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 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Middleton, Thomas ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - The Triumphs of Truth T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/TRIU1.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/TRIU1.xml ER - Middleton, Thomas. The Triumphs of Truth. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/TRIU1.htm. Middleton, Thomas. The Triumphs of Truth. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/TRIU1.htm. Middleton, T. 2022. The Triumphs of Truth. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/TRIU1.htm. Edition prepared by Lacey Marshall and James Campbell for English 420 at the University of Windsor, Fall 2002. Re-edited by Janelle Jenstad in 2013 for the new site launch.We use STC 17904 rather than STC 17903. We are following David Bergeron who uses this copy as his control-text. This version corrects typesetting errors and has clearer images. DEEP 5072 EEBO-TCP (EEBO Text Creation Partnership). [The Text Creation Partnership offers searchable diplomatic transcriptions of many EEBO items.] Early English Books Online (EEBO). Proquest LLC. Middleton, Thomas. The Triumphs of Truth. London, 1613. STC 17903. [Differs from STC 17904 in that it does not contain the additional entertainment.] London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).

(LOND5.xml) Westminster Palace Information is not yet available. (WEST5.xml) Soper Lane

Soper Lane was located in the Cordwainers Street Ward just west of Walbrook Street and south of Cheapside Street. Soper Lane was home to many of the soap makers and shoemakers of the city (Stow 1:251). Soper Lane was on the processional route for the lord mayor’s shows.

(SOPE1.xml) Guildhall Information is not yet available. (GUIL1.xml) Baynard’s Castle

Located on the banks of the Thames, Baynard’s Castle was built sometime in the late eleventh century by Baynard, a Norman who came over with William the Conqueror (Weinreb and Hibbert 129). The castle passed to Baynard’s heirs until one William Baynard, who by forfeyture for fellonie, lost his Baronie of little Dunmow (Stow 1:61). From the time it was built, Baynard’s Castle was the headquarters of London’s army until the reign of Edward I when it was handed over to the Dominican Friars, the Blackfriars whose name is still commemorated along that part of the waterfront (Hibbert 10).

(BAYN1.xml) Paul’s Chain

Paul’s Chain was a street that ran north-south between St Paul’s Churchyard and Paul’s Wharf, crossing over Carter Lane, Knightrider Street, and Thames Street. It was in Castle Baynard Ward. On the Agas map, it is labelled Paules chayne. The precinct wall around St. Paul’s Church had six gates, one of which was on the south side by Paul’s Chain. It was here that a chain used to be drawn across the carriage-way entrance in order to preserve silence during church services.

(PAUL1.xml) St. Paul’s Churchyard

Surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Churchyard has had a multi-faceted history in use and function, being the location of burial, crime, public gathering, and celebration. Before its destruction during the civil war, St. Paul’s Cross was located in the middle of the churchyard, providing a place for preaching and the delivery of Papal edicts (Thornbury).

(STPA3.xml) St. Paul’s Cathedral

St. Paul’s Cathedral was—and remains—an important church in London. In 962, while London was occupied by the Danes, St. Paul’s monastery was burnt and raised anew. The church survived the Norman conquest of 1066, but in 1087 it was burnt again. An ambitious Bishop named Maurice took the opportunity to build a new St. Paul’s, even petitioning the king to offer a piece of land belonging to one of his castles (Times 115). The building Maurice initiated would become the cathedral of St. Paul’s which survived until the Great Fire of London.

(STPA2.xml) St. Paul’s Cross

The Paul’s Cross outdoor preaching station is located in Paul’s Cross Churchyard on the northeast side of St. Paul’s Cathedral. During the early modern period, Paul’s Cross was a site of drama, since the interfaith conflicts of the time were addressed from the pulpit. These sermons were presented by prominent Reformation figures including Stephen Gardiner, Miles Coverdale, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, Hugh Latimer, Gilbert Bourne, Edmund Grindal, Matthew Parker, John Jewel, John Foxe, Edwin Sandys, and John Donne.

(STPA6.xml) Cheapside Street

Cheapside Street, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside Street separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside Street was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.

(CHEA2.xml) Little Conduit (Cheapside)

The Little Conduit (Cheapside), also known as the Pissing Conduit, stood at the western end of Cheapside Street outside the north corner of Paul’s Churchyard. On the Agas map, one can see two water cans on the ground just to the right of the conduit.

(LITT2.xml) Cheapside Cross (Eleanor Cross)

Cheapside Cross (Eleanor Cross), pictured but not labelled on the Agas map, stood on Cheapside Street between Friday Street and Wood Street. St. Peter, Westcheap lay to its west, on the north side of Cheapside Street. The prestigious shops of Goldsmiths’ Row were located to the east of the Cross, on the south side of Cheapside Street. The Standard in Cheapside (also known as the Cheap Standard), a square pillar/conduit that was also a ceremonial site, lay further to the east (Brissenden xi).

(ELEA1.xml) The Standard (Cheapside) Information is not yet available. (STAN17.xml) St. Laurence Lane (Guildhall)

In early modern London, there were two Laurence Lanes: St. Lawrence Poultney Lane, which served as the boundary between Downgate Ward and Candlewick Ward, and St. Laurence Lane, Guildhall which was in Cheap ward (Harben). The latter Laurence Lane, to which this page refers, held great importance in the procession of mayoral pageants. It ran north-south, connecting Cheapside at the south and Cateaton Street (labelled on the Agas map as Ketton St.) in the north. It ran parallel between Milk Street to the west and Ironmonger Lane to the east. It is drawn correctly on the Agas map and is labelled as S. Laurence lane.

(STLA3.xml) Leadenhall Information is not yet available. (LEAD1.xml)

Commemorative pageant book prepared for the inauguration of Sir Thomas Middleton as Lord Mayor of London on October 29, 1613. Pageants coordinated by Thomas Middleton on behalf of the Worshipful Company of the Grocers. Book printed by Nicholas Okes. Diplomatic transcription prepared by the MoEML Team. See https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/TRIU1.htm for full credits and editorial procedures.

The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.

The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.

The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.

The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes referred to as New Style (NS). Years run from January 1 through December 31.

The Anno Mundi (year of the world) calendar is based on the supposed date of the creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).

Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch. Our practice is to tag such dates with calendar=regnal, and provide an equivalent date using a more systematic calendar (usually Julian) in a custom dating attribute.

 Chris Horne Chris Horne CH

Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

 Kate LeBere Kate LeBere KL

Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and quickstart guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

 Tracey El Hajj Tracey El Hajj TEH

Junior Programmer 2018-2020. Research Associate 2020-2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019-20 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Linked Early Modern Drama Online team, between 2019 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

 Joey Takeda Joey Takeda JT

Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.

 Chase Templet Chase Templet CT

Research Assistant, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama, particularly the works of Thomas Middleton.

 Tye Landels-Gruenewald Tye Landels-Gruenewald TLG

Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.

 Zaqir Virani Zaqir Virani ZV

Research Assistant, 2013-2014. Zaqir Virani completed his MA at the University of Victoria in April 2014. He received his BA from Simon Fraser University in 2012, and has worked as a musician, producer, and author of short fiction. His research focused on the linkage of sound and textual analysis software and the work of Samuel Beckett.

 James Campbell James Campbell JDC

Research Assistant, 2002–2003. Student contributor enrolled in English 412: Representations of London at the University of Windsor in Fall 2002. BA honours student, English Language and Literature, University of Windsor.

 Cameron Butt Cameron Butt CB

Research Assistant, 2012–2013. Cameron Butt completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2013. He minored in French and has a keen interest in Shakespeare, film, media studies, popular culture, and the geohumanities.

