Gesta Grayorum: OR, THE HISTORY Of the High and mighty PRINCE, HENRY Prince of Purpoole, Archduke of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Duke of 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉, Marquis of St. 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Count Palatine of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Great Lord of the Cantons of 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 Knight of the most Heroical Order of the Helme●● and Sovereign of the 〈◊〉 Who Reigned and Died, A.D. 1594. TOGETHER WITH A Masque as it was presented (by 〈…〉 Command) for the Entertainment of 〈…〉 who, with the 〈◊〉 of both 〈◊〉 was present thereat.  
LONDON, Printed for 〈…〉 at this Shop in the 〈…〉 MDCLXXXVIII.  
Price, one Shilling.   

To the Most Honourable MATTHEW SMYTH, Esq; controller OF THE Honourable Society OF THE INNER-TEMPLE.  
SIR,  
THE State of Purpoole (so long obscured in itself) could no otherwise express its Grandeur, but by showing to Posterity what it was: This moved those ingenious Gentlemen to leave to succeeding Times the Memory of those Actions, which they themselves had done; not for the vain Air of Popularity, but generously to give an Example, which others might desire to follow.  
Accordingly they have, by this History, set forth their Actions, which seem to be writ with the same Gallantry of Spirit as they were done.  
The Language itself is all that Age could afford; which, allowing something for the Modern Dress and Words in Fashion, is not beneath any we have now: It was for that Reason thought necessary not to clip any thing; which, though it may seem odd, yet naturally begets a Veneration, upon Account of its Antiquity.  
What more could they have wished, than to have found a Patron worthy the protecting the Memory of such a Prince? And what more can they require, than the Safety of your Patronage.  
It was Fortune, undoubtedly, that reserved it for this happy Opportunity of coming forth under your Protection.  
That strict Alliance which ever was betwixt your States seems to ask it of you, as the only Person in whom are revived the ancient Honours of both Houses: It was certainly a public Sense of the same personal Abilities (which made that Prince so conspicuous) that gives us all a public View of those Virtues, so much admired in private.  
Sir, 'Tis for these Reasons humbly offerred to you, presuming upon a favourable Acceptance of that which naturally falls under your Care.  
May Time perfect the Character already so well begun, that Posterity may hear you equal, if not greater than the Prince of Purpoole.  
I am, SIR, Your HONOUR'S Most Obedient Servant, W. C.   

Gesta Grayorum: OR, THE HISTORY OF THE PRINCE OF PURPOOLE, Anno Domini, 1594.  
THE great number of gallant Gentlemen that Grays-Inn afforded at ordinary Revels, betwixt All-hollontide and Christmas, exceeding therein the rest of the Houses of Court, gave occasion to some Well-willers of our Sports, and Favourers of our Credit, to wish an Head answerable to so noble a Body, and a Leader to so gallant a Company: Which Motion was more willingly harkened unto, in regard that such Pass-times had been intermitted by the space of three or four Years, by reason of Sickness and Discontinuances.  
After many Consultations had hereupon, by the Youths, and others that were most forward herein, at length, about the 12 th'. of December, with the Consent and Assistance of the Readers and Ancients, it was determined, that there should be elected a Prince of Purpoole, to govern our State for the time; which was intended to be for the Credit of Gray's Inn, and rather to be performed by witty Inventions, than chargeable Expenses.  
Whereupon, presently they made choice of one Mr. Henry H●lmes, a Norfolk-Gentleman, who was thought to be accomplished with all good Parts, fit for so great a Dignity; and was also a very proper Man of Personage, and very active in Dancing and Revelling.  
Then was his Privy Council assigned him, to advise of State-Matters, and the Government of his Dominions: His Lodging also was provided according to State; as the Presence-chamber, and the Council-chamber: Also all Officers of State, of the Law, and of the household. There were also appointed Gentlemen-Pensioners to attend on his Person, and a Guard, with their Captain, for his Defence.  
The next thing thought upon, as most necessary, was, Provision of Treasure, for the Support of his State and Dignity. To this purpose, there was granted a Benevolence by those that were then in his Court abiding; and for those that were not in the House, there were Letters directed to them, in nature of Privy Seals, to enjoin them, not only to be present, and give their Attendance at his Court; but also, that they should contribute to the defraying of so great a Charge, as was guessed to be requisite for the performance of so great Intendments.  
The Form of the Privy Seals directed to the Foreigners, upon occasion as is aforesaid.  
YOur Friends of the Society of Grays-Inn, now residing there, have thought good to elect a Prince, to govern the State of the Signiory, now by Dis-continuance, much impaired in the ancient Honour wherein heretofore it hath excelled all other of like Dignity. These are therefore, in the Name of the said Prince, to require you forthwith to resort to the Court there holden, to assist the Proceedings with your Person; and withal, upon the Receipt hereof, to make Contribution of such Benevolence as may express your good Affection to the State, and be answerable to your Quality. We have appointed our well● beloved Edward Jones our Foreign Collector, who shall attend you by himself, or by his Deputy.  
Your Loving Friend, Grays-Inn. Dated at our Court of Graya, the 13 th'. of December, 1594.  
If, upon the Receipt of these Letters, they returned Answer again, that they would be present in Person at our Sports, as divers did, not taking notice of the further meaning therein expressed, they were served with an Alias, as followeth.  
To our Trusty and Well Beloved, W. B. at L. give These.  
WHereas upon our former Letters to you, which required your Personal Appearance and Contribution, you have returned us Answer that you will be present, without satisfying the residue of the Contents for the Benevolence, These are therefore to will and require you, forthwith, upon the Receipt hereof, to send, for your part, such Supply by this Bearer, as to you, for the defraying so great a Charge, shall seem convenient: And herein you shall perform a Duty to the House, and avoid that ill Opinion which some Vngentlemanly Spirits have purchased by their uncivil Answers to our Letters directed to them, whose Demeanour shall be laid to their Charge when Time serveth; and in the mean time, Order shall be taken, that their Names and Defaults shall be proclaimed in our public Assemblies, to their great Dis-credit, etc.  
Your Loving Friend, Grays-Inn.  
By this means the Prince's Treasure was well increased; as also by the great Bounty of divers honourable Favourers of our State, that imparted their Liberality, to the setting forward of our intended Pass-times. Amongst the rest, the Right Honourable Sir William Cecil, Kt. Lord Treasurer of England, being of our Society, deserved honourable Remembrance, for his liberal and noble Mindfulness of us, and our State; who, undesired, sent to the Prince, as a Token of his Lordship's Favour, 10 l. and a Purse of ●ine rich Needlework.  
When all these things sorted so well to our Desires, and that there was good hope of ●ffecting that that was taken in hand, there was dispatched from our State a Messenger to our ancient allied Friend, the Inner Temple, that they might be acquainted with our Proceedings, and also to be invited to participate of our Honour; which to them was most acceptable, as by the Process of their Letters and ours, mutually sent, may appear.  

The Copies of the Letters that passed betwixt the two most flourishing Estates of the Grayans and Templarians.  
To the most Honourable and Prudent, the Governors, Assistants and Society of the Inner Temple.  
Most Grave and Noble,  
WE have, upon good Consideration, made choice of a Prince, to be predominant in our State of Purpoole, for some important Causes that require an Head, or Leader: And as we have ever had great Cause, by the Warrant of Experience, to assure ourselves of your unfeigned Love and Amity, so we are, upon this Occasion, and in the Name of our Prince Elect, to pray you, that it may be continued; and in Demonstration thereof, that you will be pleased to assist us with your Counsel, in the Person of an Ambassador, that may be Resident here amongst us, and be a Minister of Correspondence between us, and to advise of such Affairs, as the Effects whereof, we hope, shall sort to the Benefit of both our Estates. And so, being ready to requite you with all good Offices, we leave you to the Protection of the Almighty.  
Your most Loving Friend and Ally Grays-Inn. Dated at our Court of Graya, this 14th of. December, 1594.  
To the most honourable State of the Grayans.  
Right Honourable, and most firmly United,  
IF our Deserts were any way answerable to the great Expectation of your good Proceedings, we might with more Boldness accomplish the Request of your kind Letters, whereby it pleaseth you to interest us in the Honour of your Actions; which we cannot but acknowledge for a great Courtesy and Kindness (a thing proper to you, in all your Courses and Endeavours) and repute it a great Honour intended towards ourselves: In respect whereof, we yield with all Good Will, to that which your honourable Letters import; as your Kindness, and the Bond of our ancient Amity and League requireth and deserveth.  
Your assured Friend, The State of Templaria, From Templaria, the 18 th'. of December, 1594.   

The Order of the Prince of Purpoole's Proceedings, with his Officers and Attendants at his honourable Inthronization; which was likewise observed in all his solemn Marches on grand Days, and like Occasions; which Place every Officer did duly attend, during the Reign of His Highness' Government.  A Marshal. 
A Marshal.  Trumpets. 
Trumpets.  Pursuevant at Arms, 
Lanye.  Townsmen in the Prince's Livery, with Halberds. 
Yeomen of the Guard, three Couples.  Captain of the Guard, 
Grimes.  Baron of the Grand Port, 
Dudley.  Baron of the Base Port, 
Grante.  Gentlemen for Entertainment, three Couples. 
Binge, etc.  Baron of the Petty Port, 
Williams.  Baron of the New Port, 
Lovel.  Gentlemen for Entertainment, three Couples. 


Wentworth.  
Zukenden.  
Forrest.    Lieutenant of the Pensioners, 
Tonstal.  Gentlemen-Pensioners, twelve Couples, viz. 


Lawson.  
Devereux.  
Stapleton.  
Daniel.  
Rots.  
Anderson.  
Glascott.  
Elken.  
Davison, cum reliquis.    Chief Ranger, and Master of the Game, 
Forrest.  Master of the Revels, 
Lambert.  Master of the Revelers, 
Tevery.  Captain of the Pensioners, 
Cook.  Sewer, 
Archer.  Carver, 
Moseley.  Another Sewer, 
Drewry.  Cupbearer, 
Painter.  Groom-porter, 
Bennet.  Sheriff, 
Leach.  Clerk of the Council, 
jones.  Clerk of the Parliament, 
 Clerk of the Crown, 
Downes.  Orator, 
Heke.  Recorder, 
Starkey.  Solicitor, 
Dunne.  Sergeant, 
Goldsmith.  Speaker of the Parliament, 
B●llen.  Commissary, 
Greenwood.  Attorney, 
Holt.  Sergeant, 
Hitchcombe.  Master of the Requests, 
Faldo.  Chancellor of the Exchequer, 
Kitts.  Master of the Wards and Idiots, 
Ellis.  Reader, 
Cobb.  Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 
Briggs.  Master of the Rolls, 
Hetlen.  Lord Chief Baron of the Common Pleas, 
Damporte.  Lord Chief Justice of the Prince's Bench, 
Crew.  Master of the Ordnance, 
Fitz-Williams.  Lieutenant of the Tower, 
Lloyd.  Master of the Jewelhouse, 
Darlen.  Treasurer of the household, 
Smith.  Knight-Marshal, 
Bell.  Master of the Wardrobe, 
Coney.  controller of the household, 
Bouthe.  Bishod of St. Giles' in the Fields, 
Dandye.  Steward of the household, 
Smith.  Lord Warden of the four Ports, 
Damporte.  Secretary of State, 
jones.  Lord Admiral, 
Cecil (Richard.)  Lord Treasurer, 
Morrey.  Lord Great Chamberlain, 
Southworth.  Lord High Constable, 
 Lord Marshal, 
Knaplock.  Lord Privy Seal, 
Lamphew.  Lord Chamberlain of the household, 
Markham.  Lord High Steward, 
Kempe.  Lord Chancellor, 
johnson,  Archbishop of St. Andrews in Holborn, 
Bush.  Sergeant at Arms, with the Mace, 
Fleming.  Gentleman-Usher, 
Chevett.  The Shield of Pegasus, for the Inner-Temple, 
Scevington.  Sergeant at Arms, with the Sword, 
Glascott.  Gentleman-Usher, 
Paylor.  The Shield of the Griffin, for Grays-Inn, 
Wickliff.  The King at Arms, 
Perkinson.  The great Shield of the Prince's Arms, 
Cobley.  The Prince of Purpoole, 
Helmes.  A Page of Honour, 
Wandforde.  Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, six Couples, 
 A Page of Honour, 
Butler (Roger.)  Vice-Chamberlain, 
Butler (Thomas.)  Master of the Horse, 
Fitz-Hugh.  Yeomen of the Guard, three Couples. 
 Townsmen in Liveries. 
 The Family, and Followers. 
  
Upon the 20 th'. Day of December, being St. Thomas' Eve, the Prince, with all his Train in Order, as above set down, marched from his Lodging, to the great Hall; and there took his place in his Throne, under a rich Cloth of State: His Counsellors and great Lords were placed about him, and before him; below the Half-pace, at a Table, sat his learned Council and Lawyers; the rest of the Officers and Attendants took their proper Places, as belonged to their Condition.  
Then the Trumpets were commanded to sound thrice; which being done, the King at Arms, in his rich Surcoat of Arms, stood forth before the Prince, and proclaimed his Style as followeth.  By the sacred Laws of Arms, and authorized Ceremonies of the same (maugre the Conceit of any Malcontent) I do pronounce my Sovereign Liege Lord, Sir Henry, rightfully to be the high and mighty Prince of Purpoole, Archduke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke of the High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles' and Tottenham, Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, Great Lord of the Cantons of Islington, etc. Knight of the most honourable Order of the Helmet, and Sovereign of the same. 
After that the King at Arms had thus proclaimed his Style, the Trumpets sounded again; and then entered the Prince's Champion, all in complete Armour, on Horseback, and so came riding round about the Fire; and in the midst of the Hall, stayed, and made his Challenge in these Words following.  If there be any Man, of high Degree, or low, that will say that my Sovereign is not rightly Prince of Purpoole, as by his King at Arms right-now hath been proclaimed, I am ready here to maintain, that he lieth as a false Traitor; and I do challenge, in Combat, to fight with him, either now, or at any time or place appointed: And in token hereof, I gauge my Gauntlet, us the Prince's true Knight, and his Champion. 
When the Champion had thus made his Challenge, he departed; then the Trumpets were commanded to sound, and the King at Arms blazoned the Prince his Highness' Arms, as followeth.  The most mighty Prince of Purpoole, etc. beareth his Shield of the highest Jupiter. In Point, a Sacred Imperial Diadem, safely guarded by the Helmet of the great Goddess Pallas, from the Violence of Darts, Bullets and Bolts of Saturn, Momus, and the Idiot; all environed with the Ribbon of Loyalty, having a Pendant of the most heroical Order of Knighthood of the Helmet; the Word hereunto, Sic virtus honorem. For his Highness' Crest, the glorious Planet Sol, coursing through the twelve Signs of the Zodiac, on a Celestial Globe, moved upon the two Poles, Arctic and Antarctic; with this Motto, Dum totum peragraverit orbem. All set upon a Chaphew: Mars turned up, Luna mantelled, Sapphire doubted Pearl, supported by two anciently renowned and glorious Griffyns, which have been always in League with the honourable Pegasus. 
The Conceit hereof was to show, that the Prince, whose private Arms were three Helmets, should defend his Honour by Virtue, from Reprehensions of Malcontents, Carpers and Fools. The Ribbon of Blue, with an Helmet Pendant, in intimation of St. George. In his Crest, his Government for the twelve Days of Christmas was resembled to the Sun's passing the twelve Signs, though the Prince's Course had some odd degrees beyond that time: But he was wholly supported by the Griffyns; for Grays-Inn-Gentlemen, and not the Treasure of the House, was charged. The Words, Sic virtus honorem, that his Virtue should defend his Honour, whilst he had run his whole Course of Dominion, without any either Eclipse or Retrogradation.  
After these things thus done, the Attorney stood up, and made a Speech of Gratulation to the Prince; and therein showed what great Happiness was like to ensue, by the Election of so noble and virtuous a Prince, as then reigned over them; rightly extolling the Nobility, Virtue, Puissance, and the singular Perfections of his Sovereign; whereby he took occasion also to move the Subjects to be forward to perform all Obedience and Service to his Excellency; as also to furnish his Wants, if so be that it were requisite; and, in a word, persuaded the People, that they were happy in having such a Prince to rule over them; and likewise, assured the Prince, that he also was most happy, in having Rule over so dutiful and loving Subjects, that would not think any thing, were it Lands, Goods, or Life, too dear to be at his Highness' Command and Service.  
The Prince's Highness made again this Answer, That he did acknowledge himself to be deeply bound to their Merits; and in that regard did promise, that he would be a gracious and loving Prince to so well-deserving Subjects. And concluded with good liking and Commendations of their Proceedings.  
Then the Solicitor, having certain great old Books and Records lying before him, made this Speech to his Honour, as followeth.  
Most Excellent Prince,  
High Superiority and Dominion is illustrated and adorned by the humble Services of noble and mighty Personages: And therefore, amidst the Garland of your Royalties of your Crown, this is a principal Flower, That in your Provinces and Territories, divers mighty and puissant Potentates are your Homagers and Vassals; and, although infinite are your Feodaries, which by their Tenors do perform Royal Service to your Sacred Person, pay huge Sums into your Treasury and Exchequer, and maintain whole Legions for the Defence of your Country; yet some special Persons there are, charged by their Tenors, to do special Service at this your glorious Inthronization; whose Tenors, for their Strangeness, are admirable; for their Value, inestimable; and for their Worthiness, incomparable: The Particulars whereof do here appear in your Excellency's Records, in the Book of Doomsday, remaining in your Exchequer, in the 50th. and 500th. Chest there.  

