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Article AN ACCOUNT OF CHARLES THE FIRST's ENTRY INTO EDINBURGH, ← Page 2 of 2 Article A WRITING OF QUEEN MARY. Page 1 of 1
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An Account Of Charles The First's Entry Into Edinburgh,
who , at the king ' s approaching , in ane sweet harmony modulated ane pleasant air , composed for the purpose , called Caledonia . On the foreside of the mountain , looking up to the north , sat Apollo and the nine muses , habited conveniently . The song being ended , Apollo uttered ane panegrick to the King ' s majesty ; and at the closing thereof , delivered to him ane book of panegyricks , and other poems , composed by the universit .
y Thence he removed to the strait of the Nether Bow , where there was erected a stately arch , representing so much of the heavenly consellations and planetary influences , as could conveniently be applied to the purpose : and of this pageant , the seven planets , one after another , delivered acclamatory and congratulatory speeches , with pathetic sentences , agreeing as well to the purpose as to the persons .
All these speeches , with the pageants , were devised and composed-he Mr . John Adamson , Primar of the college , Mr . William Drummond of Horthornden , and the master of the high-school , joined to a committee of the gravest and most understanding citizens and clerks . ' » And if you shall consider all the entries of the mightiest princes in
. Christendome , for six score years bypast , and what was done for their honour , you will find this nothing inferiour to the most statel y and magnificent among them . But by ane fatal neglect , all were lost in a very few years thereafter , scarce any vestige remaining , except a few pourtrairs of the kings . Whosoever w-as in the fault , the loss was jusly esteemed ominous , as also was the following , accident .
In the morning , when the speakers were convened in the lower public hall of the college , to receive their particular directions , the Primar , and the rest who were to put them to that which they were to act , being out of the room , the first and last speaker falling by the ears , did so tear and deform one another ' s faces , that neither of them could be discerned ; which was like , in al ! probability , to have marred the whole businessevery act being linked to another .
How-, ever , the Primar having a balm of sovereign virtue , did so anoint their noses therewith , and keep them close bound up , that , the King ' s entry falling much later than was expected , no deformity , in the ..-time of acting their parts , appeared upon their faces .
A Writing Of Queen Mary.
A WRITING OF QUEEN MARY .
A Manuscript Primer , in the Bodleyan Library , has the'following lines , written by Queen Mary ' s own hand : —Geate you suchriches as when the shype is broken may swyme away wythe the master , for dyverse chances take away the goods of fortune ; but the goods ofthesoule , whyche bee only the trewe goods , nother fyer nor water can take away . If you take labour and payne to doo a vertuous thing , the labour goeth away , and the vertue remaynethe . Ifthroughe ¦
pleasure you do any vicious thyng , the pleasure goeth away , and the vice remayneth . —Good Madame , for my sake remembre thys . Your loving Mystres MARY PRINCESSE .
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An Account Of Charles The First's Entry Into Edinburgh,
who , at the king ' s approaching , in ane sweet harmony modulated ane pleasant air , composed for the purpose , called Caledonia . On the foreside of the mountain , looking up to the north , sat Apollo and the nine muses , habited conveniently . The song being ended , Apollo uttered ane panegrick to the King ' s majesty ; and at the closing thereof , delivered to him ane book of panegyricks , and other poems , composed by the universit .
y Thence he removed to the strait of the Nether Bow , where there was erected a stately arch , representing so much of the heavenly consellations and planetary influences , as could conveniently be applied to the purpose : and of this pageant , the seven planets , one after another , delivered acclamatory and congratulatory speeches , with pathetic sentences , agreeing as well to the purpose as to the persons .
All these speeches , with the pageants , were devised and composed-he Mr . John Adamson , Primar of the college , Mr . William Drummond of Horthornden , and the master of the high-school , joined to a committee of the gravest and most understanding citizens and clerks . ' » And if you shall consider all the entries of the mightiest princes in
. Christendome , for six score years bypast , and what was done for their honour , you will find this nothing inferiour to the most statel y and magnificent among them . But by ane fatal neglect , all were lost in a very few years thereafter , scarce any vestige remaining , except a few pourtrairs of the kings . Whosoever w-as in the fault , the loss was jusly esteemed ominous , as also was the following , accident .
In the morning , when the speakers were convened in the lower public hall of the college , to receive their particular directions , the Primar , and the rest who were to put them to that which they were to act , being out of the room , the first and last speaker falling by the ears , did so tear and deform one another ' s faces , that neither of them could be discerned ; which was like , in al ! probability , to have marred the whole businessevery act being linked to another .
How-, ever , the Primar having a balm of sovereign virtue , did so anoint their noses therewith , and keep them close bound up , that , the King ' s entry falling much later than was expected , no deformity , in the ..-time of acting their parts , appeared upon their faces .
A Writing Of Queen Mary.
A WRITING OF QUEEN MARY .
A Manuscript Primer , in the Bodleyan Library , has the'following lines , written by Queen Mary ' s own hand : —Geate you suchriches as when the shype is broken may swyme away wythe the master , for dyverse chances take away the goods of fortune ; but the goods ofthesoule , whyche bee only the trewe goods , nother fyer nor water can take away . If you take labour and payne to doo a vertuous thing , the labour goeth away , and the vertue remaynethe . Ifthroughe ¦
pleasure you do any vicious thyng , the pleasure goeth away , and the vice remayneth . —Good Madame , for my sake remembre thys . Your loving Mystres MARY PRINCESSE .