 Quinn MacDonald Quinn MacDonald QM

Research Assistant, 2013. Quinn MacDonald was a fourth-year honours English student at the University of Victoria. Her areas of interest included postcolonial theory and texts, urban agriculture, journalism that isn’t lazy, fine writing, and roller derby. She was the director of community relations for The Warren Undergraduate Review and senior editor of Concrete Garden magazine.

 Melanie Chernyk Melanie Chernyk MJC

Research Assistant, 2004–2008. BA honours, 2006. MA English, University of Victoria, 2007. Melanie Chernyk went on to work at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria and now manages Talisman Books and Gallery on Pender Island, BC. She also has her own editing business at http://26letters.ca.

 Joanna Hutz Joanna Hutz JH

Research Assistant, 2002–2003. Joanna Hutz was an English Language and Literature honours student at the University of Windsor. She received a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to pursue her MA.

 Sarah Milligan Sarah Milligan SM

Research Assistant, 2012-2014. MoEML Research Affiliate. Sarah Milligan completed her MA at the University of Victoria in 2012 on the invalid persona in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. She has also worked with the <ref target="http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/">Internet Shakespeare Editions</ref> and with Dr. Alison Chapman on the Victorian Poetry Network, compiling an index of Victorian periodical poetry.

 Kim McLean-Fiander Kim McLean-Fiander KMF

Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

 Mark Kaethler Mark Kaethler MK

Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections. Mark’s research interests include digital media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; and early modern drama.

 Janelle Jenstad Janelle Jenstad JJ

Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

 Stewart Arneil Stewart Arneil

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) who maintained the Map of London project between 2006 and 2011. Stewart was a co-applicant on the SSHRC Insight Grant for 2012–16.

 Martin D. Holmes Martin D. Holmes MDH

Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.

 Lacey Marshall Lacey Marshall LM

Student contributor enrolled in English 412: Representations of London at the University of Windsor in Fall 2002. BA combined honours student, English Language and Literature and German, University of Windsor. Lacey Marshall went on to study speech-language pathology at Dalhousie University.

 Bounty Bounty

Personification of goodness. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Fame Fame

Personification of fame. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows, Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London and John Stow’s Survey of London.

 Virtue Virtue

Personification of virtue. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows, Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London and John Stow’s Survey of London. See also Arete.

 Peace Peace

Personification of peace. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and John Stow’s Survey of London.

 Religion Religion

Personification of religion. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Envy Envy

Personification of envy. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London.

 Justice Justice

Personification of lawfulness and fairness. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London.

 Ignorance Ignorance

Personification of ignorance. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Sloth Sloth

Personification of laziness. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Grace Grace

Personification of grace. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 John Grinkin John Grinkin

Artificer of mayoral shows.

 Honour Honour

Personification of honour. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London and John Stow’s Survey of London.

 London London

Personification the city of London. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Love Love

Personification of love. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Thomas Middleton Thomas Middleton

Playwright.

MoEML EB ODNB Wikipedia Sir Thomas Middleton Sir Thomas Middleton Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1603-1604. Mayor 1613-1614. Member of the Grocers’ Company. Knighted on 26 July 1603. Not to be confused with Thomas Middleton.

MASL ODNB Anthony Munday Anthony Munday

Playwright, actor, pageant poet, translator, and writer. Possible member of the Drapers’ Company or Merchant Taylors’ Company.

ODNB Wikipedia Humphrey Nichols Humphrey Nichols

Stage assistant.

Dutton 163-164 Nicholas Okes Nicholas Okes

Printer. Member of the Stationers’ Company. Business partner of John Norton. Father of John Okes.

BBTI Wikipedia Time Time

Personification of time. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and John Stow’s Survey of London.

 Truth Truth

Personification of truth. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows and John Stow’s Survey of London.

 Truth’s Angel Truth’s Angel

Personification of Truthʼs angel. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Brotherhood Brotherhood

Personification of brotherhood. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Error Error

Personification of error. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Faith Faith

Personification of faith. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Perfect Love Perfect Love

Personification of perfect love. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Modesty Modesty

Personification of modesty. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 King of the Moors King of the Moors

Character representing the king of the Moors. Appears in mayoral shows.

 Queen of the Moors Queen of the Moors

Character representing the queen of the Moors. Appears in mayoral shows.

 Zeale Zeale

Personification of zeal. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Meekness Meekness

Personification of meekness. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Simplicity Simplicity

Personification of simplicity. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Knowledge Knowledge

Personification of knowledge. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Falsehood Falsehood

Personification of falsehood. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Impudence Impudence

Personification of impudence. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Barbarism Barbarism

Personification of barbarism. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Olfactus Olfactus

Personification of smelling. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Gustus Gustus

Personification of tasting. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Tactus Tactus

Personification of touching. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Auditus Auditus

Personification of hearing. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Visus Visus

Personification of seeing. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Gluttony Gluttony

Personification of gluttony. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Liberality Liberality

Personification of liberality. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Chastity Chastity

Personification of chastity. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Joy Joy

Personification of joy. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Safety Safety

Personification of safety. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Lies Lies

Personification of lies. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Respect Respect

Personification of respect. Appears as an allegorical character in mayoral shows.

 Worshipful Company of GrocersGrocers’ Company

The Grocers’ Company (previously the Pepperers’ Company) was one of the twelve great companies of London. The Grocers were second in the order of precedence established in 1515. The Worshipful Company of Grocers is still active and maintains a website at https://grocershall.co.uk/ that includes a history of the company.

The coat of arms of the Grocers’ Company, from Stow (1633). [Full size image]

Most MoEML documents, or significant fragments with xml:id attributes, can be addressed using the mol: prefix and accessed through the web application with their id + .xml.

The molagas prefix points to the shape representation of a location on MoEML’s OpenLayers3-based rendering of the Agas Map.

Links to page-images in the Chadwyck-Healey Early English Books Online (EEBO) repository. Note that this is a subscription service, and may not be accessible to those accessing it from locations outside member institutions.

Links to page-images in the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA).

The mdt (MoEML Document Type) prefix used on catRef/target points to a central taxonomy in the includes file.

The mdtlist (MoEML Document Type listing) prefix used in linking attributes points to a listings page constructed from a category in the central MDT taxonomy in the includes file. There are two variants, one with the plain xml:id of the category, meaning all documents in the specified category, and one with the suffix _subcategories, meaning all subcategories of the category.

The molgls (MoEML gloss) prefix used on term/corresp points to a a glossary entry in the GLOSS1.xml file.

This molvariant prefix is used on ref/target attributes during automated generation of gazetteer index files. It points to an element in the generated variant spellings listing file which lists all documents which contain a particular spelling variant for a location.

This molajax prefix is used on ref/target attributes during the static build process, to specify links which point to MoEML resources which should not be loaded into the source page during standalone processing; instead, these should be turned into links to the XML source documents, and at HTML page load time, these should be turned into AJAX calls. This is to handle the scenario in which a page such as an A-Z index of the whole site would end up containing virtually the whole site inside itself.

The molstow prefix is used on facs attributes to link to the HCMC verison of the Stow facsimiles. Usually the first group is the year (1633) and then last is the image number (0001).

The molshows prefix is used on facs attributes to link to the copies of page-images from mayoral shows stored in the london account on the HCMC server. The first group is the year (1633), the second is the source repository, and then last is the image file name.

The sb prefix is used on ref/target attributes to link to Stow’s Books URLs at UToronto.

These digital editions are diplomatic transcriptions. Our goal has been to provide clean, readable TEI transcriptions of all the extant mayoral shows from 1585 to 1639. Because this corpus has never before been made available in one place, we provide XML base texts that other scholars can repurpose according to our Creative Commons Licence.

