Within the Carracters of this same booke I saw a name reioyced me to see Henry late prince of Wales I read it plaine And glad I was that in that Register That name I found for now me thought I said Heere vertue doth out liue th' arrest of death For dead is Henry vertuous and Renown'd For honor courage and viuacity And yet his names aliue in fame's recordes That held this Garter deere and ware it well The traine of all thiese hardy Knights enstal'd Cast in a ring about olde Windsor Castle Vnder the glorious spreading winges of fame I saw Great Brittaines King richly attyrde Leading with him a sort of goodly Knights With Garters and with collours of Saint George Iacobus Rex on a compartiment Of Golde in Bisse was writ and hung a skue Vppon his head vnder an imperiall crowne Hee was the Soueraigne of the Knights he led His face me thought I knew as if the same The same great King that wee doe here enioy Had climb'd the clowdes been in person there To whom the earth the Sea and Elements Auspicious are A many that I knew Knigâ—â—â—d in my remembrance I beheld And all their names were in that booke inrol'd And yet I might perceaue some so set downe That howsoeuer it hapt I cannot tell The carle obliuion stolne from Laethes lake Or enuie stept from out the deepe Auerne Had rac'd or blemisht or obscur'd at least Yet all the Kings since that King Edwards daies Were with their Knights coÌ„panies in y t traine At last me thought King Edward thus bespake Hayle vvindsor vvhere I somtime tooke delight To havvke hunt backe the provvdest horse And vvhere in Princely pleasure I repos'd After my vvarres in my returne from Fraunce Yea tvventy times haile Windsor q. the King Where I haue stal'd so mâ—ny hardy Knights And Turnaments and royall Iusts perform'd Behould in honor of mine auncient throne In honor of great Brittaine and Saint George To vvhom this order of the Garter first I sacred held in honor of my Knights Before this day created and instal'd But specially in honor of this Knight That at this day this honor hath receau'd Vnder King Iames great Brittaines Soueraigne With princely traines I from the house of fame Doe resalute thee heere and gratulate To this nevv Knight created by a King Peereles for vvisdome and for maiesty The honor of the Garter long may hee Weare it as note of true Nobility And vertues ornament Young Frederick Thou high mightie Prince Prime Elector Mounted on fortunes wheele by vertues ayme Become thy badge as it becometh thee That Europ's eies thy worthynes may see And what this day pure honor hath put on So full of princely hope in honor weare Answeare the worthiest of thine Auncestry In deedes to fame and vertue consecrate Brought vp in liberall sciences and armes Patron of Chiualry and of the Muses Brandish thy sword in right and spend thy daies In common wealth affaires it shall become Thy forwardnes to follow vertues cause And great designes of Princely consequence Prince Palatine Shape thou thy noble course As vertue loadstarre of renowne directs That as thy royall Auncestors haue donne Thine earthly race in honor thou maist ronne And as in leaues and characters of gould Thy Princely name is writ in this Record So liue as with a many moe thou maiest Suruiue and triumph in eternitie Out of obliuious reach or Enuies shot And that thy name immortally may shine In thiese Records not earthly but Deuine Then the shrill Trumpet of renowne did sound And by and by the traine retir'd as swift As Starres doe vse to shoote from whence they came The gawdy Morne awakt and euery thing Arose from rest little birdes gan sing Where with I rowz'd and haue set downe my dreame The matter for the time being a fit theame FINIS
