance than election, yet it '- my part to juati(y them all : and then the lady that will own h;r presentation, may. To rollow, therefore, the rule or chronology, which I have observed In my wt*, the most upward In time was PKNTHKSlLKA. She was queen or the Amuous, and IIUCCeeded Otreri., or (as some will) Orithya; she lived and 'llas praeot at the siege or Troy, on their part, against the G~, and (asJustin giva her testimony) Inter rortlsalmos 'riros, magna ejos vlrtutls document& eztitere. She Is nowhere named but with the preCace or honour and virtue; and Is always adYliDced In the head or the worthiest women. Diodorua Siculos makes her tbe lllulgbter or Mars. She was honoured In her death to baYe it the act or AchWa. or wblch Propertlua t slop this triumph to ber beauty, Aun:a cui postquam nudavit cusida rrontem, Vlclt victorem candida rorma virum.

HisL lib. sa.

t Lib. 3, eleg. ro.

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BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS: Swift-foot CAMILLA,1 queen of Volscia, Victorious THoKYRIS 1 of Scytbia, Chaste ARTEMISIA, 8 the Carian dame, And fair-hair',~ BERONICE,' Egypt's fame,

1 Next follows CAXJLLA, queen of the Volac:lans, celebrated by Vlrgll, thnn whose Yerses nothing can be Imagined more exquisite, or more honouring the person they describe. They are these, where be reckon~ up those thal came on Tumus's part, against ..Eneas: . Hos super advenlt Volsca de gente Camllla, Agmen agens equitum, et ftorenteis aere catervas, Belt.trlz. Non Ilia colo, calatbiue Minervse Fcemlneu usueta manus, sed praelia virgo Dura pld, CllliUque pedum praeverti!I'O vent01. Ilia Yellntacte segetls per summa volaret Gramlna, nee teneras cursu Jeslsset aristas : Vel mare per medium ftuctu suspeDSa tumenti, Ferret Iter, celeris nee tlngeret equore plantu. And afterwards tells her attire and arms, with tbe admiration that tbe apectators bad of her. All which, If the poet created out of himself, without natiii'O, be did but abow how much so divine a aouJ could ezceed her. I The third lived In the age of Cyrus, the great Persian monarch, and made him leaYe to UYO, TBOMYRIS, queen of the Scythlans, or Massagets. A heroine or a most lnYincible and unbmken fortitude : wbo, when Cyrus had Invaded her, and taldng her ouly son (rather by treachery than war, as she objected), had slain him ; not touched with the grief of so great a loss, in the juster comfort she took of a great revenge, pursued not only the occasion and honour or conquering so potent an enemy, with wbom feU two hundred tbOUIIUid soldiers: but (what was right memorable In her victory) left not a mesaenger surviving of bls side to report the massncre. Sbe la remembered both by Herodotus,t and Justin, to the great renown and glory of her kind, with this elogy :-Quod potentisslmo Peraarum Monarcbse bello congressa est. lpsumque et Yita et castrls apollavit, ad juste ulclsoendum filii ejus indlgnlssimam mortem. The fourth was honoured to life In time of Xerxes, and was present at his great ezpedltlon Into Greece; AllTIDOSIA, the queen of Carla: whose virtue Herodotus,l not without some wonder, records, that a woman, a queen, without a husband, her son a ward, and she administering the goYemment, occasfone<l b7 no neceulty, but a mi!I'O rxcellence of spirit, should embark herself for such a war, and thi!I'O so to behave her, as Xentes, beholding ber fight, should say'!..:... Vlrl quldem extiterunt mibl femlnae, frmlne autem viri.D She Is no less renowned for her chastity, and IO'fe to her husband MausoJDB, '(whose bones {iaCter be was dead) she preserved In ashes, and drank ID wine, making berse!C bill tomb: and yet built to his memory a monument, desemng a place among the seven wonders of the world, which could not be done by less than a wonder of women. ' The fifth was the falr-balred daughter Ptolomeua PbillJ.delpbus, by the

or

..Eneld. lib. 7 t In CUo. :1: Eplt. lib. In Polybymn. I Herod. ID Urania. '( Vat. Max. lib. "' cap. 6, and A. GeL Hb. x, cap, ~a.

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glory of Asia, pride of Ethiopia, The Britain honour, V9ADICEA,1

HYPSICJlATEA,l
CANDACB, I

elder Arslaol!, who; married to her brother PtoloiDZUI, IIU1IIUIIed Euefseta, waa after queen of EtiJpt. I find her written both BDOKIC& and BDEMICL This lady, upon aa ezpedltloa ol ber --wedded lord Into Alsyrla, ~to Venus, tr be retarDed we, and conqueror, the o&rtag oC ber hair: which YOW of hers (PIC\ed by the ~UCCeSS) abe af\erward performed. But her father mlalag it, and therewith dlspleued, Coaoa, a mathematldaa, who was then la bOUiehold with Ptolomy, and 1mew well to flatter him, persuaded the ldag that it was taken up to beaten, and lll&lie a coastellatloa : showing him those lleftl1 atara, ad caudam Leools, which are liac:e called Coma Berealces. Which story then presently celebrated by Callimachua, la a most elegant poem, Catullua more elepatly coaftrted : wbenria they call her the magnanimous eftD from a 'Virgla : alluding (u HygiDua says) to a rescue she made or her father ID biJ flight, and reatoriug the coaraae and boaoar or bil army, even to a Yic:tory. Their words are, CopOram. pana Yirgiae magaaalmam.t 1 The llzth, that famous wife or Mithridate!!, aad queen olPoatus, H11'SIC&ATEA, no 1cu an example Yirtue than the rest : who so loved her baabaad, as she was uslataat to him la all labour~ and buard of tbe war, la a masculine habit. For which eaaae (as Valerlua Mulmua obserfts) ahe ~with the chlel Ol'll&lllellt ol her bsuty, Toaala calm capillls, equo ae et armis assuefecit, quo faciUua laborlbas et perlc:ulla ejua IDteratet. And afterward, ID his flight from Pompey, accompanied his miJCortune, with a mind and body equally uawearled. She Is so solemnly registered by that gr&WI author, as a notable precedent or marriage loyalty and love: virtues that might raise a mean person to equality with a queen; but a queen to the state and honour or a deity. I The ~eYe~~tb, that renown of Ethiopia, CANDAC& : from whose enelleacy the aucoeeding queen~ or tbat aatloa were ambitious to be called ao. A woman ol a most haughty spirit against enemies, and a singular aft'ectloa to her sdbjecta. I find her celebrated byDioa, and Pllny,g ln'&dlng Egypt la the time Augustua: who, though she were enl'orced to a peace by his Ueuteoaat Petronlua, doth not the 1esa worthily bold her place here; when eYeryWhere this elogy remains ol ber fame : that lhe was maxim! animl mulier, taatlque In suos merit!, ut omaes delaceps J&bloplum ,regia., ejua nomine fuerint appellatae. She goYerDed ID

or

or

Meroll.
Tbe efshth, oar own honour, VOADIC&A, or BoADIC&A ; by some Bundulca, and Bunduca. queen or tbe ~c:eal, a people tbat Inhabited that part or oar Island which was called East Anglia, and comprehended Sufrolk, Norfolk, Cambridge. and Huntlngdoa lhires. Since she was born here at home, we will fll'lt hoaoar bar with a home-born tatlmony, from the gr&WI aad diligent Speaaer: "( - - - Buaduca Britoness, Bunduca, tbat victorious eoaquerea, Tbat lif'tla( up her braWl heroic thought

+Ub. 4o cap. 6, de amor. ~Jui.

I Nat. HIJt. lib. 6, c:ap. 119-

Aatraaom. lib. a. ID Leo.

Hlst. Rom. lib. 54, Rulaa or Tinlo.

+Catul. de Coma BezoQSo,

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The virtuous Palmyrene, ZENOBIA,l The wise and warlike Goth, i\,MALASUNTA, The bold VALASCA a of Boh~mia j These, in their lives, as fo~, crowned the choice
'Bo~

woman's wealmesa, with the Rom&lll fought ; Fought, and in field against them thrice pre'flll'd, &c.

expressed all magnitude of a spirit, breathing to the liberty and redemption

To which see her orations in story, made by Tacltus and Dion: t wherein Is or her country, The latter of whom, doth honest her beside with a particular descrlp. tlon :-Bundulca Britannica foemlna, orta stirpe regia, qllllll non 10lam els cum lll&gn& digultate pnefuit, sed etlam bellum omne administravit ; cujus anlma virills potlus quam muliebris erat. And afterwards, Foemina, fonua honestlssima, vultu aevero, &c. All which doth weigh the more to her true praise, In coming from the mouths of Rom&lll, and enemies. She lived In the time of Nero, 1 The ninth, In time, but equal In fame, and (the cause of it) virtue, was the chaste ZltNOBIA, queen of the Palmyrenes, who, after the death of her husband Odenatus, had the name to be reckoned among the thirty that usurped the Roman empire from Gallenus. She continued a long and braWl war against several chle& ; and was at length triumphed on by Aurelian : bUt, ea specie, ut nihil pompabilius P. Rom. videretur. , Her chastity was such, ut ne virum suum quidem eciret, nisi tentatll conceptlonibus. She lived in a most royal manaer, and was adored after the custom or the Persians. When she made orations to her 10ldiers, she had always her casque on. A woman of a most divine spirit, and Incredible beauty. In Trebellius Pollio:): read the moat notable description of a queen and her that can be uttered with the dignity of an historian. I The tenth, succeeding, was that learued and heroic AllALAsUNTA, queen of the Ostrogoehs, daughter to Tbeodoric, that obtained the principality of Ravenna aud almost all Italy. Sbe dtave th~ Burgundians and Almaines out of Liguria, ud appeared In her goWJmment rather an example than a second. She was the most eloquent or ber age, and cunning In all languages of any nation that had commerce with the Roman empire. It Is recorded of her, that Sine veneratione eam vlderit nemo, pro minu:ulo fuerit lpsam audlre loquentem. Tantaque llli In disc:ernendo gravitas, ut criminis convict!, cum pl~ntur, nihil lib!- acerbum pat! vlderentur. The eleventh was tbat bni.ve Bohemian queen, V ALASCA, who, for ber courage, had the surname of Bold : tbat to redeem herself aud ber sex from the tyranny of men, which they lived in, under Primislaus, (!n a night, and at an hour appointed, led on .the women to the alaughter of their barbarous hiU!M.nds and lords. And pOssessing tbemselves of their hones. arms, ~. and places of strength, not only ruled the rest, but lived many years after with the liberty and fortitude of AmUOill, Celebrated by Rapbael Volateranus,l( and in an elegant tract of an Italian"( In Latin, who I)&Diea hfmle1C Philalethel, Polytopiensis clvls, inter pra!stantlssimu faemiDBL AnDals. 1lb. 14t Eplt. Joan, Xlpbllln. In Ner. ;f: In trlgln. 'I)rann, M. Antoo, Cocci, S.beL (out of Casslod.) Ennead. 7, lib. 2. D In Georraph. L 11. 'U' Forcla. Ouaest.

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Of womankind, and 'gainst all opposite voice . Made good to time, bad, after death, the claim To live eternized in the House of ;Fame. Where hourly hearing (as what there is old?) The glories of BEL-ANN A 1 so well told,
1 The twelfth, ud wonhysoYereign or all, I make B&l.-ANMA, royal queen or the ocean : or 1rh08e dlgulty and person, the whole ICOpe or the tn9endou doth speak througbont: which, to offer you again here, might bat proYe ofl'ellce to that lacred modesty, which hears any testimony or othera Iterated With more delight than her own pralle. She being placed aboYe the need or snch ceremony, and afe fn her princely Yinue apiDSt the good at Ill or any witnell. Tbe IWDe of Bel...aua .I deYised, to honour hera prop by ; as addlq to it the attrlbate or Fair ; and Is kept by me In all my poems, wherein I mentiou Her Majesty with any abadow or llglire. Of which, some may come Cattb with a longer deatiny than this age commonly glYe& to the beat blrtba, IC but helped to light by her gracloas and rlpenfar fa'fODI'. But here I dlacem a pos&J"hle objection, arising agalnat me; to which I most tum: as, How I can bring penona or 10 diB'erent qea, to appear properly together? or why {which Is more unnatural) with VlrgU'a Maeutius, I join the !lYing with the dead 1 I answer to both these at ouce. Nothing b more proper; nothing more naturaL For these all Uw, ud together, In their Came : and 10 I present them. Besides, If I would fly to the all-darlnc power of poetry, where could I not take &anctuar)' 1 or In whoee poem? For other objectiona, let the looks and noses or judges howr thick, 10 they bring the brain&; or If they do not, I care not. When I suffered it to go abroad, I depaned with my right: and now, 10 aec:ure an Interpreter I am or my chance, that neither praise nor dlspralse llhall aft'ectme. There rests only that we glw the description we promised or the ~eene, which WRS the House or Fame. The structure and ornament or which (as Is proCest before) was entirely Master ]ones's Invention and design. First, for the lower columns, he choae the statues or the most extellent poets, as Homer, Vlrgll, Lucan, &c., as being the substantialiUpporterl or Fame. For the upper, Achilles, ...Eneas, C.Ur, and those great heroes, which these poets had celebrated. All which stood as in III8SSJ' gold. Between the pfllars, underneath, were figured land-battles, -..fights, triumphs, loYe&, sacrifices, and all magnificent IUbjects of honour, In brass, and heightened with sUftlr. In which he proCest to follow that noble description made by Chancer or the place. Abnve were cited the masquers, over whose heads he de"fised two eminent figures of Honour and VIrtue for the arch. The frle&e~, both below and abow, were filled with RYeral-coloured lights, like eweralds, ru~Ms, aapphires, carbuncles, &c., the reflex or which, with our lighll placed In the CODcaftl, upon the masquers' habits, was full of glory. These habits had In thent the excellency or all dmce and riches; and were wattbUy varied by his Invention, to the nati01111 whereof they were queens. Nor are these alone his due ; but d!YerS other I\CCelllons to the strangeness and beailty or the spectacle: as the hell, the golar about of the chariots, and binding the witches, the turning machine, with the presentation or Fame. All which I willingly acknowledge for him : lince it Is a virtue planted In good natures, that what respecll they wish to obtain frultCnlly from othen, they will glw lngenuonsly themlel,_:

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Queen of the Ocean; how that she alone Possest all virtues, for which one by one They were so famed : and wanting then a head To form that sweet and gracious pyramid Wherein they sit, it being the sovereign place Of all that palace, and reserved to grace The worthiest queen : these, without envy on her, In life desired that honour to confer Which with their death no other should enjoy. She this embracing with a virtuous joy, Far from self-love, as bumbling all her worth To him that gave it, bath agaip. brought forth Their names to memory; and means this nigh~ To make them once more visible to light, And to that light from whence her truth of spirit Confesseth all the lustre of her merit. To you, most royal and most happy king, Of whom Fame's house in every part doth ring For every virtue, but can gi':e no increase, Not, though her loudest trumpet blaze your peace; Lo you, that cherish every great example Contracted in yourself; aqd being so ample A field of honour, cannot out embrace A spectacle so full of love, ;lpd grace Unto your court: where ever}r.,priricely dame Contends to be as bounteous or her fame .To others, as her life was good to her. For by their lives they only did confer Good on themselves ; but, by their fame, to yours And every age the benefit endures.
Htre tlu tlvone fliMrein tluy sat, 6eing machina versatilis, suddmly cllangrd; and in tlu place of it apt>etll"ed Fama bona, tU site is descri6ed (in Iconolog. di Cesare Ripa), ath'retl in fllluu, fill"!A flllu'le fllinp, Aavt'ng a colllll" ofgold a6out lur 111ck, and .JL /ufll:l-jangr'ng at it: flllu'cA Orus Apollo, ,;, !lis Aierogl. J'nterprets tlu Mle of a pot/ Fa11U. Inlur n'gAI lland slu lmre a lni"'/Nt, ,;, lur left an o/We llrad; andfor lur state,

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11 fllal, a.t v-,gi/ 1 IUsmkl w, a1 IM .foil, An' ful m t1u ground, and Aer luad ;,. tlu clouds. Slu, after tlu tmUi& AiuJ done, 'lllllkll waiud m 1/u trwning tJf tlu mac/rim, calledfrom t11ma to Hwoi& Virltu, and sf1aM tAU foi/Ofllinr spu&!l.
FAMB.

Virtue, my rather and my honour; thou That mad'st me good as great ; and dar'st avow No Fame for thine but what is perf~: aid, To-night, the triumphs of thy white-winged maid. Do those renowned queens all utmost rites Their states can ask. This is a night of nights. In mine own chariots let them, crownM, ride; And mine own birds and beasts, in gears applied To draw them forth. Unto the first car tie Far-sighted eagles, to note Fame's sharp eye. Unto the second, griffons, that design Swiftness and strength, two other gifts of mine. Unto the last, our lions, that imply The top of graces, state, and majesty. And let those hags be led as captives, bound Before their wheels, whilst I my trumpet sound.
At 'llllli&A tlu loud mun'c soulllkd as /Jefore, to gi11e tlu 111asfJun"S
hi1u tJf du&mdi,.g; .

By this time, imagine the masquers descended ; and again mounted into three triumpha,nt chariots, ready to come forth. The first four were drawn with eagles (whereof I gave the reason, as of the rest, iri Fame's speecP), their four torch-bearers attending on the chariots' sides, and four of the hags bound before them. Then follow~ the sec'ond, drawn by griffons, with their torch-bearers, and four other hags. Then the last, which was drawn by lions, and more eminent (wherein her Majesty was), and had six torch-bearers more, peculiar to her, with the like number of hags. After which, a full triumphant music, singing this SONG, while they rode in state about the stage :
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Help, help-, all tongues, to celebrate this wonder : The voice of Fame should be as loud as thunder. Her house is all of echo made, Where never dies the sound ; And as her brows the clouds invade, Her feet do strike the ground. Sing then, good Fame, that's out of Virtue born : For who doth Fame neglect doth Virtue scorn.

Here they lighted from their chariots, and danced forth their first dance : then a second, immediately following it: both right curious, and full of subtle and excellent changes, and seemed performed with no less spirits than of those they personated. 'lbe first was to the cornets, the second to the violins. After which, they took out the men, and danced the measures, entertaining the time, almost to the space of an hour, with singular variety : when, to give them rest, from the music which attended the chariots, by that most excellent tenor voice and exact singer, her Majesty's servant, Master Jo. Allin, this ditty was sung:
When all the ages of the earth Were crowned but in this famous birth; And that when they would boast their store Of worthy queens, they knew no more: How happier is that age, can give A queen, in whom all they do live I

After it, succeeded their third dance; than which, a more numerous composition could not be seen : graphically disposed into letters, and honouring the name of the most sweet ana ingenious prince, CHARLES, Duke of York. Wherein, beside that principal grace of perspicuity, the motions were so even and apt, and their expression so just, as if mathematicians bad lost prpportion they might t~ere have found it The author was Master Thomas Giles. After this they danced galliards and corantos. And then their last dance, no less elegant in the place than the rest, with which they took their chariots again and triumphing about the stage bad their return to the House of Fame celebrated with this last SONG, .whose notes (as the former} were the work and honour of my excellent frien~ Alfonso Ferrabosco.

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Who, VU'tue, can thy power forget, That these live and triumph yet? The Auyrian pomp, the Persian pride, Greeks' glory, and the Romans' died: And who yet imitate Their noises q.rry the ~e fate. Force greatness all the glorious ways You can, it soon decays: But so good Fame shall never: Her triumphs, aa their causes, are for ever.

'ees

To conclude which, I know no worthier way of epilogue, than the celebration of who were the celebraters.
The The The The The The

QUEKN'S MAJESTY. Co. of AllUNDEL.

Co. Co. Co. Co. of DERBY. of HUNTINGDON. of BEDFORD. of EssEX.

The Co. of MoNTGOKDY,

The Visc. of CllANBORNK. The La. Eliz. GUU.I'ORD. The La. ANNB WINTD. The La. WINDSOR. The La. ANNB CLlnoRD,

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PRINCE HENRY'S BARRIERS.

T,V

LADY

OF THE !.AxE

disalfJtf'eJ

.lady. A silence, calm as are my waters, meet Your raised attentions, whilst my silver feet Touch on the richer shore; and to this seat Vow my new duties and mine old repeat. Lest any yet should doubt, or might mistake What nymph I am, behold the ample Lake Of which I'm styled; and near it MERLIN's tomb, Grave of his cunning, as of mine the womb. By this it will not ask me to proclaim More of myself, whose actions and whose name Were so full feigned in British .ARTHua's court; No more than it will fit me to report What hath before been trusted to our 'squire Of me, my knight, his fate, and my desire To meet, if not prevent, his destiny, And style him to the court of Britany ; Now when the island bath regained her fame Entire, and perfect, in the ancient name, And that a monarch equal good and great, Wise, temperate, jilst, and stout,- CLAIMS ARTHUR 1S SEAT. Did I say equal? 0 too prodigal wrong Of my o'er-thirsty and unequal tongue I How brighter far than whep our Arthur lived

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Are all the glories of this place revived I What riches do I see ; what beauties here I What awe, what love, what reverence, joy, and fear I What ornaments of counsel as of court I All that is high, or great, or can comport Unto the style of majesty that knows No rival but itself; this place here shows. Only ihe house of Chivalry (howe'er The inner parts and store be full, yet here In that which gentry should sustain) decayed Or rather ruined seems ; her buildings laid Flat with the earth, that were the pride of titne And did the barbarous Memphian heaps outclitnb. Those obelisks and columns broke and down, That struck the stars and raised the British crown To be a constellation: shields and swords Cobwebbed and rusty ; not a helm affords A spark of lustre, which were wont to give Light to the world, and made the nation live, When in a day of honour fire was smit To have put out Vulcan's and have lasted yet. o, when this edifice stood great and high, That in the carcase bath such majesty, Whose very skeleton boasts so inuch worth, What grace, what glories did it then send forth I When to the structure went more noble natnes Than the Ephesian temple lost in ftameg : When every st.one was laid by virtuous hands ; And standing so,-0 that it yet not stands I M;ore truth of arChitecture there was blazed, Than lived in all the ignorant Goths have razed. There porticos were built, and seats for knights That watched for all adventures, days and nights, The niches filled with statues to invite Young valours forth, by their old fortns to fight. With arcs triumphal for their actions done,

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Out-striding the Colossus of the Sun. And trophies, reared of spoilM enemies, Whose tops pierced through the clouds and hit the skies.
ARTBUR

disaJfJtretl as a star a/Jove.

Arlll. And thither bath thy voice pierced. Stand not mazed, Thy eyes have here on greater glories gazed, And not been frighted. I, thy Arthur, am Translated to a star : and of that frame Or constellation that was called of me So long before, as showing what I should be, Arcturus, once thy king, and now thy star, Such the rewards of all good princes are I Nor let it trouble thy design, fair dame, That I am present to it with my flame And infiuence ; since the times are now devolved That Merlin's mystic prophecies are absolved, In Britain's name, the union of this isle, And claim both of my sceptre and my style. Fair fall his virtue, that doth fill that throne, In which I joy to find myself so out-shone : And for the greater wish men should him take, As it is nobler to restore than make. Proceed in thy great work ; bring forth thy knight PreservM for his times, that by the might And magic of his arm he may restore These ruined seats of virtue, and build more. Let him be famous, as was Tristram, Tor, Launcelot, and all our list of knighthood ; or Who were before, or have been since : his name Strike upon heaven, and there stick his fame. Beyond the paths and searches of the sun, Let him tempt fate; and when a world is won, Submit it duly to this state and throne, Till time and utmost stay make that his own. But first receive this shield : wherein is wrought

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The truth that he must follow, and (being taught The ways from heaven) ought not be despised. It is a piece was by the Fates devised To arm his maiden valour, and to show Defensive arms the offensive should forego. Endow him with it, Lady of the Lake. And for the other mysteries here, awake The learned MERLIN; when thou shut'st him there Thou buried'st valour too, for letters rear The deeds of honour high, and make them live. If then thou seek to restore prowess, give His spirit freedom ; then present thy knight : For Arms and Arts sustain each other's right. Lady. My error I acknowledge, though too late To expiate it; there's no resisting fate. Arise, great soul! fame by surreption got May stead us for the time, but lasteth not. 0, do not rise with storm, and rage. [ Tlwtukr, li'rlzminr, a-c.] Forgive Repented wrongs. I'm cause thou now shalt live Eternally, for being deprest awhile, Want makes us know the price of what we avile. MERLIN arisinr 0111 of tlu /QmQ. Mer. I neither storm, nor rage; 'tis earth; blame bel\ That feels these motions when great spirits stir : She is atrrighted and now chid by heaven, Whilst we walk calmly on, upright and even. Call forth the fair MELIADUS, thy knight, They arc his Fates that make the elements fight, And these but usual throes, when time sends forth A wonder or a spectacle of worth. At common births the world feels nothing new; At these she shakes : mankind lives in a few. Lady. The Heavens, the Fates, and thy peculiar stars, Meliadus, show thee I and conclude all jars.

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MELIADUS

and his si:J: assistants Mn tii'stflfJit'ttf.

Mef'. Ay, now the spheres are in their tunes again.

What place is this so bright that doth remain Yet undemolished? or but late built? 0, I read it no; ST. GxoRGtt's PORTICO I The supreme head of all the world, where now Knighthood lives honoured with a crown~d brow. A noble scene, and fit to show him in That must of all world's fame the garland win. Lady. Does he not sit like Mars, or one that h?-d The better of him; in his armour clad? And those his six assistants, as the pride Of the old Grecian heroes had not died ? Or like Apollo, raised to the world's view, The minute after he the Python slew? Mtr. 'Tis all too little, Lady, you can speak. My thought grows great of him, and fain would break. Invite him forth, and guide him to his tent, That I may read this shield his fates present. Lady. Glory of knights, and hope of all the earth, Come forth ; your fostress bids I who from your birth Hath bred you to this hour, and for this throne ; This is the field to make yoUr- virtue known.If he were now, he says, to vow his fires Of faith, of love, of service, then his 'sq~ires Had uttered nothing for him: but he hopes In the first tender .of himself his scopes Were so well read, as .it were no decorm Where truth is studied there to practise form. Mer. No, let his actions speak him; and this shield Let down from heaven, that to his youth will yield Such copy of incitement : not the deeds Of antique knights, to catch their fellows' steeds, Or ladies' palfreys rescue from the force Of a fell giant, or some score to unhorse. These were bold stories of our Arthur's age;

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But here are other acts ; another stage, And scene appears ; it is not since as then : No giants, dwarfs, or monsters here, but men. His arts 'must be to govern, and give laws To peace no less than arms. His fate here draws An empire with it, and describes each state Preceding there, that he should imi~te. First, fair Meliadus, bath she wrought an isle, The happiest of the earth (which to your style In time must add) and in it plac~ high :Britain, the only name made Caesar fly. Within the nearer parts, as apt and due To your first speculation, you may view The eye of justice shooting through the land, Like a bright planet strengthened by the hand Of first and warlike Edward; then the increase Of trades and tillage, under laws and peace, Begun by him but settled and promoved By the third hero of his name, who loved To set his own a-work, and not to see The fatness of his land a portion be For strangers. This was he, erected first The trade of clothing, by which art were nursed Whole milliqns to his service; and relieved So many poor as since they have believed The golden fleece, and need no foreign mine, If industry at home do not decline. To prove which true, observe what treasure here The wise and seventh H~nry 'heaped each year, To be the strength and sinews of a war When Mars should thunder, or his peace but jar. And here how the eighth Henry, his brave son, Built forts, made general musters, trained youth on In exercise of arms, and girt his coast With strength; to which (whose fame. no tongue can boa,st Up to her worth, though all best tongues be glad

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To name her still) did great Eliza add A wall of shipping, and became thereby The aid or fear of all the nations nigh. These, worthiest Prince, are set you near, to read That civil arts the martial must precede : That laws and trade bring honours in and gain, And arms defensive a safe peace maintain. But when your fate shall call you forth to assure Your virtue more, though not to make secure, View here what great examples she bath placed. First, two brave Britain heroes, that were graced To fight their Saviour's battles, and did bring Destruction on the faithless; one a king Richard, surnam~d with the Lion's Heart, The other Edward, and the first, whose part {Then being but prince) it was to lead these wars In the age after, but with better stars. For here though Creur de Lion like a storm Pour on the Saracens, and do perform Deeds past an ange~ armed with wrath and fire, Ploughing whole armies up, with zealous ire, And wall~ cities, while be doth defend That cause that should all wars begin and end; Yet when with pride, and for humane respect The Austrian colours he doth here deject With too much scorn, behold at length how fate Makes him a wretched prisoner to that state ; And leaves him, as a mark of fortune's spight, When princes tempt their stars beyond their light : Whilst upright Edward shines no less than he, Under the wings of golden victory, Nor lets out no less rivers of the blood Of infidels, but makes the field a flood, And marches through it, with St. George's cross, Like Israel's host, to the Egyptians' loss, Through the Red Sea; the earth beneath him cold,

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And quaking such an enemy to behold. For which his tempered zeal, see providence Flying in here, md arms him with defence Against th' assassinate made upon his life By a foul wretch, from whom he wrests the knife, And gives him a just hire : which yet remains A warning to great chiefs, to keep their trains About them still, and not to privacy Admit a hand that may use treachery. Nearer than these, not for the same high cause, Yet for the next (what was his right by laws Of nations due) doth fight that Mars of men The Black Prince Edward, 'gainst the French, who then At Cressy field had no more years than you ; Here his glad father has him in the view As he is entering in the school of war, And pours all blessings on him from afar That wishes can ; whilst he, that close of day, Like a young lion newly taught to prey, Invades the herds, so fled the French, and tears From the Bohemian crown the plume he wears, Which after for his crest he did preserve To his father's use, with this fit word, I SEllVK. But here at Poictiers he was Mars indeed. Never did valour with more stream succeed Than he had there ; he flowed out like a sea Upon their troops, and left their arms no way : Or like a fire carried with high winds Now broad, and spreading, by and by it finds A vent upright, to look which way to bum ; Then shoots along again, or round doth turn, Till in the circling spoil it bath embraced All that stood nigh, or in the reach to waste : Such was his rage that day ; but then forgot, Soon as his sword was sheathed ; it lasted not After the king, the dauphin, and French peers

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By yielding to him, wisely quit their fears, Whom be did use with such humanity AB they complained not of captivity ; But here to England without shame came in : To be his captives, was the next to win. Yet rests the other thunderbolt of war, Harry the fifth, to whom in face you are So like, as fate would have you so in worth, Illustrious prince. This virtue ne'er came forth, But Fame grew greater for him than she did For other mortals; Fate herself did bid To save his life: the time it reached unto, War knew not how to give him enough to do. His very name made head against his foes. And here at Agincourt, where first it rose, It there hangs still a comet over France, Striking their malice blind that dare advance A thought against it, lightened by your flame That shall succeed him both in deeds and name. I could report more actions yet of weight Out of this orb, as here of eighty-eight, Against the proud Armada, styled by Spain The INVINCIBLE ; that covered all the main, AB if whole islands had broke loose and swam, Or half of Norway with her fir trees came To join the continents, it was so great; Yet by the auspice of Eliza beat : That dear-beloved of heaven, whom to preserve The winds were called to fight, and storms to serve. One tumour drowned another, billows strove To out-swell ambition, water air out-drove: Though she not wanted, on that glorious day, An ever-honoured Howard to display St. George's ensign ; and of that high race A second, both which plied the fight and chase : And sent first bullets, then a fleet of fire,

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Then shot themselves like ordnance ; and a tire Of ships for pieces, through the enemies moon, That waned before it grew ; and now they soon Are rent, spoiled, scattered, tost with all disease, And for their thirst of Britain drink the seas. The fish were never better fed than then, Although at first they feared the blood of men Had changed their element, and Neptune shook, As if the Thunderer had his pala~e took. So here in Wales, Low Countries, France and Spain, You may behold both on the land and main, The conquest got, the spoils, the trophies reared By British kings, and such as noblest heard Of all the nation, which may make to invite Your valour upon need, but not to incite Your neighbour princes ; give them all their due, And be prepared if they will trouble you. He doth but scourge himself, his sword that draws Without a purse, a counsel, and a cause. But all these spurs to virtue, seeds of praise, Must yield to this that comes. Here's one will raise Your glory more, and so above the rest, As if the acts of all mankind weie prest In his example. Here are kingdoms mixed And nations joined, a strength of empire fixed Conterminate with heaven ; the golden vein Of Saturn's age is here broke out again. Henry but joined the Roses, that ensigned Particular families, but this bath joined The Rose and Thistle, and in them combined A Union, that shall never be declined. I reland, that more in title than in fact Before was conquered, is his laurel's act I The wall of shipping by E1iza made, Decayed (as all things subject are to fade) He bath new-built, or so restored, that men

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For noble use, prefer it afore then : Royal and mighty James, whose name shall set A goal for all posterity to sweat In running at, by actions hard and high: This is the height at which your thoughts must fly. He knows both how to govern, how to save, What subjects, what their contraries should have, What can be done by power, and what by love, What should to mercy, what to justice move: All arts he can, and from the hand of Fate Hath he enforced the making his own date. Within his proper virtue hath he placed His guards 'gainst Fortune, and there fix&l fast The wheel of chance, about which kings are hurled, And whose outrageous raptures fill the world. Lady. Ay, this is he, Meliadus, whom you Must only serve, and give yourself unto ; And by your diligent practice to obey So wise a master, learn the art of sway. Merlin, advance the shield upon his tent And now prepare, fair knight, to prove the event Of your bold Challenge. Be your virtues steeled, And let your drum give note you keep the field

[Drum beats.

-Is this the land of Britain so renowned For deeds of arms, or are their hearings drowned That none do answer? Mer. Stay, methinks I see A person in yon cave. Who should that be? I know her ensigns now ; 'tis CHIVALR.Y Possessed with sleep, dead as a lethargy : If any charm will wake her, 'tis the name Of our Meliadus. I'll use his fame. Lady, Meliadus, lord of the isles, Princely Meliadus, and whom fate now styles The fair Meliadus, hath hung his shield

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Upon his tent, and here doth keep the field, According to his bold and princely word ; And wants employment for his pike and sword
CHIVALRY,, aJ111,;,g forward.

CJU. Were it from death, that name would wake me. Say, Which is the knight? 0 I could gaze a day Upon his armour that bath so revived My spirits, and tells me that I am long-lived In his appearance. Break, you rusty doors, That have 80 long been shut,. and from the shores Of all the world, come, knighthood, like a flood Upon these lists, to make the field here good, And your own honours, that are now called forth Against the wish of men to prove your worth I

THE BARRIERS.
After wllidl MDLIN spealu lP tlu .PriiUII,

Mw. Nay, stay your valour, 'tis a wisdom high In princes to use fortune reverently. He that in deeds of arms obeys his blood,
Doth often tempt his destiny beyond good Look on this throne, and in his temper view The light of all that must have grace in you : His equal justice, upright fortitude And settled prudence, with that peace endued Of face, as mind, always himself and even. So Hercules, and good men ~ up heaven. I dare not speak his virtues, for the fear Of flattering him, they come 80 nigh and near To wonders; yet thus much I prophesy Of him and his. All ears your selves apply. You, and your-other you, great King and Queen, Have yet the least of your bright fortune seen,

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Which shall. rise brighter every hour with time, And in your pleasure quite forget the crime Of change ; your age's night shall be het noon. And this young knight, that now puts forth so soon Into the world, shall in your names achieve More garlands for this state, and shall relieve Your cares in government; while that young lord Shall second him in arms, and shake a sword And lance against the foes of God and you. Nor shall less 'joy your royal hopes pursue In that most princely maid, whose form might call The world to war, and make it hazard all His valour for her beauty ; she shall be Mother of nations, and her princes see Rivals almost to these. Whilst you sit high, And led by them, behold your Britain fly Beyond the line, when what the seas before Did bound, shall to the sky then stretch his shore.

OBERON, THE FAIRY PRINCE;

A MASQUE OF PRINCE HENRY'S.
Tk fosl faa of 1/u smu ~etl all o6seure, aNi IIIJIIuilg jHr&eivetiiNI a tlarll rod, witl. trees kyontl it, aiUI all flli/tlnus IMI aNitl Ill prumtetl: till, at 0111 aJnUr of lk ch:tf, a!Jov 1/u Aori6tm., lk motm IJigtm lo s.WW, aNi rising, a SATYR was sem 67 llw h"gltllo put for/A /lis 1uat1 aNi &all.
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CRR.OMIS 11

Mnasi11 1 none appear?

See you not who riseth here ?

You saw Silenus, late, I fear.'1'11 prove, if this can retch your ear.
lie fii(IUM /lis
a~nUI,

tl4&dvttl 67 1/u t&M.

aNi /A(!Ugltllli11Ue/f tJIISflleretl~ 1Nl

'IIJas

0, you wake then I come away, Times be short are made for play; The humorous moon too will not stay : What doth make you thus delay? Hath his tankard touched your brain ?
1 They ate the Dlimd of two young Satyrs, I find In Virgil Eclog. 6, that took Sllendl llleeping: who Is feigned to be the Jllledqogue of Bacclnla t a the 8atyn m his colliiSOI'ell, or playfellowa. So doth Dlodor. Slcul111, SJIMillus1 }nllau, In c-rib. report them. A ~ apeech, when they will taz one the other of drinking or lleepiDeu ~ alladtag to that former place In Virgil :

-chromls et Mnullua In antro

Silenum, puerl, aomno 'lidere jaoentem,

Iaccbo. made a loftr of wiDe, u In Cyclops Eurlp., and lmown by the notable emlp, his tanbnt: out of the u.me place of Vlrgil: Et gra'VIs attrlta pendebat cantharul ana. AI alto out of that famous piece or IC:Ul~. -In a little pm or~ ofjuper, oblemd byMon1. C.._u))c)a, In hlstraci de!:ki.tYr!ca
In1latum haterno - . ut

-per.

Silenua is

~bent

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Sure, they're fallen asleep again : Or I doubt it was the vain Echo, did me entertain. Prove againWoutul /lis &OnUt tlu se&Otul litlll, andfoutul #.

I thought 'twas she I Idle nymph, I pray thee be Modest, and not follow me : I not love myself; nor thee.l
Her1 lu flloutul tlu t/Urtl time, and fllas tiiU'IIIeret/67 all()t/lw SATYR, filM /ilmvis1 sllo'llleti!Umse!f.

Ay, this sound I better know: List I I would I could hear moe.
At tiW tMy ca1IU ruruuilg forlll snerally, to tlu ..u,U,. of tm, from divers parts of tlu rock, kapi11g and malti11g alllick adifms and giSb#'U ~ SfJitU of t/uw;e speakillg, SfJitU at/miri11g: and awumpt tlum a SILENB, filM is ner tlu Jweftd of tlu
Saiyn, and so prumlltl ;,. all tluir &Aori and ttU411ilp.

:a 3 :a 3 4 5 4

Sat. Thank us, and you shall do so.

Sat. Sat. Sal. Sat. Sal. Sat.
Ay, our number soon will grow. See Silenus I t Cercops too I Yes. What is there now to do? Are there any nymphs to woo? If there be, let me have two.

Polls!, &om Rucuiua BagarriUI : wherein is described the whole manner of the - aDd cborf or Bacchus, with SllenUI, aDd the Satyrs. An elegant aDd curiOUI utlqulty, both ror the subtilty ud labour: where, In 10 small a compus (to UBe bis words), there Is Rerum, per301W'Um, actlonum pi&De atupenda ftrietas. I Respecting that known Cable of Echo's rollowlng Narc:lssus; &lld his sellIOft. t In the pomps of Dlonysua, or Baccba~, to rm:ry comp&lly of Satyna there was ltD1 given a Sllene ror tbelr oYer!Jeel' or goYemOr. And ID that which Is described by AtbenlleiiS ID bls fifth book. Blni Silent non semel commembr&lltur, qui totidem plurium Satyrorum greglbus preslnt. Erant enlm eonun eplstate, pneaales, et corypbiiBI, propter grandem aetatem. was also pmpureo pallio 'ftltitus cum albil aolela, et pet&latUI, aareum c:aduoeum puvum rerena. Vld. AtheDe. DipDoe. Ub. 6, de pomp& Ptolemalc:L ' Tbe natare of the s.ltps tlae wile Horace ~ well, ID tbi word, wbell

He

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Silnl. Chaster language Jl These are nights, Solemn to the shining "ri~ Of the Fairy Prince and knights : While the moon their orgies lights. 2 Sal. Will they come abroad anon? 3 Sal. Shall we see young 0BUON ? 4 ~1. Is he such a princely one, As 'you spake him long agone? Si/m. Satyrs, he doth fill with grace Every season, every place ; Beauty dwells but in his face ; He's the height of all our race. I Our Pan's father, god of tongile,1 Bacchus, though he still be young,

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be called them RboTel et Dlcaces, 81 the Greek poets, N onaus, &:c., style tbern Nee solum dlcac:e~, sed et pronl In Ye~~etem, et llaltatorcs usidui et c:redebantur, et fingebantur. Uncle Satyrlca llaltatlo, qllll!l vlawlr dicebatur, et l qaa Satyrl lpsl V&~ Vell Slclno iaftlltore, ftl lid rl)f ~r!P'Ijn61f, Id est, a motu llaltatlonls satyrorum, qnl est concltatlsslmas. I But in the Silenes was nothing of this petulance and lightoess, but, on the contrary, all graYity and profound knowledge of mciat secret mysteries. Insomuch 81 tbe most learned of poets, Virgil, when be woald write a poem or the beglnninp and bidden natare of things, with other great antiquities, attributed the part1 of disputing them to Sllenus rather than any other. Wbicb wbosoe-ler thinks to be easily or by chance done bJ the most prudent writer, wDl easily betray his own Ignorance or folly. To this, see the testlmoules of Plato, Syneslus, Herodotus, Strabo, Pbllostratns, Tertulllan, &:c. 1 Among the ancients, the Jdnd, both of the Centanrl and Satyrs, Is confounded; and common wilh eltber. .~oil so~etlmes the Satyrs are said to c:orDe of the Centaurs, and again the Centaurs of them. Either of them are ~W., but a d!Yerle manner. And Galea oblenes out ol Hlppocrates, CommenL 3 In 6 Epidemicor., that both the Atbenlaus and Iouians called the Satyrs "per. or "ph.s, wbl~ name tbe Celitaurs ha.e with Homer : from ~benoe it were no unUkely conjectUre to think our word Fairies to come. Vlderint critic!. 1 Men:my, wbo for the !me ol Penelope, while she was keeping ha' fatber lcarlnl'li herds on tbe mountain Taygetas, tamed blmself Into a fair buck-goat ; with whole sports and flatterles the nymph being taken, be begat on. ha' Pan. : who W.. born, Capite cornuto, barbaque ac pedibus blrclnis. AI Homer bath it in Hymnil; and Luclan In. dlalogo Panil et MercurlL H~ wu called the gift!' of grace, X~ <fla,iapor, 111l >.tvdt. Hnaril et albul, nlten.s Cyllenilll alia. As BacchD.I Will called ulllllf, floridus; and Hebo, ~ lanu;lne et molll elate.
~!"IliUM

after

semper YireDJ.
lt

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Pb1:2bus, when he aown~ sung, 1 Nor Mars, w~en first his armour rung,1 Might with him be named that day : He ;.. lovelier, than in May Is the spring, and there can stay As little, as he can decay. Omn. 0 that be would come away I 3 Sal. Grandsire, we shall leave to play With Lyarus' now; and serve Only 0BUON. Si/m. He'll deserve All you can, and more, my boys. 4 Sal. Will he give us pretty toys, To beguile the girls withal? 3 Sal. And to make them quickly falL Si/m. Peace, my wantons I he will do More than you can aim unto. 4 Sat. Will he build us larger caves ? Sile11. Yes, and give you ivory staves, When you hunt; and better wineI Sal. Than the master of the vine ? 2 Sal. And rich prizes, to be won, When we leap, or when we run?
1 Apollo la lllld, after Jupiter had put Saturu to flight, to ban sung b1a fatber'a victory to the harp, Purpurea toga decorus, et !aura eoronatu, mlrificeque d omnes qui accabuerant, iD eoarivlo delectariue. Which nbullu., In Ub. si Elegiar. pointll to: Sed Dltidu., pulcberque venl. Nunc iDdue ftSteDl Purpuream, longu nUDe belle necte eomu. Q1Wem te memorant Saturno rqe fupto Victoria l&udes tunc cecinlue ]oris.

1 He was then lcnely, u being not yet atAlned with blood, ADd called x.owotnfMf "A.fi'tlt, qnasi aureum flagellum (Ye! rectlus auream pleam) babena. In Jullua PoUu, lib. 4t cap. 19, In tb&t part which be entitles de atyrlcia peraonla, we read, that Silenna ia called rirror, that la, &YDI, to note hll great nge l u amonpt the eomlc penons, the reverenced for their years were called W"clll'1r'IK 1 and with Jullan In c-. Baccbus, when be apeab him fair, cai1a him

..ci....t&c..

aolvo.

A naine of Baccbus, LJII'Ill, Qf f!'eCing men's minda f!'oull=&lel;

W'II{IG

Yll ~

THB MASQUB OF OBBRON.

I Sat. Ay, and gild our cloven feet? 3 Sat. Strew our heads with powder sweet? I Sat. Bind our crook~d legs in hoops Made of shells, with silver loops? 2 Sal. Tie about our tawny wrists Bracelets of the fairy twists ? 4 Sat. And, to spite the coy nymphs' scorns, Hang upon our stub~d horns Garlands, ribands, and fine posies3 Sat. Fresh as when the flower discloses? I Sal. Yes, and s.tick our pricking ears With the pearl that Tethys wears. 2 Sat. And to answer all things else, Trap our shaggy thighs with bells ; That as we do strike a time, In our dance shall make a chime3 Sal. Louder than the railing pipes Of the wood godsI Sat. Or the stripes Of the tabor; 1 when we carry Bacchus up, his pomp to vary. Omn. 0 that he so long doth tarry I Si/m. See I the rock begins to ope, Now you shall enjoy your hope; 'Tis about the hour, I know.

T~7

Tlur1 /M 'IIIMU smu opened, tmd 'lllilluiJ ftiiM dir&IJ'I!Wid tlu frontispiue o/ a Wig/11 and glorious palace, 'IIIMSI gales and walls 'lliWI transparml. B'.forl tlu piu /ay lftlo SYLVANS, armed fllilll 1/ldr du/Js, and drul ;,. /eavu, asleep. .All/tU tile SATYRS w()fl(/ering; SILENUS jrtKIIIU:

Si/m. i..ook I does not his palace show Like another sky of lights ? Yonder, with him, live the knights,
1 Erat solenne Baccho hi pompa.tenerornm more puerorum gestarl Slleno, et Sa.tyrls, Bacchls pnllCedentfbna, quarum una 1e111per erat Tympaniltra, altera nblclua, .tc. VIde Atbenle.

. BBN ]ONSON'S lt(ASQUBS:

Once, the noblest of the earth, Quickened by a second birth : Who for prowess and for truth There are crowned with ~ng youth : And do hold, by Fate's command, Seats of bliss in Faicyland. .. But their guards, methinks, do sleep 1. Let us wake them.-Sirs, you keep Proper watch, that thus do lie Drowned in sloth I 1 Sal. They have ne'er an eye To wake withal. 2 Sal. Nor sense, I fear; For they sleep in either ear.l 3 Sal. Holla, Sylvans !-sure they're caves Of sleep these, or else they're graves. 4 Sal. Hear you, friends !-who keeps the k~epers? t Sal. They are the eighth and ninth sleepers ! 2 Sal. Shall we cramp them? Silm. Satyrs, no. 3 Sal. Would we bad Boreas here, to blow Off their heavy coats, and strip them. 4 Snl. Ay, ay, ay ; that we might whip them, 3 Sal. Or that we had a wasp or two For their nostrils. r SI#. Hairs will do Even as well : take my tail. 2 SI#. What do you say to a good nail Through their temples ? 2 Snl. Or an eel, In their gutS, to make them feel ?
J For they aleep In ErrHn EAR.] 'I'M Latin pbrue is, In utramYis aurem donnire; and means to sleep aoundly, without any tboughtll of care.-WKAL. They bad it from the Greek: lt Is rightly rendered bJo Wballey. Br' ~~fiG ., x' , ~x'IJPO' - " ..

Mo>.X~& ICAB~~&P.

M~.

Frac

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4 Sal. Shall we steal away their beards ? ; 3 Sal. For Pan's goat, that leads the herds? 2 Sal. Or try, whether is more dead, His club, or the other's head? Si/m. Wags, no more: you grow too bold. 1 Sal. I would fain now see them rolled Down a hill, or from a bridge Headlong cast, to break their ridgeBones : or to some river take 'em, Plump; and see if that would wake 'em. 2 Sat. There no motion yet appears. Si/en. Strike a charm into their ears.
AI 'lllllkA 1/u SATYRSftll sutldmly 1'nlo IAis cak!l.

Buz, quoth the blue fty, Hum, quoth the bee : Buz and hum they cry, And so do we. In his ear, in his nose, Thus, do you see?-[TM;r li&kle,tlum. He ate the dormouse ; Else it was he.
Tlu lftlp SYLVANS starling up ama111d, and 61taki11g 1/umsllvu lo 1/uir arms, fll,. tluu p~slilmltl 6,y SlLENUS :

Si/m. How now, Sylvans I can you wake? I commend the care you take In your watch I Is this your guise, To have both your ears and eyes Sealed so fast as these mine elves Might have stolen you from yourselves ? 3 Sal. We had thought we must have got Stakes, and heated them red-hot, . And have bored you through the eyes, With the Cyclops, 1 ere you'd rise. 2 Sat. Or have fetched some trees to heave
1 Vid. Cyc. Ewipid: ubi &tirl Ulyssl auxilio skit ad amburendum oculum Cyclopl1.

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BB/f JONSON'S JIA.SQUBS:

4 Sal.

I I

Sal.

Syl.

Sal.

Up your bulks, that 10 did cleave To the gl'Ound there. Are you nee Yet of sleep, a11d can you see Who is yonder up aloof? Be your eyea yet moon-proof? Satyrs, leave your petulance, And go frisk about and dance; Or elae rail upon the moon: Your expectance is too soon. For beforo the second cock Crow, the gates will not unlock; And, till then, we know we keep Guard enough, although we sleep. Say you ~? the!) let us fall To a song, or to a brawl : Shall we, grandsire ? Let us sport,

And make expectation abort. Si/m. Do, my wantons, what you please.

I'll lie down and take mine ease.

I

Sal. Brothers, sing then, and upbraid,

h. we use, yond' seeming maid.

SONG.

Now, my cunning lady : moon, Can you leave the aide so soon Of the boy you keep so hid ? Midwife Juno sure will say, This is not the proper way Of your pal~ess to be rid. But, perhaps, it is your grace To wear sickneSs in your face, That ~here might be wagers laid Still, by fools, you are a maid. Come, your changes overthrow, What your look would carry so ; Moon, confess then, what you are,

THB MASQUB OP OIJBRON.

And be wise, and free to use Pleasures that you now do lose Let us Satyrs have a share. Though our forms be rough and rude, Yet our acts may be endued With more virtue : eve"!'f one Cannot be ENDYXION, H1r1 tluy fell sutltJmly 1"nno an anlia dan&e full of gestur1 and 1'11/ift motio11, and mllimud il till tlu &rO'Illl'ng of tlu &OU: al wlli&A /My '1/Jtrl in161'rupled o/ SILENUS. Si/m. Stay the cheerful chanticleer Tells you that the time is near : See, the gates already spread I Every Satyr bow his head.
TAtr1 1/u 'IIJAole palaa opened, and llu nation of Faits '1/Jtrl tiis&Ofltrtd, srmu 'IIJitA instruMmll, sonu !Jearing ll'gllll, ol!l.trs singing~ anti 'IIJilllin afar off'n jMrspe&tive, tlu lmi'gllll masfJUtrS silh'ng in tlltir S6fltral sitg'U: alllu forl!l.tr mtl of all, 0BERON1 in a cllariot, 'IIJ!Ii&ll, to a /Qud triumpllanl music, IJtgrzn to 11Wv1 for-Ward, dra'll/11 6)- two 'IIJNt6 IJtars, and on til!l.tr sit/4 guart/4d o/ tAr11 SYLVANS, 'WI'tA on~ going in front.
SONG.

Melt earth to sea, sea flow to air, And air fly into fire, Whilst we in tunes, to Arthur's chair Bear Oberon's desire ; Than which there's nothing can be higher, Save }.AKBS, to whom it flies: But he the wonder is of tongues, of ears, of eyes. Who bath not heard, who bath not seen, Who bath not sung his name? The soul that hath not, hath not been ; But is the very same With buried sloth, and knows not fame, Which doth him best comprise : For he the wonder is of tongues, of ears, of eyes. By t!W h"m~ 1/u &Aariot '1/Jas &Om6 as far fortA as 1/u faa of tlu s&me. And tlu SATYRS !Jegi,'ng to leap, and uprus tltn'r
joy for tAt unused stale antlso/emn#y, tlu for111UJ11 SYLVAN !Jegrzn to ~eak.

BBN JONSON'S JIA.SQUES:

I Syl. Give place, and silence ; you were rude too late ; This is a night of greatness and of state, Not to be mixt with light and skipping sport, A night of homage to the British court, And ceremony due to ~ur's chair, From our bright master, 0BJtRON the fair, Who with these knights attendants, here preserved In Fairyland, for good they have deserved Of yond' high throne, are come of right to pay . Their annual vows ; and all their glories lay A~s feet, and tender to this only great, True majesty, restored in this seat; To whose sole power and magic they do give The honour of their being ; that they live Sustained in form, Came, and felicity, From rage of fortune or the fear to die. Sile11. And may they well. For this indeed is he, My boys, whom you must quake at when you see. He is above your reach; and neither doth Nor can be think within a Satyr's tooth: Before his presence you must Call or fty. He is the matter of virtue, and placed high. His meditations to his height _are even : And all their issue is akin to heaven. He is a god o'er kings; yet stoops be then Nearest a man, when he dotb govern men, To teach them by the sweetness of his away, And not by force. He's such a king as they Who are tyrants' subjects, or ne'er tasted peace, Would, in their wishes, form for tlieir release. 'Tie be that stays the time from turning old, And keeps the age up in a bead of gold ; That in his own true circle still doth run ; And holds his course as certain as the sun. He makes it ever day and ever spring Where be doth shine, and quickens everything

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.Like a new nature : so that true to call Flim, by his title, is to say, He's all. I Syl. I thank the wise Silenus for his pr;~ise. Stand forth, bright FAiES and ELVES, and tune your bys Unto his name; then let your nimble feet Tread subtile circles that may always meet In point to him, and figures, to express The grace of him and his great emperess. That all that shall to-night behold the rites Performed by princely Oberon and th~ knights, May, without stop, point out the proper heir Designed so long to Arthur's crowns and chair.
SONG BY TWO li'AIKS.

Fau. Seek you majesty, to strike? Bid the world produce hil like. :z F~. Seek you glory, to amaze? Here let all eyes .stand at gaze. C!lo. Seek you wisdom, to inspire ? Touch then at no other's fire.
1

Faie. Seek you knowledge, to direct? Trust to his without suspect. :z Fai4. Seek you piety, to lead? In his footsteps only tread. C!lo. Every virtue of a king, And of all, in him, we sing.
I

17tm tM /user Faiu danu fortll tlul'r eltmu; 'IIJ!tidJ mtltd, a foil SONG foiiO'IIJs 6y all tile voices. The solemn rites are well begun; And though but lighted by the moon, "I:hey show as rich as if the sun Had made this night his noon. But may n~>ne wonder that they are so bright, The moon now borrows from a greater light: Then, princely Ohro11, Go on, This is not every night.

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0BER.OR

111111 tlu hripts tlalru tlld IM finl """'" _ , folltntM4 fl1iiA tAU
SORG.

tlillp:

tl1iik.l

Nay, Day,
Yoa must not stay, Nor be weary yet; This is no time to cast away, Or for Faies 10 to forget The virtue of their feet. Knotty legs and plants of clay Seek for ease, or love delay, But with you it still should fare M with the air of which yoa are.

After 'IliA/&!& tluy lialsadftlrlA tAeir sll1UU JN1SffU tlalta, aNI tn ~~gain ueitul 6y tJ
SONG.

Ft:JU. Nor yet, uor yet, 0 you in this night blest, Must you have will, or hope to rest. :z Fail. If you use the smallest stay, You'll be overta'en by day. 1 Fai4. And these beauties will suspect
1
2

That their forms you do neglect, If you do not call them forth. FIIU. Or that you have no more worth Than the coarse and country Fairy, That doth haunt the hearth or dairy.

T/unfo/kl'llllli tlu ~u, awlllllos, raJiiards, /!r&. 1 lil/ PHOSPHORUS IM dtJyslar ~Ill, 111111 &a/ud t1um away; 6111 jint JM.y twn itl'llituJ MWu 6y OM of t/u SYLVANS 'lllil/t tJW
SONG.

Gentle knights, Know some measure of your nights. Tell the high-graced 0/Mfot~, It ii time that we were gone. Here be forms ~ bright and airy, And their motions so they vary, ~they will enchant the Fairy If you longer here should tarry,

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Pllas. To rest, to rest I the herald of the day, Bright Phosphorus, commands you hence; obey. The moon is pale, and spent; and wing~ Night Makes headlong baste to ft.y the Morning's sight, Who now is rising from her blushing wars, And with her rosy hand puts back the stars. Of which myself the last, her harbinger, But stay to warn you that you not defer Your parting longer: then do I give way, As Night bath done, and so must you, to Day.
Ajlw t!W, 1/uy eltmutltluir last eltmu into ~ worle. And witA a full SONG tlu star vanislutl, antlllu wlw/4 ma&IUM closul.

0 yet bow early, and before her time, The envious morning up dotb climb, Though she not love her bed I What baste the jealous Sun doth make, His fiery horses up to take, And once more show his bead I Lest, taken with the brightness of this night, The world should wish it last, and never miss his light.

LOVE FREED FROM IGNORANCE AND FOLLY;

A MASQUE OF HER MAJESTY'S.

So

111011

u IM Kmg's Majuty 'fll41 111, and,.,~ IMri fiHU lutvd a slrtmgr wauk of flli/d wlnutullb. To .,Jd&j a SPBYNX 1 et~~~~~ for/A tlalldtlr, ktlllillr LoVB lxnmti.
Cow:a, sir Tyrant, lordly Love, You that awe the gods above, AB their creatures here below, With the sceptre called your bow ; And do all their forces bear In the quiver that you wear, Whence no sooner you do draw Forth a shaft, but is a law ; Now they shall not need to tremble, When you threaten or dissemble, Any more; and, though you see Whom to hurt, you have not free Will to act your rage. The bands Of your eyes now tie your bands. All the triumphs, all the spoils Gotten by your arts and toils Over foe and over friend, O'er your mother, here must end. And you, now, that thought to lay The world waste, must be my prey.

