Social Commentaries
To our King CHARLES
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
YOur royall Father our right Atlas was,
And you as high this happy Realme sustaine,
Whose wisedomes glory (as a gemmy glasse
For noblest Kings) out-shines the Arctick waine.
So, though bright Iupiter were set, the skies
Could lacke no lustre, when the Sunne did rise.
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