The Names of such Homagers and Tributaries as hold any Signiories, Lordships, Land●● Privileges, or Liberties under his Honour, and the Tenors and Services belonging to the same, as followeth.  
ALfonso de Stapulia, and Davillo de Bernardia, hold the Arch-Dukedoms of Stapulia and Bernardia, of the Prince of Purpoole, by Grand Serjeantry, and Castle-Guard of the Castles of Stapulia and Bernardia, and to right and relieve all Wants and Wrongs of all Ladies, Matrons and Maids within the said Arch-Dutchy; and rendering, on the Day of his Excellency's Coronation, a Coronet of Gold, and yearly five hundred Millions, Sterling.  
Marotto Marquarillo de Holborn holdeth the Manors of High and Nether Holborn by Cornage in Capite, of the Prince of Purpoole; and rendering on the Day of his Honour's Coronation, for every of the Prince's Pensioners, one Milk-white do, to be bestowed on them by the Prince, for a Favour, or New-years-night-gift; and rendering yearly two hundred Millions, Sterling.  
Lucy Negro, Abbess de Clerkenwell, holdeth the Nunnery of Clerkenwell, with the Lands and Privileges thereunto belonging, of the Prince of Purpoole by Night-Service in Cauda, and to find a Choir of Nuns, with burning Lamps, to chant Placebo to the Gentlemen of the Prince's Privy-Chamber, on the Day of His Excellency's Coronation.  
Ruffiano de St. Giles' holdeth the Town of St. Giles' by Cornage in Cauda, of the Prince of Purpoole, and rendering on the Day of His Excellency's Coronation, two ambling, easy paced Gennets, for the Prince's two Pages of Honour; and rendering yearly two hundred Millions, Sterling.  
Cornelius Combaldus, de Tottenham, holdeth the Grange of Tottenham of the Prince of Purpoole, in free and common Soccage, by the twenty fourth part of a Night's Fee, and by rendering to the Master of the Ward rope so much Cunny-Furr as will serve to line his Nightcap, and face a pair of Mittins; and yielding yearly four Quarters of Rye, and threescore double Ducats on the Feast of St. Pancras.  
Bartholomeus de Bloomsbury holdeth a thousand Hides in Bloomsbury, of the Prince of Purpoole, by Escuage Incertain, and rendering on the Day of His Excellency's Coronation one Amazon, with a Ring to be run at by the Knights of the Prin●● Band, and the Mark to be his Trophy that shall be adjudged the bravest Courser; and rendering yearly fifty Millions, Sterling.  
Amarillo de Paddington holdeth an hundred Ox-gangs of Land in Paddington, of the Prince of Purpoole, by Petty-Serjeantry, that when the Prince maketh a Voyage Royal against the Amazons, to subdue and bring them under, he do find, at his own Charges, a thousand Men, well furnished with long and strong Morris-pikes, black Bills, or Halberds, with Morions on their Heads; and rendering yearly four hundred Millions, Sterling.  
Bawdwine de Islington holdeth the Town of Islington of the Prince of Purpoole, by Grand-Serjeantry; and rendering, at the Coronation of his Honour, for every Maid in Islington, continuing a Virgin after the Age of Fourteen Years, one hundred thousand Millions, Sterling.  
jordano Surtano de Kentish-Town, holdeth the Canton of Kentish-Town of the Prince of Purpoole, in Tail-general, at the Will of the said Prince, as of his Manor of Deep-Inn, in his Province of Islington by the Veirge, according to the Custom of the said Manor; That when any of the Prince's Officers or Family do resort thither, for Change of Air, or else Variety of Diet, as weary of Courtlike, and such Provision, he do provide for a Mess of the Yeomen of the Guard, or any of the Blackguard, or such l●ke inferior Officers so coming, eight Loins of Mutton, which are sound, well fed, and not infectious; and for every Gentleman-Pensioner, or other of good Quality, Coneys, Pigeons, Chickens, or such dainty Morsels. But the said jordano is not bound by his Tenure, to boil, roast, or bake the same, or meddle further than the bare Delivery of the said Cates, and so to leave them to the handling, dressing and breaking up of themselves; and rendering for a Fine to the Prince one thousand five hundred Marks.  
Markasius Rusticanus, and Hieronymus Paludensis de Knightsbridge, do hold the Village of Knightsbridge, with the Appurtenances in Knightsbridge, o● the Prince of Purpoole, by Villeinage in base Tenure, that they two shall jointly find three hundred able and sufficient labouring Men, with Instruments and Tools necessary for the making clean of all Channels, Sinks, Creeks and Gutters within all the Cities of His Highness' Dominions; and also shall cleanse and keep clean all, and all manner of Ponds, Puddles, Dams, Springs, Locks, Runlets, Becks, Water-gates, Sluices, Passages, straight Entrances, and dangerous Quagmires; and also shall repair and mend all common H●gh and Low-Ways, by laying Stones in the Pits and naughty places thereof; and also that they do not suffer the aforesaid places to go to decay through their de●ault, and lack of looking unto, or neglect of doing their parts and duties therein.   
The Tenors being thus read by the Solicitor, than were called by their Names those Homagers that were to perform their Services, according to their Tenors.  
Upon the Summons given, Alfonso de Stapuli●, and Davillo de Bernardia came to the Prince's Footstool, and off●●ed a Coronet, according to their Service, and did Homage to His Highness in solemn manner, kneeling, according to the Order in such Cases accustomed. The rest that appeared were deferred to better leisure; and they that made default were fined at great Sums, and their Defaults recorded.  
There was a Parliament intended, and summoned; but by reason that some special Officers that were by necessary Occasions, urged to be absent, without whose Presence it could not be performed, it was dashed. And in that Point our Purpose was frustrate, saving only in two Branches of it: The one was, a Subsidy granted by the Commons of his Dominions, towards the Support of His Highness' Port and Sports. The other was by his gracious, general and free Pardon.  