Sjlay~JS.

I By this SpbJ11X wu uodemood Ignorance, wbo la alwa71 tbe eoemy oC Lcmt and Beauty, and Uea atDlln wait to entrap tbem. For wblch Antiquity bu cl~ ber tbe upper put1 and lace of a woman : tbe netber paru oC a lion, the wlnp oC an eagle, to abow her flerclmeu, and swiftness to cMJ, where abe batb power.

LOVB PRBBD PROM POLLY.

Love. Cruel Sphynx, I rather strive How to keep the world alive, And uphold it ; without me, . All again would chaos be. Tell me, monster, what should mo'Ve Thy despight thus against Love ? Is there nothing fair and good, Nothing bright, but burns thy blood? Still thou art thyself, and made All of practice to invade Clearest bosoms. Hath this place None will pity Cupid's case? Some soft eye, while I can see Who it is that melts for me, Weep a fit. Are all eyes here Made of marble? But a tear, Though a false one; it may make Others true compassion take. I would tell you all the story If I thought you would be sorry, And in truth, there's none have reason, Like yourselves, to bate the treason. For it practised was on Beauty, Unto whom Love owes all duty. Let yo'ql' favour but afliight Sphyrix here, I shall soon recite E~ passage, how it Wl!JI Sp,ytzx. Do, I'll laugh, or cry alas I Thinks poor Love, can ladies' looks Save him from the Spbynx's hooks? ./.tnlt. No; but these can witness bear Of my candour, when they hear What thy malice is : or, how I became thy captive now : And it is no small content, Falling, to fall iMocent

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Know then, all you Glories here, In the utmost East there were Eleven daughters of the morn. Ne'er were brighter bevies born, Nor more perfect beauties seen. The eldest of them was the queen Of the Orient, and 'twas said, That she should with Phrebus wed. For which high-vouchsaf~ grace, He was loved of all their race. And they would, when he did rise, Do him early sacrifice Of the rich and pure!it gum That from any plant could come; And would look at him as far As they could discern his car : Grieving that they might not ever See him; and when night did sever Their as~ they sat and wept Till be came, and never slept : Insomuch, that at the length This their fervour gat such strength, As they would a journey prove, By the guard, and aid of LOve, Hither to the farthest West :. Where they beard, as in the East, He a palace, no less bright, Had, to feast in every night With the Ocean, where he rested Safe, and in all state invested.. I, that never left the s1de Of the fair, became their guide, But behold, no sooner landing On this isle,l but this commanding
l The mei\Dinr

or this b, that tbae ladla belur the perfect biDe or beauty and

LOVE PRBBD PROM POLLY.

Monster Sphynx, the enemy Of all actions great and high, Knowing that these rites were done To the wisdom of the sun, From a cliff surprised them all : And, though I did humbly fall At her lion's feet, and prayed As she had the face of maid, That she would compassion take Of these ladies, for whose sake Love would give himself up; she Swift to evil, as you see By her wings, and hook~ hands, First did take my offered bands, Then, to prison of the night Did condemn those sisters bright, There for ever to remain, 'Less they could the knot unstrain Of a riddle which she put, Darker, than where they are shut : Or from thence their freedoms prove With the utter loss of Love. They unwilling to forego One who had deserv~d so Of all beauty, in their names, Were content to have their flames Hid in lasting night, ere I Should for them untimely die. I, on t'other side as glad
all w~ldly grace, were carried by Loft to celebrate the majesty IUld wisdom of the ldng,ligured ID the auD, IUld seated In tbeae estreme parts or the world, wbere they Wet'e rudely received by Ignorance, OD their first approach, tO the buard of their aft"ectlon, it be1Jw ber nature to hinder all noble actions ; but that ~ Lo.e which brought them thither wu not willing to forsake them, no more than they were to abiiDdon it ; yet wu it eiiOIIih perplesed, In tbat the monster Ignorance still. covets to enwrap itlelf In dark and obscure tei"'DDIUld betray that way, whereu trae Love !'~ ~ ezpra~ltaelf ,nth ~I! cl~esa ~ simplicity,

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That I auch advantage had, To ass\lre them mine, engaged Willingly myself, and waged With the Monster, that if I Did her riddle not untie, I would freely give my life To redeem them and the strife. Splzynx. Have you said, sir? will you try, N<?w, your known dexterity? You presume upon your arts Of tying and untying hearts ; And it niakes you confident : But anon you will repent. .IAf1t. No, Sphynx, I do not presume; But some little heart ass'ume From tny judges here, that sit As they would not lose Love yet. Sphy~. You are pleasant, sir, 'tis good. LOfJt. Love does often change his mood. Sjlz)~. J shall make you sad agen. .IAf't. I shall be the sorrier, then. Splzynx. Come, sir, lend it your best ear. Love. I begin to have half a fear. Splzynx. First, Cupid, you must cast about To find a world the world without, Wherein what's done the eye doth do, And is the light and treasure top. This eye still moves, and still is fixed, And in the powers thereof are mixed Two contraries, which Time, till now, Nor Fate knew where to join, or how. Yet, if you hit the right upon, You must resolve these all by one. .Uv~. Sphynx, you are too quick of tongue ; Say't again, and take me along. Splzy11x. I say; you first must cast about

LOYB FRBBD FROM FOLLY.

To find a world the world without.

Love. I say, that is already done,

SjiiJ~~:e.

And is the new world in the moon. Cupid, you do cast too far ; This world is nearer by a star : So much light 1,1 give you to't. .Ltroe. Without a glass? well, I shall do't. Your world's a lady, th~m: each creature Human, is a world in feature, Is it not? Spllynx. Yes, but find out A world you must, the world without. Love. Why, if her servant be not here, She doth a single world appear Without her world Spll;~~:e. Well you shall run I Love. Nay, Sphynx, thus far is well begun. Splly~~:e. Wherein what's done, tht eye doth do, And is the light and treasure too. Love. That's clear as light; for wherein lies A lady's power but in her eyes ? And not alone her grace and power, But oftentimes, her wealth and dower. Splly~~:e. I spake but of an eye, not eyes. Love. A one-eyed mistress that unties. Sjlly11x. This eye still moves, and still is fixed .LnJe. A rolling eye that, native there, Yet throws her glances ~verywhere ; And being but single, fain would do The offices and arts of two. Sjlly11x. And in the powers thereof are mixed Two contraries. .Love. That's smiles and tears, Or fire and frost ; for either bears ResemQlance apt. Sjlly~~:e. Which time, till now,
L

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BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS. Nor fate knew where to join, or'how.How now, Cupid I at a stay? Not another word to say? Do you find by this how long You have been at fault and wrong? Love. Sphynx, it is your pride to vex Whom you deal with, lllid perplex Things most easy 1 lgnorance Thinks she dQth herself advance If of problems clear she make Riddles, and the sense fbrsake, Which tame gentle from the Muses Till her uttering it abuseS. Splaynx. Nay, your tailing will not 11ave you, Cupid, I of right must have yo\L . Come my fruitful issue forth, Dance and show 11. gladnesS W'O!:th Such a captive as is Love, And your Diotber's triumph pt6ve.

Here tlu FoLLIES, '111/li~!J

'1/JW'I

1'1/Jehle SHE-FOOL&; m/er and danu.

Spnynx. Now, go take him up, and bear him To the cliff,l Where I will teat him Piecemeal, and give each a part Of his raw and bleeding hwt.
lifJe.

Ladies, have your l()()ks rto power To help Love at such lib hour~ Will you lose him thus? Adieu I Think \\'bat will bectl~t! bf yt)U. Who shall praise you, who adtnl.re ? Who !ihali whisper by the fire As you stand, soft tales P \VhO brihg you Pretty news, in rhymes who sing you?

1 This shows that Lo-n:'s expositions are lldt alwa;t llaioas, till it be dlvlaely Instructed ; aad that sometlms it ~1 be lil the daaAef (,( lgri!)raaOI aad folly, who are tbe mother aacl issue : for folly but Is boru of lporaace.

no

LOYB PRilllD PROM POI..LY.

Who shall bathe him in the streams Of your blooc:lt and Belld you dreams Of delightP .Spllyu. Away, go beat him Hence, they shall no longer hear him,
HIN IM MUsES' Piuks'rs, J'n t~~~M/Jw lalelve, iUlvtiiiU 14/lis nsau, euul dllg IAU SONO U a~ Gentle lo~l be not dilma)'ed. See the Muses p11re aod holy, By their priests have sent thee aid Against this brood of rolly. It is thl~ that Slthfn% thtlt dAMe Had the senae fiNl ftoll'l tbe MliW Which in uttering ahe doth lame, l>erplexeth and abuses. But thet bid that tbt)li sbouldst luolt
And

In the btightt!st race here !lhlnmg, theame, ils Wt)uld ll book, Shall hel~ th~ l.ft di-ritililg.

L#ve. 'Tis done I 'tia done I I've found it outBrltain'a thtt world ~~ world Wi~out. The king's the eye, u we do tall The sun the tye of this gteat all. And is the light and treasure too ; For 'tis his Willdom ail dotb do. Which still it lilt&! in his breast, Yet still doth move to pide the rest. The contraries which Titne till now Nor Fate knew whm tG jbifi; br ho\v, Ate Majtfiy IUld Ltwe ; "hJth there, And fli)Wbere else. have their true sphere. Now, Sphynx, i;vo hit tho right upoot And do resolve these all by OftC! : That is, that you meant .Al.BJoN.
1 Hen 11 understood the ponr vi WIHbm ID tbe Yue&' llialiten, by whlcb oame aJl.that bari the aplrit of popbeq are llJled, ucliUCh the1 are tballlellcl to eocoaDter I~~ ttbU:t I bd ~ l!ler lady \Q dial Lbft lD IDY actloD of bo- aDd YlrUie. IDd lupir.lllll wnla \Mit .... *L

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Priesl.r. 'Tis true in him, and in no other, Love, thou art clear absolved. Vanish, Follies, with your mother, The riddle is resolved. Sphynx must fly when Pha:bus shines And to &id of Love inclineS.
(SPHYNX reh'ru

'IIII"IA tM FOLLIES.

LPve. Appear then, you my brighter charge,

And to light yourselves enlarge, To behold that glorious star For whose love you came so far, While the monster with her elves Do precipitate themselves.
Htrt t/u GRACES

mtw, a1UI n;,g t!W SONG, a'tl'lli1U;,g CUPID. A crown, a crown for Love's bright head, Without whose happy wit All form and beauty had been dead, And we had died with it. For what are all the Graces Without good forms and faces ? Then, Love, receive the due reward Those Graces have prepared. Clro. And may no hand, no tongue, no eye Thy merit, or their thanks ellvf.

CHORUS aNi GRACES. Cllo. What ge11tle forms are these that move

To honour Love? Gnz. They are the bright and golden lights That grace his nights. Clro. And shot from beauty's eyes, They look like fait Aurora's !ltreams. Gra. They are her fairer daughter's beams, Who now doth rise. Clro. Then night is lost, or fled away; For where such beauty shines is ever day.

Tlu Mt~.~pe DtmafD//(Jflltt/. WAI&A titme, 01U fJ/ tM PIUESTS al4tu 4f111K. t Priest. 0 what a fuult, nay, what a liD In fate or fortune had it been,

LOYB FRBBD FROM

FOLLY.~

So much beauty to have lost I Could the world with all her cost Have redeemed it? CAo. No, no, no. Prlul. How so ? CAo~ It would nature quite undo, For losing these, you lost her too. Tlu M1~ru t171tl Rtn11U fo//(lfll.
2

Priut. How near to good is what is fair I

Which we no sooner see, But with the lines and outward air Our senses taken be. We wish to see it still, and prove What ways we may deserve; We court, we praise, we more than love: We are not grieved to serve. Tlu /asJ MtUpe Dance. And after i"t, 1/Usfo/1
SONG.

What just excuse had ag~d Time, His weary limbs now to have eased, And sate hint down without his crime, While every thought was so much pleased I But lie so greedy to devour His O\Yn, and all that he brings forth, IS eating every piece of hour Some object of the rarest worth. Yet this is rescued from his rage, As not to die by time or age : For beauty bath a liv!Jig name, And will to heaven, from whence it came.
Grt171tl Clwrus at gomr out.

Now, now, gentle Love is free, and beauty blest With the sight it so much longed to see. Let us, the Muses' priests and Graces, go to rest, For in them our happy labours be. Then, then, * * * music sound, and teach our feet, How to move in time, and measure meet : Thus should the Muses' prieits and Graces go to rest, Bowing to the Sun throned in the west.

L 0 V E RE S T 0 RE D,
IN A MASQV'& AT
COV~T,

BY GENTL:&MEN, THE KING'S SERVANTS.

TM Kiw.c and CIJIIrl king ltahd, tmd In utJtdaliMI,

Etllw MASQVJUW)().
'Y.OVLD I could make them ~ show myself I In troth, ladies, I pity you all You are in expectation of a device to-night, and I am afraid you can do little else but expect it Though I dare not show my face, I can speak truth under a vfzard. Good faith, an't please your Majesty, your Ma.squers are all at a standi I cannot thin~ your Majesty will eee any show to-night, at least worth your patience. Some two houn since, we were in that forwardness, our dances learned, our masquing atti_re ori, and attired. A pretty fine speech was taken up o( the poet too, which if he never be paid for now, it's no matter : his wit costs him nothing. Unless we should come in like a morrice-dance, and whistle our ballad ounelves, I know not what we should do : we have neither musician to play our tunes, but the wild music here; and the rogue pla)"-boy that act. Cupid, is got so hoarse, your Majesty cannot hear him half the breadth of )'O\lf chair.

E"fn' PLUTUs, tu Ctn>ro. See, they have thrust him ou~ at adventure. We humbly beseech your Majetty to bear with us. We bad both hope a,nd purpose it should have been better, howsoever we are lost in it Piu. What makes this light f~hered vanity here? AWay, impertinent folly I Infect not this assembly.

LO VB RBSTORBD. NasfJ. How, boy I .Piu. Thou comma~ C9lT\lption <>f all manners and plN:es ~!lt admit thee. Ma.rfJ, Have you f<!COVered your voice to rail at me? Piu. No, vizard~ impudence. l am neither play~r nor masquer; bu~ tb' god him~ whose deity is her~ profaned by thee. Thou and thy like thin~ yourselves authorised in this place:: to all license of lllll'quedry. lM you shall find custom bath not so grafted you h~re, but you may be rent up and thrown out as unprofitable evils. I tell th~e, I will haV<! no more masquing; I will not bQy a ~ and fleeting delight so dear ) the merry madness of one pqur shall not cost mo the repentance of an age.

Enter RoBIN Goot>nu.ow.

Ro!J.. How I no JD$SqU6t no masque 1' I pray yo~ say, are you sure on't ~ no masqQe, ind~ I What do I hear then? can you tell? Nasf No, faith .Ro6. Slight, I'll be gone ligain, an thore be no masque ; there's a jest. Pray you resolv~ lll~ Is there. llJ1)'1 or no ? a masque ? .Piu. Who are you? .Ro6, Nay, I'll tell you that when I can. Does llJlybody know themselves h~e. Ulink; yo1,11 ~ wQuld fain ]mow if thell' be a masque or no. ./'1~ There) ill none, nor ball be, sir; does that ~ you? .Ro6. Slight, "' tine trick I 11. pi~ of :England's ] oy, Urls I .f,.re these your cou11 sports 1 Would I h4d kept me to my s-m bol$ a' the country still, selling of fish, Jhoff; servi~ shoeing th~ wild JDar8, or roasting of fObin-redbreast. The!W} w~. better than., after all ' this time, no ~ue ~ you look at me. J have recovered lllyself now for you, I llm. the hon~ pWn country spirit, llJld barmle&$ ; Robin Good(ellow, ho that aweeps the hearth and the ho1,11e clean, riddles !o_. tho countl'}' maids, and does all their other drudgery, while they ~ ILt bot-cackl$.11 one that h-. disgoun;ed with yoQf ccnut spirita erQ now J but was fain to-night to run a thousand ~ to lll'rivct 11,t th~ place : never pl' goblin was so put to hit! sbifte to get in to ~ nothing. So many thorny difficultiet

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as I have past, deserved the best masque ; the whole shop of the revels. I would you would admit some of my feats, but I have little hope of that, i'faith, you let me in so hardly. P/11. Sir, here's no place for them nor you. Your rude goodfellowship must seek some other sphere for your admitty. .Ro6. Nay, so your stiB'-necked porter told me at the gate, but not in so good words. His staff spoke somewhat to that boisterous sense : I am sure he concluded all in a. non-entry, which made me e'en climb over the wall, and in by the wood-yard, so to the terrace, where when I came, I found the oaks of the guard more unmoved, and one of them, upon whose arm I hung, shoved me off o' the ladder, and dropt me down like an acorn. 'Twaa well there was not a sow in the verge, I bad been eaten up else. Then I heard some talk of the carpenters' way, and I attempted that; but there the wooden rogues let a huge trap-door fall on my head. If I bad not been a spirit, I bad been mazarded. Though I confess I am none of those subtle ones, that can creep through at a keyhole, or the cracked pane of a window. I must come in at a door, which made me once think of a trunk; but that I would not imitate so catholic a coxcomb as Coryat. Therefore I took another course. I watched what kind of persons the door most opened to, and one of their shapes I would belie to get in with. First I came with authority, and said I was an engineer, and belonged to the motions. They asked me if I were the fighting bear of last year, and laughed me out of that, and said the motions were ceased. Then I took another figure, of an old tire-woman ; but tired under that too, for none of the masquers would take note of. me, the mark was out of my mouth. Then I pretended to be a musician, marry I could not show mine instrument, and that bred a discord Now there was nothing left for me that I could presently think on, but a feather-maker of Blackfriars, and in that shape I told them, Surely I must come in, let it be opened unto me ; but they all made as light of me, as of my feathers ; and wondered how I could be a Puritan, being of so vain a vocation. I answered, We are all masquers sometimes: with which they knocked Hypocrisy o' the pate, and

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made room for a bombard man, that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted, he said, with fasting for the fine sight. since seven o'clock in the morning. 0 how it grieved me, that I was prevented of that shape, and had not touched on it in time, it liked me so well; but I thought 1 would offer at it yet. Marry before I could procure my properties, alarum came that some of the whimlens had too much; and one showed how fruitfully they had watered his head, as he stood under the grices ; and another came out, complaining of a cataract shot into his eyes by a planet, as he was star-gazing. There was that device defeated I By this time I saw a fine citizen's wife or two let in ; and that figure provoked me exceedingly to take it ; which I had no sooner done, but one of the blackguards had his hand in my vestry, and was groping of me as nimbly as the Christmas cut-purse. He thought he might be bold with me, because I had not a husband in sight to squeak to. I was glad to forego my form, to be rid of his hot steaming affection, it so smelt of the boiling house. Forty other devices I had of wiremen and the chandrie, and I know not what else; but all succeeded alike I offered money too, but that could not be done so privately, as it durst be taken, for the danger of an example. At last a troop of strangers came to the door, with whom I made myself sure to enter; but before I could mix, they were all let in, and I left alone without, for want of an interpreter. Which, when I was fain to be to myself; a Colossus of the company told me, I had English enough to carry me to bed ; with which all the other statues of flesh laughed. Never till then did I know the want of an hook and a piece of bee(, to have baited three or four of those goodly wide mouths with. In this despair, when all invention and translation too failed me, I e'en went back, and stuck to this shape you see me in of mine own, with my broom and my candles, and came on confidently, giving out I wai a part of the Device ; at which, though they had little to do with wit, yet because some on't might be used here to-night, contrary to their knowledge, they thought it fit way should be made for me; and as it falls out, to small purpose. Piu. Just as much as you are fit for. Away, idle spirit; and

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thou the idle causo of hia adventuring hither, vanish with him. 'Tis thou that art not only the sower of vanities in tllese high places, but the call of all other light follies to fall and feed on t~ern. I will enduff: thy p~ty noJ: riot!! no wore; ~e7 are the l'Um of states. Nor eball the tyTanny of these nigbta here.fter impose a ne<:eaity upon me of entertaining thee. Let them em brace Dl9re frugal pastimes. Why should not the thrifty and right won~hipful game of POift and Pair content thetX\ i or the witty invention of Noddy1 for countenr; or God make then\ rich, at the tablea? but masquing and revelling I Were not these ladies and their gentlewomen more housewifely emplofedt a dozen of them to a light, or twenty (the 111ore the Plerrier} to P.~ c::~ in their chambers at home IUld their old night..gowna, at draw.gloves, riddles, dreams, and other pretty purposea. ~ther than to wake here, in their flaunting wires and tires, t.ced gowns, embroidered petticoats, and other taken up braverie~~? Away, I will no more of these superfluous CJcesaes. Tbq are these make tne hear 'so iU both in town .and country, as I do i which if they continue. I shall be the fi111t shallleaVQ them. Nas,. Either I an\ very atupid, or thil ~ a refome4 Cupid. Ro~. How I does IUlY take ~hia for Cupid 'i thQ LQ~ i~ court? Masf, Yea, il't not ho? Ro~. Nay, then we spirits, I soo, IU1) aubtler yet, and somewhat better discoverers. No; it is not he, nor hia brother Anti-cupid, the love of virtue, though he pretend to it with hil phrase and face : 'tis that impostor Plutus, the god of money, who h11,11 atolen Love's ensigns, and in his belied figure rules- the world~ making friendships, contracts, Dl&lriage&a and almost religion ; begetting, breeding, and holding tho nearest reapects of mankind 1 and usurping all those offices in thiq age of gold, which Love himself performed in the golden age. 'Tis he that pretond11 to tie king doms, maintain ~ollUllerce, ~of bonoUI'Sw make pll places IUld dignities arbitrary from him, even tQ the very country, where Love's name cannot be ~ out, be has yet gained th~re ~pan him by iL provorb, Nit f"' LPut 111' MtnU,Y. There Love lives confined, by his tyranny, to a eold region. wrapt up in funJ liko Muscovite,

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and almost frozen to death 1 w\ille he, in his infQreed shape, and with his ravished arms, ~ka as if hew~ to ~et bounds and give laws to destiny. 'Till you, mortals, that are tbols ; and worthy to be such, that worship hlm 1 for if you had wisdom, he had no godhead. He ahould stink in the grave with those wretches whose slave he was ; contellUl him, and he is one. Come, follow me. I'll bring you where you shall find Love, and by the virtue of this Majesty, who projecteth so powerful beams of light and heat through this hemisphere, thaw his icy fetters, and scatter the darkness that ob$eures hitn. Then, fn despfgbt of this insolent and barbarous Mammon, your sports may proceed, and the solemnities of the night be complete, without d~pending on so earthly" an idoL P/11. Ay, do ; attempt lt : 'tis like to find most necessary and fortunate event, whatsoever is enterprfsed without my aids. Alas, how bitterly the spirit of poverty spouts itself against my weal and felicity I but I feel ft not. I cherish and make much of myself, flow forth in ease and delicacy, while that munnU1'8 and starves.

Enltr CUPID in lW ~ltariot, gwartk(i fl!i/A tM MasfJ11WI1 in

. , . lm.
SONG,

0 how came LOve, that is himself a fire,

To be so cold ? Yes, tyrant Money quencbeth all desire,

Or makes it old. But here aro beauties will revive Love'1 youth, IQld keep bis heat Jlive : ~ often as his torch here dit:a, He need but light it at fresh eyes. Joy, Joy, the more 1 for in all courts, If Love be cold, 110 a "o )lis 1portt,

Cttj. I have my spfrfts again, and feel my limbs.

Away with this cold cloud, that dims My light I lie there, my furs and channs, Love feels a heat, that inward warms, And guards him naked, fn these places, As at hia birth, or 'mongst the Graces.

BBN JONSON'S JIA.SQUBS.

ImpoStor Mammon, co~e, resign This bow and quiver ; they are mine. Thou hast too long uswped my rites, I now ~ lord of mine own nights. Be gone, whilst yet I give thee leave. When thus the world thou wilt deceive, Thou ci.nst in youth and beauty shine, Belie a godhead's form divine, Scatter thy gifts, and fly to those Where thine own honour may dispose; But when to good men thou art sent, By Jove's direct commandment, Thou then art ag~ lame, and blind, And canst nor path nor persons find. Go, honest spirit, chase him hence To his caves ; and there let him dispense For murders, treasons, rapes, his bribes Unto the discontented tribes ; Where let his heaps grow daily less, And he and they still want success. The Majesty that here doth move, Shall triumph, more secured by Love, Than all his earth ; and never crave His aids, but force him aa a slave. To those bright beams I owe my life", And I will pay it in the strife Of duty back. See, here are ten, The spirits of courts, and flower of men, Led on by me, with flamed intents,. To figure ~e ten ornaments, That do each courtly presence grace. Nor will they rudely strive for place, One to precede the other ; but As music them in form shall put, So will they keep their measures true, And make still their proportions new,

LOVB RBSTORBD.
Till all become one harmony, Of Honour, and of Courtesy, True Valour and Urbanity, Of Confidence, Alacrity, Of Promptness, and of Industry, Hability, Reality. Nor shall those graces ever quit your court, Or I be wanting to supply their sport. Her11lujinl tlan&~o
SONG.

173

This motion was of Love begot, It was so airy, light, and gOod, His wings into their feet be shot, Or else himself into their blood. But ask not how : the end will prove, That Love's in them, or they're in Love. Se&QNJ tfana.
SONG.

Have men beheld the Graces dance, Or seen the upper orbs to move ? So these did turn, return, advance, Drawn back by Doubt, put on by Love. And now like earth, themselves they fix, Till greater powers vouchsafe to mix Their motions with them. Do not fear, You brighter planets of the sphere : Not one male heart you see, But rather to his female eyes Wou.ld die a destined sacrifice, Than live at home, and free. Tlu'nl tiaMI.
SONO.

Give end unto thy pastimes, Love, Before they labours prove : A little rest between, Will make thy next shows better seen. Now let them close their eyes, and see If tliey can dream ofthee, Since morning bastes to come in view ; ADd all the morning dreams are true.

A CHALLENGE AT Tl LT,
AT A MARR!A(Ut,
TIB DAY An'U Tlm IIARJUAGL

TM Cwrl ,;,gill ~JJ, 1*1111/m, Blllw lW CUPIDSt ~

1

Cr~p. It is my

right, and 1 wli1 havi! it.

Cup. By what lAw or ilecessity ~ Pr&J you, ~me back. 1 Cr~p. I serve the man, and the nobler creature. 2 Cr~p. But I the woman, and the purer; and therefore the worthier. Because JOU aro a handful above me, do you think to get a foot aford m~ sir? Not I appeal to yQ\11 ladies. 1 Cup. You are tOd rod~ h<Jy; in thia ~l't!Wbct. 2 Cup. That C4hftot ~Ut hiodeMy it1 m~ ttJ make me come behind you, lbougb ; 1 will stand tor mine inches with you, as peremptory as an ambusador. Ladies, JOW' IIQVorcignties are con cemed in me; I ~ the wife'B pap I Cup. And I the hualwld'a. 2 Cup. Howl I Cup. Ha! 2 Cup. One of us must break the wonder; and therefore I that have best cause to be assured of mine own truth, demand of thee, by what magic thou wearest my ensp? or haat put on my person? 1 Cup. Beware, young ladies; 6f U1ls lbl~t} and mothers, look to your dllUkbters and hieaa : ll tatse Cut>ld is abroad : it is I that am the true, who to do these glad solemnities their proper rites, have ~ oontented, nGt to put oij but to conceal my deity, and in &llil habit g( 1 aervant \tu lttfAld him who was
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yesterday the happy Bridegroom, in the compliment of his nuptials; to make all his endeavours and actions more gnldou and lovely. 2 Cr~p. He tells my tal~ he tells my tale J and pretenda to my act. lt was I that did this for the Bride : i am the true Love, IUicl both this figure and thou IU1DI are usurped by most unlawful pgwer. Can you not perceive itP Do not I look liket a Cupid than he~ Atn l not tnON a thilcl i' Ladie&t ha none of you a picture of me in your bosom? Is the resemblance of Love banishecl your breasta? Sure thq arG the&e gtrmenb that estrange me to you I if l wen naked, you -would know met better : no Rlio of loft left in an old boSom hen~ I What should I clo? 1 'C.p. My little llbadow la tutrlad furi~\111. 11 'C;;p. Whllt can 1 tul1i other \ban A f'Uty itstlf, w 11ee thy iinpudehce i' If I be l llhadow; wliit ia lrubitabce? Wllll it hot I that yestmight waited oli thtt bride iflto the ttuptial thambll' and, against the bridegroom tam~1 tnade her the thtone '>t loVd ~ Had I not lighted my torches in her eyes, planted fny mother's roses in her cheeks; were Mt he~ tyebrowa bent t() th4t fashion of my bow and her }()Ob ready to 00 loosed thenelt lib any shafts 't Had i not ripened ~ on her lips1 fit for l MettUry to gather~ and tnade her langutg~ sWeeter tbaJ\ hiS lll>(>fi her tongue i' WAs not th~ girdle about btr be Wis to Untie, ttly mothefllj 'Wherein all the joys and delights o lo~ Were Wovekl P 1 Cr~p. And did not I bring on the blushing bridegroom to taste those joys? and Diade him think all stay a torment? Did I not shoot myself into him like a flame, and made his desires and his graces equal? Were not his looks of power to have kept the night alive ln contention with day, and made the morning never wished for? Was there a C\1rl in his hair that I did not sport in, or a ring of it crisped that might not have become ]uno's fingen? Hili very Undtessing wu it not Ldve's llilbibg? Did not all his kisses chluge? and evert wuch attempt? But his words, wete they not {eatbered frOm tny \villgs, and flew in singWg at her ears, like arrows tipt with gold ? a Cup. Hen, hers. dtd. so into his ; and all his \tittlie ~

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borrowed from my powers in her, as thy form is from me. But that this royal and honoured assembly be no longer troubled with our contention, behold, I challenge thee of falsehood ; and will bring, upon the first day of the new year, into the lists, before this palace, ten knights armed, who shall undertake against all assertion that I am a child of Mars and Venus : and in the honour of that lady (whom it is my ambition to serve) that that love is the most true and perfect that still waiteth on the woman, and is the servant of that seL I C11p. But what gage gives my confident counterfeit of this? 2 C11p. My bow and quiver, or what else I can make. I Cup. I take only them ; and in exchange give mine, to answer, and punish this thy rashness, at thy time assigned, by a just number of knights, who by their virtue shall maintain me io be the right Cupid, and true issue of valour and beauty ; and that no love can come near either truth or perfection, but what is manly, and derives his proper dignity from thence. 2 C11p. It is agreed. I Cup. In the m~time, ladies, suspend your censures which is the right; and to entertain your thoughts till the day, may the court hourly present you with delicate and fresh objects, to beget on you pretty and pleasing fancies I May you feed on pure meats, easy of concoction, and drink that will quickly turn into blood, to make your dreams the clearer, and your imaginations the finer I

On New-Years Day, lu tAal 6eftwt is ~~~tmhretlllu stcond CUPID, mme tuJfllllujirsl, 'lllil!l !lis lm Km~Ats, attired;,. llu Bn"db 'olmlrs, antlli'gluingfrom !lis '!lan"ot, .rpaRe:

r C11p. Now, ladies, to glad your aspects once again with the sight of Love, and make a spring smile in your faces, which must have looked like winter without me; behold me, not like a servant now, but a champion, and in my true figure, as I used to reign and revel in your faces, tickling your soft: ears with my

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feathers, and laying little straws about your hearts, to .kindle bonfires shall flame out at your eyes, playing in your bloods like fishes in a stream, or diving like the boys in the bath, and then rising on end like a monarch, and treading humour like water, bending those stiff picltardils of yours under this yoke my bow ; or, if they would not bend, whipping your rebellious vardingales with my bow-string, and made them run up into your waists (they have lain so ftat) for fear of my indignation. What I is Cupid of no name with you ? have I lost all reputation, or what is less, opinion, by once putting off my deity ? Because I was a page at this solemnity, and would modestly sene one, for the honour of you all, am I therefore dishonoured by all, and lost in my value so, that every juggler that can purchase hirn a pair of wings and a quiver, is committed with me in balance, and con tends with me for sovereignty? Well, I will chastise you, ladies; believe it, you shall feel my displeasure for this; and I will be mighty in it. Think not to have those accesses to me you were wont; you shall wait four of those galleries off, and six chambers for me; ten doors locked between you and me hereafter, and I win allow none of you a key : when I come abroad, you shall petition me, and I will not bear you ; kneel, and I will not regard you ; I will pass by like a man of business, and not see you, and I wiH have no Master of Requests for you. There shall not the greatest pretender to a state-face living put on a more supercilious look than I will do upon you. Trust me-ha I what's this?

E"'" 2 CuPID, flll'in /lis trmtJa117 of tm Kni'gllts. Cup. 0, are you here, sir I You have got the start of me now,

by being challenger, and so the precedency, you think. I see you are resolved to try your title by arms then ; you wm stand to be the right Cupid still? How now I what ails you that you answer not? Are you turned a statue upon my appearance? or did you hope I would not appear, and that hope has deceived you? 1 Cr~p. Art thou still so impudent to belie my figure? that in what shape soever I present myself, thou wilt seem to be the
M

BBN JONSON'S MASQUES. same; not so much as my chariot, but resemblea by thee? and both the doves and swans I have borrowed of my mother to draw it? the very number of my champions emulated, and almost their habits I What insolence is this ? 2 Cup. Good little one, quarrel not; you have now put yourself upon others' valonr, not your own, and you must know you can bring no person hither to strengthen your side, but we can produce an equaL Be it Persuasion you have got there, the peculiar enchantress of your sex; behold we have Mercury here to charm against her, who gives all lovers their true and masculine eloquence ; or IU'e they the Graces you presume on, your known clients, Spring, Beauty, and Cheerfulness ? here are Youth, Audacity, and Favour to encounter them, three mote manly perfections, and much more powerful in working for Love. Child, you are all the ways of winning too weak; there is no thinking, either with yotir honour or discretion kept safe, to continue on a strife wherein you are ~eady vanquished. Yield, be penitent early, and confess it. 1 Cup. I will break my bow and quiver into dust first (restore me mine own arms) or be tom in pieces with Harpies, tnarry one of the Furies, turn into Chaos again, and dissolve the harmony of nature. :z Cup. 0, nlost stiffiy spoken, and fit for the aex you stand for I Well, give the sign then: let the trumpets sound, and up<>n the valour and fortune of your champions put the right of your

cause.
I

Cup. 'Tis done.

Her1 tlu TILTING fO()lljlaa .After wlri'cll,

2 Cup. Now, sir, you have got mightily by this contention, and advanced your cause to a most high degree of estimation \\l:lth these spectatonll have you not? l Cup. Why, what ~ve rou dc;>ne, or won?

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2 Cllj. It is enough for me who was called out to this that I have not lost, or that my side is not vanquished.

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trial.

Etller HYKEN.

By. Come, you must yield both; this is neither contention for you, nor time fit to contend : there is another ki~d of tilting would become Love better than this; to meet lips for lances, and crack kisses instead of staves : which there is no beauty here, I presume, so young, but can fancy, nor so tender, but would venture. Here is the palm for which you must strive : which of you wins this bough, is the right and best Cupid ; and whilst you are striving, let Hymen, the president of these solemnities, tell you something of your own story, and what yet you know not of yourselves. You are both true Cupids, and both the sons of Venus by Mars, but this the first born, and was called Eros; who upon his birth proved a child of excellent beauty, and right worthy his mother; but after, his .growth not answering his fonn, not only Venus, but the Graces, who nursed him, became extremely solicitous for him ; and were impelled, out of their grief and care, to consult the oracle about him. Themis (for Apollo was not yet of years) gave answer, there wanted nothing to his perfection; but that they had not enough considered, or looked into the nature of the infant, which indeed was desirous of a companion only: for though Love, and the true, might be born of Ven us single and alone, yet be could not thrive and increase alone. Therefore if she affected his growth, Venus must bring forth a brother to him, and name him Anteros, that with reciprocal affection might pay the exchange of Love. This made that thou wert born her second birth. Since when, your natures are, that either of you, looking -upon other, thrive, and by your mutual respects and interchange of ardour, Bourish and prosper; whereas, if the one be deficient or wanting to the other, it fares worse with both. This is the J.ove that Hymen requires, without which no marriage is happy : when the contention is not, who is the true Love, but, being both true, who loves m~t; cleaving the bough between you, and dividing the

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palm.

This is a strife wherein you both win, and begets a concord worthy all married minds' emulation, when the lover transfonns himself into the person of his beloved, as you two do now; by whose example, let your knights (all honourable friends and servants of Love) affect the like peace, and depart the lists equal in their friendships for ever, as to-day they have been in their fortunes. And may this royal court never know more difference in humours ; or these well-graced nuptials more discord in affections, than what they presently feel, and may ever avoid? r and 2 Cup. To this Love says, Amen.

THE IRISH MASQUE,

AT COURT,

BY GENTLEMEN, THE KING'S SERVANTS. Tlu Kng 61ing set ,, ezpedatUm, oul r1111 a jei/Ofll altirlll liM a d/Um: aftw Aim, llln1 orfour j()()hllm, DENNISE, DONNELL,
DER:MOCK, and PATR.IC~.

Pat. For chreeshes sayk, ~air ish te kinirf phich ish he, ant be? show me te shweet faish, qUickly. By got, o' my conshence, tish ish he I ant tou be king Yamish, me name is Dennish, I sherve ti majesties owne ~hteniioilger, be me trote ; and cry peepsh, and pomwatersh ilt-..ti._~yeJties shervice, 'tis five year now. Ant tou vilt not trush me now, call up ti clarke o' ti kit_chen, be ant be, shall give hish wort, upon hish book, ish true. Dun. Ish it te fashion, to beate te imbasheters here, and knocke 'hem o'te heads phit te phoit stick ? Der. Ant make ter meshage run out a ter mouthsh, before tey shpeake vit te king? Dm. Peash, Dermock, here ish te king. Dw. Phair ish te king? Dm. Phich ish te king ? Den. Tat ish te king. Der. Ish tat te king ? Got blesh him I Den. Peash, and take beet, vat tou shaysht, man. Der. Creesh blesh him, I shay. Phat reasOn I tayk beet, for tat? .Pun. Creesh blesh ti shweet Caisb, king Yamish; and my mishtresh faish too : pre te, hear me now. I am come a great vay of miles to she te now, by my fayt and trote, and graish o' got

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.Den. Fhat ish te meaning o' tish, Donnell ? didsh tou not shay, a gotsh name, I should tell ty tale for tee? ant entrayt me come to te court, and leave me vare at shiede, and seven? by got, ish true now. .Don. Yesh. But I thanke got I can tell my tayle myshelfe, now I be here, I warrant tee : pre de hear me, king Yamish. .Den. Free dee heare me, king Yamish: I can tell tee better ten he. Pat. Free dee heare neder noder on 'hem : here'sh Dermock will shpeake better ten eder oder on 'hem. .Der. No fayt, shweet hart, tow lyesht. Fatriclc here ish te vesht man of hish tongue, of all de foure ; pre tee now heare him. Pat. By chreesh shave me, tow lyesht. I have te vorsht tongue in de company at thy shervish. Vill shomebody shpeak? .Don. By my fayt, I vill not .Der. By my goship's hand, I vill not. Pat. Speake, Dennish, ten .Dm. If I speake, te divell tayke me. I vill give tee leave to cram my mouth phit shamrokes and butter, and vater creeshes instead of pearsh and peepsh. Pal. If nobody will shpeake, I vill shpeake. Fleash ty shweet faish, we come from Ireland. .Der. We be Irishmen, an't pleash tee. .Don. Ty good shubshects of Ireland, and pleash ty mayesty. .Dm. Of Connough, Leynster, Ulster, Munster. I mine one shelfe vash born in the English payle, and pleash ty mayesty. Pat. Sacrament o' chreesh, tell ty tale ty shelfe, and be all tree. .Den. And pleash ty graish, I vill tell tee, tere vash a great newesh in Ireland of a great brideal of one o' ty lords here ant be. Pal. Ty man Robyne, tey shay. ..Don. Mary ty man Toumaish, his daughter, tey shay. .Der. Ay, ty good man, Toumaish o' Shuffollte. .Don. He knoke ush o'te payt here, ash we come by, by a good token. .Der. I' fayt, tere ish ~ery mqcb phoyt stick here stirring tonight. He takes ush for no shquires, I tinke.

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Pal. No, he tinbh not ve be imbashetera. Dtm. No fayt, I tinke sho too. But tish marriage bring over" doshen of our besht mayshters, to be merry perht tee sb1r~ faish, an't be ; and daunsh a. fading at te vedding. . D,.. But tey vere leeke to daunsh na~ed, and pl~h ty mayesty; for tey villanous vild Irish sh~ have casht away all ter fine cloysh, as many ash cosht a towsand cowes, and garraves, I warrant tee. . Der. And te prishe of a casht~ll or two upon teyr backs. Don. And tey tell ty may~, tey have ner a great fi~h now, nor a shea moynshter to shave teyr cloyth alive now. Pat. Nor a devoish vit a clowd to fesh 'hem out o' te bottom o' te vayter. . Der. But tey musht eene come and dnunsh in teyr ~ties now; and show tee how teye can foot te fading and te fadow, and te phip a' Dunboyne, I trow. .Dote. I pre dee now, let not ty sweet faysh, ladies, ~ a mock on 'hem and scorn to daunsht vit 'hem now, ~b tey

be poor.
Pal. Tey drink no bonny clabbe, i' fayt, now. Dtm. It ish better ten usquebagh to daunsh vit, Patri~ Pal, By my fater's band, tey vill daunsh very veiL .Dw. Ay, by St. Patrick, vill teY; for tey be nimble meq. Den. And vill leap ash light, be creesh save me, aeh he tat veares te biggest fether in ty court, king Y amish. Der. For all tey have no good vindab to blow tem heter, nor elementsh to preserve 'hem. Don. Nor all te four comersh o' te world, to creep out on. Pal. But tine own k.ingdomes. .Don. Tey ~ honesht men. Pal. And goot men : tine own shubshects. Dtr. Tou hast very good shubshects in Ireland. Den. A great goot many, o' great goot ahubshects. Dtm. Tat love ty mayesty heartily. Dm. And vill run t'rough fire and vater for tee, over te bog and te bannoke, be t~ sraiah o' got, and sraish o' kiJ:Ia.

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Der. By got, tey vill fight (or tee, king Yamish, arid for my mistresh tere. Den. And my little maishter. Pal. And te vfrow, ty daughter, tat is in Tuchland. Don. Tey vill spend ter heart in ter belly for tee, as vell as ter legs in ter heelsh. .Der. By creesh, tey vill shpend all teyr cowesn for tee. Den. Pre tee make mush on t'em. Pat. Pre tee, sweet faysh, do .Don. Be not angry vit te honesh men, for te few rebelsh, and knavesh. Pat. Nor beleeve no tayles, king Yamish. .Der. For, by got, tey love tee in Ireland .D(Ifl. Predee, bid 'em wel<;ome, and got make 'em rish for tee. Der. Tey vill make temshelves honesht. .Den. Tou hasht not a hundret tousand sush men, by my trote. Pal. No, nor forty, by my hant. .Don. By justish Delounes hant, not twenty. Der. By my lord Deputish hant, not ten, in all ti great Brittayne. Shall I call hem to tee ? .Do11. Tey shit like poore men i' te porsh yonder. Pal. Shtay, tee peepe ish come I [Bagpipe, O.e., mln'.] Harke, harke I Der. Let ush daunsh ten. Daunsh, Dennish. JJen. By creesh sa'me, I ha' forgot. .Doll. A little till our mayshtersh be ready.
Here flu FOOTMEN /rad a DANCE, king sir mm and sir !Joys, ID 1/u /Jag#jH and oilier rut/4 after fllltit'A 1/uy lrad a SONG, anlitllm 1/uy meti,

mru.,/

Peash I Peash I Now room for our mayshters I Room for our mayshters I Tllm 1/u GENTLEMEN tialla for/A a tlatU in lluir Iri.rll mantlu lo a solemn wuuU: f!! Aatps : fiiNdl done, 1/u FOOTMEN fall to .tplaA agrdn.

.Der. How like tou tish, Yamish? and tey had fine cloyshs now, and liveries, like tine own men ant be I

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Dtm. But te rugs make t'em shrug a little. Der. Tey have shit a great phoyle i' te cold, ant be, Don. I sht not pity te cloysh be drowned now? Pat. Pre tee shee another daunsh, and be not veary.
Hn-1 flu7
'11111'1

illflrruputl6y a civil GENTLEMAN of tile nation, filM llro11gAI in a BARD.

Gmt. He may be of your rudeness. Hold your tongues, And let your coarser manners seek some place, Fit for their wildness : this is none ; be gone I Advance, immortal Bard, come up and view The gladding face of that great king, in whom So many prophecies of thine are knit. . This is that James of which long since thou sung'st, Should end our countries' most unnatural broils ; And if her ear, then deafened with the drum, Would stoop but to the music of his peace, She need not with the spheres change harmony. This is the man thou promis'dst should redeem, If she would love his counsels as his laws, Her head from servitude, her feet from fall, Her fame from barbarism, her state from want, And in her all the fruits of blessings plant. Sing then some charm, made from his present looks, That may assure thy former prophecies, And firm the hopes of these obedient spirits, Whose love no less than duty bath called forth Their willing powers: who if they had much more, Would do their all, and think they could not move Enough to honour that which he doth love.
Here flu BARD dnp
SONG.

to lfllo lultps.

Bow both your heads at once and hearts; Obedience doth not well in parts. It is but standing in his eye, You'll feel yourselves changed by and by.

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,BBN JONSON'S MASQUES. Few live, that know, how quick a spring Works in the presence of a king: 'Tis done by this ; your slough let fall, And come forth new-born creatures all

During tiW song, tM MASQUERS ltl fall tllnr mantiu, and diswver 1/uir masping apjJarel. Tlun 1/uy dt:utu fwiA.
AfUr 1/u danu 1/u

BAim n"ngs t1W

SONG.

So breaks the sun earth's rugged chains, Wherein rude winter bound her veins ; So grows both stream and source of price, That lately fettered were with ice. So naked trees get crisp6i he;lds, And coloured coats the roughest meads, And all get vigour, youth, and spright, That art~ but looked on by his light.
l'KUS 11' ENDED,

MERCURY VINDICATED
FROM THE ALCHEMISTS, AT COUltT,

BY GENTLEMEN, THE KING'S SERVANTS

Loud musi(. After wlricA tM Smu is e/isC()'IJered~ 6dng a .l..4/Joralory qr Alcllnnisls fllork-lwuse: VULCAN IJking to t1u rt,risters, flllriU a CVCLOPE, tmdi'tg tM fire, to tlu &OnUis 6egan to sing.
Soft, subtile fire, thou soul of art, Now do thy part On weaker nature, that through age is lamed. Take but thy time, now she is old, And the sun ber friend grown cold, She will no moro in strife with thee be named.
C)'(.

Look, but how few confess her now,

In cheek or brow I From every head, almost, how she is frighted l The very age abhors her so, That it learns to speak and go, As if by art alone it could be righted. TAt S011g mtild, MERCURY appeartd, tllrusting oullris luad, and ajler~~~ard Iris /Jod.)', at tlu lu1111t/ of t/U middU fumaee : ~lridl VULCAN esf/.)'i11g, cried out. to tM CYCLOPS.

Vu/. Stay, see I our Mercury is coming forth; art and all the elements assist I Call forth our philosophers. He will be gon~ he will evaporate. Dear Mercury I help. He flies. He is sclped. Precious golden Mercury, be fixt : be not so volatile I Will none of the sons of art appear ?

In fiiNm tiiiU MERctntv !raving run

rrHI11I,

tma

or

hili&~

tUoul tlu

laAu /Jreai/J,

and~.

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Mer. Now the place and goodness of it protect me. One tender-hearted creature or other, save Mercury, and free him. Ne'er an old gentlewoman in the house, that has a wrinkle about her to bide me in? I could_ run into a serving woman's pocket now ; her glove, any little hole. Some merciful verdingale among so many, be bounteous, and undertake me : I will stand close up, anywhere, to escape this polt-footed philosopher, old Smug here of Lemnos, and his smoky family. Has he given me time to breathe I 0 the variety of torment that I have endured in the reign of the Cyclops, beyond the most exquisite wit of tyrants I The whole household of them are become Alchemists, since their trade of armour-making failed them, only to keep themselves in fire, for this winter; for the mischief a secret that they know, above the consuming of coals, and drawing of usquebagh I howsoever they may pretend, under the specious names of Geber, Arnold, Luny; Bombast of Holrenheim, to commit miracles in art, and treason against nature ; and, as if the title of philosopher, that creature of glory, were to be fetched out of a furnace, abuse the curious and credulous nation of metal men through the world, and make Mercury their instrument. I am their crude, and their sublimate ; their precipitate, and theil unctuous ; their male and their female ; sometimes their hermaphrodite : what they list to style me. It is I that am corroded, and exalted, and sublimed, and reduced, and fetched over, and filtered, and washed, and wiped ; what between their salts and their sulphurs, their oils and their tartars, their brines and their vinegars, you might take me out now a soused Mercury, now a salted Mercury, now a smoked and dried Mercury, now a powdered and pickled Mercury: never herring, oyster, or cucumber past so many vexations. My whole life with them bath been an exercise of torture : one, two, three, four, and five times an hour have they Inade me dance the philosophical circle, like an ape through a hoop, or a dog in a wheel I am their turnspit im;leed : they eat and smell no roastmeat but in my name. I am their bill of credit still, that passes for their victuals and house-room. It is through me they have got this corner of the Court to cozen in, where they shark for a

NBRCURY VINDICATBD.
hungry diet below stairs, and cheat upon your under-officers, promising mountains for their meat, and all upon Mercury's security. A poor page ol' the larder, they have made obstinately believe, he shall be physician for the household next summer ; they will give him a quantity of the quintessence, shall serve him to cure kibes or the mormal o' the shin, take away the pustules in the nose, and Mercury is engaged for it. A child of the scullery steals all their coals for them too, and he is bid sleep secure, he shall find a corner of the philosopher's stone fort under his bolster one day, and have the proverb inverted. Against which, one day I am to deliver the buttery in, 110 many firkins of aurum pokWiu, as it delivers out bombards of bouge to them, between this and that. For the pantry, they are at a certainty with me, and keep a tally, an ingot, a loaf, or a wedge of some five pounds weight, which is npthiilg of nothing, a trifle. And so the blackguards are pleased with any lease of life (for some 999 ), especially those of the boiling house ; they are to have Medea's kettle hung up, that they may souse into it when they will, and came out renewed like so many stript snakes at their pleasure. But these are pretty engagements, and, as I said, below the stairs; marry above here, perpetuity of beauty, (do you hear, ladies?) health; riches, honour; a matter of immortality is nothing. They will calcine you a grave matron, as it might be a mother o' the maids, and spring up a young virgin, out of her ashes, as fresh as a Phrenix : lay you an old courtier on the coals like a sausage, or a bloat herring, and after they have broiled him enough, blow a soul into him with a pair of bellows, till he start up into his galliard, that was made when Monsieur was here. They profess familiarly to melt down all the old sin ners of the suburbs once in a half year into fresh gamesters again ; get all the aacked maidenheads, and cast them into new ingots : half the wenches of the town are alchemy. See, they begin to muster again, and draw their forces out against me I the Genius of the place defend me l You ~hat are both the Sol and Jupiter of this sphere, Mercury invokes your majesty against the sooty tribe here; for in your favour only I grow recovered and warm.

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At fllllim time VULCAN mlerlng fllitlt a troop of tltrlllli6an ALCHEMISTS, prepares tlum to t/ujirst ANTU4ASQU&

Y.J. Begin your charm, sound music, him : if he will not obey, bind him.

c~

him m, an"'1l take

Tlley all t/4nud akul MER.CUR.Y ttn'IA flarU/y of tluzngu, fllltllsl lu defmtb lumsllf flli/11 ldl Ctii!Wtnu, allll af/4r tlu DANCE, splalu.

Mer. lt is in vain, Vulcan, to pitch your net in the sight of the fowl thus : I am no sleepy Mars, to be catched in your subtile toils. I know what your aims are, sir, to tear the wings from iny head and heels, lute me up in a glass with my own seals, while you might wrest the Caduceus out of my hand, to the adultery and spoil of nature, and make your accesses by it, to her dishonour, more easy. Sir, would you believe it should be come to that height of impudence in mankind, that such a nest of fire-worms as these are, because their patron Mulciber heretofore has made stools stir, and statues dance, a dog"of brass to bark, and (which some will say, was his worst act) a woman to speak, should therefore with their heats called Balnei CitUris, or horse-dung, profess to outwork the sun in virtue, and contend to the great act of generation, nay almost creation? It is so, though : for in yonder vessels which you see in their laboratory, they have inclosed materials to produce men, beyond th~? deeds of Deucalion, or Prometheus; of which, one, they say, had the philosopher's stone, and threw it over his shoulder, the other, the fire, and lost it. And what men arc they, they are so busy about, think you? not common ordinary creatures, but of rarity and excellence, such as the times wapted, and the age had a special deal of need of: such as there was a necessity, they should be artificial: for nature could never have thought or dreamt of their composition. I can remember some of their titles to you, and the ingredients ; do not look for Paracelsus' man among ~em, that he promised you out of white bread, and Dele-wine, for he nev~ came to light. But of these let me see i the fiist that occurs ; a master of the duel, a carrier of the differences. To him went spirit of ale, a good quantity, with the

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amalgama or sugar and nut-megs, oU or oaths, sulphur or quarrel, strong waters, valour precipitate, vapoured o'er the helm with ta~ and the rosin o Mars with a drachm o the business, Cor that's the word o( tincture, the hui'ness. Let me alone with the business. I will carry the business. I do understand the business. I do find an affront in the business. Then another is a. fencer in the mathematics, or the town's cunning-man, a c~ture o( art too, a supposed secretary to the stars ; but, indeed. a kind o lying intelligencer from those parts. His materials, i I be not deceived, were juice o( almanacs, extraction o( ephemerides, scales o the globe, filings of figures, dust o( the twelve houses, conserve o( questions, salt o( confederacy, a pound o adventure, a grain o skill, and a drop o truth. I saw vegetals too, as well as minerals, put into one glass there, as adder's-tongue, title-bane, nitre o( clients, tartar o( Calse conveyance, arm~m palpah11e, with a huge deal o( talk, to which they added tincture o( conscience, with the faces o( honesty ; but Cor what this was I could not learn ; only I have overheard one o( the artists say, out o' the corruption o( a lawyer was the best generation o( a broker in suits : whether this were he or no, I know not. Yul. Thou art a scorner, Mercury, and out o( the pride o( thy protection here, makest it thy. study to revile art, but it will turn to thine own contumely soon. Call forth the creatures o the first class, and let them move to the harmony o( our beat, till the .~!artderer have sealed up his own lips to his own totment. Mer. Let them come, let them come, I would not wish a greater punishment to thy .bnpud~ce.
Elller tJu stJJUU ANTIMASQUK, of imjn:f< creahms, fllilll lul~ of lim/Nd.r tm 1/ui'r luatis: fliMse tialla nukd, MERCURY

proaetieti.
.Mer. Art thou not ashamed, Vulcan, to offer, fn defence o( thy power and art, against the excellence o the s~ and nature, creatures more imperfect than the very flies and instcts that are her trespasses and scapes? Vanish, with thy insolence, thou fUld thy impostors, and I'll m~ntion o you melt before the

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majesty of this light, whose Mercury henceforth I profess to be, and never again the philosophers'. Vanish, I say, that all who have but their senses, may see and judge the difference between thy ridiculous monsters and his absolute features.
At fiJ!ridJ tlu fiJMie suM &lrangrd to a glorious 6fnlter, fiJ!urdn NATURE f/Ja.t p/tUet/, fiJt'lll PROMETHEUS al ller feet, ant/ tlu lfllelve MASQUERS standing alxml tlum. After tluy luu/ km a w/U/e 'Uieflled, PROMETHEUS desumled, and NATURE after lu'm, sing.ng.

Nat. How young and fresh am I to-night

To see't kept day by so much light, And twelve my sons stand in their maker's sight? Help, wise Prometheus, something must be done, To show they are the c~ures of the Sun ; That each to other Is a brother, And Nature here no step-dame, but a mother. Clto. Come forth, come.forth, prove all the numbers then That make perfection up and may absolve you men. Nat. But show thy winding ways and arts, Thy risings, and thy timely starts, Of stealing fire from ladies' eyes and hearts. Those softer circles are the young man's heaven, And there more orbs and planets are than seven, To know whose motion Were a notion As worthy of youth's study as devotion. Cllo, Come forth, come forth, prove all the time will gain, For Nature bids the best, and never bade in vain.
HERE THE FIRST J,)ANCE.

A.f/lr fiJ/a'&ll tiW

SONG.

Pro. How many 'mongst these ladies here, Wish now they such a mother were I Nal. Not one, I fear, And read it in their laughters : There's more, I guess, would wish to be my daughters. Pro. You think they would not be so old, For so much glory.

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193

Pro. Clw. Nlll. Pro.

CluJ.

I think that thoughts so told Is no false piece of story. 'Tis yet with them but beauty's noon, They woald not grandames be too soon. la tha~ yQur sex's )lumour? '1""11 then since Niobe was changed that they have left that tumour. Move, move again, in forms as heretofore. 'tis form allures. Then move, the ladies here are store. Nature is Motion's mother, as she's yours. The spring whence order ftows, that all directs, And knits the causes with the effects.
HXRE THEY DANCE THE KAIN PANCE.

Tllm 1/uy fiatlu fllitA tlu Latiiu. Tllm tluW ltul Danu.
Aflw fllllicA PROKETHEUS calb /() 1/uM ;,. IAis
SONG.

What I have you done So soon? And can you from such ~uty part? You'll do a wonder more than I. I woman with her ills did fty ; But you their good, and them deny. Clw. Sure each bath left his heart In pawn to come again, or else be durat not start. Nal. They are loth to g0 I !mow, Or sure they are no sons of mine. There is no banquet, boys, like this, If you hope better, you will miss ; Stay here, and tab each one a kisS. CluJ. Which if you can refine, . The taste knows no such cates, nor yet the palate wine. No cauae of tarrying shun, They are not worth his light, go backward from the sun.
WlTII WHICH IT BNDitD.

p,..,

THE GOLDEN AGE RESTORED,

IN A MASQUE AT couitT, x6xs, BY THE LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, THE KING'S SERVANTS.

