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The Kings being entred the inner Court; aboue, ouer the porch, sate the three Howers, vpon clouds, as at the ports of Heauen; crown'd with seuerall flowers; of which, one bore a Sunne-diall; the other, a Clock; the third, an Hower-glasse; signifying as by their names, Law, Iustice, and Peace. And for those faculties chosen to gratulate their comming with this speech.

Enter, ô long'd for Princes, blesse these bowers,
And vs, the three, by you made happie, Howers:
We that include all Time, yet neuer knew
Minute like this, or obiect like to you.
Two Kings, the worlds prime honors, whose accesse
Shewes eithers greatnesse, yet makes neither lesse:
Vouchsafe your thousand welcomes in this shewer;
The Master vowes, not Sybill's leaues were truer.


Express'd to the King of Denmarke thus.
Qui colit ædeis, ingentia gaudia adumbrans,
Cernendo Reges pace coïre pares,
Nos tempestiuas, ad limina, collocat Horas,
Quòd bona sub nobis omnia proueniant.
Vnum ad lætitiæ cumulum triflatur abesse,
Quòd nequeat signis latitiam exprimere.
Sed, quia res solùm ingentes, hâc parte laborant
Vtcunque expressam credidit esse satis.
At, quod non potuit Dominus, suppleuit abunde
Frondoso tellus munere fact a loquax.
Eccos quàm grati veniant quos terra salutat!
Verior his folijs nulla Sybilla fuit.

The Inscriptions on the walls were, DATE VENIAM SVBITIS. DEBENTVR QVÆ SVNT QVÆQ; FVTVRA.