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His Moft Excellent MAJESTIE
CHARLES n,
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His Passage through the City of
L O N D O N
TO HIS
CORONATION:
Containing an exad Accompt of the whole Solemnity -, the Triumphal Arches, and Cavalcade, delineated in Sculpture; the Speeches and lmprejffes illuftrated from Antiquity.
TO THESE IS ADDED,
A Brief Narrative of His Majesties Solemn C oronation:
WIT H
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His Magnificent Proceeding, and Royal Feast
WEST MINS T ER-H ALL.
Bjr fOH^ OqiL'BY.
LON E> 0 N.
Printed by Tho: RoYCROFT,anc|aretobehadatthe AuthorsHoufe in I\ingS'HeaiiCourt within Shoe-Lane3 MD C L X11.IHaVe perufed a brief Narrative of His M Aj ES TT ES Solemn C 0-Q{ON A TION^ printed by Mr- OG 1 LBY, together with his Description of His M AJ ES T1E S Entertainment pajsing through the City of LONDON to His Coronation, &c. and^ in pursuance of His MAJESTIES Order unto me direSied ^ haVe examined, and do approve thereof, fo as the faid Mr' 0 G1L& I may freely publijh the fame.
From the Heralds-Collbdq this thirteenth
of June 1662.	EdVVARD W AL KER,
Garter TrincipalKing of Arms.K gn-a.ofe
TO THE
SACRED MAJESTY
OF
CHARLES IT,
King of E^qLA^Cp, SCOTLAND, F\A‘\CE, and I ‘R EL <sA 3^ D, &c.
This Description of the Solemnity of His Blefled Inauguration
Is humbly Dedicated By
His moft Obedient, Dutiful, and
Loyal Servant,
J. OGILBY.WenceslaiM HoILar Bolemur cUhneapitj et atjvdfbvti ari im
JCniq It JOtrhmaer Serjeant Jvrter
• of the diambt
hr Sc Qenilemen Vfhers, QitatHrr Waite
THI CAmCADI or HI5 MAI1,STIE5 TASS IN G THROW
a i res to the J{nujhts of the J$<vth
2 Muiiday the zz- of April, X JVLJ)C. LXI.
foure ftich S^uadrpnSj	Sc each Squadron containing fiftie men.in num. lev a hundred and J-oiivfy,
H THI CITY" OP
LONDON TOWARDS HIS. CORONATION
^feffencjers of ike Clambers^
of the Chancer^-, d of the Siyne^ , C.; of tie Privy-Seal / &oftie Council, doftie Par/mment: Q<ftie (jvwn,
fourty in number'iiajdaim' Lauiricj ditjnipLex', i<\
The. JCind 5Advocate rhr kiitn \r JRememhoncer1.
( 19c-rrrtor-r.es- of tie french and Latrne ’lojiques,
Cjentbmen Vffiers, daily^Wditers, Sewers, Carve™Cupbearers, in Ordinary,
C’'bam beldam? cftne 6xcJ^j
^(j'thdt-Tnen of the
Sinit/ of the Bathkiiy kts
of the .B-cltti,r
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Clarencieiix' !in/j of armes. JV^rrov kirut
9	*His Majesties
E'NJE RIAINME M-T S
Pafsing through the City of
LONDON
TO HIS
CORONATION,
WITH
A Defcription of the Triumphal Arch e s, and Sole mm it y.
H E City ofLO^CVO 3^, participating the greateft {hare of that inexprefsible Happinefs, which thefe Kingdoms have received by the glorious Reftauration of our Sovereign to His Throne, and of us His Subjects to our Laws, Liberties, and Religion, after a difmal Night of Ufurpation, and Opprefsion, and proportiona-bly exceeding in their Loyalty, took the occafi-on of His *?MAf SS TIES Coronation, to exprefs their Joy with the greateft Magnificence imaginable : imitating therein the antient Itymanes, who, at the return of their Emperours, erected Arches of Marble.which though we,by reafon of the (hortnefs of Time,could not
Bequal inMaterials.yet do ours far exceed theirs in Number,and ftupen-dious Proportions.
taaflgg) H E Cuftom of erecting Triumphal <tArches among the eRp-mans (a thing altogether unknown to the (jracians, till their MMPs acquaintance with them) moft certainly was not coasval with their Triumphs, which were within four years as long-liv'd as T^me it felf. For among the (jreek^ and Latin Authours of the %o-man Hiftory, who have beenfo accurate in enumerating all their Solemnities, efpecially which concerned their Splendour , and Magnificence,we find not any mention of them till the time of the 'R^man Smpe-rours. Indeed o {Triumphs, as of all other things, the Beginnings feem to have been but rude. At firft nothing more then the Spoils hung up at the houfe of the Conquerour.
v£,euv,i. Virgil, fpeaking of the Palace of King Ticui,
Multdque praterea facris in poflibus arma,
Captivipendent currus, curv.-tque fecures,
Et Crijla capitum, & portarum ingentia claujlra,
Spiculdque, cljpeique, ereptdque roftra carinis.
“ Befides, on facred Pillars all along,
“ A World of Arms, Axes, and Chariots hung,
“ Crefts, and huge Bars of Gates the Ports adorn,
“ And Spears,and Shields,and Prows from Gallies torn.
Thisrudenefsofthe firft Triumphs, even among the 'Homans, will fufficiently appear,if we compare the Triumph ofRomalus, mention’d by tit. i'i. Livy,T)ionjfius Halicarnajjenfis, andf Tlutarch;with the excefsive Pomp, t>Romiiio. and Magnificence of the latter , ofwhich we fhallgivean inftance* in thisDifcourfe. The greateft Monument of which Magnificence, the Triumphal Arches, as we have faid, was not heard of before fuhtts Ctefar. Tistrue, there is ftill retain'd at lipme the memory of Arcus Tumuli,and Qamitli. But ’tis certain, it appears not whether they were Triumphal Arches, or no ; and it is very queftionable , whether they nf. bear their true Titles. For ‘Pliny, who flouriflvd in the time of/'V-£>t. a™, fpafian the Emperour, calls them novitium inventum, a new indention : whofe Authority much out-weighs thofe empty Titles of Arm Homv.li,
andand Qam'illi, ofwhich there is no ancient Record. Yet,that they were in life before Julius Cafar almoft one Century of years, ha’s been conjectured out of thefe words of Afconius Tedianus, an Jut hour, againft whom there is no exception , and who liv’d fome years before Tliny-Fornix Fabianus, arcus eJijuxta'Regiam in Sacra via, a Fabio Cen/ore con-JlruUus, qui, a dcvi'clis tAllobrogibus, Allobrox cognominatus esl ,ibique flatua ejuspofitapropterea eftfTbe Fabian Arch is nigh the Palace of Romulus in the Sacred way, built by Fabius the Cen/or, who, from his ViHory over the Allobroges, had the (irname of Allobrox ; for which his Statue t»as placed there. That he triumph’d upon this Victory, we have ample teftimo-ny from the Marbles not long fince digg’d up at Rome, formerly preferred in the Capitol. Neverthelefs, thofe words of Afconius do evidently conclude the contrary : for he fays exprefly built by Fabius Qen-four. His Cenfourfhip is referred by Sigonius and ‘Pighius to the Year 11. C- DCXLV. his Triumph happened anno DCXXXIII. as appears from the Marbles now mention’d,
Q, FABIUS Q.,£MILIANl F.QJN. AN. DCXXXIII. MAXIMUS. PROCOS. DE. ALLOBROgibus ET. REGE. ARVERNORUM. BETULTO. X. K-
Whence it is clear the Arch was built long after his Triumph. And I conceive his Statue was plac’d there rather in regard of his expences, then of his Vidory fo long before obtain’d. Neither is it ftrange after the fpace of above feven hundred years, to find this alteration. We may obferve many other, but fhall onely take notice of two. Firft,The ancient Romans granted not the honour of Triumph to any, who had not (lain in one pitch’d Field five thoufand of their Ene-mies.Jus triumphi datur ei, qui quinque millia hojlium una acie ceciderit. Secondly.They allowed not Triumph for aVlftory over their Fellow-Citizens; as Q. Qatulus triumph’d not over M.Lepidus, or L. Antony over Catilin, or Sylla over Marius, or (inna over Carlo, or Ge/rf rover xi «p ‘Fompey.
Claudian,
--— cum Cjallica vulgo
‘PraliajacUret, tacnit'Pharfalica Ctfar, US^amq-, interfocias acies, cognataqfigna,
Vt vinci miferum, nunquam vicifte decorum.
Vatir
De vi.
fulatH
Of
.Lib . viii.
Can-Hoi•- Of <ytf///’c^Fights oft at his Board
Boafts fajar, of T barf alia not a word.
Though fad the cafe to fall in Civil War,
Yet ’tis no honour to the Conquerour.
which he means too in thefe Verfes,
Semperab bis fama petiere injignia bcllis,
Qtta diuer/a,procultuto, trans cequora yirtut Exercere dabat: currus, T^egimque catena Inter abundantis fail ludibria du3a.
They by fuch Wars fought Fame in Fields remote,
Beyond Seas Victory by their Valour got:
Hence Kings in Chains and Chariots march in itiate, ’Mongft various Sports of their abundant Fate.
im. De civibus trmmpbare nefas, faith the fame Valerius Maximus. In both which particulars the ‘Rpman Hiftory affords exceptions. In the firft, l, - L,b. xi. (|le cYriumpb without a IV<tr, anno Vrbis Cond. DLXXIII. In the fecond, in the Triumphal Arch,yet almoft entirely ftanding,of Qonjlan-tine the (jreat, which the Senate, and People of ‘Jiome dedicated to him upon his Victory over Maxentius, a General of part of the Imperial Forces. The Infcription this,
IMP. C^S. Ft. CONSTANTINO. MAXIMO P.P. AUGUSTO S. P. Q..R.
QUOD. INSTINCTU: DIVINITATIS. MENTIS MAGN I TUDINE. CUM. EXERC ITU. SUO.
TAM. DE. TYRANNO. QUAM DE OMNI EJUS T A CTI ONE. UNO. TEMPORE. JUSTIS REMPUBLICAM. ULTUS. EST. ARMIS ARCUM. TRIUMPHIS- INSIGNEM. DICAVITThree Triumphs, of the fame ritfture, in one Century of years, are reckoned by Claudian, who makes k^pmc to fpeak thus,	m.
His annis, qui luftra mi hi bis dena recenfent,
S^ojlra ter Augujlos intra pomeeria midi,
Temporibui variis: eadcm fed caufa 7 ropais,
Chilis dijjenfus erat---
Luftres twice ten,with annual Springs, and Falls,
Pafs’d, fince I faw three Emp’rours in our VV7alls,
At fev’rai times: each,on fad Scores, did boalv Triumphs for Civil Broils---
Both which particulars comprehend this Triumph of His inoft Sacred eSATaje/ly, which w as upon a Victory over the Enemies ofli.is Countrey without a Battle.
Thefe Arches generally bore the name of him, that rid in Triumph, and had a Title infcuIp’d,to teftifie for what Victory they were erected: both which appear from this Speech of the City of ‘Bjome to Honorius the Emperour,
<tAfl ego frcenabamgeminos, quibus altior ires,	c««» ib.
tkcli candoris equos, & nominis Arcum
fam molita tui, per quem radiante decorus
Ingrederere toga, pugna mmumenta dicabam
Defenjam titulo Li by am teflata perenni.
But I put in your Steeds more white then Snow,
And of your Name defign’d a (lately Arch,
Through which you might in Regal Purple march.
The Battle too, and lafting claim engrav’d Attefting Monuments that you Libya fav'd.
They were always adorn’d with fome Spoils of the Conquered Enemy. Qlaudian,
—----Spoliisque micantes
T	1 t	PMI£. it.
Lnnumeros arcus---
C	Innum’rous6	His Majesties Entertainments
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Innum'rous Arches rich with glitt’ring Spoils,
Prudentius,
Fruflra igitur currusfnmmo miramurinArcu Quadrijugos,flmtesque T>uces in curribus altis,
Sub pedtbusque Ducwn taptivos poplite flexo Adjuga deprefios, m.inibusque in terga retortis,
Etfu/penfa gravi telorumfragmina trunco.
We Chariots on the Arch admire in vain.
In them their haughty Leaders ftanding fee,
And Captives [looping with low-bended knee,
Their hands behind them ti'd; ofpond’rous Oke Huge Truncheons hanging of ftrong J av’lins broke.
Sometimes they bore infculp’d the Battle, in which the Conquerour had merited his Triumph, as thofe ofSeptimius Severus, and ConUantine. In Others, the whole pomp of the Triumph was reprefentedjas in that of Vefpafian and Titus, where are ftill to be leen led in Triumph the Spoils of the Temple of ferufalem, the Ark of the Covenant, the Candleftick with feven Branches, the Table of the Shew-Bread, the Tables of the Decalogue, with the VefTels of pure Gold for the ufe ofthe Temple, the Captives chain’d, the Emperour riding in his Triumphal Chariot, &c. The order, and method of a Triumph, among the ‘Romans, we will here briefly,but diftintftly deliver, chiefly out of‘Plutarch, in the Life of ‘P. JEmilius.
The captivated Statues, Pictures, and Cololfufles, lead the Van. Plu-u Romuio. /(jjx/jjofthe Triumph of‘P. AEmilius, The fir si day Cfor this Triumph lafted three ) fcarce (ufficed for thepafingof the Statues fPiUr.res,and Qo-lofies, lead in Wo hundred andfifty Carriages. <tAppian fays, that Tompey carried the Statues of the Forreign Gods in Triumph.
The next followed thechoiceft Arms and Spoils ofthe Enemy.Plutarch , The next day Were carried thcfmrefl and richeflof the Macedonian Weapons uponftveralQarriages, gliflering with the Bi afs and Iron new fcom’d : artificially plac’d, (yet that they feem’d to haMe been thrown together promifcuoufy without any order ) the Head-pieces upon the Shields, the Qorfiets upon the ‘Bushins, &c. which flriking constantly againjl each other, made fo terrible a noile, that the fight of them, though now overcome, was a ter-rour to the Speftatours. Statius,
AnteAnteDucem [polia, &duri MavortisimagOi Vtrginei currus, cumulataque fercula crijtis,
Et trisla ducuntur equi, ---
The Gen'raljSpoils.andMdrj dire Shape precedes Chariots and Chargers heap'd with Crefts, and Steeds Mourning are led Ovid,
Scuta fed & galeagemmis radientur & auro,
Stentquefuper Dittos trunca tropxa viros.
But Gems,and Gold their Shields,and Helms adorn,
The Trophies on the vanquifh'd Shoulders born.
Next, the Images of the Cities, Towns, Caftles, Mountains, and Rivers, taken. Ovid,
Cumque 'Ducum titulis oppida capta leget:
Hie lacus, hi montes, hac tot cajlella, tot urbes#
Tlenafera cadis, plena cruoris erant.
There taken Towns, and Princes Titles read:
There Lakes, there Mountains,Forts,and Cities flood.
Full with dire Slaughter, full of Purple Blood.
‘Protimls,argento yeras imitantia muros,
‘Barbara cum yiBis oppida lata viris;
Flumindque in montes, & in altosprofluaJjlvas,
Armaque cum telis inflruejunUa fuis.
Next, Barb'rous Cities with the Captives pafl:
True Walls refembling in pure Silver caft:
And Rivers that 'mongft Woods and Mountains glide,
And Arms, and Weapons, rais’d like Trophies, ride.
Livy * fays,that Scipio Afiaticus carried in Triumph the Images of an hundred and thirty four Towns. ‘Plinj t reckons up twenty feyen Cities,
De Ponto, Lib. iii. Ehg. iv.
DeTriJiib. Lib. iv. Elff,. ii.
* Lib. xxxviii. t Ntt.Hifi: Lib.y.
Cap. y.ties,Towns,Nations,Mountains, &c, led before Cornelius Balbus. Si-lius Italicus,oftht Triumph of Scipio Afncanus over Carthage,
z5\dox viBastendens Carthago ad fiderapalmas Ibat, & effigies ora jam lenis Ibers,
Terr arum finis Gades, ac laudibus olim Terminus Herculeis Calpe, Bstisque lavare Solis equos dulci confuctusfluminis unda,
Frondofumque apicem jubigens ad fidera mater Bcllorumfera Pyrene, necmitis Iberus,
Cumfimul illidit Tonto quos attulit amnes.
■-->--Next, lifting to
The Stars her Conquer’d hands, did Carthage go,
Then the Effigies of th’ Iberian Land,
Now Peaceable; with (jades, that doth ftand The Periodof the Earth; and Calpe,that,
Of old, Alcides praife did terminate :
With Batis, which the Horfes of the Sun Is wont to bathe in Streams that gently run:
And high Tyrene, which gives Birth to Wars,
And lifts her heavy Head unto the Stars:
With rude Iberus, that with Fury flings Againfl: the Sea the Rivers, that he brings,
c5Vfr. Vf)SS.
Then followed the Moneys of Silver, Veffels, Garments, &c. Plu-an tarch, aJfter which, three tboufcmd men carrying the Moneys of Silver in feven hundred andfifty Silver Viff els • each of them weighing three Talents, four men to a Vcffel.
M Next the Trumpeters. Plutarch, 7he next day betimes in the Morning went the Trumpeters founding a Charge. After whom were led the x]v Oxen ordain’d for Sacrifice. Livy, The PiElimes, which go before, are not the leafl part of the Triumph. Thefe were white, taken out of the Medows of the River Clitumnus. Virgil,
HincHinc albi, Clitumne,grege.f) & maxima taurus ViBima,fepe tuoperfufi flumine facro,
Ttymanos ad Templa ‘Deitm duxere Triumphs.
Thisfnowy Flocks, and Bulls prime Off rings yields,
Which bath'd, Clitumnus, in thy Sacred Floods,
Thome's Triumphs draw to Temples of the Gods.
Upon which place Seryius, Clitumnus is a 'Rner in Menavia, which is a part of Umbria, as Umbria is of Tulcia, whence whatfocver Bedfls drink^ they bring forth their young ones white. Claudian,
Quin & Clitumni fitcras viBoribus undas,
Qandida qu<t Latiisprxbent armenta Tnumpbis.
Clitumnus facred Streams, whole Snow-white Breed The conqu'ring Homans in their Triumphs need.
Ovid,
Candiddque adduBa collumpercujfa fecuri ViBimapurpureo/anguine tingit humum.
Struck with an Axe the pure white Sacrifice Earth with a purple River dies.
Next the Gold,and Golden Veffels,taken from the Enemy. Plutarch, zAfter the Sacrifices went tbofe that carried the gold, divided, as the Silver was, into Veffels, weighing each three Talents,the number of the Veffels, feventy feveniwith thofe that carried the Sacred Cup,which iEmilius had cau~ s’d to be made of ten! alents ofCjold,adorn'd with Jeveral pretious Stones &c.
Then followed the Arms of the Conquered Prince. After which he fent theQhariot of Perfeus, and his Arms, and bis Crown plac'd upon his Arms*
Next the Captives, richly clad, but laden with Chains • the Captive Prince with Chains of Gold, the reft according to their quality. Silius Italicus,
Ante Siphax feretrorefidetis captiva premebat Lumina, & auratx Jervabant colla catena.
Hie Hanno,clarique genus Thcenifa juventa,
Et Macedum primi, atque incoBi corpora Mauri}
D	TurnTurn pomades, not usque facro, cum lujlrat arenas,
Hammoni (jaramas :
Sed non ulla magts mente'squc oculosqne tenebat,
Quam yifa Hannibalis campis fugientis imago»
—Before him Siphax, Captivate,
Upon a Beere, his Eyes dejected, fate,
His Neck in Golden Chains preferv’d. And here Hanno, and young Thanician Nobles were ;
Then cSMacedonian Princes ■ next to thefe The Moors with parched Skins; then pomades And Qaramantians known to Horned fcve,
Where they the Sands furvey, &c.
Yet nothing more delights their Mind,and Eyes,
Then Hannibal, as in the Field he flies,
Mr. %OSS.
Propertius,
It’„ xi;	Aut %egum auratis circumdata colla catenis,
Achaque in Sacra curreretojlra via.
Or elfe their Kings in Golden Fetters bound •
The Sacred way with Actian Weels refound.
Ovid,
vt mt Am.	Ibant ante duces oneraii colla catenis.
Before,the Princes went in Golden Chains.
Trebellius, fpeaking of Queen Zenobia, fam pr'murn ornatagemmis in-gentibus, it a ut crnamemorum onere labor arec: vinSi erant pedes auro, manus etiam catenis aureis, nec collo aureum yinculum dterat. She yeas now fo decked with great (ferns, that fie was opprejs’d with the weight of her Ornaments', her Feet, Hands, and jf_cck were bound with Chains. But this was not con-ftant: for in a Triumph of Tompe/s Appian mentions a great number of Captives,	but none bound.
Next followed the Crowns, which the Cities, Friends of the Romans, had prefented to the General, Virgil,
IpfeTpfe fedens niveo candentis limine Phcebi Dona recognojcitjociorum, aptdtquefuperbii Tojlibus.—----•
He in bright Porches of great Thcebtis fits*
And gifts of Nations to proud Pillars fits.
Plutarch, After which were carried 4.00. (jolden Crown’s, which the Q-ties had fent to Paulus /Ernilius by their tAmbafjadours, as a reward of his ViBory.
Next, he that rid in Triumph,in his Triumphal habit,elegantly de-fcribed by Juvenal.	sa.
Quidft vidiffet Tratorcm in curribus altis £xslantem,& medio fublimem inpuhere Circt In tunica jovis, &piBa Sarrana ferentem Ex humeris aulaa toga, magnaque Corona Tantum orbem quanto cervix non fufficit ulla i Quippe tenet fudam hancpublicus,&ftbi Qonful "
P‘aceat> curru fervus portatur eodem.
Da nunc & volucrm Jceptro qua Jurgit eburnoi lllinc Cornicines, hincpracedentia longt Agminis officia, & nrveosadfrana Quirites,
Defoffa in loculis quos fportula fecit amicos.	;
Had he the T rat Or in his Chariot fpi’d Amidft the dufty Qrcque in T riumph ride,
Ihfoves bright Vcft,in an imbroider’d Gowri Q{ Tyrian Purple, and a mighty Crown,
For any Head too Weighty, and too large,
That is forfooth a fweating Servants charge :
Leaft that the (fonful in fuch pomp fliould pride,-The Slave and he both in one Chariot ride.
On th' Ivory Scepter th' Eagle feen difplai’d,
Here Cornets, there his friendly Cavalcade *
‘Romans in white march rieer the Horfes Reins,
Friends by the Basket.and their fielly-gains,
D 1	ThaThe Army followed the Chariot of their General. Plutarch, The
■whole Army was crown'd with Lawel, following the Chariot of their (general in their ranks,and orders. Who ulually fang lo Triumphs. Ovid, jpeaking of the T riumph of Drufus Cjermanicus;
Tempora Thxbea lauro cingentur, Ioque Miles, Io magnavoce Triumphe, canet.
Io the Army with frefh Lawrel Crown’d Io Tr iu m p h e as they march refound.
Claudian,
Ipfe alhis veheretnr equis, currumque fecutus,
Laurigerum feflofremuifet carmine miles.
Drawn with white Steeds; with Wreaths his Chariot hung, The Army follow’d with a joyfull fong.
m. iv. oi as by the Spectators alfo. Horace, of Augustus,
Tuque dumprocedts, Io Triumphs,
JAQonfemeldicemus, Io Triumphs.
Io Triumphe whilftyou march inflate,
Io Triumphe we reiterate.
Thus having briefly touched upen the Antiquity,and ufe ©f Triumphal Arches, we ftiall defcend to the illuftration of the Defcripti«ns in particular.
THEThefirft ARCH.
ILLND AY, April the two and twentieth, His Maibsty went I|S from the 'Toner, through the City, to Whitehall.
In his pafTage through Crouched Fryers, He was entertained with Mufick, a Band of eight Waits, placed on a Stage.
Near Algate, another Band of fix Waits entertain’d him in like manner with Mufick, from a Balcony, built to that purpofe.
In Leaden-Hall-.Sfrref,ffeer Lime-i5Vr«f End,was ereBed thejirjl Triumt W Arch, after the Dorick order. On the S^orth^/ide, on a Tedejlal before the Arch, was a Woman perjonating cRyScB EL-LIO 3\Q, mounted on an Hydra, in aCrimfon Hebe, torn,Snakes crawling on her Habit, and begirt with Serpents, her Hair fndkj), a Crown of Fire on her Head, a bloody Sword in one Hand, a charm-ing lipdin the other. Her Attendant £0 iA^JFV SI 0 in a deformed Shape, a garment of feVcrall ill-matched Colours, and put on the wrong way ■ on her Head, cRuines of Cajlles • torn Crowns, and broken Scepters in each Hand.
'T'Here was no War in the Roman, or (jrecl^ Common-wealths call'd by any name properly anfwering to ‘Rebellion,which comprehends only the violation of that Natural duty,which the Subjedt owes to the fupreme Governour : for though we find 'Rebellio in Tacitus, of Subjects that rife againfl: their Prince, and Rjbellis too in Claudian^t&k-ing of Jfricl{_ a Subjedt to Rome, but then in Arms againft the ‘Korn an Emperour under (jildo, as
---fegetes mirantur Iberas	£
Horrea : nec Libya: fenjerunt damnarebeUis fam Tranfalpina contenti mefle Ouirites.
The Roman Grange Iberian Corn admires,
Nor did rebellious Libya’s lofs refent,
But with Transalpine Harvefts was content,
and in another place, fpeaking of the z5M'nors,	Gij:
2\(6nrte5\( onne meamfugiet M aurus, cum viderit, umbram i Quid dubitas i ex/urge toris: invade rebellem :
Captivum mibi reddemeum---
Will not the Moor fly when he fees my Ghoft t Why doubt'll: Thou? rife: ftorm that Rebellious Coaft;
My Captive me reftore---—
Yet we find that word attributed alfo to Alaricb^ and his Army, no Subjects of the 'l^man Empire, but only Confederates, by the fame Authour,
Dt vi.ccn-	Oblatum Stilico violato feeder e SvLaitem
a ' H’"	Omnibus arripuitvotis,ubi Komaperic'lo
fam procul, & belli medius Padus arbiter ibat: ffamque opportunam motu jlrepuijfe rebelli (jaudet perfidim.
He freely undertook fo jufla War,
The League being broke, and rI{ome from danger far,
While the Armies TV1 divides; Stilico Arms:
Glad of th’ occafion thofe Rebellious fwarms In fuch a place conjoyn’d.
Wherefore we muft look for its Defcription under Civil Difcord, and Sedition, which Tetronius tdrbiter,in the Civil War betwixt C/e-far and Tompeji, ha’s very elegantly delivered.
Infremuere tuba, ac Jcijfo Discordia crine Extulit ad Superos Stygium caput. Hujus in ore Qoncretusfanguis, contufdqtte lumina flebant.
Stabant atratifcabra rubigine denies •
Tabo lingua fluem ; obfeffa draconibus ora :
Atque intertorto laceratam peBore ve/lent,
Saguineam tremula quaticbat lampada dextra;
The Trumpets found, and Difcord,with torn hair,
Her iStygian front advanceth to the air.
7'	OreO'rc her fmear'd Vifage clotted blood lies fpread,
Her blubber’d Eyes are beat into her Head,
Her iron Teeth rough with a rufty fcale,
Her Tongue drops gore, Serpents her Brows impale:
Rending her pleited Veft,and red Attire,
He trembling Hand brandifheth bloody Fire.
But we cannot better take a view of Sedition,and Difcord, then in the Defcription of the Authours of it,feign'd to be the Furies: as Virgil,
Tupotes unanimes armctre in prMta fratres, nAtque odiis verfare domos: tu verbera teBis,
Funeredsque inferre faces : tibi nomina mille,
<z5\4 Hie noccndi artes: foecundum concutepeBus.
Disjice compofttam pacem,fere crimina belli : jfrma velit,pofcdtque ftmul, rapidtque juventus.
Unanimous Brothers thou canft arm to fight,
And fettled Courts deftroy with deadly fpight:
Storm Palaces with Steel, and Pitchy Flames,
Thou haft a thoufand wicked Arts :and Names.
Thy Bofom disembogue, with Mifchief full,
And Articles concluding Peace annull.
Then raife a War, and with bewitching Charms Make the mad People rage to take up Arms.
Statius gives a Defcription of one of them very correfpondcnt to
feUrS> ^	n-n	„ „	TU4.
Centum ilh Jtantes umbrabant ora Cerana:
Turba minor dirt capitis. Scdet intus abaBis Ferrea lux oculis, qaalisper nubila Phoebes Atracia rubet arte labor. Suffufa veneno Tenditur, atJanieglifcit cutis, igneus atro Ore vapor, quo lo'ngafitis, morblque,fantesque,
Et populis mors una venit, riget borrida tergo Talla, & carulH redeunt in peBora nodi.Tumgeminas quatit ilia mams: biec igne rogali Fulminat, htec vivo manus a'era verberat hydro.
An hundred Snakes up in a Party made From her dire Head, her horrid Temples (hade,
Her fix’d Eyes funk, their Brazen Gleamings (hroud,
So charm’d bright Thabe blufheth through a Cloud:
Poyfon'd her fwoln Skin (hines with gore, her Breath Llfhers in Flame, Thirft,Famine,Plague, and Death:
Her dreadful Robes rough on her Shoulders fit,
Which on her Bofom Crimfon Ribbans knit:
Then both her hands {lie (hakes; with Fun’ral Fire This thunders, that jerks Air with Serpents dire.
Of Tif phone Virgil, j	ContinuoJontes ultrix accinBa flagello
7ijtphone quatit infultans, torvosque finiflra	! •
Intentans angues, vocat dgminaJava fororum.
Cruel Tifiphone infulting (hakes
Her dreadful Whip, and arm’d with twifted Snakes
In her left hand, (Iraight on the guilty falls,
And Troops of unrelenting Furies calls.
Tindar calls Sedition xtfporpoV 5 U bad ^(urfe for Children. The reafon may be taken from thefe Verfes of Hmer defcribing the eon-fequents of it;
cxjj/'	'Tias r ofavfuWS) tAxvcd'iKms re Jvyar^-s
Kctl	ze&ifyfWVs*) £ v^tno, rUia.
Ba-AA^im mu yotflj iicqiy ^97tT-h,
EA Kolias re yvMs oAows vnv yep tti
My (latghter’d Sons, my Daughters ravi(h’d, fee,
My Court deftroy’d, and from the Nurfes knee Their tender Babes fnatch'd by the cruel Foe,
And in one Sea their Bloods commixed flow.'The H YD R A, on which Rebellion is mounted,the Ancients have very varioufly reprefented. * ‘Paujanias attributes but one Head to it, *a£uc"i*-
Ttjanier Cmirenfisf many, Alcxus nifte; Simonides fifty,	t m
whom Virgil follows,
Quinquaginta atris imma'nis hiatibuS Hydra Savior intus habetfedem ——
Hydra with fifty ugly Jaws, one more Cruel then this by half,‘s within the doorj
“ On the South Pedeftal is a Rfprefentation of Brittain's Mo-uvARcav,fupportedby Loyalty bothWomen ; Monarchy, in a large “ Turple Robe, adorn'd with Diadems, and Scepters, mer which a loofe “ tS\4 antle., edg’d with blue and (liver Fringe, refen mg Water, the “ <S\£ap of Great Britain drawn on it, on her Head London, in her “ right Hand, Edinburgh ; in her left, Dublin: Loyalty all in White,
“ three Scepters in her right Hdnd,three (frowns in her left.
Purple is call'd by Tertullian Regite dignitatis infighe, a Hadg of Royal Dignity. Lactantius, Et ftcuti nunc Romanis indumentum Purpura in- tib.iv.rap. figne ejl rRegi/e dignitatis afjutnpta,jic illis, dec. Qlaudian of Rufims,	. .
Imperii certus■ tegeret ceu ‘Purpura dudum Corpus, (y ardentes ambirent temporagemma.
Certain of Empire, as if Purple now
Had cloath’d his Limbs* and Gems impal'd his Brow.
So Strabo fays, that the Pofterity of •tAndrocIus, Sonof Codrtis King of <tAthens, had at Sphejus, befides many other Honours granted them , a Turple Robe in token of their Royal defceAt. According to which, we finde in Sidonius Apollinaris, Turpuidtus to be equivalent with lmpcra-tor, Epift. lib.ii. QuividebaturinjuguhintTurpurati jamjam ruimritsi,
Whofeetn’dready toniurder theEmperour: and,iS'eio cogno/cunt,poJfereuin Majejlatis pronunciari etiam turn, qui non adfedaffet habitunt ’Purpurato-rum • 1 hey too late undcrjland, that even he, that afetled not the Habit of the Emperours, might be found guilty of Treafon. From whence the Civilians obferve, that it was Treafon to aflume the Royal Robes. And Am-mianus Marcellimls fpeaks of a W Oman , who had fuborn’d feveral to accufe her Husband of High Treafon, for having ftoln the Emperour Diocletian's, Purple Veil out of his Sepulchre, and hiding it* Sufcbtii* •
E	HeHe (Diocletian) fir /I beautified bis Shoes with (fold, and Tearls, and preti-ous Stones. For the Kings before him were honoured in the Jame manner with the Confuls, having onely a Turple Ve/l for a badge of their Toyalty, The fame faith Tteanius, who tranflated Sutropius; The Rpjal %obe be-fore was diflinguiflfd only by its Turple colour. Wherefore, when any refolv'd Tyrannically tofieze upon the Royal Dignity, they immediately ufurp’d a Purple Robe • which they fometimes forc’d from a In Gordi- Standard, as Trebellius reports of Saturninus. The fame Authour j Gordianum Troconfulem reclamantem, (? fe terra affligentem, opertum Turpura imperare coegerunt./srprimo quidem invitus Gordianus Turpuram fumpferat: pojlea verb, qmm vidit neque filio, neque familiee id la tarn effe, volens fufcepit Imperium; They forc'd Gordian the Proconlul, who denied, and cafl himjelf upon the ground,to be vejled in Turple, and receive the T itle of Emperour ; at first he was very unwilling to receive the Turple Kobe, but, when he faw, that that was unfafe for bis Son, and Family, he receiv’d the Empire willingly. Where Turpuram Jumere, and fumere Imperium, are the fame. Sometimes they committed Sacrilege upon the Statues insatur- of the Gods. Vopifcus; T)epcjita Turpura ex fimulachro Veneris, ni1”' cum cyclade uxoria a militibus circumflantibus a mill us, & adoiatus efl ■ Taking a. Turple Kpbe from the Statue of Venus,and hts IVfe’s inner Vtil of (fold, he was invested, and adored b>y the Souldiers as Emperour, Trebcllius-, Celfum hnperatoron appella'erunt pfplo Dea Cceleflis ornatum ; They put on Ccllus the Vefl o/ the (joddefs of Heaven,and call’d him Emperour. Wherefore,when we read of the Confular Turple Kpbes under the Ko-mane Smperours, as in that of Latinus Tacatus, Quorum alter, pofl am-phfiimos Magiflratus, (y purpuras Confulares; and of Sidonius,
--Te piHa Togatum
Turpura plus capiat; quia res efl femper ab avo Tara frequens Qonfuli----
Purple fhould rather thee affedt, fince we One often made a Conful feldome fee : it muft be underftood either of the Senatorian Segments added to their Qonjula ■ Robes, or of a Turple mix’d with fome other Dye; which is mentioned in Theodofius’s £ode :as a Warp of Purple, the Woofof another colour, or the like. For the Imperial InterdiB comprehends all of whatfoever degree ; Temperent univerfi, cujuscunque (int /exits, dignitatis, artis, profefiionis, & generis, ab hujltsmodi fpecui pojfefiione, qua foli Trincipi, ejmque domui dedicat ur; Let everyone, of what Sex, Dignity, Art, Trofefiion, and ‘Birtbtbey be, forbear the poffefwn of this fort of Turple, which is appropriated totheTrince alone, and his houfe.
TheThe firfi: Imperial Edidt of this nature is conceived to be in the time of the Emperour 3\(cro: which is to be underftood de holoveris, of pure unmix’d Purple.
Neither was Purple peculiar to the Imperial Robes onely, but to their Pens too. The Emperour Leo forbad, that any Refcripts of his fhould bear other then a Purple Infcription. So ^Qcetas, in the Life of Manuel the Emperour, fay;, That, at his entrance upon the Empire, he fent Letters to Qonflantinople, written with Purple. Confianthms Ma-naffes in his Annals, The Emperour granted the requejl of his Sifter,and ta-king a Ten in bis hand confirm a the'Paper in Turple Letters, And Talceo- £fnmc logus the Emperour, fwearing fubjeition to the ‘Roman See in the Church of Santo Spirito at Rome, fubfcribed in Letters of Purple.
The art of making this Purple, both for Robes, and Ink, is ftill pre- l. s*cn, c. ferv'd, but we meet not with the materials; though we have left us both	j
the place,and manner of taking, preparing, and whatfoever is neceffary for that purpofe.
Monarchy is faid to be fupported by Loyalty ■ becaufe the Love of the Subject is the fecureft Guard of the Prince. Seneca, in a Difcourfe betwixt 3\(jero and Seneca the Philofopher,
Ne. Ferrum tuetur Trincipem. Se. Melius Fides.
Ne- Decettimeri Gxfarem. Se- Atplus diligi.
Ne- Arms Qcejar guard. Se. But better Loyalty.
Ne. Kings(houldbe fear'd. SE.They ratherlov'd (houldbe.
We find not any name for Loyalty in the time of the Tipman Em-perours, except Fides, or Fidelitas : as in the Coyns of the Emperour
Thilippus,	Chon I, Pag*
which was fignified by the extenfion of the hand- Lucan fpeaking of the Army, promifmg Fealty to fulius C*/ar,
E ?,	Bs--His cundisftmtil affcnfere cohort a,
Elatdsque alte, quacunque ad bella vocaret,
Tromijere manus ———
All rais’d their hands with joint confent, that they Would fight for him, and his Commands obey Gainft whomfoe’re--
IfidorusHifpal. Moserat Militaris,ut, quotiesconfentirct excrcitus, quia voce nonpotefl, manupromittat '■> It was the Military Cuflom, that as often as the zJrmy confented, becauje they could not with their voice, they (kouldpromt! ernth their hand.
Which Pofture is reprefented in thefe Medaigles of the Emperours Trajan, and Hadrian,
Crojiac.
Tab. xxxiii, & xxxviii.
Claudian,fpeaking of a Rebellion in the IVejlern parts of the Empire,
lnterea turhata FID £S, civiliarurjus 'Bella tonant,dubiumque quatit Dijcordia mundttm,
Mean while the Peace was broke,Enfigns unfurl'd,
And Difcord thundring fhook the ftagg'ring World.
Loyalty is cloathed in white, to fignifie its purity, and innocency, Color albus pracipue decorus Deo esl, turn in extern, turn maxime in textili, Cicero. Horace.
Te Spes, & albo rara Fides colit Fdata panno ——--
Thee Hope, and Faith embrace Cloathed in white.
■ The“ Thefit JIT ainting on the South-/«/e is a Tro/peft of His Majejlie's “ landing at Dover-(^a/lle^Ships at Sea,great (Juns going off, one kneeling, ,cand kjjs ing the King’s Hand, Souldiers, HorJe, and Foot, and many “ Teople gazing: above,
ADVENTQS AUG.
“ ‘Beneath the Tainting this Motto,
In Solido Rursus Fortuna LocAVit,
This Infcription Adventus Augusti is often found among the Coyns ofthe ^man Emperours upon a peaceable return ■ which is fignified by the extenfion ofthe right hand : for faith QuihtilianyFtt & tile habitus, qui ejfe in Statuis Tacijicator folet, qui protenjo brachio manum injlexopollice. extendit; That (jejhre is ujed too, which in Statues is a token of Teaceyehich extends the drm,and Hand, injteBing the Thnmb. i n which Pofture there is extant at Kome the Statue of the Emperour M. <tA «re-lius Antoninus: and another before the Laierane, mention’d in the Additions to Tierius. Thefame we finde in the Coyns of M Julius Thilippus, and FI. fovianus, with the fame Infcription> Adventus Augusti.
