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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>THE TRIVMPH OF PEACE.</P>
<P>A Ma&s;que, pre&s;ented by the Foure Honourable Hou&s;es, OR <HI>Jnnes of Court.</HI></P>
<P>Before the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Queenes</HI> Ma|je&s;ties, in the <HI>Banquetting-hou&s;e</HI> at <HI>White Hall,</HI> February the third, 1633.</P>
<P>Invented and Written, By <HI>James Shirley,</HI> of <HI>Grayes Inne,</HI> Gent.</P>
<Q>Primum hunc Arethu&s;a mihi&mdash;</Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Iohn Norton,</HI> for <HI>William Cooke,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop, neere <HI>Furnivals-Inne</HI>-gate, in <HI>Holborne.</HI> 1633.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>TO THE FOVRE Equall and Ho|nourable Societies, THE <HI>JNNES</HI> of <HI>COVRT.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_I Want words to expre&s;&s;e Your cheerefull and active de&s;ires, to pre&s;ent Your duties to their royall Maie&s;ties, in this Ma&s;que: to celebrate, by this humble tender of Your hearts, and &s;ervices, the happine&s;&s;e of our King|dome, &s;o ble&s;t in the pre&s;ent governement, and never &s;o rich in the po&s;&s;e&s;sion of &s;o many, and great pledges of their <HI>Parents</HI> vertue, our <HI>Native Princes.</HI></P>
<PB REF="3">
<P>Your cleare devotions already offered, and accepted, let not me want an Altar for my Oblation to You. This entertaynment which tooke life from your command, and wanted no motion, or growth, it could derive from my weake Phan&s;ie: I &s;acrifice againe to You, and vnder Your &s;mile to the world, let it not repent you to looke vpon, what is the &s;econd time made Your owne, and with it, the Heart of the Sacrificer, infinitely bound to acknowledge your free, and Noble &s;oules, that have left no way for a Poet to &s;atisfie his ambition, how to thanke you, but with thinking, he &s;hall never be able to &s;atisfie it.</P>
<P>I dare not racke my preface to a length, proceede to be Your &s;elues <HI>(the Ornament of our Nation,)</HI> and when You have lei&s;ure to conver&s;e with imaginations of this kinde, it &s;hall be an addition to your many favours, to read the&s;e papers, and obliege be&s;ide, the &s;eales of Your other encouragement,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>The humble&s;t of your Honourers IAMES SHIRLEY.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
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<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="introduction">
<PB N="1" REF="3">
<HEAD>The Ma&s;que of the Gentlemen of the foure Ho|nourable Societies, or <HI>Innes of Court.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_AT <HI>Ely</HI> and <HI>Hatton</HI>-Hou&s;es, the Gentle|men, and their A&s;&s;i&s;tants met, and in this manner prepar'd for the Court.</P>
<P>The Antima&s;quers were v&s;her'd by a Hornepipe, and a Shalme, riding in Coates and Caps of yellow Taffata, &s;potted with Silver, their Feathers red, their Hor&s;es led by men in coates of blew Taffata, their wings red, and part of their &s;leeves yellow, Caps and Feathers: all the torch-bearers in the &s;ame habite appoynted to attend, and give plentifull light to the whole traine.</P>
<P><HI>Phan&s;ie,</HI> in a &s;ute of &s;everall coloured Feathers hoo|ded. A paire of Bats-wings on his &s;houlders, riding alone as &s;ole pre&s;enter of the Antima&s;ques.</P>
<P>After him rode <HI>Opinion</HI> and <HI>Confidence</HI> together, <HI>Opinion</HI> in an old fa&s;hioned Doublet of blacke Velvet, and truncke Ho&s;e, a &s;hort Cloake of the &s;ame with an antique Cape, a blacke Velvet cap pinch'd up, with a white fall, and a &s;taffe in his hand.</P>
<PB N="2" REF="4">
<P><HI>Confidence</HI> in a &s;la&s;h'd Doublet parti-coloured Bree|ches &s;utable with poynts at knees, favours vpon his brea&s;t, and arme: a broad-brim'd Hat, tied up on one &s;ide, banded with a Feather, a long Locke of Haire, trim'd with &s;everall coloured Ribbands, wide Boots, &amp; great Spures with Rels for Rowels.</P>
<P>Next rode <HI>Iollity</HI> and <HI>Laughter. Iollity</HI> in a flame-coloured Suite, but trick'd like a Mori&s;e-dancer, with Scarfes and Napkins, his Hat fa&s;hioned like a Cone, with a little fall.</P>
<P><HI>Laughter</HI> in a long &s;ide Coate of &s;euerall colous laughing, Vi&s;ards on his brea&s;t and backe, a Cap with two grinning faces, and Feathers betweene.</P>
<P>Then followed variety of Anticke mu&s;icke after which rode &s;ixe Proiectors, one after another, their Hor&s;es led by Torch-bearers.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t a <HI>Iocky</HI> with a Bonnet on his head upon the top of it a whip, he &s;eeming much to ob&s;erue and affect a bride which he had in his hand.</P>
<P>The &s;econd a Country fellow in a Leather Dou|bled and gray trunke Ho&s;e, a wheele with a per|petuall motion on his head, and in his hand a|flayle.</P>
<P>The third, a grimme Philo&s;opicall fac'd fellow in his gowne furr'd, and girdled about him, a furnace upon his head, and in his hand a Lampe.</P>
<P>The fourth in a ca&s;e of blcke Leather va&s;t to the middle, and round on the top, with gla&s;&s;e eyes, and bellowes under each arme.</P>
<P>The fift a Phy&s;ition, on his head a Hat with a bunch of Carrots, a Capon perched upon his fi&s;t.</P>
<PB N="3" REF="4">
<P>The &s;ixt like a Seaman, A Shippe upon his head and holding a Line and Plummet in his hand.</P>
<P>Here variety of other Anticke mu&s;icke counterfei|ting the voyces of Birds, and after the&s;e rode, a Magpy, a Crow, a Iay, and a Kite, in a quadran|gular figure, and in the mid&s;t an Owle, the&s;e were followed by three Satires, two a brea&s;t, and one &s;ingle, &s;ided with torch-bearers. Then three Dotte|rels in the &s;ame manner and attendance.</P>
<P>After the&s;e a Windmill, again&s;t which a phanta|&s;ticke Knight with his Lance, and his Squire arm'd &s;eem'd to make their attempts.</P>
<P>The&s;e moving forward, in ridiculous &s;hew and po|&s;tures, a Drummer followeth on Hor&s;ebacke, in a Crim&s;on taffata Coate, a white Hat and feather tip'd with Crim&s;on, beating two kettle Drummes.</P>
<P>Then 14 Trumpetors, in Crim&s;on Satten coates, white Hats and Feathers, and rich Banners.</P>
<P>The Mar&s;hall followed the&s;e, brauely mounted: attended with forty foote, in Coates and Ho&s;e of Scarlet trim'd with &s;ilver Lace, white Hats and Fea|thers, their truncheons tip'd with &s;ilver: the&s;e upon every occa&s;ion moving too and fro, to pre&s;erue the order of their march, and re&s;traine the rudene&s;&s;e of People, that in &s;uch triumphs, are wont to be in&s;o|lent, and tumultuary.</P>
<P>After the&s;e an hundred Gentlemen, gloriou&s;ly furni&s;hed and gallantly mounted, riding two and two a brea&s;t, every Gentleman having his two Pages richly attired, and a groome to attend him.</P>
