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A64586 Upon His Majesties going for Ireland 1690 (1690) Wing U104A; ESTC R21984 1,529 1

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UPON HIS MAJESTIES Going for IRELAND GO on Great Prince the mighty Work pursue And reap the Laurels to your Vertue due Go on and let the sad Ierne share Your Glorious Triumphs as it do's your Care There Victory will on your Arms attend For Heaven must sure the Justest Cause befriend There urge the Fortune of your growing Fate And kindly prop Ierne's sinking State Well now he 's Shipt See how th' obsequious Main And trembling Billows fear to entertain So Great a Pledge of Fortune One to whom Fate owes so many Victories to come Cease cease ye Winds you need not send your Gales His Subjects Loyal Vows will fill the Sails The wondring Sea-gods on their Master gaze And Reverend Triton on his Trumpet plays No foamy Waves alarm the peaceful Deep The Winds are husht the very Tempests sleep Till safely landing on the distant Shore He views a Place he never saw before Behold the Monarch walking on the Strand Whilst mighty Crowds do blacken all the Sand Guns Trumpets Drums his Welcom all proclaim There 's Soul there 's Life nay Magic in his Name New Vigour from his Sight the Soldier draws And through all Dangers boldly courts Applause A nobler Warmth do's all the Men inspire Their Breasts are heated and they feel the Fire While Peals of artful Thunder rend the Air And their lowd Joy through the large Region bear What Place will first our Caesar's Arms employ To give Prefage of future Victory Th' unequal Force no meaner Town withstands But beg their Peace with low submissive Hands Cavan in vain relies upon its Strength And views those Turrets which must fall at length Where Valour 's wanting what do Walls avail Those may be storm'd but this can never fail The English Youth like a bold Torrent run And scorn the weak Attacks of Sword and Gun Forthwith the dastard Irish quit the Place And scarce dare look our Party in the Face So when Great Josuah by God's Command With his unconquer'd Host o're-ran the Land The trembling Canaanite possest with Fear Fled to the Hills yet scarce found Safety there In vain they fought to shun approaching Death Begg'd to protract a poor and shameful Breath The fiery Jews destroy the timerous Race And shew the hardned Canaanite no Grace Tredagh do's next the English Arms oppose Following the Counsel of her Gallick Foes At last when no Relief no Hope is near And Death do's in a thousand Shapes appear Taught by Experience of former Time When haughty Cromwel punish'd her great Crime To Article she wisely do's begin And opes her Gates and lets the Monarch in Now Naked Dublin do our Troops survey A cheap unguarded and defenceless Prey Unless the French have labour'd to destroy The Place they cou'd not any more enjoy And who can tell For Fear with Malice join'd No Bounds no Limits to their Fury find But if those Blood-hounds thus do serve the Isle All France next Year shall be its Funeral Pile 'T is far above the Meanness of my Verse Such great Heroick Actions to rehearse For ah what Tribe of all the Muse below Can our Great Prince in equal Numbers shew But if the Great Apollo do's inspire My vig'rous Mind with no fantastick Fire Ireland will in a Years revolving Space Our Mighty Caesar's Glorious Triumphs grace Jove did the Isle from Toads and Spiders free A puny Task below a Deity But you far greater Miracles renew A larger Laurel to your Worth is due For by the Influence of your careful Toil You free the Men Jove only freed the Soil ADVERTISEMENT The Memoirs of Monsieur Deageant containing the most secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the Beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richlieu To which is added A Particular Relation of the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the Advancement of the Roman Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair Which hapned the last Years of King James I. his Reign Faithfully Translated out of the French Original The Cabinet Open'd or The Secret History of the Amours of Madam de Maintenon with the French King Translated from the French Copy Both Printed for Richard Balwin in the Old Baily LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Black Bull in the Old Baily 1690.