THE
DESCRIPTION
OF
THE
SCAENE
.
THe
first
thing
that
presented
it selfe
to
the
sight
,
was
a
rich
Ornament
,
that
enclosed
the
Scaene
;
in
the
upper
part
of
which
,
were
great
branches
of
Foliage
growing
out
of
leaves
and
huskes
,
with
a
Coronice
at
the
top
;
and
in
the
midst
was
placed
a
large
Compartiment
composed
of
Groteske
worke
,
wherein
were
Harpies
with
wings
and
Lyons
clawes
,
and
their
hinder
parts
converted
into
leaves
and
branches
:
over
all
was
a
broken
Frontispice
,
wrought
with
scrowles
and
masque
heads
of
Children
;
and
within
this
a
Table
adorn'd
with
a
lesser
Compartiment
,
with
this
Inscription
,
COELVM
BRITANNICVM
.
The
two
sides
of
this
Ornament
were
thus
ordered
:
First
from
the
ground
arose
a
square
Basement
,
and
on
the
Plinth
stood
a
great
vaze
of
gold
,
richly
enchased
,
and
beautified
with
Sculptures
of
great
Releine
,
with
frutages
hanging
from
the
upper-part
:
At
the
foot
of
this
sate
two
youths
naked
,
in
their
naturall
colours
;
each
of
these
with
one
arme
supported
the
Vaze
;
on
the
cover
of
which
stood
two
young
women
in
Draperies
,
arme
in
arme
;
the
one
figuring
the
glory
of
Princes
,
and
the
other
Mansuetude
:
their
other
armes
bore
up
an
Ovall
,
in
which
,
to
the
Kings
Majesty
was
this
Imprese
,
A
Lyon
with
an
Imperiall
Crowne
on
his
head
;
the
word
,
Animum
sub
pectore
forti
:
On
the
other
side
was
the
like
Composition
,
but
the
designe
of
the
Figures
varied
;
and
in
the
Oval
on
the
top
,
being
borne
up
by
Nobility
and
Fecundity
,
was
this
Imprese
to
the
Queens
Majesty
,
A
Lilly
growing
with
branches
and
leaves
,
and
three
lesser
Lillies
springing
out
of
the
Stemme
;
the
Word
,
Semper
inclita
Virtus
:
All
this
Ornament
was
heightned
with
Gold
,
and
for
the
Invention
,
and
various
composition
was
the
newest
and
most
gracious
that
hath
beene
done
in
this
place
.
The
Curtaine
was
watchet
,
and
a
pale
yellow
in
paines
,
which
flying
up
on
the
sudden
,
discovered
the
Scaene
,
representing
old
Arches
,
old
Palaces
,
decayed
wals
,
parts
of
Temples
,
Theaters
,
Basilita's
and
Therme
,
with
confused
heaps
of
broken
Columnes
,
Bases
,
Coronices
and
Statues
,
lying
as
under-ground
,
and
altogether
resembling
the
ruines
of
some
great
Citie
of
the
ancient
Romans
,
or
civiliz'd
Brittaines
.
This
strange
prospect
detayn'd
the
eyes
of
the
Spectators
sometime
,
when
to
a
loud
Musick
Mercury
descends
;
on
the
upper
part
of
his
Chariot
stands
a
Cocke
in
action
of
crowing
:
his
habit
was
a
Coat
of
flame
colour
girt
to
him
,
and
a
white
Mantle
trimm'd
with
gold
and
silver
;
upon
his
head
a
wreath
with
small
fals
of
white
Feathers
,
a
Caduseus
in
his
hand
,
and
wings
at
his
heeles
:
being
come
to
the
ground
he
dismounts
,
and
goes
up
to
the
State
.
Mercury
.
FRom
the
high
Senate
of
the
gods
,
to
You
Bright
glorious
Twins
of
Love
and
Majesty
,
Before
whole
Throne
three
warlike
Nations
bend
Their
willing
knees
,
on
whose
Imperiall
browes
▪
The
Regall
Circle
prints
no
awfull
frownes
To
fright
your
Subjects
,
but
whose
calmer
eyes
Shed
joy
and
safety
on
their
melting
hearts
That
flow
with
cheerefull
loyall
reverence
.
Come
my
Cyllenius
,
Ioves
Ambassadour
:
Not
,
as
of
gold
,
to
whisper
amorous
tales
Of
wanton
love
,
into
the
glowing
eare
Of
some
choyce
beauty
in
this
numerons
traines
Those
dayes
are
fled
,
the
rebell
slameis
quench'd
In
heavenly
brests
,
the
gods
have
sworne
by
Styx
,
Never
to
tempt
yeelding
mortality
To
loose
embraces
Your
exemplar
life
Hath
not
alone
transfus'd
a
zealous
heat
Of
imitation
through
your
vertuous
Court
,
By
whose
bright
blaze
your
Pallace
is
become
The
envy'd
patterne
of
this
under-world
,
But
the
aspiring
flame
hath
kindled
heaven
;
Th'
immortall
bosomes
butne
with
emulous
fires
,
Iove
rivals
your
great
vertues
,
Royall
Sir
,
And
Iuno
,
Madam
,
your
attractive
graces
▪
He
his
wild
lusts
,
her
raging
jealousies
She
layes
aside
,
and
through
th'
Olympique
hall
,
As
yours
doth
here
,
their
great
Example
spreads
,
And
though
of
old
,
when
youthfull
blood
conspir'd
With
his
new
Empire
,
prone
to
heats
of
lust
,
He
actedincests
,
rapes
,
adulteries
On
earthly
beauties
,
which
his
raging
Queene
,
Swolne
with
revengefull
fury
,
turn'd
to
beasts
,
And
in
despight
he
transform'd
to
Stars
,
Till
he
had
fill'd
the
crowded
Firmament
With
his
loose
Strumpets
,
and
their
sputious
race
,
Where
the
eternall
records
of
his
shame
Shine
to
the
world
in
flaming
Characters
;
When
in
the
Chrystall
myrrour
of
your
reigne
He
view'd
himselfe
,
he
found
his
loathsome
staines
;
And
now
,
to
expiate
the
infectious
guilt
Of
those
detested
luxuries
,
hee
'll
chace
Th'
infamous
lights
from
their
usurped
Sheare
,
And
drowne
in
the
Lethae
an
flood
,
their
curs'd
Both
names
and
memories
.
In
whose
vacant
rooms
First
you
succeed
,
and
of
the
wheeling
Orbe
In
the
most
eminent
and
conspicuous
point
,
With
dazeling
beames
,
and
spreading
magnitude
,
Shine
the
bright
Pole-starre
of
this
Hemispheare
,
Next
,
by
your
side
,
in
a
triumphant
Chaire
,
And
crown'd
with
Ariadnes
Diadem
,
Sits
the
faire
Consort
of
your
heart
,
and
Throne
;
Diffus'd
about
you
,
with
that
share
of
light
As
they
of
vertue
have
deriv'd
from
you
,
Hee
'll
fix
this
Noble
traine
,
of
either
sexe
;
So
to
the
Brittish
stars
this
lower
Globe
Shall
owe
its
light
,
and
they
alone
dispence
To
'
th
world
a
pure
refined
influence
.
Enter
Momns
attired
in
a
long
darkish
Robe
,
all
wrought
over
with
ponyards
,
Serpents
tongues
,
eyes
and
eares
,
his
beard
and
haire
party
coloured
,
and
upon
his
head
a
wreath
stucke
with
Feathers
,
and
a
Porcupine
in
the
forepart
.
Momus
.
BY
your
leave
,
Mortals
.
Gooden
Cozen
Hermes
,
your
pardon
good
my
Lord
Ambassadour
:
I
found
the
tables
of
your
Armes
and
Titles
,
in
every
Inne
betwixt
this
and
Olympus
,
where
your
present
expedition
is
registred
,
your
nine
thousandth
nine
hundred
ninety
ninth
Legation
.
I
cannot
reach
the
policy
why
your
Master
breeds
so
few
States-men
,
it
suits
not
with
his
dignity
that
in
the
whole
Empyraeum
there
should
not
bee
a
god
fit
to
send
on
these
honourable
errands
but
your selfe
,
who
are
not
yet
so
carefull
of
his
honour
as
your
owne
,
as
might
become
your
quality
,
when
you
are
itinerant
:
the
Hosts
upon
the
high-way
cry
out
with
open
mouth
upon
you
for
supporting
pilfery
in
your
traine
;
which
,
though
as
you
are
the
god
of
petty
Larcinry
,
you
might
protect
,
yet
you
know
it
is
directly
against
the
new
orders
,
and
opposes
the
Reformation
in
Diameter
.
Merc.
Peace
Rayler
,
bridle
your
licentious
tongue
.
And
let
this
Presence
teach
you
modesty
.
Mom.
Let
it
if
it
can
;
in
the
meane
time
I
will
acquaint
it
with
my
condition
.
Know
,
(
gay
people
)
that
though
your
Poets
who
enjoy
by
Patent
a
particular
privilege
to
draw
down
any
of
the
Deities
from
Twelf-night
till
Shrove-tuesday
,
at
what
time
there
is
annually
a
most
familiar
enter-course
betweene
the
two
Courts
,
have
as
yet
never
invited
me
to
these
Solemnities
,
yet
it
shall
appeare
by
my
intrusion
this
night
,
that
I
am
a
very
considerable
Person
upon
these
occasions
,
and
may
most
properly
assist
at
such
entertainements
.
My
name
is
Momus
.
ap-Somnus-ap-Erebus-aep-Chaos-ap-Demorgorgon-ap-Eternity
.
