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A39898	The sun's-darling a moral masque : as it hath been often presented at Whitehall by Their Majesties servants, and after at the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, with great applause / written by John Foard and Tho. Decker, Gent.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.; Ford, John, 1586-ca. 1640.	1656 (1656)	Wing F1467; ESTC R17978	25,772	52

come to be your guest your bounteous free Condition does assure I shall have A welcom entertainment Win. Illustrious sir I am ignorant How much expression my true zeale will want To entertain you fitlie yet my love And hartie dutie shall be farr above My outward welcome to that glorious light Of heaven the Sunne which chases hence the night I am so much a vastaile that I 'le strive By honoring you to keep my faith alive To him brave Prince tho you who do inherit Your fathers cheerefull heat and quickning spirit Therefore as I am Winter worne and spent So farre with age I am Tymes monument Antiquities example in my zeale I from my youth a span of Tyme will steale To open the free treasures of my Court And swell your soul with my delights and sport Ray. Never till now Did admiration beget in me truly The rare match'd twins at once pittie and pleasure So royall so aboundant in earth's blessings Should not partake the comfort of those beames With which the Sun beyond extent doth cheere The other seasons yet my pleasures with you From their false charmes doth get the start as farr As heaven's great lamp from every minor starr Boun. Sir you can speak wel if your tongue deliver The message of your heart without some cu●ing Of restraint we may hope to enjoy The lasting riches of your presence hence Without distrust or change Ray. Winters sweet bride All Conquering Bounty queen of harts life's glory Natures perfection whom all love all serve To whom Fortune even in extreame 's a slave When I fall from my dutie to thy goodness Then let me be ranck'd as nothing Boun. Come you flatter mee Ray. I flatter you Why Madam you are Bounty Sole daughter to the royall throne of peace Hu. He minds not mee now Ray. Bounties self For you he is no souldier dares not fight No Scholar he that dares not plead your merites Or study your best Sweetness should the Sun Eclips'd for many yeares forbeare to shine Upon the bosome of our naked pastures Yet where you are the glories of your smiles would warm the barren grounds arm hartless misery And cherish desolation Deed I honor you And as all others ought to do I serve you Hu. Are these the rare sights these the promis'd Complements Win. Attendance on our revells let delight Conjoyn the day with sable-footed night Both shall forsake their orbes and in one sphere Meet in soft mirth and harmlesse pleasures here While plump Lyeus shall with garland crown'd Of triumph-Ivie in full cups abound Of Cretan wine and shall dame Ceres call To waite on you at Winters festivall While gawdy Summer Autumne and the Springe Shall to my Lord their Choycest viands bring Wee 'l robb the sea and from the subtill ayre Fetch her inhabitant to supply our fare That were Apecious here he in one night Should sate with danties his strong appetite Begin our revells then and let all pleasure Flow like the Ocean in a boundlesse measure Florish Enter Conceit and Detraction Con. Wit and pleasure soft attention Grace the sports of our invention De. Conceit peace for Detraction Hath already drawn a faction Shall deride thee Con. Antick leave me For in laboring to bereave me Of a scholars praise thy dotag Shall be hist at De. Here 's a hot age When such pettie penmen covet Fame by folly on I 'le prove it Scurvie by thy par● and trie thee By thine owne wit Con. I defie thee Here are nobler Judges wit Cannot suffer where they sit De. Pri'thee foolish Conceit leave off thy set-speeches and come to the conceit if selfe in plain languages what goodly thing is 't in the name of laughter Con. Detraction doe thy worste Conceit appears In honour of the Sunne their fellow-friend Before thy censure know then that the spheres Have for a while resigned their orbes and lend Their seats to the Four Elements who joyn'd With the Four known Complexions have atton'd A noble I ague and severally put on Materiall bodies here amongst em none Observes a difference Earth and Ayre alike Are sprightly active Fire and Water seek No glory of preheminence Phlegm and Blood Choler and Melancholy who have stood In contrarieties now meet for pleasure To enterain Time in a courtly measure De. Impossible and inproper first to personate insensible Creatures and next to compound quite opposite humors fie fie fie i'ts abominable Con. Fond ignorance how darest thou vainly scan impossibility what reignes in man Without disorder wisely mixt by nature Maskers To fashion and preserve so high a creature De. Sweete sir when shall our mortall eyes behold this new peice of wonder We must gaze on the starres for it doubtlesse Con. See thus the clouds flie off and run in chase The Maskers discover'd When the Sun's bountie lends peculiar grace De. Fine ifaith pretty and in good earnest but sirrah scholar will they come down too Con. Behold em well the foremost represents Ayr the most sportive of the Elements De. A nimble rascall I warrant him some Aldermans son wonderous giddy and light-headed one