. l.--t- y >->.■ .VfUC ..-^,!- i ^ PERKINS LIBRARY Uuke University Kare books , I?- MifceUaneom WORKS^ Written by His Grace, GEORGE, Late Duke of BucJ^ttgham. CoUeSei in One Volume from the Original Papers. CONTAINING Poems on feveral Suhjefts. I And the Farce upon Seim^^r Epiftles. I Fight. Charafters. I With Letters, by and to the Pindarics. j Duke of Buckingham, By The Militant Couple, a Dialogue, \ Perfons of Quality, Alfo Sute Poems on the Late Times, by- Mr. Dry den, ^ C Earl of D— — Sir George Etherege, f \ Mr. Congreve^ Sir Fleetwood Shcppard, > < Mr. Otway^ Mr. Butler, Author oiHuX) Mr. Brown^ dibras, J v Capt. Ayloffc^ &c. Never before Printed. With the late Duke of Buckingham's Speeches in the Houfe of Lords^ upon Conference with the Commons, To which is added^ A CoUe^ion of Choke remarhbje Speeches, iiat V}§re ffoHn hi both Houfes of Parliament, by feveral Roblemtn, and Commoners, in rcUlion to the Government ani Liberty of the Subjt^^ In the Reigns of K. a^trles I. I K. Charles IX. The Ufurpation of the Rump, I AND 2nA Qliver Cromvfsll. I K,lViUimUh ^ci LONDON: Printed for and Sold by J. JV^/^ near Stauoners'hall. 1704. 1>'^2.'HA The Publifhers PREFACE. THE Dhhe ^/Buckingham'/ name is Pa- negyrick fufficient to recommendthe fol^ lowing MifceUany to all Gentlemen that have a, true tajie of Pleafure and Wit. His Grace tvas not only hred.up with the politefi Prince^ that ever fate upon the Engli(h Throne^ but vpas the greateji Ornament of his Courts which for refind Luxury^ for Elegancy^ and an ex^ quifite Tajley vpas little inferiour to that of Au- guftus. His Speeches in Parliament fbow hovp alleady a maintaincr he was of his Country's Cortflitution^ and how well he under flood it, and the Rehearfal, the JHJieJi and trueji Satyr the Wqrld ever faw^ will be an everlajling T>emon^ ^ration of his Wit. But becanfethe Tejiimony of a Foreigner may go farther with fame People^ than an Encomi- um, tho never fo juji from one of ^ Movfmr de his own Countrymen, it may be con- Verville \n his venient to obferve what an eminent "^^^^^l^tLu * Author of a ISeighboiiYwg NaU- terre. tion has faid of him i - A 2 « ix €1 The Preface. As for his Perfon^ fays he^ ht was »Ht of thefimii Gentlemen^ that Europe ever f aw ^ ** his Converfation was eajie and charming^ fe^ " rioHs when occajion reqnird it^ but generally *' Facetious cmd turning upon Mirth $ He had a " a Genius that fitted him for the higheB Pojis " of the Sute-^ hut Pleafure, which was lis *' predominant Pajfion^ made him ridicule all " manner of hufimfs^ and as ill Habits are not " eafily left off^ this at long run^ made himin^ " capable of it. Sofirange a negleSf of himfelfand " Affairs exposed him to the FtUany of the City " ufurers^ who cheated him of the greater part *' of his Effate^ and made an incredible Ad *' vantage of his carelefs Temper* In hisyoun ger Days no Nobleman of England had ven* lured more for the Service of bis Prince^ whom he accompanied in the fatal Battle oj Wcrcefter, as at the Rejiauration^ andfomi ** Tears after no Man appear d with more Warmth and Zeal for the Prerogative. In the lattet part of his Life he alter d his ConduH^ one was a vehement ajerter of the Priviledgeso *^ of Parliaments and liberty of the SubjeS *' Whether this new Change in him was owin " to any real Alteration of his Sentiments. *' whether it proceeded only from his being dij *' guJied with the Court ^ 'tis certain hefuffcr^ *' Hmfelfto run into the contrary Extreme^ an " oppos d the King in fome funUures^ whet " he ought not to hc^ve appear d* This reJitS " ed fever cly upon his Gratitude^ no Man hy ''vif 4t (C (C The Preface, ^ ving fuch perfonal Obligations to the Roj/al ** Fdmljy AS himfelf^ Jince King Charles I •* run the risk of difohliging his Parliament^ *' fif^^^l dfterwards to his Affairs^ rather than f ' abandon his Father to his Enemies of the *' longer Houfe^ who were refolved to mine him. " But Gratitude is too tender a Plant to floH- ^* rijh in the Englifll Climate. At His Majeji/s happj Return^ the Dnke found himfelfpojfejsd of one of the m$jl confiderableEjlates in the Kingdom^ which he mind by his profufe way of Livings thd his Negligence and the va/i Confidence he refofed in the Integrity of his •' City-Friends and Servants, mind it much ^* more than his Profufenefs. As great as his *' fortune was, he affb^ecl a Mugnificence much " above it : What wonder is it then, if when ^^ fuch infatiable Drainers as Building, Mnjick, ** Chymijiry, not to mention his Amours, that that were fufficiently expenfive to him, ex- hdufied him at once, that his Patrimony fen- fihly decay d. The mofi Chriftian King ^^Jhewd him a greater RefpeU than ever any •' Foreign Emhajfador was known to receive ^ ** und as he knew him to he un homrrede plai- *' fir, he entertain d him accordingly, when he ** came in thp Tear 1677, to break the famous ** Triple lie ague. ISothing coud befo vceUcome " to the Court of Verfailles as the Mejf'aQe he *' came about 2^ for which Reafon a Regale was ^^ prepared for him^ that might have befitted " ths i( cc The Pteface. *' the Magnificence of the Roman Emperars^ when R^ome floHrijhed in its highefl Grandeur. What fits vporjl upon hisChara&er^andfhovps he took a delight not only to crofs his Mafler in his politick Affairs^ hut even in his Amours^ 'tis obferv able ^ that if he could not enjoj/ his Ml- firejjes he would render them fufpeSed^ and at lafi get them difcarded'j a living Tefiimony of which truth is the Dut chefs of CX-l-A. In fhort^ having by his irregular ConduH utterly ruind him f elf at Court ^ and his prodigious Debs making him uneafie to the City Harpies^ he was forced to retire into Yorkfbire, where *' he made an Exit very unworthy of the Great D///^e ^Buckingham 5 who^ if he had pleas* d^ might have made as bralliant a Figure in Hi^ ^^Jiory^ as any Nobleman of this Age, 1 will not pretend to jufiifie his CharaUer ift. every branch of it^ which^ perhaps^ is a little too, fevere upon his Graces Conduit ^ only this^ I think J I may venture to fay of it^ That take it altogether ^ Yis one of the finefi^ that are to he found in any of our Modern p]ifiprians^ and AS the Book J from whence 1 tranflated it^ is not to be met with in the common Shops^ and hard- ly in the beft furnified Libraries^ Ihppe^ I have obliged the Reader by prefenting him with a faith- ful Verfion of it. To come novo to his Grace's Mifcellaneous Tracts^ trm it is^ that fome few. fif them have feen the light before^ but having been Copied out by ignorant TranfcriherSy who^ frequently mijlook his Graces Words and Mean- :' ' ""' "^ ■' m And yet I have fcen it afcribed to the Duke in fever^tl A 4 M£ The Preface. Mf. ColhBions of State-Voems^ now in the Cn-- jlody of fome curious Gentlemen^ and what h more^ Printed as fuch in a Mifcellany^ Pub- lijhed in the Tear 1692, ^ Peter Buck. To adapt this Colle^ion as far as might he to the Palate of alJ Readers^ fome of whom perhaps might be difgujied to fee it wholly Com- pofed of jocofe andpleafant Pieces* I was ad- vifed to injert a judicious Set of Speeches fpoken in Parliament by fome of our moji cele^ hrated Statefmen and Senators. 1 have often wondered indeed^ that Jin cb our Neighbouring Nations have thought it convenient for the In- flru&ion of their Touth^ to publifh a f el e^ Col- ItUion of the heft Speeches out of Livy, Sal lift, Tacitus, Qa. Curtius, and other eminent Au- thors^ none of our Countrymen have either had the inclination or leifure^ than which nothing coud be more advantageous to our young Gen- tlemen^ to inftruU theWj how to exprefs them- f elves to make fuch a Delectus out of our pwn great Mafiers of Eloquence , juftly and handfomely in any great Affemhlies, to which they may be called, Not to revive the i^arrel between the Ancients and the Moderns^ I am intirely of the Opinion, that we have not fallen much fljort of them upon thefe Occafions ^ and as for our Rivals the French, who pretend to carry the Prize of Eloquence from all the World befides^ I would only defire any un- prejudiced. Reader to compare their moji cele* hrated CGmpofitions^ with what he will find in this The Preface. ibis Mifcellany. To the Honour of eur Confih tut ion he it faiJy whihch allows onr Memlers if parliament to exprefs thewfelves with that Li' ierty and Vigour^ which is wholly unknown to aU ither Governments : I dare maintain^ that tny Lord Falkland, andfome few of his ContempO' raries in the Long Parliament^ my Lord Briftol, my Lord Chancellor Hyde, (Sc have deliver'^ in thofe AJfemblies DifcourfeSj as\full of Warmth and Spirit^ purity of Language^ and jufinefs of Reafoning^ as ever Athens or Rome were known to produce J in the mofi fouri/hing Periods of thofe tixo famous Repuhlicks, I have a proper occafien here to mention fome worthy Gentlemen now alive^ who are in no refpecl inferior to their Predecef^ fors ; hut the wife Olfervation of Paterculus hinders me from dwelling upon fo fruitful a Suh^ je^j who checks me with Vivorum ut magna admiratio, ita Cenfura difficilis. To relieve the Reader^ I thought it not amifs to entertain him with two or three facetious Speeches^ written by the late Loyal and Witty Sir J. Berkenhead, in the time of that long unnatural Relellion^ fathered upm Alderman At- kins, and others. As they were out of Print^ and hardly to he found any where ^ hut in a few Libraries , / was eafily perfwaded to retrieve fuch valuable Papers from the unworthy Oblivion^ they hadfo long been buried under. The The Preface. The great hafie we were olligedto ufe in pui" li/hing this CoUeHwn before Gentlemen werey>ne cut of Town, made us omit fever al other Genuine Pieces of His Grace% that are lately come to eur Handsy as particularly a Compleat Key lo the Rehearfal, which has heen fo long expedel. Jf any Gentlemen have any more remainders of His Grace\ they are defired to Communicate them to the Puhlifher of this Volume, who will take care to fee them Printed with all imaginable ExaUnefs. Tk THE CONTENTS. O F The Mifcellaneous Works written by George late Duke of Bucljingham. r )i 'Pindaric on the Death of the Lord Fair- ^n^ fax, Father to the Dut chefs Dowager of Buckingham, ^j^ George /^/e D;/i^e ^/ Buck- ingham. Page I. To his Mijirefs, by the late Duke of Bucking- ham. 5 The loft Miftrefs^or a Complaint againjl theCoun- tefs of :^\ by the late Duke (?/Buckinghamb IIQ Pefcription of Fortune^ by the late Duke of Buckingham. 8 A Prologue to Philafter, by the late Duke of Buckingham. * 9 ^ ' Ihe The Content. Tie Epilogue to he fpoken by the Governor in Pbilafter , hj the latL Duke of Bucking- ham. II Upon Fclton, that was hdngd in Chains for the Murder of the Old Duke ^/Bucking- ham 5 written by his Son George Duke of Buckingham. ij Scdgmoor Vight Rehearfl at White-Hall, by the late Duke of Buckingham. 1 5 Confolatory Epifile to Captain ]n\i2in^ theMuf- fts News-monger in his Confinement y by George Ute Duke ^/Buckingham. 20 14 Chamber of anTJgly Woman :^ or a Hue and Cry after Biauty^ by the late Duke £/ Buck- ingham. 24 The Trial of the Poets for the Bays, in im* it at ion of a Satyr in BoileaU, by the late Duke of Buckingham. 41 Sa'vy f^pon the Follies of the Men of the Age ^ by 1 1 lute Duke of Buckingham. 47 Timon^ Sityr in imitation ofMonfieurTioiltm upr;rt fezrrj pajfages in Plays then A3ed upon ihc Stagey by the late Duke of Buck- ingham. 53 The The Contents^ Tie Duke of Buckingham* j* Letter to the Earl $f Arlington , Principal Secretary of State to King Charles II. written by his Grace vphen he was Emhajfador at the Court of France. Page 67 The Duke of Buckingham'/ fecond Letter te the Earl of Arlington. 68 The Duke of Buckingham V Letter to the Lord Bercleyo 69 A Letter from Nevil Payne, to aDcmejlickof theDd:*^ /^/Backinghara/, upon occafion of his Difcourfe concerning Toleration. 7 1 A Letter fr$m Sir George Etherege to the late Duke of Buckingham 124 Sir George E HregeV 2d Letter to the late Duke of bucuiigaam. 129 The Militant Couple^ in a Dialogue betweeie Freeman ar7d Bellair^ by the late Duke of Buckingham. 