as Tubero the Pretors Pye did which came strangely to his hand and of which the Southsayers foretolde that much good would come with her were shee accepted if otherwise much ill to the Pretor her hee pulled in peeces but not without his owne mischiefe In Phrigia and Silenus was a great earthquake which consumed many houses and mortalles The Oracle saide some rich thing must bee throwne into it Death of a Kinges Sonne onely stopped the gaping of the earth in those places Here is no earth-quake but heauens shine here is life and renowne to our Kings Sonne our worthy Prince ours and many more kingdoms hope The Oracle sayes not dye sonne but liue all friendly together Tully in the dreame of Scipio saith that all they who haue saued their Countrey haue helped their Countrey haue encreased their countrey haue in heauen a place appointed them where euerlastingly they shall ioy That was the cause why the Ambassadors of the Carthagenians and the Sirenenses were contented to make the condition of being buried quicke where they challengd their bounds So great was their loue to the inlargement of their Countrey a desire euer prosecuted and neuer but weakely by Darius in Quintus Curtius his time only gaine-said that a kingdome might be too great On the other side remember but how Themistocles dealt with Zerxes for the ouerthrow of al Greece because his countrey had ingratefully respected him And had not Artaxerxes hung vp my Hamon Mardocheus had beene betrayed in his owne Countrey beyond the Kings disposition but that did I beare though it cost me deare As I forgiue so I forget and returne to this If the English haue not generall peace which they shall not till they bee knowne generally strong for yet forreiners may bee suspected but to prye into our state to breake or holde resoluing neither but by the first instructions they will ere long grow so vnanswerable of Taskes and Subsidies that the Collectors shall finde them as in another common-wealth was seene playing in the streetes a shrewd signe that they be no money keepers But if they once see our fortune sitting they will then thinke she will so finde the benefit of her ease as shee will euer be knowne where to bee found Now is our ground ready what seede wee sow we shall reape This cause talkes nothing of inconuenience yet the man though good though iust though innocent is feared vir bonus iustus innocens timetur pouertie is pretended saith Martiall it is not pouertie to haue nothing Non est paupertas Nestor habere nihil The fault sure is this the poore seekes friendships vnworthy affections quòd colit ingratas pauper amicitias Nay they haue their peculiar riches where they are in as large a maner as we make account of ours here But this is to tennice freely but not to denise kindly Many I see knowe how to counsell few finde I who can tell how to make the Consull The King should haue long hands as farre reaching as Kent and Kentile and would you haue the King feed with one gloue on another off It would be said of him Totus in toto per totum totus omnis Esse omnis dū vis incipis esse tuus that he then beginneth to be his owne when he will be all and in all and by all and all euery where And though some pretend fables how the Wolfe by at the first getting an house to breede in at the last hauing many litters helde it by strength against the owner Yet what can these things moue in ordered cōmon wealthes where no more interest is attained then the lawes admit right to Tully in his pleading for Roscius shewes how many wayes the lawes punish those whose demaundes are greater then the lawes doe allow The like doth Crassus in Tully Our lawes will maintaine vs in our owne well enough though our conditions I hope will not make them pay so deare as the English did when they went to fetch the King and Queene from Scotland This may be giuen to the King for them indeede to them for vs the rest they shall enioy as the lawe will for what they buy by the law they may call their owne Demurre then no longer my great and deare friendes vpon this argument but returne this aunsweare that Neptune did by the Raine-bowe Terram esse communem Which though he durst not defend against Iupiter yet you haue Iupiter on your side against whome to contend were madnesse as with an equall doubtfull with an inferiour base Seneca sayth of power that if it inuite to any thing nay if it intreate ought it compelles it Easie it is not to write against him in his gouernment who can score a man out of his gouernment Non facile est in eum scribere qui potest proscribere Fauorinus the Philosopher admitteth Hadrian the better iudgement because he commaunded thirtie Legions The matter then being euen let vs not contend vnequally for had not nature seated this kingdom within you you