WRIGHT - An account of his excellence - 1688 copia

50 ly ädorn'd with Paintings, and Damask, fring'd with Gold ; Where he was feated on A Velvet Chair rais'd, and befide him, hung A ful Pic- ture of His Majefty, Under a Royal Canopy j over which, (tood the Imprefs of The Academicks ( by the name of The Extravagant*) vi%. two Palms, folded into the Figure of a Warlike Hand-bow. The word ( placidü , coeant immitia) Let Arts, and Arms, join hands. Thereby Signifying, That Gowns, and Swords, are not fo incompatible, but they may very well meet, in the fame perfons. 1 The Entertainment began, with a pre* lüde of Mufick, Then fbood out, A Noble Youth (A Marchefe) of about feventeen years ( who alfo bore a part, in the following Exercifes, of Vaulting, Dancing, Fencing, and Horfman- ihip ) and carefs'd His Excellence, in a fmart Oration, to this purpofe, • That the old HiftOrys of Rome, mult • - - give place, to fnodern Ännals ; In as much as the Glorys of the firft, were more believ d, than true,