in The Lord's Masque (Wedding Masque of Stars and Statues Made Human) — Campion, Thomas
Metadata
Play
The Lord's Masque (Wedding Masque of Stars and Statues Made Human)
Author
Campion, Thomas
Year (catalogued)
1613
First performance
1613
Decade
1610s
Genre
Masque
Play type
Occasional
Theater
before the Court;Whitehall;
Speech prefix(es)
SIB. | Syb.
Words
162
Characters
1051
Typicality
0.35 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A17879.2
BritDrama no.
1698
Cluster
Cluster 8 — Martial kings & Roman gravity
Important excerpts
No keyword-matching excerpt could be extracted (the cluster label doesn't share vocabulary with this character's speech).
Full speech
DEbetur alto jure, Principium Jovi, Votis debt ipse vim meis, dict is fidem. Vtrin que decoris splendet egregium Jubar, Medio triumphus mole stat dignus suam, Coelum que summo Capite dilectum petit; Quam pulchra pulchro sponsa respondet viro! Quam plenam numinis? Patrem vultum exprimit, Parens futuram masculae prolis, Parens Regum, imperatorum: Additur Germaniae Robur Britannicum. ecquid esse par potest? Utram que iunget unam men's gentem, fides, Dei que Cultus unus, & simplex amor. Idem erit utri que hostis, sodalis idem, idem Votum periclitantium, at que eadem manus. Fauebit illis Pax, fauebit bellicam Fortuna, semper aderit Adjutor Deus. Sic, sic Sibilla; vocibus nec his deest Pondus, nec hoc inane momumentum trahit. Et aureum est, & quale nec flammas timet, Nec fulgura, ipsi quip sacratur Jovi. Sponsam sponse to ro tene pudicam, Sponsum sponsa tene toro pudicum. Non haec unicam nox datur beatis, At vos perpetuò haec beabit unam Prole multiplici, pari que amore. Laetam, ac veram refert Sybilla, ab alto Ipse Juppiter annuit loquenti.
Plot summary
Plot — The Lord's Masque (Wedding Masque of Stars and Statues Made Human)
Entheus, representing poetic fury, has been imprisoned by Mania, but Jove needs a wedding masque to be written and sends Orpheus to command his release. Mania protests that all the frantics are confined in the same cave, and she cannot let one out without releasing all the others; a mad dance ensues, but she succeeds in confining the non-literary lunatics. Entheus calls on Prometheus, who introduces eight stars. Orpheus’ music transforms them into human beings, the male masquers. Jove, who turned Prometheus’ first female creations into statues, rescinds his decree and makes them women again; at first there are only four women, but Jove creates four more to even up the numbers of male and female 1613 masquers. Dancing ensues. Sibylla speaks Latin prophecies about the bride and groom’s future, and Orpheus, Entheus, and Prometheus wish them well The masquers dance away.