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[O Royal Phœbus keepe this course for ever]
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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

THE KINGS MAIESTIE CAME TO PAISLEY THE XXIIII OF JULY Where in the Earle of Abercorne his great Hall was verie gratiouslie deliuered by a prettie boy of 9 yeeres age Williame Semple sone to Sir James Semple of Beltrics this Welcome following.


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O Royal Phœbus keepe this course for ever,
And from thy deare Britannia never sever,
But if the Fates will rather frame it so
That Phœbus now must come, and then must goe,
Long may thy selfe; Thy race mot ever ring
Thus, without end: vvee end. God Save our KING.
Amen.