InftitHt.tjifc xi. cap 1 iiii
Croyiac.
Tab. lviit, Baron. Xml
vi.AmaL
H T he Tainting on the North -fide, oppb/ite to this, is a Trophj with decol “ lated Heads, haying over it,
U L T O Ii A Ttsoo Df.UJ.
Taken out of Horace;
--JeqUitw ‘Rebelles
Vltor a tergo Veus---
“ God’s Vengeance Rebels at the Heels purfuel.
The Motto beneath,-
Ausi ImKans Nefas, A u s o qjj e P o t i t i.'Lib.
Thebtti.
Lib..ii.
A T rophy amongft the ancient 'Rpmans was ordinarily a Trunk of a T ree, fitted with the Arms of the Conquered Enemy,according to that
of Virgil,
Ingentem quercum, decifis undique ratriis,
Conslituit tumulo, fulgenliaque induit arma,
Mezenti Ducis exuvias, tibi magne tropeeum BeHipotens : aptat mantes j.anguine criflas,
Tclaque trunca viri, & bis fex thoraca petiturn Terfojfumque locis, clypeumque ex are (inijlra Subligat, atquc enfem collojujpendit cburnum.
A ftately Oak on Rifing- Ground he plac’d,
And Boughs disrob’d,with glorious Armeur grac'd;
With King cfAd'e^entius Spoils the Trunks he loads,
Great Mars,thy T rophy, W arlik’ft of the Gods;
His Breaft-Plate, run twice fix times thorow, rears,
And Plumes bedew’d with Blood, and broken Spears*
His Brazen Shield on the left Shoulder tied,
Hanging his Sword in lyory by th’fide.
And in the fame Boob,
T)a w8»c,Tybri pater, ferro, quod mi/sile hbre,
Fortunam,atque viam dun perpeBus Halefi,
R*c ama,exuvidsque viri tua quentis habebii.
Grant, Father Tjber, Fortune to this Lance,
And that this Jar'lin, which I now advance,
May through Halcfus Bofom paffage make,
And let thy Oak his Spoils, and Armour take.
Statius,
Querm erat, tencrajamdudum oblita juventa,
Huic laves galeas, per/ofsdque vulnere crebro
InferitInferit arrna ferens, huic truncos iBibus enfes Subligat, (pfraBas membris fpirantibus hajlas.
There was an aged Oak, on which he put
Bruis’d Casks, and Corflets, thruft-through, hack’d, and cut 5
Next Swords in Battel broken guirds upon,
And fplinter’d Spears from dying Bodies drawn.
The T rophie offitpitcr over the Giants is at large, and elegantly defcribed by Claudian,
-----Phlegrads jylva fuperbit
Sxuviis, totkmque nemus viBoria vefiit.
Htcpatuli nctiu, hie prodigiofa (jigantum->
Tergora dependent, & adhuc crudele minantur Affix# fades truncis : immanidque ojfa Serpentumpajfim tumulti exjanguibut albent,
St rigid:ce multoJuJpirant fulminepelles,
,7\(ulldque non magnijaBatfe nominis arbor.
H<tc centuni'geminijlnBos geonis enfes Qurvata vixfronde levat j liventibus ilia Exultat Cori fpoliis : hac arma Mimantis Sujlinet -y hos oneratramos exutus Ophion,
Altior & cunBis abies, umbrojdque late,
Ipfius Enceladifumantia geslat opima SummiTerrigenum regis, cadere'tquegravatd Tondere, ni lapfum fuldret proxima quercus. lnde timor, numenque loco, ncmorisqueJeneBa Tarcitur, nethereisque nefas nocuiffe 7ropais.
---The Woods in Spoils Thlegraan pride,
The whole Grove VidVry clo'ath'd.Here Gapings wide Of horrid Jaws j there Backs of hideous fize Hung, and flak’d faces threatning ftill the Skies:
T>e raptfi Prefer p. lib; iii;Huge Serpents Skeletons in bloodlefs Piles There bleaching white lay in voluminous Coyls,
Whofe fcaly Sloughs fmell with Sulphureous Flame!
No Tree but boafts fome mighty Giant’s Name.
This, loaden, under ftern JEgeeon yields,
Who us’d an hundred Swords, as many Shields;
That brags bold Qorus bloody Spoils: this bears The Arms of Mimas ■ that Ophion’s wears.
But higher then the reft,with fpreading (hade,
A Firr Enceladus Creft and Corflet lade,
The Giants King; which with its weight had broke,
If not fupported by a neighb’ring Oak.
Hence a Religious Aw preferves the Woods,
And none dares wrong the Trophies of the Gods.
Butwhenthe City of *Rome grew greater in power, the Trophies were more magnificent. L. Florus, How acceptable thoje two VtBories were, may be conjeBured from bence, that Doniitius Ahenobarbus, and Fabius Maximus ereBed in the fame place where the ‘Battels were fought Turrets of Stone, upon which were T rophies, adorn’d with the tJ rms ofthe Enemy, a (^uttome not in ufe before amongjl us. For the people of Rome ne' ver upbraided their Conquered Enemies With their ViBories.
On thefe Trophies was infcribed both the Name of the Conquer-our,and the People conquered. Tacitus, Laudatispro condone viSori-bus,Cxfar congeriem armorum flruxit fuperbo cum titulo ■ debellatis inter Rhenum Albnnque nationibus,exeratum Tiberii Cxfaris ea Monimenta Marti, & Jovi, Augufto facravife : Ca;far, having commended the ViBors, rai/ed an heap oftJtms with this proud Injcription, The Army of Tiberius Cxfar, having vanquifh'dtheTeople between the cRtver Rhene, and the Albe, confecrates thefe Monuments foMars, Jupiter, and Au-guftus. And, to the fame purpofe, Miles in locopralii Tiberium Impe-ratorem falutavit Cabfentem)ftruxitque aggerem, & in modum Tropteo* rumarma, fubfcriptisviBarum gentium nominibus, impofuit. There are two T rophies of Marius’s ftill remaining at'Home, one of which ha’s a Breaft-Plate with Military Ornaments, and Shields, before it a young man captive, with his hands bound behind him • on each fide of it two Winged Victories. So Tliny tells usofa Trophie eredtcd to the ho--
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• . ,
*nourof Augujlus in the Alps with this InfcriptionjMPERATORi C^esari AV.H,y?
DIVl F. AUQ, PONTIF, MAX. IMPERATORI XIV. TRIBUNlTIj; ^ J£. POTES TATIS, S. P- Q. R. QUOD EIUS DUCTU AUSPlCUSOyE GENTES ALP1UM OMNES, QV.fi A MARI SUPERO AD 1NFIMUM PERTINEBANT, SUB IMPERIUM P. R. SUNT REDACTStobaUS J^DcF°’~
fays, that Othrjades, taking the Spoils of fome of his Enemies, erected a Trophy, and writ this Title with the Blood of the wounded,
THE LACEDEMONIANS OfE\THE A%GIVES.
Thefe Trophies were confecrated to the Gods, and therefore could not be demolifti’d without Sacrilege. So Dio fays of Cafar, that, after uiiiit his •'Ponnc/^Victory, he durft not deface the Trophy of t5\d ithridates, m i toTs e,«araAsfU9i5 0toT« Uei,ujm, becaufe facred to the (jods of)Vif. So,when his Friends had given order, that a Sword, which hung up in a Temple of the drubcni, as a Spoil from Ca/ar> fhould be taken down, in &tm, i'tfi Jy5fu»©', he would not fnjfer it, accounting-it jacred.. Vitruvius, Lib. a. Tojlea autem Rhodii, religione impediti, quod nefas ejjet Tropaa dicata re-moyere, circa locum eum tedijicium firuxerunt; <But afterwards the Rhodians, out of a religious fear, bccauje it was unlawful to remove the dedicated ‘Trophies, erefted a ‘Building about the place. The Gods,to whom the mans confecrated their Trophies, we finde in Livy : Omn'ugeneris arma cumulata in ingentem acervum, precatus Martem, Minervam^e, Luam-que Matrem, & caterosDeos, quibus fpoliadicarejus fdsque eft.
The Motto ULTOR A TERGO DE11S, over the 1Trophie, is in reference to the Coyn of the Emperour Claudius, which reprefents n5\tartem Vhorem with a Trophie on his Shoulder,
OI>5
but more particularly to thatHiftory oi Augujlus, who, after the War was ended, which he undertook for the revenge of his Fathers blood,
F	murderedd», liUiv murdered by fome CommonAVealth’s men intheiSra^e-houfe, confe-t Suetonius. crated a f Temple M AR Tl V L TO ‘RI, which he had vowed daring the War. Ovid,
F‘fi-Mars ades, & jatia feelerato fanguine ferrunt,
Stetque Favor caujapro me/iore turn:
Templa feres • &, me ViHore, yocaberis 11 L T O R.
Vover at, & fufo Letus ah bojleredit.
Glut Steel, O Mars, with impious Blood■, incline To my juftCaufe, a Temple (hall be thine :
I Conqu’rour.Thou fhalt be REV	ftil’d.
He vow'd, and glad return’d, his Enemy foil’d.
The Form of the T EMT LE we have in this Coyn of Augujlus,
CW, Pag.
So when he had re-taken the Colours from the Tarthians, which Fiji. ibid. CraJJut had loft, he gave him the Title of Tl IS -V LT 02^. Ovid,
‘Rite Deo Templtmque datum, nomenque Bis-ultor,
Emeritus voti debitafolvit honor.
The God Bis-ultor fill'd,his Temple made, So he his Vows devoutly paid.We finde alfo mention of MA'TiS VLTO 2^ in an ancient Infcription in Cjruter..	s"g' “
D.	M.
T. FLAVlO. AUG. LIB.
LIBERA LI. JL DIT U O M A R TI S. ULTORIS
CLAUDI’A. eioche
CONJUGI
benemerenti. et.
S I B I. FECIT.
VIXIT. ANN. LVil.
The Motto beneath the Trophy is taken out of Virgil who fpoke it of thofe, who were, for the like Crimes, condemn’d to the Pains of Erebus, as he clofes theDefcription ofit in the Sixth of his Aineis,
Hie quibus invififratres,dum vita manebat,
Tulfatusve parens, &fraus innexa clienti •
Aut qui divitiis foli incubuere repertis,
3%ecpartempofuere fuis; ( qua maxima turba eft;)
Quique ob adulterium csefi, quique anna Jequuti Impia, nee yeriti dominorumfallere dextras >
Inelujipoenam expeBant: ne quare doceri,
Quam poenam ; aut qua forma viros, fortundve merfil.
Saxum ingens volvunt alii/adiisque rot arum T>iHn3i pendent : fedet, aternumquefedebit Infelix Thefeus : Phlegy^que miferrimus onmes Admonet, & magna teflatur voce per umbras,
“ Difcite juftitiam moniti,& non temnere Divos.
Vendidit hie auropatriam, dominumque potentem Impojuit ■ pxit leges pretio, atque refixit;
Hie thalamum invafit nata, vetitoique Hjmenaos :
Aufiomnes immane nefas} aufoque potiti4
F z	HereHere Brother-haters are with Pains repai'd,
Who flew their Parents,or their Friendsbetrai’d -Or brooding lay on Golden Heaps alone,
Thefe thoufands are,which did impart to none j Thofe in Adult'ry flain ■ or thofe rebel,
And did their native Prince to Traitors fell,
Here meet their Dooms,- feek not thefe Woes to found,
Nor by what way Fate did their Souls confound:
Thefe row! huge Stones,and ftretch’d on Wheels do lie ;
There Thefeus fits, and (hall eternally ;
Aloud, through Shades, fad Thlegpasmourning cries, Adniomflo'd, fuflice learn, nor Cfods defpife.
This to a potent Prince his Country fold,
And Laws enaded, and repeal’d for Gold;
That beds his Daughter,and no 1 nceft fpar’d:
All dar’d bold Crimes,and thriv’d in what they dar’d.
“ The Tainting over the Middle Arch reprefents the King ,mounted in “calm Motion, USURPATION flying before him, a Figure “with many ill-favoured Heads, fome bigger, fomelejjer, and one parti* “ cularly [hooting out of his Shoulder , like CROMWEL’S; “ not her Head upon t.ultymp, or Taj I■ Two Harpies with a Crown, “ chafed by an sjngel • Hell’s f am opening. Vnder the [aid'Reprefen' “ tation of the Kingpurfuing Ufurpation is this Motto,
Volvenda Dies En Attulit Ultro,
“ Tal^en out of the j^inth Sool\of the ./Eneis,
Turne, quod opt anti Divhm promitt ere nemo zAuderet, volvenda dies, en! attulit ultro.
“ What none of all the Gods durft grant,implor’d,
“ Succefsive Time does of its own accord.
The Harpies were defcribed by the Ancients with the Faces of Virgins. Hefiod}
Huxa/uy;ttAello, and Ocuj>ett Harpyes, who,
Fair-hair’d, the Winds, and nimble Birds purfue, Born on fwift Wings*--
----—Quas dir a Celseno,
Harpyia^tte colunt <jfce,Phineia poflquam Qaufa donm, menfdsque mctu liquerepriores.
See Rhodigt-nus, lib. xvi, cap. xxvi.
Triftm baud illis monflrum, nec fa-vior ulla Teflis,& iraDeum, Stygiisfefeextulitmdis.
Virginei volucrum vultus, ftedifsima ventris Troluvies, uncaque manui, & pallida femper Ora fame.
Where dire Cclceno other Harpyies led,
When frighted they from Thincas Table fled.
No Monfter like to thefe, no Plague more fell,
Nor (harper Vengeance Heav’n e’re call'd from Hell.
The Fowl have Virgin Faces,and hook’d Claws,
Still purging Bellies, always greedy Maws,
With Hunger pale___-—
The Form of thefe Hatpyies is to be feeri in Sculpture in the Church ofSaint Martin at Venice, frequented, as a Adafler-Tiece to draw thefe Monfters by, both by (farmers, and Taintcrs-^ fays Srythrxm on this place of Virgil. They were exprefl’ed alfo with crooked Claws, from whence they were called
Apollonius,
ButBut Harpyies,hurried fwiftly through the Air,
From Mouth, and Hands, with griping Talons tear Still all away. -----
T.utilms ihQvmantimm, in his Itinerary,
Harpyise, quarum difcerpitur ungmbus Orbis,
Qua pede glutineo qua tetigere trabunt.
Harpyics,who rend the World,whofe Bird-lime Feet,
And Talons, bear away whate-re they meet.
There is a Goyn yet extant of L. Valerius, where we have an Har-pye thus reprefented,
inu. That they had Wings,we finde in JEfchylus, who, mentioning the Furies afleep about Oreftes, doubting what they fliould be, fays, they could not be Harpyics (for he had feen them often painted robbing Thi-neus’s Table} becaufe they had no Wings,
“ Above the Arch, on mo ‘Pedestals, South-ward, and North-B’W, “ /land the Statues of King James, and King Charles the “ Firft. In the middlefomcivbat higher, jujl over the Arch, the Statue of ‘‘ His Sacred Majefly. Vnder that of King Jambs,
DIVO JACOBO.
“ Vnder that of King Charles the Firft,
DIVO CAROLO.
“ ‘Vnder“ Vnder that of His Majejly this following lnfcription)
D. N.
CARQLO II.
D. G. BRITANNIARUM IMP.
OPT. MAX.
UBIQVE VENERANDO,
SEMPER AUG-
BEAT ISSIMO AC PUSS I MO,
BONO RE IP- NATO,
DE AVITA BRITANNIA,
DE OMNIUM HOMINUM GENERE MERIT IS SI MO,
P. P.
EXTINCTO R I T YRANNIDIS,
RESTITUTORI LIBERTATIS^
FUNDATORI Q.U IETI Si,
OB FELICEM REDITUM*
EX VOTO L. M P-The Title of DIFV S was conftantly attributed by the ‘Romans to their Empetours after their Confecration, or 'aotoS*W. Ovid, of fulius Cajar,
Hanc animam interea, cafo de corpore raptam,
Fac fubar, ut temper Capitolia nojlra, Forkmque,
D iv us ab excelfapro[pettet]uYms ade.
Mean while from his flain Corps his Soul convay Up to the Stars, and give it a clear Ray :
That he, now ’DIVVS, may with influence Shine on our Qapitol, and Court from thence-
yElius Spartiatms ; Hadrianus, rogahte Antonino, DIVVS a Senatu appellatus ejl Hadrian, at the request of Antoninus his Succejfour, had the Title o/Divus granted him by the Senate. So Claudian feigns the Emperour Theodofus toaflume that Title immediately upon his death,
---Cum Divus abirem,
%cs incompojitas, fateor, tumiddsque reliqui.
When I a G o d went hence, 1 left, ’tis true,
The buf nefs hard, and much unfettled too.
After which Confecration they had T"mplcs dedicated to them,(which Augujlus admitted, while he was yet alive} Flamens, and Vnder-Tnefls. Seneca of Augujlus,
Tictate gnati faBus eximia Deus,
Tojl fata confecratus, & Femplis datus.
Made by his Son's great Piety a God,
Temples he built for him, and Altars had.
Sic illepatriceprimus Auguftus parens Complexus aslra ejl, colitur & Templis t>eus.
Thus the firft Father of his Countrey had In Heav’n a place,and worfliip'd as a God.
Spartian,Spartian, Qui Tcmplum ei pro Sepulchro Puteolos conflituit, & Quinquennale certamen, (st Flamen, & Sodales, & multa alia, qua ad bo-norem qrnfi ZhQumims pertinerent. 7 he Senate ereBed him (Hadrian) a 'Temple for a Sepulchre at Puzzolo, with a Quinquennial (fame, a Flamen, and Sodales, and many other things belonging to the Honour of a (fod. The Flamen, and Sodales of the deceafed Smperour,we often meet with in ancient Infcriptions, as of (fafar’s Flamen,
M. PUBLICIO
M. F. SAB. SEXTIO CALFU R N IA NO EQVO. PUBLICO FLAM. D I V I. JULI PRyEF. R D I L. POT QUiSTOR. fRAEt SACERD.JUVEN. BRIX COLLEGIA CENTON. ET. FA BR OR.
and of Hadrians Sodales,
L. FABIO. M. F. GAL. CILONI SEPTIMINO. COS. PRAEF. URB LEGG. AUGG. PR. PR. PANNON SUPERDUCI.VEXILL.LEG. PRO PR. PROV1NCI A R. MOESIAE SUPER PON Tl ET B1THYNI/E CO M IT I. AUG. LEG. AUGG. PRO PR. PROV. &ALATIAE PRAEF.
AER. MILITARIS. PROV.
COS. ITEM. Q^LEG. PROV. NARBONENS LEG. LEG. XV I. F L. F. SAMOSATE SO DAL. HADRIANAL PR. URB. TRIB. PLEB. Q.. PROV CRETAE. TRIB. LEG. XI. CL.
X. VIR STLITIB. JUDICANDIS MEDIOLANENSIS PATRONO.The manner, and folemnity of their Confecrations is at large delivered i Lib. iv. by 1 Herodian. There was a foursquare Pile built of feveral Stories, fill’d with combuftible matter ; in the fecond was laid the Body of the deceafed Emperour: in the uppermofl, and leaji of the Stories was held mi Eagle. AsfoonastheTilewasfetonfiieytheEaglewasletflj'. which the Romans think carries the Emperour’j Soul from Sarth to Heaven. From which time he u worfhip’d with the refl of the Cfods. The Form of the Funeral cPile, and the manner of their 1 ranflation into Heaven, we finde in many Coynsofthe Emperours : as in thefe of Antoninus Tins, and L. Vcrus,
Claudian ha’s prefumed to tell us the way they went thither, fpeaking De iii. Ccn- of the Death of Theodosius,
CidatH Hern'	'
----- necplura loquutus}
Sicut crdt, liquidojignavit tramite nubes, lngrediturqueglobum Luna;, lumenque reliquit Arcadis, & Veneris clementes pervolat auras.
Hinc Phcebi permenfus iter, Jlarnmdmquc nocentcm Gradivi,placidumque Jovem,Jlctit arcefuprema,
Algenti quo syna riget Saturnia trailu.
Macbina laxatur call, rutiUquepatefcunt Sponte fores. Arctoa par at convexa Bootes.,
Auftrales refer at portas fuccinBus Orion,
Invitdntque novum fdus, pendentque vicifsim,
Qua*partes velit ille jequi, quibus ejje jodalis X>ignetur Hellist aut qua regione tnoveri.
--nor—-----nor more he faid,
But through the yielding Clouds his paffage made,
And reach'd the Moon, then Mercury forfakes,
And to the milder Sphere of Venus makes :
Thence to the Sun, and Mars malignant fire,
And milder fove^ then mounts the higheft Sphere,
Where in a colder Circle Saturn lords.
Heaven’s Purple Gates ope of their own accords;
Him to his Northern Car Bootes courts,
Orion girt unlocks the Southern Ports,
And the new Star invite: both him intreat He would vouchfafe to nominate his Seat;
What Stars for his Afiociates he approv’d,
And in which Conftellation would be mov’d;
They queftioned not the WtW even of the word of their Sniper -ours; as we fee in thefe Verfes of Lucan on J^ero, that Prodigie of Nature,
---— Te, cumf Jlatione peraUa,
/Jlra petes fern, pralati regia coeli Excipietgaudente polo : feu fceptra tenere,
Seutefiammiferos Phoebi tranfcendere currus Telluremque, nihil mutato Sole timentem,
Ignc vago luflrare juvat: till jSjimine ab omni £edetur,jurique tuo j\(atura relinquet,
Quis T)eus efje velis, ubi regnum ponere mmdi.
Sedneque in Arftdo fedemtibi legeris orbe-j^ecpolus adverfi ca'idus qua vsrgitur Aiiftri,
Vnde tuam videos obliquo fidvre Romani. jEtheris immenft partem fi prefferis unnm,
Sentiet axis onus : librati pondera coeli Orbe tene medio: pars atheris ilia fereni Totavacet, nullteque obflent a Casfare nubes.
G 1	--Thee--Thee, ah! when, late, thou us (halt leave,
Courts pav'd with Stars fhall joyfully receive,
Inviting thee to govern, or to [way In Thabus Chariot, and command the day:
Earth will not fear to fee a newer Sun
With brighter Raies through th'old Eclipticksrun.
Thee thofe, whom Heav’n’s Apartiments enclofe,
And Nature leaves unto thy own difpofe,
To be what God thou wilt, and where to raign:
But not thy Palace near the Northern Wain •
Nor Southern Stars intemperate Heat, ered,
%mie to behold with an oblique Afpect:
Sit in the middle, left the Pole fhould crack Under thy weight ■ poife the bright Zodiack,
Clear a Celeftial Houfe, where never Cloud Shall Qtefar’s Star with duskie Vapours fhroud.
We finde like exprefsions to thofe in the Infcription under His prefent Majefty, in feveral of the old ones collected by Cjruter ; as Tage clii. 8.
DN GLORIOSISS. ADQ.IN
CLUTUS. REX. THEODORICUS. V I C T. ac. truT semper. aTTg. BONO RETT.
NAT US. CUSTOS. LIBERTATIS. ET PROPAGATOR. ROMANI. N O M I N I S. DOMITOR. GENTIUM.
And Tage ccxlvii. 3,
IMP. CAES. N E R. T R A I A N O AUG. GERM. DAC. PARTH. PON MAX. TR. P. XVT COS. VT. P. P. DE ROM. IMPERIO. DE. PATERNA ET. AVITA. HIS P. P ATRIA. ET. DE OMNI. HOMIN. GEN. MERITISS POPULARES. PROVINC AREVATUM OPTIMO. PR1NC.	Behind<£ behind the faid Figure of Charles the Second, in a large Table “ is deciphered the Royal Oak bearing Crowns, and Scepters,
“ injlead of tAcorns; amongjl the Leaves, m a Label,
MIRATURQVl NOVAS FRONDES ET NON SUA POMA. ,
-------“ Leaves unknown
“ zAdmiring, andjlrange <tApples not her Own.
“ As defining its Reward for the Shelter afforded His Majejly after the “Fight at Worcefter : an exprefiion e/Virgil’*, fpeaking of the “ Advancement of Fruits by the Art of Cjraffitig.
“ The upper Paintings on the YLa.(\'Jide are‘Ruinous , reprefenting the “ Dijorder the Kingdom was in, during His Majejlies Abfcnce ■ with “ this Motto,
E N O.TO DlSCOlDIA Cives!
“ Hut on the Weft-fide they are fimfhed, to reprefent the Rejlauration “ of our Happinejs by His Majeflies Arrival; the Motto,
Felix Temporum Reparatio,
“ On the Royal Oak in a Label,
Rob u'r Britannicum.
In allufion to His Majeftie's Royal ZN^avy, thofe Floating Garri-fonsmadeof Oak. For Themijlocles ha's obferv'd, that11Vhofoever de- t«id fires a jecureVominion by Land,musl fir si get the Dominion of the Sea. And gp"cvipb'L therefore, when the Oracle, in the Median War, wiflVd the Athenians to provide a Wall of Wood for their Defence, he * interpreted it a *Phunh.
.3Y avy.	inyitarfc-
V-‘ J	•	jnifioc/it,
asd Z)f vi-t/inslo are alieno.
“ Over the Cjreat Table,
Redeunt Saturnia Regna. Which are at large defcribed by 1 Ovid,
Aurea prima fata esl ettas j qua, vindice nullo, Sponte jua, /»»«lege, fidcm, reWumque colebat, &c.
• Met am, Lib. i.
The1 he Golden Age was firft , which, uncompel'd,
And without rule, in Faith, and Truth excel'd, lIs then, there was nor Tunifhment, nor Fear, tthreatning Laws in Brafsprefcribed werei J^or fuppliant croucbingTrifners [hool^to Jee Their angry fudge : but all was Jafe, and free.
To vijit other Worlds nowounded Tine Did jet from Hills to faithlefs Seas decline.
Then unambitious c5\d'ortals /{new no more,
'But their own Qountxie s J^ature-bounded Shore.
CM or Swords,nor Arms were jet: no Trenches round Befieged Towns, nor ftrifeful Trumpets Jound.
TheSouldierof no uje. In firm content,
And harmlejs ea/e, their happy days were [pent.
The jet'free Earth did of her own accord ( Vntorn with Tlougbs ) all forts of Fruit afford.
'Twas always Spring: JWr?M Zephyrus fweetlj blew On fmiling Flowers, which withoutfetting grew.
Forthwith the Earth Corn, unmanured, bears j <sJnd ev'ry jear renews her (jolden Ears.
With Mil{, and J\(eHar, were the ‘Rivers fill'd,
<iAnd Honej from green Holly-Oaly diflill’d.
Mr. Sa ndys,
“ Vnder Kjng Charles the Second,
Restitutor U.RBIS,
“ TheT aiming on the South-weft fide reprefents the Lord Mayor -Jeli-“ Bering to the l\ing the Keys of the Citj. c jn tjoe Niches are jour Figures. T hefirfl on the South -fide, a Woman “ in plea!ant Qolours; the Emblem on her Shield, a Terrestrial (jlobe-t “ the Sun rijing, Bats, and Owls flying to the Shadow : the Word,
Excoecat Candor.
“The“ Tbe Second bath on her Efcutcheon a Swarm of 'Bees, whetting their
“ Stings; the Word,
Pro Rbqe Exacuunt.
‘Pliny ha's obferved, that of Animals none , but a Bee, ha’s a King. Their Loyalty to him he ha's at large defcribed. The Obedience of the Communalty is to be admired. Whenfoever the King goes forth , the whole Hfte accompanie him, gather round about him, cncotn-pafs him,proteU him, andfuffer him not to be feen. Wbenfoever the Com-imnaltyuat work^, he overfees them, and is alone free from the labour. itA bout him there is conflanth a certain Cjuard, the daily prefervers of bis authority. When they go forth, every one defires to be next the l\ing, and rejoyces to be feen in his duty. When he is weary, they eafe him with their fhoulders : when be is altogether tired, they carry him.
Qlaudian fays, that they reverence their Trince at his Birth;
_—---fic molhbus ohm
Stridula duBurwnpratis examina cjRegem j^Qafcentem venerantur apes,---
So for their new-born King the Bees take Arms,
Who’s through the Meads to lead their humming fwarms.
From whence the ^Egyptians made a Bee the Hieroglyphic!^ of a Loyal People,
“ The Third, on the North fide, hath on her Shield a Mountain burn-
“ Oties>an^ Vineyards deflroyed, and mined: the Word,
Impia Foedera.
The Covenant: in abhorrence of which villainous Combination, according to this Order of both Houfes, it was burnt by the Common Hangman.
lib. xi. cap. xvii.
DieDie Lunas zo. Maii 1661.
Lords in Parliament afifemMeD, Ijaioing ronfiDcrcD of a paper Pf* i'(t unto tljcm from f!:c iDoufe of Commons, fo? burning of tlje Wimg ‘3!nfll't>tnrnf, 0? COjiiUlg, calico The Solemn League, or Covenant,
bpthc l^anDS ofti!t Common hangman; 3Po )©?0er, tl?at tjsc
fatD 5n0l-nmcnt, 0; ££I»i£ing, railCD The Solemn League, and Co-venant, be tmrneD bp tl)t toatiQ of t!:c Common hangman in tl)C New-Pa-
lace at Weftminfter, in Cheapiide, anQl)tfO?t tijt Old-Exchange On WedneBay
t&e	feconD of tins intrant May. 2nD that tlie faio Covenant lie
fejtliottJ) taken off ti't JRetojD in tijt l!)Gufr of Peers, ano in all other Courts,anti plates, fcolicvc the fame is retojDrD ; 2inD that all Copies thereof tst tafcen Doton out of all Churches, Chapels, anD other public!*
plates in England, anD Wales, anD in tljC JEottm of Barwick upon Twede, iofjerc tije fame arc fct up*
Jo. Brown
Cleric. Parliamentorum,
“ The Fourth hath on her EJcutchcon an tArm, as it were out of the ‘‘ Clouds • in the Hand a nailed Sword: the Motto,
Discite Justitiam Moniti.
Eight Mutes above, on Pedeftals; four in White, four in Crim-fon.
The Mufick of this Fabrick is ten Drummers,flanking Rebellion ; twelve Trumpets flanking Monarchy.
Aloft under the two Devaluations, twelve Trumpets, four Drums.
Within the Arch, on two Balconies, fix Trumpets, four Drums.
While the Train pafleth along, the Drums beat the Marches of fe-veral Countries, and the Trumpets found feveral Levets, At which Time His Majefty drawing near , the Drums turn their March to a Battel, the Trumpets found a Charge, and on a fud-den Rebellion rowfeth up her Self, at which, Drums, and Trumpets ceafing, Rebellion addrefles to His Majefty the following Speech.Stand! Standi who 'ercYouare ! this Stage is Oars,
The th^ames of Trintesare inscrib'd on Floxp'rs,
And wither with them! Stand! You muH Me [now,
To Kings, and Monarchy a deadly Fo-Me, who dare bid You ’midjl Your Triumphs jland,
In the great Qity of Your j^ative Land :
I am Hells Daughter, Satan's kldett Child,
When Ifirft cry’d, the Towers of Darkpefs fmil'd,
And my (jlad Father, Thmd’rirg at my Birth,
‘Unhing’d the Poles, and fhookjhefixed Earth.
My dear Rebellion (that (hall be thy .7\(ame,
Said He ) CI hou Smperours, and Kings (halt tame,
!h(o 7? tgh fogood, Succefiidn none folong,
But thou fhalt vanquifh by thy Popular Throng,
Thofe Legions,which t‘enlarge our Pow’r we fend Throughout the World, [hall T hee (my Dear) attend.
Our mighty Champions, the Sev'n Deadly Sins,
By Malice, Profit, Pleafure, ail their (fins,
Bring to our Kjngdomrfome few fpotted Soulsj Thou fhalt by Treafon hurry them in Shoals,
Would You now know what Int’refit I have here ?
Hydra 1 ride : great Qties are my Sphear :
I Sorcry ufe, and hang Men in their Beds,
With Common-wealths, and Rotasfill their Heads j eSMakjng the Vulgar in Fanatique Swarms Qourt Civil War, and dote on Horrid Arms s ,-7 was I, who, in the late unnatural Broils,
Engag’d three Kingdoms, and mo Wealthy I files :
1 hope, at lafl, to march with Flags unfurl’d,
And tread down Monarchy through all the Wwld.
H
AtAt which Words, Monarchy, and Loyalty, unveiling themfelves, ‘Rebellion ftarts as affrighted, but, recolleding her felf, concludes her Speech thus.
cAh! Britain ,Ah! fiand’fl thou Triumphant there, MonarchicklJJe'i I (hake with horrid Fear.
Are thy Wounds whole'. Vpon thy Qhee^fre/b Smiles ?
Is foy re/lord to thefe late mournfulIJles ?
Ah ! mujl He enter, and a Kjng be Crown'd ?
Then, as He rifetbfinkjve under Cjround.
‘Rebellion having ended her Speech, Monarchy entertains His Majefty with the following.
To Hell, foul Fiend, (hrinkjrom this glorious Light,
And hide thy Head in everlajling J^Qgbt.
Enter in Safety, "Royal Sir, this Arch,
And through your joyful Streets in Triumph march ■
Enter our Sun, our Comfort, and our Life.
^(o more thefe Walls (ballfreed lnteftine Strife :
Henceforth Your Teople onely fhall contend In Loyalty each other to tranfcend.
May Your Cfreat ABions, and immortal JsQtme,
Be the whole Buftnefs, and Delight of Fame. tfAiay You, and Yours, in a 'Perpetual Qalm Be Crown’d with Laurel, and Triumphant Palm,
And all Confefs, whilH they in You are Blefl,
1, M o n a r c h y, of (governments am Bejl.
Monarchy having ended her Speech, the Trumpets found pleafant Levets) and the Drums beat a lofty Englifh March,whilft His Majefty, the Nobility, and the Rear-Guatd pals on.
The next Entertainment is at Corn-hilLConduit, on the top of which ftand eight 3\(ymphs clad in White, each having an Efcutcheon in one Hand,and a Pendent, or Banner in the other. On the Tower of the faid Conduit, a Noife of feven T rumpets.
THEVN US NON SUFFlClT
MARETHE SECOND ARCH.
s^jj ^EAR the Exchange, in Corn-hill, is created the Second Arch, which isJ\[^aval.
S® g& “ On the EaR'fide lucre two Stages ereUed; on each fide of the “ Street, one. In that on theSomh-Jide was a Terfon repre/enting the “ "River Thames ■ his (jarment Loofe, and Flowing, Qclour ‘Blew and ,c White, waved like Water, a t5Vf antle over, like a Sail ■ his Head “ crown’d with London Sridg, flags, and Ogjer, like long Hair,falling ** over his Shoulders, buBeard log, Sea-green, and White, curl’d; an “ Oarinhisright Hand, the Mnel of a Ship in his left, anVrnbe/ide *1 him, out of which iffued Water ■ four Attendants in White, reprefent-“ ing the four frcfb Streams, which fall into the River Thames, vi^.
“ Charwel, 1 ea, Coin, and Medway.
The Antients did very much differ in the Delcriptiori of their Rivers, as JElian * relates. cThofe,that worfhip Rjvers, and thoje, that make *br«- mf-their Images, fomefcrm them in the likenefsof Men, others in the likenefs of mtt; cp Oxen. TitfStymphalians liken the TZf^rs Erafinus«««/ Metope , the	,
Lacedaemonians Eurotas, the Sieyonians and Phliafians Afopus, the Argives CephilTus, untoOxen. 77;e Pfophidiansliken Eryman-thus, the Hermans Alphseus, the Cherronefians, that came from Cnidus, the 'River Cnidus, to Men. 1 he Athenians worfhip the 'River CephilTus under the form of a Man, but wearing Horns. In Sicily the Syra-cufians liken Anapus to a Man, but the Fountain Cyane to a Woman.Vit-gil * defcribes Eridanus in the Form of an Ox.	*.£«*£' »•
Et gemina auratu, taurino cornua vultu Eridanus, quo non aliusperpinguia culta In mare pur^ureum violentior influit ammr,
Hz
GoldenGolden Eridanus, with a double Horn,
Fac’d like a Bull, through fertile Fields of Corn,
Then whom, none fwifter, of the Ocean’s Sons,
Down to the Purple Adriatic^ runs.
On which place fays Trobus; It’s feign’d h\c a ‘Bull, either beeaufe its noife is like the lowing of a Bull, or beeaufe its Banins are crooked like Horns. The fame fays Cornutus. The Scboliajl on Sophocles renders other rea-fons, either beeaufe they cut the ground like Oxen • or beeaufe Meadows, Taflure of Oxen, are always adjaccnt to them. H o r a c e ; tauriforrnis 1 Pjtk eJufidus. So we finde m Tindar that the Bull,f which Terillus gave to the Tyrant Tbalarti, was the Image of the River (felon. Very fre-
*	,Ain. hb. quentiy we finde Horns attributed to them : as in V'trtil*,
vi;i.	^
Qorniger Hefperidum fluvius regnator aquarum,
Adjii o tandem, proptus tua numinafirmes.
Horn’d Flood,of all th’ Heffjerim Rivers King,
Now fhew thy power,and us afsiftance bring.
Ovid}
£ornibus hie fra8ii,viridi male teUus ab ulva,
‘Decolor ipfe fuo fanguine Rhenus erat.
Here 'Rhine with Vine and Reeds ill cover’d flood,
His Horns being broke,diftain’d with Native Blood.
*	Dc laud. Claudian,
EtilicomSy
ilbl'	___ Rhenum^MC minacem
Coinibus infraHis adeo mitefcere cogis.
---— and threatning ‘Rhine,
His Horns being broke,thou did’ft to Peace incline.
And again of Eridanus,
Dl vi. Cc„.	---ille caput placidis fublime fluentis
fhl. Honorii.	— ; , . i	r	...
, Extuht, & tons lucemJpargentia npis.
vjureaAurea roranti micuerunt cornua "vultu :
illi madidum vulgaris arundine crinem Velat honos: rami caput umbravere virentes Heliadum, totisque fluunt eleUra capillis.
Talla tegit latos humeros ; currhque paterno Intextus Phacchon g/awfoj inccndit armtlus,
Raifinghis Head above his Wat'ry Ranks,
His Ciok n Horn?, reflecting, tip’d the Banks With fprinkled light. Drops trickling from his Face:
He his rnoift Hair veil’d not with Oziers bafe,
And vulgar Reeds: frefh Pop'lars Shade his Brows,
And Amber from his curled TrefTes flows.
A Robe his Shoulders hides; Tbaethon's wrought there,
His blew Veft burning in his Father's Chair.	>
So we finde them alfo in the form of a Man. As the River %hene, as it is fuppofed : which Statue is ft ill extant in Home lying in a Rock, vulgarly call’d Maforium from Mars’s Temple in foro Augujli, his Hair and Beard long, as if dropping with Water ; juft as Claudtan1 defcribes t D, rr,t, the River Tyber,
lilt glauca nitent hirfuto lumina vulture.
T>i/lillantperpeBus aqua,from bi/pida manat Imbribus, in liquidos fontes fe baroa relolvit.
His blew Eyes fhine under his beetle Brows, &c.
His Fore-head fwims, Water his Breaft diftills.
And his rough Beard diflolves in Cryftal Rills.
AndAnd the River Danubius in the Coyns of the Emperours Trajan, and Conjlanttne,
C eVArt. p. 18. Crojac.T ab.
XXXV.
Their Heads were ordinarily environ’d with Reeds, Oziers, and the Ovid, * relating the Fable of Acis turn’d into a River,
----Julito media tcnus extitit alvo
IncinBus jvcxenuflexis nova cornua cannis.
From whence a Youth arofe above the wafte,
His horned Brows with quiv’ring Reeds imbras't.
