thing most remarkable that the same day Mr. Moorland chief Commissioner under Mr. Thurlo who was Secretary of Estate unto Oliver Cromwel his chief and most confident Minister of his Tyranny arrived at Breda where he brought divers Letters and Notes of most great importance forasmuch as the King discovered there a part of the intricate plots of the interreign and likewise the perfidiousness of some of those who owed him without doubt the greatest fidelity of the world The King received him perfectly well made him Knight and rendred him this publick testimony that he had received most considerable services from him for some years past The 17. the Deputies of the Estates General whom we have named departed from the Hage about two a clock after dinner and embarked themselves the same day at Rotterdam where the Jachts or Pinnaces which the Estate had caused to be in readiness attended them Those of Holland departed in the morning but they made not the same haste as well because they would not be the first in the place where the Estates were to precede as because they had divers orders to give in the places of their passage The Deputies of the States General arrived at Breda the 18. of May after dinner and were met with neer the village of Terheida by four Cornets of Horse of the Garrison and arriving at the Town they found there 12 Companies of Foot drawn up in battalia which saluted them with their shot whil'st the Artillery thundred from the walls and bulwarks As soon as they were come to the house which was prepared for them they gave notice thereof to his Majesty and next to the Dukes of York and Glocester and to the Princess Royal and towards the evening the King and their Royal Hignesses sent them most civil salutes by Gentlemen of their House They understood that Mr. Clarges brother-in-law to General Monck was arrived there the same day and that he had brought the protestations of fidelity and obedience from the Army and the confirmation of what they had already heard of the Declaration of the Parliament Until then the Major of the Garrison had taken orders from the Princess Royal but the Deputies of the States General being arrived at Breda would transfer that honour to the King who gave the word Amsterdam not so much for that he considered this Town as the most powerfull of all these Provinces but for as much as he could not silence the resentiments which he had for the Magistrate which had given him most illustrious and most agreeable marks of its affection The next day there came a Post to Breda bringing intelligence that the Garrison of Dunkerck declared for the King and had witnessed its joy by the fire of its Cannon and Muskets The King had the goodness to invite the Lord Lockart Governour of the place to express some inclination for his service and to give him an occasion for it by the advance he had made and the assurances he had given him but it could gain nothing upon that spirit prepossessed and tied so by particular interests to the house of Cromwel untill he was constrained to leave himself to be carried away by the general motion of the whole Army and of the Garrison it self The next day being the 19. the Estates General having had advertisement by publick Letters from their Ambassadour at London of what passed in Parliament in behalf of the King redoubled the orders which they had given to their Deputies touching the complement and offices which they were to do to the end to acquit themselves thereof with zeal and affection and certified them by an express that they had sent commissions to Arnham Heusden Bergen op Zoom and Gercum for the Troops of Horse of Prince William of Nassau of the Count Christian of Dona and of M rs de Buat de Wassenaer and de la Lecque son to Mr. Beverweert with order to march with all speed night and day towards high Swaluwe to attend there the King of great Britain and to execute the commands which should be given them by the Deputies of the Estates of Holland The last arrived this day at Breda and the Deputies of the Estates General had their audience The King sent unto them about eleven a clock in the forenoon the Lord Gerard one of the Gentlemen of his bed-chamber whose quality and functions are answerable to those of the chief Gentlemen of the Chamber of the King of France who was to take them at their lodgings with four Coaches each drawn by six white horses and conducted them to the Castle where the King was lodg'd The Marquess of Ormond came to receive them at the top of the stairs and caused them to enter into the King's chamber where they found his Majesty standing in the mid'st of the chamber and covered but as soon as he saw them he uncovered himself and came two or there paces to meet them After they had made most low reverences and were come unto the King Monsieur de Ripperda Lord of Buirse one of the Deputies would begin to speak but his Majesty would oblige them to put on their hats in making semblance that he would be covered They had not the character of Ambassadour and could not have it at home with them therefore would they not be in that condition but remained in their duty and obliged thereby his Majesty who could not overcome their modesty though innocently and against their intention to remain also uncovered whil'st the first Deputy spake The substance of his discourse was that the States General of the United Provinces had understood with an extream joy the chang of the affairs of England That they knew the good God had so well touched the heart of the inhabitants that there was not any Person almost that cried not on the name of the King and wished passionately to see him returned into his Kingdom that upon certain advertiements which