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A02732	The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince. Iames. the first of that name. King, of England. and the sixt of Scotland at his Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London. vpon the 15th. day of march 1603. Invented and published by Stephen Harrison ioyner and architect: and graven by William Kip.	Harrison, Stephen, joiner and architect.; Kip, William, engraver.; Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. Magnificent entertainment.; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. B. Jon: his part of King James his royall and magnificent entertainement through his honorable cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603. Selections.	1604 (1604)	STC 12863; ESTC S122021	15,089	28

THE ARCH'S OF TRIVMPH Erected in honor of the High and mighty prince Iames the first of that name King of England and the sixt of Scotland at his Maiesties Entrance and passage through his Honorable Citty chamber of London vpon the 15th day of march 1603 Invented and published by Stephen Harrison Ioyner and Architect and graven by William Kip. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR THOMAS BENNET KNIGHT LORD MAIOR OF THIS CITIE THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULl the Aldermen his Brethren and to those Worshipfull Commoners elected Committies for the Managing of this Businesse THE loue which I beare to your Honour and VVorships and the duty wherewith I am bound to this honourable Citie makes me appeare in this boldnesse to you To whome I humbly Consecrate these fruites of my inuention which Time hath nowe at length brought foorth and ripened to this perfection That Magnificent Royalty and glorious Entertainement which you your selues for your part out of a free a cleare and verie bounteous disposition and so many thousands of woorthie Citizens out of a sincere affection and loyalty of his Maiestie did with the sparing of no cost bestowe but vpon one day is here newe wrought vp againe and shall endure for euer For albeit those Monuments of your Loues were erected vp to the Cloudes and were built neuer so strongly yet now their lastingnes should liue but in the tongues and memories of men But that the hand of Arte giues them here a second more perfect beeing aduaunceth them higher then they were before and warrants them that they shall doe honour to this Citie so long as the Citie shall beare a name Sory I am that they come into the world no sooner but let the hardnesse of the labour and the small number of handes that were busied about them make the faulte if it bee a faulte excusable I would not care if these vnpainted Pictures were more Costly to me so that they might appeare curious enough to your Lordship and VVorships yet in regard that this present Age can lay before you no President that euer any in this land performed the like I presume these my endeuours shall receiue the more worthie liking of you And thus Dedicating my Labours and Loue to your honourable and kinde Acceptations I most humbly take my leaue this 16 of Iune 1604 Most affectionately deuoted to your Lordship and Worships Stephen Harrision Ode Babell that stroue to weare A Crowne of Cloudes and vp did reare her forehead hye With an ambitious lust to kisse the skie Is new or dust or not at all proud Nymrods wall And all his Antique monuments Left to the world as presidents Cannot now shew to tell where they did stand So much in length as halfe the Builders hand The Mansolaean tombe The sixteene curious gates in Rome which times preferre Both past and present Neroes Theater That in one day was all gilt o're Ad to these more Those Columnes and those Pyramids that won Wonder by height the Colosse of the Sun Th' Aegyptian Obelisks are all forgotten Onely their names grow great themselues be rotten Deare friend what honour then Bestow'st thou on thy Country men Crowning with praise By these thy labors as with wreathes of bayes this royall City where now stand built by thy hand Her Arches in new state so made That their fresh beauties n'ere shall fade Thou of our English Triumphes rear'st the Fame Boue those of old But aboue all thy name Tho. Dekker Ode Triumphes were wont with swet and bloud bee croun'd To every brow They did allow The liuing Laurer which begirted round Their rusty Helmets and had power to make The Souldier smile while mortall wound did ake But our more ciuill passages of state like happy feast of In'-urd rest Which bels and woundlesse Canons did relate Stood high in Ioy since warlike Triumphes bring Remembrance of our former sorrowing The memory of these should quickly fade for pleasures streame is like a dreame Passant and fleet as is a shade Vnlesse thy selfe which these faire Models bred Had giuen them a new life when they were dead Take then good Country man and friend that merit which folly lends not iudgment sends To forraine shores for stranger to inherit Perfection must be bold with front vpright Though Enuy gnash her teeth whilst she would bite Ioh. Webster The Deuice called Londinium THese fiue Triumphall Arches were first taken in hand in the beginning of Aprill 1603. presently after his Maiesty was proclaimed It being expected that his passage would haue bene through his honourable