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FINIS.

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A
P A N E G Y R I C
TO
Charles the Second,
PRESENTED
TO HIS MAJESTIE
The [HW:  1st X crossed out]XXXIII. of APRIL, being the Day
OF HIS
CORONATION. 
MDCLXI.

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By JOHN EVELYN, Esquire

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LONDON, Printed for John Crooke, and are to be sold at the Ship in St. Paul’s Church-Yard.

A
PANEGYRIC
TO
CHARLES the II. 
PRESENTED
TO HIS MAJESTY
On the Day of His INAUGURATION,
April 23. MDCLXI.

I have decreed with myself (O best and greatest of Kings!) to publish the just resentiments of a heart, perfectly touch’d with the Joy and Universal Acclamations of your People, for your this dayes Exaltation and glorious investiture.  And truly, it was of custome us’d to good and gracious Princes, upon lesser occasions, to pronounce and celebrate their merits with Elogies and Panegyrics; but if ever they were due, it is to your Majesty this Day; because as your Virtues are superiour to all that pass’d before you; so is the Conjuncture, and the steps by which you are happily ascended to it, Miraculous, and alltogether stupendious:  So that what the former Ages might produce to deprecate their fears, or flatter the Inclinations of a Tyrant, we offer spontaneously, and by Instinct, without Artifice to your Serene Majesty, our just and rightfull Soveraign.  And if in these expressions of it, and the formes we use, it were possible to exceed, and so offend your Modesty; herein only (great Sir) do we not fear to disobey you; since it is not in your power to deny us our rejoycing, nor indeed in ours, to moderate.  Permit us therefore (O best of Kings) to follow our genius, and to consecrate your Name, and this dayes exaltation to that posterity which you alone have preserved, and which had certainly seen its period, but for your happy Restauration; so that your Majesty does not so much accept a benefit from, as give it to your Subjects.  For though the fulness of this Dayes joy, be like the seven years of plenty; yet, is that bread far more sweet, which is eaten with remembrance of the past Famine (too bitter, alas! to be forgotten on the suddain) especially, when it may serve to illustrate our present felicity, and conduce to your Majesties glory:  For so the skillful Artist, studious of making a surprising peice, or representing some irradiated Deity, deepens the shadowes sometimes with the darkest touches, and approaching to horrour it self, thereby to render his lights the more refulgent, and striking in the eyes of the Spectator.