come to be your guest your bounteous free Condition does assure I shall have A welcom entertainment Win. Illustrious sir I am ignorant How much expression my true zeale will want To entertain you fitlie yet my love And hartie dutie shall be farr above My outward welcome to that glorious light Of heaven the Sunne which chases hence the night I am so much a vastaile that I 'le strive By honoring you to keep my faith alive To him brave Prince tho you who do inherit Your fathers cheerefull heat and quickning spirit Therefore as I am Winter worne and spent So farre with age I am Tymes monument Antiquities example in my zeale I from my youth a span of Tyme will steale To open the free treasures of my Court And swell your soul with my delights and sport Ray. Never till now Did admiration beget in me truly The rare match'd twins at once pittie and pleasure So royall so aboundant in earth's blessings Should not partake the comfort of those beames With which the Sun beyond extent doth cheere The other seasons yet my pleasures with you From their false charmes doth get the start as farr As heaven's great lamp from every minor starr Boun. Sir you can speak wel if your tongue deliver The message of your heart without some cuâ—ing Of restraint we may hope to enjoy The lasting riches of your presence hence Without distrust or change Ray. Winters sweet bride All Conquering Bounty queen of harts life's glory Natures perfection whom all love all serve To whom Fortune even in extreame 's a slave When I fall from my dutie to thy goodness Then let me be ranck'd as nothing Boun. Come you flatter mee Ray. I flatter you Why Madam you are Bounty Sole daughter to the royall throne of peace Hu. He minds not mee now Ray. Bounties self For you he is no souldier dares not fight No Scholar he that dares not plead your merites Or study your best Sweetness should the Sun Eclips'd for many yeares forbeare to shine Upon the bosome of our naked pastures Yet where you are the glories of your smiles would warm the barren grounds arm hartless misery And cherish desolation Deed I honor you And as all others ought to do I serve you Hu. Are these the rare sights these the promis'd Complements Win. Attendance on our revells let delight Conjoyn the day with sable-footed night Both shall forsake their orbes and in one sphere Meet in soft mirth and harmlesse pleasures here While plump Lyeus shall with garland crown'd Of triumph-Ivie in full cups abound Of Cretan wine and shall dame Ceres call To waite on you at Winters festivall While gawdy Summer Autumne and the Springe Shall to my Lord their Choycest viands bring Wee 'l robb the sea and from the subtill ayre Fetch her inhabitant to supply our fare That were Apecious here he in one night Should sate with danties his strong appetite Begin our revells then and let all pleasure Flow like the Ocean in a boundlesse measure Florish Enter Conceit and Detraction Con. Wit and pleasure soft attention Grace the sports of our invention De. Conceit peace for Detraction Hath already drawn a faction Shall deride thee Con. Antick leave me For in laboring to bereave me Of a scholars praise thy dotag Shall be hist at De. Here 's a hot age When such pettie penmen covet Fame by folly on I 'le prove it Scurvie by thy parâ— and trie thee By thine owne wit Con. I defie thee Here are nobler Judges wit Cannot suffer where they sit De. Pri'thee foolish Conceit leave off thy set-speeches and come to the conceit if selfe in plain languages what goodly thing is 't in the name of laughter Con. Detraction doe thy worste Conceit appears In honour of the Sunne their fellow-friend Before thy censure know then that the spheres Have for a while resigned their orbes and lend Their seats to the Four Elements who joyn'd With the Four known Complexions have atton'd A noble I ague and severally put on Materiall bodies here amongst em none Observes a difference Earth and Ayre alike Are sprightly active Fire and Water seek No glory of preheminence Phlegm and Blood Choler and Melancholy who have stood In contrarieties now meet for pleasure To enterain Time in a courtly measure De. Impossible and inproper first to personate insensible Creatures and next to compound quite opposite humors fie fie fie i'ts abominable Con. Fond ignorance how darest thou vainly scan impossibility what reignes in man Without disorder wisely mixt by nature Maskers To fashion and preserve so