holdeth place of high respect as he well worthy is A poore man with Petition annexed to his case To him repaires not hauing helpe of any friend in place Which when he had exhibited although that noble man Had great imployments of the State yet marke what followd than Not full two dayes expyrd before the poore man did receaue An Answer to his full content And thence did take his leaue Not rendring gifts to any one nor Secretaries fees But hasting home vnto his Hiue reioyced with his Bees A yeare thence after troubles came about that passed gift As that some sought to frustrate it by friends or fained shift The poore man for his helpe againe preferreth his complaint And by his onely writing doth that Lord therewith acquaint Himselfe vnable through disease in person to be seene This noble man as if the case had then like present bene What he had passed earst before Confirmes with greater force Right noble surely was this deed and full of true remorse Yea as before no peny went out of the poore mans purse So now againe no peny he to any did disburse Patron to pupils is that Lord so doth his office lie Amongst whose vertuous deedes this one the poore mans case did try And sith that I an Actor was to pen that poore mans case I therefore write it as a note of vertue in that place The rather for because this Age vnhelping is and why Few men will helpe in cases where they see no profit lie So that to speake what I conceiue I feare no Gold no Good No not perhaps for such as haue aduentured their bloud And for the man at home who hath of good deseruing bene Nor workes nor worth can him aduance if Gold come not betweene For now as good to beate the ayre as fill the eares of some Who Sutes preferre Nay fill their hands else looke to find them Mum. Yet write I not with mind to touch men of superiour place Nor do I know particulers that any should deface Many complaine and many cry God knoweth where the fault doth lie HVMBLE PETITIONS OF GOOD SVBIECTS TO THEIR GOOD KING against the Parliament COnfirme Religion as the Arke of God Preserue the places where the same shall rest Then lawes for life and maners as the Rod Wherewith offence of Sinne must be supprest So shall the land assuredly be blest But firie Spirits are not for that charge Nor such as seeke their profits to enlarge Next for the Common-wealth as is begun Take off oppressions from the Subiects backe And to the Commons do not alwayes runne For euery thing that Common-wealth doth lacke For so poore Subiects still shall go to wracke And yet must Subiects Caesars duties pay No faithfull Subiect will thereof say nay As for the Lawyers faults and griefes thereby The peoples plaints suffice to make them knowne And how huge monstrous fees on Suters lye Which Officers and Clarkes claime as their owne But if you aske quo iure they are growne The man say they must sell who first did buy A case to be redrest as cause shall lie In briefe the sores and sicknesses that are In Englands state which grieued men will shew In Parliament will moue the Princes care To finde the fountaines whence the same doe flow And fountaines found to purge them all arow The God of heauen preserue our blessed King That he to Church and Realme true peace may bring Astra Deo nil maius habent Nil Caesare Terra Sic Caesar Terras vt Deus Astra regat The Subiects loue is the riches and safety of the King IT is recorded in this wise At Wormes aGermaine Towne When all the Princes there were met And all were sitten downe To talke of matters of the State At length they tooke in hand Each one to praise and to extoll The goodnesse of his land Bauaâ—ia Dukes their Cities praysde The Saxons praysd their Mines Duke Palatine his fertile Soyles And fatnesse of his vines Duke Eberard of Wittenberg Who likewise was in place And silent sate by Fredericke Who had the Soueraigne grace As Saxon Duke required was To tell his Countries praise And he obeying modestly As loath himselfe to raise My Lords sayd he t is nothing that By me can be declarde Whoâ—am the lowest in this place And might full well be sparde Nathlesse this one thing do I know And knowing do protest That I in any Subiects lap Of mine can take my rest Although in open fields from prease Whereby our mutuall louesincrease A notable example of integrity in a King betweene himselfe and his Subiects LEwis King of Fraunce was accustomed to sit iudicially in the hearing of his owne causes And if he found any to flatter him therein and to say his cause was good Let vs heare the same sayd he whether Iustice or your beneuolence hath swayed most therein And oftentimes when hee found their Sentence to be with him he would