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A02732	The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince. Iames. the first of that name. King, of England. and the sixt of Scotland at his Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London. vpon the 15th. day of march 1603. Invented and published by Stephen Harrison ioyner and architect: and graven by William Kip.	Harrison, Stephen, joiner and architect.; Kip, William, engraver.; Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. Magnificent entertainment.; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. B. Jon: his part of King James his royall and magnificent entertainement through his honorable cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603. Selections.	1604 (1604)	STC 12863; ESTC S122021	15,089	28

Models stood as a Coronet on the forehead or Battlements of this Great and Magnificent Edifice The cheekes or sides of the Gate were as it were doubly guarded with the Pottraitures of Atlas King of Mauritania who according to his owne shortnesse and thicknesse from the Symetry of his foote caused a pillar to be made whose height with Base and Capitall was 6. times the thicknesse in height And so is this of ours bearing the name of Tuscana as we sayd before and reaching to the very point of the Arch from whence wee did deriue Dorica which bore vp the Architiue Frize and Coronixe and was garnished with Corbels or Croxtels fitting such worke besides the beauty of Pyramids Beasts Water Tables and many other inrichments which you may find exprest in the Peece it selfe From a Gallery directly ouer the gate the sound of loud Musicke being the Waites and Hault-boyes of the City was sent forth At the foot of the Battlemēts was in Capitall letters inscribed this word Londinium beneath that these words Camera Regia In this Pegme or Arch Triumphall were placed 12. personages of which she that had the preeminence to sit highest was cald Monarchia Britannica At her feete sate Diuine Wisedome On her right hand sate three of the daughters of Genius Vrbis whose names were Veneration Promptitude Vigilance On her left the other three viz. Gladnesse Louing Affection Vnanimitte Beneath all these stood the Genius of the Citty richly attirde being supported on the right hand by a person figuring The Councell of the City and on the left by a person figuring the Warlike force of the City Directly vnder these in an Abacke thrust out before the rest lay Thamesis the Riuer leaning his Arme vpon a Gourde out of which water with liue fishes were seene to runne forth and play about him The speakers were onely Thamesis and Genius who vttered these speeches following on the other side The speeches of Gratulation GENIVS TIme Fate and Fortune haue at length conspir'd To giue our Age the day so much desir'd What all the minutes houres weekes moneths and yeares That hang in file vpon these siluer haires Could not produce beneath the Britane stroke The Roman Saxon Dane and Norman yoke This point of Time bath done Now London reare Thy forehead high and on it striue to weare Thy choisest Gems Teach thy steepe Towers to rise Higher with people Set with sparkling eyes Thy spacious windowes and in euery streete Let thronging Ioy Loue and Amazement meete Cleaue all the aire with showtes and let the cry Strike through as long and vniuersally As thunder For thou now art blist to see That sight for which thou didst beginne to be When Brutus plough first gaue thee infant bounds And I thy GENIVS walk's auspicious rounds In euery furrow Then did I forelooke And saw this day mark't white in Clotho's booke The seuerall Circles both of change and sway Within this Isle there also figur'd lay Of which the greatest perfectest and last Was this whose present happinesse we taste Why keep you silence Daughters What dull peace Is this inhabites you Shall office cease Vpon th' aspect of him to whom you owe 〈…〉 Shall TIME knowe That Article wherein your flame stood still An 〈…〉 Now heauen auert an I 'd Of that blacke looke Ere pause possesse your breasts I wish you more of Plagues Zeale when it rests Leaues to be zeale Vp thou tame RIVER wake And from thy liquid limbes this slumber shake Thou drown'st thy selfe in inofficious sleepe And these thy sluggish waters seeme to creepe Rather them flow Vprise and swell with pride Aboue thy bankes Now is not euery Tyde THAMESIS TO what vaine end should I contend to show My weaker powers when Seas of pompe o'reflow The Citties face and couer all