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A04654	Hymenaei: or The solemnities of masque, and barriers magnificently performed on the eleventh, and twelfth nights, from Christmas; at court: to the auspicious celebrating of the marriage-vnion, betweene Robert, Earle of Essex, and the Lady Frances, second daughter to the most noble Earle of Suffolke. By Ben: Ionson.	Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.	1606 (1606)	STC 14774; ESTC S109230	25,413	48

Let these her Knights thinke that their equall Armes Are wrong'd therein For Valure wins applause That dares but to maintaine the weaker Cause And Princes see t is meere OPINION That in TRVTH' 's forced Robe for TRVTH hath gone Her gaudy Colours peec'd with many Folds Shew what vncertainties she ever holds Vanish Adult'rate TRVTH and never dare With prowd Maydes prayse to prease where Nuptialls are And Champions since you see the Truth I held To Sacred HYMEN reconciled yeeld Nor so to yeeld thinke it the least Despight It is a Conquest to submit to Right This Royall Iudge of our Contention Will prop I know what I have vnder gone To whose right Sacred Highnesse I resigne Low at his feete this Starry Crowne of mine To shew his Rule and Iudgement is diuine These Doves to him I consecrate withall To note his Innocence without spot or gall These Serpents for his Wisedome and these Rayes To shew his piercing Splendor These bright Keyes Designing Power to ope the ported Skies And speake their Glories to his Subjects Eyes Lastly this Heart with which all Hearts be true And TRVTH in him make Treason ever rue With This they were led forth hand in hand reconciled as in Triumph and thus the Solemnities ended Vivite concordes nostrum discite munus a Mystically implying that both It the Place and all the succeeding Ceremonies vvere sacred to Marriage or VNION over vvhich IVNO vvas praesident to vvhom there vvas the like Altar erected at Rome as she vvas called IVGA IVNO in the Street vvhich thence vvas named lugarius See Fest. and at vvhich Altar the Rite vvas to ioyne the maried Paire vvith bands of silke in signe of future Concord a Those vvere the Quinque Cerei vvhich Plutarch in his Quaest. Roman mentions to be vsed in Nuptialls b The dressing of the Bridegroome vvith the Antients vvas chiefly noted in that quód tonderetur lu Sat. 6. lámque à Tonsore magistro Pecteris And Lucan li. 2. VVhere he makes Cato negligent of the Ceremonies in Marriage sayth Ille nec horrificam sancto dimovit abore Caesariem c See hovv he is called out by Catullus in Nupt. Iul. Manl. Cinge tempora floribus Suave olentis amaraci c. d For so I preserve the Reading there in Catull Pineam quate taedam rather than to change it Spineam and mooved by the authoritie of Virg. in Ciri vvhere he sayes Pronuba nec castos incendet Pinus amores and Ovid. Fast. lib 2 Expectet puros pinea taeda dies Though I deny not there vvas also Spineataeda vvhich Plinie calles Nuptiarum facibus auspicatissimam Nat. Hist. lib. 16. cap 18. and vvhereof Sextus Pompeius Fest. hath left so particular testimonie For vvhich see the follovving Note e This by the Antients vvas called Camillus quasi Minister for so that signified in the Hetruriā tong and vvas one of the three vvhich by Sex Pompei vvere said to be Patrimi Matrimi Pueri praetestati tres qui nubentem deducunt Vnus qui facem praefert ex spinâ albâ Duo qui tenent nubentem To vvhich conferre that of Varr. lib. 6. de lingua Lat. Dicitur in nuptijs Camillus qui Cumerum fert as also that of Fest. lib. 3. Cumeram vocabant Antiqui vas quoddam quod opertum in Nuptijs ferebant in quo erant nubentis vtensilia quod Camillum dicebant eò quod sacrorum Ministrum {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} appellabant a Auspices vver those that hād fasted the maried Couple that vvished thē good lucke that took care for the Dowry and heard thē professe that they came together for the Cause of Children Iuven. Sat 10. Veniet cum signatoribus Auspex And Lucan lib. 2. Iungunturtaciti contentique Auspice Bruto They vvere also stilld Pronubi Proxenetae Paranymphi b The Custome of Musike at Nuptials is cleare in all Antiquitie Ter. Adel. Act. 5. Verum hoc mihi mora est Tibicina Hymenaeum qui cantent And Claud. in Epithal. Ducant pervigiles carmina Tibiae c. a That they vvere personated in men hath already come vnder some Gramatical exception But there is more than Gramar to release it For besides that Humores and Affectus are both Masculine in Genere not one of the Specialls but in some Language is knovvne by a Masculine vvord Againe vvhen their Influences are