A congratulation to our newly restored Parliament of the Common-vvealth of England. W. H. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A86219 of text R211217 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[52]). 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. 3 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 2017 A86219 Wing H151 Thomason 669.f.21[52] ESTC R211217 99869947 99869947 163547 2240944738

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A86219) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163547) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f21[52]) A congratulation to our newly restored Parliament of the Common-vvealth of England. W. H. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by J.T., London : in the year 1659. Verse - "Hail, Sacred Common-weal; for sure thou art". Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 17". L Copy stained with loss of imprint. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Parliament -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. A86219 R211217 (Thomason 669.f.21[52]). civilwar no A congratulation to our newly restored Parliament of the Common-vvealth of England. W. H 1659 1 505 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. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A CONGRATULATION To our newly restored PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMON-WEALTH of ENGLAND . HAIL , Sacred Common-weal ; for sure thou art The joy and comfort of each honest heart . How wert thou clouded in thy Virgin-birth , That made our Zion soon lose all her mirth ? Thou first-born of great Jove , and yet kept under By sons of Earth , which was our greatest wonder ; But now it doth revive our hearts affection , To see again thy much wisht resurrection . Can a true English heart now silent be , Being freed from Bondage and from Tyrannie ? And will it not lowd 10 Paeans sing ? And shout forth praises to our Heavenly King ? What makes our Muses silent now to be In this great change ? Were all for Monarchie Inspir'd and tun'd ? Athens I 'me sure free State Brought forth great Captains , as well men of pate . Your Fountain's dry , or else your great Pan's dead , Are all come life-lesse sourls ha'ing lost your head ? Or has the second birth of our Free-State Sent ye all packing hence , and wrought your fate ? Some say that in a free-born Common-weal Wits will increase , and come more liberal . That all are silent struck , I much admire ; Did Interest or gain your souls inspire ? If your great Heroe were alive agen , Hee 'd little thank such mercenary men , That clawd the Father , and when he was gon , Eat up their words , and then forsook his Son . Sure it is just that each one should inherit The due reward of his great Acts and Merit . And though great Caesar vow'd Romes slavery , Yet Rome grew great by Caesars gallantry : His fault was Caesars , aiming at a Crown , T' enslave the Publick , tread our freedoms down . But who would not of men a Caesar be , So sweet is Rule and Royal Soveraigntie ? But thanks Great Senators , who 'd not forgot Out Publick freedoms , nor the common Plot Of the stout Royalists both new and old , That to enslave us all were grown so bold . Blessed be providence 'cause ye again up stand Without new Wars , by small help of mans hand . Be wise then now ye Rulers , Kisse the Son , Be not self-seekers , but let all be don In Righteonsnesse and Justice unto all , Then by the hands of foes you shall not fall ; And let th' Oppresseds loads be laid aside ; Let trust and charge in honest hands reside . So will you flourish , and the World shall see The righteous fruits of your new Olive-tree : And then I le say , predict and prophecy , Your State will stand to perpetuity . So prayeth W. H.

LONDON , Printed by J. T. in the year 1659.