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+(PRV:C:1:) +PLEASVRE ] reconcild to ] VERTVE.
+The Scene ] the ] Mountaine ] ATLAS.
His top ending in y figure of an old Man, his
head z beard all hoary z frost: as if his sholders
were couerd wth snow, y rest wood z rock: a
Groue of Ivy at his feet: out of wch, to a wild
Musique of <Cimbals Flutes>, z <Tabers>, is brought
forth Comus, y god of <cheere>, or y <belly>, riding in
tryumph, his head crownd with roses, z other
flowres; his haire curld: They y wayt vpon him,
crownd with Ivy, their Iavelyns don about wth it:
One of them going wth Hercules <Bowle> bare before
him: while y rest present him, wth this
Song. ] <Roome, roome, make roome for y bouncing belly>

<first father of Sauce, z deuiser of gelly>,
<Prime master of arts, z y giuer of wit>,
<y found out y excellent ingine, y spit>,
<y plough, z y flaile, y mill, z y Hoppar>,
<y hutch, z y bowlter, y furnace, z coppar>,
<y Ouen, y bauin, y mawkin, z peele>
<y harth, z y range, y dog, z y wheele>.
<He, he first inuented both hogshead z Tun>,
<y gimblet, z vice too; z taught ^em to run>.
<and since, wth y funnel; an hyppocras bag>
<h^has made of himself, y now he cries swag>.
<wch showes though y pleasure be but of fowre inches>,
<yet he is a weesell, y gullet that pinches>,
<of any delight: z not spares from y back>
<what|#euer, to make of y belly a sack>:
<haile, haile plump Panch, o y founder of tast>
<for freashmeates, or powlderd, or pickle, or past>.
<deuourer of broild, bak^d, rosted, or sod>,
<z emptier of cups, be they euen, or od>.
<all wch haue now made thee, so wide #i^ y waste>
<as scarce wth no pudding thou art to be lac^d.>
<but eating z drincking, vntill thou dost nod>
<thou break^st all thy girdles, z breakst forth a god>.
To this; the ] Bowle|#bearer.

Doe you heare, my Frends: to whom doe you sing all this
now[ pardon me only that I aske you, for I doe not looke
for an answeare, ile answeare myself: I know it is now
such a time as the <saturnalls> for all the world, that every
man stands vnder the eaves of his owne hat; z sings
what please him, that^#s the ryte, z y libertie of it. Now
you sing of god Comus here, the <Belly|#god>. I say it is well,
z I say it is not well: it is well, as it is a Ballad, and y
Belly worthie of it I must needs say, #and ^twer forty yards
of ballad, more: as much ballad as tripe: But when y
Belly is not edified by it, it is not well: for where did you
ever read, or heare, that the Belly had any eares: Come,
neuer pump for an answeare, for you are defeated: Our
fellow Hunger there, y was as auncient a Reteyner to y
Belly as any of vs, was turnd away, for being vnseasonable:
not vnreasonable, but vnseasonable: and now is he (poore
thingut) faine to get his living wth teaching of Starlings,
Mag|#pies, parotts, and Iack|#dawes: those things he would
haue taught the belly. Beware of dealing wth y belly, the
belly will not be talkd to, especially when he is full: there
is no venturing vpon <Venter>, then; he will blow you all vp:
he will thunder, indeed la: Some in derision call him the
father of farts: But I say, he was y first inventor of great
ordynance: and taught vs to discharge ^em on feastivall
daies: would we had a fit feast for him y^faith, to show his
activitie: I would haue something fetchd in now to please
his five sences, the throat, or the two sences y eyes;
pardon me, for my two sences; for I that carry <Hercules>
<Bowle> #i^ the service may see doble by my place: for I haue
drunck like a frogge to day. I would haue a <Tun> now,
brought in to daunce, and so many <Bottles> about it: Ha[
you looke as if you would make a probleme of this: do you
see[ a probleme[ why <Bottles>[ and why a <Tun>[ and
why a <Tun>[ and why <Bottles>[ to daunce[ I say, that
men that drink hard, and serve the belly in any place of
quality (as the <Iouiall Tinkers>, or a lusty <kindred>) are living
measures of drinck: and can transforme themselues, z doe
every daie, to <Bottles> or <Tuns> when they please: and when
they #ha^ don all they can, they are, as I say agen, (for I
thinck I said somewhat like it afore) but moving measures
of drinck: And there is a Peece #i^ the Cellar can hold more
then all they: this will I make good, if it please our new god,
to give a nod: for the Belly do^s all by signes: and I
am all for the belly: the truest clock #i^ the world to goe by.
Here the .1. ] ANTIMASQUE ] after which ] HERCULES.



