This Masquarade Du Ciel may be printed HENRY HERBERT Novemb. 24. 1640. In hoc tantùm peccat quòd nihil peccat I. T. MASQUARADE DU CIEL Presented to the GREAT QUEENE of the LITTLE VVORLD A CELESTIALL MAP REPRESENTING The True Site and Motions of the Heavenly Bodies through the yeeres 1639 1640 c. SHADOWING The late Commotions between SATURN and MERCURY about the Northern THULE With the Happy PEACE and UNION through the whole LITTLE WORLD made by the Goodnesse of PHEBUS and His Royall PHEBE By I. S. LONDON Printed by K. B. for S. C. 1640. TO THE QUEENE MADAME IT cannot be presumption to present That Which to detaine were Sacriledge my Plea is I Durst not but Bring the Letters which HEAVEN Sends It endites what Earth writes in THIS most specially Which it hath Signed with its owne Hand and Sealed with its owne Signet Yet if unacquainted with its Hand I mistake the Superscription and present it amisse my Hope is Such Royall Goodnesse may yet Pardon MADAME Your Majesties most Humble Servant I. S. PHEBVS and His Royall PHEBE King and Queene of Heaven Poëticall Names compounded of Greek words signi•ying Light and Life Both which come from the Sunne and Moone SATVRN The coldest Planet remotest from the Sunne and This Earth With Poets a Great God which being a Northern Genius they make to reside about THVLE a cold North Iland belonging to the Crown of SCOTLAND as appeares in the Notes after the M•sque MERCVRY in Heaven a Little Planet little in Body but great in Influence with Poets the Great God of Learning Patron of Schollers and all Ecclesiasticall men IVPITER with Poets Saturns sonne in Heaven a Planet neare the Sunne MARS a Fiery Planet The Poeticall God of Warre and a Generall Enemy to all Peace VENVS a Great Bright Planet going sometimes behinde but often before the Sunne in Heaven With Poets an Old Great Goddesse and as Great a Friend to Mars Enemy to Peace Corona Borea Celestiall Heroins waiting on PHEBE Lyra Celestiall Heroins waiting on PHEBE Aquila Celestiall Heroins waiting on PHEBE Coma Berenices Celestiall Heroins waiting on PHEBE Cassiopea Celestiall Heroins waiting on PHEBE Most of these Persons are more fully expre•t page 6. The Severall Scenes Antimasques and Entries in This Device of HEAVEN THE GENERALL SCENE is the LITTLE WORLD or Isle of BRITAIN centred within the Sphears of Heaven page 1. The GREAT QUEENE being seated under a Royall State a Cloud rising brings up the First Scene A Scene of Darknesse Nightwork Thunder Lightning with all Attendants of Storme and Tempest NIGHT enters in a hideous shape holding a Landskip of Horror inscribed in a strange Dialect to cause more Admiration ΣKOTOS * * Signifying Darknesse But soaring up too neere the State is amaz'd at such a Majestie and as dazled with that unexpected Brightnesse is forced to retire in most confused haste in which She lost two of Her Attendants SILENCE and OBLIVION Which were still retained behinde Her as Foyles to grace the following Scene of glorious Brightnesse rising up like a cleere Day dawning out of blackest Clouds p. 3 4. In this Scene Two Celestiall HEROINS * * Astronomia Astrologia descend from the Sphears Presenting the Plot of the Masque to the GREAT QUEENE with a Petition inviting Her to vouchsafe Her presence to the HERO'S of Heaven now ready to attend Her whose Beauty might supply the want of PHEBUS Rayes who was already Masked within the Sphe•• expecting Her presence page 4. These two re-ascending in a glorious Rain-bow Sing the first Song to the GREAT QUEENE who rising up in a Rosie coloured Cloud was presently seene Entring among the Masquers personating PHEBE and at the end of the Masque was againe seene with Her Royall PHEBUS under the State while a Celestiall Cho•us enters singing and concludes the Masque page 19. The Plot of the Masque presented by ASTRONOMIA and ASTROLOGIA consists of two Parts or Maps The one