nations Cedo alterum For I feare least this name Cedo alterum mentioned in Tacitus be yet scarcely foūd among many but I cal alowde where art thou Cedo alterum giue vs thy selfe bring in thy friend yea yet another and another be not wanting to the weale publique vna navis bonorum omnium al good Subiects are conteined in one Shippe of common Weale numerum non habet illa suum one is not perfit without the other for Brittaines Subiect ought maintaine mutual societie for cōmon good As for others disclayming vs and disioyning themselues only I wish they may all bee of the same consort and societie with vs for victrix causa dijs placuit though victa Catoni And albeit many great and mighty Potentates one earth make a great Shew of copia verborum by copious recital of many Provinces kingdomes as if his Maiestie shoulde intitle himselfe by al the several Shires vnder his dominiōs and not by one honorable Title of great Brittaine comprehending al yet to shew how this misliked some it is recorded when the Emperors Embassador comming to the French King rehearsed the Emperours stile at large which consisted of many dominions and names of coūtries the French king willed his Herralde to repeate and say over the name of France as many times as the other had rehearsed the several titles of his masters dominions intimating that one name of France wel compacted and vnited of many particulers into one general name was better then diverse particuler names of many countries And when Quintius Liv. 4. Dec. 5. lib. Flaminius heard how his army was terrified at the recital of many his enemies forces of their diversitie of names of countries of Armor and of multitudes Dahae Maedi Caedu sij Elemei Cataphracti c. Speare men Horse men Foot men Archers c. Oh saith he what a doe is here with numbers and diversitie of numbers al these are but only Sirians and make a great shew like that great Supper which mine host at Chalcis dressed for me and for my followers with much variety and marveile at the diversitie of the dishes and yet al was but of one flesh though of so many divers dressings The Riuer Peneus may better serue Herod 7. for instance it divideth it selfe and floweth into many divers Rivers and everie one of these Rivers in his division hath a proper name to himselfe one after this name and another after that but al these meeting in one and becomming againe one great and mighty River do now loose the particuler names which they held being divided and are called by one general name as before namely Peneus Non sunt multiplicanda entia sine necessitate It is not reasonable that brethren from one parent shoulde bee divided in one house though they be severed in distinct place but be as fingers to one hand knit togither by common iointes for mutual offices even as the brethren Molionides are poetically imagined to haue but one body or rather the three Geriōs to haue many bodies but one soule and one minde not vnlike to that of Pithagoras vt vnum ex pluribus fiat many in name but one in deed And as when Piso vvas commended to posteritie for frugalitie I doubt not but he was wise withall and as when Lelius was renowned for wisedome I doubt not but he was iust withal and Metellus for pietie I doubt not but he was temperate withal and Aristides for Iustice I doubt not but he was valiant withal yet I know that the denomination is ever but of one though it containe things two and moe as the Temple consecrated to two brethren Castor Suet. Iulius and Pollux was named only Castors Temple and the munificencie of two Consuls Caesar and Bibulus was called only Caesars munificencie and even many imaginarie shewes and shaddowes haue seemed compleat in deciphering one thing only yea the very images of excellent men haue beene patterns and resemblances of many consummat vertues in one as Plutarchs Alexander Xenophons Cirus Homers Vlisses Virgils Aeneas Lucians Imagines in steede of al. And as there is a common Idea and infolded notion of al things in the minde of man so the overviewing the whole race and tract of things in the world doth tel vs that as many peculiar excellent properties may be and are in one man he over them as sole Monarch over al the diversities of worthiest vertues so a king vnder his imperial power hath to him subiected many Shires States Citties Honors Provinces kingdomes himselfe being sole Soveraigne and Lord over al. Therefore though magnanimity only was attributed to Cirus only modesty to Agesilans onlie wisedome to Themistocles skil to Phillip boldnesse to Brasidas yet Alexander as Plutarch reporteth was furnished and ful-fraight with all these And Quintus Metellus is reported to attaine Pet Crin 13. 