{"id":1757,"date":"2019-04-30T02:27:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2019-08-06T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T14:03:59","slug":"phantasms-masque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"Phantasm\u2019s Masque"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>
\nThe scene is poetry.<\/p>\n

The stage is the brain, whereon it is acted.<\/p>\n

First is presented a dumb show, as a young lady in a ship, swimming over the scene in various weather. Afterwards this ship comes<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> back again, having then a<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> commander of war as its<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> owner. In various weather, this ship<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> being in great distress, Jupiter relieves it.<\/p>\n

Then appear<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> six masquers in several dresses, as dressed by Love, Valor, Honor, Youth, Age, Vanity. Vanity signifies the world, and Age mortality.<\/p>\n

Then there is<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> presented in a show<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> the nine Muses, who dance a measure in four and twenty figures,<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and nine musical instruments made of goose-quills, playing several tunes as they dance.<\/p>\n

Then the<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> chorus speaks.<\/p>\n

The bride and bridegroom going to the temple: Fancy speaks the prologue to Judgment as king. Vanity speaks an epilogue to the Thoughts, which are spectators; Honor speaks another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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