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The Prologue.
Hymen opposed by Auarice, Enuy, and Iealousie, the disturbers of quiet marriage, first enters.Hymen.
In this disguise and Pastorall attire,
Without my saffron robe, without my torch,
Or other ensignes of my duty:
I Hymen am come hither secretly,
To make Arcadia see a worke of glory,
That shall deserue an euerlasting story.
Without my saffron robe, without my torch,
Or other ensignes of my duty:
I Hymen am come hither secretly,
To make Arcadia see a worke of glory,
That shall deserue an euerlasting story.
Here, shall I bring you two the most entire
And constant louers that were euer seene,
From out the greatest suffrings of anoy
That fortune could inflict, to their full ioy:
Wherein no wild, no rude, no antique sport,
But tender passions, motions soft, and graue,
The still spectators must expect to haue.
And constant louers that were euer seene,
From out the greatest suffrings of anoy
That fortune could inflict, to their full ioy:
Wherein no wild, no rude, no antique sport,
But tender passions, motions soft, and graue,
The still spectators must expect to haue.
For, these are onely Cynthias recreatiues
Made vnto Phœbus, and are feminine;
And therefore must be gentle like to her,
Whose sweet affections mildely mooue and stirre.
And here, with this white wand, will I effect
As much, as with my flaming torch of Loue:
And with the power thereof, affections mooue
In these faire nymphes, and shepheards round about.
Made vnto Phœbus, and are feminine;
And therefore must be gentle like to her,
Whose sweet affections mildely mooue and stirre.
And here, with this white wand, will I effect
As much, as with my flaming torch of Loue:
And with the power thereof, affections mooue
In these faire nymphes, and shepheards round about.
Enuy.
Stay Hymen, stay; you shall not haue the day
Of this great glory, as you make account:
We will here in, as we were euer wont,
Oppose you in the matches you addresse,
And vndermine them with disturbances.
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Now, do thy worst, base Enuy, thou canst do,
Thou shalt not disappoint my purposes.
Auarice.
Then will I, Hymen, in despite of thee,
I will make Parents crosse desires of loue,
With those respects of wealth, as shall dissolue
The strongest knots of kindest faithfulnesse.
Hym.
Hence, greedy Auarice; I know thou art
A hagge, that do'st bewitch the mindes of men:
Yet shall thou haue no at all herein.
Ieal.
Then will I, Hymen, do thou what thou canst;
I will steale cllosely into linked hearts;
And shake their veines with cold distrustfulnesse;
And euer keepe them waking in their feares,
With spirits, which their imagination reares,
Hym.
Disquiet Iealousie, vile fury, thou
That art the ougly monster of the mind,
Auant, be gone, thou shalt haue nought to do
In this faire worke of ours, nor euermore
Canst enter there, where honour keepes the doore.
That art the ougly monster of the mind,
Auant, be gone, thou shalt haue nought to do
In this faire worke of ours, nor euermore
Canst enter there, where honour keepes the doore.
And therefore hideous furies, get you hence,
This place is sacred to integrity,
And cleane desires: your sight most loathsome is
Vnto so well dispos'd a company.
Therefore be gone, I charge you by my powre,
We must haue nothing in Arcadia, sowre.
This place is sacred to integrity,
And cleane desires: your sight most loathsome is
Vnto so well dispos'd a company.
Therefore be gone, I charge you by my powre,
We must haue nothing in Arcadia, sowre.
Enuy.
Hymen, thou canst not chast vs so away,
For, looke how long as thou mak'st marriages,
So long will we produce incumbrances.
And we will in the same disguise, as thou,
Mixe vs amongst the shepheards, that we may
Effect our worke the better, being vnknowne;
For, ills shew other faces then their owne.
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