Great Brittaines Generall Ioyes Londons Glorious Triumphes. Dedicated to the Immortall memorie of the ioyfull Mariage of the two famous and illustrious Princes, Fredericke and Elizabeth. Celebrated the 14. of Februarie, being S. Valentines day. With the Instalment of the sayd potent Prince Fredericke at Windsore, the 7. of Februarie aforesaid [by Anthony Nixon] |
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Hymens Holiday,
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Hymens Holiday,
or the Mariage day of the two famous Princes, being S. Valentines day.
Descend you sicred Daughters of King Ioue,
Apollo's louely Darlings, leaue your Mount,
And those delightsome sweet Castalian Springs,
That warble with their siluer winding waues,
Making soft Musicke in their gentle glide.
Clio, thou sagest of the sisters Nine,
Conduct thy lustie company to Court,
Great Brittains Court, on earth an earthly Heauen:
There take suruey of saire Elizabeth,
And in her prayse, tune your heroicke Songs:
Write, write you Chronicles of Time and Fame,
That kepee remembrance golden Register;
And recommende to Times eternitie
Her honours height, and wonders of her Age:
Wonders of her, that reasons reach transcend,
Such wonders as haue set the world at gaze:
Elizabeth, whose worth, all English hearts
Admire at home, and so doe forraigne parts.
Clio, proclaime with golden Trumpe, and Pen,
This happy VVedding-day, this Nuptiall-day,
Ore Europs bounds take wing, and make thy flight
Through melting Ayre, from wher's the rising Sunne
Gallops the Zodiack, in his fiery VVayne,
Euen to the brinke where I hetis in her Bower,
Receaues the weary Bridegroome of the Sea,
Beyond Graund CAYRE by Nilus lus slymy bankes,
Ouer the wilde and sandy Affricke Playnes,
Along the frozen Shoare of I anais,
VVhose Icye crust Apollo can not thaw:
Euen there, and round about this earthly Ball,
Proclayme the daies of Brittains happynesse,
The dayes of Peace and Victory proclaime,
And let this gladsome Nuptiall day be first,
This Wedding day (beginning of much blisse)
Set downe this day in Characters of Gold,
And marke it with a Stone as white as milke:
This cheerefull Wedding day weare Eglantine,
And wreaths of Roses redde and white put on
In honour of this day, you louely Nymphes:
And Pæans sing, your sweet melodious songs,
Along the chaulky Clifts of Albion;
Lead all Great Brittaynes Shepheards in a daunce,
Ore Hill and Dale, and Downes, and Daisey plottes:
And be this day Great Brittaynes Holy-day,
That thus vnites the royall hearts and hands
Of these two Princes, in Loues holy bandes;
Bee multiplide the number of their yeeres,
Their yeeres, that may prolong our golden daies,
Wherein we still in safetie may abide,
And they may raigne and rule in Honours height:
So may they long, and euer may they so,
Vntoucht of traytrous hand, and tretcherous foe.
Apollo's louely Darlings, leaue your Mount,
And those delightsome sweet Castalian Springs,
That warble with their siluer winding waues,
Making soft Musicke in their gentle glide.
Clio, thou sagest of the sisters Nine,
Conduct thy lustie company to Court,
Great Brittains Court, on earth an earthly Heauen:
There take suruey of saire Elizabeth,
And in her prayse, tune your heroicke Songs:
Write, write you Chronicles of Time and Fame,
That kepee remembrance golden Register;
And recommende to Times eternitie
Her honours height, and wonders of her Age:
Wonders of her, that reasons reach transcend,
Such wonders as haue set the world at gaze:
Admire at home, and so doe forraigne parts.
Clio, proclaime with golden Trumpe, and Pen,
This happy VVedding-day, this Nuptiall-day,
Ore Europs bounds take wing, and make thy flight
Through melting Ayre, from wher's the rising Sunne
Gallops the Zodiack, in his fiery VVayne,
Euen to the brinke where I hetis in her Bower,
Receaues the weary Bridegroome of the Sea,
Beyond Graund CAYRE by Nilus lus slymy bankes,
Ouer the wilde and sandy Affricke Playnes,
Along the frozen Shoare of I anais,
VVhose Icye crust Apollo can not thaw:
Euen there, and round about this earthly Ball,
Proclayme the daies of Brittains happynesse,
The dayes of Peace and Victory proclaime,
And let this gladsome Nuptiall day be first,
This Wedding day (beginning of much blisse)
Set downe this day in Characters of Gold,
And marke it with a Stone as white as milke:
This cheerefull Wedding day weare Eglantine,
And wreaths of Roses redde and white put on
In honour of this day, you louely Nymphes:
And Pæans sing, your sweet melodious songs,
Along the chaulky Clifts of Albion;
Lead all Great Brittaynes Shepheards in a daunce,
Ore Hill and Dale, and Downes, and Daisey plottes:
And be this day Great Brittaynes Holy-day,
That thus vnites the royall hearts and hands
Of these two Princes, in Loues holy bandes;
Bee multiplide the number of their yeeres,
Their yeeres, that may prolong our golden daies,
And they may raigne and rule in Honours height:
So may they long, and euer may they so,
Vntoucht of traytrous hand, and tretcherous foe.