Henry Prince of Purpoole, Archduke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke of High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles' and Tottenham, Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, Great Lord of the Canton of Islington, Kentish-Town, Paddington and Knightsbridge, Knight of the most Heroical Order of the Helmet, and Sovereign of the same, To all, and all manner of Persons to whom these Presents shall appertain; Greeting.  
IN tender regard, and gracious Consideration of the humble Affection of our Loyal Lords and Subjects; and by understanding that by often violating of laudable Customs, Prescriptions and Laws, divers have incurred inevitable and incurable Dangers of Lands, Goods, Life and Members, if it be not by our Clemency redressed, respected and pardoned. We therefore, hoping for better Obedience and Observation of our said Laws and Customs, do grant and publish this our general and free Pardon of all Dangers, Pains, Penalties, Forfeitures, or Offence, whereunto and wherewith they are not charged, or chargeable, by reason of Misgovernment, Mis-demeanour, Mis-behaviour, or Fault, either of Commission, or Omission, or otherwise howsoever or whatsoever.  
It is therefore Our Will and Pleasure, that all and every public Person and Persons, whether they be Strangers or Naturals, within Our Dominions be by virtue hereof excused, suspended and discharged from all, and all manner of Treasons, Contempts, Offences, Trespasses, Forcible Entries, Intrusions, Disseisins, Torts, Wrongs, Injuries, Over-throws, Over-thwarting, Cross-bitings, Coney-catchings, Frauds, Conclusions, Fictions, Fractions, Fashions, Fancies, or Ostentations: Also all, and all manner of Errors, Misprisions, Mistake, Overtaking, Double-dealing, Combinations, Confederacies, Conjunctions, Oppositions, Interpositions, Suppositions and Suppositaries: Also all, and all manner of Intermedlance, or Medlance, Privy-searches, Routs and Riots, Incumberances, Pluralities, Formalities, Deformalities, Disturbances, Duplicities, Jeofails in Insufficiencies or Defects: Also all, and all manner of Sorceries, Enchantments, Conjurations, Spells, or Charms: All Destructions, Obstructions and Constructions: All Evasions, Invasions, Charges, Surcharges, Discharges, Commandest Countermands, Checks, Counter-checks and Counter-buffs: Also all, and all manner of Inhibitions, Prohibitions, Insurrections, Corrections, Conspiracies, Concavities, Coinings, Superfluities, Washings, Clipping and Shave: All, and all manner of Multiplications, Inanities, Installations, Destillations, Constillations, Necromancies and Incantations: All, and all manner of Mis-●easance, Nonfeasance, or too much Feasance: All Attempts or Adventures, Skirmages, Assaults, Grapplings, Closing, or Encounters: All Mis-prisonments, or Res●raints of Body or Member: And all, and all manner of Pains and Penalties, Personal or Pecuniary whatsoever, committed, made, or done against Our Crown and Dignity, Peace, Prerogatives, Laws and Customs, which shall not herein hereafter be in some sort expressed, mentioned, intended, or excepted.  
Except, and always fore-prized out of this general and free Pardon, All and every such P●rson and Persons as shall imagine, think, suppose, or speak and utter a●y ●alse, seditious, ignominious, or slanderous Words, Reports, Rumours, or Opinions, against the Dignity, or His Excellency's honourable Actions, Counsels, Consultations, or State of the Prince, his Court, Counsellors, Nobles, Knights and Officers.  
Except, All such Persons as now, or hereafter shall be advanced, admitted, or induced to any corporal or personal Benefice, Administration, Charge, or Cure of any mann●r of Personage, and shall not be personally resident, commorant, or incumbent in, at, or upon the whole, or some part or parcel of the said Benefice, Administration, or Cure; but absent himself wilfully or negligently, by the space of fourscore Days, Nights or Hours, and not having any special substituted, instituted or inducted Vicar, incumbent or concumbent, daily, or any other time, duly to express, enjoy and supply his Absence, Room, or Vacation.  
Except, All such P●rsons as have, or shall have any Charge, Occasion, Chance, Opportunity, or possible Means to entertain, serve, recreate, delight, or discourse with any virtuous or honourable Lady or Gentlewoman, Matron or Maid, publicly, privately, or familiarly, and shall faint, fail, or be deemed to faint or fail in Courage, or Countenance, Semblance, Gesture, Voice, Speech, or Attempt, or in Act or Adventure, or in any other Matter, Thing, Manner, Mystery, or Accomplishment, due, decent, or appertinent to her or their Honour, Dignity, Desert, Expectation, Desire, Affection, Inclination, Allowance, or Acceptance; to be daunted, dismayed, or to stand mute, idle, frivolous, or defective, or otherwise dull, contrary, sullen, malcontent, melancholy, or different from the Profession, Practice and Perfection of a complete and consummate Gentleman or Courtier.  
Except, All such Persons as by any Force, or Fraud and Dissimulation, shall procure, be it by Letters, Promises, Messages, Contracts, and other Inveaglings, any Lady or Gentlewoman, Woman or Maid, Sole or Covert, into his Possession or Convoy, and shall convey her into any place where she is, or shall be of ●ull power and opportunity to bargain, give, take, buy, sell, or change; and shall suffer her to ●scape and return at large, without any such Bargain, Sale, Gift, or Exchange performed and made, contrary to former expected, expressed, employed Contract or Consent.  
Except, All such Persons as by any Slander, Libel, Word, or Note, bewray, betray, defame, or suffer to be defamed any Woman, Wife, Widow, or Ma●d, in whose Affairs, Secrets, Suits, Services, Causes, Actions, or other Occupations, he hath been at any time conversant, employed, or trained in, or admitted unto, contrary to his plighted Promise, Duty and Allegiance; and to the utter Disparagement of others hereafter to be received, retained, embraced, or liked in like Services, Performances, or Advancements.  
Except, All Intrusions and Forcible Entries, had, made, or done into or upon any the Prince's Widows, or Wards Female, without special Licence; and all Fines passed for the same.  
Except, all concealed Fools, Idiots and Madmen, that have not to this present sued forth any Livery of their Wits, nor Ouster le main of their Senses, until the Prince have had Primer Seisin thereof.  
Except, All such Persons as, for their Lucre and Gain of Living, do keep or maintain, or else frequent and resort unto any common House, Alley, open or privy place of unlawful Exercises; as of Vaulting, Bowling, or any forbidden manner of Shooting; as at Pricks in common Highways, Ways of Sufferance or Ease to Market-Towns or Fairs, or at short Butts, not being of sufficient length and distance, or at any roving or unconstant Mark, or that shoot any Shafts, Arrows, or Bolts of unseasonable Wood or Substances, or without an Head, or of too short and small a Size, contrary to the Customs, Laws and Statutes, in such Cases made and provided.  
Except, All such Persons as shall put or cast into any Waters, salt or fresh, or any Brooks, Brinks, Chinks, Pits, Pools, or Ponds, any Snare, or other Engine, to danger or destroy the Fry or Breed of any young Lampreys, Boads, Loaches, Bull-heads, Cod, Whiting, Pikes, Ruffs, or Pearches, or any other young Store of Spawns or Fries, in any Floodgate, Sluice, Pipe, or Tail of a Mill, or any other straight Stream, Brook, or River, salt or fresh; the same Fish being then of insufficiency in Age and Quantity, or at that time not in convenient Season to be used and taken.  
Except, All such Persons as shall hunt in the Night, or pursue any Bucks or Does; or with painted Faces, Vizards, or other disguise, in the Daytime; or any such as do wrongfully and unlawfully, without Consent or Leave given or granted, by Day, or by Night, break or enter into any Park impailed, or other several Close, Enclosure, Chase, or Purliew, enclosed or compassed with Wall, Pale, Grove, Hedge, or Bushes, used still and occupied for the keeping, breeding, or cherishing of young Deer, Prickets, or any other Game, fit to be preserved and nourished; or such as do hunt, chase, or drive out any such Deer, to the prejudice and decay of such Game and Pass-times within our Dominions.  
Except, All such Persons as shall shoot in any Hand-Gun, Demy-Hag, or Hag-butt, either Half-shot, or Bullet, at any Fowl, Bird, or Beast; either at any Deer, Red or Fallow, or any other thing or things, except it be a Butt set, laid, or raised in some convenient place, fit for the same purpose.  
Except, All and every Artificer, Crafts-man, Labourer, Hous●holder, or Servant, being a Layman, which hath not Lands to the yearly Value of forty Shillings; or any Clerk, not admitted or advanced to the Benefice of the value of ten Pounds per Annum, that with any Greyhound, Mongrel, Mastiff, Spaniel, or other Dogs, doth hunt in other Men's Parks, Warrens and Coney-grees; or use any Ferrets, Hare-pipes, Snarls, 'Gins, or other Knacks or Devices to take or destroy Does, Hares, or Coneys, or other Gentleman's Game, contrary to the form and meaning of a Statute in that Case provided.  
Except, All Merchant-Adventurers, that ship or lad any Wares or Merchandise, into any Port or Creek, in any Flemish, French, or Dutch, or other Outlandish Hoy, Ship, or Bottom, whereof the Prince, nor some of his Subjects be not Possessioners and Proprietaries; and the Masters and Mariners of the same Vessels and Bottoms to be the Prince's Subjects; whereby our own Shipping is many times unfraught, contrary unto divers Statutes in that Case provided.  
Except, All Owners, Masters and Pursers of our Ships, as for the Transportation of Freight from one Port to another, have received and taken any Sums o● Money above the Statute-Allowance in that behalf, viz. For every dry Fat, 6 d. for every Bale, one Foot long, 1 s. for every Hogshead, Pipe, or Tierce of Wine, 5 s.  
Except, All decayed Houses of Husbandry, and Housewifery, and Enclosures, and Severalties, converting of any Lands used and occupied to Tillage and Sowing, into Pasture and Feeding; whereby Idleness increaseth, Husbandry and Housewifery is decayed, and Towns are dis-peopled, contrary to the Statute in that Case made and provided.  
Except, All such Persons as shall maliciously and willingly burn or cut, or cause to be burned or cut, any Conduit, or Trough, Pipe, or any other Instrument used as means of Conveyance of any Liquor, Water, or other kind of Moisture.  
Except, All Commoners within any Forest, Chace, Moor, Marsh, Heath, or other waste Ground, which hath put to Pasture into, or upon the same, any stoned Horses, not being of the Altitude and Height contained in the Statute, in that Case made and provided for the good Breed of strong and large Horses, which is much decayed, little stoned Horses, Nags and Hobbies being put to Pasture there, and in such Commons.  
Except, All Fugitives, Failers and Flinchers, that with Shame and Discredit are fled and vanished out of the Prince's Dominions of Purpoole, and especially from his Court at Graya, this time of Christmas, to withdraw themselves from His Honour's Service and Attendance, contrary to their Duty and Allegiance, and to their perpetual Ignominy, and incurable Loss of Credit and good Opinion, which belongeth to ingenious and wellminded Gentlemen.  
Except, All Concealments, and wrongful Detainments of any Subsidies and Revenues, Benevolences and Receipts upon Privy Seals, etc.  
Except, All, and all manner of Offences, Pains, Penalties, Mulcts, Fines, Amerciaments and Punishments, Corporal and Pecuniary, whatsoever.   
The Pardon being thus read by the Solicitor, the Prince made a short Speech to his Subjects, wherein he gave them to understand, that although in Clemency he pardoned all Offences, to that present time; yet notwithstanding, his me●ning thereby was not to give any the least occasion of Presumption in breaking his Laws, and the Customs laudably used through his Dominions and Government. Neither did he now so graciously forgive all Errors and Misdemeanours as he would hereafter severely and strictly reform the same. His Will was, that Justice should be administered to every Subject, without any Partiality and that the Wronged should make their Causes known to himself, by Petition to the Master of the Requests: And further excused the Causes of the great Taxes, and Sums of Money, that were levied, by reason that his Predecessors had not left his Coffers full of Treasure, nor his Crown so furnished, as became the Dignity of so great a Prince.  
Then His Highness called for the Master of the Revels, and willed him to pass the time in Dancing: So his Gentlemen-Pensioners and Attendants, very gallantly appointed, in thirty Couples, danced the Old Measures, and their Galliards, and other kind of Dances, revelling until it was very late; and so spent the rest of their Performance in those Exercises, until it pleased His Honour to take his way to his Lodging, with Sound of Trumpets, and his Attendants in order, as is above set down.  
There was the Conclusion of the first grand Night, the Performance whereof increased the Expectation of those things that were to ensue; insomuch that the common Report amongst all Strangers was so great, and the Expectation of our Proceedings so extraordinary, that it urged us to take upon us a greater State than was at the first intended: And therefore, besides all the stately and sumptuous Service that was continually done the Prince, in very Princely manner; and besides the daily Revels, and such like Sports, which were usual, there was intended divers grand Nights, for the Entertainment of Strangers to our Pass-times and Sports.  
The next grand Night was intended to be upon Innocents-Day at Night; at which time there was a great Presence of Lords, Ladies, and worshipful Personages, that did expect some notable Performance at that time; which, indeed, had been effected, if the multitude of Beholders had not been so exceeding great, that thereby there was no convenient room for ●hose that were Actors; by reason whereof, very good Inventions and Conceits could not have opportunity to be applauded, which otherwise would have been great Contentation to the Beholders. Against which time, our Friend, the Inner Temple, determined to send their Ambassador to our Prince of State, as sent from Frederick Templarius, their Emperor, who was then busied in his Wars against the Turk. The Ambassador came very gallantly appointed, and attended by a great number of brave Gentlemen, which arrived at our Court about Nine of the Clock at Night. Upon their coming thither, the King at Arms gave notice to the Prince, then sitting in his Chair of State in the Hall, that there was come to his Court an Ambassador from his ancient Friend the State of Templaria, which desired to have present Access unto His Highness; and showed his Honour ●urther, that he seemed to be of very good sort, because he was so well attended; and therefore desired that it would please His Honour that some of his Nobles and Lords might condu●t him to His Highness' Presence; which was done. So he was brought in very solemnly, with Sound of Trumpets, the King at Arms and Lords of Purpoole making to his Company, which marched before him in order. He was received very kindly of the Prince, and placed in a Chair besides His Highness, to the end that he might be Partaker of the Sports intended. But first, he made a Speech to the Prince, wherein he declared how his excellent Renown and Fame was known throughout all the whole World; and that the Report of his Greatness was not contained within the Bounds of the Ocean, but had come to the Ears of his noble Sovereign, Frederick Templarius, where he is now warring against the Turks, the known Enemies to all Christendom; who having heard that His Excellency kept his Court at Graya this Christmas, thought it to stand with his ancient League of Amity and near Kindness, that so long hath been continued and increased by their noble Ancestors of famous Memory and Desert, to gratulate his Happiness, and flourishing Estate; and in that regard, had sent him his Ambassador, to be residing at His Excellency's Court, in honour of his Greatness, and token of his tender Love and Good Will he beareth to His Highness; the Confirmation whereof he especially required, and by all means possible, would study to increase and eternize: Which Function he was the more willing to accomplish, because our State of Graya did grace Templaria with the Presence of an Ambassador about thirty Years since, upon like occasion.  
Our Prince made him this Answer, That he did acknowledge that the great Kindness of his Lord, whereby he doth invite to further degrees in firm and Loyal Friendship, did deserve all honourable Commendations, and effectual Accomplishment, that by any means might be devised; and that he accounted himself happy, by having the sincere and steadfast Love of so gracious and renowned a Prince, as his Lord and Master deserved to be esteemed; and that nothing in the World should hinder the due Observation of so inviolable a Band as he esteemed his Favour and Good Will. Withal, he entered into Commendations of his noble and courageous Erterprises, in that he chooseth out an Adversary fit for his Greatness to encounter with, his Honour to be illustrated by, and such an Enemy to all Christendom, as that the Glory of his Actions tend to the Safety and Liberty of all Civility and Humanity; yet, notwithstanding that he was thus employed, in this Action of honouring us, he showed both his honourable Mindfulness of our Love and Friendship, and also his own Puissance, that can afford so great a number of brave Gentlemen, and so gallantly furnished and accomplished: And so concluded, with a Welcome both to the Ambassador himself, and his Favourites, for their Lord and Master's sake, and so for their own good Deserts and Condition.  
When the Ambassador was placed, as aforesaid, and that there was something to be performed for the Delight of the Beholders, there arose such a disordered Tumult and Crowd upon the Stage, that there was no Opportunity to effect that which was intended: There came so great a number of worshipful Personages upon the Stage, that might not be displaced; and Gentlewomen, whose Sex did privilege them from Violence, that when the Prince and his Officers had in vain, a good while, expected and endeavoured a Reformation, at length there was no hope of Redress for that present. The Lord Ambassador and his Train thought that they were not so kindly entertained, as was before expected, and thereupon would not stay any longer at that time, but, in a sort, discontended and displeased. After their Departure the Throngs and Tumults did somewhat cease, although so much of them continued, as was able to disorder and confound any good Inventions whatsoever. In regard whereof, as also for that the Sports intended were especially for the gracing of the Templarians, it was thought good not to offer any thing of Account, saving Dancing and Revelling with Gentlewomen; and after such Sports, a Comedy of Errors (like to Plautus his Menechmus) was played by the Players. So that Night was begun, and continued to the end, in nothing but Confusion and Errors; whereupon, it was ever afterwards called, The Night of Errors.  
This mischanceful Accident sorting so ill, to the great prejudice of the rest of our Proceedings, was a great Discouragement and Disparagement to our whole State; yet it gave occasion to the Lawyers of the Prince's Council, the next Night, after Revels, to read a Commission of Oyer and Terminer, directed to certain Noblemen and Lords of His Highness' Council, and others, that they should inquire, or cause Enquiry to be made of some great Disorders and Abuses lately done and committed within His Highness' Dominions of Purpoole, especially by Sorceries and Enchantments; and namely, of a great Witchcraft used the Night before, whereby there were great Disorders and Misdemeanours, by Hurly-burlies, Crowds, Errors, Confusions, vain Representations and Shows, to the utter Discredit of our State and Policy.  
The next Night upon this Occasion, we preferred Judgements thick and threefold, which were read publicly by the Clerk of the Crown, being all against a Sorcerer or Conjurer that was supposed to be the Cause of that confused Inconvenience. Therein was contained, How he had caused the Stage to be built, and Scaffolds to be reared to the top of the House, to increase Expectation. Also how he had caused divers Ladies and Gentlewomen, and others of good Condition, to be invited to our Sports; also our dearest Friend, the State of Templaria, to be disgraced, and disappointed of their kind Entertainment, deserved and intended. Also that he caused Throngs and Tumults, Crowds and Outrages, to disturb our whole Proceedings. And Lastly, that he had ●oisted a Company of base and common Fellows, to make up our Disorders with a Play of Errors and Confusions; and that that Night had gained to us Discredit, and itself a Nickname of Errors. All which were against the Crown and Dignity of our Sovereign Lord, the Prince of Purpoole.  
Under Colour of these Proceedings, were laid open to the View, all the Causes of note that were committed by our chiefest Statesmen in the Government of our Principality; and every Officer in any great Place, that had not performed his Duty in that Service, was taxed hereby, from the highest to the lowest, not sparing the Guard and Porters, that suffered so many disordered Persons to enter in a● the Court-Gates: Upon whose aforesaid Indictments, the Prisoner was arraigned at the Bar, being brought thither by the Lieutenant of the Tower (for at that time the Stocks were graced with that Name;) and the Sheriff impanelled a Jury of Twenty four Gentlemen, that were to give their Verdict upon the Evidence given. The Prisoner appealed to the Prince his Excellency for Justice, and humbly desired, that it would please His Highness to understand the Truth of the Matter by his Supplication, which he had ready to be offered to the Master of the Requests. The Prince gave leave to the Master of the Requests, that he should read the Petition; wherein was a Disclosure of all the Knavery and Juggling of the Attorney and Solicitor, which had brought all this Law-stuff on purpose to blind the Eyes of his Excellency, and all the honourable Court there, going about to make them think, that those things which they all saw and preceived sensibly to be in very deed done, and actually performed, were nothing else but vain Illusions, Fancies, Dreams and Enchantments, and to be wrought and compassed by the Means of a poor harmless Wretch, that never had heard of such great Matters in all his Life: Whereas the very Fault was in the Negligence of the Prince's Council, Lords and Officers of his State, that had the Rule of the Roast, and by whose Advice the Commonwealth was so sound misgoverned. To prove these things to be true, he ●rought divers Instances of great Absurdities committed by the greatest; and made such Allegations, as could not be denied. These were done by some that were touched by the Attorney and Solicitor, in their former Proceedings, and they used the Prisoners Names for means of Quittance with them in that behalf. But the Prince and Statesmen (being pinched on both sides, by both the Parties) were not a little offended at the great Liberty that they had taken, in censuring so far of His Highness' Government; and thereupon the Prisoner was freed and pardoned, the Attorney, Solicitor, Master of the Requests, and those that were acquainted with the Draught of the Petition, were all of them commanded to the Tower; so the Lieutenant took charge of them. And this was the End of our Law-sports, concerning the Night of Errors.  
When we were wearied with mocking thus at our own Follies, at length there was a great Consultation had for the Recovery of our lost Honour. It was then concluded, that first the Prince's Council should be reform, and some graver Conceits should have their places, to advise upon those things that were propounded to be done afterward. Therefore, upon better Consideration, there were divers Plots and Devices intended against the Friday after New-years-day, being the 3 d. of january: And to prevent all unruly Tumults, and former Inconveniences, there was provided a Watch of Armed Men, to ward at the four Ports; and Whifflers, to make good Order under the four Barons; and the Lord Warden to oversee them all, that none but those that were of good Condition might be suffered to be let into the Court: And the like Officers were every where appointed.  
On the 3 d. of january at Night, there was a most honourable Presence of Great and Noble Personages, that came as invited to our Prince; as namely, the Right Honourable the Lord Keeper, the Earls of Shrewsbury, Cumberland, Northumberland, Southampton and Essex, the Lords Buckhurst, Windsor, Mountjoy, Sheffield, Compton, Rich, Burleygh, Mounteagle, and the Lord Thomas Howard; Sir Thomas Henneage, Sir Robert Cecil; with a great number of Knights, Ladies and very worshipful Personages: All which had convenient Places, and very good Entertainment, to their good Liking and Contentment.  
When they were all thus placed and settled in very good Order, the Prince came into the Hall with his wont State, and ascended his Throne at the high End of the Hall, under His Highness' Arms; and after him came the Ambassador of Templaria, with his Train likewise, and was placed by the Prince as he was before; his Train also had Places reserved for them, and were provided for them particularly. Then, after variety of Music, they were presented with this Device.  
At the side of the Hall, behind a Curtain, was erected an Altar to the Goddess of Amity; her Arch-Flamen, ready to attend the Sacrifice and Incense that should, by her Servants, be offered unto her: Round about the same sat Nymphs and Fairies, with Instruments of Music, and made very pleasant Melody with Viols and Voices, and sang Hymns and Praises to her Deity.  
Then issued forth of another Room the first pair of Friends, which were Theseus and Pirithous; they came in Arm in Arm, and offered Incense upon the Altar to their Goddess, which shined and burned very clear, without Blemish; which being done, they departed.  
Then likewise came Achilles and Patroclus; after them, Pylades and Orestes; then Scipio and Lelius: And all these did, in all things, as the former, and so departed.  
Lastly, were presented Graius and Templarius; and they two came lovingly, Arm in Arm, to the Altar, and offered their Incense as the rest, but the Goddess did not accept of their Service; which appeared by the troubled Smoke, and dark Vapour, that choked the Flame, and smothered the clear burning thereof. Hereat, the Arch-Flamen, willing to pacify the angry Goddess, preferred certain mystical Ceremonies and Invocations, and commanded the Nymphs to sing some Hymns of Pacification to her Deity, and caused them to make proffer of their Devotion again; which they did, and then the Flame burned more clear than at any time before, and continued longer in brightness and shining to them, than to any of those Pairs of Friends that had gone before them; and so they departed.  
Then the Arch-Flamen did pronounce Grayus and Templarius to be as true and perfect Friends, and so familiarly united and linked with the Bond and League of sincere Friendship and Amity, as ever were Theseus and Pirithous, Achilles and Patroclus, Pylades and Orestes, or Scipio and Lelius; and therewithal did further divine, that this Love should ●e perpetual. And Lastly, denounced an heavy Curse on them that ●hall any way go about to break or weaken the same; and an Happiness to them that study and labour to eternize it for ever. So with sweet and pleasant Melody, the Curtain was drawn, as it was at the first.  
Thus was this Show ended, which was devised to that End, that those that were present might understand, that the Unkindness which was growing betwixt the Templarians and us, by reason of the former Night of Errors, and the uncivil Behaviour wherewith they were entertained● as before I have partly touched, was now clean rooted out and forgotten, and that we now were more firm Friends, and kind Lovers, than ever before we had been, contrary to the evil Reports that some Enviers of our Happiness had sown abroad.  
The Prince then spoke to the Ambassador, that the Show had contented him exceedingly; the rather, that it appeared thereby, that their ancient Amity was so fresh and flourishing, that no Friendship in the World hath been compared to the Love and Good Will of the Grayans and Templarians. And to the end that he might show that the Conceit was pleasing unto him, His Highness offered the Lord Ambassador, and some of his Retinue, with the Knighthood of the Helmet, an Order of his own Institution.  
To that end His Excellency called to him his King at Arms, and willed him to place the Ambassador, and some of his Followers, and also some of his own Court, that they might receive the Dignity at his hands; which being done, and the Master of the Jewels attending with the Collar of the Order, the Prince came down from his Chair of State, and took a Collar, and put it about the Lord Ambassador's Neck, he kneeling down on his Left Knee, and said unto him, Sois Chivaler; and so was done to the rest, to the number of Twenty four.  
So the Prince and the Lord Ambassador took their Places again in their Chairs, and the rest according to their Condition.  
Then Helmet, His Highness' King at Arms, stood forth before the Prince, in his Surcoat of Arms, and caused the Trumpets to sound, and made his Speech, as doth follow.  
The most mighty and puissant Prince, Sir Henry, my gracious Lord and Sovereign, Prince of Purpoole, Archduke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke of High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles' and Tottenham, Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, great Lord of the Cantons of Islington, Kentish-Town, Paddington and Knightsbridge, hath heretofore, for the special gracing of the Nobility of his Realm, and honouring the Deserts of Strangers, his Favourites, instituted a most honourable Order of Knighthood of the Helmet, whereof His Honour is Sovereign, in Memory of the Arms he beareth, worthily given to one of his noble Ancestors, many Years past, for saving the Life of his then Sovereign; in regard that as the Helmet defendeth the chiefest part of the Body, the Head; so did he guard and defend the sacred Person of the Prince, the Head of the State. His Highness at this time had made choice of a Number of virtuous and no●le Personages, to admit them into his honourable Society; whose good Example may be a Spur and Encouragement to the young Nobility of his Dominions, to cause them to aspire to the height of all honourable Deserts.  
To the honourable Order are annexed strict Rules of Arms, and Civil Government, religiously to be observed by all those that are admitted to this Dignity. ●ou therefore, most noble Gentlemen, whom His Highness at this time so greatly honoureth with his Royal Order, you must every one of you kiss your Helmet, and thereby promise and vow to observe and practise, or otherwise, as the Case shall require, eat and avoid all these Constitutions and Ordinances, which, out of the Records of my Office of Arms, I shall read unto you.  
Then the King at Arms took his Book, and turned to the Articles of the Orders, and read them, as followeth.  
Imprimis, EVery Knight of this honourable Order, whether he be a Natural Subject, or Stranger born, shall promise never to bear Arms against His Highness' Sacred Person, nor his State; but to assist him in all his lawful Wars, and maintain all his just Pretences and Titles; especially, His Highness' Title to the Land of the Amazons, and the Cape of Good Hope.  
Item● No Knight of this Order shall, in point of Honour, resort to any Grammar-rules out of the Books De Dullo, or such like; but shall, out of his own brave Mind, and natural Courage, deliver himself from Scorns, as to his own Discretion shall seem convenient.  
Item, No Knight of this Order shall be inquisitive towards any Lady or Gentlewoman, whether her Beauty be English or Italian, or whether, with Care taking, she have added half a Foot to her Stature; but shall ●ake all to the best. Neither shall any Knight of the aforesaid Order presume to affirm, that Faces were better twenty Years ago, than they are at this present time, except such Knight have passed three Climacterical Years.  
Item, Every Knight of this Order is bound to perform all requisite and Manly Service, be it Night-service, or otherwise, as the Case requireth, to all Ladies and Gentlewomen, beautiful by Nature, or by Art; ever offering his Aid, without any Demand thereof: And if in case he fail so to do, he shall be deemed a Match of Disparagement to any His Highness' Widows, or Wards-Female; and His Excellency shall in Justice forbear to make any Tender of him to any such Ward or Widow.  
Item, No Knight of this Order shall procure any Letters from His Highness, to any Widow or Maid, for his Enablement and Commendation, to be advanced to Marriage; but all Prerogative, Wooing set apart, shall for ever cease, as to any of these Knights, and shall be left to the Common Laws of this Land, declared by the Statute, Quia Electiones liberoe esse debent.  
Item, No Knight of this honourable Order, in case he shall grow into decay, shall procure from His Highness' Relief and Sustentation, any Monopolies or Privileges, except only these kinds following; that is to say, Upon every Tabaco-pipe, not being one Foot wide. Upon every Lock that is worn, not being seven Foot long. Upon every Health that is drank, not being of a Glass five Foot deep. And upon every Maid in His Highness' Province of Islington, continuing a Virgin after the Age of fourteen Years, contrary to the Use and Custom in that place always had and observed.  
Item, No Knight of this Order shall have any more than one Mistress, for whose sake he shall be allowed to wear three Colours: But if he will have two Mistresses, then must he wear six Colours; and so forward, after the rate of three Colours to a Mistress.  
Item, No Knight of this Order shall put out any Money upon strange Returns or Performances to be made by his own Person; as, to hop up the stairs to the top of St. Paul's, without intermission; or any other such like Agilities or Endurances, except it may appear, that the same Performances or Practices do enable him to some Service or Employment; as, if he do undertake to go a Journey backward, the same shall be thought to enable him to be an Ambassador into Turkey.  
Item, No Knight of this Order, that hath had any Licence to travel into Foreign Countries, be it by M●p, Card, Sea, or Land, and hath returned from thence, shall presume, upon the Warrant of a Traveller, to report any extraordinary Varieties; as, that he hath ridden through Venice on Horseback Post, or that in December he sailed by the Cape of Norway, or that he hath traveled over the most part of the Countries of Geneva, or such like Hyperboles, contrary to the Statute, Propterea quod qui diversos terrarum ambitus errand & vagantur, etc.  
Item, Every Knight of this Order shall do his Endeavour to be much in the Books of the worshipful Citizens of the principal City, next adjoining to the Territories of Purpoole; and none shall unlearnedly, or without looking, pay ready Money for any Wares, or other things pertaining to the Gallantness of His Honour's Court; to the ill Example of others, and utter Subversion of Credit betwixt Man and Man.  
Item, Every Knight of this Order shall apply himself to some or other virtuous Quality or Ability of Learning, Honour and Arms; and shall not think it sufficient to come into His Honour's Presence-Chamber in good Apparel only, or to be able to keep Company at Play and Gaming: For such it is already determined, that they be put and taken for Implements of Household, and are placed in His Honour's Inventory.  
Item, Every Knight of this Order shall endeavour to add Conference and Experience by Reading; and therefore shall not only read and peruse Guizo, the French Aca●●●●, Galiat●o the Courtier, Plutarch, the Arcadia, and the Neoterical Writers, from time to time; but also frequent the Theatre, and such like places of Experience; and resort to the better sort of Ordinaries for Conference, whereby they may not only become accomplished with Civil Conversations, and able to govern a Table with Discourse; but also sufficient, if n●ed be, to make Epigrams, Emblems, and other Devices appertaining to His Honour's learned Revels.  
Item, No Knight of this Order shall give out what gracious Words the Prince hath given him, nor leave Word at his Chamber, in case any come to speak with him, that he is above with His Excellency; nor cause his Man, when he shall be in any public Assembly, to call him suddenly to go to the Prince, nor cause any Packet of Letters to be brought at Dinner or Suppertime, nor say that he had the Refusal of some great Office, nor satisfy Suitors, to say, His Honour is not in any good Disposition, nor make any narrow Observation of His Excellency's Nature and Fashions, as if he were inward privately with His Honour; contrary to the late Inhibition of selling of Smoak.  
Item, No Knight of this Order shall be armed, for the Safeguard of his Countenance, with a Pike in his Mouth, in the nature of a Tooth-picker, or with any Weapon in his Hand, be it Stick, Plume, Wand, or any such like: Neither shall he draw out of his Pocket any Book or Paper, to read, for the same intent; neither shall he retain any extraordinary Shrug, Nod, or other ●amiliar Motion or Gesture, to the same end; for His Highness, of his gracious Clemency, is disposed to lend his Countenance to all such Knights as are out of Countenance.  
Item, No Knight of this Order, that weareth Fustian, Cloth, or such Statute-Apparel, for Necessity, shall pretend to wear the same for the new Fashion's sake.  
Item, No Knight of this Order, in walking the Streets, or other places of Resort, shall bear his Hands in his Pockets of his great rolled Hose, with the Spanish Wheel, if it be not either to defend his Hands from the Cold, or else to guard forty Shillings Sterling, being in the same Pockets.  
Item, No Knight of this Order shall lay to Pawn his Collar of Knighthood for an hundred Pounds; and if he do, he shall be, ipso facto, discharged; and it shall be lawful for any Man whatosever, that will retain the same Collar ●or the Sum aforesaid, forthwith to take upon him the said Knighthood, by reason of a secret Virtue in the Collar; for in this Order, it is holden for a certain Rule, that the Knighthood followeth the Collar, and not the Collar the Knighthood.  
Item, that no Knight of this Order shall take upon him the Person of a Malcontent, in going with a more private Retinue than appertaineth to his Degree, and using but certain special, obscure Company, and commending none but Men disgraced, and out of Office; and smiling at good News, as if he knew something that were not true; and making odd Notes of His Highness' Reign, and former Governments; or saying, that His Highness' Sports were well sorted with a Play of Errors; and such like pretty Speeches of Jest, to the end that he may more safely utter his Malice against His Excellency's Happiness; upon pain to be present at all His Excellency's most glorious Triumphs.  
Lastly, All the Knights of this honourable Order, and the renowned Sovereign of the same, shall yield all Homage, Loyalty, unaffected Admiration, and all humble Service, of what Name or Condition soever, to the incomparable Empress of the Fortunate Island.  
When the King at Arms had read all these Articles of the Order of the Knighthood, and finished the Ceremonies belonging to the same, and that every one had taken their Places as before, there was variety of Consort-Musick; and in the mean while, the Knights of the Order, which were not Strangers, brought into the Hall a Running Banquet in very good order, and gave it to the Prince, and Lords, and other Strangers, in imitation of the Feast that belongeth to all such honourable Institutions.  
This being done, there was a Table set in the midst of the Stage, before the Prince's Seat; and there sat six of the Lords of his Privy Council, which at that time were appointed to attend, in Council, the Prince's Leisure. Then the Prince spoke to them in this manner.  
My Lords,  
WE have made choice of you, as Our most faithful and favoured Counsellors, to advise with you, not any particular Action of Our State, but in general, of the Scope and End whereunto you think it most for our Honour, and the Happiness of Our State, that Our Government be rightly bend and directed: For We mean not to do as many Prince's use; which conclude of their Ends out of their own Honours, and take Counsel only of the Means (abusing, for the most part, the Wisdom of their Counsellors) set them the right way to the wrong place. But We, desirous to leave as little to Chance or Humour as may be, do now give you liberty and warrant to set before Us, to what Port, as it were, the Ship of Our Government should be bounden. And thi● We require you to do, without either Respect to Our Affections, or your own; neither g●essing what is most agreeable with Our Disposition, wherein We may easily deceive you; for Prince's Hearts are inscrutable: Nor, on the other side, putting the Case by yourselves, as if you would present Us with a Robe, whereof Measure were taken by yourselves. Thus you perceive Our Mind, and We expect your Answer.  

