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 With waking Cares they all urround the Throne,

Support the Well known burthens of the Crown;

Th' important Drudgery with Pleaure do,

Their Countrey's Safety, not their own, purue.

Thro' Storms of Tumult and Ditraction teer,

Not rai'd with Hope, and not uppret with Fear;

With Calm, but teady hand the Factions guide

At once, they yield to, and reit the Tide:

Wiely they calm the Feuds Weak Heads create,

And heal the wild Ditempers of the State;

To every tender part their Hands apply,

And to the Michiefs uit the Remedy;

True Patriot Principles their Minds poes,

Their Countrey them, and they their Countrey bles.

But their jut Zeal to ANN's Immortal Throne,

Makes every Noble Character their own.

Nothing a Princes Widom more diplays,

Than choice of Counellors,

The double Praie.

Is always firt the Monarchs, then their own,

Firt it illutrates, then upports the Throne.

But we'll no more purue the mighty Train,

Whom to decribe our Vere attempts in vain;

The Mues vail before the Illutrious Throng,

Too bright for Vere, too num'rous for our Song;