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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07513	The tryumphs of honor and industry A solemnity performed through the City, at confirmation and establishment of the Right Honorable, George Bovvles, in the office of his Maiesties lieuetenant, the Lord Mayor of the famous Citty of London. Taking beginning at his Lordships going, and proceeding after his returne from receiuing the oath of maioralty at Westminster, on the morrow next after Simon and Iudes day, October 29. 1617.	Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.	1617 (1617)	STC 17899; ESTC S112598	5,255	20

Don Maior todas buenas y dichosas fortunas Y a los de la honrada Compania de Especicros dichosos dessi eos Y assi dios guarde a my senior Don Maior y rogo à dios que todo el anno siguiente puede ser tan dichoso como esta entrada suya a la digmday de lu seniora Guarde dios a su sennoria The same in English NOne of all these Nations conceiue more true ioy at this triumphant day then my self to my Lord Mayor all faire and noble fortunes and to the worthy Society of Grocers all happy wishes and I pray heauen that all the yeere following may be as happy and successefull as this first entrance to your dignity This expression of their ioy and loue hauing spent it selfe I know you cannot part contented without their seuerall inscriptions now the fauour and helpe must be in you to conceiue our breadth and limits and not to thinke we can in these customary bounds comprehend all the nations but so many as shall serue to giue content to the vnderstander which thus produce themselues An Englishman A Frenchman An Irishman A Spanyard A Turke A Iew. A Dane A Polander A Barbarian A Ruscian or Moscouian This fully exprest I arriue now at that part of Tryumph which my Desire euer hastned to come to this Castle of Fame or Honor which Industry brings her Sonnes vnto in their Reuerend Ages In the front of this Castle Reward and Industry deckt in bright Robes keepe a Seate betweene them for him to whom the Dayes honour is dedicated shewing how many worthy Sonnes of the Citty and of the same Society haue by their Truth Desert and Industry come to the like honour before him where on a sudden is shewne diuerse of the same Right Worshipfull Society of Grocers manifested both by their good gouernment in their Times as also by their Escuchions of Armes as an example and encouragement to all Vertuous and Industrious deseruers in time to come And in honour of Antiquity is shewne that Antient and Memorable Worthy of the Grocers Company Andrew Bockrill who was Maior of London the sixteenth yeare of Henry the third 1231. and continued so Mayor seuen yeares together Likewise for the greater honour of the Company is also shewne in this Castle of Fame the Noble Allen de la Zouch Grocer who was Maior of London the two and fiftieth yeare of the same Henry the third which Allen de la Zouch for his good Gouernement in the Time of his Maioralty was by the sayd King Henry the third made both a Baron of this Realme and Lord Chiefe Iustice of England Also that Famous Worthy Sir Thomas Knoles Grocer twice Maior of this Honorable Citty which Sir Thomas begunne at his owne charge that famous building of Guild-hall in London and other Memorable workes both in this Citty and in his owne Company so much Worthinesse being the Lustre of this Castle and ought indeed to be the Imitation of the Beholder My Lord no sooner approaches but Reward a Partner with Iustice in keeping that Seate of Honor as ouer-ioyde at the sight of him appeares too free and forward in the Resignation Reward VVElcome to Fames bright Castle take thy place This seate's reserud to doe thy vertues grace Iustice TRue but not yet to be possest heare me Iustice must flow through him before that bee Great works of Grace must be requird and done Before the honor of this Seate be won A whole yeeres reuerend care in righting wrongs And guarding Innocence from malicious tongues Must be imployde in Vertues sacred right Before this place be fild t is no meane fight That wins this Palme truth and a vertuous care Of the oppressed those the Loadstones are That will gainst Enuies power drawe him forth To take this merit in this seat of worth Where all the memorable worthies shine In works of brightnesse able to refine All the beholders minds and strike new fire To kindle an industrious desire To imitate their actions and their Fame Which to this Castle addes that glorious Name Wherefore Reward free as the Ayre or Light There must be Merit or our work 's not right Reward IF there were any error t was my loue And if it be a fault to be too free Reward commits but once such heresie How ere I know your worth will so extend Your fame will fill this seat at twelue months end About this Castle of Fame are plast many honorable figures as Truth Antiquity Harmony Fame Desert Good works on the top of the castle Honour Religion Piety Commiseration the workes of those whose memories shine in this Castle If you looke vpon Truth first you shall finde her properly exprest holding in her right hand a Sunne in the other a Fanne of Stars Antiquity with a scrowle in her hand as keeper of Honors Records Harmony holding a golden Lute and Fame not without her siluer trumpet for desert t is glorious through her owne brightnesse but holdes nothing good works exprest with a Colledge or Hospitall On the toppe of the Castle Honor manifested by a faire Starre in his hand Religion with a Temple on her head Piety with an Altar Commiseration with a melting or burning Heart And not to haue our speakers forgotten Reward and Iustice with whom wee entred this part of Triumph Rewarde holding a wreath of gold ready for a deseruer and Iustice furnisht with her Sword and ballance All this seruice is performed before the Feast some in Pauls Church-yard some in Cheap-side at which place the whole Triumphe meets both Castle and Iland that gaue delight vpon the water And now as duety binds me I commend my Lord and his right honorable Guesse to the solemne pleasure of the feast from whence I presume all Epicurisme is banisht for where Honor is master of the feast Moderation and Grauity are alwayes attendants The feast being ended at Guild-hall my Lord as yeerly custome inuites him goes accompanied with the triumphe towards S. Pauls to performe the noble and reuerend ceremonies which diuine Antiquity vertuously ordained and is no lesse then faithfully obserude which is no meane lustre to the City Holy seruice and ceremonies accomplisht he returnes by torch-light to his owne house the whole triumphe plac't in comely order before him and at the entrance of his gate Honor a glorious person from the top of the Castle giues life to these following words The speech of Honor from the top of the Castle at the entrance of my Lord Mayors Gate Honor. THere is no humane glory or renowne But haue their euening their sure sun-setting Which shews that we should vpward seeke our Crown And make but vse of time for our hopes bettering So to be truely mindfull of our owne Is to performe all parts of good in one The close of this triumphant day is come And Honor stayes to bid you welcome home All I desire for my Grace and good Is but to be remembred in your bloud With Honor to accomplish the faire time Which power hath put into your hands A crime As great as euer came into sins band I doo entitle a too sparing hand Nothing deads Honor more then to behold Plenty coopt vp and Bounty faint and cold Which ought to be the free life of the yeere For bounty t was ordaynd to make that cleere Which is the light of goodnesse and of Fame And puts by Honor from the cloude of shame Great cost and loue hath nobly bin bestowd Vpon thy triumph which this day hath showd Embrace 'em in thy heart till times afford Fuller expression in one absolute word All the content that euer made man blest This triumph done make a triumphant brest No sooner the speech is ended but the triumph is dissolud and not possible to scape the hands of the defacer things that for their quaintnesse I dare so farre commend them haue not beene vsually seen throgh the City the credit of which workmāship I must iustly lay vpon the deserts of Mr. Rowland Bucket chiefe master of the work yet not forgetting the faithfull care and industry of my well approoued friend Master Henry Wilde and Master Iacob Challoner partners in the businesse The season cuts me off after this dayes trouble I am as willing to take my rest FINIS