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<NAME>Jonathan Blaney</NAME>
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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>THE NVPTIALLS OF
PELEVS
AND
THETIS.
CONSISTING OF A
Mask and a Comedy,
OR THE
The Great Royall Ball,
Acted lately in <HI>Paris</HI> &s;ix times
BY
<LIST>
<ITEM>The King in Per&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Duke of <HI>Anjou.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Duke of <HI>Yorke.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>with divers other Noble men.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>ALSO BY
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Prince&s;s Royall <HI>Henrette Marie.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Prince&s;s of <HI>Conty.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Dutche&s;s of <HI>Roqvelaure.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Dutche&s;s of <HI>Crequy.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>with many other Ladies of Honour.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI>
Printed for <HI>Henry Herringman,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his
Shop at the <HI>Ancor</HI> in the lower walke of the New
Exchange. 1654.</P>
</DIV1>
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<TEXT>
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="argument">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>The Stanzas of the Royall Ball, with the
Argument of every Scene of the Comedy,
which gives occa&s;ion to every entry
in the Ball.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">THE ARGUMENT.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_PEleus</HI> King of <HI>The&s;&s;aly</HI> being enamored with
<HI>Thetis,</HI> and cro&s;&s;ed by two potent Rivalls,
<HI>Jupiter</HI> and <HI>Neptune,</HI> doth &s;o carry the bu|&s;ine&s;s
by the Coun&s;ells of <HI>Chiron,</HI> and by the
&s;uccour of <HI>Prometheus,</HI> that both the Gods
are at the end excluded of their pretentions;
<HI>Neptune</HI> de&s;i&s;ts by rea&s;on of his old age, and
<HI>Jupiter</HI> being the elder of the two, but much more con&s;iderable,
doth voluntarily renounce his intere&s;t. Whereupon <HI>Thetis</HI> being
plainely per&s;waded of the con&s;tancy, and fidelity of her Lover, gives
her con&s;ent to marry him, &s;o the Nuptialls are celebrated with a
great concour&s;e of Gods and Godde&s;&s;es. <HI>Prometheus</HI> al&s;o having
done good &s;ervice in the bu&s;ine&s;s, and to put a period to his troubles,
is there al&s;o pre&s;ent, and brings with him the Liberall and Mecha|nick
Arts which hee had invented; Di&s;cord al&s;o would faine have
been there, but that &s;he was a&s;hamed to appeare upon the theatre,
having been chac'd out of <HI>France,</HI> and it had been to no purpo&s;e for
her to di&s;turb &s;o ioyfull a meeting.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dramatis personae">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>The Singers.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Two Rivers
of <HI>The&s;&s;aly.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Epidan and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Onochone</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Jupiter</ITEM>
<ITEM>Neptune</ITEM>
<ITEM>Juno</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mercury</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Peleus</HI> King of <HI>The&s;&s;aly</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Thetis</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chiron</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prometheus</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Quire of water-Nymphs</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Quire of <HI>Syrens</HI> &amp; <HI>Tritons</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Quire of prie&s;ts of Man.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Quire of all the Deities.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<HEAD>The Dancers.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>Apollo,</HI> and the nine Mu&s;es.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Magicians.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fi&s;hers of Corrall</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Furies of jelou&s;ly</ITEM>
<ITEM>Savage men and women.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Dryads or Wood|nymphs.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cavaliers of <HI>The&s;&s;aly</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chirons Academi&s;ts</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Peleus</HI> his Courtiers</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thetis</HI> young maids of honor</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Liberall &amp; &s;ervile Arts</ITEM>
<ITEM>Love</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iuno</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hymen</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hercules</ITEM>
<ITEM>The harmony of the
Sphears.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>TO THE
MOST EXCELLENT,
And HIGH-BORN Lady,
The Lady
KATHERINE
Marchione&s;&s;e of DORCHESTER, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Madam;</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I Believe, no di&s;cerning Reader will
que&s;tion my <HI>Judgement</HI> in point of
<HI>Election,</HI> nor accu&s;e my <HI>Election</HI> of
much <HI>pre&s;umption</HI> in Dedicating
this princely new piece to your La|di&s;hip.</P>
<P>Touching the fir&s;t, the Fancy comming from
that <HI>Country</HI> which doth challenge as much Inte|re&s;t
in your <HI>Illu&s;trious</HI> blood as <HI>England,</HI> I humbly
conceived it might well become your Ladi&s;hip to
be Patrone&s;&s;e thereof.</P>
<P>Touching the &s;econd rea&s;on, it having been not
onely <HI>Repre&s;ented,</HI> but <HI>Acted</HI> &s;o many times (and
re&s;erv'd yet for entertaining <HI>Pimentel</HI> the Spani&s;h
<PB REF="4">
Amba&s;&s;ador) by a Great <HI>King</HI> in per&s;on, with &s;uch
a number of Princes, Prince&s;&s;es, Nobles, and a|bove
a hundred Repre&s;entators be&s;ides, &s;o that
the charge of the &s;cene and &s;hewes amounted to
half a million of French liures; But above all, it
being an invention &s;o cryed up, &s;o well contriv'd
and trac'd, &s;o full of wit, and variety of Mu&s;icall
airs, with other <HI>gentile&s;&s;es;</HI> I deem'd it would be a
thing not unworthy of your Ladi&s;hips private en|tertainment.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, Madam, the Fancy being &s;o <HI>fre&s;h,</HI> and
&s;utable to the <HI>&s;ea&s;on,</HI> it comes to u&s;her in a hap|py
and healthfull <HI>&s;pring</HI> to your Honor, attended
with affluences of all Felicity pre&s;ent and future,
according to the humble and <HI>pregnant</HI> votes of</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My mo&s;t Highly Honored Lady,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your thrice-Obedient and devoted Servitor JAM. HOVVEL.</SIGNED><DATE>The first of <HI>May</HI>
1654.</DATE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prologue">
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>THE PROLOGUE.
Apollo and the Nine Mu&s;es, Epidan and
Onochone Rivers of The&s;&s;aly, a
Quire of water-Nymphs.</HEAD>
<P>AT the opening of the Theater, <HI>Apollo</HI>
and the Mu&s;es appeare upon the top
of a Mountaine, on both &s;ides thereof run
two Rivers of <HI>The&s;&s;aly,</HI> and the water-Nymphs
being &s;eparated in two Quires,
fall into the pray&s;e of <HI>Apollo,</HI> inviting him
to come downe and give a happy Augury
to the Loves of <HI>Peleus;</HI> The &s;aid Moun|taine
&s;toopes by little and little, whereup|on
the Rivers and Nymphs retiring, <HI>A|pollo</HI>
and the Mu&s;es fill the Stage, and com|po&s;e
the fir&s;t entry of the Ball.</P>
<PB REF="5">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB REF="5">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="1" TYPE="dramatis personae">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Entry.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<HEAD>Apollo and the Nine Mu&s;es.</HEAD>
<ITEM>The King repre&s;ents <HI>Apollo,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Madam Henriette</HI> Prince&s;&s;e of England. repre&s;ents <HI>Erato.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Madamoi&s;ella <HI>of</HI> &V;illeroy. repre&s;ents Clio.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Dutche&s;&s;e of <HI>Crequy</HI> repre&s;ents <HI>Euterpe.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Dutche&s;&s;e of <HI>Roquelaure</HI> repre&s;ents <HI>Thalia.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Prince&s;&s;e of <HI>Conty</HI> repre&s;ents <HI>Vrania.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Madam de Monlovet</HI> repre&s;ents <HI>Terp&s;icore.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Madam de Saint Simon</HI> repre&s;ents <HI>Calliope.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Madam d'Olonne</HI> repre&s;ents <HI>Melpomene.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Madamoi&s;elle de Gourdon</HI> repre&s;ents <HI>Polyhimney.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="6">
<HEAD>THE NVPTIALS
Of PELEUS and THETIS;
OR;
The Great Royall Ball.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The King of France repre&s;enting Apollo.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>_MOre bright and better made then all the Gods,</L>
<L>Superior to the re&s;t of D&euml;ities by ods,</L>
<L>My ForeSPEAKER with immortal beams is crown'd,</L>
<L>Victorious beauties I rai&s;e from the ground,</L>
<L>I after <HI>Glory</HI> alwaies run,</L>
<L>Not after <HI>Daphne</HI> whom I &s;hun.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That fierce de&s;tructive <HI>Python</HI> I did quell,</L>
<L>That ugly horrid <HI>Serpent</HI> hatch'd in Hell,</L>
<L><HI>Rebellion,</HI> which had poy&s;on'd farre and neare</L>
<L>Faire <HI>France</HI> I chac'd from off this Hemi&s;pheare:</L>
<L>I rather had this <HI>Mon&s;ter</HI> &s;lay,</L>
<L>Then with my <HI>Daphne</HI> &s;port and play.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet it mu&s;t be at la&s;t, early or late</L>
<L>I mu&s;t a Femall court, it is my Fate,</L>
<L><PB REF="7">
And though I am all God, yet there's a <HI>&s;hee,</HI></L>
<L>Whom with love glances I mu&s;t deifie.</L>
<L>And what Nymph, Godde&s;&s;e, Queen, or Mu&s;e</L>
<L>To be my <HI>Daphne</HI> would refu&s;e.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madam Henriette the Prince&s;&s;e of England, repre&s;ent|ing
the mu&s;e Erato, which fell to her by lott.</SPEAKER>
<L>My &s;temm is more then of a mortall race;</L>
<L>For to <HI>great</HI> Henries <HI>Granchild</HI> all give place:</L>
<L>My Innocent and young a&s;pect,</L>
<L>In&s;pires both pitty and re&s;pect;</L>
<L>And he who loudly would complain</L>
<L>of <HI>Princes</HI> falls and <HI>Peoples</HI> raign,</L>
<L>Of angry &s;tarrs, and de&s;tiny,</L>
<L>Let him but ca&s;t his eyes on me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madamoi&s;elle de Villeroy repre&s;enting Clio,
the inventre&s;&s;e of History.</SPEAKER>
