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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01064	A briefe discourse, touching the happie vnion of the kingdomes of England, and Scotland Dedicated in priuate to his Maiestie.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1603 (1603)	STC 1117; ESTC S104437	7,254	40

A BRIEFE DISCOVRSE TOVCHING THE HAPPIE VNION OF THE KINGDOMES OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND DEDICATED IN PRIVATE TO HIS MAIESTIE AT LONDON Printed for Foelix Norton and are to be sold by William Aspley 1603. A BRIEFE DIScourse touching the happy vnion of the Kingdomes of England and Scotland DEDICATED IN PRIuate to his MAIESTIE I DOE not finde it straunge excellent King that when Heraclitus hee that was surnamed the obscure had set foorth a certaine booke which is not now extant many men tooke it for a discourse of Nature and many others tooke it for a Treatise of Policie and matter of estate For there is a great affinitie and consent betweene the rules of Nature and the true rules of Policie The one being nothing els but an order in the gouernement of the world and the other an order in the gouernment of an estate And therefore the education and erudition of the Kings of Persia was in a science which was termed by a name then of great reuerence but now degenerate and taken in ill part For the Persian Magicke which was the secret literature of their Kings was an obseruation of the contemplation of Nature and an application thereof to a sense politicke 〈◊〉 taking the fundamentall lawes of Nature with the branches and passages of them as an originall and first modell whence to take and describe a copie and imitation for gouernement After this manner the foresaid Instructors fet before their Kings the examples of the celestiall bodies the Sunne the Moone and the rest which haue great glorie and veneration but no rest or intermission beeing in a perpetuall office of motion for the cherishing in turne and in course of inferiour bodyes Expressing likewise the true manner of the motions of gouernement which though they ought to bee swifte and rapide in respect of occasion and dispatche yet are they to be constant and regular without wauering or confusion So did they represent vnto them how that the Heauens do not inritch themselues by the Earth and the Seas nor keepe no dead stocke or vntouched treasure of that they drawe to them from belowe but whatsoeuer moysture they doe leuie and take from both the elements in vapours they doe spend and turne backe againe in showers onely houlding and storing them vp for a time to the end to issue and distribute them in season But chiefely they did expresse and expound vnto them that fundamentall lawe of Nature whereby all things doe subsist and are preserued which is that euery thing in nature although it hath his priuate and particular affection and appetite and doth follow and pursue the same in small moments and when it is deliuered and freed from more generall and common respects yet neuerthelesse when there is question or cause for the sustaining of the more generall they forsake their owne particularities and proprieties and attend and conspire to vphold the publike So we see the Yron in small quantitie will ascend and approach to the Load-stone vpon a particular Sympathie But if it bee any quantitie of moment it leaues his appetite of amity with the Load-stone and like a good Patriott falleth to the earth which is the place and region of massy bodies So againe the water and other like bodies doe fall towardes the center of the earth which is as was saide their region or Country And yet we see nothing more vsuall in all water-workes and Ingens then that the water rather then to suffer any distraction or disunion in Nature will ascend forsaking the loue to his owne region or Country and applying it selfe to the body next adioyning But it were too large a digression to proceede to more examples of this kinde Your Maiesty your selfe did fall vppon a passage of this Nature in your gratious speech of thankes vnto your Councell When acknowledging Princely their vigilancye and well deseruinges it pleased you to note that it was a successe and euent aboue the course of Nature to haue so great a change with so great a quiet forasmuch as suddayne and great mutations as well in state as in Nature are rarely without violence and perturbation So as still I conclude there is as was saide a congruity betweene the principles of Nature and and of Pollicie And least that Instance may seeme to appone to this assertion I may euen in that perticular with your Maiesties fauour offer vnto you a Type or Patern in Nature much resembling this present euēt in your state namely earthquakes which many of them bring euer much terror and wonder but no actuall hurt the earth trembling for a moment and sodainely stablishing in perfect quiet as it was before This knowledge then of making the gouernment of the world a mirror for the gouernement of a state beeing a wisedome almost lost whereof the reason I take to be because of the difficulty for one man to imbrace both Philosophies I haue thought good to make some proofe as farre as my weakenesse and the straights of time will suffer to reuiue in the handling of one particular wherewith now I most humbly present your Maiesty For surely as hath beene said it is a forme of discourse anciently vsed towardes Kings And to what King should it be more proper then to a King that is studious to conioyne contemplatiue virtue and actiue virtue together Your Maiesty is the first King which hath had the honour to be Lapis angularis to vnite these two mighty and warlike nations of England and Scotland vnder one Soueraignety and Monarchy It dooth not appeare by the recordes and memories of any true history nor scarcly by the fiction and pleasure of any fabulous narration or tradition that euer of any antiquity this Iland of great Brittaine was vnited vnder one King before this day And yet there be no Mountaines or races of hils there be no seas or great riuers there is no diuersity of toung or language that hath inuited or prouoked this ancient separation or diuorce The lot of Spaine was to haue the seuerall Kingdomes of that continent Portugal onely except to be vnited in an age not long past and now in our age that of Portugal also which was the last that held out to bee incorporate with the rest The lot of France hath beene much about the same time likewise to haue reannexed vnto that crowne the seuerall Duchies and portions that were in former times dismembred The lotte of this Iland is the last reserued for your Maiesties happye times by the speciall prouidence and fauour of God who hath brought your Maiesty to this happy coniunction with great consent of harts and in the strength of your yeares and in the maturity of your experience It resteth therefore but that as I promised I set before your Maiesties Princelye consideration the grounds of Nature touching the Vnion and commixture of bodies the correspondence which they haue with the groundes of Pollicie in the coniunction of states and kingdomes First therefore that Position vis