My
Offices
and
Titles
are
,
The
Supreme
Theomastix
,
Hupercrittique
of
manners
,
Protonotarie
of
abuses
,
Arch-Informer
,
Dilator
Generall
,
Vniversall
Calumniator
,
Eternall
Plaintiffe
,
and
perpetuall
Foreman
of
the
Grand
Inquest
.
My
privileges
are
an
ubiquitary
,
circumambulatory
,
speculatory
,
interrogatory
,
redargutory
immunity
over
all
the
privy
lodgings
,
behind
hangings
,
doores
,
curtaines
,
through
key-holes
,
chinkes
,
windowes
,
about
all
Veneriall
Lobbies
,
Skonces
or
Redoubts
,
though
it
be
to
the
surprize
of
a
perdu
Page
or
Chambermaid
,
in
,
and
at
all
Courts
of
civill
and
criminall
judicature
,
all
Counsels
,
Consultations
,
and
Parlamentary
Assemblies
,
where
though
I
am
but
a
Woolsacke
god
,
and
have
no
vote
in
the
sanction
of
new
lawes
,
I
have
yet
a
Praerogative
of
wresting
the
old
to
any
whatsoever
interpretation
,
whether
it
be
to
the
behoofe
,
or
prejudice
,
of
Iupiter
his
Crowne
and
Dignity
,
for
,
or
against
the
Rights
of
either
house
of
Patrician
or
Plebeian
gods
.
My
naturall
qualities
are
to
make
Iove
frowne
,
Iuno
powt
,
Mars
chafe
,
Venus
blush
,
Vulcan
glow
,
Saturne
quake
;
Cynthia
pale
,
Phaebus
hide
his
face
,
and
Mercury
here
take
his
heeles
.
My
recreations
are
witty
mischiefes
,
as
when
Saturne
guelt
his
father
;
the
Smith
caught
his
wife
and
her
Bravo
in
a
net
of
Cobweb-Iron
;
and
Hebe
,
through
the
lubricity
of
the
pavement
tumbling
over
the
Halfpace
,
presented
the
Embleme
of
the
forked
tree
.
and
discover'd
to
the
tann'd
Ethiops
the
snowie
cliffs
of
Culabria
with
the
Grotta
of
Puteolum
.
But
that
you
may
arrive
at
the
perfect
knowledge
of
me
,
by
the
familiar
illustration
of
a
Bird
of
mine
owne
feather
,
old
Peter
Aretine
,
who
reduc'd
all
the
Scepters
and
Myters
of
that
Age
tributary
to
his
wit
,
was
my
Parallell
;
and
Frank
Rublais
suck'd
much
of
my
milke
too
;
but
your
moderne
French
Hospitall
of
Oratory
,
is
meere
counterfeit
,
an
arrant
Mountebanke
,
for
though
fearing
no
other
fortunes
than
his
Sciatica
,
hee
discourse
of
Kings
and
Queenes
with
as
little
Reverence
as
of
Groomes
and
Chamber-maids
,
yet
he
wants
their
fangteeth
,
and
Scorpions
tayle
;
I
meane
that
fellow
,
who
to
adde
to
his
stature
thinks
it
a
greater
grace
to
dance
on
his
tiptoes
like
a
Dog
in
a
doublet
,
than
to
walke
like
other
men
on
the
soles
of
his
feet
.
Merc.
No
more
impertinent
Trifeler
,
you
disturbe
The
great
Affaire
with
your
rude
scurrilous
chat
:
What
doth
the
knowledge
of
your
abject
state
Concerne
Ioves
solemne
Message
?
Mom.
Sir
,
by
your
favour
,
though
you
have
a
more
especiall
Commission
of
employment
from
Iupiter
,
and
a
larger
entertainment
from
his
Exchequer
,
yet
as
a
freeborne
god
I
have
the
liberty
to
travell
at
mine
owne
charges
,
without
your
passe
or
countenance
Legacine
;
and
that
it
may
appeare
a
sedulous
acute
observer
,
may
know
as
much
as
a
dull
flegmatique
Ambassadour
,
and
weares
a
treble
key
to
unlocke
the
mysterious
Cyphers
of
your
darke
secrecies
,
I
will
discourse
the
politique
state
of
Heaven
to
this
trimme
Audience
—
At
this
the
Scaene
changeth
,
and
in
the
heaven
is
discovered
a
Spheare
,
with
Stars
placed
in
their
severall
Images
;
borne
up
by
a
huge
naked
Figure
(
onely
a
peece
of
Drapery
hanging
over
his
thigh
)
kneeling
and
bowing
forwards
,
as
if
the
great
weight
lying
on
his
shoulders
opprest
him
,
upon
his
head
a
Crowne
,
by
all
which
hee
might
easily
bee
knowne
to
be
Atlas
.
—
You
shall
understand
,
that
Iupiter
upon
the
inspection
of
I
know
not
what
vertuous
Presidents
extant
(
as
they
say
)
here
in
this
Court
,
but
as
I
more
probably
ghesse
out
of
the
consideration
of
the
decay
of
his
naturall
abilities
,
hath
before
a
frequent
convocation
of
the
Superlunary
Peeres
in
a
solemne
Oration
recanted
,
disclaymed
,
and
utterly
renounced
all
the
lascivious
extravagancies
,
and
riotous
enormities
of
his
forepast
licentious
life
,
and
taken
his
oath
on
Iunos
Breviary
,
religiously
kissing
the
two-leav'd
Booke
,
never
to
stretch
his
limbs
more
betwixt
adulterous
sheets
,
and
hath
with
patheticall
remonstrances
exhorted
,
and
under
strict
penalties
enjoyned
a
respective
conformity
in
the
severall
subordinate
Deities
;
and
because
the
Libertines
of
Antiquity
,
the
Ribald
Poets
,
to
perpetuate
the
memory
and
example
of
their
tryumphs
over
chastity
,
to
all
future
imitation
,
have
in
their
immortall
songs
celebrated
the
martyrdome
of
those
Strumpets
under
the
persecution
of
the
wives
,
and
devolved
to
Posterity
the
Pedigrees
of
their
whores
bawds
,
and
bastards
;
it
is
therfore
by
the
authority
aforesaid
enacted
,
that
this
whole
Army
of
Constellations
be
immediately
disbanded
and
casheerd
,
so
to
remove
all
imputation
of
impiety
from
the
Coelestiall
Spirits
,
and
all
lustfull
influences
upon
terrestriall
bodies
;
and
consequently
that
there
be
an
Inquisition
erected
to
exspunge
in
the
Ancient
,
and
suppresse
in
the
moderne
and
succeeding
Poems
and
Pamphlets
,
all
past
,
present
,
and
future
mention
of
those
abjur'd
heresies
,
and
to
take
particular
notice
of
all
ensuing
incontinences
,
and
punish
them
in
their
high
Commission
Court
.
Am
not
I
in
election
to
be
a
tal
Statesman
think
you
,
that
can
repeat
a
passage
at
a
Counsell-table
thus
punctually
?
Merc.
I
shun
in
vaine
the
importunity
With
which
this
Snarler
vexeth
all
the
gods
,
Iove
cannot
scape
him
:
well
,
what
else
from
heaven
?
Mom.
Heaven
!
Heaven
is
no
more
the
place
it
was
;
a
Cloyster
of
Carthusians
,
a
Monastery
of
converted
gods
,
Iove
is
growne
old
and
fearefull
,
apprehends
a
subversion
of
his
Empire
,
and
doubts
lest
Fate
should
introduce
a
legall
succession
in
the
legetimate
heire
,
by
repossessing
the
Titanian
line
,
and
hence
springs
all
this
innovation
.
We
have
had
new
orders
read
in
the
Presence
Chamber
,
by
the
Vi-President
of
Parnassus
,
too
strict
to
be
observed
long
,
Monopolies
are
called
in
,
sophistication
of
wares
punished
,
and
rates
imposed
on
commodities
.
Injunctions
are
gone
out
to
the
Nectar
Brewers
,
for
the
purging
of
the
heavenly
Beverage
of
a
narcotique
weed
which
hath
rendred
the
Idaeaes
confus'd
in
the
Divine
intellects
,
and
reducing
it
to
the
composition
used
in
Saturnes
Reigne
.
Edicts
are
made
for
the
restoring
of
decayed
house-keeping
,
prohibiting
the
repayre
of
Families
to
the
Metropolis
,
but
this
did
endanger
an
Amazonian
mutiny
,
till
the
females
put
on
a
more
masculine
resolution
of
solliciting
businesses
in
their
owne
persons
,
and
leaving
their
husbands
at
home
for
stallions
of
hospitality
.
Bacchus
hath
commanded
all
Tavernes
to
be
shut
,
and
no
liquor
drawne
after
tenne
at
night
.
Cupid
must
goe
no
more
so
scandalously
naked
,
but
is
enjoyned
to
make
him
breeches
,
though
of
his
mothers
petticotes
.
Ganimede
is
forbidden
the
Bed-chamber
,
and
must
only
minister
in
publique
.
The
gods
must
keepe
no
Pages
,
nor
Groomes
of
their
Chamber
under
the
age
of
25.
and
those
provided
of
a
competent
stocke
of
beard
.
Pan
may
not
pipe
,
nor
Proteus
juggle
,
but
by
especiall
permission
.
Vulcan
was
brought
to
an
Orotenus
and
fined
,
for
driving
in
a
plate
of
Iron
into
one
of
the
Sunnes
Chariot-wheeles
,
and
frost-nailing
his
horses
upon
the
fifth
of
November
last
,
for
breach
of
a
penall
Statute
prohibiting
worke
upon
Holi-dayes
,
that
being
the
annuall
celebration
of
the
Gygantomachy
.
In
briefe
,
the
whole
state
of
the
Hierarchy
suffers
a
totall
reformation
,
especially
in
the
poynt
of
reciprocation
of
conjugall
affection
.