pronounce the contrary and would bitterly chide those who had attributed too much to his side Another notable example of integritie in a Prince FRedericke Duke of Saxony had certaine woods neare adioyning vnto Wittenberg which had bene sometimes purchased by his progenitors Anhaldine mother of those Princes of that name who then liued being wise a good Oeconomist required those woods to be restored vnto her because they had bene at the first but mortgaged The Duke although it was very hard for him to depart with the woods insomuch as he had rather haue giuen more mony for them then to haue forgone them in respect that the price of woods did then daily increase yet he would by no meanes vexe or disquiet that most honest Matron or hold her long in suspence And therefore albeit he had counsell pretextes propounded vnto him how by a shew of right he might retaine them yet he would by no meanes burthen his conscience by admitting of any of the sayd pretextes for the retaining of them and such was his integrity as that he willingly restored the same to the house of the Anhaldiâ—es And hath not Iames our Englands King Shewd forth like Princely mind Who farmes of fines and forfeitures Which Subiects backes did grinde With Monopolyes lycences And priuiledges large Whereby he might haue bene enricht Though to his Subiects charge Hath royally released from His English Subiects backes Not minding to enrich himselfe By his poore Subiects wrackes What good so great hath earst bene done As by King Iames is now begun A Case of Difficultie in the Royall Administration GReat Difficultie may be found in this Vnto the Prince where Subiects doe complaine Of any that in office doth amisse As that percase he should some wrong maintaine For as the Prince is bound to aide the right Without respect of any Subiects might So meete it is that where he giueth power He should support the same and still vphold Th'authorized for why Else euery houre Th'vprightest men and men of
OF GOLDS KINGDOME AND THIS VNhelping Age. Described in sundry Poems intermixedly placed after certaine other Poems of more speciall respect And before the same is an Oration or speech intended to haue bene deliuered by the Author hereof vnto the Kings Maiesty Ipse licet venias Musis comitatus Homere Si nihil attuleris ibis Homere foras Though Homer thou do come thy selfe with Muses waiting on thee Yet Homer if thou nothing bring then Homer God be with thee Animus virtutis studiosus adâ—nuenit artem Carminum ad laâ—dandum bona ad vituperandum vero 〈◊〉 Arist. De poetâ—â— lib. 1. THOV SHALT LABOR FOR Imprinted at London 〈…〉 A SPEECH INTENDED TO HAVE BENE MADE VNTO THE KINGS MAIESTIE in the Towne of Windsore but not spoken MOST Gracious and renowmed King if we your Highnesse subiects of this place be for the present to seeke in what sort to applaud the incomparable blessing of your royall presence we are most humbly to beseech your Highnesse to impute the same vnto two causes The one the consideration we haue of our owne imperfections as the same are now to be exposed vnto the censure of your Princely perfections The other the abundance of our ioy which hath so possessed euery part of our thoughts as that thereby we are vnable to retaine in our speaking either Methode or Decorum For it cannot be told most gracious Soueraigne with what insatiable power of our minds we do imbrace entertaine this ioyfull time of your Maiesties personall repayre into this land and now particularly to this your Towne and Castell of Windsore This time I say most brightsome and cleere not ouercast with any the least cloud of either trouble present or danger to come For it may truly be said of your Maiesty and that to the glory of God as it was sometimes said of Mâ—uriciâ—â— the godly Romaine Emperour that true piety and felicity haue so met together in your royal person as that true piety hath forced felicity to be present at a l your royall solemnizations whatsoeuer And why surely because your Maiesty hath not onely couered your head with the Imperiall Diademe and inueâ—ted your person with the Royall Ornaments of the Crowne but hath also adorned your mind with the inestimable Iewels of true Religion and Iustice But what shall I say Among all the inexplicable blessings which we are now by the goodnesse of God to inioy by your Maiesty there is one amongst the rest so full of blessednesse as that it ouerreacheth the measure of common comprehension to dilate it in speech And what is that Euen the knitting togither of your two Kingdomes England and Scotland which are now so closed in one Harmony as well of Religion as of their confining borders and agreeing