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Hilaria: or The triumphant feast for the fift of August
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Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.
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glory gaine II. Fortitudo MIght Romans of Camillus bragge might Greece of Theseus boast Might Perseus vaunt of Perseus Fame had Perseus Fame been lost Had Kingdomes heard of Cyrus Name Had worlds knowne Caesars Fame Had Fame it selfe beene spoken of had Pen not writ the same Milciades Fame and Tryumphs great Themistocles moou'd so much Themistocles said he could not sleep Milciades Fame was such So Caesar said of Philips sonne so Philips sonne dismaid To heare what fame Achilles had Oh happie Achilles said But Enuie still on Vertue tends euen hard at Phocions heele And faine would clippe Timoleons wings Timoleons wings being steele Could Caesar brooke great Pompeyes fame whose fame the world embrac'd Or could Octauius well disgest Antonius name so grac'd But who can square the winde with Line or fire in Ballance wey Who backe can call the day that 's past or can mans minde display Apelles thought no colours could paint shining Phaebus face Pithagoras for Mercurius shape all Timber iudg'd too base Not one might play on Hermes Pipe saue onely Orpheus could Neither one might ride Bucephalus on but onely one might bold What need I name the Prince that can if Iustice doe him right Or seeke another Caesar out sith Fame hath nam'd the Knight The knot which Gordius knit so fast that could Philippides breake The net which Vulcan made so strong it was for Mars too weake On noble Prince to Martius field among the Romane Crue Make challenge in Olimpian games Pentatlon claime for due Sound Trumpets for Clitoneus out Eurialus call to field Câ—â—â—â—e combate for Theagenes crownes else he his Crownes must yeeld Saile thence and seeke Palladium out bring Peplon proud from Greece From Greece to Colchos saile on Prince attempt the Golden Fleece With Aiax claime and challenge make to Achilles Armour braue Let Paris seeke for Giges ring Menelaus Harpe to haue Seeke Myrmidons out seeke Pirrhus Mates the Knights of Dolops Land Lead on your Knights and claime the field from Argiraspides band Sit on Romane Scipios seate seeke out some Carthage new Let India be the vp-shot marke claime Affricke for thy due One Scipio made Numantia smoke One Brennus Rome could shake One Noble Britayne may aswell make great Toledo quake A branch of Noble Brutus brood on Caesars fame to feede A bough of ancient Dardan stocke to honor Hectors seede Marcellus for his prowesse great The sword of Rome was cal'd All Rome haue said old Fabius was the Romane Target stal'd Thebes made Pelopidas for their wals Pericles Athens hand Still was Lisander Spartas legges for Sparta on to stand One Lion thought Leonidas best before three handred Deeres Then one poore fearefull Deere before three hundred Lions peeres We haue Leonidas on before with Marcellus sword in hand In him we haue Lisanders legges For Britaines on to stand The Load-stone of great Brittaine soyle the Lampe that shines so bright The Fort where Fame and Man-hood lodge and Conntreyes Candle-light The Persian Knights Mellophori cal'd on whom did Persia rest They ware but Cyrus name on sleeue Yours weare the George on brest The noble Bands of Aegypt Kings Calasiries sometime cal'd They had but Pharaohs Colours on Yours are with Garters stal'd These Scorpions like Altenian Snakes whose natures strange are such That they do sting their neighbours by but strangers neuer touch They seeke with Pharton Phaebus charge with Pharton downe they shall They thinke to flye with Icarus wings they must with Icarus fall Their Magike Ring their Salomons Key their starre of Rempha fail'd Their Figure mist their Dagon sell Their Planets quite are quaii'd No fire can hurt the Diamond pure no rust the Emerauld touch No dung hill can infect the Sunne their vertues rare are such Could hungry Lyons on Daniel prey could fire on Sidrach seaze Might fish in Sea on Ionas feed when these their God did please This King hath Eclus at command this Neptune great can checke This hath the Sunne the Moone the Stars and heauens all at a becke Could Pharaos force on Moses fall could Saul worke Dauids woe Could Esaus wrath on Iacob feede when Iacobs God said No Shall Spanish bragges or Romish pride whom Gothes so conquer could Whom Vandales brood and Agars seede as seruile slaues haue sold Such Scythian tokens send to Rome as was to Persia sent A Mouse a Frogge a Sparrow a Shaft whereby the Scythians meant They should run like Mise or swimme like Frogs or Sparrowes like should flee Else Scythians shafts should Persians daunt which Persians straight should see IIII. Prudentia NOW Atlas heauy loaden comes with world of Globes on backe Saith Fortitude is that famous King which Kingdomes keeps from wracke Simandius comes with Iustice in and Iustice most commends And saith that Iustice is that King which Kingdomes all defends More force saith Temperance in Samgars goade then in Philistian swordes More strength in little Dauids sling then great Golias words Then Prudence said and Sentence gaue Be wise as Serpents be For