ΤΑ ΤΩΠΜΟΥΣΩΠΕΙΣΟΔΙΑ THE MVSES WELCOME TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITAINE FRANCE AND IRELAND DEFENDER OF THE FAITH c. At his Majesties happie Returne to his olde and natiue Kingdome of SCOTLAND after 14 yeeres absence IN ANNO 1617. Digested according to the order of his Majesties Progresse By I. A. Soli sic pervius orbis Imprinted at EDINBURGH 1618. Cum privilegio Regia Majestatis SERENISSIMO POTENTISSIMOQVE PRINCIPI IACOBO Dei gratia Magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regi Fidei defensori c. AUgustissime potentissime REX Musarum haec 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à suis primùm Authoribus elucubrata scripta deinde quia non indigna Majestati tuae visa sunt à me conquisita congesta conscripta nunc tandem Majestati tuae inscripta prodeunt in lucem nec Theoninos invidiae morsus metuunt quum ad Numen tuum unicum Tutanum suum confugiant quinimò tutissimum sibi pollicentur perfugium sub patrocinio tam potentis eruditi Principis id quidem non immeritò quum tua sint omnia à devotissimis subditis tuis de praeclarissimis virtutibus tuis singula M. tuae dicta scripta data aut consecrata Ideoque confidunt eâdem vultûs serenitate accepturam M. tuam insimul nunc omnia quâ priùs audita lecta aut visa sunt singula Praesertim quum publica haec de meritis erga se tuis Populi tui testimonia monumenta futura sint ad aeternitatem gloriae tuae plùs omnibus Colossis Trophaeis valitura quumque ex iisdem modò intellectura sint extera Regna tuam Scotiam sub Rege eruditissimo non ineruditam erga Regem optimum optimè affectam ventura deinceps secula visura sint IN HOC RARO EXEMPLARI quibus virtutibus Reges infigniri quibus animis Subditi affici debebunt O beatos Principes qui IDEAM OPTIMI PRINCIPIS ISTAM expressuri sunt feliciorem Regem qui talem se proponit imitandum Quibusdam fortasse serò videbitur hoc Symbolum exivisse sed ut viris etiam oculatissimis visum est si citiùs exivisset non exivisset tempestivè quorsum enim monumenta rerum praesentium oculis obversantium nunc verò quum penè exciderit renovabitur progressus tui non sine delectatione recordatio legendis istis jam quasi secundò Maiestas tua Scotiam perlustrabit Quaemea hîc fuerit opera quà mque ego sedulò partes mihi demandatas obierim omnium optimè norunt meritissimus Candidae Casae Episcopus qui in cunctis consilio praefuit Patricius Sandaeus qui in non paucis adfuit auxilio Me verò nec impensi laboris poenitebit nec graviora tuo jussu adire pigebit si hanc operam à me susceptam intellexero Majestati tuae gratam acceptam Serenissimae Majestatis tuae subditus servusque devotissimus IOANNES ADAMSONUS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A DEDICATORIE TO THEIR MOST MAGNIFICENT KING From the Lovers of learning WHo with sweet layes O KING would please thyne eare Or make thy glorie more by verse appeare Hee with à Torch should seeme to cleare the day And with à teare enlarge the groundlesse sea For not inspyr'd by Phoebus men Thee deeme But gold-wing'd Phoebus selfe they Thee esteeme Nor did'st thou drink of Aganippe Well But thou à Spring art where Ioves daughters dwell In which grave Pitho with each fair-hair'd Howre And blew-ey'd Pallas all their Nectar powre Yet thus much wee the Muses nurslings would Though not as thou deserv'st yet as wee could In this glade tyme when now by thy Repaire To these deare bounds where firstthou sucked aire Ioy over-joy'd in formes confus'd appeares And maks old age amaz'd of AEsons yeeres As was oure dewtie humblie to Thee bring These lines à gift but small for such a KING Save that wee know what all the world doth know That thou canst small things take as great bestow Which is the rarest too and richest Gemme That can adorne à Princes Diademe Done out of the greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 GRAMPIUS REGI SUO QVae constricta silet brumali algore Cicada Flebilis aestiuo tempore laeta canit Sic ego qui moestus multùm t◠absente silebam Phoebe ictus radiis nunc cano dulc◠tuis Ore sed illa carens modulatur pectore cantus Ore ego si nequeo pectore dulc◠canam IOANNES ADAMIDES 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR THE MVSES WELCOME TO THE KINGS MAIESTIE AT HIS HAPPIE RETVRNE TO HIS OLD AND NATIVE KINGDOME OF SCOTLAND AFTER XIV YEERES ABSENCE His M. came from Berwik to Dunglasse the xiij of May where this speach following was deliuered by Alex r. Hume SALVE REX regum illustrissime homo hominum suavissime rerum optabilium tuis optatissime Tuis inquam non quòd alii non sint etiam tui sed quòd nos debemus volumus esse ut ita dicam tuissimi Et tamen ne verum dolorem taceamus dolemus sanè ullos praeter nos esse tuos aut te esse ullorum Sed hunc dolorem malumus aequis animis ferre quà m ut non sint etiam tui quicunque te verè ex animo amare velint non sit tuum quicquid nomen ornet ditionem augeat opes amplificet Priami fertur quinquaginta fuisse filios Ad hos ille communi ad illum hi suo quisque jure pertinebant Unde studuisle unumquemque ut ipse esset patris pater esset ipsius neque contra naturam neque ab aequo bono alienum fuit Quis unquam Hectori vitio vertit quòd pro patre patria plus sudavit aut pugnavit fortiùs Tu nobis Priamus nos tibi Priamidae Hectorem quà m Paridem imitari quantò magis pium tantò Priamidis laudabilius Priamo gratius salutarius Si quibus ergo placet certare utri amemus sincerius obsequamur paratiùs hostes oderimus infestiùs facilè patimur sed non ut facilè vin camur Unum est nostrum proprium quòd licet omnes omnia agant nunquam efficient ut non sit nostrum Nos hactenus per duo ferè millia annorum soli fuimus majorum tuorum illique nos respiciebant solos Si labores sudores si frigus famem si incommoda pericula quae illi pro nobis nos pro illis hausimus enumerare velim dies me quid diem dico imò annus imò aetas deficiet priùs quà m oratio Hoc summatim dicam ac verè dicam nullam esse gentem in qua illustriora exempla videas in REGIBUS virtutis confilij in populo pietatis officij Ita in principio convenerat ita à duobus ferè millibus annorum pactis conventis statum est Quod haud scio an ulla
