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A35271	Calisto, or, The chaste nimph, the late masque at court as it was frequently presented there, by several persons of great quality : with the prologue, and the songs betwixt the acts / all written by J. Crowne.	Crown, Mr. (John), 1640?-1712.; Staggins, Nicholas, 1650?-1700.	1675 (1675)	Wing C7377; ESTC R21034	46,812	98

fear at every shreek proclaim Tha. Am I alone to blame Do you not see Augusta Rich and Fair Though to her Lap I all my Treasure bear Will for no comfort stay her Tears The following Stanza is properly part of the Genius's Speech being a pertinent Reply to Thames but being set extreme pleasantly and for a treble voice it was sung by Thames Augusta is inclin'd to fears Be she full or be she waining Still Augusta is complaining Give her all you can to ease Her You shall never never please Her Chor. Augusta is enclin'd to fears c. Gen. These fears do not belong to Her nor You Europe onely should lament The Nymphs of his fair Continent Some Gyants now pursue But this sweet Isle no Monster can invade Tha. Oh send those poor distressed Nymphs some aid Eur. From the mild power of this happy place Who is inclin'd To make the World as peaceful as his mind They have already gain'd the grace Two Heroes of his own Celestial Race Are sent the one to Triumph o're the Seas And all the watery Divinities The other Monsters of the Land to quell And make the Nymphs in safety dwell Gen. The first in War has all Perfections gain'd That can by humane Nature be attain'd The second promises to be All that in the first we see Eur. Mars to the first does all his Glory lend The second Beauty Youth and Love attend Gen. Both in high perfections shine Valor Glory Race Divine Wait awhile and you shall see Both return with Victory Pea. Hark hark the Triumph's near And see they both already Crown'd appear Enter one Crown'd with a Naval Crown attended by Sea-gods and Tritons Rejoice you watry Deities The mighty Monsters of the Seas This valiant Prince has slain The God of this fair Isle shall now Command as all his Right allow The Empire of the Main Enter one Crown'd with a Mural Crown attended by Warriors Ye Gods and Nymphs of Plains and Groves Of Springs and Streams enjoy your Loves This youthful Heroe has subdu'd The Satyrs now of ev'ry Wood Has kill'd or ta'n 'em all for Slaves And chac'd the Giants from their Caves Chor. of all Let us both their praises sing Whilst we both in Triumph bring Let us all contend to grace 'em With our loud and joyfull'st thanks Whilst upon the flow'ry Banks Of this beautious Nymph we place ' em Two Entries are Danc'd One of Sea-gods and the other of Warriors Gen. Now welcome Heroes to my blest abode And to my Nymph belov'd by ev'ry God Tha. Welcom to my Love and me Now we all shall happy be Cho. Now we all shall happy be A Temple of Fame appears Plen. Now you whose Valor gives the World repose See what Fame on you bestows Her shining Temple shall preserve your Names And thence her Trumpet your Renown proclaims Gen. To our Divinity now let us go And at his Feet your Crowns and Trophies throw Eur. I will my thanks in Offerings proclaim Asi I 'll lend you Spice Amer. I Gold Afr. And I the same Tha. I 'll be your Guide My Streams beneath his Palace hourly slide There it is not far before you Pleasure Arts Religion Glory Warm'd by his propitious Smile Flourish there and bless this Isle Gen. But stay what wonder does my spirit seize Turning to the King Queen See! here are both the great Divinities Tha. The God and Goddess too of this bless'd Isle Chaste Beauty in Her Aspect shines And Love in His does smile Gen. Quickly Heroes as 't is meet Throw your Trophies at their Feet Fall down and adore 'em Whilst with speed we hither call The Gods of Neighb'ring Groves and all Their Nymphs to dance before ' em An Entry of Rural Gods and Nymphs When the Prologue is done and all gone off the Stage Enter two who sing this following Song Now for the Play the Prologue is done The Dancing is o're and the Singers are gone The Ladies so Fine and so Fair it surpasses Are dress'd and have all tak'n leave of their Classes Where are the Slaves should make ready the Stage Here here are the Slaves should make ready the Stage An Entry of Carpenters IT having been the manner of all those who have had the Honour before me to serve the Court in Employments of this Nature to adorn their Works with the Names of those Great Persons who had Parts in the Representation I