Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A59352	The triumphs of London performed on Saturday, Octob. 29, 1692, for the entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir John Fleet, Kt., lord mayor the city of London : containing a true description of the several pageants, with the speeches spoken on each pageant, all set forth at the proper costs and charges of the vvorshipful Company of Grocers : together with an exact relation of the most splendid entertainments, prepared for the reception of Their Sacred Majesties / by E.S.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1692 (1692)	Wing S2724; ESTC R37375	7,530	20

Crimson and a White 8. The Drum-Major to the King wearing a Shoulder-Scarf of the Companies Colours with others of Their Majesties Drums and Fifes 9. The Two City Marshals each of them Mounted on Horse-back with Rich Furniture Hoosings and Crupper all Embroider'd Six Servitors likewise Mounted to Attend with Scarfs and Colours of the Companies 10. The Foot-Marshal with a Scarf and Six attendants in Colours 11. The Master of Defence with the same Scarf and Colours Eight Persons of the same Science to attend him 12. Twenty Pensioners with Coats and Caps employ'd in carrying Standards and Banners This order'd and accommodated they are commited to the management of the Foot-Marshal who distributes them in seven Divisions and rank'd all two by two beginning with the inferior part of the Standard-Bearers In the head of them are placed two Drums one Fife and one Gentlemen bearing the Companies Arms. In the Rear of them two Gentlemen bearing Banners containing the Arms of the deceased Benefactors In the Center of them fall two Drums In the Rear of them three Drums one Fife and two Gentlemen in Plush-Coats bearing two Banners one of Their Majesties the other of the Companies After them Six Gentlemen-Ushers follow'd by the Budg-Batchelors The next two Gentlemen bearing two other Banners After them Six Gentlemen Ushers succeeded by the Foyns Batchelors In the Rear fall in two Drums and a Fife Then two Gentlemen one bearing my Lord MAYORS the other the City Banners Then Twelve Gentlemen Ushers and and after them the Court of Assistance which makes the last Division The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR with the Principal Aldermen and Sheriffs Mounts his Horse with the Aldermen two by two the Sheriffs in the Rear In this Equipage of two and two the whole Body move toward Grocers-Hall where the Lord Mayor Elect attended from Clothworkers Hall joyns with the Old Lord Mayor and his Retinue whence all of them in this Order march through Kingstreet down to Three Crane-Wharf there entring into their several Barges which are gloriously adorned with Flags and Pendants His Lordship and this Gallant Company all Landing at Westminster is conducted to the Exchequer-Bar there having performed several Ceremonial and Customary Duties and taken the Oaths to Their Majesties he returns again by Water to Black-Fryers-Stairs with Drums Beating Trumpets Sounding Musick Playing c. There his Lordship and the several Companys Landing from their Respective Barges the rest of the Attendents that went not to Westminster waiting for his Reception the whole Body moves in Order before him to Cheap-side where his Lordship is saluted with the First Pageant The First Pageant ON a Large Stage is mounted a Golden Camel upon a Pedestal most richly Ornamented with Carved Works of Gold and Silver being a proper Basis for so Noble a Creature as the Honourable Crest of the Worshipful Company of GROCERS On the Back of this Magnificent Creature between two Frails of Fruits as Raisins and Almonds Dates Spices and Gumms of all sorts sits a Negro habited according to the Indian Manner in one Hand the King's Banner with the other liberally distributing the Bountiful Product of his Country his Bridle and Trappings being Crimson as the proper Colours of the Ancient Company of GROCERS On a Descent beneath sits placed four Cardinal Virtues Justice Temperance Prudence and Fortitude Habited with their proper Ornaments as Justice in a Robe of white S lk to shew her Innocency in one Hand a large Banner of my Lords Arms in the other a Sword of Justice and a pair of Golden Scales which Young Virgin makes a Speech to the Lord Mayor as his first Entertainment in Cheapside The reason why Justice is exprest by a Young Virgin to shew that Judges and Administrators of the Law ought to be Incorrupt and free from Bribes Partiality or Flattery but constant and sincere On the four Corners of the Stage are Erected four Pyramids of Honour Ornamented with the Coats of Arms of the Worthy Benefactors and Freemen of the Virtuous Company of GROCERS as a true Emblem of their Justice and Piety The Speech Spoken by JVSTICE BEhold Proud Londons Great Praetorian Lord Commands at once my Ballance and my Sword Yes Sir with Triumph I my Wreaths resign So well my Chaplets must Those Brows entwine Justice to You must Tributary be My Ballance weighs the World and You weigh Me. Justice How nobly must you fill that Sphear When Sacred William mounts and Plants You there When Greatness Honour Truth so all Divine 'T is He that lends those Rays with which you shine Whilst from his Hand You hold Your rolling Year Drive on Great Sir a Glorious Charioteer A Fairer Circle You can never run Nor can You borrow from a Warmer Sun The Two following Pageants ARe Two Griffons erected on two large Stages being the Antient Supporters of the Arms of the Company of GROCERS Elaborated Guilded and Painted according to their proper Bearings On the Backs of these two stately Creatures between their Wings sit mounted on two large Frails of Fruit and Spice two Tawny Moors richly adorned and array'd in choice Indian Silks the Habit befitting the Degree and Quality of the Figures in all the gayest Finery suitable to the Occasion In their Right Hands they hold the King's Bannor and the Cities in their Left a Shield with the Arms of the Company On their Heads are Coronets of Feathers beset with Pearls and Jewels On the 8 Corners of the two Stages sit eight Figures intimating eight more Virtues as Love and Honour Industry and Vigilance Truth and Mercy Hope and Piety All Habited according to the Ancients Description with Bannors Flying and Trumpets Sounding in Honour to the Worthy Magistrate the Right Honourable Sir John Fleet. The Fourth Pageant The Triumphal Temple of PALLAS THis Temple is most exquisitly contrived and beautified with all the Ornaments and Embellishments imaginable the Composure of the Fabrick being of the most stately Ancient Architecture In the Contrivance of this Temple are four Arches or Neiches wherein are placed four Figures Representing four Poetical Deities all most richly Habited First Pallus the Goddess of Wisdom Arts and Arms according to her three Titles of Pallas Minerva and Bellona her Habit is a Robe of Purple with a Silver Head-piece and a plume of Red and White Feathers in her Right Hand she holds a Banner of the City-Arms and in her Left a Spear and Shield charged with a Gorgons Head The second Figure is Neptune the God of the Sea in a Sea-green silken Robe his Coronet of Shells and Corals in one Hand the King's-Banner in the other a Trident intimating his Soveraignty of the Seas The third Figure Thetis the Goddess of the Sea in a watchet colour silk Robe and a Coronet of Flowers The fourth Figure is Mercury the God of Wit in a Sky-colour'd Robe on his Head a Silver Cap with two small Silver Wings in one Hand his Caduce in the other the Banner of the