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Show ,. GUSTAVUS VASA, w. froold tbu, meet J Can Chriftiern ceafe from Say, wCheUn«yithi.,n,y Brother? How efcap'd Did I S*T £• **• ^f^rthee M > w . Of th« hereafter. J<* ™ b e d n e f i , ST B«o?nbv Vr u? Falhion. tumtoFolJy , T h S CoTour/tarnifh, and their*omp. grow poor T o her Magnificence. Gufi-* ^weepfnTotthe proudeft Train Beyond the fweeping 01 in p f That made, a Monarch. Heel, 1 pr ^ For the^rfficred to tny Country's Freedom. \ miehty Enterprixe ha. been conceiv d A - S thou art come aufpieiou, to the Birth, A,°ia« to fix the Seal of r W o upon ,t Jrv-b lPeoeidn t but thy Purpoft let 11 oe to Guti. Your Hand, my Friend. ! rA,l,lk. OIu krn Hoewa rtthsey.' re brave. Offuch the lime ha. need, of Heart, like your., £ith ul and firm, of Hands inured and ftrong, For we mull ride upon the Neck of: Danger, And oluniu iato a Purpofe big with Death. By 4a Jll Here let us kneel and bind us to thy Side, Tf Cwuef tw.a Nnot ,O ahtohlsd to join us, Swift let us part, from Pole to Pole afundef. A Caufe like our. i. it. own Sacrament; Truth, Juftice, Reafon, Love, and Liberty, Th?eternal Link, that clafp the World are m l , And he, who break, their Sanftion, breaks all Law> ^ A-And infinite Conneftion. jr». True, m y Lord. And The Deliverer of his- Country. ' i £ And. And fuch the Force I feel. Arv. And I. Arn. And all. Gz//. Know then, that 'ere our royal Stenon felf, While thiimy valiant Coufin and myfelf, By Chains and Treach'ry, lay detain'd in Denmarkr Upon a dark and unfufpected Hour The bloodyChriftiern iought to take m y Head. Thanks to the ruling Pow'r ! Within whofe Eye imbofom'd Ills And mighty Treafons roll, prevented of Their Blacknefs 1 efcap'd, Led by a gen'rous Arm, and fome time lay Gonccal'd in Denmark. For my forfeit Head Became the Price of Crowns, each Port and Path Was (hut againft my Paffage, 'till I heard That Stenon, valiant Stenon fell in Battle, And Freedom was no more. O then what Bounds Had Pbw'r to hem the Defp'rate ? i o'ernafi'd them, r Travers'd all Sweden, thro' Ten thoufand Foes impending t erils, zvA fur rounding Tongues, I hat from himfelf enquir'd Guftavus out. Witnefs my Country, how I toil'd to wake Cold Fear had feiz'd on all . Herelaftlcame, and ftut m e »rom.the Sun, whofe hateful Beams WhenUre^ my Friends, 'twas here ^length i What I had left to look for »*.!«»• o i • our ZW?. uheronoKtiv ™,WI1'r> gau*nt bptrm w/raaj J Wcrc brave, And'«rtS^y^ a K L- to King, , From all th' ouneJK r betD thcir Lilir y. Have h e r d i ^ ua?oruact!l!LA^i t i 0n ftar'd ~"" u'"o u™«- -tho' now 'lis <?*/- |