What rytes are yeis[ breeds <Earth> more Monsters yet[
<Antaeus> scarce is cold: what can beget
this store[ (z stay) such contraries vpon her[
is <Earth> so fruitfull of hir owne dishonor[
or ^cause his vice was Inhumanitie
hopes <she>, wth vitious hospitalitie
to work an expiation, first[ and then
(help <Vertue>) theis her Sponges, z not men
<Bottles>[ meere vessells[ half a tun of panch[
how[ z y other half thrust forth in hanch[
whose <Feast>[ y <Bellies>[ <Comus>[ and my <Cup>
brought in to fill y druncken <Orgies> vp[
z here abusd[ y was y crownd reward
of thirstie <Heroes> after labor hard[
Burdens, z shames of nature, perish, dye,
for yet you neuer liv^d; But in y stye
of vice haue wallow^d; z in y Swines strife
byn buried vnder the offence of life.
Goe, reele, z fall, vnder y load you make
till yor swolne bowells burst wth what they take.
Can this be pleasure, to extinguish man[
or so quyte change him in his figure[ Can
y Belly love his paine, and be content
wth no delight, but what^#s a punishment[
Theis <Monsters> plague ymselues: z fitly too,
for they do suffer what, and all they doo.
But here must be no shelter, nor no shrowd
for such: Sinck <Groue>, or vanish into clowd.
After this, the whole <Groue> vanisheth, and the
whole <Musiq(ue)> is discouered, sitting at y foote of
y <Mountaine>, wth <Pleasure> z <Vertue> seated aboue
yem: The <Quire> invyte <Hercules> to rest wth this
Song. ] <Great frend, and seruant of the good>

<let coole #a while thy heated blood>,
<and from thy mightie labor cease>
<lye downe, lye downe>
<and giue thy trobled spirits peace>
<whilst Vertue, for whose sake>
<thou dost this god|#like trauaile take>
<may of y choicest herbage, make>
<upon this Mountaine bred>
<a Crowne, a Crowne>
<for thy im(m)ortall head>.
Here <Hercules> being laid downe at yeir feet; the
2. ANTIMASQUE ] wch is of <Pigmees> appeeres

##1. ##Pigmee. ] <Antaeus> dead[ and <Hercules> yet live[

where is this <Hercules>[ what wold I give
to meet him, now[ meet him[ nay three such other
if they had hand in murder of #or Brother[
wth three[ wth fowre[ wth ten[ nay wth as many
as y <Name> yeilds: pray Anger there be any
whereon to feed my iust revenge, and soone,
how shall I kill him[ hurle him ^gainst y Moone
z break him in small portions[ give to <Greece>
his braine, z euery tract of earth a peece[
2. ##<Pig.> he is yonder.
##1. where[ ] ##3. at the hill foote; #a sleep.

##1. let one goe steale his Club. ] ##2. my charge: ile creep.

##4. he is ours. ] ##1. yes: peace.

##3. triumph: we haue him, Boy.
##4. sure; sure: he is sure.
##1. Come; let vs daunce for ioy.
They <Daunce>: at y end wherof they think to
surprize him: when sodainely, being wak^d by the
<Musique>; and rowsing himself, they all run into ] holes.

Song. ] <Wake Hercules, awake: but heaue up thy black ey>

<tis only ask^d from yee, to looke, z theis wil dy> ] <or flie.>

<already they are fled>
<whom scorne had els left dead.>
At which <Mercury> discendeth from y <Hill>: wth
a girlond of <Poplar>; to crowne him.
##Mercurye. ] Rest still, thou active frend of <Vertue>: Theis

shold not disturb y peace of <Hercules>,
<Earths> worms: z <Honors> dwarffs, at too great ods
prove, or provoke y issue of y gods.
Se(e) here, a <Crowne>, y aged <Hil> hath sent thee,
my grandsire <Atlas>, he y did present thee,
wth y best Sheep, y in his fold were found,
or golden fruict, on y <hesperian> ground
for rescuing his faire Daughters: then y prey
of a rude <Pirat>, as thou cam^st this way.
z taught thee all y learning of y Sphere,
z how, like him, thou mightst y heaven vp|#beare,
as y thy labors vertuous recompence.
He, though a <Mountaine> now, hath yet y sence
of thancking thee for more: thou being still
constant to goodnes: Guardian of the <Hill.>
<Antaeus>, by thee suffocated here,
and y voluptuous <Comus>, god of cheere,
beat from his <Groue>, z y defac^d: But now
y time^#s ariv^d, y <Atlas> told thee of: How
b(y)^#vn|#alterd law, z working of the stars
there should be a cessation of all iars
twixt Vertue, z hir noted opposite
Pleasure: y both shold meet here, in y sight
of Hesperus, y glory of y West
the brightest star, y from his burning Crest
lights all on this side y <Atlantick seas>
as far as to thy <Pillars Hercules.>
Se(e) where He shines: <Iustice>, z <Wisdom> plac^d
about his <Throne> z those wth <honor> grac^d,
<Beautie>, z <Loue>. It is not wth his Brother
bearing y world, but ruling such another
is his renowne. <Pleasure>, for his delight
is reconcild to <Vertue>: and this Night
Vertue brings forth twelue Princes haue byn bred
in this rough <Mountaine>, z neere <Atlas> head
the <hill> of <knowledge>. One, z cheif of whom
of the bright race of <Hesperus> is come,
Who shall in time the same y He is, be,
and now is only a lesse Light then He.
Theis now she trusts wth <Pleasure>, z to theis
she give(s) an entraunce to the <Hesperides>
faire <Beuties garden(s)>: Neither can she feare
they should grow soft, or wax effeminat here,
Since in hir sight, z by hir charge all^#s don
<Pleasure> y Servant, <Vertue> looking on.
Here y whole Quire of Musique call y .12.
Masquers forth from y Lap of y Mountaine: wch
now opens wth this ] Song.

