WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

8£ ther, and the particular accidents of his now Majefties life; One among the reft, more imme- diately relating to The Embafly, in which ( al- luding to his Excellence the Lord Fmbafladors Name, of Palmer ) under the Emblemof A Palm, or Date Tree, was reprefented, That it is the Nature of that Tree, not to yield to any weight, but rather, to endeavour the more upwards: In fhort, they gratulate The Omen ; foretel Him* Victory over his Enemies, of which alfo, that Tree is the Symbol, And wifti him, A Prince, of many Palms. From thence in the paflage to the Grea- ter Hall, by the Humanity Schools of Grammar, Syntax, Poetry, Rhetorick, &c. Several Prince- ly youths, (chief of the Cafarean, Mattbean, Im- perial,Pampbilian, and Altierian Families) itood before the doors of their reipective Schools, and faluted his Excellence with Diftichs ; and from thence, by a fair afcent, he came up to the Hal its felf, which was ftatelily furnifh't, with Da- mask,