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Chesters triumph in honor of her prince As it was performed vpon S. Georges Day 1610. in the foresaid citie.
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Davies, Richard, fl. 1610.; Amerie, Robert.; Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1594-1612.
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pronouncing an Oration in Honour of the most worthy Christian English Champian S. George mounted on Horsebacke with the Armes of S. George vpon a Scutchin in the forehead of the Horse 15. Another mounted on Horsebacke with the most ancient and famous Standard of S. George with the Armes of Saint George vpon a Scutchin in the Horses forehead 16. Another mounted on Horsebacke bearing vpon a Scepter a great piece of Plate parcell Gilt Bell fashion Dedicated to the Honour of Saint George with the Armes of S. George in the Horses forehead 17. Another representing S. George Accoutred and Armed at all points attended by two Squires Also in compleat Armour a noyse of Drummes before them likewise mounted on Horsebacke with the Armes of S. George vpon a Scutchin in the Horses forehead 18. Another on Horsebacke representing Peace who made a Speech agreeable to her nature 19. Another on Horsebacke representing Plentie made likewise a Speech c. A Wreath of Wheat-cares vpon her head with a Garland of the same athwart her body casting and strewing Wheate abroad amongst the multitude as shee roade along Garbe or Wheat-sheffe Ore in a Scutchin vpon her Horses forehead 20. Another on Horsebacke representing Enuie with a VVreath of Snakes about her head another in her hand her face and armes besmeard with blood 21. After her on Horsback came one representing Loue who finding Enuie dismounted from Horsebacke and mounted on a Stage to shew her nature was coniured by Loue to depart and not to interrupt with her detractions that dayes Triumph vndertaken and performed through Loue which done Loue and Ioye marshall the succeeding sport 22. Lastly Ioye mounted on Horsebacke reioycing at so great a concourse of people neuer there before seene and praysing the good meaning of what there was vndertaken and performed Whereupon all departed for a while to a place vpon the Riuer called the Roodes Garded with one hundred and twentie Halberders and a hundred and twentie Shotte brauely furnished The Mayor Sheriffs and Aldermen of Chester arayed in their Scarlet hauing seene the said shewes to grace the same accompanied and followed the Actors vnto the said Roode where the Ships Barques and Pinises with other vessels Harbouring within the Riuer displaying the Armes of S. George vpon their maine Toppes with seuerall pendants answerable thereunto discharged many voleyes of Shotte in Honour of the day The Bels Dedicated as before is remembred being presented to the Mayor Proclamation being generally made to bring in Horses to runne for the saide Bels there was runne a double Race to the great pleasure and delight of the spectators Men of great worth running also at the Ring for the said Cuppe Dedicated to Saint George and those that wonne the Prises according to the Articles agreed vpon in that behalfe had the same with the Honour thereunto belonging The said seuerall Prises being with Speeches and seuerall Wreathes set on their heads deliuered in ceremonious and Tryumphant maner after the order of the Olimpian Sportes whereof these were an imitation CHESTERS TRIVMPH IN HONOVR OF HER PRINCE FAME FRom blisfull Bowres of faire Elizian fields The happy harbour of Ioues deerest Deere From thence these Worthies noted by their shields Are by my conduct thus ariued here I Fame that with a trice doe ouer-fill The Worlds wide eares with what I please to say Haue brought them thus as t' were against the hill Of highest Lets to celebrate this Day This Day that I so farre haue famouzed That not a nooke of Earths huge Globe but knowes How in great Britaine t' is solemnized With diuine Offices and glorious Showes Then for th' encrease of this triumphant Mirth I 'le inuocate the Gods Embassadour To be the President of Heau'n to Earth And from the Gods salute your Gouernour Then come great Nuntius of th' immortall Gods From that all-swaying Senate of their State Come I inuoke thee with thy charming-rod In glory come this Day to celebrate The nine-fold Orbes of Heau'n my words doe pierce Descend then Tongues-man of the Vniuerse A Song of eight voyces for the shew in CHESTER on S. GEORGES day COme downe thou mighty messenger of blisse Come we implore thee Let not thy glory be obscur'd from vs Who most adore thee Then come O come great spirit That we may ioyfull sing Welcome O welcome to earth Ioues dearest darling Lighten the eyes thou great Mercurian Prince Of all that view thee That by the lustre of their optick sense They may pursue thee Whilst with their voyces Thy praise they shall sing Come away Ioues dearest darling MERCVRIE comes downe in a Cloude and speakes thus DOwne from the Throne of the immortall Gods From out the glorious euer-during Heau'ns And from the sacred Powres celestiall From thence I come commanded by them all To visite Him whose rare report hath rung His erned fame on earth hath pierc'd the skie Ascending vp vnto the highest Heau'ns And therewithall procur'd the sacred Senate