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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63171	Aqua triumphalis, being a true relation of the honourable the city of Londons entertaining Their Sacred Majesties upon the river of Thames and wellcoming them from Hampton-Court to White-Hall expressed and set forth in severall shews and pageants the 23. day of August, 1662 / vvritten by John Tatham, Gent.	Tatham, John, fl. 1632-1664.	1662 (1662)	Wing T218; ESTC R11418	8,949	22

soft before the humbl'd Waves grow proud To caper into some seditious trick And Prey upon the Body Politick For so is Traffique held The Cannons plaid And Fires like Scaling-ladders t'wards Heaven laid As though the Quarrells and long-buried Odds Betwixt the daring Giants and the Gods Were now 〈◊〉 what then they could not do With their ●eap'd hills ●lames should aspire unto This gave Great Oceanus cause to 〈◊〉 A helpfull Councell who concluded All So mighty a Conjunction could not be Without a Mirable or Prodigie The glorious Heir to Great d Braganzaes Name And the Worlds Wonder Englands CHARLEMAIN Th' Result being past a trusty Triton straight Who at the Councell-Table then did wait Was forthwith sent the raging Waves to quell And to inquire the cause they did Rebell Scarce could you think ere clad in a cold sweat He did return to make our hopes compleat Declar'd that all was clear the Sky serene And Ships in Safety rode where th' Storm had been That the Four Winds had Liberty to meet Not to Destroy but Whistle to Your Fleet Though rudely tunes of Joy in different Setts Only to shew they were Joves Flagerets And every Element in its Degree Exprest a Power knit in a Jubilee Thus Heaven and Earth did your blest Nuptials keep As well as we that Revell'd in the Deep Thetis her self none else allow'd to bring This intermixed Tale to Britains King VVhich ended with my Wishes I begin Not 'gainst your Patience to commit a Sin May You out-live the Malice of Your Foes VVhile they subjected to Your Iustice Cloze May You grow strong too in Your Peoples Love Which will Your Treasure and Your Armour prove And You Blest Queen so Fam'd for Piety May Your Deeds ever Live Your Self ne're Dye EXPLANATION Why Thetis drawn in a Sea Chariot accompanied with Tritons and Sea Nymphs By the Chariot is meant the swift motion of the Sea and by the diversity of her Attendance are understood the various sorts of Fishes which are said to wait upon the Sea Gods and Goddesses because they have their being and habitation in the Sea But Tritons are commonly taken for Neptunes Trumpeters and sometimes for Sea Monsters Thetis was also married to Peleus an excellent Navigator and therefore is presented with gray hairs which is partly to intimate the Antiquity of Navigation and partly to shew the cares and fears of Seamen who are observed to become sooner Gray hair'd then others Why her Mantle of severall Colours B●cause the Sea-water will look Red in a Storm sometimes Blew sometimes Green sometimes White and Green in which Colours her Nymphs are cloathed for it were very improper to inferre or allude any thing in this Nature contrary to her Element and therefore their habits are apted accordingly So much for their shapes now to the Speech a The famous City of Lisbon in Portugall by her Daughters are meant Rivers belonging to that Kingdom This City is scituated upon five Hills it is encircled with strong Castles upon which there are 76. Turrets this City is seven Miles in Compasse and hath 20. Gates towards the Sea Coast. b The principal River in Lisbon so much spoken of and commended in antient and modern Poetry there are 150. great and small Rivers belonging to Portugall c Lisbon so called of Ulysses who passed that way her antient name was Olysippo from thence d The Dukes of that name were of antient Renown and of such Valour and successe that Prosperity and Plenty were never wanting among the Portugues The Discent thus Don Edward whom they call Duarte was the 6 th Son to King Emanuell he had issue Katharine Married to Iohn Duke of Braganza which Katharin after the Death of King Henry her Unkle was right Heir to the Crown of Portugall from whom descended Iohn Duke of Braganza restored to his Right and Crowned King of Portugall by the name of King Iohn the 4 th who had issue by Donna Lucia Daughter to the Duke of Medina Sidonia in Spain Alfonso the 6 th King of Portugall and Donna Catharina now Queen of England I hope Reader this Relation hath not been too tedious to thee it falling in my way I could not omit it After their Maj●sties and the Nobility are Landed the Companies Barges that were in the Front fall into the Rear and so hasten to their severall homes The Songs were set by Mr. Iohn Gamble one of His Majesties Servants a Person well known in Musick FINIS * To the King * The Queen To the Nobility

