The Pegme at Fen-church
PResented it selfe in a square and flat
vpright, like to the side of a Citty: the
top therof, aboue the Vent, and Crest,
adorn'd with houses, towres, and stee-
ples, set off in prospectiue. Vpon the Battlements
in a great capitall Letter was inscribed,
LONDINIVM:
According to Tacitus:At Suetonius mira constan-
tia, medios inter hosteis Londinium perrexit, cognomen-
to quidem Coloniæ non insigne, sed copia Negotiatorum,
& commeatu maxime celebre. Beneath that, in a
lesse and different Character, was written
CAMERA REGIA
Which Title immediately after the NormanCon-
quest it beganne to haue; and by the indulgence
of succeeding Princes, hath beene hitherto conti-
nued. In the Freeze ouer the gate, it seemeth to
speake this verse:
PAR DOMVS HAEC COELO,
SED MINOR EST DOMINO.
Taken out of Martiall, and implying, that though
this Cittie (for the state, and magnificence) might
(by Hyporbole) be saide to touch the starres, and
reach vp to heauen, yet was it farre Inferior to the
Maister thereof, who was his Maiestie; and in that
respect vnworthy to receiue him. The highest per-
son aduaunc'd therein, was
MONARCHIA BRITANNICA
and fittely: applying to the aboue mentioned
Title of the Citty, the Kings Chamber, and there-
fore heere placed as in the proper seate of the Em-
pire: for, so the glorie and light of our King-
dome M. Camden, speaking of London, saieth,
shee is, totius Britanniæ Epitome, Britannicíque im-
perii sedes, Regúmque Angliæ Camera, tantum inter
omneis eminet, quantum (vt ait ille) inter viburna Cu-
pressus. Shee was a woman richly attir'd in cloth of
golde and tissue; a rich mantle; ouer her state twoo
Crownes hanging, with pensile shieldes thorow
them; the one lim'd with the particular Coate of
England, the other of Scotland: on either side also a
Crowne, with the like Scutchions, and peculiar
Coats of France, & Ireland. In her hand she holdes
a Scepter; on her head a fillet of gold, inter-wouen
with Palme & Lawrel; her haire bound into foure
seuerall points, descending from her Crownes; &
and in her lappe a little Globe, inscrib'd vpon
ORBIS BRITANNICVS.
And beneath, the word
DIVISVS AB ORBE.
To shew, that this Empire is a world diuided from
the world, and alluding to that of *Clau.
—Et nostro diducta Britannia mundo.
And Virg.
—Et penitus toto diuisos orbe Britannos.
The wreathe denotes Victory and Happines. The
Scepter & Crowns soueraignty. The Shieldes the
precedency of the Countries and their distincti-
ons. At her feete was set
THEOSOPHIA,
or Diuine wisdome, al in white, a blew mantle seeded
with Stars, a crowne of Stars on hir head. Hir gar-
ments figur'd Truth, Innocence and Cleerenesse.
She was alwayes looking vp; in her one hand shee
sustained a Doue, in the other a Serpent: the last to
shew her Subtilty, the first her Simplicity; alluding
to that text of Scripture,Estote ergo prudentes sicut
serpentes, & simplices sicut columbæ. Her word,
PER ME REGES REGNANT.
Intimating, how by her, all Kings do gouerne,
and that she is the foundation and strength of king-
domes, to which end, she was here placed, vpon a
Cube, at the foote of the Monarchie, as her Base
and stay. Directly beneath her stoode
A person attir'd rich, reuerend, and antique: his
haire long and white, crowned with a wreathe of
Plane tree, which is saide to be Arbor genialis; his
mantle of purple, and buskins of that colour: Hee
held in one hand a Goblet, in the other a braunch
full of little twigges, to signifie Increase and In-
dulgence: His word
HIS ARMIS.
pointing to the two that supported him, whereof
the one on the right hand, was
BOVLEVTES.
Figuring the Councell of the Citty, and was suted
in blacke and purple; a wreathe of * Oake vppon
his head; sustaining for his ensignes, on his left
arme a scarlet roabe, and in his right hand the
* Fasces, as tokens of Magistracie, with this inscrip-
tion; [gap — ]SERVARE CIVES.
The other on the left hand.
POLEMIVS
The warrelike force of the City, in an antique
Coate, or Armour, with a Target and Sword; his
helme on, and crowned with Lawrell, implying
Strength and Conquest: in his hand he bore the
Standard of the Citty, with this word,
EXTINGVERE ET HOSTEIS.
