atque aeternaruinas Inuenies illic incisa adamante perenni Fata c. a A riuer diuiding Spaine and Portugall and by the consent of Poets stil'd aurifer b Vnderstanding Euphrosyne Sebasis Prothymia c a The Lord Maior vvho for his yeere hath Senior place of the rest and for the day vvas chief Serieant to the King b Aboue the blessing of his present office the vvord had some particular allusion to his name vvhich is Benet and hath no doubt in time bin the contraction of Benedict c The Cittie vvhich title is toucht before * To the Prince d An attribute giuen to great persons fitly aboue other Humanity in frequent vse vvith al the Greek Poets especially Homer Iliad {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And in the same Booke {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a As Lactant. calls Parnassus Vmbilicum terra To the Queene b An emphaticall speach vvell re-enforcing her greatnes being by this match more than either hir Brother Father c. c Daughter to Frederik secÅd kind of Denmarke Norway sister to Christierne the fourth novve there raigning vvife to Iames our Soueraigne d The Prince Henry Frederike Bassus apud Macro lib. 1. Satur. ca. 9. li. 8. Epi. 2. Fast. lib. I. So Cephisiodotus hath fained him See Paus. in Boeoti Phil. in Imag. contrarie to Aristop. Theogn Lucian and others that make him blinde and deformed Sil Ital De Malii Theo. coÌ„s Panegy Eclog. 4. Aeneid lib. 11. * One of the three Flamines that as some think Numa PoÌ„pilius first instituted but vve rather vvith Varro take him of Romulus institution vvhereof there vvere onely tvvo Hee and Dialis to vvhom he vvas next in dignity He vvas alvvaies created out of the Nobilitie did performe the rites to Mars vvho vvas thought the Father of Romulus c Scaliger in coniect. in Varr: saith Totus Pileus vel potiùs velamenta Flammcum dicebatur vnde Flamines dicti d To this lookes that other coniecture of Varro lib. 4. de lingua Latina Flamines quòd licio in Capite velati erant semper ac caput cinctum habebant filo Flamines dicti e Which in their attire vvas called Stroppus in their vviues Inarculum f Scal. Ibid in con Pone enim regerebant apicem ne grauis esset summis aestatis caloribus Amentis enim quae offendices dicebantur sub mentum adductis religabant vt cum vellent regererent pone pendere permitterent a Of Mars vvhose rites as vvee haue toucht before this FlameÌ„ did specially celebrate b With vs the 15. of March vvhich vvas the present day of this Triumph and on vvhich the great feast of Anna Perenna among the RomaÌ„s vvas yearly and vvith such solemnitie remeÌ„bred Oui. Fast. 3. Idibus est Annae festuÌ„ geniale Perennae Haud procul a ripis c. c Who this Anna should be vvith the Romanes themselues hath beene no trifling controuersie Some haue thought her fabulously the sister of Dido some a Nimphe of Numicius some Io some Themis Others an olde vvoman of Bouillae that fed the seditious multitude in Monte sacro vvith Wafers and fine Cakes in time of their penurie so vvhom aftervvard in memory of the benefit their peace being made vvith the Nobles they ordaind this feast Yet they that haue thought nearest haue mist all these and directly imagined her the Moone And that she vvas calld Anna Quia mensibus impleat annuÌ„ Ovid ibid. To vvhich the vovv that they vsd in her Rites somvvhat confirmingly alludes vvhich vvas vt Annare Perennare commodè liceret Maor Sat. lib. 1. cap. I 2 d So Ouid. ibid. Fast. makes Mars speaking to her Mense meo coleris iunxi mea tempora tecum e Nuper erat dea facta c. ibid. Ouid. f Where is vnderstood the meeting of the Zodiack in March the month vvherein she is celebrated g That face vvherevvith he beholds the Spring h Written vpon the Altar for vvhich vvee refer you to the Page D. 3. i The Queene to ansvvere vvhich in our inscription vvee spake to the King MARTE MAIORI k The Temple of Ianus vve apprehend to be both the house of War Peace of War vvhen it is open of Peace vvhen it is shut And that there each ouer the other is interchangeably placd to the vicissitude of Times l Which are Peace Rest Liberty Safetie c and vvere his actiuely but the vvorlds passiuely m Somevvhat a strange Epithite in our tongue but proper to the thing for they vvere only Masculine Odours vvhich vvere offerd to the Altars Vir. Ecl. 8. Verbenasque adole pingueis et mascula