THE TRIUMPHS of Love and Antiquity. An Honourable Solemnity performed through the City, at the confirmation and establishment of the Right Honourable Sir William Cockayn, Knight, in the office of his majesties Lieutenant, the Lord Maior of the Famous City of London. Taking beginning in the morning at his Lordship's going, and perfecting itself after his return from receiving the oath of 〈…〉 ralty at Westminster, on the morrow after Simon and judes Day, October 29. 1619. By THO: MIDDLETON. Gent. printer's or publisher's device LONDON, Printed by NICHOLAS OKES. 1619. TO THE HONOUR OF HIM, TO WHOM THE NOBLE FRAternity of Skinners, his worthy Brothers, have dedicated their Loves in Costly Triumphs, The Right Honourable, Sir WILLIAM COCKAYN, Knight, Lord Maior of this Renowned City. And Lord General of his Military Forces. Love, Triumph, Honour, all the glorious graces, This Day holds in her gift; fixed Eyes, and Faces Apply themselves in joy all to Your Look: In Duty then, my Service, and the Book, At your Lordship's Command, THO. MIDDLETON. The Triumphs of Love and Antiquity. IF Foreign Nations have been struck with admiration at the Form, State, and Splendour of some yearly Triumphs, wherein. Art hath been but weakly imitated, and most beggarly worded: there is fair hope that things where Invention flourishes, Clear Art and her graceful proprieties, should receive favour and encouragement from the content of the Spectator, which (next to the service of his Honour, and honourable Society) is the principal Reward it looks for; and not despairing of that common favour (which is often cast upon the undeserver, through the distress and misery of judgement) this takes delight to present itself. And first to begin early with the Love of the City to his Lordship, let me draw your attentions to his Honour's entertainment upon the water, where Expectation big with the joy of the Day, but beholding to free Love for Language and expression, thus salutes the Great Master of the Day and Triumph. The Speech, to entertain his Lordship upon the Water. Honour and joy double their B 〈…〉, I, the days Love, the Cities greater all love. Salute thee in the Sweetness 〈…〉 All▪ that behold me worthily, may see▪ How full mine eye stands of the joy 〈…〉 The more, because I may with Confidence say, Desert and Love will be well matched too day: And herein the great'st pity will appear, This match can lust no longer than a year. T●● let not that discourage thy good ways, men's Loves will last to crown thy end of days, If those should fuile, which cannot easily die, Thy good works wed thee to Eternity. Let not the shortness then of Time dismay The largeness of thy worth; gain every day, So many years Thou 'gainst, that some have lost; For they that think their Care is at great cost If they do any good, in Time so small, They make their Year but a poor Day in all. For as a Learned Man, will comprehend In Compass of his Hour, Doctrine so sound, Which give another a whole year to mend, He shall not equal, upon any ground: So the judicious when he comes to bear This powerful Office, struck with Divine fear, Collects his spirits, redeems his hours with care, Thinks of his Charge, and Oath, what Ties they are, And with a Virtuous Resolution than Works more good in one year, than some in Ten. Nor is this spoken any to detract, But all t'encourage to put Truth in Act. methinks I see Oppression hang the head, Falsehood and Injury with their guilt struck dead At this Triumphant Hour, Ill Causes hide Their Leprous Faces, daring not t'abide The Brightness of this day; and in mine ear Me thinks the Grace's Silver Chimes I hear. Good wishes are at work now in each heart, Throughout this sphere of Brotherhood play their part, Chiefly thy Noble own Fraternity, As near in heart, as they're in place to thee. The Ensigns of whose love Bounty displays, Yet esteems all their Cost short of thy praise: There will appear elected Sons of War, Which this fair City boasts of for their Care, Strength and experience, set in Truth of heart; All great and glorious Masters in that Art Which gives to man his Dignity, Name and Seal, Prepared to speak Love in a Noble Peal. Knowing two Triumphs must on this day dwell, For Magistrate, one, and one for Colonel, Return Lord General, that's the Name of State The Soldier gives Thee; Peace, the Magistrate. On then, Great Hope, here that good care begins, Which now earths Love and▪ Heavens hereafter wins. At his Lordship's return from Westminster, those worthy