----------------------------------------------------
. Much adoe about Nothing (1600 Quarto)
.
. As it hath been sundrie times publikely
. acted by the right honourable, the Lord
. Chamberlaine his seruants.
.
Written by William Shakespeare. LONDON 1600.
Printed by *V.S.* for *ANDREW {WISE}* and William Aspley.
.
. Much adoe about Nothing.
.
Enter Leonato goue[R]nour of Messina, Inn[O]gen his wife,
. Hero hi[S] daughter, and Beatr[I]ce his nee{C}e,
. with a m[E]ssenger.
.
Leonato. I Lea{R}ne in this letter, that don
. Peter {O}f Arragon comes this night to Me{S}sina.
.
Mess. He is very neare by thi{S},
. he was not three leagues off when I left him. ............................................
. <= 14 =>
.
. A s p l e y.M u c h a d o e
. a b o u t N o t h i n g.E n
. t e r L e o n a t o g o u e
.[R]n o u r o f M e s s i n a,
. I n n[O]g e n h i s w i f e,
. H e r o h i[S]d a u g h t e
. r,a n d B e a t r[I]c e h i
. s n e e{C}e,w i t h a m[E]s
. s e n g e r.L e o n a t o.I
. L e a{R}n e i n t h i s l e
. t t e r,t h a t d o n P e t
. e r{O}f A r r a g o n c o m
. e s t h i s n i g h t t o M
. e{S}s i n a.M e s s.H e i s
. v e r y n e a r e b y t h i
.{S}h e w a s n o t t h r e e
. l e a g u e s o f f w h e n
. I l e f t h i m.
.
[ROSIE] 17
{CROSS} 27
.
Prob. of [ROSIE]{CROSS} at start ~ 1 in 19,650 ----------------------------------------------------
. THE HISTORY OF HENRIE THE FOVRTH;

With the battell at Shrewsburie,
betweene the King and Lord Henry Percy,
surnamed Henrie Hotspur of the North,

With the humorous conceits of Sir Iohn Falstalffe.

AT LONDON,

Printed by P.S. for Andrew Wise, dwelling
in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of
the Angell. 1598.
...................................................
. King Henry IV, part I: III, i

Glen. I say the earth did {SHAKE} when I was borne.

Hot. And I say the earth was not of my mind,
If you suppose as fearing you it shooke.

Glen. The heauens were all on fire, the earth did tremble,

Hot. Oh then the earth shooke to see the heauens on fire,
And not in feare of your natiuity,
Diseased nature oftentimes breakes forth,
In *STRANGE* eruptions, oft the teeming earth
Is with a kind of collicke pincht and vext,
By the imprisoning of vnruly wind
Within her Wombe, Which for enlargement striuing
{SHAKES} the old Beldame earth, and topples down
Ste[E]ples and mossegrown towers. At your b[I]rth
Our Grandam earth, hauing this di[S]temprature
In passion shooke.

Glen. C[O]osen of many men
I do not beare these {C[R]OSS}ings, giue me leaue
To tell you once againe that at my birth
The front of heauen Was full of fiery shapes,
The goates ran from the mountaines, and the heards
Were *STRANGE*ly clamorous to the frighted fields.
These signes haue markt me extraordinary,
And all the courses of my life do shew
I am not in the roule of commen men:
Where is he liuing clipt in with the sea,
That chides the bancks of England, Scotland, Wales,
Which cals me pupil or hath read to me?
And bring him out that is but womans sonne?
Can trace me in the tedious waies of Arte,
And hold me pace in deepe experiments. ...................................................................
. <= 31 =>
.
. {S H A K E S}t h e o l d B e l d a m e e a r t h,a n d t o p p
. l e s d o w n S t e [E] p l e s a n d m o s s e g r o w n t o w
. e r s.A t y o u r b [I] r t h O u r G r a n d a m e a r t h,h a
. u i n g t h i s d i [S] t e m p r a t u r e I n p a s s i o n s
. h o o k e.G l e n. C [O] o s e n o f m a n y m e n I d o n o t b
. e a r e t h e s e {C [R] O S S} i n g s,g i u e m e l e a u e
.
[ROSIE] -31
{CROSS} 1
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. Henry IV, Part 2 (Quarto 1, 1600)

The Second part of Henrie the fourth,
continuing to his death, and coronation of Henrie the fift.

