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
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
Her selfe nor suffers Spring nor End nor Change No wonder they were you that were so bold For none but Humors and Affections would Have dar'd so rash a venture You will say It was your Zeale that gave your powers the sway And vrge the masqued and disguisd pretence Of saving Bloud and succ'ring Innocence So want of Knowledge still begetteth iarres When humorous Earthlings will controle the Starres Informe your selves with safer Reverence To these mysterious Rites whose mysticke sense REASON which all things but it selfe confounds Shall cleare vnto you from th' authentique grounds At this the Humors Affections sheathed their swordes and retir'd amazed to the sides of the Stage while HYMEN began to ranke the Persons and order the Ceremonies And REASON proceeded to speake REASON THe Paire which doe each other side Though yet some space doth them divide This happy Night must both make one Blest Sacrifice to VNION Nor is this Altar but a Signe Of one more soft and more divine The Geniall Bed where HYMEN keepes The solemne Orgies voyd of sleepes And wildest CVPID waking hovers With adoration 'twixt the Lovers The Tead of white and blooming Thorne In token of increase is borne As also with the omenous Light To fright all Malice from the Night Like are the Fire and Water set That ev'n as Moysture mixt with Heate Helpes every Naturall Birth to life So for their Race ioyne Man and Wife The blushing Veyle shewes shamefastnesse Th' ingenuous Virgin should professe At meeting with the Man Her Haire That flowes so liberall and so faire Is shed with grey to intimate She entreth to a Matrons state For which those Vtensills are borne And that shee should not Labour scorne Her selfe a Snowie Fleece doth weare And these her Rocke and Spindle beare To shew that Nothing which is good Gives checke vnto the highest blood The Zone of wooll about her waste Which in contrary Circles cast Doth meete in one strong knot that bindes Tells you so should all Married Mindes And lastly these five Waxen Lights Imply Perfection in the Rites For Five the speciall Number is Whence halow'd VNION claymes her blisse As being all the Summe that growes From the vnited strengths of those Which Male and Female Numbers wee Do stile and are First Two and Three Which ioyned thus you cannot sever In aequall partes but One will ever Remaine as common so we see The binding-force of Vnitie For which alone the peace-full Gods In Number alwayes love the oddes And even partes as much despise Since out of them all Discords rise Here the vpper part of the Scene which was all of Cloudes and made artificially to swell and ride like the Racke beganne to open and the Ayre clearing in the toppe thereof was discovered IVNO sitting in a Throne supported by two beautifull Peacockes her attire rich and like a Queene a white Diademe on her head from whence descended a Veyle and that bound with a Fascia of severall color'd silkes set with all sorts of Iewelles and raisd in the top with Lillies and Roses In her right hand she held a Scepter in the other a Timbrell at her golden feete the Hide of a Lion was placed Round about her sate the Spirites of the ayre in severall colours making Musique Above her the Region of Fire with a continuall Motion was seene to whirle circularly and IVPITER standing in the Toppe figuring the Heaven brandishing his Thunder Beneath her the Raine-bowe IRIS and on the two sides eight Ladies attired richly and alike in the most celestiall colours who represented her Powers as she is the Governesse of Marriage and made the second Masque All which vpon the discoverie REASON made narration of REASON ANd see where IVNO whose great Name Is VNIO in the Anagram Displayes her glistering State and Chaire As she enlightned all the Ayre Harke how the charming Tunes doe beate In sacred Concords bout her seate And loe to grace what these intend Eight of her Noblest Powers descend Which are enstil'd her Faculties That governe nuptiall Mysteries And weare those Masques before their faces Lest dazling Mortalls with their graces As they approach them all Mankind Should be like CVPID stroken blinde These ORDER waytes for on the ground To keepe that you should not confound Their measur'd steppes which onely move About th' harmonious sphaere of LOVE The names of the eight Ladies as they were after orderd to the most conspicuous shew in their Daunces by the rule of their statures were the Co. of MONGOMERY Mi. CI. SACKVILE La. DOR. HASTINGS Co. of BEDFORD La. KNOLLES La. BERKLEY La. BLANCH SOMERSET Co. of RVTLAND Their Descent was made in two great Cloudes that put forth themselves severally and with one measure of time were seene to stoupe fall gently downe vpon the Earth The maner of their Habites came after some Statues of IVNO no lesse airie than glorious The dressings of their Heades rare so likewise of their Feete and all full of splendor soveraignety and riches Whilst they