Celestiall the other Terrestriall The Celestiall Map * * This Map is fully represented in the Masque Vnmaskt is a most true and exact draught o• the Site and Motions of the SUN MOONE VENUS SATURN MERCURY JUPITER and MARS with other Heavenly Bodies through the yeeres 1639 1640 c. The Terrestriall Map is truly to represent How all Those Motions were shadowed upon Earth for all That time But this last Map or History is not yet fully perfected because the exact proportion 'twixt Heaven and Earth is not yet concluded on by the best ASTRONOMERS The Celestiall and Terrestriall Maps shadowed Both together in one compendious Scheme being an Epitomy of the following Masque PHEBUS pleasing to blesse the Southern World with his Chiefest Residence deputes MERCURY to the Northern THULE * * Of this THVLE as of Saturn and M•rc•ries Right to it and quar•ell for it• a•e large Note• both in the Margents of the Masque and after the Masque but SATURN having pre-possession drives MERCURY back from THULE This Quarrell is shadowed in the Antimasque of Night-work inscribed ΣKOTOS pag. 3. MARCH 1639. APRIL 1639. MAY 1639. MERCURY imploreth PHEBUS Who in much Goodnesse condescendeth to take a Northerne Progresse toward THULE to reconcile these Two yet lest They should prove Contumacious He advanceth in Warre-like manner attended with JUPITER MARS and all their Satellites pag. 9. JUNE But PHEBE'S Royall Goodnesse vouchsafeth to Mediate Peace which PHEBUS granteth to his Dearest PHEBE and so SATURN and MERCURY are againe setled by PHEBUS in their proper Places Onely MARS is Enemy to This Peace and by divers assayes Labours to break it But PHEBE still opposeth Him and so prevaileth that MARS Fals downe as Thunder-struck yeelding himself Prisoner to PHEBUS JULY PHEBUS returneth again leading MARS a Captive-Prisoner to His wonted Southern Residence to the content and Joy of All pag. 12.13 At His Return VENUS petitioneth for Her old Friend MARS and begg•th His Liberty which at length AUGUST PHEBUS granteth in much Royall Goodnesse which to all ingenuous Noble Spirits is a Bond much more Strong then any Chaine then any Fetter MARS released being more inraged at His Imprisonment Plots to incense SATURN and MERCURY againe Through the •est of 1639 and great Pa•t o• 1640. and after divers assayes at length prevailes so farre that SATURN begins againe to frown on MERCURY which MARS so foments that ere long MERCURY is again driven out of THULE and forced to re-implore PHEBUS PHEBUS condescendeth to take a Second Progresse toward THULE 1640. yet resolving rather to prevaile with gentle Rayes of wonted Goodnesse then by Thunderbolts But PHEBE again vouchsafeth to interpose Her selfe prevailing with PHEBUS SEPTEMBER to summon His Grand Councell of all the Seeming Deities pag. 14. Who meeting in AREOPAGUS * * M•rs-Hill S•e the Ma•gin•ll N•tes pag 1. joyntly agree to Arraigne MARS for rebelling against PHEBUS disturbing the Peace mediated by PHEBE incensing SATURN and
an All-men-ake a peece of Felony what ever more for 'twas Stolen out of an old Ephemerides calculated for another Climat and not for the Scene of This Royall Masque of Heaven Whose Heroick Genius disdaines such spurious Comitragick Interludes and yet This Pedantick Strologer would faine have Canted out his old Prosodia with new Accents and acuter Tones which might perhaps have at length beene over-heard by some of the Masq•ers above had not some neere him wiser then Himselfe quickly husht him and sent him packing to learne New Calculations in the Old Counter-house However This Discord below with sweet Cadence brought in the Concord above with the finer grace at least to the Lower Specta•tors For the Ot•er needed no artificiall Foyles to Grace their most Naturall Harmony made by Heaven it self with all its Sphears And while this Musick melted away by degrees at the North Horizon PHEBUS Rose