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The second part of Absalom and Achitophel a poem.
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Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
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Poet Fame The Kenites Rocky Province his Command A barren Limb of Fertile Canaans Land Which for its gen'rous Natives yet cou'd be Held Worthy such a President as He Bezaliel with each Grace and Virtue Fraught Serene his Looks Serene his Life and Thought On whom so largly Nature heapt her Store There scarce remain'd for Arts to give him more To Aid the Crown and State his greatest Zeal His Second Care that Service to Conceal Of Dues Observant Firm in ev'ry Trust And to the Needy always more than Just. Who Truth from specious falshood can divide Has all the Gown-mens Skill without their Pride Thus crown'd with worth from heights of honour won Sees all his Glories copyed in his Son Whose forward Fame should every Muse engage Whose Youth boasts skill deny'd to others Age. Men Manners Language Books of noblest kind Already are the Conquest of his Mind Whose Loyalty before its Date was prime Nor waited the dull course of rowling Time The Monster Faction early he dismaid And David's Cause long since confest his Aid Brave Abdael o'er the Prophet's School was plac'd Abdael with all his Father's Virtue grac'd A Heroe who while Stars look'd wondring down Without one Hebrew 's Bloud restor'd the Crown That Praise was His what therefore did remain For following Chiefs but boldly to maintain That Crown restor'd and in this Rank of Fame Brave Abdael with the First a place must claim Proceed illustrious happy Chief proceed Foreseize the Garlands for thy Brow decreed While th' inspir'd Tribe attend with noblest strain To Register the Glories thou shalt gain For sure the Dew shall Gilboah's Hills forsake And Iordan mix his Stream with Sodom's Lake Or Seas retir'd their secret Stores disclose And to the Sun their scaly Brood expose Or swell'd above the Clifts their Billows raise Before the Muses leave their Patron 's Praise Eliab our next Labour does invite And hard the Task to doe Eliab right Long with the royal Wanderer he rov'd And firm in all the Turns of Fortune prov'd Such ancient Service and Desert so large Well claim'd the Royal Houshold for his Charge His Age with onely one mild Heiress blest In all the Bloom of smiling Nature drest And blest again to see his Flow'r ally'd To David's Stock and made young Othriel's Bride The bright Restorer of his Father's Youth Devoted to a Son 's and Subject's Truth Resolv'd to bear that prize of Duty home So bravely sought while sought by Absalom Ah Prince th' illustrious Planet of thy Birth And thy more powerfull Virtue guard thy worth That no Achitophel thy Ruine boast Israel too much in one such Wreck has lost Ev'n Envy must consent to Helon's Worth Whose Soul though Egypt glories in his Birth Cou'd for our Captive-Ark its Zeal retain And Pharaoh's Altars in their Pomp disdain To slight his Gods was small with nobler pride He all th' Allurements of his Court defi'd Whom Profit nor Example cou'd betray But Israel's Friend and true to David's Sway. What acts of favour in his Province fall On Merit he confers and Freely all Our List of Nobles next let Amri grace Whose Merits claim'd the Abethdins high place Who with a Loyalty that did excell Brought all th' endowments of Achitophel Sincere was Amri and not onely knew But Israel's Sanctions into practice drew Our Laws that did a boundless Ocean seem Were coasted all and fathom'd all by Him No Rabbin speaks like him their mystick Sense So just and with such Charms of Eloquence To whom the double Blessing does belong With Mose's Inspiration Aaron's Tongue Than Sheva none more loyal Zeal have shown Wakefull as Iudah's Lion for the Crown Who for that Cause still combats in his Age For which his Youth with danger did engage In vain our