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A18416	The memorable maske of the two honorable houses or Innes of Court; the Middle Temple, and Lyncolns Inne As it was performd before the King, at White-Hall on Shroue Munday at night; being the 15. of February. 1613. At the princely celebration of the most royall nuptialls of the Palsgraue, and his thrice gratious Princesse Elizabeth. &c. With a description of their whole show; in the manner of their march on horse-backe to the Court from the Maister of the Rolls his house: with all their right noble consorts, and most showfull attendants. Inuented, and fashioned, with the ground, and speciall structure of the whole worke: by our kingdomes most artfull and ingenious architect Innigo Iones. Supplied, aplied, digested, and written, by Geo: Chapman.	Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.; Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.	1613 (1613)	STC 4981; ESTC S107695	14,756	56

Eunomia the Virgine Priest of the Goddesse Honor together with Phemis her Herald The habite of her Priest was a Robe of white silke gathered about the necke a pentacle of siluered stuffe about her shoulders hanging foldedly downe both before and behind A vestall vaile on her head of Tiffany strip't with siluer hanging with a trayne to the earth The Herrald was attyr'd in an Antique Curace of siluer stuffe with labells at the wings and basses a short gowne of gould stuffe with wide sleeues cut in panes A wreath of gould on his head and a Rod of gould in his hand Highest of all in the most eminent seate of the Tryumphall sat side to side the coelestiall Goddesse Honour and the earthy Deity Plutus or Riches His attire a short robe of gould frindg'd his wide sleeues turn'd vp and out-showd his naked armes his Head and Beard sprinckl'd with showrs of gould his Buskins clinckant as his other attire The Ornaments of Honor were these a rich full robe of blew silke girt about her a mantle of siluer worne ouer-thwart ful gathered and descending in folds behind a vaile of netlawne enbrodered with Oos and Spangl'd her tresses in tucks braided with siluer The hinder part shadowing in waues her shoulders These thus perticularly and with proprietie adorn'd were strongly attended with a full Guard of two hundred Halbardiers two Marshals being choice Gentlemen of either house Commaunder-like attir'd to and fro coursing to keepe all in their orders A showe at all parts so nouell conceitfull and glorious as hath not in this land to the proper vse and obiect it had porpos'd beene euer before beheld Nor did those honorable Inns of Court at any time in that kinde such acceptable seruice to the sacred Maiesty of this kingdome nor were return'd by many degrees with so thrice gratious and royall entertainment and honor But as aboue sayd all these so marching to the Court at White Hall the King Bride Bridegroom with all the Lords of the most honord priuy Councel and our chief Nobility stood in the Gallery before the Tilt-yeard to behold their arriuall who for the more ful satisfaction of his Maiesties view made one turn about the yeard and dismounted being then honorably attended through the Gallery to a Chamber appointed where they were to make ready for their performance in the Hall c. The King beeing come forth the Maskers ascended vnseene to their scoene Then for the works First there appear'd at the lower end of the Hall an Artificiall Rock whose top was neere as high as the hall it selfe This Rock was in the vndermost part craggy and full of hollow places in whose concaues were contriv'd two winding paire of staires by whose greeces the Persons aboue might make their descents and all the way be seene all this Rocke grew by degrees vp into a gold-colour and was run quite through with veines of golde On the one side whereof eminently raised on a faire hill was erected a siluer Temple of an octangle figure whose Pillars were of a compos'd order and bore vp an Architraue Freese and Cornish Ouer which stood a continued Plinthe whereon were aduaunc't Statues of siluer Aboue this was placed a bastarde Order of Architecture wherein were keru'd Compartements In one of which was written in great golde Capitalls HONORIS FANVM Aboue all was a Coupolo or Type which seem'd to be scal'd with siluer Plates For finishing of all vpon a Pedistall was fixt a round stone of siluer from which grew a paire of golden wings both faign'd to bee Fortunes the round stone when her feet trod it euer affirm'd to be rouling figuring her inconstancy the golden wings denoting those nimble Powres that pompously beare her about the world On that Temple erected to her daughter Honor and figuring this kingdome put off by her and fixt for assured signe she would neuer forsake it About this Temple hung Festones wreath'd with siluer from one Pillars head to another Besides the Freese was enricht with keruings all shewing Greatnes and Magnificence On the other side of the Rocke grewe a