Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1608 [Jan 10] (Annals) masque · before the Court T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and typicality 0.76 · 488 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.
WHich, among these, is ALBION, NEPTVNES sonne? WHat ignorance dares make that question? Would any aske, who MARS were, in the wars? Or, which is HESPERVS, among the starres? Of the bright Planets, which is SOL? Or can A doubt arise, 'mong creatures, which is Man? Behold, whose eyes doe dart Promethean fire Throughout this all; whose precepts do inspire The rest with dutie; yet commanding, cheare: And are obeyed, more with loue, then feare. WHat Power art thou, that thus informest me? DO'st thou not know me? I too well know thee By thy rude voice, that doth so hoarcely blow; Thy haire, thy beard, thy wings, ore-hil'd with snow, Thy serpent feet, to be that rough North-wind, BOREAS, that to my raigne art still vnkind. I am the Prince of Months, call'd IANVARIE; Because by me IANVS the yeare doth varie, Shutting vp warres, proclayming peace, and feasts, Freedome, and triumphs; making Kings his guests. TO thee then, thus, and by thee, to that King, That doth thee present honors, doe I bring Present remembrance of twelue Aethiope Dames: Who, guided hither by the Moones bright flames, To see his brighter light, were to the Sea Enioyn'd againe, and (thence assign'd a day For their returne) were in the waues to leaue Their blacknesse, and true beautie to receiue. WHich they receiu'd, but broke their day: and yet Haue not return'd a looke of grace for it, Shewing a course, and most vnfit neglect. Twice haue I come, in pompe here, to expect Their presence; Twice deluded, haue beene faine With other Rites my Feasts to entertaine: And, now the third time, turn'd about the yeare, Since they were look'd for; and, yet, are not here. IT was nor Will, nor Sloth, that caus'd their stay; For they were all prepared by their day, And, with religion, forward on their way: When PROTEVS, the gray Prophet of the Sea, Met them, and made report, how other foure Of their blacke kind (whereof their Syre had store) Faithfull to that great wonder, so late done Vpon their Sisters, by bright Albion, Had followed them to seeke BRITANIA forth, And there to hope like fauor, as like worth. Which NIGHT enui'd, as done in her despight, And (mad to see an Aethiope washed white) Thought to preuent in these; lest men should deeme Her colour, if thus chang'd, of small esteeme. And so, by malice, and her magicke, tost The Nymphes at sea, as they were almost lost, Till, on an Iland, they by chance arriu'd, That floted in the mayne; where, yet, she'had giu'd Them so, in charmes of darknesse, as no might Should loose them thence, but their chang'd Sisters sight. Whereat the Twelue (in pietie mou'd, and kind) Streight put themselues in act, the place to find; Which was the NIGHTS sole trust they so will doe, That she, with labor, might confound them too.
Other edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics
Position
nodes 0–59 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 1 of 3 in this edition
Length
488 words · 781 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T12 — Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and Marscross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.759 (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)
WHich, among these, is ALBION, NEPTVNES sonne? WHat ignorance dares make that question? Would any aske, who MARS were, in the wars? Or, which is HESPERVS, among the starres? Of the bright Planets, which is SOL? Or can A doubt arise, 'mong creatures, which is Man? Behold, whose eyes doe dart Promethean fire Throughout this all; whose precepts do inspire The rest with dutie; yet commanding, cheare: And are obeyed, more with loue, then feare. WHat Power art thou, that thus informest me? DO'st thou not know me? I too well know thee By thy rude voice, that doth so hoarcely blow; Thy haire, thy beard, thy wings, ore-hil'd with snow, Thy serpent feet, to be that rough North-wind, BOREAS, that to my raigne art still vnkind. I am the Prince of Months, call'd IANVARIE; Because by me IANVS the yeare doth varie, Shutting vp warres, proclayming peace, and feasts, Freedome, and triumphs; making Kings his guests. TO thee then, thus, and by thee, to that King, That doth thee present honors, doe I bring Present remembrance of twelue Aethiope Dames: Who, guided hither by the Moones bright flames, To see his brighter light, were to the Sea Enioyn'd againe, and (thence assign'd a day For their returne) were in the waues to leaue Their blacknesse, and true beautie to receiue. WHich they receiu'd, but broke their day: and yet Haue not return'd a looke of grace for it, Shewing a course, and most vnfit neglect. Twice haue I come, in pompe here, to expect Their presence; Twice deluded, haue beene faine With other Rites my Feasts to entertaine: And, now the third time, turn'd about the yeare, Since they were look'd for; and, yet, are not here. IT was nor Will, nor Sloth, that caus'd their stay; For they were all prepared by their day, And, with religion, forward on their way: When PROTEVS, the gray Prophet of the Sea, Met them, and made report, how other foure Of their blacke kind (whereof their Syre had store) Faithfull to that great wonder, so late done Vpon their Sisters, by bright Albion, Had followed them to seeke BRITANIA forth, And there to hope like fauor, as like worth. Which NIGHT enui'd, as done in her despight, And (mad to see an Aethiope washed white) Thought to preuent in these; lest men should deeme Her colour, if thus chang'd, of small esteeme. And so, by malice, and her magicke, tost The Nymphes at sea, as they were almost lost, Till, on an Iland, they by chance arriu'd, That floted in the mayne; where, yet, she'had giu'd Them so, in charmes of darknesse, as no might Should loose them thence, but their chang'd Sisters sight. Whereat the Twelue (in pietie mou'd, and kind) Streight put themselues in act, the place to find; Which was the NIGHTS sole trust they so will doe, That she, with labor, might confound them too.