factious Priests the Cant revive In vain seditious Scribes with Libels strive T' enflame the Crowd while He with watchfull Eye Observes and shoots their Treasons as They fly Their weekly Frauds his keen Replies detect He undeceives more fast than they infect So Moses when the Pest on Legions prey'd Advanc'd his Signal and the Plague was stay'd Once more my fainting Muse thy Pinnions try And Strengths exhausted store let Love supply What Tribute Asaph shall we render Thee We 'll crown thee with a Wreath from thy own Tree Thy Lawrel Grove no Envye's flash can blast The Song of Asaph shall for ever last With wonder late Posterity shall dwell On Absalom and false Achitophel Thy strains shall be our slumbring Prophets dream And when our Sion Virgins sing their Theam Our Iubilees shall with thy Verse be grac't The Song of Asaph shall for ever last How fierce his Satyr loos'd restrain'd how tame How tender of th' offending Young man's Fame How well his worth and brave Adventures still'd Just to his Vertues to his Errour mild No Page of thine that fears the strictest view But teems with just Reproof or Praise as due Not Eden cou'd a fairer Prospect yield All Paradise without one barren Field VVhose VVit the Censure of his Foes has past The Song of Asaph shall for ever last What Praise for such rich Strains shall we allow What just Rewards the gratefull Crown bestow While Bees in Flow'rs rejoyce and Flow'rs in Dew While Stars and Fountains to their Course are true While Iudah's Throne and Sion's Rock stand fast The Song of Asaph and the Fame shall last Still Hebrons honour'd happy Soil Retains Our Royal Heroes beauteous dear remains Who now sails off with Winds nor Wishes slack To bring his Suff'rings bright Companion back But e'er such Transport can our sense employ A bitter grief must poyson half our Joy Nor can our Coasts restor'd those Blessings see Without a Bribe to envious Destiny Curs'd Sodom's Doom for ever fix the Tyde Where by inglorious Chance the Valiant dy'd Give not insulting Askalon to know Nor let Gath's Daughters triumph in our Woe No Sailer with the News swell Egypt's Pride By what inglorious Fate our Valiant dy'd Weep Arnon Iordan weep thy Fountains dry While Sion's Rock dissolves for a Supply Calm were the Elements Night's silence deep The Waves scarce murm'ring and the Winds asleep Yet Fate for Ruine takes so still an hour And treacherous Sands the Princely Barque devour Then Death unworthy seiz'd a gen'rous Race To Virtues scandal and the Stars disgrace Oh! had th' Indulgent Powr's vouchsaf't to yield Instead of faithless Shelves a listed Field A listed Field of Heav'ns and David's Foes Fierce as the Troops that did his Youth oppose Each Life had on his slaughter'd heap retir'd Not Tamely and Unconqu'ring thus expir'd But Destiny is now their onely Foe And dying ev'n o'er that they triumph too With loud last Breaths their Master's Scape applaud Of whom kind Force cou'd scarce the Fates defraud Who for such Followers lost O matchless Mind At his own Safety now almost repin'd Say Royal Sir by all your Fame in Arms Your praise in Peace and by Vrania's Charms If all your Suff'rings past so nerely prest Or pierc't with half so painful Grief your Breast Thus some Diviner Muse her Heroe forms Not sooth'd with soft Delights but tost in storms Not stretcht on Roses in the Myrtle Grove Nor Crowns his Days with Mirth his Nights with Love But far remov'd in Thundring Camps is found His Slumbers short his Bed the herbless Ground In Tasks of Danger always seen the First Feeds from the Hedg and slakes with Ice his Thirst. Long must his Patience strive with Fortunes Rage And long opposing Gods themselves engage Must see his Country Flame his Friends destroy'd Before the promis'd Empire be enjoy'd Such Toil of Fate must build a Man of Fame And such to Israel's Crown the God-like David came What suddain Beams dispel the Clouds so fast Whose drenching Rains laid all our Vineyards