<PB N="4" REF="5">
<P>Next after the&s;e a Chariot drawne by foure hor&s;es, two and two together, richly furni&s;hed and adorn'd with Gold and Silver, the Charioter in a Polonian coate of greene Cloth of &s;ilver. In this were ad|vanc'd Mu&s;icians like Prie&s;ts and Sybills, &s;onnes and daughters of Harmony, &s;ome with Coronets, o|ther with wreathes of Lawrell and Mirtle, play|ing upon their Lutes, three Foote-men on each &s;ide in blew Satten wrought with Silver, and every one a Flambeaux in his hand.</P>
<P>In the next Chariot of equall glory, were placed on the lowe&s;t &s;taires foure in skie-coloured Taffata Robes &s;eeded with &s;tarres, Mantles a&s;he-coloured, adorn'd with Fringe, and Silver-lace, Coronets with Starres upon their heads. In a &s;eate a little more ele|vate, &s;ate <HI>Genius,</HI> and <HI>Amphiluche.</HI></P>
<P>On the highe&s;t &s;eate of this Chariot, &s;ate the three Howers, or Heavenly &s;i&s;ters, <HI>Irene, Diche,</HI> and <HI>Euno|mia.</HI> All who&s;e habits &s;hall be de&s;cribed in their proper places: this Chariot attended as the for|mer.</P>
<P>After the&s;e came the foure Triumphals or Magnificent Chariots, in which were mounted the grand Ma&s;quers, one of the foure Hou&s;es in euery Chariot, &s;eated within an halfe Ovall, with a glori|ous Canopy over their heads, all bordered with &s;ilver Fringe, and beautified with Plumes of Feathers on the top.</P>
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<ITEM>The fir&s;t Chariot, &s;ilver &amp; orenge:</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd, &s;ilver &amp; watchet.</ITEM>
<PB N="5" REF="5">
<ITEM>The third, &s;ilver &amp; crim&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The fourth, &s;ilver &amp; White.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>All after the Romane forme, adorned with much embo&s;&s;ed and carved workes, and each of them wrought with Silver, and his &s;euerall colour, they were mounted on carriages, the Spring trees, Pole and Axle-trees, the Charioters &s;eate, and &s;tanders, wheeles, with the fellyes, &s;pokes, and naves all wrought with Silver, and their &s;everall colour.</P>
<P>They were all drawne with foure Hor&s;es a front after the magnificent Romane Triumphs, their fur|niture, Harne&s;&s;e, Head&s;tall, Bits, Raines, and Traces, Shaferon, Cronet, Petronell, and Barbe of rich cloth of Silver, of &s;everall workes, and colours an&s;werable to the linings of the Chariots.</P>
<P>The Charioters in Polony-coates of the &s;ame co|lour of the Chariots, their Caps Feathers, and Bu&s;|kings an&s;werable.</P>
<P>The two out Hor&s;es of euery Chariot led by two men in habits wrought with Siluer, and con|formable to the colour of the other furniture, foure foot-men on eyther &s;ide of euery Chariot, in rich habits al&s;o wrought with Siluer an&s;werable to the re&s;t, euery one carrying a Flambeaux in his hand.</P>
<P>Betweene every of the&s;e Chariots foure Mu&s;iti|ans in their Robes and Garlands, were mounted; riding two a brea&s;t, attended with Torch-bearers.</P>
<P>The Habit of the Ma&s;quers gaue infinite &s;plendor to this &s;olemnity; which more aptly &s;hall be ex|pre&s;t in his place.</P>
<PB N="6" REF="6">
<P>TThis Ma&s;que was pre&s;ented in the <HI>Banquet|ting-hou&s;e.</HI> At white Hall before the <HI>King&punc;</HI> and <HI>Queenes</HI> Maie&s;ties and a great A&s;&s;embly of <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Ladies,</HI> and other per&s;ons of quality, who&s;e a&s;pect &s;etting on the degrees prepared for that pur|po&s;e gaue a great grace to this &s;pectacle, e&s;pecially being all richly attired.</P>
<P>At the lower end of the roome oppo&s;ite to the &s;tate was ray&s;ed a Stage with a de&s;cent of &s;taires in two branches landing into the roome. This Ba&s;e|ment was painted in ru&s;ticke worke.</P>
<P>The border of the front and &s;ides that enclo&s;ed all the Sceane had fir&s;t a ground of Arbor-worke en|termixt with loo&s;e branches and leaues, and in this was two Niches, and in them two great figures &s;tanding in ea&s;y po&s;tures, in their naturall colors, and much bigger then the life, the one attired after the Grecian manner held in one hand a Scepter, and in the other a Scrowle, and a picked antique crowne on his head, his cura&s;&s;e was of Gold richly en|cha&s;ed, his robe blue and Siluer, his armes and thighs bare with buskinds enricht with ornaments of Gold, his browne locks long, and curled, his Beard thicke, but not long, and his face was of a grave and ioviall a&s;pect, this figure &s;tood on a round pede&s;tall fained of white Marble, enricht with &s;e|verall caruings; above this in a compartiment of Gold was written <HI>MINOS.</HI> The figure on the other &s;ide was in a Romane habit, holding a Table
<PB N="7" REF="6"> in one hand, and a Pen in the other, and a white Bend or Diadem about his head, his Robe was crim&s;on and Gold, his Mantle yellow and Siluer, his Buskins watchet trim'd with Siluer, his haire and Beard long and white with a uenerable a &s;pect, &s;tan|ding likewi&s;e on a round Pede&s;tall an&s;werable to the other. And in the compartiment over him was writ|ten <HI>NVMA.</HI> Above all this in a proportionate di&s;tance hung two great Fe&s;tons of fruites in colors which &s;erued for fini&s;hing to the&s;e &s;ides. The upper part in manner of a large Freeze was adorn'd with &s;everall compartiments with draperies hanging downe, and the ends tied up in knots, with tro|phies proper to fea&s;ts and triumphs, compo&s;ed of Masking Vizards and torches. In one of the le&s;&s;er compartiments was figured a &s;harpe &s;ighted eye, and in the other a Golden-yoke, in the mid&s;t was a more great and rich compartiment on the &s;ides of which &s;ate naked Children in their naturall colors, with Siluer wings in action of &s;ounding Golden Trum|pets, and in this was figured a <HI>Caduceus</HI> with an O|liue-branch, all which are Hierogliphicks of Peace Iu&s;tice and Law.</P>
<P>A Curtaine being &s;odainly drawne up, the Sceane was di&s;covered repre&s;enting a large &s;treete with Sumptuous Pallaces, Lodges Portico's, and o|ther noble peeces of Architecture, with plea&s;ant Trees and grounds, this going farre from the eye, opens it &s;elfe into a &s;pacious place, adorn'd with publique and private buildings &s;eene a far of, repre|&s;enting the <HI>Forum</HI> or <HI>Piazza</HI> of Peace. Over all was a
<PB N="8" REF="7"> cleare skie with tran&s;parent clouds, which enlightned all the Scene.</P>
<P>The Spectators having entertained their eyes a while with the beavty and variety of this Scene from one of the &s;ides of the &s;treetes enters <HI>Opinion,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="play">
<PB N="1" REF="7">
