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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67124	A panegyrick of King Charles being observations upon the inclination, life, and government of our Soveraign Lord the King / written by Sir Henry Wotton ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3645; ESTC R34764	12,099	132

ingratefull aspect as Bats and Owls condemn'd by nature to hate the light and I know that some Prin-have held it among the secrets of Empire and for a great mystery of craft to be adored afar off as if reverence did only dwell in holes and caves and not in full light Whence flow those Sophistries of Goverment I will speak in a word and freely they wandred in crooked paths because they knew not the shortest way to bee good But Your Majestie doth not flie the eyes and accesse of your subjects you do not joy to be hid you do not withdraw your self from those that are yours you doe not catch at false veneration with a rigid and clouded countenance yea sometime you vouchsafe to descend to a certain affability without offence of your dignitie for thus you reason with your self in the clearness of your owne bosome if it were not above our power to lie concealed yet were it below our goodness to will it then which nothing in conclusion is more popular for good Princes are by all good men openly revered and even silently by bad so much do the beams of vertue dazle even unwilling eies Wherfore as of late I did pass with Tranquillus Suetonius who hath anatomized the very bowels of the Cesars to beguil in the time of your absence with some literate diversion the tedious longitude of dayes and had by chance faln upon that passage so lively describing the wailings of Augustus after the Varian defect often crying out Render me Quintilius Varus straight there arose a fervent desire of Your Majestie and wishes glowed for your return for it seemed much juster that England should solicit her sister with panting suspirations then Augustus the ghost of Quintilius Restore to mee Scotland my sister our King restore the best of men whom none but bad doth not love none but ignorant doth not praise both the ruler of our Manners and the rule together that we may not only be the gladder but the better for it while we shal never contemplate a thing most rare in the highest degree a pattern of the least licentiousness Seeing therefore excellent King that you are such permit I most humbly beseech you if supplications may more prevaile then arguments that nine people of distinct language for so many they are in my account whose realms you moderate may glory that you are such and proves that not only in every ones particular Idiom which would bee in truth too narrow for our joy but in this common language however exprest that even forreigners may know heretofore yeelded the best Emperor and of greatest name to the Christian world not to be so drie at this day but that it still can afford a type of a most laudable Soveraign IV. Now having as I hope a little mollified the way to your patient hearing hence forth I shall take a pleasure out of a generall habit course of your life to crop a few things like the gatherers of flowers for I joy more in the chief then in the plenty though not ignorant that either the diligence or ambition of Ancients in this kind was so profuse as perchance Timeus did not say unpleasantly that Alexander the Macedonian had sooner subdued all Asia then Isocra●es had writ his panegyrick The truth is art was much cherished in those dayes while in a rank age of eloquence the wits of Orators were wanton but it becometh me being mindfull both of my simplicity and age to touch rather the generall heads of your due praises then to prosecute the particulars that the very brevity of my speech may in a sort imitate the defluxion of my sliding years Now before other things there offereth it selfe unto mee the singular Nobility of your birth whereby in the long pedegre of antecedent King● yee are eminent above them all even your blessed father not excepted this I will deduce more clearly your great great-grandfather Henry the seventh I know not whether more beholden to his fortune or his fortitude being almost at once an Exile and a Conquerer united the white and red Roses the Armomories of two of our mighty families by the marriage of Elizabeth of York wch being in division had so many yeers polluted their own Countrie with infestous rancor and bloody fewds A more blessed Colligation of the Kingdoms then of the Roses wee owe to the good dayes of your father even for that alone never to bee remembred without high veneration But in you alone most Imperiall Charles is confluent the glory of all nations of all ages which since the Romans have possessed Britannie either by right or by Arms In you I say alone whom of all hither●o crowned we acknowledg the only branch of the Cabrians Anglosaxons Scottish Norma● and Danish Race In this perchance if the comparison bee not too mean not unlike to the Ister that 〈…〉 river of ●●rope which rolling down so ●minense a 〈◊〉 enn●bled by 〈◊〉 way with the contri●●tion of so many famous streams Among our authors one of no mean condition that our Elders would not legitimate the Norman government in England till Maude marrying with Henry the first brought into the world a branch of the ancient Saxon Kings she was the sister of David nephew twice removed of King Ethelred your Progenitor What greater cause have we to imbrace Your Majestie with open arms descending to our times from so manifold a stock of Kings adorned with access of the Cambryan line by Queen Ann your Mother a Lady of a masculine carriage and more truely may we challenge that which Buchanan who next the ancients had the happiest strain attributed to your grandmother to whom might a better fate have faln Yee sway Scepters independing From elders numberless descending But these you scarcely account your own I pass to your peculiar glories which no less give then receive lustre V. Three things are remarkable in your beginning Best of Kings give me leave to call you so often of no small moment to your following felicities and things in their encrease for the most part keep a relish of the beginnings first that you were not born to the supream hope of Soveraigntie whereby flattery though a swift watchfull evill clinging to the very cradle of Heirs apparant slowly crept on your tender years giving time to your naturall goodness to suck in the generous juice of honesty for certainly it much importeth the Common-weal to see that the first propensions even of private men bee well informed and instilled how much more of Princes whereof they are not only sustainer● for the present but patterns for the future Next that you suc●eed a brother of no ●mall endowments of ●ature this redoubled ●nd contracted the se●ulity of your parents 〈◊〉 I call it sedulity for ●t exceeded an ordi●ary care about the ●mprovement of their ●nly son Nay by this ●our own spirits were the more and more ●rected when now such a weight of exp●●ctation was faln onl● upon