Gentlemen, whose loves & works were prepared before in the conclusion of the former Speech by water, are now all ready to salute their Lord General with a Noble Valley, at his Lordship's Landing: and in the best and most commendable Form, answerable to the nobleness of their free Love and Service, take their march before his Lordship, who being so Honourably conducted, meets the first Triumph by land, waiting his Lordship's most wished arrival, in Paul's Church yard, near Paul's Chain, which is a Wilderness, most gracefully and artfully furnished with diverse kinds of Beasts bearing Fur, proper to the Fraternity, the Presenter, the Musical Orpheus, Great Master, both in Poesy and Harmony, who by his excellent Music, drew after him wild Beasts, Woods and Mountains; over his Head an Artificial Cock, often made to crow, and flutter with his wings. This Orpheus at the approach of his Lordship, gives life to these words. The Speech delivered by Orpheus. GReat Lord, Example is the Crystal Glass, By which wise Magistracy sets his face, Fits all his Actions to their comeliest Dress, For there he sent honour and seemliness; 'tis not like flauring glasses, those false Books Made to set Age, back, in great Courliers Looks; Like Clocks on reveling nights, that near go right, Because the sports may yield more full delight, But when they break off then they find it Late, The Time and Truth appears, such is their State, Whose death by flatteries is set back, awhile, But meetes'em in the midst of then safe Smile. Such horrors these forgetful things ●●end, That only mind their ends, but not their End; Leave them to their false Trust; List Thou to me, Thy power is great, so let thy virtues be, Thy care, thy watchfulness, which are but things Remembered to thy praise, from thence it springs, And not from fear of any want in Thee, For in this Truth I may be comely, free, Never was man advanced, yet waited on With a more Noble Expectation; That's a great Work to perfect: and as Those That have in Art a Mastery, can oppose All comers, and come off with Learned Fame, Yet think not scorn still of a scholars name (A Title which they had in ignorant youth:) So he that deals in such a weight of Truth As th' execution of a Magistrates place, Though never so exact inform and Grace, Both from his own Worth, and man's free Applause, Yet may he called a Labourer in the cause, And be thought good to be so, in true care, The Labour being so glorious, just, and fair. Behold then in a rough Example here The Rude and thonny ways thy care must clear, Such are the vices in a City sprung, As are yon Thickets that grow close and strong: Such is oppression, Cozenage, Bribes, false Hires, As are yon catching and entangling briars: Such is Gout-Iustice, that's, Delay in Right, Demurs in Suits, that are as clear as Light. Just such a Wilderness is a Commonwealth, That is undressed, unpruned, wild in her health; And the rude multitude, the Beasts a'th' wood, That know no laws, but only Will and Blood: And yet by fair Example, Musical Grace, Harmonious government of the Man in place, (Of fair Integrity, and wisdom framed) They stand as mine do, ravished, charmed, and tamed. Every wise Magistrate that governs thus, May well be called a powerful Orpheus. Behold yon Bird of state, the vigilant Cock, The Morning's Herald, and the Ploughman's Clock, At whose shrill Crow the very Lion trembles, The sturdiest Prey-taker that here assembles; How fitly d'os it match your Name, and power Fixed in that Name now by this glorious Hour, At your just Voice to shakebag the boldest offence And sturdiest sin, that ere had residence Insecure man, Yet with an equal Eye, Matching grave justice with fair Clemency; It being the property He chiefly shower, To give Wing-warning, still before he Crows, To Crow before he strike, by his clapped Wing, To stir himself up first (which needful thing Is every man's first duty) by his Crow A gentle call, or warning, which should flow From every Magistrate, before he extend The Stroke of justice, he should reprehend, And try the virtue of a powerful word, If that prevail not, than the Spur, the Sword. See, herein honours to his Majesty Are not forgotten, when I turn, and see, The sever all Countries, in those faces, plain, Allowing Fealty to one Sovereign, The Noble English, the fair Thriving Scot, Plain hearted Welsh, the Frenchman bold and hot, The civilly instructed Irish man, And that kind Savage, the Virginian; All lovingly assembled, ●●n by Fate; This