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A13458	Heauens blessing, and earths ioy. Or a true relation, of the supposed sea-fights & fire-workes, as were accomplished, before the royall celebration, of the al-beloved mariage, of the two peerlesse paragons of Christendome, Fredericke & Elizabeth With triumphall encomiasticke verses, consecrated to the immortall memory of those happy and blessed nuptials. By Iohn Taylor,	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1613 (1613)	STC 23763; ESTC S102445	12,102	38

wine in streames gainst one another stroue Where many a caske was bankrout and vndon Depriu'd the treasure of the fruitfull vines By Bacchus bounty that great God of wines Thus Ioue and Iuno Imps of aged Ops With wise Minerua Mars and Mercury Resplendent Sol with musicks straines and stops Faire Venus Queene of loues alacrity Loues God with shafts betip'd with golden tops And Bacchus showring sweete humidity Gods Goddesses the Graces and the Muses To grace these Triumphes al their cunnings vses Amongst the rest was all recording Fame Insculping noble deeds in brazen leaues That meagre Enuy cannot wrong that name Where braue Heroick acts the minde vpheaues Fames golden Trump will through the world proclame Whom Fortune Fate nor Death nor Time bereaues Thus like a Scribe Fame waited to record The Nuptials of this Lady and this Lord. All-making-marring Time that turneth neuer To these proceedings still hath bin auspicious And in his progresse will I hope perseuer To make their daies and howers to be delitious Thus Fame and Time affords their best endeuour Vnto this royall match to be propitious Time in all pleasure through their liues will passe Whilst Fame records their fames in leaues of brasse You sonnes of Iudas and Achitophell Whose dambd delights are treasons bloud and death Th' almighties power your hawty prides will quell And make you vassals vessels of his wrath Let all that with these Princes worse then well Be iudg'd and doom'd to euerlasting scath For t is apparent and experience proues No hat preuailes where great Iehouah loues To whose Omnipotent eternall power I do commit this blest beloued paire Oh let thy graces daily on them showre Let each of them be thine adopted Heire Raise them at last to thy Celestiall Bowre And seate them Both in lasting glories Chaire In fine their earthly dayes be long and blest And after bettred in eternall rest A Sonnet to be Imperious maiestick mirrour of Kings Iames great Brittaines Monarch GReat Phoebus spreads his Raies on good and ill Dame Tellus feeds the Lyon and the Ratte The smallest Sayles God AEol's breath doth fill And Thetis harbors both the Whale and Spratte But as the Sunne doth quicken dying Plants So thy illustrous shine doth glad all harts And as the earth supplies our needfull wants So doth thy bountie guerdon good desarts And like the ayrie Eoll's pleasant gales Thou filst with ioy the Sailes of rich and poore And as the sea doth harbor Sprats and Whales So thou to high and low yeald'st harbours store Thus Sea Ayre Earth and Titans fiery face Are Elementall seruants to thy grace To Life SInce that on earth thou wondrous wandring guest Arithmeticians neuer number can The seuerall lodgings thou hast tane in man In Fish in Foule in tame or bruitish beast Since all by thee from greatest to the least Are squar'd and well compar'd vnto a span Oh fleeting Life take this my counsell than Hold long possession in the royall breast Dwell euer with the King the Queene the Prince The gracious Princesse and her Princely Spouse In each of these thou hast a lasting house Which Fate nor Death nor Time cannot conuince And when to change thy lodging thou art driuen Thy selfe and they exalted be to heauen To Death TO thee whose auaritious greedy mood Doth play at sweepe-stake with all liuing things And like a Hors-leech Quaffes the seuerall blood Of Subiects Abiects Emperours and Kings That high and lowe and all must feele thy slings The Lord the Lowne the Catife and the Keasar A beggers death as much contentment brings To thee as did the fall of Iulius Ceasar Then since the good and bad are all as one And Larkes to thee no better are then Kites Take then the bad and let the good alone Feede on base wretches leaue the worthy wights With thee the wicked euermore will stay But from thee Fame will take the good away To Eternitie THou that beyond all things dost goe so farre That no Cosmographers could e're suruay Whose glory brighter then great Phoebus Carre Doth Shine where night doth ne're eclipse the day To thee I consecrate these Princes acts In thee alone let all their beings be Let all the measures of their famous tracts In thee begin but neuer end like thee And when thy seruant Time giues Life to Death And Death surrenders all their liues to Fame Oh then inspire them with celestiall breath With Saints and Martyrs to applawd thy name Thus vnto thee as thine owne proper rights I consecrate these matchles worthy wights FINIS Iohn Taylor * * God There are som that think scorne that I being of mean degree should write of such Princely occurrences