MoEML transcriptions of the mayoral shows are based intially on the EEBO-TCP transcriptions. A MoEML research assistant or contributing scholar has carefully checked the TCP transcription at least once against the EEBO images (and sometimes against the Early English Books I microfilms when the film is clearer). We silently correct errors in TCP transcriptions and fill in many of the gaps left by TCP transcribers. When we make surmises about characters or supply characters in places where the text has been cropped, damaged, overinked, or underinked, we record our supplied values using supplied. The transcription is checked again by another MoEML research assistant, and finally by the Project Director or Assistant Project Director. Users may report transcription errors via the Send Feedback link on each page.

We treat title pages, dedications, and prefaces as front matter, encoded with the front element. We treat speeches, narrative descriptions, and interpretations as the body of the text, encoded with the body element. We treat colophons and concluding statements, including the word Finis, as back matter, encoded with the back element.

Our practice has been to preserve most of the typographical, orthographical, and compositorial features of the original text. We use CSS styling to describe the peculiarities of font and justification. We also include links to the page images on EEBO; users who subscribe to EEBO may thus view the pages at any point and judge our transcription thereof for themselves.

Our encoders follow these rules for preserving or regularizing the text: Textual Component Rule Long ſ

TCP transcriptions do not preserve the long ſ. We have restored the long ſ through a series of find-and-replace functions based on typical early modern printing house habits, followed by a careful human checking against the digital images of the original.

 Capitalization

We preserve the capitalization of the source, including the second upper-case letter after a woodblock dropped capital.

 Italicization

We preserve the italicization of words by tagging them with a hi element with a style value of font-style: italic;. We consider italicization to be a bibliographic code rather than a linguistic code.

 Interchangeable Characters

We retain the interchangeable u/v and i/j and the use of vv for w. These are not marked up with any encoding.

 Ligatures

We retain the vowel digraphs using the appropriate Unicode characters (e.g., æ). Typographical ligatures (e.g., fl) have been silently expanded.

 Nasal Tildes

We retain the nasal tilde over vowels (e.g., õ) using the appropriate Unicode characters.

 Spacing Within Lines

MoEML closes up extra spaces between words and punctuation marks. However, we retain the spacing in authorial initials, such as A. M. (for Anthony Munday). We have added a single space after a comma when the comma has been used to separate two words.

 Lineation

MoEML preserves the line breaks in verse sections and the line wrapping in prose sections of mayoral shows. Prose line breaks have been encoded with a self-closing lb element. All line breaks in verse are produced by the use of l elements contained by lg elements.

 Hyphenation

MoEML transcriptions of mayoral shows preserve the hyphenation of words, both within and at the end of lines.

 Quotation Marks

All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. We do not use the quote element for quotations in primary-source texts. MoEML practice calls for curly apostrophes and straight double quotation marks in both transcriptions and born-digital texts.

We have interpreted and encoded toponyms, names, and dates. The encoding of toponyms requires some research to point the toponym to the right location file (and thence to the map), but the relative stability of the processional route has meant that we have high confidence in our encoding of toponyms in the mayoral shows. When our encoding has veered into interpretation, such as in our decision to encode abstract nouns as allegorical characters even when it is not completely clear that the abstraction is embodied by an actor, we have encoded with the goal of building analytical capacity into our texts, such as the capacity for users to search for characters like Time across the corpus of mayoral shows. For our treatment of early modern dates, see our encoding instructions at Encode Dates. Other than toponyms, names, and dates, we have undertaken no interpretative encoding.

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Created respStmt for each person in the old back elements. Converted @rend to @style, through XSLT transformation. Added front element with docTitle as part of a normalization process. This will be used as the definitive page title on rendering. Various updates and fixes made through XSLT, to standardize and normalize encoding practices. The Triumphs of Truth. A Solemnity vnparaleld for Coſt, Art, and Magnificence, at the Confirmation andEſtabliſhment of that Worthy and true Nobly minded Gentleman, Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, in the Honorable Office of his Maieſties Lieuetenant, the Lord Maior of the thrice famous Citty of london. Taking Beginning at his Lordſhips going, and proceeding after his Returne from receiuing the Oath of Maioralty at Weſtminſter, on the Morrow next after Simon and Iudes day, October 29. 1613. All the Showes, Pageants, Chariots, Morning, Noone, and Night-Triumphes. 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LONDON,Printed by Nicholas Okes, dwelling at the ſigne of theHand, neere Holbourne-Bridge, 1613.
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TO THE GREAT EXPectation of Vertue and Goodneſſe, and moſt worthy of all thoſe Coſts and Honors, which the Noble Fellowſhip and Society of Grocers, and generall Loue of the whole City, in full heap’d bounties beſtow vpon him, the truly Generous and Iudicious,Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, Lord Maior of the Honorable Citty of London.

AS often as we ſhall fixe our thoughts vpon the Almighty ProuidẽceProvidence, ſo often they returne to our capacities laden with Admiration, ei- ther from the Diuine workes of his Mercy, or thoſe incomprehenſible of his Iuſtice: but here to inſtance onely his Omnipotent Mercy, it being the Health and Preſeruation of all his workes: and firſt not onely in raiſing, but alſo in preſerving your L.Lordship from many great and inſident dangers, e

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ſpecially in forraine Countries in the time of your Youth and Trauels: and now with Safety, Loue and Triumph, to eſtabliſh You in this yeares Honor: crowning the Perfection of your Daies, & the Grauity of your Life, with Power, Reſpect & Reuerence. Next, in that my ſelfe (though vnworthy) being of one Name with your Lordſhip, notwithſtanding all Oppoſitions of Malice, Ignorance and Enuy, ſhould thus happily liue, protected by part of that Mercy (as if one Fate did proſperouſly cleaue to one Name) now to do Service to your Fame and Worthineſſe, and my Pen, onely to be employd in theſe Bounteous and Honorable Tryumphs, being but ſhadowes to thoſe Eternall Glories that ſtand ready for Deſeruers, to which I commend the Deſerts of your Iuſtice, remaining euer,

To your Lordſhip, in the beſt of my obſeruance, Thomas Middleton.
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THE TRYVMPHSOf Truth.

SEarch all Chronicles, Hiſtories, Records, in what language or letter ſoeuer; let the inquiſitiue man waſte the deere Treaſures of his Time and Eye-ſight, he ſhall conclude his life only in this certainty, that there is no ſubiect vpon earth receiued into the place of his gouernement with the like State & Magnificence as is the Lord Maior of the Citty of London. This being then infallible (like the Miſtreſſe of our Triumphs) and not to be denied of any, how carefull ought thoſe Gentlemen to be, to whoſe diſcretion and Iudgement the weight and charge of ſuch a buſineſſe is entirely referred and committed by the whole Society, to haue all things correſpondent to that Generous and Noble freeneſſe of coſt and liberality, the ſtreames of Art, to æquall thoſe of Bounty; a Knowledge that may take the true height of ſuch an Honorable Solemnity; the miſerable want of both which in the impudent common Writer, hath often forc’d from me much pitty and ſorrow; and it would heartily grieue any vnderſtanding ſpirit to behold many times ſo glorious a fire in

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bounty and goodneſſe offering to match it ſelfe with freezing Art, ſitting in darkneſſe, with the candle out, looking like the picture of Blacke Monday.