the Estates General had had thereof they thought it fit to send their Deputies to this Majesty to witness unto him the part they take to congratulate him in so important an occasion and to wish him and all his Royal Family all the blessings of Heaven and all the prosperity that he might hope from God after so long and such bitter afflictions that the Estates General made those prayers with so much the more ardour as they knew that the repose of this Common-wealth depended in some kind on that of its neighbours and that they would not willingly enjoy the amity of the English but under the Monarchal Government of his Royal House that they pretended to enjoy it still for the future under the happy government of his Majesty and for this purpose they hoped he would have the goodness to renue with the United Provinces the alliance which they alwaies considered here as one of the chief points of Estate and as the foundation of the conservation of the
and that the entrance into it should be made the day that had been named for it From that time forward there passed not a day almost that the King received not some remarkable news upon which he might ground infallible hopes of his re-establishment The 25. of April Sir John Greenvil since Earl of Bath and Sir John Boys brought him intelligence of the defeat of General Lambert he had been prisoner in the Tower of London by vertue of an Ordinance of the Councel of Estate and made an escape thence with design to put himself in the head of those that would oppose Monarchal government but he was beaten and taken by Colonel Ingoldsby and brought back unto his former Prison before he could assemble troops enough to form the body of an Army He received the same day Letters from Admiral Montague which continued to assure him of the good estate of the affairs of the Kingdom and of the sincerity of his intentions of which he had already given proofs many months before when Sir George Booth took up Arms for the King under the name of good Englishmen which demanded the convocation of a Free-Parliament The Prince of Orenge his Nephew was at Breda the 16. of the same moneth and every day some Prince or person of quality came to rejoice with his Majesty for the happy change of his fortune whereof they began to have almost infallible assurances Prince Frederic of Nassau brother to Prince Maurice of whom we shall have occasion to speak hereafter arrived there the 2. of May with the Prncess his wife from his government of Bergen op Zoom and the Duke of Brunswic Lunenburg who resides at Hannover came there four daies after The visit of this Prince which is no lesse considerable through the excellent qualities which he possesseth then through the Extent of his Dominions was so agreeable to his Majesty that he could not forbear to testifie it to him on all occasions and in a most obliging manner insomuch that he would voluntarily sup with his Highness accompanied with the Dukes his brothers and live with him in a confidence which might make him to hope for a very particular good will for the future The 14 of May a day fatal to the most potent Kingdom of Christendom for the death of the two last Kings was that which fully assured the King of the revolution of the affairs of his Kingdom through the advertisement which came to Breda of what was done in Parliament the eleventh of the same month as we have spoken of it before and the next day after the news was brought being the 15 they being of great importance were sent to the Hague by Letters from the Princesse Royal which were seen in the Assembly of the Estates General The Estates of the Province of Holland who were at that time assembled in a body and had by their wisedom foreseen in the disposition of the affairs of England the change which would apparently arrive there had also foreseen by their prudence the advertisement which was given of the Declaration of the Parliament For on thursday the 13 of May before it could be known what passed at London that illustrious Senate making reflection upon the present constitution of affairs and on the apparences of the neer and indubitable re-establishment of the King resolved that Mr. Beverweert Strevelshouck Vlooswijck and Teylingen Deputies at the Assembly from the Nobility and from the Towns of Dort Amsterdam and Alckmaer should depart immediately after they knew the intention of the Parliament to make known to the King of great Britain the affection of this Province for the person of his Majesty and for all the Royall Family to testifie unto him the joy and satisfaction they had to see infallible dispositions almost ready to place him in the Throne of his Ancestors and to assure him of the strong inclination which they had to make with him and with the Kingdoms under his authority a firm and indissolvable alliance for the mutual conservation of the common interests of his Estate and of this Republick But chiefly to make him offers of service and to beseech him to do this Province the honour to reside there as in a place most commodious for communication with his Subjects for his passage into England and to receive there the effects of the most sincere protestations of respect and amity which they caused to be made unto him by their Deputies They had also order to insist particularly upon this last point as on the most important of their commission and to use to this purpose the most civil and most engaging terms that interest of Estate and affection for the good of their country could dictate to them They enjoined also the same Deputies to officiate with the Dukes of York and Glocester the King's brothers and with the Princess Royall his Sister and that instance should be made in the