wisedome binds such Serpents fast lest Serpents such go free As fire in Flint is found by sleight and oyle in Iette by heate So wisedome most by vertue sought and not by forces great In midst of Peace and quiet rest in Armes would Cecrops hee Th' euents of warre in time of Peace great Ianus would forsee When Sun doth shine most bright in skie the Crab the Oysters snatch When Cyrces sang most sweet to sence then was Vlisses catcht Thinke how the Olinthians towne was tane by trust to Lasthenes leares Forget not Babel great was wonne by false Sopyrus teares Thinke on Troy and Troian horse by Synon bought and sold. Thinke none might yeeld Troy-nouant vp but false Androgeus could Since secret cankers hidden lie in Damask Rose vnknowne Till stormes do come and Tempests rise and Rose it selfe be blowne Had Croesus thought on Solons saying who iudgde himselfe so strong Then nothing could king Croesus harme nor do king Croesus wrong One that lurkt in Egypt long whom Apres trusted most Such treason Apres found in trust that Apres Egypt lost The swords the shields the hands the eyes the legges that Kings stand on Antigonus said were faithfull friends for Kings to stand vpon The Starres keepe ranke the Pole about some march some watch some ward Some range abroad some turne about Some tends the Pole to gard Haue hands abroad haue eyes at home Search where these Serpentsbe Who faine would build and make their nests in some sacred Cedar Tree These Serpents sought this famous I le the I le of Bryttaine cal'd Should now the I le of Serpents be or the I le of Satyres stal'd So many Aiax fit for warre to please a Prince at list As were Vlisses like for peace a Theban Captaine wisht In Rome grew many Captaines great fewe Captaines Rome did good And Greece had many valiant Greekes fewe Greekes with Greece long stood When Enuie grew in Greece so great could Greece on Grecians looke When Rome with Romans fought in Rome could Rome a Romane brooke Oh happie Athens had Athens more Aristides like in store And twise happie Rome had been had Rome Fabritius more Darius wisht so many friends Zopirus like in store As one Pomegranat curnels had Darius wisht no more Ten Nestor-like Agamemnon wisht Agamemnon wisht but so Ten like Aeacida in field with Prince what neede a Prince haue mo By such we sleepe in quiet peace and liue full safe at rest And craue of God which Chaanan kept that Brittaine so be blest Where second Brutus sits on Throne Where Brutus third excell And Bryttaine Great reuiu'd againe which world farre off can tell Most liberall gifts I gaue O King If King will credit Penne My Heart my Life my Loue my selfe my Bookes and children tenne But Caesar may if Caesar will on me like Caesar looke Make me to sing more sweeter Notes then Swanne in Seuerne Brooke FINIS Angerona the Goddesse of silence HalcyoÌ„s dayes daies of solace mirth The Oke of Mambre wber Abraham dwelt Tiara or Sydaris which the kings of Persia wore on their beads Due coÌ„mendation of some Noblemen in Court Curtius Decius same Priams Towne was Troy Temperance much commended Chastitie commended By Vulcans Forge is meant the adulterie of Mars with Venus Milicades fame Bucephalus Alexanders horse Pentatlon the fiue Exercises in Greece in the Games of Olympia Mermidons Achilles souldiers Knights of Dolops Pirrhus Soldiers The liuely Image of Fortitude Pelopidas Lisanders praise Pericles The kings of Persias old soldiers Calasiries the king of Egypts chiese band Superstitious Papistrie The Scythians Embassage to Darius king of Persia. Cecrops Ianus double faced The Troian horse Treason often found on trust Iesuits Seminaries Enuie the enemie of great States Darius wish
HILARIA OR THE TRIVMPHANT Feast for the fift of August Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling neere the Red Lyon in the Cloth-Fayre 1607. TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE THE great Kings of Persia most noble Prince before they would sit at any Feast they would talke of Temperance before they would doe any sacrific to their Gods they would speake of Iustice and before they would commence any warre with the enemies they would discourse of Fortitude three principall great vertues proceeding all frō Prudence without which Temperance is slothfulnesse Fortitude is rashnesse and Iustice meere iniury for Vnica sola virtus Principis prudentia I haue presumed therefore vnder your Maiesties fauour to write these fewe Verses to honour this our Tryumphant and sacred Feast Hilaria the fift of August not as the Greekes in their Feast Taurilia nor as the Romanes in their Feast Hecatombaeon but as Israel with Musike mirth and Feastes and to sing Hymnes Psalmes for our Triumphs Feasts and often victories so did Israel for the victories of Moses ouer the Egyptians of Saul ouer the Philistims and of Dauid ouer the Chananites with their feast Phase at Ierusalem and their Feast Phurim in Persia. And sith Angels feasted with men ministred vnto men and commanded Feastes to be kept of men to put vs in remembrance of Gods benefits to men we should not omit to giue thanks for it For the old Lacedemonians in their Feast Phiditia where was more musicke and mirth then meat or drinke had their militarie dancing and their Songs Scholia to