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A pindarick poem on the Royal Navy most humbly dedicated to Their August Majesties, K. William, and Q. Mary / written by Mr. Durfey.
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D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
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Mould had its decree To form the common Herb or Flower or Tree How oft from my profound recess below Did I my sorrow shew Sorrow as great as possible could be When Pity moves a Deity To see my Darling Britain my Lov'd Isle Grow so Degenerate and Vile Sickning with Sloth and baneful Luxury Her Credit lost to a degree Of Cowardise and gross Stupidity Whilst her insulting Neighbour Potent grows And her once petty Foes That some few Ages past Gladly a Peace with her embrac'd Whom her Immortal Kings in former times Have Conquer'd in their Native Climes Took Royal Prisoners in the Field And to their own Conditions made them yield And from the glittering Banner of their Crown Taken the Impress to adorn her own Now by her sloth undone and treachery Her Schism Rebellion and Impiety And by neglect in War so long remiss Have given her Foes hope to possess And her substantial Lyons win for th' Titular Fleu de Lice X. Redeem redeem thy wretched loss of time Redeem thy honour mouldring as the Grave No longer doze and hug thy sluggish crime But rouze and sinking credit save The Destinies are kind the Book of Fate is fair No blotted Omen does appear But Influence benevolent crowns the auspicious year Thy Wealth is mighty and thy Navy great And blushing Victory seems to wait As Pre-ordain'd by Fate The Powers too of my Empire all agree From the vast Caverns of unfathom'd Sea To assist Britains Cause espous'd by me The Waves shall mount and Winds shall rage Rough Boreas shall the Foe ingage Who toss'd in fatal storms shall scatter far Or blindly on themselves make War Whilst Zephyrus and every gentle Wind Still to thy Fleet propitious are and kind And on my watry Plain shall safely ride Untroubled with a ruffling storm or with a rowling tide XI And as the Natives on thy chalky shore Behold with Joy thy Naval Power Greater than Britain e're could boast before Who if they Loyal service pay And take no Bribes their Country to betray Are strong enough to gain a universal sway So Fame through thy Perspective let them see Albions Felicity Fix'd in her present Monarchs Bravery Royal Nassaw of whom to write is vain 'T would blunt the ablest Pen and crack the soundest Brain Th' extreme of thought adorn'd with nicest Wit His character has never writ Describe all good they can they must leave something yet Call him Deliverer let Eusebia kneel And show the Wounds she did so lately feel Unveil the bleeding breast his soveraign balm did heal And then in Prayer her grateful homage shew Still 't is a sacrifice too low Or stile him Pious Generous Valiant Wise Who beyond Virgil's Muse or soaring Pindar flyes Will reach his Fame no more than Mole hills do the Skies Strict Moral Vertue does his breast controul And there reigns in him a true Kingly Soul Not sway'd by Avarice or Luxury Tyrannick Lust nor poor Dogmatick Bigottry But firm to Honour true to his great trust And to the meanest of his subjects Just· In time of War none readier than he To hazard life in th' Field or launch to Sea The Hunt of Glory is his chief delight But careful that his cause is right Upon French Principles Great Nassaw will not fight But on just motives with the first go on And face the worst of dangers like each private man His Royal heart mix with the common File Nor will he wear the Wreath unless he share the toil But to retrieve the glory of his Nation Still pushes forward on each brave occasion And his successful Valour proves Divine Predestination XII Next Reverend Father lift thy Eyes And if the aged Opticks of thy sight Can bear a Ray so bright As never yet was rivall'd in the skies See Gloriana sighting on the Throne Her Royal Lord the Faiths Defender gone Observe how filial Piety Loaded with State and soveraign Dignity The weighty pressure of a Crown The Peoples satisfaction not her own Disturbs her sacred rest and anxious Care Inveterate Foe to all the Fair In th midst of her feign'd smiles still 〈◊〉 as chief And shews true Beauty in a shrowd of grief See how the scale of Justice wisely she commands And holds the sword with guiltless hands A perfect Angel in a double kind For outward Grace and Vertues of her Mind Her heart with Care of her great charge opprest Still throbs within her heav'nly breast She wishes Peace but ah it will not be The Lands Contagion spreads to that degree 'T is only War can cure the hated Malady Yet in the midst of Wars alarms It s hourly terrours and impending harms That discompose her mighty soul And over all delights controul Her Influencing eyes are still the same And with their usual lustre flame Her face is all serene and fair And tho Bellona may appear Warring within her troubled heart Love keeps his Revels there XIII Her Sister in the next bright sphere does move Twin-like in Vertue Piety and Love The happy Mother to a brood of Kings That shall in future times do wondrous things And as like Heaven-born Sisters they agree In all the points of sacred amity So choicest blessings Providence bestows And tho in different guifts an equal bounty shews To one a glorious Diadem To th' other an unvalued Jem A Happy Son a young Illustrious Prince That when the Gallick Insolence Shall cool and Mighty Williams Annals fill With Histories of Conquests there as I presage they will Shall march with his brave Sire the Royal Dane To summon Normandy Poictieu and Mayne And as our once known ancient right Anjou and Aquitayne From such an Unkle such a Father too That Glorys brightest prize pursue What may we not expect When they our Arms direct What from their Conduct may not Albion do The first his Royal Word esteems beyond a Crown And by their Words good Monarchs best are known Nor can a Kings Divinity be true Unless Word be not sacred too This this is Caesars Maxime he who now commands The boldest Sons of Fame in Foreign Lands Whilst Denmarks noble Prince as bravely here Offers his blood and rather than not bear In Britains danger or its fame a share Resolves t' Ingage at Sea a Royal Volunteer XIV Thus spoke the Marine God and all around From the Rocks hollow Cells and Deeps profound The listning Tritons rise and shelly Trumpets sound Attended with a numerous train Of scaly Mobble of the Main Who swam in crowds to see that pompous show A glorious City made of Castles flow Then bloated with the News Down to their Mansion Ooze And distant fry with Joy return again But amongst all that Neptunes speech had heard And in attention had rever'd Hoary Oceanus sat with most regard His awful Counsellour and Friend That long since had his favour gain'd For grateful service in his Love When Ampitrite first did his hearts passion move Who as she at the foot of Allas fate Priding