^ Virgil, f ofTjber, the King of Rivers,
Huic'Dcus ipfe loci flvjvio Tyberinus amceno Topuleas inter Jenior fe attollere frondes Vi/us. Eum tenuis glauco velabat amiBu Carbafus, & crinesumbroja tegebat arundo.
The Genius of the Place, old Tyber, here Am o ngft the Pop’lar Branches did appear.
Offineft Linen were his Azure Weeds,
And his moift Treffes crown’d with Ihady Reeds.
where we may obferve, that Virgil gives him a Sail for his Mantle.
*D'Tnb& Claudian*o{ Tyber,
-crijpo denfantur gramine colla:
Vertice luxuriat toto crinalis arundo, <3cc.
—_ tauma____taurina levantur
Cornua temporibus raucos judantia rivos, &c.
T alia graves hunter os velat, quam never at uxor Ilia, percurrens vitreas jub gurgite telas.
___his Neck ripe Harveft bound ■
An interwoven Reed his Temples crown'd, (?c,
„__And from his rifing Horns diftils
A Sweat, which fwells to Cryftal Rills, &c,
A Veft he wore, which Ilia, hisSpoufe With Cryftal Looms wove in her Wat’ry Houfe
O V I	M'tam
He (hades with flaggie Wreaths,and fallow Boughs,
The Statue indeed of the River Tyber, now extant in Rome, ha's its Head inviron’d with feveral forts of Leaves,and Fruits,to fignifie the fertility of the places near it, caufed by the fame : yet it recedes not fo far from the Fidtion of the Toets, but that it holds a Reed in its Hand. And the reafon is, beeaufe thefe thrive beft in watry places.
They are ordinarily defcribed too leaning on an Vrn, out of which iffues Water.
V i r r, i l, defcribing the Shield oiTurnus,
Ccelataque amncm fundens pater Inachus Vrna.
And Inachus powrs Water from his Vrn.
--capitis quoque fronde Jaligna
Jut Juperimpofita celatur arundine damnum.
—•— the damage of his Brows
C l a u d i a n of Eridanus,
pultaque Jubgrcmio ceelatts nobilis aslris jEtbereum probat (trna deem. —.--
t De vi.Con-ful. Honor if.
AnAn Urn he bore,grav’d with Cceleftial S'gns That prov'd his high defcent----
So is Danubius reprefented in the Coyns now mentioned- There is a little Image otfj'yile leaning on its right Hand , with its left Hand powringout Water from three llrns with one handle, about which play fixteen little Children. Why J\(ile fhould be figured with three Urns, this reafon is given: becaule_the /Egyptian Priefts attributed the encreafe of it to three feveral caufes efpecially , rejecting all other opinions, which were innumerable. T he fixteen Children are the Hieroglyphic^ of fixteen Cubits, the proper encreafe of the River tie : for, if it fwelled higher, it caufed dearth: for, by how much the more it fwell’d , fo much the longer it was before it return’d into its Channel, by which means the -Seed-time was loft:ifmuch under fifteen, it irrigated not the whole Land , and fo part was unfit to receive Seed. Pliny ; fujlum incrementum ejl cubitorum fedecim. Minores aqua non omn<a rigant; amphores detinent, tardms recedendo. Ha ferendi tempora abjumunt, ilia non dantJitiente. Vtrumque reputat Trovincia, In duode-cim cubitis famemfentit, m tredecim etiamnum ejurit, quatuordecim cubita bilaritatem afferunt, quindecimfecuritatem,fexdecim delicias. There was alfo not long fince a Marble Qolofs of the River thQle digg’d up at Home with fixteen Infants playing about it. And fo doth Philo stratus defcribe it.
Ofthe falling of the t5\4ole, and Medway into the Thames,Draigh* ton ha’s feigned a pleafant Relation.
nA t length it came topajs, that Ifis, and her Tame,
0/Medway mderjlood, a Nymph of mnd’rous Fame.
And much dejirous were their Princely T3‘hies fhould prove If, us a ioer, he could win her MaidenAove.
That of fo great defcent,and of fo large a Dower Might well allie their Houfe,and much encreafe his Tower :
AndJlriving to prefer their Son the befl they may,
Set forth the lujly Flood in rich and brave Array ;
cBanl{d with imbroidered Meads ,offundry fuits of Flowrs
His Breaft adorn'd with Swans, oft vvafh’d with Silver Showrs:A Train of gallant Floods, atfuch a coflly rate,
As might bejeem their care, andfitting his Eflati.
Attended, and attired magnificently, thus They fend him to the Qourt of great Oceanus,
The World’s huge Wealth to fee; yet with a full intent,
To woo the lovely Nymph,Medway,as he went.
Who to his .Dame and Sire his duty fcarce had done, nAnd rcbiltt they fadlywept at parting of their Son,
See what the Tames hefel, when 'twas fuffeBed leafl.
As flill hit goodly Train yet ey’ry hour encreasl,
And from the Surrian Shores clear Wey came down to meet His Cjreatnefs, whom the Tames fogracioujh doth greet,
T hat with the Fean-crown'd Flood he,Minion-like,doth play ■
Yet is not this the Broo\enticeth him to flay:
But, as they thus in pomp came [porting on the [hole,
’(jainsl Hampton-Court he meets thefofl and gentle Mole;
Whofe eyesfo pierc’d his Breaft,that Jeeming to foreflow The way, which he /o long-intended was to go,
With trifling up and down he Wandreth here and theres And that he in her (ight tranfparent might appear,
Applies himfelf to Fords, and fetteth his delight On that,which moft might make himgracious in her fight,
Then Ifis and the Tame from their conjojned Bed,
‘Dejirous ftill to learn hoW Tames their Son hadfped,
(For greatly they had hop’d,his time had fo been fpent,
That he e’re this had won the goodly Heir of Kent}
And, fending to enquire, had 3\(_eWs return’d again (By fuch as they employ’d in purpofe in his Train)
How this their bnely Heir,the lfle'j imperial Floodj Had loiter’d thus in Me,negleBfulof his good;
K° mervailat the Wjws, though Owfe and Tame were fad, tSMore comfort of their Son expeHtng to have had,
1	Hpr3\£or blame them, in their looks much forrov though they fbow’d,
Who, fearin" left he might thus meanly be be/lm d,
And knowing dangerJhU increafedby dclaj,
Employ their utmost' pow’r to hajlen him away.
‘But T ames would hardly on : oft turning backjo fhow,
From his much-loved Mole how loth he was to go.
The Mother of the Mole, old Homes-dale, likewife bears 7 he aff ellion of her Childe, as ill as they do theirs :
Who, nobly though deriv’d,yet could have been content,
T have match’d her with a Flood offar more mean defcent.
But Mole rcfpeUs her words, as Main and idle Dreams,
Compar'd with that high joy to be bclov’d of T ames ;
And head-long holds her courfe his tympany to win :
But Homes-dale raifedHills, to keep theflragler in •
7 hat of her Daughter’s flay fie need no more to doubt :
(Yet never was there help, but Love could finde it out.')
Mole digs her felfa Tath,by working Day and ,7\Q^ht,
C According to her Qame, to fliew her Stature right)
And underneath the Earth for three miles fpace doth creep,
Till gotten out of fight,quite from her Mother’s keep,
Her fore-intended courfe the wanton Nymph doth run,
As longing to embrace old Tame and Ifis Son.
When T ames now underflood, what pains the Mole did take,
How far the loving Nymph adventur’d for his fake; zAIthough with Medway match’d,yet never could remove 7he often'cjutcknwg (pariy of his more antient love.
So that it comes to pafs, when by great Nature’s guide 7 he Ocean doth return, and thrufleth-in the Tide,
Vp, toxp’rds the place, where firfl his much-lov’d Mole was Jeen,
He ever fince doth flow, beyond delightful Sheen.
Mr. Drayton in his Toly-Olbion.
“ In‘5 In the ot her Stage on the North-jfo/e, which is made like the upper Dec^ “of a Ship, were three Sea-men, whereof one habited like a Boat-‘‘ Swain.
“ A Shield, or Table, in the Front of the Arch, bears thu Infcription,
NEPTUNO BRIT ANNICO,
CAROLO n,
CUJUS ARBITRIO
MARE
VEL LIBERUM* VEL CLAUSUM-
The Dominion of the Sea(fignified here by this Infcription) ha's been in all Ages fo remarkable, that, when the Cfrecian Qhroriogrdphers could finde no Root-Hep of Supreme Empire by Land, before the inftitution of their Olympiads, onwhofe Aiftions they could found their Qhronogra' phy, they directed the Series of Time according to the fuccefsion of thofe Nations, who had the Empire of the Sea : which we fee in t Eu' febius; who reckons up nine fe veral Nations, who fuccefsively held it, before the inftitution of the Olympiads, and diftinftly enumerates the years they retain’d it. The fame right the (jrccians challenged in their League with Artaxerxes, King ofa vaft part of Asia, after the overthrow of his Naval Forces by Cimon the Athenian Admiral, "i*™ ait £	, tvi'bv «fle Kvavem ■£ XsAiJb\lw	uu ^
he fhould not within a Horfe'Kace ,approach the Greek Sea, nor fail whirl the Cyanean, ^n^Chelidonian IJlands with any Man oflVar, The fame Dominion of the Sea was afterwards a (Turned by the Tomans, as we finde by the Commifsion granted to Tompey,	»i« hpm.Wot s-ha»» SaMWur
it rslns «*! ri-rfiwnv; ■&,'	That he fhould have the Ern~
pire of the Sea within the Streights, and of the Continent for four hundred Stadia from the Sea. And not long after Dionyfms Halicarna/faus fays, * That lRgme was Ernprefsof the whole Sea, not cnely of that within the I a	Streights,
t ckrcnico.
*Orig.Rom. Lib. i.Streights, but of the Ocean it felf, as far as it was Navigable. Whence Jygujlus had a 2'iolpbm in his Coyns to fignifie that Dominion,
*	inttA- And * Valerius Maximus, to 7tberius the Emperour, The Qonfent both s-‘~ of Cjods and Men has conjlitutedyou (jovernour of Sea,and Land. After-
t di vi.c«- wards Claud tan \
fid. HeBorii.
____terra dominos pelagique futuros,
Immen jo di cuit rerum de Principe nafci.
Thofe, who muft rule both Sea, and Land,
Ought to be Princes Sons of great Command.
And fure, if any Nation may plead Prefcription for this Title, the Kjng of England may, having had a longer uninterrupted Sue-cefsion in the Dominion of the Brittish Stas,then the R o m a n s in the Mediterranean, or any other Nation, that Hijlory ha's acquainted us with. The Antiquity whereof being purpofely, and atlargede-clared by Mr. S e l d e n, we (hall onely take notice of two Records of it, the one taken out of the Law of HoelusDba^Pimcz. of Wales, about the Year, 981. viz. Quoi cumCunadioRege Scotorum, Malcolmo Rcge Qtmbrorum, &• Maccufeo Archipirata, ad civitatem Ltgionum fibi occurrentes, ‘Rex zJ nglorum Eadgarus in Triumpbi pompam deduce bat. Una enim impofitos remigrare eos banc coegit, dum in Trora ipfe fedens !Nffcis tennit gubernaculum : utfe hocJpeHaculo Soli O' Sali orbis ‘Britannia Dominumpradicaret,& Monarcham. The other is a Record in the Tower of London, entituled T>e Juperioritate marts Anglia, &c. in which it evidently appears, that the Dominion of the Britti(b Seas belong’d to the Kings of England time out of mind, even before Edward the Firft, and was fo acknowledged by other Neighbouring Nations ■ out of
whichwhich we fhall onely extradt fo much as may ferve for our prefent purpofe, viz. That the Trocur atours of the Admiral of the Sea of England, and of other places, as of the Sea Coajls, as of Genoa, Catalonia,
Spain, Almain, Zealand, Holland, Freeziand, Denmark, and Norway, do fl)evi that the Kjngs of England, time out of mind, have bi en in peaceable pojfefsionof the Seas of England, in making,and eflablifhing Lanes,and Sta* tutcsy and'^Reflraints of Arms, and of Ships, See and in talking Surety, &c, and in ordering all other things necejfary for the maintaining of ‘Peace, l\i{!J:t, and Equity, &c. and in doing fufiice, 'hi^ht, and Law, according to theJaid Laws, Ordinances, and cReJtraints, and in all other things, "which may apper-tain to the exercife of Sovereign Dominion in the places aforejaid.
“ The first Tainting on the North fide over the Qity- Arms, reprefents
“Nipiuns, ypnh his Trident advanced ■ the Infcription,
NEPTUNO REDUCI.
Niptuni’s Statue is feldom feen without a T rident in its hand. Taufanias Within the Temple there u an erecl Brazen Statue ( of *wh>cicis. Neptune) with one joot upon a Dolphin, and on that fide his Hand on his Thigh j in his other Hand a Trident. And fo he is every where defcribed by the Poets.
Terque tuum, pater /Egei Neptune, Tridentem.
But more of this hereafter.
The Motto N e p tun o Reduci we finde in two Medaigles. the one of the Emperour Adrian, the other of Vefpafian, with thefe Let-on one fide N E P I\ RED. and the image of one Handing naked, a Mantle on his left Shoulder, in his right Hand a Whip with three Cords, inhisleftaTrklent.
“ On the South fide, oppofite, Mars, with his Spear inverted, his Shield “ charged with a Gorgon • by his ]\nees, the Motto,
MARTI PACIFERO.
SoSo Homer defcribes the Shield of iAgamcmmn,
Tf esri (Ai rop>» ^AoavpaVns \<ri'P<Lw%>
A«4V0V J^ifKOftain , ZBta Ai J\UflO$ Ti	Ti.
The Sable Field charg’d with a Gorgon’j Head,
Mantled about with difmal Flight, and 'Dread:
and in another place the Armour of Talias,
By J\g Ti Topy**n K.jipa.A>i </'&t oio •snAapv j
Awm Ti o-jXtpAm, Ai05 'rt&.s iiyio^/oto.
Amidtt, that horridtSMonfler Gorgon'/ Head,
Jo vcs dircjl Omen., fierce, and full of dread,
‘Paufanias; Vnder the Statue of ViBory lies a Golden Shield, with a •In Acharn. Gorgon wrought upon it. And it is obferv’d by the Scholiafl on * <tAri-fiophanes,ihai it wasCuftomary among the Cjrecians to have a Cjorgan’s ~ in iuc. Head on their Shields, as he reprefents 1 Lamachus’s. The Form of this Cjorgoris Head is ftill to be feen at 'Rome on the Statues of the Em-perours Ve/pajian and Domitian. It was feigned with Wings, to fignL fie theprefent death, that attended it: for whoever looked on it, im. mediatly was turn’d into Stone. The which at large , and very ele-hb. v. Fab... gant}y js declared by Ovid,
‘But when he faw his Valour overfway'd By altitude; I mufijaid hejeel^aid (Sinceyouyour felves compell me') from my Foe;
Friends turn your Back\: then Gorgon'; Head doth fhow.
Some others feek^, faid Theffalus, to fright With this thy Monfter, and with all his might <tA deadly Dart endeavour'd to have thrown :
‘But in that Tofiture became a Stone.
3\(ext Amphix, full of fpint, forward presl, jfnd thrufl his Sword at bold Lyncides Breafl:When in the Tafs his Fingers Hupidgrow,
J\(j)r had the pow’r ofmoving to or fro.
1But Nileus Q he, if ho with a forgedJlile Vaunted to be the Son of fev’n fold Nife, eA nd bare levn Siher Riycrs in his Shieldt DifiinUly waging through a, (f olden Field )
To Perfeusfaid ■ Behold, from 'whence wefprung !
To ever-filent Shadows bear along
Thu comfort of thy Deatht that thou did’fl die
'Ey fuch a brave,and high-born Enemy.
His utt’rance faulter’d in the latter Claufe,
The yet unfinifh’d Word fiuck^in his faws-^
Who gaping slood, as he would fomething fay,
"Jlnd fo had done, if words had found a way.
Thefe Eryx blames j 'Tisyour faint Souls, that dead Your Tow'rs, faid he, and not the Gorgon’j- Head: '1ft(b on with me, andproflrate with deep Wounds This Youth, who thus with cSM'agic/^ Arms confounds* Then rufloing on, the ground his foot-Jleps flai’d uffw mutely fix’d, an armed Statue made.
Thefe fuffefd worthily. One, who did fight For Perfeus, bold Aconteus, at the fight Of Gorgon’/ Snakes abortive cSAdarble grew,
On whom Aftyages in fury fi:w, zAs if alive ^with his tiro-handled Blade,
Which jj)rilly twang’d, butnoincijionmade.
Who, whilfl he wonderst the fame S\(_ature too And now his Statue ha’s a wondring look.
It were too tedious for me to report
Their 3\£ames, who peri(h’d of the vulgar fort:t Epithal. Pol.
Two hundred fcap’d the fury of the Fight ■
Two hundred turn’d to fione at Gorgon’sftght.
Mr. S A N D Y S.
The Head is thus oefcribed bySiDONius Apollinaris,
Gorgo tenet pellus medium, fatlura videnti Et truncata tiaras, nitet infidtoja fuperbum Effigies, VMitque anima peremte venujlas.
Altacerafiarum Jpiris caput afperat atrum Congeries, torquet maciiiofa volumina mordax Crinis, & irati dant fibila tetra capilli.
The Cjorgon s Head, which guards her Bofome, would Change thee to Statue , fliould'ft thou it behold.
The treach’rous Face fhows proudly, and, though dead,
Life's beauty keeps. Snakes, matted round her Head,
In fpeckled Curls voluminoufly wreath,
And biting Trelies direly-hifsing breath.
*	in Ami. Pausanias * reports, that T alias made a City impregnable, by communicating onely a little Hair cut offfrom her Cjorgon’s Head.
The Title of P a c i f e r is attributed to Mars in the Roman Coyns • as in this of Quintillus,
Hulpus.
So we finde, that the Romans erected a Temple to Mars Quirinus, as well as Mars (jradivus. The firft had his Temple within theCity:
thethe other without in the Appian-wxy, not far from the Gate. The one, with a gentle, fedateCountenance, to preferve the tranquillity, and peace of the City: the other,to go out with them in their Wars abroad.
Cjelhus * fays,That Heriila./pealing before T. Tatius, anddeJtrtngTeace, *Nta.Aa. prayed on this manner, O Neria, Wife of Mars, / befeech thee to grant us 1 Teace, that we may enjoy a during, and profperous Marriage. And therefore the Olive, the Symbols ol Peace, was confecrated to Talias, the Goddefsof War,- beeaufe War is therefore undertaken, thatafecure Peace may be enjoyed. Ideo arma inferri dicmtur, ut pojlea in pace lei-Vatur, [aysTliny.
“ Over the Arch, the Marriage of Thame and lfis.
The Marriage of Rivers' is a frequent Fiction among the Poets : as of Aipheus and Arethufa- therefore feign'd, beeaufe Alpheus, a River ofSlis in the z5\forea, pafleth through the Ocean, unmix'd, to the River Arethufa in the lfland Ortjgia, near Syracuse,& City of Sicily. Which paffage ha’s been often tried,as by a Cup/aysf Strabo, let fall in the Ri- *.<?«*!•■ ver Alpheus in Slis, and found in Arethufa: mail tain’d alfo by an Ora' cle given to Archia-s, a Corinthian, that he (hould thither deduce a.Colony, where Alpheus is mingled with the Fountain of Arethufa. The Marriage ofthefetwowe have defcribed by ^ Ovid, where the Nymph *M,um. Arethufa fpeaks, being ready to be turn'd into a River •
Cold Sweats my then-befieged Limbs poffefl:
In thin thick^fallmgDrops my ftrength dccreasl.
Where e're 1 Jlep, Sti earns run; my Hair now fell In trickling Dew ■ dnd} foonSr then I tell My Defltny , into a Flood I The Timer Us beloved Wuters knew •
And, putting off th’affumed fhape of sSMan,
Tie fumes his own, and in my Qurrent ran.
Qhafl Delia cleft the ground: then, through blind Caves,
To lov'd Ortygia fhe conduBs my Waves,
AffeBed for her Jfame : where firjl I take Tieyieve of day. This Arethufa fpake.
Mr. SandysI
K
ThusThus zAnapus, and Cyanc are feign'd mutual Lovers j beeaufe their itu. Waters unite, and run together into the Sea. Ovid,
____quod fi componere magnis
Tarva mihifas cfl; & me dilexit Anapus:
Exorata tamen, nec, iit hact exterrita nupfi.
If humble things I may compare with great, aAnapus lov'd me; yet didheintreat,
And me, not frighted thus, efpous'd.
The Marriage of Tibur and Ilia is frequently mention’d, Ovid, fpeaking of both,
zA tque it a fe in rapidas perdita mi fit aquas:
Suppojuifse mams adpeBora lubricus amnis 'Dicitur, (2~ jociijura dedijfe tbori.
She leap’d amidft the Stream with grief oppreft:
The River puts his hand beneath her Breaft,
And, as they fay, unloos’d her Virgin-Ceft-
In another place,
J\(ec tepratereo, qui,per cava faxa volutus,
Tiburis Argxi Jpumifer arvarigas'.
Ilia cui placuit.—----—
Nor thee, roll’d through worn Rocks, do I pafs by,
Who on Tjburiian Grounds doft foaming ly :
Whom Ilia pleas’d.----.—
Lib-m. SlLIUS ItaLICUS,
Adgenitorem Anio labens fine murmure Tibrim.
Hie, ut Jignaferox, dimenfdque caflra locavit,
EtEt ripas tremefecit eqttes, perterrita pulfts Ilia prima vadis [aero fe conjugis antro
——— but on, like a rude Storm, he goes To thofe low Banks, where Anio gently flows With Sulph'rous Waters, and with Silence, to Old 7ibcr s Arms; when here the Line he drew Of’s Camp, and fet his Standard up, and fhook His Banks with’s Cavalry, firft Ilia, flrook With Fear, flies to her Husband’s facred Cave,
And all the frighted S\Qmphs the Water leave.
Mr. Ross.
The Marriage of Tame and I (is, here mention'd, is pleafantly related by Mr. D R A Y TO N ’ •	t r„hi, Pcn
1	7	ly-Olbion,
Smg IJ.
Now Fame had through this lie divulg'd,in every ear,
The long-expeded day of Marriage to be near,
That Ijis, Cotfxt old's Heir,long-woo’d, was laftly won,
And inftantly fhould wed with Tame, old Qnltcrn’s Son,
And now that Wood-man’s Wife, the Mother of the Flood,
The rich and goodly Vale of Alesbwy, that flood So much upon her Tame, was bufied in her Bow’rs,
Preparing for her Son as many Sutes of Flow’rs,
At Cotjxfold for the Bride, his Jfis, lately made;
Who for the lovely Tame, her Bridegroom, onely ftaid.
Whilft every Cryflal Flood is to this bufinefs preft,
The caufe of their great fpeed and many thus requefl:;
O ! whither go ye Floods { what fuddain Winde doth blow,
Then other of your kind that you fo faft (hould flow •
WhatWhat bufinefs is in hand, that fpurs you thus away Fair JVindrufb, let me hear, I pray thee, Charnel fay :
They fuddainly reply, What lets,you fhould not fee.
That for this Nuptial Feaft we all prepared be ?
Therefore this idle chat our Ears doth but offend ;
Our leifure ferves not now thefe Trifles to attend.
But, whilft things are in hand, old Cbiltern (for his life)
From prodigal expenfe can no way keep his Wife ;
Who feeds her Tame with Marl, in Cordial-wife prepar'd, And thinks all idly fpent, that now fhe onely fpar'd In fetting forth her Son : nor can fhe think it well,
Unlefs her Javifli charge do Cotfu old’s far excel.
For ndlesburysn Vale, that wallowethin her Wealth,
And ( by her wholefom Air continually in health )
Is lufty,frim, and fat, and holds her.youthful firength.
Befides her fruitful Earth, her mighty breadth,and length, Doth Chiltern fitly match : w hich mountainoufly high,
And being very long, fo likewife fhe doth lie ;
From tht'BcdfordianFields, where firft fhe doth begin, Tofafhion like a Vale, to th'place where Tame doth win His Ijh wifhed Bed j her Soil throughout fo fure,
(■ Forgoodnefs of her Glebe, and for her Pafture pure,
That as her Grain, and Grafs, fo fhe her Sheep doth breed,
For Burthen, and for Bone, all other that exceed :
And fhe, which thus in Wealth abundantly doth flow,
Now cares not on her Childe what coft fhe do beftow. Which when Wife Chiltern faw (the World who long had try’d, And now at Iaft had laid all garifh Pomp afide ;
Whofehoar and chalky Head defcri’d him to be old, HisBeechen Woods bereft, that kept him from the Cold) Would fain perfwade the Vale to hold a fteddy rate ■
And with his curious Wife thus wifely doth debate:
QuothQuoth he, you might allow what needeth, to themoft :
But where as lefs will ferve, what means this idle Coft 1 Too much a Surfet breeds, and may our Childe annoy :
Thefe fat and lufhious Meats do but our Stomacks cloy.
The modeft comely mean in all things likes the Wife,
Apparel often (hews us Womanifhprecife.
And what will fatfwold think, when he flnall hear of this ?
He’l rather blame your Wafte, then praife your Coft, 1 wifs.
But, Women wilful be, and fhe her Will mufthave,
Nor cares how Chiltern chides, fo that her Tame be brave.
Alone which towrds his Love fhe eafily doth convay •
For the Oxonian Oivfe was lately fent away
From ‘Buckingham, where firft he finds his nimbler Feet;
Tow'rds Whittlewodthen takes: where, paft the nobleft Street^
He to the Foreft gives his farewel, and doth keep His courfe diretftly down into the (jerman Deep,
To publifh that great day in mighty J^eptune’s Hall*
That all the Sea^gods there might keep it Feftival,
As we have told how Tame holds on his even courfe,
Return we to report, how lfis from her fourfe
Comes tripping with delight, down from her daintier Springs •
And in her Princely Train, t'attend her Marriage, brings Clear (Imrnet, Qoln, and Leech, which firft fhe did retain,
With iVindrufh: and with her ( all oGt-rage to reftrain,
Which well might offered be to lfis, as fhe went)
Came Yenload with a Guard ofSatjres, which were fent From iVbichxtood, to await the bright and God-iike Dame.
So ‘Bsrnwood did bequeath his Saiyres to the Tame,
For Sticklers in thofe ftirs, that at the Feaft fhould be.
Thefe Preparations great when Channel comes to fee,
To Oxford got before, to entertain the Flood, rfpollo's Aid he begs, with all his facred Brood,
ToTo that moil learned place to welcome her repair,
Who in her coming on was wax'd fo wondrous fair, That,meeting, ftrife arofe betwixt them,whether they Her Beauty fhould extol,or (he admire their Bay.
On whom their fev’ral gifts (to amplifie her Dower)
The Mufet there beftow ; whichever have the power Immortal her to make. And, as (he pad along,
Thofe modeft Tbefpian Maids thus to their lfis fong,
Ye Daughters of the Hills, come down from every fide, And due attendance give upon the lovely Bride :
Go ftrew the Paths with Flowers, by which five is to pafs:
For be ye thus aflur’d, in nAlbion never was A Beauty (yet) like hers : where have ye ever feen
So	abfolute a UYjmpbin all things, for a Queen Give inftantly in charge the day be wondrous fair,
That no diforder'd Blaft attempt her braided Hair.
Go, fee her State prepar’d, and every thing be fit,
The Bride-Chamber adorn’d with all befeeming it.
And for the Princely Groom,who ever yet could name A Flood, that is fo fit for Jfis, as the Tame ?
Ye both fo lovely are, that knowledge fearce can tell,
For Feature whether he, or Beauty (he excel:
That, raviftied with joy each other to behold,
When as your Cryftal Wafts you clofely do enfold,
Betwixt your beauteous felves you (hall beget a Son,
That when your lives (hall end,in him (hall be begun.
The pleafant Surrian Shores (hall in that Flood delight,
And Kjnt efteem her felf mofl happy in his fight.
The Shire that London loves, (hall onely him prefer,
And give full many a gift to hold him near to her.
The Skeld, the goodly Mofe, the rich and Viny 'EJiein,
Shall come to meet the Thames in J^eptune's watry Plain.
AndAnd all the Belgian Streams, and neighb’ring Floods of Quid,
Of him (hall ftand in aw, his Tributaries all.
As of fair Ifit thus the learned Virgins fpake,
A fhrill and fuddain Bruit this Trotbalamion brake;
That White-borje, for the love fhe bare to her Ally,
And honoured Sifter'Vale, the bounteous Alesbury,
Sent Prefents to the Tame, by Ock. her onely Flood,
Which for his Mother-Vale fo much on greatnefs flood’
From Oxford IJis hafts more fpeedily, to fee That River, like his Birth, might entertained be :
For that ambitious Vale, ftill ftriving to command,
And ufingfor her place continually to ftand,
Proud Wbite-horfe to perfwade much bufinefs there hath been, T’acknowledge that great Vale of Sufkam for her Queen.
And but that Eu[ham is fo opulent, and great,
That thereby (he her felf holds in the Sovereign Seat,
This Wbite-horje all the Vales of Britain would or’ebear,
And abfolutely fit in the Imperial Chair;
And boafts as goodly Heards, and num'rous Flocks to feed,
To have as foft a Glebe, as good increafe of Seed ■
As pure and frefh an Ayr upon her Face to flow,
As Eufbam for her life : and from her Steed doth (how,
Her lufty rifing Downs as fair a Profpect take,
As that imperious Wold; which her great Queen doth make So wond’roufly admir’d, and her fo far extend.
But to the Mariage, hence, induftrious Mufe defcend.
The ZN^ajads, and the j\(ympbs extremely over-joy’d,
And on the winding Banks all bufily imploy’d,
Upon this joyful day, fome dainty Chaplets twine;
Some others chofen out, with fingers neat and fine,
Brave Anadems do make : fome Bauldricks up do bind ;
Some,Garlands: and to fome the Mofegays were afsign’d ;As beft their Skill did ferve. But, for that Tame fhould be Still man-like as himfelf, therefore they will, that he Should not be dreft with Flow'rs, to Gardens that belong,
C His Bride that better fit) but onely fuch as fprong From the replenifa’d Meads, and fruitful Paftures near :
To fort which Flow’rs fome fit; fome making Garlands were; The Primrofe placing firft, beeaufe that in the Spring It is the firft appears, then onely flourifhing ;
Theazur’d Hare-bell next with them they neatly mixt: T’allay whofe luihious Smell they Woodbind plac'd betwixt. Amongft thole things of fcent, there prick they in the Lilly j And near to that again her Sifter Daffadilly.
To fort thefe Flow’rs of (how with th’other that werefweet, The Cowflip then they couch, and th’Ox(lip,for her meet: The Columbine amongft they (paringly do fet,
The Yellow King-cup, wrought in many a curious free,
And now and then among, of Eglantine a fpray,
By which again acourfeofLady-fmocks they lay : TheCrow-flower, and thereby the Clover-flowertheyftick, The Dayfie over all thofe fundry fvveets fo thick,
As Nature doth her felf; to imitate her right:
Who feems in that her Pearl fo greatly to delight,
That ev’ry Plain therewith (lie powd’reth to behold:
The crimfon Darnel Flow’r, the Blew-bottle, and Gold ; Which though efteem’d but Weeds, yet for their dainty hews, And for their fcent not ill, they for their purpofe chufe.
Thus having told you how the Bridegroom Tame was dreft, I’le (hew you how the Bride, fair lfis, they inveft ■
Sitting to be attir'd under her Bow’r of State,
Which fcorns a meaner fort, then fits a Princely rate.
In Anadems, for whom they curioufly difpofe The Red, the dainty White, the goodly Damask Rofe,
Forfor the rich Ruby, Peari, and Amatift, men place In Kings Emperial Crowns’ the Circle that enchafe.
The brave Carnation then,with fweet and foveraign power ( So of his colour call'd, although a July-flower)
With th'other of his kind, the fpeckled and the pale :
Then th'odoriferous Pink, that fends forth fuch a Galfe Of fweetnefs; yet in fcents, as various as in forts.
The Purple Violet then, the Panfie there fupports ;
7 he Mary-gold above t’adorn the arched Bar •
The double Dayfie, Thrift,theButtoivbatcheler,
Sweet Williamj Sops in Wine, the Campion : and to thefe, Some Lavander they put, with Rofemary and Bays:
Sweet Marjoram, with her like, fweet Bafii rare for fmell,
With many a Flower,whofe name were now too long to ttll: And rarely with the reft, the goodly Flo wer-delice.
Thusfoi- the nuptial hour4 all fitted point-device, Whilftfome ftill bufied are in decking of the Bride,
Some others Were again as ferioully imploy’d In ftrewing ofthofe Hea< bs, at Bridals us’d that be :
Which every where they throw with bounteous hands and free* The healthful Balm and Mint, from their full laps do fly.
The fcent-ful Camomil, the verdurous Coftmary.
They hot Mufcado oft with milder Maudlin caft :
Strong Tanfey, Fennel cool, they prodigally wafte :
Clear lfop,and therewith the comfortable Thyme,
Germander with the reft, each thing then in her prime •
As well of wholefome Hearbs, as every pleafant Flower, Which Nature here produc’d, to fit this happy hour. Amongft thefe ftrewing kinds, fome other wilde that grow,
As Burnet, all abroad, and Meadow-wort they throw.
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“ The ‘Painting on the North -fide , over Neptune, reprejentstbe “Exchange; the Motto,
--GENERIS LAPSI SARCIRE RUINAS.
cc aJn Sxprefsion of Virgil'j, in the fourth of his Georgicks, fpeaking “ of the Induflry of Bees, never dijcouraged bj their Lojfes; his ‘Defcri-
“ ption of it running thus,
Quo magis exhauflte fucrint, hoc acrius omnes Incumbent generis iapfi farcire ruinas,
Compltbuntque Foros, & Floribus Horrea texent.
How much by Fortune they exhaufted are,
So much they ftrive the Ruins to repair Of their fal'n Nation and they fill th” Exchange,
Adorning with the choiceft Flow’rs their Grange,
“ The Tainting on the South'/ide, over Mars, [he»s the Tower 0/ “ London ; the inlcription,
CLAUDUNTUR BELLI PORTyE.
This is in reference to the Temple of J a n u s , never ftiut,but in tha time of Peace ; nor opened., but in time of War, Therefore, whea King Latinus had refilled to raife a War againft jEneas , and his Followers, and to that purpofe, to open the Gates of the Temple of Janus, funo, refolving to have a War profecutedagainft him, opened them her felt: mention’d by V 1 r g i l f,
Hoc & turn ,/Eneadis indicere bella Latinus
ore jubebatur, triflesque recludere portas.
Jbflinuit taUu Pater, averfusque refugit Fceda minifteria & cacisfe condidtt umbris.
Turn ‘Regina Deum, cxlo deiapfa, morantes Impulit ipfa mantt Portas : &, car dine yerfo,
!Belli ferrasos rupit Saturnia pofles.The King was here required by the States
War to denounce, and O p e n Janus Gates.
He flies th’ Engagement, and fo foul a Caufe,
And ftraight himfelf to privacy withdraws.
Then from high Heav’n the Queen of Gods defcends,
And the refifting Portals open rends.
She breaks the Hinges, tears down Iron Bars,
And makes a fpacious way for impious Wars.
ltClhe Tedejlals, in the Vpper Story, are adorned with eight hying Fi-“ gures, reprefenting Europe, Asia, Africk, and America, with “ E/cutcheons, and Pendents, tearing the Arms of the Companies trading “ into thoje parts.
“Europe, a Woman arm'd a l'antique; on her Shield a Woman ru “ ding on a Bull j at her foot a Qoney.
The Effigies of Europe in Armour relates to the Warlike difpofition of that part of the W orld, evidently feen in the (freely and ‘Reman Mo-narchies. We (hall not need to defcribe her Armour in particular, but leave it to be taken from this Defcription of /(owe, the Miftrefs of Europe, in Claudian,
Jpfa, triumphatis quapojsidetcetheraregnis, zJ/silit, innupta ritusimitata Minerva::
P^(_amneque cafanemcnnali Jlringerecultu Qolla, nec ornatu pntitnr mollire retorto ,•
‘Dextrum nuda latm, niveos exferta lacertos,
Judacem retegit mammam, laxkmque coercens Adordet gemma finum: nodus, qui fublevat enjem,
Album puniceo peflus difcriminat oflio.
Mifcetur decori virtm, pulche'rque fevero Jrmatur terrorspuddr^galetcque minaci Flava cruentaruni pratenditur umbra jubarum.
Et formidato clypeus Titana lacefsit Lumine, quem tota yariarat Mulciber arte.
L 2	SheShe who by conquering Realms the Sky poffeft,
Starts from her Seat, like Virgin-Tallas dreft:
Her Hair no Fillet bound, nor washer Head Dreft up, Treffes hung ore her Shoulders fpread,
Her right fide nak’d, with ftretch'd out Arms, her Breaft Boldly fhe bares, a Jemme clafpt up her Veft,
Her Faulchion in a Purple Belt, more bright Her Bofom rendred, fetting off the white :
Valour with Beauty mix’d, a modeft Blufh With terrour arm'd, her threatningCask and Bufh Of Bloody Plumage caft a dreadful fhade :
And (jrergOH'Shield, that Titan fo difmai’d,
Which Vulcan with fuch art and labour made.
Whom Sidonius zApollinaris followed fo nearly, that there will need no other Tranflation then the precedent.
Seder at exerto bellatrix peBore Ttyma
Qrifiatum turrita caput, cui pone capaci j	f
Caftide prolap/us [erfundi t terga capillus.
Lcctitia cenfura manet, terrorque pudore Qrefcit, & invita Juperat virtute yenujlas.
OJlricolor pepli textus, quern fibula torto
t5Ad ordax dente vorat, turn quicquul mamma refundit
Tegminis, hoc patulo conclu/it gemma recejfu.
Hinc fnlcit rutilus fpaciofo circite lavum Umbo lams, videos bic crajffo fufa metallo Antra Rht xjcetamq-, lupam,quam fauce reteBa ‘B/andiri quoqj terror er at, quanquamilla vorare tS\£artigenas & piBa timet,pars proximo Tybrin Exprimit; hie fcabri fu/us/ub pumice tophi Trcflabat madidmn per gutturaglaucafioporem.
HerHer Shield comprehends the Story from whence Europe had her name, agreeably to the Cuftome of the Ancients: as we finde by this defcription of the Shield of ‘Rome in the fame Authour.
Hie patrius Mavortis amor,fcetusq• notantm %6mulei• po/l amnis inejl} & bellua nutrix.
EleSroTyberis, Tueriformanturin Juro.
Tinguntara lupam, Mavors adamantecorujcai.
Here Mars efcapes, and there the Twins he drew,
And next the River, and the Shee-wolfe too:
Tyber in Amber, and the Boyes in Gold,
The Wolf m Brafs, Mars he in Steel did mould.
The firft part of which feems to be taken from that of /Eneas in Virgil’, lllic res Italas, Ti^manommque triumphs,
Haud vatum ignarus venturique tnfcius eevi,
Feeerat Ignipotens, illic genus omnefutures Stirpisab Jfcanio^pugnataque in or dine belto Feeeratt & viridifatani Mavortis in antro Trocubuife lupam j geminos buic ubera eireum Ludere pendentes pueros, & lambere matrem Impavidos; illam tereti cervice reflexam Mulcere alternos, & corporafingere lingua,
3\(ecprocul hinc, rRomain} &x.
Th’ Ignipotent God, well skill'd in Fates to Come,
The 'Roman triumphs and affaires of %eme,
There had engrav'd, Afcanius Off-fpring wrought,'
And all their bloody battels muft be fought.
The pregnant Wolfe in Mars green Covert lay,
And hanging at her breafts two infants play:
Bending her neck fhe licks the tender young,
And quiet, ftiapes their bodies with her tongue.
