Amplified with new additions, as it was acted before the Kings Maiestie at White-hall on Shroue-Sunday night.

Great Queene, whom Nature made to be her glory, Fortune got eies and came to be thy servant, Honour is proud to be thy tytle; though Thy beauties doe draw up my soule, yet still So bright, so glorious is thy Maiestie That it beates downe againe my clyming thoughts.

Then first an Emperour came upon the stage And sung to please Carmen and Candle-sellers, And learnt to act, to daunce, to be a Fencer, And in despight o'the Maiestie of Princes He fell to wrastling and was soyl'd with dust And tumbled on the earth with servile hands.

Your Maiestie may easily, Without this trouble to your sacred mind.

'Tis bad I tell, but good that I can tell it Therefore your Maiestie will pardon me If I offend your eares to save your life.

I must be of the world excus'd in this, If the great dutie to your Maiestie, Makes me all other lesser to neglect.

Besides, Your Maiestie this benefit In their diserved punishment shall reape, From all attempts hereafter to be freed.

That was your fault: Your Maiestie might give us leave to blame Your dangerous courage and that noble soule To prodigall of it selfe.

A Princes mind knowes neither feare nor hope: The beames of royall Maiestie are such As all eyes are with it amaz'd and weakened, But it with nothing.

Why smiles your Maiestie? Nero.

What, arm'd against your Maiestie? Nero.

What order will your Maiestie have taken For levying forces to suppresse this stirre? Nero.

Your Maiestie shal finde This French heat quickly of it selfe grow cold.

strange indeed; for had he but come up And taken the Court in that affright and stirre While unresolv'd for whom or what to doe, Each on [of?] the other had in iealousie (While as apaled Maiestie not yet Had time to set the countenance), he would Have hazarded the royall seat.

O now I see the vizard from my face, So lovely and so fearefull, is fall'n off, That vizard, shadow, nothing, Maiestie, Which, like a child acquainted with his feares, But now men trembled at and now contemne.

As it was playd before her Maiestie.

510 And there, with humble minde and high insight, Th'eternall Makers maiestie wee viewe, His love, his truth, his glorie, and his might, And mercie more than mortall men can vew.

One onelie lives, her ages ornament, And myrrour of her Makers maiestie, That with rich bountie and deare cherishment Supports the praise of noble poesie; Ne onelie favours them which it professe, 575 But is her selfe a peereles poetresse.

She made the storie of the olde debate 305 Which she with Neptune did for Athens trie: Twelve gods doo sit around in royall state, And love in midst with awfull maiestie, To iudge the strife betweene them stirred late: Each of the gods by his like visnomie* 310 Eathe** to be knowen; but love above them all, By his great lookes and power imperiall.

At length, even at the time when Morpheus Most trulie doth unto our eyes appeare, Wearie to see the heavens still wavering thus, I saw Typhaeus sister* comming neare; Whose head, full bravely with a morion** hidd, Did seeme to match the gods in maiestie.

Please it your Maiestie to commaund him? Caes.

I beseech your Maiestie, I cannot sing.

My love can sing no other song, but still complaines I did her, &c. I beseech your Maiestie to let me goe.

ile further it: please it your Maiestie to accept what is not worth acceptance?

sir Scillicet my guest; all true canaries, that love juce of grapes, god blesse thy Maiestie.