SUGGESTED BY
READING DRYDEN’S BRITANNIA REDIVIVA,
A Poem on the Prince, born on the 10th of June, 1688.
When James the Second took his second spouse,
The royal couple (as their Church allows)
T’ obtain a son and heir devoutly pray’d,
And call’d on many a popish saint for aid;
By costly gifts and vows they sued to gain
Th’ inestimable boon, nor sued in vain:
A son was given; and as the story ran,
Their saints convey’d the blessing in a warming-pan.