HCRASSP03UPU
(SSP::1:)  <An InVention>
performed for the Service of y <Right>
<honorable Edward Barkeham>, L.
<Major>. of the <Cittie> of <London>: At
his Lps. <Enterteinement> of the
<Aldermen> his Brethren, and the hoble.
and worthie <Guests>: (At his
<House> assembled z Feasted
In the <Easter Hollidajes>: 1622.
Written by
<Tho. Middleton>.
(SSP::2:) <A Song>
in seuerall parts: Vsshering toward
the High <Table>, a <Personage>
in <Armor>, representing <Honor>.
Holding in His <Hands> a
<Sheaffe> of <Arrowes>
<Meane>
<A hall: a hall: below: stand cleere>.
<What>, <are you readie>
<Base>
<Come enter>
<Meane>
<the(n)>
(SSP::3:) <Present your Duties to those Men>
<of worth>, <and Honor>.
<Chorus>
<We reioice>
<when so we spend #Art>, <howre>, <z Voice>.
<Meane>.
<Tell me>. <oh tell me>: <What is he appeeres>
<so like a Son of Fame>, <and beares>
<a Sheafe of Arrowes>, <bound wth silken Bands>.
<Base>.
<^Tis Honor with two armed Hands>
<shewing the figure of his C(loth)>
<who giues it>, <and deserues it both>
(SSP::4:) <Meane>
<#I brauer Embleme for the Place>
<I nere beheld>.
<Base>
<Nor for his Race>
<a fitter Symbole> (<wthout Pride>, <or Spight>)
<being armd at all points>, <to doe Merit right>.
<Meane>.
<What word#^s that>[
<Base>
<Diligentia>
<F(ortuna) Mater>.
<Meane>.
<This honourd Daie>
(SSP::5:) <makes good that Motto>: <^tis exprest>
<not in Him onely but in euerie Guest>
<I ioy to see>.
<Chorus>
<Wee ioy to see>
<Your Places>, <and your Works agree>.
<Finis 1. Song>.
<Then Honor deliuers>
<this Speech>.
Though in this Martiall Habit I appeere
I bring nor cause of Doubt, nor thought of feare
(SSP::6:) ^Tis onely a Waie found to expres best
the Worthie Figure of yond Noble <Crest>
Nor barely to be showne is the Intent
and scope of this <Times> Seruice: more is ment.
There#^s <Vse> z <Application>, whence arise
<Profit> z <Comfort> to the <Graue>, z <Wise>
A nobeler <Embleme> of <Charge>, <Powre>, z <Place>
<Iustice> z <Valour>, neuer yet did grace
A <S(tati)on> more. A <Crest> becomes y State
A Christian <Champion> (a good <Magistrate>)
(SSP::7:) <Two armed Armes>: to what may they allude
more properer then to <Truth>, and <Fortitude>[
the <Armor> of a <Christian>[ To be strong
in a iust <Cause> then to theis <Armes> belong.
<The Sheafe> of <Arrowes>, what doe they Implie
but <Shafts> of <Iustice> ^gainst <Impietie>[
Yet they must passe through a Iuditious <hand>
for see, #they^r tyde wth <Mercies silken Band>.
They must not inconsiderately be spent
but Vsd like <Weapons> of iust <Punishment>
(SSP::8:) And as it is in course of <Combat> knowne
^tis not the propertie of one <hand> alone
both to Defend, and offend at one time,
So let not one hand passe vpon a <Crime>
the waight may fall too Heavy: but take both
<Mercie> wth <Iustice>, Twyns of equall growth:
those carry a <Cause> Levell through a Land,
For no man shootes an <Arrow> wth one <hand>.
Beleeue we this: Doe <Envie> what it can
<Religious Conscience is an armed Man>.
(SSP::9:) An other Way to make it generall
For ^tis an <Embleme> that concernes <You all>
<You> of the Honorable <Brotherhood>
knitt altogeather for the <Citties> good.
In whose grave <Wisedomes>, her Faire Strength doth ] stand.

You are the <Sheafe>: the <Magistrate> y <Band>.
Whose <Loue> is woond about <You>: Witnes be
His <Bountie>, and His <Welcom>, both most Free.
And as this <Daie> <you> saw the <golden Sheafe>
of this blessed <Citties works> in the releife
(SSP::10:) of the poore <Fatherles>: May <you> behold
that <Sheafe> of <Glorie>, y makes Drosse of Gold.
th^#<Almighties Arrowes>, on Your <Enemies> fall,
and <heauens armed Armes>, protect <you all>.
2. <Song>.
<Meane>
<Ioie be euer at your Feastes>.
<Base>
<Bountie wel com all your Guests>.
<Chorus>.
<That this Citties honor maie>
<Spred as far as Morne shootes Daie>.
(SSP::11:) <Meane>.
<Faire your Fortunes euer be>
<Base>
<Plentie bles the hand that#^s Free>.
<Chorus>
<That this Citties honor maie>
<spred as far as Morne shootes Daie>.
<Meane>
<Health your Powres with gladnes Fill>
<Base>
<Iustice be your Armor. still>.
<Meane>
<Pious Works the golden Sheafe>
<Base>
<Those Arrowes strike the wicked deafe>
(SSP::12:) <Meane>
<and dombe>.
<Base>
<and Lame>
<Chorus>.
<So Vertue maie>
<spred forth as far as Morne shootes Daie>, ] <Finis>

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