a King but of a father neither among these as the condition of the times and the perplexed state of things would bear the regards of an excellent brother towards your only sister whom I have alwaies thought the only of her sex the greater by suffring and the more illustrious by obscurity though constituted in this world under chance yet above the command of fortune whom how much Your Majesty loves nay how much you esteem did appear in a late legation when to consolate the lo●s of her husband you sent the chief of your Nobility and himself a personage even of the ancient vertue and deportment that to so loving an Ambassie there might be something added by the very election of the Ambassador XV Thus much of Comfort now for a point of assistance did not Your Majesty give leave to a Merchant of chief Nobility in Scotland though tyed here to your person by neer assiduous attendance to exercise his valor abroad by intricate passages in such an interruption of accesse by adventures of Sea and Land by places and Townes beset with Plague and famin where it was almost easier to conquer then to enter and harder suffering then doing If after this success hath wanted yet not the generous affection of a King not the valour of his subjects not expences of divers kinds not legations upon legations to appease if it were possible by equall conditions and by friendly treaty the frenzie of the time for the rest we must repose our selves in S●lons advice Let no man glory before his Time XVI Now among so many cares wherewith even the best of Kings are least free it will be no unpleasant Speculation to enquire a little how elegantly Your Majesty doth dispose your vacant houres You joy in Chi●●lry and use of the great Horse of which no man doth more skilfully manage● those that are already gentle or tame the furious Insomuch as I doubt whether it were aptly or worthily done of him who hath lately erected an Equestrian Statue to Your Majesty of solid brass the lively work of Listerius To this I must add Musick which under you both instrumental and vocal growes every day more regular as being fitted to the judgment of your ear This lest it should seem too tender a delight you temper with hunting In which Image of War you doe so exercise your vigorous Spirits that it is hard to say whether you love the pleasure more or the labour or whether you had rather wish the killing or the long standing of the Ch●se But the most splended of all your entertainments is your love of excellent Artificers and works wherewith either Art both of picture and Sculpture you have so adorned your Palaces that Ita●y the greatest mother of elegant Arts or at least after the Grecians the principall Nurse may seem by your magnificence to be translated into England what can be more pleasant then those sights nay I am ready to ask what more learned then to behold the mute eloquence of lights and shadowes and silent poesy of lineaments and as it were living bles here would the spectator almost swear that the limbs and muscles design'd by Tentoret did move here the birds of Bas●sano doe chirp the oxen bellow and the sheep bleat here the faces of Rafael are breathing and those of Titian even speaking here a man would commend in Coreggio sweetnesse in Parmesano daintiness of limbs Neither do the Belgians want their praise who if they paint land-skips al kind of plants seem in their verdure the flowers doe smile the hills are raised the vallies in depression in your statuary works likewise learned variety of which some glory in vivacity some in the tenderness of limbs But those are the entertainment of your eye To delight you sometime you read a book of some choice subject but for the most part you read men as well knowing how much it importeth a Prince to look into the nature of his people Now and then also you please your mind with the rehearsall of some antient Epigrams with no less sharpness then they were composed Thus have I cursorarily run over your serious thoughts your remissions but this very pleasure which I have taken though but a flight transcursion doth I know not how infuse into my pen now in motion a new spirit to represent with Your Majesties leave though it bee but to my self your true portraiture in little and as it were in one short view together which I thus conceive in my fancie I would cal your stature next a just proportion your body erect and agil your colour or complexion hath generally drawn more from the white Rose of Yorke then the red of Lancaster your haire neerer brown then yellow your brow proclaimeth much fidelity a certain verecundious generosity graceth your eyes not such as we read of Silla but that of Pompey in your gestures free from affectation in your whole aspect no swelling no rigidity but an alluring and pleasing suavity your alacrity and spirit appears in the celerity of your motions otherwaies stayed affections and composed demeanour in your purposes and promises unremoveable a lover of truth a hater of vice just constant couragious and not simply alone but knowingly good Such you are and being such with what applause shall wee receive you methinks I see when sometimes I compare together horrid and quiet times as often as Richard the third return'd perchance from his Yorke or further off to London and assembled his States about him how the heads of noble men did hang down how pale were their cheeks what solicitous suspitions and murmurs they conferred together as if sodainly some dismall Comet or inauspicious starre had risen above the Horison but contrariwise the return of a just and a good Prince is intruth nothing else but the very approach of the Sun when with his vernall beams hee doth expell the deformed winter and with a gentle heat doth comfort and ex●ilarate all things about us XVII Welcome therefore Most gracefull King to all that are good But in what wishes shall I end Among the ancients by whose example I have too boldly undertaken this small labour there was a form after the times of Trajan under every excellent Emperour Long maist thou live Antonius long must thou live Theosius happier mayst thou be then Augustus better then Trajan but let this bee the concluding Character of Your Majesties time that the things we can with are fewer then those we praise Wherefore when I have out of an ardent zeale only wisht this that CHARLES our excellent King and Master may raign and live like himself I will end thus Oh how extreamly fortunate were wee If well we knew how fortunate we bee FINIS