the state and riches of the Land But how shall euer Time forget to tell The Tragicke actions of that bloody Warre That in this Kingdome many yeeres befell Betwixt the Houses Torke and Lancaster VVhere Englands honour 'gainst it selfe was arm'd Saint George against Saint George did lift his hand Nature by Nature was vnkindly harm'd Blood did 'gainst Blood in opposition stand And if the sacred hand of Vnitie Had left vntun'd the stringes of their debate Mischiefe with vnpreuented Miserie Had wrought the vtter ruine of the State But God and good foresight preuent such ill That no eclipse of Glory may befall But that this Vnitie may flourish still To be the power-full safegard of vs all That so the Imperiall Ensignes of this Land And the Prince Palatines admired fame In high Maiesticke glory long may stand To dignifie their glorious Countries name And that the Nobles of each Land may ioyne Aswell in forraine as Domesticke state By peace and warre to make their Glories shine Extended farther then the power of fate Wishing that they whom Honour thus combines May mutually partake in peace and warres And as an ofspring from the glorious lines Of royall Princes Kinges and Emperours Still in one Center of Coniuction rest That both their Glories so may long time stand And with their seuerall farre spreading Crests Make knowne their Fames to many a forraine Land So shall the Princely heads of this faire frame VVith peacefull Scepters both their Countries sway So shall they keepe Religion Rule and Name That they haue still mayntayned to this day That God that is the God of Vnion First founder of all vndeuided thinges May guide the state of this Coniunction And make it happy in a line of Kinges Which from their Princely stocke may grace both climâ—â—â— And euermore continue Soueraigntie In all high Honour till the end of times And the beginning of eternitie Deo Trino et vni Gloriâ—â— Hymens Holiday or the Mariage day of the two famous Princes being S. Valentines day DEscend you sacred Daughters of King Ioue Apollo's louely Darlings leaue your Mount And those delightsome sweet Castalian Springs That warble with their siluer winding waues Making soft Musicke in their gentle glide Clio thou sâ—gest of the sisters Nine Conduct thy lustie company to Court Great Brittains Court on earth an earthly Heauen There take suruey of faire Elizabeth And in her prayse tune your heroicke Songs Write write you Chronicles of Time and Fame That kepee remembrance golden Register And recommende to Times eternitie Her honours height and wonders of her Age Wonders of her that reasons reach transcend Such wonders as haue set the world at gaze Elizabeth whose worth all English hearts Admire at home and so doe forraigne parts Clio proclaime with golden Trumpe and Pen This happy VVedding-day this Nuptiall-â—ay Ore Europs bounds take wing and make thy flight Through â—elting Ayre from wâ—eâ—'s the rising Sunne Gallops the Zodiack in his hery VVayne Euen to the brinke where Thetis in her Bower Receaues the weary Bridegroome of the Sea Beyond Graund CAYRE by Nâ—lus sly my bankes Ouer the wilde and sandy Affricke Playnes Along the frozen Shoare of â—anais VVhose Icye crust Apollo can not thaw Euen there and round about this earthly Ball Proclayme the daies of Brittains happynesse The dayes of Peace and Victory proclaime And let this glaâ—some Nuptiall day be first This Wedding day beginning of much blisse Set downe this day in Characters of Gold And marke it with a Stone as white as milke This cheerefull Wedding day weare Eglantine And wreaths of Roses redde and white put on In honour of this day you louely Nymphes And Paaus sing your sweet melodious songs Along the chaulky Clifts of Albion Lead all Great Brittaynes Shepheards in a daunce Ore Hill and Dale and Downes and Daisey plottes And be this day Great Brittaynes Holy-day That thus vnites the royall hearts and hands Of these two Princes in Loues holy bandes Bee multiplide the number of their yeeres Their yeeres that may prolong our golden daies Wherein we still in safetie may abide And they may raigne and rule in Honours height So may they long and euer may they so Vntoucht of traytrous hand and tretcherous foe This Nuptiall day being celebrated thus Is to Great Brittaine Hymens Holiday The day of ioy the day of iollitie That young and old and all doe celebrate Muses and Graces Gods and Goddesses Adorne adore and celebrate this day The meanest with the mightiest may in this Expresse his loue for loyaltie alike Blazons affections force in Lord and Lowne In honour of this VVedding day behold How young and old and high and low reioyce England hath put a face of gladnesse on And Court and Countrie caroll both their prayse And in their honour tune a thousand Layes Behold in honour of this happy day What Poems and triumphals London singes What holy Hymnes and sacrifice of thankes Englands Metropolis as Incense