this daies happinesse; and (were the subject, like that of all other
things) would have left me nothing more to add, unless he who was
sometimes wont to employ his pen for Your _M_ajestie being absent, should
now be silent that you are present, and inflame me with a kind of new
Enthusiasme: I find myself then compell'd out of a grateful sense of my
dutie for the publick benefit, and if your _M_ajestie forbid not, or
withdraw your influence, who shall hinder, that even my slender voice
should not strive to be heard, in such an universall{12} consort, wherein
everybody has a part, every one a share?

Permit me therefore (O best of Kings) to present, and lay these my vowes
at your sacred feet, to exsult, and to Rejoyce with the Rest of your Loyal
Subjects; not as I desire, but as I am able, and as I would do it to God,
and as he best loves it,

_Sentiendo copiosius, quam loquendo._

_DIXI._




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