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<HEAD>On His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Gracious and Prudent Delivery of the Great <HI>Seal</HI> of <HI>England</HI> to the Right Honourable Sir HENEAGE FINCH Knight and Baronet His late AttornyGeneral.</HEAD>
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<L>_CEa&s;e, Cea&s;e, (fond Age) give over to complain:</L>
<L>Leave off your murmurings, and griefs di&s;dain.</L>
<L>Papi&s;ts, Fanaticks, all ill Sects mu&s;t down,</L>
<L>None but the pure mu&s;t now approch the Crown.</L>
<L>Our King like a wi&s;e Builder <HI>Now</HI> hath &s;hown</L>
<L>What Stones 'twas fit to u&s;e, and what to own.</L>
<L>Alas! Great Kings and States mu&s;t often do</L>
<L>Things which nece&s;&s;ities do urge them to;</L>
<L>But when tho&s;e great nece&s;&s;ities are pa&s;t,</L>
<L>The Sun &s;hews forth its own true Beams at la&s;t.</L>
<L>What Loyal Heart will not rejoyce to hear,</L>
<L>That Loyalty runs once more regular?</L>
<L>(Our Liberties are kept by Cavaleir.</L>
<L>The Church &s;ecure, then who can fear a State,</L>
<L>That h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">th a Supporter &s;o fortunate?</L>
<L>Wi&s;e, Ju&s;t and Eloquent, but to expre&s;s</L>
<L>His many Vi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tues wou'd but make them le&s;s.</L>
<L>He's known &s;o well, 'twere needle&s;s to &s;et forth,</L>
<L>Or more to &s;ay, then that he's ris'n by's worth.</L>
<L>His Prai&s;e mo&s;t due,'tis folly to proclaim,</L>
<L>All know his Prai&s;e who have but heard of's Name,</L>
<L>He wants no Character who'th &s;o much fame,</L>
<L>Oh happy <HI>Seal,</HI> with &s;uch a tru&s;ty Friend!</L>
<L>May there be no divor&s;e till life doth end;</L>
<L>May the <HI>Seal</HI> ne'r be &s;uper&s;eeded here,</L>
<L>Till Heaven commands the Keeper to come there:</L>
<L>And may Heavens Me&s;&s;enger prove very &s;low</L>
<L>In pity to us; who are left below.</L>
<L>The Church, the State, all mu&s;t confe&s;s 'twas fit</L>
<L>To have the <HI>Seal</HI> for <HI>Finch,</HI> and him for it.</L>
<L>No halting lines, none but true Eloquence</L>
<L>Mu&s;t be &s;poke here, or &s;ent abroad from hence.</L>
<L>No &s;welling State, mu&s;t now o'relook our Head,</L>
<L>The Keepers looks can &s;trike a Province dead.</L>
<L>Long may he live to give our King content,</L>
<L>And be endeared to his Parliament</L>
<L>May we n'er want to rule the Common-Weal</L>
<L>A <HI>Stewart,</HI> or a <HI>Finch</HI> to keep the <HI>Seal.</HI></L>
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<BYLINE>By a well wi&s;her to King and Countrey.</BYLINE>
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<P>Printed in the Year MDCLXXIII.</P>
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