Aires Lowest Region The King-fish hath no foes but the Sword-fish And Thrasher that good Kings had none I wish Then Brittains bless the Lord from Pope and Sect Who hath you freed by Princes six select O Europe praise Jehovah King of Kings Who Kings you gave who Gods pure word you brings By him they rule he gives them Crowns and Birth And under him they 'r th' Atlas of the earth That Protestants should boast could Foes abide Th' had Europes greatest Monarch on their side One o' th best works for 's Church our God could do Let 's daily drink of Praise one cup or two Now he may make King Charles the Corner-stone As ever Brittain rul'd of as high Throne But Bankrupt States like Brokers base were bent To patch their Crack't States though three Realms they rent They acted were by our vvorst Foes and Rome To bring our King and Kingdoms to their Doom Where most perfections meet in one such things As much excells as Diamonds brass Rings Thus the worlds Soveraign Angels doth excel More then Heaven Earth Men Beasts which here do dwell Thus Souls the body bodies that are mixt Surmount the Elements in one place fix't All Creatures sensibles and Rational Surpass the sensless and meer Animal Ashwerus Medes and Persians their Kings call That 's Sovereign power in one which can do all So sure as their Law Monarchy sole Heir Of Governments the rest but Bastards are Desired Accomplishments meet all in this All Powers Force Vertues do each other kiss The two Estates did make so much ado All with Pythagorists Curse number two New Lords new Laws new Gods nevv Troubles bring As was in Layish Israel when no King And in the Persians five dayes liberty Which made them love their Kings hate Anarchy So when we had a thousand Kings and more As many Jarrs who should be King them o're They tyr'd us all and made us loudly thump And cry God save the King and hang the Rump Since quietly in Brittain France and Spain Yea through the world Dead Kings revive again And one succeeds the other with much ease Death one Uncrowns the other crown'd in peace O King of Kings whilst Sun and Moon doth reign Let 's ne're want Kings to guide King Charles his Wain And may he live thrice o're his years again What is a Commonwealth but common woe Where each mans wealth 's made common unto moe A Common-wealth's a Common Lottery Where fifty Blancks for one good chance we see A Common-wealth's a Common Weathercock Which whirles about with every winde and knock Whilst Phaebus past twelve signes i' th Zodiack As many changes nigh made Brittains Quake When Lords were all cashiered and honest men None left but Fools and Slaves and Traytors then What was a Commonwealth but a Fragment A Scrap Fagg-end a Rump of Parliament 'T is a false Mirror cannot represent The peoples understandings wills consent A Bedlam Babel what do you call it Where Rowlands will is rul'd by Randals wit And such as have nor t'one nor t'other Are rul'd by the Whimsies of another When many go to Feast or Funeral From the vote Major Minor carries all Then Commonwealth's a Common Juglers Box A Hoca Poca Major Minor Vox A Commonwealth's a state Hermophradite Where He 's by day vote She 's unvote by night Democritus laughs into a Horaclite To think for mastry how she-States did fight Nay what 's a Common-wealth but Common Whore With Nobles Honors prostrates to each Boor. Our Common-wealth it was a Common Pander To Sects and Factions which about did wander A Common-wealth's a common Pestilence Where Passions vote ' gainst Reasons Common sence That ours was Ante-Christ who can deny Whose Horns gor'd Christ whose Heads did him defie Mark what Greeks said of Greece who saw 't flourish When Kings Greece rul'd by many rul'd perish When first these Fiends of Hell you guess their names By Greeks we 're courted like two Cyprian Dames The Nations round jear'd Greeks which fear'd their fames Scorn'd Greece when Greece burnt Greece with civil flames By Fiends are meant Free-States and Common-wealth Since these Greeks rul'd we Trojans had no health Our Rulers Bedlam Regelments by moe Teem'd with as mad Effects as e're brought woe Then worst of Rebels is Republican Though Independent Presbyterian Where e're had Zimries peace against their Masters Who ' rose and fell not by some sad disasters Hence let no new Sectarian