To the brazen-head

To the brazen-head

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To the Brazen-Head.

To the Brazen-Head.

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WHat Strepitantious Noiſe is it that ſounds,

From Raiſed Banks, or from the Lower Grounds?

From Hollow Caverns, Labyrinths from afar,

Threatning Confuſions of a Dreadful War?

What Diſmal Cries of people in Deſpair

Fill the vaſt Region of the Troubled Air?

The Tune of Horrour, or of what's as ſtrange,

That ſtrikes uneven like a World of Change,

With ſuch a Bold Surprize attacks my Senſe,

Beyond the Power of Counſel or Defence?

But tho' Blind Fortune rolls her turning Wheel

With a perpetual Motion, who can feel

This Surge of Fate, puſh't on with Fire and Steel?

You precious Moments of Serener Days!

When many Victories enlarg'd my Praiſe,

And all things ran in a moſt eaſie Stream,

Back unto me their Ocean and Supream.

Are you all vaniſh'd by the ſudden Fright,

And left m' incompaſs'd with a Diſmal Night?

By my own Subjects in ſuſpicion held,

Murmurings, as bad as if they had Rebell'd?

You all Controuling Powers of things above!

Whoſe eaſier Dictates guide the World by Love!

Avert th' Impendent Miſeries, and ſhow

Us Earthly Gods to Govern here below!

The Anſwer.

'TIS well you've thought upon the chiefeſt Cauſe

Change nothing of Religion nor the Laws,

And then no Diſcontent ſhall here Invade,

For Thieves would enter out of a Bravade,

To rectify all wrongs, when their Intent

'S themſelves t' inrich, and not the Government.

Let the Great Monarch this good Motto wear,

Not only in his Arms but every where.

Integer Vitae, is my whole Defence,

Sceleriſque purus, a moſt ſtrong Defence;

Non eget Mauri, that no Forces need,

Jaculis nec Arcu, which Contentions breed:

Nec venenatis gravida Sagittis

Pharetra, to make Loyal his own Cities.

FINIS.

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Title statement

To the brazen-head

Edition statement

1685

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2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

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A62714

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Wing T1389A

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ESTC R22757

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12364760

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ocm 12364760

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60379

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— To the brazen-head,

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1 sheet ([1] p.)

s.n.,. [London :: 1685?]. (Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.) (Appeal to "... change nothing of religion nor the laws, then no discontent shall here invade.") (Broadside.)

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