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A42662	Eleosriabos: being England's triumphs in an hearty remembrance of that wonderfull providence which hath all along waited on the sacred person of our Augustus His Majesty William III. Until he arriv'd safe in the joyfull haven of peace. A pindarick. By T. G. Physician in Essex.	T. G.	1697 (1697)	Wing G61; ESTC R216431	4,663	9

' ΕΛΕΟΘΡΙΑΜΒΟΣ BEING England's Triumphs IN AN HEARTY REMEMBRANCE OF THAT Wonderfull Providence Which hath all along waited on the SACRED PERSON OF OUR AUGUSTUS HIS MAJESTY WILLIAM III. Untill He arriv'd safe in the Joyfull Haven of PEACE A PINDARICK Imperium lateritium accepisti marmoreum reddidisti By T. G. Physician in Essex LONDON Printed for F. Blithe and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick lane 1696 Serenissimi Principis Gulielmi Tertii Symbolum Actionum Victoriarum Heroicarumque effatum in Carmina succedanca Per Hiberniam nec non Germaniam Inferiorem gestarum WIllielmus sic ora gerit mera gloria secli Cui tot mentis opes invidet ipsa Themis Heroum palmare decus quem praepete curru Sublimem coeli fama per astra vehit Caetera miramur vix ausi dicere quae sit In regem pietas religio inque Deum ΕΛΕΟΘΡΙΑΜΒΟΣ BEING ENGLAND's Triumphs c. I. BRave Albion now take up thy Golden Lyre So shall the Sacred Nine thy Verse inspire While on each Shore the Universe shall ring The lasting Triumphs of Great Britain's King Behold a Ray from Heaven breaks in To usher the bright Chorus of that a A Golden Age. happy time Which Ages past do so lament and say Time ne'er before or since dawn'd such a b 〈…〉 before Christ 〈…〉 was ●ne Golden Age so much 〈…〉 Day Till Britain's Great NASSAW ascends the Throne Such glitt'rring Suns ne'er gilt her Horizon He who in noblest Dangers understood To gain our Liberties through Blood Pursu'd the c Means as proper to his Skill As soon th'exhausted Arteries could fill And with his Royal Hand has broach'd the Vein That Mitigation gave to Europe's Pain And will a Series of health procure As Bleedings vast are stopt by clotted Gore So ancient Kings and Emperors have been Enur'd to ways of Medicine Till they their Politicks refin'd thereby With Lenitives and Cordials high Their Subjects have maintain'd in truest Liberty II. What shou●d we have said What wou'd we not a' done In some years past to have quit the Nation Of blackest Tempests drawing on Big with Designs and Desolation Had not the brave Augustus him I mean That humane Deity we call Supream Display'd His Conqu'ring Banners o'er this Isle W 'had felt a sad Exile Of Liberty and all that 's just and good Had then been sacrific'd to Gods of Wood And Sence and Reason to a croaking Brood When Egypt's Tyrant had Heaven's Ire provok●d And Frogs and Lice about his Palace croak'd Sure nothing noisomer was then Or plagu'd his haughty Mind like that When upon force he begg'd a milder Fate So very often of the Men Who sent their Plagues again And let that ru●●l'd Hector see T was Heaven's Will to make the Nations free Such God-like Awe has England's Scepter sway'd While Prodigies her Royal Standards prop In Myriads of happy Days we hope While Heaven 's prais'd and its Vicegerent's well obey'd III. Eternal Trophies sing thy Lot And to the Star that damp'd the fatal d The ●u●let that graz'd u●on His M●●esty 〈…〉 the sacred Person 〈…〉 obtusam 〈…〉 Shot So as that winged Messenger of Death Cou'd no Impression ma●e But for thy sake It s deadly Breath Did in the Plumes of Honour sheath Tho' prim'd with Dev'lish Ire Those Sulphurs chang'd to e 〈…〉 duo tela pla●etea 〈…〉 operam 〈…〉 facit 〈…〉 lambent ●●● While the astonish'd Hosts stood still t' admire The Care th' Almighty o'er his Darling had Whose Cause he did defend The force of f 〈…〉 Art and Nature both sorbad To bring to pass his purpos'd end Why such Repining then Why so unjust To Him on whom Heaven lays so great a Trust Ye busie g A grand Query among the learned Theologists where those ten Jewish Tribe who for their grumbling c. were captiv'd by Salmanasser King of Ass●ria and carried into the Regions of Media on the North or North-East side of the Caspian Sea might remain are by the learned Enquiry of the present Age found out in the Cities of Tartaria whose People are the Posterity of the ten lost Tribes according to Dr. Geo. Flet●●●● his Tractate call'd 〈◊〉 Redux published by the judicious and learned Samuel Lee Ann. 1677. Seekers in the World 's wide round Here fix your Thoughts and Feet on England's Ground Suffer your minds no more to be perplex'd While here the long lost Tribes Stand grumbling by your sides For all whose Benefits as saith the Text Ever with Murmurings Heaven storm'd as oft Jehovah vext● IV. Behold an Hero girt with noble Ire Braving the Ponyard so the loudest Fire From place to place posting his weighty Charge Regardless of his own with Soul so large As ever fill'd a Monarch's Breast Europe's great Atlas on whose Shoulders rest The tottering Diadems of Sacred Power Which only England's Monarch can restore Without the Rhetorick of a Father's h See the Nunclo's Oration to the French King in the State of Europe p. 