GENIUS

TIme, Fate, and Fortune have at length conspired, To give our Age the day so much desired. What all the minutes, hours, weeks, months, and years, That hang in file upon these silver hairs, Could not produce, beneath the As being the first, free, and natural go uernement of this Island, of ter it came to civility. Brittane stroke, The Roman, Saxon, Dane, and Norman In respect they were all Counterfeit ̄ quests & the obedience of the subject more enforced. yoke, This point of Time hath done. Now London rear Thy forehead high, and on it strive to wear Thy choicest Gems; Teach thy steep Towers to rise Higher with people: Set with sparkling eyes Thy spacious windows; and in every street, Let thronging Joy, Love, and Amazement meet. Cleave all the air with show es, and let the cry Strike through as long, and universally As Thunder; For, thou now art blessed to see That sighed, for which thou didst begin to be. When Rather then the City should want a Founder, we choose to follow the received story of Brutus, whither fabulous, or true, and not altoge there vnvvarra ̄ ted in Poetry: since it is a favour of Antiquity to Few cities, to let them know their first Authors. Beside, a learned Poet of our time, in a most elega ̄ to work of his Con. Tam. & ISIS, celebrating London hath this verse of her: Aemula maternae tollens suam lumina Troiae. Here is also and ancient rite alluded to in the building of Cities, which was to give them their bounds with a plough, according to Vir. Aen. li. 10. Inteream Aeneas urbem designate Aratro. And Isidore li. 15. cap. 2. Urbs vocatam ab orb, quod antiquae civitates in orbem fiebant; vel ab vrbe part ratri, quo muri designabantur, unde est illud. Optavit que locum regno & concludere sulco. Brutus plough first gave thee infant bou ̄ ds, Rather then the City should want a Founder, we choose to follow the received story of Brutus, whither fabulous, or true, and not altoge there vnvvarra ̄ ted in Poetry: since it is a favour of Antiquity to Few cities, to let them know their first Authors. Beside, a learned Poet of our time, in a most elega ̄ to work of his Con. Tam. & ISIS, celebrating London hath this verse of her: Aemula maternae tollens suam lumina Troiae. Here is also and ancient rite alluded to in the building of Cities, which was to give them their bounds with a plough, according to Vir. Aen. li. 10. Inteream Aeneas urbem designate Aratro. And Isidore li. 15. cap. 2. Urbs vocatam ab orb, quod antiquae civitates in orbem fiebant; vel ab vrbe part ratri, quo muri designabantur, unde est illud. Optavit que locum regno & concludere sulco. And I, thy GENIUS walked auspicious rounds In every Primigenius sulcus dicitur, qui in condenda novam vrbe, taur & Vacca designationis causam imprimitur; Hitherto respects that of Cammed. Briȝt. 368. speaking of this City, Quicun que autem condiderit, vitali genio, constructam fuisse ipsius fortuna docuit. furrow; Then did I forelook, And saw this day For so all happy days were. Plin. cap. 40. lib. 7. Nat. Hist. To which Horace alludes, lib. 1. ode. 36. Cressa ne careat pulchra die notam. And the other Plin. epist. 11. lib. 6. Oh diem laetum, not and umque mihi candidissimo calculo. With many other in many places. Mars. lib. 8. epi. 45. lib. 9. epi. 53. lib. 10. 38. lib. 11. 37. Stat. lib. 4. Syl. 6. Pers, sat. 2. Catull. epig. 69. &c. marked white in The Parcae, or Fates, Martianus calls them scribas ac libra rias superûm; whereof Clotho is said to be the eldest, signifying in Latin Evocatio. Clotho's book. The several Those before mentioned of the Brittane, Roman, Saxon, &c. and to this Re gister of the Fates allude those verses of Ovid Met. 15—Cernes illic molimine vasto. Exaere, & solido rerum tabularia ferro: Quae neque concussum coeli, ne que fulminis Iram, Nec metuunt ullas tuta at que aeternarvinas. Inuenies illic incisa adamant peren Fata &c.