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
Upon their meeting hours, as if he took
High pride and pleasure.

GENIUS.

Sure thou still dost dream, And both thy tongue, and thought rides on the Of phantasy: behold here he nor she, Have any altar, fane, or deity.

[stream

Stoop; read but this inscription: and then view
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 honour'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: 5
Whose strong and potent virtues have defaced 6
Stern Mars's statues, and upon them placed
His,7 and the world's best blessings: this hath
brought

[see

Sweet peace to sit in that bright state she ought,
Unbloody, or untroubled; hath forced hence
All tumults, fears, or other dark portents
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 spies
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,

That brings, instead of those thy masculine gums,

1 Nuper erat den facta, &c. Ibid.

? Where is understood the meeting of the zodiac in March,

the month wherein she is celebrated.

3 That face wherewith he beholds the spring.

4 Written upon the altar, for which we refer you to col. 2 of this page.

5 The queen to which in our inscription we spake to the king MARTE MAJORI

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

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

Somewhat a strange epithet in our tongue, but proper to the thing: for they were only masculine odours, 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 fæmina: 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. gent. Non si mille tu pondera masculi thuris incendas, &o,

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
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, 9 of time; 10
And may these Ides as fortunate appear
To thee, as they to Cæsar fatal were.
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:

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

OVER THE ALTAR WAS WRITTEN THIS INSCRIP.

TION:

D. I. O. M. 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. SOCIE. ET CONSORTI. PULCHERRIMÆ. AUGUSTISSIME. ET

H. F. P.

FILIO. SUO. NOBILISSIMO. OB. ADVENTUM. AD:
URBEM. HANC. SUAM. EXPECTATISSIMUM.
GRATISSIMUM. CELEBRATISSIMUM. CUJUS. NON.
RADII. SED. SOLES. POTIUS. FUNESTISSIMAM.
NUPER. AERIS. INTEMPERIEM. SERENARUNT.
S. P. Q. L.

VOTIS. X. VOTIS. XX, ARDENTISSIMIS.

L. M.

HANC. ARAM

P.

According to Romulus his institution, who made March the first month, and consecrated it to his fathor, of whom it was called Martius. Varr. Fest. in frag. Martius mensis initium anni fuit, et in Latio, et post Romam conditam, &c. And Ovid. Fast. 3. A te principium Romano dicimus anno: Primus de patrio nomine mensis erit. Vox rata fit, &c. See Macr. lib. 1. cap. 12. and Solin. in Polyhist. cap. 3. Quod hoc mense mercedes exolverint magistris, quas completas anuus debert fecisse, &c.

10 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 have taken the better part of this travail, in noting a thing not 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 first of our time. Which is also to be helped by emphasis.

11 In which he was slain in the senate.

AND UPON The gate, BEING SHUT,

IMP. JACOBUS. MAX.

CÆSAR. 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 or Vergiliæ, advanced between two magnificent pyramids of seventy foot in height, on which were 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.1

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 Anonymus. 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,
Are dried; and now mine eyes run tears of joy.
No more shall men suppose Electra dead,
Though from the consort of her sisters filed
Unto the arctic circle,3 here to grace,
And gild this day with her serenest face : 4
And see, my daughter Iris 5 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,"

Paraph, in Arat. Phænom.

2 Fest. Avi. paraph. Pars ait Idææ deflentem incendia Troja, Et numerosa suæ lugentem funera gentis, Electram 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.

3 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.

♦ Electra signifies serenity itself, and is compounded of Atos, which is the sun, and epios, that signifies serene. She is mentioned to be Anima sphæræ solis, by Proclus. Com. in Hesiod.

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

Val. Flac. Argonaut. 1. makes the rainbow indicem serenitatis.

Eunicuit reserata dies cœlumque resolvit

Arcus, et in summos redierunt nubila montes.

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 labours to appear
In all as bright, if not as rich, as he:
And, for a note of more serenity,

My six fair sisters hither shift their lights,
To do this hour the utmost of her rites.
Where lest the captious, or profane might doubt,
How these clear heavenly bodies come about
All to be seen at once; yet neither's light
Eclips'd, or shadow'd by the other's sight:
Let ignorance know, great king, this day is thine,
And doth admit no night; but all do shine
As well nocturnal, as diurnal fires,
To add unto the flame of our desires.
Which are, now thou hast closed up Janus' gates,9
And given so general peace to all estates,
That no offensive mist, or cloudy stain,
May mix with splendor of thy golden reign;
But, as thou'st freed thy Chamber from the noise
Of war and tumult; thou wilt pour those joys
Upon this place," which claims to be the seat
Of all the kingly race: the cabinet

12

To all thy counsels, and the judging chair
To this thy special kingdom. Whose so fair
And wholesome laws, in every court, shall strive
By equity, and their first innocence to thrive ;
The base and guilty bribes of guiltier men
Shall be thrown back, and justice look, as when
She loved the earth, and fear'd not to be sold
For that, 13 which worketh all things to it, gold.
The dam of other evils, avarice,

Shall here lock down her jaws, and that rude vice
Of ignorant and pitied greatness, pride,
Decline with shame; ambition now shall hide
Her face in dust, as dedicate to sleep,
That in great portals wont her watch to keep.
All ills shall fly the light: thy court be free
No less from envy, than from flattery;
All tumult, faction, and harsh discord cease,
That might perturb the music of thy peace:
The querulous nature shall no longer find
Room for his thoughts: one pure consent of mind
Shall flow in every breast, and not the air,
Sun, moon, or stars shine more serenely fair.
This from that loud, blest oracle, I sing!
Who here, and first, pronounced thee Britain's
king.