<L>I turn this charming look</L>
<L>Sometimes to Doom&s;day book;</L>
<L>The&s;e eyes, where in his throne</L>
<L>Love &s;its, make many mone;</L>
<L>My Ro&s;y cheeks, my quickening fire,</L>
<L>Madd the beholders with de&s;ire:</L>
<L>And though I am but a young thing,</L>
<L>Blown as it were but in this &s;pring;</L>
<L>My office is the Hi&s;tory to tell</L>
<L>Of what a thou&s;and yeers ago befell.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madam the Dutche&s;s of Crequy, repre&s;enting Euter|pe,
the inventre&s;se of Mu&s;ique.</SPEAKER>
<L>The <HI>Mouth</HI> of Fame doth tell,</L>
<L>In <HI>Mine</HI> the graces dwell:</L>
<L><PB N="3" REF="7">
So red, &s;o &s;mall, Loves Queen</L>
<L>Had not, nor ere was &s;een;</L>
<L>A hundred beauties more</L>
<L>I have in banke and &s;tore;</L>
<L>Yet none e&s;teemes them le&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>I nature rather ble&s;&s;e</L>
<L>For tho&s;e inward parts I have,</L>
<L>Which will la&s;t me to my Grave.</L>
<L>Though I with mu&s;ique u&s;e to cheer the mind,</L>
<L>Yet in my Pipes no foulene&s;&s;e you &s;hall finde.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>M. the Dutche&s;&s;e of Roquelaure, repre&s;enting Tha|lia,
the inventre&s;&s;e of Comedy.</SPEAKER>
<L>There is no heart &s;o free</L>
<L>But it will yeeld to me;</L>
<L>I have the true &s;upremacy</L>
<L>Of beauty both in front and eye:</L>
<L>My glances able are for to recover</L>
<L>The &s;icke&s;t amori&s;t, the pale&s;t lover:</L>
<L>My <HI>Comedies,</HI> if that you li&s;ten well,</L>
<L>Are able to redeem a &s;oul from hell.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madame the Prince&s;&s;e of Conty, repre&s;enting Vrania
the inventre&s;&s;e of A&s;tronomy.</SPEAKER>
<L>The &s;tarres in their carreer</L>
<L>Are not &s;o bright and cleer</L>
<L>As is my minde, which 'bove the Elements</L>
<L>Doth &s;oar to view tho&s;e high &s;yderian Tents.</L>
<L>This port, this countenance, and eyes</L>
<L>Shew I did drop down from the skyes.</L>
<L>I &s;tudy their <HI>A&s;pects</HI> and <HI>Influence,</HI></L>
<L>Their <HI>Motions,</HI> &amp; what good de&s;cends from thence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="4" REF="8">
<SPEAKER>Madam de Montlouet repre&s;enting Terp&s;icore
inventre&s;se of dances and masks.</SPEAKER>
<L>If for a mortall I am taken,</L>
<L>You may perchance be there mi&s;taken,</L>
<L>I dart a ray will pierce the heart,</L>
<L>And make the center of it &s;mart:</L>
<L>I carry &s;uch a Maje&s;ty,</L>
<L>Which repre&s;ents Divinity:</L>
<L>The graces all in me do dwell,</L>
<L>Contending which &s;hall bear the bell:</L>
<L>I doe pre&s;ide in <HI>Maskes</HI> and <HI>Dances,</HI></L>
<L>Wounding the looker with my glances.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>M. the Dutche&s;s of San Simon repre&s;enting Calliope,
the inventre&s;&s;e of Heroick Poe&s;y.</SPEAKER>
<L>Beauty a trea&s;ure of high rate</L>
<L>Is my companion and my mate;</L>
<L>Of vertues I have &s;uch a &s;tore,</L>
<L>That could enrich a thou&s;and more:</L>
<L>I rai&s;e my &s;pirits to enhance,</L>
<L>(When I am in poetique trance)</L>
<L>By high heroick ver&s;e the acts</L>
<L>Of noble Champions and their facts:</L>
<L>The <HI>Sock</HI> I &s;corn, the <HI>Buskin</HI> me</L>
<L>Doth rai&s;e to immortality.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madam d' Olonne repre&s;enting Melpomene,
the inventre&s;&s;e of Tragaedy.</SPEAKER>
<L>Although my countenance be grave,</L>
<L>Yet plea&s;ure and delights I have&punc;</L>
<L><PB N="5" REF="8">
I look on <HI>Death</HI> and <HI>De&s;tiny,</HI></L>
<L>Yet are my &s;traines Divinity:</L>
<L>The pa&s;&s;ages of vertue I rehear&s;e,</L>
<L>Though in an Elegiack Tragick ver&s;e.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madamoi&s;elle de Gourdon repre&s;enting Polhymny,
the inventre&s;&s;e of vocall Mu&s;ique.</SPEAKER>
<L>A hundred objects I do &s;ee,</L>
<L>Although at my Nativity</L>
<L>They &s;ay I hooded was, my &s;ong</L>
<L>Will carry one to heaven along,</L>
<L>The various po&s;tures I do &s;how</L>
<L>Will make the Gods them&s;elves to bow;</L>
<L>I am the glory of our hills,</L>
<L>Where joy both heart and &s;pirit fills.</L>
</SP>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>THE FIRST ACT.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Scnee, where appears a Grott
open on both &s;ides.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Chiron, Peleus, a dumb quire of Magicians.</STAGE>
<STAGE><HI>CHiron</HI> advi&s;eth <HI>Peleus</HI> either to abandon love, or not to
lo&s;e higher hopes; per&s;wading him, that the old age
of his Rivals, might happily give him &s;ome a&s;&s;urance, yet
he exhorts him for preventing the violence that <HI>Jupiter</HI>
might perchance offer to <HI>Thetis,</HI> to go upon Mount
<HI>Cauca&s;us,</HI> and implore the help of <HI>Prometheus,</HI> who with
the fire he &s;tole from heaven, had brought thence all the
great and &s;ublime &s;orts of knowledge; and <HI>Prometheus</HI>
would be glad to oblige <HI>Peleus</HI> in &s;uch an occa&s;ion to cro&s;&s;e
the pa&s;&s;ion of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> who made him endure &s;uch cruell
<PB N="9" REF="9">
torments; <HI>Peleus</HI> approves of <HI>Chirons</HI> coun&s;ell, whereupon
the Magicians, as they dance, u&s;e a charm, carrying him a|way
in a flying chair.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The &s;econd Entry.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Magicians.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The Count of <HI>Lude,</HI> the Marquis of <HI>Villequire,</HI> and of
<HI>Genlis,</HI> the Lords <HI>Bontemps</HI> and <HI>Cabou,</HI> the Lords <HI>Verbec,
Baptista,</HI> and <HI>Lambert.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Count of Lude repre&s;enting a Magician.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let my heart go loo&s;e more then to one,</L>
<L>If I do love but three, I lea&s;ure have</L>
<L>To &s;ell love by retale;</L>
<L>I cry; I &s;igh, and ready am to hang,</L>
<L>Yet then I vani&s;h in the height of pa&s;&s;ion.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Marquis of Villequier repre&s;enting a Magician.</SPEAKER>
<P>The beauty which me charmes is like the &s;pring,
wee ought to love each other, &s;he is fierce, and &s;o am I.
A young forcere&s;&s;e may well become a Magician of
twenty years.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Marquis of Genlis repre&s;enting a Mu&s;ician.</SPEAKER>
<L>Who can make &s;cruple of my art and skill,</L>
<L>My rea&s;ons in due time have Energie enough;</L>
<L>If I look fair in any part,</L>
<L>I'&s;t not a trick of Magique Art?</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Scene, which opens within a per&s;pective
where a Sea is &s;een.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Thetis, Neptune, a Quire of Syrens&punc; and Tritons, a Quire
of dumb Fi&s;hers for Corrall.</STAGE>
<STAGE><PB N="7" REF="9">
<HI>Thetis</HI> appears upon a great &s;hell attended by a halfe De|my
water God, being encompa&s;&s;ed by a fair troop of
Corrall Fi&s;hers; On the other &s;ide <HI>Neptune</HI> appears upon a|nother
great &s;hell drawn by four Sea hor&s;es, and begins to
vent his pa&s;&s;ion to <HI>Thetis;</HI> but when he perceives that &s;he
de&s;pi&s;eth him, he &s;uddenly leaves her, and retires with
all his train in choler, and &s;triking the Sea with his Tri|dent,
he rais'd &s;uch a horrible tempe&s;t, that <HI>Thetis</HI> with
all her Corrall Fi&s;hers was forced to de&s;cend, who being
very joyfull to e&s;cape the &s;torm, make a dance among
them&s;elves to cheer and entertain her with delight.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The third Entry.</STAGE>
<STAGE>A half Sea-God leading Thetis attended by twelve
Fi&s;hers of Corrall.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Moun&s;ieur the Count of St. <HI>Aignan</HI> prime Gentleman
of the Kings Chamber, is the half Sea-God.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The Fi&s;hers of Corrall.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The Duke of <HI>Anjou</HI> the Kings onely brother, the Duke
of <HI>York,</HI> the Duke <HI>Danville,</HI> the Count <HI>de G'viche,</HI> the lit|tle
Count of <HI>Aignan,</HI> the Marquis of <HI>Mirepoix,</HI> Moun&s;ieur
<HI>Saintot,</HI> Moun&s;ieur <HI>de la Che&s;nay,</HI> the Lord <HI>Bruneau,</HI> S. <HI>Fre.
L'Anglois,</HI> and <HI>Raynal.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Count Saint Aignan repre&s;enting a demy
Sea-God, beginns.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have enhanc'd my gallantries &s;o high,</L>
<L>That Neptunes Court is glorified thereby.</L>
<L>They equall the exploits of Paladins,</L>
<L>Who&s;e fame the Earth with Ecchos dims,</L>
<L>What a poor thing it is to be</L>
<L>A Demy-God by land or Sea?</L>
<L><PB N="8" REF="10">
Yet I am one, I'de have it known,</L>
<L>It is no &s;tain but a renown,</L>
<L>In the fair field of love for to be &s;o</L>
<L>Where joy &amp; &s;adne&s;s, flowers and weeds do grow:</L>
<L>And for the water-Nymphs none can expre&s;s</L>
<L>Better then I whether th'are fi&s;h or fle&s;h.</L>
</SP>
<P><TEXT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="madrigal">
<HEAD>A Madrigall.</HEAD>
<SP>
<L>With a Nymph both fair and cruell;</L>
<L>The Fates have call'd me to a Duell</L>
<L>My torments endle&s;&s;e are, my bre&s;t</L>
<L>with the Sea &s;urges have like re&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Duke of Anjou repre&s;enting a Fi&s;herman.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>1. In my fine hooks ther's danger, then beware</L>
<L>I am a fairer Fi&s;herman by far,</L>
<L>Then love him&s;elf my hook and line</L>
<L>Can catch a creature though Divine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>2. Husbands their cares do double, le&s;t one day</L>
<L>I fi&s;h within their ponds and catch the prey,</L>
<L>So &s;ubtill is my wit, that none can &s;ee</L>
<L>Where I do fi&s;h tho&s;e things which flow from me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>3. I will launce out when Age improves my flanks,</L>
<L>In the mean time I keep upon the banks</L>
<L>For corrall on Vermilian lipps I fi&s;h,</L>
<L>And who will hinder me to have my wi&s;h?</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Duke of Yorke repre&s;enting a Fi&s;herman.</SPEAKER>
<L>T'is not for me to fi&s;h for Corrall here,</L>
<L>I to another Coa&s;t my cour&s;e mu&s;t &s;teer,</L>
<L>A fatall ground</L>
<L>Which Seas &s;urround.</L>
<L>There I mu&s;t fi&s;h upon an angry Main,</L>
<L>More then two Crowns and Scepters to regain.</L>
</SP>
<PB N="9" REF="10">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Duke Damville repre&s;enting a Fi&s;herman
for Corrall.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have the &s;ame bait, hook and line</L>
<L>I had when I could &s;carce tell nine,</L>
<L>A few there are</L>
<L>Though nere &s;o fair,</L>
<L>If I am &s;et</L>
<L>Can '&s;cape my flaxen net.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Count of Guiche repre&s;enting a Fi&s;herman.</SPEAKER>
<L>Upon the &s;ide of a &s;till peacefull pond</L>
<L>I u&s;e to fi&s;h, and dare not go beyond;</L>
