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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45959	Iö Carole, or, An extract of a letter sent from Parnassus wherein are contained severall epigrames, odes, &c upon His Majesty's coronation.	Bocalini, jun.	1661 (1661)	Wing I293; ESTC R31152	11,794	28

the King as high As ' gainst the rock the Sea Though a darke night all overcast his skye As dark as dark can bee Though there did heavier burdens on him lye Than on the patient tree The Rock had learn't like Terminus to stay The night has turn'd a glorious Day The Palme-tree's glory has anticipated May. 3. Never let loyall Rock fear boisterous Fate Since CHARLES unshook has been Nor England's Day e'r dread a night in state Since CHARLES's is serene Never let Royall Palme fear any weight Since CHARLES's is so green And may that sure-fixt Rock no motion know That Sunn may he still brighter show May that Great Palm-tree greener still and greener grow In the next place there were presented to his Majesty diverse Coronation Poëms as they were called to the number of 17 16 whereof wereof were never look't into Apollo having enough and too too much of the first a Tetrastick whereof be pleased to take in the Authors own words Twelve months agoe our Royall Sove'reigne land Ed at the Dover cliffs in safety and Enterr'd his Kingdome now behold hee sitts Enthron'd and they whose rebellious fitts c. And from thence judge how justly the inditer there-of and his brethren were honourably dismist each of them with a wreath of Absinthium Umbelliferum tenuisolium and a nosegay of Atriplex ollida These Pamphletteers being departed his Majesty by way of divertisement cursorily perused an Heroïck Poëm intitled CAROLEIS which was written by a Virtuoso of your own nation some say a Theologo but came hither to beg an Imprimatur I may not send you a compleat copy thereof untill it be Licensed but if your patience be not quite tired out you may take a tast of the whole in these few Stanza's 1. NOw had our Royall Eagle for some time Been forc't through Aire none of his own to fly While paltry rookes into his Throne did climbe Feather themselves and set their nests on high 2. When that Great Monarch on whom Myriads wait Who wisely rules the World he wisely made Summon'd his flameing Ministers of State And in the midd'st of them sate downe and said 3. Who of you minds my World 's more Westerne part who 'l place the English King on English ground who 'l counter-work Hell's plotts with Heavenly art And so procure the Royall Exile Crown'd 4. There is a time for wrath a time for love I can no longer now forbear my smiles If I am Monarch if I reigne above Hee shall be King below and rule those Isles 5. Englands unseen Protectour then arose Or if that word hath been too much profan'd The Spirit which for Brittains Guardian goes Boldly took heart and openly complain'd 6. Sole Conservator of the Universe I would presume at length to make my moane But ah what tongue is able to rehearse What my poor Province there has undergone 7. My Albion long since had changed her name But never lost till now her Happinesse Shee 's nor in Church nor yet in State the same By your permission Priestlesse Monarch-lesse 8. By your Permission we are sure 't is so But should that your Permission last too long T' would seem your Will and men would think below You 're like themselves and doe delight in wrong 9. Then ôh both Court and Clergy now restore And that brave land in unity maintaine Least what my dearest Ina joyn'd before Fall into more then Heptarchy againe 10. And those who so audaciously of late Voted downe Service-book and Monarchy Disturb distract confound infatuate Or else they 'l next vote downe your Deïty 11. CHARLES ripe for hundreds wants one Diadem Robb'd of his treasures countrey friends and all Oh might I steale from Flanders such a gem Oh might I be his Guide unto White-halt 12. Say but the word I runn I fly I 'm there My hast no medium nor distance checks I 'le soon unroost the Rump from Westminster And fix the Hydra's heads on other necks 13. I 'le Him in his Great Loyall City sett And bring him in such state unto his throne That people shall all former pomps forgett And History not mention that of Scone 14. And so thou shalt was Answear'd I decree But let us take advice my Faithfull one How may this businesse best effected bee Which course d' yee steer what must first be done c. His Majesty having given his verdict of and commands about this Heroïck Poëm laid it by and desired the Virtuoso which brought him the joyfull news and had not yet left the Court to conclude the day who recollecting such thoughts as he had in the street before in the Abby at and at home after the Coronation putt them all into this following Ode ODE T' Is Hee ôh I shall view him o'r and o'r That is the Duke which comes before And this it is the Abby-doore Open thy doore thou house divine Thou art not make-bate Janus shrine Open in thee to day our CHARLES will shine Thou one continued Monument hast been To shew that Prince and King and Queen High persons dye as well as meane Thou hast been of'ts Mortality Now thou shalt a witnesse bee Of th'Resurrection of Majesty Peter thy keys let in our Soveraigne Into thy Illustrious Fane Pounds not Pence shall be thy gaine Though wee 're not Anti-Christian Nor think the King more than a man Thy Abby shall out-pomp thy Vatican Rich Vestments make the Lords Spirituall gay Coronets adorne the Lay Then I 'l put on my wreath of Bay And for a kind of Poët goe Worser then I have do'nt I know And bear my petty part in this great show Arch-Angells sure leaving their glorious sphear Themselves have bodyfied here English Nobles to appear And Earthly grosse corporeall wee Crowding so thick our King to see Use their laid-by Penetrability Men used to be waited on can wait Nor does their Pomp there-by abate Since here to bows to sit in state And now may CHARLES's lustre bee The Proto-type of Majesty The Emperour 's not King of Kings but Hee The newly-found Egyptian Anubis But a dull Hieroglyphick is Of our Kings glory Kingdomes blisse Italy though high shee sings Here-of no full resemblance brings Consular triumphs were such puny things The Father now would slight Victorious Paul His entrance person name and all To see these Peers this Prince install Hee 'd find when Rome subdu'd her foes Shee came as short of us in showes As now her modern Glories do of those Of all the Objects which sight-worthy bee If he might have his choice of three What would he choose what would hee see Hee 'd see the Man with God-head fill'd See the Tent maker Churches build See CHARLES's beames this OEta-Minster guild That speck of Majesty I should say spott Though wee with soules esteem'd him not Some of the many's honour gott Though they saw Noll headlong runn And sett all in combustion Yet Phaëthon with them went for a Sunn Minutest things which to our

