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Show ^ 7 ~^Tem^^c^^^_^ tick a Sl^boaid. You are partly Mi* may fwim after me. I wifh you a §tr^w to this Royal Company, my Servant, be vifible, And entertain them with a Dance before they part. Ariel I have a gentle Spirit for my Love, W h o twice feveiiYears hath waited for my Freedom, It fhall appear and foot it featly with me. M ^ , my Love, rhy^/alls rhee [They dance a Saraband. Milch a. Here! Profp. Henceforth this Ifle to the affiled be A place of Refuge as it was to m e ; T h e Promifes of blooming Spnng live here, A n d all the Bleffings of the rip'mng Year; O n m y retreat let Heaven and Nature fimle, ^ A n d ever flourifh"tlie£W;4»^//f. »* AN ^75 EVENINGS LOVE- 'OR, THE Mock-Aftrologer. To his GRACE, WILL DUKE of NEWCASTLE. One of His Majefties moft Honourable Privy Council : and of the moll Noble Order ofthe Garter, &c. May it pleafe your Grace, A M o n g f i thofe few perfons of Wit and Honour, whofe favourable Opinion I have difir'd, your own Virtue and my great Obligations to your Grace, have juftly given you the Precedence. For what could be more glorious to me, than to have acqutr'd fome part off our efteem , who are admir'd and honour'd by all good Men; who have been, for fo many years together, the Pattern and Standard of Honor to the Nation.: and whofe whole Life has been fo great an Example of Heroick Virtue, that we might wonder how it hatpen'd into t fo corrupt as ours, if it had not likewife been apart of the former? As you come into the World with all the advantages of a noble Birth and Education, fo you have rendred both, yet more confpicuous by your Virtue. Fortune, in leed, has perpetually crown'd your undertakings with fuccefs, but fhe has only waited on your Valour , not conducted it. 8 has mini fired to your Glory like a Slave, and has been led in triumph by it, or at moft, while Honour led you by the Hand to Greatnefs , Fortune only follow'd to keep you from jliding back in the afcent. That which Plutarch accounted her favour to C y m o n and Lu-cullus, was but her juftice to your Grace: and, never to have been overcome whi re you led in Perfon , as it was more than Hannibal could boaft, fo it was all that providence could do for that Party which it had refolv'd to ruine Thus, my Lord, th. of Victory were on your Arms: and, every where elfe, declaring fent the Rebels, (be feem'd Pofufpend her Jtlf, and to doubt, before jhe took her flight, whether fhe w Jly to abandon that Caufe for which you fought. But the greateft tryals of your Courage and Conftancy were yet to come : many had z tur'd their Fortunes, and expos'd their Lives t+the utmoft dangers for their Kjng A 1 Country, who ended their Loy.'.fy with the War; and fubmitting to the iniquity of t times, chofe rather to redeem their former plenty b) acknowledging an 1)fur per, than to fuffer with an unprofitable Fidelity (as thofe meantr Spirits call'd it) for their law: Sovereign, fiut, as J dare not accufe Jo many of our Nobility, who were content to t kept their Patrimonies from the Clemency of the Conqucrour, and io retain only a fecret veneration for their Prince, amidft tue open worfhip rvbith they were fore'd to pay lo the Vfurper, w-.o had Dethron d him ; fo, I hope, I. leave to extol that Virtue which ailed wore generotifly ; an, was not fat. th an inward aevotion to Monarchy, hut produe'd it felf to nd off rt //Martyrdom. Of thefe rare Patterns of Loyalty your Grate was Chi you cou'd not find, you made. Some few Catb1'/ there were with you, • ion could not if Conquer'a by that Ufurping Cefar: your Virtue oppos'd it felt to his Fortune, and rtn r- |