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R22757 WHat Strepitantious Noise is it that sounds / From Raised Banks, or from the Lower Grounds? Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 134810 To the Brazen-Head. To the Brazen-Head. To the Brazen Head. 1688-1688

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WHat Strepitantious Noise is it that sounds From Raised Banks, or from the Lower Grounds? From Hollow Caverns, Labyrinths from afar, Threatning Confusions of a Dreadful War? What Dismal Cries of people in Despair Fill the vast Region of the Troubled Air? The Tune of Horrour, or of whats as strange, That strikes uneven like a World of Change, With such a Bold Surprize attacks my Sense, Beyond the Power of Counsel or Defence? But tho Blind Fortune rolls her turning Wheel With a perpetual Motion, who can feel This Surge of Fate, pusht on with Fire and Steel? You precious Moments of Serener Days! When many Victories enlargd my Praise, And all things ran in a most easie Stream, Back unto me their Ocean and Supream. Are you all vanishd by the sudden Fright, And left m incompassd with a Dismal Night? By my own Subjects in suspicion held, Murmurings, as bad as if they had Rebelld? You all Controuling Powers of things above! Whose easier Dictates guide the World by Love! Avert th Impendent Miseries, and show Us Earthly Gods to Govern here below! The Answer. TIS well youve thought upon the chiefest Cause: Change nothing of Religion nor the Laws, And then no Discontent shall here Invade, For Thieves would enter out of a Bravade, To rectify all wrongs, when their Intent S themselves t inrich, and not the Government. Let the Great Monarch this good Motto wear, Not only in his Arms but every where. Integer Vitae, is my whole Defence, Scelerisque purus, a most strong Defence; Non eget Mauri, that no Forces need, Jaculis nec Arcu, which Contentions breed: Nec venenatis gravida Sagittis Pharetra, to make Loyal his own Cities.
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