common to both Sexes and more generally impetuous in the Male I see not vvhy they should not so be more properly presented And for the Allegory though here it be very cleare and such as might vvell escape a Candle yet because there are some must complain of Darknes that have but thick Eies I am contented to hold them this Light First as in Naturall Bodies so likevvise in Mindes there is no disease or distemperature but is caused either by som abounding Humor or perverse Affection After the same maner in Politike Bodies vvhere Order Ceremony State Reverence Devotion are Parts of the Mind by the diffrence or praedominant Wil of vvhat vve Metaphorically call Humors and Affections all things are troubled and confusd These therefore were Tropically brought in before Marriage as disturbers of that Mysticall Body and the Rites vvhich vvere Soule vnto it that aftervvards in Marriage being dutifully tempted by hir Power they might more fully celebrate the happines of such as live in that svveet Vnion to the harmonious Lavvs of Nature and Reason a Alluding to that opinion of Pythagoras vvho held all Reason all Knowledge all Discourse of the Soule to be mere Number See Plut. de Plac. Phil. a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} vvith the Greekes value the same that Ceremoniae vvith the Latines and imply all sorts of Rites howsoeuer abusively they have beene made particular to Bacchus See Serv. to that of Vir. Aeneid 4. qualis commotis excita sacris Thyas b Mac. in som. Scipion. lib. 1. a Properly that vvhich vvas made ready for the nevv-married Bride and vvas calld Genialis à Generandis liberis Ser. in 6 Aeneid b See Ovid. Fast. lib. 6. Sic fatus spinam quâ tristes pellere pesset A foribus noxas haec erat alba dedit c Plutarch in Quaest. Rom. And Var. lib. 4 de ling. Lat. d Pun Nat. Hist. li. 21. ca. 8 e Pomp. Fest. Briss Hotto de Rit Nup f Var lib. 6. de ling. Lat. and Fest. in Frag. g Fest. ibid. h Plutarch in Quaest. Rom. in Romul i Plin. Nat. Hist. li. 8. ca. 48 k That vvas Nodus Herculeanus vvhich the Husband at night vntied in signe of good fortune that hee might be happie in propagation of Issue as Hercules vvas vvho left seventie Children See Fest. in voc Cingul. a Plutarch in Quaest. Rom. b See Mart. Capel lib. 6. de Nupt. Phil. Mer. in numero Pentade c With the Greekes IVNO vvas interpreted to be the Ayre it selfe And so Macr. de som. Scipio li. 1. c. 17. calls her Mar. Cap. surnames her

HYMENAEI OR The Solemnities of Masque and Barriers Magnificently performed on the eleventh and twelfth Nights from Christmas At Court To the auspicious celebrating of the Marriage-vnion betweene Robert Earle of Essex and the Lady Frances second Daughter to the most noble Earle of Suffolke By BEN IONSON Iam veniet Virgo iam dicetur Hymenaeus AT LONDON Printed by Valentine Sims for Thomas Thorp 1606 HYMENAEI IT is a noble and iust advantage that the things subjected to Vnderstanding have of those which are objected to Sense that the one sorte are but momentarie and meerely taking the other impressing and lasting Else the Glory of all these Solemnities had perish'd like a Blaze and gone out in the Beholders eyes So short-liv'd are the Bodies of all Thinges in comparison of their Soules And though Bodies oft-times have the ill lucke to be sensually preferr'd they find afterwards the good fortune when Soules live to be vtterly forgotten This it is hath made the most royall Princes and greatest Persons who are commonly the Personaters of these Actions not onely studious of Riches and Magnificence in the outward Celebration or Shew which rightly becomes them but curious after the most high and hearty Inventions to furnish the inward parts and those grounded vpon Antiquitie and solide Learnings which though their Voyce be taught to sound to present Occasions their Sense or dooth or should alwayes lay holde on more remov'd Mysteries And howsoever some may squeamishly cry out that all Endevor of Learning and Sharpnesse in these transitory Devises especially where it steppes beyond their little or let me not wrong 'hem no Braine at all is superfluous I am contented these fastidious Stomachs should leave my full Tables and enioy at home their cleane empty Trenchers fittest for such airy Tasts where perhaps a few Italian Herbs pick'd vp made into a Sallade may find sweeter acceptance than al the most norishing and sound Meates of the world For these Mens palates let not mee answere O Muses It is not my fault if I fill them out Nectar and they runne to Metheglin Vaticana bibant si delectentur All the curtesie I can doe them is to