William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Verses, Written for the Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (16611715)
Concludes with lustre in St. Albans’ charms;
Her conquering eyes have made their race complete;
They rose in Valour, and in Beauty set.
Blest with more than mortal fire;
Likeness of a mother’s face,
Blest with more than mortal grace;
You with double charms surprise,
With his wit, and with her eyes.
Blest with your parents’ wit and her first blooming face;
Born with our liberties in William’s reign,
Your eyes alone that liberty restrain.
Theirs was the first, and ours the brightest toast;
The adorers offerings prove who’s most divine,
They sacrificed in water, we in wine.
Bright as her eyes, and as her reason clear:
Yet still their force, to men not safely known,
Seems undiscovered to herself alone.
Your charms to brighter glory here advance;
The stubborn Britons own your beauty’s claim,
And with their native toasts enroll your name.