THE
Excellency of MONARCHY.
A
PANEGYRICK,
Written Anno 1658, by a Learned and truly Loyal Gentleman, for Information
of the miserably misled Commonwealths-men (falsly so called) of that
deceitful Age; and now revivd by a Friend to the Author, and an Honourer of the
Establishd Government of these Nations.
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IF wanting wings one may ascend the Skies,
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And Phaebus view, without an Eagles Eyes,
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Then Rouze 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 Rule to England like a Monarchy.
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It is the Image of that Domination,
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By which Jehova 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 Rebell,
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Sequesterd not, but sent them strait to Hell.
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As Old as that Paternal Soveraignty
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God placd in Adam, ruld his People by;
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Disownd by 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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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 thonly 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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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 little Bees (with shivring 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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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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In Order (wherein later things depend,
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Or former) thats most perfect doth attend
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On Unity: But this can never be
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The Poplar 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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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, tis Deeds proclaim em Blest;
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Whilst numerous Heads are rarely of one Mind,
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Slow in their Motion, louder than the Wind.
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Treason, nor Fear, 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 the Object of a Princes Fear:
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Then when an Empire, Rome was nere so strong,
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Nor Triumphd under other Rule so long.
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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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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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Delibrates always, nevers off his Throne.
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But hold! methinks 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 offered to All, but Cavaliers
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And Papists! yet with patience they abound,
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In hopes of better, Now, the Wheel goes Round.
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