Porta pietatis, or, The port or harbour of piety Exprest in sundry triumphes, pageants, and showes, at the initiation of the Right Honourable Sir Maurice Abbot Knight, into the Majoralty of the famous and farre renowned city London. All the charge and expence of the laborious projects both by water and land, being the sole undertaking of the Right Worshipfull Company of the Drapers. Written by Thomas Heywood.

The Speech at Night.

NOw bright Hiperion hath unloos'd his Teame, And washt his Coach-Steeds in cold Isters streame: Day doth to Night give place, yet e're You sleepe, Remember what the Prophet of the Deepe, Proteus fore-told: All such as State aspire, Must be as Bulls, as Serpents, and like Fire. The Shepheard grazing of his Flocks, displayes The use and profit from the Fleece we raise. That Indian Beast, (had he a tongue to speake) Would say, Suppresse the proud, support the weake, That Ship the Merchants honour loudly tells, And how all other Trades it antecells: But Piety doth point You to that Starre, By which good Merchants steere: too bold we are To keepe you from your rest; To-morrows Sunne Will raise You to new cares, not yet begun.

I will not speake much concerning the two Bro∣thers, M^r. Iohn and Mathias Christmas, the Model∣lers and Composers of those severall Peeces this day presented to a mighty confluence, (being the two succeeding Sonnes of that most ingenious Artist M^r. Gerard Christmas) to whom, and to whose Workmanship I will onely conferre that Character, which being long since (upon the like occasion) conferr'd upon the Father, I cannot but now me∣ritedly bestow upon the Sonnes: Men, as they are excellent in their Art, so they are faithfull in their performance.

FINIS.