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THE WELCOME TO THE KING.
Come tryumph, enter church, court, citty, towne,Heere James the sixt, now James the first, proclaymed,
See how all harts ar heald, that erst wer maymed,
The peere is pleasd, the knight, the clarck, the clowne.
The mark at which the malecontent had aymed,
Is mist succession stablisht in the crowne,
Joy protestant, papist be now reclaymed.
Leave, puritan, your supercillious frowne,
Joyn voice, hart, hand, all discord be disclaymed.
Be all one flock, by one great sheppard guided:
No forren wolf can force a fould so fenced,
God for his house a Steward hath provided
Right to dispose what erst was wrong dispenced,
But with a loyall love and long præpenced,
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To conster I am—es primus et non vi.
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