130 BLESSINGS INVOKED. [1693. 



In thy Earth, 



Shall rise to Immortality and Glory. 



O Isle, most desirable among the 



Daughters of the Ocean ! 



How many good and laudable Things may be said of thee ! 



May a wiser and hapj^er People than We, 



One day Cultivate with joy thy fertile Soil ; 



And without Interruption, enjoy all thy Xatural Riches. 



May that People Multiply ! 



May they Prosper without Trouble and Alarms, 



And no Successor in the Government, 



Ever call thy Inhabitants his Inheritance, 



And never become their Enemy and Destroyer. 



May never King nor Viceroy suck thy Blood, 



Nor break thy Bones. 



May Heaven preserve thee from all wicked Judges, 



From all pretended Distributors of Justice, 



Who sit in the Seat of Discord, Rapine and Iniquity. 



May Heaven preserve thee from the Pride of the Great, 



And the Wantonness of the Rich. 



May Heaven for ever preserve thee 



From that pernicious Race of Animals,^ 



Who without Wisdom, Virtue, Courage or Honour, 



Assume the fair Name of Noble. 



May the Cry of the Poor in Distress 



Never be heard on thy Coasts. 



May never Begging Ambassador, 



Carrying on his Shoulders 



The Miserable Dirty train that seem to follow him, 



Raise Pity in thy People. 



May never any wicked Heretick,nor Orthodox Fool, 



Nor rascally Monk, 2 



Trouble thy Peace. 



May thy holy Religion never depend 



On the Sword, or on Custom. 



May no Sellers and Buyers of Holy Things,^ 



Ever set foot on thy Land. 



1 In orig. : " engeance de tout Animal." 



2 In orig. : " Religieux Scelerat." 



3 Max. Misson, writing from Rome, April 24, 1688, says: "I can't 

 for my life see why the Church of Rome should make such a bluster 

 to hide this Disgrace, when Baronius bestows the Title of Monsters 

 upon several other Popes, and not without reason, considering the 



