From milder heavens you bring, without their crimes.

Your calmness does no after-storms provide,

Nor seeming patience mortal anger hide.

When empire first from families did spring,

Then every father governed as a king;

But you, that are a sovereign prince, allay

Imperial power with your paternal sway.

From those great cares when ease your soul unbends,

Your pleasures are designed to noble ends;

Born to command the mistress of the seas,