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A26246 A panegyrick on His Sacred Majesties royal person, Charles IId by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, & Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. : and corronation, aut Cæsar, aut nullus / by Samuel Austin ... Austin, Samuel, d. ca. 1665. 1661 (1661) Wing A4257; ESTC R38675 9,307 29

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there to stick Or as if both combin'd in one To make Charles equall with the Sun And so he doth appear In this our Hemisphear He comes with Scepter in His hand All at his Sole command Under a Canopy Moving as 't were insensibly Ev'n as the Sun His motion 's such That seeming runs on th' Earth but doth not touch And when it sets doth as 't were fall on th' ground But never is there found I but a corner had to try And view His Majesty And this such glory doth befit Stars are best seen through chinks or in a pit Thus Charles he states it to the Hall Where let each sense turn Festival May ev'ry dish promp acute delight Unto his appetite There let him sit and feed And think upon a Royal seed Great Sir You are not one That 's made great for Your self alone A King should still be seen In a Relation to a Queen 'T is no offence or trouble For great ones to lye double Nor for Astronomers but for Kings to pry Into the Wed lock sense of Gemini Oh! may Your Sun full soon Confesse a Moon And own a Queen Whose grace by Your beam may be seen That what you give to us by day of light May be alone to Her confin'd by night To Us Your Majesty and Grace To Her Your special Love and Face Thus you 'le be a Sun generous While You enlighten Her and Us. And may She Crowned be With Noble Birth and chastitie And may Her living fame Be as well known as is Her Name And Her Grace As glorious as Her Face And Her soul within As beauteous as Her Flesh or Skin May She be Vertuous and True And only fit for You Fruitfull in Soul and Body too And bring forth to You and Us An offspring numerous One that may in Grace and Fame Still bear up Your Royal Name Majesty turn'd grave too soon in You Unlesse an Offspring doth ensue The Sun when that it sets New Stars begets And fils them with its light To shine by night When it is out of sight The Phoenix having its life resign'd Leaves alwayes one behind And doth his nest and spices give That the young One may live That is a Spirit cold and crude Which stamps not its similitude Your Light is scant and poore If it doth not engender more Sit fast Great Sir study to sway While we do learn for to obey Sit fast you're Heaven's powers attended And by a Champion defended 'T is publisht now that Charles is Crown'd Heark heark how Ecchos do go round And Voices in the Air are drownd As if Earth to make this day a wonder Had stoln from Heav'n Lighning and Thunder Behold the Canons rore Which were all mutes before Guns Trumpets Drums into their proper speech do breake And in a Warlike language speake And that Heav'ns concords may be found In the like tones they do rebound All these for to confesse Our joyes which neither doth expresse Unruly in this one affection That our joy knows no subjection Your proper and peculiar due And yet not to be rul'd by You. Conduits the juice of th' Grape do vent Instead of th' watry Element Founts change their source and shew to Him In what Liquor Baechus was wont to swim As if Heav'n to Charles such power did resigne To turn Water into Wine The night draws on while the Heav'ns bemoane His so long absence from the Throne They clouded are but the friendly Earth Presents their wonted Jollity and Mirth In kindling Flames and making them arise To enlighten the neighbouring Skies And so as 't were aspires To new-star them by its fires To make them bright By its new fangled light Or change their Theam By a Chimney beam As if it meant Heav'ns kindnesse to repay By 'ts innate rayes to make them day Or as if in exchange for one night They'd tak'n up shades and thrown down Light Or prodigally hurl'd Their flames upon this nether world While th' earth that favour to requite Resign'd up all its proper right Made them look dark as night So that He that the Heav'ns doth view Finds them turn'd sad of a earthly hue While that the Earth doth now appear A starry or enlightning Sphere Its fires shining here and there None but our Charles 't is none but He Could make this strange Apostrophe Flames in the open Air do fly Like Lights erroneous in the Sky Which still do multiply As if the world would see now on another score And be behold'n to Heav'n for light no more As if now Charles his Reign 's begun The Earth would need no other Sun Thus Heav'n and Earth together meet And His Scepter greet Casting themselves down at His feet Whilst His Soveraign Virtue doth Move and govern both Being the only Prince that can Rule the whole Globe of Earth and Man Sic vos non vobis sceptra tenete Jovis Sic vos non vobis tesqua parate boves Nocte fucum radij lucis gradiendo striata Sic testudo struit sibi tecta focosque reponens Sic Sol non tibi lux jubara fusa moves Sic vos non vobis stig mata fert is oves Ye for Your selves don 't Scepters weild So patient Oxen Plow the Field Snails move by night a Silver trace Carrying their houses in the race Light to it self is still in dark Sheep for themselves do bear no mark Then let your Scepter never faile You are the Sun and I the Snail FINIS