Coelum Britannicum (The British Heaven) · chunk 3 of 15
Carew, Thomas · published 1634 · first performed or written 1634 [Feb 18] (Annals) masque · before the Court T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and typicality 0.76 · 408 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T12: iupiter, saturn, iuno, venus, gods, mars, earth, titan, love, fair.
No more impertinent Trifeler, you disturb The great Affair with your rude scurrilous chat: What doth the knowledge of your abject state Concern Jove's solemn Message? Sir, by your favour, though you have a more especial Commission of employment from Iupiter, and a larger entertainment from his Exchequer, yet as a freeborn god I have the liberty to travel at mine own charges, without your pass or countenance Legacine; and that it may appear a sedulous acute observer, may know as much as a dull phlegmatic Ambassador, and wears a treble key to unlock the mysterious Ciphers of your dark secrecies, I will discourse the politic state of heaven to this trim Audience.— You shall understand, that Iupiter upon the inspection of I know not what virtuous precedents extant (as they say) here in this Court, but as I more probably guess out of the consideration of the decay of his natural abilities, hath before a frequent convocation of the Superlunary Peers in a solemn Oration recanted, disclaimed, and utterly renounced all the lascivious extravagancies, and riotous enormities of his forepast licentious life, and taken his oath on Juno's Breviary, religiously kissing the two-leaved book, never to stretch his limbs more betwixt adulterous sheets, and hath with pathetical remonstrances exhorted, and under strict penalties enjoined a respective conformity in the several subordinate Deities; and because the Libertines of Antiquity, the Ribald Poets, to perpetuate the memory and example of their triumphs over chastity, to all future imitation, have in their immortal songs celebrated the martyrdom of those Strumpets under the persecution of the wives, and devolved to Posterity the Pedigrees of their whores bawds, and bastards; it is therefore by the authority aforesaid enacted, that this whole Army of Constellations be immediately disbanded and cashiered, so to remove all imputation of impiety from the Celestial Spirits, and all lustful influences upon terrestrial bodies; and consequently that there be an Inquisition erected to expunge in the Ancient, and suppress in the modern and succeeding Poems and Pamphlets, all past, present, and future mention of those abjured heresies, and to take particular notice of all ensuing incontinences, and punish them in their high Commission Court. Am not I in election to be a tall Statesman think you, that can repeat a passage at a Counsel-table thus punctually? I shun in vain the importunity With which this Snarler vexeth all the gods, Iove cannot scape him: well, what else from heaven?
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No more impertinent Trifeler, you diſturbe The great Affaire with your rude ſcurrilous chat: What doth the knowledge of your abject ſtate Concerne Joves ſolemne Meſſage? Sir, by your favour, though you have a more eſpeciall Commiſſion of employment from Iupiter, and a larger entertainment from his Exchequer, yet as a freeborne god I have the liberty to travell at mine owne charges, without your paſſe or countenance Legacine; and that it may appeare a ſedulous acute obſerver, may know as much as a dull flegmatique Ambaſſadour, and weares a treble key to unlocke the miſterious Cyphers of your darke ſecrecies, I will diſcourſe the politique ſtate of heaven to this trimme Audience.— — You ſhall underſtand, that Iupiter upon the inſpection of I know not what vertuous Preſidents extant (as they ſay) here in this Court, but as I more probably gheſle out of the conſideration of the decay of his natural abilities, hath before a frequent cōvocation of the Superlunary Peers in a ſolemne Oration recanted, diſclaimed, and utterly renounced all the laſcivious extravagancies, and riotous enormities of his forepaſt licentious life, and taken his oath on Junos Breviary, religiouſly kiſſing the two-leav'd booke, never to ſtretch his limbs more betwixt adulterous ſheets, and hath with patheticall remonſtrances exhorted, and under ſtrict penalties enjoyned a reſpective conformity in the ſeverall ſubordinate Deities; and becauſe the Libertines of Antiquity, the Ribald Poets, to perpetuate the memory and example of their triumphs over chaſtity, to all future imitation, have in their immortall ſongs celebrated the martyrdome of thoſe Strumpets under the perſecution of the wives, and devolved to Poſterity the Pedigrees of their whores bawds, and baſtards; it is therefore by the authority aforeſaid enacted, that this whole Army of Conſtellations be immediately disbanded and caſheerd, ſo to remove all imputation of impiety from the Coeleſtiall Spirits, and all luſtfull influences upon terreſtriall bodies; and conſequently that there be an Inquiſition erected to exſpunge in the Ancient, and ſuppreſſe in the moderne and ſucceeding Poems and Pamphlets, all paſt, preſent, and future mention of thoſe abjur'd hereſies, and to take particular notice of all enſuing incontinences, and puniſh them in their high Commiſſion Court. Am not I in election to be a tall Stateſman thinke you, that can repeat a paſſage at a Counſell-table thus punctually? I ſhun in vaine the importunity With which this Snarler vexeth all the gods, Iove cannot ſcape him: well, what elſe from heaven?