languages as that according to the saying of the Prophet Bone is ioyned to Bone Ioynt to Ioynt Most gracious king our most beloued Soueraigne there is one thing that your Maiesty may hold as an vndoubted certainty namely this that you are entred into your rule and raigne ouer EnglaÌ„d with as great coÌ„formity of harts of English subiects as euer King or Queene within this Realme Long may your Highnesse liue Long may the Scepter sway in your Princely hands And vnto the King of Kings we bow the knees of our hearts that he will vouchsafe to graunt vnto your Maiesty a long a peaceable and renowmed Raigne ouer vs. I will not take vpon me to particularize vnto your Maiestie the Nature of Englands gouernement but generally vnder your Princely fauour this thereof may be sayd that by the most ancient vsage of England the king hath bin accounted to be persona mixta hoc est vnita cum Sacerdotibus aunswerable to that of Homer and Aristotle Suprema potestas antiquitus fuit regia Sacerdotalis And for that that is holden thereof ciuilly at this day it is this we say that our supreme power is principatus tam regalis quam politicus the one respecting times of warre and the other times of peace And we say also that principatus regalis politicus paris sunt potentiae sed principatus regalis difficilioris est exercit◠〈◊〉 securitatis But of this as also of the Equity of your Maiesties Common lawes oâ— Englâ—â—d and â—o oâ— the Equity of your â—igâ— Court of Chauncery with their differences and therewithall also of Equity in generall as the same is to be vsed in euery humane law I your Maiesties most humble subiect a professor of those Common lawes some certaine yeares past did imploy my labours in writing a plaine open Treatise thereof in English whichbe ing here contained in this written Volume if it might stand with your Princely pleasure to vouchsafe your reading of it I make no doubt but that your Maiestie will find sundry things therein not impertinent no nor yet vnnecessary for your Princely perusing The simplicity of the handling alwayes excepted for the which I must and do most humbly beseech your Maiesties gracious pardon After this there should haue followed some priuate and particular matters on the behalfe of the sayd Towne TO THE RIGHT WOR'SHIPFVLL HIS very kind and curteous friend Edward Uaughan Esquire Deputy Officer of the Office of the Pipe of the Kings Maiesties Eschequer GOOD Sir my occasions staying me so long in London this last vacation as that according to the bill of Certificat there died aboue 19 hundreth of the Plague in one weeke Although I then thought it not fit to imploy that time in any serious Study yet I was vnâ—â—lling to passe it wholly ouer without some exercise of my Pen. Whereupon resorting to a few odde trifles which I had penned about a yeare or two sithens I added euery day for diuerse dayes together sundry others vnto them And causing my man to write them out after me in the end I found the whole thereof to arise vnto a proportion of a litle Booke which thus written as it is I send vnto you as a token of my assured goodwill being ready from time to time to expresse the same by better meanes as I shall be enabled thereunto And whereas in one or two places of the booke I haue made mention of outragious fees let that light where it will As for you you are knowne to be a giuer of fees But an extreame exacter of fees I am perswaded in my heart you neuer were nor euer will be And so with my best wishing vnto you I cease This First of Ianuarie 16â—â— Your true and hearty welwiller E. Hake The Authors Prologue to such of his Poems in this booke as concerne Golds Kingdome ALthough that Gold can closely creepe where th' aire could neuer come And cause that vice and vertue be of equall poise with some Yet noble and true gentle minds with Gold will not be won To do the thing that is vniust or leaue good things vndone A proofe hereof me selfe haue seene in one that noble is And