might well haue helde it without you Well had Scipio Emilian discharged this Censorship had the Quirites giuen him a fellow Pretoorr not giuē him one Think not vpō what Cato saith that it is not to be marueiled at if what a man thinkes an excellent good he be loath to share with another But let Plutarch teach you to gaine authoritie and power with expedition so neither smoake shall make the fire vnpleasant in the kindling nor enuie lay snares to impeach glorie by in the framing If longer you stay vpon further deliberation this businesse hauing beene determined by the Comittee in heauen Scipio Emilian must nedes tell the Senate that neither of the Consules is fit for the seruice of the Common-Wealth For Seruius Sulpitius Galba was poore and had nothing and Valerius could neuer thinke he had enough Yet since the men on both sides are seruiceable make their conditions as agreeing amongst themselues so fit for the Common-Wealth let the one inioy more the other couet lesse so shall both encrease apace and Rome be well serued If any obiect their affections bee vnlike ours that comes not out of nature but custome As the Ayre is tempered sayeth Tully in his Diuination so are the children spirited their wittes formed their maners their minds their bodies and the actions of their life Looke in the English and Scotchmens faces see whether Caucasus haue begot them vpon hard rockes Our climate is the same our temperatures alike if any thing within our gouernment make vs differ it is but custome They haue not so many Cities as we they followe feeds which we do not yet finde I not but we are prickers as well as they and if it be obserued what store of Ritters we haue got it may be feared that two Cheuallers being not Castor and Pollux may be driuen to one Chiual to ride on besides the saddle But let Herodotus write as much as he will of the kingdom of custome
write instruction of occurrents and priuitie to haue made right vse my paynes should haue been imployed to haue giuen that satisfaction to this cause which now I ayme at and but onely for the gladnesse of the popular duety to so gratious a Soueraigne I could not haue been thrust vpon And herein I will not deale with my loue to them as the Sleeper did with the Coniurer who hauing told him that a dreame of an Egge signified treasure sent him onely of siluer and gould whereof he had found some quantitie a portion of the siluer and put him to aske for newes of the Yolke numquid de vitello for euen all the substaunce in my Shell is wholly this argumentes and the more deuoutly since with Deiotarns our King is not building of Citties at the thirteenth houre of the day nor with Crassus at sixtie yeeres olde beginning to march against the Partheans but euen at his first entraunce doth so addresse himselfe to his gouernement as all are proude at this instant who spake well before and they who see him now find abilitie to speake for euer It shall not be sayd of him he beares his time well as if somewhat were to be allowed to his new enteraunce but he vseth his time well It was Damasippus fault to giue Cicero so much aduantage hauing bidden him to supper as by hauing kept his Wine fourtie yeeres in his house to be subiect to his guestes censnre that it bore the age well This Kinges time came when it should be vsed and is vsed when it is come England allured not him to it till it sent to him for it He hath taken a state Captiue by Gods prouidence and his Maiesties good vsage of his guifts was not taken prisoner as Policrates was by Eurotes Therefore he pertakes Gods blessinges not against the Fates but by direction of the Heauens Before his Highnesse is treasure in his comming hither some I hope will finde it behinde him if God blesse the golden Mynes in Scotland Cefellius Bassus applauded Nero for being deere vnto the Gods as in whose time onely Gold long time hidde came to light There are I cannot denie who are so vnhappie as to coniecture that some that hath seene light is gone that way to be hidde But neither shall fayle the vse of this Kingdome if God blesse the ones finding and graunt meanes to the others returning since now the King hath propounded that an vnion may be confirmed the only meanes to draw al vses from thence to the good of vs heere without our losse in any thing which with the gaine by this cause will not be well requited nor will it be long to the appearance thereof when his Maiesties subiectes shall be all conioyned which are borne and inhabite within one continent haue and long may they haue the same soueraigne suffer noe deuision nor which euer did other then what the Diuell drew on for the punishment of both and it seemes Gods sacred ordinance to mooue the Kings Maiestie to affect the amendes of for the good of either They