ring, the Trumpets sound, the Cannon roar, O happy
Descent, and strange Reverse! I have seen{11} E_nglands_ Restorer, Great
_CHARLES the II._ RETURN'D, REVENG'D, BELOV'D, CROWN'D, RE-ESTABLISH'D.

_Terrasque Astraea Revisit._

And O that it were now in my power to speak some great thing, worthy this
great day; I should put all the flowers of _Orators_ and Raptures of
_Poets_ into one lofty & high Expression, and yet not Reach what I would
say to Your Majestie: For never since there was a Citie, or Kingdom, did a
Day appear more glorious to _England_, never since it was a Nation, and in
which there either was, or ought to be so universal a Jubilation: Not that
Your Triumphal Charriots do drag the miserable Captives, but are
accompanied by freed Citizens; perfidie is now vanquished, popular fury
chayn'd, crueltie tam'd, luxury restrained, these lie under the spondells
of Your Wheeles, where Empire, Faith, Love, and Justice Ride Triumphant,
and nothing can be added to Your _M_a_j_esties glory but its perpetuitie.
But whence, alas! should I have this confidence, after so many _Elogies_
and _Panegyricks_ of great and Eloquent men, who consecrate the memorie of
this daies happinesse; and (were the subject, like that of all other
things) would have left me nothing more to add, unless he who was
sometimes wont to employ his pen for Your _M_ajestie being absent, should
now be silent that you are present, and inflame me with a kind of new
Enthusiasme: I find myself then compell'd out of a grateful sense of my
dutie for the publick benefit, and if your _M_ajestie forbid not, or
withdraw your influence, who shall hinder, that even my slender voice
should not strive to be heard, in such an universall{12} consort, wherein
everybody has a part, every one a share?

Permit me therefore (O best of Kings) to present, and lay these my vowes
at your sacred feet, to exsult, and to Rejoyce with the Rest of your Loyal
Subjects; not as I desire, but as I am able, and as I would do it to God,
and as he best loves it,

_Sentiendo copiosius, quam loquendo._

_DIXI._

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