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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_Hii quos jungit idem solium, quos annulus idem:_
_Hæc albente nitens, ille rubente rosa:_
_SEPTIMUS HENRICUS rex, regina ELIZABETHA,_
_Scilicet Hæredes gentis uterque suæ._
_Hæc EBORACENSIS, LANCASTRIUS ille dederunt_
_Connubio e geminis quo foret una domus._
_Excipit hos hæres HENRICUS copula regum_
_OCTAVUS, magni regis imago potens._
_Regibus hinc succedis avis regique parenti_
_Patris justa Hæres ELIZABETHA tui._
¶ _+SENTENCES PLACED THEREIN, CONCERNING+
+UNITY.+_
_Nullæ concordes animos vires domant._
_Qui juncti terrent, dejuncti timent._
_Discordes animi solvunt, concordes ligant._
_Augentur parva pace, magna bello cadunt._
_Conjunctæ manus fortius tollunt onus._
_Regno pro moenibus æneis civium concordia._
_Qui diu pugnant, diutius lugent._
_Dissidentes principes, subditorum lues._
_Princeps ad pacem natus, non ad arma datur._
_Filia concordiæ copia, neptis quies._
_Dissentiens respublica hostibus patet._
_Qui idem tenent, diutius tenent._
_Regnum divisum facile dissolvitur._
_Civitas concors armis frustra tentatur._
_Omnium gentium consensus firmat fidem._
&c.
These Verses and other pretty Sentences were drawn in void places
of this pageant, all tending to one end, that quietness might be
maintained and all dissention displaced: and that by the Queen's
Majesty, Heir to Agreement, and agreeing in name with her which tofore
had joined those Houses, which had been the occasion of much debate
and Civil War with this realm (as may appear to such as well search
Chronicles; but be not to be touched in this Treatise, only declaring
Her Grace's Passage through the City, and what provision the City made
therefore).
And ere the Queen's Majesty came within hearing of this pageant, as
also at all the other pageants; she sent certain to require the people
to be silent, for Her Majesty was disposed to hear all that should be
said unto her.
* * * * *
When the Queen's Majesty had heard the child's oration and understood
the meaning of the pageant at large; she marched forward towards
Cornhill, always received with like rejoicing of the people.
And there, as Her Grace passed by the Conduit, which was curiously
trimmed against that time, adorned with rich banners, and a noise of
loud instruments upon the top thereof: she espied the second pageant.
And because she feared, for the people's noise, that she should not
hear the child which did expound the same, she inquired what that
pageant was, ere that she came to it. And there understood, that
there was a child representing Her Majesty's person, placed in a Seat
of Government, supported by certain Virtues which suppressed their
contrary Vices under their feet: and so forth, as, in the description
of the said pageant, shall hereafter appear.
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