Poems on Affairs of State

[Volume I.] From the time of Oliver Cromwell to the Abdication of K. James the Second.

II.

Vol. II. From The Reign of K. James the First, To this Present Year 1703.

III.

VOL. III. From the Year 1640. to the Year 1704.

IV.

VOL. IV. From 1620. to this present Year 1707.

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The Answer.

'Tis well you've thought upon the chiefest Cause,
Change nothing of Religion nor the Laws.
Let the great Monarch this good Motto wear,
Not only in his Arms but every where.
Integer Vitæ, is my whole Defence,
Scelerisque purus, a frost strong defence;
Non egec Mauri, that no Forces need,
Jaculis nec Arcu, which contentions breed:
Nec venenatis gravida Sagittis
Pharetra, to make Loyal his own Cities.

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The Answer.