<L>The time will come that I may al&s;o &s;eek</L>
<L>The Rivers Banks, and happly a Sea-creek.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The little Count of Aignon repre&s;enting a Fi&s;herman.</SPEAKER>
<L>As &s;treight and &s;lender as a ru&s;h</L>
<L>I u&s;e to ca&s;t my line, and pu&s;h</L>
<L>It on, but I do onely catch</L>
<L>Small things, I cannot yet attach</L>
<L>Great wel-grown fi&s;hes, one might make</L>
<L>Good cheer with tho&s;e I cannot take.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Maaquis of Mirepoix repre&s;enting a Fi&s;herman.</SPEAKER>
<L>Of this &s;weet Trade of Fi&s;hing I intend</L>
<L>To be one day a Ma&s;ter, and &s;o mend</L>
<L>My fortunes, now, the greate&s;t skill</L>
<L>Of a true Fi&s;herman is to be &s;till,</L>
<L>And patient for a while, to make no ha&s;t</L>
<L>So he may compa&s;&s;e well his ends at la&s;t.</L>
</SP>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The third Scene.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Thetis, Jupiter, Juno, a dumb Quire of the Furies of jealou&s;ie&punc; Jupiter</HI>
being encompa&s;&s;ed with pomp and Maje&s;ty, de|&s;cends
<PB N="10" REF="11">
from the Air in mid&s;t of a great cloud, and pro|pounds
to <HI>Thetis</HI> all the tender &amp; pa&s;&s;ionate things which
might oblige her to be his &s;pou&s;e; but &s;hee refu&s;eth this
honor out of high re&s;pects &s;he ow'd to <HI>Juno,</HI> who had been
&s;o carefull of her Education; whereupon <HI>Jupiter</HI> was up|on
point of carrying her away; but as he was wrapping her
within the cloud wherein he de&s;cended, <HI>Iuno</HI> comes in a
whirlwind not &s;o violent as her rage; And after a loud
fit of &s;colding, having brought the furies along with her,
the earth open'd and di&s;gorgeth a huge horrid Mon&s;ter;
At &s;ight hereof <HI>Iupiter</HI> letting go his prey, and putting off
his de&s;ign till a more convenient time, returnes to Hea|ven.</P>
<P>In the mean time the Furies extreamly well plea&s;ed to
have &s;o opportunely done &s;uch a piece of &s;ervice to <HI>Iuno,</HI>
dance all before her, whereupon the godde&s;&s;e <HI>Iuno</HI> having
thanked <HI>Thetis</HI> for her vertuous re&s;i&s;tance, takes the furies
up with her in the &s;ame whirlwind which brought her
down to per&s;ecute <HI>Iupiter</HI> in his repo&s;e, and in his glory.</P>
<STAGE>The fourth Entry.</STAGE>
<STAGE><HI>The King, the Duke of</HI> Ioyeu&s;e, <HI>the Marquis of</HI> Genlis,
<HI>Moun&s;ieur</HI> Bontemps, <HI>the Lords</HI> de Lorge, Verpre, Beauchamp,
Mollier, le Vacher, De&s;airs, Dolnist, Bapti&s;te.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>For the King repre&s;enting a fury.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L><HI>Spain,</HI> fly from this yong fury, fly away,</L>
<L>She comes to daunt thee, and with torch in hand</L>
<L>Through every corner &s;he doth force her way,</L>
<L>To find thee out, 'gain&s;t her thou can&s;t not &s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She per&s;ecutes the bad, and makes them read</L>
<L>Their guilt within their looks, nay, the &s;ame time</L>
<L>They mi&s;chief work, and do commit the crime,</L>
<L>She glides into the Con&s;cience fear and dread.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="11" REF="11">
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Duke of Joyeu&s;e repre&s;enting a Fury.</SPEAKER>
<L>Believe me not, to tru&s;t in me forbear,</L>
<L>A fained &s;weetne&s;&s;e on my front I wear,</L>
<L>Of me there may be &s;ome mi&s;takes,</L>
<L>for I do hide my claws and &s;nakes.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Marquis of Genlis repre&s;enting
another Fury.</SPEAKER>
<L>My face is lovely, &s;weet and debonnair,</L>
<L>Such as an hone&s;t Fury ought to bear.</L>
<L>My heart &s;ome poy&s;on may contain,</L>
<L>Yet &s;erpents lodge not in my brain.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>THE SECOND ACT.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Which repre&s;ents the top of Cauca&s;us.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Prometheus, Peleus, a Quire of dumb men, and
&s;avage wmen.</STAGE>
<P><HI>PEleus</HI> being conducted by &s;avage men and women,
meets with <HI>Prometheus</HI> upon a Rock with his Eagle
which gnawes upon his heart, and having made a light
compari&s;on of their torments, <HI>Prometheus</HI> a&s;&s;ures him that
the Oracle of <HI>Delphos</HI> had foretold that <HI>Thetis</HI> &s;hould bear a
&s;on greater then his Father; and that <HI>Iupiter</HI> al&s;o without
doubt &s;hould be con&s;trained to renounce his pretention,
and that <HI>Mercury</HI> having been &s;ent in his behalf to <HI>Iupiter,</HI>
to acquaint him with the &s;aying of the Oracle, the bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e
&s;hould end to his contentment: <HI>Peleus</HI> hereupon re|turnes
to <HI>The&s;&s;aly</HI> extreamly comforted, and the &s;avages
upon hopes that <HI>Prometheus</HI> &s;hould be freed from his tor|ment,
<PB N="12" REF="12">
and that <HI>Peleus</HI> &s;hould obtain his hearts de&s;ire, could
not more lively expre&s;&s;e their joy then by a dance.</P>
<STAGE>The fifth Entry.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The Lords of Che&s;nay, and Joyeux, the Lords la
Marre, Monglas, Laleu, Raynall, Rod|dier,
all Savages.</STAGE>
<L>Wee value beautious cheeks, and how</L>
<L>They mu&s;t be u&s;ed we al&s;o know,</L>
<L>Nor &s;uch rude &s;avages are we,</L>
<L>But civiliz'd we &s;oon may be.</L>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Which di&s;covers a place of Gold and &s;tones.</STAGE>
<P>Jupiter, Mercury, <HI>a dumb Quire of Wood-Nymphs.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Jupiter</HI> meets with <HI>Mercury</HI> in this fair Palace which
he had caus'd to be prepar'd in the &s;ecret place about
<HI>Cauca&s;us,</HI> to celebrate his Nuptialls there without the
knowledge of <HI>Iuno,</HI> and devi&s;ing the means how to con|duct
thither the new &s;pou&s;e; <HI>Mercury</HI> gave him notice
what the Oracle had &s;aid; <HI>Iupiter</HI> being therewith &s;ur|priz'd,
and fearing that the &s;ame di&s;ta&s;ter might befall
him there, which had happen'd 'twixt him and <HI>Saturn,</HI>
makes love to yield to ambition, and retires to Heaven af|ter
he had commanded <HI>Mercury</HI> to make it known that he
would think on't no more, nor do an act &s;o injurious to
his Authority; the <HI>Dryades</HI> being Land-Nymphs, fell to
be jealous of the good fortune of <HI>Thetis</HI> a Sea-godde&s;&s;e, be|ing
there as &s;pies to give account to <HI>Juno</HI> of all the purpo|&s;es
of <HI>Jupiter,</HI> and they expre&s;&s;e by a dance the joy they
conceived that <HI>Jupiter</HI> had altered his re&s;olutions.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="12">
<STAGE>The &s;ixth entry.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Dryades or wood-Nymphs.</STAGE>
<P>The King, the Dukes of <HI>Joyeu&s;e,</HI> and of <HI>Roquelaure,</HI> the
Marquis of <HI>Genlis,</HI> Moun&s;ier <HI>Bontemps,</HI> the Lords of <HI>Lorges,
De&s;airs, le Vai&s;er, Verpre, Beauchamp, Molier, D'Olivet.</HI></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>For the King repre&s;enting a Dryade.</SPEAKER>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>A Nymph as great as generous,</L>
<L>In Oaks as green as pretious</L>
<L>I lead a happy traine:</L>
<L>My youthfull branches taper &s;o,</L>
<L>As if to heaven they would grow,</L>
<L>And &s;tarres &s;alute would fain:</L>
<L>They &s;pread and &s;hoot &s;o bravely out, that they</L>
<L>The glory of their root will not betray.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>By their rind you well may know</L>
<L>With what &s;trength and <HI>Sap</HI> the&s;e grow,</L>
<L>and whence it &s;prings.</L>
<L>They may be fit <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> to make,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Alexanders</HI> for to &s;hake,</L>
<L>with thou&s;and earthly Kings.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>About this proud and Royall Tree</L>
<L>Others do grow, but mode&s;tly</L>
<L>They creepe more humble then the gra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>So that one day 'twil come to pa&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>This Tree of Heaven may be made</L>
<L>Unto the <HI>Europian</HI> world a &s;hade.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Duke of Ioyeu&s;e repre&s;enting another
Wood-Nymph.</SPEAKER>
<L>While the &s;ea&s;ons, rude and cold,</L>
<L>I wonder none with me makes bold</L>
<L><PB N="14" REF="13">
My wood hath this rare quality, it &s;hall</L>
<L>Burn, warme, and make no noy&s;e at all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Duke of Roquelaure repre&s;enting
al&s;o a Dryade.</SPEAKER>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>Some hold me for a merry wench,</L>
<L>And that I care not much for Continence,</L>
<L>I am the greate&s;t babler I confe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And imitate <HI>Vergonda</HI> by my tre&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>There is no Forre&s;t but doth feel</L>
<L>The &s;trokes of my victorious &s;teel,</L>
<L>As &s;oone as I doe haunt a cops of wood,</L>
<L>To bring the Axe among them were as good.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>I have my vanities, be&s;ides my Age</L>
<L>By right of Impudence &s;ometimes doth rage,</L>
<L>And if a Tree cleffed may chance,</L>
<L>They pre&s;ently impute the cau&s;e to me.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>But to conclude, &s;weet Nymphs, my plea&s;ures &s;hall</L>
<L>Never hurt yours, therefore doubt not at all;</L>
<L>To my beloved trunk ile &s;o adhere,</L>
<L>That for to injure others none &s;hall feare.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Marriage of Genlis repre&s;enting
the last Dryade.</SPEAKER>
<L>Within the bottom of a Grove</L>
<L>A Satyre thereabouts did rove,</L>
<L>Who held my honor at a bay,</L>
<L>But hard it was for to di&s;play</L>
<L>Whether a reall <HI>Satyre,</HI> or one clad</L>
<L>Like Satyres, or indeed a true <HI>Dryad.</HI></L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<PB N="15" REF="13">
<HEAD>The Third Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Which repre&s;ents a Theater, and at the end of a
pro&s;pective, a Statue of God Mars.</STAGE>
<STAGE>A Quire of Mars his Prie&s;ts, with another dumb
Quire of The&s;&s;alian Knights.</STAGE>
<P>The Cavaliers of the Principall City of <HI>The&s;&s;alia</HI> being
afflicted for the cruelty of <HI>Thetis</HI> again&s;t <HI>Peleus</HI> their Mo|narch,
do bring in a combat at Barriers to the honor of
<HI>Mars:</HI> in the mean time they offered &s;acrifices on the o|ther
&s;ide to the &s;ame God, with &s;upplications, that he
would imploy his credit with <HI>Venus</HI> for the returne of
<HI>Peleus,</HI> and for mollifying the heart of <HI>Thetis;</HI> At this &s;ame
time the Statue of <HI>Mars</HI> having &s;poken and foretold all
good auguries, the Knights quit their armes and dance.</P>
<STAGE>The &s;eventh Entry.</STAGE>
<STAGE>A combat at Barriers by the Knights of The&s;&s;aly.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The Count of Saint <HI>Aignan</HI>
chiefe of the Defendants.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Defendants