sâ—ndes And in the sound of Cymbals Trumps and Shalmes In honour of Eliza and great Fredericks name To whom his life he owes and offers vp VVith songes of ioy for this long lookt-for day This Nuptiall day wherein we all enioy Such perfect comfort throughout Brutes new Troy VVith vs in simpathy of sweete accord All English Subiectes ioyne and hearts and hands Of prayses and of hearty prayers send Thankes-giuing for the blessings and the grace The gracious blessinges on this day powr'd downe This blessed day wherein these blessed Princes The peoples peace their Countries happy fate Are both conioynd in Matrimoniall state And in this generall plaudite and applause And celebration of this ioyfull day VVherein pale Enuie iustly vanquished Giues way vnto the vertues of these Princes And wounded with remembrance of their names Hath taken wing and made amaine from hence To murmure that he durst not here disgorge And breath his discontentments ouer Sea Among those gracelesse fugitiues that thirst For nothing more then dangerous change of times And alteration of a setled State That rabble of vnnaturall Englishmen VVhose base reuolt infamous through the world Makes them foule Architectes of vilde practises That end in their dishonour and their death Those bloody stratagems and trayterous traynes That shall be cruelly layde vnto their liues Precious in sight of Heauen and deare to vs By these base Truth-falne run-awayes VVee pray that Iacobs God may still preserue These Princes euen twixt bridge and waters brinke And saue their sacred persons in the fall From Pharaos Rod and from the Sword of Saul For this great Triumph that true Subiectes make Is likt of all but Enemies of the Truth Enemies to them that serue the liuing Lord And put in him their trust and confidence And this they well haue showne in gorgeous Showes And in all other fitt accuttrements Prepar'd to doe their duty and deuoyre VVherein they did so well demeane them selues So well so willingly to please these Princes That breathles yet they
would haue been content In this dayes honour yeeres of dayes t' haue spent ⧠Prince Frederick created Knight of the Gater and instald at Windsor the 7 day of February 1612. ABout the time when vesper in the west Gan set the euening watch and silent night Sent sleepe and slumber to possesse the world Vnder the starry Canapy of Heauen I laid me downe laden with many cares Fast by the streame where Tame and Isis meet Euen at that time all in a fragrant Meade In sight of that faire Castle that or'elookes The forrest one way and the fertill val Watred with that renowned Riuer Thames Olde Windsor Castle did I take my rest When Cynthia companion of the night Piercing mine eie-lids as I lay along Awakt me through Therewith me thought I saw A royall glimmering light streaming aloft A Titan mounted on the Lions backe Had cloath'd himselfe in fiery pointed beames To chase the night and entertaine the Moone Yet scarce had Phaebe gon hir iourney through Sleeping or waking as alone I lay Mine eies and eares and sences all were seru'd With euery obiect perfect in his kinde And lo a wonder to my sences all I might discerne a troope of Horsemen ride Arm'd Cape de Pe with shield shiuering launce As in a plash or calme transparent brooke Wee see the glistering fishes skowre along A number numberles appointed well For tournament as if the God of warre Had held a iusts in honor of his loue Therewith I heard the clarions the shalmes The Shakbuts and a number instruments Of seuerall kindes but lowdest of them all A Trumpe more shrill then Tritons is at sea The same renowne precurser of the traine Did sound for who ringes lowder thē renowne He mounted was vppon a flying horse And cloath'd in Phawcons feathers to the groūd By his Escutchion you might easly gesse He was the Hearhauld of eternity I lookt to see an end of that I saw And still me thought the trayne did multiply And yeilding cloudes gaue way men at armes Succeede as fast at one anothers heeles As in the Vast Mediterranean sea The rowling waues doe one beget another Weary of looking vp I laid me downe Willing to rest as sleepy soules are wont When of a sodaine such a noyse I heard Of shot of Ord'nance pealing in mine eares As twenty thousand Tyre had plaid at sea Or Aetna split had belcht hir