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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36622	An evening's love, or, The mock-astrologer acted at the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesties servants / written by John Dryden.	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Corneille, Thomas, 1625-1709. Feint astrologue.; Molière, 1622-1673. Dépit amoureux.; Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681. Astrologo fingido.	1671 (1671)	Wing D2273; ESTC R20110	70,976	114

AN Evening's Love OR THE Mock-Astrologer Acted at the THEATER ROYAL BY HIS MAJESTIES SERVANTS WRITTEN BY JOHN DRYDEN Servant to His Majesty Mallem Convivis quàm placuisse Cocis Mart. In the SAVOY Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at the Anchor in the lower Walk of the New Exchange 1671. TO HIS GRACE WILLIAM DUKE of NEW CASTLE One of his Majestie 's most Honourable Privy Council and of the most noble Order of the Garter c. AMongst those few persons of Wit and Honour whose favourable opinion I have desir'd your own vertue and my great obligations to your Grace have justly given you the precedence For what could be more glorious to me than to have acquir'd some part of your esteem who are admir'd and honour'd by all good men who have been for so many years together the Pattern and Standard of Honor to the Nation and whose whole life has been so great an example of Heroick vertue that we might wonder how it happen'd into an Age so corrupt as ours if it had not likewise been a part of the former as you came into the world with all the advantages of a noble Birth and Education so you have rendred both yet more conspicuous by your vertue Fortune indeed has perpetually crown'd your undertakings with success but she has only waited on your valour not conducted it She has ministred to your glory like a slave and has been led in triumph by it or at most while Honour led you by the hand to greatness fortune only follow'd to keep you from sliding back in the ascent That which Plutarch accounted her favour to Cymon and Lucullus was but her justice to your Grace and never to have been overcome where you led in person as it was more than Hannibal could boast so it was all that providence could do for that party which it had resolv'd to ruine Thus my Lord the last smiles of victory were on your armes and every where else declaring for the Rebels she seem'd to suspend her self and to doubt before she took her flight whether she were able wholly to abandon that cause for which you fought But the greatest tryals of your Courage and Constancy were yet to come many had ventur'd their fortunes and expos'd their lives to the utmost dangers for their King and Country who ended their loyalty with the War and submitting to the iniquity of the times chose rather to redeem their former plenty by acknowledging an Usurper then to suffer with an unprofitable fidelity as those meaner spirits call'd it for their lawful Soveraign But as I dare not accuse so many of our Nobility who were content to accept their Patrimonies from the Clemency of the Conquerour and to retain only a secret veneration for their Prince amidst the open worship which they were forc'd to pay to the Usurper who had dethron'd him so I hope I may have leave to extoll that vertue which acted more generously and which was not satisfi'd with an inward devotion to Monarchy but produc'd it self to view and asserted the cause by open Martyrdome Of these rare patterns of loyalty your Grace was chief those examples you cou'd not find you made Some few Cato's there were with you whose invincible resolution could not be conquer'd by that usurping Caesar your vertue oppos'd it self to his fortune and overcame it by not submitting to it The last and most difficult Enterprize he had to effect when he had conquer'd three Nations was to subdue your spirits and he dy'd weary of that War and unable to finish it In the mean time you liv'd more happily in your exile then the other on his Throne your loyalty made you friends and servants amongst Forreigners and you liv'd plentifully without a fortune for you liv'd on your own desert and reputation The glorious Name of the valiant and faithful Newcastle was a Patrimony which cou'd never be exhausted Thus my Lord the morning of your life was clear and calm and though it was afterwards overcast yet in that general storm you were never without a shelter And now you are happily arriv'd to the evening of a day as serene as the dawn of it was glorious but such an evening as I hope and almost prophesie is far from night 'T is the Evening of a Summer's Sun which keeps the day-light long within the skies The health of your body is maintain'd by the vigour of your mind neither does the one shrink from the fatigue of exercise nor the other bend under the pains of study Methinks I behold in you another Caius Marius who in the extremity of his age exercis'd himself almost every morning in the Campus Martius amongst the youthful Nobility of Rome And afterwards in your retirements when you do honour to Poetrie by employing part of your leisure in it I regard you as another Silius Italicus who having pass'd over his Consulship with applause dismiss'd himself from business and from the Gown and employ'd his age amongst the shades in the reading and imitation of Virgil. In which lest any thing should be wanting to your happiness you have by a rare effect of Fortune found in the person of your excellent Lady not only a Lover but a Partner of your studies A Lady whom our Age may justly equal with the Sappho of the Greeks or the Sulpitia of the Romans Who by being taken into your bosome seems to be inspir'd with your Genius And by writing the History of your life in so masculine a style has already plac'd you in the Number of the Heroes She has anticipated that great portion of Fame which envy often hinders a living vertue from possessing which wou'd indeed have been given to your ashes but with a latter payment and of which you could have no present use except it were by a secret presage of that which was to come when you were no longer in a possibility of knowing it So that if that were a praise or satisfaction to the greatest of Emperors which the most judicious of Poets gives him Praesenti tibi maturos largimur honores c. That the adoration which was not allowed to Hercules and Romulus till after death was given to Augustus living then certainly it cannot be deny'd but that your Grace has receiv'd a double satisfaction the one to see your self consecrated to immortality while you are yet alive the other to have your praises celebrated by so dear so just and so pious an Historian 'T is the consideration of this that stops my pen though I am loath to leave so fair a subject which gives me as much field as Poetry cou'd wish and yet no more than truth can justifie But to attempt any thing of a Panegyrick were to enterprize on your Lady's right and to seem to affect those praises which none but the Dutchess of Newcastle can deserve when she writes the actions of her Lord. I shall therefore leave that wider space and contract my self