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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17961	Poems By Thomas Carevv Esquire. One of the gentlemen of the Privie-Chamber, and Sewer in Ordinary to His Majesty.	Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?; Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639? Cœlum Britannicum.; Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.	1640 (1640)	STC 4620; ESTC S107383	70,156	270

to the middle part of the Ayre the great Cloud began to breake open out of which stroke beames of light in the midst suspended in the Ayre sate Eternity on a Globe his Garment was long of a light blue wrought all over with Stars of gold and bearing in his hand a Serpent bent into a circle with his tayle in his mouth In the firmament about him was a troope of fifteene stars expressing the stellifying of our Brittish Heroes but one more great and eminent than the rest which was over his head figured his Majestie And in the lower part was seene a farre off the prospect of Windsor Castle the famous seat of the most honourable Order of the Garter The fourth Song Eternity Eusebia Alethia Sophia Homononia Dicaearche Euphemia ETERNITIE BE fix'd you rapid Orbes that beare The changing seasons of the yeare On your swift wings and see the old Decrepit Spheares growne darke and cold Nor did Iove quench her fires these bright Flames have ecclips'd her sullen light This Royall Payre for whom Fate will Make Motion cease and Time stand still Since Good is here so perfect as no Worth Is left for After-Ages to bring forth EVSEBIA Mortality cannot with more Religious zeale the gods adore ALETHIA My Truths from humane eyes conceal'd Are naked to their sight reveal'd SOPHIA Nor doe their Actions from the guide Of my exactest precepts slide HOMONOIA And as their owne pure Soules ●…ntwin'd So are their Subjects hearts combin'd DICAEARCHE So just so gentle is their sway As it seemes Empire to obey EVPHEMIA And their faire Fame like incense hurl●…d 〈◊〉 Altars hath perfum'd the world S O. Wisedome A L. Truth E V S. Pure Adoration H O. Concord D I. Rule E V P. Cleare Reputation CHORVS C●…wne this King this Queene this Nation CHORVS 〈◊〉 Truth c. ETERNITIE Brave Spirits whose adventrous feet Have to the Mountaines top aspir'd Where faire Desert and Honour meet Here from the toyling Presse retyr'd Secure from all disturbing Evill For ever in my Temple revell With wreathes of Starres circled about Guild all the spacious Firmament And smiling on the panting Routs That labour in the steep ascent With your resistlesse influence guide Of humane change th' incertaine tide EVS. ALE. SOP. But oh you Royall Turtles shed When you from Earth remove On the ripe fruits of your chaste bed Those sacred seeds of Love CHORVS Which no Power can but yours dispence Since you the patterne beare from hence HOM. DIC. EVP. Then from your fruitfull race shall slow Endlesse succession Scepters shall bud and Lawrels blow 'Bout their Immortall Throne CHORVS Propitious Stars shall crowne each birth Whilst you rule them and they the Earth The Song ended the two Clouds with the person sitting on them ascend the great Cloud closeth againe and so passeth away overthwart the Scaene leaving behind it nothing but a Serene Sky After which the Masquers dance their last dance and the Curtaine was let fall The Names of the Masquers The Kings Majesty Duke of Lenox Earle of Devonshire Earle of Holland Earle of Newport Earle of Elgin Viscount Grandeson Lord Rich. Lord Feilding Lord Digby Lord Dungarvin Lord Dunluce Lord Wharton Lord Paget Lord Saltine The names of the young Lords and Noblemens Sonnes Lord Walden Lord Cranborne Lord Brackley Lord Shandos Mr. William Herbert Mr. Thomas Howard Mr. Thomas Egerton Mr. Charles Cavendish Mr. Robert Howard Mr. Henry Spencer The Songs and Dialogues of this Booke were set with apt Tunes to them by Mr. Henry Lawes one of His Majesties Musitians

were KINGDOMES These shed a nobler influence These by a pure intelligence Of more transcendent Vertue move These first feele then kindle Iove From the bosomes they inspire These receive a mutuall sire And where their slames impure returne These can quench as well as burne GENIVS Here the fare victorious eyes Make Worth only Beauties prize Here the hand of Vertue tyes 'Bout the heart lov's amorous chayne Captives tryumph Vassals reigne And none live here but the slaine CHORVS These are th' Hisperian bowers whose faire trees beare Rich golden fruit and yet no Dragon near GENIVS Then from your impris ' ning wombe Which is the cradle and the tombe Of Brittish Worthies faire sonnes send A troope of Heroes that may lend Their hands to ease this loaden grove And gather the ripe fruits of Love KINGDOMES Open thy stony entrailes wide And breake old ●…tlas that the pride Of three fam'd kingdomes may be spy'd CHORVS Pace forth thou mighty Brittish Hercules With thy choyce band for only thou and these May revell here in Loves Hesperides At this the under-part of the Rocke opens and out of a Cave are seene to come the Masquers richly attyred like ancient Heroes the Colours yellow embroydered with silver their antique Helmes curiously wrought and great plumes on the top before them a troope of young Lords and Noble-mens sonnes bearing Torches of Virgin-wax these were apparelled after the