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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CHARLES, Of that Name The First, And II. Monarch of the whole Iland of GREAT BRITAINE. KING of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Gods immediate VICEGERENT, Supreame Head, &c.
Illustrious Off-spring of most glorious Stems,
Our happy hope, our Royall Charles the great,
Sucessiue Heyre to foure Rich Diadems,
With gifts of Grace, and Learning high repleat.
For thee th'Almighties ayd I doe intreate,
To guide and prosper thy proceedings still,
That long thou maist suruiue a Prince compleat,
To guard the good, and to subuert the ill.
And when (by Gods determin'd boundlesse will)
Thy mortall part shall made immortall be,
Then let thy liuing Fame the world full fill,
In blessed famous memory of thee,
And all true Britaines pray to God aboue,
To match thy life and fortune with their loue.
Our happy hope, our Royall Charles the great,
Sucessiue Heyre to foure Rich Diadems,
With gifts of Grace, and Learning high repleat.
For thee th'Almighties ayd I doe intreate,
To guide and prosper thy proceedings still,
That long thou maist suruiue a Prince compleat,
To guard the good, and to subuert the ill.
And when (by Gods determin'd boundlesse will)
Thy mortall part shall made immortall be,
Then let thy liuing Fame the world full fill,
In blessed famous memory of thee,
And all true Britaines pray to God aboue,
To match thy life and fortune with their loue.
Charles Stewarte Marie Anagramma. Christ Arme vs Euer AT AL,
Though feinds and men, to hurt vs should endeuer,(Against their force) AT AL, CHRIST ARMEVS EVER.
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