Groue in whose vtmost part appear'd a vast wither'd and hollow Tree being the bare receptacle of the Baboonerie These following should in duty haue had their proper places after euery fitted speech of the Actors but being preuented by the vnexpected haste of the Printer which he neuer let me know and neuer sending me a proofe till he had past those speeches I had no reason to imagine hee could haue been so forward His fault is therfore to be supplied by the obseruation and reference of the Reader who will easily perceiue where they were to bee inserted After the speech of Plutus who as you may see after first entred the middle part of the Rocke began to moue and being come some fiue paces vp towards the King it split in peeces with a great crack and our brake Capriccio as before described The peeces of the Rocke vanisht and he spake as in his place At the singing of the first Song full which was sung by the Virginian Priests called the Phoebades to sixe Lutes being vsed as an Orphean vertue for the state of the Mines opening the vpper part of the Rock was sodainly turn'd to a Cloude discouering a rich and refulgent Mine of golde in which the twelue Maskers vvere triumphantly seated their Torch-bearers attending before them All the lights beeing so ordred that though none were seen yet had their lustre such vertue that by it the least spangle or spark of the Maskers rich habites might with ease and cleerenesse be discerned as far off as the seate Ouer this golden Mine in an Euening sky the ruddy Sunne was seen ready to be set and behind the tops of certaine white Cliffes by degrees descended casting vp a banke of Cloudes in which a while hee was hidden but then gloriously shining gaue that vsually-obseru'd good Omen of succeeding faire weather Before he was fully set the Phoebades shewing the custome of the Indians to adore the Sunne setting began their obseruance with the Song to whose place wee must referre you for the manner and words All the time they were singing the Torch-bearers holding vp their Torches to the Sun to whome the Priests themselues and the rest did as they sung obeisance Which was answred by other Musique and voices at the commandement of Honor with all' obseruances vs'd to the King c. As in the following places TO answer certaine insolent obiections made against the length of my speeches and narrations being for the probability of all accidents rising from the inuention of this Maske and their aplication to the persons and places for whome and by whome it was presented not conuenient but necessary I am enforct to affirme this That as there is no Poem nor Oration so generall but hath his one perticular proposition Nor no riuer so extrauagantly ample but hath his neuer-so-narrow fountaine worthy to be namd so all these courtly and honoring inuentions

THE MEMORABLE MASKE of the two Honorable Houses or Inns of Court the Middle Temple and Lyncolns Inne As it was performd before the King at White-Hall on Shroue Munday at night being the 15. of February 1613 At the Princely celebration of the most Royall Nuptialls of the palsgrave and his thrice gratious Princesse Elizabeth c. With a description of their whole show in the manner of their march on horse-backe to the Court from the Maister of the Rolls his house with all their right Noble consorts and most showfull attendants Inuented and fashioned with the ground and speciall structure of the whole worke By our Kingdomes most Artfull and Ingenious Architect INNIGO IONES Supplied Aplied Digested and written By GEO CHAPMAN AT LONDON Printed by G. Eld for George Norton and are to be sould at his shoppe neere Temple-bar TO THE MOST NOble and constant Combiner of Honor and Vertue Sir EDWARD PHILIPS Knight Mr. of the Rolls THis Noble and Magnificent performance renewing the ancient spirit and Honor of the Innes of Court being especially furthered and followed by your most laborious and honored endeuors for his Maiesties seruice and honour of the all-grace-deseruing Nuptialls of the thrice gracious Princesse Elizabeth his Highness daughter deserues especially to be in this sort consecrate to your worthy memory and honor Honor hauing neuer her faire hand more freely and nobly giuen to Riches being a fit particle of this Inuention then by yours at this Nuptiall solemnity To which assisted and memorable ceremony the ioin'd hand and industry of the worthely honour'd Knight Sir H. Hubberd his Maiesties Atturny generall deseruing in good part a ioint memory with yours I have submitted it freely to his noble acceptance The poore paines I added to this Royall seruice being wholly chosen and commanded by your most constant and free fauour I hope will now appeare nothing neglectiue of their expected duties Hearty wil and care enough I am assured was employ'd in me and the onely ingenuous will being first and principall step to vertue I beseech you let it stand for the performing vertue it selfe In which addition of your euer-honour'd