In great regard to hold his worthinesse For which intent They all with one accord To manifest the Loue to Him they owe Haue sent me Mercurie their Messenger To bring him ioyfull tydings of the same And to this place directed by their Powres I am ariu'd in happy time I hope To finde this happy God-beloued Man And loe behold on suddaine where I spie This Fauorite so fauor'd of the Gods I will salute him with such courtesie As best beseemes a wight of such account All haile to thee high Iustice Officer Mercurie Nuntius to the Powres diuine Hath brought thee greetings from their Deities And know deere Sir thy deedes and good deserts Thy well disposed Nature Minde and thought Thy zealous care to keepe their Lawes diuine Thy great compassion on poore wights distrest Thy prudence iustice temp'rance and thy truth And to be briefe thy vertues generall Haue mou'd them all from Heau'n with one assent To send Me downe to let thee vnderstand That thou art highly in their Fauors plac'd And for the more assurance of the same Loe here a Fauour fauourably sent From them by me to thee that thou maist know Thy vertues here shall there rewarded bee With endlesse ioy and perfect happinesse Receaue the same returning naught but thankes Which is as much as they require of thee My message done my taske thus brought to end I must returne and to the Heau'ns ascend CHESTER HAile sage Spectators haile yee reu'rend Sires Haile yonger Brutes whose worth self Worth admires Whose ardent Loues both to the place and vs Constraines our Loues to entertaine yee thus Welcome ten thousand times yee blisfull criew Whose light lends luster to the vulgar view Whose seuerall vertues link'd with seuerall Graces Deserues the Best of our best Loues embraces The Romaine Curtius Romes great Fauorite Whose daring Death did her from scathe acquite Was ne're more Welcome to the Romanes sights Then are your selues to these our choise delights To which kinde purpose our desire intends
her straight I 'le send pale Enuie downe to hell with speed VVhere she vpon her Snakes shall onely feed And with some pois'nous and inuenom'd Toade Her much more poysonous selfe shall make aboade VVhich being done I 'le send that base infection VVhose onely vertue is but base Detraction Her to associate where they both shall liue As long as hell can life with horror giue And thus shall Peace their ioy perpetuate That loue in loue to stay this blessed State PLENTIE SInce Plenty still co-operates with Peace Plenty shall blesse your basket of encrease From whose aboundant ne're exhausted store You shall receaue much more then had before I 'le stuffe your Barnes vp to the throat with graine VVhich shall all yours and others still sustaine I 'le fructifie the earth with rarest fruites Of sundry shapes and seuerall kinde of suites So as the Soile that beares seed timely sowne Vnder the burthen of their waight shall groane In all aboundance I will reare your Beasts VVhich shall maintaine your o're abounding Feasts Fish fowle hearbs grasse and all things whatsoere Shall at your dore be cheape and nothing deere I 'le sinke into the concaues of earthes molde And there hence pull and cull her purest golde And then will diue into the Ocean Deepes To raise the Treasure which their Neptune keepes I 'le fraight your ships with such o're-fraighting store That greedinesse her selfe shall seeke no more No scarsity shall in your Land be found As long as I with Nature till your ground What shall I say your life-supporting staffe The staffe of bread I 'le throw abroad like chaffe Then see how graciously the High'st hath sent yee Peace in all fulnesse in all fulnesse Plentie ENVIE and LOVE Enuie HIsse Loue Why how now Enuie do'st thou hisse at Phoebus E. Yes and at Cinthia too if shee anger vs L. Your reason Enuie E. Why My reason 's this To heare a Cat cry mewe who can but hisse L. Out hissing Scorpion E. Out yee filthy Foole Enuie hath wit to set such Apes to schoole L. Malitious Monster thou incarnate Div'll VVhose base condition is the source of euill Thou enuious Bandogge speake and doe thy worst He that regards it is the most accurst E. And he that thinks that Loue can e're be wise Hath neither iudgement wisedome wit nor eies L. Say thou abortiue men-detested slaue VVhose onely vertue is but to depraue Mans best proceedings speake thou squint-eide Monster VVhat is the cause which makes thee still misconster E. Because I hate to heare a want-wit preach Beyond wits bounds and wisedomes boundlesse reach To see a superficiall Sot make show Of deeper skill then wit it selfe doth know L. VVhat is the solace Enuie counteth deepe E. Marie to see a VVolfe deuoure a Sheepe To see men-diuels breeding still dissention Is sport me thinks beyond all comprehension Or else a rich man hunger-pin'd with want To see an Army when their foode is scant Eate their owne excrements O this is sport For Enuie that without this is all amort To see a droue of Drunkards like to Swine Swilling their soules in soule-o're-whelming wine To see a City burnt or Barnes on fire To see a Sonne the Butcher of his Sire To see two Swaggerars eagerly to striue VVhich of them both shall make the Hang-man thriue To see a good man poore or wise man bare To see dame Vertue ouer-whelm'd with care To see a ruin'd Church a Preacher dumbe A Kings