LOVES TRIUMPH THROUGH CALLIPOLIS.  
Performed in a Masque at Court 1630. By his Majesty with the Lords, and Gentlemen assisting.  
The Inventors. Ben. jonson. Inigo jones.  
Quando magis dignos licuit spectare triumphos?  
LONDON, Printed by I. N. for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Eagle and Child in Brittains-burse. 1630.   

To make the Spectators understanders.  
WHereas all Representations, especially those of this nature in court, public Spectacles, either have been, or aught to be the mirrors of man's life, whose ends, for the excellence of their exhibiters (as being the donatives, of great Princes, to their people) ought always to carry a mixture of profit, with them, no less than delight; we, the Inventors, being commanded from the King, to think on some thing worthy of his Majesties putting in act, with a selected company of his Lords, and Gentlemen, called to the assistance: For the honour of his Court, and the dignity of that heroic love, and regal respect borne by him to his unmatchable Lady, and Spouse, the queen's Majesty, after some debate of cogitation with ourselves, resolved on this following argument.  
First, that a Person, boni ominis, of a good character, as Euphemus, sent down from Heaven to Callipolis, which is understood the City of Beauty or Goodness, should come in; and, finding her Majesty there enthroned, declare unto her, that Love who was wont to be respected as a special Deity in Court, and Tutelar God of the place, had of late received an advertisement, that in the suburbs, or skirts of Callipolis, were crept in certain Sectaries, or depraved Lovers, who neither knew the name, or nature of love rightly, yet boasted themselves his followers, when they were fitter to be called his Furies: their whole life being a continued vertigo, or rather a torture on the wheel of Love, than any motion either of order or measure. When suddenly they leap forth below, a Mistress leading them, and with antic gesticulation, and action, after the manner of the old Pantomimi, they dance over a distracted comedy of Love, expressing their confused affections, in the Scenical persons, and habits, of the four prime European Nations.  

A glorious boasting Lover.  
A whining ballading Lover.  
An adventurous Romance Lover.   

A fantastic umbrageous Lover.  
A bribing corrupt Lover.  
A froward jealous Lover.   

A sordid illiberal Lover.  
A proud scornful Lover.  
An angry quarrelling Lover.   

A melancholic despairing Lover.  
An envious unquiet Lover.  
A sensual brute Lover.   All which, in varied, intricate turns, and involved mazes, expressed, make the Antimasque: and conclude the exit, in a circle. EUPHEMUS descends singing. 

Joy, joy to mortals, the rejoicing fires  
Of gladness, smile in your dilated hearts!  
Whilst Love presents a world of chaste desires,  
Which may produce a harmony of parts!   

Love is the right affection of the mind,  
The noble appetite of what is best:  
Desire of union with the thing designed,  
But in fruition of it cannot rest.   

The Father plenty is, the Mother want, 
Porus, and Penia.   
Plenty the beauty, which it wanteth, draws;  
Want yields itself: affording what is scant.  
So, both affections are the union's cause.   

But, rest not here. For Love hath larger scopes,  
New joys, new pleasures, of as fresh a date  
As are his minutes: and, in him no hopes  
Are pure, but those he can perpetuate. 
〈…〉 re he 〈…〉 es up to 〈◊〉 State.    

To you that are by excellence a Queen!  
The top of beauty! but, of such an air,  
As, only by the mind's eye, may be seen  
Your interwoven lines of good, and fair!   

Vouchsafe to grace Loves triumph here, tonight,  
Through all the streets of your Callipolis;  
Which by the splendour of your rays made bright  
The seat, and region of all beauty is.   

Love, in perfection, longeth to appear  
But prays, of favour, he be not called on,  
Till all the suburbs, and the skirts be clear  
Of perturbations, and th'infection gone.   

Then will he flow forth, like a rich perfume  
Into your nostrils! or some sweeter sound  
Of melting music, that shall not consume  
Within the ear, but run the mazes round.   Here the Chorus walk about with their censers. CHORUS. 

Mean time, we make lustration of the place,  
And with our solemn fires, and waters prove  
T'have frighted, hence, the weak diseased race  
Of those were tortured on the wheel of love.   

¹ The glorious ,² whining ,³ the adventurous fool,  
⁴ Fantastic ,⁵ bribing, and the jealous ass  
1 The sordid ,² scornful ,³ and the angry mule4  
The melancholic ,⁵ dull, and envious mass,   Chorus 

With all the rest, that in the sensual school  
Of lust, for their degree of brute may pass.   

All which are vapoured hence. 
The prospect of a Sea appears.   
No loves, but slaves to sense:  
Mere cattle, and not men.   