the shore With san is more rich than Tagus wealthy ore When in the stood of Ioy that comes with him He drownes the world yet makes it liue and swimme And spring with gladnesse Not my fishes heere Though they be dumbe but do expresse the cheere of these bright streames No lesse may These and I Boast our delights albe't we silent lie GENIVS INdeed true Gladnesse doth not alwayes speake Ioy bred and borne but in the tongue is weake Yet least the feruor of so pure a flame As this my City beares might loose the name Without the apt euenting of her heate Know greatest IAMES and no lesse good than great In the behalfe of all my vertuous Sonnes Whereof my eldest there thy pompe forerunnes A Man without my flattering or his Pride As worthy as hee 's blest to be thy guide In his graue name and all his Brethrens right Who thirst to drinke the Nectar of thy sight The Councell Commoners and Multitude Glad that this day so long deny'd is viewd I tender thee the heartiest welcome yet That euer King had to his Empires seate Neuer came man more long'd for more desir'd And being come more reuerenc'd lou'd admir'd Heare and record it In a Prince it is No little vertue to knowe who are his With like deuotions do I stoope t' embrace This springing glory of thy Godlike race His Countries wonder Hope Loue Ioy and Pride How well dooth he become the royall side Of this erected and broad spreading Tree Vnder whose shade may Brittane euer be And from this branch may thousand branches more Shoote or'e the Maine and knit with euery shore In bonds of Mariage Kinred and Increase And stile this Land the Nauill of their peace This is your Seruants wish your Cities vow Which still shall propagate it selfe with you And free from spurres of Hope that slow minds moue He seekes no hire that owes his life to Loue And heere she comes that is no lesse a part In this dayes greatnesse then in my glad heart Glory of Queenes and Glory of your Name Whose Graces do as farre out-speake your Fame As Fame doth silence when her Trumpet rings You Daughter Sister Wife of seuerall Kings Besides Alliance and the stile of Mother In which one title you drowne all your other Instance be that faire shoote is gone before Your eldest Ioy and top of all your store With those whose sight to vs is yet deni'd But not our zeale to them or ought beside This City can to you For whose estate She hopes you will be still good Aduocate To her best Lord So whilst you mortall are No taste of sower mortalitie once dare Approach your house nor Fortune greete your Grace But comming on and with a forward face The Italians Pegme stood in Gracious-streete THE second Triumphall Arch was erected by the Italians the cost theirs the Inuention their owne It tooke vp the whole breadth of Gracious-streete on which it stood being foote the height of it was foote The lower parte of this Building was a large square garnished with foure great Corinthia Columnes In the midst of which square was cut out a faire and a Spacious hie gate Arched

being foote in the Perpendicular-line and in the Ground-line directly ouer the gate were aduaunced the Armes of the Kingdome the Supporters whereof were fairely cut out to the life On the top of this first square beeing flat was erected another Square which bare in the fore side foure more lesser Columnes on which were all the garnishments belonging to those pillars as namely the architriue frize and Cornish on which Square was placed a great Canted Pedestall which with his moldinges did diminish vpwards to smaller Cants on which top was fixed a Personage carued or molded out to the life her left hand leaning on a sword with the point downeward and her right hand reaching forth a Diademe which shee seemde by bowing of her knee and head to bestow vpon his Maiestie On the foure Corners of this vpper parte stoode foure naked Portractures in great with artificiall trumpets in their hands All which Shapes that were erected in most liuely colours together with Pyramides long Streamers Galleries and all other inrichments belonging to this Arch triumphant I referre you to the Modell or Peece it selfe for the Front of it as the next leafe will shewe you so likewise proportionall was the backe side to the fore-Front The Italians were placed within two little Galleries very richly and stately hung vnder the Arch of the Passage In whose behalfe thus much Latine was deliuered The Italians Speech SAlue Rex magne salue Salutem Maiestati tuae Itali foelicissimum Aduentum laeti