A congratulatory poem on the sitting of the great convention in the Parliament house at Westminster, January 22. 1688/9.

A congratulatory poem on the sitting of the great convention in the Parliament house at Westminster, January 22. 1688/9.

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A Congratulatory Poem On the Sitting of the Great Convention

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A Congratulatory Poem On the Sitting of the Great Convention

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In the Parliament Houſe at Weſtminſter, January 22. 1688/9.

WISE Senators! We much Congratulate

Your happy Meeting, for to heal our State:

Our State was Sick, it lay much i'th' Head,

We look't upon our ſelves as almoſt Dead,

Had not our Iſraels Gideon came with ſpeed,

We could not now have ſaid, Who did the Deed:

But now the Tide is turn'd, the Trap they made,

Did catch themſelves, we are not now diſmay'd.

They now are fruſtrated in their Intention,

That God hath Bleſt us with a Wiſe Convention.

Now Juſtice will run down, and Judgment meet,

And Righteouſneſs and Peace, they will them greet.

May Halcion days of Joy, always attend

Our Noble Senators, until their Lives do end.

Theſe days of Purim, Why ſhould we be ſad?

Though Haman muſt be Hang'd, Let us be Glad.

The Voice o'th' Turtle now is heard i'th' Nation,

Which makes the Popelings Mad with Conſternation:

The time of Singing Birds, it is now come,

Be packing all you Papiſts, now for Rome:

There Plot, and Plot, and lay your Damn'd deſign

As low as Hell, we'l find a Countermine:

Call your Black Emiſſaries, let them go

To thoſe dark Cells, and diſmal Vaults below;

Where Maſſacrees and Murthers have their Birth,

And Acted by the Devils Apes on Earth:

Go, go, into your ſecret Cells, and Mourn

Among the ſhady Groves, and ſilent Urns;

Whilſt our grave Patriots in Peace do Reſt,

In this our Land, with Joy and Plenty Bleſt,

Long may you live State Pillars, whilſt you're here,

'Till Heaven removes you to a higher Sphere:

And may your Names for ever be Enrol'd,

'Mongſt Famous Worthies, when this Globe grows Old.

Reſt then (Great Sirs) in Health and Happineſs,

If we can ſay no more, we wiſh no leſs.

(Tho. Morley

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London, Printed by W. Downing in Bartholomew-Cloſe.

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A congratulatory poem on the sitting of the great convention in the Parliament house at Westminster, January 22. 1688/9.

Morley, Thomas, fl. 1689.

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1689

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2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

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A51397

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Wing M2798

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ESTC R218164

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99829781

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99829781

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34224

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— A congratulatory poem on the sitting of the great convention in the Parliament house at Westminster, January 22. 1688/9., Morley, Thomas, fl. 1689..

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1 sheet ([1] p)

printed by W. Downing in Bartholomew. Close,. London :: [1689]. (Verse - "Wise Senators! We much congratulate".) (Signed at end: Tho. Morley.) (Reproduction of the original at the Cambridge University Library.)

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