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<P>A POEM UPON The New Marble STATUE Of His Pre&s;ent MAJESTY, Erected in the Royal Exchange: By the Society of Merchants Adventurers OF ENGLAND: TOGETHER With a Copy of the In&s;cription UPON THE <HI>PEDESTALL.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Randal Taylor,</HI> near Stationers-Hall. 1684.</P>
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<PB N="1" REF="2" MS="y">
<HEAD>Upon the New STATUE OF HIS MAJESTY Erected in the Royal Exchange.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>HAIL Noble Founders of this va&s;t De&s;ign!</L>
<L>Hail Thou the Arti&s;t who with Skill Divine,</L>
<L>Could&s;t &s;hapele&s;s Rock to this Perfection bring,</L>
<L>Worthy &s;uch gen'rous Subjects, &s;uch a King.</L>
<L>See, brave Adventurers with Triumph view,</L>
<L>What Miracles united Zeal can do.</L>
<L>What wonders loyal Gratitude can rai&s;e,</L>
<L>That thus makes lifele&s;s Stone &s;peak <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI>'s Prai&s;e!</L>
<L>Where, with the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Arms of the three Kingdoms carved upon the Sides of the <HI>Pede&s;tal.</HI></NOTE> Emblems of his Pow'r, are &s;een,</L>
<L>His God-like Features and maje&s;tick Meen.</L>
<PB N="2" REF="3">
<L>Nor do's this Piece that &s;ingle Glory Claim,</L>
<L>It &s;peaks with <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI>'s, Your's and <HI>Britains</HI> Fame;</L>
<L>That now can of a nobler Statue boa&s;t,</L>
<L>Than<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The E&s;teem that the Ancients had for Pictures and Statues of great Ma&s;ters is incredible: of which we have this famous In&s;tance. When <HI>Demetrius</HI> had laid clo&s;e Siege to a chief Town in the I&s;le of <HI>Rhodes;</HI> he fir&s;t pre|pared to &s;et Fire to &s;ome Buildings without <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Walls: which were &s;len|derly defended; whereupon the People within the Town &s;ent to him to make an A&s;&s;ault upon the City with all his Force, which if he could take by Storm the Buildings without would be his own; but if he proceeded to &s;et Fire to them, he would de&s;troy that famous Piece, fram'd by <HI>Pro|togenes,</HI> erected there. Which when it was once lo&s;t, their Town was not worth his taking. Upon this Information, in reverence to that Work, he withdrew his Forces and &s;pared the Town.</NOTE> <HI>Italy</HI> pre&s;erv'd, or <HI>Greece</HI> e're Lo&s;t.</L>
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<L>Methinks I &s;ee Po&s;terity &s;urvey</L>
<L>(For &s;ure &s;uch Sacred work can ne're decay)</L>
<L>This Marble-<HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> with &s;uch God-like Grace;</L>
<L>As both Adorns and Con&s;ecrates the Place.</L>
<L>I hear them de&s;cant on his Awful Brow,</L>
<L>And Features that maje&s;tick Terrour throw,</L>
<L>Yet with &s;uch conde&s;cending Goodne&s;s join'd,</L>
<L>Di&s;playing all the Mercies of his Mind,</L>
<L>That tho&s;e Records they'll hold as fal&s;e and vain,</L>
<L>That-regi&s;ter'd the Troubles of his Reign.</L>
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<LG>
<L>There was a Day (let Time for ever mourn</L>
<L>In Night, ere &s;uch another Day return)</L>
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<L>That on our Monarchs &s;acred Form employ'd,</L>
<L>A Rage more dire than what his Life de&s;troy'd:</L>
<L>The fir&s;t a&s;&s;ay'd a Monarch's Blood to &s;pill,</L>
<L>The Second, Monarchy it &s;elf to kill!</L>
<L>But late repenting years his<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Statue of His late Maje&s;ty erected (in&s;tead of that which was demo|li&s;hed) by remarkable Accident, pointing to the Centre of the <HI>Exchange,</HI> where the new Figure of pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty is placed.</NOTE> Image rais'd</L>
