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The court of death a Pindarique poem dedicated to the memory of Her Most Sacred Majesty, Queen Mary / by Mr. Dennis.
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Dennis, John, 1657-1734.
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1695
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Wing D1028; ESTC R11874
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His Godlike Genius had that shape assum'd T' assist him in his Royal place Attack but her endanger her and then This Demi-God will shake like common men These Spirits then will his great mind controul These Terrors with their plagues will pierce his Soul Grief will prevail and anxious Care And baleful Horror and Despair Fear will be seen Triumphant in his eye His noble his undaunted heart Will faint will sink will dye With apprehension of thy Dart And all whom that great Heart with Spirit can supply Sinking with him will own our awful pow'rs And then the Conquer'd World is ours XVI O did you all that Queens perfections know Had you approach'd her all like me She wou'd appear as Dangerous a Foe As worthy your Immortal Hate as He. A Queen the wonder of an envious Age Whom that I may your potent rage To her Destruction raise Thus with malicious justness let me praise If William can contemn frail breath For Everlasting Fame She lives as undismaid Victorious Death As if she never heard thy Name As one who climbs th' Aetherial cliff Of Atlas or of Teneriff Secure in so sublime a Sphear Below him sees the Waves insult the shore Below him sees the Clouds their fury pour Nay and below him hears th' Almighty Thunderer roar While all around him 's always calm and all above him 's always clear So on the loudest fiercest storms of Fate Which threaten both her Life and State This Queen looks down from the prodigious height Of her exalted soul Below her hears the Thundring roar and sees the lofty Billows rowl XVII And as not only Tempests never beat Those Mountain tops but neither cold nor heat Afflict detested place glad Nature there But Water Earth and temperate Air In my despight eternally agree Combin'd in triple league to put a stop to me And odoriserous breizes entertain Perpetual Spring upon the Balmy Plain So on Maria's lofty Mien As no rude passions in her mind have place No sign of Fear or Grief or Rage was ever seen Maria keeps up easie state In spight of me still gayly great And cheerfully serene And as these Spirits still are beaten back As oft as William they attack Maria in their progress they decline And as they pass respect her form divine And Dangers which the Hero ne're could fright The Heroine still opposes with delight When Lewis thunder'd on her Southern shore And made Great Britain tremble at the roar When thro it all the Loyal Blood ran cold And all my British Sons grew warm and bold While William on the Boyne was seen Victorious with a thoughtful Mien His charming Queen sustain'd her sinking Isle Sustain'd her sinking Britain with a smile His charming Queen could gaily wise appear And all things like avenging Heav'n dispose For the confusion of her Gallick Foes Without perplexity or fear Her very Looks my Brittish Off-spring gain'd Her very Looks their Rage restrain'd Struck them with irresistable delight My Brittish Off-spring for a while turn'd loyal at that sight That sight my fury could so fast asswage Ev'n mine whose Essence is all Rage That e're I had the pow'r to quit my station And fly for Preservation I grew in vain infernal spight withstood Senselesly satisfy'd stupidly good And fear'd Annihilation XVIII Not the first Woman fear'd us less than she Before the mortal Taste Of th' interdicted Tree Made thee great Master of the Vassal Ball High Independent Lord of all And Ocean Land and Air thy mighty waste From Guilt and ev'ry Weakness clear From Dread of Danger free She lives as if her high desert exempted her from thee Nay more so fast her Virtues rise Aspiring to their native Skies That I could almost fear That as one Woman by her Crime Involv'd succeeding Ages in her Fall And to thy boundless sway subjected all So the immortal Graces of her Mind Growing so fast should rise in time To that sublime Degree As to restore all human kind To Immortality XIX Something divine adorns her Mind and Mien Mankind extols the King the King admires the Queen The Queen whom Heav'n has form'd so truly great To keep the Kings aspiring Mind within the reach of Fate That hour in which you pierce Maria's Heart William and Europe tremble at thy Dart That Blow will his undaunted Genius shake That will perhaps his matchless Spirit break That is th' extremest tryal we can make If then he sinks not Iove sustains his mind And he is certainly design'd To vindicate the Freedom of Mankind The great experiment then quickly try And let this good this great Maria dye Take what she has of thine and let her Soul Desert her Lover for the Starry Pole She said and strait the universal cry Was Let this good this great Maria dye Trembling I waken'd with the mortal fright And all the ghastly shapes dissolv'd to gloomy Night FINIS