in great Glory advancing Southward againe with his wonted Attendance sutabl• to His Majestie His Triumphant Chariot was drawne by Sparkling Steeds Foure in Front as the old Romans were wont to Triumph 1 1 In Iune 163• the Sun came to CANCE• called the Tropick because he there begins to turn southward again in the Ecl•ptick but came not in•o LEO his wonted P•lace •ill Iu•y CANCER being his Hig•est Aux or A•oge•m s•ems a Triumphant Chariot Now JUPITER also commeth back again with his Satellites waiting on the Returne of His Soveraigne PHEBUS who in his Return exalteth JUPITER 2 2 IVPITER followed him being Relr g•ade and was 〈…〉 a gracious 〈…〉 Sun b••ng i• CANCER whic• all Astr••oge•s •a•l IVPITERS EXALTATION His Loyall and most Humble Servant who like a Noble Subject Thought one Gracious smile one Glaunce from his Prince more then enough to reward the most faithfull and Loyall Service possible to His Royall Soveraign MERCURY also Leaving a while his Northern Station commeth Southward Following PHEBUS till Hee came to the Royall Palace and there Rested Dismis•ing MERCURY with a gracious smile 3 3 MERCVRY was Nort•ern A•rill and May but in I•ne be•ame Sout•ern followi•g the Sun••ll he rest in LEO where he was graciously aspected both by Sun and Mo•n and then became Northe•n againe Only MARS is Enemy to This Pacification whether out of Naturall Antipathy to SATURN ever since He mockt him for Dalliance with VENUS or else in Sympathy to MERCURY in whose House He had been Billeted most of This Time what ere the matter was He seemed much inraged that He must either returne and strike never a blow or else stay Freezing in the cold Cronian Ocean as a lump of raw metall glu'd to the North Pole by its magneticall vertue 4 4 Here as in the •ormer Interlude are •hadowd some unexpected Commotions strangely disturbing the First Pacification These are raised by MARS the Poe•icall God of warre Enimy to all peace and in Heaven the most fiery Planet While He lingreth in MERCURIES House SATUR• Threatens him who quite benumd and Frozen into a Dastardly Apoplexy by the Northern sent of Cold THULE is forced to cry mercy and not able to resist such strong Syllogisms made in Ferio he Flies thence and Flutters Southward againe with all his Ice-ickles But Comming at length into Southern Heat He is thawd againe into His wonted Rage which was Frozen about THULE and Raging Enters PHEBE'S Palace Hoping by some meanes to divert Her mediation and so disturb the Pacification 5 5 MARS being in GE•MINI MERCVRE'S H•use APRIL and MAY 1639 〈◊〉 here aspected by SATVRN and towards the beginning of IVNE He is driven thence and seem•ng inraged Enter• CANCER the MOONS House Put in CANCER the MOON opposed Him• as a•peares by the n•xt Entry in This Mas••e which is to •e ref•rd to the Motio•s of t•e •eave•l• Bodies throug• IVNE IVLY and the rest of 16•9 But for all his Spurrs His Rage is Bootlesse for PHEBE soone Opposeth Him in greatest displeasure 1 1 This Op••sition of •ARS was but two or three dayes a•ter the MOON had mediated Peace between the SVN SATVRN and M••CVRY about the beg••ning of IVNE 1639. being That fire-brand that first kindled debate between SATURN and MERCURY and now dur•t smoake also at That Peace which Her owne Goodnesse had vouchsafed to mediate with such happy successe While He yet Raged PHEBE so prevailed that with a Ray darted out MARS was dazled suddenly fell dow• as Thunder-struck yeelding himselfe Prisoner to PHEBUS And so being drawne Captive like after the Triumphant Chariot for shame grief He hideth himself under it 2 2 Presently a•ter T•is ••••osition MARS Fe•l Com••st and so was Hid by the Sun-Beams in CANCER Which Signe is with all Astrologers cald MARS FAL. VENUS at first was affrighted at This unexspected Fall of MARS Fled Thence yet seemed Ambitious to attend PHEBUS Triumph so hasteth into His Royall Palace there to