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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

THE NVPTIALLS OF PELEVS AND THETIS CONSISTING OF A Mask and a Comedy OR THE The 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 Roqvelaure The Dutchess of Crequy with many other Ladies of Honour LONDON Printed for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at his Shop at the Ancor in the lower walke of the New Exchange 1654. The Stanzas of the Royall Ball with the Argument of every Scene of the Comedy which gives occasion to every entry in the Ball. THE ARGUMENT PEleus King of Thessaly being enamored with Thetis and crossed by two potent Rivalls Jupiter and Neptune doth so carry the business by the Counsells of Chiron and by the succour of Prometheus that both the Gods are at the end excluded of their pretentions Neptune desists by reason of his old age and Jupiter being the elder of the two but much more considerable doth voluntarily renounce his interest Whereupon Thetis being plainely perswaded of the constancy and fidelity of her Lover gives her consent to marry him so the Nuptialls are celebrated with a great concourse of Gods and Goddesses Prometheus also having done good service in the business and to put a period to his troubles is there also present and brings with him the Liberall and Mechanick Arts which hee had invented Discord also would faine have been there but that she was ashamed to appeare upon the theatre having been chac'd out of France and it had been to no purpose for her to disturb so ioyfull a meeting The Singers Two Rivers of Thessaly Epidan and Onochone Jupiter Neptune Juno Mercury Peleus King of Thessaly Thetis Chiron Prometheus A Quire of water-Nymphs A Quire of Syrens Tritons A Quire of priests of Man A Quire of all the Deities The Dancers Apollo and the nine Muses Magicians Fishers of Corrall The Furies of jelously Savage men and women The Dryads or Wood-nymphs Cavaliers of Thessaly Chirons Academists Peleus his Courtiers Thetis young maids of honor The Liberall servile Arts Love Iuno Hymen Hercules The harmony of the Sphears TO THE MOST EXCELLENT And HIGH-BORN Lady The Lady KATHERINE Marchionesse of DORCHESTER c. Madam I Believe no discerning Reader will question my Judgement in point of Election nor accuse my Election of much presumption in Dedicating this princely new piece to your Ladiship Touching the first the Fancy comming from that Country which doth challenge as much Interest in your Illustrious blood as England I humbly conceived it might well become your Ladiship to be Patronesse thereof Touching the second reason it having been not onely Represented but Acted so many times and reserv'd yet for entertaining Pimentel the Spanish Ambassador by a Great King in person with such a number of Princes Princesses Nobles and above a hundred Representators besides so that the charge of the scene and shewes amounted to half a million of French liures But above all it being an invention so cryed up so well contriv'd and trac'd so full of wit and variety of Musicall airs with other gentilesses I deem'd it would be a thing not unworthy of your Ladiships private entertainment Lastly Madam the Fancy being so fresh and sutable to the season it comes to usher in a happy and healthfull spring to your Honor attended with affluences of all Felicity present and future according to the humble and pregnant votes of My most Highly Honored Lady Your thrice-Obedient and devoted Servitor JAM HOVVEL The first of May 1654. THE PROLOGUE Apollo and the Nine Muses Epidan and Onochone Rivers of Thessaly a Quire of water-Nymphs AT the opening of the Theater Apollo and the Muses appeare upon the top of a Mountaine on both sides thereof run two Rivers of Thessaly and the water-Nymphs being separated in two Quires fall into the prayse of Apollo inviting him to come downe and give a happy Augury to the Loves of Peleus The said Mountaine stoopes by little and little whereupon the Rivers and Nymphs retiring Apollo and the Muses fill the Stage and compose the first entry of the Ball. The first Entry Apollo and the Nine Muses The King represents Apollo Madam Henriette Princesse of England represents Erato Madamoisella ofVilleroy represents Clio. The Dutchesse of Crequy represents Euterpe The Dutchesse of Roquelaure represents Thalia The Princesse of Conty represents Vrania Madam de Monlovet represents Terpsicore Madam de Saint Simon represents Calliope Madam d'Olonne represents Melpomene Madamoiselle de Gourdon represents Polyhimney THE NVPTIALS Of PELEUS and THETIS OR The Great Royall Ball. The King of France representing Apollo MOre bright and better made then all the Gods Superior to the rest of Dëities by ods My ForeSPEAKER with immortal beams is crown'd Victorious beauties I raise from the ground I after Glory alwaies run Not after Daphne whom I shun That fierce destructive Python I did quell That ugly horrid Serpent hatch'd in Hell Rebellion which had poyson'd farre and neare Faire France I chac'd from off this Hemispheare I rather had this Monster slay Then with my Daphne sport and play Yet it must be at last early or late I must a Femall court it is my Fate And though I am all God yet there 's a shee Whom with love glances I must deifie And what Nymph Goddesse Queen or Muse To be my Daphne would refuse Madam Henriette the Princesse of England representing the muse Erato which fell to her by lott My stemm is more then of a mortall race For to great Henries Granchild all give place My Innocent and young aspect Inspires both pitty and respect And he who loudly would complain of Princes falls and Peoples raign Of angry starrs and destiny Let him but cast his eyes on me Madamoiselle de Villeroy representing Clio the inventresse of History I turn this charming look Sometimes to Doomsday book These eyes where in his throne Love sits make many mone My Rosy cheeks my quickening fire Madd the beholders with desire And though I am but a young thing Blown as it were but in this spring My office is the History to tell Of what a thousand yeers ago befell Madam the Dutchess of Crequy representing Euterpe the inventresse of Musique The Mouth of Fame doth tell In Mine the graces dwell So red so small Loves Queen Had not nor ere was seen A hundred beauties more I have in banke and store Yet none esteemes them lesse I nature rather blesse For those inward parts I have Which will last me to my Grave Though I with musique use to cheer the mind Yet in my Pipes no foulenesse you shall finde M. the Dutchesse of Roquelaure representing Thalia the inventresse of Comedy There is no heart so free But it will yeeld to me I have the true supremacy Of beauty both in front and eye My glances able are for to recover The sickest amorist the palest