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A04599	Britannia triumphans a masque, presented at White Hall, by the Kings Majestie and his lords, on the Sunday after Twelfth-night, 1637. By Inigo Iones surveyor of his Majesties workes, and William Davenant her Majesties servant.	Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.; D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668. aut	1638 (1638)	STC 14718; ESTC S107854	10,964	32

must lift up my Pole And deale your love-sick noddle such a dole That ev'ry blow shall make so huge a clatter Men ten leagues off shall aske Hah what 's the matter Damsell Kind grumbling youth I know that thou art able And want of breeding makes thee prone to squable Yet sure thy Nature doth compunction meane Though 'las thy mother was a sturdy Queane Let not meeke lovers kindle thy fierce wrath But keepe thy blustring breath to coole thy broth Knight Whine not my love his fury streight will waste him Stand off a while and see how I le lambaste him Squire Now looke to 't Knight this such a desp'rate blade is In Gaule he swing'd the valiant sir Amadis Dwarfe With bow now Cupid shoot this sonne of Puncke With crosse-bow else or pellet out of trunke Giant I le strike thee till thou sink where the abode is Of wights that sneake below cald Antipodis Merlin My Art will turne this Combat to delight They shall unto fantastick Musick fight They fall into a dance and depart Bellerophon How triviall and how lost thy visions are Did thy Propheticke Science take such care When thou wert mortal with unlawfull power To recollect thy ashes 'gainst this houre And all for such import surrender strait This usurpation of thy warmth and weight And turne to Aire thy Spirit to a winde Blow thine owne dust about untill we finde No small remainder of ill gatherd thee And like to it so waste thy memorie Action Thou Imposture to some darke Region steale The light is killing cause it doth reveale Thy thin disguise I' th darke thou ne're wilt fade For dismall plants still prosper in the shade Thou art a shadow and observe how all Vaine shadowes to our eyes stretch and grow tall Iust when the Sunne declines to bring in night So thou dost thrive in darknesse waste in light Bellerophon Away Fame still obedient unto Fate This happy houre is call'd to celebrate Britanocles and those that in this Isle The old with moderne vertues reconcile A trumpet within Away Fames universall voyce I heare T is fit you vanish quite when they appeare Exeunt Merlin Imposture In the further part of the Scene the earth open'd and there rose up a richly adorn'd Palace seeming all of Gold smiths worke with Portico's vaulted on Pillasters running farre in the Pillasters were silver of rusticke worke their bases and capitels of gold in the midst was the principall entrance and a gate the doores leaves with figures of Basse-relieve with Jambs and frontispice all of gold above these ran an Architraue Freese and Coronis of the same the Freese enricht with Jewels this bore up a Ballestrata in the midst of which upon an high Tower with many windowes stood Fame in a Carnation garment trimd with gold with white wings and flaxen haire In one hand a golden Trumpet and in the other an Olive Girland In the lower part leaning on the Rayle of the Ballesters were two Persons that on the right hand personating Arms with a Curace and plumed Helme and a broken Lance in his hand On the left hand a woman in a watchet robe trim'd with silver on her head a Bend with little wings like those of Mercury and a scrowle of parchment in her hand representing Science When this Palace was arrived to the height the whole Scene was changed into a Peristilium of two orders Dorick and Ionick with their severall Ornaments seeming of white marble the Bases and Capitals of gold this joyning with the former having so many returnes openings and windowes might well be knowne for the glorious Palace of Fame The Chorus of Poets entred in rich habits of seveverall colours with Laurels on their heads guilt Fame sings Musicke Breake forth thou Treasure of our sight That art the hopefull morne of every day Whose faire example makes the light By which Heroique vertue findes her way 2 O thou our cheerfull morning rise And strait those mistie clouds of errour cleere Which long have overcast our eyes And else will darken all this Hemisphere 3 What to thy Power is hard or strange Since not alone confinde unto the land Thy Scepter to a trident change And strait unruly Seas thou canst command 4 How hath thy wisedome rais'd this Isle Or thee by what new title shall we call Since it were lessning of thy stile If we should name thee natures Admirall 5 Thou universall wonder know We all in darknesse mourne till thou appeare And by thy absence dull'd may grow To make a doubt if day were ever here The Masquers came forth of the Peristilium and stood on each side and at that instant the gate of the Palace open'd and Britanocles appear'd The habit of the Masquers was close bodies of Carnation embroydered with silver their arming sleeves of the same about their waste two rowes of severall fashioned leaves and under this their bases of white reaching to the middle of their thigh on this was an under basis with labels of Carnation embroidered with silver and betwixt every paine were pufts of silver fastned in knots to the labels the trimming of the shoulders was as that of the Basis their long stockins set up were Carnation with white shooes and roses their bands and cuffes made of purles of Cutworke upon their heads little carnation caps embroydered as the rest with a slit turned up before out of the midst came severall falls of white feathers diminishing upwards in a Pyramidall forme