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So they do move each heart and eye,
With the world's soul, true harmony."

Here they danced a third most elegant and curious dance, and not to be described again by any art, but that of their own footing, which ending in the figure that was to produce the fourth, January from his state saluted them thus.

Janu. Your grace is great, as is your beauty, dames; Enough my feasts have proved your thankful flames. Now use your seat: that seat which was, before, Thought straying, uncertain, floating to each shore, And to whose having every clime laid claim, Each land and nation urged as the aim Of their ambition, beauty's perfect throne, Now made peculiar to this place alone; And that by impulsion of your destinies, And his attractive beams that lights these skies. Who, though with th' ocean compass'd, never wets His hair therein, nor wears a beam that sets. Long may his light adorn these happy rites, As I renew them; and your gracious sights Enjoy that happiness, even to envy, as when Beauty, at large, brake forth, and conquer'd men!

At which they danced their last dance into their throne again; and that turning, the scene closed with this full SONG.

Still turn and imitate the heaven

In motion swift and even;

And as his planets go,

Your brighter lights do so:

May youth and pleasure ever flow.

"The Platonic's opinion. See also Mac. lib. i. and ii. Som. Sc. • For what country is it thinks not her own beauty fairest,

yet?

But let your state, the while,
Be fixed as the isle.

Cho. So all that see your beauties sphere,
May know the Elysian fields are here.
I Ech. The Elysian fields are here.
2 Ech. Elysian fields are here.

The Persons who were received on land by the

river god were,

The QUEEN,

Lady ARABELLA,3

3 Lady Arabella.] Lady Arabella Stewart. This beautiful and accomplished lady was the only child of Charles Stewart, fifth earl of Lennox, (uncle to James I. and great grandson to Henry VII.) by Elizabeth, daughter of sir William Cavendish of Hardwick. Mr. Lodge, in his admirable Illustrations of British History, has given with his usual elegance a concise narrative of her eventful life. "She was brought up (he says) in privacy under the care of her grandmother, the old countess of Lennox, who had for many years resided in England. Her double relation to royalty was equally obnoxious to the jealousy of Elizabeth and the timidity of James, and they secretly dreaded the supposed danger of her leaving a legitimate offspring. The former, therefore, prevented her from marrying Esme Stuart, her kinsman, and heir to the titles and estates of her family, and afterwards imprisoned her for listening to some overtures from the son of the earl of Northumberland; the latter, by obliging her to reject many splendid offers of

Sully says that Henry IV. once told him he should have no objection to marry her if he thought the succession to the crown of England could be obtained for her; but immediately added, that was a very improbable thing.

Countess of Arundel,4

Countess of Derby,5

Countess of BEDFORD,6

Countess of MONTGOMERY,

Lady ELIZ. GUILFORD,8

Lady KAT. PETER,9
Lady ANNE WINTER,10
Lady WINSOR,1

marriage, unwarily encouraged the hopes of inferior pretenders, among whom, as we may fairly infer from some passages in his letters in this collection, was the fantastical William Fowler, secretary to Anne of Denmark. Thus circumscribed, she renewed a childish connexion with William Seymour, grandson to the earl of Hertford, which was discovered in 1609, when both parties were summoned to appear before the Privy Council, and received a severe reprimand. This mode of proceeding produced the very consequence which James meant to avoid; for the lady, sensible that her reputation had been wounded by this inquiry, was in a manner forced into a marriage, which becoming publicly known in the course of the next spring, she was committed to close custody in the house of sir Thomas Parry, at Lambeth, and Mr. Seymour to the Tower. In this state of separation, however, they concerted means for an escape, which both effected on the same day, June 3, 1611, and Mr. Seymour got safely to Flanders; but the poor lady was retaken in Calais Road, and imprisoned in the Tower; where the sense of these undeserved oppressions operating too severely on her high spirit, she became a lunatic, and languished in that wretched state, augmented by the horrors of a prison, till her death on the 27th of September, 1615."

4 Countess of Arundel.] Anne, daughter of Thomas, lord Dacre, and widow of the unfortunate Philip, earl of Arundel, who was imprisoned by Elizabeth for some imaginary plot, and died in the Tower, 1595. She was a most excellent woman. "Her letters to her family (says a very competent judge) are written in the best style of the time in which she lived, and in a strain of unaffected piety and tenderness." Lodge, vol. iii. 35. But see p. 50. 5 6 , .] See p. 18.

8 Lady Elizabeth Guilford.] Eldest daughter of Edward, fourth earl of Worcester, and wife of sir Henry Guilford, of Hemsted place, in Kent.

9 Lady Katherine Peter.] Sister to lady Guilford, second daughter of the earl of Worcester, and wife of William, second lord Petre. She died in 1624, in her 49th year; avidior cælestis habitationis (as her Epitaph says) quam longioris vitæ.

10 Lady Anne Winter.] Another daughter of the earl of Worcester, and wife of sir Edward Winter, of Lydney, Gloucestershire, Knt. 1 Lady Winsor.] Either the widow of Henry, fifth lord Winsor, or her daughter Elizabeth, married to her cousin, who bore the family name.

Lady ANNE CLIFFORD,2

Lady MARY Neville,3

Lady ELIZ. HATTON,

Lady ELIZ. GARRARD,5

Lady CHICHESTER,6

Lady WALSINGHAM.7

2 Lady Anne Clifford.] The daughter of George Clifford, earl of Cumberland, so remarkable for his naval adventures in the reign of Elizabeth. This lady married some time after her appearance in the present masque, Richard, third earl of Dorset, and in 1630 Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, whom she outlived many years. The English court, or, to go further, the English nation, never possessed a nobler character than this celebrated lady. This is no place for her history, of which a spirited sketch is given by Dr. Whitaker; but it is almost impossible to pass her by without noticing her well-known answer to sir Joseph Williamson, Secretary of State to Charles II., who had ventured to name a candidate to her for the borough of Appleby.

"I have been bullied by an usurper; I have been neglected by a court; but I will not be dictated to by a subject: your man shan't stand.

"ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery."

3 Lady Mary Neville.] Wife of Henry, seventh lord Abergavenny, and daughter of the lord Treasurer Sackville, earl of Dorset.

4 Lady Elizabeth Hatton.] Fourth daughter of Thomas Cecil, first earl of Exeter, and widow of sir William Hatton. This beautiful creature afterwards married sir Edward Coke. A strange match-and which seems to have afforded more amusement to the bystanders, than comfort to the parties concerned.

5 Lady Elizabeth Garrard.] Wife of Thomas, lord Gerard, son of sir Gilbert Gerard, Master of the Rolls, 23 Elizabeth. Thomas was raised to the peerage on the accession of James I. She died 1613.

6 Lady Chichester.] Letitia, (as I believe,) daughter of sir John Perrot, and wife of sir Arthur Chichester, (baron Chichester of Belfast,) a man eminent for his great services in Ireland, and of distinguished talents and virtue. There was, indeed, another lady of this name; Frances, second daughter of lord Harrington, married to sir Robert Chichester, of Rawleigh, Devon, knight of the Bath. This lady died in 1615, and was buried, as the record says, with "muche solempnitie, in the parrishe church of Pylton." The reader must decide between the claimants.

Lady Walsingham.] Probably Anne, fourth daughter of Theophilus, second earl of Suffolk, and wife of Thomas Walsingham, of Scadbury, in Kent.

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