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A11276	Masquarade du ciel presented to the great Queene of the little vvorld. A celestiall map, representing the true site and motions of the heavenly bodies, through the yeeres 1639, 1640, &c. Shadowing the late commotions, between Saturn and Mercury, about the northern Thule. With the happy peace and union, through the whole little world, made by the goodnesse of Phebus and his royall Phebe. By J.S.	Sadler, John, 1615-1674.	1640 (1640)	STC 21542; ESTC R3852	47,675	46

Sept. the Moon seem's again to med a•Peace smi•ing on the Sun Venus Satu•n and Mars in a Trine all in 〈◊〉 again vouchsafeth to interpose Her self whose owne Goodnesse moveth Her again to mediate Peace such still are the Thoughts breathings Motions of True Royall Goodnes for e•fecting of which She prevaileth with PHEBUS to Sum•on His Grand Councel of all the Seeming Deities Who meeting according to PHEBUS Summons in AREOPAGUS 1 1 Towards the end of Sept. 1640. Most of the great•r He•venly Bodies a tend the SVN in the la•ter •egrees of LIBRA The Zod•aks North Limit •hat old Hier•gyphick of Iustice Iudg•ment Which with all Astrologers are called Termini Martis and so here MARS Hill or A•eopagus The great Iudg•ment Seat in Athens so called •ecause MARS was there Tried by his 12 Peeres of which Pausanias in his Atticks think best to begin at the Root of Trouble the Author of the late Commotions in the Littl• World and so with generall consent agree to Arraigne MARS of Rebellion against PHEBUS Disturbing the Peace mediated by PHEBE'S Goodnesse Incensing SATURN and with Him joyntly opposing MERCURY His Inditement being Heard after all Pleas They all conclude Him One Generall CAUSE of most of the Late Commoti•ns and joyntly Censure him to be most justly excluded from the Number of Gods and deprive him of all Priviledges Honours Dignities c. Which are all rendered back againe into PHEBUS Hands from whose Royall Favour they first came 2 2 In Octob. and Novem• The SVN takes possession of SCORPIO the H•use and Ioy of MARS who is t•us di•poyled• and forfeits all to PHEBVS PHEBE still continues to mediate a Full Pacification between SATURN and MERCURY 3 3 Divers Ti•es thr•ugh Sept. Octob. and Novemb. 1640. The MOONE mediates b•twe•n the SVN SATVRN and MERCVRY seeming e•rn•stly to desire Peace to which end Her Royall Goodnesse prevaileth with PHEBUS to continue His Great Councell and summon all the CAUSES at once to conclude and attest a compleat perfect and Eternall Peace through the whole Little World This being Concluded on PHEBUS Finisheth His North Progresse and begins the Second Time to Returne Southward againe in Great Glory 4 4 In Octo• 1640. The SVN l••ves LIBRA which is the Bound or Limit to the Northe•n Signes and commeth more and more Southward in in the Ecliptick Heere a Bright Glorious Cloud Disappearing The GREAT QUEEN was againe seene Seated in Royall Majestie under the State as at First At which appeared a Celestiall Chorus Fore-runners to PHEBUS Glorious Return Rising up at the North Horizon like Orient Rayes Sparkling about Phosporus till Aurora give place to Phebus Rising These mounting Heaven by Degrees Sing thus to the GREAT QUEEN Faire PHEBE Thou alone hast Eyes To see Thy Glorious PHEBVS Rise If Rise He can Who is at Hight Of Beauty Glory and Delight He cannot Lose He cannot Get He cannot Rise He cannot Set. Or if He Set 'tis still'ith West And still His Rising maketh East But if in South He Day doe make Or to the North a Progresse Take Speak Fairest PHEBE can we call This PHEBVS Setting or His Fall When First He pleasd to change His Place Tis True a while He veyld His Face 1 1 This alludes to the Sun's Eclipse May 22. 