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ELIGIOUS, Modeft, Virtuous and Sincere,

A cautious and an honest Minifter.

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A faithful Friend, and full of Probity,
Famous for never telling of a Lye,
Truth and Integrity his Breaft divide,
Juftice and Prudence all his Actions guide.

B

His Virtues are too many to Commend, Twere Easy to begin, but hard to End.

Ptt,

Handfome, wife, honeft, affable, polite, Backward to give offence, forward to fight,

Sd,

No Pride, no Vanity, no Self-conceit, In business of all kinds of equal Weight; Kind and obliging to our High Allies, Eafy and Unaffuming, Modeft, Wife,

Dh,

Of Penetration, and Extraction great,
In Learning deep, in State-affairs Compleat,

B.

In Virtue and humility renown'd, Morals Exact, and Piety profound, Void of all Affectation, as of Pride, To Oxford's Truth and Probity ally'd,

Great Knowledge, great Experience, greater Şenfe, Perfest in all things, but Obedience,

L. C. J. Tr",

He to have Leẞ Concern is understood, For his own private, than the publick Good; Long has he to himself preferr'd the Nation, And his Zeal higher rifes with his Station.

Occa

The late Spr's Tour to Flanders before the D. of Q Q

Confederates.

left the

Knight of much Fame

Forfaking this Town,
Where he had a Name
Of Mickle Renown.

All our great Wits are puzzled to

know

What fuddain Caufe does make him go.

II.

Some fay he does go

Into our Army,

With Powers to fhow

Of Field-Deputy:

But thefe are gueffes fo in the Dark
No wonder if they mifs the mark.

III. Some

III.

Some fancy his own
Domeftick Affairs,

In want may be grown
Of Foreign Repairs;

This with affurance we may aver
But little know of Him or Her.

IV.

Some steadily fay
He's in Difcontent,
And does by this Way

His Ufage refent.

But may not He whofe Parts are fo great, Think Travel may them more compleat.

V.

All in Feather White
Departed He is,

Which heightens the Sight
Of well favour'd Phys:

Thus he is gone accouter'd for Wars,
Either of Venus or of Mars.

Abel the renown'd

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In matters of State,
This fecret Profound

Ne'er cou'd penetrate:

Nor any more its meaning divine

Than when at Utrecht France will fign.

This odd Sort of Poem, I find in his own Hand: But I queftion whether it was his or not. It has fome Relation to the Preceding One.

UR moft Gracious Q-n did lately from the Throne

Exprefs for the States a Kindness notable,

She look'd on their Intereft, as on
her own

And justly she call'd them Infeparable:
Becaufe fhe did find

Them much of her Mind;

And pleas'd She was with their Concurrence fo kind;

O! do not thofe Fellows deferve to be Carted,
Who fuch Loving Friends and Allies have parted?

And yet to our no little Mortification,
Orders have been given to her General

That to the Difhonour of our Valiant Nation, His Forces he fhon'd withdraw both great and Small,"

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