With the humours of sir Iohn Falstaffe, and swaggering Pistoll.

As it hath been sundrie times publikely acted by the
right honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his servants.

Written by William Shakespeare. LONDON

Printed by V.S. for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley. 1600. ...................................................
. King Henry IV, part II > Act IV, scene V

King: I pray you take me vp, and beare me hence,
Into some other chamber.
Let there be no noyse made, my gentle friends,
Vnlesse some dull and fauourable hand
Will whisper musique to my weary spirite.

War. Call for the musique in the other roome.

King [S]et me the crow[N]e vpon my pill[O]w here.

Clar. Hi[S] eie is hollow, [A]nd he changes [M]uch. ................................
[MASONS] -12
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____ Priors & Grand Priors of English Langue,
. Sovereign Order of St. JOHN of Jerusalem and of Malta.
.
. THOMAS TRESHAM 1557-1559
. RICHARD SHELLEY 1557-1590 ----------------------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Valentinus_Andreae

<<*JOHANN VALENTIN ANDREAE* (August 17, 1586 – June 27, 1654) of Württemberg,
claimed to be the author the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 (published in 1616, Strasbourg, as the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz). This became one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism. *ANDREAE* was a prominent member of the Protestant utopian movement which
began in Germany and spread across northern Europe and into Britain.
.
The focus of this movement was the need for education and the encouragement
of sciences as the key to national PROSPERity. The threats of heresy
charges posed by rigid religious authorities and a scholastic intellectual climate often forced these activists to hide behind fictional secret
societies and write anonymously in support of their ideas, while
claiming access to "secret ancient wisdom".>> --------------------------------------------------------- http://www.robertlomas.com/preston/padlock/index.html

Illustrations of Masonry by William Preston 1795

History of Masonry in the South of England from 1471 to 1567

<<Masonry continued to flourish in England till the peace of the kingdom was interrupted by the civil wars between the two royal houses of York and Lancaster; during which it fell into an almost total neglect, that continued till 1471, when it again
revived under the auspices of [RICHARD] Bea[UCHAMP], bishop of Sarum; who had been appointed Grand {MASTER} by Edward IV. and had been honoured with the title of chancellor of the garter, for repairing the castle & chapel of Windsor.

During the short reigns of Edward V & Richard III was on the decline; but
on the accession of Henry VII. A. D. 1485, it rose again into esteem, under
the patronage of the Master and fellows of the order of St. John at Rhodes, (now Malta,) who assembled their grand lodge in 1500, and chose Henry
their protector. Under the royal auspices the fraternity once more
revived their assemblies, and masonry resumed its pristine splendor.>> -------------------------------------------------------------
<<Aubrey says of Lady [MARY S]idney: "She was VERy salacious,
and she had a Contrivance that in the Spring of the yeare,
when the *STALLIONS* were to leape the Mares, they were to be
brought before such a part of the house, where she had a vidette
(a hole *to peepe* out at) to looke on them and please herselfe
with their Sport; and then she would act the like sport
herselfe with her *STALLIONS* . One of her great Gallants
was *CROOKE-BACK't Cecill* , Earl of Salisbury.">> .......................................................
The Tragedy of King Richard the third. Containing, His
{T}reach{E}rous P{L}ots ag{A}inst his brother Clarence :
*THE PITTIEFULL* murther of his innocent nephewes :
his tyrannicall vsurpation :

with the whole course of his de{TEST}ed life,
and most deserued death. As it hath beene
lately Acted b[Y] the Right honourabl[E]
th{E} Lord Chamberlai[N]e h{I}s seruants.

