2.

Follow, O follow yet thy brother's fame,

But not his fate : let's only change the name,
And find his worth presented

In thee, by him prevented.

O['er past example of the dead be great,

Out of thyself begin thy story:

Virtue and glory

Are eminent being placed in princely seat.
Oh, heaven, his age prolong with sacred heat,

And on his honoured head let all the blessings light Which to his brother's life men wished, and wished them right.

TO THE MOST PRINCELY AND VIRTUOUS THE LADY ELIZABETH.

Ο

I.

So parted you as if the world for ever

Had lost with him her light:

Now could your tears hard flint to ruth excite,
Yet may you never

Your loves again partake in human sight :
O why should fate1 such two kind hearts dissever
As nature never knit more fair or firm together?

2.

So loved you as sister should a brother

Not in a common strain,

1 Old ed. "love." The correction "fate" is written (in a handwriting of the early seventeenth century) in the margin of the British Museum copy (G. 18).

For princely blood doeth vulgar fire disdain :

But you each other

On earth embraced in a celestial chain.

Alas, for love! that heav'nly-born affection

To change should subject be and suffer earth's infection!

TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND MIGHTY FREDERICK THE FIFTH, COUNT PALATINE OF THE RHEIN.

I.

How like a golden dream you met! and parted,

That pleasing straight doth vanish!

O who can ever banish

The thought of one so princely and free-hearted!
But he was pulled up in his prime by fate,
And love for him must mourn though all too late.
Tears to the dead are due, let none forbid
Sad hearts to sigh: true grief cannot be hid.

II.

Yet the most bitter storm to height increased
By heaven again is ceased:

O time, that all things movest,

In grief and joy thou equal measure lovest :
Such the condition is of human life,

Care must with pleasure mix and peace with strife :
Thoughts with the days must change; as tapers

waste,

So must our griefs; day breaks when night is past.

1 The Count Palatine landed at Graves End on 16th October, 1612.

TO THE MOST DISCONSOLATE GREAT

WHEN

BRITAIN.

I.

pale famine fed on thee,

With her unsatiate jaws ;

When civil broils set murder free

Contemning all thy laws;

When heav'n enraged consumed thee so
With plagues that none thy face could know,
Yet in thy looks affliction then showed less
Than' now for one's fate all thy parts express.

2.

Now thy highest states lament

A son, and brother's loss;

Thy nobles mourn in discontent,
And rue this fatal cross;

Thy commons are with passion sad

To think how brave a Prince they had :

If all thy rocks from white to black should turn
Yet could'st thou not in show more amply mourn.

TO THE WORLD.

I.

POOR distracted world, partly a slave

To pagans' sinful rage, partly obscured

With ignorance of all the means that save!
And ev❜n those parts of thee that live assured

1 This is the reading in the music-text: the repeat gives "Thou now for one's fall," &c.

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Of heav'nly grace, oh how they are divided
With doubts late by a kingly pen decided!
O happy world, if what the sire begun
Had been closed up by his religious son!

2.

Mourn all you souls oppressed under the yoke
Of Christian-hating Thrace! never appeared
More likelihood to have that black league broke,
For such a heavenly Prince might well be feared
Of earthly fiends. Oh how is Zeal inflamed
With power, when Truth wanting defence is shamed!
O princely soul, rest thou in peace, while we
In thine expect the hopes were ripe in thee.

A TABLE OF ALL THE SONGS CONTAINED

IN THIS BOOK.

1. O Grief.

2. "Tis now dead night.

3. Fortune and glory.

4. So parted you.

5. How like a golden dream.

6. When pale famine.

7. O poor distracted world.

FINIS.

1 There may be a particular reference to King James's "Premonition to all most mighty Monarchs, Kings, Free Princes, and States of Christendom," 1609, written against Bellarmine.

The Discription of a Maske, Presented before the Kinges Maiestie at White-Hall, on Twelfth Night last, in honour of the Lord Hayes, and his Bride, Daughter and Heire to the Honourable the Lord Dennye, their Marriage hauing been the same Day at Court solemnized. To this by occasion other small Poemes are adioyned. Inuented and set forth by Thomas Campion Doctor of Phisicke. London Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Iohn Brown and are to be solde at his shop in S. Dunstones Churchyeard in Fleetstreet. 1607. 4to.

Sir James Hay, created in 1615 Baron Hay of Sawley, and raised in 1622 to the dignity of Earl of Carlisle, was noted for his magnificent style of living (particularly during his embassy in France and Germany, 1619-1622), by which he greatly impoverished his estate. He married, in 1613, his second wife, Lucy, youngest daughter of Henry Earl of Northumberland, and died in 1636, leaving by his first wife a son James, second Earl of Carlisle. Clarendon has a character of him; and he is extolled in Lloyd's "State Worthies."

The present masque (which has been reprinted in the second volume of Nichols's "Progresses of King James ") is of great rarity. On the back of the title-page is a copper-plate engraving (rudely coloured in the two copies that I have seen) of one of the masquers.

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