Tura And Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 12. cap. 14. speaking of these hath Quod ex eo rotunditate guttam pependit Masculum vocamus cum alias non fere mas vocetur vbi non sit femina religioni tributum ne sexus alter vsurparetur Masculum aliqui putant a specie testium dictum See him also lib. 34. cap. 11. And Arnob lib. 7. aduers. Gent. Non si mille iupoÌ„dera masculi Turis incendas c. n According to Romulus his institution vvho made March the first Month and consecrated it to his Father of vvhome it vvas called Martius Varr. Fest. in Frag. Martius mensis initium anni fuit et in Latio post Romam conditam c. And Ouid. Fast. 3. A te principium Romano dicimus anno Primus de patrio nomine mensis erit Vox ratafit c. See Macro lib. 1. Sat. cap. 12. and Solin in Poly. hist. cap. 3 Quòd hoc meÌ„se mercedes exoluerint magistris quas completus annus deberi fecisset c. o Some to vvhom vve haue read this haue takeÌ„ it for a Tautologie thinking Time inough express'd before in Yeares and Months For vvhose ignorant sakes vve must confesse to haue taken the better part of this trauale in noting a thing not vsuall neither affected of vs but vvhere there is necessitie as here to auoide their dull censures vvhere in Yeares and Months vve alluded to that is obserued in our former note but by Time vve vnderstand the present that from this instant we should begin to reckon and make this the first of our Time Which is also to be helpt by Emphasis p In vvhich he vvas slaine in the Senate Paraph. in Arat Phaenom a Fest. Aui paraph. Pars ait Idææ defleÌ„tem incendia Troiae et numerosa suae lugeÌ„tem funerae gentis Electram tetris moestum dare nubibus orbem Besides the reference to antiquity this speach might be vnderstood by Allegorie of the Tovvne here that had beene so ruined vvith sicknesse c. b Hyginus Sed postquaÌ„ Troia fuit capta Progenies cius quae à Dardano fuit euersa dolore permotam ab his se remouisse in circulo qui Arcticus dicitur constitisse c. c Electra signifies Serenity it selfe and is compounded of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} vvhich is the Sunne and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that signifies serene She is mentioned to be Anima sphaerae solis by Proclus Com. in Hesiod d She is also faind to be the Mother of the Rainbovv Nascitur enim Iris ex aqua et serenitate è refractione radioruÌ„ scilicet Arist. in Meteorol e Val. Flac. Argonaut 1. makes the Rainbovv indicum serenitatis Emicuit reserata dies coelumque resoluit Arcus in summos redierunt nubila montes f A name of the Sunne Stat. The. lib. 1. torquentem cornua Mithran And Martian Capel lib. 3. de nup. Mer. Phil. Te Serapim Nilus Memphis veneratur Osirin Dissona sacra Mithran c. g Alcyone Celaeno Taygete Asterope Merope Maia vvhich are also said to bee the soules of the other sphaeres as Electra of the Sunne Proclus ibi in com Alcyone Veneris Celaeno Saturni Taygete Lunae Asterop. Iouis Merope Martis Maia Mercurij h Alluding backe to that of our TeÌ„ple i London k His Citty of Westminster in vvhose name and at vvhose charge together vvith the Duchie of Lancaster this Arch vvas erected l Since here they not only sate being Crovvnd but also first receiued their Crovvnes m Hor. Car. lib. 4. Ode 9. Ducentis ad se cuncta pecuniae n For our more authoritie to induce her thus See Fest. Auien. paraph. in Arat. speaking of Electra Nonnumquam Oceani tamen istam surgere ab vndis In conuexa poli sed sede carere sororum Atque os discretum procul edere detestatam Germanosque choros sobolis lachrymare ruinas Diffusamque comas corni crinisque soluti Monstrari effigie c. o All Comets vvere not fatall some vvere fortunatly ominous as this to vvhich vve allude and vvherefore vve haue Plinies testimonie Nat. Histo lib. 2. cap. 25. Cometes in vno totius orbis loco colitur in templo Romae admodum faustus Diuo Augusto iudicatus ab ipso qui incipiente eo apparuit ludis quos faciebat Veneri Genetrici non multo post obitum patris Caesaris in Collegio ab eo instituto Namque his verbis id gaudium prodidit Iisipsis ludorum meorum diebus sydus crinitum per septem dies in regione Coeli quae sub septentrionibus est conspectum Id oriebatur circa vndecimam horam dici clarumque omnibus terris conspicuum fuit Eo sydere significari vulgus credidit Caesaris animam inter Deorum immortalium numina receptam quo nomine id insigne simulacro capitis eius quod mox in foro consecrauimus adiectum est Hec Ille in publicum interiore gaudio sibi illum natum seque in conasci inter pretatus est Et si verum fatemur salutare id terris fuit
