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A07649
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The shepheard's paradise a comedy : privately acted before the late King Charls by the Queen's Majesty, and ladies of honour / written by W. Mountague ...
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Montagu, Walter, 1603?-1677.
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may yet owe you more Mar. Divinest Lovers 'bove the praise of breath So much you scorn'd to joyne by lesse than Death By which emission you so much enjoy As one another would but seem a toy Accept this tribute and our souls inspire So farre tow'rds your example as desire Gem. Illustrious Lights of honour and of Love We but your shaddowes are that shine above Vouchsafe t' obtaine that we as shaddowes do May be admitted too to follow you Gen. Blessed souls that coppied Heaven here so Together as each other not to know I find these marks which Paradise imply As gain of sight and losse of memory This scruple onely now doth here remaine That I cannot from wishing yet refraine If it were ment this Heavenly residence Should but refine and not extinguish sence Let it my grosser spirits so refine As my undarken'd soul may through them shine The Fifth Act. After the Ceremony of the Toomb Genorio stayes alone Gen. ME-thinks I find my mind on wing loose from my senses which like limed twigs held it till now It is so light and so ascensive now it meanes to work it selfe above Martiroes I am already so farre towards it as the beliefe that I did never love till now O how I was deceived while I conceived that Love was so Materiall it could be touched and grasp't I find it an undepending ayrinesse that both supports and fills it selfe and is to be felt by what it nourisheth no more then aire whose virtue onely we discerne I knew before all I could have I am so farre above that now I cannot suppose what I can hope and yet am better pleased with this this inoffensive purity of my love emboldens me to shew it to Bellesa and in humility to her it shall ask somewhat of her as begging is the onely Present impotency hath to make to power and it shall be so far from being sensuall it shall be nothing but beliefe Enter Bellesa Bel. Your sadnesse seemes so welcome to you as I may excuse the interruption of it Gen. You are so farre from interruption of it Madam as you bring the cause along with you Bel. Have you not yet forgiven my curiousity to see the Picture are you of Martiroes mind Gen. Why she 's an Angell even in the knowledge of mens thoughts I what Madam do you think I am of Martiâ—oes mind Bel. In keeping your love invisible and therefore are displeased that we saw so much as the shaddow of it Gen. I am not of his mind in that I would shew mine because 't is such a wonder 't will not else be believed and as wonders Madam hardlyobtaine that so mine shall pretend to no more Bel. Do you pretend Genorio to be a friend unto the Prince and will make the Loving Fidamira a wonder in any body Gen. Yes Madam that were a greater after having seen you then that which I shall tell you Bel. I have onely leisure now to tell you Genorio that in revenge of this flattery I will accuse you of it to your friend Moramente who loves the Prince so much aâ— he will chide you for it I am now going into a privacy I must desire to leave you Gen. I am so cursed Madam as truth seemes dis-lustred by my bringing it I never committed sinne enough against another to be equall to this punishment As He goes out He sayes of leaving you To what am I transform'd when the name Fidamira is a torture to me Bellesa alone Bel. Sure Mâ—ramente hath imploy'd his friend Genorio to save him the shame of speaking for himselfe Genorio speaks so boldly it must needs be for another I need not be so shie of this my thoughâ—fullnesse since all the virtues they should fix upon are here objected to them in Moramants carriage Love and honour bent by humility into a lovely Arch on which my thoughts may safely passe on towards his person which when I consider I find it such as scarce needs humility to recommend it His Fate hath so directed him to me as he hath had a reall sence of my misfortune and his destiny hath been so kind to him in that as to indebt me some pitty to him as my selfe and the reviving of Saphira though it be by Bellâ—sa's death t' will not be welcome to him Me-thinks my thoâ—ghts would take aire a little to refresh themselves That Infant love that 's come to visit them would carry them abroad with him they shall go with him and be so civill as to entertaine him with musick Presse me no more kind love I will confesse And tell you all nay rather more than lesse So you will promise me when I have told you then Not to bring mâ— to witnesse it to men Though thusy ' are strong enough to make me speak Help't out by virgin-shame you 'le be too weak If I find thus I may be safely free Best by this freedom I engag'd may be I find a glowing heat that turnes red hot My heart but yet it doth not flame a jot It doth but yet to such a colour turne It seemes to me rather to blush than burne You would perswade me that that flaming light Rising will change this colour into white I would fain know if this whites inference Pretend pale guilt or candid innocence If you you will tell me which without deceit I will allow you light as well as heat Then take you care of me a meanâ— so rare Bâ—twixt mens vanity and their dispaire I finde so gentle drowsinesse flow o're my senses as if my thoughts had wearied them in carrying them thus farr and my thoughts are so innocent they do not oppose the rest my senses ask She falls a sleep And Moramente enters to her Mor. Was it the rapture my soule was allwayes in when she contemplates the divine Bellesa that did present her voyce unto me here in heaven Sure it was her soul uselesse now unto her body is gon to He sees her here lie sleeping and stands wondering visit heaven and did salute the Angels with a song Let sleep no more be called death's Image here is an animation of it Sure all the life that sleep takes from the rest of the world he hath brought hither and lives here Methinks I should be innocent too now Sure had I but even an ill coloured thought her soul that is in heaven would know it and come back to awake her with the alarum I will stay at this distance still and only take this advantage now to wonder Neerer her thus parted from her soule then I can do united he goes to step toward her Doth the ground move to carry me neerer then my soul durst goe T is true I find it is the earthlynesse about me moves me neerer then my reverence should keep me Methinks I am so neere her now as I all soul my body by whose carriage it was brought is now recoyl'd and my spirit is now shot out upon Bellesa And thus all