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Flamma sine Fumo

or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns]

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Upon the return of our most illustrious King Charls the second from Flanders to England.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Upon the return of our most illustrious King Charls the second from Flanders to England.

Welcome bright Starre, the prodrome of the day,
With whom the Sun of glory shall display
His golden banners, and restore the Light
Of truth eclipst by an erroneous night:

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He liv'd in exile long, and Flanders then
Was th' Eagles neast, or the true Lions den:
He past a Sea of troubles; and each wave
Of grief he flatted with a soul more brave.
To meet their King, the people ran so fast,
As if each one disdain'd to be the last.
Such plenteous tears of joy flow'd every where,
That some in England did a deluge feare;
They did such piles of wood in London burn,
That many thought it would to Ilion turn;
Those fires are ended, but the flames of love
Unto our King shall everlasting prove:
Long live King Charles, so long, ti'l wisemen see
His years as many as his vertues be.
Then he'le outlive old Nestor, whose glasse ran
Before 'twas spent through the third age of man.