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A08250 Great Brittaines generall ioyes. Londons glorious triumphes Dedicated to the immortall memorie of the ioyfull mariage of the two famous and illustrious princes, Fredericke and Elizabeth. Celebrated the 14. of Februarie, being S. Valentines day. With the instalment of the sayd potent Prince Fredericke at Windsore, the 7. of Februarie aforesaid. Nixon, Anthony. 1613 (1613) STC 18587; ESTC S110171 8,637 25

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would haue been content In this dayes honour yeeres of dayes t' haue spent ❧ Prince Frederick created Knight of the Gater and instald at Windsor the 7 day of February 1612. ABout the time when vesper in the west Gan set the euening watch and silent night Sent sleepe and slumber to possesse the world Vnder the starry Canapy of Heauen I laid me downe laden with many cares Fast by the streame where Tame and Isis meet Euen at that time all in a fragrant Meade In sight of that faire Castle that or'elookes The forrest one way and the fertill val Watred with that renowned Riuer Thames Olde Windsor Castle did I take my rest When Cynthia companion of the night Piercing mine eie-lids as I lay along Awakt me through Therewith me thought I saw A royall glimmering light streaming aloft A Titan mounted on the Lions backe Had cloath'd himselfe in fiery pointed beames To chase the night and entertaine the Moone Yet scarce had Phaebe gon hir iourney through Sleeping or waking as alone I lay Mine eies and eares and sences all were seru'd With euery obiect perfect in his kinde And lo a wonder to my sences all I might discerne a troope of Horsemen ride Arm'd Cape de Pe with shield shiuering launce As in a plash or calme transparent brooke Wee see the glistering fishes skowre along A number numberles appointed well For tournament as if the God of warre Had held a iusts in honor of his loue Therewith I heard the clarions the shalmes The Shakbuts and a number instruments Of seuerall kindes but lowdest of them all A Trumpe more shrill then Tritons is at sea The same renowne precurser of the traine Did sound for who ringes lowder thē renowne He mounted was vppon a flying horse And cloath'd in Phawcons feathers to the groūd By his Escutchion you might easly gesse He was the Hearhauld of eternity I lookt to see an end of that I saw And still me thought the trayne did multiply And yeilding cloudes gaue way men at armes Succeede as fast at one anothers heeles As in the Vast Mediterranean sea The rowling waues doe one beget another Weary of looking vp I laid me downe Willing to rest as sleepy soules are wont When of a sodaine such a noyse I heard Of shot of Ord'nance pealing in mine eares As twenty thousand Tyre had plaid at sea Or Aetna split had belcht hir bowels forth Or heauen earth thundering in armes amaine Had bent their great Artillery for warre And weary Atlas had let fall his loade Enough to wake Endimion from his traunce Yet was the Welkin cleare nor smoake nor dust Annoyde mine eies I gaz'd and as I lookt Me thought this host of Aery armed men Girt Windsor Castle round anon I saw Vnder a Canapy of Crimson bisse Spangled with gold and set with siluer bells That sweetly chym'd and lul'd me halfe a sleepe A goodly King in robes most richly dight The vpper like a Romaine Palliament In deede a Chapperon for such it was And looking neerer loe vppon his legge An auncient badge of honor I espide A Garter brightly glistering in mine eie A worthy ornament Then I cal'd to minde What Princely Edward of that name the third King Edward for his great atchiuement fam'd What he began The order of Saint George That at this day is honoured through the world The order of the Garter now t' is cal'd Famous through all the world for honour and antiquity Grac'd by a King and fauoured of his peeres Fam'd by his followers worthy kings queenes That to his day are soueraignes of the same Some say the manner how this grew at first Was thus The King disposed on a time To reuell after hee had shaken Fraunce And deckt his Lyons with their flower de-luce Dispos'd to reuell some say otherwise Found on the ground by fortune as he went A ladyes Garter and the Queene I trow Lost in a daunce and tooke it vp himselfe Which was a silken ribban weau'd of blewe His Lords and standers by seeing the King Stoope for this Garter smil'd as who would say Our office that had beene or some what else King Edward wistly looking on them all With princely hands hauing that Garter rais'd From harmles heart where honour was engrau'd Bespake in Frence he could the language well Honi soit qui mal Y pense quoth hee Wherewith vppon aduisement though the cause Were small his pleasure and his purpose was T' aduance that Garter and to institute A noble order sacred to Saint George And Knights to make them whō he would haue tearm'd Knights of the Garter this beginning had This honorable order of our time But truer farre that from the holy land This holy order cāe whēas a garter high aduan'st seru'd for an ensign was crown'd with victory Hereon I thought when I beheld the King I was instructed in the circumstance And found it was King Edward that did march In robes like those he ware when with his Lords He held Saint Georges royall feast on earth His eldest sonne surnamed the blacke Prince Though blacke of hue y ● surname yet in Fraunce He wan for terrour