Long may'st thou live, and see me thus appear,
As ominous a comet," from my sphere,

7A 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 Osirin; Dissona sacra Mithran, &c.

8 Alcyone, Celano, Taygete, Asterope, Merope, Maia, which are also said to be the souls of the other spheres, as Electra of the sun Proclus, ibi in com. Alcyone Veneris, Celano Saturni, Taygete Lunæ, Asterope Jovis, Merope Martis, Maia Mercurii.

9 Alluding back to that of our temple. 10 London.

1 His city of Westminster, in whose name, and at whose charge, together with the dutchy of Lancaster, this arch was erected.

12 Since here, they not only sat being crowned, but also first received their crowns.

13 Hor. Car. lib. 4. ode 9. Ducentis ad se cuncta pecuniæ 14 For our more authority to induce her thus, see Fest. Avien. paraph. in Arat. speaking of Electra, Nonnun

Unto thy reign; as that did auspicate1

So lasting glory to Augustus' state.

quam oceani tamen istam surgere ab undis, In convexa poli, sed sede carere sororum; Atque os discretum procul edere, detestatam: Germanosque choros sobolis lacrymare ruinas Diffusamque comas cerni, crinisque solut' Monstrari effigie, &c.

All comets were not fatal, some were fortunately ominous, as this to which we allude; and wherefore we have Pliny's testimony, Nat. Ilist. lib. 2. cap. 25. Cometes in uno totius orbis loco colitur in templo Romæ, admodum faustus Divo Augusto judicatus ab ipso: qui incipiente eo,

apparuit ludis quos faciebat Veneri Genetrici, non multo post obitum patris Cæsaris, in collegio ab co instituto. Namque his verbis id gaudium prodidit. Iis ipsis ludorum meorum diebus, sydus crinitum per septem dies in regione cæli, quæ sub septentrionibus est, conspectum. Id oriebatur circa undecimam horam diei, clarumque et omnibus terris conspicuum fuit.. Eo sydere significari vulgus credidit, Cæsaris animam inter Deorum immortalium numina receptam: quo nomine id insigne simulacro capitis ejus, quod mox in foro consecravimus, adjectum est. Hæc ille in publicum, interiore gaudio sibi illum natum seque in eo nasci interpretatus est. Et si verum fatemur, salutare id terris fuit.

HEAVEN now not strives, alone, our breasts to fill
With joys; but urgeth his full favours still.
Again, the glory of our western world
Unfolds himself; and from his eyes are hurl'd
To-day, a thousand radiant lights that stream
To every nook and angle of his realm.
His former rays did only clear the sky;
But these his searching beams are cast, to pry
Into those dark and deep concealed vaults,
Where men commit black incest with their faults,
And snore supinely in the stall of sin:
Where murther, rapine, lust, do sit within,
Carousing human blood in iron bowls,
And make their den the slaughter-house of souls :
From whose foul reeking caverns first arise
Those damps, that so offend all good men's eyes,
And would, if not dispers'd, infect the crown,
And in their vapour her bright metal drown.
To this so clear and sanctified an end,
I saw,
when reverend Themis did descend
Upon his state : let down in that rich chain,
That fast'neth heavenly power to earthly reign:
Beside her stoop'd on either hand, a maid,
Fair Dicè, and Eunomia, who were said
To be her daughters; and but faintly known
On earth, till now, they come to grace his throne.
Her third, Irene, help'd to bear his train;
And in her office vow'd she would remain,
Till foreign inalice, or unnatural spight
(Which fates avert) should force her from her
right.

With these he pass'd, and with his people's hearts,
Breath'd in his way; and souls, their better parts,
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 se
With several eyes, that in this object met.
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 pomp. She tells him first,

kings

"That

Are nere 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.
She then remember'd to his thought the place
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 command,
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 compell'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 shoats 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

A Satyr, lodged in a little spinet, by which her Majesty and the Prince were to come, at the report of certain cornets that were divided in several places of the park, to signify her approach, advanced his head above the top of the wood, wondering, and, with his pipe in his hand, began as followeth :

HERE! there! and every where !
Some solemnities are near,
That these changes strike mine ear.
My pipe and I a part shall bear.

[After a short strain with his pipe;

Look, see!-beshrew this tree!
What may all this wonder be?
Pipe it who that list for me:

I'll fly out abroad, and see.