5. and possesse togither ten of the chiefest greatest things that euer he desired as if hee had at once ten Provinces vnder his commaund and was knowne a mighty warrier a sweete oratour a great commander to prosper in his greatest affaires to be in greatest honor of great wisedome a chiefe Senator plentiful in children rich of substance and most renowned in the Citty So copiously hath one man beene stored with plentifull variety of manifold graces al these at once dwelling in him and he wel ordering them euen as one free and absolute Monarch may doth rule many mighty and divers Nations knit in one by obedience and loue among themselues and by law and lustice from the king who by his lawes speaketh alike to al is heard of al and vnderstood of al vna eademque communi voce I confesse the name of great Brittaine hath beene long time eclipsed or rather like those voices Plut. which Antiphon saide were kept close and frozen vp in the Winter vntil the heate of Sommers shining Sunne resolued the frozen and fast bound aire that they might bee againe disclosed Comfortable is the warmth of this blessing in the Sunshining day of our soveraigne king wherin not only clowds are scattered but the renowned name of great Brittaine breaketh forth as a gladsome voice from frozened aire commeth forth as a Bridegrome out of his chamber long time before lockt vp like a prisoner Doubtlesse this is our yeare of Iubile a year of delivering the Captiue of making the bond free and of ioy even in sort and true sence to vs Annus Platonicus wherein things are come about againe to be as they were Iure Postliminij to recover our selues and be restored to name fame of great and glorious Brittaine long lately diuided into two kingdomes but now most happily ioiefully subiected revnited in al the government thereof vnto one only Soveraigne most wise and most religious governour of the same Deus haec benigna restituit in sedem vice Doubtlesse this is the Lords doing and it is marveilous in our eies this is
called Camberaec which could never be extinguished by anie attempts of Romanes Saxons Danes Normans that famous Citty London is stil by them called Trenwith of Brutus first named Trenovantō And the Countrey it selfe is called Cambria of Camber Brutus Sonne though we cal it VVales a word imposed by Saxons naming thē VValshe which is strange and many mountaines rivers cities are among thē stil retaining British names extremos pudeat redijsse let vs be ashamed to bee last or backward seeing another Arthur king of all great Brittaine raigneth least we stil seeme overawed and captivated to the Conquerour Egbert his wil and by his beating vs to bee made as base vassals forgetting our selues our names and our Countrie and not daring to challendge or acknowledge them even as that base Slaue Sosia was enforced to yeeld to his Master Mercury Plau. Amph. and say pugnis me fecisti tuum etsi sum ego tamen non credomihi nomen simul abstulit cum forma Neither doe I esteeme the change of name a matter of indifferencie as if it were all one whither we were called Brittaines or cōtinued English and Scottes But in my Iudgement it is reason to alter all into Brittaines because it was our most ancient and is the more honorable name except we wil weare the Badge of slaverie on our sleeue to brag to the world that we are not ashamed to be conquered so to shew our nakednesse and shame which Adam sought to cover when he once saw it Neither in mine opinion is it reason that the now Nobles or Gentlemen of England should delight in name imposed by that Saxon seeing the whole race of Saxons is for the most part rooted out by the Danes and Normanes and none of Saxons blood that vvas Noble or almost but Gentil is left and seeing as Chronicle reporteth it was counted in the daies of the Conquerour a reproach to be called an English man or to ioine in mariage with any of the English which in my vnderstanding is Saxons nation Redit ad authores genus generosa in ortus exurgunt semina suos And verily names and titles are matters of great consideration vnlesse like Varro not caring Aug. de civ 1. 22. for name we should also say that the God whom the Iewes worshipped was but the same Iupiter and common God of other Countries though otherwise called nihil interesse censens quo nomine nuncupetur dum eadem res intelligatur But in the vnion of the Sabins and Romaines as Eutropius reporteth this was especially agreed vpon that the Sabins and Romaines should assume one an others name promiscuously so that by no meanes they should bee distinguished by name Andalbeit among vs custome hath begotten prescription yet we may remember what is wel said in the Commedie nunquam it a quisquam benè subduct a ratione fuit quin res at as vsus aliquid apportet novi vt quae prima putes post in experiendo repudias As in the Romane storie when it was obiected that innovations were dāgerous to the state and nothing was to be done whereof formerly there was no president saith Livi. 1. Dec. 4. lib Canuleius Quid postea nullane res nova institui debet quod nondum est factum multa enim non dum sunt facta in novo populo ea ne sivtilia quidem sint fieri oportet Whilest we of England were put a part from Scotland it was reason wee should haue a name divided and distinguished from them retaine that name and