thy Days Honour to congratulate. On then; and as your service fills this place, So through the City do his Lordship Grace. At which words, this part of Triumph moves onward and meets the full Body of the Show in the other Paul's Church yard: then dispersing itself, according to the ordering of the Speechess following, one part which is the Sanctuary of Fame, plants itself near the little Conduit in Cheap; another which bath the Title of the Parliament of Honour, at S. Laurence Lane end, Upon the Battlements of that beauteous Sanctuary, adorned with six & twenty bright burning lamps, having Allusion to the six and twenty Aldermen, (they being for their justice, Government and Example, the Lights of the City) a Grave parsonage, crowned with the Title and Inscription of Example, breathes forth these sounds. Example. FRom that rough Wilderness, which did late present The perplexed State, and cares of Government, Which every painful Magistrate must meet; Here the Reward stands for thee, a chief Seat In Fame's fair Sanctuary, where some of old Crowned with their Troubles now, are here enrolled In Memories sacred sweetness, to all ages; And so much the World's Voice of Thee presages. And these that sit for many, with their graces Fresh as the Buds of Roses, though they sleep, In thy Society had once high places, Which in their good Works they for ever keep; Life called 'em in their Time, Honour's fair Stars, Large Benefactors, and sweet Governors. If here were not sufficient Grace for Merit, Next Object, I presume, will raise thy Spirit. In this Maister-peice of Art, Fame's Illustrious Sanctuary, the Memory of those Worthies shine gloriously, that have been both Lord Majors of this City, and Noble Benefactors, and Brothers of this worthy Fraternity, to wit, S. Henry Barton, S. William Gregory, S. Stephen jennings, S. Thomas Mirfen, S. Andrew judd, S. Wolstone Dixe, S. Stephen Slanye, S. Richard Saltonstall: And now the Right Honourable Sir William Cockayn. That Sir Henry Barton an Honour to Memory, was the first, that for the safety of travelers, & strangers by night through the City, caused lights to be hung out from Alhollontid to Candlemas; therefore in this Sanctuary of Fame, where the beauty of good actions shine, he is most properly and worthily recorded. His Lordship by this time Gracefully conducted toward that Parliament of Honour, near S. Laurence Lane end, Anti quity from its Eminence, thus gloriously salutes Him. Antiquity in the Parliament of honour. Grave City Governor! so much honour do me, Vouchsafe thy presence and thy patience to me, And I'll Reward that Virtue with a Story, That shall to thy Fraternity add Glory, Then to thy Worth no mean part will arise, That art ordained Chief for that glorious Prize. 'tis I, that keep all the Records of Fame, Mother of Truths, Antiquity, my Name; No Year, month, Day, or Hour, that brings in place Good Works and Noble, for the City's Grace, But I Record; that After Times may see What Former, were, and how they ought to be, Fruitful, and Thankful, in fair Actions flowing, To meet heavens blessings, to which much is owing; For instance, Let all Grateful Eyes be placest Upon this Mount of Royalty, by Kings, graced, Queens, Prince, Duke's, Nobles, more by numbering gained Then can be in this narrow Sphere contained. 7. Kings, 5. Queens, only one Prince alone, 8. Dukes, 2. Earls, Plantagenets twenty one; All these of this Fraternity made Free, Brothers and Sisters of this Company; And see with what propriety, the Fates Have to this Noble Brotherhood knit such States; For what Society, the whole City brings, Can with such Ornaments Adorn their Kings, Their only Robes of State, when they consent To ride most glorious, to High Parliament; And mark in this their Royal intent still, For when it pleased the Goodness of their Will, To put the richest Robes of their Loves on To the whole City, the Most, ever came To this Society, which Records here prove, Adorning their adorners, with their Love; Which was a Kingly Equity: Be careful then, Great Lord, to bring forth Deeds, To match that Honour, that from hence proceeds. At the close of which Speech, the whole Triumph takes leave of his Lordship, for that Time, and till after the Feast at Guildhall, rests from Service. His Lordship accompanied with many Noble personages, the Honourable Fellowship of Ancient Magistrates and Aldermen of this City, the two new Sheriffs, the one, of his own Fraternity (the complete Brotherhood of Skinners) the Right