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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20090	Troia-Noua triumphans London triumphing, or, The solemne, magnificent, and memorable receiuing of that worthy gentleman, Sir Iohn Svvinerton Knight, into the citty of London, after his returne from taking the oath of maioralty at Westminster, on the morrow next after Simon and Iudes day, being the 29. of October. 1612. All the showes, pageants, chariots of triumph, with other deuices, (both on the water and land) here fully expressed. By Thomas Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1612 (1612)	STC 6530; ESTC S105286	11,287	28

and are found in the shels of fishes In his hand he holds a siluer Trident or Three-forked-Mace by which some Writers will haue signified the three Naturall qualiies proper to Waters as those of fountaines to bee of a delitious taste and Christalline colour those of the Sea to bee saltish and vnpleasant and the colour sullen and greenish And lastly those of standing Lakes neither sweet nor bitter nor cleere nor cloudy but altogether vnwholesome for the taste and loathsome to the eye His roabe and mantle with other ornaments are correspondent to the quality of his person Buskins of pearle and cockle-shels being worne vpon his legges At the lower part of this Chariot sit Mer-maids who for their excellency in beauty aboue any other creatures belonging to the sea are preferred to bee still in the eye of Neptune At Neptunes foot sits Luna the Moone who beeing gouernesse of the sea all petty Flouds as from whose influence they receiue their ebbings and flowings challenges to herselfe this honour to haue rule and command of those Horses that draw the Chariot and therefore she holds their reynes in her hands She is atired in light roabes fitting her state and condition with a siluer Crescent on her head expressing both her power and property The whole Chariot figuring in it selfe that vast compasse which the sea makes about the body of the earth whose Globicall Rotundity is Hieroglifically represented by the wheele of the Chariot Before this Chariot ride foure Trytons who are feyned by Poets to bee Trumpeters to Neptune and for that cause make way before him holding strange Trumpets in their hands which they sound as they passe along their habits being Antike and Sea-like and sitting vpon foure seuerall fishes viz. two Dolphins and two Mer-maids which are not after the old procreation begotten of painted cloath and browne paper but are liuing beasts so queintly disguised like the natural fishes of purpose to auoyd the trouble and pestering of Porters who with much noyse and little comlinesse are euery yeare most vnnecessarily imployed The time being ripe when the scope of this Deuice is to be deliuered Neptunes breath goeth forth in these following Speeches Neptunes Speeches WHence breaks this warlike thunder of lowd drummes Clarions and Trumpets whose shrill eccho comes Vp to our Watery Court and calles from thence Vs and our Trytons As if violence Weere to our Siluer-footed Sister done Of Flouds the Queene bright Thamesis who does runne Twice euery day to our bosome and there hides Her wealth whose Streame in liquid Christall glides Guarded with troopes of Swannes what does beget These Thronges this Confluence why do voyces beate The Ayre with acclamations of applause Good wishes Loue and Praises what is 't drawes All Faces this way This way Rumor flyes Clapping her infinite wings whose noyse the Skyes From earth receiue with Musicall rebounding And strike the Seas with repercussiue sounding Oh! now I see the cause vanish vaine feares * Isis no danger feeles for her head weares Crowns of Rich Triumphes which This day puts on And in Thy Honor all these Rites are done Whose Name when Neptune heard t' was a strange Spell Thus farre-vp into th' Land to make him swell Beyond his Bownds and with his Sea-troops wait Thy wish't arriuall to congratulate Goe therefore on goe boldly thou must saile In rough Seas now of Rule and euery Gale Will not perhaps befriend thee But how blacke So ere the Skyes looke dread not Thou a Wracke For when Integrity and Innocence sit Steering the Helme no Rocke the Ship can split Nor care the Whales neuer so great their Iawes Should stretch to swallow thee Euery good mans cau●● Is in all stormes his Pilot He that 's sound To himselfe in Conscience nere can run-a-ground Which that thou mayst do neuer looke on 't still For Spite of Fowle gusts calmer Windes shall fill Thy Sayles at last And see they home haue brought A Ship which Bacchus God of Wines hath fraught With richest Iuiee of Grapes which thy Friends shall Drinke off in Healths to this Great Festiuall If any at Thy happinesse repine They gnaw but their Owne hearts and touch not Thine Let Bats and Skreech-Owles murmure at bright Day Whiles Prayers of Good-men Guid. Thee on the way Sownd old Oceanus Trumpeters and lead on The Trytons then sownding according to his command Neptune in his Chariot passeth along before the Lord Maior The foure Windes habilimented to their quality and hauing both Faces and Limbes proportionable to their blustring and boisterous condition driue forward that Ship of which Neptune spake And this concludes this first Triumph on the Land These two Shewes passe on vntill they come into Pauls-Church-yard where standes another Chariot the former Chariot of Neptune with the Ship beeing conueyd into Cheap-side this other then takes the place And this is the Deuice The second Land-Triumph IT is the Throne of Vertue gloriously adorned beautified with all things that are fit to expresse the Seat of so noble and diuine a Person Vpon the height and most eminent place as worthiest to be exalted sits Arete Vertue herselfe her temples shining with a Diadem of starres to shew that her Descent is onely from heauen her roabes are rich her mantle white figuring Innocency and powdred with starres of gold as an Embleme that she puts vpon Men the garments of eternity Beneath Her in distinct places sit the Seauen liberall Sciences viz. Grammer Rhetoricke Logicke Musicke Arithmetike Geometry Astronomy Hauing those roomes alotted them as being Mothers to all Trades Professions Mysteries and Societies and the readiest guide to Vertue Their habits are Light Roabes and Loose for Knowledge should be free On their heads they weare garlands of Roses mixt with other flowers whose sweet Smels are arguments of their cleere and vnspotted thoughts not corrupted with uice Euery one carrying in her hand a Symbole or Badge of that Learning which she professeth At the backe of this Chariot sit foure Cupids to signifie that vertue is most honored when she is followed by Loue. This Throne or Chariot is drawne by foure Horses vpon the two formost ride Time and Mercury the first the Begetter and Bringer forth of all things in the world the second the God of Wisedome and Eloquence On the other two Horses ride Desire and Industry it beeing intimated hereby that Tyme giues wings to Wisedome and sharpens it Wisedome sets Desire a burning to attaine to Vertue and that Burning Desire begets Industry earnestnestly to pursue her And all these together make men in Loue with Arts Trades Sciences and Knowledge which are the onely staires and ascensions to the Throne of Vertue and the onely glory and vpholdings of Cities Time hath his wings Glasse and Sythe which cuts downe All. Mercury hath his Caduceus or Charming Rod his fethered Hat his Wings and other properties fitting his condition Desire caries a burning heart in her hand Industry is in the shape of an old Country-man