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Pleasant dialogues and dramma's

selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. ... By Tho. Heywood

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A Prologue spoke before the King, when her Majesty was great with child.
  
  
  
  
  
  
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A Prologue spoke before the King, when her Majesty was great with child.

Health, joy, peace, plenty, and a flourishing state,
A dexter omen; an auspitious fate,
Attend you ever, like Hiperion shine
In his meridian, never to decline.
And may your royall Cynthia who hath run
Sixe annuall courses with you, and begun,
Now on the seventh, who to your Kingdomes Cheere
And your great joy, at this time fills her sphere,
In a most hopefull plenitude: so waine
After blest issue, that your glorious raigne,
May see your Sonnes Sonnes Princes of such name,
That the whole world may eccho to their fame.
From her chast wombe may such faire daughters spring,
That each may prove the consort to a King.
And both survive to see't: this we intreat
May come from her who is so good, so great.

The Epilogue.

Those heavenly Guardians that with patents large,
Have in tuition Kings and Kingdomes charge,
Protect you both, that as we daily see
Nations, that farre remote and forraigne be
Send hither as to an Oracle to know,
What's for their safety best: you may still grow
In wisedome and in power, till your command
May extend it selfe so farre by Sea and Land,
That through the Christian world it may be said,
All begge of Charles, but he needs no mans ayd.