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Vpon the anniuersary day of the Princes return October the fifth.
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Vpon the anniuersary day of the Princes return October the fifth.
We now admire their doctrine, who maintainThe Worlds creation vnder Autumnes reign,
VVhen trees abound in fruit, Grapes swell with iuice,
These meates are ready for the creatures vse:
Old Time resolues to make a new suruay
Of yeeres and ages from this happy day,
Refusing those accounts which others bring,
He crownes October, as of moneths the King.
No more shall hoary VVinter claime the place,
And draw cold proofes from Ianus double face;
Nor shall the Ram, when Spring the earth adornes,
Vnlocke the gate of heau'n with golden hornes:
Dry Summer shall not of the Dog-starre boast
(Of angry constellations honour'd most,)
From whose strong heate Egyptians still begun,
To marke the turning circle of the Sunne.
Ueriumnus, who hath Lordly power to change
The Seasons, and can them in order range,
Will from this Period fresh beginning take,
Yet not so much for his Pomonaes sake,
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And with her Orchards treasure deckes her browes.
It is our Charles, whose euer loued name,
Hath made this point of heau'n increase in fame:
VVhose long-thought absence was so much deplor'd,
In whom our hopes and all our fruits are stor'd.
He now attaines the shore (O blessed day)
And true Achates waites along his way,
Our wise Anchises for his sonne prouides
This chosen seruant, as the best of guides.
A Princes glory cannot more depend
Vpon his Crowne, then on a faithfull friend.
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