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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06150	The masque of the Inner Temple and Grayes Inne Grayes Inne and the Inner Temple, presented before his Maiestie, the Queenes Maiestie, the Prince, Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth their Highnesses, in the Banquetting house at White-hall on Saturday the twentieth day of Februarie, 1612.	Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616.	1613 (1613)	STC 1664; ESTC S115567	7,098	28

Away Dissembling Mercury my messages Aske honest haste not like those wanton ones Your thundring father sends MERCVRIE Stay foolish Maid Or I will take my rise vpon a hill When I perceiue thee seated in a cloud In all the painted glorie that thou hast And neuer cease to clap my willing wings Till I catch hold of thy discolour'd Bow And shiuer it beyond the angry power Of your curst Mistresse to make vp againe IRIS Hermes forbeare Iuno will chide and strike Is great Ioue iealous that I am imploy'd On her loue errands she did neuer yet Claspe weake mortalitie in her white armes As he hath often done I onely come To celebrate the long wisht Nuptials Heere in Olympia which are now perform'd Betwixt two goodly Riuers which haue mixt Their gentle rising waues and are to grow Into a thousand streames great as themselues I need not name them for the sound is lowde In heauen and earth and I am sent from her The Queene of Mariage that was present heere And smil'd to see them ioyne and hath not chid Since it was done good Hermes let me go MERCVRIE Nay you must stay Ioues message is the same Whose eies are lightning and whose voice is thunder Whose breath is any winde he will who knowes How to be first on earth as well as heauen IRIS But what hath he to doe with Nuptiall rights Let him keepe state vpon his starry throne And fright poore mortals with his thunderbolts Leauing to vs the mutuall darts of eyes MERCVRIE Alas when euer offer'd he t' abridge Your Ladies power but onely now in these Whose match concernes his generall gouernment Hath not each god a part in these high ioyes And shall not he the King of gods presume Without proud Iunoes licence let her know That when enamor'd Ioue first gaue her power To linke soft hearts in Vndissolued bonds He then foresaw and to himselfe reseru'd The honor of this Mariage thou shalt stand Still as a Rocke while I to blesse this feast Will summon vp with my all charming rod The Nymphes of fountains from whose watry locks Hung with the dew of blessing and encrease The greedie Riuers take their nourishment You Nymphes who bathing in your loued springs Beheld these Riuers in their infancie And ioy'd to see them when their circled heads Refresht' the aire and spread the ground with flowers Rise from your Wells and with your nimble feete Performe that office to this happie paire Which in these plaines you to Alpheus did When passing hence through many seas vnmixt He gain'd the fauour of his Arethuse Immediatlie vpon which speech foure Naiades arise gentlie out of their seuerall Fountaines and present themselues vpon the Stage attired in long habits of sea-greene Taffita with bubbles of Christall intermixt with powdering of siluer resembling drops of water blewish Tresses on their heads garlands of Water-Lillies They fall into a Measure daunce a little then make a stand IRIS IS Hermes growne a louer by what power Vnknowne to vs calls he the Naiades MERCVRIE Presumptuous Iris I could make thee daunce Till thou forgott'st thy Ladies messages And rann'st backe crying to her thou shalt know My power is more onely my breath and this Shall moue fix'd starres and force the firmament To yeeld the Hyades who gouerne showers And dewie clouds in whose dispersed drops Thou form'st the shape of thy deceitfull Bow You maids who yearely at appointed times Aduance with kindly teares the gentle flouds Descend and powre your blessing on these streames Which rolling downe from heauen aspiring hils And now vnited in the fruitfull vales Beare all before them rauisht with their ioy And swell in glorie till they know no bounds Fiue Hyades descend softly in a cloud from the firmament to the middle part of the hill apparelled in skie-coloured Taffita robes spangled like the Heauens golden Tresses and each a faire Starre on their head from thence descend to the Stage at whose sight the Naiades seeming to reioyce meete and ioyne in a dance IRIS GReat witte and power hath Hermes to contriue A liuelesse dance which of one sexe consists MERCVRIE Alas poore Iris Venus hath in store A secret Ambush of her winged boyes Who lurking long within these pleasant groues First strucke these Louers with their equall darts Those Cupids shall come forth and ioyne with these To honor that which they themselues begun Enter foure Cupids from each side of the Boscage attired in flame coloured Taffita close to their bodie like naked Boyes with Bowes Arrowes and wings of gold Chaplets of flowers on their heads hoodwinckt with Tiffiny scarfs who ioyne with the Nymphes and the Hyades in another daunce That ended Iris speakes IRIS BEhold the Statuaes which wise Vulcan plac'd Vnder the Altar of Olympian Ioue Shall daunce for ioy of these great Nuptialls And gaue to them an Artificiall life See how they moue drawne by this heauenly ioy Like the wilde trees which follow'd Orpheus Harpe The Statuaes enter supposed to be before descended from Ioues Altar and to haue been prepared in the couert with the Cupids attending their call These Statuaes were attired in cases of gold and siluer close to their bodie faces hands and feete nothing seene but gold and siluer as if they had been solid Images of mettall Tresses of haire as they had been of mettall imbossed girdles and small aprons of oaken leaues as if they likewise had been carued or molded out of the mettall at their comming the Musicke changed from Violins to Hoboyes Cornets c. And the ayre of the Musicke was vtterly turned into a soft time with drawing notes excellently expressing their natures and the Measure likewise was fitted vnto the same and the Statuaes placed in such seuerall postures sometimes all together in the Center of the daunce and sometimes in the foure vtmost Angles as was very gracefull besides the noueltie and so concluded the first Anti-masque MERCVRIE ANd what will Iunoes Iris do for her IRIS Iust match this shew or my Inuention failes Had it beene worthier I would haue inuok'd The blazing Comets Clouds and falling Starres And all my kindred Meteors of the Ayre To haue excell'd it but I now must striue To imitate Confusion therefore thou Delightfull Flora if thou euer felt'st Encrease of sweetnesse in those blooming plants On which the hornes of my faire bow decline Send hither all the Rurall company Which decke the May-games with their Countrey sports Iuno will haue it so The second Anti-masque rush in daunce their Measure and as rudely depart consisting of a Pedant May Lord May Lady Seruingman Chambermaide A Countrey Clowne or Shepheard Countrey Wench An Host Hostesse A Hee Baboone Shee Baboone A Hee Foole Shee Foole vshering them in All these persons apparelled to the life the Men issuing out of one side of the Boscage and the Woemen from the other the Musicke was extremely well fitted hauing such a spirit of Countrey iolitie as can hardly be imagined but the perpetuall laughter