This habit was beautifull rich and light for dancing and proper for the Subject of this Masque Musick The Palace sinkes and Fame remaining hovering in the Aire rose on her wings singing and was hidden in the Clouds Chorus Britanocles the great and good appeares His Person fils our eyes his name our eare His vertue every drooping spirit cheers Fame Why move these Princes of his traine so slow As taking root they would to Statues grow But that their wonder of his vertue turnes them so 'T is fit you mix that wonder with delight As you were warm'd to motion with his sight So pay the expectation of this night Chorus Move then in such a noble order here As if you each his governed Planet were And he mov'd first to move you in each spheare Chorus O with what joy you 'l measure out the time Each breast like his still free from every crime Whose pensive weight might hinder you to clime The Masquers descend into the roome The song ended the Scene returnes to that of Brittaine The Masquers dance their entrie Which ended a new Chorus of our owne moderne Poets rais'd by Merlin in rich habits differing from the rest with Laurels on their heads guilt make their addresse to the Queene 1 Our eyes long since dissolv'd to Ayre To thee for Day must now repaire Though rais'd to life by Merlins might Thy stocke of Beautie will supply Enough of Sunne from either eye To fill the Organs of our sight 2 Yet first thy pittie should have drawne A Cloud of Cypresse or of Lawne To come betweene thy radiant Beams Our eyes long darkned in a shade When first they so much light invade Must ake and sicken with extreams 3 Yet wiser reason hath prevail'd To wish thy beauties still unvail'd 'T is better that it blinde should make us Than wee should want such heavenly Fire That is so usefull to inspire Those Raptures which would else forsake us 4 Who knowes but Homer got his Flame From some Refulgent Graecian Dame Whose beauty gave his Muse supplies And would not trust in humble Prose His noble thoughts but rather chose High numbers though with losse of eies Here the Scene changed and in the farthest part the sea was seene terminating the sight with the Horizon on the one side was a Haven with a Citadell and on the other broken grounds and Rocks from whence the sea-Nimph Galatea came waving forth riding on the back of a Dolphin in a loose snow white garment about her neck chaines of Pearle and her armes adorn'd with bracelets of the same her faire haire disheveled and mixt with silver and in some part covered with a veile which she with one hand graciously held up being arrived to the midst of the sea the Dolphin stayed and she sung with a Chorus of musick Galateas song 1 So well Britanocles o're seas doth Raigne Reducing what was wild before That fairest sea-Nymphs leave the troubled maine And haste to visit him on shore 2 What are they lesse than Nymphs since each make shew Of wondrous Immortality And each those sparckling Treasures weares that grow Where breathlesse Divers cannot Prie 3 On ever moving waves they us'd to dance Vnto the whistling of the wind Whose measures hit and meet by erring chance Where Musick can no concord find 4 But now for their Majestick welcome trie How ev'n and equally they 'le meet When you shall lead them by such Harmony As can direct their eares and feet Which done she gently past away floating on the waves as shee came in After this some ships were discern'd sayling afar off severall wayes and in the end a great Fleet was discovered which passing by with a side wind tackt about and with a prosperous gale entred into the Haven this continuing to entertaine the sight whilst the dancing lasted The Valediction 1 Wise Nature that the Dew of sleepe prepares To intermit our joyes and ease our cares Invites you from these Triumphs to your rest May ev'ry whisper that is made be chast Each Lady slowly yeeld yet yeeld at last Her Heart a Prisner to her Lovers breast 2 To wish unto our Royall Lover more Of youthfull blessings than he had before Were but to tempt old Nature have her might Since all the Odor Musique Beauteous Fire We in the spring the spheares the stars admire Is his renew'd and betterd ev'ry night 3 To Bed to Bed may ev'ry Lady dreame From that chiefe beauty shee hath stollen a Beame Which will amaze her Lovers curious Eyes Eeach lawfull Lover to advance his youth Dreame he hath stolne his Vigor Love and Truth Then all will haste to Bed but none to Rise The KINGS Majestie Duke of Lenox L. Wil Hamilton Earle of Carlile Earle of Elgin L. Phil. Herbert Lord Russell Mr. Francis Russell L. Lodowick Stuart Earle of Devonshire Earle of Newport Lord Pagit Lord Wharton Lord Andevor Mr. Tho. Howard

BRITANNIA TRIVMPHANS A Masque Presented at White Hall by the Kings Majestie and his Lords on the Sunday after Twelfth-night 1637 BY Inigo Iones Surveyor of his Majesties workes and William Davenant her Majesties servant LONDON Printed by Iohn Haviland for Thomas Walkley and are to be sold at his shop at the flying Horse neere Yorke house 1637 BRITANNIA Triumphans PRINCES of sweet and humane Natures have ever both amongst the Ancients and Modernes in the best times presented spectacles and personall representations to recreate their Spirits wasted in grave affaires of State and for the entertainment of their Nobilitie Ladies and Courts There being now past three yeers of Intermission that the King and Queenes Majesties have not made Masques with shewes and Intermdij by reason the roome where formerly they were presented having the seeling since richly adorn'd with peeces of painting of great value figuring the acts of King Iames of happy memory and other inrichments lest this might suffer by the smoake of many lights his