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Drayton sig. B1rNor are the duties that thy ſubjects owe, Only compriz’d in this externall ſhow. For harts are heap’d with thoſe innumered hoords, That tongues by vttrance cannot vent in words.
The poem has little to say in praise of the king, spending all its encomiastic words on the no kingdome ever was decayed
by the needful
trade of goldsmithing (Drayton sig. B1r). It argues that Sound Bullion
(Drayton sig. B1v) by turning it into rich Plate, and Vtenfils
. Plate stays in England as an ornament
to the land, while coins haue wings
(playing on the fact that the ten-shilling angel depicted the archangel virtuouſly
and eschew [t]hat cankerd, baſe, and idel Vſurie
that is antithetical to [g]ood and induſtrious facultie
(Drayton sig. B2r). Finally, it explains that they purify rather than debase metal, giving a lengthy technical description of the refining process. If England will concede that London is its chiefe and ſoueraine Citie
, then London will graunt her goodly Cheape the grace, / To be her firſt and abſoluteſt place
(Drayton sig. B3r-B3v). This synecdochic chain works to make Cheape
The poem ends with an offering of a Trophie
and gold-drop’d Lawrell
to thy praiſe
(Drayton sig. B3v), but it is not clear what the trophy is meant to be (Cheapside or the poem) and who is meant to receive the praise. Since the poem tends to hymn the
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