%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Royal Character: / OR, / The Mirrour of Majesty, / A New SONG. / 'Tis Sacred, this is an Illustrous Theam, / A bright Reflection of that Radient Beam; / That Albion does illumen such a Ray, / As shining through black Clouds, restor'd our Day; / A Glorious Sun that risin [?n] the East, / With warmth reviv'd the North, the South and West. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1681-1684 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 04/28/2008 21887

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4.227 R187259 2 Long live our Great Cesar Let Caesar Live Long Long Live our Great Cesar Now, now the Fight's done Now, Now the Fight's Done Now, Now the Fight's Done LOng Live our Great Cesar, and long be his Reign, / UUho Iustice and mercy so well does maintain; Majesty ever triumph'd on his brow, / And to him the Genius of all Nations bow: title unclear: The Royal Character: / OR, / The Mirrour of Majesty, / A New SONG. / 'Tis Sacred, this is an Illustrous Theam, / A bright Reflection of that Radient Beam; / That Albion does illumen such a Ray, / As shining through black Clouds, restor'd our Day; / A Glorious Sun that risin [?n] the East, / With warmth reviv'd the N[or]t[h], the South [and] West. Imprint unclear: Printed for I. Wright, I. C[l]arke, W[,] Thackeray, and / T. Pass[e]nger. Pepys 4.227 Rollins VII:222-224; Wing R2103A. Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 4: 227 The Royal Character: / OR, / The Mirrour of Majesty, / A New SONG. / 'Tis Sacred, this is an Illustrous Theam, / A bright Reflection of that Radient Beam; / That Albion does illumen such a Ray, / As shining through black Clouds, restor'd our Day; / A Glorious Sun that risin [?n] the East, / With warmth reviv'd the North, the South and West. The Royal Character: OR,The Mirrour of Majesty, A New SONG. 'Tis Sacred, this is an Illustrous Theam, A bright Reflection of that Radient Beam; That Albion does illumen such a Ray, As shirking through black Clouds, restor'd our Day; A Glorious Sun that risin[g] [i]n the East, With warmth reviv'd the North, the South and West. The Royal Character: Or, the Mirror of Majesty, a New Song. It Is Sacred, This Is an Illustrious Theme, a Bright Reflection of That Radiant Beam; That Albion Does Illumine Such a Ray, as Shining Through Black Clouds, Restored Our Day; a Glorious Sun That Rising in the East, with Warmth Revived the North, the South and West. The second part, The second part, The Second Part, 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?200 x 314 cropped top and right edges, uneven inking, Ms. set-off from opposite page visible horizontal and vertical rules 1681-1684 Printed for I. Wright, I. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and / T. Passenger. J. Wright, J. Clarke, W Thackeray, T. Passenger Blagden

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 4/28/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Various Subjects country/nation historicalfigures&events politics/government royalty 04/28/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/03/07 Checker Rachel Mann Ballad checked 08/16/06 Transcriber Simone Chess Original transcription 8/31/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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LOng Live our Great Cesar, and long be his Reign, Who Justice and mercy so well does maintain; Before whose stern anger the Rebels do flye, Yet find him relenting when mercy they cry: He like his Creator does pitty their State, And in hopes of amendment reverses their fate. Spares those wou'd un-King him, and favour extends, To the stubbornest Rebel, when humbly he bends: His eyes have compassion in war and in peace, And delights not in blood on the land nor the Seas: But in its mid Volue his thunder he stays, And thinks it enough to be Crown'd with fresh bays.
The proud he does humble, the humble he spares, As too low for his anger, tho' not for his cares: A Royal compassion and bounty does Reign, In the brest of our Monarch, who ne'r did design, To look down on the wretched, and yield them relief, To condole their misfortune and banish their grief. He glories in mildness, and studies to be Above Romes first Cesar in his Clemency: The fierce banded partys could never remove, From those that are Loyal his favour and Love: He weather'd the tempest with such a brave mind, That he rightly is stil'd the supream of Mankind.
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Majesty ever triumph'd on his brow, And in him the Genius of all Nations bow: High Arbitrer ever of peace and of war, Whom Christians admire, and Heathens adore: From India to Fez the proud Monarchs think fit, Though Barbarous with him by Embassy to treat. The late shaken Empire Sweed, Dane, Dutch and Spain, His mediation were forc'd to obtain: As a Prince in whose breast both trouble and peace, The fates of the Nations do daily take place: Who with vertue or'ecomes more then by the sword, And calms the wild tempest of war with his word. Who makes his worst foes with remorse to confess, That Heaven in him does our nation most bless: That in him we are happy and nought can wish more, Unless be that God would his grace on us shower: To be thankful for blessings above our desert, Even such as command in us a Loyal Heart. The pattern of Heaven in him good men find So gracious, so just, and so affable kind: That his Majesty shrouded his pittying eye, Regards the distressed, and shuns not their cry: But relief he does tender unto the Opprest, And suffers them not to depart unredrest. Then who but the worst of mankind can offend, Against inate goodness that still does extend: Like to kind providence in such a care, That his friends and his foes of his bounty take share Let faction and tumult for ever then cease, And blush to offend such a Monarch as this.
FINIS. Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.