Venus
hath
confest
all
her
adulteries
,
and
is
receiv'd
to
grace
by
her
husband
,
who
conscious
of
the
great
disparity
betwixt
her
perfections
and
his
deformities
,
allowes
those
levities
as
an
equall
counterpoize
;
but
it
is
the
prettiest
spectacle
to
see
her
stroaking
with
her
Ivory
hand
his
collied
cheeks
,
and
with
her
snowie
fingers
combing
his
sooty
beard
.
Iupiter
too
beginnes
to
learne
to
lead
his
owne
wife
,
I
left
him
practising
in
the
milky
way
;
and
there
is
no
doubt
of
an
universall
obedience
,
where
the
Lawgiver
himselfe
in
his
owne
person
observes
his
degrees
so
punctually
;
who
besides
to
eternize
the
memory
of
that
great
example
of
Matrimoniall
union
which
he
derives
from
hence
,
hath
on
his
Bed-chamber
door
,
and
seeling
,
fretted
with
starres
in
capitall
Letters
,
engraven
the
Inscription
of
CARLOMARIA
.
This
is
as
much
I
am
sure
as
either
your
knowledge
or
Instructions
can
direct
you
to
,
which
I
having
in
a
blunt
round
tale
,
without
State-formality
,
politique
inferences
,
or
suspected
Rhetoricall
elegancies
,
already
delivered
,
you
may
now
dexteriously
proceed
to
the
second
part
of
your
charge
,
which
is
the
raking
of
your
heavenly
sparks
up
in
the
Embers
,
or
reducing
the
Etheriall
lights
to
their
primitive
opacity
,
and
grosse
darke
subsistance
;
they
are
all
unrivited
from
the
Spheare
,
and
hang
loose
in
their
sockets
,
where
they
but
attend
the
waving
of
your
Caduce
,
and
immediately
they
reinvest
their
pristine
shapes
,
and
appeare
before
you
in
their
owne
naturall
deformities
.
Merc.
Momus
thou
shalt
prevaile
,
for
since
thy
bold
Intrusion
hath
inverted
my
resolves
,
I
must
obey
necessity
,
and
thus
turne
My
face
,
to
breath
the
Thunders
just
decree
'Gainst
this
adulterate
spheare
,
which
first
I
purge
Of
loathsome
Monsters
,
and
mis-shapen
formes
:
Downe
from
her
azure
concave
,
thus
I
charme
The
Lyrnean
Hydra
,
the
rough
unlick'd
Beare
,
The
watchfull
Dragon
,
the
storme-boading
Whale
,
The
Centaure
,
the
horn'd
Goatfish
Capricorne
,
The
Snake-head
Gorgon
,
and
fierce
Sagitta
;
Divested
of
your
gorgeous
starry
robes
,
Fall
from
the
circling
Orbe
,
and
e're
you
sucke
Fresh
venome
in
,
measure
this
happy
earth
,
Then
to
the
Fens
,
Caves
,
Forrests
,
Desarts
,
Seas
,
Fly
,
and
resume
your
native
qualities
.
They
dance
in
those
menstrous
shapes
the
first
Antimaske
of
naturall
deformity
.
Mom.
Are
not
these
fine
companions
,
trim
play
fellowes
for
the
Deities
?
yet
these
and
their
fellowes
have
made
up
all
our
conversation
for
some
thousands
of
yeares
.
Doe
not
you
faire
Ladies
acknowledge
your selves
deeply
engaged
now
to
those
Poets
your
servants
,
that
in
the
height
of
commendation
have
rais'd
your
beauties
to
a
parallell
with
such
exact
proportions
,
or
at
least
rank'd
you
in
their
spruce
society
.
Hath
not
the
consideration
of
these
Inhabitants
rather
frighted
your
thoughts
utterly
from
the
contemplation
of
the
place
?
but
now
that
these
heavenly
Mansions
are
to
be
voyd
,
you
that
shall
hereafter
be
found
unlodged
will
become
inexcusable
;
especially
since
Vertue
alone
shall
be
sufficient
title
,
fine
,
and
rent
:
yet
if
there
be
a
Lady
not
competently
stock'd
that
way
,
shee
shall
not
on
the
instant
utterly
despaire
,
if
shee
carry
a
sufficient
pawn
of
handsomenesse
;
for
however
the
letter
of
the
Law
runs
,
Iupiter
notwithstanding
his
Age
and
present
austerity
,
will
never
resuse
to
stamp
beauty
,
and
make
it
currant
with
his
owne
Impression
;
but
to
such
as
are
destitute
of
both
,
I
can
afford
but
small
encouragement
.
Proceed
Cozen
Mercury
,
what
followes
?
Merc.
Look
up
,
and
marke
where
the
bright
Zodiack
Hangs
like
a
Belt
about
the
brest
of
heaven
;
On
the
right
shoulder
,
like
a
flaming
Iewell
,
His
shell
,
with
nine
rich
Topazes
adorn'd
,
Lord
of
this
Tropique
,
sits
the
skalding
Crab
:
He
,
when
the
Sunne
gallops
in
full
careere
His
annuall
race
;
his
gastly
clawes
uprear'd
,
Frights
at
the
confines
of
the
torrid
Zone
,
The
fiery
teame
,
and
proudly
stops
their
course
,
Making
a
solstice
,
till
the
fierce
Steeds
learne
His
backward
paces
,
and
so
retrograde
Poste
downe-hill
to
th'
opposed
Capricorne
.
Thus
I
depose
him
from
his
laughty
Throne
▪
Drop
from
the
Sky
,
into
the
briny
flood
,
There
teach
thy
motion
to
the
ebbing
Sea
,
But
let
those
fires
that
beautifi'd
thy
shell
Take
humane
shapes
,
and
the
disorder
shew
Of
thy
regressive
paces
here
below
.
The
second
Antimasque
is
danc'd
in
retrograde
paces
,
expressing
obliquity
in
motion
.
Mom.
This
Crab
,
I
confesse
,
did
ill
become
the
heavens
;
but
there
is
another
that
more
infests
the
Earth
,
and
makes
such
a
solstice
in
the
politer
Arts
and
Sciences
,
as
they
have
not
beene
observed
for
many
Ages
to
have
made
any
sensible
advance
:
could
you
but
lead
the
learned
squadrons
with
a
masculine
resolution
past
this
point
of
retrogradation
,
it
were
a
benefit
to
mankind
,
worthy
the
power
of
a
god
,
and
to
be
payed
with
Altars
;
but
that
not
being
the
worke
of
this
night
,
you
may
pursue
your
purposes
:
what
now
succeeds
?
Merc.
Vice
,
that
unbodied
,
in
the
Appetite
Erects
his
Throne
,
hath
yet
,
in
bestiall
shapes
,
Branded
,
by
Nature
,
with
the
Character
And
distinct
stampe
of
some
peculiar
Ill
,
Mounted
the
Sky
,
and
fiz'd
his
Trophies
there
:
As
fawning
flattery
in
the
little
Dog
;
I'
th
bigger
,
churlish
Murmur
;
Cowardize
I'
th
timorous
Hare
;
Ambition
in
the
Eagle
;
Rapine
and
Avarice
in
th'
adventurous
Ship
That
sayl'd
to
Colchos
for
the
golden
fleece
;
Drunken
distemper
in
the
Goblet
flowes
;
I'
th
Dart
and
Scorpion
,
biting
Calumny
;
In
Hercules
and
the
Lyon
,
furious
rage
;
Vaine
Ostentation
in
Cassiope
:
All
these
I
to
eternall
exile
doome
,
But
to
this
place
their
Emblem'd
Vices
summon
,
Clad
in
those
proper
Figures
,
by
which
best
Their
incorpore
all
nature
is
exprest
.
The
third
Antimasque
is
danc'd
of
these
severall
vices
,
expressing
the
deviation
from
Vertue
.
Mom.
From
hence
forth
it
shall
be
no
more
said
in
the
Proverbe
,
when
you
would
expresse
a
riotous
Assembly
,
That
hell
,
but
Heaven
is
broke
loose
:
this
was
an
arrant
Goale-delivery
,
all
the
Prisons
of
your
great
Cities
could
not
have
vomited
more
corrupt
matter
:
but
Cozen
Cylleneus
,
in
my
judgement
it
is
not
safe
that
these
infectious
persons
should
wander
here
to
the
hazard
of
this
Iland
,
they
threatned
lesse
danger
when
they
were
nayl'd
to
the
Firmament
:
I
should
conceive
it
a
very
discreet
course
,
since
they
are
provided
of
a
tall
vessell
of
their
owne
ready
rigg'd
,
to
embarque
them
all
together
in
that
good
Ship
called
the
Argo
,
and
send
them
to
the
plantation
in
New-England
,
which
hath
purg'd
more
virulent
humours
from
the
politique
body
,
then
Guacum
and
all
the
West-Indian
drugs
have
from
the
naturall
bodies
of
this
Kingdome
:
Can
you
devise
how
to
dispose
them
better
?
Merc.
They
cannot
breath
this
pure
and
temperats
Ayre
Where
Vertue
lives
,
but
will
with
hasty
flight
,
'Mongst
fogs
and
vapours
,
seeke
unsound
abodes
.
Fly
after
them
,
from
your
usurped
seats
,
You
foule
remainders
of
that
viporous
brood
:
Let
not
a
Starre
of
luxurious
race
With
his
loose
blaze
staine
the
skyes
chrystall
face
.
All
the
Starres
are
quench'd
,
and
the
Spheare
darkened
.
Before
the
entry
of
every
Antimasque
,
the
Starres
in
those
figures
in
the
Spheare
which
they
were
to
represent
,
were
extinct
;
so
as
,
by
the
end
of
the
Antimasques
in
the
Spheare
no
more
Stars
were
seene
.
