The Song.
Amianteros, or Chast Love.
1
Whilst
by a mixture thus made one,
Y' ar th' Emblem of my Deitie,
And now you may in yonder Throne,
The pattern of your Union see.
2
Softly as fruitfull showres I fall,
And th' undiscern'd increase I bring,
Is of more precious worth then all
A plentuous Summer pays a Spring.
3
The benefit it doth impart,
Will not the barren earth improve,
But fructifie each barren heart,
And give eternal growth to Love.
Sunesis.
To CHARLES the Mightiest and the Best,
And to the Darling of his breast,
(Who rule b' example as by power)
May youthful blessings still increase,
And in their Off-spring never cease,
Till Time's too old to last an hower.
Chorus.
These wishes are so well deserv'd by thee,
And thought so modest too by Destiny,
That heaven hath seal'd the grant as a Decree.
After which they all retire to the Scæne, and
Indamora and her Ladies
begin the Revels with the King and the Lords, which continue
the most part of the night. Thus ended this Masque, which for the
newness of the invention, variety of Scænes, Apparitions, and richness
of habits was generally approved to be one of the most magnificent
that hath been done in
England.
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The Masquers Names.
The Queens Majesty.
- Lady Marquess Hamilton.
- Lady Mary Herbert.
- Countess of Oxford.
- Countess of Berkshire.
- Countess of Carnarvan.
- Countess of Newport.
- Lady Herbert.
- Lady Katherine Howard
- Lady Anne Carre.
- Lady Elizabeth Feilding
- Lady Thimbleby.
- Mistriss Dorothy Savage.
- Mistriss Victory Cary.
- Mistriss Nevil.
The Lords and others that presented the Noble Persian Youths.
- The Duke of Lenox.
- Earl of Newport.
- Earl of Desmond.
- Viscount Grandeson.
- Lord Russel.
- Lord Doncaster.
- Master Thomas Weston,
- Master George Goring.
- Master Henry Murrey.