worthy waite at doore While claw-backe Iackes as brag as body-lowse Are entertaind in euery roome ath'house T' is to be read what was in Athens wrought By Phillippe king of Macedon who thee Imployde to bring that gallant state to nought By bribing those that were of best degree Within the same The like who might not see In Englands State of yeares not many past As also what became of them at last It were too long to reckon vp the whole How Golde corrupts by manifolde degrees And how for it full many pill and pole And Lawyers some do take excessiue fees Thou Golde canst make men flie about like Bees But more then that would God that were the wurst Thou mak'st men swell with pride as they would burst And yet hereby I touch not Lawyers State Nor haue intent to quippe the learned sorte That were an Office for a scurrile mate For there are Lawyers of most worthy Porte Who still holde out as doth a fensed Forte Well getting Golde and not enclinde to Pride For which good sort due Honors do abide And for the Iudges of our Common lawe I speake it from my heart and so I holde That there are none can say they euer sawe One Iudge that 's now aliue corrupt with golde God graunt that they in like sort may be bolde To keepe the Ballance tyte twixt small and great Least else the small should be the great ones meate I will conclude Not eu'ry State of men But some almost in eu'ry State there are Who may be wrought the good with bad to blen If golde thou golde canst growe vnto their share And though that some of them perhaps haue care To do no wrong yet wrong they will permit As when they should giue helpe they silent sit But for as much as many men are led By many waies to start aside for Golde And that the mischiefes which are daily bred By Moneys sway are great and manifold So great I feare as hardly can be tolde Therefore I ende my endlesse plaint with this That God must mend what gold hath made amis Quid non mortalia pectora cogis Auri sacrafames To what thing is 't that Goldene can Constraine the thirsting heart of man The heart of man as hard as stone VVhich yeeldeth not to any moue But as â—he same with golde is bound So is affection in it found To bring about what may be had Let be the matter good or bad Omnia venalia Nummo Seeke gold seeke gold good friend seeke gold For golde can all things bye Both vertue vice and else what not To sale for golde do lie Omnia nummatis loculis sopita quiescunt Cum volet ipse Deus fiet amaena Dies To him that hath the golden bagges all things in quiet rest But God can giue a golden day when he shall thinke it best Omnia Diues habet nam praestat omnia Nummus The rich hath all that heart can craue For he with golde all things can haue VVhen vices all waxe olde in man His loue of golde growes youthly than To the Right VVorshipfull and of high deseruing Sir Iulius Caesar Knight one of the Maisters of the Requests to the Kings Maiestie THough griefes arise in men of troubled harts Yet when the same by skill of penne are plaste Petition-like in writing with the parts Good God how then such Suters griefes do waste As though that then their helpe would come in haste But if their Sutes do happen on delay Faint growes the hope whereon their hearts did stay If toylesome paine procure dispatch of Sutes What plowman taketh greater paines then yea An open Truth a slaunderous lye confutes So what I write apparently is true And yet good sir this sequele may ensue Vnlesse the Suter do his Sute obtaâ—ne Ill words may come for recompence of paine For why it happens oft that he who sues Because his minde runnes wholly on successe If that he happe to â—â—are contrary newes Then weying no mans trauel more or lesse Away he goes with great vnthankfulnesse So thanklesse thoughts and peeches that â—epraue Oft Mediators vnto Prinâ—es haue Alphensus king of Naples was wont to say of Mediators of Requests vnto kings and pâ—inces that they are like vnto those who hauing their dwellâ—ngs in the middle roomes of a house are besprinckled with â—rine by those that are aboue them and annoyed with filth by those that are belowe them Sic plerunque Mediatores vtrinque leduntur sicut vespertiliâ— Laceratur a murâ—bus autbus The Author ANd here my Booke shall haue his end with my complaint of Gold God graunt that high and holy thing in sound estate may hold And as the seate of Iustice is At this day firme and pure So passages vnto the same may be both plaine and sure Not clogd with shifts and falsitie by such as haue to deale Inferiourly with Iustice in our English common-weale That Sutâ—rs may be 〈…〉 before they be opprest With bribes and charges in their suteâ— and so for all the rest That Gold may neuer beare the sway But that true vertue flourish may FINIS This booke herein mentioned the Author hath deliuered to thâ— Kings Maiesty but not by way of dedication Io. Manlius de Magistratâ— pag. 593. 10. Manlius de Magistratu pag. 592. Reâ—erments of cauâ—â—s dangerous I haue heard of such a case in queâ—â—ion at this day and that it is of no lesse importance to the subiect the defendant then is here mentioned Referment of a cause to a Foxe is a dangerous reâ—â—â—ment A corrupt Iudge I haue heard of some honorable who vpon their advancement haue bin most careful in the choise of their seruâ—nts for feare of bribery God 〈…〉 Grandibus exiguâ— sunt pisees piscibus eseâ—