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A07907	The triumphes of re-vnited Britania Performed at the cost and charges of the Right Worship: Company of the Merchant-Tayulors, in honor of Sir Leonard Holliday kni: to solemnize his entrance as Lorde Mayor of the Citty of London, on Tuesday the 29. of October. 1605. Deuised and written by A. Mundy, cittizen and draper of London.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1605 (1605)	STC 18279; ESTC S113000	9,185	24

forren Realmes by clothes and Merchandize Returning hither other Countries store Of what might best be our commodities Henry the seuenth a gracious king and wise To Merchant-Taylors did exchange their name Since when with credite they haue kept the same PHEME But sacred Lady deigne me so much grace As tell me why that seat is vnsupplied Being the most eminent and chiefest place With State with Crowne and Scepter dignified Epimeleia Haue our discourses Pheme let thee know That seauen Kings haue borne free brethrens name Of this Societie and may not time bestow an eight when Heauen shall so appoint the same PHEME I finde recorded in my Register Seauen Kings haue honord this Society Fourteene great Dukes did willingly prefer Their loue and kindnesse to this Company Threescore eight Lords declarde like amitie tearming themselues all brethren of this band The verie worthiest Lordes in all the Land Three Dukes three Earles foure Lords of Noble name all in one yeare did ioyne in Brother-hood IN the yeare 1390 Edward Duke of Yorke Thomas Duke of Glocester Henry Duke of Hereford and Earle of Darby vvho afterward vvas K. Henry the fourth Edvvard Earle of Rutlande Thomas Earle of Warvvick Iohn Holland Earle of Huntingdon Iohn Lord Rose Rafe Lord Nevill Thomas L. Furniuall Reignald Lord Gray of Rithin I finde beside great Lords from France there came To hold like league and do them any good Gaylard Lord Danuers Barard Lord Delamote Barard Lord Montferrant c. Yet no imbasing to their heigth in bloud For they accounted honor then most hie When it was held vp by communitie Of Bishops Knights and Deanes to those before Not spoke in vaunt or any spirit of pride My Records could affoord as many more All Brethren Marchant-Taylors signified That liu'de in loue with them and when they dide Left me their names to aftertimes to tell Thus then they did and thought it good and well Neptune on the Lyon MY borrowed name of Neptune now I leaue the like doth Amphitrita my faire Queene And worthy Lord grant fauour to receiue What in these mysteries we seeme to meane Britanniaes glorie hath beene heard and seene Reuiu'de from her old Chaos of distresse and now vnited in firme happinesse Blest be that second Brute Iames our dread king that set this wreath of Vnion on her head Whose verie name did heauenlie comfort bring When in despaire our hopes lay drooping dead When comfort from most harts was gon and fled Immediatlie the trumpets toong did say God saue king Iames Oh t was a happie daie Amphitrita OVr latest Phaenix whose dead cinders shine In Angels spheres she like a mother milde yeelding to Nature did her right resigne To times true heyre her God-son and lou'de childe When giddy expectation was beguilde And Scotland yeelded out of Teudors race a true borne bud to sit in Teudors place Which seat to him and his heauen euer blesse that we nere want a Rose of Teudors tree to maintaine Britaines future happinesse to the worldes end in true tranquilitie Neptune Sir Leonard Holiday now vnto thee My loue in some meane measure let me shew Since heauen hath cald thee to this dignity Which then my selfe farre better thou doest est know I make no doubt thou wilt thy time bestow A fits s so great a Subiects place as this To gouerne iustlie and amend each misse Bethink thee how on that high Holyday Which beares Gods Champion th' Arch-angels name When conquering Sathan in a glorious fray Michaell Hels-monster nobly ouercame And now a sacred Saboath being the same A free and full election on all parts Made choise of thee both with their hands and harts Albeit this day is vsuall euery yeare For new election of a Magistrate Yet now to me some instance doth appeare Worth note which to my selfe I thus relate Holyday cald on Holyday to state Requiers methinks a yeare of Holydayes To be disposd in good and vertuous wayes For I account t is a Lords Holyday When Iustice shines in perfect Maiesty When as the poor can to the rich man say The Maiestrate hath giuen vs equity And lent no eare to partiality When sinne is punisht lewdnes beares no sway All that day long each day is Holyday When good prouision for the poore is made Sloth set to labour vice curbd euery where When through the Citty euery honest trade Stands not of might or insolence in feare But Iustice in their goodnesse does them beare then as before in safety I may saie All that yeare long each daie is Holliday Now in behalfe of that Societie Whereof thou bear'st a louing brothers name What hath bin doon this day to dignifie they pray thee kindly to accept the same More circumstance I shall not need to frame But from the Marchant-Taylors this I say They wish all good to Leonard Holliday FINIS A 〈…〉 oment 〈…〉 lib. 〈…〉 de 〈…〉 Wolfangus Lazius I Bale cent 1 I. Bale script Brit cent 2 I Prise defēs hist Brit. Ca Caius de ant Cant lib. 1 John Leland filla an t dict Neptune for his many ships called king or god of the Seas and in regard of his great skil in Nauigation Gal Mon. Albania in Greece Merlyn who propheted herof long agoe