old Brittish fashion in white Coats embroydered with silver girt and full gathered cut square coller'd and round caps on their heads with a white feather wreathen about them first these dance with their lights in their hands After which the Masquers descend into the roome and dance their entry The dance being past there appeares in the further part of the heaven comming downe a pleāsant Clond bright and transparent which comming softly downe-wards before the upper part of the mountaine embraceth the Genius but so as through it all his body is seene and then rising againe with a gentle motion beares up the Genius of the three kingdomes and being past the Airy Region pierceth the heavens and is no more seene At that instant the Rocke with the three kingdomes on it sinkes and is hidden in the earth This strange spectacle gave great ca●…se of admiration but especially how so huge a machine and of that great height could come from under the Stage which was but six foot high The second Song KINGDOMES HEre are shapes form'd ●…it for heave●… Those move gracefully and 〈◊〉 Here the Ayre and paces meet So jus●… as if the skilfull seet Had struck the Vials 1. 2. 3. So the Ear●… Might the ●…unefull footing heare CHORVS And had the Musicke silent beene The eye a moving tune had seene GENIVS These must in the unpeopled skie Succeed and governe Destinie Iove is temp'ring purer fire And will with brighter flames attire These glorious lights I must ascend And helpe the Worke. KINGDOMES We cannot ●…end Heaven so much treasure 2. Nor that pay But rendring what it takes away Why should they that here can move So well be ever-fix'd above CHORVS Or be to one eternall posture ty'd That can into such various figures slide GENIVS Iove shall not to enrich the Skie Beggar the Earth their Fame shall fly From hence alone and in the Spheare Kindle new Starres whilst they rest here KINGDOMES How can the shaft stay in the quiver Yet hit the marke GENIVS Did not the River Eridanus the grace acquire In Heaven and Earth to flow Above in streames of golden fire In silver waves below KINGDOMES But shall not we now thou art gone Who wert our Nature wither Or breake that triple Vnion Which thy soule h●…ld together GENIVS In Concords pure immortall spring I will my 〈◊〉 renew And a more a●…ive Vertue bring At my retu●…ne Adieu KINGDOMES adieu CHORVS adieu The Masquers dance their maine dance which done the Scaene againe is varied into a new and pleasant prospect cleane differing from all the other the nearest part shewing a delicious Garden with severall walkes and perterra's set round with low trees and on the sides against these walkes were fountaines and grots and in the furthest part a Palace from whence went high walkes upon Arches and above them open Tarraces planted with Cypresse trees and all this together was composed of such Ornaments as might expresse a Princely Villa From hence the Chorus descending into the roome goes up to the State The third Song By the Chorus going up to the Queene VVHilst thus the Darlings of the Gods From Honours Temple to the Shrine Of Beauty and these sweet abodes Of Love we guide let thy Divine Aspects Bright Deity with faire And Halcyon beames b●…calme the Ayre We bring Prince Arthur or the brave St. George himselfe great Queene to you You 'll soone discerne him and we have A Guy a Beavis or some true Round-Table Knight as everfought For Lady to each Beauty brought Plant in their Mart●…l 〈◊〉 War's seat Your peacefull pledges of warm snow And if a speaking 〈◊〉 repeat In Loves know●…●…guage tales of woe Say in soft whispers of the Palme As eyes shoot darts so Lips shed Balme For though you seeme like Captives led In triumph by the Foe away Yet on the Conqu'rers necke you tread And the fierce Victor proves your prey What heart is then secure from you That can though vanqui●… yet subdue The Song done they retire and the Masquers dance the Revels with the Ladies which continued a great part of the night The Revels being past and the Kings Majestie seated under the State by the Queene for Conclusion to this Masque there appeares comming forth from one of the sides as moving by a gentle wind a great Cloud which arriving at the middle of the heaven stayeth this was of severall colours and so great that it covered the whole Scaene Out of the further part of the heaven begins to breake forth two other clouds differing in colour and shape and being fully discovered there appeared sitting in one of them Religion Truth and Wisdome Religion was apparelled in white and part of her face was covered with a light vaile in one hand a Booke and in the other a flame of fire Truth in a Watchet Robe a Sunne upon her fore-head and bearing in her hand a Palme Wisedome in a mantle wrought with eyes and hands g●…lden rayes about her head and Apoll●…'s Cithera in her hand In the other Cloud sate Concord Government and Reputation The habit of Concord was Carnation bearing in her hand a little faggot of sticks bound together and on the top of it a hart and a garland of corne on her head Government was figured in a coat of Armour bearing a shield and on it a Medusa's head upon her head a plumed helme and in her right hand a Lance. Reputation a young man in a purple robe wrought with gold and wearing a laurell wreath on his head These being come downe in an equall distance