depressed, and unfurnished of all means to hurt. The fourth attendant is,

EUDAIMONIA,

or Felicity, varied on the second hand, and apparelled richly in an embroidered robe, und mantle: a fair golden tress. In her right hand a Caduceus, the note of peaceful wisdom: in her left, a Cornucopia filled only with flowers, as a sign of flourishing blessedness; and crowned with a garland of the same. At her feet, DYSPRAGIA,

or Unhappiness, a woman bare-headed, her neck, arms, breast, and feet naked, her look hollow and pale; she holds a Cornucopiæ turned downward, with all the flowers fallen out and scattered: upon her sits a raven, as the augury of ill fortune: and the soul was

REDEUNT SATURNIA REGNA,

out of Virgil, to shew that now those golden with us so advanced, Rest received, Liberty retimes were returned again, wherein Peace was stored, Safety assured, and all blessedness appearing in every of these virtues, her particular triumph over her opposite evil. This is the dumb argument of the frame, and illustrated with this verse of Virgil, written in the under frieze,

The Genius we attired before: to the Flamen we appoint this habit. A long crimson robe to witness his nobility, his tippet and sleeves white, as reflecting on purity in his religion, a rich mantle of gold with a train to express the dignity of his function. Upon his head a hat of delicate wool," whose top ended in a cone, and was thence called apex, according to that of Lucan, lib. 1,

Attollensque apicem generoso vertice flamen. This apex was covered with a fine net of yarn,8 which they named apiculum, and was sustained with a bowed twig of pomegranate tree; 9 it was also in the hot time of summer to be bound with ribands, and thrown behind them, as Scal

4 Eclog. v.

5 En. 1. 11.

One of the three Flamines that, as some think, Numa Pompilius first instituted; but we rather, with Varro, take him of Romulus's institution, whereof there were only two, always created out of the nobility, and did perform the rites he and Dialis: to whom he was next in dignity. He was to Mars, who was thought the father of Romulus. potius velamenta, flammeum dicebatur, unde flamines dicti.

7 Scaliger in conject. in Var. saith, Totus pileus, vel

8 To this looks that other conjecture of Varro, lib. 4. de lingua Latina: Flamines quod licio in capitevelati erant semper, ac caput cinctum habebant filo, flamines dicti.

Which in their attire was called Stroppus, in their wives' Inarculum.

GENIUS.

Stay, what art thou, that in this strange attire, Dar'st kindle stranger and unhallow'd fire Upon this altar?

FLAMEN.

Rather what art thou

That dar'st so rudely interrupt my vow? My habit speaks my name.

GENIUS.

A Flamen?

FLAMEN.

And Martialis call'd.2

GENIUS.

I so did guess

Yes,

By my short view; but whence didst thou ascend
Hither or how? or to what mystic end?
FLAMEN.

The noise, and present tumult of this day,
Roused me from sleep, and silence, where I lay
Obscured from light; which when I wak'd to see,
I wondering thought what this great pomp might
When, looking in my kalendar, I found [be.
'The Ides of March 3 were enter'd, and I bound
With these, to celebrate the genial feast
Of Anna styled Perenna, Mars's guest,5
Who, in this month of his, is yearly call'd
To banquet at his altars; and install'd
A goddess with him since she fills the year,
And knits the oblique scarf that girts the
sphere.

Whilst four-faced Janus turns his vernal look

1 Scal. ibid. in con. Ponè enim regerebant apicem, ne gravis esset summis æstatis caloribus. Amentis enim, quæ offendices dicebantur sub mentum abductis, religabant; ut cum vellent, regererent, et ponè pendere permitterent.

2 Of Mars, whose rites (as we have touch'd before) this Flamen did specially celebrate. With us the fifteenth of March, which was the present day of this triumph: and on which the great feast of Anna Perenna (among the Romans) was yearly, and with such solemnity remembered. Ovid. Fast. 3,

Idibus est, Annæ festum geniale Perennæ,
Haud procul à ripis, &c.

4 Who this Anna should be (with the Romans themselves) hath been no trifling controversy. Some have thought her fabulously the sister of Dido, some a nymph of Numicius, some Io, some Themis. Others an old woman of Bovilla, that fed the seditious multitude in Monte Sacro, with wafers, and fine cakes, in time of their penury to whom, afterwards (in memory of the benefit) their peace being made with the nobles, they ordained this feast. Yet they that have thought nearest, have missed ail these, and directly imagined her the moon: and that she was called ANNA, Quia mensibus impleat annum, Ovid. b. To which the vow that they used in her rites, somewhat confirmingly alludes, which was, ut Annare, et Perenuare commode liceret. Macr. Sat. lib. 1. cap. 12.

