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The devovt hart or royal throne of the pacifical Salomon

Composed by F. St. Luzvic S. I. Translated out of Latin into English. Enlarged with Incentiues by F. St. Binet of the same S. and now enriched with Hymnes by a new hand [by Henry Hawkins]

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IESVS RVLES AND REIGNES IN THE louing & deuout hart.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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IESVS RVLES AND REIGNES IN THE louing & deuout hart.

The Hymne.

O mightie Soueraigne, if you please,
To deigne a looke & view our seas;
Where harts like ships with wind & tide
Are sayling; some at anker ride,
Some with waues and boystrous windes
Tost to & fro; 'mongst them you find
My floating hart, with euery blast
Of greife or of affliction past,
As 'twere immersed with in the maine.
But yet, Greate Monarch, if you deigne
To be my Neptune, or to guide
The sterne of my poore hart, beside
The surges flying ore my decks,
Reigne in my hart, let Hel play reks.