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A04600	The temple of love A masque. Presented by the Queenes Majesty, and her ladies, at White-hall on Shrove-Tuesday, 1634. By Inigo Iones, surveyor of his Maties. workes, and William Davenant, her Maties. servant.	Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652.; D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668. aut	1634 (1634)	STC 14719; ESTC S107859	7,296	24

Fate hath made thy reigne her choyce In which Love's blessings shall be given The Poets Truth shall appeare and rule 'till she resists Those subtle charmes and melts those darker mists In which Love's Temple 's hid from Exorcists Whom forsooth Divine Poesie they stile This morne proclaim'd it from a falling Cloud 2. Who Divine Poesie 3. I know her well Shee 's one that makes the holy Jigges And sacred Catches for the gods when they Are merry with mis-takes of men and laugh To see us carelesse of their punishment 1. But who shall bring this mischiefe to our Art 3. Indamora the delight of Destiny Shee and the beauties of her Traine who sure Though they discover Summer in their lookes Still carry frozen Winter in their blood They raise strange doctrines and new sects of Love Which must not wooe or court the Person but The Mind and practise generation not Of Bodies but of Soules 2. Beleeve me my Magicall friends They must bring bodies with 'em that worship In our pleasant Temple I have an odde Fantasticke faith perswades me there will be Little pastime upon earth without Bodies Your Spirit 's a cold Companion at midnight 1. Have we so long misse-led and entertain'd The youthfull of the world I meane their bodies And now doe they betake themselves unto The dull imaginary pleasures of Their soules This humor cannot last 2. If it should we may rid our Temple Of all our Persian Quilts imbroyder'd Couches And our standing Beds these I take it are Bodily implements our soules need 'em not But where shall this new Sect be planted first 3. In a dull Northerne I le they call Britaine 2. Indeed 't is a cold Northerly opinion And I 'le lay my life begot since their late Great Frosts It will be long enough e're it Shall spread and prosper in the South Or if The Spaniard or Italian ever be Perswaded out of the use of their bodies I 'le give mine to a Raven for his Supper 3. The Miracle is more increas'd in that It first takes birth and nourishment in Court 2. But my good damn'd friend tell me Is there not One Courtier will resent the cause and give Some countenance to the affaires of the body 3 Certain yong Lords at first disliked the Phylosophy As most uncomfortable sad and new But soone inclin'd to a superior vote And are growne as good Platonicall Lovers As are to be found in an Hermitage where he That was borne last reckons above fourescore To these come foorth in hast another Magician in shape and habit differing from the other and spake as followeth 1. Here comes a brother of our misticke Tribe 3. He knowes th' occasion of our griefe and by His hast imports discoveries more strange 4. Newes newes my sad companions of the shade There 's lately landed on our fatall shore Nine Persian youths their habit and their lookes So smooth that from the pleasures i' th Elisian fields Each female ghost will come and enter in Their flesh againe to make embraces warme 2. I hope these are no Platonicall Lovers No such Carthusian Poets as doe write Madrigals to the mind more of thy newes 4. The rest inferres small joy and little hope For though at first their youth and eager thoughts Directed them where our gay Altar stood And they were ready too for sacrifice I cannot tell what lucklesse light inform'd Their eyes but Loves true Temple straight they spy'd Through the ascending mists and would have enterd it To read grave frosty Homilies And Anticke sawes of Chastitie but that As my swift Spirit brought me word a voyce Sent from within bad them with reverence Desist till Indamora did appeare for then The gates would open and the mists dry up That thus conceal'd it from the generall view Which now their expectation doth attend 3. 