Madrid awoke, and dress’d her squares and streets

In all their glory; through all which we pass’d

Up to the Prado, where the city’s self,

In white and pearl array’d, by ancient usage,

Waited in person to receive the bride

By a triumphal arch that rose heaven-high,

The first of four all named and hung about

With emblems of the four parts of the world,

(Each with a separate element distinct,)

Of which our sovereign lord was now to lay