<HEAD><HI>Enter</HI> Opinion, Confidence <HI>meetes him, they &s;alute.</HI></HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>CONFIDENCE,</SPEAKER>
<P>_MO&s;t grave <HI>Opinion!</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Confidence</HI> mo&s;t welcome,</L>
<L>Is <HI>Phan&s;ie</HI> come to Court?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<L>Breaking his way</L>
<L>Thorough the Guard.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>So violent?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<L>With jea&s;ts</L>
<L>Which they are le&s;&s;e able to re&s;i&s;t,</L>
<L>Hee'l cracke a Halberd with his wit,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>A mo&s;t</L>
<L>Strong Phan&s;ie, yet we ha' knowne a little Engine</L>
<L>Breake an ingenious Head-peece. But your Ma&s;ter&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<L>Companion &s;ir. <HI>Phan&s;ie</HI> will keepe no Servants,</L>
<L>And <HI>Confidence</HI> &s;cornes to waite.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>Cry mercy &s;ir,</L>
<L>But is this Gentleman, this Signior <HI>Phan&s;ie</HI></L>
<L>So rare a thing &s;o &s;ubtile as men &s;peake him?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<L>He's a great Prince of th'Ayre, beleeue it &s;ir,</L>
<L>And yet a Bird of night.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>A Bird!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<L>Betweene</L>
<L>An Owle and Bat, a queint Hermophrodite,</L>
<PB N="2" REF="8">
<L>Begot of <HI>Mercury</HI> and <HI>Venus,</HI> Wit, and Loue.</L>
<L>He's worth your entertainement.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am mo&s;t</L>
<L>Ambitious to &s;ee him, he is not</L>
<L>So nimble as I wi&s;h him, where's my Wife,</L>
<L>My Lady <HI>Novelty?</HI></L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Lady Novelty.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>No.</SPEAKER>
<L>Your Wife? you might</L>
<L>Have fram'd a newer word, they can but call</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;o i'th Country.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>No exception</L>
<L>Deare Madam <HI>Novelty,</HI> I mu&s;t prepare you,</L>
<L>To entertaine a Gentleman, where's <HI>Admiration,</HI></L>
<L>Our Daughter?</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Admiration.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ad.</SPEAKER>
<P>Here &s;ir, what gay man is this?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>Plea&s;e you honour us, and bring in your friend &s;ir.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ile doo't but he prevents me.</P>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter Phan&s;ie, Iollity, and Laughter.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>Sir I am ignorant</L>
<L>By what titles to &s;alute you, but y'are welcome to Court.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<P>Saue your &s;elfe &s;ir, your names <HI>Opinion.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>And yours <HI>Phan&s;ie.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<P>Right.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iol.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mine <HI>Iollity.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mine <HI>Laughter,</HI> ha, ha, ha,</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>No.</SPEAKER>
<P>Here's a &s;trange &s;hape.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ad.</SPEAKER>
<P>I never &s;aw the like.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB N="3" REF="8">Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>I come to doe you honor with my friends here</L>
<L>And helpe the Ma&s;que.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>You'le doe a &s;peciall favour.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>How many Antima&s;ques ha they? Of what nature</L>
<L>For the&s;e are Phan&s;ies that take mo&s;t, your dull</L>
<L>And phlegmaticke inuentions are exploded,</L>
<L>Giue mee a nimble Antima&s;que.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>They haue none &s;ir.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<P>No Antima&s;que? ide laugh at that i'faith.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iol.</SPEAKER>
<P>What make wee heere? No <HI>Iollity.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>No Antima&s;que.</L>
<L>Bid 'em downe with the Sceane, and fell the timber.</L>
<L>Send <HI>Iupiter</HI> to gra&s;&s;e, and bid <HI>Apollo</HI></L>
<L>Keepe Cowes againe, take all their gods and godde&s;&s;es</L>
<L>For the&s;e mu&s;t far&s;e up this nights intertainement,</L>
<L>And pray the Court may haue &s;ome mercy on'em,</L>
<L>They will bee jeerd to death el&s;e for their ignorance,</L>
<L>The &s;oule of wit moues here, yet there bee &s;ome</L>
<L>If my intelligence faile not, meane to &s;hew</L>
<L>Them&s;elues jeere Maiors, &s;ome tall Critticks have</L>
<L>Planted Artillery and wit murderers</L>
<L>No Antima&s;que? Let 'em looke too't.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>I have heard &s;ir;</L>
<L><HI>Confidence</HI> made them tru&s;t, you'de furni&s;h 'em,</L>
<L>I feare they &s;hould have made their addre&s;&s;e earlier</L>
<L>To your invention, but your braine's nimble,</L>
<L>Pray, for the expectation that's upon 'em</L>
<L>Lend them &s;ome witty fancies, &s;et &s;ome engines</L>
<L>In motion, thar may conduce to the de&s;igne.</L>
<L>I am their friend again&s;t the Croude that enuy'em</L>
<L>And &s;ince they come with pure deuotions.</L>
<PB N="4" REF="9">
<L>To &s;acrifice their duties to the King</L>
<L>And Queene, I wi&s;h 'em pro&s;per.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>You haue charm'd me,</L>
<L>Ile be their friend to night, I haue a Fancy</L>
<L>Already.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<P>Let it be ridiculous.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<P>And Confident.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iol.</SPEAKER>
<P>And jolly.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>The fir&s;t Antima&s;que</L>
<L>We will pre&s;ent our &s;elues in our owne per&s;ons,</L>
<L>What thinke you on't? mo&s;t grave <HI>Opinion.</HI></L>
<L>You &s;hall doe well to lead the dance, and give it</L>
<L>Authority with your face, your Lady may</L>
<L>Admire what &s;he finds new.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>No.</SPEAKER>
<L>I &s;hall applaud</L>
<L>the Novelties.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ad.</SPEAKER>
<P>And I admire.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>They tumble,</L>
<L>My skull's too narrow.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<P>Now his Phan&s;ies caper.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Confidence,</HI> waite you upon <HI>Opinion,</HI></L>
