The text for Oberon, The Faery Prince, which includes dialogue, lyric verse, stage directions, scenic descriptions and learned annotation, was written by Ben Jonson. Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly establishes a particularly powerful bond between the character of Love and those watching his plight. Another thread of interest running through Love Freed is its deeply Jonsonian concern with language itself. In 1611 the power of words was central, from the translated word of the Bible and the rhetoric of verse and narrative to the enacted words of proclamations, plays and sermons. The integral role of music is specifically highlighted in the conclusion to Love Freed: at the ‘going out’ of the masquers, full of joy in the knowledge that ‘Gentle Love is free, and Beautie blest’, the chorus calls for ‘ayry Musique’ to ‘sound, and teach our feet, / How to move in time, and measure meet’.