Expressing by those seuerall Motts, connexed,
that with those Armes of Councell and Strength,
the Genius was able to extinguish the Kings ene-
mies, and preserue his Citizens, alluding to those
verses in Seneca,
Extinguere hestem, maxima est virtus Ducis.
Servare Cives, maior est patriæ, patri.
Vnderneath these, in an Aback thrust out be-
fore the rest lay
TAMESIS.
The Riuer, as running along the side of the Ci-
ty; in a skinne made like flesh, naked, and blew.
His mantle of sea-greene or water colour, thinne,
and bolne out like a sayle; Bracelets about his
wreasts, of willow and sedge, a crowne of sedge
and reede vpon his head, mixt with water-lillies;
alluding to Virgills description of Tiber;
Populeas inter senior se attollere frondes
Visus. eum tenuis glauco velabat amicta
Carbasus. & crineis vmbrosa tegebat Arundo.
His beard, and haire long, and ouergrowne. He
leanes his arme vpon an earthen pot, out of which,
water, with liue Fishes, are seene to runne forth,
and play about him. His word,
FLVMINA SENSERVNT IPSA.
A Hemistich of Ouids: The rest of the verse being,
quid esset amor
Affirming, that Riuers themselues, and such
inanimate Creatures, haue heeretofore beene
made sensible of Passions, and Affections; and
that hee, nowe, no lesse pertooke the ioy of
his Maiesties gratefull approach to this Citty, than
any of those persons, to whome he pointed, which
were the daughters of the Genius, and sixe in num-
ber: who, in a spreading ascent, vpon seuerall gri-
ces, help to beautifie both the sides. The first,
EVPHROSYNE,
or Gladnes: was suted in greene, a mantle of diuers
colors, embroydred with all varietie of floures: on
her head a Gyrland of Myrtle, in her right hand a
cristall Cruze filld with wine, in the left a Cup of
golde: at her feete a Tymbrell, Harpe, and other
Instruments, all ensignes of gladnesse,
And in another place,
Pulsanda Tellus, &c.
Her word.
As if this were the first houre of her life, and the
minute wherein she beganne to be; beholding so
long coueted, and look'd for a presence. The se-
cond.
SEBASIS.
or Veneratio, was varied in an ashe colour'd sute,
and darke mantle, a vayle ouer her head of ash-
colour: her hands crost before her, and her eyes
halfe closde: Her word:
Implying both her office of reuerence, and the
dignity of her obiect, who being as God on earth,
should neuer be lesse in her thought: The third:
PROTHYMIA.
or Promptitude, was attir'd in a short tuck't garment
of flame-colour, wings at her backe; her hayre
bright, & bound vp with ribands; her breast open,
virago-like; hir buskins so ribanded: She was crow-
ned with a Chaplet of Trifoly, to expresse readines,
and opennesse euery way; in her right hand shee
held a squirrell, as being the creature most full of
life and quicknesse: in the left a close round Cen-
sor, with the perfume sodainely to be vented forth
at the sides. Her word:
Taken from an other place in Virgill where Eo-
lus at the command of Iuno letts forth the winde;
— ac venti velut agmine facto
Qua data parta ruunt & terras turbine perflant.
And shew'd that shee was no lesse prepar'd with
promptitude, and alacrity, then the windes were,
vpon the least Gate that shall be opened to his
high commaund. The fourth
AGRYPNIA.
or Vigilance, in yellow, a sable mantle, seeded with
waking eies, and siluer fringe: her Chaplet of He-
liotropium, or Turnsole; in her one hand a Lampe,
or Cresset, in her other a Bell. The Lampe signifi-
ed search and sight, the Bell warning. The Heliotro-
pium care; and respecting her obiect. Her word
SPECVLAMVR IN OMNEIS.
Alluding to that of Ouid, where he describes the
office of Argus,
Occupat, vnde sedens partes speculatur in omneis.
and implying the like duety of care and vigilance in
herselfe. The fifth
AGAPE.
Or louing Affection, in Crimson fringed with
golde, a mantle of flame-colour, her Chaplet of
red and white roses; in her hand a flaming heart:
The flame expressed zeale, the red and white ro-
ses, a mixture of Simplicity with Loue: her robes
freshnes and feruency. Her word
NON SIC EXCVBIÆ.
Out of Claudian, in following
—Quàm tutatur amor.
