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The King and Queenes Maiesty having signified their pleasure to haue a new Maske this New yeare, Master Inigo Iones and I were employed in the Invention And we agreed the subiect of it should be a Triumphe in ALBIPOLIS the chiefe City of ALBION. The Triumpher, ALBANACTVS, And ALBA this Ilands Goddesse. Names not improper, eyther for the Place, or for the Persons: ALBION being (as it once was) taken for England; ALBANACTVS, for the King, Quasi in Albanianatus: Borne in Scotland. And ALBA, for the Queene whose native Beauties have a great affinity with all Purity and Whitenesse. The Kings

devoting himselfe to this Goddesse, is but the seeking of that happy Vnion which was preordeyned by the greatest of the Gods. IOVE therefore sends downe MERCVRY to ALBA, to acquaint her that he had decreed a Tryumph, which (a farre of) she might behold: Concealing his further Councells, vntill ALBANACTVS were subdued to Love and Chastity, by CVPID and DIANA, who descend, and having conquerd the Conquerer, They shew him the Queene. The King, yeilds, And presents himselfe a Suppliant, to the Goddesse ALBA. She embraces him, And makes him Copartner of her Deity.