An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (4 of 8)
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An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (4 of 8)
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And the Queen's Majesty thanked most heartily, both the City for this
her gentle receiving at the first, and also the people for confirming
the same.
Here was noted in the Queen's Majesty's countenance, during the time
that the child spake, besides a perpetual attentiveness in her face,
a marvellous change in look, as the child's words touched either
her person, or the people's Tongues and Hearts: so that she, with
rejoicing visage, did evidently declare that the words took no less
place in her mind, than they were most heartily pronounced by the
child, as from all the hearts of her most hearty citizens.
The same Verses were fastened up in a table [_painted board. Table
is the Elizabethan word for picture_] upon the scaffold; and the Latin
thereof likewise, in Latin verses, in another table, as hereafter
ensueth.
_Urbs tua quæ ingressu dederit tibi munera primo,_
_O Regina! parem non habitura, vide!_
_Ad diadema tuum, te spe quam divite mittat,_
_Quæ duo letitioe det tibi dona, vide!_
_Munus habes Primum, Linguas bona multa Precantes,_
_Quæ te quum laudant, tum pia vota sonant,_
_Foelicemque diem hunc dicunt, tibi secula longa_
_Optant, et quicquid denique lingua potest._
_Altera dona feres, vera, et tui Amantia Corda,_
_Quorum gens ludum jam regit una tuum:_
_In quibus est infracta fides, falsumque perosa,_
_Quæque tuo audito nomine læta salit._
_Grata venis igitur, quantum Cor concipit ullum!_
_Quantum Lingua potest dicere, grata venis!_
_Cordibus infractis, Linguisque per omnia lætis_
_Grata venis! salvam te velit esse DEUS!_
Now when the child had pronounced his oration, and the Queen's Highness
so thankfully received it; she marched forward towards Gracious
[_Gracechurch_] Street, where, at the upper end, before the sign of the
_Eagle_, the city had erected a gorgeous and sumptuous Ark, as here
followeth.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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