WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

71 oris: And now theLadysbeingplac,t and every thing elfe in due order, The Lord Embaflador led the Queen to her Throne,and fate himfelf,on a Velvet Stool, under the firft flep of it, with a Row of Englifh Gentlemen, and other Cavaliers of Her Majeflies Court, Handing about him, The composition, was fung in Dia- logue, by five perfons, repreienting, London, Thames, Fame, The RulingGenius, and The Genius of Rebellion•, with a Chorus of an hundred Voices, and an hundred and fifty mufical In- ftruments. The fubjeft was* The Encomiums of the Englifh Nation, and their Great Monarch, James the Second ; with the Augury alfo, and AflUrance, of happy fuccelfes, under the Domi- nion of fo mighty a Prince: About the middle of which, and juft before the firft Chorus, there was a hidden flop; when Monfignior Francifco Albani, A Prelate (and now Secretary of the Pope's Briefs) flept into a Pulpit, there ready prepar'd, and