The triumphs of fame and honour, or, The noble accomplish'd solemnity, full of cost, art and state, at the inauguration and establishment of the true worthy and right nobly minded Robert Parkhurst, into the right honourable office of Lord Maior of London: the particularities of every invention in all the pageants, shewes and triumphs both by water and land, are here following fully set downe, being all performed by loves, liberall costs, and charges of the right worshipfull and worthy Brother-hood of the Cloth-workers the 29 of October 1634 / written by Iohn Taylor.

T The first shew that is to be presented on the water is a vessell like a Boat or Barge, adorned with the armes and Impresses of the honoura∣ble Citie and Company, with seeming pro∣perties of being loaden, with Packs, dryfats, and divers other commodities, that marchants and others that are free of the Company of Cloth-workers, doe re∣ceive from foreigne parts by sea; this Barge attends the Lord Mayor and meets him about Pauls wharfe or attends further up the River. Thetis (the Goddesse of the sea) and Thames, or Thamisis (being one of her fairest daughters) sitting in the head of the Boate; Thetis being habitiment∣ed in a mantle of sea-Greene, with a corronet of shels of divers sorts of sea-fish on her head with a great whelk-fish in her hand with adornments of strange fishes and other significant representations. Thamisis being habited in

a white or silver coloured Robe, having on her head a Chaplet of green Reeds, Flowers and Rushes, and about her feet deck'd with Sedge, Bulrushes and Flaggs, at which presentment Thetis speaks this following speech;

Know worthy Troop, that I great Thetis am, Who (hearing of these Triumphs) hither came From th'Azure court of my most deepe Abysse To grace my fairest daughter Thamisis, I every twelve houres, by this Child of mine, Do send you silks and velvets, oyle, and wine, Gold, silver, Jewels, fish, salt, sundry spices, Fine and course linnen, druggs of divers prices: What every Realme or climate can produce, I see it safe transported for your use. Thus from the bosome of the Deepe my floods (By Thames) doe every Tyde send up your goods, For which this matchlesse well deserving River, Your Cloth doth backe againe to me deliver, With other riches, which I o're the Sea Unto my other daughters doe convay; For your commodities I'le ever flow Unto Danubius, Ister, Rhine, and Poe, To Maze, Seine, Volga, Ems, Elve, and Tanales, To Tygris, Nilus, Ganges, Euphrates, To Tyber, Jordan, Xanthus, Jndus, Tagus, Past Asphaltites, or Blacke Mortuus Lacus

As far as Sol or Cynthia spread their beames, As far as Oceanus sends his streames, So far will I your servant ever be, In any thing you'l deigne to put on me: And humble thanks faire Thames and I doe render To you, who of her well-fare are so tender, Who with great cost and care doe lend your hands, To cleare your servant Thames from shelves and sands: Go on and cleanse her, as you have begun, And she shall doe for you as she hath done. We are assur'd that Heaven will ever blesse Your stores, who doe her injuries redresse, Thetis and Thames, their services shall show To you, as long as they doe ebb and flow. Thus with our humble dutious bending downe, Long may this Citie flourish with renowne.

Then the Rowers (consisting of foure in number, being two Saylours, two watermen) being ouer-joyed, pike their oares, and every of them drinks his Kan as a health, tossing them up, and presently falling into a Rugged friskin daunce, returne to Pauls wharfe, and landing the said Barge, she is carried as the formost Pageant in the shew through the Citie.