that blew his patrimony away in feather and Tobacco Con. The next near him is Fire Det. A cholerick gentleman I should know him a younger brother and a great spender but seldom or never carries any money about him he was begot when the sign was in Taurus for a rores like a Bull But is indeed a Bell-weather Con. The third in rank is Water Det. A phlegmatick cold piece of stuff his father me thinks should be one of the Dunce-table and one that never drunk strong beer in 's life but at festival times and then he caught the heart-burning a whole vacation and half a Term after Con. The fourth is Earth Det. A shrewd plodding-pated fellow and a great lover of news I guesse at the rest Blood is placed near Air Choler near Fire Phlegme and Water are sworn brothers and so are Earth and Melancholie Con. Fair nymph of Harmonie be it thy task To sing them down and rank them in a mask SONG See the Elements conspire Nimble Air doe's court the Earth Water doe's commix with Fire To give our Princes pleasure birth Each delight each joy each sweet In one composition meet All the seasons of the year Winter doe's invoke the Spring Summer doe's in pride appear Autumn forth its fruits doth bring And with emulation pay Their tribute to this Holy-day In which the Darling of the Sun is come To make this place a new Elisium Wint. How do these pleasures please Hu. Pleasures Boun. Live here And be my Lord's friend and thy sports shall vary A thousand waies invention shall beget Conceits as curious as the thoughts of change Can aim at Hu. Trifles progresse o're the year Again my Raybright therein like the Sun As he in heaven runs his circular course So thou on earth run thine for to be fed With stale delights breeds dulnesse and contempt Think on the Spring Ray. She was a lovely Virgin Wint. My roial Lord Without offence be pleas'd but to afford Me give you my true figure do not scorn My age nor think cause I appear forlorn I serve for no use 't is my sharper breath Doe's purge grosse exhalations from the earth My frosts and snows do purifie the air From choking foggs makes the skie clear and fair And though by nature cold and chill I be Yet I 〈◊〉 warm in bounteous charitie And can my Lord by grave and sage advice Bring you toth ' happie shades of Paradice Ray. ●hat wonder Oh! can you bring me thither Wint. I can direct and point you out a path Hu. But where 's the guide Quicken thy spirits Raybright I 'le not leav thee Wee 'l run the self same race again that happinesse These lazie sleeping tedious winters nights Becom not noble action Ray To the Spring Recorders I am resolv'd Oh! what strange light appears The Sun is up sure The Sun above Sun Wanton Darling look and worship with amazement Oes gracious Lord Sun Thy sands are numbred and thy glasse of frailtie 〈…〉 out to the last here in this mirror Let man behold the circuit of his fortunes The 〈◊〉 of the Spring dawns like the Morning Bedewing Childhood with unrelish'd beauties Of gawdie sights the Summer as the Noon Shines in delight of Youth and ripens strength To Autumns Manhood here the Evening grows And knits up all felicitie in follie Winter at last draws on the Night of Age Yet still a humor of som novel fancie Untasted or untry'd puts off the minute Of resolution which should bid farewel To a vain world of wearinesse and sorrows The powers from whom man do's derive his pedigree Of his creation with a roial bountie Give him health youth delight for free attendants To rectifie his carriage to be thankful Again to them Man should casheer his riots His bosom whorish sweet-heart idle Humor His Reasons dangerous seducer Follie then shall Like four streight pillars the four Elements Support the goodly structure of mortalitie Then shall the four Complexions like four heads Of a clear river streaming in his bodie Nourish and comfort every vein and sinew No sicknesse of contagion no grim death Of deprivation of healths real blessings Shall then affright the creature built by heaven Reserv'd to immortalitie henceforth In peace go to our Altars and no more Question the power of supernal greatnesse But give us leav to govern as wee please Nature and her dominion who from us And from our gracious influence hath both being And preservation no replies but reverence Man hath a double guard if time can win him Heavens power above him his own peace within him FINIS

Puts us in this heat or is the air In love with us it clings with such embraces It keeps us in this warmth Hu. This shews her Court Is not far off you covet so to see Her subjects seldom kindle needlesse fires The Sun lends them his flames Ray. Has she rare buildings Hu. Magnificent and curious every noon The horses of the day bait there whilst he Who in a golden Chariot makes them gallop In twelve hours o're the world alights a while To give a love-kisse to the Summer queen Ray. And shall we have fine sights there Hn. Oh! Ray. And hear more ravishing musick Bu. All the quiristers That learn't to sing i' th Temple of the Spring But her attain such cunning that when the windes Rore and are mad and clouds in antick gambols Dance o're our head their voices have such charms They 'l all stand still to listen Ray. Excellent Enter Follie Fol. I sweat like a pamper'd jade of Asia and drop like a Cob-nut out of Africa Enter a Forrester For. Back whither go you Oyes this way For. None must passe Here 