%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> PROLOGUE / To His ROYAL HIGHNESS, / Upon His first appearance at the DUKE's THEATRE / since his Return from SCOTLAND. Dryden, John University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1682-1682 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/02/2012 32318

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R234 IN those cold Regions which no Summers chear, / When brooding darkness covers half the year, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 135892 PROLOGUE / To His ROYAL HIGHNESS, / Upon His first appearance at the DUKE's THEATRE / since his Return from SCOTLAND. PROLOGUE To His ROYAL HIGHNESS, Upon His first appearance at the DUKE's THEATRE since his Return from SCOTLAND. PROLOGUE To His ROYAL HIGHNESS, Upon His first appearance at the DUKE's THEATER since his Return from SCOTLAND. Dryden, John 1682-1682 J. Tonson

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IN those cold Regions which no Summers chear, When brooding darkness covers half the year, To hollow Caves the shivering Natives go; Bears range abroad, and hunt in tracks of Snow: But when the tedious Twilight wears away, And Stars grow paler at th approach of Day, The longing Crowds to frozen Mountains run, Happy who first can see the glimmering Sun! The surly Salvage Off-spring disappear; And curse the bright Successour of the Year. Yet, though rough Bears in Covert seek defence, White Foxes stay, with seeming Innocence: That crafty kind with day-light can dispense. Still we are throngd so full with Reynards race, That Loyal Subjects scarce can find a place: Thus modest Truth is cast behind the Crowd: Truth speaks too Low; Hypocrisie too Loud. Let em be first, to flatter in success; Duty can stay; but Guilt has need to press. Once, when true Zeal the Sons of God did call, To make their solemn show at Heavens White-hall, The fawning Devil appeard among the rest, And made as good a Courtier as the best. The Friends of Job, who raild at him before, Came Cap in hand when he had three times more. Yet, late Repentance may, perhaps, be true; Kings can forgive if Rebels can but sue: A Tyrants Powr in rigour is exprest: The Father yearns in the true Princes Breast. We grant an Oregrown Whig no grace can mend; But most are Babes, that know not they offend. The Crowd, to restless motion still enclind, Are Clouds, that rack according to the Wind. Drivn by their Chiefs they storms of Hail-stones pour: Then mourn, and soften to a silent showre. O welcome to this much offending Land The Prince that brings forgiveness in his hand! Thus Angels on glad Messages appear: Their first Salute commands us not to fear: Thus Heavn, that coud constrain us to obey, (With revrence if we might presume to say,) Seems to relax the rights of Sovreign sway: Permits to Man the choice of Good and Ill; And makes us Happy by our own Free-will.
London, Printed for J. Tonson.