Lockes Ceres void of feare doth die The Pilgrime safelie in the Shade doth lie Both Pan and Pales carelesse keepe their Flockes Seas haue no Dangers saue the Winds and Rockes Thou art this Isles Palladium neither can While Thou art kept it bee o're-throwne by Man Let Others boast of Blood and Spoyles of Foes Fierce Rapines Murders Iliads of Woes Of hated Pompe and Trophaees reared faire Gore-spangled Ensignes streaming in the Aire Count how They make The Scythian them adore The Gaditan the Souldiour of Aurore Vnhappie Vauntrie to enlarge their Bounds VVhich charge themselues with Cares their Friends with Wounds Which haue no Law to their ambitious Will But Man-plagues borne are humane Blood to spill Thou a true Victor art sent from aboue What Others straine by Force to gaine by Loue World-wandring Fame this Prayse to Thee imparts To bee the onlie Monarch of all Hearts They many feare who are of many fear'd And Kingdomes got by Wrongs by Wrongs are tear'd Such Thrones as Blood doth raise Blood throweth downe No Guard so sure as Loue vnto a Crowne Fye of our westerne World Mars-daunting King With whose Renowne the Earths seuen Climats ring Thy Deedes not only claime these Diademes To which Thame Liffy Taye subject their Streames But to Thy Vertues rare and Gifts is due All that the Planet of the Yeere doth view Sure if the World aboue did want a Prince The World aboue to it would take thee hence That Murder Rapine Lust are fled to Hell And in their Roomes with vs the Graces dwell That Honour more than Riches Menrespect That Worthinesse than Gold doth more effect That Pietie vnmasked showes her Face That Innocencie keepes with Power her Place That long-exil'd Astrea leaues the Heauen And turneth right her Sword her Weights holds euen That the Saturnian World is come againe Are wish'd Effects of Thy most happie Raigne That dayly Peace Loue Trueth Delights encrease And Discord Hate Fraude with Incombers cease That Men vse Strength not to shed others Blood But vse their Strength now to doe other Good That Furie is enchain'd disarmed Wrath That saue by Natures Hand there is no Death That late grimme Foes like Brothers other loue That Vultures prey not on the harmlesse Doue That Wolues with Lambs doe Friendship entertaine Are wish'd Effects of thy most happie Raigne That Towns encrease That ruin'd Temples rise And their wind-mouing Vanes plant in the Skies That Ignorance and Sloth hence runne away That buri'd Arts now rowse them to the Day That Hyperiòn farre beyond his Bed Doth see our Lyons rampe our Roses spred That â—ber courtes vs Tyber not vs charmes That Rhein with hence-brought Beams his Bosome warmes That Fuill vs feare and Good vs doe maintaine Are wish'd Effects of Thy most happie Raigne O Vertues Patterne Glorie of our Times Sent of past Dayes to expiate the Crimes Great King but better farre than thou art greate Whome State not honours but who honours State By Wonder borne by Wonder first install'd By Wonder after to new Kingdomes call'd Young kept by Wonder neare home-bred Alarmes Old sau'd by Wonder from pale Traitours Harmes To bee for this Thy Raigne which Wonders brings A King of Wonder Wonder vnto Kings If Pict Dane Norman Thy smooth Yoke had seene Pict Dane and Norman had thy Subjects beene If Brutus knew the Blisse Thy Rule doth giue Fuen Brutus joye would vnder Thee to liue For Thou Thy People dost so dearlie loue That they a Father more than Prince Thee proue O Dayes to bee desyr'd Age happie thrice If yee your Heauen-sent-Good could duelie prize But yee halfe-palsie-sicke thinke neuer right Of what yee hold till it bee from your Sight Prize onlie Summers sweet and musked Breath When armed Winters threaten you with Death In pallid Sicknesse doe esteeme of Health And by sad Pouertie discerne of Wealth I see ane Age when after manie Yeares And Reuolutions of the slow-pac'd Spheares These Dayes shall bee to other farre esteem'd And like Augustus palmie Raigne bee deem'd The Names of Arthur fabulous Palladines Grau'n in Times surlie Brows in wrincked Lines Of Henries Edwards famous for their Fights Their Neighbour Conquests Orders new of Knights Shall by this Princes Name be past as farre As Meteors are by the Idalian Starre If Gray-hair'd Proteüs Songs the Truth not misse And Gray-hair'd Proteüs oft a Prophet is There is a Land hence-distant manie Miles Out-reaching Fiction and Atlanticke Iles Which Homelings from this litle World wee name That shall imblazon with strange Rites his Fame Shall reare him Statues all of purest Gold Such as Men gaue vnto the Gods of old Name by him Fanes prowd Pallaces and Towns With some great Flood which most their Fields renowns This is that King who should make right each Wrong Of whome the Bards and mysticke Sybilles song The Man long promis'd by whose glorious Raigne This Isle should yet her ancient Name regaine And more of Fortunate deserue the Stile Than those where Heauens with double Summers smile Runne on great Prince Thy Course in Glories Way The End the Life the Euening crownes the Day Heape Worth on Worth and stronglie soare aboue Those Heights which made the World Thee first to loue Surmount Thy Selfe and make thine Actions past Bee but as Gleames or Lightnings of Thy last Let them exceed them of Thy younger Time As farre as Autumne doth the flowrie Prime Through this Thy Empire range like Worlds bright Eye That once each Yeare survayes all Earth and Skie Now glaunces on the slow and restie Beares Then