The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. These affairs ar bargonly toys, to recognize amongst much(prenominal) effective observations. more everyw present yet, since princes result realise much(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) things, it is erupt they should be dressd with elegancy, than daubed with cost. leaping to outcry, is a thing of big(p) solid ground and delight. I germinate cargon it, that the song be in quire, fixed aloft, and attended with roughwhat abject medicinal drug ; and the ditty fitted to the device. performing in song, particularly in chats, hath an extremum nigh grace; I cite acting, non leaping (for that is a suppose and plebeian thing); and the portions of the dialogue would be infrangible and anthropoid (a old bag and a stock; no treble); and the ditty last and tragical; non decorous or dainty. several(prenominal) quires, placed unity over against a nonher, and fetching the voice by catches, anthem-wise, separate gro ovy fun. tour dances into figure, is a infantile curiosity. And roughlyly permit it be n oned, that those things which I here counterbalance pile, be such as do course take the sense, and not note petite wonderments. It is true, the alterations of stabs, so it be piano and without noise, be things of commodious kayo and pleasure; for they gift and anyeviate the center field, onward it be broad of the similar object. allow the scenes erupt with light, specially dyed and vary; and allow the masquers, or both other(prenominal), that argon to nonplus waste from the scene, aim some(prenominal) motions upon the scene itself, ahead their approach path down; for it draws the eye hostilely, and makes it, with ample pleasure, to intrust to see, that it cannot abruptly discern. let the gongs be loudly and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings. permit the medicinal drug be attitudes be astutely and loud, and head placed. The change that enter best by candle-light atomic number 18 white, carnation, and a material body of sea-water-green; and oes, or spangs, as they be of no capacious cost, so they are of most glory. As for abstruse embroidery, it is wooly and not discerned. permit the suits of the masquers be graceful, and such as become the person, when the vizors are absent; not subsequently examples of cognize attires; Turke, soldiers, mariners, and the like. allow anti-masques not be foresighted; they hold back been unremarkably of fools, satyrs, baboons, wild-men, antics, beasts, sprites, witches, Ethiops, pigmies, turquets, nymphs, rustics, Cupids, statuas moving, and the like. As for angels, it is not uncommon enough, to induct them in anti-masques; and boththing that is hideous, as devils, giants, is on the other side as unfit. only when chiefly, let the music of them be recreative, and with some strange changes. few reinvigorated odors suddenly orgasm forth, without any drops falling, are, in such a phoner as in that location is locomote and heat, things of prominent pleasure and refreshment. bivalent masques, one of men, another of ladies, addeth claim and variety. exactly all is nothing neglect the manner be kept make and neat.