condition as pleased fortune to impose as Andromache saith to her Sonne sume quod casus dedit but being restored in integrum and every part knit togither it is a like reason we returne to our old name say as in the Prophet Hose 2. I will goe and returne to my former husband for at that time it was better for me then now And no man when he hath tasted the new wine but saith the old is better So that as the Romaine Empire first was a Monarchie afterwardes governed by two Consuls and so a long passing through divers kindes of governments til it returned to his former state of Monarchie to be as it was at first even so the state of great Brittaine first was as a Monarchie al governed by one since it was divided but nowe it returneth to his Monarchie againe Moribus antiquii res stat Romana virisque For men wax wearie in time of their present condition and Rome mole laboravit sua or rather and more truely God setteth bounds to al things which they cannot passe even the mightiest powers haue their periods And al worldly kingdomes thus changing after long experience say the first is best and so likewise vt rerum it a verborum interit vsus quem penes est rerum vis norma loquendi But in this case neither the thing nor the name being changed but wee lawfully recovering that which was lost renewing the title of great Brittaine enioying our Coūtry as we did before calling al Brittaines holding al things in the same safety and security vnder name of greate Brittaine as before vnder names of England and Scotland say all and each one to other pascite vt ante boues pueri submittite tauros It is a good and gracious deede to provide for real agreement in al equal coniunction and mutual participation But in my simple opinion it had beene verbo tollere reipsa relinquere only in shew to take away difference but not in deed without vniting both kingdomes into the name and stile of great Brittaine for as he complained Cic. Ep. ad Att. Tirannis occidit Tirannis vivit So if the olde enmity of English and Scottish be removed and yet the names stil remaine I feare that the verie names woulde ever put ill men in minde of olde grudge and incite new variance as is said of one that he was Romani nominis inimicus at deadlie hatred with the verie name where the name is taken for the very cause of hatred As eo nomine hostis for that cause even for name sake he is an enemie even as in Rome when all things vvere accorded and all parties pleased only a name which was in dislike among them was thought hinderance to their mutual Concorde and content Liv. 1. Dec. 2. lib saying nō placere nomen id pericule sum esse id officere id obstare libertati and therefore the Senate perswaded Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus otherwise in al respects approved and beloved of al even for his names sake to forsake his office saying absolve beneficium amicus abi exonera civitatem vano for san metu This I speake least retaining former name of English and Scottish which heretofore hath beene offensiue to each other we cal as before is spoken the ill disposed to former opposition as betweene fire and water even to kindle such a fire in Iacob as wil devour in Israell
THE IOIEFVLL AND BLESSED REVniting the two mighty famous kingdomes England Scotland into their ancient name of great Brittaine By JOHN BRISTOLL SAPIENTIAE ET FELICITATIS ACADEMIA OXONIENSIS Printed at Oxford by IOSEPH BARNES are to be sold in Paules Church yarde at the signe of the Crowne by Simon Waterson TO THE KINGS MOST EXcellent Maiestie IAMES by the grace of God King of great Brittaine France Ireland defender of the faith THE ioyfull and happie proclaimed vnion of your Maiesties two famous kingdomes England and Scotland into the name of Great Brittaine in one dutifull obedience of all to one Royall Rightful Soveraigne over all is the very Treasurie of the whole State where your Maiestie is sole high Treasurer of weale publique your soveraigne authoritie beautified with Iustice for executing lawes with wisedome for determining Right with mercy and grace for releeving distressed Subiects is the glorious abundant Treasure it selfe And albeit I haue in my two bookes like the poore widdowe offered into your Treasury but only two mites yet I hope for that doe most humbly pray your gracious favor that your highnesse will bee pleased in goodnes to accept my humble service duty to lay vp my two mites with the rest of the rich Treasure though in the account they be scarcely reckoned for a farthing I haue with that care and caveat as is meete only observed the Tenor of your highnes proclamation and with dutiful and due regard left all other incident circumstances and great considerations to the wisedome of the Honorable Commissioners authorized by your Maiestie in both your Parliaments As for all others which dislike mine industrie and distaste my zeale esteeming my labours lost and better left vndone then my reputation left vndone amonge them I esteeme them only tanquam Pedarios