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city_n	knight_n	thomas_n	william_n	9,962	5	8.6128	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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