Assembly of the States Generall that the same offices might be made of their part with his Majesty and with all the Royal persons The last point of this Resolution was executed the next day when Mr. de Wit Pentionary Councellor Keeper of the great seal and Lieutenant of the Fiefs of Holland was in the Assembly of the States General where it was resolved that Mr. de Ripperda Lord of Buirse Deputy to the States Generall of the Province of Gelderland Mr. de Merode Lord of Rumme Deputy from the Nobility of Holland to the Assembly of the same States General named to the extraordinary Embassage of Spain and Guldewagen of Holland Vrybergen of Zealand Renswoude of Utrecht Velsen of Frieseland and Isbrants of Groning should go to Breda to congratulate the King for his glorious re-establishment and do with his Majesty with the Dukes of York and Glocester and with the Princesse Royall the same office which the Deputies of the Province of Holland had order to do with him in the name of their Superiours The States of Holland pretended that their Deputation would have no effect until they should have advertisement of the Declaration of the Parliament not that they doubted of its intention but because they judged that it imported the service of the King so to use it whereby not to prevent the Parliament and to do nothing rashly in an affair of this consequence where civility done out of season was both incommodious and unprofitable Notwithstanding forasmuch as it was necessary that his Majesty should know the sentiments of the Estates they ordained that he should have assurance thereof under hand by offices efficacious and capable to express them well and to this purpose they judged it fit that the person of Mr. Lewes of Nassau Lord of Lecque and Beverweert c. Serjeant Major General of the Armies of the United Provinces and Governour of the Bosch should be so much the more proper for that as the devoirs which he was obliged to render to the King
in all the Churches on the revolution of the affairs of England in behalf of the King all the Ministers of the Churches English Dutch and French expounding Texts proper for the matter After the Sermons the Magistrate and Consistory were incorporated to make their complement to his Majesty and to their Royal Highnesses and at evening bonfires of joy were made through the whole Town all the Bels rung and many volleys were discharg'd from all the Artillery the Deputies of the Estates General those of the Estates of Holland the Magistrate and the particular persons emulating one another which should express most joy and satisfaction in this great day They began in the mean time to load and to send away the baggage whil'st they finished at the Hague to furnish Prince Maurice his House designed for the King's lodging to appoint lodging for the whole Court and to make necessary provisions for its subsistance when it should be come and whil'st it should remain there Munday the 24 there hapned at the Hague a thing very remarkable and which might be of great importance in its consequences if they had taken councel of ambition rather then of prudence By the fix'd resolution of the Estates General of the 16 of this moneth it was said that the Estates of Holland might cause the King to be received and complemented at the entrance of the Province and that they might make the honour of the House as being the Masters of it But the former had made known since that their intention was to cause the King to be received either by a greater number of Deputies then there had been from them at Breda or if the Estates of Holland went in a body to receive his Majesty by Delf towards Rotterdam in this case the States General would go also in a body to complement his Majesty between Delf and the Hage at the place where they are accustomed to receive Embassadours and that in conducting him their Coaches should follow immediately the King 's The Estates of Holland being advertised hereof likewise that the Estates General would send Deputies to their Assembly and pretending that formerly there passed too many things to the prejudice of the right of their Soveraignity they named the Deputies of the Towns of Dort Harlem Amsterdam Alckmar and Horn to enter into conference with the Deputies of the Estates General to the end to dispose fitly this affair And indeed they negotiated so happily that they were agreed at last among themselves that if the Estates of Holland caused the King to be received at Delf by Deputies they should remain both in the terms of the resolution of the 16 of this moneth by vertue of which the Lords the Estates of Holland might alone do the honours in their Province and cause the King to be complemented wheresoever he pleased and that the Deputies of the Estates General which were by his Majesties person should continue to be treated with respect as representing strange Soveraigns and that in this quality their Coach or Coaches if they judged fit to encrease the number of their Deputies which notwithstanding they promised by mouth that they would not do should follow immediately the King 's and precede those of the Deputies of the Province After this the Estates of Holland ordained that Mr. de Wassenaer Lievtenant Admiral of Holland should be joined to the Deputies named in the resolution of the 13 of May and to Mr. de Wimmenum who had been named the 22 and that every Town should depute one of its body to go to make the complement together with the Pentionary Councellour at the disbarkment of his Majesty by Delf And forasmuch as there was reason to fear that there might happen some disorder about the rank of the Coaches that should be sent to meet the King not so much because the Embassadours