295. Trope In Heaven's name leads the forlorn Hope And in a Brave and Generous Disdain Fires all his Dangers back again Each Element exults and proudly boast Our Gideon's Triumphs in the God of Host Who once the Darling Tribes through Chrystal Walls Had led and Prophets three thro' Flames he calls Now a prodigious i While our glorious Monarch was wading through the rugged S●●eams at the B●●ne and afterwards passing so many furious and fiery Fatigues at 〈◊〉 and all on account of publick Peace and Safety It was impossible for me to omit the Parallel in this Stanza it having been begun and then finish'd at those particular Season when his Sacred Majesty was in●●●●●ntly moiling those unparallell'd Hazards of his Royal Person in who●e 〈…〉 of who le 〈…〉 was wrapt up Prince forth-with to save Mens civil Rights in chief the Laws he gave All pure and incorrupt now sully'd o'er Scarce known by whom they were promulg'd before The swoln Boyne first fails and leads the way To Namur's Walls all hast without delay The broad N●ssavean Banners to display V. Hail to the Prince before whose gracious Throne Clusters of Scepters daily come And all their Royal Tributes pay Where true magnetick Graces ever live and stay As Suppliants to so divine a Ray Here they their Diamond Cusps immerse And wretched Tyranny disperse But Wisdom Courage Princely Constancy That once had flesh'd those k 〈◊〉 and his Celestial Hosts 〈…〉 and his c. Heroes of the Sky And flung th' aspiring Crew then headlong down Now shine about fair Alb●on's stately Crown And may an other * An Halo or Glory encompassing the Throne Galaxy inspire With l Virtues that have a communicative good in them whose contrarie● are most apt to fully and obscure the Regal D●●d●m as these are to poli●h and en●ble it with all the 〈◊〉 and Graces of the divine Bounty Virtues fed by true Celestial Fire

While our Augustus whom we love to trust Still makes his martial Deeds the more august By how much in Him something more is found Than wither'd Fame's loud Trumpets sound Or the Arcadian m The Monosyllable ●●● by the 〈◊〉 is taken often for a Univerality but more 〈◊〉 in the 〈…〉 their God 〈◊〉 at whole Death the whole frame of Di●b●●●●al Worship fell to the ground along with that in●ernal Polity which lay hid in the Paga● Ora●les Pan had levell'd to the ground● VI. I knew no better way great Acts t' have told Than graving Thine upon the backs of old Till You most mighty Prince my Muse inspir'd And such a gratefull Zeal had fir'd Whose n See to this effect a famous Story of 〈◊〉 to the Emperor Tilerius Caesar and handed down to us by the accurate Pea of the learned Mr. 〈◊〉 his Travels to 〈…〉 c. lib. 1. p. 11. 〈…〉 alludes both to a liquid and 〈◊〉 Chymical Substance which 〈…〉 for half a Minute of an hour 〈…〉 whatever if scroll'd 〈…〉 Paper will represent the 〈…〉 very delightfull 〈◊〉 Characters 〈…〉 self have seen 〈…〉 ingenious Doctor 〈…〉 which he some years 〈…〉 of the Royal Society by the Name of the 〈…〉 Another ●●●● namely the 〈…〉 and by 〈…〉 Pyramis in Shining Flame Blazons Thine Acts round Thy Victorious Name And gives surprizing Glories to Thy Deeds That when Thy Successor Thy o Positaeque ex ordine gemmae Labours reads As Letters sence so this its own p Clara reperoussu reddebant lumina Phoebo Ovid. Met. lib. 2. Fame breeds ' You lent an Ear to Europe's Groan When none beside its Cause dare own A Sacred Stem You slipt from off Your Throne Gracious it prov'd Luxuriant and Green And as the Prophets Goard a goodly Screen Unto the Nation 's Laws their Liberty Their Lives their Children Religion All shelter'd from Oppression And also gave so great Renown to Thee As fixt the Universal Monarchy Unto the fertil Root from whence it sprang As great Effects on Causes terminate and hang. VII Listen no more unto the Tales of Fame Of Caesar or of mighty Pompey's Name Or the great King of Macedon those Scenes Were to these Ends as nobler Means The Means of Peace and fuller Glory Than Time e'er plac'd in Greek or Roman Story But what if Hebrew Rabbies talk of sage Moses and Joshua famous in their Age Yet these the Shades not Substance might presage And seem'd with Verities to jest While they held earthy things in Quest The Heav'n spir'd Zeal that fill'd our Hero's Breast Bids him look high since his Commission bears What top-most q The Cross that rests upon the top of the Imperial Crown sits upon the Crown he wears Strengthens his Heart and bids his Sword not spare A trait'rous Crew but let 'em feel and see So treacherous to Heaven and Thee That the All Conqu'ring Banners thou dost bear Shall Victims make till they to Heaven rear In Concert with Thy Labours and just Throne Thy Great Allies where Joy and Interest meet in One. THE ANAGRAM Drawn from the ROYAL TITLES Viz. William the Third KING OF England Scotland France and Ireland I the Delight of Mankind I can call redres of the Land tangled in War So some more Orient Gem in Casket close immur'd Is no more safe from harm than fatally secur'd As once th' Illustrious Titles with thy mighty Name Suffer'd Eclipse in the dark Shades of written Fame Till Royal Acts untangl'd their strict Anagram FINIS