Schelies Lead you to Traytors Dire Ends and Follies The world a Chaos were of huge variety Wer 't not to order brought by Monarchy Jah ruleth all the Angels Michael Who all the Rebels cast from Heaven to Hell The Sun rules Stars Sphears Sphears Imperial All causes end in one the cause of all In the Malignant Church false Heads we see I' th Militant Triumphant one must be All Arts are Handmaids to Theology Whose wonders men and Angels stupifie All Books but empty Pamphlets are to it Which God hath spoke and with his finger writ In Fire in Air Earth Water and in Hell The rule of one doth sway and bear the Bell Fire above Air Air Earth earth waters fix't Gives life and doth consume all bodies mixt Ducks have their Drakes Cranes have their Kings they say All feathered Creatures their chief Males obey But o're them all the Eagle bears the sway Base Locusts Grashoppers Insects and Flies Who have no King by their confusion dyes Others live long as th' Ant and Royal Bee A Guard who keeps lives dyes in Majesty Their Hives Walls Combs Cities Holes Houses are Stings are their Arms one rules in peace and war O're Papers Venice Brown Lombard Horn Demy Royal Cap super Royal Perial Imperial Heards have their leaders Rams their flocks of Sheep All Beasts to th' Lion like Jackals do creep O're Stones the Carbuncle o're Mettals Gold Of which Kings Crowns are made for which they 'r sold O're all the scaly Monsters in the Sea The Whale's the Tyrant him they must obey By Nereus sons when caught in Greenland sound Leviathan's priz'd at five hundred pound The Basilisk a Crown on 's head doth wear To shew o're Serpents he doth Domineer O're every sort of creature Kings to fit Requires a Tome their Nomenclators wit Each Master rules as Monarch Politique His Children Servants as King Despotique One entire Nation in the world throughout O're it be Kings if you can finde without If you 'l believe Saint Hugh who pearcht in tub He was in Hell there 's but one Belzebub Thus from the highest Heavens to the lowest pit The worlds Grand Monarch Monarchy hath writ In his vast Volume of the world that here Men might their God and his Vicegerent fear That none might Witchcraft of Rebellion draw From Devils presidents and call it Law Since Michael down from Heaven those Rebels threw Shew me one Rebel thriv'd of Rebels crew By all the Laws of God our Charlemain Is plac't in 's Throne obey your Sovereign
Priests his Laws to men doth teach So o're the world by Kings his raign doth reach Kings are his lively Image his Vicegerents Who best his Power and Glory represents Since Christ's the King of Kings of Lords the Lord Then Anti-Kings are Anti-Christs by th' word God promised to Abraham Kings of 's â—eed Of his svvorn truths vvorld you make lyes take heed And Kings and Queens unto his Church he 'd raise Fathers and Mothers to its good his praise And Kings to Judah vvere the greatest bliss Jacob foretold That them ye hate vvhence this Balac said Balam blest vvhen Kings to Jews Like Agags Unicorns Lions he shevvs And that the shout of Kings vvas in their Camp No Foes Inchantments could them ever damp God vovv'd that Israel should live secure Meaning vvhilst native Monarchs did endure With greatest blessings he Jesuron foster'd The chiefest vvas they to a Kingdom prosper'd VVhen Kings had Kings their Heirs the Jews confess That God did them above all people bless By this the Kings and Sheba's Queen did prove That he did them above all Nations love Kings strongest motives in Gods Writ Divine To goodness vvear he'd Crown Kings of their line No Princes vvickedness did void Gods Oath Nor can absolve from our sworn Faith and Troth As his so ours was sworn to th' Royal Line We 're perjur'd against Heirs if we combine For Kings by Gods Povver Rule live dye and vvhen He 's pleas'd he hath done vvonders by levvd men Our valiant Henrys Edwards Richards face Who darst vve leave their Vertues to Gods Grace If Crovvns from vvicked Kings Subjects might take Mad vvork i' th vvorld as oft it did 'tvvould make VVhy then vvas David unto Saul so tender VVho for revenge true Loyalty did render He darst not touch the Lords Anointed Many Rechabs vvere for this disjoynted Unkinging Kings to Jews brought dayes of doom Such Papal Facts like fruits to Christendom Of bad Kings this