239 The late D>^ke of Buckingham*/ Speech in the Hoffft: of Commons^ upon the occajiou of fome ^tjlions proposd by that Honourable Houfe io his Grace^ together with his Reply thtrmnto, in Relation to fever al Mif manage- ments of State Affairs ^ by the Advice of the The Contents. the Mimjierjf 1 673, in the ColkUion of Speeches. Page i The Duke (?/BuckinghamV Speech in the Houfe of Lords 1675, upon Liberty of Confci" ence. 10 7he late Duke <7/BuckinghamV Speech at a Conference 1675. 12 The late D«^e (?/ Buckingham / Speech in the Houfe of Lords to prove the Parliament Dijfolved 1675. 18 A SyUdgifm written hy the late Duke of Buck- ingham upon that occafion^ g^ A The Contents/ A Collefiion of State Poems, and Sa- tyrs on the Times, as alfo upon o- thcr Subjects. By feveral Hands. Mada/^ NellyV ContpUint^ a Satyr ^ by Sir George Etherege. Page 29 The LadyofPUafure^ a Satyr , by Sir George Etherege 34 An Epijlle to the Bi//jops on Calamy's being released from Imprifonment ^ and Wild's Vo- etry , by Mr. Butler, huthor of Hudibras On Mr. Edward Howard 3 by the Right Ho- nourable Earl ofD 1. 74 Upon a Ladys being difappointed by a young Scotch Lord , by Mr. Brown. To a young Lady^ who appear d frequently lean* ing out of her Chamber Window 5 by Captain AylofFe. 97 On a handfome Whore ^ by the fame. 81 Upon an Old Affe&ed Court-Lady ^ a Satyr 5 by Sir Fleetwood Sheppard 82 A Panegyrick on K. William, by the Honour* able J. K. %5 84 The Royal Knotter, ^&> Charles Sedley 86. Serious I bought s on the late Revolution. 8 J A Satyr on the Sca-Ojficers. 90 Epilogue at the Theater in Drurylane , by Mr. Otway ^6 Jo. The Cantents. Jo. Haines Prologue^ written and fpoke hj himfelf. ^<) A Prologue by Mr. Cdngreve ^ written for Jo. Haines, andfpoken by him at a New Come- dy of Mr. Powels. loi Jo Haines'i" Ballad upon the Disbanding the Royal Regiment. 1 04 A Song 5 by the Lord D— ^ 115 An Epigramm on the Lord L— -1 ceV being Beaten and not (as hefalfly pretends^ RobVd at Tyburn, hyCoU.'& 115 Advice to Lovers, by Sir Charles Sedley 117 The Petition. 1 18 T/5^ Libertine, ^j^&V George Etherege. 120 The BeaHtifitl Ludy oftU May 5 by Mr. Dry- den. 122 The Temperate Epicure, written by MonfieurL^L Fontaine, when troubled with the Kheuma-* tlfm : Imitated by Mr. Tho. Brown. 1 41 Calendar Reformed, or a Dialogue between Plu- to and ^Ae Saints in the Elyfian fields. 218 The Belgic Hero ZJnmask*d : Or the Deliverer fit forth in his proper Colours 5 in a Dia- logue between Sir Walter Raleigh and Aaron Saaitb. 2 47 The Contents, A CoIIeiiion of the moft Remarkable Speeches, that were ipoken in both Houfes of Parliament by feveral No- blemen and Commoners, in Re- lation to the Government and the Li- berty of the Subjeft, in the Reigns of K. Charles ^ The Ufurpation oi the Rump^ and Olivsr Cromivell. K. Charles IL and K. William IIL &€. Earl of ^xAoVs Speech in the Hoyfe of Com-- mons 166:^. 55 Earl of BriftolV Letter to K. Charles II. up- on his being BamJ/)d the Court .48 Late Lord Lucas j Speech in the Houfe of Lords 1670, upon occajion of a Biff for his Morjejljis prefe?2t fupply fent up from the Commons, 5 2 The Earl ^/ShaftsburyV Speech in the Houfe of Lords^ upon a Debate 1 6 7 5 . 59 Earl of ShaftsburyV Speech upon the Bill of Excluflon and the Vopifh Plot 1680. 76 Sir Francis Pembertons Opinion concerning the King*s Right of Accepting^ or Refujing a Speaker for the Houfe of Commons 16 Jo. 85 My Lord Chamberlain to the Duke of Or- mond. 89 a ^ The The Contents* JheDttke of Ormondes Anfvper. 92 Lord Falklands Speech upon carrying up the Im- peachment againd the Lord Keeper Finch 1640. 94 Lord Falklands Speech in the Houfe of Com- mons^ agairtjl the Lord Keeper Finch, and other of the Judges^ I CO Bifiop Merk'j Speech agaitjfl depofing of Kings^ wherein he declares his Opinion upon the Ss^ejiion^ what flwuld he done with the De^ pofed K. Richard 11. 109 King Edward IV. Speech to his Privy Coun^ cil and Nobility J to perfwadeto a War with France. 1 20 ■Slueen Elizabeths Speech to her iajh Parliament upon a ReaJJhmption of fever at Grants^ that were a Grievance to the SubjeS. 124 Sir Edward Deering Sptech in Parliament concerning the Liturgy of the Church ^/Eng- land and a National Synod. 129 Sir John WrayV Speech concerning the unlaw- fidmfs of Bijhops. 1 5 7 Sir Bcnjman RudyerdV Speech concerning Bi- fljops. Deans and Chapters. 140 Afeafonahle Speech fpoken by Alderman Atkins in the Run;p Parliament. 145 Three Notable Speeches at Grocers-Hall^ on the late folemn Day of Thankfgivmg June^ 7 th 1641. Alderman ktkms Speech before Dinner io ths ^ Speaker^ the General LieutenafH General^ and the The Contents. the Lord Prejidenf Bradlhaw, at Grocers- Hal/. 152 Alderman Pennington /S/^ee^A attheprefenting a Golden Bafon and Ewer unto the General^ &c. 158 Hugh Peters'/ Thankfgiving Speech for a Fare-- Tpett to the City^ in behalf of the General Lieutenant General. 162 Sir Charles Sedly*s Speech againjl Forreigners. 166 Sir John Knights Speech againji Naturalizing Foreigners 'j Jhewing the ill confequences of pajjing any fuch A^. 168 A Speech for the Disbanding the Armj. i8q A Speech upon the Bill r dating fuTk(i Civil Lift. 182 A Speech upon the Bill for Ret r en dm; g ajl Ex- pences of the Crown. 185 Sir Alexander BruceV Speech againji the Pref byterian Government ^/Scotland. y38 a 2 ^ Books BO O K 5 newly Printed and Sold by John Nutt near Stationers-Hall^ J. Bah^r in MercersXhappel in Cheap- fidcy and J. Thompfon at the upper end of St. James Street y K. fojfet'm the Nej^'Exchange. I. np'HE Mifcellaneous Works of Sir j^ ChftrlcsScdlcjf^ Bar. in one Vol. ^vo. Price 4 J". The Source of our prefent Fears difco- vered 5 or plain proof of fome late Defigns againft our Prefent Conflitntion and Govern- ment : Containing Remarks on Scandalous Li- bels and Pamphlets publiflied of late, and a Juftification of ibme Paflages in a late Book, Intituled, The Hijiory of the laji Sejfions of Parliament y written by the Author of the Hi- fiory ofthelaft Parliament 5 price 1 s. Certamen Epijiolare^ or Eight Letters be- tween an J^^^r;/e^ and a Dead Parfon,by Mr. Tho. Brown 5 with Selcft Epiftles or Letters out of