Inferring, that though her Sister before had prote-
sted watchfulnes, & circumspection, yet no watch
or guard could be so safe to the estate, or person of
a Prince, as the loue and naturall affection of his
Subiects: which she in the Citties behalfe promi-
sed. The sixt,
OMOTHYMIA
.Or Vnanimity in blew, her roabe blew, and bus-
kins. A Chaplet of blew lillies, shewing one trueth
and intirenesse of minde. In her lappe lies a sheafe
of arrowes bound together, and she her selfe sittes
weauing certaine small siluer twists. Her word,
Auxilia humilia firma, &c.
Intimating, that euen the smallest and weakest
aydes, by consent, are made strong: herselfe per-
sonating the vnanimity, or consent of Soule, in all
inhabitants of the Citty to his seruice.
¶ These are all the personages, or liue figures,
whereof onely two were Speakers (Genius and Ta-
mesis) the rest were Mutes. Other dumbe com-
plements there were, as the Armes of the King-
dome on the one side, with this Inscription.
HIS VIREAS.
With these maist thou flourish.
On the other side the Armes of the City, with
HIS VINCAS.
With these maist thou conquer.
In the centre, or midst of the Pegme, there was
an Aback, or Square, wherein this Elogie was writ-
ten:
Maximus hic Rex est, & luce serenior ipsa
Principe quæ talem cernit in vrbe Ducem;
Cuius Fortunam superat sic vnica Virtus,
Vnus vtis reliquos vincit vtrâque viros.
Præceptis alii populos, multâque fatigant
Lege; sed exemplonos rapit ille suo.
Cuique frui totâ fas est vxore marito,
Et sua fas simili pignora nosse patri.
Ecce vbi pignoribus circumstipata coruscis
It comes, & tanto vix minor ANNA viro.
Haud metus est, Regem posthac ne proximus Hæres,
Neu Successorem non amet ille suum.
This, and the whole frame, was couered with a
curtaine of silke, painted like a thicke cloude, and
at the approach of the K. was instantly to bee
drawne. The Allegory being, that those cloudes
were gathered vpon the face of the Citty, through
their long want of his most wished fight: but now,
as at the rising of the Sunne, all mistes were disper-
sed and fled. When sodainely vpon silence made to
the Musikes, a voyce was heard to vtter this verse;
Signifying that hee now was really obiected to
their eyes, who before had beene only, but still,
present in their mindes.
¶ Thus farre the complementall parte of the
first; wherein was not only labored the expression
of State and Magnificence (as proper to a trium-
phall Arch) but the very Site, Fabricke, Strength,
Policie, Dignitie and Affections of the Cittie
were all laide downe to life: The nature, and pro-
pertie of these Deuises being, to present alwaies
some one entire body, or figure, consisting of
distinct members and eache of those expressing it
selfe, in the owne actiue spheare, yet all, with that
generall harmony so connexed, and disposed, as
no one little parte can be missing to the illustration
of the whole: where also is to be noted, that the
Symboles vsed, are not, neither ought to be simply
Hierogliphickes, Emblemes, or Impreses, but a mixed
Character, pertaking somwhat of all, and peculier-
ly apted to these more magnificent Inuentions:
wherein the Garments, and Ensignes deliuer the
nature of the person, and the Word the present
office. Neither was it becomming, or could it
stand with the dignity of these shewes (after the
most miserable & desperate shift of the Puppits) to
require a Truch-man, or (with the ignorant Pain-
ter) one to write. This is a Dog; or, This is a Hare:
but so to be presented, as vpon the view they might
without cloude, or obscurity declare themselves to
the sharpe and learned: And for the multitude, no
doubt but their grounded iudgements gazed, said
it was fine, and were satisfied.
The speeches of Gratulation.
GENIVS.
TIme, Fate, and Fortune haue at length conspir'd,
To giue our Age the day so much desir'd.
What all the minutes, houres, weekes, months, and (yeares
That hang in file vpon these siluer haires,
Could not produce, beneath the a Brittane stroke,
The Roman, Saxon, Dane, and Norman (a) yoke,
This point of Time hath done. Now London reare
Thy forehead high, and on it striue to we are
Thy choisest Gems; Teach thy steepe Towres to rise
Higher with people: Set with sparkling eies
Thy spacious windowes; and in euery streete,
Let thronging Ioy, Loue, and Amazement meete.
Cleaue all the ayre with showtes, and let the cry
Strike through as long, and vniuersally
As Thunder; For, thou now art blist to see
That sight, for which thou didst beginne to bee.
When (b) Brutus plough first gaue thee infant boūds,
And I, thy GENIVS walk't auspicious rounds
In euery (c) furrow; Then did I forelooke,
The seuerall (f) Circles, both of change and sway,
Within this Isle, there also figur'd lay:
Of which the greatest, perfectest, and last
Was this, whose present happinesse we taste.
