A Congratulatory poem to the ministers sons on their splendid feast, Thursday, December 7th, 1682. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A34293 of text R33394 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C5839). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A34293 Wing C5839 ESTC R33394 13292008 ocm 13292008 98845 2240865205

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A34293) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 98845) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1547:39) A Congratulatory poem to the ministers sons on their splendid feast, Thursday, December 7th, 1682. 1 broadside. Printed by J.A. for John Dunton ..., London : 1682. In verse. Manuscript date at end: 7 December. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng eebo A congratulatory poem to the ministers sons, on their splendid feast, Thursday December 7th, 1682. Dunton, John, 1682 1 294 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. 2008-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Congratulatory Poem TO THE MINISTERS SONS , on their Splendid FEAST , Thursday December 7th , 1682. REceive a bold unbidden Guest , among The least , the worst of all your Nobler throng , Who for admittance only dares to Sue , Because kind Fate has made him one of you . When that wise King , whose young , but mighty hand Bore the vast Scepter of the Sacred Land , When him and all his Glories time shall rust , Then you shall be obscur'd with common Dust . In vain the trembling Atheist would dethrone That Power , which for his Life he dares not own ; Whilst grateful Heaven its Servants here does grace With such a worthy , such a generous Race . In vain on Inspiration t'other dotes , And humane Learning but a need-not Votes ; Whilst he the Prophets Sons so far may find Beyond the usual stamp of Humane kind . More madly Rome grants to the Sacred Life Dozens of Whores , but not one single Wife : Since from the holy Matrimonial Flame Of Priests , so great , so brave an Army came . All here look pure like Truth , like Vertue fair , And all breath something more than common Air. Envy look round , and when thy Blood-shot Eye Can find no Spot , Envy look round and dye . But as for you , let Plenty pleasure bring , And Veil you safe beneath her gentle Wing , 'Till from long happy Ages you remove , And all your bright Forefathers meet above .

LONDON , Printed by J. A. for John Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey . 1682. 7. December