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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81967	London, King Charles his Augusta, or, city royal. Of the founders, the names, and oldest honours of that city. An historicall and antiquarian work. Written at first in heroicall Latin verse, according to Greek, Roman, British, English, and other antiquities and authorities, and now translated into English couplets, with annotations. Imprimatur, Na. Brent.	D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.	1648 (1648)	Wing D328; Thomason E431_8; ESTC R202046	11,574	20

is plain Because the Tames g The Poole is a place so called in the River of Thames neer to the Tower of London where ships ride thickest at anchor lies before the marshy medows standing waters in the runn● lands of Redderiffe which seem to have al thereof been under water or a Pool near part doth still retain The title of The pool Lhyn-Tain is then A town there fixt where to Diana men Had hallowed a lake To strengthen this Lin and not Lon in Stephans h Stephanus who wrote above a thousand yeares since in Greeke in his Book of Cities And Marcianus in his circum-navigation of Britain saith that the Citizens were of Lindoninon called Lindonines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lindonion is By which that antient Greek did London signe Among the Cities which then most did shine But not alone this City took her name From Dian ' but the iland took the same For lofty Britain is of Bro combinde With Tain and as Dianas land designde Which the fit wedlock of those words begets For Bro is land And that rough shire which sets Out far into the sea the huge head so Is Penbroke call'd of Pen an head and Bro. Dianas oracles such credit wun As those from which Brutes empire first begun That so his Brittans did her name adore As Ephesus it selfe did never more Muse what those were assist thou me to sing From Troyes last fires whose fame through heaven should ring Aeneas flying ignorant what fate Attended for him in the Latin state Rais'd in his passage upon Pelops shore By her direction near where Boea wore Her towrs in forhead of an half-round Bay A City call'd i Paulanias in Laconicis Etias call'd they say Of his dear daughter who that name did bear As unto him so to his grand-childes heir Troyes other glory and his whole lines grace The huntresse Cynthia favourable was Brute flying out of Italy doth stray In unknown Seas fore-seeing he should sway In some brave seat and Generall of a Fleet Wherein above three hundred sail did meet With fair winds somewhile other whiles with fowl He from the Admiral did all controll Weary with Sea-work he doth ride at last Under a slender Iland lying waste Which in th' old British book Lergecia is In ages past a Temple stood in this Whose ruines scarcely stood the walls were clad In shallow grasse and too much light it had The roof turn'd window through Yet th' alter there Remain'd and did Dianas title beare Brute forth-with knew her when he this did see His houses freind and patronesse to be A Goddesse whom he had not serv'd in vain Without divine help men no good attain With due rites honoring her and offerings store He humbly did with humble words adore This speak I'on the British books report Which into Latin turn'd and taught to sort With common fame may not distrusted be They tasting of a spirit high and free Aswell in sense as number he in vain Who while he k G. Buchanan in his Histories of Scotland lived did in verses reign Historian turn'd them blames as fiction meer Who well his own might wish the verses were And would to heaven these Welsh records in prose Were equal in their dignity to those But diamonds in heaps of dirt doe shine And barbarism base unfoldeth lights divine Nor would that Prelate l Geffrey born at Monmouth in South Wales Bishop of St. Asaph about 400 years since who so clerkly could Turn Verses fain in prose if fain he would Such foolish things as some there found are thought He therefore only m This seemes to bee most true For first Nennius that disciple of Elnodugus compendiously memorizeth Brutes fatal birth his casuall killing of his Father his sailing into Greece and Gall and that this Island took the name of Brittain from him Then again an old book found in the library of the Abbey Beck in Normandy by H. of Huntingdon who was born about five hundred yeares since in his travail to Rome and the old Welsh copy of Walter Archdeacon of Oxford which Geffrey of Monmouth translated into Latin contain the same things thoughout witnesse Mr. Lambert in his Preambulation of Kent