City and Chamber to his Coronation vpon Saint Iames his day following But by reason of the sicknesse it pleased his Maiestie to be solemnely Crowned at Westminster without sight of these Triumphs Notwithstanding the businesse being set on foote went on with all expedition till Bartholmew-tide and then ceased because of the great mortalitie 40. dayes more was giuen for the preparing of this Triumphall Arch In which time the streetes for that purpose were diligently surueyed heights breadths and distances taken as it were to make Fortisications for the solemnities Seuen peeces of ground like so many fields for a battell were plotted forth vpon which these Triumphes should be erected The gladsome and long desired Morning at length is come In which the Streetes seeme to bee paued with people that in heapes flocke together to behold their proud heads that were aduanced in this manner THE first Pegme was erected in Fanchurch-streete the backe of it so learning on the East ende of the Church that it ouer-spread the whole streete And thus we describe it It was a Flat-square builded vpright the Perpendicular-line of the whole Frame that is to say the distance from the bottome to the top as the Ground-line is also in this so in all the rest to be found out and tried by the Scale diuided by 1. 2. 3. 4. and 5. and set at the lower end of the Peece By which figures feete are represented So that in all the descriptions where mention is to bee made of Heights Breadths or any other Commensurable proportions you shall find them left thus with a blancke because we wish you rather to apply them to the Scale your selfe then by setting them downe to call either your skill or iudgement in question And note withall that the Ground-plot hath not the same Scale which the vpright hath for of the two Scales which you see annexed the Lesser is of the Ground and standeth in the Ground-plot the Greater for the Edifice or Building it selfe This Gate of Passage then into which his Maiesty made his first entrance was deriued from the Tuscana beeing the principal pillar of those 5. vpon which the Noble Frame of Architecture doth stand for the Tuscane Columne is the strongest most worthy to support so famous a Worke as this Fabricke was considering that vpon his Rusticke Pillars the goodliest Houses Turrets Steeples c. within this City were to be borne And those

Models stood as a Coronet on the forehead or Battlements of this Great and Magnificent Edifice The cheekes or sides of the Gate were as it were doubly guarded with the Pottraitures of Atlas King of Mauritania who according to his owne shortnesse and thicknesse from the Symetry of his foote caused a pillar to be made whose height with Base and Capitall was 6. times the thicknesse in height And so is this of ours bearing the name of Tuscana as we sayd before and reaching to the very point of the Arch from whence wee did deriue Dorica which bore vp the Architiue Frize and Coronixe and was garnished with Corbels or Croxtels fitting such worke besides the beauty of Pyramids Beasts Water Tables and many other inrichments which you may find exprest in the Peece it selfe From a Gallery directly ouer the gate the sound of loud Musicke being the Waites and Hault-boyes of the City was sent forth At the foot of the Battlemēts was in Capitall letters inscribed this word Londinium beneath that these words Camera Regia In this Pegme or Arch Triumphall were placed 12. personages of which she that had the preeminence to sit highest was cald Monarchia Britannica At her feete sate Diuine Wisedome On her right hand sate three of the daughters of Genius Vrbis whose names were Veneration Promptitude Vigilance On her left the other three viz. Gladnesse Louing Affection Vnanimitte Beneath all these stood the Genius of the Citty richly attirde being supported on the right hand by a person figuring The Councell of the City and on the left by a person figuring the Warlike force of the City Directly vnder these in an Abacke thrust out before the rest lay Thamesis the Riuer leaning his Arme vpon a Gourde out of which water with liue fishes were seene to runne forth and play about him The speakers were onely Thamesis and Genius who vttered these speeches following on the other side The speeches of Gratulation GENIVS TIme Fate and Fortune haue at length conspir'd To giue our Age the day so much desir'd What all the minutes houres weekes moneths and yeares That hang in file vpon these siluer haires Could not produce beneath the Britane stroke The Roman Saxon Dane and Norman yoke This point of Time bath done Now London reare Thy forehead high and on it striue to weare Thy choisest Gems Teach thy steepe Towers to rise Higher with people Set with sparkling eyes Thy spacious windowes and in euery streete Let thronging Ioy Loue and Amazement meete Cleaue all the aire with showtes and let the cry Strike through as long and vniuersally As thunder For thou now art blist to see That sight for which thou didst beginne to be When Brutus plough first gaue thee infant bounds And I thy GENIVS walk's auspicious rounds In euery furrow Then did I forelooke And saw this day mark't white in Clotho's booke The seuerall Circles both of change and sway Within this Isle there also figur'd lay Of which the greatest perfectest and last