Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1608 [Jan 10] (Annals) masque · before the Court unassigned nearest T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint · 518 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T4: love, heart, sweet, loves, fair, phillis, eyes, beauty, amyntas, lovers.
As now! Eccho. As now! Ecch. As now! Yeeld Night, then, to the light, As Blacknesse hath to Beautie; Which is but the same duety. It was for Beauty, that the World was made, And where she raignes, Loues lights admit no shade. Ecch. Loues lights admit no shade. Eccho. Admit no shade. RIse aged Thames, and by the hand Receiue these Nymphes, within the land: And, in those curious Squares, and Rounds, Where with thou flow'st betwixt the grounds Of fruitfull Kent, and Essex faire, That lend thee gyrlands for thy hayre; Instruct their siluer feete to tread, Whilst we, againe to sea, are fled. SO beautie on the waters stood, (When loue had seuer'd earth, from flood! So when he parted ayre, from fire▪ He did with concord all inspire! And then a motion he them taught, That elder then himselfe was thought. Which thought was, yet, the child of earth, For loue is elder then his birth. IF all these CVPIDS, now, were blind As is their wanton brother; Or play should put it in their mind To shoot at one another: What prettie battaile they would make, If they their obiects should mistake And each one wound his mother! IT was no politie of court, Albee' the place were charmed, To let in earnest, or in sport, So many Loues in, armed. For say, the Dames should, with their eyes, Vpon the hearts, here, meane surprize; Were not the men like harmed? YEs, were the Loues or false, or straying; Or beauties not their beautie waighing: But here, no such deceipt is mix'd, Their flames are pure, their eyes are fix'd: They doe not warre, with different darts, But strike a musique of like harts. HAd those, that dwell in error foule, And hold that women haue no soule, But seene these moue; they would haue, then Said, Women were the soules of men. So they doe moue each heart, and eye With the worlds soule, true harmony. YOur grace is great, as is your beautie, Dames; Inough my feasts haue prou'd your thankfull flames. Now vse your seate: that seate which was, before, Thought stray'ing, vncertayne, floting to each shore, And to whose hauing euery clime laid clayme, Each land, and nation vrged as the ayme Of their ambition, beauties perfect throne, Now made peculiar, to this place, alone; And that, by'impulsion of your destinies, And his attractiue beames, that lights these skies: Who (though with th'Ocean compass'd) neuer wets His hayre therein, nor weares a beame that sets. Long may his light adorne these happy rites As I renew them; and your gracious sights Enioy that happinesse, eu'en to enuy, 'as when Beautie, at large, brake forth, and conquer'd men. STill turne, and imitate the heauen In motion swift and euen; And as his Planets goe, Your brighter lights doe so: May youth and pleasure euer flow. But let your state, the while, Be fixed as the Isle. CHO. So all that see your beauties sphaere, May know the'Elysian fields are here. Ecch. Th'Elysian fields are here. Ecch. 'Elysian fields are here.
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Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
As now! Eccho. As now! Ecch. As now! Yeeld Night, then, to the light, As Blacknesse hath to Beautie; Which is but the same duety. It was for Beauty, that the World was made, And where she raignes, Loues lights admit no shade. Ecch. Loues lights admit no shade. Eccho. Admit no shade. RIse aged Thames, and by the hand Receiue these Nymphes, within the land: And, in those curious Squares, and Rounds, Where with thou flow'st betwixt the grounds Of fruitfull Kent, and Essex faire, That lend thee gyrlands for thy hayre; Instruct their siluer feete to tread, Whilst we, againe to sea, are fled. SO beautie on the waters stood, (When loue had seuer'd earth, from flood! So when he parted ayre, from fire▪ He did with concord all inspire! And then a motion he them taught, That elder then himselfe was thought. Which thought was, yet, the child of earth, For loue is elder then his birth. IF all these CVPIDS, now, were blind As is their wanton brother; Or play should put it in their mind To shoot at one another: What prettie battaile they would make, If they their obiects should mistake And each one wound his mother! IT was no politie of court, Albee' the place were charmed, To let in earnest, or in sport, So many Loues in, armed. For say, the Dames should, with their eyes, Vpon the hearts, here, meane surprize; Were not the men like harmed? YEs, were the Loues or false, or straying; Or beauties not their beautie waighing: But here, no such deceipt is mix'd, Their flames are pure, their eyes are fix'd: They doe not warre, with different darts, But strike a musique of like harts. HAd those, that dwell in error foule, And hold that women haue no soule, But seene these moue; they would haue, then Said, Women were the soules of men. So they doe moue each heart, and eye With the worlds soule, true harmony. YOur grace is great, as is your beautie, Dames; Inough my feasts haue prou'd your thankfull flames. Now vse your seate: that seate which was, before, Thought stray'ing, vncertayne, floting to each shore, And to whose hauing euery clime laid clayme, Each land, and nation vrged as the ayme Of their ambition, beauties perfect throne, Now made peculiar, to this place, alone; And that, by'impulsion of your destinies, And his attractiue beames, that lights these skies: Who (though with th'Ocean compass'd) neuer wets His hayre therein, nor weares a beame that sets. Long may his light adorne these happy rites As I renew them; and your gracious sights Enioy that happinesse, eu'en to enuy, 'as when Beautie, at large, brake forth, and conquer'd men. STill turne, and imitate the heauen In motion swift and euen; And as his Planets goe, Your brighter lights doe so: May youth and pleasure euer flow. But let your state, the while, Be fixed as the Isle. CHO. So all that see your beauties sphaere, May know the'Elysian fields are here. Ecch. Th'Elysian fields are here. Ecch. 'Elysian fields are here.