Stay a Wife He has let 's then attempt against her life Full Compensation for all injuries If Greek or Barbarous Townes in villanies Skil'd have knowne a mischiefe such as thou Media yet ne're knew'st or practid'st now Now attempt t•…e like Let thy resolves finde Co•…ncell from thy owne Ills call to thy minde The signall 2 Glory of the C•…lchian Crowne Made prize thy Brothers Limbs dissected throwne About the seas sad Funerall to his sire Thinke on old 3 Pelias boyling o're the Fire How oft have we spilt guil•…lesse bloud yet n're Did we act Ills in rage Loves rage we beare 'Las what could Iason doe at the dispose Of a Superiour power His Breast oppose T' a murthering sword Ah! better words afford My passionate Griefes rather so Fates accord May he live still my Iason as before If not yet may he live mindfull of poore Medea to whose love his life 's a debt The fault was wholly Creons by whose great O're-ruling power our marriage-bands he brake He did the Mother from her Children take He cancell'd our strict-plighted faith Hee he The Butt of our deserved vengeance be I 'le bury his proud Pallace in a high Heap of Ashes whilst the black Clouds that flye Of Flame-driv'n smoak 4 Malea shall amaze Which storme-beat Vessells puts to long delayes NVRSE For love of Heav'n be silent and restraine Passion to recluse sorrow who sustaine Wrongs that oppresse 'em with a quiet 〈◊〉 And unmov'd thoughts know best the way to finde How to repay 'em Anger kills conceal'd Hates misse of their revenge when once reveal'd MEDEA That griefes but small which Councell can o're-sway I 'le meet all opposites NVRSE Thy •…ury stay Deare Daughter scarce a still retirednesse Secure thee can open Attempts much lesse MEDEA Fortune the Valiant feares but tramples on The coward soule NVRSE Then resoluti•… Is good when the Attempt is possible MEDEA What To courage and a minde resolv'd is not NVRSE No hope a Remedy t' a lost affaire Doth shew MEDEA Who nought can hope should nought despaire NVRSE 5 The Colchi'ans hate thee in thy spouse no Faith There is of all thy vast store Fortune hath Not left thee ought MEDEA Yes here 's Medea still Here Seas Earth Fire Gods Thunder what can kill As well as Steele behold NURSE Th' incensed Ire O' th' King yet 's to be fear'd MEDEA What was our * * As great a King as Creon Sire NVRSE Fearst thou not force of Armes MEDEA Not though from Earth They sprung and took from thence their hostile birth NVRSE Thou 'lt suffer death MEDEA 'T is that we wish NVRSE Be led At my request to flie MEDEA That I e're fled I grieve Medea flie NVRSE Thinke what thou art A Mother MEDEA Yes by whom you see NVRSE To part Hence doubtst thou MEDEA No wee 'll goe but first revenge NVRSE Th' avenger will pursue MEDEA It will be strange If we not fin de him obstacles NVRSE Suppresse These Menaces rash Woman and redresse Thy pertinacious thoughts with time comply MEDEA Fortune m' Estate may ravish from me my Minde she ne're can rob me of Harke I heare The Pallace doores to creak who is' t drawes neare 'T is Creon the proud Tyrant Creon high Elated with 2 Pelasgian Royalty Scene the Second Enter CREON. Yet does * * Medea Aeeta's noxious issue stay Within our Confines not yet gone away Something she machinates whom all doe brand For Noted Fraud and a nofarious hand Whom spares she whom suffers secure to rest T' extirpate by the sword this worst of Pest We once resolv'd th' Intreaties of our Son In-law prevail'd and our Concession Got that she might live on termes she quit Our Realmes from future feares with looks that threat And truculent Aspect she 'gins to bend This way her steps as though she did intend Some speech with us Our Guard there Hence Away With her nor suffer her to speak t' obey A Kings Command once let her learne with speed Dispatch and send the Monster gone MEDEA What deed What Crime of ours mulct you by flight CREON. A Cause The * * Spoken Ironically Innocent soule demands MEDEA If by the Lawes You governe 'fore you Judge first understand If by your will alone you rule command CREON. Dispute not 't is our pleasure right or wrong And thou shalt suffer 't MEDEA Vnjust S•…epters long Continue not CREON. Away to Colchos hic To your owne home againe MEDEA Most willingly So he that brought me thence returne with mee CREON. Your Wishes come too late to our Decree MEDEA Who ought decrees nor heares both sides discust Does but unjustly though his Doome be just CREON. Old Pelias ru'd for lending