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virtue_n	fortitude_n	justice_n	temperance_n	2,097	5	10.3230	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02732	The arch's of triumph erected in honor of the high and mighty prince. Iames. the first of that name. King, of England. and the sixt of Scotland at his Maiesties entrance and passage through his honorable citty & chamber of London. vpon the 15th. day of march 1603. Invented and published by Stephen Harrison ioyner and architect: and graven by William Kip.	Harrison, Stephen, joiner and architect.; Kip, William, engraver.; Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632. Magnificent entertainment.; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. B. Jon: his part of King James his royall and magnificent entertainement through his honorable cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603. Selections.	1604 (1604)	STC 12863; ESTC S122021	15,089	28

name is called Hortus Euporiae Plenties Bower Chast are they both and both maidens in memory of a Virgine to whom they were Nurse-children for whose sake because they were bound to her for their life me haue they charged to lay at your Imperiall feete being your hereditary due the tribute of their loue And with it thus to say That they haue languished many heauy moneths for your presence which to them would haue bene and proud they are that it shall be now so of the same operation and influence that the Sunne is to the Spring and the Spring to the Earth hearing therefore what treble preferment you haue bestowed vpon this day wherein besides the beames of a glorious Sunne two other cleere and gracious Starres shine cheerefully on these her homely buildings Into which because no duty should be wanting she hath giuen leaue euen to Strangers to be sharers in her happinesse by suffering them to bid you likewise welcome By me once hers now your vassaile shee intreates and with a knee sinking lower then the ground on which you treade do 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 being vnworthy Lackey by your Royall side that yet these my greene Followers and my selfe may be Ioyfull forerunners of your expected approch Away Syluans The Deuice called Cozmoz Neoz New World THE sixt Triumphall Arch was in the shape which you see it caries on the other side erected aboue the Conduit in Fleetestreete extending it selfe ouer the whole streete to the length of foote and in height foote The Gate of it was foote wide and foote hie The two Posternes were answerable to those of others set downe before and were cut out of the two round Towers which riz vp in proportionable measures from the ground on the foreside with battlements and Ballisters round enclosing the tops containing in all their heights foote ouer the Gate and iust in the midst of the Building which was spacious and left open a Globe was seene to moue being fild with all the estates that are in the land And this Engine was turned about by foure persons representing the foure Elements Earth Water Aire and Fire who were placed so queintly that the Globe seemed to haue his motion euen on the Crownes of their heads The liuely garnishments to this Building were 23 persons of which the principall and worthiest was Astraea Iustice who was aduanced to the highest Seate Beneath her in a Cant by her selfe Arete Vertue was placed and at her feete Fortune who trod vpon the Globe In a darke and obscure place neere Vertue sate Enuy beneath whom on seuerall Ascensions were placed the Cardinall Vertues Iustice Fortitude Temperance and Prudence and in an opposite seate the foure kingdomes England Scotland France and Ireland Zeale was the Presenter of this Deuice who spake thus ZEALE THe populous Globe of this our English I le Seemed to moue backward at the funerall pile Of her dead female Maiesty All states From Nobles downe to Spirits of meaner Fates Moou'd opposite to Nature and to Peace As if these men had bene Th' antipodes But see the vertue of a regall eye Th' attractiue wonder of mans Maiestie Our Globe as drawne in a right line agen And now appeare new faces and new men The Elements Earth Water Ayre and Fire Which euer clipt a naturall desire To combat each with other being at first Created enemies to fight their worst See as the peacefull presence of their King How quietly they moue without their Sting Earth not deuouring Fire not defacing Water not drowning and the Ayre not chasing But propping the queint Fabricke that here stands Without the violence of their wrathfull hands Mirror of times loe where they Fortune sits Aboue the world and all our humaine wits But thy hie Vertue aboue that what pen Or Art or Braine can reach thy Vertues then At whose Immortall brightnesse and true light Enuies infectious