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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04654	Hymenaei: or The solemnities of masque, and barriers magnificently performed on the eleventh, and twelfth nights, from Christmas; at court: to the auspicious celebrating of the marriage-vnion, betweene Robert, Earle of Essex, and the Lady Frances, second daughter to the most noble Earle of Suffolke. By Ben: Ionson.	Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.	1606 (1606)	STC 14774; ESTC S109230	25,413	48

Bride to night And snatch away the Light That she not hide it dead Beneath her Spouse's Bed Nor he reserve the same To helpe the funerall Flame So now you may admit him in The Act he covets is no Sinne But chast and holy Love Which HYMEN doth approve Without whose hallowing Fires All Aymes are base Desires On HYMEN HYMEN call This Night is HYMEN's all Now free from Vulgar Spight or Noyse May you enioy your mutuall ioyes Now You no Feare controules But Lippes may mingle Soules And soft Embraces binde To each the others Minde Which may no Power vntie Till One or both must die And looke before you yeeld to slumber That your Delights be drawne past number Ioyes got with strife increase Affect no sleepy peace But keepe the Brides faire eyes Awake with her owne Cries Which are but Mayden-feares And Kisses drie such teares Then Coyne them twixt your Lippes so sweete And let not Cockles closer meete Nor may your Murmuring Loves Be drown'd by CYPRIS Doves Let Ivie not so bind As when your Armes are twin'd That you may Both e're Day Rise perfect every way And IVNO whose great Powers protect The Marriage-Bed with good effect The Labour of this Night Blesse thou for future Light And Thou thy happy charge Glad GENIVS enlarge That they may Both e're Day Rise perfect every way And VENVS Thou with timely seede Which may their after-Comforts breede Informe the gentle Wombe Nor let it prove a Tombe But e're ten Moones be wasted The Birth by CYNTHIA hasted So may they Both e're Day Rise perfect everie Way And when the Babe to light is showne Let it be like each Parent knowne Much of the Fathers Face More of the Mothers Grace And eyther Grand-Sires Spirit And Fame let it inherit That Men may blesse th' Embraces That ioyned two such Races Cease Youths and Virgins you have done Shut fast the Dore And as They soone To their Perfection hast So may their ardors last So eithers strength out-live All losse that Age can give And though full Yeares be tolde Their Formes growe slowly olde HItherto extended the first Nights Solemnitie whose Grace in the Exequution left not where to adde vnto it with wishing I meane nor doe I court them in those that sustain'd the Nobler parts Such was the exquisit Performance as beside the Pompe Splendour or what wee may call Apparrelling of such Presentments that alone had all else beene absent was of power to surprize with Delight and steale away the Spectators from themselves Nor was there wanting whatsoever might give to the Furniture or Complement eyther in riches or strangenesse of the Habites delicacie of Daunces Magnificence of the Scene or divine Rapture of Musique Onely the Envie was that it lasted not still or now it is past cannot by Imagination much lesse Description be recover'd to a part of that Spirit it had in the gliding by Yet that I may not vtterly defraud the Reader of his Hope I am drawne to give it those briefe touches which may leave behind some shadow of what it was And first of the Attires That of the Lords had parte of it for the fashion taken from the Antique Greeke Statue mixed with some Moderne Additions which made it both gracefull and strange On their Heades they wore Persick Crowns that were with Scroles of Gold-plate turn'd outward and wreath'd about with a Carnation and Silver Net-lawne The one End of which hung carelesly on the left shoulder the other was trick'd vp before in severall degrees of fouldes betweene the Plates and set with rich Iewelles and great Pearle Their Bodies were of Carnation cloth of silver richly wrought and cut to expresse the Naked in maner of the Greeke Thorax girt vnder the Breasts with a broade Belt of Cloth of Golde imbrodered and fastned before with Iewells Their Labells were of White Cloth of silver lac'd and wrought curiously betweene sutable to the vpper halfe of their Sleeves whose nether partes with their Bases were of Watchet Cloth of Silver chev'rond all over with Lace Their Mantills were of severall colour'd silkes distinguishing their Qualities as they were coupled in payres The first Skie colour The second Pearle colour The third Flame colour The fourth Tawnie And