A song for the Kings birth day Being the fourth of November. Composed by Dr. Nicholas Staggins, Master of His Maiesties musick. Staggins, Nicholas, 1650?-1700. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A61237 of text R221831 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S5162B). 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. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A61237 Wing S5162B ESTC R221831 99833083 99833083 37558 2240951524

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A61237) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 37558) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2063:2) A song for the Kings birth day Being the fourth of November. Composed by Dr. Nicholas Staggins, Master of His Maiesties musick. Staggins, Nicholas, 1650?-1700. 4 p. Printed by T. M for J. M., [London?] : 1691. Place of publication conjectured by the cataloguer. Imprint from colophon. Caption title. In verse. Imperfect; first page of text is creased slightly affecting legibility. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Early works to 1800. eebo A song for the Kings birth day. Being the fourth of November. Composed by Dr. Nicholas Staggins, Master of His Maiesties musick. Staggins, Nicholas, 1691 7 527 1 0 0 0 0 0 18.98 C The rate of 18.98 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2006-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-05 Sampled and proofread 2006-05 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A SONG FOR The Kings Birth Day , Being the Fourth of November . Composed by Dr. Nicholas Staggins , Master of His Maiesties Musick . TO England's Monarch , Holland's Chief , Of France , the Terrour , Awe , and Grief , To Europe's Champion , Strength , and Stay , We Sing the Triumphs of this Glorious Day . The Day which gave him Birth , And gave to us new Life again ; When Xerxes like , but surer He , In Fetters held our trembling Sea , That He might free Three Kingdoms from their Chain . Welcome , thrice welcome Royal SIR , From the Fatigues and toils of War , To these your fostered Isles , And to your chast ●ARIA'S Charms and Smiles , The Land Triumphs , her Natives Sing , In Winter we possess a Spring , And Mirth resounds from every place , And Love , and Joy appear in every face . Awake my Muse , awake my Lyre , Try if any Strein be higher ; Touch at that more lofty Strein , Joyn in one harmonious Choir , To welcome our RESTORER back again . Silence Lyre , surcease thy Tone , Silence Muse , and humbly own ; All that Sounds and Words can speak , All 's too little , all 's too weak ; All that Gratitude can shew , All that Loyalty can doe , All , and more than all is due . His Royal Vertues far excell , All that History can tell , Caesar's mighty swelling Name , Stoops to his more Glorious Fame : He came , he saw , he conquer'd too , Our Heroe did , what he refus'd to doe : By Caesar's Arms Rome lost her Liberty , And Caesar's Glories are but dimm , Caesar's , if compar'd to him , Who came , and saw , and set us Free . He weighs not the Grandure , or State of a Crown , But aspires to more solid and mighty Renown ; His forward Attempts on the Land and the Main , The Battle o' th' Boyne , and a Flanders Campaign , Shew fully , His Actions were never design'd For ought , but the Peace , and the good of Mankind . And Heavens ( we hope ) has fresh Crowns in store , For those who still can merit more : For the Moderate and Wise , Whom Greatness cannot over-poize ; For the Generous and Brave , Who never Fight to Conquer , but to Save . Go on Mighty Prince , go on to receive All the Trophies that Vertue and Honour can give : May the Heavens defend you , Success still attend you , And Victory wait wheresoever You bend You. Both at Home , and Abroad , May Your Enemies be Aw'd , Till Europe with England shall joyn in a Chorus , And Sing Your loud Praises , and own that 't is YOU that restore us . FINIS .

Printed by T. M. for J. M. 1691.