Mom.
Here
is
a
totall
Ecclipse
of
the
eighth
Spheare
,
which
neither
Booker
,
Allestre
,
nor
any
of
your
Prognosticators
,
no
nor
their
great
Master
Tico
were
aware
of
;
but
yet
in
my
opinion
there
were
some
innocent
,
and
some
generous
Constellations
,
that
might
have
beene
reserved
for
Noble
uses
:
as
the
Skales
and
Sword
to
adorne
the
statue
of
Iustice
,
since
she
resides
here
on
Earth
onely
in
Picture
and
Effigie
.
The
Eagle
had
beene
a
fit
present
for
the
Germans
,
in
regard
their
Bird
hath
mew'd
most
of
her
feathers
lately
.
The
Dolphin
too
had
beene
most
welcome
to
the
French
,
and
then
had
you
but
clapt
Perseus
on
his
Pegasus
,
brandishing
his
Sword
,
the
Dragon
yawning
on
his
backe
under
the
horses
feet
,
with
Python's
dart
through
his
throat
,
there
had
beene
a
Divine
St.
George
for
this
Nation
:
but
since
you
have
improvidently
shuffled
them
altogether
,
it
now
rests
onely
that
wee
provide
an
immediate
succession
,
and
to
that
purpose
I
will
instantly
proclaime
a
free
Election
.
O
yes
,
O
yes
,
O
yes
,
By
the
Father
of
the
gods
,
and
the
King
of
men
.
Whereas
wee
having
observed
a
very
commendable
practise
taken
into
frequent
use
by
the
Princes
of
these
latter
Ages
,
of
perpetuating
the
memory
of
their
famous
enterprizes
,
sieges
,
battels
,
victories
,
in
Picture
,
Sculpture
,
Tapistry
,
Embroyderies
,
and
other
manifactures
,
where
with
they
have
embellished
their
publicke
Palaces
,
and
taken
into
Our
more
distinct
and
serious
consideration
,
the
particular
Christmas
,
hanging
of
the
Guard-Chamber
of
this
Court
,
wherein
the
Navall
Victory
of
88.
is
to
the
eternall
glory
of
this
Nation
exactly
delineated
;
and
whereas
We
likewise
out
of
a
propheticall
imitation
of
this
so
laudable
custome
,
did
for
many
thousand
yeares
before
,
adorne
and
beautifie
the
eighth
roome
of
Our
caelestiall
Mansion
,
commonly
called
the
Starre-Chamber
,
with
the
military
adventures
,
stratagems
,
atchievements
,
feats
and
defeats
,
performed
in
Our
Owne
person
,
whilst
yet
Our
Standard
was
erected
,
and
Wee
a
Combattant
in
the
Amorous
Warfare
.
It
hath
notwithstanding
▪
after
mature
deliberation
,
and
long
debate
,
held
first
in
our
owne
inscrutable
bosome
,
and
afterwards
communicated
with
Our
Privy
Councell
,
seemed
meet
to
Our
Omnipotency
,
for
causes
to
Our selfe
best
knowne
,
to
unfurnish
and
dis-array
Our
fore-said
starre-Chamber
of
all
those
Ancient
Constellations
which
have
for
so
many
Ages
been
sufficiently
notorious
,
and
to
admit
into
their
vacant
places
,
such
〈◊〉
onely
as
shall
be
qualified
with
exemplar
Vertue
and
eminent
Desert
,
there
to
shine
indelible
of
glory
to
all
Posterity
.
It
is
therefore
Our
divine
will
and
pleasure
,
voluntarily
,
and
out
of
Our
owne
free
and
proper
motion
,
meere
grace
and
speciall
favour
,
by
these
presents
to
specifie
and
declare
to
all
Our
loving
People
,
that
it
shall
be
lawfull
for
any
Person
whatsoever
,
that
conceiveth
him
or
her selfe
to
bee
really
endued
with
any
Heroicall
Vertue
or
transcendent
Merit
,
worthy
so
high
a
calling
and
dignity
,
to
bring
their
severall
pleas
and
pretences
before
Our
Right
trusty
and
and
Welbeloved
Cozen
,
and
Councellor
,
Don
Mercury
,
and
god
Momus
,
&c.
Our
peculiar
Deligates
for
that
affaire
,
upon
whom
We
have
transferr'd
an
absolute
power
to
conclude
,
and
determine
without
Appeale
or
Revocation
,
accordingly
as
to
their
wisedomes
it
shall
in
such
cases
appeare
behovefull
and
expedient
.
Given
at
Our
Palace
in
Olympus
the
first
day
of
the
first
moneth
,
in
the
first
yeare
of
the
Reformation
.
Plutus
enters
,
an
old
man
full
of
wrinkles
,
a
bald
head
,
a
thin
white
beard
,
spectacles
on
his
nose
,
with
a
buncht
backe
,
and
attir'd
in
a
Robe
of
Cloath
of
gold
.
Plutus
appeares
.
Merc.
Who
's
this
appeares
?
Mom.
This
is
a
subterranean
Fiend
,
Plutus
in
this
Dialect
term'd
Riches
,
or
the
god
of
Gold
;
a
Poyson
hid
by
Providence
in
the
botome
of
the
Seas
,
and
Navill
of
the
Earth
,
from
mans
discovery
,
where
if
the
seeds
begunne
to
sprout
above-ground
,
the
excrescence
was
carefully
guarded
by
Dragons
;
yet
at
last
by
humane
curiosity
brought
to
light
,
to
their
owne
destruction
;
this
being
the
true
Pandora's
box
,
whence
issued
all
those
mischiefes
that
now
fill
the
Vniverse
.
Plut.
That
I
prevent
the
message
of
the
gods
Thus
with
my
haste
,
and
not
attend
their
summous
;
Which
ought
in
Iustice
call
me
to
the
place
I
now
require
of
Right
,
is
not
alone
To
shew
the
just
precedence
that
I
hold
Before
all
earthly
,
next
th'
immortall
Powers
;
But
to
exclude
the
hope
of
partiall
Grace
In
all
Pretenders
,
who
,
since
I
descend
To
equall
tryall
,
must
by
my
example
,
Waving
your
favour
,
clayme
by
sole
Desert
.
If
Vertue
must
inherit
,
shee
's
my
slave
;
I
lead
her
captive
in
a
golden
chayne
,
About
the
world
:
Shee
takes
her
Forme
and
Being
From
my
creation
;
and
those
barren
seeds
That
drop
from
Heaven
,
if
I
not
cherish
them
With
my
distilling
dewes
,
and
sotive
hear
,
They
know
no
vegetation
;
but
expos'd
To
blasting
winds
of
freezing
Poverty
,
Or
not
shoot
forth
at
all
,
or
budding
,
wither
:
Should
I
proclaime
the
daily
sacrifice
Brought
to
my
Temples
by
the
toyling
rout
,
Not
of
the
fat
and
gore
of
abject
Beasts
,
But
humane
sweat
,
and
blood
powr'd
on
my
Altars
,
I
might
provoke
the
envy
of
the
gods
.
Turne
but
your
eyes
and
marke
the
busie
world
,
Climbing
steepe
Mountaines
for
the
sparkling
stone
,
Piercing
the
Center
for
the
shining
Ore
,
And
th'
Oceans
bosome
to
rake
pearly
sands
,
Crossing
the
torrid
and
the
frozen
Zones
,
Midst
Rocks
and
swallowing
Gulfes
,
for
gainful
trade
,
And
through
opposing
swords
,
fire
,
murdering
Canon
,
Skaling
the
walled
Townes
for
precious
spoyles
.
Plant
in
the
passage
to
your
heavenly
seats
,
These
horrid
dangers
,
and
then
see
who
dares
Advance
his
desperate
foot
;
yet
am
I
sought
,
And
oft
in
vaine
,
through
these
,
and
greater
hazards
;
I
could
discover
how
your
Deities
Are
for
my
sake
sleighted
,
despis'd
,
abus'd
,
Your
Temples
,
Shrines
,
Altars
,
and
Images
Vncover'd
,
rifled
,
robb'd
,
and
disarray'd
By
sacrilegious
hands
:
yet
is
this
treasure
To
th'
golden
Mountaine
,
where
I
sit
ador'd
With
superstitious
solemne
rights
convay'd
,
And
becomes
sacred
there
,
the
sordid
wretch
Not
daring
touch
the
consecrated
Ore
,
Or
with
prophane
hands
lessen
the
bright
heape
;
But
this
might
draw
your
anger
downe
on
mortals
For
rendring
me
the
homage
due
to
you
:
Yet
what
is
said
may
well
expresse
my
power
Too
great
for
Earth
,
and
only
fit
for
Heaven
.
Now
,
for
your
pastime
,
view
the
naked
root
,
Which
in
the
dirty
earth
,
and
base
mould
drown'd
.
Sends
forth
this
precious
Plant
,
and
golden
fruit
.
You
lusty
Swaines
,
that
to
your
grazing
flocks
Pipe
amorous
Roundelayes
;
you
toyling
Hinds
,
That
barbe
the
fields
,
and
to
your
merry
Teames
Whistle
your
passions
;
and
you
mining
Moles
,
That
in
the
bowels
of
your
mother-Earth
Dwell
the
eternall
burthen
of
her
wombe
,
Cease
from
your
labours
,
when
Wealth
bids
you
play
,
Sing
,
dance
,
and
keepe
a
cheerefull
holy-day
.
They
dance
the
fourth
Antimasque
,
consisting
of
Countrey
people
,
musicke
and
measures
.
Merc.
