All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author [i.e. John Taylor]: With sundry new Additions, corrected, reuised, and newly Imprinted |
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IAMES, Of that Name The First, And I. Monarch of the whole Iland of Great Britaine, &c.
VVere all the flatt'ry of the world in me,Great King of hearts & Arts, great Britaines King
Yet all that flattery could not flatter thee:
Or adde to thy renowne the smallest thing.
My Muse (with truth and freedome) dares to sing,
Thou wert a Monarch lou'd of God and Men.
Two famous Kingdomes thou to one didst bring,
And gau'st lost Britaines name her name agen.
Thou causedst Doctors with their learned pen,
The sacred Bible newly to translate.
Thy wisdome found the damned powder'd Den,
That hell had hatcht to ouerthrow thy state.
And all the world thy Motto must allow,
The peace makers are blest; and so art thou.
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