thee an Eare But speake and your egregious Cause let 's heare MEDEA * * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Eurip. Medea How ill appeased is the w•…ath of Kings And what a pride in royall Fancy springs Their first-fix'd Resolutions to pursue From our owne Princely thoughts w' have learn'd too true For though with sad Calamity opprest Scorn'd supplyant our-cast ev'ry way distrest W' are now we once in Royall State did shine And from bright Sol drew our Illustrious line What 5 Phasis in his winding Armes doth close What ' ere behind the 6 Scythian Pontus showes Where the salt Waves grow fresh with floud-mixt stream•… All that extent of Land whose borders hems The silver 7 Thermodon in trampled Fields Where 7 widdowed Troopes display their luned shields My Father with Imperiall Scepter swayes In joyes of Royalty and happy dayes There flourished we Our Marriage-bed those sought Whom now we seek But Fortune light as thought From us those Sceptred Glories having rent Hath now expos'd us to sad Banishment In Crownes confide whose wealth Chance doth transfer At pleasure But this yet what no day e're Can take from them Kings great and glorious have To help th' afflicted and the suppliant save This onely from our Colchian Realmes away We brought that by our favour we can say The flower of Greece and Princely Ornament Achaia's chiefest strength the high descent Of Gods were sav'd from death Orpheus whose song Charmes stony Rocks and drawes the Woods along Is our free gift that Led•…'s Twins survive Our double bounty is by us doe live The sonnes of Boreas 8 Lynceus he whose sight Extends crosse Pontus its emitted light And all the 9 Minyae by our Favour were Reserv'd from ruine not to mention here The * * Jason Chiefe of all those Chiefes whose safety we Reckon no debt to none imputed bee To you the rest to us this one we brought Away Inveigh your worst then count each fault Of ours of all this onely can you blame Argos returne yet if our Virgin shame And love of Father had not stoop'd to love Of Iason whom 'fore these we did approve The Chiefe of Greece had perish'd and your sonne To ruine on Bulls flaming breaths had run Fortune our Cause
YOu 1 Nuptiall Powers and thou 2 Lucina * * Proeses Puerperii se•… Praefecta Parturientibus Head And carefull Guardian of the 3 G•…niall Bed And 4 thou who Tiphys taught'st as with a rein To guide the 5 first Ship through the subdu'd Maine 6 Dread Soveraigne of the Seas thou ever bright Phaebus that to the world divid'st thy light 7 Three-formed Hecate that dost display On nightly mysteries thy conscious Ray And all yee Gods by whom false Iason swore Or you Medea rather should implore Darke Chaos deeps Infernall damned soules The King who Hells sad Monarchy controules And * * Proserpina Queen with better faith was ravished Heare whilst we imprecate yee 8 Furies dread The punishers of guilt in bloudy hands Grasping your pitchy-blacke and sulph'ry Brands With snaky Curles and squallid looks appeare As horrid at our Nuptialls as you were Death on the new-made * * Creusa the Daughter of Creon King of Corinth whom Iason repudiating Medea had newly married Euripides in Medea some others give her the name of Gl•…uca Bride on Corinths King And our owne Progeny untimely bring And with some imprecation yet more dire 'Gainst my false Husband my fell minde inspire Live he through Townes despis'd and friendlesse rove Feare hatred poverty and exile prove Wish me his Wife againe and harbour from A stranger crave now a knowne Guest become And then which none a greater curse can be Children be get he like himselfe and me See! our Revenge doth with our Wish conspire These we have borne We Plaints in vaine expire Why rush we not upon our Foes and there The Bridall Tapers from the Bearers teare Extinguish them and bury all in Night Behold'st thou this thou Fountaine of all light Phaebus 9 the Radiant Author of our Race And driv'st through Chrystall skies thy wonted space Runn'st thou not back unto the East and Day Remeasur'st O! to me resigne thy sway Give me the Guidance of those burning Reines That rule the Coursers with the fiery Maines I 'ld scourge 'till Corinth whose 10 small Land divides Two opposite Seas and breakes their battering Tides Consum'd in Flames should make them way to joyne Nought rests to doe but that a Nuptiall Pine We beare and when the holy Prair's and all The Rites are done then that our victimes fall Through thine owne