turnes to drie the weeping Austers Teares Iust vnto both the Poles and moueth euen In the infigur'd Circle of the Heauen O long long haunt these Bounds which by Thy Sight Haue now regain'd their former Heate and Light Heere grow greene Woods heere siluer Brookes doe glide Heere Meadowes stretch them out with painted Pride Embrodring all the Banks heere Hilles aspire To crowne their Heads with the aetheriall Fire Hills Bullwarks of our Freedome giant Walls Which neuer Fremdlings Slight nor Sword made Thralls Each circling Flood to Thetis Tribute payes Men heere in Health out-liue old Nestors Dayes Grimme Saturne yet amongst our Rocks remaines Bound in our Caues with many Mettald Chaines Bulls haunt our Shades like Ledas Louer white Which yet might breede Pasiphaè Delight Our Flocks faire Fleeces beare with which for Sport Endemion of old the Moone did court High-palmed Harts amidst our Forrests runne And not impall'd the deepe-mouth'd Hounds doe shunne The rough-foote Hare him in our Bushes shrowds And long-wing'd Haulks doe pearch amidst our Clowds The wanton wood-Nymphes of the verdant Spring Blew Golden Purple Flowres shall to Thee bring Pomonas Fruits the Paniskes Thetis Gyrles Thy Thulys Amber with the Ocean Pearles The Tritons Heards-men of the glassie Field Shall giue Thee what farre-distant Shores can yeeld The Serean Fleeces Erythrean Gemmes Vaste Platas Siluer Gold of Peru Streames Antarticke Parrots A Ethiopian Plumes Sabaean Odours Myrrhe and sweet
the thrie Jewish worthies in constant standing to the cause of God and to excell the thrie Christiane Peires in christian meiknes The earth may sie that the heavens hes fitted your M. for great things when it beholds your fiftie and fourtein yeeres reigne more peceable than that of Augustus your governement more happie than that of Croesus your yok more easie than that of Salomon and your retinew more royall than that of Ashuerus maugré all his hundreth and seaven and tuentie Provinces The comfortable frutes of these your rare and royall vertues all the Kingdomes about hes tasted S r but your owne hes enjoyed the sweitnes therof to the full and amongst your owne none more than this your kyndlie Kingdome of SCOTLAND Whose fourtein yeeres dririe winter caused be absence is now tur ned in à joyfull Summer by this livelie and lightsome presence of your M. the bright Sunne of oure firmament in this your Nor therne ascention Whilst your M. was absent her feares wer many her desyres vehement her hopes either few or none at all And how could shee not but be ever fearing since the least endangering of your sacred person was her her totall ruyne And if the providence of GOD had not otherwayes disponed then the malice of man proponed her losse had bein beyond the losse of any cuntrie in the world because none had so rare à Jewell to be taken from them What is there beneath the cope of heaven shee could haue desyred to this so glorious and triumphing à returne not lyk to that of King Philips from that selfe-same cuntrie to Spaine or lyk to that of Henrie the thrid from Pole but aequaling yea aboue the returnes of the most valiant and fortunate Emperours in the world for what they all affected yet never obtained here is fullie effected Could ever this poore cuntrie hope nay dreame of what shee now enjoyeth especiallie at such à tyme when the weigetie affaires of the neighbour Kingdomes require both the eye and the aide of so great and wyse à Prince France yet smarting for the blow of her last king the Alpes though frozen in flam'd with the choler of Spaine The Low-cuntries making Re ligion serving their disordered factions what was there in ws of such importance as to draw you here when wee advyse well of our selfes wee shall find nothing but when wee think on you S r. wee shall find that even that which is the greatest and most powerfull thing in the world by which deformitie often appeareth pleasant LOVE was in you Sr. which as it is excellentlie rare and great in so rare and great à Prince to the whole Kingdome of SCOTLAND and all the cities thereof so it hath bein most singulare to Perth J will not speak of your M. Noble Ancestors WILLIAM the Lyon and ROBERT the BRUCE of which the first to the example of the Conquering Greek who builded Alexandria in AEgypt on the brink of Nilus did found the Towne of Perth after the overthrow of old Berth by inundation in the midst of this plaine The other for the great delight hee had in her situation standing lyk Seleucus palace betuix the two famous rivers of Asia and for the pleasure hee tuik in her valleyes and river lyk PO smyling alongs the gardings of Lombardie dowried her with al 's manie privileges as did Numa Rome or Cecrops Athens But to passe with silence the loue your M. hes kythed to Perth from tyme to tyme it wer a token of sensles ingratitude for may not your beneficéce toward her compair with Ptolemé his vindicating of Memphis liberties vsurped by Thebe Ogygia To Alexander his ratifeing of Babylons privileges granted to her by the two preceding Monarchies and to Cyrus his liberall remembrance of Ierusalem in his absence from her But chieflie hath your M. vnfenzeit affection to Perth manifested it selfe in this point that being now returnd home againe to your ancient Kingdome and cradle STOTLAND and not being vnmyndfull of that miraculous delyverie which the Lord the GOD of your H. saiftiie did giue you out of the bloodie hands of these two vnnaturall traitours within this Towne your M. hes resolved with that great Patriarch from whom yee haue your name to rear ane altar in that place where yee did find GODS presence in mercie with yow and to paye these vowes your M. promised to performe namlie to continew a gracious King and a faithfull protector to Perth for euer FOR all which