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_ To give it classic force,
he quotes from the Pollio as a text.
Jam redit et virgo, redeunt saturnia regna;
thus hailing the saturnian times of James I. and Charles I. A few lines of
the poem complete the curious contrast:
While our cross stars deny us Charles his bed,
Whom our first flames and virgin love did wed,
For his long absence church and state did groan;
Madness the pulpit, faction seized the throne.
* * * * *
How great were then our Charles his woes, who thus
Was forced to suffer for himself and us.
* * * * *
Oh happy prince whom Heaven hath taught the way,
By paying vows to have more vows to pay:
Oh happy age! oh, times like those alone
By Fate reserved for great Augustus' throne,
When the joint growth of arts and arms foreshow
The world a monarch, and that monarch you!
The contrast assumes a clearer significance, if we remember that the real
time which elapsed between the publications of these two poems was less
than two years.


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