Bowells reach at thy Revenge Soule if thou liv'st all Womanish Feares estrange Let thy stout minde on her old strength presume And more then Scythian Ferity assume What Ills once 11 Colchos now shall Corinth see Horrid unperpetrated crueltie Terror to Men and Gods workes in my Minde Wounds Death * * See the Annotations at the number 11 in fine spred Funeralls of Limbes dis-joyn'd Pish what flight triviall Ills doe we recount Acts of our Virgin hands Our Rage should mount Ills more sublime more horrid Acts of Bloud Suite with our married state and Motherhood Courage then On to act thy Tragedy With all thy Furie that Posterity Thy fatall Nuptialls and divorce may finde Equally signall Stay thou rash of minde Thy spouse by what meanes leav'st thou by the same I once did follow him All sence of shame Abandon and delayes as fruitlesse flye The Faith by Ills confirm'd by Ills shall dye Ex. Medea CHORVS Of Corinthian Women Singing an Epithalamium to the Nuptialls of Jason and Creusa 12 You Gods whose Empire in the skies Or in the tumid Ocean lies These 12 Princely Nuptialls blesse we pray 12 Whilst all due Rites the people pay First to those 13 Powers that thunder fling And Scepters beare for offering A Bull white without spot shall dye A Heifer that did never try The servile Yoake then snow more white Thee 14 O Lucina doth delight 15 To her who Mars his bloudy hands Doth ma•…acle in peacefull Bands Who strifes of Nations doth compose Whose 15 Horne with growing plenty flowes Shall fall a gent•…er Sacrifice 16 And thou who these Solemnities And Rites * * As oppos'd to Medea's Nuptiall•… which were 〈◊〉 and Illegitimate 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this Chorus Legitimate dost grace And the nights sullen darknesse chase With thy auspicious hand come drown'd In Wine thy 16 Head with Roses crown'd 17 And thou bright Star with silver ray Fore-runner of the Night and Day That slow to those dost still returne Who with loves mutu'all flames doth burne Mothers that long Daughters new wed Wish thee thy early beames to spread 'Mong the 18 Cecropian Dames the Pride For Beauty vaile unto the Bride The Virgins of the 19 Wallesse Towne Who on 20 Taygetus his Crowne Themselves as is their Countries guise In 20 manly Pastimes exercise And those their limbes in 21 Dirce lave Or in 22 Alphaeus sacred Wave To the 23 Aesonian Youth for grace And Forme shall 24 Bacchus selfe give place Who to the Yoake •…ierce Tygers chaines Or he who o're the 25 Trypods raignes Milde Brother to the 26 sterner Maid The 26 Swan-got Twins faire Laedae laid Castor with Pollux who for blow Of weighty 27 Sledge doth all out-goe Yeeld to * * Iason Aesonides the day So so Caelestiall powers we pray All wives excell the the beauteous Bride The Bride-groom passe all men beside When with the Virgin Quire * * The Bride she joynes Her look 'bove all with lustre shines So when the Sun his Beames displayes The splendour of the Stars decayes So fade the 28 Pleïads scarcely seen When with her borrowed shine night's Queen Inorbs her Crescent so to th' eye White blushes with 29 Phaenician Dye So when day dawnes Sols ruddy light Shewes to the dew-wet Shepherds sight From 30 Phasis horrid bed releast Wont with unwilling hand the Breast To touch of such a barbarous Bride With Parents wills first ratifi'd Now happy wed a Grecian dame Now Youths with Taunts permissive game And in loose Rimes chant sportive words Rare is this licence 'gainst your Lords Faire 31 Issue of the God of Wine T is time to light thy carved Pine 32 With Wine-wet fingers then put out The solemne Flame whilst all the Rout With mirthfull jollity doth ring And the 33 Fescennine youths doe •…ing Their Festive Flouts shee want these Rites And grace of Hymeneall l•…ghts Who as a fugitive shall wed Her selfe unto a forraigne Bed Act the Second Scene the first Enter MEDEA and her NURSE MEDEA OH I am slaine the * * The Marriage Song Hymeneall's sound Hath pierc'd my Eares and giv'n my Heart a wound The Ill I suffer I scarce yet beleeve And thus could 1 Iason cause Medea grieve When from my Father Countrey Crowne and State H' had brought me thus to leave me desolate In a strange Land could he our merits slight Cruell and thanklesse wretch whose pow'rfull might Seas rage he saw and force of Flames out-went Thinks he then all our stock of Mischiefe spe•…t Perplex'd and wav'ring my unquiet Mind Labours which way she may her vengeance find Would Heav'ns he had a Brother