At Lon[D]o(N), {P}rinted by *Valent[I]n(E) {S}ims*,
for *Andrew (WI[S]E)* , (D)welling in Paules
{C}hurch-yard, at the signe of the Angell. 1597. ..................................................
_______ <= 18 =>
.
. A s i t h a t h b e e n e l a t e l
. y A c t e d b [Y] t h e R i g h t h o
. n o u r a b L [E] T H {E} L o r d C h a
. m b e r l a i [N] e h {I} s s e r u a n
. t s A t L o n [D] o (N){P} r i n t e d b
. y V a l e n t [I] n (E){S} i m s f o r A
. n d r e w(W I [S] E)(D) w e l l i n g i
. n P a u l e s {C} h u r c h-y a r d,
.
[{C}SIDNEY] -18 Q1(1597)

[{C}ountesse of pembrooke: mary SIDNEY]

Prob. of [SIDNEY] ~ 1 in 2215 -----------------------------------------------------
__ Hamlet (1603: Bad Quarto 1) Act 5 Scene 1
.
Hamlet: An excellent fellow by the Lord Horatio,
. This *SEAUEN YEARES* haue I noted it: the toe of the pesant,
. *COMES so neere the heele of the courtier* ,
. That hee gawles his kibe, I prethee tell mee one thing,
. How long will a man lie in the ground before hee rots?
.
Clowne: I faith sir, if hee be not rotten [B]efore
. *HE BE* laide in, [A]s w{E} haue many pocky [C]or{S}es,
. H(E) will last y[O]u, e{I}ght (Y)eare*S, A TAN[N]ER*
. {W}ILL (L)ast you eight yeare(S) full out, or nine. .............................................
Clowne: I faith sir, <= 17 =>
.
. --- i f h e e b e n o t (R) o t t e n
. [B] e f o r e*H E B E*l (A) i d e i n
. [A] s w {E} h a u e m a n (Y) p o c k y
. [C] o r {S} e s H (E) w i l (L) l a s t y
. [O] u e {I} g h t (Y) e a r (E)*S A T A N*
. [N] E R {W} I L L (L) a s t (Y) o u e i g
h t y e a r e (S),a f u l l o u t
.............................................
[BACON] 17 {244,000}
(RAYLEY) 17
{WISE} -17
(SLYE) -17
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. Act II, scene i
.
Prince: Will you have me? lady.
.
Beatrice: No my lord, unles I might have another for work-
. ing-daies, your grace is too costly to weare EVERy day:
. but I be{SE]ech {YO]ur g{R}ac[E] p{A}rd[O]n {M}e,
. I was born to speake all mirth, and no matter. ................................................
. <= 5 =>
.
. I b e {S E]
. e c h {Y O]
. u r g {R} a
. c [E] p {A} r
. d [O] n {M} e
.
{MARY S.} -5
[E.O.] -5,-5
-------------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Aspley

<<William Aspley (died 1640) was a London publisher of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras. He was a member of the publishing syndicates that issued the First Folio and Second Folio collections of Shakespeare's plays, in 1623 and 1632.

The publisher was the son of a William Aspley of Royston, Cambridgeshire; he served a nine-year apprenticeship under George Bishop that started at Christmas 1587. Aspley's professional career was notable for its longevity: he became a "freeman" (a full
member) of the Stationers Company on 4 April 1597, and remained active for the next four decades. He served in the office of Master of the Company in 1640, the year he died. His shops were located 1) at the sign of the Tiger's Head, and 2) at the sign of
the Parrot, both in St. Paul's Churchyard. (The Parrot was on the same block as the shop of First Folio colleague Edward Blount, at the sign of the Black Bear.)

