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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03289	Great Brittains beauty; or, Londons delight. Being a poem, in the commendation of the famous incomparable city of London, and the Royal Exchange, as they now stand rebuilt, in most magnificent splendor and beauty, to our nations honour, and to the exceeding joy and comfort of King, kingdom and city. / Written by George Eliott, Gent.	Elliott, George, poet.	1671 (1671)	Wing E546; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[89]	2,067	1

Great BRITTAINS Beauty OR LONDONS Delight Being a POEM in the Commendation of the Famous Incomparable CITY of LONDON and the Royal Exchange as they now stand Rebuilt in most Magnificent Splendor and Beauty to our Nations Honour and to the exceeding Joy and Comfort of King Kingdom and City Written by GEORGE ELIOTT Gent. Great Brittain smiles to see Fair London Rise With Famous Buildings mounted to the Skies GO View Earth's Globe take Eagles wings and fly Search every Kingdom underneath the Sky The great Imperial Seats of this vast round Whether above or underneath the ground Survey each City on Earths mighty Ball Her Metropolitans yea view them all Ascend the Clouds ride on the wings o' th Wind Search every Corner of the World to find A City standing on the Ground which can Compare with Brittains Metropolitan Europe's amaz'd the Whole World doth admire That LONDON which so late was burnt with Fire In so short space should with such splendor rise As all the Cities underneath the Skies Are quite eclips'd Their Glory and Renown Now London's risen quite doth tumble down Go view each Street and stand amaz'd to see With what fair Fabricks they adorned bee Each House a Palace and may entertain A KING in State with all his Noble Train Her stately Structures causeth admiration To every Empire Kingdom I le and Nation Under the Cope of Heaven Every Land Rings forth thy praise and doth amazed stand To see that LONDON which so late was hurl'd Into a Chaos of the Western World Should be Metropolis Great Brittains Ile Standeth on Tiptoes with a pleasant smile To see fair London Phoenix like to rise Out of her Ashes up into the Skies The stateliest Structure and the goodliest round That e're was built or stood upon the ground Within the Bowels of fair London stands A Mighty KING did with his Sacred Hands Lay the Chief Corner-Stone His Royall Brother With his Own Hands did also lay another French Spanish Dutch the Noble Tuscanite The Portugall the Mighty Muscovite The Swede the Dane and from all Christendome Which from beyond Sea to our CITY come Stands gazing on it with delighted Eyes Sayes 'T is the stateliest Structure under Skies Takes Pen in hand writes in the Commendation Of Englands KING the CITY and the NATION So sweet a Soyl and pleasant Plot of ground In all this Mighty Ile cannot be found To build so great a City on The Nile If that it ran through Brittains famous Ile 'T would not be valu'd Such a Stream doth run By Lovely London as under the Sun There 's not the like For on that River floats Upon account at least Seven Thousand Boats Gold Silver Pearl Wine Oyl and what we lack Comes to our CITY swimming on its Back But that which makes her Name through Earth to Ring She is the Chamber to our Soveraign KING The Place in which the Parliament doth sir For to determine things most requisite In it all Causes at the Law are tride In it the Nobles of the Land abide The Worlds Chief Mart Rich Christendoms Rare Inn Which from all Cities doth the Garland win She now hath stood almost Three Thousand Years As by the best Chronologers appears But now Good Reader I will give account To what vast Number all those Souls amount That breath therein Mr. James Howell sayes Thirty years since in good King Charles his dayes The King commands a Scrutiny to make And that the Mayor a strict account should take Of all the Catholiques that he might know How to suppress them fore they headstrong grow And thereupon they took a just account Of all in general there did surmount Seven hundred Thousand But what are those To that vast Number now she doth enclose In her wide Womb For she doth comprehend Full Fifteen hundred Thousand which do spend Their dayes therein But for her Scituation Her wholsome Ayr her fast and firm foundation Her Temples Schools her Colledges and Halls Her Inns of Courts and her Hospitals Her Lawes her Manners and her Fabricks Fair Her Sober Senators and prudent Maior Her wise Inhabitants her Grave Divines There 's not a City on which Sun now shines No not in Europe one that I can tell May with our City stand in parallel Nor on Earths Globe is there a City can Compare to Brittains Metropolitan And now O London I have let thee see There 's not a City can compare to thee On Earths Circumference Give God the praise And to his Glory ever spend thy daies Honour thy KING and humbly him obey And to the GOD of Heaven ever pray That on his Head the Royall Crown may stand And the Great Scepter of this Famous Land May still be swaid by Him that now doth Raign And by his Seed till Shilo come again Forsake all Sin and to Gods Glory spend Thy precious Time That Heaven may not send Such Dreadful Judgments but Thee ever blesse Above all Cities on Earths Universe Then let thy Foes say what they will or can Thou l't be the. Worlds Chief Metropolitan With Allowance London Printed for E. Horton 1671. All Christendsme admires as London The Royal Exchange The King laid the first Corner-Stone Londons Pleasant Scituation Thames a Famous River London the Kings Chamber so called by Ontlandish Writers The Terms London an ancient City See Howell in his Description of London They took an occasion thereby to count all under the Mayors Command 700000 under the Mayors Command London doth contain in her 1500000. A Caution to the City