A joyous welcome to the most serene and most illustrious queen of brides Catherin, the royal spouse and comfort of Charles the Second King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland presented to Her Maiesty upon the River of Thames at her first coming with the King to the city of London, August the 23, 1662 / by William Austin.

Upon Her most Sacred MAJESTY CATHERINE, QUEEN of Great BRITAIN, Her most happy and most glorious coming to London.

WHo're sad now, hence, to that strange land retreat, 1 1.1 VVhere show'rs raise dust, and dirt's pro∣duc'd by heat. Bacchus2 1.2, the Muses mate, from whose 3 1.3Thyrsus Milk, wine and honey-rivers flow to us, From 4 1.4forein parts come hither o're the Main, 5 1.5 Where th' 6 1.6Amphisbaena of our state was slain, To end his travails, he, like 7 1.7 Hercules, Erects the pillars of his rest and ease. Bee heathen 8 1.8 Brachman's who're abstemious, And drink 9 1.9 Azanium and Clitorius. To such our feast now reads the destinie Of curst 10 1.10 Pentheus and 11 1.11 Alcithoe. VVe sit round 12 1.12Hippocrene, where to us Nectar springs from the thumps of Pegasus.

The 1 1.13 Helicon for our Queen's happy Reign Sluce out, till Bacchus so inrich your vein, VVith touches pour'd as 2 1.14 Midas's, ye all Convert Earths globe into a golden Ball; VVhich while Her virtue towr's above the skies, May bide below as its despised prize. Blest prodigie of light this day displayes, Made by our Sun's and his 3 1.15 Lucina's rayes, Her lustre's joyn'd with his to make all day, And clouds, shades, nights chase hence all quite a∣way. 4 1.16 Apelles died ere Venus finisht was. If his soul was exhal'd by her bright rayes; Here he might look t'expire, ere his first touch, Before Her his Venus excels so much. All 5 1.17 Mnason spent on Gods cost him so dear, Makes but a Gypher just to figure Her. VVho'de work her some marble 6 1.18 Palladium, Or compose her vast worth's 7 1.19 Asarotum, VVill all confus'd rear piles of hearts to be 8 1.20 Asbesti of zeal to her Majestie. VVho'd hew in pieces 9 1.21 Celinus, and say He would with diamonds pave all her way, Fitly in Emblem this to us he'd hint, Eternity shall put her steps in print.

True words of 1 1.22 Arotus and Merotus Her Merits be, to make Heavens wings for us. VVere it a crime might ever pard'ned be, Great Queen, to set a soul at liberty Now, when all ours truly are, as they seem, Subjected t'you, we should unbody him, VVho after our 2 1.23 Olympus's new birth, Prophanes our Sphear with his conceit of Earth. Nothing's here Earth but tongues, your sacrifice, As 3 1.24 hony, milk and wine were Venus's. That Earth's chang'd too: they are the air to hand Your worth's loud Echo o're each sea and land. Nothing's here Earth but eyes. Your Realms all be 4 1.25 Argus, fixt on your Iuno's Majesty. Those are chang'd too: they're the light to dispense Your kinder rays and brighter influence. Nothing's here Earth but hearts. You Pallas these Panting give Iove as 5 1.26 Dionysus's. Those are chang'd too, to be our swift convoy Into the firy Element of loyal joy. VVho'le not expect this Orbs best period here, At your great Beauties Sun's approach so near? Well may the Sabbaths be compar'd to Queens: After our long warres toilsome labour ends,

Our hearts at rest, bid the six dayes adieu Bring us now Queen and Sabbath both in you. A Sabbath, yes, where none fasts but to be A Iew in death, in life a 1 1.27 Pharisee. 2 1.28 AEgle with both her sisters beg you'd please T'accept the treasure of their golden trees. The 3 1.29 Amalthaea, when your bounteous hand Would pour out plenty, stands at your command. 4 1.30 Tagus petitions, and 5 1.31 Hydaspes too To make 6 1.32 Atlantick Islands under you. The choicest ornaments 7 1.33 Carmania Shews, to vie splendour with the brightest day, And those soft shining silks of 8 1.34 Coos, such None knowes if pleasing most to th'eye or touch, (The pride of Art and Nature) ready be To shadow over your bright Majesty. See all our hearts one off'ring. Bid them give VVhat e're your gracious hand daigns to receive. But to your worth all we can give or say, Makes but 9 1.35 Apis's sacrifice of hay. Poetries best robes o're your worth, expresse The 10 1.36 AEgis just in a rough goats skin dress.