childe perish in the Mothers wombe To see a Miser who to haue his pelfe VVill take a rope and desp'rate hang him selfe To see a virgine by a varlet vs'd Till she by him to death be so abus'd Or else to see a Father sucke the blood Of his owne Spawne O! these would doe me good But to behold a ranke of rustick Boyes Shewing as childish people childish toyes To grace a day with O it grates my gall To heare an apish Kitling catterwall Is it not harsh to heare a Marmeset squeake Vpon a stage a most vnioynted speake And then to heare some ignorant Baboone Sweare that this Monky did surmount the Moone VVhen as the Infants best is too too bad And which to heare would make a wise-man mad L. Thou damn'd Infection damned from thy birth Abhor'd of heau'n and odious to the earth How canst thou euer hope to merit grace VVhen thy delight is but detraction base But since there is no signe of grace in that Damn'd face of thine which hell doth wonder at Loue shall coniure thee that from this time forth Thou ne're frequent this Iland of the North Diue to the depth of deepest Stigian flood There sucke thou Snakes and Snakes there suck thy blood Or sinke thou quite to the infernall deepe Where crawling Scorpions may about thee creepe And there among those vermine vile beneath Belk vp that poison which thou here dost breath Goe I coniure thee least I make thee feele The keenest edge of Wraths reuenging steele Burthen the earth no more thou hatefull Toade VVith such a pondrous earth-anoying loade Goe with a vengeance goe and ne're retire But we are our Time in euerlasting fire Enuie O I could grind and grate thee with my teeth L. No more thou Monster hence be gone forthwith E. Confusion death plague pestilence and piles Confound their soules who at mine anguish smiles Yet ere I goe I 'le bid the best farewell Hoping ere long to meete their Ghosts in hell L. Goe vgly Monster Loues Misanthropos Sinke downe to tortour and continuall woes Heau'n excludes thee Earth abhors thy sight And greeues to beare the burthen of thy weight Sinke to her center there 's thy Natiue rest And neuer more be seene to spot her brest So hast thee hence and hence-forth I 'le direct My speech to those whom I doe best affect Loue bids you welcome that are come in loue To see our sports that Enuie doth reproue IOY ENuie auaunt thou art no fit Compeere T' associate these our sweet Consociats heere Ioy doth exclude thee who to thy disgrace Here spets Defiance in thy vgly face And that is more thy euerlasting shame Shall be still blasted by the Trumpe of Fame The powerfull tongue of facund Mercury Shall to the world display thy Infamy Chester abhors thy presence Britaine hates thee And for a damned fury Camber takes thee Peace as a Herrald shall proclaime to All That thou art damn'd by Iustice-Generall Plenty detests thy base Society VVho scornes thy hell-bred grosse impietie And last of all My Loue in Loues defence In spight of Enuie shall send Enuie hence Wherefore auaunt that all the I 'le may sing Now Enuies gone in peace w'enioy our King After the running of the Horses FAME speakes WIth rich Characters of resplendant gold Fame hath your names within her booke enrold Which till Time stayes his course shall glitter bright Maugre detraction and fell Enuies spight BRITAINE to him that wan the best Bell IN signe of victory which thou hast gain'd This VVreath by thy faire front shall be sustain'd VVhose greene leau'd branches vnto Fame shall tell That thou didst best deserue the better Bell CAMBER to the second TO crowne thy Temples with a second vvreath Loe here doth Camber vnto thee bequeath This fragrant Garland sith thou didst excell The best that ran but at the second Bell RVMOR to him that wan the Ring THou that by either cunning or by chaunce Didst take the Ring with thy thrice happy Launce Here take of me to raise thy vertues vp This vvreath of Balme and pollisht siluer cup All together And so we all in all your seuerall Graces VVill with fames o're-fill all times and places CHESTERS last Speech NO Action though admir'd for Excellence No Practize though of high'st preheminence That can escape the Poliphemian eye Of Enuie that for euer lookes awry Yet notwithstanding on your Loues depending Whose patient eares excludes all reprehending We here submit our selues in humblest wise Before the barre of your iudicious eyes What we present vnto your dainty eares Is freed from scandalls so is free from feares Onely your Loues which are our fairest markes Must muzzle Enuie when the Fury barkes Vnto the best we doubt not but our best May purchase fauour and for all the rest We doe expect but this poore kindnesse from them That they would speake but what shall well become them This being graunted Chester doth inuite Each noble worthy and each worthy Knight To close their stomacke with a small repast Which may content a temperate curious tast Measure our ardent Loues with such kinde measure As we afford you sport and giue you pleasure And so wee 'le leaue you with this solemne vow That whilst we breath our hearts shall honour you IF any Reader shall desire to know VVho was the Author of this pleasing show Let him receaue aduertizement hereby A Sheriffe late of Chester AMERIE Did thus performe it who for his reward Desires but Loue and competent regard ROBERT AMERIE FINIS A