most memorable benefits RIGHT HIGH and MIGHTIE PRINCE but most of all for your Maiesties presence and most benigne aspect this day by which Wee who these many yeeres bypast in absence of your M. the sun-shyne of our bewtye did sitt lyke so manie Gyrasoles languishing in the shads of darknes May now againe lyke al 's manie Lizards delyte our selfes in the sight of your gracious countenance Wee your Maiesties euer-loyall subjects the citizens of Perth as heretofore wee haue bein alwayes readie to serve your Highnes to the last gasp being earnest with GOD for your owne long and your seeds everlasting reigne over ws in peace so now praying Almightie GOD that your Majestie may shyne in the firmament of these Kingdomes lyke Iosuas Sunne in Gibeon there to dowble the naturall dyeâ—t of mans abode vpon Earth with the citizens of Ierusalem who gaue a shoute to the heaven for joy of King David his returne home unto the Citie after his long absence Wee bid your Majestie most hartlie welcome home againe to your ancient king dome and cradle SCOTLAND and to this the hart thereof your Maiesties Peniel PERTH God saue the King This preceiding speach being delyvered to his Majestie these subsequent Poems wer praesented AMARYLLIS EXPOSTULANS Ecloga Prima CASTALIDES pia turba Deae quae pectora vatum Aoniis lustratis aquis fastigia montis Linquite Pierii nostrosque invisite campos Et mecum placidos mea per violaria flores Carpite sin autem teneras discrimina longae Taedet inire viae terrasque videre repostas At â—aïdas saltem vestro perfundite Nymphas Numine ingenti dignum date Daphnide carmen Dum validos gemibunda mei cano pectoris aestus QVinta mihi luctu fluxit trieteris acerbo Quà m miseris absumptamodis quà m plena laborum Cùm gemitu lachrymij que madens ingrata salutis In tenebris mecum priscos meditarer amores Fx quo Daphni tuos non aequo sidere vultus Phoebus Australis tenuit plaga fervida terrae Quam Sabrina ferox quam Thamiseïdes vndae Quam Deva occiduum quamque alluit Humber eoum Missus in Oceanum mihi quot lamenta per auras Quot rivi fluxere genis cùm tristior omni Nocte dies atros cùm nox inimica dolores Ingeminans animum prope funere mersit iniquo At reditus nova fama tui spem laeta secundam Exanimi diffusa dedit longùmque querenti Pone metus Amarylli tuos tuus ignis ardor
nitore Papanum rursus sese in chaos omnia condant Nec te turba lacu evolitans furialis Averno Fumiferaeque imo effusae ex Acheronte locustae Orbem involventes caecâ caligine omnes Coelesti vacuos pungentes tempora signo Non te vllae facies non terruit ipse liphoeus Horrida dirarum è Tarpeia fulmina rupe Nequicquam ejaculans inania murmura miscens Tu Pythona tuis lateranum Phoebus vt alter Fixisti telis immani vulnere victum Tu divinus vt Alcides immanibus orbem Errorum monstris invicti robore veri Purgare aggressus numerosa volumina magni Hydraei illius capitis bella arma minasque Spirantis sacri excidisti dogmatis ense Auspicioque pari capita inde infausta renata Per te strata jacent aevi monumenta prioris Historiamque sacram mendax Baronius omnem Cratinae dum ad vota suae componit ineptis Conspurcans lenociniis putidisque fabellis Tortus atrox triplicis nodi quoque reste retortus Ft capitis curare exorsus vulnera primi Occubuit dextrâ victus Gretâ—erus eâdem Mitrigerique alii per te cecidere gigantes Frrorum per te tenebris omnique remota Barbarie extremis Christi lux aurea terris Accensa est cultuque nitet veneranda sereno Relligio tua virtutum foecunda quod aetas Floreat nondum terras Astraea reliquit Gloria quodque artes excultaque dona Minervae Luxurient passim messes vix horrea captent Pieridum quas sacra Pales collegit ab agris Quanta sit an liquidae narrem facundia linguae Lactea quà m cunctas disertè edisseris artes Seu libet Aonio deducere vertice Musas Abdita seu Sophiae mysteria pandere sacrae Seu narrare aevi monumenta recondita prisci Publica seu juris legumque revolvere scita Seu dubiis responsa dare atque aenigmata caeca Solvere seu rerum abstrusas exponere causas Et coeli solisque vias lunaeque labores Dicere seu magnum artificem qui lucet in istis Laudare auctorem naturae ac ordinis omnis Quis non tam varias vno sub pectore dotes Totque vno fluere eloquia admiretur ab ore Iustitiamne canam populi quâ in commoda legum Flectis froena aequo dirimens moderamine lites Quâ jus pauperibus praebes curasque potentum Ne tenues infesta premat violentia nec fraus Artibus exagitet miseros foenusve dolosis Quâ facis agricolas duros ruris alumnos Vt foveat secura quies armentaque latè Tuta errent vacuos incustodita per agros Extremo per quam populi sub sole remoti Hibernique feri montosaque tesqua colentes Vivere qui rapto soliti nunc vincla subire Et legum assuescant sese submittere habenis An memorem vt toto quae nunc paenè exulat orbo Iustitiae germana tuo sibi pectore sedem Fixerit intemerata fides comes addita dictis Et factis aeterna tuis immobile servans Ingenium solidoque ligans promissa adamante Nec simulare sinens â—uco livere nec vllo Nec meritis frustrare bonos nec plaudere pravis Neve odium cordis tacito occultare sub antro Sed vultum menti componens factaque dictis An repetam vt magni soboles clementia patris Iustitiae quae difficilem legumque rigorem Praecipitemque irarum in sontes mitigat oestum Frigida quae calidis miscens mollia duris Temperie res humanas conservat amica Tota animo se tota tuis interserit actis Hinc placidè delicta domas irâque remotâ Supplicium offensis infers nec sanguine gaudes Nec poenis miserorum hinc stratis parcis arma Pace premis solersque odiorum semina tollis Aurem supplicibus nec inexorabilis obdis Ferro alii sese violento robore jactent Rectores populi cumulent aeraria censu Horrorem feritate ferant tua laus IACOBE Parcere subjectis debellare superbos Fontis