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Coelum Britannicum (The British Heaven)

Carew, Thomas, published 1640 · masque · Occasional;Nonprofessional · other editions of this work: 1022 (1634) · other edition — not in the analysis

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TitleCoelum Britannicum (The British Heaven)
AuthorCarew, Thomas
Publication year (edition)1640
Genre (British Drama)masque
Genre group (comparison)masque — from the British Drama label · Annals: masque
Play typeOccasional;Nonprofessional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 496 · edition 1023 · TCP A17961 · DEEP 5126.01
Edition roleOther edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics; its chunks carry the topic they were placed in, for browsing
First performance / composition (Annals)1634 [Feb 18]
First performance (BritDrama)1634 [Feb 18]
Theaterbefore the Court;Whitehall;
PrinterDawson, John (2)
PublisherWalkley, Thomas
FormatOctavo
Greg496b(†)
Genre (Annals)Masque
Genre (BritDrama)Masque
BritDrama no.2428
Title page[O8r] Cœlum Brittanicum. A MASQVE
Title-page performance noteAT WHITE-HALL IN the Banquetting house, on Shrove-Tuesday-night, the 18. of February, 1633.
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10–57563T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and 0.79FRom the high Senate of the gods, to You Bright glorious Twins of Love and Majesty, Before whole Throne three …
258–60476unassignedPeace Railer, bridle your licentious tongue. And let this Presence teach you modesty. Let it if it can; in the…
361–68475T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and 0.80No more impertinent Trifler, you disturb The great Affair with your rude scurrilous chat: What doth the knowle…
469–69575T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and 0.68Heaven! Heaven is no more the place it was; a Cloister of Carthusians, a Monastery of converted gods, Iove is …
570–104438unassignedMomus thou shalt prevail, for since thy bold Intrusion hath inverted my resolves, I must obey necessity, and t…
6105–132458unassignedThis Crab, I confess, did ill become the heavens; but there is another that more infests the Earth, and makes …
7133–134559unassignedHere is a total Eclipse of the eighth Sphere, which neither Booker, Allestre, nor any of your Prognosticators,…
8135–197544unassignedWho's this appears? This is a subterranean Fiend, Plutus in this Dialect termed Riches, or the god of Gold; a …
9198–238489T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions0.87Plutus, the gods know and confess your power, Which feeble Virtue seldom can resist; Stronger than Towers of b…
10239–288497unassignedOft o'er his Throne I wave my awful Sceptre, And in the bowels of his state command, When 'midst his heaps of …
11289–340502T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions0.81See where Dame Fortune comes, you may know her by her wheel, and that veil over her eyes, with which she hopes…
12341–405508unassignedBe thou then only a deluding Phantom, At best a blind guide, leading blinder fools; Who, would they but survey…
13406–467522unassignedBewitching Siren, guilded rottenness, Thou hast with cunning artifice displayed Th' enameled outside, and the …
14468–549503unassignedRAise from these rocky cliffs, your heads, Brave Sons, and see where Glory spreads Her glittering wings, where…
15550–631513unassignedBut shall not we, now thou art gone Who wert our Nature, whither, Or break that triple Union Which thy soul ho…