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<HEAD>A CONGRATULARY POEM On the Right Honourable Sir PATIENCE WARD, Knight and Baronet, LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON.</HEAD>
<L>AS when Amba&s;&s;adors from Princes come,</L>
<L>We all by cu&s;tom from our Hou&s;es run</L>
<L>To &s;ee the Stranger, Great, the Noble High,</L>
<L>The Repre&s;entive of a Deity.</L>
<L>Scripture and Rea&s;on &s;tile them &s;o by Birth,</L>
<L>Great Men; like Kings, are &s;till like Gods on Earth:</L>
<L>The truth of which, no Ju&s;t Man can deny,</L>
<L>Being ordain'd by heavenly de&s;tiny.</L>
<L>But why it &s;hould be thus, I cannot &s;ay,</L>
<L>Then what &s;hall happen the &s;ucceeding Day,</L>
<L>Being a Secret kept in Heavens own hand,</L>
<L>As Rain de&s;cends on good and barren Land.</L>
<L>Yet in a worldly &s;en&s;e it may be taken</L>
<L>For Natural Rea&s;on, and not be for&s;aken,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e busine&s;s of that important nature</L>
<L>It very nearly doth concern each creature,</L>
<L>As Natives of their own fine Country dear,</L>
<L>To whom, of all things, &s;till they &s;hould be near:</L>
<L>Much more at a Magi&s;trate of our own,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e his Power extends throughout the Town,</L>
<L>Being an Office 'twixt Country and City,</L>
<L>That all therein does &s;hare, both fools and witty.</L>
<L>Since next the King, to him we owe all things,</L>
<L>Peace, Plenty, Trade, and Money-offrings:</L>
<L>For by his wi&s;e Conduct, and Prudence high,</L>
<L>He'l make our Fame reach to the &s;tarry Sky,</L>
<L>Being a man by Nature, and by Name,</L>
<L>To be a Soul wrapt in immortal Fame.</L>
<L><HI>Patience</HI> by Name, a Virtue great and high,</L>
<L>Burning and &s;hining like the Sun in th'Sky;</L>
<L>Endow'd with Learning, and &s;uch famous Arts,</L>
<L>That by their force he &s;oon will gain our hearts;</L>
<L>Adorning of him in this his humane Race,</L>
<L>More than his <HI>Indian</HI> Pearl, or his Gold Lace.</L>
<L>Since Virtue's a colour of that deep hue,</L>
<L>That 'tis as Rich as the gay Rainbow's blue.</L>
<L>The Merchant traffiques where he plea&s;e to go;</L>
<L>So Virtue trades with Heaven and Earth below.</L>
<L>Philo&s;ophers &s;ay, &s;he's th' Glory of each one,</L>
<L>As the pretty Flower's guilded by the Sun.</L>
<L>Logicians &s;ay, as well to each degree,</L>
<L>You'r happy &s;till in your Humanity;</L>
<L>For Bodies &s;hap't, and &s;o proportion'd well,</L>
<L>Are <HI>ab Origine,</HI> from Heaven, not Hell.</L>
<L>Seraphick Love alwaies prefers its own,</L>
<L>As the kind Father &s;trongly loves his Son.</L>
<L>The Speech you made, it doth &s;o plainly tell</L>
<L>How many Virtues in your Mind doth dwell;</L>
<L>As the Tree is, alike is &s;till the Fruit,</L>
<L>Or the gay Summer with dull Winter &s;uit.</L>
<L>When the Sun-&s;hines, 'tis then a plea&s;ant day,</L>
<L>And when not &s;een, 'tis a foul After-play</L>
<L>So as we look and &s;peak, &s;uch men we are,</L>
<L>A Maxim of the Learn'd Philo&s;opher,</L>
<L>Telling how face and heart do go together,</L>
<L>Making men to enjoy the be&s;t weather;</L>
<L>While other platforms of a lower of die,</L>
<L>Are but mere Strangers to humanity;</L>
<L>Like the dull Carrier's Hor&s;e, that &s;till moves on</L>
<L>In the &s;ame road, until he cometh home;</L>
<L>Then doth grim death approach, and tell them all,</L>
<L>His never failing dart will make them fall.</L>
<L>But that for ever they mu&s;t pa&s;s and go</L>
<L>To Heaven's glory, or to Hell's Sorrow.</L>
<L>Seamen and Pilots rule their manners &s;till,</L>
<L>According to their Captain, good or ill;</L>
<L>Who from him no other Religion take,</L>
<L>Nay Navigation it&s;elf for&s;ake;</L>
<L>As he in&s;tructed is in every Art,</L>
<L>The Legi&s;lator to his better heart:</L>
<L>Even &s;o as a great man or Ruler's given,</L>
<L>Each Man's prone, to make him &s;till his Heaven.</L>
<L>As he &s;miles; then we look brisk and gay,</L>
<L>As all things flouri&s;h in the Month of <HI>May:</HI></L>
<L>But if he looks but angry, and he frown.</L>
<L>So then do we, and all our mirth is gone.</L>
<L>Shewing th' incon&s;tancy of joy in all,</L>
<L>Of Lunaries and Terre&s;trial:</L>
<L>So that Example will be known and &s;een</L>
<L>Like a bright Dutche&s;s or an <HI>Indian</HI> Queen.</L>
<L>'Tis plain both from experience and from Rea&s;on,</L>
<L>Things that are always certain and in &s;ea&s;on:</L>
<L>For Nature&s;hews all things are fed by &s;en&s;e,</L>
<L>And their &s;uperior bodies influence</L>
<L>All their kind heats, by which they &s;till are fed,</L>
<L>Flow from tho&s;e &s;treams, and &s;o are nouri&s;hed.</L>
<L>Since Heavens &s;uperior as we plainly &s;ee,</L>
<L>As Man excells Bea&s;ts in Felicity:</L>
<L>For he that makes doth top the Object gay,</L>
<L>As Night is but the Curtain of the day.</L>
<L>In &s;hort, welcome great Sir, unto your Seat,</L>
<L>A place of Honour and of high Retreat:</L>
<L>To all you'r welcome, and to all mo&s;t near,</L>
<L>To all Prince, Virtue &s;till does make you dear.</L>
<L>Since blood with the <HI>A&s;trologer</HI> porcends</L>
<L>Things that are great, and you for greater ends:</L>
<L>For Virtue ri&s;es from the Plant mo&s;t rare,</L>
<L>As trees in Summer &s;till mo&s;t fruitful are.</L>
<L>Great Sir all happine&s;s attend you &s;till,</L>
<L>That you may pa&s;s the great Gun&s;hot of ill,</L>
<L>And when Death &s;ummons you, that you appear,</L>
<L>You &s;hall with Angels gay, look bright and clear.</L>
<L>I leave you as a Pre&s;ident for Sages,</L>
<L>To future times, and to &s;ucceeding Ages.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>W. W.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Rich. Janaway.</HI> 1680,</P>
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