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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07895	Chruso-thriambos The triumphes of golde. At the inauguration of Sir Iames Pemberton, Knight, in the dignity of Lord Maior of London: on Tuesday, the 29. of October. 1611. Performed in the harty loue, and at the charges of the Right Worshipfull, worthy and ancient Company of Golde-smithes. Deuised and written by A.M. cittizen and draper of London.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1611 (1611)	STC 18267; ESTC S110068	8,632	22

spirits free from feare Note what thou seest Faringdon How Whence or where May I suppose my selfe Well I wot If Faringdon mistake it not That ancient famous Cathedrall Hight the Church of blessed Paul And that this Ward well witnesse can Once thereof I was Alderman And gaue it mine owne proper name I built these gates the verie same But when I note this goodly traine Yelad in Scarlet it should sayen And soothly too that these are they Who watch for London night and day Graue Magistrates of which faire band When second Edward swayd this land Foure seuerall times the chiefe was I And Lord of Londons Maioralty As by the bearing of that sword It seemes that ye are Londons Lord To whom becomes me loute full lowe Old dutie yet methinkes I know Turne now thy Glasse to instant day And let old Faringdon thee pray Good Time resolue him what is he Grac'd with this day of Dignitie Time A Brother of the Gold-Smiths Company Whose vertues worth and speciall loue of all Hath raisd vnto this high authority Moreouer note how fit his lot doth fall That time should likewise at this instant call A Sheriffe of the same Society To beare a part in this Solemnity See how the Bretheren of that worthy band Abound in loue and liberality To grace this Iouiall day On tip-toe stand Their iocond Spirits Ioying mutually In Maior and Sheriffe of their Company How can thy Ghost then but reioyce to see This honour of thine owne Society Faringdon Ioy and gladsome iouissance Doth old Faringdon in-trance To heare the tale that Time hath told Since those reuerend daies of old Vnto this great Solemnity For Brethren of my Company Glad and golden be your daies Liue in Prince and peoples praise Honour London with your care Study still for her welfare And as Gold-Smiths both you are Such good and golden deeds prepare That may renowne our Mystery To times of vtmost memory My minute cals and Ghosts must go Yet loath I am to leaue ye so For I could well spend out this day And doe what seruice else I may Were Time but pleasde that I might stay Leofstane Time that in this daies honour raisde vs both Meanes not I trust so soone to sunder vs To see that separation I am loath Be then to both so kind and gracious That we may waite vpon this worthy man And do him yet what seruice else we can Time You haue your owne desires Goe Faringdon There in that Chariot is thy place preparde Heere I as Coach-man meane to guide yee on So long as well our respit may be sparde On then away for we haue held ye long And done I doubt your worthy Guests great wrong Leofstans speech at S. Lawrance Lane HEere my Lord my charge was limited to describe this rich and beautious Monument vnto yee with all relations thereto appertaining But Time hath told me that Guests of great State and Honour are come to feast with you and the least delay now may be both offensiue and troublesom therefore it is referred to more apt conueniency when wee with much better leysure may attend yee Leofslane THis Orferie so styled by the auncient Epithite of your Companies profession or Gold-Smithery doth speake it selfe vnto your honor in this manner Heere doe the Miners and Pioners delue into the Earths entrailes to gaine the Oare both of Gold and Siluer and hauing attained thereunto in plentifull measure the ingenious Fyner purgeth him from his first Nature and shapes him into to Ingots of variable forme according as his Art best guids and enstructs him From him these precious Mettals descend to diuers other dexterious Artezans as the Mint-Maister his Coyners and diuers others who make them to serue in publike passage for generall benefit both in Coyne Plate and Iewels as occasion best discouereth the iust necessitie Beeing brought into these variant substances to preserue those pure refined bodies from base adulterating the Essay-Maister or absolute Tryer of eythers vertue makes proofe of them in his Furnaces and of their true worth or value So are they commended to Soueraigne Iustice attended by her gracious Daughters Golde and Siluer who bountifully hurle abroad their Mothers treasures after she hath yet once againe tried them by the Touch of vndeceiueable perfection The rest that do sufficiently speake themselues in their distinguished places as the Ieweller Lapidarie Pearle-Driller Golde-Smith and such like your eye of heedefull obseruation may spare their further relating Onely I may not omit these two vertuous Ladies Antiquity and Memory who present in apt place Graue Iudgement or Experience in the Golde-Smiths ancient facultie by the supposed shape of venerable Dunstane a man sometime very practique so well skild in Gold-Smithery as notwithstanding his more Diuine profession being Bishop of Worcester London and lastly Arch-Bishop of Canterbury delighted therein to his vtmost date of life Time So much for that There Leofstane make a pause Till Time haue certified this honoured Lord Concerning these faire Emblemes And the cause Of their combining in this kind accord The Argument doth instantly affoord The ancient loue and cordiall amity Between the Fishmongers Gold-Smiths Company At Feasts and solemne meetings on each side A Fish-Monger and Gold-Smith hand in hand Haue long time gone and nothing could deuide The rare continuance of that louing band Which doubtlesse to the end of time will stand And therefore these Impreses are thus borne The ones Fish with the others Vnicorne Yet let no censure stray so far at large To thinke the reason of that vnity Makes Fish-Mongers support the Gold-Smithes charge And their expences shared equally No ti 's the Gold-Smiths sole Society That in this Triumph beares the Pursse for all As theirs the like when like their lot doth fall Their loues herein may not be thought the lesse But rather virtuall and much stronger knit That each to other may the same expresse When honour in each Science makes men fit On such a Seat of Dignity to fit Then Peters Keies with Dauids Cup of Golde May freely march together vncontroulde Faringdon Now as custome wils it so On to Paules Church must ye goe To blesse God for this bounteous day Till you returne heere will we stay And vsher then a gladsome guiding Home to the place of your abiding For such is your kind Bretherens will And Time hath tyed vs therevntill At night at my Lords Gate Leofstane THus honoured Lord haue wee dutiously attended ye till Time appointeth our departing who hath tutourd Leofstanes tongue how to take his leaue with some remarkeable obseruations not altogether vnfitting your attention First the day of your Election falling out in such strange manner as it did exceeded the memory of Man to speake the like And yet notwithstanding so great a Snow Sleete and rough winde at the very instant of your choyce the Sunne did as readily thrust foorth his Golden beames to guilde the instant of your Inauguration as harts and