CITY PAGEANT,[615]
ON THE OCCASION OF THE VISIT PAID BY THE KING
OF DENMARK TO JAMES I. IN 1606.
The argument of the spectacle presented to the sacred Majesties of Great Britain and Denmark as they passed through London.
After that the Recorder in the name of the City had saluted the Majesties of Great Britain and Denmark with this short oration:—
“Serenissime, Augustissime Rex: quid enim Reges dicam, quos non tam conjunctio sanguinis, quam communio pietatis unum fecit? Anni sunt quinquaginta plus minus, a quo Regem vel unum aspeximus; nunc duos simul contemplamur, admiramur: quapropter antiqua civitas London, nova ista condecorata gloria, triumphat gaudio, salutat precibus, Majestatis binam hanc majestatem.
“Sed quid offeremus? Corda non nostra, tua sunt, magne, maxime Jacobe: et quia tua, Regi huic, potentissimo,
fraternitatis vinculo majestati vestræ conjunctissimo, amoris ergo hæcque [sic] munusculo dicantur.”
The Scene or Pageant of Triumph presented itself in this figure. In the midst of a vast sea, compassed with rocks, appeared the Island of Great Britain, supported on the one side by Neptune, with the force of Ships; on the other, Vulcan with the power of iron, and the commodities of tin, lead, and other minerals. Over the island, Concord, supported by Piety, and Policy, sat enthroned: the body of it thus shaped, the life of it thus spake; whilst the Tritons in the sea sounded loud music, the mermaids singing; then in a cloud Concord descending, and landing on the crag of a rock, spake thus:—
Concordia.