But I make hard shift to shoulder into the presse in despight of enuy * * The lake or gulfe of forgetfullnes of the which I hope our griefs haue sufficiently carrowsed * * Prince Henry * * God * * The Princesse Elizabeth By this happy marriage great Britain France Denmarke Germany the most part of Christendome are vnited either in affinity or consanguinity That which God lou's most the Deuill hates most and I am sure that none but the blackcrew are offended with these Royall Nuptialls a a Iune Where the plannet Iupiter hath sole predominance there is all Royall mirth and Iouiall Alacritie b b Soll. c c Pernassus d d The muses e e A tragicall mournfull those who hath bene heere already but I hope now she 's lame of the gout that she 'le keep home for euer f f Wars g g Venus h h All worth nothing i i Mercury k k A dogged melancholy planet a maleuolent opposite to all mirth l l The moone who doth neuer continue at a stay and therefore she absented hir selfe from those delights which I hope will be permanent m m Saturne and Luna for in deede the nights were darke at the wedding because the Moone shined a a Minerus whom the poets fame to be the Goddesse of wisedome borne and bred in the braine of Iupiter b b Bachus whom his father Ioue saued from Abortiue birth from his mother Semell sowed him upon his thigh till the time of his birth was come to a period Ouid Lib. 3. * * Times progresse

the contentment of the royall spectators and the great credit of the performers The true description of such part of the Fire-workes as were deuised and accomplished by Mr. Iohn Nodes Gunner and seruant to the King most excellent Maiestie THe Imperiall and Beautious Lady Lucida Quéene of the Feminine Territories of the man hating Amazonians with whose bright eye dazeling Coruscancis and whose Refulgent feature the Black-sould hell commanding Magitian Mango A Tartarian borne was so ensnared and captiuated that for her loue and to be assured to enioy her he would set all Hell in an vprore and pluck Don Belzebub by the beard assuredly perswading himselfe that without her he could not liue and for her he would attempt any thing but she hauing vowed her selfe euer to be one of Vestaes Usataries alwayes kept Cupid out at the armes end and bad Madam Venus make much of stump-footed Vulcan and kéepe home like a good huswife for she had no entertainment for her Whereupon this hellish Necromancer Mango being thus repulst conuerts all his loue to outragious rigor and immediatly with his Charmes erorcismes and potent execrable incantations he raises a strong impregnable Pauilion in the which he immures and encloses this beautifull Amazonian Queene with her attendant Ladies where though they liued in captiuitie and bondage yet they had variety of Games and pleasant sports allowed by the Magitian in hope that time would worke an alteration in her faire flinty breast And for her sure Gard in her absence he had erected by Magick another strong Tower as a watch house wherein he had placed a fiery Dragon and an inuincible Giant of whome I will speake in another place héereafter Now to this aforesaid Pauillion wearyed with toyle and trauaile the Great vnresistable Champion of the world and the vncontrolable Patron Saint George comes and séeing so bright and luculent a Goddesse according as his necessitie required demanded entertainment whereby he might be refreshed after his laborious atchiuements and honorable endeuours The curteous Quéene although the car'd not for the society of man séeing his outward or externall feature and warlike acouterments did presently resolue with her selfe that so faire an outside could not be a habitation for fowle Trechery and with most debonayre gesture admits his entrance into the Pauilion where after he had feasted a while she relates vnto him the true manner and occassion of her vnfortunate thraldome Saint George euer taking pleasure in most dangerous attempts holding it his chiefest glory to helpe wronged Ladies vowes that as soone as Rhoebus rowz'd himselfe from the Antipodes he would quest the burning Dragon Conquer the big bon'd Giant subuert the inchanted Castle and enfranchise the Quéene with her followers or else die in the enterprise thereof After which promise of his the Quéene to passe away the time delights him with these pastimes following being all fire-workes First the Pauilion is beleagerd or inuirond round about with fires going out of which many fiery balls flies vp into the Ayre with numbers of smaller fiers ascending that cemicircled Cinthia is as it were eclipsed with the flashes and the starres are hud-winckt with the burning exhalations Secondly is séene a royall hunting of Bucks and Hounds and Hunts-men flying and chasing one another round about the Pauilion as if Diana had lately transformed Acteon and his ignorant dogges ready to prey on his Carkas from whence continually is flying many fiers dispearsed euery way The lower part of the Pauilion alwayes burning round about giuing many blowes and great reports with many fires flying aloft into the Ayre Thirdly there doth march round about