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A68445	The triumphs of King Iames the First, of Great Brittaine, France, and Ireland, King; defender of the faith Published vpon his Maiesties aduertisement to all the kings, princes, and potentates of Christendome, and confirmed by the wonderfull workes of God, declared in his life. Deuoted, dedicated, and consecrated to the most excellent prince Henry Prince of Wales.	Marcelline, George.	1620 (1620)	STC 17309; ESTC S111857	40,901	114

Polyphemus I doe not meane that which was done in the silence of a mournefull night at the Abbey of Saint Crosse albeit the noise therof redounded euen into the chamber of his Maiesty the Amnestia law of Obliuion hauing sent some part to death the graue another part to the gallowes bellies of Crowes the last to the curse of al coragious spirits but J would speake of the inhumanity of those two Brethren who violated the laws of Hospitality vpon the person of their Prince and Father Alas I meane the Treason of those two Esaues that made tender of presents to Our Iacob those two Athletes and daungerous Antees that wrastled with him in the mid-day time in close field with feete lifted vp and armes outstretched to bind and beare him to ground without any mercie where he being alone without any helpe but God onely who neuer forsooke him laboured them out of breath Whereby his very enemies are constrained to confesse that hee is verily elected of God and for the glory of his name In like manner As he went towards his Canaan to enioy the right of his first begetting it seemes the like should haue been done in England All Europe prepared their eyes to see the fall of that stately Monarchy the greatnesse wherof had compassed the whole Globe of the earth All the world ran to the bruising of that mighty Ship when it pleased God to look vpon vs with the eye of his mercy and defend vs from that fall by his most powerfull Arme. Whereby hee plainly declared to all the earth that he is the preseruer of Kings the God Tutelarie of kingdoms and the Patron of al Royall Estates He hath thereby also giuen a lesson to all Kings and Princes of the world that their raigning is by him onely and that it is an ouermuch boldnesse in any as shall seeke to exalt himselfe or grow great against his ordinance and expresse commandement But it is nothing to see him Monarke of the English as also endued with such authority power except we vnderstand withall by what means it was thus prouided for that is it wherin the blessing and wonderfull worke of God towards him is to be discerned For in the Papistes opinion the Lawes the Estates the Counsell the Citties the Country the great the small the rich the poore the young the old and all sexes should haue vniuersally refused him and denied him his right But heerein they were deceiued and the people better aduised as being more wisely experienced in affairs of the world They acknowledging his iust merit and being effectually instructed in the will and affection of good aged Rebecca his Mother Hereditatis they caused his sweet smelling sauour to bee felt of all and by their good example reformed the errour of diuers other So that all vnanimately or with one consent were in duty compelled to respect him and prostrate themselues before his Royall Maiesty The Clergy whom Pope and Papistes would haue had to doubt most earnestly desired him the Nobility that shuld haue left him chearefully elected him Iustice who should haue left him intirely imbraceth him the people who should haue fled from him do all seeke after him we may well say that he hath bin the vowes the desire and vniuersall wish of the whole kingdom yea in such maner that in despight of Popish malice Our King is as a fable reduced into an historie Qui tanquam lapis quem rebrobanerunt factus est caput anguli They that thoght to see him at their feet do acknowledge him to be their head they to whom he was as nothing at this day do loue honor him for their king A wonderful work wrought by the prouidence of God who in his strict and secret counsel kept it hid for a day to publish propose it then to mankind for euer and against the opinion of some enuious English to make him King of the English O happy English that haue no more women and children for your King but a King full of strength a king participating the verdure of his youth and ful ripenesse of his age O most happy to haue a King that loues you more then himselfe and desireth not to liue but for your preseruation O more thē thrice happy to haue a King among your selues who is natural vnto you who commeth not to raign by the furies of a mutinous multitude nor by the fauours of a blind fold Fortune but by the blessing of God and right of birth as wel by the Fathers side as the Mothers To abreuiate these maruayles there is no man ignorant but he wel knoweth that this kingdome had bin swallowed vp in an hideous Chaos the fift day of Nouember 1605. if the Diuine goodnesse had not appeared in such a need to this Great King euen like a new Starre at the breake of day to scatter the latest night that came to ouer-whelme vs. In