1639. Contracting in His Southern Rayes But to the North He Them displayes Speake Fairest PHEBE can we call This an Eclipse Setting or Fall 'Twas Pity kept him veyld a while For if He Pleased pleasd to Smile He Pit'ed Them He smil'd on lest They should be Dazled whom he Blest Or if he Frownd 'twas Pitty still That veyld his Frowns that else would kill Like Lightning or like Thunder-claps Them whom He Frownd on Or perhaps He pit'ed Thee Himself in Thee Lest Thy eye His Frowns should see And seeing Greive Thy Tender Heart And so Himselfe in Thee should smart Yet lest the Southern World should misse His wonted Rayes Their wonted Blisse He left Thy Beauty in His Place While Going North He veyld His Face That Veyle was but a Maske for See How in a Masque He comes to Thee 2 2 At these words began PHEBVS to appeare at the North Horizon mounting up with Orient Rayes like the Rising Sun Heere They entred a Cleere Heaven Full of Twinkling Starrs like a Morning Skie before Sun Rising singing still but seeming to speak to some in Heaven The Verses not lost by the great distance were These Adiew yee Sparkles Twinkling in Night Who mock us Counterfeiting Light Once called Starrs and Heaven's Eyes Now Darkest Atoms of the Skies All is so Bright with PHEBUS Rayes Though through a Maske He them displayes Come See and Blush Blushing be gone And Going Cry we are out-shone Thus while the Song and Musick most sweetly melted away by degrees PHEBUS leaveth the North Horizon 3 3 In Octob. 1640. The SVN comes Southward in the Ecliptick Having left the Northern Signes at the Autumnall Equinoctiall advancing Southward again in Greatest Glory being adorn'd with Rayes of wonted Goodnes and mercy darted out in a milde and Gracious Aspect yet sparkling with Royall Majesty which seemed as the choysest Diamond enshrining it selfe mid'st purest metall or as a Fragrant Rose longing to Carnation it selfe with the Faire Idea of the whitest Deluce Soon after His Return All the CAUSES summoned before attend him in JUPITERS 1 1 About the beginni•g of N•vember 1640 The SVN in Heaven comes attended with most of the greater Heavenly Bodies into SAGITTARIVS which is with all Astrolog•rs IVPITERS House or Ha•l which with Poets was the Great Councell-House for al• the Gods Hall which was first made for the Great Conncell-House for all the Gods where they consult with one consent for setling a Perpetuall and Inviolable Peace through all the Little World For this end at length SATURN and MERCURY jointly resigne up all Their Priviledges Honors Dignities Possessions Claimes c. into PHEBUS Hands Acknowledging Their Dependance on His Royall Goodnesse professing They had rather be devoyd of all that might speak them Happy yea rather not to Be than be Clowded from His benigne Rays and quickning Influence or conti•ue conscious of promeriting His least Frown whose wonted Smiles were more then Light more then Life PHEBUS receiveth them with wonted Goodnesse which of it selfe moved Him to re-invest Them againe not only with former Possessions but also with great addition of New Favours Which to make firme and inviolable Hee Sealeth by smiling on Them with most Gracious Aspects specially on his reconciled Subject SATURN 2 2 In D•c•mb The SVN b•gins to •mi•e o••ATVRN in a Sectile which favour increaseth •ore and more till about the beginning of ••bruary SATVRN waits upon the SVN who smi•'s on him as pe•fectly reco••iled in a most Gracious Asp•ct MERCVRY also is neere but in PISCES and com•ust Knowing that Royall Goodnesse is still wont either to Finde or else Make Loyall Subjects Whose

Palaces Leo and Cancer in the Midst betweene Mercurie's Houses Gemini and Virgo on either side of which are Venus Houses Taurus and Libra With Chymists MERCURY is Cold and Moyst and so fittest to reside in Cold Moyst Ilands Such as THULE These also perceive his Great Favours with and neere approach to the Sun and Moon King and Queen of Mettals Gold and Silver Hence they say Silver commes neerest to Gold in Forme and Purity but Mercury Quicksilver 2 2 This is Mercurius Princi•iatus as th•y call it For Mer•ur•us Princ•pians is one of t•ose T•ree Active Pri•ci•les in each •ody which are SAL SVLPHVR and MERCVRY SAL whence comes Taste represents •arth in the Gr•at Wo•ld SVLPHVR Fire hence S•ell and •rom SAL and SVLPHVR so or so mixt comes such or such a Colo•r MERCVRY• like Ayre and Water moyst and cold must st•ll bed•w the SAL a•d SVLPHVR else they crumble into Atoms for N•turall Heat must have Foment from Radicall Moystu•e to supply whi•h some s•eke •o finde an Artificial••alsom• of Nature in Matter and Gravity though of all Mettals He be most Crude and Indigested From this neere Approach of Quicksilver to Gold in Matter and Gravity Some Sublimate Rosy-Crucian Alchymists have made deep Plots with Sulphur to make Their Mercury become Sol of a Subject a King in Mettals of Quicksilver Gold But True Mercu•y cannot harbour Trayterous Inclinations Hence Their Sulphureous Devices vanish like Powder Plots And by Best Philosophers 3 3 Sr. Fr. Bacon Na• Hist. Cent 4. Exp. 327. Fernel de abdit Rer•m Ca•sis 'tis now concluded that though the True Elixar might or could be found 4 4 G•ber A••bs Raymund Lull c. the Art of which was long among the Arabs AEgyptians also till Diocletia• burnt Their books yet Mercury could never make Good Gold King of Mettals because They say 3 3 Sr. Fr. Bacon Na• Hist. Cent 4. Exp. 327. Fernel de abdit Rer•m Ca•sis He cannot indure the Tryall of fire Chymicall sure they meane and not the old Saxon Ordeire per fire 5 5 Ve•steg Antiquit. Cambd. c. which Tryed Good Emma Because He hath still had as much Antypathy to VULCAN as Sympathy to VENUS But because This is a Masque of Heaven and SATURN and MERCURY Heavenly Bodies It will not bee amisse to seeke out some place in Heaven that may parallell THULE upon Earth And no Place in all the Zodiack seems so fit as AQUARIUS a most Cold Moyst Signe under which also the Poets place all Cold Ilands and Manilius in speciall seemes to place THULE 6 6 See Scaliger on Manil. Now as the Poets make SATURNS cheife Residence in the Chroniaen Sea about THUL• so do all Astrologers make it in AQUARIUS which is with them Saturns House and Ioy And This AQUARIUS The Celestiall THULE may well be the Celestiall Scene of SATURN and MERCURIES Quarrell as THULE was the Terrestriall For of all Places in the Zodiack AQUARIUS seems most Ominou• to M•RCURY Who can never stay Long there but is either driven Back becomming Retrograde or else Forced into PISCES which with all Astrologers is called MERCURIE'S FALL 7 7 As appeares by the Scheam•of He•ven annext to the •n• of the Masque pag. 19. Now although This Constant Antipathy between These Two in Heaven hath still been observed by all Astrologers in all Ages yet it was never so strong or strongly actuate as through the Stadium of This Masque viz from 1637 c 1 1 To that Great Con•u•ct•o• of SATVRN and IVPITER with the rest of the P•anets but MARS in PISCES •eb 1643. of w•ich before in the Ma•que Vnmaskt pag 16. p 24. THE CAUSES OF WHICH SEEM THESE First MERCURIES Great Irritation of SATUR• by his New Patent or Deputation into His THULE or AQUARIUS The Date of which New C•••ission seemes to be about the end of 1637 for a little before That Time MERCURY was Meridionall and waited on the SUN with more than usuall Favour and there seemed to receive a New Commission to enter SATURN'S THULE with more than usuall Authority For presently on this He enters AQUARIUS Saturns Possession and in it is very Quick and Active Videant Astronomi But ere long SATURN bestirs himselfe and without long dispute be it Right or Wrong Drives his New Guest out and forceth him to Fall into PISCES And though MERCURY did oft assay to enter again yet SATURN as oft Drove him out 2 2 S•e the place and motions of these Planets in Ianuary 1638. also Ianuary and March 1639. There is n• Disputing with a crooked Sithe till at length being quite driven out and Hopelesse Hee make his addresse to the SUN seeming to implore His help at which the SUN left the Southern Signes and advanced Northward in the Ecliptick in Warlick manner Entring ARIES the First of Northern Signes and House of MARS and so of War MARS being the God of War with all the Poets And Here begins PHEBUS• First North Progresse 3 3 In March 1639. see the Masque pag. 8 9. with all the Scenes and Entries following in This Masque of Heaven The Second Cause may seem MERCURIE'S most Unfortunat Debility and Extraordinary Weaknes in Heaven by so frequent Retrogradations Detriments Peregrinations Fals c. never more through all This Time but specially Anni 1640. and 1641. Which is like to produce Those effects which for about These yeares were long since foretold by the best Astronomers France ever had 4 4 See Predict Par Iea• Pe•it pour l'Annee Mil six cens quarante quaran•e un Impri•è à Troyes 1625. Predictions Admirables de Michel Nostradamus Centur. XI Imp•im• à Paris 1605. Which is yet more remarkable and seemes more Ominous in that there are so many and Great Meetings of the Heavenly Bodies through this Stadium in PISCES 5 5 See Ian. Feb. 1640. 1641. 1642. 1643. This last viz. Feb. 1643 is the most notable Conjunction yet ever was which was still accounted the FALL of MERCURY A Third Cause may be SATURNS Extraordinary Strength Vigour and Activity which hath been in Heaven all this •ime For First for 30 years last past SATURN was not so well setled in his own possession as he began to be about the end of 1637. For till that Time He came not to his House and Joy AQUARIUS in which when he came he found MERCURY Acting his New Commission and no sooner saw him but he drives him out even the next day and forceth him to Fall into PISCES 6 6 Let Astronomers examine the Motions of these two Planets through December 1637. and Iannuary 1638. as was said before Againe at his comming Home then He was in his A•x being in the Apex or Apogeum of his Epicycle and very neere the Apex of his Eccentrick Which as still hath been observed makes him more Swift in his Motions and more Active in all his

Actions Thirdly for all this Time He hath been much strengthned by divers good Aspects from some of the Chief Heavenly Bodies For besides many good Fixt Stars both in AQUARIUS and in Trine or Sextile to AQUARIUS He was well aspected by JUPITER most of all this time Which is more Prevalent because JUPITER hath been much in his own House and Ioy SAGITARIUS which of it selfe also smiles on AQUARIUS in a friendly Sextile And all Astrologers say SATURN being well aspected by JUPITER specially from SAGITARIUS makes great Councellors Whence come so many Great events upon JUPITER'S Conjunction with SATURN Of which Conjunctions the greatest and most remarkable for Europe that yet ever was will be in February 1643 but in PISCES as was said before Againe He hath of late been much and oft aspected by MARS in it selfe no good aspect I confesse yet such as joyned with MERCURIE'S Former Irritation must needs much inrage SATURN and so by a kind of Antiperistasis must needs make him much more Vigorous and Active for Such is Nature still when provoked by some Opposite Hence Astrologers say MARS with SATURN makes most fierce and desperate Souldiers But though SATURN hath been very well setled in his own AQUARIUS or THULE and there hath beene very Strong and Active ever since the end of 1637 Yet is his Strength never like to appeare more than in the latter halfe of 1640 and great part of 1641. For besides his Constant good Aspect with JUPITER either in a Sextile or mutuall reception all that Time He will also be a great Significator through all the Summer and Dominus Autumni as Astrologers speak for 1640. in 1641 also there's scarce a Quarter or a New Moon in which SATURN is not one great Significator if not Dominus Ascendentis Which makes it very probable he will be very Active and Prevalent for that Time also * * Apertio Portarum of which Astrolog•rs speake so much is a great Crisis of Heaven attended with some notable Alterat•ons of Ayre c. by some great Aspect b•twee•e Planets of Contrary Houses Chiefly betweene the Sun Moone and Saturn whose Houses in Heaven are op•osite to the Sun and Moones Such a Great Apersion will be in Feb. 1641. but a Greater in 1643. Another Argument of This is the Good Aspects which SATURN is like to have at least for some of That Time from the SUN and MOONE King and Queene of Heaven For though the SUN be directly Opposite to SATURN with MARS in August 1640 and continues Frowning most of that yeare yet in the beginning of December He begins to Smile on him in a gracious Sextile while the MOON also is very neere And in February 1641 The SUN and SATURN meet The MOON being also in a Trine with SATURN which is like to produce some notable Event but 'tis in PISCES for such Meetings and Aspects of the SUN and SATURN still cause Apertiones maximas A Third Probability of This may be the extraordinary great and frequent Aspects of MARS on SATURN never more than through that Time which is more Prevalent because MARS is for the most part Dominus Anni 1640 Receiving his Commission from a great Meeting of Heavenly Bodies in SATURN'S Houses at the beginning of that yeere also though SATURN be Dominus Autu•ni yet MARS is with him in Ascendente But JUPITER aspecting and tempring MARS makes him lesse Formidable Three or Foure times in the SUMMER of 1640 MARS being with SATURN will joyntly oppose the SUN and MERCURY The last time is about the Meeting of the Deities in Areopagus and this last is like much to hinder the Pacification but that MARS is presently dispoyled of all power to hurt as is said before pag. 14. And though MARS do oft Frown on MERCURY through 1641 yet being much in his Detriment and Fall and Tempered also by JUPITER All is like to End well But setting aside This Present Quarrell Their Constant Antipathy wants neither Symptomes nor Causes as many appeare in all their Theory SATURN'S Motion very Slow except in his Aux His Influence very Cold melancholy also and flegmatick except tempred with JUPITER or MARS Being Remotest from this Earth and from the SUN the King of Heaven and so of a Cold Temper and Dusky Leaden Colour Whence not only Chymists but Astrologers are even forced to call him Lord of Lead and such like Dark Black Coaly Substances dugg out of the Earth specially in North Climats MERCURIE'S Theory is of all the Planets most abstruce perplext and intricat Though He be Least in Body but the Moon yet not so in Influence For in this He yelds to none but the SUN and MOON King and Queen of Heaven Aspecting These His Influence is Good to whome Ho•oscopall For These He makes Schollers Ecclesiasticall Men yea oft They say Bishops and Prelats• Yet His Influence is most inconstant Whence His Epithets not only with Poets but Astrologers are Ancops Versatilis Versipellis c. Yea the Chameleon of Heaven at which Plotinus could laugh when most serious * * Ficin. Prolog. in Plotin Enead 2. lib. 3. cap. 1. Aspecting SATURN Hee useth to Frown Being as Swift Active and usually Hot as SATURN is Slow and Cold Hence Their Aspects raise Great Stormes Wind Thunder c * * Suff•ci•nt instance of this may be the stormes c. like to attend the Opposition 〈◊〉 Mercury by •atu•n 〈◊〉 Ma•s about Aug. 16• Great alterations in the Ayre in Mens bodies Yea in whole States c. if Astrologers deceive us not For from his swift motion and sudden mutations in Site and Place They use to ascribe to Him I know not why most of the changes in Wind and Weather Temper in Mans Body Policy in each State Religion in each Church c. but specially if Dominus Anni as he was of late Yet Astrologers though Picus 1 1 Pic. Mirand. in Astrol. lib. 17. cap. 5. laugh them to scorn make him a Constant Friend to the X• Religion which yet Bacon saith 1 1 Pic. Mirand. in Astrol. lib. 17. cap. 5. he makes as Abstruce Perplext and Intricate as his Motions are in all his Epicycles In this also he is Contrary to SATURN who some say 1 1 Pic. Mirand. in Astrol. lib. 17. cap. 5. useth to Patronize the Iewish Religion Because forsooth their Sabbath was on His Day with us now called Saturday or SATURN'S Day though some derive it otherwise 2 2 Verstegan A•tiquit which Reason of Bacons is of kin to that of Plutarch 3 3 Plutarch Symp. l. 4. qu. 5. who will needs have The Jews Sabbath a Feast to Bacchus who was saith he sirnamed Sabbazios But I know not where For Aristophanes 4 4 Aristoph Aves Tull. 2d Leg. will have Sabbazios Banisht as a Strange un-heard-of God except he could find shelter in Athens no lesse Superstitious to strange Gods 5 5 Hence come Those Altars to Strang• Gods of