Why keep you silence Daughters? What dull peace
Is this inhabites you? Shall Office cease
Vpon th'aspect of him, to whom you owe
More then you are, or can be? Shall TIME knowe
That Article, wherein your flame stoode still,
And not aspir'd? Now heauen auert an ill
Of that blacke looke. Ere pause possesse your breasts
I wish you more of plagues: “Zeale when it rests,
Leaues to be Zeale. Vp thou tame RIVER, wake;
And from thy liquid limbes this slumber shake:
Thou drown'st thy selfe in inofficious sleepe;
And these thy sluggish waters seeme to creepe,
Rather than flow. Vp, rise, and swell with pride
Aboue thy bankes. “Now is not euery Tyde.
TAMESIS.
TO what vaine end should I contend to show
My weaker powres, when Seas of pompe o'reflow
The Citties face: and couer all the shore
With sands more rich than (a) Tagus wealthy ore?
When in the flood of Ioy, that comes with him,
He drownes the world; yet makes it liue and swimme,
And spring with gladnesse: Not my fishes heere,
Though they be dumbe, but doe expresse the cheere
Of these bright streames. No lesse may (b) These, and I
Boast our delights, albe't we silent lie.
GENIVS.
INdeede, true Gladnesse doth not alwayes speake:
“Ioy bred, and borne but in the tongue, is weake.
Yet (lest the feruor of so pure a flame
As this my Citty beares, might loose the name,
Without the apt euenting of her heate)
Know greatest IAMES (and no lesse good, than great.)
In the behalfe of all my vertuous Sonnes,
Whereof my (a) eldest there, thy pompe forerunnes,
(A Man without my flattring, or his Pride,
As worthy, as hee's (b) blest to be thy guide)
In his graue name, and all his Brethrens right,
(Who thirst to drinke the Nectar of thy sight)
The Councell, Commoners, and Multitude;
(Glad, that this day so long deny'd, is viewd)
I tender thee the heartiest welcome, yet
That euer King had to his (c) Empires seate:
Neuer came man, more long'd for, more desir'd:
And being come, more reuerenc'd, lou'd, admir'd:
Heare, and record it: “In a Prince it is
“No little vertue, to know who are his.
* With like deuotions, doe I stoope t'embrace
This springing glory of thy (d) Godlike race;
His Countries Wonder, Hope, Loue, Ioy and Pride:
How well dooth he become the royall side
Of this erected, and broade spreading Tree,
Vnder whose shade, may Brittane euer be.
And from this branch, may thousand branches more
Shoote or'e the Maine, and knit with euery shore
In bonds of Marriage, Kinred, and Increase;
And stile this Land, the (a) Naiuill of their peace.
This is your Seruants wish, your Citties vow,
Which still shall propagate it selfe, with you;
And free from spurres of Hope, that slow mindes moue:
"He seekes no hire, that owes his life to Loue.
*And heere she comes that is no lesse a part
In this dayes greatnesse, then in my glad heart.
Glory of Queenes, and (b) Glory of your Name,
Whose Graces doe as farre out-speake your Fame,
As Fame doth silence, when her Trumpet rings
You (c) Daughter, Sister, Wife of seuerall Kings:
Besides Alliance, and the stile of Mother,
In which one Title you drowne all your other.
Instance, be (d) that faire shoote, is gone before
Your eldest Ioy, and top of all your store,
With (e) those, whose sight to vs is yet deni'd,
But not our zeale to them, or ought beside
This Citty can to you: For whose estate
Shee hopes you will be still good Aduocate
To her best Lord. So, whilst you mortall are,
No taste of sower mortalitie once dare
Approach your house; nor Fortune greete your Grace
But comming on, and with a forward face.
THE OTHER AT TEMPLE
BARRE.
CArried the frontispice of a Tem-
ple, the Wals of which and Gates
were Brasse; the Pillers Siluer,
their Capitals and Bases Golde:
in the highest point of all was e-
rected a Ianus head, and ouer it
written.
IANO QVADRIFRONTI
SACRVM.
Which title of Quadrifronsis said to be giuen
him, as he respecteth all Climates, and filles all parts
of the world with his Maiestie; which Martiall
would seeme to allude vnto in that Hendicasillable,
Others haue thought it by reason of the foure Ele-
ments, which brake out of him, being Chaos: for
Ouid is not afraide to make Chaos and Ianus the
same, in those verses
Adspice, &c.
