Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	church_n	militant_a	triumphant_a	2,791	5	11.4510	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03230	Londini speculum: or, Londons mirror exprest in sundry triumphs, pageants, and showes, at the initiation of the right Honorable Richard Fenn, into the Mairolty [sic] of the famous and farre renowned city London. All the charge and expence of these laborious projects both by water and land, being the sole undertaking of the Right Worshipful Company of the Habberdashers. Written by Tho. Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1637 (1637)	STC 13349; ESTC S106211	8,168	22

The third Show THe third Pageant or Show meerly consisteth of Anticke gesticulations dances and other Mimicke postures devised onely for the vulgar who are better delighted with that which pleaseth the eye than contenteth the eare in which we imitate Custome which alwaies carrieth with it excuse neither are they altogether to be vilefied by the most supercilious and censorious especially in such a confluence where all Degrees Ages and Sexes are assembled every of them looking to bee presented with some fancy or other according to their expectations and humours Since grave and wise men have beene of opinion that it is convenient nay necessitous upon the like occasions to mixe seria iocis for what better can set off matter than when it is interlaced with mirth From that I proceede to the fourth The fourth Show IT beareth the Title of an Imperiall Fort nor is it compulsive that here I should argue what a Fort is a Skonce or a Cittadall nor what a Counterskarfe or halfe Moone c. is nor what the opposures or defences are my purpose is onely to expresse my selfe thus farre that this Fort which is stil'd Imperiall defenc'd with men and officers suiting their functions and places proper to such a muniment doth in the morall include his Majesties royall chamber which is the City of London for to that onely purpose was the project intended The Speaker is Bellona whom some held to be the Daughter some the Sister others the Nurse of Mars the god of Warre neither in any of these is any impropiety or ought that is dissonant from authority because Eny● which is Bellona implyeth that which putteth spirit and courage into an army c. Antiquity called her Duell●●a that is the goddesse of warre to whom their Priests sacrificed their owne blood and before whose Temple the Facialis set a speare against some prime pillar thereof when any publicke warre was to be denounced Shee was most honoured of the Thracians the Scithians and those wild and barbarous nations upon whose Altars they used to sacrifice a Vulture which is a ravenous bird used to prey upon dead carcasses and assemble themselves in great flocks after any fought battaile but this Discourse may to some appeare impertinent to the project in hand and therefore I thus proceed to her speech Bellonaes Speech upon the Imperiall Fort. THis Structure honour'd Sir doth title beare Of an Imperiall Fort apt for that spheare In which you now moove borrowing all her grace As well from your owne person as your place For you have past through all degrees that tended Vnto that height which you have now ascended You have beene in this City 't is knowne well A Souldier Captaine and a Colonell And now in times faire progresse to crowne all Of this Metropolis chiefe Generall You of this Embleme which this day we bring To represent the Chamber of the King Are the prime governour a Royall Fort And strongly s●●●ed as not built for sport But for example and defence a Tower Supported by no lesse than Soveraigne power The Theologicke vertues the three Graces And Charites have here their severall places Here Piety true Zeale study of Peace By which small mites to Magozines increase Have residence now opposite there are To these and with them at continuall warre Pride Arrogance Sloath Vanity Prestigion Prophanesse the contempt of true Religion With thousands more who assiduatly waite This your Imperiall Fort to insidiate You may observe i' th musicke of your Bels Like sound in Triumphes and for funerall knels Marriage and death to them appeare all one Masking nor mourning cannot change their tone With our Fort 't is not so whose faire pretence is To comply with the nature of offences Errors she knowes in low termes how to chide Great faults with greater noise are terrifi'd But she can load her Cannons and speake loud To encounter with the arrogant and proud What 's further in your Praetorship assign'd You in your Londons Mirrour there may find The fifth show cald Londons Mirrour THis beareth the title of the whole Triumphe of Glasses pertinent to this our purpose there bee severall so●ts as Opticke Perspective Prospective Multiplying c. The presenter is Visus or Sight for what the minde is to the soule the same is the eye to the body being the most precious part thereof Sight is the most soveraigne sence the first of five which directeth