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A03022	The order and solemnitie of the creation of the High and mightie Prince Henrie, eldest sonne to our sacred soueraigne, Prince of VVales, Duke of Cornewall, Earle of Chester, &c. As it was celebrated in the Parliament House, on Munday the fourth of Iunne last past. Together with the ceremonies of the Knights of the Bath, and other matters of speciall regard, incident to the same. Whereunto is annexed the royall maske, presented by the Queene and her ladies, on Wednesday at night following.	Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.	1610 (1610)	STC 13161; ESTC S122279	15,934	47

and boldnesse on the gold and siluer as the figures seemed round and not painted The Scene it selfe was a Port or Hauen with Bulworkes at the entrance and the figure of a Castle commaunding a fortified towne within this Port were many Ships small and great seeming to lie at Anchor some neerer and some further off according to perspectiue beyond all appeared the Horison or termination of the Sea which seemed to mooue with a gentle gale and many Sayles lying some to come into the Port and others passing out From this Scene issued Zephirus with eight Naydes Nymphs of fountaines and two Tritons sent from Tethys to giue notice of her intendement which was the Ante-maske or first shew The Duke of Yorke presented Zephirus in a short robe of greene satin imbrodered with golden flowers with a round wing made of lawnes on wyers and hung down in labels Behind his shoulders two siluer wings On his head a Garland of flowers consisting of all colours and on one Arme which was out bare he wore a bracelet of gold set with rich stones Eight little Ladies neere of his stature represented the Naydes and were attired in light robes adorned with flowers their haire hanging downe and wauing with Garlands of water ornaments on their heads The Tritons wore skin-coates of watchet Taffata lightned with siluer to shew the Muscles of their bodies From the waste almost to the knee were finnes of siluer in the manner of bases a mantle of Sea-greene laced and fringed with golde tyed with a knot vppon one shoulder and falling down in foldes behinde was fastened to the contrary side on their heads garlands of Sedge with trumpets of writhen shels in their hand Buskins of Sea-greene laid with siluer lace These persons thus attired entred with this song of foure parts and a musicke of twelue Lutes YOuth of the spring milde Zephirus blow faire And breath the ioyfull ayre Which Tethys wishes may attend this day Who comes her selfe to pay The vowes her heart presents To these faire complements Breath out new flowers which yet were neuer knowne Vnto the Spring nor blowne Before this time to bewtifie the earth And as this day giues birth Vnto new types of State So let it blisse create Beare Tethys message to the Ocean King Say how she ioyes to bring Delight vnto his Ilands and his Seas And tell Meliades The of-spring of his bood How she applaudes his good The song ended Triton in the behalfe of Zephirus deliuers Tethys message with her Presents which was a Trident to the King and a rich sword and skarfe to the Prince of Wales in these wordes FRom that intelligence which moues the Sphere Of circling waues the mightie Tethys Queene Of Nymphes and riuers who will straight appeare And in a humane Character be seene We haue in charge to say that euen as Seas And lands are grac'd by men of worth and might So they returne their fauours and in these Exalting of the good seeme to delight Which she in glory lately visiting The sweete and pleasant Shores of Cambria found By an vnvsuall and most forward Spring Of comfort wherewith all things did abound For ioy of the Inuestiture at hand Of their new Prince whose Rites with acts renownd Were here to be solemniz'd on this Strand And therefore streight resolues t' adorne the day With her al-gracing presence and the traine Of some choice Nymphs she pleas'd to call away From seuerall Riuers which they entertaine And first the louely Nymphe of stately Thames The darling of the Ocean summond is Then those of Trent and Aruns gracefull streames Then Darwent next with cleare-wau'd worthinesse The beauteous Nymph of Chrystall-streaming Lee Giues next attendance Then the Nymph of Ayr With modest motion makes her sweete repaire The Nymph of Seuerne follows in degree With ample streames of grace and next to her The cheerefull Nymph of Rother doth appaere With comely Medway th' ornament of Kent And then foure goodly Nymphes that beutifie Cambers faire shores and all that Continent The graces of cleere Vske Olwy Dulesse Wy● All these within the goodly spacious Bay Of manifold inharboring Mil●ord meete The happy Port of Vnion