LOVES TRIVMPH THROVGH CALLIPOLIS.

Performed in a Masque at Court 1630. By his Maiestie with the Lords, and Gentlemen assisting.

The Inuentors. Ben. Ionson. Jnigo Iones.

Quando magis dignos licuit spectare triumphos?

LONDON, Printed by I. N. for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Eagle and Child in Brittains-burse. 1630.

To make the Specta­tors vnderstanders.

WHereas all Repraesentations, especially those of this nature in court, publique Spectacles, eyther haue bene, or ought to be the mirrors of mans life, whose ends, for the excellence of their exhibiters (as being the dona­tiues, of great Princes, to their people) ought al­wayes to carry a mixture of profit, with them, no lesse then delight; Wee, the Inuentors, being com­manded from the King, to thinke on some thing worthy of his Maiesties putting in act, with a sele­cted company of his Lords, and Gentlemen, cal­led to the assistance: For the honor of his Court, and the dignity of that heroique loue, and regall respect borne by him to his vnmatchable Lady, and Spouse, the Queenes Maiesty, after some de­bate of cogitation with our selues, resolued on this following argument.

First, that a Person, boni ominis, of a good cha­racter, as Euphemus, sent downe from Heauen to Callipolis, which is vnderstood the Citty of Beauty [Page 2] or Goodnes, should come in; and, finding her Ma­iesty there enthron'd, declare vnto her, that Loue who was wont to be respected as a speciall Deity in Court, and Tutelar God of the place, had of late receiu'd an aduertisement, that in the suburbes, or skirtes of Callipolis, were crept in certaine Sectaries, or deprau'd Louers, who neyther knew the name, or nature of loue rightly, yet boasted themselues his followers, when they were fitter to be call'd his Furies: their whole life being a con­tinew'd vertigo, or rather a torture on the wheele of Loue, then any motion eyther of order or mea­sure. When sodainely they leape forth below, a Mistresse leading them, and with anticke gesticu­lation, and action, after the manner of the old Pantomimi, they dance ouer a distracted comoedy of Loue, expressing their confus'd affections, in the Scenicall persons, and habits, of the foure prime European Nations.

A glorious boasting Louer.
A whining ballading Louer.
An aduenturous Romance Louer.
A phantasticke vmbrageous Louer.
A bribing corrupt Louer.
A froward jealous Louer.
A sordid illiberall Louer.
A proud skorne-full Louer.
An angry quarrelling Louer.
A melancholique despairing Louer.
An enuious vnquiet Louer.
A sensuall brute Louer.
All which, in varied, intricateturnes, and involu'd mazes, exprest, make the Antimasque: and conclude the exit, in a circle.
EVPHEMVS descends singing.
Joy, ioy to mortals, the reioycing fires
Of gladnes, smile in your dilated hearts!
Whilst Loue presents a world of chast defires,
Which may produce a harmony of parts!
Loue is the right affection of the minde,
The noble appetite of what is best:
Desire of vnion with the thing design'd,
But in fruition of it cannot rest.
The Father plenty is, the Mother want,
Porus, and Penia.
Plenty the beauty, which it wanteth, drawes;
Want yeilds it selfe: affording what is scant.
So, both affections are the vnion's cause.
But, rest not here. For Loue hath larger scopes,
New ioyes, new pleasures, of as fresh a date
[Page 4]As are his minutes: and, in him no hopes
Are pure, but those hee can perpetuate.
[...]re hee [...]es vp to [...] State.
To you that are by excellence a Queene!
The top of beauty! but, of such an ayre,
As, onely by the minds eye, may bee seene
Your enter-wouen lines of good, and fayre!
Vouchsafe to grace Loues triumph here, to night,
Through all the streetes of your Callipolis;
Which by the splendor of your rayes made bright
The seate, and region of all beauty is.
Loue, in perfection, longeth to appeare
But prayes, of fauour, he be not call'd on,
Till all the suburbes, and the skirts bee cleare
Of perturbations, and th'infection gon.
Then will he flow forth, like a rich perfume
Into your nostrils! or some sweeter sound
Of melting musique, that shall not consume
Within the eare, but run the mazes round.
Heere the Chorus walke about with their censers.
CHORVS.
Meane time, wee make lustration of the place,
[Page 5]And with our solemne fires, and waters proue
T'haue frighted, hence, the weake diseased race
Of those were tortur'd on the wheele of loue.
1 The glorious,2 whining,3 the aduenturous foole,
4 Phantastique,5 bribing, and the6 iealous asse
1 The sordid,2 scornefull,3 and the angry mule
4 The melancholique,5 dull, and envious masse,
Chorus
With all the rest, that in the sensuall schoole
Of lust, for their degree of brute may passe.
All which are vapor'd hence.
The pro­spect of a Sea ap­peares.
No loues, but slaues to sense:
Meere cattell, and not men.
Sound, sound, and treble all our ioyes agen,
Who had the power, and vertueto remooue
Such monsters from the labyrinth of loue.
The Triumph is first seene a far of, and led in by Am­phitrite, the wife of Oceanus, with foure Sea­gods attending her. NEREVS, PROTEVS, GLAVCVS, PALAeMON. It consisteth of fifteene Louers, and as many Cu­pids, who ranke themselues seauen, and seauen on a side, with each a Cupid before him, with a ligh­ted torch, and the middle person (which is his Maiesty,) placed in the center.

