The prolouge [sic] to King William and Queen Mary at a play acted before Their Majesties at Whitehall on Friday the 15th of November, 1689 / written by N. Tate. Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A63141 of text R32748 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T214). 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A63141 Wing T214 ESTC R32748 12752825 ocm 12752825 93342 2240959677

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A63141) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 93342) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1537:31) The prolouge [sic] to King William and Queen Mary at a play acted before Their Majesties at Whitehall on Friday the 15th of November, 1689 / written by N. Tate. Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. 2 p. Printed for F. Saunders ... and published by R. Baldwin ..., London : 1689. In verse. Imprint from colophon. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng eebo The prolouge [sic] to King William and Queen Mary at a play acted before Their Majesties at Whitehall on Friday the 15th of November, 1689 / written b Tate, Nahum, 1689 3 489 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. 2002-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-04 Sampled and proofread 2002-04 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-05 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE PROLOUGE TO King WILLIAM & Queen MARY , At a Play Acted before Their Majesties at Whitehall , on Friday the 15th of November 1689. Written by N. TATE . WHILE Britain's State Her Monarch does support , Protects Her Liberties , adorns Her Court , Confirms Her Laws ; the Muses Tribe would wrong The Publick Int'rest to detain him long . Yet , with His grateful Subjects they implore Their Hour of Thanks , — even Them He did Restore . To Them and Their Lov'd Swains did safety bring , Permits Their Flocks to Feed , and Them to Sing . No Lambs shall now for Foreign Altars bleed , The Flock , the Fleece , the Shepherds too are freed . He Scorn'd all Danger , for Fair Britain's Aid , ( To Roman Zeal , a ready Victim laid , ) And with His Peril , sav'd the helpless Maid . Belgia , that next Devoted was to Fall , Did for the same Advent'rous Courage call , He Fac'd our Common Fears — Outbrav'd both Seas and Foes , to rescue All ! So HERCULES , when Monsters did infest , Commenc'd His Toils to give the Nations rest . Such Pious Valour justly is Ador'd , And well may different Tongues , that had implor'd , His Guardian-Aid , consent to call him Lord . Fortune and Chance , elsewhere may shew their Powers , Give Kingdoms Lords , but Providence gives Ours Our kind Restorer first , who , to maintain Our rescu'd Freedom , Condescends to Reign . For Albion's Wounds a Sov'raign Balm decreed , But Heav'n not sent Him , 'till the utmost Need , To make its Champion Priz'd , and let Him lay Engagements , such as we cou'd nere Repay . His Fames vast only Price was his before , MARIA's Charms — Empire cou'd add no more , Nature in Her exhausted all its Store . What we conferr , on Vs descends again , Who wait the ripening Blessings of his Reign : Saturnian Days revolve , of former Crimes If any Seeds molest our Halcyon Times , And Rouze our Mars , on him lies all the Care , Defence and Freedom nere were bought too Dear . He only Arms to make our Dangers cease , His Wars are Glorious , for his End is Peace . The Muses once were Sacred , give 'em leave , One Vote for Britain's Welfare to conceive ; They Sum Their Wishes up , in one short Pray'r , ( Ioin all True Hearts ) Long Live the ROYAL PAIR . FINIS .

LICENSED ,

Novemb. 16. 1689. I. FRASER ,

LONDON , Printed for F. Saunders , at the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange , and Published by R. Baldwin in the Old Baily 1689.