A Worthy Panegyric UPON MONARCHY; Written Anno M DC L VIII.  
By a Learned and truly Loyal Gentleman, for Information of the miserably misled Commonwealthsmen (falsely so called) of that Deluded Age; and now revived by One that honours the Author, and the Established Government of these Nations.  

I.  
IF wanting Wings one may ascend the Skies,  
And Phoebus' view, without an Eagles Eyes;  
Then Rouse up (Muse) from thy Lethargic Strains,  
And (having first invoked the God of Brains)  
Let the Grand Subject of thy Measures be,  
No Soul to England like a Monarchy. 
* Monarchia â Monos Archôn, The Rule of one Prince or Governor without a Peer, or the Government of one man over many. As in England & c.    

II.  
It is the Image of that Domination,  
By which Jehovah rules the whole Creation;  
Angels nor Saints, do in his Kingdom share,  
God is Sole-Monarch, they, but Subjects are:  
Whose Laws are such, as when they did Rebel,  
Sequestered not, but sent them straight to Hell.   

III.  
As Old, as that Paternal Sovereignty,  
God placed in Adam, ruled his People by;  
Disowned of None, but them whose Minds aspire,  
And Envy ONE should have what All desire:  
For be't a Few or Many we live under,  
Such shall repine, still, whilst not of the Number.   

FOUR  
The Ancients did a Monarchy prefer,  
Made all their Gods submit to Jupiter;  
And (when Affairs and Nations first begun)  
Princes DECREES were th' only Laws of Man;  
Experience will avow it, where there's any,  
One HONEST MAN is sooner found than MANY.   

V.  
The Rational Soul performs a Prince's part,  
She rules the Body by Monarchick Art;  
Poor Cranes, and silly Bees (with shivering Wings,)  
Observe their Leaders, and obey their Kings:  
Nature herself, disdains a Crowded Throne,  
The Body's Monstrous, has more Heads than ONE.   

VI  
〈◊〉 Monarchy's that Politic simple State,  
Consists in Unity (inseparate  
Pure 〈◊〉 entire;) a Government that stands,  
When others fall, touched but with levelling hands:  
So Natural and with such Skill endued,  
It makes ONE Body of a Multitude.   

VII.  
In Order (wherein latter things depend  
On former) that's most perfect doth attend  
On Unity: But this can never be  
The Popular State, nor Aristocracy;  
For where or All, or Many bear the Sway,  
Such Order, to Confusion leads the way.   

VIII.  
A Monarchy more quickly doth attain  
The End proposed; for 'tis the Single-Brain  
That ripens Council, and concealeth best  
Princely Designs, till Deeds proclaim 'em blest.  
Whilst Numerous Heads are rarely of one Mind,  
Slow in their Motion, louder than the Wind.   

IX.  
Treason, nor Force, so suddenly divides  
Th' United Strength that in a Crown resides:  
Sedition prospers not, it seldom here,  
Results an Object of the Prince's Fear:  
Then when an Empire, Rome was ne'er so strong,  
Nor Triumphed under other Rule so long.   

X.  
A Monarchy abates those Feverish Fits  
Of Emulation a Free-State begets:  
A Prince cannot his Reins so quickly slack,  
Or throw his Burden on anoth●●● Back:  
But where so many Rulers 〈…〉 e Command,  
The Work's transferred, and tossed from Hand to Hand.   

XI.  
The People, or the Nobles to debate  
The deep Concernments of a troubled State,  
Set Times and Places have assigned them, they  
First meet, and then adjourn from Day to Day!  
Whereas a Monarch, who by Nature's ONE,  
Deliberates always, never's off his Throne.   

XII.  
But hold! Me thinks I see the three Estates  
Convened; thrown open Prison-Doors and Grates,  
Extinct our paltry Jealousies and Fears,  
Grace offered to All, but Cavaliers  
And—! yet with Patience they abound,  
In Hopes of Better, now the Wheel goes round.   
Britannia ab initio mundi semper fuit Regia & Regimen illius simile ille Caelorum.  Howel.  

LONDON, Printed for W. B. M DC LXXX.