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Rh Which, like our flag upon the ſeas, gives law By right avow’d, and keeps the world in awe.
 * Our gallant kings, of whom large annals prove

The mighty deeds, ſtand as renown’d for love: A monarch’s right o’er Beauty they may claim, Lords of that ocean from whence Beauty came. Thy Roſamond, great Henry! on the ſtage By a late Muſe preſented in our age, With aching hearts and flowing eyes we view, While that dissembled death presents the true : In Bracegirdle the perſons ſo agree, That all ſeems real the ſpectators ſee.
 * Os Scots and Gauls defeated, and their kings

Thy captives, Edward! Fame for ever ſings; Like thy high deeds thy noble loves are prais’d, Who haſt to Love the nobleſt trophy rais’d. Thy ſtatues, Venus! tho’ by Phidias’ hand Deſign’d immortal, yet no longer ſtand; The magic of thy ſhining zone is paſt, But Saliſbury’s garter ſhall for ever laſt, Which, thro’ the world by living monarchs worn, Adds grace to ſceptres, and does crowns adorn.
 * Is ſuch their fame who gave theſe rights divine

To ſacred Love, O what diſhonour ’s thine, Forgetful Queen! who ſever’d that bright head Which charm’d two mighty monarchs to her bed?