these cut in leaves which were subtilly tack'd vp and imbrodered with Oo's and between every ranke of Leaves a broad silver Lace They were fastned on the right shoulder and fell Compasse downe the backe in gratious folds and were againe tied with a round Knot to the fastning of their Swords Vpon their legges they wore Silver Greaves answering in worke to their Labells and these were their Accoutrements The Ladies Attire was wholy new for the Invention and full of Glory as having in it the most true impression of a Celestiall Figure The vpper part of White Cloth of Silver wrought with IVNOES Birdes and Fruicts A loose vnder garment full-gather'd of Carnation strip't with Silver and parted with a Golden Zone Beneath that an other flowing Garment of Watchet Cloth of Silver lac'd with Gold Through all which though they were round and swelling there yet appear'd some touch of their delicate Lineaments preserving the sweetenesse of Proportion and expressing it selfe beyond expression The Attire of their Heads did answer if not exceede their Hayre being carelesly but yet with more art then if more affected bound vnder the circle of a rare and rich Coronet adorn'd with all variety and choyce of Iewells from the top of which flow'd a trasparent Veile downe to the ground whose verge returning vp was fastned to eyther side in most sprightly Manner Their shooes were Azure and Gold set with Rubies and Diamonds so were all their Garments and euery part abounding in Ornament No lesse to be admir'd for the Grace and Greatnesse was the whole Machine of the Spectacle from whence they came the first part of which was a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or Globe filld with Countreys and those guilded where the Sea was exprest heightned with siluer waues This stoode or rather hung for no Axell was seene to support it and turning softly discoverd the first Masque as we have before but too runningly declar'd which was of the Men sitting in faire Composition within a Mine of severall Mettalls To which the Lights were so plac'd as noe one was seene but seemed as if onely REASON with the splendor of her Crowne illumin'd the whole Grot On the sides of this which began the other part were placed two great Statues fayn'd of Gold one of Atlas the other of Hercules in varied postures bearing vp the Cloudes which were of Releue embossed and tralucent as Naturalls To these a Cortine of painted Cloudes ioyned which reach'd to the vpmost Roofe of the Hall and sodainely opening reveal'd the three Regions of Ayre In the highest of which sate IVNO in a glorious Throne of Gold circled with Comets and fiery Meteors engendred in that hot and dry Region her Feete reaching to

Feete In motions swift and meete The happy ground to beate Chorus Whilst all this Roofe doth ring And ech discording String With every varied Voyce In VNION doth reioyce Here they daunced forth a most neate and curious Measure full of Subtelty and Device which was so excellently performed as it seemed to take away that Spirite from the Invention which the Invention gave to it and left it doubtfull whether the Formes flow'd more perfectly from the Authors braine or their feete The Straines were all notably different some of them formed into Letters very signifying to the Name of the Bridgroome and ended in manner of a Chaine linking hands To which this was spoken REASON SVch was the Golden Chaine let down from Heaven And not those Linkes more even Then these so sweetly temper'd so combin'd By VNION and refin'd Here no Contention Envie Griefe Deceipt Feare Iealousie have weight But all is Peace and Love and Faith and Blisse What Harmony like this The Gall behinde the Altar quite is throwne This Sacrifice hath none Now no Affections rage nor Humors swell But all composed dwell O IVNO HYMEN HYMEN IVNO who Can merit with you two Without your presence VENVS can doe nought Save what with shame is bought No Father can himselfe a Parent show Nor any House with prosp'rous Issue grow O then What Deities will dare With HYMEN or with IVNO to compare The speach being ended they dissolv'd and all tooke forth other Persons Men and Women to daunce other Measures Galliards and Corranto's the whilst this Song importun'd them to a fit Remembrance of the Time SONG Thinke yet how Night doth wast How much of Time is past What more then winged hast Your selves would take If you were but to tast The ioy the Night doth cast O might it ever last On this bright Virgin and her happy Make Their Daunces yet lasting they were the second time importun'd by Speach REASON See see the bright Idalian Starre That lighteth Lovers to their Warre Complaines