foelices sub te futuri precamur Eccè hic Omnes Exigui Munere pauculi Numero sed magni erga Maiestatem animi multi obsequij At nec Atlas qui Coelum sustinet ne ipsa Coeli Conuexa altitudinem attingant meritorum Regis optimi Hoc est eius quem de Teipso expressists doctissimo Deus admirabili penicillo Beatissimos populos vbi Philosophus regnat Rex Philosophatur Salue Viue Rex Potentissime foeliciter Regna Rex sapientissime foeliciter Itali optamus Omnes Itali clamamus Omnes Omnes Omnes The same in English ALL haile mightie Monarch wee the Italians full of Ioy to behold thy most happie presence and full of hopes to inioy a felicitie vnder thy Royall wing doe wish and pray for the health of thy Maiestie Behold here wee are all meane in merite fewe in number but towards thy Soueraigne selfe in our loues great in our duties more For neither Atlas who beares vp heauen no nor the Arched roofe it selfe of heauen can by many-many degrees reach to the toppe and glorious height of a good and vertuous Kinges deseruings And such a one is he whome Good God! most liuely most wisely and in wonderfull colours thou didst then pencill downe in thine owne person when thou saydst those people were blest where a Philosopher rules and where the Ruler playes the Philosopher All haile thou royallest of Kinges liue thou mightiest of Princes Reigne thou wisest of Monarches in all prosperitie these are the wishes of vs Italians the hearty wishes of vs all All euen All The Pegme of the Dutchmen THE third welcome that his Maiesty receiude was from the Belgians who had builded a stately Triumphall Arch to entertaine him in and thus was it contriude So wide did the bodie of it extend it selfe that it swallowed vp the breadth of the whole streete neere the Royall Exchange in Cornehill The Passage of state was a gate comely and large ascending foote in heigth and foote in the breadth neately Arched and graced with two lesser Posternes on the sides whose dimensions you may behold in the modell Sundry inscriptions were in golden Letters to bee seene both ouer the Gate and in the Tables fild with excellent Pictures as the King in his Imperiall Robes with other Portractures of Princes and Poeticall Emblemes of Peace c. On the back part also were peeces wherein were drawne the people of the Seuenteene Prouinces at their Husbandry their Exchange their Mart Also seuenteene children on the fore side representing the seuenteene Prouinces sate in degrees each of them hauing a Scutcheon in his hand figuring his Prouince On the shoulders of this Belgicke body stood rowes of Balysters with Pedistals that supported Lyons rampant bearing vp Banners And aboue them in the midst of another square about with Balysters likewise was aduanced a woman figuring Diuine Prouidence her feete fastned to a great Pedestall whose toppe was curiously connexed and knit together with the tailes of two Dolphins Other Garnishments there were that gaue illustration and beauty to this building as Columnes Pyramids c. whose proportions your eye may measure on the other side The speech wherein the loue of these Strangers was testified was deliuered by a boy in Latine and is thus much in English The speech of the Dutchmen GREAT King those so many Scepters which euen fill thy right hand are all thine owne onely by the Prouidence of heauen Behold heauen it selfe laughes to see thy Subiects smile and thunder out loud Plaudities to heare their Aues This honor of Soueraignty beeing at the beginning of the world bestowed but vpon few vpon the heads of few were the cares of a Crowne set for to sway onely but one Empire happily as it is a labour hard So none can vndergoe the waight but such as are mightie But with a becke as it were to controle many Nations and those of different dispositions too O! the Arme of man can neuer do that but the finger of God God therefore that guides the Chariot of the world holds the Raynes of thy Kingdome in his owne hand It is he whose beames lend a light to thine It is hee that teacheth thee the Art of Ruling because none but hee made thee a King And therefore as thou growest in yeares thou waxest old in Vertues of all thy Vertues Religion sitting highest And most worthy for by Religion the hearts of barbarous Nations are made soft By Religion Rebellion hath a yoke cast about her necke and is brought to beleeue that those Lawes to which thou submittest euen thy royall selfe are most easie With Religion Iustice keepes companie who once fled from this prophane world but