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<P>THE TRIVMPHS OF THE <HI>GOLDEN FLEECE.</HI></P>
<P>Performed at the co&s;t and charges of the Auncient and Honourable SOCIETIE of the DRAPERS: For the en&s;taulment of their Wor|thy Brother M^r. MARTIN LVMLEY in the Maioraltie of LONDON.</P>
<P><HI>On Wedne&s;day, being the nine and twentieth day of</HI> October <HI>1623.</HI></P>
<P>Written by A. MVNDY, Citizen and <HI>Draper of</HI> LONDON.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>T. S.</HI> 1623.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE VVOR|&s;hipfull and worthy GENTLEMEN, M^r. <HI>John Gualter,</HI> M^r. <HI>John Fo&s;ter,</HI> M^r. <HI>Ro|bert Awbrey,</HI> M^r. <HI>Walter Couentrey, the Mai|&s;ters,</HI> Wardens Batchelers, and their A&s;&s;i&s;tant Brethren, of the Auncient and Honorable <HI>Companie of the</HI> DRAPERS.</HEAD>
<P>_TO you worthie Gentlemen, who&s;e prouident care and liberall co&s;t, hath runne through the trouble&s;ome trauaile of &s;o &s;erious an employment, doe I iu&s;tly, and (as no more then is your due) dedicate this poore paines of mine, which might haue beene more, had time &s;o fauoured; but &s;uch as it is, take you the honour of my be&s;t en|deauour,
<PB REF="3">in this dayes Triumphes of the <HI>GOLDEN FLEECE,</HI> and what &s;er|uice el&s;e you &s;hall plea&s;e to commaund me.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your poore louing Brother,</HI> A. Mundy.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE TRIVMPHS of the <HI>Golden Fleece:</HI> Gracing the Triumph-day, for the Inaugu|ration of the DRAPERS worthy Brother, M^r. MARTIN LVMLEY, <HI>in the Maio|raltie</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> for the yeare en&s;uing.</HEAD>
<P>_FIr&s;t, for the water-Ser|uice in the Morning, when his Lord&s;hip ta|keth Barge for his Conuoye to <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter,</HI> accompanied with the Knights and Aldermen, his worthie Brethren of &s;euerall Societies, and all the other Companies in their Triumphall Bar|ges, with Drummes, Fifes, Trumpets,
<PB REF="4">and other Iouiall In&s;truments: There is readily mounted on a Barge of apt conueyance, a beautifull and curious Argoe, &s;haped after the old Grecian Antique manner, not with Ma&s;tes and Sayles, as prepared for rough and boy&s;trous Seas; but like to the Grecian Argoes, for carriage of pa&s;&s;engers, in time of calme and gentle weather, ha|uing Bankes for men to &s;it and rowe with Oares, for more quicke and agile pa&s;&s;age on the Seas.</P>
<P>This Argoe, figureth that of &s;o great fame and renowne, wherein Prince <HI>Ja&s;on,</HI> and his valiant <HI>Argonautes</HI> of <HI>Greece,</HI> pa&s;&s;ed to <HI>Cholchos,</HI> to fetch from thence the <HI>Golden Fleece;</HI> which is the Crea&s;t of the DRAPERS Armorie, and therefore the maine motiue, of our imploying the Inuention, alluding to that famous Morall, and auncient Hi|&s;torie.</P>
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<P>VVee &s;uppo&s;e this Argoe to be re|turned from <HI>Colchos,</HI> purpo&s;ely to ho|nor this Triumphall day, by the rare Arte of <HI>Medea</HI> the Enchantre&s;&s;e, that kept the Fleece there &s;o long a time, and wherewith &s;he was now the more wil|ling to part; in regard of her affection to the DRAPERS Companie, to whom &s;he gaue it freely, for an honor and Ornament to their Armes.</P>
<P>And to make the Triumph the more ful of Maie&s;ty, &s;he vouch&s;afed to come her &s;elfe in per&s;on, attended with the faire Queene <HI>Jrene</HI> her daughter, and accompanied with the famous Princes <HI>Ja&s;on, Hercules, Telamon, Orpheus, Ca|&s;tor</HI> and <HI>Pollux,</HI> all armed with fayre guilt Armours; and bearing Trium|phall Lances, wreathed about with guilded Laurell, and curious Shields, all carrying the Impre&s;&s;e of the <HI>Golden Fleece.</HI></P>
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<P>Sixe Tributarie Indian Kings, hol|ding their &s;euerall dominions of <HI>Me|dea,</HI> and liuing in va&s;&s;alage to her: are commaunded by her to rowe the Ar|goe, all of them wearing their Tribu|tarie Crownes, and Antickely attired in rich habiliments.</P>
<P>The Seruice being performed vpon the Water, the like is done on the Land, all the re&s;t of the day following: alwayes attending his honors &s;eruice, and for adding the more &s;plendor to the Triumphs Solemnitie.</P>
<P>What&s;oeuer credit or commenda|tion (if any at all) may attend on the Artefull performance of this poore de|ni&s;e: it belongeth to the Arts-Mai|&s;ters, <HI>Richard Simp&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Nicho|las Sotherne,</HI> and freely I giue it to them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A. M.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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