Dieu ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT x MAL Y pennies   royal blazon or coat of arms  
UPON THE DECLARATION OF HIS MAJESTY KING CHARLES OF ENGLAND the Second.  
BLess Mighty God great Britain's second KING  
Charles: shield him Divinity (from the Sting  
Of black mouthed Murth'ring Malice, make him Live  
The world's true mirror, that does now forgive  
Freely foul Facts; foul Faults, which makes all those  
Enemy's Friends, that were his greatest Foes.  
KING Charles the First, that Glorious Martyr, He  
Of neverdying Blessed Memory,  
His chiefest Charge unto his royal SON 
Expedit adversarios nostros condonare, memoriamque eorum ex adversariis nostris delere.   
Was to forgive his Enemies; 'tis done,  
For all Earth's Potentates t'dmire, and see  
KING Charles the Seconds Christian Charity;  
Witness God's Hand; heaven fights for him, by good  
And best of Subjects; shedding no man's Blood.  
O beyond thought! blessed comfort to us all  
Sent by the means of virtue's General;  
No Fiends in flesh could soothe him to refrain  
Obedience, true love to his sovereign.  
A King, 
Rex serenissimus Carolus Secundus noster, non in imperio tanquam in virtute securior.  whose thoughts, think it his safest living  
To imitate our Saviour in forgiving;  
Praying for Foes, wherein He does comprise  
The Funeral of All his Injuries:  
This from sad Exile, sent him Home to Heale  
The Bloody Wounds of England's commonweal:  
Like Man and Wife, where both in Love agree,  
King's live in peace, prudent Parl'aments Free.  
Nathaniel Richards.   

London, Printed for J. G. 1660.