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The Kings prophecie: or VVeeping ioy Expressed in a poeme, to the honor of Englands too great solemnities. Ios. Hall.
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Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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giues life to all and all exceeds He sets his princely Image in his steed 26. His liuely Image in whose awfull face Appeare deepe stamps of dreadfull maiestie Whose glorious beames from his diuiner grace Dazle the weake and dim the bolder eye Mercie sits on his brow and in his brest Vnder his Lions paw doth courage rest 27. Deepe wisedome doth adorne his princely head Iustice his hand his lips graue Eloquence And that which seld in Princes brest is bred The Princes greatest praise and best defence Purest religion hath his heart possest O Iland more then fortunate and blest 28. Heauens chiefest care Earth's second Paradise Wonder of Times chiefe boast of Natures stile Enuy of Nations president of blisse Mistresse of Kingdomes Monarch of all Iles World of this world heauen of earth no lesse Can serue to shadow out thine happinesse 29. Thou art the worlds sole glory he is thine Frō him thy praise is fetcht the worlds frō thee His from aboue So the more famous bene His rarest graces more thy fame shall bee The more thy fame growes on the fairer shew His heauenly worth shal make to forraign view 30. Like when by night amids the clensed skie The Suns faire sister by her louely rayes Gathers a circled Halo vp on hie Of kindly vapours that her spouse did raise Shee thus inclos'd in her cleare ouall round Doubles her light vnto the gazing ground 31. But for the onely bane of blessed state Is ignorance of blisse let mee deare Dread For thy diuiner Oracles relate The sum of those sweet hopes that long haue fed Thy liegest Nation Pardon thou the while Mine high attempt harsh verse and ruder stile 32. And yet thrise happy mates whō that great king Endowes with equall peace so more his raigne Aboue your hopes eternall comfort bring To your late Nephewes race as ye may daigne Credulous eares to my Prophetick lines Truer thē those were fetcht frō Delphick shrines 33. He that giues crownes as crowns frō heau'n are sent Not since the day that Ishay's yongest son Rose from the fold hath euer yet besprent With the sweet oyle of sacred vnction An holyer head then that this present day The weight of Englands roial crown doth sway 34. Nor can his subjects more him feare or loue Loyall their loue and lowly is their feare Then he shall loue and feare his King aboue Whose name place Image Scepter he doth bear Religions spring Autumne of Heresie Winter of Atheisme his raigne shall bee 35. And thou great Rome that to the Martian plaine Long since didst lowly stoope and leaue for lore Thy loftie seate of Hils shalt once againe Creepe lower to the shade of Tybers shore Yet lower shall his Arme thy ruines fell Downe from thy Tyber into lowest Hell 36. Not number shall but weight his lawes cōmend Which wisely made shall iustly be maintain'd His gentle brows shal first seuerely bend And lowre at vice whose course eftsoones restraind They smooth shal wax again mixing by mesure Ounces of grace with drams of iust displeasure 37. So haue I seene a Morne of chearefull May Orecast with clouds to threatē sormfull stoures Which yet ere Noone hath prou'd the clearest day Whiles brighter morns haue broght vs euening shoures His frownes shall fright the ill his mercious cic Shall raise the humble soule of Modestie 38. The treble mischiefe that was wont infest Our holy state ah me what state can misse Some staine of natiue ill shall be redrest By timely care and now shall fairely rise The noble name of our diuiner trade From out the dust wherein it long hath laid 39. Longlay it in the dust of wrong disdaine Expos'd to euery rascall Pesants spight O times but now were best my rage containe Vntill I mought a second Satyre write But ah fond threat as if these mended daies Would once deserue the brand of my dispraise 40. Nor shall the Lordly Peeres once ouerlooke Their humble vassals dwelling all below Like as we see some large out-spreading Oke Ore-drop the silly shrubs that vnder grow Nor noble bloud shall want true honors fee Whiles it shall light on Groomes of low degree 41. Nor now the greedy Merchant that for gaine Sailes to both Poles sounds both Indian seas Whe his long beaten bark from forth the maine Vnlades her weary fraight shall as he please Raise by excessiue rate his priuate store And to enrich himselfe make thousands poore 42. Vnder the safer shadow of his wing Shall exilde Aliens shroud their restlesse head And here alone shall forced exile bring Better contentment to the banished Then home-smelt smoke O I land kind free In fauouring those that once befrended thee 43. And for the Princes eye doth life inspire To loyall brests like as the vernall sunne Cheares the reuiued earth with friendly fires That lustles lies when those hote rayes are gone Oft shall his presence blesse our hungry eyes To our Horizon oft this sunne shall rise 44. For ere the worlds great lamp shal thrise decline Into his Southern spherc and thrise retyre Vp to the turning of his Northern line Our second Sunne shall in his earthly gyre Turn once to al the realms his light doth guide And yet obserue his yearly race beside 45. Then shall my Suffolke Englands Eden hight As England is the worlds be ouer blest And surfet of the ioy of that deare sight Whose pleasing hope their harts so long possest Which his great Name did with such triumph greet When erst it loudly ecchoed in our street 46. And thou renowmed Drury mongst the rest Aboue the rest whether thee still detaine The snowy Alpes or if thou thoughtest it best To trust thy speed vnto the watery playne Shalt him receiue he thee with such sweet grace As may beseeme thy worth and noble race 47. The yron doores of Ianus by his hand Shall fast be bard vnlesse some hostile might If any hostile might dares him withstand Shall break those bars and boldly shall excite Our sleeping Lyon who but once awoke Woe to the wight that did his wrath prouoke 48. Wise and not wrongfull Stratagems shall speed His justest warre and straiter discipline Shal guide the war like troupes himself shal lead To doubtfull field O let the shield diuine Protect my Lieges head and from on hie Let it be girt with crownes of victorie 49. His frequent Court yet feare I to fore-saine Too much of Princes courts which ages past Haue long since noted with the secret staine Of wanton daliance and luxurious wast His Court shall be a church of Saints quite free From silth excesse and seruile flattery 50. Hence ye false Parasites whose only guise Is feeding Princes eares with wrongful praises And euer who mought hope to honor rise By what large bribes their leuder brocage raises The Courtiers onely grace shal henceforth lie In learning wisedome valour honestie 51. O Court fit for thy King and like to none But heauens Court where nought impure may bide Like as thy King resembleth God alone For such on earth were vaine to seeke beside Well might I here his vertues rolle rehearse But them his life speakes better then my verse 52. Yet let me not thy learned Muse omit The onely credit of our scorned skill Redoubted Liege whose rarely polisht writ Sauors of long sleep in that sacred hill Looke that the Muses all shall once agree As thou hast honor'd them to honor thee Caesar Pompey Lanc. Yorke 〈◊〉 March 25. Virgils fourth Egloge translated and applyed to the birth of Hen. the prince Britaine compared with the olde Paradise 1 1 Riuers of Paradise 2 2 Word and Sacram The sum of Bazil Doron drawne in forme of prophecy into verse