Censores trampling on truth and carying their eies in their heeles and not in their head neverthelesse I desire if may be to avoide their kicking and spurning if not yet because I knowe my farthing good silver able to indure touch and triall I haue without other respects in publishing this booke scattered abroad the fire of my zeale to shew it felfe in its own shine and placed my happynesse in your Maiesties approving mine endevours knowing that the king of kings acknowledged the poore widdowe to haue cast in more into the Teasury then al the rich men Me selfe verily doe cast in all that I haue and for my part doe iudge it everie mans part to depart from all where hee oweth all To this I can only adde my dayly praiers and doe presently and will still powre them forth to the God of all glorie and mercie lifting vp hands heart that his manifold and dayly blessings may bee multiplyed vpon your sacred person vpon our gracious Queen and vpon your Royall Seede for ever and that all your kingdomes may flourish to your owne hearts desire for terror of foes and endlesse comfort of all your loving Subiectes Your Maiesties faithfull Subiect and humble servant Io. BRISTOLL THE IOYFVLL AND HAPPY vnion of the two famous kingdomes England and Scotland into the name of Great Brittaine THE State of England and Scotland may bee resembled to the condition of Israell and Iuda not only for emulation who haue most right to the Royall person 2. Sam. 19. of the Kings Maiestie for their defence and government but also for that the two kingdomes were at first both but one Besides God as he speaketh by his Prophet did also at first alike leade both them and vs with Gords of a man euen with Hose 11. Bands of loue And as it pleased God for sinne of people to breake those Bands even both the Staffe of bands and of bewtie to dissolue the brotherhoode Zach. 11. of Israell and Iuda so for the iniquitie of our forefathers God brake the Staffe of bands signifying mutuall loue and also Staffe of bewtie signifying order of government and brought in vpon them vpon their posterity even to these Is 9. our latter daies a staffe of diuision and yoke of burden vpon theirs and our shoulders which nowe for al that out of the riches of his mercie he hath also broken in peeces making al one againe as he spake by his Prophet Ezechiel concerning Israel Ezec. 37. and Iuda saying I wil make them one people in the land vpon the mounetaines of Israell and one king shall be king to them all they shall be no more two peoples neither be diuided any more henceforth into two kingdomes This foundation laide as proiect of our whole purpose The trueth sheweth it selfe howe two kingdomes severed in place not much differing in lawes nor dissonant in language but only disagreeing heretofore in neighbourhoode may bee comprehended vnder notion of one name specially seeing when one ruleth both and both become Subiect to one they are no more two but one body lincked in like duety and knit togither in one bande of obedience To doubt this is in Strangers ignorance but in Subiects a great offence For who so considereth that many Shires with the principality of Wales heretofore made one England cannot but confesse that likewise England Scotland with al their territories Ilands Shires and Countries make now one great Brittaine and al the people of both the mighty nations Brittaines and that the Kings Maiestie hath done as princely an Act in vniting both the kingdomes into one name as hee did in vniting the Armes of both the Realmes into one Scutchion hauing a like Right in both For all great Brittaine being his Maiesties inheritance all his Subiects within that continent are Brittaines Iust and reasonable was the demande of Annius chiefe Governour of Latines in vniting Romanes and Latines saying Ex vtraque gente vnum Liv. 1. Dec. 8. lib. oportet esse populum vnam fieri rempub eandē imperij sedem idemque omnibus nomen And albeit the Latines were cōtent for sake of Weale publique to preferre Romanes before themselues and bee called by their names as the History there farther reporteth Quoniam ab alter vtra parte concedi necesse est quod vtrisque benè vertat sit hat sanè patria potior Romani omnes vocemur neverthelesse the case not standing so with vs that Scottish should be called by our name nor we by theirs me thinks a thirde name of great Brittaine might easily equally please both otherwise as King Deiotarus cut of al his children saving one Plut. 3. mor because he would leaue the kingdom but to one so should English swallowing vp name of Scottish or Scottish drowning name of English prooue such a Vine which to bring but one grape to ripenes is content that all Branches bee cut of but one But the questiō here is not which of the branches should best prosper but how all the branches may flourish which abide in the Vine and verily the question carieth in it selfe his