Plutus
,
the
gods
know
and
confesse
your
power
,
Which
feeble
Vertue
seldome
can
resist
;
Stronger
then
Towers
of
brasse
,
or
Chastity
;
Iove
knew
you
when
he
courted
Danae
,
And
Cupid
weares
you
on
that
Arrowes
head
That
still
prevailes
,
But
the
gods
keepe
their
Throne
:
To
enstall
Vertue
,
not
her
Enemies
,
They
dread
thy
force
,
which
even
themselves
have
felt
,
Witnesse
Mount-Ida
,
where
the
Martiall
Maid
,
And
frowning
Iuno
,
did
to
mortall
eyes
Naked
,
for
gold
,
their
sacred
bodies
show
,
Therefore
for
ever
be
from
heaven
banish'd
.
But
since
with
toyle
from
undiscover'd
Worlds
Thou
art
brought
hither
,
where
thou
first
didst
breath
The
thirst
of
Empire
,
into
Regall
brests
,
And
frightedst
quiet
Peace
from
her
meek
Throne
,
Filling
the
World
with
tumult
,
blood
,
and
warre
,
Follow
the
Camps
of
the
contentious
earth
,
And
be
the
Conqu'rers
slave
,
but
he
that
can
Or
conquer
thee
,
or
give
thee
Vertuous
stampe
,
Shall
shine
in
heaven
a
pure
immortall
Lampe
,
Mom.
Nay
stay
,
and
take
my
benediction
along
with
you
.
I
could
,
being
here
a
Co-Iudge
,
like
others
in
my
place
,
now
that
you
are
condemn'd
,
either
rayle
at
you
,
or
breake
jests
upon
you
,
but
I
rather
chuse
to
loose
a
word
of
good
counsell
,
and
entreat
you
to
bee
more
carefull
in
your
choyse
of
company
,
for
you
are
alwayes
found
either
with
Misers
,
that
not
use
you
at
all
;
or
with
fooles
,
that
know
not
how
to
use
you
well
:
Be
not
hereafter
so
reserv'd
and
coy
to
men
of
worth
and
parts
,
and
so
you
shall
gaine
such
credit
,
as
at
the
next
Sessions
you
may
bee
heard
with
better
successe
.
But
till
you
are
thus
reform'd
,
I
pronounce
this
positive
sentence
,
That
wheresoever
you
shall
chuse
to
abide
,
your
society
shall
adde
no
credit
or
reputation
to
the
party
,
nor
your
discontinuance
,
or
totall
absence
,
be
matter
of
disparagement
to
any
man
;
and
whosoever
shall
hold
a
contrary
estimation
of
you
,
shall
be
condem'd
to
weare
perpetuall
Motley
,
unlesse
he
recant
his
opinion
.
Now
you
may
voyd
the
Court.
Paenia
enters
,
a
woman
of
a
pale
colour
,
large
brims
of
a
hat
upon
her
head
,
through
which
her
haire
started
up
like
a
fury
,
her
Robe
was
of
a
darke
colour
full
of
patches
,
about
one
of
her
hands
was
tide
a
chaine
of
Iron
,
to
which
was
fastned
a
weighty
stone
,
which
shee
bore
up
under
her
arme
.
Paenia
enters
.
Merc.
What
Creature
's
this
?
Mom.
The
Antipodes
to
the
other
,
they
move
like
Two
Buckets
,
or
as
two
nayles
drive
out
one
another
;
If
Riches
depart
,
Poverty
will
enter
.
Pov
.
I
nothing
doubt
(
Great
and
Immortal
Powers
)
But
that
the
place
,
your
wisedome
hath
deny'd
My
foe
,
your
Iustice
will
conferre
on
me
;
Since
that
which
renders
him
incapable
,
Proves
a
strong
plea
for
me
.
I
could
pretend
,
Even
in
these
rags
,
a
larger
Soveraignty
Then
gaudy
Wealth
in
all
his
pompe
can
boast
;
For
marke
how
few
they
are
that
share
the
World
;
The
numerous
Armies
,
and
the
swarming
Ants
That
sight
and
toyle
for
them
,
are
all
my
Subjects
,
They
take
my
wages
,
we
are
my
Livery
:
Invention
too
and
Wit
,
are
both
my
creatures
,
And
the
whole
race
of
Vertue
is
my
Off-spring
;
As
many
mischiefes
issue
from
my
wombe
,
And
those
as
mighty
,
as
proceed
from
gold
.
Oft
o're
his
Throne
I
wave
my
awfull
Scepter
,
And
in
the
bowels
of
his
state
command
,
When
'midst
his
heapes
of
coyne
,
and
hils
of
gold
,
I
pine
,
and
starve
the
avaritious
Foole.
But
I
decline
those
titles
,
and
lay
clayme
To
heaven
,
by
right
of
Divine
contemplation
;
She
is
my
Darling
,
I
,
in
my
sost
lap
,
Free
from
disturbing
cares
,
bargaines
,
accounts
,
Leases
,
Rents
,
Stewards
,
and
the
feare
of
theeves
,
That
vex
the
rich
,
nurse
her
in
calme
repose
,
And
with
her
,
all
the
Vertues
speculative
,
Which
,
but
with
me
,
find
no
secure
retreat
.
For
entertainment
of
this
houre
,
I
le
call
A
race
of
people
to
this
place
,
that
live
At
Natures
charge
,
and
not
importune
heaven
To
chayne
the
winds
up
,
or
keepe
back
the
stormes
,
To
stay
the
thunder
,
or
forbid
the
hayle
To
thresh
the
unreap'd
eare
;
but
to
all
weathers
,
Both
chilling
srost
,
and
scalding
Sunne
,
expose
Their
equall
face
.
Come
forth
,
my
swarthy
traine
,
In
this
faire
circle
dance
,
and
as
you
move
.
Marke
,
and
foretell
happy
events
of
Love
.
They
dance
the
fifth
Antimasque
of
Gypsies
.
Mom.
I
cannot
but
wonder
that
your
perpetuall
conversation
with
Poets
and
Philosophers
hath
furnished
you
with
no
more
Logick
,
or
that
you
should
thinke
to
impose
upon
us
so
grosse
an
inference
,
as
because
Plutus
and
you
are
contrary
,
therefore
whatsoever
is
denyed
of
the
one
,
must
bee
true
of
the
other
;
as
if
it
should
follow
of
necessity
,
because
hee
is
not
Iupiter
,
you
are
.
No
,
I
give
you
to
know
,
I
am
better
vers'd
in
cavils
with
the
gods
,
then
to
swallow
such
a
fallacie
,
for
though
you
two
cannot
be
together
in
one
place
,
yet
there
are
many
places
that
may
be
without
you
both
,
and
such
is
heaven
,
where
neither
of
you
are
likely
to
arrive
:
therefore
let
me
advise
you
to
marry
your selfe
to
Content
,
and
beget
sage
Apothegmes
,
and
goodly
morall
Sentences
in
disprayse
of
Riches
,
and
contempt
of
the
world
.
Merc.
Thou
dost
presume
much
,
poore
needy
wretch
,
To
claime
a
station
in
the
Firmament
,
Because
thy
humble
Cottage
,
or
thy
Tub
Nurses
some
lazie
or
Pedantique
vertue
In
the
cheape
Sun-shine
,
or
by
shady
springs
With
roots
and
pot-hearbs
;
where
thy
right
hand
,
Tearing
those
humane
passions
from
the
mind
,
Vpon
whose
stocks
faire
blooming
vertues
flourish
,
Degradeth
Nature
,
and
benummeth
sense
,
And
Gorgon-like
,
turnes
active
men
to
stone
.
Wee
not
require
the
dull
society
Of
your
necessitated
Temperance
,
Or
that
unnaturall
stupidity
That
knowes
nor
joy
nor
sorrow
;
nor
your
forc'd
Falsly
exalted
passive
Fortitude
Above
the
active
:
This
low
abject
brood
,
That
fix
their
seats
in
mediocrity
,
Become
your
servile
minds
;
but
we
advance
Such
vertues
only
as
admit
excesse
,
Brave
bounteous
Acts
,
Regall
Magnificence
,
All-seeing
Prudence
,
Magnanimity
That
knowes
no
bound
,
and
that
Heroick
vertue
For
which
Antiquity
hath
left
no
name
,
But
patternes
only
,
such
as
Hercules
,
Achilles
,
Theseus
.
Backe
to
thy
loath'd
cell
,
And
when
thou
seest
the
new
enlightned
Spheare
,
Study
to
know
but
what
those
Worthies
were
.
Tiche
,
enters
,
her
head
bald
behind
,
and
one
great
locke
before
,
wings
at
her
shoulders
,
and
in
her
hand
a
wheele
,
her
upper
parts
naked
,
and
the
skirt
of
her
Garment
wrought
all
over
with
Crownes
,
Scepters
,
Bookes
,
and
such
other
things
as
expresse
both
her
greatest
and
and
smallest
gifts
.
Mom.
See
where
Dame
Fortune
comes
,
you
may
know
her
by
her
wheele
,
and
that
vayle
over
her
eys
,
with
which
she
hopes
like
a
seel'd
Pigeon
to
mount
above
the
Clouds
,
and
pearch
in
the
eighth
Spheare
:
listen
,
she
begins
.
Fort.
I
come
not
here
(
you
gods
)
to
plead
the
Right
,
By
which
Antiquity
assign'd
my
Deitie
,
Though
no
peculiar
station
'mongst
the
Stars
,
Yet
generall
power
to
rule
their
influence
,
Or
boast
the
Title
of
Omnipotent
,
Ascrib'd
me
then
,
by
which
I
rival'd
Iove
,
Since
you
have
cancell'd
all
those
old
records
.