high a creature De. Sweete sir when shall our mortall eyes behold this new peice of wonder We must gaze on the starres for it doubtlesse Con. See thus the clouds flie off and run in chase The Maskers discover'd When the Sun's bountie lends peculiar grace De. Fine ifaith pretty and in good earnest but sirrah scholar will they come down too Con. Behold em well the foremost represents Ayr the most sportive of the Elements De. A nimble rascall I warrant him some Aldermans son wonderous giddy and light-headed one that blew his patrimony away in feather and Tobacco Con. The next near him is Fire Det. A cholerick gentleman I should know him a younger brother and a great spender but seldom or never carries any money about him he was begot when the sign was in Taurus for a rores like a Bull But is indeed a Bell-weather Con. The third in rank is Water Det. A phlegmatick cold piece of stuff his father me thinks should be one of the Dunce-table and one that never drunk strong beer in 's life but at festival times and then he caught the heart-burning a whole vacation and half a Term after Con. The fourth is Earth Det. A shrewd plodding-pated fellow and a great lover of news I guesse at the rest Blood is placed near Air Choler near Fire Phlegme and Water are sworn brothers and so are Earth and Melancholie Con. Fair nymph of Harmonie be it thy task To sing them down and rank them in a mask SONG See the Elements conspire Nimble Air doe's court the Earth Water doe's commix with Fire To give our Princes pleasure birth Each delight each joy each sweet In one composition meet All the seasons of the year Winter doe's invoke the Spring Summer doe's in pride appear Autumn forth its fruits doth bring And with emulation pay Their tribute to this Holy-day In which the Darling of the Sun is come To make this place a new Elisium Wint. How do these pleasures please Hu. Pleasures Boun. Live here And be my Lord's friend and thy sports shall vary A thousand waies invention shall beget Conceits as curious as the thoughts of change Can aim at Hu. Trifles progresse o're the year Again my Raybright therein like the Sun As he in heaven runs his circular course So thou on earth run thine for to be fed With stale delights breeds dulnesse and contempt Think on the Spring Ray. She was a lovely Virgin Wint. My roial Lord Without offence be pleas'd but to afford Me give you my true figure do not scorn My age nor think cause I appear forlorn I serve for no use 't is my sharper breath Doe's purge grosse exhalations from the earth My frosts and snows do purifie the air From choking foggs makes the skie clear and fair And though by nature cold and chill I be Yet I 〈◊〉 warm in bounteous charitie And can my Lord by grave and sage advice Bring you toth ' happie shades of Paradice Ray. â—hat wonder Oh! can you bring me thither Wint. I can direct and point you out a path Hu. But where 's the guide Quicken thy spirits Raybright I 'le not leav thee Wee 'l run the self same race again that happinesse These lazie sleeping tedious winters nights Becom not noble action Ray To the Spring Recorders I am resolv'd Oh! what strange light appears The Sun is up sure The Sun above Sun Wanton Darling look and worship with amazement Oes gracious Lord Sun Thy sands are numbred and thy glasse of frailtie 〈…〉 out to the last here in this mirror Let man behold the circuit of his fortunes The 〈◊〉 of the Spring dawns like the Morning Bedewing Childhood with unrelish'd beauties Of gawdie sights the Summer as the Noon Shines in delight of Youth and ripens strength To Autumns Manhood here the Evening grows And knits up all felicitie in follie Winter at last draws on the Night of Age Yet still a humor of som novel fancie Untasted or untry'd puts off the minute Of resolution which should bid farewel To a vain world of wearinesse and sorrows The powers from whom man do's derive his pedigree Of his creation with a roial bountie Give him health youth delight for free attendants To rectifie his carriage to be thankful Again to them Man should casheer his riots His bosom whorish sweet-heart idle Humor His Reasons dangerous seducer Follie then shall Like four streight pillars the four Elements Support the goodly structure of mortalitie Then shall the four Complexions like four heads Of a clear river streaming in his bodie Nourish and comfort every vein and sinew No sicknesse of contagion no grim death Of deprivation of healths real blessings Shall then affright the creature built by heaven Reserv'd to immortalitie henceforth In peace go to our Altars and no more Question the power of supernal greatnesse But give us leav to govern as wee please Nature and her dominion who from us And from our gracious influence hath both being And preservation no replies but reverence Man hath a double guard if time can win him Heavens power above him his own peace within him FINIS