But to ſpeake truth, which many beſide my ſelfe can affirme vpon knowledge, a care that hath beene ſeldome equal’d, and not eaſily imitated, hath been faithfully ſhowne in the whole courſe of this buſineſſe, both by the VVardens and Committies, men of much vnderſtanding, induſtry, and carefulneſſe, little weighing the greatneſſe of expence, ſo the coſt might purchaſe perfection, ſo feruent hath beene their deſire to excell in that (which is a learned and vertuous Ambition) and ſo vnfainedly pure the loues and affections of the whole Company to his Lordſhip; If any ſhall imagine that I ſet fairer colours vpon their Deſerts, then they vpon themſelues, let them but reade and conceiue, and their owne vnderſtandings will light them to the acknowledgement of their errors. Firſt, they may here behold loue and bounty opening with the morning, earlier then ſome of former yeares, ready at the firſt appearing of his Lordſhip, to giue his eare a taſte of the dayes ſucceeding glory, and thus the forme of it preſents it ſelfe.

At Soper-lane end a Senate-houſe erected, vpon which Muſitians ſit playing; and more to quicken time, aſweet voyce married to theſe words:

Mother of many honorable Sonnes, Thinke not the Glaſſe too ſlowly runnes That in Times hand is ſet, Becauſe thy worthy Sonne appeares not yet: Lady be pleas’d, the hower growes on, Thy ioy will be compleate anon; Thou The Triumphs of Truth. Thou ſhalt behold The man enrold In Honours bookes, whom Vertue raiſes, Loue-circled round, His triumphs crownd With all good wiſhes, prayers, and praiſes.

After this ſweet aire hath liberally ſpent it ſelfe, at the firſt appearing of the Lord Maior from Guild-hallin the morning, a Trumpet plac’d vpon that Scaffold, ſounds forth his welcome; then after a ſtraine or two of Muſicke, a Graue Fœminine Shape preſents it ſelfe, from behinde a ſilke curtaine, repreſenting London, attired like a reuerend Mother, a long white haire naturally flowing on either ſide of her: on her head a modell of Steeples and Turrets, her habite Crimſon ſilke, neere to the Honourable garment of the Citty: her left hand holding a Key of gold, who after a comely grace, equally mixt with Comfort and Reuerence, ſends from her lips this Motherly ſalutation.

Honour and Ioy ſalute thee, I am raiſd In comfort and in loue to ſee thee, glad And happy in thy bleſsings, nor eſteeme My words the leſſe, cauſe I a Woman ſpeake, A womans counſell is not alwayes weake. I am thy Mother, at that name I know Thy heart do’s reuerence to me, as becomes A Sonne of Honour, in whoſe ſoule burnes cleere The ſacred lights of diuine feare and knowledge, I know, that at this inſtant, all the workes Of Motherly loue in me, ſhowne to thy Youth When it was ſoft and helpeleſſe, are ſum’d vp In The Triumphs of Truth. In thy moſt gratefull minde, thou well remembreſt All my deere paines and care, with what affection I cheriſh thee in my boſome, watchfull ſtill Over thy wayes, Set wholeſome and Religious Lawes before The foot-ſteps of thy youth, ſhow’d Thee the way That lead thee to the Glory of this Day. To which (with teares of the moſt fruitfull ioy That euer Mother ſhed) I welcome Thee. Oh I could be content to take my part Out of Felicity onely in weeping, Thy Preſence and this Day is ſo deere to me. Looke on my age (my Honorable Sonne) And then begin to thinke vpon thy Office: See how on each ſide of mee hang the cares Which I beſtowd on Thee, in ſiluer haires. And now the Faith, the Loue, the zealous Fires With which I cheer’d thy Youth, my Age requires, The duty of a Mother I have ſhowne, Through all the Rites of pure affection, In Care, in Gouernment, in Wealth, in Honour, Brought Thee to what thou art, thow’ſt all from mee, Then what thou ſhouldſt be I expect from Thee. Now to Thy Charge, Thy Gouernment, Thy Cares, Thy Mother in her age ſubmits her yeares. And though (to my abundant griefe I ſpeake it, Which now ore-flows my ioy) ſome Sonnes I haue Thankleſſe, vnkind, and diſobedient, Rewarding all my Bounties with Neglect, And will of purpoſe wilfully retire Themſelues, from doing grace and ſeruice to me, When they haue got all they can, or hope for, from me, The thankfulneſſe in which Thy Life doth moue, Did The Triumphes of Truth. Did ever promiſe fairer fruits of Loue, And now they ſhow themſelues, yet they haue all My bleſsing with them, ſo the world ſhall ſee ’Tis their vnkindneſſe, no defect in me; But go Thou forward (my thrice Honor’d Sonne) In waies of goodneſſe, Glory is beſt wunne When Merit brings it home, diſdaine all Titles Purchaſ’d with Coine, of Honor take Thou hold, By thy Deſert let others buy’t with Gold; Fixe thy moſt ſerious Thought vpon the Weight Thou goeſt to vndergo, ’tis the iuſt Gouernment Of this Fam’d Citty, (Mee) whom Nations call Their brighteſt Eye, then with what care & feare Ought I to be ore-ſeene to be kept cleare? Spots in deformed Faces are ſcarce Noted, Faire cheekes are ſtain’d if ner’e ſo little blotted. See’ſt thou this Key of Gold? it ſhowes thy charge, This place is the Kings Chamber, all pollution, Sinne and Vncleanneſſe muſt be lock’t out here, And be kept ſweet, with Sanctity, Faith & Feare, I ſee Grace takes effect, Heauens Ioy vpon her, ’Tis rare, when Vertue opes the Gate to Honor, My bleſsing be vpon thee, Sonne, and Lord, And on my Sonnes all, that obey my Word.

Then making her Honour, as before, the Waites of the Citty there in ſeruice, his Lordſhip and the Worthy Company, are lead forward toward the water ſide, where you ſhall finde the Riuer deck’t in the richeſt glory to receiue him; vpon whoſe Chriſtall Boſome ſtand fiue Iſlands art-fully garniſhed with all manner of Indian Fruite-Trees, Drugges, Spiceries, and the like, the middle Iſland with a faire Caſtle eſpecially beautified.

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But making haſte to returne to the Citty againe, where Triumph waites in more Splendor and Magnificence, the firſt then that attends to receiue his Lordſhip off the water at Bainards Caſtle, is Truths Angell on Horſe-backe, his Raiment of white Silke powdred with Starres of Gold: on his head a Crowne of Gold, a Trumpeter before him on Horſe-backe, and Zeale the Champion of Truth, in a Garment of Flame-coloured Silke, with a bright haire on his head, from which ſhoot Fire-beames, following cloſe after him, mounted alike, his Right hand holding a flaming Scourge, intimating thereby that as hee is the manifeſter of Truth, he is likewiſe the chaſtizer of Ignorance and Error.

I have within mine Eye my bleſſed Charge, Haile Friend of Truth, Safety and Ioy atttndsattends thee; I am Truths Angell, by my Miſtreſſe ſent To guard and guid thee, when thou took’ſt thy Oath I ſtood on thy Right hand, though to thy eye Inviſible forme I did not then appeare, Aske but thy Soule t’will tell thee I ſtood neere; And ’twas a Time to take care of Thee then At ſuch a Marriage before Heauen and Men, (Thy Faith being wed to Honor) cloſe behinde thee Stood Errors Miniſter, that ſtill ſought to blinde thee, And wrap his ſubtill miſts about thy Oath, To hide it from the nakedneſſe of Troth, Which is Truths pureſt glory, but my light Still as it ſhone, Expeld her blackeſt ſpite; His Miſts fled by, yet all I could deuiſe, Could hardly keepe them from ſome Peoples eyes, But thine they flew from, thy Care’s but begun Wake The Triumphes of Truth. Wake on, the Victory is not halfe yet wun, Thou wilt be ſtill aſſaulted, thou ſhalt meete With many dangers, that in uoyce ſeeme ſweet, And waies moſt pleaſant to a worldlings eye, My Miſtreſſe ha’s but One, but that leads hye To yo’n triumphant Citty follow mee, Keepe thou to Truth, Eternitie keepes to thee. Zeale. On boldly Man of Honor, thou ſhalt win, I am Truths Champion, Zeale, the Scourge of Sin.

