For now tis none of thine.
These first 4. lines were sung by one alone, the single lines following, by a Chorus in full voices.
Chor.
No, no tis none of thine.
2
But in that spheare,
Where what thine armes infolde,
Turnes all to burnisht gold,
Spend thy guilt arrowes there,
Chor.
Doe, doe, shoote onelie there.
3
Earth needes thee not:
Her childbed daies are done,
And Shee another Sunne,
Faire as thy selfe has got.
Chor.
A new new Sunne is got.
4
O this is had!
Whose new beames make our Spring,
Men glad and birdes to Sing,
Hymnes of praise, ioy, and glee.
Sing, Sing, O this is hee!
5
That in the North
First rizing: shonne (so far)
Bright as the morning Starre,
At his gaie comming forth.
Chor.
See, see, he now comes forth.
6
How soone ioies varie?
Here staide had still! O then
Happie both place and men,
But here had list not tarrie.
Chor.
O griefe! had list not tarrie.
7
No, no, his beames,
Must equall deuide,
Their heate to Orbes beside,
Like nourishing siluer streames.
Chor.
Ioies slide awaie like streames.
8
Yet in this lies
Sweete hope: how far soeuer,
Hee bides, no cloudes can seuer,
His glorie from our eyes.
Chor.
Drie, drie, your weeping eies.
9
And make heauen ring,
His welcomes showted loudelie,
For Heauen it selfe lookes proudly,
That earth has such a King.
Chor.
Earth has not such a King.
His Maiestie dwelt here a reasonable long time, giuing both good allowance to the song & Musick, and liberally bestowing his eye on the workemanship of the place: from whence at the length departing, his next entrance was, as it were, into the closet or rather the priuy chamber to this our Court royall: through the windowes of which he might behold the Cathedrall Temple of Saint Paule: vpon whose lower batlements an Antheme was sung, by the Quiristers of the Church to the musicke of loud instrume¯ts: which being finisht, a latine Oratio¯ was Viua voce deliuered to his grace, by one of maister Mulcasters Schollers, at the dore of the free-schole fownded by the Mercers.
ORATIO HABITA, & AD REGEM, & CORAM REGE PRAE SCHOLA PAULINA.
BREUIS ERO, NE ingratus sim, Rex serenissime, licet, & planè, & plenè putem Regem tam prudentem, in tam profusa suorum laetitia, ita se hodie patientia contra taedium armauisse, ne vllius toedij ipsum posset toedere. A Edificium hoc magno sumptu suo extructum Dominus Iohannes Collettus Ecclesiae Paulinae Decanus, sub Henrico septimo, maiestatis tuae prudentissimo abauo, erudiendae pueritiae consecrauit, vt huius scholae infantia tuo in Regnum. Anglicanum iure coetanea existat. Tanta magnificentia conditum parique magnificentia dotatum fidelissimae Mercerorum huius vrbis primaria semper, hodie etiam Praetoriae societati tuendum testamento moriens commendauit. Quae societas, & demortui fundatoris spei, & nostrae educationis studio fidem suam sanctissimè exoluit. Hic nos cum multis alijs erudimur, qui communi nomine totius pueritiae Anglicanae, a Domino Rege, licet sponte sua ad omnia optima saris incitato, bumillimè tamen contendimus, vt quemadmodum sua aetatis ratione, in omnire adultioribus prospicit, ita in summae spei Principis Henrici gratiam tenerioribus, parique cum ipso aetate pueris, in scholarum cura velit etiam consulere. Virgae enim obsequium sceptriobedicntia¯ & parit, & praeit inquit preceptor meus. Quique metu didicit iuuenis parere puerque, grandibus imperiis officiosus erit. Habent scholae Anglicanae multa, in quibus Regiam maiestatis correctionem esflagitant, ne inde in Academias implumes euolent vnde in Rempublicam implumiores etiam è prima nuditate emittuntur. Quod malum à Preceptore nostro accepimus: qui annos iam quatuor supra quinquaginta publice, priuatimque erudiendae pueritiae praefuit, & haec scholarum errata, cum aliquo etiam dolore suo, & passim, & sparsim deprehendit. Nostra haec schola fundatorem Collettum homine¯tam pium; tutores Merceros homines tam fidos cousequuta, quam esset foelix, si placeret, Domino etiam Regi, quod Regibus Angliae, ad summam apud suos charitatem saepissimè profuit, huic Mercerorum principi societati, fratrem se, & conciuem adscribere, Quantum huic vrbi ornamentum, quantum socierati honestamentum, Quantum scholae nostrae emolumentum? Quantus etiam Regi ipsi honos inde accederet, mauult, qui hoc vuit alias inter alia per otium Regi suo apperire, quam hodie cum taedio & praeter aream eidem explicare. Omnipote¯s Deus Iesus Christus & cum co, ac per cum noster, et Pater, et Deus serenissimum Rege¯ Iacobum, honoratissimam Reginam Annam, nobilissimum Principem Henricum, reliquamque Regiae stirpis ad omnia summa natam sobolem diu nobis ita incolumes tueatur, vt cum huius vitae secundissimum curriculum confeceritis, beatissimam vitae caelestis aeternitatem cousequamini. Dixi.