So Ovid, ibid. Fast. makes Mars speaking to her,
Mense meo coleris, junxi mea tempora tecum.

Nuper erat dea facta, &c. Ibid.

Where is understood the meeting of the zodiac in March, the month wherein she is celebrated.

That face wherewith he beholds the spring.

GENIUS.

Sure thou still dost dream,
And both thy tongue, and thought rides on the
Of phantasy: behold here he nor she, [stream
Have any altar, fane, or deity.
[view
Stoop; read but this inscription: and then
To whom the place is consecrate.
'Tis true
That this is Janus' temple, and that now
He turns upon the year his freshest brow;
That this is Mars's month; and these the Ides,
Wherein his Anne was honor'd; both the tides,
Titles, and place, we know: but these dead
rites

Are long since buried; and new power excites
More high and hearty flames. Lo, there is he,
Who brings with him a greater Anne than she : 1o
Whose strong and potent virtues have defaced 11
Stern Mars's statues, and upon them placed
His, and the world's best blessings: this hath
brought

Sweet peace to sit in that bright state she ought
Unbloody, or untroubled; hath forced hence
All tumults, fears, or other dark potents [set
That might invade weak minds; hath made men
Once more the face of welcome liberty:
And doth in all his present acts restore
That first pure world, made of the better ore.
Now innocence shall cease to be the spoil
Of ravenous greatness, or to steep the soil
Of rased peasantry with tears and blood;
No more shall rich men, for their little good,
Suspect to be made guilty; or vile spics
Enjoy the lust of their so murdering eyes:
Men shall put off their iron minds, and hearts;
The time forget his old malicious arts
With this new minute; and no print remain
Of what was thought the former age's stain.
Back, Flamen, with thy superstitious fumes,
And cense not here; thy ignorance presumes
Too much in acting any ethnic rite

In this translated temple: here no wight
To sacrifice, save my devotion, comes, [gums,
That brings, instead of those thy masculine
My city's heart; which shall for ever burn
Upon this altar, and no time shall turn
The same to ashes: here I fix it fast,
Flame bright, flame high, and may it ever last.
Whilst I, before the figure of thy peace,
Still tend the fire; and give it quick increase
With prayers, wishes, vows; whereof be these

Written upon the altar, for which we refer you to col. 1 of this page. king MARTE MAJORI. 10 The queen: to which in our inscription we spake to the

of war and peace: of war, when it is open; of peace, when 11 The temple of Janus we apprehend to be both the house it is shut and that there, each over the other is interchangeably placed, to the vicissitude of times..

actively, but the world's passively. 12 Which are peace, rest, liberty, safety, &c. and were his

13 Somewhat a strange epithet in our tongue, but proper to the thing: for they were only masculine odors, which were offered to the altars, Virg. Ecl. 8. Verbenasque adole pingueis, et mascula thura. And Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 12. cap. 14 speaking of these, saith, Quod ex rotunditate gutta pependit, masculum vocamus, cum alias non ferè mas vocetur, ubi non sit fœmina: religioni tributum ne sexus alter usurparetur. Masculum aliqui putant a specie testium dictum. See him also lib. 34. cap. 11. And Arnob. lib. 7. advers. gept Non si mille tu pondera masculi thuris incendas, &c

The least, and weakest that no age may leese
The memory of this so rich a day;
But rather that it henceforth yearly may
Begin our spring, and with our spring the prime,
And first account of years, of months,' of time;
And may these Ides as fortunate appear
To thee, as they to Caesar fatal were.3

Be all thy thoughts born perfect, and thy hopes
In their events still crown'd beyond their scopes.
Let not wide heav'n that secret blessing know
To give, which she on thee will not bestow.
Blind Fortune be thy slave; and may her store,
The less thou seek'st it, follow thee the more.
Much more I would: but see, these brazen gates
Make haste to close, as urged by thy fates.
Here ends my city's office, here it breaks :
Yet with my tongue, and this pure heart, she
speaks

A short farewell: and lower than thy feet,
With fervent thanks, thy royal pains doth greet.
Pardon, if my abruptness breed disease:

66

He merits not to offend, that hastes to please."

OVER THE ALTAR WAS WRITTEN THIS INSCRIPTION: BRITANNIARUM. IMP. PACIS. VINDICI. MARTE. MAJORI. P. P. F. S. AUGUSTO. NOVO. GENTIUM. CONJUNCTARUM. NUMINI. TUTELARI.

D. A.

CONSERVATRICI. ANNE. IPSE. PERENNÆ.