inexhausti largos anne eloquar imbres Innumeros opibusque homines honore levantes Stagna Tagi venis auri stillantia arva Lydia Pactoli rutilis spumantia arenis Eoosque Ophyres flavae tua dextra caminos Munifica exsuperat latè dona aurea fundens Iupiter auratas olim vt cecinere Poëtae Concessit Rhodiis pluvias in Palladis ortu Dicitur voti virtute potitus avari Mutasse in fulvum quicquid Mida tangeret aurum Vtraque verè in te haec impletur fabula vincit Et pluvias Iovis atque Midae tua dextera tactum Per populum variata omnem auri divitis agri Muneribus ditans plebem proceresque refusis Ergo nulla tuum poterunt oblivia nomen Condere sed memori semper celebrabere fama Sive hominum vox viva tuos depingat honores Seu lapides ligna novis insignibus ornes Queis aptata manu artificum tibi surgat imago Cui veteris cedant artisque aerisque sâ—gurae Quas vel Apellaeas aiunt animasse lituras Aut Phidiam rasisse aut sollicita arte Myronem Aut quas Pyrgoteles nitidis insculpere gemmis Aut potuit radianti effingere in aere Lysippus At tibi Pieridum nomen monumenta parabunt Marmoreis Statuis omnique perennius aere Atque immortalem ventura in secula famam Ducite lanificae fila interrupta sorores Ducite laetae IACOBO in longum sila senectae Serus ut in coelum redeat multosque per annos Felix intersit terris populoque Britanno Tum tu qui aeternâ mundum ratione gubernas Omnipotens genus generis per secula prolem AEterna imperii patrii moderamen habere Da pater proavis similes regnare nepotes Flammifero per obliqua means dum sidera curru Obscuris lucem Phoebus distinguet ab vmbris MICHAEL WALLAS THE KINGS MAIESTIE CAME to Hamilton on Moonday the xxviii of Iuly BUrst furth my Muse too long thou holds thy peace Paint furth the passions of thy new-borne joy Forbear to sing thy lovelie layes a space Leave wanton Venus and her blinded boy Raise vp thy voice and now deare Muse proclaime A greater subject and a graver theame Since our much lov'd Apollo doth appeare In pompe and pow'r busked with golden rayes More brigt heir shyning on our hemispheare Nor that great planet father of the dayes With boldnes offer at his sacred shryne These firstlings of thy weake and poore ingyne GReat IAMES whose hand a thre-fold scepter swayes By heavens exalted to so high à place Both crown'd with gold and never fading bayes Who keps three kingdoms in so still à peace Whose love cair wisdome grace high deserts Have maid thee Monarch of thy subjects harts Thogh thou by armes great empyrs may'st surprise Mak Europ thrall and over Asia reigne Yet at thy feet despysed Bellona lyes No crownes thou craves which bloodie conqueis staine Whill others aime at greatnes boght with blood Not to bee great thou stryves bot to bee
Perfumes And I my selfe wrapt in a watchet Gowne Of Reedes and Lillies on mine Head a Crowne Shall Incense to Thee burne greene Altars raise And yearly sing due Paeans to Thy Praise Ah why should Isis only see Thee shine Is not thy FORTH as well as Isis Thine Though Isis vaunt shee hath more Wealth in store Let it suffice Thy FORTH doth loue Thee more Though Shee for Beautie may compare with Seine For Swannes and Sea Nymphes with imperiall Rhene Yet in the Title may bee claim'd in Thee Nor Shee nor all the VVorld can match with mee Now when by Honour drawne thou shalt away To Her à lreadie jelous of thy Stay When in Her amourous Armes Shee doth Thee fold And dries Thy Dewie Haires with Hers of Gold Much questioning of Thy Fare much of Thy Sport Much of Thine Absence Long how e're so short And chides perhaps Thy Comming to the North Loathe not to thinke on Thy much-louing FORTH O loue these Bounds where of Thy royall Stemme More then an hundreth wore a Diademe So euer Gold and Bayes Thy Browes adorne So neuer Time may see thy Race out-worne So of Thine Owne still mayst Thou bee desir'd Of Strangers fear'd redoubted and admir'd So MEMORIE the Praise so precious Houres May character Thy Name in starrie Flowres So may Thy high Exployts at last make euen With Earth thy Empyre Glorie with the Heauen This Poëme was presented by WILLIAM DRUMMOND of Hawthorne-denne THE KINGS MAJESTIE MADE HIS ENTRIE INTO EDINBVRGH AT THE WEST PORT THE XVI DAY OF MAY. Where was deliuered in name of the Towne by M r. IOHNE HAY their Clerk deputie this speach following HOW JOYFULL YOVR MAJEsties returne gracious and dread SOVERAINE is to this your M. native I owne from that Kingdome due to your Sacred person by Royall discent the countenances and eyes of these your M. loyall Subjects speake for their harts This is that happie Day of our New-birth ever to bee retained in fresh memorie with consideration of the goodnesse of th' Almightie GOD considered with aknowledgement of the same aknowledged with admiration admired with love and loved with joy wherein our eyes behold the greatest humaine felicitie our harts could wish which is to feide vpon the Royall countenance of our true Phoenix the brigt Starre of our Northerne Firmament the Ornament of our Age wherein wee are refreshed yea revived with the heat and bright Beames of our Sunne the powerfull Adamant of our Wealth by whose removing from our Hemisphaere we were darkned deepe sorrow and feare possessing our harts without envying of your M. happines and felicitie our places of solace euer giving a newe beat to the fever of the languishing remembrance of our happinesse The verie Hilles and Groves accustomed of before to be refreshed with the dewe of your M. presence not putting on their wounted Apparrell but with pale lookes representing their miserie for the departure of their Royal King J most humblie begge pardon of your Sacred Majestie who most vnworthie and vngarnished by Arte or Nature with Rhe toricall coloures haue presumed to deliver to your sacred M formed by Nature and framed