Verses spoken to the King, Queen, and Dutchesse of York in St John's Library in Oxford Lawrence, Thomas, 1645?-1714. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A88795 of text R202709 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L623B). 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 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A88795 Wing L623B ESTC R202709 99899595 99899595 154247 2248513816

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A88795) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 154247) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2407:10) Verses spoken to the King, Queen, and Dutchesse of York in St John's Library in Oxford Lawrence, Thomas, 1645?-1714. [2], 2 p. printed by H. Hall, for R. Davis, [Oxford : 1663] Sometimes attributed to Thomas Laurence. Imprint from Wing (CD-ROM edition). Signatures: *⁴. "The title (without any imprint) and the sign. * on the title and *2 on p.1, show that this piece was intended to go with [Sir Thomas Ireland's Verses spoken at the appearance of the King and Queene (Wing I296)]: the second leaf is sometimes found as a separate piece"--Madan. Bound with and identified as part of Wing I296 on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 458. Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. eebo Verses spoken to the King, Queen, and Dutchesse of York in St John's Library in Oxford. Lawrence, Thomas, 1663 10 367 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. 2009-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2009-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-10 Sampled and proofread 2009-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

VERSES Spoken to the KING , QVEEN , and DVTCHESSE of YORKE in St JOHN'S Library in Oxford .

Spoken to the KING and QUEEN in St John's Library . BIrds have found Language , Elephants a Knee To Complement the approach of Majesty : None so much statue but ( like Memnons ) playes Anthems to welcome such illustrious rayes . Your presence , Madam , here doth paralel Our Baptists desert to a Boscobel . Our Mother glories that your smiles upon her Create her Virgin Muses maids of Honour . Your station 'twixt these Globes doth prompt our pen To fansie Princes plac'd 'twixt Gods and men ; Here men , there Angels ply their different Spheres , Our house of Commons , and your House of Peers . May your last progress here reach Nestor's Summe , Till the Supreme Star-Chamber call you home : Whil'st Angels propagate , and you display A little CHARLES his Waine , and Milky Way : These Asterismes are only wanting yet To make VVhite . Hall a Heaven , and Heaven complete . Perfection , Madam , from your self must grow : Kings are Immortal , but Queens make them so .
To her Highness the DVTCHESSE of YORK in the same place . IF Duty without Compliment may stand , And they who can but kneel , may kiss your Hand : If Muses Country Girles their skil may try , Though 't spoile an Honour to a Courtesie : Wee 'd rally all our forces to express Your Noblest Welcome in a plain address : Mars wee 'd assign your Guard , but that we are Assur'd , your DUKES a greater God of War : The Graces to attend you wee 'd call forth , But that th' are all ingross'd in your own worth ; And Venus with her Cupid too should come , But that you have a sweeter Prince at home : Thus Poets Dream , and Muses fancy less Then what Fates judg you worthy to possess : Our Pegasus with duty wing'd we show , Others may higher fly , none stoop so low . The END .