were not well agreed among themselves about precedence but chiefly because there were some of them that would make their Coach to go before that of the Prince of Oreng who ought to be considered here not only because of his quality of Soveraign Prince but also as Nephew to the King and consequently as chief Prince of the blood of England after the two Dukes as well the Estates General as those of Holland judged fit to cause the Embassadours of the Crowned-heads to be prayed by their Agent not to send their Coaches but to leave the conduct and whole honour of this ceremony to the Estate to the end to prevent the confusion which otherwise would be unavoidable They all acquiesced therein without repugnance and would fain have that respect for the King and condescendence enough for the desire of the Lords the Estates not to trouble the publick joy which the whole world indeavoured to make resplendent on this occasion The whole Court in the mean time departed from Breda the same day being the 24 of May. The Deputies of the Estates of Holland departed thence at four a clock in the morning to the end to have the leasure to chuse a fit place to put the five troops of Horse which were commanded into Battel and to give necessary orders for his Majesties embarkment The Deputies of the Estates General departed about two hours after and the King took coach with the Dukes of York and Glocester and the Princess Royal about 8 or 9 a clock in the morning But before they went out of the Hall of the Castle the Burgemasters and Councel of Ten presented themselves again to the King and caused to be made unto him by the same Mr. Snel who made him a speech when he arrived at Breda this following discourse for which the publick is oblig'd to a Gentleman of the King's House who had a care to write word by word and to communicate to the authour of the relation all the orations where he was present when they were spoken SIR The Magistrate and Councel of Ten of this town of Breda present themselves again with a most low reverence before your Majesty to render you most humble thanks for the honour it hath pleased you to do the town by the residence you have made here and to bring you a last proof of the perfect joy which the wonderfull success of your Majesty as it is the powerfull hand and infinite providence of God which hath drawn your Majesty out of a Gulf of dangers and conducted you through a desert of afflictions even unto the entrance of the greatness which the right of your Predecessours hath gained to all their posterity This is the subject of our joy Sir but that after the success of many battels Victories gained at the price of the blood of Subjects may content the ambition of a Prince transported but a good Prince whose thoughts are generous and magnanimous prefers an innocent triumph before all other advantages of the world We praise with all our hearts that great God who hath began this work in the person of your
appointed for his reception In the mean time the Letters of the Deputies were brought to the Hage at midnight and immediately after the Estates assembled and caused the orders to be changed which were given for the King's reception at four a clock in the afternoon into others more pressing and they sent word to the Deputies by the same Poste that they might assure his Majesty that they would not fail to receive him at the hour he had appointed them or at eight a clock in the morning at furthest And indeed about two a clock after midnight they caused the drums to beat to summon to arms the six Companies of Burgers and the Regiment of the Guards of the States of Holland of which there is but four garrisoned in the Hage and the other six in the neighbour towns from whence they were made to come and at six a clock they were all at their Rendezvous The first on the Viverberg and the others in the outward Court of the Palace where the Coaches assembled almost at the same time Those who took the most pain in causing these orders to be executed and who have without doubt the most part in the honour which is due unto those who had the conduct of this affair as they have that of the most important of the Province are M rs of Wimmenum and the Pensionary Counsellour who were seen to act every where each in his functions with so much assiduity care and judgment that if the King drew any satisfaction from the honour they rendred him here this Estate is partly obliged to the pains of these two great Personages The Coaches began to file towards Delf about seven a clock in the morning and immediately after the Burgers who stood in Battalia in the great Place marched towards the way which goes to Delf and the souldiers went to take their Poste on the Viverberg where they made a guard even to the house of Prince Maurice of Nassau which was prepared to lodge his Majesty The Estates Deputies being arrived at Delf and having spoken with those who had complemented the King at Breda and had had the conduct of his person in the voyage informed his Majesty of the order they had given for his entrance for his lodging and for his treatment to the end that as their intention was to submit wholly to the absolute will of his Majesty they made that to be changed therein which might displease him And after that the King had given them his approbation and that they had invited the Deputies of the Estates General to honour this ceremony with their presence and to take place immediately after the King's Coach they gave order that the Coaches should be drawn into a file along the Key of the Suburb This done the Deputies of Holland entred all into the King 's Yacht and said unto him in very few words by the mouth of the Pensionary Councellour