The First Counsellor advising the Exercise of War.  
Most Excellent Prince,  
EXcept there be such amongst us, as I am fully persuaded there is none, that regardeth more his own Greatness under you, than your Greatness over others, I think there will be little difference in the choosing for you a Goal worthy your Virtue and Power. For he that shall set before him your Magnanimity and Valour, supported by the Youth and Disposition of your Body; your flourishing Court, like the Horse of Troy, full of brave Commanders and Leaders; your populous and Man-rife Provinces, over●lowing with Warlike People; your Co●fers, like the Indian Mines, when that they are first opened; your Storehouses are as Sea-walls, like to Vulcan's Cave; your Navy like to an huge floating City; the Devotion of your Subjects to your Crown and Person, their good Agreement amongst themselves, their Wealth and Provision; and then your Strength and unrevocable Confederation with the noble and honourable Personages, and the Fame and Reputation without of so rare a Concurrence, whereof all the former Regards do grow: How can he think any Exercise worthy of your Means, but that of Conquest? For, in few Words, What is your Strength, if you find it not? Your Fortune, if you try it not? Your Virtue, if you show it not? Think, Excellent Prince, what Sense of Content you found in yourself, when you were first invested in our State: For though I know Your Excellency is far from Vanity and Lightness, yet it is the nature of all things to find Rest when they come to due and proper places. But be assured of this, that this Delight will languish and vanish; for Power will quench Appetite, and Satiety will endure Tediousness. But if you embrace the Wars, your Trophies and Triumphs will be as continual Coronations, that will not suffer your Glory and Contentment to fade and wither. Then when you have enlarged your Territories, ennobled your Country, distributed Fortunes, good or bad, at your pleasure, not only to Particulars, but to Cities and Nations; marked the Computations of Times with your Expeditions and Voyages, and the Memory of Places by your Exploits and Victories, in your later Years you shall find a sweet Respect into the Adventures of your Youth, you shall enjoy your Reputation, you shall record your Travels, and after your own time, you shall eternize your Name, and leave deep Footsteps of your Power in the World. To conclude, Excellent Prince, and most worthy to have the Titles of Victories added to other your high and deserved Titles; Remember, the Divines find nothing more glorious to resemble our State unto, than a Warfare. All things in earnest and jest do affect a kind of Victory, and all other Victories are but Shadows to the Victories of the Wars. Therefore embrace the Wars, for they disparage you not; and believe that if any Prince do otherwise, it is either in the Weakness of his Mind or Means.   