a troubled braine Discovers Doubts threatens with anger boyles Laments and sighes Oh! to what Center toyles This weight of cares these threats where will she wreak Or where will this high Sea of fury breake Which like an Inundation swells No low Nor vulgaire mischiefe she intends t' out-goe Her selfe she seeks we know •…ull well her old Distempers signes some Eminently-bold Horridly-impious Act she plots 't appeares In her fell looks The Gods deceive our feares Scene the second Enter MEDEA If wretch a Rule thou wouldst prescribe thy Hates Thy rash love imitate Tamely yee Fates And unreveng'd shall we these Nuptialls beare Shall this day idly passe sought with such care And toyle with so much difficulty gain'd Whilst selfe-poiz'd Earth in midd'st of Heav'n's sustain'd And the bright Orbes their stated Changes run Whilst Sands no number know whilst day the Sun And night the Starres attend whilst 'bout the Pole The 3 undrencht Arctos turnes and Rivers rowle Into the Maine our deadly vengefull Ire Shall ne're have end but grow and still rise higher What wild Beasts Savagenesse what chafed waves Ingulf'd in 4 Scylla's and 4 Charibdy's Caves What Aetna under which 5 Typhaeus lies Expiring Flames our rage shall equallize Nor rapid streames nor Torrents heady course Nor wrathfull Euxine Seas By 6 Corus force Vext into stormes nor flames blowne up by winde Can stop th' incensed Fury o' my minde I 'le downe with all Creon his feares did move Forsooth and King Acastus Armes True love Can never stoop to feare of any But O're powr'd he was inforc'd to yeeld Could not He yet to his poore Wife have bid adieu My life stout though he be he fear'd this too Yet sure being Creons sonne he might a while Have respited the time for our Exile But one short day to take my last farewell Of both my children Yet though short 't is well Much much shall these few houres produce that fact Which all dayes else shall ring of this shall act We will invade the Gods and shake the frame Of the whole Universe NVRSE Thy minde reclaime Thy Heart with griefes disturbed pacifie MEDEA No thought of rest 'till with our owne we see A generall Ruine perish if we shall Perish all else We will not singly fall NURSE See how great Dangers thy Attempt•… oppose Gainst potent Opposites none safely goes Scaene the third Enter IASON Still cruell Fates Fortune severe alike Equally bad or if she spare or strike So often Heav'n hath for our desperate Woes Found Remedies more desperate then those Would we the Faith to our Wives merits due Have kept We must have dy'd Death to escheue We must be faithlesse Not to this inclin'd By abject feare but a Paternall minde For in their Parents ruine our poore Race Would be involv'd O Justice if a Place In Heav'n thou hast by thy white Throne I sweare The Children overcame their Sire Nor e're Shall I think other but that * * Mede•… she though fierce Of heart and beyond all Reclaime perverse Her Childrens lives would 'fore my bed desire With Pray'rs we were resolv'd t' accoast her Ire But see sh' hath spy'd us Ill the sight she brooks Disdaine and passion printed in her looks MEDEA We flye Iason we flye For us to change Seats is not new The Cause is new and strange For thee we us'd but now from thee we flye Whom thus from your Aboads inforce you hic To whom dost send us shall we Phasis floud Colchos and our Sires Realmes or fields with bloud Of slaught'red Brother stain'd goe seek what lands What Seas must we finde out at thy commands The Pontick Straits through which that Princely Traine We safe brought home when through th' incensed Maine And dangerous Symplegades we fled Two Rockes in the mouth of the Pontick Straits that were faigned to be loose and justle one another With thee now turn'd Adulterer to our bed Shall we for small 7 Iolcos make or steere Unto Thessalian 8 Tempe what wayes e're To thee we open'd 'gainst our selves we clos'd Then whither send yee us to what Lands expos'd To Exile an Exiled wretch is sent And yet no place assign'd for banishment Yet goe we must so to command seemes sit To Creons * * Iason spoken in scorn Son-in law And we submit Inflict on us the worst of cruelties We have deserv'd Let Creon exercise The bloudiest Tortures Tyranny e're bred To plague a * * Medea supposing her selfe to be so counted in the opinion of Creon Strumpet to his daughters bed Load us with Irons and shut us from all light In a darke Dungeon of eternall night Yet