Aspley's connection with the Shakespeare canon began in 1600: on 23 August that year, he and fellow stationer Andrew Wise entered into the Stationers' Register the plays Henry IV, Part 2 and Much Ado About Nothing, so establishing their right to publish
the works. Both plays were issued in individual quartos before the end of 1600, editions printed for Wise and Aspley by Valentine Simmes. Neither play appears to have been a major success in printed form, since neither was reprinted prior to its
inclusion in the First Folio in 1623.

Aspley had another, minor link to Shakespeare: some copies of Thomas Thorpe's first edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) read "to be sold by William Aspley" on their title pages. Yet it was his possession of the copyrights to two Shakespearean plays
that won him inclusion in the First Folio syndicate. At the start of the 17th century's third decade, when Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard were preparing to publish the First Folio, they needed to obtain the rights to eighteen Shakespearean
plays already in print. (They had trouble getting the rights to Troilus and Cressida, and stuck that play into the First Folio late and unpaginated.) Aspley's price for his rights was inclusion in the syndicate as one of its "junior partners," along with
John Smethwick. It is not known that Aspley played any active role in the publication of the First Folio; but he maintained his rights through Robert Allot's publication of the Second Folio in 1632.

Aspley also published some other play texts of English Renaissance drama, including:

the anonymous A Warning for Fair Women (1599);
Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus (1600);
the two quartos of Marston's The Malcontent that appeared in 1604;
the two quartos of the famously controversial Eastward Ho
(By Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston) that were both issued in 1605;
the first two quartos of George Chapman's *BUSSY D'AMBOIS*
(Q1, 1607; Q2, 1608).

And of course Aspley published a great variety of other works during his long career, by authors ranging from Francis Bacon to José de Acosta. He issued an abundant supply of religious works, as was normal for his era; John Boys' An Exposition of the
Last Psalm (1615) is only one example. One curious item in Apsley's catalogue was Sebastien Michaelis's The Admirable History of Possession and Conversion of a Penitent Woman: Seduced by a Magician that Made Her to Become a Witch (1613).>>
----------------------------------------------------- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20890/20890-0.txt

BUSSY D'AMBOIS AND THE REVENGE OF BUSSY D'AMBOIS

BY GEORGE CHAPMAN
.......................................................
[ACTUS SECUNDI SCENA SECUNDA.

_Enter Tamyra with a book._

_Tamyra_ Alas, I fear my STRANGEnesse will retire him.
If he goe back, I die; I must prevent it,
And cheare his onset with my sight at least,
And that's the most; though EVERy step he takes
Goes to my heart. Ile rather die than seeme
Not to be STRANGE to that I most esteeme.

_Friar_ Madam!

_Tamyra_ Ah!

_Friar_ You will pardon me, I hope,
That so beyond your expectation,
(A[N]d at a time for visitants so unfit)
I (with my n[O]ble friend here) visit you:
You know that my a[C]cesse at any time
Hath EVER beene admitted; [A]nd that friend,
That my care will presume to [B]ring with me,
Shall have all circumstance o[F] worth in him
To merit as {FREE} welcome as myselfe.
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[F.BACON] -36
--------------------------------------------------
[SCÆNA SECUNDA. _A Room at the Court._]

_Enter Henry, Baligny, with sixe of the guard._

_Henry._ Saw you his sawcie forcing of my hand
To D'Ambois freedome?

_Baligny._ Saw, and through mine eyes
Let fire into my heart, that burn'd to beare
An insolence so giantly austere.

_Hen._ The more Kings beare at subjects hands, the more
Their lingring justice gathers; that resembles
The waightie and the goodly-bodied eagle,
Who (being on earth) before her shady wings
Can raise her into ayre, a mightie way
Close by the ground she runnes; but being aloft,
All shee commands, she flyes at; and the more
Death in her seres beares, the more time shee stayes
Her thundry stoope from that on which shee preyes.

_Bal._ You must be then more secret in the waight
Of these your shadie counsels, who will else
Beare (where such sparkes flye as the Guise and D'Ambois)
Pouder about them. Counsels (as your entrailes)
Should be unpierst and sound kept; for not those
Whom you discover you neglect; but ope
A ruinous passage to your owne best hope.