<L>Here <HI>Admiration,</HI> there <HI>Novelty,</HI></L>
<L>This is the place for <HI>Iollity</HI> and <HI>Laughter,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Phan&s;ie</HI> will dance him&s;elfe too.</L>
<STAGE>The fir&s;t Antima&s;que, the dance expre&s;|&s;ing the natures of the Pre&s;enters.</STAGE>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<P>How like you this device?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>Tis han&s;ome&mdash;but</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Opinion</HI> will like nothing.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>No.</SPEAKER>
<P>it &s;eemes new.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<P>twas bold.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB N="5" REF="9">Iol.</SPEAKER>
<P>Twas Io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">und.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<P>Did not I doe the foole well?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ad.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mo&s;t Admirably.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<L>Nay, and the Ladies doe but take</L>
<L>My part, and Laugh at me, I am made, ha, ha.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>I could wi&s;h &s;omething &s;ir, of other nature</L>
<L>To &s;atisfie the pre&s;ent expectation.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>I imagine, nay, I'me not ignorant of proprieties</L>
<L>And per&s;ons, tis a time of peace, ile fit you.</L>
<L>And in&s;tantly make you a repre&s;entation</L>
<L>Of the effects.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>Of peace? I like that well.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>And &s;ince in nothing, they are more expre&s;t</L>
<L>Then in good fellow&s;hip, ile pre&s;ent you with</L>
<L>A Taverne&punc;</L>
</SP>
<P>The Scene is changed into a Taverne, with a flaming red Lettice, &s;everall drinking-roomes, and a backe doore, but e&s;pecially, a conceited Signe, and an eminent Bu&s;h.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>No.</SPEAKER>
<P>A &s;picke and &s;pan new Taverne.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ad.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wonderfull, heere was none within two minutes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<P>No &s;uch wonder Lady, Tauernes are quickly up, it is but hanging out a Bu&s;h at a Noblemans doore, or an Aldermans gate, and tis made in&s;tantly.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wil't plea&s;e you Ladies to accept the wine?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iol.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well &s;ayd <HI>Confidence.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>No.</SPEAKER>
<L>It will bee new for Ladies</L>
<L>To go to th' Taverne, but it may be a fa&s;hion,</L>
<L>Follow mee <HI>Admiration.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<L>And the foole,</L>
<PB N="6" REF="10">
<L>I may &s;upply the ab&s;ence of your Fidlers.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iol.</SPEAKER>
<L>If wee can, lets leave <HI>Opinion</HI> behind us,</L>
<L><HI>Phan&s;ie</HI> will make him drunke,</L>
<STAGE>Exeunt to the Taverne.</STAGE>
</SP>
<P>Another <HI>Antima&s;que</HI> of the <HI>Ma&s;ter of the Taverne, His Wife, and Servants.</HI> after the&s;e&mdash;</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Maquerelle.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="3">The&s;e having danc'd and ex|pre&s;&s;ed their natures, goe into the Taverne. then-</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>two Wenches.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>two wanton Gam&s;ters.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Gentleman.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="2">The Gentleman fir&s;t danceth alone to him the Beggers, he be&s;tows his charity, the Cripples upon his going off, throw away their leggs, and dance,</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Beggers 4.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op</SPEAKER>
<L>I am glad they are off, are the&s;e effects of peace?</L>
<L>Corruption rather.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>Oh the Beggers &s;hew</L>
<L>The benefit of peace.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>Their very breath</L>
<L>Hath &s;tifled all the Candles, poy&s;on'd the</L>
<L>Perfumes, Beggers a fit pre&s;entment? how</L>
<L>They cleave &s;till to my no&s;thrill, I mu&s;t tell you,</L>
<L>I doe not like &s;uch ba&s;e and &s;ordide per&s;ons.</L>
<L>And they become not here.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>I apprehend,</L>
<L>If the&s;e di&s;ta&s;te you, I can fit you with</L>
<L>Per&s;ons more cleanly,</L>
<L>What thinke you of Proiectors?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>How Proiectors!</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>Here's one already.</L>
<STAGE>Enter a Iocky.</STAGE>
<L>This is a <HI>Iocky,</HI></L>
<PB N="7" REF="10">
<L>He is to advance a rare, and cunning bridle</L>
<L>Made hollow in the iron part, wherein</L>
<L>A vapour &s;ubtly conveyd, &s;hall &s;o</L>
<L>Coole and refre&s;h a hor&s;e, he &s;hall nere tire</L>
<L>And now he fals to his pace.</L>
<STAGE>Iocky dances.</STAGE>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">s other?</P>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter a Country fellow.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>His habite &s;peakes him</L>
<L>A Country-fellow, that has &s;old his acres</L>
<L>To purcha&s;e him a flayle, which by the motion</L>
<L>Of a queint wheele, &s;hall without helpe of hands,</L>
<L>thre&s;h Corne all day, and now he layes about him.</L>
<STAGE>The Country fellow dances.</STAGE>
</SP>
<SP>
<STAGE>Enter another Proiector.</STAGE>
<L>This with a face Phylo&s;ophicall, and beard</L>
<L>Hath with the &s;tudy of twenty yeares found out</L>
<L>A lampe, which plac'd&punc; beneath a Furnace, &s;hall</L>
<L>Boyle Beefe &s;o thoroughly, that the uery &s;teame</L>
<L>Of the fir&s;t Ve&s;&s;ell &s;hall be able</L>
<L>to make another Pot aboue &s;eeth over.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>A mo&s;t Schola&s;ticke Proiect, his feete follow</L>
<L>the motions of his braine.</L>
<STAGE>The third Proiector dances.</STAGE>
<L>But what thing's this?</L>
<L>A <HI>Chimera</HI> out of <HI>Rablais?</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>A new Proiect,</L>
<L>A Ca&s;e to walke you all day vnder Water.</L>
<PB N="8" REF="11">
<L>So ua&s;t for the nece&s;&s;ity of ayre,</L>
<L>Which, with an arificiall bellowes cool</L>
<L>Vnder each arme, is kept &s;till from corruption</L>
<L>With tho&s;e gla&s;&s;e eyes, he &s;ees, and can fetch up</L>