Her worth taxes with silence every wight, As the world's form did the great 1 1.37 Stagyrite. Our Charles's Triumph-arches rais'd to be Trophies of his last bloudless victory; Fall all to kiss her feet, who freely grants They cancel all records of Rebels rants, Cease all content'ous tongues now dare to brave, VVho 2 1.38 Paris's apple of gold should have, Or th' other 3 1.39 three of Venus. Our Queen She Invested with a triple Soveragnitie; Receivs three from three sev'ral Realms, as known For Iuno, Venus, Pallas all in one. 4 1.40 Cedars rich perfum'd drops on rocks you'l say Doe teares of gold resemble in her way That (as from pleasing dropping eyes) show forth Joys piteous chear weeping for want of worth. Th' 5 1.41 Heliades still weeping harmony Now's compos'd by her brighter Majesty. For their joyes interest they all desire To pay their eys-tribute her beams require. The Syrians, who great fish deify'd In 6 1.42 Chalus, sure in the same sphear beside, Had plac'd Southampton-river-7 1.43Sturgeons came To welcome here their great Seas Royal Dame.

Mnason's so priz'd twelve Gods want worth to be Signes to the Months of this Year's Jubilee. At her approach bliss flows to our desires, And ev'ry heart swells up with joyous fires. Thus th' 3 1.44 Ocean when fair Phoebe moves on To make her progress up it's Horizon. Venus once mourn'd in 4 1.45 clouds. To ours that vest Now for her triumphs splendour suites the best. VVhile Heaven her bright Majestie invites T'adorn her with rich gemms of spangling lights, Its liberal hands round her in showers display Matchless gifts, for her 5 1.46 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Since she hath virtued our6 1.47 Callirrhoe, 7 1.48 Pierus left, the Muses hither flee; VVhere while into one flowing bed they steer Each spring, turn Syrens, and inhabit here; The Heaven dwells here giving them such advice, Shews them the streams be those of Paradice. 8 1.49 Glaucus and Diomedes now change armes. VVe've gold for brass, and blisse for all our harms. From her virtues, for sound Philosophie, VVe can maintain 9 1.50 our worlds Eternitie.

All we say's this, each Carpocrates now Denies God made this orb, see't made by you. All we do now while we'd our joyes express, Looseth it's nature into Holiness. Thus the Temple sanctifieth all that we Give to it, like your sacred Majestie. Th'opinion of 1 1.51 Basilides proves true, So many Heavens we have as dayes with you. The first great work the whole World did begin After the Floud, and were confused in, Yo've done alone (and with applause too given By Heaven it self) made Earth reach up to Heaven. VVhat Atheist denies there's a God, where he Stands and beholds th' ador'd Divinity Rayes from your presence, as he changes shape, His frighted Soule out of his eyes escape, And he be fast fixt there the Porphyre tower, And hieroglyphick of your Soveraign power. Let 2 1.52 Solyman's silver Heaven now be shown: That and his 3 1.53 Heaven's Heaven too we trample on. VVe leave to be unfram'd before his eyes That Earthly bulk of humane artifice.

VVhile for that fam'd, made * 1.54 Eagle they relate Flew after th'Emp'rour to the City gate; The wings of bliss you've both made us (that be Effluxes of your joyn'd resplendency) VVe shall, to follow after ye, displaie VVhen Times wings & plumes all are dropt away. VVe'le feast at 1 1.55 Solis mensa, and there eat Of all the delicates in 2 1.56 Peter's sheet. With thunder of her praise then all consent To make our voices cleave the firmament: Then enter in, while Earth's gold Angels here Remain to figure out blest beings there. Th' 3 1.57 eight sphear with trepidation move: shew forth Your sense of joy, & dance from South to North. Ye Nymphs, with us attend our Royal Bride, Made 4 1.58 Carius sing and be deifi'd. Mingle each others souls in such notes now, May with your breath make us ascend up too, And the three English Realms the while imploy, Like the 5 1.59 Calaminoe, to dance for joy. VVhile thousands of Heavens winged Quire con∣veen To anthem joyous welcome to the Queen, Ye Starrs stand thick together in array, To make her sacred feet the Milky-way.

William Austin Esq

Aug. 23. 1662.

Notes

• 1 1.1

  Narna or Narnia a City of Umbria.
• 2 1.2

  So called for the virtue of wine to acuate the wit.
• 3 1.3

  Bacchus his rod.
• 4 1.4

  He is said to travail up and down the World to be beneficiall to others in what good he could teach them.
• 5 1.5

  London.
• 6 1.6

  They say Bacchus as he slept was bit by the Amphisbaena, i.e. a serpent with two heads, which with a vine branch he destroyed.
• 7 1.7

  As Hercules in the West, so Bacchus in the East, they say, set up his Pillars.
• 8 1.8

  Brach∣manes were Indians who drank only water.
• 9 1.9

  A Well, which whosoever tasts, loatheth wine ever after. The same effect doth Clitorius; Clitorio quicunque sitim de fonte levavit, Vina fugit, gaudetque meris abstemius undis.
• 10 1.10

  Torn in pieces by his mother and sisters for contemning Bacchus.
• 11 1.11

  Destroyed with her sisters and servants by Bacchus for contemning his rites.
• 12 1.12

  A fountain in Baeotia, not far from Helicon, that Pegasus is said to have made with his foot.
• 1 1.13

  A mountain sacred to Apollo and the Muses: but is is often, as it is here, put for Hippocrene.
• 2 1.14