<L>More for the Zeal than Workman's Labour prais'd;</L>
<L>Yet by divine In&s;tinct the Piece &s;eems fram'd,</L>
<L>And for th' Event for ever &s;hall be Fam'd,</L>
<L>Directly pointing with the Scepter'd Hand,</L>
<L>Where pre&s;ent <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> do's in Triumph &s;tand,</L>
<L>While the tran&s;ported Figure &s;eems to &s;ay,</L>
<L><HI>Look</HI> Britains, <HI>our E&s;tabli&s;ht Heir &s;urvey;</HI></L>
<L><HI>See how th' A&s;&s;aults of Faction are in vain;</HI></L>
<L><HI>My Race, Heavn's Choice, o'er</HI> Albion <HI>&s;till mu&s;t Reign;</HI></L>
<L><HI>If from no other Source your Love will &s;pring,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let Int're&s;t reconcile you to your King.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Since, in all frantick Changes you have pa&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Heav'n fir&s;t di&s;lik'd, and you your &s;elves at la&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>From thence at lea&s;t let now your Duty &s;pring;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Know your own Int're&s;t and Obey your King.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Once more, ye brave Adventurers all Hail!</L>
<L>So may th' Example you have &s;et, prevail;</L>
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<L>Till each Society like yours &s;hall join</L>
<L>(While yet we have an Arti&s;t &s;o Divine)</L>
<L>To re-in&s;tall each<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Statues of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Kings de&s;troy'd in the general Conflagration.</NOTE> Monarch in his Shrine.</L>
<L>While we the ri&s;ing Figures &s;hall admire,</L>
<L>(As from the Worlds la&s;t Flame) more glorious for the Fire!</L>
<L>Till of <HI>Rome</HI>'s Capitol th' Exchange has odds,</L>
<L>Our <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Kings out-&s;hine the <HI>Roman</HI> Gods.</L>
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<LG>
<L>All mu&s;t confe&s;s who this warm Piece behold</L>
<L>That Marble now more precious is than Gold;</L>
<L>As if the Carver, with<NOTE N="&dagger;" PLACE="marg">Reported by the Poets to have fram'd a Marble Nymph with which He fell in Love, and laying it to his Brea&s;t the Statue took Life.</NOTE> <HI>Pigmalion</HI>'s Art,</L>
<L>Did, while he fram'd the Limbs, the Soul impart.</L>
<L>He grew ennamour'd on his own De&s;ign,</L>
<L>But, mode&s;t <HI>GIBBONS,</HI> all the World on Thine.</L>
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<LG>
<L>This Honour with ju&s;t Gratitude is paid</L>
<L>By the fir&s;t Ma&s;ters of the Oceans Trade.</L>
<L>No le&s;s the Figure with the Place agrees,</L>
<L>Where el&s;e &s;hould &s;tand the Monarch of the Seas?</L>
<L>Then let the World's united Trea&s;ure meet</L>
<L>T' enrich Their Bank, with each returning Fleet,</L>
<L>Who lay their Hearts and Wealth at <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI>'s Feet.</L>
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<HEAD>The In&s;cription,</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>CAROLO II. Cae&s;ari Britannico;</L>
<L>Patriae Patri;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Regi optimo, clementi&s;&s;imo, augu&s;ti&s;&s;imo;</L>
<L>Generis Humani Deliciis,</L>
<L>Utriu&s;que Fortunae Victori;</L>
<L>Pacis Europae Arbitro;</L>
<L>Maris Domino ac Vindici;</L>
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<L>Societas Mercatorum Adventur. Angliae</L>
<L>Quae per CCCC jam prope</L>
<L>Annos regia Benignitate floret,</L>
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<L>Fidei intemeratae Gratitudinis aeternae</L>
<L>Hoc Te&s;timonium</L>
<L>Venerabunda po&s;uit.</L>
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<P>Anno Sal. M.DCLXXXIV.</P>
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