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The AUTHOR ON His FRONTISPIECE.
THat each fair Fancy, may the Fancy find, Of th'Emblems meaning, and the Authors mind: The Moral of the Model's This.—The Tree, Presents the King: cut down, His Tragedy. No Feller seen—; the Murder in Disguise. The Dead Tree-Dry—; the King's poor Obsequies. The Regall Scepter broke; and stately Crown, By Rebells Fury turned upside-down; Do shew a Change of State. Records are burn'd; And Monarchy to Anarchy is turn'd. The Root, not Dead—; doth Emblemize the strength, Of happy Hope, to Sprout again, at length. The lively Branches—, are the Issue Royall. The Angel's Trumpet—, is the Subject Loyall. The Mode Triumphall, with a flying Wing; Is England's Joy, our Soveraign's Welcoming▪ The Taller Branch, its growing through a Crown; The King his Birth-right shews; the Crown, his Own. The other Two, alike in Leaves, but Lower; Shew their Alliance to the Higher Power. The Hand, above—; is God. The Water-pot, Is Providence. The Streams that do allot, Each Branch, his Sent of Water—; are God's Grace, To make us Lovall, to the Royal Race. Thus, th'Emblem is Divine: the Moral, plain: Divinely-moral, in each Soveraign; King Charles the First, His Murder: and His Son, King Charles the Second's Restoration.So saith Anthony Sadler.