Worshipful M. Sheriff Deane, a very Bountiful and worthy Citizen, not forgetting the Noble pains and loves of the Heroic Captains of the City, & Gentlemen of the Artillery Garden, making with two glorious Ranks a manly & Majestic passage for their Lord General, his Lordship, through Guildhall yard; and afterward their Loves to his Lordship resounding in a second Noble Volley. Now, that all the Honours before mentioned, in that Parliament, or Mount of Royalty, may arrive at a clear and perfect Manifestation, to prevent the over-curious & Inquisitive Spirit; the Names and Times of those Kings, Queens, Prince, Duke's and Nobles, free of the Honourable Fraternity of Skinners in London, shall here receive their proper Illustrations. Anno 1329. K. Edward the third, Plantagenet, by whom, in the first of his Reign this worthy Society of Skinners was incorporate, He, their first Royal Founder and Brother, Q Philip his wife, younger Daughter of William Earl of Henalt, the first Royal Sister, so gloriously virtuous, that she is a rich ornament to Memory, She both founded and endowed Queen's College in Oxford, to the continuing estate of which, I myself wish all happiness: This Queen at her death desired three courtesies, some of which are rare in these days. First, that her debts might be paid to the Merchants; secondly, that her gifts to the Church might be performed: thirdly, that the King when he died would at Westminster be interred with her. Anno 1357. Edward Plantagenet, surnamed the Black Prince, son to Edward the third, Prince of Wales, Duke of Given, Aquitaine, and Cornwall, Earl Palatine of Chester. In the Battle of Poitiers in France, he with 8000. English against 60000. French, got the victory, took the King, Philip his son, seventeen Earls, with diverse other Noble personages, prisoners. King Richard the Second, Plantagenet, this K. being the third Royal brother of this honourable Company, and at that time the Society consisting of two Brotherhoods of Corpus Christi, the one at S. Marry Spittle, the other at S. Mary Bethlem without Bishop's Gate, in the eighteenth of his Reign granted them to make their two Brotherhoods one, by the name of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi of Skinners; which worthy Title shines at this day gloriously amongst 'em: and toward the end of this king's reign, 1396. a great feast was celebrated in Westminster Hall, where the L. Maior of this City sat as Guest. Anno 1381. Q. Anne his wife, daughter to the Emperor Charles the 4 and sister to Emperor Wenzlaus, whose modesty then, may make this Age blush now; she being the first that taught women to ride sideling on horseback; but who it was that taught 'em to ride straddling, there is no Records so immodest that can show me, only the impudent Time, and the open profession; this Fair Precedent of womanhood died at Sheine, now Richmond, for grief whereof K. Richard her Lord abandoned and defaced that goodly house. Anno 1399. K. Henry the 4. Plantagenet, Surnamed Bullingbrooke, a forth Royal Brother: in his time, the Famous Guild hall in London was erected, where the Honourable Courts of the City are kept, and this Bounteous Feast yearly celebrated. In the twelfth year of his Reign, the River of Thames flowed thrice in one day. Q. joan, or jane, Duchess of Britten, late wife to john, D. of Britten, and Daughter to the King of Navarre; another Princely Sister. Anno 1412. K. Henry the 5. Plantagenet, Prince of Wales, proclaimed Maior & Regent of France, He won that famous Victory on the French, at the Battle of Agincourt. Q. Catherine his Wife, Daughter to Charles 6. K. of France. K. Henry the 6. Plantagenet, of the House of Lancaster. K. Edward the 4. Plantagenet, of the House of York. This King feasted the Lord Maior, Richard Chawrye, and the Aldermen his Brethren, with certain Commoners, in Waltham Forrest; after dinner rode a hunting with the King, who gave him plenty of Venison, & sent to the Lady Majoress, and her Sisters the Alderman's Wives, 2. Hearts, 6. Bucks, and a Tun of Wine, to make merry, and this Noble feast was kept at Drapers Hall. An. 1463. Q. Elizabeth Grey, his Wife, Daughter to Richard, Wooduile, Earl Rivers, & to the Duchess of Bedford; she was Mother to the Lord Grey of Ruthen, that in his time was marquess Dorset. K. Richard the 3. Brother to Edward 4. D. of Gloucester, and of the House of York. Lionel Plantagonet, 3 Son to the 3 Edward, D. of Clarence, and Earl of Ulster; Philip his Daughter, and Heir, married Edward