<L>Gold or what ever jewels ha'beene lo&s;t,</L>
<L>in any River o'the World.</L>
<STAGE>The fourth Proiector dances.</STAGE>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>Strange Water-Rat!</P>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter another Proiector.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>This grave man, &s;ome yeares pa&s;t was a Phy&s;ition,</L>
<L>A <HI>Galeni&s;t,</HI> and parcell <HI>Para&s;el&s;us,</HI></L>
<L>Thriu'd by di&s;ea&s;es, but quite lo&s;t his practi&s;e,</L>
<L>To &s;tudy a new way to fatten Poultry</L>
<L>With &s;crapings of a Carrot, a great benefit</L>
<L>To th' Commonwealth.</L>
<STAGE>The fift proiector dances.</STAGE>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>He will de&s;erue a monument.</P>
</SP>
<STAGE>Enter the &s;ixt proiector.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>This is a kind of a Seagull too, that will</L>
<L>Compo&s;e a &s;hip to &s;aile again&s;t the winds,</L>
<L>Hee'l undertake to build a mo&s;t &s;trong ca&s;tle</L>
<L>On Goodwin &s;ands, to melt huge Rockes to jelley,</L>
<L>And cut 'em out like &s;weetmeats with his keele,</L>
<L>And thus he &s;ayles.</L>
<STAGE>All the proiectors dance after their Antima&s;que, The
<P><TABLE>
<PB N="9" REF="11">
<ROW>
<CELL>Maquerelle.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="3">Returne, as from the Taverne, they dance together, <HI>The Gallants</HI> are cheated, and left to dance in, with a drunken repen|tance.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Wenches.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Gentlemen.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P></STAGE>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>I know not &s;ir, how this may &s;atisfie,</L>
<L>But might we be beholding to your fancy</L>
<L>For &s;ome more queint variety, &s;ome other</L>
<L>Then humane &s;hapes, would happily delight,</L>
<L>And reach the expectation, I ha'&s;eene</L>
<L>Dainty devices in this kind, Baboones</L>
<L>In Quellios, and &s;o forth.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<P>I can furni&s;h you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Phan&s;ie</HI> will much obliege us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>If the&s;e objects</L>
<L>Plea&s;e not, <HI>Phan&s;ie</HI> can pre&s;ent a change,</L>
<L>What &s;ee you now?</L>
</SP>
<P>The Scene becomes a woody Land&s;chape with low grounds proper for hunting, the furthe&s;t part more de&s;ert, with bu&s;hes and by waies repre&s;enting a place fit for pur&s;e-taking.</P>
<P>In the furthe&s;t part of the Scene is &s;eene an Ivy-bu&s;h, out of which comes an Owle.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>A Wood, a broad-fac'd Owle,</L>
<L>An Ivy-bu&s;h, and other Birds about her.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>The&s;e can imagination create,</L>
<L>Silence, ob&s;erve.</L>
</SP>
<LIST>
<ITEM><TABLE>
<PB N="10" REF="12">
<ROW>
<CELL>An Owle.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="4">The Birds dance and wonder at the Owle. When the&s;e are gone, enter</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Crow.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Kite.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Iay.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Magpy.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A Merchant,</HI> a Hor&s;e-backe, with his Portmantue.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Two Theeves,</HI> &s;et vpon him and robbe him: the&s;e by
<LIST>
<ITEM><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Con&s;table,</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="3">are apprehended and carryed off then</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>and</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Officers.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Foure Nimphes</HI> enter dancing with their <HI>Iavelins.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Three Satires</HI> &s;pie them, and attempt their per&s;ons, one of the Nimphes e&s;capeth, a noy&s;e of Hunters and their hornes within, as at the fall of a Deere, then Enter</ITEM>
<ITEM><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>Foure Hunt&s;men</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="3">The&s;e drive away the Satires, and having re&s;cued the Nimphes, dance with them.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>and</CELL>
<CELL>One Nimph.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></ITEM>
</LIST>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>This all you will pre&s;ent?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<L>You &s;peake as if</L>
<L><HI>Phan&s;ie</HI> could be exhau&s;t, Invention flowes</L>
<L>From an immortall &s;pring, you &s;hall ta&s;te other</L>
<L>Variety, nimble as thought. We change the Scene.</L>
</SP>
<STAGE>A Land&s;chape the Scene, and Enter
<LIST>
<ITEM>Three Dotterells.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Three Dottrell catchers&punc;</ITEM>
</LIST></STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB N="11" REF="12">Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>What are the&s;e?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<P>Dotterells, be patient, and expect.</P>
</SP>
<P>After the Dotterells are caught by &s;everall imitations, enters
<TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Windmill.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="4">The phanta&s;tique Aduentu|rer, with his lance makes at|tempts vpon the Windmill, his Squire imitates: to them Enter</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A phanta&s;tique Knight.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>and</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>His Squire armed.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE>
<TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Country Gentleman,</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="3">The&s;e are a&s;&s;avlted by the Knight and his Squire, but are &s;ent off lame for their folly.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>and</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>his Servant.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>Bowlers, 4.</P>
<STAGE>Enter Confidence, Iollity, Laughter, Novelty, Admiration.</STAGE>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<P>Madam accu&s;e your ab&s;ence,</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>No.</SPEAKER>
<L>We know</L>
<L>All your devices &s;ir.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>Ha, what's the matter,</L>
<L>Confidence, Iollity, Laughter, Admiration,</L>
<L>And Madam <HI>Novelty,</HI> all drunke! the&s;e are</L>