which gaue way To that great Heros HENRY and his fleete To make the blest coniunction that beg at A greater and more glorious far then that From hence she sends her deare lou'd Zephirus To breath out her affection and her zeale To you great Monarch of Oceanus And to present this Trident as the seale And ensigne of her loue and of your right And therewithall she wils him greete the Lord And Prince of th' Iles the hope and the delight Of all the Northerne Nations with this sword Which she vnto Astraea sacred found And not to be vnsheath'd but on iust ground Herewith sayes she deliuer him from mee This skarffe the zone of loue and Amitie Tingird the same wherein he may suruay Infigur'd all the spacious Emperie That he is borne vnto another day Which tell him will be world enough to yeeld All workes of glory euer can be wrought Let him not passe the circle of that field But thinke Alcides pillars are the knot For there will be within the large extent Of these my waues and watry Gouernement More treasure and more certaine riches got Then all the Indies to Iberus brought For Nereus will by industry vnfold A Chimicke secret and turne fish to gold This charge she gaue and lookes ●ith such a cheere As did her comfort and delight bewray Like cleere Aurora when she doth appeare In brightest roabes to make a glorious day The Speech ended the Naydes daunce about Zephirus and then withdraw them aside when suddenly at the sound of a loud and fuller musique Tethys with her Nymphes appeares with another Scene which I will likewise describe in the language of the Architector who contriued it and speakes in his owne mestier to such as are vnderstāders louers of that design First at the opening of the heauens appeared 3. circles of lights and glasses one within another and came downe in a straight motion fiue foote and then began to mooue circularly which lights and motion so occupied the eyes of the spectators that the manner of altering the Scene was scarcely discerned for in a moment the whole face of it was changed the Port vanished and Tethys with her Nymphes appeared in their seuerall Cauernes gloriously adorned This Scene was comparted into 5. Neeces whereof that in the middest had some slender pillowes of whole round and were made of moderne Architecture in regard of roome these were of burnisht gold and bare vp the returnes of an Architraue Freeze and Cornish of the same worke on which vpon eyther side was a Plinth directly ouer the pillers on them were placed for finishings two Dolphins of siluer with their tailes wreathed together which supported ouall vases of gold Betweene the two pillers on eyther side were great ornaments of ●elieuo the Basement were two huge

Whales of siluer Aboue in an action mounting were two Sea-horses and aboue them on each side of Tethys seat was placed a great Trident The seate or Throne it selfe was raised sixe steps and all couered with such an artificiall stuffe as seemed richer by candle then any cloth of gold The rests for her armes were tvvo Cherubines of gold ouer her head was a great skallop of siluer from which hung the foldes of this rich drapery Aboue the Skallop and round about the sides was a resplendent freeze of iewell glasses or lights which shewed like Diamonds Rubies Saphires Emralds and such like The part which returned from the two Plinthes that bare vp the Dolphines was circular and made a hollownesse ouer Tethys head and on this circle were 4. great C●artuses of gold which bore vp a round bowle of siluer in mannner of a fountaine with mask-heads of gold out of which ran an artificiall water On the middest of this was a triangular basement formed of scrowles leaues and then a rich Vayle adorned with flutings and inchased worke with a freeze of fishes and a batta●e of Tritons out of whose mouthes sprang water into the Bowle vnderneath On the top of this was a round globe of gold full of holes out of which issued aboundance of water some falling into the receipt below some into the Ovall vase borne vp by the Dolphines and indeed there was no place in this great Aquatick throne that was not filled with the sprinckling of these two naturall seeming waters The Neeces wherein the Ladies sate were foure with Pillasters of gold mingled with rustick stones shewing like a minerall to make it more rocke and Cauern-like varying from that of Tethys throne Equall with the heads of the Pillars was an Architraue of the same work aboue was a circular frontispice which rose equall with the Bowle of the fountaine fore discribed On the rustick frontispice lay two great figures in Rileue which seemed to beare vp a Garland of Sea-weeds to which from two antick Candlestickes which stood ouer the Pillasters were hanging Labells of gold