long before I died My kingdome to them three I did deuide And as in three parts I had set it downe Each namde his seat and each did weare a Crowne LOEGRIA But she whom thou hadst made one Monarchy To be so seuerd to thy sonnes might shew Some signe of loue to her small courtesie When three possesse what one did solie owe It makes more waies to harme then many know And so proou'd that deuision of the land It brought in warie that hellish fierbrand CAMBRIA The king of Hunnes entred Albania Slew Albanact thy Sonne and there bare sway Till Locrine rose with valiant Cambria And to reuendge their Brothers death made way Which instantly they did without delay And made that Riuer beare the proud kings name That thus intruded drownd him in the same ALBANIA Faire Elstrid taken in that fatall fight And Locrines loue to her wrong to his wife Duke Corineus daughter deare delight That reft both her and Locrine of his life Opened a gap to much more dismall strife Of all which heauy haps there had bin none Had Brute left me one gouernor alone BRVTE See after so long slumbring in our toombes Such multitudes of yeares rich poesie That does reuiue vs to fill vp these roomes And tell our former ages Historie The better to record Brutes memorie Turnes now our accents to another key To tell olde Britaines new borne happy day That seperation of her sinewed strength Weeping so many hundred yeeres of woes Whereto that learned Barde dated long length Before those vlcerd wounds againe could close And reach vnto their former first dispose Hath run his course thorough times sandie glasse And brought the former happines that was Albania Scotland where my sonne was slaine And where my follies wretchednes began Hath bred another Brute that giues againe to Britaine her first name he is the man On whose faire birth our elder wits did scan Which Prophet-like seuenth Henry did forsee Of whose faire childe comes Britaines vnitie And what fierce war by no meanes could effect To re-vnite those sundred lands in one The hand of heauen did peacefully elect By mildest grace to seat on Britaines throne This second Brute then whom there else was none Wales England Scotland seuerd first by me To knit againe in blessed vnity For this Britannia tides in triumph thus For this these Sister-kingdomes now shake hands Brutes Troy now London lookes most amorous And stands on tiptoe telling forraine lands So long as Seas beare ships or shores haue sands So long shall we in true deuotion pray And praise high heauen for that most happy day LOCRINE England that first was cald Loegria After my name when I commanded heere Giues backe hir due vnto Britannia And doth her true borne sonne in right prefer Before deuided rule irreguler Wishing my brethren in like sort resigne A sacred vnion once more to combine CAMBER I yeelded long ago and dyd in heart Allow Britanniaes first created name My true borne Brutes haue euer tooke her part And to their last houre will maintaine the same ALBANACT It is no meruaile though you gladly yeeld When the all-ruling power doth so commaund I bring that Monarch now into the field With peace and plenty in his sacred hand To make Britannia one vnited land And when I brought him after times will say It was Britanniaes happy Holi-day Troya Nova Then you faire Swans in Thamesis that swim And you c 〈…〉 o●se Nimphes that do delight to plaie On Humber and faire Sauerne welcome him In Canz Canzons Iigges and many a Roun-delay that from the North brought you this blessed day And in one tuneful harmonie le ts sing Welcome King Iames welcome bright Britaines King Thamesis I that am Queene of all Britanniaes streames The Oceans darling and endeard delight that want on daily with the Sunnes guilt beames and ore my bosome suffer daie and night Faire flotes of ships to saile in goodlie sight Vnto my second Brute shall homelie sing Welcome King Iames welcome great Britaines King Savarne Faire Elstrids and Sabrinaes fatall graue Whereby the name of Sauerne fell to me When Locrines Quendoline in anger gaue My wombe to be their dismall tragedie Whereof my Nymphes as yet talke mournfullie Vnto my second Brute do likewise sing Welcome King Iames welcome great Britaines King HVMBER Proud Scithians Humber that slew Albanact Whose brethren forest him to a shamefull flight When in my watrie armes his lite I wrackt I tooke his name and kept it as my right For which my Nymphes still dauncing in delight With me these Peans and sweet Canzoni sing Welcome King Iames our second Brute and king FINIS The Chariot Pheme Riding before it FAME that attends on Britaines Monarchy Thus revnited to one state againe Vshers this Chariot of true dignity Wherein seauen kings that did in England raigne These Royall vertues in their shields containe Expressing what great grace each Maiesty Gaue to the Marchant-Taylors Company When they were first a Guilde and bare the stile Of Taylors and of Armorers beside Of the Linnen armorie for no little while Were they so knowne and daily did prouide Those coats of armes that quaild our foe-mens pride When Englands bent-Bow and the gray-goos wing Our many victories abroad did sing From this employment for the States defence Their ancient tytle first vnto them came and then their following care and dilligence Squarde them the way to order well and frame all meanes to keepe their Guilde in honest fame Now gratious vertues vnto you I leaue What further fortunes Time did them bequeath Tapesnotes EDward the third whose Noble name I beare Hearing the Loue and royall amity That good report gaue of them euery where Preseruing peace and kinde socitie In his first yeare vnto this Companie He gaue this Charter to confirme their Guilde And they inioyd it as his Highnesse wilde EROS To build this body on a stronger frame Richard the second gaue authoritie A Mayster and foure keepers they should name and full elect to sway their mysterie Granting them power to haue a Lyuerie and hold a Feast on saint Iohn Baptist day Yearelie for euer as they do and may Eleutheriotes To fortifie a worke so well begun Henrie the fourth did liberally create Beside the former fauours to them doone Their Guilde a Brother-hood incorporate And thought it no disgrace to his high state To weare the Clothing of the Companie A most Maiestike royall courtesie Sophrosyne Henry the fift my war-like Lord maintainde His fathers loue to this socyetie AGNITES Of my sixt Henry they as freely gainde all former graunts in self-same qualitie He wore their clothing milde and graciously For Princes loose no part of dignity In beeing affable it addes to Maiesty Hypomone Thus long a Mayster and foure keepers stood Till my fourth Edward changde the keepers name To Wardens for the strength of Brother-hood And thus at first Mayster and Wardens came Epimeleia And for they traded as no men did more With