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A55242
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A poem on and to Her Gracious Majesty upon the day of her happy coronation by one of Her Majesties servants.
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One of Her Majesties servants.
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1685
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Wing P2683; ESTC R5635
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A POEM On and To Her Gracious Majesty Upon the Day of Her Happy CORONATION By one of Her Majesties Servants Printed by Nathaniel Thompson at the Entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden near Charing-Cross MDCLXXXV A POEM On and To Her Gracious Majesty Upon the Day of Her Happy CORONATION IN humble Verse we Hearts and Pens imploy To shew the Realm its King 's and Kingdom 's Joy A QUEEN Belov'd by all so Good and Great In every thing so Charmingly Compleat That 't would to England be no shame to own She gives to day more Lustre to Her Crown Than It gives Her because Her Worth alone Has Title to an Everlasting one This makes Her Princely Pious Soul as well As Her Majestick Person here Excell And checks Presumptuous Pens that dare pretend To praise what God can only Right commend Wherefore if thou my Muse dar'st not be seen In setting forth the Glories of thy QUEEN Ask but Her Virtues They will not deny What Merits do attend her Majesty Since Person Wit and Beauty can from none Receive such Praise as from themselves alone Remit those Wonders to His Royal Breast Who reaps their Fruits and knows to prize them best Thy Trembling Pen must dare but to set forth Such common known Attractives of Her Worth As may in Loyal Hearts this day create Legal Ambition them to imitate That Vertue Faith on which she built the rest Her Loyal both to God and King exprest In Banishment 't was Her Belief in God That made Her Kiss the Persecuting Rod Yet in defence of Her Religious Faith Sh' appeas'd the King's and wav'd the Peoples wrath And being with Her Gods Decrees content She Calm'd a Mis-informed Parliament On satisfaction now at Meeting bent Her Hope shines in Her Works and they make known Her Care and Zeal for an Immortal Crown Which She from boundless Bounty more expects For doing well than having no Defects For should we say to Bliss Sh 'as no pretence But on the known account of Innocence Where is to God the Nation 's Gratitude For those Perfections to its Queen allow'd Where is our leave those Merits to admire Which scarce can raise in us Her value higher Shall we drown all the Glories of Her Name Her Birth and Courage Wisdom Zeal and Fame In that dull praise She never was too Blame 'T is far more Just to say There is no Good With which She has not Grac'd the Royal Blood For when in Health Her Majesty is well She does in what our Hearts can wish Excel Nor can we justly bid her mend unless We beg She 'll for our sakes her Self Caress And England by her Preservation Bless Yet may She mend that subtile Pious Pride Which does with too much Skill her Virtues hide And keeps those Excellencies out of sight Which robs the rising Nation of its Right For 't is our due to know and hear and see Th' Examples that still most Attractive be And where be Works more worth our practice seen Than in the Saint-like Carriage of our Queen Which must not be to Vulgar Eyes deny'd In complaisence to that Religious Pride Which will have God alone be Glorifi'd ' Cause Holy History us oft acquaints God will be Prais'd and Honour'd in his Saints Then own Great Saint that bounty of thy Lord Which gives Thee Grace such Graces to afford As breed in all thy Sex a sacred Strife To regulate their Works by thy Good Life Let briskly Noted Evidence confute Them who ' gainst thy Humility dispute VVho have seen height by Thee so sweetly check't VVith wise submission and discreet neglect That thou Great Queen without design or fault Didst 'bove Ambition thy Blest self exalt And so remain'd by wond'ring Eyes admir'd 'Till all the Hearts with Love about thee fir'd And wish'd the Heat of their Respectful Flames Might warm Thee in the Breast of thy Great James VVhere thy Good Life will have as strong Defence As on our Souls a Holy Influence Be then less secret in Thy Sacred Life Since th' Realm begin's to relish such Blest Strife As renders us Contentious but to be In some sort Good Great Patroness like Thee VVho will Thy Bounty to the People plead Have as much VVitness as have been in need To God and his so Liberal is Thy Love Thou think'st thy wealth best spent when lodg'd above Patience and Pity in Thy Breast contend To put to ev'ry Grievance such an end As does the least of Merit still Be-friend Then venture to expose those Virtues which Do in Thy Life this Happy Land Enrich View view Their Pow'r and how Divine's their Skill VVhat Good they bid we dare not but fulfill If Thy Devout and Awful Charms appear They make us all the kinds of Evil fear 'T is strange Thou should'st th' Seditious Charm with Peace Making their Comforts grow their Griefs Decrease And yet ' mongst greatest Virtues breed contest VVhich of them all Thy Life has practic'd best Nor can there ought correct this Pious pother But to let one great Act out-do another Till Immense Bounty undertakes the task To give that great Reward Thy Virtues ask VVhich being nothing less than Him who gave That worth by which Thou do'st the world out-brave Let Heaven help Us Mortals to requite Thy Goodness then possess Thy sole Delight That Jesus and his Mary may Unite FINIS