Times Cvrtaine Drawne or The Anatomie of Vanitie. With other choice poems, Entituled; Health from Helicon. By Richard Brathwayte |
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A PRAYER TO THE HIGH COVRT OF HEAVEN, FOR the high Court of Parliament now assembled:
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A PRAYER TO THE HIGH COVRT OF HEAVEN, FOR the high Court of Parliament now assembled:
that their Councells and Consultations may bee so directed, As Gods glory may be advanced, and vnitie in Church and Common-wealth established.
Lord what am I that I should speake to thee,Or what art thou to bow thine eare to mee
That am but dust? Lord heare not as I am,
A sinne-conceived and polluted man,
But for thy Christ, who to redeeme his sheepe,
Did seeking finde, and till He found did seeke
His wandring Lambkins; heare what I doe pray,
“Who art the Pilgrimes staffe, the Shepherds stay.
Giue Lord. O giue to all that doe professe
Thy glorious name and Gospell, quietnesse,
Defeate the malice of thy Syons foes,
But specially (good God) th'attempts of those
Who wish with all their heart to prey vpon
This little Eden, flowrie Albyon;
It is thy hedged garden, water it,
As to thy sacred wisedome shall seeme fit;
Vnto thy glory (Lord) and Syons peace,
That ravenous Wolfe or subtill Fox nere may
Breake in by force and steale her Grapes away.
And for as much Confusion needes must breede
Where members doe subsist without a heade,
Blesse our Drad Soueraigne, Lord, blesse him, that He
Both in himselfe and his Posteritie,
May stere, support, and guide the sterne of State,
That Others eying vs, may wonder at
The blessed peace and freedome we obtaine
Vnder so wise and good a Soueraigne.
And may Hee ever haue one of his owne
(if't be thy pleasure) to sit on this Throne,
This peacefull Ile to solace and secure,
So long as Sunne or Moone shall ere endure.
Blesse the most prudent Councell of this Land,
Lord in their Consultations haue a hand;
May Thou and they in Iudgement still consent,
But specially th'High house of Parlament,
Which by thy will and prouidence divine,
To right the State, 's assembled at this time.
Lord be amongst them, that whats'ere they doome,
May be to th'Weale and Peace of Christendome.
May popular Opinion never draw them,
May loue to God and Good-men over aw them:
May all their Acts bee a continued Story,
To further and advance thy sacred glory:
May Prince be pleas'd, State eas'd, and men with men
Liue here in Loue, and rest in peace: Amen.
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