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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73704	Cœlum Britanicum A masque at White-Hall in the Banquetting-House, on Shrove-Tuesday-night, the 18. of February, 1633.; Cœlum Britannicum	Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?; Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600. Spaccio de la bestia trionfante.; Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.	1634 (1634)	STC 4618; ESTC S107477	19,189	41

Above in streames of golden fire In silver waves below KINGDOMES 1.2.3 But shall not wee now thou art gone Who wert our Nature wither Or breake that triple Vnion Which thy soule held together GENIVS In Concords purce immortall spring I will my force renew And a more active Vertue bring At my returne 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 Loue we guide let thy Divine Aspects Bright Deity with faire And Halcyon beames becalme 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 ever fought For Lady to each Beauty brought Plant in their Martiall hands Warr's seat Your peace full pledges of warme snow And if a speaking touch repeat In Loves knowne langvage tales of woe Say in soft whispers of the Palme As Eyes shoot darts so Lips shed Balme For though you seeme like Captives lid In triumph by the Foe away Yet on the Conqu'rers nocke you tread And the fierce Victor proves your prey What heart 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 Majesty 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 beginnes 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 same of fire Truth in a Watchet Robe a Sunne upon her fore-head and bearing in her hand a Palme Wisdome in a mantle wrought with eyes and hands golden rayes about her head and Apollo's Cithera in her hand In the other Cloud fate Concord Government and Reputation The habit of Concord was Carnation bearing in her hand a little faggot of stickes 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 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 Ayre the great Cloud beganne 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 taile in his mouth In the firmament about him was a troope of fifteene starres expressing the stellifying of our British Heroes but one more great and eminent than the rest which was over his head figured his Majesty And in the lower part was seene a farre off the prospect of Windsor Castell the famous seat of the most honourable Order of the Garter The fourth Song Eternity Eusebia Alethia Sophia Homonoia Dicaearche Euphemia ETERNITIE BE fix'd you rapid Orbes that beare The changing seasons of the yeare On your swife wings and see the old Decrepit Spheare growne darke and cold Nor did Iove quench her fires these bright Flames have ecclips'ed 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 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 owne pure Soules entwin'd So are their Subjects hearts combin'd DICAEARCHES So just so gentle is their sway As it seemes Empire to obay EVPHEMIA And their faire Fame like incense hurl'd On Altars hath pefum'd the world SO. Wisdome AL. Truth EVS. Pure Adoration HO. Concord DI. Rule EVP. Cleare Reputation CHORVS Crowne this King this Queene this Nation CHORVS Wisdome 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 retir'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 steepe ascent With your resistlesse influence guide Of human 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 flow Endlesse Succession Scepters shall bud and Lawrels blow 'Bout their Immortall Throne CHORVS Propitious Starres shall crowne 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 no thing but a sirene Skye 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 Noble-mens Sonnes Lord Walden Lord Craborne Lord Brackley Lord Shandos Mr. William Herbert Mr. Thomas Howard Mr. Thomas Egerton Mr. Charles Cavendish Mr. Robert Howard Mr. Henry Spencer

with a silent importunity Awake the drousie Iustice of the gods To Crowne your deeds with immortality The growing Titles of your Ancestors These Nations glorious Acts joyn'd to the stocke Of your owne Royall vertues and the cleare Reflexe they take from th' imitation Of your fam'd Court make Honors storie full And have to that secure fix'd state advanc'd Both you and them to which the labouring world Wading through streames of blood sweats to aspire Those antient Worthies of these famous Isles That long have slept in fresh and lively shapes Shall straight appeare where you shall see your self Circled with moderne Heroes who shall be In Act what-ever elder times can boast Noble or Great as they in Prophesie Were all but what you are Then shall you see The sacred hand of bright Eternitie Mould you to Stars and six you in the Spheare To you your Royall halfe to them shee 'll joyne Such of this traine as with industrious steps In the faire prints your vertuous feet have made Though with unequall paces follow you This is decreed by Iove which my returne Shall see perform'd but first behold the rude And old Abiders here and in them view The point from which your full perfections grew You naked antient wild Inhabitants That breath'd this Ayre and prest this flowery Earth Come from those shades where dwells eternall night And see what wonders Time hath brought to light Atlas and the Spheare vanisheth 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 naturall Inhabitants of this Isle antient Scots and Irish these dance a Perica or Marshall 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 be a huge mountaine 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 Mountaine were seated the three kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland all richly attired in regall habits appropriated to the severall Nations with Crownes on their heads and each of them bearing the ancient Armes of the kingdomes they represented At a distance above these sate a young man in a white embroidered robe upon his faire haire an Olive garland with wings at his shoulders and holding in his hand a Cornucopia fill'd with corne 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 Faire Vnited sit in Honours chayre Call forth your aged Priests and chrystall streames To warme their hearts and waves in these bright beame KINGDOMES 1. From your consecrated woods Holy Druids 2. Silver floods From your channels fring'd with flowers 3. Hither move forsake your howers 1. Strew'd with hallowed Oaken leaves Deck'd with flags and fedgie 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 appeare and yet a bright Nooneday springing from Starre-light GENIVS Looke up and see the darkned Spheare Depriv'd of light her eyes shine there CHORVS These are more sparkling then those were KINGDOMES 1. These shed a nobler influence 2. These by a pure intelligence Of more transcendent Vertue move 3. These first feele then kindle love 1.2 From the bosomes they inspire These receive a mutuall fire 1.2.3 And where their flames impure returne These can quench as well as burne GENIVS Here the faire victorious eyes Make Worth onely Beauties prize Here the hand of Vertue tyes 'Bout the heart loves amourous chaine Captives triumph Vassals reigne And none live here but the slaine CHORVS These are th' Hesperian bowers whose faire trees beare Rich golden fruit and yet no Dragon neare GENIVS Then from your impris'ning wombe Which is the cradle and the tombe Of British Worthies faire sonnes send A troope of Heroes that may lend Their hands to case this loaden grove And gather the ripe fruits of love KINGDOMES 1.2.3 Open thy stony entrailes wide And breake old Atlas that the pride Of three fam'd kingdomes may be spy'd CHORVS Pace forth thou mighty British Hercules With thy choyce band for onely 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 attired 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 Noblemens sonnes bearing Torches of Virginwax these were apparelled after the old British 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 pleasant Cloud bright and transparent which comming softly downewards 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 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 KINGDOMES 1. HEre are shapes form'd fit for heaven 2. These move gracefully and even 3. Here the Ayre and paces meet So just as if the skilfull feet Had strucke the Vials 1.2.3 So the Ear Might the tune full 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 1. We cannot lend Heaven so much treasure 2. Nor that pay But rendring what it takes away 3. 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 flye From hence alone and in the Spheare Kindle new Starres whilst they rest here KINGDOMES 1.2.3 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