in the whole common Weale it is wholly and in every part thereof whither it be of English or Scottish entire Tota in toto tota in qualibet parte As a shining light it sheweth a way for common good and as a reasonable soule giveth vnderstanding to the blindest body to see the full fruition of al worldly happinesse let no man shut his eies against the Sun nor refuse a living soule for his Carcas If I could expresse the image of this vnion in liuely colours I would surely make her a Goddes faire and beautiful having a garland crowne of al blessings vpō her head sitting in a Chaire of State with al good fortunes vertues and graces attending her and as a Goddes in triumphant chariot going into the capitol or temple of mighty Iupiter where also the Poets haue found her but called by another name even Pallas who is also named Monas that is vnitie because having Macrob. one only parent shee resideth in Iupiters braine even in the chiefe seate of his wisedome where al the Muses are her companions so called Musae quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is altogither in one where al the Graces go hand in hand congratulating to vnion their mutual societie where al vertue and knowledge are neere of affinitie but Iustice and government of cōsanguinity to her her selfe stil holding primacy over al as England Scotland are cheerefully looking one towards the other in the name of great Brittaine as the two Cherubins did looke one towards the other in one propitiatory And thy royal state ô great Ezech. 28. Brittaine is as the annointed Cherub And as in the hart of man is placed fortitude in his liver temperance and in his minde Iustice yet al these with al other vertues are annexed to Prudence the common ligament of al so is great Brittaine by vniting al his kingdomes principalities countries and honours the compleate proportioned forme of al and al in it both vniversally and particulerly are fashioned and made fit on every side for happy coniunction and mutual correspondence For this renowned name of great Brittaine standeth in steede of a Loadstone drawing al into one chaining them togither with links of loue as Lisippus made an image of fowre mettals mixed togither gold silver brasse and yron expressing hereby absolute perfection of vertue putting in gold to signifie Prudence silver Iustice brasse Fortitude and yron Temperance whereof they are altogither ignorant as if they had never seene vertue so much as painted who to overthrow vniō in the name of great Brittaine bring no vnion of vertues euen excellencies of many Countries to this so excellent worke But skilful Zeuxes going about to depaint an absolute worke of a perfit virgin tooke not onlie view of one womans beautie but had varietie of many the fairest to accomplish out of al these a more excellent and consummate forme of bodie Shal we not thinke the kingdome of Fraunce containing Pickardy Normandie the I le of France Champaigne Averne Dalphenie Bry Bloys Turin the Dutchie of Aniow Xantoin Burgundie and vniting to it little Brittaine to be more glorious in al these being made one then if but one only of al these were that kingdome Doe we not see that the enlarging of the dominions of Spaine in vniting and establishing diverse kingdomes and territories as those of Aragon Castile and that of Portugal with others hath so enlarged that kingdome as that the like hath not befallen other Christian Potentates Hath not the King of Denmarke beside the Cimbrian Chersonese where Holsatia Theutomartia the Dukedome of Sletia Flensburgh Friesland and Iuthland doe lie other spacious Ilands fifteene in number all comprehended vnder the name Denmarke and vnited to that Crowne Did not Iagello taking to wife in the year 1380. the princes Hedingee the last of the blud Royal of Polonia after he was installed king there vnite al his owne principalities of Lithuania and Samotgathia Provinces of Russia to the kingdome and Esth 1. Crowne of Poland Did not Ahasuerus raigne from India to Ethiopia over an hundred twenty and seaven diuerse Provinces And was not he so mightie by reason of this varietie subiected and vnited to his sole government that hee was an hundreth and fowrescore daies shewing the riches and glorie of his Greatnesse to al his Princes and to the mightie men of Persia Media But to take example of one only Rome for all How hath it beene renowned through the whole world by ioyning al the nations of the world into one euen to it selfe Herehence it was called terrarum dea gentiumque Roma communis patria mundi compendium Omnia Romanae cedant miracula terrae Propertius Natura hîc posuit quicquid in orbe fuit But the Maiestie of this Empire grew so great by adioining other nations and bringing them all into one Haec est in gremium quae victos sola recepit Humanumque genus communi nomine fovit Matris non dominaeritu civesque vocavit Quos domuit nexuque pio longinqua revinxit And againe Fecisti patriam diversis gentibus vnam Dumque offers victis proprij consortia iuris Vrbem fecisti quod prius orbis erat And so may wee say of this renowned name of great