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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20090	Troia-Noua triumphans London triumphing, or, The solemne, magnificent, and memorable receiuing of that worthy gentleman, Sir Iohn Svvinerton Knight, into the citty of London, after his returne from taking the oath of maioralty at Westminster, on the morrow next after Simon and Iudes day, being the 29. of October. 1612. All the showes, pageants, chariots of triumph, with other deuices, (both on the water and land) here fully expressed. By Thomas Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1612 (1612)	STC 6530; ESTC S105286	11,287	28

Troia-Noua Triumphans London Triumphing OR The Solemne Magnificent and Memorable Receiuing of that worthy Gentleman Sir IOHN SVVINERTON Knight into the Citty of LONDON after his Returne from taking the Oath of Maioralty at Westminster on the Morrow next after Simon and Iudes day being the 29. of October 1612. All the Showes Pageants Chariots of Triumph with other Deuices both on the Water and Land here fully expressed By Thomas Dekker LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes and are to be sold by Iohn Wright dwelling at Christ Church-gate 1612. To the Deseruer of all those Honors which the Customary Rites of this Day And the generall Loue of this City bestow vpon him Sir IOHN SVVINERTON Knight Lord Maior of the renowmed City of London HONOR this day takes you by the Hand and giues you welcomes into your New-Office of Pretorship A Dignity worthie the Cities bestowing and most worthy your Receiuing You haue it with the Harts of many people Voices and Held-vp hands they know it is a Roabe fit for you and therefore haue clothed you in it May the Last-day of your wearing the same yeeld to your Selfe as much Ioy as to Others does this First-day of your putting it on I swimme for my owne part not onely in the Maine Full sea of the General praise and Hopes of you But powre out also for my particular such a streame as my Prayers can render for a successe answerable to the On-set for it is no Field vnlesse it be Crowned with victory I present Sir vnto you these labours of my Pen as the first and newest Congratulatory Offrings tendred into your hands which albeit I should not of my selfe deserue to see accepted I know notwithstanding you will giue to them a generous and gratefull entertainement in regard of that Noble Fellowship and Society of which you Yesterday were a Brother and This Day a Father who most freely haue bestowed these their Loues vpon you The Colours of this Peece are mine owne the Cost theirs to which nothing was wanting that could be had and euery thing had that was required To their Lasting memory I set downe This And to your Noble Disposition this I Dedicate My wishes being as euer they haue bene to meete with any Obiect whose reflexion may present to your Eyes that Loue and Duty In which I stand Bounden To your Lordship Thomas Dekker Troia Noua Triumphans London Triumphing TRyumphes are the most choice and daintiest fruit that spring from Peace and Abundance Loue begets them and Much Cost brings them forth Expectation feeds vpon them but seldome to a surfeite for when she is most full her longing wants something to be satisfied So inticing a shape they carry that Princes themselues take pleasure to behold them they with delight common people with admiration They are now and then the Rich and Glorious Fires of Bounty State and Magnificence giuing light and beauty to the Courts of Kings And now and then it is but a debt payd to Time and Custome And out of that dept come These Ryot hauing no hand in laying out the Expences and yet no hand in plucking backe what is held decent to be bestowed A sumptuous Thriftinesse in these Ciuil Ceremonies managing All. For it were not laudable in a City so rarely gouerned and tempered superfluously to exceed As contrariwise it is much honor to her when the Day of spending comes not to be sparing in any thing For the Chaires of Magistrates ought to be adorned and to shine like the Chariot which caries the Sunne And Beames if it were possible must be thought to be shot from the One as from the Other As well to dazle and amaze the common Eye as to make it learne that there is some Excellent and Extraordinary Arme from heauen thrust downe to exalt a Superior man that thereby the Gazer may be drawne to more obedience and admiration In a happy houre therefore did your Lordship take vpon you this inseperable burden of Honor and Cares because your selfe being Generous of mind haue met with men and with a Company equall to your Selfe in Spirit And vpon as fortunate a Tree haue they ingrafted their Bounty the fruites whereof shoot forth and ripen are gathered and taste sweetly in the mouthes not onely of this Citty but also of our best-to-be-beloued friends the Noblest strangers Vpon whom though none but our Soueraigne King can bestow Royall welcomes yet shall it be a Memoriall of an Exemplary Loue and Duty in those who are at the Cost of these Triumphs to haue added some Heightning more to them then was intended at first of purpose to do honor to their Prince and Countrey And I make no doubt but many worthy Companies in this City could gladly be content to be partners in the Disbursements so they might be sharers in the Glory For to haue bene leaden-winged now what infamy could be greater When all the streames of Nobility and Gentry run with the Tide hither When all Eares lye listning for no newes but of Feasts and Triumphs All Eyes still open to behold them And all harts and hands to applaud them When the heape of our Soueraignes Kingdomes are drawne in Little and to be seene within the Walles of this City Then to haue tied Bounty in too straight a girdle Proh scelus infandum No she hath worne her garments loose her lippes haue bene free in Welcomes her purse open and her hands liberall If you thinke I set a flattering glasse before you do but so much as lanch into the Riuer and there the Thames it selfe shall shew you all the Honors which this day hath bestowed vpon her And that done step againe vpon the Land and Fame will with her owne Trumpet proclaime what I speake And her I hope you cannot deny to beleeue hauing at least twenty thousand eyes about her to witnesse whether she be a Truetong'd Fame or a Lying By this time the Lord Maior hath taken his oath is seated in his barge againe a lowd thundring peale of Chambers giue him a Fare-well as he passes by And see how quickly we are in ken of land as suddenly therefore let vs leap on shore and there obserue what honorable entertainement the Citty affoords to their new Praetor and what ioyfull salutations to her noble Visitants The first Triumph on the Land THE Lord Maior and Companyes being landed the first Deuice which is presented to him on the shore stands ready to receiue him at the end of Pauls-Chayne on the south side the Church and this it is A Sea-Chariot artificially made proper for a God of the sea to sit in shippes dancing round about it with Dolphins and other great Fishes playing or lying at the foot of the same is drawne by two Sea-horses Neptune In this Chariot sits Neptune his head circled with a Coronet of siluer Scollup-shels stucke with branches of Corrall and hung thicke● with ropes of pearle because such things as these are the treasures of the Deepe