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Excerpt from The Lives of the Players, Vol. 1 of 2
Here the upper part of the scene, which was all of clouds, and artificially to swell and ride like the rack, began to open, and the air clearing, in the top thereof was discovered Juno sitting on a throne, supported by two beautiful peacocks; her attire rich, and like a queen a white diadem on her head, from whence descended a veil, and that bound by a fascia of several coloured silks, set with all Sorts of jewels, and raised on the top with lilies and roses; in her right hand she held a sceptre, in the other a timbre] at her golden feet the hide of a lion was placed round about her the spirits of the air in several colours making music above her the region of fire with a continual motion was seen to whirl circularly, and Jupiter standing on the top brandishing his thunder; beneath her the rainbow Iris, and on the two sides eight ladies attired richly, and alike in the most celestial colours, who represented her powers, as she is the governess of marriage.
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