Our next Arch of triumph, was erected aboue the Conduit in Fleetstreete, into which (as into the long and beauteous gallery of the Citie) his Maiestie being entered; a farre off (as if it had beene some swelling Promentory, or rather some inchanted Castle guarded by tenne thousand harmelesse spirits) did his eye encounter another Towre of Pleasure.
Presenting it selfe.
Fourescore and ten foote in height, and fiftie in breadth; the gate twentie foote in the perpendicular line, and fourteene in the ground line: The two Posternes were answerable to these that are set downe before: ouer the posternes riz vp in proportionable measures, two turrets, with battlementes on the tops: The middest of the building was laid open to the world, and great reason it should be so, for the Globe of the world, was there seene to mooue, being fild with all the degrees, and states that are in the land: and these were the mechanicall and dead limmes of this carued bodie. As touching those that had the vse of motion in it, and for a neede durst haue spoken, but that there was no stuffe fit for their mouthes.
The principall and worthiest was Astraea (Iustice) sitting alost, as being newly descended from heauen, gloriously attirde; all her garments being thickely strewed with starres: a crowne of starres on her head: a Siluer veile couering her eyes. Hauing tolde you that her name was Iustice, I hope you will not put mee to describe what properties she held in her hands, sithence euery painted cloath can informe you.
Directly vnder her, in a Cant by her selfe, was Arate (vertue) inthronde, her garments white, her head crowned, and vnder her Fortuna: her foote treading on the Globe, that moude beneath her: Intimating, that his Maiesties fortune, was aboue the world, but his vertues aboue his fortune.
Inuidia.
Enuy, vnhandsomely attirde all in blacke, her haire of the same colour, filletted about with snakes, stood in a darke and obscure place by her selfe, neere vnto Vertue, but making shew of a fearefulnesse to approach her and the light: yet still & anon, casting her eyes, sometimes to the one side beneath, where on seuerall Greeces sate the foure cardinall vertues:
VIZ.
Iustitia.
Fortitud•.
Temperantia.
Prudentia.
In habiliments, fitting to their natures.
And sometimes throwing a distorted and repining countenance to the other opposite seate, on which, his Maiesties foure kingdomes were aduanced.
VIZ.
England.
Scotland.
France.
Ireland.
All of them, in rich Robes and Mantles; crownes on their heads, and Scepters with persild scutchions in their hands, lined with the coats of the particular kingdomes: for very madnesse, that she beheld these glorious obiects, she stood feeding
on the heads of Adders.
The foure Elements in proper shapes, (artificially and aptly expressing their qualities) vpon the approch of his Maiestie, went round in a proportionable and euen circle, touching that cantle of the Globe, (which was open) to the full view of his Maiestie, which being done, they bestowed themselues in such comely order, and stood so, as if the Eronie had beene held vp on the tops of their fingers.
vpon distinct Ascensions, (neatly raisde within the hollow wombe of the Globe) were placed all the states of the land, from the Nobleman to the Ploughman, among whom there was not one word to bee heard, for you must imagine as Virgil saith:
Aegl. 4. Magnus ab integroseclorum nascitur ordo.
Iam redit at * virgo redeunt Saturnia regna.
That it was now the golden world, in vhich there were few parts.