haue reason to follow where their King is wee cause to imbrace them who come with him The Countrey besides is honored in his Highnesse which bredde such a King as liues to prooue hath not a bare testimonie of a thing forgotten more abilitie in him selfe then Darius on his Tombe was commended for I was a fâ—iend to my friends an horseman and bowman excellent I was best of Huntsmen and in my person could doe all thinges And shall not Cirus his counsaile to Cambises his sonne make vs more assured to haue a Scepter compacted of multitudes of Friends then of quantitie of Gold And how can we compact them but to make them like Niobees Tombe being the Marble This Tomhe hath no dead body this dead body hath no Tombe but the one is the other and either is each And if friendship be as Senica saith Negotiatio quae ad comodum accedit The King hath greatest cause if their ingratitude shall not giue him cause to be weary of both to ioyne them in strrct bandes of all comfortable all entire equall Loues betwixt them since the greatest profite which euer can come to either of them must be in seeing the welfare and enioying the lyfe of him alone Nor is it fitte that his friendes should not be vnited I presume to call his Subiectes his friendes as by a deare tytle as well as humble since better it is the King were not of agreeing harmonie in himselfe then where his friendes were naught the King himselfe were of good disposition And if the difference were any for the exchange some haue sayd Procul a loue et a fulmine the conuersations of Kinges haue euer been helde like the nature of the Flames warme further of and burning neerer The King shall better represse further off in this forme by this meanes giue greater scope to the Subiect neerer hand by that course his further people shal be made more ciuill I speake of the priuater of them these not so great flatterers I speake not much of the publicker of these whose so often kneelinges his Maiestie it is sayd hath so much forbidden as if he had seene Tiberius the Emperour fall on his face running away from a fellow who hung vpon him kneeling A Woman did the like vpon this our King at Royston whose Husband that he might liue disorderly with his Grey-hound against the Kings Proclamation left to liue orderly with his wife according to the institution of Marriage Yet as for the one I meane not altogether the men of the Lues part of whose Countrey I had hoped that ere this time the battered Garrison of Barwicke should haue had so I feare not much the other who can onely alledge Offa me monet the King hauing Subiectes of whom his Maiesties owne note is that they were borne to haunt shame and starue himselfe of able meanes to reforme them by cutting off allowaunces The condition of those I professe to be more dangerous who can amende mistakinges And to the question quid brachium can reply illud dicere volui femur who can either turne an Argument of strength into lasciuiousnesse or can alter with occasion and flatter euen vice if they could here find it But while ill thinges ought not to be commended ill men can be allowed no fitte praysers Seneca in his Tractate of the honest lyfe sayth Wee ought to be as much ashamed to be commended of bad men as if we were praysed for ill conditions Reuerend and Worthy men hath the King to heare as euer King was serued withall both graue and wise and wise and stoute such as of whom it can not be sayd that they haue lesse of Eloquence then of Fayth being as excellent speakers as carefull doers neither lesse Honor then may commaunde duetie being many by him selfe aduaunced others better then alwayes confirmed or more then before increased They are they to whom the Law
in like whereof no Prince in the world is knowne to equall him I may truely say as he is farre from taking aduantages vpon those from whose indiscreete and vnworthy vsages the haynousnesse of their crimes haue giuen their states and safeties away so might so much moderation in cause of iust anger haue giuen true tryall of none ouer great violence in matter of affection And were it not for the good of eyther since hee hath charge of both it would neither bee the draught of the one to what they seeke not nor of the other to what they like not that would make either Fancies seeme Faces or Reasons almost Treasons Nor can I gesse whence no better satisfaction groweth vnlesse Opinion may be helde of the highest estate to be as Pliny writeth of Fortune that shee is the Goddesse who in the whole world in all places at all howers with all voyces alone is called out vpon alone is named alone is accused who hath the onely guylt the onely estimation the onely prayse the onely blame and with inuectiues is worshipped with slaunder cherished in inconstancie thought constant