which Nennius briefly touch and they deliver at large Therefore Geffrey of Monmouth cannot be so much as fained to have fained them But of these things elswhere both more exactly and more copiously gave us what was brought And that his duty was The faults which be There age if nothing else pronounceth free BRUTES Orison and Vow HUntresse divine from whom wilde boars doe flye Who tracest through the turnings of the skye And glades of hell unfold terrestriall fate Say where it is thy will to fix our state Seat us where we thine endlesse praise will sound And temples reare with queers of virgins crown'd Sweet sleep then seiseth on him and sweet dreams Present to his tirde soul their pleasing theames For shee appear'd and this fair answer gave Which from the true translatour here we have DIANAS Oracle and Grant BRute beyond Gall where Phoebus stoops to rest A land is lodg'd within the Oceans brest Which once wilde gyants held now vacant lyes Most fit for Thee Thine There t'encolonize Reach This. For Thou shalt ever This enjoy This shall to Thine be made a second Troy Here from Thy loines shall royal of-springs growe To whom n A Prophesie nothing lesse then a lie For the whole World of the Britian Islands which very lately were under King James is now obedient to his son King CHARLES The whole World moreover was subject of old to Constantine a Brittain who was Emperour or Caesar Augustus The Oracle therefore is fulfilled in both those respects and in a more high of which the spirit of the Oracle thought nothing but as one of the Sibills or Balaam might that is to say the Empire of the faith of Christ by means of that blessed Emperour being through all Nations most freely spred and setled the whole worlds globe shall homage owe. Hence came it that so constantly and long Chaste Cynthias honor was the Brittans song Who would'st be sōthing set thine heart to know Things lōg since past who doth not old may show But is an infant That which makes men wise Is the records of ages to revise The sacred shrines and cabanets abstruse Of hoary date worn out of Vulgar use Thus divine Plato was in Aegypt told And hath in his Timaeus it enrold To herth ' whole Island dedicated was For where St. Pauls o Sulcardus an ancient English writer most stately church haht place Her temple stood under p Geofrey of Monmouth of the Originall and acts of the Brittains lib. 2. cap. 1. The seats of the three Arch-flamins were at London York and Caer Leon. Sedes Arcbistaminum in tribus nobilloribus civitatibus fuerant Londoniis Eboraco in Urbe Legionum th' Archflamins charge The gyants Dance so call'd that

structure large On Plaines of Sal'sbery the same doth showe Where made stōes ar more hard thē stōes that grow The common sort that heap doth Stonage name And albeit heavens whole force beats the same As disobedient undemolisht still Yet beares it up the head and ever will Though part be swallowed by the yeilding ground It hath two rude rowes of huge stone set round Rude ones indeed unlesse time makes them such The art worn out and of the substance much From under whose vast pile late times did dig The antlers of a dear extremely big Whose sacrificed body flames had fed Such were the offerings which to Cynthia bled He whosoever holdeth that the same Was rais'd t' immortalise q In the book called Nero Casar Bunducas name That martial Queen shall have no foe of me For without Phoebes wrong it well may be Thus Britain ever more that Virgins style Britain th' Atlantick Oceans fairest Ile It self the Oceans mistresse and sole Queen Which she to curb from her white clifts is seen The circling Seas chief darling pearl more clear Then is the Moon when she doth full appear Although the British pearls look pale r Plinie in his Naurall History and wan For grief they took since so far Caesar ran As to break through the secrets of her Seas Nor have they yet recover'd their disease Unlike those pearls which that triumphant Prince Did gather here and brought away from hence To deck the brest-plate he to Venus vow'd In Venus ſ Suetonius in his Julius Caesar Temple Rome thereby made proud But ever under Virgins was our Ile The blessed Virgin had it in her style After Diana had the title lost The maiden mother Delias glory crost Light drives out darknesse milde the fierce out-weares Protectrix here above one thousand yeares This mov'd King Arthur to advance in t William of Malmesburie in his Latin Histories published by Sr. H. Saevile and dedicated with the works of some other our oldest Historians by that rare gentleman to Q. Elizabeth printed in one great Volume at