The story begins in a forest when the two brothers leave their sister, a lady, in order to find her food and she is found by the title character, a Roman deity, who woos and kidnaps her.
It was first performed by Lord Bracly, his brother Thomas Egerton, and his sister Alice in Ludlow castle, the residence of the earl of Bridgewater. The rescue operation is aided by "The attendant Spirit afterwards in the habit of Thyrsis," the nymph of the river Severn, Sabrina, who breaks the spell, and the central character's two brothers. The story begins in a forest when the two brothers leave their sister, a lady, in order to find her food and she is found by the title character, a Roman deity, who woos and kidnaps her. FTP, identify this masque by John Milton about the god of sensual pleasure.
It was first performed by Lord Bracly, his brother Thomas Egerton, and his sister Alice in Ludlow castle, the residence of the earl of Bridgewater.
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