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mercy_n	great_a	lord_n	praise_n	6,095	5	8.0007	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73300	The triumphs of fame and honour, or, The noble accomplish'd solemnity, full of cost, art and state, at the inauguration and establishment of the true worthy and right nobly minded Robert Parkhurst, into the right honourable office of Lord Maior of London the particularities of every invention in all the pageants, shewes and triumphs both by water and land, are here following fully set downe, being all performed by loves, liberall costs, and charges of the right worshipfull and worthy Brother-hood of the Cloth-workers the 29 of October 1634 / written by Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1634 (1634)	STC 23808; ESTC S5206	8,852	44

THE TRIVMPHS OF FAME and HONOVR OR THE NOBLE ACcomplish'd solemnity full of Cost Art and state at the Inauguration and Establishment of the true worthy and right nobly minded ROBERT PARKHVRST into the Right Honourable office of Lord Maior of LONDON The particularities of every Invention in all the Pageants Shewes and Triumphs both by Water and Land are here following fully set downe being all performed by the Loves Liberall Costs and charges of the Right Worshipfull and worthy Brother-hood of the Cloth-workers the 29 of October 1634. Written by Iohn Taylor ¶ Imprinted at London 1634. TO THE MOST WELCOME AND expected Pattern and Patron of Vertue and Goodnesse the hopefull deserver of all the Costs and Honours which the Noble Fellowship and Brother-hood of Clothworkers and ample Love of the whole City in full and generous Bounty bestow upon him the Right Honourable and Judicious ROBERT PARKHVRST Lord Major of the famous City of London RIght Honourable Patron to your state In duty I these Triumphs dedicate Wherein your Worthy Brother-hood Approves Greatnesse and goodnes of their minds and loves Their true affections and their liberall charge They have most bountifull exprest at large And London in these Triumphs is renownd Above all cities in the worlds wide Round For no Kings Deputy or Magistrate Is with such pompous state inaugurate As Londons Mayor is which most plainly showes The Kings illustrious greatnesse whence it flowes To whom then should my dedication run But unto you for whom these things were done Your power is Londons watch-towre to espie Dangers far off and perills that are nigh Your foresight must see much and it is plaine Millions of eyes will looke on you againe For envy and detraction pries and stares T' assault true honour and t'intrap in snares All that is good for it is manifest That envie alwaies feeds upon the best This citie the Kings Chamber must be kept Cleane for his use from foule pollution swept And sure that power that hath you thus advanc'd To be thus honour'd lov'd and countenanc'd Will ever be your portion and content And governe you in this your government That you at helme a steddy course may steare Twixt Justice and blest Mercy many a yeare Especially in this your greatest state Let Hospitality still keepe your Gate And Liberality with welcome stand To greet men with a free and open hand Then Muses Graces Arts the praise shall sing Of you my Lord Lieutenant to my King THE TRIVMPHS OF FAME AND HONOUR T The first shew that is to be presented on the water is a vessell like a Boat or Barge adorned with the armes and Impresses of the honourable Citie and Company with seeming properties of being loaden with Packs dryfats and divers other commodities that marchants and others that are free of the Company of Cloth-workers doe receive from foreigne parts by sea this Barge attends the Lord Mayor and meets him about Pauls wharfe or attends further up the River Thetis the Goddesse of the sea and Thames or Thamisis being one of her fairest daughters sitting in the head of the Boate Thetis being habitimented in a mantle of sea-Greene with a corronet of shels of divers sorts of sea-fish on her head with a great whelk-fish in her hand with adornments of strange fishes and other significant representations Thamisis being habited in a white or silver coloured Robe having on her head a Chaplet of green Reeds Flowers and Rushes and about her feet deck'd with Sedge Bulrushes and Flaggs at which presentment Thetis speaks this following speech Know worthy Troop that I great Thetis am Who hearing of these Triumphs hither came From th' Azure court of my most deepe Abysse To grace my fairest daughter Thamisis I every twelve houres by this Child of mine Do send you silks and velvets oyle and wine Gold silver Jewels fish salt sundry spices Fine and course linnen druggs of divers prices What every Realme or climate can produce I see it safe transported for your use Thus from the bosome of the Deepe my floods By Thames doe every Tyde send up your goods For which this matchlesse well deserving River Your Cloth doth backe againe to me deliver With other riches which I o're the Sea Unto my other daughters doe convay For your commodities I 'le ever flow Unto Danubius Ister Rhine and Poe To Maze Seine Volga Ems Elve and Tanales To Tygris Nilus Ganges Euphrates To Tyber Jordan Xanthus Jndus Tagus Past Asphaltites or Blacke Mortuus Lacus As far as Sol or Cynthia spread their beames As far as Oceanus sends his streames So far will I your servant ever be In any thing you 'l deigne to put on me And humble thanks faire Thames and I doe render To you who of her well-fare are so tender Who with great cost and care doe lend your hands To cleare your servant Thames from shelves and sands Go on and cleanse her as you have begun And she shall doe for you as she hath done We are assur'd that Heaven will ever blesse Your stores who doe her injuries redresse Thetis and Thames their services shall show To you as long as they doe ebb and flow Thus with our humble dutious bending downe Long may this Citie flourish with renowne Then the Rowers consisting of foure in number being two Saylours two watermen being ouer-joyed pike their oares and every of them drinks his Kan as a health tossing them up and presently falling into a Rugged friskin daunce returne to Pauls wharfe and landing the said Barge she is carried as the formost Pageant in the shew through the Citie The second is a Pageant representing the figures of Time and Mercury Time being habited in a blew roabe with his Sithe in his hand which do wait and attend the Lord Mayor in Paules Chuch-yard The speakers being Mounted on two Griphons the Supporters of the Cloth-workers Armes which at the approach of my Lord Mercury upon one of the Griphons with his Caducens or charming rod in his hand with wings on his head to signifie quicknesse of Invention Acutenesse of wit and Volubility of tongue with Eloquence of speech He hath also wings on his feet to signifie his swiftnesse as Messenger to the Gods Time speakes as followeth The Speech of Time Almost 500 daies beheld have I The Triumphs of Great Londons Mayoralty And sure old Time with Joy doth truely say He n're was better pleas'd than at this day Not that I thinke a temporizing Lord Or Pleaser of the Time shall weild the sword But as your Honourable Predecessors Have mended Time by punishing Trangressors So Time hopes that th' addition of your yeare Will make him more Illustrate pure and cleare For of all fading things 't is manifest As Time is us'd hee 's either worst or best All those that rightly have their Honours won Have us'd Time well as you my Lord have done This Honour was ordaind you from your youth You ever lov'd my loveliest daughter TRVTH And she hath rais'd