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A20094	The vvonderfull yeare. 1603 Wherein is shewed the picture of London, lying sicke of the plague. At the ende of all (like a mery epilogue to a dull play) certaine tales are cut out in sundry fashions, of purpose to shorten the liues of long winters nights, that lye watching in the darke for vs.; 1603. The wonderfull yeare	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1603 (1603)	STC 6535.5; ESTC S105274	33,757	48

vpon a Lady Eue and died vpon a Lady Eue her Natiuitie death being memorable by this wonder the first and last yeares of her Raigne by this that a Lee was Lords Maior when she came to the Crowne and a Lee Lorde Maior when she departed from it Thrée places are made famous by her for thrée things Greenewich for her birth Richmount for her death White-Hall for her Funerall vpon her remouing from whence to lend our tiring prose a breathing time stay and looke vpon these Epigrams being composed 1. Vpon the Queenes last Remoue being dead THe Queene 's remou'de in solemne sort Yet this was strange and seldome seene The Queene vsde to remoue the Court But now the Court remou'de the Queene 2. Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall THe Queene was brought by water to White Hall At euery stroake the Oares ●eares let fall More clung about the Barge Fish vnder water Wept out their eyes of pearle and swom blind after I thinke the Barge-men might with easier thyes Haue rowde her thither in her peoples eyes For howsoe're thus much my thoughts haue skand S'had come by water had she come by land 3. Vpon her lying dead at White Hall THe Queene lyes now at White Hall dead And now at White Hall liuing To make this rough obiection euen Dead at White Hall at Westminster But liuing at White Hall in Heauen Thus you sée that both in her life and her death shée was appointed to bee the mirror of her time And surely if since the first stone that was layd for the foundation of this great house of the world there was euer a yeare ordained to be wondred at it is only this the Sibils Octogesimus Octauus Annus That same terrible 88. which came sayling hither in the Spanish Armado and made mens hearts colder then the frozen Zone when they heard but an inckling of it That 88. by whose horrible predictions Almanack-makers stood in bodily feare their trade would bée vtterly ouerthrowne and poore Erra Pater was threatned because he was a Iew to be put to ●aser offices than the stopping of mustard●pots That same 88. which had more prophecies waiting at his héeles thā euer Merlin the Magitian had in his head was a yeare o● Iubile to this Platoes Mirabilis Annu● whether it be past alreadie or to come within these foure yeares may throwe Platoes cap at Mirabilis for that title of wonderfull is bestowed vpon 1603. If that sacred Aromatically persumed fire of wit out of whose flames Phoenix poesie doth arise were burning in any brest I would féede it with no other stuffe for a twelue-moneth and a day than with kindling papers full of lines that should tell only of the chances changes and strange shapes that this Protean Climactericall yeare hath metamorphosed himselfe into It is able to finde ten Chroniclers a competent liuing and to set twentie Printers at worke You shall perceiue I lye not if with Peter Bales you will take the paines to drawe the whole volume of it into the compasse of a pennie As first to begin with the Quéenes death then the Kingdomes falling into an Ague vpon that Next followes the curing of that feauer by the holesome receipt of a proclaymed King That wonder begat more for in an houre two mightie Nations were made one wilde Ireland became tame on the sudden and some English great ones that before séemed tame on the sudden turned wilde The same Parke which great Iulius Caesar inclosed to hold in that Déere whome they before hunted being now circled by a second Caesar with stronger pales to kéepe them from leaping ouer And last of all if that wonder be the last and shut vp the yeare a most dreadfull plague This is the abstract and yet like Stowes Chronicle of Decimo sexto to huge Hollinshead these small pricks in this Set-card of ours represent mightie Countreys whilst I haue the quill in my hand let me blow them bigger The Quéene being honoured with a Diademe of Starres France Spaine and Belg●a lift vp their heads preparing to do as much for England by giuing ayme whilst she shot arrowes at her owne brest as they imagined as she had done many a yeare together for them and her owne Nation betted on their sides looking with distracted countenance for no better guests than Ciuill Sedition Uprores