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LL humane things are ubject to decay,

And, when Fate ummons, Monarchs mut obey:

This Fleckno found, who, like Augutus, young,

Was call'd to Empire, and had govern'd long:

In Proe and Vere, was own'd, without dipute,

Through all the Realms of Non-ene, abolute.

This aged Prince now flourihing in Peace,

And blet with iue of a large increae,

Worn out with buines, did at length debate

To ettle the Succeion of the State:

And pond'ring which of all his Sons was fit

To Reign, and wage immortal War with Wit;

Cry'd, 'tis reolv'd; for Nature pleads that He

Should only rule, who mot reembles me:

Sh—— alone my perfect Image bears,

Mature in Dullnes from his tender years.

Sh—— alone, of all my Sons, is he

Who tands confirm'd in full tupidity.

The ret to ome faint meaning make pretence,

But Sh—— never deviates into ene.

Some Beams of Wit on other Souls may fall,

Strike through and make a lucid intervall;

But Sh——'s genuine night admits no ray,

His riing Fogs prevail upon the Day:

Beides, his goodly Fabrick fills the eye,

And eems deign'd for thoughtles Majety:

Thoughtles on Monarch Oaks, that hade the Plain,

And, pread in olemn tate, upinely reign.

Heywood and Shirley were but Types of thee,

Thou lat great Prophet of Tautology.