prepare for His Glorious Return 3 3 When MARS thus Fell in CANCER VENVS was there but as affrighted Fled thence into LEO the SVNS Pala•e seeming to prepa•e for His Returne which was in IVLY 1639. At which She petitioneth for her old Friend MARS beggeth his Liberty which PHEBUS at length Granteth in much Mercy 4 4 In SEPTEMBER MARS was set free •rom the Sunn's•eames in LIBRA which is the House of VENVS MARS Constant •riend with all the Poets Well knowing that Royall Goodnes to all Ingenuous No•le Spirits is a stronger Bond then any Chaine then any Fetter MARS released by PHEBUS at VENUS Petition was now no Prisoner yet MARS still and still mindfull of Former Chaines such is His Temper still soon hasteth into VENUS House There to renew Former acqaintance Thence he plotteth to incense SATURN and MERCURY again and after divers assays at length prevailes so farr that SATURN begins again to frown on MERCURY which Frowning Disgust MARS so resents and soments that ere long MERCURY is again Driven out of THULE and again by SATURN forced to Fall 5 5 MARS thus Free •rom Combustion c. Entreth LIBRA VENV'S House and thence aspecteth SATVRN and MERCVRY OCTOB. 1639. Which seems to inrage them for soon afte• They Frown in a bitter Quartile which Frown MARS so Foments by divers Aspects that ME•CVRY being met by SATVRN FEB 1640. is Driven again out of AQVARIVS SATVRN'S House sha•owed he•e by THVLE into PISCES which signe is wi•h •ll Astrolog•rs MERCVRIE•S FALL MERCURY Falling re-imploreth PHEBUS helpe His best refuge after which PHEBUS condescendeth to make a Second Progresse to•ards THULE Yet resolves by Gentle Rayes of Royall Goodnes much rather then by Thunder-bolts to prevaile both with SATURN and MARS who now joyntly opposed MERCURY 6 6 M••cury mee•s t•e Sun in Pis••s so seems to beg his help Who ere long advanceth •ort••a•d••gain in his way is oppos'd by Sat•rn Mars Who Both also oppose Mercury Aug. Sept. 1640. But PHEBE 7 7 But in
Freest and greatest Liberty speakes Their Soveraign the Compleatest Monarch Ruling not only Bodies with Feare but Soules with Love Which still was still will be the Surest and the Straitest Bond to all Ingenuous Noble Spirits to Rule Whom is Truly to be a King a Royall Prince Thus most Happily was a Compleat Peace setled through the whole Little World mediated by PHEBE petitioned also and most cordially desired with one consent by all the CAUSES Granted Sealed confirmed by the Royall Goodnesse of the GREAT KING Which to maintaine and attest PHEBUS was graciously pleased to Decree and Ordaine Frequent State Meetings Consultations of All the CAUSES 3 3 Thus again in F•bruo•y 1642 is a Grea•Me•ting of •ost of the Heavenly Bodies But in PISCES In PISCES also is a •arr gr•ater Meeting of all the •la•e•s but MARS spe•i•lly SATVRN and IVPIT•R wayting on SVN and MOON 〈◊〉 1643 And if THIS MOST GREAT CONIVNCTION be not Attended with most notable Events m•st probably for much good through greatest Part of Europe All Mathematici•ns must conf•ss They yet understand not the Di•lect of Heaven Who before This First Meeting was disolved after a most gratefull acknowledgment of the wonted Goodnesse of PHEBUS and His Royall PHEBE in quietting those Sad Commotions so much disturbing the Little World did joyntly agree to petition His Majestie Hee would be graciously pleased that all Remembrance of MERCURY and SATURN'S Quarrell might be wiped out not only from His own Breast which His own Goodnesse of its self had already done but also from the whole Little World so that an Act of 1 1 This was preshadowed i• the Antimasque of Night and Day Da•ing where af•er Night was cha•ed away y•t SILENCE and OBLIVION among H•r Attendants were still detained as Foyles to grace the following S•ene of Glorious Brigtn•ss• This alludes also to the ol•Athenian AMNHΣTIA o• which b•fore in the marginall n•tes pag. 4. OBLIVION might forever