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A63086 A poem on the late promotion of several eminent persons in church and state by N. Tate ... Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. 1694 (1694) Wing T207; ESTC R127 4,897 16

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A POEM ON THE LATE PROMOTION OF SEVERAL Eminent Persons IN CHURCH and STATE By N. TATE Servant to Their Majesties Magnum mihi panditur aequor Ipsaque Pierios lassant Proclivia Currus LAVDIBVS innumeris Claud. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1694. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES EARL of Dorset and Middlesex Lord Chamberlain of Their Majesties Houshold c. MY LORD WITH conscious Fear my Muse approaches You Wit 's ablest Iudge and best Example too In Modesty your sight she should decline The only Barren Thing on which You shine To Your's Aspiring and her Countrey 's Praise Deserting Strength her ripe Design betrays Yet see how Duty with resistless Spells To fresh Attempts a Loyal Heart Compels Since Britain's Worthies their just Orbs sustain And loud Applause resounds from ev'ry Plain Our British Bards the only silent Throng Rage hurry'd me on this advent'rous Song But oh my Zeal forgot such Themes requir'd The Force and Fury of a Breast Inspir'd Yet these weak Streins may to a Nobler Flight Provoke those Muses whom they can't invite To Them shall safely Fame these Figures trust Whose Lustre is in my dead Colours lost How warmly They each Character shall trace Set off with proper Lights and Native Grace Then higher Soar and urging their Success Our great Augustus Court to life express In which Illustrious Sphere with Forms Divine Shall our Agrippa and Mecaenas Shine That Work commenc'd how pleas'd shall I Retire And at just Distance silently Admire Content and Proud the Skilful to have mov'd And see my rude Design so well improv'd Ev'n so blind Chance the Art of Musick found A rusling Wind amongst the Reeds did sound That Noise Instructed Shepherds first to Frame The Tuneful Pipe that since gave Shepherds Fame A POEM ON THE Late Promotions c. AS Joyful Nature who till then lay mute Did the first Sun 's exalted Beams salute So Britain rescu'd from the sullen Cloud That seem'd her new-created Face to shrowd Beholds at once Transported and Amaz'd To proper Spheres her Brightest Planets rais'd Our Monarch who best knew their Use and Pow'r Reserv'd their Influence for the Prosp'rous Hour Whose Aspects now a strong Direction joins When Tyranizing Saturn's Course declines Thus Kings whose Actions are to Heav'n ally'd Like Providence by Time are justify'd Easy at Home their Task when Peace combines With Pious Kings and favours their Designs Ours prest with War and sinking Europe's Weight Finds Leisure to Adorn our CHURCH and STATE NOW like the Visionary Matron rears Eusebia her calm Forehead crown'd with tears O'rejoy'd her Consecrated Sons appear Those Sons that hold their Mother's Honour dear To see the Past'ral Chair by Him supply'd For whom the Voice of Angels would decide In his Promotion Vice her Downfal read She rav'd to find the MITRE on that Head Her Venom swell'd to see of Piety So Charming an Example plac'd so High Whose Influence her Fears presag'd wou'd make The Age reform and her dark Empire shake Preferment sought Him Worthless Spir'ts intrude But Modest Merit must by Kings be woo'd He slow consenting to the Temple's Sway Aspir'd not but did Caesar's Will Obey While Caesar did who only could prescribe He in meer Duty Rules the Sacred Tribe His Moderation Charity Divine Led to this Choice our Gen'rous Constantine Whose Genius while the CROSIER there he plac'd His own Hereditary Virtues grac'd Whose Clemency mistaken Zeal does spare To Conscience Tender as to Crimes Severe Caesar these Charms can only Thrones sustain And you in These without a Rival Reign O Friend of Nations None you hold for Foes Except the Troublers of the World's Repose Just is your Rage oh may as Just Success Attend Your Arms till You Mankind redress Till harras'd Europe safe at Rest is laid As slept first Mortals in their Sylvan shade The Muse her Visit to the Temple paid Comes forth where Peals of Joy her Ear invade What charming Pomp such Transports can create Lo SOMMERS with the Emblems of his State How justly Heaven are now those Trophies born Before such Worth in suitable Return Adorning Him who Britain do's adorn A Poet's Genius should be all on Fire What Extasies should his rais'd Soul inspire When Crouds at Sight of Him can Rapture feel See how they press to Gaze and load his Chariot-wheel To fetter'd Numbers how shall be confin'd The compass of His Comprehensive Mind Sense Reason Musick in his Language throng The Graces sit Assembled on his Tongue Whose Accents ev'n the flying Winds surprize Who watch their Birth and bear 'em to the Skies The Muses who severer Arts profess By Him are Cherish'd ne'er deny'd Access Only the Idle and the Singing Crew Chid from his Presence long long since withdrew In Youth their Lawrels at his Feet they laid To Court Him all their Syren-Charms display'd Which like Ulysses wisely He contemn'd And Tacking off the Tide of Business stemm'd 'T would beggar Thought and Language both to raise The full proportion'd Tribute of his Praise Whom through all Provinces of Learning crown'd Transcendent Virtues render more renown'd Justice do's visible from Heav'n repair Unveil'd she comes and takes with Him the Chair When him on the relieving Bench you see Without a Trope say There sits EQUITY Next were my Strength proportion'd to my Zeal I 'd sing the Guardian of the Privy-Seal On PEMBROOK what can Court or State confer Beyond his Knowledge or his Virtue 's Sphere Who like the Sun the higher he ascends But further warms and more his Beams extends In Private Actions as in Publick Trust To Honour's Scheme so regularly just That his whole Soul but seems a Model fram'd By those rare Arts in which his Skill is fam'd Whose Judgment the best Pencil can direct In Symetry instruct the Architect Whose Rays can Light to Time 's dark Relicts give And from the Grave Antiquity retrieve O Sacred Faculty whose Pow'r transcends Life's Territories and the Dead befriends Blest Genius who Past Ages can renew And Ours transmit to All that shall ensue Who ev'ry Science and so early gain'd As Heav'n Inspir'd not Industry Obtain'd Vast Ocean that from ev'ry Channel draws From Statesmen Schools Divine and Human Laws To Worth deprest and injur'd Right his Ear Is ever open and his Heart sincere O Piety O Truth without a Stain Reserv'd by Heav'n for William's Sacred Reign When Nature in the Body does maintain Free intercourse between the Heart and Brain The Veins with Vital Spirits are supply'd And briskly circulates the Sanguine Tide Each vig'rous Limb ungriev'd its Labour bears And Joy Triumphant in the Face appears So Healthful so Transported looks the Realm Where SHREWSBURY and TRENCHARD sit at Helm If TRENCHARD singly could sustain the Weight And from declining long support the State O what when SHREWSBURY'S with him assign'd Atlas and Hercules together join'd TRENCHARD who Young and in his private Sphere For Britain's Rescue could so Nobly dare Forgetting Youth's Diversions