bowels forth Or heauen earth thundering in armes amaine Had bent their great Artillery for warre And weary Atlas had let fall his loade Enough to wake Endimion from his traunce Yet was the Welkin cleare nor smoake nor dust Annoyde mine eies I gaz'd and as I lookt Me thought this host of Aery armed men Girt Windsor Castle round anon I saw Vnder a Canapy of Crimson bisse Spangled with gold and set with siluer bells That sweetly chym'd and lul'd me halfe a sleepe A goodly King in robes most richly dight The vpper like a Romaine Palliament In deede a Chapperon for such it was And looking neerer loe vppon his legge An auncient badge of honor I espide A Garter brightly glistering in mine eie A worthy ornament Then I cal'd to minde What Princely Edward of that name the third King Edward for his great atchiuement fam'd What he began The order of Saint George That at this day is honoured through the world The order of the Garter now t' is cal'd Famous through all the world for honour and antiquity Grac'd by a King and fauoured of his peeres Fam'd by his followers worthy kings queenes That to his day are soueraignes of the same Some say the manner how this grew at first Was thus The King disposed on a time To reuell after hee had shaken Fraunce And deckt his Lyons with their flower de-luce Dispos'd to reuell some say otherwise Found on the ground by fortune as he went A ladyes Garter and the Queene I trow Lost in a daunce and tooke it vp himselfe Which was a silken ribban weau'd of blewe His Lords and standers by seeing the King Stoope for this Garter smil'd as who would say Our office that had beene or some what else King Edward wistly looking on them all With princely hands hauing that Garter rais'd From harmles heart where honour was engrau'd Bespake in Frence he could the language well Honi soit qui mal Y pense quoth hee Wherewith vppon aduisement though the cause Were small his pleasure and his purpose was T' aduance that Garter and to institute A noble order sacred to Saint George And Knights to make them whō he would haue tearm'd Knights of the Garter this beginning had This honorable order of our time But truer farre that from the holy land This holy order cāe whēas a garter high aduan'st seru'd for an ensign was crown'd with victory Hereon I thought when I beheld the King I was instructed in the circumstance And found it was King Edward that did march In robes like those he ware when with his Lords He held Saint Georges royall feast on earth His eldest sonne surnamed the blacke Prince Though blacke of hue y ◠surname yet in Fraunce He wan for terrour to the Frenchmens hearts His countenaunce was his sword an iron scourge Hee on a cole-blacke Corser mounted was And in his hand a battle-axe he held His Beuer vp his corslet was of steele Varnisht as blacke as iet his bases blacke And blacke frō head to foote yea horse hoofe As blacke as night but in a twincke me thought He chang'd at once his habit and his steede And had a Garter as his father had But rich and costly with imbrodery Of Pearle and Gould I could on it discerne The Poesy whereof I spake of yore And well I wot since this King Edward daies Our Kinges Queenes about their roiall armes Haue in a garter borne this Poesy Still as I lay I gaz'd and gest at once What was this traine and whether it did bend At last I found King Edward was the man Accompanide with Kings Conquerours That from the spatious Aery house of fame Set forward royall to sollemnize Th'installement of some new created Knights For loe I sawe in rich accuttrements Like to King Edwards and the prince of Wales Full foure and twenty Knights nor more nor les In roabes with pretiōus colours of S. George And they had Garters all buckled with gould Me thought this semblance could not but import They Should be noble men of golden mindes And great account fauour'd of Prince and Peeres Whose names should in that register be writ Consecrate to Saint Georges chosen Knights Herewith the golden booke gan open faire And eas'ly I might read their names that next Went to the King of whome of whose worths Needs not to make particular relation This booke cōtaines their names seuerall coates And keepes them written in his golden leaues As they haue had installement and creation By gratious fauour in each Kings succession