A nursery of novelties in Variety of Poetry Planted for the delightful leisures of Nobility and Ingenuity. Composed by Tho. Jordan |
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Continuation of the Induction.
The wary General whose Art did lyeMuch in the soul of business, secresie,
Was so obscure in all his postures we
Could not discover his dark Loyalty;
So silent was his tongue, secret his face,
We could by neither finde he did embrace
Our royal hints; but when the upshot came,
Swifter then powder, put into a flame,
Through an obscuring Cloud before he speaks,
Even as a hand Granado e're it breaks,
He fir'd us all, for (with a true consent)
The Kingdom calls a full Free Parliament,
That he by lawful consequence might bring
The suffering Sovereignty of our Dread King
Home to his glories, which no time could do
But this, 'cause Providence would have it so:
And now the Scene is chang'd, for what before
The people did so hatefully abhor,
They heartily embrace: no other thing
Can prove so great a Cordial as the King:
Nothing but He can cure 'm, for the Devil
Had over-run the Land with the Kings Evil.
Now he's Proclaim'd the Bells joyfully ring,
The Bonfires blaze, all cry, God save the King;
'Twill make all Ages study and admire on't,
Him whom they call'd the Son of the late Tyrant,
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(To heal their Wounds) the Balm of Gilead,
But in King Charles; whole Troops of glitt'ring Men
Contend by thousands who shall fetch him in:
The City sends forth acclamations high,
No Prayers are made but for his Majesty.
Thus do they guard him to Whitehall, where we
Will pray for him and his Posterity,
That when the worst of State-Distempers spring,
We may be cur'd by praying for the King.
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