All the tongues that went in this place, was the tongue of Zeale, whose personage was put on by W. Bourne, one of the seruants to the young Prince.
And thus went his speach.
THE populous Globe of this our English Ile,
Seemde to mooue backward, at the funerall pile,
Of her dead female Maiestie. All states
From Nobles downe to spirits of meaner Fares,
Mooude opposite to Nature and to Peace,
As if these men had bin Th Antipodes,
But see, the vertue of a Regall eye,
Th’attractiue wonder of mans Maiestie,
Our Globe is drawne in a right line agen,
And now appeare new faces, and new men.
The Elements, Earth, Water, Ayre, and Fire,
(Which euer clipt a naturall desire,
To combat each with other, being at first,)
Created enemies to fight their worst,
See at the peacefull presence of their King,
How quietly they moude, without their sting:
Earth not deuouring, Fire not defacing,
Waternot drowning, & the Ayre not chasing:
But proping the queint Fabrick that heere stands,
Without the violence of their wrathfull hands.
Mirror of times, lo where thy Fotune sits,
Aboue the world, and all our humaine wits,
But thy hye Vertue aboue that: what pen,
Or Art, or braine can reach thy vertue then?
At whose immortall brightnes and true light,
Enuies infectious eyes haue lost their sight,
Her snakes (not daring to shoot-forth their stings
Gainst such a glorious obiect) downe she flings
Their forkes of Venome into her owne mawe,
Whilst her ranke teeth the glittering poisons chawe,
For tis the property of Enuies blood,
To dry away at euery kingdomes good,
Especially when shee had eyes to view,
These foure maine vertues figurde all in you,
Iustice in causes, Fortitude gainstfoes,
Temprance in spleene, and Prudence in all those,
And then so rich an Empyre, whose fayre brest,
Contaynes foure Kingdomes by your entrance blest
By Brute diuided, but by you alone,
All are againe vnited and made One,
Whose fruitfull glories shine so far and euen,
They touch not onely earth, but they kisse heauen,
From whence Astraea is descended hither,
Who with our last Queenes Spirit, fled vp thither,
Fore-knowing on the earth, she could not rest,
Till you had lockt her in your rightfull brest.
And therefore all Estates, whose proper Arts,
Liue by the breath of Majestie, had harts
Burning in holy Zeales immaculate fires,
With quenchles Ardors, and vnstaind desires,
To see what they now see, your powerful Grace,
Reflecting joyes on every subjects face:
These paynted flames and yellow burning Stripes,
Vpon this roab, being but as showes and types,
Of that great Zeale. And therefore in the name
Of this glad Citie, whither no Prince euer came,
More lou’d, more long’d for, lowely I intreate,
You’ld be to her as gracious as y’are great:
So with reuerberate shoutes our Globe shall ring,
The Musicks close being thus: God saue our King.
If there be any glorie to be won by writing these lynes, I do freelie bestow it (as his due) on Tho. Meddleton, in whose braine they were begotton, though they were deliuered heere: Qnae nos non •ecimus ipsi, vix ea nostra voco.
But hauing peiced vp our wings now againe with our owne feathers; sufter vs a while to be pruning them, and to lay them smooth, whilst this song, which went foorth at the sound of Hault-boyes, and other lowde instruments, flyes along with the trayne.
Cant.
Where are all these Honors owing?
Why are seas of people flowing?
Tell mee, tell me Rumor,
Though it be thy Humor
More often to be lying,
Than from thy breath to haue trueth flying:
Yet alter, now that fashion,
And without the streame of passion,
Let thy voyce swim smooth and cleare,
When words want gilding, then they are most deere
Behold where Ioue and all the States,
Of Heau’n, through Heau’ns seauen siluer gates,
All in glory riding
(Backs of Clowds bestriding)
The milky waie do couer,
With starry Path being measur’d ouer,
The Deities conuent,
In Ioues high Court of Parliament.
Rumor thou doest loose thine aymes,
This is not Ioue, but One, as great, King IAMES.
And now take we our flight vp to Temple-bar, (the other ende of this our Gallery) where by this time, his Majestie is vpon the poynt of giuing a gratious and Princely Fare-well to the Lord Major, and the Citie But that his eye meeting a seauenth beautifull object, is invited by that, to delay awhile his (lamented) departure.
