C O M A TRAGICAL, LYRICAL, AND MORAL, M A S K. The firfi SCENE difrovers a wild Wood. The ilttendent SPIRIT defiends or enters. BE FORE the Harry threfhold of Jove's court My manfion is, where thofe immortal fhapes Of bright aereal fpirits live infpher'd In regions mild of calm and ferene air, Above the fmoke and ftir of this dim fpot, .5 Which men call earth, and with low-thoughted care Confin'd, and pefter'd in this pin-fold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverifh being, Unmindful of the crown that Virtue gives, After this mortal change, to her true fervants Ito Amongfi th' inthron'd Gods on fainted feats. Yet fame there be that by due fleps afpire To lay their jut} hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity To fuch my errand is; and but for fuch I would not foil thefe pure ambrofial weeds With the rank vapours of the fin-worn mold. Xxxx But 4* The Maft was prefented in 1631, and confequently in the twenty-fixtf; year of our Author's age. In the titlepage of the fr/7 edition printed re 1637, it is /aid that it Was prelented on IllichatImas night.
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