Brittaine comprehending vs all of diverse nations in one vnder our gracious King Huius pacificis debemus moribus omnes Quod cuncti gens vna sumus I could set forth and confirme by sundry examples this vniting of many into one and thereby shew that the enlarging of dominion consisteth in vniting altogither into one name and establishing diverse Territories vnder one Soveraignetie and government and that the greater states and Imperial powers of larger extent and far spreading domination are the more durable Arist Pol. and that the Monarchie of great Brittaine is like to be hereafter of more durance strength honor as partly comming vnder our Kings government without conquest or constraint nam errat longè mea quidem sententia qui credat imperium stabilius aut firmius quod vi adiungitur quam quod facilitate clementia so now especially it beeing vnited in the whole then heretofore divided in parts his contexture being of a greater frame thē before holding by more then one naile and vp-holding it s own greatnes even as great buildings endure and subsist by their owne weight as the Poet speaketh Pondere tuta suo est But I thinke it here as needeful to lay open that great fault imputed to Constantine dividing the Empire among his Children whereby of one Empire hee made three and withal a memorable diminution of his authoritie and forces which part Brutus also played dividing this whole Empire of great Brittaine among his three Sonnes of which though two parts afterward namely England Wales were againe in good time vnited yet Scotland stood till now divided from the rest the rest from it till God in special goodnes nowe restored to
brother it was subiect to storme ful of contentions war shedding of bloud but ioined with his brother it flourished with peace and at this day is blessed in the vniformity of government there established And in mine opinion it is well observed in the Cronicle of Wales how God was not pleased with the first change of the name of Brittaine into the name of England for presently followed the terrible and cruel invasion of the Danes after that the conquest of the Normans But memorable is it that the Brittaines ruled al the whole I le togither with the out Iles of VVight Mon in English Anglisee Manaw in English Man Orkney and Ewyst 1137. yeares before Christ and after the yeare of his incarnation 688. even to the death of Cadwallader the last King of Brittaines and of the noble race of Troians Which when in succeeding age many mightie famous Kings of England considered they laboured by al meanes to recouer and resume the name and stile of Kings of great Brittaine accounting it dishonorable to leese any iot of the honor of there most princely progenitors And therefore King Knute King of England mighty in his dominions of Swethen from Germany to the North poles with Norway and Denmarke having obtained prosperous successe in warring against Scotland is recorded after his death the mightiest prince in the West parts of the world and of al the noble I le of Brittaine And so VVilliam the Conquerer for the good successe he likewise had in Scotland is recorded king of al Brittaine Henry the second surnamed Curtmantle is also for like successe recorded king of al Brittaine And if they be Renowned and honored with name and stile of Brittaine which by rightful descent or by conquest were inheritours but to one part only though by their fortunes in warre they also claimed the other what rightful title must we then acknowledge most iustly now to belong to his most excellent Maiestie in the imperial crowne of both who by lineal descent inheriteth both Which thing seemeth in his highnesse late proclamation to be strongly and truely enforced for that his Maiesty doth not covet any new affected name but assumeth a title warranted by authentical charter and records of great antiquity not borrowed of forraine nations but from the actes of his progenitours both before and sithence the conquest who had not so iust nor great cause as his Maiestie hath Causa iubet superos melior sperare secundos Here I wish I had as many eies as Argos to looke into their devises who seeke to divide England from Scotland Scotland from England renouncing the name of great Brittaine least ioined in one they might as the forenamed stars appeare togither shine togither and bring ioy togither I would then not spare to lay open as Cneius Flavius did reveale to the world the tricks and misteries of Lawyers of that time and therefore was said to put out their eies and to cut their purses how also these Adamants hinder the natural power and vertue of the load stone whom I cal Adamants aswel for repugnant qualities as that they be truely Adamants even Sonnes of Adam practising rather in disobedience dissention and ruine of al to lay hands vpon that is forbidden then to draw the yron nay golden chaine of lincks of loue in obedience to the king and for common peace and preservation of men But herein such imitate the devise of Q Fabius Labeo Val. 3. 