to whose charge is layde the maintayning the vnworthiest the accompt of all expences the catalogue of all receites and the filling vp of each Leaues either part in the blottes of all reckonings and the setting vpon all Audits If not so with reuerence and loue may I speake it to your Cittie-assemblies Tables as you may thinke priuate and secure be too little prouident no lesse was the Frenches confidence who to shew their not fearing Alexander could instaunce in nothing to giue them doubt but in the heuens falling Yet certainely as Abimelech being hurt by a Stone from the Castle whereinto the Israelites fledde throwne downe by a Womans hand desired rather that a Souldier would kill him then that by so weake an hand he should perish So is it euer to be feared that greatnesse can no where suffer contradiction with content where the cause is reasonable and affection Royall in the vnderstanding It may be neuerthelesse that Pompilius thought a Circle scoared by a Rod could giue lymits to consultation as Intra hunc consule The intendment of such Circles were to combine mens seates and endeuours by freedomes to assist euery one the most he could not with liberties to forestall singular men peremprorily those propositions which come but newly into consultation being neither rashly nor meanely commended Those ends had no Celticke boldnesse appoynted to them they were not to be ioyned with contempt of safetie There was not intended that with the blood of Hanniball should be made strong the league with Rome There was no Priuiledge to engadge that offence which no memory could euer remit if the after successes should accuse the then resolued iudgements The Scottish in this age nor in those to come shall in this Kingdome get the best offices alone feare ye not nor let others affright you therewith But as the Kinges Maiestie contendes to haue the State generall and publique weale of the whole Iland to which he is equally by God appoynted in best order so propounds he that it may be free for the best man of those who are his natiue Subiectes borne and inhabiting within the same continent and none otherwise deuided by Tweede then others of his Subiectes are by Trent may haue place for his goodnesse to serue the Common-wealth in Such is his Maiesties royall disposition to chuse the best from the most and to get it enacted that the left hād though not so much heretofore vsed shall now bee knowne to bee a parte of the same body receiue the same nourishmēt by the same passages and do naturall seruices as none artificiall member But why we should so much doubt them see I not so much cause In all men now liuing is not the appetite of Diogenes deceased he being asked what kinde of wine he wold gladliest drinke of answered of another mans for of those there are many wil not change their own setlings too many who haue pensions elswhere already some are going further for better profits all of whome great offices in this kingdome doe not expect nor wold they euer be suters for them to sit about them Yet do you thinke it better and lesse dāgerous to admit too great hopes at home then safe for a common wealth to permitte too much certaintie of engagement abroad This was it of which Horace said that the hornes had hey vpon them flie those beastes Foenum habet in cornu longè fuge This Frenchman is black Hunc tu Britāne caueto Nay I may tell you that this nation is so well traueld hath so much addiction to see further as it wil well ioin to draw your looser abroad by encrease of strength your richer home with support of wealth And whether such dispositions are likely to hold they who haue traueiled can best discern who haue seen vs foraignly loue take parte against all natiōs ech with other when we liued domestickly scarce friends daily occasions giuen why we shold be more disjoyned Too much occasion hath ben geuē why secret remēbrances might hold some in act some in fact but so blessing of vs is God so gracious to vs is our King so prouidēt are they cā forsee this as the storye moderne may now be corrected as Martials epigrams might be amēded which whē many interlineations many scorings could not perfit vna litura potest spongia sola potest many apologies many periuries many simple denials many beings out of the way many facings to the teeth many accusatiōs of his better subjects many combinations of packes together though all these shold be many more can neuer or not alwaies hold all in or all men only this asks pardō saies nothing this takes reuenge doth good together Now let vs haue none aliens none attainders be al free as wee may bee noble as wee shold be Let the same hād which endeuored hurt or was mistaken heal be rightly vnderstood If there be impedimēts outward remooue them if imward aduise them