THE Sun's-Darling A Moral Masque As it hath been often presented at Whitehall by their Majesties Servants and after at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane with great Applause Written by Iohn Foard and Tho. Decker Gent. LONDON Printed by I. Bell for Andrew Penneycuicke Anno Dom. 1656 To the Right Honorable THOMAS WRIATHESLEY Earle of Southampton Lord WRIATHSLEY of Tichfield c. MY LORD Herodotus Reports that the Aegyptians by Wrapping their Dead in Glasse presents them lively to all Posterity But your Lordship will do more by the Vivifying beames of your Acceptation Revive the parents of this Orphan Poem and make them live to Eternity While the Stage florisht the POEM liv'd by the breath of Generall Applauses and the Virtuall Fervor of the Court But since hath languisht for want of heate and now neere shrunk up with Cold creepes with a shivering feare to Extend it selse at the Flames of your Benignity My Lord though it seems Rough and Forlorn It is the issu of Worthy parents and we doubt not but you will find it accomplisht with their Vertue Be pleased then my Lord to give it entertainement the more Destitute and needy it is the Greater Reward may be challenged by your Charity and so being shelt'rd under your Wings and Comforted by the Sun-shine of your Favoure it will become Proofe against the Injustice of Time and like one of Demetrius statues appeare fresher and fresher to all Ages My Lord were we not Confident of the Excellence of the Peece wee should not dare to Assume an impudence to preferr it to a Person of your HONOR and KNOWN JUDGMENT whose HEARTS are ready SACRIFICES to your NAME and HONOR Being my Lorde Your Lordships most humble and most Obligedly Submissive Servants Theophilus Bird Andrew Penneycuicke Upon the SUN'S DARLING IS he then found Phoebus make holliday Tye up thy Steeds And let the Cyclops Play Mulceber leave thy Anvile and be trim Combe thy black Muzle be no longer Grim Mercury be quick with mirth furnish the heavens Jove this day let all run at fix and seavens And Ganimede be nimble to the Brim Fill Boules of Nectar that the Gods may swim To solemnize their healths that did discover The oscure being of the Suns fon'd lover That from the Example of their liberall mirth We may enjoy like freedome on Earth Iohn Tatham READER IT is not here intended to present thee with the perfect Analogy betwixt the World and man which was made for Man Nor their Co-existence the World determining with Man this I presume hath bin by others Treated on But drawing the Curtain of this Morall you shall finde him in his progression as followeth The first Season PResent him in the Twy-light of his age Nor Pot-gun-proofe and yet hee 'l have his page This smale Knight-Errant will encounter things Above his pearch and like the partridge Springs The second Season Folly his squire the Lady Humor brings Who in his eare farr sweeter Novells sings He follows them forsakes the Aprill Queene And now the Noone-tide of his age is seene The third Season AS soone as Nerv'd with strength he becoms Weake Folly and Humor doth his reason breake Hurries him from his Noone-tide to his even From Summer to his 〈◊〉 he is driven The fourth Season ANd now the Winter or his nonage takes him The sad remembrance of his errours wakes him Folly and Humour Faine hee 'd cast away But they will never leave him till hee 's Clay Thus Man as Clay Descends Ascends in spirit Dust goes to dust The soule unto It's Merit The Names of the Persons Phoebus the Sun Winter Raybright the suns Darling Conceit Lady Spring Detraction Youth Time Delight Priest of the Sun Health Folly Summer A Souldier Plenty A Spanyard Pomona An Italian Dancer Cupid A French Taylor Fortune A Forrester Autumne Aeolus Bacchanalian Maskers Bounty 3 Clowns THE Sun's-Darling ACT. I. AN ALTAR Enter the Priest of the Sun Raybright discovered sleeping Pr. LEt your tunes you sweet-voic'd spears overtake him Charm his fancies ope his ears now