M. TuUius Cicero ^ and the bcft jR^- mun, Greeky and French Authors both An- cient arid Modern. Adapted to the Humour Qi the prefent Age 3 price 4 /. Mifcellaneous Mifcellaneous Works. Written by George late D«^'if«/ Buckingham, tSc^, A Pindaric Poem on the Death of the Lord Fairfax^ Father to the prelent Dutchels of of B/i(J^ngham. By George late Duke of Buckingham. I. I ~| N D E R this Stone does Ije ^•- One, iortt for FiHory ; . iFaicfac the Valiant, and the' only He/ Who 'ere for that alone a Conqueror wou'd be: B Both % A Tindaric upon Both Sexes Virtues were in him combin'd, He had the Fiercenefs of the manlieft Mind, And yet the Meeknefs too of Woman-kind : He never knew what Envy was, nor Haie j His Soul was fiil'd with Truth and Honef*yi And with another thing, quite outof Date^ Call'd Modefty. II. He ne'er feem'd Impudent, but in the Place Where Impudence it felf dares. Hldom Ihew its Face; Had any Strangers fpy'd him in the Room With fbme of thofe he had overcome, And had not heard their Talk, but only fcen> Their Gefture and their Mein^ They wou'd have fvvorn he had the VanquiiVd^ been : For as they bragg'd, and dreadful wou'd appear^ While they their own ill Luck in War repeated, His Modefty ft ill made him blufh, to hear How often he hd4 therti Defeated. 4 m. the Lord Fairfax, J III. Through his whole Life, the Part he bore Was Wonderful and Great, And yet it fo appear'd in nothing more, Than in his private laft Retreat ; For it's a ftranger thing, to find One Man of fuch a worthy Mind, As can difmifs the Power which he has got, Than Millions of the PoUs and Braves; Thofe defpicable Fools and Knaves^ Who fuch a Pudder make Through Dulnefs and MiftaKe irt feeking after PowV, and get it not; IV. When all the Nation he had won. And with expcnce of Blood had bought Store great enough he thought, B % Of 4 A ^indmc upon Of Glory and Renown, He then his Arms laid down, With juft as little Pride As if he had been of his Enemies fide, O^ one of them cou'd do that were undone: • He neither Wealth, nor Places fought; He nt ver for Himfelf, but others toughic : He was content to know, (For he had found it to) That, when he pleased to conquer, he was able, And left the Spoil and Pluncler to the Rabble. He might have been a King, But that he underftood /7owmuchit was a meaner thing To be unjuftly Great than honorably Good. V. This from the World did Admiration draw - And from his Friends, both Love and Awey Remembring the Lord f aitfax. j Remembring what he did in Fight before : And his Foes, loved him too, As they were bound to doe, Becaufe he wasrefolv'd to fight no iporc. So blefs'd by All, he dy'd ; biit far more bleft'd"'. were we, j If we were fure to live, till we could fee | 4 Man as great in War, as juft in Pe^cc as H^^ J To his MISTRESS. By the Duke of Buckingham. \/\/Hat a dull Fool was I, To think fo grofs a Lye, As that I ever was in Love before ? [have, perhaps, known one or two Witli whom I was content to be, At that which they call keeping Company ; B J Bui^ $ To his Mjlrefs. But after all that they could do, I dill could be with more : Their Abfence never made rae (hed a Tear ; And I can truly fwear, \ That till my Eyes fir ft gaz'd on you, I ne'er beheld that thing I could adore. A World of things muftcurioufly be fought, A World of things muft be together brought To make up Charms which have the power to/ move C Through a difcerning Eye true Love ,• / I That is "a Mafterpiece above What only Looks and Shape can do, There mufl: be Wit and Judgment too; Greatncfsof Thought anc^Worth, which draw From the whole World, RefpeQ, and Awe. ; $he that wou'd raife a noble Love, muft find Ways to beget a Paflion for her Mindj She muft be that, which She to be wouM feem ; For a'l True LOVE is grounded on Efteem: Plainneft To ]his Mijlnfi. 7 Plainnefs and Truth gain more a generous Heart, Than all the crooked Subtleties of Art. She muft be- What faid I ? She rouft be You, None but your felf that Miracle can do- At lead, rmfur(?, thusrauchi plainly fee,. None but your felf eVe did it upon me : Tisyou alone that can ray Heart fubdue, To you alone it always (liall be true; Your God-Ukc Soiil is that which rules my Fatc^ It does in me new Paffions ftill create, For Love of you all Women elfe I hate; But oh ! your Body too, is fo Divine, I kill my Iclf with wifhing you all mine. In pam and anguilli, Night and Day I faint, and melt away: In vain againit my Grief 1 flrive, My Entertainment now is crying, And all the (er.ce I have of being alive, Is that I leel my felf a dying. 8 A Defcription of Fortum. By the Duke of Buckingham. t Ortune made up of Toys, and Impudence, That common Jade^ that has not common Senfe, But fond of Bufinefs, infolently dares Pretend to Rule, yet fpoils the World's Affairs : She's fluttering up and down, her Favour throw's On the next met, not minding what ilie does, Nor why,nor whom (he helps, nor Merit knows' Sometime (lie fmiles, then like a Fury raves, And feldom truly loves but Fools and Knaves. Let her love whom (he will, I (corn to wooe her, Wh.le (he flays with me, I'll be civil to her; But if ihe offers once to move her Wings, lil fling her back all her vain gewgaw things. And armed with Virtue, will more glorious (land, Than if the Bitch ftill bent at my Command. I'll A Trologue to Philafter. pll marry Honefty, tho' ne'er fo poor, Rather than follow fuch a dull blind Whore, v A Prologue to Philafler. By the Duke of Buckingham. 