A LOYAL EXHORTATION.
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1688.
Of kings dethron’d, and blood of brethren ſpilt,
In vain, O Britain! you ’d avert the guilt,
Is crimes which your forefathers bluſh’d to own,
Repeated, call for heavier vengeance down.4
Tremble, ye People! who your kings diſtreſs;
Tremble, ye Kings! for people you oppreſs:
Th’ Eternal ſees, arm’d with his forky rods.
The riſe and fall of empire ’s from the gods.8
INSCRIPTION
FOR A FIGURE REPRESENTING THE GOD OF LOVE.
Whoe’er thou art, thy lord and maſter ſee;
Thou waſt my ſlave, thou art, or thou ſhalt be.2
HER NAME.
Gueſs, and I ’ll frankly own her name,
Whoſe eyes have kindled ſuch a flame;
The Spartan or the Cyprian queen
Had ne’er been ſung had ſhe been ſeen:
Who ſet the very gods at war5
Were but faint images of her.
Believe me, for by Heav’ns ’t is true!
The ſun in all his ample view