awake him begin SONG Fancies are but streams of vain pleasure They who by their dreams true joies measure Feasting starve laughing weep playing smart whilst in sleep fools with shadows smiling wake and and finde hopes like winde Idle hopes beguiling Thoughts flie away Time hath past 'em Wake now awake see and taste 'em Ray. That I might ever slumber and enjoy Contents as happie as the soul's best wishes Can fancie or imagine 't is a crueltie Beyond example to usurp the peace I sate inthron'd in who was 't pluck'd mee from it Pr. Young man look hither Ray. Good I envie not The pomp of your high office all preferment Of earthly glories are to me diseases Infecting those found parts which should preserve The flattering retribution to my thankfulness The times are better to me there 's no taste Left on the pallate of my discontent To catch at emptie hopes whose onely blessedness Depends on beeing miserable Pr. Raybright Thou drawst thy great descent from my grand patron the Sun whose priest I am Ray. For small advantage Hee who is high-born never mounts von battlemen Of sparkling stars unless I bee in spirit As humble as the childe of one that sweats To eat the dear-earn'd bread of honest thrift Pr. Hast thou not flow'd in honors Ray. Honors I 'de not bee baited with my fears Of loosing em to bee their monstrous creature An age together 't is beside as comfortable To die upon the embrodrie of the grass Unwinded as to ser a world at gaze Whilst from a pinacle I tumble down And break my neck to bee talk'd of and wonder'd at Pr. You have worn rich habits Fine Ass-trappings A Pedler's heir turn'd gallant follows fashion Can by a cross-legg'd Tailor bee transform'd Into a Jack a napes of passing bravery 'T is a stout hapiness to wear good clothes Yet live and die a fool mew Pr. You have had choice Of beauties to enrich your marriage-bed Ray. Monkyes and Parakeetoes are as prettie To play withall tho not indeed so gentle Honestie 's indeed a fine jewel but the Indies Where it grows is hard to bee discovered troath sir I care for no long travels with lost labor Pr. Pleasures of every sence have been your servants When as y 'ave commanded them Ray. To threaten ruine Corrupt the puritie of knowledg wrest Desires of better life to those of these This scurvie one this life scarce worth the keeping Pr. 'T is melancholy and too fond indulgence To your own dull'd affections sway your judgment You could not else bee thus lost or suspect The care your ancestor the Sun takes of yee Ray. The care the scorn hee throw on mee Pr. Fie fie Have you been sent out into strange lands Seen Courts of forreign Kings by them been grac'd To bring home such neglect Ray. I have reason for 't Pr. Pray shew it Ray. Since my coming home I have found More sweets in one unprofitable dream Then
Your eies amaz'd mee first but now mine ears Feel your tongues charms in you move all the sphears Ch Ladie would the Sun which gave mee life Had never sent me to you Spr. Why all my veins Shrink up as if cold Winter were com back And with his frozen beard have numm'd my lips To hear that sigh fly from you Ray. Round about mee A firmament of such full blessings shine I in your sphear seem a star more divine Than in my Fathers Chariot should I ride One year about the world in all his pride Sp. Oh that sweet breath revives mee if thou never Part'st hence as part thou shalt not bee happie ever Ray. I know I shall Spr. Thou to buy whose state Kings would lay down their crowns fresh Youth wait I charge thee on my darling Tou. Madam I shall And on his smoeth check such sweet roses set You still shall sit to gather then and when Their colours fade brave shall spring agen Spr. Thou without whom they that have hills of gold Are slaves and wretches Health that canst nor be sold Nor bought I charge thee make his heart a tower Guarded for there lies the Springs paramour Hea. One of my hands is writing still in heaven For that 's Healths librarie t'other on the earth Is Physicks treasurer and what wealth those lay Up for my queen all shall his will obay Ray. Mortalitie sure falls from me Spr. Thou to whose tunes The five nice Sences dance thou that dost spin Those golden threds all women love to winde And but for whom man would cut off mankinde Delight not base but noble touch thy Lire And fill my Court with brightest Delphick fire Del. Hover you wing'd Musicians in the air Clouds leav your