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98  :From gods deſcended, and of race divine, Neſtor in council and Ulyſſes ſhine; But in a day of battle all would yield To the fierce maſter of the ſeven-fold ſhield. Their very deities were grac’d no more; Mars had the courage, Jove the thunder bore; But all perfections meet in James alone, And Britain’s king is all the gods in one. into Libya the young Grecian came, To talk with Hammon, and conſult for fame; When from the ſacred tripod where he ſtood The prieſt, inſpir’d, ſaluted him a god; Scarce ſuch a joy that haughty victor knew, Thus own’d by Heav‘’n, as I, thus prais’d by you. Whoe’er their names can in thy numbers ſhow Have more than empire, and immortal grow; Ages to come ſhall ſcorn the pow’rs of old, When in thy verſe of greater gods they ’re told; Our beauteous queen and royal James’s name For Jove and Juno ſhall be plac’d by Fame; Thy Charles sor Neptune ſhall the ſeas command, And Sachariſſa ſhall for Venus ſtand; Greece ſhall no longer boaſt, nor haughty Rome, But think from Britain all the gods did come.