shall we suffer lesse then we deserve Ingratefull wretch thinke if thy heart will serve To let thee of the Flame-breath'd Bulls the Field Which Armies of Arme-bearing Foes did yeeld When at our sole Command those Earth-borne Bands Mutu'ally fell by their selfe-slaughtering Hands To these adde the Phryxaean Rams rich prize And steeplesse Dragon charm'd whose wakefull eyes Obey'd sleeps unknowne Power our Brother slaine Mischiefe with mischiefes re-inforc'd againe Fraud-blinded Daughters urged to divide Their Parents Limbes unto new life deny'd And our owne Kingdomes for a strangers Crowne Deserted by what hopes soe're you owne Of your deere children by the certainty Of thy new-fix't abodes and victory O're-vanquish't Monsters by these hands of ours Ne're spar'd for thee t' imploy their utmost Powers By fore-past Feares Heav'ns 9 Seas the Witnesses Of our wrong'd Nuptialls pitty our distresse And in thy happy state to us that crave Render that comfort thou would'st wish to have Of all the wealth by 9 Scythians rapt away From Sun-scorch'd Dwellers of rich India To o narrow an Exchequer for whose store Our whole Court seems with whose superf•…uous Oare W'adorne the Woods and Groves no part brought wee But our slaine Brothers limbes And those on thee Impended Countrey Father Brother Shame We this Dowre wed parting restore the same IASON When wrathfull Creon sought thy life to have Mov'd by our teares for death he Exile gave MEDEA We Exile thought a Punishment but now We finde that for a * * Spokeni derision favour you allow IASON Whilst yet thou maist get thee from hence convay'd The Wrath of Kings is heavy MEDEA You perswade This to endeare you in Creusa's love You seek a hated * * To wit her selfe ut supr•… Strumpet to remove IASON Objects Medea love MEDEA And Treacherie And Murder too IASON What Crime is there 'gainst me Thou can'st object deserves so foule a blame MEDEA All that wee ever did IASON Then 't is your Aime T' involve us in the guilt of your misdeeds MEDEA Those those are thine He to whose gaine succeeds The Ill is the Ills Author Though our Fame All should oppose thou ought'st defend the same And say w' are blamelesse He should guiltlesse be In thy Repute is guilty made for thee IASON That life 's a burthen which enjoy'd brings shame MEDEA That
wive's sterne Passions quit A Mothers soft restor'd affections sit We in our Childrens bloud our hands •…mbrue Ah! better thoughts distracted griefes pursue Farre be it from Medea yet to act So soule a Sinne or so abhorr'd a fact What Crime poore wretches shall they suffer for Their Father's Crime enough and greater far Their Mother let 'em dye they 're none o' mine Hold they 're thine owne then perish because thine Alas they 're innocent without a touch Of Guilt 't is true My Brother too was such Why stagger'st thou my soule or why doe teares Water my Cheeks whilst Passion this way beares My wav'ring mind now that way love divides Tost in an eddy of uncertaine Tides As when the Windes wage warre the passive Waves Are counter-rock't the Sea a Neuter ra•…es So floats my wrackt heart now Wrath wins the field Now Piety to Piety wrath yeeld Oh you the onely joy and comfort left Of our sad state Now of all else bereft Come hither my deare Children and with mine Your little Armes in close Embraces joyne May in your lives your Father yet delight Whilst I your Mother may Exile and flight Inforce me on Strait from my Armes with cries Will they be torne then perish from all joyes Of Father as of Mother Griefe againe Renewes My hate boyles high my heared braine It 's old Rage fires and stirres m' abhorred hand Up to new mischiefe On then thy command We follow Would an issue from my wombe As numerous as 1 Niobes had come And twice sev'n Children had from us deriv'd Their Births our Barrennesse hath ev'n depriv'd Our Vengeance yet w' ha' two enough t' expire As victimes to our Brother and our Sir e Whither does this dire Troop of Furies bend Here her frantick fantsie presents unto her the Furies and her Brothers Ghost Whom seek they where their fiery stroaks intend 'Gainst whom shake they their bloudy Brands Snake wound In lashing whips with horrid hisses sound Whom does Megaera with infestive Post Pursue what yet unknowne dismembred Ghost Is this appeares 't's my Brothers come to crave Vengeance of us And vengeance shalt thou have But first fixe all these fire-brands in my eyes Teare burne my Breast to furies open lies Hence these