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I. Song.
Good Genius of Great Britaine, Concord.
Concord.
VVhy should I hasten hither, since the good
I bring to men is slowly understood?

Genius.
I know it is the Peoples vice,
To lay too meane, too cheape a price
On ev'ry blessing they possesse
Th'injoying makes them thinke it lesse.

Concord.
If then, the need of what is good,
Doth make it lov'd, or understood,
Or tis by absence better knowne
I shall be valew'd, when I'm gonne.

Genius.
Yet stay! O stay! if but to please
The great and wise Philogenes.

Concord.
Should dewes not fall, the Sunne forbeare
His course, or I my visits here;
Alike from these defects would cease
The power and hope, of all increase.

Genius.
Stay then! O stay! If but to ease
The cares of wise Philogenes.

Concord.
I will! and much I grieve, that though the best
Of Kingly science, harbours in his brest,
Yet tis his fate, to rule in adverse times,
When wisedome must awhile give place to crimes.

Being arrived at the Earth, and descended from the Chariot, they sing this short Dialogue, and then departed severall wayes to incite the beloved people to honest pleasures and recreations which have ever beene peculiar to this Nation.
Both.
O who but he, could thus endure
To live, and governe in a sulleine age,
When it is harder far to cure,
The Peoples folly than resist their rage?

After which there followed these severall Entries of Antimasques.
1. Entry.

Wolfgangus Vandergoose Spagricke, Operator to the invisible Lady stiled the Magicall sister of the Rosicrosse, with these receits following, and many other rare secrets, undertakes in short time to cure the defects of nature, and diseases of the mind:

1 Confection of Hope and feare to entertayne Lovers.

2 Essence of dissimulation to enforce Love.

3 Iulope of fruition to recreate the hot feavers of Love.

4 Water of dalliance to warme an old courage.

5 A subtle quintessence drawne from mathematicall points and lines, filtred through a melancholy brayne to make Eunuchs engender.

6 Pomado of the Barke of Comelinesse, the

sweetnesse of wormewood, with the fat of gravity to anoynt those that have an ill mine.

7 Spirit of Saturus high capers, and Bacchus whirling virtigoes to make one dance well.

8 One dramme of the first matter, as much of the rust of times Sythe mixt with the juice of Medeas hearbs, this in an electuary makes all sorts of old people yong.

9 An Opiade of the spirit of Muskadine taken in good quantity to bedward, to make one forget his Creditors.

10 Powder of Menippus tree, & the Rine of Hemp to consolate those who have lost their money.

11 Treakle of the gale of Serpents, and the liver of Doves to initiate a Neophite Courtier.

12 An easie vomit of the fawning of a Spaniel' Gallobelgicus, and the last Coranto, hot from the Presse, with the powder of some leane jests, to prepare a disprovues welcome to rich mens Tables.

13 A Gargarisme of Florioes first fruits, Diana de monte Major, and the scraping of Spanish Romanc'as distilled in balneo, to make a sufficient Linguist without travelling, or scarse knowing himselfe what hee sayes.

14 A Bath made of a Catalogue from the Mart' and Common places, taken in a Frankford drifat, in his diet he must refraine all reall knowledge, and only sucke in vulgar opinions, using the Fricase of confederacy, will make Ignorants in all professions to seeme and not to be.

2. Entry.
Fowre old men richly attired, the shapes proper to the persons, presented by

• M. Boroughs.
• M. Skipwith.
• M. Pert.
• M. Ashton

3. Entry:
Three yong souldiers in severall fashioned habits, but costly, and presented to the life, by

• M. Hearne.
• M. Slingsby.
• M. Chumley.

4. Entry.
A nurse and three children in long Coats, with bibbes, biggins, and muckenders.
5. Entry.
An ancient Irishman, presented by

• M. Iay.

6. Entry.
An ancient Scotishman, presented by

• M. Atkins.

7. Entry.
An old fashioned Englishman, and his mistrisse presented by

• M. Arpe.
• M. Will. Murry.

These three Antimasques were well and naturally set out.
8. Entry.
Doctor Tartaglia and two pedants of Francolin, presented by

• M. Rimes.
• M. Warder.
• M. Villiers.

9. Entry.
Fowre Grotesques or drolities, in the most fantasticall shapes that could be devised.
10. Entry.
The invisible Lady magicall sister of the Rosicrosse.
11. Entry.
A shepheard, presented by

• M. Charles Murry.

12. Entry.
A Farmer and his wife, presented by

• M. Skipwith.

13. Entry.
A Country Gentleman, his Wife, and his Bailiffe, presented by

• M. Boroughs.
• M. Ashton.
• M. Pert.

14. Entry.
An amorous Courtier richly apparelled, presented by

• M. Seymor.

15. Entry.
Two Roaring boyes, their suites answering their profession.
16. Entry.
Fowre mad Lovers, and as madly clad.
17. Entry.
A jealous Dutchman, his wife and her Italian Lover, presented by

• M. Arpe.
• M. Rimes.
• M. Tartarean.

18. Entry.
Three Swisses, one a little Swisse, who playd the wag with them as they slept, presented by

• M. Cotterell.
• M. Newton.
• M. Ieffrey Hudson.

19. Entry.
Fowre anticke Cavaliers, imitating a manage and tilting.

• M. Arpe.
• M. Iay.
• M. Atkins.
• M. Tartarean.

20. Entry.
A Cavaleritro and two Pages.

All which Antimasques were well set out and excellently danced, and the tunes fitted to the persons.

The Antimasques being past, all the Sceane was changed into craggy rockes and inaccessible mountaynes, in the upper parts where any earth could fasten, were some trees, but of strange formes, such as only grow in remote parts of the Alpes, and in desolate places; the furthest of these was hollow in the middest, and seemed to be cut through by art, as the Pausilipo neer Naples, & so high as the top pierced the clouds, all which represented the difficult way which Heroes are to passe ere they come to the Throne of Honour.

The Chorus of the beloved people came forth (led by Concord & the good Genius of Great Britaine,) their habits being various and rich, they goe up to the State and sing.