fauours you shall euer binde all my future seruice to your most wished Commandement God send you long health and your Vertues will endue you with honor enough By your free merits euer vow'd honorer and most vnfainedly affectionate Obseruant GEO. CHAPMAN THE MASKE OF THE Gentlemen of the two combin'd houses or Inns of Court the Middle-Temple and Lincolns Inne AT the house of the most worthely honour'd preferrer and gracer of all honorable Actions and vertues Sir Edward Philips Knight Master of the Rolls al the Performers and their Assistents made their Rendesvous prepar'd to their performance and thus set forth Fiftie Gentlemen richly attirde and as gallantly mounted with Foot-men perticularly attending made the noble vant-guarde of these Nuptiall forces Next a fit distance obseru'd betweene them marcht a mock-Maske of Baboons attir'd like fantasticall Trauailers in Neapolitane sutes and great ruffes all horst with Asses and dwarfe Palfries with yellow foot-cloathes and casting Cockle-demois about in courtesie by way of lardges Torches boarn on either hand of them lighting their state as ridiculously as the rest Nobly After them were sorted two Carrs Triumphall adornd with great Maske heads Festones scroules and antick leaues euery part inricht with siluer and golde These were through-varied with different inuention and in them aduanc't the choice Musitions of our Kingdome sixe in each attir'd like Virginean Priests by whom the Sun is there ador'd and therfore called the Phoebades Their Robes were tuckt vp before strange Hoods of feathers and scallops about their neckes and on their heads turbants stucke with seuerall colour'd feathers spotted with wings of Flies of extraordinary bignesse like those of their countrie And about them march't two ranks of Torches Then rode the chiefe Maskers in Indian habits all of a resemblance the ground cloath of siluer richly embroidered with golden Sunns and about euery Sunne ran a traile of gold imitating Indian worke their bases of the same stuffe and work but betwixt euery pane of embroidery went a rowe of white Estridge feathers mingled with sprigs of golde plate vnder their breasts they woare bawdricks of golde embroidered high with purle and about their neckes Ruffes of feathers spangled with pearle and siluer On their heads high sprig'd-feathers compast in Coronets like the Virginian Princes they presented Betwixt euery set of feathers and about their browes in the vnder-part of their Coronets shin'd Sunnes of golde plate sprinkled with pearle from whence sprung rayes of the like plate that mixing vvith the motion of the feathers shew'd exceedingly delightfull and gracious Their legges were adorn'd with close long white silke-stockings curiously embroidered vvith golde to the Middelegge And ouer these being on horse backe they drew greaues or buskins embrodered with gould enterlac't with rewes of fethers Altogether estrangfull and Indian like In their Hands set in seueral postures as they rode they brandisht cane darts of the finest gould Their vizerds of oliue collour but pleasingly visag'd their hayre blacke and lardge wauing downe to their shoulders Their Horse for rich show equalld the Maskers them-selues all their caparisons being enchac't with sunnes of Gould and Ornamentall Iewells To euery one of which was tackt a Scarffing of Siluer that ran sinnuousely in workes ouer the whole caparison euen to the daseling of the admiring spectators Their heads no lesse gracefully and properly deckt with the like light skarffing that hung about their eares wantonly dangling Euery one of these horse had two Moores attir'd like Indian slaues that for state sided them with swelling wreaths of gould and watshed on their heads which arose in all to the number of a hundred The Torch-bearers habits were likewise of the Indian garb but more strauagant then those of the Maskers all showfully garnisht with seueral-hewd fethers The humble variety whereof stucke off the more amplie the Maskers high beauties shining in the habits of themselues and reflected in their kinde a new and delightfully-varied radiance on the beholders All these sustaind torches of Virgine wax whose staues were great canes al ouer gilded And these as the rest had euery Man his Moore attending his horse The Maskers riding single had euery Masker his Torch-bearer mounted before him The last Charriot which was most of all adornd had his whole frame fill'd with moulded worke mixt all with paintings and glittering scarffings of siluer ouer which was cast a Canopie of golde boarne vp with antick figures and all compos'd a la Grotesea Before this in the seate of it as the Chariotere vvas aduanc't a strange person and as strangely habited half French halfe Swizz his name Capriccio wearing on his head a paire of golden Bellowes a guilt spurre in one hand and with the other mannaging the reignes of the fowre Horses that drewe it On a seate of the same Chariot a little more eleuate sate