The Second Councillor advising the Study of Philosophy.  
IT may seem, Most Excellent Prince, that my Lord, which now hath spoken, did never read the just Censures of the wisest Men, who compared great Conquerors to great Rovers and Witches, wh●se Power is in Destruction, and not in Preservation; else would he never have advised your Excellency to become as some Comet, or Blazing Star, which should threaten and pretend nothing but Death and Dearth, Combustions and Troubles of the World. And whereas the governing Faculties of Men are two, Force and Re●son; whereof the one is Bruit, and the other Divine, he wisheth you, for your principal Ornament and Regality, the Talons of the Eagle to catch the Prey, and not the piercing Sight which seeth into the bottom of the Sea: But I, contrariwise, will wish unto your Highness the Exercise of the best and purest part of the Mind, and the most innocent and meriting Request, being the Conquest of the Works of Nature; making his Proportion, that you bend the Excellency of your Spirits to the searching out, inventing and discovering of all whatsoever is hid in secret in the World, that your Excellency be not as a Lamp that shineth to others, and yet s●eth not itself; but as the Eye of the World, that both carrieth and useth Light. Antiquity, that presenteth unto us in dark Visions, the Wisdom of former Times, enforceth us, that the Kingdoms have always had an Affinity with the Secrets and Mysteries of Learning. Amongst the Persians, the Kings were attended on by the Magis; the Gymnasophists had all the Government under the Princes of Asia; and generally, those Kingdoms were accounted most happy, that had Rulers most addicted to Philosophy: The Ptolemies in Egypt may be for instance; and Solyman was a Man so seen in the Universality of Nature, that he wrote an Herbal of all that was green upon the Earth. No Conquest of Julius Caesar m●de him so remembered as the Calendar. Alexander the Great wrote to Aristotle, upon the publishing of the Physics, that he esteemed more of excellent Men in Knowledge, than in the Empire. And to this purpose I will commend to your Highness four principal Works and Monuments of yourself: First, The collecting of a most perfect and general Library, wherein whatsoever the Wit of Man hath heretofore committed to Books of worth, be they ancient or modern, printed or Manuscript, European or of the other Parts, of one or other Language, may be made contributory to your Wisdom. Next, a spacious, wonderful Garden, wherein whatsoever Plant, the Sun of divers Climates, out of the Earth of divers Moulds, either wild, or by the Culture of Man, brought forth, may be, with that Care that appertaineth to the good prospering thereof, set and cherished. This Garden to be built about with Rooms, to stable in all rare Beasts, and to cage in all rare Birds; with two Lakes adjoining, the one of fresh Water, and the other of salt, for like variety of Fishes: And so you may have, in a small Compass, a Model of Universal Nature made private. The third, A goodly huge Cabinet, wherein whatsoever the Hand of Man, by exquisite Art or Engine, hath made rare in Stuff, Form, or Motion, whatsoever Singularity, Chance and the Shuffle of things hath produced, whatsoever Nature hath wrought in things that want Life, and may be kept, shall be sorted and included. The fourth, Such a Still-house so furnished with Mills, Instruments, Furnaces and Vessels, as may be a Palace fit for a Philosopher's Stone. Thus when your Excellency shall have added depth of Knowledge to the fineness of Spirits, and greatness of your Power, than indeed shall you lay a Trismegistus; and then, when all other Miracles and Wonders shall cease, by reason that you shall have discovered their natural Causes, yourself shall be left the only Miracle and Wonder of the World.   

The Third Councillor advising Eternizement and Fame, by Buildings and Foundations.  
My Lords that have already spoken, Most Excellent Prince, h●v● both used one Fallacy, in taking that for certain and granted, which was most uncertain and doubtful; for the one hath neither drawn in question the Success and Fortune of the Wars, nor the other, the Difficulties and Errors in the Conclusions of Nature: But these immoderate Hopes and Promises do many times issue from those of the Wars, into Tragedies of Calamities and Distress●s; and those of Mystical Philosophy, into Comedies of ridiculous Frustrations and Disappointments of such Conceits and Curiosities: But, on the other side, in one Point my Lords have well agreed; That they both, according to their several Intentions, counselled your Excellency to win Fame, and to eternize your Name; though the one adviseth it in a Course of great Peril, and the other, of little Dignity and Magnificence. But the plain and approved Way that is safe, and yet proportionable to the Greatness of a Monarch, to present himself to Posterity, is not Rumour and Hear-say; but the usual Memory of himself, is the Magnificence of goodly and Royal Buildings and Foundations, and the new Institutions of Orders, Ordinances and Societies; that is, that your Coin be stamped with your own Image; so in every part of your State there may be somewhat new; which, by Continuance, may make the Founder and Author remembered. It was perceived at the first, when Men sought to cure Mortality by Fame, that Buildings was the only way; and thereof proceeded the known holy Antiquity of building the Tower of Babel; which, as it was a Sin in the immoderate Appetite of Fame, so was it punished in the kind; for the Diversities of Languages have imprisoned Fame ever since. As for the Pyramids, the Colossuses, the number of Temples, Colleges, Bridges, Aqueducts, Castles, Theatres, Palaces, and the like, they may show us, that Men ever mistrusted any other way to Fame than this only, of Works and Monuments. Yea, even they which had the best Choice of other Means. Alexander did not think his Fame so engraven in his Conquests, but that he thought it further shined in the Buildings of Alexandria. Augustus Caesar thought no Man had done greater things in Military Actions than himself, yet that which, at his Death, ran most in his Mind, was his Building; when he said, not as some mistake it, metaphorically, but literally, I found the City of Brick, but I leave it of Marble. Constantine the Great was wont to call with Envy the Emperor Trajan, Wall-flower, because his Name was upon so many Buildings; which notwithstanding, he himself did embrace in the new founding of Constantinople, and sundry other Buildings: And yet none greater Conquerors than these two. And surely they had reas●n; for the Fame of great Actions is like to a Land-flood, which hath no certain Head or Spring; but the Memory and Fame of Buildings and Foundations hath, as it were, a Fountain in an Hill, which continually seedeth and refresheth the other Waters. Neither do I, Excellent Prince, restrain my Speeches to dead Buildings only, but intent it also to other Foundations, Institutions and Creations; wherein I presume the more to speak confidently, because I am warranted herein by your own Wisdom, who have made the First Fruits of your Actions of State, to institute the honourable Order of the Helmet: The less shall I need to say, leaving your Excellency not so much to follow my Advice, as your own Example.   

The Fourth Councillor, advising Absoluteness of State and Treasure.  
LET it not seem Pusillanimity for your Excellency, Mighty Prince, to descend a little from your high Thoughts to a necessary Consideration of your own Estate. Neither do you deny, Honourable Lords, to acknowledge Safety, Profit and Power to be of the Substance of Policy, and Fame and Honour rather to be as Flowers of well ordered Actions, than as good Guides. Now if you examine the Courses propounded according to these Respects, it must be confessed, that the course of Wars may seem to increase Power, and the course of Contemplations and Foundations not prejudice Safety; but if you look beyond the exterior, you shall find that the first breeds Weakness, and the latter note Peril; for certain it is during Wars, your Excellency will be enforced to your Soldiers, and generally to your People, and become less Absolute and Monarchical than if you reigned in Peace; and than if your Success be good, that you make new Conquests, you shall be constrained to spend the strength of your ancient and settled Provinces, to assure your new and doubtful, and become like a strong man, that by taking a great Burden upon his Shoulders, maketh himself weaker than he was before. Again, if you think you may not end Contemplations with Security, your Excellency will be deceived; for such Studies will make you retired and disused with your Business; whence will follow admiration of your Authority; as for the other Point, of exercising in every part of your State something new, derived from yourself, it will acquaint your Excellency with an humour of Innovation and Alteration; which will make your Reign very turbulent and unsettled, and many times your Change will be for worse; as in the Example last touched, of Constantine, who by his new Translation of his Estate, ruinated the Roman Empire. As for Profit, there appeareth a direct contrariety betwixt that and all the three Courses; for nothing causeth such dissipation of Treasure as Wars, Curiosities and Buildings; and for all this to be recompensed in a supposed Honour, a Matter apt to be much extolled in Words, but not greatly to be praised in Conceit, I do think it a Losers Bargain. Besides that, many politic Princes have received as much Commendation for their wise and well ordered Government, as others have done for their Conquests and glorious Affections. And more worthy, because the Praise of Wisdom and judgement is less communicated with Fortune. Therefore, Excellent Prince, be not transported with Shows; follow the Order of Nature, first to make the most of that y●u possess, before you seek to purchase more. To put the Case by a private Man (for I cannot speak high) if a man were born to an hundred Pounds by the Year, and one show him how with Charge to purchase an hundred Pounds more, and another should show him how without Charge to raise that hundred Pounds unto five hundred Pounds, I should think the latter Advice should be followed. The Proverb is a Countrey-Proverb, but significative, Milk the Cow that standeth still; why follow you her that flieth away? Do not think, Excellent Prince, that all the Conquests you are to make be foreign; you are to conquer here at home the overgrowing of your Grandees in Factions, and too great Liberties of your People, the great Reverence and Formalities given to your Laws and Customs, in derogation of your absolute Prerogatives; these and such like be Conquests of State, though not of War. You want a Joseph, that should by Advice make you the only Proprietor of all the Lands and Wealth of your Subjects. The Means how to strain up your Sovereignty, and how to accumulate Treasure and Revenue, they are the Secrets of your State: I will not enter into them at this place; I wish your Excellency as ready to them, as I know the means ready to perform them.   

The Fifth Councillor advising him Virtue, and a Gracious Government.  
Most Excellent Prince,  
I Have heard sundry Plaits and Propositions offered unto you severally: One, to make you a great Prince; another, to make you a strong Prince; and another, to make you a memorable Prince; and a fourth, to make you an absolute Prince; but I hear of no mention to make you a good and a virtuous Prince; which surely my Lords have le●t out in discretion, as to arise o● your own motion and choice; and so I should have thought, had they not handled their own Propositions so artificially and persuadingly, as doth assure me their Speech was not formal. But, most Worthy Prince, Fame is too light, and Pro●it and Surety are too low, and Power is either such as you have, or ought not so to seek to have; it is the meriting of your Subjects, the making of Golden Times, the becoming of a Natural Parent to your State: These are the only and worthy Ends of your Grace's virtuous Reign. My Lords have taught you to refer all things to yourself, your Greatness, Memory and Advantage; but whereunto shall yourself be referred? If you will be heavenly, you must have Influence; will you be as a standing Pool, that spendeth and choketh his Spring within its self, and hath no Streams nor Current to bless and make fruitful whole Tracts of Country's, wher●●y it reneweth? Wherefore, first of all, m●st Virtuous Prince, assure your s●lf of an inward Peace, that the Storms without do not disturb any of your Repair●rs of State within; therein use and practice all honourable Divers●ons; that done, visit all the parts of your S●ate, and let the Balm d●st●l every where from your Sovereign Hands to the medicining of any part that complaineth, beginning with your Seat of State, take order that the Fault of your Greatness do not rebound upon your s●lf; have care that your Intelligence, which is the Light of your State, do not go out or burn dim or obscure; advance Men of Virtue, and not of Mercenary Minds; repress all Faction's, be it either malign or violent. Then look into the State of your Laws and Justice of your Land; purge out multiplicity of Laws, clear the incertainty of them, repeal those that are snaring, and prise the execution of those that are wholesome and necessary; define the Jurisdiction of your Courts, reprize all Suits and Vexations, all causeless Delays and fraudulent Shifts and Devices, and reform all such Abuses of Right and Justice, assist the Ministers thereof, punish severely all Extortions and Exactions of Officers, all Corruptions in Trials and Sentences of Judgement. Yet when you have done all this, think not that the Bridle and Spur will make the Horse to go alone without Time and Custom. Trust not to your Laws for correcting the Times, but give all strength to good Education; see to the Government of your Universities, and all Seminaries of Youth, and of the private Order of Families, maintaining due Obedience of Children towards their Parents, and Reverence of the younger sort towards the ancient. Then when you have confirmed the Noble and Vital Parts of your Realm of State, proceed to take care of the Blood and Flesh and good Habit of the Body. Remedy all decays of Population, make provision for the Poor, remove all stops in Traffic, and all Cancers and Causes of Consumption in Trades and Mysteries; redress all: But whither do I run, exceeding the Bounds of that perhaps I am now demanded? But pardon me, most Excellent Prince, for as if I should commend unto your Excellency the Beauty of some excellent Lady, I could not so well express it with Relation, as if I showed you her Picture; so I esteem the best way to commend a virtuous Government, to describe and make appear what it is; but my Pencil perhaps disgrac●th it: Therefore I leav● it to your Excellency, to take the Picture out of your wise Observation, and then to double it, and express it in your Government.   

The Sixth Councillor persuading Pass-times and Sports.  
WHen I heard, Most Excellent Prince, the three first of my Lords so careful to continue your Fame and Memory, methought it was as if a Man should come to some young Prince, as your self is; and immediately after his Coronation, be in hand with him to make himself a sumptuous and stately Tomb. And, to speak out of my Soul, I muse how any of your Servants can once endure to think of you, as of a Prince past. And for my other Lords, who would engage you so deeply in Matters of State; the one persuading you to a more absolute, the other to a more gracious Government; I assure your Excellency, their Lessons were so cumbersome, as if they would make you a King in a Play; who when one would think he standeth in great Majesty and Felicity, he is troubled to say his part. What! Nothing but Tasks, nothing but Working-days? No Feasting, no Music, no Dancing, no Triumphs, no Comedies, no Love, no Ladies? Let other Men's Lives be as Pilgrimages, because they are tied to divers Necessities and Duties; but Prince's Lives are as Progresses, dedicated only to Variety and Solace. And if your Excellency should take your Barge in a Summer-Evening, or your H●●se or Chariot, to take the Air; and if you should do any the honour to visit hi●; y●t your Pleasure is the principal, and that is but as it falleth out. S● if any of these Matters which have been spoken of, fall out in the w●y 〈◊〉 your Pleasure, it may be taken; but no otherwise. And therefore leave your Wars to your Lieutenants, and your Works and Buildings to your Surveyors, and your Books to your Universities, and your State-matters to your Councillors, and attend you that in Person, which you cannot execute by Deputy: Use the Advantage of your Youth, be not sullen to your Fortune; make your Pleasure the Distinction of your Honours, the Studies of your Favourites, the Talk of your People, and the Allurement of all Foreign Gallants to your Court. And, in a word, Sweet Sovereign, dismiss your five Councillors, and only take Council of your five Senses.  
BUt if a Man should follow your five Senses (said the Prince) I perceive he might ●ollow your Lordship, now and then, into an Inconvenience. Your Lordship is a Man of a very lively and pleasant Advice; which though one should not be forward to follow, yet it fitteth the time, and what Our own Humour inclined oftentimes to, Delight and Merriment. For a Prince should be of a cheerful and pleasant Spirit; not austere, hard-●ronted and stoical; but after serious Affairs, admitting Recreation, and using Pleasures, as Sauces for Meats of better Nourishment.   

