[Technogamia]: or the marriage of the arts / A comedie Written by Barten Holiday, Master of Arts, and Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and acted by the Students of the same House before the Uniuersitie, at Shroue-tide. [Ornament].

  • Barten Holyday
Date:
1630
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Credit: [Technogamia]: or the marriage of the arts / A comedie Written by Barten Holiday, Master of Arts, and Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and acted by the Students of the same House before the Uniuersitie, at Shroue-tide. [Ornament]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tf- Xtf OTAMIA, *r ftring’d.But then how came your Trumpctifp? ■ Muf, Why, on this manner: When Triton came toheipe the gods in the Warresof theGyants, he wanted a weapon, and finding thefhell of a Fife, he did blow in’t, which yeel- ded a moft hideous noife : the Gyants thinking it had beetle fome terrible beaft, fled away affrighted, and fincc by a per¬ fecting imitation, men haue alter’d both the matter, and the forme of that Inftrumcnt. v' s>’ </«£.Nay,I doe beleeuethereisa great vettue in Mufickc. Afnf. O Sir, ’tis your oncly medicine ofeheminde, (jeog. Indeed I thinke fb, and that’s the rcafon, ’tis likely, why Apollo is the god both of Mufickc and Phyficke: and now I rememberit, in one place where wc came, in out tra- uellsj there wererno Phyfie&nsj but all thetr ficke folks were cur’d by Muficke; where:. was : it* Phantaftes ?, I haue quite •ftugflftm ’di is nadj aduluM : ai aimlaiq oj ziTodmoi : l - i, jP^4»r.Why’twas in Creet Sir, where Iupiter was nurfs’d, and theMuficke wastriade with thole Kettle*drums^, which they founded todrowne the crying of Ivpiter, when; he was inhisfwathcrbands: in reward of which loue, hee procur’d o(Apvlfa, mthefauouroftheGretians, that at the found of thole Kettle-drummes all ficke folkesy whole time of death was not come, fhould without any languifthag ficknes irn»» mediately rccouer ; and therefore the order is,when any one is ficke, they carry him prelently in a Litter to the Temple where thele Drums are kept; and if hecdoes not;ftraight- wayes.rccou.erj they carry him home agaiue, as a man that muft dye,and foprouide for his funeral]. Muf. Where is this Sir ? in£reet ?. -* Fhq/tt.Yes,iii Creet. :, • • .iU I, bur I hauehcardjthc Cretians are mightie liars. - PL a tit. Vpon tne Faith of a Fraucliour, the Honeflic of a Courtier,and the Word of a Gentleman,’tis a moft confirm’d truth. » * *>% * 4 ‘ 4 • i LA'fuf. Indeed thefethree are much about one value. (Je&g. Well, .'Affjtca, I could talke with thee all day—— Thant. Tind all night too. Geog. But}cannot ftay now; I’me afraid they ftay forme