by education to the perfection of all eloquence the publike message of your M. lâ—yâ—ll subiectes heere conveened Upon the verie knees of mine hart beseeching your sacred M. that mine obedience to my Superiors command may bee a sacrifice acceptable to expiate my presumption your M. wounted clemencie may give strength and vigour to my distrustfull spirites in gracious acceptance of that which shall bee delivered and pardoning myne escapes Receiue then dread Soveraine from your M. faithfull and loyall Subjectes the Magistrats and Citizens of your H. good Towne of Edinburgh such welcome as is due from these who with thankfull harts doe acknowledge the infinite blessinges plen teoslie flowing to them from the paradise of your M. vnspotted goodnes and Vertue wishing your M. eyes might pearce into their veriâ—hartes there to behold the excessiue joye inwardlie conceived of the first messinger of your M. princelie resolution visite this your M. good Towne increassed by your M. constancie in prosequuting what was so happilie intended and nowe accomplished by your M. fortunate and safe returne which no tongue howe liberall so ever is able to expresse Who shall consider with an vnpartiall eye the continuall carefulnesse your M. hath had over vs from your tender yeeres the setled temper of your M. governament wherein the nycest eye could find no spot your selfe as the life of the Countrey as the father of the people instructing not so much by precept as by example your M. Court the mariage place of Wisedome and Godlinesse without impietie hee cannot refuse to avouch but as your M. prudencie hath wonne the pryze from all Kings and Emperours which standeth in degrie of comparison so hath your M. governament beene such that everie mans eye may bee a messinger to his minde that in your M. standeth the Quint-esseÌ„ce in ruling skill of all prosperous peaceable governament much wished by our Fore-fathers but most abundantlie praised be GOD enjoyed by vs vnder your Sacred Majestie For if wee shall in a view lay before vs the times past even since the first fundation of this Kingdome and therein consider your M. most noble progenitoures they were indeede all Princes renowned for their vertues not inferior to any Emperoures or Kinges of their time they mainteined delivered their Virgine Scepters vnconquered from age to age from the inundation of the most violent floods of conquering Sworde which ouer-whelmed the rest of the whole Earth carried the Crowns of all other Kings of this Terrestrial Globe captives vnto thraldome But farre short of your Majestie nature having placed in your sacred person alone what in everie one of them was excellent the senate-house of the Planets being as it wold seeme convened at your M. birth for decreeing oâ— all perfections in your Royall person The Heavens and Earth witnessing your Heroicall frame none influence whatsoever being able to bring the same to any higher degree If wee shall call to minde the tumultuous dayes of your M. more tender yeeres and therein your M. prudencie wisedome and constancie in Uniting the disjoynted members of this Common-wealth who will not with the Queene of Sheba confesse hee hath seene more wisedome in your Royall person than report hath brought to forraine eares There is not of any estate or age within this your M. Kingdome who hath not had particular experience of the same and as it were sensiblie felt the fruites thereof The fire of civile discorde which as a flaÌ„me had devoured vs was thereby quenched euerie man possessed his owne Vineyard in peace reaping that which hee had sowne enjoying the fruites of his owne labours Your M. great vigilancie and Godlie zeale in propagating the Gospell defacing the monuments of Idolatrie banishing that Romane and Antichristian Hierarchie and establishing of our Church repairing the ruines thereof protecting vs from foraine
invasion The rich trophees ' of your M. victories more powerfullie atchieved by your sacred wisedome deserved more worthelie by your vertue than these of the Caesars to much extolled by the ancients all ages shall recorde and euen our posteritie shall blesse the Almightie our GOD for giving to vs their Fore-fathers a King in hart vpright as DAVID wise as Salomon and godlie as Josias And who can better witnesse your M. Royal favour and beneficence then this your Good Towne of Edinburgh which being founded in the dayes of that worthie King FERGUS the first builder of this Kingdome and famous for her vnspotted fidelitie to your M. most noble progenitours was by them enriched with manie Freedomes Priviledges and Dignities which all your M. hath not onlie confirmed but also with accession of many more enlarged beautifying her also with a new erected Colledge famous for profession of all liberall Sciences So that shee justlie doeth acknowledge your M. as the author and conserver of her peace her sacred Phisition who bound vp the woundes of her distracted Common-wealth the onlie Magnes of her prosperitie and the true fountaine from whence vnder GOD all her happinesse and felicitie floweth and doeth in all humilitie record your M. Royall favours extended towards her at all rymes Wee should prooue most vngratefull if wee should passe over in silence your M. sacred wisedome in disposing of the governament of this your M. natiue Kingdome during your H. absence and placing such subalterne Magistrates officers of the Crowne within the same who haue shined as cleare Starres in this firmament keeping ever the prescript of your M. Royall commands watching for the good of your H. Subjects and squaring al their actions to your M. frame as their paterne and returning al their springes to the same fountaine from whence they themselues receiued influence of vertue being vigilant in nothing