— Circles, both of change and sway, Within this Isle, there also figured lay: Of which the greatest, perfectest, and last Was this, whose present happiness we taste. Why keep you silence Daughters? What dull peace Is this inhabits you? Shall Office cease Upon th'aspect of him, to whom you owe More then you are, or can be? Shall TIME know That Article, wherein your flame stood still, And not aspired? Now heaven avert and ill Of that black look. Ere pause possess your breasts I wish you more of plagues: "Zeal when it rests, Leaves to be Zeal. Up thou tame RIVER, wake; And from thy liquid limbs this slumber S ache: Thou drownest thy self in inofficious sleep; And these thy sluggish waters seem to creep, Rather than flow. Up, rise, and swell with pride Above thy banks. "Now is not every Tide. Indeed, true Gladness does not always speak: Joy bred, and born but in the tongue, is weak. Yet (lest the fervor of so pure a flame As this my City bears, might lose the name, Without the apt eventing of her heat) Know greatest Iames (and no less good, than great.) In the behalf of all my virtuous Sons, Whereof my The Lord Mayor who for his year, hath Senior place of the rest, and for the day was chief Sergeant to the King. eldest there, thy pomp foreruns, (A Man without my flattering, or his Pride, As worthy, as he's Above the blessing of his present office, the word had some particu lar allusion to his name, which is Be net, and hath (no doubt) in time been the contraction of Benedict. blessed to be thy guide) In his graven name, and all his Brothers' right, (Who thirst to drink the Nectar of thy sighed) The Council, Commoners, and Multitude; (Glad, that this day so long denied, is viewed) I tender thee the heartiest welcome, yet That ever King had to his The City, which title is touched before. Empires seat: Never came man, more longed for, more desired: And being come, more reverenced, loved, admired: Hear, and record it: In a Prince it is No little virtue, to know who are his. To the Prince. With Like devotions, do I stoop embrace This springing glory of thy And attribute given to great persons, fitly above other, Humanity, & in frequent use with all the Greek Poets, especially Ho mere. Iliad. in non-Latin alphabet — in non-Latin alphabet . And in the same Book.— in non-Latin alphabet . Godlike raze; His Countries Wonder, Hope, Love, Joy and Pride: How well doth he become the royal side Of this erected, and broad spreading Tree, Under whose shade, may Brittane ever be. And from this branch, may thousand branches more Shoot over the Main, and knit with every shore In onds of Marriage, Kindred, and Increase; And style this Land, the As Lactant. calls Parnas S , Umbilicum terra. Navel of their peace. This is your Servants wish, your Cities vow, Which still shall propagate it self, with you; And free from spurs of Hope, that slow minds move: He seeks no hire, that owes his life to Love. To the Queen. And here she comes that is no less a partly In this days greatness, then in my glad heart. Glory of Queens, and And empha ticall speech, & well re-en forcing her greatness; be king by this match, more than either his Brother, Fa there, &c. Glory of your Name, Whose Graces do as far outspeak your Fame, As Fame does silence, when her Trumpet rings You Daughter to Frederik seco ̄ worser kind of Den mark, & Nor way, sister to Christierne the fourth now there reign king, & wife to James our Sovereign. Daughter, Sister, Wife of several Kings: Beside Alliance, and the style of Mother, In which one Title you drown all your other. Instance, be The Prince Henry Friend rike. that fair shoot, is gone before Your eldest Joy, and top of all your store, With those, whose sighed to us is yet denied, But not our zeal to them, or ought beside This City can to you: For whose estate She Hope's you will be still good Advocate To her best Lord. So, while you mortal are, No taste of Sour mortality once dare Approach your house; nor Fortune greet your Grace But coming on, and with a forward face. STay, what art thou, that in this strange attire, Darest kindle stranger, and unhallowed fire Upon this Altar? A Flamin? I so did guess By my short view, but whence didst thou ascend Hither? or how? or to what mystic end? Sure thou still dost dream, And both thy tongue, and thought rides on the stream Of Phantasy: Behold here He nor She, Have any Altar, Fane, or Deity. Stoop; read but this Written upon the Altar, for which we refer you to the Page. Worser. 3. inscription: and then veiwe To whom the Place is consecrate. 