long Crimson robe to witnesse his nobility his typpet and sleeues white as reflecting on purity in his religion a rich mantle of gold with a traine to expresse the dignity of his function Vpon his head a Hat of delicate wooll whose top ended in a Cone and was thence called Apex according to that of Lucan lib. 1. Attollensque Apicem generoso vertice Flamen This Apex was couered with a fine net of yearne which they named Apiculum was sustained with a bowd twigge of Pomgranat tree it was also in the hot time of Summer to be bound with Ribands and throwne behinde them as Scaliger teacheth In his hand hee bore a golden Censor with perfume and censing about the Altar hauing first kindled his fier on the toppe is interrupted by the Genius GENIVS STay what art thou that in this strange attire Darst kindle stranger and vnhallowed fire Vpon this Altar FL. Rather what art thou That darst so rudely interrupt my vowe My habit speakes my name GE. A Flamin FL. Yes And Martialis calld GE. I so did gesse By my short view but whence didst thou ascend Hither or how or to what mistick end FL. The noise and present tumult of this Day Rowsd me from sleepe and silence where I lay Obscur'd from light which when I wakt to see I wondring thought what this great pompe might be When looking in my Kalender I found The Ides of Marche were entred and I bound With these to celebrate the Geniall feast Of ANNA stil'd PERENNA MARS his guest Who in this Moneth of his is yearly call'd To banquet at his Altars and instald A Goddesse with him since shee filles the Yeare And knits the oblique scarfe that girts the spheare Whilest foure fac't IANVS turnes his vernall looke Vpon their meeting howers as if he tooke High pride and pleasure GE. Sure thou stil dost dreame And both thy tongue and thought rides on the streame Of Phantasy Behold here Hee nor Shee Haue any Altar Fane or Deity Stoope read but this inscription and then veiwe To whome the Place is consecrate T is trew That this is IANVS Temple and that nowe He turnes vpon the Yeare his freshest browe That this is MARS his moneth and these the Ides Wherein his ANNE was honourd Both the Tides Titles and Place wee knowe But these dead rites Are long since buried and newe power excites More highe and hartie flames Loe there is hee Who brings with him a greater ANNE then shee Whose strong and potent vertues haue defac'd Sterne MARS his Statues and vpon them plac'd His and the worlds blest blessings This hath brought Sweete Peace to sit in that bright state she ought Vnbloodie or vntroubled hath forc'd hence All tumults feares or other darke portents That might inuade weake mindes hath made men see Once more the face of welcome Liberty And doth in all his present actes restore That first pure world made of the better Ore Now Innocence shall cease to be the spoile Of rauenous Greatnesse or to steepe the soile Of raised Pesantrie with teares and bloud No more shall rich men for their little good Suspect to be made guiltie or vile Spies Enioye the lust of their so murdring eyes Men shall put off their Yron mindes and hearts The Time forget his olde malicious artes With this new minute and no print remaine Of what was thought the former ages staine Back FLAMIN with thy superstitious fumes And cense not heere Thy ignorance presumes Too much in acting any Ethnick rite In this translated Temple Heere no wight To sacrifice saue my deuotion comes That brings insteed of those thy Masculine gummes My Citties heart which shall for euer burne Vpon this Altar and no Time shall turne The same to ashes Heere I fixe it fast Flame bright flame high and may it euer last Whilest I before the figure of thy Peace Still tend the fire and giue it quick increase With praiers wishes vowes whereof be these The least and weakest that no Age may leese The Memory of this so rich a daye But rather that it henceforth yearely may Begin our Spring and with our spring the prime And first accompt of Yeares of Months of Time And may these Ides as fortunate appeare To thee as they to Caesar fatall were Be all thy Thoughts borne perfect