The Trumpet then ſounding, the Angell and Zeale ranke themſelues iuſt before his Lordſhip, & conduct him to Pauls-chaine, where in the South-yard Error in a Chariot with his infernall Miniſters attends to aſſault him, his Garment of Aſh-colour Silke, his head rowld in a cloud, ouer which ſtands, an Owle, a Moale on one ſhoulder, a Bat on the other, all Symboles of blinde Ignorance and Darkneſſe, Miſts hanging at his Eyes: cloſe before him rides Enuy his Champion, eating of a humane heart, mounted on a Rhenoceros, attired in Red Silke, ſutable to the bloudineſſe of her manners, her left Pap bare, where a Snake faſtens, her Armes halfe Naked, holding in her right hand a Dart tincted in bloud.

Art come? O Welcome my triumphant Lord, My Glories Sweet-heart! how many millions Of happy wiſhes hath my loue told out For this deſired minute, I was dead Till I enioyd thy Preſence, I ſaw nothing, A Blindneſse thicker then Idolatry, Cloue to my Eye-bals, now I am all of Light, Of Fire, of Ioy, Pleaſure runs nimbly through mee, B2 Lets The Triumphes of Truth. Lets ioyne together both in State and Triumph, And down with beggarly and friendleſſe Vertue, That hath ſo long impoueriſh’t this faire Citty, My Beaſts ſhall trample on her naked breſt, Vnder my Chariot-wheeles her Bones lye preſt, She ner’e ſhall riſe againe, great Power this day, Is giuen into thy hand, make vſe on’t Lord, And let thy Will and Appetite ſway the Sword, Downe with them all now, whom thy heart enuies, Let not thy Conſcience come into thine Eyes This twelue-month, if thou lou’ſt reuenge or gaine, Ile teach thee to caſt miſts, to blinde the plaine And ſimple eye of Man, he ſhall not know’t, Nor ſee thy Wrath when ’tis vpon his throte, All ſhall be carried with ſuch Art and Wit, That what thy Luſt Acts, ſhal bee counted fit, Then for Attendants that may beſt obſerve thee, Ile picke out Seriantes of my band to ſerue thee, Heres Gluttony and Sloth, two pretious Slaues, Wil tell thee more then a whole Heard of Knaues, The worth of euery Office to a Haire, And who bids moſt, and how the Markets are, Let them alone to ſmell, and for a need, They’l bring thee in Bribes for Meaſure and light Bread, Keepe thy eye winking, and thy hand wide ope, Then thou ſhalt know what Wealth is, and the ſcope Of rich Authority, Ho tis ſweete and deere, Make vſe of Time then, thou’ſt but one poore Yeare, And that will quickly ſlide, then be not nice, Both Power and Profite cleaues to my Aduice, And what’s he lockes his Eare from thoſe ſweet Charmes, Or runs not to meet Gaine with wide-ſtretch’t Armes, There is a poore thin thred-bare thing, cal’d Truth, The Triumphs of Truth. I giue thee warning of her, if ſhee ſpeake Stop both thine eares cloſe, moſt Profeſsions breake That euer delt with her, an Vnlucky thing, Shee’s almoſt ſworne to nothing, I can bring A thouſand of our Pariſh, beſides Queanes, That nere knew what Truth meant, nor euer meanes. Some I could cull out here, e’en in this Throng, If I would ſhow my Children, and how ſtrong I were in faction; ’laſſe poore ſimple Stray, Shee’s all her lifetime finding out one way: Shee’as but one fooliſh way, ſtreight on, right forward, And yet ſhe makes a toyle on’t, and goes on With Care and Feare forſooth, when I can run Ouer a hundred with delight and pleaſure, Backe-waies, and by-waies, and fetch in my Treaſure After the wiſhes of my heart, by ſhifts, Deceits, and ſlightes, and Ile giue thee thoſe giftes; Ile ſhow thee all my corners yet vntold, The very nookes where Beldams hide their gold, In hollow wals and chimneies, where the Sun Neuer yet ſhone, nor Truth came euer neere, This of thy Life Ile make the golden yeare: Follow me then. Enuy. Learne now to ſcorne thy Inferiours, thoſe moſt loue (thee, And wiſh to eate their Hearts, that ſit aboue thee.

Zeale ſtird vp with Diuine Indignation, at the ImpudẽceImpudence of theſe Hel-hounds, both forceth their retirement, and makes way for the Chariot wherein Truthhis Miſtreſſe ſits, in a cloſe garment of white Sattin,which makes her appeare thin and naked, figuringthereby her ſimplicity and neereneſſe of heart tothoſe that embrace her; a roabe of white ſilke caſtouer it, fil’d with the eies of Eagles, ſhewing her deep

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inſight, and height of wiſedome, ouer her thrice ſanctified head a milke-white Doue, and on each ſhoulder one, the ſacred Emblemes of Purity, Meekeneſſe,and Innocency, vnder her Feete, Serpents, in that ſhetreads downe all Subtelty and Fraud, her Fore-headempal’d with a Diadem of Stars, the Witneſſe of herEternall deſcent; on her Breaſt a pure round Criſtall,ſhowing the brightneſſe of her thoughts and actions;a Sun in her Right-hand, then which, nothing is truer,a fan fild all with Starres in her left, with which ſheparts Darkeneſſe, and ſtrikes away the vapours of Ignorance; if you hearken to Zeale her Champion afterhis holy anger is paſt againſt Error, and his crue, heewill giue it you in better tearmes, or at leaſt moreſmoothly and pleaſingly.

Bold Furies, backe, or with this ſcourge of Fire Whence ſparkles out Religious chaſt-deſire Ile whip you downe to darkeneſſe; this a place Worthy my Miſtreſſe, her Æternall Grace Be the full obiect to feaſt all theſe eies But Thine the firſt, hee that feeds here is wiſe; Nor by the naked plaineneſſe of her weeds Iudge thou her worth, no burniſht gloſſe Truth needs; That Crowne of Starres ſhowes her deſcent from heauen; That Roabe of white fild all with Eagles eies, Her piercing ſight through hidden myſteries; Thoſe milke-white Doues her ſpotleſſe Innocence; Thoſe Serpents at her feete her victory ſhowes Ouer deceite and guile, her rankeſt foes, And by that Criſtall Mirrour at her Breſt, The cleereneſſe of her Conſcience is expreſt; And The Triumphs of Truth. And ſhowing that her deeds all darkeneſſe ſhun, Her Right-hand holds Truths Symbole, the bright Sunne; A Fan of Starres ſhee in the other twiſts, With which ſhee chaceth away Errors miſts: And now ſhee makes to thee, her ſo even Grace, For to her Rich and Poore looke upon with one Face. Man rayſd by Faith and Loue, vpon whoſe Head Honour ſits freſh, let not thy Heart be led In ignorant waies of inſolence and pride From Her, that to this day hath bene thy guide; I never ſhowed thee yet more Paths then one, And thou haſt found ſufficient That alone To bring Thee hether, then go forward ſtill, And hauing moſt power, firſt ſubiect thy Will, Giue the firſt Fruits of Iuſtice to thy Selfe, Then doſt thou wiſely Gouerne, though that Elſe Of Sin and Darkeneſſe ſtill oppoſing mee, Counſels thy Appetite to Maſter Thee. But call to minde what brought thee to this Day, Was Falſhood, Cruelty, or Reuenge the way? Thy luſt or pleaſures? peoples curſe or hate? Theſe were no waies could raiſe Thee to this State The ignorant muſt acknowledge, if then from Mee, Which no Ill dare deny, or Sin controule, Forſake mee not, that can aduance thy ſoule: I ſee a bleſſed yeelding in thy Eye, Thou’rt mine, leade on, thy Name ſhall neuer dye.

