An ode upon His Majesty's birth-day, set to musick by Dr. Staggins ; and perform'd before Their Majesties, November the 4th, 1693. ; The words by N. Tate, servant to Their Majesties. Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94770 of text R184875 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T197aA). 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 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A94770 Wing T197aA ESTC R184875 43077667 ocm 43077667 151778 2240889617

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AN ODE UPON HIS Majesty's Birth-Day , Set to Musick by Dr. Staggins ; and Perform'd before Their MAJESTIES , November the 4th . 1693. The Words by N. Tate , Servant to Their Majesties . SOund a Call , the Tritons sing , Summon'd by their Vocal Shells , From Coral Beds and Chrystal Cells , Up the joyful Nereids spring ; Sound a Call the Tritons sing . What makes Neptune's Court appear , Circled on a dancing Wave ? The Day 's arriv'd , 't is come , 't is here , That Birth to CAESAR , Joy to Europe gave . See the Sacred Quire descending , Earth and Sea your Song attending ; Crown the Day that Crowns the Year . 'T was NOW , the threatning Tempest past , We saw his Welcome Anchors cast , Flags display'd , and Streamers free As what they brought us , Liberty . Liberty the Sailors cry'd , Liberty the Shores reply'd . Successor of Great Hercules , When will thy Labours , when thy Dangers cease ? Thy Courage and thy Toils Have long deserv'd Nemaean Spoils . Why are Thy Triumphs then retarded ? Why such Virtue Unrewarded ? Chor. The Promis'd Blessing 's but Delay'd , With greater Interest to be Paid . Mighty Births , in Teeming longest , Make amends for their Delay : Shades of Night are ever strongest , Just before the Break of Day . Gallick Force in vain is striving , Gallick Fraud in vain contriving , Hope and CAESAR still surviving . Drooping Europe's State to Raise , And yet assure Successful Days , Undaunted CAESAR Fights , Devout MARIA Prays . CHORUS . 'T was Constancy could only prove Alcides the true Son of Jove ; Heads of Hydra still Renewing , And the Hero still Subduing ; Till with Unwearied Valour prest , At last the Monster fell , the World at last had Rest .

LONDON : Printed for Richard Baldwin , near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane . MDCXCIII .