[Here he leaped down, and gazed the Queen and the Prince

in the face.

That is Cyparissus' face!

And the dame hath Syrinx' grace!

O that Pan were now in place-
Sure they are of heavenly race.

[Here he ran into the wood again, and hid himself, whilst to the sound of excellent soft music, that was concealed in the thicket, there came tripping up the lawn a bery of Fairies, attending on Mab their queen, who falling into an artificial ring, began to dance a round, while their mistress spake as followeth.

Mab. Hail and welcome, worthiest queen!
Joy had never perfect been,

To the nymphs that haunt this green,
Had they not this evening seen.
Now they print it on the ground
With their feet in figures round;
Marks that will be ever found.
To remember this glad stound.
Sat. [Peeping out of the bush.]
Trust her not, you bonnibell,
She will forty leasings tell;
I do know her pranks right well.

Mab. Satyr, we must have a spell

For your tongue, it runs too fleet.

Sat. Not so nimbly as your feet,

When about the cream-bowls sweet,
You and all your elves do meet.

[Here he came hopping forth, and mixing himself with the Fairies, skipped in, out, and about their circle, while they made many offers to catch at him.

This is Mab, the mistress Fairy,
That doth nightly rob the dairy,
And can hurt or help the cherning,
As she please, without discerning.

1 Fai. Pug, you will anon take warning?
Sat. She that pinches country wenches,

If they rub not clean their benches,
And with sharper nails remembers
When they rake not up their embers:
But if so they chance to feast her,
In a shoe she drops a tester.

2 Fai. Shall we strip the skipping jester?
Sat. This is she that empties cradles,

Takes out children, puts in ladles :
Trains forth midwives in their slumber,
With a sieve the holes to number;
And then leads them from her burrows,
Home through ponds and water-furrows.

1 Fai. Shall not all this mocking stir us?
Sat. She can start our Franklin's daughters,
In their sleep, with shrieks and laughters;
And on sweet St. Anna's night,
Feed them with a promised sight,
Some of husbands, some of lovers,
Which an empty dream discovers.

1 Fai. Satyr, vengeance near you hovers.
Sat. And in hope that you would come here
Yester-eve, the lady Summer1
She invited to a banquet-

But (in sooth) I con you thank yet,
That you could so well deceive her
Of the pride which gan up-heave her!
And, by this, would so have blown her
As no wood-god should have known her.
[Skips into the wood.

1 Fai. Mistress, this is only spite:
For you would not yesternight
Kiss him in the cock-shut light.

Sat. [returning.]

By Pan, and thou hast hit it right.

Mab. Fairies, pinch him black and blue,
Now you have him, make him rue.

[They lay hold on him, and n'n him.

Sat. O, hold, [mistress] Mab! I sue. 1 Fai. Nay, the devil shall have his due. [Here he ran quite away, and left them in a confusion.

Mab. Pardon, lady, this wild strain,

Common with the sylvan train,
That do skip about this plain :—
Elves, apply your gyre again.

1 For she was expected there on Midsummer-day at

night, but came not till the day following.

And whilst some do hop the ring,
Some shall play, and some shall sing:
We'll express, in ev'ry thing,
Oriana's well-coming.2

SONG.

This is she, this is she
In whose world of grace
Every season, person, place,
That receive her happy be;
For with no less,
Than a kingdom's happiness, 3
Doth she private Lares bless,
And ours above the rest;

By how much we deserve it least.

Long live Oriana

T'exceed, whom she succeeds, our late Diana

Mab. Madam, now an end to make,
Deign a simple gift to take;
Only for the Fairies' sake,
Who about you still shall wake.
'Tis done only to supply
His suspected courtesy,
Who, since Thamyra did die,
Hath not brook'd a lady's eye,

Nor allow'd about his place,
Any of the female race.
Only we are free to trace
All his grounds, as he to chase.

For which bounty to us lent,
Of him unknowledg'd, or unsent,
We prepared this compliment,
And as far from cheap intent,

[Gives her a jewel

In particular to feed
Any hope that should succeed,
Or our glory by the deed,
As yourself are from the need.

Utter not, we you implore,
Who did give it, nor wherefore:
And whenever you restore

Your self to us, you shall have more.

Highest, happiest queen, farewell;
But beware you do not tell.

Here the Fairies hopt away in a fantastic dance, when on a sudden, the Satyr discovered himself again.

Sat. Not tell? ha! ha! I could smile

At this old and toothless wile.
Lady, I have been no sleeper;
She belies the noble keeper.
Say, that here he likes the groves,
And pursue no foreign loves:
Is he therefore to be deem'd
Rude, or savage? or esteem'd
But a sorry entertainer,
'Cause he is no common strainer,
After painted nymphs for favours,
Or that in his garb he savours
Little of the nicety,

In the sprucer courtiery;
As the rosary of kisses,

With the oath that never misses,

2 Quasi Oriens ANNA.

3 Bringing with her the prince, which is the greatest felicity of kingdoms.

4 For households.