Not far from this, 'Rpme, &c.	Ort Aflronom. L*. iv.
Or from thefe of Stilus Italicus, defcribing the Shield of Flaminius, a Hyman Conful;
Turn clypeum quatit, afperjum quem cadibus olim Celticus ornarat cruor : hument'ique fub antro,
Qeufoetum,lupa permulcens puerilia membra Ingentem Affarici ceclo nutribat alumnum.
Next, he aflumes his Shield, where they behold
The ftains of Celtic^ blood, which he before In Battel (lied : and, in it carv’d, he bore A She-Wolfs Figure, in her gloomy Den,
Licking a Child’s foft Limbs, as it had been Her Whelp, and nurs’d of the A[farick^ Line A Stem, that afterwards was made Divine.
Mr. Ross.
The other, from thefe Verfes of ?5Mofchus, where he defcribes the Basket of Europa,
’.ApjJpe©1 fiei «i» N«AV po^‘ * a.&t tsropris Xa.Ax.eict, yjuov *Ae	iufoi g»i? Z
In Silver Stilus flood, the Cow in Brafs,
Andfupiter'm Gold engraven was.
The Fable prefented in the Shield of Europe is this. Europa,Daughter of Agenor, gathering Flowers near the Sea-fide, was carryed away by Jupiter, in the Form of a Bull, into Qete, where (he became his Spoufe ; by whofe Name he caufed that part of the World to be called, according to this of Adanilius ',
Quod fupercjl Europa tenet, qua prima natantem FluBibus excep'itque Jovem, Taurimque rejolvit. lUepuellari donavit nomine fluBus,
Et mommenta fui titulo facrayit amorts.Europa laft place held, whom fove his Prize Through Billows bearing,caft his Bull’s difguife,
And gave that Sea, to her eternal Fame,
In memory of his Love, the Virgin’s Name.
This Virgin was generally reputed a Tyrian. Euripides,
$omx.oynv$ tccli £ Tucutf Ttx.io'i Eupaams - —
Seneca the Tragedian,
Tyria: per undos yeBor Europatniteti
Through Waves Tyrian Suropa’s bearer fhone.
And Herodotus1 conjectures this quarter of the World was named *»' •? * LihM-’Eupa=n,s C which Valia renders, ab Europa Tyria ) in his firft Book, affirming, the Cretans fail’d to Tyre, and ftole her from thence. The Qhronographers, that follow Eufebius,rank this about the time of fojhuab, but the Arundelian Marbles ( fet forth by Mr. Selden ) (hew, that Qad-nius came to Tbcbes, and built Cadmeaat the fame time,when AmpbiByon reign’d in Athens,which was before the lfraelites forfook Egypt. By this it is apparent, that Europa was not of Tyre; for that was built long af-ter,^.according 10 fofephus *, before the Temple of Solomon, which was begun in the 4.80. Y ear after the IJraelites departure out of Egypt.
It is fuppofed, that that part of the Fable, which feigns her carried away by a Bull, fignifies no more, then that (he was tranfported by Sea in a Ship called thtBull, from the Figure of a Bull on the Prow of it. So Lycophron,
’Ey r<xufof//p?« Tfc^aric/^
it being among the Ancients the ufualCuftom to nominate their Ships from the'EariWw, or Injigne on the Prow, as the Tiger, Centaure} and Triton, in the Navy of /Eneas, mention’d by Virgil1,
Mafsicus arata princeps fecat atjuora Tigri.
I'tli’ Brazen Tigre Mafsicus firft ftands.
FilmsFilms aquales comitatus claffe catervas lngentem remis Centaurumpromovet.—
Hunc vehit immanu Triton, & carula concha Exterrens freta.——
His Son attended with an equal Troop Brings, with tuff Oars, the mighty Centaure up.
This mighty 7 riton bore , frighting the Tides With his fhrill Trump,---
We (hall not need give any further account of this Fable, but leave the further Relation of it to this Poem of Mojchus,
Eopotfr) sro'i'e Kufl&s err) yAvxuo	ctafov,
Nm'Jos oje rtTtt'jiV AL'^%' 'Itami, e>fu0{ <A’ i]u>$9 &C.
A fweet Dream Venus once Europa lent,
In Nights third quarter, near the Morns afcent;
Whilft Slumber which her eye-lids fweetly crown'd,
Her Limbs unti'd, and her Eyes foftly bound (That time which doth all truer Dreams beget.)
Europa Phcenix-child, a Virgin yet,
Alone in a high Chamber taking reft,
Beholds two Countries that for herconteft,
The iJftdn, and her oppofite ;both feem’d Like Women ; that a ftranger, this efteem’d A Native who (a Mother like) doth plead That fhe of her was born, by her was bred •
The other violent hands upon her laid,
And drew by force the unrefifting Maid,
Urging fhe was as prize to fove defign’d :
Out of the bed fhe ftarts with troubled mind:
And panting heart; the Dream to life's fo near:
Long fate (he filent; long both Women wereAfter (he wak'd prefented to her fenfe,
Til] thus at length fhe breaks her deep fufpence.
Which of the Gods, as now I did repofe,
Perplex'd my Fancy with delufive Shows i My calmer Sleeps difquieting with fear ;
What Stranger in my Slumber did appear C Her love (hot fuddainly into my Breaft And kindnefs, like a Mother,fhe exprefs'd.
The Gods vouchfafe this Dream a good event!
She rofe, and for her lov'd Companions fent,
In Years, and Friendfhip, equal, nobly born With them for Balls fhe us’d her felf t'adorn •
Or in Amur us current Bathes,with them,
She plucks the fragrant Lilly from her Stem Thefe ftraight come to her; each a Basket held To gather Flowers ■ fo walk they to a Field Neighb’ring the Sea, whither they often went Pleas’d with the Waters noife, and Rofes fcent.
A Golden Basket fair Europa bare,
Rich, yet in Vulcan’s Workmanfhip more rare,
Which [epttine firft to Ljbia gave, when he Obtain’d her Bed, to Telepbaffa fhe Wife to her Son, from 7elepbajfa laft This to unwed Europe her Daughter paft Which many Figures neatly wrought did hold. lnacbian Io was hefe carv’d in Gold,
Not yet in Woman's fhape, but like a Cow,
Who feem’d to fwim, and force (enraged) through The Briny Sea her way; the Sea was Blew ;
Upon the higheft point of Land to view The Wave-dividing Heifer, two Men ftand ■ fove ftrokes the wet Cow with his facred hand,
M	WhoWho, unto feven-mouth'd J^iliu crofsingover,
Did caft her Horns, and Woman's fhape recover.
In Silver ZhQhu Flood,jhe Cow in Bfafs,
And fupiter in Gold engraven was ■
Mercury’s figur’d on the furtheft round,
And next him lies diftended on the ground Argos, endu’d with many watchful Eyes,
Out of whofe Purple Blood a Bird doth rife,
Proud ofhis various Flo wry Plumes, his Tail ge fpreadeth like a fwift Ship under Sail,
And comprehends the Border with his Wings;
Such is the Basket fair Europa brings.
All at the Painted Field arive, where thefe With fev'ral Flow'rs their feveral Fancies pleafe.'
One fweet U^arc'tjfm plucks, another gets Wilde Savory, Hyacinths, and Violets,
Many fain Spring-born Flow'rs the ground doth fhare,
Some ftrive which yellow Crocus fragrant Hair Should fafter pluck • i'th' midftthe Queen doth ftand Gathering the Rofes Beauty with her hand ;
The Graces foby Venus are out-fhind.
Nor muft fhe long with Flowers divert her mind,
Nor long preferve uaftain’d her Virgin Zone,
For fwe, upon the Meadow looking down,
By Venus fubtle Darts was ftruck in love,
Venus hath power to captivate great fme.
Who of frow’rd Juno's jealoufie afraid,
And that he might deceive the tender Maid,
In a.'Bull’s Shape his Deity doth vail,
Not fuch as are in Stables bred, or trail
The crooked Plough, the furrow’d Earth to wound,
Or run amongft the Heards in Pafture Ground,
OrOr are to draw the laden Waggon us'd*
Yellow o’reall his body is diffus’d,
Save a white Circle fhines am id it his Brow,
His brighter Eyes with amorous Sparkles glow,
His Horns with equal length l ife from his Head,
Like the Moon's Orb, to half a Cirelc fpread.
Into the Mead he comes, nor (Teen) doth fright •
The Virgins to approach him all delight,
And ftroke the lovely Bull, whofe divine fmell Doth far the Meads perfumed Breath excel:
Before unblam'd Europa s Feet he flood,
Licking her Neck, and the Maid kindly woo'd :
She ftroak'd, and kifs’d him; and the Foam, that lay Upon his Lip, wip'd with her hand away :
He foftly bellow’d, fuch an humming found Forth breathing,as Mygdonian Pipes refound.
Down at her Feet he kneels, viewing the Maid With writhed Neck, and his broad Back difplai’d,
When fhe to th’fair- haird Virgins thus doth fay 5 Come hither dear Companions, let us play,
Securely with this Bull, and without fear-W ho, like a Ship, all on his Back will bear.
He tame appears to light, and gently kind,
Diff’ring from others, a difcurfive mind Bearing like Men, and onely Voice doth lack,;
This faid, fhe fmiiinggets upon his Back;
Which the reft off ring, the Bull leaps away,
And to the Sea bears his defired Prey ■
She cals with ftretch’d'Oiit hands, fhe turns to view Her Friends, alafs unable to purfue ;
Down leaps lie, rDol])bin-X\kc glides through the Seas 3 Up from the Deep rife the 'ereidcs,
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Mounted on Whales to meet her on the way i Whilft hollow-founding 3\(eptune doth allay The Waves, and is himfelf his Brothers guide In this Sea-Voyage ;TWtow,on each fide,
(The Deep's inhabitants)about him throng,
And found with their long fhels a nuptial fong ,•
She by transformed fupiter thus born,
With one hand holding faft the Bull's large Horn Her purple garment with the other faves Unwet by the fwoln Ocean’s froathy waves:
Her mantle (flowing o're her (boulders, fwell'd Like a full fail, and the young maid upheld.
Now born away far from her native coaft,
Her fight the wave-wafht (hore and mountains loft. She fees the Heav’ns above, the Seas beneathe,
And, looking round about, thefe Cries doth breathe.
O whither facred Bullwho art thou, fay That through undreaded floods canft break thy way: The Seas are pervious to fwift Ships alone,
But not to Bulls is their fear’d voyage known j What food is here ? or if fome God thou be Why doft, what misbefeems a Deity i Upon the Land no Dolphins, no Bulls move Upon the Sea ; Thou Sea and Land doft prove Alike • whofe feet like Oares afsift thy haft;
Perhaps thou'lt foar through the bright Air at laft On high, and like the nimble Birds become.
Me moft unhappy, who have left my home,
A Bull to follow, voyages unknown To undertake, and wander all alone.
But U^eptme thou, that rul’ft the foaming Main Be pleas'd to help me; fure I (hall obtainA fight of this great God, who is my guide,
Nor elfe could I thefe fluid paths have tride.
The largely horned Bull thus anfwer’d • Maid Be bold, nor of the fwelling waves afraid,
For I am fove who now a Bull appear,
And whatfoever fhape I pleafe ean wear •
In thistomeafurethe wide Sea conftrain’d For love of thee, thou fhalt be entertain’d By Creet my Nurfe; our Nuptials fhall be there Perform’d, and thou of me great Sons fhalt bear,
T o whofe imperious Scepters all fhall bow.
What he had faid, event made good; Creet now Appears in view; fovehis own form doth take,
And loos’d her Zone j the Hours their Bed did make,
She late a Virgin, Spoufa to fove became,
Brought him forth Sons,and gain’d a Mothers name.
Mr. STANLSr.
“Asia, On her Head a Qlory, her Stole of Sil\, with feveral Forms “ of Wild 'Beafls wrought on it.
Among the Poets, we frequently find called sjlurora, from the rifing of th&Sun there: as in Claud ian,
fam Trinceps molitur iter Rente's que rtmotas Cotligit Aurorae, tumidus quafcmque pererrat Euphrates, quos laslrat Halys, quos ditat Orontes,<3rc.
The Prince his Progrefs now defigning calls Remoteft Eaftern Nations, they whofe Walls Euphrates, Halys} and Oront improves,
The Arabs leave their Incenfe-bearing Groves, &C.
---Tot am pater undique fecum
MoOerat Jiiroram; miftis hie Colchus Iberis,Hie mitra yelatus Arabs, hie crine decoro Armenius.—--
—---;--the Eaftern World he rais’d:
There with Iberians Qolckians mix’d, and there Wilde Arabs, and fair-hair’d Armenians were.
And fpeaking of Afta, going to follicite Stilco for Afsiftance,
Tendit ad Italiam fupplex Aurora potentem.
To Italy "Aurora fupplyant bends.
From whence they reprefentedher like the Rifing Sun. Claudian im-plicitely delivers her ordinary Drefs,though in regard ofher calamity,at that time, in mourning,
t\cn radiis redimita comam, nee flammea fyultum,
JA(ec croceum vejlita diem ; flat livida luUa.
No Raies, nor Glory drefs’d her Brows, nor clad In Purple day, but pale fhe look’d, and fad.
Her Mantle of Silk fpeaks her ancient Propriety in it: which came fo late into Europe, that wefindeno name for it in Homer, among hisfo frequent Defcriptionsefthe Veftments both of Gods,and Men. Nay, not in the Poets of the Old, or Middle Comedy, fome'hundreds of Years after Homer. Whence we conjecture, it was firft brought into Europe after the Conqueft of Alexander the Great. After it was brought over, the Europeans teem to have had no certain knowledge how it was made. For, by what we can finde, they thought it to have grown naturally on the Trunk, or Leaves of fome Trees in tAfta, So Virgil,
Quidnemora /Ethiopum molli canehtia lana,
Velleraque ut foliis depeUant tenuia Seres C
Of Trees in JEtbiop ia white with Wool;
How from the Leaves the Seres Fleeces cull:Pliny, The Seres are thefir si, who are known to have a Woolly fub-fiance to grow cn their Trees, which they comb off after they have fprinl^ed it ’with Water. And fulius Tollux * fpeaks it as a report of fome, that the *ow»y?.v; Seres gathered their Silk from certain Worms, like unto the Bombyces of the Ifland Coos4 Whence it appears, that in the time of Qommodus the Emperour, in whofe time Tollux wrote,it was generally believed to have been otherwife : and after that too, for Claudian, who flourifh'd under the Emperour Honorius, agrees with Tliny;
—----—&pollice doBo
fam par at auratas trabeas, currksquc micantes Stamine, quod molli tondent de fiipite Seres,
Frondea lanigera carpentes vellera Sylvx.
——--------fhe rarely taught,
Rich Robes prepar’d, and Golden Chariots wrought.
With Thred, which from the Bark the Seres cull,
Shearing fromfpreading Boughs the Fleecy Wooll.
Servius indeed, who lived in the time of Theodofius,zs appears by his being cotemporary with + *5\dacrobius, had a right opinion of it, as appears from thefe words of his in the fore-cited place of Virgil,
Jmongfi the Indians,and Seres,are certain Worms upon the Trees, which are called Bombyces; which, like Spiders, [pin a Very fine Thred, from whence is made Sill(.
In the time of fufiinian * the whole Myftery was difclos’d by fome * Zonaras, Monks, who brought from the Indies fome of the Eggs of the Worms:
Since which time that Manufacture ha’s been conftantly ufed in Europe.
That fhe ha’s feveral Shapes, or Forms of ftrange Beafts wrought onherVeft, is agreeable to the ancient Cuftoms of that Countrey,
Ariflophanes
j	t Ranis.
*Ov% tVsrdAgjcJpyoW, vie	aorep
*'a *y ToTffi ora^4,ztre7‘tff^cto-j tois Mjioftix, .7s ypctpvo-i’
Mine not like your ‘Prodigious Monfiers be,
Such mare wrought in Median Tapcfiry.
PetroniusPetronius Arbiter,
Tuo palatoclaujus pavo pafcitur,
‘Plumato amiBus aulao 'Babjlonico.
A Peacock fhall be cram'd for thee,
Adorn'd like cSMedian Tapeftry.
S-ID ON I U S,
Teregrina deiJupellex Cttfiphontis ac Niphatis
fuga texta belludsque ‘Rap'tdas vac ante panno Jcuit quibus furorem
■	Bene fiflaplaga cocco faculoque ceu for ante Q-uor incruentui exit:
Vbi torvus, &per artem Refuptna flexus ora,
It equo reditque telo Fugiens fugdnsque ‘Parthus.
From Qefipbont ftraight get enough,
And ^Qphatesfair Houfhold fluff,
Wrought with Hills, and Wilde Beafts, which The empty Profpedt may enrich;
Who by well-feignd Wounds enrag'd,
Seem more defperately engag’d,
From favelins fixed in their fides,
Blood in Bloodlefs Rivers glides;
Where the Tarthian with fuch Art,
O’re his Shoulder throws his Dart :
His Horfe now charging, then retreats^ ~*~ And flying, fo his Foe defeats.‘‘Africa, a Woman, in her Hand a Pomegranate; on her Head a “ Qom of Ivory, and Bars of Wheat ■ at her Feet mo Ships laden “ with Corn.
Thus vve finde the Statue of Africk^at Florence leaning upon its left Hand,iti which there is a Pomegranate; in her right Hand an Vm-brella, to defend her from the heat of the Sun ; for her Pillow, two great Waters,fignifying the •s5\dediterranean, and dtlanticl^Seas. So at Mycente, the Statueof funo (Protedri'ce of(Jarthage, the Metropolis of AfriclQ made by Polyclet,holds in one Hand a Scepter ;in the other, a Pomegranate. Therefore, when the Queen facrificed to Jv.no, (lie wore a Rod of Pomegranate upon her Head, called by the Ancients Inarculum. Festus; Inarculum virgulta erat ex malo Tv.nico incur-vata, quam Hegina facrijicans in capite gejlabat.
She is crowned with Ears of Corn, to fignifie the Fertility of the place. Horace,
Fulgentem imperio fertilis Africa;
Fallit forte beatior„
Thou happier art, then he commands Rich Jfricl(s fertile Strands.
Thus Sidonius introduces Africa,
fam male foecnndas in vertice fregit anjlas, Et (ic orfa loqui e(l.
peitirg. Ma~ jorium,
Her Wheat-ear’d Wreath now early full (he broke, And thus then fpoke.
And C l a u D I A N,
De Laud. Stilic. lib. ii,
TurnJpicis,& dente comas illuflris eburno,
Et Valido rubicunda die, fic Africa fatur.
With I v'ry crown’d, and Wheat, red with the Sun,
And fainting Heats, thus Africa begun.
N
AccordingAccording to which Defcription of his, wc finde her reprefented in a Coyn of Antoninus Tim,
Africa, refcifpe vejles, & Spicea pafsim Sertajacent, lacerocrinales vertice dentes,
Et fraUum pendebat cbur.--—
Amidft the Stars next Africa appears Her Garments torn, her Wreath of Wheaten Ears Scatter'd about, Teeth braided on her Crown, And broken Ivory hung.-----
The I vory on her Head, alludes to the great number of Elephants, pi;». mi. bred in that part of the World ; efpecially in that part of Africa beyond H:i- viii xi. t/jg Syrtick Solitudes, and Deftrts, /Ethiopia, Trogloditica, and Mauritania. Tetronius,
The Libyan Wilds we feek, and th’utmoft South, To finde aMonfter out, whofepretiousTooth Proves its own bane.^—---
Dr ran, The fame Authour implicitely defcribes her, in the fame manner, in
mediis apparet in ajlris
Quaritur in ftlvis Mauri fera ■ & ultimus Ammon zAforum excutitur, ne dejit bellua dente Ad mortes pretiofa fuas_____—Juvenal,
!Dentibus ex illis quos mittit porta Syenes,	s«. >u
Et Mauri celeres.---------
From whiter Teeth, which the Syene fends,
And the fwift Moors.—--------
Whence the Tomans, in their Triumphs over Africa, ufually had Elephants led before them, to denote the place of their Victory : as L. Plin.liLVui. Metetlus, in whofe Coyns we finde either an Elephant, or his Trium- “h phal Chariot drawn by two of them, or a Head of one of them under his Chariot.
Tliny fays, that the Chariot of Tompey was drawn by four Ele-phantsin his African Triumph. And we finde that the Fifth Legion CAp'm' bore the Effigies ofan Elephant on their Colours, beeaufe they fuc-cefsfully manag’d a Battel againft them, in the War betwixt Qfar, and L. Scipio.
The two Ships at her Feet, relate to the Qafsis Frumentaria, which came yearly to 'l\ome from ^Africk^: frequently mention'd in the r7?vo-man Writers; which was inftituted by (Jommodus the Emperour. Of whom Lampridius ■, Qlaftcm A£rica.nam i'.Jtituit qu<e fubfidio eflet, ft forte Alexandria frumenta ccffajjcnt. He appointed an »African Navy, which fhould furnifh the City, in cafe the Corn from Alexandria fhould fail. Of which Claudian,
Tot mihipro meritu Libyam Nilum^ae dedere,	bt m
Vt dominant plebem beUatoremque Scnatum Clafsibus aflivis alerent, geminoquc yicifim Littore diverfi complerent bonea venii.
StabatLaude Sere-*4 RigiH*.
De P revident ia Dei, Lib. vi.
In Sjm-mochnm.'
Stabat certa falus: Memphis jiforte negaffet,
Tenfabam Tbarium Getulis mefsibus annum.
Frugiferas certare rates, lateque videbam Punica Niliacis concurrere carboja velis.
They gave me Libya, and the /Egyptian Shore For my deferts, that they might with their Store The People, and the Warlick Senate feed,
And with contrary Winds fupply their need.
Famine farewel : if Memphis fhould deny,
Cjetuhm Harvefts will our Wants fupply.
Freighted with Corn, I faw the Tunicl^Fleet,
And Ships from Stilus in our Harbours meet.
And,
--Pharix fegete s & Punica mefsis
Cajl rorum devota cibo: dal Gallia robur Militis, Sec. -------~
Egyptian Crops, iWPunick (jrain Our Camps with Bread, Gaul dotbmtb Men maintain.
Wherefore Salvian, after he had mention'd the Deftruction of Sardinia, and Sicily, the V ital Veins, he calls Africa the Soul it felf of the Common-Wealth of Thorne. Trudentius,
‘Hofpice mini Libyci dejijlat raris arator Frumentis onerare rates, & ad Oftia Tibris oSA4'itterc triticeos inpajlumplebuacervos.
See if the Libyan Swain neglects to load
Our Ships with Corn, and to the Oslian Road
Sends Wheaten Mountains for the Peoples Food,
“America Crown’d with Feathers 0/ divers Colours, on her Stole a ‘ ‘ Cjolden %iver, in one Hand a Silver Mountain.
SoSo Tompeji, in his Triumph over Methridates, among the reft of his Silver and Golden Reprefentations carried Montem aurcum, quadratum, Tli cum cents (pleonibus, &pomisotnnisgeneris, circumdata vite aurca, ctA fquare (jolden Mountain, encompafled with a Vine of (fold, with Harts and * c"r‘ Lions upon it, and all manner of Fruit. The Mountain in her Hand is Tottfis in Teru, whofe Treafure ha's been accounted inexhauftible.
Jajepbus Acofta relates, that in that Mountain there was found a Vein of Silver, about the height of a Spear above the Superficies of the Earth, three hundred Foot long, and thirteen broad. The fame Au- ^vf'v* thour witneffes, that the King of Spain receives yearly from thence a Million of Ducats; and that onely from the fifth part of the Silver.
W e have read of indeed of Silver Mountains in Euro, e ; as that mention’d by Strabo in Spain • SJ\(ot far from Coftaon is a Mountain, whence flows the Ri^er Bxtis, call’d the Silver Mountain, in relation to the Silver Mines there. And of a Golden Mountain in Afia, mention'd by Me' nander • ° Xijai®" iu'iU »>, ir "pa 7111 My/An? E*iiy ( prefently after ’ekT**) as it aVo,	”op©J ''emIm inf, Where King Chaganus him-
felf was, on a Mountain call'd Ec'tag, that is, the Golden Mountain.
And Appian before him ; Many Fountains bring down fmall Shavings of (fold from the Mountain Caucafus • the Inhabitants finking Fleeces of Woolhery deep, take up what Shavings flickjo them : But thefe are all fo confiderable , in reiped of the ineftimable Treafure ofthis Mountain, that America may reafonably from hence, as all other Countries from what is moft valuable, and appropriate to them, have its diftinguifhing Character.
The River on her Stole is the Golden River Tcru. So Claudian re. prefents Brittain with the Flux and Deflux of the Sea on her Veft ;
Inde Caledonio velata Britannia monfho,
Ferro pitta genas, cujus vesligia verm
Ccerulus, Oceanique aflum mentitus amiUus,
Britannia then veil’d in a Boars rough Hide,
Walk’d on the Sea, her Cheeks with Iron dy’d,
Cloath’d with the changings of the Oceans Tide.
And Spain, with the Golden River Tagus on her Stole:
--glaucis turnprima Minerva:
5\(exa comam foliis, fulvaque intext a micantem Vefte Tagum, tales prof ert Hifpania voces.
ThenMax. clauf. Lib. ii.
In Europ-1 iim, Lib.ii.
Dc Bell. Civ. lib Xn.
Then Spain with Olive-Branches crown'd,her Veft With Golden Tagus wrought, her felf expreft
In words like thefe, —------
Which Leaves of <£\Tincrva, Mr. Selden miftook for a Palm.Qlaudian, in feveral places, defcribes the Olive in the fame manner; as in his Epi-
ftle to Hadrian,
Hoc pro fupplicibus ramis, pro fronde Minervse,
Hoc carmen pro tbure damns.----
This for Minerva’s fupplicating Bough,
This Verfe for Ineenfe we beftow.
And in another place,
----pro frmde Minerva
Has tibi protendo lacrjnm.--
----for Talks Boughs,
Thefe Tears we thee prefent,
Lucan,
-----tamen ante furorem
lndomitum,duratnqueviridejleBerementem Tacijico Sermoneparant, boflemquepropinquum Orant Czcropix pralata fronde Minerva.
----— they to affwage
His cruel Breaft, accuftomed to rage,
Minerva’s Branches ftretching forth, befeech The Neighboring Foe with a prepared Speech.
In which places 'tis evident, the Olive is fignified, beeaufe carried ir.
the Hands of Suppliants. Statius,
--— ramimqite precantis Oliva.
A fupplicating Olive Branch.
VtttatxVittata laum, & fupplicis arbor Oliva.
With Bays and fupplicating Olives crown'd.
3£IYO««s 07?.? ill S7/ ■-	; :ri*? 1 I ‘ ffVB i S’--'
Whence Virgil makes /Eneas fend a hundred to King LalinUs, all crown’d with Olive Branches, call’d there Talladis rami.
------ ramis velatos Palladis omnes,
Donaque ferre viro, pacemque expofcere Teucris„
And for the Trojans Terms of Peace propound;,
With Royal Prefents, all with Olive crown'd.
And Statius makes Tydem, going in the name of T'olyniccs, to demand the Kingdom of Thebes, carry a Branch of Olive in his Hand, as a token of Peace ■ and, his Demand being denied, to throw away the fame, to fignifie, and declare a War. So Livy, ^(otfar off mas a Ship of the Carthaginians, covered mtb Mitres, and Branches of Olive; in which were ten Ambajfadours, chief Trinces of the City, fent to requejl ‘Peace.
CuuBiiK gives the fame Epithet too; to the Olive-leaves, in hisEpiftleto Serena,
—-----glaucapinguis Oliva coma.
The undtuous Olive with a Silver Sprig.
And Valerius Flaccus,
"Arpnc.nt.
--glaucasque comis pratexere frorides Jmperai.	l,t'n
Commands to braid their Hair with Verdant Boughs.
The reafon why Claudiah fo defciibes it, is, beeaufe that Tree was facred to Minerva: which we finde attefted by Tliny■ TbeEfculm C a Species of glandiferous Trees ) is facred to Jupiter , the Laurel to ufjft'i. Apollo, the Olive to Minerva, the Myrtle to Venus, the'T’oplar to Hercules ■ and is known from the Fable of the Contention of Minetva, and (eptune, concerning the Poffefsion of Athens. And Epopeus, after a Vidtory, having eredted and confecrated to her a Temple, and pray'd, that fhe would (how fome token of her acceptance of it, there prefently '' “ fprung forth a Branch of Olive before it.
This
.(This Errour of Mr. Selderis produc'd another in his following words, when he gather'd from thence,that the River Tagus, and Palm-Trees were proper to Spain. Hifpani* Talma, & Tagusfiuvius propria. Indeed the Palm-Tree was the Symbol of fudaa, as we fee in the Coyns
of Vefpafian and Titus,
from the abundance of them in that Countrey. Strabo; Befidethe commonl? aim, it (judxa) brings forth the CaruptS, not much inferiour to Babylonian. Lucan,
--Et arbuflo Talmarum diyes Idume,
And Idumea rich with Palm-
Si	lius Italicus,
Talmiferdmque fenex hello domitabit Idumen,
Palnvbearing ldumaa fhall fubdue.
But Spain was commended for the abundance , and excellency of its Olives. Martial,
Bastis, Ohvifera crinem redimite corona,
Aurea qui nitidis vellera tingis aquis.
Ba. tis her Treffes crown'd with Olive Stems,
Dyes Golden Fleeces with her glitt'ring Streams.
Which Verfes, compared with thefe ofSilius Italicus, evidently evince^ that Talladis ramifiignifie the Olive.
—-—---genuit quos ubere ripa
Talladio Bethes umbratus cornua ramo.
—	both—r- both of equal age Born upon Bethes Banks,whofe horned Brows Were orerfhadowed with fat Olive Boughs.
And in another place, of Spain,
Lb.
J^ec Cereri terra indocilis, ntc inbofpita Baccho,
$\(ulldque Palladia fefe magis arbore tollit.
A Land, where Ceres, and Lyaus too Do dwell, and Olive-Trees in plenty grow.
Whence, in a Coyn of Hadrian the Emperour, we finde that Countrey fignified by a Woman fitting, with her left hand leaning on the '"Pyrenean Mountains (Mr.Selden calls it a heap of Stones) in her right Hand holding a Branch of Olircj at her Feet a Coney :
The Coney we finde too at the Feet of Spain, holding an Olive-Branch on her Shoulder, in a Coyn of the fame Emperour.
Crojiae.
cxxix.
The Coney at her Feet fignifies either the incredible number of thofe Animals formerly in Spain ( for Farro mentions a Town there
O	undermin’dLib.vui. cap xxix.
Epigram.
XX tV.
75’ Bdio Phm. lib. i.
undermin'd, and overthrown by them, as we finde in Tliny ) or rather the abundance of Mines in that Countrey j the Latine word niculi, from whence the allufion muftbe taken,being xquivocal,and an-fwering to both From one of which fignifications a part of Spam is
call'd Cunicutofa Celtiberia by Qatullus ,
Tu prater cmnes, une de capillatis,
Cumcui.jx Celtiberia; fili.
1	he Mines are mentioned by Claudian, fpeaking of Spain,
Dives equis,frugtim fdcilis.pretiofa metallis,
1Trincipibu, foecuncid piis. —--
With Steeds abounding, rich with Corn,and Ore,
And pious Princes ftore.——
And bySiLius Italicus,
—---- btc omne metalkm :
Elcclrigeminopallent de femine Venue,
Atque atros chalybis faiut humus borrida nutrit.
Sed jcelerttm caujas aperit Deus, Aftur avarus Vi/ceribus lacera tel!uris mergitur intis,
Et redit infeltx eff jfo concoior auro.
—------here Metals grow
Of matter mix’d: hleUrum s pallid Veins Produc’d, and darker Steel the Earth contains:
But God thofc Springs of mifchief deeply hides •
Yet AJlur, covetous, the Earth divides,
And, in her mangled Entrails drown’d again,
Returns with Gold, and bears the pretious Stain.
ButBut to return. This River, fays fofephia aAcojla, gave the name to *“• the whole Countrey of Tern. Of which Levinus Apollonius thus, un- cap.xiu. ‘ der another name• where he defcribes the Rivers of the Mountain-ous Peru, The chief eft far is the I\her Argyreus ( Peru) from its abundance ofSilver, which itcajls up in glittering Sand gall’d in Spanifh,
Plata : it is equally liberal, and profufeoj its Ireafures unto all parts it paffethbj, enriching its Inhabitants With an inexhaustible abundance both of (fold,and Silver.
“The upp ermofl great Table in the fore-ground reprefents l\ing c< Charles the First, with the Trince, now Charles the Second, in His “ Hand, viewing the Sovereign of the Sea, the Trince leaning on a Can-“ non ; the Injcription,
O	N1MIUM DILECTE DEO, CUI MlLlTAT JE QUOR,
ET CONJURATI VENIUNT AD CLASSICA VENTI.
For thee, Ofove’s Delight, the Seas engage,
And muftr’ed Winds, drawn up in Battel, rage.
“ Above, over the Cornich, between the mo Qelejtial Hemi-fpheres,
“ an Atlas, bearing a Terreftrial Globe, and on it a Ship under Sail » the “ Word,
UNUS NON SUFFICIT.
Thus we finde lAtlas painted in an ancient Temple of fupiter’s. in siuot. Pausanias, <lA mongfl the reft, is the Tidure c/Atlas, bearing up Heaven, and Earth ; by whom ftands Hercules, asreadji to affift him : mention’d by Qaudian,
------y?c,Hercule quondam
Suftentante polum, melius hbrata pependit Machina, necdubiis titubavit Signifer ajlris.
Terpetuaque fenex fubduUus mole parumper Obslupmi proprii ff/eBator ponderis Atlas,In npa^.
Atop.
A
k
* In Boetihs.
His M a ] e s t i e’s Entertainments ------fo Hercules of old
Suftain’dthe Pole, bore better on his Baek The poyfed World, and fix’d the Zodiack:
Atlas a while, from his great Burthen free, Admiring ftood, the wondrous Load to fee.
Of whom thus Homer,
Guyzln? oMaipW&j oVe 0aActco->is niffvis QtA* oiftv* evw c/'s T6 xiovcu iujos Mxx&Sx ii	***> &	«#«*« e^Vffiy.
Daughter of who both Depth, andSholes Of th’ Ocean plumbs, and holdeth two long Poles, That mighty Heaven, and the Earth fuftains
IE S CHIIUS,
----os srpos tcrtefVS TV71VS
''ewm not V&v5 t» $ %Qo\os "flfMK ep&'&> >	V» io»yhjiAov.
-----who near the Weftern Main
Bears on his Back that Pillar, doth fuftain Both Heaven, and Earthy not eafie to fupport,
Virgil,
--.—--— ubi ccelifer Atlas
Axem humero torquet Jlellis ardentibus upturn.
---------where great zAtlas bears,
Laden with Golden Stars, the glittering Sphears.
Pie was thus defcribed from his admirable knowledge in the motions of the Heavens, andthe nature of things here below.Pausanias *, In which there is a place of ground call’d Polofus, where they fay Atlas Jludied the Heavens, and the Earth. Diodorus Siculus They fay, he (Atlas) was excellently skill’d in Aftrology, and was thefirfl, that published the Sphericalrical Figure of the Heaver, s: frem whence he was faid to L ear the Heavens on his Shoulders' the Fable fignifying the Invention, and De/cripiion of the Sphere. Which feems not betinderftood of a folid Sphere, but a Sphere defcribed on a Plane: the other Invention,by moft of the Ancients, being attributed to Archimedes, who liv’d many Centuries of Years after him.
“ The greatTaintingon tbeWeR'fide reprefents the Duke of York,
“ habited a l’antique, like Neptune, /landing on a Shell drawn by Sea-“ Horfes, before which a Triton founding, in one Hand a Trident, the “ Reins in the other; his M©tto,
SPES ALTERA,
We generally finde (eptune among the Poets drawn by Sea- •
Horfes. S t a t 1 US,	TM.IAM.
lllic iEgeo Neptunus gurgite feffos In portum deducit equos,prior hamit haoenas eVngula,poflremi fobuntur in aquorapifces.
Here 3\(eptune entring left th'jEgean Flood,
Landing his Steeds, their formoft Feet well fhod :
The hindmoft cut the Waves with Finny Tails.
"V" I R. G I L ,	v.
His ubi lata Dea yermulfit peBora diBis, fungit equos curru genitorjpwnantidque addit Frana feris,maniblisque cnfnes effundit habenas,
Caruleop er jumma levis volat aquora curru.
When thus her troubled Breaft he had aflwag’d,
He joyns his Chariot-Horfe, and curbs th’enrag'd With Fomy Bits, then gives themlib’ral Rein,
With blew Wheels flying o’re the A zure Main.
' They were called Hippocampa. Nomus; Hippoeampae, equt mariniflexu caudarum,quapifcofa funt. Hippocampae^reSea-Horfes,
JoJo called from the flexion of their Tails, which are like Fijhes, Festus; Campus mannos cquas Grxci aflex'wne poflermttmpartium appellant,“The “ (f reely call Sea-Horfes Campte, from the bending of their pofteriour “ parts: from wti* to bend.
In the Medaigles of Cam Marius,and Quintus Qrcpentu, is reprefent-ed i?{iftunc riding upon thefe Hippocampte, or Sea-Horfes.
As he holds the Reins of his Horfes in one hand, fo we finde him conftantly with a Tridentin the other. From whence he is call’d by
t Pndni the Cfreeks,r	by Tindar ’Ay/worewna' by the
fuZI. Latines, fridenttfer, and Tridentiger. Ovid',
* Vfif,r.Gr.
iib^viif”	-:---0 Pr»xima terra
fygna rcaga, dixi,fortite Tridentifer unda.
And,
Cumqut Tridentigero tmnidigenitore profundi.
Virgil,
■--Tuquefi, cuiprima frementem
Fv.dit equum ntngno tellus percuffa Tridenti,
Neptune.----
--and----and J^eptune, thou,to whom
The Earth firft Trident ftruck brought forth a Steed. ,
11 O M E R ,	Hind, ft,
Av'joi J\ enoffiy	^Wpeco-i
HyeT'] * ex. J\	ardv'Ja. 0e^«Ajct xvimui mfi7n
•Prfpov, it, Act«v.——-----
Ab’i/ »«/; his Trident, Neptune, leading on Impetuous Waves, left neither Tile, nor Stone.
Callimachus, Angularly, fays, that liis Trident was made by the TeU H?mm ,r-cbtnes, lmiths in Creet..
’—’■—---— Wpsct 0wya»
"Aozi -ruyh&Xw, ™ •> TeA^ies
—----^Qeptune the Mountain ftruck
With’sTrident, which the Telechmes made.
Tlutarch tells, that the Tros^enians mark their Moneys with a Trident, as a T eftimony of their De v otion to JAQptune.
Amongft the reft of J^eptune's Attendants was Triton his Tium • peter. Ovid,	Mam-
Qteruleum Tritona vocat, conchaque fonanti lnfpirare jubet,fluShsque, & fluminajigno fam revocare dtto.---
Triton he calls, commanding, him to found His hollow Shell, and call the Floods profound,
And Rivers back,----—
Virgil, fpeaking of a Ship,
--lmmanis Triton, & ceerula concha
Exterrens freta. Cut laterum teniis hifpida nanti From hominemprafert; in Triflin defmit ahus:
Spumea femifero fub peElore murmur at unda.
ThisThis mighty Triton bore, frighting the Tides With his ftirill Trump. His Face, and hairy fidcs Above prefents a Man, a Whale the reft :
And foamy Waves refound beneath his Breaft.
Dmjjtttc. NONNUS, xxxvi.
Te/]«y <A' Ivfuyliu©1 e/3o^/3«» jjSctJi ’AiJ\poipo«5| aTSAer^j iff »i;o©J
Broad-bearded Triton founds his Trump atlalt,
Half humane Shape, a Fi(h beneath the Wafte.’