DEABUSQUE. UNIVERSIS. OPTATIORI. SUI. FOR

TUNATISSIMI. THALAMI. SOCIEÆ. ET CONSORTI. PULCHERRIMÆ. AUGUSTISSIMÆ. ET

H. F. P.

FILIO. SUO. NOBILISSIMO. OB. ADVENTUM. AD. URBEM. HANC. SUAM. EXPECTATISSIMUM. GRATISSIMUM. CELEBRATISSIMUM. CUJUS. NON. RADII. SED. 8OLES. POTIUS. FUNESTIS

magnificent pyramids of seventy foot in height, on which was drawn his majesty's several pedigrees Eng. and Scot. To which body (being framed before) we were to apt our soul. And finding that one of these seven lights, Electra, is rarely or not at all to be seen, as Ovid. lib. 4. Fast. affirmeth

Pleiades incipient humeros relevare paternos; Quæ septem dici, sex tamen esse solent. And by and by after,

Sive quod Electra Troja spectare ruinas
Non tulit; ante oculos opposuitque manum.
And Festus Avien.4

Fama vetus septem memorat genitore creatas
Longævo sex se rutila inter sidera tantum
Sustollunt, &c.

And beneath,

Cerni sex solas carmine Mynthes Asserit: Electram cælo abscessisse profundo, &c. We ventured to follow this authority, and made her the speaker: presenting her hanging in the air, in figure of a comet; according to Anonymous. Electra non sustinens videre casum pronepotum fugerit; unde et illam dissolutis crinibus propter luctum ire asserunt, et propter comas quidam Cometen appellant.

THE SPEECH. ELECTRA.

The long laments I spent for ruin'd Troy,

NARUNT.

S. P. Q. L.

VOTIS. X. VOTIS. XX. ARDENTISSIMIS.

L. M. HANC. ARAM P.

AND UPON THE GATE, BEING SHUT, IMP. JACOBUS. MAX

CESAR. AUG. P. P.

PACE POPULO BRITANNICO
TERRA MARIQUE PARTA
JANUM CLUSIT. S. C.

IN THE STRAND.

The invention was a rainbow, the moon, sun, and those seven stars, which antiquity hath styled the Pleiades of Vergiliæ, advanced between two

No more shall men suppose Electra dead,
Though from the consort of her sisters fled
Unto the arctic circle," here to grace,
And gild this day with her serenest face: 7
And see, my daughter Iris hastes to throw
Her roseat wings, in compass of a bow,
About our state, as sign of my approach:
Attracting to her seat from Mithra's coach,"
A thousand different and particular hues,
Which she throughout her body doth diffuse.
The sun, as loth to part from this half sphere,
Stands still; and Phoebe labors to appear
In all as bright, if not as rich, as he:
And, for a note of more serenity,

4 Paraph. in Arat. Phænom.

5 Fest. Avi. paraph. Pars ait Idææ deflentem incendia Troja, Et numerosa suæ lugentem funera gentis, Electrain tetris mæstum dare nubibus orbem. Besides the reference to antiquity, this speech might be understood by allegory of the town here, that had been so ruined with sickness, &c.

Hyginus. Sed postquam Troja fuit capta, et progenies ejus quæ à Dardano fuit eversa, dolore permotam ab his se removisse, et in circulo qui arcticus dicitur constitisse, &c. 7 Electra signifies serenity itself, and is compounded of

2 Some, to whom we have read this, have taken it for a tautology, thinking Time enough expressed before in years and months. For whose ignorant sakes we must confess to bave taken the better part of this travail, in noting a thing cot usual, neither affected of us, but where there is necessity, as here, to avoid their dull censures. Where in years and months we alluded to that is observed in our former note: but by Time we understand the present, and that from this instant we should begin to reckon, and make this the Crst of our time. Which is also to be helped by emphasis. 3 In which he was slain in the senate.

She is mentioned to be Anima' sphæræ solis, by Proclus. Com. in Hesiod.

8 She is also feigned to be the mother of the rain-bow. Nascitur enim Iris ex aqua et serenitate, à refractione radio rum scilicet. Arist. in meteorol.

Val. Flac. Argonaut. 1. makes the rainbow indicem se renitatis.

Emicuit reserata dies cœlumque resolvit

Arcus, et in summos redierunt nubila montes.

10 A name of the sun, Stat. The. 1. 1. torquentem cornua Mithran. And Martian. Capel. 1. 3. de nup. Mer. et Phil Te Serapim. Nilus, Memphis veneratur Ösirin; Dissons sacra Mithran, &c.

throne.