to the Frenchmens hearts His countenaunce was his sword an iron scourge Hee on a cole-blacke Corser mounted was And in his hand a battle-axe he held His Beuer vp his corslet was of steele Varnisht as blacke as iet his bases blacke And blacke frō head to foote yea horse hoofe As blacke as night but in a twincke me thought He chang'd at once his habit and his steede And had a Garter as his father had But rich and costly with imbrodery Of Pearle and Gould I could on it discerne The Poesy whereof I spake of yore And well I wot since this King Edward daies Our Kinges Queenes about their roiall armes Haue in a garter borne this Poesy Still as I lay I gaz'd and gest at once What was this traine and whether it did bend At last I found King Edward was the man Accompanide with Kings Conquerours That from the spatious Aery house of fame Set forward royall to sollemnize Th'installement of some new created Knights For loe I sawe in rich accuttrements Like to King Edwards and the prince of Wales Full foure and twenty Knights nor more nor les In roabes with pretiōus colours of S. George And they had Garters all buckled with gould Me thought this semblance could not but import They Should be noble men of golden mindes And great account fauour'd of Prince and Peeres Whose names should in that register be writ Consecrate to Saint Georges chosen Knights Herewith the golden booke gan open faire And eas'ly I might read their names that next Went to the King of whome of whose worths Needs not to make particular relation This booke cōtaines their names seuerall coates And keepes them written in his golden leaues As they haue had installement and creation By gratious fauour in each Kings succession
Within the Carracters of this same booke I saw a name reioyced me to see Henry late prince of Wales I read it plaine And glad I was that in that Register That name I found for now me thought I said Heere vertue doth out liue th' arrest of death For dead is Henry vertuous and Renown'd For honor courage and viuacity And yet his names aliue in fame's recordes That held this Garter deere and ware it well The traine of all thiese hardy Knights enstal'd Cast in a ring about olde Windsor Castle Vnder the glorious spreading winges of fame I saw Great Brittaines King richly attyrde Leading with him a sort of goodly Knights With Garters and with collours of Saint George Iacobus Rex on a compartiment Of Golde in Bisse was writ and hung a skue Vppon his head vnder an imperiall crowne Hee was the Soueraigne of the Knights he led His face me thought I knew as if the same The same great King that wee doe here enioy Had climb'd the clowdes been in person there To whom the earth the Sea and Elements Auspicious are A many that I knew Knig●●●d in my remembrance I beheld And all their names were in that booke inrol'd And yet I might perceaue some so set downe That howsoeuer it hapt I cannot tell The carle obliuion stolne from Laethes lake Or enuie stept from out the deepe Auerne Had rac'd or blemisht or obscur'd at least Yet all the Kings since that King Edwards daies Were with their Knights cōpanies in y t traine At last me thought King Edward thus bespake Hayle vvindsor vvhere I somtime tooke delight To havvke hunt backe the provvdest horse And vvhere in Princely pleasure I repos'd After my vvarres in my returne from Fraunce Yea tvventy times haile Windsor q. the King Where I haue stal'd so m●ny hardy Knights And Turnaments and royall Iusts perform'd Behould in honor of mine auncient throne In honor of great Brittaine and Saint George To vvhom this order of the Garter first I sacred held in honor of my Knights Before this day created and instal'd But specially in honor of this Knight That at this day this honor hath receau'd Vnder King Iames great Brittaines Soueraigne With princely traines I from the house of fame Doe resalute thee heere and gratulate To this nevv Knight created by a King Peereles for vvisdome and for maiesty The honor of the Garter long may hee Weare it as note of true Nobility And vertues ornament Young Frederick Thou high mightie Prince Prime Elector Mounted on fortunes wheele by vertues ayme Become thy badge as it becometh thee That Europ's eies thy worthynes may see And what this day pure honor hath put on So full of princely hope in honor weare Answeare the worthiest of thine Auncestry In deedes to fame and vertue consecrate Brought vp in liberall sciences and armes Patron of Chiualry and of the Muses Brandish thy sword in right and spend thy daies In common wealth affaires it shall become Thy forwardnes to follow vertues cause And great designes of Princely consequence Prince Palatine Shape thou thy noble course As vertue loadstarre of renowne directs That as thy royall Auncestors haue donne Thine earthly race in honor thou maist ronne And as in leaues and characters of gould Thy Princely name is writ in this Record So liue as with a many moe thou maiest Suruiue and triumph in eternitie Out of obliuious reach or Enuies shot And that thy name immortally may shine In thiese Records not earthly but Deuine Then the shrill Trumpet of renowne did sound And by and by the traine retir'd as swift As Starres doe vse to shoote from whence they came The gawdy Morne awakt and euery thing Arose from rest little birdes gan sing Where with I rowz'd and haue set downe my dreame The matter for the time being a fit theame FINIS