Tk Court 6n'ng stated, and ,., uptdation, l.IJud mtm'G: p ALLAS 1'n Mr &Aariot des&miR'ng; to a sojtw mtm&.
LooK, look I rejoice and wonder That you, ofi'ending mortals, are . (For all your crimes) so much the care Of him that bears the thunder. Jove can endure no longer, Your great ones should your less invade ; Or that your weak, though bad, be made A prey unto the stronger, And therefore means to settle Astrza in her seat again ; And let down in his golden chain The Age of better metal. Which deed he doth the rather, That even Envy may behold Time not enjoyed his heap of gold Alone beneath his father. But that his care c:onserveth, A1t Time, so all Time's honours tOo, Regarding still what heaven should do, And not what earth deservetb. [A tumult, aNi tUz.slling of.arms

luara witllin.

But hark I what tumult from yori Ca.ve is heard? What noise, what strife, what earthquake and alarms.

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As troubled Nature for her maker feared; And all the Iron Age were up in arms I Hide me, soft cloud, from their profaner eyes, Till insolent Rebellion take the field : And as their spirits with their counsels rise, I frustrate all with showing but my shield.

[ Slu nlms 1Jel11'1ul a ~knul.

Tlu IRON AGE presents ilst{f,
~a//i'ng jorlll

1/u EVILS.

I. Ap. Come forth, come forth, do we not hear What purpose, and how worth our fear, The King of Gods bath on us? He isi\ot of the Iron breed, That would, though Fate did help the deed, Let Shame in so upon us.
Rise, rise then up, thou grandame Vice Of all my issue, Avarice, Bring with thee Fraud and Slander, Corruption with the golden hands, Or any subtler Ill, that stands To be a more commander. Thy boys, Ambition, Pride, and Scorn, Force, Rapine, and thy babe last born, Smooth Treachery, call hither. Arm Folly forth, and Ignorance, And teach them all our Pyrrhic dance : We may tridmph together Upon this enemy so great, Whom if our forces can defeat, And but this once bring under, We are the masters of the skies, Where all the weal~, height, power lies, The sceptre, and the thunder.
Which Of you would not in a war Attempt the price of any scar,

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To keep your own states even? But here, which of you is that be, Would not himself the weapon be, To ruin Jove and heaven? About it then, and let him feel The Iron Age is turned to steel, Since he begins to threat her: And though the bodies here are less Than were the giants ; he'll confess Our malice is far greater.
Tlu EVILS m/er for 1/u Anlimaspe and DANCE, to lvtJo drums, trumpell, and a um.fiuion of MOrlial music: at tire mtl of 'llllu"&A P ALLAS reappears, slw'llling /ur slrie/d. T/u EVILS are turned to Statues. Pal. So change, and perish, scarcely knowing bow, That 'gainst the gods do take so vain a vow, And think to equal, with your mortal dates, Their lives that are obnoxious to no Fates. 'Twas time to appear, and let their folly see, 'Gainst whom they fought, and with what destiny. Die all that can remain of you but stone, And that be seen a while, and then be none I Now, now descend, you both beloved of Jove, And of the good on earth no less the love ;

[Tile seene ellangu and slit ea/Is

A.8TR&A aNI tilt GoLDEN AGE. Descend, you long, long wished and wanted pair, And as your softer times divide the air, So shake all clouds off with your golden hair ; For Spite is spent : the Iron Age is tied, And, with her power on earth, her name is dead. AsTJt&A and t/u GoLDEN AGE tfneendi11g wi'th a
SONG.

Asl. G, Ag1. And are we then To live agen, With men?

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Ad. Wlll J ove such pledges to the earth restore

~justice?

G, Agr. Or the purer ore? Pal. Once

ino~

G. Ap. But do they know, How much they owe Below? A.rl. And will of grace receive lt, not u due ? Pill. I( not, they harm themselves, not you, Asl. True. G. Agr. True. CAo. Let narrow natures, how they will, mistake, The great should still be good for their own sake.
Pal. Welcome to earth, and reign I

[ T/u7 &~m~~ /(J1"fflart/,

Asl. G. Agr. But how, without a train Shall we our state sustain ? Pal. Leave that to Jove: therein you are No little part of his Minerva's care.
Expect awhile.-y ou far-famed spirits of this happy isle, That, for your sacred &ongs have gained the style Of Phrebus' sons, whose notes the air aspire Of the old Egyptian, or the Thracian lyre, That CHAUCEll, GoWBR, LYDGATB, SPBNSEll, bight, Put on your better flames, and larger light, To ~t upon the Age that shall your names new nourish, Since Virtue pressed shall grow, and buried Arts shall flourish. CMM. Gow. We come. Lyd. .SptiJ. We come. OMIUs. Our best of fire, Is t.hat which Pallu doth inspire.
[T~

tltsulllt.

Pal. Then you yonder sou1s, set far within the sha(Je, That in Elysian bowers the bl~ seats do keep, That for their living good now semi-gods are made , And went away from earth as if but tamed with sleep; These we must 'join to wake ; for these are of the strain That justice dare defend, and will the age sustain.

see

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C/uJ. Awake, awake, for whom these times were kept, 0 wake, wake, wake, as you bad never slept I Make baste and put on air, to be their guard Whom once but to defend is still reward.

Pal. Thus Pallas throws a lightning from her shield. [Tile scene of li'rld dis"""ertd. CluJ. To ~hich let all that doubtful darkness yield. Asf. Now Peace. G. Are. And Love. Asf. Faith. G. Age. Joys. A sf. G. Art. All, all increase. [A pause. Clzat1. And Strife, Gow. And Hate, Lyd. And Fear, Spm. And Pain, Omnes. All cease. Pal. No tumour of an iron vein. The causes shall not come again.
Clro. But, as of old, all now be gold. Move, move then to the sounds ; And do not only walk your solemn rounds, But give those light and airy bounds, That fit tlie Genii of these gladder grounds.
Tire first DANCE.

Pal. Already do not all things smile? Asl. But when they have enjoyed awhile The Age's quickening power :. ;lge. That every thought a seed doth bring, And every look a plant doth spring, And every breath a flower : Pal. The earth unploughed shall yield her crop, Pure honey from the oak shall drop, The fountain shall run milk : The thistle shall the lily bear,

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And every bramble roses wear, And every worm make silk.
Clto. Tpe very shrub shall balsam sweat, And nectar melt the rock with beat, Till earth have drunk her fill : That she no hannful weed may know, Nor barren fern, nor mandrake low, . Nor mineral to kill.
Htrl tlu

mm;, DANCE,

A/kr tv.tkA,
Pal. But here's not all : you must do more,
Or else you do but half restore The Age's liberty. Pot. The male and female used to join, And into all delight did coin That pure simplicity. Then Feature did to Form advance, And Youth called Beauty forth to dance, And every Grace was by : It was a time of no distrust, So much of love had nought of lust, None feared a jealous eye. The language melted in the ear, Yet all without a blush might hear, They lived with open vow.
CAo. Each touch and kiss was so well placed, They were as sweet as they were chaste, And such must yours bo now.

Here tluy tiatfa tvit/J tire Lllllie1. .Ast. What change is here? I had not more Desire to leave the earth before,
Than I have now to stay; My sliver feet, like roots, are wreathed Into the ground, my wi!lgll Sheathed, And I cannot away.

are

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or all there seems a second birth,

It ia become a heaven on earth, And ] ove ia present here. I feel the god-head ; nor will doubt But he can fill the place throughout, Whose power ia everywhere.

This, this, &Jtd only such u this

The bright Astpea's region is, Where she would pray to live, And in. the midst of so much gold, Unbo\lght with grace oi fear unsold, The law to mortals give.
Htr tlley dtula tAl Ga/Rartlt tl#tl Cortllllos.
PA~s [ asl"mdi~tg,

anti ca/litrK 1/w Poets~ 'Tia now enough; behold you here, What Jove bath built to be your sphere; You hither must retire. And as his bounty gives you cause Be ready still without your pause, To show the world your fire.
Like lights about Astnlea's throne, You here must shine, and all be one In fervour and in flame ; That by your union she may grow, And you, sustaining her, may know The Age still by her name Who vows, against or heat or cold, To spin your garments of her gold, That want may touch you never; And making garlands every hour, Td write your names in some new flower, That you may live for ever.

Cllo. To Jov~~:, to Jove, be all the honour given,

That thankful hearts ar.n raise from earth to heaven,

THE MASQUE OF CHRISTMAS,

AS IT WAS PR.KSJtNTKD AT COURT, 1616.

Tile Cwrl !Jting seakll, Enllr CHlliSTKAS, fllitl& 1rt1o or tAru of tlu gruvtl, altind ;, nnmtl liMe, /()llr slkinp, a close tiou!J/It, a Aip-&ri1WIIIId Aat, 'lllil!l a !JrootA, a ftmr lAin !Jiartl, a lnlndutm, lilt/e ruffs, flllliu slwes, lW sazrjs and garlers tied cross, n"d lW tlrum

!Jeatm hjore Aim. Wav, gentlemen, do you know what you do ? Ha I would you have kept me out ? CHJUSTMAS, old Christmas, Christmas of Londo.n, and captain Christmas? Pray you, Jet me be brought before my lord chamberlain, I'll not be answered else : 'Tu '""'Y in luUI, wllm /Jeartls war all: I have seen the time you have wished for me, for a merry Christmas; and now you have me, they would not let me in : I must ~ome aNJtlur time I a good jest, as if I coUld come more than once a year: why, I am no dangerous person, and so I told my friends of the guard. I am old Gregory Christmas still, and though I come out of Pope's.-head Alley, as good a Protestant as any in my parish. The truth is, I have brought a Masque here, out o' the city, of my own making, and do present it by a se of my sons, that come out of the lanes of London, good ~ci~g boys all. It was intended, I confess, for Cwriers' Hall; but because the weather has been open, and the Livery were not at leisure to see it till a frost came, that they cannot work, I thought it convenient, with some little alterations, and the groom of the revels' hand to't, to fit it for a higher place ; which I have done, and though I say it, another manner of device than your New Year's Night. Bon~ o' bread, the king I (suinr Jamu). . Son Rowiand I son Clem I be r~y there in a trice : quick, boys I

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BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS: En/er /W SONS and DAUGHTERS (lm ,;, 1111mkr), llJJl, in a stn'ng; ~ CuPID, wAo is attired in ajlaJ cap, and a prmtirrs &Oat, witA Wlitp at lW slwulders. MISRULE, ,;, a velvet cap, Wl't!J a sprig; a sAorl &/od, great ytllow ruff, /ilu a rt'lleller; lW tor&A-!Jtarer!Jtaring a rope, a cAuse, and a !Jaslut. CAROL, a long tawney' &Oat, witA a r1d &ap, and a flute at lW ~rd/e., lW torcA-1Jt~er carrying a song-!Jook open. MINCED-PIE, like a fine coo/Is Wlft, dresl neat., 1etr man &any~'ng . afo"t, disA and spoons. GAMBOL, lilu a lutdler, witA a Moj and !Jells., lW /Qrdi-!Jtanr aT111td fllitA a colt-staff and a Htub"ng &IotA. POST AND PAIR, WI'IA a Jair-rtJ.Yal of aces in lW Aal , /W grWmmt all done Ofltr wiU. pairs and purs , llis spire canying a !Jor, cards, and an~nlers. NEW lYEAR'S GIFT, in a 6/lu &Oaf, St1'fllitg"man like, fl!it/r. an orangr, and a spng of rosnnary gilt on lW luad, lW Aat foil of !Jroo&lus, witA a collar of grngrr!Jread , lW /Qrdi..!Jtarer &any~'ng a MaT'&A-j>ant Wl'tA a !Jottle of Wl'nt on dtAtr arm. Mu:M:MING, ,., a masping pied suit, fl!itn a f!lilard., lW /Qrdr!Jtarer &arrying tAt iJor, and ringing it. W ASSEL, li/u a neal sempster and sonpler; Mr pagr !Jtaring a lJrO'fiJII !Jowl, drest witA n"!Jands, and rosemary kfore Atr. OFFERING, 1'n a sAorl grntm, Wl'tA a porter's staff 1n Ais Nmd, a wyU. 6orn kfon AIW., and a !Jason, ~ lW tordi-!Jtiii"W. B-'BY-cAitE, drest 1,./u a /Joy,,;, a.fou long &oat, Hggin-6i6, mudmdtr, and a littl1 dagnr.,- lW us1etr 61arillg a great &4Ae, witA a kan and a pease. T/r.ey m/er singing. Now God preserve, as you well do deserve, Your majesties all two there ; Your highness small, with my good lords all, And l;Ldies, how do you do there l

Give me leave to ask, for I bring you a masque From little, little, little London ; Which say the king likes, I have passed the pikes, If not, old Christmas is undone. [NOISe witlrsut~

Cllris. Ha, peace I what's the matter there ? Gam. Here's one o' Friday Street would tome in.

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CAm. By no meanS, nor out of neither of the Fish Streets, admit not a man; they are not Christmas creatures ; fish and' fasting days, fob I Sons, said I well ? look to't. Gam. Nobody out o' Friday Street, nor the two Fish Streets there, do you hear? Car. Shall Jobn Butter o' Milk Street come in ? ask him. Gam. Yes, be may slip in for a torch-bearer, so he melt not too fast, that he will last till the masque be done. Cllm. Right, son.
Our dance's freight is a matter of eight, And two, the which are wenches : In all they be ten, four cocks to a ben, And will swim to the tune like tenches. Each bath his knight for to carry his light; Which some would say are torches ; To bring them here, and to lead them there, And home again to their own porches. Now their intent.-E11ter VENUS, a deaf lirMllomat~.

Vm. Now, all the lords bless me I where am I, trow? Where is Cupid? " Serve the king I" they may serve the cobler well enough, some of 'em, for any courtesy they have, I wisse ; they have need o' mending : unrude people they are, your courtiers ; here was thrust upon thrust indeed I was it ever so bard to get in before, tiow ? Cllris. How now? what's the matter? Vm. A place, forsooth, I do want a place: I would have a good place to see my Child act in before the king and queen's majesties, God bless 'em i to-night. CAm. Why, here is no place for you. Vm. Right, forsooth, I am. Cupid's mother, Cupid'~ own mother, forsooth; yes, forsooth : I dwell in Pudding Lane :-ay, forsooth,. he is prentice in Love Lane, with a bugle maker, that niakes of yotir bobs and bird-bolts for ladies. ~ C.llm. Good lady Venus of Pudding Lane, you must go out for all this.

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Ye~~. Yes, forsooth, I can sit anywhere, so I may see Cupid act. He is a pretty clu1d, though I say it, that perhaps should not, you will say. I had him by my first husband-be wu a smith, forsooth; we dwelt in Do-little Lane then. He came a, month before his time, and that may make him somewhat imperfect; but I was a fishmonger's daughter. Clwil. No matter for your pedigree, your house : good V en111, will you depart ? Ym. Ay, forsooth, he'll say his part, I warrant him, as well as e'er a play-boy of 'em all I could have had money enough for him, an I would have been tempted, and have let him out by the week to the king's players. Master Burbage has been about and about with me, and so has old Master Hemings too; they have need of him : where is he, trow, ha I I would fain see him-pray God they have given him some drink since he came. Cllris. Are you ready, boys I Strike up, nothing will drown this noise but a drum : a' peace, yet I I have not done. SingNow their Intent la above to praeut-

Car, Why, here be half of the properties forgotten, father. Offer. Post and Pair wants his pur-chops, and his pur dogs. C111', Have you ne'er a son at the groom porter's, to beg" or borrow a pair of cards quickly? Gam!J. It shall not need ; here's your son Cheater without has cards in his pocket. Offer. Ods so I speak to the guards to let him in, under the
name of a property. Gam!J. And here's New Year's Gift has an orange and rosemary, but not a clove to stick in't. Ne111 Yerw. Why, let one go to the spicery. CAris. Fy, fy, fy I it's naught, it's naught, boys I Ym. Why, I have cloves, if it be cloves you want; I have cloves in my purse; 1 never go without one in my mouth. Car. And Mumming has not his vizard neither. Clwil. No matter I his own face shall serve, for a punishment, and 'tis bad enough. Has Waaeel her bowl, and Minced-pie her spoons?

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Offer. Ay, ay; but Misrule doth not like his suit. He says the players have lent hiin one too little, on purpose to disgrace him. Cnris. Let him hold his peace, and his disgrace will be the less. What I shall we proclaim where we were furnished? Mum I mum I a' peace 1 be ready, good boys.
Now their intent, is above to present, With all the appurtenances, A right Christmas, as of old it was, To be gathered out of the dances. Which they do bring, and afore the king, The queen, and prince, as it were now awn here by love: who over and above, Doth draw himself in the gear too,

Hw1 1/u hm aNI jift soufllh, aNI IM,y1lllll"t:A akul tma. In llu slamil amring up, CHRISTKAS jro&ulb U. llil SONG,
Hum drum, sauce for a coney; No more of your martial music ; Even for the sake o' the next new stake, For there I do mean to use it, And now to ye, who in place are to see With roll and farthingale boo~ : I pray you Jmow, though he want his bow, By the wings, that this is Cupid. He might go back, for to cry WAalyou lad I But tQat were not so witty : ' Hi1 cap and coat are enough to note, That he is the Love d the city. And he leads on, though he now he gone, For that was only his-rule : But now comes in, Tom of Bosoms-inn, And he presenteth Mis-rule. Which you may know, by the very show, Albeit you never ask it : For there you may see, what his ensigns he, The rope, the cheese, and the basket. This Carol plays, and has been in his dafl A chirping boy, and a kill-pot : J{it cobler it is, I'm a father of his, And he dwells in the lane called FiJl.pot.

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But who is ~ 1 0, my daughter Cis, Minced-pie ; with her do not dally On pain o' your life : she's an honest cook's wife And comes out of Scalding Alley. Next in the trace, comes Gambol in place; And, to make my tale the shorter, My son Herculea, tane out of Distaff Lane, But an active man, and a porter. Now Post and Pair, old Christmas's heir, Doth make and a gingling sally ; And wot you who, 'tis one of my lwo Sons, can:t.-makers in Pur Alley. Next in a trice, with his box and his dice, Mac'-pipin my son, but younger, Brings Mumming in; and the knave will win, .For ho ~ a coa~onger. But New Year's Gift, of himself makes shift, To tell you wllat his name is : With orange on head, and his gingerbread Clem ~aspe of Honey Lane 'tis. This, I you tell, is our jolly Wassel, And for Twelfth-night more meet too : She works by the ell, and her name is Nell, And she dwells in Threadneedle Street too. Then Offering, be, with his dish and his tree, That in every great house keepeth, Is by my son, young Little-worth, done, And in Penny-rich Street he sleepeth. Last, Baby-cake, that an end doth make Of Christmas' merry, meny vein-a, Is child Rowlan, and a straight young man, Though ho come out of Crooked Lane-a, There should have been and a dozen I ween, But I could find but one more Child or Christmas, and a Log it was, When I them all had gone o'er. l pray6d him, in a time so trim, That he would make one to pran~ it : And I myself would have been the twelfth, .o out Log was too heavy to dance it.

TIIB MASQUB O.P CHRISTMAS.

Now, Cupid, come you on.
Cup, Ytn~ ftJOrliJy wigllls, 'llirtg, lwtls, aNI hu'gllls, Or pm~ aNI/atiies 6riglrt: Cupid imlitu ytn~IIJ tlu siglrts He slt:al{ jnsmt ID-tliglrt.

Vm. 'Tis a good child, speak out; bold up your bead, Love. Cup. .ANI wllidl CupUJ--antl wllkA CupitlVm. Do not shake so, Robinj if thou be'st a-<:old, I have some warm waters for thee here. Cllris. Come, you put Robin Cupid out with your waters, and your fisling. Will you be gone ? .Pm. Ay, forsooth, he's a child, you inust conceive, and must be used tenderly. He was never in such an assembly before, forsOoth, but (nice at the Warmoll Q~est, fo~th, where he said grace as prettily as any of the sherifi's hinch-boys, forsooth. Cllris. Will you peace, forsooth? Cup. .ANI wllkA Cupid-and wlli&ll Cupiti...:.Vm. Ay, that's a good boy, sPeak plain, Robin. How does his majesty like him, I pray? Will he give eightpence a day, think you ? Speak out, Robin. CAds. Nay, he is out enough; you may take him away, and begin your dance : this it is to have speeches. Vm. You wrong the child,-you do wrong the infahtj I 'peal to his majesty. Her1 tluy tlanu.
Cllris. Well done, boys, my fine boys, my bully boys I

THE EPILOGUE.
Sir~p.

Nor do you think that their legs is all The commendation of my sons, For at the Artillery garden they shall h well forsooth use their guns, And march as fine as the Muses nine Along the streets of London : And in their brave tires, to give their false fires, Especially Tom my 1011.

BBN JONSON'S Jl.ASQUBS.

Now if the lanes and the allies afFord Such an ac-ativity u this; At Christmas n~ if they keep their 11t0rd, Can the children of Chcapside miss ? Though, put the case, when they cOme in place, They should not dance, but hop : Their very gold lace, with their silk, would 'em grace, Having so many knights o' the shop, But were I so wise, I might seem to advise So great a potentate aa yourself: They should, 1ir, I tell ye; spare't out of their And this way spend some of their pel

bcllr,

Ay, and come to the court, for to make you some sport, At the least once every year ; AI Christmas bath done, with his seventh or eighth aoo, And his couple of daughters dear.
AJrD THUS IT E!fDJU),

A MASQUE,
P1liUIUM'ED JH THI: HOUSI: 01' THI: :RIGHT BOHOUJlAJILI: TB& LQJID HAY, BY DIVUS 01' HOBLI: QUALITY BJS J'Jtri:HDS, J'O:R TBK I:HTIUtTAJHKJtlfT 01'

MONSIEUR LE BARON DE TOUR,

I:XT:RAO:RDIMA:R1' AMBA58ADO:R J'O:R THI: J'Jti:HCB lUNG,

THE MASQUE OF LETHE.

T/u
FRONT kforl

t/u SCENE ftltU an AllCH TlliUHPHAL,

On 1/u lop of flllli&A, HUlolANITY, plaad in jigrn-1, sal fllitA Air lap of jlqfllws, 1r:altering t1um fllitA lur rig!U Nmd, aNI Mltfig a p/tfm &Aafn m fur uft Nmd, t1J IMftl 6oJA t/al

frudom and tlu 6oruJ of &~J~Wtu;y, fllitA tAil imGriptilm :

SUPEil OMNIA VULTUS.

On llu l'fllo n'du

CHEEilruLNJtSS,

of Jlu

ar&A, CHKEJUPULNESS and READINESS,

lur strrJanll.

ma 1116 j/qvlitlrgrrmml,jil/ing tNt flliru ftwn an anlilpu foa ofpltm, fllilla tAil ftlord,
ADSIT IATlTJ& DATOil.

RJW>INESS, a ftlingrd

maid, fllitA lftiiJ jlanUng mg/JIIig/111 in lur lvmtb./ and lur ftlord,
AMOil ADDIDJT AU.S.
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Tlu

SCENE dis&IJfltrtfl, is, 011 tlu otU ntk, tlu lttad of a 6oaJ, and in it CHA.R.ONputtmg-o.ffjrrml tlu sAon,Aaving-laNJ6darlain ittUig"intd g-!ttuts, Vlllom MERCUR.Y tlun reafvu, and mctn~raptll to ctm11 011 lowlartls tlu ritlw LETHE, VIM appears lying- in tAl jJerson of an old man; tlu FATES sitting-o/ Aim 011 lW /JaM J. a K""'' of myrtles 61/dnd tlum, prumted in persjMdivt, and g-rtJV!ing- tlticbr to tlu outer ntll of tlu st:mt. MERCUR.Y,peralving- tlum to fm'nt, calls tlu1ll 011, 111111 sMV!s tlu1ll lW pit/m rod.

Mer. Nay, faint not now, so near the fields of rest. Here no more Furies, no more torments dwell Than each bath felt already in his breast ; Who bath been once in love, bath proved his hell Up then, and follow this my golden rod, That points you next to ag~d Lethe's shore, Who pours his waters from his urn abroad, Of which but tasting, you shall faint no more

Let/re. Stay; who or what fantastic shades are these that Hermes
leads?
Ntr. They are the gentle forms

Of lovers, tost upon those frantic aeas

Whence Venus sprung.
Mtr. No. Ldlu. Did they perish?

Ldlu. And have rid out her storms?

Mer. Yes. Ldlu. How? .Mw. Drowned by Love, That drew them forth with hopes as smooth as were The unfaithful waters he desired th~m prove. Ldlu. And turned a tempest when he had them the~? Mer. He did, and on the billow would he roll, And laugh to see one tArow Iris lwrl away ; Another sighing, vapour forlA Iris soul; !-- third, to melt ~irutlf in lta,.s, atul say,

THB MASQUB OP

L~THB.

0 IAvt, I MW to salter walw tun~ 1'/urn IMI I tlu ,-, ; then a fourth, to cry Amid tho 81UgCI, 011 I I hln~, I him. A fifth laugh out, it is "')' glwst, fiiJI I.
And thus in pairs I found them. Only one Thete ia, that walks, and sto~ and shaku his head, And shuns the reM, as glad to be alone, And whispers to himself, lu is NJI Jlllll.

Fales. No more are all the rest. Mer. Nol 1 Fate. No. Mer. Butwhy
Proceeds this doubtful voice from d~tihy i\

Fales. It is too sure. Mer. Sure! 2 Fate. Ay. Thinks Mercury, That any things or names on . arth do <lie e That are obscured from knowledge of the Fates,
Who keep all rolls?

3 Fate. And know all nature's dates? Mer. They say,themselves, tluy are tlud.. x Fate. It not appears, Or by our rock, 2 Fate. Our spindle, 3 Fait. Or our shears. Fates. Here all their threads are growing yet, noQe cut.

Mer. I 'gin to doubt, that Love with charms bath put This phant'sie in them ; and they only think
That they are ghosts.
1

Fate. If so, then let them drink

Of Lethe's stream. Fate. 'Twill make them to foJiet Love's name. 3 Fate. And so they ~y JOCO\'ef )'Ct.
2

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Mn-. Go, bow unto the reverend Lake :

[To the Shades.

And having touched there; up and shake The shadows off, which yet do make Us you and you yourselves mistake.
Her11/uy all sloop /o llu water, and dtmce forth tluir A tsh'lllaspe ;,. snera/ pslures, as lluy lived ;,. love; and retiring- into /lu g-rove, hfore llu last person 6e ojf llu slap, llu first Coupk appear ;,. lluir posture hl'fllem llu trees, ready to Clime for Ill, drang-ed.

.Afn-. See I see I they are themselves again. 1 Fate. Yes, now they are substances and men. 2 Fate. Love at the name of Lethe flies. .letlt.t. For, in oblivion drowned, he dies. 3 Fall. He must not hope, though other states He oft subdue, he can the Fates. F111r#. 'Twere insolence to think his powers Can work on us, or equal ours.
CIJo. Return, return, Like lights to bum, On earth For others good : Your second birth Will fame old Lethe's ftood ; And warn a world, That now are hurled About in tempest, how they prove Shadows for Love. Leap forth : your light it is the nobler made, By being struck out of a shade.

Here 1/uy tlanu forth lluir mtry, or first dana: after fllllkh CUPID appean"ng; meets /Mm.

Cup. Why, now you take me I these are rites

That grace Love's days, and crown his nights I These are the motions I would see, And praise in them that follow me I

THB MASQUB OP LBTHB.

Not sighs, nor tears, nor wounded hearts, Nor ftames, nor ghosts : but airy parts Tried and refined as yours have been, And such they are, I glory in. .Mer. J...ook, look unto this snaky rod, And stop your ears against the charming god ; His every word falls from him is a snare : Who have so lately known him, should beware. Htrl 1/uy tlanu tluir Mai11 DtmU.

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Cup. Come, do not call it Cupid's aime

You were thought dead before your time ; If thus you move to Hermes' will Alone, you will be thought so still: Go, take the ladies forth, and talk, And touch, and taste too : ghosts can walk. 'Twixt eyes, tongueS, hands, the mutual strife Is bred that tries the truth of life. They do, indeed, like dead men move, That think they live and not in love I Htrl 1/uy ldtforlll tilt LADIES, tiiUi tlu REVELSjo//ow, After wllicll,

Mtr. Nay, you should never have left off; But staid, and heard your Cupid scoff, To find you in the line you were. Cup. Your too much wit, breeds too much fear. .Mer. Good fly, good night Cup. But will you g0? Can you leave Love, and he entreat you so? Here, take my quiver and my bow, My torches too; that you, by all, may know I mean no danger to your stay : This night, I will create my holiday, And be yours naked and entire.

BEN JONSON'S MASQUES.

Mer. As if that Love disarmed were less a fire I Away, away.

T~

tlanu tAeir gvi~~g oul: fii!U&A

~.

Mtr. Yet lest that Venus'

~ton son Should with the world be quite undone, For your fair sakes (you brighter stars, Who hue beheld these civil wars) Fate is content these lovers here Remain still such ; so Love will swear Never to force them act to do But wba,t he will Qll Hermes to. Cup. I swear ; and With like cause thank Mercury, As these have tq lbw him and Destiny.

Clw. All then take cause of joy ; for who bath ~dt P Old Lethe, that their follies are forgot : w~ that their lives unto their fates they ftt; They, that they &till shall love, and lov~ wi~ll Wit.
AND THUS IT ENDED.

THE VISION OF DELIGHT;

PRESENTED AT COURT IN CHRISTMAS, 1617.

Tlu SCENE.-A Street,;, Perspe&ti've offair 6ui/r:U;,g tlisanJeretl.

DELIGHT Is sun to ""'" a.r afar ojf. a&&ompanietl '1111'111 GRACE, LoVE, HARMONY, REVEL, SPORT, LAUGHTER ; anti followed !Jy
WONDER.

SH/o redtaJfvo.

Del. Let us p~y an!i dance, apd sing, Let us now turn every 10rt Of the pleasures of the spring To the graces of a court, From air, from cloud, from dr~ from toys, To sounds, to sense, to love, to joys; Let your shows be new, as s~e, Let them oft and sweetly vary ; Let them bas~e so to their chanae, As the seers may not tany. Too long to expect the pleasing'~t sight Doth take away from the deli~ht.

Her1 tlujirst A!m:MASQUK llfilrlll. A SlutlllmSUr tleliveretl ~ sir BURRATIKES, tltal tlaltu flii'IA sir PANTALOONS : w/u&A timu,

Del. Yet hear 'What your Delight doth pray: All sour and sullen looks away, That are the servants of the day; Our sports are of the humorous Night, Who feeds the stars that give her light,

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And useth, than her wont inore bright, To help the VISION or DELIGHT. NIGHT rilu shru/y, IIIUI/Uu lur ~~ /JufJatlgUtlflliiA sliln. See, see, her ~tre and her crown Are all of ftame, and from her gown A train of light comes waving down. This night, in dew she will not steep The bra~ nor lock the sense in sleep; But all awake with phantoms keep, And those to make delight more deep. By tllis liwu tlu Nig/U and Moon !JniJg- !JotA rilm, NIGHT lunlm"ng- wer 1/u plau, sung-. Night. Break, Phant'sie, from thy cave of cloud, And spread thy purple wings; Now all thy figures are allowed, And various shapes of things ; Create of airy forms a stream, It must have blood, and nought of phlegm; And though it be a waking dream, C!rfJ, Yet let it like an odour rise To all the senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music in their ear.
Tlu Satll lurt &lumg.etJ tfJ cloud, from wlrkA PBANT'SIE llrediJgjllrlll, spake.

Pha11. Bright Night, I obey thee, and am come at thy call, But it is no one dream that can please these all; Wherefore I would know what dreams would delight 'em: For never was Phant'sie more loth to affright 'em. And Phant'sie, I tell you, has dreams that have wings, And dreams that have honey, and dreams that have stings: Dreams of the maker, and dreams of the teller, l:>reams of the kitchen, and dreams of the cellar : Some that are tall, and some that are dwarfs, Some that are haltered, and some that wear starfs ; Some that are proper, and signify o' thing, And some IUlother, and some that are nothing.-

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For say the French verdingale and the French hood Were here to dispute; must it be understood A feather for a wisp were a fit moderator? Your ostrich, believe it, 's no faithful translator Of perfect Utopian; and then 'twere an odd piece To see the conclusion peep forth at a cod-piece. The politic pudding bath still his two ends, Though th~ bellows and bagpipe were ne'er so good friends : And who can report what offence it would be For a squirrel to see a dog climbing a tree? If a dream should come in now to make you afeard, With a windmill on 's head, and with bells at his beard ; Would you straight wear your spectacles here at your toes, And your boots on your brows, and your spurs on your nose? Your whale he will swallow a hogshead for a pill ; But the maker o' the mousetrap is he that bath skill And the nature of the onion is to draw tears, As well as the mustard : peace, pitchers have ears, And shittle-cocks wings, these things do not mind 'em, If the bell have any sides, the clapper will find 'em : There's twice so much music i~ beating the tabor, As in the stock-fish, and somewhat less labour. Yet all this while, no proportion is boasted 'Twixt an egg and an ox, th9ugh bo~ have been roasted ; For grant that most barbers can play on the cittern, Is it requisite a lawyer should plead to a ghittem? You will say now the morris-bells were but bribes To make the heel forget that e'er it had kibes; I say, let the wine make ne'er so good jelly, The conecience of the bottle is much in the belly : For why? do but take common council i' your way, And tell me who'll then set a bottle of hay Before the old usurer, and to his horse A slice of salt butter, perverting the course Of civil society"? open that gap, And out skip your fleas, four and twenty at a clap,

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With a chain and a trundle-bed following at th' heels, And will they not cry then, the world runs a-wheels? As for example, a belly and no face, With the bill of a shoveler may here come in place; The haunches of a drum, with the feet of a pot, And the tail ef a Kentish man to it : why not? Yet would I take the stars to be cruel If the crab and the rope-maker ever fight duel, On any dependence, be it right, be it wrong : But, mum : a thread may be drawn out too long.

Here tAe second AlllimasfJUt of Pllantasms CtJIIU forlll, a~~d thnctti. Plum. Why, this you will say was fantastical now, As the Cock and the Bull, the Whale and the Cow, But vanish I away I [The;' rtli.,e.] I have change to prfi!S~J1t you, And such as I hope will more truly content you.Behold the gold-haired Hour descending here, That keeps the gate of heaven, and turns the year I Already with her sight how she doth cheer, And makes another face of things appear, Here tm8 of t/u HOURS tlesmuling, 1/u fiJMie scnu cllallptlto tile
!Jower of ZEPHYRVS, ftJm'lst PEACE su11g as jpllfltllellf: Ptaa. Why lQOk you so, IUld all tum dumb, To see the opener of the New Year come; My presence rather should invite, And aid, and urge, and call, to your delight; The many pleasures that I bring Are all of youth, of heat, of life IUld spring, And were prepared to warm your blood, Not fix it thus, as if you. statues st09c:l. Clro. We see, we heat, we feel, we taste, We smell the change in every flower, We only wish that all could last, And be as new &till as the hour.

Wtmder. Wonder, must speak or break; what is this? grows The wealth of nature here, or art l it shows As if Favonius, father of the spring, Who in the verdant meads doth reign sole king,

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Had roused him here, and shook his feathers, wet With purple swelling nectar; and had let The sweet and fruitful dew fall on the ground To force out all the flowers that might be found : Or a Minerva with her needle had The enamoured earth with all her riches clad, And made the downy Zephyr as he flew Still to be followed with the Spring's best hue. The gaudy peacock boasts not in his train So many lights and shadows, nor the rainResolving Iris, when the Sun doth court her, Nor purple pheasant while his aunt doth sport her To hear him crow, and with a perch~ pride Wave his discoloured neck and purple side. I have not seen the place could more surpri!e, It looks, methinks, like one of Nature's eyes, Or her whole body set in art : behold I How the blue bindweed doth itself infold With honeysuckle, and both these entwine Themselves with bryony and jessamine, To cast a ldnd and odoriferous shade. P!lan. How better than they are, are all things made By Wonder? But awhile refresh thine eye, I'll put thee to thy oftener, What and Why?
Her1, to a loud mtui&, llu BOfiJer opms, and llu MASQUERS are t/bCQ'IIertd as tlu G~ of llu Spring;

Wtm. Thou wilt indeed; what better change appears? Whence is it that the air so sudden clears, And all things in a mo~turn so mild? Whose breath or beams ve got proud earth with child Of all the treasure that Nature's worth, And makes her every minute to bring forth? How comes it winter is so quite forced hence, And locked up under ground? that every sehse Hath several objects? trees have got their heads,

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And fields their coats? that now the shining meads Do boast the paunce, the lily, and the rose ; And every flower doth laugh as Zephyr blows? That seas are now more even than the land? The rivers run as smooth~ by his band ; Only their heads are crisp~ by his stroke:How plays the yearling with his brow scarce broke Now in the open grass I and frisking lambs Make wanton salts about their dry-sucked dams, Who to repair their bags do rob the fields I How is't each bough a several music yields ? The lusty throstle, early nightingale, Accord in tune, though vary in their tale; The chirping swallow called forth by the sun, And crested lark doth his division run ? The yellow bees the air with murmur fill, The finches caro~ and the turtles bill ? Whose power is this? what god? Pluz11. Behold a king, Whose presence maketh this perpetual spring ; The glories of which spring grow in that bower, And are the marks and beauties of his power.
Clul. 'Tis he, 'tis he, and no power else,

That makes all this what Phant'sie tells ; The founts, the flowers, the birds, the bees, The herds, the flocks, the grass, the trees, Do all confess him ; but most these Who call him lord of the four seas, King of the less nnd greAter isles, And all those happy when be smiles. Advance, his favour calls you to advance, And do your this night's homage i_n a dance.
Hn-1 1/Jey tfalrutllluir ENTRY, after wlrim tluy sung again.

CAo. Again I again I you cannot be Of such a true delight too free, Which, who once saw, would ever see : And if they could the object prize,

THB VISION OF DBLIGHT.

Would, while it lasts, not think to rise, But wish their bodies all were eyes.

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Here tlley danced t!leir Mai11 Dana, after wldcA tlley sung.
Clw. In curious knots and mazes so The Spring at first was taught to go ; And Zephyr, when he came to woo His Flora, had their motions too : And thence did Venus leam to lead The Idalian brawls, and so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk ; Nor prest a flower, nor bowed a stalk.

Her1 tluy tianutl flliiiJ IAe LADIES, at14 1/u WIMU REVELS jolloWI1tl: ajter 'fiJ!u"cA AURORA afJIJeantl (tlu Ntg/11 111111 M()()11 6etng tlu&mtled), and tAis Epilogr~e jollo'IIJed.
Aur. I was not wearier where I lay By frozen Tithon's side to-night, Than I am willing now to stay, And be a part of your delight But I am urg~ by the Day, Against my will, to bid you come away.
. Clw. They yield to time, and so must all. As night to sport, day doth to action call ; Which they the rather do obey, Because the Mom with roses strews the way.

Her 1/uy tlanutl tluir gozng off

AND THUS IT ENDED.

PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE:

A MASQUE;
As it fii{U jrumled al C~Nrl, kjore Ki11r James, Tile &me fllas tlu M DUfllain
16~

WAD luul IUs top mtli11r in tlu figure

man, IUs luad aiJll kard all Aoary aiJll frost, as if !lis sluni/Mrs flltre (0'1/tred flliiA mofll: 1/u rut wood aiJll rock. A p011e of ivy al IUs jttl~ DUI of wAidr, to a 'ttlild musk of ~,j/lltu, and lallors, is llrourAt for/A COMUS, 1/u god of Cllter, or 1/u Belly, ritb;,r ,;, tri'umplt, IUs lltad crO'ttlllld ""'lA roses and o/Atr j/o'ttlers, IUs Am'r curled: 1/uy tAol 'ttlail upon Aim crO'ttlllld ""o. ivy, tMir jtiTiebm done doul 'IIII'IA # / tiiU of 1/um grn"11g '1111"0. HERCULES IUs 6ofiJI6are kjore Aim, flllu"/e 1/u rut pruml Aim ""n. 1/Us
HYMN,
nTLL CHOJt US.

ATL.AS,

~1 an old

Room I room J make room for the Bouncing Belly, First father of sauce, and deviser of jelly ; Prime master of arts, and the giver of wit, That found out the excellent engine the spit ; The plough and the 1lail, the mill and the hopper, The hutch and the boulter, the furnace and copper, The oven, the baven, the mawkin, the peel, The hearth and the range, the dog and the wheel : He, he first invented the hogshead and run, The gimlet and vice too, and taught them to run, And since with the funnel and Hippocras bag, He has made of himself, that now he cries swag I Which shows, though the pleasure be but of four inches, Yet he is a weasel, the gullet that pinches Of any delight, and not spares from his back Whatever to ~nake of the belly a sack J

PLBASURB RBCONCILBI) TO VIRTUB.

Hail, hail; plump pauDch I 0 the fowador of

Derourd~ of broUed, ~eel, toasied, or sod : Arid l!mptic!k' of cups, be they ~ven odd : All which bave now madl thee ao 1fide 111 the W&blt; AA IGU'ce with no. puddiq thou art to be laced ; But f*tinl and drinldnf until thou.dost nod, Thou break'lt all thy gudlea, !Uld break't forth - cod.

for fresh~~ or powd~ or p~~o, Qr paete,

tu""

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lJWJJ kanr. Do you hear, my frien~-? to whom did you sing all tbia now ? Pardon me, only that I aek y,on, for I do not look for an answer; I'll answer myself: I know it is now sucll iL time aa the Satumala for all the world, that ~ery man ltall~ undet the eaves of his own hat, and sings what pleases him ; that' the right and the liberty of it. Now you sing of sod Comlllt here, the belly-god ; I say it is well; and I say it is not well; it is well aa,it is a ballad, and the belly worthy of it, I must needs say, an ,'twere forty yards of ballad more, as much ballad aa mpe. But when the Belly is not edified by it, it is not well ; for where did you ever read or hear that the Belly had any ean? Come, never pump for an answer, for you"are defeated: our fellow Hqer there, that Wa.s as ancient a ~tainer to ~e Belly as any of Wit Wa.s turned away for being unseasonable J nol; umeaaonable, but unseasonable : and now is he, poor thin-gut, Cain to get his livins with teaching of starlinp, magpies, par1'0t8, and jaclt-4&~ those thiilga he would have taught the Belly. Beware of dealin& with the Belly, the Belly will not be talked to, especially when he is full; th~ there il. no ventunng upon V enter, he wUl blow yeu all up, he will thunder indeed la I Some in derision call him , the father .of farts; b~t I say he was the first, inventor eC great ot:dnance, and taught us to diac:barg'e them on festival ~ys. Would we- had a fit feast for him, i' faith, to sho his activity; I would have something now fetched in to please his fi.-e senses, the throat; or the two sense~~t the eyeas pardon me fer my hfO lenses; for I thAt carry Hercules'a bowl in the service, may see double by my place; for l h.a've drunk like a (fog to-day: I ~uld have a tuQ now brought In ~ danc:c!t and so many bottles llbout hiJll. Ht, I rou lqok ILl if 1ou would make a probl= of

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this; do you see, do you see? a problem : why bottles, and why a tun? and why a tun and. why bottles, to dance? I say that men that drink hard, and serye the Belly in any place of quality, (as the jovial tinkers, or the l~y kindred), are living measures of drink, and can transform themselves, and do every day, to bottles or tuns, when they please : and when they have done all they can, they are as I say again (for I think I said somewhat like it afore) but moving measures of drink, and there is a piece in the cellar can hold more than all they. This will I make good, if it please our new god but to give a nod, for the Belly does all by signs ; and I am for the Belly, the truest clock in the world to go by.
Here tlujirsl ANTIMASQUE, danced /Jy Men ,;, 1/u sluzpe of /Jollies,

trm.r, ~&. Enter HERCULES. Her. What rites are these? breeds earth more monsters yet?
Anteus scarce is cold: what can beget This store, and stay such contraries upon her I Is earth so fruitful of her own dishonour? Or 'cause his vice was inhumanity, Hopes she by vicious hospitality To work an expiation first, and thc;n Help virtue ? These are sponges, and not men ; Bottles ; mere vessels ; half a ton of paunch I How? and the other half thrust forth in haunch I Whose feast? the Belly's? Comus I and my cup Brought in to fill the drunken orgies up, And here abused ; that was the crowned reward Of thirsty heroes, after labour hard I Burdens and shames of nature, perish, die I For yet you never lived, but in the sty Of vice have wallowed, and in that swine's strife Been buried under the offence of life : Go reel and fall under the load you make, Till your swollen bowels burst with what you take. Can this be pleasure, to extinguish ~

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Or so quite change him in his figure ? can The Belly love his pain, and be content With no delight but what's a punishment? These monsters plague themselves, and fitly too, For they do sufl'er what, and all, they do. But here must be no shelter, nor no shroud For such : Sink, grove, or vanish into cloud I At tiW tM Grove and A.fllimasgue vanislud, and tlu fiJ!UJie Music f/Ja.t disawered, n"lti'ng at tlu foot of 1/u tllllllnlai'n, fiJI'III PLEASURE and VI~TUE seated a!Jove t/um.
C!UJ. Great friend and servant of the good, Let cool awhile thy heated blood, And from thy mighty labour cease. Lie down, lie down, And give thy troubled spirits peace : Whilst Virtue, for whose sake Thou dost this godlike travail take, May of the choicest herbage make, Here on this mountain bred, A crown, a crown

For thy immortal bead. Here HBRCULES lay rloflm alliin-,. feel, and tlu 11&ond Anli~.iruL fiJIIJ~II
f/Ja.t

of PIGMIES, appeantl.

I Pig. Antzus dead, and Hercules yet live J Where is this Hercules? what would I give To meet him now? meet him I nay, three such other, If they had hand iri murder of our brother? With three I with four, with ten, nay, with as many As the name yields? pray anger there be any Whereon to feed my just revenge, and soon I How shall I kill him? hurl him 'gainst the moon, And break him in small portions I give to Greece His brain, and every tract of earth a piece J 2 Pig. He's yonder. I PJ"g. Where? 3 Pig. At the hilJ.foot asl~ I Pig. Let one go steal his club. 2 Pig. My charge ;-I'll aeep.

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4
I

./V. He's owl I .JV. yes, peace. 3 ./V., Triumph I we haYe him, boy.
4 Pig. Sure, sure, be's IA1I'e. 1 Pig. Come, let us daDce for joy.

[ ~ .At tM nul Df 1/uV DAlfCB t/uy /Mwg/U ID Sll1'jlriu iia, Am IUiillmly, Nillr 4fiNiid ly tM IIIIUk, lu niiSIII IUI#Jf, 111111 tluy 1111 ,..,. iiJID AD/u.
SONG.

Wake, Hercules, awake ; but bea.Ye up thy black eye, 'Tis only, asked from thee to aud these will die, Or fir:Alreadr they are Bed, Whom scorn bad else left dead. .At fllilkA MEitCUJtY tluar.dll/. frtnM tM llill, fl1itA t1 grv/111111 poplar, ID &nfl/11/da Mtr. Rest still, thou actiYe friend of Virtue : these Should not disturb ~e peace of Hercules : Earth's worms, and honour's dwarfs, at too great odds Prove or provoke the issue of the gods. See here a crown the aged Hill bath sent thee, My grandsire Atlas, he that did present thee With the best sheep that in his fold were found, Or golden fruit in the Heaperian ground, For rescuing his fair daughters, then the prey Of a rude pirate, as thou cam'st this way ; And t!lught thee all the learning of the sphere, And how, like him, thou migbt'st the heavens up-bear, As that thy labour's virtuous reoompense. He, thougb a mountain now, bath yet the sense Of thanking thee for more, thou being still Constant to goodness, guardian of tlie hill1 AntlleUS by thee aufi'ocated here, And the voluptuous Comus, god of cheer, Beat from his grove, and that defaced : but now The time's arrived that Atlas told thee of; how By unaltered law, and :working of t;he atam,

toe;,

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There should be a cessation of all jars, 'Twixt Virtue and her noted opposite, fleasure ; that both should meet hc;re iQ dle sight Of Hesperus, the glory of the w~t, The brightest star that from his burning crest Lights all on this side the Atlantic seas, As far as to thy pillars, Hercules I See where he shines, Justice :md Wisdom placed About his throne, and those with honour graced, Beauty' and Love I It is not with his brother Bearing the world, but ruling such another Is his renown ; PLEASURE, for his delight Is UCONCILED TO VIRTUE, and this night Virtue brings forth twelve princes have been bred In this rough mountain, and near Atlas' head, The Hill of Knowledge ; one, and chief of whom, Of the bright race of Hesperus is come, Who shall in time the same that he is be, And now is only a less light than he: These now she trusts with Pleasure, and to these She gives an entrance to the Hesperides, Fair beauty's garden; neither can she fear They should grow so~ or wax effeminate here ; Since in her sight, and by her charge all's done, Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on. Htre tAl flllw/4 dun"r of muni: ZZud 1/u IV!elve MASQUER.s forln
from tAl lop of tAl IIUNnlai'n, 'll.llri&A lAm opened, '1111"111 /IUs
SONG.

Ope, aged Atlas, open then thy lap, And from thr beamy. bosom strike a light, That men may read in the mysterious map All lines, And signa Of royal education, and the right. Sec how they come and show, That are but born to kaow.

Descend, Descend;

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Though pleasure lead, Fear not to follow : They who are bred Within the hill Of skill, May safely tread What path they will, No ground of good is holl011', In 1/uir tlescmtfrom tlu Am, D.IEDALUS &ame tlovm 6efore Hum Her. But, Hermes, stay, a little let me pause;

Who's this that leads ? Mer. A guide that gives them laws To all their motions, Dsedalus the wise. Her. And doth in sacred harmony comprise His precepts? Mer. Yes. Htr. They may securely prove, Then, any ,labyrinth, though it be of love. Here, fllllile 1/uy fot tllmuelvu inform, D.IEDALUS /lad IIUjirst
SONG,

Datl. Come on, come on ! and where you go, So interweave the curious knot, As ev~ observer s~rce may know Which lines are Pleas~s, ~d which not. First figure out the doubtful way, : At which a while all youth should stay, .Where she and Virtue did contend Which should have Hercules to friend. Then as all actions of mankind Areo~t labyrin~h or maze: So let ~ut dances be entWined, Yet not perplex men unto gaze, But measured, and so numerous too, As men may read each act they do ; And when they see the graces meet, Admire the wisdom of yout feet. For dancing is an exercise, Not only shows the mover's wit, IM maketh the beholcler wise, As he hatll power to riso to lt.

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HERE THE FIRST DANCE.

229

Aftn' flllliclr.,
SONG.

/)tztl. 0 more and more I this was so well, As praise wants half his voice to tell, Again yourselves compose ; And now put all the aptness on Of figure, that proportion Or colour can disclose : That if those silent arts were lost, Design and picture, they might boast From you a newer grot1nd; Instructed by the heightening sense Of dignity and reverence, In their true motions found. Begin, begin ; for look, the fair Do longing listen to what air You form your second touch: That they may vent their murmuring hymns Just to the ftime] you move your limbs, Ancf wish their own were such. Make haste, make baste ; for this The_Labyrintb, of :Qea~ty is.
HERE THE SECOND DANCB.

A/In' flllliela,
SONG.

Dtztl. It follows now you are to prove The subtlest maze of all, that's Love, ' And if you stay too long, The fair will think you do them wrong. Go choose among--but with a mind As gentle as the stroking wind Runs rier the gentler flowers. And so let all your actions smile As if they meant not to beguile The ladies, but the hours. Grace, laughter, and discourse may meet, And yet the beauty not go less : For what is noble should be sweet, But not dissolved in wantonDesa.

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BBN JONSON'S IIASQUBS. Will you that I give the law To aH rour sport, and sum it? It should be sdl::h should envy draw Bat overcome it. a,., 1/uy tiantttl tvl/11 1/u LADIES, anti /AI fliMU REvELS folIO'tlllli; fliAicA mdltJ, M:E.IlCURY Jilet/ /o DJKbALUS spu&A; fliAkA fiNU afkr rt/Jealltl in SONG 67 lfllo ~lu, lfllo tmon, a 6ase, anti /AI flllwh Clumu.
SONG.

,,tAU

Mer. An eye of looking back were well, Or any murmur that would tel. . Your thoughts, how you were sent, And wen~ To walk with Pleasure, not to d~ These, these are hours by Virtue spared Herself, she being her own reward, But she will have you know, That though Her sports be soft, her life is bard. You must return unto tht; Hill, And there advance With labour, and inhabit still That hei&ht and aown From whence you ever may look down Upon triumph~ chance. She, she it is in da,rkness shines, 'Tis she that still herself refines By her own light to every eye ; More seen, more known, when V\ce stands by ; And though a stranger here on earth, In heaven she bath her right of. birth. There, there is Virtue's seat : Strive to keep her your own: 'Tis only she can make you great, Though place here make you known. After fll..fi&A, 1/uy tiallatl tlut'r !as( DANCE, anti rehlrnltl intp /AI sane, fliAicA cklsuJ, anti 'ltltll a 11101111/ain aga;,., as hfor~.
AND SO IT E!fl)Jm;

This pleased the king so well, as be would see it again; when it was presented with these additions-

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T.U SCENE standing, as llifore, a Mounlal'n/ !Jut"""' tlu natn4 clumgedjrom Atlas to Craig-Enn:

Enter GRII'J'ITH, JE!fKIN, anti EvAN, a Welsh Attorney. Grij. Cossin, I know what belongs to this place symwhat petter than you; and therefore give me leave to be pold to advise yotL 'Is not a small matter to offer yourself into presence of a king, and aull his court? Be not too byssie and forward, till you be caulled ; I tauke reason to you. Jen. Cym, never tauke any taukes ; if the king of Gread Prittaine keep it assizes here, I will cym into court; loog yow, do you see now, and please Got. GnJ. Taw, d yn yn!lltyd, y, dkwylt"-n a!J/ i ana!Jity, tob petll otll folineb, a~ y tyny gwafwar ar dy wl~. Jm. Gad tl)'n /onylll. I say, I will appear in court. Ev. Appear as yow s'ud do then, Dab Jenkin, in good sort; do not discredit the nation, and pyt wrong upon us aull by your rassness. Jnt. What do yow caull rassness, Evan y Gynm? is not all the cyntrie, and aull Welse, and the Prince of Wales too, abused in him? By this hand, I will tell it the king's own ears every 'oord, do fou see him now? Bless your ursip, pray got is in heaven bless every ince of your ursip; and Wales is commend it to your ursip, from top to toe, with aull his hearts aull over, by got utcb me, and would be glad as a silling to see yow in him. Come it down once a day, and try ; I tell yow now, yow s'all be as welcomely there as where you were in yowr own cyntries last two symmers, and persbance we'll made yow as good seere too : we'll promise yowr ursip as good a piece of seeze, as yow need pyt

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in your head, and pleas' yow sall be toasted too. Go to, see him once upon a time yowr own sellive, is more good mean yow, than is aware of: by got, is very hard, but sail make yow a shestice of peace the first days you come; and pershance (say nothing) knight o' the sire too: 'is not Worsters, nor Pembrokes, nor Montgymeries, sall carry him (rom yow. But aull thi$ while sail I tell you a liddell now? 'Is a great huge deal of anger upon yow, from all Wales and the nation, that your ursip would suffer our young master Sarles, your ursip's son and heir, and Prince of Wales, the first time he ever play dance, to be pit up in a mountain (got knows where) by a pa.lterly poet, how do you say him, Evan?

Er. Li/Ji'a.
Jm. Vel/Ay I Li!Jia. And how do yow caull him the mountain? his name is-Efl. Ad/as. Jm. HynM, nynntJ, Ad/as 1 Ay, please your ursip,. 'is a Welse atturney, and a preddilie schollers, a wear him his long coat, lined with seepes-skin, as yow see every days o' the week. A very sufficient litigious fellows in the terms, and a finely .poets out o' the terms ; he has a sprig of lawrel already towards his girlonds. He was get in here a Twelfe-night and see aull; what do you call it, your matters, and says is naught, naught, stark naught. Er,. I do say, an't please his madestee, I do not like him with all his heart; he is plug'd in by the ears, without aull piddies or mercies of propriedies or decorums. I will do injuries to no man before his madestee ; but 'is a very vile and absurd as a man would wiss, that I do say, to pyt the Prince of Wales in an outlandis mountain ; whe'l he is known, his highness has as gt&mountains, and as tawll a hiUs of his own (look yow, do yow see now), and of as good standing, and as good discent as the proudest Adlas christned. Jen. Ay, good Evan, I pray you reckon his madestee some of the Welse hills, the mountains. E11. Why there is Talgarth.

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Jnt. Jm.

Well sayd. Well sayd, Evan.

Efl. Eliennieth. Efl. Caider Arthur. Jm. Toudge him, toudge him. Efl. Pen-maen-maur. Jnt. Is good boys, Evan. Efl. And Craig-Eriri. Jm. Aw, Ydlhy I Why, law you now, 'is not Pen-maen-maur and Craig-Eriri as good sound as Adlas every whit of him? Efl. 'Is caulled the British Aulpes, Craig-Eriri, a very sufficient hills. . Jm. By got, we will play with him bills for hills, for sixteen and forty sillings when he ~ Efl. I pray you let it alone your wachers a liddle while, cossin Davy ap Jenltin, and give it leave I may give his madestee and the court informations toudging now the reformations. Jnt. Why, cannot yow and I taulr.e too, cossip? The hau11 (God bless it) is big inough to bold both our taukes, and we were twice as much as we are. Efl. Why tauke it all then, if you thinlr. is reason in you. Jm. No; I know is no reason, Evan, I confess him; but every man would show himselve a good subject as be can to his means ; I am a subject by my place, and two heads is better than one I imagine under correction. Ev. Got's ownes I here is no corrections, man ; imagine what yow please, do in got's name, imagine, imagine, why do you npt imagine ? here is no penyrtbs of corrections. Grlj. Awgdwi'n Tarvson. Ev. 'Is so invincible&, so inmercifullys ignorant, a ~ knows not upon what inces of ground to stand to him ; does ~nceive it no more as I am a true Welse Christian, than (sirrevereQce o' the company) the hilts of his dagger. Jm. Go to, I will make the hilts conceive a knock upon your pate, and persha!tce a bump too, if you taulr.e. v. How I upon my pate?