commend the renowmed worthines of such famous men as defended and saued their Cities and Countrey from the Persians and Macedonians So the Athenians in their Feast Sisisia where they obserued such Temperance that they would not exceed fiue Dishes by Platoes lawes in priuate Feastes called Bellaria Attica with such care that they allowed but fiue Ghests Yet Homer allowed the whole number of Pithagoras which was ten but in publike victorious Feasts Plato allowed 28. which was called Symposium Platonis but when Greece began their first draught to Iupiter and their last draught to Mercurius then their lawe was Aut biberent aut abirent Among the ancient Romans in priuate Feasts it was decreed there should not be aboue seuen for it was a common speach with the Romans Septem conuiuium nouem conuicium facere then Rome by Temperance being inferior to Spaine in number to the Africanes in subtiltie to the Grecians in wit and Stratagems yet the Victrix Domina gentium But when the late Emperours contended who should excel in ryotous Feastes Geta would haue as many dishes in his Feasts as could be found vpon the name of euery Letter in the Alphabet Lucullus would haue so many dishes in his Feast as were Gods in Rome worshipped Heliogabulus so many dishes in his Feast as could bee found in Summer colours out of the earth and vpon the earth that they sought to exceed Vitellius feast which was such for the number of his dishes that his became a By-word for a long time in Rome Vitellianae patinae This Feast Vitellius himself named Clypeum Mineruae which might haue bin better called Praeludium Veneris But God grant vs that wee in great Britaine may in perpetuall memorie of so great a blessing giue thankes to God for this our Tryumphant Regall and Crowned Feast Your Maiesties most humble and dutifull Seruant Lod Lloyd THE TRYVMPHANT FEAST for the fift of August I. Temperancia NO Gemme no Iewell no gold I giue No pearles from Pactolus so No Persian Gaze no Indian Nor Tagus sands I show Farre greater gifts I giue O King if Poets may credite beare Foure Vertues great all link'd in chaine a chaine for Kings to weare If Poets of force or feare be dumbe Dodoaean trees must speake If Angerona still be mute then stones will silence breake If men may vertue not aduance Memnos Image shall And the Oliue on Corebus graue these Halcyon dayes shall call Let Thracians bragge of Mars his sword let Greece of Phaebus shield Let Romans boast Quirinus speare to Ione great thankes we yeeld For Trophees iust and Triumphs due for Feast to King of Kings Osanna in skie Alleluiabs on earth both men and Angels sings In Mambre Abrahams Feast was best where Angels three were Ghests The like did Lot in Sodom keepe where Angels two did feast With Musicke mirth with Hebrue songs the Iewes kept Phases Feast And Iewes in Persia Phurim kept but not for Persian ghests The Indians feast at Ganges crown'd the Greekes with Crownets on In Persian feast with Tyra on Their kings to tend vpon Of all such crownes as Kings were crownd who best should crowned be They that conquered Kingdomes sixe or saued Kingdomes three Whose names and fame ought famous be e'ne from the Iles of Orchades Through lands through seas and Kingdomes great to the furthest part of Gades The cause why Curtius should be in steele or Decius wrought in brasse Or both Phileny in Iuorie set to saue their countrey it was Were Dion Hermodius in siluer set who sau'd two Cities free Their names should sure be in siluer set that saued Kingdoms three For Iustice yelds and Countreys claime a Lawrell Crowne for such Before such bloody Conquerours Crownes like Scythian Tamberlaine much Shake Morpheus off take Moroes pen in Homers verse indite Of Fame of Vertue and vertuous men a second Illiad write Not of Antonius lust in Rome Cleopatras loue to please Nor Tarquins fame with fancies fond on Lucres haste to seaze Though valiant Greekes for Priams Towne haue fil'd the world with fame Yet Helens rape by Priams sonne did Priams Towne defame The fault vnchaste Aeneas did made Didoes brood rebell That Hanibals more for Dido dide then Rome could Scipios tell The bowre which stoute Bellona holds the Fort where Vesta breeds Mars could neuer shake that Fort where Temperance chaste doth feede Xerxes that could eat vp Greece and drinke the Grecian seas E'ne Xerxes that would be Tytan cal'd could not Dame Temperance please Had strong Alcides conquered lust that conquered what he would By conquering lust he had conquer'd more then strong Alcides could Could be that gain'd the world with fame gaine greater fame in life Then Sysigambis honor saue great King Darius wife For Champions chaste more guerdon gain'd than gain'd Achilles force By slaughter great of Phrigian Knights of spoile of Hectors corse One Phineas chaste staid Iudas plague one Ioseph to Aegypt sold By Temperance chaste in Aegypt did what he in Aegypt would Let Scipio serue Saturnus Tombe let Silla Apollo tend Let Numa waite the Egerian Nimph. To Ioue our knees we bend Shall Temperance drinke of Cyrses Cup by Syrens thereto train'd Shall Mars in Phaebus Chariot sit through Vulcanes Forge being stain'd Vertues then thus coupled fast and link't like Homers chaine On Iacobs Ladder scale the Skies and Crownes of