The Discription of A Maske

Campion, Thomas (1567-1620)

THE DISCRIPTION OF A MASKE, Presented before the Kinges Maiestie at White-Hall, on Twelfth Night last, in honour of the Lord Hayes, and his Bride, Daughter and Heire to the Honourable the Lord Dennye their Marriage hauing been the same Day at Court solemnized.

To the most puisant and Gratious Iames King of great Britaine.

An Epigram.

Ad Inuictissimum, Serenissimumque Iacobvm Magnæ Britanniæ Regem.

To the Right Noble and Vertuous Theophilus Howard, Lorde of Walden, sonne and Heire to the tight Honorable the Earle of Suffolke.

To the Right Uertuous, and Honorable, the Lord and Lady HAYES

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Angliæ & unanimis Scotiæ pater, anne maritus
Sis duhito, an neuter, (Rex) velvterq; simul,
Vxores pariter binas sibi iungat vt vnus,
Credimus hoc ipso te prohibente nephas.
Atque maritali natas violare par entem
Complexu, quis non cogitat esse scelus?
At tibi diuinis successibus vtraque nubit,
Vna tamen coniux, coniugis vnus amor.
Connubium O mirum? binas qui ducer, & uname
Possis? tu solus sic Iacobe potes:
Diuisa, leuiterterras componis in vnam,
Atque vnam æternum nomine, reque facis:
Natisque, & nuptis, pater & vir factus, vtrisque es
Vnitis ceniux verè, & amore parens.

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Ad Inuictissimum, Serenissimumque Iacobvm Magnæ Britanniæ Regem.