Coelum Britannicum (The British Heaven) · chunk 6 of 15
Carew, Thomas · published 1640 · first performed or written 1634 [Feb 18] (Annals) masque · before the Court unassigned nearest T36 Hell, Furies and the language of punishm · 458 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T36: hell, earth, gods, death, ghosts, blood, bloody, heaven, night, ghost.
This Crab, I confess, did ill become the heavens; but there is another that more infests the Earth, and makes such a solstice in the politer Arts and Sciences, as they have not been observed for many Ages to have made any sensible advance: could you but lead the learned squadrons with a masculine resolution past this point of retrogradation, it were a benefit to mankind, worthy the power of a god, and to be paid with Altars; but that not being the work of this night, you may pursue your purposes: what now succeeds? Vice, that unbodied, in the Appetite Erects his Throne, hath yet, in bestial shapes, Branded, by Nature, with the Character And distinct stamp of some peculiar Ill, Mounted the Sky, and fized his Trophies there: As fawning flattery in the little Dog; I'th' bigger, churlish Murmur; Cowardice I'th' timorous Hare; Ambition in the Eagle; Rapine and Avarice in th'adventurous Ship That sailed to Colchos for the golden fleece; Drunken distemper in the Goblet flows; I'th' Dart and Scorpion, biting Calumny; In Hercules and the Lion, furious rage; Vain Ostentation in Cassiope: All these I to eternal exile doom, But to this place their Emblem'd Vices summon, Clad in those proper Figures, by which best Their incorpore all nature is expressed. From hence forth it shall be no more said in the Proverb, when you would express a riotous Assembly, That hell, but Heaven is broke loose: this was an arrant Goal-delivery, all the Prisons of your great Cities could not have vomited more corrupt matter: but Cousin Cylleneus, in my judgement it is not safe that these infectious persons should wander here to the hazard of this Island, they threatened less danger when they were nailed to the Firmament: I should conceive it a very discreet course, since they are provided of a tall vessel of their own ready rigged, to embark them all together in that good Ship called the Argo, and send them to the plantation in New-England, which hath purged more virulent humours from the politic body, then Guacum and all the West-Indian drugs have from the natural bodies of this Kingdom: Can you devise how to dispose them better? They cannot breathe this pure and temperats Air Where Virtue lives, but will with hasty flight, Amongst fogs and vapours, seek unsound abodes. y after them, srom your usurped seats, You foul remainders of that viporous brood: Let not a Star of luxurious race With his loose blaze stain the skies crystal face. Before the entry of every Antimasque, the Stars in those figures in the Sphere which they were to represent, were extinct; so as, by the end of the Antimasques in the Sphere no more Stars were seen.
seed 43: unassigned · seed 44: unassigned — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
This Crab, I confesse, did ill become the heavens; but there is another that more infests the Earth, and makes such a solstice in the politer Arts and Sciences, as they have not beene observed for many Ages to have made any sensible advance: could you but lad the learned squadrons with a masculine resolution past this point of retrogradation, it were a benefit to mankind, worthy the power of a god, and to be payed with Altars; but that not being the worke of this night, you may pursue your purposes: what now succeeds? Vice, that unbodied, in the Appetite Erects his Throne, hath yet, in bestiall shapes, Branded, by Nature, with the Character And distinct stampe of some peculiar Ill, Mounted the Sky, and fiz'd his Trophies there: As fawning flattery in the little Dog; I'th bigger, churlish Murmur; Cowardize I'th timorous Hare; Ambition in the Eagle; Rapine and Avarice in th'adventurous Ship That sayl'd to Colhos for the golden fleece; Drunken distemper in the Goblet flowes; I'th Dart and Scorpion, bit ing Calumny; In Hercules and the Lyon, furious rage; Vaine Ostentation in Cssiope▪ All these I to eternall exile doome, But to this place their Emblem'd Vices summon, Clad in those proper Figures, by which best Their incorpore all nature is exprest. From hence forth it shall be no more id in the Proverbe, when you would expresse a riotous Assembly, That hell, but Heaven is broke loose: this was an arrant Goale-delivery, all the Prisons of your great Cities could not have vomited more corrupt matter: but Cozen Cylleneus, in my judgement it is not safe that these infectious persons should wander here to the hazard of this Iland, they threatned lesse danger when they were nayl'd to the Firmament: I should conceive it a very discree course, since they are provided of a tall vessell of their owne ready rigg'd, to embarque them all together in that good Ship called the Argo, and send them to the plantation in New-England, which hath purg'd more virulent humours from the politique body, then Guacum and all the West-Indian drugs have from the naturall bodies of this Kingdome: Can you devise how to dispose them better? They cannot breath this pure and temperats Ayre Where Vertue lives, but will with hasty flight, 'Mongst fogs and vapours, seeke unsound abodes. y after them, srom your usurped seats, You foule remainders of that viporous brood: Let not a Starre of luxurious race With his loose blaze staine the skyes chrystall sace. Before the entry of every Antimasque, the Starres in those figures in the Spheare which they were to represent, were extinct; so as, by the end of the Antimasques in the Spheare no more Stars were seene.