EiJjU. MOSCUUS,
—........— tci oA ifitp't (mi YiyzpeQov'jo
T&'lcenS) mv'Jotj /2*6uppoV
Ko%hom wads	h&uov'Jep
--Tritons on each fide
(The Deep’s Inhabitants) about him throng,
And found with their long Shels a Nuptial Song.
“ On the four Niches within the Arch Were living Figures, with Sfcut-“ cheons, and Pendents, reprefenting Arithmetick, Geometry, Aftro-“ nomy, and Navigation.
‘‘Arithmetick, a IVman habited a l’antique, with her Fingers ereB: ‘‘ upon her Vettment Lines, with Mufick otes on them: in her Efcut-i‘cheonaBookj>pened,with a Hand pointing to the Figurestiy,x.L,c.oM. “&c. Vnder,
PAR ET IMPAR.
The holding out of her Fingers ered: points out to us that ancient manner of Supputation, known of old to moft Countries in the World, bat now outofufe,by the Fingers of both Hands. This Supputation was divided into three parts; Digits, Decades, and Compound Numbers. The Digits comprehend all Numbers under ten , the Decads comprehend all tens, as 10, io,;o, 4.0,50,60,70, 80,90. the Compound what was made of the other two, as 19, zj, &c. The Digits
firftwere exprefs’d by the three laft Fingers, beginning with the little one. The Decads by the Thumb, either fingle, or in conjunction with the firft Finger. Thus far reacheth the Arithmetique ofthe left Hand ; fo that, removing to the right, the firft Number is an hundred : Vnms nu~ j . merum, quo gejlu fignificabantnr in finiflra, tranjlatum in dexter am centena conficere. The Number of a Hundred „ by the fame gefture, isfigni-fied in the right Hand, that one in the left. And,A numero nonage/imo, quifuit in lava,per uniut figmficationem, transferri in dexter am, (y tbi cm-tenaconjlitui. From which kind of Arithmetique we muft underftand that (freely Epigram of 3\(icarchus,
'H ttcAi» x.pom'foicn Kotut 1*6*5 >1
r^Tct, /I ^ NeV^P b'x. In 7rpe<ri2u'nx,']®J’
H	aSpWcr’ ihirpy 7rf\e:v, V Act)«*
ct&fasicQctj J\ewnpo» ap^cttteij).
& Agua^ja, 59 apTOT®’ oVo/re
/twi ^ 7r577Dy9’
Grey-hair’d Qotyttaris, that infernal Scold,
Whom JA(f/?or to compare with was not old ;
Whofe many Years the long-liv’d Harts furmount,
She on her left Hand twice begins to count.
Swift-footed as a ^(jmph, her fight not fails,
Sure, I believe,the Devil fomething ails.
And this of Juvenal,
T^ex Pylius, magnofiquidqaam credi-s Homero,
Exemplum vitafuit a Cornice fecund a.
Felix nimirum! qut tot per fi cula vitam Diflulit tatque fuosjum dextra computat annos.
3\(ettor, ifthou’lt great Homer credit give,
As long as did the long-liv'd Raven live;
Blefs’d thou ! who ftood'ft fo many Luftres rage,
Till on thy right Hand thou did’fl count thy Age.
So that as the Units were counted on the three Fingers ofthe left, fo the firft Nine Hundred were counted on the fame three Fingers of the right • and as the Decads were counted on the Thumb, and
P	Fore-Fore-Finger of the left, fo were the Thoufandson the fame of the right. W hence we may guefs of the Figure of the Fingers, which Tlmy* mentions in the Statue off anus, dedicated by JA(uma, with his Fingers fo complicated, that the Sffte of cccav Days, the figrdficatm of a Hear, jhottld demon fir ate him the (jod of 7 ime.
Of this manner of Supputation tnuft be underftood that Saying of Orontes, who, upon fome diftaft taken by King Artaxerxes,had fallen into di Igrace ■ “ As the Fingers of Accountants now reprefent one, now Ci Myriads■ fo the Frtends of Kings now are much in favour,now not at all. This manner of Supputation feemstohave been ordinary among the ^omms, uied m their pleadings before the Judge.Qu utilian,) ■Si a3or,non dicc. /i circafumtnas trepidat, fed fedigitorum incertofoliim,aut indecoo gettu a t imputations diffcntit.judicatur indoffus. “If the Pleader “ not onely t rembles about the Sums,but if by a doubtful onely,and un. “ comely gefture, he differs from the Computation, he is efteemed un-“ learned. A, views in his Apologetical Oration before jEmilianus^) trigintaannospro decern dixiffes, poffes videri pro computationsgejtu erraffe, quoscirculate dsbueris,digitos aperuijfe. !f youhadnam’dt'-irty Years for ten,you might fecm to have mtflaken in tbegeflure of jour Confutation, to have circl'dth fe Fingers ,n>hichyou f!)0uld have cpened. And therefore it is very flxange, that, after fo common an ulage of this manner of Computation, it fhould be fo far loft, that none can agree what it was.
The Authour of Arithmetique,according to /EJchyius \ was 'Prometheus'.
Koj fovpifftutlar E^evpci «w'7ois , ’ygji(x(M,0,c.v Ti duc/ieaUS,
The chief of Arts I Numbers found,
And firft knew Letters to compound.
According to Tlato, ’twas Talamedes: but ‘Pliny* attributes the Invention of it to Minerva ■ Eoque Minerva; Tcmplo dicatam legem, quia nu* merus a Minerva inventus fit.
The ancient Mufick-Notes here mention’d, though for many hundred Years buried in obfeurity, have been brought to light ng in out of fome Authours of Mufick, lately publifh’d by Meilsmius. The Numbers are fufficiently known , though not fo well as thole we generally ufe, lately brought into Europe from the iArabians.
,c Geometry“ Geometry, a Wman in a pleafant Green, in her Shield a Com-“ pafs, and a Read; the Infcription,
m „
DESCRIPSIT RADIO TOTUM Q.U.E GENTIBUS ORBEM.
(geometry is fuppofed by the Ancients to have had its original in jEgjpt,\vhert, after the yearly overflowings of the River jle, they were forc'd continually to .meafure their ground out anew to diflin-guifh Propriety. Strabo r, KaWmp £ ¥ 'aiymVrn tit/ailem tcwjr.iib.
■£	*» NatA©1 cttfip^c^ai ,	ris opVs	Ta; etn/2ct!ffeis' And ,
^	/'i t ew	yjcm AWjSf' ^icqpeosas Sla	r opav o^ypjoufcfs., as o *Lib. xvii.
NeTA^r" arapja^elaj i&]q. vis ivtyatis-, a£oqp2», xj tfpoSTiQw^ x,	evaMxrlfflv m ir^ara, sc, TaM* cxtiUsL «.,57Cx.posr']ai») o?S ^laxeive'jo) to ti aMol&ov, £ 75 »Sto*’ avayxtl o'* ava/^Tfa o&aj yaAj*
>9 jtoAiv. Ev'jeuOiv J\e ^ -riot T ea^e'l&z'i avrlu.cq <pa.cr.\. For which end , beeaufe they made ufe of a Read, it was amongft them ever after for a Symbol of (geometry. So in a Silver Coyn of Q. Marnilm, in one fide there is a t^Aiercury with a Cap, and Caducous, on the other tamilius, with a Read by him, with this Infcription, LI. META N. that is,Limi-tibui metandu, where we finde hs Office of meafuring Land implyed by a Read.
The Com pafs in her other Hand we have defcribed by O v i d,
Jlfetam. lib. viii.JVfi.iii.
---& ex uno duo ferrea bracloia nodo
Junxit, ut ttquali ftatio dijlantibus illis
<±Altera pars flaret,pars altera ducer’et or ban.
He two-fhank'd Compaffes with Rivet bound,
The one to fland ftill, th' other turning round,
In equal diftances_______
The Authour of it, Talus, being envyed by his Unci e Deedaius for this, and other Inventions, was thrown down headlong by him from the top of Minerva’s T ower :but in the middle of his fall, being favour'd by Minerva, the. Patronefs of Wit-was turn'd into a Bird - which we have in the following Verfes:
Dsedalus invidit : facraqueex arce Minerva;
‘Tracipitem mi/it,lapfum mentuus: at ilium,
P z	QuaQua fayet ingenus, excepit Pallas, avemque ‘Reddidit, & medio velavit in dire pennis.
—-----D.cdalm thus began,
Who from Minerva’s facred Turret flung The envi'd headlong,- and his falling fains:
Him T alias, fautor of good Wits, fuftains.
Who ftraight the Figure of a Fowl a (Tames j Clad in the midft of Ayr with freckled Plumes.
Mr, S A N D y s.
‘‘ AiTronomy, a Woman in a loofe Ve/lment, Azure, wrought with “ Stars of (jvld, looking up to Heaven : in her Shield a Table, wherein are “ divers Agronomical Figures; the Infcription,
AURO CIRCUMSPICIT ORIONA.
Astronomy holding a Sphere in her left Hand, in her right a
.Radius.
So (lie is defcribed by Martianus Qapella.The Sphere,which he gives her, is that ofrchimedes, as we fee by the Epigram, in which he de-fcribes it,
Jpfa etiam, lava, Sphara fulgebat honor a;
it//fsimilis mundo, fideribhsque fuit.
U^famglobm, & cirei, Zonaque, ac fulgida figna 3\(exa recurrebant, arte locata pari.
Tellus, qua rapidum confijlens fufcipit orbem,
TunBi inflar medio bajerat una loco.
In her left Hand (lie a QelefliaI Sphear,
Like the great World, glitt’ring with Stars did bear:
On the vaft Globe the circulating Signes Connexed ran in equidiftant Lines
ToTo rapid Orbs • the Earth, the fixed Bafe,
Like a fmall Point, juft in the midft took place.
“ Navigation, a Wman in Sea-green Habit • in i&erEfeutcheon an “ Anchor, with a Cahlc about it ■ Infcription,
TUTUM TE L1TTORE SISTAM.
While the Usability parted the Triumphal Arch, the three Sea-men entertained them with this Song from the Stage on the ^orth~Cide of
the Arch
From Neptune'/ Wat’ry Kingdoms, where Storms, and Tempejls rije Jo often,
<zAs would the World in pieces, tear,
Should ‘Providence their %age not foften; From that fluctuating Sphere,
Whereflout Ships, and fmaller Barks Are tojs’d like Balls, orfeatherd Corks,
When briny Waves to Mountainsfwell, Which dimming oftHeay'n'sglitt’rmg Sparks, Then defending low as Hell ■
Through this Crowd,
In a Cloud,
By a flrange, and unknown Spell,
We, newly Landing,
(jot thu Standing,
All Merry Boys, and Loyal,
Our Pockets full of Bay,
This Triumphal Day,
To make ofour Skill a Tryal,
Of our little little Skill:
Let none then takg it ill,
We muH have no Denyal.11.
We, who have rais’d, and laid the Toles,
'Plough'd frozen Seas,andfcaldingcBiUo»S‘J JA(ow fliff with Qold, then fcorch’d on Coals,
Ships eur Qradles,Decks our Tillms;
' Mongfl threatning ’Rocks, and treach’rout Shoals,
Through Gibraltar j controlled Mouth,
And "Realms condemn’d to Heat, and Drowth,
Or Baltick Waves bound up in Ice,
Or M agellane as Cold, though South,
Our good Fortune, in a trice,
Through this Crcnvd,
In a Cloud,
Brings us where, in Taradije,
We, newly Landing,
(jot this Standing,
All Merry Hoys, and Loyal,
Our Pockets full of Toy,
This Triumphal Day,
To make of our Skill a Tryal,
Of our little little Skill:
Let none then take it ill,
We mutt have no Denyal.
III.
-	We, who fo often bang'd the T urk,
Our ‘Broad-/ides fpeaking Thunder,
Made BelgiumJlrike,and />ro«/Dunkirk,
Who liv’cfby Tri^e, and Tlmder,
And routed the Sebaftian Sbirfc We paid their Toops, andpainted Bea^s,
Qeans’d before and aft their Decks,
TUI
'
'Till their Scuppers ran with Cjore,
Whilfl in as faft fait Water breads ■
‘But ype are Friends of this no more :
Through this (joved,
In a Qoud,
We have found a happy Shore,
And, newly Landing,
(jot this Standing;
All Merry Hoys, and Loyal,
Our Tockgts full of Tay,
This Triumphal Day,
To make of our Skill a Tryal,
Of our little little Skill:
Let none then take it ill,
We mufl have no Denyal,
Befides the three before-named, who fang the precedent Song,there were in like manner habited, like Sea-men, fix other Perfons,who made a Winde-Mufick.
The Mufick in the Stage confifted of three Drums, and fix Trum-pets.
On the Eafl'fide, Winde-Mufick, confifting of fix Perfons.
On two Balconies, within the tIrch, Winde-Mufick, confifting of twelve Perfons.
On the ^3-Gallery were placed fix Trumpets.
Thefe, and all the other Mufick, belonging to this Triumph, performed their Duty without Intermifsion, till fuch time, as His Majefty fronted the Figure, which reprefentedf//wmw, and then ceafed • upon which, Thames made the enfuing Speech,
Ten Moons, Great Sir, their Silver Crefcents fill’d,
Since, mounted on a Billow, 1 beheld You on the Bridg ;but louder Joys there were,
That barr’d my Welcomes from Your Sacred Ear:
NowNow I above my highefl Bound have rear'd My Head, to fay what could not then be heard.
Hail, Mighty Monarch! whofe Imperial Hand Quiets the Ocean, and fecures the Land;
This City, whom I ferve with Neighb’ring Floods,
Exporting Yours, importing Foreign Goods,
With anxious Grief did long Your Abfence mourn;
Now with full Joy (he welcomes Your Return ;
Your bleft Return ! by which fhe is reflor'd To all the Wealth remoteft Lands afford.
At Your Approach I haften’d to the Downs,
To feeYour moving Forts, Your Floating Towns,
Yeur Sovereigns, big with Thunder, plow the Main,
And fwimming Armies in their Womb contain.
You are our 3\(epane, every Port, and Bay Your Chambers: the whole Sea is Your High-way.
Though fev’ral Nations boaft their Strength on Land,
Yet You alone the Wat'ry World command.
Pardon, great Sir, fair Cynthia checks my ftay;
But to Your Royal Palace, twice a day,
I	will repair; there my proud Waves fhall wait,
To bear our Cafar, and His conqu’ring Fate.
We finde the Speech of the River Tyber on the like Solemnity, the Procefsion of the Senate,&c. attending on the two Brothers ‘Probinus, and Olybrius, newly elected Confuls, in Claudian;
Eft in Romuleo procumbent Infula Tybri,
Qua medius geminas interftuit alveus urbes Dijcrctas fubcuntc freto, pariterque minantes Ardua turrigera jurgmtin culmina ripte.
Hie ftctit, & /ubitum projpexit ab aggere votum ■
Vnanimes fratresjunBos, /lipante Senatu,Ire Jorum, flricfasquc procul radiare fecures,
Jtqueuno bijuges tolli de limine fafces.
Objlupuit Vifujujpenjdque gaudia vocem Opprejfam tenuere diu, mox incboat ore.
'Refj)ice,fi tales jaftos aluiffe fluentis,
Eurota Spartane, tuis. Quid protulit aquum Falfus olor, valido quamvis decernere caflu forint, & ratibrn fttvas arcere procellas ?
En nova Ledasis Joboles fulgentior aHris!
Ecce mei cives! quorum jam Signifer optat <t/f dyentum, Jlelllsque par at convexa futuris. fa?nper noatvagos dominetur Olybrius axes Tro Polluce rubens,pro Caftortfiamma Probini.
Ip/i vela regent: ipjis donantibus auras,
J\(avitd tranquillo moderabitur nequore pinum.
3\unc pater as libare Deis, nunc fohere mnlto 3\(eBare corda libet: niveos jam pandite coetus Naiades,(? totumyiolispratexitefontcm : z5\4ella ferent fylva : jamprofluat ebrius amnis,
Adutatis in vinavadis : jam Jponteper agros Sudcnt irrigua ffir anti a balfama vena.
Currat, quifocia roget in convivia menfe Indigenaifluvios, Italis qnicunque fuberrant Montibus, Alpinas<pe bibunt de more pruinas :
Vulturnus^«e rapax, & Nar vitiatus odoro Sulfure, tardatiaque Juts erroribus llfens:
Et Phaechonteasperpeffus damna ruirne Eridanus,flavxque terens querceta Maries Liris, (ir,Oebali£e qui temperat arva, Galefus.
Semper honoratus noslris celtbrabitur undis JJlc dies • fmper dapibus recoletur opimis.
Sic ait, & Nymphx, patris pracepta jequuta,
Q	TeUaHis M a j e s t i e’s Entertainments
Te8a parant peplis; ojlroque infeBa corufco,
Humida gcmmiferis illuxit regia men/is.
An Ifle midfl Tyber, with her fpreading fides.
The City, and his Silver Waves divides :
Banks on each Hand, and Tow'r-crown’d Margents rife, Threatning with their approach the lofty Skies;
Here {landing on a Summit, he furvai’d The loving Brothers, and the Cavalcade,
As on they march’d, bright Axes born before,
And double Rods brought from one fingle Floor.
Amaz’d he flood, long e’re his joy could make Way for his ftrugling Voice, at laft he fpake.
Spartan Eurota, fee, if thou could’ft e’re Such Brothers boaft : compar’d to thefe,what were The Swan’s fair Race,though well they knew the Cell,
And how to fleer a Fleet with Storms diftreft.
New S(ars, behold ! out-fhine Lcdaan Fires.
Behold my People,whom the Sky defrres:
For future Flames aplaceHeav’n readymakes.
Olybrius fhall rule Night's duskie Ax For Tollux, Trobine fhine for Qaflor's Star,
They Sails fhall fwell, and gently move the Air,
That Sailors through calm Seas may fleer the Pine.
Now pay Libations, now drink freely Wine.
You, ,‘AQtiades, draw forth your beautious Ranks,
And flrew with Violets your Fountain Banks:
Inebriated Streams, now overflow
Your Banks,turn’d Wine ■ in Woods let Honey grow;
The Meads fweat healing Balm • let one ftrait all The Neighb ring Rivers to a Bancjuet call.
All
eAll thofe, who wafh th’ Jujonian Mountain’s Feet,
And drink cold ^Alpine Snow; Vulturnus fleet -Strong-fented ^(ar; and 1)ftns Streams 5that grow,
By wand’ring through their own Meanders. flow ;
Eridanus too, who makes fuch pityous moan For lofs of his lamented Thaethon j And Liris feaking off Marie a’% Groves;
(falejus, who Ocbalian Fields improves.
This day our Waves fhall always keep in State,
This we with annual Feafts will celebrate,
This faid, the 3\(jmpbs, obeying, thither throng,
The Walls, and Roof, with ftately Arras hung :
His Wat'ry Court with Royal Purple fhone,
And Boards enchac’d with Pearl, and pretious Stone.
The River Thames having ended his Speech,the three Sea.men, who entertain'd the Nobility with the former Song, addreffed the following to His Majefty.
I.
King Charles, Kjng Charles, great Neptune of the Main ! Thy 'f^oyal 3\(avji rig,
And We’ll not care a Fig For France, for France, the Netherlands, nor Spain.
The T urk, who looks fo big,
We’ll whip him like a (jig About the Mediterrane;
His (f allies all funl{_, or ta’ne.
We’ll Jei^eon their (foods, and their Monies,
Thofe Algici'Sbarks,
That T hinder Ships, and Barks,
Algier, Sally, and Tunis,
Q i	WellWe’IIgive them fuch Tofts T o the Barbary Coajls,
Shall drive them to Harbour, like Qonies. 'Tan tar a ran tan tan Tan tar a ran tan tar a,
J^Cot all the World me fear-a •
The great Fi(h~'Pond Shall be thine-a
‘Both here, and beyond,
From Strand to Strand,
And underneath the Line-a.
II.
A Sail, a Sail, I to the Offin fee,
She jeems a lujly Ship•
Hoifeall your Sails a-trip :
Will Mather, weather her, what ere (he be.
Your Helm then Jleady keep,
And thunder up the Deep,
A Man of War, no Merchant She ■ Well Jet her on her Crupper;
(jive Fire,'Bounce, ‘Bounce, 'Pickeering Villains trounce,
Till Blood run in Streams at the Scupper. Such a Break^faU them we fhall,
(jive with ‘Powder, and Ball,
They [hall need neither Dinner, nor Supper. Tan tar a ran tan tan Tan tar a ran tan tar a,
'Pickering 'Rfgues ne’re fpare a;
WithWith ‘Bullets pink 1 heir Quarters;
Vntil they flinty,
They ftn)they (ini[,
Farewel the Devil’x Martyrs.	,
They yield, they yield ■ [hall we the poor Rogues [pare f.
Their ill-gotten (joods,
‘Preferv’d from the Floods,
That King CHARLES, and we may [hare f With Wine then chear our ^Bloods, zA nd, putting off our Hoods,
DrinktoHu MAJESTY bare,
The K^ing of all Qompafuon :
On our Kjiees next fall T' our Royal Admiral,
A Health for His Trefervation,
Dear JAMES the Duke of York,, Till our Heels grow light as Cork»
The fecond (jlory of our Ration.
Tantara ran tan tari Tan tar a ran tan tar a To the Royal Tair-a,
Let every man Full of Wine a
Takeoff his Can,
T hough wan, though wan,
To make his R^d 3\Qfe (hine-a.
TheUse-Sea-men having ended tlietr Song, the fever al forts of Mufick
(performed iheir Duty, whileft His Majejly palled on towards Cheap-'
ft&e.
At the Stocks the Entertainment was a Body of Military Mufick, placed on a Balcony; confifting of fix Trumpets, and three Drums: the Foanisin there being after the 'Thujcan Order, venting Wine, and Water.	7
In iike manner., on the T op of the great Conduit, at the Entrance of Cbeap-fide,'W3S another Fountain, out of which iffued both Wine, and Water, as in a ELeprefentatiqn of Temperance ; and on the feveral Towers of that Conduit were eight Figures, habited like lymphs, with Efcutcheons in one Hand, and Pendents, or Banners in the other.* and between each of them W mde-Mvificls; the number, eight.
On the Standard alfo in Qbeap-fide there was a Band of Waits placed, confifting of fix Perfons,THE THIRD ARCH
IE third Triumphal «Arch ftands near Wood-irreet end, not far from the place where the Crofs fometitnes flood.
“ It repre/ents an Artificial 'BuiU'mgof turn Stories, one after the Corinthian way of JrchitcHure , the other “ af er the Compofite, reprefenting the Temple of Concord;
“ frith this Infcription on a Shield,
&	D E M
CONCOf Dll
IN HONOREM OPTIMI PRINCIPIS,
CUJUS ADVENTL1
BRITANNIA TERRA MARI Q. PA CAT A,
ET PRISCIS LEGIBUS REFOR.MA.TA ESI, AMU10REM S PL INDIDIOREM o REST1TUIT
S. P. Q. L
Concord was reputed by the ‘Romans in the number, of-their GoddefTes , as we finde in Juvenal,
Cui colitur ‘Pax, atqueFides, Concordia, f'irtus ; and had feveral Temples, upon various occafions, vowed, and dedicated to her. There arofe a dangerous Feud , which continued for fbme Years, between, the Senate and People	: whereupon Furius Camillus *, turning himfelf to the Capitol, defired *a»u.c. of the Gods, that he might fpeak,and a& that, which might tend to the benefit of the Commonwealth, and reconciliation of the two diiTenung
Parties«Parties; and to that end vowed a Temple to Con cord. Wherefore having called the Senate, after a long, and various Debate, upon certain Conditions, brought the Senate, and People to an Agreement. Which Temple, according to his Vow, by a Decree of the Senate, was erecled,and dedicated to Concord. This is mention'd,though ob-
*	f*ihr. fcurely, in tabulis Caf itolmis; but plainly, by O v i d * ;
?h(Hnc bene profpicies Latiam Concordia turbam,
Z^unc te jucrata conjlituere manus.
Furius, antiquus pnpuli juperator Etrufci,
VuVerat, &-voti folverat tilefidem.
CaujJ'a, quod a Patrtbm fumptis jecefferat armis Vulgtu,& ipfa Jaas Roma timebat opes.
Now maift thou Concord, Ttyme with kindnefs fee,
Now facred Hands a Fane eredt for thee.
Furim, who conquer'd the Etrurian, made
A folemn Vow, which folemnly he paid.
Becaufe the People did their Princes beard,
Taking up Arms; and rRome her own Wealth fear’d.
iA,mo u.c. The like Vow was made by L, Manlius t, upon a Mutiny of the dxxxv. .Army under his Command, and the Year after the Temple was ere* died, and dedicated by M. and Q. Atilius cR,egulus, elected For that pur--*A«m u.c. pofe. So in the Sedition of (jracchm *,who encamped on the Aventine, ecxxxii. ancJ refufed the Conditions offered him by L. Opimius Conful, the Conful immediately vowed a T emple to Concord; and after his Vidtory over thofefeditiousConfpirators^edicatedit in Foro. Which did highly incenfe the Communalty, who thought that Concord could not be founded on the Slaughter of their Fellow-Citizens : anu fome of them adventured to add this lnfcription to the Title of the Temple,
FECO^Dl/E. OPUS. MVEM. FAC1T. CONCORD 1JE.
WeWe finde mention of the like Temples in feveral Infcriptions, colie-<8ed by (jruter ■ as in this,
D. N. Constantino. Maximo. Pio.Felici. Ac.
TRiUMPHATORI. SEMPER AUGUSTO. OB. AMPLI CATAM.TOTO.ORBE.REM.PUBLICAM.F ACriS.CON SILI I S
S. P. Q. R.
DED1CANTE. ANIC IO. P A U LINO.J U NIORE. C.V. COS ORD. PR^T. URB1
S. P. Q. R
&DEM. CONCORDIA. VETUSTATE. C O L-
LAPSAM. IN MEL IO REM. FAClEM. OPERE ET. CULTU. SPLEN OIDIORE. RESTITUE RUNT.
And in another not unlike the former,
j£DEM. CONCORD IJE. VETUSTATE. COLLAPSAM AMPLIOR EM.OPERE. CULTU Q^_S PLENDIDIOREM RESTITUIT.
S. P. Q. R.
“ In the Spandrils of the Arch there are two Figures, in Female Halits, “ leaning: Onereprejenting Peace, the other Truth. Tbat of Pcacs “ hath her Shield charged with an Helmet, and 'Bess iffuingfortb , and “going into it j the iViird,
PAX BELLO POTIOR.
“TrutHj on the other fide, in a thin Habit, on her Shield Time, “ bringing Truth out of a Cays j tb: ]Vord,
TANDEM EMERSIT.
R	“Oyer“ Over the great Tainting upon the Arch of the Cupula is rcprefentcd “ a large Geryon with three Heads crowned; in Ins three rights Hands, “ a Lance, a Sword, and a Scepter; in his three left'Hands the three “ EJcutcheons of England, Scotland, and Ireland: before him the Kjng’t “ Arms with three Imperial Crowns • beneath, in great Letters,
CONCORDIA I NSU PERABIL I S.
Geryon, Son of Chrjfaor, and (falurrhce, according to Hejiod, was feigned by the ‘Poets to have three Heads,and as many Bodies,who was fubdued by Hercules. Of whom V iroil*,
—---nam maximus ultor
Tergemim nece Geryonis fpoliisque fuperbm,
Alcides aderat, taurosque hac viElor agebat
Ingentes, valiemque boves amnemque tenebant.
Here the Revenger great Alcides flood,
Proud with the triple Cjeryoris Spoils,and Blood;
The Conqu’rour drave his Cattel to thefe Grounds,
Whofe Head poffefs'd the Vale,and River's Bounds.
And more largely Silius Italicus*,
Qualis Atlantiaco memoratur littore quondam onflrum Geryones immane tricorporis tree:
Qui tres inpugna dextra varia armagerebant■
Vna ignes Jtevos, asl altera pone fagittas Fmdebat, yalidam torquebat tertia cornum,
Atque uno diverfa dabat tria vulnera nifu.
--So (famous in a former Age}
1 hat horrid Monfter of a Triple rage,
Cjeryon, fought on the Atlantic^ Shore ;
Whofe three Right-Hands three fev’ral Weapons bore,-One cruel Flames, behind him th’other drew His Bow, the third his trufty fav'lin threw ■
And dealt three fev’ral ways, at once, a Wound.
TheThe Origination ofthis Fable, and its SigniBcations,are varioufly related. Talaphatus fuppofed him to have been feigned by the Toets to have three Heads, becaufe he had his Birth in a City on the Buxine Sea, called t	that is, of three Heads. - Others, that it related
to the three Brothers, whoutianimoufly govern'd Spain. -Add,indeed, that Spain, by reafbn of its Tripartite Dtvifion. was fignified by the Hieroglyphic/^ of (jeryon, is not onely the Opinion of (ome Authours, but appears from a Coyn of the Emperour Hadrian , the third time Con-(ul, in which there is a three-headed Image leaning on a Spear.- either to fignifie his Peragration of Spain , or his Origination frorn thence. Others havereferr’d this to the Vices of Speech,Body, and Soul, which Hercules overcame; which is confirm’d from the three Apples ordinarily held in one Hand of Hercules, ftill to be feen in a Statue of his in the Fame fie s P alace at 'Home, which^ Suidas fays, alluded to the fame.
“ On the top of the Cupula CONCORD, a Woman in her “ right-Hand holding her Mantle • in her left-Hdnd a Caduceus; un-“ der her Feet a Serpent Jlrugling, which /he Jeems to tread down.
That a Serpent was a Hieroglyphic/^ of Enmity, and War, (for which caufe it is prefented trampled under the Feet of Concord) appears from many Writers,Hiftories,andMedaigles.ARTEMiDORUs *, <tA Serpent (ignifies aT>ifeafe, and brings Enmity : according as that hurts any one in his 'Dream, Jo (hall hisDiJeafe, and Enemy. AndAcHMET*, Serpents generally, according to their proportion flg,nfie Enemies. Nic ei'horus, Patriarch of Conjlantinople,
’’Opus «rct{fiY1) tvs EwjYms ilu.
Killing a Serpent, think your Enemy you kill.
So Diodorus fays, that, according to the /Egyptians, A Ser ■ pent is the Symbol of Hatred. V irgh, dcfcribing ■_dle3n1 endeavouring to raife a War betwixt Turnus and /Eneas, feigns her with two Snakes erect upon her Head ■
•------Flammea torquens
Lumina, cunUantem, & quarentem dicereplura lifppulil, & qeminos erexit crinibiu angues :
Verberdque infonuit, yalidoque ktc edtdit ore.
* Oncirocrit.
lib.ii. cap. xiii.
t Ondrccrit. cap. cdxxiii.
RowlingRowling her bloody Eyes, ftie drives him back,
Labouring Requefts, and once again to fpeak:
Then with two Serpents from her Snaky Hair She fcourging him did thus her Rage declare.
jEschylus, of a Dream of Qlytemneftra,
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As (he reported, in her Dream (he thought,
Forth to the World that fhe a Serpent brought,
Swath’d like a tender I nfant wanting meat,
And, pitying, lays the Monfter to her Teat.
Milk ifTued forth commix'd with clotted gore.
From whence OreUes immediately conjectured (he was to die by his Hand.
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So (he,who gave the Monfter life, and breath,
Should therefore fuffer by a violent Death:
And I, like an enraged Serpent, fhould Kill her my felf, and her fad Dream unfold.
Which may further be illuftrated from feveral events, T1 b e r i u s Gracchus, in his Bed, mas clasp’d about by two Serpents. Which Tro* digie when the Soutb~Jayers had conjidered, they counjehed, that he fhould neither {ill both,nor let both efcape: and further faid,that,if he kill'd the Male, it would coll his own life; if the Female, bis IVife Cornelia'x.T iber ius,£&ir-ing affeUion to hu Wife, and withall thinking it more agreeable, that he, being the elder, fhould die firjl, lull’d the Male, and let the Female ejcape: andnot long after died. T he fame evil confluence we finde in. the Hiftory
of C, Hostilius Mancinus1"; who, as Joon as be had gone aboard a tobfcqucrc
Ship, in order to his Voyage to Numantia, on a fuddain heard a Voice cry,
Stay, Mancinus. Whereupon he return’dbac^, and, at Genoa, going '““V aboard again, found a Serpent in the Ship, which ejcaped from him. He mas overthrown, and delivered up to his Enemies. And Valerius Maximus * *i.ib.i.caP. fays, that in the diflfenfion of tWL. Fulvius Flaccus about making f taxv“' Laws, two blackj)erpents fiding into the (Jello/Minerva, portendedinte'
Jline Murders. Thus we finde them generally to portend fad Events, but particularly they were the Hieroglyphic^ of War, and T>cynjla^ tion. This appears from that known Story of Homer, where he tells us, that,while the Cfrccians were facrificing at Aults, they faw a Dragon devour eight young Sparrows, with the Damm, and makes the Prophet Calchasf interpret it the duration of the War for nine years.	; lliad-C.
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For, as thisSerpent, which from th’Altar fprung,
Devour'd the woful Mother, and her Young,
Which with her tender IfTue make up nine :
So many Years the Deftinies defign
This War (hall laft, and we the Tenth deftroy
The lofty Bulwarks of well-builded Troy.
Where the Dragon fignified the War; the number of the Birds, the Continuation of it. So when Hannibal, in a Dream, faw a Serpent of vaft magnitude throwing down Rocks, Woods, and Towns, and enquired of the Gods the meaning of it,they return’d this Anfwer f,	IuL
Bella vides opt at a tibi • te maxima Bell a,
"Te Qrages nemorum, te toto turbida caelo T. empeUas, aedesque virurn, magnaque ruin#
Idsei generis, lacbrymofdquefata fequuntur.
Quantus per campos populatis mOntibus affas Contorquet fylvasfquallenti tergOre Serpens,
SiEt late humeSat terras fpumante vrneno : Tantus,perdomitis decurrens Alpibus, atro Involvei Bello Italiam : tantoquefragore Sruta convuljis projlernes oppida muris.
----—Thou do'ft fee
The War fo much defir'd. and fought by Thee. Thee greateft Wars attend ; the dreadful Fall Of Woods,and Forefts, with high Storms, that all The Face of Heav'n difturb; the Slaughter Thee, And Death ofMen ; the great Calamity Of the Idtean Race, and faddeft Fate Do follow, and upon thee daily wait.
As great, and terrible, as that dire Snake,
Which now the Mountains with his Scaly Back Depopulates, and drives the Forefts through The Fields before him, and doth Earth imbrue With frothy Poifon : Such thou, having paft, And overcome the Alps, with War {halt waft All Italy • and, with a Noife as great,
The Cities, and their Walls, fhalt ruinate.
Which is evidently feen in fome Medaigles of the Roman Emperours, as in thisReverfe of Auguflus’s.
Where two Serpents,that is,the Hoftility, and Diffenfion of the ‘Ionian Empire,divided into two Factions, that of AnguUus, and Antony, are fe-
Mr. Ross.
paratedparated by an intervening Victory; that of Augujlus at AUium, and
Alexandria. That upon thefe Victories this Coyn was (lamp’d, may
be collected from the lnfcription on the other fide, C^iSAR. IMP. VII.
that is annus U.C. dccxxiv. in which * Year he triumph’d for the * .t ub j;
two Victories before-mention’d, The fame is to be feen in a Reverfe
of M. Anton/s.
Goltz. Jul.
c*f- pag-
xlviii.
WhereaWoman (fuppofed to be QO th^COT^D, with theFace of 0 cl avia, Sifter to Augufltis, and Wife to M. Antony,) in a long Stole, holding in her left Hand a pure Spear, in her right a Pontifical V'eflel, parts two Serpentsjfignifying the Armies of Augujlus,Antony.Which Interpretation of this Coyn is very much confirm’d from Hiftory. For this Pacification, obtain'd by the Prudence of OUavia, happened anno U.C. dc c xvi. Agrippa, and (/alius, being Conjuls. That this Coyn was ftamp’d after the Year D c cxiv. ('the time of the Peace between yj, r„„iui Sext. Pcmpey, Q. CteJ OSavianm, and Antony,') appears from the In- tZtnfL. feripdon on the other fide, M. ANTONI US IMP. COS. DES1G.
ITER. E T. TERT. for «Jppian * fays, that, after that Peace, the *jj‘Lg“7-Qonful/hips were appointed for the next four Years, For the fir ft, An* tony,and L/io(which Antony had been Conjul before with fyliuf Cafar next, Cafar, and Tompey ; after them tAbenobarbus, and Sofsius; laft,
(fafar, and Antony:	j i«	inlibi, then to become the third
time Confuls.
“ On the W ed-fide, the third great Figure, a Woman /landing at the “ Helm of a Ship • in her left Hand, ^Cornu-copix; the Word,
FORTUNE RED U. Cl.
FO%TV	was not more various, and unconftant in her
Motions, then thofe, that painted her, in their Defcriptions. The fir ft
waswas 'Riifmlus, who put a Celeftia! Orb ( which Tieriiu unhappily chang’d, by the miftake of one Vowel, into a Foal.) on her Head, and a Cornu copia in her left Hand j as we finde her in a Reverfe of a Coyn of theEmperour(^<j//iew»f)with this Infcription, EitciaN ttxh Afterwards, lome feigned her either (landing upon a Stone,or thetopoffome Mountain expofed to the Winds, or upon aWheel : others, upon the Prow of a Ship, holding a Sail with both her Hands j which is frequent in (jreek Medaigles. Pausanias makes mention of a Temple of Fortune, in which there was her Statue, holding a young Tlutus, the *n rim. GodofRiches,iuher Hand: as we finde her in Aristophanes*, to fignifie,that (lie was the Mother, and Murfe of Wealth. Some at-tributed Wings to her, as, Eusebius mentions. Horace*,
--—ft celeres quatit
Tennas, rejigno qua dedit. —-------
if (he her nimble Pinions wave,
I (Iraight refign whate're (he gave.
TheScythians, both Wings, and Hands, but no Feet. When Apelles was asked, why he made Fortune fitting, he anfwered, Be-cauje (he never flood. But we fhall onely take notice of what is here before us. i n the fame mar ner we finde her defcribed in a Stone, in-fculp’d on boch fides, with this In/criftionon one,
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NUJMDOM. AUG. SACRUM. FO<RJUNJi CO US E\VA 7%I CI HO%$_E 02^ OALBANO'RUM. M. LOHimS FO^TUNdTUS MAG1STEH. S.P.B.D.
with the Image of Fortune, holding in her left Hand a (fornu-copice ^ in her right the Helm of a Ship : and fo we finde her too in a Reverfe ofa Coyn of T R a ) a n the Smpc'our, mention’d by Occo. The like *rln fays Lactantius*, h'fwgebatur quidem Fortuna cum Cornu-copiat&Qubernaculo • tanq, es tnbuere putaretur, & humanarum rerum regimen obtinere: F<	made with a Cornu-copia:, and
the Helm of a Ship, as if fhe n>c - ref uted the Difpofer of Wealth, and had t De font hj the Cjoyernment of Humane . ■ . And Plutarch1, after va-Romano- rjousinftances on each fid ,'u igth concludes, that the Roman Empire ought more to Fortune, then to Valour, orTrudence : and therefore fays, that,having left iheTerfians, and Ajfyrians, (he lightly flew over
Ma-e^Macedonia, and prefently (he (hake cl off Alexander; then paf-fing through jEgypt, and Syria, often tryed the Carthaginians: but when (he had once pafled the Tyber,and entered the Palace, the laid afide her Wings, put off her Talaria, and forfook her unfaithful, and ever-mu-table Sphere, as if fhe intended to ftay there for ever. Indeed the .Romans did confefs as much ; who, having dedicated fundry Temples to Fortune, with all variety of Honour, in the moft eminent places ofthe City, never eredted one to Virtue, or Valour, tili the time of Marcellus, that took Sjracufe • or of Scipio J^umantinus, about theT five hundred fixty and third year after the building of the City. To ‘Prudence never dedicated to any. Among the reft of Fortunes Titles none more frequent, then this of R e d u x , to whom we read that Domitian the Emperour built a emple, mention’d by Martial*,
Hie ubi Fortune Reduci falgentia late Templa nitent.—---—
Here, where bright Fanes to Return’d Fortune (bine.