'VTOthing is harder in the World to do, Than to quit that our Nature leads us ta As this our Friend here proves, who, having fpent « His Time, and Wealth, for other Folks Content-^ Tho' he fo much as Thanks could never get, Can't, for his Life, quite give it over yet; But, ftriving ftill to pleafe you, hopes he may, Without a Grievance, try to mend a Play. Perhaps, he wifti'd it might have been his Fate TTo lend a helping Hand to mend the State: Tho' he conceives, as things have lately run, TiS fpmewhat hard at prefent to be done. Well, 10 A Trolo^ue to Philafter. Well, let that pafs, The Stars that rule the Rout, Do what we can, I fee, muft whirl about: But, here's the Devil on't; that, come what will, His Stars are fure to make him Lofer ftill. When all the Polls together made a Din, Some to put out, and others to put in. And every where his Fellows got, and got, From being nothing, to be God knows what : He, for the Public, needs wou'd play a Game, For whichjhe has been trouncM by public Fame ; And, to fpeak Truth, fo he dcferv'd to be, For his Dull, Clownifli Singularity: For, when the Fafliion is to break ones Truft, Tis Rudcnefs then to offer to be Juft. The II The Epilogue^ to be fpoken by the Governour in Vhila- fier. By the Duke of Buckingham. ■fF by my deep Contrivance, Wit, and Skill Things fall out crofs to what I mean them ftill, You muft not wonder; 'tis the common Fate Of almoft all grave Governours of late.- And one would fwear, as every Plot has fped, They thought more with their Elbows, than their Head ; Yet they go on as bride, and look as well, As if they had out wifdom'd /^^cWjx^f/ .- SoCurrs will wagg their Tails, and think they've won us, Ai the fame inftant, they make water on us, Is't not a fliame to fee, Men fhould have none, That have fuch tedious, f ulfom bungling iliown ; For 1 1 Epilogue to Pbilafter. For to go Five Years wrong, with Art, and Pains, Does (hew a mofl: prodigious want of Brains; Nay ,tho' he nere judg'd righr^yet there was On^ > Who bragadocied ftill himfelf upon )> Being Infallible, but he is gone. J O! 'twas a Thought of vaft Defign and Scope, To rail ftill againft Popery, and hope, Ue might prefume to be himfelf a Pope : Though he might any |:hing pre(ume to be That could deceive Fopps (b infallibly; The mofl: egregious of all Scribes could tell There never was fuch an AMtopheil; And true Admirers of his Parts, and Glory, Will doubtlefs have a jufl: Renown in .Story. Ten Guineas that Lord paid for't, as Fame goes, Above ten times its worth, the World knows ; But he'll be better paid yet, I fuppofe. They were a matchlefs pair, the one to plot, The other to extoll ftill what was not : Yet Epilogue to Philafter. I2 Yet faith, the little Lord, when hence he ran, Did compafs one thing like an able Man; For fince he could not living ad with Reafon, Twas flirewdly done of him, to die in feafon. Vpon ¥e\ton, that was han^din Chains for the Murder of the Dul^ of Buckingham, in the Keign of King Charles I. By the Duke e?/ Buckingham. TTEre uninterr'd fufpends, tho' not tofeve Surviving Friends th' Expences of a Gravc^ Feltons dead Earth, which to the World will be Its own fad Monument; his Elogy, AslargeasFanrc, which whether Bad or Good I fay riot, by himfelf 'twas wrote in Blood ; For which his Body is Intomb'd in Air, Arcli'd o'er with Beaven^^ fet with a thoufend fair ' And 14 '^pon Felton. And glorious Stars, a noble Sepulcher, Which Time it felf can't ruinate, and where Th' impartial Worm (that is not brib'd to fpare Princes corrupt in Marble) cannot (hare His Flelh, which oft the charitable Skies Imbalm with Tears, daining thbfe Obfequieii So long to Men (hall lad, 'till pitying Fowl • Contend to reach his Body to his Soul. The «5 THE BATTLE: OR THE REHEARSAL AT A FARCE' Written by Qeorge late Duke of !Buckingham. Scene a Drawing Ro$m in White-hall. - *■ - ^ Enter a Lord and a Lady. Lady. T^< I D you ever hear of fuch a thing as |_^ this Battle, as they call ic> Lord. Not r, I'il be fworn, nor no Man elfe I think. Lady, Every body fays that as the BufmefJ was ordered, it was a thcufand to one that all the .King's Forces had been cut off 1 6 The battle. Lord. Yes, that is moft certain ; but that I am mbrt delighted with, is, to fee the infinite Saristadion the Genera! tak^s in explaining to every one he meets with, all the Particulars of his Foolery. Laij, O ! here he is a coming, for God fake let us make him tell it us again. Lord, Pray do, Madam. Enter General. Gener, Madama, your moft Humble Servanta* Lady. Whither are you going (b faft,my Lord ? Gener. Madama, me be going about fome Bu- fineis of very grand Importaunce. Lady. But my Lord, will not you tell us a lit- tle firft, fome of the Particulars of this Battle ? Gener. Madama, vid all min harta me tell a you begarra de hola Hiftoria o'de Occafibn : Your Ladifliip have hear, I fuppola, dat de Rebella get into the great Towna — Vhat you call dc Towna> Udj. What, Briftoh Gentr. The 'battle. %? Gtner. Noj de oder Towna. ^ hord* Exeter ? Geyt No, no, a pox take de To^vna yid de hard Name: How you call de Towna, De Breeche > Lady. Lord liave niercy upon me, v;hat does he ip.ean? Lord. Nay, I cannot imaginco Lady^ O! Bridgwater, Genet, Ay begarra, Breechwater; fb Manama me have Inte!'e^«-'nfa dar c'e Rebel go to Breech: Water '^ rne fay ro my Mtna, Marfh you Rogua; io Me marlha over de greata Fielda, bcgar, de brava Contra where dey kdla de Hare vid de Dogu3, and de Pairich vid de Hawka^ begafj de brave Sport in de Varld. Lord, Well my Lord, and what then .> ^Geher. Begar me marfli very well vId de Drome and cte Troinpetta, de Drombela and d^ great Noifa begir; Au how you call de brave Fellow au de 0 pray my Lord, were there of the Rebels? Gen, Ma Foy, between Sixa and Sevena Thouran. Lady. But my Lord, if you were Co few ^ why would you come lo near the Enemy ? Gener. Begarra Madama, bccaufe me no Care tor de Enemia. /' >i Lord. I fuppofe my Lord, that your Lordlliip | was polled m a very ftrong place. 1 Gener. O' begarra very ftrong, vid de great River between me and de Rebella, calla, dk Brooka de Gutter. Lady. But they fay, my Lord^ there was no Water in that Brook of the Gutter. CcHir. 7he battle. 