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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

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

I haue By twice Twelue-Fathers politique and graue Who with a sheathed Sword and silken Law Do keepe within weake Walles Millions in awe I charge you therefore say for what you come What are you Both. Knights at Armes S George Saint George Saint Andrew Saint Andrew For Scotlands honour I. S. George For Englands I Both sworne into a League of Vnitie Genius I Clap my hands for Ioy and seate you both Next to my heart In leaues of purest golde This most auspicious loue shall be enrold Be ioynde to vs And as to earth we bowe So to those royall feet bend your steelde brow In name of all these Senators on whom Vertue builds more then these of Antique Rome Shouting a cheerefull welcome Since no clyme Nor Age that has gon or'e the head of Time Dide're cast vp such Ioyes nor the like Summe But here shall stand in the world yeares to come Dread King our hearts make good what words do want To bid thee boldly enter Troynouant Rerum certa salus Terrarum gloria Caesar Sospite quo magnos credimus esse Deos Dilexere priùs pueri Iuvenesque senelque At nunc Infantes te quoque Caesar amant This should haue beene the first Offring of the Citties Loue But his Maiestie not making his Entrance according to expectation It was not vtterly throwne from the Alter but layd by Mart. Iam Crescunt media Paegmata celsa via BY this time Imagine that Poets who drawe speaking Pictures and Painters who make dumbe Poesie had their heads hands full the one for natiue and sweet Inuention the other for liuely Illustration of what the former should deuise Both of them emulously contending but not striuing with the proprest and brightest Colours of Wit and Art to set out the beautie of the great Triumphant day For more exact and formall managing of which Businesse a Select number both of Aldermen and Commoners like so many Romane AEdiles were Communi Consilio chosen forth to whose discretion the Charge Contriuings Projects and all other Dependences owing to so troublesome a worke was intirely and Iudicially committed Many dayes were thriftily consumed to molde the bodies of these Tryumphes comely and to the honour of the Place at last the stuffe whereof to frame them was beaten out The Soule that should giue life a tongue to this Entertainment being to breathe out of Writers Pens The Limmes of it to lye at the hard-handed mercy of Mychanitiens In a moment therefore of Time are Carpenters Ioyners Caruers and other Artificers sweating at their Chizzells Vir. Accingunt Omnes operi Not a finger but had an Office He was held vnworthy euer after to sucke the Hony dew of Peace that against his comming by whom our Peace weares a triple Wreathe would offer to play the Droane The Streets are surueyed heigthes breadths and distances taken as it were to make Fortifications for the Solemnities Seauen pieces of ground like so many fieldes for a battaile are plotted foorth vppon which these Arches of Tryumph must shew themselves in their glorie alost in the ende doe they advance their proude fore-heads Virg Circumpueri Innuptaeque Puellae Sacra Canunt funemque manu contingere gaudent Euen childrē might they haue bin suffred would gladly haue spent their little strenght about the Engines that mounted vp the Frames Such a fire of loue and ioy was kindled in euery brest The day for whose sake these wonders of Wood clymde thus into the clowdes is now come being so earely vp by reason of Artificiall Lights which wakened it that the Sunne ouer-slept himselfe and rose not in many houres after yet bringing with it into the very bosome of the Cittie a world of people The Streets seemde to bee paued with men Stalles in stead of rich wares were set out with children open Casements fild vp with women All Glasse windowes taken downe but in their places sparkeled so many eyes that had it not bene the day the light which reflected from them was sufficient to haue made one hee that should haue compared the emptie and vntroden walkes of London which were to be seen in that late mortally-destroying Deluge with the thronged streetes now might haue belieued that vpon this day began a new Creation that the Citie was the onely Work-house wherein sundry Nations were made A goodly and ciuil order was obserued in Martialling all the Companies according to their degrees The first beginning at the vpper end of Saint Marks Lane and the last reaching aboue the Conduit in Fleetstreete their Seats being