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Comedies, Tragi-comedies, With other Poems

by Mr William Cartwright ... The Ayres and Songs set by Mr Henry Lawes

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To the Queen after her dangerous Delivery. 1638.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

To the Queen after her dangerous Delivery. 1638.

Though we could wish your Issue so Throng'd stood
That all the Court were but one Royall Bloud;
Though Your young Jewels be of so much Cost
That Your least spark of Light must not be lost,
But when t' Your Burthens Heaven not permits
Quiet, as husht as when the Halcyon sits,
And that y'are thought so stored that you may spare
Some Glories and allow blest Saints a share;
Contentedly we suffer such a Cross,
To endear the Tablet by a Copies Loss;
And (as in Urgent Tempests 'tis a taught
Thrift to redeem the Vessell with the Fraught)
We do half willing with the Elixar part
To keep th' Ælembick safe for future Art;

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Our Treasure thus is shared by the Birth,
Half unto Heaven, th' other half to Earth.
Came your Escape as Issue then, whiles we
Receive your safety as new Progeny:
Be you from henceforth to us a new Vow,
By Vertues dear before, by danger now;
Well Giv'n, and yet no narrowness of Thrift,
VVhat he is great, may be a second Gift;
Thus when the best Act's done, There doth remain
This only to perform that Act again.
See how your Great Just Consort bears the Cross,
Your safeties Gain makes him ore-see the loss;
So that although this Cloud stand at the door,
His Great Designs go on as still before:
Thus Stout Horatius being ready now
To dedicate a Temple, and by Vow
Settle Religion to his God, although
'Twas told his Child was dead, would not let go
The Post o'th' Temple, but unmov'd alone,
Bid them take Care o'th' Funerall, and went on.