A congratulatory poem on the Right Honourable Sir Patience Ward, Knight and Baronet, Lord Mayor of the city of London W. W. 1680 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A65495 Wing W143 ESTC R1918 12628256 ocm 12628256 64691 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A65495) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 64691) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 678:14) A congratulatory poem on the Right Honourable Sir Patience Ward, Knight and Baronet, Lord Mayor of the city of London W. W. 1 sheet (2 columns) ; 49 x 31 cm. Printed for Rich. Janaway, London : 1680. Broadside. Caption title. In verse. Signed: W.W. Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Ward, Patience, -- Sir, 1629-1696. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century 2008-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-02 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-03 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-03 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A CONGRATULATORY POEM on the Right Honourable Sir PATIENCE WARD , Knight and Baronet , LORD MAYOR of the City of LONDON . AS when Ambassadors from Princes come , We all by custom from our Houses run To see the Strange , Great , the Noble High , The Representive of a Deity . Scripture and Reason stile them so by Birth , Great Men , like Kings , are still like Gods on Earth : The truth of which , no Just Man can deny , Being ordain'd by heavenly destiny . But why it should be thus , I cannot say , Then what shall happen the succeeding Day , Being a Secret kept in Heavens own hand , As Rain descends on good and barren Land. Yet in a worldly sense it may be taken For Natural Reason , and not be forsaken , Because bus'ness of that important nature It very nearly doth concern each creature , As Natives of their own fine Country dear , To whom , of all things , still they should be near : Much more at a Magistrate of our own , Because his Power extends throughout the Town , Being an Office 'twixt Country and City , That all therein does share , both fools and witty . Since next the King , to him we owe all things , Peace , Plenty , Trade , and Money-offrings : For by his wife Conduct , and Prudence high , He 'l make our Fame reach to the starry Sky , Being a man by Nature , and by Name , To be a Soul wrapt in immortal Fame . Patience by Name , a Virtue great and high , Burning and shining like the Sun in th Sky ; Endow'd with Learning , and such famous Arts , That by his force he soon will gain our hearts ; Adorning of him in this his humane Race , More than his Indian Pearl , or his Gold Lace . Since Virtue 's a colour of that deep hue , That 't is as Rich as the gay Rainbow's blue . The Merchant traffiques where he please to go ; So Virtue trades with Heaven and Earth below . Philosophers say , she 's th' Glory of each one , As the pretty Flowers guilded by the Sun. Logicians say , as well to each degree , You 'r happy still in your Humanity ; For Bodies shap't , and so proportion'd well , Are ab Origine , from Heaven , not Hell. Seraphick Love alwaies prefers its own , As the kind Father strongly loves his Son. The Speech you made , it doth so plainly tell How many Virtues in your Mind doth dwell ; As the Tree is , alike is still the Fruit , Or the gay Summer with dull Winter suit . When the Sun shines , 't is then a pleasant day , And when not seen , 't is a foul After-play So as we look and speak , such men we are , A Maxim of the Learn'd Philosopher , Telling how face and hearts do go together , Making men so enjoy the best weather ; While other platforms of a lower of die , Are but mere Strangers to humanity ; Like the dull Carrier's Horse , that still moves on In the same road , until he cometh home ; Then doth grim death approach , and tell them all , His never failing dart will make them fall . But that for ever they must pass and go To Heaven's glory , or to Hell's Sorrow . Seamen and Pilots rule their manners still , According to their Captain , good or ill ; Who from him no other Religion take , Nay Navigation itself forsake ; As he instructed is in every Art , The Legislator to his better heart : Even so as a great man or Ruler's given , Each Man 's prone , to make him still his Heaven . As he smiles ; then we look brisk and gay , As all things flourish in the Month of May : But if he looks but angry , and he frowns So then do we , and all our mirth is gone . Shewing th' inconstancy of joy in all , Of Lunaries and Terrestrial : So that Europe will be known and seen Like a bright Dutchess or an Indian Queen . 'T is plain both from experience and from Reason , Things that are always certain and in season : For Nature shews all things are fed by sense , And their superior bodies influence All their kind heats , by which they still are fed , Flow from those streams , and so are nourished . Since Heavens superior as we plainly see , As Man excells Beasts in Felicity : For he that makes doth top the Object gay , As Night is but the Curtain of the day . In short , welcome great Sir , unto your Seat , A place of Honour and of high Retreat : To all you 'r welcome , and to all most near , To all Prince , Virtue still does make you dear . Since blood with the Astrologer portends Things that are great , and you for greater ends : For Virtue rises from the Plants most rare , As trees in Summer still most fruitful are . Great Sir all happiness attend you still , That you may pass the great Gunshot of ill , And when Death summons you , that you appear , You shall with Angels gay , look bright and clear . I leave you as a President for Sages , To future times , and to succeeding Ages . W. W. LONDON , Printed for Rich. Janaway . 1680.