Coelum Britannicum (The British Heaven) · chunk 9 of 15
Carew, Thomas · published 1640 · first performed or written 1634 [Feb 18] (Annals) masque · before the Court T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions typicality 0.87 · 489 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T19: virtue, fortune, virtues, honour, fame, vice, envy, world, pride, great.
Plutus, the gods know and confess your power, Which feeble Virtue seldom can resist; Stronger than Towers of brass, or Chastity; Iove knew you when he courted Danae, And Cupid wears you on that Arrows head That still prevails, But the gods keep their Throne: To install Virtue, not her Enemies, They dread thy force, which even themselves have felt, Witness Mount-Ida, where the Martial Maid, And frowning Iuno, did to mortal eyes Naked, for gold, their sacred bodies show, Therefore for ever be from heaven banished. But since with toil from undiscovered Worlds Thou art brought hither, where thou first didst breathe The thirst of Empire, into Regal breasts, And frightedst quiet Peace from her meek Throne, Filling the World with tumult, blood, and war, Follow the Camps of the contentious earth, And be the Conquerors slave, but he that can Or conquer thee, or give thee Virtuous stamp, Shall shine in heaven a pure immortal Lamp, Nay stay, and take my benediction along with you. I could, being here a Co-judge, like others in my place, now that you are condemned, either rail at you, or break jests upon you, but I rather choose to lose a word of good counsel, and entreat you to be more careful in your choice of company, for you are always found either with Misers, that not use you at all; or with fools, that know not how to use you well: Be not hereafter so reserved and coy to men of worth and parts, and so you shall gain such credit, as at the next Sessions you may be heard with better success. But till you are thus reformed, I pronounce this positive sentence, That wheresoever you shall choose to abide, your society shall add no credit or reputation to the party, nor your discontinuance, or total absence, be matter of disparagement to any man; and whosoever shall hold a contrary estimation of you, shall be condemned to wear perpetual Motley, unless he recant his opinion. Now you may void the Court. What Creature's this? The Antipodes to the other, they move like Two Buckets, or as two nails drive out one another; If Riches depart, Poverty will enter. I nothing doubt (Great and Immortal Powers) But that the place, your wisdom hath denied My foe, your justice will confer on me; Since that which renders him incapable, Proves a strong plea for me. I could pretend, Even in these rags, a larger Sovereignty Then gaudy Wealth in all his pomp can boast; For mark how few they are that share the World; The numerous Armies, and the swarming Ants That sight and toil for them, are all my Subjects, They take my wages, we are my Livery: Invention too and Wit, are both my creatures, And the whole race of Virtue is my Offspring; As many mischiefs issue from my womb, And those as mighty, as proceed from gold.
Other edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics
Position
nodes 198–238 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 9 of 15 in this edition
Length
489 words · 650 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T19 — Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractionsreviewed — decision pending · typicality 0.874 (cosine to the topic centroid) · placed after the fit (approximate_predict), not counted in the topic statistics
Other seeds
seed 43: T13 · seed 44: T16 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
Plutus, the gods know and confesse your power, Which feeble Vertue seldome can resist; Stronger then Towers of brasse, or Chastity; Iove knew you when he courted Danae, And Cupid weares you on that Arrowes head That still prevailes, But the gods keepe their Throne: To enstall Vertue, not her Enemies, They dread thy force, which even themselves have felt, Witnesse Mount-Ida, where the Martiall Maid, And frowning Iuno, did to mortall eyes Naked, for gold, their sacred bodies show, Therefore for ever be from heaven banish'd. But since with toyle srom undiscover'd Worlds Thou art brought hither, where thou first didst breath The thirst of Empire, into Regall brests, And frightedst quiet Peace from her meek Throne, Filling the World with tumult, blood, and warre, Follow the Camps of the contentious earth, And be the Conqu'rers slave, but he that can Or conquer thee, or give thee Vertuous stampe, Shall shine in heaven a pure immortall Lampe, Nay stay, and take my benediction along with you. I could, being here a Co-Iudge, like others in my place, now that you are condemn'd, either rayle at you, or breake jests upon you, but I rather chuse to loose a word of good counsell, and entreat you to bee more carefull in your choyse of company, for you are alwayes found either with Misers, that not use you at all; or with fooles, that know not how to use you well: Be not hereafter so reserv'd and coy to men of worth and parts, and so you shall gaine such credit, as at the next Sessions you may bee heard with better successe. But till you are thus reform'd, I pronounce this positive sentence, That wheresoever you shall chuse to abide, your society shall adde no credit or reputation to the party, nor your discontinuance, or totall absence, be matter of disparagement to any man; and whosoever shall hold a contrary estimation of you, shall be condem'd to weare perpetuall Motley, unlesse he recant his opinion. Now you may voyd the Court. What Creature's this? The Antipodes to the other, they move like Two Buckets, or as two nayles drive out one another; If Riches depart, Poverty will enter. I nothing doubt (Great and Immortal Powers) But that the place, your wisedome hath deny'd My foe, your Iustice will conferre on me; Since that which renders him incapable, Proves a strong plea for me. I could pretend, Even in these rags, a larger Soveraignty Then gaudy Wealth in all his pompe can boast; For marke how few they are that share the World; The numerous Armies, and the swarming Ants That sight and toyle for them, are all my Subjects, They take my wages, we are my Livery: Invention too and Wit, are both my creatures, And the whole race of Vertue is my Off-spring; As many mischiefes issue from my wombe, And those as mighty, as proceed from gold.