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Upon His Majesties late declarations for toleration and publication of war against the Hollander a poem / by T.S. of Grayes-Inne, Esq.
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T. S., of Grayes-Inne.
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1672
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Wing S186A; ESTC R6002
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UPON His Majesties LATE DECLARATIONS FOR TOLERATION AND Publication of War AGAINST THE HOLLANDER A POEM By T. S. of GRAYES-INNE Esq Regum est Parcere Subjectis debellare Superbos London Printed by J. C. for Samuel Heyrick at Grayes Inne-Gate in Holborn 1672. UPON HIS MAJESTIES LATE Declarations etc. SO Jove when he hath made his Anger known And finds the Trembling World his Justice own Discards his Thunder and with man complies And at the last receives his Sacrifice The Penal Laws ' gainst Non-Conformists made Just like Joves Thunder these three Kingdoms aw'd But this Indulgence shews that Kings can be Although as Dreadful Merciful as he The Title of Supremacy is now Not lessen'd but increas'd all Sects allow Charles their Supreme and him as Head obey Owning themselves Conformists from this day Thus hath his Mercy added to his Store He 's Head of Churches now but one before No more shall wandring Zeal miss-guide our feet All now are fixt and ready to submit Our hands and hearts unan'mously shall joyn And ' gainst th' Imperious Hollander combine The Cause so Just that Heavens to do us right Would plague them some way were we not to fight Perfidiouâ— States whose Faiths no Leagues can binde But like your Ships still move with every winde Like floating Delos may your Island be By Pioneers unstak'd and sent to Sea VVhere barking waves set on by angry windes Pursue you till you have out-past the Lines And if they ever six it may it be ' Mongst Strangers unto all Humanity And since your Vassal-Fleet denies to do That Homage which unto our Sov'raign's due Our English Oaks fram'd into winged Forts The strength of Cities and the pride of Courts Shall on the Surface of the Ocean move Our Right as well o're Sea as Land to prove A Right so Ancient not to be deni'd Since old Canutus checkt the forward Tide And Xerxes-like his Sov'raign Power to show Did limit its Proud Waves how far to flow Is' t not enough t'ingross abroad the Trade But must you too our Narrow-Seas invade From whose Exub'rous Spoils you now are grown From sneaking Fisher-men proud names to own As Hagen's Mogen's High and Mighty States And bid Defiance to all Potentates In your Distresses our Protections gave You safety whence you now your Beings have Unto our Empire you now did then agree And own'd us Sov'raign both by Land and Sea But now Imperious Vpstarts you are grown So proud as ev'n your Fost'rer to disown So the ungrateful Serpent Aesop shows Stead of Reward his spiteful Venom throws Upon those Courteous Hands that did replieve His fading life and him with warmth relieve And since you both alike ungrateful are You with the Serpent his Old Curse shall share Not to be beaten only or out-right Be slain but always creep when we 're in sight We 'll make the Belgick Lyon Couchant lye And sculk himself for fear when we pass by And now methinks I see Confed'rate Gales Of lucky Windes inspire our Navy's Sails And first of all the Prince for State and Power Proud of her Royal Burthen quits the shore From whose Broad Sides thick-planted Canons show Safety to us and danger to our Foe Here York's brave Heroe in whose single Brest The scatter'd valours of Fam'd Warriours rest With Resolution big as Fate commands And parting shoots at the departing Strands His Complement the grateful Streams repeat Unto those Groves that to the Royal Fleet Contributed their strengths who nimbly move Grown sensible not thorow Fear but Love The Generous Billows emulous to bear So brave a Fabrick croud to take their share And o're their Frothy Necks the Vessel rides And dances to and fro with sportive Tides And thou Great Oss'ry in whose spriteful Veins Nobility and Valour joyntly Reigns With Digby sprung from valiant Hero's Races Who both add Honour to your several places Whom nothing but Allegiance and to right Our Nations wrongs engaged you to sight Go on and make a difference appear Between a Courage hir'd and Volunteer You were Commanders born such to obey You fight for Honour only they for Pay Behold the brave Levina now who brings A General Wonder with her Canvas wings Within whose Wooden Walls a valiant Brood Of twisted Nations not well understood Unite their Valours and in several Tongues Betray their Zeals to right our Nations wrongs A Second Babel fitted for the Seas Both for its Height and choice of Languages Next the Resolved Kempthorn her succeeds Preferr'd to Honour not by Friends but Deeds His valiant Acts are Registred by Fame And Algiers Pyrats still shall Dread his Name The Azure Flags upon his Masts appear Like the Blew Aprons which the Sea-Nymphs wear Which shews that with those Nymphs h' hath often been Familiar and their Father Neptune's Friend The Loyal London follows next to these Some call her the Metropolis of the Seas About whose walls not Thames but Seas now cling Wondring to see a City thus on wing Venice no more shall Neptune's Darling be That stays ashore whilst this pursues the Sea Here valiant Spragg like the Lord Mayor appears Only this difference Spragg his own Sword bears My Lord 's supported is by other hands This rules the Sea whilst t'other rules the Lands Nor is there wanting to encrease his State A Cap of Maintenance since his sober Pate Still to his active hands commends Advice 'T is happy to be Valiant and Wise Brave Harman now his Fiery Ordeal's past Submits unto his Watry Tryal last Whose sober valour shall encrease his Glory And gain new Plumes t' enrich a future Story Jordan within whose Aged veins does flow A Spriteful Blood not quench'd by Ages Snow Like Reverend Nestor on the Deck appears As well for Prudent Conduct as for Years The Sov'raign he Commands a Ship for fight Design'd as well for Wonder as Delight Great was his Skill contriv'd so proud a Frame But greater was his Minde design'd the same Holmes whose Resolves are not to be out-done Having of late new Wreaths of Honour won Assumes a Courage fit for English men And newly off bravely falls to 't agen The Michael once more shall the Dutch perplex As once its Patron did the Devil vex His Dreadful Name ever since Scevelin-Fires Affrights the Dutch both Children and old Sires All fly if Holmes appear and yield him place He gains a Conquest by his very Face And now my modest Muse jealous lest she Should be suspected of Dishonesty And have her Credit blasted by ill Tongues Forward enough to offer Virgins wrongs Retires and dares not further board the Fleet And faith the Author 's glad enough of it FINIS