And so all pass’d to the Escurial,
In front of which, in two triumphal cars,
Two living statues were—one Mercury,
Who, as divine ambassador, thus far
Had brought the royal bride propitiously;
The other, Hymen, who took up the charge
Mercury left, and with unquenching torch,
While cannon, trumpet, choir, and people’s voice
Thunder’d her praises, took the palfrey’s rein,
Who gloried in the beauty that he bore,