man to the studdy search of knowledge wisedome the eyes are placed in the head as in a Citadel to be watch-towers and Centinels for the safety and ginders and conducters for the sollace of the body We reade that one Marcus Varro was sir-named strabo for the excellency and quicknesse of his sight who from Libaum a Province in Scicilia could distinguish and give an exact account of all such ships as came out of the haven of Carthage which two places some hold to be more than an hundred Italian leagues distant indeed no man can better estimate the vertue and value of the sight than he that is made blinde and wants it neither could I devise a more apt Speaker to present this Mirrour than the sence of the sight without which the purest Christall is of no use at all The Pageant it selfe is decored with glasses of all sorts the persons upon or about it are beautifull Children every one of them expressing their natures and conditions in the impresaes of their shields eight of the prime of which suiting with the quality of the Optick sence beare these severall Inscriptions Aspice Despice Conspice Prospice Perspice Inspice Circumspice Respice O●●● or Opsis the Speaker BEhold me Sight of the five sences prime Now best complying with the place and time Presenting Londons Mirrour and this Glasse Shewes not alone what she is or once was But that the spacious Vniverse might see In her what their great Cities ought to be That every forraigne Magistrate from hence Might learne how to dispose his Opticke sence Aspice saith Looke toward and upon Desartfull men whom this Age frowneth on And Despice cast downe thy powerfull eye On the poore wretch that doth beneath thee lye Then Conspice take counsell first and pause With meditation ere thou iudge a cause Prospice bids looke a farre off and view Before conclude what dangers may insue Perspice wils in sifting doubts then scan The nature of the matter with the man Let every cause be searcht and duely sought Saith Inspice ere thou determinst ought Circumspice saith looke about to immure So great a charge that all within be sure Considerate Respice inioynes thee last To cast thine eyes backe upon all things past For Londons selfe if they shall first begin To examine her without and then within What Architectures Palaces what Bowers What Citadels what turrets and what towers Who in her age grew pregnant brought a bed Of a New Towne and late delivered Of such a burthen as in few yeares space Can almost speake all tongues to her more grace Then her Cathedrals Temples new reparing An act of true devotion no man sparing His helping hand and many 't is well knowne To further Gods house have forget their owne Vnto her outward shape I doe not prize her But let them come within to anatomize her Her Praetor scarlet Senate Liveries The ordering of her brave societies Divine Astraea here in equall scale Doth ballance Iustice Truth needes not looke pale Nor poverty deiected th'Orphants cause And Widowes plea finde helpe no subtile clause Can make demurre in sentence a faire hearing And upright doome in every Court appearing Still to preserve her so be 't your indeavour And she in you you her shall live for ever I come now to the Linvoy or last Speech when h●s Lordship after his dayes long and tedious trouble retireth himselfe to his rest at night in which Pythagoras the Speaker briefly runs over the passages of the Pageants before expressed after this manner The Speech at Night WE ●o a Valediction are confin'd Right Honoured and intreat You beare in minde What was this Day presented Your chiefe Saint A Martyr once of the Church militant But now of the tryumphant bids You spare Your selfe this Night for to a World of Care You are ingag'd to morrow which must last Till the whole progresse of Your Yeere be past The Spheare-like Globe quadrated lets You know What Pro-Rex doth to the foure Scepters owe. Your Military honours in your Dayes Of lesse comm●nd th' Imperiall Fort displayes And Londons Mirrour that all men may see What Magistrates have beene and ought to be Set is the Sunne long since and now the Light Quite fayling us Thrice Honourd Sir good Night For the Artists and directors of these Pageants and showes Iohn Christmas and Mathias the two Sonnes of Gerard their now deceased Father a knowne Master in all those Sciences he profest I can say no more but thus that proportioning their Workes according to the limits of the gates through which they were to passe being ty'de not to exceede one Inch either in height or breadth My Opinion is that few Workemen about the Towne can paralell them much lesse exceede them But if any shall either out of Curiosity or malice taxe their ability in this kind of Art I referre them to the Carving of his Majesties Great Ship lately built at Woolwitch which Worke alone is able both to satisfie Emulation and qualifie Envie FINIS * Quinta perennis Concordia parve res Crescunt is the Motto of the Company of the right Worshipfull Habberdashers