Temples of the like nature are mention’d too by C l a u d i a n,
Aurea Fortune Reduci (i Templapriores Ob reditumvoyere'Ducum, nondigniiis unquam Hac Deapro merits amplas fibi pofceret cedes, &c.
If they to Fortune Redux vow'd of old,
Their Chiefs return'd with Conqueft,Fanes of Gold;
The Goddefs never more deferv'd then now,
That we fhould ftately 7 emples her allow.
There are alfo many Medaigles, and thofe antient, of feveral Emper> ours with the fame Injcription,
t Helvicus Chrcn.pag.
75.d.“ «Above there are eight living Figures with Tennons,and Shields, repre-“fenting the jour Cardinal V irtues, each with an Attendant.
“Prudence, onher Shield Bellerophon on a Pegafus, running his “javelin into the Mouth of a Chimera; the Word,
CONSILIO ET VlRTUTE.
‘Bellerophon was the Son of (jlaucus King of Corinth, renown’d both for Prudence, Courage, Beauty , and Modefty. Of whom thus
t uui vi. Homer',
rAu'}aip TActyjc^ e-nx. a./Mj'Ao'ia.' Bstoepo#fl/]>i»*
Tu J\l ©eoi t*, i y,»3pe>i» t&TMn ’Zlararc'J.----- *
—-----Glaucus Bellerophon,
In whom all (jood concenter d as in one :
And Heavn this Trince a Terf nage did afford,
Which all admir’d. —----
The Toets feign many Stories of him. They fay,he went to Trtetus, Kingof the Argivi,by whom at firft he was kindly entertain’d. But be" ing afterwards iaifly accufed by Antea,the Wife of Tratus, for offering to tempt her Chalfity, he fent him to lobates, King oi Lycia, with a Letter written purpofely to have him kill’d, lobates, toplealure ‘Prtetus, fent Bellerophon againft the (himeera. But Mintrva, the Cjoddefs of Trudence, and Valour,protected his Innocence. Wherefore fhe bridled Tega/us, and delivered it to him. Upon whom being mounted, he flew the £,himara with his Javelin. After which Vidtory he lent him againft the Sol mi ( a Nation betwixt Lycia, and Pamphjlia') and the Amazons. From whence he returned alfo Conquerour ■ lobates, moved with his Piudence, and Valour, gave him to Wife his Daughter ‘Philonoe, and afterwards dying, left him Succeflour in his Kingdom.
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Firft he commands him ftern Chimara kill :
This hideous Monfter, of no Mortal Race,
A Dragon's Tail had, and a Lion’s Face,
Back’d like a fliaggy Goat, ftill belching Flame:
This by Divine Afsiftance he o’re-came.
Next he againft renowned Solym fought ■
This Vidtory, lie faid. was dearly bought, tie laft againft the Amazons prevail’d.
But, when he faw all open Forces fail'd,
He fell to clofe contrivance, and did lay An Ambufcade to kill him in his way j Not one return'd of all, that were employ'd,
All were by bold ‘Bellerophon deftroy’d :
But when he knew he was of Heav'nly Blood,
His onely Daughter he on him beftow'd,
Inverting ftraight with half his Regal Power.
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She bore Chimasra belching dreadful Fire,
Mighty, andjlrong, extremely fwft, and dire.
Three Heads the Monfter had ■ a Lion'sfirft,
And next a Cjoat’s, a Serpent’s loft, and worjl.
A Dragon’s Tail floe hud, and Lion s Face,
‘Backed lil^e a (joat, belching cut Flames apdce • lyhorn Pcgafus tooly-. and jlout Beilcroplion.
*	v£.,u V i R Q IL * alfo makes a Chimara on the Helmet of Tumus, vomiting forth Fire;
Cut, triplici crinitajuba, galea dlta Chimaeram Suftinet, yEtnxos efflantem faucibus ignes.
Tam magis ilia fremens,& trijhbus eferajlammis,
Quam magis effufo crude/cunt/anguine pugrne..
Oil’s Creft Chimera, through a triple Tyre Of bufhy Horfe-Mains, breath'd /Etneean Fire.
Strangely itroars,and Flame more fiercely glows,
When in the Battel blood in Rivers flows.
From that part of the Hiftory,wherein Minerva is faid to bridle Tega-jus for Bellerophon, there was built a T emple.and Statue of Minerva cal-Xiamfe Franatrix j as P a u s a n i a s + relates.
That Bellerophon was the Son of (jlaucus, King sf Corinth, appears from a Medaigle of the Corinthians yet extant, 011 the Reverfe of which is Bellerophon mounted on Tegafus,flaying the Chimara with his Javelin : on the other fide VE V S , with this Infcription imissihn becaufe at Corinth VE^^VS had anioitlplendid Temple. There is alfo a Coyn of C. Cafar’s, in which Bellerophon kills the Chimara, with this Infcription C O L. J II L. COR. that is, (jor-inth the Colony of Julius Cajar. Becaufe C.f. Cccjar reftored the City of (jo-rinth, utterly deftroyed before by Mummins, as we finde in Dio, and in Pausinias in the beginning of his Qorinthiaca.
What the Antients did denote by this Triple Form of Cbimara, is doubtful. NYMPHODOR’asthe SjracuJan fays, that Chimtera was a Mountain of Lycia, which perpetually vomited forth Fire, on the top of which lived Lions,in the middle (where were fpatious pleafant Me-dows) Goats, at the bottom Dragons. Which Mountain when Bel-lephoron had rendred habitable,he was faid to have flain Qbimtera. But Antigonus (Jarjstim fays, it fignified anely the People of three feveral Nations conquered by Bellerophon.
‘‘Justic e ,on her Shield a l^cman holding a Sword in one Hand, a “ Balance in the other j the Wird,
Quod Dexter a Libra t.
Though this Defcription ofjusncs, with a Balance in one Hand, hath been by late Writers accounted modern , yetitappears from Occo to have been antient, who thus found her reprefented in the Reverfe of a Coyn of Trajan the Emperour, with a Qaduceus in the other Hand: if he miftook her not for Moneta Aug. conftantly fo defer ibed; as may be feen in the Coyns of /intoninus,and other Emperours„
TEM-“Temperance, a Viol in her left Hand, a ‘Bridle in her right 5 “ the IVord,
FERRE LUPATA DOCET.
‘‘Fortitude, a Lyon haying the Arms of England, in an <c Sfcutcheon; the IVord,
GUSTOS FIDISSIMUS.
“ The internal Tan of this Triumph,or Temple, is Tipund, the upper “ part Dark ,onely enlightened by Artificial Lights ■ the lower part divided “ into tenTartsbyTilaJlers withTedeflals.
“ Within the T emple are twelve living Figures, three placed above the
“ The Firft the Goddefs of the T emple in rich Habit, with a Cadu-“ ceus in her Hand, and a Serpent at her Feet. Behind the Goddefs, a “ Man in a Turple Cjown, like a Citizen of London,prefenting the King “ with an Oaken (jarland. Over the King’s Head,
PATER PATRICE.
■' Over the Citizen'’sf
S. P. Q. L.
OB CIVES SERVATOS.
There were feveral forts of (frowns in ufe among the Romans, according to the variety of the Delerts of thofe, who were rewarded with them ; Obfidionales, Murales, Qaflrenfes, 'JXjivales, ‘Rpjlrata, Ci-Tptca,
The Obftdionalii was given to him,who had rais’d a Siege • which was made of the Grafs, that grew in the place befieged : and this was accounted more t honourable then any of the reft. The firft among the ‘Romans, that was rewarded with this fort of Crown, was Q^Ctncinnatm^ after him T. Deem, and L. Sicinius Dentatm, Calpurnius Flamma, and others.
The Mural Crown was the reward of him,that firft fcal’d the Walls, and entred the place affaulted; mention’d by Silius Italicus
Fulvius utfinemfpoliandis adibus,<cre Belligcro revocante,dedit; Jublimis ab altoSuggeflu (magnit autor non futilu aufis)
Lavino generate, inquit, quern Sofpita Juno T)at nobis, Milo, Grad ivi cape viUor honorem,
'Tempora Murali cinclus turrita corona.
But when, from Plunder of the Town, agen The (jeriral, by the Trumpet’s found, his Men Had call'd ( a Noble Cherifher of great Attempts ) to Milo, from his lofty Seat,
He thus began ■ Lanuvian Youth, whom ws From funo Sofpita receive, from me This Martial Honour for thy Vidtory Accept, and ’bout thy Tower'd Temples try This Mural Crown-—----—
Mr. Ross.
And in another place1,
——---—pbalerit bicpeHorafulget,
Hie torque aurato circumdat bellica al!a ■ llle nitet celfus Mura’is honore corona.
---——— here fhining flood
One with rich Trappings on his Breaft,and there Another on his Warlick Neck did wear A Golden Chain: this with a Mural Crown Was honour’d,-------
The Ca/irenfis belong’d to him,that firft entered the Tents of the Enemy : which,in the Infancy of the 'Roman Empire, was made of Leaves. Wnh fuch an one 'Romulus rewarded Hoflms Hoshhus, Grand-Father to Tulus Hopltus, King of'B^me : afterwards of Cjold, This, without que-ftion, is the fame with that, which otherwife is call'd Vallaris.
The Corona J^Qavalis, or Roflrata, ( for they feem not to be different, however Ltp/ius diftinguifheth them} was the reward of him, that firft boarded the Enemie's Ship, and took it: with this fort of Crown
POMFEYPompet the (jreat honoured M. Vano; and Augustus /fgrippa. The Form of it is ftill prcferv’d in theCoyns of Agrippa,
This is it, which Virgil * mentions,
Temper a !N\ivali fulgent roflrata corona,
His Brows, deck’d with a Naval Garland^ (hone.
But that, which gave us occafion to mention thefe, is the Qorona Ci-
vica, given to him, that in fingle Combat had refcued a Citizen, and flain the Enemy on the place : and this was made of 0a{. Lucan
•--—— Emeritique gerens in/tgnia doni
Servati civis referentem pramia quercum.
-----Crown’d with an Oaken Wreath,
Rewards for fuch, a liftman fav’d from Death.
C L A u D I A N *,
Mos erat in veterum caflris, ut tempora quercus yelaret, "talidis fufo qui viribus bosle Cafurum potuit morti jubducere civem.
Twas th’ ancient Guife in Camps, an Oaken Bough Should wreath his Temples,who had (lain a Fo,
And off a Citizen in danger brought.■And in another place
Hunccirigit Muralis honos, hunc Civica quercus j\(jxuit, kune domitii ambit Roftrata carinis.
This Mural Honour crowns, that Qvicf^ Boughs,
This wreaths his Head with conquer’d Gallies Trow.
Thefe were ordinarily prefix’d the Entrance of the Emperour's Palaces, as being populi Servatores. Ovid*,
Ante fores (tabis, medidmque tuebere quercum,
Trotegat & noflras querna corona fores.
Thou fhalt protect the middle Oak before The Gates; let Oaken Garlands fave our Dore,
In another place,
En domus hac, dixi, Jovis efl; quod ut effeprobarem,
Augurium menti querna corona dabat,
Behold, faid I, this is foye’s Houfe; I know By th’Qaken Wreath,that needs it muft be fo.
Which feems to be derived from Julius CfSAa: of whole Statues thus Appian, fpeaking of the Honours decreed to him ; There mere feveral Figures injeribed on his Effigies : on fome a Q own of Oak^, as dedicated to the Saviour of his Qomtrey. And D i o of An-gujlus; When he denied the t5\d onarchj, atid dtfcourfed of dividing the Provinces, it was decreed, that Laurels (hould be fet up before his Palace, and a Crown of Oak^ hung over them, tofignifie, that he mas conflantly overthrowing his Snemies, and faving his Fellow-Citium. The memory of which Honour conferred on him is preferved in feveral of his Coyns: in one there is a Crown of Oak betwixt two Branches of Laurel.
t Be Uudc Serenas.
* Fafi. Lib. i.In another the fame Crown betwixt two C AT "RICO % ("he was born under that Sign ) with a Globe , and the Helm of
a Ship.
In one this Infcription, within the Crown of Oak, Salu s humani
*	N*t. Hift. generis: to which Pliny*, without quefiion, alluded in op 5^°fe words, Dedit Augustus ‘Ryslratam coronam Aosipp^, fed C i v i c a m a genere bumano recepit ipfe.
There are feveral reafons propounded by Plutarch, and others after him, wl?y this Crown (hould be made of this material • but none fo probable as this, becaufe theOak was facred IoJupitkr and Juno Confervatoribus, Sariiw>, and
The Habit of V e n u s ’tis fomething difficult in particular to deliver ; the antient <tArtijls having been more willing to form her naked, as appears from the Statues of her ftill remaining in ‘Rome, and from
this ‘Poem of A^\AC‘KBO upon V8S engraved on a
Bafinj
What bold Hand the Sea engraves, Whiljl its undermined Wanes
InIn a ‘Di/he s narrow round
Art's morepow’rful Rfge doth bound ?
See by fome Promethean mind Cytherea there defign'd,
Mother of the Deities,
Expos’d naJ^ed to oar Eyes In all parts, fayc thofe alone,
Modefly will not baft jhoven,
Which for Cov'ring onely have The thin Mantle of a Wave:
On the Surface of the Main,
Which a fmiling Calm lays plain,
Shejil^e frothy Sedges, jwims,
And dtfplays her Snowy Limbs, Sec.
Mr, Stasley,
Yet, becaufe there is fomething of it particular to her, we (hall give fome account of it from CL AVDIA who thus defcribes her Drefs, when (he was going to the Wedding o{ HO 3^0 RIVS
the Emperour:
---natumgremio Cytherea removit:
St crines feflina ligat,peplumquefluentem Allevat, & b 'ando fpirantem numine ceflon Cingitur,impu!fospluviis quomitigat amnes,
Quo mare, quo ventos, iratdque fulmina folvit.
Venus the Boy lays from her Breaft ;
Binds up her Hair, and tucks her flowing Veft ;
Girds on her Cejlm breathing pow’rful love,
Which calms fwoln Rivers by a Deluge drove,
The raging Seas, rough Winds, and thund'ring ffove.tiliad .j What this Ce/los is, may beft be known from Homer', who is the firft, that mention'd it:
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This faying, off (he takes her curious Cefl,
Where all Allurements were of Love expreft,
Dalliance, Defire, Courtlhip, and Flatt’ries, which The wifeft with their Sorceries bewitch.
The ‘Rofes, and Dolphin, in the Hands of C u p i d, fignifie his Dominion on Land, and Sea : of which there is extant an Epigram of Pallada s,
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The Dolphin he, nor Tipfes holds in vain :
In this Hand Earth, in that he holds the Main.
Anacreon,
pWbv a (peuroi ^9^,
PoJbv sett®* Itkbniv**, &C.
Rofes, of all Flow'rs the King;
Rofes, the frefh Pride o’th' Spring,
Joy of ev’ry Deity;
Love, when with the Cjraces he For the Ball himfelf difpofes,
Crowns his Golden Hair with Rofes.
Of the Dolphin largely OTTIA
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The Dolphin rules the Scaly Flocks, endow’d With Strength,and Swiftnefs; of his Beauty proud;
He, like a Lance difcharg'd, through Billows flycs,
And dazling Flames darts from his glaring Eyes,
Finding out Fi(h, that frighted fculk in Holes,
Or Caves, and bed themfelves in Sand like Moles.
As Eagles monarch it ’mongft feai ful Birds;
As Lions Tyrants act ’mongft (abject Herds;
As much as cruel Serpents Worms excel:
So Dolphins Princes in the Ocean dwell.
No Filh dares them approach, nor be fo bold His Eyes, and dreadful Vifage to behold.
Far from the Tyrant, fearing fuddain Death,
Frighted they fly; fainting for want of Breath.
But when the Dolphin, hungry, hunts out Food,
The Silver Friein Troops amazed feud,
Filling each way with fear : then Caves, and Holes,
Rocks, Bays, and Harbours fill with frighted Shoals.
From all parts driven he feleds the beft,
Choofing from Thoufands out a plenteous Feaft.
. “ Of the nine leffer Figures; thefirU bears, on a Shield, the King of “ Bees flying alone • a Swarm foliating at fome diflance: the Word,
REGE 1NCOLUMI MENS OMNIBUS UNA.
“The“ The Second, on his Shield, a T eftudo advancing a’ainjl A Wall; the “ Word,
CONCORDIA CEDUNT.
“ The Third, a Shield charged with Hearts • the Word,
HIC MURUS AHENEUS ESTO.
“ The Fourth, like a Spread-Eagle two Heads, one of an Eagle, “ the other of an Eftrich ■ in the Mouth ofthe Eftrich an Horfe-(boe, in “ the Talon of the Eagle a Thunderbolt ■ theWord,
P Ri£ SI DIA MAJESTATIS.
“ The Fifth, a Bundle of javelins ■ the Word,
U N 1T A S.
ci The Sixth, two Handsjoyned athwart the Efcutcheon, as from the “ Qouds, holding a Caduceus with a Crown 5 the Word,
FIDE ET CONSILIO.
“ The Seventh, zArms laid down, (juns,Tikes, Enfigns, Swordsj the “ Word,
CONDUNTUR, NON CONTUNDUNTUR.
“ The Eighth, a Caduceus, with a Winged Hat above, and Wings be-“ neath, two Cornu-copises coming out at the middle, fupported by a (jar' “ land ■ the Word,
VIRTUTI FORT UNA COMES.
“ The inth, a Bright Star ftriking a gleam through the midsl of the “ Efcutcheon; the Word,
MONSTRANT REGIBUS ASTRA VIAM.
With thefe Figuresis intermingled a Band of twenty fourViolins.
The Bales, and Capitals within this "Triumph, are as Brafs, and the Pillars Steel.
The Triumph thus adorned, and the feveral Mufick playing, all paffed through, till fuch time as His Majefty came to the middle of the
T emple,Temple , at which time the three principal living Figures, vi%. Concord, Love, and T ruth, who till then had not been feen, were, by the drawing of a Curtain, difcoyered, and entertained HisMajefty with the following Song.
I.
Qomes not here the Kjng of "Peace,
Who, the Stars fo long fore-told,
From all Woes (hould us releaje,
Converting Iron-times to (fold?
II.
!Behold, behold!
Our Trince confirm’d by Heav'nly Signs,
Brings healing Balm,
Brings healing Balm, and Anodynes,
To clofe our Wounds, and Tain aflwage.
III.
He comes with conquering Bays, and T aim,
Where fuelling Billows us’d to rage,
(gliding on a filver Calm •
‘Proud Interefls now no more engage.
Chorus,
Let thefe arched ‘Roofs refonnd, foyning Injlruments, and Voice,
Fright pale Spirits under (ground •
But let Heav’n and Earth rejoyce,
WeWe our Happinejs have found.
He,thus marching to he Qrcmrid,
Attended with this (jlorious Train,
From civil Broils Shall free thefe lfles,
Whilft He, and His Tojleritj [hall reign,
I.
Who follow Trade, orftudy iArts,
Improving Taflure, or the 'Flow,
Or furrow Waves to Foreign Tarts,
Vfe your whole Endeavours now.
II.
His Brow, His Bra»
Bids your Hearts, as well as Hands,
Together joyn,
Together joyning hlefs theje Lands-Peace, and Concord, never poor,
Will make with Wealth theje Streets to fhine,
Ships freight with Spice, and Cjdden Ore,
%ur Fields with Honey, Mil{, and Wine,
Tofupply our Neighbours Store.
The firft Song ended, Concord addreffed her felf to His Ma-jefty, in thefe words,
Welcome, great Sir, to Concord's Fane•
Which Your ^Return built up again ;
You have her Fabric^ rear’d (o high,
That the proud Turrets kjfsthe Stye.
Tumult by You, and Civil War In Janus (fates imprifon’d are.By You, the Kjng of Truth, and Pcacc; zSMay all Divi/ions ever ceafe !
Your Sacred ‘Brow the blufhing ‘Rpfe,
And Virgin Lily twin'd enclofe !
The Caledonian Thijlle-Down Combine with thefe t’adorn Your Crown!
J^oDi/cordin th’ Hibernian Harp! fought in our Duty flat, or fharp !
But all confpire, that You, as Beil,
May 'hove all other flings be Bleft.
The Speech ended, His Majefty, at His going off, was entertained with the following Song,
With all our Wifhes, Sir,go on,
Our Charles, three Rations (jlory ■
That Worlds of Syes may loo^_ upon,
Behinde, Sir, and before Ye •
(jo great Exemplar of our Britifh Story,
Taternal Crowns affume,
That then Your ‘Royal 3\(ame May, regijlred by Fame,
Smell li^e a fweet Ter fume:
3X_ot Writ in Marble, Brafs, or (fold,
Nor fparbfmg (jems,
Such as (hine in Diadems,
But where all Nations may lehold With brighter (fharaBers enroll’d,
On th’ Assure Vellum of configur’d Stars ■
Who fix’d, witbgentl&Smiles,'
Two fluUuating IJles,
And built Well-grounded Teace on Civil Wars.
V
OnOn the little Conduit, at the lower End of Cheap-Jtde, were placed four Figures, or^A(ympbs, each of them having an Efcutcheon in the one Hand, and a Pendent in the other.
In a Balcony, erected at the Entrance of Tater-no^er-Row, were placed His Majeftie’s Drums, and Fife; the number of Perfons, eight.
Between that and Ludgate there were two other Balconies erected: in one was placed a Band of fix Waits • in the other, fix Drums.
On the Top of Ludgate fix Trumpets.
At Ffe-Bridge, a Band of fix Waits.
On Fleet-Conduit were fix Figures, or	clad in White,
each with an Efcutcheon in one Hand, and a Pendent in the other; as alfo a Band of fix Waits. And on the Lanthorn of the Conduit was
the Figure of Temperance, mixing Water and Wine.
THETHE FOURTH ARCH.
|N Fleet-Jlreet, near IVhite-Friersfi.ands the fourth Triumphal Arch, reprefenting the (jarden of Plenty; it is of two Stories, one of the Doricl[ Order, the other of the lonic/{. The Capitals have not their juft Meafure, but incline to the Modern Architecture.
Shield over the Arch, in Urge Capitals, this In]cri-
UBERITATI
AUG
EXTINCTO BELLI CIVILIS INCENDIO, CLUSOQVE JANI TEMPLO,
ARAM CELSISS.
CONSTRUXIT
S. P. Q. L.
To Vheritj, or 'Plenty, there are frequent Dedications amengft the
V	z	ReverfesReveries of the Coyns of the Upman Emperours; as of Auqujtuj, and Galienus,
She is reprefented in a long Stole, or Mantle,the proper Habit of W'o* men, holding in one Hand a Patera, or little Cup; in the other a Cornu* copia. T he latter is well known to be the Embleme of ‘Plenty, Its original related by O v i d * : which, though unknown to few, the lfc*. At.i elegancy 0f the Relation wiU not give me leave to omit.
—---rigidum f era dextera cornu
!Dam tenet, infregit; iruncaque afronte revellit.
Naiades hoc pomis,&odoro florerepletum Sacrarunt: dive'sque meo bona copia cornu ejl.
---my Brow he disadorns,
By breaking one of my engaged Horns.
The ^(aiades with Fruits, and Flow'rs this fill,
Wherein abundant 'Plenty riots ftill.
The Patera, or little Cup, which fhe holdeth in the other Hand, is frequent in other Figures of Reverfes; asWhat is meant by EXTINCTO BELLI C1VILIS INCENDIO, the extinUwn ofthe Flames of Civil War, is fortunately known to us all, and may ferve to explicate what follows, CLUSO C^UE fAS^l TEMPLO, the {butting rf Jinus’j 1Temple : a Rite inftituted by Num a, according to Livy :3\(uma %sgno potitus Urbem novam, condi tarn vi & armis, fare earn Legib usque ac «5Atforibus de integro condere par at: quibus cum inter bella affuefcere vi-deret nonpoJJe (quippe efferatis militia animis) mttigandum ferocem populum armorttm defuetudine rat us, Janum ad inf mum r_J rgt ctn>n , indicem Paris Belltque fecit: Apertus,#; in armis effe civitatem• Cl a us us, pacatos circa omnes populos fignificaret. N. u m a , being pofjejs'd cf the Kingdom, apply ed himjelf to reform the new City, which ivas built by Force, and Arms, and to build it anew by Twites, Laws, and Injlitutions: with which perceiving, that in the midsl of War it was not pofsible to be ejfeUed, by rea/on that their minds were made rou^b and fierce by AV ms; he conceiving that the fierce 'People might by their difaccu/lomance be made mild, he built a ‘Temple to [anus at the bottom of Argiletus, the fignifier ofPe.ce, and War: which being Opedb d ,fhewed that the City Mas in Armi jShut, that they were in peace with all Rations. This Varko* confirms, The Janual (fate is fo call’d from Janus : and therefore an Image of Janus is plac'd there, and a T^ite in/lituted by Numa Pompilius (as Lucius P t s o in his Annals relates ) that it [hould be alw %ys Shut but in the time of War. We finde no where, that it was Opened in the time of Pompilius. P l u t a r c h, in the Life of N u m a,
7	here is at Rome a Temple alfo of) a n u s, with a two-leav'd (f ate, which they call Polemopyle, the Gate of War. For it was decrced, that in the time of War that Temple (hould be O f e n ■ in Peace, Shut. ‘But Virgil ' derives this Injhtution higher,
os erat Hefperio in Latio, quem protimu ttrbes Albanas cohere facrum, nunc maxima rerum Roma colit, cum j rima movent in przha Mar tern •
Sive Getis inf err e mam lacbrymabile Bellum,
Hyrcanisue Arabist par ant, feu tendere ad Indos Aurordmque fequi, Parthos^ae repojeere jigna.
Sunt gemina B e l l i P o r r yt ((ic nomine dicunt) rRflhgionefacra, (S'favi formidtne Martis.
* De ling. Lut. lib.'iv.
t t/£neid. Vii.
Qentmn* Satr.rnal. lib. i.cap. xviii.
t Schol. in
JMidiam
Dexofth.
* In Eli acts.
* JMetam. lib. iv.Fab. i.
The Statues of Bacchus were of a very different form among the Antients. Macrobius*, Liberi Tatns Jimulacra partim pue~ rih atate, partimjuvenili fingebantur; pneterea barbata fpecie,fenili quoquet See. 7 he Images of Bacchus were partly like Boys, others like Youths, Jome with Beards, fome like Old men. Ulpi a n *, Chorus’s of all eyjges contended in the Feajls of Ba cchus, becaufe they fram’d him. of every Shape j for they paint him a Boy, an Old, and a Young man. Of which Macrobius gives this Phyfical Reafon, efteeming Bacchus to be the fame with the S u n ; Becauje the Sun in the IVtnter Sol-Jlice may feem a Boy, the days being then the fhortejl• but, by continualen-creafes in the Spring ^Equinox, may Jeem a Youth • in the Summer Solflice, at Lis full age ; afterwards in his diminution, an Old man„ In the form of an Old man we finde him woi fhip'd by the Cfracians, under the Name of Baffareus, and Bryfeus ■ and at Staples under the Name of Hebon : Macrobius in the fame place. Of Hebon there is ftill remaining this Monument,
HBflNI Eni« ANESTAra ©Efli IOTNIOS AKXAa! NEilTEPOS SIPA TEX2AMENOX E n I TPO nETSAS AHMAPXHSAS.
So Pausanias* tells us of a Bearded Statue of Bacchus holding a Golden Cup in his Hand. But moft frequently he is reprefented in the form of a Boy, or Youth. Tibiulus*,
Solis aterna cH Phajbo Baccho^ae juyentus :
J\Qtm decet intorfus crinis utrumque Deum.
Thxbus, and Bacchus muft be ever young :
For uncut Hair to either God belong.
Ovid* of Bacchus,
----Tibi enim inconfumptajuventa,
Tu puer aternus, tu formofifsinm alto Confpiceris ctxlo.------
-----ftill do’ft thou enjoy
Llnwafted Youth, eternally a Boy.
TheThe Toets feign him riding in a Chariot drawn either by Tigres, Leopards, or Lynces. Statius f,
Liber pampineos materna ad mcenia currus Tromovet, effrena dextra Uvaquefequuntur Lynces, & uda mero lambunt retinacula tigres.
Thence to his Mother’s City Bacchus rides,
Rein’d Lynxes by his Viny Chariot fides,
And Tigres lick’d the Harnefs moift with Wine.
Horace,
Hac te merentem, Bacche pater,tm Vexere tigres, indocili jugum Collo trahentes.------
Bleft Bacchus thee thy Tigres drew, Who Yoaks and Harnefs little knew.
O V I D t,
---- tu bijugum pictis insignia franis
Collapremis lyncum.-----—
------thou hold’ft in aw
The fpotted Lynxes, which thy Chariot draw.
Thefe not onely drew his Chariot, but were his conftant Companions ; as we finde in the Ship of Bacchus, (taken from the Mariners, whom he had turn'd into ‘Dolphins) defcribed by Ovid*,
i circa tigres, Jimulacrdqtt; irtania lyncum, TiUarimquc jacentfera corpora pantherarum.
Stern Tigres, Lynxes (fuch unto the eye) And fpotted 'Panthers round about him lie.
Hist In Intag.
* Met am. lib. iii.
t rib. ii.
Od. xix.
* paufattias
His Ship is lively fet forth by Thiloflrattts1• which, or the like, is ftill to be feen in the Church of St. Agnes at ^Rome, formerly a Temple of !Bacchus’s, in moft exquifiteMofmchSNork.
He was conftantly crown’d either with Grapes, Ivy, or both.
Ovid*,
Ipfe racemifew frontem cimmdatm uvis ‘Tampineis agitat velatam frondibus haUam,
He, head-bound with a Wreath of cluftred Vines,
A Jav’lin {hook, clasp’d with their leavy twines.
crines, nonferta loco, dextrdmque reliquit Thyrfus, & mtacla ceciderunt cornibus uva.
His Hair diforder’d now no Wreath adorns,
His Thjrfus fell,plump Grapes drop from his Horns.
Ho RACEt,
---Deum
—•--avirdant Vine
The God about his temples did entwine.
Tibullus,
fyndide Liber ades,Jic fit tibi my flic a nit is,
Sic hedera femper tempora yinUa [eras.
‘Bacchus afsift, fo may the facred Vine,
So may frelh Ivy ftill thy Brows entwine.
So in Achaia, at the Feafts oi Bacchus *, the Qhildrcn havingrvafly'd thcmjehes in the Bjver ]V* eilichus, they put on Qrowns of Ivy, and Jo go to
the'/ emple of Bacchus i&iymnetes.
HenceHence M, Antony*, having aflumed the Title of n<@: aAw©', J\(cr» ub. Bacchus, caufed the Coyns, ftamp’d with his Image, to bear a Crown xl™ of Ivy.
Mm: X AKTOWIL HLVXRL '
Goltz. )nl. Ctf p:'g. xlviii.
And the Antients ufed this, as an Argument, to prove that 'Bacchus of the Qrecians, and Romans, was the fame with Oftris of the /Egyptians, becaufelvy, which was facred to Bacchus, was in /Egypt called that is, The Tlant of Ofiris.
Why Bacchus, and thofe that drank, did wear a Crown of Ivy, A then ms gives this Reafon amongft the reft, becaufe there is great plenty of it, and it grows of it felf,and is every where to be had,being not undelightful for fight, [hading the Forehead with its green Leaves, and Berries,and of a body fit fcr binding, beftdes that, cooling without any Carotique fmell offenfive to the Head. The Wine-Bowlsalfo were ordinarily adorn’d in the fame manner. Virgil,
-------pocula ponam
Fagma, caelatum diviniopus Alcimedontis:
Len(a quibus torno facili fuperaddita vitis Diffufos hedera veslitpallen’e corymbos.
——-----tv\o Beechen Cups I’ll flake,
Which the divine Alcimedon did make :
Whereon with a fmooth turn foft Vines he iliapes,
And with pale Ivy cloaths the fpreading Grapes.
Anacreon,
rioTv)ca& ^
1 OsVi j3x9iO/OVj Scc-
X 1	Rowemflooitrov
K<x} (3orpu«< •x&t
Vulcan come, thy Hammer take,
And of burnith'cl Silver make c Not a glitt'ring Armour, for What have we to do with War i But) a large deep Bowl, and on it I would have thee carve no Planet,
Tleiades^Wains,nor Waggoners;
But to life exactly ftiape Clutters of the Juicy Grape;
Whilft brisk Love their bleeding Heads Hand in hand with Bacchus treads.
We finde him cloathed with the Skin of a Ttgre (though that not
*	De raptu the onely one Garment he ufed) in Claudian*:
ProferpMb.'i.
__Lenisejue Jimulprocedit Iacchus,
Crinahflorens hedera, quem Parthica velac Tigris, & auratos in nodum colligit ungues.
--So Bacchus march’d with Ivie crown’d,
Clad in a 'Parthian Tigre's fpotted Hide,
And Golden Claws in neat compofure ty’d.
A Tbyrfus is a Spear adorn’d with Ivy at the upper end, which Bacchus, and his Attendants, made ufe of to fuftain them in their drink, t rapt?: Claudianof Bacchus,
profetp.iib.-i.	' '	. .	. . , ; - . • ,
Ebria Msoniis fulcit w/ligia Tb)rfis.
His Lydian Thyrfe fupports his reeling Limbs.
Taufanias*, The Statue (of Jupiter) islifyunto Bacchus; for it hath p'i l(ins iuflead of Shoes, and it holds in one hand a Cup, in the other a Tbyr» This 7 hyrfus, with a Qornu-copia, is the Hieroglyphick of Mirth
inin a Coyn of Fau/linas ■ the Infcription HI L 17 AS. In one hand fhe holds a Qornu-copia, in the other a 7hyrfus, on a Spear, covered from one end to the other with Leaves, and Coronets.
Silenus, andthe&*f>m, were the conftant deboift Companions of Bacchus. Ohvhom Baujanias * relates a Story told him by Eupbemus *>" Am. a Carian, that, in a Voyage to Italy, by crofs Winds, their Ship was for-ced beyond the Streigbts into the dtlantic\Oczm, and was driven by the Tempeft upon the 1 (lands, called, by the Mariners, 'The 1/lands of Satyres. Whofe Inhabitants were of a yellowifh colour, and had Tails notinferiour tothofeofHorfes. Who, as Toon as they faw the Ship arrived, prefently entered, and laid hold ofthe Women : fo that the Mariners were forc’d, out offear, to land them a Woman, whom the Satyres ufed not onely according to Nature, but abus'd all parts of her body: Nor were the young Satyres more devoted to Venus, then old Silenus to his Patron Bacchus. Virgil',	t E_;
-----Chromis & Mnafylus in antro
Silenum pueri fomno videre jacentem,
Inflatum he/lerno venas, titfemper , Iaccho;
Serta procul tantlm capiti delapfajacebant,
Etgravis attrita pendebat canthdrus ansa.
Say Mufe, how Qhromis and Mnafylia found In’s Cave Silenus fleeping on the ground,
O	th laft nights Bacchus fwell'd (his ufual guife)
Far from his Head hisfal’n off Garland lies.
So O v I D*,
BacchaijSatyii^Htf fcquuntur,
Quique fenex ferula titubantes ebrius art us Suflinet,&pando nonfortiter haret afello.
Light Bacchides, and skipping follow, Whilft old Silenus, reeling ftill, doth hallow, Who weakly hangs upon his tardy Afs.
Whence*Panfanias.
t Eclog. iii.
* Antic].
t Mjthol. lib. iii.
* Carm. lib. \\.0d. xix.
t J)i rapiu Proferp. lib.’i.
Whence the cleans *, in their Temple of Silenus, make Di mkennejs delivering a Cup of Wine to him.
He was conceiv’d to be the Fofterer,and Educator of ‘Bacchus; from whence Aurelius Nemesianus1 defcribes him with ‘Bacchus in his Arms,
Qti T>eus arridens horrendas peftore fetus Vellicat, aut digitis aures adflringit acutas,
Jpplaudine marm mutilum caput, aut breve mentum,
Stjimas tenero collidit pollice nares.
Smiling on him the God his briftly Hairs Plucks from his Bi eaft, or nips his pricked Ears,
His low Brow claps, and ftiort’ned Chin, and grows Familiar, tweaking of his Saddle Nofe.
And thus we finde Silenus in an antient Statue at liptne *.The Satyres were painted with Goats Horns, and Feet, to fignifie the infatiablenefs of their Lull. Fulgentius1; Satyri cum caprinis cornibus depin-guntur, quia mnquam novere fatnrari libidine- The Satyres are painted with Cjoats Horns, becaufe their Lujl is unjatiabie, Horace*,
------ aures
Capripedim Satyrorum acutas.
The Goat-foot Satyres pricked Ears.
“ On the North'/z(/c oppofite, Cere s, drawn in A Chariot by winged “ Dragons,and crown’d with Ears of Corn : in her left Hand, Toppy ; in “ her right, a blaming Torch. 7 he Tainting over her is a Defcription of “ Harveft ■ with
CERES AUG.
That the Chariot of Ceres was feigned to be drawn by Drit' gons, appears from feveral places in the To'ets. Claudian1,
—--—finuofa Draconum
Membra regens, volucri qui pervia nubila traBu
Signant,Signant, & placidis humeSant frana venenis.
Frontem crifia tegit, pingunt maculofa virentes
Terga not a, rutilum Jquamuintermicat aumm.
——---fhe finewy Dragons guides,
Who at high fpeed cut yielding Clouds in twain,
Their Snaffles frothing with delightful bane,
Crefted their Fronts, Backs mark’d with freckling green,
Their Scales, when briflell’d up, Gold (hines between.
And immediatly after,
-----fulvis Serpentibus attigit Iden.
With yellow Serpents drawn fhe Ida reach’d. Ovid^
Dixit, & egrediens nubem trabit, inqile Dracones Tranfit, & alifero toUitur axe Ceres.
Then going forth, a Cloud fhe draws,through Skies,
With Dragons drawn,her fwift-wheel’d Chariot flies.
And a little before, of the fame Goddefs,
Quo fimul ac venit franatos cunilus a n g u e s funxit, & tequoreas ftcca pererrat aquas.
Her harnefs’d Serpents in her Chariot puts,
And dry her way through fwelling Billows cuts.
Where we fee promifcuoufly ufed angues, and dracones. So the Rod of eSM'ercury, which is perpetually reprefented with Serpents about it, by z5\dantal is encompafs’d by a Dragon :.
Cyllenes caliquedecus, facunde minifler,
Aurea cui tortovirga D r a c o n e nitet.
HeavenHeaven and Cyllenes Joy • Speaker divine,
A Golden Dragon on thy Wand doth fliine.
And Claudian* fpeaking of the Golden Fleece kept by a Dragon,
---- infopittsque refufum
TraBibus aurati cujlodem velleris ansuem,
The watchful Dragon kept the Golden Fleece.
The memory of Ceres her Chariot drawn by Serpents is preferv’d likewife in feveral old Marbles, and this Medaigle,
The reafon why 'Poppy (hould be attributed to Cerei,and from thence be call’d by V i rg i l * Cereale papaver, is varioufly rendered by S e r v i u s : Vel quod tsl e/ui Jtcut frumentum: vel quo Ceres ufa ejl ad oblivionem doloris; nam,ob raptum Profperpinae	guflatoeo
aBa ejl in foporem: vel quiapani adjpergatur. Sitber becaufe it isfit to eat, as Corn : or becaufe Ceres ufed it to procure a forgetfulnefs of her grief; for, being wearied with continual watchings in purfuit of her Daughter Proferpi-na jlolnfrom her , upon tafling of it, fhe fell ajleep : or elfe becaufe ’tts fprinted upon ‘Bread, But the Mythologies, who efteem Qires to be the fame with the Earth,mzkt it onely a’ Symbol of the Fecundity of it; or, from its orbicular Figure,to fignifie the rotundity of the Earth; from its inequality, the Vallies, and Mountains; from the multiplicity ofits Grains, the vaft multitude of Men, and Animals. For which reafon the fertile Countrey of Sicily was facred to her,which (he contended for with Vulcanj and, in token of the Victory, the Sicilians dedicated her Statue with a little Image of Vi&ory on her Hand. Which Statue
CiceroCicero1 makes mention of. ThekToppies are mention’d by fe- tc«™ veral of the 'Poets ■ as by	y"rcn-
CitHMACHUS,
---—----yyfo
2tiftyOttllLj ^ IMLWtttA, -'--
Poppies fhe took, and Garlands in her Hand.