But we rather follow (and that more particularly)
the opinion of the* Auncients, who haue entitled
him Quadrifrons in regarde of the yeare (which
vnder his swaye is deuided into foure seasons,
Spring, Summer, Autumne, Winter,) and abscribe vnto
him the beginnings and ends of things. See M.
Cic. §Cum[que] in omnibus rebus vim haberent maxi-
mam prima & extrema, principem in sacrificando Ia-
num esse voluerunt, quod* ab eundo nomen est deductū:
ex quo transitiones peruiæ Iani, foresque in liminibus
profunarum ædium, Ianuæ nominatur, &c. As also the
charge and custodie of the whole world, by Ouid:
Quicquid vbi[que] vides cœlum, mare, nubila, terras.
Omnia sunt nostra clausa patent[que] manu:
Me penes est vnum vasti custodia Mundi.
Et ius vertendi cardinis omne meum est.
About his foure heads he had a wreathe of golde,
in which was grauen this verse.
TOT VVLTVS MIHI NEC SATIS PVTAVI.
Signifying, that though he had foure faces, yet he thought them not enough, to behold the great-
nesse and glory of that day: beneath vnder the
head was written.
ET MODO SACRIFICO CLVSIVS ORE VOCOR.
For being open he was stil'd PATVLCIVS, but then
vpon the comming of his Maiesty, being to be shut,
he was to be called CLVSIVS. Vpon the out-most
front of the building was placed the intire Armes
of the Kingdome with the Garter, Crowne, and
Supporters, cut foorth as faire and great as the life;
with an Hexastich written vnderneath, all expressing
the dignity, and power of him that should close
that Temple.
Qui dudum angustis tantùm regnauit in oris
Paruo[que] Imperio se toti præbuit Orbi
Esse regendo parem, tria Regna (vt nulla deesset
Virtuti fortuna) suo feliciter vni
Iuncta simul sensit: fas vt sit credere votis
Non iam sanguineâ, fruituros pace Britannos.
In a great freeze, belowe, that ranne quite along the
breadth of the building were written these two
Iurandas[que] suum per nomen ponimus aras,
Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatentes.
The first and principall person in the Temple, was
IRENE.
or Peace, she was placed aloft in a Cant, her attire
White, semined with Starres, herhaire loose and
large: a wreath of Oliue on her head, on her shoul-
der a siluer Doue: in her left hand, she held forth an
Oliue branche, with a handfull of ripe Eares, in the
other a crowne of Lawrell, as notes of victorie and
plenty. By her stood
PLVTVS.or Wealth, a little boy, bare headed, his locks curled,
and spangled with golde, of a fresh aspect, his body
almost naked, sauing some rich robe cast ouer him;
in his armes a heape of gold Ingots to expresse rich-
es, whereof he is the God: Beneath her feete lay
ENYALIVS.
or Mars, Groueling, his armour scattered vpon him
in seuerall peeces, and sundrie sortes of weapons
broken about him, her word to all was
VNA TRIVMPHIS IN NVMERIS POTIOR.
Quas homini nouisse datum est, pax vna Triumphis
Innumeris potior.
signifieng that peace alone was better, and more to
be coueted then innumerable Tryumphes, besides,
vpon the right hand of her, but with some little
descent, in a Hemicycle was seated
ESYCHIA.
or Quiet, the first handmaid of peace; A woman
of a graue and venerable aspect, attired in black, vp-
on her head an artificiall nest, out of which ap-
peared Storkes heads to manifest a sweete repose.
Her feete were placed vpon a Cube, to shewe sta-
bility and in her lappe shee held a Perpendicular
or leuell, as the ensigne of Euennesse and Rest; on
the top of it sate a Halcion or Kings-fisher. She had
lying at her feete
TARACHE.
or Tumult, in a garment of diuers, but darke coulers,
her haire wilde, and disordered, a fowle and trou-
bled face, about her laye staues, swordes, ropes,
chaines, hammers, stones, and such like to expresse
Turmoile. The word was
PERAGIT TRANQVILLA POTESTAS.
Imperiosa quies.
To shewe the benefits of a calme and facile power,
being able to effect in a state that, which no vio-
lence can. On the other side the second hand-
maide, was
ELEVTHERIA.
or Libertie, her dressing white, & som-what antique
but loose and free; her haire flowing downe her
backe, and shoulders: In her right hand shee bare
a Club, on her left a Hat, the Characters of freedom,
and power: At her feete a Catt was placed, the
creatrue most affecting, and expressing libertie. She
trode on
DOVLOSIS.
or Seruitude, a woman in old and worne garments,
leane and meager, bearing fetters on her feete,
and hands, about her neck a Yoke to insinuate bon-
dage, and the worde
NEC VNQVAM GRATIOR.