This Nuptiall day being celebrated thus,
Is to Great Brittaine, Hymens Holiday:
The day of ioy, the day of iollitie,
That young and old, and all doe celebrate:
Muses and Graces, Gods and Goddesses,
Adorne, adore, and celebrate this day:
The meanest with the mightiest may in this,
Expresse his loue, for loyaltie alike,
Blazons affections force in Lord and Lowne,
In honour of this VVedding day behold,
How young and old, and high and low reioyce.
England hath put a face of gladnesse on;
And Court and Countrie caroll both their prayse,
And in their honour, tune a thousand Layes.
Behold, in honour of this happy day,
What Poems and triumphals London singes:
What holy Hymnes and sacrifice of thankes,
Englands Metropolis as Incense sondes;
And in the sound of Cymbals, Trumps, and Shalmes,
In honour of Eliza and great Fredericks name,
(To whom his life he owes, and offers vp)
VVith songes of ioy for this long lookt-for day;
This Nuptiall day, wherein we all enioy
Such perfect comfort throughout Brutes new Troy.
Is to Great Brittaine, Hymens Holiday:
The day of ioy, the day of iollitie,
That young and old, and all doe celebrate:
Muses and Graces, Gods and Goddesses,
Adorne, adore, and celebrate this day:
The meanest with the mightiest may in this,
Expresse his loue, for loyaltie alike,
Blazons affections force in Lord and Lowne,
In honour of this VVedding day behold,
How young and old, and high and low reioyce.
England hath put a face of gladnesse on;
And Court and Countrie caroll both their prayse,
And in their honour, tune a thousand Layes.
Behold, in honour of this happy day,
What Poems and triumphals London singes:
What holy Hymnes and sacrifice of thankes,
Englands Metropolis as Incense sondes;
And in the sound of Cymbals, Trumps, and Shalmes,
In honour of Eliza and great Fredericks name,
(To whom his life he owes, and offers vp)
VVith songes of ioy for this long lookt-for day;
This Nuptiall day, wherein we all enioy
Such perfect comfort throughout Brutes new Troy.
VVith vs in simpathy of sweete accord,
All English Subiectes ioyne, and hearts and hands,
Of prayses and of hearty prayers send
Thankes-giuing for the blessings and the grace,
The gracious blessinges on this day powr'd downe
This blessed day, wherein these blessed Princes,
(The peoples peace, their Countries happy fate)
Are both conioynd in Matrimoniall state.
All English Subiectes ioyne, and hearts and hands,
Of prayses and of hearty prayers send
Thankes-giuing for the blessings and the grace,
The gracious blessinges on this day powr'd downe
This blessed day, wherein these blessed Princes,
(The peoples peace, their Countries happy fate)
Are both conioynd in Matrimoniall state.
And in this generall plaudite and applause,
And celebration of this ioyfull day,
VVherein pale Enuie, iustly vanquished,
Giues way vnto the vertues of these Princes,
And wounded with remembrance of their names,
Hath taken wing, and made amaine from hence,
To murmure that he durst not here disgorge,
And breath his discontentments ouer Sea,
Among those gracelesse fugitiues, that thirst
For nothing more, then dangerous change of times,
And alteration of a setled State.
That rabble of vnnaturall Englishmen,
VVhose base reuolt (infamous through the world)
Makes them foule Architectes of vilde practises
That end in their dishonour and their death,
Those bloody stratagems and trayter ous traynes,
That shall be cruelly layde vnto their liues,
(Precious in sight of Heauen, and deare to vs)
By these base Truth-falne run-awayes.
VVee pray that Iacobs God may still preserue
These Princes, euen twixt bridge and waters brinke,
And saue their sacred persons in the fall,
From Pharaos Rod, and from the Sword of Saul:
For this great Triumph that true Subiectes make
Is likt of all, but Enemies of the Truth,
Enemies to them that serue the liuing Lord,
And put in him their trust and confidence:
And this they well haue showne in gorgeous Showes,
And in all other fitt accuttrements,
Prepar'd to doe their duty and deuoyre,
VVherein they did so well demeane them selues:
So well, so willingly to please these Princes,
That (breathles) yet they would haue been content
In this dayes honour, yeeres of dayes t'haue spent.
And celebration of this ioyfull day,
VVherein pale Enuie, iustly vanquished,
Giues way vnto the vertues of these Princes,
And wounded with remembrance of their names,
Hath taken wing, and made amaine from hence,
To murmure that he durst not here disgorge,
And breath his discontentments ouer Sea,
Among those gracelesse fugitiues, that thirst
For nothing more, then dangerous change of times,
And alteration of a setled State.
That rabble of vnnaturall Englishmen,
VVhose base reuolt (infamous through the world)
Makes them foule Architectes of vilde practises
That end in their dishonour and their death,
Those bloody stratagems and trayter ous traynes,
That shall be cruelly layde vnto their liues,
(Precious in sight of Heauen, and deare to vs)
By these base Truth-falne run-awayes.
VVee pray that Iacobs God may still preserue
These Princes, euen twixt bridge and waters brinke,
And saue their sacred persons in the fall,
For this great Triumph that true Subiectes make
Is likt of all, but Enemies of the Truth,
Enemies to them that serue the liuing Lord,
And put in him their trust and confidence:
And this they well haue showne in gorgeous Showes,
And in all other fitt accuttrements,
Prepar'd to doe their duty and deuoyre,
VVherein they did so well demeane them selues:
So well, so willingly to please these Princes,
That (breathles) yet they would haue been content
In this dayes honour, yeeres of dayes t'haue spent.
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