ABSTRACT
to T O E M S . But our Ingratitude and Difcontent Defer v’d to know our mercies were but le n t: And thofe complaints Heaven in this rigid fate Docs firft chaftife, and then legitimate. By this it ourDivifions does reprove, And makes us join in grief, i f not in love. For ('Glorious Youth) all Parties do agree, As in admiring, fo lamenting thee; The Sovereign s, Subje&’s, Foreinefs delight Thou wert the univerfal Favourite. Not Rowe's belov'd and brave Marcellns fell Somucha Darling or a Miracle. Though built o f richeftbloud and fineft earth. Thou had/i a heart more noble than thy birth: Which by th‘ affliftive changes thou didft know, Thou hadft but too much caufc and time to fhow. Fqr when Fate did thy Infancy expofc T o the moft barbarous and flupid Foes; ,Yet thou didft then fo much exprefs the Prince, As did even them amaze, if not convince. Nay, that loofc Tyrant whom no bound confin’d, Whom neither laws,nor oaths,nor fliame could bind, Although his Soul was than his Look more grim, Yet thy brave Innocence half foftn'd himAnd he that Worth wherein thy Soul was dreft . By his iII-favour*d clemency confeft; Leflening the ill which he could not repent, He call’d that Travel which was Banilhment. Efcap’d from him, thy Trials were cncreas'd ; The fcene was chang'd, but not the danger ceas’d. Thoii from rough Guardians to Seducers gone, Thole made thy Temper, thefe thy Judgmr known ; W hilft thou the nobleft Champion wert for Truth, Whether we view thy Courage or thy Youth. If to foil Nature and Ambition claims Greater reward than to encounter Flames, A ll that Ihall know.the ftory muft allow A Martyr’s Crown prepared for thy brow