more than in procuring the good and peace of this Church and Common-wealth To approve their loyaltie to your M. and to knit vs your Highnesse Subjects in a more firme knot of obedience to your sacred authoritie Neither hath the oceane of your M. vertues contained it selfe within the precinct of this Isle What eare is so barbarous that hath not heard of the same What forraine Prince is not indebted to your sacred wisedome What reformed Church doeth not blesse your M. Birth-day and is not protected vnder the wings of your M. sacred authoritie from that Beast of Rome and his Antichristian locustes whose walles your M. by the Soveraigne wisedome wherewith the LORD hath endewed your sacred person hath battred and shaken more than did the Goths and Vandales the old frame of the same by their sworde Would GOD as your M. hath made happie beginnings in drying vp their Fuphrates laying the nakednesse of that whoore open to the view of the world and ruinating of that Lernaean Hydra so your M. dayes may be prolonged to see the accomplishment of the same All this your M. Royall Store-house of vertues perpetuall vigilancie in managing of the publicke affaires your prudencie in your actions your vertue in your life and your felicitie in all the LORD hath crowned not onelie with continuance of yoâ—r M. peaceable governament ouer vs your natiue Subjects mâ—… yeeres nor anie of your pre dicessours reignes attained vnto But also with accession of three great Kingdoms and made your name famous thorow the whole Earth aboue all the Princes of your time And therefore wee your M. most humble Subjects doe in all submission of minds acknowledge your M. not onelie for oure just and lawfull Prince but also for the first founder of the United Monarchie of this famous Isle borne for the good of the same who during the whole time of your M. most happie reigne hath so in publicke carried your selfe towards ws your subjects as if yee had been private that no man could lay any imputation to your vnspotted life yee neuer more desiring to bee aboue vs than for vs nor to bee accounted great than good joyning euer to power modestie and true pietie And as for your sacred vertue your Majestie deserveth to bee Monarch of the world So for your pietie and vnfained zeale in propagating and mainteming of the Gospell doeth of due apperteine to your M. the true titles of the most Christian and Catholicke King For all which your M. Royall favours having nothing to render but that which is due Wee your M. humble Subjectes prostrate at your M. sacred feete lay downe our Lives Goods Liberties and whatsoeuer else is most deare vnto vs and doe vow to keepe vnto your sacred M. vnspotted Loyaltie and Subjection and euer to bee readie to consecrate and sacrifice our selves for mainteinance of your Royall Person and Estate Praying th' Eternall our GOD that Peace may bee within your M. walles Prosperitie within your M. Palaces Length of Dayes to your Sacred Person One from your M. Loynes neuer wanting to sway the Scepter of these your M. Kingdomes And that Mercie may bee to your selfe and your Seede for euer Amen After the deliverie of this preceiding speach his M. made foorthward towards the great Church and there heaving heard Sermon made by the Arch-bishop of Sainct-androes came to his Palace of Holy-rude-house where at the gate of the inner court was presented ane book of verses from the Colledge of Edinburgh with this litle speach in their name made by M. Patrik Nisbet IN effusissima hâc omnis aetatis sexus ordinum gratulatione AUGUST me INVICT me MONARCHA Musasne dias tuas nutrices infami silentio obmuâ—escere Vacuos Numini sistere se nefas Quo munere SACRAT mam tuam MAIEST tem affluentissimam jugis munificentiae scaturiginem colamus Anticyram ablegandum sentias qui guttulâ Oceanum auctare faculâ Soli praelucere conetur Oceanus tamen patulo sinu emissitios suos rivulos undique in se refluentes accipit Quin ad tuam quoque Augustissimam Majestatem vnicam Musarum almam parentem benignistimam fautricem acerrimam promotâ—icem quicquid pectoribus nostris Castalii humoris infudisti gratâ reciprocatione redundare debeat Si enim monitu exactissimi munificentiae finitoris Munera accipientium ingentis studiis prudenter accommodanda sunt Quid Illustrissimae tuae Majestati peritissimae Carminum Aâ—tifici imò coÌ„mentitio illo Apolline multò Vatibus praesentiori Deo Carminibus gratius acceptius opportuniusve offerre Philomusi queant Haec itaque REX Ter-maxime ratissimum pictatis prudentiae mansuetudinis felicitatis exemplar haec inquam Poëmatia quae Serenissimae tuae Majestati Academia EDINBURGENA devotissimi sui obsequiâ— flammatissimi studii humillin ae venerationis pignora exhibet placidissimo illo tuo aspectu dignare quo tot millium corda hodierno die laetitiâ incredibili indelebili perfudisti Quodque unicùm tenuitaâ—i nostrae praestabile officium superest DEUM Opt. Max. obstinatissimis precibus fatigabimus Sacram tuam Majestatem fidissimo
