Fryday May 17. 1661.

HACTENUS ANGLORVM NVLLI. CAROLO SECUNDO MAGNO MAJORI.
AN ODE
On the Fair Weather that attended His Maiesty on His BIRTH, To His KINGDOM and His CROWN.
As it was presented To the KINGS most Excellent Majesty.

GLories of God,
Psal. 19. 1.
the Heavens high declare
By Starry Messengers, and
Wisemen. Mat. 2. 1.
Sophies are
Conducted by them to the Sacred place,
Where they beheld that more then Heavenly Race;
The onely Potentate,
1 Tim. 6. 15.
the King of Kings,
To him they humbly pay rich Offerings;
Your Star (Great Sir)
His Maje­sty's Nati­vity.
clim'd Our Meridian
In glory with the Sun, to see the Train
(After your Morning Birth)
K. Charles went to Pauls next day af­ter his Birth
that went to pay
Solemn Devotions for your happy Day:
The Mines,
Coin.
from Oare in Gold and Silver sing,
Hactenus Anglorum Nulli t' Our King.
Angels and Men! thus Heav'n and Earth doth treat
Our Heavenly joys, to make our hopes compleat,
But Clouds arose e're we knew where we were,
The Inter­regnum.
And Blood and Darknes stain'd Our Hemisphere,
Till Majesty return'd and calm'd Our Main,
His Maje­sties arrival.
Then Sun and Halcyon dayes return'd again:
And leaving al in Peace he ran his Race
About the Zodiack,
11 Moneths almost.
save a little space
He wanted, when the TRIUMPH and the CROWN
Posted him sooner by a signe to Town;
Where finding Discontents and Tumults bold,
Venner & imprisonments Onely those 2 days (of many) were fair.
He forc'd his way through Waters to behold.
Th' Aspiring Trophies wait on Prophesie,
CARLO SECUNDO MAGNO MAJORI,
A Prophesie in St. Johns Library in Cambridge.
Then draws the Clouds again, and strait lets flie
Thunder and Lightning through Aire's Canopy,
To terrifie Us Mortals,
Canons and Thunder, answering each other.
and bids know
TOWERS as well above are as below.
Long live King CHARLES the II.
2 Cor. 1. 20. Yeas & Nays took away the Life of K. Charls.
may his dayes,
YEA and AMEN confirm, not YEAS and NAYES.

LONDON, Printed by IOHN CLOWES, for the Author, 1661.

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