Alluding to that other of Claud.
Nunquam libertàs gratior extat,
Quam sub Rege pio.
And intimated, that libertie could neuer appeare
more grace-full, and louely, then now vnder soe
good a Prince. The third hand maid was.
SOTERIA.
or Safety, a damsell in Carnation, the coulour signi-
fying cheare, and Life, she sat high: Vpon her head
she wore an antique Helme, and in her right hand a
Speare for defence; in her left a Cup for Medicine:
at her feete was sett a pedestall vpon which a Ser-
pent rowld vp did lie. Beneath was
PEIRA.
or Daunger, a woman dispoiled, and almost naked,
the little garment she hath left her, of seuerall cou-
lours to note her various disposition. Besides her lies
a torch out, and a sword broken (the instruments of
her furie) with a net and Wolues skin (the ensignes
of her malice) rent in peeces. The word
TERGA DEDERE METVS.
Borrowed from Mart. and implying that now all
feares haue turnd their backs, and our Safetie might
become Security, Daunger being so wholy deprest,
and vnfurnisht of all meanes to hurte. The fourth
Attendant is.
EVDAIMONIA.
or Felicity, varied on the second hand, and apparrel-
led richly, in an embroidered Roabe, and mantle: a
faire golden tresse. In her right hand a Caduceus, the
note of peacefull wisdome: in her left, a Coruncopia
fill'd only with flowers, as a signe of florishing bles-
ednes; and Crowned with a garland of the same.
At her feete.
DYSPRAGIA.
or Vnhappines, a womã bareheaded, her neck, armes,
brest, and feete naked, her looke hollowe and pale;
she holds a Cornucopia turned downward with all
the flowers falne out and scattered, vpon her sits a
Rauen, as the Augury of ill fortune: & the Soule was
REDEVNT SATVRNIA REGNA.
Out of Virgil, to shewe that nowe those golden
times were returned againe, wherein Peace was with
vs so aduannced, Rest receaued, Libertie restored,
Safetie assured, and all Blessednesse appearing in euery
of these vertues her perticular Triumphe ouer her
opposite euill. This is the dumbe argument of the
frame, and illustrated with this verse of Virgil, writ-
ten in the vnder freeze.
PACEM TE POSSIMVS OMNES.
The speaking parte was performed, as within the
Temple where there was erected an Altar, to which
at the approach of the K. appeares the Flamen
*MARTIALIS.
And to him.
GENIVS VRBIS.
The Genius we attired before: To the Flamen wee
appoint this habit. A long Crimson robe to witnesse
his nobility, his typpet and sleeues white, as reflec-
ting on purity in his religion, a rich mantle of gold
with a traine to expresse the dignity of his function.
Vpon his head a c Hat of delicate wooll, whose top
ended in a Cone, and was thence called Apex,
according to that of Lucan. lib.I.
Attollens[que], Apicem generoso vertice Flamen.
This Apex was couered with a d fine net of yearne
which they named Apiculum, & was sustained with
a e bowd twigge of Pomgranat tree, it was also in
the hot time of Summer to be bound with Ribands,
and throwne behinde them as fScaliger teacheth.
In his hand hee bore a golden Censor with per-
fume, and censing about the Altar (hauing first
kindled his fier on the toppe) is interrupted by the
Genius.
GENIVS.
STay, what art thou, that in this strange attire,
Darst kindle stranger, and vnhallowed fire
Vpon this Altar?
FL.
Rather what art thou
That darst so rudely interrupt my vowe?
My habit speakes my name.
GE.
A Flamin?
GE.
I so did gesse
By my short view, but whence didst thou ascend
Hither? or how? or to what mistick end?
FL.
The noise, and present tumult of this Day,
Rowsd me from sleepe, and silence, where I lay
Obscur'd from light; which when I wakt to see,
I wondring thought what this great pompe might be.
When (looking in my Kalender) I found
ThebIdes of Marche were entred, and I bound
With these, to celebrate the Geniall feast;
Who, in this Moneth of his, is yearly call'd
To banquet at his Altars; and instald;
eA Goddesse with him, since shee filles the Yeare,
And f knits the oblique scarfe that girts the spheare.
Whilest foure fac't IANVS turnes hisgvernall looke
Vpon their meeting bowers, as if he tooke.
High pride and pleasure.
GE.
