Ward, Edward (1667-1731)

The History Of The Grand Rebellion; Containing the most Remarkable Transactions From the beginning of the Reign of King Charles I. To The Happy Restoration. Together with the Impartial Characters Of The Most Famous and Infamous Persons, for and against the Monarchy. Digested into Verse, in Imitation of the Lord Clarendon's History of the same. By Edward Ward

London

Printed for John Nicholson...and Sold by J. Morphew [etc.]

1715

"No crafty Machiavelian Arts possest / The pious Closets of his Royal Breast"

His Politicks from Scripture he deriv'd,
And, like a Christian Monarch rul'd and liv'd,
Strictly maintaining, by the Laws of Heav'n,
The Pow'r which God into his Hands had giv'n.
No British Sov'reign better knew than he,
The just and legal Bounds of Majesty,
Or kept, with more unspotted Innocence,
Within the Limits of that sacred Fence,
Till daring Rebels tore the Sep'ment down,
And with inhumane Rage attack'd the Throne;
Forcing the most abus'd of Kings to draw
His Sword, and have recourse to Nature's Law.
Till then, and after, no Forgiving Prince,
That ever rul'd the Land before or since,
Could have a Heart more peacefully inclin'd,
Or tow'rds his People bear a juster Mind.
No crafty Machiavelian Arts possest
The pious Closets of his Royal Breast;
But with a Dove-like Innocence he reign'd,
And by Religious Rules his Crown sustain'd;
Till Faction first compel'd him to submit
To Councils not so truly Just as Fit,
And at length forc'd him to unsheath his Sword
In such a Quarrel that his Soul abhor'd,
Which they unjustly charg'd upon the Throne,
When both the Faults intirely were their own.

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