3. seeking to haue the ship of common weale divided in partes as when by compact of league with Antiochus he ought to receiue halfe part of Antiochus shippes cut them al in the middest craftely so to defraude Antiochus of his whole Nauy or else imitate they Cyrus Herod 1. dividing great Rivers into many litle Brookes til they be not only passable but even dried vp for so these seeke to stay the maine mighty Streame of great Brittaine by dividing it and in dividing to make it of sundry kindes vnlike it selfe Such dividing into parts is disioyning of the parts by disioyning dismembring and by dismembring spoyling making Plin. 36. 17. the stone Scyros which whole and firmely compacted doth swim and floate aboue the waters to sincke and be drowned because it is divided But our two famous kingdomes with al their provinces shires and Countries vnited into the name of great Brittaine are like the goodly and pleasant river Danubius which passing by many Countries keepeth his name til it enter into Illiricum where receiving into it sixtie other rivers of diverse other names leeseth not only his owne and al their other names of parts but is called Ister one for al containing al. Here I require both of English and Scottish is either of them now as a people disiointed one from the other Or as Sande without Lime Or scattered straw without binding Or as Sampsons Foxes running divers and contrary waies with fire-brands of dissention among them Nay here in the glory of great Brittaine is renowned that King Iames and his Royal issue doe gather togither that which was scattered and vnite that which was divided and restore that which vvas lost and saue that which was endangered even by this meanes vniting al in one name of Brittaine as it was saide of Rome vniting so manie Countries into it selfe al parts which disagreed heretofore are now well agreeing Heerevpon Rome was said to be anchora a fluctuanti mundo as he faith in Tacitus regnae bellag per Gallias semper fuêre donec in nostrum ius cōcederetis So happily doeth this vniversal coniunction of all vnder one head take away al discorde and maintaine coniunction of loue for everlasting continuance Onely they which wil be alone and not contained vnder one name of great Brittaine are not bound vp with the sheaues nor carried home into the Barne and therefore are like gleanings after harvest left behinde in the field subiect to storme they come not two and two into this arke and whatsoeuer remaineth alone extra arcam perit Such are not vnlike that captaine whom Xerxes Herod ◠rewarded with a garland for escaping aliue when al other Souldiers were slaine and yet because he came alone without the rest he hanged him and as the Athenians in the warre with the Herod 5. Aeginetae when one returned without his fellowes ranne al vpon him and killed him asking where were the rest And what can such I pray you as seperate themselues from the happy vnion of al Brittaines answere for themselues if they be called to account Can any be English not Scottish can any be Scottish and not English Let that outcry against the Romanes be ingeminated against such saying Quintilius Varus restore vs our Legions where are our souldiers what is become of them Where are the English where are our Scottish let al restore themselues each one the other to the name of Brittaines And so I say to al and everie one of both
Terminus refused and would not moue yet let the Termini and bounds of both our nations all the people therein contained willingly giue place to the iust pleasure of their sole Monarch and even in this also acknowledge King Iames their supreame head and governour where obedience in each Subiect is like reconciled Genius vtriusque Regni which though before was as angrie Iuno much adverse to the Romanes yet now like Iuno out of her very image seemeth to speake alowd Romam se velle ire Anger is appeased displeasure forgotten and discorde come to a perpetual ende Nec quenquā incuso potuit quae plurima virtus Esse fuit toto certatum est corpore regni And now the whole common weale odijs saturate quiescit Neither may contention either of antiquity or any other dignity whereabout Albanes and Dionys Ha licar 3. Romaines so much contended and woulde not yeeld one to the other break this common band of loue among our selues or loyaltie to our Soveraigne who imbraceth both nations with equall and indifferent loue But we ought to consider that both English and Scottish quis maior aeque Plau. Menec ambo pares making no question of difference for common good sake without difference may challendge like interest in his Maiesties favor vitula tu dignus hic to be divided equally and graciously among al by Geometrical proportiō as his Maiestie shal bee pleased to deeme meete Which thing may moue al to mutual kindnes reciprocate loue one towards the other with an orderly conformity of both to liue togither in all peace and Christian charitie affectioned to loue one another with brotherly