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Jm. Yes, upon your pate, your poetly pate, and your law pate too. Grij. TtSftlltnt, TIJ'fllsonl Fore got yow will go nere to blzard a thumb, and a fowre finger of your best hand, it you knock him here ; you may knock him better seape at Ludlow a great deal : do you know the place where it is ? E'D. Well, I can be patient, I trust, I trust, it is In a presence, I presume, that loves no quarrels nor replies, nor the Ues, nor the ahallenge, nor the duels: bnt-1 will do my byainess now, and make this a byssiness for another days hereafter : pleas' your madestee By got I am out of my tempers terribly well, got forgive me, and pyt me in my selve again. How does your hfghness-I know nQt a 'oord or a syllable what I sy; 'is do me that vexations. Grif. 0 Evan, for the honour of Wales I EfJ. I remember him now, 'tis eno\tgh :-blesshtgs upon me, is out o' my head again ; lost, quite lost : this knock o' my pate has knock auU my wits out o' my brains, I think, and turn my reasons out of doors. Belfeve ft, I will rub, and break your s'ins for this ; I will not come so high as your heAd, but I win take your nose in my -iray, very sufficiently. Jm. Hang your sufficiency. E'O. 'Tis well, very well, 'tis better, better exceedingly welL
Enter HOWELL anti RHusB, ftll'lll tluir lulrys,
HfJW, What 1-you mean ho I to make us so long tarry here, ha? Grif. Marry, here is aull undone with distempers, methinb, and angers, and passions. Rlleul. Who is angry? E'O. Why it is I is angry, and ~ungry tOO, if you mart me; I could eat his FUntseer face now : olrer to .Juiock my pate In the hearing of all these, and more too I well, before his madestee I do yet forgive him now with all my heart, and wm be revenged another time. HfJW. Why that is good Evan, honest, brave Eftn.

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Rluese. Ha' yow told the king's madestee of the alterations? Er~. I am now once again about him; peace: please your madestee; the Welse nation hearing that the prince of Wales \Vas to come into the hills again, afore your madestee, ha'Ve a desire of his highness, for the honour of Wales, to make him a Welse hills, which is done without any tnanner of sharshese to your mAdeatee, only shanging his name: he is caull now Craig-Eriri,.a mountain in Carnarvanseere : has as grey beard, and as much snow upon his head aull the year longJm. As Adlas for his guts. E11. He tells your madestee true, for aull he is a Uddle out of season : but cym every man tell as much as he can now; my quality fa, I .hope, sufficiently known to his madestee. That I am :Reetor Chori .is all tny ambitions, and that I would have it aull Welse, that is the short and the long of the requests. The prince of Wales we know is all over Welse. Jm. And then my 'lord marquis.. . Er~. Both my lord marquis is as good, noble, true Briton, as any ever is come out of Wales. Jm. My lord Montgymery is as sound Welse too as ftese and blood can make him. HIJW~ And the Howards by got, is Welse as strait as any arrow. Efl. Houghton is a town bear his name there by Pipicllauk.e. HIJW. And Erwin, his name is Wyn; but the Dutsmen come here in Wales, and caull him Heerwin. Rlluse. Then Car is plain Welse, Caerleon, Caermardin, Cardift'e. Jm. And Palmer, his ancestors was call him Penmaure. Hlueu. And Acmooty, is Ap-mouth-wye of Llantnouthwye. ftn. And Abercromy, is aull one as AbeJ'IIIarlys. Er~. Or AbertatL HIJW. Or Aberdugled haw. Bluest. Or Abeshondhy. fl" Or Abergeveny. HIJW. Or Aberconway. Er~. AberconW.y fs very like Abercromy, a. Uddle hard sift has

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pyt 'em aull into Wales; but our desires and petitions is, that the musiques be all Welse, and the dances, and no 'Ercules brought in now with a great s~ and a pudding upon him. fin. Aw I was his dis~ was not his club. Ev. What need of 'Eralles, when CadwalladerJen. Or Lluellin, or Rheese ap Gryffyth, or Cradock, or Owen Glendower, with a Welse hook and goat-skin on his back, had done very better, and twice as well ? Efl. Nay, and to pyt apparel on a pottle of hay, and call him

Lantaeus. Grif. The belly-gods too, was as proper a monster as the best
of'em.

Ev. I stand k> it, there was neither poetries nor archltectures, nor designs in that belly-god ; nor a note of musics about him. Come, bring forth our musics, yow s'all hear the true Pritan strains now, the ancient Welse harp--yow tauke of their Pigmees too, here is a Pigmees of Wales now: set forth another Pigm~ by hiin I Enkr two WoMEN,fo//()'ltlu/ by tlte MusiciANS.
1

Wo. Aw dimu I what a bravely company is here I This i.'l

a finely haull indeed. 2 Wi1. What" a deal of fine candle it is I Jm. Ay, peace; let his madestee hear the music. 2 Wo. Ble mae Y' Bt"min 1

Jm.

Dode~w.

Diesus bless him I Saint :Oavy bless him I I bring my boy o' my back ten mile here to loog upon him : loog Hullin, loog Hullin I StewtA AummarJm nayti Dumma 6f-(lfJeris: you sail hear him play too. Efl. Peace, no more pradling; begin set him down. [M~
FIRST SONG.
Efla~~,

1 W~.

I' is not come here to tauk of Brut, Welse does take his root; From whence Nor tell long pedigree of Prince Camber, Whose linage would fill aull this chamber ;

the

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Nor sing the deeds of old Saint Davy, Th' ursip of which would fill a navy. But hark yow me now, for a liddel tales Sall make a gread deal to the eredit of Waies; CAo. In which we'll toudge your ears, With the praise of her thirteen seeres, And make yow as glad and merry AA fourteen pot of Perry. Still, still, we'll toudge your ears, With the praise, &c.
SECOND SONG,

Hllfll. 'Tis true, was wear him sberkin freize, But what is that ? we have store of aeeze, And Got is plenty. o(goats milk That sell him well, wm.~~:y him silk Enough to make him fine tO quarrel At Hereford sizes in new apparel ; And get him as much green velvet perhap, Sall give it a face to his Monmouth cap. Clto. But then the ore of Lempster, By got is never a aempster '!'bat, when he is spun, e'er did Yet match him with hir thrid. Still, still, &c.
THIRD SONG.

Rluese. Aull this's the back's ; now_ let us tell ye,

or some provisions for the;,_ belly)

AA eid, and goat, and great goat's mother, And runt, and cow, and good cow's uther : And once but taste o' the Welae mutton, Your Englis seep's not worth a button. And then for your fiss, sall sboose it your diss. Look but about, and there is a trout, Cllo. A salmon, cor, or chevin, Will feed you six or seven AA taull man as ever swagger With Welse book, or long dagger. Still, still, &c.
fOURTH SONO.

Evtll&. But aull this while was never think A word in praise of our W else drink,

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Yet for all that ie a cup of Btagat, All England's seere may cut his cab at. And what you say to alo of Webley, Toudge him u well, you'll praise him trebly, 1.5 well as Mctheglin, or aider, or meath, Sall l&ko it yoiU' daQer quite out o' the ~tb. CAD, And oat.c:alte of Guarthenion, With a goodly leek or onion To give as sw~t a relllJ 1.5 e'er did harper EW.. Still, still, &c.
FlrrH SOMG.

HOfll. And yet, is nothing now all this, If of our m~Uiqucs we do miss ; Both harps and pipq too, and the crowd Must aull come ln and tauke alowd, 1.5 loud as Bangu, Davie's bell, Of which is no doubt yow have hear t~~ A1 well as our lowder Wrexbaai organ, And rumbling rocb in seere Glamorpn ; CAD. Where look but in the Jl'OUnd there, And you sall see a souncl tAere, That put him altogedder, Is sweet as measure pedder. Still, still, &e.
SIXTH SONG.

R/uu1, Au, but what say yow should it ahao~ '00, ThoU we Jbould leap it in .a ~eo ~. ADd make it YOII u sreat a pl~ If but your eyea be now at leisure J 1.5 i4 your can shall leave a laughter, To last upon you six dayt after 1 Ha I well-a-go to, let us try to do ~ your old Briton, things to ~ writ on. Cllo. Come put on other looks now, And lay a~y your hooks now; And though yot yow ha' no pamp, sirs, Let 'em hear tllat 701l ~ jump, airs. Still, atill, &c.

Jm.

Speak it yQur COD&Cimce cow; did

JOltl'

ureip ever see

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such a song in your days? 'is not as finely a tunes q would wiss to put in his ears? . ErJ. Come, his madesty sall hear better to your dance.
Hm a
Dat~&t

man

ofMF:N.

Ev. Haw I well danced, very well danced I

Jm. Well plaid, Howell; well plaid, Rheese I .Da wha"Y I vell!lee I well danced, i' faith I .Efl. Good boys, good boys I pold and Prittan, pold and Prittan. Jm. Is not better this now than pigmies? this. b men, this is no monsters, and you mark Jrin?. : well,..pull forth you goats now, your ursip sail see a properly bttural.devise come from the Welse mountains; is no tuns, nor no bottils: stand by there, sow his u.rsip the hill8 ; was dronkenry in his eyes, that make that devise in my mind. :But now inarg, marg, your ursip, I pray yow now, and yow. sail see natures IUld propriedies; the very beasts of Wales sail do more than your men pyt in bottil.s and barriJs i there was a tale of a tub, i'faitb. [MIUi&.] Is the goa~ herd and his dog, and his son, and his wife make mWJiquea to the goats as they come from the hills; give 'em rooms, give 'em rooms, now they cym I the elderly goa~ is indifferently grave at first, because of his beard, and only tread it the measures ; byt yow will see hi~ put off his gravities by and by well enough, and frisk it as fine as e'er a kid on 'em aull. ...lJ!e Welse goat is an excellent dancer by birth, that is written. of him, and of as wisely Wrlage, and comely behaviours a beast (for his footblg especULlly) as some one or two man, got bless him. ErJ. A haull, a baull, come a baulll .Aw t~tllke.
Here a
.Dat~&t

of GoATS.

x Wo. Nay, and your madestee bid the Welse goats welcome; the W else wences sail sing your praises, ~d dance your healths too.
SONG,

WOM, Au, God bless it our good king Sames, His wi(e and his sildren, and aull his reams, , 2 WOM; And aull his ursipful sistice of peace about him, I WD~N. And send that his court bo never witboufbia
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:z Wo& Ow, that her would come down into Wales, 1 Wom. Her sud be very welcome to Welse Ales. :z W 0111. I have a cow,
1

W om. And I have a hen ;

:z W0111. Sail give it milk,

1 W0111. And eggs for aull his men. Bot!l. Itself sail have venison and other seere, And may it be starved, that steal him his deer, There, there, and everywhere.

Jen.

Cym, dance now, let us hear your dance, dance. E11. Ha I Well plaid Ales. H()W. For the honour of Wales.
Here tlu MEN anti WOMEN dance togdlur.

Jm. Digon I enough, enough, digon.-Well now all the absur~ dities ia removed and cleared ; the rest, and please your grace, sail tany still, and go on as it was ; Virtue and Pleasure was well enough, indiJferently well enough : only we will intreat Pleasure to cym out of Driffimdore, that is the Golden Valley, or Gelthleedore, that is the Golden Grove, and is in Cair Marden, the Welse Garden. Is a thousand place in Wales as finely places as the Esperides every crum of him ; Merlin was born there too, put we would not make him rise now and wake him, because we have his prophecies already of your madestee's name to as good purpose, as if he were here in presence, Pod hJ' ceJ!er, Er1an 1 Efl. You will still pyt your selve to these plunses, you mean his madestee's anagrams of Clulrles James Stuarl. Jm. Ay, that is Claimfs Arlhurs Seate, which is as much as to say, your madestee sud be the first king of Gread Prittan, and sit in Catiier A rlhllr, which is Arthur's Chair, as by Got's blessing you do : and then your son, master Shades his, how do you caull him ? is Char/a Sluarl, Calls tru karts, that is us, he calls us, the W else nation, to be ever at your service, and love you, and honour you, which we pray you understood it his meaning. And that the musicians yonder are so many Brittis bards that sing open the bills to let out the Prince of Wales, and his Welse friends to you, and all is done.

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GnJ. Very homely done it is I am well assured, if not very rudely : but it is hoped your majesty will not interpret the honour, merits, love, and affection of so noble a portion of your people, by the poverty of these who have so imperfectly uttered it : you will rather for their sakes, who are to come in the name of Wales~my lord the prince, and the others-pardon what is past, and remember the country has always been fruitful of loyal hearts to your majesty, a very garden and seed-plot of honest minds and men. What lights of learning hath Wales sent forth for your schools I what industrious students of your laws I what able ministers of your justice I Whence bath the crown in all times better servitors, more liberal of their lives and fortunes ? where hath your Court or Council, for the present, more noble ornaments or better aids ? I am glad to see it, and to speak it ; and though the nation be said to be unconquered, and most loving liberty, yet it was never mutinous, and please your majesty, but stout, valiant, courteous, hospitable, temperate, ingenious, capable of all good arts, most lovingly constant, charitable, great antiquaries, religious preservers of their gentry and genealogy, as they are zealous and knowing in religion. In a word, it is a nation bettered by prosperity so far, as to the present happiness it enjoys under your most sacred majesty, it wishes nothing to be added but to see it perpetual in you and your issue. God of his great goodness grant it, and show he is an arrant knave, and no true Briton, does not say Amen too with his heart.
PLEASURE RECONCILED TO VIRTUE J'OLLOWED: AND SO JT 'ENDED.

NEWS
FJlOK THE NEW WORLD DISCOVE'RltD IN THE HOON'1

A MASQUE,

As 1"1 was pnsmtetl at Cotlrl, hefore'Kinc Jamu, I62o.

NASCtTUR
11: TKMBiuna: BT BB stat VJI'I'DtCAT oams.

Enter two HERALDS, a

I

PRINTER, CHRONICLER,

atul FAcro'R.

Her. News, news, news I Her. Bold and brave news I I Htr. New as the night they are born in. 2 Her. Or the phant'sie that begot them. I Her. Excellent news I 2 Htr. Will you hear any news ? Pn'nt. Yes, and thailk you tOo, sir : what's the price of them? I Her. Price, coxcomb I what price, but the price of your ears? .A3 if any man tised to pay for anything here. 2 Her. Come forward ; you should be some dull tradesman by your pig-headed sconce now, that think there's nothing good anywhere, but what's to be sold. Print. Indeed I am all for sale, gentlemen ; you say true, I am a printer, and a printer of news ; and I do hearken after them, wherever they be, at any rates; I'll give anything for n good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. I Her. A fine youthT. Cllro. And I am for matter of state, gentlemen, by consequence, story (my Chronic_le), to fill up niy great beok, which !llust be three ream of paper at least ; I lillve agreed with my
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stationer aforehand to make it so big, and I want for ten quire yet. I have been here ever since seven a clock in the morning to get matter for one page, and I think I have it complete ; for I have both noted the number, and the capacity of the degrees here ; and told ~ce over how many candles there are in the room lighted, which I will set you down to a snuff precisely, because I love to give light to posterity in the truth of things. I Hn-. This is a finer youth I Fad. Gentlemen, I am neither printer nor chronologer, but one that otherwise takes pleasure in my pen : a factor of news for all the shires of England ; I do write my thousand letters a week ordinary, sometimes twelve hundred, and maintain the business at some charge both to hold up my reputation with mine own ministers in town, and my friends of correspondence in the country ; I have friends of all ranks, and of all religions, for which I keep an answering catalogue of dispatch ; wherein I have my puritan news, my protestant news, and my pontificial news. 2 "Her. A superlative this I Fad. And I have hope to erect a Staple for News ere long, whither all shall be brought, and thence again vented under the name of Staple-news, and not trusted to your printed conundrums of the serpent in Sussex, or the witches bidding the devil to dinner at Derby : news, that when a man sends them down to the shires where they are said to be done, were never there to be found I .Prinl. Sir, that's all one, they were made for the common people; and why should not they have their pleasure in believing of lies are made for them, as you have in Paul's, that make them for yourselves ? I Her. There he speaks reason to you, sir. Fad. I confess it ; but it is the printing I am offended at, I would have no news printed ; for when they are printed they leave to be news ; while they are written, though they be false, they remain news stilL .Prifll. See men's i:livers opinions I It is the printing of them makes them rtews to a great many who will indeed believe nothing but what's in print. For those I do keep my presses, and so

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many pens going to bring forth wholesome relations, which once in half a score years, as the age grows forgetful, I print over again with a new date, and they are of excellent use. Clwo. Excellent abuse rather. .Pn'nl. Master Chronicler, do not you talk, I shall-r Her. Nay, gentlemen, be at peace one with another, we have enough for you all three, if you dare take upon trust. Pn'nl. I dare, I assure yo\L Fad. And I, as much as comes. Cnro. I dare too, but nothing so much as I have done : I have been so cheated with false relations in my time, as I have found it a far harder thing to correct my book than collect it. Fad. Like enough : but to your news, gentlemen, whence come they? I Htr. From the MooN, ours, sir. Fad. From the Moon I which way? by sea or by land? I Her. By moonshine ; a nearer way, I take it. .Pn"nt. Oh, by a trunk I I know it, a thing no bigger than a flute-case : a neighbour of mine, a spectacle-maker, has drawn the moon through it at the bore of a whistle, and made it as great as a drum-head twenty times, and brought it within the length of this room to me, I know not how often. Cnro. Tut, that's no news : your perplexive glasses are common. No, it will fall out to be Pythagoras's way, I warrant you, by writing and reading in the moon. Prinl. Right, and as well read of you, i' faith : for Comelius Agrippa has it, ,;, dis(O /unrz, there 'tis found. I Her. Sir; you are lost, I assure you : for ours came to you neither by the way of Comelius Agrippa, nor Comelius Drible. 2 Htr. Nor any glass of.-I Her. No philosopher's phant'sie. 2 Her. Mathematician's perspiciL I Htr. Or brother of the Rosie Cross's intelligence, no forced way, but b_y th~ ~~!. !!!<:l clean power of poetry. 2 Her. The mistress of a1i diiicovery.

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1 Her. Who, after a world of these eurious uncertainties, bath employed thither a servant of hers in search of truth : who haa been there2 Her. In the moon. 1 Her. In person. 2 Her. And is this night returned. Fad. Where ? which is he ? I must see his dog at his girdle, and the bush of thorns at his ~ ere I believe it I Her. Do not trouble your faith then, for if that bush of thorns should prove a goodly grove of oaks, in what case were you and your expectation ? 2 Her. These are stale ensigns of the stage's man in the moon, delivered down to you by musty antiquity, and are of as doubtful credit as the makers. C!Jro. Sir, nothing against antiquity, I pray you, I must not hear ill of antiquity. 1 Her. Oh I you have an old wife, belike, or your venerable jerkin there,-make much of them. Our relation, I tell you still, is news. 2 Her. Certain and sure news. 1 Her. Of a new world. 2 Her. And new creatures in that world 1 Her. In the orb of the moon. 2 Her. Which is now found to be an earth inhabited. I Her. With navigable seas and rivers. 2 Her. Variety of nations, policies, laws. I Her. With havens in't,< castles, and port-towns. 2 Her. Inland cities, boroughs, hamlets, fairs, and markets. I Her. Hundreds and wapentakes I forests, parks, coney-ground, meadow-pasture, what not ? 2 Her. But differing from ours. ,Fad. And haa your poet brought all this ? Cnt'Y). Troth, here was enough : 'tis 11. pretty piece of 'poetry 11.8 'tis. 1 Her. Would you could hear on, though I 2 Her. Give your minds to't a little.

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Fad. What inns or ale-houses are there there ? does he tell you? I Her. Truly, I have not asked him that. 2 Her. Nor were you best, I believe. Fad. Why in travel a man knows these things without offence; I am sure i(he be a good poet he has discovered a good tavern

in his time. I Her. That he has, I should think the worse of his verae else. Print. And his prose too, i' faith. Cnro. la he a man's poet, or a woman's poet, I pray you? 2 Her. Is there any such difference? Fad. Many, as betwixt your man's tailor and your woman's
tailor.
I Btr. How, may we beseech you? Fad. I'll show you; your man's poet may break out strong and deep i' the mouth, as he said of Pindar, .Mollle limlrmu Vtlut amnis: but your woman's poet must ftow, and stroke the ear, and, as one of them said of himself sweetly, lfust write a verse as smooth and calm as cream, ln which there is no torrent, nor scarce stream. 2 Her. Have you any more on't? Faet. No, I could never arrive but to this remnant. I Her. Pity I would you had had the whole piece for a pattern to all poetry. Print. How might we do to see your poet? did he undertake this journey, I pray you, to the moon on foot? I Her. Why do you ask? Print. Because one of our greatest poets (I know not how good a one) went to Edinburgh on foot, and came back; marry, he has been restive, they say, ever since; for we have had nothing from him: he has set out nothing, I am sure. I Her. Like enough, perhaps he has not all in; when he has all in, he will set out, I warrant you, at least those from whom he had it : it is the very same party that has been in the moon now. Print. Indeed I has he been there since? belike he rid thither then?

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Fad. Yes, post, upon the poet's horse, for a wager. I Her. No, I assure you, he rather ftew upon the wings of his
Muse. There are in all but three 1rays of going thither: one

is Endymion's way, by rapture in sleep, or a dream. The other Menippus's way, by wing, which the poet took. The third, old Empedocles's way; who, when he leaped into ...tna, having a dry sear body, and light, the smoke took him, and whift him up
into the moon, where he lives yet waving up and down like a feather, all soot and embers, coming out of that coalpit : our poet met him, and talked with him. Clvo. In what language, good sir? 2 Her. Only by signs nnd gestures, for they have no articulate voices there, but certain motions to music : all the discouisc thero is harmony. Fad. A fine lunatic language, in faith ; bow do their lawyers then? 2 Her. They are Pytbagoreans, all dumb as fishes, for they have no controversies to exercise themselves in. Fad. How do they live then? I Her. On the dew of the moon, like grasshoppers,and confer with the doppers. Fad. Have you doppers? 2 Her. A world of doppers I but they are there as lunatic persons, walkers only : that have leave only to BUM and BA, not daring to prophesy, or start up upon stools to raise doctrine. I Hw. The brethren of the Rosie Cross have their college within a mile of the moon ; a castle in the air that runs upon wheels with a winged lahthom-.Pn'nl. I have seen it in print. 2 Her. AD the fantastical creatures you can think of are

there. Fad. 'Tis to be hoped there are women there, then. I Her. And zealous women, that will out-groan the groaning
wives of Edinburgh. Fad. And lovers as fantastic as ours. 2 Hw. But none that will hang themselves for love. or eat

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candles' ends, or drink to thejr mistresses' eyes till their own bid them good night, as the. .Ubluoary lovers do. Fad. No, sir? 2 Her. No, some few you shall haYe, that sigh or whistie themselves away; and those are presently hung up by the heels like meteors, with squibs in their tails, to give the wiser soit
warning.

Pnill. Excellent I Fad. Are there no self-lovers there? 2 Hw. There were ; but they are all dead of late for want of tailors. Fad. 'Slight, what luck is that I we could have spued them
a colony from hence. 2 Her. I think some two or three of them live yet, but they are turned moon-calves by this. Prifll. 0, ay, moon-calves I what monster is that, I pray you? 2 Her. Monster I none at all, a very familiar thing, lite our fool here on earth. 1 Her. The ladies there play with them instead of little dogs. Fad. Then there are ladies ? 2 Hw. And knights and squires. Fad. And servants and coaches? 1 Hw. Yes, but the coache8 are much o' the nature of the ladies, for they go only with wind. Clll"tt. Pretty, like China waggons. . Fad. Have they any places of meeting with their coaches, and taking the fresh open air, and then covert when they please, as in our Hyde Park or so ? 2 Hw. Above all the Hyde Parks in Christendom, far more hidden and private ; they do all in clouds there : they walk in the clouds, they sit in the clouds, they lie in the clouds, they ride and tumble in the clouds, their very coaches are clouds. Prifll. But have they no cannen to meet and break their coaches? 2 Hw. Alas, carmen I they will over a carman there, as he will do a child here : you shall have a coachman with cheeks

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like a trumpeter; and a wind in his mouth, blow him afore him as far as he can see him ; or sk.ir over him with his bats' wings, a mile and a half, ere he can steer his wry neck to look where he is. Fad. And they have their New Wells too, and physical waters, I hope, to visit, all time of year? I Htr. Your Tunbridge, or the Spaw itself, are mere puddle to them : when the pleasant months of the year come, they all flock to certain broken islands, which are called thcre the Isles of Delight. Fad. By clouds still ? I Her. What else I their boats are clouds too. 2 Btr. Or in a mist; the mists are ordinary in the moon ; a maa that owes money there, needs no other protection ; only buy a mist, and walk in't, he is never discerned j a matter of a bawbee does it. I Her. Only one island they have, is called the isle of the Epica:nes, because there under one article both kinds are signified, for they are fashioned alike, male and female the same; not heads and broad hats, short doublets and long points ; neither do they ever untruss for distinction, but laugh and lie down in moonshine, and stab with their poniards ; you do not know the delight of the Epica:nes in moonshine. 2 Her. And when they have tasted the springs of pleasure enough. and billed, and kissed, and are ready to come away, the sbees only lay certain eggs (for they are never with child there), and of those eggs are disclosed a race of creatures like men, but are indeed a sort of fowl, in part covered with feathers (they call them VOLATEES), that hop from island to island; you shall see a covey of them, if you please, presently. I Her. Yes, faith, 'tis time to exercise their eyes, for their ears begin to be weary.
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Her. Then know we do not move these wings so soon On which our poet mounted to the moon, Menippus like, but all 'twixt it and us, Thus clears and holps to the preaentmont, thus.

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Eflln' llle VoLATUSjor IM A.N11KASQUB and DAMCL

After fllllitlt,
2 Her. We have all this while (though the Muses' heralds) adventured to tell your majesty no news; for hitherto we have moved rather to your delight than your belie But now be pleased to expect a more noble discovery, worthy of your ear, as the object will be your eye : a race of your own, formed, animated, lightened and heightened by you, who rapt above the moon far in speculation of your virtues, have remained there entranced certain hours, with wonder of the piety, wisdom, majesty reflected by you on them, from the divine light to which only you are less. These, by how much higher they have been carried from earth to contemplate your greatness, have now conceived the more haste and hope in this their return home to approach your goodness; and led by that excellent likeness of yourself, the truth, imitating Procritus's endeavour, that all their motions be formed to the music of your peace and have their ends in your favoqr, which alone is able to resolve and thaw the cold they have presently contracted in coming through the colder region. [ Musit.

HnY IM Smu opn,s, aNI di.rt:t~r~ws IM Regiotl of IM Motm,from fllllitiiiM M.\BQUBRS tlumlli, and s.taM f!ff llleir ia'du.
I'IRST SONG.

Howe'er the brightness may amaze, Move you, and stand not still at gue, A. dazzled with the light : But "ith your motions fill the place, And let their fulness win you grace, Till you c:ollect your sight.

So while the warmth you do c:onfess, And temper of these rays no less To quic:ken than refine. You may by knowledge grow more bold, And so more able to behold The body whenc:e they shine.
THE J1RST DANCE I'OLLOWB.

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Now look and see in yonder throne, How all those beams are cast from one I This is that orb so bright, Has kept your wonder ao awake i Whence you as from a mirror uke The sun's reflected light. Read him as you would do the. book Of all perfection, and but look What his proportions be ; No measure that is thence contrived, Or any motion thence derived, But is pure harmony,
HER. TBK MAIN DANCE AND REVELS. THIRD SONG.

Not that we think you weary be, For be . That did this motion give, And made it so long live, Could likewise give it perpetuity. Nor that we doubt you have not more, And store Of changes to delight, For they are infinite, ' As is the power that brought forth these before. But since the earth is of his name And fame So full, you cannot add, Be both the first and glad To speak him to the region whence you came.
THE LAST DANCE, J'OURTB SONO.

Look, look already where I am, Bright Fame, Got up unto the sky, Thus high, Upon my better wing, Toaiug

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The knowing king, And made the music here, With your.i on earth the same.

Clro. Join then to tell his name, And say but ]AMES is he : All ears "ill take the voice, And in the tune rejoice, Or Truth bath left to breathe, and Fame bath left to be.
1

Her. See what is that this music brings, And is so carried in the air about? Her. Fame, that doth nourish the renown of kings, And keep that fair which Envy would blot out.
THUS IT ENDED.

A MASQUE
OF

THE METAMORPHOSED GIPSI.ES,

AS IT WAS THRICE PRESENTED TO KING JAMKS,

First at .Bwrlei'gll tm the Hill, ne:ct at Belwir , arul lasUy Windsor, Augrut162I.

rzt

THE SPEECH AT THE. KING'S ENTRANCE AT BURLEIGH,

MADE IN THE CHARACTER OF THE PORTER.

IF for 0111' tlwugltls tlurt c011l!f but speecA ~e j011nd, A fill all tllaJ speecA h uttered in tmt s011nd, So tllaJ sonu /Jo'wer aiiO'llt us '111011ld ajford Tltt _,uans to make a language of a ftJOrd, It slt011/d ~e WELCOME I in tltat only voice We '111011ltl naive, retain, mjoy, rejoice; A fill all tjJicts of ID'lle aruJ lift tlispmse, Tt'/1 i't were adletl a cojl"ous ellxJumce , For slt0111tl we vml 011r sp;nts, now )'011 are come, In stlttr syll~les, were as to ~~ tluml. Welcome, 0 welcome 1/un, aruJ mltr lttn Tltt bst J'Oflf' 6ounty !Juilt, aruJ sh11 tlotA nar. W."IA tlum lligA javOflf's, aruJ t/uJst luapetl inertases JJ'AicA sllows a lumtl not gritfletl but wltm i't ceases. Tltt MASTER is y011r cnalun, as tM place, A fill tfltr)' good a11011tlrim is )'0111' graa: WAom, tlwugA ltt stantl 6y silml, tllid not n~dt, But as a man hlriUtl alllo grat#utlt. For wltat ltt ,;,. can A.ofM !low to nston, Since wlrile ltt metlitales tmt, )'011 /JOflf' tm mon, Voucltsaj1 to lAid lu on(y is oppnst

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BBN JONSON'S JIASQUBS.

W"JI.\ IAIJ'r ~. 114/IMI ;;, Ms lntul

HiM, aNI Ms lunu6, aNI uanA '""' kJ IAt U111n ~ Yflfl/1foul.,;u,;n 114 a-.&, or Wfll3 lkn slulrUr, For Aavinr tnulttiiAiu mid kJ Ms PorUr.

Hu jJtJfwn an 31wJUlgrt1flllf; for /Jktut 7t111 nmr

THE PROLOGUE AT WINDSOR.

A3 tN11fY 6/un'np as lkn h IHmu I11 Plolnt./3 finpr3, aNI all aJ MU, Held up i11 at1 A Nlntt/3 crrJM for IAt 111111U1 lirAJ ""7"" grJOd Mastw. I tlan 6t 110 flNU/w Of tiwu or of 3./JetcA, WAtn 71111 an,;, plaa: Itml76uu&A Y1111 laM i11 grJOd paa, CNr folklttn'*r IAt COflrl, Si"" 'IUfor J'Ofll' 3jJorl To Aaflt 71111 #ill """"' ANI 1101 Wf4h 71111 "'taiY Wt 111"7 #ri111 kJ pka.u, So 1tmr (3o1Jft filii/ .ra_y) till tw K""" a tiUitUt. Bui70U, dr, IAal tfllia Htlflt paad w alnady, ~ kJ /Aria: W.Vni11 6oldnu3 7our fJa1imu Forgive w IAt fauii1Aa17o11r faf/Oflr AaiA .W.

if"""

,,.,w,

Eflllr a Gip37 (lltifW IAt ]ACJtMAN), uadl'fWa lwnt llllim flliiA

jifl1 lillk dlildrm 61111Ni in a lra&t of 3&arft uptm Aim~ foiiOflltd 6y a 3t&tmd., 11111/inr a110llur lwne ladm flliiA 3kJim

/JIIIIIIry, 6--&.

.fad. Room for the five Princes of )Egypt, mounted all upon
one hone, like the four sons of Aymon, to make the miracle the more by a bead if it may be I Gaze upon them, as on the offspring of Ptolemy, begotten upon several Cleopatra&, in their several counties ; especially on this brave spark struck out of Flintshire, upon justice Jug's daughter, then sheriff of the county, who running away with a kinsman of our captain's, and her father pureuing her to the awcbes, he great with justice, she great witQ

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juggling, they were both, for the time, turned stone, upon the sight each of other, in Chester : till at last (see the wonder), a jug of the town ale ~nciling them, the memorial of bOth their gravities, his in beard, and hers in belly, bath remained ever since preserved in picture upon the most stone jugs of the kingdom. The famous imp yet grew a wretchock; and though for seven years together he was carefully carried at his mother's back, rocked in a cradle of Welsh cheese, like a maggot, and there fed with broken beer and blown wine of the best daily, yet looks as if he never saw his fJflinqumniu"' 'Tis true, he can thread needles on horseback, or draw a yard of inkle through his nose : but what is that to a grown gipsy, one of the blood, and of his time, if he had thrived I therefore, till with his painful progenitors he be able to beat it on the hard roof, to the !mu !lowse, or the stawlillg-lun, to nip a jan, and dy llze jarll, 'tis thought fit he march in the infants' equipage;
With the convoy, cheats and peclcnge, Out of clutch of Harman Beclcage, To their libkins 11-t the Crackman's, Or soine skipper of the Blaclanan's.
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Gipsy. Where the cacklers, but no grunters,

' Shall uncased be for the hunters : Those we still must keep alive ; Ay, and put them out to thrive In the parks, and in the chases, And the finer walMd places ; AB St. Jamcs's, Greenwich, Tibals, Where the acorns, plump as chibals, Soon shall chnnge both kind and name, And proclaim them the king's game. So the act no harm may be Unto their keeper Barnaby; It will prove as good a service, AB did ever gipsy Gervice, Or our captain Ch~lcs, the tall-ma'n, And a part too of our salmon.

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Jadmait. If we here be a little obscure, 'tis our pleasure; for rather than we will oft'er to be our own interpreters, we are raolved not to be understood : yet if any man doubt of the significancy of the language, we refer him to the third volume of Reports, set forth by the learned in the laws of canting, and published in the gipsy tongue. Give me my guittara, and room for our chief I [N.,~ Enllr tlu CAPTAIN, flliln siz o/ !lis Atlmt/anls.
HERE THEY DANCE.

Afor 111/tk!J,
SONO.

7aei. From the famous Peak of Darby,

And the Devil's arse there bard by, Where we yearly keep our musters, Thus the ...gyptians throng in clusters. Be not frighted with our fashion, Though we aeem a tattered nation ; We account our rags our riches, So our tricb exceed our stitches. Give us bacou, rinds of walnuts, Shells of cockles, and of small nuts, Ribbons, bells, and safFroned linen, All the world is ours to win in. Knacb we have that will delight you, Slights of band that will invite you To endure our tawny faces, And not cause you cut your laces. All your fortunes we can tell ye, Be they for the back or belly : In the moods too, and the tenses, Tbat may fit your fine five senses. Draw but then your gloves, we pray you, And sit stil~ we will not (ray you ; For though we be here at Burley, We'd be loth to make a hurley.
Et~lertlu PATRICO.

Pal. Stay, my sweet singer, The touch of thy fiJller

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There's a gm/ry ~OfJ4 here, Is the top of the shire Ol the Bever-Ken, A man among men; You need not to fear, I've an eye and an ear That turns here and there To look to our gear : Some say that there be One or two, if not three, That are greater than he. And for the roottrNtUJrls, I know by their ports, And their jolly resorts, They are of the sorts That love the true sports Ol King Ptolemeus, Our great Coriphseus, And Queen Cleopa.tra, The gipsies grand matra. Then if we shall shark it, Here fair is and market. Leave pig by and goose, And play fast and loose, A short cut, and long, With, ever and among, Soxne inch of a song, Pythagoras' lot,

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Drawn out of a pot; With what .says Alchindus, And Pharaotes Indus, John de lnda&ine, With all their pagiirlz Treating of palmistry, And this is almistcy.

: Lay by your wimbles,

Your boring for thimble&, Or using your nimbles In diving the pockets And sounding the sockets Of simper-the-cockets; Or angling the purses Of such as will curse us ; But in the strict duel Be merry and cruel, Strike fair at some jewel, That mint may accrue well, For that is the fuel To make the tuns brew well, And the pot ring well, And the biain sing well, Which we may bring well About by a string well, And do the thing well. It is but a strain Of true legerdemain Once, twice, and again.

01' what will you say now If with our fine play now; Our knackets and dan-ces, We work on the fancies Of some of these N ancies, These Trickets and Tnps!:es,

THE GIPSIES METAMORPHOSED. And make them tutn gipsies. Here's no justice Lippus Will seek for to nip us, In Cramp-ring or Cippus, And ~hen for to strip us And after to whip us, While here we do tarry His justice to vary ; But be wise and wary, And we may both carry The Kate and the Mary, And all the bright eyry, Away to the quarry, If our brave Ptolemy Will but say, follow me. 3 Gipsy. Captain1 if ever at the Bowsing Ken You have in draughts of Darby drilled your men, And we have served there arm~ all iri ale With the brown bowl, and charged in braggat stale : If mustered thus, and disciplined in drink, In our long watches we did never wink, But so commanded by you, kept our station, As we preserved ourselves a loyal nation ; And never yet did branch of statute break Made in your famous palace of the Peak : If we have deemed that m~tto~ lamb, or veal, Chick, capon, turkey, sweetest we did steal; As being by our Magna Charta taught To judge no viands wholesome that are bought : If for our linen we still used the lift, And with the hedge (our Trade's Increase) made shift, And ever at your solemn feasts and calls, We have been ready, with the iEgyptian brawlll, To set Kit Callot forth in prose or rhyme, Or who was Cleopatra for the time :

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If we have done this, that, more, such, or so; Now lend your ear but to the Patrico. Capl. Well, dance another strain, and we'll think how. I Gipsy. Meantime in song do you conceive some vow. [Mrui&.
HERE THEY DANCE. SECOND SONG.

Pal, The faery beam upon you,

The stan to glister on you ; A moon of light, In the noon of night, Till the fire-drake bath oergone you l The wheel of fortune guide you, The boy with the bow beside you ; Run aye in the way, Till the bird of day, And the luckier lot betide you I

Cap/. [surveyiMg llu (Ompany]. Bless my sweet masters, the old

and the young, From the gall of the heart, and the stroke of the tongue. With you, lucky bird, I begin [pes uplo tile King]; let me see, I aim at the best, and I trow you are he : Here's some luck already, if I understand The grounds of mine art ; here's a gentleman's hand. I'll kiss it for luck sake : you should, by this line, Love a horse and a hound, but no part of a swine. To hunt the brave stag, not so much for the food, AB the weal of your body and the health of your blood. You're a man of good means, and have territories store, Both by sea and by land ; and were born, sir, to more, Which you, like a lord, and a prince of your peace, Content with your havings, despise to increase : You are no great wenchCI I see by your table, Although your Mons Veneris says you are able; You live chaste and single, and have buried your wife, And mean not to marry, by the line of your life. Whence he that conjectures your qualities, learns

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You are an honest good man, and have care of your beams. Your Mercury's hill too, a wit doth betoken ; Some book-craft you have, and are pretty well spoken. But stay,-in your Jupiter's mount, what is here? A king I a monarch I what wonders appear I High, bountiful, just; a Jove for your parts, A master of men, and that reign in their hearts. I'll tell it my train, And come to you again. [ Willulraws.
THIRD SONG,

Pal. To the old, long life and treasure I To the young, all health and pleasure I To the fair, their face With eternal grace, And the soul to be loved at leisure I To the witty, all clear mirron; To the foolish, their dark errors; To the loving sprite, A secure delight ; To the jealous his own false terrors I

Capt. [aa't~antes again ID lite King], Could any doubt that saw
this hand, Or who you are, or what command You have upon the fate of thingS, Or would not say you were let down From heaven, on earth to be the crown And top of all your neighbour-kings ? To see the ways of truth you take To balance business and to make All Christian differences cease : Or till the quarrel and the cause You compose, to give them laws, As arbiter of war and peace.

can

For this, of all the world, you shall Be styl~ JAMBS THB JUST, and all Their states dispose, their sons and daughters;

BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS.

And for your fortunes, you alone Among them all shall work your own, By peace, and not by human slaughters. But why do I presume, though true, To tell a fortune, sir, to you, Who are the maker here of all ; Where none do stand or sit in view But owe their fortunes unto you, At least what they good fortune call ? Myself a Gipsy here do shine, Yet ~e you maker, sir, of mine. 0 that confession could content So high a bounty, that doth know No part of motion but to flow, And giving never to repent I May still the matter wait your hand, That it not feel or stay or stand, But all desert still overcharge. And may your goodness ever find In me, whom you have made, a mind As thankful as your own is large I
HERE THEY DANCE.

[Musit<.

.After 'lllllicA, Tlu Princ~'s foriune is offered at by flu

2

Gi'lsy. As my captain bath begun

With the sire, I take the son : your band, sir I Of your fortune be secure, Love and she are both at your Command, sir I See what states are here at strife Who shall tender you a wife, . A brave one; And a fitter for a man

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Than is offered here, you can Not have one. She is sister of a star, One the noblest now that are, Bright Hesper, Whom the Indians in the East Phosphor call, and in the West Hight Vesper. Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run, For splendour. What can to the marriage-night, More than mom and evening light, Attend her, . Save the promise before day, Of a little James to play Hereafter 'Twixt his grandsire's knees, and move All the pretty ways of love And laughter. Whilst with care you strive to please. In youl' giving his cares ease And labours : And by being long the aid Of the empire, make afraid . Ill neighbours. Till yourself shall coine to see What we wish yet far to be Attending: For it skills not when nor where That begins, which cannot fear An ending; Since your name in peace or wars Nought shall bound, until the stars Up take you: And to all succeeding view

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Heaven a constellation new Shall make you.

HIUUt TlfEY DANCE.

[M.W.

A.ftw w!UcA, T/u Lady Marq11ess BUCKINGHAM'S 6y 1/u

3 Gip. Hurl afu:r an old shoe, I'll be merry, whate'er I do, ~ough I keep no time My words shall chime, I'll overtake the sense with a rhrme.Face of a rose, I pray thee depose Some small piece of silver; it shall be no loss, But only to make the sign of the cross : If your band you hallow Good fortune will follow, I swear by these ten You shall have it again, I do not say when. But, lady, either I am tipsy, Or you to fall in love with a gipsy ; Blush not, dame Kate, For, early or late, . I do a5sure you it will be your fate.

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Nor need you be once ashamed of it, madam, He's as handsome a man as ever was Adam. A man out of wax, As a lady would aks : Yet be is not to wed ye, H' has enjoyed you already, And I hope be has sped ye.A dainty young fellow ; And though he look yellow He ne' er will be jealous,

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But love you. most zealous, There's never a line in your hand but doth tell us. And you are a soul so white, and so chaste, A table so smooth, and so newly rased, As nothing called foul Dares approach with a blot Or any least spot ; But still you control Or make your own lot, Preserving love pure as it first was begot. But, dame, I must tell ye, The fruit of your belly Is that you must tender, And care so to render That as yourself came, In blood and in name, From one house of fame, So that may remain The glory of twain.
H&R.E THEY DANCE.

[.Musi~

After 'ltlllidl, Tlu Countess of RUTLAND's by tlu

3 Gip. You, sweet lady, have a hand too, And a fortune you may stand to;
Both your bravery and your bounty, Style you mistress of the county: You will find it from this night, Fortune'shall forget ~ spite And heap all the blessings on you That she can pour out upon you. To be loved where most you love Is the worst that you shall prove : And by him to be embraced Who so long bath known you chaste Wise and fair ; whilst you renew

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Joys to him, and be to you : And when both your years are told Neither think the other old.
And tM Countess of EXETER'S Jy tM
Pa/ri((l, Madam, we knew of your coming so late,

We could not well fit you. a nobler fate

Than what you have ready made :

An old man's wife Is the light of his life, A young one is but his shade. You will not importune The change of your fortune : For if you dare trust to my fo~, 'Tis presently good,' and it will be lastihg.
HERE THEY DANCE.

[ M.uk.

Aftn' tv.b'&A, Tile Countess of BUCKINGHAM'S 6y tM

4 Gip. Your pardon, lady : here you stand, If some should judge you by your hand, The greatest felon in _the land Detected. I cannot tell you by what arts, But you have- stolen so many hearts As they would make you at all parts Suspected. . Your very face, first, such a one As being viewed it was alone Too slippery to be looked upon, And threw men : But then your graces, they were such As none could e'er behold too much ; Both every taste and every touch So drew men. Still blest in all you think or do, Two of your sons are gipsies too,

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You shall our queen be, and, see who Importunes The heart of either yours or you And doth not wish both George and Sue, And every bairn besides, all new

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Tm Lady PUIUIECK'S 6y IM

Gip. Help me, wonder I here's a book Where I would for ever look : Never yet did gipsy trace Smoother lines in bands or face : Venus here doth Saturn move That you should be Queen of Love, And the other stars consent; O'nly Cupid's not content, For, though you the theft disguise, You have robbed him of his eyes; And to show his envy further, Here he cbargeth you with m~her: Says, although that at your sight He must all his torches light ; Though your either cheek discloses Mingled baths of milk and roses, Though yotlf Ups be banks. of blisses Where be plants anq gathers kisses, And yourslllf the reason why, Wisest men for love may die; You will turn all hearts to tinder, And shall make the world one cinder.
Aflllllu Lady
E~ln'll

HATTON's 6y IM

5 Gi'p. Mistress of a fltirer table

Hath no history nor fable : Others' fortunes may be shown, You are builder of your own. And whatever heaven bath gi'n you

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You preserve the state still in you ; Tbat.which time would have depart,Youth without the help of art,You do keep still, and the glory Of your sex is but your story. Tlu Lord Chamberlain's 6y tJu

Jadm4n. Though you, sir, be Chamberlain, I have a key

To open your fortune a little by the way : You are a good man, Deny it that can: And faithful you are, Deny it that dare. You know how to u8e your sword and your pen, And you love not alone the arts but the men : The Graces and Muses everywhere follow You,. as you were their second Apollo ; Only your hand here tells you to your face You have wanted one grace, To perform what has been a right of your place ; For by this line, which is Mars his trench, You never yet helped your master to a wench. 'Tis well for your honour he's pious and chaste, Or you bad most certainly been displaced.
HERE THEY DANCl.

TIU Lord Keeper's /flrlllne 6y tJu . PalriaJ. As happy a palm, sir, as most i' the landIt should be a pure, and an innocent hand, And worthy the trust ; For it says you'll be just, And carry that purse Without any curse Of the public weal, When you take out the seal. You do not appear, A ju~e of a 1e&f

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I'll yenture my life You never had wife, But I'll venture my skill You may when you will You have the king's conscience too in your breast, And that's a good gu~ Which you'll have true touch o~ And yet not make much o~ More than by truth yourself forth to bring The man that you are, for God and the king.

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Tlu Lord Treasurersforiutu lly IM 3 Gip. I come to borrow, and you'll grant my demand, sir, Since 'tia not for money, pray lend me your band, sir; And yet this good band, if you please to stretch it, Jiad the errand been money, c:Ould easily fetch it :

You command the king's treasure, and yet on my soul You handle not much, for your palm is not foul : Your fortune is good, and will be to set The office upright, and the king out of debt ; To put all that have pensions soon out of their pain, }Jy bringing the excheq~er in credit again.

T1u Lord Privy Seal's lly tM

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Gip. Honest and old, In those the good part of a fortune is told ;
God send you your health,

The rest is provided, honour and wealth :

All which you possess Without the making of any man less; Nor need you my warrant, enjoy it you shall, For you have a good privy seal for it all

T1u Earl Manbal'slly tM

3

GIJ. Next the great master, who is the donor,

I read you here the preserver of honour, And spy it in all your singular parts,

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What a father you are, and a nurse of the arts, By cherishing which, a way you have found How they, free to all, to one may be bound, And they again love their bonds, for to be Obliged to you, is the way to be free. But this is their fortune :-hark to your own. Yours shall be to make true gentry known From the fictitious, not to prize blood So much by the greatness as by the good ; To show and to open clear virtue the way, Both whither she should, and how far she may: And whilst you do judge 'twixt valour and noise, To extinguish the race of the roaring boys.

T.V Lord Steward's 67 Jlu 4 Gip. I find by this hand, You have the command Of the very best man's house in the land: Our captain and we, Ere long, will see If you keep a good table ; Your master is able, And here be bountiful lines, that say You'll keep no part of his bounty away. There's writtenfrank On your Venus' bank : To prove a false steward you'll find much ado, Being a true one by blood, and by o_ffice too. Tlu Lord Marquis liAKILTON's 67 t.V 3 Gip. Only your hand, sir, and welcome to court.; Here is a man both for earnest and sport.
You were lately employed, And your master is joyed To have such in his train. So well cart sustain His person abroad,

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And not shrink for the load,But had you been here, You should have been a gipsy, I swear; Our captain had summoned you by a doxy, To whom you would not have answered by proxy, One, had she come in the way of your sceptre, 'Tis odds, you had laid it by to have leapt her. [ N.uk.
HJUlB THXY DANCE.

Ajtw fll!li&ll,
Mtm'c, fiiAicA /lfllis VJ SECOND DANCE.
Duri~~g

fiiAicA 1/14 PATRICO and ]ACKKAN

si~~g

IAU SONG: and

lo'lllards tlu end of it, COCKREL, CLOD1 TOWNSHEAD1 PvPPY1 and olllw Clowns m/er Hla'nd.

PaJr. Why, this is a sport, See it north, see it south ; For the taste of the court, Jad. For the court's own mouth. Come, Windsor, the town, With ~e mayor, and oppose, We'll put them all down, Pair, Do-do-down, like my hose, A gipay in his shape More calls the beholder Than the fellow with the ape, Jad. Or the ape on his shoulder, He's a sight that will take An old judge from his wench, Ay, and keep him awake; PaJII. Yea; awake on the bench. And has so much worth, Though be sit in the stocks, He will draw the girls forth, jad, Ay, forth in their smocks. Tut, a man's but a man : Let tlle clowns with their sluts Come mend us if they can, Pair, If they can for their guts. BotA. Come mend us, come lend us, the:ir shouts and their noise, Uke thunder, and wonder at Ptolemy'a boya.

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Cock. 0 the Lord I what be these? Tom, dost thou know~ Come hither, come hither, Dick, didst thou ever see such? the finest olive-coloured spirits, they have so danced, and jingled here, as they had been a set of overgrown fairies. Clod. They should be morris-dancers by their jingle, but they have no napkins. Cod. No, nor a hobby-horse. Clod. Oh I he's often forgotten, that's no rule ; but there is no Maid Matian nor Friar amongst them, which is the surer mark. Cock. Nor a fool that I see. ClDtl. Unless they be all fools. T011n1. Well said, Tom Fool; why, thou simple parish ass thou, didst thou never see any gipsies ? These are a covey of gipsies, and the bravest new covey that ever constable flew at; goodly, game gipsies, they are gipsies of this year, of this moon, in my conscience. CIIHI. Oh, they are called the Moon-men, I remember now I Cod. One shall hardly see such gentlemen-like gipsies though, under a hedge, in a whole summer's day, if they be gipsies. T0111n. Male gipsies all, not a Mort among them. P11p. Where, where ? I could never endure the sight of one of these rogue-gipsies : which be they? I would fain see 'em. Clod. Yonder they are. hp. Can they cant or mill? are they masters in their art? T011n1. No, bachelors these ; they cannot have proc;eedod so far ; they have scarce bad their time to be lousy yet. Pfl/. All the better I I would- be acquainted with them while they are in clean life, they will do their tricks the cleanlier. Cod. We must have some music then, and take out the wenches. hp. Music I we'll have a whole poverty of pipers; call Cheeks upon the bagpipe, and Tom Ticklefoot with his tabor. Clod. will you gather the pipe-money? Clod. I'll gather it an you will, but I'll give none. hp. Why, well said I Claw a churl by the a- and he'll s-in your fist.

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Cod. Ay, or whistle to a jade, and he'll pay you with a f-. Clod. F- I 'tis an ill wind that blows no man to profit :-See where the minstrel comes in the mouth on't. Ck. Ay, and all the good wenches of Windsor after him ; yonder is Prue o' the park. Ttn111J. And Franc;es o' the castle. Pup. And Long Meg of Eaton. Clod. And Christian o' Domey. Ttn111J. See the miracle of a minstrel I Ck. He;s able to muster up the smocks of the two shires. Pup. And set the codpieces and they by the ears at pleasure.

Enter tire trtJo Pipers playing, and fo/UJwetJ /Jy PRUDENCE, FllANcES, CICELY, Mw, CHRISTIAN, and otlrer Wenches. Ttnii1J. I cannot hold now, there's my groat, let's have a fit for
mirth sake. Co&k. Yes, and they'll come about us for luck's sake. Pup. But look to our pockets and purses, for our own sake. Clod. Ay, I have the greatest charge, if I gather the money. Co&k. Come, girls, here be gipsies come to town, let's dance [ Mrmc. them down.
H11'1 /My laM tNI 1/u Wenches, and dance Country Danus,

During fiJIR'rA 1/u Gipsies aNI 1/u PATR.ICO rome alxNt /Ann 1'7J'ng,
aNI jJidl tluir podlell.

Pal. Sweet doxies and dells, My Roses and Nells,

Scarce out of the shells, Your hands, nothing else. We ring you no knells With our Ptolemy's bells, Though we come from the fells; But bring you good spells, And tell you some chances, In midst of your dances, That fortune .advances, To Prudence or Frances;

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To Cicely or Harry, To Roger or Mary, Or Peg of the dairy, To Maudlin or Thomas; Then do not run from us. Although we look tawny We are healthy and brawny, Whate'er your demand is, We'll give you no jaundis. hp. Say you so, old gipsy I 'Slid, these go to't in rhymes'; this is better than canting by the one half. Town. Nay, you shall hear them: peace, they begin with Prudence i mark that. hp. The wiser gipsies they, marry. T(lfllll. Are you advised? hp. Yes, and I'll stand to't, that a wise gipsy (take him at the time d the year) is as politic a piece of flesh as most justices in the county where he stalks. 3 Gip. To love a Ree;er your fortune 111111 h, Bill tAt doucels /Jetter tllan him or IUs fa. Town. Ha, Piue, has he hit you in the teeth with the sweet bit ? hp. Let her alone, she'll swallow it well enough; a l~ed gipsy I T(lfllll. You'll hear more hereafter. hp. Marry, and I'll listen: who stands next? Jack C~l? 2 Gip. You'llllave good /Id /() horse-jles!l, o' my lift, You p/Qugllld so late witiJ 1111 fJi&ars wife. hp. A prophet, a prophet, no gipsy I or if he be a gipsy, a divine gipsy. ' Town. Mark Frances, now she's going to't, the virginity o' the
parish t

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Pal. .Fear NJI, ,;, liiiJ you'111ll'lllr lead apes, .A mortified mailim offoot esmpu. hp. By'r lady, he touched the virgin-string there a little too hard. They are arrant learned men all I see ; what say they upon Tom Clod? list.

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Gip. Clod's fiet 1llill ;,. Cllristmas to tutu' 14 !Je &n'e, WAm lu llas kJst all/Us /uJbtuJIJs at jost atul alpair. ,Pup. _He has bit the right nail o' the head, his own game. Tt1WII. And the very metal he deals in at play, if you mark it. hp. Peace, -,vho's this? Long Meg? Tt1WII. Long and foul Meg, if she be a Meg, as ever I saw of
her inches : pray Heaven they fit her with a

fair fortune I she

hangs an a- terribly.

hp. .They slip her, and treat upon Tickle!oot.

Gip. ()11 Sundays ytm roll tlu poqrs !I@ rvil" 70'!" tailor, Tlu tolkdtws 'IWIIItl t/Q iJ, ytm Stifle Jlum a /a/Jour. hp. Faith,.but a little: they do it 110n IIJslallk. TQ11111. Here's my little Christian forgot ; have you any fortune left for her? a straight-laced Christian of sixteen. Pat. CAristia11 sllall pt lur a loosUot/Utl gow11 I11 tryi~ lww a r11111emtm tliffWJ fnnn a ekum. hp. Is that a fortune for a Christian ? a Turk with a gipsy could not have told her a worse. TQWII. Come, I'll stand myself, and once venture the poor bead o' the town; do your worst, my name's I~wnshead, and here's my hand, I'll not be angry. 3 Gip. A n<uJitl ytm must !le, atul Jllat- for JAru lifJu, Ytmr tn11n, Jlle jl<ln011s, atul y011r wiots. Town. I swear I'll never marry for that, an't be but to give forlrme, my foe, the lie. Come, Paul Puppy, you must in too. hp. No, I'm well enough; I would have no good fortune an I might. 4 Gip. Yet look to ytmne!f, ywO luzw stmUI11 I~ Atul s!lorl/y,-for I harJe llis Jllrse at a plwk. [AsUk to tile PATJtiCO. Pal. Away, birds, mum I I hear by the hum, If Beck-Barman come, He'll strike us all dumb. With a noise like a drum, Let's give him our fOOlllf
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BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS. Here this way some, And that way others, We are not all brothers: Leave me to the cheats, I'll show 'em some feats. [The Gipsies 17111 off tliff~m~l fllays. Pup. What I are they gone? ftown all of a sudden ? This is fine, i' wth: a covey call you 'em? they arc a covey soon sa1ttered, methink : who sprung them I marle? Tortm. Many, yourself, Puppy, for aught I know; you quested last. C/Qd. Would he had quested first for me, and sprung them an hour ago! Ttnmr. Why, what's the matter, man? Clod. 'Slid, they have sprung my purse, and all I had about me. T(lflln. They have not, have they ? CW As I am true Clod, have they, and ransacled me of every penny-outcept I were with child with an owl, as they say, I never saw such luck ; it's enough to make a man a whore. _ Pup. Hold thy peace, thou talkst as if thou hadst a license to lose thy purse alone in this company : 'slid, here be those can lose a purse in honour of the gipsies, as well as thou for thy heart, and never make words of it : I have lost my purse too. C()dt. What was there in thy purse, thou keep'at such a whimpe(ing? Was the lease of thy house in it? Pup. ()f thy grannam's silver ring? CIIHJ. No, but a mill sixpence of my mother's I loved as dearly, and a twopence I had to spend over and above ; besides, the harper that was gathered amongst us to pay the piper. Toum. Our whole stock, is that gone? how will Tom Ticklefoot do to whet his whistle then I Pup. Marry, a new collection, there's no music else, masters ; he ill pipe, that wants his upper lip. T(lflltl. Yes, a bagpiper may want both. Pn1. They have robbed me too of a dainty race of ginger, and a jet ring I had, to draw Jack Straw hither on holy-days.

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TIJ'WfL Is't possible I fine-fingered gipsies, i' faith.

Meg. And I have lost an enchanted nutmeg, all gilded over, was enchanted at Oxford for me, to put in my sweetheart's ale a' mornings ; with a row of white pins that prick me to the very
heart, the loss of them. C/Qtl. And I have lost, besides my purse, my best bride-lace I had at Joan Turnup's wedding, and a halp'orth of hobnails: Frances Addlebreech has lost somewhat too, besides her maidenhead. Fra& Ay, I have lost my thimble, and a skein of Coventry blue I had to work Gregory Litchfield a handkerchie C!lris. And I, ubhappy Christian as I am, have lost my Pradia of PUty, with a bowed groat; and the ballad of W!wop Bama!Jy, which grieves me ten times worse. Clod. And Ticldefoot has lost his clout, he says, with a threepence and four tokens in't; besi.des his taboring-stick even now. Cod. And I my knife and sheath, and my fine dog's-leather gloves. Tow11. Have we lost never a dog amongst us? where's Puppy? Pup. Here, good man Townshead, you have nothing to lose, it seems, but the Town's brains you are trusted with.

