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<DATE>2009-01-03</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B081164.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A RAPTURE <HI>&V;pon the Report of Her</HI> Royal Highne&s;s <HI>being with</HI> Quick-Child.</HEAD>
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<L>BLe&s;s Heavens, and &s;ay; Our Wi&s;hes and our Prayers,</L>
<L>Have peirc'd the Skies, and now th' <HI>Almighty</HI> &s;quares</L>
<L>Out luckie <HI>Omens,</HI> to our blooming Hopes.</L>
<L><HI>With Child,</HI> and <HI>Quick!</HI> The very words even dropes</L>
<L>Us Peace, and Bli&s;s. Go fond-prophetick Feares,</L>
<L>Of idle, or more wi&s;hful Pates; Lo here Heaven reares</L>
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<L>Fre&s;h Props (and &s;ea&s;onablie) for the Throne</L>
<L>Let the <HI>Di&s;quieters</HI> of <HI>CHARLES</HI> begone,</L>
<L>Since <HI>JAME'S Young-Han&s;e</HI> may Rebels think upon</L>
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<L>Then Factious-Buzlers, fear the Time may come,</L>
<L>When th' <HI>&V;n&s;een-Blew-Cap</HI> pays your Trea&s;ons home:</L>
<L>For who will needs the <HI>&V;ncle</HI> &s;till Di&s;turb,</L>
<L>May find a <HI>Nephew,</HI> who their <HI>Oy's</HI> may Curb.</L>
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<L>Mean while <HI>GREAT PRINCESS,</HI> may the happy <HI>Babe</HI></L>
<L>Breathe, Live, and Grow, within the &s;ecret Shade,</L>
<L>Of Your &s;weet Royal Self, until Your Wombe,</L>
<L>Shall bel&s;s the pre&s;ent Age, with <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> come.</L>
<L>And that Old <HI>SCOTLAND</HI> may (as twice before)</L>
<L>A <HI>Monarch</HI> Nur&s;e for <HI>Britain</HI> yet once more,</L>
<L>Let <HI>Scot&s;men</HI> Pray, the Fruit Dame Nature brings,</L>
<L>May prove a <HI>Man,</HI> to this their Land of <HI>Kings:</HI></L>
<L>Howe're, Wee'll Joy; For who this year's a Mother</L>
<L>Unto a <HI>La&s;s,</HI> may bear a <HI>Lad</HI> the other.</L>
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