THe Scene presented it selfe in a square and flat vpright, like to the side of a Citie: the top there of, aboue the Vent, and Crest, adorn'd with houses, towres, and steeples, set off in prospectiue. Vpon the battlements in a great capitall letter was inscribed,

According to TACITVS: At SVETO-NIVS mir‰ constanti‰, medios inter hosteis Londinium perrexit, cognomento quidem Co- loniÏ non insigne, sed copi‰ Negotiatorum, & commeatu maxime celebre. Be- neath that, in a lesse and different character, was written

Which title immediately after the Norman conquest it began to haue; and by the indulgence of succeeding Princes, hath beene hitherto continued. In the Freeze ouer the gate, it seemeth to speake this verse:

Taken out of MARTIAL, and implying, that though this citie (for the state, and magnificence) might (by Hyperbole) be said to touch the starres, and reach vp to heauen, yet was it farre in ferior to the master there of, who was his Maiestie; and in that respect vnworthy to receiue him. The high- est person aduanc'd therein, was

and fitly: applying to the aboue mentioned title of the citie, THE KINGS CHAMBER, and therefore here placed as in the proper seate of the empire: for, so the glorie and light of our kingdome M. CAMDEN, speaking of London, saith, sheeis, totius Britanni¾ Epitome, Britanniciq Imperij sedes, Regumq AngliÏ Camera, tantum inter omneis eminet, quantum (vt ait ille) inter viburna Cupressus. Shee was a woman, richly attyr'd, in cloth of gold.