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A55913 Verses humbly presented to the King at his arrival in Holland after the discovery of the late horrid conspiracy against His most Sacred Person / by Mr. Prior. Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721. 1696 (1696) Wing P3517; ESTC R21156 1,425 7

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VERSES Humbly presented to the KING At His Arrival in HOLLAND After the DISCOVERY Of the late horrid CONSPIRACY Against His most Sacred Person By Mr. PRIOR Serus in coelum redeas diuque Laetus intersis populo Quirini Neve te nostris vitiis iniquum Ocyor aura Tollat hic magnos potius triumphos Hic ames dici pater atque Princeps Neu sinas Gallos equitare inultos Te duce CAESAR Hor. ad Augustum LONDON Printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge's Head near the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet 1696. VERSES Humbly presented to the KING At His Arrival in HOLLAND After the DISCOVERY Of the late horrid CONSPIRACY Against His most Sacred Person YE careful Angels whom eternal Fate Ordains on Earth and humane Acts to wait Who turn with secret Power this restless Ball And bid determin'd Empires rise and fall Your sacred Aid religious Princes own When first they merit then ascend the Throne But Tyrants dread you lest your just Decree Transfer the Power and set the People free See rescu'd BRITAIN at your Altars bow And hear her hymns your happy care avow That yet her Axes and her Rods support Her Judges hand and grace her awful Court Where Law with all her pompous terrour stands To wrest the Dagger from the Traitours hands Where rigid Justice reads the fatal Word Poises the Ballance first then draws the Sword To your blest guidance She her safety owns That she can sep'rate Parricides from Sons And boldly give those Criminals their doom Who would like Nero rip their Parents womb That Death and Hell disarm'd She lives and reigns Her freedom Kept by Him who broke her chains And thou blest Guardian destin'd to defend That Sacred Life on which all ours depend Thou sure whose charge of old was Israel's Court When sent from Heav'n great David's strong support Thy arm unseen eluded cruel Saul And struck the useless Javelin to the Wall Thy later care o'er WILLIAM'S Temples held On Boyn's propitious Banks the heav'nly Shield When EUROPE pale betwixt two Armies stood And trembling BRITAIN doubted to be good Till Miracles did WILLIAM'S right declare And Cannons mark't whom they were bid to spare Still blessed Angel be thy care the same Be WILLIAM'S Life untouch'd as is his Fame Let Him own Thine as BRITAIN owns his Hand And save the King as He has sav'd the Land VVe Angels forms in pious Monarchs view We reverence WILLIAM for He acts like You Like You commission'd to chastize and bless He must avenge the World and give it Peace Our Prayers are heard new Miracles are shown The Powers that rescu'd will preserve the Throne The Hero dear to Earth by Heav'n belov'd By troubles must be vex't by dangers prov'd His Foes must contribute to make Him great And fix his Glory sure on their defeat So tho' with sudden rage the Tempest comes Tho' the Winds roar and tho' the Water foams Fair BRITAIN on the angry Sea looks down And smiling sees Her Rebel Subject frown Heav'n in assaulting Her confirms her power The Waves but whiten Her triumphant Shore In vain they would advance in vain retreat Broken they dash and perish at Her feet 'T is done once more thro' BRITAIN's joyful Sea Her glorious Monarch plows his Prosp'rous way Arm'd with those Fleets who have in thunder said To distant VVorlds whose Empire they obey'd He lands and sees united Nations stand Their parts of Glory dealt by His command Their glowing Brests with fresh Ideas fir'd How WILLIAM conquer'd and how FRANCE retir'd VVhen fixt as Fate he stood in Namurs Field Till Rocks and Floods and Fire were taught to yield Till Flanders freed the Hero's arm confest But trembled for the Courage which she blest He comes pale GALLIA dreads his Arms a-far And bent on Parricide refuses VVar But ' well she knows his Vengeance n'er will tread Those Paths of horrour which her guilt has led The Trumpets Sounds shall tell the arming Foe VVhen WILLIAM meditates the noble Blow Before the foremost Troops in open fight The Hero's arm shall prove the Monarchs right 'T is done and EUROPE freed must own his hand Whilst THAMES shall flow or BRITAINS Empire stand