A Worthy Panegyrick
UPON
MONARCHY;
Written Anno MDCLVIII.
By a Learned and truly Loyal Gentleman, for Information of the miserably mis-led Commonwealths-
Men (falsely so called) of that Deluded Age; and now revived by One that honours the Author,
and the Established Government of these Nations.
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I.
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IF wanting Wings one may ascend the Skies,
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And Phoebus view, without an Eagles Eyes;
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Then Rouse up (Muse) from thy Lethargick Strains,
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And (having first invokd the God of Brains)
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Let the Grand Subject of thy Measures be,
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No Soul to England like a Monarchy.*
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II.
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It is the Image of that Domination,
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By which Jehovah rules the whole Creation;
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Angels nor Saints, do in his Kingdom share,
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God is Sole-Monarch, they, but Subjects are:
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Whose Laws are such, as when they did Rebel,
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Sequestred not, but sent them strait to Hell.
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III.
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As Old, as that Paternal Sovereignty,
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God placd in Adam, ruld his People by;
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Disownd of None, but them whose Minds aspire,
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And Envy ONE should have what All desire:
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For bet a Few or Many we live under,
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Such shall repine, still, whilst not of the Number.
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IIII.
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The Antients did a Monarchy prefer,
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Made all their Gods submit to Jupiter;
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And (when Affairs and Nations first began)
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Princes DECREES were th only Laws of Man;
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Experience will avow it, where theres any,
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One HONEST MAN is sooner found than MANY.
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V.
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The Rational Soul performs a Princes part,
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She rules the Body by Monarchick Art;
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Poor Cranes, and silly Bees (with shivering Wings,)
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Observe their Leaders, and obey their Kings:
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Nature her self, disdains a Crowded Throne,
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The Bodys Monstrous, has more Heads than ONE.
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VI.
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A Monarchys that Politick simple State,
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Consists in Unity (inseparate
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Pure and entire;) a Government that stands,
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When others fall, touchd but with levelling hands:
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So Natural and with such Skill endud,
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It makes ONE Body of a Multitude.
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VII.
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In Order (wherein latter things depend
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On former) thats most perfect doth attend
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On Unity: But this can never be
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The Popular State, nor Aristocracy;
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For where or All, or Many bear the Sway,
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Such Order, to Confusion leads the way.
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VIII.
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A Monarchy more quickly doth attain
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The End proposd; for tis the Single-Brain
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That ripens Councel, and concealeth best
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Princely Designs, till Deeds proclaim em blest.
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Whilst Numerous Heads are rarely of one Mind,
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Slow in their Motion, lowder than the Wind.
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IX.
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Treason, nor Force, so suddenly divides
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Th United Strength that in a Crown resides:
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Sedition prospers not, it seldom here,
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Results an Object of the Princes Fear:
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Then when an Empire, Rome was ner so strong,
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Nor Triumphd under other Rule so long.
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X.
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A Monarchy abates those Feverish Fits
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Of Emulation a Free-State begets:
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A Prince cannot his Reins so quickly slack,
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Or throw his Burthen on anothers Back:
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But where so many Rulers have Command,
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The Works transferrd, and tossd from Hand to Hand.
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XI.
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The People, or the Nobles to debate
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The deep Concernments of a troubled State,
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Set Times and Places have assignd them, they
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First meet, and then adjourn from Day to Day!
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Whereas a Monarch, who by Natures ONE,
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Deliberates always, nevers off his Throne.
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XII.
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But hold! Me thinks I see the three Estates
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Convend; thrown open Prison-Doors and Grates,
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Extinct our paltry Jealousies and Fears,
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Grace offerd to All, but Cavaliers
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And ------! yet with Patience they abound,
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In Hopes of Better, now the Wheel gos round.
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*Monarchia a Monos Archon, The Rule of one Prince or Governour without a Peer, or the Government of one man over many. As in
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England etc.
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Britannia ab initio mundi semper fuit Regia, & Regimen illius simile ille Caelorum. Howel.
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