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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>TO The Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, AND THE LORDS and COMMONS A&s;&s;embled in this pre&s;ent PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The mo&s;t humble SUPPLICATION of all tho&s;e Commi&s;&s;ion-Officers, &amp;c. that have faithfully and con&s;tantly Served and Suffered for Your Maje&s;ty's Royal Father of ever ble&s;&s;ed memory, and Your mo&s;t Sacred Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly &s;heweth, That</OPENER>
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<L>NOr Honour, Power, Place, Preheminence</L>
<L>We &s;eek above our Sovereign's gratious Sence;</L>
<L>But in di&s;honour to lie down and die</L>
<L>Pris'ners, or &s;terved, is the thing we flye.</L>
<L>Now we have &s;pent the prime of all our Youth</L>
<L>To &s;erve our Prince, and to adhere to Truth,</L>
<L>'T were hard we &s;hould be forc'd to find new Fates,</L>
<L>For&s;ake our Countrey to &s;erve other States</L>
<L>For meer Nece&s;&s;ity; this, this would touch</L>
<L>Your Honours neerly, and our Comforts much.</L>
<L><HI>Sirach</HI>'s wi&s;e Son affirms, it was his Grief,</L>
<L>To &s;ee a Man of War to want Relief.</L>
<L>Our ble&s;&s;ed Saviours words are very plain,</L>
<L><HI>Tho&s;e &s;hall, that &s;uffer with me, with me Reign.</HI></L>
<L>And the &s;ame word puts in this perfect barr,</L>
<L>At his own private charge none goes to War.</L>
<L>We would prevent our Ruine, and no more;</L>
<L>We &s;trive not to be rich, not to be poor,</L>
<L>A competent &s;ub&s;i&s;t for each degree</L>
<L>Is all we a&s;k, and that which cannot be</L>
<L>We think deni'd us; for our Con&s;tancy</L>
<L>Did &s;erve as well the Church, and rais'd as high</L>
<L>The Kingdom's as the King's Pro&s;perity.</L>
<L>Then &s;ince it was the whole we lov'd and &s;erv'd,</L>
<L>We have in love, and honor, well de&s;erv'd</L>
<L>From all, and every part, and humbly hope</L>
<L>All Intere&s;ts will give us &s;uch a &s;cope</L>
<L>In our Addre&s;&s;es, that without offence,</L>
<L>We may Addre&s;&s;e to all, and all di&s;pence</L>
<L>Proportionable parts for our relief,</L>
<L>To take a way your &s;hame, their &s;corn, our grief.</L>
<L>You &s;ee we'ave waited patiently almo&s;t</L>
<L>As many moneths &s;ince God hath ble&s;t our Coa&s;t;</L>
<L>With our dear Sovereigns pre&s;ence, as before,</L>
<L>We &s;uffer'd years in Captiv'd &s;tate, nay, more:</L>
<L>Nor gentle have our &s;ufferings been, yet we</L>
<L>Have borne it all humbly and patiently.</L>
<L>Now <HI>Royall Maje&s;ty,</HI> mo&s;t <HI>Noble Lords,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Faithfull Commons</HI> we addre&s;&s;e our words,</L>
<L>Directly to you, and do Supplicate</L>
<L>A rem'dy for our yet unhappy State.</L>
<L>You that &s;o nobly have di&s;charged tho&s;e</L>
<L>That proved Civil in the later clo&s;e,</L>
<L>You that have paid the Navy and the Army,</L>
<L>(Wi&s;ely preventing they no more &s;hould harm ye)</L>
<L>And have (to pre&s;erve peace) declar'd that all</L>
<L>(Not after erring) &s;hall become equal.</L>
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<L><HI>Then make us &s;o, in being at lea&s;t &s;o ble&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>In your ju&s;t bounty, as were all the re&s;t.</HI></L>
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<CLOSER>And we &s;hall make our Hemi&s;phere to ring. (In gratefulle&s;t re&s;ounds) <HI>God &s;ave the King.</HI></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>R. D.</HI> 1661.</P>
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