<L>extreames indeed.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ad.</SPEAKER>
<P>Admirable <HI>Opinion.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Co.</SPEAKER>
<P>Be confident.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>La.</SPEAKER>
<P>And fooli&s;h.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB N="12" REF="13">Iol.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am as light now.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ph.</SPEAKER>
<P>Let 'em enioy their Phan&s;ies.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Op.</SPEAKER>
<L>What new change,</L>
<L>Is this? the&s;e &s;traines are heavenly.</L>
<STAGE><HI>Phan&s;ie</HI> and the re&s;t goe off fearefully.</STAGE>
</SP>
<P>The Antima&s;quers being gone, there appeares in the highe&s;t and formo&s;t part of the heaven by little and little to breake forth a whiti&s;h Cloud, bearing a Cha|riot fained of Gold&s;miths-worke, and in it &s;ate <HI>Irene,</HI> or Peace, in a flowery ve&s;ture like the &s;pring, a Gar|land of Olives on her head, a branch of Palme in her hand, Buskins of greene Taffata, great puffs about her necke and &s;houlders.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="song">
<HEAD>Shee &s;ings.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ir.</SPEAKER>
<L>Hence yee profane, farre hence away</L>
<L>Time hath &s;icke feathers while you &s;tay,</L>
<L>Is this delight</L>
<L>For &s;uch a glorious night,</L>
<L>Wherein two skies are to be &s;eene,</L>
<L>One &s;tarry, but an aged &s;phere another here,</L>
<L>Created new and brighter from the Eyes of King and Queene?</L>
</SP>
<DIV3 TYPE="chorus">
<HEAD>CHO.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Hence you prophane, farre hence away,</L>
<L>Time hath &s;icke feathers while you &s;tay.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="song">
<PB N="13" REF="13">
<HEAD>Song 2.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ir.</SPEAKER>
<L>Wherefore doe my &s;i&s;ters &s;tay</L>
<L>Appeare, appeare <HI>Eunomia,</HI></L>
<L>'Tis <HI>Irene</HI> calls to thee,</L>
<L><HI>Irene</HI> calls,</L>
<L>Like dew that falls</L>
<L>Into a &s;treame,</L>
<L>I'me lo&s;t with them,</L>
<L>That know not how to order me.</L>
</SP>
<DIV3 TYPE="chorus">
<HEAD>CHO.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>See where &s;hee &s;hines, oh &s;ee</L>
<L>In her cele&s;tiall gayety</L>
<L>Crownd with a wreath of Starres to &s;hew</L>
<L>The Evening glory in her brow.</L>
</LG>
<P>Here out of the highe&s;t part of the oppo&s;ite &s;ide came &s;oftly de&s;cending another Cloud, of an orient colour, bearing a &s;ilver Chariot curiou&s;ly wrought, and differing in all things from the fir&s;t, in which &s;ate <HI>Eunomia</HI> or Law, in a purple Sattin Robe, adorn'd with golden Starres, a mantle of carnation Lac'd, and Fring'd with Gold, a Coronet of light upon her head, Buskins of Purple, drawne out with Yellow.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>Song 3.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thinke not I could ab&s;ent my &s;elfe this night,</L>
<L>But Peace is gentle and doth &s;till invite</L>
<L><HI>Eunomia,</HI> yet &s;hould&s;t thou &s;ilent be</L>
<PB N="14" REF="14">
<L>The Ro&s;e and Lilly which thou &s;trowe&s;t</L>
<L>All the cheerefull way thou goe&s;t</L>
<L>Would direct to follow thee.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ir.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thou do&s;t beautifie increa&s;e,</L>
<L>And chaine &s;ecurity with peace.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eu.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Irene</HI> faire, and fir&s;t devine,</L>
<L>All my ble&s;&s;ings &s;pring from thine,</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ir.</SPEAKER>
<L>I am but wilde without thee, thou abhorre&s;t</L>
<L>What is rude, or apt to wound,</L>
<L>Can&s;t throw proud trees to the ground,</L>
<L>And make a Temple of a Forre&s;t.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eu.</SPEAKER>
<L>No more, no more, but ioyne</L>
<L>Thy voyce, and Lute with mine.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Both.</SPEAKER>
<L>The world &s;hall giue prerogative to neyther.</L>
<L>We cannot flouri&s;h but together.</L>
</SP>
<DIV3 TYPE="chorus">
<HEAD>CHORI.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cho.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Irene</HI> enters like a perfum'd &s;pring,</L>
<L><HI>Eunomia</HI> ripens every thing,</L>
<L>And in the golden harve&s;t leaves</L>
<L>To every &s;ickle his owne &s;heaves.</L>
</SP>
<P>At this a third Cloud of a various color from the other two, begins to de&s;cend toward the mid|dle of the Scene with &s;omewhat a more &s;wif|ter motion, and in it &s;ate a Per&s;on repre&s;enting <HI>Diche</HI> or <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> in the mid&s;t in a white Robe and mantle of Sattin, a faire long haire circled with a Coronet of Siluer Pikes, white Wings and Buskins, a Crowne imperiall in her hand.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="song">
<PB N="15" REF="14">
<HEAD>Song 4.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dich.</SPEAKER>
<L>Swiftly, oh &s;wiftly, I doe move to &s;low,</L>
<L>What holds my wing from making ha&s;t</L>
<L>When every Cloud &s;ailes by &s;o fa&s;t?</L>
<L>I heard my &s;i&s;ters voyce, and know</L>
<L>They haue for&s;aken Heavens bright gate,</L>
<L>To attend another State, of gods below.</L>
<L><HI>Irene</HI> cha&s;t <HI>Evnomia.</HI></L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eu.</SPEAKER>
<L><HI>Ir.</HI> We</L>
<L><HI>Diche,</HI> haue &s;tay<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> expecting thee,</L>
<L>Thou giu'&s;t perfection to our glory,</L>
<L>And &s;eale to this nights &s;tory.</L>
<L><HI>A&s;trea</HI> &s;hake the cold dew from thy wing.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eu.</SPEAKER>
<P>De&s;cend.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ir.</SPEAKER>
<P>De&s;cend.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eu.</SPEAKER>
<L>De&s;cend, and helpe vs &s;ing,</L>
<L>The Triumph of <HI>Ioves</HI> upper Court abated</L>
<L>And all the Deities tran&s;lated.</L>
</SP>
<DIV3 TYPE="chorus">
<HEAD>CHOR.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>The Triumph of <HI>Ioves</HI> vpper Court abated</L>
<L>And all the Deities tran&s;lated.</L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eu.</SPEAKER>
<L>Non gaze, and when thy wonder will allow,</L>
<L>Tell what thou ha&s;t beheld.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dich.</SPEAKER>
<L>Never, till now,</L>
<L>Was poore <HI>A&s;trea</HI> blind, oh &s;trange &s;urprize,</L>
<L>That too much &s;ight &s;hould take away my eyes,</L>
<L>Am I in Earth or Heaven?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB N="16" REF="15">Ir.</SPEAKER>
