The Masque at Lord Haddington's Marriage (The Hue and Cry after the Fugitive Cupid) · chunk 3 of 4
Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1608 [Feb 9] (Annals) masque · before the Court T7 The Trojan war: conflict and its afterma typicality 0.74 · 432 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T7: hector, troy, achilles, greeks, aeneas, priam, ulysses, troilus, trojan, trojans.
As you were ignorant of what were done By CVPIDS hand, your all-triumphing Sonne? Looke on this state; and if you yet not know, What Crowne there shines, whose Scepter here doth grow; Thinke on thy lou'd AENEAS, and what name, MARO, the golden trumpet of his fame, Gaue him, read thou in this. A Prince, that drawes By'example more, then others doe by lawes: That is so iust to his great act, and thought, To doe, not what Kings may, but what Kings ought. Who, out of pietie, vnto peace, is vow'd; To spare his subiects, yet to quell the proud, And dares esteeme it the first fortitude, To haue his passions, foes at home, subdued. That was reseru'd, vntill the Parcae spunne Their whitest wooll; and then, his thred begun. Which thred, when Treason would haue burst, a soule (To day renown'd, and added to my roule) Oppos'd; and, by that act, to his name did bring The honor, to be Sauer of his King. This King, whose worth (if gods for vertue loue) Should VENVS with the same affections moue, As her AENEAS; and no lesse endeare Her loue to his safetie, then when she did cheare, ( After a tempest) long afflicted Troy, Vpon the Lybian shore; and brought them ioy. I Loue, and know his vertues, and doe boast Mine owne renowne, when I renowne him most. My CVPID'S absence I forgiue, and praise, That me to such a present grace could raise. His champion shall, hereafter, be my care; But speake his bride, and what her vertues are. SHe is a noble virgin, styl'd the maid Of the Red-cliffe, and hath her dowrie waigh'd; No lesse in vertue, bloud, and forme, then gold. Thence, where my Pillar's rear'd, you may behold, (Fill'd with Loues Trophaes) doth she take her name. Those Pillars did vxorious WLCAN frame, Against this day, and vnderneath that hill, He, and his Cyclopes, are forging still Some strange, and curious peece, t'adorne the night, And giue these graced Nuptials greater light. WHich I haue done; the best of all my life: And haue my end, if it but please my wife, And she commend it, to the labor'd worth. Cleaue solid Rock, and bring the wonder forth. IT'is a spheare, I'haue formed round, and euen, In due proportion to the spheare of heauen, With all his lines, and circles; that compose The perfect'st forme, and aptly doe disclose The heauen of marriage: which I title it. Within whose Zodiack, I haue made to sit, In order of the signes, twelue sacred powers,
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As you were ignorant of what were done By CVPIDS hand, your all-triumphing Sonne? Looke on this state; and if you yet not know, What Crowne there shines, whose Scepter here doth grow; Thinke on thy lou'd AENEAS, and what name, MARO, the golden trumpet of his fame, Gaue him, read thou in this. A Prince, that drawes By'example more, then others doe by lawes: That is so iust to his great act, and thought, To doe, not what Kings may, but what Kings ought. Who, out of pietie, vnto peace, is vow'd; To spare his subiects, yet to quell the proud, And dares esteeme it the first fortitude, To haue his passions, foes at home, subdued. That was reseru'd, vntill the Parcae spunne Their whitest wooll; and then, his thred begun. Which thred, when Treason would haue burst, a soule (To day renown'd, and added to my roule) Oppos'd; and, by that act, to his name did bring The honor, to be Sauer of his King. This King, whose worth (if gods for vertue loue) Should VENVS with the same affections moue, As her AENEAS; and no lesse endeare Her loue to his safetie, then when she did cheare, ( After a tempest) long afflicted Troy, Vpon the Lybian shore; and brought them ioy. I Loue, and know his vertues, and doe boast Mine owne renowne, when I renowne him most. My CVPID'S absence I forgiue, and praise, That me to such a present grace could raise. His champion shall, hereafter, be my care; But speake his bride, and what her vertues are. SHe is a noble virgin, styl'd the maid Of the Red-cliffe, and hath her dowrie waigh'd; No lesse in vertue, bloud, and forme, then gold. Thence, where my Pillar's rear'd, you may behold, (Fill'd with Loues Trophaes) doth she take her name. Those Pillars did vxorious VVLCAN frame, Against this day, and vnderneath that hill, He, and his Cyclopes, are forging still Some strange, and curious peece, t'adorne the night, And giue these graced Nuptials greater light. WHich I haue done; the best of all my life: And haue my end, if it but please my wife, And she commend it, to the labor'd worth. Cleaue solid Rock, and bring the wonder forth. IT'is a spheare, I'haue formed round, and euen, In due proportion to the spheare of heauen, With all his lines, and circles; that compose The perfect'st forme, and aptly doe disclose The heauen of marriage: which I title it. Within whose Zodiack, I haue made to sit, In order of the signes, twelue sacred powers,