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This People, this Great State, these Hearts adore Thy Sceptre now; and now turn all to Thee, Touch'd with as powerful Zeal, and if not more : (And yet O more how could there ever be, Than unto Her, whom yet we do deplore Amidft our Joy!) And give us Leave, if we Rejoice and mourn; that cannot, without Wrong, So foon forget Her we enjoy'd fo long:

IX.

Which likewife makes for Thee, that yet we hold True after Death; and bring not this Refpect To a New Prince, for Hating of the Old; Or from Defire of Change, or from Neglect : Whereby, O Mighty Sov'reign, thou art told, What thou and thine are likely to expect From fuch a Faith, that doth not hafte to run Before their Time to an Arifing Sung atstovam bit

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And let my Humble Mufe, whom She did grace, Beg this One Grace for Her that now lies dead gor That no vile Tongue may fpot Her with Difgrace, Nor that Her Fame become disfigured:

O let Here reft in Peace, that rul'd in Peace!
Let not Her Honour be difquieted by
Now after Death; but let the Grave inclofe
All but her Good, and that it cannot close.

It adds much to thy Glory and our Grace, That this continued Current of our Love Runs thus to thee all with fo fwift a Pacer; And that from Peace to Peace we do remove, Not as in Motion but from our our Places But in one Course; and do not seem to move, LĪ But in more Joy than ever heretoforev

And well we may, fince Thou wilt make us more.

XII.

Our Love, we fee, concurs with God's great Love, Who only made thy Way, thy Paffage plain; Levell❜d the World for thee; did all remove That might the Shew but of a Lett retain :Unbarr'd the North; humbl'd the South; did move The Hearts of all, the Right to entertain; Held other States embroil'd, whofe Envy might Have fofter'd Factions to impugn thy Right:

XIII.

And all for Thee, that we the more might praise
The Glory of his Pow'r, and rev'rence thine;
whom he hath rais'd to glorify our Days,
And make this Empire of the North to Thine,
Against all th'impious Workings, all th' Affays
Of vile dif-natur'd Vipers; whofe Defign

Was to embroil the State, t' obfcure the Light,
And that Clear Brightness of thy Sacred Right.

XIV.

To whofe Reproach, fince th' Iffue and Succefs Doth a fufficient Mark of Shame return, Let no Pen elfe blazon their Ugliness: Be it enough, that God and Men do scorn Their Projects, Cenfures, vain Pretendences. Let not our Children, that are yet unborn, Find there were any offer'd to conteft, Or make a Doubt to have our Kingdom bleft.

XV.

Bury that Queftion in th' Eternal Grave Of Darkness, never to be feen again. Suffice we have thee whom we ought to have, And t'whom all Good Men knew did appertain Th'Inheritance thy Sacred Birth-Right gave That needed n' other Suffrages cordain What only was thy Due, nor no Decree To be made known, fince none was known but thee.

XVI.

Witnefs the Joy, the univerfal Cheer,

The Speed, the Eafe, the Will, the Forwardness,
Of all this Great and Spacious State; how dear
It held thy Title and thy Worthiness.

Hafte could not poft fo fpeedy any where,
But Fame feem'd there before in Readiness,
To tell our Hopes, and to proclaim thy Name;
O greater than our Hopes! More than thy Fame!

XVII.

What a Return of Comfort doft thou bring,
Now at this fresh returning of our Blood;
Thus meeting with the op'ning of the Spring,
To make our Spirits likewife to imbud !
What a New Seafon of Encouraging
Begins t'enlength the Days difpos'd to Good!
What Apprehenfion of Recovery

Of greater Strength, of more Ability o

XVIII.

The Pulfe of England never more did beat
So ftrong as now---Nor ever were our Hearts
Let out to Hopes fo fpacious and fo great,
As now they are---Nor ever in all Parts.
Did we thus feel fo comfortable Heat,
As now the Glory of thy Worth imparts:
The whole Complexion of the Commonwealth,
So weak before, hop'd never more for Health.

XIX.

Could'st thou but fee from Dover to the Mount,
From Totnes to the Orcades; what Joy,

What Cheer, what Triumphs, and what dear Account
Is held of thy Renown this Blessed Day!
A Day, which we and Ours muft ever count
Our Solemn Festival, as well we may

208H And tho' Men thus court Kings ftill which are new Yet do they more, when they find more is due,

XX.

They fear the Humours of a future Prince,
Who either loft a Good, or felt a Bad :
But thou hast cheer'd us of this Fear long fince;
We know thee more than by Report we had.
We have an Everlafting Evidence

Under thy Hand; that now we need not dread
Thou wilt be otherwife in thy Designs,
Than there thou art in those judicial Lines.

XXI.

It is the greatest Glory upon Earth!
To be a King, but yet much more to give
The Inftitution with the Happy Birth

Unto a King, and teach him how to Live.
We have by Thee far more than thine own Worth,
That doth encourage, ftrengthen and relieve
Our Hopes in the Succeffion of thy Blood,
That like to thee, they likewife will be good.

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We have an Earneft, that doth eventie ir Thy Sceptre to thy Word, and binds thy Crown (That else no Band can bind) to ratify

What thy Religious Hand hath there fet down;
Wherein thy All-commanding Sovereignty
Stands fubject to thy Pen and thy Renown.
There we behold thee King of thine own Heart;
And see what we must be, and what Thou art.

XXIII.

There, Great Exemplar! Prototype of Kings
We find the Good fhall dwell within thy Court:
Plain Zeal and Truth, free from bafe Flatterings,
Shall there be entertain'd, and have Refort:
Honeft Difcretion, that no Cunning brings
But Counsels that lie right, and that import,
Is there receiv'd with those whofe Care attends
Thee and the State more than their private Ends.

XXIV.

There Grace and Favour fhall not be difpos'd,
But by Proportion, even and upright.
There are no mighty Mountains interpos'd
Between thy Beams and us, t'imbar thy Light.
There Majefty lives not as if enclos'd,

Or made a Prey t'a privare Benefit.

The Hand of Pow'r deals there her own Reward,
And thereby reaps the whole of Men's Regard.

XXV.

There is no way to get up to Refpect,
But only by the way of Worthinefs
All Paffages that may feem indirect,
Are ftopt up now; and there is no Accefs
By grofs Corruption: Bribes cannot effect
For th' undeferving any Offices.

Th' Afcent is clean; and he that doth ascend,
Muft have his Means as clean as is his End.

XXVI.

The Deeds of Worth, and laudable Deserts, Shall not now pafs thoro' the ftrait Report Of an Embafing Tongue, that but imparts What with his Ends and Humours fhall comport. The Prince himfelf now hears, fees, knows what Honour and Virtue acts, and in what fort; [Parts And thereto gives his Grace accordingly, And cheers up other to the like thereby.

XXVII.

Nor fhall we now have Ufe of Flattery;
For he knows Falfhood far more fubtle is
Than Truth, Bifenefs than Liberty,
Fear than Love, t'invent thefe Flourishes
And Adulation now is fpent fo nigh,
As that it hath no Colours to exprefs
That which it would, that now we must be fain
T'unlearn that Art, and labour to be plain.

XXVIII.