THE
PRINCESS
Welcome to England,
Being, The Unanimous Joy of Her Loyal Subjects.
To the Tune of, The Cannons Rore.
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WElcome Princess to the Shore,
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We your Royal Aid implore,
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All our Blessings to restore,
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and do our Souls surrender;
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For we know that you would be
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In your Royal Dignity,
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Always to maintain us free,
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and prove our Faiths Defender.
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Vertuous, Wise in all her ways,
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And deserves the Nations praise,
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Who can e're her Glory raise,
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or to her worth commend her?
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Who the Land may truly own,
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To be with her Prince alone,
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The true preservers of the Throne,
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and prove our Faiths Defender.
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We have had a Papist Queen,
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But [another] may be seen
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In Attire far more mean,
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yet none can discommend her;
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For we [find humility]
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In a [Royal] Dignity,
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Speaks her evermore to be
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the Ch[u]rch and Faiths Defender.
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While she did from Holland Sail,
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Although with a pleasant Gale,
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Protestants did much bewail,
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that Boreas did her hinder;
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But they Heaven did implore,
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All their Blessings to restore,
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So this Princess soon came o're,
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the Church and Faiths Defender.
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She no sooner came to Land,
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But all Souls with heart and hand,
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Yielded to her just Command,
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their Fortunes to surrender:
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Knowing that her Royal Name,
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Will in lasting Books of Fame,
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To the world her self proclaim,
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the Church and Faiths Defender.
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She no sooner came to Shore,
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But Guns did like Thunder rore,
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To proclaim the News all o're,
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while Nobles did attend her;
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Lords and Ladies did repair,
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That they might with Christian care,
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Welcome in the Princess Dear,
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the Church and Faiths Defender.
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Cannons Rore, while Bells did Ring,
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While the joyful News did bring,
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That under her most Gracious Wing,
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no Pope our peace cou'd hinder:
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Therefore Royal Princess now,
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To the Scepter we will bow,
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You we must and will allow
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the Church and Faiths Defender.
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The Princess Health went fairly round,
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While London was with Glory Crown'd
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And while our Joys did thus abound,
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true Subjects did commend her:
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Tho' she was Modest, Mild and Mean,
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Behold her in her Glorious Sceene
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She's now Great-Brittains Royal Queen,
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[the] C[h]urch and [Faiths] Defender.
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FINIS.
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