Royalty

                               ON

            Her Majeſty's GRANT

                               OF

            Woodſtock Park, &c.

                               TO

            His Grace the DUKE

                               OF

            MARLBOROUGH,

                              1704.

In a LETTER to Signior Antonio Verrio at Hampton-Court.

REnown'd in Arms, when Mighty Heroes riſe,
Th' Immortal Muſe in laſfing Numbers try's,
To future Ages to tranſmit theft Fame,
And give 'em after Death a Living Name.
The Fields of Bliſs below, the Shady Grove,
Were the Reward of all their Toils above ;
The Mantuan Swain has fill'd the Solemn Place,
With the wreath'd Worthys of his Roman Race;
While greater Marlborough diſdains to wait,
Mature for Fame, the ſlow approach of Flte :
But Reaps that Glorious Harveſt whilſt he Lives,
Which Time, to all his Ancient Hero's, gives.
Elyſian Shades ſhall now no more be ſought,
The Gay Creation of the Poets Thought;
The Royal Gift diſplay's a nobler View,
No feign'd Elyſium can exceed the True,
                                                              Wooodſtock.