Licurgus being demaunded how the enemies forces might be abādoned answered if they would continue poore which this age yeelds no disposition to if they woulde lay by ciuill dissentiōs which is best done where singuralities are auoided good only affected But if the best should come to the eagerest satisfaction yet it is lesse valew to defend then assault lesse hability to deny then to proue that very to do good is more suspected then ill doing deemed faulty the wisdome of Pisistratus must yeeld to the wilfulnesse of his childrē or else others must take aduātage by their debate The story saith that whē as Pisistratus had giuen right aduise vnto his children could not get theyr cōsent vnto it therby was vrged to stād in some question with them for their disobediēce finding his enimies reioiced therat as hopeful that frō that dissētion som
reason applied to any thing prooues the affection loues the sight beholdes and offices perfourme their functions not alwaies as order leades but sometimes best so vsed as occasion serues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the greekes call Punctum temporis which who so hittes if either he do it suddenly O quantum est subitis casibus ingenium or necessarily sapit necessitati qui probè se accommodat et est rerum diuinarum atque humanarum conscius Can any perswade you who do the like honour to the King how vnlike soeuer this dayes garments are to yesterdayes roabes that the difference of an enstilement shall make him lose the honor of his place the reputation of his nation True it is where persons were vnknown kingdomes vnheard of Titles should haue reputatioÌ„s as their wordes could signifie but then they must so begin as weapons were first found out if you will beleeue Horace which was when men went together by the eares first vnguibus et pugnis dein fustibus atque it a porrò pugnabant armis quae post fabricauer at vsus In this case where the kingdomes accompt cannot bee blemished and almost the Kinges woonder hath bene euery where euen adored in that age let those who like not to giue him his due in a session or otherwise find then he knowes what he is now which god graunt alwayes to send may encrease vpon him Slightly as I heare of argumentes tossed amongst you so gladly desire I to settle you touching theÌ„ leauing with you my protestation of reuerence humble and loue faithfull towards all such as with vnderstanding affection staÌ„d vnder any burthen for the good and honor of theyr mother earth and her children Against which if for flattery to the Scotish I shall seeme to haue written let my brybe be iudged of som of them hauing part of my liuing others hauing torne in sunder my reputation yet since my bane came from the English they trespassed not in wisedom to take aduantage therof And that mine hands may appear the cleaner as yet my dread Soueraignes haue not don ought for me of much I dare boldly yet prostrately auow I haue well deserued both fauor of lawes of Court and Country would assist me in right to Yet doubt I not theyr royall natures nor misdoubt mine own patience knowing it eyther well to becom my duety to expect their princely pleasures or otherwise ready to credite their iudgements touching me rather then to giue scope to mine owne hopes of aduancement or good from my Soueraignes But all else set apart and freelie to deliuer mine impartiality in this cause so safe I hold this for vs to obey our King in so comely to welcome the nation with so politike to close at this infolded imbrace as I suspect not but all will be best being best vsed and of the rest let them rather doubt then we feare Many meÌ„s turns haue bene already serued the Kings owne comfort is yet in petition he ioyes not so much to be a King for his pleasure as to be a good King for the states weal. His Maiesty takes now the first opportunitie the flyes are now not so busye holesome counsel hath poured balme vpon opportunity in asking magnificence in graunting Yet are many the pretences may draw Kinges to be bouÌ„tiful of which if you haue not elsewhere takeÌ„ good view you may here iudge of some being parte of many thousaÌ„ds Kings somtims are euen forced to graÌ„t not so much for their desire to bestowe as their shame to denye Non tam studio quidem concedendi quà m verecundia negandi Some haue vsed this argument you know what my need requires Scis quid mihi opus sit when there was more need of Hoc opus est subito fias ut sidere mutus that they had wayted as dombe as the stars do on the sun Some sayd Regi hoc dare noÌ„ conuenit a royall King must make his gift magnificent When as Nec Cynios accipere deâ—ebat Beggers should haue ben no chusers More suters fall on vpon Kings one who for his wisdom quia rarissimè another for his conceit quia iucundisimè