the Pauilion Artificiall men which shall cast out fires as before as it were in skirmish another part of the Pauilion is all in a Combustious flame where Rackets Crackers Breakers and such like giues blowes and reports without number Fourthly the Quéene of Amazonia with all her traine of Virgin Ladyes with fires marcheth round as the men did before with the fire flying despearsedly diuers wayes the whilst another part of the Pauilion is fired with many blowes and reports and fiers flying aloft into the ayre from whence it comes downe againe in streaching flakes of slashing fire Fifthly aloft with the Turret shall runns whirling rownd a fyerie Globe with the Turret and all on fire with many more greater blowes then before had bin heard and diuers and sundry other sorts of fires then any of the former procéeding from thence and flying into the ayre in great aboundance All which things being performed and the vndanted Knight Saint George taking his leaue of the Amazonian Queene Lucida he mounts vppon his Stéede and aduenterously rides towards the inchanted Towre of Brumond Now these disports being ended wherein Saint Georges entertainement was onely expressed with the Queenes relation of her bondage this braue Champion was séene to ride ouer the bridge to combat with these aforesaid Monsters the Dragon and Giant all which was expressed in the next deuise of Mr. Thomas Butler and so I end with my harty inuocations to the Almighty to send the Bride and Bridgraome the yeares of Methushalah the fortitude of Ioshua the wisedome of Solomon the wealth of Crefsus and last of all an endles Crowne of Immortalitie in the highest heauens FINIS Iohn Nodes A true description of the Platforme of a part of the fire-workes deuised and made by Mr. Thomas Butler Gunner and seruant to the Kings Royall Maiestie THis inchanted Castle or Tower of Brumond is in hight 40. foote and 30 square betwéene which and the Pauilion of the Amazonian Quéene is a long Bridge on the which Bridge the valiant and heroicke Champion Saint George being mounted on horsback makes towards the Castle of Brumond which being perceaued by the watchfull Dragon who was left by Mango the Coniurer as a Centenell is encountred by him where as Saint George being armed at all points but especially with an vnrebated courage hauing in his Helmet a burning flaming Feather and in one hand a burning Launce and in the other a fiery Sword with which weapons he assailes the dreadfull Dragon with such fury and Monster-quelling streakes as if the Ciclops had bin forging and beating Thunder bolts on Vulcans Anuile where in conclusion after a terrible and long endured Combat with his Launce he gores the Hellehound vnder the wing that he presently aftermost hideous roring and belching of fire is vanguished and slaine at which the terrible shaped Giant rises who hauing sate as a spectator of this bloudy battel vpon a great stump of a trée at the Castle Gate and adresses himselfe towards Saint George meaning to reuenge the death of the Dragon and to swallow his enemy for a modieum but at their first encounter the blowes on both sides fell like Thunder clappes enforcing lightning and fiery exhalations to sparkle from whence their powerfull stroakes lighted at last the Monstar gaping wide as an Arch in London Bridge runnes furiously intending to swallow

and Fire-workes with other royall occurrences which were accomplished at the princely Celebration By Iohn Taylor Printed for Henry Gosson and are to be sold at his shop on London Bridge 1613. Epithallamies OR ENCOMIASTICK TRIVMPHALL VERSES CONSECRATED to the Immortall memory of the royall Nuptialls of the two Parragons of Christendome Frederick and Elizabeth With a description of the Sea-fights and Fyre-workes with other royall occurrences which were accomplished at the Princely Celebration HHe that vppon the Poles hath hing'd the skies Who made the Spheares the Orbs Planets seauen Whose iustice dam's whose mercy iustifies What was is shall be in earth Hell or heauen Whome men and Angels lauds and magnifies According as his lawes command hath giuen The poore the Rich the Begger and the King In seuerall Anthems his great praises sing Then as the meanest doe their voyces stretch To lawd the sempiternall Lord of Lords So I a lame Decreppit-witted wretch With such poore phrases as my skill affoords From out the Circuit of my braine did fetch Such weake inuention as my wit records To write the triumphs of this famous I le On which both heauen and earth with ioy doth smile My Genius therefore my inuention moues To sing of Brittaines great Olympick Games Of mirth of heau'n and earth beloued loues Of princely sports that noble mindes enflames To doe the vtmost of their best behoues To fill the world with their atchieued fames T' ataine eternities all passing bounds Which neither Fate nor Death nor Time confounds Gunnes Drums and Trumpets Fire-works Bonfires Bells With acclamations and applausefull noyse Tilts Turneyes Barriers all in mirth excells The ayre reuerberates our earthly ioyes This great triumphing Prophet-likefore-tells I hope how