blot out and quite remove all Staines and Spots that might respectively adhere to any of his Loyall and Devoted Subjects But for an Eternall remembrance and Detestation of MARS His Treason in Rebelling against PHEBUS Disturbing the Peace and Disquieting the whole Little World His Majestie was petitioned the Name of MARS might no longer endure in the Court of Heaven Yet that all His Former Tenures might still remaine But only as Eternall Memorials of the Goodnesse of PHEBUS and His Royall PHEBE So that Heaven should no longer mention the House of MARS or MARS Ioy But for all These in Their Places respective The GLORY of PHEBUS 2 2 ARIES MARS House is by all Astrologers called the SVN'S Glory or Exaltation And that the Place where MARS Fell a Captive to His Majestie should forever be called in Heaven The TRIUMPH of PHEBUS and His ROYALL PHEBE 3 3 CANCER where MARS Fell Combust pag. 13. and so a Captiv• to the SVN i• the MOONS Ho•se and the SVNS Aux or Triumph And because in all the late Commotions It was much suspected MARS had been too much Beckt and abetted by His old Friend VENUS who yet for some Causes was not •ctually excluded from the Seeming Deities his Majesty was moved that the Place where MARS released had plotted with Venus to incense SATURN might no more be called as it was before the House of VENUS But the Honour of SATURN 4 4 LIBRA VENVS House which MARS Entred after His Release and thenc• incensed SATVRN pag. 13 is by all Astrologers c•ll•d SATVRN'S Exaltation or Honour as app••res by the Scheam a•nexed to the end of the Masque pag. 19. The First of these Petitions was soone Granted by PHEBUS But the other not without earnest solicitation of all the Petitioners For such is Royall Goodnesse much more prone to Smile then Frowne yet yeelding to Both in fittest seasons Knowing there is a Time when Publique Good calling for Justice leaves no Rome or Place for any Mercy but That only which some miss-call Severity Heere a Transparent Cloud of thinne exhalations op'ned itselfe and disappeared * * Erit Nubecula fors•n non Nub•s After which PHEBUS is scene Resting with His Royall PHEBE under the State to the Greatest content and Joy of All Witnessed by a Generall Applause first began among the Deities in Heaven and being thence reflected through the whole Scene is againe Counter-echoed by all the Sphears Which for a while seemed to Stand still 1 1 This alludes to the Winter Solstice in which Heaven se•ms to Stand Still a while while the dayes neith•r increase nor decrease Sensibly Hence it is called the Solstice or Sun's Standing Still as Ravisht with admiration at so Happy a Peace through the Little world Then as Rap• out of a Pauze broke out at once into most harmonious soul-ravishing Musick first heard at distance as began among the Sphears melodiously Tun'd like choysest Voyces into sweetest Consort in severall Parts then Waved neerer and neerer till it was artificially Caught and continued by a Celestiall Chorus which Entred the Scene Singing to Congratulate PHEBUS most happy Return and Rest with His Dearest PHEBE after the Peace so well concluded by Their Royall Goodnesse The Close of the Song was This You Sacred Fires no lesse Divine then Bright Who Dazle Heaven When You Rise With Luster farr more glorious then Its Light Which yet doth more then Blesse our eyes Your Beauty's more Divine your Light more Pure Your Virtue's Purer then your Light Eternall Luster This shall Bright indure When other Brightnesse shall be Night When all the Sphears at once agree To make one Tune One Harmonie 'Tis not so Good 'Tis not so Sweet As Yours When You in Consort meet What was too Harsh what was too Lowd To Concord now is sweetly Bowd Such is Your Musick Such your Skill All Notes are Tuned to Your Will While Iarring Tones did grate our Eares We fear'd a Discord But our Fears Are Tun'd to Joyes On Their Bass Part