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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20069	The magnificent entertainment giuen to King Iames, Queene Anne his wife, and Henry Frederick the Prince, vpon the day of his Maiesties tryumphant passage (from the Tower) through his honourable citie (and chamber) of London, being the 15. of March. 1603. As well by the English as by the strangers: vvith the speeches and songes, deliuered in the seuerall pageants. Tho. Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1604 (1604)	STC 6510; ESTC S109541	27,136	70

the City 5 Vnder all these lay a person representing Thamesis the Riuer Sixe other persons being daughters to Genius were aduaunced aboue him on a spreading Ascent of which the first was 1 Gladnesse 2 The second Veneration 3 The third Promptitude 4 The fourth Vigilance 5 The fift Louing affection 6 The sixth Vnanimity Of all which personages Genius and Thamesis were the only Speakers Thamesis being presented by one of the children of her Maiesties Reuels Genius by M. Allin seruant to the young Prince his gratulatory speach which was deliuered with excellent Action and a well tun'de audible voyce being to this effect That London may be prowd to behold this day and therefore in name of the Lord Maior and Aldermen the Councell Commoners and Multitude the heartiest Welcome is tendered to his Maiesty that euer was bestowed on any King c. Which Banquet being taken away with sound of Musicke there ready for the purpose his Maiestie made his entrance into this his Court Royall vnder this first Gate vpon the Battlements of the worke in great Capitalls was inscribed thus LONDINIVM And vnder that in a smaller but not different Caracter was written CAMERA REGIA The Kings Chamber Too short a time in their opinions that were glewed there together so many houres to behold him did his Maiestie dwell vpon this first place yet too long it seemed to other happy Spirits that higher vp in these Elizian fields awaited for his presence he sets on therefore like the Sunne in his Zodiaque bountifully dispersing his beames amongst particular Nations the brightnesse and warmth of which was now spent first vpon the Italians next vpon the Belgians The space of ground on which their magnificent Arches were builded being not vnworthy to beare the name of the great Hall to this our Court Royal wherein was to be heard seene the sundry languages habits of Strangers which vnder Princes Rooses render excellent harmony In a paire of Scales doe I weigh these two Nations and finde them neither in hearty loue to his Maiestie in aduancement of the Cities honor nor in forwardnesse to glorifie these Triumphes to differ one graine To dispute which haue done best were to doubt that one had done well Call their inuentions therefore Twynnes or if they themselues doe not like that name for happily they are emulous of one glory yet thus may we speake of them Ouid. Facies non omnibus vna Nec diuersa tamen Qualem decet esse sororum Because whosoeuer fixis oculis beholds their proportions Expleri mentem nequit ardescitque tuendo Virg. The street vpon whose breast this Italian Iewell was worne was neuer worthy of that name which it carries till this houre For here did the Kings eye meete a second Oblect that inticed him by tarrying to giue honor to the place And thus did the queintnesse of the Engine seeme to discouer it selfe before him The Italians Pageant THe building tooke vp the whole bredth of the Street of which the lower part was a Square garnished with foure great Columnes In the midst of which Square was cut out a fayre and spacious high Gate arched being twenty seuen foot in the perpendicular lyne and eyghteene at the ground lyne ouer the Gate in golden Caracters these verses in a long square were inscribed Tu Regere Imperio populos Iacobe memento Hae tibi erunt Artes Pacique imponere morem Parcere Subiectis debellare superbos And directly aboue this was aduanc'd the Armes of the Kingdome the Supporters fairely cut out to the life ouer the Lyon some prety distance from it was written IACOBO REGI MAGN. And aboue the head of the Vnicorne at the like distance this HENRICI VII ABNEP In a large Square erected aboue all these King Henry the seuenth was royally seated in his Imperiall Robes to whome King Iames mounted on horsebacke approches and receyues a Scepter ouer both their heads these words being written HIC VIR HIC EST. Betweene two of the Columnes on the right hand was fixed vp a Square table wherein in liuely and excellent colours was lim'd a woman figuring Peace her head securely leaning on her left hand her body modestly bestowed to the length vpon the earth In her other hand was held an Oliue branch the Ensigne of Peace her word was out of Virgil being thus Deus nobis haec otia fecit Beneath that peece was another square Table reaching almost to the Bases of the two Columnes In which 2. seeming Sea personages were drawne to the life both of them lying or rather leaning on the bosome of the earth naked the one a woman her backe onely seene the other a man his hand stretching and fastning it selfe vpon her shoulder the word that this dead body spake was this I Decus I Nostrum Vpon the left-hand side of the Gate betweene the other two Columnes were also two square Tables In the one of which were two persons portrayed to the life naked and wilde in lookes the