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A34171	Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...	Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?; Lawes, Henry, 1596-1662. Coelum britannicum. Libretto.; Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639? Coelum britannicum.	1651 (1651)	Wing C565; ESTC R21803	74,706	224

thy Divine Aspects Bright Deily with fair And Halcyon beames becalm the Ayr Wee bring Prince Arthur or the brave St. George himselfe great Queen to you You 'll soone discern him and we have A Guy a Beavis or some true Round Table Knight as ever-sought For Lady to each Beauty brought Plant in their Martiall hands War's seat Your peacefull pledges of warm snow And if a speaking touch repeat In Loves known language tales of woe Say in soft whispers of the Palm As eyes shoot darts so Lips shed Balm For though you seem like Captives led In triumph by the Foe away Yet on the Conqu'rors neck you tread And the fierce Victor proves your prey What heat is then secure from you That can though vanquish'd 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 seared 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 Wisedome 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 golden rayes about her head and Apollo'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 to the middle part of the Ayr the great Cloud began to break open out of which broke beames of light in the midst suspended in the Ayr sate Eternity on a Globe his Garment was long of a light blue wrought all over with starrs of gold and bearing in his hand a Serpent bent into a circle with his tayl in his mouth In the firmament about him was a troop of fifteen 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 seen 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 Homonoia Dicaearche Euphemia ETERNITIE BEe fix'd rapid Orbes that bear The changing seasons of the year On your swift wings and see the old Decrepid spheres grown dark and cold Nor did Iove quench her fires these bright Flames haue ecclips'd her sullen light This Royall Payr 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 human● 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 own pure Soules entwin'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 fair Fame like incense hur'ld On Altars hath perfum'd the world SO. wisedome AL. Truth EVS. Pure Adoration HO. Concord DI. Rule EUP. Cleare Reputation CHORVS Crowne this King this Queen this Nation CHORVS Wisedome Truth c. ETERNITIE Brave Spirits whose adventrous seet Have to the Mountaines top aspir'd Where fair Desert and Honour meet Here from the toyling Presse retyr'd Secure from all disturbing Euill For euer in my Temple revelt With wreathes of stars circled about Gild all the spacious Firmament And smiling on the panting Rout That labour in the steep ascent With your resistlesse influence guide Of humane change th'incertain tide EVS. ALE. SOP. But oh you Royall Turtles shed When you from Earth remove On the ripe fruits of your chast bed Those sacred seeds of Love CHORVS Which no Power can but yours dispence Since you the pattern bean from hence HOM. DIC. EVP. Then from your fruitfull race shall slow Endlesse succession Scepters shall bud and Laurels blow 'Bout their Immortal Throne CHORVS Propitious stars shalll crown each birth Whilst you rule them and they the Earth The song ended the two clouds with the persons 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 hast dance and the curtain was let fall The Names of the Masquers The Kings Majesty Duke of Lenox Lord Fielding Earle of Devonshire Lord Digby Earle of Holland Lord Dungarvin Earle of Newport Lord Dunluce Earle of Elgin Lord Wharton Viscount Grandeson Lord Paget Lord Rich. Lord Saltine The names of the young Lords and Noblemens Sonnes Lord Walden Mr. Thomas Howard Lord Cranborne Mr. Thomas Egerton Lord Brackley Mr. Charles Cavendish Lord Shandos Mr. Robert Howard Mr. William Herbert Mr. Henry Spencer To his mistris 1. GRieve not my Celia but with hast Obey the fury of thy fate 'T is some perfection to waste Discreetly out our wretched state To be obedient in this sence Will prove thy vertue though offence 2. Who knowes but destiny may relent For many miracles have bin Thou proving thus obedient To all the griefs she plundgd thee in And then the certainty she meant Reverted is by accident 3. But yet I must confesse t is much When we remember what hath bin Thus parting never more to touch To let eternall absence in Though never was our pleasure yet So pure but chance distracted it 4. What shall we then submit to fate And dye to one anothers love No Celia no my soul doth hate Those Lovers that inconstant prove Fate may be cruell but if you decline The cryme is yours and all the glory mine Fate and the Planets sometymes bodies part But Cankerd nature onely alters th' heart In praise of his Mistris 1. You that will a wonder know Goe with me Two suns in a heaven of snow Both burning bee All they fire that but eye them Yet the snow's unmelted by them 2. Leaves of Crimson Tulips met Guide the way Where two pearly rowes be set As white as day When they part themselves asunder She breathes Oracles of wonder 3. Hills of Milk with Azure mixd Swell beneath Waving sweetly yet still fixd While she doth breath From those hils descends a valley Where all fall that dare to dally 4. As fair Pillars under-stand Statues two Whither than the Silver swan That swims in Poe If at any tyme they move her Every step begets a Lover All this but the Casket is Which conteynes Such a Iewell as the misse Breeds endlesse paynes That 's her mind and they that know it May admire but cannot show it To Celia upon Love's Vbiquity As one that strives being sick and sick to death By changing places to preserve a breath A tedious restlesse breath removes and tryes A thousand roomes a thousand policyes To cozen payne when he thinks to find ease At last he finds all change but his disease So like a Ball with fire and powder fild I restles am yet live each minute kild And with that moving torture must retain With change of all things else a constant payn Say I stay with you prensence is to me Nought but a light to shew my miserie And parting are as Rackes to plague love on The further stretchd the more affliction Goe I to Holland France or furthest Iude I change but onely Countreys not my mind And though I passe through ayr and water free Despair and hopelesse fate still