But
confident
in
my
good
cause
and
merit
,
Claime
a
succession
in
the
vacant
Orbe
,
For
since
Astraea
fled
to
heaven
,
I
sit
Her
Deputy
on
Earth
,
I
hold
her
skales
And
weigh
mens
Fates
out
,
who
have
made
me
blind
,
Because
themselves
want
eyes
to
see
my
causes
,
Call
me
inconstant
,
'cause
my
workes
surpasse
The
shallow
fathom
of
their
human
reason
;
Yet
here
,
like
blinded
Iustice
,
I
dispence
With
my
impartiall
hands
,
their
constant
lots
,
And
if
desertlesse
,
impious
men
engrosse
My
best
rewards
,
the
fault
is
yours
,
you
gods
,
That
scant
your
graces
to
mortality
,
And
niggards
of
your
good
,
scarce
spare
the
world
One
vertuous
,
for
a
thousand
wicked
men
.
It
is
no
error
to
conferre
dignity
,
But
to
bestow
it
on
a
vicious
man
;
I
gave
the
dignity
,
but
you
made
the
vice
,
Make
you
men
good
,
and
I
'le
make
good
men
happy
▪
That
Plutus
is
refus'd
,
dismayes
me
not
,
He
is
my
Drudge
,
and
the
externall
pompe
,
In
which
he
decks
the
World
,
proceeds
from
me
,
Not
him
;
like
Harmony
,
that
not
resides
In
strings
,
or
notes
,
but
in
the
hand
and
voyce
.
The
revolutions
of
Empires
,
States
,
Scepters
,
and
Crownes
,
are
but
my
game
and
sport
,
Which
as
they
hang
on
the
events
of
Warre
,
So
those
depend
upon
my
turning
wheele
.
You
warlike
Squadrons
,
who
in
battels
joyn'd
,
Dispute
the
Right
of
Kings
,
which
I
decide
,
Present
the
modell
of
that
martiall
frame
,
By
which
,
when
Grownes
are
stak'd
,
I
rule
the
game
.
They
dance
the
sixth
Antimasque
,
being
the
representation
of
a
Battell
.
Mom.
Madam
,
I
should
censure
you
,
pro
salso
clamore
,
for
preferring
a
scandalous
cros-bill
of
recrimination
against
the
gods
,
but
your
blindnesse
shall
excuse
you
.
Alas
!
what
would
it
advantage
you
,
if
vertue
were
as
universall
as
vice
is
?
it
would
onely
follow
,
that
as
the
world
now
exclaimes
upon
you
for
exalting
the
vicious
,
it
would
then
raile
as
fast
at
you
sor
depressing
the
vertuous
;
so
they
would
still
keepe
their
tune
,
though
you
chang'd
their
Ditty
.
Merc.
The
mists
,
in
which
future
events
are
wrap'd
,
That
oft
succeed
beside
the
purposes
Of
him
that
workes
,
his
dull
eyes
not
discerning
The
first
great
cause
,
offer'd
thy
clouded
shape
To
his
enquiring
search
;
so
in
the
darke
The
groping
world
first
found
thy
Deity
,
And
gave
thee
rule
over
contingencies
,
Which
,
to
the
piercing
eye
of
Providence
,
Being
fix'd
and
certaine
,
where
past
and
to
come
,
Are
alwayes
present
,
thou
dost
disappeare
,
Losest
thy
being
,
and
art
not
all
.
Be
thou
then
onely
a
deluding
Phantome
,
At
best
a
blind
guide
,
leading
blinder
fooles
;
Who
,
would
they
but
survay
their
mutuall
wants
,
And
helpe
each
other
,
there
were
left
no
roome
For
thy
vaine
ayd
▪
Wisedome
,
whose
strong-built
plots
Leave
nought
to
hazard
,
mocks
thy
futile
power
.
Industrious
labour
drags
thee
by
the
locks
,
Bound
to
his
toyling
Car
,
and
not
attending
Till
thou
dispence
,
reaches
his
owne
reward
.
Only
the
lazie
sluggard
yawning
lyes
Before
thy
threshold
,
gaping
for
thy
dole
,
And
licks
the
easie
hand
that
feeds
his
sloath
.
The
shallow
,
rash
,
and
unadvised
man
Makes
thee
his
stale
,
disburdens
all
the
follies
Of
his
mis-guided
actions
,
on
thy
shoulders
.
Vanish
from
hence
,
and
seeke
those
Ideots
out
That
thy
santasticke
god
head
hath
allow'd
,
And
rule
that
giddy
superstitious
crowd
,
Hedone
.
Pleasure
,
a
young
woman
with
a
smiling
face
,
in
a
light
lascivious
habit
,
adorn'd
with
silver
and
gold
,
her
Temples
crown'd
with
a
Garland
of
Roses
,
and
over
that
a
Rainbow
circling
her
head
downe
to
her
shoulders
.
Hedone
enters
.
Merc.
What
wanton
's
this
?
Mom.
This
is
the
sprightly
Lady
Hedone
,
a
merry
Gamester
,
this
people
call
her
Pleasure
.
Plea
.
The
reasons
(
equall
Iudges
)
here
alleag'd
By
the
dismist
Pretenders
,
all
concurre
To
strengthen
my
just
title
to
the
Spheare
.
Honour
,
or
Wealth
,
or
the
contempt
of
both
,
Have
in
themselves
no
simple
reall
good
,
But
as
they
are
the
meanes
to
purchase
pleasure
;
The
paths
that
lead
to
my
delicious
Palace
;
They
for
my
sake
,
I
for
mine
owne
am
priz'd
.
Beyond
me
nothing
is
,
I
am
the
Goale
.
The
Iourneyes
end
,
to
which
the
sweating
world
,
And
wearied
Nature
travels
.
For
this
,
the
best
And
wisest
sect
of
all
Philosophers
,
Made
me
the
seat
of
supreme
happinesse
.
And
though
some
,
more
austere
,
upon
my
ruines
Did
to
the
prejudice
of
Nature
,
raise
Some
petty
low-built
vertues
,
't
was
because
They
wanted
wings
to
reach
my
soaring
pitch
.
Had
they
beene
Princes
borne
,
themselves
had
prov'd
Of
all
mankind
the
most
luxurious
.
For
those
delights
,
which
to
their
low
condition
Were
obvious
,
they
with
greedy
appetite
Suck'd
and
devour'd
:
from
offices
of
State
,
From
cares
of
family
,
children
,
wife
,
hopes
,
feares
Retir'd
,
the
churlish
Cynicke
in
his
Tub
Enjoy'd
those
pleasures
which
his
tongue
defam'd
.
Nor
am
I
rank'd
'mongst
the
supersluous
goods
;
My
necessary
offices
preserve
Each
single
man
,
and
propogate
the
kind
.
Then
am
I
universall
as
the
light
,
Or
common
Ayre
we
breath
;
and
since
I
am
The
generall
desire
of
all
mankind
,
Civill
Felicity
must
reside
in
me
.
Tell
me
what
rate
my
choycest
pleasures
beate
,
When
for
the
short
delight
of
a
poore
draught
Of
cheape
cold
water
,
great
Lysimachus
Rendred
himselfe
slave
to
the
Scythians
.
Should
I
the
curious
structure
of
my
seats
,
The
art
and
beauty
of
my
seuerall
objects
,
Rehearse
at
large
,
your
bounties
would
reserve
For
every
sense
a
proper
constellation
;
But
I
present
their
Persons
to
your
eyes
.
Come
forth
my
subtle
Organs
of
delight
,
With
changing
figures
please
the
curiouss
eye
,
And
charme
the
care
with
moving
Harmony
.
They
dance
the
seventh
Antimasque
of
the
five
senses
.
Merc
:
Bewitching
Syren
,
guilded
rottennesse
,
Thou
hast
with
cunning
artifice
display'd
Th'
enamel'd
outside
,
and
the
honied
verge
Of
the
faire
cup
,
where
deadly
poyson
lurks
.
Within
,
a
thousand
sorrowes
dance
the
round
;
And
like
a
shell
,
Paine
circles
thee
without
,
Griefe
is
the
shadow
waiting
on
thy
steps
,
Which
,
as
thy
joyes
'ginne
tow'rds
their
West
decline
,
Doth
to
a
Gyants
spreading
forme
extend
Thy
Dwarfish
stature
.
Thou
thy
selse
art
Paine
,
Greedy
,
intense
Desire
,
and
the
keene
edge
Of
thy
fierce
Appetite
,
oft
strangles
thee
,
And
cuts
thy
slender
thread
;
but
still
the
terrour
And
apprehension
of
thy
hasty
end
,
Mingles
with
Gall
thy
most
refined
sweets
;
Yet
thy
Cyrcaean
charmes
transforme
the
world
.
Captaines
,
that
have
resisted
warre
and
death
,
Nations
,
that
over
Fortune
have
triumph'd
,
Are
by
thy
Magicke
made
effeminate
.
Empires
,
that
knew
no
limits
but
the
Poles
,
Have
in
thy
wanton
lap
melted
away
.
Thou
wert
the
Author
of
the
first
excesse
That
drew
this
reformation
on
the
gods
.
(
have
Canst
thou
then
dreame
,
those
Powers
,
that
from
heaven
Banish'd
th'
effect
,
will
there
enthrone
th'
cause
?
To
thy
voluptuous
Denne
,
fly
Witch
,
from
hence
,
There
dwell
,
for
ever
drown'd
in
brutish
sense
.
Mom.
I
concurre
,
and
am
growne
so
weary
of
these
tedious
pleadings
,
as
I
'le
packe
up
too
and
be
gone
:
Besides
,
I
see
a
crowd
of
other
suitors
pressing
hither
,
I
'le
stop
'em
,
take
their
petitions
and
preferre
'em
above
;
and
as
I
came
in
bluntly
without
knocking
,
and
no
body
bid
me
welcome
;
so
I
'le
depart
as
abruptly
without
taking
leave
,
and
bid
no
body
fare-well
.
