A POEM UPON THE CORONATION Of His Most Sacred MAJESTY King JAMES II. WITH AN Additional Poem UPON THE DEATH Of our late Sovereign Lord CHARLES II. Of ever Blessed Memory.
By R. MANSELL, Gent.
LONDON, Printed for J. Hindley, MDCLXXXV.
A POEM ON THE CORONATION Of His Most Sacred MAJESTY King James II. &c.
NOw! are our Joys fulfill'd, our Pleasures Crown'd,
Ore all the World,
Fame does her Trumpet sound.
Inspir'd Muse, vast Trophies raise to
Jove,
And there proclaim an
Ʋniversal Love.
There in Seraphick Strain (my Angel) sing,
And with thy tuneful Lyre Charm e'ry thing.
Make Groves and Mountains, in due measure move,
And mollifie hard Rocks and Stones with Love.
Dart from they Throne, thy Rays of Eloquence,
And make each God admire thy Influence.
'Tis thou canst speak of greater things than they;
What e're they spoke, thou more of it canst say.
Besides, their Power thou boldly dar'st disown,
Whilst thou assum'st a greater of thy own.
Thou, in three minutes, six days wonders, wrought
Thy Sense their Nothing to perfection brought.
Out of an undigested Lump; thou didst refine
The grosser Atomes, that did frame Mankind.
At thy command all things do new appear,
Equal and gay, in manner of a Sphere.
The unknown paths of Fame, thou make'st thy way,
Where thou Foundations of new Worlds dost lay.
[Page 2] Thou mak'st the Abyss of thoughts a Second Cause,
And Matter Forms, by thy Diviner Laws.
'Tis thou (alone) canst with thy Heavenly Fire,
The Soul of Verse, our humane thoughts inspire.
'Tis (only) thou art fit to breath the Praise
Of Mighty
JAMES, (who does thy Fancy raise.)
He (thy
Apollo) inspires thee with sence,
And fills thy World with his Worlds influence.
Come is the day, the great
Coronation Day!
Which (also) thee Crowns with eternal Bay.
Till Heaven melts the fleeting plumes of Time,
So deathless is his Glory as thy Rhime.
Great JAMES, like
Sol, with his
Aurora rose,
And thro' her blushes did the day disclose:
Painting his Glory, gilding e'ry thing,
Begets the sweet fruition of the Spring.
A spring of Joy, came darting from each smile,
And charming Nature lay dissolv'd the while.
The Gods themselves, their Power did bestow,
That they more perfect might appear below.
With Reverence, and Ceremonies great,
They do allow, we them shou'd imitate;
And by Divine Assistance, do put on
Two Glorious Crowns, which do adorn one Throne;
But more their Glories do their Crowns adorn.
The Choirists Anthems most Divinely Sing:
(Even so the Birds do welcome in the Spring)
Musick their thoughts to Heaven does aspire,
(Joyning in Consort to the Heavenly Quire.)
The bright Attendants did themselves admire:
Each found his thoughts, a Paradice entire.
The Guards, like those of Heaven, smiling stood,
Whilst Joy proclaim'd them, more than flesh and blood.
Angels did Guard those that did Guard the place,
Gracing each motion which the place did grace.
Hark! how the Bells in joyful consort sound,
The Loyal Motto, writ on them around.
The rocky Steeples to their Musick move,
And ev'ry Stone yeilds in the act of Love.
[Page 3] The thund'ring
Cannons eccho from the shore,
Healing the wounds which they had made before.
They simpathize with ev'ry joyful sound,
Proclaiming Love (which does more strangely wound.)
The Drums and Trumpets eccho through the Air,
And to the Heavenly Spheres their consort bear.
The Wind in gentle whispers, tells his Tale,
Curling the Ocean with each wanton Gale.
Thames gentle streams swell into waves of pride,
And does forget through joy, her usual Tide.
Healths Crown'd with
Huzzahs, heals each factious Wound,
And makes the drunken
World reel faster round.
The Tide of
Nature faster ebbs and flows,
And ev'ry fragrant Birth her glory shews.
Whilst from the ancient
Chair, the blest abode,
Where Crown'd has been many an earthly God,
Creat
JAMES and
MARY in glory did retire,
(The Gods as well as Mortals did admire;
Crouding, look'd down, and wondred for to see
The illustrious Pomp and glorious Jubilee.)
As Heaven unto us will new appear,
So our
Coronation unto them did there.
Their pleasant smiles they freely did bestow,
And made each Gemm with greater lustre show;
As pleas'd to see the manner all Divine,
And their
Vicegerents in their glories shine.
Next raise (my Muse) a high and mighty Throne,
Such as great
Jove himself does sit upon:
And if a
Jove on Earth he will allow,
Set on great
James, and let him Thunder too.
Dovvn from his Heaven let Lightening round be hurl'd,
And Blast the spreading Factions of the World;
Until He Calms the raging Universe,
And Heals the Ulcers vvhich abroad disperse.
Let the Seditious Torments of the mind,
Free from one spark of Glory be confin'd.
In Darkness let them infamously dvvell,
And ev'ry Crime combine to make a Hell;
Where may each
Furie's Conscience ovvn his Sin,
And be sufficient Hell to Damn him in.
On the Death of His late Majesty.
I.
GReat Consternation like a
Tempest rose,
Whilest
Cesar's mighty Soul,
(Too great for Nature to oppose)
Launch'd through the Ocean to Eternity:
Loud storms of Grief, in folds did rowle,
And drowned all the Worlds Supremacy.
II.
All things lookt sad and mourn'd at the Depart,
Till Heaven pleas'd to smile,
Eas'd the reluctance of each Heart,
And all around the solid Universe,
His beams of gentle influence (the while
He rose in glory) like mercy did disperse.
III.
So when bright
Sol, draws from the fruitful earth,
His wearied beams of Light;
Which do beget each fragrant birth,
The sable Curtains ore the Heaven's drawn;
But soon he does (in flaques) disperse the Night,
And usher in
Aurora through the Dawn.
IV.
Whilest mighty Hosts of glorious Souls extend,
Thoughout the spangl'd Sphere,
All Saints his Presence do attend;
A High and Mighty Saint, they him proclaim,
As we great
James our King did here,
The Second, of that Everlasting Name.
V.
Angels conduct him to the glorious
Throne,
Where all things new appear.
He comprehends the
Three in One:
A Crown of Glory's to him given,
Whilest Mighty
James, Great Baittains Crown does wear,
And Joy's proclaim'd throughout both earth and heaven.
VI.
Our
Cesar was too
Pious, Great and
Good,
'Mongst Mortals to remain:
Heaven saw they thirsted for His Blood,
(But
Traytors Crimes do still require their own)
Justice the Murtherers themselves has slain,
And plac'd
Great Charles on an
Eternal Throne.
VII.
Near to our
Great Jehovah, he is set,
Adorn'd with Gemms of Light;
Fine Azure Clouds about him get,
But soon his lustre thro' the Laune displays,
Dispersing round the Globe of Atomes quite,
And gilds the Heaven with his refulgent Rays.
VIII.
He like
Apollo, sway'd, vvhilest here on Earth,
Justice fulfill'd his Law,
His Influence inspir'd his Birth;
When from the Martyr's sacred Loyns he came,
By a Divine Intent, the World to awe,
Which now is fill'd with his immortal Fame.
IX.
The
Auspicious Star, which at His Birth appear'd,
Great Prodigies foretold,
That such a Prince, belov'd and fear'd,
Shou'd Crovvn'd vvith Miracles, adorn a Throne,
Whose Fame shou'd Register great Deeds of old,
And Chronicle far greater of his ovvn.
FINIS.