Here it was thought necessary they should be broken off, by the coming in of a GENTLEMAN, an officer or servant of the lord lieutenant's, whose face had put on, with his clothes, an equal authority for the business. Gent. Give end unto your rudeness: know at length Whose time and patience you have urg'd, the KING'S. cares your leisures! Breed your delights, whose business all And find those manners there, which he suck'd in O sister Scotland! what hast thou deserved As men would wish, that knew not how to hope Unto himself; is good for goodness sake, Whilst he himself is mortal, let him feel Let him approve his young increasing Charles, An aid, before he be a successor. Late come that day that heaven will ask him from us! Let our grand-children, and their issue, long Expect it, and not see it. Let us pray, That fortune never know to exercise More power upon him, than as Charles his servant, And his Great Britain's slave: ever to wait Bondwoman to the GENIUS of this state. THUS IT ENDED. LOVE'S WELCOME. THE KING AND QUEEN'S ENTERTAINMENT AT BOLSOVER, AT THE EARL OF NEWCASTLE'S, THE 30TH OF JULY, 1634. LOVE'S WELCOME.] The King (as was observed before) was so well pleased with the Entertainment at Welbeck, that he sent the earl of Newcastle word, the Queen was resolved to make a progress with him into the north, and he therefore desired him to prepare the same amusement for her which had given him such satisfaction in the preceding year. "Which, (says her Grace,) my lord accordingly did, and endeavoured for it with all possible care and industry, sparing nothing that might add splendour to that feast, which both their Majesties were pleased to honour with their presence. Ben Jonson he employed in fitting such scenes and speeches as he could best devise, and sent for all the gentry of the country to come and wait on their Majesties. This entertainment he made at Bolsover Castle, in Derbyshire, some five miles distant from Welbeck, and resigned Welbeck for their Majesties lodging. It cost him in all between fourteen and fifteen thousand pounds." Life of the Duke of Newcastle. p. 184. It is probable that the course at the Quintain was repeated; what we have here, was exhibited, not at the dinner, but at the banquet, a kind of dessert, which was usually served up in an open This little piece is wretchedly given in the folio. room. LOVE'S WELCOME, ETC. The King and Queen being set at banquet, this SONG was sung by two tenors and a bass. Full Cho. F Love be call'd a lifting of the sense 2 Ten. The Sight, the Hearing, Smelling, Touching, Bas. Taste, All at one banquet? Would it ever last! 1 Ten. We wish the same: who set it forth thus? Bas. Love! 2 Ten. But to what end, or to what object? Bas. Love! I Ten. Doth Love then feast itself? Bas. Bas. You make of Love a riddle, or a chain, A circle, a mere knot; untie't again. Love is a circle, both the first and last Of all our actions, and his knot's, too, fast. I Ten. A true love knot will hardly be untied: And if it could, who would this pair divide? God made them such, and Love. Bas. 2 Ten. Who is a ring The likest to the year of any thing, I Ten. And runs into itself. |