hearing the name of King Iames she is againe returned By her side sits her sister Fortitude whose life is readie in Heroike actions to bee spent for the safety of thy people Besides to make these Vertues full Apollo and the Muses resigne the one his Golden lyre the other their Laurell to thy royall hands whilest Plenty daughter to Industry layes the blessings both of Countrey and Cittie in heapes at thy feete These are the gifts of heauen the fame then spreading it selfe so farre that to wonder at them both the Poles seeme to come together We the Belgians likewise come to that intent a Nation banisht from our owne Cradles yet nurst and brought vp in the tender bosome of a Princely mother Eliza The loue which we once dedicated to her as a Mother doubly

the beauties of it were a mixture taken from the rest he gaue it the name of Composita or Italica within the Temple stood an Altar with burning Incense vpon it before which a Flamin appears and to the Flamin comes the Genius of the City The principall person in this Temple was Peace At her feete lay Warre groueling At her right hand stood Wealth On the same hand likewise but somewhat remote and in a Cant by her selfe Quiet was seated the first hand maide of Peace whose feete stood vpon Tumult On the left hand at the former distance Liberty the second hand-maide of Peace had her place at whose feete Seruitude lay subiected Beneath these on distinct degrees sate two other hand maides of Peace Safety and Felicity Safety trampling vpon Danger and Felicity vpon Vnhappinesse Genius and Flamin spake thus much GEN. STay what art thou that in this strange attire Darst kindle stranger and vnhallowed fire Vpon this Altar FL. Rather what art thou That darst so rudely interrupt my vowe My habite speakes my name GE. A Flamin FL. Yes And Martialis cald G●. I so did gesse By my short view but whence didst thou ascend Hither or how or to what mysticke end FL. The noise and present tumult of this Day Rowsd me from sleepe and silence where I lay Obscur'd from light which when I wake to see I wondring thought what this great pompe might be When looking in my Kalender I found The Ides of Marche were entred and I bound With these to celebrate the Geniall feast Of Anna stil'd Perenna Mars his guest Who in this Month of his is yearely cal'd To banquet at his Altars and instald A Goddesse with him since she files the Yeare And knits the oblique scarse that gyrts the spheare Whilest foure fac'd Ianus turnes his vernall looke Vpon their meeting howers as if he tooke High pride and pleasure GE. Sure thou still dost dreame And both thy tongue and thought rides on the streame Of Phantasie Behold here Hee nor Shee Haue any Altar Fane or Diety Stoope read but this Inscription and then view To whome the place is consecrate T is trew That this is Ianus Temple and that now He turnes vpon the Year his freshest browe That this is Mars his moneth and these the Ides Wherein his Anne was honored Both the Tides Titles and Place we knowe But these dead rites Are long since buried and new power excites More highe and hartie flames Loe there is he Who brings with him a greater Anne then shee Whose strong and potent vertues haue defac'd Sterne Mars his statues and vpon them plac'd His and the worlds blest blessings This hath brought Sweete Peace to sit in that bright state she ought Vnbloudy or vntroubled hath forc'd hence All tumults feares or other darke portents That might inuade weake minds hath made men see Once more the face of welcome Liberty And doth in all his present acts restore That first pure world made of the better Ore Now Innocence shall cease to be the spoile Of rauenous Greatnesse or to sleepe the soile Of raised Pesantrie with teares and bloud No more shall rich men for their little good Suspect to be made guiltie or vile Spies enioy the lust of their so murdering eyes Men shall put off their Yron minds and hearts The Time forget his olde malicious artes With this new minute and no print remaine Of what was thought the former ages staine Backe Flamin with thy superstitious fumes And sense not heere Thy ignorance presumes Too much in acting any Ethnick rite In this translated Temple Heere no wight To sacrifice saue my deuotion comes That brings in steed of those thy Masculine gummes My Cities heart which shall for euer burne Vpon this Altar and no Time shall turne The same to ashes Heere I fixe it fast Flame bright flame high and may it euer last Whilest I before the figure of thy Peace Still