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A50739	Two speeches the one spoken by Sir Audley Mervin, speaker of the honourable House of Commons, upon the reception and return of James, Duke of Ormond, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, July 27, 1662 : the other at His Graces entrance into the Castle of Dublin by Mr. Norris Jephson.	Mervyn, Audley, Sir, d. 1675.	1662 (1662)	Wing M1896; ESTC R35043	6,068	16

this day thy Tragedie bears date behold him placed over us by our Soveraign upon whom Temptations in the Wilderness in forraign parts after many days Fasting in a Necessitated condition left no other impression then their Foam and Malice And Ireland hearken not unto unwarrantable Fears if any such be behold him that in his single person dared the French Cardinals power and rage in rescuing that Illustrious Prince of fresh and glorious Memory the Duke of Gloucester from the Snares laid for his tender years What mayst thou not now expect from him armed with Power fenc'd with Laws and both designed by the most Religious of Kings Nil desperandum tali Duce auspice tali Thus Sir you arrived to us Commissioned from God for they that honor him he will honor them Religion hath an unseparable Companion Loyalty these are like Ruth and Naomi Wheresoever thou goest I will go and God having joyned them in your Grace I dare not separate them This was Ariadne's Clue that led you through all the Labyrinths and Vicissitudes of your life this hath returned you to us with the same countenance and complexion sic oculos sic ora ferebat as when you left us I wonder at those that wonder at it for how should the face alter when the heart and noble parts retain their primitive healthful temper how can Consumptive impressions seize that body that keeps within it self a Feast a Feast with reverence I say it drest by Gods own hand for your good Conscience was a continual feast God preserved you and reserved you for this day therefore your eye must not grow dim or your natural heat decay Impregnable Castles and Walls of Brass are but Emblemes of this single Vertue The Poets feigned that Iupiter the better to compass his Rapes transformed himself into several Shapes Fit Taurus Cygnus Satyrus Aurumque ob aniorem Let the Fable go but the Moral holds That the usurped Powers at Home and confederated Powers Abroad run all those Methamorphoses for the Triumph of a single Rape upon your Allegiance and all in vain If we listen to the Syrene-Air of their Promises and Invitations they are Swans if we consider the merit and weight of them they are showres of Gold they learnt the plausible Dialect from their Father All this will I give you if you will fall down and worship If we reflect on their Menaces and which is more their Practises they appear in shapes more fierce and antick then Bulls and Satyrs But your Grace made good by Practice what deserves the praise of a Speculative Fancie be pleased to attend it it is the Epistle appointed by the House for this present day Iustum tenacem propositi virum Non Civium ardor prava jubentium Non vultus instantis Tyranni Mente quatit solida Si fractus Illabatur Orbis impavidum Ferient ruinae Your Grace knew you were a Star of the first Magnitude in the Guards of Charles his Wain and those must not be Erratick but Fixt Thus you are Commission'd from the King unto us and then what shall be said nay what must be done to the man whom the King intends to honour Now be pleased to give us leave to lay aside these general Topicks of Religion and Loyalty and to recreate our selves with the Remembrance of those Benefits we enjoyed under your Graces Government It was not still Musick or Bonfires lighted for Triumph that ushered your Grace into your Government No it was the Warlike noise of Trumpets sounding of Drums neighing of barbed Steeds and the screeches of the half-slain that proclaimed your entrance upon a Stage of Bloud And when you were thus but a Graduate in your Government you were put upon terms of Disadvantage and Necessity to dispute with the Doctors of the Chair for your Enemies wanted neither Dolus or Virtus And if we who in a direct line partake of the prudence of your Counsels and the success of your Sword should be silent even England that is but collaterally interested might nay would upbraid our Ingratitude since the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament there pregnant with the sense of your merits were humble Suitors to his late Majestie of ever-glorious memory as an earnest of his farther favours to confer on you the Honour and Dignity of a Marquess and that the rise of that Honour might survive to be at the instance of the Parliament in England they presented your Grace with a Jewel to be worn upon your brest the better to direct the esteem of men to the inward Jewel by the richness of the Case Thus we enjoyed in the heat of War the shades of Peace until fatal Divisions among our selves and a divided Kingdom cannot stand rent your Grace from us and then when the Shepherd was smote how miserably were the Sheep scattered But when your Grace saw this Royal Vessel sinking you leapt not into the Long-boat to make provision for your own Safety no you made honourable and secure Articles for those that had imbarqued upon your account Many that stand here this day that owe a lasting Sacrifice to your Pietie whose age wants family-dependencies or the like onely accompanying your Grace with their Prayers under the Lee of those Articles in the continued violence of those Storms embarqu'd themselves and their Fortunes And yet when the flagging Sayls carried you unwillingly from this Coast when you lost the sight yet you retained the sense of this Land Length of time or distance of place could not abate the Intensiveness of your Spirits for this Kingdoms good It is said that upon the dissection of Queen Mary in order to her Embalming Callis was found written on her heart I shall not dispute the truth but sure this is Ireland at your Graces departure was ultimum moriens and upon your return primum vivens I shall pass by that Familiar Reception your Grace afforded to the Commissioners of the General Convention of Ireland for the name of it I can onely say Aliquisque malo fuit usus in illo neither shall I mention your frequent and steadable Advices your constant Readiness upon all occasions to bring them into his Majesties presence I forbear your Graces passionate and repeated Questions How little Benjamin did How all things were in Ireland Whether the old man were living How our Fundamental Laws were administred And in the conclusion of all how careful you were to return us with our moneys in our sacks mouths with his Majesties gracious Declaration and Instructions so that the Addresses from this Kingdom went out like the bowe of Ionathan that never returned empty Witness the Address from this House by their Commissioners to his sacred Majestie in reference amongst other things to that great Bill of Settlement for that adopted title it retains Sir I am not this day speaking of his Majestie we still premise Rex nobis haec otia fecit of him we say Omnium domus illius vigilia defendit omnium otium