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WHilst favour'd Bishops new Sleeves put on,
And Toleration has each Non Con;
And Courtiers get places of Gracious Queen Ann,
  All bustling in every Station:

A Son of Phœbus, whose Muse oft sings
Our Nation's Glory, with other Things,
A stanch Loyal Lover of Queens, and of Kings,
  To make this Address takes Occasion:

Oh long and bright may your Glory shine,
Great Patroness of the Tuneful Nine,
Who all, like the Vision of Pharoah's Lean Kine,
  Late mourn'd on a sad Desolation:

But now they flourish in Golden Days,
And Bounty showrs on Apollo's Race,
Let me too be happy in Soveraign Grace,
  Now Britain is made a blest Nation.

Great Marlborough, who for the Field prepares,
And Loads of Lawrel through Flanders bears;
Yet are not in weight like his Annual Cares,
  To crown his late Deeds is contriving.

Then, whether Mounsieur can well maintain
What to half Europe's against the Grain,
His Grandson young Philip, to King it in Spain,
  You'll find at our Forces arriving.

For tho' we late into Feuds did grow,
Some for the High-Church, and some the Low,
We now must unite to drive out such a Foe
  By Aids, to support the Invasion.

Dull Baden, Fate, has casheer'd at last,
Had brave Eugene on the Rhine been plac'd,
One Hour had atton'd for an Age that has past,
  And given for new Trophies Occasion.