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PANURGI PHILOCABALLI
[10-44
Mystica Merlini1 fulgent oracla Britanni
Et vatum manifesta fides, quorum igneus ardor
Saecla Stuartaeis promiserat aurea sceptris.
Quatuor exactis jam magni aetatibus orbis
Surgit ab integro seclorum maximus ordo
Atque humiles caelo terras Astrea relicto
Virgo 2 colit, virtusque viris invisa revisit.
Magnarum et series longe pulcherrima rerum
Nascitur, atque alto stirps aurea manat Olympo.
Scilicet hoc tanto Divini Principis ortu
Prisca securigero succrescit adorea Scoto.
Jam quoque mutato redeunt Saturnia ferro
Saecula, nec qui jam fulsere ab origine soles
Incipiunt, capiuntque novi primordia menses,
Et nova decursos reparant jam sidera motus.
Pulchra Diana veni: mundum regit alter Apollo,
Tuque Stuarte puer, Superi nunc munus Olympi
Magna Patris, major Matris, sed maxima Regni
Gloria tergemini, coelestia tempora lauro
Cinge triumphali, Duce te jam laeta resurgunt
Saecula, et aeternos tibi Cynthia colligit ignes.
Teque auctore truces, per barbara bella, tumultus
Alta pace jacent, et inania murmura vulgi
Fessa cadunt, longumque orbis sine lite quiescat.3
Jamque Dei in terris traducas nectare vitam
Ambrosiisque epulis vives, Divosque remistos
Semideis cemes, atque alto sanguine Reges :
Invictosque regas magna ditione Britannos.
Jam tibi, chare puer, tellus donaria templis
Prima tuis, male-culta licet, fragrantia finxit
Balsama, thura, apium mirham, nardumque, crocumque,
Victricemque hederam,4 et ramum faelicis olivae,
Sertaque purpureis mittit permista corollis
Aemula cinnameis et odoribus inficit auras.
Nunc ultro laetae venient ad mulctra capellae,
1 See note on Merlin, p. 20.
2 Note alliteration of this line.
3 The other verbs are in present indicative.
4 I fear the original has ‘ haederam ’ here.
PANURGI PHILOCABALLI
[10-44
Mystica Merlini1 fulgent oracla Britanni
Et vatum manifesta fides, quorum igneus ardor
Saecla Stuartaeis promiserat aurea sceptris.
Quatuor exactis jam magni aetatibus orbis
Surgit ab integro seclorum maximus ordo
Atque humiles caelo terras Astrea relicto
Virgo 2 colit, virtusque viris invisa revisit.
Magnarum et series longe pulcherrima rerum
Nascitur, atque alto stirps aurea manat Olympo.
Scilicet hoc tanto Divini Principis ortu
Prisca securigero succrescit adorea Scoto.
Jam quoque mutato redeunt Saturnia ferro
Saecula, nec qui jam fulsere ab origine soles
Incipiunt, capiuntque novi primordia menses,
Et nova decursos reparant jam sidera motus.
Pulchra Diana veni: mundum regit alter Apollo,
Tuque Stuarte puer, Superi nunc munus Olympi
Magna Patris, major Matris, sed maxima Regni
Gloria tergemini, coelestia tempora lauro
Cinge triumphali, Duce te jam laeta resurgunt
Saecula, et aeternos tibi Cynthia colligit ignes.
Teque auctore truces, per barbara bella, tumultus
Alta pace jacent, et inania murmura vulgi
Fessa cadunt, longumque orbis sine lite quiescat.3
Jamque Dei in terris traducas nectare vitam
Ambrosiisque epulis vives, Divosque remistos
Semideis cemes, atque alto sanguine Reges :
Invictosque regas magna ditione Britannos.
Jam tibi, chare puer, tellus donaria templis
Prima tuis, male-culta licet, fragrantia finxit
Balsama, thura, apium mirham, nardumque, crocumque,
Victricemque hederam,4 et ramum faelicis olivae,
Sertaque purpureis mittit permista corollis
Aemula cinnameis et odoribus inficit auras.
Nunc ultro laetae venient ad mulctra capellae,
1 See note on Merlin, p. 20.
2 Note alliteration of this line.
3 The other verbs are in present indicative.
4 I fear the original has ‘ haederam ’ here.
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