The Prince's Answer and Conclusion to the Speeches of the Councillors.  
My Lords,  
WE thank you for your good Opinions; which have been so well set forth, as We should think Ourselves not capable of good Counsel, if, in so great variety of persuading Reasons, we should suddenly resolve. Mean while, it shall not be amiss to make choice of the last, and upon more Deliberation to determine of the rest; and what Time we spend in long Consulting, in the end we will gain by prompt and speedy Executing.   
The Prince having ended his Speech, arose from his Seat, and took that Occasion of Revelling: So he made choice of a Lady to dance withal; so likewise did the Lord Ambassador, the Pensioners and Courtiers attending the Prince. The rest of that Night was passed in those Pass-times. The Performance of which Nights work being very carefully and orderly handled, did so delight and please the Nobles, and the other Auditory, that thereby Grays-Inn did not only recover their lost Credit, and quite take away all the Disgrace that the former Night of Errors had incurred; but got instead thereof, so great Honour and Applause, as either the good Reports of our honourable Friends that were present could yield, or we ourselves desire.  
The next Day the Prince, accompanied with the Ambassador of Templaria, and attended by both Trains, took his Progress from his Court of Graya, to the Lord Mayor's House, called Cosby's Place, in Bishop's-gate-street; as being, before that time, invited to dine with him. This Show was very stately and orderly performed; the Prince being mounted upon a rich Foot-cloth, the Ambassador likewise riding near him; the Gentlemen attending, with the Prince's Officers, and the Ambassador's Favourites, before; and the other coming behind the Prince; as he set it down in the general Marshalling, in the beginning. Every one had his Feather in his Cap, to distinguish of whether State he was; the Grayans using a white, and the Templarians using Ash-coloured Feathers; to the number of fourscore in all, very well appointed, and provided of great Horses and Foot-cloths, according to their Places. Thus they road very gallantly, from Grays-Inn, through Chancery-lane, Fleetstreet, so through Cheapside, Cornhill, and to Cosby's Place, in Bishop's-gate-street; where was a very sumptuous and costly Dinner for the Prince, and all his Attendants, with variety of Music, and all good Entertainment. Dinner being ended, the Prince and his Company having reveled a while, returned again the same Way, and in the same Order as he went thither, the Streets being thronged and filled with People, to see the Gentlemen as they passed by; who thought there had been some great Prince, in very deed, passing through the City. So this popular Show through the Streets pleased the Lord Mayor and his Commonalty so well, as the great Lords, and others of good Condition and Civility, were contented with our former Proceedings.  
Shortly after this Show, there came Letters to our State from Frederick Templarius; wherein he desired, that his Ambassador might be dispatched with Answer to those Things which he came to treat of. So he was very honourably dismissed, and accompanied homeward with the Nobles of Purpoole: Which Departure was before the next grand Day. The next grand Night was upon Twelfth-day at Night; at which time the wont honourable and worshipful Company of Lords, Ladies and Knights were, as at other times, assembled; and every one of them placed conveniently, according to their Condition. And when the Prince was ascended his Chair of State, and the Trumpets sounded, there was presently a Show which concerned His Highness' State and Government: The Invention was taken out of the Prince's Arms, as they are blazoned in the beginning of his Reign, by the King at Arms.  
First, There came six Knights of the Helmet, with three that they led as Prisoners, and were attired like Monsters and Miscreants. The Knights gave the Prince to understand, that as they were returning from their Adventures out of Russia, wherein they aided the Emperor of R●ssia, against the Tartars, they surprised these three Persons, which were conspiring against His Highness and Dignity: and that being apprehended ●y them, they could not urge them to disclose what they were: By w●●ch they res●ing very doubtful, there entered in the two Goddesses ●●●e●y and Amity; and they said, that they would disclose to the Pr●●●● who these suspected Persons were; and thereupon showed, that they were Envy, Malcontent and Folly: Which three had much mis-liked His Highness' Proceedings, and had attempted many things against his State; and but for them two, Virtue and United Friendship, all their Inventions had been disappointed. Then willed they the Knights to depart, and to carry away the Offenders; and that they themselves should come in more pleasing sort, and better befitting the present. So the Knights departed, and Virtue and Amity promised, that they two would support His Excellency against all his Foes whatsoever, and then departed with most pleasant Music. After their Departure, entered the six Knights in a very stately Mask, and danced a new devised Measure; and after that, they took to them Ladies and Gentlewomen, and danced with them their Galliards, and so departed with Music. Which being done● the Trumpets were commanded to sound, and then the King at Arms came in before the Prince, and told His Honour, that there was arrived an Ambassador from the mighty Emperor of Russia and Moscovy, that had some Matters of Weight to make known to His Highness. So the Prince willed that he should be admitted into his Presence; who came in Attire of Russia, accompanied with two of his own Country, in like Habit. When they were come in presence of the Prince, the Ambassador made his Obeisance, and took out Letters of Credence, and humbly delivered them to the Prince, who gave them to the King at Arms, to be read publicly, as followeth.  
To the most High and Mighty Henry, Prince of Purpoole.  
THeodore Evanwhich, the great and mighty Emperor of all Russia, Valderomia, Muscovia and Nevogordia; King of Rasan, and of Astrakan; Lord of Plescoe and Sinelescoe; Prince of Tnaria, S●goria, Perma, Vachekey and Bolgaria; Lord and great Duke of Valhadha, Norgordia in the Country of Cherenega; and also of Rescod, Polotzkoe, Ogdor and Belesor; sole Prince of Lothekey, Rostow, Geroslave, the white Lake Liselrund, Owdoria, Condencia and Fludoria; great Ruler and Commander of Siberia, and of all the North-side; and Lord Governor of many other Countries and Provinces: To the most mighty, and glorious renowned Henry, Prince of Purpoole, Archduke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke of High and Nether Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles' and Tottenham, Count Palatine of Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell, great Lord of the Cantons of Islington, Kentish-Town, Paddington and Knightsbridge, Knight of the most Heroical Order of the Helmet, and Sovereign of the same; All Health, and glorious Renown. We have thought good, Most Invincible Prince, upon some Accidents of Importance happened to our State, wherein the Worthiness of some of your Subjects remaining here have increased your Fame, to dispatch to your Highness Our most faithful Councillor, Faman Bega, to entreat with you, in Our Name, of certain important Affairs: Which, though We must confess, do concern Us in Policy, to have an effectual Regard unto; yet withal, they are such as may minister Occasion to your Highness to add Beams of Honour to your Praise and Glory, which hath already, in a manner, equalled the Light of Heaven in Brightness, which is seen throughout the whole World. We refer you herein for the Particulars, to such Instructions as We have, under Our own Hand, delivered to this our present Ambassador: Wherein, as also in any other Points, whereof he shall treat with your Highness, in Our Name and Affairs, We pray your Sacred Majesty to give Credit to him, as if Ourselves were present, and treated with you in Pers●n. And so We wish to your Excellency all Happiness answerable to your Peerless Virtue.  
Dated at Our Imperial City of Moscow.  
When the King at Arms had read this Letter, the Ambassador made this Speech to the Prince.  
Most Excellent Prince,  
FAme seemed to the Emperor, my Sovereign, to do your Highness Right, by filling the World with the Renown of your Princely Virtues, and Valour of your brave Court; till of late, the gallant Behaviour, and heroical Prowess of divers your Knights of the Helmet, whom the good Fortune of Russia, addressed to your cold Climate, discovered that Fam●, to be either envious in suppressing a great part of your Valour, or unable to set forth so admirable Virtues to their full Merits: For by these five Knights (whose greatest Vaunts were, that they were your Excellency's Servants) an exceeding number of Bigarian Tartars, whose vagabond Inroads, and inhuman Fierceness insested his Borders, captivated his People, burnt his Cities, and spoiled whole Provinces, was by a most wonderful Victory, repulsed, and beaten back. And withal, by their brave Conduct, they surprised another Army of Ne-gro-Tartars; whose wretched Devices ceased not to work the Confusion and Combustion of our whole Country, and diverted their barbarous Cruelty where it might do us most damage. These same worthy Knights, before they could receive that Honour wherewith my Sovereign intended to adorn their Virtues, did withdraw themselves, and are retired, as His Majesty is informed, to your Court. Whereupon, he sent me, partly to congratulate your Happiness, who deserve to command over such a number of gallant Gentlemen; but especially, to conjure your Excellency (according to the ancient League and Amity continued betwixt you) that you would send him these six Knights, accompanied with an hundred other of the same Order; for he doubteth not, but by their Virtues, accompanied and attended with his own Forces, who are, in largeness of Dominion, and number of People, and all other Warlike Furniture and Provision, inferior to no Earthly Potentate, that these Runagate Tartars shall be again confined to their Deserts, with their memorable Slaughter, and your common Glory and Profit: Common indeed, both to your Highness, and him; inasmuch as His Imperial Majesty, contented only with Security and Assurance of his People and Borders, will permit all those large Territories, and battable Grounds, which now serve those Vermin for Pasturage, be sorted into several Governments, and strengthened with Forts and Castles by your Direction, to be holden of your Excellency, as Commendations by the Knights of special Virtue and Merit of your Order. So shall you, with honourable Commodity, have a perpetual Exercise of your Virtues, become a Bulwark of Christendom, and by raising continual Trophies of strengthened Tartars, keep the Glory of your Virtue in everlasting Flourish. My Sovereign, not doubting but that your Resolution will be conformable to your magnanimous Virtue, and his honourable Demand, charged me only to solicit Expedition, such as the Necessity of his People and Country doth require. In the mean time, he hath sent your Excellency, for a Present, a Ship laden with divers of the best and fairest Fruits, and other richest Commodities of our Country: Not so much, by Gifts to draw on your speedy Help, to which, he knoweth, the Truth and Justice of the Case will be a Spur sufficient; or for Compliment of an ordinary and seldom omitted Companion of great Embassies; but rather for a Seal and Testimony of the exceeding Honour that he beareth to your matchless Virtue, and the great Love he beareth to your incomparable Person. The Present is at your next Haven, ready to be offered to your Sacred Hands, at your convenient leisure; together with some small Gifts sent to those valiant Knights, whose highly deserving Virtues my Sovereign meaneth, at their long expected Return to his Court, to crown with a Garland more worthy his Greatness, and their Merits.  

