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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63201	Londons tryumph celebrated the nine and twentieth day of October, in the year 1659, in honour of the much honoured Thomas Allen, lord mayor of the said city : presented and personated by an Europian, an Egyptian, and a Persian : and done at the costs and charges of the ever to be honoured Company of Grocers.	Tatham, John, fl. 1632-1664.	1659 (1659)	Wing T223; ESTC R38278	6,765	22

the Master and Wardens and their severall attendants march up the Chequer staires making a Guard from the Chequer Barr to the stayrs head through which the Lord Mayor and Aldermen doe passe the new Lord Mayor on the right the old on the left of the Recorder toward the said Barr and after a speech made by the said Recorder shewing the cause of their addresses answer made by the Lord Cheif Barron his Lordship is Sworn and being so the Company fall in as before leading to the Chancery the Upper-Bench and the Common-Pleas Barrs Seales a Writ at each Court and presently the whole Body marcheth to their Barges and being entred and the severall Barges on floate the former Ordnance as a token of joy are again discharged all convenient speed being likewise made by that body towards Baynards Castle but the severall Companies to Pauls Wharfe and other places in order to their making of a Guard or Gallory from the top of Pauls Wharfe or Pauls Chaine hill through Pauls Church yard Cheap-side Cornhill Leaden-hall-street to his Lordships House through which said Gallory the Company of Grocers the Lord Mayor Aldermen and their attendants are to passe The Lord Mayor Aldermen and their attendants being landed at the foresaid place doe meet the Foot-Marshall the Drums Fifes Trumpets Ensignes Silk-worke Pentioners Pages Gentlemen Ushers Budge and Foynes Bachellers set in order as at first and ready to March and placing himself and Company in the Front marcheth up Pauls Wharfe-hill through Pauls Church yard into Cheap-side and between Foster and Gutter-laine is saluted by one Sceane flankt with two Griffins on the back of one is placed a Negar on the other an Indian with Banners in the hands of both The Sceane representeth Commerce in the figure of a young man sitting under a Canopy supported by foure figures or young persons holding Pendants and Sheilds in their hands wherein is painted the badges of the foure parts of the world his Lordship drawing nigh the said Sceane Commerce salutes him in these words The first Speech MY Lord 'tis thought the world was but a plain Levell or Champion whil'st men did remain In idleness the Nurse of Ignorance Which lulls mens braines in a Lethergean Trance At th' last Necessity seem'd to infuse In them the Art of Arthitect the use Of Huts and Houses every one began To shew himself or more or lesse a Man Left their wilde kinde of living and did build Cities for safety in the which they held A Civiliz'd comunication each By a Divine instinct the Arts did teach Nor did they perish when the World was drown'd Their Hyrogliphicks were in pillars found That by degrees succeeding ages did Reveale to one another secrets hid Which though before were seeds in them yet they Shew'd not untill Experience taught the way Then did the Navigator search the Mayne How to steere forth how to return again With prize and safety straight that art was hurld Into our lap the center of the World By divine hand that we in a short time Made our selves countrymen of every clymb Searching the spacious Universe our skill And courage did the mouth of wonder fill Riding on dangers neck as though t'were meant We should be Lords of the whole Continent Such were our darings that what Histories Forget to speak of our discoveries Greenland Lapland Michar Isles remote And many more which later times denote Unto our Countryes glory we made ours By the direction of fore-seeing Powers Thus are we nourish't from the breasts encrease Could we among our selves but mediate peace The antient Poets Pyramids of praise Did to the Honour of their Countryes rayse In all my reading or my travells Sir I must our own above the rest preferr For as th' Magnetique Courts the Adamant With her Simphatick faculty the want Of whose Assotiation makes her seem Uselesse regardlesse as of small esteeme So we from most parts of the Universe Are sought rather petitioned for Commerce Traffique brings profit towards which they bend As though their welfare did on ours depend Thus doe we Sir still by our patriots care Or'e take their riches at their full Carreire My Lord you are Our Cities Hope whereon She doth rely her Father and her Son Shee gave you breath and education too Which made you fit for whats conferr'd on you Then since th' extention of Her love was such Your care of Her cannot be shewn too much Which as shee doubts not of so we rejoyce And celebrate Your Triumphs in Her Uoice The Speech ended the Scene quits the place and hastning towards his Lordships House is placed in the rear of a Ship not yet visible to his Lordship and his Lordship the Aldermen and their attendants pass through Cheap-side and the Poultry towards the Exchange they meet another Scean representing several of the places or Countries in which the Commodities belonging to the Grocers trade doe grow and the natives disporting therein in habits of each Nation on one part of the said Stage is placed a Clove Tree in another a Nutmeg Tree and a Current Tree on another part thereof is planted Rice Rasons Figgs and Druggs and in the Front is placed or fixed a Crockadile with an Egyptian on his back a banner in his hand at each Angle of the Stage a Nymph when his Lordship draws nigh the Egyptian salutes him in these words The second Speech WHere am I What auspicious wind convey'd Me to this Isle what sudden thoughts invade My faculties Egyptian darkness hence I now discern the cause and th' influence It was the soft and winning breath of Fame Fanning the way unto the honoured name Of him that this dayes Tryumphs wait upon Wafted me hither and hath put me on This bold attempt My Lord all Nations are Bound to this Seat and must Concenter here In point of Traffique other parts but stand Like Marginal Notes directing to this Land Or as in times past Mercurie's Statues were Fixt in high-wayes by th' hand of Publique care To point at consequents this little Round Is in it self a World Istmus and Sound Memphis no more of your fain'd Rampiers boast Lysbone your Tagus Caria your Coasts Persia Scythia Parthia Thratia Lydia Syria Syberia Caspia Ty up your numerous Glories with your Tongue That heretofore the want on Muses sung For in this Inch of Earth's comprized more Than all the Poets fanoi'd yours before It is Our wishes Sir your belov'd Name May adde a breathing to the breath of Fame To sound you Great and Good that your just Fate May fix you a firm Pillar to this State May You in Her and She in You this year Propitious be as th' Motion of a Sphere The Speech ended this Scene likewise quits the place and is conveyed through Leaden Hall street toward his Lordships House where meeting with the former is divided into two parts that Stage whereon the Spaniards and Negars are being placed on the Right hand of Commerce the Persians and Indians on the Left and the Griffins Flanking of each In the Front is placed the Ship and on the Right wing thereof is the Crookodile placed and on the Left a Camel with a Negar on his back having a Pendent in the one hand and