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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES EARL OF PERTH Lord DRUMMOND, and Stoh-hall, &c. Lord High Chancellour of HIS MAJESTIES most Ancient Kingdom of SCOTLAND. The Congratulatory Welcome of an Obliged Quill.
SInce that the Muses, breathed first on Earth,
Had ne're more Noble Worthy Theme then Perth;
High Chanc'llour of old Albion, plac'd and made,
Which brings all Ranks of Subjects to be glade,
You welcoming, with Soul Alacratie,
Next unto Royal CHARLES, and Albanie;
Whose well deservings did them Animate,
Should to the office be Commissionate;
The fulfill'd wishes, of both Low and High,
Triumphingly to day, do signifie:
By Clement smyls; else putting all in Hope,
Impartial Justice, ev'rie Hand shall Grope.
Silence the Tongues will, that cry out for Wars;
Will pacifie Whiggish Intestine-Jars:
To Grivances a Soveraign Medicine,
Rebellion and base Tumu••s will hedge in;
In High-Lands has already setled Peace,
None needs to fear a Thieving Robbers face;
To Low-Lands like shall be, by Thee obtain'd,
Conventiclers shall no resetting find:
None shall Aarons sacrifice gain stand;
The Priest-Hood at the Altar shall Command;
As Moses will our Israel govern,
No Byass shall the Sanhadrim discern:
In Solmons wit, and policie well known,
Kings Yours, and Contry's safety will be one:
Our Rights and Liberties will settle so,
That none before Thee ever did outgo:
The Errors of our Laws will rectifie,
And to them add what necessarie be;
Dangers fore-sees, skill'd Pilote can Evite,
Those Rocks and Shelves, on which have others split:
Drea'd CHARLES His Wain in the straight Course will Guide,
To State-distempers, will a Cure provide;
The Nations needs, will furnish and supplie;
Will Ease those think they under burden lye;
For great designs, in Council is most found,
With Goodness and with Mercy does abound:
Plenty shall on our Barren Mountains spring,
In Valleys Vertue shall have flourishing:
The Hearts of Peers in whom united are,
Mongst them shall no Incendarie appear:
Superlative in Learning and in Arts,
To Suit Thy place, Endowments has and parts;
Caesarean-Spirit, scorns the Egiptian Treate,
A Conquer'd Foe, to have disastrous Fate;
Scotlands Affairs, and all the Worlds beside;
Has by Your study in the furnace try'd:
Frae whom shall Legislators, Dictats draw,
How Monarchs should make subjects stand in Awe;
Rejoyce unto both Sol, and Cynthia that
Our Jove has Neptuns Waves so Estimate;
Good Reason why, To Stob-Halls House look in?
Eight Kings, one Queen, from thence have Crowned been:
Fames Familie, car'd never to be great,
Yet in both Peace and War serv'd King and State;
With Fortune, and with Lives, in such away,
From Loyaltie were never found Astray.
My Lord, when dieving in Your Soaring Praise,
Sees You the Dazling-Glory of our Skies;
Truth telling of Your welcome, all may say,
Tis as Sun is, to an Ecclipsed Day:
This You may Judge, in Grandour for to see,
Your Convoy and Reception so to be.
Comfort, and Bliss, will prove unto this Sphere,
Of which You'l have sure a Paternal Care.
M. M.