Theocritus,
--*---- tt./fc yiXLcKtc^
-/j [mwmcu, h a^o7?pwsrjv e^oiart,*
In either Hand ihe Corn, and Poppies had.
Porphyry, quoted by Eufebius *, fays, that Ceres was crown’d with Ears of Corn, about which were feveral Branches of 'Poppy, which T"A'b-'"-were the Symbols of Fertility.
She was accounted by the Antients the Goddefs, that firft delivered to Mankind the Art of Tillage, whence they ufually crown'd her with Ears of Corn. T i b u l l u s ,
Flava Ceres, tibi fit mjlro de rure corona Spicea-------
O	yellow tyres, round thy Golden Locks,
Place Garlands taken from our Countrey Shocks.
Ovid,
Flava Ceres, tenuesfpicis redimita capillos, tyres, whofe /lender Hairs Corn-ears do bind.
Or put them in her Hand. So in the Re verfe of a Coy n of Julia Piet,
Y	there* De raptu Profcrp.
there is one leaning with her left Hand on a Spear, holding in her right Hand an Ear of W heat, with this Infcription, Q E I{E k, E M.
She is frequently defcribed with a Torch in her Hand, from that known Story of her fearching after her Daughter,ftoln,and carried away by Pluto out of Sicily. Of which Claudian*,
Accingor luflrare diem, per deyia rerum Jndefejfa ferar: nulla ceffabitur bora.
J'^on requies,nonjomnus erit, dum pignus ademptum Inveniam,gremio quamvis meigatur \betx T ethyos, & rubro jaceat vallata prof undo.
Rhenig/<3«ei, non me Ripasa tenebunc Frigora: non dubio Syrtis cunBabitnr rt/lu,8x.c.
Sic fatur, notaque jugis illabitur ./Etnas,
' 3\(o3ivdgo tedas inflmmatura labori.
I’ll fearch the day, no hour fhali ftop me hurl’d Unwearied through all Craniesof the World •
No reft, no fleep, till my dear Pledge be found,
Though fhe lie hidden in th’ Iberian Sound,
Or the Red-Sea. ‘Ripbaan Frofts, nor 'Rhyne,
Crufted with Ice, fhall hinder my Defign :
Nor yet the doubtful Syrts with wallowing Tides.
This faid, to Aetna’s Top (he makes a flight,
Kindling her Torch for bus’nefs of the Night.
SoSo Pausania s * mentions a Statue of Qeres, holding in her right * In Aru. Hand a Torch, with her left Hand laid upon a Statue adjoyning, cal- dici’-led‘De/poina. Statius*,	ftmm
/X	lib. xii.
Qualis, ab ALtnxisaccenfa lampacle faxis,
Orba Ceres magnie variabat imagine flamnue Aufonium Siculumjwe latus, vejligia nigri 1Kaptoris, vajlosque legens in pulvere Julcos.
Rob'd Ceres lo at an JEtnean Stone
Kindled her Torch, which blazing (he drives on,
Reprinting ‘Pluto s fteps on either Coaft,
Plowing up dufty Clouds in Furrows vaft.
Ovid*,
lllic accendit geminas pro lampade pims:
Hinc Cereris jams nunc quoque ted a datur.
There fora Torch two Pines the Goddefs lights Since, they with Tapers celebrate her Rites.
From whence (he was call’d Deatedifera :
Et per tediferx myftica facra Deae.
The like we meet with in the Collection of Gruhr,
CERERI AUGUST.
MATRI. AGR.
L. BENN1US. PRIMUS MAG. PAGE BENNIA. PRIMIGENIA MAGISTRA FECER.
GERMANICO. C/ESARE. II.
L. SEIO. TUBERONE. COSS.
DIES. SACRIFICI. XIII. K. MAI.
“ On“ On the We&fide ofthe Arch, over the South ‘Poslern, the Goddefs “ Flora, in a vat iotu - coloured Habit; inoneHand, %cd and White “ Rofes; in the other, Lilies: on her head, a Cjarland of federal Flowers, ‘‘The Tainting over this, a Cjarden with IVal^s, Statues, Fountains, ‘' Flowers, and Figures of Men and Wmen Walking.
The Story of this Goddefs Flora is varioufly related : we ftiall *Lib.ii.cap. onely take notice of the account L&Hantius * gives of her. Flora, having gain’d a great Eflate by prnjlttuting her ‘Body, at her 'Death left the Teople of Rome her Heir, ahd allottedjuch a certain jum of Money ■ the Yearly uje of which [hould be expended in the Celebration of her Birth-Day witbfeveral Sports call’d Floralia. WhichJeeming a flagitious thing to the Senate, they too\ occa(ion, from the very name of the Sports Flora-
l	i a, to add fonie Dignity to fo [hamcful a bujinefs, to feign a Cjoddefs FLORA, who had the care of Flowers, whom they fhould Yearly appeafe for the greater plenty of their Qorn, Fines, <5cc. Her various-colour’d Habit, with the reafon of it, is mention’d by Ovid*.
tTrfjhr.	'
lib. v.
Cur tamen, ut dantur vefles Cerealibus alba,
Sic eft bite mltu verficolore decens ? zAn quia maturis albefcit me/sis arijlis?
St color, & fpecies floribus omnisinejll <lA nnmt.——----—
In white at (feres Feafts why are they dreft,
While Flora wears a party-colour’d Veil t Is it becaufe Corn looks in Harveft white,
Wbilft Flowers in various Colours take delight i
She was crown'd with Flowers, as we finde in thefe following Ver-
fes,
Annuit: & motisflores cecidere capillis,
Decidere in men/as ut rofamijfa folet.
SheShe nods: and Flowers fell from her Head,
Like Rofes on a Table (bed.
AnfwerabletotheLifeofthe Autheur were the Sports on herFe-ftival; lafcivious, and celebrated by lafcivious Perfons. Ovid^ * mi
Outer ere conabar quare lafcivia major His foret in ludis, liberwrquejocusfitc.
Turba quidem cur hos celebret meretricia ludos.
I	did enquire why a more wanton way Thefe Sports are granted, and a freer Play :
Why Proftitutes (hould at thefe Rites attend.
Which Cato had no fooner entered, but his Gravity forc’d him to retire. Martial,
3\£of[es jocofee dulce elm facrmi Flora:,
Feflosque lufus, & Ucenliam vnlgi,
Qur in Theatrum Cato Jevere venijlif.
An ideo tantim veneras, ut exires i
Thouknew’ft, that Flora's joyful Rites Free Licence had, and all Delights ;
Why earn'd thou Cato to the Play i Cam’ft onely thou to go away
Which Story is more copioufly related by Valerius aximus. Onu • phrius T any wins mentions a Coyn , in which we have the firft, that caufed thefe Sports to be celebrated. Q. e5W E M MIV S FLO-^A LI A T BJ MV S FE CIT. She had her Flamen, mention'd by Varro \
J	L«t.
“ Oppofite to this, on the North-fide, the Goddefs Pomona “ crown’d with a Qarland of jeycral Fruits; in her right Hand!, a Tru-*• ning-Hool^-, in her left Hand,the Sun : at her Feet^allforts ofCjraffing,
“and (jardening-Tools.
Ovid,Met Am. .xiv. Fab.
Ovid * thus defcribes her at large,
Hege fub hoc Pomona fuit: qua nulla Latinas Inter Hamadryadas coluitfolertius hortos:
J\(jc fuit arbor ei fludioftor altera foetus ■
Dnde tenet nomen. S\(onfylvasilla, nec amnes,
Hus amat, & ramos felicia poma ferentes.
&(ec jacttlo gravis ejl, fed adunca dexter a falce :
Qua tnodo luxuriempremit,& fpatiantiapajsim Bracbiacompefcit :JJfo modocortice, lignum Injerit, & fuccos alienopraflat alumno. i\(ec jentireJitim patitur, bibulteque recurvas ‘J^adicis fibras labentibus irrigat undis.
Pomona flourifh’d in thofe times of eafe ;
Of all the Latian Hamadryades,
None fruitful Hort-yards held in more repute,
Or took more care to propagate their Fruit;
Thereof fo nam'd. Nor Streams, nor fhady Groves,
But Trees producing gen'rous Burdens loves.
Her Hand a Hook, and not an Jav’lin bare :
Now prunes luxurious Twigs, and Boughs,that dare Tranfcend their Bounds: now flits the Bark, the Bud Inferts, enforc'd to nurfe anothers Brood.
NorfufFers them to fuffer Thirft, but brings To moifture-fucking Roots foft Aiding Springs.
She had her Hitmen too, though the laft of the fifteen. Sextus Pompiius, Maxima dignationis Flamen Dialis ejl inter X V. Flamines: &,quum cxteri dijcnmina Majeflatis fm babeant, minimi babe-tttr Pomonalis; quod Pomona levifsimofruthii agroritm prafidet. 1 he Flamen of Jupiter is of the greatejl ‘Dignity amongll the fifteen Flamens, There is adijlintfion bemixt all of them, but the meanejl is the Flamen of Pomona, becaufe (he prefides over the mcancfl Fruit of the (f rounds.“Boreas, in/lead of Feet, two Serpents Tails, his Wings covered “ with Snow: his Emblem, a rockie Mountainous Country, and the Pleiades l£ rifing oner it; his zSMoito,
---SCYTHIAM SEPTEMQJJE TRIONES
HORR1FER INVADIT----
That the Antients defcribed Boreas with Serpents Tails, in-ftead of Feet, appears out of P a u s a n i a s*, ,£S s»es« ™M‘ Bopi« *r!» ifxmat ’QfeiSnav. ’p#£tP$ ??«»"iii!	<w£. If you comp aft it on the left
Hand, there is Boreas forcibly taking away Orithyia: He hath Serpents Tails inHead of Feet.
Thus Ovid defcribes him dealing away Orithyia,
Hac Boreas, aut his non inferior a loquutus,
Excufsit pennas: quarumjailatibus omnis AfflatacflteUus, latimtque perhorruit aquor.
Tuberedmqiie trahens perfumma cacumina pallam,
Virrit hummn,payiddmque metu caligine teftus Orithyiam adamans fulvis compleclitur alis.
jhus ‘Boreas chafes, or no lefs ftorming, fhook His horrid Wings j wbofe aiery motion ftrook The Earth with Blafts, and made the Ocean roar,
Trailing his dufty Mantle on the Floor.
He hid himfelf in Clouds of Dull, and caught Belov'd Oritkjia, with her fear diftraught.
Virgil?,
Qualis Hyperboreis Aquilo cum denjus ab oris lncubuit, Scythiaique bjemes,atque.arida differt J^ubila.--•--—
■As when from Hyperborean Mountains fierce Boreas doth Clouds, and Scythian Storms difperfe.
Claudian,
* In Eliacii.
t Georg-ni-* De raptu Proferp. lib. i.
Bella cupit, pelagus, fylvas,camposqueJonoro Flamine rap turns.----
As with a Whirl-Winde when rough ‘Boreas arms’
Wings ftiffwith Ice,and Snow,and Cjotbid[ Storms,
Defiring War, the Woods, and Deeps profound,
And Plains breaks thorough with a dreadful found.
“Austsr, in a dartycoloured Habit, with Wings lity Clouds • his “ Embleme, a Qondy Sty, and Showers: his tS\d otto,
NUBIBUS ASSIDUIS PLUVIAQVE MADESCIT.
The Authours of Natural Hiftory do attribute a Thunder-Bolt to theiSW/)-Winde alone. From whence Virgil, defcribing Vulcan's Shop,
His information manibus, jam partepolita Fulmen erat, toto (jenitor qua plurima ccelo Dejicit in terras: pars imperfeUa man ebat.
Tres imbris torti radios, tres mbis aqrnfe Addiderant, rutili tres ignis, & alitis Auftri.
A Thunder-Bolt half finifti’d now in hand,
(Many of thefe by angry fove are thrown From Heav’n to Earth) the reft as yet not done.
Three parts of Hail, three of a Wat’ry Cloud,
As much of Fire, and three of Winde allow’d.
Upon which place S a rvius. 5\(onnulli manubias Fnlminis bis mntnibus, Jovi, Junoni, Marti, & Auftro vento afferunt attribui, quod ex hoc Maronis loco ojlendunt, Of this Winde we have the Picture(fture in nAntoninns’s Pillar at fome, remarkable for the Hiftory, in which is reprelented the Rain,that fell in the Tents of the Fpmans, ready to perifh for Drouth, and the Thunder, and Lightning,which at the fame timedeftroyed the Enemy: obtain’d by the Prayers of a (^h)i-flian Legion, as the Fathers of thofe times relate it; by others attributed either to the Piety of the Emperour, or the Magick of Armtpbis: of which Claudian j-
Lam ibi nulla Ducum; namflmmeus imber in hoflem Decidit: htmc dorfo trepidumflammante ferebat Ambuslus Jonipes • hie tabejcentefolutus SubJedit galea, liquefaUdquepulvere cujpit Canduit, & fubitis flttxere Hquoribus enfes.
'Tune content a polo, mortalis nefcia teli,
Fugna fuit. Chaldsea mago feu carmina ritu Armavere Deos-, feu, quod reor, omne Fonantis Obfequium Marci mores potuere mereri.
The Chiefs no Fame got there- the Enemies force A fiery Show'r difpers'd : a burning Horfe Bore this on's flaming Back; this over-turn'd,
His Cask did melt, in Dufthis Jav’lin burn’d,
And melting Swords in fmoaking Rivers glide.
Heaven’s Arcenal did for this Fight provide Weapons deftroying more then Mortal Arms.
Either the Gods were arm’d by Magick Charms,
Ot fove fo much to Marcus merits ow’d,
That all this kindnefs he on him beftow’d.
It is thus defcribed by D i o , %u might fee at the fame time Fain andFtre fall from Heaven : fwne were mt, and Jrat^ others were burnt, and diedk Fhe Fire touch’d not the Romans; if it fell among them, it mas immediatly quench’d. Fhe Ti^in did tlmr Adverfaries no good, but rather li^eOil increafed the flame. They fought for Water,while theFain fcllon them. Some of them wounded tkmfehes, as if they meant to quench the
Z	FireFire with their 'Blood ■ others ran over to the Romans, who alone had the Water couldfave them; and thofe Amoninas fav'd. The fame Authour, who liv’d in the time ofCommodus, Son to Antoninus, mentions, from a Report in his time,the Magick of Arnuphis, as a caufe ofit, as it is deli-vered by Xiphiline,Patriarch ofConjlantinople: Tu reported, that Ar-nuphis,i3» /Egyptian Magician, then in company of the Emperour Marcus Antoninus, had invoked with hu Magic 1^ Art, among other (jods, the aerial Mercury, by whoje ajsiflance he obtain’d the Shorn. And thus the «in'A.iM/i. Story is told by Suidas*. Others mention full an the Magician. The Chrijlians had a fair Plea for what they pretended, an acknowledgment from the Emperour himfelf, by Letter to the Senate , had not that Letter, ftill remaining, upon examination prov’d counterfeit. The Picture, being rare,we have caufed here to be publish'd.
Baroniui miftook it for fupiter Tluvim, who is never reprefented
t Mam. with Wings. This Winde is excellently defcrib’d by O v i d 1,
lib.i.
-----madidis Notus evolatalis,
Terribilmpicea tedus caligine wltum •
Barb*'Barbagravis nimbis, camfuit unda capillis,
Fronte Jedent nebula, rorantpennaque finksque.
With moill: Wings j\(otus flies in fable Bags His fowre Face hid, his Beard with Tempeft fags,
His Hair fheds Cryftal Drops, dark Clouds encamp Upon his Brows, his Wings and Bofom damp.
His Thunder-Bolt is mention'd too by Lucretius ■
Jltitonans Volturnus, (s Aufter ulminepollens.
“Zsphyrus, like an Adonis frith Wings; the Emblem, a Flow-“ cry Plain • the Word,
--TEPENTIBUS AURIS
DEMULCET--
So Claudian defcribes¥.	*»«>;«
*	Prefer p.
---Tater o grati(sime Veris,
Qui me a lafcivo regnasper prat a volatu Semper, & afsiduis irrorasfatibus annum, &c.
---ille novo madidantes nectare pennas
foncutit, & glebas foecundo roremaritat,
Qudque volat, vermisfequitur color: omnis in herbas 'Turget humus,medioque patent convexa fereno.
Sanguineo Jplendore rojas, vaccinia nigro Induit, (s' dulci Violas fcrrugine pingit.
Blefs'd Father of the Spring, all Hail,
Who rul'ft my Meadows with a wanton Gale,
And dew’ft the Seafon with a conftant breeze,&c.
From his moift Wings he richeft J^jclar fheds,
And the hard Glebe with pregnant Moifture weds :
Colour the Spring attends, Vd every where
Earth fwells with Herbage,Ileav'q’s high Fore-head clear.
Z i	RofesRofes in Red, Berries in Black he dies,
And gives the Violets Purple Liveries.
Lucretius calls it the Mejfenger of Venus:
Et ver,& Venus, & Venerispranmtius ante Tennatus graditur Zephyrus vefligia propter.
The Spring,and Venus, warming Zephyrebrings Love’s gentle Herbinger on painted Wings.
Philostratus [ reprefents it thus, A Youthfmooth-fac’d, with Wings on his Shoulders, and on his Head a Cjarland of feveral Elmers.
The Seat of this Winde was feigned by the Antients to be in Spain.
*inHircn/i Seneca*
out.	.	‘ ■ ■ ■
—qua Zephyro Subdita tellus,Jlupet aurato Flumine clarum radiare Tagum.
The Lands, where Zephyre dwells,behold With wonder Tagus fhine in Gold.
tInlaudibus CuUDIAS*,
Sinm.
Deferitur jam ripaTagi, Zephyrique reliSis Sedibus, Aurorx famulas properatur adurhes.
He Tagus banks, and Zephyr’s Court forfakes,
And hafte to Conquer’d Eastern Cities makes.
Not fo much from the Vernal temperature of the place, as that it was efteem’d the remoteft place from whence Italy received thefe We~ fern Gales.
“The great Figure on the top of all reprefents Plenty, crmned, a “ ‘Branch of Talm in her right Hand, a Cornu-copia: in her left.
TheThe Mufick aloft on both fides, and on the two Balconies within, were twelve Waits, fix Trumpets, and three Drums.
At a convenient diftance before this Structure, were two Stages erected, divided, planted, and adorned like Gardens, each of them eight Yards in length, five in breadth. Upon that on the .5\^W/>i]de fate a Woman reprefendng Plenty, crowned with a Garland of divers Flowers, clad in a Green Veftment embroidered with Gold, holding a Cornu-copia : her Attendants, two Virgins.
At His Majeftie’s approach to the Arch, this Perfon reprefendng Plenty rofe up, and made Addrefs to him in thefe Words ■
(jreat Sir, the Star, which at Your Happy "Birth Joy’d with his "Beams (at 3\(oon~) the wond’ring Barth,
T>id with aufpicious lu/ire, then,prej,age The glut’ring Plenty of this (j olden zJge ■
T he Clouds blown o're, which long our joys o’recafl,
And the fad IVinter of Your ah fence pajl,
See! the three fmiling Seafons of the Year <?Agree at once to bid You Welcome here ■
Her Homage Dutious Flora comes to pay ■
With Her Enamel'd Treafure ftrows Your Way :
Ceres, and Pales, with a bounteous Hand,
Dijfufe their Plenty over all Your Land■
And Bacchus is Jo lavijh of his Store,
"That Wine flows now,where Water ran before.
Thus Seafons,z5Aien, and (Jods their foy exprejs ■
To fee Your Triumph, and our Happinefs.
HisMaiefty, having paffed the four Triumphal Arches, was, at Tempi E-Bar, entertained with the View of a delightful Bofcage, full of feveral Beafts, both Tame, and Savage, asalfo feveral living Figures, and Mufick of eight Waits. But this, being the Limit of the Citie's Liberty, mull be fo likewife of our Defcription,A BRIEF
NARRATIVE
O F T H ■
Solemn RITES and CEREMONIES performed upon the day of the
coronation
Of our Sovereign Lord KING
CHARLES II
Happily celebrated upon the if day of April, being Saint GEORGES Day, nAnno Domini 1661.
Obfervtd, and ColleBed DELIAS ASHMOLE E% Winfor Herald.THE
PROCEEDINGS
ON THE DAY OF His M A JEST IE’S Coronation.
Pon the i}dof April, being St. Cjeorge s day, about half an hour after (even in the Morning,the Kjng entered into His rich "Barge,took water from the ‘Prroy-Stairs at White■ Hall, and landed at thcTarliamcnt-Stairs : from whence He proceeded up to the Room behind the Lords'HouJe, called the Prince’ s Lodgings, where, after He had repofed Himfelf for a while, He was arayed in His Royal Robes of Pur-ple Velvet, furr'd with Ermine. By which time the 3\(obility, being aflembled, robed themfelvesin the Lords-Houfe, and Tainted-Qiamber.
The Judges alfo, with thofe of the Long-P^be, the I\nights oi the. Bath , and Cjentlemen ot the Privy-Qbamber, met in theCourt-of-‘J\eijucsls.
After fome fpace, the Kjngs, Heralds, and Turjuivants, began to fet the "Proceeding in Order, each of them taking his fhare afsigned in Chapter, ( held at the Heralds-Office the Evening before ) and thence directed all the before-mentioned "Degrees ( except the Mobility') down into Wejlminjler-Hall, where the reft of the "Proceeding attended, and from whence the <t5M.'arcb began.
About half an hour after Nine, the 'obility ( having been firft called over in the "Painted.Chamber ) proceeded each according to his Rank, and Dignity, in their Robes, and Coronets, before the Kjng , through the Gouit-oC-Requefls , into IVeflmmJlerHall,
afcendedafcended up to the Slatet which was railed at the iVeJl-cnA, and placed thernfelves upon each fide thereof.
His MajeBy being fet in his Chair, under a rich Cloth of State: Firft, Sir (f ilbert Talbot, the Mafter of the fcWcLHov.je , prefented the Sword of State, as alfo (jrtana, and two other Swords, to the Lord Htgh-QjnJlablc, who took and delivered them to the Lord High-Qbamberiain, and he (having drawn the laft ) laid them upon the Table before the t\ing.
Then the faid Ma/ter oftht fewel-HouJe delivered likewife the Spur to the Lord High Qonjtable ; and he again the fame to the Lord High-Chamberlain, who alfo placed them upon the Table.
Immediately after the Dean and Prebends of JVeJiminJler, ( by whom the 'Regalia had been brought in Procefsion from the Abbey-Qburcb unto W<Jhninfler-Hallj being yefted in rich Copes, proceeded from the lower end thereof, in manner following.
The Serjeant of the Vifl>y,\n a Scarlet Mantle.
The Children of the i\ing’s Chapel, being twelve in number, in Scarlet Mantles.
The Quire of IVc/lminfler in Surplices.
The Cjenth men of the King s Chapel, being thirty three in number, in Scarlet Mantles.
The cPnrjmvants, Heralds, and 'ProvincialKings.
The Dean, carrying St. Edward's, Crown.
Doff our Helyn, the Scepter with the Crofs,
DoBour Heywood, the Scepter with the Dove.
DoBour Z\Qcbolas, the Otir with the Crofs.
■'DoBoufKjilegrew, K ing Edward's Staff.
DoBour fones, the Chalice and Tatena.
DoBoUr Dowty, the Spoon.
DoBour ‘Busby, fhe jnipidU.
All {landing towards the lower end of the Hall, ready to proceed, they made their firft Reverence together; then coming to the middle of the faid Hall, they there made a fecond ; and thence going a little further, both the (Quires fell off, and flood on either fide,through which Lane, theTurfmvants, Heraulds, and Kjngs pafsing, fell like-•Wife off on either fide', the Seniours (till placing thernfelves upper-moft towards the Throne : after whom, the Dean and ‘Prebends fproc&dfcd, and arrived at the foot of the Stone-fteps, afcending to the 7hmn>they made atimhSr Reverence.
^ Tfefet}g‘do:ie, the Dean arid Treknds, with garter, Principal Kfng vfi&fm BifdHf'Vhem, (he having waited their coming thither,ther) afcended the Steps, and approaching near to the Table before the King made their laft Reverence.
The ‘Dean firft prefented the Qrown,which was by the Lord High-Qonflable, and LordQreat'Qbamberlain, fet upon the Table ; who afterwards took from each of thtTrebcnds that part of the Regalia, which they carried, and laid them alfo by the Crown: which done, they retired.
Then,the Lord Qreat-Chamberlain prefenting the''Regalia feverally to the Kjng , His Majejly thereupon difpofed of them unto the 3\(oble-tnen hereafter named, to be carried by them in the ‘Proceeding to the Abbey-Churchy viz.
St. Edward’s Staffto the Sari of Sandwich
The Spunio the Earl of Tenbroke and Montgomery,
The Scepter with the Crofs to the Sari of ‘Bed/end,.
The ‘Pointed Sword ( bora on the left hand of Curtana to the Sari of Derby.
The ‘Pointed Sword ( born on the right hand thereof to the Sari of Shrewsbury.
Qirtana to the Sari of Oxford.
The Sword of State to the Earl of Mancbefter.
The Scepter with the Dove to the Duke of Albe-marle.
The Orb with the Crofs to the Duke of ‘Buckingham.
St, Edward’s Crown to the Duke of Ormond.
The Tatena to the Bi/hop of Exeter; and laftly,
The Chalice to the ‘Bifhop of London.
And becaufe the Spoon and Ampulla were not to be born in the 'Proceeding, and therefore ought not to have been brought thither, but left placed upon tha High-Altar, in the Abbey-Cburcb, there to lye in readinefs; they were not prefented to the Kjng, but commanded to be fent back thither, and laid thereon.
All things being thus far prepared,and it being about ten a Clock, the ^Proceeding began from out the faid Hall into the ‘Palace-'Yard, through the (jate-Houje, and the end of King street, thence along the (freat'Sanduarj, and fo to the Wejl-cnd of the zA bbey-Qmrch, all upon Blew Cloth, which was fpread upon the Ground, from the ‘Throne in IVejlminJler-HaU, to the great Steps in the Abbey■ (Jjurcb, by Sir Cjeorge Carteret Knight, Vice-Chamberlain, appointed by the King to be His Almoner for this Day.
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TheThe Proceeding to the Coronation -was in this following Order.
THE ‘Drums four.
The Trumpets fixteen, in four Clafsis.
The Six Clerks of the Chancery.
( Here ten of the King’s Chaplains, having Dignity, (hould have proceeded j but were abfent for want of timely notice. )
The ttAldcrmen^of London.
The King's ftijtvnt! 'at Ifait.
The K inz's Solicitour,. The King’s Attorney.
The °SVLafters of l{equc(l.
The (jentlemen of the Privy-Chamber.
The Knights of the ‘Bath.
The Barons of the Exchequer, and fuflices of both Benches, two and two, in order, according to their Seniority of the Coif.
The Lord Chief /Baron. The Lord Chteffuflice of the Common-Tleas. The Mafter of the Trills. The Lord Chief-fuflice of the Kings-Bench. The Serjeant-Torter. 1 he Serjeant ot the Vejlry.
The Children of the King’s Chapel.
The (jentlemen of the Kmgs Chapel.
1 he ‘Prebends of Wejlminjter.
The Mafter of the femel-Houfe, who now had Precedency of the fudges, in regard he brought the Smrd, and Spurs into Wcslminftcr-Hail, and the '.Ringto the Qmrch.
The Knights of the Pmy-Council.
Tort'Cutiu, Purfuivant at Arms.
The Barons in their Robes, two and two, carrying their Caps of Crimfon Velvet, turn’d up with Miniver, in their Hands.
The Bifhops,two and two, according to their Dignities, and Confe-crations.
cRouge-Q'°ix,	Bitty-mantle,	Purfuivancs.
The V/jcounts, two and two, in their Robes, with their Coronets in their Hands.
Scmerjet,	Chefter,	Heralds.
The Saris, two and two, in their Robes, holding their Coronets in their Hands.
‘Richmond,“Richmond,	fftndjor,	Heralds.
The eSMarciueJs of Dorcbejler, The z5\4arquefs of IVorceJler in their Robes, with their Coronets in their Hands.
Lanca/ler,	Yorfy	Heralds.
U^orroy,	Qlarenceux, Provincial Kings,
carrying their Crowns in their Hands.
The Lord Higb-Treafurer.	The Lord High-Cbancellour.
St. Edward's Staff, born by the Earl of Sandwich,
The Spurs, born by the Earl of ‘Penbrofy, and Montgomery.
St. Edward’s Scepter, born by the Earl of ‘Bedford.
[The third Sword,	j 'The Sword called	"j •.ThtrPointed Sword,^
j drawn, and born	j j Curtana, drawn,	| j drawn,and born by |
I by the Earl of	j : and born by the	the Earl of Shrews- >'
I ‘Derby,	J [Earl of Oxford.	J [bury. J
The Lord Maior of (jarter, Principal The Cjcntleman VJher London.	King of Arms. of the ‘Blacked,
The Earl of Lindfey,
LordCjreatzCbamberlain of England.
[The Earl of j [The Sword of State n| [The Earl of j\(or-) Suffolfy, Earl j j in the Scabbard,born j j thumberland, Lord \ g ! Marshal for i j by the Earl of Man \\Qonflable of Eng-! g ^ [this prefent i \chefler, LordQham* pi land for this pre- [«&
I occafion. | . her lam of the Hou- ! fent occafion. j
J !/hold.	1 i
His Highnefs the Duke of York.
[The Scepter, ] 1 St. Edward’s Crown,born ] [ The Orb ,
I with the Dove, j '■ by the Dufy of Ormond, j I born by I « < born by the ; Lord Higb-Steward for >< the Dufy { ~
! Dufy of Me- j ] this prefent occafi- j I of Bucking. J [marie.	J L on.	i I ham. I
g (The Tatena, born by the C The Regale, or Chalice, born by ~) S .2' c£tfbop of Exceter in his >< the Bi/hop of London in his Cl tj> (Cope.	Cope.	jJT
A a i	TheThe Kjvcg fupported by the Bifhops of J5 ^ "Bath and Weils,	and ‘Durefme.	g g
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|,v3	His Train born by the Lords	g
^ •£ Mandevil, Cayendi/h, Ojfory, and Percy; and afsifted £• ^ -a tp hy the Lord Mansfield, Mailer of the	^ j*
'©	cR(jbes.
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The Lord Lauderdale,
one of the gentlemen of the ‘Bed- Chamber,to be near the King.
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§ ^ Mr. Seamour,	Mr. A(hburnham,
s'rf	both Grooms of the Bed-Chamber.	S' §
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Captain of the ^uard. Captain of the ‘Penjioners. S •§
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The Cjuard.	'x~v~~y
When the Proceeding had entered the Abbey-Cburcb, all pafled through the Quire, and thence went up the Stairs toward the great Stage , and,as they arrived at the top thereof, were difpofed by the Heralds into two galleries, builc on either fide the upper end of the Quire.
That, on the 3\(_orthSide, received the Aldermen of London and gentlemen of the Long-Robc, the Quire of Weflminjler, the gentle-men and Qhildren of the thing’s Chapel, ( excepting twelve gentlemen, four Children, and one Organijl, who went into a gallery, raifed on the South4)ide ofthe Vpper Quire,peculiarly appointed for them:) and, in the gallery, on the Soutb-fide, were feated the Benights ofthe Hath, and gentlemen of the ‘Privj/'Qhamber.
The l\tn^, being entered the IVf/2-door of the Abbey-Qhurch, was received with an Anthem, begun by the Quire of IVijlminsler • who, with theDean, ani‘Prebends, had before fallen off from the Proceeding, a little on the left hand of the middle lfle, and flayed there to attend His coining, where alfo a Fald-jloo/, and Cu[})ions were laid ready for His Majefty to kneel at.
The Anthem fnng wasthefirft, fourth, fifth, and fixth Verjes of the uid Pjalm:1	ms glad when they faid unto me, We mil go into the Houfe of the
The KJng, arriving at the Fald-jlool, kneeled down,and ufed fome ftiort Ejaculations; which being finiftved, He thence proceeded into, and through the Quire, up to the great Stage (_ erected clofe to the four high Tillars,R&nding between the Quire and the ditar ) upon which the Throne of Eflate was placed ( being a Square raifed on five Degrees) at the Entrance whereof were fet a Chair, Foot'ftool, and Cuthion,covered with Cloth ofGold,whereon He repofed Him-felf.
Immediately after the Bi/hop of London (who was appointed to Officiate, in part, that Day,for the ^Arch-Bi/hop of Canterbury,vrho{e age andweaknefs rendered him uncapable of performing his whole Duty at the Coronation ) having the Lord High-Qmftable, the Sari eS\£ar/hal, the Lord (jreat Chamberlain, the Lord HighXhancellour, and Lord Qiamberlain ofthe Houjhold before him, went firft to the South, next to the Weft, and laflly, to the 3\(orthSidc of the Stage -and at every ofthe faid three fides, acquainted the Teople, that he prefented to them tying Charles, the rightful lnheritour of the Crown of this cR^alm ■ and asked them, if they were willing to do their Homage, Service, and ‘Bounden Duty to Him.
As this was doing, the King rofe up, and flood by the aforefaid Qhair, turning His Face ftill to that fide of the Stage, where the faid Bifhop flood, when he fpake to the ‘People; who fignified their willingnefs, by loud Shouts, and Acclamations.
The fame Queftion was likewife put by the faid Bijhop to all the Mobility prefent.
Immediately after, this following Anthem was fung by the gentlemen of the King’s Chapel :
Let thy Hand be flrengthened, and thy right Hand he exalted. Let ■fufltcc and fudgment be the Treparation of thy Seat, and Mercy and Truth go before thy Face.
In which time, a large Carpet was fpread by a Cjroom and Tage of the removing Wardrobe, from the Altar, down below the half-(Paces thereof, and over that a filk\ Carpet, and Cufhion, laid by the (fentlez man'Vfher of the ‘Blac\- ^d, and Mr. KJmerfley: whereupon the'Bifhop of London went clown from the Stage towards the Altar, ands having made his Reverence, placed himfelf at the ^(ortb~{\Ide thereof.
Then the l\mgdefcended from His Throne, and proceeded.towards the Altar,being iupported by the Bi/hops of Durefme,and Bath and Wells, with the four Swords, the grand Officers, the JA{oble* mm, and Bifhops, that carried the 'Regalia before Him, the Dean of We'slminfler alfo attending. Being arrivt d at the Steps of the Altar, He kneeled down upon the Cufhion, there laid ready for Him, having firft offered the Tall, (which was of Cloth of Gold, and born by the Earl jf Sandwich ) as alfo a Wedge of (fold of a pound weight ( prefented unto His Hands by the Lord Qornwallu,Treafurer ofHis Houfhold ) both which were received from the Kjng by the Bifhop of London, who laid them reverently upon AstiAltar. Immediately after, His Majefly retired to a Chair of State,kt on the South-fide of the Altar, a little below the Traverfe of Crimfon Taffety.
After this, the Bifhops, and Jfoble-tnen , that carried the “Regalia, drew near to the Altar , and prefented every particular to the faid Bifhop of London, who placed them alfo upon the Altar • and having fo done, they retired to their Seats. Whereupon the t\!ng kneeled at a Fald-flool(fet on the right fide ofHis faid Chair ofState') whil’ft the Bifh :p of London faid this Trayer.
0 Cjod, which dofl vifit thofe, that are humble, and doft comfort us by thy Holy Spirit, fend down thy Cfrace upon this thy Servant c h a s l e s, that by Him we may feel thy Trejence among us, through jefus Chrift, Amen.
This Trayer ended, the Bifhop of Worcester went up into the Tulpit, placed on the J\!^orth-{\A<i of the Altar, oppofite to thsIQng, and began his S e r m o n , the Text being taken out of the zS'1' Chapter ofthe Troverbs, and the fecond Verfe.	,
From the beginning of the aforefaid Offering to this time the King was bare ; but now He put on His Cap , made of Crimfon Velvet, turn'd up with Ermines : with which He fate covered all the S e r m o N-time.
On the Ring’s right hand flood the Bfhop of Durefme, and beyond him the ii^oble-men, that carried the Swords, who held them naked,and eredt. The Duke of York fate a little behind Him on His left Hand • next to whom flood the Bifhop of Bath and Wells, together with the Lord (jreat'Cbambcrlam.
TheThe Lord Higb-Chmcellour, and Lord Higb-Treafurer, fate on a Form behind the Duke of Y o r k ; and behind them,in a Gallery, fate the Dutcbefs of York.
In the fame Gallery alfo were placed
‘Baron Bateville, Oidinary Ambajsadour from Spain.
Prince Maurice of U^affau, Extra-ordinary dmbafsadour from the SleSour of Brandenburgh.
Monfieur IVcyman, the EleHour s Qbancellour, who was joyned in Commifsion with him.
The Count ConingsmarEnvoy from Sweden. sfAfonfieur Frieftndorf, Refident of Sweeten. cfAdonfieur Tetcom, Refident of ‘Denmark,
Monfieur Tlejsis Belliewe,Envoy from Monfieur the Duke of Orleans.
Signieur Qiavarina, Refident of Venice.
SignicurBernardi, Refident of Cjenoa.
Monfieur La-Motte■,
Monfieur Frays, j
Monfieur (formers,Deputy Extra-ordinary from Hamburgh. An Envoy from the Cardinal of Hefs.
The Marquejs de Mombrun , with leveral other (gentlemen-Jlr angers.
But Don Francijco de Mello, the Ambaffadour of ‘Portugal, was placed in the Lord Qhamberlain’s Box.
On the U^ortb-Cidz of the Altar fate the Bifhop of London, di-redly oppofite to the Kjng in the Arch-Bijhop's Chair, covered with Purple Velvet: the relt of the Bifhops were placed on Forms behind him.
And higher, towards St.Edward’s Qhapel, flood (jarter, Principal King of Arms , with the Officers of the Handing and moving Wardrobe, vi^. }Ar/P\umbal, and Mr. Townsend, and Mr. limner/ley, in Scarlet Gowns , having a Crown embroidered with Gold on their left Sleeves; the (/room and Page cl the JVard-robc having Scarlet Gowns alfo, but not the Badg of the Crown ; the Serjeant ofthe Veflry with his gilt Verge, and other Vergers: with them alfo flood Mr. Afhburnbam, Mr. Seymour, Mr. Slhot, Mr. Frogers, and Mr. Clnffinch, with fome other of the Kjngs Servants, who attended to do fervice.
Oppofite to them, on the iSoai^-fide of the Altar, flood the Dean and Prebends ol iVeflminfler.
andSt. Edward's ancient Cbair (covered all over with Cloth of Gold) was placed upon the ^Yorf^fide of the tAItar, a little lower then that belonging to the Arch-Bi/hop, but fomething nearer the middle ofthe Jfle, and between the Kings Chair of State and the Pulpit.
Near the Pulpit flood the Mafter of thefewel-Hou/e, a n d the Lord Maior of L o n d o n.
The .‘j\obihty , not formerly named , ( who were feated upon Forms round about the in-fide of the Stage ) when Sermon began, drew near to that fide thereof, which faced the High-Altar, and flood there.
On the Corners of the Stage, neareft the High-Altar, adjoyning to the two uppermoft Pillars, were Places railed in for the Trcvuu cial Kings, Heralds, and Turfuivants.