Was this whose present happinesse we taste Why keep you silence Daughters What dull peace Is this inhabites you Shall office cease Vpon th' aspect of him to whom you owe 〈…〉 Shall TIME knowe That Article wherein your flame stood still An 〈…〉 Now heauen auert an I 'd Of that blacke looke Ere pause possesse your breasts I wish you more of Plagues Zeale when it rests Leaues to be zeale Vp thou tame RIVER wake And from thy liquid limbes this slumber shake Thou drown'st thy selfe in inofficious sleepe And these thy sluggish waters seeme to creepe Rather them flow Vprise and swell with pride Aboue thy bankes Now is not euery Tyde THAMESIS TO what vaine end should I contend to show My weaker powers when Seas of pompe o'reflow The Citties face and couer all the shore With san is more rich than Tagus wealthy ore When in the stood of Ioy that comes with him He drownes the world yet makes it liue and swimme And spring with gladnesse Not my fishes heere Though they be dumbe but do expresse the cheere of these bright streames No lesse may These and I Boast our delights albe't we silent lie GENIVS INdeed true Gladnesse doth not alwayes speake Ioy bred and borne but in the tongue is weake Yet least the feruor of so pure a flame As this my City beares might loose the name Without the apt euenting of her heate Know greatest IAMES and no lesse good than great In the behalfe of all my vertuous Sonnes Whereof my eldest there thy pompe forerunnes A Man without my flattering or his Pride As worthy as hee 's blest to be thy guide In his graue name and all his Brethrens right Who thirst to drinke the Nectar of thy sight The Councell Commoners and Multitude Glad that this day so long deny'd is viewd I tender thee the heartiest welcome yet That euer King had to his Empires seate Neuer came man more long'd for more desir'd And being come more reuerenc'd lou'd admir'd Heare and record it In a Prince it is No little vertue to knowe who are his With like deuotions do I stoope t' embrace This springing glory of thy Godlike race His Countries wonder Hope Loue Ioy and Pride How well dooth he become the royall side Of this erected and broad spreading Tree Vnder whose shade may Brittane euer be And from this branch may thousand branches more Shoote or'e the Maine and knit with euery shore In bonds of Mariage Kinred and Increase And stile this Land the Nauill of their peace This is your Seruants wish your Cities vow Which still shall propagate it selfe with you And free from spurres of Hope that slow minds moue He seekes no hire that owes his life to Loue And heere she comes that is no lesse a part In this dayes greatnesse then in my glad heart Glory of Queenes and Glory of your Name Whose Graces do as farre out-speake your Fame As Fame doth silence when her Trumpet rings You Daughter Sister Wife of seuerall Kings Besides Alliance and the stile of Mother In which one title you drowne all your other Instance be that faire shoote is gone before Your eldest Ioy and top of all your store With those whose sight to vs is yet deni'd But not our zeale to them or ought beside This City can to you For whose estate She hopes you will be still good Aduocate To her best Lord So whilst you mortall are No taste of sower mortalitie once dare Approach your house nor Fortune greete your Grace But comming on and with a forward face The Italians Pegme stood in Gracious-streete THE second Triumphall Arch was erected by the Italians the cost theirs the Inuention their owne It tooke vp the whole breadth of Gracious-streete on which it stood being foote the height of it was foote The lower parte of this Building was a large square garnished with foure great Corinthia Columnes In the midst of which square was cut out a faire and a Spacious hie gate Arched

name is called Hortus Euporiae Plenties Bower Chast are they both and both maidens in memory of a Virgine to whom they were Nurse-children for whose sake because they were bound to her for their life me haue they charged to lay at your Imperiall feete being your hereditary due the tribute of their loue And with it thus to say That they haue languished many heauy moneths for your presence which to them would haue bene and proud they are that it shall be now so of the same operation and influence that the Sunne is to the Spring and the Spring to the Earth hearing therefore what treble preferment you haue bestowed vpon this day wherein besides the beames of a glorious Sunne two other cleere and gracious Starres shine cheerefully on these her homely buildings Into which because no duty should be wanting she hath giuen leaue euen to Strangers to be sharers in her happinesse by suffering them to bid you likewise welcome By me once hers now your vassaile shee intreates and with a knee sinking lower then the ground on which you treade do I humbly execute her pleasure that ere you passe further you would deigne to walke into yonder Garden The Hesperides liue not there but the Muses and the Muses no longer than vnder your protection Thus farre am I sent to conduct you thither prostrately begging this grace since I dare not as being vnworthy Lackey by your Royall side that yet these my greene Followers and my selfe may be Ioyfull forerunners of your expected approch Away Syluans The Deuice called Cozmoz Neoz New World