eyes haue lost their sight Her Snakes not daring to shoote forth their stings Gainst such a glorious Obiect downe she flings Their forkes of Venome into her owne mawe Whilst her ranke teeth the glittering poysons chawe For t is the property of Enuies bloud To dry away at euery Kingdomes good Especially when she had eyes to view These foure Maine Vertues which here figure you Iustice in causes Fortitude gainst foes Temp'rance in spleene and Prudence in all those And then so rich an Empire whose faire brest Containes foure Kingdomes by your entrance blest By Brute diuided but by you alone All are againe vnited and made One Whose fruitfull glories shine so farre and euen They touch not onely earth but they kisse heauen From whence Astraea is descended hither Who with our last Queenes Spirit fled vp thither Fore-knowing on the earth she could not rest Till you had lockt her in your rightfull brest And therefore all estates whose proper Arts Liue by the breath of Maiestie had harts Burning in holy Zeales Immaculate sires With quenchlesse Ardors and vnstain'd desires To see what they now see your powerfull Grace Reflecting Ioyes on euery Subiects face These painted flames and yellow-burning stripes Vpon this roabe being but as shewes and types Of that great Zeale And therefore in the name Of this glad Citty whither no Prince euer came More lou'd more longd for lowly I intreate You 'ld be to her as gracious as y' are great So with reuerberate shoutes our Globe shall ring The Musicks cloze being thus God saue our King The Deuice called Templum Iani Temple of Ianus THE seuenth and last Pegme within the Citie was erected at Temple-barre beeing adioyned close to the Gate The Building was in all points like a Temple and dedicated to Ianus Quadrifrons Beneath that Foure-fac'd head of Ianus was aduancd the Armes of the Kingdome with the Supporters cut out to the life from whence being remoude they now are placed in the Guild Hall The wals and gates of this Temple were brasse the Pillars siluer their Capitals and Bases gold All the Frontispice downeward from those Armes was beutified and supported by twelue rich Columnes of which the foure lowermost being great Corinthian pillers stood vpon two large Pedestals with a faire Vaux ouer them in stead of Architriue Frieze and Cornice Aboue them eight Columnes more were likewise set two and two vpon a large Pedestall for as our worke began for his Maiesties entrance with Rusticke so did wee thinke it fit that this out Temple should end with the most famous Columne whose beauty and goodlinesse is deriued both from the Tuscane Doricke Ionicke and Corinthian and receiued his full perfection from Titus Vespasian who aduanced it to the highest place of dignitie in his Arch Triumphall and by reason that

being foote in the Perpendicular-line and in the Ground-line directly ouer the gate were aduaunced the Armes of the Kingdome the Supporters whereof were fairely cut out to the life On the top of this first square beeing flat was erected another Square which bare in the fore side foure more lesser Columnes on which were all the garnishments belonging to those pillars as namely the architriue frize and Cornish on which Square was placed a great Canted Pedestall which with his moldinges did diminish vpwards to smaller Cants on which top was fixed a Personage carued or molded out to the life her left hand leaning on a sword with the point downeward and her right hand reaching forth a Diademe which shee seemde by bowing of her knee and head to bestow vpon his Maiestie On the foure Corners of this vpper parte stoode foure naked Portractures in great with artificiall trumpets in their hands All which Shapes that were erected in most liuely colours together with Pyramides long Streamers Galleries and all other inrichments belonging to this Arch triumphant I referre you to the Modell or Peece it selfe for the Front of it as the next leafe will shewe you so likewise proportionall was the backe side to the fore-Front The Italians were placed within two little Galleries very richly and stately hung vnder the Arch of the Passage In whose behalfe thus much Latine was deliuered The Italians Speech SAlue Rex magne salue Salutem Maiestati tuae Itali foelicissimum Aduentum laeti foelices sub te futuri precamur Eccè hic Omnes Exigui Munere pauculi Numero sed magni erga Maiestatem animi multi obsequij At nec Atlas qui Coelum sustinet ne ipsa Coeli Conuexa altitudinem attingant meritorum Regis optimi Hoc est eius quem de Teipso expressists doctissimo Deus admirabili penicillo Beatissimos populos vbi Philosophus regnat Rex Philosophatur Salue Viue Rex Potentissime foeliciter Regna Rex sapientissime foeliciter Itali optamus Omnes Itali clamamus Omnes Omnes Omnes The same