Sound, sound, and treble all our joys again,  
Who had the power, and virtue to remove  
Such monsters from the labyrinth of love.   The Triumph is first seen afar off, and led in by Amphitrite, the wife of Oceanus, with four Seagods attending her. NEREUS, PROTEUS, GLAUCUS, PALAeMON. It consisteth of fifteen Lovers, and as many Cupids, who rank themselves seven, and seven on a side, with each a Cupid before him, with a lighted torch, and the middle person (which is his Majesty,) placed in the centre. 
1. The provident.  2. The judicious. 3. The secret.  4. The valiant. 5. The witty.  6. The jovial. 7. The secure. 15. The Heroical, 8. The substantial. 9. The modest.  10. The candid. 11. The courteous.  12. The elegant. 13. The rational.  14. The magnificent.  AMPHITRITE. 
Here, stay a while: This! this  
The Temple of all Beauty is!  
Here, perfect Lovers, you must pay  
First-fruits; and on these altars lay  
(The lady's breasts) your ample vows,  
Such, as Love brings, and Beauty best allows!  Cho. 
For Love, without his object, soon is gone:  
Love must have answering love, to look upon.  AMPHITRITE. 
To you, best judge then, of perfection!  EUPHEMUS. 
The Queen, of what is wonder, in the place!  AMPHITRITE. 
Pure object, of Heroic Love, alone!  EUPHEMUS. 
The centre of proportion—!  AMPHITRITE. 
Sweetness.  EUPHEMUS. 
Grace.?  AMPHITRITE, 
Deign to receive all lines of love in one.  EUPHEMUS. 
And by reflecting of them fill this space.  Cho. 

Till it a circle of those glories prove,  
Fit to be sought in Beauty, found by Love.   Semi-cho. 
Where Love is mutual, still  
All things in order move,  Semi-cho. 
The circle of the will  
Is the true sphere of Love.  Cho. 

Advance, you gentler Cupids, then advance,  
And show 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 paean 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. EUCLIAS 

So love, emergent out of Chaos brought the world to light!  
And gently moving on the waters, wrought all form to fight!   

love's appetite  
Did beauty first excite:  
And left imprinted in the air,  
Those signatures of good, and fair,   CHO. 

Which since have flowed, flowed forth upon the sense,  
To wonder first, and then to excellence,  
By virtue of divine intelligence!   The ingemination. EUCLIAS 

And Neptune too  
Shows what his waves can do:  
To call the Muses all to play,  
And sing the birth of Venus' day,   CHO. 

Which from the Sea flowed, forth upon the sense  
To wonder first, and next to excellence,  
By virtue of divine intelligence!   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. IVP. 
Hast daughter Venus haste, and come away:  IVN. 
All powers, that govern marriage, pray That you will lend your light  GEN. 
Unto the constellation of this night.  HYM. 
Hymen.  IVN. 
And juno.  GEN. 
And the Genius call,  IVP. 
Your father jupiter,  CHO. 

And all  
That bless, or honour holy nuptial.   VENUS here appears in a cloud, and pass through the constellation, descendeth to the earth, when presently the cloud vanisheth, and she is seen sitting in a throne. VENUS. 

Here, here I present am  
Both in my girdle, and my flame:  
Wherein are woven all the powers  
The Graces gave me, or the Hours  
(My nurses once) with all the arts  
Of gaining, and of holding hearts:  
And these with I descend.  
But, to your influences, first commend  
The vow, I go to take  
On earth, for perfect love and beauty's sake!   Her song ended, and she rising to go up 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. 

Beauty and Love, whose story is mysterial,  
In yonder Palmtree, and the Crown imperial,  
Do from the Rose, and Lily so delicious,  
Promise a shade, shall ever be propitious  
To both the Kingdoms. But to Britain's Genius  
The snaky rod, and serpents of Cyllenius  
Bring not more peace, than these, who so united be  
By Love, as with it Earth and Heaven delighted be.  
And who this King, and Queen would well historify,  
Need only speak their names: Those them will glorify.  
MARY, and CHARLES, CHARLES, with his MARY, named are  
And all the rest of Loves, or Princes famed are.   After this they dance their going out, and end.  

 

   


The Masquers Names.  The King. The marquess Hamilton. Lord chamberlain. Earl of Holland. Earl of Carnarvan. Earl of Newport. Viscount Doncaster. Lord Strange. Sir William Howard. Sir Robert Stanley. Sir William Brook. 〈…〉 Master Ralegh. 〈…〉 〈…〉