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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07904	Metropolis coronata, the triumphes of ancient drapery: or, Rich cloathing of England, in a second yeeres performance In honour of the aduancement of Sir Iohn Iolles, Knight, to the high office of Lord Maior of London, and taking his oath for the same authoritie, on Monday, being the 30. day of October. 1615. Performed in heartie affection to him, and at the bountifull charges of his worthy brethren the truely honourable Society of Drapers, the first that receiued such dignitie in this citie. Deuised, and written, by A.M. citizen, and draper of London.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1615 (1615)	STC 18275; ESTC S112990	7,193	24

dreadfull Monsters quailde That kept the Fleece in their protection Which then was wonne by her direction By way of Morall application Your Honour may make some relation Vnto your selfe out of this storie You are our Iason Londons glorie Now going to fetch that fleece of Fame That euer must renowne your name An Oath of Faith and Fealtie Vnto his sacred Maiestie That makes you his Great Deputie Or Image of Authoritie No Monsters dare confront your way Imagine then as well you may That all this faire and goodly Fleete Do in meere loue on purpose meete Like to those Argonautes of Greece That then fetcht home their Golden Fleece To tend the Argoe where you ride Behind before on euery side With all applauding melodie That best this day may dignifie Neptune and gracious Thamesis To honour such a day as this Haue sent out of their watry store Their owne Sea Chariot which before They nere would part with But as now Their sacred Deities allow Our vse thereof which we employ To make more full this day of ioy Eight Royall Vertues take the paine Eight honoured Ensignes to sustaine Of eight Lord Maiors as you may see Described by their Heraldrie Drapers and Staplers Brethren kinde Leauing rare monuments behinde Of their affection to this Citie For the poores good whom they did pittie Poultney Cromer Eyre Wotton Sidney Bullen Capell Champion Time checks me that I may not tell Their seuerall deedes Nor fits it well In serious businesse to delay On then a Gods name le ts away The Speech being ended the Companies witnessing their ioy for his taking water and the same further confirmed by a gallant peale of Ordenance wee waite on my Lord so farre as conueniently we may euermore hauing care of our further employment in the land seruice the time being so short and our preparation requiring such decencie in order yet much abused by neglect in marshalling and hurried away with too impudent hastinesse albeit so aduisedly set downe in proiect that nothing but meere wilfulnesse can misplace them The Shewes appointed for seruice on the LAND FIrst a faire and beautifull Shippe stiled by the Lord Maiors name and called the Ioell appearing to bee lately returned from trafficking Wool and Cloth with other remote Countryes vshereth the way for her worthy Owners seruice and is well gouerned by her Captaine Master Mate c. Neptune who hath been auspicious to all her aduentures and Thamesis by bringing her alwaies safely within her owne bounds beeing mounted in triumphall manner the one on a pelletted Lyon the supporter to the Drapers Armes and the other on a sea-Horse belonging to the Lord Maiors Armorie doe both with their presence approue this dayes delighting Then followeth a goodly Ramme or Golden Fleece the honoured Creast as already hath been sayd to Drapers and Staplers hauing on each side a housewifely Virgin sitting seriously imployed in Carding and Spinning Wooll for Cloth the very best commoditie that euer this Kingdome yeelded The Argoe succeedeth this Fleece or Ramme according to our former description and then in stead of Neptunes Whale on the water commeth another Sea-deuice tearmed The Chariot of Mans life answerable in all respects to Times relation thereof as also that other Monument of London and her twelue Daughters at this time imploying Metropolis Coronata the Kings chiefe Citty and Chamber most desertfully crowned as being the ancient Mother of the whole Land and first receiuing honour by the triple imperiall Crownes of Draperie After all these shewes thus ordered in their appointed places followeth another deuice of Huntsmen all clad in greene with their Bowes Arrowes and Bugles and a new slaine Deere carried among them It sauoureth of Earle Robert de la Hude sometime the noble Earle of Huntington and Sonne in Law by Marriage to olde Fitz-Alwine raised by the Muses all-commanding power to honour this Triumph with his Father During the time of his out-lawed life in the Forrest of merry Sh●●wood and elsewhere while the cruell oppression of a most vnnaturall couetous Brother hung heauy vpon him Gilbert de la Hude Lord Abbot of Christall Abbey who had all or most of his Lands in morgage hee was commonly called Robin Hood and had a gallant company of men Out-lawed in the like manner that followed his downecast fortunes and honoured him as their Lord and Master as little Iohn Scathlocke Much the Millers sonne Right-hitting Brand Frvar Tuck and many more In which condition of life we make instant vse of him and part of his braue Bowmen fitted with Bowes and Arrowes of the like strength and length as good Records deliuer testimonie were then vsed by them in their killing of Deere Now because after my Lords landing protraction of time necessarily required to be anoyded in regard of the Lords of his Maiesties most honourable priuie Councell and other great personages inuited guests to this solemne Feast such speeches as should haue beene spoken to him by the way were referred till his Honours returne to Saint Paules in the afternoone And then another man of no meane sufficiency both for knowledge and exquisite vse of action who had in the morning guided and directed Neptunes Whale made in the forme of a Triumphall Chariot on the water and held the same office in the other Chariot vpon the Land of Mans life neere to the little Conduit in Cheapside hee deliuereth this briefe speech importing a narration of the other deuises to the Lord Maior in manner following The Speech of Time in the afternoone at the Lord Maiors going to PAVLES HOnourable Lord Time hath nothing else to tel you but the briefe meaning of these seuerall inuentions The water-deuices haue already sufficiently spoken themselues This Ship bearing your owne name and called the IOEL trafficking Englands Drapery with all other Countries as by the goodly Ramme or golden Fleece of England appeareth where two Houswifely Virgins sit carding and spinning is after many happie voyages returned to honour the day of her worthie Owner being safely brought home by Neptune and Thamesis who mounted on a Lyon and Sea-horse vouchsafe their attendance on your triumph And in stead of that Sea Chariot which waited on the Argoe in the morning they bring another graced with the same Royall Vertues and Ensignes of Armes belonging to those honourable Drapers On the top is placed a Spheare or Globe intimating the world created for the vse of man and such expence of time as is allotted him It is supported by the foure Elements Water Earth Ayre and Fire as their figures and Emblemes doe aptly declare It runneth on seuen wheeles describing the seuen ages of man his Infancie Child-hood Adolescency or Stripling estate Youth-hood Man-hood Age and Ages extremity or decrepit condition all of them subiected to the power of the seuen Planets as on each wheele they beare their Characters It is drawne by two Lyons and two Horses of the Sea figuring what swift motion hastneth on the minutes houres months