A Worthy Panegyrick UPON MONARCHY; Written
Anno M DC L VIII.
By a Learned and truly Loyal Gentleman, for Information of the miserably mis-led
Commonwealths-Men (falsely so called) of that
Deluded Age; and now revived by
One that honours the
Author, and the
Established Government of these
Nations.
I.
IF wanting
Wings one may ascend the
Skies,
And
Phoebus view, without an
Eagles Eyes;
Then
Rouse up (
Muse) from thy
Lethargick Strains,
And (having first invok'd the
God of Brains)
Let the Grand
Subject of thy
Measures be,
II.
It is the
Image of that
Domination,
By which
Jehovah rules the whole
Creation;
Angels nor
Saints, do in his
Kingdom share,
God is
Sole-Monarch, they, but
Subjects are:
Whose
Laws are such, as when
they did
Rebel,
Sequestred not, but sent
them strait to
Hell.
III.
As
Old, as that Paternal
Sovereignty,
God plac'd in
Adam, rul'd his
People by;
Disown'd of
None, but
them whose Minds aspire,
And Envy ONE should have what
All desire:
For be't a
Few or
Many we live under,
Such shall repine, still, whilst not of the
Number.
IIII.
The
Antients did a
Monarchy prefer,
Made all their
Gods submit to
Jupiter;
And (when
Affairs and
Nations first began)
Princes DECREES were th' only
Laws of Man;
Experience will avow it, where there's any,
One HONEST MAN is sooner found than MANY.
V.
The
Rational Soul performs a
Princes part,
She rules the
Body by
Monarchick Art;
Poor
Cranes, and silly
Bees (with shivering Wings,)
Observe their
Leaders, and
obey their
Kings:
Nature her self, disdains a
Crowded Throne,
The
Body's Monstrous, has more
Heads than ONE.
VI.
[...]
Monarchy's that Politick simple
State,
Consists in
Ʋnity (inseparate
Pure
[...] entire;) a
Government that
stands,
When others
fall, touch'd but with
levelling hands:
So
Natural and with such
Skill endu'd,
It makes ONE
Body of a
Multitude.
VII.
In
Order (wherein
latter things depend
On
former) that's most
perfect doth attend
On
Ʋnity: But this can never be
The
Popular State, nor
Aristocracy;
For where or
All, or
Many bear the
Sway,
Such
Order, to
Confusion leads the way.
VIII.
A
Monarchy more quickly doth attain
The
End propos'd; for 'tis the
Single-Brain
That
ripens Councel, and concealeth best
Princely
Designs, 'till
Deeds proclaim 'em blest.
Whilst
Numerous Heads are rarely of
one Mind,
Slow in their
Motion, lowder than the
Wind.
IX.
Treason, nor
Force, so suddenly divides
Th'
Ʋnited Strength that in a
Crown resides:
Sedition prospers not, it seldom here,
Results an
Object of the
Prince's Fear:
Then when an
Empire, Rome was ne'r so
strong,
Nor
Triumph'd under other
Rule so long.
X.
A
Monarchy abates those
Feverish Fits
Of
Emulation a
Free-State begets:
A
Prince cannot his
Reins so quickly slack,
Or
throw his
Burthen on anoth
[...]
Back:
But where so
many Rulers
[...]e Command,
The
Work's transferr'd, and
toss'd from Hand to Hand.
XI.
The
People, or the
Nobles to debate
The
deep Concernments of a
troubled State,
Set
Times and
Places have assign'd them, they
First
meet, and then
adjourn from Day to Day!
Whereas a
Monarch, who by
Nature's ONE,
Deliberates always, never's
off his
Throne.
XII.
But hold! Me thinks I see the three
Estates
Conven'd; thrown open
Prison-Doors and
Grates,
Extinct our paltry
Jealousies and
Fears,
Grace offer'd to
All, but
Cavaliers
And—! yet with
Patience they abound,
In Hopes of
Better, now the
Wheel go's round.
Britannia ab initio mundi semper fuit Regia & Regimen illius simile ille Caelorum.
Howel.
LONDON, Printed for W. B. M DC LXXX.