<LIST>
<ITEM>Young <HI>Beaufort,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>San Maury,</ITEM>
<ITEM>De&s;ens,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Derville.</ITEM>
</LIST></STAGE>
<STAGE>M. <HI>Beaufort</HI> chiefe of the
Appellants.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Appellants
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gamard,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Clinchant,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ourdanlt,</ITEM>
<ITEM>De Hallus.</ITEM>
</LIST></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>For the Count Sant Aignan repre&s;enting a
The&s;&s;alian Knight.</SPEAKER>
<L>Attend me Lawrells, this combat's made</L>
<L>To gain the glory of tho&s;e irons which hold</L>
<L>Me captive, therefore I mu&s;t be more bold</L>
<L>Then any, and employ my tru&s;ty blade.</L>
<L><PB N="16" REF="14">
What force can lance or &s;word</L>
<L>Again&s;t me then afford?</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="act">
<HEAD>THE THIRD ACT.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>Fir&s;t Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Which repre&s;ents the portall of Thetis Palace.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Peleus, Chiron, a Quire of Chiron's Academi&s;ts.</STAGE>
<STAGE><HI>PEleus</HI> being returned from <HI>Cauca&s;us,</HI> and living with
<HI>Chiron,</HI> doth re&s;olve by his advi&s;es to pre&s;ent him&s;elfe
to <HI>Thetis,</HI> and to make his addre&s;&s;e to her with amorous
patheticall prayers, which he might do the more confi|dently
by rea&s;on of <HI>Jupiter's</HI> declaration, wherein hee re|&s;olved
not to think any more on her; The Di&s;ciples of
the &s;aid <HI>Chiron,</HI> the inventor and Ma&s;ter of many differing
profe&s;&s;ions frame a dance to expre&s;&s;e the joy they con|ceived
for the return of <HI>Peleus.</HI></STAGE>
<STAGE>The eight Entry.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Chiron making his Academy to dance for the enter|tainment
of Peleus.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Moun&s;ieur <HI>He&s;&s;elin</HI> Ma&s;ter of <HI>Chirons</HI> Academi&s;ts.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The Academi&s;ts habited like Indians.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The King,</STAGE>
<STAGE><HI>The Lords</HI> Saintot, Bon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> emps, <HI>and</HI> Cabou, <HI>the Lords</HI> Mol|lier,
Bruneau, Langlois, Beaucham, le Vacher, Bapti&s;te, D'Olvet,
<HI>and</HI> de Lorges.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron the Centaure who was to be repre&s;ented by
Moun&s;ieur He&s;&s;elin.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Be not my friends at all a&s;toni&s;hed</L>
<L>To &s;ee a man onely for back and head,</L>
<L><PB N="17" REF="14">
He happy is who is a bea&s;t</L>
<L>Backward, and not above the bre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I find no incommodity</L>
<L>That I am &s;uch a prodigy,</L>
<L>Half a man &s;omtimes may need</L>
<L>Half a hor&s;e for better &s;peed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When I have moraliz'd by &s;en&s;e,</L>
<L>(Within my cell) neat and di&s;tinct</L>
<L>Unto the &s;table, I withdraw me thence,</L>
<L>From <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> taking plea&s;ure in <HI>in&s;tinct.</HI></L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Ma&s;ter of the Academy repre&s;ented by
Ma&s;ter He&s;&s;elin.</SPEAKER>
<L>If that my pride appear, I rea&s;on have,</L>
<L>For I in&s;truct all gallant men and brave,</L>
<L><HI>Lucre</HI> makes me not mercenary,</L>
<L>But I do teach all frank and free,</L>
<L>If 'mong my &s;chollers<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">[King.]</NOTE> one be pleas'd to pay,</L>
<L>I can afford the re&s;t a good long day.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>For the King repre&s;enting an Academi&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>This young Academi&s;t doth learn &s;o well</L>
<L>His part, that all the re&s;t he doth excel;</L>
<L>His pre&s;ent (and his future) Grandeur &s;how</L>
<L>All mortall his high vertues are below.</L>
<L>This Ma&s;ter piece to perfect, it &s;eems that</L>
<L>Fortune with Nature did cooperate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Bodies exerci&s;e is his delight</L>
<L>Again&s;t his own in many an eager fight;</L>
<L>He beaten hath the iron, and made them fly</L>
<L>A fair pre&s;age of future victory</L>
<L>He greater things prepares; And <HI>Spain</HI> &s;hall find</L>
<L>How dextrous he will prove in every kind.</L>
<L><PB N="18" REF="15">
He cannot broke any &s;hould him exceed,</L>
<L>Whether he runnes, or leaps, or mounts the Steed,</L>
<L>In dancing neatly none &s;urpa&s;&s;e him &s;hall,</L>
<L>The world admires him, only the Ladies are</L>
<L>Wary, nor dare they what they thinke declare.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Scene</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis, Peleus, a dumb quire of Peleus Courtiers,
and the little Maids of honor of Thetis Court.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Peleus</HI> doth all he can to gain the good grace of <HI>Thetis,</HI>
but &s;he continues &s;till in the &s;ame rigor, and as <HI>Proteus</HI>
daughter, takes advantage of the priviledge of her birth
to deceive <HI>Peleus</HI> by various &s;hapes, yet he faints not in the
pursuit, but begins to adde boldne&s;&s;e to affection: at la&s;t
<HI>Thetis</HI> transformes her &s;elfe to a Rock, which <HI>Peleus</HI> em|braceth,
and prote&s;teth to peri&s;h rather then for&s;ake her;
at this la&s;t proof of Con&s;tancy and love, <HI>Thetis</HI> yeelds, and
accepts him for her husband; hereupon all <HI>Peleus</HI> Court
falls into an exce&s;&s;s of gladne&s;&s;e, which makes the Cour|tiers
to fall a dancing.</P>
<STAGE>The ninth entry.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Courtiers.</STAGE>
<P>The Duke of <HI>Candale,</HI> the Marquis of <HI>Villequier,</HI> and of
<HI>Genlis</HI> the Count.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>For the King who &s;hould have repre&s;ented a Courtier.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>This youthfull Courtier hath &s;o high a look,</L>
<L>As if for &s;ome great King him&s;elfe he took,</L>
<L>He's forward, bold, and cannot be alone,</L>
<L>Nothing doth plea&s;e him more then to come on:</L>
<L>He &s;ure will &s;omething do:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="19" REF="15">
<L>The charge we &s;ee he hath is honourable,</L>
<L>And for his age very con&s;iderable,</L>
<L>Some lofty &s;pirits would be glad with le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>But he doth farre more glorious things profe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>&s;ure he will &s;omething do.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He ordinary titles doth excell,</L>
<L>He would do better, though he now doth well,</L>
<L>Had he no proce&s;&s;e with a neerally,</L>
<L>Which yet doth &s;et an edge on Maje&s;ty,</L>
<L>Sure he will &s;omething do</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Duke of Candale, repre&s;enting a Courtier.</SPEAKER>
<L>The Court would not &s;o &s;plendid be and brave,</L>
<L>Were I not there, nor halfe that lu&s;tre have:</L>
<L>We are the 'ffects of one another,</L>
<L>We laugh, and play and &s;port together,</L>
<L>The <HI>Courtier</HI> may do <HI>Fortune</HI> a good turne</L>
<L>As well as &s;he to him&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Marquis of &V;illequier, repre&s;enting
another Courtier.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Fortune</HI> and <HI>Love</HI> are two odd things,</L>
<L>The one is blinde, to'ther hath Wings,</L>
<L>It is a tedious task and doubtfull gain</L>
<L>The true good-will of either to obtain;</L>
<L>For me, I like the lover, who doth go</L>
<L>By way of &s;torming, and ends quickly &s;o.</L>
<L>I will not knock too long at one hearts dore,</L>
<L>Le&s;t in the mean time I lo&s;e hundreds more.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Marquis of Genlis repre&s;enting a
Courtier al&s;o.</SPEAKER>
<L>In the Court a number te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ds</L>
<L>To divers projects, divers ends,</L>
<L><PB N="20" REF="16">
All oppo&s;ed to one another,</L>
<L>The &s;i&s;ters oft do cro&s;s the brother,</L>
<L>Touching my &s;elfe, I hope to expedit</L>
<L>My bu&s;ine&s;&s;e by my charming face and witt.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The la&s;t Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Thetis, Peleus,</HI> a quier of all the Deities, <HI>Prometheus,</HI> a
dumb quier of loves, <HI>Hercules, Hymen, Juno,</HI> dumb per&s;ona|g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s,
a &s;o a dumb quier of the Liberall and Mechanick Arts, a Ce|lestiall
Harmony.</STAGE>
<STAGE><HI>Thetis</HI> and <HI>Peleus</HI> appear, being &s;eated upon a high
Throne, whereof the upper part changeth to a pro&s;pe|ctive
of the Firmament where the loves are &s;eated; and the
other part of the Scene formeth it &s;elfe into a Cloud,
athwart whereof all the Dieties do glitter, being invited
to the Marriage: <HI>Hercules</HI> brings with him <HI>Prometheus</HI> freed
by <HI>Jupiters</HI> order; in the mean time, <HI>Juno</HI> and <HI>Hymen</HI> ac|companyed
by the intelligences that compo&s;e the Cele|&s;tiall
Harmony, de&s;cending in a great engine, all which
being joyned to the Liberall and Mechanick Arts, which
were the invention of <HI>Prometheus</HI> who conducted them
thither, a great dance is formed on earth below, while the
little loves make another in the heavens above at the
&s;ame time.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The la&s;t entry.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The liberall Arts.</STAGE>
<STAGE>Madam de Brancas, Madamoi&s;elle de Mancini, Madamoi|&s;elle
de Mort&s;mart, Madamoi&s;elle de la Riviere Bonnevill, Ma|damoi&s;elle
de Fovilloux, Madomoi&s;elle Destree, Madamoi&s;elle
de la loupe.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madam Brancas repre&s;ents Geometry.</SPEAKER>
<L>I trace the earth all over by account,</L>
<L>As farre as <HI>Pindus</HI> or <HI>Parna&s;&s;us</HI> Mount;</L>
<L><PB N="21" REF="16">
I <HI>Corinth</HI> view, where every one</L>
<L>Cannot arrive, 'tis I alone</L>
<L>Who can by Land-&s;kips, Mapps, and In&s;truments,</L>
<L>Mea&s;ure all Regions, and their va&s;t extents.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madamoi&s;elle Mancini, repre&s;enting Mu&s;ique.</SPEAKER>
<L>In me a comely &s;pritfull grace,</L>
<L>Makes <HI>Vni&s;ons</HI> throughout my face:</L>
<L>A charming harmony</L>
<L>Moves betwixt lips and eye:</L>
<L>Sometimes I melt, bring &s;adne&s;&s;es and &s;marts,</L>
<L>Which &s;hews I am not welcome to all hearts.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madamoi&s;elle de mortmart, repre&s;enting Logique.</SPEAKER>
<L>My youth, my hue, my eyes do prove,</L>
<L>The &s;tronge&s;t <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> in the School of <HI>Love</HI></L>
<L>Is <HI>Beauty,</HI> 'twill convince the mo&s;t au&s;tere,</L>
