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death_n	daughter_n	henry_n	king_n	5,420	5	4.2272	3	false

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