dread Ministers of vengeance send And bid these Spirits satisfi'd descend Leave me to my selfe Brother to imploy This Arme in thy revenge that did destroy Thy life * * Stabs one of her Sons thus with this 2 victime we appease Thy injur'd Ghost What suddaine sounds are these What meanes this none * * Iason within preparing a Guard to apprehend her Armes 'gainst my life are bent * * At these words by the Machine of the Scene she was immediately taken up to the top of the house Up to the Houses Top force thy Ascent Finish thy Murder there Come you with mee My small Companion whilst this body wee Convey along Now soule thy taske intend Nor thy brave Mischiefe unregarded end In secret show 't the People let them stand Th' amaz'd Spectators of thy Tragick hand Scene the Third Enter IASON cum Armatis IASON You whom the Murder of your Prince doth move With sad Resentments of a loyall love The Author of that execrable deed Helpe to surprize hither with weapons speed You armed Cohorts here this House surround And lay the Fabrick levell with the ground MEDEA I now our Sceptor Brother Sire againe W'enjoy and Colchians their rich spoyle retaine Our Kingdome and our lost Virginity Are now restor'd O long crosse Destiny At length growne kinde O festive Nuptialls On Give thy Revenge as Crime perfection Dispatch while thy hand 's in Why thus delayes My soule what doubts Our potent wrath decayes Now of the Fact a shamefull penitent What have I done Wretch such though I repent I 've don 't An ample joy m' unwilling Heart Seizes it growes upon me Yet this part Of Vengeance wanted he not being here Nor a spectator without whom what e're W' have done is lost IASON See where she sits upon Yon Houses shelving Top hither some one Bring burning Brands and Fire impose on Fire That scorch'd in her owne Flames she may expire MEDEA Doe raise your Sonnes a Fun'rall Pile your Bride And Father-i-law our kindnesse did provide With Rites of Sepulture his Doome this Sonne Hath felt the like shall this whilst thou look'st on IASON By all the Gods by our Community Of flight and Bed which un-•…nforced I Ne're violated spare this childe O spare Me this the Crime is mine then let me share The punishment and let deserved death Seize on my guilty Head and loathed Breath MEDEA No where thou would'st not ha 't where thou dost feele Most sence of sorrow will we force our steele Goe now thou proud Insulter goe and Wed Young Virgins now and leave a Mother's Bed IASON Let one suffice t'have suffer'd MEDEA If our Rage One death or single slaughter could asswage We none had sought and though both dye yet that T' our wrongs is not revenge commensurate If in our wombe a Pledge there be ev'n there This steele shall search't and thence the Embrion teare IASON Dispatch thy Villany no more we pray Nor longer now our punishment delay MEDEA Haste not my Griefe but leisurely imploy Thy slow revenge This daye 's our owne w' enjoy Th' accepted time IASON Death cruell we implore MEDEA Thou pitty crav'st So * * Kills her o•… ther Son now all 's done nor more Had we O sorrow as a Sacrifice To offer thee Erect thy humid Eyes Ingratefull Iason here look up dost know Thy Wife thus use we to escape Heav'ns show Our flight cleare way See both our Dragons here Who freely stoop their scaly necks to beare Their willing Yoak * * Throwes their bodies downe Now take your Sonnes whilst I On wi•…ged Wheeles through airy Regions flye IASON 4 Goe mount the skies and by thy flight declare If thou unpunish'd go'st no Gods there are FINIS ANNOTATIONS Vpon the first ACT 1 YOu Nuptiall Powers The Nuptiall Powers were these Iupiter and Iuno whom they stiled Iovem Adultum and Iunonem Adultam in regard as conceived that it was not lawfull for any one to marry nisi Adulta Aetate as likewise {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. Nuptialls by the Greeks because as Scaliger sayes Humanae vitae Perpetuatio Nuptiarum Merito perficeretur The Perpetuation of humane life was the effect or benefit of Marriage The Goddesse Suada Nuptiare Consiliatrix Diana President of Houshold Affaires called at these Ceremonies Cinxia a Title likewise given to Iuno of the Girdle or Zone of the Bride which being unloosed by the Bridgroome was her Votive or Offering Genius so called quasi Generis Nostri Parens Neptune called Genethliacus Ut cui liberorum quaerendorum Cura Venus Geriturae Domina Hymen of whom in the Annotations upon the following Chorus And to omit