sharp Rock Rotation Though for a good oft splits a Nation Balam Saul Judas told truth as the rest So have levvd Kings conqner'd and reigned best VVhen God allovvs not vvords bad thoughts of heart Against his Kings lest Angels them impart To Subjects vvo that they may plagued be VVho dares resist Royal Authority The Jews and Gentiles Restauration Began vvith Christ his Coronation The Sacred VVrit him sets on Kingly Throne As oft as to the World his glories shovvn By Kingdom he presents his Dearest Bride VVhen she in Chariot pav'd vvith love doth ride But vvhen his Bow against her he doth bend He threats t' uncrown her and her Scepter rend And vvas not this of all his plagues the vvorst To his Beloved vvhen of him thus curst This this to Jews stands for a lamentation Sign of Gods vvrath their utter desolation Praised be his name Zanzummims han't their vvill VVith vvorst of vvoes three Kingdoms vvho vvould fill That our King vvears his Scepter Sword and Crown Th' Emblems of Power of Empire and Renown And may his Heirs till Sun and Moon go dovvn You see how highly God and Scriptures Rate Kings Titles Honors Orders Royal State Sets Monarchy all Governments above Whereby he rul'd from Moses time his Dove Then let none dare who God or truth do love Against their King or Kingship Traytors prove But them obey for Gods and Conscience sake That he them blessed may not cursed make But if to murmur Rebels be so bold Let 's in Gods word their Rise and Fall behold Rebellion first began in Heaven thence fell The Dragon and his Angels down to Hell All sins abridg'd in disobedience By which man fell from state of Innocence Fot which he was expelled from Paradise And from the tree of Life of unknown price The Serpent for Rebellion licks the dust Women in pangs brings forth men Earth's accurst Cain was vagabond i' th Land of Nod Rebels to Prince and Parents hate of God The old world crowned chiefly was for this Five Cities burnt with Fire which did amiss Aaron and Miriam smote with Leprosie Because their Soveraign Moses they defie Of Corahs company the word of truth Shews fifteen thousands sad and direful ruth Five Kings did fall by Chederlaomer And King Hosea fell by Shalmaner Abimelech and Sechem with Gaal By mutual Treasons got their utter fall A Fire came from the bramble which did burn That Rebel Town and made of it one urne When Sheba's head was Joabs then they went From Abels Town each man unto his tent Did Absalom or Adonijah thrive They thousands spoil'd more pardon left alive Reâ—bah and Banah who their Soveraign slew David their hands and feet expos'd to view Sad Fate o'retook that line sons of Nebat Whose Calves for ruine soon grew Bulls full fat Ahab his sons and Queen came to disaster And had false Zimri peace who slew his Master No for he kill'd King Ela felt Gods Ire Him Omri forc't with the Kings house to Fire Though Jehu to his work was call'd by God Justice and Mercy kist and burnt the Rod. Manahem slew Shallum Zachariah As Hoshea slew Peka who kill'd Pekaiah So Ammons Servants who their Master kill'd Were slain when good Josiah his place fill'd Queen Athaliah slew the Royal Seed And rul'd until their Wounds made her to bleed Joash his slaves slew him he Zachariah But they were all slain by Amaziah The Books of Kings more foes to Kingly Race And many Traytors to sad ends do trace Besides their Armies which in battel fell Without remorse it knoles your pass to Hell Amend repent so live and so dye well Though Sacred Writ we value most of all Each History is full of Traytors fall Each Age and Country shevv sad Presidents Of Rebels Fates to force them to repent Two hundred thirty cursed Plots and Treasons ' Gainst Kings and Kingship without all reasons We since the Normans times and Reigns have seen But th' authors of them still have hanged been And so must they who dare to shew such tricks For they against Gods Laws and men do Kick. What is become of those conspir'd the death Of Englands Mother call'd Queen Elizabeth And for their Countries ruine close did wait Let Spain and Papists think of Eighty Eight Of those King Queen Prince States and Parliament To blow up with three Kingdoms did consent How hath this Island Reel'd in her own blood Of troubles twenty years o're ran't a flood Rebellion hath the Scots of glory stript And Ireland strangely for it hath been whipt By wondrous means and by a Rebel Rout Of Martin Markings and Marprelates stout See their Heads Quarters o're the Cities Gates All Rebels are destin'd unto such Fates The Sacred Trinity with one consent And Scriptures prove this the best Government The Champions nine fought all for Monarchy None lov'd Kings more then sisters three times three The Jews had but confusion nothing In Israel when time was there was no King Moses as King did in Jesuron raign Judges and Kings had the
