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The Subject of the MASQVE.
Discord a malicious Fury, appeares in a storme, and by the Invocation of malignant spirits, proper to her evill life, having already put most of the world into disorder, endeavours to disturbe these parts, envying the blessings and Tranquility we have long enjoyed.
These Incantations are expressed by those spirits in an Antimasque: who on a sudden are surprised, and stopt in their motion by a secret power, whose wisedome they tremble at, and depart as foreknowing, that Wisedome will change all their malicious hope of these disorders into a sudden calme, which after their departure is prepared, by a disperst Harmony of Musique.
This secret Wisdome in the Person of the King
attended by his Nobles, and under the name of
Philogenes or Lover of his People, hath his appearance
prepared by a Chorus, representing the
Then the Queene personating the chiefe Heroin, with her martiall Ladies, is sent downe from Heaven by Pallas as a Reward of his Prudence, for reducing the threatning storme into the following calme.
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