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Vpon the Birth of the Kings sixth Child. 1640.

Great Mint of Beauties,

Though all your Royall Burthens should come forth
Discharg'd by Emanation, not by Birth;
Though you could so prove Mother as the Soul
VVhen it doth most conceive without Controule;
Though Princes should so frequent from you flow
That we might thence say Sun-Beams issue slow;

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Nay though those Royal Plants as oft should spring
From you as great Examples from your King,
None would repine or murmur 'Midst such store,
Think the Thrones blessing made the Kingdom poor;
Graines, which are singly rich, become not Cheap
Because th'are many: such grow from the Heap
Where five would each for Number pass alone,
The Sixth Comes Their Improvement and its Own.
We see the Brothers Vertues, growing ripe
By just degrees, aspire to their great Type;
We see the Father thrive in them, and find
W'have Heires, as to his Throne, so to his Mind;
This makes us call for more: The Parents Bloud
Is great security they will be Good.

And these your Constant Tributes to the State
Might make us stand up high, and trample Fate;
We might grow Bold from Conscience of just Good—
Had it the Fortune to be understood;
But some that would see, dazzled with much Light,
View only that which doth confound their Sight:
Others dark by design, do veyl their Eyes,
For fear by their own fault they should grow wise,
And what they cannot miss, by chance should find,
In Justice is what Justice should be, blind.
Yet our great Guide, Careless of Common Voice,
As good by Nature, rather than by Choice,
Sheds the same fruitfull Influence still on all,
As Constant Show'rs on thankless Desarts fall:
And like the unmov'd Rock, though it doth hear
The Murmurs of Rude Waves, whose rage breaks there;
He still gives living Gems, and doth present
To Froward Nations Wealth and Ornament:
Some Stones there are whose Colours do betray
The face of Heaven, and that Scene of Day

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That Nature Shap'd them in, and thence came forth
Themselves th' Ingenious Records of their Birth.
May then this Pearl (Great Queen) now bred from You,
Congeal'd and fash'on'd of more Heavenly Dew,
Shew forth the Temper of the present State,
And himself be to his own Birth the Date:
That as the solemn Trumpet's publike Blast
At the same time proclaim'd both War and Fast,
He may devoutly valiant praying stand,
As th'Ancient Heroes, with a Spear in's Hand:
And mixing Vows and Fights in one Consent,
Divide himself between the Church and Tent.
But if he be by milder Influence born,
The Son of Peace; The Rose without a Thorne;
What once his Grandsires ripe Designs did boast,
And now his Serious Father labours most,
He as a Pledge sent to both Nations, do;
And Cement Kingdoms now again call'd Two.