Theſe words ended, they all ſet forward, this Chariotof Truth and her cœleſtiall hand-maids the Graces &Vertues, taking place next before his Lord-ſhip, Zealeand the Angell before that, the Chariot of Error fol

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lowing as neere as it can get, all paſſing on, till theycome into Pauls Church-yard, where ſtand ready thefiue Ilands, thoſe dumbe Glories that I ſpake of before vpon the water, vpon the height of theſe fiueIlands ſit fiue perſons repreſenting the fiue Sences,Viſus, Auditus, Tactus, Guſtus, Olfactus, (or) Seeing,Hearing, Touching, Taſting, Smelling; at their feetetheir proper Emblemes, Aquila, Ceruus, Araneus,Simia, Canis, an Eagle, a Hart, a Spider, an Ape, aDogge.

No ſooner can your eyes take leaue of theſe, butthey may ſuddenly eſpy a ſtrange Ship making toward, and that which may raiſe greater aſtoniſhment,it hauing neither Saylor nor Pilot, onely vpon awhite ſilke ſtreamer theſe two words ſet in letters ofGold, Veritate Gubernor, I am Steer’d by Truth; thePerſons that are contained within this little Veſſellare onely foure; a King of the Moores, his Queene,and two Attendants of their owne colour, the reſt oftheir followers, people in the Caſtle that ſtands in themiddle Iland, of which company two or three on thetop appears to ſight, this King ſeeming much aſtoniſhed at the many eies of ſuch a multitude, vtters histhoughts in theſe words.

I ſee amazement ſet vpon the faces Of theſe white people, wondrings, and ſtrange gazes, Is it at mee? do’s my Complexion draw So many Chriſtian Eyes, that neuer ſaw A King ſo blacke before? no, now I ſee Their entire obiect, the’re all meant to thee (Graue Citty gouernour) my Queene and I Well The Triumphes of Truth. Well honor d with the Glances that by, I muſt confeſſe many wilde thoughts may riſe, Opinions, Common murmurs, and fixt Eyes At my ſo ſtrange arriuall, in a Land Where true Religion and her Temples ſtand: I being a Moore, then in Opinions lightneſſe As far from Sanctity as my Face from whiteneſſe; But I forgiue the Iudgings of th’Vnwiſe, Whoſe Cenſures euer quicken in their Eyes, Onely begot of outward forme and ſhow, And I thinke meete to let ſuch Cenſurers Know, How euer Darkeneſſe dwels vpon my Face, Truth in my ſoule ſets vp the Light of Grace; And though in daies of Error I did runne To giue all Adoration to the Sunne, The Moone & Stars; nay Creatures baſe and poore, Now onely their Creator I adore My Queene and People all, at one time wun, By the Religious Conuerſation Of Engliſh Merchants, Factors, Trauailers, Whoſe Truth did with our Spirits hold Commerſe As their affaires with vs, following their path Wee all were brought to the true Chriſtian Faith: Such benefite in good Example dwels, It oft hath power to conuert Infidels; Nor could our Deſires reſt, till wee were led Vnto this place, where thoſe good Spirits were bred; And ſee how we arriu’d, in Bleſſed Time, To do that Miſtreſſe Seruice, in the Prime Of theſe her Spotleſſe Triumphs, and t’attend That Honorable Man, her Late ſworne Friend. If any wonder at the ſafe Arriue Of this ſmall Veſſel, which all wethers driue C According The Triumphs of Truth. According to their Rages, where appeares Nor Marriner nor Pylot (arm’d ’gainſt feares) Know this came hether from mans guidance free, Onely by Truth Steer’d; as our Soules muſt bee; And ſee where one of her faire Temples ſtands, Do Reuerence, Moores, bow low, and Kiſſe your hands, Behold our Queene. Wee cannot Honour Her, and Her Houſe too much.

All in the Shippe and thoſe in the Caſtle bowingtheir bodies to the Temple of Saint Paul, but Errorſmiling betwixt Scorne and Anger to ſee ſuch a deuout humility take hold of that complexion, breakesinto theſe,

Nay, then my charmes will have enough to doo?

But Time, ſitting by the Frame of Truth hisDaughters Chariot, attir’d agree-able to his Condition, with his Hower-glaſſe, Wings, and Sithe, Knowing beſt himſelfe when it is fitteſt to ſpeake, goes forward in this manner:

This Time hath brought t’effect, for on thy Day Nothing but Truth and Vertue ſhall diſplay: Their Virgin Enſigns, Infidelity, Barbariſme and Guile ſhall in deepe Darkeneſſe lye. O I could euer ſtand ſtill thus, and gaze, Neuer turne Glaſſe agen; wiſh no more daies So this might euer laſt, pitty the Light Of this rich Glory muſt be caſde in Night; But Time muſt on, I go, ’tis ſo decreed, To bleſſe my Daughter Truth, and all her ſeed With Ioyes Immortal, Triumphs neuer ending: And as her Hand lifts mee, to thy Aſcending May The Triumphes of Truth. May it be alwaies ready (worthy Sonne) To haſten which, my Howers ſhall quickly run, Seeſt thou yon place, thether Ile weekely bring thee, Where Truths cœleſtiall Harmony Thou ſhalt heare, To which I charge Thee bend a ſerious Eare: Leade on, Times ſwift Attendants.

Then the fiue Ilands paſſe along into Cheape-ſide,the Ship next after them; the Chariot of Truth ſtillbefore his Lord-ſhip, and that of Error ſtill chac’ſt before it, where their Eies meete with another more ſubtile Obiect, planting it ſelfe cloſe by the little Conduite, which may beare this Character, the TrueForme and Faſhion of a Mount Triumphant, but theBeauty and Glory thereof ouer-ſpred with a thickeSulphurous Darkeneſſe, it being a Fog or Miſt raiſdefrom Error, enuiouſly to blemiſh that Place whichbeares the Title Londons Triumphant Mount (thechiefe Grace and Luſter of the whole Triumph) atthe foure corners ſit foure Monſters Errors Diſciples,on whom hangs part of the Miſt for their cloathing,holding in their hands little thicke Clubbes, coloured like their Garments; the Names of theſe foureMonſters, Barbariſme, Ignorance, Impudence, Falſhood, who at the neere approaching of Truths Chariot, areſeene a little to tremble, whilſt her Deity giues life totheſe words.

VVhats here? the Miſt of Error? dare his Spight Staine this Triumphant Mount? where our delight Hath bene Diuinely fixt ſo many Ages, Dare darkeneſse now breathe forth her Inſolent Rages, And hang in poyſnous Vapours o’re the Place C2 From The Triumphes of Truth. From whence wee recieu’d Loue and return’d Grace? I ſee if Truth a while but turne her Eies, Thicke are the Miſts that o’re faire Citties riſe: Wee did expect to receiue welcome here, From no deform’d Shapes but Diuine and Cleere, In ſteed of Monſters that this place attends; To meete with Goodneſſe and her Glorious Freinds, Nor can they ſo forget mee to bee far, I Know there ſtands no other enuious Bar: But that foule Cloude to Darken this Bright Day, Which with this Fanne of Starres Ile Chace away. Vaniſh Infectious Fog that I may ſee This Citties Grace, that takes her Light from Mee. Vaniſh, give Way.