Re-enter llle PATJUCO, wiln llle rut of tile Gipsies. Oh, my dear marrows I
No shooting of arrows Or shafts of your wit, Each other to hit, In your skirmishing fit. Your store is but small, Then venture not all : Remember, each mock Doth spend o' the stock. And what was here done, Being under the moon, And at afternoon, Will prove right soon

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..lJe#piU flinu, Done grtiiU rinu.-'There's no such thing & the loss of a ring, Or what you count wone, The miss of a purse. But hey for the main, And pass of the strain, Here's both come again I And there's an old twinger Can show ye the ginger: The pins and the nutmeg .ke safe here with siut Meg, Then strike up your tabor, And there's for your labour ; The sheath and the knife, I'll venture my life, Shall breed you no strife, But like man and wife, Or sister and brother, Keep one with another, And light as a feather Make haste to come hither. The Coventry blue Hang& there upon Prue, And here is orie opens The clout and the tokens ; Deny the bowed groat. And you lie in your throat ; Or the taborer's ninepencc, Or the six fine pence.

AB for the ballad, Or the book, what you call it; Alas, our society Mells not with piety ;

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Himself bath forsook it, That first undertook it. For thimble or bride-lace,

Search yonder side lass.

All's to be found If you .look yourselves round : We scorn to take from ye, We had rather spend on ye. If any man wrong ye, The thief is among ye.
Tqw11. Excellent, i' faith I a most restorative gipsy I all's here again ; and yet by his learning of )egerdemain, he would make us believe we had robbed ourselves i for the hobnail& are come

to

me. Coek. Maybe, he knelt whose shoes lacked clouting.

Pup. Ay-he knows more than that, or I'll never trust my judgment in a gipsy again. Cod. A gipsy of quality, believe it, and one of the king's gipsies, this i a drink-alian, or a drink-braggatan ? Ask him. The king has his noise of gipsies, as well as of bearwards and other
minstrels.

hp. What sort or order of gipsies, I pray, sir?

Pill. A
ftagon-~ekian,

A Devil's arse-a-Peltian Born first at Niglington,

Bred up at Filchington, Boarded at Tappington, Bedded at Wappington.

nun.. Fore me, a dainty deri-ved gipsy I Pup. But I pray, sir, if a man might ask on you, how came your captain's place first to be called the Devil's Arse ? Pal. For that take my word, We haVe a record, That doth it afford,
And says our first lord,

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Cocklorel he bight, On a time did invite The devil to a feast ; The tail of the jest, (Though since it be long,) Lives yet in a song ; Which if you would hear Shall plainly appear Like a chime in your ear. I'll call in my clerk, Shall sing like a lark.

Cod. Oh ay, the song, the song in any case; if you want music, we'll lend him our music.
Come in, my long shark, With thy face brown and dark ; With thy tricks and thy toys, Make a merry, merry noise To these mad country boys, And chaunt out the farce Of the grand Devil's Arse.
SONG.

[Mauk.

Cocklorel would needs have the devil his guest, And bade him into the Peak to dinner, Where never the fien~ had such a feast Provided him yet at the charge of a sinner. His stomach was queasy (he came thither coacht), The jogging had made some crudities rise ; To help it be called for a puritan poacht, That used to tum up the eggs of his eyes. And so recovered unto his wish, He sate him down, and he fell to eat ; Promoter in plumb-broth was the first dish, His own privy kitchen had no such meat. Yet, though with this he much were taken, Upon a sudden he shifted his trencher, As soon as he spied the bawd and bacon, By which you may note the Devil's a wencher.

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Six piclded tailors sliced and cut, Sempsten, and tirewomen, fit for his palate : With feathermen and perfumers put Some twelve in a charger to make a grand sallet.

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A rich fat usurer stewed in his marrow, And by him a lawyer's head and green sauce ; Both which his belly took in like a barrow, As if till then he bad never seen sauce.
Then carbonadoed and cooked with pains, Was brought up a cloven serjeant's face : The sauce was made or his yeoman's brains That had been beaten out with his own mace. Two roasted sheriffs came whole to the board ; (The feast had nothing been without 'em) Both living and dead they were foxed and furred, Their chains like sausages hung about 'em. The very next dish was the !Uyor of a town, With a pudding of maintenance thrust in his belly, Like a goose in the feathers, drest in his gown, And his couple of hincb-boys boiled to a jelly. A London cuckold hot from the spit, And when the carver up had broke him, The D~vil chopped tip his head at a bit, But the horns were very near like to choke him. The chine of a lecher too there was roasted, With a plump lwlot's haunch and garlike, A pander's pettitoes, that had boasted Himself for a captain, yet never was warlike. A large fat pasty of a midwife hot>; And for a cold baJi:ed meat into the story, A reverend painted lady was brought, And coflined in crust till now she was hoary. To these, an overgrown justice or peace, With a clerk like a gizzard trnssed under each arm ; And warrants for sippits, laid in his own grease, Set over a chaffing dish to be kept warm. The jowl of a jailor served for a fish, A constable aoased with vinegar by ; Two aldermen lobsters asleep in a dish, A c!eputy tart, a churchwarden pie.

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BBN JONSON'S MASQUES. All which devoured, he then for a close Did for a full draught of Derby call ; He heaved the huge vessel up to his nose, And left not till he had drunk up all. Then from the table he gave a start, Where banquet and wine were nothing scarce, All which he flirted away with a Cart, From whence it was called the Devil's Arse.

Pup. An excellent song, and a sweet songster, and "ould have done rarely in a cage, with a dish of water and hem~seed I a fine breast of his own I Sir, you are a prelate of the order, I understand, and I have a terrible grudging now upon me to be one of your company. Will your captain take a prentice, sir? I would bind myself to him, body and soul, either for one-and-twenty years, or ~ many lives as he would Clod. Ay, and put in my life for one, for I am come about too; I am sorry I had no more money i' my purse when you came first upon us, sir; if I had known you would have picked my pocket so like a gentleman, I would have been better provided ; I shall be glad to venture a purse with your worship at any time you'll appoint, so you would prefer me to your captain ; I'll put in security for my tn1th, and serve out my time, though I die to-morrow. Cod. Ay, upon those terms, sir,_:_and I hope your captain keeps better cheer than he made for the devil, for my stomach will ne'er agree with that diet,-we'U.be all his followers; I'll go home and fetch a little money, sir, all I have, and you shall pick my pocket to my face, and I'll avouch it : a man would not desire to have his purse pickt in better company. .Pu!. Tut, they have other manner of gifts than picking of pockets, or telling fortunes. Cod. Ay, and i they would but please to show the~nt or thought us poor county mortals worthy of them. Prlp. What might a man do to be a gentleman of your company, sir? . Cod. Ay, a gipsy in ordinary, or nothing.

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Pal. Friends, not to refel ye, Or any way quell ye, To buy or to sell ye, I only must tell ye, Ye aim at a mystery Worthy a history. There's much to be done, Ere you can be a son Oc a brother of the moon, 'Tis not so soon Acquired as desired. You must be ben-bowsy, And sleepy and drowsy, And lazy, and lousy, Before ye can rouse ye, In shape that avows ye. And then ye may stalk The gipsies walk, To the coops and the pens, And bring in the hens, Though the cock be left sullen For loss of the pullen : Take turkey or capon, And gammons of bacon, Let nought be forsaken. We'll let you go Jpose, Like a fox to a goose, And show you tho sty Where the little pigs lie ; Whehce if you can take One or two, ~d not wake The sow in her dreams, But by the moonbeams So warily hie As neither do ery, You shall the next day

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Have license to play At the hedge a flirt For a sheet or a shirt : If your band be light, I'll show you the sleight Of our Ptolemy's knot It is, and 'tis not. To change your complexion, With the noble confection Of walnuts and hog's-grease, Better than dog'!J-greaae : And to milk the kine Ere the milkmaid fine Hath opened her eyne; Or if yoq desire To spit or fart fire, I'll teach you the law:b Of eating of ftax; And out of your noses, Draw ribands and posies, AIJ for example, Mine own is as ample And fruitful a nose As a wit can suppose ; Yet it shall go hard But the; will be spared Each of you a yard, And worth your regard When the colour and size Arrive at your eyes. And if you incline To a cup of good wine When you sup or dine ; If you chance it to lack, Be it claret or sack, I'll make this snout

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To deal it about, Or this to run out As it were from a spout.

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T()'U#fl. Admirable tricks, and he does them all se tkft111krulo, as if he would not be taken in the trap of authority by a frail fleshly constable. Pup. Without the aid of a cheese. C/Qd. Or help gf a flitch of bacon. Cod. Oh, he would chirp in a pair of stocks sumptuously; I'd give anything to see him play loose with his hands wheri his feet were fast. hp. 0' my conscience he fears not that, an the marshal himself were here ; I protest I admire him.

Pat. Is this worth your wonder I

Nay then you shall underStand more of my skilL I can (for I will) Here at Burley o( the Hill Give you all your fill, Each Jack with his Gill, And show you the king, The prince too, and bring The gipsies were here Like lords to appear, With such their attenders As you thought offenders, Who now become new men, You'll know them for true men ; For he we call chief, I'll tell't ye in bri~ Is so far from a thief; As he gives ye relief With his bread, beer, and heef. And 'tis not long syne Ye drank of his wine,

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And it made you fine, Both claret and sherry; Then let us be merry ; And help with your eaU, For a hall, a hall! Stand up to the wall, Both good men, and tall, We are one man's alJ.l Omnes. A hall, a hall, a hall!

Enter tile GIPSIES

METAMORPHOSED,

I.e., dressed In ric! /lalll"'s,

anti DANCE.

Pat. Why now ye behold 'Twas truth that I told, And no device; They are changed in a trice, And so will I Be myself, by and by. I only now Must study how To come off with a grace, With my Patrico's place: Some short kind of blessing, Itself addressing
1 When the Masque wu represented at Belvolr Ca!tle, the followiDg liDes were

u-t lllltead of those iD the tellt.

Tbe fifth of August, Will Dot let sawdust Lie In your throats, Or oobwebs, or oats ; But help to scour ye, Tbis is DO Gowry Has drawn ]&Qies hither, But the goodman or Bever, Our BuckiDgbam'a father ; Tbeo ao much the rather Make it a jolly night, For 'tla a holy night; Spite of the ooiiStable, Or dean of Dunatable.

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Unto my good Master, Which light on him faster Than wishes can fly. And you that stand by Be as jocund as I ; Each man with his .voice, Give his heart to rejoice, Which I'll requite, If my art hit right. Though late now at night, Each clown here in sight, Before daylight, Shall prove a good knight r And your lasses, pages Worthy their wages, Where fancy engages Girls to their ages.
CIINJ. Oh, anything for the Patrlco; what is't? what is't? Pat. Nothing, but bear the bob of the close, It will be no burthen you may well suppose But ' Bless the sovereign and his Senses ' And to wish away offences. CIIHJ. Let us alone. Bless tire SJereip atul !lis smses I ;Pat. We'll take them in order, as they have being, And first of Seeing.

From a gipsy in the morning, Or a pair of squint eyes turning : From the goblin, and the spectre, Or a drunkard, though with nectar; From a woman true to no man, Which is ugly besides common; A smock rampant, and the itches To be putting on the breeches : Wheresoe'er they have their being, CM. B/ess 11#4 SJere~'gtl atU/ 114 SBEilfG,

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Pal. From a fool, and serious toy5; From a lawyer, three parts noise: From impertinence, like a drum Beat at dinner in his room ; From a tongue without a file, Heaps of phrases and no style. From a fiddle out of tune, As the cuckoo is in June, From the candlesticks of Lothbury, And the loud pure wives of Banbury; Or a long pretended fit, Meant for mirth, but is not it; Only time and ears outwearing, C/10. Bkss 1/u ~l" atulllis HKAlliNG.
Pal. From a strolling tinker's sheet, Or a pair of carrier's feet : From a lady that doth breathe Worse above than underneath; From the diet and the knowledge Of the students in Bears-college ; From tobacco with the type Of the devil's glyster-pipe ; Or a stink all stinks excelling, From a fishmonger's stale dwelling; CAo. Bless 1/u Soflereigt'l atul his SKELLING.

Pal. From an oyster and fried fish, A sow's baby in a dish ; From any portion of a swine, From bad venison, and worse wine; Ling, what cook soe'er it boi~ . Though with mustard sauced and oil, Or what else would keep man fasting, Ch4. Bkss llu SJereigt'l and Ais TASTING. Pal. Both from birdlime, and from pitch, From a doxey and her itch;

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From the bristles of a hog, Or the ringworm in a dog ; From the courtship of a briar, Or St. Anthony's old fire : From a needle, or a thorn, In the bed at e'en or mom; Or from any gout's least grutcbing, Clzo. Bias tile Sorlereip allli Ills TOUCHING. Pat. Bless him ~ from all offences, In his sports, as in his senses ; From a boy to cross his way, From a ~ or a foul day. Bless him, 0 bless him, heaven, and lend him long To be the sacred burden of all song ; The acts and years of all our kings to outgo ; And while be's mortal, we not think him so.

After wllkll, as(lflt/i'ng up, tile ]ACDIAN sings.

SONG FIRST,

'JacR. The sports are done, yet do not let

Your joys in sudden silence set ; . Delight and dumbness never met In one self-subject yet. If things opposed must mixt appear, Then add a boldness to your fear And speak a hymn to him Where all your duties do of right belong, Which I will sweeten with an under-song.

Captain. Glory of ours, and grace of all the earth ; How well your figure doth become your birth I As if your form and fortune equal stood, And only virtue got above your blood.
SONG SltCOND,

7a&k.

Virtue, his kingly virtue, which did merit This isle entire, and you are to inherit.

4 Gipsy. How right be doth confess him in hls face, His brow, his eye, and every mark of state ;

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As if he were the issue of each Grace, And bore about him both his Came and fate.
SONG TBIIlD,

'Ja&j, Look, look, is be not fair,

And fresh and fragrant too AJ summer sky or purg61 air, And looks u lilies do That were this morning blown.

-4 Gip. 0 more I that more of him were known. 3 Gip. Look how the winds upon the waves grown tame, Take up land sounds upon their purple wings : And catching each from other, bear the same To every angle of their sacred springs. So will we take his praise, and hurl his name About the globe in thousand airy rings, If his great virtue be in love with 'fame, For that contemned, both are neglected things.
SONG FOURTH.

'}a&j, Good princes soar above their

Came,

And in their worth Come greater forth Than in their name. Such, such the father is Whom every title strives to kiss ; Who on his royal grounds unto himself doth raise The wotk to trouble fame and to astonish praise.

4 Gip. Indeed he is not lord alone of all the State, But of the love of men, and of the empire's fate, The Muses' arts, the schools, commerce, our honours, laws, And virtu~ bang on him, as on their working cause. 2 Gip. His bandmaid Justice is. 3 Gip. Wisdom, his wife. 4 Gip. His mistress, Mercy. 5 Gip. Temperance, his life. 2 Gip. His pages Bounty and Grace, which many prove. 3 Gip. His guards are Magnanimity and Love.

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4 Gip. His ushe~ Counsel, Truth, and Piety. 5 Gip. And all that follows him, Felicity.
SONG FlriH.

']ad. 0 that we understood

Our good! There's happiness indeed in blood, And store, But how much more When virtue's flood .In the same stream doth hit I Ai. that grows high with years, so happiness with it I

Capt. Love, love his fortune then, and virtues known,

Who is the top of men, But makes the happiness our own; Since where the prince for goodness is renowned The subject with felicity is crowned.

THE EPILOGUE AT WINDSOR.

At Burlei'g), Bt'ller, and 1IOfiJ last at w,ndsor, WIU&A slwws we are gi'pnes of M common ki'nd., sir: You Aave 6eleeld (and witA tle#gM) 1/ui'r cll.ange, And lww t/r.ey &am4 transformed, may tllink it strange, 'It being a tm'ng Mt toudud at 6y our poet/ G()()d Bm slept Uure, or else forgot to slww it: But lest# prove like wonder to tlee ngAt To see a gipsy, as an ,t!UojJ, wllite, K_110'W, tllat wAat dyed our faas, was an tnntmml Made, and laid on 6y Master W()()lfis appointment, Tlee court Lycan/ArojJos~ yet willlout sjMIIs, By a mere &zr6er, anti M mapi: else, It was fe!cleed ojf witA water and~ 6all, And to our transformah'tm tAis is all, Sa11e wAat tlee masterfasllioner calls llis: For to a Gipsys MetafiUJI'jAosis, WAo tlotA disguise llis !laMt and llisfaa, And takes on a fa/sJ person 6y llis plaa, Tlu jo'IJ/t1' ofj>oltry can nt'lltrfa~1 Assisletl 6y 11 6ar61r alfli 11 14i/w.

.wr,

THE MASQUE OF AUGURS,

WITH THE

SEVERAL ANTIMASQUES,

Presented

011

Ttllelftn Niclll,

SCENE -Vu C1111rl Bllltery-lu#&h.

1622.

E11ter. NOTCH atul SLUG.

Nottll. Come, now my head's in, I '11 even venture the whole : I have seen the lions ere now, and he that bath seen them may see the king. Slug. I think he may ; but have a care you go not too nigh, neighbour Notch, lest you chance to have a tally made on your pate, and be clawed with a cudgel; there is as much danger going too near the king as the lions.
Enln- Groom of

tne Revels.

Groom. Whither, whither now, gamesters? what is the business, the affair ? stop, I beseech you. Nok!l. ThiS must be an officer or nothing, he is so pert and brief in his demands : a pretty man I and a pretty man is a little o' this side nothing; howsoever we must not be daunted now. I am sure I am a greater man than he out of the co1111s and I have lost nothing of my size since I came to it G1W111. Hey-da I what's this? a hogshead of beer broke out of the king's buttery, or some Dutch hulk I whither are you bound ? the wind is against you, you must back ; do you know where you are? Nokn. Yes, sir, if we be riot mistaken, we are at the court;

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and would be glad to speak ~th something of less authority and more wit, that knows a little in the place. Groqm, Sir; I know as little as any man in the place. Speak. what is your business ? I am an officer, groom of the revels, that is my place. Nokll. To fetch bouge of court, a parcel of invisible bread and beer for the players (for they never see it); or to mistake six torches from the chandry, and give them one. Groqm, How, sir ? Nokll. Come, this is not the first time you have carried coals, to your own house, I mean, that should have warmed them. Gr(J()m, Sir, I may do it by my place, and I must question you farther. Not&A. Be not so musty, sir; our desire is only to know whether the King's Majesty and the court expect any disguise here to-night? Gf'()()in. Disguise I what mean you by that ? do you think that his majesty sits here to expect drunkards ? Nokll. No; if he did, I believe you would supply that place bette~ than you do this : Disguise was the old English word for a masque, sir, before you were an implement belonging to the Revels. GrfNim. There is no such word in the office now, I assure you, sir; I have served here, man and boy, a prenticeship or twain, and I should know. But by what name soever you call it, here will be a Masque, and sball be a Masque, when you and the rest of your comrogues shall sit tlisguised in the stocks. Nokll. Sure, by your language you were never meant for a courtier, howsoever it bath been your ill fortune to be taken out of the nest young ; you are some constable's egg, some such widgeon of authority, you are so easily offended I Our coming was to show our loves, sir, and to make a little me!TY with His Majesty to-night, and we have brought a masque with us, if His Majesty had not been better provided. GrtH~m. Who, you I you, a ~ue I why you stink like so many bloat-herrings newly taken out of the chimney I In the

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name of ignomnce, whence came you ? or what are you ? .You have been hanged in the smoke sufficiently, that is smelt out lllready. Notch. Sir, we do come from among the brew-houses in St K.atherine's, that's true, there you have smoked us ; the dock comfort your nostrils! and we may have lived in a mist there, and so mist our purpose; but for mine own part, I have brought my properties with me, to express what I am. The keys of my calling bang here at my girdle, and this, the register-book of my function, shows me no less than a clerk at all points, and a brewer's clerk, and a. brewer's head-clerk. Gr()()m. A man of aceompt, sir I I cry you mercy. Slug. Ay, sir, I knew him a fine merchant, a merchant of hops, till all hopt into the water. Notch. No more of that; what I have been, I have been; what I am, I am: I, Peter Notch, clerk, hearing the Christmas invention was drawn dry at court ; and that neither the king's poet nor his architect had wherewithal left to entertain so much as 'a baboon of quality, nor scarce the Welsh ambassador, if he should come there : out of my allegiance to wit, dre.;, in some other friends that have as it were presumed out of their own naturals to fill up the vacuum with some pretty presentation, which we have addressed and conveyed hither. in a lighter at the general charge, and landed at the back-door of the buttery, through my neighbour Slug's credit there. Slug. A poor lighterman, sir, one that bath bad the honour sometimes to lay in the king's beer there; and I assure you I heard it in no worse place than the very buttery, for a Certain, there would be no masque, and from such as cotild command a jack of beer, two or ~hree.

Enter VANGOOSE.

Van. Dat is all true, exceeding true, de inventors be barren, lost, two, dre, vour mile, I know that from my selven; dey have noting, no ting van deit own, but vat dey take from the eard, or de ~ or de heaven, or de hell, or de rest van de veir elementen,

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de place a I dat be so common as de vench in the" bordello. Now me would bring in some dainty new ting, dat never was, nor never sail be in de re!lu.r flllhlra ; dat has never van de materia nor de forma, nor de hoffen, nor de voot, but a mera dtflisa of de brainGr(){)fll. Hey-da I what Hans F1utterkin is this ? what Dutchman does build or frame castles in the air? Nott!l. He is no Dutchman, sir, he is a Briton born, but bath learned to mif!use his own tongue in travel, and now speaks all languages in lll English ; a rare artist he is, sir, and a projector of masques. His project in ours is, that we should all come from the Three' Dancing Bears in St. Katherine's (you may bap know it, sir), hard by where the priest fell in, which alehouse is kept by a distresse4 lady, whose name, for the honotir of knighto~ hood, will not be known ; yet she is come in person here errant, to fill up the adventure, with her two women that draw drink under her ; gentlewomen born all three, I assure you.

Enter tlu Lady, wiln ltw two Maids.

Slug. And were three of those gentlewomen that should have acted in that famous matter of England's Joy in 'six hundred and three. Latiy. What talk you of England's Joy, gentlemen ? you have another matter in hand, I wiss ; England's Sport and Delight, if you can manage it. The poor cattle yonder are passing away the time with a cheat loaf, and a bombard of broken beer, how will ye dispose of them? Groom. Cattle I what cattle does she mean? Lady. No worse than the king's game, I assure you; the bears, bears both of quality and f~on, right bears, true bears. Nolt!l. A device only to express the place from whence we come, my lady's house, for which we have borrowed thiee very bears, that, as her Iadyship aforesaid says, are well bred, and can dance to present the sign, and the bearward to stand for the sign-pollt. Groom. That is pretty ; but are you sure you have sufficient bears for that purpose ?

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Shlg. Very sufficient bears as any are in the ground, the Puisgarden, and can dance at first sight, and play their own tones iC need be. John Ul'liOn, the bearward, offers to play them with any city~cers christened, for a ground measure. Noklt. Many, {or lofty tricks, or dancing on the ropes, be will not undertake ; it is out of their element, be says. Sir, all our request ia, aiDce we are come, we may be admitted, if not for a masque, for an antic-masque ; and aa we shall deserve therein, we desire to be returned with credit to the buttery from whence we came, for reward, or to the porter's lodge with discredit, Cor our punishment. Gtwm. To be whipt with your bears I well, I could be willing to venture a good word in behalC of the game, if I were assured the aforesaid game would be cleanly, and not fright the ladies. Notdl. For that, sir, the beanrard bath put in security by warranting my lady and her women to dance the whole changes with them in safety ; and for their abusing the place, you sball not need to fear, for he bath given them a kind o{ diet-~ to bind them to their good behaviour. Groom. Well, let them come; if you need one, I'll help you

mysel
Elllw ]OHN URSON

tvJ'4- H. ~.I, filM

tlu follotlllilg
BALLAD.

tl4nu fllllik lu si11p

Though it may seem rude For me to intrude, With these my bean, by chance-a; 'Twere sport for a king, If they could sing As well u they can dance-a. Then to put you out or fear or doubt, We came from St. Katherine-a, These dancing three, By the help of me, Who am the post of the sign-a.

THB MA.SQUB OF A. UGURS.

We sell good ware, And we need not care Though court and eountry knew it ; Our ale's o' the best, And each good guest Prays for their souls that brew it. For any alehouse, We care not a louse, Nor tavern in all the town-a ; Nor the VmtryCranes, Nor St. Clement's Danes, Nor the Devil can put us down-a. Who has once there been, Comes thither again, The liquor is so mighty ; Beer strong and stale, And so i1 our ale, And it lium1 like aqua-vitae. To a stranger there, If any appear, Where never before be bu been : We show the iron gate, The wheel of St. Kate, And the place where the priest fell in. The wives of Wapping, They trudge to our tapping, And there our ale desire : And still sit and drink, Till they spue and stink, And often p- out our fire. From morning to night, And about to daylight, They sit, and never grudge it ; Till the fishwives join Their single coin, And the tinker P'WM his budget. If their brains be not well, Or their bladders do swell, To ease them of their burden, My lady will come With a bowl and a broom, And hei handmaid "itb a jorden.

BBN JONSON'S M.A.SQUBS.

From court we invite Lord, lady, and knight, Squire, gentleman, yeoman, and groom; And all our stiff drinkers, Smiths, porters, and tinkers, And the beggars shall give ye room.

Van. How like you, bow like you? Excellent I the bears have done learnedly and sweetly. Van. Tis noting, tis noting; vill you see someting? ick sall bring in de Tur~en 1 met all zin bashaws, and zin dirty towsand Y anitsaries met all zin whooren, eunuken, all met an ander ; de sofie van Persia, de Tartar eh am, met de groat king of Mogull; and make deir men, and deir horse, and deir elephanten,. be seen fight in the ayr, and be all killen, and aliven, and no such ting. And all dis met de an van de Catropricks, by de refleshie van de
G~oom.

glassen.

Notdl. Oh, he is an admirable artist. S/uc. And a half, sir. Groom. But where will he place his glasses? Van. Fow, dat is all ean, ns it be two, dtee, veir, vife towsand
mile off; ick sall multiplien de vizioun, met an ander secret dat ick heb : Spreck, vat vill you haben ? Groom. Good sir, put him to't, bid him do something that is impossible; he will undertake it, I warrant yo\L Notch. I do not like the Mogul, nor the great Turk, nor the Tartar, their names are somewhat too big for the room; marry, if he could show us some country-players, strolling about in several shires, without license from the office, that would plea$e I know whom; or som~ Welsh pilgrimsVan. Pilgrim I now you talk of 4e pilgrim, it come in my bead Ick vill show yow all de whole brave pilgrim o' de world : de pilgrim dat go now, now at de instant, two, dre towsand mile to de great Mabomet, at de Mecha, or here, dere, everywhere, make de fine labyrints, and show all de brave error in de vorld. Sluc. And shall we see it here? Van. Yaw, here, here, here in dis room, tis very room; vel

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vat ~ dat to you, if ick do de ting? vat an deVi~ veta boten devil? Groom. Ni.y, good sir, be not angry. Nokll. 'Tis a disease that follows all excellent men, they cannot govern their passions ; but let him alone, try him one bout. Groom. I would try him; but what has all this to do with our masque? Van. 0 sir, all de better vor im antic-masque, de more absurd it be, and vrom de purpose, it be ever all de better. If it go from de nature of de ting, it is de more art : for dere is 8rt, and dete is nature, yow sall see. H(}(()s P(}(()s I paucos palalwos I
Here tlu se&MUI ANTIMASQUB. W'Aie-~ ftlal a perpleretl DANCE of straying and tieformetl PILGlUMS taking several jJaJM, #// 'llliU. tlu opening of tlu ligM a/Jwe, and!Jreaking fort~ of APoLLO, tluy 'IJIIre allfrig~utl llfVIJ)', and t/u main MASQUE Degtm:
APOLLO

tlesa111ling, nmg,l

It-is no dream; you all do wake; and see; Behold who comes I far-shooting Phcebus,t he . That can both hurt and heal ; a and with his voice' Rear towns, and make societies rejoice ; That taught the Muses all their hannony, And men the tuneful art of augury. a Apollo stoops, and when a god descends, May mortals think he bath no vulgar ends.
Attes ezlmlaa quatuor Apo!Uul accept.U tulit antiqultu. Saglttaudl peritiam, unde apud Homerum, frequeua illud epltbetoa ldjlo'Aot, Ion"" jllCillans. ' Medlchwn, uude medlc;l nomen adeptus. 4 MDiicarp, uade ~ appellatus. Et D!Yinatlouem (In qua etiam Aagurlum) uade Augur Apollo dictus, Vlrg ...Eaeid. h'b. 4 et Hor. Cat. Ub. 1, Od. 11.
l t

Nube candeatet bumeros amlctua Augur Apollo. Et Cum. Saec:ul ulL ubi doctlsslmua Pueta has artet totidem vem'bus coruplectitur,

Augur ut fulgeute deconl!l an:u

Corporis artUI.

Pbatbut, acceptll!que novem camc:enls,

Qui salutarlleftt ane feuoe

BBN JONSON'S MA.SQUBS: Bd"K ,.,. t1u wiA, 1u allutl t~un/Jwsons foll4fln'tw, tvAo eam1 forl/J tU from IAII'r lom!Js. Linus 11 and Orpheus 11 Branchus I8 Idmon I' all, My sacred sons, rise at your father's call From your immortal graves; where sleep, not death, Yet binds your powers.

.Li1111s. Here. Orjllnu. Here. Bnmduu. What sacred ~reath l;>oth re-inspire us? Id1111111. Who is this we feel?
p~a

What heat creeps through me, as when burning steel

Is dipt in water ?
A~~. A~Ph~on~

Thy father Phmbus' fury filleth thee: Confess my godhead, once again I call; Let whole Apollo enter in you all, And follow me. Om~~a. We fty, we do not tread; The gods do use to ravish whom they lead. APoLLO tJn;,g- tlumllietl, slttlwMd t/um fiJMn tile KING sal, and
nl"g'ftw'r~JtVtl.

Behold the love and c:are of all the gods, Of ocean and the happy isles ;
Unus, Apo!Unla et Terpsicbores ftllns. Paul. Orpheus, Apollinla et Ca111opes, de quibUI Vlrg. In Eclop lnscript, Noo me carmiDibas 'rinoet, noo Thi'RC!us Orpbeaa, Nee Unus, bulc mater QIIIUIIY!a, atque bnlc pater adslt, Orpbel Ca111opea. Lino formosua Apollo. Brancbus, ApoiHnll et }aDCa ftlhu, de qno 'fld. Strab. lib. 4o et Statium Tbebald. lib. 3-pabiaque ll!QDil11a honori Brauchns. 4 Idmon, Apo111nls et Aaterles ftlins. De I1Jo Yid. Val Flac:, llh 1, ArJouutlc. -Contra Pbcebhu Idmon N oo pal1ore Ylril noo nllo borrore comarum Terrlbllla, plenus fatil, Phmboque quleto,
1
I

~.

Cnl genltor trlbult monitu pnenoscere Dlnm OmiDa, aeu flammu, - lubrlea comlnus exta, Sea, plenum certla interrotet al!ra pennla. Pbcemonoll filla Pbaebl, que prima earmen herolcum ceclnlt.
.

Heslod In

THB JIASQUB OP AUGUR$.

That whilst the world about h~ is at odds, Sita crown~ lord here of hlmaell, and smiles, Clw. To see the erring mazes or mankind, Who seek for that doth punish them to find.

Tllm lu atlua~~UIA flliiA /Mm IIJ tlu KING. Apol. Prince or thy peace, see what it is to love The powers above I Jove bath commanded me To visit thee ; And in thine honour with my 1 music rear A college h~ t Of tuneful augurs, whose divining skill Shall wait thee still, And be the heralds of his highest will. The work is done, And I have made their president thy son ; Great Man too, on these nights, Hath added Salian rites. a Yond, yond afar, They clos~d in their temple are,' And each one guided by a star.
1

Allllllo ad illud OridU Eplstot Eplst. Parid. lllon uplcies, flnnataqae tum"bas altla Mcenla Apolll~~e~~~atructa caDOZe lyra I AuguraadlldeDtla nobllis erat et antlqua, apad gentes pu~e~ertlm Hetruscoe : quibua erat collqiwn et domiclliwn ceJeberrlmum Augurum, quoram IUII'Ima fult auc:toritaa et dipltu per tota111 ltallam, potiulmwn Ro111111. Romulus, urbe caadlta, collegium et Augures ibl lnstltult, Ipse nobilla, ut aplid Llv. 1lb. x, et Tull. lib. 1, Opdmus Augur. Eorum ollc:lwn fult alllpicla captare, et a ill coW,ere sigDa futuruum rerum, Deorumque moalta collliderare de fmllltlbal pro1peril vel aclm'IIL Sacra erat Romania et res real& bablta, dlpitalque penes patridoa et principa lros ID&Diit, etlam apad lmperatOres obtlnult, unde ab ApolllDe DOitro talia l'neira Pulchrll desfpatUL Saltatlonel In rebal IIIICI'il adblbebantur apud omne1 ~ Jelltel: et l sallendo, aeu ultatlooe aera ad aa1iare c:armea lnstltut&, Sal1l dlctl et Mart! collleCt'lltl. Omnes etiam qui ad cantum et tlbiam ludet.nt Salll et Salisublull dlcebantur. Sallus ~. 'fet. gloa. et PacuY. Pro imperio lie SaliluhsulUI ~ eiCUhet Man.. et Vq. AtDeld. Ub. B. Tum Salll ad cantus IDCeDI& altarla c1rcum Populela adlwlt eYiJK:ti tempora I'&IJii4. Aupria captaturl c:asliiiD en,eb&Dt param et -.mm, dreque nitldo. Utuum (qui erat baculUIInc:unua, aupra1e alpum)- teaebat aupr. Eo OCBil realooea ~. et metal Inter qll&l coatlnert debebant aquria: et be .ocabantllr templa : wade coatemplatlo dlc:ta ell CODiideratlo, et medltatlo rerum acranun,

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BEN JONSO/{'S MASQUBS:

Clul. Haste, haste to meet them, and as they advance,
1Twixt every dance, Let us interpret ~eir prophetic trance.

Hw1 tMy fei&Md out IM MASQUERS (ie. IM AUGURS), aNl &aiiU /Jifon IMwl u'IA IM TORCH-BEARERS along IM slagl1 si~~g~'ng INs ftdl
SONG

.Apol. Which way, and whence the lightning flew, Or bow it burn~ bright and blue, Design and figure by your lights: Then forth, and show the several Bights Your birds have made,l or what the wing, Or voice in augury doth bring, Which band the crow cried on, how high The vulture or the herne did fly ; What wing the swan made, and the dove, The stork, and which did get above ; Show all the birds of food or prey, But pass by ~e unlucky jay, Tbe night-crow, swallow, or the kite, Let these ha'le neither right, Clul. N 9r part, In this night's art.
Her~

IM TORCH-BEARERS dan&ed.

Aftw flllticA IM AUGURS laid IJy 1/uir sla'llu, aNJ tltulud 1/uJ'r l1lh'y ~ fllm'cA timu, APoLLO aNJ tlu rut inmpreted IAe Augury.
ut dextrum slnlatrumque llltu. oblervaret : in impetrato aibi Ipse rqiones delbilebat: ID oblato m11.11um mwn respexit laevam aut deztram. Reglonea ab orlente ill oceasum termillabat Umite dec:umano, et cardiae ex transveno aigno metato, qno oculi fenent quam longlssime. Antica ill ortum vergebat ; Postica regio l tergo ad occuum : dextra ad merldlem : ainlatra ad septeDtriObem, Observa tionea flebant augure sedente, capite velato, toga dupUcl augurali candida amicto, l media nocte ad medlam diem, Cl"elleeDte non deflciente die. Neque captabantur auguria post mensem Jullum, propterea quod aves reddereDtur imbecillora et morblde, pulllque eorum e~~~e~~t Imperfecti. 1 Augunmdi .aentia 6/lft8~ dicta : diviDatlo per a--. Aves aut oscines, aut prepetes : Ollcinel, que ore, pnepetes, que -.olatu augurium llignificant. Pulll trlpudlo. A ves auspicata, et pnepetes :-aqulla, YDltur, IAIIqualls seu ossifrap, trlarcbes, aive buteo, lmmuuulus, accipiter, c:ygnus, columba : osciaa : comb:, c:omD. aDser. clcoola, ardea, DOCt\la ; iDausplcata ;-mll"flllo pana. Jl1Cii-

ooru, ~&rip. hirando, piQIII, ic.

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J!A~QUB

OP AUGURS.

Apol. The signs are lucky a11, and right,l

There bath not been a voi~ or fiight, or rn presageLi~~o The J?ird that brings' Her augury alone to kiogs, The dove, bath fiowo.Orplf. And to thy ~ Fortunes and the Fates increase. B'tM. Minerva's hemahaw, anc:\ her owl,. Do both proclaim, thou shalt control The course or thingsAS ~ow they ~ With tumult carriedApol. And live free From hatred, faction, or the fear To blast the olive thou dost wear.

u .

Clw. More is behind, which these do long to show,

And what the gods to so great virtue owe.

a, 1/u Mt:d11 DaiiU.

Clw. Still, still the auspice is so good,'
We wish it were but understood; It even puts Apollo To all his strengths of art, to follow The fiights, and to divine What's meant by every sign,ll Thou canst not less be than the charge Of every deity ;
1 Habebant deztra et bleva omina : antlca et postlca : orientalia et occidentalla Greci, cam 11e ad Mptenttlonem otnerterent, ortum ad dextram habaere. Romani meridlem ID aaaplcando cam. tuerentur, ortum ad leYam babaere. ItaqueliDIItra!l pcte1 eadem 11111t Romanil q11111 GI'II!Cia deztrllll ad Ortum. Slnistra lgltur Dlis rneUora, deztra pejora: Graecli contit. Slnlstra, pertinentia ad ortum : lllllutaria, quia ortuaiDcla Index et auctor Dextra, qala apectant occuUui, triltla. t Columbll!l augurla non nllllegibua dant : quia nunqlllliD liDguJa YO!an& : lk:ut rex nunqlllliD aolus incedit. Nuntle pacb. Ardea et ardeola, rerum arduarum ausplciam. MinerYIII~~~cra. Apad Homer.

Diad. L lefW if*&6s, Ausplclum, ab ave speclenda. Paal. Nam quod DOl cum prepositlpne dlcimus tU/kit~. apad veteres sine pneposltione ~ dlcebatnr. ofl'erellt, erant maltifarla : 1111!11 si objlc:entur aYis a11qua. con Signa que slder'abatur quo YOiatn ferretur, an obUquo vel poao, vel 111p1Do motu corporis ; quo ~ contorqueret, aut c:oatrahem membra ~ qua ID pan. ocical.wet 1 au ad dextram vellilliltram caDII'ell& - - , b.

BBN JONSON'S MASQUES.

That thus art left here to enlarge, And shield their piety ! Thy neighbours at thy fortune long have gazed; But at thy wisdom all do stand amazed, And wish to be O'ercome or governM by thee J Safety itself' so sides thee where thou go'st, And Fate still offers what thou covet'st most.

Hn-1 1111 Rlf'llels. After wllicA,

Al'pLLO

wmt up 14 1111 KING, and sung.

Apol. Do not expect to hear of all Your good at once, lest it forestall A sweetness would be new: Some things the Fates would have concealed, From us the gods, lest being revealed, Our powers shall enyY you. It is enough your people learn The reverence of' your peace, As well as strangers do discern The gl.ories, by the increase ; And that the princely augur here~ your ion,l Do by his father's lights his courses run.
ClttJ. Him shall you see tri6.mphing over all,

Both foes and vices : and your young and tall Nephews, his sons, grow up in your embraces, To give this island prince,s in long races.

Hwe 1111 /uavm opmed, and Jovv., 'lllitA Uu sma/4 of 1111 Gods, wu dis&Oflered, wlu'u APoLLO retunutl 14 /lis slat, and
a.IUtUling, nmg. Apol. See, heaven expecteth my return, The f'orkM fire begins to burn, - Jove beckons me to come. JtNt. Though Phcebus be the god of' arts, He must not take on him all parts; But leave his father some. Apol. My arls are only to obey.
1 Ramulus augur fult, et Nwua, et rellqal rqea Romalll, lic:ut ante eo. Tnruus, RhamDeta, etalll. laoed""'911ilaalarqitlasiUIIID'8III-orem claiant. Cillces, L;rc!l, Cares, Arabel, In IUJDJDI. ftlleratiollfl babuenlnt auguria.

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7nt. And mine to sway,l Jove is that one, whom first, midst, last, you call, The power that govems, and colllel'Veth all ; Earth, sea, and air are subject to our check, And fate with heaven, moving at our beck. Till I ove it ratify It is no augury, Though uttered by the mouth of Destiny. Ajol. Dear father, give the sign, and seal it then.
Tlu EARTH risd4.
It is the suit of Earth and men. 7n1. What do these mortals crave without our wrong? EarlA, fllilll 1111 rut. That I ove will lend us this our sovereign long ; Let our grandchildren, and not we His want or absence ever see. 7tJ1Jt, Your wish is blest, Iove knocks his chin against his breast,' And firms it with the rest.

F11/l Clto, Sing then his fame, through all the orbs ; in even
Proportions, rising still, from earth to heaven : And of the lasting of it leave to doubt, The power or time ahall never put that out.
TIW dtml, 1/u wlwle St:m~ sllflt, and 1/u MASQUER.S tilmud ~~~e~; llut Danu.
AND THUS IT ENDED.
1 VIde Orpbeum
t

In hym. de omDip. ]cm.. Moa Jovia, aDDIIeDdo votia et flrmandls omlnlbal. Apud HOGICI', Ac,

TIME VINDICATED
TO HIMSELF AND TO HIS HONOURS, In tlu Presmtalitm al Court tm Tflll/ftlr. Nrglr.l, 1623.
- Q U I 8& KlaANTUJl, IN JLLOB VIllUS JlAB&: MOS H&C MOVJKUB K8SII: MUm..

Tlu Court king slaled, a Trumpet souNI4tl, anti FAll:& mterul,followed 6y IM CURIOUS-IIu EYED, IM EARED, antlllu NOSED.

Fame. Give ear, the worthy, hear what Fame proclaims. Ears. What, what? is't worth our ears P
Eyes. Or eyes? Nose. Or noses? For we are curious, Fame ; indeed, TU CuRious. Eyes. We come to spy. Ears. And hearken. Nose. And smell out. Fame. More than you understand, my hot inquisitors. Nose. We cannot tell. Eyes. It may be. Ears. However, go you on, let us alone. Eyes. We may spy out that which you never meant. Nose. And nose the thing you scent not. First, whence come you? Fame. I came from Saturn. Ears. Saturn I what is he? Nose. Some Protestant, I warrant you, a time-server, AB Fame herself is. Fame. You are near the right. Indeed, he's Time i~ and his name CHRONOS.

TIMB YINDICATBl).

Nose. How I Saturn I Cbronos I and tli~ Time Itself I You are found : enough. A notable old pagan I Ean One of their ~ods, ~d eats up his own children. Nose. A fencer, and doel travei with a Scythe, 'Stead of a long &Word Eyes. Hath been oft calltd fro~n it, To be= their lord of Mistule. Ears. As Ciliciiliiat\15 Was from the plough; to be diclatoi:.
Eyes. Yes.
We need no interpreter : on, what of Time? Fame. The Time bath sent llie with my trunip to 811Dlriion All sorts of persons worth1; to the view Of some great spectacle he. means to-night To eX:hibit, atid with all solemnity. Nose. 0 we shall have his Sattimalia. Eyes. His days of feast llnd liberty again. Ears; Where men tx1ight do and talk all that they list Eyes. Slaves of their lords. Nose. The servants of their masters. Ea,s. And subjects of their sovereign. Fame. Not so lavish. Ea,s. It was a brave time that l Eyes. This Will be better : I spy it coming, peace I All the impostures, The prodigies, diseases, and distempers, The knaveries of the time, we shall see all now. Ears. And hear the passages and several humo\U'II Of men, as they are swayed by their affections: Some grumbling, and some mutining, some scoffing, Some pleased, some pining ; at all these we laughing. Nose. I have it here, here, strong, the sweat of it, And the confusion, which I love-I nose it; It tickles me. Eyes. My four eyes itch for it. P~ And my ears tingle ! lWluld it wotild come forth j

BBN JONSON'S MA.SQUBS.

This room will not receive it -Nose. That's the fear.

Ellkr
CHR.ONOKASTIX.

CnrP. What, what, my friends, will not tins room receive? Eyes. That which the Time is presently to show us. Ch1P. The Time I Lo, I, the man that hate the Time, That is, that love it not; and (though in rhyme I here do speak it) with this whip you see,
Do lash the time, and am myself lash-free. Fame. Who's this ? Ean. 'Tis Chronomastix, the brave satyr. Nose. The gentleman-like satyr, cares for nobody, His forehead tipt with bays, do you not know him? Eyes. Yes, Fame must know him, all the town admires him. Cn,o. If you would see nine quake and shake, but name us, It is for that we are both beloved and famous. Eyes. We know, sir: but the Time's now come about. .&vs. And promiseth all liberty. Nose. Nay, license. Eyes. We shall do what we list. Ean. Talk what we list. Nose. And censure whom we list, and how we list. CnrP. Then I will look on Time, and love the same, And drop my whip: who's this? my mistress, Fame I The lady whom I honour and adore I What luck had I not to see her before I Pardon me, madam, more than most accurst, That did not spy your ladyship at first; T have given the stoop, and to salute the skirts Of her to whom all ladies else are flirts. It is for you, I revel so in rhyme, Dear mistress, not for hope I have, the Time Will grow the better by it : to serve Fame Is all my end, and get myself a name. FIUIU. Away, I know thee not, wretched impostor,

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Creature of glory, mountebank of wit, Self.loving braggart, Fame doth sound no trumpet To such vain empty fools : 'tis Infamy Thou serv'st and follow'st, scorn of all the Muses I Go revel with thine ignorant admirers, Let worthy names alone. ClurJ. 0 you, the Curious, Breathe you to see a passage so injurious, Done with despite, and carried with such tumour 'Gainst me, that am so much the friend of Rumour? I would say, Fame? whose Muse bath rid in rapture On a soft ambling verse, to every capture, From the strong guard to the weak child that reads me, And wonder both of him that loves or dreads me ; Who with the lash of my immortal pen Have scourged all sorts of vices, and of men. Am I rewarded thus? have I, I say, From Envy's self tom praise and bays away, With which my glorious front, and word at large, Triumphs in print at my admirers' charge? Ears. Rare I how he talks in verse, just as he writes J Cllf'O. When have I walked the str(lets, but happy be That had the finger first to point at me, Prentice, or journeyman I The shop doth know it, The unlettered clerk, major and mil)or poet J The sempster bath sat still as I passed by, And dropt her needle l fishwives stayed their cry I The boy with buttons, and the basket-wench, To vent their wares into my works do trench I A pudding-wife that would despise the times, Hath uttered frequent penn'ortha, through my rhymes, And, with them, dived into the chambermaid, And she unto her lady bath conveyed The seasoned morsels, who bath sent me pensions, To cherish, and to heighten my inventions. Well, Fame shall know it yet, I have my faction,

BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS.

And friends about me, though it please detraction, To do me this affront. Come forth that love J!l~ And now, or never, spite pf Fame, approve ~f'l.
'

Enter the

M~for

the .ANTI~l!~

Fame. How now I what's here I Is hell broke lo~?

Eyes. You'll see That he has favourers, Fame, and great ones too : That unctuous Bounty, is the boss of Billingsga~e. Ears. Who feasts his Muse with claret, wine and oyster:;. Nose. Grows big with satyr. Ears. Goes as long as an elephant. Eya. She labours, and lies in of his inven~0ns. Nose. Has a male poem in her belly now, Big as a colt-Ears. That kicks at Time already. Eyes. And is no sooner foaled, but will neigh sulphur. Fame. The next. Ears. A quondam justice, that of late Hath been discarded out rl the pack of the peaq!, For some lewd levity he holds ,;, 'apite , But constantly loves him. In days of yore, He used to give the charge out of his poems; He carries him about him in his pocket, As Philip's son did Homer, in a cask~t, And cries, 0 llappy man I to the wrong party, Me&;Jling the poet, where he meant the subject. Fame. What are this pair 1 Eyes. The ragged rascals it

Fame. Yes. Eyes. Mere rogues ;-you'd think them rogues, but
friends; One is his printer in disguise; and keeps His press in a hollow tree, where to conceal him, He works by glow-worm light, the moon's too open. The other zealous rag is the Compositor,

ther

are

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311

Who in an angle ~here the ants inhabit, (The emblems of his labours), will sit curled Whole days and nights, and work his eyes out for him. Nose. Stmnge arguments of love I there is a schoolmaster Is turning all his works too into Latin, To pure. satiric Latin; makes his boys To learn him; calls him the Times' Juvenal; Hangs all his school with his sharp sentences; And o'er the execution place bath painted Time whipt, for terror to the infantry. Eyes. This man of war i' the rear, he is both trumpet And champion to his Muse. Ean. For the whole city. Nose. Has him by rote, recites him at the tables, Where he doth govern; swears him into name, Upon his word, and sword, for the sole youth Dares make profession of poetic truth, Now militant amongst us: to th' incredulous, That dagger is an article he uses, To rivet his respect into their pates, And make them faithful. Fame, you'll find you have wronged him. Fame. What a confederacy of Folly's here? .._
Tlley all daiiU ~~ FAKJ., ant! malu tile first ANTIMASQ'l!J~., in 'IIJitic!J tMy at/we anti~ .(oriA CHRONOMASTIX.

.4jtw 'lli"ic,, tile

CURIOUS

come up a%ai4 lo f AXE.

Eyes. Now, Fame~ how like you this? Ean. This falls upon you
For your
negl~t.

Nose. He scorns you, and defies you,

He has got a Fame on's own, as well as a faction. Eyn. And these will deify llim, to despite you. Fame. I envy not the 'A<ro8a,.ttiC. 'Twill prove but deifying of pompion. Nase. Well, what is that the Time will now exhibit? Eyes. What gambols, what devices, what new sports?

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BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS.

&n. You promised us, we should have anything. Nose. That Time would give us all we could imagine. .Fawu. You might imagine so, I never promised it Eyes. Pox I then 'tis nothing. I had now a fancy We might have talked o' the king. Ears. Or state. Nose. Or all the world. Eyes. Censured the council ere they censure us. &rs. We do it in Paul's. Nose. Yes, and in all the taverns. Fame. A comely license I They that censure those They ought to reverence, meet they that old cUrse, To beg their bread, and feel eternal winter I There's difference 'twixt liberty and license. No#. Why if it be not that, let it be this then, (For since you grant us freedom, we will hold it)
Let's have the giddy world turned the heels upward, And sing a rare black Sanctus, on his head, Of all things out of order. Eyes. No, the man In the moon dance a coranto, his bush At's back a-fire; and his dog piping .I.mllrynuz. Ean. Or let's have all the people in anuproar, None knowing why, or to what end; and in The midst of all, start up an old mad woman Preaching of patience. Nose. No, no, I'd have this. Eyes. What? Fame. Anything. Nose. That could be monstrousEnough, I mean. A Babel of wild humours. Ean. And all disputing of all things they know not. EJes. And talking of all men they never heard of. Ean. And altogether by the ears o' the sudden. Eyes. And when the matter is at hottest, then All fall asleep.

TIMB YINDICATBD.

Fame. Agree among yourselves, And what it is yo~'d have, I'll answer you. Eyes. 0, that we shall never do. Ean No, never asree Nose. Not upon what? Something that is unlawful Eus. Ay, or unreasonable. Eyes. Or impossible. Nose. Let it be uncivil enough, you hit us right. Ean. And a great noise. Eyes. To little or no purpose. Nose. And if there be some mischief, 'twill become it. Eyes. But see there be no cause, as you will answer it. Fame. These are mere monsters. Nou. Ay, all the better. Fame. You do abuse the Time. These are fit freedoms For lawless prentices on a Shrove--Tuesday, When they compel the Time to serve their riot ; For drunken wakes, and strutting bear-baitings, That savour only of their own abuses. Eyes. Why, if not those, then something to make sport. Ean. We only hunt for novelty, not truth. Fame. I'll fit you; though the Time fain~y permit it.
Till stCMUI ANTIXASQUE of TUMBLERS and JUGGLERS, llrouglU in /Jy tlu CAT AND FIDDLE, triM md4 sjJorl fllitll 1/u CuRIOUS, and drive tMm artla)' FaiN. Why now they are kindly used like such spectato111 That know not what they would have. Commonly The Curious are ill-natured, and, like flies, Seek Time's corrupted parts to blow upon : But may the sound ones live with fame and honour, Free from the molestation of these insects, Who being fied, Fame now pursues her enand.

.i..mltiiiiiUI&.
To flllli&A tAt fi!Mit Smu ofJms; tvlure SATtTRN silting fllille VENUS is tlisJfferttl alxnle, and m1al"n VOTARIES amring for/A Hlt1t111 tvleic/J an tAt CHORUS.

BBN JONSON'S JIASQUBS.

Fa,e. For you, great king, to whom the Time doth owe All his respects and reverence, behold How Saturn, urg&l at request of Love, Prepares the object to the place to-night. Within yond' darkness, Venus bath found out That Hecat~ as she is queen of shades, Keeps certain glories of the time obscured, There for herself alone to gue upon, As she did once the fair Endymion. These Time bath promised at Love's suit to free, As being fitter to adorn the Age By you restored on earth, most like his own, And fill this world of beauty here, your Court. To which his bounty, see, how men prepare To fit their votes below, and thronging come With longing passion to enjoy the effect I Hark I it is Love begins to Time. Expect. [ M.uie.
Ven. Beside that it is done for Love, It it a work, great Time, will prove Thy honour, as men's hopes above. Sal. If Love be pleu61, 10 am I, For Time could never yet deny What Love did ask, if Love knew why. Vot She knew, and bath ~pres~ it now ) And 10 doth every public vow That heard her why, and waits thy how. S~. You shall not long expect; with ease The things come forth, are born to please : Look, have you seen such lights as these?

Tlu MAsQUER.S an dis<''lmtl, (11111 tAaJ tv.t#A

fltlllislutA.
I

o6s~ ~

Clw.

Vol. These, these rnqst sure some won4~ be I 0 what a glory 'tis to see Men's wishes,'Time, and Love agree.
What grief or envy had it been, That these, and such had not been sceu,

(A ;tune.

~ATt11lM, tmdVENUS pau tltva)'!

aM tM 1tf.\sQ~ ~~

CAo..

TIME VINDICATED. But still obicured in !lhade I Who are the glories of the Time, or youth and feature too the prime, And for the light were made. r Vot Their very number, how it takes I :& Vol. Wh:1t harmony their p~ence makes I r Vol. How they inflame the place I Now they are nearer seen and viewed, Clu. For whom could love ~ave better sued, Or Time have done the grace ?

Here, IIJ a lout/ MIUI"c, tAey MIII"CCI

After tv.r\i~

,n~o

IAeir jigurt, aNI damt

IAeir ENTRY, prfirst DANCE.

Vm. The night could not these glories miss, Good Time, I hope, is ta'en with this. Sal. If Time were not, I'm sure Love is. Between us it shall be no strife : For now 'tis Love gives Time his life. Vol. Let Time then. so with Love con!!pire, As straight be sent into the Court A little Cupid, armed with fire, Attended by a jocund Sport, To breed delight, and a desix-e or being delighted, in the nobler sort. Sat. The wish is crowned as soon made. Vol. And Cupid conquers ere he doth invade. His victories of lightest trouble prove ; For there is never Labour where is Love.

as

Tllmfo//0'111.1 tlu MAIN PANCE;

WAkA done, CUPID tvitA_ tlu SPORT Cf!""! jOI"'IIartl. Cup. [IIJ tlu Ma.r,.,M]. Take breath a while, young bloodJ, to bring Your forces up, whilst we go sing Fresh charges to the beauties bere. Sport. Or, if they charge you, do not fear, Though they be better aJ'11'led. than you; It is but standing the first view, And then they yield. Cup. Or quit the field. Sport. Nay, tha~ tbeTU npoer da.

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They'll rather fall upon the place, Than auffer such disgrace. You are but men at best, they say, ADd they from those ne'er ran away.

[Paau1.

C11p (to IM Kilg'}. You, sir, that are the lord of Time, ReceiYe it not u any aime 'Gainst Majesty, that Love and Sport To-night have entered in your court. SfJorl. Sir, doubt him more of some surprise Upon yourself; he bath his eyes. You are the noblest object here, And 'tia for you alone I fear : For here are ladies, that would give A brave reward, to make Love live Well an his life, for such a draught; And therefore, look to every abaft : The wag's a deacon in his craft.

[Paau1.

c,p. [to 1/u Lwdr].

My lords, the bonOUl'l of the Crown, Put off your aoamesa, do not frown, Bid Cares depart, and Business hence : A little, for the Time, dispense. SjJorl. Trust nothing that the boy lets ran, My lorda, he bath plots upon you A pensioner unto your wives, To keep you in uxorious gyves, And so your sense to fascinate To make you quit an thought of state His amorous questions to debate. But bear his logic, be will prove There is no business, but to be in love.

an.

[P~UU~.

The worda of Sport, my lorda, and coarse, Your ladies yet, will not think worse Of Love for this : they shall command My bow, my quiver, and my hand. Sjk!rt. What, here to stand And kill the flies 1 Alas, thy service they despise. One beauty here, bath in her eyes More shafts than from thy bow e'er flew,

Cup.

TIJIB YINDICATBD.
Or that poor quiver Jmew. These damn, They need not Love's, they've Nature's flames. Cup. I aee the Beauty that you so report. Sport. Cupid, you must not point in Court, Where live so many of a sort. Of Harmony these learned their speech, The Graces did them fooling teach, And, at the old Idalian brawls, They danced your mother down. She calls. Cup. Arm, arm them all Sport. Young bloods come on, And charge ; let eYery man take one. And try his fate. These are fair wars , And will be carried without scan. Cup. A joining, but of feet, and hands, Is all the Time and Love commands. S~Drl. Or if you do their gloYes ofktrip, Or taste the nectar of the lip ; See, so you temper your desires, For kisses that ye suck not fires.
TM. REvEL$ /DIIoul ~ 'llllti&A mtluJ, tlu CHOR.l1S apjur agailt, aNI DIANA t/umuls to HIPPOUTUS, 1/u 'IIIMII Sm14/Jdng elumgrd into a ~ out o/ 'lllllidl lu amus.