follow me Whilest in the bosome of the waves I reel My heart I 'le liken to the tottering keel The sea to my own troubled fate the wind To your disdayn sent from a soul vnkind But when I lift my sad lookes to the skyes Then shall I think I see my Celia's eyes And when a Cloud or storm appeares between I shall remember what her frownes have been Thus whatsoever course my fates allow All things but make me mind my busines you The good things that I meet I think streames be From you the fountain but when bad I see How vile and cursed is that thing thinke I That to such goodnes is so contrary My whole life is bout you the Center starre But a perpetuall Motion Circular I am the dyalls hand still walking round You are the Compasse and I never sound Beyond your Circle neyther can I shew Ought but what first expressed is in you That wheresoever my teares doe cause me move My fate still keepes me bounded with your love Which ere it dye or be extinct in me Time shall stand still and moist waves flaming be Yet being gon think not on me I am A thing too wretched for thy thoughts to name But when I dye and wish all comforts given I le think on you and by you think on heaven FINIS The Songs and Dialogues of this Booke were set with apt Tunes to them by Mr. Henry Lawes one of His Majesties Musicians

here and in them view The point from which your full perfections grew You naked ancient wild Inhabitants That breath'd this Ayre and prest this flowry Earth Come from those shades where dwels eternall night And see what wonders Time hath brought to light Atlas and the Sphere vanished and a new Scaene appeares of mountaines whose eminent height exceed the Clouds which past beneath them the lower parts were wild and woody out of this place comes forth a more grave Antimasque of Picts the natuall Inhabitants of this Isle ancient Scots and Irish these dance a Perica or Martiall dance When this Antimasque was past there began to arise out of the earth the top of a hill which by little and little grew to bee a huge mountain that covered all the Scaene the under part of this was wild and craggy and above somewhat more pleasant and flourishing about the middle part of this Mountain were seated the three King domes of England Scotland and Ireland all richly attired in regall habits appropriated to the severall Nations with Crowns on their heads Each of them bearing the ancient Armes of the kingdoms they there presented At a distance above these sate a young man in a white embroydered robe upon his fair hair an Olive Garland with wings at his shoulders and holding in his hand a Cornucopia fill'd with corn and fruits representing the Genius of these kingdomes The first Song GENIVS RAise from these rockie cliffs your heads Brave Sonnes and see where Glory spreads Her glittering wings where Majesty Crown'd with sweet smiles shoots from her eye Diffusive joy where good and Fair Vnited sit in Honours Chayr Call forth your aged Priests and chrystall streams To warm their hearts and waves in these bright beames KINGDOMES 1. From your consecrated woods Holy Druids 2. Silver floods From your channels fring'd with flowers 3. Hither move forsake your bowers 1. Strew'd with hallowed Oaken leaves Deck'd with flags and sedgie sheaves And behold a wonder 3. Say What doe your duller eyes survay CHORVS of DRVIDS and RIVERS We see at once in dead of night A Sun appear and yet a bright Noon-day springing from Star-light GENIVS Look up and see the darkened Sphere Depriv'd of light her eyes shine there CHORVS These are more sparkling than those were KINGDOMES 1. These shed a nobler influence 2. These by a pure Intelligence Of more transcendent Vertue move 3. These first feel then kindle Love 1. 2. From the bosomes they inspire These receive a mutuall fire 1.2.3 And where their flames impure return These can quench as well as burn GENIVS Here the fair victorious eyes Make worth only Beauties prize Here the band of Vertue tyes Bout the heart Love's amorous chain Captives tryumph Vassals reign And none live here but the slaine CHORUS These are th' Hesperian bowers whose fair trees bear Rich golden fruit and yet no Dragon near GENIVS Then from your impris'ning womb Which is the cradle and the tomb Of Brittish worthies fair sonnes send A troop of Heroes that may lend Their hands to case this loaden grove And gather the ripe fruits of Love KINGDOMS 1.2.3 Open thy stony Entrailes wide And break old Atlas 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 Rock 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 troop 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 room and dance their entry The dance being past there appeares in the further part of the heaven comming down a Pleasant Cloud bright and transparent which comming softly down-wards before the upper part of the mountaine embraceth the Genius but so as through it all his body is seen and then rising again with a gentle motion beares up the Genius of the three kingdomes and being past the Airy Region piereeth the heavens and is no more seen At that instant the Rock with the three kingdomes on it sinkes and is hidden in the earth This strange spectacle gave great cause 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 KINGDOMS 1. HEre are shapes form'd fit for heaven 2. Those move gracefully and even 3. Here the Ayre and paces meet So just as if the skilfull feet Had struk the Vials 1.2.3 So the Ear Might the tunefull footing bear CHORVS And had the Musick silent been The eye a moving time had seen GENIVS These must in the unpeopled skie Succeed and govern Destinie Iove is temp'ring purer fire And will with brighter flames attire These gloriou● lights I must ascend And help the Work KINGDOMES 1. VVe cannot lend 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 Sphere Kindle new Starres whilst they rest here KINGDOMES 1.2.3 How can the shaft stay in the quiver Yet his the mark 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 1.2.3 But shall not we now thou art gone Who wert our Nature wither Or break that triple Vnion Which thy soul held together GENIVS In Concords pure immortall spring I will my force renew And a more astive Vertue bring At my return 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 room goes up to the State The third Song By the Chorus going up to the Queen WHilst thus the Darlings of the gods From Honours Temple to the shrine Of beauty and these sweet abodes Of Love we guide let