a third who for his attendance quia tuÌ„ praÌ„det et coenat cum AlexaÌ„dro videtur seek for gifts certain Calisthenesses aduised by Aristotle Others can often remember their seruices praying rewards to be bestowed for those causes and for that in no fortune they had ben from the Kings person Sylas from Agrippa Some haue asked as more learned then their fellowes for hauing giueÌ„ causes of things as why the lioÌ„s deuoured not Daniel Some for limping if the king limped haukers huÌ„ters the fashioÌ„ of the Ethiopes Some for sitting late vp by him in the night and praysing his royall Children Cato the younger from Diotarus Som must take lest they should be vnciuill in refusing Zenocrates from Alexander And they must be giueÌ„ to to try their good manners in accepting Som for their softnes must beg hauing no fingers as may be supposed on theyr haÌ„ds therfore driueÌ„ to wear their rings in their ears the seruaÌ„ts of Penus in Penulus in Plaut Som requited for their preseÌ„ts Siloson with Samum from Darius Some must buy because they offer deare multis precibus with much suite Som must be giueÌ„ to though naughty persoÌ„s Mores miseratus non homineÌ„ for pitty not of the man but of his maÌ„ners Som bouÌ„tifully dealt with though not froÌ„ a kings hart noÌ„ homini sed humanitati a gift bestowed vpoÌ„ curtesie not maÌ„hood Al must be graÌ„ted by a king for that he is as a god vpoÌ„ the earth Dixi quòd dii estis saith the Psalmist I haue saide yee are gods And that is to imitate god to be bountifull Petitions were long since growne so vsual as Seraphion would not strike the bal to AlexaÌ„der in the TeÌ„nis-court vnles he begd it himself Non praebes saith AlexaÌ„der Immo noÌ„ petis saith SeraphioÌ„ Yet in som times the gifts were but such as Lupus gaue to Martiall wheÌ„ as he writ that he had a whole cuÌ„try bestow'd vpoÌ„ him lesse then was one in the bowpots in a corner of your neater CitizeÌ„s windows such a country as in which a Cabbage would make a whole wood ouer which a Grashoppers wings a tent which to an Ant was but a daies feeding and might be crowned with a Rose bud in which were two herbes onely growing wherin a Cucumber could not staÌ„d vpright nor a Snake ly at ease which one Mole could dig vp in a day one Mouse destroy as fearfully as the Calidonian Boare hath many other descriptions in his epigram to Lupus expressed concluding that he had rather haue had a dinner then no deneer prandium quà m praedium Nam quo tempore mihi praedium dedisti mallem mihi prandium dedisses In others gifts had good fortune as wheÌ„ Aristippus sayd of Dyonisius the younger That the king was safely bountiful and magnificent because he saw Plato send
for though Darius could not get the Grecians to eate their dead Fathers for any golde nor the Indians to burne theirs for any iron because of the contrarieties of their vses in both yet assure I my selfe this Nation honours the King with so much zeale he is able to teach thē with so much skill embrace vs with so much affection especially if wee bee once vnited in indissoluble bounds as I knowe not any custome may be fit for them to leaue shall not be discontinued nor any new lawe to be put in vse to which the first day shall not finde them accordant Si fingere me putas istud salutemus They do many of them vnderstand what was Cyrus his counsell to leaue those mountaines Countries and descend into the plaines there with the times to change the manners as Tully writes to Atticus where as the seedes are like the plants the liues of men are like the countries There shal they best learne to obey where the King sits highest to rule there shall they heare him clearely where Ille regit dictis animos pector a mulcet For this deede done none shall need to looke backe into his conscience with affrightment For this name taken none shall need to vnderstand the Nation to be embased For this kingdome inlarged none shall finde their owne states impaired As touching vnion with others and their abbetments ye may there iudge of your aduices among those who haue learnedly and grauely refuted that fourth question of the booke intituled Vindictae contra tyrannos Wherein is discoursed whether one Prince may ioyne with the subiects of an other who take vpon them armes for defence of defending religion My purpose being to be short shall rather insinuate my zealous wish of home-combining then forraine vses the one naturall and politique the other politique alone if so much I aske your body but within your girdle your head couered onely with your hat your garment to be grauer then partie-coloured and offer you Fraunce and Spaine for examples limited by those bounds nature her selfe hath appointed vnto them the Montes Perrenaei the Sea the Alpes with the rest Nor is it constantly