which wonderfull deliuerance he hath euidently declared vnto vs that he will haue his Maiesty to liue and flourish more then euer heeretofore because he drew him out of this bottomelesse pit by raising vs such succour withour which he had vndoubtedly bin expired by such cruelties as the like were neuer heard of Quorū animus meminisse borret Luctuque refugit The heart abhorres remembrance tears flye from it Thus we see that the Authour of the Booke was fore-appointed of God by his name and person as long since was Cyrus whom he foresaw prouided and called by his name two hundred yeares before hee was borne to oppose him against Kings and Nations enemies to his word and people That verily and in effect by all the periods and paralelles of his life this is Iacob according to the Hebrewes and Iames in Scottish the Pentaphyllon or the name of fiue Letters bearing the worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Pentagon in former time Mysteriously reuealed to King Antiochus sur-named the Sauiour for the sauing and conseruation of his people That it is he Among the ten Kings as the great finger among the rest as the Sun amongst the fiue male Planets as hearing among the fiue Sences and among the fine woundes that of the heart to saue and preserue vs That it is he who shewes vs Antichrist by the fiue markes of the Apocalypse First That be is an Idolater secondly a Murderer thirdly an Empoysoner fourthly a whore fiftly a Thiefe And that it is hee who shall at length Triumph ouer Pope Paul the fift because that the sundry accidents of men of States and of affaires do rowle or giue by the number quaternary or of four and then rest themselues vpon the fift which is denoted by the first Letter of the Hebrew Alphabet HE redoubled to the great Tetragrammaton IEHOVA which afterwarde in the Law of Grace was amplified to a quinary or number of fiue IESVS And the same is iudged also by the seauen Letters or Iudiciall number of his name in

learnedly testifieth vnto vs Was there euer any Prince more forgetfull of wrongs and more apt to remit iniuries done against him then his Maiesty euen then when he might be very easily reuenged How many Actes of Parliament full of benignitie clemency and kindnesse hath hee set toorth since his happy comming to the Crowne of England euen towards his very enimies themselues which is the onely reason that his subiects both loue and obey him the more willingly and that straungers ought to bee the more respectiue of him For my selfe J may say that by good right of him which the Romaine Orator did of Iulius Caesar Hee is a great Iusticer Vpright Equall true But in all his vertues there is none more Great more Excellent or more commendable then is his Clemency and Benignity I speake not this as a Learner or beeing Tutored thereto but out of knowledge and good experience and as one willing with poore Vzza to set a hand to helpe the Arke whereof J feared the falling And if I haue done it with out any great paine yet am I glad that it hath returned me no danger and so long as I shall haue any iot of life in mee I will publish euerie where and sing in heart though it bee to my selfe En tibi praepetibus foelix victoria pennis Quae volat laet am adducit Clementiapacem Vnde salus populis te Rege Iacobe beatis But fearing the like inconuenience as that which happened vnto the High-Priest Cecilius Metellus for hauing dared to be so bold as to put his hand neere to the Statue of the Goddesse Pallas I am constrained to turne my sight from the faire Eye of the Worlde His Beams do force me to kisse the very liddes of those eyes euen as the perfection and proportion of his other Visible parts do restraine my tongue from deliuering the misticall and Physiognomicall sence of euery one of them In like maner it was neuer mine intention to note al the Anatomical considerations of his Imperial Body or to pierce any further then vnto the subtiltie of our owne reach and apprehension which dooth sufficiently content it selfe to referre all the functions of his parts to the apparent appearance thereby to erect a Triumph not onely fully rich but also morral to following posterity We will beginne with his Crowne which is the Ornament for the Head the chiefest member and that which is most honourable of all the body euen that part wherein are composed al the principal instruments of life by the perfection of numbers This rich chief part is crowned to the end that his enemies beholding the same should enter into the apprehensions of Cassander King of Macedon who hauing founde the Statue of Alexander entred into such a fear that he trembled at the verie sight thereof And to let bee seene that meere glory hath defended him from his greatest aduersaries they shoulde bring him no such fraile Crownes wherewith in elder times they were wont to honor the Conquetors in the Olympian Pythian Ismyan and Nemean games but that duety which shineth in heauen and can neuer bee withered because it was first wrought and wouen with the verie fingers of the sonne of God himselfe It is a Crown of Gold enriched with Pearls and precious Stones Of Gold