were descending this Song was sung at the Altar SONG THese these are they Whom Humor and Affection must obey Who come to decke the geniall Bower And bring with them the gratefull Hower That crownes such Meetings and excites The married Paire to fresh Delights As Courtings Kissings Coyings Oths Vowes Soft Whisperings Embracements all the Ioyes And melting Toyes That chaster LOVE allowes CHO. Hast hast for HESPERVS his head down bowes The Song ended they daunced forth in Paires and each Paire with a varied and noble grace to a rare and full Musique of twelve Lutes led on by ORDER the Servant of REASON who was there rather a Person of Ceremony than Vse His vnder-Garment was blew his vpper white and painted full of Arithmeticall and Geometricall Figures his Hayre and Beard long a Starre on his forehead and in his hand a Geometricall Staffe To whom after the Daunce REASON spake REASON COnvey them ORDER to their places And ranke them so in severall traces As they may set their mixed Powers Vnto the Musique of the Howers And THESE by ioyning with them know In better temper how to flow Whilst I from their abstracted Names Report the vertues of the Dames First CVRIS comes to decke the Brides faire Tresse Care of the oyntments VNXIA doth professe IVGA her office to make One of Twaine GAMELIA sees that they should so remaine Faire ITERDVCA leades the Bride her way And DOMIDVCA home her steppes doth stay CINXIA the Maid quit of her Zone defends TELIA for HYMEN perfects all and ends By this time the Ladies were payred with the Men and the whole Sixteene rank'd foorth in order to daunce were with this Song provok'd SONG NOw now beginne to set Your spirits in active heate And since your Hands are met Instruct your nimble
Feete In motions swift and meete The happy ground to beate Chorus Whilst all this Roofe doth ring And ech discording String With every varied Voyce In VNION doth reioyce Here they daunced forth a most neate and curious Measure full of Subtelty and Device which was so excellently performed as it seemed to take away that Spirite from the Invention which the Invention gave to it and left it doubtfull whether the Formes flow'd more perfectly from the Authors braine or their feete The Straines were all notably different some of them formed into Letters very signifying to the Name of the Bridgroome and ended in manner of a Chaine linking hands To which this was spoken REASON SVch was the Golden Chaine let down from Heaven And not those Linkes more even Then these so sweetly temper'd so combin'd By VNION and refin'd Here no Contention Envie Griefe Deceipt Feare Iealousie have weight But all is Peace and Love and Faith and Blisse What Harmony like this The Gall behinde the Altar quite is throwne This Sacrifice hath none Now no Affections rage nor Humors swell But all composed dwell O IVNO HYMEN HYMEN IVNO who Can merit with you two Without your presence VENVS can doe nought Save what with shame is bought No Father can himselfe a Parent show Nor any House with prosp'rous Issue grow O then What Deities will dare With HYMEN or with IVNO to compare The speach being ended they dissolv'd and all tooke forth other Persons Men and Women to daunce other Measures Galliards and Corranto's the whilst this Song importun'd them to a fit Remembrance of the Time SONG Thinke yet how Night doth wast How much of Time is past What more then winged hast Your selves would take If you were but to tast The ioy the Night doth cast O might it ever last On this bright Virgin and her happy Make Their Daunces yet lasting they were the second time importun'd by Speach REASON See see the bright Idalian Starre That lighteth Lovers to their Warre Complaines that you her influence loose While thus the Night-sports you abuse HYMEN THe longing Bridegroome in the Porch Shewes you againe the bated Torch And thrice hath IVNO mixt her Ayre With Fire to sommon your repaire REASON SEe now she cleane withdrawes her Light And as you should gives place to Night That spreades her broad and blackest wing Vpon the world and comes to bring A thousand severall-colour'd Loves Some like Sparrowes some like Doves That hop about the Nuptiall-Roome And flutt'ring there against you come Warme the chaste Bowre which CYPRIA strowes With many a Lilly many a Rose HYMEN HAste therefore haste and call Away The gentle Night is prest to pay The vsurie of long Delights She owes to these protracted Rites At this the whole Scene being drawne againe and all cover'd with Cloudes as a Night they left off their entermixed Daunces and return'd to their first Places where as they were but begining to move this Song the third time vrg'd them SONG O Know to end as to beginne A Minutes losse in Love is sinne These Humors will the Night out weare In their owne Pastimes here You doe our Rites much wrong In seeking to Prolong These outward Pleasures The Night hath other Treasures Then these though long concea'ld Ere day to be reveal'd Then know to end as to beginne A Minutes losse in Love is sinne Here