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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01146	Londons tempe, or, The feild of happines. In which feild are planted seuerall trees of magnificence, state and bewty, to celebrate the solemnity of the right honorable Iames Campebell, at his inauguration in to the honorable office of prætorship, or maioralty of London, on Thursday the the 29 of October, 1629. All the particular inuentions, for the pageants, showes of triumph, both by water and land being here fully set downe, at the sole cost, and liberall charges of the right worshipfull Society of Ironmongers. / Written by Thomas Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.; Worshipful Company of Ironmongers (London, England).	1629 (1629)	STC 6509; ESTC S1084	7,115	20

Londons Tempe OR The Feild of Happines In which Feild are planted seuerall Trees of Magnificence State and Bewty to Celebrate the Solemnity of the Right Honorable Iames Campebell At his Inauguration into the Honorable Office of Praetorship or Maioralty of London on Thursday the 29 of October 1629. All the particular Inuentions for the Pageants Showes of Triumph both by Water and land being here fully set downe At the sole Cost and liberall Charges of the Right worshipfull Society of Ironmongers Written by THOMAS DEKKER Quando magis Dignos licuit Spectare Triumphos To the Right honorable Iames Campe-bell Lord Maior of the most renouned Citty of London Honorable Praetor THe Triumphes which these few leaues of paper present to your vew Albeit their glories are but short-liued as glittering onely for a day Boldly show their faces vnto the eye of the world as Seruants attending on your Lordship onely to doe you honor With much care cost and curiosity are they brought forth And with exceeding greatnes of Loue a free handed bounty of their Purse a Noble and generous Alacrity of Spirit haue your worthy Fraternity and much to be honored Brother-hood of Ironmongers bestowed them vpon you It much winnes vpon them to haue such a Cheife and you cannot but be glad to haue such a Society By a free Election are you Londons Praetor The Suffrages of Commoners call you to your seate A succession to the place Takes you by the hand your Industry hath met with Blessings those blessings giuen you ability and that ability makes you fit for a Maiestrate Yet there is a musicke in your owne bosome whose strings being touchd yeilds as harmonius a sound to you as All theis And that is to see your selfe heire to that Patrician Dignity with which your Father was Inuested Jt was an honor to him to weare that Robe of Scarlet It it a double glory to you in so short an age to haue his sword borne before you You haue the voyce of Senators breathing out your welcome A confluence of Graue Citizens Adding state to your state The acclamations of People vshering you along Whilst I the least part of this Triumphant day spend such sand as I haue to helpe to fill vp the houre glasse my Seruice ronning Attending on your Lordship Thomas Dekker Londons Tempe WEre it possible for a Man in the Compasse of a Day to behold as the Sunne does All the Citties in the World as if he went with Walking Beames about him That Man should neuer see in any Part of the yeare Any Citty so Magnificently Adorned with All Sorts of Tryumphes variety of Musicke of Brauery of Bewty of Feastings of Ciuill yet Rich Ceremonies with gallant Lords and Ladies and Thronges of People as London is inriched with on the first Day that Her Great Lord or Lord Maior for t is all one Takes That Office vpon him In former Ages He was not Encompast with such Glories No such Firmaments of Starres were to be seene in Cheape-side Thames dranke no such Costly Healthes to London as hee does Now. But as Troynouant spred in Fame so our English Kinges shined vpon her with Fauours In Those Home-spun Times They had no Collars of SS no Mace Sword nor Cap of Maintenance These came by Degrees as Additamenta Honoris additions or Ensignes of more Honour Conferd by seuerall Princes on this Citty For in the time of Edward Confessor the chiefe Ruler of the Citty was called Reeue Greeue or Portreeue The next to him in authority Prouost Then in the first of Richard 1. two Bayliffes carried the sway This continued till the ninth of King Iohn who by Letters Patents gaue the Citizens power yearely to choose themselues a Lord Maior and two Sheriffes Then King Henry 3. made the first Aldermen in London yet the Name of Ealdorman was knowne in the Saxons time for Alwin in the reigne of Edgar was Alderman of All England that is to say Chiefe Iustice and those Aldermen of London had Rule then as Now ouer the Wardes of the Citty but were euerie yeare changed as the Shreiffes are in these dayes Then Edward 1. ordained that the Lord Maior should in the Kings absence sit in all Places within London as Chiefe Iustice And that euery Alderman that had bin Lord Mayor should be a Iustice of Peace for London and Middlesex all his life after Then in the reigne of Henry 7. Sr. John Shaw Goldsmith being Lord Maior caused the Aldermen to ride from the Guild-hall to the water side when he went to take his Oath at Westminster where before they Rode by land thither and at his returne to ride againe to the Guild-hall there to dine all the Kitchens and other Offices there Being built by Him since which time the Feast has there bin kept for before it was either at Grocers Hall or the Merchantaylors Thus small Rootes grow in time to Caedars shallow streames to riuers and a Hand of Gouernment to be the strongest Arme in a Kingdome Thus you see London in her meane attyre then in Robes Maiestical and sitting in that Pompe cast your Eye vpon those alluring Obiects which she her selfe Beholds with Admiration The first The first Scaene is a Water-worke presented by Oceanus King of the Sea from whose Name the Vniuersall Maine Sea is called the Ocean He to celebrate the Ceremonies and Honors due to this great Festiuall and to shew the world his Marine Chariot sits Triumphantly in the Vast but Queint shell of a siluer Scollup Reyning in the heads of two wild Sea-horses proportioned to the life their maynes falling about their neckes shining with curles of gold On his head which as his Beard is knotted long carelesly spred and white is placd a Diadem whose Bottome is a conceited Coronet of gold The middle ouer that is a Coronet of siluer Scollops and on the top a faire spreading branch of Corrall interwouen thickly with Pearle In his right hand a golden Trident or three forked Scepter His habit is Antique the stuffe watchet and siluer a mantle crossing his body with siluer waues Bases and Buskins cut likewise at the top into siluer scollups And in this language he congratulates his Lordship Oceanus his Specch THus Mounted hither comes the King of waues Whose voyce Charmes roughest Billows into slaues Whose Foote treades downe their necks with as much Ease As in my shelly Coach I reyne vp These Lowd Ecchoes cald me from my glittering Throne To see the Noble Thamesis A Sonne To this my Queene and Me 〈◊〉 whose Eare Ne're Ieweld vp such Musick as sounds Here. For our vnfaddomd World Roares out with None But Horrid Sea-fights Nauies Ouerthrowne Ilands halfe-drownd in Bloud Pyrates pell mell Turkes slauish tugging Oares The Dunkerks Hell The Dutchmans Thunder And the Spaniards Lightning To whom the Sulphures Breath giues Heate Heightning O! These are the Dire Tunes my Consort sings But here old Thame out shines the Beames of Kings This Citty Addes New Glories