The entertainment of the two Kings
of Great BRITAINE and DENMARKE
at THEOBALDS, Iuly 24. 1606.
THe Kings being entred the inner Court; aboue, ouer the porch,
sate the three Howers, vpon clouds, as at the ports of Heauen;
crown'd with seuerall flowers: of which, one bore a Sunne-diall;
the other, a Clock; the third, an Hower-glasse; signifying as by
their names, Law, Iustice, and Peace. And for those faculties
chosen to gratulate their comming with this speech.
ENter, Ô long'd for Princes, blesse these bowers,
And vs, the three, by you made happie, Howers:
We that include all Time, yet neuer knew
Minute like this, or obiect like to you.
Two Kings, the worlds prime honors, whose accesse
Shewes eithers greatnesse, yet makes neither lesse:
Vouchsafe your thousand welcomes in this shewer;
The Master vowes, not SYBILL'S leaues were truer.
Express'd to the King of DENMARKE thus.
Qui colit has ædeis, ingentia gaudia adumbrans,
Cernendo Reges pace coïre pares,
Nos tempestiuas, ad limina, collocat Horas,
Quòd bona sub nobis omnia proueniant.
Vnum ad lætitiæ cumulum tristatur abesse,
Quòd nequeat signis lætitiam exprimere.
Sed, quia res solùm ingentes hâc Parte laborant
Vtcun[que] expressam credidit esse satis.
At, quod non potuit Dominus, suppleuit abundè
Frondoso tellus munere facta loquax.
Eccos quàm grati veniant quos terra salutat!
Verior his folijs nulla SYBILLA fuit.
The Inscriptions on the walls were,
DATE VENIAM SVBITIS.
DEBENTVR QVÆ SVNT QVÆ[QVE]; FVTVRA.
EPIGRAMMES hung vp.
SÆpè THEOBALDAE (sortis bonitate beatæ)
Excepêre suos sub pia tecta deos;
Haud simul at geminos: sed enim potuisse negabant:
Nec fas est tales posse putare duos.
Fortunata antehâc, sed nunc domus undique fœlix,
At Dominus quantò (silicet vsque) magis!
Et licet, ô MAGNI, folijs si fiditis istis,
Quêis HORAE summam contribuere fidem.
Miraris, cur hospitio te accepimus HORAE,
Cuius ad obsequium non satis annus erat?
Nempè quòd adueniant ingentia gaudia rarò,
Et quando adueniant vix datur hora frui.
Miraris, cur hospitio te accepimus HORAE,
Quas Solis famulas Græcia docta vocat?
Talis ab aduentu vestro lux fulsit in ædeis,
Vt Dominus solem crederet esse nouum.
Others, at their departure.
Hospitio qui te cæpit, famulantibus Horis,
Cedere abhinc, nullâ concomitante sinit;
Nempe omneis horas veniendi duxit amicas
Sed discedendi nulla minuta probat.
Te veniente, nouo domus hœc frondebat amictu;
Te discessuro, non prout ante viret:
Nempe, sub accessu solis, nouus incipit Annus,
Et, sub discessu, squalida sæuit Hyems.