<L>And make a <HI>Fool</HI> of a <HI>Philo&s;opher:</HI></L>
<L>I pray let this &s;erve for an argument,</L>
<L>I merit on Parna&s;sus Hill a Tent.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madamoi&s;elle d' E&s;tre, repre&s;enting A&s;tronomy.</SPEAKER>
<L>My mind is not &s;o mu&s;sled 'mong the clouds,</L>
<L>But I can know the cau&s;es which by crouds</L>
<L>Puzzle us here below; the &s;tarres when I</L>
<L>Was born, did &s;mile at my Nativity,</L>
<L>The Heavens did powre their graces in &s;uch &s;tore,</L>
<L>That ever &s;ince it makes me them adore.</L>
<PB N="22" REF="17">
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madamoi&s;elle delle Rivere Bonnevill repre|&s;ents
Grammar.</SPEAKER>
<L>Though young and innocent, I have &s;ome fitts</L>
<L>Of the Green &s;ickne&s;&s;e, yet I well may &s;it</L>
<L>Among the&s;e &s;i&s;ters, to my <HI>A. B. C.</HI></L>
<L>Ther's not an Art but 'tis an obligee:</L>
<L>The ground-work I do lay, cut out, and trace,</L>
<L>Therefore on <HI>Phocis</HI> Hill let me have place.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madam de Fovilloux repre&s;enting Rhetorick.</SPEAKER>
<L>I u&s;efull am at Court, Hearts will not yield</L>
<L>I &s;natch away, and &s;o do winne the field,</L>
<L>I conquer with my tongue which I do file,</L>
<L>When I a charming beauty would beguile.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madamoi&s;elle de la Loupe repre&s;enting
Arithmetick.</SPEAKER>
<L>My youthfull charms make many hearts</L>
<L>With grones, and &s;ighes, and &s;obs to &s;mart</L>
<L>Beyond <HI>computing,</HI> yet could I</L>
<L>To <HI>number</HI> them my &s;elfe apply,</L>
<L>But that thereof I make a &s;mal account,</L>
<L>They to &s;o many <HI>Cyphers</HI> do amount.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Madam de Commenge repre&s;enting Iuno.</SPEAKER>
<L>Having immortall beauty in my face,</L>
<L>Where ro&s;es bloom, and Lillies &s;till have place,</L>
<L>What rea&s;on is there I &s;hould jealous be?</L>
<L>Poor Mortalls be not &s;o deceiv'd in me;</L>
<L>I jealou&s;ie do &s;corn with foul di&s;dain,</L>
<L>I'le neither give nor take it, 'tis a grain</L>
<L><PB N="23" REF="17">
Of cur&s;ed, &s;eed that naturally doth bear</L>
<L>A dry black leaf, which will the heart &s;trings teare.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Hymen repre&s;ented by the Duke of Ioyeu&s;e.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am as &s;erious, as <HI>Cupid</HI> is a &s;ot,</L>
<L>I turn his flames to vertue every jot,</L>
<L>Madam <HI>de Puy</HI> knowes well no Blonden is</L>
<L>So frequent with <HI>cha&s;t</HI> maids though full of wi&s;h.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Duke Damville repre&s;enting Hercules.</SPEAKER>
<L>In the behalf of <HI>Love</HI> who&s;e plea&s;ing bait,</L>
<L>Have done me &s;uch good offices and bad,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t begin my <HI>Labours,</HI> and go clad</L>
<L>On <HI>Venus</HI> &s;hrine, and Altars for to wait;</L>
<L>I find my veines and pa&s;&s;ions all as hot</L>
<L>My heart as vigorous as 'twas at fir&s;t,</L>
<L>Ther's nothing in me that's decay'd a jot,</L>
<L>For glory al&s;o I ne're more did thir&s;t:</L>
<L>Only my feet are not &s;o quick, as when</L>
<L>I deceive did my ho&s;t, and may agen.</L>
</SP>
<LIST>
<HEAD>The Mechanique Arts.</HEAD>
<ITEM>The King repre&s;ents repre&s;ents Warre,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Count St. <HI>Aignan</HI> repre&s;ents Agriculture,</ITEM>
<ITEM>De Verpre repre&s;ents Navigation,</ITEM>
<ITEM>De Lorges repre&s;ents Hunting,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Le Vacher repre&s;ents a Gold&s;mith,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Beauchamp repre&s;ents a Painter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>D' olivet repre&s;ents Chirurgery.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The King repre&s;enting Warre.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Peace, &s;ure thou'lt come at la&s;t &s;o much de&s;ir'd,</L>
<L>Who ha&s;t to heaven thy &s;elf &s;o long retir'd</L>
<L>And we mu&s;t be</L>
<L>Thankfull to Warre for thee.</L>
<L><PB N="24" REF="18">
Behold &s;he comes, and &s;he to me is &s;ent</L>
<L>To make me have a timely &s;entiment</L>
<L>Of <HI>Europes</HI> dolefull ca&s;e, lo, &s;he doth bring</L>
<L>Lawrels &amp; palms, fit pre&s;ents for a King.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ye charming Femals, from your eyes</L>
<L>It is, that warrs and tumults ri&s;e</L>
<L>You dart the thunderbolts of &s;trife,</L>
<L>You have your trumpets, drum and fife,</L>
<L><HI>Venus</HI> we know is <HI>Mars</HI> his wife.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Count Saint Aignan repre&s;ents Agricul|ture
or Husbandry.</SPEAKER>
<L>By toyling much both night and day</L>
<L>In <HI>Mars</HI> his field, &amp; <HI>Venus dales,</HI></L>
<L>I glory have obtain'd, they &s;ay,</L>
<L>Having &s;till propitious gales;</L>
<L>I have got Laurells, but the bloom</L>
<L>Is pa&s;s'd, the fruit is not yet come.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>A Quire of Loves.</STAGE>
<STAGE>The Duke of <HI>Anjou</HI> the Kings brother, the Count of
<HI>Guiche,</HI> the Marquis of <HI>Villeroy,</HI> the little Count of Saint
<HI>Aignan,</HI> little <HI>Ra&s;&s;ent</HI> page of the Chamber, <HI>Laleu, Do|nart</HI>
and <HI>Aubry.</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>For Moun&s;ieur, repre&s;enting the fir&s;t love.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ladies, from this tender &s;pray</L>
<L>There may &s;ome danger come one day,</L>
<L>Ye with care&s;&s;es flatter him, he you,</L>
<L>Ye ki&s;s, &amp; hugg him, but you'l find it true,</L>
<L>It is a Lions cubb which yon do &s;troke,</L>
<L>Who with his paw in time may make you &s;moke;</L>
<L><PB N="25" REF="18">
He &s;ports with you, he &s;miles and mocks,</L>
<L>Playes with your jewells, fancies, locks,</L>
<L>But take yee heed, for he at length</L>
<L>Will gather more encrea&s;e of &s;trength;</L>
<L>Yet, I fore&s;ee he will wean quite</L>
<L>Him&s;elf from all &s;uch &s;oft delight;</L>
<L>And marching in the &s;teps of his great &s;ires</L>
<L>Make <HI>Glory</HI> the &s;ole <HI>Queen</HI> of his de&s;ires.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Count of Guyche repre&s;enting
another love.</SPEAKER>
<L>All tho&s;e Loves I do behold</L>
<L>Brighter then the burni&s;h'd gold,</L>
<L>Are nothing if compar'd with me,</L>
<L>Whether Fire, or Light they be,</L>
<L>I do di&s;cover in effect</L>
<L>I am all love, when I reflect</L>
<L>upon my &s;elf&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Marquis of Villeroy repre&s;enting
another Love.</SPEAKER>
<L>I peep to hear what lovers &s;ay,</L>
<L>When they whi&s;per &s;port or play;</L>
<L>And &s;ometimes lay</L>
<L>Traps in their way.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>For the little Count of Saint Aignan repre&s;en|ting
another Love.</SPEAKER>
<L>If hee be as di&s;creet as is his mother,</L>
<L>He will neglect the love of any other,</L>
<L>But if the father he be like unto,</L>
<L>He mi&s;tre&s;&s;es will have &amp; Beauties wooe.</L>
<PB N="26" REF="19">
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>For litle Ra&s;&s;ent repre&s;enting another
Love.</SPEAKER>
<L>Our talents are diver&s;ified,</L>
<L>Each one hath his perfections a&s;ide;
For me,</L>
<L>Till I have wings, 'tis meet</L>
<L>I fence my &s;elf with feet.</L>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="19">
<P>THE
NUPTIALS
OF
PELEUS
AND
THETIS.
A NEW
ITALIAN COMEDY,
Whence the preceding MASK
was extracted;
Made Engli&s;h by a nearer adherence to the
<HI>Original,</HI> then to the <HI>French</HI>
TRANSLATION.</P>
<P>&mdash;Non &s;eria &s;emper.</P>
<Q><HI>London.</HI> Printed for <HI>Henry Herringman,</HI> at the Anchor.</Q>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prologue">
<PB REF="20">
<HEAD>The PROLOGUE.</HEAD>
<STAGE>Apollo and the Mu&s;es upon the Pierian Mount;
Quires of Water-Nymphs upon the Banks of Epi|dano
and Onochono, Rivers of The&s;&s;aly.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The NYMPHS to APOLLO.</SPEAKER>
<L>O Living Trea&s;ure of the glorious Sky,</L>
<L>Who by thy piercing all &s;urveying eye</L>
<L>Do&s;t in thy <HI>golden</HI> Armor conquer Night,</L>
<L>And &s;o in triumph u&s;her'&s;t in the Light:</L>
<L>Among the glittering Stars thou dost not &s;hine</L>
<L>With greater Lu&s;tre, then among&s;t the nine</L>
<L><HI>Aonian</HI> Si&s;ters&punc; O de&s;cend and daign,</L>
<L>Great God, (leaving a while <HI>Olympian</HI> Raign)</L>
<L>To fea&s;t with us: a joyful Augury</L>
<L>Vouch&s;afe to <HI>Peleus</HI> pa&s;sions, who&s;e pure bre&s;t</L>
<L>May ju&s;tly merit <HI>Hymen</HI> for his gue&s;t.</L>
<L>To the eternal Lawes of Love,</L>
<L>The highe&s;t Gods and Saints above</L>
<L><HI>Are Subject:</HI> Monarchies and Scepters yield&punc;</L>
<L>To <HI>Love,</HI> and crown him Victor in the field:</L>
</SP>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 N="1" TYPE="act">
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<PB N="1" REF="20">
<HEAD>ACT I. SCENE I.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Chiron, Peleus,</HI> A Quire of dumb Magicians.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>_WHy do you thus your &s;elf torment?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Chiron,</HI> How &s;hall I find content?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>Pur&s;ue your hopes, and onward go&punc;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>Is't po&s;&s;ible I &s;hould do &s;o?</L>
<L>When on my heart a beauty lies</L>
<L>That is de&s;cended from the Skies;</L>
<L>A beauty that's all moving and immen&s;e,</L>
<L>That hath o're me &s;uch an omnipotence?</L>
<L>Moreover, I two Rivals have,</L>
<L>No le&s;s then Gods, who me outbrave</L>
<L>For <HI>Neptune</HI> with his Trident, and great <HI>Jove</HI></L>
<L>Are my competitors for <HI>Thetis</HI> love.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Peleus,</HI> Why do you thus your &s;elf torment?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Chiron,</HI> Where is it I &s;hould find content?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>Then follow your fair hopes, and onward go.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>How is it po&s;&s;ible I &s;hould do &s;o?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="2" REF="21">
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>Li&s;ten to me, gray hairs do but in vain</L>
<L>Attempt young beauties, they will them di&s;dain</L>
<L>Though they be Gods: <HI>Neptune</HI> is rich in <HI>yeers</HI></L>
<L>As well as <HI>Trea&s;ure, Thetis</HI> will him jeer.</L>
<L>For <HI>Jove,</HI> be&s;ides his age, his rapes and wiles,</L>
<L>How he &s;o many Ladies did beguile</L>
<L>Will make her &s;hun him: but if you de&s;ire</L>
<L>To compa&s;s your de&s;ignes, and quench your fire,</L>
<L>Behold tho&s;e <HI>Magies</HI> that with charmed flight</L>
<L>Will guide you &s;afely to <HI>Prometheus</HI> &s;ight,</L>
<L>Who being bold and wi&s;e, is th'only man</L>
<L>Who in this Enterpri&s;e you plea&s;ure can:</L>
<L>He is no friend to <HI>Jove,</HI> who him torments</L>