And these were the finishings of the top of the two Neeces next to that of Tethys In the space betweene the frontispice and the Architraue stood a great Concaue shel wherein was the head of a Sea-god and on either side the shell to fill vp the roome two great mask heads in perfile The other two Neeces which were outermost were likewise borne vp with Pillasters of gold and for variation had square frontispices and against the streight Architraue of the other was an Arch. All these were mingled with rustick as before In the middle betweene the frontispice the Arch was a Bowle or fountaine made of foure great skallops borne vp by a great maske head which had likewise foure aspects and lying vpon this Arch to fill vp the Concaues were two figures turned halfe into fishes these with their heads held vp the sides of this Bowle aboue this were three great Cherubines heads spouting water into the Bowle On the middest of the square frontispice stood a great vase adorned The rest of the ornaments consisted of maske-heads spouting water swannes festons of maritime weedes great shels and such like and all this whole Scene was filled with the splendor of gold and siluer onely some beautifull colours behinde to distinguish them and to set off the rest The whole worke came into the forme of a halfe round there sate three Ladies in each Neece which made sixe of a side the Queene in the middest and the Lady Elizabeth at her feete Now concerning their habite first their head-tire was composed of shels and corrall and from a great Muriake shell in forme of the crest of an helme hung a thin wauing vaile Their vpper garments had the boddies of sky-colored taffataes for lightnes all embrodered with maritime inuention then had they a kinde of halfe skirts of cloth of siluer imbrodered with golde all the groūd work cut out for lightnes which hung down ful cut in points vnderneath that came bases of the same as was their bodies beneath their knee The long skirt was wrought with lace waued round about like a Riuer and on the bankes sedge and Sea-weedes all of gold Their shoulders vvere all imbrodered vvith the vvorke of the short skirt of cloth of siluer and had cypresse spangled ruffed out and fell in a ruffe aboue the Elbow The vnder sleeues vvere all imbrodered as the bodies their shoes vvere of Satin richly imbrodered with the worke of the short skirt In this habite they discended out of their Cauernes one after another and so marched vp with winding meanders like a Riuer till they came to the Tree of victory which was a Bay erected at the right side of the state vpon a little mount there raised where they offer their seuerall flowers in golden vrnes which they bare in their hands whilst a soft musique of twelue Lutes and twelue voyces which entertained the time exprest as a Chorus their action in this manner WAs euer houre brought more delight To mortall sight Then this wherein faire Tethys daignes to shew Her and her Nymphes arow In glory bright See how they bring their flowers From out their watry bowers To decke Apollos Tree The tree of victory About whose verdant bowes They Sacrifice their vowes And wish an euerlasting spring Of glory to the Oceans King This songe and ceremony ended they fall into their first daunce after which Tethys with drawes and reposes her vpon the Mount vnder the tree of victory entertain'd with Musicque and this Song IF ioy had other figure Then soundes and wordes and motion To intimate the measure And height of our deuotion This day it had beene show'd But what it can it doth performe Since nature hath bestowd No other letter To expresse it better Then in this forme Our motions soundes and wordes Tun'd to accordes Must shew the well-set partes Of our affections and our harts After this Tethys rises and with her Nymphes performes her second daunce and then reposes her againe vpon the Mount entertaind with another songe ARe they shadowes that we see And can shadowes pleasure giue Pleasures onely shadowes bee Cast by bodies we conceiue And are made the thinges we deeme In those figures which they seeme But these pleasures vanish fast Which by shadowes are exprest Pleasures are not if they last In their passing is their best Glory is most bright and gay In a flash and so away Feed apace then greedy eyes On the wonder you behold Take it sodaine as it flies Though you take it not to hold When your eyes haue done their part Thought must length it in the hart After this songe Tethys againe arises and with her Nymphes taketh out the Lordes to daunce their Measures Corantos and Galliardes which done they fall into their third and retyring daunce wherewith they returne againe into their seuerall Cauernes and sodainely vanish VVhen to auoid the confusion