Source 1

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A PROPHETICK

CONGRATULATORY HYMN TO HIS SACRED

BRITANNICK MAJESTY KING JAMES THE III

Written by Mr—during his Concealment after his Escape from—

O.S & Left at his Lodgings

I.

Sound the shrill Trumpet, fill it’s Silver Womb

With sweeter Notes than ever yet were blown

Great Britain’s Majesty to welcome home.

II.

Tune all Your Instruments & Voices raise

With loftier strains, & with Seraphick Lays

To Heaven’s & to immortal James’s Praise.

III.

See, See, He comes of all Mankind the first,

Insufferings, Pietie, & Experience nurs’d,

The Royal Englishman, Great, Good & Just:

IV.

On tiptoes Atlas then, Lift Heaven more high,

And give us Air enough to breath our Joy

In raptures rivalling Heaven’s Hierarchy;

V

No more shall foreign scum pollute our Throne;

No longer under such. We’ll blush & groan;

But Englishmen an English King will own.

Glossary for source 1

Prophetick: to happen in the future

Congratulatory: to express praise and pleasure

James III: son of James II, king of England, James Edward Francis Stuart, also called ‘The Old Pretender’, he claimed the English, Scottish and Irish thrones (as James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland) from the death of his father in 1701

Seraphick: like an angel of the highest class who was caretaker for God’s throne

Loftier strains: higher melodies or tunes

Heaven’s Hierarchy: According to medieval Christian theologians, the angels are organized into three levels each made up of different orders or choirs

Immortal: never ending, for all time

Pietie: piety, holiness or dutiful respect

Atlas: Greek god responsible for holding the heavens on his shoulders