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Here it was thought necessary they should be broken off, by the coming in of a GENTLEMAN, an officer or servant of the lord lieutenant's, whose face had put on, with his clothes, an equal authority for the business.

Gent. Give end unto your rudeness: know at length

Whose time and patience you have urg'd, the KING'S.
Whom if you knew, and truly, as you ought,
'Twould strike a reverence in you, ev'n to blushing.
That King whose love it is to be your parent!
Whose office and whose charge, to be your pastor!
Whose single watch defendeth all your sleeps!
Whose labours are your rests! whose thoughts and

cares

your

leisures!

Breed your delights, whose business all
And you to interrupt his serious hours
With light, impertinent, unworthy objects,
Sights for yourselves, and savouring your own tastes!
You are to blame. Know your disease, and cure it.
Sports should not be obtruded on great monarchs,
But wait when they will call for them as servants,
And meanest of their servants, since their price is
At highest, to be styl'd, but of their pleasures!
-Our King is going now to a great work,
Of highest love, affection, and example,
To see his native country, and his cradle,

And find those manners there, which he suck'd in
With nurse's milk, and parent's piety.

O sister Scotland! what hast thou deserved
Of joyful England, giving us this king!
What union (if thou lik'st) hast thou not made,
In knitting for Great Britain such a garland,
And letting him to wear it, such a king

As men would wish, that knew not how to hope
His like, but seeing him! a prince that's law

Unto himself; is good for goodness sake,
And so becomes the rule unto his subjects!
That studies not to seem or to shew great,
But be: nor drest for others eyes and ears,
With vizors and false rumours, but makes fame
Wait on his actions, and thence speak his name.
O bless his goings-out, and comings-in,
Thou mighty God of heaven! lend him long
Unto the nations, which yet scarcely know him,
Yet are most happy by his government.
Bless his fair bedmate, and their certain pledges,
And never may he want those nerves in fate;
For sure succession fortifies a state.

Whilst he himself is mortal, let him feel
Nothing about him mortal in his house;

Let him approve his young increasing Charles,
A loyal son; and take him long to be

An aid, before he be a successor.

Late come that day that heaven will ask him from us! Let our grand-children, and their issue, long

Expect it, and not see it. Let us pray,

That fortune never know to exercise

More power upon him, than as Charles his servant, And his Great Britain's slave: ever to wait

Bondwoman to the GENIUS of this state.

THUS IT ENDED.

LOVE'S WELCOME.

THE KING AND QUEEN'S ENTERTAINMENT

AT BOLSOVER,

AT THE EARL OF NEWCASTLE'S, THE

30TH OF JULY, 1634.

LOVE'S WELCOME.] The King (as was observed before) was so well pleased with the Entertainment at Welbeck, that he sent the earl of Newcastle word, the Queen was resolved to make a progress with him into the north, and he therefore desired him to prepare the same amusement for her which had given him such satisfaction in the preceding year. "Which, (says her Grace,) my lord accordingly did, and endeavoured for it with all possible care and industry, sparing nothing that might add splendour to that feast, which both their Majesties were pleased to honour with their presence. Ben Jonson he employed in fitting such scenes and speeches as he could best devise, and sent for all the gentry of the country to come and wait on their Majesties. This entertainment he made at Bolsover Castle, in Derbyshire, some five miles distant from Welbeck, and resigned Welbeck for their Majesties lodging. It cost him in all between fourteen and fifteen thousand pounds." Life of the Duke of Newcastle. p. 184.

It is probable that the course at the Quintain was repeated; what we have here, was exhibited, not at the dinner, but at the banquet, a kind of dessert, which was usually served up in an open This little piece is wretchedly given in the folio.

room.

LOVE'S WELCOME, ETC.

The King and Queen being set at banquet, this SONG was sung by two tenors and a bass.

Full Cho.

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F Love be call'd a lifting of the sense
To knowledge of that pure intelligence,
Wherein the soul hath rest and residence,
I Ten. When weret he senses in such
order placed?

2 Ten. The Sight, the Hearing, Smelling, Touching,

Bas.

Taste,

All at one banquet?

Would it ever last!

1 Ten. We wish the same: who set it forth thus? Bas.

Love!

2 Ten. But to what end, or to what object? Bas.

Love!

I Ten. Doth Love then feast itself?
Love will feast Love.

Bas.
2 Ten.

Bas.

You make of Love a riddle, or a chain, A circle, a mere knot; untie't again. Love is a circle, both the first and last Of all our actions, and his knot's, too, fast. I Ten. A true love knot will hardly be untied: And if it could, who would this pair divide? God made them such, and Love.

Bas.

2 Ten.

Who is a ring The likest to the year of any thing,

I Ten. And runs into itself.

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