need say no more a word to the Wise Thou understandst me much good may it do Thee fall to and welcome the Devil take the Grudger But dost hear me don't take it in dudgeon that I am so familiar with Thee Thou maist rather take it kindly for I am not alwayes in this good humour though I Thee Thee and Thou Thee I am no Quaker take notice of that he that does not love Thee in his heart may he be drawn in a Cart God Blesse me that Rime has put me in mind of the Old Poet my Brother Waterman have at ye ifaith if I have any Guts in my Brains I 'le give you a dish of Poetry to stay Your Stomack till You get further a Distick or two does it We in our Hearts do foster no Deceipt They and our Tongues simplicity do meet As Sands and Fishes are thought Numberless So may Your Ioyes be pregnant and increase And so God speed you well The which ended His Majesty moves on towards another View being the Second Entertainment WHich is a Pageant made in the manner of an Island floating and presented between Fox Hall and Lambeth with a Lion and a Unicorn standing in the Front the Supporters of the Armes of ENGLAND upon whose backs are placed two bigg Boyes the one a Scotch the other an English and habitted accordingly with Banners in their hands whereon is the Armes of eitheir Nation In the middle of this View is seated THAM represented in an Old Man with long Hair and Beard which may signifie the Weeds and Sedges of the River On his head he wears a Crown of Flowers such as belong to Meads and fruitfull Pastures as the Primrose Dazy Blewbottle and the like In his right hand he holds a Trident as he is Viceroy to Thetis and King of Rivers In his left hand he bears a Pitcher of Water as he is Sonne to Achelous the Father of Rivers and and Grandchild to Oceanus He wears a long Silk Robe tincted with several colours like the Rainbow On his right hand is placed a Nymph of the Water on whose head is the Figure of Greenwich Castle On his left hand another Nymph on whose head is placed the Figure of Windsor Castle which two Nymphs are holding Banners in their hands habited in Blew and White Upon his MAjESTIES approach THAM presents himself in these words WHen You Great Sir did in Caesarean State Through the Glad City Ride to meet Your fate The Hand-maid to Your Right Your Regal Throne Which had been lost had it not been Your Own So many false Pretenders laying claim To what they wanted Vertue to maintain Among the rest did that day presse to see Phoebus display his Beams in Monarchy I a Sub-servant strove beyond my bound T' expresse a Loyall Error on the Ground Nor wonder now Tham in a House is pent Brittain is by this Floating Island meant a Environ'd with the German Ocean The Irish Scottish and the Belgican This Spot of Earth that doth so much create In other Nations Fear 'twixt Love and Hate The Name of England shakes 'em Warr and it Strikes 'em into their Mother Ague fit And that your ample glories may encrease Portugal clasps you with the Arms of Peace That Portugall is so famous for their Kings And Wondrous Acts which Worthy b Clio sings ENGLAND and PORTUGAL are one in Fame There is no difference 'twixt 'em but in Name Lisbon is London Tagus Thames and then The Portugues are become Englishmen The English Portugues both meet in hearts Thus Providence unites remotest parts This strange Conjunction staggers the dull Age Your Shaddows no Ecclipses do presage For from those darker Tresses as from Night Proceeds th' efficient Cause of early Light By which We live It is your gracious heat Blest Pair that doth each Element repleat When You your d Hymenean Triumphs kept ●th West the Eye of Ioy here never slept The Dreggs of grief for Your departure hence Were purg'd away by a retayning Sense Of Your Return which now so safe does add More Blessings to this CITY then it had How to return a Thankfullness for this Comes not within the Rule Hypo●hesis Then though they cannot their full Ioyes express Be pleas'd to think their Dutie 's ne'r the less EXPLANATION Why England the Floating Island a It is Environ'd on the East with the German Sea on the West with the Irish on the North with the Scottish on the South it is by a Narrow Sea divided from Gallia Belgica b Clio one of the Muses that relates the Acts of Honour and Chivalry c Hymeneus was the Son of Bacchus and Venus he is the God of Marriages Hymenea in the Neuter Gender are the Nuptiall Ceremonies therefore called Hymenean Rites or Triumphs THAM having ended his Speech their MAJESTIES move towards White Hall but before their drawing near the Nobility and Gentry of their Majesties Train are Entertained by the Second Droll Indians and Seamen being continually in Action with this Song The Seamans Song LIve Ladds live good dayes are comming on This seconds that o' th Coronation See see how thick the Boats and Barges come The River sweats to bring it's burthen home CAESAR and His Fortune 's there Heavens delight Our Kingdoms Prayer CHORUS Welcome you Starrs that them attend From whose light you borrow yours May they still your Wants befriend So you will remember Ours The Song ended and their Majesties Barge ready for landing at the Private Stairs at White Hall The third VIEW receives them being a Sea Chariot made in manner of a Scollop shell drawn with two Dolphins on whose backs are placed two Tritons In the front of the Chariot is seated Thetis Her hair long and grey disshevel'd On her head is placed a triple Crown to denote and distinguish her three Estates as she is supposed to be Mother of all the Gods Goddess of the Sea and Empress of all Rivers On the upper part of the Crown is fixed a Starr on the middle circle a silver Crescent on the triplicite part a wreath of Flags deep green her Robe likewise of deep green with a loose Mantle of several colours In the right hand she holds a Scepter in the left a Chard or Mapp her Attendants are four Sea Nymphs cloathed in White and Sea-green Robes Thetis Addresseth her self to their Majesties in these words alluding to the Storm and Ioy of the Portugues which happened at one and the same time MOST SACRED PAIR FAME having eccho'd in our Eares Your choice We summon'd all Our Daughters to rejoyce That to the five a Hill'd City do belong Whose Murmurs did consort a Nuptial Song The Golden footed b Tagus many more That wanton 'bout the Fam'd c Ulyssian shore They being sprightly met a sudden sound As though th' imprison'd Winds had broke the Ground Surpriz'd our Ioyes we guest not what it meant Till seconded by th' Upper Element At which the Voyce of Syrens became loud Though