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Show " "" 7. ,-u and cede your Enmity, ' ?!ror m l - ' «*om Von fee. lh|' .. • ,,^Tvnnt,bu.n,yHusl»nd.oo; AnttlieKforeWy will fome Tern Okm. /V. PhMhi here! ., . R..„t h > A„d fair ^""ftl* b»**» ? ^ ' 7 WhenSu• to S r did your Life deny, Wnf^t^P?18 ^wSllive SPorohyrius 1&, «d «*| p„,: R>r thy dear lake, 1 vow eacl^cekllne, ^ O ^ J ^ ^ That you have thought me worthy-to be fo. Bur, to requite that Love, I muft take Ore, Not to engage you in a Civil v\ ar. Two EmplrSrs at Rome the Senate chofe, And whom they chufe no Roman mould oppofe. fn Peace or War, let Monarchs Hope or Fear , All m y Ambition (hall be bounded here Jkr? I have too lately been a Princes Wife, And fear th'unlucky Omen of the Lite. Like a rich Veflel beat by Storms to Shore, Twere Madnefs mould I venture out once more. Of Glorious Trouble I will take no part And in no EmpireReign, but of your Heart Por. Let to the Winds your Golden Eagles fly, Your Trumpets found a Bloodleis Victory : Our Arms no more let Aquileia fear, But to her Gates our peaceful Enfigns bear. While I mix Cyprefs with m y Myrtle Wreath, Joy for your Life, and Mourn / alenas Death. I Kilfmg Berenice x Hand. [_ To the Soldiers. [Exeunt omnes. FINIS. T O H I S ROYAL HIGHNESS T HE D U K 5 / R Excellent whofe Charaaers have, for die moft part, been the Guides and K m m T o f d i c i r irnjrari And Poets,while they Imitate, Inftrucl. The feign'd Heroe inflames the True: And the dead Vii tue animates the living. Since, therefore, the World is Govern'd by Precept and' Example, and both thefe can only have influence from thofe Perfons w h o are aboTe us ; that kind oi Poefie, which excites to Virtue the greateft M e n , is of greateft ufe to Humane kind. 'Tis from this Confideration, that 1 have prefum'd to Dedicate to your Royal Highnefs thefe faint Reprefentations of your o w n Worth and Valour in Heroick Poetry : O r , to'fneak more properly, not to Dedicate, bur to reftore to you thofe Ideas, which in the more perfect part of m y Charaaers, I have taken fiom you. Heroes may lawfully be delighted with their o w n Praifes, both as they are farther incitements to their \ .ind as they are thc higheft Returns which Mankind can make them for it. And certainly, if ever Nation were oblig'd, either by the Conduct, the Perfonal Valour,or the good Fortune of a Leader, the Eag/i/feare acknowledging, in all of them, to your Royal Highnefs. Your whole Life has been a continued Series of Heroick Actions ; which you bepan fo early, that you were no fboner n a m d in the World, but it was with Praife and ration. Even the firft blolfoms of your Youth paid us all that could be expecf ripening Manhood. While you practis'd but the Rudiments of War, you out-went all otl Captains ; and have fince found none to furpafs, but your felf alone. The opening of your Glory was like that of Light: You fhone to us from afar; and difc os'd your firft Beams on diftant Nations: Yet fo, that thc Luff re of them was jpread abroad, and reflected brightly on your Native Country. You were then an Honour to it, when it was a Reproach to it felf: A n d when the fortunate Ufurper fent his Arms to Flanders, many ofthe Adverfe Party were vanquifh'd by your Fame, e'lethey tiy:d>our Valour. The Report of it drcwove, to your Enfigns whole Troops and Companies of Converted Rebels: and made them for fake fucccfful Wickednefs, to follow an opprefs'd andexil'd Virtue. Your Reputation Wag'd War with the Enemies of your Royal Family, even within their Trenches; a Cobfti-nate, or more guilty of them, were foic'd to be Spies over thofe w h o m they Commanded, left the N a m e of YORK fhould Disband that Army, in whofe Fate it was to defeat the ards, and force Dunkirk to Surrender. Yet, thofe vi&orious Forces of the Rebels were not able to fuftain your Arms. Where you Charg'd in Peifbn you-were a Conqueror. ' true, they afterwards rtcover'd Courage; and wrefted that Victory from otheiS which th had loft to you. And it was a greater Action for them to Rally, than if. was to overcom Thus, by the Prefence of your Royal Highnefs, the Englifh on both (ides rcmaind \ \t~\ And that A i m y which was broken by your Valour, became a Terror tothofs for whcmtfi Conquei'd. Then it was, that at the Cofb of other Nations yon inform'd and culrivat that Valour which was to defend your Native Country, and to vindicate its Honour from tl Infblence of our incroaching Neighbours. When the HoUandtrs, not contented t< aw themfelves from the Obedience which they ovv'd their lawful Sovere by ofe Charity they were firft protected j and, (being fwell'd up to a pre eminence of Trade, by a lupine Negligence on our fide, and a fordid Parfimony on their o w n ' ro dilpute the Sovereignty ot the Seas; the Eyes ot Three Nations were then caft on And by the joint '• King and People, you were chofen to revenge their c o mm Injuries; to which, though you had an undoub; d Title ! - by your Courage. Neither did the Succefs deceive our Hop< ious Victory which was gain'd by our Navy in chat War, was in that lirft 1 Vherein, i of our i , w h o ever palliate their o w n Lolles, and •ill) our Advanta. te Triumph was acki Conquei'dai as at Len I the voturn of a fhatter'd Fleet, without an Adnii al, thc moft impudent a e, oi a - rious Whe d C 6 - ' |