THE sixt Triumphall Arch was in the shape which you see it caries on the other side erected aboue the Conduit in Fleetestreete extending it selfe ouer the whole streete to the length of foote and in height foote The Gate of it was foote wide and foote hie The two Posternes were answerable to those of others set downe before and were cut out of the two round Towers which riz vp in proportionable measures from the ground on the foreside with battlements and Ballisters round enclosing the tops containing in all their heights foote ouer the Gate and iust in the midst of the Building which was spacious and left open a Globe was seene to moue being fild with all the estates that are in the land And this Engine was turned about by foure persons representing the foure Elements Earth Water Aire and Fire who were placed so queintly that the Globe seemed to haue his motion euen on the Crownes of their heads The liuely garnishments to this Building were 23 persons of which the principall and worthiest was Astraea Iustice who was aduanced to the highest Seate Beneath her in a Cant by her selfe Arete Vertue was placed and at her feete Fortune who trod vpon the Globe In a darke and obscure place neere Vertue sate Enuy beneath whom on seuerall Ascensions were placed the Cardinall Vertues Iustice Fortitude Temperance and Prudence and in an opposite seate the foure kingdomes England Scotland France and Ireland Zeale was the Presenter of this Deuice who spake thus ZEALE THe populous Globe of this our English I le Seemed to moue backward at the funerall pile Of her dead female Maiesty All states From Nobles downe to Spirits of meaner Fates Moou'd opposite to Nature and to Peace As if these men had bene Th' antipodes But see the vertue of a regall eye Th' attractiue wonder of mans Maiestie Our Globe as drawne in a right line agen And now appeare new faces and new men The Elements Earth Water Ayre and Fire Which euer clipt a naturall desire To combat each with other being at first Created enemies to fight their worst See as the peacefull presence of their King How quietly they moue without their Sting Earth not deuouring Fire not defacing Water not drowning and the Ayre not chasing But propping the queint Fabricke that here stands Without the violence of their wrathfull hands Mirror of times loe where they Fortune sits Aboue the world and all our humaine wits But thy hie Vertue aboue that what pen Or Art or Braine can reach thy Vertues then At whose Immortall brightnesse and true light Enuies infectious eyes haue lost their sight Her Snakes not daring to shoote forth their stings Gainst such a glorious Obiect downe she flings Their forkes of Venome into her owne mawe Whilst her ranke teeth the glittering poysons chawe For t is the property of Enuies bloud To dry away at euery Kingdomes good Especially when she had eyes to view These foure Maine Vertues which here figure you Iustice in causes Fortitude gainst foes Temp'rance in spleene and Prudence in all those And then so rich an Empire whose faire brest Containes foure Kingdomes by your entrance blest By Brute diuided but by you alone All are againe vnited and made One Whose fruitfull glories shine so farre and euen They touch not onely earth but they kisse heauen From whence Astraea is descended hither Who with our last Queenes Spirit fled vp thither Fore-knowing on the earth she could not rest Till you had lockt her in your rightfull brest And therefore all estates whose proper Arts Liue by the breath of Maiestie had harts Burning in holy Zeales Immaculate sires With quenchlesse Ardors and vnstain'd desires To see what they now see your powerfull Grace Reflecting Ioyes on euery Subiects face These painted flames and yellow-burning stripes Vpon this roabe being but as shewes and types Of that great Zeale And therefore in the name Of this glad Citty whither no Prince euer came More lou'd more longd for lowly I intreate You 'ld be to her as gracious as y' are great So with reuerberate shoutes our Globe shall ring The Musicks cloze being thus God saue our King The Deuice called Templum Iani Temple of Ianus THE seuenth and last Pegme within the Citie was erected at Temple-barre beeing adioyned close to the Gate The Building was in all points like a Temple and dedicated to Ianus Quadrifrons Beneath that Foure-fac'd head of Ianus was aduancd the Armes of the Kingdome with the Supporters cut out to the life from whence being remoude they now are placed in the Guild Hall The wals and gates of this Temple were brasse the Pillars siluer their Capitals and Bases gold All the Frontispice downeward from those Armes was beutified and supported by twelue rich Columnes of which the foure lowermost being great Corinthian pillers stood vpon two large Pedestals with a faire Vaux ouer them in stead of Architriue Frieze and Cornice Aboue them eight Columnes more were likewise set two and two vpon a large Pedestall for as our worke began for his Maiesties entrance with Rusticke so did wee thinke it fit that this out Temple should end with the most famous Columne whose beauty and goodlinesse is deriued both from the Tuscane Doricke Ionicke and Corinthian and receiued his full perfection from Titus Vespasian who aduanced it to the highest place of dignitie in his Arch Triumphall and by reason that