Still to his active hands commends advice,
'Tis happy to be valiant and wise.
This second London had also the ill hap to perish by fire, being burned by the Dutch, in the disgraceful surprise of Chatham, 1667.
O truly royal! who behold the law,
And rule of Beings in your Maker's mind.
St. 166. [p. 134.]
In this and the preceding stanza, our author, from the improved arts of ship-building and navigation, is led to compliment the Royal Society, then newly instituted, of which he was himself a member.
Already were the Belgians on our coast.—St. 168. [p. 134.]