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A panegyrick to His Highnesse the Duke of York on his sea-fight with the Dutch June 3d, 1665 by the honourable Edward Howard.
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Howard, Edward, fl. 1669.
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1666
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Wing H2971; ESTC R29440
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A PANEGYRICK TO HIS HIGHNESS THE DUKE of YORK ON HIS SEA-FIGHT WITH THE DUTCH June 3 d 1665. By the Honourable EDWARD HOWARD LONDON Printed for Henry Herringman at the Anchor on the Lower Walk of the New-Exchange 1666. A PANEGYRICK To his Highness The Duke of York ON His Sea-fight with the Dutch June 3. 1665. ILLustrious Prince while your great Deeds outdoe All that the Muse can fain or World knows true Your Panygerick must be such a Theam As makes Fame Poet and Truth seem a Dream What age had such a Chief that Sea and Land Rivals in Glories from your brave Command While Earth that wonder'd at your Worth before Fears that your Prowess gives the Sea now more Had any Blood but yours or Princes Name Spred through the Universe so bright a Fame Our happy boast must then have turn'd to be A glorious dread of such a Gallantry And beaten Dutch whose yielding Valours find Your Royal Conduct Victory inclin'd Might then their drowsie hopes revive again And slight our fury on the angry Main But while they see that you there challenge Fate To fight must make 'em more unfortunate Lepanto now no more shall Sea-fights boast Though so much Othoman glory there was lost Or tell what Donne of Austria then atchiev'd Or brave Villerio for fam'd Venice did Since in your Deeds we Empires so outdo As Princes ne'er can hope to Rival you Or State so bold to send a Fleet to Sea To dare your Conduct such another day Who from your steady Vertue dread to meet Power more resistless than your Conquering Fleet. How then shall vanquish'd Dutch e're hope to show Valour enough for a more Signal blow While your High Prowess proves it is their Doom Not to attempt enough to be o'recome Will not Heroicks Spain repine to see You on their Rebels get this victory When all its Power and Indian Treasure too Could scarce a Ship much less their Fleet subdue As this great Monarchs Scepter on the Main Sunk to reduce his Rebels Power again And late with pity we beheld our Coast A Witness of his Navies glory lost How was our former Charles provok'd to see That rough Contest in his Sovereignty Whose Name and Rule like great Augustus days Taught the World Meekness and gave Calms to Seas Yet on the Main permitted these to fight To leave our King the glory of his Might Which from your Conquest unconfin'd extends And Seas makes Empires where the World has ends That hence aspiring Spain in ours must see More than an Universal Monarchy And beg a Conduct from Great CHARLES and You To use that world his Arms did first subdue Though now oblig'd by Heaven to confess His mighty Rebels tam'd from Your Success Leaving their Crimes too powerful for his Throne To meet a Fate from Heaven and You alone Thus while Your Glories rumor at this rate Your Conquest proves Divinity has Fate Since we from it have more than cause to bless Heaven for our Loss as well as Your Success A Loss so small as Victory ne're knew Such great Atchievements and Death win so few Though sent from Cannons mouths to force its way Trembled to act the Furies of this day While it oppos'd our Cause and Your Defence Both so obliging of Omnipotence But as some stately Oak that Heaven designs To check the rudeness of impetuous windes Ventures his growth and glory to bestow Safety and grace on humbler Trees below So did Your Virtues in this furious day The wonder of our Loves themselves display While all the force of these our Belgick Foes Does less Your Fleet than Your own Ship oppose Like Pirates that for one rich Vessels Prize Venture their own to sink its Sacrifice Thus having swell'd their Sails their Guns did ply Whose noise like Thunder seem'd to wound the Sky While Yours with louder Fury these repress And dumb their Cannons threatning their Success And so the Lion which disdains Contests When menac'd with Assaults of vulgar Beasts First awes 'em with his Voice but if such dare Contemn his Rule and proudly bid him fear Then by the Wounds he gives they prove his Might And find it was their Crime to dare his Fight And thus did you contend while these assail But Fortune somthing will for them prevail She that with Virtue still maintains debate And with its brave Atchievments scatters Fate Acts now a part above her sin and pride Else how could Cannons kill so neer Your Side Or snatch such Worthies by a fatal blow Protected by Your Love and Conduct too Ah wretched Dutch to be oblig'd by Fate Which on their ruine it must expiate And Elements oppos'd at once conspire That Opdam sinks and yet consumes with Fire No Bullet from Your Guns but finds a way To Naval Glory and each gets his day This sinks a Ship and this bids th' other fly While waves assault their wounds that stay to die Thus for Your sake the angry Main devours And Neptune with Your Prowess joins his Powers Some swim to Rocks and there lament their State Whose greedy Pride they now deplore to late Others on limbs of Vessels steer alone And to the merciless Sea as hapless mone Repining since that perish now they must They can't like other Mortals turn to dust But in this liquid Element consume Where Nature ne're intended Grave or Tomb. While You these Shipwrack'd Enemies survey As brave in pity as you won the day Wishing their Valours had their Lives repriev'd Or by Your Mercy more o're-come had liv'd And now the watry Host that glide the Main Begin to fight which shall devour the slain Fish against Fish in fierce Battalions meet And pour out waves like Thunder from Your Fleet Vast Whales draw up their monstrous Bodies here There slimy Monsters yet unknown appear Inflam'd in this cold Element to strive Which on the dead shall now most mighty live Some Sholes of Men in their vast Bodies pour And waves enough to store new Seas devour Mingled with blood food to their thirstful rage Which others with revengeful draughts asswage And these through vaster jaws thus swell'd convey That Fish die drown'd as well as Men that day What were your Crimes O Dntch provok'd a Foe So Great and Good as is our King and You Whose Influence can Winds and Seas asswage And but incens'd commands the Oceans rage Thus having fatally now prov'd their Might Heaven they implore for winds to speed their flight But they so gently breath'd as Dutch must say The Air was pleas'd to see You win this day And next their utmost toils and arts they try To steer a flight but fear to fight and fly Wishing that Courage and fam'd Parthian skill As Romans prov'd could them pursuing kill While they to obscure Shores direct their course Like routed Armies that must hide their force Some sink on Sands or Rocky dangers meet To scape the greater Terrour of your Fleet Which now in glorious triumph you survey Acting both Prince and Pilot this rough day So great Enaeas as Fame and Maro tell Could guide his course though Pallinurus fell Each Militant with beams of Grace you know And had your Crastinus like Caesar too But far more fam'd since your success began As Princely Rupert fought and led the Van. A Name so glorious as Fate must confess He still grew greater while she meant him less And in our Crowns defence still acted so As boldest Rebels fear'd unconquer'd too Thinking their guilt could ne're supported be Unless his Death had been their Victory Whose vertues even transcend their former Claim Since now in his he shares your valours Fame And thus our matchless Monarch did compleat All brave attempts his Cause and Crown speaks Great While Fate unconquer'd he or'ecame dispair And taught bold Fortune from himself to fear How will his Crown in glory hence encrease That through the Main gives Subjects Trade and Peace Which as his Empire o're the world does raise So Crowns your Prowess with eternal Praise FINIS LICENSED April 23. 1666. Roger L' estrange