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To the Prince of ORANGE, On his MARRIAGE.
Written at the time of the OXFORD Verses.
1 To foreign notes while others tune the lyre,
2 Me let a free-born English Muse inspire:
3 Unskill'd in all the graces of her art,
4 She boasts of nothing but an honest heart;
5 To Oxford's Sons resigns the verdant bays,
6 And neither asks, nor yet despises praise.
7 Patrons of Freedom, and their Country's peace,
8 Inur'd to dangers, and despising ease —
9 Such were th' illustrious Heroes of thy Race!
10 Such was Nassau! and we with Pleasure see
11 Our guardian Genius rise again in Thee.
[Page 107]12 Thee Britain hails, and with a gen'rous Pride
13 Beholds Thy virtues to Her Throne ally'd.
14 Auspicious Match! — may Heav'n indulgent shed
15 Its choicest blessings round the genial bed!
16 Hail wedded Love! perpetual source of peace;
17 The Calm, where restless Passion sinks to Ease.
18 When hearts united thus each other claim,
19 How sweet the friendship! and how soft the flame!
20 Wealth, Honour, Empire far behind are thrown,
21 And all the World's well lost for Thee alone.
22 Hence those endearing Interests of life,
23 The Father, Son, the Brother, and the Wife:
24 Here Love extended runs thro' diff'rent names,
25 The fruitful fountain of ten thousand streams.
26 Thrice happy Princess! bright with ev'ry grace,
27 Blest shalt Thou be, and blest in all thy Race:
28 For, like the royal Stock from whence you came,
29 A chosen Offspring shall extend your fame;
30 And nations, yet unborn, shall bless your name.
[Page 108]31 Here then, young Hero! fix thine eyes, and see,
32 Æneas-like, thy glorious Progeny —
33 See future Nassau's in bright order rise,
34 Fearless as William, and as Maurice wise.
35 And as their Forms in gay procession glide,
36 Thy gen'rous heart shall beat with noble pride;
37 Pleas'd that such prospects on thy Virtues wait,
38 Which from this glorious Æra take their date;
39 Pleas'd that thy Race succeeding times shall bless,
40 And give to warring nations Laws, and Peace.
About this text
Title (in Source Edition): To the Prince of ORANGE, On his MARRIAGE. Written at the time of the OXFORD Verses.
Author: Mary Jones
Themes:
monarchy (heads of state); marriage
Genres:
heroic couplet; epithalamion; occasional poem
References:
DMI 23700
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Source edition
Jones, Mary, d. 1778. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. By Mary Jones. Oxford: Printed; and delivered by Mr. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, Mr. Clements in Oxford, and Mr. Frederick in Bath, MDCCL., 1750, pp. 106-108. vi,[1],xlv,[1],405p. (ESTC T115196) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Harding C 1723].)
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- BIRTH-DAY. ()
- BIRTH-DAY. ()
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- ELEGY, On a favourite DOG, suppos'd to be poison'd. To Miss Molly Clayton. ()
- An EPISTLE to Lady BOWYER. ()
- EPISTLE, from Fern-Hill. To the same. ()
- EPITAPH On a Young NOBLEMAN, Kill'd in an ENGAGEMENT at SEA. ()
- EPITAPH On Brigadier General HILL. ()
- EXTEMPORE. ON A Drawing of the Countess of HERTFORD's, now Duchess of SOMERSET. ()
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- From New Lodge to Fern-Hill. In a very rainy Summer Season. ()
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- HEAVEN. To STELLA. ()
- The Heel-piece of her Shoe. (Stella requiring more rhymes, and the Author at a loss for a subject.) ()
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- HOLT WATERS. A Tale. Extracted from the Natural History of Berkshire. ()
- In Memory of the Right Hon. NEVIL Lord LOVELACE. ()
- In MEMORY of the Rt. Hon. Lord Aubrey Beauclerk, Who was slain at CARTHAGENA. ()
- The LASS of the HILL. Humbly inscribed to Her Grace the Dutchess of MARLBOROUGH. ()
- LIFE. (Occasion'd by some lines upon Death.) ()
- MATRIMONY. ()
- ODE To the Right Hon. Lady Henry Beauclerk. ()
- Of DESIRE. An Epistle to the Hon. Miss LOVELACE. ()
- On her Bed-Chamber's Chimney Being blown down at St. JAMES's. ()
- On her BIRTH-DAY, Being the 11th of December. ()
- On Her Birth-Day, December 11. ()
- On one of her Eyes. ()
- On the Reasonableness of Her coming to the Oxford Act. ()
- On the Right Honourable Lady Betty Bertie's Birth-Day. Inserted at the Request of Norris Bertie, Esq; ()
- PATIENCE. ()
- RHYMES to the Hon. Miss LOVELACE; now Lady HENRY BEAUCLERK. On her attending Miss CHARLOT CLAYTON In the SMALL-POX. ()
- Rhymes, to Miss Charlot Clayton. ()
- Soliloquy, on an empty Purse. ()
- [SONG from the Opera of ELPIDIA.] ()
- The SPIDER. ()
- The STORY of Jacob and Rachel attempted. To the same. ()
- SUBLIME STRAINS. On the Author's walking to visit Stella, in a windy morning, at Privy Garden. ()
- To Miss CLAYTON. Occasion'd by her breaking an appointment to visit the AUTHOR. ()
- To Mrs. CLAYTON, With a HARE. ()
- To the Same. On her desiring the Author to write a Satire upon her. ()
- To the same. On her parting with the first copy of Heaven, and sending for another. ()
- To the same. Written at Fern-Hill, while dinner was waiting for her. ()
- VERSES TO THE Memory of Miss CLAYTON. ()
- Written at her Apartment in Windsor-Castle. ()
- WRITTEN AT THE Request of a young Divine, TO BE SENT To his MISTRESS, with the Beggar's Opera. ()
- Written in an IVORY BOOK For the Honourable Miss HAMILTON; To be sent to her MAMMA. ()
- Written on some Ivory Leaves. ()