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<DATE>2008-10-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080850.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A POEM as it was PRESENTED TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY On the Di&s;covery of the <HI>PLOTT,</HI></HEAD>
<BYLINE>Written by a Lady of Quality.</BYLINE>
<L><HI>_HAILE</HI> Mighty Prince! whom Heaven has de|&s;ig'nd</L>
<L>To be the chief delight of human kind:</L>
<L>So many Vertues c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">oud your Brea&s;t that we</L>
<L>Do alwaies que&s;tion your Mortality:</L>
<L>Sure all the Planets that o're Vertue raigns,</L>
<L>Shed their be&s;t Influence in your <HI>Royal</HI> Veins:</L>
<L>You are the Glory of <HI>Monarchial</HI> Pow'rs,</L>
<L>In <HI>Bounties</HI> free as are de&s;cending &s;howr's;</L>
<L>Fierce as a Tempe&s;t when ingag'd in VVar,</L>
<L>In <HI>Peace</HI> more mild than tender Virgins are;</L>
<L>In pitying <HI>Mercy,</HI> you not imitate</L>
<L>The Heavenly Pow'rs, but rather emulate.</L>
<L>None but your &s;elf, your &s;uffrings could have born</L>
<L>With &s;o much <HI>Greatne&s;s,</HI> &s;uch Heroick &s;corn,</L>
<L>When <HI>Hated</HI> Traytors do your <HI>Life</HI> pur&s;ue,</L>
<L>And all the <HI>World</HI> is fill'd with <HI>Cares</HI> for you;</L>
<L>VVhen every <HI>Loyal Heart</HI> is &s;unk with fear,</L>
<L>Your &s;elf alone doth unconcern'd appear;</L>
<L>Your Soul within, &s;till keeps it's lawful &s;tate,</L>
<L>Contemns and dares the wor&s;t effects of <HI>Fate,</HI></L>
<L>As the bright Maje&s;ty &s;hot from your Eye,</L>
<L>Aw'd your tame Fate, and rul'd your de&s;tiny.</L>
<L>Though your <HI>Undaunted &s;oul</HI> bare you thus high,</L>
<L>Your <HI>&s;ollid Judgement</HI> &s;ees ther's danger nigh;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">Vhich with &s;uch care and Prudence you prevent</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">s if you fear'd not but t'would cro&s;s th' event.</L>
<L>Your <HI>Care</HI> &s;o nobly looks, it doth Appear</L>
<L>Tis for your <HI>Subjects,</HI> not your <HI>Self</HI> you fear:</L>
<L><HI>Heaven!</HI> make this Princes Life your neare&s;t care,</L>
<L>That does &s;o many of your <HI>Be&s;t Vertues</HI> &s;hare:</L>
<L>If <HI>Monarchs</HI> in their <HI>Actions</HI> copy you,</L>
<L>This is the neare&s;t <HI>Piece</HI> you ever drew:</L>
<L>Bla&s;t every hand that dares to be &s;o bold,</L>
<L>An <HI>Impious VVeapon</HI> 'gain&s;t his <HI>Life</HI> to hold:</L>
<L>Bur&s;t every <HI>Heart</HI> that dares but <HI>Think</HI> him ill;</L>
<L>Their <HI>Guilty</HI> &s;ouls with &s;o much <HI>Terrour</HI> fill,</L>
<L>That of <HI>them&s;elves</HI> they may their Plott unfold,</L>
<L>And <HI>Live</HI> no longer then the <HI>Tale</HI> is told.</L>
<L>Safe in your <HI>Care,</HI> all el&s;e will needle&s;s prove</L>
<L>Yet keep him <HI>&s;afe</HI> too in his <HI>Subjects</HI> Love.</L>
<L>Your Subjects <HI>View</HI> You with &s;uch <HI>Loyal</HI> Eyes</L>
<L>They know not how they may their <HI>Trea&s;ure</HI> prize.</L>
<L>Were <HI>You</HI> defencele&s;s, they would round you fall,</L>
<L>And <HI>Pile</HI> their bodies to build up a wall.</L>
<L>VVere you di&s;tre'&s;t, 'twould prove a gen'rous &s;trife,</L>
<L>VVho fir&s;t &s;hould lo&s;e his <HI>Own,</HI> to &s;ave <HI>Your</HI> Life.</L>
<L>But &s;ince kind <HI>Heaven</HI> the&s;e <HI>Dangers</HI> doth remove,</L>
<L>VVee'l find out other wayes t' expre&s;s our Love.</L>
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<L><HI>Wee'l force the Traytors all, their &s;ouls re&s;ign,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To herd with him that taught them their de&s;ign.</HI></L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed in the year 1679.</P>
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