Sure thou stil dost dreame,
And both thy tongue, and thought rides on the streame
Of Phantasy: Behold here Hee nor Shee,
Haue any Altar, Fane, or Deity.
Stoope; read but thishinscription: and then veiwe
To whome the Place is consecrate. Tis trew
That this is IANVS Temple, and that nowe
He turnes vpon the Yeare his freshest browe;
That this is MARS his moneth; and these the Ides,
Wherein his ANNE was honourd; Both the Tides,
Titles, and Place, wee knowe: But these dead rites
Are long since buried, and newe power excites
More highe and hartie flames. Loe, there is hee,
Who brings with him aigreaterANNEthen shee:
Whose strong and potent vertues hauekdefac'd
Sterne MARS his Statues, and vpon them plac'd
Sweete Peace to sit in that bright state she ought
Vnbloodie, or vntroubled; hath forc'd hence
All tumults, feares, or other darke portents
That might inuade weake mindes; hath made men see
Once more the face of welcome Liberty:
And doth (in all his present actes) restore
That first pure world, made of the better Ore.
Now Innocence shall cease to be the spoile
Of rauenous Greatnesse, or to steepe the soile
Of raised Pesantrie with teares, and blond;
No more shall rich men (for their little good)
Suspect to be made guiltie; or vile Spies
Enioye the lust of their so murdring eyes:
Men shall put off their Yron mindes, and hearts;
The Time forget his olde malicious artes
With this new minute; and no print remaine
Of what was thought the former ages staine.
Back FLAMIN, with thy superstitious fumes,
And cense not heere; Thy ignorance presumes
Too much, in acting any Ethnick rite
In this translated Temple: Heere no wight,
To sacrifice, saue my deuotion comes,
That brings insteed of those themMasculine gummes.
My Cittìes heart; which shall for euer burne
Vpon this Altar, and no Time shall turne
The same to ashes: Heere I fixe it fast,
Flame bright, flame high and may it euer last.
Whilest I, before the figure of thy Peace,
Still tend the fire; and giue it quick increase
With praiers, wishes, vowes; whereof be these
The least, and weakest: that no Age may leese
The Memory of this so rich a daye;
But rather, that it henceforth yearely may
Begin our Spring and with our spring the prime,
And may these Ides as fortunate appeare
To thee, as they top Cæsar fatall were.
Be all thy Thoughts borne perfect, and thy Hopes
In their euents still crownd beyond their scopes.
Let not wide Heauen that secret blessing know
To giue, which shee on thee will not bestow.
Blind Fortune be thy slaue; and may her store
(The lesse thou seek'st it) follow thee the more.
Much more I would: but see, these brazen Gates
Make hast to close, as vrged by thy Fates;
Here ends my Cities office, here it breakes:
Yet with my tongue, and this pure heart, she speakes
A short farewell; and lower then thy feete,
With feruent thankes, thy royall paines doth greete.
Pardon, if my abruptnesse breed disease;
He merits not t'offend, that hastes to please.
Ouer the Alter was written this
Inscription:
D. I. O. M.
BRITANNIARVM. IMP.
PACIS. VINDICI. MARTE. MAIORI. P.P.
F.S. AVGVSTO. NOVO. GENTIVM.CON-
IVNCTARVM. NVMINI. TVTELARI.
D. A.
CONSERVATRICI. ANNAE. IPSAE. PERENNAE.
DEABVSQVE. VNIVERSIS. OPTATIORI. SVI
FORTVNATISSIMI. THALAMI. SOCIAE. ET
CONSORTI. PVLCHERIMAE. AVGVSTISSIMAE.
ET
H. F. P.
FILIO. SVO. NOBILISSIMO. OB. AD-
VENTVM. AD VRBEM. HANC. SVAM. EX-
PECTATISSIMVM. GRATISSIMVM. CE-
LEBRATISSIMVM. CVIVS. NON. RADII. SED
SOLES. POTIVS. FVNESSIMAM. NVPER.
AERIS. INTEMPERIEM. SERENARVNT
S. P. Q. L.
VOTIS. X. VOTIS. XX. ARDENTISSIMIS.
L. M.
HANC. ARAM.
P.
And vpon the Gate being shut,
IMP. IACOBVS MAX.
CÆSAR AVG. P.P.
PACE POPVLO BRITANNICO
TERRA MARIQVE PARTA
IANVM CLVSIT. S.C.
