with a lighted torch, and the middle is his Majesty) placed in the centre.* person (which Amph. Here stay a while: this, this, Cho. For love without his object soon is gone: Love must have answering love to look upon. Amph. To you, best judge then of perfection! Euph. The queen of what is wonder in the place! Amph. Pure object of heroic love, alone! Euph. The centre of proportion !— Amph. Euph. Sweetness! Amph. Deign to receive all lines of love in one. Fit to be sought in beauty, found by love. Grace! If the reader is curious to know who presented the respective lovers, he may learn it from the following arrangement as given by the author. Semi-cho. Where love is mutual, still Semi-cho. The circle of the will Is the true sphere of love. Cho. Advance, you gentler Cupids, then, advance, Andshew your just perfections in your dance. The Cupids dance their dance; and the Masquers their Entry. Which done, EUCLIA, or a fair glory, appears in the heavens, singing an applausive SONG, or Pæan of the whole, which she takes occasion to ingeminate in the second chorus, upon the sight of a work of Neptune's, being a hollow rock, filling part of the sea-prospect, whereon the MUSES Sit. HYMN. Euc. So love emergent out of chaos brought And gently moving on the waters, wrought Love's appetite Did beauty first excite: And left imprinted in the air Those signatures of good and fair, Cho. Which since have flow'd, flow'd forth upon the sense To wonder first, and then to excellence, The Ingemination. And Neptune too, Shews what his waves can do: To call the Muses all to play, Cho. Which from the sea flow'd forth upon the sense, Here follow the REVELS. Which ended, the scene changeth to a garden, and the heavens opening, there appear four new persons, in form of a Constellation, sitting; or a new Asterism, expecting VENUS, whom they call upon with this SONG. JUPITER, JUNO, GENIUS, HYMEN. Jup. Haste, daughter Venus, haste and come away, Gen. Unto the constellation of this night. Jun. And Juno. Gen. And the Genius call. Jup. Your father Jupiter. Grand Cho. And all That bless or honour holy nuptial. VENUS here appears in a cloud, and passing through the Constellation, descendeth to the earth, when presently the cloud vanisheth, and she is seen sitting in a throne. Ven. Here, here I present am Both in my girdle, and my flame; On earth, for perfect love and beauty's sake. Her song ended, and she rising up to go to the queen, the throne disappears in place of which, there shooteth up a palm-tree with an imperial crown on the top; from the root whereof, lilies and roses twining together, and embracing the stem, flourish through the crown; which she in the SONG with the CHORUS describes. Grand Cho. Beauty and Love, whose story is mysterial, Bring not more peace than these, who so united be are, And all the rest of loves or princes famed are. After this, they DANCE their going out. AND THUS IT ENDED. |