and thy Hopes In their euents still crownd beyond their scopes Let not wide Heauen that secret blessing know To giue which shee on thee will not bestow Blind Fortune be thy slaue and may her store The lesse thou seek'st it follow thee the more Much more I would but see these brazen Gates Make hast to close as vrged by thy Fates Here ends my Cities office here it breakes Yet with my tongue and this pure heart she speakes A short farewell and lower then thy feete With feruent thankes thy royall paines doth greete Pardon if my abruptnesse breed disease He merits not t' offend that hastes to please Ouer the Alter was written this Inscription D. I. O. M. BRITANNI ARVM IMP. PACIS VINDICI MARTE MAIORI P. P. F. S. AVGVSTO NOVO. GENTIVM CONIVNCTARVM NVMINI TVTELARI D. A. CONSERVATRICI ANNAE IPSAE PERENNAE DEABVSQVE VNIVERSIS OPTATIORI SVI FORTVNATISSIMI THALAMI SOCIAE ET CONSORTI PVLCHERIMAE AVGVSTISSIMAE ET H. F. P. FILIO SVO NOBILISSIMO OB. ADVENTVM AD VRBEM HANC SVAM EXPECTATISSIMVM GRATISSIMVM CELEBRATISSIMVM CVIVS NON RADII SED SOLES POTIVS FVNESSIMAM NVPER AERIS INTEMPERIEM SERENARVNT S. P. Q. L. VOTIS. X. VOTIS. XX. ARDENTISSIMIS L. M. HANC ARAM. P. And vpon the Gate being shut IMP. IACOBVS MAX. CAESAR AVG. P. P. PACE POPVLO BRITANNICO TERRA MARIQVE PARTA IANVM CLVSIT S. C. THus hath both Court-Towne-and Countrey-Reader our portion of deuise for the Cittie neither are we ashamed to professe it being assured well of the difference betweene it and Pageantry If the Mechanick part yet standing giue it any distaste in the wrye mouthes of the Time we pardon them for their owne ambitious ignorance doth punish them inough From hence we will turne ouer a new leafe with you and lead you to the Pegme in the Strand a worke thought on begun and perfected in twelue dayes THe Inuention was a Raine-bow the Moone Sunne and those seauen Starres which antiquitie hath stil'd the Pleiades or Vergiliae aduanced betweene two Magnificent Pyramid's of 70. foote in height on which were drawne his Maiesties seuerall pedigrees Eng. and Scot To which body being framd before we were to apt our soule And finding that one of these seauen lights Electra is rarely or not at all to be seene as Ouid. lib. 4. Fast affirmeth Pleiades incipient humeros releuare paternos Quae septem dici sex tamen esse solent And by and by after Siue quòd Electra Troiae spectare ruinas Non tulit aute oculos opposuitque
manum And Festus Auien. Fama vetus septem memor at genitore creatas Longaeuo sex se rutila inter sidera tantùm Sustollunt c. And beneath cerni sex solas carmine Mynthes Asserit Electram coelo abscessisse profundo c. We ventred to follow this authoritie and made her the speaker presenting her hanging in the ayre in figure of a Comet according to Anonymus Electra non sustinens videre casum pronepotum sugerit vnde illam disso lutis crinibus propter luctum ire asserunt et propter comas quidam Cometen appellant The speach Electra THe long Laments I spent for ruin'd Troy Are dried and now mine eyes run teares of Ioy No more shall men suppose Electra dead Though from the consort of her sisters fled Vnto the Arctick circle here to grace And guild this day with her serenest Face And see my daughter Iris hasts to throw Her Rose at wings in compasse of a bow About our state as signe of my approche Attracting to her seate from Mithras coach A thousand different and particular hewes Which shee throughout her body doth diffuse The Sunne as loath to part from this halfe spheare Stands still and Phoebe labors to appeare In all as bright if not as rich as hee And for a note of more serenity My sixe faire Sisters hether shift their lights To do this hower the vtmost of her Rites Where least the captious or prophane might doubt How these cleare heauenly bodyes come about All to be seene at once yet neithers light Eclips'd or shadow'd by the others sight Let Ignorance know great King this Day is thine And doth admit no Night but all do shine As well nocturnall as diurnall fiers To adde vnto the flame of our desiers Which are now thou hast closd vp IANVS gates And giu'n so generall peace to all estates That no offensiue mist or cloudie staine May mixe with splendor of thy golden raigne But as th' ast free'd thy Chamber from the noyse Of Warre and Tumult thou wilt powre those ioyes Vpon this Place which claimes to