THus hath both Court- Towne-
and Countrey-Reader, our por-
tion of deuise for the Cittie; nei-
ther are we ashamed to professe
it, being assured well of the diffe-
rence betweene it and Pagean-
try. If the Mechanick part yet
standing, giue it any distaste in the wrye mouthes
of the Time, we pardon them; for their owne am-
bitious ignorance doth punish them inough. From
hence we will turne ouer a new leafe with you, and
lead you to the Pegme in the Strand, a worke
thought on, begun, and perfected in twelue dayes.
THe Inuention was a Raine-bow,
the Moone, Sunne, and those sea-
uen Starres, which antiquitie hath
stil'd the Pleiades, or Vergiliæ, ad-
uanced betweene two Magnifi-
cent Pyramid's of 70. foote in
height, on which were drawne his Maiesties seue-
rall pedigrees Eng. and Scot. To which body (be-
ing framd before) we were to apt our soule. And
finding that one of these seauen lights, Electra, is
rarely or not at all to be seene, (as Ouid. lib.4. Fast.
affirmeth.
Pleiades incipient humeros releuare paternos:
Quæ septem dici, sex tamen esse solent.
And by and by after,
Siue quòd Electra Troiæ spectare ruinas
Non tulit: aute oculos opposuit[que] manum.
And Festus Auien.
Fama vetus septem memorat genitore creatas
Longæuo: sex se rutila inter sidera tantùm
Sustollunt, &c.
And beneath
—cerni sex solas carmine Mynthes
Asserit: Electram cœlo abscessisse profundo, &c.)
We ventred to follow this authoritie; and made her
the speaker: presenting her hanging in the ayre, in
figure of a Comet; according to Anonymus. Electra
non sustinens videre casum pronepotum fugerit; vnde
& illam dissolutis crinibus propter luctum ire asserunt,
et propter comas quidam Cometen appellant.
The speach.
Electra.
THe longaLaments, I spent for ruin'd Troy,
Are dried; and now mine eyes run teares of Ioy.
No more shall men suppose Electra dead,
Though from the consort of her sisters fled
Vnto thebArctick circle, here to grace,
And guild this day with hercserenest Face:
And see, myddaughter Iris hasts to throw
Her Roseat wings, in compasse of a bow,
About our state, asesigne of my approche
Attracting to her seate fromf Mithras coach,
A thousand different, and particular hewes,
Which shee throughout her body doth diffuse.
The Sunne, as loath to part from this halfe spheare,
Stands still; and Phœbe labors to appeare
In all as bright (if not as rich) as hee:
And, for a note of more serenity,
My sixegfaire Sisters hether shift their lights;
To do this hower the vtmost of her Rites.
Where least the captious, or prophane might doubt,
How these cleare heauenly bodyes come about
All to be seene at once; yet neithers light
Eclips'd, or shadow'd by the others sight:
Let Ignorance know, great King, this Day is thine,
And doth admit no Night; but all do shine
As well nocturnall, as diurnall fiers,
To adde vnto the flame of our desiers.
Which are (now thou hast closd vph IANVS gates,
And giu'n so generall peace to all estates)
That no offensiue mist, or cloudie staine
May mixe with splendor of thy golden raigne;
But, as th'ast free'd thyi Chamber, from the noyse
Of Warre and Tumult; thou wilt powre those ioyes
Of all thy Kingly race: the Cabinet
To all thy Counsels; and the iudging Chayre
To this thy speciall Kingdome. Whose so faire
And wholsome Lawes, in euery Court, shall striue
By Æquity, and their first Innocence to thriue;
The base and guiltie bribes of guiltier men
Shall be throwne back, and Iustice looke, as when
She lou'd the earth, and feard not to be sold
For that, mwhich worketh all things to it, Gold.
The Dam of other euils, Auarice
Shall here lock downe her lawes, and that rude vice
Of ignorant, and pittied Greatnesse, Pride,
Decline with shame; Ambition now shall hide
Her face in dust, as dedicate to sleepe,
That in great Portalls wont her watch to keepe.
All ills shall flie the light: Thy Court be free
No lesse from Enuie, then from Flatterie;
All Tumult, Faction, and harsh Discord cease,
That might perturbe the musique of thy Peace:
The querulous Nature shall no longer finde
Roome for his Thoughts: One pure concent of minde
Shall flowe in euery brest, and not the Ayre,
Sunne, Moone, or Starres shine more serenely faire.
This from that lowd, blest Oracle, I sing
Who here, and first pronounc'd, thee Brittaines King
Long maist thou liue, and see me thus appeare,
As omenousna Comet, from my Spheare,
Vnto thy raigne; as thatodid auspicate
So lasting glory to Augustus state.