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Magdalene College - Pepys
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A Congratulatory
POEM
To His Royal Highness the
Prince of Orange,
Or His Welcome to the CITY of LONDON.

HAIL mighty Prince! this Poem on you waites,
As the first Offering that Celebrates
Your wellcome to the Town, almost Destro'yd
By Priestcraft, and by you again Reviv'd;
This Glorious Day (in which all Triumphs Live)
To Heav'n, and you Great Sir, we only Give.
When Jove first made the World, he ask'd no more
Of us, but taught us whom we should implore
As then, so now 'tis our peculiar care,
With Joyfull thanks to gratifie your ear,
Who from the Dust has rais'd our Grov'ling State,
Which hung upon the weakest Wheel of Fate
An Act so high, and past mankinds believing
That none but you could er'e think of retrieving
Yet more, they who this Nation wou'd inthrall,
Do fill your Triumph with their wretched fall,
But what dose Heav'n impart when they Design
To Act something that's Noble and Divine?
Prophetick Stars this happy time ne're knew,
This Secret only Lodg'd in Heaven, and you,
And mighty Prince, (since Fate decrees it so)
Our Lives unto your Gen'rous Sword we owe,
Not only, but Estates and Liberty,
Which is the Sum of all felicity.
Exhal'd from sullen frowns our Kingdom's Blest,
And in the umbrage of your Lawralls rest,
Whilst Joy like Lightning in Tempestious Storms
Dazles the World and fils it with Alarms,
Joy now to Lowdest Triumph makes its way
And we no Difference know 'tween Night and Day,
Our Souls transported in strong Raptures move
And yet United are in Artless Love,
Joy now and Love so very well agree
As if this year was the first Jubilee,
Of Care and Business we'll no more alow
Since Deathless Lawralls florish on your brow,
Go on brave Prince what i'st you can't effect
Whom Heav'n with prosporous Stars dose still protect,
The fury of your Sword, Let the French feel,
That Kingdom is Designed by you to reel;
Pull down their Gaudy Pride which long hath stood
And their own Fields Manure with their own Blood,
Come here's the Prince's Health a Brimmer round
And all the Popish Interest Confound,

Veni, Vidi, Vici.

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