'T is time to wake our drowsie Art and try If we have power to hinder Destinie Mount mount our charmes fetch me whilst you aspire A Spirit of the Element of fire 2. Me one of Ayre 1. The water me supplies 4. Mine from the center of the earth shall rise 3. These shall infuse their sev'rall qualities In men if not t' uphold the faction of The flesh yet to infect the queasie age With blacker sinnes If we now we have joyn'd The force of all the Elements t' assist The horror of our will shall not prevaile Against this hum'rous vertue of the Time Nature our weaknesse must be thought thy crime From Persian Princes too and each as fierce A Lover as did ever sigh in verse Give audience then you Ladies of this I le Lord how you lift your fannes up now and smile To thinke forsooth they are so fond to take So long a journey for your beauties sake For know th' are come but sure e're they returne Will give your femallships some cause to mourne For I must tell you that about them all There 's not one graine but what 's Platonicall So bashfull that I thinke they might be drawne Like you to weare close Hoods or vailes of Lawne My Master is the chiefe that doth protect Or as some say misse-lead this precise sect One heretofore that wisely could confute A Lady at her window with his Lute There devoutly in a cold morning stand Two howres praysing the snow of her white hand So long till 's words were frozen 'tweene his lips And 's Lute-strings learnt their quav'ring from his hips And when he could not rule her to 's intent Like Tarquin he would proffer ravishment But now no feare of Rapes untill he find A maydenhead belonging to the mind The rest are all so modest too and pure So virginly so coy and so demure That they retreat at kissing and but name Hymen or Love they blush for very shame Ladies I must needs laugh you 'le give me leave I hope and 't is to thinke how you deceive Your selves with all this precious art and care Tane in your glasse to dresse your lookes and haire When in good faith they heed no outward merit But fervently resolve to wooe the Spirit Hah doe you all looke melancholy uow And cast a Cloud of anger o're the brow 'T is time to flye and my best swiftnesse use Lest kill'd with pinnes and Bodkins for my newes The Page retires and the Noble Persian youths make their entry apparelled in Asian Coats of Sea-greene embroidered that reached downe above their knees with buttons and loops before and cut up square to their hips and returned downe with two short skirts the sleeves of this Coat were large without seame and cut short to the bending of the Arme and hanging downe long behinde trimm'd with buttons as those of the breast out of this came a sleeve of white Sattin embroidered and the Basis answerable to the sleeve hung downe in gathering underneath the shortest part of their Coat on their heads they wore Persian Turbants silver'd underneath and wound about with white Cypresse and one fall of a

THE TEMPLE OF LOVE A Masque Presented by the QVEENES Majesty and her Ladies at White-hall on Shrove-Tuesday 1634 By Inigo Iones Surveyor of his Ma Workes and William Davenant her Maties Servant LONDON Printed for Thomas Walkley and are to be sold at his Shop neare White-hall 1634 The Argument DIvine Poesie the Secretary of Nature is sent by Fate to Indamora Queene of Narsinga to signifie the time prefix'd was come when by the influence of her beauty attended with those lesser lights her Contributary Ladies the Temple of Chast Love should be re-established in this Island which Temple being long sought for by certaine Magicians enemies to chast Love intending to use it to their intemperate ends was by Divine Poesie hidden in mists and clouds so as the Magicians being frustrate of their hopes sought by enchantments to hinder all others from finding it and by this imposture many Noble Knights and Ladies had been tempted and mis-led The fame of this Temple of Loue being quickly spread over all the Easterne world enflamed a company of noble Persian youths borderers on India to travell in quest of it who arriving were by the illusions of the Magicians and their spirits of severall Regions almost seduced as others had beene But Divine Poesie appearing discover'd unto them some part of the Temple unshadow'd and prophecied of the time when Indamora and her traine should arrive to effect this miracle which though it seemes somewhat hard Doctrine to most young men yet these being spirits of the highest ranke forsaking the false Magicians and their allurements were resolved to entertaine themselves to contemplate on this Apparision untill the comming of the glorious Indian Queen At whose sight they being inspir'd with chast flames might be permitted by their faithfull observance and legitimate affections to enter and enjoy the privileges of that sacred Temple Then Divine Poesie sends Orpheus her chiefe Priest in a Barque assisted by the Brachmant and Priests of the Temple who meet him on the shores to calme the Seas with his Harpe that a maritime Chariot prepared by the Indian Sea-gods might safer and more swiftly convay them to atchieve this Noble adventure after whose landing