The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of King James the First, : his royal consort, family, and court, collected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, &c., & with notes, historical, topographical, biographical and bibliographical. . d a Man. HYMENS TRIUMPH, BY SAMUEL DANIEL, IGI3-I4. 753 THE SONG OF THE FOURTH CHORUS. Question. Ifere ever chast and honest hearts Exposd unto so great distresses ? Answer. Yes; they that act the worthiest parts Most commonly have worst fortunes follow not the best,I
The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of King James the First, : his royal consort, family, and court, collected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, &c., & with notes, historical, topographical, biographical and bibliographical. . d a Man. HYMENS TRIUMPH, BY SAMUEL DANIEL, IGI3-I4. 753 THE SONG OF THE FOURTH CHORUS. Question. Ifere ever chast and honest hearts Exposd unto so great distresses ? Answer. Yes; they that act the worthiest parts Most commonly have worst fortunes follow not the best,Its vertue that is most distrest. Then, Fortune, why do we admire The glory of thy great excesses ?Since by thee what men acquire, Thy worke, and not their worth, dost thou raise them for their good,But f have their illes more understood. THE SONG OF THE FIFTH CHORUS. Who ever saw so faire a sight ?Love and Vertue met aright; And that wonder, Constancy, Like a comet to the eye,Seldome ever seene so out aloud so rare a thing,That all the hilles and vales may ring! Looke, Lovers, looke, with passion see,If that any such there be; As there cannot but be such Wlio doe feele that noble touchIn this glorious out aloud so rare a thing,That all the hilles and vales may ring!. vol. 11. 5 d 754 THE KING AT ROYSTON AND NEWMARKET, 16*13-14. On the 10th of February, Mr. Chamberlain wrote thus to Sir D. Carleton : This day sennight the Lord Roxburgh married Mrs. Jane Drummond atSomerset House, or Queens Court, as it must now be called. The King tarriedthere till Saturday after dinner. The Entertainment was great, and cost theQueen, they say, above ^-3000. The Pastoral by Samuel Daniel was solemnand dulll; but perhaps better to be read than represented. The Lord Mayorand all the Aldermen were invited for the next day after the Marriage, and hadrich gloves. They went thither in pomp, and were graciously used ; and besidestheir great cheer and many health
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