Literature & Theatre > Congratulatory poem to the King's Most Sacred Majesty, on the happy birth of the Prince of Wales

(c)charles II. James II.

Waits on this HAPPY BIRTH, and does Declare
He, in her Right to Saxons, is the HEIR.
In the Fam'd Room, by happy Fate brought forth,
Where (C) TWO IlluVtrious KINGS receiv'd their Birth.

The Morning Leſſbn for the Day.

The LESSONS for This Day, by Chance Divine,
Appear'd as they were Order'd by Deſign.
The Firſt, the Holy PROPHET did Unfold
When he the Birth of the MESSIAH told.

Matth.3.12.

The Words are Theſe; (d) His Fan is in his Hand,
And he ſhall throughly purge the Floor or Land,
Gathering the Wheat into the Granary :
Then all One FAITH, at leaſt One SOUL ſhall be.

The Evening Leſſon, Gen. 18. 10.

" The A N G E L next the PATRIARCH did Inform,
"That ISAAC, Choſen ISAAC, ſhou'd be Born.
                           

ASTROLOGERS Divine! that when the Sun
Is Mounted to his Full Meridian,
'Tis Lucky to be Born ; and does Portend
Long Life, that can by no Misfortune end.
Thus, in his Summer -Solſtice views the Light,
Breaks out, and makes our Longeſt Day more Bright.

Methinks I hear, the Belgick LION Roar,
And Laſh his Angry Tail againſt the Shore.
Inrag'd to Hear a PRINCE OF WALES is Born :
Whoſe BROWS his Boaſted Laurels ſhall Adorn.
Whoſe Angel FACE already does expreſs
His Foreign CONQUESTS, and Domeſtick PEAC E.
While in his Awful little EYES we Fin'd
He's of the Brave, and the Forgiving KIND.

All Joy Great QUEEN'! — if to your Happy Store
Our Grateful Pray'rs, and Wiſhes can add more.
Your Bleſt DELIVE RANCE to Congratulate,
The Adoring World is Proſtrate at your Feet.
Where TEARS of joy , and Humble VERSE I lay
Too mean a Trophy for this GLORIOUS DAT:
Inſpir'd by Nothing but Prophetick Truth,
They Boaſt no other Fire, no other Worth.
Full of the JOY ; no LINES Correct can write,
My Pleaſure's too Extream for Thought or Wit.
Charm'd to Exceſs,' alaſs ! I ſtrive in Vain,             
In Scanty VERSE my Tranſports to Explain
Too Vaſt for Narrow NUMBERS to Contain.

London, Printed for W. Canning, at his Shop in the Temple-Cloyſters, 1688.