A POEM, Condoling the DEATH of K. CHARLES II Of Blessed Memory: AND CONGRATULATING HIS Present MAJESTY.
By JOHN NASH of Grays-Inn, Esq
EXITƲS ACTA PROBAT.
LONDON: Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall. 1684 / 5.
A POEM, CONDOLING [...]he Death of K. CHARLES II. Of Blessed Memory, &c.
I.
O thy eternal
Exit from this
Stage
E'er
Resurrection speaks thy Acts and Age.
[...]ersal
Vote, Account select,
[...] CHARLES
Gods Anointed, Gods Elect.
[...] his
Image the
Tribunal pass,
[...] shall praise th'
Idea of his
Grace.
[...] puissant
Prince a
Nestor dy'd,
[...]essings had his
Life not multiply'd?
[...]se
Memorial sacred, Royal
Herse,
[...]k Muse pays an obedient
Verse.
[...]ed, dos'd, and drown'd in Lachrymy,
[...] grows
Rage, and
Grief Stupidity.
II.
[...] then, that
Patience may
Excess resist,
[...]
[...]rtues do in
Mediums best consist.
[...] plainer
Style, the plainer
Truth appears,
[...] gives the greatest credit unto
Tears.
[...] due
Allegiance to the present
Crown,
[...] all
Professions shou'd their Sorrows own:
[...] manifest their
Loyal Hearts, more sad
[...] the
black Nation, in deep
Mourning clad.
[...] 'tis our
Duty to condole his
Death,
[...] was the
Law and true
Religions Breath!
[...]ose Royal-Right
Supremacy deserv'd,
[...]
Orthodoxal Patronage observ'd:
[...]
[...]fender of the
Faith, that's
Protestant;
[...] which
Great Charles ascends a
Glorious Saint.
III.
[...] to his
Life, O mournful Muse Return,
[...]hose
Justice guarded e'ery mans
Concern;
And
Nothing Arbitrary would atchieve
Unto his
Ancient Prerogative.
Where
Liberty and
Property did move,
Safe by the
Conduct of his Care and Love
MONARCH of mighty
Judgement, quick
Access;
Renown'd for
Clemency and
Tenderness;
For Mercy, Pardon, Bounty, and Release.
Oblivion and
Protection to his
Foes!
So mild a Soul did
Charity compose.
Never rejecting any
Contrite Case,
A
Precedent to Princes for his
Grace.
IV.
Free from
Ambitious as
Tyrannick pride;
Contented, Embassy's shou'd be deny'd.
Rather than
Bribes should an
Affair effect,
That might upon his
Ministry reflect.
By this just
Rule, His
Sovereign Reports
Transcend the
Monarchs of all forreign
Courts.
The same
Man when restor'd, as Exile hurld,
And the most
Christian Ruler in the world.
Great
CAESAR's Lawrel, Olive-branch and
Balm;
Were most victorious, peaceable, and calm.
Pacifick, and
Heroick, Royal will!
Spirit
Angelick? Love did
Law fulfil?
Candor celestial; Mirrour of Mankind!
A
Miracle in
Nature here divin'd.
V.
Whose high
Oeconomy an Order bears
Of Splendor, rais'd from
Sublunary Stars;
Until his
Luster was in
Heaven fixt,
And with the
divine Influence intermixt.
Now may his
Glorious Rays rule day and night,
And All
Succession by his
Sacred light,
Head undisturb'd, till mortal
Fit and
Pain
Disorder'd the
Dominion of his
Brain;
Whose
Apoplectick season,
Bright, Serene,
Were
Signals of his Temper, Mind, and Mein.
Prospect, Prediction, Omen of an Age,
Happy and golden in the
Heritage.
VI.
No
Chronicle is needful to his
Name,
For
Ages shall immortalize his
Fame.
Blest King! whose
Reign did totally assawage,
Two
factious Plots of Villany and Rage;
And fixt the
Government in
Church and
State,
So firm, that it surpasses
humane Fate,
Whereby the
Art and
Industry of man,
To change the
Model, is a
Task in vain.
Great was this
work to do; and being done,
With as
Great Sence his
Soul resign'd the Throne;
Leaving the management of
forreign Fact,
To his
Illustrious Brother to
Transact.
VII.
Hail! Mighty
James the Second, to compleat
What Mighty
Charles the 2d thought discreet,
Wise in
himself, in
Council safe and great.
To Thee, All
native Aid and Force unites,
As
Ruler, and as
Champion of their
Fights,
And as
Preserver of their
Lives and
Rights.
To Thee, No
Forreign Play, nor
bold Pretence,
Dare falsifie a
safe Obedience;
But own Great
James sole Master
of Defence.
To Thee, all
Power as
Principal must yield:
Or as a
Second to the
English Field;
Monarch of Prowess, and
Propitious Shield.
VIII.
For whose Establishment in
Peace, we bless
Heaven and
Earth with
Popular Address.
And
Humors, And our
Habits will be
Gay,
Upon Great
JAMES's
Coronation-day.
Whose Vertue, Valour, are the
Pearls of Pr
[...]
Beset in
Order by the best Advice.
Presence a
Spark, and Grandeur a
Gem;
Both ornamental to his
Diadem.
And
Royal Robes with
Scepter in his hand,
Shews power of
Peace and
War at his comm
[...]
Then with a
Holy Hand Anointed King,
Anthems and
Hallelujah's we will sing.
IX.
Seamen shall send loud
volly's of
Huzza's▪
The
Fleet and
Tower-guns shall thunder
Pr
[...]
All
Ports the
duty of that
Day shall brag,
Since the
High Admiral of the
English Flag
Is now the
Potent Emperour of the Maine.
Which
Right he setled long before his Re
[...]
Whom
God preserve, to govern
Sea and
[...]
With
Chequer mony'd and a
Navy
[...]
Ballance of
Peace and
Trade o'er
Christ
[...]
A
Power only to this
Province come▪
Lord Paramount to Monsieur's
Flower de
[...]
And Seignior's
Half Moon the younger
[...]
X.
What is't that
JAMES the Second cannot
Who is the first of
all Supremacy,
And
Laws can agrandize his
Monarchy.
May
Parliaments in future
Bills Tri-une,
Grant what is
Requisite and
Opportune.
No doubt
Great JAMES is worthy of
All
[...]
Whose
Word was in a lower station
Just.
No doubt to this
Defender Any
Gift
May be committed to his prudent
Thrift;
Nay, 'tis a
Loyal Debt without delay,
(
If Lives and Fortunes serve him) we
[...]
And that the
Session may explain
Add.
Vote for Supplyes shou'd be as
Generous.
As
Royal Declaration Grationis.
FINIS.