The Answer of the Prince to the former Speech.  
Russia Lord,  
THe Emperor, your Master, is happy in having so honourable a Gentleman, as yourself, to do him Service. He shall well perceive, that there is nothing in the World more acceptable to Us, than the Friendship of a Prince so mighty and illustrious. We account, amongst our greatest Happinesses, t●is honourable Embassage. His Presents are so large and bountiful, as We have right good Occasion to hold him the most free and magnificent Prince in the World. We joy to hear of his hardy Adventures, that by Our Knights in those Parts have been achieved. They may be glad that our worthy Brother invited them to so high an Enterprise, wherein they may do themselves Honour, and His Greatness Service. Rest and refresh your Lordship this present, for now We bid you welcome: Assure yourself, your Request is already granted, and that in far greater Measure than you expected or desired.   
When the Prince had thus spoken, the Ambassador was placed in a Chair near the Prince; and then was served up a Running Banquet, for the Prince, and the Lord● present, and the rest, with variety of Music.  
Whilst th●se things were thus a doing, there came a Post-boy, with Letters of Intelligence concerning the State, from divers Parts of His Highness' Provinces, and delivered them to the Secretary; who made the Prince acquainted therewith, and caused them to be read openly and publicly.  
A Letter of Advertisement from Knightsbridge, to the Honourable Council.  
I Beseech your Honours to advertise His Highness, that in His Excellency's Canton of Knightsbridge, there do haunt certain Foreigners, that seize upon all Passengers, taking from them by force their Goods, under a pretence that being Merchants Strangers, and using Traffic into His Highness' Territories of Clerken-well, Islington, and elsewhere, they have robbed of their Goods, spoiled of their Wares; whereby they were utterly undone: And that His Honour, of his good Will, hath been pleased to grant them Letters of Reprisal, to recover their Loss of them that come next to their Hands: By colour whereof, they lay hold of all that pass by, without respect. Some of their Names, as I understand, are Johannes Shagbag, Robertus Untruss, James Rapax, alias Capax. There do reign likewise thereabouts another sort of dangerous People, under the Name of poor Soldiers, that say they were maimed, and lost their Limbs in His Honour's Service and Wars against the Amazons; and they pretend to have Passports from their Captains. Some of them say, they have served under Sir Robert Kemp, and Sir William Cook; others, under William Knaplocks, Lord Marshal, Sir Francis Marham, Captain Crymes, Captain Conny, Yeluerton, Hugan, Sir Francis Davison, and some other of good Place. Some say, that they were maimed with Firelocks; others, in the Trenches; others, in going with their Captains, to discover Ambuscadoes of the Enemy, and to view the Forts; others, in standing Sentry, whilst the Captains were busied in entering the Breach; others, in the very Approach at the first. But the number of them is great, and the same inclined to do much Mischief. Another sort there is, that pretend that they have Protections to beg, in regard of their Losses by Shipwreck upon certain Rocks of Hazard, Barred Quarter-trays, High-men and Low-men, Bom-Cards, the Sands of Bowle-Allies, the Shelf of Newcut, the Gulf of Mine and Gill, and such other like places of Peril. Some of them are called by the Names of Harry Ordinary, Jack Moneyless, Will Cog-all, and Roger Spend-all. These aforesaid People do gather together in great numbers, and His Excellency's Subjects hereabouts stand in great fear of Outrages by them to be committed, except His Highness do prevent the same, and that speedily, by sending some of the Captains aforesaid to disperse them.  
Your Honours at Command, Henry Brownbill. From Knightsbridge jan. 5. 1594.  
Another Letter from Sea, directed to the Lord Admiral.  
BY my Letters given at Pont-Holborn, the Last of December, I gave your Honour to understand, that His Excellency's Merchants of Purpoole began to surcease their Traffic to Clerkenwell, Newington and Bankside, and such like Roads of Charge and Discharge, because they feared lest certain Rovers, which lay hover about the Narrow Seas, should intercept them in their Voyages. Since which time, may it please your Honour, I have discovered an huge Armado of French Amazons, to the number of seven hundred Characts, Galleasses, great Galleasses, and tall Ships; besides Pinnaces, Frigates, Carvels, Shallops, and such small Vessels innumerable; which being dispersed into sundry Creeks, work daily much damage to all sorts of People, and Adventurers hold in durance; not suffering one Man to escape, till he have turned French. Divers Ensigns, Standards, Pendants, Tilting-staves, short Truncheons for the principal Officers, and such like Provision for His Excellency's Triumphs, they have cast overboard; for no other Cause, save that his Subjects were bound inward from Gelderland, a Nation that they have always hated: Besides that, they exact so unreasonably of those that trade into netherlands, that they leave them neither Lands, Goods, nor good Wares. Also they sink all those that use any Dealings with the People of Cleive, without respect, whether he be Merchant, or Man of War. To conclude, they burn all those Vessels that transport any dry Wares into the Low-Countries. Moreover, I am to advertise your Honour, that on the 9 th'. Day of january, in the Straits of the Gulf of Clerkenwell, there was an hot Skirmish between a Merchant of St. Giles', called Amarpso, and the Admiral of the Amazons, called the Rowse-flower; wherein the Merchant having gained the Wind, came up with her in such close manner, that he broke his Bolt-sprite in her hinder Quarter: Yet notwithstanding, the Fight continued fiercely, on either part, two long Hours, and more; in which time, our Gunner, being a very expert Soldier, shot her ●our or five times under Water: Then the Merchant perceiving his Powder to be spent, was enforced to grapple; and so, with great Resolution, laid her a-board on the Waste, which he found stoutly defended by the French; yet, at length, being driven from their close Fight, they were constrained to keep under Hatches, where one of the Soldiers entering, spied Fire in the Gun-room; notwithstanding he descended very desperately. Then the Admiral, seeing no hope to escape, fired her Powder, and burned herself. The Soldiers, and the Ship, which, as I after learned, was of an incomparable Burden; insomuch that she had been known to have born nine hundred fight Men in her Poup. Her chief Lading was Cochenella, Musk, Guaiacum, Tabaco and Le grand Vezolle. The chief of Account that were blown up, were Catharina Dardana, Pecta de Lee, and Maria de Rotulis. The rich Carack of Newington coming to rescue their Admiral, were so close at fight when she was fired, that the Flame of the Wildfire caught hold of their Captain's inner cabin; and had not one Barbara de Chirurgia been ready with his Syringe, to have cast on Water, Milk, Lotium, and such like cooling Liquors, and there quenched the Wildfire betimes, they had been both, doubtless, consumed to Ashes: But by his Care and Coming, they are both escaped alive, though shrewdly scorched, and are taken Prisoners. The whole number of them that perished in this hot Conflict, is five hundred fifty five; and Prisoners, ninety nine. Our Ship had no other hurt, save that she sprang her Mainmast in such sort, as that she is not able to bear any high Sa●l. Thus having advertised your Honour of every Particular Accident which I could learn, I am humbly to desire your Lordship to acquaint His Excellency and his Privy Council therewith; that such speedy Order may be taken therein, as seemeth to their Wisdoms most conv●nient. And so, with all Duty, I kiss your Hands.  
Your Honour's Servant, John Puttanemico. From the Harbour of Bridewell, the 10 th'. of January, 1594.  
There were also read like Letters from Stapulia and Bernardia, of Intelligences, and also from Low-Holborn; wherein were set forth the Plots of Rebellion and Insurrection, that those, His Excellency's Subjects, had devised against His Highness and State, and of some other Occurrences in those Parts of His Highness' Dominions. And when they were all read, the Prince made this Speech following.  THese sudden Accidents (Lords) would make a Prince of little Spirit suspect himself to be unfortunate. The Stapulian fallen away; the Bernardian holds out! News of Tumults, Treasons, Conspiracies, Commotions, Treacheries, Insurrections! Say our Lands were sacked, our Wealth spoiled, our Friends slain, ourselves forsaken, vanquished, captivated, and all the Evils that might be, were fallen upon Us; yet could there be nothing so adverse, but that our Fortitude and height of Courage were able to over-work. These Events are not Matters of Moment, or of Substance of our Government: These are not Misfortunes, but Fortune's jests, that gives them she loves not, shows of good Luck, that in the end she may do them greater Spite: But when she meaneth Good, she prepares Men with some little Bitterness, that her good Turns, when they come, may seem more pleasant and delightful. These Events proceed of Error in our former Government, who should not have put great Men, well loved, or popular, into so great places of Sovereignty; nor one Man should possess so great a Place, of so great Command; by too much Authority and Greatness, a right good Mind is oftentimes corrupted: In this late, We rather allow a severe Man, somewhat hated; for better were a little profitable Civil Dissension, than a League and Love that were likely to prove dangerous. Lords, you shall find it an harder matter to keep things once gotten, than at the first to obtain it. Hitherto no Prince in this World hath had better Success than ourselves. Men say, that Sovereignty is uncertain, and an ill Security; subject to Cares, Troubles, Envy, Treacheries, Hate, Fear, Distrust: We have hitherto found none of those. That a Prince hath no sure Friend, no faithful Servant, no safe Place, no quiet Hour, no secure Pleasure: All these have We, and more, in great abundance; and these things, which to other Princes have been the occasions of Mishap, have been to Us the very Instruments of Pleasure, and much Service. What Prince ever found in his Subjects, in Matters of Weight, more Love, more Loyalty, more Readiness, more Service? When We have been inclined to solace, what Liveliness, what Alacrity, what ingenious Devices, Sports, jollities, what variety of Pleasure? How have We been honoured with the Presents of divers Princes, Lords, and Men of great Worth; who, confident in our Love, without Fear or Distrust, have come to visit Us; by whose honourable Kindness, We are to them for ever devinct, and most firmly bounden? How hath the favourable Regard, and bright Eyes of brave Ladies shined upon Our Endeavours, which to their Honours and Service have been ever intended? How have We been gratulated with divers Ambassadors from divers Nations? What Concourse of all People hath been continually at Our Court, to behold Our Magnificence? Shall small Matters therefore daunt Us? Shall a few tumultuary Disorders dismay Us? Shall ill-guided Insurrections trouble Us, that are, like Mushrooms, sprung up in a Night, and rotten before the Morning? We are loath to believe that there be such Sparks of Dissension and Mischief; but if there be, We will make haste to quench them, before they grow into violent Flames; for it is no longer Consulting, where a Man cannot commend the Counsel, before he hath seen the Effect. Nor shall it require the Presence of a Prince to settle these small Commotions: Lords, We send you to these Places where Need is; and as Occasion serveth, We will take Order that Garrisons be planted, Citadels erected, and whatsoever else be performed, that shall be convenient to sub-act and bring under these unsettled Provinces. Ourselves, with Our chosen Knights, with an Army Royal, will make towards our Brother of Russia, with my Lord here, his Ambassador, presently to join with him against his Enemies, the Negarian Tartars; more dreadful, the Barbarian Tartars: And if Fortune will not grace Our good Attempt, as I am rightful Prince, and true Sovereign of the honourable Order of the Helmet, and by all those Ladies whom, in Knightly Honour, I love and serve, I will make the Name of a Grayan Knight more dreadful to the Barbarian Tartars, than the Macedonian to the wearied Persians, the Roman to the dispersed Britain's, or the Castalian to the weakened Indians. Gentle Ladies, be now benign and gracious to your Knights, that never pleased themselves, but when their Service pleased you; that for your sakes shall undertake hard Adventures, that will make your Names and Beauties most famous, even in Foreign Regions; let your Favour kindle the Vigour of their Spirits, wherewith they abound; for they are the Men, by whom your Fame, your Honour, your Virtue shall be for ever advanced, protected and admired. 
When the Prince had concluded, for his Farewell, he took a L●dy to dance withal, and so did the rest of the Knights and Courtiers; and after some time spent in Revelling, the Prince took his way to his Lodging, and so the Company dissolved, and made an end of this Night's Work.  
On the next Morning His Highness took his Journey towards Russia, with the Ambassador, and there he remained until Candlemas; at which time, after his glorious Conquests abroad, His Excellency returned home again; in which the Purpose of the Gentlemen was much disappointed by the Readers and Ancients of the House, by reason of the Term: So that very good Inventions, which were to be performed in public at his Entertainment into the House again, and two grand Nights which were intended at his Triumphal Return, wherewith his Reign had been conceitedly determined, were by the aforesaid Readers and Governors made frustrate, for the Want of Room in the Hall, the Scaffolds being taken away, and forbidden to be built up again (as would have been necessary for the good Discharge of such a Matter) thought convenient; but it showed rather what was performed, than intended. Brie●ly, it was as followeth.  
Upon the 28 ●h. of january, the Hall being sat at Dinner, with Readers, and all the rest of the House, suddenly sounded a Trumpet; which being thrice done, there entered the King at Arms, and in the midst of them, said as followeth.  ON the behalf of my Sovereign Lord, Sir Henry, the Right Excellent, and A●l-conquering Prince of Purpoole, Archduke of Stapulia and Bernardia, Duke o● High and Net●er Holborn, Marquis of St. Giles' and Tottenham, Count P●l●tine of Bloomsbury and Cl●r●●nwell, great Lord of the Cannon's of Islington, Kentish-Town, Paddington and Knightsbridge, Knight of the m●st Heroical Order of the Helmet, and Sovereign of the same; I, H●s Excellency's King at Arm●, dispatched from his Royal N●v●, triumphantly returning from his glorious Conquests of the Negarian Tartars, do, in His Highness' N●me, command all his Officers, Knights and Pensioners to give their Attendance on His Highness' Person, at his Port of Black-wallia, on the 1st● of February. And His Highness hath further commanded me to give notice to all his Servants within his Dominions, of whatsoever Condition, that they be ready to perform all Offices of Obedience and Subjection, as well becometh their Loyalty to so Gracious a Sovereign's 
When this News of the Prince's Return out of Russia was thus sent abroad, and that it was known that His Highness was to come by Greenwich, where the Court then lay, it was given the Gentlemen to understand, that Her Majesty did expect, that in passing by, our Prince should land, and do his Homage; the rather because, in Christmas, there was great Expectation of his coming thither, to present Her Majesty with some Pass-time, and none performed. Whereupon it was determined, that in passing by, there should be a Letter directed to Sir Thomas Heneage, our honourable good Friend, that he should excuse us for that time; which Letter hereafter is set down.  
Upon the 1st. of February, the Prince and his Train were met at Black-wall; from whence they came upon the River of Thames, in a very gallant Show. Being come so near his own Country, he left his Navy of Ships, as not fit for so short a Cut, and the matter not being very great or dangerous, and he and his Retinue took to them fifteen Barges, bravely furnished with Standards, Pendants, Flags and Streamers: There was also in every Barge, Music and Trumpets; and in some, Ordnance and Shot. Being thus gallantly appointed, we came on our Way by the Stairs at Greenwich, where the Ordnance was shot off, and the whole Navy made a Sail round about; and the second time, when the Admiral, in which the Prince was, came directly before the Court-Stairs, His Highness dispatched two Gentlemen with Letters to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Heneage; the Copy whereof followeth.  
Henry Prince of Purpoole, to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Heneage.  
Most Honourable Knight,  
I Have now accomplished a most tedious and hazardous journey, though very honourable, into Russia; and returning within the view of the Court of your renowned Queen, my gracious Sovereign, to whom I acknowledge Homage and Service, I thought good, in passing by, to kiss her sacred Hands, as a Tender of the Zeal and Duty I owe unto Her Majesty; but in making the Offer, I found, my Desire was greater than the Ability of my Body; which, by length of my journey, and my Sickness at Sea, is so weakened, as it were very dangerous for me to adventure it. Therefore, most honourable Friend, let me entreat you to make my humble Excuse to Her Majesty for this present: and to certify Her Highness, that I do hope, by the Assistance of the Divine Providence, to recover my former Strength about Shrovetide; at which time I intent to repair to Her Majesty's Court (if it may stand with her gracious Pleasure) to offer my Service, and relate the Success of my journey. And ●o praying your Honour to return me Her Majesty's Answer, I wish you all Honour and Happiness.  
Dated from Shipboard, at our Ark of Vanity, the 1st. of February, 1594.  
The Letter being delivered, and Her Majesty made acquainted with the Contents, her gracious Answer was; That if the Letter had not excused his Passing by, he should have done Homage before he had gone away, although he had been a greater Prince than he was: Yet she said, she liked well his gallant Shows, that were made at his Triumphant Return. And Her Highness added further, That if he would come at Shrovetide, he and his Followers should have Entertainment according to his Dignity. And the Messenger returned Answer.  
The Prince and his Company continued their Course, until they came to the Tower; where, by Her Majesty's Commandment, he was welcomed with a Volley of great Ordnance, by the Lieutenant of the Tower. At the Tower-hill there waited for the Prince's L●nding, Men attending with Horses, very gallantly Appointed, for all the Company, to the number of one hundred; the most of them being great Horses, and the rest very choice Geldings; and all very bravely furnished with all things necessary. So the Prince ●eing moanted, and his Company in Order, as before s●t down, every Man according to his Office, with the Ensign thereof, they road very gallantly through Tower-street, Fen-church-street, Grace-c●urc●-street, Cornhill, Cheapside, and so through St. Paul's Churchyard; where, at St Paul's School, His Highness was entertained with an Oration, made ●y one of the Scholars of that School; the Copy whereof followeth.  

Henrico, Illustrissimo & Potentissimo Purpoolae Principi, Archi-duci Stapuliae & Bernardiae, Superioris & Inferioris Holborn Duci, Sancti Aegidii & Tottenham Marchioni, de Clerkenwell & Bloomsbury Comiti Palatino, Domino magno Cantonum de Islington, Kentish-Town, Paddington & Knightsbridge, Heroici Ordinis Galcotae Equiti Aurato, & ejusdem Domino Serenissimo.  
IMportunum fortasse suerit (Purpooliensis Princeps Serenissime) apud tantam Majestatem t●am tam intempestivo tempore perorare. Vix enim sperare ausus sum, velle te, qui tantam personam sustines, tuumque hunc comitatum verè Aulicum, post victorias partas terrâ marique maximas, ad vocem puerilem in mediâ instructissimi triumphi solemnitate consistere. Verum per affibilitatem in summis principibus semper laudatissimam, liceat mihi proetereunti celsitudini tuae musarum nostrarum benevolentiam offerre, & gratulationem hanc meam qualemcunque post tam illustrem tuum & triumphantem, ac per totum orbem divulgatum è Russiâ reditum, kâc meâ oratione Generosis omnibus testatum relinquere. Quamvis enim subitò nobis excidat, & ad tantam Majestatem quasi obstupescat oratio, gratulatio tamen quae magis sit offerri, quaeque sit officii & amoris erga virtutes Generosas plenior afferri certè quidem non potest. Nonne vides civitatem ipsam quasi sedibus suis convulsam ad congratulandum tanto Principi procedere? Quid existimas totum hunc concursum cogitare? In cujus ora vultusque horum omnium oculos conjectos putas? Quem sensum reddis amicorum nostrorum? Quid cupimus? Quid optamus? Quid agimus? Nonne ut tam voluntates nostras testemur, quam victoriis gratulemur tuis? Quid igitur mirum si schola, etiam nostra virtutum Generosarum emula, victoriis & triumphis illustrissimis gratulari gestiat? Perge igitur, & optimis auspiciis perge, Clarissime Princeps, ad Purpooliense palatium tuum redito, Grayorum oraculum, quo tanquam Delphici Apollinis voce fatidica omnes controversiae dirimuntur. De Hispano hoste omnium Principum communi invadendo, consulito. Quam facile tuus jam sanguine madens Tartarorum gladius, praesertim si Templarios tibi antiquo foedere conjunctos in belli novi societatem asciscas, aliorum omnium & strictos gladios retundet, & clypeos excutiet? Hispani invidia rumpantur ut Ilia Codro. Interim verò Musae nostrae & praeteritis tuis applaudent victoriis, & Paladem suam exorabunt antiquam Grayorum, ut te alterum jam Agamemnonem, qui multos habes Achilles & Ulysses Comites tuos, galeâ suâ induat, clypeo protegat, & hastâ (hostibus tuis omnibus fusis profligatisque) in perpetuum conservat.   
The Oration being ended, the Prince rewarded the Boy very bountifully, and thanked them for their good Wills, and Forwardness to ●hew the same. Then we marched on our Way, as before, by Ludg●te, and through Fleetstreet; where, as all the way else, the Streets were so thronged and filled with People, that there was left but room for the Horsemen that were to pass. In this State the Prince was conducted to Grays-Inn, where His Excellency was received by a Peal of Ordnance, and Sound of Trumpets, and all the good Entertainment that all his loving Subjects could make, to show their Love and Loyalty to His Highness.  
The Prince being thus received, came, after Supper, into the Hall, and there he danced and reveled among the Nobles, and others of his own Court; and in like manner they spent the Day ●ollowing; but there was no other Performance, by reason of want of the Stage and Scaffolds, till Shrovetide, that they went to the Court: And the things that were then performed before Her Majesty, were rather to discharge our own Promise, than to satisfy the Expectation of others. In that regard, the Plot of those Sports were but small; the rather, that Tediousness might be avoided, and confused Disorder, a thing which might easily happen in a multitude of Actions; the Sports therefore consisted of a Mask, and some Spe●●●es, that were as Introductions to it, as followeth.  

The Speakers.  
An Esquire of the Princ●● Company, attended by a Tartarian Page.  
Proteus, the Sea-God, attended by two Tritons.  
Thamesis and Amphitrite, who likewise were attended by their Sea-Nymphs.   
These five were Musicians, which sung on the first Coming on the Stage.  
At the first Coming on the Stage, the Nymphs and Tritons sung this Hymn following, in praise of Neptune; which being ended, the Speakers made their Speeches in order, as followeth.  

OF Neptune's Empire let us sing,  
At whose Command the Waves obey,  
To whom Rivers Tribute pay,  
Down the high Mountains sliding:  
To whom the Scaly Nation yields  
Homage for their Crystal Fields,  
Wherein they dwell.  
And every Sea-God praise again,  
Tearly out of his watery Cell,  
To deck great Neptune's Diadem.   

