JAMES KING,

Taisenited

GREAT BRITAIN

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JAMES KING OF GREAT BRITAIN.

THE disunited Scythians when they sought

To gather strength by parties, and combine

That perfect league of friends which once being wrought

No turn of time or fortune could untwine,

This right they held a massy bowl was brought,
And ev'ry right arm shot his several blood

Into the mazer till 'twas fully fraught.

Then having stirred it to an equal flood

They quaffed to th' union, which till death should last,

In spite of private foe, or foreign fear;

And this blood-sacrament being known t' have past. Their names grew dreadful to all far and near.

O then, great Monarch, with how wise a care

Do

you these bloods divided mix in one,

And with like consanguinities prepare

The high, and everliving Union

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'Tween Scots and English! who can wonder then If he that marries kingdoms, marries men?

AN EPIGRAM.

MERLIN, the great King Arthur being slain,
Foretold that he should come to life again,
And long time after wield great Britain's state
More powerful ten-fold, and more fortunate.
Prophet, 'tis true, and well we find the same,
Save only that thou didst mistake the name.

ΙΟ

AD INVICTISSIMUM SERENISSIMUMQUE
IACOBUM, MAGNAE BRITANNIAE
REGEM.

ANGLIAE, et unanimis Scotiae pater, anne maritus
Sis dubito, an neuter, (Rex) vel uterque simul.
Uxores pariter binas sibi jungat ut unus,
Credimus hoc, ipso te prohibente, nefas.
Atque, maritali natas violare parentem
Complexu, quis non cogitat esse scelus?
At tibi divinis successibus utraque nubit;

Una tamen conjux, conjugis unus amor.
Connubium O mirum, binas qui ducere et unam
Possis! tu solus sic, Iacobe, potes.

Divisas leviter terras componis in unam

Atque unam aeternum nomine reque facis : Natisque, et nuptis, pater et vir factus utrisque es ; Unitis conjux vere, et amore parens.

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TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND VIRTUOUS
THEOPHILUS HOWARD,

LORD OF WALDEN, SON AND HEIR TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL
OF SUFFOLK.

IF to be sprung of high and princely blood,

If to inherit virtue, honour, grace,

If to be great in all things, and yet good,

If to be facile, yet t' have power and place,
If to be just, and bountiful, may get

The love of men, your right may challenge it.