  Bacchus gave him a virtue to turn all he touched into gold.
• 3 1.15

  The Moon so called.
• 4 1.16

  A famous painter who painted Venus, but lived not to finish it.
• 5 1.17

  Mnason the Tyrant gave Asclepiodorus a painter 300 l. a piece for making of 12. gods
• 6 1.18

  Minerva's Image.
• 7 1.19

  A pavement, or such work wherein are wrought very curious figures in divers colours
• 8 1.20

  Stones that being set on fire burn continually.
• 9 1.21

  One that was turned into a Diamond.
• 1 1.22

  Two Angels, as the Mahumetans say, sent from heaven, with a set form of words, able to convey those who repeat them to heaven.
• 2 1.23

  A mountain in Thessaly, so high it's top is said to reach up to heaven, for which therefore it is often use•• by Poets.
• 3 1.24

  Objects of the taste.
• 4 1.25

  One that had many eyes, imployed by Iuno.
• 5 1.26

  Dionysus being dismembred by the Titans, Minerva is said to have carried his heart alive to Iupiter.
• 1 1.27

  The Pharisees boast, I fast twice a week is rendred Iejuno bis in Sabbato.
• 2 1.28

  AEgle with her sisters Erethusa and Hesperitusa, called Hesperides, daughter of Hesperus, had orchards where the trees did bear golden fruit.
• 3 1.29

  An horne of Plenty that Iupiter had.
• 4 1.30

  A River in Spain said to have golden sand.
• 5 1.31

  A River in India abounding with gold, and precious stones.
• 6 1.32

  Islands in Lybia for their fertility and pleasantnesse called the Fortunate Isles.
• 7 1.33

  A Coun∣trey in Asi famous for cloth of gold.
• 8 1.34

  An Island in the AEgean sea; in which are made exquisite silk ornaments for woe∣men.
• 9 1.35

  An Egyptian Idol to which they offered hay.
• 10 1.36

  Minerva's shield that was covered over with a goat's skin.
• 1 1.37

  The form of the World is not described by Aristotle.
• 2 1.38

  One who had an apple of gold to give to Iuna, Venus, or Pallas, which of them he accounted the most beautifull.
• 3 1.39

  Hippomanes being to contend with Atalanta in running, Venus gave him three apples of gold to cast in her way, and so tempt her to loose ground by stooping to take them up.
• 4 1.40

  Amber is said in some Islands to drop from the Cedars upon the rocks.
• 5 1.41

  The daughters of the Sun, who bewailing their brother Phaeton's death, were turned into Poplar trees, of whose teares Amber was made.
• 6 1.42

  A River in Syria, in which were exceeding great fish, very gentle and familiar, accounted by the Syrians for Gods.
• 7 1.43

  Two of them were taken in Southampton river, a male & a female, about the beginning of May last, which was a little before her Majesties arrival in England.
• 3 1.44

  Luna dum supra horizontem Maris paulatim sese effert, ex obliquo spargit radios suos in mare, suoque lumine, quod a Sole habet, calefaciens, exhalationes mari commixtas disgregat & dilatat, quibus dilatis paulatim mare crescit, intume∣scit & accessum suum efficit.
• 4 1.45

  Venus in Theocritus celebrated the funeral of Adonis, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, caeruleâ veste amicta in a skie-coloured gown.
• 5 1.46

  Junkets, banqueting-stuff, and such like, that were wont to be thrown upon the Brides head at her first ingresse into her husband's house.
• 6 1.47

  A fountain in the land of Promise of exceeding great virtue to cure diseases. Callirrhoe is also a fountain in Athens that had nine springs; Et quos Callirrhoe novis errantibus undis, Implicat. This water the Bride was wont to bathe in before she bedded with her husband.
• 7 1.48

  A mountain of Thessalie where the Muses are said to be born.
• 8 1.49

  Diomedes changed armour with Glaucus, from whom he had his of gold for his owne of brass.
• 9 1.50

  An opinion some Philosophers held.
• 1 1.51

  Basilides thought there was as many Heavens as dayes in the year.
• 2 1.52

  Soliman the Turk had this heaven sent him by Ferdinand the Emperour: wherein all the Planets had their several courses, the Sphears, Sun and Moon had their proper motions. The work was in a frame, to be unframed at the Emperour's pleasure.
• 3 1.53

  The Earth the place and mold it came f••••••.
• * 1.54

  Made of wood in Germany by Iohn de Monte-Regio.
• 1 1.55

  The Table of the Sun in AEthiopia prepared alwayes with great vatieties for all comers.
• 2 1.56

  Acts 10. 11.
• 3 1.57

  A latere movetur trepidando octavus orbis, ab Austro in Septentri∣nem. Et hino rursusin Austrum.
• 4 1.58

  He learned Musick of certain Nymphs he heard sing about the lake Torrhebia and taught in the Lydians, and they deified him for it.
• 5 1.59

  Islands neer the lake Torrhebia (quae tibiarum cantu in ambi∣tum moventur, & in symphoniae cantu ad ictus modulantium pedum moventur) which are said to dance.