Arise, great JAMES! thy course of wisdom run!
Image of David's philosophick Son!
He comes! on either hand in seemly state,
Knowledge and Peace, his fondled handmaids wait:
Obscurely learn'd, elaborately dull,
Of quibbling cant and grace fanatick full,
Thron'd in full senate, on his pedant tongue,
These for six hours each weighty morning hung;
For these each string of royal pow'r he strain'd,
For these he sold whate'er ELIZA gain'd;
For these he squander'd ev'ry prudent store
The frugal Princess had reserv'd before,
On pension'd sycophants and garter'd boys,
Tools of his will, and minions of his joys.
For these he let his beggar'd daughter roam;
Bubbled, for these, by Spanish art at home;
For these, to sum the blessings of his reign,
Poison'd one Son and t' other sent to Spain.