be the Seate Of all thy Kingly race the Cabinet To all thy Counsels and the iudging Chayre To this thy speciall Kingdome Whose so faire And wholsome Lawes in euery Court shall striue By Aequity and their first Innocence to thriue The base and guiltie bribes of guiltier men Shall be throwne back and Iustice looke as when She lou'd the earth and feard not to be sold For that which worketh all things to it Gold The Dam of other euils Auarice Shall here lock downe her Iawes and that rude vice Of ignorant and pittied Greatnesse Pride Decline with shame Ambition now shall hide Her face in dust as dedicate to sleepe That in great Portalls wont her watch to keepe All ills shall flie the light Thy Court be free No lesse from Enuie then from Flatterie All Tumult Faction and harsh Discord cease That might perturbe the musique of thy Peace The querulous Nature shall no longer finde Roome for his Thoughts One pure concent of minde Shall flowe in euery brest and not the Ayre Sunne Moone or Starres shine more serenely faire This from that lowd blest Oracle I sing Who here and first pronounc'd thee Brittaines King Long maist thou liue and see me thus appeare As omenous a Comet from my Spheare Vnto thy raigne as that did auspicate So lasting glory to Augustus state The end Annal. lib. 14. Camd. Brit 374. Lib. 8. Epig. 36 Brit. 367. De mallij Theodor cons. Panegyri Eclog. 1. Matth. 10. 16. Prou. 8. 15. Antiqui Genium omniuÌ„ gignendarum rerum existimaruÌ„t Deum et vrbib quam hominib vel caeteris rebus natuÌ„ Lil. Gre. Gy. in Synt. deor 15. Rosin Antiq. Ro. lib. 2. cap. 14. Civica corona fit è fronde querna quoniam cibus victusque antiquissimus querceus capisolitus sit Ros. libr. 10. cap. 27 * vascicull virgarum intra quas obligata securis erat sic vt ferrum in summo fasce extaret Ros. lib. 7. cap. 3. vbi notandum est non debere precipitem solutam iram esse magistratus Mora enim allata cunctatio dum sensim virgae solvuntur identidem consilium mutauit deplectendo Quando autem vitia quaedam sunt corrigibilia deplorata alia castigant virgae quod revocari valet immendabile secures praecidunt Plut. Prob. Rom. 82. Octa Act 2 Aen. lib. 8. Amor lib. 3. el. 5. Hor. car I ode 27. Ode 37 Stat. Syl. 4. Epu Domit. Virg. Ecl. I Aene 1. Aene 1. Met. 1. De 4. Cons. Honor Panegyri Pub. Syr. Mi. Clau. de laud. Stil lib. 3. a As being the first free and naturall gouernement of this Iland after it came to ciuilitie a In respect they vver all CÅquests the obedience of the subiect more inforced b Rather then the Citie shuld vvant a Founder vve choose to folovve the receiu'd story of Brute vvhether fabulous or true and not altogether vnvvarrÄted in Poetrie since it is a fauor of Antiquity to fevv cities to let them knovv their first Authors Besides a learned Poet of our time in a most elegÄt vvork of his Con. Tam. ISIS celebrating London hath this verse of her Aemula maternae tollens sua lumina Troiae Here is also an antient rite alluded to in the building of Citties vvhich vvas to giue them their boundes vvith a plough according to Vir. Aen. li. 10. Interea Aeneas vrbem designat Aratro And Isidore li. 15. cap. 2. Vrbs vocata ab orbe quod antiquae ciuitates in orbem fiebant vel ab vrbe parte aratri quo muri designabantur vnde est illud Optauitque locum regno concludere sulco c Primigenius sulcus dicitur qui in condenda noua vrbe tauro vacca designationis causa imprimitur Hitherto respects that of Camd. Brit. 368. speaking of this Cittie Quicunque autem condiderit vitali genio constructam fuisse ipsius fortuna docuit d For so all happy dayes vvere Plin. cap. 40. lib. 7. Nat. Hist. To vvhich Horace alludes lib. 1. ode 36. Cressa ne careat pulchra dies nota And the other Plin. epist. 11. lib. 6. O diem laetum not and umque mihi candidissimo calculo With many other in many places Mart. lib. 8. epi. 45. lib. 9. epi. 53. lib. 10. 38. lib. 11. 37. Stat. lib. 4. Syl. 6. Pers sat 2. Catull. epig. 69. c. e The Parcae or Fates Martianus calls them scribas ac librarias superûm vvhereof Clotho is saide to be the eldest signifying in Latine Euocatio f Those before mentioned of the Brittane Romane Saxon c. and to this Register of the Fates allude those verses of Ouid Met. 15 Cernes illic molimine vasto Exaere solido rerum tabularia ferro Quae neque concussum coeli neque fulminis Iram Nec metuunt vllas tuta