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A panegyrick to His Majesty on his happy return by Tho. Fuller ...
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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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A PANEGYRICK TO HIS MAJESTY ON HIS Happy Return By THO. FVLLER B. D. LONDON Printed for Iohn Playford at his Shop in the Temple 1660. A PANEGYRICK On HIS MAJESTIES HAPPY RETVRN 1. AT Wor'ster great Gods goodness to our Nation It was a Conquest Your bare Preservation When 'midst Your fiercest foes on every side For Your escape God did a LANE provide They saw You gone but whither could not tell Star-staring though they ask'd both Heaven and Hell 2. Of forreign States You since have studied store And read whole Libraries of Princes o're To You all Forts Towns Towers and Ships are known But none like those which now become Your OWN And though Your Eyes were with all Objects fill'd Onely the Good into Your Heart distill'd 3. Garbling mens manners You did well divide To take the Spaniards wisdom not their pride With French activity You stor'd Your Mind Leaving to them their Ficklenesse behind And soon did learn Your Temperance was such A sober Industry even from the Dutch 4. But tell us Gracious Sovereign from whence Took You the pattern of Your Patience Learn't in Afflictions School under the Rod Which was both us'd and sanctifi'd by God From Him alone that Lesson did proceed Best Tutor with best Pupil best agreed 5. We Your dull Subjects must confess our crime Who learnt so little in as long a time And the same School thus Dunces poring looks Mend not themselves but onely marre their Books How vast the difference 'twixt wise and fool The Master makes the Schollar not the School 6. With rich conditions ROME did You invite Hoping to purchase You their PROSELYTE An empty soul 's soon tempted with full Coffers Whilst You with sacred scorn refus'd their proffers And for the FAITH did earnestly * CONTEND Abroad which now You do at Home DEFEND 7. Amidst all Storms Calm to Your Self the while Saddest Afflictions You did teach to smile Some faces best become a Mourning Dress And such Your Patience which did grace Distress Whose Soul despising want of worldly pelf At lowest ebbe went not beneath it Self 8. Gods IUSTICE now no longer could dispence With the Abusing of His PROVIDENCE To hear SUCCESSE his APPROBATION styl'd And see the Bastard brought against the Child Scripture by such who in their own excuse Their Actings 'gainst Gods Writings did produce 9. The Independent doth the Papist shun Contrary wayes their violence doth run And yet in such a Round at last they met That both their SAINTS for * MEDIATORS set We were not ripe for Mercy God He knows But ready for His Iustice were our Foes 10. The Pillar which Gods people did attend To them in night a constant Light did lend Though Dark unto th' Egyptians behind Such was brave MONCK in his reserved mind A Riddle to his Foes he did appear But to Himself and You Sense plain and clear 11. By Means unlikely God atchieves his End And crooked wayes straight to his Honour tend The great and ancient Gates of LONDON Town No Gates no City now are voted down And down were cast O happy day for all Do date our hopeful rising from their fall 12. The Matter of Your Restitution 's good The Manner better without drop of Bloud By a dry Conquest without forreign hand Self-hurt and now Self-healed is Our Land This silent Turn did make no noise O strange Few saw the changing all behold the Change 13. So Solomon most wisely did contrive His Temple should be STIL-BORN though ALIVE That stately Structure started from the ground Unto the Roof not guilty of the sound Of Iron Tool all noise therein debarr'd This Virgin-Temple thus was seen not heard 14. When two Protectors were of late proclaim'd Courting mens tongues both miss't at what they aim'd True English hearts did with just anger burn And would no Eccho of GOD SAVE return Though smiling silence doth Consent imply A Tongue-tied Sorrow flatly doth deny 15. But at Your MAJESTIES first Proclamation How loud a Stentor did invoice our Nation A Mouth without a Tongue was sooner found In all that Crowd than Tongue without a sound Nor was 't a wonder men did silence break When Conduits did both French and Spanish speak 16. The Bells aloud did ring for joy they felt Hereafter Sacriledge shall not them melt The Bonfires round about the Streets did blaze And these NEW LIGHTS Fanatiques did amaze The brandisht Swords this Boon begg'd before Death Once to be shew'd then buried in the Sheath 17. The Spaniard looking with a serious Eye Was forc'd to trespass on his Gravity Close to conceal his wondring he desir'd But all in vain who openly admir'd The French who thought the English mad in mind Now fear too soon they may them Sober find 18. The Germans seeing this Your sudden Power Freely confess another Emperour The joyful Dane to Heav'ns cast up his Eyes Presuming suffering Kings will sympathize The Hollanders first in a sad suspence Hop'd that Your Mercy was their Innocence 19. As aged Iacob with good news intranc'd That Ioseph was both living and advanc'd The great surprise so deeply did prevail On the good Patriarch that his Heart did fail Too little for to lodge so large a joy For sudden happiness may much annoy 20. But when he saw with serious intent To fetch him home the Waggons his Son sent That Cordial soon his fainting Heart did cure 'T was past suspicion all things then were sure The Father his old Spirits did renew And found his fears were false his joyes were true 21. Such Our Condition At the first Express We could not credit our own Happiness Told of the Coming of Your MAJESTY Our fainting Hearts did give their Tongues the Lye A Boon too big for us so ill we live For to receive though not for GOD to give 22. But when we saw the ROYAL FLEET at Dover Voted to wait and waft Your Highness over And valiant Mountague all vertues Friend Appointed on Your Person to attend Ioy from that moment did expell our grief Converted into slow but sure belief 23. Th' impatient Land did for Your presence long England in swarms did into Holland throng To bring Your Highness home by th' Parliament Lords Commons Citizens Divines were sent Such honour Subjects never had before And hope that never any shall have more 24. With all degrees Your Carriage accords Most Lord-like Your Reception of the LORDS Your Answer with the COMMONS so comply'd They were to admiration satisfi'd Civil the CITIZENS You entertain'd As if in LONDON Born Y' ad there remain'd 25. But Oh! Your short but thick expressive lines Which did both please and profit the DIVINES Those Pastors when returned to their Charge For their next Sermon had Your words at large With some Notes from Your Practice who can teach Our Miters by Your Living what to preach 26. The States of Holland or Low-Countries now Unto Your SACRED MAJESTY did bow What Air what Earth what Water could afford Best in