SpokenVerse | Vobiscum Est Iope by Thomas Campion (read by Tom O'Bedlam) @SpokenVerse | Uploaded October 2012 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
The Lute Music is a renaissance piece called "Faine Would I Wed". Thomas Campion wrote his verse to be accompanied by the lute.
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The title means "Iope is with you". Iope was also called Cassiopeia. He chose that name because she was beautiful but vain and arrogant too. She's sometimes portrayed holding a mirror. Cassiopeia is a constellation in the heavens: the story goes that Poseidon tied her to a chair and placed her in the sky as a punishment.

The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis 1593 by Cornelis Van Haarlem
The Allegory of Spring by Sandro Botticelli in 1482
Danaë and the Shower of Gold 1787 by Adolph Ulric Wertmüller (1751-1811)
- this has the distinction of being America's first nude painting.

When thou must home to shades of underground,
And there arrived, a new admirèd guest,
The beauteous spirits do engirt thee round,
White Iope, blithe Helen, and the rest,
To hear the stories of thy finished love
From that smooth tongue whose music hell can move;

Then wilt thou speak of banqueting delights,
Of masques and revels which sweet youth did make,
Of tourneys and great challenges of knights,
And all these triumphs for thy beauty's sake:
When thou hast told these honours done to thee,
Then tell, O tell, how thou didst murder me!