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Scene 11.
They dance.After a while they are broke off by a flourish, and the approach of Harmony followed by Mercury, Cupid, Bacchus and Apollo. Discord and her faction fall downe.
Let.
See Harmony approaches, leading on,
Gainst Discords factions, feare great deities;
Mercury, Cupid, Bacchus, and Apollo.
Wit against Folly, Love against Jealousie,
Wine against Melancholly, and 'gainst Madnesse, Health.
Observe the matter and the Method.
Per.
Yes.
Let.
And how upon the approach of Harmony,
Discord and her disorders are confounded.
Harmony. Song.
Discord and her disorders are confounded.
Come
Wit, come Love, come Wine, come Health,
Mayntainers of my Common-wealth,
Tis you make Harmony compleate,
And from the Spheares (her proper seate)
You give her power to raigne on earth,
Where Discord claimes a right by birth.
Then let us revell it while we are here,
And keepe possession of this Hemisphere.
Mayntainers of my Common-wealth,
Tis you make Harmony compleate,
And from the Spheares (her proper seate)
You give her power to raigne on earth,
Then let us revell it while we are here,
And keepe possession of this Hemisphere.
After a straine or two, Discord cheares up her faction. They all rise, and mingle in the dance with Harmony and the rest. Daunce.
Let.
Note there how Discord cheares up her disorders,
To mingle in defiance with the Vertues:
But soone they vanish; and the mansion quit
Ex. Discord.
Unto the Gods of health, love, wine and wit,
Who triumph in their habitation new,
Which they have taken, and assigne to you;
In which they now salute you—Bids you bee
Salute Exe.
Of cheare; and for it, layes the charge on me.
And unto me y'are welcome, welcome all.
Meat, wine, and mirth shall flow, and what I see,
Yet wanting in your cure, supplied shall be.
Per.
Indeed I finde me well.
Mar.
And so shall I,
After a few such nights more.
Bar.
Are you there?
Good Madam, pardon errors of my tongue.
Dia.
I am too happy made to thinke of wrong.
Let.
We will want nothing for you that may please,
Though we dive for it to th'Antipodes.
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