that they were there from the Estates of Holland who had sent there a Deputy of each member of their Province to offer their most humble services to his Majesty to expresse unto him their respectfull passion for his person and to conduct him to the place designed for his lodging at the Hage The King thanked the Deputies with words full of goodness and civility for the pain which they had taken and for the proofs of affection and zeal which the Lords the Estates of Holland caused to be given him They staied in the Barge or Yacht but to discourse a moment with the company which was composed besides the King's person of the Dukes of York and Glocester of the Princess Royal of the Prince of Orange who was come there from the Hage early in the morning of the Deputies of the Estates General and of some English Lords and immediately after the King went forth thence to go into the coach of the Princess his sister which had that day the honour to carry all the Royal Family The King put himself in the mid'st with the Princess the Duke of York and the Duke of Glocester sate before and the Prince of Orange in one of the boots and as soon as they were placed the whole company began to advance to enter into the town of Delf The King but passed there the Citizens who were in arms with displaied colours from break of day marched on both sides of the Coach more then a musket shot from the gate which leads to the Hage where they staied and saluted his Majesty with their volleys whil'st all the bels rung and the Artillery thundred from the bulwarks and rampires of the town It was neer ten a clock when he departed thence and past eleven when he came at the Hage where the six Companies of Citizens which could hardly be distinguished from the Souldiers because that being born in war and bred in exercises of arms they could not be known from the Military men but by their cloaths their plumes and their scarfs wherewith they were covered had in the mean time taken their post and made a guard on the way towards Delf even to the bridge which serves for a gate to this illustrious Village which hath without doubt an advantage over all the fairest towns of Europe and may be put in parallel likewise with some of the greatest In the head of the whole train marched some trumpets of the Estate clad in their coats of crimson velvet embroidered with gold and silver After them came a long file of Officers belonging to the war of Young Lords and Gentlemen very gallant and bravely mounted Next to that marched a great number of English Gentlemen and Officers of the King's house of the two Dukes of the Princess Royal and of the Prince of Orange After them came Mr. of Wimmenum who performed here the function of Master of the Ceremonies in his coach where were also some Lords preceding immediately that of the Princess Royal which carried his Majesty and all the Royal House as we have said The Deputies of the Estates General filled the two first after the King 's Those of the States of Holland the six following and the other Coaches which amounted in all to the number of seventy and odd each having six and four horses were filled with English and Dutch Lords It must be confessed that this entrance was not made with an extraordinary pomp and glory worthy so great a Monarch but it was impossible to make greater preparations in the time the King had appointed for it and even when they were constrained to change in a manner the first orders which without doubt would have rendred it much more resplendent had it not been for this change And yet the crowd was so great because the curiosity to see this miraculous Prince had drawn a great part of the inhabitants of the neigbour towns to this entrance that they were constrained to go very softly so that the Companies of Citizens who had the van-guard at the entrance
were by his person after the defeat was brought to the house of a countryman who changed cloaths with him and shewed him a tree where he passed the night How afterward being come to the house of Mistris Lanes father her brother received him as servant to wait on him in his chamber and how in this quality he rid a journy before that Gentlewoman How he had a care of the horses in the journy and what encounters he met there because all these things are not of the subject of our relation and deserve well a particular one But we think it not amiss to say that the Lord Wilmot deceased Earl of Rochester who had been extraordinary Embassadour at the Diet of Ratisbon in the year 1653. and who was he that gave orders for the King's passage being come at the place where his Majesty was to embark and seeing the Master of the ship to enter into the chamber where they supped to tell them that the tide would be good about midnight and that they should do well to embark before night praied him to sit at table and to sup with them But the Master had no sooner taken his place and observed the features of the King's face but he whispered Mr. Wilmot in the ear saying that he knew that illustrious person and that it was indubitably the King the other denied it and would have him to relinquish that thought but the Master though he made semblance to acquiess therein during supper said notwithstanding in rising from the table that whatsoever they would make him to beleev he knew the King so well that he could not be deceived because that having been brought before him a few years since when his Majesty being with a Fleet in the Downs where he caused some fishermen to be stopped to whom he gave liberty presently after he had caused them to be brought to his presence and he with the rest he had so well considered him that since that time he could not lose the Idea of him