Majestie commanded the Surveyor of his workes that a new temporary roome of Timber both for strength and capacitie of spectators should bee suddenly built for that use which being performed in two moneths the Scenes for this Masque were prepared The Subject of this Masque BRitanocles the glory of the Westerne world hath by his wisedome valour and pietie not onely vindicated his owne but farre distant Seas infested with Pyrats and reduc'd the land by his example to a reall knowledge of all good Arts and Sciences These eminent Acts Bellerophon in a wise pittie willingly would preserve from devouring time and therefore to make them last to our Posteritie gives a command to Fame who hath already spred them abroad that shee should now at home if there can bee any maliciously insensible awake them from their pretended sleepe that even they with the large yet still increasing number of the good and loyall may mutually admire and rejoyce in our happinesse THe Queens Majestie being seated under the State and the roome fild with Spectators of qualitie at the lower end of the roome was a Stage raised of a convenient height and an Ovall staire downe into the roome That which first presented it selfe to the eye was the Ornament that enclosed the Scene In the under part of this were two pedestalls of a solid order whereon captives lay bound above sate two figures in neeches on the right hand a woman in a watchet drapery heightned with silver on her head a Corona Rostrata with one hand holding the rudder of a ship in the other a little winged figure with a branch of Palme and a Girland this woman represented Navall victory Opposite to this in the other neech sate the figure of a man bearing a Scepter with a hand and an eye in the Palme and in the other hand a booke on his head a Girland of Amaranthus his Curace was of gold with a Palludamentum of blue and Antike bases of Crimson his foot treading on the head of a Serpent by this figure was signified right government above these were other composed ornaments cut out like cloth of silver tied up in knots with scarfings all touch'd with gold These Pillasters bore up a large Freese with a Sea triumph of naked children riding on sea horses fishes and young Tritons with writhen trumpets and other maritime fancies In the midst was placed a great compartiment of gold with branches of Palme comming out of the scrowles and within that a lesser of silver with this inscription VIRTVTIS OPVS proper to the subject of this Masque and alluding to that of Virgil Sed famam extendere factis c. from this came a drapery of Crimson which tied up with great knots in the corners hung downe in foulds on the sides of the Pillasters A curtaine flying up discovered the first Scene wherein were English houses of the old and newer formes intermixt with trees and a farre off a prospect of the Citie of London and the River of Thames which being a principall part might bee taken for all great Britaine From severall parts of the Scene came Action and Imposture Action a young man in a rich habit downe to his knees with a large gard of purple about the skirt wherein was written with silver letters MEDIO TVTISSIMA on his head a girland of Laurell and in one hand a branch of willow Imposture in a coar with hanging sleeves and great skirts little breeches a high crownd hat one side pind up a little ruffe and a formall beard and an angling rod in his hand with a fish at the hooke with a bag and a horne at his girdle Action My variable Sir i th' name of Heaven What makes your falshood here where fame intends Her triumphs all of Truth her Trumpet she Hath chosen new and cleane lest it should taint Her breath Thou art so uselesse to the World That thou art impudent when thou dost share What is most cheape and common unto all The Aire and Light I doe beseech thee my Fine false Artificer hide both thy faces For thou art double every where steale hence And I 'le take care thou shalt no more be miss'd Than shadowes are at night Imposture Be patient Sir This valiant humour of disdaine workes not So powerfully as you beleeve I hide my selfe The reasons must bee strong that shall perswade Me under ground The Badger loves his hole Yet is not so bashfull but dares looke out And shew himselfe when there is prey abroad Then strangely arrogant I pittie thee As Politickes doe men too humble for Their care much more for their redresse that is I smile at thee the Graver way of scorne For should I laugh I feare 't would make thee thinke Thy impudence had somewhat in 't of wit Didst ever hope to be so usefull in The manage and support of humane workes As I Action Proceed Proceed make up your History Imposture Wisely the jealous sceptickes did suspect Realitie in every thing for every thing but seemes And borrowes the existence it appeares To have Imposture governs all even from The gilded Ethnicke Miter to the painted staffe o th' Christian Constable all but pretend Th' resemblance of that power which inwardly They but deride and whisper merry questions to themselves Which way it comes Action Y' have cunningly observ'd This is a pleasant new Philosophie Imposture Right Sir and what is pleasant unto all Is generally good Troth I could wish Our reason were as certaine as our sense Would alter in dispute as little bee As soone confirm'd but since it is not so That universally shall take which most Doth please not what pretends at profit and Imaginarie good Is it not fit And almost saf'st to cosen all when all Delight still to bee cosen'd Action These Lectures would Subdue a numerous sect wert thou to preach To young soft Courtisans unpractis'd heires Of over practis'd Vsurers silken And fine feathered gallants whose easie eares Still open