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A86630 The nuptialls of Peleus and Thetis. Consisting of a mask and a comedy, or The the [sic] great royall ball, acted lately in Paris six times by the King in person. The Duke of Anjou. The Duke of Yorke. with divers other noble men. Also by the Princess Royall Henrette Marie. The Princess of Conty. The Dutchess of Roquelaure. The Dutchess of Crequy. with many other ladies of honour. Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1654 (1654) Wing H3097; Thomason E228_3; ESTC R7256 20,029 63

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do onely catch Small things I cannot yet attach Great wel-grown fishes one might make Good cheer with those I cannot take The Maaquis of Mirepoix representing a Fisherman Of this sweet Trade of Fishing I intend To be one day a Master and so mend My fortunes now the greatest skill Of a true Fisherman is to be still And patient for a while to make no hast So he may compasse well his ends at last The third Scene Thetis Jupiter Juno a dumb Quire of the Furies of jealousie Jupiter being encompassed with pomp and Majesty descends from the Air in midst of a great cloud and propounds to Thetis all the tender passionate things which might oblige her to be his spouse but shee refuseth this honor out of high respects she ow'd to Juno who had been so carefull of her Education whereupon Jupiter was upon point of carrying her away but as he was wrapping her within the cloud wherein he descended Iuno comes in a whirlwind not so violent as her rage And after a loud fit of scolding having brought the furies along with her the earth open'd and disgorgeth a huge horrid Monster At sight hereof Iupiter letting go his prey and putting off his design till a more convenient time returnes to Heaven In the mean time the Furies extreamly well pleased to have so opportunely done such a piece of service to Iuno dance all before her whereupon the goddesse Iuno having thanked Thetis for her vertuous resistance takes the furies up with her in the same whirlwind which brought her down to persecute Iupiter in his repose and in his glory The fourth Entry The King the Duke of Ioyeuse the Marquis of Genlis Mounsieur Bontemps the Lords de Lorge Verpre Beauchamp Mollier le Vacher Desairs Dolnist Baptiste For the King representing a fury Spain fly from this yong fury fly away She comes to daunt thee and with torch in hand Through every corner she doth force her way To find thee out ' gainst her thou canst not stand She persecutes the bad and makes them read Their guilt within their looks nay the same time They mischief work and do commit the crime She glides into the Conscience fear and dread The Duke of Joyeuse representing a Fury Believe me not to trust in me forbear A fained sweetnesse on my front I wear Of me there may be some mistakes for I do hide my claws and snakes The Marquis of Genlis representing another Fury My face is lovely sweet and debonnair Such as an honest Fury ought to bear My heart some poyson may contain Yet serpents lodge not in my brain THE SECOND ACT. The first Scene Which represents the top of Caucasus Prometheus Peleus a Quire of dumb men and savage wmen PEleus being conducted by savage men and women meets with Prometheus upon a Rock with his Eagle which gnawes upon his heart and having made a light comparison of their torments Prometheus assures him that the Oracle of Delphos had foretold that Thetis should bear a son greater then his Father and that Iupiter also without doubt should be constrained to renounce his pretention and that Mercury having been sent in his behalf to Iupiter to acquaint him with the saying of the Oracle the businesse should end to his contentment Peleus hereupon returnes to Thessaly extreamly comforted and the savages upon hopes that Prometheus should be freed from his torment and that Peleus should obtain his hearts desire could not more lively expresse their joy then by a dance The fifth Entry The Lords of Chesnay and Joyeux the Lords la Marre Monglas Laleu Raynall Roddier all Savages Wee value beautious cheeks and how They must be used we also know Nor such rude savages are we But civiliz'd we soon may be The second Scene Which discovers a place of Gold and stones Jupiter Mercury a dumb Quire of Wood-Nymphs Jupiter meets with Mercury in this fair Palace which he had caus'd to be prepar'd in the secret place about Caucasus to celebrate his Nuptialls there without the knowledge of Iuno and devising the means how to conduct thither the new spouse Mercury gave him notice what the Oracle had said Iupiter being therewith surpriz'd and fearing that the same distaster might befall him there which had happen'd 'twixt him and Saturn makes love to yield to ambition and retires to Heaven after he had commanded Mercury to make it known that he would think on 't no more nor do an act so injurious to his Authority the Dryades being Land-Nymphs fell to be jealous of the good fortune of Thetis a Sea-goddesse being there as spies to give account to Juno of all the purposes of Jupiter and they expresse by a dance the joy they conceived that Jupiter had altered his resolutions The sixth entry Dryades or wood-Nymphs The King the Dukes of Joyeuse and of Roquelaure the Marquis of Genlis Mounsier Bontemps the Lords of Lorges Desairs le Vaiser Verpre Beauchamp Molier D'Olivet For the King representing a Dryade 1. A Nymph as great as generous In Oaks as green as pretious I lead a happy traine My youthfull branches taper so As if to heaven they would grow And starres salute would fain They spread and shoot so bravely out that they The glory of their root will not betray 2. By their rind you well may know With what strength and Sap these grow and whence it springs They may be fit Caesars to make Or Alexanders for to shake with thousand earthly Kings 3. About this proud and Royall Tree Others do grow but modestly They creepe more humble then the grasse So that one day 't wil come to passe This Tree of Heaven may be made Unto the Europian world a shade The Duke of Ioyeuse representing another Wood-Nymph While the seasons rude and cold I wonder none with me makes bold My wood hath this rare quality it shall Burn warme and make no noyse at all The Duke of Roquelaure representing also a Dryade 1. Some hold me for a merry wench And that I care not much for Continence I am the greatest babler I confesse And imitate Vergonda by my tresse 2. There is no Forrest but doth feel The strokes of my victorious steel As soone as I doe haunt a cops of wood To bring the Axe among them were as good 3. I have my vanities besides my Age By right of Impudence sometimes doth rage And if a Tree cleffed may chance They presently impute the cause to me 4. But to conclude sweet Nymphs my pleasures shall Never hurt yours therefore doubt not at all To my beloved trunk I le so adhere That for to injure others none shall feare The Marriage of Genlis representing the last Dryade Within the bottom of a Grove A Satyre thereabouts did rove Who held my honor at a bay But hard it was for to display Whether a reall Satyre or one clad Like Satyres or indeed a true Dryad The Third Scene Which represents a Theater and at the end of a prospective a Statue