But that they needed to fear nothing that the person of the King should be alwaies sacred to him and in safety in his hands Wilmot persisted in his negative caused the King to embark and said no more to the Captain untill that his Majesty being landed on the coast of Normandy he feared not to tell him that it was indeed the King that he assisted to save and that his Majesty would remember his fidelity and affection when there should be an occasion to acknowledge one another And indeed after the King had perfectly well received him at his closet dore the Lord Craft who had presented him to his Majesty assured him that he might hope for any favours from him The English Officers that are in the service of the Lords the States and were come to this town did him reverence also and among the rest Mr. Cromwel Maior of a Regiment of foot of the same nation He is Cosen German but issued from an elder brother of him who is known to have sacrific'd the King his Soveraign to his irregular ambition and detested that brutal and horrible action but seeing some apparent establishment in the fortune of the Protectour he passed into England where he rendered considerable services to those of the good party and even gave himself the liberty to remonstrate sometimes to his Cosen what belonged to his duty so that insteed of making his fortun there he could draw from the Protectour for himself and for his brother who commands a Regiment of foot in the service of the Lords the Estates but a gratification of two thousand pounds sterling whereof they have received but the half though the Major made an expence at London where with he shall be long time incommodated The King who know the intentions of this honest man and permitted his brother to take the surname of Williams instead of that which shall be eternally in execration to all Englishmen and who had many good proofs of them received him perfectly well This day came also to salute the King Sir William Davison a Scott by birth but since some yeares established at Amsterdam His Majesty had considered him as a person most affectionate to his service and was not deceived therein because that those who know how he behaved himself cannot doubt that he was most usefull and that he acted if not directly for the re-establishment of the affairs of England at least it cannot be denied that he hath not been unprofitable therein It was not long before that the King had given him some proofs of his acknowledgement in making him Knight Baronet but this day he confirmed that quality to him by letters pattents in adding thereunto a pension without comparison more considerable then that title The King gives it with very litle ceremony in making the Novice kneel before him he laies his sword on his shoulder and sayth unto him Rise Knight Baronet Those that are invested with this quality follow the Barons and precede the ordinary Knights After this the King went to visit the Queen of Bohemia his Aunt but it was without ceremony as he used to do the whole time of his residence at the Hague during which there passed not a day almost that he saw her not From thence he went to the House of the Princess Dowager of Orange who received him on the stone stairs that go up into the Court. The King presented her presently his hand and led her through that fair hall and through the Guard Chamber to that which they call the Chamber of presence where the King treated her with much civility refusing to sitt till the Princess took her place at the same time After a conversation of half an hour the King took leave and retired himself but perciving in the fore-chamber that the Princess followed him he turned about and would hinder her to go further untill that seeing after a contestation very agreeable and very obliging that he could not overcom her he took her again by the hand and led her to the foot of the stairs where he made her again some civility but seeing her obstinate to render him her devoirs even in the Court he yeelded at last went up into his coach and betook him to the Princess Royal his Sister where he met the Embassadour of France who had the honour to discourse there with his Majesty a good while The King having spoken in the evening at supper to the advantage of the Regiment of the Guards which he had seen at his coming and of which he had alwaies a Company in arms in the Court of his lodging the Deputies of the Estates General who were by his person at the hours of his repast offered to shew it him the next day in battel to the end his Majesty might judge as favourably of their skil as he had judged of their shew The King promised to be present if his affairs permitted him to give himself that divertisement
row Of beautious buildings much indeed I ow To their rich merit but I cannot stay Prince Maurice Palace calls my thoughts away To contemplate its beauties and the rare Magnifick structure which may well compare With any modern VVork in all respects Of the best and the skilfull'st Architects But its chief glory is that it can say It lodged him whom Nations must obey Great Britains King Let 's make but one step more And only look upon the Court before VVe take our leave here do the Prince and States Meet and resolve on all their wise debates Here is their Councel here their Residence Here is their gain and here is their expence Our survey's ended we have gone the round It resteth only that the Peece be crown'd WILL LOWER THE GREAT FEAST The Estates of Holland made to the King and to the Royal family Pag. 80. THe Roman Story tells us that the feasts Lucullus made to entertain his guests Were such and so prodigious that the Sea The Land and Air were emptied every day To serve his table with