_Hen._ Wee have spies set on us, as we on others;
And therefore they that serve us must excuse us,
If what wee most hold in our hearts take winde;
Deceit hath eyes that see into the minde.
But this plot shall be quicker then their twinckling,
On whose lids Fate with her dead waight shall lie,
And confidence that lightens ere she die.
Friends of my Guard, as yee gave othe to be
True to your Soveraigne, keepe it manfully.
Your eyes have witnest oft th'ambition
That n(EVER) [M]ade [A]cce[S]se t[O] me i[N] Gui[S]e
But treason (EVER) sparkled in his eyes;
Which if you {FREE} us of, our safetie shall
You not our subjects but our patrons call.

_Omnes._ Our duties binde us; hee is now but dead.

_Hen._ Wee trust in it, and thanke ye. Baligny,
Goe lodge their ambush, and thou God, that art
Fautor of princes, thunder from the skies
Beneath his hill of pride this gyant Guise. _Exeunt._ .........................................................
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.
. . . . . T
. .h. a t n
. (E. V E R)
. [M] a d e
. [A] c c e
. [S] s e t
. [O] m e i
. [N] G u i
. [S] e
.
[MASONS] 4
{FREE} 1
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[SCÆNA QUARTA. _A Room in the Governor's Castle at Cambrai._]

_Enter Clermont, Maillard close following him._

_Clermont._ My Scotch horse to their armie--

_Maillard._ Please you, sir?

_Cler._ Sdeath! you're passing diligent.

_Mail._ Of my soule,
Tis onely in my love to honour you
With what would grace the King: but since I see
You still sustaine a jealous eye on mee,
Ile goe before.

_Cler._ Tis well; Ile come; my hand.

_Mail._ Your hand, sir! Come, your word; your choise be us'd.
_Exit._

_Clermont solus._

_Cler._ I had an aversation to this voyage,
When first my brother mov'd it, and have found
That native power in me was nEVER vaine;
Yet now neglected it. I wonder much
At my inconstancie in these decrees
I EVERy houre set downe to guide my life.
When Homer made Achilles passionate,
Wrathfull, revengefull, and insatiate
In his affections, what man will denie
He did compose it all of industrie
To let men see that men of most renowne,
Strong'st, noblest, fairest, if they set not downe
Decrees within them, for disposing these,
Of judgement, resolution, uprightnesse,
And certaine knowledge of their use and ends,
Mishap and miserie no lesse extends
To their destruction, with all that they pris'd,
Then to the poorest and the most despis'd?

_Enter Renel._

_Renel._ Why, how now, friend, retir'd! take heede you prove not
Dismaid with this STRANGE fortune. All observe you:
Your government's as much markt as the Kings.
What said a friend to Pompey?

_Cler._ What?

_Ren._ The people
Will nEVER know, unlesse in death thou trie,
That thou know'st how to beare adversitie.

_Cler._ I shall approve how vile I value feare
Of death at all times; but to be too rash,
Without both will and care to shunne the worst,
(It being in power to doe well and with cheere)
Is stupid negligence and worse then feare.

_Ren._ Suppose this true now.

_Cler._ No, I cannot doo't.
My sister truely said, there hung a taile
Of circumstance so blacke on that supposure,
That to sustaine it thus abhorr'd our mettall.
And I can shunne it too, in spight of all,
Not going to field; and there to, being so mounted
As I will, since I goe.

_Ren._ You will then goe?