Merc.
These
,
with
forc'd
reasons
,
and
strain'd
arguments
,
Vrge
vaine
presences
,
whilst
your
Actions
plead
,
And
with
a
silent
importunity
Awake
the
drousie
Iustice
of
the
gods
To
crowne
your
deeds
with
immortality
.
The
growing
Titles
of
your
Ancestors
,
These
Nations
glorious
Acts
,
joyn'd
to
the
stocke
Of
your
owne
Royall
vertues
,
and
the
cleare
Reflexe
they
take
from
th'
imitation
Of
your
fam'd
Court
,
make
Honours
storie
full
,
And
have
to
that
secure
fix'd
state
advanc'd
Both
you
and
them
,
to
which
the
labouring
world
,
Wading
through
streames
of
blood
,
sweats
to
aspire
.
Those
ancient
Worthies
of
these
famous
Isles
,
That
long
have
slept
,
in
fresh
and
lively
shapes
Shall
strait
appeare
,
where
you
shall
see
your selfe
Circled
with
moderne
Heroes
,
who
shall
be
In
Act
,
what
ever
elder
times
can
boast
,
Noble
,
or
Great
;
as
they
in
Prophesie
Were
all
but
what
you
are
.
Then
shall
you
see
The
sacred
hand
of
bright
Eternity
Mould
you
to
Stars
,
and
fix
you
in
the
Spheare
.
To
you
,
your
Royall
halfe
,
to
them
shee
'll
joyne
Such
of
this
traine
,
as
with
industrious
steps
In
the
faire
prints
your
vertuous
feet
have
made
,
Though
with
unequall
paces
,
follow
you
.
This
is
decreed
by
Iove
,
which
my
returne
Shall
see
perform'd
;
but
first
be
hold
the
rude
And
old
Abiders
here
,
and
in
them
view
The
point
from
which
your
full
perfections
grew
.
You
naked
,
ancient
,
wild
Inhabitants
,
That
breath'd
this
Ayre
,
and
prest
this
flowery
Earth
,
Come
from
those
shades
where
dwels
eternall
night
,
And
see
what
wonders
Time
hath
brought
to
light
.
Atlas
,
and
the
Spheare
vanisheth
,
and
a
new
Scaene
appeares
of
mountaines
,
whose
eminent
height
exceed
the
Clouds
which
past
beneath
them
,
the
lower
parts
were
wild
and
woody
:
out
of
this
place
comes
forth
a
more
grave
Antimasque
of
Picts
,
the
naturall
Inhabitants
of
this
Isle
,
ancient
Scots
and
Irish
,
these
dance
a
Perica
or
Martiall
dance
.
When
this
Antimasque
was
past
,
there
began
to
arise
out
of
the
earth
the
top
of
a
hill
,
which
by
little
and
little
grew
to
bee
a
huge
mountaine
that
covered
all
the
Scaene
;
the
under
part
of
this
was
wild
and
craggy
,
and
above
somewhat
more
pleasant
and
flourishing
:
about
the
middle
part
of
this
Mountaine
were
seated
the
three
kingdomes
of
England
,
Scotland
,
and
Ireland
;
all
richly
attired
in
regall
habits
,
appropriated
to
the
severall
Nations
,
with
Crownes
on
their
heads
,
and
each
of
them
bearing
the
ancient
Armes
of
the
kingdomes
there
presented
:
At
a
distance
above
these
sate
a
young
man
in
a
white
embroydered
robe
,
upon
his
faire
haire
an
Olive
Garland
with
wings
at
his
shoulders
,
and
holding
in
his
hand
a
Cornucopia
fill'd
with
corne
and
fruits
,
representing
the
Genius
of
these
kingdomes
.
The
first
Song
.
GENIVS
.
RAise
from
these
rockie
cliffs
,
your
heads
,
Brave
Sonnes
,
and
see
where
Glory
spreads
Her
glittering
wings
,
where
Majesty
Crown'd
with
sweet
smiles
,
shoots
from
her
eye
Diffusive
joy
,
where
Good
and
Faire
,
Vnited
sit
in
Honours
Chayre
.
Call
forth
your
aged
Priests
,
and
chrystall
streames
.
To
warme
their
hearts
,
and
waves
in
these
bright
beames
.
KINGDOMES
.
From
your
consecrated
woods
,
Holy
Druids
.
2.
Silver
stoods
,
From
your
channels
fring'd
with
slowers
,
Hither
move
;
forsake
your
bowers
Strew'd
with
hallowed
Oaken
leaves
,
Deck'd
with
slags
and
siedgie
sheaves
,
And
behold
a
wonder
.
3.
Say
,
What
doe
your
duller
eyes
survay
?
CHORVS
of
DR
VIDS
and
RIVERS
.
We
see
at
once
in
dead
of
night
A
Sunne
appeare
,
and
yet
a
bright
Noone-day
,
springing
from
Starre-light
.
GENIVS
.
Looke
up
,
and
see
the
darkened
Spheare
Depriv'd
of
light
,
her
eyes
shine
there
;
CHORVS
,
These
are
more
sparkling
then
those
were
.
KINGDOMES
.
These
shed
a
nobler
influence
,
These
by
a
pure
intelligence
Of
more
transcendent
Vertue
move
,
These
first
feele
,
then
kindle
Iove
,
From
the
bosomes
they
inspire
,
These
receive
a
mutuall
sire
;
And
where
their
slames
impure
returne
,
These
can
quench
as
well
as
burne
.
GENIVS
.
Here
the
fare
victorious
eyes
Make
Worth
only
Beauties
prize
,
Here
the
hand
of
Vertue
tyes
'Bout
the
heart
lov's
amorous
chayne
,
Captives
tryumph
,
Vassals
reigne
,
And
none
live
here
but
the
slaine
.
CHORVS
.
These
are
th'
Hisperian
bowers
,
whose
faire
trees
beare
Rich
golden
fruit
,
and
yet
no
Dragon
near
.
GENIVS
.
Then
,
from
your
impris'ning
wombe
,
Which
is
the
cradle
and
the
tombe
Of
Brittish
Worthies
(
faire
sonnes
)
send
A
troope
of
Heroes
,
that
may
lend
Their
hands
to
ease
this
loaden
grove
,
And
gather
the
ripe
fruits
of
Love
.
KINGDOMES
.
Open
thy
stony
entrailes
wide
,
And
breake
old
Atlas
,
that
the
pride
Of
three
fam'd
kingdomes
may
be
spy'd
.
CHORVS
.
Pace
forth
thou
mighty
Brittish
Hercules
,
With
thy
choyce
band
,
for
only
thou
,
and
these
,
May
revell
here
,
in
Loves
Hesperides
.
At
this
the
under-part
of
the
Rocke
opens
,
and
out
of
a
Cave
are
seene
to
come
the
Masquers
richly
attyred
like
ancient
Heroes
,
the
Colours
yellow
,
embroydered
with
silver
,
their
antique
Helmes
curiously
wrought
,
and
great
plumes
on
the
top
;
before
them
a
troope
of
young
Lords
and
Noble-mens
sonnes
,
bearing
Torches
of
Virgin-wax
,
these
were
apparelled
after
the
old
Brittish
fashion
in
white
Coats
,
embroydered
with
silver
,
girt
,
and
full
gathered
,
cut
square
coller'd
,
and
round
caps
on
their
heads
,
with
a
white
feather
wreathen
about
them
;
first
these
dance
with
their
lights
in
their
hands
:
After
which
,
the
Masquers
descend
into
the
roome
,
and
dance
their
entry
.
The
dance
being
past
,
there
appeares
in
the
further
part
of
the
heaven
comming
downe
a
pleāsant
Clond
,
bright
and
transparent
,
which
comming
softly
downe-wards
before
the
upper
part
of
the
mountaine
,
embraceth
the
Genius
,
but
so
as
through
it
all
his
body
is
seene
;
and
then
rising
againe
with
a
gentle
motion
beares
up
the
Genius
of
the
three
kingdomes
,
and
being
past
the
Airy
Region
,
pierceth
the
heavens
,
and
is
no
more
seene
:
At
that
instant
the
Rocke
with
the
three
kingdomes
on
it
sinkes
,
and
is
hidden
in
the
earth
.
This
strange
spectacle
gave
great
cause
of
admiration
,
but
especially
how
so
huge
a
machine
,
and
of
that
great
height
could
come
from
under
the
Stage
,
which
was
but
six
foot
high
.
The
second
Song
.
KINGDOMES
.
HEre
are
shapes
form'd
fit
for
heaven
,
Those
move
gracefully
and
〈◊〉
,
Here
the
Ayre
and
paces
meet
So
just
,
as
if
the
skilfull
feet
Had
struck
the
Vials
▪
1.
2.
3.
So
the
Ears
Might
the
tunefull
footing
heare
.
CHORVS
.
And
had
the
Musicke
silent
beene
,
The
eye
a
moving
tune
had
seene
.
GENIVS
.
These
must
in
the
unpeopled
skie
Succeed
,
and
governe
Destinie
,
Iove
is
temp'ring
purer
fire
,
And
will
with
brighter
flames
attire
These
glorious
lights
.
I
must
ascend
And
helpe
the
Worke.
KINGDOMES
.
We
cannot
lend
Heaven
so
much
treasure
.
2.
Nor
that
pay
But
rendring
what
it
takes
away
.
Why
should
they
that
here
can
move
So
well
,
be
ever-fix'd
above
?
CHORVS
.
Or
be
to
one
eternall
posture
ty'd
,
That
can
into
such
various
figures
slide
.
GENIVS
.
