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Poems on several occasions written by Charles Cotton ...
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Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.
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grasp the Sceptre and usurp his place Could they once get Henry of Valois down Then King and last of that Illustrious Race A Prince in Prudence and in Arms as great As Europe boasted in a Regal State. VII Three were the ruffling Brothers that durst rise In opposition to the Royal Line The First and Chiefest Hâ—nry Duke of Guise To whom the others Charles and Lewis joyn Lewis a Cardinal more Bold than Wise Charles Duke of Mayne Third in this great Design In League Compacted so they call'd their Cause Against Obedience and her sacred Laws VIII Nor was their Pow'r so trivial as to be Crusht by the Kings Authority or force So well 't was strength'ned by the Papal Sea Whence 't is conceiv'd this Faction had its Source But must be undermin'd by Policy For this engaged Crown the only Course So great and many the Confed'rates were Who stood in favour of this haughty Peer IX Wherefore the King did in his Prudence chuse The help of Policy where Arms were vain And knew so well his wary Councels use That Duke and Prelate at his Foot lay slain When from his Juster Fate the Third broke lose Did then sole Head of the whole League remain Employing all his Courage and his Art To seal his Vengeance on his Prince's Heart X. And in his Enterprize was gone so far The King was forc't to call into his Cause Henry of Burbon then King of Navar His true Successor by the Salique Laws Who then against him made defensive War Him to his Service by command he draws So soon can Vertuous Princes learn t' obey And humbly bow when they have Pow'r to sway XI The Royal Arms thus reinforc't begin In conduct of these Princely Generals To take the Field some Towns and Pris'ners win No Force resists them no Design forestals Till at the last they shut the Leaguers in And lay close seige to Paris spatious Walls In whose Defence and Strength the Duke at last His latest refuge and his safety plac't XII Nor were those Walls or the Parisians aid True to the League but treach'rous to the State Enough to stop the Power did invade Or to divert a Rebels juster Fate Had not the League by Combination made On Henry's Life a foul Assassinate Who in the Centre of his own command Fell by the stroke of an ignoble Hand XIII Then at the Helm alone great Burbon stood Undoubted Heir unto the Crowns of France Great in his Name in Arms and great in Blood Though something shaken by the King's mischance For why the Peers serve nor obey him would Unless he would the Roman Faith advance Too hard a Contract for a King to make Though Life and Honor lie engag'd at Stake XIV His just repulse to their unjust demands Soon chang'd the Scene beyond all humane aim For though he won some honest Hearts and Hands T' acknowledge and assist his lawful claim Yet in few days so lessen'd were his Bands To his Abandoners Eternal Shame That he was forc'd his Conquest to decline And build his Fortunes on some new Design XV. T' were tedious to relate the Battails Fought The Towns beleaguer'd and the Cities won The hauhgty Rebels to subjection brought By this brave Leader Honors Eldest Son Acts that indeed exceed belief or thought By mature Councels and great Courage done The dangerous paths to Honor and Renown He trod before he could atchieve the Crown XVI Nor falls it in the Sphere of my design To mention each of Boâ—rbon's noble Acts So high attempts I humbly shall decline And leave those Annals to their better Tracts Who me and my poor Muse as far out-shine As Henry in his Celebrated Facts The lesser sparks of Honor does out-flame And swallows all their Titles in his Name XVII One day there was wherein his Valour shone A Pyramid of inextinguish'd Fire Wherein Immortal Glory or there 's none By dint of Sword he bravely did acquire To that one days great History alone This Poem impotently shall aspire A day above the Trophies of the Pen A Prince above the Characters of Men. XVIII Many the Conflicts were various the Chance Betwixt the Seige of Paris and the Fight In Yvry-Plain that goar'd the Womb of France With Fire and Blood betwixt the Wrong and Right E're both the Armies to that Field advance One to Pursue t'other Pretending flight Their num'rous odds had raised the League so high As to pursue him that could never fly XIX Two Nights before these angry Armies met Th' uncertain chance of Bloody War to try All-seeing Heav'n his dire portents had set Oraculous Symptoms in the troubled Sky The naked Surface of the Earth was wet With Storm and Tempest and a Prodigy Succeeded in the Air to shew the King How to his aid Heav'n did assistance bring XX. Two Puissant Armies in the Sky appear'd To shoot in Thunder and with Lightning kill In color like the Comets streaming Beard Which great events in Battail ushers still By most Men doubted and by many feared All were suspended at th' Almighty's will Yet such their Leader was their Cause so Just They unto Providence and Valour trust XXI The Slothful Sun rose to his daily round All Night disturb'd with riots in the Air When both the Hosts his drowsy Eye had found Imploring Conquest in diff'rent Pray'r And now they both march to the destin'd Ground Where Fate their different Fortunes does prepare Both Arm'd for the Disasters and the Harms That still attend th' uncertain chance of Arms. XXII The Field where this great Game was to be try'd In a round Form does a large Plot contain A Stage of Honor spatious and wide Where Souldiers may Eternal Glory gain Two little Towns did bound the Royal side And on the Dukes a Grove shut up the Plain Towards the West the lodging of the Sun The River Eure in a deep vale doth run XXIII A place so form'd by Nature as not Art Could smooth it plainer to so brave an end In which no craggy or deform'd part Could either side advantage or offend Save that a little dimple in the Heart Did with a gentle fall it self extend A worthy Theatre whereon to play The Tragick entrys of a Bloody day XXIV â—â—ustrious Bourbon was the first that took â— brave Possession of the Fatal place â—et down in Destiny's eternal Book â—o his Renown and to the Duke's Disgrace â—ho in the King 's victorious Arms mistook â—s of a flying Foe pursu'd the Chase So far did Fate and Odds seem to combine In help and favour of his black Design XXV â—or the Royal Muster did appear â—ght thousand Foot and but three thousand Horse â—he League above double the Number were â—â—ch inequality was in their Force â—he Rebel Crew were more that crowded there â— number better but in Courage worse For they with Henry who so oft had fought So far from Fear were they disdain'd to doubt XXVI Now on the Plain the Royal Standard stands Waving the
