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By the same Wish aspiring Queens are led,
Each languishing to mount his Royal Bed;
His Youth, his Wisdom, and his early Fame,
Create in ev’ry Breast a Rival Flame:
Remotest Kings sit trembling on their Thrones,
As if no Distance cou’d secure their Crowns;
Fearing his Valour, wisely they contend
To bribe with Beauty so renown’d a Friend:
Beauty the Price, there need no other Arts,
Love is the surest Bait for Heroes Hearts:
Nor can the Fair conceal as high Concern
To see the Prince, for whom, unseen, they burn.

Brave York, attending to gen’ral Voice,
At length resolves to make the wish’d-for Choice;
To noble Peterborough, Wise and Just,
Of his great Heart he gives the sacred Trust:
“Thy Eyes,” said he, “shall well direct that Heart
Where thou, my best belov’d, hast such a Part;
In Council oft, and oft in Battel try’d,
Betwixt thy Master, and the World, decide.”

The chosen Mercury prepares t’ obey
This high Command. Gently, ye Winds, convey,
And with auspicious Gales his Safety wait,
On whom depend Great Britain’s Hopes and Fate.
So Jason with his Argonauts, from Greece
To Colchos sail’d, to fetch the Golden Fleece.

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