waste The Spring so far behind her Course delay'd On th' Instant is in all her Bloom array'd The Winds breath low the Element serene Yet Mark what Motion in the Waves is seen Thronging and busie as Hyblaean Swarms Or stragled Souldiers Summon'd to their Arms. See where the Princely Barque in loosest Pride With all her Guardian Fleet Adorns the Tide High on her Deck the Royal Lovers stand Our Crimes to Pardon e're they toucht our Land VVelcome to Israel and to David's Breast Here all your Toils here all your Sufferings Rest. This Year did Ziloah Rule Ierusalem And boldly all Sedition's Syrges stem How e're incumbred with a viler Pair Than Ziph and Shimei to assist the Chair Yet Ziloah's Loyal Labours so prevail'd That Faction at the next Election fail'd VVhen ev'n the common Cry did Justice Sound And Merrit by the Multitude was Crown'd VVith David then was Israel's Peace restor'd Crowds Mournd their Errour and Obey'd their Lord. FINIS
Crowds Disease Henceforth unbiass'd Measures let 'em draw From no false Gloss but Genuine Text of Law Nor urge those Crimes upon Religions score Themselves so much in Jebusites Abhor Whom Laws convict and only they shall Bleed Nor Pharisees by Pharisees be Freed Impartial Justice from our Throne shall Shou'r All shall have Right and We our Sov'reign Pow'r He said th'Attendants heard with awful Joy And glad Presages their fixt Thoughts employ From Hebron now the suffering Heir Return'd A Realm that long with Civil Discor'd Mournd Till his Approach like some Arriving God Compos'd and heal'd the place of his Aboad The Deluge checkt that to Iudea spread And stopt Sedition at the Fountain's Head Thus in forgiving David's Paths he drives And chas'd from Israel Israels Peace contrives The Feild confest his Pow'r in Arms before And Seas proclaim'd his Tryumphs to the Shore As nobly has his Sway in Hebron shown How fit t' Inherit Godlike Davids Throne Through Sion's-Streets his glad Arrivals spread And Conscious Faction shrinks her snaky head His Train their Sufferings think o'repaid to see The Crowds Applause with Vertue once agree Success charms All but Zeal for Worth distrest A Virtue proper to the Brave and Best 'Mongst whom was Iothran Iothran always bent To serve the Crown and Loyal by Descent Whose Constancy so Firm and Conduct Just Deserv'd at once Two Royal Masters Trust Who Tyre's proud Arms had Manfully withstood On Seas and gather'd Lawrels from the Flood Of Learning yet no Portion was deny'd Friend to the Muses and the Muses Pride Nor can Benaiah's VVorth forgotten lie Of steddy Soul when Publick Storms were high VVhose Conduct while the Moor fierce Onsets made Secur'd at once our Honour our Trade Such were the Chiefs who most his Suff'rings mourn'd And viewd with silent Joy the Prince return'd VVhile those that sought his Absence to Betray Press first their Nauseous False Respects to pay Him still th' officious Hypocrites Molest And with malicious Duty break his Rest. VVhile real Transports thus his Friends Employ And Foes are Loud in their dissembled Joy His Tryumphs so resounded far and near Mist not his Young Ambitious Rival's Ear And as when joyful Hunters clam'rous Train Some Slumbring Lion VVakes in Moab's Plain VVho oft had forc'd the bold Assailants Yeild And scatter'd his Persuers through the Feild Disdaining furls his Main and tears the Ground His Eyes enflaming all the Desart Round With Roar of Seas directs his Chasers Way Provokes from far and dares them to the Fray Such Rage storm'd now in Absalom's fierce Breast Such Indignation his fir'd Eyes Confest Where now was the Instructer of his Pride Slept the Old Pilot in so rough a Tide Whos 's Wiles had from the happy Shore betray'd And thus on Shelves the cred'lous Youth convey'd In deep revolving Thoughsts He weighs his State Secure of Craft nor doubts to baffle Fate At least if his storm'd Bark must go adrift To baulk his Charge and for himself to shift In which his