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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	kingdom_n	majesty_n	5,039	5	6.1083	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13848	Tempe restord A masque presented by the Queene, and foureteene ladies, to the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall on Shrove-Tuesday. 1631.	Townshend, Aurelian, fl. 1601-1643.; Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652. aut; Beaujoyeulx, Baltasar de, d. ca. 1587. Balet comique de la royne.	1632 (1632)	STC 24156; ESTC S118499	6,726	24

Restreyne My powre abus'd And right my iniurd Treyne Iupiter Thou claim'st her Subiects And I claime the Soyle As Soueraigne Lord The Hecatomes shee brings Though great Oblations yet deduc'd from Spoyle Are sordid Things And sent of Earth Vertue pure Incense brings Circe The Gods more freedome did allow when Ioue turn'd Io to a Cow Pallas Are mortall Creatures growne so proud To taxe the Skye for euery Cloud Circe Man-Maide bee gone Pallas Though I could turne thee to a Stone I le begge thy peace Iupiter Deare Daughter cease Circe Cease Dreadfull Ioue Finding thy Drift My Bounty shall prevent thy Guift This Machles Payre I make my Heire All I possesse I heere Resigne Thou hast thy And I haue Mine Iupiter Shee giues but what shee can not keepe Cupid Then was the wound I gaue her deepe Both T' was I whose power none can withstand That open'd both her heart and hand The Valediction How would they mourne to loose yee quite That are so loath to say Goodnight Yet wee may pleade in our Excuse Should you these Loanes of Loue forsake The Gods themselues such Sommes would take And pay vs vse When this was past the Eagle with love flew vp and Cupid tooke his flight through the Ayre after which the Heauens close Palas and Circe returnes into the Scene with the Nymphes and Chorus and so concluded the last Intermedium After which the Queene and her Ladies began the Revels with the King and his Lords which continued all the night The Allegory In the young Gentleman who Circe had first enamored on her Person and after through Iealousie conceiued Transformed into a Lyon And againe remembring her former Love retransform'd into his former shape is figured an incontinent man that striving with his affections is at last by the power of reason perswaded to flye from those Sensuall desires which had formerly corrupted his Iudgement Circe here signifies desire in generall the which hath power on all living Creatures and beeing mixt of the Divine and Sensible hath divers effects Leading some to Vertue and others to Vice Shee is described as a Queene having in her service and subiection the Nymphs which participate of Divinity figuring the Vertues and the bruite Beasts denoting the Vices The description of her person of extraordinary Beauty and sweetnesse of her voyce shewes that desire is moved either by sight or hearing to loue Vertue or the contrary and the Beautifull aspect of her inchaunted Palace glistering with gold and Precious Ornaments that desire cannot bee moued without apparance of Beauty either true of false The Dryades and Nayades Nymphes of the Woods and Waters that is to say the good spirits defused through all the Vniverse are servants to this Queene and liue with her in all Liberty and pleasure whose imployment is to gather the most exquisite Herbes and Flowers of the earth for the service of their Mistres Figuring the Vertues and Sciences by which the desire of Mans Spirits are prepared and disposed to good the beasts in part transformed who contrary to their Natures make her sport represents vnto vs that Sensuall desire makes men loose their Vertue and Valour turning Parasites and Slaues to their Bruitish affections That these Intemperate Beastes of Circes Court should for a time possesse TEMPE The happie retreat of the Muses and their followers is meant the inchantments of vitious impostures that by false meanes seeke to extirpate the true Louers of Science and Vertue to whom of right only that place belongs That divine Beauty accompan'ed with a troope of Stars of a happy Constellation ioyning with Heiroicke vertue should dissolue the inchantments and Circe voluntarily deliver her golden rod to Minerva is meant that a divine Beame comming from aboue with a good inclination and a perfect habit of vertue made by the Harmony of the Irascible and concupiscible parts obedient to the rationall and highest part of the soule Making man onely a mind vsing the body and affections as instruments which being his true perfection brings him to all the happinesse which can bee inioyed heere below In Heiroicke vertue is figured the Kings Maiestie who therein transcends as farre common men as they are aboue Beasts he truly being the prototipe to all the Kingdomes vnder his Monarchie of Religion Iustice and all the Vertues ioyned together So that Corporeall Beauty consisting in simetry colour and certaine vnexpressable Graces shining in the Queenes Maiestie may draw vs to the contemplation of the Beauty of the soule vnto which it hath Analogy All the Verses were written by Mr. Aurelian Townesend The subiect and Allegory of the Masque with the descriptions and Apparatus of the Sceanes were invented by Inigo Iones Surveyor of his Maiesties worke FINIS The names of the Influences represented by Lo. Herbert Lo. Ellesmere Lo. Rich. of Holl Mr. Hen Howard of Berk. Lo. Grey of Stam. Mr. Phil. Herbert Mr. Ch. Cauendish La. Ma. Villiers La. Eliza Cecill La. Al. Egerton La. Eliza Feilding La. Fran Howard of Berk. La. Eliza Gray of Stam. La. Diana Cecill The Names of the Masquers THE QVEENES MAIESTIE Coun. Oxford Coun. Canaruan La. Ann. Russell La. Ann. Cavendish La. Ma. Russell Mrs. Vict. Cary Mrs. Weston Coun. Carlisle Coun. Newport La. Ka Egerton La. Ann. Feilding La. Howard Mrs. Padget Mrs. Soph Cary