Mortimer, Earl of March, from whom the House of York descends. Henry Plantagenet, Grandchild to Edmond Crouchbacke, 2. Son to Henry 3. Richard Plantagenet, Father of Edward 4. D. of York, and Albumarle, Earl of Cambridge, Rutland, March, Clare, and Ulster. Thomas Plantagenet, 2. Son of Henry 4. john Plantagenet, 3 Son of Henry 4. So Noble a Soldier, and so great a terror to the French, that when Charles the 8. was moved to deface his Monument (being buried in Roan) the King thus answered: Pray let him rest in peace being dead, of whom we were all afraid when he lived. Humphrey Plantagenet, 4 Son of Henry 4. john Holland D. of Exeter. George Plantagenet brother to Edward the 4. Edmond Plantagenet Brother to Edward the 4. Richard Nevil Earl of Salisbury and Warwick. called the Great Earl of Warwick. john Cornwell Knight, Baron Fanhope. The Royal some. 7: Kings, 5. Queens, 1. Prince. 7. Dukes. 1. Earl 21. Plantagenets 7. Kings, 5. Queens, 1. Prince. 8. Dukes. 2. Earls. 1. Lord, 24. Skinners. The Feast ended at Guildhall, his Lordship (as yearly Custom invites it) goes accompanied with the Triumph before him towards S. Paul's, to perform the noble and reverend Ceremonies which Divine Antiquity religiously ordained, and is no less than faithfully observed. Holy Service and Ceremonies accomplished, his Lordship returns by Torchlight to his own house, the whole Triumph placest in comely and decent order before him, the Wilderness, the Sanctuary of Fame, adorned with Lights, the Parliament of Honour, and the Triumphant Chariot of Love, with his Graceful Concomitants; the Chariot drawn with 2. Luzarns: near to the entrance of his Lordship's gate, Love, prepared with his welcome, thus salutes him, love. I Was the first, Grave Lord, that welcomed Thee To this days Honour, and I spoke it free, Just as in every heart I found it placest, And 'tis my turn again now to speak last; For love is circular (like the bright Sun,) And takes delight to end where it begun, Though indeed never ending, in true Will, But rather may be said beginning still; As all great works are of Celestial Birth, Of which, Love is the Chief in Heaven and Earth. To what Blessed state then are thy Fortunes come, Since, That both brought thee forth, and brings thee home? Now, as in common course which clears things best, there's no free gift but looks for thanks at least; A Love so bountiful, so free, so good From the whole City, from thy Brotherhood, (That Name I ought a while to dwell upon,) Expect some fair Requital from the Man They've all so largely Honoured. What's desired? That which in Conscience ought to berequirde, Oh thank 'em in thy justice, in thy Care, Zeal to right wrongs, Works that are clear & fair, And will become thy Soul (whence Virtue springs) As those rich Ornaments thy Brother Kings. And since we cannot separate Love and Care, For where Care is, a Love must needs be there, And Care where Love is; 'tis the Man and Wife, Through every Estate that's fixed in Life; You are by this the City's Bridegroom proved, And She stands wedded to her best Beloved; Then be, according to your Morning-Vowes, A Careful Husband, to a Loving Spouse; And Heaven give you great joy (both It and Thee;) And to All Those that shall Match after Ye. The names of those Beasts, bearing Furr, and now in use, with the Bountiful Society of Skinners. The most of which presented in the Wilderness, where Orpheus praedominates! ERmine, Foin, Sables, Martin, Badger, Bear, Lucern, Budge, Otter, Hipponesse and Hare, Lamb, Wolf, Fox, Leopard, Minck, Stote, Miniver, Racoone's, Moashye, Woluerine, Caliber, Squirrel, Mole, Cat Musk, Civet, Wild & Tame, Coney white, Yellow, Black must have a Name; The Ounce, Rows-Gray, Ginner, Pampilion, Of Birds, the Vulture, Bitter, Ostrich, Swan; Some worn for Ornament, and some for Health, All to the Skinner's Art bring Fame and Wealth. The Service being thus faithfully performed, both to his Lordship's Honour, and to the Credit and content of his most generously-bountifull Society, the Season commends all to silence; yet not without a little leave taken, to reward Art with the comely Dues that belong unto it, which hath been so richly expressed in the Body of the Triumph, with all the proper Beauties of Workmanship, that the City may (without Injury to judgement) call it the Masterpiece of her Triumphs; the Credit of which Workmanship, I must justly lay upon the Deserts of Master Garret Crismas, and Master Robert Norman, ioyn'dPartners in the performance. FINIS.