<Ope aged Atlas, open then thy lap>
<and from thy beamy bosom, strike a light>
<y men may read in thy misterious map>
<all lines> ] <and signes>

<of roial education, and the right>
<Se(e) how they come, and show>
<that are but borne to know.>
<discend>, ] <discend>,

<though pleasure lead>
<feare not to follow>
<they who are bred>
<within the hill> ] <of skill>

<may safely tread>
<what path they will>
<no ground of food, is hollow.>
On their discent from y <hill>
<Daedalus> comes downe before yem.
of whom ] Hercules demaunds ] Mercurie.


But <Hermes>, stay a litle: let me pawse.
who^#s this that leads[
<Mer.> a Guid y gives them Lawes
to all yeir motions: <Doedalus> y wise
<Her.> and doth in sacred harmony comprize ] his precepts[ ] ##<Mer.> yes.


<Her.> They may securely prove
then, any laborinth, though it be of <Loue>.
Here, while they put yemselues in forme ] <Daedalus> hath his first ] Song.


<Come on, come on; and where you goe>
<so enter|#weaue the curious knot>
<as eu^n th^#obseruer scarce may know>
<wch lines are Pleasures, and wch not.>
<First, figure out y doubtfull way>
<at wch, #a while all youth shold stay>
<where she and vertue did contend>
<wch should haue Hercules to frend.>
<Then, as all actions of mankind>
<are but a Laborinth, or maze>
<so let your Daunces be entwin^d>
<yet not perplex men, unto gaze.>
<But measur^d, and so numerous too>,
<as men may read each act you doo.>
<And when they see y Graces meet>
<admire y wisdom of your feet.>
<For Dauncing is an exercise>
<not only shews y mouers wit>
<but maketh y beholder wise>
<as he hath powre to rise to it.>
1. Daunce. ] After wch <Daedalus> againe.

Song .2. ] <O more, z more; this was so well>

<as praise wants half his uoice, to tell>;
<againe yourselues compose>,
<and now put all y aptnes on>
<of figure, that proportion> ] <or colour can disclose.>

<That if those silent arts were lost>
<Designe, z Picture: they might boast>
<from you a newer ground>:
<instructed to y height(n)ing sence>
<of dignitie, and reuerence>
<in your true motions found>:
<Begin, begin; for looke y faire>
<do longing listen, to what aire>
<you forme your second touch>
<that yei may vent yeir murmuring hymnes>
<iust to y tune you moue your limbes>
<and wish yeir owne were such.>
<make haste, make haste, for this>
<the Laborinth of> Beautie <is.>
The .2. Daunce: ] that ended, <Daedalus.>

Song .3. ] <It followes now, you are to proue>

<the subtlest maze of all: that^#s> Loue,
<and if you stay too long>,
<y faire wil thinck, you do^#em wrong.>
<Goe choose among ||| But wth a mind>
<as gentle as y stroaking wind>
<runs ore the gentler flowres.>
<and so let all your actions smile>,
<as if they meant not to beguile>
<the Ladies, but y howres.>
<Grace, Laughter, z discourse, may meet>
<and yet, the beautie not goe les>
<for what is noble, should be sweet>
<but not dissolu^d in wantonnes.>
<Will you, that I giue y law>
<to all your sport, z some|#it[>
<it should be such shold envy draw>,
<but euer ouer come|#it.>
Here They <Daunce> wth the <Ladies>: and y whole ] Reuells follow: wch ended.

<Mercury> calls to him in this following speech:
wch is after repeated in Song, by 2. <trebles>, 2. <ten>|]<nors>, <a base>, and
y whole Chorus.
Song .4. ] <An eye of looking back, were well>,

<or any murmur that wold tell>
<yor thoughts, how you were sent.> ] <and went>,

<to walke wth pleasure not to dwell>,
<Theis, theis are howres, by Vertue spar^d>
<hirself, she being hir owne reward>,
<But she will haue you know>
<that though> ] <hir sports be soft, hir life is hard.>

<you must returne vnto y Hill>,
<and there aduaunce> ] <wth labour, and inhabit still.>

<that height, and crowne>,
<from whence you euer may looke downe> ] <upon triumphed Chaunce.>

<She, she it is, in darknes shines.>
<tis she y still hir|#self refines>
<by hir owne light, to euerie eye>,
<more seene, more knowne, when vice stands by.>
<And though a stranger here on earth>,
<in heauen she hath hir right of birth.>
<There, there is Vertues seat>
<striue to keepe hir your owne>,
<^tis only she, can make you great>
<though place here, make you knowne.>
After wch, They daunce yeir <last Daunce>, and
returne into y Scene: wch closeth, and is a Moun|]taine againe, as before.

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