Iove
shall
not
,
to
enrich
the
Skie
,
Beggar
the
Earth
,
their
Fame
shall
fly
From
hence
alone
,
and
in
the
Spheare
Kindle
new
Starres
,
whilst
they
rest
here
.
KINGDOMES
.
How
can
the
shaft
stay
in
the
quiver
,
Yet
hit
the
marke
?
GENIVS
.
Did
not
the
River
Eridanus
,
the
grace
acquire
In
Heaven
and
Earth
to
flow
,
Above
in
streames
of
golden
fire
,
In
silver
waves
below
?
KINGDOMES
.
But
shall
not
we
,
now
thou
art
gone
Who
wert
our
Nature
,
wither
,
Or
breake
that
triple
Vnion
Which
thy
soule
hold
together
?
GENIVS
.
In
Concords
pure
immortall
spring
I
will
my
force
renew
,
And
a
more
active
Vertue
bring
At
my
returne
.
Adieu
.
KINGDOMES
adieu
,
CHORVS
adieu
.
The
Masquers
dance
their
maine
dance
;
which
done
,
the
Scaene
againe
is
varied
into
a
new
and
pleasant
prospect
,
cleane
differing
from
all
the
other
,
the
nearest
part
shewing
a
delicious
Garden
with
severall
walkes
and
perterra's
set
round
with
low
trees
,
and
on
the
sides
against
these
walkes
,
were
fountaines
and
grots
,
and
in
the
furthest
part
a
Palace
,
from
whence
went
high
walkes
upon
Arches
,
and
above
them
open
Tarraces
planted
with
Cypresse
trees
,
and
all
this
together
was
composed
of
such
Ornaments
as
might
expresse
a
Princely
Villa
.
From
hence
the
Chorus
descending
into
the
roome
,
goes
up
to
the
State
.
The
third
Song
.
By
the
Chorus
going
up
to
the
Queene
.
WHilst
thus
the
Darlings
of
the
Gods
From
Honours
Temple
,
to
the
Shrine
Of
Beauty
,
and
these
sweet
abodes
Of
Love
,
we
guide
,
let
thy
Divine
Aspects
(
Bright
Deity
)
with
faire
And
Halcyon
beames
,
becalme
the
Ayre
,
We
bring
Prince
Arthur
,
or
the
brave
St.
George
himselfe
(
great
Queene
)
to
you
,
You
'll
soone
discerne
him
;
and
we
have
▪
A
Guy
,
a
Beavis
,
or
some
true
Round-Table
Knight
,
as
everfought
For
Lady
,
to
each
Beauty
brought
.
Plant
in
their
Martiall
hands
,
War's
seat
,
Your
peacefull
pledges
of
warm
snow
,
And
,
if
a
speaking
touch
,
repeat
In
Loves
known
language
,
tales
of
woe
;
Say
,
in
soft
whispers
of
the
Palme
,
As
eyes
shoot
darts
,
so
Lips
shed
Balme
.
For
though
you
seeme
like
Captives
,
led
In
triumph
by
the
Foe
away
,
Yet
on
the
Conqu'rers
necke
you
tread
,
And
the
fierce
Victor
proves
your
prey
,
What
heart
is
then
secure
from
you
,
That
can
,
though
vanquish'd
,
yet
subdue
?
The
Song
done
they
retire
,
and
the
Masquers
dance
the
Revels
with
the
Ladies
,
which
continued
a
great
part
of
the
night
.
The
Revels
being
past
,
and
the
Kings
Majestie
seated
under
the
State
by
the
Queene
;
for
Conclusion
to
this
Masque
there
appeares
comming
forth
from
one
of
the
sides
,
as
moving
by
a
gentle
wind
,
a
great
Cloud
,
which
arriving
at
the
middle
of
the
heaven
,
stayeth
;
this
was
of
severall
colours
,
and
so
great
,
that
it
covered
the
whole
Scaene
.
Out
of
the
further
part
of
the
heaven
begins
to
breake
forth
two
other
clouds
,
differing
in
colour
and
shape
;
and
being
fully
discovered
there
appeared
sitting
in
one
of
them
,
Religion
,
Truth
,
and
Wisdome
.
Religion
was
apparelled
in
white
,
and
part
of
her
face
was
covered
with
a
light
vaile
,
in
one
hand
a
Booke
,
and
in
the
other
a
flame
of
fire
.
Truth
in
a
Watchet
Robe
,
a
Sunne
upon
her
fore-head
and
bearing
in
her
hand
a
Palme
,
Wisedome
in
a
mantle
wrought
with
eyes
and
hands
,
golden
rayes
about
her
head
,
and
Apollo's
Cithera
in
her
hand
.
In
the
other
Cloud
sate
Concord
,
Government
,
and
Reputation
.
The
habit
of
Concord
was
Carnation
,
bearing
in
her
hand
a
little
faggot
of
sticks
bound
together
,
and
on
the
top
of
it
a
hart
,
and
a
garland
of
corne
on
her
head
:
Government
was
figured
in
a
coat
of
Armour
,
bearing
a
shield
,
and
on
it
a
Medusa's
head
;
upon
her
head
a
plumed
helme
,
and
in
her
right
hand
a
Lance.
Reputation
,
a
young
man
in
a
purple
robe
wrought
with
gold
,
and
wearing
a
laurell
wreath
on
his
head
.
These
being
come
downe
in
an
equall
distance
to
the
middle
part
of
the
Ayre
,
the
great
Cloud
began
to
breake
open
,
out
of
which
stroke
beames
of
light
;
in
the
midst
suspended
in
the
Ayre
,
sate
Eternity
on
a
Globe
,
his
Garment
was
long
of
a
light
blue
,
wrought
all
over
with
Stars
of
gold
,
and
bearing
in
his
hand
a
Serpent
bent
into
a
circle
,
with
his
tayle
in
his
mouth
.
In
the
firmament
about
him
,
was
a
troope
of
fifteene
stars
,
expressing
the
stellifying
of
our
Brittish
Heroes
;
but
one
more
great
and
eminent
than
the
rest
,
which
was
over
his
head
,
figured
his
Majestie
.
And
in
the
lower
part
was
seene
a
farre
off
the
prospect
of
Windsor
Castle
,
the
famous
seat
of
the
most
honourable
Order
of
the
Garter
.
The
fourth
Song
.
Eternity
,
Eusebia
,
Alethia
,
Sophia
,
Homononia
,
Dicaearche
,
Euphemia
.
ETERNITIE
.
BE
fix'd
you
rapid
Orbes
,
that
beare
The
changing
seasons
of
the
yeare
On
your
swift
wings
,
and
see
the
old
Decrepit
Spheares
growne
darke
and
cold
;
Nor
did
Iove
quench
her
fires
,
these
bright
Flames
,
have
ecclips'd
her
sullen
light
:
This
Royall
Payre
,
for
whom
Fate
will
Make
Motion
cease
,
and
Time
stand
still
;
Since
Good
is
here
so
perfect
,
as
no
Worth
Is
left
for
After-Ages
to
bring
forth
.
EVSEBIA
.
Mortality
cannot
with
more
Religious
zeale
,
the
gods
adore
.
ALETHIA
.
My
Truths
,
from
humane
eyes
conceal'd
,
Are
naked
to
their
sight
reveal'd
.
SOPHIA
.
Nor
doe
their
Actions
,
from
the
guide
Of
my
exactest
precepts
slide
.
HOMONOIA
.
And
as
their
owne
pure
Soules
entwin'd
,
So
are
their
Subjects
hearts
combin'd
.
DICAEARCHE
.
So
just
,
so
gentle
is
their
sway
,
As
it
seemes
Empire
to
obey
.
EVPHEMIA
.
And
their
faire
Fame
,
like
incense
hurl'd
On
Altars
,
hath
perfum'd
the
world
.
S
O.
Wisedome
.
A
L.
Truth
.
E
V
S.
Pure
Adoration
.
H
O.
Concord
,
D
I.
Rule
E
V
P.
Cleare
Reputation
.
CHORVS
.
Crowne
this
King
,
this
Queene
,
this
Nation
.
CHORVS
Wisdome
,
Truth
,
&c.
ETERNITIE
.
Brave
Spirits
,
whose
adventrous
feet
Have
to
the
Mountaines
top
aspir'd
,
Where
faire
Desert
,
and
Honour
meet
,
Here
,
from
the
toyling
Presse
retyr'd
,
Secure
from
all
disturbing
Evill
,
For
ever
in
my
Temple
revell
.
With
wreathes
of
Starres
circled
about
,
Guild
all
the
spacious
Firmament
,
And
smiling
on
the
panting
Routs
That
labour
in
the
steep
ascent
,
With
your
resistlesse
influence
guide
Of
humane
change
th'
incertaine
tide
.
EVS.
ALE.
SOP.
But
oh
you
Royall
Turtles
,
shed
,
When
you
from
Earth
remove
,
On
the
ripe
fruits
of
your
chaste
bed
,
Those
sacred
seeds
of
Love
.
CHORVS
.
Which
no
Power
can
but
yours
dispence
,
Since
you
the
patterne
beare
from
hence
.
HOM.
DIC.
EVP.
Then
from
your
fruitfull
race
shall
slow
Endlesse
succession
.
Scepters
shall
bud
,
and
Lawrels
blow
'Bout
their
Immortall
Throne
.
CHORVS
.
Propitious
Stars
shall
crowne
each
birth
,
Whilst
you
rule
them
,
and
they
the
Earth
.
The
Song
ended
,
the
two
Clouds
,
with
the
person
sitting
on
them
,
ascend
;
the
great
Cloud
closeth
againe
,
and
so
passeth
away
overthwart
the
Scaene
;
leaving
behind
it
nothing
but
a
Serene
Sky
After
which
,
the
Masquers
dance
their
last
dance
,
and
the
Curtaine
was
let
fall
.