double-railde vpon the vpper part wheron they leaned the Streamers Ensignes and Bannerets of each particular Company decently fixed And directly against them euen quite through the body of the Citie so hie as to Temple-Barre a single Raile in faire distance from the other was likewise erected to put off the multitude Amongst whose tongues which in such Consorts neuer lye still tho there were no Musicke yet as the Poet sayes Mart. Voxdiuersa sonat populorum est vox tamen vna NOthing that they speake could bee made any thing yet all that was spoken sounded to this purpose that still his Maieftie was comming They haue their longings And behold A farre off they spie him richly mounted on a white Iennet vnder a rich Canopy sustained by eight Barons of the Cinqueports the Tower seruing that morning but for his with-drawing Chamber wherein hee made him ready and from thence stept presently into his Citie of London which for the time might worthily borrow the name of his Court Royall His passage alongst that Court offering it selfe for more State through seuen Gates of which the first was erected at Fanchurch Thus presenting it selfe IT was an vpright Flat-square for it contained fiftie foote in the perpendiculer and fiftie foote in the Ground-lyne the vpper roofe thereof one distinct Grices bore vp the true moddells of all the notable Houses Turrets and Steeples within the Citie The Gate vnder which his Maiestie did passe was 12. foote wide and 18. foote hie A Posterne likewise at one side of it being soure foote wide and 8. foote in heigth On either side of the Gate stood a great French Terme of stone aduanced vpon wodden Pedestalls two half Pilasters of Rustick standing ouer their heads I could shoote more Arrowes at this marke and teach you without the Carpenters Rule how to measure all the proportions belonging to this Fabrick But an excellent hand being at this instant curiously describing all the seuen and bestowing on them their faire prospectiue limmes your eye shall hereafter rather be delighted in beholding those Pictures than now be wearied in looking vpon mine ❧ The Personages as well Mutes as Speakers in this Pageant were these viz. 1 THe highest Person was The Brittayne Monarchy 2 At her feet fate Diuine Wisdome 3 Beneath her stood The Genius of the City A man 4 At his right hand was placed a Personage figuring The Counsell of

their bowes and quiuers hanging on their shoulders and winde Instruments in their hands Vpon sight of his Maiestie they make a stand Syluanus breaking forth into this abrupt passion of ioy Syluanus Stay Syluans and let the loudest voyce of Musicke proclayme it euen as high as Heauen that he is come Alter Apollo redit Nouus En iam regnat Apollo Which acclamation of his was borne vp into the ayre and there mingled with the breath of their musicall Instruments whose sound beeing vanished to nothing Thus goes our Speaker on Syluanus Most happie Prince pardon me that being meane in habite and wilde in apparance for my richest liuorie is but leaues and my stateliest dwelling but in the woodes thus rudely with piping Syluanes I presume to intercept your royall passage These are my walkes yet stand I heere not to cut off your way but to giue it a full and a bounteous welcome beeing a Messenger sent from the Lady Eirene my Mistresse to deliuer an errand to the best of all these Worthies your royall selfe Many Kingdomes hath the Lady sought out to abide in but from them all hath shee beene most churlishly banished not that her beautie did deserue such vnkindnes but that like the eye of Heauen hers were too bright and there were no Eagles breeding in those nests that could truly beholde them At last heere she ariued Destinie subscribing to this Warrant that none but this Land should be her Inheritance In contempt of which happines Enuie shootes his impoisoned stings at her heart but his Adders being charmed turne their daungerous heads vpon his owne bosome Those that dwell far off pine away with vexing to see her prosper because all the acquaintauce which they haue of her is this that they know there is such a goodly Creature as Eirene in the world yet her face they know not whilst all those that heere sleepe vnder the warmth of her wings adore her by the sacred Coelestiall name of Peace for number being as her blessings are infinite Her daughter Euporia well knowne by the name of Plentie is at this present with her being indeede neuer from her side vnder yonder Arbour they sit which after the daughters name is called Hortus Euporiae Plenties Bower Chast are they