which reioyceth the heart healeth all putride Vlcers Woolfes or rotted corruption To declare thereby that this King shall beare the precious Balme the Cataplasme and Seare-cloath to heale vlcered hearts and consciences euen those which are most fired and cauthorized thereby to bring the new birth againe of the former Golden dayes of Saturne The Pearles are the Hieroglyphickes of his soules immaculate whitenesse or integrity do testifie vnto the whole worlde that hee is Protector of Innocency and Truth The Diamonds do shine and deliuer a clear white luster which cheareth the eye The Rubies do dart foorth to sight very straunge flaming beams which may offend some perhaps more then they please These are the two most precious Stones aboue all other the Symboles or Creeds of our Churches Nothing can bite or cut the Diamond but the Diamond it selfe neither can we shape or figure any thing else therby of any indamagement or hurt towards vs but it must come by our owne selues The Diamond is inuulnerable and not to be bruised by hammers on the Anuile but wil enter farre into the Ruby who is subiect to be wrought therewith penetrated cut carued or imprinted thereon in whatsoeuer a man pleaseth euen as our beleese worketh the like effectes in vnbeleeuing harts which they may very aptly signifie The Sphear-like forme of his Crowne doth denote the euen roundnesse wherein hee proceedeth to euery one as well towards the smal as the great the poore as the rich That he is the Common Father of all his people ordering all his affections in an equall partage like vnto the Geometricall point which beholdeth all his circumference in one the same proportion Answerable to the Sun which shineth equally vpon all Or as the heart which furnisheth all the other members with life heat Or like vnto the Palme-tree which distributeth his nourishment to his leaues and braunches euen as if it were by iust weight measure Before that Parliament he contented himselfe to expresse vnto the Papistes themselues rather the power of his Authority then the rigour of his Iustice Hee permitted to all the free communication of his fauour as of his Conntreyes ayre and the enioying of his presence as the sweet breath of his fertile kingdome The Booke and the Scepter which his Maiesty holdeth in his hands do represent Reason and Rigor which are the two Engines wherby all men are drawne to their dutie For if Reason profit not recourse must then be had to Power According vnto the example of our Lord Iesus Christ and of his Apostles For they presenting peace in all mildnesse thorough all places where they came shooke off in the spirit of Justice the dust frō their feet on them which resisted thē Saying for reason of the first That be was soft and gentle and for the second That he was vpright or iust In the first that he is good gracious in the second That he is terrible In the first That hee helpeth the desolate in hart bindeth vp their wounds In the second That he is Dominus percutiens a Lord that smiteth In like maner Our King Gestans leua decus wil neuer presse with his Scepter of authority which he beareth in his right till he may vse his pen no longer and that the left hand be wholly despised He applyeth not the Rasor to the Canker and Gangrena of Heresie so long as Reason and soft and lenitiue remedies may serue the turne Throughout antiquity The Scepter hath bin common to al Kings on the earth The Booke perticularly and for the exclusion of others appertaineth to our Mercuriall Heros to enstruct vs that of him properly ought the double

Prophesies bee vnderstoode The one of Cataldus Finius which is more then a thousande yeares since Iste solus Clare aperiet librum scriptū digito Dei viui He onely shall euidently open the book written with the finger of the liuing God As plainly appeareth by his Learned Preface The other of Sybilla on the destruction of Antechrist Miserum inde tempus quia linum ipsum perdet Miserable in time shall he be because linnen or a Lyne shall destroy him By Linnen his Maiesties Booke is vnderstoode the Paper whereof is made of olde decayed linnen Or else the Line or Cord is threatned thereby to hang him vp according to the example of Achitophel His Scepter which is in his right hand is not of wood made fast with Iron nayles as were the ancient Scepters in Homer Virgil nor yet of Juory such as the Kings of Rome carried and sent to their Kindred and friendes nor of Ebony like that of the Jndians nor of Iron Copper or Siluer but of fine Golde like that of Marke Anthonie in Florus and such as Ahasuerus stretched foorth to Hester in the Bible to shew vs that his is one of the verie Noblest Scepters in the world As His length plainly telleth vs that euen so shall his power extend it selfe and make it selfe to be felt very farre off It beareth on the top not any Eagle like that of the Tarquins nor a Crosse as that did of Constantines nor yet a Storke or the straunge beast liuing in the Riuer Nylns called Hippopotames as others haue caried nor yet a hand like to that of France But a Lilly or Flowerdeluce thereby to assure vs that his power and manner