Monarchia Triumphans OR The Super-eminency of MONARCHY OVER POLIARCHY Or of the Government of ONE above any FREE-STATE or other kinde of Soveraignty in many Wherein Regall Government is compared with a Republick and proved by many Arguments to be the best the most natural and necessary for these KINGDOMS as it is novv established in the Sacred Person of CHARLES the Second King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles Eccles 10. 17. Deut. 11. 27. Titus 3. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer Let 's have One Head One King who will have more Heads to his Body may have many Score If to One Head thou wilt not faithful be To lose Thy Head it is most meet for Thee London Printed in the Year 1666. To the Reader IF such Essayes as vindicate Protestantisme from the Calumny of its enemies that it doth not provide so well as other Professions for the Security of Princes the Obedience of subjects the prosperity of Nations which have their mutual dependance upon the excellency of the Government established be of highest use and deepest concernment Then may this Poem pass with the Universal Applause and Acceptance of all good Subjects and knowing persons especially in such an Age wherein there have been and yet are Extant so many thousand Pamphlets against the present Government which would possess the ignorant and heedless Readers with belief that a Free-State or Common-wealth which the wise man tells us are the curse of God for sin were the only Diana of the Brittans which these Nebocadnezars would have them worship as their Idol or else be for ever miserable And in a time wherein there are so many refusers of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and so many who take them with such Reservations and Misprizions as have a wide gap open for their Covetousness Ambition Envy Ignorance Discontent and the like Hypocondriacal Passions and Frenzies to enter on the Stage and to steel them with Brainsick Resolutions to act their Parts in new Combustions and Innovations Even in such a season horresco referens when Gods Visitation was amongst them and he made so strict an Inquisition after such incorrigible enemies to the peace of his Church some of whose late Hollandizing Conspiracies have forc't from me this Antidote against the like Distemper with which there are many thousands infected in City and Countrey such as have heretefore not only impeded the Grandeur and glory of the Brittish Empire but have changed the reputation of the most famous Nation into the infamy of devils and which if we may belive our English Nestors is now more Epidemical then Wise men imagine and which by sad experience we find curable only by amputation as a Gangreen and as infectious as the Plague And surely the general Ignorance of the most of the sense of the fifth Commandment and of the Fundamentals of Religion and the fruits thereof their disobedience to their Spiritual and Temporal Parents have been the Fathers and Mothers of the last Years Plague here and of all Gods Judgements which are or have been in Christendom I hope as this Poem hath been and will be a good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or eye-save to me who else had been blinde with writing it out so oft as I was importuned So the Cogent Arguments therein illustrated will prove like so many perspectives to all impartial Readers to behold and admire with me the order of the Hexameron the glory the necessity the excellency the Divine Majesty of Monarchy above all other sorts of Governments but if there be some of whom it maybe said Etiamsi satisfacies non satisfeceris Here they are brayed in all Gods Mortars which Solomon alludes to Prov. 27. 22. 