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A63171	Aqua triumphalis, being a true relation of the honourable the city of Londons entertaining Their Sacred Majesties upon the river of Thames and wellcoming them from Hampton-Court to White-Hall expressed and set forth in severall shews and pageants the 23. day of August, 1662 / vvritten by John Tatham, Gent.	Tatham, John, fl. 1632-1664.	1662 (1662)	Wing T218; ESTC R11418	8,949	22

soft before the humbl'd Waves grow proud To caper into some seditious trick And Prey upon the Body Politick For so is Traffique held The Cannons plaid And Fires like Scaling-ladders t'wards Heaven laid As though the Quarrells and long-buried Odds Betwixt the daring Giants and the Gods Were now 〈◊〉 what then they could not do With their ●eap'd hills ●lames should aspire unto This gave Great Oceanus cause to 〈◊〉 A helpfull Councell who concluded All So mighty a Conjunction could not be Without a Mirable or Prodigie The glorious Heir to Great d Braganzaes Name And the Worlds Wonder Englands CHARLEMAIN Th' Result being past a trusty Triton straight Who at the Councell-Table then did wait Was forthwith sent the raging Waves to quell And to inquire the cause they did Rebell Scarce could you think ere clad in a cold sweat He did return to make our hopes compleat Declar'd that all was clear the Sky serene And Ships in Safety rode where th' Storm had been That the Four Winds had Liberty to meet Not to Destroy but Whistle to Your Fleet Though rudely tunes of Joy in different Setts Only to shew they were Joves Flagerets And every Element in its Degree Exprest a Power knit in a Jubilee Thus Heaven and Earth did your blest Nuptials keep As well as we that Revell'd in the Deep Thetis her self none else allow'd to bring This intermixed Tale to Britains King VVhich ended with my Wishes I begin Not 'gainst your Patience to commit a Sin May You out-live the Malice of Your Foes VVhile they subjected to Your Iustice Cloze May You grow strong too in Your Peoples Love Which will Your Treasure and Your Armour prove And You Blest Queen so Fam'd for Piety May Your Deeds ever Live Your Self ne're Dye EXPLANATION Why Thetis drawn in a Sea Chariot accompanied with Tritons and Sea Nymphs By the Chariot is meant the swift motion of the Sea and by the diversity of her Attendance are understood the various sorts of Fishes which are said to wait upon the Sea Gods and Goddesses because they have their being and habitation in the Sea But Tritons are commonly taken for Neptunes Trumpeters and sometimes for Sea Monsters Thetis was also married to Peleus an excellent Navigator and therefore is presented with gray hairs which is partly to intimate the Antiquity of Navigation and partly to shew the cares and fears of Seamen who are observed to become sooner Gray hair'd then others Why her Mantle of severall Colours B●cause the Sea-water will look Red in a Storm sometimes Blew sometimes Green sometimes White and Green in which Colours her Nymphs are cloathed for it were very improper to inferre or allude any thing in this Nature contrary to her Element and therefore their habits are apted accordingly So much for their shapes now to the Speech a The famous City of Lisbon in Portugall by her Daughters are meant Rivers belonging to that Kingdom This City is scituated upon five Hills it is encircled with strong Castles upon which there are 76. Turrets this City is seven Miles in Compasse and hath 20. Gates towards the Sea Coast. b The principal River in Lisbon so much spoken of and commended in antient and modern Poetry there are 150. great and small Rivers belonging to Portugall c Lisbon so called of Ulysses who passed that way her antient name was Olysippo from thence d The Dukes of that name were of antient Renown and of such Valour and successe that Prosperity and Plenty were never wanting among the Portugues The Discent thus Don Edward whom they call Duarte was the 6 th Son to King Emanuell he had issue Katharine Married to Iohn Duke of Braganza which Katharin after the Death of King Henry her Unkle was right Heir to the Crown of Portugall from whom descended Iohn Duke of Braganza restored to his Right and Crowned King of Portugall by the name of King Iohn the 4 th who had issue by Donna Lucia Daughter to the Duke of Medina Sidonia in Spain Alfonso the 6 th King of Portugall and Donna Catharina now Queen of England I hope Reader this Relation hath not been too tedious to thee it falling in my way I could not omit it After their Maj●sties and the Nobility are Landed the Companies Barges that were in the Front fall into the Rear and so hasten to their severall homes The Songs were set by Mr. Iohn Gamble one of His Majesties Servants a Person well known in Musick FINIS * To the King * The Queen To the Nobility

Majesties with Speeches in their motion to Whitehall There are two Drolls one of Watermen the other of Seamen continually imployed in dancing and singing The Droll of Watermen is placed between Chelsey and Fox-hall That of Seamen between Lambeth and Whitehall cross the Thames where there is severall tricks of Activity performed both on the Stage and the Rope And the Seamen throw themselves into severall Antick postures and dances So much for the Preludium Now to the Entertainment it self The first Entertainment on the Water is a Sea-Chariot drawn with Sea-Horses IN the front whereof is seated ISIS her hair of a light brown colour somewhat Contorted her head adorned with an Anadem or Crown of all manner of Flowers belonging and relating to Gardens as the Red White and Damask Roses Pinks July flowers Violets c. Her Garment of white Silk intermixed with a pale green In her