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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06453	Luminalia, or The festivall of light Personated in a masque at court, by the Queenes Majestie, and her ladies. On Shrovetuesday night, 1637.	D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.	1638 (1638)	STC 16923; ESTC S108941	7,342	24

LVMINALIA OR The Festivall of Light Personated in a Masque at COURT By the Queenes Majestie and her Ladies On Shrovetuesday Night 1637 LONDON Printed by Iohn Haviland for Thomas Walkley and are to be sold at his shop at the flying Horse neere Yorke house 1637 THe Kings Majesties Masque being performed the Queene commanded Inigo Iones Surveyor of her Majesties works to make a new subject of a Masque for her selfe that with high and hearty invention might give occasion for variety of Scenes strange aparitions Songs Musick and dancing of severall kinds from whence doth result the true pleasure peculiar to our English Masques which by strangers and travellers of judgement are held to be as noble and ingenious as those of any other nations This being suddainly done and shewed her Majestie and shee approving it the worke was set in hand and with all celerity performed in shorter time than any thing here hath beene done in this kind The invention consisting of darknesse and light the night presents the first Antimasques and sleepe with his three principall children the Antimasques of dreams The subject of the maine Masque of light was thus introduc'd The Muses being long since drawne out of Greece by the fierce Thratians their groves withered and all their springs dryed up and out of Italy by the barbarous Goths and vandals they wandred here and there indecently without their ornaments and instruments The Arch-Flamines and Flamines their Prophetick Priests being constrained either to live in disguises or hide their heads in caves and in some places whensoever they began to appeare they were together with peace driven out by warre and in the more civiliz'd parts where they hop'd to have taken some rest envy and avarice by clipping the wings of Fame drave them into a perpetuall storme till by the divine mindes of these incomparable Paire the Muses and they were received into protection and establisht in this monarchy to the incouragement and security of those well-borne wits represented by the Prophetick Priests of the Britanides The Scene where this goddesse of brightnesse was discovered was stiled the garden of the Britanides or Muses of great Brittaine not inferiour in beautie to that of the Hesperides or that of Alcinous celebrated by Homer The conclusion of all was an applause and confirmation of those Deities or second causes by whose influence at this prefixed time the Britanides and their Prophetick Priests were to be establisht in this garden by the unanimous and magnificent vertues of the King and Queenes Majesties making this happy Island a patterne to all Nations as Greece was amongst the Ancients The ornament which serv'd as a Bordure to enclose the Scene was raised on two round Basements on which were Satyres bigger than the life bearing baskets of fruits and knots of young Satyres clinging about their leggs in extravagant postures above these ran cornicements which made the ground of a second order wherein were termes of women fained of silver and children in their naturall colours standing on arches some wantonising about those termes and others holding great vizards before their faces On the heads of the Termes were cushions which served for capitals that bore the finishing of composed frontispices of great scrowles with frutages from whence hung lighted Lamps In the Freeze above was other young Satyres which seem'd oppress'd with the burthen of great festons the husks of which were tied up in knots to a double compartiment composed of scrowles quadratures and Masque heads in the midst hung a drapery fained of cloth of silver and in it was written LVMINALIA under all this ranne a large valens of gold embroidered with flowers and great Tassels The Kings Majestie being seated under the State the curtaine in an instant disappear'd discovering a Scene all of darknesse the neerer part woody and farther off more open with a calme River that tooke the shadowes of the Trees by the light of the Moone that appear'd shining in the River there being no more light to lighten the whole Scene than served to distinguish the severall grounds that seemed to run farre in from the eye with this Scene of darknesse was heard the voyces of Birds of Night This strange Scene having a while entertained the sight of the spectators there arose out of the hollow caverns of the earth a duskie cloud and on it a Chariot enricht and drawne by two great owles on this sate a matron in a purple robe with starres of gold and large black wings displaied her browne haire loose and on her head a vaile of russet cipresse with a picked crowne and a golden Scepter in her hand Representing night she tels she came to give repose to the labours of mortals but seing all things here tending to feasts and revels shee with her attendants will give her assistance though it serve but as a foile to set off more nobler representations Nights first song 1 In wet and cloudy mists I sloowly rise As with mine owne dull weight opprest To close with sleep the jealous lovers eyes And give forsaken Virgins rest 2 Th' adventrous Merchant and the Mariner Whom stormes all day vex in the deep Beginne to trust the windes when I appeare And lose their dangers in their sleep 3 The studious that consume their brains and sight In search where doubtfull knowledge lies Grow wearie of their fruitlesse use of light And wish my shades to ease their eyes 4 Th' ambitious toyling Statesman that prepares Great mischiefes ere the day begins Not measures day by houres but by his cares And night must intermit his sinnes 5 Then why when my slow Chariot us'd to clime Did old mistaking Sages weepe As if my Empire did usurpe their time And houres were lost when spent in sleep 6 I come to ease their labours and prevent That wearinesse which would destroy The profit of their toyles are still miss-spent Till rest enables to enjoy There came out from the sides of the Scene six persons Oblivion Silence and the foure nocturnall houres or vigils all attendants on the night Oblivion a young man naked and a greene mantle tucked about his shoulders and upon his head a cuckoe Silence an old man in a skin coat close to his body set full of eyes his mantle tawny and a girland of Peach-tree about his head The first vigill in a robe of blue with a red mantle her haire hanging downe in locks and a bat setting before The second habited as the former but the colours somwhat darker on her head a scritch-owle The third in purple and black on her head a dormouse The fourth in watchet and carnation her haire mixt with silver like dew and a little Swan on her head all these colours were appropriated to the severall nocturnall houres The Chariot of Night being arrived to the middle of the aire staid and after some dialogue with her attendants shee ascends singing and is hidden in the clouds Nights second song Silence Why dreadfull Queen dost thou appeare