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An heroick poem upon the King humbly presented to the Queen / by William Culpeper.
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Colepeper, William, d. 1726.
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1694
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Wing C7564; ESTC R29690
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Foes in former Wars have lost What Numbers of the French were put to Flight What Fleets of Spaniards wreckt upon our Coast Our Children speaking of the present State Shall say What Conduct by the KING was shown How Ireland by his Hand was snatcht from Fate And Armies strongly posted overthrown Nor are his Glories here or there confin'd But in all Parts alike their Lustre keep His Arm 's extended on the Seas and Wind His Laurels root and flourish in the deep Let the French King his Enterprise repent The proud Inscription on his Royal Sun Is to the Bottom with Derision sent And a Deciding Day by England won No Artifice cou'd hide what Lewis lost 'T was seen by Flames by sound of Cannon known A dreadful Sound that Eccho'd from his Coast And shook the Fearful Monarch on his Throne What Eloquence can just description make Of English Valour us'd to burn and board 'T was rouz'd to see that France should undertake To Cope with England's KING the Ocean's LORD Lepanto's fight the Christians safety brought And well restrain'd the growing Turkish Pride Let Lewis learn from this his giddy Thought Of Empire in the West to lay aside The World indeed shall feel Great WILLIAM's Sway And distant Climates know his pow'rful Hand Both Indies with their Riches shall obey He that Commands the Sea Commands the Land Whilst France distrustful of her shatter'd Fleet Can only the Algiers of Europe be Careful our Royal Navy not to meet But with her Pyracies t'infest the Sea In vain by Lewis some Revenge is sought Vast Armies like an over-whelming Flood Are now to Miserable Flanders brought And Flanders is agen the Scene of Blood What Blood has Landen's Fierce Engagement cost Where all the most amazing things were done Lewis of such a Victory may boast As Ruin'd Pyrrhus from the Romans won The French a Force not equal came to find But this was only by the KING suppli'd Who still heheld with an unshaken Mind Contending Troops and Death on every side The Almighty here our highest Praise shall claim To Guard the KING whose Fate had Europe's been Heav'ns Pow'r is always in it self the same But thus more clearly to the World is seen Sure the Great Lewis may be now content His eager Thirst of Glory to restain His Fame to after Ages shall be sent It shall to Immortality attain For Persecutions his Renown shall last For secret Practices that fear the light For breaking Leagues for laying Countries wast Yet never once appearing in a Fight Whilst WILLIAM's Godlike Character shall be Oppos'd to all that men in Lewis find To set the Nations from his Rapine free To quell the Beast that preys upon Mankind Cou'd Lewis see with what auspicious Joy And Minds of Constancy Our Commons meet When voting against France Our Arms t' employ They pour out Millions at our Monarch's feet Despairing Lewis wou'd in spight confess These Men that hold their Liberty so fast Deserve their Dear-lov'd Blessing to possess And will no doubt be English to their last Shou'd Heav'n which Heav'n forbid our choice require A conquer'd Nation or No more to be This Favour then from Heav'n We shou'd desire To sink our Ancient Island in the Sea Let Slaves like Slaves for fear Allegiance pay Let Lewis by Dragoons his Subjects awe The Free-born English willingly obey A KING that Governs and is Great by Law Here our Desires are fixt our Wishes rest Sure now the Effect of England's Pray'rs is seen The people in their KING entirely Blest The KING in Them both in the Charming QUEEN THE Charming QUEEN the Lustre of her Court THE Charming QUEEN whose Goodness unconfin'd And Noble Zeal the Injur'd to support Shows a true Picture of Her HERO's mind Who with this Fair Companion of his Throne The honour of his Kingdome shall maintain And over Vice succesfully go on To use the Pow'r of this Illustrious Reign When Kings like Kings and God's Vicegerents act When they by their Examples Virtue grace Virtue with all their Subjects finds Respect And Vice with Shame confounded gives her place Most of those Men that are for Heroes fam'd To trace their Lives with an impartial care For some ill Actions may perhaps be blam'd Some Stain presents their Memories less fair Either their Youth in Luxury was drown'd Or nothing cou'd their Rage to Reason bring Or nothing cou'd their wild Ambition bound But ev'ry Vertue 's equal in THE KING Let me the Macedonian's mighty mind And Caesar's Clemency together take They may perhaps to Cato's Justice join'd And Scipio's Temperance One WILLIAM make My Gen'rous Muse that long has silent been That never wou'd to Flattery descend Never to praise successful Vice begin Engag'd in Virtue 's Cause would never end But all the Wars and deep Affairs of State In which Great WILLIAM had a Glorious Part Exactly and with Judgment to relate Requires the World 's both Industry and Art The willing Nations many shall afford A Work so vast so noble to pursue Whose Pens the greatest Wonders must record To give THIS HERO of the Age his due FINIS