dextrous Wit had oft been shown And in the wreck of Kingdoms sav'd his own But now with more then Common Danger prest Of various Resolutions stands possest Perceives the Crowds unstable Zeal decay Least their Recanting Chief the Cause betray Who on a Father's Grace his Hopes may ground And for his Pardon with their Heads compound Him therefore e're his Fortune slip her Time The Statesman Plots t' engage in some bold Crime Past Pardon whether to Attempt his Bed Or Threat with open Arms the Royal Head Or other daring Method and Unjust That may secure him in the Peoples Trust. But failing thus t' ensnare him nor secure How long his foil'd Ambition may endure Plots next to lay him by as past his Date And try some new Pretenders luckier Fate Whose Hopes with equal Toil he wou'd persue Nor cares what Claimer's Crownd except the True Wake Absalom approaching Ruin shun And see O see for whom thou art Undone How are thy Honours and thy Fame betray'd The Property of desp'rate Villains made Lost Pow'r and Conscious Fears their Crimes Create And Guilt in them was little less than Fate But why shou'dst Thou from ev'ry Grievance free Forsake thy Vineyards for their Stormy Sea For Thee did Canaan's Milk and Honey flow Love drest Thy Bow'rs Lawrels sought thy Brow Preferment Wealth aud Pow'r thy Vassals were And of a Monarch all things but the Care Oh shou'd our Crimes again that Curse draw down And Rebel-Arms once more attempt the Crown Sure Ruin waits unhappy Absalon Alike by Conquest or Defeat undone VVho cou'd relentless see such Youth and Charms Expire with wretched Fate in Impious Armes A Prince so form'd with Earth's Heav'ns Applause To Tryumph ore Crown'd Heads in David's Cause Or grant him Victor still his Hopes must fail VVho Conquering wou'd not for himself prevail The Faction whom He trusts for future Sway Him and the Publique wou'd alike Betray Amongst themselves devide the Captive State And found their Hydra-Empire in his Fate Thus having beat the Clouds with painful Flight The pitty'd Youth with Scepters in his Sight So have their Cruel Politicks Decreed Must by that Crew that made him Guilty Bleed For cou'd their Pride brook any Prince's Sway Whom but mild David wou'd they choose t' Obey VVho once at such a gentle Reign Repine The Fall of Monarchy of self Design From Hate to That their Reformations spring And David not their Grievance but the King Seiz'd now with pannick Fear the Faction lies Least this clear Truth strike Absaloms charm'd Eyes Least He percieve from long Enchantment free VVhat all beside the flatter'd Youth must see But whate're doubts his troubled Bosome swell Fair Carriage still became Achitophel Who now an envious Festival enstalls And to survey their Strength the Faction calls Which Fraud Religious Worship too must Guild But oh how weakly does Sedition Build For Lo the Royal Mandate Issues forth Dashing at once their Treason Zeal and Mirth So have I seen disastrous Chance Invade Where careful Emmits had their Forrage laid Whether fierce Vulcan's Rage the Furzy Plain Had seiz'd Engendred by some careless Swain Or swelling Neptune lawless Inroads made And to their Cell of Store his Flood convey'd The Common-Wealth broke up distracted go And in wild Hast their loaded Mates o'rethrow Ev'n so our scatter'd Guests confus'dly meet With Boil'd Bak'd Roast all Justling in the Street Dejected all and rufully dismai'd For Sheckle without Treat or Treason paid Seditions dark Eclipse now fainter shows More bright each Hour the Royal Plannet grows Of Force the Clouds of Envy to disperse In kind Conjunction of Assisting Stars Here lab'ring Muse those Glorious Chiefs relate That turn'd the doubtful Scale of David's Fate The rest of that Illustrious Band rehearse Immortalliz'd in Lawrell'd Asaph's Verse Hard Task yet will not I thy Flight recall View Heav'n and then enjoy thy glorious Fall First Write Bezaliel whose Illustrious Name Forestals our Praise and gives his