TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES EARL OF PERTH Lord DRUMMOND, and Stoh-hall, &c. Lord High Chancellour of HIS MAJESTIES most Ancient Kingdom of SCOTLAND. The Congratulatory Welcome of an Obliged Quill.
SInce that the
Muses, breathed first on
Earth,
Had ne're more Noble Worthy
Theme then
Perth;
High
Chanc'llour of old
Albion, plac'd and made,
Which brings all Ranks of Subjects to be glade,
You welcoming, with Soul
Alacratie,
Next unto
Royal CHARLES, and
Albanie;
Whose well deservings did them Animate,
Should to the office be Commissionate;
The fulfill'd wishes, of both
Low and
High,
Triumphingly to day, do signifie:
By Clement smyls; else putting all in
Hope,
Impartial
Justice, ev'rie
Hand shall Grope.
Silence the
Tongues will, that cry out for
Wars;
Will pacifie
Whiggish Intestine-Jars:
To
Grivances a
Soveraign Medicine,
Rebellion and base
Tumu
[...]s will hedge in;
In
High-Lands has already setled
Peace,
None needs to fear a Thieving Robbers face;
To
Low-Lands like shall be, by
Thee obtain'd,
Conventiclers shall no resetting find:
None shall
Aarons sacrifice gain stand;
The
Priest-Hood at the
Altar shall Command;
As
Moses will our
Israel govern,
No Byass shall the
Sanhadrim discern:
In
Solmons wit, and policie well known,
Kings Yours, and
Contry's safety will be one:
Our
Rights and
Liberties will settle so,
That none before
Thee ever did outgo:
The Errors of our
Laws will rectifie,
And to them add what necessarie be;
Dangers fore-sees, skill'd
Pilote can Evite,
Those
Rocks and
Shelves, on which have others split:
Drea'd CHARLES His
Wain in the straight Course will Guide,
To State-distempers, will a Cure provide;
The
Nations needs, will furnish and supplie;
Will Ease those think they under burden lye;
For great designs, in
Council is most found,
With Goodness and with Mercy does abound:
Plenty shall on our Barren
Mountains spring,
In
Valleys Vertue shall have flourishing:
The
Hearts of
Peers in whom united are,
Mongst them shall no Incendarie appear:
Superlative in
Learning and in
Arts,
To Suit
Thy place, Endowments has and parts;
Caesarean-Spirit, scorns the
Egiptian Treate,
A Conquer'd
Foe, to have disastrous
Fate;
Scotlands Affairs, and all the
Worlds beside;
Has by
Your study in the furnace try'd:
Frae whom shall
Legislators, Dictats draw,
How
Monarchs should make subjects stand in Awe;
Rejoyce unto both
Sol, and
Cynthia that
Our
Jove has
Neptuns Waves so Estimate;
Good Reason why, To
Stob-Halls House look in?
Eight
Kings, one
Queen, from thence have Crowned been:
Fames Familie, car'd never to be great,
Yet in both
Peace and
War serv'd
King and
State;
With
Fortune, and with
Lives, in such away,
From
Loyaltie were never found
Astray.
My
Lord, when dieving in
Your Soaring
Praise,
Sees
You the
Dazling-Glory of our
Skies;
Truth telling of
Your welcome, all may say,
Tis as
Sun is, to an
Ecclipsed Day:
This
You may Judge, in
Grandour for to see,
Your Convoy and
Reception so to be.
Comfort, and
Bliss, will prove unto this
Sphere,
Of which
You'l have sure a
Paternal Care.
M. M.