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The relation of His Majestie's entertainment passing through the city of London, to his coronation: with a description of the triumphal arches, and solemnity; by John Ogilby.
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Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
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1661
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Wing O181; Thomason E1080_16; ESTC R207879
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from Your Sacred Ear Now I above my highest bound have rear'd My Head to say what could not then be heard Hail Mighty Monarch whose Imperial Hand Quiets the Ocean and secures the Land This City whom I serve with Neighb'ring Floods Exporting Yours importing Foreign Goods With anxious Grief did long Your Absence mourn Now with full Joy she Welcomes Your Return Your blest Return by which she is Restor'd To all the Wealth Remotest Lands afford At your Approach I hasten'd to the Downs To see your Moving Forts Your Floating Towns Your Sovereigns Big with Thunder Plow the Main And swimming Armies in their Womb contain You are our Neptune every Port and Bay Your Chambers the whole Sea is Your High-way Though sev'ral Nations Boast their Strength on Land Yet You Alone the wat'ry World command Pardon great Sir fair Cynthia checks my stay But to Your Royal Palace twice a day I will Repair there my proud Waves shall wait To bear our Caesar and His conqu'ring Fate The River Thames having ended his Speech the three Seamen who entertain'd the Nobility with the former Song address the following to His Majesty I. King CHARLS King CHARLS great Neptune of the Main Thy Royal Navy rig And Wee 'll not care a fig For France for France the Netherlands nor Spain The Turk who looks so big We 'll whip him like a Gig About the Mediterrane His Gallies all sunk or ta'ne Wee 'll seize on their Goods and their Monies Those Algier Sharks That Plunder Ships Barks Algier Sally and Tunis We 'll give them such Toasts To the Barbary-Coasts Shall drive them to Harbour like Conies Tan tara ran tan tan Tan tara ran tan tara Not all the world we fear-a The great Fish-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 see She seems alusty Ship Hoise all your Sails a-trip We 'll weather weather her what e're she be Your Helm then steady keep And Thunder up the Deep A Man of War no Merchants She We 'll set her on her Crupper Give Fire Bounce Bounce Pickeering Villains trounce Till Blood run in Streams at the Scupper Such a Break-fast them we shall Give with Powder and Ball They shall need neither Dinner nor Supper Tan tara ran tan tan Tan tara ran tan tara Pickeering Rogues ne're spare-a With Bullets pink Their Quarters Vntill they stink They sink they sink Farewell the Devil's Martyrs III. They yield they yield shall we the poor Rogues spare Their ill-gotten Goods Preserv'd from the Floods That King CHARLES and we may share With Wine then chear our Bloods And putting off our Hoods Drink to His MAJESTIE bare The King of all Compassion On our Knees next fall T' our Royal Admiral A Health for his Preservation Dear JAMES the Duke of YORK Till our Heels grow light as Cork The second Glory of our Nation Tan tara ran tan tan Tan tara ran tan tara To the Royal Pair-a Let every man Full of Wine-a Take off his Can Though wan though wan To make his red Nose shine-a The Seamen having ended their Song the several sorts of Musick perform their Duty whilst His MAJESTY passeth on towards Cheap-side At the Stocks the Entertainment is a Body of Military Musick placed on a Balcony consisting of six Trumpets and three Drums the Fountain there being after the Thuscan Order venting Wine and Water In like manner on the Top of the great Conduit at the Entrance of Cheap-side there is another Fountain out of which issue both Wine and Water as in a representation of Temperance and on the several Towers of that Conduit are eight Figures habited like Nymphs with Escutcheons in one Hand and Pendents or Banners in the other And between each of them Wind-Musick the number eight On the Standard also in Cheap-side there is a Band of Wayts placed consisting of six Persons THE third Triumphal Arch stands near Wood-street end not far from the Place where the Cross sometimes stood It represents an Artificial Building of two Stories one after the Corinthian way of Architecture the other after the Composite representing the Temple of Concord with this Inscription on a Shield AEDEM CONCORDIAE IN HONOREM OPTIMI PRINCIPIS CUJUS ADVENTU BRITANNIA TERRA MARIQ PACATA ET PRISCIS LEGIBUS REFORMATA EST AMPLIOREM SPLENDIDIOREMQ RESTITUIT S. P. Q. L. In the Spandrils of the Arch there are two Figures in Female Habits leaning One representing PEACE the other TRUTH That of Peace hath her Shield charged with an Helmet and Bees issuing forth and going into it the Word PAX BELLO POTIOR Truth on the other side in a thin Habit on her Shield TIME bringing Truth out of a Cave the Word TANDEM EMERSIT Over the great Painting upon the Arch of the Cupula represents a large GERYON with three Heads crowned in his three right-Hands a Lance a Sword and a Scepter in his three left-Hands the three Escutcheons of England Scotland and Ireland before him the Kings Arms with three Imperial Crowns beneath in great Letters CONCORDIA INSUPERABILIS On the top of the Cupula CONCORD a Woman in her right-Hand holding her Mantle in her left-Hand a Caduceus under her Feet a Serpent strugling which she seems to tread down On the West-side the third great Figure a Woman standing at the Prow of a Ship in her left Hand a Cornucopia the Word FOR TUNAE REDUCI Above there are eight living Figures with Pennons and Shields representing the four Cardinal Virtues each with an Attendant PRUDENCE on her Shield Bellerophon on a Pegasus runing his Javelin into the Mouth of a Chymera the word CONSILIO ET VIR TUTE JUSTICE on her Shield a Woman holding a Sword in one Hand a Ballance in the other the word QUOD DEXTERA LIBRAT TEMPERANCE a Viol in her left Hand a Bridle in her right the word FERRE LUPATA DOCET FORTITUDE a Lyon having the Arms of England in an Escutcheon the word CUSTOS FIDISSIMUS The internal Part of this Triumph or Temple is Round the upper part Dark only enlightned by Artificial Lights the lower part divided into ten Parts by Pilasters with Pedestals Within the TEMPLE are twelve living Figures three placed above the Rest The First the Goddess of the TEMPLE in rich Habit with a Caduceus in her Hand and a Serpent at her Feet Behind the Goddess a Man in a Purple Gown like a Citizen of London presenting the KING with an Oaken Garland Over the King's head PATER PATRIAE Over the Citizen's S. P. Q. L. OB CIVES SERVATOS The Second TRUTH standing next the Goddess CONCORD in a thin but rich Habit her Shield charg'd with a Book held open with wings fasten'd by a Chain to a Cloud beneath a Fury plucking at the End of the Chain the word VERITAS INVICTA The Third LOVE richly dress'd on the other side of the Goddess on her Shield a Cupid Roses in his Right