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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419877" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Secular Masque</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter JANUS<br>JANUS<br> Chronos, Chronos, mend thy pace,<br> An hundred times the rolling sun<br> Around the radiant belt has run<br> In his revolving race.<br> Behold, behold, the goal in sight,<br> Spread thy fans, and wing thy flight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter CHRONOS, with a scythe in his hand, and a great globe on his back,<br>which he sets down at his entrance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRONOS<br> Weary, weary of my weight,<br> Let me, let me drop my freight,<br> And leave the world behind.<br> I could not bear<br> Another year<br> The load of human-kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter MOMUS Laughing</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MOMUS<br> Ha! ha! ha! Ha! ha! ha! well hast thou done,<br> To lay down thy pack,<br> And lighten thy back.<br> The world was a fool, e'er since it begun,<br> And since neither Janus, nor Chronos, nor I,<br> Can hinder the crimes,<br> Or mend the bad times,<br> 'Tis better to laugh than to cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cho. of all </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>------------------------------------- --------------------------------------<br> 'Tis better to laugh than to cry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">JANUS<br> Since Momus comes to laugh below,<br> Old Time begin the show,<br> That he may see, in every scene,<br> What changes in this age have been,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRONOS<br> Then Goddess of the silver bow begin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Horns, or hunting-music within Enter DIANA<br>DIANA<br> With horns and with hounds I waken the day,<br> And hie to my woodland walks away;<br> I tuck up my robe, and am buskin'd soon,<br> And tie to my forehead a waxing moon.<br> I course the fleet stag, unkennel the fox,<br> And chase the wild goats o'er summits of rocks,<br> With shouting and hooting we pierce thro' the sky;<br> And Echo turns hunter, and doubles the cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cho. of all<br> With shouting and hooting, we pierce through the sky,<br> And Echo turns hunter, and doubles the cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">JANUS<br> Then our age was in its prime,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRONOS Chronos<br> Free from rage,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">DIANA<br> --And free from crime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MOMUS<br> A very merry, dancing, drinking,<br> Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cho. of all<br> Then our age was in its prime,<br> Free from rage, and free from crime,<br> A very merry, dancing, drinking,<br> Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.<br>Dance of Diana's attendants</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter MARS<br>MARS<br> Inspire the vocal brass, inspire;<br> The world is past its infant age:<br> Arms and honour,<br> Arms and honour,<br> Set the martial mind on fire,<br> And kindle manly rage.<br> Mars has look'd the sky to red;<br> And peace, the lazy good, is fled.<br> Plenty, peace, and pleasure fly;<br> The sprightly green<br> In woodland-walks, no more is seen;<br> The sprightly green, has drunk the Tyrian dye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cho. of all<br> Plenty, peace, |&|c.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MARS<br> Sound the trumpet, beat the drum,<br> Through all the world around;<br> Sound a reveille, sound, sound,<br> The warrior god is come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cho. of all<br> Sound the trumpet, |&|c.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MOMUS<br> Thy sword within the scabbard keep,<br> And let mankind agree;<br> Better the world were fast asleep,<br> Than kept awake by thee.<br> The fools are only thinner,<br> With all our cost and care;<br> But neither side a winner,<br> For things are as they were.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cho. of all<br> The fools are only, |&|c.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enter VENUS<br>VENUS<br> Calms appear, when storms are past;<br> Love will have his hour at last:<br> Nature is my kindly care;<br> Mars destroys, and I repair;<br> Take me, take me, while you may,<br> Venus comes not ev'ry day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cho. of all<br> Take her, take her, |&|c.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHRONOS<br> The world was then so light,<br> I scarcely felt the weight;<br> Joy rul'd the day, and love the night.<br> But since the Queen of Pleasure left the ground,<br> I faint, I lag,<br> And feebly drag<br> The pond'rous Orb around.<br> All, all of a piece throughout;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MOMUS,<br>pointing {}} to Diana {}} </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thy chase had a beast in view;<br>to Mars<br> Thy wars brought nothing about;<br>to Venus<br>Thy lovers were all untrue.<br>JANUS<br> 'Tis well an old age is out,<br> And time to begin a new.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cho. of all<br> All, all of a piece throughout;<br> Thy chase had a beast in view;<br> Thy wars brought nothing about;<br> Thy lovers were all untrue.<br> And time to begin a new.<br>Dance of huntsmen, nymphs, warriors, and lovers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Dryden">John Dryden</a><div class=q>
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JANUS
 Chronos, Chronos, mend thy pace,
 An hundred times the rolling sun
 Around the radiant belt has run
 In his revolving race.
 Behold, behold, the goal in sight,
 Spread thy fans, and wing thy flight.

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