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By Magick Art I was conducted I know not how, To an inchanted Palace in the Clouds, Where I was so attended Young dancing, singing Fiends innumerable. L. Ful. Imagination all! Gay. But for the amorous Devil, the old Proserpine. L. Ful. Ay, she what said she? Gay.
In Harris's "Voyages" there is a map giving "Cowley's Inchanted Isl." The passage quoted by Melville is not to be found in Cowley's "Voyage to Magellanica and Polynesia," given by Harris in the same volume, and must be taken from Cowley's "Voyage round the Globe," which I have not found in any library.
This impression of my senses immediately conveys my thoughts to the person, along with all the surrounding objects. I paint them out to myself as existent at present, with the same qualities and relations, that I formerly knew them possessed of. These ideas take faster hold of my mind, than the ideas of an inchanted castle.
They lived in a cave or cell, made out of a rock: it was divided into several apartments, one of which Prospero called his study; there he kept his books, which chiefly treated of magic, a study at that time much affected by all learned men: and the knowledge of this art he found very useful to him; for being thrown by a strange chance upon this island, which had been inchanted by a witch called Sycorax, who died there a short time before his arrival, Prospero, by virtue of his art, released many good spirits that Sycorax had imprisoned in the bodies of large trees, because they had refused to execute her wicked commands.
The story is related at large in Taverner's voyages to the Indies, vol. i. part 2. This play is written in heroic verse. The Tempest; or the inchanted Island, a Comedy, acted at the duke of York's theatre, and printed in 4to. 1676. This is only an alteration of Shakespear's Tempest, by Sir William Davenant and Dryden.
Wasteall; but he not answering I was sent up a Ladder rather than a pair of Stairs; at last I scal'd the top, and enter'd the inchanted Castle; there did I find him, spite of the noise below, drowning his Cares in Sleep. L. Ful. Whom foundst thou? Gayman? Bred. He, Madam, whom I waked and seeing me, Heavens, what Confusion seiz'd him! which nothing but my own Surprize could equal.
Go, my Dear, go to Bed I'll send Sir Nicholas a Receit for the Chest, and be with thee presently Gay. Hah, where am I? By Heaven, my last Night's Vision 'Tis that inchanted Room, and yonder's the Alcove! Enter Sir Cautious. Gay. Sir Cau. Ay, my Dear, I'm coming she's in Bed I'll go put out the Candle, and then Gay. Ay, I'll warrant you for my part Sir Cau.
And indeed he was in the right on't; for I have heard since, that these four men gave out that whoever went to that inchanted island, would be destroyed by fire from the gods. No canoes appearing soon after, as I expected, my apprehensions ceased: instead of which my former thoughts of a voyage took place, especially when Friday's father assured me, I should have good usage in his nation.
That he could not so intimately affect the tender passions, is certain, for we find no play of his, in which we are much disposed to weep; and we are so often inchanted with beautiful descriptions, and noble flights of fancy, that we forget the business of the play, and are only attentive to the poet, while the characters sleep. Mr.
I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light. Her husband being as it were inchanted with these words and compelled by violence of her often embracing, wiping away her teares with his haire, did yeeld unto his wife. And when morning came, departed as hee was accustomed to doe.
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