1. Of Precepts and Canons Divine and Humane 2. It Points them to above 300 Presidents of Conspiracies Jewish and English 3. Of Gods Judgements which not one of Millions from Adam to this present Year ever evaded 4. Of Gods Mercies to obedient Subjects and injur'd Kings and Prelates who have liv'd to see their Enemies perish like Oreb and Zeeb at Endor but their own Crowns and Mytres to flourish on their Heads as I heartily wish they may in Great Brittain and Ireland whilst the Sun and Moon their lively Emblems shine upon them And if all these Mortars will not bray them in their right Wits there are two or three more in your power as well as mine which are serious and assiduous prayrs for them that they may be throughly taught their dutiess to God and Men and may obtain sound and saving knowledge and obedience and that publick and private Iustruction and Fasting may not be omitted for Ignorance is an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Obstinacy an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which will not be exorcised without them It remains that you and I retire to the exercise of them as becomes you and theirs and Your unfeigned Votary P. Dormer The Triumphs of MONARCHY OVER ANARCHY Or the Rout of all Rebel-Republicans WIth Alpha and Omega to Begin Of Monarchs Monarch of all kings the King Doth he not govern all the World alone That Realm's lik'st his that ruled is by one The Soveraign Power is Forces union Monstrous weak in many strong right in one Pythagoras ascribes to one what 's due to God Said it was Male and Female even odd The King of Numbers and that unity Was the worlds Soul and the souls Harmony The Fabrick of the Grand Hexameron Assign'd was to the Government of one And in that one the Understanding seen As King next it the Will doth reign as Queen One Head rules Soul and Body without Schismes All Figures rise from one one makes all Dismes Thus in the body Politique we see One multiply'd to make a Family And Families makes Towns Towns Cities make Both Provinces whence Kingdoms being take All Powers Force Counsel in Immortal Man Call'd King are joyn'd what they cannot he can David must stay not go to th' Camp to fight His life 's worth Armies Israel loves her light That is the best you 'l grant of Governments Which Gospel brought and keeps where most dissents But such no Major Vote or States call'd free To fix in Brittish Isles could e're agree For still the Major part hath prov'd the worse And would be rul'd by Juda's sword and Purse Betray the Truth Religion Innocence To fools and slaves of Wilwispt conscience How was it then you 'l say in Holland seen 'T was thither brought by Nasau and our Queen First Kings rejected Popes through Christendom Else they had rul'd all till the day of Doom Those Raging Waves the giddy multitude Like to themselves have principles most rude They hate sound truths Dote upon Novelties Hunt for new lights although they be old lyes They 'r fierce for Liberty of Conscience Satans chief ordinance ' gainst God Truth Sense Who e're saw Storms Lightnings Thunders Legion Of Devils but in
power Soveraign Till Shilo came who rules as King of Kings And under Monarchy all Nations brings Prophets Apostles taught's to love and fear Them to obey pray for not scoff or jeer The Persian sages after long contest Of Arguments prov'd Monarchy the best Mecaenas and Agrippa told Augustus Your wise men all chuse one else ne're trust us For Kings our Brittains who were stout and wise Ventred their fortunes or have lost their lives So all our States-men could say Boh t' a Goose Which voge made them Leards of the other House Great Alexanders Master Aristotle Bias who carry'd all in 's Bag and Bottle And all the rest of the wise men of Greece Said one Rul'd all as Gander rul'd the Geese That if there were i' th world one Mome or Goose Lov'd many Rulers let him try 't in 's house And in such peace and order he should dwell As Locusts do worse then the Fiends in Hell Old Philo saith as Kings o're all we see And God o're them so Nations ruled be Thus stood for one the wise Pythagoras As for black Snow did Anaxagoras So all the rest as Homer and Dion With Plutarch Seneca and Zenophon So did Theodoret Basil Cyprian Chrysostom Austin and Tertullian All Counsels Fathers Latine Greek Which were most godly learned grave and meek There 's