canopy'd

Updated: March 27, 2026

The Prologue is a Dialogue between Venus, Thetis, and Phoebus, sung by two Trebles, and a Base. Venus appearing at a Window above, as risen, calling to Sol, who lay in Thetis lap, at the East side of the Stage, canopy'd with an Azure Curtain.

Theophilus Cibber - The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753): Volume I.