right hand she bears a Scepter made up like a Cornu-copia out of which all sorts of Flowers seem to sprout In her left hand she holds a Wa●●ing pot to denote her the Lady of the Western Meadowes and Wife to THAM At her feet are placed several inferiour Water Nymphs belonging to small Rivolets who are Contributaries to her their habits answerable to hers This View is presented to their MAjESTYES at Chelsey in the head of the Lord Mayors and Companies Barges And upon the motion of their Majesties Barge ISIS directs her self to Them in this Speech DIvinest pair whose equal Virtues claim Affinity with Heav'n adds life to Fame You whose conjunctive sweetnesse does compleat What ever can be thought of Good or Great Proud with your Barges weight Isis to meet Your unmatch'd loves kisses your Sacred Feet The Turtles now may learn of You to Wooe And find a fellowship they never knew The Poets in their Fictions never dreamt Of such a Blisse as in your meeting 's meant Nor did th' Romantick writers ever tell An Amorous Story what you Act so well If Dangers overcome sweeten Ioyes most Where rests Comparison How is Fancie lost Though the Enamour'd Boy to a Sestos swome Our chaster Hero to Leander's come And Loves blest Taper burning still in spight Of raging Tempests or the Envious Night Thus unexampled Sir remain and prove There can be no Example to your Love From Oxford Truant-like with Ioy I 've run To do you Lackey-service and 't is done Tham now receives you with expanded Armes Made happy by your Presence and the Charms Of Epecedian b Cygnets whose soft breath Sing their own Requiems and Consort in death Though Hampton mourn Whitehall with joyes abound And Eccho-like the City takes the sound c Vertumnus that doth circulate the year Usher'd you there as now he waits you here So that we see it is an easie thing Such is your Presence to Create a Spring Where ere you come d Hyems now cloathes the West In Russian frieze while the glad Cities drest In her full pride out-vying Summers Queen And Plenty in each house with freedom seen Nor do We at their happinesse repine 'T will come about again on Us you 'll shine Let them enjoy their fulnesse of You here So We may hope Your Splendor the next year ¶ Not to inform the knowing person but to help such as are unacquainted with Poetical Authors and Historie I set down the Explanations following EXPLANATION a Leander was a famous Youth that dwelt in Abydus a place situate upon the opposite shore of Sestos the place where Hero lived a Beautiful Maid To her Leander swimming by night over Hellespont a part of the Sea in Asia a storm arose and drowned him By Leander we may see the violent passion and servency of Love that neither water could quench nor the roaring of the waves terrifie As Virgil the best of Poets in his Georgicks l. 3. takes occasion to mention The b Swans are said to sing a little before they die which is called an Epecedean or Funerall Song By c Vertumnus is meant the Year returning into it self from the middle or end of September to September again Every moneth he assumes a new shape wherefore he is by some thought to be Proteus by reason of his often changes which is said he did to Court Pomona the Goddesse of Fruits In the Spring he appears more Lovely then in any other season of the Year and therefore he had usually offered and is still attributed to him the first Flowers of the Gardens He is the aptest for his beloved Pomona in September and October the return of his course for then she likes him best d Hyems is the Father of Frosts and nipping cold the sharpest part of Winter it alludes to decreppid Age and is painted like an Old man with Crutches Isis having ended her Speech their MAjESTIES Train pass by another view or Pageant in the nature of a Droll of Watermen placed not far distance from that of Isis in their passage the Watermen who are continually in action consort into this Song being set for three parts SONG I. LEt sadness slie Boyes flie The King and Queen draw nigh And their Loyal train Po're in amain Like Hailstones from the Skie The Town to fill And fears to kill The Tradesmen had of breaking Who scarce a pennie Would spare to any They were so poor and sneaking But now Speed the Plow All will be Imploy'd and free From the Mercer to the Draper All sorts and all sizes Of Trades and Devises Will make us sing and caper II. The River shall no more Catch cold and be bound o're Wee 'le keep her in heat Use does the feat Though Winter fume and roar The Prentice he Of each Degree To Lambeth or to Fox-hall With their Lasses cry What Oares will you ply Where are you with a Pox all See then You be men And stand to 't Set a hand to 't That our Stretchers may be working For if you intend Boy A Penny to spend Boy You must get it with Yerking III. A Lazie life is base True labour we imbrace 'T is the best Physick To cure the Tissick Ill humours purge apace Our sweats and pains Brings health and gains Which makes us bouncing merry We ne're are o'rejoy'd Till we are imploy'd In Scullar Oares or Wherry Then Sing Blesse the KING And the QUEEN And all here seen That our Masters are and feed us With Meat and Wine stored When they are once shored And for Spring Garden need us The Song ended and upon theit MAjESTIES drawing near one of the Watermen boldly steps forward and expresseth himself to their MAjESTIES in these words HAul in haul in for the honour of your calling and be hang'd do you know your Fellows no better I have something to say for the good of ye all God Blesse Thee King CHARLES and Thy Good Woman there a Blest Creature she is I warrant Thee and a True Go thy wayes for a wagg Thou hast had a merry time on 't in the West I