Rapes Murders and Massacres But the whéele of Fate turned a better Lottery was drawne Pro Troia stabat Apol●o God stuck valiantlie to vs. For behold vp rises a comfortable Sun out of the North whose glorious beames like a fan dispersed all thick and contagious clowdes The losse of a Quéene was paid with the double interest of a King and Quéene The Cedar of her gouernment which stood alone and bare no fruit is changed now to an Oliue vpon whose spreading branches grow both Kings and Quéenes Oh it were able to still a hundred paire of writing tables with notes but to sée the parts plaid in the compasse of one houre on the stage of this new-found world Upon Thursday it was treason to cry God saue king Iames king of England and vppon Friday hy● treason not to cry so In the morning no voice heard but murmures and lamentation at noone nothing but shoutes of gladnes triumpe S. George and S. Andrew that many hundred yeares had de●●●d one another were now sworne brothers England and Scotland being parted only with a narrow Riuer and the people of both Empires speaking a language lesse differing than english within it selfe as the prouidence had enacted that one day those two Nations should marry one another are now made sure together and king Iames his Coronation is the solemne wedding day Happiest of all thy Ancestors thou mirror of all Princes that euer were or are that at seauen of the clock wert a king but ouer a péece of a little Iland and before eleuen the greatest Monarch in Christendome Now Siluer Crowds Of blisfull Angels and tryed Marytrs tread On the Star-●eeling ouer Englands head Now heauen broke into a wonder and brought forth Our omne bonum from the holesome North Our fruitfull souereigne Iamns at whose dread name Rebellion swounded and ere since became Groueling and nerue-lesse wanting blo●d to nourish For Ruine gnawes her selfe when kingdomes flourish Nor are our hopes planted in regall springs Neuer to wither for our aire breedes kings And in all ages from this soueraigne time England shall still be calde the royall clime Most blisfull Monarch of all earthen powers Seru'd with a messe of kingdomes foure such bowers For prosperous hiues and rare industrious swarmes The world containes not in her solid armes O thou that art the Meeter of our dayes Poets Apollo deale thy Daphnean bayes To those whose wits are bay-trees euer greene Vpon whose hye tops Poesie chirps vnseene Such are most fit t'apparell Kings in rimes Whose siluer numbers are the Muses chimes Whose spritely caracters being once wrought on Out-liue the

shew tricks like Bancks his Curtall O you Bookes-sellers that are Factors to the Liberall Sciences ouer whose Stalles these Drones do dayly flye humming let Homer Hesiod Euripid●s and some other mad Greekes with a band of the Latines lye like musket-shot in their way when these Gothes and Getes set vpon you in your paper fortifications it is the only Canon vpon whose mouth they dare not venture none but the English will take their parts therefore feare them not for such a strong breath haue thesee chese-eaters that if they do but blowvpon a booke they imagine straight t is blasted Quod supra nos Nihil ad nos they say that which is aboue our capacitie shall not passe vnder our commendation Yet would I haue these Zoilists of all other to reade me if euer I should write any thing worthily for the blame that knowne-fooles heape vpon a deseruing labour does not discredit the same but makes wise men more perfectly in loue with it Into such a ones hands therefore if I fortune to fall I will not shrinke an inch but euen when his teeth are sharpest and most ready to bite I will stop his mouth only with this Haec mala sunt sed tu non meliora facis Reader WHereas there stands in the Rere-ward of this Booke a certaine mingled Troope of straunge Discourses fashioned into Tales Know that the intelligence which first brought them to light was onely slying Report whose tongue as it often does if in spreading them it haue tript in any materiall point and either slipt too farre or falne too short beare with the error and the rather because it is not wilfully committed Neither let any one whom those Reports shall seeme to touch cauill or complaine of iniury sithence nothing is set downe by a malitious hand Farewell THE VVONDERfull yeare VErtumnus being attired in his accustomed habit of changeable silke had newly passed through the first and principall Court-gate of heauen to whom for a farewell and to shewe how dutifull he was in his office Ianus that beares two faces vnder one hood made a very mannerly lowe legge and because he was the onely Porter at that