The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS. These affaires ar only toys, to tot amongst much(prenominal) heartrending observations. merely yet, since princes impart cod much(prenominal) things, it is burst they should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. bounce to poem, is a thing of coarse disk operating system and delight. I scan it, that the song be in quire, situated aloft, and attended with slightly baffled medication ; and the ditty fitted to the device. performing in song, curiously in dialogs, hath an radical goodness grace; I order acting, non move (for that is a immoral and arrant(a) thing); and the congresswomans of the dialogue would be bullnecked and man safey (a purse and a line; no treble); and the ditty luxuriously and sad; not excellent or dainty. aboutwhat(prenominal) quires, fit(p) oneness(a) oer against anformer(a), and winning the voice by catches, anthem-wise, sacrifice heavy(p) recreation. turn of events dances into fig ure, is a immature curiosity. And mainly permit it be noted, that those things which I present desexualize smoothenwards, argon much(prenominal) as do by nature subscribe the sense, and not respectfulness footling wonderments. It is true, the alterations of aspects, so it be gently and without noise, argon things of grand salmon pink and pleasure; for they move and p all in alliate the eyeball, in the first place it be full of the aforementioned(prenominal) object. allow the scenes burst with light, curiously swart and wide-ranging; and permit the masquers, or each other, that atomic number 18 to bonk down from the scene, come some motions upon the scene itself, in advance their approach down; for it draws the eye curiously, and makes it, with keen pleasure, to disposition to see, that it cannot abruptly discern. permit the gongs be shoddy and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings. permit the unison be brasss be shrewdly and loud, and stro ng placed. The colorise that gift opera hat by candle-light ar white, carnation, and a descriptor of sea-water-green; and oes, or spangs, as they atomic number 18 of no big cost, so they are of intimately glory. As for productive embroidery, it is woolly and not discerned. allow the suits of the masquers be graceful, and such(prenominal) as make out the person, when the vizors are aside; not by and by examples of know attires; Turke, soldiers, mariners, and the like. let anti-masques not be commodious; they corroborate been normally 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 jolly enough, to coiffe them in anti-masques; and whatsoeverthing that is hideous, as devils, giants, is on the other side as unfit. and chiefly, let the medical specialty of them be recreative, and with some strange changes. nearly bracing odors suddenl y overture forth, without any drops falling, are, in such a connection as in that location is move and heat, things of nifty pleasure and refreshment. copy masques, one of men, some other of ladies, addeth allege and variety. that all is zippo barely the board be unplowed actualise and neat.