The Meane and Treble were Your Art Strike That againe againe That Note is sweet A Melting not a Dying Tone Your Sweetnesse cannot Dye then Living meet Vs in your Sphear Your Highest Throne Nay now we wrong the World All Loyall Soules Each moment Kneele and Vow and Pray Your Long abode on Earth This This controules Our wish and makes Vs wish Your Stay Be long expected in your Highest Sphear And long give Light to Mortal's eyes For All the Beauty which They Worship Heere Is but refracted fro•mYours Rayes And When You Leaving Earth shall Heaven chuse Behinde You leave Posterity Like Flow'rs to gemm and sprout with Heav'nly Dewes While You Enjoy Eternity Eternity Eternity Heere the Song waved away Rapt into Lowd yet most melodious Harmony• into which as Melting themselves the Celestiall Chorus dis-appeared Then as Animate by some New Genius began a most Sprightly Dance to the Violins which ending in Single Passages The Ladies Rise to Dance the Revels with the
None asked more for more could not be said more could not be Thought Yet one thing more there was at which both Art and Nature stood amaz'd each thinking That the others Skill Which it selfe durst not presume to owne This was a most Naturall Likenesse Propo•tion Feature yea Identity it selfe between This Faire and Glorious PHEBE now over the State 1 1 In the bright Clouds of Heaven and That as Faire Great and Glorious a QUEEN seene before under it Most of the Spectators •ot having eyes to see One Sunne much lesse Two at once thought Both Those but One yet with severall names in severall Places So over the State They called Her PHEBE but under it The GREAT QUEENE as of old to the Poets The same Deity was but in severall Places PHEBE DIANA and PROS••PINA Yet some few that saw with Thoughts as well as eyes Thought the One only Reall The other Representative as Reflected on some choisest Chrystall fixt or moved sooner then Thought yet still after the Motions of the GREAT QUEENE But some Sublimate Rosie-Crucians that were present with their Spectacles not yet content would needs dive to the Bottome of their Deepest Chrysiple to search out This artificiall Mysterie of Nature In discussing of which They had almost made another Antimasque or peece of Night-worke by profound Mysticall Disputations whether Art or Nature Sense or Reason could best separate abstract a• least prescind a Sprightly Genius from its Body which they called the Carcer Animae the Night of Light the Terrean Hecceity of an Etheriall Quiddity so that the same Suppositum might exist in Two distinct Individuums For such they thought the Existence of these Masquers both in Heaven and Earth at the same instant And these suttle Losophers which was best of all thought this Tactulum of theirs a fine Grace to this Masque of Heaven Hoping their Bandore might happly doe as much for the Bass at the next Confort as the Gras-hopper once did for the broken Treble 2 2 Rhodigin Var• Lect• In the meane time not pauzing for this Harmonicall Discord below the Musick suddenly brake forth above most melodiously continued with a sweet though saddest Ditty whose Ayre was thought to be the same with That composed at the Sad parting of the Grecian Princes from their Ladies towards Troy While the Musick began to pauze with a most patheticall melting Note PHEBUS Riseth and with a most Emphaticall aspect parteth from His Dearest PHEBE * * March 25. 