vires ut nulla supersint Vulner is accepti monumenta en adspice iniquo Res privatagemens sub pondere fessa laborat Iam nunc praecipiti meditatur moleruinam Publicares onerique impar implorat alumni Regis opem tibi nutantem jam jamque labantem Sisterefas lapsarum in te inclinata recumbit Spes rerum fine te ipsa Salus conferre salutem Si velit haud valeat vietae effoetaeque senectae Ne pigeat Rex magne piis velle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Officiis tacito haec omnes eadem ore precantes Supplicibus proni votis populusque Patresque Exposcunt per si qua mei te cura remordet Si quando longis singultibus ilia ducens Te suspiravi te propter Numina supplex Thuricremis si quando focis venerata salutis Acceptae monumenta Deo si munera digna Suspendive tholo aut sacra ad fastigia fixi Si quando meritos templis te propter honores Solliciti indixere patres damnataque voti Tympana si manibus terram pede praepete pernix Pulsans votivâ plebs solvit dona tabellâ Ah humiles ne sperne animas vilia quamvis Nomina da monumentum abiens pignus amici Ferre animi lapsisque velis succurrere rebus Sic olim alitibus tibi det proavita secundis Regna reposcenti Rhodano dare jura subacto Armorum bellique potens sic Itala pubes Ad septem-geminis surgentem collibus vrbem Per saltus monstrare viam salebrosa locorum Gestiat Eridanus refluo tibi tor queat vndas Gurgite retrogradas praerupta cacumina pronae Submittant Alpes sic rupto claustra recludat Objice Penninus sic cum fatalibus armis Sacriligae in superos luiturum opprobria linguae Tarpeiâ de rupe Iovem detruseris ipsa Roma catenatas tibi porrigat obvia palmas Caesareosque vltro fasceis trabeamque Quirini Sic simulac te huc fata vocant tua signa sequuti Quique Mosam Rhenumque bibunt quosque Albula Ister Mittit Hyperboreis mavortia pectora ab oris Ft conjurati veniant ad classica Dani Sic tibi deliciaeque patris spesque altera regni CAROLUS assistat lateri comes ipse futurus Magnis major avis sic fas est credere aviti Ignoscant manes te quoque CAROLE magne Major qui latios fasceis clavamque trabalem Primus ad Arctoum traduxti à Tybride Rhenum Sic satur annorum Pylios cum excesseris annos Gloria terrarum quondam decus addite turmis Coelicolûm praegrande decus natalibus vndis Stellamices qualis Cynosura cacumine mundi Quâ duce nocturno credit se navita Ponto Gulielmus Wallas THE KINGS MAIESTIE CAME TO PERTH otherwayes called Sainct-Iohnes-towne On Saturday the fyft of Iuly Where at his Maiesties entrie this subsequent speach was deliuered in name of the Towne by Iohne Stewart marchant burgesse of the said Burgh THE ANCIENT NAtion of the SCOTS descended of the victorious Greeks and learned AEgyptians RIGHT HIGH and MIGHTIE PRINCE was in the chyldhood of her rysing Empyre greatlie oblished to the goodnesse of GOD. For what no nation may say the kingdome of SCOTLAND notwithstanding the whole nations about like the lines of a mariners compasse direct from the circumference to the Center had conspyred her ouerthrow yet to her infinite glorie hath shee continued these two thousand and thrittie yeeres bypast vnder the governement of a hundreth and seaven Kings all lineallie sprung from FERGUS the first free and vntributarie to any forraine Prince vnto this day The Romanes by Scapula and Caius threatned the SCOTS with thraldom and Hadrian reared à mightie Wall for saiftie of his Province in south-Britane but the one found before him King GALDUS forcing the remaines of his vnslaine armie vpon their knees with their hands to heaven to beg their lyfes and the other he might heare tell of FERGUS the second not onlie to haue payed home to the outmost farthing Maximianus bloodshed here with the sacking of Rome there but lyke-wayes to haue leveld his rampeir with the low earth The Danes from the north renewed eight diverse battels vpon the SCOTS but the heaps of their witherd bones left in diverse corners of this Countrye lyke the tale Cedars cut doune in mont Libanus may shew what mightie Iosuaes destroying such sonnes of Anak haue sweyed this Kingdomes Scepter heirtofore The Irish on the west dreamed of ane easie conquest here and even so the Picts on the east praesumed to enlarge their bounds after king ALPINS death but the one found the worth of king GREGORIES valor and the other felt the weght of king KENNETHS wreath sweeping them for their crueltie with the besome of destruction Nor was the river of the Lords bountie to this people MOST CHRISTIAN MONARCH dryed vp in this one benefite for GOD having determined fiftie yeeres ago to deliver his Kirk in this Kingdome from the palpable darknes of Papisticall errors wherein shee had lyen miserablie plunged seaven hundreth and fiftie yeeres to the trew knowledge of GOD wherein of before from the midst of CHRISTS first centurie at which tyme the candlestick of the gospell was conveyed to this cuntrie shee had continewed with puritie full eight hundreth yeeres Even when God had determined to vindicat his Kirk here from Antichrist to her ancient puritie and bewtie Then even then of his gracious goodnes Hee ordained your M. our gracious Soveraine to be borne And the heavens appointing for your most happie birth that remarkable poynt of tyme seme to haue poynted out vnto the world to what end yee was borne even to be that which in no small measure your M. hes prooved alreadie to wit à sheild of the trew word preached â defender of the trew faith professed à second Constantine to support Sions second daughter the Lyon comming out of the forrest to deplume the Eagle to darken the Starr in the Croscents bosome and to strype the strumpet of Rome stark naked that of à two horned Lambe shee may appeare to the world as shee is indeed à ten horned Devill And why except for this hes the Almightie endowed you with such rare and incomparable gifts al 's weal of bodye as of mynd for not onlie is your M. for princelie vertue repute more liberall than Alexander because more discreit more just than Trajan because more wyse and more gracious than Caesar because more myld but also in spirituall disposition à faithfull David for your burning zeal to Gods glorie yea and more than David because more continent than hee ane other Salomon for your heavenlie wisedome in governing Gods Kirk and more than Salomon also because more constant than hee and ane vpright Iosia for your great affection to the puritie of GODS worship and more than Iosia lykwayes because more considerat than hee And is it not for these great things that the Almightie hes made your M. to parallel the thrie Gentile Nobles in heroicall vertue to aequall