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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A06691) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 10313) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 850:06) King Charles his birthright. By P.M. Gentleman P. M., Gentleman. Maitland, Patrick, attributed name. [8] p. Printed by Iohn Wreittoun, Edinburgh : 1633. P.M. = Patrick Maitland?--Cf. Halkett & Laing, 3rd ed., 1475-1640, p. 110. In verse. Signatures: A⁴. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649 -- Poetry. eebo King Charles his birthright. By P.M. Gentleman. P. M., Gentleman 1633 10 1440 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2010-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2010-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-03 Sampled and proofread 2010-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

KING CHARLES HIS BIRTHRIGHT .

ECCLESIASTES X. XVII .

Blessed art thou O Land , when thy KING is the Sonne of Nobles .

By P. M. Gentleman .

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EDINBVRGH , Printed by Iohn Wreittoun . 1633.

KING CHARLES HIS BIRTHRIGHT . ECCLESIASTES X. XVII .

Blessed art thou O Land , when thy KING is the Sonne of Nobles .

IS any Land or any clyme , More blest then Britane at this tyme ? What Monarch or what Soveraigne , That dwels vpon this earthly maine , May with our matchlesse CHARLES compare , Britane , France , and Irelands heire ? By HENRIE , LIZA , peacefull IAMES , Borne heire to foure faire Diadames : First to the Roses whyte and red , Next to the Lillie sprung and spred , Then to the Lyon fierce and sharpe , And to Apollo's golden Harpe : The true borne Sonne of Kings before , Aboue an hundreth seven and more : The blest effects which his raigne brings , Prompts him to bee the Sonne of Kings : A mortall God , a Prince divyne , By lyne , law , lot , the Heavens propyne : A peirlesse Prince , who from his youth , Hath ever lovde the sacred trueth . What gifts belongs to those that 's crownde , But in his Majestie is found , Hee faith defends by his great might , Hee represents GODS Image right : Hee favours peace with friend and foe , Hee can all veterate wrath forgoe : If neede requyre hee can prepare , Most prudently for lawfull Warre : Or foes envyes our blest estate , To haue a King chast temperat , Who being young wee joy to tell , Proues father to the Common-well , Who wisely but all friends respect , Can search out sinnes and sinnes correct : Who lives a life of good report , Example to the common sort , Who is a terror to the Thiefe , And to the good a strong reliefe , Who hath a heart stout and compleet , Prepard all dangers for to meet : Who hath reformde the civill Lawes , For equitie and justice cause , No ydle mumbling Papists prayers , Nor yet no bloody Iesuit ayers , No false Arminian , Brunist breath , Dare echoed bee within His earth . To publicke offices and charges , Hee onely prefers and inlarges : The honest , vertuous , and the good , Not respecting wealth or blood : Hee hath a princely prudent care , O're Orphans poore , and Widows bare : But heere are gifts which farre exceeds , And farre surpasses vulgar heads : Hee can securely in effect , Walke wisely on the Dragons neck , Most safely hee can see and heare , A Crocodile to spend a teare , The Basilicks inchanting eye , Can no more harme him than a flie , Hee makes the Lambe ( simpathie rare ) Hard by the Wolfe to sleepe but feare : The subtill Fox if hee forbid , Dare not approach the harmelesse kid . These gifts superlatiue and more , His Princely wisedome doth decore , And seeke him extra , you shall see , A Paragone but paritie . For why his life defyance throes At envyes face , and all his foes : Can any Naboth plaine hee wants , His Vine-yeard for his fruitefull plants : Or can Vriah say hee dyes , Because the King his wife espyes : Or can the people or CHRISTS flocke , Complaine of Sal'mons heavie yocke : Can any curre-mouthd Mastiue say , ( That barkes vpon the world this day ) Say but his Soule doth still commence , Peace and Religions defence , And if subsidies bee concluded , It s for those holy ends obtruded : Since Kings are Gods how dare yee then , Lyke Rabshaka's , Senacheribs men : Presume to raile , reproach , or breath , Against the Godhead of their earth : Dare any in a thought abhord , Curse this Anoynted of the LORD . Or blame this King whom reallie , The Bards and Sybils prophesie : To bee that Prince whose happie starres , Presages to appease all warres : That true borne King , of whom of old , The Ancient Prophets have foretold , Of whom the Rymers in their verses , Most happie events thus reherses : That howsoever fortune fall , The Lyon shall bee Lord of all , This Princely Lyon and this Lord , Shall with this Lillie make concord : That Syce shall vp and Sinke shall vnder , The dead shall rise and worke great wonder : This Lyon shall bee King and Prince , Of vncouth coasts farre , farre from hence . And of a waste and desart ground , A continent not fully found : Where hudge great wildernesse doth lye , Thither his Colonies must hye : To banish Zoroastes hence , Wirh Molech , Circe , and her Prince : And when Appollyon and his Aries , Are skipped over Carons Ferries : Then shall hee builde to the true GOD , Temples to praise his Name abroad , And bring sweete Shiloh to that shore , Where Abbadon did dwell before . O Royall King thou art that Hee Whom these predictions specifie : Thou art that King and true borne Cesar , Our greatest hap and hyest pleasure , Britanes blesse , and Europs jewell , Our Palladium , foode , and fewell : GODS minion , and our onely loue , Next to the King of Kings aboue : Our guard , our watch , which still awakes In toyle and travell for our sakes . Then come ( Blest KING ) with great renowne , Receaue your great grand Fathers Crowne : Your birthright Crowne that did suppresse , The roaring Romans hardinesse : That Virgin Scepter singularie , Never as yet made tributarie : Your owne true Crowne ( Great Sir ) I meane , Your old Fergusian diadame : Except this Crowne that Crowne was never , That did remaine vnconquerd ever : The Monarchs foure so much renownde , Were all most odiously decrownde : The Lyon with the Eagles wings , ( I meane the stout Assirian Kings ) Was by the barbarous Boare beate downe , Which signifies the Persian Crowne : The Leopard , the Grecian swey , Did beate the mightie Boare away : And then this Meteor Grecian might , But lasted like a lightning bright : The fearefull Beast with many teath , Which doth poynt out the Romans wrath , Though this Empyre continued longest , Yet it was broke even at the strongest : Proud Spaine were all but slaves of late ▪ Vnto the great Cesarean state , And Caesar was a slaue beside , To Gregorie for all his pryde : France hath thryse exchangde the lyne , Within nyne hundreth yeares and nyne : The Popes head ay an heirelesse crowne , A birthright for some bastard clowne : The faithlesse , gracelesse , Ottoman , Was tributar to Tamerlan , To Scanderbeg , and Godfrey stout , And to the Christian Kings about : And let mee speake this but offence , ( With all submissiue reverence ) The Crowne of Iudah did remaine , A captiue long in base disdaine : But your braue Caledonian Crowne , Beares this cognisance of renowne , An hundreth and seven Princes faire , Leaves this vnconquish to their heire : And of this flocke , foure score and ten , Were Christian Kings and holy men : Let any Nation in the World , Vaunt in this manner vncontrold : For let the Scythian Crowne contend , Or Egypt for her age defend , Compard with our antiquitie , They both are but a noveltie . Great King this Crowne and wee are yours , And you alone art onely ours : Your Princely Parents were our Kings , And wee their faithfull vnderlings : What night watches , and dayes travells , What forraine feede , and homebred quarrells , What warres , what dangers , toyle and paine , They had for vs and wee for them , It is admirable to heare , As our antiquities can cleare : And as they were , so shall wee bee , Yours in superlatiue degree . FINIS .