dancing no windes stir but fair Hea. Leav blustring March SONG What bird so sings yet so does wail 'T is Philomel the Nightingale Iugg Iugg Iugg Terue she cries And hating earth to heaven she flies Cuckow Ha ha hark hark the Cuckows sing Cuckow to welcom in the Spring Brave prick-song who is 't now we hear 'T is the Larks silver leer a leer Chirup the Sparrow flies away For hee fell too 't ere break of day Ha ha hark hark the Cuckâ—ows sing Cuckow to welcom in the Spring Spr. How does my sun-born sweet-heart like his queen Her court her train Ray. Wondrous such ne're were seen Hea. Fresher and fresher pastimes one delight Is a disease to th' wanton appetite Del. Musick take Ecchoes voice and dance quick rounds To thine own times in repercussive sounds Exit Eccho of Cornets Spr. Enough I will not weary thee pleasures change Thou as the Sun in a free zodiack range Enter Delight Del. A company of rural fellows fac'd Like lovers of your Laws beg to bee grac'd Before your Highness to present their sport Spr. What is 't Del. A Morris Spr. Give them our Court Stay these dull birds may make thee stop thine ear Take thou my lightning none but Laurel here Shall scape thy blasting whom thou wilt confound Smite let those stand who in thy choice sit crown'd Ray. Let these then I may surfet else on sweets Sound sleeps do not still lie in Princes sheets Spr. Becken the Rurals in the Country-gray Seldom ploughs treason shouldst thou be stoln away By great ones that 's my fear Ray. Fear it not Lady Should all the worlds black sorceries bee laid To blow mee hence I move not Spr. I am made Morris In that word the earths Empress Are not these sports too rustick Ray. No pretty and pleasing Spr. My youngest girle the violet-breathing May Being told by Flora that my love dwelt here Is com to do you service will you please To honor her arrival Ray. I shall attend Spr. On them and bid my rosie-finger'd May Rob hills and dales with sweets to strow his way Morris Exit Ray. An Empress saist thou faln in love with me Fol. Shee 's a great woman and all great women wish to be Empresses her name the Ladie Humor Ray. Strange name I never saw her knew her not What kinde of creature is shee Fol. Creature of a skin soft as Pomatum sleek as Jellie white as blanch'd Almonds no Mercers wife ever handled yard with a prettier breath sweet as a Monkies lips of cherries teeth of pearle eies of diamond foot and leg as Ray. And what 's thy name Fol. 'T is but a folly to tell it my name is Folly Ray. Fumor and Folly to my listning ear Thy Ladies praises often have been sung The trumpet sounding forth her graceful beauties Kindles high flames within me to behold her Fol. Shee 's as hot as you for your heart Ray. This Ladie call'd the Spring is an odd trifle Fol. A green sickness thing I came by the way of a hobby-horse letter of Attorney sent by my Ladie as a spie to you Spring a hot Ladie a few fields and gardens lass can you feed upon sallets and tanzies eat like an Asse upon grasse every day at my Ladies coms to you now a Goose now a Woodcock nothing but fowl fowl pies platters all cover'd with foul and is not fowl very good fare Ray. Yea marry is 't sir the fowl being kept clean My admiration wastes it self in longings To see this rare piece I 'le see her what are Kings were not their Pleasures varied shall not mine then should day Last ever 't would bee loath'd as night Change is the sawce that sharpens appetite The way I 'le to her Fol. The way is windie and narrow for look you I do but winde this Cornet and if another answer it she coms Ray. Be quick then Cornets Enter Humor a Souldier a Spaniard an Italian Dance a French Tailor Hum. Is this that slower the Spring so dotes upon Fol. This is that hony-suckle she sticks in her ruffe Hum. A bedfellow for a Fairie Ray. Admir'd perfection You let my praises to so high a tune My merits cannot reach em Hum. My heart-strings shall then As mine eie gives that sentence on thy person And never was mine eie a corrupt Judg That Judg to save thee would condemn a world And lose mankinde to gain thee 't is not the Spring With all her gawdy arbors nor perfumes Sent up in flattering incense to the Sun For shooting glames at her and for sending Whole quires of singers to her every morn With all her amorous fires can heat thy blood as I can with one kisse Ray. The rose-lipp'd dawning Is not so melting so delicious Turn mee into a bird that I may sit Still singing in such boughs Fol. What bird Sol. A Ring-tayl Hu. Thou shalt be turn'd to nothing but to mine My Mine of pleasures which no hand shall rifle But this which in warm Nectar bathes the palm Invent som other tyres musick stay none Fol. Hoy-day Hu. New gowns fresh fashions I am not brave enough To make thee wonder at me Ray. Not the Moon Riding at midnight in her cristal Chariot With all her
