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XXXV. To King James.
Who would not be thy subject James, t'obayA Prince, that rules by'example, more than sway?
Whose manners draw, more than thy powers constraine.
And in this short time of thy happiest raigne,
Hast purg'd thy Realmes, as we have now no cause
Left us of feare, but first our crimes, then lawes.
Like aydes 'gainst treasons who hath found before?
And then in them, how could we know God more?
First thou preserved wert, our King to bee,
And since, the whole Land was preserv'd for thee.
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