loue and in giving honores Rom. 12. goe one before the other as it is said of Scipio and Lelius actuo savitaeiter aequali graedu exequebantur not grudgingly nor contentiously striving for prerogatiue of blessing and birthright in his Maiesties favour as if it might be saide to Gen. 27. his highnesse hast thou but one blessing my father for his Maiesties aboundance and overstowing measure of honour powreth fourth as out of a fountaine streames to fill vp every empty channel nemo ex hoc numero mihi non donatus abibit and where every one may bee contented cuncta aderunt animus site non deficit aequus Herein let vs take example frō the Romane common weale and surely for our instruction may it be said nulla vnquam resp nec maior nec sanctior nec bonis exemplis ditior fuit where Dyonisius Halicarnasseus Lib. 5. giueth vs a straunge shewe of two Consuls Largius and Claelius who both stroue to giue precedence one to the other preferring each other before himselfe and reckning one an others worth before his owne this done two or three several times neither presuming to goe before the other but stil refusing could by no meanes either bee perswaded to take the preheminence one before the other But is any mans eie evill because the Kings eie in speciall and gracious aspect is good Doubtlesse when a king doth not all things ad voluntatem sed ad vtilitatem omnium they which mislike and yet seeme of the same league and society with others doe notwithstanding like Nahaz the Ammonite ioine in commō 1. Sam. 11. covenaunt with others but on condition only that they may thrust out the others right eies Hoccine Liv. 1. Dec 6. lib est in commune honores vocare quaenam ista societ as quaenam censortio est But whosoever entendeth truely the common good let him remember that Solon said the only way to keepe Subiects in vnitie is to mainetaine an equalitie for al for motus as Plato saith is in inequalitate but status and quies in aequalitate which thing is spoken not to breed or maintaine parity in condition of men for that equality were true inequalitie nay iniquitie so to confound the world But these things are alleaged to shew that our gracious Soveraigne may herein I speak vnder favor be resembled to IANVS who had two faces to looke forward to looke backeward for so his Maiestie is set in the middest sole Soveraigne of al great Brittaine to looke on England to looke backe to Scotland and with princely favourable aspect to countenance both Tros Rutulusve fuat nullo discrimine habebo where both being made one common Country that saying may wel befit our common Emperor Hostem qui feriet mihi erit Carthaginensis quisquis erit And there is that equalitie before mentioned distilling from his Grace and Maiestie in honouring and defending both alike Iusta pari premitur Tib ◅ veluti cum pondere libra prona nec hac plus parte sedet nec surgit ab illa where none ought striue contentiously least they seeme to offer violence to the kings Grace or to his honor or to both as the Mid wife charged Pharez in making the breach between him and his brother by forcing his birth before his brothers through strife in his mothers wombe whose name therfore was called Pharez which signifieth division But our brotherhood is not in strife as that of Caine and Abell Esau and Iacob Ismael Isaac nor as that of Geta and Antoninus Sonnes to the Emperor Severus after whose death their mother Herodia 4. Iulia was forced to divide the Empire betwixt her sonnes severing and setting them a sunder into seperate governments with a sea betwixt them because of their hot contentions and implacable hatred And God forbid that we should by opposite contentions one against another provoke the common parent of both our nations as those two brethren did their parent Iulia to cry out against vs as shee did against them O my sonnes you haue found the way how to bee severed and divided by sea and land into distinct regiments and as you say the water diuides you one from the other but how will you divide mee your mother How shal I bee divided betweene you both Will you distract me into parts also As them two louers mentioned by Plutarke striving for their loue dum vterque ad se certatim rapere conatur rent her in pieces Let our strife rather be like that of Ephestien and Craterus who Diodor. 17 contended whither should loue their king Alexander most in so much that Alexander was enforced to decide the controversie adiudging that Ephestion loved the king best and Craterus Alexander best So it pleased the king in his sentence equally to divide his loue and so did they both equally strine to loue and after this manner did the Iones and Chij contende in loue to Hercules Paus 7. and Iuda and Israel for David And so I doubte not but our contention is of the like loue dutie towards our Soveraigne but as for hatred and malice amongst our selues so seperating vs that we cannot be mixed togither Dij talia Graijs erroremque hostibus illum Seeing as he said no greater Tacit. de Germ.