Leathes lake all greife destroyes For now blacke sorrow from our land is chac'd And ioy and mirth each other haue embrac'd How much Ichouah hath this Iland blest The thoughts of man can neuer well conceaue How much we lately were with woes oprest For him whome Death did late of life bereaue And in the midst of griefe and sad vnrest To mirthfull sport he freely giu's vs leaue And when we all were drench'd in black dispaire Ioy conquerd griefe and comfort vanquish'd care Thou high and mighty Frederick the Fift Count Pallatine and Palsgrane of the Rhine Bauares great Duke when God on high doth lift To be the tenth vnto the'Worthies nine Be euer blest with thy beloued Guift Whome God and best of men makes onely thine Let annually the day be giuen to mirth Wherein thy Nuptialls gaue our Ioyes new birth Right gracious Princesse great Elizabeth In whose Heroick pure White Iuory breast True vertue liues and liuing flourisheth And as their Mansion hath the same possest Belou'd of God aboue and men beneath In whome the Goddesses and graces rest By vertues power Iehouah thee hath giuen Each place doth seeme where thou remain'st a heauen The Royall blood of Emperours and Kings Of Potent Conquerors and famous Knights Successiuely from these two Princes springs Who well may claime these titles as their rights The Patrons Christendome to Vnion brings Whose vnitie remoted lands vnites And well in time I hope this sacred worke Will hunt from Christian lands the faithles Turke Since first the framing of this worlds vast Roome A fitter better match was not combinde So old in wisdome young in Beauties bloome And both so good and graciously inclinde And from this day vntill the day of doome I doubt succeeding ages shall not finde Such wisdome beauty grace compact together As is innate in them in both in either None but the Deuill and his infernall crue At this beloued heau'nly match repines None but such fiendes which hell on earth doth spue Will wish Eclips of their illustrous shines The Gods themselues with rare inuentions new With inspiration mans deuice refines And with their presence vndertakes these taskes Deuises Morions Reuells playes and Maskes The thund'rers Bride hath left her heauenly bed And with her presence this great Wedding graces Himen in Saffron Robes inuelloped Ioynes and accords these louers lou'd embraces Yea all the Gods downe to the earth are fled And mongst our ioyes their pleasures enterlaces Immortals ioynes with mortals in their mirth And makes the Court their Paradise on earth Maiestick Ioue hath left his spangled Throane To dance Leuoltoes as this Bridall feast Infusing Iouiall glee in euery one The high the lowe the greatest and the least Sad mindes to sable melancholy prone Great Ioue their vitall parts hath so possest That all are rap'd in sportfull extasies With showts and Clamors ecchoing in the skies Apollo from two topt Muses Hill Light of the Sisters nine hath brought from thence Leauing Melpomena alone there still To muse on sad and Tragicall euents The rest all stretching their all matchles skill To serue this Royall Princesse and this Prince Thus Sol descended from his Radient shrine Brings Poesy and Musicke downe diuine The wrathfull God of Warre in Burnish'd Armes Layes by his angry all-confounding moode And in the lists strikes vp sweet loues Alarmes Where freindly warres drawes no vnfriendly bloud Where honours fire the noble spirit warmes To vndertake such Actions as are good Thus mighty Mars these triumphs doth encrease With peacefull warre and sweet contentions peace The Queene of loue these Royall sports attend And at this Banquet deignes to be a guest Hir whole endeuours wholy she doth bend She may in loues delights out-strip the best For who so ere doth Hymens lawes pretend If Venus be but absent from the feast They may perhaps be merry in some sort But t is but painted mirth and ayery sport Bright Mayas sonne the God of tricks and sleights Hath op'd the treasure of his subtill wit And as a seruant on this wedding waightes With masques with reuels and with triumphs fit His rare inuentions and his queint conceites Twixt heauen aloft and hels infrerall pit He in immaginary showes affords In shape forme method and applausfull words Old sullen Saturne hid his moody head In dusky shades of blacke Cimerian night And wauering Luna closely cooch'd to bed Hir various change she knew would not delight The loyall minds where constancy is bred Where Proteus t thoughts are put to shamefull flight These two by Ioues command were straitly bound To stay at home as better lost then found Cupid descended from the Christall skies And leaues behinde his golden fethered darts In steede of whom he makes faire Ladies eyes The peircing weapons of true louing hearts And be amongst these high solemnities His awfull presence freely he imparts To all in generall with mirthfull cheere All sports the better if lou's God be there The of-spring of the high celestiall Ioue His braine-bred daughter and his thigh borne sonne One with aduice of wisedome shewed hir loue And tother bounteously made plenty ronne Where