The first edition of this poem is printed in folio by J. M. for Henry Herringman, 1660. It affords few and trifling corrections. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 31: There are all shapes and forms of poetical addresses upon this occasion, by clergymen, and scholars, and persons of honour. Among them, the verses by Waller are most celebrated; though inferior to those which he composed on the Protector's death. When Charles made this remark, the bard, with great felicity, reminded his Majesty, that poets always excel in fiction. Among other topics, he enlarges on the "tried virtue, and the sacred word," of the witty monarch. It is singular, that, of the three distinguished poets, who solemnized by elegy the death of the Protector, Dryden and Waller should have hailed the restoration of the Stuart line, and Sprat have favoured their most arbitrary aggressions upon liberty.] [Footnote 32: In "A Poem to His Most Excellent Majesty, Charles the Second, _Ego beneficio tuo (Cæsar) quas ante audiebam hodie vidi Deos: Nec feliciorem ullum vitæ meæ aut optavi aut sensi Diem_, by H. Buston, _Winton_; together with another, by Hen. Bold, olim Winton," the royal genealogy is thus deduced from the primitive father of mankind: On which side shall we trace your stock? beyond The loins of Egbert, or of Pharamond; Now sunk in Adam's entrails it is found, And thence shoots through the world to you all crowned. Vain boldness of the age (age of deceits), Knew this, and therefore coined Præ-Adamites. ] [Footnote 33: His wounds he took like laurels on his breast, Which by his virtue were with laurels dressed. ] [Footnote 34: With alga, who the sacred altar strews? To all the sea-gods Charles an offering owes; A bull to thee, Portunus, shall be slain; A lamb to you, ye tempests of the main. ] ASTRÆA REDUX. A POEM, ON THE HAPPY RESTORATION AND RETURN OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY, CHARLES THE SECOND, 1660. _Jam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna._ VIRG. The last great age, foretold by sacred rhimes, Renews its finished course; Saturnian times Roll round again.