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The third muse
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And if my tongue should cease to cry and speak,
Undoubtedlie my grief-swoln heart would break.
But courage, Monsier, my good Genius sayes,
Remember yee not how Gall in those dayes
Did you comfort, lest melancholious fits
Had you opprest, your spleen so neerelie sits,
And told you in the yeer threescore thirteene
The first down-fall this Bridge did ere sustaine,
By ruine of three arches nixt the town,
Yet were rebuilt. Thereafter were thrown down
Five arches in the yeer fourescore and two,
Reedified likewise, and who doth know
Monsier, but ah, mine heart can scarcelie sober!
Even that great fall the fourteenth of October,
Six hundred twentie one, repaird may bee,
And I do wish the same that I might see:
For Britaines Monarch will it sure repair,
Courage therefore, Monsier, do not despare;
Is't credible to bee believ'd or told,
That these our Kings, who did possesse of old
Scotland alone, should such a work erect
And Britaines mightie Monarch it neglect?
Absurd it is to think, much more to speak it;
Therefore good Monsier yee do far mistake it;
For never had yee King was more inclinde
To do great works; nor of a braver minde,
Providing he can have due information,
His word will prove of powerfull operation:
For Kings are Gods on Earth, and all their actions
Do represent th'Almighties great perfections.
Undoubtedlie my grief-swoln heart would break.
But courage, Monsier, my good Genius sayes,
Remember yee not how Gall in those dayes
Did you comfort, lest melancholious fits
Had you opprest, your spleen so neerelie sits,
And told you in the yeer threescore thirteene
The first down-fall this Bridge did ere sustaine,
By ruine of three arches nixt the town,
Yet were rebuilt. Thereafter were thrown down
Five arches in the yeer fourescore and two,
Reedified likewise, and who doth know
Monsier, but ah, mine heart can scarcelie sober!
Even that great fall the fourteenth of October,
Six hundred twentie one, repaird may bee,
And I do wish the same that I might see:
For Britaines Monarch will it sure repair,
Courage therefore, Monsier, do not despare;
Is't credible to bee believ'd or told,
That these our Kings, who did possesse of old
Scotland alone, should such a work erect
And Britaines mightie Monarch it neglect?
Absurd it is to think, much more to speak it;
Therefore good Monsier yee do far mistake it;
For never had yee King was more inclinde
To do great works; nor of a braver minde,
Providing he can have due information,
His word will prove of powerfull operation:
For Kings are Gods on Earth, and all their actions
Do represent th'Almighties great perfections.
Thus