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26. To the Author of the Monarchicke Tragedies
Well may the programme of thy Tragick stageInuite the curious pompe-expecting eies,
To gaze on present shewes of passed age,
Which iust desert Monarchick dare baptize.
Crownes throwne from Thrones to tombes, detomb'd arise
To match thy Muse with a Monarchick theame;
That whilst her sacred soaring cuts the skies,
A vulgar subiect may not wrong the same:
And which giues most aduantage to thy fame;
The worthiest Monarch that the Sunne can see,
Doth grace thy labours with his glorious Name,
And daignes Protector of thy birth to be:
Thus all Monarchick, Patron, subiect, stile,
Make thee, the Monarch-tragick of this Ile.
Robert Ayton.
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