<L>With &s;uch eternal pangs, therefore he will,</L>
<L>To help you, exerci&s;e his utmo&s;t skil.</L>
<L>Wherefore take my advice, and hence away</L>
<L>To <HI>India,</HI> through the air cut out your way.</L>
<L>Delay is alwayes dangerous to Lovers,</L>
<L>He ne're obtain'd his ends who hums and hovers.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>This Aiery journey I will undertake,</L>
<L>But though herein <HI>Fortune</HI> my friend I make</L>
<L>Yet are my hopes but &s;mal, I have a hint,</L>
<L>That <HI>Thetis</HI>'s cruel, and her heart is flint.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>When mode&s;t beauties to <HI>excu&s;es</HI> fall,</L>
<L>You mu&s;t not pre&s;ently it <HI>rigor</HI> call.</L>
<L>The <HI>heart</HI> oft-times de&s;ires what <HI>lips</HI> deny,</L>
<L>For a huge di&s;tance doth betwixt them lye.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>Could it unto my Love-&s;ick thoughts appear</L>
<L>That what you &s;ay hereto is true and clear,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e pangs I &s;uffer in my bre&s;t</L>
<L>Would turn to ca&s;e, delight and re&s;t.</L>
<L>But fall what will my fate portends.</L>
<L>I &s;till will glory in my ends,</L>
<L><PB N="3" REF="21">
Which an unmea&s;urable joy di&s;tils,</L>
<L>And my &s;o high-&s;woln heart with comfort fils.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron, Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>Let a true Lover never lo&s;e</L>
<L>His hope or courage when he wooes:</L>
<L>The more his &s;uff'rance is, the more</L>
<L>Sweetne&s;s is kept for him in &s;tore.</L>
<L>In <HI>Cupids</HI> gentle kingdom nothing is</L>
<L>Impo&s;&s;ible, but one may gain his wi&s;h.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>Go on then happily, for who doth know</L>
<L>But that your con&s;tancy may tell you &s;o?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>On, on, then to my Magies I will go.</L>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The Second Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Thetis, Neptune,</HI> a Quire of Tritons, and Mere|maids,
with a Quire of Corral-Fi&s;hers.</STAGE>
<L>The Quire of Tritons and Meremaids.</L>
<L>At &s;uch a &s;plendid glorious &s;how,</L>
<L>What heart but would turn fire and tow?</L>
<L>A Pomp &s;o rare, a &s;ight &s;o fair,</L>
<L>Is able to perfume the air:</L>
<L>Nor Morn nor Sun did ever view</L>
<L>So bright and ravi&s;hing a hue.</L>
<L>At &s;uch a &s;plendid glorious &s;how,</L>
<L>What heart but would turn fire and tow?</L>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Neptune.</SPEAKER>
<L>There is no fence I find,</L>
<L>Love will invade my mind.</L>
<L>In the&s;e moi&s;t fields my Rivers run in vain,</L>
<L>To quench my fire, or tepifie my pain;</L>
<L>Though I in mid&s;t of waters lye,</L>
<L>Yet do I melt, di&s;&s;olve and fry;</L>
<L>But <HI>Thetis,</HI> you at la&s;t will find it true,</L>
<L>To be more <HI>fool</HI> unto your &s;elf, then you</L>
<L><PB N="4" REF="22">
Are cruel <HI>unto</HI> me. Will you refu&s;e</L>
<L>The riche&s;t of the Gods, Him who doth u&s;e</L>
<L>To give tho&s;e gems that beauties do adorn,</L>
<L>Thence, where the Queen of Love her &s;elf was born?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Aurora</HI> commonly doth ri&s;e</L>
<L>Cheerful and &s;miling to our eyes</L>
<L>But &s;uddenly we oftentimes do &s;ee,</L>
<L>She fals a weeping upon flower and tree.</L>
<L>If you de&s;ire the cau&s;e I &s;hould unfold,</L>
<L>It is becau&s;e her<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Titan.</NOTE> Con&s;ort is &s;o old.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Neptune.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Thetis,</HI> Be not deceiv'd, though I be gray,</L>
<L>My waters &s;till are green, and &s;o they may</L>
<L>Be whol&s;omer then Springs, which by and by</L>
<L>'Pon the lea&s;t drowth grow &s;hallower and dry.</L>
<L>Youth is un&s;table, heady, ra&s;h; but age</L>
<L>Is constant, cautious, provident, and &s;age.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis.</SPEAKER>
<L>I do confe&s;s, that you di&s;cour&s;e, and rea&s;on</L>
<L>Like a quaint Amori&s;t, although the &s;ea&s;on</L>
<L>Of Love in you be pa&s;t. It was for Love</L>
<L>The Heavens made <HI>Youth,</HI> for which the Gods above</L>
<L>Have journeyed down to earth; no other age</L>
<L>Is fit a Female beauty to engage.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Neptune.</SPEAKER>
<L>Perfidious thing, I plainly now do find,</L>
<L>Thou art unto another more inclin'd.</L>
<L>Come winds and tempe&s;ts, and with my lament</L>
<L>Your bla&s;ts unite; Come, come incontinent,</L>
<L>Let hi&s;pid blu&s;t'ring <HI>Boreas</HI> from the North,</L>
<L>Bring all the Haracanes and Whirlwinds forth,</L>
<L>Blow off, and bani&s;h from my Kingdom quite</L>
<L>This impious Girle &s;o full of hate and &s;pite.</L>
<L>Revenge the quarrel of your King,</L>
<L>And with your vengeance Ju&s;tice bring:</L>
<L>Shall &s;he in my Dominions dwel,</L>
<L>Who hath inflam'd my heart with fire from hel?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="5" REF="22">
<SPEAKER>Chorus.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ingrateful, ra&s;h, and fooli&s;h Nymph, can&s;t thou</L>
<L>Slight thus the greate&s;t of the gods below&punc;</L>
<L>The grief will be thine own</L>
<L>When thou art wi&s;er growne.</L>
<L>Neglected Amori&s;ts may learn from hence,</L>
<L>Again&s;t blind <HI>Cupids</HI> arrowes a true fence&punc;</L>
<L>Di&s;dain of beauty a <HI>revenge</HI> may be,</L>
<L>Though not of love th'expected <HI>remedy:</HI></L>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The third Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Thetis, Juno, Jupiter,</HI> A Quire of the furies of
<HI>Jealou&s;ie:</HI></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>Now that the fury of the wind</L>
<L>Hath left &s;o &s;weet a calm behind:</L>
<L>Now that the &s;torm is gone,</L>
<L>I pray let me alone</L>
<L>To vent unto my &s;elf my moan.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Oh me, I find that ambu&s;hes are laid.</L>
<L>To take me and entrap poor &s;illy maid:</L>
<L>What will become of thee my heart?</L>
<L>Th'art like to &s;uffer many a &s;mart.</L>
<L>Oh me, Oh me,</L>
<L>Poor heart what will become of thee?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy cha&s;tity <HI>Love</HI> &s;tudies to &s;urprize.</L>
<L>He's &s;ly and cunning, though not alwayes wi&s;e;</L>
<L>He Armour hath of every &s;ort</L>
<L>For to a&s;&s;ault a female Fort:</L>
<L><PB N="6" REF="23">
He prayes, complains, and pines,</L>
<L>He menaceth and whines</L>
<L>Now, if another God &s;hould joyn</L>
<L>With him, who can me then e&s;&s;oyn?</L>
<L>Oh me, Oh me,</L>
<L>Poor heart what will become of thee?</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter.</SPEAKER>
<L>What can ble&s;t heaven me avail,</L>
<L>If &s;till of my de&s;ire I fail?</L>
<L>Cele&s;tial joies, if they to &s;orrow turne,</L>
<L>Far wor&s;e then all <HI>Tartarean</HI> tortures burn&punc;</L>
<L>O <HI>Thetis,</HI> thou alone</L>
<L>Ha&s;t made me quit my Throne,</L>
<L>Thou giv'&s;t him law,</L>
<L>Who Gods doth aw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>It is my de&s;tiny and luck,</L>
<L>By thee for to be deadly &s;truck;</L>
<L>And that which is the greate&s;t wonder,</L>
<L>Thy beauti's &s;tronger then my thunder.</L>
<L>But come, O come, my Fair, increa&s;e my bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And let's cohabit both in <HI>Pardi&s;e.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis.</SPEAKER>
<L>O no,</L>
<L>Not &s;o.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter.</SPEAKER>
<L>Come and be partner of my Throne</L>
<L>Which <HI>Hymen</HI> offers thee alone;</L>
<L>That Empire <HI>Love</HI> hath thee de&s;ign'd,</L>
<L>Come, come my Fair, be not unkind.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis.</SPEAKER>
<L>O no,</L>
<L>Not &s;o&punc;</L>
<L>The heavens forbid I &s;hould be &s;aid,</L>
<L>(Poor innocent and &s;illy maid)&punc;</L>
<L><PB N="7" REF="23">
For to be &s;uch a Rebel as to wrong</L>
<L>Her<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Juno.</NOTE> bed who train'd me all along</L>
<L>From my fir&s;t cradle: I had rather dy</L>
<L>A thou&s;and deaths, and &s;corch in Tartary.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter.</SPEAKER>
<L>If you will u&s;e &s;uch &s;light Apologies,</L>
<L>To him who can command both lair and Skies;</L>
<L>To cleer your error, and my pain a&s;&s;wage,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t u&s;e force, my Dear, but far from rage.</L>
<L>Cloud,<NOTE PLACE="marg">A cloud ap|pears.</NOTE> gently take her up.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis.</SPEAKER>
<L>Oh me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter.</SPEAKER>
<L>What ails my &s;oul?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis.</SPEAKER>
<L>Aime, who helps me?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter.</SPEAKER>
<L>What mortal Creature's hee</L>
<L>Can thee reprize from me?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Juno.</SPEAKER>
<L>Di&s;loyal <HI>Jove,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Juno</HI> with the help of the fi|&s;hers and fu|ries redeem her</NOTE> is it my haple&s;s fate</L>
<L>Thou &s;hould'&s;t &s;o oft thy Faith thus violate?</L>
<L>But &s;ince in <HI>Heaven</HI> no Ju&s;tice can be found,</L>
<L>Or Piety among the Stars, the ground</L>
<L>Shall ope, and &s;tyx &s;hall belch forth furies fell:</L>
<L>Come then appear, ye ga&s;tly dames of Hell;</L>
<L>And help to vindicate</L>
<L>The ju&s;tne&s;s of my fate.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter.</SPEAKER>
<L>Farewel my <HI>Thetis,</HI> &s;o enchanting bright,</L>
<L>But know I do not thee abandon quite.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis to Juno.</SPEAKER>
<L>Great Godde&s;&s;e, I no pardon crave of thee,</L>
<L>But <HI>pity;</HI> though <HI>infortunate</HI> I be,</L>
<L>Yet I am <HI>guiltle&s;s,</HI> and from foulne&s;&s;e free.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="8" REF="24">
<SPEAKER>Juno.</SPEAKER>
<L>Such hazzards to e&s;cape is no offence,</L>
<L>Much le&s;s <HI>mi&s;fortune</HI> or incontinence.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis and Juno.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sweet gratitude doth alwayes re&s;t</L>
<L>In a' well born gentle bre&s;t:</L>
<L>The Gods de&s;ire no more</L>
<L>For tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ings in &s;uch &s;tore,</L>
<L>Which on us Mortals ev'ry hour</L>
<L>They in &s;ilver &s;howres do pour.</L>
</SP>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="2" TYPE="act">
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<PB N="9" REF="24">
<HEAD>ACT II. SCENE I.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Peleus, Promethus,</HI> A Quire of dumb men, and
&s;avage women.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>INfortunate <HI>Prometheus,</HI> how thine</L>
<L>Eternal torments are like mine!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prometheus.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ah, who is he&punc;</L>
