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A27254 The triumph-royal containing a short account of the most remarkable battels, sieges, sea-fights, treaties, and famous atchievements [sic] of the princes of the House of Nassau &c. describ'd in the triumphal arches, piramids, pictures, inscriptions, and devices erected at the Hague in Honour of William III, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland ... Beek, J., fl. 1691-1702. 1692 (1692) Wing B1686; ESTC R32563 25,299 179

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represents the King of England who though very Young with Forces far inferiour adventur'd to make Head against the King of France who is here signify'd by the scorching Rays of the Sun and over this Figure was this Inscription PUERUM EXEMPLAR CONSTITUIT Heaven sent a Youth to be our Great Exemplar Fig 51. FIGURE LI. Here Vulcan throws several pieces of Armour upon the Ground before a young Champion mounted a Horseback in order to obey the Commands of Venus Mars also gives him a Sword in Testimony of his Favour and Assistance in the Wars which he is going to undertake Which was all Embellish'd with this Inscription QUI JUVENTUTE STRENUE TRANSACTA FUNESTIS JACTATUS BELLIS AC DISSIDIIS IN TANTO RERUM DISCRIMINE The same so strenuous in his Youth that though turmoyl'd with Dismal Wars and Intestine Discords yet in this dangerous Condition of Affairs c. Which words contain an Epitome of what befel the Prince in his Youth At the Upper End of the Figure is to be seen a Castle seated upon a Mountain at the Foot of which a Pike is fix'd in the Ground with several Laurel Branches shooting from it Embellish'd with this Motto CONTORTA TRIUMPHOS PORTENDIT Lanc'd with a Vigorous Arm it Victory Portends Fig 52. FIGURE LII The 52 Figure represents a Hero holding a Battoon of Command in his Hand with a Helmet and Plume upon his Head He is supported standing upon a Shield by four other Hero's every one wearing a Helmet and Plume and environ'd with Armed Soldiers with this Inscription over head NUTANTIS BELGII QUA MARI QUA TERRA ADMOTUS IN PRISTINUM DECUS GUBERNACULI GLORIAM ARAS ET FOCOS RESTITUIT Where e'er he mov'd by Sea or Land he restor'd the Glorious Government the RELIGION and Liberty of Tottering Belgium to their Pristin Lustre This alludes to the Prince of Orange's being restor'd to the Government in the Year 1672. according to the Custom of the Ancients who when they advanc'd any Person to Supreme Dignity used to have him born upon a Shield by Four Hero's that he might be conspicuous to the People Which demonstrates to us that the Prince by vertue of his ancient Dignity restor'd became the Restorer of the United Provinces to their Liberty which was in great Jeopardy in the Year 1672. and that the Battoon of Command belong'd as well to him as to his Ancestors who had carry'd it before Fig 53. FIGURE LIII The Fifty third Figure fansies two Persons standing at the Entrance into a Temple and next to them on the one side Justice on the other Prudence which calls to our Remembrance the Marriage of the King and Queen Solemniz'd at London in the Year 1678. It farther also denotes that the Prince was a Personage who would act with Prudence in all his Undertakings and that at all Times and in all Places he would be a Maintainer of Justice MERITIS FAMAM EXSUPERANTIBUS TROPHAEIS PRINCIPI ATAVIS EDITAE REGIBUS FELICIBUS JUNCTUS HYMENAEIS Deserved Trophies far exeeeding Fames Report in happy Wedlock joyn'd him to a lovely Princess sprung from a long Race of Kings FIGURE LIV. This Figure represents the Solemnities in use among the Ancients when they granted a Triumphal Entry to those that had signaliz'd themselves in any Sea-Engagement Among the rest it was one of their Customs to take off the Prows from the Ships which they had taken and after they had hung 'em up in their Forum or Hall of Publick Judicature which was therefore call'd Rostra they Erected a Statue in perpetual Honour both of the Victor and the Victory Over head was this Inscription TRIUMPHET IN UNDIS May He also Triumph upon the Seas Fig 54. Fig 55. FIGURE LV. The Portraiture in the Upper Part of this Figure supported by two little Cupids of which the one holds a Garland of Flowers in his Hand is the Portraiture of the Queen of England Underneath she is Painted sitting on a Throne with a Crown upon her Head surrounded with Armed Souldiers At her Feet stand several other People laden with Cornucopia's and Purses of Money in their Hands To signifie That her Subjects accompting themselves Happy under her Government are ready to Sacrifice their Lives and Estates in her Defence FIGURE LVI This Figure that surpriz'd the Eyes of the Beholders represents a Lady most charmingly Beautiful yet holding a Sword in her Hand with a stern and menacing Aspect and surrounded with her Armed Guards to denote the Noble Indignation of the Queen when she understood the Miscarriage of the Fleet and the Treachery of those that suffer'd the Hollanders to bear the Brunt of the Engagement At what time one would have thought the Amazonian Age had been reviv'd while she took a Resolution to have march'd her self at the Head of her Army against her Enemies had they attempted any Invasion upon the Coasts At the Bottom of the Figure appear several Poor People to whom others are distributing Money to signifie Her Majesties extraordinary Bounty to those that were Wounded in that Engagement and to the Widows and Orphans of those that were Slain Fig 56. Fig 57. FIGURE LVII This Figure delights the Eye with one of the most Daring Actions that ever History recorded That is to say King William's forcing his Passage over the River Boyn in Ireland where his Enemies Superior to Him in Number and Commanded by King James in Person lay entrench'd upon the Banks of the River to Oppose Him But our Couragious Monarch deeply sensible that he had then a Game to Play upon the good or bad Success of which depended the Ruin or Prosperity of all Europe as well as of his own Affairs march'd with an undaunted Prowess at the Head of his Men and mauger all the Thunder of the Enemies both great and small Shot Foarded the River forced their Entrenchments and constrain'd 'em to a speedy Flight Which struck such a Terrour into the Hearts of the Vanquisht that the Victory was attended by the Surrender of the Chief City of the Kingdom and several other Towns of great Importance as also by the Flight of King James himself who durst not stand a second Tryal but hasten'd into France to save one 'T is true so great a Courage had like to have cost the Victor his life for that two Cannon Bullets very narrowly miss'd him one of which came so near him as to graze upon his Shoulder and raze the very Skin it self and the other carry'd away a piece of his Boot which was the reason that the Report of his Death was spread abroad in France with that assurance that for Joy of such welcom News they rose at Midnight in Paris to make Bonfires from whence the glad Tidings dispiercing themselves put several other Cities of that deluded Kingdom in a blaze By which Extravagant Joy for an Imaginary Death we may assuredly conclude the Dread which all France is in of such a formidable Hero Fig 58. FIGURE LVIII This