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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

and yeeres of our frailtie and the whole frame or body guided by Time as Coach-man to the life of man That other goodly Monument or Pageant with the glorious Sunne in continuall motion ouer it appertaining to the Drapers Armory presents yee London in the supreme place of eminence and the twelue Companies her twelue Daughters all seated about her in their due degrees onely Drapery is neerest to her as being the first and chiefest honoured Society before all other As supports to Londons flourishing happinesse and continuance of the same in true tranquilitie foure goodly Mounts as strong and defensiue bulwarkes are raysed about her bearing Emblemes of those foure especiall qualities which make any Common-wealth truly happy Learned Religion Militarie Discipline Nauigation and Home-bred Husbandrie For thus my Lord I truely vnderstand No greater Crosse can hap to any Land Then lacke of Schollars Souldiers Saylers Husband-men Long may we haue them all Time sayes Amen Euening hastening on speedily and those vsuall Ceremonies at Paules being accomplished darkenesse becommeth like bright day by bountifull allowance of lighted Torches for guyding all the seuerall shewes and my Lord homeward The way being somewhat long the order of march appeared the more excellent and commendable euen as if it had been a Royall Maske prepared for the marriage of an immortall Deitie as in the like nature we hold the Lord Maior to be this day solemnely married to Londons supreame Dignitie by representing the awefull authority of soueraigne Maiestie No sooner commeth he to his owne Gate but there our supposed Sir Henry Fitz-Alwine on behalfe of the honourable company of Drapers who made no spare of their bounty for full performance of this dayes solemne Honor speaketh this ensuing speech Fitz-Alwines Speech to the Lord Maior at Night NOw honour'd Lord since day is done And you to your owne house are come With all delight that we can make yee Me thinks we should not yet forsake yee But that strict Time will haue it so And parts vs whether we will or no All then my Lord that I shall say Is that your Honour would well weigh Your worthie-minded Brethrens loue Who haue in firme affection stroue How best they might renowne this day In honouring you And I dare say That neuer men did more desire To stretch their loue and bounty higher Then they haue done and could afford For such a worthy minded Lord Which they by me humbly commend Still at your seruice So I end Afterward as occasion best presenteth it selfe when the heate of all other employments are calmly ouerpast Earle Robin Hood with Fryer Tuck and his other braue Huntes-men attending now at last to discharge their duty to my Lord which the busie turmoile of the whole day could not before affoord they shewe themselues to him in this order and Earle Robin himselfe thus speaketh The Speech spoken by Earle Robert de la Hude commonly called Robin Hood SInce Graues may not their Dead containe Nor in their peacefull sleepes remaine But Triumphes and great Showes must vse them And we vnable to refuse them It ioyes me that Earle Robert Hood Fetcht from the Forrest of merrie Shirwood With these my Yeomen tight and tall Braue Huntsmen and good Archers all Must in this Iouiall day partake Prepared for your Honours sake No sooner was I raysde from rest And of my former state possest As while I liu'd But being alone And of my Yeomen seeing not one I with my Bugle gaue a call Made all the Woods to ring withall Immediatly came little Iohn And Scathlock followed him anon With Much the honest Millars Sonne And ere ought else could be done The frollicke Frier came tripping in His heart vpon a merrie pinne Master quoth he in yonder brake A Deere is hid for Marians sake Bid Scathlock Iohn or honest Brand That hath the happy hitting hand Shoote right and haue him And see my Lord The deed performed with the word For Robin and his Bow-men bolde Religiously did euer holde Not emptie-handed to be seene Were't but at feasting on a Greene. Much more then when so high a day Calls our attendance All we may Is all too little t is your grace To winke at weakenesse in this case So fearing to be ouer-long End all with our olde hunting Song Fryer But good Master ere they sing Fauour me to moue one thing A boone a boone for Fryer Tuck Who begges it with a lowly ducke Rob. What is it Fryer Fryer Since we are thus raysde from our rest In honour of this famous feast And for his sake that may commaund Next to my Master heart and hand Of mee and all these good Yeomen Ere we returne to ground agen Seeing iolly Christmas drawes so neere When as our seruice may appeare Of much more merit then as now Which doth no larger scope allow Then that which is already done Your loue my Lord so much hath won Vpon the Fryer and his Compeeres As we could wish to liue whole yeeres To yeeld you pleasure and delight Be it by day or be it by night For we haue choise delights in store Command them and I craue no more Rob. You heare my Lord the Fryers motion Out of meere loue and pure deuotion You see beside that all my men For any season where or when Second his sute May it please you then Not to dislike his kinde request Earle Robin frankly doth protest We will all striue to do our best When any occasion shall require The offer of our merry Fryer For such a worthy minded Lord Robin Hood seales it with his word Fryer Thankes my deare Domine And to you noble Homine For to this Indenter Frier Tuck subscribes Libenter Now lest we offer wrong Fall to your Sing Song The Song of Robin Hood and his Huntes-men NOw wend we together my merry men all Vnto the Forrest side-a And there to strike a Buck or a Doae Let our cunning all be tride-a Then goe we merrily merrily on To the Green-wood to take vp our stand Where we will lye in waite for our Game With our bent Bowes all in our hand What life is there like to Robin Hood It is so pleasant a thing a In merry Shirwood he spends his dayes As pleasantly as a King a. No man may compare with Robin Hood With Robin Hood Scathlocke and Iohn Their like was neuer nor neuer will be If in case that they were gone They will not away from merry Shirwood In any place else to dwell For there is neither City nor Towne That likes them halfe so well Our liues are wholly giuen to hunt And haunt the merrie Greene-wood Where our best seruice is daily spent For our Master Robin Hood FINIS K. Richard the First