Courtiers in their robes of stars Is half so glorious Hu. This feather was a bird of Paradice Shall it bee yours Ray. No Kingdom buies it from mee Fol. Being in fools paradice he must not lose his bawble Ray. I am wrapt Fol. In your mothers smock Ra. I am wrapt above mans being in being spher'd In such a globe of rarities but say Ladie What these are that attend you Hu. All my attendants Shall be to the sworn servants Fol. Follie is sworn to him already never to leav him Ray. Hee Fol. A French Gentleman that trayls a Spanish pike A Tailor Tay. Wee Mounsieur hey nimbla upon de crosse caper me take a de measure of de body from de top a de noddle to de heel and great toe oh stish de fine dis coller is cut out in anger scurvie ohais beeshes pincha de bum me put one French yard into de toderâ—ose Fol. N. French yards they want a yard at least Ray. Shall I bee brave then Hu. Golden as the sun Râ—. What 's hee that looks so smickly Fol. A Flounder in a frying-pan still skipping one that loves mutton so well he alwaies carries capers about him his brains lie in his legs and his legs serve him to no other use then to do tricks as if he had bought em of a Jugler hee 's an Italian dancer his name Dan. Signior Lavolta Messer mio me tesha all de bella Corantoes galliardaes piamettaes capeorettaes amorettaes dolche dolche to declamante do bona robaes de Tuscana Ray. I ne're shall be so nimble Fol. Yes if you powr quick-silver into your shin-bones as he does Ray. This now Fol. A most sweet Spaniard Spa. A Confecianador which in your tongue is a Comfitmaker of Toledo I can teach sugar to slip down your throat a million of waies Fol. And the throat has but one in all oh Toledo Spa. In Conservs candies marmalades sinkadoes ponadoes marablane Bergamoâ—u aranxues muria lymons berengenas of Toledo oriones potataes of Malage and ten millions more Fol. Now 't is ten millions a Spaniard can multiply Spa. I am your servidor Rey. My pallate pleas'd to what 's this last Sol. I am a Gun that can rore two stelettoes in one sheath I can fight and bounce too my Ladie by mee presents this sword and belt to you Râ—y. 〈◊〉 Mistresse Hu. Put 〈◊〉 on Sol. I le drill you how to give the lie and stab in the punto if you dare not fight then how to vamp a rotten quarrel without ado Ray How dare not fight there 's in me the Suns fire Hu. No more of this dances awake the musick Oyes Musick Ray. No more of this this sword arms me for battel Hu. Com then let thou and I rise up in arms The field embraces kisses our alarms Fol. A dancer and a sailor yet stand still strike up-Dance Enter Spring Health Youth Delight Spr. Oh! thou inticing strumpet how durst thou Throw thy voluptuous spells about a Temple That 's consecrate to me Hu. Poor Spring goodie herb-wife How dar'st thou cast a glance on this rich jewel I ha bought for mine own wearing Spr. Bought art thou sold then Ray. Yes with her gifts she buyes me with her graces Heal. Graces A Witch Spr. What can she give thee Ray. All things Spr. Which I for one bubble cannot add a sea too Fol. And shew him a hobbie-horse in my likeness Spr. My Raybright hear me I regard not these Ray. What dowrie can you bring me Spr. Dowrie ha is 't com to this am I held poor and base A girdle make whose buckles stretch'd toth ' length Shall reach from th' artick to th' antartick pole What ground soever thou canst with that inclose I 'le give thee freely not a Lark that calls The morning up shall build on any turf But shee shall be thy tenant call thee Lord And for her rent pay thee in change of songs Ray. I must turn bird-catcher Fol. Do you think to have him for a song Hu. Live with mee still and all the measures Plaid to by the spheres I 'le teach thee Let 's but thus dallie all the pleasures The Moon beholds her man shall reach thee Ray. Divinest Fol. Here 's a Lady Spr. Is 't come to who gives most The self same Bay tree into which was turnd Peneian Daphne I have still kept green That tree shall now be thine about it sit All the old poets