The ioyfvll receyuing of the Queens most excellent Maiestie into hir Highnesse Citie of Norvvich: The thing done in the time of hir abode there: and the Dolor of the citie at hir departure. Wherein are set downe diuers orations in Latine, pronounced to hir Highnesse by Sir Robert Wood Knight, now maior of the same citie, and others: and certaine also deliuered to hir Maiestie in vvriting: euery of the[m] turned into English [by Bernard Garter] |
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Whom Fame resounds with thundring Trump, which rends the ratling skeis,And pierceth to the hautie heauens, and thence descending flies
Through flickering ayre: and so conioines the Sea and shoare togither,
In admiration of thy grace, good Queene thart welcome hither,
More welcome than Terpsicore, was to the town of Troy.
Sea-faring men by Gemini conceiue not halfe my ioy:
Strong Hercules to Theseus was neuer such delight
Nor Nisus to Euriclus as I haue in this sight,
Penelope did neuer thirst Vlisses more to see
Than I poore Norwich hungred haue to gaine the sight of thee.
The Lord of Lordes I humbly pray, to blisse thy noble grace
VVith Næstors life, with Sibilles helth, with Cræsus stock and store,
VVith all good giftes of Salomon, and twice as many more.
VVhat should I say? thou art my ioy next God, I haue none other,
My princesse and my peerlesse Queene, my louing nurse and mother.
My goods and lands, my hands and hart, my limbes and life are thine,
VVhat is mine owne in right or thought, to thee I do resigne.
Graunt then (oh gracious soueraigne Queene) this only my request,
That that which shal be done in me, be construed to the best.
And take in part my slender shewes, wherin my whole pretence
Is for to please you Maiestie, and end without offence.
So shall I clap my hands for ioy, and hold my selfe as rich
As if I had the golde of Inde, and double twice as much.
FINIS.
B. G.
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