Nabbes, Thomas · published 1637 · first performed or written 1637 (Annals) masque · King's Revels Company (?) · Salisbury Court unassigned nearest T51 Parents and children: blessing, birthrig · 488 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T51: esau, iacob, father, son, isaac, god, love, birthright, parents, thing.
Stubborn boys, I'll yoke ye In such a bondage. Gentle husband try Persuasions strength: Perhaps 'twill better work Upon the temper of their fiercer nature. I am your mother; let me reconcile ye: That in your peace I may preserve the order Of my intended work. Should fire forsake His lofty mansion, and infect his flames With grosser weight, it would benumb his activeness, And make his motion dull. Were my pure air Pent in his sister's entrailes, her foul veins Would soon infect him. What creation meant In your diversities, your rash ambitions Must not pervert. Since providence hath made ye The means for many ends, dispute not them, Nor your own thought-defects: each is supplied With a perfection, and an equal worth Distinguished in proportion; but the excellence Of your own attributes cannot appear, Whilst you disturb the distribution Of them to other forms, which from your mixtures Must enter different bodies of the first, Second, third, fourth, fifth composition. Vapours & exhalations; meteors; vegetables And minerals; animals, and lastly man, Called so from concord▪ for he doth contain A harmony of parts, and in them figure His end of being. Let not then your wills Persist in this rebellious mutiny, And hinder high intendments. Pray agree, And leave the reason of such acts to me. Vain oratory. Think you us so easy To be o'ercome by words! swell high my rage, And with licentious fury break the ties Of these too weak commands. Let's on to fight, Whilst the yet discord of the untuned spheres Add's courage, and delights our warlike ears. What shall we do? The universal fabric Will be everted, if this war continue: Let's sue to Love; his power may be prevailing. See; Love appears at thy request. Thou cause of motion and of rest. Thou greater powers great substitute, Whose will and acts none must dispute. Thou that form'st the best of things From thought-impossibles, and brings Contrary matters to produce Another difference, than the use Of a mere quality in one Can work unto perfection. Thou that thy secrets dost unlock To propagate a lasting stock; And multiply that th' issue might Be little less than infinite. Thou mother of all that is found Within this universal round, What is thy will with Love? Oh gentle power Thou that art Nature's soul, and the beginning Of every humane thing: that giv'st them laws, And to thyself art law. Figure of peace; That to thy godheads attribute an next The quiet order of the world's vast frame To have its form and being from thy rule; Which must be now imperious or its ruin Will prevent time. The mutinous elements Have razed rebellion, and disjointed quite The order of their fabric. The pure heavens (Whose motion should be harmony) roll cross, And bend their Axletree, till both the poles Do kiss each others ends. Then rectify Great Love this dire confusion.
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Stubborne boyes, Ile yoake yee In such a bondage. Gentle husband try Perswasions strength: Perhaps 'twill better worke Vpon the temper of their fiercer nature. I am your mother; let me reconcile yee: That in your peace I may preserve the order Of my intended worke. Should fire forsake His lofty mansion, and infect his flames With grosser weight, it would benumbe his activenesse, And make his motion dull. Were my pure ayre Pent in his sisters entrailes, her foule veines Would soone infect him. What creation mean't In your diversities, your rash ambitions Must not pervert. Since providence hath made yee The meanes for many ends, dispute not them, Nor your owne thought-defects: each i supply'd With a perfection, and an equall worth Distinguisht in proportion; but the excellence Of your owne attributes cannot appeare, Whilst you disturbe the distribution Of them to other formes, which from your mixtures Must enter different bodies of the first, Second, third, fourth, fifth composition. Vapours & exhalations; meteors; vegetables And minerals; animals, and lastly man, Call'd so from concord▪ for he doth contain A harmony of parts, and in them figure His end of being. Let not then your wills Persist in this rebellious mutiny, And hinder high intendments. Pray agree, And leave the reason of such acts to me. Vaine oratory. Think you us so easie To be o'recome by words! swell high my rage, And with licentious fury breake the tyes Of these too weake commands. Let's on to fight, Whilst the yet discord of the untun'd spheares Add's courage, and delights our warlike eares. What shall we doe? The universall fabrick Will be everted, if this war continue: Let's sue to Love; his power may be prevailing. See; Love appeares at thy request. Thou cause of motion and of rest. Thou greater powers great substitute, Whose will and acts none must dispute. Thou that form'st the best of things From thought-impossibles, and brings Contrary matters to produce Another difference, then the use Of a meere quality in one Can worke unto perfection. Thou that thy secrets dost unlock To propagate a lasting stock; And multiply that th' issue might Be little lesse then infinite. Thou mother of all that is found Within this universall round, What is thy will with Love? Oh gentle power Thou that art Natures soule, and the beginning Of every humane thing: that giv'st them lawes, And to thy selfe art law. Figure of peace; That to thy godheads attribute an next The quiet order of the worlds vast frame To have its forme and being from thy rule; Which must be now imperious or its ruine Will prevent time. The mutinous elements Have ras'd rebellion, and dis-joynted quite The order of their fabrick. The pure heavens (Whose motion should be harmony) rowle crosse, And bend their Axletree, 'till both the poles Doe kisse each others ends. Then rectifie Great Love this dire confusion.