19 Gener, Begar Madama, but dat no be my faults, begar mb no hander de Water from coma, if no will Rain, bcgar me no can make de Rain. LaJy\ But why did you not go to fome other t)lace ? Cener. O Pairdon me, Madama, you no under- ftand de ting. Lord, And To your Lordlhip, it feems, En- camp'd with your Horfe and Foot. Gener. Ay, vid de Foota; no, vid de Horfa, begar me go vid de Horfa an de Gentlemen Officera to one very good Viliaih, where, begar, be very gocd Qiartera, very good Meta, very good Drinka, and very good Bedda. LaJy. But pray my Lord) Why did you not ftay with che Foot? Gener- Beggarra Madama, becaufe dere be great Differentia between de Gentlemen-OiEce^a, and de Rogua de Sogiera ; begarra, deRoguade Sogiera lye upon de Grounds; but begar, de Gentleman-Officer go to Bedda. C % A A Confolatory P I STL ^ T O Captain JULIAN, The MUSES IN H I S CONFINEMENT. By the Duke cf BUCKINGHAM. T^Ear Friend, when thofe we love are in diftrefs, Kind Verfe may conifort tho' it can't redrefy; Nor can"! tliink (u:h Zeal you'll dircommend, Since Poetry has been fo much your Friend: On that thou'ft 1. v'J, and flouriOiM all thy Time . Kay morej mainrainM a Family by Ryme; And Epiftle to the Mufes^ &c. i i And that's a Mark that Dry Jen ne'er could hit, , He lives upon his Penfion not his Wit: E'en gentle George (flux'd both in tongue & purfe) Shunning one Snare, yet fell into a worfe. A Man may be reliev'd once in his Life, But who can be reliev'd that has a Wife? Onvay can hardly Guts from Jail preferve, And,*lho he's very fat, he's like to ftarve: And Sing-fong Durfey (plac'd beneath abufes) Lives by his Impudence, and not the Mufes: Poor Crowfttco has his third daies mix'd with Gal', He lives fo ill he hardly lives at alK ShaJwell^Lnd Settle both with Rhimesare fraught, But can't between 'em mufter up a Groat : Nay, Lee in BethPem now /ees better Daies, v, Than when applauded for hisbombaft Piaies; He knows no Care, nor feels fharp Want no mere, And that is what he ne'er could fay befoie: Thus, while our Bards are famifh'd by their Wit, Tho"4 who haft- none at all, yet thriv'ft by it. C 3 Wer'c 21 Eptjile to tU Wer't poflible that Wit cou'd turn a penny, Poets might then grow rich as well as any: For tis not Wit to have a great Eflate, The blind EScSt of Fortune and of Fate ; Since oft wc fee a Coxcomb dull and vain, Brim-full of Cafti,yet empty in his Brain: Nor is it Wit, that makes the Lawyer prize His dagled Gown ; it's Knavery in Difguife: Nor is it Wit that makes the Tradefman great, Tis the compendious Art to lie and cheat. The bafe born Strumpet dill may rant and rail, Tis not her Wit flie. lives by, but her Tail: Hor is it Wit that drills the Statefman on To waft the Sweets of Life, fo quickly gon : For tis mot Wit that brings a Man to hanging, That goes not farther than a harmlefs banging. How jijftly then doft thou our Praife deferve, That got'ft thyBreaifyWhQYC all Men elfe did ftarve ? But what's more flrange, the Miracle was wrought By one, that h'ant the leaft pretence to Tliought : I And And he that had no meaning to do Wrong, Can't fufier fure, for his no-meaning, long. And that's theConfoIation that I bring; Thou art too Dull, to think a treachVous thing. The thoughtful Tray tor 'tis oflends the King. C4 H A ■ CHARACTER OF AN UGLY WOMAN= HUE°ana GRY AFTER BEAUTY. Written hy the late Duke ^/Buckingham, tn the Tear 1678. THere being lately lofi, while the Dtvel was removing Houjhold fiuffzz St. James'sy a cer- tain She-Animal ot prodigious QiJality, and un- known Y {nut -^ 'tis thought fit to give the World a Defcription, and Ear-mark of the Eeafi^ that if any fortunate Bully, or doughty Efquire, in Tom or Country, happen to (lumlk, or tumble i^pon fuch a Bargain^ he may be furnifhed with a pariicular Inventory of his Purchafe, It fliould have Hue and Cry after beauty, &cc. 25 have been m J/lvert/f^mc^t in the Gazette^ but that of late few People regard it* li'^primis^ As to her De^cent^ fome HeralJs derive her FeJigret from that nj- the Scotch Bar- nacles^ and fay, that lliedropcirom lome teeming Gallows^ or fprung up hke Mandrakes from the S—" — offomegibbited Raggamujfian; others a- verr, £be \^as begot by a CUfier-pipe*^ becaufe, ilie calls Sir ^aunej De Muckle^ her Stre^ a foolifti, ^ack , who by the Recommendations of his Country men, of mighty Logger- f con ce, is be- come Knight of the '^outh fajir/g Pifs-pot; nor, is it any V/onder, that an Epidemical Plague fhould bring a Do^or to Preferment. This ^\{\i' ding Scaiiado has long been famous at COUtt, for much Praciice^ and no Succejs, except of curing Ladies of -with Sack-pojfets, and af- fifting old Ones part humane Sporr, with well try*d [)„_ The fubtleft ^5 he everdid, was, be- getting this Madam Pandora^ thereby caufing an injallihle Piot for future Bufintlles; (or where ever (he comes, Difeajes do as naturally follow her, as Dehauchery does the Courts and Ihe a- lone is able to make Work for a whole College oi oi Phificians, She takes upon her the venerable Name of a Widoiv^ buc was never married'^ for fure, the Churchmen that prohibit unequal tack- /A^5, could never be guilty of Unking any Chrijlian w ith fuch a SuccuLa ; yet to prove her Marriage^ the Hagg conjures for the Chort of a good Btjhop departed, and wou'd/r^^/rf^iife^ that /)/a/i Man, as Pan- 7 6 Hue and Cry after beauty ^ Pander Canonical, to \\tt Letchery: Rcr Huf^ land, flie pretends, dyd^tSea: Indeed, 'tis no Wonder he (liould be caft away in fuch a filthy leaky Bottom:^ for all thofe muft needs be 6"i&//>- vorack^J^ that cafl Anchor in her Embraces. ^ She is Old, and has nothing of Woman left in her, but luff and COltJUe,- and the latter brings in Contribution for the former. She has quite ruined the Dauhers^ and Bauhv Occupations, pretending a /*^/f /I/ to Monopolize both thofe My- fteries. Her Chamber is the Common-Jhore of the Town : The long Celler of Amfierdam is not more frequented, and (he has an Allowance of five or fix Diflies for Supper, to bring Toung Ones toge- ther; (lie is there the Sj^Otfeir of the ^aiOlS riding Admiral of a Squadron of Privateers^ and holding forth in the Conventicle of the Family of Love: Marriages are there promoted, that were never made in HEAf^EM^ nor, does Do^or'^s Commons in a Twelve Month determine half fo many fmutty Controverfies as are here dif^ patch'd in an Evening; all the Amorous Iniregu^s are gravely decided in the Diva-Jj and the punS- ual Qtiota for all Keepers of all Qualities to allow their Miftrejfes. Tis the fupream Council, next to. tk^it of iVhite-haSy for regulating Fenered Affairsy and there is not a Harlot of Quality that walks ihePark^ but thence takes her Meafures for Price. and choice of her Cullies, To give a more particular Character of her Per-^ fon, wem2Ly cM her the Epitome oi Z^glinefsy an Original drawn by Natures Pencil, whereof Granny or a CharaBer of a Woman. 