<L>Thus &s;peaks to me?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>Tis <HI>Peleus</HI> King of <HI>The&s;&s;aly,</HI></L>
<L>Who may thy mate for torture be.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prometheus</SPEAKER>
<L>I from the body of the Sun</L>
<L>Stole fire e're &s;carce the world begun.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>And I &s;ome fiery glances took</L>
<L>From <HI>Thetis</HI> all inchanting look.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prometheus</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Jove</HI> cha&s;tneth my temerity</L>
<L>By this voracious<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A Vultur preying upon his heart which &s;till renewes.</NOTE> bird you &s;ee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Prometheus,</HI> it is <HI>Jove</HI> the very &s;ame</L>
<L>Torments likewi&s;e with jealou&s;ie my flame.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="10" REF="25">
<SPEAKER>Prometheus</SPEAKER>
<L>But yours one day</L>
<L>May find allay.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>But when, and how?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prometheus</SPEAKER>
<L>Ah, ah, my torments grow.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>O cruel pangs &s;ome truce and re&s;pit give,</L>
<L><HI>Prometheus</HI> may with coun&s;el me relieve.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prometheus</SPEAKER>
<L>I have receiv'd advice from <HI>Mercury,</HI></L>
<L>The<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Jove.</NOTE> <HI>Thunderer</HI> will <HI>Thetis</HI> fly,</L>
<L>And his <HI>Ambition</HI> place (as you &s;hal prove)</L>
<L>Before her <HI>Beauty,</HI> or his flames of love;</L>
<L>To credit this you may be bold,</L>
<L>For by the Oracle it is foretold.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>If it be true what i&s;&s;ues from that vioce,</L>
<L>My &s;oul &s;hal carols &s;ing, my heart rejoice</L>
<L>There never was &s;o coy and cruel &s;he,</L>
<L>But only &s;ought by one, may conquered be.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prometheus</SPEAKER>
<L>Go, go, return where thou did&s;t leave thy heart,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt find ea&s;e for thy corroding &s;mart.</L>
<L>In the va&s;t &s;ea of <HI>Love</HI> who e're doth &s;ail</L>
<L>Mu&s;t lo&s;e no wind, and then he may prevail.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="11" REF="25">
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>For this &s;weet coun&s;el thou ha&s;t given me,</L>
<L>May heaven, O <HI>Prometheus,</HI> &s;et thee free.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prometheus</SPEAKER>
<L>The <HI>Thunderer</HI> may be</L>
<L>Le&s;&s;e cruel unto me.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prometheus, Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>O dear, and &s;olacing, &s;weet bli&s;sful <HI>Hope,</HI></L>
<L>How comforting art <HI>Thou</HI> to tho&s;e who cope</L>
<L>With rigid beauties? thou do&s;t periods put</L>
<L>To black de&s;pair; the Gods did ju&s;tly &s;hut</L>
<L><HI>Thee out of Hell;</HI> Thy breath though ne're &s;o &s;mall</L>
<L>Would ea&s;e the damned &s;ouls in <HI>Pluto</HI>'s Hall.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus to the Savages</SPEAKER>
<L>And you my faithful guides unto this place,</L>
<L>Enjoy the comforts al&s;o I embrace;</L>
<L>Be all partakers of my hopes, and &s;hare</L>
<L>Some of my joyes, which pa&s;t expre&s;&s;ions are.</L>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The Second Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Jupiter, Mercury,</HI> A Quire of dumb Dryads, or
woo'd Nymphs.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter</SPEAKER>
<L>Well,</L>
<L>What did the Oracle at <HI>Delphos</HI> &s;ay</L>
<L>Touching my love to <HI>Thetis,</HI> tell me, pray.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="12" REF="26">
<SPEAKER>Mercury</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Apollo</HI> from the Tripod did pronounce,</L>
<L>The<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Achilles.</NOTE> Son of <HI>Thetis</HI> (all will &s;ee)</L>
<L>Shall greater then his Father be.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter</SPEAKER>
<L>How can that be? unle&s;s the fates renew</L>
<L>In me my<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Saturn</HI> thru&s;t out of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> by <HI>Jupiter</HI> his &s;on.</NOTE> Sire's example, and make't true.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mercury</SPEAKER>
<L>That which <HI>Prometheus</HI> told me al&s;o is</L>
<L>No le&s;s infallible and true then this.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter</SPEAKER>
<L>Then I do find that it doth me behove</L>
<L>To leave commanding Heaven, or not to love.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mercury</SPEAKER>
<L>Which do you mo&s;t de&s;ire,</L>
<L>To &s;erve or domineer?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter</SPEAKER>
<L>I hold <HI>Love's</HI> golden fetter,</L>
<L>Then any Empire better,</L>
<L>The one doth thou&s;and &s;weets in&s;til,</L>
<L>Th'other the brain with cumbers fill.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mercury</SPEAKER>
<L>Permit me, mighty <HI>Jove,</HI> to tell you 'tis</L>
<L>Folly of a <HI>Mortal</HI> &s;till to wi&s;h,</L>
<L>Under the vail of good, to meet the bad,</L>
<L>Which goes in Vertues habit often clad.</L>
<L>But you which o're the Spheers do &s;way,</L>
<L>And &s;uch coru&s;cant beams di&s;play;</L>
<L><PB N="13" REF="26">
Can you be &s;o tran&s;ported, as endure</L>
<L>That a blind lying <HI>Boy</HI> &s;hould you allure,</L>
<L>Who will vapour every where,</L>
<L>That he did fetter <HI>Jupiter.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thetis,</HI> &s;uppo&s;e, an idle wench &s;hould prove:</L>
<L>Have you not Godde&s;&s;es enough above?</L>
<L>If you <HI>Olympus</HI> loo&s;e, where will you find</L>
<L>Throughout the world a Kingdom of that kind?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter</SPEAKER>
<L>In your Di&s;cour&s;e you go &s;o &s;trongly on</L>
<L>That makes me half of your opinion.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mercury</SPEAKER>
<L>Nor can you any true content obtain</L>
<L>Whil&s;t you are compa&s;t with a double pain.</L>
<L><HI>Juno</HI> pur&s;ues you with her Furies here,</L>
<L>And <HI>Thetis</HI> may perhaps flye from you there;</L>
<L>The one is doubtful, th'other is jealous &s;till,</L>
<L>Both may confederate to cro&s;&s;e your will.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter</SPEAKER>
<L>'Tis true, that <HI>Juno</HI> me pur&s;ues,</L>
<L>And rai&s;eth furies by whole crews.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mercury</SPEAKER>
<L>She every where doth &s;tir and wheel about,</L>
<L>She doth di&s;turb all Heaven to find you out.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Jupiter</SPEAKER>
<L>Then <HI>Mercury,</HI> go and proclaime</L>
<L>From Pole to Pole that I di&s;claim</L>
<L><HI>Thetis,</HI> and will no more my Honour maim.</L>
<L>Go &s;peedily.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mercury</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Jove,</HI> I wil fly.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="14" REF="27">
<SPEAKER>Jove</SPEAKER>
<L>Fair Wood Nymphs let this day be Fe&s;tival</L>
<L>That I my wonted freedom did recal,</L>
<L>Which impious fate and beauty did con&s;pire</L>
<L>To captivate with fal&s;e and fatuous fire.</L>
<L>Fair Wood Nymphs let this day by all</L>
<L>Be kept hereafter Fe&s;tival.</L>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The Third Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE>A Quire of Prie&s;ts, a dumb Quire of Cavaliers at
Barriers.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Quire of Prie&s;ts.</SPEAKER>
<L>Great God of War, the prop, defence and &s;tay</L>
<L>Of Empires, intercede that <HI>Peleus</HI> may</L>
<L>(By favor of that<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Venus.</NOTE> Godde&s;&s;e whom alone</L>
<L>Thou do'&s;t adore, and art to &s;erve &s;o prone)</L>
<L>Return to &s;way again fair <HI>The&s;&s;aly:</HI></L>
<L>Behold that amourous Warrier with mild eye.</L>
<L>And you brave Champions propitious make</L>
<L>Our vowes and Altars; let the welkin quake</L>
<L>With the high cla&s;hings of your Barriers.</L>
<L><HI>Peleus</HI> at his return will pay you your Arrears.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>One of the Prie&s;ts.</SPEAKER>
<L>But &s;tay a little, &s;tay,</L>
<L>Our Oracle will &s;omething &s;ay.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Oracle</SPEAKER>
<L>At la&s;t the King of <HI>The&s;&s;aly</HI></L>
<L>Shall home return with mirth and glee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="15" REF="27">
<SPEAKER>The Quire of Prie&s;ts</SPEAKER>
<L>O newes more rare</L>
<L>Then <HI>Indian</HI> Pearle, and &s;weeter far</L>
<L>Then that <HI>Hyblean</HI> juice the Attic Bee</L>
<L>Stov'd in her cell for <HI>Joves</HI> Nativity;</L>
<L>And will King <HI>Peleus</HI> come agen?</L>
<L>Then <HI>The&s;&s;aly</HI> &s;hall &s;warm with men.</L>
<L>O newes more rare</L>
<L>Then <HI>Indian</HI> pearle, and richer far.</L>
</SP>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="3" TYPE="act">
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="scene">
<PB N="16" REF="28">
<HEAD>ACT III. SCENE I.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Peleus, Chiron,</HI> A dumb Quire of Chirons, Aca|demi&s;ts,
or Di&s;ciples.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>FOR him who parts from his delight</L>
<L><HI>Time</HI> makes too quick and rapid flight,</L>
<L>But who is travelling to &s;ee his <HI>Love,</HI></L>
<L>Each moment unto him an <HI>age</HI> doth prove.</L>
<L>Hope <HI>&s;till with</HI> doubts, fruition <HI>with</HI> fear</L>
<L>Is commonly attended every where.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>I with my companions here</L>
<L>Did think to find you full of cheer.</L>
<L>Now that you are a Champion o're the Gods,</L>
<L>Of whom for <HI>Faith</HI> and <HI>Love</HI> you have &s;uch odds;</L>
<L>Why do you thus afflict your &s;elf with pain?</L>
<L>Faint heart did ne're a Ladies favour gain.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sometimes my &s;pirits are alert and high,</L>
<L>Then they begin to langui&s;h pre&s;ently;</L>
<L><PB N="17" REF="28">
Becau&s;e I fear that <HI>Thetis</HI> heart</L>
<L>May Marble prove; hence comes my &s;mart.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>You are deceiv'd; when <HI>Thetis</HI> knowledg had</L>
<L>You left fair <HI>Greece,</HI> and undertook &s;o bad</L>
<L>And hazardous a journey to find ea&s;e,</L>
<L>The fury of your pa&s;&s;ion to appea&s;e;</L>
<L>She with a pitying palene&s;s then was &s;truck,</L>
<L><HI>And &s;ighing &s;aid,</HI> The Stars &s;end him good luck.</L>
<L>Go, lay clo&s;e &s;iege, and let her &s;ee</L>
<L>You are re&s;olv'd for Battery.</L>
<L>The Female who believes &s;he's truly lov'd,</L>
<L>Need not by too long Prayers to be mov'd.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your coun&s;el's good: now with alacrity</L>