's kept no open Court our Queen this day Rides forth a hunting and the air being hot She will not have rude throngs to stifle her back Ext. Enter Summer and Delight Sum. And did break her heart then Del. Yes with disdain Sum. The heart of my deer mother nurse the Spring I 'le breake his heart for t● had she not a face Too tempting for a Iove Del. The graces sate On her faire eye-lids ever but his youth Lusting for change so doted on a Lady Phantastick and yet fair a peece of wonder They call her Humor and her parasite Folly He cast the sweet Spring off and turn'd us from him Yet his celestial kinsman for young Raybright Is the Snns darling knowing his jorneying hither To see thy glorious Court sends mee before To attend on you and spend all my hours In care for him Enter Su● Recorders Sum. Obay your charge oh thou builder Of me thy hand maid Landlord of my life Life of my love throne where my glories sit I ride in trynmph on a silver clowd Now I but see thee Sun Rise is Raybright come yet Del. Not yet Sun Be you indulgent over him And lavish thou thy treasure Enter Plenty Plen. Our princely Cosen Raybright Your darling and the worlds delight is come Sun who with them Ple. A goddesse in a woman attended By a prating sawcie fellow called Follie Sun They 'l confound him but he shall run Go and receive him Sun Your sparkling eyes and his arivall drawes Heapes of admirers earth it self will sweat To bear our weights vouchsafe bright power to borrow Winds not too rough from Aeolus to fan Our glowing faces Sun I will ho Aeolus Unlock the jayle and lend a winde or two To fan my girle the Summer Aeo. I will Sun No rorers Aeo. No Hoboyes Sun Quickly The Sun takes his heat above Aeo. Fly you slaves Summer sweats cool her Enter Summer Raybright Humor Plenty Folly Country-fellows and Wenches SONG Hay-makers Rakers Reapers and Mowers Waite on your Summer-Queen Dresse up with Musk-rose her Eglentine bowers Daffadills strew the greene Sing dance and play 'T is Holy day the Sun does bravely shine on our ears of corn Rich as a pearle coms every girle this is mine this is mine this is mine Let us die ere away they be born Bow to the Sun to our Queen and that fair one com to behold our sparts Each bonny lasse here is counted a rare one as those in Princes Courts these and wee with Countrie glee will teach the woods to resound and the hills with eccho's hollow skipping lambs their bleating dams 'mongst kids shall trip it round for joy thus our wenches we follow Winde jollie Hunts-men your neat Bugles shrilly Hounds make a lustie crie Spring up you Faulconers the Partridges freely then let your brave Hawks flie Horses amain ever ridg over plain the Dogs have the Stag in chace 't is a sport to content a King So ho ho through the skies how the proud bird flies and sowcing kills with a grace Now the Deer falls hark how they ring Sum. Leav off the Sun is angry has drawn A clowd before his face The Sun by degrees is clowded Hu. He is vex'd to see That proud star shine near you at whose rising The Spring fell sick and dy'd think what I told you His coynes will kill you else Sum. It cannot fair Prince Though your illustrious name has touch'd mine ear Till now I never saw you nor never saw A man whom I more love more hate Ray. Ha Ladie Sum. For him I love you from whose glittering raies You boast your great name for that name I hate you Because you kill'd my mother and my nurse Plen. Kill'd he my grandmother Plenty will never Hold you by th' hand again Sum. You have free leave To thrust your arm into our treasurie As deep as I my self Plenty shall wait Still at your elbow all my sports are yours Attendants yours my state and glorie 's yours But these shall be as sun-beams from a glasse Reflected on you not to give you heat To dote on a smooth face my spirit 's too great Exit Ray. Divinest Florish Hu. Let her go Fol. And I 'le go after for I must and will have a fling at one of her plum-trees Ray. I ne're was scorn'd till now Hu. This is that Alteza That Rhodian wonder gaz'd at by the Sun I fear'd thine eies should have beheld a face The Moon has not a clearer this a dowdie Fol. An Ouzle this a queen-apple or a crab she gave you Hu. She bid's you share her treasure but who keeps it Fol. She point's to trees great with childe with fruit but when delivered grapes hang in ropes but no drawing not a drop of wine whole ears of corn lay their ears together for bread but the divel a bit I can touch Hu. Be rul'd by me once more leave her Ray. In scorn as he doe's me Fol. Scorn If I be not deceived I ha seen Summer go up and down with hot Codlings and that little baggage her daughter Plenty crying six bunches of Raddish for a peny Hu. Thou shalt have nobler welcoms for I 'le bring thee To a brave and bounteous house-keeper free Autumne Fol. Oh! there 's a lad let 's go then Plen. Where 's this Prince my mother for the Indies Must not have you part Ra. Must not Sum. No must not I did but chide thee like a whistling winde Playing with leavie dancers when I told thee I hated thee I lied I doat upon thee Unlock my garden of th' Hesperides By draggons kept the Apples beeing pure gold Take all that fruit 't is thine Plen. Love but my mother I 'le give thee corn enough to feed the world Ray. I need not golden apples not your corn What land soe're the worlds surveyor the Sun Can measure in a day I dare call