At this her powerfull command, the Cloude ſuddenly riſes, and changes into a bright ſpredding Canopy, ſtucke thicke with Starres, and beames of Gold, ſhooting forth round about it, the Mount appearing then moſt rich in Beauty and Glory, the foure Monſters falling flat at the Foote of the Hill; that graue Fœminine Shape, figuring London, ſitting in greateſt Honour; next aboue her in the moſt eminent place, ſits Religion, the Modell of a faire Temple on her Head, and a burning Lampe in her Hand, the proper Emblemes of her Sanctity, Watchfulneſſe, and Zeale; on her right Hand ſits Liberality, her head circled with a Wreath of Gold, in her hand a Cornucopia, or Horne of Abundance, out of which ruſheth a ſeeming Floud of Gold, but no way flowing to Prodigality; for as the Sea is gouern’d by the Moone, ſo is that wealthy Riuer by her Eie, (for Bounty muſt beeled by Iudgement) and hence is Art-fully deriued the onely difference betweene Prodigality and Bounty, the one deales her Giftes with open eyes, the

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other blind-fold; on her left ſide ſits Perfect Loue, his proper Seate being neereſt the Heart, wearing vpon his Head a wreath of white and red Roſes mingled together, the Antient Witneſſe of Peace, Loue, and Vnion, wherein conſiſts the Happineſſe of this Land, his Right hand holding a Sphære, where in a Circle of Gold, is contained all 12 Companies Armes; and therefore cal’d the Sphære of true Brother-hood, or Annulus Amoris, the Ring of Loue: vpon his left hand ſtand two Billing Turtles, expreſſing thereby the happy Condition of mutuall Loue and Society: on either ſide of this Mount are diſplaid the Charitable and Religious workes of London (eſpecially the worthy Company of Grocers) in giuing maintenance to Schollers, Souldiers, Widdowes, Orphans, and the like, where are plac’d one of each number: & on the two Heights ſit Knowledge & Modeſty; Knowledge wearing a Crowne of Starres, in her Hand a Perſpectiue Glaſſe, betokening both her High Iudgement, and Deepe In-ſight, the Brow of Modeſtie circled with a Wreath all of red Roſes, expreſſing her Baſhfulneſſe and Bluſhings, in her hand a Crimſon Baner, fild with Siluer Stars, figuring the white Purity of her Shamfaſtneſſe, her cheeks not red with Shame or Guilt, but with Virgin-Feare, and Honor. At the Backe of this Triumphant Mount, Chaſtity, Fame, Simplicity, Meekneſſe, haue their Seats,Chaſtity wearing on her Head a Garland of white Roſes, in her Hand a white Silke Banner, fild with Starresof Gold, expreſſing the æternity of her vn-ſpotted Pureneſſe: Fame next vnder her, on her Head a Crowne of Siluer, and a Siluer Trumpet in her hand, ſhowing both her Brightneſſe and Shrilneſſe: Simplicity with a Milke-white Doue vpon her Head, and

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Meekneſſe with a Garland of mingled Flowers, in her hand a white Silke Banner with a red Croſſe, a Lambe at her Feet, by which both their Conditions are ſufficiently expreſt; The Mount thus made glorious by the Power of Truth, and the Miſt expeld, London thus ſpeakes.

Thicke Scales of Darkneſſe in a Moments ſpace Are fell from both mine Eyes, I ſee the Face Of all my Friends about me (now) moſt cleerely, Religions Siſters, whom I Honour deerely; Oh I behold the worke, it comes from Thee Illuſtrious Patroneſſe, thou that mad’ſt me ſee In Dayes of blindeſt Ignorance, when this Light Was ee’n extinguiſht, Thou Redeem’ſt my ſight; Then to Thy Charge (with Reuerence) I commend That worthy Son of mine, thy vertuous Friend, Whom on my Loue and Bleſsing I require, To obſerue Thee Faithfully, and his Deſire To imitate Thy will, and there lye bounded, For Power’s a Dangerous Sea, which muſt be ſounded With Truth and Iuſtice, or man ſoone runs on ’Gainſt Rockes and Shelues to Diſſolution; Then that thou maiſt the Difference euer know, Twixt Truth and Error, a few words ſhall ſhow; The many Wayes that to blind Error ſlide Are in the entrance broad, Hell-mouth is wide, But when Man enters farre, he findes it then Cloſe, Darke and Streight, for Hell returnes no Men; But the One ſacred Way which Truth directs, Onely at Entrance Mans Affection Checks, And is there ſtrict alone, to which place throngs All Worlds Afflictions, Calumnies and wrongs. But The Triumphs of Truth. But hauing paſt thoſe, then thou find’ſt a way In bredth, whole Heauen, in length, æternall Day, Then following Truth, ſhe brings Thee to that way; But firſt obſerue what workes ſhe here requires, Religion, Knowledge, Sanctity, Chaſt Deſires, Then Charity, which Bounty muſt expreſſe, To Schollers, Souldiers, Widdowes, Fatherleſſe; Theſe haue beene ſtill my Workes, they muſt be thine, Honour and Action muſt together ſhine, Or the beſt part’s Eclipſt, behold but this, Thy very Creſt ſhowes Bounty, here ’tis put, Thou giu’ſt the open Hand, keepe it not ſhut; But to the Needie, or Deſeruing Spirit, Let it ſpred wide, and Heauen enrowles that Merit; Do theſe, and proue my Hopefull Worthy Sonne, Yet nothing’s ſpoke, but needfully muſt bee done. And ſo lead forward.

At which Words the whole Triumph moues in his richeſt glory toward the Croſſe in Cheape, at whichplace Error full of Wrath and Malice to ſee his Miſt ſo chaced away, falles into this Fury.

Heart of all the Fiends in Hell! Could her Beggarly Power expell Such a Thicke and Poiſonous Miſt Which I ſet Enuies Snakes to twiſt; Vp Monſters, was her Feeble Frowne Of Force to ſtrike my Officers downe? Barbariſme, Impudence, Lies, Ignorance, All your Hell-bred Heads aduance, And once againe with Rotten Darkneſse ſhroud This Mount Triumphant, drop downe ſulphurous Cloud. At The Triumphs of Truth.

At which the Miſt falles againe, and hangs ouer all the Beauty of the Mount, not a Perſon of Glory ſeene, onely the foure Monſters gather courage againe, and take their Seates, aduancing their Clubs aboue their Heads, which no ſooner percieu’d, but Truth in her Chariot making neere to the place, willing ſtill to reſcue her Friends and Seruants, from the Powers of Ignorance and Darkneſſe, makes vſe of theſe Words,

Dare yet the workes of Vglineſſe appeare Gainſt this Dayes Brightneſſe, and ſee Vs ſo neere? How bold is Sinne and Hell, that yet it dare Riſe againſt Vs? but know (Perditions Heire) T’is Idle to contend againſt our Power, Vaniſh againe Fowle Miſt from Honors Bower.

Then the Cloud diſperſing it ſelfe againe, and all the Mount appearing Glorious, it paſſeth ſo on to the Standard, about which place, by Elaborate action from Error it falles againe, and goes ſo darkned, till it comes to S. Laurence lane end, where by the former words by Truth vtter’d, being againe chac’d away, London thus gratefully requites her Goodneſſe.

London.

Æternities bright Siſter, by whoſe Light, Errors infectious Workes ſtill flye my Sight. Receiue thy Seruants Thankes; Now perfect Loue Whoſe Right hand holds a Sphære, wherein doe moue Twelve bleſt Societies, whoſe belou’d encreaſe, Stiles it the Ring of Brother-hood, Faith and Peace, From thy Harmonious Lips let them all taſte, The Golden Counſell that makes Health long laſt.

