An ode made on the welcome news of the safe arrival and kind reception of the Scottish colony at Darien in America This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A90111 of text R215612 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing O131B). 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 A90111 Wing O131B ESTC R215612 99897746 99897746 135528 2248511275

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A90111) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 135528) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2536:2) An ode made on the welcome news of the safe arrival and kind reception of the Scottish colony at Darien in America 1 sheet ([2] p.) printed by James Watson in Craig's close, Edinburgh : 1699. Verse - "Now is the time for Thanks and Praise;". Reproduction of original in the John Carter Brown Library. eng Darien Scots' Colony, 1698-1700 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland eebo An ode made on the welcome news of the safe arrival and kind reception of the Scottish colony at Darien in America. [no entry] 1699 2 494 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. 2013-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2013-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2013-12 Sampled and proofread 2013-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2014-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An ODE MADE ON THE WELCOME NEWS OF The safe Arrival and kind Reception OF THE Scottish Collony AT Darien in America . NOw is the time for Thanks and Praise ; Now is the time , when ev'ry Tongue Should echo forth a joyful Song : When Scotland with joint Notes should raise To HEAV'N glad Consorts of Harmonious Lays . II. Consider SCOTS , how much ye owe to Heaven's Protecting Pow'r above ; what mighty Tributes of your Love , And Grateful Service should ye show ! How lowly Worship Him on Earth below ! III. Who by His Divine Pow'r does guide the infant weakness of your State , and shows that He will make ye Great ; Provided ye in 's Fear abide , And from your Necks shake every yoak beside . IV. It 's He alone , that can Chastise our Sins ; and it is He alone that can our Blemishes Attone ; Whose awful Nod doth shake the Skies , And all the quaking World terrifies . V. His Gracious over-ruling Sway sent out a gentle prosp'rous Breeze , to sweep our Navy o're the Seas . In Three Moons they travers'd their way , And safely Rode in their intended Bay . VI. He sooth'd the Natives savage Breasts , and thaw'd them to Humanity almost like Christian Charity ; They whom they dreaded worse than Beasts , Joyn all as Brethren in their Jovial Feasts . VII . Their Land they freely did Resign , and all the Treasures of their Soil , and frankly bear a share i' th' Toil , To carry on the Great Design , And , for their Common Intrest , both Combine . VIII . He safely did conduct again , the welcome , much desir'd Express , confirming our Great Happiness : He smooth'd the rageing of the Main , And made it like a level Bowling Plain . IX . The Countrey now will be at ease , the tender Mothers will no more their Sons Vncertain Fate deplore ; And Indian Gold shall soon release The Nation from its Tempral * * Poverty * Grand Disease . X No swarms of Beggars shall annoy , no Vagabounds corrupt our Wealth ; but every Man that enjoys Health , His frugal Countrey shall imploy T' increase our Store , & crown our lasting Joy . XI . Let the Fourth of November stand a lasting Feast-day on Record as Birth-day of our Soveraign Lord , And that on which our Darling Band First set their Foot on Caledonia's Land . XII . May the first Week of that Month be as lucky to us ever more , as it has been in times before , In bringing forth our Liberty From Powder-plots and Arbitrary Tyranny .

EDINBURGH , Printed by James Watson in Craig's Closs 1699.