'Tis true That this is IANUS Temple, and that now He turns upon the Year his freshest brow; That this is MARS his month; and these the Ides, Wherein his ANNE was honoured; Both the Tides, Titles, and Place, we know: But these dead rites Are long since buried, and new power excites More high and hearty flames. Lo, there is he, Who brings with him a The Queen. to answer which in our inscrip cion we spoke to the King MART MAIO RI. greater ANNE then she: Whose strong and potent virtues have The Temple of Janus we apprehend to be both the house of War, & Peace; of War, when it is open; of Peace when it is shut: And that there, each over the oath is inter change bly placed, to the vi cissitude of Times. defaced Stern MARS his Statues, and upon them placed His, Which are Peace, Rest, Li berty, Safe tie, &c and were his actively, but the world's passively. and the world's blessed blessings: This hath brought Sweet Peace to fit in that bright state she ought Unbloody, or untroubled; hath forced hence All tumults, fears, or other dark portents That might invade weak minds; hath made men see Once more the face of welcome Liberty: And does (in all his present acts) restore That first pure world, made of the better Over. Now Innocence shall cease to be the spoil Of ravenous Greatness, or to steep the soil Of raised Peasantry with tears, and blood; No more shall rich men (for their little good) Suspect to be made guilty; or vile Spies Enjoy the lust of their so murdering eyes: Men shall put off their Iron minds, and hearts; The Time forget his old malicious arts With this new minute; and no print remain Of what was thought the former ages stain. Back FLAMIN, with thy superstitious fumes, And cense not here; Thy ignorance presumest Too much, in acting any Ethnic rite In this translated Temple: Here no wight, To sacrifice, save my devotion comes, That brings instead of those thy Somewhat a strange Epithet, in our tongue, but proper to the thing; for they were only Mascul ne Odours, which were offered to the Altars. Vir. Ecl. 8. Verbenas que adole pingueis, et mascula Turam. And Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 12. cap. 14. speaking of these, hath Quod ex eo rotunditate gut pependit, Masculum vocamus, cum alias non fere mass vocetur, ubi non fit femina: re ligioni tributum ne sexus altar vsurparetur. Masculum aliqui putant a specie testium dictum. See him also, lib. 34. cap. 11. And A nob. lib. 7. adverse. Gent. Non si mille upon ̄ dera masculi Turis ince das, &c. Masculine gums. My Cities heart; which shall for ever burn Upon this Altar, and no Time shall turn The same to ashes: Here I fix it fast, Flame bright, flame high, and may it ever last. Whilst I, before the figure of thy Peace, Still tend the fire; and give it quick increase With prayers, wishes, vows; whereof be these The least, and weakest: that no Age may lose The Memory of this so rich a day; But rather, that it henceforth yearly may Begin our Spring and with our spring the prime, And Accord king to Ro mulu his institution, who made March the first Month and conse crated it to his Father, of whom it was call led Marti us: Varr. Fist. in Frag. Mar tius mensis in tium and ni fuit, et in La io, & post Romam conditam &c. And Ovid. Fast. 3. A to prin cipium Ro mano dici mus anno: Primus de patri no mine mensis erit. Vox ratafit; &c. See Macro lib. 1. Sat. cap. 12. and Solin. in Po lie. hist. cap. 3 Quod hoc me ̄ see mercedes e oluerint magistris, quas completus annus deberi fecisset, &c. first account of Years, of Months, Some, to whom we have read this, have take ̄ it for a Tautology, thinking Time enough ex pressed before, in Years, and Months. For whose ignor nt sakes we must confess to have taken the better partly of this trauale in noting, a thing not usual, neither affec ted of us, but where there is necessity, as here, to avoid their dull censures: where in Years and Months we alluded to that is observed in our former note; but by Time we understand the present, & that from this instant, we should begin to reckon, and make this the first, of our Time. Which is also to be helped by Emphasis. of Time: And may these Ides as fortunate appear To thee, as they to In which he uva slain in the Senate. Caesar fatal were. Be all thy Thoughts born perfect, and thy Hope's In their events still crowned beyond their scopes. Let not wide Heaven that secret blessing know To give, which she on thee will not bestow. Blind Fortune be thy slave; and may her store (The less thou seekest it) follow thee the more. Much more I would: but see, these brazen Gates Make hast to close, as urged by thy Fates; Here ends my Cities office, here it breaks: Yet with my tongue, and this pure heart, she speaks A short farewell; and lower then thy feet, With fervent thanks, thy royal pains does greet. Pardon, if my abruptness breed disease; He merits not t'offend, that hastes to please.