Field of standing Corn In doubtfull conflict wave their pendant Heads By the uncertain Air confus'dly born Which only whispring the large Field orespreads But by a sudden storm depres't and torn Drooping their bearded tops to their first beds Whilst the rude Wind exalted with his prize To the next crop with riotous fury flies CVI. So far'd it with the League who for a space With equal fortune well maintain'd their post Fighting with equal brav'ry face to face No side of other could advantage boast Equal their Honor equal their Disgrace Till at the last all hopes of safety lost The valiant on the Bed of Honor lye Whilst the less daring in confusion fly CVII Half kill'd with fear the coward Rebels run Thorough the Field an Ignominious race Like fearfull Deer they crow'd away to shun The danger of the Loyal hunters Chase Who generously think too soon t' have won An easy Conquest with too little grace And wish they had better resistance â—ound To have their Acts with greater Glory Crown'd CVIII Although indâ—ed no Annalls can out speak Or speak enough of this great Victory Where such a handfull could such Squadrons break Repell their force and make their Captain fly In courage strong alas in numbers weak Arm'd only with their Faith and Loyalty But Heav'n was pleas'd to favour Henry's claim Against whose will all Earthly strength is vain CIX On ev'ry side the Monarch's Arms prevail And put the Leaguers to a shamefull flight They now pursue that Foe who to assail Their thiner Troops brought such a seeming might Some flying 'scape whilst others falling quail To bid their Honours with the World good Night But none so daring in that desp'rate State As once to turn and look upon his Fate CX Yet in this Torrent of admir'd success Even some Victors Hearts were full of woe Because their longing Eyes they could not bless With their Loves Object nor did all their know There Prince's safety and their happiness But fear'd him fall'n in the late overthrow In such a doubtfull and afflicted sort Many had drunk the poyson of report CXI But when they saw him from the Chase retire Their drooping Spirits then began to wake The Souldiers crow'd t' approach their Sov'rain nigher And as their Eyes a full assurance take Their Loyal Hearts o're charg'd with zealous fire Straight into Thundring Acclimations break Vive le Roy thorough the Welkin ran Which so auspitiously the Day began CXII Still like the Sparks of a late master'd fire Some Foes appear'd on the forsaken Plain The Leaguers Infantry remain'd entire Of which the sturdy Swisse seem'd to disdain A shamefull flight nor could they safe retire But to their ruine and Eternal shame Wherefore the brawny Clowns as undismay'd Some shew of resolute resistance made CXIII But when they saw the Canon drawing neer To force their Arms and tame their fruitless pride Their stubborn Hearts then thaw'd away in fear Their threatning words and looks were laid aside They think to trust his mercy safest were Whose Conquering Sword they had so lately try'd And straight way down their useless weapons threw To beg that grace chance had reduc't them to CXIV Nor were they ill advis'd for the brave king So scorn'd the ruin of a prostrate Foe That sooner could they not their Arms down fling Than he preserve them from the Angry blow That Death and Vengeance both were levelling With Fire and Sword to work their overthrow His Princely Quarter they do all obtain Without one Wound that might his Mercy stain CXV But with the German Foot far worse it far'd Whose base revolt from the King's Standard made Their Crime so black and Mercies doors so barr'd The Souldiers hands could be no longer stay'd But for their Treason as a just reward The faithless Squadrons furiously invade Strewing the Plain with their dismembered Limbs Which in the Ocean of their false Blood swims CXVI And now the Fields the Conquerors entire No opposition left no Foe appears The Royalists triumphantly retire Whilst Victory the waving Banners bears Nor dare my Muse to other Acts aspire So much the Fate of this attempt she feares Owning her weakness in Heroick Song That may have done these noble Heroes wrong CXVII Thus did this Day so doubtfully begun Set red in Henry's Honour and Renown He that in all his Battails ever won A Victor's Wreath and in this last his Crown Which having humbly kiss't the bafl'd Sun Into the Western Ocean bow'd him down Leaving fair France unto his brighter Ray May ev'ry injur'd Prince have such a Day W. WHYTE Amen FINIS Advertisement THe Great French Dictionary In Two Parts The First French and English The Second English and French according to the Ancient and Modern Orthography Wherein Eâ—ch Language 〈◊〉 Set forth in its greatest Latitude The various Senses of Words both Proper and Figurative are orderly Digested and â—llustrated with Apposite 〈◊〉 and Proverbs The Hard Words Explained and the Proprieties Adjusted To which are Prefixed the Grounds of Both Languages in Two Grammatical Discourses the One English and the Other French. By Guy Miâ—ge Gent London Printed for Thomas Basset at the George near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street