CAo. The courtly strife is done, it should appear, Between the youths and beauties of the year : We hope that now these lights will Jmow their sphere, And striYe hereafter to shine ever here Like brigh~t planets, still to move In the eye of Time and orbs of Love.

Dill. Hippolitus, Hippolitus I

Hip. Diana? Ditz. She. Be ready you, or Cephalus, To wait on me. Hip. We ever be .Ditz. Your goddeSs bath been wronged to night By Love's report unto the Time. Hip. The injury itself will right,

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BBN JONSON'S JIASQUBS.

Which ooly Fame bath made a crime, For Tune is wile, And bath his e&ia !IS pen~ as lWi ejei.; Sill. Who's that deac::enda ? I>iaDa? Yql, Yes. Ym. Belfke her trOop sbe bath begun to iiliai. Sill. Let's meet, and question what her enaiid is. Hij. She will prevent thee, Saturn, Dot to exC:use Henelf unto thee; Iather to complain That thou and Venua both abould ao abase The name of Dian as to entertain A thought that she bad purpoee to defraud The Time of an)' giories that were his : To do Time honour rather, and applaud His worth, bath been her study. Ditz. And it la. I called these youthi forth in their blood and prime, Out of the honour that i bore their parts, To make them fitter 10 to 6eJ'Ve the Tiuie By labour, riding, and those ancient aJtst That first enabled men unto the wars, And fUl'lliahed heaven with so many sta.rl : Hip. As Pmeua, Castor, Pollux. and the rest, Who were of hunters first, of men the beat; Whose shades do yet remain within yond' groves, Themselves there sporting with their ttobler loves. Dill. And 10 may these do, if the Time give leave. .541. Chute DiaD's purpose we do now conceive; And yield thereto. Ym. And 10 doth Love. J'ql, All votes do in one circle move. Turn hunters then; . . Again. Hunting, it b the noblest exercise, Makes men laborious, aciivC, Wiie, BriDp health, and cloth the apirita deligtit,

Grllllll CAo.

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It helps the hearing and the sight: It teacheth arts that never slip The memory, good horsemanship, Search, sharpness, courage, and defence, And chaseth all ill habits thence. Tum hunters then,

Again,
But not of men. F oilow his ample Arid just example, That hates all chase of malice and of blood : And itudies only ways of gOOd, To keep soft peace in breath. Man should not hunt mankind to death, :But strike the enemies of man ; Kill Vices if you can : They are your wildest beasts, And when they thickest fiill, you make the gods true feasts.
THUS IT ENDED.

NEPTUNE'S TRIUMPH
J'OR TH&

RETURN OF ALBION,
CtlllwaJtd ;, a Mtuf/IU aJ tltt Cou,t ()11 llu Ttzlt/ftA Nig/11, 1624OMMIS &T AD U:DUCKK ]AK LITAT AJlA Dl:tTK.-MART.

Hu Majtsly !Jting 111, and llu loud mu.sit: uasi'ng. AIIIA4J u discD'lltrtd of a suru, Mt ht/() trtcltd pilltvs, dtdi&altd 1o Nep1r1111, 'lllilll 1/Us insmplilm 11fJon IM ()Ill, NEP. RED.

On llu Dllur,

SEC. JOV.

T.V PoET mltn'ng on llu slap, to tiispwst llu argumml, is calltd IIJ 6J' tM MASTER-CooK.
C()()k. Do you hear, you creature of diligence and business ? what is the affair, that you pluck for so, under your cloak? Poet. Nothing, but what I colour for, I assure you; and may encounter with, I hope, if luck favour me, the gamesters' goddess. C()()k. You are a votary of hers, it seems, by your language. What went you upon, may a man ask you? Poet. Certainties, indeed, sir, and very good ones ; the representation of a masque; you'll see't anon. C()()k. Sir, this is my room, and region too, the Banquetinghouse And in matter of feast, the solemnity, nothing is to be presented here, but with my acquaintance and allowance to it Poet. You are not hi~ majesty's confectioner, are you?

NBPTUNPJS TRIUMPH.

CacJk.. No, but one that has a good title to the

cook. What are you, sir?

roob, his Master-

Pod. The most unprofitable of his servants, I, sir, the Poet. A kind of a Christmas ingine: one that is used at least once a year, for a trifling instrument of wit, or so. Cook. Were you ever a cook ? Pod. A cook I no, surely. CacJk.. Then you can be no good poet : for a good poet diJfers
. nothing at all from a master-cook. Either's art is the wisdom of the mind. Poet. As how, sir? Cook. Ezpect. I am by my place to know how to please the palates of the guests ; so you are to know the palates of the times ; study the several tastes, what every nation, the Spaniard, the Dutch, the French, the Walloon, the Neapolitan, the Briton, the Sicilian, can expect from you. Poet. That were a heavy and hard task, to satisfy Ezpectation, who is so severe an euctress of duties ; ever a tyrannous mistress, and most times a pressing enemy. CacJk.. She is a powerful great lady, sir, at all times, and must be satisfied : so must her sister, madam Curiosity, who bath as dainty a palate as she ; and these will expect. Poet. But what il they ezpect more than they understand ? Cook. That~s all one, master Poet, you bound to satisfy them. For there is a palate of the understanding, as well as of the senses. The taste is taken with good relishes, the sisht with fair objects, the hearing with delicate sounds, the smelling with pure scents, the feeling with soft and plump bodies, but the understanding with all these ; for all which you must begin at the kitchen. There the art of poetry was learned, and found out, or nowhere; and the same day with the art of Cookery. Poet. I should have given it rather to the cellar, il my su1l'rage had been asked. CacJk.. 0 you are for the oracle of the bottle, I see ; hogshead Trismegistus ; he is your Pegasus. Thence flows the tpring of your MUleS, Crom that boo

are

J22
Seduc~

BBN JONSON'S MASQUBS.

Poet, I do say to thee-A boiler, range, and dresser were the fountains Of all the knowledge in the universe, And that's the kitchen. What I a master-cook I Thou dost not know the man, nor canst thou know him, Till thou hast served some years in that deep school That's both the nurse and mother of the arts, And heard'st him read, interpret, and demonstrate. A master-cook I why, he's the man of men, For a professor I he designs, he draws, He paints, he carves, he builds, he fortifies, Makes citadels of curious fowl and fish, Some he dry-ditches, some moats round with broths, Mounts marrow-bones ; cuts fifty-angled custards ; Rears bulwark pies ; and, for his outer works, He raiseth ramparts of immortal crust, And teacheth all the tactics at one dinner. What ranks, what files, to put the dishes in, The whole art military I then he knows The influence of the stars upon his meats ; And all their seasons, tempers, qualities, And so to fit his relishes and sauces I He has Nature in a pot, 'hove all the chemists, Or bare-breeched brethren of the Rosy-cross I He is an architect, an inginer, A soldier, a physician, a philosopher, A general mathematician I Poet. It is granted. Cook. And that you may not doubt him for a PoetPoet. This fury shows, if there were nothing else ; And 'tis divine I Cook. Then, brother Poet. Poet. Brother. C()()ll.. I have a suit. Pm. What is it? Cook. Your device.

NBPTUNI!/S TRIUMPH.
PQe/, As you came in upon me, I was then Offering the argument, and this it is.

323

C()()/e. Silence I
Poet [rtads} The mighty Neptune, mighty in his styles, And large command of waters, and of isles ; Not as the "lord and sovereign of the seas," But "chief iri the art of riding,, late did please, To send his Albion forth, the most his own, Upon discovery, to themselves best. known, Through Celtiberia;. and, to assist his course, Gave him his powerful Manager of Horse, With divine Proteus, father of disguise, To wait upon them with his tounsels wi~, In all ext,remes. His great commands being done, And ho desirous to review his son, He doth dispatch a fl9ating isle, from hence Unto the Hesperian shores, to waft him thence. Where, what the arts were, used to make him stay, And how the Syrens wooed him by the way, What monsters he encountered on the coast, How near our general joy was to be lost, Is not our subject now; though all these make The present gladness greater, for their sake. But what the triumphs are, the feast, the sport, And proud solemnities of Neptune's Court, Now he is safe, and Fame's not heard in vain But we behold our happy pledge again ; That with him, loyal Hippius is returned, Who for it ll!lder so much envy burned With his own brightness, till her starved snakes saw What Neptline did impose to him was law.
C()()k. But why ilot this, till now?

Poet. - - I t was not time, To mix this music with the vulgus chime. Stay, till the abortive, and extemporal din Of balladry were understood a sin, Minerva cried ; that, "What tumultuous verse Or prose could make or steal, they might tehearse, And every songster had sung out his fit ; That all the country and the city wit Of bells and bonfires and good cheer was spent,

BBN JONSON'S IIASQUBS.

ADd Neptune's guard had drunk all that they meant; That all the tales and stories now were old Of the sea-monster Arcby1 or grown cold : The MUleS then might venture, undeterred; For they Ion then to sing, when they are heard.

01ok. I like it well, 'tis handsome ; and I have Something would fit this. How do you present them ? In a fine island, say you ? Pod. Yes, a Deloe: Such, u when fair Latona fell in travai~ Great Neptune made emergent. CHll. I conceive you. I would have had your isle brought floating in, now, In a brave broth, and of a sprightly green, Just to the colour of the sea ; and then, Some twenty Syrens, singing in the kettle, With an Arion mounted on the back Of a grown conger, but in such a posture, Id all the world should take him for !L dolphin : 0 'twould have made such music I Have you nothing But a bare island ? Poet. Yes, we have a tree too, Which we do call the tree of Harmony, And is the same with what we read the sun Brought forth in the Indian Musicana first, And thus it grows : the goodly bole being got To certain cubits height, from every side The boughs decline, which taking root afresh, Spring up new boles, and these spring new, and,,newer, Till the whole tree become a porticus, Or archM arbour, able to receive A numerous troop, such as our Albion And the companions of his journey are : And this they sit in. CODle. Your prime Maaquers ? PHI. Yes.

NBPTUNB'S TRIUMPH.

CMi. But where's your Antimasque now, all this while-? I hearken after them. Pod. Faith, we have none. ~k. None! .Pod. None, I assure you, neither do I think them A worthy part of presentation, Being things so heterogene to all device, Mere by-works, and at best outlandish nothings. C()()k. 0 you are all the heaven awry, air I For bloOd of poetry running in your veins, Make not yourself so ignorantly simple I Because, sir, you shall see I am a poet, No less than cook, and that I find you want A special serVice pere, an antimasque, I'll fit you with a dish out of the kitchen, Such, as I think, will take the present palates, A metaphorical dish I and do but mark How a good wit may jump with you. Are you ready, child? (Had there been masque or no masque I bad made it.) Child of the bQiiing-house I Etller Bov. Boy. Here, father. C()()k. Bring forth the pot. lt is an olla podrida. But I have persons to present the meats. Poet. Persons I C()().i. Such as do relish nothing but tl" slalo, But in another fashion t~ you dream of; Know all things the wrong way, talk of the affairs, The clouds, the cortines, and the mysteries That are afoot, and from what hands they have them, The DWiter of the elephant, or the camels ; What correspondencies are held ; the posts Tl;lat go, and come, and know almost their minutes, All but their business, therein, they are fishes, But have their garlic, as the proverb says. They are our Quest of Enquiry after neW&

BBN JONSON'S MASQUES.

P~t.

Together with their learned authon?

Boy. Yes, sir.

And of the epicc:ene gender, hees, ~d shees : Amphibian Archy is the chief:

Coo.l. Good ~y I
The child is learn&! too : note but the kitchen I Hi.ve you put him into the pot for garlic? Boy. One in his coat shall sdnlt as strong as be, sir, And his friend Giblets with him. Cook. They are two That give a part of the ~ning. Pt. I conceive The way of your gallimaufry. Coo.l. You will like it, When they come pouring out of the pot together. BDJ. 0 if the pot hac:l been big enough I CHi. What then, child? Boy. I bad put in the elephant and one camel At least, for bee CHil. But whom have you for partridge 1 Boy. A brace of dwarfs, and delicate plump birds. CDoll. And whom for mutton, and kid? Boy. A fine laced mutton Or two ; and either has her frisking husband That reads her the Corranto, every week. Grave master Ambler, news-master of Paul's, Supplies your capon ; and grown captain Buz, His emissary, under-writes for turkey ; A gentleman of the Forest presents pheasant, And a plump poulterer's wife, in Grace's Street, Plays ben with eggs in the belly, or a coney, Choose which you will Cooll. But where's the bacon, Tom ? Boy. Hogrel the butcher, and the sow his wife, he both there. Cooll. It is well ; go dish them out.

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Are they well boiled ?

BoJ. Podrida I Poet. What's that, rotten ? Cook. 0 that they must be. There's one main ingredient
We have forgot, the artichoke. Boy. No, sir; I have a fruiterer, with a cold red nose Like a blue fig, performs it. C(J(Jil. The fruit looks so. Good child, go pour them out, show their concOction. They must ~ rotten roiled ; the broth's the best on't, And that's the dance : the stage here is the charger. And brother poet, though the serious part Be yours, yet envy not the cook his art.

Pod. Not I: um luau "!se Triumpllus amat.

Heri 1/u ANTI MASQUE is tiallatl 6y 1/u person.r 'tlumlml, ctttltl"K (Jfl/ of 1/u pot. Pod. Well, now, expect the scene itse}(: jt opens I Tire island of DELOS is tlisctJVerld, llu MASQU:&RS .n'lh'nr in tluJ,. srvera/ .n"tgu. Tlu luavnu opm;,g; and APoLLO, 'lllilll M&R.CURY, .ltmU ofl/u Mruu, anti 1/u got/tll.1.1 HARMONY, maM 1/u mruic: 1/u 'lll!lilt 1/u is/anti 1111J't1Uftll"(ll(JJ'd, PROTEUS sitlinr /Jw/0'111, anti APoLLO .nngs.
SONG.

Apol. Look forth, the shepherd of the seas, And of the ports that keep'st the keys, And to your Neptune tell, His Albion, prince of all his isles, For whom the sea and land so smiles, Is home retu~~ well GmtUI Clw, And be it thought no common cause That to it so much wonder draws, And all the heavens consent With Harmony to tune their not~ In answer to the public votes That for it up were sent. It was no envious step-dame's rage, Or tyrant's nu:lice of the age,

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That did employ him forth: But such a wisdom that would prove By sending him their hearts and love That else might fear his worth. By tlris II'11U 1114 isltmd llatll J"tn'llld #self tuitll tll1 sluJr1; Mill PROTEUS, PORTUNUS, euu{ SARON amu fort!J, euul go up singing to 1/u State, 'llllrile 1/u MASQUERS taM II'11U to ltmd.
SONG,

Pro. Ay, now the pomp of Neptune's triumph shines I And all the glories of his great designs Are read, reflected, in his son's .return I Por. How all the eyes, the looks, the hearts here burn At his arrival! Sar. These are the true fires Are made of joys l Pro, Of longing I Por. Of desires I Sar. Of hopes I Pro. Of fears I Por. No intermitted blocks, Sar. But pure affections, and from odorous stocks I Clto, 'Tis incense all that flames, And these materiius scarce have names I Pro. My king looks higher, as he scorned the wars Of winds, and with his trident touched the stars ; There is no wrinkle in his brow or frown, But as his cares he would in nectar drown, And all the silver-footed nymphs were drest To wait upon him, to the Ocean' feast : Por. Or, h~e in rows upon the banks were set, And had their several hairs made into net To catch the youths in as they come on 1hore. Sar, How, Galatea sighing I 0 no more, Banish your fears. Por. And, Doris, dry your tears. ALBION is come. Pro. And Haliclyon too. That kept his side, as he was charged to do, With wonder. Sar. --And the Syrens have him not. Por. Though they no practice, nor no arts forgot Pro, That might have won him, or by charm, or scmg.

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Por. Or layiDg forth their tresses all along

Upon the glassy waves;

Por. Then diving; Pro. Sar.

C!lo. Pro. C!lo.

Then, Up with their heads, u they were mad of men. And there the highest-going billows crown, Until some lusty sea-god pulled them down. See, he is here I Great master of the main, Receive thy dear, and precious pawn again, Saron, Portunus, Proteus bring him thus, Safe, u thy subj~' wishes gave him us : And of thy glorious triump~ let it be No leas a part, that thou their loves dost see, Than that hia sacred head's returned to thee.

.froM tAme, flllll tM MASQUERS prepar1 for tluir jigrm. C!lo. Spring all the Graces of the age, And all the Loves of time : Bring all the pleasures of the stage,
And relishes of rhyme : Add all the softnesses of courts, The looks, the laughters, and the sports : And mingle all their sweets and salts, That none may say, the Triumph halts.

11lis nmg-, tM is/anti gou !lad, '111/u'lst tM Upper Clwnu lah1 it

Here tM MASQUERS danu tlul'r Entry. W.Uc,\ tltme, tlu jirll prospediTJI of a Mariti1114 Palaa, or tlr1 lunu4.of OCEANUs, is au&Qflerid, flliU. llnuJ 111ruic. Anti tlu ot!Jer aHT/1 is no IIUJn ~~ Pod. Behold the palace of Oceanus I
~r~dnructmel~nomoretous

Thy being able all the gods to feast ; We've seen enough; our Albion was thy guest Tlrm fo/10'1111 tM Ma~'n Dana.

A.fUr 'llllriell, tM 101111prospect of tM S~a is 1llovm, to tlu ftw'tlln'

.
t~~~~-n'&.

Pod. Now turn and 'Yiew the wonders of the deep, Where Proteus' herds, and Neptune's ores do keep,

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JONSON'S MASQUES.

Where all is ploughed, yet still the pasture's green, The ways are found, and yet no paths are seen. Tlurt
PROTEUS, POR.TUNUS, SARON, gD SONG.

tnu

up to th

LADIES 'llliln

Pro. Come, noble nymphs, and do not hide The joys for which you so provide. Sar, If not to mingle with the men, What do you here? go home again P01', Your dressings do confess, By what we see so curious parts Of Pallas' and Arachne's arts, That you could mean no less. Pro. Why do you wear the silk-worm's toils, Or glory in the shell-fish' spoils, Or strive to show the grains of ore That you have gathered on tbe'shore, Whereof to make a stock To graft the greener emerald on, Or any better-watered stone ? . Sar. Or ruby of the rock? Pro. Why do you smell of amber-grise, Of which was formM Neptune's niece, The queen of Love ; unless you can, Like sea-born Venus, love a man ? Sar. Try, put yourselves unto't, Cllo. Your looks, your smiles, and thoughts that meet, Ambrosian hands and silver feet, Do promise you will do't. Tlu REVELS foi/()'UI, WAic.\ mtltd, tlu Flttf is dist'b'IJertd, 111ll#t tilt t.\rtt conuts play. Potf. 'Tis time your eyes should be refreshed at length With something new, a part of Neptune's strength,

See yond' his fleet, ready to go or come, Or fetch the riches of the ocean home, So to secure him, both in peace and wars, Till not one ship alone, but all, be stars.

[.A slu1111 tt'it/U,,

Rt-mkr tlu COox.,jollb'UJttl /ly a nlllfWtr ()j SAILORS.

Cook. rve another service !or you, brother Poet ; a dish of

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pickled sailors, fine salt sea-boys, sball relish like anchovies, or caviare, to draw down a cup of nectar in the skirts of a night. Sail. Come away, boys, the town is ours i hey for Neptune, and our young master I Pod. He knows the compass, and the card, While Castor sits on the ~yard, And Pollux too, to help your bales J And bright Leucothoe fills your sails : Arion sings, the dolphins swim, And all the way, to ~ on him.

Tlu ANTIMASQUE of SAILORS. Tltm t!u last S011g to tlu flllwle Music,ftvt lutes, tllnt &111'1UI.r, anti lm f!oiCU.
SONG,

Pro, Although we wish the triumph still might last For such a Prince, and his discovery past i Yet uow, great lord of waters and of isles, Give Proteus leave to turn unto his wiles. Por. And, whilst young Albion doth thy labours ease, Dispatch 'Portunus to thy ports. Sar. And Saron to thy seas : To meet old N ereus, with his fifty girls, From ag~d Indus laden home with pearls And Orient gums, to bum unto thy name.
Grand C!IIJ. And may thy subjects' hearts be all on flame, Whilst thou dost keep the earth in firm estate, And 'mongst th~; winds, dost suffer no debate, But both at sea and land our powers increase, With health and all the golden gifts of peace.

T1u last Dfllla.

WITH WHJCH THE WHOLE ENDJW,

PAN'S AN:NIVERSARY,
SHEPHERD'S HOLIDAY,
A1

u trf4l Pt"'##IIIIJ 111 Cflllrl "'.f~~n x;,r 'jfiiiiU,

1625.

'I"M SCENE.-AaCADIA. 'I"M Ctlflrl 6dr~g IIIJiul, 11116 tAru NYMPHS, linttlillr II'IIWDl IIJrl.t DJ'jlqftltn,foi/MIIUJ 6)' an old SUPHDD, flliiJJ a muw """jJ#ffoiiUI.
1

.N)'m. Thus, thua begin the yearly rites Are due to Pan on th~ht ~; His mom now riseth, and invites To aporta, to dances, and delights: All envioua and profane, away, This ia the ~~heflfs J~91iday. 2 Nym. Strew, strew the glad and smiling ground With every flower, yet not confound The primrose drop, the spring's own spouse, Bright day's eyes, and the lips of cows, The garden star, the queen of May, The rose, to crown the ~oliday. 3 Nym. Drop, drop your violets, change your hues, Now led, now pale, as lovers use, And in your death go out as well, AJ when you lived unto the smell : That from your odour all may say, This is the shepherd' holiday.

Slup. Well done, my pretty ones, rain I'Oiel still, Until the last be dropt : then hence; and fill

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Your fragrant prickles for a second shower. Bring c:om-ftag, tulips, and Adonis flower, Fair ox~e, goldy-locks, and columbine, Pinks, goulands, king-cups, and sweet sops-in-wine, mue harebells, pagles, pansies, calaminth, Flower-gentle, and the fair-haired hyacinth ; Bring rich carnations, ftower-d~luces, UUes, The chequed and purpl~ring61 dafi'odillies, Bright crown-imperial, kingspear, hollyhocks, Sweet Venus-navel, and soft lady-smocks; Bring too some branches forth of Daphne's hair, And gladdest myrtle for these posts to wear, With spikenard weaved, and marjoram between, And starred with yellow-gold&, and meadows-queen, That when the altar, as it ought, is drest, More odour come not from the phamix nest; The breath thereof Panchaia may envf, The coloun China, and the light the sky. L4lltl wnui&.

333

TM

,Sm~~ opnu, tlllll tM ASQUDB an dis<f!wul dlti"l' a!Jollt tM FIJIIII4if! P.f..!Jgllt, fiJI'IA tM MUSICIANS, alli'ntlliM tM Priuts of Pall, slllluli"g ;,. tM fliOf'll IJm4atA IMM.

Elllw a FENCER,jltNrisltiftg.

Fm. Room for an old trophy of time; a son of the sword, a servant of Mars, . the minion of the Muses, and a masttr of fence I one that bath shown his quarters, and played his prizes at all the games of Greece in his time; as fenclng, wrestling, leaping; dancing, what not? and bath now ushered hither, by the light of my long sWord, certain bQld boys of Balotia, who are come to challenge the ~ e.t their 01m sports, call them forth on their own holiday, and dance them down on their own greenswarth. Sllep. '1"18 boldly attempted, and must be a B<2otian enterprise, by the face of it, from all the parts of Greece else, especiall:y at thia time, when the best and bravest spirits of An:adia, called together by the excellent Areas, are yonder sitting about the

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Fountain of Light, in consultation of what honours they may do to the great Pan, by increaSe of ap.p.iY~ rites, fitted to the music of his peace. Fen. Peace to thy Pan, and mum to thy music, swain; there is a tinker of Thebis a coming, called Epan1, with his kettle, will make all Arcadia ring of him. What are your sports for the purpose? say, if singing, you shall be sung down; if dancing, danced down. '!'here is no more to be done with you, but know what; which it is i and you are in smoke, gone, vapoured, vanished, blown, and, as a man would say, in a word of two syllables, nothing. . Sllep. This is short, though not so sweet. Surely the better part of the solemnity here will be _9!m.gng. Fm. Enough "they shall be met with instantly in their own sphere, the~h._~of their own a.Ctivity, a dance. But by whom,. expect : no Cyruetheian, nor Satyrs ; but, as I said, boys of Bceotia, things of Thebes (the town is ours, shepherd), mad merry Greeks, lads of life, that have no gall in us, but all air and sweetness. A tooth-drawer is our foreman, that if there be but a bitter tooth in the company, it may be called out at a twitch : he doth CC?mmand any Dlan's teeth out of his head upon t?e point of his poniard ; or tickles them forth with his riding rod : he draws teeth a horseback in full speed, yet he will dance a foot, he bath given his word : he is yeoman of the mouth to the whole brotherhood, and is charged to see their gums be clean, and their breath sweet, at a minute's warning. Then comes my learned Theban the tinker, I told you of, with his kettledrum, before and after, a master of music, and a man of metal, he beats the march to the tune of Ticklefoot, Pam, Pam, Pam, brave :Epam With a N ondaa. That's the strain. smp. A high one I Fm. Which is followed by the trace and tract of an excellent juggler, that can ju~e With every joint about him, from head to heel. He can do tricks with his toes, wind silk, and threa4 pearl with them, as nimble a fine fellow oC his feet as his hands ; for there. ia a nobl~ eo~tter, his companion, hith 8o pared. and

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335

finified them--Indeed, he hath taken it into his care to reform the feet of all, and fit all their footing to a form I only one splay foot in the cOmpany, and he is a bellows-mender, allowed, who hath the looking to all of their lungs by patent, and by his place is to set that leg afore still; and with his puffs, keeps them in breath, during pleasure : a tinder-box-man, to strike new fire into them at every turn, and where he spies any brave spark that is in danger to go out, ply him with a match presently. Slup. A most politic provision I Fm. Nay, we have made our provisions beyond example, I hope For to these, there is annexed a clock-keeper, a grave person, as Time himself; who is to ,!CC that they all keep time to a nick, and move every elbow in order, every knee in com~s. He is to wind them up, and draw them down, as he sees cause. Then is there a subtle shrewd bearded sir, that hath been a politician, but is now a maker of mouse-traps, a great inginer yet ; and he is to catch the ladies' favours in the dance, with certain cringes he is to make; and to bate their benevolence. Nor can we doubt of the success, for we have a prophet amongst us of that peremptory pate, a tailor or master-fashioner, that hath found it out in a painted cloth, or some old hanging (for those are his library), that we must eonquer in such a time, and such a half time ; therefore bids us go oil cross-legged, or however thread the needles of our own happiness, go through stitch with all, unwind the clew of our cates ; he hath taken measure of our minds, and will fit our fortune to our footing. And to better assure us, at his own charge, brings his philosopher with him, a great clerk, who, they say, can write, and it is shrewdly suspected but he can read too. And he is to take the whole dances from the foot by brachygraphy, and so make a memorial, if not a map of the bilsiness. Come forth, lads, and do your own turns. T.t. B<EoriANs mter for tit. ANTIMA$2~ 'flllfid is tianati.
Ajlef' 'flllli&A, Fm. How like you this, shepherd? was not this gear gotten on a holiday ?

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Sllep. Faith,. your folly may deserve pardon, because it bath delighted : but beware of presuming, or how you offer comparison with persons so near deities. Behold where they are that have now forgiven you, whom should you provoke again with the like, they will justly punish that with anger, which they now dismiss with contempt. Away I (They nlin.
To tlu MASQUEllS. And come, you prime Arcadians, forth, that taught By Pan the rites of true society, From his loud music all your manners wrought, And made your commonwealth a ~~~y, Commending so to all posterity Your innocence from that fair fount of light, As still you sit without the injury Of any rudeness Folly ~. or Spite : Dance from the top of the Lyczan mountain Down to this valley, and with nearer eye Enjoy what long in that illumined fountain You did far off, but yet with wonder, spy.
HYMN I. Nym. Of Pan we sing, the best of singers, Pan, That taught us swains how first to tune our lays, And on the pipe more airs than Phrebus can. Cllo. Hear, 0 you groves, and hills resound his praise. :z Nym. Of Pan we sing, the best of leaders, Pan, That leads the Naiads and the Dryads forth ; And to their dances more than Hermes can. Cllo. Hear, 0 you groves, and hills resound his worth. 3 Nym. Of Pan we sing, the beat of hunters, Pan, That drives the hart to seek unua61 ways j And in the chase more than Sylvanua can. Clto. Hear, 0 you groves, and hills resound his praise. :z Nym. Of Pan we sing, the beat of shepherds, Pan, That keeps our fiocka and us, and both leads forth, To better pastures than great Pales can. Cllo. Hear, 0 you groves, and hills resound his worth. And while his powers and praises thus we sing, The valleys let rebound, and all the rivers ring.
I

PAN'S ANNIYBRSARY.
17u MASQUEllS tluemtl, and tiallu tlulr.~.

337

HYMN 11.

~ .JJ our .All, by him we breathe, we live, We move, we are; 'tis he our lambs doth rear,
Our flocks doth bless, and from the store doth give The warm and finer fleeces that we wear. He keeps away all heats and colds, Drives all diseases from our folds ; Makes everywhere the spring to dwell, The ewes to feed, their udders swell ; But if he frown, the sheep, alas I The shepherds, wither, and the grass. CltQ. Strive, strive to please him then, by still increasing thus ; The rites are due to him, who doth all right for us.
THE MAIN DANCE.

Ecll.
Ed1. Ed1.

Ecll.

HYMN Ill. If yet, if yet, Pan's orgies you will further fit, See where the silver-footed fays do sit, The nymphs of wood and water; Each tree's and fountain's daughter I Go take them forth, it will be good To see them wave it like a wood, And othen wind it like a ft.ood , I~ springs, And rings, Till the applause it brings, Wakes Echo from her seat, The closes to repeat. The closes to repeat. Echo the truest oracle on ground, Though nothing but a sound. Though nothing but a sound. Beloved of Pan the valleys' queen. The valleys' queen. And often heard, though never seen. Though never seen.
Hen tM Rlfleh.

Aftw fllltim n-mkr tM FBNt:aR. Fen. Room, room, there; where are you, shepherd? I am
y

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come again, with my second part of my bold bloods, the brave gamesters; who assure you by me, that they perceive no such wonder in all is done here, but that they dare adventure another trial They look for some sheepish devices here in Arcadia, not these, and therefore a hall I a hall I they demand. Slup. Nay, then they are past pity, let them come, and not expect the anger of a deity to pursue them, but meet them. They have their punishment with their fact : they shall be sheep. Fen. 0 spare me, by the law of nations, I am but their ambassador. Slrej. You speak in time, sir.
Tlu THEBANS m/er for llu seeOtfll ANTIMASQUE, fii{IMa tlanatl,

Slup. Now let them return with their solid heads, and carry their stupidity into B<Eotia, .whence they brought it, with an emblem of themselves, and their country. This is too pure an [ne;, nhre. air for so gross brains.
To tlu NYMPHS.

End you the rites, and so be eased Of these, and then great Pan is pleased.
HYMN IV. Great Pan, the father of our peace and pleasure, Who giv'st us all this leisure, Hear what thy hallowed troop of herdsmen pray, For this their holiday, And how their vows to thee they in Lyczum flY

Clw. So may our ewes receive the mountain rams, And we bring thee the earliest of our lambs ; So may the first of all our fells be thine, And both the beestning of our goats and Jdne ; AS thou our folds dost still secure, And keep'st our fountains sweet and pure ; Driv'st hence the wo~ the tod, the brock, Or other vermin frOm the flock ; That we, preserved by thee, and thou observed by us, Mar both ~ve safe in shade of thy loved Msenalus:

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Slup.

NO!:.~ ~wm unto bia charge, And though to-day you've lived at large, . And well your flocks have fed their fill, Yet do not trust your hirelings stilL See yond' they go, and timely do The office you have put them to ; But if you often give this leave, Your sheep and you they will deceive.
THUS IT ENDJW,

THE MASQUE OF OWLS,

AT KENILWORTH,
Presmled 6y llu GluJSI DJ Caplai11 Cor, mfJtlll/td tm Iris Ho!Jllylwrse, 1626.

Enter Captain COx, tm la"s Ho66y-lwrst.

Roow I room I for my horse will wince, If be come within so many yards of a prince And though be have not on his wings, He will do strange things. He is the Pegasus that uses To wait on Warwick Muses; And on gaudy days he paces Before the Coventry Graces ; For to tell you true, and in rhyme, He was foaled in Queen Elizabeth's time, When the great Earl of Lester In this castle did feast her. Now, I am not so stupid To think, you think me a Cupid Or a Mercury that sit him ; Though these cocks here would fit him : But a spirit very civi~ Neither poet's god nor devil, An old Kenelworth fox, The ghost of Captain Cox, For which I am the bolder, To wear a cock on each shoulder. This Captain Cox, by St Mary,

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Was at Bullen with King Ha-ry; And (if some do not vary) Had a goodly library, By which he was discerned To be one of the learned, To entertain the queen here, When last she was seen here. And for the town of Coventry To act to her sovereignty. But so his lot fell out, That serving then a-foot, And being a little man ; When the skirmish began 'Twixt the Saxon and the Dane, (From thence the story was ta'en) He was not so well seen As he would have been o' the queen. Though his sword were twice so long As any man's else in the throng ; And for his sake, the play Was called for the second day. But he made a vow (And he performs it now) That he alive or dead, Hereafter it should never be said But Captain Cox would serve on horse For better or for worse. If any prince came hither, And his horse should have a feather; Nay such a prince it n;light be Perhaps he should have three. Now, sir, in your approach, The rumbling of your coach Awaking me, his ghost, I come to play your host; And feast your eyes and ears,

were

BBN JONSON'S MA.SQUBS:

Neither with dogs nor bears, Though that have been a fit Of our main-shire wit In times heretofore, But now, we have got a little morC: These then that we present With a most loyal intent, And, as the author saith, No ill meaning to the catholic faith, Are not so much beasts as fowls, But a very nest of owls, And natunu, so thrive I, I found them in the ivy, A thing that though I blundered at It may in time be wondered at, If the place but affords Any store of lucky birds, As I make them to fiush, Each owl out of his bush. Now, these owls, some say, were men, And they may be so again, If once they endere the light Of your highness' sight : For bankiupts we have known Rise to more than their own, With a little-little savour Of the prince's favour; But as you like their tricks, I'll spring them, they are but six.
HKY, OWL FIRST I

This bird is London-bred, As you may see by his homed head, And had like to have been ta'en At his shop in Iv;y Lane, Where be sold by the penny

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Tobacco as good as any; But whether it did provoke His conscience he sold smoke; Or some other toy he took, Towards his calling to look : He ded by moonshine thence; And broke for sixteen pence.

HEY, OwL SECOND I

This too, the more is the pity, Is of the breed of the same city ; A true owl of LondoDt That gives out he is undone, lreing a cheesemonger, By trusting two of the younger Captainlj for the hunger Of their halfstarved number, Whom since they have shipt away, And left him God to pay, With those ears for a badge Of their dealing with his Madge.

HEY, OWL

THlllD

A pure native bird This, and though his hue

Be not Coventry blue, Yet is he undone By the thread he has spun; For since the wise town Has let the sports down Of may-games ~d morris, For which he right sorry is ; Where their maids and their makes, At dancings and wakes, Had their napkins and posies, And the wipers for their noses,

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And their smt>cks all-be-wrought With his thread which they bought, It now lies on his hands, And having neither wit nor lands, Is ready to hang or choke him In a skein of that that broke him. H&v, OwL FouRTK I
Was once a bankrupt of worth ; And having run a shifting race, At last by money, and grace, Got him a serjeant's place, And to be one of chace. A full fortnight was not spent But out comes the parliament, Takes away the use of his mace, And left him in a worse than his first case.

HEY, OwL FirrH I But here was a defeat,

Never any so great, . Of a Don, a Spanish reader, Who had thought to have been the leader, Had the match gone on, Of our ladies one by one, And triumphed our whole nation In his rodomant fashion : But now since the breach, He has not a scholar to teach.
HBY, OWL SIXTH I

The bird bringer-up is a knight, Bu~ a passionate wight Who, since the act against swearing, (The tale's worth your hearing) In this short time's growth

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Hath at twelve-pence an oath,For that, I take it, is the rate,Swom himself out of his estate.

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THIRD

OwL

VAlUED.

A crop-eared scrivener, this,

~of monies to come down,Fright got him out of town With all the bills and bands

Who when he heard but the wbis-

or other men's in his hands, And cried, who will, drive the trade, Since such a law they had made: It was not he that broke, Two i' the hundred spoke. Nor cared he for the curse, He could not hear much worse, He had his ears in his purse.

THE FORTUNATE ISLES,

AND THEIR UNION,
Celellremd ;,. a M asgue tiln"g111d for tlu Court, o11 . tM Twe/flll Nigllt, 1626.
HlC CBOil&At, CANTUSQ1.11t VlGINT.

Hit Majesty 6a11g set, Etller, I'NIIIIi11g, JOHPHIEI, an airy spirit, and (aeU~rdit~g to 1/u Mag,..) 1/u itlll//igma of jupiters spllere: attired;,. ligllt si/lu ofst'lleral colours, wiiA wi11g.r of 1/u same, a !JrigAI .rei/Ofll !lair, a cAaput offlowers, 6/ue si/le stocld11gs, and pumps, and gknles, witll a silverfan ;,. lu's Aand.

Johp.

Like a lightning from the sky, Or an arrow shot by Love, Or a bird of his let fty, Be't a sparrow, or a dove, With that wing&~ baste, come I, Loos&! from the sphere of Jove, To wish good night To your delight.

Etller MEREFOOI, a melancllo/ic sfudmt, ,,. 6are and'ltltml dolllu sArf~Udul ulllier an o6scure clod, and 1/u la'llts of an old llaJ.

tiJ sigh]. 0 ho I In Saturn's name, the father of my lord, What overcharg&i piece of melancholy Is this, breaks in between my wishes thus, With bombing sighs? Men. No I no intelligence I
.Mere. [fiknit~g a

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Not yet? and all my vows now nine days old I Blindness of tate I puppies had seen by this time ; But I see nothing that I should, or would see I What mean the brethren of the Rosy-cross, So to desert their votary ? Jollp. 0 'tis one Hath vowed himself unto that airy order, And now is gaping for the fly they promised him. I'll mix a little with him for my sport. [Steps asitk. Mm. Have I both in my lodging and my diet. My clothes, and every other solemn charge, Observed them, made the naked boards my bed, A faggot for my pillow, hungred sore I Jollp. And thirsted after them I .Men. To look gaunt and lean I Jollp. Which will not be. Mere. Who's that?-Yes, and outwatched, Yea, and outwal.kc!d any ghost alive In solitary circle, worn my boots, Knees, arms, and elbows out I Joltp. Ran on the score I Mere. That have I-who suggests that ?-and for more Than I will speak of, to abate this flesh, And have not gained the sightJollp. Nay, ~e the sense. Mire. Voice, thou art right-of anything but a cold Wind in my stomach. Jollp. And a kind of whimsie.Mere. Here in my head, that puts me to the staggers Whether there be that brotherhood or no. Joltp. Believe, frail man, they be ; and thou shalt see. .Mere. What shall I see?

Jollp. Me.
.Mer1. Thee I where?

Jollp. [amus forward).

Be master MerefooL

Here, if you

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Mere. Sir, our name is Merryfool, But by contraction MerefooL JoAp. Then are you The wight I seek ; and, sir, my name is Johphiel, Intelligence to the sphere of Jupiter, An airy jocular spirit, employed to you From father Outis ? Nwr. Outis I who is he? JoAp. Know ye not Outis? then you know nobody : The good old hermit, that was said to dwell Here in the forest without trees, that built The castle in the air, where all the brethren Rhodostaurotic.live. It flies with wings, And runs on wheels; where JuUan de Campis Holds out the brandished blade. Mere. ls't possible They think on me? JoAp. Rise, be not lost in wonder, But hear me: and be faithfuL AD the brethren Have heard your vows, salute you, and expect you, By me, this next return. But the good father Has been content to die for you. Nen. For me? JoAp. For you. Last New-year's day ; which some give out, Because it was his birthday, and began The year of jubilee, he would rest upon it, Being his hundred five and twentieth year : But the truth is, having observed your genesis, He would not live, because he might leave all He had to you. Mire. What had he? JoAp. Had I an office, Two, three, or four. Mere. Where? JoAp. In the upper region ; And that you'll find. The farm of the great customs,

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Through all the ports of the air's intelligences ; Then constable of the castle Rosy-aoss : Which you must be, and keeper of the keys Of the whole Kabal, with the seals ; you shall be Principal secretary to the stars : Know all the signatures and combinations, The divine rods, and consecrated roots : What not? Would you turn trees up like the wind, To show your strength? march over heads of armi~ Or points of pikes, to show your lightness? force All doors of arts with the petard of your wit? Read at one view all books? speak all the languages Of several creatures ? master all the learning& Were, are, or shall be? or, to show your wealth, Open all treasures hid by nature, from The rock of diamond to the mine of sea-coal? Sir, you shall do it. .Mere. But how? Jollp. Why, by his skill, Of which he has left you the inheritance, Here in a pot; this little gallipot Of tincture, high rose tincture. There's your order; You will have your collar sent you, ere't be long. Men. I looked, sir, for a halter, I was desperate. follp. Reach forth your hand .Men. 0 sir, a broken sleeve Keeps the arm back, as 'tis in the proverb. Johp. Nay, For that I do commend you ; you must be poor With all your wealth and learning. When you have made Your glasses, gardens in the depth of winter, Where you will walk invisible to mankind, Talk with all birds and beasts in their own language, When you have penetrated hills like air, Dived to the bottom of the sea like lead, And risen again like cork, walked in the fire,

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An 'twere a salamander, passed through all The winding orbs, like an Intelligence, Up to the empyreum, when you have made The world your gallery, can dispatch a business In some three minutes with the antipodes, And in five more, negotiate the globe over ; You must be poor still. Men. By my place I know it. Jollp. Where would you wish to be now, or what to see, Without the Fortunate Purse to bear your charges, Or Wishing Hat? I will but touch your temples, The corners of your eyes, and tinct the tip, The very tip o' your nose, with this collyrium. And you shall see in the air all the ideas, Spirits, and atoms, flies, that buz about This way, and that way, and are rath~r admirable, Than any way intelligible. Men. 0 come, tinct me, Tinct me; I long; save this great belly, I long I But shall I only see? . Jollp. See, and command .AJJ they were all your varlets or your foot-boys : But first you must declare (your Greatness must, For that is now your style), what you would see, Or whom. Men. Is that my style? my Greatness, then, Would see King Zoroastres. JoAp. Why, you shall; Or any one beside. Think whom you please; Your thousand, your ten thousand, to a million : All's one to me, if you could name a myriad. Merl. I have named him. Jollp. You've reason. Men. Ay, I have reason;. Because he's said to be the father of conjurors, And a 'cunning man in the stars.

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Jollp. Ay, that's it troubles us A little for the present : for, at this time, He is confuting a French almanack; But he will s~ht have done, have you but patience : Or think but any other in meantime, Any hard name. Men. Then Hermes Trismegistus. Jollp. 0, ort"~''1''"' J why, you shall see him, A fine hard name. Or him, or whom you will, As I said to you afore. Or what do you think Of Howleglass, instead of him? Men. No, him I have a mind to. Jollp. 0 but Ulen-spiegle, Were such a name-but you shall have your longing. What luck is this, he should be busy too J He is weighing water but to fill three hour-glasses, And mark the day in penn'orths like a cheese, And he has done. 'Tis strange you should name him Of all the rest I there being Jamblicus, Or Porphyry, or Proclus, any name That is not busy. Mere. Let me see Pythagoras. Jo/11. Good. Merr. Or Plato. Jollp. Plato is framing some ideas, Are now bespoken, at a groat a-dozen, Three gross at least : and for Pythagoras, He has rashly run himself on an employment, Of keeping asses from a field of beans; And cannot be staved oft .Mwe. Then, Archimedes. Jollp. Yes, Archimedes I Mm. Ay, or .iEsop. Jollp. Nay, Jiold your first man, a good tnan, Archimed~

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And worthy to be seen; but he is now Inventing a rare mouse-trap with owl's winp And a cat's-foot, to catch the mice alone : And .IEsop, he is filing a fox-tongue For a new fable he has made of Court : But you shall see them all, stay but your time, And ask in season ; things asked out of season A man denies himself. At sueh a time As Christmas, when disguising is on foot, To ask of the inventions, and the men, The wits and the ingines that move those orbs : Methinks you should inquire now after Skelton, Or master Skogan. M we. Skogan I what was he? Jollp. 0 a fine gentleman, and master of arts, Of Henry the Fourth's time, that made disguises For the king's sons, and writ in ballad-royal Daintily welL Men. But wrote he like a gentleman? Jollp. In rhyme, fine_ tinkling rhyme, and flowing verse, With now and then some sense I and be was paid for't; Regarded and rewarded; which few poets Are nowadays. M"e. And why? Jollp. 'Cause every dabbler In rhyme is thought the same :-but you shall see him. Hold up your nose. [A IUiillls lui eyu atUIIemples. Mn-e. I had rather see a Bracbman, Or a Gymnosopbist yet. Jollp. You shall see him, sir, Is worth them both : and with him domin~Skelton, The worshipfuJ poet laureate to King HJtry, And Tily'e .1ll of those times. AdYance, quick Skogan, And quicker Skelton, show your crafty heads, Before this heir of arts, this lord of learning, This master of all knowledge in reversion I

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Etrtw SKOGAN and SKELTON1 ill lilu llaiJib tU tluy livid. Slwg. Seemeth we are called of a moral intent, If the words that are spoken as well now be meant. Jollp. That, master Skogan, I dare you ensure. Slwg. Then, son, our acquaintance is like to endure. Mere. A pretty game I like Crambo. Master Skogan, Give me thy band : thou art very lean, methbtu Is't living by thy wits? Skog. If it bad been that, My worshipful son, thou hadst ne'er been so fat .. Jollp. He tells you true, sir. Here's a gentleman, My pair of crafty clerks, of that high caract, As hardly bath the age produced his like. Who not content with the wit of his own times, la curious to know yours, and what bath been. Men. Or is, or shall be. /Qiip. Note his latitude.

Shl. 0, flir amplisnmus, Ut stllolis tlidmus, Et getrtilissimus I

Johp. The question-isnmus Is, should he ask a sight now, for his life ; I mean a person, he would have restored To memory of these times, for a playfellow, Whether you would present him with an Hermea, Or with an Howleglass? Slul. An Ho'!fleglass To come to pass On his father's ass ; There never was, By day nor night, A finer sight, With feathers upright . In his horn~ cap, And crook~ shape, Much like an ape.

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With owl on fist, And glass at his wrist SJrqg. Except the four knaves entertained for the guards Of the kings and the queens that tridmph in the cards. JoAp. Ay, that were a sight and a ~ I confess, To see 'em come 'Skipping in, all at a mess I

Sh/. Wii!J Elin41' Rwmmi'tlg, To M4M up tlu mwmming; Tlull eolfldy Gill, . Tlull tlflldt on a !till, .Bid slu is 11111 grill:Her faa all !Jowsy, Droopy aNI tlnrwsy,
SalnJy atUI krlsy,

Comely m"dkd,
Wondrously wriMied, .LiM a nxut pig's ear

Bristled UlitA ltair.

Shg. Or, what do you say to Ruffian Fitz.Ale? follp. An excell.ent sight, if he be not too stale.

But then we can aiix him with modem Vapours, 11le child of tobacco, his pipes, and his papers. Mll'r. You talked of Elinor Rnmming, I had rather See EDen of Troy. JoAp. Her you shall see But aedit me, That Mary Ambree (Who marched so free To the siege of Gaunt, And death couid not daunt, As the ballad doth vaunt), Were a braver wight, And a better sight. SMJ. Or Westminster Meg, With her king leg,

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Aa long as a aane;
And feet like a plane : With a pair of heels As broad as two wheels; To drive down the dew, As she goes to the stew, And turns home merry, By Lambeth ferry. Or you may have come In, Thomas Thumb, In a pudding fat With Doctor Rat. Ay, that I that I that I We'll have 'em all, To fill the halL

J()ltp.

Tlu ANTIKASQUK follows. Consisting~ tluse l'ltlelvt persons, HOWLEGLASS, tlu four KNAVKS,
l'ltlo RUFFIANS (FITZALK and VAPOUR.), ELINOR RUMMING, MARY AMBREE, LoNG MEG of Wulmi'nlter, ToM THUMB,

and Doctor RAT.

Tluy tiana, and 'lllitluirtnti. Mere. What, are they vanished I where,.is skipping Skelton? Or moral Skogan? I do like their show, And would have thanlted them, being the first grace The company of the Rosy-cross hath done me. Jollp. The company o' the Rosy-cross, you widgeon I The company of (the] players. Go, you are, And will be still your self, a MerefooL_:.ln: And take your pot of honey here, and hogs-grease, See who has gulled you, and make one. [Exit Mxlw'ooL. Great king, Your pardon, if desire to please have trespassed, This fool should have been sent to Anticyra,

The isJe of Ellebore, there to have purg~ NQt hoped"' happy seat within your waten.Hou now the me8888e of the Fates &DC! }ovo,

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On whom these Fates depend, to you, as Neptune The great commander of the seas and isles. That point of revolution being come, When all the Fortunate Islands should be joined, MACARIA one, and thought a principal, That hitherto bath floated, as uncertain Where she should fix her blessings, is to-night Instructed to adhere to your Britannia : That where the happy spirits live, hereafter Might be no question made by the most curious, Since the MACARII come to do you homage, And join their cradle to your continent.
Here tlu sane opens, and flu MASQUER.S are tiis1fferetl sitting in 1/u,.r sweral sieps. Tlu air opms a!Jtl'lle, and APoLLO, 'llii"IA HA'RMONY, and tlu SPIRITS of Mun'c, n"ng, tJu 'tll!rile tlu island t1UJfiU ftii'TIIartl, PROTEUS sifh'ng 6elo'tll, and luarhning.
SONG.

Look forth, the Shepherd of the Seas, And of the ports that keep the keys, And to your Neptune teU; Macaria, prince of all the isles, Wherein there nothing grows but smiles, Doth here put in, to dwell The winds are sweet and gently blow, But Zephyrus no breath they know, The father of the flowers : By him the virgin violets live, And every plant doth odours give, As new as are the hours.
Cllo. Then think it not a common cause

That to it so much wonder draws, And all the heavens consent With hannony to tune their notes In answer to the public votes That for it up were sent.

111 IAis ti~~~e, flu isl4NI lulfliiJg joined itselfto tJu slwre, PROTEUS, P01lTUNVS, and SJ.JtON &IIIIU fortll, .antJgo *P singillr to ilu
stall, 'tlllti/1 1/U MASQUXRS lah liwu

u,....

tlullullflll.

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357

Pro. Ay, now the heights of Neptune's honours shine, And all the glories of his greater style
Are read, reflected in this happiest isle.

Por. How both the air, the soil, the seat combine To speak it bless~ I
These are the true groves Where joys are born, Pro. Where longings, Por. And wb~ loves I Sar. That live I That last I Por. No intermitted wind Blows here, but what leaves flowers or fruit behind.
Sar.

Clro. 'Tis

odour~ that comes I And every tree doth give his gums,

Pro. There is no sickness, nor no old age knoWn

To man, nor any grief that be dares own. There is no hunger, here, nor envy of state, Nor least ambition in the magistrate. But all are even-hearted, open, free, And what one is another strives to be. Por. Hefe, all the day, they feast, they sport, and spring, Now dance the Graces' hay; now Venus' ring: To which the old musicians play and sing. Sar, There is Arion, tuning his bold harp, From flat to sharp, Por. And light Anacreon, He still is one I Pro. Stesichorus there, too, That Linus and old Orpheus doth outdo To wonder. Sar. And Amphion, he is there. Por. Nor is Apollo dainty to appear In such a quire, although the trees be thick. Pro. He will look in, and see the airs be quick, And that the times be true. Por. Then, chanting, Pro. Then, Up with their notes, they raise the prince of men, Sar. And sing the present prophesy that goes, Of joining the bright Lily and the Rose.

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CM. See I aD the 6owers, Pro. Tbat spriDg the baDb along, Do move their beads uuto that under scmg. CM. SaroD, Portunus, Proteus, help to bring Our primrose in, the glory of the spring ; And tell the daff'odil, against that day, That we prepare new garlands fresh as May, And interweave the myrtle and the bay.

nu nmr, tlu is/aNI gtJU &Id, llilst IM upper C1lonu 14/us u

from tJum, and tlu MASQUKRS jJnjan for tMir,kiln.
CM. Spring all the graces of the age, And all the }oyes or time ; Bring all the pleasures of the ~
And relishes of rhYJDe. Add all the softnesses of courts, The loob, the laughters, and the sports ; And mingle all their 11t'eets and salts, That nooe may say the triumph baits.

TM MASQuus tllllla tMir E1fb7 'or Fint Daa. WAi&M tlmll, tM fint JirrPediffe, a M ariliwu Pallza, or tM lunm of OcLuros, is dist:tlflwuilo llllld -me. TM otlur a/Jow is "" t~UJn stm. Jollp. Behold the palace of Oceanus I Hail, reverend structure I boast no more to us Thy being able all the gods to feast ; We saw enough, when Albion was thy guest. Hen tM MllllllnS. AfUr fllllidr., tM stl:tiNl~. a Set~, is slulflJIIto tM ftw71Ur
MIUk. .

Jollp. Now turn, and view the wonders of the deep, Where Proteus herds, and Neptune's ores do keep, Where all is ploughed, yet still the pasture's green; New ways are found, and yet no paths are seen.
Hen PROTEUS, PO:RTUNUs, 5ARON1 go uj to tM LADIES flli/A
IAis SONG.

Pro. Come, noble nymphs, and do not hide The P,Y. for which you so proride :

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Sar. If not to mingle with the men, What do you here? Go home again. Pw. Your dressings do confess, By what we see, so curious parts Of Pallas and Arachne's arts, That you could mean no len. Pro. Why do you wear the silk-worm's toils, Or glory in the shell-fish' spoils ; Or strive to show the grains of ore That you have gathered on the shore, Whereof to make a stock To graft the greener emerald on, Or any better-watered stone, Sar. Or ruby of the rock. Pro. Why do you smell of amber-grise, Of which was formt!d Neptune's niece, The Queen of Love: unless you eau, Like sea-bom Venus, love a man? Sar. Try, put yourselves unto't.
Clro. Your loob, your smiles, and thoughts that meet, Ambrosian hands, and silver feet, Do promise you will do't.

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Tlu Rt'llth fo//(JfQ. W'm't:A mtk(J, tlu Fleet is dist:O'tltrttl, fllllilt tlu IAru cornets ft/ay.

Jollp. 'Tis time your eyes should be refreshed at length With something new, a part of Neptune's strength, See yond' his fleet, ready to go or come, Or fetch the riches of the Ocean home, So to secure him, both in peace and wars, Till not one ship alone, but all, be stars.
Tlrm tlu last
SONO.

Pro. Although we wish the glory still might last Of such a night, and for the causes past ; Yet now, great lord of waters, and of Isles, Give Proteus leave to turn unto his wiles. Pw. And whilst young Albion doth thy labours ease, Dispatch Portunus to the ports. Sar. And Saron to the seas,

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To meet old Nereus, with his fifty girls, From ag~ Indus laden home with pearls, And orient gums to burn unto thy name.

Cllo. And may thy subjects' hearts be all on flame, Whilst thou dost keep the earth in firm estate, And 'mongst the winds dost suffer no debate ; But both at sea and land our powers increase, With health and all the golden gifts of peace.

After 'llllli&A tluy danutl t/uir last danu.

AND THUS IT ENDED.

LOVE'S TRIUMPH THROUGH CALLIPOLIS,

PERFORHED IN A MASQUE AT COURT, 16301

BY HIS MAJESTY, WITH THE LORDS AND GENTLEMEN . ASSISTING.

1'114 l~lhtt , _ , ltaitrl /tmu,
QUANDO MAGIS DIGNOB LICUIT SPECTAll& TllltniPBOB'l

TO MAKE THE SPECTATORS UNDEJlST.ANDERS.

all Representations, especially those of this na~ure in Court, publi~ spectacles, either have been, or ought to be, the mirrors of man's life, whose ends, for the excellence of their exhibitors (as being the donatives of great princes to their people) ought always to carry a mixture of profit with them, no less than delight ; we, the inventors, being commanded from the King to think on something worthy of His Majesty's putting in act, with a selected company of his lords and gentlemen, called to th~; assistance ; for the honour of his Court, and the dignity of that heroic love and regal respect born by him to his unmatchable lady and spouse, the Queen's Majesty, after some debate of cogitation with ourselves, resolved on this following argument.
WHEREAS,

First, that a person, 6oni Qllllnis, of a good character, as Euphemus, sent down from heaven to Callipolis, which is understood the city of Beauty or Goodness, should come in; and finding Her Majesty there enthroned, declare unto her, that Love, who was wont to be respected as a special deity in Court, and tutelar god of the place, had of late received an advertisement, that in the suburbs, or skirts of Callipolis, were crept in certain sectaries, or depraved lovers, who neither knew the name or nature of love rightly, yet boasted themselves his followers, when they were fitter to be called his furies : their whole life being a contjnued vertigo, or rather a torture on the wheel of love, than any motion either of order or

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measure. When suddenly they leap forth below, a mistress lead ing them, and with antic gesticulation and action, after the manner of th>Old ~~~JP.~ they dance over a distracted comedy of 1~ expressing their confused afl'ections, in the scenical persons ~d habits of the four prime European nations. A glorious boasting lover. A whining ba1lading lover. An adventurous romance loYer. A fantastic umbrageous lover. A bribing corrupt lover. A froward jealous lover. A sordid illiberal lover. A proud scornful lover. An angry quarrelling lover. A melancholic despairing lover. An envious unquiet lover. A sensual brute lover. A lltvAkA, ,., fltm'ttl inln'ealllrmu, and irrlolwtlMtUu, 1zj;rul,
MliM tlu ANTIKASQUE ; and m&ltuil tlu IZit, ,., a dn/1.
EUPHEMUS tfu&mlh n'nging-.

Jay, jay to mortals, the rejoicing fires

Of gladness smile in your dilated hearts I Whilst Love presents a world of chute desires, Which may produce a harmony of paru I Love is the right aff'ection of the mind, The noble appetite or what is best : Desire of union with the thing designed, But in fruition of it cannot rest. The father Plenty is, the mother Want, Plenty the beauty which it wanteth draws ; Want yields itself; affording what is scant : So both aft'ections are the union's cause. But rest not here. For Love bath larger scopes, New joys, new pleuures, of u fresh a date As are his minutes : and iD him no hopes Are pure, but those be can perpetuate. ( H1 gou 11/J ltJ llu Stall.

