Your Majesty must needs remember, nor is the sound yet out of your sacred ears, when the houses of this your August Metropolis were covered with the loud and cheerful spectators, because the earth was too narrow to contain them; the wayes and the trees were filled with the shouting of your people, LONG LIVE KING CHARLES THE II. tamque aequaliter ab omnibus ex adventu tuo laetitia percepta est, quam omnibus venisti.  For when the wise Arbiter of things began to look down upon us, all things conspir’d to make us happy; our Deliverance by your Majesty as by another Moses, leading us out of that AEgyptian bondage; or by a nearer resemblance that of the Babylonish captivity, if not yet farr greater; since God did there only turne the heart of a Prince to let a nation go:  Here, the hearts of a whole Nation, to invite a banish’d Prince to come, when no other visible power interpos’d.  Let others boast then of their miracles; we can produce such, as no age, no people under heaven can shew; God moving the hearts of his most implacable Enemies in a moment as it were, and those who had been before inhumanely thirsty after your blood, now ready to sacrifice their own for your safety; Digna res memoratu! ibat sub ducibus vexillisque Regiis, hostis aliquando Regius, & signa contra quae steterat sequebatur.  But I suffer [HW:  surfeit] with too much Plenty, and what eloquence is able to expresse the triumph of that your never to be forgotten Entry, unlesse it be the renewing of it this day?  For then were we as those who dream, and can yet hardly be perswaded, that we are truly awake:  Dies ille aeternis seculis monumentisque mandandus, A day never to be forgotten in all our Generations, but to be consecrated to posterity, transmitted to future Ages, and inserted into Monuments more lasting then Brasse.  Away then with these Woodden and temporary Arches, to be taken down by the People at pleasure; erect Marble ones, lasting as the Pyramids, and immovable as the mountains themselves, and when they fail, let the memory of it still remain engraven in our Hearts, Books, Records, novissimo haud peritura die.

And yet not this altogether, because we have received a Prince, but such a Prince, whose state and fortune in all this blessed change, we so much admire not, as his mind; For that is truly felicity, not to possesse great things, but to be thought worthy of them:  And indeed Great Sir, necessity constrains me, and the laws of Panegyric, to verifie it in your Praises, by running over at least those other Appellations, which both your vertue has given to your Majesty, and your Fortune acquir’d.  For he is really no King who possesses not (like you) a Kingly mind, be his other advantages what they may:  If the Republick belong then to Caesar, Caesar belongs much more to the Republick; and of this you have given proof.

For no sooner were we possess’d of your sacred Majestie, but you suddainly gave form to our confused Chaos:  We presently saw when you had taken the reigns into your sacred hands, and began to sit at Sterne, our deviating and giddy course grow steady, and the fluctuating Republick at drift ready to put into a secure Port.