of gouernment is full of sweetnesse mildnesse and good order The most precious garment of his Trophies is a Royal Mantle or Cloake the onely sacred ornament of Kings for the more sumptuous decking of potent Maiesty made of Veluet Azure and Gold which are the onely sightly things that can be vsed in the habit of princes It traineth along vpon the ground after him to expresse the amplitude of his royall benignity being called of God to couer not onely the members of his owne estate from the Tiranny of Antichrist but likewise those people that are strangers and of other Countries His colours vnder are of Scarlet and white as the Spouse in the Canticles saieth That her Best-beloued is all white and Vermillion white in Innocency Red Vermillion in Charity For euery colour else looketh pale and deade or looseth his beauty being neere to these yea though it be Purple twice dipt in his tincture As in like maner the religion of Popery doth being compared with that which Our King embraceth as being without both sound and luster vanishing of it selfe away euen as dusky clouds do before the beames of the worlds greatest light The White of this Mantle royall is Ermins which are more perfect in faire luster then any other and those furies do testifie not the coldnesse of his Original countrey as some haue scornfully saide but his generous and resolued grauitie as full of bounty As the skin of little blacke spots Admonishing vs thereby that there is nothing so prosperous but sometime it meeteth with sinister accident as the Ermine which is white ouer all the body and yet directly on the top of his tail hath that smal touch or mark of blacknes Vnder this Mantle or Cloake he weareth the Palmata Toga or Dalmatian Vesture proper to some Ministeriall Office because the sleeue reacheth so far as the elbow only The which may teach and perswade vs that in despight of the Pope of Anabaptists of al haire-brain'd mutinous opiniotiue and frantique Preachers whome his Maiesty calleth and vnderstandeth to bee Puritanes onely hee is an absolute Monarch as well of the Spirituall as of the Temporall euen as in elder times the Caliphes were and that in him is verified the saying of the Poet Rex Anyus Rex idem hominem Phoebique Sacerdos King Anyus is the same man King and yet Apollos Priest For Kinges are the Coombes of the Estate belonging to God euen as well as of that appertaining to their kingdomes and their Authority is the bases and foundation which vpholdeth the Church in fauour and regard whereof they were at first established by God who had neuer created or preserued the worlde but for this respect onely They haue like power therin as Iosias had and like preheminence as Constantine who published himself Byshop of exteriour occasions They haue I say Soueraign iurisdiction ouer Prelates to keepe an eye vpon their Discipline on the manners or behauiour of the Clergy to take acknowledgement of their differences Which is very easie to be proued as wel by Testimonies and solid Reasons as by the examples and effectes of all most venerable Antiquitie Finally Our King in signe of diligence that he shal very shortly triumph in all trueth Iustice and power euen as far as that proude Tarpeiane Tower To kil the Dragon and deliuer the male childe from his throat as manifestly appeareth by the Angell mounted vppon the white horse to whom was giuen the Crown of victory He is circkled with a Girdle of Golde hanging before his breast which is The Collar of Saint George which was not forgotten by the Romaines themselues of the round Table speaking of the two Dragons white and red deliuered out of prison by Merlin in the time of k. Vter Pendragon father to King Arthur who after a long deadly fight the white at length ouercame the red And now we may see a second surprize them That reiected Esau otherwise called Edom which signified the Red Dragon that old vsurper that Tyraunt ouer so many Nations the Pope himselfe commeth to the succour of his vanquished Legions with two Breeues and a Letter from the Cardinal Bellarmine which are Gerions with three bodies or Cerberus with three heads and throats casting fire out at the eyes the nose the mouth They would faine fasten on Our white King Iames the Childe of Blessednesse euen in his Cabinet and pursue him thence to his Bed-chamber in seeking to set free all his Subiects from their obedience to him yea and to turne his very housholde Seruants from their duty Monarchy being not so pleasing to his tast as Aristocratie Order as Anarchie Behold how Our King dealt in this manner with them as others haue done in the like To day for him to morrow for them And their to morrow should haue bin much neerer if they coulde haue attained to what they pretended But his Maiesty stopt their way with a Mattock and a Wedge as the Romaine Captaine said or in applying Triplici nodo Triplicem Cuneum in cleauing a Triple knot of Iron with a Triple wedge of Brasse or in cutting The Gordian knot with the sword of Alexander His Apologie verily and of good right ought to be helde for the support defence Rampant and Fortresse of all the Kings Monarkes