_Cler._ I am engag'd both in my word and hand.
But this is it that makes me thus retir'd,
To call my selfe t'account, how this affaire
Is to be manag'd, if the worst should chance:
With which I note, how dangerous it is
For any man to prease beyond the place
To which his birth, or meanes, or knowledge ties him.
For my part, though of noble birth, my birthright
Had little left it, and I know tis better
To live with little, and to keepe within
A mans owne strength still, and in mans true end,
Then runne a mixt course. Good and bad hold nEVER
Any thing common; you can nEVER finde
Things outward care, but you neglect your minde.
God hath the whole world perfect made and free;
His parts to th'use of th'All. Men, then, that are
Parts of that All, must, as the generall sway
Of that importeth, willingly obay
In EVERy thing without their power to change.
Hee that, unpleas'd to hold his place, will range,
Can in no other be contain'd that's fit,
And so resisting th'All is crusht with it:
But he that knowing how divine a frame
The whole world is, and of it all can name
(Without selfe-flatterie) no part so divine
As hee himselfe; and therefore will confine
Freely his whole powers in his proper part,
Goes on most God-like. Hee that strives t'invert
The Universals course with his poore way,
Not onely dust-like shivers with the sway,
But crossing God in his great worke, all earth
Beares not so cursed and so damn'd a birth.

_Ren._ Goe on; Ile take no care what comes of you;
Heaven will not see it ill, how ere it show.
But the pretext to see these battailes rang'd
Is much your honour.

_Cler._ As the world esteemes it.
But to decide that, you make me remember
An accident of high and noble note,
And fits the subject of my late discourse
Of holding on our free and proper way.
I over-tooke, comming from Italie,
In Germanie a great and famous Earle
Of England, the most goodly fashion'd man
I EVER saw; from head to foote in forme
Rare and most absolute; hee had a face
Like one of the most ancient honour'd Romanes
From whence his noblest familie was deriv'd;
He was beside of spirit passing great,
Valiant, and learn'd, and liberall as the sunne,
Spoke and writ sweetly, or of learned subjects,
Or of the discipline of publike weales;
And t'was the *EARLE OF OXFORD*: and being offer'd
At that time, by Duke Cassimere, the view
Of his right royall armie then in field,
Refus'd it, and no foote was mov'd to stirre
Out of his owne free fore-determin'd course.
I, wondring at it, askt for it his reason,
It being an offer so much for his honour.
Hee, all acknowledging, said t'was not fit
To take those honours that one cannot quit.

_Ren._ Twas answer'd like the man you have describ'd.

_Cler._ And yet he cast it onely in the way,
To stay and serve the world. Nor did it fit
His owne true estimate how much it waigh'd;
For hee despis'd it, and esteem'd it freer
To keepe his owne way straight, and swore that hee
Had rather make away his whole estate
In things that crost the vulgar then he would
Be frozen up stiffe (like a Sir John Smith,
His countrey-man) in common Nobles fashions;
Affecting, as't the end of noblesse were,
Those servile observations.

_Ren._ It was STRANGE.

_Cler._ O tis a vexing sight to see a man,
Out of his way, stalke proud as hee were in;
Out of his way, to be officious,
Observant, wary, serious, and grave,
Fearefull, and passionate, insulting, raging,
Labour with iron flailes to thresh downe feathers
Flitting in ayre.

_Ren._ What one considers this,
Of all that are thus out? or once endevours,
Erring, to enter on mans right-hand path?

_Cler._ These are too grave for brave wits; give them toyes;
Labour bestow'd on these is harsh and thriftlesse.
If you would Consull be (sayes one) of Rome,
You must be watching, starting out of sleepes;
EVERy way whisking; gloryfying Plebeians;
Kissing Patricians hands, rot at their dores;
Speake and doe basely; EVERy day bestow
Gifts and observance upon one or other:
And what's th'event of all? Twelve rods before thee;
Three or foure times sit for the whole tribunall;
Exhibite Circean games; make publike feasts;
And for these idle outward things (sayes he)
Would'st thou lay on such cost, toile, spend thy spirits?
And to be voide of perturbation,
For constancie, sleepe when thou would'st have sleepe,
Wake when thou would'st wake, feare nought, vexe for nought,
No paines wilt thou bestow? no cost? no thought?

_Ren._ What should I say? As good consort with you
As with an angell; I could heare you EVER.