1639. the Sunne parted from the Moone the King of Heaven from His Q•eene and went Northward in the Ecli•tick Being then in ARIES the first of all the Nort••rn Signes How t•is a• a•l the rest was sha•owed o• e••th a•o•t t•at t•me ••lon•s to History to •ecord as in a true Terrestriall Map parallell to this Celestiall whose Eyes onely and they fainted too were left able to breath out a Sighing Vale The occasion of This Saddest Parting was some Important Businesse of HEAVEN at which PHEBUS himselfe pleased to advance Northward there to make Two Enemies One Friend Condescending thus to interpose Himselfe though below Himselfe rather then by a Thunder-bolt to deale with Both at greater distance THE MATTER WAS THIS PHEBUS pleasing to blesse the Southern World with his chiefest Res•dence Deputed MERCURY to the utmost Northern THULE 1 1 Of this THVLE also of Saturn and Mercuries•ight to it and Quarrell for it are la•ge no•es annext to the end of the Masque But MERCURY is shrewdly there Oppos'd by SATURN upon an old Grudge ere-since MERCURY so sorely foyled CUPID SATURNS grandchild Manet altâ mente repostum Yet at p•esent SATURN pretends another quarrell pleading Those cold North Climats subject unto Him in PHEBUS absence and to assert his cause besides present Possession almost the best Point in Law He produceth an Old Charter Patent under PHEBUS Broad Seale on which Nature had stampt the Armes 2 2 The Signe of the Lion in Heaven •s by all Astrologers made the proper Palace of t•e S•n and so the Device of PHEBVS of HEAVEN MERCURY offers Dispute and doubts not to make his Cause good by force of Argument But Saturn could handle his Sithe much better then a Syllogism yet had Logick enough to hold His owne Conclusion and deny MERCURIES Assumption of ought belonging to Him yea confessing He could not Dispute He thought best to Moderate and Himselfe will Determine MERCURIES Thesi• And in Conclusion Be it Right or Wrong Hee Forceth MERCURY to goe back as he came and which was more wilily directs That Back-motion into a FALL 3 3 Divers times since 1637 was M•rcury the Planet driven out of AQVARIVS SATVRNS house shado•ed here under the n•me of THVLE and Forced int•PISCES which S•gne all Astrologers call Mercuries Fall MERCURY Falling Protests against SATURNS Injurious Act and to Right Himselfe Appeales to PHEBUS 4 4 MERCVRY Fa•ling into PISCES in March 1639 seemes to appeale to the Su• who was then in PISCES a So•t•ern Signe while SATURN Reprotests and Antiprotests Trusting to the Goodnesse of his Cause not knowing that a New Patent might suspend an Old Charter that was never made or meant to be Eternall To Compose this quarrell PHEBUS Himselfe condescended to take a North progresse towards THULE 1 1 As soone as MERCVRY had thus f•llen and appea•ed the Sunne presently left the Sout•e•n Signes and advanced Nor••wa•d in the Ecliptick y•t in •arrelike manne• for ARIES the first of the North•rn signes into which the Sun then entred is by all Astrologers called the House of MARS and so of Warre and left SATURN should prove contumacious which some feared He advanceth in Warlike manner Sending also MARS before Him to attend MERCURY who without PHEBU'S speciall Favour was like to prove by much too weake for SATURN MARS goeth before toward MERCURY Yet by the Way lingreth a while in VENUS House on old acquaintance But to his Great losse and detriment for PHEBUS will anon revenge it 2 2 MARS then also became Northern both in Latitude and Longitude and went before the Sun toward GEMINI MERCVRIES House Yet by the way lingred awhile in TAVRVS VENVS House but to his hurt for TAVRVS is also called MARS Detriment This is also Poeticall alluding to t•e old Fab•e of MARS with VENVS taken •y t•e Sun JUPITER followes PHEBUS with His Thunderbolts but at distance and not without some seeming great Reluctancy going Backward oft as he seemed to step forward For loth he was to hurt his Old Fa•her yet much more loth to be disloyall to his Soveraigne PHEBUS 3 3 IVPITER with the Poets SATVRNS sonne the• followed the Sun in SAGITARIVS so at distance but with seeming Reluctancy being Retrog•ade Both at length are well prevented by PHEBE'S Wisdome Whose Royall Goodnesse vouchsafeth to mediate PEACE which PHEBUS Granteth to His Dearest PHEBE And so being Reconciled casts His wonted Gracious Aspect upon SATURN Who was thus againe setled