A POEM ON THE HAPPY RETURN OF His ROYAL HIGHNESS FROM SCOTLAND.  
IS Royal James returned, and are we dumb?  
Display your joy by Sack, Beer, Ale, and Mum;  
Let every Street be drunk with Ale or Wine  
For joy, to welcome home the Royal Line.  
Who can his joy, who can his gladness smother,  
When he beholds Great James, the King's own Brother?  
Guns bid him welcome with a thundering noise;  
His very presence should beget our Joys:  
Trumpets should sweetly sound for his return,  
Whilst Scotland for his absence now doth mourn.  
Bells ring aloud, and shake the very Steeple;  
Let mirth and joy come from all sorts of people:  
Bonfires burn high, like that in Leic'ster-fields,  
For his Return, our joy and triumph yields.  
Drums make a noise, Music of every sort  
Echo from City, Suburbs, Town, and Court  
Scotland received him gladly, every tongue  
Was ready for to sing a welcome Song.  
Shall they lament his absence? shall not we  
Cry Welcome Duke of Tork and Albany?  
Their sorrow ought to be our great delight,  
We have the Sun of joy, they Clouds of night.  
None but a factious Brood can now be sorry  
At th'appearance of this Son of Glory.  
The King and country's Friends will shout for joy,  
And cry, Let JAMES long live, and Viv'le Roy.  
Some of the whining Race will be as sad,  
As every truebred Protestant is glad.  
Those that do hate a King will loathe this Prince;  
I know 'tis now as it was some years since.  
They never will let's see a smiling face,  
Till some damned Noll usurps the Royal Place.  
Would some Geneve-man come take the Crown,  
And tread the Royal Stem and Offspring down:  
Would any Canting Cobbler take the Throne,  
And give them leave to lie, to sigh and groan,  
To damn the Common-pray'r and curse the King;  
I do not doubt but then this Sect would sing.  
Were Angels Kings, I know this factious Brood  
Would hate to be in any pleasing mood:  
The very name of King they loath and hate,  
Witness the Martyrdom at White-hall-gate.  
But let them pine to see your Highness here;  
To every truebred Subject you are dear:  
We will rejoice, and let the Kingdom know  
The hearty love we to your Highness owe.  
Our trading dull, our Kingdom is divided,  
We are no longer able to abide it.  
The Factious Party daily threaten Wars,  
And now we hope you will destroy those jars:  
If courting will not with this sort prevail,  
Then they must quickly hear another Tale;  
Their headstrong necks must buckle to the strokes  
Of the entreaty of some stubborn Oaks.  
Are they grown King-proof? let the Rabble know  
The due Allegiance that such Subjects owe.  
But stay, my angry Muse, methinks I hear,  
That some begin to love and others fear  
I wish that you to us would reconcile,  
And make Great Britain the most happy Isle.  
Would you fear God, honour the Royal Line,  
Than you might eat the Fruit of your own Vine;  
Your morsel would be sweet, plenty and peace  
Would overtake you, and your discords cease.  
What! do you itch for Wars? are your Dads rotten,  
Or are their cruel bloody Deeds forgotten?  
What tumults, rapines, murders, and disorders  
Did lately fill our most inhuman Borders?  
Read but the Civil Wars, and you will sing,  
Welcome great James unto our Sacred King:  
Peace be to you, to us, and all the Land,  
And may no foe in opposition stand;  
May all that strive against the King and Crown,  
Like Jezabel, be hurled headlong down.  
Thus you would sing and pray with one consent,  
And of your past unkinduesses repent;  
Forget your malice, faithful Subjects prove,  
Then Charles and James would both receive ye in love.  
Like Mouse and Frog the King and Commons agree,  
And the French Kite their Discords glad to see:  
But as you're fearful to be made a prey,  
Know 'tis your interest now to obey.  
FINIS.   

LONDON, Printed by N. T. Anno Domini 1680/79. 25. Feb: