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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

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hauing Poesie and Oration in them and a fountaine to be exprest from whence their Riuers flow should expressiuely-arise out of the places and persons for and by whome they are presented without which limits they are luxurious and paine But what rules soeuer are set downe to any Art or Act though without their obseruation No Art nor Act is true and worthy yet are they nothing the more followd or those few that follow them credited Euery vulgarly-esteemd vpstart dares breake the dreadfull dignity of antient and autenticall Poesie and presume Luciforously to proclame in place thereof repugnant precepts of their owne spaune Truth and Worth haue no faces to enamour the Lycentious but vaine-glory and humor The same body the same beauty a thousand men seeing Onely the man whose bloud is fitted hath that which hee calls his soule enamourd And this out of infallible cause for men vnderstand not these of Maenander est morbus oportunitas Animae quodictus vulnus accipit graue But the cause of all Mens being enamourd with Truth And of her slight respect in others is the diuine Freedom one touching with his aprehensiue finger the other passing The Hill of the Muses which all men must clime in the regular way to Truth is said of ould to be forcked And the two points of it parting at the Top are Insania and diuinus furor Insania is that which euery Ranck-brainde writer and iudge of Poeticall writing is rapt withal when hee presumes either to write or censure the height of Poesie and that transports him with humor vaine-glory and pride most prophane and sacrilegious when diuinus furor makes gentle and noble the neuer so truly inspired writer Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros And the mild beames of the most holy inflamer easely and sweetly enter with all vnderstanding sharpenesse the soft and sincerely humane but with no Time No Study No meanes vnder heauen any arrogant all-occupation deuourer that will Chandler-like set vp with all wares selling Poesies Nectar and Ambrosia as wel as musterd and vineagar The chast and restraind beames of humble truth will euer enter but onely grase and glaunce at them and the further fly them The aplicable argument of the Maske HOnor is so much respected and ador'd that shee hath a Temple erected to her like a Goddesse a Virgine Priest consecrated to her which is Eunomia or Lawe since none should dare accesse to Honor but by Vertue of which Lawe being the rule must needes be a chiefe and a Herrald call'd Phemis or Fame to proclame her institutions and commandements To amplefie yet more the diuine graces of this Goddesse Plutus or Riches being by Aristophanes Lucian c. presented naturally blind deformd and dull witted is here by his loue of Honor made see made sightly made ingenious made liberall And all this conuerted and consecrate to the most worthy celebration of these sacred Nuptialls all issuing to conclude the necessary application from an honorable Temple c. Non est certa fides quam non Iniuria versat Fallit portus ipse fidem Errata In Capri first speech for many read maine in c. 1. for Pot re post in c. 3. for answer re austerity for purposes re purses in c. 3. for seemingly re securely in d. 2. for law and vertue re loue and beauty in the first stance of the second song for this re his for sweet deuotions re fit deuotions THE NAMES OF THE SPEAKERS Honour a Goddesse Plutus or Riches a God Eunomia or law Priest of honor Phemis Honors Herrald Capriccio a man of wit c. THE PRESENTMENT Plutus appear'd suruaying the worke with this speech PLVTVS ROckes Nothing but Rockes in these masking deuices Is Inuention so poore shee must needes euer dwell amongst Rocks But it may worthily haue chaunc'd being so often presented that their vaine Custome is now become the necessarie hand of heauen transforming into Rocks some stonie hearted Ladies courted in former masks for whose loues some of their repulst seruants haue perisht or perhaps some of my flintie-hearted Vsurers haue beene heere metamorphosed betwixt whom and Ladies there is resemblance enough Ladies vsing to take interest besides their principall as much as Vsurers See it is so and now is the time of restoring them to their naturall shapes It moues opens excellent This metamorphosis I intend to over-heare A ROCK MOOVING and breaking with a cracke about Capriccio he enters with a payre of Bellows on his head a spur in one hand and a peece of golde Ore in the other c. He speakes vt sequitur CAPRICCIO HOw hard this world is to a man of wit hee must eate through manie Rockes for his food or fast a restles and tormenting stone his wit is to him the very stone of Sisyphus in hell nay the Philosophers stone makes not a man more wretched A man must be a second Proteus and turne himselfe into all shapes like Vlisses to winde through the straites of this pinching vale of miserie I haue turn'd my selfe into a Tailor a Man a Gentleman a Nobleman a Worthy man but had neuer the witte to turne my selfe into an Alder-man There are manie shapes to perish in but one to liue in and tha 's an Aldermans T is not for a man of wit to take any rich Figure vpon him your bould proud ignorant that 's braue and clinkant that findes crownes put into his shooes euery morning by the Fayries and will neuer tell whose Wit is humor whose Iudgement is fashion whose Pride is emptinesse Birth his full man that is in all things something in Sum totall nothing He shall liue in the land of Spruce milke and hony flowing into his mouth sleeping PLVTVS This is no transformation but an intrusion into my golden mines I will heare him-further CAPRIC. This breach of Rockes I haue made in needy pursuite of the blind Deity Riches who is myraculously ariued here For according to our rare men of wit heauen standing and earth mouing her motion being circular hath brought one of the most remote parts of the world to touch at this all-exceeding Iland which a man of wit would imagine must needs moue circularly with the rest of the world and so euer maintaine an equal distance But Poets our chiefe men of wit answere that point directly most ingeniously affirming That this I le is for the excellency of it diuided from the world diuisus ab orbe Britannus and that though the whole World besides moues yet this I le stands fixt on her owne feete and defies the Worlds mutability which this rare accident of the arriuall of Riches in one of his furthest-off-scituate dominions most demonstratiuely proues PLVTVS This is a man of wit indeede and knows of all our arriuals CAPRIC. With this dull Deity Riches a rich Iland lying in the South-sea called Poeana of the Poeans or songs sung to the Sun whom they there adore being for strength and riches called the Nauill