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1. The prouident. 2. The iudicious.
3. The secret. 4. The valiant.
5. The witty. 6. The iouiall.
7. The secure.15. The Heroicall,8. The substantiall.
9. The modest. 10. The candid.
11. The courteous. 12. The elegant.
13. The rationall. 14. The magnificent.
AMPHITRITE.
Heere, stay a while: This! this
The Temple of all Beauty is!
Heere, perfect Louers, you must pay
First-fruits; and on these altars lay
(The Ladies breast's) your ample vowes,
Such, as Loue brings, and Beauty best allowes!
Cho.
For Loue, without his obiect, soone is gone:
Loue must haue answering loue, to looke vpon.
AMPHITRITE.
To you, best Iudge then, of perfection!
EVPHEMVS.
The Queene, of what is wonder, in the place!
AMPHITRITE.
Pure obiect, of Heroique Loue, alone!
EVPHEMVS.
The center of proportion—!
AMPHITRITE.
Sweetenesse.
EVPHEMVS.
Grace.?
AMPHITRITE,
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Daigne to receiue all lines of loue in one.
EVPHEMVS.
And by reflecting of them fill this space.
Cho.
Till it a circle of those glories proue,
Fit to be sought in Beauty, found by Loue.
Semi-cho.
Where Loue is mutuall, still
All things in order moue,
Semi-cho.
The circle of the will
Is the true spheare of Loue.
Cho.
Aduance, you gentler Cupids, then aduance,
And shew your iust perfections in your daunce.
The Cupids dance their dance.
And the Masquers their-entry.
Which done, Euclia, or a faire Glory appeares in the heauens, singing an applausiue song, or Poean of the whole, which shee takes occasion to inge­minate in the second Chorus, vpon the sight of a worke of Neptunes, being a hollow rocke, filling part of the Sea-prospect, whereon the Muses sit.
EVCLIAS
So loue, emergent out of Chaos brought the world to light!
And gently mouing on the waters, wrought all forme to fight!
Loues appetite
Did beauty first excite:
And left imprinted in the ayre,
Those signatures of good, and faire,
CHO.
Which since haue flow'd, flow'd forth vpon the sense,
To wonder first, and then to excellence,
By vertue of diuine intelligence!
The ingemination.
EVCLIAS
And Neptune too
Shewes what his waues can doe:
To call the Muses all to play,
And sing the birth of Venus day,
CHO.
Which from the Sea flow'd, forth vpon the sense
To wonder first, and next to excellence,
By vertue of diuine intelligence!
Here follow the Reuels. Which ended, the Scene changeth to a Garden, and the heauens opening, there appeare foure new persons, in forme of a Constellation sitting, or a new Afterisme, expecting Venus, whom they call vpon with this song. IVPITER. IVNO. GENIVS. HYMEN.
IVP.
Hast daughter Venus hast, and come away:
IVN.
All powers, that gouerne mariage, pray That you will lend your light
GEN.
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Vnto the constellation of this night.
HYM.
Hymen.
IVN.
And Iuno.
GEN.
And the Genius call,
IVP.
Your father Iupiter,
CHO.
And all
That blesse, or honnor holy nuptiall.
VENVS here appeares in a cloud, and pas­through the constellation, descendeth to the earth, when presently the cloud vanisheth, and she is seene sitting in a throane.
VENVS.
Here, here I present ame
Both in my g [...]rdle, and my flame:
Wherein are wouen all the powers
The Graces gaue me, or the Howres
(My nources once) with all the artes
Of gayning, and of holding hearts:
And these with I descend.
But, to your influences, first commend
The vow, I goe to take
On earth, for perfect loue and beauties sake!
Her song ended, and she rising to goe vp to the Queene, the Throane disappeares: in place of which there [...] vp a Palme tree [...] [Page 10] imperiall crowne on the top, from the roote whereof, Lillies and Roses, twining together and imbracing the stem, flourish through the crowne, which she in the song, with the Chorus describes.
Beauty and Loue, whose story is mysteriall,
In yonder Palme-tree, and the Crowne imperiall,
Doe from the Rose, and Lilly so delicious,
Promise a shade, shall euer be propitious
To both the Kingdomes. But to Brittaines Genius
The snaky rod, and serpents of Cyllenius
Bring not more peace, then these, who so united be
By Loue, as with it Earth and Heauen delighted be.
And who this King, and Queene would well historify,
Need onely speake their names: Those them will glorify.
MARY, and CHARLES, CHARLES, with his MARY, na­med are
And all the rest of Loues, or Princes famed are.
After this they dance their going out, and end.
The Masquers Names.
The King.
The Marquesse Hammilton.Lord Chamberlaine.
Earle of Holland.Earle of Carnaruan.
Earle of Newport.Vicount Doncaster.
Lord Strange.Sir William Howard.
Sir Robert Stanley.Sir William Brooke.
[...]M [...]ister Ralegh.
[...] [...]

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