Perfect Loue then ſtanding vp, holding in his right

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hand a Sphære, on the other, two Billing Turtles, giues theſe words.

Firſt then I baniſh from this Feaſt of Ioy, All Exceſſe, Epicuriſme, both which deſtroy The Healths of Soule and Body, no ſuch Gueſt Ought to be welcome to this Reuerend Feaſt Where Truth is Miſtreſſe, who’s admitted here, Muſt come for Vertues loue more then for Cheere, Theſe two white Turtles may example giue How Perfect Ioy and Brother-hood ſhould liue, And they from whom Graue Order is expected, Of rude Exceſſe muſt neuer bee detected; This is the Councell which that Lady calles Golden Aduice, for by it no man falles Hee that deſires Dayes healthfull, ſound and bleſt, Let moderate Iudgement ſerve him at his Feaſt, And ſo lead on, may Perfect Brother-hood ſhine, Still in Sphære, and Honor ſtill in thine.

This Speech ſo ended, his Lordſhip and the Companies paſſe on to Guild-hall; and at their Returning backe, theſe Triumphs attend to bring his Lordſhip toward Saint Pauls Church, there to performe thoſe yearely Ceremoniall Rites, which Antient and Graue Order hath determined, Error by the way ſtill buſie and in Action to drawe Darkneſſe often vpon that Mount of Triumph, which by Truth is as often diſperſt: then all returning homewards full of Beauty and Brightneſſe, this Mount and the Chariot of Truth, both plac’d neere to the Entrance of his Lordſhips Gate, neere Leaden-hall; London, the Lady of that Mount firſt giues vtterance to theſe words,

D London The Triumphes of Truth. Before the Day ſprang from the Mornings wombe I roſe, my Care was earlier then the Light, Nor would it reſt till I now brought Thee Home, Marrying to one Ioy both thy Day and Night; Nor can we call this Night, if our Eyes count The Glorious beames that dance about this Mount, Sure did not Cuſtome guide ’em, Men would ſay Two Noones were ſeene together in one day, The Splendor is ſo piercing, Triumph ſeemes As if it ſparkled, and to Mens eſteemes Threw forth his Thankes, wrapt vp in Golden Flames, As if hee would giue Light to reade their Names That were at Coſt this Day to make him ſhine, And be as free in Thankes, as they in Coine, But ſee Time checkes me, and his Sithe ſtands ready To cut all off, no State on Earth is ſteady, Therefore Graue Sonne the Time that is to come, Beſtow on Truth, and ſo Thour’t welcome Home.

Time ſtanding vp in Truths Chariot, ſeeming to make an offer with his Sithe to cut off the Glories of the Day, growing neere now to the Seaſon of Reſt and Sleepe, his Daughter Truth thus meekely ſtayes his Hand.

Father deſiſt a while till I ſend forth A few Words to our Friend, that Man of Worth: The Power that Heauen, Loue, and the Cities choyce, Haue all confer’d on Thee with mutuall voyce, As it is Great, Reuerend, and Honorable, Meet it with equall Goodneſſe, ſtrive t’excell Thy former Selfe, as thy Command exceeds Thy laſt-yeares State, ſo let new Acts, old Deeds; And The Triumphes of Truth. And as great men in Riches and in Birth (Heightning their Blouds, and ioyning Earth to Earth,) Beſtow their beſt houres and moſt ſerious cares In chuſing out fit Matches for their Heires: So neuer give Thou ouer day or howre Till with a Vertue thou haſt matcht this Power: For what is Greatneſſe if not ioyn’d with Grace? Like one of High-bloud that hath married Baſe. Who ſeekes Authority with an Ignorant Eye, Is like a man ſeekes out his Enemy: For where before his Follies were not ſpred Or his corruptions, then theire cleerely read Ee’n by the eyes of all men; ’tis ſo pure A Criſtall of it ſelfe, it will endure No poyſon of Oppreſsion, Bribes, Hir’d Law, But ’twill appeare ſoone in ſome cracke or flaw, How e’re men ſooth their hopes with Popular breath, If not in Life, the’ile finde that crack in Death: I was not made to fawne or ſtroake ſin ſmooth Bee wiſe and heare me then that cannot ſooth: I have ſet Thee High now, bee ſo in Example, Made thee a Pinacle in Honors Temple, Fixing ten thouſand Eyes upon thy Brow There is no hiding of thy Actions now, They muſt abide the Light, and imitate Mee, Or bee throwne downe to Fire where Errors bee. Nor onely with theſe words thy eare I feede, But giue thoſe part that ſhall in Time ſucceed, To thee in preſent, and to them to come That Truth may bring you all with Honour home To theſe your Gates, and to thoſe, after theſe Of which your owne good Actions Keepe the Keyes; Then as the Loues of thy Society D2 Hath The Triumphes of Truth. Hath flowde in Bounties on this Day and Thee, Counting all Coſt too little for true Art, Doubling rewards there where they found Deſert, In Thankefulneſse, Iuſtice, and Vertuous care Perfect their hopes, thoſe thy Requitals are; VVith Fatherly Reſpect embrace ’em all, Faith in thy Heart, and Plenty in thy Hall, Loue in thy VValkes, but Iuſtice in thy State, Zeale in thy Chamber, Bounty at thy Gate: And ſo to Thee and theſe a Bleſsed Night, To thee Faire Citty, Peace, my Grace and Light.

Zeale, the Champion of Truth on Horſe-backe, his head circled with ſtrange Fires, appeares to his Miſtreſſe, and thus ſpeaks:

See yonder, Lady, Errors Chariot ſtands, Brauing the Power of your incenſt commands, Emboldned by the priuiledge of Night And her blacke Faction, yet to crowne his Spight VVhich Ile confound, I burne in Divine wrath. Truth. Strike then, I giue thee leave to ſhoote it forth. Zeale. Then here’s to the deſtruction of that Seate, There’s nothing ſeene of Thee but Fire ſhall eate.

At which, a Flame ſhootes from the Head of Zeale, which faſtening vpon that Cariot of Error ſets it on Fire, and all the Beaſts that are ioynde to it.

The Fire-worke being made by Maiſter Humphrey Nichols, a Man excellent in his Art: and the

whole The Triumphs of Truth.

whole Worke and Body of the Triumph, with all the proper Beauties af the Workemanſhip moſt Artfully and Faithfully performed by Iohn Grinkin: and thoſe furniſhed with Apparrell and Porters by Anthony Monday, Gentleman.

This proud Seate of Error lying now onely glowing in Imbers, (being a Figure or Type of his Lord-ſhips Iuſtice on all wicked offenders in the Time of his Gouernement,) I now conclude, holding it a more learned Diſcretion to ceaſe of my ſelfe, then to haue Time cut mee off rudely, and now let him ſtrikeat his pleaſure.

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D3 The The Song with the Note. MOther of many honorable Sonnes, thinke not the glaſſe too ſlowly runs, That in Times hand is ſet, becauſe thy worthy Sonne appeares not yet, Lady be pleaſd, the houre growes on, thy ioys will be compleat anon, thou ſhalt behold, the man in rold, in honors booke whome vertue raiſes, loue circled, round, round, his tryumphes crownd, withall good wiſhes, prayers, and praiſes. VVhat greater comfort to a Mothers heart, Then to behold her ſonnes Deſert: Goe hand in hand with loue, Reſpect and Honor (Bleſſings from aboue) It is of power all greefes to kill, And with a floud of ioy to fill. Thy Aged Eyes, To ſee him riſe, VVith Glory dect, where Expectation. Grace, Truth, and Fame, Met in his Name, Attends his Honors Confirmation.

BASSVS.

FINIS.