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<HEAD><HI>LAETITIAE CALEDONICAE,</HI> OR, SCOTLANDS Raptures, Upon the thri&s;e happy Return of Her Sacred Soveraign <HI>CHARLES</HI> the Second, Monarch of Great Britain, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
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<L>WHat Poeta&s;ter bold dare undertake,</L>
<L>An Embleme of my mirth in rime to make?</L>
<L>The tongues of Men and Angels, &s;hould but wrong</L>
<L>This Theam, &s;o far tran&s;cending any Song:</L>
<L>My Loyalty likewi&s;e it would Eclip&s;e,</L>
<L>If't were definable by humane lips.</L>
<L>Old <HI>Maro</HI> &s;ure would blu&s;h, if he were here,</L>
<L>And gall'd with this di&s;a&s;ter, &s;hed a tear;</L>
<L>His &s;oaring quill, which many Triumphs wrot,</L>
<L>Should in defining this, its Triumphs blot:</L>
<L><HI>Parna&s;&s;us</HI> Nymphs al&s;o, I dare be bound,</L>
<L>Would cur&s;e their native Soil, for barren ground,</L>
<L>That di&s;proportion va&s;t when they &s;hould &s;ee,</L>
<L>'Twixt their be&s;t notions, and this exta&s;ie.</L>
<L>How then &s;hall <HI>Caledon,</HI> her &s;en&s;e expre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Of this unuterable happine&s;&s;e?</L>
<L>This ble&s;t Arrivall of her Soveraign brings</L>
<L>That true <HI>Vice-gerent</HI> of the King of Kings;</L>
<L>Shal't be with flying cups? O that's hot fit!</L>
<L>His Sacred MAJESTY prohibits it.</L>
<L>Shal't be with ranting &s;waggering bravado's,</L>
<L>We will do wonders 'gain&s;t his foes Armado's?</L>
<L>This neither will &s;uffice, him&s;elf can tell,</L>
<L>This is the Dialect 'bout <HI>Bacchus</HI> Well.</L>
<L>Shall we renewing Covenants, engage,</L>
<L>His Per&s;on to defend, and Royall badge?</L>
<L>No He'll ne'r tru&s;t's thee more; (and who can blame him?)</L>
<L>Nor Tongue, nor Hand, that &s;top't e're to di&s;claim him:</L>
<L>What then &s;hall our deportment be, and how,</L>
<L>Shall we do homage to that Sacred brow?</L>
<L>That brow! who&s;e &s;weet appearance hath undone</L>
<L>Tho&s;e mi&s;eries, our follies had begun:</L>
<L>Ev'n this; each Loyall Heart &s;hall undertake,</L>
<L>With re&s;olution, recompence to make,</L>
<L>By &s;trong endeavours, never to back-&s;lide</L>
<L>Into the&s;e principles, did us divide</L>
<L>From our Alleageance, &s;hun equivocations</L>
<L>As Popi&s;h practices , to cru&s;h the Nations.</L>
<L>Each &s;parkle of rebellion let us &s;moother,</L>
<L>And to that purpo&s;e &s;trengthen one another:</L>
<L>Each Overture that's made, before 't's appointed</L>
<L>Let's ponder well, let not the Lord's Anointed</L>
<L>Get any prejudice from what we do,</L>
<L>Give him that right the Scripture doth allow.</L>
<L>This will as in one Atome us unite,</L>
<L>And to commend us, forraign Pens invite:</L>
<L>This will the Moderns move aloud to prai&s;e us,</L>
<L>And our Po&s;terities &s;hall Trophees rai&s;e us,</L>
<L>With this In&s;cription, <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed be our Sires,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Their Countreys honour bounded their de&s;ires;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who&s;e &s;ouls expiring, Loyally did &s;ing</HI></L>
<L><HI>With firme Devotion, long may our Soveraign Raign.</HI></L>
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