that you her influence loose While thus the Night-sports you abuse HYMEN THe longing Bridegroome in the Porch Shewes you againe the bated Torch And thrice hath IVNO mixt her Ayre With Fire to sommon your repaire REASON SEe now she cleane withdrawes her Light And as you should gives place to Night That spreades her broad and blackest wing Vpon the world and comes to bring A thousand severall-colour'd Loves Some like Sparrowes some like Doves That hop about the Nuptiall-Roome And flutt'ring there against you come Warme the chaste Bowre which CYPRIA strowes With many a Lilly many a Rose HYMEN HAste therefore haste and call Away The gentle Night is prest to pay The vsurie of long Delights She owes to these protracted Rites At this the whole Scene being drawne againe and all cover'd with Cloudes as a Night they left off their entermixed Daunces and return'd to their first Places where as they were but begining to move this Song the third time vrg'd them SONG O Know to end as to beginne A Minutes losse in Love is sinne These Humors will the Night out weare In their owne Pastimes here You doe our Rites much wrong In seeking to Prolong These outward Pleasures The Night hath other Treasures Then these though long concea'ld Ere day to be reveal'd Then know to end as to beginne A Minutes losse in Love is sinne Here they daunc'd their last Daunces full of excellent delight and change and in their latter straine fell into a faire Orbe or Circle REASON standing in the midst and speaking REASON HEre stay and let your Sports be crown'd The perfect'st Figure is the Round Nor fell you in it by adventer When REASON was your Guide and Center This this that beauteous Ceston is of Lovers many-coulor'd Blisse Come HYMEN make an inner Ring And let the Sacrificers sing Cheare vp the faint and trembling Bride That quakes to touch hir Bridegroom's side Tell her what IVNO is to IOVE The same shall she be to her Love His Wife which we doe rather measure A Name of Dignity then Pleasure Vp Youths hold vp your Lights in ayre And shake abroad their flaming haire Now move vnited and in Gate As you in paires doe front the State With gratefull Honors thanke his Grace That hath so glorified the Place And as in Circle you depart Link'd hand in hand So heart in heart May all those Bodies still remaine Whom he with so much sacred paine No lesse hath bound within his Realmes Then they are with the OCEANS streames Long may his VNION find increase As hee to ours hath deign'd his peace With this to a soft straine of Musique they pac'd once about in their Ring every Payre making their Honors as they came before the State and then dissolving went downe in Couples led on by HYMEN the Bride and Auspices following as to the Nuptiall Bowre After them the Musitians with this Song of which then onely one Staffe was sung but because I made it both in Forme and Matter to aemulate that kinde of Poeme which was call'd Epithalamium and by the Auntients vs'd to be song when the Bride was led into her Chamber I have here set it down whole and doe hartily forgive their ignorance whom it chanceth not to please Hoping that Nemo doctus me iubeat Thalassionem verbis dicere non Thalassionis EPITHALAMION GLad Time is at his point arriv'd For which Loves hopes were so long-liv'd Lead HYMEN lead away And let no Obiect stay Nor Banquets but sweete kisses The Turtles from their Blisses T is CVPID calls to arme And this his last Alarme Shrinke not soft VIRGIN you will love Anone what you so feare to prove This is no killing Warre To which you pressed are But faire and gentle strife Which Lovers call their Life T is CVPID cries to Arme And this his last Alarme Helpe Youths and Virgins helpe to sing The Prize which HYMEN here doth bring And did so lately rap From forth the Mothers lap To place her by that side Where she must long abide On HYMEN HYMEN call This Night is HYMEN's all See HESPERVS is yet in view What Starre can so deserve of you Whose light doth still adorne Your Bride that ere the Morne Shall farre more perfect bee And rise as bright as Hee When like to him her Name Is chang'd but not her Flame Hast tender Lady and adventer The covetous House would have you enter That it might wealthy bee And you her Mistresse see Hast your owne good to meete Aud lift your golden feete Above the Threshold high With prosperous Augury Now Youths let goe your pretty armes The Place within chant's other charmes Whole showers of Roses flow And Violets seeme to grow Strew'd in the Chamber there As VENVS Meade it were On HYMEN HYMEN call This Night is HYMEN's all Good Matrons that so well are knowne To aged Husbands of your owne Place you our