The Serjeants at Anns, being fixteen in number, flood with their Maces on their Shoulders, within the Rails, on either fide the Entrance of the Stage from the Quire.
Over the Door, at the Weft, end of the Quire, flood die ‘Drums,and Trumpets.
Sermon being ended, the King uncovered His Head, and immediately the Bifhop of London arole from his Seat, and drew neartothe l\ingsQhair of State, and asked of Him His willingnefs to take the ufual Oath to confirm the Lam to the Teople, and namely the Francbijes granted to the Clergy by St. Edward the Confejjour, to maintain the Cjofpel eftablilhed in the Kingdom, to keep Tcace, execute	and grant the Commons their rightful Cuftoms: unto
every of which Queftions His Majefly made particular Anfwers, That He mould.
Then the bifhop of 'Rpchi/ler read the 'Bifhop's Tetition to the Kfng; the Prayer whereof was, That He would preferve unto them, and the Churches committed to their charge, all Canonical Pri-vileges, due Law, and fuftice, and proefd, and defend them, and the Churches, under their Government: which His Majefly moft gracioufly by a large Anfwer ( which repeated the words of the Tetition ) granted, and promifed to perform.
Afterwards the i\mg, afsifted by the B/fbops of Dure/me, and Bath and Wells, was led from His Chair up to the Altar (the Sword of State being born before Him,and the Lord (jreat-Cbamberliun attending ) where He took an Oath to perform, and keep what He had promifed.
Which Oath taken, the King was led in like manner back to His Chair of State, and immediately the Bifhop of London begun the
Hymn,Hymn, Come Holy Cjhojl, eternalCjod, &c. the Quires finging the reft of it.
And a little before the ending thereof, the Faid-{tool was fet again at the Kjng's right Hand; whereat (as foon as the Hymn was finifti-ed ) He kneeled , the Bifhop of London (landing before him, and faying the following Trayer,
Ws befeech thee, 0 Lord,Holy Father,<zAlmighty,and everlajling Cjod, for Thu thy Servant Charlis, (yc.
The Prayer ended , the Bijhop of London went to the S^orth-f\dt of the Altar, the lying ftill kneeling, and forthwith the Bifhops of Peterborough,and Cjloucejler, went,and kneeled on the ■h upper , half-pace of the Altar, where they began the Letany, the Quires finging the c-Rejponjes; the Dean of Weftminfier, kneeling all the while at the Kjng's left Hand.
After the Letany followed three Trayers, faid by the Bifhop of London at the 3\(ortb-fide of the Altar; and, a little before the laft of them was ended, the Arch-Bifhop of Canterbury came out at the 3\(orth-dovr of Saint Edward's C^aPeK veiled in aricb,anticnt Cope.
At the ending of the third Trayer, the faid Arch-Bijhop {landing before the Altar, began the Perficle,
Lift up your Hearts.
Refp.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Arch-Bifhop.
Let tugive thank^ unto the Lord our (j od.
Refp.
It it meet and right Jo to do.
Arch-Biftiop.
It is very meet, and right, and our bounden duty, that We Jhould at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, 0 Lord, Holy Father, See.
This Preface being fini(h'd,the King arofe from before theFald-ftool, Bb	andand went to the <tAItar, fupported by the aforefaid Bifhop of Du-refm,and Bath and IVells: where He was difrobed by the Lord (jreat-Chamberlain of His ‘Royal 7{obes, which were immediately carried thence into the Traverfe erected in St. Edward's Chapel.
Whilft this was in doing, the Chair, that was before placed at the entrance of the Stage, was removed, and fet on the !A(j>rth'fide of the Altar, betwixt it, and St. Edward’s Chair, whereunto the Kjng came, fate down, and was anointed by the faid Arch-Bifhop, (while the Dean of Weslminjler held the Ampulla, and poured the Oyl out into the Spoon) firft in the Palms of both His Hands, in maner of aCrofs, the Arch-Bifhop, as he anointed Him, pronouncing thefc words,
Let thefe Hands be anointed with holy Oyl, as Kings and ‘Prophets have been anointed, and as Samuel did anoint David to be King; that 1 hou mayfl be blejfed, and ejlablifhed King in this Kingdom, and this People,whom the Lord Thy Cjod hath given thee to rule over'.which he voujafe to grant, who, with the Father, and the Holy (jhoft, Three in T erf on, and One in Vnitie, be blefjed, and praijed, now, and for evermore. Amen.
After which, the Quire fung this Anthem,
Sadoc the Triejl, and Nathan the “Prophet anointed Solomon King, and all the Teople rejoy ced, and/aid, Cjodfa~»e the K i n g.
At the e nd of which Anthem, the Arch-Bifhop faid this Prayer,
Lool^ down, Almightie Cjod, with thy favourable Countenance upon This (jlorious King, &c.
And then proceeded with his anointing on the Kjng’s Bread, between His Shoulders, on both His Shoulders, the two bowings of His Arms, and on the Crown of His Head, in maner aforefaid.
Which being done, the Anointing was dried up with fine Linen, and the Loops of His Shirt clofed up by the Dean of IVeftmin-fler, and then the Arch-Bifhop faid thefe two Trayers,
Cjod, the Son of Cjod, Chrift Jefus our Lord, who is anointed of his Father with the oyl of (j I adnefs above his fellows,&c. Cjod, which art the Cjlorie of the ^Righteous, and the Mercy of Sinners, &c.
During the time of VnSion , a rich Tall of Cloth of Gold,
broughtbrought from the gre at Ward-robe by Mr. 'Rumbal') was held over the Kjng’s Head by the Dukes of ‘Buckingham and Albe-marlc, the Earls of Berks and Sandwich, as Knights of the moft Noble Order of the Cjarter.
After thefe Trayers, the Dcan of Wejlminjler brought the Coif, with the Qolobium Sindonis, or Surplice from the Altar, and put them upon the Kjng : whereupon the Arch-Bifhop faid this Pnort ‘Prayer,
0 Cjod, the I\ing of Kings, and Lord of Lords, by whom Kjng! do reign, andLawgivers do make good Laws, voucbfafe, we bejeech thee, in thy favour, to blejs this Kjngly Ornament, and grant, that thy Servant Charles, our Kino, who Jh all wear it, may [hine in thy fight with the Ornament of a %ood Life and holy Attions ■ and, after this life ended, He may for ever enjoy that Life, and Cjlorie, which bath no end> through Chrift our Lord. Amen.
This faid, the Dean of Weflminfler, having likewife fetched the <Tifhue-Hofe and Sandals from the Altar , he arrayed the King therewith; as alfo with the Super-tunica, or clofe Pall of Cloth of Gold, and girded the fame about Him.
But the Taffetie red Shirt was not made ufe of at all.
After all this, the faid Dean took the Spurs from off the Altar, and delivered them to the Lord (jreat-Cbamberlain, who touched the King s Heels therewith , and forthwith fent them back to the Altar.
Then the Arch-Bifhop received the Sword of State in the Scab' bard from the Lord-Qhamberlain of the Houfhold, and laid it upon the iAitar, faying this Prayer,
Hear our Trayers, we befeech thee, 0 Lord, and voucbfafe, by thy right hand of M-ijeJlie, to blcfi , and fanUifie this Sword, wherewith thy Servant Ch arles defiretb to be girt, that it may be a Defence, and Protection of Churches, Widows, and Orphans, and all tbs Servants of Cjod, againfl the favage crucltie of Pagans,and Infidels; and that it may be a Fear and I error to all thofe, that lie in wait to do mifchief , through Chrift our Lord. Amen.
This Prayer finillieci, the Arcb-Bifhop and Bifhopi afsifting, de-
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livered the Sword back to the.Kjng,faying, Accipe gladiumper manus Epifcoporum.
Whereupon, the Lord CjreatXbamberlain girt it about the Kjng, and the Arch-Bifhop faid,
Receive this Kjngly Sword, which is hallowed for the defence of the Holy Qnirch, and delivered unto Thee by the hands of the Bt-fhops, though unworthy,yet confecrated by the authority of the holy
Apoftles, &c.
*	Armifis After this, the Dean of Weflminfler,took the * Arm'd, made of d7m's"u. Cloth of Tifliue, (brought thither by Mr. 'Riimbd, on the behalf of the Earl of Sandwich, Mafter of the great Ward-robe") and put it about the /(mg’s Neck,and tyed it to the bowings of His Arms,the Arch Bifhop ftanding before the Kjng, with the 'Bifhop of London on his right Hand, and laying,
deceive the Armil of fincerity,and wifdom, as a "Token of Cjod’s embracing,whereby all Thy works may be defended againfl Thine Enemies,both bodily,and (jhofl'y, through Chrift our Lord.
Next the Mantle, or open 7all, being made of Cloth of Gold, and lined with red Taffety, was put upon Him by the faid Dean-the oArcb-Bifkop likev\ ife ufing the words of Signification, vi%.
Isfceive this Tall,®!: ich u formed with four Corners, to let Thee understand, that thefour Qorners of the World arc fibjett to the power of Cjod ■ and that no Man can hap, ily reign upon the Earth, who hath not received His authority from Heaven.
In the next place,the Arch-Bifhop took Saint E d w a r d’s Qrown, and bleffed it, laying,
Cfod, the Crown of the Faithful, &c. hlefi, and fanUifie this Crown, that as thefame is adorned with divers precious Stones, fo This thy Servant, that weareth it, may be filled with thy manifold (jraces of all precious Vertues, through the King eternal, thy Son our Lord. Amen.
In the mean time, Saint Edwakd’s Chair was removed into the middle of the 1fie, and fet right over againft the nAltar,whither
thethe l\ing went,and fat down in it, and then the Arcb-Bifhop brought Saint Edward’s Crown from the Altar, and put it upon His Head.
Whereupon, all the Teople,with loud and repeated fhouts, cryed,
Cjodfave the King • and,by a Signal then given, the great OrdL nance from the Tower were alfo fhot off.
At the ceafing of thefe Acclamations, the Arch-Bijhop went on, faying,
Cjod crown Thee with a Crown of Cjlory,and ^igbteoufnef, with the honour and norl{ of Fortitude,that Thou by 7 by. Mintjirie, having a right Faith ana manifold fruit of good Works, mayfl obtain the Crown of an everlafling Kingdom, by the gift of him, wbofe Kingdom endure th for ever. Amen.
Adding thereunto this Tracer,
0 Cjod of Eternity, &c. Bleft This tby Servant,who* boweth His *AtwMi Head unto thy Mai eftie, See.	xt/bow'U
His Head.
After the Prayer, the Arch-Bifhop read the Confortare,
Be ftrong,and of a good Courage,and obferve the Commandments of the Lord, to walkjn bis ways, dec.
In the mean while, the Quires fung this Anthem,
The Kjng [hall rejoyce in thyJlrengtb, 0 Lord. Exceeding glad fhall He be of thy Salvation, &c.
Upon this, the Dulses, Marqueffes, Earls, and Vtfcounts put on their Coronets; the Barons their Caps : and divers of them came and flood about the K i n g, who fttll fate in St, Edward's Chair.
Mr .q arter and the Provincial Kings put on their Crowns alfo.
Then the Mafter of the fewel-Houfe delivered to the Arch-Bifhop the King, who confecrated it, after this manner, faying,
Blefs, 0 Lord, ar.djariEifiethisTipig, that Thy Servant, wearing it, may be fealed with the King of Faith, and by the Tower of the Highefl be prefervedfrom Jin, and let all the Blefsings,which are found in Holy Scripture, plentifully defcend upon Him, that what-foever He Jhall fancltfie, may be hoi) • and whatfoever He blejfeth, may be blejjcd. Amen.
After Which, he put it upon the fourth Finger of the King’s right Hand, and faid,
"Receive this ‘Ring of Kjngly Dignitie, and by it the Seal of Catho-lid{_ Faith; that as this Day Thou art adorned the Head, and Prince of this Kingdom, and ‘People, fo Thou may ft perjevere as the Author, and Eflablijher of Chriftianity, and the Chriftian Faith • that,being rich in Faith, and happie in Worlds, Thou mayfl reign with him, that is Kings of Kings ■ to whom be Honour, and Cjlorie, for ever and ever. Amen.
And then began this Trayer,
0 Cjod, to whom lelongeth all Tower, and Dignitie, give unto thy Ser-yant Charles the Fruit of Hu Dignity, wherein grant He may long continue, and fear thee always, and always labour to pleajethec, through Chrift our Lord. Amen.
When this Trayer was finifhed, the linen Cfloves were delivered to the King : who, going to the Altar, ungirt His Sword, and offered it at the Altar in the Scabbard; which, being redeemed by the Lord-Qbamberlain of the Houfhold, was drawn out ofthe Scabbard, and carried naked by him ail the following part of the Solemnity.
Then the Arch-Bifhop took the Scepter,svilh the Qrofi, from oft the Altar, and delivered it into the Kjng's right Hand, laying,
Receive thu Scepter, the Sign of Kjngly Tower, the Hod of Kingdoms, the ‘Jipdof Fertue, that Thougovern Thy Self aright, and defend the Holy Church, and Chriftian Teople committed by Cjod unto Thy Charge, punt/Io the (Viewed, andproteB the fufl, and lead them in the ways of Pjghteoufnejs, and that from this Temporal Kingdom Thou mayfl be advanced to an Eternal Kjngdom, by hu Cjoodncfs, whofe Kjngdom is ei’erlajling. Amen.
Whilft this was pronounced by the Arch-Bifhop, Mr. Henry Howard delivered jo the t\ing a rich Cjlove^, which he put on,' n and then received the Scepter. And after that the Arch-Bifhop faid this Trayer,0	Lord, the Fountain of all good things, &c. (jrant, we befiech thee, to This thy Servant Cbarlb s, that He may order aright the Dignitie,v>hich He hath obtained, &c.
During which time, the faid Mr. Howard performed the fervice of fupporting the Kjng’s right Arm, according as it was adjudged to him by the Qourt of Claims, by vertue of holding the Manor of Worksop in the County of Nottingham.
Next of all, the Arch-lSi/bop took the Scepter with the Dove, and gave it into the King s Hand alfo, faying,
‘Receive the “Rod of Vertue, and Equine, learn to make much of the Cjodiy^and to terrifie the Wicked, (he w the way to thoje that go a/lray, offer *7 hy Hand to ihofe that fall, reprejs the proud, lift up the lowly, that our Lord Jefus Chrift may open to Thee the Door, who faith of bimjelf “ 1 am the Door, by me if any man enter, he ‘‘ ftiall be fafe. And let him be Thy Help, who is the Key of David, and the ScepterofthlTHoufe o/TTraeT,'1 who openeth.and no man “ fhutteth, who fhutteth,and no man openeth ■ who bringeth ‘‘ the Captive out of Prifon where he late in darknefs, and in “ the fhadow of death. That in all things Thou mayjl follow him, of whom the Prophet David faith, “ The Scepter of thy “Kingdom is a right Scepter, thou haft loved Righteoufnefs, t£ and hated Iniquity • wherefore God, even thy God hath an-“ ointed thee with the Oyl of gladnefs above thy fellows,even Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.
After which, the King kneeled, holding both the Scepters in His Hands, whilft the Arch "Bifhop thus bleffed Him,
The Lord blefs Thee, and keep Tbee ■ and as he bath nude Thee King over his ‘People, fo he Jtill profper Thee in this World, and make Thee partaker , of his eternal Felicity in the World to come. Amen.
Then the King arofe, and fet Himfelf again in St. Edward’s Chair, whilft the ArchTitfhop and ‘Bijhops prefent, one after another, kneeled before Him, and were luffed by Him.
In the mean time, the Kjng’s Chair of State,wherein He was anointed , was fet above the upper Steps at the entrance upon the
Stage,Stage, whither the King went, as foon as He had performed the Ceremony of kifsing the Bi/hops, having now four Swords born naked before Him, the Arcb-'Bifhops, Btjhops, and Great Officers attending : at His arrival there the Arch-Bifhop faid this Prayer, the King kneeling,
Cjrant, 0 Lord, that the Qlergie, andTeople,gathered together by thine Ordinance for this fervice of the K i n a, may hy the mojl gracious afsiftcmce of thy goodnefs, and the vigilant care of thy Servant Our King, he continually governed, and preferred in all happinefs.
Then the King arofe, and repofed Himfelf in the faid Qbair,whilft both the Quires lung Te T>eum.
When Te Deum was ended, the King afcended His Throne placed in the middle of the Stage, the Smrds, and Great Officers {landing on either fide; as alfo the Bi/hops, fome in Copes, others in Rochets, the a_Arcb-Bifhop then faying,
Stand, and hold fajl from henceforth that ‘Place, whereof hitherto You have been Heir by the Succefiion of Your Fore-fathers, <Scc.
After this, thcBifhops, and J^obihtie did their Homage to the Kjng in maner following.
And firft the Arch-Bifhop of Cantcrburic kneeled down before the Kjng's Knees, and faid,
5J, William Arch-Bifliop of Cakterburv, fi)all DCjFaitljftl!, anQ JEruc, anD faith, anD bear unto gou, gDtir £s>obcwgn Slo’D, ana f^our JijtirS, &tngs of England, ano fl)all Do, and truip actmoMcDg the ^ct'lucc of the EanD, toliirb 3 riaim to IjolD of J0ou, in right of tljc CIjtitcl) :£>o Ijclp me (Bod.
Which (aid, he kiffed the King s left Cheek.
The like did all the other Btfhops, that were prefent.
Then came up the Duke of Y osi, with Cjarter, Principal King of Arms, before Him, and his Train born by two Gentle-men,who, being arrived at the 7 hrone, kneeled down before the K‘ngi put off his Coronet, and did this Homage : at which the Drums beat, Trum-pets founded, and all the People fhouted.
The like did the Dukes of Buckingham, and Albe-marle, for them-felves, and the reft of the Dukes.
So alfo did the Marqueffes of iVorcefler, and Dorchester.
Next,Next, the Sari of Oxford did homage after the fame maner for himfelf, and all the reft ofthe Earls, who attended upon him to fig-, nifie their confents,
After him, Vifcount Hereford did the like for himfelf, and the reft ofthe Fifcounts-, and then the Drums beat, and Trumpets founded again, and the People fhouted.
Laftly, ‘Baron Jud/cy in like maner did homage for himfelf, and all the Baronage, who alfo accompanied him to the Throne,in teftifi-cation of their Confents ; which being finifhed, Drums, Trumpets, and Shouts followed.
Note, that the Words of Homage were faid by every one of the Mobility, that kneeled down, vi%.' • ,,	.
% N. N. 00 become {Boar Utege-man of ?Ufe, anD Eunb, ana of €att!;Ip a£lojfl)ip; anD f aitl), ana Jlrutii 3 ft)all bear unto gou, to libr, anD oie,againfi: all manner of folks: $>0 CUoD me help.
Afterwards the Dukg of York,and all the Mobility finglyafcended the T krone, and touched the King’s (jmn> promifing by that Ceremony to be ever ready to fnpport it with all their power.
During the performing of this Solemn Ceremony, the Lord High- Qhancellour went to the South, Weft, and Z\(j)rGlides of the Stage, and proclaimed to the People the Kjng’s (jeneral Tardon, being attended by Mr. Cjarterto the South A\Ac, and by a Cjentlc'tnari' 'Vfker, and two Heralds to the other two Sides.
And at thefe three Sides, at the fame time, did the Lord Cornwallis, Treajurer of His Majeflie’ s Houfhold, fling abroad the Medals, both of Gold,and Silver, prepared for the Coronation, as a Princely Donation, or Largefs,among the People. An EBjpe of which is this,
The Kfng being thusenthronized, the Cjentle-men of His Chapel began this following ^Anthtm,
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:'Behold, 0 Lord, our Defender, and loo{_ upon the Face of thine An-ointed.
The Violins, and other Injlrwnental Mufc(who were robed in Scarlet Mantles, & placed in a Cjallery d over againft them,on the J\Vf/)-fide of the Altar') anfwering alternately: at the ending of which Anthem, the 7 rumpets founded, and Drums beat again. In which time disBifhop of London went up to the High-zAltar, and began the Communion j and immediately the King took off His (frown, and delivered it to the Lord High-Qhamberlain to hold • the Scepter with the Q'ojs to Mr. Henry Howard, and that with the Dove to tht T-utc? of Aloemarlt ■
The Epistls (taken out of the Firft Spiflle of St. Teter, the fecond Chapter, and beginning at the eleventh Verje) was read by the ‘Bifhop of Qhichejler.
The GosPtL (being part of the twenty fecond Chapter of St. Matthew^.beginning at the fifteenth Verje) by the Bifhop of Ely.
After which, the J^icene freed was began by the Bt/hop of London, and fung by the Cjentle-men of the Chapel, with Verje, and Q.torus, (that, and the reft of the fpecial Mujid(, for the Solemnity, be. ing fet by Captain Coo{, Majler of the Children of His Majejlie's faid Chapel') The Violins, and other Injlrwnental Mujic/^ placed in the Cjallery over againft them,alternately playing.
All which time the King ftood by His 7 hrone.
But towards the end of the Creed He took again His Crown from the Lot d (jrcat-Chamberlain, ar.d put it on His Head ; as alfo the Scepter with the Crojs from Mr. Howard, and that with the Dove from ik ot/fic rf and prepared for His Defcent from His Throne towards the Altar, to receive the Communion.
And,asfoon as the. finging of the Creed was fully ended, the Kjng defcended with the Crown on His Head, and Scepters in both Hands (the Bi/hops of Durejm, and Bath and IVells, fupportingHim_) with the four Swords naked before, and all the Grand Officers attending.
1	n the time of this ‘Proceeding the Quire fung,
Let my Trayer come up into thy prefence as the lucenje, and the lifting up of my hand be as an Evening-Sacrijice,
Here the Arch-Bifhop of Canterbury retired from the Ceremonies into St. Edward's Chapel, and thence went home, leaving the remainder of his Duty to be performed by the Bifhop of London.
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anAt the King’s approach to the ajlItar, the Bifbop of Ely delivered unto Him Bread, and Wine, which He there offered, and then returned to the Fald'Jlool, on the South-dde of the Altar, near His Qhair of State, before which He kneeled down, and laid His (jovtn upon the Qufhion before Him, towards His right Hand • and the Scepter with the Dove,on His left; and gave again to Mr, Howard the Seep-ter with the Crofs, who held itskneeling on the King’s right Hand : the’
(jrand Officers, and the H^oble-men, with the four Swords naked; and eredt, ftanding about Him.
Then the Bifhop of London faid this Trayer,
Blefs, 0 Lord, the befeech thee, theje thy (fifts, andfanBifie them unto This holy Vfe, &c.
At the end of which, the Lord Cornwallis prefented the King with another IVedgof (fold, which goeth under the name of the Mar\ of Cfold. This the Kjng offered into the Bafon, kneeling {till at His Fald-flool, whilft the Bifhop of London faid the following Trayer,
Almighty (fod, give Thee the dew of Heaven, and the fatnefs of the Earth, and abundance of Corn, and ff'ine, &c.
And next pronounced this Blefsing,
Blefs, 0 Lord, the "virtuous carriage of This King, and accept the iVorl^of His Hands: repleni/h the 7{ealm with the Blefsingsof Heaven, of the Dew, of the Water, and of the Veeps.
Then the Bijhop proceeded to the Confecration of the Sacrament: which being finifhed, he firft of all received ; next, the Dean of IVefi. minjler-, then, the Bijhop of Bath and Wells j and laftly, the Bifhop of
Thefe four ^Prelates having communicated, Preparation was made for the. Kjngs Receiving , who kneeled all this while before His Fald-fiool.
The ’Towel was brought thither by Mr. rRum!al, on the behalf of the Mafier of the Ward-robe, and prefented to the Bfbops of Here~ ford, and Carli/le, who held it before the Kjng, while He received.
The Bifhop of London gave the King the Bread., and thzDean of ffieftminfier the Q-tp.
As {oon as the I\ing had received, this Anthem was begun by the upper Ofiire,
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00 hearken unto the voice of my Calling, my Kjng, and my (jod, &c.
In the mean while, the j^/ng returned to His Throne upon the ■Stage, with the Crown on His Head, and bearing the Scepters in His Hands.
When He came thither, He put off His Crown, and delivered it to the Lord Cjreat-Chamberlain, the Scepter with the Crojs to Mr. Howard, and that other with the Dave to the I>ute of Micro i r'-?<,
And then the ‘Bifhop of London went on with the Communion, which being finifhed, the Kjng (attended as before} defcended from His 7 hrone crowned, with both the Scepters in His Hand.
The reft of the ‘Regalia (which lay all this while on the Altar, being delivered to the Js(j)ble-men,that brought them in the Proceed-ing to the Qhurch') were carried before Him, and thence the Kjng proceeded into St. Edward’s Chapel, the Organs playing all the while.
Where being arrived, He took off St. Edward’s Crown, and delivered it to the Bilhop of London, who immediately laid it upon St. Edward’s Jltar; ail the reft of the Regalia were given into the hands of the Dean of Wejlmmjtcr, and laid there alfo.
Afterwards the Kjng entred into the Traverfe erected in the middle of the Wall, on the back-fide of tht High-^A Itar, and there retired, whilft He was disrobed of St. Edward's, Robes by Mr .Seymor, and Mr. /ifhku. tiham, Grooms of the Bed-Chamber, on the behalf of the Lord High Chamberlain, Mr. Eliot,Mr. Trogers,Co\ont\ Thilips, and Mr. Chiffinch afsifting.
Thefe Robes were laid on St. Edward’s Altar by the Bi/hop of Durejm; and afterwards delivered to the Dean of Wejlnunjlcr to lay up with the2\fgalia.
After this, the Kjng was arayed in His firft Royal ‘Pokes, and then came near to St. Edward’s Altar, where the Bifhop of London flood ready with the Imperial Crown in his hands, and fet that upon the Kings Head ; thereupon the King took the Scepter with the Crofs in His right Hand, and the Cjlobe in His left; and immediately the ‘Proceeding (ordered alfo by the Heralds) began thence into Weft-mtnsler-Hall, the fame way that He came, and attended after the fame maner, faving that the oble-men, and Bifhops, which brought the ‘Regalia to the Abbey-Qmrch, went not now immediately before the Knig, as they did then, but were ranked in places according to their Degrees, and Confecrations : all the U\oble-men with their Coronets, and Qaps on their Heads. The Kings of Arms marched like-wiie with their Q owns on.
TheThe Troceeding being entred into WeUmirfler-HaU, the 5\(olilitj, and others, who had Tables afsigned them, went, and placed them-felves thereat; but the Kjng, (attended with the (jreat Officers) withdrew into the Inner-Court of Wards, for half an hour.
In the mean time, all the Tables in the Hall were ferved, vi^. be' fore the Kjngs Service came up; and were placed in this maner.
On the right hand of the Things Throne, below in the Hall, were fettwo Tables, one beneath the other : at the upper end of the firft next the State, (which had two Side-Tables to ferve it) fate the Bijbops, and below them th t fudges, with the reft of the Lon?-Kobe.
Atthefecond Table (which had two Side-board Tab 'es likewife to ferve it) fate the Mafters of the Chancerie, and the Six Clerks.
And here, at this Table, were the ‘Barons of the Cinque-Torts ne_ cefsitated to fit, although the upper end of the firft Table was appointed for them.
The Occafion this : No fooner had the afore-faid Barons brought up the l\ing to the foot of the Stairs in Weftminfler-Hall^ afcending to His CI hrone, and turned on the left hand (towards their own Table) out of the way,but the Kjngs Foot-men moft infolently,and violently,feized upon the Canopy, which the Barons endeavouring to keep, and defend, were by their number, and ftrength, drag’d down to the lower end of the Hall, neverthelefs ftill keeping their hold: and, had not Mr. Owen Y or k-Her aid been accidentallynear the Hall-Door, (and, feeing the Conteft, caufed the fame to be ftiut) the Foot-men had certainly carried it away by force. But in the interim alfo, (fpeedy notice hereof having been given the Kjng~) one of the Querries were fent from Him, with Command, to imprifonthe Foot-men, and difmifs them out of His Service, which put an end to the prefent Dilturbance.
T hefe Foot-men were alfo commanded to make their fubmifsion to the Court of Claims, (which was accordingly done by them, the 30* of April following, and the Qanopy then delivered back to the faid Barons.
Whilft this Difturbance happened,the upper end of the afore-faid Table was taken up by the Bt[h ops, fudges, &c. and hereupon it came to pafs, that the Barons of the Cinque-Torts loft their Places, and were necefsitated to fit down at the faid fecond Table, with the Maflers of Chancerj, &c. where there was Room left by fome of the Long- Robe, that fate at the Upper-Table.
Up on the left hand of the K^ng’sTbrone, below,on the other fide
ofof the HM, was placed likewife a.\ongTable, which reached down near to the Common-T leas-Court, whereat the Mobility dined; and this Table had four Side.board .Tables to ferve it.
And behind this, clofetothe Wall, at a fhorter Table, fate the Lord Mam, Aldermen, 'Recorder, and twelve chief Citizens of London, who had alfo two Side-Tables to ferve them.
Laftly, within the Qourt of Common-Tleas was a Table with one Side'Table to ferve it, fet for the Officers of Arms, whereat they alfo dined. Each Table was furnifhed with three Courjes anfwerable to that of the Kjng s, befides the Banquet,
A little before the Kjng returned to Diner , two E/quires ef the Body, viz. Ferdinando Marfham, and Henry Norwood, took their Seats upon two little Foot-ftools, on either fide of the foot of the King’s Chair, ("placed in the middle of the Table) and there fate until the Kjng came in to Diner; when rifing, and performing their Duty in placing the Ktng's Kobes for Mis better conveniency of fitting, theyJatfi-AawxLagain. at the Kjngs Feet a good part of Diner-time, and until the Kjng gave them leave to rife ; He accepting that time of Sefsion in full performance of their Service.
On the right Side of the Throne was erected a Cjallery for tke Kjngs of Arms, Heralds, and Turjuivants ■ and oppofite to that, on the other fide, another for the Mufickj and below, on the old Scaffolds, next the Court of Qommon-Tleas, flood the Kjngs Trumpeters.
The Troceeding at carrying up of the Firft Courfe to the K i n o s T A B L E.
Sir Cjeorge Barker,	Sir William Boreman,
Clerks Comptrollers;
Mr. Stephen Fox,	Sir Henry Wood,
Clerks of the Qreen-Cloth :
All four in black Velvet Gowns, trimm’d with Black Silk, and Gold Lace, with Velvet Caps raifed in the Head.
William AJhburnam E(quire, Cofferer.
Six Serjeants at Arms, two and two,
T he Earl-Marfhal The Lord-High- The Lord High.Conflable on the left Hand. Steward.	on the right Hand.
AllAll three mounted on Horfe-back in their Robes, and with their Coronets on their Heads j having their Horfes richly trapped.
Six Serjeants At Arms, two and two.
Comptroller of the Houfyold,	Treajurer of the Hou[bold,
with their White Staves.
Earl of ‘Dor/et, Sewer.
Earl of Cheflerfield, his Afsiftant.
The Knights of tht'Bath, who carried up the Service, two and two to a Difli, which was fet upon the Table by the Earl of Lincoln Carver, afsifted by the fijW-Sewers.
In the Rear came up three Clerks of the Kitchin, vi%. Mr. Leonard Tinkney, Mr. fobn Elements,and Mr. Henry Fire-brafs, all futed in Black, Fugar’d, Satin Gowns, and Velvet Caps, in fafliion like thofeworn by the Clerks Comptrollers.
Diner being fet on the Table, the Kjng came forth from the In. ner'Qourt of IVirds, in His l<o\at :I{obes, with the Crow on His Head, and Scepter in His Hand, having the three Swords born naked before Him, and went dire&ly to His Chair at the Table, wherein He fate down to Diner without waftiing, the ‘Bijhop of London faying Grace. For, although the Bafon and Ewer were afterwards brought up by the Earl of Penbrol^e,and Montgomery,afsifted by the Lord Ta. get, and the Serjeant of the Ewery, and prefented to Him, neverthe-lefs,being already feated, He did not wa(h at that lime.
On the Kings right Hand, the 3\(oble~men, that carried the three Swords, ftood, holding them naked, and erected, all the Diner-while-at His left Hand ftood the Lord High-Cbamberlain, to whom the Kjng had given the Scepter to hold. And at the Table’s end, on the King s left Hand, fat the Duk^e of Y o r k, in his Robes and Coronet.
Soon after Diner was begun, the Lord Jllir.gton carried to the /(mg His firft Draught of Drink in a.Silver (jilt Cup, being afsifted by the Earl ofTenbro/y and <HMontgomery, Vifcount Montague, and the Lord Paget, his Afsiftants.
The Office of Cup-bearer, as alfo the Fee, having been by the Court of Claims adjudged to him, as being feized of the Manor of IVymmundeley in the County of Hertford; and when the Kjtig had drank, the faid Lord Allington received the Cup for his Fee.
Next , Thomas Leigh Ufquire was brought up to the Tabic
withwith a Mefs of Pottage, called Dillegrout, this Service being adjudged unto him by the aforefaid Court of Qaims, in right of the •iZAdanoroi Addington, in the County of Surrey; whereupon the Lord High-Cbamberlain prefented him to the King, who accepted the Service, but did not eat thereof.
Afterwards, a little before the fecond Courfe was ready, Sir Edward Djmocl^ (to whom the Court of Claims had adjudged the Office of the Kjng’s Champion, as being feized of the Manor of Scri-velsby, in the County of Lincoln') entred the Hall on a goodly White Courfier, and armed at all Points in Rich Armour, having a Plume of Blew Feathers in his Helm, he there made a ftand for fome time, and then advanced in maner following, way being made for him by the Knight* Marjbal.
Firft, Two Trumpets.
The Serjcant-Trumpetcr with his Mace.
The Serjeant at Arms.
An E fquire carrying a Target, having') f An £fquire carrying the the Champion’s own Arms decided><Cbampion’s Lance up-thereon.	V.right.
Mr. Owen Y oRK-Herald.
The Barl-Marfhal The Champion. The Lord Htgh-Qonjlable on his left Hand.	on his right Hand.
Both likewife on Horfe-back.
At the lower end of the Hall, Y o r k-Herald proclaimed the Challenge, and thereupon the Champion threw down his (jantlet1 which lying fome fmall time, and no body taking it up, it was deli ver-ed unto him again by York-Herald Then all advanced forward, until the Champion came to the middle of die Hall, where York-Herald made the like Proclamation , and the Cjantlet was again thrown down, taken up, and returned to the Champion, who advanced to the foot of the afcending Steps to the State, and at the top of the faid Steps the faid Herald .proclaimed the Challenge the third time, whereupon the Champion thre w down his Gantlet agai , which no body taking up, it was delivered unto him.
This being done,the SarioiTenbroke and zSM'ontgomery, (afsifted,as before) prefented on the Knee to the King a Gilt Qup with a Cover, full of Wine, who drank to His Qbampion, and by the laid Earl lent him the Cup ■ and he,after three Reverences,drank it all oft, went a little backward, and fo departed out of the Hall; taking the faid Cup for his Fee, according as had been adjudged him by the laid
Court of Claims.	----
When this Solemnity was finifhed, the Kings, Heraldry and ‘Par-. Juivants defcended from their Cjallcry, and went into the Hall to the lower end of the j\Qq'<>!c-mens Table, and there all together made their Reverence. Thence they proceeded a little further, and there made a fecond Reverence; and the like Reverence at the foot of the Steps alcending to the State, Where all. {landing {fill, (farter, Principal Kjng of Arms,cryed Large!s thrice, and proclaimed the Kjngs Style in Latin, French, and tngli/h, making Reverence betwixt every Stjle. At the finifhing of which they all retired backward into the midft of the Hall, and there, after crying Largejs again thrice, they proclaimed the Kjng’s Style as before. Laltly, they went yet backwards to the end of the faid CR(oble- ' mens Table, and did the fame again; and from thence into the Com-mon/PleasXourt, to Diner.
Immediately after this, the fecond Courfe was brought up by the Cjentlemen-Tenfioners, with the former Solemnity.
And the lait Dilh being carried by Erajmus Smith Enquire, he, having delivered the fame to the Table, prefented the Kjng with three <&/faple Cups, on the behalf of'Robert 2W«^«?»Efquire, who was feizedof the Manor of ether-Bilfington in the County of Kent.
Laftly , the Lord Maior of London prefented the Kjng with Wine in a Cjoldcn Cup having a Cover; of which the Kjng having drank, the laid Lord Maior received it for his Fee.
By this time the day being far fpent, the Kjng (having Water brought Him by the Earl of Bmbroke , and his Aisiftants) wafhed, and rofc from Diner before the third Courfe was brought in ;and,re-tiringinto the Inner-Court of Wards, He there disrobed Himfelfrand from thence He went privately to His Barge, which waited for Him at the Tarliament-Stairs, and fo to the Trivy-Stairs at Wbite-Hall, where He landed.
It is a thing very.memorable,that, towards the end of Diner-time, (although all the former part of the day, and alfo the preceding day, in which thei^»g made His Cavalcade through London, were the only fair days,that we enjoyed of many both before, and D d	after)after) it began to 7 hunder and Lighten very fmartly: which, how. ever fome fort of People were apt to interpret a? ominow, and ilibo. ding, yet it will be no difficult matter to evidence from Antiquity, that Accidents of this nature, though happily they might aftonifh, and amaze the common Drove of men, were by the moft Prudent, and Sagacious, look’d upon as ajrojpeious,and happy prejage. And of this Virgil gives us a very pertinent Example (in the Eighth Book of his 2Eneids) where Evander, having addrefled bimfelf in a Speech to jEneas for aid againft the Hctrwians, and He being lollici-tous how to anfwer hisrequeft, mark what Sign was immediately fentfrom Heaven.
0\Qdmque improvifo vibratus ab jEthere fulgor Qum fonituvemt, &c.
For fudder.ly from Heav’n a brandifh’d Fla(h With Thunder came, &c.
And prefently after the Poet adds,
Ob/lupuere animis alii, jedTroms Heros Agnbvit jonimm,&- Diva promijja Parentis.
While others ftood amaz’d, the Hero knew His Mother's Promife by the Sound that flew.
The fame Author, in another place* , mentions the lame thing, as a Teftimony of ‘Prajers heard , and anfwered; as when Old Anchijes, feeing the lambent Flame upon his Grand child lulus his Head, lifted up his hands to Heaven, and prayed to^ouefor help, and direction, hewasthusanlwered,
Fix ea fatw erat Senior, fubitoque fragore lntonuu Uvum, &c.
Scarce had the grave Sire fpoke, when fuddenly It thundered profperous, (src.
For fo Intonuit Uvum is interpreted by Servius, according to the Maxim of the Antient <tjugurs, who interpret Thunder from the 3\(orth, that is, (as they , contrary to the common AJlronomers, ac: counted it) the left part of Heaven,for a profperous Omen.
ButBut, in reference to ourprefent Purpofe, we may proceed to a larger Interpretation, and conclude, that the Heavens, with Vollies of Thunder, and nimble Flafhes of Lightning, feemed to give a Tlaudite, and Acclamation, to this Grand and Sacred Solemnity ■ in likemaneras we Mortals ufe to clofe our greater Triumphs with Fire-works, Bonfires, and the loud Report of our great Ordnance : this Terreftrial Thunder being but the Imitator, and Counterfeit of the Heavenly Artillery.
And fo I obferve it expounded by Claudian in thefe Verfes1 + cla“d- d‘
1	1	9	Conf. Probi-
rii & Olybrii
r0t f centrum gejjere manut membrisque rigcntes	v"'20S'
Jptavere togas, Signwn dat Jummushiulca J\(ube Tater, gratdmque facem per inane rotantes Tr of per a vibratifonuernnt Omina ZNjmbi.
As foon as rob'd, and fcepter’d, fove aloud His Signal Favour thunders from a Cloud,
Succefsful Lightning through Heavn's Arches fhines;
Both at His Coronation happy Signs.
F I I S.