both and both maydens in memorie of a Virgine to whom they were nurse children for whose sake because they were bound to her for their life mee haue they charged to lay at your imperiall feete being your hereditarie due the tribute of their loue And with it thus to say That they haue languished many heauie moneths for your presence which to them would haue beene proud they are that it shall be so now of the same operation and influence that the Sunne is to the spring and the spring to the earth hearing therefore what trebble preferment you haue bestowed vpon this day wherein besides the beames of a glorious Sunne two other cleare and gracious starres shine cheerefullie on these her homely buildings Into which because no dutie should bee wanting shee hath giuen leaue euen to Strangers to bee Sharers in her happines by suffering them to bid you likewise welcome By mee once hers now your vassaile shee entreates and with a knee sinking lower than the ground on which you tread doo I humbly execute her pleasure that ere you passe further you would deigne to walke into yonder Garden the Hesperides liue not there but the Muses and the Muses no longer than vnder your protection Thus farre am I sent to conduct you thither prostrately begging this grace since I dare not as beeing vnwoorthie lackey by your royall side in that yet these my greene Followers and my selfe may bee ioyfull fore-runners of your expected approch away Syluanus And being in this their returne come neare to the Arbor they gaue a signe with a short florish from all their Cornets that his Maiestie was at hand whose princely eye whilest it was delighting it selfe with the quaint obiect before it a sweete pleasure likewise courted his eare in the shape of Musicke sent from the voyces of nine Boyes all of them Queristers of Paules who in that place presenting the nine Muses sang the dittie following to their Viols and other Instruments But least leaping too bluntly into the midst of our Garden at first we deface the beautie of it let vs send you round about it and suruey the Walles Allies and quarters of it as they lye in order This being the fashion of it The passages through it were two gates arched and grated Arbor-wise their heigth being 16. foote their breadth 10. from the roofe and so on the sides downe to the ground Cowcumbers Pompions Grapes and all other fruits growing in the land hanging artificially in clusters Betweene the two gates a payre of stayres were mounted with some 20 assents at the bottome of them on two pillers were fixed two Satiers carued out in wood the sides of both the gates being strengthened with foure great French frames standing vpon pedestals taking vp in their full height 20. foote The vpper part also caried the proportion of an Arbor being closde with their round tops the midst whereof was exalted aboue the other two Fortune standing on the top of it The garnishments for the whole Bower being Apples Peares Cheries Grapes Roses Lillies and all other both fruits and flowers most artificially molded to the life The whole frame of this somer banqueting house stood at the ground line vpon 4 foore the Perpendicular stretching itselfe to 45. Wee might that day haue called it The Musicke roome by reason of the chaunge of tunes that danced round about it for in one place were heard a noyse of cornets in a second a consort the third which sate in sight a set of Viols to which the Muses sang The principall persons aduancde in this Bower were Eirene Peace and Euporia Plenty who sate together Eierene Peace Was richly attired her vpper garment of carnation hanging loose a Robe of White vnder it powdred with Starres and girt to her her haire of a bright colour long and hanging at her back but interwouen with white ribbands and Iewels her browes were encompast with a wreath compounded of the Oliue the Lawrell the Date tree In one hand shee held a Caducaens or Mercuries rod the god of eloquence In the other ripe eares of corne gilded on her lap sate a Doue All these being ensignes and furnitures of Peace Euporie Plenty Her daughter sate of the left hand in changable colours a rich mantle of Gold trauersing her bodie her haire large and loosely spreading ouer her shoulders on her head a crowne of Poppy Mustard seede the antique badges of Fertilitie Abundance In her right hand a Cornucopia filde with flowers fruits c. Chrusos Directly vnder these sate Chrusos a person figuring Gold his dressing a tinsell Robe of the colour of Gold Argurion And close by him Argurion Siluer all in white tinsell both of them