London first and since beyond the seas Mr. Camden makes it clear that this most victorious Britian Prince King Arthur was enterred at Glastenburie sheild The Virgins semblant who from every field Returning victor vanquished in fight The Saxons powr's in vain through fates despight The Britans bravery withering in his death And crown'd her forhead w th a u Nennius who also writteth of the picture in his sheild nameth the twelve severall places where King Arthur obtained those twelve severall victories in the like number of set battels twelvfold wreath England was after call'd Our Ladies Dow'r And we have seen it under maidens pow'r Eliza Maiden Queen her title reft Dian ' to Mary Mary t' her it left Eliza so was by another name Enstyled x The Art of English poesie a book dedicated to her self Sir Walter Raleighs English Poem entituled Cynthia and dedicated to that Goddesse Queen as Mr. Camden every where calls her The most famous and most learned Poet of our Nation Mr. Spenser in his Colin Clowt's come home again mentions Raleighs Cynthia with much honour Cynthia nor amisse the same In the mean time they will have London be Lhan-Tain of her that the names pedigree Let various fancies under face of truth Take whom they will My Muse things sure ensu'th Our Worlds chief City loves not names blind born And what 's not like her royall self doth scorn The brother german of that paramount Prince Great Cassibeline who drave y Julius Caesar himself though not so clearly in his Commentaries and all other who have written of his war in Britain though some of them more magnificently for Cassibelines glory as Lucan then some others have done Caesar hence And made Romes Eagles back to take their flight His Troian wheels swift thūdring through the fight His brother royall Lud when once he had The aged Citie with new buildings clad Made all things new the marble gates and walls Then Dinas-Lud or z Gildas the Historian whom Monmowth cites and Polydore Virgil confesseth to have read Lud-Dine he it calls The old name chang'd which was at first new Troy Whose prints the Trin●bants in theirs enjoy Lud-Dine of Lud refounder of the same By use and time softned to Londons name Nor is the word Lud barbarous being found In Hebrew names by a Gen. 10.27 Moses self renown'd Therefore though Sems Lud was no' ' kin to this Yet to the word thence splend or added is This of all Cities in the British clime Because for majesty it was the prime Old seats a kind of majesty retain And finally because it was the main Of all which being Romes our Seas did wall Those times b Ammianus Mercellus Augusta nor did falsly call King c A Greek coyn of the Emperour Claudius in Octavius Strada and in the English Nero Caesar where it is explained Etiminius or d Svetonius Adminius he Who King Cun ' ob●lines son was one of three His court kept here when e Dion Cassius Beric sold our land To Claudius Caesar who did Rome command And by his right of conquest gain'd therein Made Romes walls f Pomeria protulit Old Inscriptions extant in Gruterus and Rolinus and the best ancient authors wider then they carst had bin London was long before g Cor. Pacitus Annal lib. 14. Cornelius wrote A place for trade and concourse most of note And known to Rome for such and long before To the bold h Julius Caesar writes that the Britains sent aid to the Galls and Strabo that the Veneti in Gallia had sea helps from hence in their war against Caesar for preserving their Mart here which was no where more likely to have been then at London which in Neros time was above all other Towns of ours most famous Venets on the Celtick shore Which bred such envy that the fates thought fit With Romes self in mishap to equal it Under one tyrant both to cinders turn'd That want only this miserably burn'd But Londons greater glory hence did spring That the first Christian i The old Brittish book translated by Monmouth Lucius was her King The realm k Hereof I have long since written a small book unpublished and London for a signe of this One crosse display gules in argent is A glorious standard God and good indeed When the brave English here l Matthew of Westminster and other old ones made Pagans bleed And Saracens there that Antichristian sect In m Henry of Huntingdon Matthew Ranis ●o●eden and others Cordelions dayes with blest effect Great are these glories and enow but more Doe here ensue That Monarch who first wore And first did spred in Roman arms the crosse And therewith his own standard did embosse Call'd Labarum n The coines of Constantine the Great and of other Emperours after him doe show the figure of