AN Heroick Poem UPON THE KING Humbly Presented to the QUEEN By WILLIAM CULPEPER Esq The Hero makes the Poet. LONDON Printed for Daniel Brown at the Bible without Temple-Bar MDCXCIV TO THE QUEEN May it please Your Majesty SO soon as I had finish'd this Poem and indeed while I was composing it I hop'd it might not be unwelcome to YOUR MAJESTY since it presents tho not so perfectly as I could wish the Character of the Greatest Man that lives whose Person must ever be so dear to YOUR MAJESTY and the Kingdom What I have now Writ I beg YOUR MAJESTY to Accept not as the Work of a Low Servile Pen but as the Zeal of a Man that desires to raise his Thoughts as high as Truth and Justice With this Mind I have represented King William and King Lewis as Vnlike as they really are as Contrary as Light and Darkness which I have done with respect to King Lewis as a Crown'd Head greater than he Personally deserves Several Pens are now employ'd by that King to write his Life but whatever they can say Truth is Truth and will be too mighty for King Lewis no doubt the Praises of Nero Domitian Commodus and other Monsters of Human Nature were writ by as Ingenious Men as any France can boast of tho none of their Works have Surviv'd as indeed they neither ought nor could being against all Truth and Modesty but after their Death 's the Histories of these Wicked Tyrants were Impartially writ and their Names recorded Odious to Posterity while the Excellent Characters of Augustus Nerva Trajan and other Good Princes and Patriots which were writ in their own Times and which Themselves had the Satisfaction to read have descended Ages and will probably last as long as the World This Great Reward of Vertue will be paid to the KING 's and YOUR OWN MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY whose Memories must be as Your Lives Glorious That Your Lives may long continue so that the greatest of Earthly Blessings may be preserved to these Nations and indeed to the World is the most Earnest Prayer of May it please Your Majesty YOUR MAJESTIES Most Obedient Dutiful Subject and most Devoted Humble Servant W. CULPEPER AN Heroick POEM UPON THE KING IF the Disturbers of the World can raise Themselves a Name and loud Admirers find What is or ought to be those Princes praise That awe th' Oppressors and relieve Mankind The French Dominion still increas'd by wrong To a prodigious height at last is grown As if Heav'n suffer'd it t' obtain so long To be by NASSAW'S Conduct overthrown In whose first years th' expecting World could see Rare Wisdom with undaunted Courage meet Like young Augustus promising to be What since we 've found him ev'ry thing that 's Great Descended from a truly Glorious Race His Ancestors the Pow'r of Austria broke Now France usurps and takes the Tyrant's place His Arm delivers Europe from the Yoke The Far-designing Lewis soon betray'd His fear of this and with deserv'd Success That most Injurious War with Holland made In hopes the rising Hero to oppress Whose solid Virtue fenc'd against the Blow And Courage to the Holland State restor'd The French 't is now resolv'd the weight shall know Of the Young General 's revenging Sword Towns that were forc'd the Invaders to obey Before Illustrious William undertook The near expiring Commonwealth to sway Now with the last Confusion They forsook As once by Hercules a Serpent's head Was bruis'd when touch'd by his yet tender hand So the French Hope of conquering lay dead When the Young Prince exerted his Command But fierce Ambition will not be at rest Tho here 't is stopt from its intended Course 'T will as it can some other place infest And rage till 't is agen repell'd by force Flanders by violent Incursions laid In heaps of Ruin yet was unsubdu'd His Highness ever came with pow'rful Aid And hither the destroying French pursu'd Seneff I must with Admiration name Where Conde's Glory an Affront receiv'd And Mons of equal everlasting Fame With Slaughter of the routed French reliev'd At length all Nations for a Peace declare And now 't was hop'd that Europe's broils might cease But France is not so dangerous in War As by her black Contrivances in Peace Strasburgh and Luxemburgh's surpriz'd or bought The Swiss by Forts to Lewis Slaves are made His Allies to besiege Vienna brought And Christendom to Infidels betray'd In England by Intrigues as King he reign'd Our wretched Government it self destroy'd We find a Foreign Interest maintain'd By Men in all Affairs of State employ'd The Prince contending in his Pious Breast Long our Deliv'rance by entreaty sought If his high Virtue may be so exprest He bore till Patience was almost a fault Till Horror and Destruction were at hand Our Forts to Irish Garisons betray'd Till Priests like Locusts overspread the Land Till Jesuits Privy-Counsellors were made Who longing the Occasion to improve Meant England shou'd by Civil Rage be torn But the Almighty Ruling Power above Laughs on the Wise Achitophels with scorn Whilst with a most Auspicious Wind and Tide The Great Redeemer to our Island sails The Partisans of France prepare to hide And England's Cause to England's Wish prevails Caesar first came and then subdu'd his Foes His Highness Conquer'd faster than he came A Mighty Royal Army to oppose He sent before THE TERROR OF HIS NAME Too pow'rful for resistance or delay No signs of War are horrid to our sight But as the Glorious Planet of the Day Without Disturbance gives the Globe its light Our HERO so ascends the English Throne Approv'd by Gracious Heav'ns peculiar Choice Choice by the whole Consent of Nations known The Lords the Commons and the Peoples Voice Who now regain their Ancient Freedoms lost And all their sense of Gratitude express Men that against Crown'd Heads pretended most On this occasion their mistake confess Were Vane to live again no more he wou'd His Notion of a Commonwealth maintain Cromwell himself wou'd yield to Publick Good And own Great WILLIAM only fit to Reign At England's Union Lewis is aggriev'd With hate and fierce intent of War he burns At Scotland strikes and having there receiv'd A sharp Repulse his Force to Ireland turns For all Designs can Lewis want pretence He puts Religion to that only use He 's Ireland's Friend her Safety her Defence Her State to perfect Quiet he 'll reduce 'T is sure where nothing is alive to take This or that Party Faction needs must cease Wherever Tyrants Desolation make Their Mischief they applaud and call it Peace This Lewis meant to this his pow'r employ'd Ireland throughout with dying Cries is fill'd Men with a Cruel Pleasure are destroy'd And Ravish'd Women with their Infants kill'd The KING was mov'd and with disdainful hast This Insolent Barbarity restrain'd Of English Rage he made its Actors tast And Ever Glorious Victory obtain'd As to this day we mention with delight What England's