having paid their Ceremonies by moving in harmonicall and numerous figures Sunesis and Thelema which intimate the understanding and the will joyning together the true Temple appeares and Chast Love descends to invoke the last and living Heroe Indamora's royall Lover that hee may helpe and witnesse the Consecration of it THE TEMPLE OF LOVE AT the lower end of the Banquetting-house opposite to the State was a Stage of six foot high and on that was raised an Ornament of a new Invention agreeable to the Subject consisting of Indian Trophees on the one side upon a basement sate a naked Indian on a whitish Elephant his legges shortning towards the necke of the beast his tire and bases of severall coloured feathers representing the Indian Monarchy On the other side an Asiatique in the habit of an Indian borderer riding on a Camell his Turbant and Coat differing from that of the Turkes figured for the Asian Monarchy over these hung sheild like Compartiments In that over the Indian was painted a Sunne rising and in the other an halfe Moone these had for finishing the Capitall of a great pillaster which served as a ground to sticke them of and bore up a large freeze or border with a Coronice In this over the Indian lay the figure of an old man with a long white haire and beard representing the flood Tigris on his head a wreath of Canes and Seage and leaning upon a great Vrne out of which runne water by him in an extravagant posture stood a Tyger At the other end of this freeze lay another naked man representing Meander the famous River of Asia who likewise had a great silver urne and by him lay an Vnicorne In the midst of this border was fixed a rich Compartiment behind which was a crimson Drapery part of it borne up by naked Children tack'd up in severall pleats and the rest was at each end of the Freeze tyed with a great knot and from thence hung downe in foulds to the bottome of the pedestalls In the midst of this Compartiment in an Ovall was written TEMPLVM AMORIS all these figures were in their naturall colours bigger than the life and the Compartiments of Gold A Curtaine flying up the first Sceane was discover'd in which appeared a spacious grove of shady trees and a farre off on a mount with a winding way to the top was seated a pleasant bower environed with young trees and in the lower part walkes planted with Cypresse representing the place where the Soules of the Ancient Poets are fained to reside the delight of this prospect was quickly diverted to the fight of a more strange apparision for out of the heaven by little and little broke foorth a great Cloud of a Rosie Colour which being come downe some little way beganne to open and in it was seene sitting a beautifull woman her garment was Sky-colour set all with Starres of gold her head was crowned with Laurell with a spangled vaile hanging downe behind and her haire in artificiall curles graciously dress'd representing Divine Poesie and by her a milke white Swanne as she descends singing out of those venerable shades came forth a company of ancient Greeke Poets as Demodicus Foemius Homer Hesiod Terpander and Sapho a Poetesse in habits varied and of severall colours with laurell wreaths on their heads Divine Poesie sung this Divine Poesie 1. AS chearefull as the Mornings light Comes Indamora from above To guide those Lovers that want sight To see and know what they should love 2. Her beames into each breast will steale And search what ev'ry Heart doth meane The sadly wounded shee will heale And make the fouly tainted cleane 3. Rise you from your darke shades below That first gave words an harmony And made false Love in Numbers flow 'Till vice became a mysterie 4. And when I 've purifi'd that Ayre To which Death turn'd you long agoe Helpe with your voyces to declare What Indamora comes to show The Poets Soule of our Science how inspir'd we come By thee restor'd to voyces that lay dumbe Awd lost in many a forgotten Tombe D. Poesie Y' are spirits all and have so long From flesh and frailty absent bin That sure though Love should fill your song It could not rellish now of sinne The Poets Vex not our sad remembrance with our shame We have bin punish'd for ill-gotten fame For each loose verse tormented with a flame D. Poesie Descend then and become with me The happy Organs to make knowne In an harmonious Embassie Our great affaire to yonder Throne Shee being descended to the ground in a Majesticke pace goes up to the State attended by the fore-named Poets and the Cloud that brought her downe closeth as it ascends D. Poesie Thou Monarch of mens hearts rejoyce So much thou art belov'd in heaven That