IÖ CAROLE OR An Extract of a Letter sent from PARNASSUS WHEREIN Are contained severall EPIGRAMES ODES c. upon His Maiesty's Coronation Printed in the Yeare 1661. Superscrib'd To the Reverend and Learned Dr Jasper Mayne England Sir UNderstanding how deservedly you are numbred among the Virtuoso's of the Age I have been emboldened upon that account to single you out for the Person whom I should certify of the most signall occurrences which have happened lately in this place Perhaps this sheet or two may prove troublesome to the perusers of Books in generall and something uncivill towards you in particular why if they do yet as to the first the admirablenesse of their Subject-matter will abundantly excuse them which was the cause of their comeing forth at all and as to the second your Fame will shelter them under her capacious wings which was the cause of their comeing thus Superscrib'd The truth is when I found how acceptable the Ragguagli di Parnasso publish't by my predecessor was to the ingenious part of mankind mee thoughts I could not but do the present and future generation a very great injury should I have concealed what now I hope may have the good fortune to passe through your hands farther into the World Know therefore Sir that yesterday morning His Majesty Apollo discarded a Theologo of great note who was discovered to have been first a Tremulist then a Lacu-Lemanian then a Theïst next an Arnheimian and now last of all a compleat Orthodoxo only for fashion sake Three dayes before that he had cashier'd Mercurio Europaeo his Gazett-writer for publishing that for true which was not so neither was it at all like to be so viz that at the great solemnity of the Coronation of your invincible Archon CHARLES the II the Prior of St Trinity took his place as Alderman of the great City This morning the Embassadours from Almaine whose errand hither was to be informed what those Fires Crosses Turbants which they had seen at home in the aire might portend received this Answer in His Majesties name from the Procurator of the Oracle Presbitery is better than Independency Episcopacy is better than Presbytery but Quakerisme is better than Trentisme Just now at Dinner-time this present day being if I calculate aright your first of May there was much joy all over the Court by reason of a certa●n great benefit which is shortly to redownd upon the whole Vniverse as Apollo out of his certain fore-knowledge of things told a near Favorite the particulars are not known but it is to bee by a Marriage betwixt two Mighty Princes both living neare the Atlantick Our Agents abroad send us not much news by reason of the late happy Generall peace in Europe only from what we have by private intelligence wee hope shortly to see from the double top of our Sacred Hill the Christian Princes of the West joyne forces again●t their common Mahumetan enemy upon a better account than the determination of a blind Councell at Clermont that so by the help of their successefull armes our proud Ottoman oppressors power may be abated and he no more raise armies able to besiedge Austria it being more than time for us to be freed from his Tyranny and date our letters not from the Flight of an Impostor but from the comeing of the true Prophet In order to the improvement of Learning his Majesty has referr'd the care of new Experimentall Philosophy to the honourable R.B. his Hermeticall Esquire R H and the rest of the Right Knowing Verulamians of Platonicall Philosophy to H. M of ingenuous writings to J. H. Esquire And as for Poëtry to omit the rest at present he resolves to be himselfe still the vigilant overseer thereof and to keep it up in its height and he has already made good progresse in his designe by well improving so sublime a Theme offered as your Aprill 22 and 23 for being informed of the almost unutterable glory of those two days of the Magnificent processe of that sacred person to his Throne and his more magnificent seating there-on hee presently summon'd all the Poëtts told 'um what he had heard required them to exercise every one their severall Fancys on so extraordinary a subject and appointed Fam. Strada Master of the Ceremonies but the silly whymsicall Jesuite was under a firme resolution not to accept of any place either of profit or honour out of I know not what strange conceit for fear forsooth lest he should be taken by some Virtuoso's for a Fanatick where-upon his Majesty himselfe without any demur undertook that charge and beckoned to Homer to lead where-at the noble Greek immediately stood forth and exprest himselfe to this effect 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which Apollo himselfe partly out of respect to his First-born sonne and partly to honour the English tongue was pleased taking upon him the person of Homer thus to translate MUse tell the World of that late exil'd King And not his Suff'rings but his Glory sing Hee once indeed did heavens wrath incurr And found Jove nothing but a Thunderer While he was faine to fly through unknown ways Ledd by his Starrs then seeming all to blaze And this sore plague was on poor England sent That shee should play the fool in Government Her mighty Monarchy turn'd piddlïng State Masculine Government Effaeminate But Heaven now her Miserere's hears And towards her Great Lord compass'on bears Gives him his Golden wand and Azure ball To seem and bee a glorious Prince withall Ne'r shall this year its room in Story want Now Priams sonn sitts Crown'd in Troynovant Oh! what a floud of light from him doth flow How like the midday-Sunn it makes him show Such cloaths of Gold and Silver kill my braine My Opticks faile and I grow blind again This Earthly Jove all sorts of men doth please Inlanders leave their homes Sea-men their Seas Both English born and they that Neighbours are A part in singing and in shouting bear You may the like in those fair gardens see Where Thousands buzz about one Royall-Bee Should nature give me now a dozen tongues And halfe as many paire of lusty lungs And those made of the lately sheathed steel I could not word the joy three