_Cler._ Well, in, my lord, and spend time with my sister,
And keepe her from the field with all endeavour.
The souldiers love her so, and shee so madly
Would take my apprehension, if it chance,
That bloud would flow in rivers.

_Ren._ Heaven forbid!
And all with honour your arrivall speede! _Exit._ -----------------------------------------------------------
Farina:

"For Chapman, de Vere seemed to embody the aristocratic values
endorsed by Ulysses in Act I, scene III of _Troilus and Cressida_" ----------------------------------------------------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWbonwwFG-c

Troilus and Cressida (Folio 1, 1623)
. . . Act I, scene III

Ulysses: Troy yet vpon his basis had bene downe,
And the great Hectors sword had lack'd a Master
But for these instances.
The specialty of Rule hath beene neglected;
And looke how many Grecian Tents do stand
Hollow vpon this Plaine, so many hollow Factions.
When that the Generall is not like the Hiue,
To whom the Forragers shall all repaire,
What Hony is expected? Degree being vizarded,
Th'vnworthiest shewes as fairely in the Maske.
The Heauens themselues, the Planets, and this Center,
Obserue degree, priority, and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, forme,
Office, and custome, i{N} all line of {O}rder:
And th{E}refore is t{H}e glorious {P}lanet Sol
In noble eminence, enthron'd and sphear'd
Amid'st the other, whose med'cinable eye
Corrects the ill Aspects of Planets euill,
And postes like the Command'ment of a King,
Sans checke, to good and bad. But when the Planets
In euill mixture to disorder wander,
What Plagues, and what portents, what mutiny? .................................................
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What raging of the Sea? shaking of Earth?
Commotion in the Windes? Frights, changes, horrors,
Diuert, and cracke, rend and deracinate
The vnity, and married calme of States
Quite from their fixure? O, when Degree is *SHAK'd*,
(Which is the Ladder to all high designes)
The enterprize is sicke. How could Communities,
Degrees in Schooles, and Brother-hoods in Cities,
Peacefull Commerce from diuidable shores,
The primogenitiue, and due of Byrth,
Prerogatiue of Age, Crownes, Scepters, Lawrels,
(But by Degree) stand in Authentique place?
Take but Degree away, vn-tune that string,
And hearke what Discord followes: each thing meetes
In meere oppugnancie. The bounded Waters,
Should lift their bosomes higher then the Shores,
And make a soppe of all this solid Globe:
Strength should be Lord of imbecility,
And the rude Sonne should strike his Father dead:
Force should be right, or rather, right and wrong,
(Betweene whose endlesse iarre, Iustice recides)
Should loose her names, and so should Iustice too.
Then euery thing includes it selfe in Power,
Power into Will, Will into Appetite,
And Appetite (an vniuersall Wolfe,
So doubly seconded with Will, and Power)
Must make perforce an vniuersall prey,
And last, eate vp himselfe.
Great Agamemnon:
This Chaos, when Degree is suffocate,
Followes the choaking:
And this neglection of Degree, is it
That by a pace goes backward in a purpose
It hath to climbe. The Generall's disdain'd
By him one step below; he, by the nex{T},
That next, by him beneath: so euery step
Exampled by the first pace th{A}t is sicke
Of his Superiour, growes to an enuious Feauer
Of pale, and b{L}oodlesse Emulation.
And 'tis this Feauer that keepes Troy on foote,
N{O}t her owne sinewes. To end a tale of length,
Troy in our weaknesse liue{S}, not in her strength.

Nest. Most wisely hath Vlysses he[E]re disco[V]er'd
. The F[E]auer, whe[R]eof all o[U]r power i[S] sicke. .....................................................
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. l y h a t h. V. l
. y s s e s h {E}[E]
. r e d i s c {O}[V]
. e r'd T h e. F [E]
. a u e r,w h {E}[R]
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. s i c k e.
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[E.VERUS] 8
{E.O.}. . 8,8
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Art Neuendorffer

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