all delicates Of Fish of Flesh of Foul and dainty cates Great Master of the mouth voluptuous Lord Had'st thou liv'd now to see this Princely bord This stately and magnifick service here Thou would'st cry out mine was but homely cheere This a repast for pallets all divine As those that sit here in these orbs and shrine Rap'd too with admiration thou would'st say That all the Elements do strive to pay A voluntary tribute to th' Estates Of their most rich and choicest delicates And that their fin'd and winged subjects all Offer themselves in sacrifice and fall Into the dishes of their own accord To furnish and adorn this Royal bord What is there wanting here that may invite The quaintest and most curious appetite Ladies feed freely 't is no mortal meat 'T is rather an Ambrosia that ye eat Will you drink Nectar Princes here 's a Wine That 's richer more delicious more divine Th' Italian Malvoisy cannot compare With this rare Juice sent down here from the air To please your tasts and to be swallowed In every health drunk to the Crowned Head The joyful thunder of th' Artillery Proclaims it louder then that of the Sky The Violins and other Instruments Strike pleasant airs here to delight the sense In an harmonious consort and the Spheres Descend with Musick to enchant those ears WILL. LOWER His Majesty taking his leave in the Assembly of the Estates Generall Pag. 90. SO look'd great Caesar when from his high Throne He would descend sometime to honour Rome By sitting in the Senate but we see Not the least sign of any Sympathy Between these modern Hero's here and those Old Senators whose surly brows spake foes Under a false respect unto their King Though his bright glory through the world did ring 'T is different here these brave Estates though free And Soveraign pay yet humility And lowly reverence through a candid love Unto this Prince as if he were their Jove And they his subjects see with what respects They entertain him by their sweet aspects And sober postures how they seem to say You shall rule here Sir and we will obey Mount our Tribunal all your words shall be Our Oracles and all your actions free As saving to us since so wise a King Draws them from perfect justice as their Spring WILL. LOWER HIS MAJESTY TAKING HIS leave in the Assembly of the Estates of Holland Pag. 93. STrange revolution Fate here 's Monarchy In Councel met with Aristocracy Though different in themselves here they agree And by their pleasant gestures seem to be Unanimous in all things what the one Demands the other grants division Is banish'd hence here is all harmony Love and alliance perfect amity A lasting League reciprocally sign'd By promises and both have but one mind Though different bodies and a different frame Of constitution as a different name In cordial terms here they congratulate Each others happy government and state Like twin-born brothers they salute embrace The one vows fealty and the other grace Long may they live united thus and never By any chance in their affections sever So shall they flourish both grow great and be Feared throughout the Worlds vast Monarchy WILL. LOWER ON HIS MAJESTIES DEPARTURE from the Hage to his Fleet before Scheveling Pag. 105. THus from the Belgick States delicious Seat Triumphantly departed Charls the Great The VVorld assembled from all parts to see This Monarch pass unto his Dignity The Continent could not contain the press VVhich crowded in all places to express Their common joy the Military Bands Of Horse and Foot were ranged on the sands To make a Royal Guard young Mars stood by Th' Illustrious Duke who by his hand and ey Gave full directions all the Cannon were Dispos'd in order by his Martial care The Sky was cleer the Winds were still the Sea Look'd like a fair Bride on her Marriage day When from the Crowned Bark the King betook Himself to Sea with Her whose only look Can calm the Tempests in the Skiff they went Sent from the Fleet the Seamens high content To see their Soveraign cannot be express'd But by their shouts the Seas most loyal breast Sweetly receiv'd its Master the old God Freely resign'd his trident Mace and Rod To him who better could command and sway That Element The gentle Dolphins play About the Boat they dance in rounds they skip And make a Sea-guard for him to his Ship Thus was the King embark'd when suddenly The thunder of the Cannon shook the sky From Sea to Shore the smoak obscur'd the Sun And made a night ere half the day was done Th' Artillery and small shot on the Strand Mov'd the Sand-hills and terrifi'd the Land As if it felt an Earth-quake but at last All this dissolv'd and that great Triumph past When our bright Star which grac'd the Belgick Sphere Drew off from thence his clouded own to cleer WILL LOWER AN ACROSTICK POEM In honour of his Majesty Call all those Sages whose extended hearts Heaven fils with light in th' Astrologick Arts Ask their opnions of this Monarch they Reply he 's born the Universe to sway Look on this calculation read his Star Seven Planets here all in conjunction are They smile upon his birth no rude jars here Hinder his motions under any Sphere Excellent Aspects long live this great King Supream of all let his bright glory ring Even round about that Globe held in his hand Can earthly powers his conquering Arm withstand Or check his fortune which the Stars proclaim Not possible since Heaven inspires his claim Draw presently with an immortal pen Kings in their colours some quick Cherubin In Characters drop'd drown suiting their souls Note revolutions in these sacred Rolls Greatly to the advantage of our State Of much import to make us fortunate For many years under this glorious Reign Giving us hopes of th' golden Age again Return