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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73704	Cœlum Britanicum A masque at White-Hall in the Banquetting-House, on Shrove-Tuesday-night, the 18. of February, 1633.; Cœlum Britannicum	Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?; Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600. Spaccio de la bestia trionfante.; Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.	1634 (1634)	STC 4618; ESTC S107477	19,189	41

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 Thrones 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 aret brought hither where thou first didst breathe The thirst of Empire into Regall brests And frightedst quiet Peace from her meeke 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 Vertues 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 raile 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 choyce 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 wel 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 be 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 condemn'd to weare perpetuall Motley unlesse hee 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 color full of patches about one of her hands was tied 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 Immortall Powers But that the place your wisdome hath deny'd My foe your Instice 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 Soverainty 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 fight and toyle for them are all my Subjects They take my wages weare 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 Diuine contemplation Shee is my Darling I in my soft 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 howre I 'll call A race of people to this place that live At Natures charge and not importune heaven To chaine the winds up or keepe backe the stormes To stay the thunder or forbid the hayle To thresh the unreap'd eare but to all weathers Both chilling frost and skalding 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 Antimaske of Gypsies Mom. I cannot but wonder that your perpetuall conversation with Poets and Philosophers hath furnished you with no more Logicke 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 be true of the other as if it should follow of necessity because he 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 bee 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 Apothegms and goodly morall Sentences in dispraise of Riches and contempt of the world Merc. Thou dost presume too much poore needy wretch To claime a station in the Firmament Because thy humble Cottage or thy Tub Nurses some lazie or Pedantique virtue In the cheape Sun-shine or by shady springs With roots and pot-hearbs where thy rigid hand Tearing those humane passions from the mind Vpon whose stockes faire blooming vertues flourish Degradeth Nature and benummeth sense And Gorgon-like turnes active men to stone We 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 onely as admit excesse Brave bounteous Acts Regall Magnificence All-seeing Prudence Magnanimity That knowes no bound and that Heroicke vertue For which Antiquity hath left no name But patternes onely 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 hor 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 Boakes and such other things as expresse both her greatest and smallest gifts Mom. See where Dame Fortune comes you may know her by her wheele and that vaile over eyes 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 Astraa fled to

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 Honors 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 antient Worthies of these famous Isles That long have slept in fresh and lively shapes Shall straight appeare where you shall see your self 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 Eternitie Mould you to Stars and six 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 behold the rude And old Abiders here and in them view The point from which your full perfections grew You naked antient wild Inhabitants That breath'd this Ayre and prest this flowery Earth Come from those shades where dwells 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 antient Scots and Irish these dance a Perica or Marshall 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 be 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 they represented At a distance above these sate a young man in a white embroidered 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 beame KINGDOMES 1. From your consecrated woods Holy Druids 2. Silver floods From your channels fring'd with flowers 3. Hither move forsake your howers 1. Strew'd with hallowed Oaken leaves Deck'd with flags and fedgie sheaves And behold a wonder 3. Say What doe your duller eyes survay CHORVS of DRVIDS and RIVERS We see at once in dead of night A Sun appeare and yet a bright Nooneday springing from Starre-light GENIVS Looke up and see the darkned Spheare Depriv'd of light her eyes shine there CHORVS These are more sparkling then those were KINGDOMES 1. These shed a nobler influence 2. These by a pure intelligence Of more transcendent Vertue move 3. These first feele then kindle love 1.2 From the bosomes they inspire These receive a mutuall fire 1.2.3 And where their flames impure returne These can quench as well as burne GENIVS Here the faire victorious eyes Make Worth onely Beauties prize Here the hand of Vertue tyes 'Bout the heart loves amourous chaine Captives triumph Vassals reigne And none live here but the slaine CHORVS These are th' Hesperian bowers whose faire trees beare Rich golden fruit and yet no Dragon neare GENIVS Then from your impris'ning wombe Which is the cradle and the tombe Of British Worthies faire sonnes send A troope of Heroes that may lend Their hands to case this loaden grove And gather the ripe fruits of love KINGDOMES 1.2.3 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 British Hercules With thy choyce band for onely 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 attired 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 Noblemens sonnes bearing Torches of Virginwax these were apparelled after the old British 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 pleasant Cloud bright and transparent which comming softly downewards 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 1. HEre are shapes form'd fit for heaven 2. These move gracefully and even 3. Here the Ayre and paces meet So just as if the skilfull feet Had strucke the Vials 1.2.3 So the Ear Might the tune full 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 1. We cannot lend Heaven so much treasure 2. Nor that pay But rendring what it takes away 3. 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 flye From hence alone and in the Spheare Kindle new Starres whilst they rest here KINGDOMES 1.2.3 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