Her third, Irene, help'd to bear his train;
And in her office vow'd she would remain,
Till foreign malice, or unnatural spight
(Which fates avert) should force her from her
right.

With these he pass'd, and with his people's
hearts,
[parts,
Breath'd in his way; and souls, their better
Hasting to follow forth in shouts, and cries,
Upon his face all threw their covetous eyes,
As on a wonder: some amazed stood,
As if they felt, but had not known their good.
Other would fain have shown it in their words;
But, when their speech so poor a help affords
Unto their zeal's expression, they are mute;
And only with red silence him salute.
Some cry from tops of houses; thinking noise
The fittest herald to proclaim true joys;
Others on ground run gazing by his side,
All, as unwearied, as unsatisfied:

And every window grieved it could not move
Along with him, and the same trouble prove.
They that had seen, but four short days before,
His gladding look, now long'd to see it more.
And as of late, when he through London went,
The amorous city spared no ornament,
That might her beauties heighten; but so drest,
As our ambitious dames, when they make feast,
And would be courted: so this town put on
Her brightest tire; and in it equal shone
To her great sister; save that modesty,
Her place, and years, gave her precedency.
The joy of either was alike, and full;
No age, nor sex, so weak, or strongly dull,
That did not bear a part in this consent
Of heart, and voices. All the air was rent,
As with the murmur of a moving wood;
The ground beneath did seem a moving flood;
Walls, windows, roofs, tow'rs, steeples, all were
With several eyes, that in this object met. [set
Old men were glad their fates till now did last;
And infants, that the hours had made such haste,
To bring them forth: whilst riper aged, and apt
To understand the more, the more were rapt.
This was the people's love, with which did strive
The nobles' zeal, yet either kept alive
The other's flame, as doth the wick and wax,
That, friendly temper'd, one pure taper makes.
Meanwhile the reverend Themis draws aside
The king's obeying will, from taking pride
In these vain stirs, and to his mind suggests
How he may triumph in his subjects' breasts,
With better pcmp. She tells him first, "That
kings

Are here on earth the most conspicuous things:
That they, by heav'n are placed upon his throne,
To rule like heav'n; and have no more their

own,

As they are men, than men. That all they do,
Though hid at home, abroad is search'd into:
And being once found out, discover'd lies
Unto as many envies there, as eyes.
That princes, since they know it is their fate,
Oft-times, to have the secrets of their state
Betray'd to fame, should take more care, and
fear

In public acts what face and form they bear.

Where he was going; and the upward race
Of kings, preceding him in that high court;
Their laws, their ends; the men she did report.
And all so justly, as his ear was joy'd

To hear the truth, from spight or flattery void. She show'd him who made wise, who honest acts;

Who both, who neither: all the cunning tracts, And thriving statutes, she could promptly note; The bloody, base, and barbarous she did quote; Where laws were made to serve the tyrant's will;

Where sleeping they could save, and waking kill;

Where acts gave license to impetuous lust
To bury churches in forgotten dust,
And with their ruins raise the pander's bowers:
When public justice borrow'd all her powers
From private chambers; that could then create
Laws, judges, counsellors, yea, prince and state.
All this she told, and more, with bleeding eyes;
For Right is as compassionate as wise."
Nor did he seem their vices so to love,
As once defend, what Themis did reprove.
For though by right, and benefit of times,
He own'd their crowns, he would not so their
crimes.

He knew that princes, who had sold their fame
To their voluptuous lusts, had lost their name;
And that no wretch was more unblest than he,
Whose necessary good 'twas now to be
An evil king: and so must such be still,
Who once have got the habit to do ill.
One wickedness another must defend;
For vice is safe, while she hath vice to friend.
He knew that those who would with love com-
mand,

Must with a tender, yet a stedfast, hand
Sustain the reins, and in the check forbear
To offer cause of injury, or fear;
That kings, by their example, more do sway
Than by their power; and men do more obey
When they are led, than when they are com-
pell'd.

In all these knowing arts our prince excell'd.
And now the dame had dried her drooping eyne,
When, like an April Iris, flew her shine
About the streets, as it would force a spring
From out the stones, to gratulate the king.
She blest the people, that in shoals did swim
To hear her speech; which still began in him,
And ceas'd in them. She told them what a fate
Was gently fall'n from heaven upon the state;
How dear a father they did now enjoy,
That came to save, what discord would destroy,
And entering with the power of a king,
The temperance of a private man did bring,
That wan affections ere his steps wan ground;
And was not hot, or covetous to be crown'd
Before men's hearts had crown'd him. Who