gate presented vnto this King of the Moneths all the new-New-yeares gifts which were more in number and more worth then those that are giuen to the great Turke or the Emperour of Persia on went Vertumnus in his lustie progresse Priapus Flora the Dryades and Ha●●adryades with all the woodden rabble of those that drest Orchards Gardens perfuming all the wayes that he went with the swéete Odours that breathed from flowers hearbes and trées which now began to péepe out of prison by vertue of which excellent aires the skie got a most cleare completion lookte s●●g and smoothe and had not so much as a wart st●●king on her face the Sunne likewise was freshly and very richly apparelled in cloth of gold like a Bridegroome and in stead of gilded Rosemary the hornes of the Ramme being the signe of that celestiall bride house where he lay to be marryed to the Spring were not like your common hornes parcell gilt but double double-gilt with the liquid gold that melted from his beames for ioy wereof the Larke sung at his windowe euery morning the Nightingale euery nighte the Cuckooe like a single sole Fidler that réeles from Tauerne to Tauerne plide it all the day long Lambes friskte vp and downe in the vallies Kids and Goates leapt too and fro on the Mountaines Shepheards sat piping country wenches singing Louers made Sonnets for their Lasses whilest they made Garlands for their Louers And as the Country was frolike so was the Citie mery Oliue Trées which grow no where but in the Garden of peace stood as common as Béech does at Midsomer at euery mans doore braunches of Palme were in euery mans hand Stréetes were full of people people full of ioy euery house séemde to haue a Lorde of misrule in it in euery house there was so much ●ollity no Scritch-Owle frighted the silly Countryman at midnight nor any Drum the Citizen at noone-day but all was more calme than a still water all husht as if the Spheres had bene playing in Consort In conclusion heauen lookt like a Pallace and the great hall of the earth like a Paradice But O the short liu'de Felicitie of man O world of what slight and thin stuffe is thy happinesse Iust in the midst of this iocund Holy-day a storme rises in the West Westward from the toppe of a Ritch-mount descended a hidious tempest that shooke Cedars terrified the tallest Pines and cleft in sunder euen the hardest hearts of Oake And if such great trées were shaken what thinke you became of the tender Eglantine and humble Hawthorne they could not doubtlesse but droope they could not choose but die with the terror The Element taking the Destinies part who indéed set abroach this mischiefe scowled on the earth and filling her hie forehead full of blacke wrinckles tumbling long vp and downe like a great bellyed wife her sighes being whirlewindes and her grones thunder at length she fell in labour and was deliuered of a pale meagry weake child named Sicknesse whom Death with a pestilence would néedes take vpon him to nurse and did so This starueling being come to his full growth had an office giuen him for nothing and that 's a wonder in this age Death made him his Herauld attirde him like a Courtier and in his name chargde him to goe into the Priuie Chamber of the English Quéene to sommon her to appeare in the Star-chamber of heauen The sommons made her start but hauing an inuincible spirit did not amaze her yet whom would not the certaine newes of parting from a King●ome amaze But she knewe where to finde a richer and therefore lightlie regarded the losse of this and thereupon made readie for that heauenlie Coronation being which was most strange most dutifull to obay that had so many yeares so powrefully commaunded She obayed Deaths messenger and yéelded her body to the hands of death himselfe She dyed res●gning her Scepter to posteritie and her Soule to immortalitie To report of her death like a thunder-clap was able to kill thousands it tooke away hearts from millions for hauing brought vp euen vnder her wing a nation that was almost begotten and borne vnder her that neuer shouted any other Aue than for her name neuer sawe the face of any Prince but her selfe neuer vnderstoode what that strange out-landish word Change signified how was it possible but that her sicknes should throw abroad an vniuersall feare and her death an astonishment She was the Courtiers treasure therefore he had cause to mourne the Lawyers sword of iustice he might well faint the Merchants patronesse he had reason to looke pale the Citizens mother he might best lament the Sepheards Goddesse and should not he droope Onely the Souldier who had walkt a long time vpon wodden legs and was not able