<L>What throne is that,</L>
<L>On which &s;o many &s;tarres doe waite?</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dich.</SPEAKER>
<L>My eyes are ble&s;t agen, and now I &s;ee</L>
<L>the Parents of vs three.</L>
<L>Tis <HI>Iove</HI> and <HI>Themis</HI> forward move,</L>
<L>And &s;ing to <HI>Themis,</HI> and to <HI>Iove.</HI></L>
</SP>
<P>Then the whole traine of Mu&s;itians move in a comely figure toward the King and Queene, and bowing to their State, this following Ode is &s;ung.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>Song 5.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>To you great King and Queene, who&s;e &s;mile,</L>
<L>Doth &s;catter ble&s;&s;ings through this Ile,</L>
<L>To make it be&s;t</L>
<L>And wonder of the re&s;t,</L>
<L>We pay the duty of our birth,</L>
<L>Proud to waite vpon that Earth</L>
<L>Whereon you moue,</L>
<L>Which &s;hall be nam'd</L>
<L>And by your cha&s;t embraces fam'd,</L>
<L>The Paradi&s;e of loue,</L>
<L><HI>Irene</HI> plant thy Olives here,</L>
<L>Thus warm'd, at once, theyle bloome and beare</L>
<L><HI>Eunomia</HI> pay thy light,</L>
<L>While <HI>Diche,</HI> covetous to &s;tay,</L>
<L>Shall throw her &s;ilver Wings away,</L>
<L>To dwell within your &s;ight.</L>
</LG>
<P>The Scene is changed, and the Ma&s;quers appeare
<PB N="17" REF="15"> &s;etting on the a&s;cent of an Hill, cut out like the degrees of a Theater, and ouer them a delicious Arbor with termes of young Men their Armes con|verted into Scrowles, and under their wa&s;ts a foliage with other caruings to cover the ioyning of the terme from the naked, all fained of Siluer, the&s;e bore up an Architraue, from which was rai&s;ed a light covering arched, and interwoven with Branches through which the Sky beyond was &s;eene.</P>
<P>The Ma&s;quers were &s;ixteene in number, the &s;onnes of Peace Law and Iu&s;tice, who &s;etting in a gracious but not &s;et forme, every part of the &s;eates made a various Compo&s;ition, but all together tending to a Piramidall figure.</P>
<P>Their habits was mixt, betweene the ancient and moderne, their bodies Carnation, the &s;houlders trimd with Knots of pure &s;ilver, and &s;callops of White and Carnation, vnder them the Labels of the &s;ame, the under-&s;leeves white, and a puft &s;leeve full of gathe|ring, falling downe to the elbow, about their wa&s;te was a &s;mall &s;callop, and a &s;lender Girdle, their vnder Ba&s;es were Carnation and White, with Labels as at their &s;houlders, and all this in every part was rich|ly Embroydered with pure &s;ilver: their Hats Carna|tion low croun'd, the brimme double, and cut into &s;everall quarters lined with white, and all ouer richly Embroydered, as the re&s;t, about their Hats were wreathes of Olive, and plumes of white Feathers, with &s;everall falls, the longe&s;t toward the backe; their long &s;tockings were white, with white &s;hooes and Ro&s;es.</P>
<PB N="18" REF="16">
<P>Beneath the&s;e a Genius or Angelicall per&s;on, with wings, of &s;euerall coloured feathers, a carnation Robe tuck'd up, yellow long haire bound with a &s;iluer Co|ronet, a &s;mall white Rod in his hand, white Buskins, who de&s;cending to the Stage &s;peaketh,</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Gen.</SPEAKER>
<L>No forraigne per&s;ons I make knowne,</L>
<L>But here pre&s;ent you with your owne,</L>
<L>The Children of your Raigne, not blood,</L>
<L>Of age, when they are vnder&s;tood.</L>
<L>Not &s;eene by faction or Owles &s;ight,</L>
<L>Who&s;e trouble is the cleare&s;t light,</L>
<L>But trea&s;ures to their eye, and eare,</L>
<L>That loue good for it &s;elfe, not feare.</L>
<L>Oh &s;mile on what your &s;elues have made,</L>
<L>The&s;e haue no forme, no &s;unne, no &s;hade,</L>
<L>But what your vertue doth create,</L>
<L>Exalted by your glorious fate,</L>
<L>Thei'le towre to heaven, next which, they know,</L>
<L>And wi&s;h no ble&s;&s;edne&s;&s;e but you.</L>
<STAGE>The Ma&s;|quers moue.</STAGE>
<L>That very looke into each eye</L>
<L>Hath &s;hot a &s;oule, I &s;aw it flie.</L>
<L>De&s;cend, move nimbly, and advance,</L>
<L>Your ioyfull tribute in a dance.</L>
</SP>
<P>Here with loud Mu&s;icke, the Ma&s;quers de&s;cend and dance their entry to the Violins, which ended, they retire to the Scene, and then the <HI>Howers</HI> and <HI>Chori</HI> againe move toward the State and &s;ing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>Song 6.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>They that were never happy Howers</L>
<PB N="19" REF="16">
<L>Till now, returne to thanke the powers that made them &s;o,</L>
<L>The Ilands doth reioyce,</L>
<L>And all her waues are Ecco to our voyce,</L>
<L>Which in no ages pa&s;t, hath knowne &s;uch trea&s;ures of her owne.</L>
<L>Live royall pare, awd when Your &s;ands are &s;pent with Heavens and Your con&s;ent,</L>
<L>Though late, from Your high Bowers,</L>
<L>Looke downe on what was Yours,</L>
<L>For till old time his gla&s;&s;e hath hurl'd</L>
<L>And lo&s;t it in the a&s;hes of the world,</L>
<L>We prophe&s;ie, you &s;hall be read and &s;eene,</L>
<L>In every Branch, a King or Queene.</L>
</LG>
<P>The &s;ong ended, and the Mu&s;itians returned, the Ma&s;quers dance their maine dance, after which they againe retire to the Scene, at which they no &s;oo|ner arrive, but there is heard a great noy&s;e, and confu|&s;ion of voyces within, &s;ome crying, they will come in, others knocke'em downe, call the re&s;t of the Guard: then a cracke is heard in the workes, as if there were &s;ome danger by &s;ome piece of the Machines falling, this continued a little time, there ru&s;h in
<TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Carpenter.</CELL>
<CELL>The Taylors wife.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Painter.</CELL>
<CELL>An Embroyderers wife.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>One of the Black-guard.</CELL>
<CELL>A Feather-makers wife.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>A Taylor.</CELL>
<CELL>A Property-mans wife.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Car.</SPEAKER>
<P>D'ce thinke to keepe vs out?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB N="20" REF="17">1 Gu.</SPEAKER>
<P>Knocke her downe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tay.</SPEAKER>
<P>Knocke downe my Wife, I'de &s;ee the talle&s;t Beefe-eater on you all, but hold vp his Halberd in the way of knocking my Wife downe, and ile bring him a button-hole lower.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tay. W.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, let 'em, let 'em Husband, at their per|rill.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>2 Gu.</SPEAKER>
<P>Complaine to my Lord Chamberlaine.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pro.</SPEAKER>
