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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17879	A relation of the late royall entertainment giuen by the Right Honorable the Lord Knovvles, at Cawsome-House neere Redding: to our most gracious queene, Queene Anne, in her progresse toward the Bathe, vpon the seuen and eight and twentie dayes of Aprill. 1613 VVhereunto is annexed the description, speeches, and songs of the Lords maske, presented in the Banquetting-house on the mariage night of the high and mightie, Count Palatine, and the royally descended the Ladie Elizabeth. Written by Thomas Campion.	Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620.; Banbury, William Knollys, Earl of, 1547-1632.	1613 (1613)	STC 4545; ESTC S104864	14,190	34

not able to sing gapes in silence and expresseth his humour in Antike gestures A Song and Dance of sixe two Keepers two Robin-hood-men the fantastick Traueller and the Cynick DAnce now and sing the ioy and loue we owe Let chearfull voices and glad gestures showe The Queene of grace is shee whom we receiue Honour and State are her guides Her presence they can neuer leaue Then in a stately Siluan forme salute Her euer flowing grace Fill all the Woods with Ecchoed welcomes And strew with flowers this place Let eu'ry bow and plant fresh blossomes yeeld And all the aire refine Let pleasure striue to please our Goddesse For shee is all diuine 2. Yet once againe let vs our measures moue And with sweet notes record our ioyfull loue An obiect more diuine none euer had Beautie and heau'n-borne worth Mixt in perfection neuer fade Then with a dance triumphant let vs sing Her high aduanced praise And eu'n to heau'n our gladsome welcomes With wings of musick raise Welcome O welcome euer-honoured Queene To this now-blessed place That groue that bowre that house is happy Which you vouchsafe to grace This song being sung and danced twice ouer they fall instantly into a kinde of Curranta with these wordes following NO longer delay her 'T were sinne now to stay her From her ease with tedious sport Then welcome still crying And swiftly hence flying Let vs to our homes resort In the end whereof the two Keepers carrie away the Cynick and the two Robin-hood-men the Traueller when presently Cornets begins againe to sound in seuerall places and so continue with varietie while the Queen passeth through a long smooth greene way set on each side with Trees in equall distance all this while her Maiestie being carried in her Caroch But because some wet had fallen that day in the forenoone though the Garden-walks were made artificially smooth drie yet all her foot-way was spred with broad cloth and so soone as her Maiestie with her traine were all entred into the Bower Garden a Gardiner with his Man and Boy issued out of an Arbour to giue her Highnesse entertainment The Gardener was suted in gray with a ierkin double iagged all about the wings skirts he had a paire of great slops with a cod-peece and buttoned Gamachios all of the same stuffe on his head he had a strawne hat pibaldly drest with flowers and in his hand a siluered spade His man was also suted in gray with a great buttoned flap on his ierkin hauing large wings and skirts with a paire of great slops and Gamachios of the same on his head he had a strawne hat and in his hand a siluered Mattox The Gardiners Boy was in a prettie sute of flowrie stuffe with a siluered Rake in his hand when they approched neere the Queene they all valed Bonet and lowting low the Gardner began after his anticke fashion this speech Gard. Most magnificent and peerelesse Diety loe I the surueyer of Lady Floras workes welcome your grace with fragrant phrases into her Bowers beseeching your greatnesse to beare with the late woodden entertainment of the Wood-men for Woods are more full of weeds then wits but gardens are weeded and Gardners witty as may appeare by me I haue flowers for all fancies Tyme for truth Rosemary for remembrance Roses for loue Harts-ease for ioy and thousands more which all harmoniously reioyce at your presence but my selfe with these my Paradisians heere will make you such musick as the wilde Wooddists shall bee ashamed to heare the report of it Come sirs prune your pipes and tune your strings and agree together like birds of a feather A Song of a treble and base sung by the Gardiners boy and man to musicke of Instruments that was readie to second them in the Arbour 1 VVElcome to this flowrie place Faire Goddesse and sole Queene of grace All eyes triumph in your sight Which through all this emptie space Casts such glorious beames of light 2 Paradise were meeter farre To entertaine so bright a Starre But why erres my folly so Paradise is where you are Heau'n aboue and heau'n below 3 Could our powers and wishes meete How well would they your graces greete Yet accept of our desire Roses of all flowers most sweete Spring out of the silly brier After this song the Gardiner speakes againe Gard. Wonder not great Goddesse at the sweetnesse of our Garden-aire though passing sweet it be Flora hath perfumed it for you Flora our mistresse and your seruant who enuites you yet further into her Paradise shee inuisibly will leade your grace the way and we as our duetie is visibly stay behinde From thence the Queene ascends by a few steps into the vpper Garden at the end whereof neere the house this Song was sung by an excellent counter-tenor voice with rare varietie of diuision vnto two vnusuall instruments all being concealed within the Arbour 1 O Ioyes exceeding From loue frō power of your wisht sight proceeding As a faire morne shines diuinely Such is your view appearing more diuinely 2 Your steppes ascending Raise high your thoughts for your content contending All our hearts of this grace vaunting Now leape as they were moued by inchaunting So ended the entertainment without the House for that time and the Queenes pleasure being that night to suppe priuately The Kings Violins attended her with their sollemnest musick as an excellent consort in like manner did the next day at dinner ¶ Supper being ended her Maiestie accompanied with many Lords and Ladies came into the Hall and rested Her selfe in Her Chaire of State the Scaffoldes of the Hall being on all partes filled with heholders of worth suddainely forth came the Traueller Gardiner Cynicke with the rest of their crue and others furnished with their Instruments and in maner following entertaine the time Traueller A Hall a hall for men of moment Rationals and Irrationals but yet not all of one breeding For I an Academicke am refined by trauell that haue learn'd what to Courtship belongs and so deuine a presence as this if we presse past good manners laugh at our follies for you cannot shew vs more fauour then to laugh at vs. If we proue ridiculous in your sights we are gracious and therefore wee beseech you to laugh at vs. For mine owne part I thanke my Starres for it I haue beene laught at in most parts of Christendome Gardiner I can neither bragge of my Trauels nor yet am ashamed of my profession I make sweet walkes for faire Ladies Flowers I prepare to adorne them close Arbours I build wherein their Loues vnseene may court them and who can doe Ladies better seruice or more acceptable when I was a Child and lay in my Cradle a very pretie Child I remember well that Lady Venus appeared vnto me and setting a Siluer Spade and Rake by my Pillow bad me proue a Gardiner I told my Mother of it as became the duetie of a good Child whereupon shee prouided straight for