The Building being set out thus.
The Front or Surface of it was proportioned in euery respect like a Temple, being dedicated to Ianus, as by this inscriptio¯ ouer the Ianus head may appeare.
Iano Quadri fronti Sacrum.
The height of the whole Aedifice, from the grownd line to the top, was 57. foote, the full bredth of it 18. foote: the thicknes of the Passage 12.
THE PERSONAGES THAT WERE IN THIS TEMPLE, ARE THESE.
1. The principall person, Peace.
2. By her stood, Wealth.
3. Beneath the feet of Peace, lay Mars (War) groueling.
4. And vpon her right had (but with some little descent) was seated Quiet, the first hand-maid of Peace.
5. Shee had lying at her feete, Tumule.
6. On the other side was the seconde hand-mayd, Libertie at whose feete lay a Catte.
7. This person trod vpon Seruitude.
8. The third handmaid was Safety.
9. Beneath her was Danger,
10. 10 The fourth attendant was, Faelicitie:
11. 11 At her feete, Vnhappines.
Within the Temple was an Altar, to which, vpon the approch of the King, a Flamin appeares, and to him, the former Genius of the Citie.
The effect of whose speech was, that whereas the Flamin came to performe rites there, in hônour of one Anna a goddesse of the Romaines, the Genius vowes, that none shall doe Sacrifice there, but himselfe, the offring that he makes being, the Heart of the Citie, &c.
And thus haue wee (lowely and aloofe) followed our Soueraigne through the seauen Triumphal gates of this his Court Royall, which name, as London receiued at the rysing of the Sunne; so now at his going from her (euen in a moment) She lost that honour: And being (like an Actor on a Stage) stript out of her borrowed Majestie, she resignes her former shape & title of Citie; nor is it quite lost, considering it w
ent along with him, to whom it is due. For such Vertue is begotten in Princes, that their verie presence hath power to turnea Village to a Citie, and to make a Citie appeare great as a Kingdome. Behold how glorious a Flower, Happinesse is, but how fading. The Minutes (that lackey at the heeles of Time) run not faster away then do our joyes. What tongue could haue exprest the raptures on which the soule of the Citie was carried beyond it selfe, for the space of manie houres? What wealth could haue allurde her to haue closde her eies, at the comming of her King, and yet See, her Bridegrome is but stept from her, and in a Minute (nay in shorter time, then a thought can be borne) is she made a Widdow. All her consolation being now, to repeate ouer by roate those Honors, which lately she had perfectly by hart: And to tell of those joyes, which but euen now, shee reallie behelde; yet thus of her absent, beloued, do I heare her gladly and heartily speaking.
Virg.
In freta dum Fluvii Current: dum montibus vmbra,
Lustrabvnt Conuexa, Polus dum sidera pascet,
Semper Honos, Nomenque tuum, Laudesque manebunt.
THE PAGEANT IN THE STROND.
THE CITIE OF Westminster and Dutchy of Lancaster, perceiuing what preparation their neighbor citie made to entertain her soueraigne; though in greatnes they could not match her, yet in greatnes of Loue and Duetie, they gaue testimonie, that both were equall. And in token they were so, hands and hearts went together: and in the Strond, erected vp a Monument of their affection.
The Inuention was a Rayne-bow, the Moone, Sunne, and the seauen Starres, called the Pleiades, being aduaunced betweene two Pyramides: Electra (one of those seauen hanging in the aire, in figure of a Comet) was the speaker, her words carrying this effect.
That as his Majestie had left the Citie of London, happy, by deliuering it fro¯ the noyse of tumult: so he would crowne this place with the like joyes; which being done, shee reckons vp a number of blessings, that will follow vpon it.
The worke of this was thought vpon, begun and made perfect in xij. daies.
As touching those fiue which the Citie builded, the Arbor in Cheap-side, and the Temple of Ianus, at Temple-bar, were both of them begun and finisht in sixe weekes. The rest were taken in hande, first in March last, after his Majestie was , vpon which, at that time, they wrought till a Moneth after S. Iames his day following, and then gaue ouer by reason of the sicknes: At this second setting vpon the¯, six weekes more were spent.
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