<P>My husband is &s;omewhere in the workes, I'me &s;ure I helpt to make him an Owle and a Hobbihor&s;e, and I &s;ee no rea&s;on but his Wife may bee admitted in <HI>Forma paper is,</HI> to &s;ee as good a Maske as this.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Bla.</SPEAKER>
<P>I never &s;aw one afore, I am one of the Guard, though of another complexion, and I will &s;ee't now I am here, though I be turn'd out of the Kitchin to morrow for't.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pa.</SPEAKER>
<P>I, come, be re&s;olute, we know the wor&s;t, and let us challenge a priviledge, tho&s;e &s;taires were of my pain|ting.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Car.</SPEAKER>
<P>And that Timber I &s;et vp: &s;ome body is my witne&s;&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Fea.</SPEAKER>
<P>I am &s;ure my husband &s;old 'em mo&s;t of the feathers; &s;omebody promis'd me a fall too if I came to Court, but let that pa&s;&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Emb.</SPEAKER>
<P>And mine embroyder'd two of the be&s;t habits, what though we be no Ladies, we are Chri&s;tians in the&s;e cloathes, and the Kings &s;ubiects God ble&s;&s;e us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tay.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nay, now I am in, I will &s;ee a dance, though my &s;hop-windowes be &s;hut vp for't, tell us?&mdash;hum? dee heare? doo not they laugh at us? what were wee be&s;t to doe, the Ma&s;quers will doe no feates as long
<PB N="21" REF="17"> we are here, be rul'd by me, harke euery one, 'tis our be&s;t cour&s;e to dance a figary our &s;elues, and then they'l thinke it a peece of the Plot, and we may goe off agen with the more credite, we may el&s;e ki&s;&s;e the Porters-lodge for't, let's put a tricke vpon 'em in re|uenge, 'twill &s;eeme a new device too.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Om.</SPEAKER>
<P>Content.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tay.</SPEAKER>
<P>And the Mu&s;itians knew but our mind now: <STAGE>The Violins play.</STAGE> Harke they are at it, now for a lively friske. <STAGE>They dance.</STAGE> now, let vs goe off cleanely, and &s;ome body will thinke, this was meant for an Antima&s;que.</P>
</SP>
<P>They being gone, the Ma&s;quers are encouraged by a Song, to their Revells with the Ladies.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>Song 7.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Why doe you dwell &s;o long in clouds</L>
<L>And &s;mother your be&s;t graces,</L>
<L>'Tis time to ca&s;t away tho&s;e &s;hrouds</L>
<L>And cleere your manly faces.</L>
<L>Doe not behave your &s;elues like Spies,</L>
<L>Vpon the Ladies here,</L>
<L>On even termes goe meete their eyes,</L>
<L>Beauty and love &s;hine there.</L>
<L>You tread dull mea&s;ures thus alone,</L>
<L>Not &s;atisfie delight,</L>
<L>Goe ki&s;&s;e their hands, and make your owne</L>
<L>With every touch more white.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="22" REF="18">
<P>The Revels being pa&s;t, the Scene is changed in|to a plaine Champion Country which terminates with the Horizon, and above a darki&s;h Skie, with dusky clouds, through which appeared the new Moone, but with a faint light by the approach of the morning; from the furthe&s;t part of this ground, aro&s;e by little and little a great vapour which being come about the middle of the Scene, it &s;lackens its moti|on, and begins to fall downeward to the earth from whence it came: and out of this ro&s;e another cloud of a &s;trange &s;hape, and colour, on which &s;ate a young Maide, with a dimme Torch in her hand, her face was an Olive-colour, &s;o was her armes and brea&s;t, on her head a curious dre&s;&s;ing, and about her necke a &s;tring of great Pearle, her garment was tran&s;parent, the ground darke Blue, and &s;prinkled with &s;iluer Spangles, her Buskins white, trim'd with Gold: by the&s;e markes &s;he was knowne to be the forerunner of the morning, called by the Ancients <HI>Amphiluche,</HI> and is that glimps of light, which is &s;eene when the night is pa&s;t, and the day not yet appearing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>Song 8.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Am.</SPEAKER>
<L>In envy to the night,</L>
<L>That keepes &s;uch Revels here,</L>
<L>With my vnwelcome light,</L>
<L>Thus I invade her &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">eare.</L>
<L>Proclayming warres</L>
<L>To <HI>Cynthia&punc;</HI> and all her &s;tarres,</L>
<L>That like proud Spangles dre&s;&s;e her azure Tre&s;&s;e.</L>
<PB N="23" REF="18">
<L>Becau&s;e I cannot be a gue&s;t, I ri&s;e</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;hame the Moone, and put out both her eyes.</L>
</SP>
<P><HI>Amphiluche</HI> a&s;cending, the Ma&s;quers are called from their Reuels by other voyces.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="song">
<HEAD>Song 9.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1</SPEAKER>
<L>Come away, away, away,</L>
<L>See the dawning of the day,</L>
<L>Ri&s;en from the murmuring &s;treames,</L>
<L>Some &s;tarres &s;hew with &s;ickly beames,</L>
<L>What &s;tocke of flame they are allow'd,</L>
<L>Each retiring to a Cloud,</L>
<L>Bid your active &s;ports adieu,</L>
<L>The morning el&s;e will blu&s;h for you.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>2</SPEAKER>
<L>Yee feather-footed howers runne</L>
<L>To dre&s;&s;e the Chariot of the Sunne,</L>
<L>Harne&s;&s;e the Steeds, it quickly will</L>
<L>Be time to mount the Ea&s;terne hill.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>3</SPEAKER>
<L>The lights grow pale with mode&s;t feares,</L>
<L>Lea&s;t you offend tho&s;e &s;acred eares,</L>
<L>And eyes, tbat lent you all this grace,</L>
<L>Retire, retire, to your owne place.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>4</SPEAKER>
<L>And as you move from that ble&s;t Paire,</L>
<L>Let each heart kneele, and thinke a Prayer,</L>
<L>That all, that can make vp the glory,</L>
<L>Of good and great may fill their &s;tory.</L>
</SP>
<PB N="24" REF="19">
<P><HI>Amphiluche</HI> hidden in the Heavens, and the Ma&s;que retired. <HI>The Scene clo&s;eth.</HI></P>
<P>And thus concluded this Ma&s;que, which was, for the variety of the Shewes, and richne&s;&s;e of the Ha|bits, the mo&s;t magnificent that hath beene brought to Court in our time.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="credits">
<P>THe Scene and Ornament, was the act of <HI>Inigo Iones</HI> E&s;quire, Surueyer of his Maie&s;ties workes.</P>
<P>The Compo&s;ition of the Mu&s;icke, was perform'd by Mr. <HI>William Lawes,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Simon Ives,</HI> who&s;e Art gaue an Harmonious &s;oule to the otherwi&s;e langui|&s;hing Numbers.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