they daunc'd their last Daunces full of excellent delight and change and in their latter straine fell into a faire Orbe or Circle REASON standing in the midst and speaking REASON HEre stay and let your Sports be crown'd The perfect'st Figure is the Round Nor fell you in it by adventer When REASON was your Guide and Center This this that beauteous Ceston is of Lovers many-coulor'd Blisse Come HYMEN make an inner Ring And let the Sacrificers sing Cheare vp the faint and trembling Bride That quakes to touch hir Bridegroom's side Tell her what IVNO is to IOVE The same shall she be to her Love His Wife which we doe rather measure A Name of Dignity then Pleasure Vp Youths hold vp your Lights in ayre And shake abroad their flaming haire Now move vnited and in Gate As you in paires doe front the State With gratefull Honors thanke his Grace That hath so glorified the Place And as in Circle you depart Link'd hand in hand So heart in heart May all those Bodies still remaine Whom he with so much sacred paine No lesse hath bound within his Realmes Then they are with the OCEANS streames Long may his VNION find increase As hee to ours hath deign'd his peace With this to a soft straine of Musique they pac'd once about in their Ring every Payre making their Honors as they came before the State and then dissolving went downe in Couples led on by HYMEN the Bride and Auspices following as to the Nuptiall Bowre After them the Musitians with this Song of which then onely one Staffe was sung but because I made it both in Forme and Matter to aemulate that kinde of Poeme which was call'd Epithalamium and by the Auntients vs'd to be song when the Bride was led into her Chamber I have here set it down whole and doe hartily forgive their ignorance whom it chanceth not to please Hoping that Nemo doctus me iubeat Thalassionem verbis dicere non Thalassionis EPITHALAMION GLad Time is at his point arriv'd For which Loves hopes were so long-liv'd Lead HYMEN lead away And let no Obiect stay Nor Banquets but sweete kisses The Turtles from their Blisses T is CVPID calls to arme And this his last Alarme Shrinke not soft VIRGIN you will love Anone what you so feare to prove This is no killing Warre To which you pressed are But faire and gentle strife Which Lovers call their Life T is CVPID cries to Arme And this his last Alarme Helpe Youths and Virgins helpe to sing The Prize which HYMEN here doth bring And did so lately rap From forth the Mothers lap To place her by that side Where she must long abide On HYMEN HYMEN call This Night is HYMEN's all See HESPERVS is yet in view What Starre can so deserve of you Whose light doth still adorne Your Bride that ere the Morne Shall farre more perfect bee And rise as bright as Hee When like to him her Name Is chang'd but not her Flame Hast tender Lady and adventer The covetous House would have you enter That it might wealthy bee And you her Mistresse see Hast your owne good to meete Aud lift your golden feete Above the Threshold high With prosperous Augury Now Youths let goe your pretty armes The Place within chant's other charmes Whole showers of Roses flow And Violets seeme to grow Strew'd in the Chamber there As VENVS Meade it were On HYMEN HYMEN call This Night is HYMEN's all Good Matrons that so well are knowne To aged Husbands of your owne Place you our
Aeria of reigning there d They vvere sacred to IVNO in respect of their colors and temper so like the Aire Ovid. de Arte Amand. Laudatas ostendit aves Iunonia pennas And Met. li. 2. Habili Saturnia curru Ingreditur liquidum pavonibus aethera pictis e Shee was call'd Regina IVNO vvith the Latines because she vvas Soror Coniux IOVIS Deorum hominum Regis f Reade Apul. describing her in his 10 of the Asse a After the manner of the antique Bend the varied colors implying the severall mutations of the Ayre as Shovvres Devves Serenitie Force of vvinds clouds Tempest Snovv Hayle Lightning Thunder all vvhich had their noises signified in hir Timbrell the faculty of causing these being ascribed to her by Virg. Aeneid lib. 4. vvhere he makes her say His ego nigrantem commista grandine nimbum Desuper infundam tonitru Coelum omne ciebo b Lillies vvere sacred to IVNO as being made vvhite vvith her milke that fell vpon the earth vvhen IOVE tooke HERCVLES avvay vvhome by stealth he had layd to her Breast the Rose vvas also call'd Iunonia c So vvas she figur'd at Argos as a Stepmother insulting on the spoyles of her two Privigni BACCHVS and HERCVLES d See Virg. Aeneid lib. 4. IVNONI ante omnes cui vinela iugalia curae and in another place Dant signum prima Tellus Pronuba IVNO And Ovid. in Phill Epist. IVNONEM-que terris quae praesidet alma Maritis a They vvere all eight call'd by particular Surnames of IVNO ascribed to her for some peculiar propertie in Marriage as somvvhere after is more fitly declared a This Surname IVNO receiv'd of the Sabines from them the Romanes gave it her of the Speare vvhich in the Sabine tongue vvas called Curis and vvas that vvhich they nam'd Hasta Caelibaris