with fresh Lawrel Crownd Singing in verse the praise of chastity Hither when thou shalt come they all shall rise Sweet Cantoes of thy love and mine to sing And invoke none but thee as Delian King Ray. Live by singing ballets Fol, Oh! base turn poet I would not be one my self Hu. Dwell in mine armes aloft wee 'l hover And see fields of armies fighting Oh! part not from mee I will discover There all but books of fances writing Del. Not far off stands the Hipocrenian well Whither I 'le leade thee and but drinking there To welcome thee nine Muses shall appear And with full bowles of knowledge thee inspire Ray. Hang knowledge drowne your muse Fol. I â— or they 'l drown themseves in Sack Claret Hu. Do not regard their toyes Be but my darling age to free thee From her curse shall fall a dying Call me their Empresse time to see thee Shall for get his art of flying Ray. Oh! my all excellence Sp. Speake thou for me I am fainting Heal. Leave her take this and travel tell the world I 'le bring thee in to all the Courts of Kings Where thou shalt stay and learn their languages Kisse Ladies revell out the nights in dancing The day manly pastimes snatch from time His glasse and let the golden sands run forth As thou shalt jogg them riot it go brave Spend halfe a world my Queen shall beare thee out Yet all this while tho thou climb hills of yeares Shall not one wrinckle sit upon thy brow Nor any sicknesse shake thee Youth and Health As slaves shall lackie by thy Chariot wheeles And who for two such jeweller would not sell The East and West Indies both are thine so that Ray. What Fol. All lies gallap o're the world and not grow old nor be sick a lie one gallant went but into France last day was never his own man since another stept but into the low Countries and was drunk dead under the table another did but peep into England and it cost him more in good morrows blowne up to him under his window by Drums and Trumpets then his whole voiage besides he run mad upon 't Hu. Here 's my last farewel ride along with me I 'le raise by art out of base earth a pallace Whither thy selfe waving a Christal stream Shall call together the most glorious spirits Of all the Kings that have been in the world And they shall come onely to feast with thee Ray. Rare Hu. At one end of this pallace shal be heard That Musique which gives
out so long Ray. You tell mee wonders Be my conductresse I 'le flie this place in secret Three quarters of my time is almost spent The last remains to crown my full content Now if I fail let man's experience read me 'T was Humor join'd with Follie did mislead me Hâ—. Leav this naked season Wherein the very trees shake off their locks It is so poor and barren Fol. And when the hair fall's off I have heard a Poet say 't is no good sign of a sound bodie Ray. Com let 's go taste old Winter 's fresh delights And â— well with pleasures our big appetites The Summer Autumne and the Spring As 't were conjoin'd in one conjugal ring An embleme of four Provinces we sway Shall all attend our pastimes night and day Shall both be subject to our glorious state While wee enjoy the blessings of our fate And since wee 've notice that som barbarous spirits Mean to oppose our entrance if by words They 'l not desist wee 'l force our way with swords Exeunt Actus Quintus Enter three Clowns 1. HEar you the news neighbor 2. Yes to my grief neighbor they say our Prince Raybright is coming hither with whole troops and trains of Courtiers wee 'r like to have a fine time on 't neighbors 3. Our Wives and Daughters are for they are sure to get by the bargain tho our barn be emptied they will be sure to bee with barn for 't Oh! these Courtiers neighbors are pestilent knaves but ere I 'le suffer it I 'le pluck a Crow with som of em 1. Faith neighbor let 's lay our heads together and resolve to die like men rather then live like beasts 2. I like horn-beasts neighbor they may talk and call us Rebells but a figg for that 't is not a fart matter let 's be true amongst our selvs and with our swords in hand resist his entrance Enter Winter Wint. What such murmurings does your gall bring forth Will you prov 't true no good coms from the North Bold sawcie mortals dare you then aspire With snow and ice to quench the sphere of fire Are your hearts frozen like your clime from thence All temperate heat 's fled of obedience How durst you else with force think to withstand Your Princes entrie