held that our name of Britans should bee deriued of Brutus rather some hold we are called Prittons of a word which signifies a Marte or Fayre of stuffe for which this whole Island as well al parts as any one part Wales and Cornwall as England and Scotland is in one kinde or other replenished Nor ought that worde of Marte seeme to haue lesse boundes then Ciuitas which as Aristotle writeth signifieth a whole Common wealth As for our priuate goods thogh I could answere Publica priuatis sunt anteponenda yet let the stories bee but searched how our forteine conquestes haue bene hindred by the opportunities the Scots haue taken in our absences and how iealousies haue onely made vs diuersely combine our selues they with Fraunce wee with the house of Burgondie they shall finde how likely it is that priuate mens marchandize may be lost in the wracke of the generall fleete Other obiections should I goe about to frame such as pride or curiositie might suggest vnto me as much as I haue heard should I endeuour to answere the necessary themes of some mens seeming wise I doubt much how I could swim from out their deluge Noahs Arke or Chawcers Trough being vnbuilt against such an inundation Steeples stand not vp here as in the drownd countries of our lowe neighbours There are no sea-markes appearing to direct no castles no forts no citties to protect hilles and mountaines are here ouerwhelmed and the solutions of these following would be the dissolution of the time spent about them and no resolution of any thing for the applying of Gods blessings to our vses Animo volenti nihil difficile while we say all will be subuerted the lawes ouerthrowne mens states taken away the nations honor lost and our dish well serued in sliced into a gallemawfrey ouerpeppered and salt buttered wee spread feares doubtes God grant not hatreds largely but discusse vpon inconueniences slowly If to forward accordes the debate of this question happen you will finde that neither the number of the Scottishmen forreiners from their countrey nor the ambition of the Nobles though by some thought to challenge antiquitie before ours neither the customes of the Nation differing from ours in whatsoeuer wil debarre this proceeding or not admit time and will for fitnesse The like said of our auncient statutes of the stories auncient of vs of our reasonable affections as wee now stand for our goods and I dare boldly say eyther their intendmēts lesse needfull or their applications more profitable or alterations more beneficial will make vs more enioy this mornings breakfast then all last weekes dyet For neither doth the King affect other then our goods or is himselfe vnable to iudge of them nor doubteth but that there ought much deliberation to bee taken in a cause so important much circumspection touching the proportioning out the particulars These reasons haue moued me seeing that the King is to be defended in his desire as a good father of the Common-wealth hath spared the bloud of our good countreymen turned ill hath incouraged the seruices of the well deseruing shewes himselfe wise in his gouernment louing in his affection and industriously carefull of the weale publike to take vpon me this license in writing this zeale to my countrey in perswading Which if it happen to mindes affected to let Lucilii pecus esse liberum qua velit pasci I hope with them mine endeuour shall finde fauour for the rest as it no waies becomes me to be vnciuill as Democrates was to Philip so if they shall thinke it rather an impotencie in me not to spare mine affection to this argument then in themselues to afflict me by whatsoeuer meanes their wisdomes are of force to giue themselues content and this being out and past from me and dislikte shall make me not like to passe out more to be submitted to censure To conclude long liue yee right honourable Citties keeping peace in you fiers from you and traffique with you so may you build your houses faire keepe them neate haue good store of money and bonds in your chestes your Prentices grow free your liueries Aldermand your wiues Ladies your children made Gentlefolkes and your Cittie commodities be exchanged into the Courtiers reuenewes as at this marriage if you will daunce you make the contract sure and till death depart For though they and you lye in one an other of your houses nay should they and you lye with one an other of your wiues and daughters beleeue me non concubitus sed consensus facit Matrimonium say the Ciuilians Marry them and make the bond holy and vnuiolable or expect no securitie that the grand-children in time to come shall alwaies proue comfortable to the old folkes Catullus Hymen ô Hymenaee Hymen adest ô Hymenaee Sir Philip Sidney God Hymen long your coupled ioyes maintaine FINIS