Dread Sr, Father Janus. &c: A new years Song January the First 16: Blow
Dread Sr. Father Janus, Times great overseer
Abhorring the factious designs of the past
With a Loyal address us come in post hast
To present you the Maidenhead of a new Year
Ritor
Not Debaucht with trait’rous Combinations
With Whiggish petitions or Associations
But fresh as the early Blushes of day
E’re the busy warm god has kist them away
Ritor
Verse
The nymble wing’d train of hours in the wain
With Triumphs begin to Lead the year in
And shortning the night bring tribute of Light
Then bow to the Throne tho Loath to be gone
Chorus
But having seen you they merrily fly
Keep time to the Spheres and sing as they Dye
Nature is constant, Loyal & true
‘tis unnatural not to give Caesar his due
Ritor
Verse solus
All due great Prince is yours whom Heaven sent
To be the Arrow of our Government
From you we date our past our present bliss
And growing hopes of future happiness
Ritor
Slow
Our floating Delos Long have been tost
By ev’ry mad Phanatical Blast.
Which popular Air has Rais’d to Reform
And Rebells Improv’d into a Storm
The moving Isle is fix’d & settled now,
Ye Basis of its Empire rests on your
In Gordian knots you’ve Ty’d the Royall Line
And made Succession as your Right Divine
Cho:
For all your Suff’rings all your Cares
Designing owes you the arrears
Of stoddy Joyes and numerous years
And when you Remove to be Crown’d above
Shall never want one to sitt on your Throne
Verse
The sons of the Earth the posthumous Birth
Of the foul Dragons teeth spit their Venome in vain
The serpentine Elfes will Ruine themselves
Great Charles in his Right forever shall Reign
Chorus
The sons of the Earth the posthumous Birth
Of the foul Dragons teeth spit their Venome in vain
The serpentine Elfes will Ruine themselves
Great Charles in his Right forever shall Reign
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