The Tritons dancing in a Ring,  
Before his Palace-Gates, do make  
The Waiters with their Trumpets quake,  
Like the great Thunder sounding.  
The Sea-Nymphs chant their Accents shrill,  
And the Sirens taught to kill  
With their sweet Voice,  
Make every echoing Voice reply  
Unto their gentle mourning Noise,  
In praise of Neptune's Empery.   Esquire, 
Proteus', it seems you lea● a merry Life;  
Your Music follows you where ere you go.  
I thought you Sea-Gods, as in your Abode,  
So in your Nature, had not been ●nlike  
To Fishes; the which, as say Philosophers,  
Have so small Sense of music's Delight,  
As 'tis a Doubt not fully yet resolved,  
Whether of Hearing they have Sense, or no.  Proteus, 
'Twas great Discourse of Reason, to regard  
The dreaming Guests of a Philosopher,  
That never held his idle buzzing head  
Under the Water half an Hour's space,  
More than that famous old received History  
Of good Arion, by a Dolphin saved.  Esquire, 
Well, let that pass, and to the purpose now:  
I thought that you that are a Demy-God,  
Would not have failed my Expectation thus.  Proteus, 
Why so, fair 'Squire? Is not my Promise kept,  
And duly the appointed time observed?  Esquire, 
Yes; and 'tis that in which I rest deceived:  
I rather deemed, and not without good Cause,  
That those still floating Regions where you bide,  
And th' ever-changing Nature that you have,  
Naught else but Breach of Promise, promised.  Proteus, 
'Twere strange if that my Word, which Credit keeps,  
In future things, and hidden Secrecies,  
Should fond fail in keeping Promise made:  
Fond indeed, when 'tis for my Avail.  
Here are the Rocks; your Person, or your Prize.  
But tell me, Squire; Where's th' appointed place,  
In which we shall these vaunted Wonders see?  Esquire, 
Well may you Wonders term them, Proteus':  
For these are Wonders that pass Humane Wit:  
These shall surpass thy Wit, though half divine.  
But for to put you out of further Doubt,  
This is the place, where all those Promises,  
Agreed upon betwixt the Prince and you,  
Shall be performed; and shall be so performed,  
So far beyond your doubting Expectation,  
So far beyond his modest Declaration.  
And you shall say, thrice happy Prot●us;  
Whose Ears unblessed, were to bless mine Eyes.  Amphitrite, 
Your fair set Speeches make us two amazed.  
But tell us, Squire, what be those Promises,  
And those agreed Covenants? And whereon  
Did they arise 'twixt Proteus and your Prince?  Esquire, 
Fair Amphitrite, I will tell you all.  
After the Victory at Austrican  
Had made an end of the Tartarian War,  
And quite dispersed our vanquished Enemies  
Unto their Hoards, and huge vast Wilderness;  
Our noble Prince, and his courageous Knights,  
Whose untried Valour, in the Battle fought,  
Was rather warmed, than fully exercised,  
Finding no Enterprise that did deserve  
Th' Employment of their brave united Force,  
After Assignment of a Day and Place,  
Where both himself and all his Knights should meet,  
Dispersed themselves into many sundry Quests,  
To seek Adventures as they should befall.  
The Prince himself, who only was attended  
By me his Squire, had many strange Exploits;  
Which since they shortly shall be put in Print,  
Joined with Prince Arthur's famous Chronicle,  
I shall not now need to repeat at large.  
Amongst the rest, when as the time approached,  
That, as it was assigned, we should all meet,  
It thus fell out: The Prince, one Sunshine Day,  
Resting himself within a goodly Tuft  
Of tall straight Firr-trees that adorned the Shoar,  
Reading a Letter, lately sent to him  
From one of his brave Knights, that did import,  
H●w he, in token of his duteous Love,  
And for a Trophy of his Victories,  
Had lately sent him a Commodity  
Of Pigmies, taken in private Conquest,  
Resting and residing: Suddenly he espied  
Of Porpoises a great unusual Flock,  
Playing and springing in the climbing Wave●.  
Drawn with this sight near to the Shoar,  
Mounting a little Cliff, he soon discerned  
A Cave, whose frame seemed more than natural;  
And viewing near with wary heedful Eyes,  
At length he spied this Fish hard there asleep;  
Whom by his Head and Behaviour he suspected  
To be this Proteus; as it was indeed.  
Our Prince straight, ready at his Fortune's Call,  
With easy stealing Steps, drew near to him:  
And being near, with great Agility,  
Siezed suddenly upon this Demy-God.  
He thus surprised, resorted presently  
To his familiar Arts, and turning Tricks.  
My Lord, like to a skilful Falconer,  
Continued still to keep his fastened Hold.  Thamesis. 
The Story of those oft transformed Shapes,  
I long to hear from you that present were,  
And an Eye-witness of that strange Conflict.  Esquire, 
All shall fair Thamesis know then, that Proteus  
Viewing the gallant Shape, and budding Youth  
Of my brave Lord, the Form that first he took,  
Was of a goodly Lady, passing fair;  
Hoping, belike, that whilst he used Respect  
Due to her matchless Beauty, and her Sex,  
Himself being now unloosed, might slide away:  
But finding him, that knew his wily Shifts,  
Embrace him straiter in that feigned shape;  
Next, unto a Serpent he transformed himself,  
With fiery Eyes, and dreadful blackish Scales,  
And three-forked hissing Tongue, that might affright  
Th' undaunted Master of dread Cerberus;  
Pressing with doubled Strength his scaled Crest;  
Wherewith the Prince, rather enraged than feared,  
Made him betake him to another Form;  
Which was, a sumptuous Casket, richly wrought;  
Whereout, when it opened, many Diadems,  
And Rubies of inestimable worth,  
Seemed by chance to drop into the Sea.  
This working nought but Scorn, and high Disdain,  
He lastly showed him a sad Spectacle,  
Which was, the North-East of his valiant Knights,  
And best beloved of my Lord, the Prince,  
Mangled and pricked with many a grisly Wound,  
Weltering their valiant Limbs in purple Gore,  
Gasping, and closing their faint dying Eyes.  
This with the Prince, now used to his Delusions,  
Prevailed no more, than did the rest before.  
When Proteus then had changed his changing Weed,  
And fixed himself in his own wont Shape,  
Seeing no other Means could aught prevail,  
He Ransom proffered for his Liberty.  
And first of all, he offered to aread  
To him, and unto all his Knights, Fortune's Spell.  
But when my Lord replied, that that was fit  
For unresolved Cowards to obtain;  
And how his Fortune's often changing Play,  
Would lose the Pleasure of his chief Delight,  
If the Catastrophe should be before known:  
Then offered he huge Treasures, Ladies Loves,  
Honour and Fame, and famous Victories.  
My Lord made Answer, that he never would  
Offer his Honour so great Wrong, to take,  
By Gift or Magic, without Sweat or Pain,  
Labour or Danger, virtue's truest Prize,  
That, which by mortal Hand might be achieved;  
And therefore willed him, as Demy-God,  
To offer somewhat that might be above  
The lowly Compass of an Humane Power.  
When Proteus saw the Prince could make his Match,  
He told him then, that under th' Arctic Pole  
Th' Adamantine Rock, the Sea's true Star  
Was situate; which, by his Power Divine,  
He, for his Ransom, would remove, and plant  
Whereas he should appoint: Assuring him,  
That the wild Empire of the Ocean  
(If his foretelling Spirit failed him not)  
Should follow that, where e'er it should be set.  
But then again, he added this Condition,  
Which, as he thought, would no way be performed;  
That first the Prince should bring him to a Power,  
Which in attractive Virtue should surpass  
The wondrous force of his Iron-drawing Rocks.  
My Lord, that knew himself as well assured,  
As Proteus thought his own Match surely made,  
Easily yielded to his Covenant;  
And promised further, on his Princely Word,  
That he himself, and seven of his Knights,  
Would enter Hostages into the Rock,  
Which should be brought to the appointed place,  
Till this great Covenant should be performed,  
Which now rests to be done. Now, Proteus,  
Since 'tis a Question of Comparison,  
Blazon you forth the Virtue of your Rock.  Proteus, 
What needeth Words, when great Effects proclaim  
Th' attractive Virtue of th' Adamantine Rocks,  
Which forceth Iron, which all things else commands.  
Iron, of Metals Prince by ancient Right;  
Though factious Men in vain conspire to seat  
Rebellious Gold in his usurped Throne.  
This, sundry Metals, of such strength and use  
(Disjoined by distance o' th' whole Hemisphere)  
Continually, with trembling Aspect,  
True Subject-like, eyes his dread Sovereign.  
Thus hath this Loadstone, by his powerful Touch,  
Made the Iron-Needle, Load-Star of the World,  
A Mercury, to paint the gainest way  
In watery Wilderness, and desert Sands;  
In confidence whereof, th' assured Mariner  
Doth not importune Jove, Sun, or Star.  
By his attractive Force, was drawn to light,  
From depth of Ignorance, that new found World,  
Whose Golden Mines Iron found out and conquered.  
These be the Virtues, and extend so far,  
Which you do undertake to counterpraise.  Esquire, 

Proteus, The Seas have taught your Speech to swell,  
Where Work of Mind doth watery Castles make.  
But calm a while your overweening Vaunts;  
Prepare Belief, and do not use your Eyes.   

Excellent Queen, true Adamant of Hearts;  
Out of that sacred Garland ever grew  
Garlands of Virtues, Beauties and Perfections,  
That crowns your Crown, and dims your Fortune's Beams,  
Vouchsafe some Branch, some precious ●lower, or Leaf,  
Which, though it whither in my barren Verse,  
May yet suffice to over-shade and drown  
The Rocks admired of this Demy-God.  
Proteus, stout Iron-Homager to your Rock,  
In praise of Force, and Instruments of Wars,  
Hath Praise ended; yet place your Praises right;  
For Force to Will, and Wars to Peace do yield.  
But that I'll give you. This I would fain know,  
What can your Iron do without Arms of Men?  
And Arms of Men from Hearts of Men do move:  
That Hearts of Men hath it, their Motion springs.  
Lo Proteus then, the attractive Rock of Hearts:  
Hearts, which once truly touched with her Beams,  
Inspiring purest Zeal and Reverence  
As well unto the Person, as the Power,  
Do straight put off all Temper that is false,  
All hollow Fear, and schooled Flattery,  
Turn Fortune's Wheel, they ever keep their Point,  
And stand direct upon the Loyal Line.  
Tour Rock claims Kindred of the Polar Star,  
Because it draws the Needle to the North;  
Yet even that Star gives place to Cynthia's Rays,  
Whose drawing Virtues govern and direct  
The Flots and Re-flots of the Ocean.  
But Cynthia, praised be your watery Reign,  
Your Influence in Spirits have no place.  
This Cynthia high doth rule those heavenly Tides,  
Whose sovereign Grace, as it doth wax or wain,  
Affections so, and Fortune's ebb and flow:  
Sometimes their Waves applauding on the Shoar,  
Sometimes retiring to their narrow Depths,  
The holy Syrians draw Pilgrims from all Parts,  
To pass the Mountains, Seas and desert Sands.  
Unto this living Saint have Princes high  
Of Foreign Lands, made vowed Pilgrimage.  
What Excellencies are there in this frame,  
Of all things, which her Virtue doth not draw?  
The Quintessence of Wits, the Fire of Loves,  
The Art of Fame, Metals of Courages,  
And by her Virtue long may fixed be  
The Wheel of Fortune, and the Carr of Time.  
In the Protection of this mighty Rock,  
In Britain's Land, whilst Tempests beat abroad,  
The Lordly and the lowly Shepherd both,  
In plenteous Peace have fed their happy Flocks.  
Upon the force of this inviolate Rock,  
The Giantlike Attempts of Power unjust  
Have suffered Wreck. And, Proteus', for the Seas,  
Whose Empire large your praised Rock assures:  
Your Gift is void, it is already here;  
As Russia, China, and Negellan's Strait  
Can witness bear, well may your Presence be  
Impressa apt thereof; but sure, not Cause.  
Fisher divine, congratulate yourself,  
Your Eyes hath won more than your State hath lost;  
Yield Victory, and Liberty, and Thanks.   Proteus. 
Against the Truth, that's Lands and Seas above,  
It fits no Proteus make a vain Reply.  
The Shallop may not with small Ships contend,  
Nor windy Bubble with a Billow strive,  
Nor Earthly things compare with greatest Queen  
That hath and shall a Regal Sceptre sway.  
Blessed be that Prince that forced me see this Grace,  
Which worldly Monarchies, and Sea-Powers adore.  
Take Thanks of Gift, and Liberty of Due.  
When these Speeches were thus delivered, Proteus, with his bident striking of Adamant, which was mentioned in the Speeches, made Utterance for the Prince, and his seven Knights, who had given themselves as Hostages for the performance of the Covenants between the Prince and Proteus, as is declared in the Speeches. Hereat Proteus, Amphitrite and Thamesis, with their Attendants, the Nymphs and Tritons, went unto the Rock, and then the Prince and the seven Knights issued forth of the Rock, in a very stately Mask, very richly attired, and gallantly provided of all things meet for the performance of so great an Enterprise. They come forth of the Rock in Couples, and before every Couple came two Pigmies with Torches. At their first coming on the Stage, they danced a new devised Measure, etc. After which, they took unto them Ladies; and with them they danced their Galliards, Courants, etc. And they danced another new Measure; after the end whereof, the Pigmies brought eight Escutcheons, with the Maskers Devices thereupon, and delivered them to the Esquire, who offered them to Her Majesty; which being done, they took their Order again, and with a new Strain, went all into the Rock; at which time there was sung another new Hymn within the Rock.  

The second Hymn, which was sung at the Departure of the Maskers into the Rock.  
Shadows before the shining Sun do vanish:  
Th' Iron-forcing Adamant doth resign  
His Virtues, where the Diamond doth shine.  
Pure Holiness doth all Enchantments blemish;  
And Councillors of false Principality  
Do fade in presence of true Majesty.  
Shepherd's sometimes in Lion's Skins were clothed;  
But when the Royal Lion doth appear,  
What wonder if the silly Swains, for fear,  
Their Bravery, and Princely Pall have loathed?  
The Lion's Skin, that graced our Vanity,  
Falls down in presence of Her Majesty.   

The Impresses which the Maskers used upon their Escutcheons, for their Devices.  H. Helmes, Prince, In the Bark of a Cedar-tree, the Character E engraven. Crescetis. W. Cook. In a plain Shield, as it were Abrasa tabula. Quid ipsa velis. Jarvis Tevery. A Tortoise, with his Head out of the Shell. Obnoxia. Joh. Lambert. A Torch by the Sun. Quis furor. Molineux. A River with many Turnings, running into the Sea. Semper ad mare. Crimes. A Flag streaming in the Wind. Famamque fovemus inanem. Paylor. A Sail and an Oar together. for'rs & virtus miscentur in unum. Campnies. A Flag of Fire wavering upwards. Tremet & ardet.  
For the present Her Majesty graced every one; particularly, she thanked His Highness for the good performance of all that was done; and wished that their Sports had continued longer, for the Pleasure she took therein: Which may well appear, by her Answer to the Courtiers who danced a Measure, immediately after the Mask was ended; saying. What! Shall we have Bread and Cheese after a Banquet? Her Majesty willed the Lord Chamberlain, that the Gentlemen should be invited on the next Day, and that he should present them unto her: Which was done, and Her Majesty gave them her Hand to kiss, with most gracious Words of Commendations to them; particularly, and in general, of Grays-Inn, as an House that she was much beholden unto, for that it did always study for some Sports to present unto her.  
The same Night there was fight at Barriers; the Earl of Essex and others Challengers, and the Earl of Cumberland and his Company Defendants: Into which number, our Prince was taken, and behaved himself so valiantly and skilfully therein, that he had the Prize adjudged due unto him, which it pleased Her Majesty to deliver him with her own Hands; telling him, that it was not her Gift; for if it had, it should have been better; but she gave it him, as that Prize which was due to his Desert, and good Behaviour in those Exercises; and that hereafter he should be remembered with a better Reward from herself. The Prize was, a Jewel, set with seventeen Diamonds, and four Rubies; in value, accounted worth an hundred Marks.  
Thus on Shrove-Tuesday, at the Court, were our Sports and Revels ended: So that our Christmas would not leave us, till such time as Lent was ready to entertain us, which hath always been accounted a time most apt, and wholly dedicated to Repentance. But now our Principality is determined; which, although it shined very bright in ours, and others Darkness; yet, at the Royal Presence of Her Majesty, it appeared as an obscured Shadow: In this, not unlike unto the Morningstar, which looketh very cheerfully in the World, so long as the Sun looketh not on it: Or, as the great Rivers, that triumph in the Multitude of their Waters, until they come unto the Sea. Sic vinci, sic mori pulchrum.  
FINIS.   

ADVERTISEMENTS.  
There is now published, A Discovery of New Worlds: From the French; made English by Mrs. A. Behn. Together with a Preface, by way of Essay upon Translated Prose, wholly new.  
As also, An Historical and Geographical Account of the Morea, Negropont, and the Maritime Places, as far as Thessalonica: Illustrated with 42 Maps of the Countries, Plains, and Draughts of the Cities, Towns and Fortifications. Written in Italian by P. M. Coronelli, Geographer to the Republic of Venice. Englished by R.W. Gent● Both sold by W. Canning, at his Sho● in the Temple-Cloysters.