ENGLANDS VOTE FOR A FREE ELECTION OF A Free Parliament.
GReat God of Nations, and their Right,
By whose high Auspice
Brittain stands
So long, though first 'twas built on Sands;
And oft had sunk but for thy might.
In her own Mainland-storms and Seas:
Be present to her now as then,
And let not proud and factious men
Oppose thy Will with what they please.
Our Free full Senate's to be made;
O, put it in the publick voice
To make a legal worthy choice:
Excluding such as would invade
The Common-wealth. Let whom we name
Have Wisdome, Foresight, Fortitude,
Be more with Faith, then Face endu'd;
And sturdy Conscience above Fame.
Such, as not seek to get the Start
In State, by Faction, Power, or Bribes,
Ambitions Bawds: But move the
Tribes
By Vertue, Modesty, Desert.
Such, as to Justice will adhere,
Whatever great one it offend;
And from the embraced Truth not bend
For Envy, Hatred, Gifts or Fear.
That by their Deeds will make it known,
Whose Dignity they do sustain;
And Life, State, Glory, all they gain,
Count it
Great Brittains, not their own.
Such the old
Bruti, Decii were,
The
Cippi, Curtii, who did give
Themselves for
Rome: and would not live,
As men, good only for a year.
Such were the great
Camilli too;
The
Fabii, Scipio's; that still thought
No work at price enough was bought,
That for their Country they could do:
And to her honour so did knit,
As all their Acts were understood
The Sinews of the Publick Good,
And they themselves one Soul with it.
These men were truely Magistrates;
These neither practis'd Force, nor Forms,
Nor did they leave the Helm in Storms;
And such they are make happy States.
FINIS.