LOVE'S TRIUMPH THROUGH CALLIPOLIS.

To you, that are by excellence a queen I The top of beauty I but of such an air, As only by the mind's eye may be seen Your interwoven lines of good and fair I Vouchsafe to grace Love's triumph here t~night, Through all the streets of your Callipolis; Which by the splendour of your rays made bright, The seat and region of all beauty is. Love in perfection longeth to appear, :But prays of favour he be not called on, Till all the suburbs and the skirts be clear Of pertUrbations, and the infection gone. Then will he flow forth, like a rich perfume Into your nostrils I or some sweeter sound Of melting music, that shall not consume Within the ear, but run the mazes round.

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Cu.

Htre tlu CHORUS fiJalll utNI fii#A tlln"r amen. Meantime, we make lustration of the place, And, with our solemn fires and waters prove To have frighted hence the weak ~ race Of those were tortured on the wheel of love. The Glorious, Whining, the Adventurous fool FantastiC, Bribing, and the Jealous ass. The Sordid, Scornful, and the Angry mule, The Melancholic, Dull, and Envious mass. Gratul C!to. With all the rest, that in the sensual school Of lust, for their degree of brute may pass ; All which are vapoured hence. No loves, but slaves to sense; Mere cattle, and not men. Sound, sound, and treble all our joys again, Who had the power and virtue to remove Such monsters from the labyrinth of love.

Tlu sane ojJml tlllilliii&IJ'IItn a jlr'osfJed Df tlu #11. T1u TRIUKPB u jint ltm afar Dff, tlllll hd ,., ~ AMPHJTRITE, tlu fllife of OCKAlros, .,a /Dill" #a gods attmdinr Atr, .NEREUS, PRonus, Guucus, PAI.JEKoN.
T1u TluuilPH muhlld Df fifllm Lovus, tlllll as INIII.Y CUPms, wAD ~ tluwutlflu 11'11111 tlllll llfllll tm a .rUU, flliiA 14&!1 a CUPID kfore "'"" flliiA a ligllled tordl, tlllll tlu midd/8 jenM
(~r~lli&A u

Hu Majuty) plaad ;,. t1u """"'

BBN JONSON'S JIASQUBS. A..pA. Heni stay a whUe: this, this, The temple of all beauty is I Here, perfect lovers, you must pay Fint fruits ; aud on these altan lay (The ladies' breasts) your ample vows, Such as Love brings, aud Beauty best allows I CM, For Love without his object soon is gone: Love must have auawering Love to look upon. ,A,pA. To you, best judge then of perfection I EupA. The queen of what is wonder in the place I A..pll. Put:e object of heroic rove, alone I EfiiA. The centre of proportion,A "'P" Sweetness, Efllll. Grace I A mpA. Deign to receive all lines of love in one. Efllll. And by reflecting of them fill this space, Clto. . TiU it a circle of those glories prove, Fit to be sought in Beauty, found by Love. Snni-do. Where love is mutual, still All things in order move. Sm~Uito. The circle of the will Is the true sphere of love. CM. Advance, you gentler Cupids, then, advance, And show your just perfections in your dance.
Tlu CUPIDS filma /Mir tftma, fi1Ui tlu MASQUERS /Mir E1flr7.

Wlti'll filml, EUCLJA, or a Jat'r glory, ajfMars ,., tlu luat~nu, n'nging an applmuive SONG, or Pt~an of tlu 'IIIMie ~ fllltkll slu k~Au ((ISJ'tm to ,,gnn;-u i" tlu Seamd Cllonu, ujxm tlu sigllt of a ftiDrlt of Nljlflllis, /Jdng a Mliofll nKit,fill'nr part of tM sea-jw"ospe,t, fliMrtlllf tlu M USES n't.
HYKN.

Eu,, So Love emergent out of Chaos brought The world to light I

And gently moving on tbe waters; wrought All form to sight I Love's appetite Did ~uty first excite : And left imprinted in the air T~ose signatures of good aud fair,

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36S

CNI. Which since have flowed, flowed forth upon the sense To wonder fii'Stt ani! then to excellence, By virtue of divine intelligence 1 T/14 I11pminalion. And Neptune too, Shows what his waves can do To call the Muses all to play, And sing the birth of Venus' day, CNI, Which from the sea flowed forth upon the sense, To wonder first, and next to excellence, By virtue of divine intelligence I

Here fo//Ofllllu R1111h.

WAi&A llllkd, 1/u sa~~~ cAallgetA ~ a gr~rtlm, a1lll 1/u Mlrums opming, tllere appear ft~~~r 11n11 perstms ;, ftJn~~ of a Consit/lemon, sitti11g~ or a 1llflJ .A.sterism, ezpeai11g VENUS, wlwm tlley call ujtm '11/itA tAis
SONG,

JUPITER, ]UNO, GENIUS, HYllEN.

7uJ. 7un.

Haste, daughter Venus, haste and come away, All powers that govem marriage, pray That you will lend your light, G111, Unto the constellation of this night. And Juno.

Hym. Hymen.

7u,,

Gm. And the Genius call.

']up. Your father Jupiter.

Gt-atlll CNI. And all That bless or honour holy nuptial.
VENUS. Mrl ajJJHars ;, a cloud, a1lllpassi11g tltrougll 1/u Ctmsltl/ation, ducmtittA ~ tlu eartA, "'""' jrumtly 1/u cloud flallislutll,

a1lll slu is sem sitti11g ;, a tll.rone.

Vm. Here, here I present am

Both in my girdle, and my flame ; Wherein are woven all the powers The Graces gave me, or the Hours, My nurses once, with all the arts Of gaining and of holding hearts : And these with, 1 descend.

BBN JONSON'S JldSQUBS.

But to your influences first commend The vow I go to take On earth, for perfect Love and Beauty's sake.

Her stmg ended, and slu rising uJ to go to tM (2uem, tM l!vOM tlisaJJears~ ,,. Jlaa of ftJlticA, tlter1 slwotetll uJ a palm-tru ftJith an imperial &rD'IIm on tM tqJ ~from tlu r()(Jt ftJIIenof,
/iliu and rosu htining togetlter and em8raa"ng tlu stem, jioflrish lllrot~gll t/u &rOflm, wltidJ slu ,,. tlu SONG 'lllitll tlu CHORVS liu&rib#.
Gratul CNI. Beauty and Love, whos~; story is mysterial, In yonder palm-tree, and the crown imperial, Do from the Rose and Lily, so delicious, Promise a shade shall ever be propitious To both the kingdoms. But to Britain's Genius The 11naky rod and serpents of Cyllenius Bring not more peace than these, who so united be By Love, as with it earth and heaven delighted be. And who this King and Queen would well historify, Need only speak their names ; these them will glorify : MARY and CliAIU.ES, Charles with his Mary named are, And all the rest of loves or princes famed are.

After tllis, 1/uy DANCE tlul"r going f$1.

AND THUS IT ENDED.

CHLORIDIA.
RITES TO CHLORIS AND HER NYMPHS,
PERSONATED IN A MASQUE AT COURT,

BY THE QUEEN'S MAJESTY AND HER SHROVE TIDE, I6so-

LAD~.

AT

TM ~-BM/-,

/ y /MA

UNlUB TELLUS ANT& COLOIUS UAT,

THE King and Queen's Majesty having given their command for the invention of a new argument, with the whole change of the scene, wherein Her Majesty, with the like number of her ladies, purposed a presentation to the King ; it was agreed, it should be the celebration of some rites done to the goddess thloris, who, in a general Council of the Gods, was proclaimed Goddess of the Flowers, according to that of Ovid, in the F~ti, --Arbitrium tu Dea 6oris babe. And was tobo stelWied on earth, by an absolute decree from Jupiter, who would have the earth to be adomed with stars aa well as the heaven. Upon thiS hinge the whole invention moved.

The o~ent which went about the scene was composed of foliage, or leaves heightened with gold, and interwoven with all sorts of flowers, and naked children playing and climbing among the branches ; and in the midst a great garland of flowers, in which was written CHLORIDIA. . The curtain being drawn up, the scene is discovered, consisting of pleasant hills planted with young tJeeS, and all the lower banks adomed with flowers. And from somt hoAow pats ot thoee bi1la

BEN jONSON'S MASQUES.

fountains come gliding down, which, in the far-off landscape, seemed all to be converted to a river. Over all a serene sky, with transparent clouds, giving a great lustre to the whole work, which did imitate the pleasant Spring. When the spectators bad enough fed their eyes with the delights of the scene, in a part of the air a bright cloud begins to break forth; and in it is sitting a plump boy, in a changeable garment, richly adorned, representing the mild ZEPHYRUS. On the other side of the scene, in a purplish cloud, appeareth the SPIUNG, a beautiful maid, her upper garment green, under it a white robe wrought .with flowers, a garland on her bead. Here ZEPHYRUs begins his dialogue, calling her forth, and making narration of the gods' decree at large, which she obeys, pretending it is come to earth already; and there begun to be executed by the King's favour, who assists with all bounties, that may be either urged as causes or reasons of the Spring.
FIRST

SONG.

Z,Plt.

Come forth, come forth, the gentle Spring, And carry the glad news I bring To earth, our common Mother: It is decreed by all the gods That heaven of earth shall have no odds, But one shall love another. Their glori~ they shall mutual make, Earth look on heaven for heaven's sake, Tl!.eir honours shall be even : All emulation cease, and jars, Jove will have earth to have her stars And lights, no less than heaven.

Spri11g. It is already done, in flowers As freSh and new as are the hours, By warmth of yonder sun : But will be multiplied on us, If from the breath of Zephyrus Like favour we have woo. Z,PA.
Give all to him : his is the dew, The heat, tlle.hum!)ur,

CHLORIDIA.
SpniJg. -All tb~ true Beloved of the Spring I The sun, the wind, the verdure I
-All

Zep/J. Spn'ng.

That wisest Nature cause c.m call Of quickening anything.

AI 'lllllicle

ZEPHYRUS Jasselle flflla.Y tllrrlllgle llu air, tlllli tile SPRING tlumu/elll to llu tarlll, and is rtCII'fJtd 6y IM NAIADES, or Nape~e, 'IIIM an llu nymples, fountmiu, and

s~n~anls

1!f llu season.

SECOND SONG.

Naiades. Fair maid, bqt are you come to dwell, And tarry with us here ? Spring. Fresh Fountains, I am come to tell A tale in yond' soft ear, Whereof the murmur will do well If you your parts will bear. Nmiz.tlu. Our purlings wait upon the Spring. Spnilg. Go up with me, then ; help to sing The story to the king.

Hen tlee SPRING goes up, nilgi11g lilt argummt, to llu King, and
Spring.
tlu NAIAD&.'ifol/0'111 fllitle llu close. Cupid hath ta'en ofFence of late At.all the gods, that of the State And in their Council he wu so deserted, Not to be called unto their guild, But slightly passed by u a child. Wherein be thinks his honour was perverted, And though his mother seek to season And rectify his rage with reason, By showing he lives yet under her command, Rebellious he doth disobey, And she bath forced his arms away, To make him feel the justice of her band. Whereat the boy, in fury fell, With all his speed is gone to hell There to excite and stir up jealousy. To make a party 'gainst the gods, And set heaven, earth, and hell at odds, And raise a chaos of calamity.

Naiades. Spring.

Na1adts. Spn'11g.

Naiadu.

2A

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BBN JONSON'S JIASQUBS. T.tl SONG mdltl, tM NYMPHS fall illlo a tiaNI, lo tluir wku 111111 iutrwMmts, flllll so nhlm ,~~~o tM seme.

THE ANTIMASQUE.
A jJarl of tJu undergroutul opming, out of it mkr a bwAJUI' post .fr'tml lull, riding on a curl~#, '11/iiA dO"llm ftet, flllll lwHJ l.ACQUEYS : tlus1 DANCE, flllll MaM tM first mb7 of llf1 AntiiiUUpt. H a/iglUs flllll spuw.

.DriJat:f. Hold my stirrup, my one lacquey ; and look to my curtal, the other; walk him well, sirrah, while I expatiate myself here in the report of my office. 0 the Furies I how I am joyed with the title of it I Postillion of hell I yet no Mercury: but a mere cacodaemon, sent hither with a packet of news I news I never was hell so furnished of the commodity of news I Love bath been lately there, and so entertained by Pluto and Proserpine, and all the grandees of the place, as it is tqere perpetual holiday; and a cessation of torment granted and proclaimed for ever I . Halffamished Tantal~ is fallen to his fruit with that appetite as it threatens to undo the whole company of costermongers; and has a river afore him running excellent wine. lxion i$ loosed from his wheel and turned dancer, does nothing but cut capreols, fetch friskals, and leads lavoltos with the Lamise I Sisyphus has left rolling the stone, and is grown a master-bowler; challenges all the prime gamesters, parsons in hell, and gives them odds, upon Tityus's breast, that (for six of the nine acres) is counted the subtlest bowling-ground in all Tartaiy. All the Furies are at a game called ninepiris, or keils, made of old usurers' bones, and their souls looking on with delight, and betting on the game I Never was there such freedom of sport. Danaus' daughters have broke their bottomless tubs, and made bonfires of them. All is turned triumph there. Had hell-gates been kept with half that strictness as the entry here has been to-night, Pluto would have had but a cold court, and Proserpine a thin presence, though both have a vast territory. We had &!Jch a stir to get in, I and my curta1 and my two lacqueys, all ventured through the eye of a Spanish needle, we had never come in else, and that was by the favour of one of the guard who was a w~'s tailor, and held ope

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the passage. Cupid by commission hath carried ] ealousy from hell, Disdain, Fear, and Dissimulation, with other goblins, to trouble the gods. And I am sent after, post, to raise TEKP.KST, WINDS, LIGHT NINOS, THUNDER, RAIN, and SNow., for some new exploit they have ~--~~ ~.-~<!.-~~-~~<1~ -{;~i9zis, queen or the flowers n;Ustrcii8o1 the Spring. For joy of which I will return to myself, mount my bidet in a danCe, and curvet upon my c:urtal.