scarce one School Boy but doth know it How Kings are prais'd by every Poet How Homer Virgil and each Poet sings The noble deeds of Mighty Queens and Kings Thus Armies great of Pen and Inkhorn men I might produce to tyre your sight my Pen. For honest knowing souls too much for fools They ne're will learn till taught in Gate-House Schools That Regelment's the worst which sowes the seeds Of sects and Factions and Seditions breeds Which points the way to Moles and each base lown To creep through Heads of Factions to a crown That Tyrants and poor upstarts many more Then we could bear or keep us placed o're Which Tygers Wolves and Foxes manifold Allow'd by whom Nations were bought and sold Which kept us all in daily doubts and fear What Rule and Rulers we should have each year Made strangers far and near refuse our trade Because they thought all Rebels are stark mad Which cry'd with Harlots lewd Divide the child Such Mothers Brittain lately did beguil'd Which noblest men and Mindes and Clerks despight And in the Scum of Sects and Folks delight Which of each Draggons Tail and Hell-bred Faction Projects and Acts for Toleration Which vote free Denizons for their base ends Turks Popes and Jews and the infernal Fiends Which coyn'd Engagements Vows and Oaths so fast That millions were forsworn or first or last Nurses so many mock-controwlers sects so lewd As fill'd each City Town and house with fewd Which doth confound High low wise fools rich poor Arms Slaves ' gainst Masters shuts them out o' th door Which like to Comets poyson did distil To all below and them with Plagues doth fill Or like Saturnal Planets in their Sphere The higher still the more Malignant were Which lickt the Cub of Reformation Till Love Faith Truth were out of fashion Which kept the people in blinde Ignorance Of Fundamental Truths as in a Trance O sad that one-in hundreds scarcely knew What each one 's sworn to Church by States thus grew The first Imperious teacher of a lye By such dark souls was ever most set by That Priests and Parents all should teach an Act Was fram'd by some the most deny'd the fact 'T was Ignorance and Sects let in the Turk To Asia Greece like Crimes like Plagues will work Wo wo wo wo to Christians who profess Christs Laws then his worst Foes yet knovv much less Which did destroy like Fiends vvithout all fears All Saints good works of fifteen hundred years Though but half Crowns Gods portion to them yields They sold it all to buy the Potters Fields Which make men covvards like the heartless Hen Hence all States fight by Mercenary men VVhen our stout Henry's Edwards fought vvith French Did they not soon make foes though millions slinch An hundred times they made the Scots and France To quake vvhen they began their Martial Dance But our States Soldates did vvhat ne're vvas done Ten thousands from one troop of Negroes run VVhereby they millions lost a golden Town VVith it vvorlds richest Isle and their Renown Of Artificial men sans souls a crovvd Are States vvhich name all Villanies doth shrovvd For there 's not one hath Conscience Reason Faith All 's publick and not private each one saith That Government without all doubts the worst Which is the great'st Plague for sins accurst Which is such ugly Monster full of shame That Anomos in Scripture is its name Rac't out o' th Calendar all Holy dayes That Gods Kings Saints works none might do or praise Most fearful Fates surpriz'd their rotten bones Who Souldiers Cripples Poor reliev'd with stones God makes men great for Thousands good State Elves Careless o' th poor cry'd Ah ha ha for selves Were every twig a Pen Earth Paper Seas all Ink Men could not write all Crimes of States I think That 's the Best Rule which all distempers cures In Church and Realms keeps them their health secures Which to our sinking Ark like Noahs Dove Brought truth and Peace and th' Olive Branch of love When both our Isles were tost like Ship on Seas Charles hush't all storms and they in calms did cease Which makes them like one Cornucopia In plenty excell Scicily Candia Causeth these Isles of Dogs or Devils nam'd With proudest pieces of the world be fam'd When foes would quite destroy our Nation Blur our high deeds and reputation Takes care that Neptunes sons like lacky boyes Tread on Sols heels without all