hope I shall not be condemned if I following their Examples Consecrate this of mine to Posterity by the same Policy The Persons of the Play The Personators Calisto a chaste and favourite Nymph of Diana beloved by Jupiter Her Highness the Lady Mary Nyphe a chaste young Nymph Friend to Calisto Her Highness the Lady Anne Jupiter in Love with Calisto The Lady Henrietta Wentworth Juno The Countess of Sussex Psecas an envious Nymph Enemy to Calisto beloved by Mercury The Lady Mary Mordant Diana Goddess of Chastity Mrs. Blagge late Maid of Honour to the Queen Mercury in Love with Psecas Mrs. Jennings Maid of Honour to the Dutchess Nymphs attending on Diana who also danced in the Prologue and in several Entries in the Play The Countess of Darby The Countess of Pembroke The Lady Katharine Herbert Mrs. Fitz-Gerald Mrs. Frazier Maid of Honour to the Queen The PERSONS of QUALITY of the Men that Danced were His Grace the Duke of Monmouth The Viscount Dunblaine The Lord Daincourt Mr. Trevor Mr. Harpe Mr. Lane In the PROLOGVE were Represented The River Thames by Mrs. Davis Peace by Mrs. Knight Plenty by Mrs. Butler The Genius of England by Mr. Turner Europe by by by Mr. Hart. Asia by Mr. Richardson Africa by Mr. Marsh junior America by Mr. Ford. In the Chorusses betwixt the ACTS Strephon The Part sung by Mr. Hart. Coridon The Part sung by Mr. Turner Sylvia The Part sung by Mrs. Davis Dophne The Part sung by Mrs. Knight Two African Women or Blacks The Part sung by Mrs. Butler Mrs. Hunt The SCENE of the PLAY is ARCADIA The DURATION of it An Artificial Day CALISTO ACT. I. Jupiter at a distance Mercury IVPITER HOW am I tir'd thus vainly to pursue A Nymph I cannot keep in view I daily through Arcadia rove O're every Hill through every Grove But in her Ears to Sigh my Love And may as well the Shades and Ecchoes chace The Shades I easier can embrace Which grieves me too whilst I this Maze have trod There 's none to pity a dispairing God Mer. In these Arcadian Woods I 've lost my Heart Aside Whilst I the Nymph by whom I smart Pursue some little Ease to get This Jove I've oft a wandring met He makes my Jealousie grow strong What does he do out of his Heav'n so long I 'm sure on some fair Nymph he has Design And all my fear is lest it should be mine Can no soft Beauty be Embrac'd But he must still desire a Tast That the Old Titans from his Throne had hurl'd This general

obscure name of MADAM Your Highnesses most humble And most devoted Servant John Crowne TO THE READER READER IF you were ever a Spectator of this following Entertainment when it was Represented in its Glory you will come if you come at all with very dull Appetite to this cold lean Carkass of it The Dancing Singing Musick which were all in the highest Perfection the most graceful Action incomparable Beauty and rich and splendid Habit of the Princesses whose Lustre received no moderate encrease from the Beauties and rich Habits of the Ladies who had the Honor to accompany 'em and share in the performance must needs have afforded you a delight so extraordinary that this will appear very insipid If you have never seen it then perhaps you may receive some pleasure but yet I fear not so much as you expect You no doubt will imagine and you have reason that an Entertainment so much honoured and adorned followed at innumerable Rehearsals and all the Representations by throngs of Persons of the greatest Quality and designed for the Pleasures and Divertisements of Their Majesties and Royal Highnesses and accordingly very often Graced with Their Presences should be some superlative piece But you will be disappointed you will find nothing here answer those swelling expectations How it happens to be so it is enough to tell you That it was written by me and it would be very strange if a bad Writer should write well but which was as great an unhappiness I had not time enough allowed me to muster together on so great an occasion those few Abilities I have I was invaded on the sudden by a Powerful Command to prepare an Entertainment for the Court which was to be written learnt practised and performed in less time than was necessary for the writing alone True it was not performed till some Months after the time first decreed but that hapned from the discretion of those on whom the Dancing and Musical parts depended who found it required time to do any thing in Perfection but I not knowing it would be so deferred finished my Part within the time first alotted me which was scarce a Month