17 Granny Sh'fpton^ Mother Loufe^ and Gammer Damnahle were buc imperfed Copies ; Her plaiftred Face tlrops againft ill ^eather^ and when flie laughs, \\,\odks\\kQ^ Rufled Boot^ and her fo- litary Tooth like an olJ Candle in the middle of it; (he is- Beetle hroivd , Woodcocknos'J^ as crooked in Body as in Mind, her Skm Peafe- porrige Tiwney, or fomewhat inclining to the oriental Complexion of Rufty Bacon, befet with natural Rubies^ and CarluncleSy yeralvva* s bare, almoft down to the Centre, and two or three huge hlack Patches to ' turn the Efflorejcences of her Hide into Beauty- fpors; as for the other internal Tarts^ the Divel deals there altogether: For they lye under the Torrid Zone, and therefore utterly uninhabitable, only (ome bold Travellers that have ventur'd, reprefent them much like the Defarts of Arabia, horribly Wild and Barren, not fb much as a Bu(h to be met with, nor any thing but vcnemous Gulfs, like the Lacm AJpbaltites\ or Concave of^o//;7f5/'r^w^Wc?,belchinn out continu- ally julphuroiis Flames, enough todellroy ail that approach them. Indeed, htr Breath wou'd rout an Army loonerthan that of a Qanmn^ and Lay a Devil better than all Trifmeg^jlus's Charms- it hlufters in her Nofe,like the Wind in a foul CW ney, and by its Violence, has not only fpoi'ld her Brainsy but blown off the Hair of her Peri- cranium, which flae now fupplies with borroivd Towers 2Lnd artificial Borders. By one uord, ^lie is able to blaft a Rofe at Three .Score Yards di- fiance; And her SOUL, if flie has one, (winch Airely l8 Hue a?id Cry after beauty , &c. furely was only given to Damn her more com- pleatly ) feems compofed of Ajfafc5tida » and Brimftone. Witches of old us'd to Pifs in a Hole in the Earthy and by padling in'r, raised Storms and Tempejisy hut x.\\isivaywar J S'tfier^ refolving upon fome greater Exploit, has, as it is faid, Tent to Scotland for a Silver Chamber-pot ; and if ever it (hould arrive, 'tis to be fear'd, wou'd do more Mifchief than all their Poifons at Paris : To pre- vent which, if any Perfon can make a Difcove- ry, and bring her to her Old Rendezvouze^ at the Palace before mentioned, he fhall have One, thoufand Pound Scotch for his pains ; and alfo be cured of an Old Pox^ or Taung Gonorrea^ which he pleales, by her Worflaipful Daddy, Gratis. Madam «9 Madam "Ndlefs Complaint, A SATYR. By Sir George Etheridge. T F Syllas's Ghoft made bloody Cat'hne {larr, And fhook the Fabrick of his Marble Heart : If SamuePs Shade could wiqked Saul affright When Encfor rais'd him from th' Depth of Night ' Pitty poor Nsll that's haunted by Moll Kni^t. You that have feen me in my Youthful Age, Preferred from Stall of Turnups to the Stage, Thoie fympathetick Griefs ycu did beftow, And Tears to SQCnlc Sufferings once allow. Employ 'em on my real Torments now. Knight^ cruel Knight that once lay in my Breaft, My conftant Crony and eternal Quell, tli^.^pplauderof my Beauty and my Jefl; She, She, that cruel She to France is fled, Yet lets me not enjoy my quiet Bed; When JO Madam Nelly, When e'i-e I lay me down to Love, or Sleep, She thro' the opening Curtains feems to peep, Dreadful as Gorgony turning all to Stone, Unpainted, and without her Plumpers on; Her Eyes and Cheeks all hollow, fo her Voice, And this fhe utters with a dreadful Noife ; tug, criiel Pug, with whom fo long I liv'd, For whom fo well I faithfully contrived * Wherein have I deferv'd fo ill of thee, That thou ftiouldft part my dcarefl: C— and me i Of Brawny Blockheads hadfl thou not before, By my InduftriousCare, a numerous Store, C — d herfelf was never cram'd w^ith more? By her when firft of ^— — bereft. My charming C— was ftiil a Trcafure left^ Nor to my Wiflbes did he difagree, I ogled him, and he would Squint at me • But when his charming Limbs the firft time preft My Heitick Body, ne'r was Bawd fo bleft j A SATr(I(, 51 Lan^d himfelf for C — I did defplle, tan d the Gay, the Sprightly, and the Wifej Big with my Joyes, to thee I mud ftill run, Dcclar'd how oft the Sacred Ad was done : While as the melting Hiftory I told. My twinkling Eyes in their old Sockets rowld : All this by laithlefi thee, with Craft was heard, No blufliing fign of kindling Lufl: appear'd ; Blulhing a thing thou'ft conquer'd longagoe. And Modefty has always been thy Foe ; if cY thou affefl it, tis withawkard Grace, iFor Bawd is always opened in thy Face ; Bawd is thy Art, Accomplillimentand Trade, For that, not Love, thou wert a Miftrefs raadef No Hero ever to thy Arms was won, But in foine drunken hour when Love v/as ionzl To Wallow, Fumble, Grunt^ and Spew upon ,- Till ray falfe Squinter thou did'ft lead a firay, And her, that too much trufted thee, bet.^-ay. Thus I poor Nymph am plagu'd, & muft not reft, Becaufe in that Adonis C— I'm blcft; 3^ Madm Nelly, C — who for clofe Intrelgues was doubrle(s made, Whofe Love was never by his Looks betrayed, For while his melting Eyes did mine furvey. They craftily ftill feem'd another way. Which when fond Kmght our Confiderit did^^fee, She daimM the Homage that wa^ paid to me- Till to redrefs the mighty Wrong fudain^d, I to my God-hke Soveraiga complain d. And by his Juftice, all my Rights maintained. Let Mountebank make Market houfes ring Of what great Feats they've done before the King . Let Learned Sir Sam his Windfor Engin try, ) Before gceat Charles let Quacks and Sea- men lye,^ He ne're heard Swearers, till Moll Knight arid I ; Never heard Oiths lefs valu'd, or lefs true, (And yet tis faid he has paid for Swearing too ; ) Lowdlier we fwore than plundering Dragoons, S'blood follow' J S'blood, andZ — fucceeded Z— Till at the laft, the Bawd's weak Forces faild. And I by Noife and Impudence prevail'd: To A SArr^. jj To France my bafled fqueaking RivaPs gon, And CS arid all