The Masque of Blackness (The Twelfth Night's Revels) · chunk 2 of 2
Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1605 [Jan 6] (Annals) masque · before the Court T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and typicality 0.70 · 459 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T12: iupiter, saturn, iuno, venus, gods, mars, earth, titan, love, fair.
And leaues that Clymat of the sky, To comfort of a greater Light, Who formes all beauty, with his sight. In search of this, haue we three Princedomes past, That speake out Tania, in their accents last; Blacke Mauritania, first; and secondly, Swarth Lusitania; next, we did descry Rich Aquitania: and, yet, cannot find The place vnto these longing Nymphes design'd. Instruct, and ayde me, great OCEANVS, What land is this, that now appeares to vs? This Land, that lifts into the temperate ayre His snowy cliffe, is Albion the faire; So call'd of Neptunes son, who ruleth here: For whose deare guard, my selfe, (foure thousand yeere) Since old Deucalion's daies, haue walk'd the round About his empire, proud, to see him crown'd About my waues. Whose pure, auspicious light greetes vs, thus farre! Great Aethiopia, Goddesse of our shore, Since, with particular worship we adore Thy generall brightnesse, let particular grace Shyne on my zealous Daughters: Shew the place, Which, long, their longings vrdg'd their eyes to see▪ Beautifie them, which long haue Deified thee. NIGER, be glad: Resume the natiue cheare. Thy Daughters labors haue their period here, And so thy errors. I was that bright face Reflected by the Lake, in which thy Race Read mysticke lines; (which skill PITHAGORAS First taught to men, by a reuerberate glasse) This blessed Isle doth with that TANIA end, Which there they saw inscrib'd, and shall extend Wish'd satisfaction to their best desires. BRITANIA, which the triple world admires This Isle hath now recouered for her name; Where raigne those beauties, that with so much fame The sacred MVSES sonnes haue honored, And from bright HESPERVS to EOVS spred. With that great name BRITANIA, this blest Isle Hath wonne her ancient dignitie, and stile, A world, diuided from the world: and tri'd The abstract of it, in his generall pride. For were the world, with all his wealth, a ring, BRITANIA (whose new name makes all tongues sing) Might be a Diamant worthy to inchase it, Rul'd by a SVNNE, that to this height doth grace it: Whose beames shine day, and night, and are of force To blanch an AETHIOPE, and reuiue a Cor's. His light scientiall is, and (past more nature) Can salue the rude defects of euery creature. Call forth thy honor'd Daughters, then; And let them, 'fore the Brittaine men, Indent the Land, with those pure traces They flow with, in their natiue graces. Inuite them, boldly, to the shore, Their beauties shall be scorch'd no more: This sunne is temperate, and refines All things, on which his radiance shines. COme away, come away, We grow iealous of your stay: If you doe not stop your eare, We shall haue more cause to feare
Other edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics
Position
nodes 60–122 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 2 of 2 in this edition
Length
459 words · 741 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T12 — Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and Marscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.697 (cosine to the topic centroid) · placed after the fit (approximate_predict), not counted in the topic statistics
Other seeds
seed 43: T53 · seed 44: unassigned — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
And leaues that Clymat of the sky, To comfort of a greater Light, Who formes all beauty, with his sight. In search of this, haue we three Princedomes past, That speake out Tania, in their accents last; Blacke Mauritania, first; and secondly, Swarth Lusitania; next, we did descry Rich Aquitania: and, yet, cannot find The place vnto these longing Nymphes design'd. Instruct, and ayde me, great OCEANVS, What land is this, that now appeares to vs? This Land, that lifts into the temperate ayre His snowy cliffe, is Albion the faire; So call'd of Neptunes son, who ruleth here: For whose deare guard, my selfe, (foure thousand yeere) Since old Deucalion's daies, haue walk'd the round About his empire, proud, to see him crown'd About my waues. Whose pure, auspicious light greetes vs, thus farre! Great Aethiopia, Goddesse of our shore, Since, with particular worship we adore Thy generall brightnesse, let particular grace Shyne on my zealous Daughters: Shew the place, Which, long, their longings vrdg'd their eyes to see▪ Beautifie them, which long haue Deified thee. NIGER, be glad: Resume the natiue cheare. Thy Daughters labors haue their period here, And so thy errors. I was that bright face Reflected by the Lake, in which thy Race Read mysticke lines; (which skill PITHAGORAS First taught to men, by a reuerberate glasse) This blessed Isle doth with that TANIA end, Which there they saw inscrib'd, and shall extend Wish'd satisfaction to their best desires. BRITANIA, which the triple world admires This Isle hath now recouered for her name; Where raigne those beauties, that with so much fame The sacred MVSES sonnes haue honored, And from bright HESPERVS to EOVS spred. With that great name BRITANIA, this blest Isle Hath wonne her ancient dignitie, and stile, A world, diuided from the world: and tri'd The abstract of it, in his generall pride. For were the world, with all his wealth, a ring, BRITANIA (whose new name makes all tongues sing) Might be a Diamant worthy to inchase it, Rul'd by a SVNNE, that to this height doth grace it: Whose beames shine day, and night, and are of force To blanch an AETHIOPE, and reuiue a Cor's. His light scientiall is, and (past more nature) Can salue the rude defects of euery creature. Call forth thy honor'd Daughters, then; And let them, 'fore the Brittaine men, Indent the Land, with those pure traces They flow with, in their natiue graces. Inuite them, boldly, to the shore, Their beauties shall be scorch'd no more: This sunne is temperate, and refines All things, on which his radiance shines. COme away, come away, We grow iealous of your stay: If you doe not stop your eare, We shall haue more cause to feare