not only for the Play but the Prologue and Songs the Nature of which I was wholly a stranger to having never seen any thing of the kind and by these means I was forced upon a brisk dullness writing quick but flat I was also confined in the number of the Persons I had but seven allow'd me neither more nor less those seven to be all Ladies and of those Ladies two onely were to appear in Mens Habits Next for my Subject it was not I confess imposed upon me by Command but it was for want of time to find a better For I had but some few hours allow'd me to choose one And as Men who do things in haste have commonly ill Fortune as well as ill Conduct I resolving to choose the first tolerable Story I could meet with unhappily encountred this where by my own rashness and the malice of Fortune I involved my self before I was aware in a difficulty greater than the invention of the Philosophers Stone that only endeavors to extract Gold out of the coursest Metals but I employed my self to draw one contrary out of another to write a clean decent and inoffensive Play on the Story of a Rape so that I was engaged in this Dilemma either wholly to deviate from my Story and so my Story would be no Story or by keeping to it write what would be unfit for Princesses and Ladies to speak and a Court to hear That which tempted me into so great a Labyrinth was the fair and beautiful Image that stood at the Portall I mean the exact and perfect Character of Chastity in the person of Calisto which I thought a very proper Character for the Princess to represent nor was I mistaken in my judgment the difficulty lay in the other part of the Story to defend Chastity was easie the danger was in assaulting it I was to storm it but not to wound it to shoot at it but not offend it my Arrows were to be invisible and without Piles my Guns were to be charged with white Powder the Bullets were to flie but give no Report These were Niceties required skill to perform and would have puzled a finer Invention than mine and indeed I did a little fail in my first attempt my Arrows though as fine as I could then in haste turn 'em yet were too course for a Court I often pared 'em and much difficulty I found to make 'em thin enough to pass through nice and delicate Ears without wounding 'em an Art which with much pains in this Emendation I attained The last and not the least difficulty imposed on me in the Entertainment was in the Chorusses I was obliged to invent proper Occasions to introduce all the Entries and particularly for the closing of all with an Entry of Africans How I have succeeded in it I leave the Reader to judge Under all these difficulties did this poor Poem labour even before it was an Embrio and when sleeping in its causes and when in the womb it was squeez'd and hinder'd of its due growth by intolerable strait lacings and lastly forced on an immature and hasty birth by all which inconveniences it was impossible it should prove otherwise than a weak lean ricketty deformed piece and as such notwithstanding the kindness it received from others it was looked on by me and accordingly I was impatient till I had strangled it and in the room produced something less imperfect something of a constitution strong enough to endure the blows of its Enemies and of a Complexion beautiful enough to delight its Parents and Friends and such a thing in some low degree at least this is which you see Far be it from me to say it is as well as it ought to be or as others of greater Abilities would have written it Nor give me leave to say so well as I my self would have done on a better Subject and in less haste for this was written in a hurry as well as the former being finished and learnt between the second and third Representation but having the advantage of Features and dead Colours laid it was easie to work something on that foundation better than the former and I undertook the trouble not only to repair my own Reputation but to give some refreshment to the Audiences who would have been weary of a better Play at the second or third Representation and therefore must needs be weary of that at the 20 th or 30 th for near so often it had been Rehearsed and Acted Some perhaps will expect I should not only Apologize for not writing better but daring on such an occasion to write at all but having said it was done by Command none can have so little manners as to expect I should make excuse for Obedience I must confess it was great pity that in an Entertainment where