<L>I will both <HI>Love</HI> and <HI>Fortune</HI> try;</L>
<L>And of the bu&s;ine&s;s you &s;hall quickly &s;ee</L>
<L>I'l make a &s;haft or bolt. But where is &s;he?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Chiron.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l go in que&s;t of her.</L>
<L>In the mean time let my Di&s;ciples dance,</L>
<L>We will be fortunate in &s;pite of chance:</L>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="scene">
<PB N="18" REF="29">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Thetis, Peleus,</HI> A Quire of <HI>Peleus</HI> Cour|tiers.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis</SPEAKER>
<L>Love, if you will enter like a friend,</L>
<L>Lay down your Armes, let peace attend</L>
<L>Your purpo&s;es, and &s;o you may</L>
<L>Be welcome, and &s;o win the day.</L>
<L>If boi&s;terou&s;ly you me a&s;&s;ault,</L>
<L>Come not neer me, but make a halt:</L>
<L>Be &s;ure not to torment my heart,</L>
<L>Or with your pa&s;&s;ions make it &s;mart.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>O <HI>Thetis,</HI> you de&s;ire to &s;hun</L>
<L><HI>That</HI> which your &s;elf to me have done.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis</SPEAKER>
<L>Ohime.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>My Dear,</L>
<L>What do you fear?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="19" REF="29">
<SPEAKER>Thetis</SPEAKER>
<L>Ohime, when you were far from hence</L>
<L><HI>Love</HI> did do much for you; but now</L>
<L>You are &s;o neer, I fear with violence</L>
<L>He will a&s;&s;ault me with his bow.</L>
<L>I pray retire.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>Will you with &s;uch a heart of flint and &s;teel</L>
<L>Convert tho&s;e plea&s;ing <HI>pa&s;sions</HI> which I feel</L>
<L>To <HI>pangs?</HI> Shall he &s;till langui&s;h</L>
<L>With tears, with doubtfulne&s;s and angui&s;h,</L>
<L>Who loves your eyes</L>
<L>More then the Stars or Skies?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis</SPEAKER>
<L>The&s;e words an amorous plea&s;ure do in&s;til</L>
<L>Into my bre&s;t, my thoughts with fancies &s;will;</L>
<L>Fool that I am, I who have made a vow</L>
<L>To any Love enchantments ne're to bow;</L>
<L>I who two Gods for marriage did refu&s;e,</L>
<L>Shall I yeild now</L>
<L>And love-&s;ick grow?</L>
<L>I pray retire.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>From tho&s;e fair eyes I will not part,</L>
<L>Who have infu&s;'d into my heart</L>
<L><PB N="20" REF="30">
Grief, and content, with <HI>con&s;tancy;</HI></L>
<L>All Trophies of your <HI>cha&s;tity,</HI></L>
<L>And of my <HI>Faith:</HI> where ere you go</L>
<L>I will adore your &s;hadow too and fro.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis to her &s;elf</SPEAKER>
<L>'Gain&s;t &s;uch a charming violence</L>
<L>If I can find no guard or fence,</L>
<L>I'l have recour&s;e for quenching of this fire</L>
<L>Unto the Arts of <HI>Proteus</HI> my great Sire.</L>
<L><HI>Peleus</HI> will then de&s;i&s;t, unle&s;s he fall</L>
<L>In love with <HI>Lions, Mon&s;ters, Rocks</HI> and all.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>Dear, Whats that you whi&s;per?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis</SPEAKER>
<L>May your laments</L>
<L>Find their contents.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>Oh plea&s;ing accents!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis.</SPEAKER>
<L>But <HI>Peleus</HI> now I wil you di&s;abu&s;e,</L>
<L>They are fain'd fancies which you thus amu&s;e</L>
<L>When you made me the object of your mind</L>
<L>You took me for a <HI>Nymph,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">A cloud ap|pears, wherein <HI>Thetis</HI> enters.</NOTE> but you &s;hall find</L>
<L>I am a ravenous Lion, a hard Rock,</L>
<L>A Mon&s;ter that wears clouds in lieu of &s;mock.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="21" REF="30">
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L>My &s;weete&s;t friend,</L>
<L>What do you now intend?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis.</SPEAKER>
<L>I'l wrap my &s;elf within that cloud:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>Do not do &s;o,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Cloud va|ni&s;hes and <HI>The|tis</HI> turns her &s;elf into a Lion</NOTE> for I &s;hall cry aloud.</L>
<L>O heaven ble&s;s me, what do I &s;ee!</L>
<L>Can &s;uch a beauteous Creature turn to be</L>
<L>A bea&s;t of &s;uch immane ferocity?</L>
<L>You cannot fright me, or make an e&s;cape,</L>
<L>My <HI>Thetis</HI> I'l pur&s;ue in any &s;hape.</L>
<L>What do I &s;ee?<NOTE PLACE="marg">She transforms her &s;elf into a Mon&s;ter.</NOTE> This &s;hape becomes you well,</L>
<L>And &s;hewes that you are cruel, fierce and fell.</L>
<L>But all this cunning will not &s;erve your turn,</L>
<L>The more you horrid are, the more I burn.</L>
<L>A Sacrifice of &s;ighes and groans</L>
<L>I'l offer though you change to &s;tones.</L>
<L>Dear, take your &s;hape again,</L>
<L>And ea&s;e me of this pungent pain.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis.</SPEAKER>
<L>O God,</L>
<L>The more I mon&s;trous make my &s;elf in &s;how,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Thetis</HI> re&s;umes her &s;elf.</NOTE></L>
<L>The more my &s;pirits melt, and gentle grow.</L>
<L>I am <HI>almo&s;t</HI> in Love.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="22" REF="31">
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Almo&s;t!</HI> That word my panting bre&s;t doth pierce,</L>
<L>And &s;hewes you &s;till are cruel, fell and fierce,</L>
<L>In lieu of &s;olacing my love-&s;woln mind,</L>
<L>It leaves a double agony behind,</L>
<L>Ohime, what Lions, Mon&s;ters thus oppo&s;e</L>
<L>My vertuous Love, and make them&s;elvs my foes?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis to her &s;elf.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not where to turne, my &s;pirits are</L>
<L>in &s;uch a &s;trange confu&s;ion, yet I dare</L>
<L>Not &s;ay I love as yet; my hot de&s;ire</L>
<L>I will &s;uppre&s;s and quench this raging fire.</L>
<L>The tongue &s;hall give my heart the ly;</L>
<L>I'l make no ha&s;te,</L>
<L>Though I mu&s;t yeild at la&s;t,</L>
<L>There is no remedy.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>Dear <HI>Thetis,</HI> ca&s;t on him a pitying eye,</L>
<L>Who&s;e bre&s;t for thee with candent coles doth fry.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis to her &s;elf.</SPEAKER>
<L>Di&s;tracted &s;oul, 'tis too too true,</L>
<L>I mu&s;t bid now Virginity adieu.</L>
<L>But &s;ure my lips and faltring tongue doth err,</L>
<L>Oh did my heart do &s;o; I mu&s;t prefer</L>
<L>The <HI>heart</HI> before the tongue, becau&s;e the <HI>la&s;t&punc;</HI></L>
<L>Le&s;s noble is; i'th <HI>Heart</HI> Dame Nature plac'd</L>
<L>The pure arterial and illu&s;trious blood;</L>
<L>I fear that I am too well under&s;tood.</L>
<L>By <HI>Peleus.</HI></L>
<L><PB N="23" REF="31">
Ohime, by &s;oft degrees I find</L>
<L>That cunning little <HI>God,</HI> though <HI>blind,</HI></L>
<L>Doth make his way into my bre&s;t,</L>
<L>Maugre my &s;elf, I mu&s;t make him my gue&s;t.</L>
<L>Yet I mu&s;t try once more this <HI>Boy</HI> to mock,</L>
<L>And turn my &s;elf into a &s;en&s;ele&s;s Rock:</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>Have I again lo&s;t <HI>Thetis?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Thetis</HI> doth metamorpho&s;e her &s;elf into a Rock.</NOTE> is &s;he gone?</L>
<L>Mu&s;t I to &s;tones and rocks make now my moan?</L>
<L>O precious cri&s;tal Rock, thou now do&s;t hold</L>
<L>A gem more rich then Diamond or Gold;<NOTE PLACE="marg">He embraceth the Rock, and weeps upon it.</NOTE></L>
<L>I fear that at the foot of this hard Rock</L>
<L>My Hope will &s;hipwrack by a fatal &s;hock.</L>
<L>But for &s;trong water made of <HI>Mercury,</HI></L>
<L>I'l try with tears this Rock to mollifie.</L>
<L>My heat is &s;uch, 'twill me to a&s;hes turn,</L>
<L>Then will I make this precious Rock my Urne.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>The Rock vani&s;heth&punc; whereupon Thetis re|&s;umes
her &s;hape and &s;peaks.</STAGE>
<SP>
<L><HI>Love,</HI> Lo, I yield, I can no more re&s;i&s;t</L>
<L>Thy all &s;ubduing power, or per&s;i&s;t</L>
<L>In my fir&s;t purpo&s;es, thy dart</L>
<L>Hath &s;plit in two my tender heart.</L>
<L>Who have no hearts at all are only fit</L>
<L>To cope with thee, and fence away thy hit.</L>
<L>Lo <HI>Peleus</HI> I am thine.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus in a kind of rapture.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hold heart, do not too wide thy &s;elf dilate,</L>
<L>Le&s;t by exce&s;s of joy I draw my fate</L>
<L>Too &s;oon upon me, and &s;o dye</L>
<L>Ere I make u&s;e of Victory.</L>
<L><PB N="24" REF="32">
And you my faithful followers rejoice,</L>
<L>And cleave the air with your triumphing voice:<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Courtiers&punc; &s;ing.</NOTE></L>
<L>You have been &s;harers of my mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>Now you &s;hall &s;hare of my pro&s;perity.</L>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="scene">
<HEAD>The la&s;t Scene.</HEAD>
<STAGE><HI>Thetis, Peleus, Prometheus,</HI> a Quire of Deities,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Who had freed <HI>Promethe|us.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Hercules, Juno, Hymen,</HI> with the
Liberal and Servile Arts.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis and Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>Now our De&s;ires</L>
<L>Do flame with equal fires.</L>
<L>And there doth nothing want but <HI>con&s;tancy,</HI></L>
<L>For to complete both our Felicity.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Peleus.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Thetis,</HI> Thou art my chiefe&s;t good.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis</SPEAKER>
<L>And you my heart and precious bloud.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis and Peleus</SPEAKER>
<L>Behold the Gods are come to be our Gue&s;ts,</L>
<L>And learn of us what it is to be ble&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="25" REF="32">
<SPEAKER>Prometheus</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Peleus,</HI> We now are both from tortures free;</L>
<L>You <HI>Hymen</HI> help'd, and <HI>Hercules</HI> help'd mee.</L>
<L>And to oblige us further, they are here</L>
<L>To mingle joy with us, and make good cheer.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The Quire of Deities</SPEAKER>
<L>To them who langui&s;h</L>
<L>In pain and angui&s;h,</L>
<L>Love gives at la&s;t</L>
<L>A &s;weet repa&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Thetis, Peleus, Prometheus</SPEAKER>
<L>Ju&s;t heaven ne're fails, and Powers above</L>
<L>To recompence a vertuous con&s;tant Love;</L>
<L>Grief, cares, and pain</L>
<L>Turn all at la&s;t to gain.</L>
<L>By this we find adver&s;ity to be</L>
<L>The &s;ure&s;t road to true Felicity.</L>
</SP>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</GROUP>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
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