word Expectate solo Trinobanti And ouer that in another square carying the same proportion stoode a woman vpright holding in her hand a Shield beneath whom was inscribed in golden Caracters Spes fidissimarerum And this was the shape and front of the first great Square whose top being flat was garnished with Pelasters and vpon the roote was directed a great Padestall on which stood a Person carued out to the life a woman her left hand leaning on a sword with the poynt downeward and her right hand reaching foorth a Diadem which shee seemde by bowing of her knee and head to bestow vpon his Maiestie On the foure corners of this vpper part stoode foure naked portraytures in great with artificiall Trumpets in their hands In the Arch of the Gate was drawne at one side a companie of Palme trees young and as it were but newly springing ouer whose branches two naked winged Angels flying held foorth a Scroll which seem'd to speake thus Spes altera On the contrarie side was a Vine spreading it selfe into many branches and winding about Oliue and Palme trees two naked winged Angels hanging likewise in the Ayre ouer them and holding a Scrol betweene them fild with this inscription Vxor tua sicut vitis abundans Et filii tui sicut palmites Oliuarum If your imaginations after the beholding of these obiects will suppose that this Maiestie is now gone to the other side of this Italian Trophee doe but cast your eyes backe and there you shall finde iust the same proportions which the fore-part or Brest of our Arch carrieth with equall number of Columnes Pedestals Pilasters Lim'd peeces and Carued Statues Ouer the Gate this Disticho● presents it selfe Nonne tuo Imperio satis est Iacohe potiri Imperium in Musas Aemule quaeris Habes Vnder which verses a wreathe of Lawrell seem'd to be ready to be let fall on his Maiesties head as hee went vnder it being held betweene two naked Antique

their neighbor citie made to entertain her soueraigne though in greatnes they could not match her yet in greatnes of Loue and Duetie they gaue testimonie that both were equall And in token they were so hands and hearts went together and in the Strond erected vp a Monument of their affection The Inuention was a Rayne-bow the Moone Sunne and the seauen Starres called the Pleiades being aduaunced betweene two Pyramides Electra one of those seauen hanging in the aire in figure of a Comet was the speaker her words carrying this effect That as his Majestie had left the Citie of London happy by deliuering it frō the noyse of tumult so he would crowne this place with the like joyes which being done shee reckons vp a number of blessings that will follow vpon it The worke of this was thought vpon begun and made perfect in xij daies As touching those fiue which the Citie builded the Arbor in Cheap-side and the Temple of Ianus at Temple-bar were both of them begun and finisht in sixe weekes The rest were taken in hande first in March last after his Majestie was 〈◊〉 vpon which at that time they wrought till a Moneth after S. Iames his day following and then gaue ouer by reason of the sicknes At this second setting vpon thē six weekes more were spent The Citie elected sixteene Comitties to whom the Mannaging of the whole busines was absolutely referred of which number foure were Aldermen the other grauè Commoners There were also Committies appoynted as Ouerseers and Serueyors of the workes Artificum Operarium que in hoc tam celebri apparatu summa summa THe Citie imployed in the Framing building and setting vp of their fiue Arches these officers and worke-men A Clarke that attended on the Committies Two officers that gaue Summons for their meetings c. A clarke of the Workes Two master-Carpenters Painters Of which nnmber those that gaue the maine direction and vndertooke for the whole busines were only these seauen William Friselfield George Mosse Iohn Knight Paul Isacson Samuell Goodrick Richard Wood. George Heron. Caruers 24 Ouer whom Stephen Harrison Ioyner was appoynted chiefe who was the sole Inuentor of the Architecture and from whom all directions for so much as belonged to Caruing Ioyning Molding and all other worke in those fiue Pageants of the Citie Paynting excepted were set downe Ioyners 80 Carpenters 60 Turners 6 Laborers to them 6 Sawyers 12 Laborers during all the time and for the day of the Triumph 70 Besides these there were other Artificers As Plommers Smythes Molders To the Reader REader you must vnderstand that a regard being had that his Majestie should not be wearied with teadious speeches A great part of those which are in this Booke set downe were left vnspoken So that thou doest here receiue them as they should haue bene deliuered not as they were Some errours wander vp and downe in these sheetes vnder the Printers warrant which notwithstanding may by thy Authoritie be brought in and receiue their due Correction As in F. 2. For From his owne cleare strength Read cleare straight c. And within fewe lines beneath that In steede of Because alluring this tryumph Read because that during these c. In the Cant. likewise beginning thus Shine Titan Shine In steed of O this is Had read O this is He. And in the sixt staffe For Here stayd Had still But here Had list not tary Read for euery Had hee Other faults pardon these I thinke are the grosest FINIS Mart. Idem Fāchurch The 〈◊〉 Hault-boyes of London Gracious street Soper lane Astraea