into this his land A Prince who is so excellently good His virtue is his honor more then blood In whose clear nature as two Suns do rise The attributes of Merciful and Wise Whose laws are so impartial they must Be counted heavenly cause th' are truly just Who does with princely moderation give His subjects an example how to live Teaching their erring natures to direct Their wills to what it ought most to affect That as the Sun does unto all dispence Heat light nay life from his full influence Yet you wilde fools possest with gyant rage Dare in your lawlesse furie think to wage War against heaven and from his shining throne Pull Iove himself for you to tread upon Were your heads circled with his own green Oak Yet are they subject to his thunder-stroak And he can sink such wretches as rebell From heaven's sublime height into the depth of hell 1. The divel a can as soon we fear no colors let him do his worst there 's many a tall fellow besides us will die rather then see his living taken from them nay even eat up all things are grown so dear there 's no enduring more mouths then our own neighbor 2. Thou' rt a wise fellow neighbor prate is but prate they say this Prince too would bring new laws upon us new rights into the Temples of our gods and that 's abominable wee 'l all bee hang'd first Wint. A most fair pretence To found rebellion upon conscience Dull stubborn fools whose perverse judgments still Are govern'd by the malice of your will Not by indifferent reason which to you Coms as in droughs the elemental dew Does on the parch'd earth twets but does not give Moisture enough to make the plants to live Things void of soul can you conceive that he Whose every thought 's an act of pietie Who 's all religious furnish'd with all good That ever was compris'd in flesh and blood Cannot direct you in the fittest way To serv those powers to which himself does pay True zealous worship nay's so near ally'd To them himself must needs be deified Enter Follie Fol. Save you Gentlemen 't is very cold you live in frost y 'ave Winter still about you 2. What are you sir Fol. A Courtier sir but you may guesse a very foolish one to leav the bright beams of my Lord the Prince to travel hither I have an Ague on me do you not see me shake Well if our Courtiers when they com hither have not warm young wenches good wines and fires to heat their bloods 't will freez into an Apoplexie farewell frost I 'le go seek a fire to thaw me I 'me all ice I fear already Exit 1. Farewel and be hang'd ere such as these shall eat what we have sweat for wee 'l spend our bloods com neighbors let 's go call our company together and go meet this Prince he talks so of 3. Som shall have but a sowr welcom of it if my Crab â— tree cudgel hold here Wint. 'T is I see Not in my power to alter destinie You 'r mad in your rebellious mindes but hear What I presage with understanding clear As your black thoughts are mistie take from me This as a true and certain augurie This Prince shall com and by his glorious side Lawrel-crown'd conquest shall in triumph ride Arm'd with the justice that attend's his cause You shall with penitence embrace his laws Hee to the frozen northern clime shall bring A warmth so temperate as shall force the Spring Usurp my privilege and by his Ray Night shall bee chang'd into perpetual day Plentie and happinesse shall still increase As does his light and Turtle-footed Peace Dance like a Fairie through his realms while all That envie him shall like swift Comets fall By their own fire consum'd and glorious he Ruling as 't were the force of destinie Shall have a long and prosperous reign on earth Then flie to heaven and give a new star birth Florish Enter Raybright Humor Bountie Winter and Delight But see our star appear's and from his eie Flie thousand beams of sparkling majestie Bright son of Phebus welcom I begin To feel the ice fal from my crisâ—ed skin For at your beams the Waggoner might thow His Chariot axell'd with Rephean snow Nay the slow moving North-star having felt Your temperate heat his icicles would melt Ray. What bold rebellious Catives dare disturb The happie progresse of our glorious peace Contemne the Justice of our equall lawes Prophane those sacred rights which stil must bee Attendant on monarchall dignitie I came to frolick with you and to chear Your drouping soules by vigor of my beams And have I this strange welcom reverend Winter I 'me