foes annoyes With us the Nations trade if Charles agree Which Sun or Moon or Poles or Stars do see Where Justice mixt with Mercy doth abound Vinegar in sweet Grapes opprest is found Where Courage mixt with Faith and Love not fears To pluck the prey out of the paws of Bears Where no good useful man preferment lacks As most of late did under Mushroom facks As Phaebus light imparts to every Star So Charles gives Honors to worth near and far Which purges Locusts and Caterpillars And such as are to Kings and Realms ill-willers To th' body Politique as sad events As natural to void no Excrements If fifty years Goal-birds had been sent o're Kingdoms and Isles we'd had as many more Thus when the Gardiner evil Plants doth weed He findes much better grow good Plants and seed Which care doth take the poor abroad to plant Lest thousands dye with hunger cold and want VVhich makes all people learn the Truth VVant of such knowledge is a Kingdoms Ruth God and King Charles this work may bring to pass Do more in it b'our Kings then e're done was To know and to obey's pure Reformation This learn't and done makes glorious King and Nation The Spirit calls knowledge the Key of heaven VVith Grace Obedience it souls doth leaven Sermons won't do 't nor VVardens much forsworn This work is Gods Gods must lead the forlorn That rules the best which longest doth endure All these good things performs States faults doth cure No Star so bright i' th sky but hath its spot To have no fault is Gods no Creatures lot And let Jehovah Thunder or Rain or Shine He can't please all nor Kings though men Divine You 'l say 't is Verrue Crowns Kings Governments Then happy we in ours to all intents His comely presence meekness majesty Do Adamantine lustre far out-vye If to be highly born it is great bliss VVhat Prince for Birth may you compare with his If Heirs are blest of God Usurpers curst From Brute what King had title e're more just If wise men Princes Marriage much look on Behold his Queen the worlds chief Paragon Great Charles the Second is of our Kings first By 's Queen t' each part o' th world whose rule doth thrust Paire-Royal Nations Indies in her meets More worth then in all Mines and Golden Fleets For Royal Issue there 's no doubt of Heirs God will hear theirs and millions of our prayers If Crosses breed rare men best tutors are VVith Joseph David him you may compare For Courage Prudence Truth and Constancy Match him who can without Sycophancy He patiently endur'd heavens indignation Until he wrought his Restauration So free from pride self-ends and false renowns VVith Kingdoms ruines he refus'd his Crowns Joy'd not to have his head crown'd with your loss Stay d till God crown'd his head your joyes his Cross Foes crying sins their scandals obloquy He hides from pennance by his Amnesty He griev'd to see his Mother Church so torn By Sects so stript left Rachel like forlorn He did for her the best he thought or could VVhat modest Church-men either wisht or would He cannot scoff but pitty th' ill behaviour Of Brain-sick folk as mad as e're was Naylor For Justice Piety Religion Shew me his pear in any Region The Giddy Rabble feared less you know State ordinance then Juglers Jubeo Dead Rulers Junto Laws were Crows to scare But Just Kings winged Courts of Justice are Hence Kings in Thrones of Justice with the eye Are said to scatter all Iniquity He frequent is with God familiar In Prayers not Oaths as many thousands are Him for his bounty why should any blame VVhose Thrift and Temperance doth millions shame To Gentry Commons and Nobility He 's a rare Pattern of Sobriety To all the world he freely doth declare Rebels to God and Laws worst subjects are Debauched men though great he cannot brook On such as his worst Foes he e're did look VVhat good of him our Senate doth desire For God or Countrey done he doth require Behold your King then thousands is more tall In Grace Power Vertues higher then you all VVhen Kingship Persons Vertues thus you see All meet in one happy 's that Monarchy Not Solomon in 's Glory may compare VVith Brittish Rose and Lillies they 'r so rare Caesars best wishes Subjects votes and Praise His Head crown and to th' highest Heavens up raise Of millions Prayers as he the Subject is So may heavens Blessings showre on him and his FINIS