ana-

H1r1

lu ""'""u Iris cu,.tal, am/ 'fllitll Iris ~~. Janut}, f()rlll u

~~~~ilf.

SECOND ENTRY.

Cupid, Jealousy, Disdain, Fear, and Dissimulation dance together.

THIRD ElfrRy,

The Queen's Dwarf, richly apparelled, as a prince of hell, attended by six infernal spirits, he first danceth illon&\ and then the spirits, all expressing their joy for Cupid's coming among them.
FoURTH ENTRY.

Here the scene changeth into a horrid storm, out of which

enters the nymph Tempest, with four Winds. They dance.

Firm

ENTRY.

Lightnings, three in numQC!r, their habits glistering expressilli that effect in their motion.
SIXTH ENTRY.

Thunder, alone, dancing the tunes to a noise, mixed, and imitating thunder. SJt'VBNTH ENTRY. Rain, presented by five persons, all swollen and clouded over, their hair flagging, as if they were wet, and in their hands balls full of sweet water, which, as they dance, sprinkle all the room.
EIG.H TH AND LAsr ENTRY.

Seven with rugged :trhite heads and beards, .to express Snow, .;nth flakes on their garments, mixed with hail. 'these havini dflDced, ~urn into the stormy scene whence they came.

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~h;

BBN JONSON'S JIASQUBS,

Here, by the providence of Juno, the TeJDpest on an instant and the scene is changed into a delicious place, figuring the DoWER. Ol' CBLOR.IS, wherein an arbour feigned of goldsmith'swork, the ornament of which was borne up with termes of satyrs, beautified with festoons, garlands, and all sorts of fragrant flowers. Beyond all this, in the sky afar off, appeared a rainbow : in the ~ most emment place of the Bower sat the goddess CBLOIUS, accompanied with fourteen nymphs, their apparel white, embroidered with silver, trimmed at the shoulders with great leaves of green, embroidered with gold, falling one under the other. And of the same work were their bases, their head-tires of flowers, mixed with silver and gold, with 80me sprigs of ;egrets among, and from the top ~ their dressing a thin veil hanging down.

1:-W NYMPHS,

RIVER.S,

A 1/ 'IIIAkll 6elultl, and FOUNTAINS, tv#A tM 1/W rljoi&mr SONG.

TBI.RD SONG,

SPR.IHO, nmg'

la'fltn, Sprinp, FMmlaim. Run out, all the Floods, in joy with your silver feet, And haste to meet the enamoured Spring, For whom the warbling Fountains sing The story of the flowers, preserv&l by the Hours At ]uno's soft commaDd, and Iris showers Sent to quench jealousy and all thoSe powers Of Love's rebellious war: Whilst Chloris sits a shinihg star To crown and grace our jolly song, made long To the notes that we bring, to glad the Spring,

Wllidl mdld, tM

GODDESS

and fur NYMPHS tiumu/ tM Mgrtls 1'11/o

"" 1"tH1m, and tltma "" mlry of"" grand "'tUf'I'-

.Aftw IJIU, tllf()/Mr SONG 6y /M SaMI /JinfiM IU 6efon.

I'OUR.TB SONG.

Riven, Fo11111aim.
Tell a truth, gay Spring, let us know What feet they were, that so Impressed the Earth, and made such various flowers to grow,

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Sfin""K

~73

She that led, a Queen was at least Or a Goddess, 'bove the rest ; And all their graces in herself expressed.

River1, Fotmtaitu. 0 'twere a fame, to know her name I Whether ahe w~ the root, Or they did take the impression from her foot.
Wla"~

T/u M.\sQUEllS lure t/anu tMir se&tJNI DANCJi:. Jone, 1/u fartlter prospect o/ llu lcm4 drangr/A itllo air, 'IIJiiA a lllfll ltmds&llfM, ill part &werttl flii"IA dt~Mtlr; lllld ;, 11141 iNiatU,IIu Httl'llm ~;,g, ]UNO t.J1111 IRIS an sun, t.J1111 aiJo'tlt tllem may t.ll"ry ljl"rits sith;,g ;, tlu ,/Qutlr,
JJTl'H SONG.

Now Juno and the air shall know The truth of what is done below From our discoloured bow-Iris, what news? /m, The air is clear, your bow can tell Chloria renowned, Spite fled to Hell, The business all is well, and Cupid sues Juu, For pardon, does he? lm. He sheds tears more than your birds have eyes. Juu. The gods have ears ; offences made Ag~st the Deities are soon forgot. I m. If wno offends be wise. Here wl o/ llu lt.JrlJ, arisetJ, a mll, fJIIIi tm t/u top o/ 1"1 a glok, tm 'lti!Udl FAME u sem stamiing 'llli/A lur "*"'PI ;,. lur lumtl,,o lllld tm 1/u m/1 an seated four perstms, prui'IIJJng POESY, HISTORY, ARCHJTEcruRE, lllld SCULP'l"URE : fiiM1 togrtlur fiii"IA 1/u NYMPHS, FLOODS, fJIIIi FOUNTAlNS, fllt.Jh a full ()pire, aJ 'lti!Udl F AWE !Jegim to 1lltNIII, fJIIIi INI'IIing lur 'llli11p,jlie/A #11gi11g uj to Hefl'llm. Fa11U. Rise, golden Fame, and give thy name a birth Clumu. From great and generous actions, done on Earth. Fa,. The life of Fame is action : Clumu. Understood The action must be virtuous, great, and good I Fam~. Virtue itself by Fame is oft protected, And dies despised........._ C/umu, Wbere'er the Fame's neglected. FIJIIU, Who bath not heard of Chloris, and her Bower.

Ju.

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Fair Iris' act, employed by }uno's power To guard the Spring, and prosper ~eri flower, Whom Jealousy and Hell thought to devour? Clwrw. Great actions oft obscured by time may lie Or envy-Fawu. But they last to memory. PHsy. We that sustain thee, learned Poesy, History. And I, her sister, severe History, At'e/Jiudtlre. With Architecture, who will raise thee high, Sculpture. And Sculpture, that can keep thee from to die, Clwruz. All help lift thee to eternity. 7mo. And Juno, through the air, doth make thy way, . Iris. By her serenest messenger of day. Fame. Thus Fame ascends by all degrees to Heaven, And leaves a light here brighter than the seven. Clwrw. Let all applaud the sight I Air first, that gave the bright Reflections, Day or Night t With these supports of Fame That keep alive her name, The beauties of the Spring, Founts, Rivers, everything, From the height of all To the water's fal~ Resound and sing The honours of his Chloris to the lOng l Chloris the Queen of Flowers ; The sweetness of all Showers ; The Ornament of Bowers, The top of Paramours I FAME 6ei~~g lliiJdm ;,. tlu ekuds, tlu llill sinlu, and tJu Hlaflm doselA.
THE END.

TM MASQUERS tia1Ja fllilllt/u LoRDS.

T114 Namu oftlu Ma.spers a.s tM,y sal;, tJu B(Jfller."The QUEEN. Countess of CARLISLE. Countess of OXJ'OR.D. Lady STR.ANGBI. Countess of BERKSHIRE. Lady ANNE CAVENDISH. Countess of CAR.NAR.VON. Countess of NEWPORT. Lady PENELOPE EGERTON. M. PORTER. M. DOR. SAVAGE. Lady HOWARD. M. ELIZ. SAVAGE. M. ANNE WESTON. M. SOPIIIA
CAR.~

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PART OF KING JAMES'S ENTERTAINMENT

IN PASSING TO HIS CORONATION.

AT
THE

FKNCHUllCH.

scene presented itself in a square and flat upright, like to the side of a city; the top thereof, above the vent and cres~ adorned with houses, towers, and steeples, set off in prospective. Upon the battlements, in a great capital letter; was inscribed LONDINIUM, according to

Tacitus. 1

AI Sruhmiru mird amslanli4 metiios i'tiler

/t()l/tis LIJIUiiru"um jerre:dl, &opqt~~mhJ fllitkm Colmritz twt~ ;,.,;pe, sed (!()#4 negtJijaJorum, d &0171mealu mtui'me &e/46". Beneath that,

in a less and different character, was written

CAMERA REGIA,

which title immediately after the Norman conquest it began to have ; 1 and by the indulgence of succeeding princes bath been hitherto continued. In the frieze over the gate it seemeth to speak. this verse :
PAR DOMUS H4lC C(ELO, SED MINOR EST DOMINO,

taken out of Martial,' and implying, that though this city (for the state and magnificence) might by hyperbole be said to touch the stars and reach up to heaven, yet was it far inferior to the mastet thereof, who was His Majesty; and in that respect unworthy to receive him. The highest person advanced therein was
MoNARCHIA BRITANNICA;

and fitly; applying to the above mentioned title of the city, THE KING'S CHAMBER, and therefore here placed as in the proper
1

Anaal. lib. 14-

Cam. Brit. 374-

Llb.

a; eplf. ~.

BNTBRTA.INMBNTS.

seat of the empire: for so the glory and light of our kingdom, M. Camden, 1 speaking of London, saith, she is to/ius Bri'tatulitz epitome, Brita1111idque imperii sedes, npmque AngliiZ camwa, la11hlm i111n' omneis emi~~et, qua11hlm (ut ail ilk) illler fli/Juma eufressus. She was a woman, richly attired in cloth of gold and tissue ; a rich mantle ; over her state two crowns hanging, with pensile shields through them ; the one limned with the particular coat of England, the other of Scotland : on either side also a crown, with the like scutcheoos, and peculiar coats of France and Ireland. In her hand she holds a sceptre ; on her head a fillet of gold, interwoven with palm and laurel ; her hair bound into four several points, descending from her crowns ; and in her lap a little globe, inscribed upon
ORBIS BRITA.NNICUS,

and beneath the word

DIYISUS.AB ORBE,

to show that this empire is a world divided from the world ; and alluding to that of Claudian,l --Et nostro didu&ta Britannia mundo.. and Viigil, Et pem"tus toto di'llisos or6 Bn"laiiNJs. The wreath denotes victory and happiness ; the sceptre and crowns sovereignty ; the shields the precedency of the countries and their distinctions. At her feet was set
THEOSOPHIA,

or Divine Wisdom, all in 'ifhite, a blue mantle seeded with stars, a crown of stars on her head. Her garments figured truth, innocence, and clearness. She was always looking up. In her one hand she sustained a dove, in the other a serpent : the last to show her subtilty, the first her simplicity : alluding to that text of Scripture,' Estote ergrJ pi"Udmtes sieul serpmtes, et nmp/ias siad (()/um!Jte. Her word,
1 BriL S. 7
t

Bdoc z.

~ Matt.

De MaUi ; Theodor. z. z6.

CODS.

paneeyr

AT THE CORONATION OF JAMBS I.

PER ME RBGES REGNANT,t

S79

intimating, bow by her all kings do govern, and that ebe is the foundation and strength of kingdoms : to which end, she was here placed upon a cube, at the foot of the monarchy, as her base and stay. Directly beneath her stood
GENIUS URBIS,1

a person attired rich, reverend, and antique : his hair long and white, crowned with a wreath of plane-tree, which is said to be ar!Jor gmialis; his mantle of purple, and buskins of that colour : he held in one hand a goblet, in the other a branch full of little twigs, to signify increase and indulgence. His word,
HIS ARMIS,

pointing to the two that supported him, whereof the one on the right hand was
;BoULEUTJtS,

figuring the council of the city, and was suited in black and purple ; a wreath of oak 1 upon his head : sustaining, for his ensigns, on his left arm a scarlet robe, and in his right hand the ~.' as tokens of magistracy, with this inscription,
SERYA.RB CIYBS.

The other on the left hand,

POLEMIUS,

the warlike force of the city, in an antique- coat or armour with a target and sword; his helm on, and crowned with laurel, implying strength and conquest : in his hand he bore the standard of the city, with this word,
l Prov. vlii.
t

IS.

Antlqui genlam omaiam glgueudaram reram esistiiDIIniJit deum : et tam urbfb. qaam hominlb. vel caeteris rebus natum. IJJ. Or. Gyr. In SynL Deor. IS, and Roaln. Antlq. Ro. L 111, c. Iof. Clvlca corona fit 4 fronde quema, quoniam cibua vlctusque antlquluim111 querceus capl solltlll aiL Roe. llb. IO, cap. w,. ' Fasciculi virgarum, Intra quu obllgat:\ aecurls erat, sic ut rerrum in 111111mo fasoe eztaret. Ros. lib. 7 cap. 3o Ubi notandum eat, DOn debere pnedpitem et solutam !ram esae maglattatus. Mora euim allata, et cunetatlo, dum lleiiSim viJ'Illll solvuntur, ldentidem COIIII\Ium mutavlt de plectendo. Quando autem villa quedam sunt eorrlglbllla, deplorata alia ; castlpnr vlrpe, quod nmiCIIrl ftlet. lmmedicabile teeure1 pneddunt. Plut. Prob. R.om. 8a.

BNTBRT.41NMBNTS.
EXTINGUERE ET HOSTElS,

expressing by those several mots, connexed, that with those arms of counsel and strength, the Genius was able to extinguish the king's enemies, and preserve his citizens, alluding to these verses in Seneca,l Ertl'nguer6 lw1tnn man'ma ut vjrl111 duds. Servar6 avu major ut patrja pa~n. Underneath these, in an aback thrust out before the rest, lay
TAMESIS,

the river, as running along the side of the city ; in a skin-coat, made like flesh, naked and blue. His mantle of sea-green or water-colour, thin, and boln out like a sail ; bracelets about his wrists of willow and sedge, a crown of sedge and reed upon his head, mixed with water-lilies, alluding to Virgil's description of Tiber, --Deus ~16 loci,jluvjo Ti6erinru allf(Jt1W1 Populeas jnter 1mjor 16 attollere frontles

v;sru, eum tmujl glauco vela6at amiclu

Carlasus! 61 crjn#s um!Jro1a

tegr/Jat arundo.1

His beard and hair long and overgrown. He leans his arm upon an earthen pot, out of which water, with live fishes, are seen _to run forth, and play about him. His word,
FLUMINA SENSERUNT IPSA,

an hemistich of Ovid's j the rest of the verse being, -pUJ e.t1et amor. affirming, that rivers themselves, and such inanimate creatures, have heretofore been made sensible of passions and affections ; and that he now no less partook the joy of His Majesty's grateful approach to this city than any of those persons to whom he pointed, which were the daughters. of the Genius, and six in num~r, who, in a spreading ascent, upon several grices, help to beautify both the sides. The first,
EUPHROSYNE,

or Gladness, was suited in green, a mantle of divers colours, em1

Oct. act. a.

..a, lib. 8.

Amor. 3o el.

s.

AT THB CORONATION OP JAMBS I.

381

broidered with all variety of flowers : on her head a garland of myrtle, ln her right hand a crystal erose filled with wine, in the left a cup of gold; at her feet a timbrel, harp, and other inttruments, all ensigns of gladness,
Natb in tuum lalilitz tCJ'Pitir, 6--c,l

And in another place,

Nun& ui!Mmtillm, nun& petl# ll'kro Pulsanda ullfil, &-c.

Her word,
HBC BYI MIHI PRIMA. DIES,

as if this were the first hour of her life, and the minute wherein she began to be ; beholding so long coveted and looked for a presence. The second, SEBASIS, or Veneration, was varied in an ash-coloured suit, and dark i:nantle, a veil over her head of ash<Olour : her hands crossed before her, and her Ieyes half closed. Her word,
.liiHI SEMPER DEUS,

implying both her office of reverence, and the digrrlty of her object, who being as god on earth, should never be less in her thought. The third,
PROTHYMIA,

or Promptitude, was attired in a short-tucked garment of flamecolour, wings at hu back: her hair bright, and bound up with ribands ; her breast open, virago-like ; her buskins so ribanded. She was crowned with a chaplet of tri-foly, to express readiness and openness every way. In her right hand she held a squirre~ as being the creature most full of life and quickness ; in the left a close round censer, with the perfume suddenly to be vented forth at the sides. Her wordQUA. DATA. PORTA.,'

taken liom another place in Virgil, where .iEolus, at the command of ]uno, lets forth the windI

Hor. car. L ode "'

t

VJrr.

cL

Ode Yr

I.

' Stat. Syl. 4o Ep. Domlt. I ..Eft. I.

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---A G vmli velul agwu, fa&to !Ju4 data porta ruunl, elllrrat hlrlliM /Jet'jlanl,'

and showed that she was no less prepared with promptitude and alacrity than the winds were, upon tha least gate that shall be opened to his high command. The fourth,
AGRYPNIA,

or Vigilance, in yellow, a sable mantle, seeded with waking eyes, and silver fringe : her chaplet of Heliotropium, or turnsole. In her one hand a lamp, or cresset; in her other a bell The lamp signified search and sight, the bell warning ; the Heliotropium care, and respecting her object. Her word,
SPECULAMUR IN OMNEIS,

alluding to that of Ovid, where be describes the office of Argus-ljl.re prtKUI IIUJnlis st~6lime &a&umm Oe&~~pat, uN/4 miens partes spendalur in 011Uid.r , 1 and implying the like duty of care and vigilance in herself. The

fifth,
AGAPE,

or Loving AfFection, in crimson fringed with gold, a mantle of flame-colour, her chaplet of red and white roses. In her hand, a flaming heart. The flame expressed zeal ; the red and ~bite roses, a mixture of simplicity with love; her robes freshness and fervency. Her word,
NON SIC EXCUBIB,

out of Claudian, in following

--Nee &ircum.rlanlia pi/a Quam 111/a/llr ~.

inferring that though her sister before had protested watchfulness and circumspection, yet no watch or guard could be so safe to the estate or person of a prince as the love and natural affections of his subjects, which she in the city's behalf promised. The sixth,
OMOTHYKIA,

or Unanimity, in blue, her robe blue, nnd buskins.

1

A chaplet of
pule(.

&n.

I.

Met.

I.

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blue lilies, showing one truth and entireness of mind In her lap lies a sheath of arrows bound together, and she herself sits weaving certain small silver twists. Her word,
FIRMA CONCENSUS FACIT, .Auxilia lrumiliajirma, f,.c.,l

intimating that even the smallest and weakest aids, by consent, are made strong : herself personating the unanimity, or consent of soul, in all inhabitants of the city to his service. These are all the personages, or live figures, whereof only two were speakers (Genius and Tamesis), the rest were mutes. Other dumb complements there were, as the arms of the kingdom on the one side, with this inscri~tion,
HIS YIREAS, Witla tks1 mayut tlwu j/lnlrisll.

On the other side, the arms of the city, with

HIS YINCAS, Wit.l tks1 mayut tlwu &OIIIJWr,

In the centre, or midst of the pegme, there was an aback or square, wherein this elogy was written :
liiAXIKUS BIC IUUt lEST ET LUCK SuariOR. IPSA PJIJMCin QU& TALBlll CKilNlT IN UJIBJ: DUCKlll; CU.JUS J'OilTUNAlll SUPJ:V.AT SIC UNICA VlllTUS, UNVS UT IS J!J:LIQUOS VJNCJT UTilAQ~ VIJIOS. PK&CJ:PTJS ALII POPULOS, liiULTAQl1J: J'ATIOANT LIWJ: ; SJ:D J:DilPLO NOS JIAPJT ILLJ: SUO, CUIQUJ: FJIUI TOTA J'AS UT UXOJIJ: liiAJll10, ET SUA J'AS SUOLI PIONOJIA NOIISJC PATJIL BCCJ: UBI PIGNOJIIBUS ClllCUIIliTIPATA COJlUSCIS IT COliiJ:S, lrr TAN10 VJX KJNOil .4NN.4 VlllO. BAUD liiii:TUS UT, JUtOJ:lll PO&TBAC NI: PJ!OxnrtJII B&JtJ:S, NJ:U SUCCJ:880JIJ:lll NON AliiET ILLJ: IJUI1)(.

This, and the whole frame, was covered with a curtain of silk, painted like n thick cloud, and at the approach of the King was instan~y to be drawn. The allegory being, that those clouds were gathered upon the fac~ of the city, through their long want -.....-1

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of his most wished sight; but now, as at the rising of the sun, all mists were dispersed and fled. ~en suddenly, upon silence made to the music, a voice was heard to utter this verse, Totus adut oculu, aderat pi mmti!ltu olim,1 signifying that he was now really objected to their eyes who before had been only, but still, present in their minds.
Tlw.t far tlu (()111jJ/muntal jJarl of tlu first/ flllurein fllas Mt onl,Y la6oured tlu ezpressitm of state and magnifomu (as jJrojJw to a triumjJ!Ial ar(A), /Jut tlu 'lltry site,falm'c, strmgtll,polit:y, dig~a't,Y, and ajfectitms of tlu dt,Y fllere all/aid dtnlm to life : tlu nature and jJro/Jwi,Y of tluse ~ces king, to jJresmt alfllays some tmt mb're &Hiy or figure, consisting of distinct ~. and eac!J of tA.ose e~sing itself,,. its ()fll1l a&ti'lle sjJ!Jere, yet all fllit!J tlr:at gmeral ll.aniumy so &~J~~~UZtd and disposed, as IJ() tmt litlle part can !Je missing to tlu illrutration o/ flu fli!Jole: fli!Jere also is to lJe Mted, tlr:at tlu sym/lols rued are Mt, neit!Jer ()llg/U to !Je, simjJI)' !Jieroglypmcs, em!Jimu, or r'mprues, 1Nl a mixed c!Jaracter, fJartaRing somtfli!Jat of all, and jJeew/iarl)' ajJted to fluse more map:Jkmt JIJ'IImtitms : fli!Jerein tlu garmmts and mn'gns tleli'lltr flu nature oftlu perstm, and tlu fllord tlu presmt oflia. Nn't!Jer fllas it becoming, nor &~JJ~ld it stand fllit!J tlu dignity of tlr:ese s!Joflls (after tlu most misera!Jle and tlesj>wate s!Jift of tlu pujJ/Jtts), to repire a trud111um, or, flii'IA tlu ig11111W1t painter, tmt to fllrite, This is a dog ; or, This is a hare : /Jut so to lJe jJrtsmled, as ujJtm tlu 'llievl, fluy mig/U, flll't!Jout cloud or o/Jscurit,Y, declare t!Jn;uel'lles to tlu sluvjJ and/earned: and for tlu multr'Nde, M tlou!Jt /Jut tAIJ'r groundedjudgments did gue, sar'd it fllas and '~~'"' satisfied.

fine,

THE SPEECHES OF GRATULATION.

GENIUS.

Time, Fate, and Fortune have at length conspired, To give our age the day so much desired. What all the minutes, hours, weeks, months, and years, That bang in file upon these silver hairs, . Could not produce, beneath the Britain stroke, Tb"' Roman, Saxon, Dane, and Norman yoke,
l Claud. de Laud. Stil. lib. 3 N being the ftm free and natural goft!I'DIIIent of thla Island, after lt came to cirility. ~ In rapect they wen~ all cooqusts, and the obedience of the aubject more

llllforced.

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This point of time bath done. Now, London, rear Thy forehead high, and on it strive to wear Thy choi~ gems; teach thy steep towers to rise Higher with people : set with sparkling eyes Thy spacious windows ; and in every street, Let thronging joy, love, and amazement meet. Cleave all the air with shouts, and let the ay Strike through as long and universally As thunder; for thou now art blessed to see That sight, for which thou didst begin to be, When Brutus' 1 plough first gave thee infant bounds, And I, thy Genius, walked ~uspicious rounds In every furrow ; 1 then did I forelook, And saw this day marked white in Clotho's' book. The several circles,a both of change and sway,

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i Rather than the city lhould want a founder, we chose to follow the receiftld 1tory of Brute, wbetber fabnloas or true, and not altogether nnwarranted in poetry: aiDce lt 11 a faYOIIJ' antiquity to few cities, to let them know their first aathora. Besides, a learned poet of oar time, in a IDOit elegant work of his, Con. Tam. et Ilia, oelebratlng Loadoa, bath this of her: ..mala rnater111e tollenl saa lamina Troje. Here 11 also an ancient rite alluded to In the balldlng of cities, which was to gl~ them their bounds with a ploagh, according to Vlrg .D. hD. ro, Intena R.oeu urbem designat aratro. And lsldore, 110. xs, cap. 2, Urbs wcata ab. orbe, quod antique civitates In orbem flehant; "fd ab urbo parte aratrl, qao murl designabantur, undo est illud, OptaYitqae locam regno et coocladere sulco. t Prlmigenlas sulcus dlcitur, qui in oondendt DO"fl urbe, talllO et mc:d. desiguatlouls canlllmprlmltur; hitherto respecll that of Camd. Brit. 368, speaking of thil city, Qalc:aDque antem condiderlt, 'fita1l genio COIIItnlctalli fallle ip.las fortnna docalt. I For 10 all happy days were, Plln. cap. '40, hD. 7, Nat. Hist. To which Horace allades, lib. x, ode~. Creat ne careat pulehra dies aota. And the other, Plln. epllt. n, llb. 6, 0 diem letum, aotandumq~e mlhl candidlsslmo calculo. With many other in many places. Mart. hD. 8, ep. 45 ; lib. 9, ep. 53 ; lib. ro, ep. ,S ; lib. H, ep. 37 Stat. lib. 4o IY 6. Pera. sat. 11. Catall. epig. 69, clc. ' The Pan:e, or Fates, Martlan111 calli them ldrbu ac librarlas nper6m ; whereof Clotho 11 aid to be the eldest, slgnl!ylng In Latin E'fOC&tlo. I 1boae bef'oremendooed of the Britain, Roman, Suoa, clc., &Del to this re,11ter ol the Falel allude thole verRI of OYid, Met. rsCemes Dllc taollmlne ftSto, Ez aere, et solido rerum tabalarla ferro: Qa1B ueqae CODCIIIIUm cc:ell, neque falmlnlllram, Nee metuant uJiu tat& atque aetema rainu lD'ftlllleiiDIIIDcla adunante penm~l Fala, b. 2B

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Within this isle, there also figured lay : OC which the greatest, per{ectest, and last Was this, whose present happiness we taste.Why keep you silence, daughters ? what dull peace Is this inhabits you ? Shall office cease Upon the aspect of him, to whom you owe More than you are, or can be? Shall Time know That article, wherein your &me stood still, And not aspired? now heaven avert an ill OC that black look I Ere pause possess your breasts, I wish you more of plagues : zeal when it rests Leaves to be zeaL Up, thou tame River, wake; And from thy liquid limbs this slumber shake : Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep ; And these thy sluggish waters seem to creep, Rather than flow. Up, rise, and swell with pride Above thy banks 1 now is not every tide.
TAlOSIS.

To what vain end should I contend to show My weaker powers, when seas of pomp o'erflow The city's face, and cover all the shore With sands more rich than Tagus'l wealthy ore? When in the flood of joys that comes with him, He drowns the world, yet makes it live and swim; And spring With gladness : not my fishes here, Though they be dumb, but do express the cheer Of those bright streams : no less lll4Y these and I 1 Boast our delights, albeit we silent lie.
GENIUS.

Indeed true gladness doth not always speak : Joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. Yet (lest the ~ervour of so pure a tlatne
1 A r!Yet d!Yidlllg Spain and Portupl, and 'b1 the CODiellt of Poets atyled Aurifw. I UDclcntaDdlllg EupbralyDe, Sebuia, Prothymla, Ac:.

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As this my city bears, might lo5e the DJDie Without the apt eventing of het heat) how, greatest JAMES, and no less good than great, In the behalf of all my virtuous sonS, Whereof my eldest there thy pomp forerilns,l (A man withou~ my ftattering, or his pride, As worthy as he's blest 1 to be thf guide) In his grave name, and iill his brethren's right, Who thirst to drink the nectar of thy sight, The council, eommoners, and multitude ; Glad that this day, so long denied, is viewed, l tender thee the heartiest welcome, yet, That ever king had to his empire's seat : Never came man more longed for, more desired; And beirig eome, more reverenced, loved, admired : Hear and record it : In a prince it is ' No little virtue, to know who are his. With like devotions,' dot stoop to embrace This springing glory of thy godlike race ; a His country's wonder, hope, love, joy, and pride: How well doth he become the royal side or this erected and broad-spreading tree, Under whose shade may Britain ever be I And from this branch may thousand branches more Shoot o'er the main, and knit with every shore In bonds of marriage, kindred and increase ; And style this land the navel of their peace ; o
' J

The Lord Mayor, who for his JetU bath senior place of the rest, and for th1a daJ

was chief aajeant to the king.

I Abcml the blea!Dg of bjs praent oflic:e, the word had IIOIDe putlcalar aJllllfon 'to his aame, which Is Bezmet, and bath DO doubc ID time heeD the contraction of Benedlct. [Sir Thomas Bennet was now Lord Mayor.] Tbe cltJ, which title la touched beiore.

' To the Prince. ' An attribute glftll to great peraona, fitlJ abcm other hiUIIIUIIty, I.Dd In bequent me with all the Greek poeta, especiallJ Homer, Diad a.--&os 1A.xc>.Mw. And;ID the ame book-a& noA.,.,_. A. Lactatius calls Parnusus, umbllk:am terra.

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This is your servant's wish, your city's vow, Which still shall propagate itself, with you; And free from spurs of hope that slow minds move: He seeks no hire, that owes his life to love. And here she comes that is no lessa part 1 In this day's greatness, than in my glad heart. Glory of queens, and glory of your hame, 1 Whose graces do as far outspeak your fame .AJJ fame doth silence, when her trumpet rings You daug~ter, sister, wife of several kings : 1 Besides alliance, and the style of mother, In which one title you drown all your other. Instance, be that fair shoot, is gone before,' Your eldest joy, and top of all your store, With those, 11 whose sight to us is yet denied, But not our zeal to them, or aught beside The city can to you : for whose estate She hopes you will be still good aovocate To her best lord. So, whilst you mortal are, No taste of sour mortality once dare Approach your house; nor Fortune greet your grace But coming on, and with a forward face.

AT TEMPLE-BAR.

The Scene carried the frontispiece of a temple, the walls of which and gates were brass, their pillars silver, their capitals and bases gold. In the highest point of all was erected a Janus' head, and over it written,
1

To the Qaeen.

An empbatical speech, ll!ld well reinforcing .her greatDeBS, being, by tbli match, more than either her brothfo.r, father, &c. ' Daugbtez: to Frederick II., Kiag of Denmark 1111d Norway,llister to Chrlstierne IV., now there reigning, 1111d wife to James our sovereign. ' The Prince Henry Frederlck. ' Charles Duke of Rotbsay, and the Lady Elizabeth.
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Which title o( Qllatlrifrons is said to be given him, as he respecteth all climates, and filla all parts o( the world with his majesty : which Martial would seem to allude unto in that hendecasyllable,
Etling'll4 jJal"#er loaltru tm~~a:1

Others have thought it by reason of the (our elements which brake out o(him, being Chaos: Cor Ovid is not afraid tomake Chaos and Janus the same, in these verses,
Ne CluuJs anlifui (~~am .n1111 I"U pmca) viKIIIxml,

Atbfnu, ~&.

But we rather Collow, and that more particularly, the opinion o( the ancients,' who have entitled him Quadrifrons in regard o( the year, which, under his sway, is divided into (our seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, and ascribe unto him the beginnings and ends o( things. See M. Cic.,11 Cu111fw ;,. omnihs rthu ,;,.

llahnnl ma:aina111 Jrlina et ezi1'YIIIa, prit~apem i11 satrijiaz11114 Janum esu fJoi~~WWm, tpi(Jil 0 aiJ eu11114 "''"'"'est tiedfldrml: ez pq traiUi&tru pmniz Jani, jflnl(jllt ;, lmini!Jus pn1pllana'*"' IMi'um, Janu nominahlr, 6-'". As also the charge and custody o( the
whole world, by Ovid :
(bd&tJIIUluln(jru 'flillls, calum, ,_,.e, flllllila, Jenru, 01IUii4 .nlniiWII"a &latua jJalmltpu """"' Me jJmu ut 111111111 vasti aulqt/ia muNii, Et jfu '11t1'141111i &l.ll"tlinis tmUU m111111 ut.'

About his (our heads he bath a wreath o( gold, in which was graven this verse,
'l'OT VULTVI JOBJ JOC SATII PUTAVl,l

Signi(ying, that though he had !our faces, yet he thought them

not enough to behold the greatness and glory o( that day. neath, under the head, was written,
1 Buaua apud Macrob. 1. I Fat. 1lh. L ' De Dat. deonun, 1lh. 11.

Be-

L Satar. cap. 9 t Lib. 8, ep. a. Lep Marllanum, lib. 4o cap. 8, Alb. ID deanuD.

Qual Eanua.

' Fut. Ibid.

' Mart. lib. 8, ep. a.

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ET IIODO SACI.IFJCO CLUSIUS OU VOCOLl

'J1()r being open, he was styled Patulciua, but then upon the CQtning of His Majesty, being to be shut, he was to be called Clusius. Upon the outmost front of the building was placed the entire arms of the kingdom, with the garter, crown, and supporters, cut forth as fair and great as the life, with an hexastich written underneath, all expressing the dignity and power of him that should close that Temple.
QUI DtTDUK ANGt18TlS TANTUK REGNAVIT IN ORlS PARV<>qUE DD'ItiUO Sit TOTI PII.&BUIT ORBI KSS1t llBOBJfDO PARitll, TRIA RKGMA (UT Mt1U.A DEit&RT VlllTUTI FORTUMA) suo FltLICJTER UNI JVNCTA SIIIUL SENSIT: J'AS UT SIT CllBDDit VOTlS MOH JAK SAMOUIMltA J'RUITUROS PACK BRITANMOS.

buildin~

In a great frieze below, that ran quite along the breadth of the were written these two verses out of Horace,
]URAMDASQUB SUUK PD MOIIEN POMIIWS AliAS, MIL OIIITURUII ALIAS, MIL OllTUII TAI.It FATitMTBS.

The first and principal person in the temple was

IRENE, or Peace. She was placed aloft in a cant, her attire white, semined with stars, her hair loose and large : a wreath of olive on her head, on her shqulder a silver dove. In her left hand she held forth an olive branch, with an handful of ripe ears ; in the other a crown of laure~ as notes of victory and plenty. By her stood
PLUTCS,

or Wealth, a llttle boy, bareheaded, his locks curled and spangled with gold, of a fresh aspect, his body alinost naked, saving some rich robe cast over him. In his arms a heap of gold ingots to express riches, whereof pe is the god. Beneath his feet lay
ENYALIUS,

or Mars, grovelling, his armour scattered upon him in several

Ov. Fut, r. I Lib, sa, epist. I, ad Aug. & Cepbislodotas bath felgued him. See Paas. la !bot. et Phi!. ln Imag. contrary to Aristoph. Tbeogn. Lw:ian, sad others, who make hllll blind aud deformed.
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Her

pieces, and sundry sorts of weapons hroken about him. word to all was
UNA TIIIUKPRtS IXNWBRIS.

Quas lwnini 110'111"sse tlaluM est, par tma lriuMp!W Innumeri.r polior.1 Signifying that peace alone was better, and more to be coveted than innumerable triumphs. Besides, upon the right hand of her, but with some little descent; in a hemicycle was seated
EsvCHIA,

---Par optima rtruM

or Quiet; the first handmaid of Peace; a woman of a grave and venerable aspect, attired in black. Up<in her head an artificial nest; out of which appeared st.orks' heads, to manifest a sweet repose. Her feet were placed upon a cube, to show stability, and in her lap she held a perpendicular or level, as the ensign of evenn~ and rest : on the top of it sat an halcyon, or king's-fisher. She had lying at her feet
TARACHE,

or Tumult; in a garment of divers but dark colours, her hair wild and disordered, a foul and troubled face. About her lay staves, swords, ropes, chains, hammers, stones, and such like, to express turmoil The word was,
PII:RAGIT TIIANQUILLA POTESTAS.

Quod violmla nep#: 11UmliaJape forlius urge/ IMperiosa fJuits. 1 To show the benefit of a calm and faciie power, being able to effect in a state that which no violence can. On the other side the second handmaid was
EI.EUTHERIA,

or Liberty, her dressing white, and somew~t antique, but loose and free : her hair flowing down her back and shoulders. In her right hand she bare a club, on her left a hat, the characters of freedom and power. At her feet a cat was placed, the creature most affecting and expressing liberty. She trod on
1

SIL Ital.

Malll 'lbeo.

CODS.

paneg.

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DoULOSIS,

or Servitude, a woman ir) old and wom garments, lean and meagre, bearing fetters on her feet and hands ; about her neck a yoke, to insinuate bopdage, and the word KEC UlfQUAM caAno:a, alluding to that other of Claud
Quam 1*6 ngr p;o,l
Nunpa~~~ /i~Mrku gralitw

erlal

And intimated that liberty could never appear more graceful and lovely than now under so good a prince. The third handmaid was
SOTERIA,

or Safety, a damsel in a.rnation, the colour signifying cheer and life. She sat high. Upon her head she wore an antique helm, and in her right hand a spear for defence, and in her left a cup for medicine. At her feet was set a pedestal, upon which a serpent rolled up did lie. Beneath was
PEillA, or Danger, a woman despoiled, and almost naked The little garment she bath left her, of several colours, to note her various disposition. Besides her lies a torch out, and her sword broken (the instrument of her fury), with a net and wolf's-skin (the ensigns of her malice) rent in pieces. The ,word,
TE&GA DllDUB IB'nlS,

borrowed from Mart., 1 and implying that now all fears have turned their backs, and our safety might become security, danger being so wholly depressed, and unfurnished of all means to hurt. The fourth attendant is
EUDAIHONIA,

or Felicity, varied on the second hand, and apparelled richly in an embroidered robe and mantle : a fair golden tress. In her right hand a Caduceus, the note of peaceful wisdom : in her left, a Cornucopise filled only with flowers; as a sign of flourishing blessedness; and crowned with a garland of the same. At her feet,
1

De Laud. Stil L 3o

Ub.

12,

ep. 6.

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or Unhappiness, a woman bareheaded, her neck, arms, breast, and feet naked, her look hollow and pale. She holds a Comucopile turned downward, with all the flowers fallen out and scattered : upon her sits a raven, as the augury of ill fortune : and the soul was
JUWJtuMT SATUKNIA IUCGNA,

out o Virgil,l to show that now these golden times were returned again, wherein Peace was with us so advanced, Rest received, Liberty restored, Safety assured, and all blessedness appearing in every of these virtues, her particular triumph over her opposite evil This is the dumb argument of the frame, and illustrated with this verse of Virgil, written in the under frieze,
NULLA SALUB BltU.O : PACJl)( TK POSCIKUB OKNU,I

Toe speaking part was performed, as within the temple, where there was erected an altar, to which, at the approach of the king, appears the Flamen
MAli.TIALIS.1

And to him,
GRNIUS URBIS.

The Genius we attired before : to the Flamen we appoint this habit. A long crimson robe to witness his nobility, his tippet and sleeves white, as reflecting on purity in his religion, a rich mantle of gold with a train to express the dignity of his function. Upon his head a hat of delicate wool,' whose top ended in a cone, and was thence called apex, according to $it of Lucan, lib. x,
A ltollnutJru apicem gmer.oso verlia jlamm.
1 Eclog .,, .<En. 1. n. One of tbe three Flamlnes that, u aome think, Numa Pomplllus first lnltituted ; but wo rather, with Vlll1'0, take him of Ramulus's institution, whereof there were Only two, he and Dialla : to whom he was next In dignity. He was alwaya created out of the nobility, and did perform the rites to Mars, who wu thought the father of Romulua. Scallger In conject. In Var. aalth, Totua plleua, ftl potiua velamenta, llammeum dlcebatur, uncle llamlns dictL

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This apex was covered with a fine net of yam, 1 which they named apiculum, and was sustained with a bowed twig of pomegranate tree ; 1 it was also in the hot time of summer to be .bound with ribands, and thrown behind them, as Sca1iger 1 teacheth. In his ~d he bore a golden censer with perfume, and censing about the altar (having first kindled his fire on the top), is interrupted by the Genius.
GENIUS.

Stay, what art thou, that in this strange attire, Datst kindle stranger and unhallowed fire Upon this altar?

FLAXEN.
Rather what art thou That dar'st so rudely interrupt my vow ? My habit speaks my name.
GENIUS.

A Flamen?

F'L.ui:J:N.

Yes,
And Martialis called'
GENIUS.

I so did gue8s By my short view; but whence didst thou ascend Hither? or how? or to what mystic end?

FL.umN.
The noise, and present tumult of this day, Roused me from sleep, and silence, where I lay Obscured from light; which when I waked to see,
' To this loob that other conjecture of Varro, lib. 4o de l1ngaa Lat!Da : Flamlnes quod liclo In capite -.elatl eraut eemper, RC caput ciDCtum babebant
Iilo, ftamlnes died. 1 Wl)lch In their attire was called Stroppal, In their wl9ell' Inareulum. Seal Ibid. In con. Ponh enlm regerebant aplcem, ne gravis e11et IWDmb aestatls calorlbua. Amends enlm, qt11111 oft'endJces dlcebA.ntur mh mentum abductls, reUpbant ; ut cum ft!lent, regererent, et ponh pandere pei'mlttenmL Ol Mars, whole rites (u we ban touched before) thla Flamen did 1peclal17 celebrate.

AT THB CORONATION OF 1AJIBS I.

I wondering thought what this great pomp might be. When, looking in my kalendar, I found The Ides of March 1 were entered, and I bound With these, to celebrate the genial feast Of Anna styled Pereni18t1 Mars's guest, Wh<>t in this month of his, is yearly called To banquet at his altars, and iPStalled A goddess with him,' since she fills the year And knits 6 the oblique scarf that girts the sphere, Whilst four-faced Janus turns his vernal look e Upon their meeting hours, as if he took High pride and pleasure.
GENIUS.

595

Sure thou still dost dream, And both thy tongue and thought rides on the stream .Of phantasy: behold, here he nor she 1 Have any altar, Cane, or deity. Stoop ; read but this inscription : ' and then view To whom the place is consecrate. 'Tis true
1 With us the fifteenth of March, which waa the present day of this triumph : IUid 011 which the gnsl feast of Auna Perenua (among the Romaua) was yearly and ~ such IOiemDity remembered, OY!d. Fut. 3

ldlbaa est. Annae festum geulale Pemmae. Haud procul a ripls, k.

Who thD Auna lhould be (with tbe Romans theuuel'fel) bath 'been DO trlfllur eoutrmersy. Some ban thought her fabulously tbe slat&- of Dldo, 10me a nymph of NUIIIIciul, aome Io, IOIDe Them!&. Ottm. ~ old woman of Barilla, that fed the ledltlous multitude In Monte Scaro with wafers IUid fiDe cakea ID time of their penury: to whom afterwards (In JDeiiiOI'1 of the benefit), their peace being made with tbe DObles, they ordained this feast. Yet thq that ban tbclapt De8ftJit, ban mlued all thele, and directly imagined her the moon: IUid that she was called ANNA, Quia meuslbul lmpleat annum, OY!d. lb. To which the l'OW that they uaed ID her ritet aomewbat couftrmiugly alludes, which was, ut Auuare, et Pereaaare commode 1loeret. Macr, Sat. Hb. 1, cap. 111. a So Ovld, Ibid. Fast. makes Mars apeakiDg to her, Meu.e meo colerla, juiiZI mea tempora tecum. ' Nuper erat dea facta, l:c. Ibid. Where 1s UDdentood the meetlnr of tbe sodlsa In Marcb, the month wberela llhe Is celebrated. That face wherewith be beboldl the aprluf. r Writtea upoa the altar, Cor which we refer you to pap sg8.

BNTBRTAINJIBNTS.

That this is Janus' temple, and that now He turns upon the year his freshest brow; That this is Mars's month ; and these the Ides, Wherein his Aooe was honoured ; both the tides, Titles, and place, we know : but these dead rites Are long since buried; and new power excites More high and hearty flames. Lo, there is he, Who brings with him a greater Anne ~ she : 1 Whose strong and potent virtues have defaced 1 Stern Mars's statues, and upon them placed His,1 and the world's best blessing : this bath brought Sweet peace to sit in that bright state she ought, Unbloody, or untroubled; bath forced hence All tumults, fears, or other dark portents That might invade weak minds ; bath made men see Once more the face of welcome liberty : And doth in all his present acts restore That first pure world, made of the better ore. Now iooocence shall cease to be the spoil Of ravenous greatness, or to steep the" soil Of~ peasantrY with tears and blood ; No more shall rich men, for their little good, Suspect to be made guilty ; or vile spies Enjoy the lust of their so murdering eyes : Men shall put off their iron minds and hearts ; The time forget his ~ld malicious arts With this new minute; and no print remain Of what was thought the former age's stain. Back, Flamen, with thy superstitious fumes, And cease not here; thy ignorance presumes
1 Tbe

q - : to which Ill oar lnlc:ripdoa we ipUe to the ldDf MARTE

MAJORI.
I Tbe temple of }UIIII we apprebeDd to be both the bcxM of WU' Uld p.c11: of 1rar, wben lt la opai : of peace. when lt la lbat : Uld that there, eldl Oftl' the other illllterclwlgeably p~. to the Ticlultude oC tlmea. Which are peace, rest, liberty, ealety, Ac., ud were hla actbely, bllt the world's paalvely.

AT-THB CORONATION OF JAMBS I.

Too much in acting any ethnic rite In this translated temple : here no wight To sacrifice, save my devotion, comes, That brings, instead of those thy masculine gums,l My city's heart; which shall for ever bum Upon this altar, and no time shall turn The same to ashes : here I ~ it fast, Flame bright, ftame high, and 1nay it ever last. Whilst I, before the figure of thy peace, Still tend the fire ; and give it quick increase With prayers, wishes, VOWS j wh~f be these The least, and weakest: that no age may leese ,The memory of this so rich a day; But rather that it henceforth yearly may ~ our spring, and with our spring the prime And first account of years, of months, of tinie; 1 And may these Ides as fortunate appear To thee, as they to Czsar tatal were.'

YJ1

a lltra.Dge epithet In oar tongue, but proper to the thiDJ : for mucullne odOIUI, which were offered to the alWII, Virg. Eel 8, Verbeauqne &dole plnguels, et 111UCU1a thura. And Plin. Nat. Hilt. Ub. ro, ci.p. 14o speiWug of thele; u.lth, Qaod ex rotuDdltate gntte pepeDdit, mucnlnm W~C~UDDI, CDJD a11u nim fere mu '90CetDr, nbl non lit foemiDa : reli&fool trlbntnm 1111 lleJ:DI alter nsurparetnr, Mucnlnm aUqnl pntant a specie testinm dlctnm. See blm also Ub. 34, cap. 11, And Amob. Ub. 7, adYen. gat. NOD al mllle ta poll dera --n thmb buiendu, l:ll. Ac:cordiDg to Romnlns his inltltndoa, who made March the flnt mouth, &Dd COIIIeCftted it to his father, of whom it was called Martl111. Vair. Fat. ID era,. Martins lllellliii:Ditfnm annl fnit, et ID Latio, et poac Roma.m coDditam, a;i:. And Oftd. Fast. 3o A te prlnclplnm ROIDIUIO dlcimns IIDIIO : PrimDI de patrlo nomine lllelllil erit. Voz rata fit, l:ll. See ~. Ub. r, cap. u, and Sc>Un. ID Polyhilt. caP, 3, Qaod hoc m - merc:edel ezolveriDt mqlstril, qnu oompletu IUIDUS deberi fedlle, a:c. . . Some. to whom we haw read thll, haw tabD it for a tautology, thillldng nme eDODgh expreued before in years and months. For whole lporant u.kel we mut coofea to hay_e taken the better put of this tra'tafl, ID notlnr a thillr not Ulllal, neither a&cted of 111, bnt where there t. -my, u here, to a'fO!d tbelr dnll cemnres. Where ID years and tDODtha we allUded to that 11 o1werYed Ill oar former note: bnt by T"I!M we Ullderatand the pcesent, &Dd that from this lllltant welboald beeln to reckOD, and make this the tint ~ oar time. Which 11 also to be belped by emplwiL lA wblch be wu aJaln ID the Senale.
1 Somewhat

they were Ollly

BNTBRTA.INMBNTS.
Be all thy thoughts bom perfedt and thy h<>~ In their events still crowned beyond their scopes. Let not wide heaven that secret blessing know To give, which she on thee will not bestow. Blind fortune be thy slave ; and may her store, The less thou seek.'st it, follow thee the more. Much more I would: but see, these brazen gatea Make haste to close, as urg~d by thy fates. Here ends my city's office, here it breaks : Yet with my tongue, and this pure heart, she speaks A short farewell : and lower than thy feet, With fervent thanks, thy royal pains doth greet. Pardon, if my abruptness breed disease : He merits not to offend, that bastes to please.

Overtlu a/Jar 'tllas 'lllriJJm 1/W iN&riph"tm 1

D. L 0. M. BRITANNIARUM. IMP. PACIS. VINDICI. MA.RTE. MAJORL P. P. F. S. AUGUST(). NOVO. GENTIUM CONJUNC!ARUM. NUMINL TUTELARL D. A. CONSERVATRICL ANNJE. IPSJE. PERENNJE. DEABUSQUE. UNIVERSIS. OPTATIORL SUL FORTUNATISSIML THALAMI. SOCIJE. ET CONSORTI. PULCHERRIMJE. AUGUSTISSIMJE. ET

H. F. P. FILIO, SUO. NOBILISSIMO. OB. ADVENTUM. AD. URBEM. HANC. SUAM. EXPEcrATISSIMUM. GRATISSIMUM. CELEBRATISSIMUM. CUJUS. NON. RADIL SED. SOLES. POTIUS. FUNESTISSIMAM. NUPER. AERI8. INTEMPERIEM. SERENARUNT. S. P. Q. L. VOTIS. X. VOTIS. XX. ARDENTISSIMIS. L. M.
HANC. ARAM

P.

A.ild *Ptm 1114 ga/4, lMUig .r/1111:

IMP, JACOBUS. MAX. c.SAR. AUG. P. P. PACE POPULO BRITANNICO "TERRA MARIQUE PARTA JANUM CLUSIT. S. C,

.dT THB CORON.dTION Oil J.dMBS I.

399

IN

THE

Snwm.

The invention was a rainbow, the moon, aun, and those seven stars, which antiquity bath styled the Pleiades or Vergillie, advanced between two inagnificeJ1t pyramids of seventy foot in height, on which were drawn His Majesty's several pedigrees Eng. and Soot. To which body (being framed before) we were to apt our soul And finding that one of these seven lights, Electra, is rarely or not at all to be seen, as Ovid. lib. 4 Fast. affirmeth,

P/eiadu inapiml lluiiUI'os rrlevare paunw,~

Quiz seplem dl'a; ser faMm use solmt.

And by-and-by after,

SiTJe pod Eleara Tnjtz spedal'e n~~ilas Ntm hi/it; tmk oadiM opfJosuiiiJIU Man~~"" And Fel!tUS Avien.l
Fama flehu

septem IIUIIIQf'al gm/Ion t:rlalas

in/er lil/era /anhlm

Ltmgtz'IIO: IIZ SI rwl#a SrukJIIIml, ~"-

And beneath,
-cmr~ ser so/as t:tzn~a;,

M}'tlllw

Assm"': Eleclram azlo a!JScessisse profol'llio, ~&. We ventured to follow this authority, and made her the speaker: presenting her hanging in the air, in figure of a comet, according to Anonymus. Ekdrrl non sruhirms vU/ere &asllm frtmejlolllm jugeril; ti1Uk ell/lam dissolrdis &rinilnu frOIIw ltldllm in rum'tml

el Jroller &IJIIUU pit/am Come/m ajJdlanl. THE SPEECH.

BLECTR~.

The long laments 1 I spent for ruined Troy,

Are dried; and now mine eyes run tears of joy. No more shall men suppose Electra dead, Though from the consort of her sisters fled
Pampb. ID Arat. PhiDIIom. Felt. AYI. paraph. Pan alt Ideal defleatem IDceaclla 'rroj., Et D1l!llei'Oiabipntem fuDr:ra geatls, Electram tetril JDCeltum dare llubibas orbem. belklel tlie n!ereDce to antiquity, thll apeecb might be UDdentooc1 by al1t;oly of the tDWil here, that bad beeD 10 raiDecl with . . _ ,
1

a:c.

ENTBRTA.INJIBNTS. Unto the arctic circle, 1 here to grace, And gild this day with her serenest face : t And see, my daughter Iris 1 bastes to throw Her roseate wings, in compass of a bow, About our state, as sign' of my approach : Attracting to her seat from Mithra's coach& A thousand different and particular hues, Which she throughout her body doth di1fuse. The sun, as loth to part from this half sphere, Stands still ; and Phrebe labours to appear In all as bright, if not as rich, as he : And, for a note of more serenity, My six 0 fair sisters hither shift their lights To do this hour the utmost of her rites. lest the captious or profane might doubt How these clear heavenly bodies come about All to be seen at once, yet neither's light Eclipsed or shadowed by the other's sight : Let ignorance know, great king, this day is thine, And doth admit no night; but all do shine As well nocturnal as dium,al fires, To add unto the flame of our desires,

Where

1 Hygiaus. Sed postquam Troja Cult capta, et progenies ejus que Dardano Cait even&, dolore permotam ab his se removlsse, et In circulo qui arctlcus dldtur constitisse, .tc. Electra signifies Serenity ltaelC, and Is compounded or~. which 11 the IWI, and UP'ot, that signifies serene. She 11 mentioned to be Anima sphlera:l10lls, by Proclus. Com. In Heslod. ' She 11 also reigned to be the mother or the rainbow. Nucltur enlm Iris ex aqua et serenltate, l ref'ractlone radiorum scilicet. Arist. In meteoroL Val Flac. Argonant. I, makes the rainbow lndlcem eerenltatls. Emlc:ult reserata dies ccelamqae resolvlt Arena, et In summos redlerunt nablla montes. A name or the sun, Stat. The. L I, torqaentem comtia Mlthraa. And Martlan. Capel L 3 de nap. Mer. et Phil. Te Seraplm. NDus, Memphll ftlleratur OairiD ; Dissona sac:ra Mithran, .tc. Alcyone, Cebr:no, Taygete, Asterope, Merope, Mala, which are also aid to be lhe IOala or the other spheres, as Electra or the sun Proclaa, lblln IXIID. ~ne Venerll, Celeao Satarnl, Ta)'lete I:.an-. Asterope Jovla, Merope Mutll, Mala

M~L

AT THl1 CORONATION OF JAMBS I. Which are, now thou hast closed up Janus' gates,t And giyen so general peace to all estates, That no offensive mist or cloudy stain May mix with splendour of thy golden reign; But, as thou'st freed thy Chamber from the noise I Of war and tumult ; thou wilt pour those joys Upon this place, which claims to be the seat' Of all the kingly race : the cabinet To all thy counsels, anel the judging chair To this thy special kingdom. Whose so fair And wholesome laws, in every court, strive By equity and their first innocence to thrive ; The base and guilty bribes of guiltier men Shall be thrown back, and justice look as when She loved the earth and feared not to be sold For that 0 which worketh all things to it, gold. The dam of other evils, Avarice, Shall here lock down her jaws, and. that rude vice Of ignorant and pitied greatness, Pride, Decline with shame; Ambition now shall hide Her face in dust, as dedicate to sleep, That in great portals wont her watch to keep. All ills shall fly the light : thy Court be free No less from envy than from flattery; All tumult, faction, and harsh discord cease, That might perturb the music of thy peace : The querulous nature shall no longer find Room for his thoughts : one pure consent of mind Shall flow in every breast, and not the air; Sun, moon, or stars shine more serenely fair.

401

shall

Alluding back to that of our temple. LOndon. I Hla city of Westminster, In whole aame, 1.11d at whOle cbarp, together with the Duchy ol Laucuter, thla arch was erected. Since here, they not only aat being crowned, but also first received tbelr
1

crowns.

Hor. Car. Ub. 4, ode 9 Ducentla ad 111 CIIJICta pecunile. 2

BNTBRTAINMBNTS.
This from that loud, blest oracle, I sing, Who here, and first, pronounced thee Britain's king. Long ~yst thou live, and see thus appear. As ominous a comet, 1 from my sphere, Unto thy reign; as that did auspicate 1 So lasting glory to Augustus' state.

me

For our more authority to Induce her thus, see Fest. AYlen. paraph. In

Arat. speaking of Electra. Nonnunquam ocean! tameD lstam surgere ab undis, In

poH, sed sede carere sororum ; Atque os dlscretum procul edere, dete5o tatam : Germanosqne choros soboHs lacrymare ruinas Diffusamqne comas oernl, crinlsqne solutl Monstrarl eftigie, Ac. t All cometS were not fatal, some were fortunately ominous, as this to which we allude; and wherefore we have Pliny's testimony, Nat. Hist. Ub. sa, cap. sas, Cometes in uno totlus orbls loco coUtur In templo RoiDII!l, admodum faustus Dlw Augusto judiaatus ab Ipso : qui lncipleale eo, apparuit Judls quos faclebat Veneri Genetrlcl, non multo post obltnm patris Caesaris, In collegio ab eo instltilto. N am que his ftll'bis Id gaudium prodidlt. lis ipsia ludorum meorum dlebus, lidWI crlnitum per septem dies In reglone ex2U, qu&e sub septentri0111"bus est, couspectum. Id orlebatur circa uudeclmam horam dlel, clarumqile et omnibus terrls consplcuum fuit. Eo sldere slgnlficarl vulgus credidlt, Caesarls anlmam Inter Deorum lmmortalium numina receptam : quo nomine Id illligne slmulacro capitis ejus, quod mox in foro eonsecraYimus, adjectum est. Haec i1le In pub!IC111n, luterlore p.udio slbl lllum natnm seqne lu eo nasc:l lnterpretatus esL Et si vermn fatemm, salutare Id terrls fult.
COD\'IID

A PANEGYRE
ON THE HAPPY ENTRANCE OF J.AMES, OUR SOVEREIGN,
TO

ms

FIRST HIGH SESSION OF PARLIAMENT IN THIS HIS KINGDOM,

Tlu 19/A of Marcll 1603.

LlCJtT TOTO NUNC HELIOOKK ftUI.-MART.

now not strives alone our breasts to fill With joys; but wgeth his full favours stilL Again, the glory of our western world Unfolds himself; and from his eyes are hurled To-day, a thousand radiant lights that stream To every nook and angle of his realm. His former rays did only clear the sky; But these his searching beams are cast, to pry Into those dark and deep conceaMd vaults, Where men commit black incest with their faults, And snore supinely in the stall of sin : Where murtber, rapine, lust, do sit within, Carousing human blood in iron bowls, And make their den the slaughter-house of souls : From whose foul reeking caverns first apse Those damps that so offend all good men's eyes, And would, if not dispersed, infect the crown, And in their vapour her bright metal drown. To this so clear and sanctified an end, I saw, when reverend Themis did descend

HEAVE..~

BNTBRTAINMBNTS.
Upon his state: let down in that rich chain, That fasteneth heavenly power to earthly reign : Beside her stooped on either hand a maid, Fair Die~ and Eunomia, who were said To be her daughters ; and but faintly known On earth, till now they come to grace his throne. Her third, Irene, helped to bear his train; And in her office vowed she would remain Till foreign malice, or unnatural spite (Which fates avert) should force her from her right With these he passed, and with his people's hearts, Breathed in his way; and souls, their better parts, Hasting to follow forth in shouts and cries, Upon his face all threw their covetous eyes, As on a wonder : some amaz~ stood, As if they felt, but had not known their good. Other would fain have shown it in their words ; But, when their speech so poor a help affords Unto their zeal's expression, they are mute; And only with red silence him salute. Some cry from tops of houses ; thinking noise The fittest herald to proclaim true joys ; Others on ground run gazing by his side, All, as unwearied, as unsatisfied : And every window grieved it could not move Along with him, and the same trouble prove. They that had seen, but four short days before, His gladding look, now longed to see it more. And as of late, when he through London went, The amorous city spared no ornament, That might her beauties heighten; but so drest, As our ambitious dames when they make feast, And would be courted, so this town put on Her brighest tire and in it equal shone To her great sister, save that modesty, Her place, and years, gave her precedency.

THB KING'S PIRST P.A.RLI.A.MBNT.

405

The joy of either was alike, and full ; No age, nor sex, so weak, or strongly dull, That did not bear a part in this consent Of heart and voices. All the air was rent As with the murmur of a moving wood; The ground beneath did seem a moving flood; Walls, windows, roofs, towers, steeples, all were set With several eyes, that in this object met. Old men were glad their fates till now did last ; And infants, that the hours had made such haste To bring them forth: whilst riper aged, and apt To understand the more, the more were rapt. This was the people's love, with which did strive The nobles' zeal, yet either kept alive The other's flame, as doth the wick and wax That, friendly tempered, one pute taper makes. Meanwhile the reverend Themis draws aside The king's obeying wil~- from taking pride In these vain stirs, and to his mind suggests How he may triumph in his subjects' breasts, With better pomp. She tells him first, "That kings Are here on earth the most conspicuous things : That they by heaven are placed upon his throne, To rule like heaven ; and have no more their own, As they are men, than men, that all they do, Though hid at home, abroad is ~ed into : And being once found out, discovered lies Unto as many envies there, as eyes; That princes, since they know it is their fate, Oft-times, to have the secrets of their state Betrayed to fame, should take more care and fear In public acts what face and form they bear. She then remembered to his thought the place Where he was going ; and the upward race Of kings, preceding him in that high court ; Theit laws, their ends ; the men she did report :

1$NTBRTAI/fMENTS.

And all so justly, as his ear was joyed To hear the truth from spite or flattery void. She showed him who made wise, who honest acts; Who both, who neither : all the cunning tracts And thriving statutes, she could promptly note; The bloody, base, and barbarous she did quote, Where laws were made to serve the tyrant's will ; Where sleeping they could save, and waking kill ; Where acts gave license to impetuous lust To bury churches in forgotten dust, And with their ruins raise the pander's bowers ; When public justice borrowed all her powers From private chambers ; that could then create Laws, judges, counsellors, yea, prince and state. All this she told, and more, with bleeding eyes ; For Right is as compas~~ionate as wise. Nc>r did he seem their vices so to love, As once defend what Themis did reprove. For though by right and benefit of times He owned their crowns, he would not so their aimes. He knew that princes who had sold their fame To their voluptuous lusts, had lost their name ; And that no wretch was more unblest than he Whose necessary good 'twas now to be An evil king : and so must such be still, Who once have got the habit to do ill One wickedness another must defend, For vice is safe, while she bath vice to friend. He knew that those who would with love command, Must with a tender, yet a steadfast, hand Sustain the reins, and in the check forbear
Too~r~useminjuryorfear;

That kings by their example more do sway Than by their power; and men do more obey When they are led than when they are compelled. ~ all_these knowing arts our prince excell~

THB KING'S PIRST PARLIAMBNT.

And now the dame had dried her drooping eyne, When, like an April Iris, dew her shine About the streets, as it would force a spring From out the stones, to gratulate the king. She blest the people that in shoals did swim To hear her speech ; which still began in him, And ceased in them. She told them what a fate Was gently fallen frqm heaven upon the state ; How dear a father they did now enjoy, That came to BllVe what discord would destroy, And entering with the power of a king, The temperance of a private man did bring, That wan affections ere his steps wan ground, And was not hot, or covetous to be crowned Before men's hearts had crowned him. Who (unlike Those greater bodies of the sky1 that strike The lesser fires dim) in his access, Brighter than all, bath yet made no one less, Though many greater: and the most, the best. Wherein his choice was happy with the rest Of his great actions, first to see and do What all men's wishes did aspire unto. . Hereat the people could no longer bold Their bursting joys ; but thrQugh the air was rolled The lengthened shout, as when the utillery Of heaven is discharged along the sky. And this confession dew from every voice, " Never had land more re&son to rejoice, Nor to her bliss could aught now added be, Save, that she might the same perpetual see." Which when time, nature, and the fates denied, With a twice louder shout again they cried, " Yet let blest Britain ask, without your wtQng. . Still to have such a king, and this king long."

.5oltU r~:: d pqeta

f1111J

pqtannit nasdlur.

THE SATYR.
A SATYR, lodgrd in a #Ilk spiliel, 6y 'lll!licA Her Majesty and tA4 Pn"na 'Iller to t;otM, at Pu report of urlain &Qf'llets IAat 'tllert tli'Vitkd in several places of llu park, to signi.h Mr approada, ativanad !lis !lead alxnle llu top of llu wood, 'lllondenirg, aNi, wi~ !lis pipe in Ius ltand, 6egan as fo//OflleiA:

----

Hnx I there I and everywhere I Some solemnities are near, That these changes strike mine ear. My pipe and I a part shall bear.

["Aft" a slltJrl sl,ain w1111 IUs Jlpe.

Look, see 1-beshrew this tree I What may all this wonder be? Pipe it who that list for me : I'll fiy out abroad, and see.

Hm M leaped thum, and gued tA4

1/ufau.

0um

and Pu Prittu ill

That is Cyparissus' face I And the dame bath Syrinx' grace I

0 that Pan were now in placeSure they are of heavenly race.

H m M ran into tA4 wood again, and !lid !limselj, 'tllllilsl lo Pu

stlflnd of ezullml sofltn~~S~i:, tAat 'ltlas amaa/ed ;;, Pu 1/ui:hl, 1/un &aiM tnpping up tA4 ltmm a 6nty ofFAIRIES, atlmtling on MAD lkir guem, wlw falling 1irlo an arlijidal ring, IHgrm IQ tian&4 a ,ountl, 'llllli/4 JMi, mistress spalu as joiJO'IlleiA: MM. Hail and welcome, worthiest queen I Joy had never perfect been, To the nymphs that haunt this green,

THB SATYR.

Had they not this evening seen. Now they print it on the ground With their feet in figures round ,; Marks that will be ever found. To remember this glad stound.

SaJ. ~i~rg m M~sn]. Trust her not, you bonnibell, She will forty leasings tell ; I do know her pranks right well.

of'"'

Mu. Satyr, we must have a spell

For your tongue, it runs too fleet.

Sill. Not so nimbly as your feet

When about the cream-bowls sweet You and all your elves do meet.
Hwe lu amu Mppi~rgforlA, and 111izi~rg la'mselfflii'IA tlu F AIRlES,

shpped in, out, and a!Joullluir t?ffws ltJ &akA aJ llim.

~'rde,

wlliu ~My 1114116 """".Y

fai.

Sal.

Fa1: Sal.

This is Mab, the mistress Fairy, That doth nightly rob the dairy, And can hurt or help the cherning, & she please, without discerning. Pug, you will anon take warning ? She that pinches country wenches, If they rub not clean their benches, And with sharper nails remembers When they rake not up their embers: But if so .they chance to feast her, In a shoe she drops a tester. Shall we strip the skipping jester? This is $he that empties cradles, Takes out children, puts in ladles : Trains forth midwives in their slumber With a sieve the holes to number ; And then leads them from her burrows Home through ponds and water-furrows.

41Q

BNTBRTAINMBNTS.
1

Fai. Shall not all this mocking stir us ? Sal. She can start our Franklin's daughten In their sleep with sbrieb and laughtenJ ; And on sweet St. Anna's night Feed them with a promised light, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. FIJi. Satyr, vengeance near you ho'Ve1L Sal. And in hope that you would come here Yester-eve, the lady Summer I She invited to a banquetBut (in sooth) I con you thank yet That you could so well deceive her Of the pride which gan upheave her I And, by this, would so have blown her & no wood-god should have known her.

[SAips i1flo tlu fl1()()t/.

1

Fai. Mistress, this is only spite

For you would not yestemight Kiss him in the cock-shut light. Sal. [nhmuirg]. By Pan, and thou hast hit it right l Mu. Fairies, pinch him black and blue, Now you have him, make him rue. [ Tn.ooIay luJid on m. aNI flip Ailll. Sal. 0 hold, Mab I I sue. 1 Fai. Nay, the devil shall have his due.
Her 114 ran piu atriQ)', and hfl ~ itl a ~

Mu.

Pardon, .lady, this wild strain, Common with the sylvan train That do skip about this plain :Elves, apply your gyre again.
Dot

1 For abe wu expected there on Midsummer-day at alcbt, but came day rollowiDr. -

till tbe

THB SATYR.

And whilst some do hop the ring, Some shall play, and some shall sing : We'll express, in everything, Oriana's welcoming.l
SONG.

This is she, this is she In whose world of grace Every season, person, place, That receive her happy be ; For with no less Than a kingdom's happiness I Doth she private Lares bless a And ours above the rest By how much we deserve it least, Long live Oriann . T' ex~eed, whom she succeeds, our late Diana.

Mab. Madam, now an end to make, Deign a simple gift to take; Only for the Fairies' sake, Who about you still shall wake.

'Tis done, only to supply

His suspected courtesy,

Who, since Thamyra did die, Hath not brooked 11. lady's eye, Nor allowed about his place Any c:>f the female race : Only we are free to trace All his grounds, as he to chase. For which bounty to us lent, Of him unknowledged or unsent, We prepared this compliment, And as far from cheap intent, [ Giuts /In' a J'ewtl.
1
I

Quasi Orlens ANNA.

Bringing with her the
~ce,

which 11 the &reatest felicity of jqpJdoms.

For houaeholda.

BNTBRT.A.INJlBNTS.
In particular to feed Any hope that should succeed Or our glory by the deed . As yourself are from the need.

Utter not, we you implore, Who did give it, nor wherefore: And whenever you restore Yourself to us, you shall have more.
Highest, happiest queen, farewell; But beware you do not tell.
Here 1/u FAIJUKS MJI atr~ay ill aftUdaslk tia~~&e, t~~Am, ou a n1dtim, llu SATYll tiUe&T~er~tl lu'mself agrsi11.

Sal. Not tell ? ha I ha I I could smile

At this old and toothless wile. Lady, I have been no sleeper; She belies the noble keeper. Say, that here he like the groves, And pursue no foreign loves: Is he therefore to be deemed Rude, or savage? or esteemed But a sorry entertainer, 'Cause he is no common strainer After painted nymphs for favours, Or that in his gar& he savours Little of the nicety : In the sprucer courtiery ; As the rosary of kisses, With the oath that never misses, This, "believe me on the breast," And then telling some man's j'est, Thinking to prefer his wit Equal with his suit by it, I mean his clothes ? No, no, no, no ; Here doth no such humour fiow He can neither bribe a grace,

THB SATYR.

Nor encounter my lord's face With a pliant smile, and flatter, Though this lately were some matter To the maki~ of a courtier. Now he hopes he shall resort there Safer, and with more allowance; Since a hand bath governance That bath given these customs chace, And bath brought his own in place 0 that now a wish could bring The god-like person of a king I Then should even envy find Cause of wonder at the mind Of our woodman : but lo, where His kingly image doth appear, And is all this while neglected. Pardon, lord, you are respected Deep as is the keeper'sheart, And as dear in every part See, for instance, where he sends His son, his heir; who humbly bends Here tlu SATYR. feldud out of tlu fl!ood lite Lord Spmm's eltkst
stm,

attired aNI appqillled lib a lumlsmflll.

Low as is his father's earth, To the womb that gave you birth : So he was directed first, Next to you, of whom the thirst Of seeing takes away the use Of that part should plead excuse For his boldness, which is less By his comely shamefacedness. Rise up, sir, I will betray All I think you have to say ; That your father gives you here (Freely as to him you were) To the service of this prince :

BNTBRTAINMBNTS. And with you these instruments Of his wild and sylvan trade. Better not Actseon bad ; The bow was Phmbe's, and the horn, By Orlon often worn : The dog of s~ breed, and good .A1J can RING within a WOOD j Thence his name is : you shall try How he hunteth instantly. . But perhaps the queen, your mother, Rather doth affect so~ne other Sport, as coursing : we will prove Which her highness most doth love.Satyrs, let the woods resound ; They shall have their welcome crowned With a brace of bucks to ground.
A I tluJI llu 'IIJMie 'IIJootl and plaa rtstJUNieJ 'llliiA tAl llllis1 oJ corntls, lwrns, and ot!ln- !lunh'ng music, and a lwau tJj' c!loict den- put out, a11tl as jorlunale/y killed, as tluy flln"' mtallo In, l'llm in IM n"g!U tJj' Hn- Majuty.

This was the First Night's Show.

TM tUzl day 6ting Sunday, IM Quem ruled, and"" Mtniday

till aftn- """'"; 'IIJMrt tAire 'IIJas a S/Jttc/J sutltltnly llunlg!U on, to indua a morris tJj' IM c/()'llltU !Mf'ta6tJUt, 'IIJM most ojfo:ious/y prumutl t!.tmselvts: !Jut 6y reiu011 tJj' 1/u lltrong tJj' IM CtJUn/ry 1/Jal came in, t!.tir spedn- ctJUitl not 6e Alartl, 'IIJM fiJas in tM pn-sfJII tJj' NOBODY, ltJ tleli'vn- IIW jo~ speecA, and atlirttl in a pa,"r tJj' !Jreec/Jts 'lllllicA flln"' mad~ to com1 *P IIJ /lis 111d, 'lllit/J IUs arms wl at lW pochb, iiNl a cap tlrfi'IIIIJillg lW fact.

If my outside move your laughter, Pray Jove, my inside th~.

pe

QUKEN, PRINCE, DU,_B, EARLS,

you courtly pearls I (And I hope no mortal sin.

CoUNTESSES,

THE SATYR.

If I put less la9-ies in)

Fair saluted be you alii

At this time it doth befalJ, We are the huisher to a morris, A kind of masque, whereof good store is In the country hereabout, But this, the choice of all the rout, Who, because that no man sent them, Have got NoBODY to present them. Thes& are things have no suspicion Of their ill-doing; nor ambition Of their well : but as the pipe Shall inspire them, mean to skip : They co91e to see, and to be seen, And though they dance afore the queen, There's none of these doth hope to come by Wealth to build another Holmby: All those dancing days are done, Men must now have more than one Grace to build their fortunes on, Else our soles would sure have gone All by this time to our feet1 not deny where ~ meet In a man, that quality Is a graceful property : But when dancing is his best, Beshrew me, I suspect the rest. But I am Nobody, and my breath Soon as i~ is born bath death. Come on, clowns, forsake your dumps, And bestir your hobnailed stumps, Do your worst, I'll undertake, Not a jerk you have shall make Any lady here in love. Perhaps your fool, or so, may move SOme lad7's WC?man 1rith a trick,

.p6

BNTBRTA.INJIBNTS.

And upon it she may pick A pair of revelling legs or two Out of you with much ado. But see, the bobby-horse is forgot. Foo~ it must be your lot To supply his want with faces And some other buffoon graces, You know how; piper, play, And let Nobody hence away.

[u,., IM """""-dmlan mln'rtl..

fllill flbtl t~JU~IIJw J~ ljw&/c, w4id fliQ.I/iJ lurfle 6HII /Jf'emrUII in tlu jn7t111 Df 11 7~ tl'llll ~~tn~~/Jtlt~Ud WJiiA tilven ~s ~ st~IU qf tlu e~; hi 67 nast~~~ Dj tlu wudlittlliiMMt prus, MU tUsD ltilukrttl. A M'WIIi&4 tW Allw 4n't atljflinetl.

T1twr

And wt11 you then, mirror of queens, depart? Shall nothing stay you ? not my masters heart, That pants to lose the comfort of your light And see his day, ere it be old, grow night? You are a goddess, and your will be done : Yet thiS our last hope is, that as the sun Cheers objects far removed, as well 31 near, So, wheresoe'er you shine, you'll sparkle here. And you, dear lord, on whom my covetous eye Doth feed itself, but cannot satisfy, 0 shoot up fast in spirit, as in years ; That when upon her head proud Europe wears Her stateliest tire, you may appear thereon The richest gem, without a paragon. Shine bright and fixM as the i.rctic star : And when slow time bath made you fit for war, Look over the strict ocean, and think where You may l?ot lead us forth, that grow up here

THB SATYR. Against a day when our officious swords Shall speak our actions better than our words. Till then, all good event conspire to crown Y<;>ur parents' hopes, our zeal, and your renown I Peace usher now your steps, and wh~ you come, Be Envy still auuck blind, and F~ dumb I

THE PENATES.
Tile King and Quem 6eing entered in at tlu ga/4, tlu PENATES, or lunue!UJ/d gods, received tlum, attired ajtn- tlu anlifJut manner, witA ja'tlt/ins ,,. tlleir lulntis, standing 011 ea&A lidt ojtllejJorcA.
I

Pen. Leap, light hearts, in every breast,

Joy is now the fittest passion ; Double majesty bath blest All the place with that high grace Exceedeth admiration I Welcome, monarch of this isle, Europe's envy and her mirror; Creat in each part of thy style; England's wish, and Scotland's bliss, Both France and Ireland's terror. Welcome are you; and no less, Your admir~d queen : the glory Both of state and comeliness. Every line of her divine Form is a beauteous story. High in fortune as in blood, So are both, and blood renowned By oft falls that make a 1lood In your veins : yet all these strains Are in your virtues drowned. House, be proud : for of earth's store These two only are the wonder : In them she'& rich, and is no more.

Pen.

Pm.

Pen.

Pm.

TIIB PBNATB.S.

419

2 P~t~.

Zoal ill boqnd .their p~ to 80\lJld N lQud IUI fame or ~UQder, Note, but how the air, tho spring Conc:ur in their devotions J Pairs of turtles sit and 11ing

o'ezjoyed to sec In th~ like love, like Dlotioll& P111o Enter, sir, this longing door, Whose glad lord nought could bavo blessed Equally 1 I'm sure not more Than this sight, save of yout right, When you were first possessed. Pm. That, indeed, tran.Scended this, Since which hour, wherein you gained it, For this grace both be p.nd his Every day have learned to pray, Ana now they have obtained it.
w!rer1 MERCURY rl'_tfflld IMrtl, 1114/llitf ~'.{Qrll/14m,

On each tree,

llm 1/u P~NA.'flCS lead tlum ill, I~KII tlu /rlnut, 111/t~IA# grv~
Md'. Retire, you household gods, and leafe these ex~leQt creatures to be entertained ~y a more em.Jnent deity. [ E-""nl PEN.] Hail, King ~d Queen oUbe IalaJlda called truly Fortunate, and by you made so. To tell you who l!UJla and wear all these notable and speaking enaigns about me, were to cballenge you of most impossible ignorance, and accuse myself of as palpable glory : it is enough that you know me; here and come with the license of my father Jove, who is the bounty Qfbeav~, to give you early welcome to the bower of my mother Miia, nQ less the good ness of earth. And may it please you to walk, I will tell you no wonderful story. This p~e wher~on you are now advanced (by the mighty power of poetry, and the help of a faith that can remove mountains) is the .Ar<:adian hiU CyUene, the place where myself was bqth begot and born, ~d of whioh I am frequent!)' called Cyllenius. Under yond1 purslane tree stood some time my cradle. Where now be~old my mother Maia, sitting in the pridG

BN1'BRT.AINMBNTS.
o( ~eir

plenty, gladdening the air with bet breath, and cheering the spring with het smiles. At het (ect, the blushing Aurora, who, with bet rosy band, casteth her honey-clews on dlole sweeter herbs, accompanied with that gentle wind Fa-ioniua, whose subtile spirit, in the breathing forth, Flora makes into flowers, and sticks them in the grass, as if she contended to have the embroidery o( the eartb richer than the cope of the sky. Here, for her month, the yearly delicate May keeps state ; and fi'om this mount takes pleasure to display these valleys, yond lesser hills, those statelier edifices and towers, that eeem enamoured so far o~ and are reared on end to behold her, as if their utmost object were her beauties. Hither the Dryads o( the valley and ~ympbs of the great river come every morning to taste of her favOUril ; and depart away with laps 6lled with her bounties. But, ace I upon your approach, their pleasures are instantly remitted. The birds are hushed, Zephyr is still, the mom forbears her office, Flora is dumb, and herself amazed, to behold two auch I:JW'Vela, that do more adorn place than she <:an time : pardon, your majesty, the fault, for it is that bath caused it ; and till they can collect their spirits, think silence And wonder the best adoration.
Her1 A~o~ ZBPHYRUSi tJ1UJ FLORA, 61gt111 tiW SONG ill tAru pu.

See, see, 0 see who here is come a mayiog I

The Master of the Ocean, And hia beauteous Olian : Why left we our playing l To gaze, to gaze, On them, that gods no less than men amaze.
Up, nightiogal~ and sing, Jag, jug, jug, Jug, &c. lWse, lark, thy note and Wing,
All birdl their music bring, Sweet robio, linnet, thrush, Record from every bash The welcome of the king And queen: Whose like were never seen, For good, for fair;

THB PBNATBS.
Nor can be, though fresh May Should every day Invite a several pair, No, though she should invite a several pair. WAi&A nuld, MAIA, slaktl ill llw Htw, flliiA a//1Ms1 /JwlnU~KU n/Joul Aw tU 61,/tM tl#criNd, lilga lfJ raiu llwulf, allllllln1

til&h;,,,r, 'lllM

Nlli. Hall the pleasures were distilled Of every flower in every field, And all that Hybla's hives do yield Were into one broad mazer tilled ; H thereto added all the gums And spice that from Panchaia comes, The odour that Hydaspes lends, Or Phcenix proves before she ends; J1 all th~ air my Flol'l\ drew, . Or spirit that Zephyr ever blew, Were put therein, and all the dew That ever rosy morning knew, Yet all di1Fused upon this bower, To make one sweet detaining hour, Were much too little for the grace And honour you vouchsafe the place. But if you please to come again, We vow, we will not tJ:aen, with vain And empty .pastimes entertain Y9ur 8() desired though griev~ pAin. For we wiJl have the wanton fawns That frisking skip abOut the lawns, The Panisks, and the Sylvans rode, Satyrs, and all that multitude, To dance their wilder rounds about, And cleave the air with many a shout, As they would hunt poor Echo out Of yonder valley, who doth flout , Tb.cit ruAtic nqise, Tq visit whq~q

BNTBRTJtiNMBNTS.

You shall behold 'Whole btviell' eotne Of gaudy nymphs, whose tender calls ~oll-wnecl unto the many f~s Of sweet and several sliding rills That lltteatn from tops of those leaa hills, Sound like Sb many silver quills When Zep)tyr them with music nll~ For these, ll'avooius hete 11haU blow Ne~ ~~wet&, which you shall see to grow,

Of whlcll each hand a part shall take,

And, tOr your heads lresh gulands m4ke, Wherewith, whiblt they your temple~ round, A1l a1t bC several birds shall sot1nd An Io PleSlrt, that llhall drown The aeclamatioru at your orowtL.'-"All this, and more than I have gift of &a)'ing, May vows,' so you will oft come here a ma~g.

Me,.. And Mercury, her son. shtll venture the displeasure of his father, with the whole bench of heaven, that day, but he will do his mother's ,intents llll se~ceable assistance. Till then, and ever, live high and happy, ybu, llt1d your other you ; both envied for your fortunes, loved for your gra.ces, lbd adtnired for your
virtues.
[ TAI.t tr.lat tlu IIIIWtll""g's mlerlait~mml.

Aftw d;,,,., 1/u l(illlf aHII {PuiH aai" i11to tlu rartim, M:kltCUltY llu 1eetJNi lime ateosl1d 1/um.

"'"""

Mer. Again, great palr, I salute you; and with leave of all the gods, whose high pleasure it is that Mercury make this your holiday. May all the blessings, both ot earth and heaven, concur to thank you : for till this day's _sun, I have faintly enjoyed a minute's rest tO my creation. Now I do, and acknowledge it your sole, and no less than divine, benefit. IC my desire to delight you might not divert to your trouble, l would entreat your eyes to a new and ~e speaacle; a certajn .son ot mine, whom the Arcadians call god, howsoever the rest of the world receive

. '1'1111 PllNA'rllS.
him : it is the homed Pan, hom ift the triftiJJated figure of a goat I begot on the lair Bputan Penelope. May, lat both your ears and looks forgive it ; th~ ~ but the lJghtGit tiiCilpet 'Of us deities. And lt is hf=tter In me to prewnt ~ tuatic: impudence, by my blushing ackno-.ledgmetst, than anon by hla rud~ and not insolent claim, be ~nforted to eonfeM him. Yonder be keeps, and 'With him the wood nyrophs, h~ leader be 11 in rounds and dances, to this sylvan tnusle. 'th! place abouc \lfhich they skip is the fount ollaughter, or Buthus' aprihg, whose statue is advanced on the top, and from whoae pipes, at an obaerved hour of the day, th~ flows a lusty ltquor that bath a presebt virtue to expel sadness ; and within eertafn tnlnutes after it i8 tasted, force all the mirth or" the spl~11lnto the lace. Of this is Pan the JWUdian. Lo I th~ fountain begi111 to run. but the nymphs at your sight are fled, Pan and hill aatyra wildly stand at gaze. I will approach, and question bUn ! YottehsA!e your ear, and forgive his behaviour, whiclt ~ to me, that am his paren~ Will no doubt be rude enough, tho.ugh otherwise lull of salt, which, except my presence did temper, might tuM to be gall and bitterness; but that shall charm hbn.
Pat~. 0 it ia Mertury I botlofl them agairl. What be all these, lather, gods or tnen ? Mw. All human. 0111y these two ~ deities C)l\ earth. but such aa the ~t powers ot hetven may resign to. Pa11. Why did our nymphs tun a-ny, ean you tell P Here be sweet beauties love Mereury ell J I see by their lookS. Ho'# say you, great nwter P [AdtlmutJ /11 1/u .Kt"tlg. Will you be pl~ ~ hear? shall I be your taster P Mw. Pan, you are too rude. Pan. lt fs but a g~ By my beard, and my horns, 'tis a health, and shall pUs. Were he a king, and his mistress a queen, This draught shall make him a petulant spleen. But trow, iS be loose, or costive of laugh~ P

424

BNTBRTAINMBNTS.
. Td know to fill him his gtass thereafter, Sure either my skill, or my sight doth mock, Or this lording's look shoull;l not care for the smock; And yet he should love both a horse and a hound, And not rest till he saw his game on the ground : Well, look to bhn, dame; be$brew me, were I 'Mongst these bonnjbells, you should need. a good eye. Here, mistres11 ; all out, sif?.ce a god is your skinker ; By my hand, I believe you were born a good drin)cer. They ate thjngs of no spirit, their blood is a.Sleep, That, when it is offered them, do not drink deep. Come, who is next? our liquor here cools. Ladies, I'm s~ you all have not fools At home to laugh at. A little of this, Ta'en down here in private, were not amiss. Believe it, she drinks like a wench that bad store Of lord for her laughter, then will you have more? What answer you, lordings ? will you any or none? Laugh and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, 'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink. The young ~ymph that's troubled with an old man, Let her laugh him away as fast as she can. Nay, drink, and not pause, as who would say, Must you? But laugh at the wench that next doth trust you. To you, sweet beauty; nay, 'pray you come hither Ere you sit out, you'll laugh at a feather. I'll never fear you, for being too witty, You sip so like a 'forsoOth' of the city. Lords, for yourselves, your own cups crown, The ladies, i'faith, else will laugh you down. Go to, little blushet, for this, anan, You'll steal forth a laugh in the shade of your {an. This, 1llld another thing, I can tell ye, Will breed a laughter as low as your belly. Of such sUn~n pieces, Jove send us not QlaDY,.

THB PBN.A.TBS.

They must be tickle<\, before they will any. What I have we done? they that want let 'em call, Gallants, of both sides, you see here is all Pan's entertainment : look for no more ; Only, good faces, I rede you, lMk.e store Of your amorous knights, and 'squires hereafter, They are excellent sponges, to drink up your laughter. Farewell, I must seek out my nymphs that you frighted ; Thank Hermes, my father, if aught have delighted. [ E~t.
Mer. I am sure, thy last rudeness . ~ot; for it makes me seriously ashamed.-! will not labour his excuse, since I know you more ready to pardon ~an he to trespass : but for your singular patience, tender you all abundaBce of thanks ; and, mixing with the master of ~e place in his wishes, make them my divinations : that your loves be ever flourishing as May, and your house as fniitful : that yow: acts exceed the best, and your years the longest of your predecessors : that no bad fortune touch you, nor good change you; But still, that you triumph in this facility over the lidiculous pride of other princes, and for ever live safe in the love, rather than the fear, of your subjects.
AND THUS IT ENDED.

THE RNTERTAlNMENT
OP THS

TWO KINGS Or GRl!:AT l3RITAlN AND I>:ENMAR.K,

AI TAto6altb, 'July !l4o x6o6.
Till Kt'tlgl hi~ m/end till l11tur Courl, fU(J'IJI1 (J'IJW 0u poreA, sal till tlwt1 Hours, upon &10111/.r, as aJ tlu porls of luavnt, &rO'Illllltl 'IJiilll Sl'lltral jhrilws : of 'IJIIdell 0111 &we a n111-tlilrl.. till ot,., a &/odt,. tAt tllirtl, a11 116111"-glass,. signifyiq as ly tlltir naHU.t, Lafll, Jush&e, a1IIJ Ptau , a1ltl f01" tllos1 fa&ulltis cllose11 to grahlia/1 JMir comi11g 'IJiitll t!Jis spee&/1. ENTEll, 0 longed-for princes, bless these bowers, Ahd u~~t the thr~ by you made happy, Hours 1 We that include all time, yet never knew Minute like this, or object like to you, Two kings, the world's prime honours, whose access Shows_ either's greatness, yet makes neither less: Vouchsafe your thousand welcomes in this shewer ; The master vows, not Sybil's leaves were truer. Expressed to the King of Denmark, thus : Q,ut' co/t"J Aas adlis, iugmlia gautlia ati.~Mratu, Ctr111111io reges pau &oire pares, Nos U1tlpesliflas1 atl /im1'na, co//o&at Horas, ~tl &m.a sui tiO!Jis lltlltUa jr(J'IJmilmt, Unum atl lalititz &~~mu/um tristatur alesst, (bl~tl tUfJUial sigt~is Lztiliam upri1111n. Sttl vrna res so/llm ingmles luz& paru /aloratd, UI&UIUJIII exprtssam cretlitlilllst stllis. AI, potlt~tm pohlil tlomitiUS, suppll'llit dutiiU Fr0111Uso Ill/us 1/IUtllrtfada IOfJIIaK. E&&OI vuam grati '11111ia111 fJfiOS llrra sa/utal I Vtrior Ais fo/iis 11u//a S)'lil/a foil.

BNTBRTAINMBNT AT THEOBALDS.

427

The inscriptio~ on the walls were,

DATE VENLUI: SUBITIS.

DEBENTUR QV& strNT, QUQUE J'UTURA.

~pigt:ams

hung up.

Ad Regu SoreniiSimos.

Stz/Je Tlu116altltz (slW'IU lomttlh ltalt~) E~1 stiOJ su6 pia ieda tkos , Haud litmil at sed,., jDhlis, ruga&ant: lVec fas utlalu jJDsse jJidart tiiiDS. Fitrlunaia a11lew, sed m~nc tlomw 111U/iftll ft~lix, At domilltU pa1llo (n'l'cel Ulf'U) magis I Etli"t, ~ Ma.fiii,/Diiis nfolilis utis,

r,,,,.NJI .

f2HtiJ HOf'tl ni1Hm4m c6til~ jid#tl.

Ad Serenissimum Jacobum.

Minzris, etlr lrosjJiti4 le acuplmw Hwrz,

Ct/jNI ad ~IIVIIilllll tiOn Jalil /UIIItls Wal 1 lVmtjl gUfltl mirJitliatlllrt.rmlln gaudia l'ar~, El fJ#Iatlllo #1/vmiaJII vi tlaJur Aora frtn.

Ad Serenm.imum Christianum.
Mimrn, tur 'ltosj.WD k acc..pimwHtWt~, Quassolisjam111aJ Grt~&ia tltKia fliKIII 1 Tails a6 adflmt11 fiUin Ill jlllsitl11 tZIIdl, .

Vi tlt11Him11 sDiirm errtllret use M'llllm.

Others, at their departure.

Ad Sereniasimum Jacobum. /16Jj.'& ,,,.,; apil,fotmdaHH6111 Horb,

. Cet/4n /Uitit~e, nil/la edllttJIIIitafth, nllill

N1111/J1, OIH1IIis lwnu fltninuli dllzit ""''."''' sitl dism/mdi tflllla millll/4 jrD#al.

Ad ~enlsahnUDl Chmtianutn.
T1 flmindl, tW'llo ilolll111 !lae frOIIIklat alllidu .Te JiseunirD, nim lrDUI anJ1 f!irtt: N4'iii/J;, nll aemmtolu IUJfJiiJ lndJU fllillw, El, s.U tliscess11 spa/it/a ltz'lli'l Ayems.

AN ENTERTAINMENT OF KING JAMES AND QUEEN ANNE

AT THEOBALDS
WHEN THE HOUSE WAS DELIVERED UP WITH THE POSSESSION TO THK QUEEN BY THE EARL OJ' SAlJSBURY

THE PJUNCB

]ANVix.E,

BllOTIIU TO THE DVU: THEN P.U:SENT,

9lr

GVISJl, DINO

Tlu Ki11g allll

'lllilll IAe Pri~~eu of Wa/t1 alfli Lwrai11. allll 1111 11o6ility, 6e,.,g entered ,;,u IAe galln'y, a.JUr dimter llrtrt fllas seen IIIJtlli~~g IN/ a /r(lfltrSt of111MU aaon 1111 room: fiiAkll suddenly draflllf, fllas dis&()fltnd a gloomy o6sr:ure plaa, !Uinj all willl 61a&M sillu,'alfli ;, il only one 1~111, fiiAkll 1111 Genius of 1111 Aotulluld, s41i/y allind,. lW Cor~~u&opia ready to fall out oflW luzntl., lW gyr/aNJ tlrtHJjJUig 011 Au lrtatf, Au eyes jind on tlu groulfll,. fllluN, out of tAU pmsive posture, after some little pause, At 6rah allll hgan.
Que111,

GENIUS.

Let not your glories darken, to behold The place, and me, her Genius here, so sad; Who, by bold rumour, hue been lately told, That 1 must change the lov~ lord I had. And he, now in the twilight of sere age, Begin to seek a habitation new ; And all his fortunes and himself engage Unto a ~t hi~ fathers never kn~;w. And I, uncertain what I must endure, Since .all the ends of destiny are obscure.

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~

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thY fate.

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GENIUS

(a.sitit}

What sight is this, so strange ahd full of state I The son of Maia, making his descent
Unto the Fates, and met with Good Event?-

MnCURY.
Daughters of Night and Secrecy, attend ; You that draw out the chain of destiny, Upon whose threads both lives and times depend, And all the periods of mortality ; The will of Jove is, that you straight do look The change and fate unto this house decreed. And speaking from your adamantine book, . Unto the Genius of the place it read; That he may know, and knowing bless his lot, That such a grace beyond his hopes bath got.
CLOTHO

(reads}

When underneath thy roof is seen The greatest king, the fairest queeu, With princes an unmatch~ pair,

iNTSR1'~IliMISNf~

Ono. bopo ol.U tbo earth, tbelr bob' 1 Thfl otbc:r 1tylc!cl of I.orrain.
Their blood, and sprung from Charlemaine : When all these gloriee jOintly shiM And fill thee with a heat divine, And these refleoted do beget A 1plendent an lhall never set, But here lhiue fix~ to afiiight All after-hopes of following night, Then, Genius, is thy period come, T9 ~ thy lord 1 thus fates do doom.

GoIUs.

But is my patron with thia lot content

So to foraako his father's mo11.unent ?
Or Is ft p.fn, or else necessity,

Or will to raise ~ hoUS<: of be~er C~

That makes him shut forth his posterity Out of his patrimony, with his name?
MPCUllY,

Nor gain, nor need; much less a Vafn desire To frame new roo~ or build his dwelling higher i

He ha~ with
That ~

JUQrtar

atrec:Qo~

busied ~n too muc;b. should continue eucll.

G~ws.

DQ men tako joy in laboi.US not to enjoy ~ Or (loth theit busine&~~ All their apend? Ha~ they moro p~ure in " tedioua way Than eo ~POII4 them "'' their journey' OQd?

wgs

Mu.CUllY.

Genius, obey,

~d

not expostW.te;

It is your virtue; and such powen IUf :you Should make ~gion of offending fato Whose dooiVS are jU&t and whose desires are trae.

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43~

LACQSIS..

The person for whose roy.l sake Thou mua1; " chang~ so happy ma.Jr.c Is he that governs with his smile This lesser world, this greatest isle. Hill Lady' setvant thou mqst ~ Whose second would great Nature see, Or Fortune, after all thejr ptlin They might 'despair to make again.
ATROPOS.

She ill the grace of all

Me;

And as Ellsa, now a star, Unto her crown and lasting praise Thy humbler walls at first did raise By virtue o( her best aspect, So shall Bel-Anna them protect. And this is all the Fates can say : Which first believe, and then obey.
GENIUS.

Mourned I before? Could I commit a sin So much 'gainsl kind and knowledge, to protract A joy to which I should have ravished been, And never shall be happy till I act J Vouchsafe, fair Queen, my patron's zeal in me, Who fly with fervour, as my fate commands, To yield these keys ; and wish that you could see My heart as open to you as my hands. There might you read my faith, my thoughts-But, 0, My joys, like waves, each other overcome, And gladness drowns where it begins to flow I Some greater Powers speak out, for mine are dumb I At tllis was tlu plaa ji/utl 'lllitA rar~ anti &lun'ce Music, to w!U&A was luartl tJu follo'ltlitfK SON01 tillivn-etl6y a11 uu//mJ 'lloice, and tJu 6urdm ma~irtaiiUtl 6y tlu wllo/e (},~~ire.

BNTBRTA.INMBNTS,
So~o.

0 blessed change, And no less glad than strange, When wt! that lose have won, And .for a beam enjoy a sun I
CH
. OR

us { So little sparks become great fires,

Aod high rewards crown low desires.

Wu never bliss More full or clear than this I The present month of May Ne'er looked so fresh u oo this day.

ca6aus f So gentle winds

l And Vuty thrives by br~h of Kings.

bteect happy Springs,

APPENDIX.

2 lt

GLOSSARY.

A.

Accited, 43. summoned. .AdoDia flower, 333. AtkmU a~~hlmna/U. Anademe, 46, 82, head-band, fillet. And, 206, also. " Doth make a1!f1 a gingling sally. have been and a dozen.

"There should

B.
Baaes, 78, skirts, like kilts, hanging from waist to knee. Baven, 222, broshwood for lightiilg a quick fire. Bene bowle, 2SS, (cant for) good drink. Blrd-boltlt 203. arrows with fiat ends, to 1dll birds by the blow, without piercing them. BolD, 38o, swollen. Bombard~, 189, large drinking cans. Boqe, 189, allowance of meat or drink to attendants at the Court. Bragat, 259. an old West-of-England drink of sweet wort, spiced and sugared. B:ra.wl, 221, French llrtmU, a French dance, changing from slow to quick time, in which hands ~ joined, and there was what Massinger called
.. An apllh lmltatloa Of what 7011 really perform In lattk

c.
Cant, 3901 ()Uter angle of a building.
Oh&nclrle, 169, place where candles~ kept.

4~

G~R~

ObeY.-OD, ~. nfter, stripe ; ~ 7S.Itriped. 01im&te, 41, JODe or regiOD. ~ tu JU'k, 2SS, (cant for) be whipped. Oore, 101, choeea. Oom-111. 333. Glat/i4Uu. Oortbae, 79. c:urtaiD. Orcnnl-lmperiaJ, 333. FriliJI4ria I~
D.
Daplme'1 hair, 333. Daft'any, Dap/lt~e Meum~~~~. J)ep'MI, 243. ltepL Dooen, 2.47, Anabaptists, or Dippers.

E.

F.
J'lower-1entle, 333. Amarantllw of any cultivated kind, A)'/Mdunf. drillau, mudalw, or lmolor.

G.
GoldJ'-lockl, 333. Raflllll(ll/111 auri&OmUJ. The name is also given to Po/ylrkllium 'ommutU, and to Tro//ilu Europtzr~~. OoalaDcll, 333. or gowlans. Buttercups of the three common kiods (Ra11t111n1/111 an'U, 6#/6o1UJ1 and rrj11U). Also C,~RI ''K''*"' and Trolli111 Etwtljtnu. Oricel, J8o, steps. <fJ're, 410, circle.

H.
H&rm&D becbp, 255. (alang for) constabulary. Human beck, a
constable. Horrid, 46, bristly, rough.
I

ID4uced, 46, brought in.

Inkle, 255, a coarse tape.

GLOSSARY.
K.

437

Blbel, 18c), chilblains. Kiq-cups, 333. buttercups of the three comtnon species. Also Ca/INI

Jaltulris.
BlD&'a apea.r, 333. AsplukU/IU lfllml.
L

Lad7 amock, 333. CanlamitU pratmsis.

Lrvolta, 370, a kind of waltz in which, from time to time, the gentleman helped the lady to spring mgh. Llbkfu, 255t (cant for) lodgings.

M.
Make, 7o, mate.

llarcllpane, 202, a cake made of sugar and almond. ll&wldn, 222, or Malkiu, a rag mop for cleaning flues, or other
rough work. Kalarded, 168, knocked on the head, had brains knocked out. Kuer, 421, a large bowL Jleaclowa' Queen, 333. sp.I'YZa ldmaria, called Queen of the Meadows because "in what meadow soever it grows, it ia more perspicuous than any of the rest." Jlorm&l, 18c), ulcer, old sore.

N.
lfip &jAil, 255, (slang for) filch a small coin. Bodd7, 170, a game like cribbage.

o.
P.

Pacl-.

333. oxlips or cowslips, a name in some parts of England limited to oxlips, in others to the double cowslip. Paul's, lies made ID, 243- The middle aisle of old St. Paul's was Uled aa a place of meeting for the hire of mea, for business or

GLOSSARY.
idle talk, and pasting up of notices. A pruverb said that who goes to PauPs for a man may meet with a knave. Pa1mce, 333t pansy. ~eel, 222, a board with a long handle, uied by bakers for moving things in the oven. Pqme, J83o any large fisture made of boaids ; the wooden machine in a theatre that opened and shut, rose and feU, with the actors

on it.
PlcbrdJla, 177, pickadills, stiff collars made as bands. Polt-footecl, 188, lame-footed. Polt-ucl-Patr, 170, a g&Qle played with three cards to each player, in which the players be~ on their haDda. Three aces were the best hand, next three kings, ~ When there were no threes, pairs counted in like manner. Provoked, 69, called forth.

Pvle, 37, profile.

Pan. 202, a term in the game of post-aDd-pair, probably a pair-~

which was one more than a pair, three of a kind.

Becord, .po, sing, applied to singing of birds, whence "RCOlder as a name for fiageolet or bird-pipe.

s.
Sleps, 327, seats.
8opa-1n-wille, 333o Ditudluu Jl111114ri.u. Spinet, 408, a small wood. State, 37, &:c, a raised chair, with canopy. St&wllq keD, :ass, or stuling ken, (cant for) a house for receiving stolen goods. 8tomlcl, 4091 space of time, hour.
~

'!ermea Of Bab'n, 37::a. Terms were pedestals, often in the

i'luobmap, 384, in~.

form ol an inverted obelisk, with the blllt of a man, woman, or ll&tyr on the top.

GLOSSARY.

439

v.
VanJinplM, 177, farthingales, hooped petticoats, worn of a great size
by Anne of Denmark: and the ladies of her Court. Her Majesty wore an enormous farthingale as Thetia in the Masque on the Creation of Prince Henry of Wales. ' Va111 :Ravel, 3,33, CoJ7/dlm UMIIi/iau.

w.
Wa.rmoll, 2071 wardmote. Watchn, 72, 84, _,ale blue. Wre\chock, 255, the smallest chick: in a ben's brood.

Y.
Yellow-1olcl, 333. C!lrystlllllutnMm stgrtu111.

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