tend the fire and giue it quicke increase With prayers wishes vowes whereof be these The least and weakest that no Age may leese The memory of this so rich a day But rather that it henceforth yearely may Begin our spring and with our spring the prime And first account of Yeares of Months of Time And may these Ides as fortunate appeare To thee as they to Caesar fatall were Be all thy Thoughts borne perfect and thy Hopes In their euents still crownd beyond their scopes Let not wide Heauen that secret blessing know To giue which she on thee will not bestow Blind Fortune be thy slaue and may her store The lesse thou seest it follow thee the more Much more I would but see these brasen Gates Make hast to close as vrged by thy Fates Here ends my Cities office here it breakes Yet with my tongue and this pure heart she speakes A short farewell and lower then thy feete With feruent thankes thy royall paines doth greete Pardon if my abruptnesse breed disease He merits not t' offend that hasts to please Lectori Candido READER The limmes of these great Triumphall bodies lately disioynted and taken in sunder I haue thou seest for thy sake set in their apt and right places againe so that now they are to stand as perpetuall monuments not to be shaken in peeces or to be broken downe by the malice of that enuious destroyer of all things Time VVhich labours of mine if they yeeld thee either profit or pleasure thou art in requitall thereof to pay many thankes to this honourable Citie whose bounty towards me not onely in making choise of me to giue directions for the intire workmanship of the fiue Triumphall Arch's builded by the same but also in publishing these Peeces I do here gladly acknowledge to haue bene exceeding liberall Nor shall it be amisse in this place to giue thee intelligence of some matters by way of notes which were not fully obserude nor freely inough set downe in the Printed Booke of these Triumphes amongst which these that follow are chiefest His Maiestie departed from the Tower betweene the houres of 11. and 12 and before 5. had made his royall passage through the Citie hauing a Canopie borne ouer him by 8. Knights The first Obiect that his Maiesties eye encountred after his entrance into London was part of the children of Christs Church Hospitall to the number of 300. who were placed on a Scaffold erected for that purpose in Barking Church-yard by the Tower The way from the Tower to Temple-Barre was not onely sufficiently grauelled but all the streetes lying betweene those two places were on both sides where the breadth would permit raild in at the charges of the Citie Paules Church-yard excepted The Liueries of the Companies hauing their Streamers Ensignes and Banerets spred on the tops of their railes before them reached from the middle of Marke Lane to the Pegme at Temple Barre Two Marshals were chosen for the day to cleere the passage both of them being well mounted and attended on by sixe men suteably attirde to each Marshall The Conduits of Cornehill of Cheape and of Fleetestreete that day ran Claret wine very plenteously which by reason of so much excellent Musicke that sounded foorth not onely from each seuerall Pegme but also from diuerse other places ran the faster and more merrily downe into some bodies bellies As touching the Oration vttered by Sir Henry Mountague Recorder of the City with the gifts bestowed on the King the Queene and the Prince beeing three Cups of gold as also all such songs as were that day sung in the seuerall Arch's I referre you to the Booke in print where they are set downe at large And thus much you shall vnderstand that no manner of person whatsoever did disburse any part towards the charge of these fiue Triumphes but onely the meere Citizens being all free-men heretofore the charge being borne by fifteenes and the Chamber of London as may appear by auncient presidents but now it was leauied amongst the Companies The other two Arch's erected by Merchant-Strangers viz the Italians and Dutchmen were only their owne particular charge The Citty elected 16. Committies to whom the managing of the whole businesse was absolutely referred of which number 4. were Aldermen the other 12. Commoners viz. one out of each of the 12. Companies Other Committies were also appointed as ouer-seers and surueyors of the worke Farewell Imprinted at London by Iohn Windet Printer to the Honourable Citie of London and are to be sold at the Authors house in Lime-Street at the signe of the Snayle 1604