cry againe Praetereant si quid non facit ad stomachum As I wil from the thought of them to my better Subject ON the Night of the Masques which were two One of Men the Other of Women the Scene being drawne there was first discovered an Altar vpon which was inscribed in Letters of Gold I. oni imae imae VNIONI SACR To this Altar entred five Pages attir'd in white bearing five Tapers of Virgine Waxe Behinde them One representing a Bridegroome His haire short and bound with party-coloured ribbands and gold twist His Garments purple and white On the other hand entred HYMEN the God of Marriage in a saffron-coloured Robe his vnder-Vestures white his Sockes yellow a yellow Veile of silke on his left arme his Head crowned with Roses and Marioram in his right hand a Torch of Pine tree After him a Youth attired in white bearing another Light of white Thorne vnder his arme a litle wicker-Flasket shut Behind him two Others in white the one bearing a Distaffe the other a Spindle Betwixt these a Personated Bride supported her haire flowing and loose sprinckled with grey on her head a Gyrland of Roses like a Turret her Garments white and on her back a Weathers Fleece hanging downe Her Zone or Girdle about her waste of white wooll fastned with the Herculean Knot In the middst went the Auspices after them two that sung in severall colored silks Of which One bore the Water the Other the Fire Last of all the Musitians diversly attired all crowned with Roses and with this Song beganne SONG BId all profane away None here may stay To view our Mysteries But who themselues have beene Or will in Time be seene The selfe-same Sacrifice For VNION Mistris of these Rites Will be observ'd with Eyes As simple as her Nights Chorus Flie then all profane away Flie farre off as hath the Day Night her Cortine doth display And this is HYMENS Holiday The Song being ended HYMEN presented him selfe formost and after some signe of Admiration beganne to speake HYMEN VVHat more than vsuall Light Throughout the Place extended Makes IVNO'S Fane so bright Is there some greater Deitie descended Orraigne on earth those Powers So rich as with their beames Grace VNION more than our's And bound her Influence in their happier streames T is so This same is he The King and Priest of Peace And that his Empresse she That sits so crowned with her owne increase O you whose better Blisses Have proov'd the strict embrace Of VNION with chaste kisses And seene it flowe so in your happy Race That know how well it bindes The fighting Seedes of Things Winnes Natures Sexes Mindes And ev'ry discord in true Musique brings Sit now propitious Aydes To Rites so duely priz'd And view two Noble Maydes Of different Sexe to VNION sacrifiz'd In honour of that blest Estate Which all Good Mindes should celebrate Here out of a Microcosme or Globe figuring Man with a kind of contentious Musique issued forth the first Masque of eight Men whose Names in order as they were then Marshalled by Couples I have Heraldry enough to set downe 1 L. WILLOVGHBY 2 LO WALDEN 3 Sir IAMES HAY. 4 Ear of MONGOMERY Sir THOMAS HOVVARD Sir THOMAS SOMERSET Ear of ARVNDELL Sir IOHN ASHLY These represented the foure Humors foure Affections all gloriously attired distinguisht only by their severall Ensignes and Colours And dauncing out on the Stage in their returne at the end of their Daunce drew all their swordes offered to encompasse the Altar and disturbe the Ceremonies at which HYMEN troubled spake HYMEN SAve save the Virgins Keepe your hallow'd Lights Vntouch'd And with their flame defend our Rites The foure vntempred Humors are broke out And with their wild Affections goe about To ravish all Religion If there be A Power like REASON left in that huge Bodie Or little World of Man from whence these came Looke forth and with thy bright and numerous flame Instruct their Darkenesse make them know and see In wronging these they have rebell'd gainst thee Hereat REASON seated in the top of the Globe as in the braine or highest parte of Man figur'd in a venerable Personage her haire white and trayling to her waste crowned with Lights her Garments blew and semined with Starres girded vnto her with a white Bend fill'd with Arithmeticall Figures in one hand bearing a Lampe in the other a bright Sword descended and spake REASON FOrbeare your rude attempt what Ignorance Could yeelde you so profane as to advance One thought in Act against these Mysteries Are VNION'S Orgies of so slender price She that makes Soules with Bodies mixe in Love Contracts the World in one and therein IOVE Is Spring and End of all Things yet most strange