in English ALL haile mightie Monarch wee the Italians full of Ioy to behold thy most happie presence and full of hopes to inioy a felicitie vnder thy Royall wing doe wish and pray for the health of thy Maiestie Behold here wee are all meane in merite fewe in number but towards thy Soueraigne selfe in our loues great in our duties more For neither Atlas who beares vp heauen no nor the Arched roofe it selfe of heauen can by many-many degrees reach to the toppe and glorious height of a good and vertuous Kinges deseruings And such a one is he whome Good God! most liuely most wisely and in wonderfull colours thou didst then pencill downe in thine owne person when thou saydst those people were blest where a Philosopher rules and where the Ruler playes the Philosopher All haile thou royallest of Kinges liue thou mightiest of Princes Reigne thou wisest of Monarches in all prosperitie these are the wishes of vs Italians the hearty wishes of vs all All euen All The Pegme of the Dutchmen THE third welcome that his Maiesty receiude was from the Belgians who had builded a stately Triumphall Arch to entertaine him in and thus was it contriude So wide did the bodie of it extend it selfe that it swallowed vp the breadth of the whole streete neere the Royall Exchange in Cornehill The Passage of state was a gate comely and large ascending foote in heigth and foote in the breadth neately Arched and graced with two lesser Posternes on the sides whose dimensions you may behold in the modell Sundry inscriptions were in golden Letters to bee seene both ouer the Gate and in the Tables fild with excellent Pictures as the King in his Imperiall Robes with other Portractures of Princes and Poeticall Emblemes of Peace c. On the back part also were peeces wherein were drawne the people of the Seuenteene Prouinces at their Husbandry their Exchange their Mart Also seuenteene children on the fore side representing the seuenteene Prouinces sate in degrees each of them hauing a Scutcheon in his hand figuring his Prouince On the shoulders of this Belgicke body stood rowes of Balysters with Pedistals that supported Lyons rampant bearing vp Banners And aboue them in the midst of another square about with Balysters likewise was aduanced a woman figuring Diuine Prouidence her feete fastned to a great Pedestall whose toppe was curiously connexed and knit together with the tailes of two Dolphins Other Garnishments there were that gaue illustration and beauty to this building as Columnes Pyramids c. whose proportions your eye may measure on the other side The speech wherein the loue of these Strangers was testified was deliuered by a boy in Latine and is thus much in English The speech of the Dutchmen GREAT King those so many Scepters which euen fill thy right hand are all thine owne onely by the Prouidence of heauen Behold heauen it selfe laughes to see thy Subiects smile and thunder out loud Plaudities to heare their Aues This honor of Soueraignty beeing at the beginning of the world bestowed but vpon few vpon the heads of few were the cares of a Crowne set for to sway onely but one Empire happily as it is a labour hard So none can vndergoe the waight but such as are mightie But with a becke as it were to controle many Nations and those of different dispositions too O! the Arme of man can neuer do that but the finger of God God therefore that guides the Chariot of the world holds the Raynes of thy Kingdome in his owne hand It is he whose beames lend a light to thine It is hee that teacheth thee the Art of Ruling because none but hee made thee a King And therefore as thou growest in yeares thou waxest old in Vertues of all thy Vertues Religion sitting highest And most worthy for by Religion the hearts of barbarous Nations are made soft By Religion Rebellion hath a yoke cast about her necke and is brought to beleeue that those Lawes to which thou submittest euen thy royall selfe are most easie With Religion Iustice keepes companie who once fled from this prophane world but hearing the name of King Iames she is againe returned By her side sits her sister Fortitude whose life is readie in Heroike actions to bee spent for the safety of thy people Besides to make these Vertues full Apollo and the Muses resigne the one his Golden lyre the other their Laurell to thy royall hands whilest Plenty daughter to Industry layes the blessings both of Countrey and Cittie in heapes at thy feete These are the gifts of heauen the fame then spreading it selfe so farre that to wonder at them both the Poles seeme to come together We the Belgians likewise come to that intent a Nation banisht from our owne Cradles yet nurst and brought vp in the tender bosome of a Princely mother Eliza The loue which we once dedicated to her as a Mother doubly