vvhich had stuck in the Body of a slaine Svvord-player and vvherewith the Brides Head vvas drest vvhereof Fest. in Voce Celibar gives these reasons Vt quemadmodumilla coniuncta fuerit cum corpore Gladiatoris sic ipsa cum Viro sit vel quia Matronae IVNONIS Curitis in tutelâ sit quae ita appellabatur à ferenda hasta vel quod fortes viros genitur as ominetur vel quod nuptiali iure imperio viri subijcitur Nubens quià Hasta summa armorum imperij est c. To most of vvhich Plutarch in his Quaest. Rom consents but addes a better in Romul That vvhen they divided the Brides haire vvith the poynt of the Speare {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} it noted their first Nuptialles with the Sabines were contracted by force and as with Enemies Hovvsoever that it was a Custome with them this of Ovid. Fast. lib. 2. confirmes Comat Virgineas hasta recurva comas b For the Surname of VNXIA vve have Mart. Capel his Testimony De Nupt. Phil. Mercu libr. 2. quod vnctionibus praeest As also Servius libro quarto Aeneid vvhere they both report it a Fashion vvith the Romanes that before the nevv-married Brides entred the houses of their Husbandes they adorned the Postes of the Gates vvith vvoollen Tavvdries or Fillets and annoynted them vvith Oyles or the fatte of Wolves and Bores being superstitiously possest that such Oyntments had the vertue of expelling Evilles from the Family and thence vvere they called Vxores quasi Vnxores c Shee vvas named IVGA propter Iugum as Servius sayes for the yoke vvhich vvas imposd in Matrimony on those that vvere married or vvith Sex Pomp Fest. quòd Iuges sunt eiusdem iugi Pares vnde Coniuges or in respect of the Altar to vvhich I have declar'd before sacred to IVNO in Vico Iugario d As shee vvas GAMELIA in sacrificing to her they tooke avvay the Gall and threvv it behinde the Altar intimating that after Marriage there shoulde be knovvne no Bitternesse nor Hatred betvveene the ioyned Couple vvhich might divide or seperate them See Plutarch Connub. Prae. This Rite I have somevvhere follovving touch'd at e The Title of ITERDVCA shee had amongst them quòd ad sponsi aedes sponsas comitabatur or vvas a Protectresse of their journey Mart. Capel De Nupt. Philolog Mercur. libro secundo The like of DOMIDVCA quòd ad optatas domus duceret Mart. ibid. a CINXIA the same Author gives vnto her as the Defendresse of Maydes vvhen they had put off their Girdle in the Bridall Chamber To vvhich Festus Cinxiae Iunonis nomen sanctum habebatur in Nuptijs quod initio Coniugij solutio erat Cinguli quo nova Nupta erat cincta And Arnobius a man most learned in their Ceremonies lib. 3. advers Gent. saith Vnctionibus superest Vnxia Cinguloruus Cinxia replicationi b TELIA signifies Perfecta or as some translate it Perfectrix vvith Iul. Pol. libr. 3. Onomast {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} valevves IVNO Praeses Nuptiarum vvho saith the Attribute descends of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} vvhich vvith the Antients signified Marriage and thence vvere they called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that entred into that estate Servius interprets it the same vvith GAMELIA Aeneid 4. ad verb. Et Iunone secundâ But it implies much more as including the faculty to mature and perfect See the Greeke Scholiaste on Pind. Nem. in Hym. ad Thyaeum Vliae filium Argi. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is Nuptialls are therefore calld {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} because they effect Perfection of Life and doe note that Maturity vvhich should be in Matrimony For before Nuptialles shee is called IVNO {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is Virgo after Nuptialls {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} vvhich is adulta or Perfecta a Mentioned by HOMER Ilia 〈◊〉 vvhich many have interpreted diversely all Allegorically Pla. in Thaeteto vnderstands it to be the Sunne vvhich vvhile he circles the vvorlde in his course all thinges are safe and preserved Others vary it Macrob to vvhose interpretation I am specially affected in my Allusion considers it thus in Som. Scip. libr. 1. cap. 14. Ergo cùm ex summo Deo mens ex mente anima sit anima vero condat vita compleat omnia quae sequuntur cunctaque hic vnus fulgor illuminet in vniversis appareat vt in multis speculis per ordinem positis vultus vnus Cumque omnia continuis successionibus se sequantur degenerantia per ordinem ad imum meandi invenietur pressius intuenti à summo Deo vsque ad vltimam rerum faecem vna mutuis se vinculis religans nusquam interrupta connexio Et haec est Hemeri Catena aurea quam pendere de coelo in terras Deum iussisse commemorat To vvhich strengh and evennesse of connexion I have not absurdly likened this vniting of Humors and Affections by the sacred Powers of Mariage a Stella Veneris or VENVS vvhich vvhen it goes before the Sunne is call'd Phosphorus or Lucifer vvhen it follovves Hesperus or Noctifer as Cat. translates it See Cic. 2. de Natu.