Technogamia, or The Marriages of the Arts · chunk 26 of 64
Holyday, Barten · published 1618 · first performed or written 1618 [Feb 13] (Annals) comedy · at University T56 Magic, spells and conjuring typicality 0.71 · 517 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T56: magic, faustus, charms, charm, conjure, spirits, skill, ho, power, spells.
Sirrah, dance that which I play. begone: Sirrah, begone. Away, away, Charmer, Enchanter, 'tis a truth to say, Our bodies cast their shapes into the Air, And can appear when they are gone; so rare Philosophers have held, and so I hold: Pardon, great Astronomia, I was bold, Too-bold, I do confess, but my dim sight Could not before behold thee though so bright. But now mine eyes are cleared; on my bowed knee, I ask a Pardon of thy Majesty. Pardon thy Poet, and vouchsafe this grace, That thy rich beauties he may thus embrace. And now, dear Love, add hereunto one kiss, And than thou shalt in heaven my soul with bliss. Maro, thy Riddle's solved: I thus untie The knot, which thou didst knit, men's wits to try. Dic quibus in terris (& eris mihi magnus APOLLO) Tres pateat Coeli spatium (non amplius) ulnas? Maro, 'tis here; here's Astronomia; Here's Heaven closed in those narrow limits; nay, Here's Deity, the object of all loves, Enough to make a thousand Heavens of Ioues. See, see, how she ascends! mount, mount, great Queen Of Heaven, and in full lustre be thou seen Mortality's amazement; see, she's gone To mount yet higher to a stately Throne, Placed on the Azure pavement of the Stars, Guarded by Days, Months, Hours, then sees the wars Of Pigmy-mortals—. Sir, here's Ethicus Is come, and says he'd speak with you. With us? Admit him in. Hay! scarce dressed yet! how so? What? comes your froward age to chide us? No. But to invite you to a Feast, myself your friend, Desirous of your peace, to set an end To your contentions with Grammaticus And Logicus, tonight do purpose thus To make you friends. But— Nay, no butts: Be there. I will. Why thanks. Welcome shall be your cheer. Well then, I'll in and dress me, and so come, Yet better 'twere perchance you had my room. o deale with spirits? ly a Grometrician, it is lawfull for you to deale only with bodies: but if you will vndertake Our Superiour facultie, 'tis not onely lawfull, but most honourable; why Sir, 'tis one of the greatest gifts of the Gods to haue command ouer Spirits; but for the approbation of it, you may only looke backe vnto the antiquitie thereof, which is drawne from more then eight hundred yeeres before the Siege of Troy, in the time of Agonaces, and of the renowned Zoroaster a King of the Bactrians, who described the high Mysterie of this Diuine Science in an hundred thousand verses; after these there flourished Iobeth, Toluscol, Zamolxis, whose admired fame was afterwards emulated by Almadal, Alchindus, and Hipocus Arabians: Apuscorus, Zaratus, and Cobares, Medians: Marmaridius, a Babylonian: Zarmocenidas, an Assyrian, Abbaris, an Hyperborean, Thesphetion, an Aethiopian, Arnuphis, an Aegyptian, Theurgus, a Chaldean: with these I may recite Cambyses, Zamares, Charondas, Damgorgon, Gobrias, Arbatel, Apollonius, Gog, Hostanes, Atyr, Choastes— Good Sir, do not conjure. No Sir, these are nothing but the names of the Sacred Professors of this Divine Science. ay but it may be Sir, they had conjuring names.
nodes 626–679 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 26 of 64 in this edition
Length
517 words · 866 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T56 — Magic, spells and conjuringcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.713 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T45 · seed 44: T51 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
—Sirrah, dance that which I play. Begon: Sirrah, begon. —Away, away, Charmer, Inchanter, tis a truth to ſay, Our bodies caſt their ſhapes into the Ayre, And can appeare when they are gon; ſo rare Philoſophers haue held, and ſo I hold: Pardon, great Aſtronomia, I was bold, Too-bold, I doe confeſſe, but my dimme ſight Could not before behold thee though ſo bright. But now mine eyes are cleer'd; on my bow'd knee, I aske a Pardon of thy Maieſtie. Pardon thy Poet, and vouchſafe this grace, That thy rich beauties he may thus imbrace. And now, deare Loue, adde hereunto one kiſſe, And then thou ſhalt in heau'n my ſoule with bliſſe. Maro, thy Riddle's ſolu'd: I thus vntye The knot, which thou didſt knit, mens wits to try. Dic quibus in terris (& eris mihi magnus APOLLO) Tres pateat Coeli ſpatium (non amplius) vlnas? Maro, 'tis here; here's Aſtronomia; Here's Heau'n clos'd in thoſe narrow limits; nay, Here's Deitie, the obiect of all loues, Enough to make a thouſand Heau'ns of Ioues. See, ſee, how ſhe aſcends! mount, mount, great Queene Of Heau'n, and in full luſtre be thou ſeene Mortalities amazement; ſee, ſhe's gone To mount yet higher to a ſtately Throne, Plac'd on the Azure pauement of the Starres, Guarded by Dayes, Monthes, Houres, then ſees the warres Of Pygmie-mortals—. —Sir, here's Ethicus Is come, and ſayes hee'd ſpeake with you. —With vs? Admit him in. —Hay! ſcarce dreſt yet! how ſo? What? comes your froward age to chide vs? —No. But to inuite you to a Feaſt, my ſelfe your friend, Deſirous of your peace, to ſet an end To your contentions with Grammaticus And Logicus, to night doe purpoſe thus To make you friends. But— —Nay, no buts: Be there. I will. —Why thankes. Welcome ſhall be your cheere. Well then, Ile in and dreſſe me, and ſo come, Yet better purchance you had my roome. o deale with ſpirits? ly a Grometrician, it is lawfull for you to deale only with bodies: but if you will vndertake Our Superiour facultie, 'tis not onely lawfull, but moſt honourable; why Sir, 'tis one of the greateſt gifts of the Gods to haue command ouer Spirits; but for the approbation of it, you may only looke backe vnto the antiquitie thereof, which is drawne from more then eight hundred yeeres before the Siege of Troy, in the time of Agonaces, and of the renowned Zoroaſter a King of the Bactrians, who deſcribed the high Myſterie of this Diuine Science in an hundred thouſand verſes; after theſe there flouriſhed Iobeth, Toluſcol, Zamolxis, whoſe admired fame was afterwards emulated by Almadal, Alchindus, and Hipocus Arabians: Apuſcorus, Zaratus, and Cobares, Medians: Marmaridius, a Babylonian: Zarmocenidas, an Aſſyrian, Abbaris, an Hyperborean, Theſphetion, an Aethiopian, Arnuphis, an Aegyptian, Theurgus, a Chaldean: with theſe I may recite Cambyſes, Zamares, Charondas, Damgorgon, Gobrias, Arbatel, Apollonius, Gog, Hoſtanes, Atyr, Choaſtes— Good Sir, doe not coniure. No Sir, theſe are nothing but the names of the Sacred Profeſſours of this Diuine Science. I but it may be Sir, they had coniuring names.