his Eyes are how my own ; Shou'd fhe pretend to what's fo much my due^ She might as well take lovely Duncan ioo; Duncan by my great Sway and Power preferr'd. For Mounting nie well firft, now mounts the Guard : Help Church and State to doe a Princefs Right^ Guard me from Wrongs, and exorcife this Sprite ; feven now in Terror on my Bed I lie, Send Dodor S-::-:^- ^ to me, or I die. d The A Lady And more than this,Sir,you'll fave Monybyher : > She's B Whore at prefent, but you know. When Soveraignwantsa Whore, that Subjeds muft forego. This put old R—lej^s Codpiece in a Heat, Goe Mrs» Knight^ quoth he, and fetch her ftrait: Soft, quoth Lord B — but jfirft pay my Score, She's coft me many a PounJy then take the Whore : This Rowley fcented, and to lay his Itch, Gave him an Earldom to refign his Bitch : And now behold a Common Drab become The glorious Mate for EngUfli Monarch's B—m; Nor was it long before the Artful Sl—t Had got the length of her great Mafler's Foot ; She knew fo well to wcild his Royal • That none had fuch a Knack to pleafe the Fool j D 4 W^cn 40 The Lady of Tkafure^ ^yhe^ he was dumpifli, flie would ftill be jocund. And chuck the Royal Chin of C the Second * Then with h^r Heelslock in the fceptr'd Cull, Whom finding fomewhat phlegmatick and dull, My Leige,{he'd fay, come lets be frank and merry. And in Love's Cave our Melancholly bury. Thrk:e happy Nell that hadft a King fo gracious To raife up Princes to thy Duft and Aflies, ;Whofe great Humility wou'd ftoop fo low, On thee and thine his Favours to beftow: Sure there are hidden Charms about the middle. And fure, experienc'd Females have a Fiddle: For this old «- lej^ gave em Coach and Horfes, Furnifli'd them Palaces, and fluftt;heir Purfts- CalI'd Parliaments, pretending War with France, And all his Harlots Grandeur to advance ,• Shut up his Chequer to fupply his Whores, And fold his Crown Lands to pay Bitches Scores: How will fucceeding Story blufli to tell What this Great fir/y By the Duke c?/ Buckingham. Since the Sons of the Mufes grew numerous and lewd, For th' appeafing (o Facftious, and ClamVous a Crowd; JpoUo thought fit, info weighty a Caufc, T' Eftablilh a Government, Leader, and Lavt s. Thq 41 The Tryal of the foetSy The Hopes of the Bays,at this funimoning Call, Had drawn 'em together, the Devil and All ; All thronging and liftqing, they gap'd for the Bleffing,- No Presbyter Sermon had more crowding and preffing : In the head of the Gang, Joh» Dry den appear'd, That Antient Grave Wit, fo long lov'd and fear'd, But Apolio had heard a Story ith' Town, Of his quitting the Mufes^to wear the black Gown; And fo gave him leave now his Poetry's done, To let him turn Prieft Since R— is turned Nun. This Reverend Author was no (boner fet by, But Apollo had got gentle George in his Eye, And frankly confeft, of all Men that writ, There's none had more Fancy, Scnfe, Judgment, and Wit : I But in th* crying Sin, Idlenefs, hq was fo hardn'd' That his long Seven Years Silence, was not to be pardon'd. ' —W—y was the next Man flie w'd his Face, But Apollo e en thought him too good for theplace ; No Nq Gentleman Writer that Office fliould bear, But a Trader in Wit the Lawrel fliould wear, As none but a Cit— e'er makes a Lord-Mayor. Next into the Crowd, Tom Shadwell does wallow. And fwears by his Guts,his Punch^and his Tallow, That tis he alone befl pleafcs the Age, Himfelf, and his Wife, have fupported the Stage : Apollo well'pleas'd with fo bonny a Lad, j T* oblige him,he told him,he fliould be huge glad ;» Had he half fo much Wit, as he fancy'd he had. ^ Nat. Lee ftept in next, in hopes of a Prize, Apollo remember'd he had hit once in thrice ; By the Ruby es in is Face, he could not deny. But he had as much Wit as Wine could fupply ; Confeft that indeed he had a Mufical Note, But fometimes flrain'd fo hard ihat he rattled ith Throat; Yet owning he had Senfe, t encourage him for^r, He made him his Ovid in AugHjlm^s Court, Poet Poet Settle, his Tryal was the next came about. He bronght himznlirahjmwith the Preface torn, out, And humbly defir'd he might give no Offence; Dam him, cries Shadwell^ he cannot write Senfe: And B'lU^cks^ cry*d Newport^ I hate that dull Rogue; Apollo confidering he was not in Vogue, Would not truft his dear Bays with fo modeft a^ Fool, And bid the great Boy Ihould be fent back to School. Tom Ottvay came next, Tom Shadwelh dear Zany, And fwears for Heroicks, he writes beft of any : Don Carlos his Pockets fo amply had fill'd. That his Mange was quite cur'd, and his Lice were allkiii'd; But Apollo had km his Face on the Stage, And prudently did not think fit to engage, The Scum of a Play-houfe^iot the Prop of an Age- In the numerous Cr(?W that encompaft him round, Little Starch'd Johnny C- at his Elbow he found, His His Crcvat-ftring new Iron'd, he gently did ftretch His lilly white Hand out, the Lawrel to reach, Alledging that he had moft right to the Bays, For writing Romances, and fli-ting of Plays : jipollo rofe up, and gravely confeft. Of all Men that writ, his Talent was bed; For fincc Pain and Difhonour Mans Life only dam, The greateft Felicity Mankind can claim, is to want Senfe of Smarts and to be part Senfe of Shame ; And to perfeft his Blifs in Poetical Rapturdj He bid him be dull to the end of the Chapter. The Poetefi^m, next fliew'd her fweet Face, And fwore by her Poetry, arid her black Ace^ The Lawrel by a double Right was her own, For the Plays ihe had writ, and the Conquefts flic had Won: Jpolle acknowledg'd 'twas hard to deny her, Yet to deal frankly and ingenioufly by her. He told her were Conquefts, and charms her Pretence, She ought to have pleaded a Dozen Years fince. 46 The Tryal of the foets^ &c. AnaBahaluthu put in for a fliare, And little torn Ejfences Author was there : Nor couldD«//> for bear for the Lawrel to ftickle- ^ Protefting that he had rhe honour to tickle ^ Th'Ears of theTown,wich his dearMadaniF/V)f/s Ordain, Vriefls gravely Preach'? But foets more fuccefsfuHy will teach 5 For as a Pafling-Bell frights from his Meaty The greedy Sick-man, that too much would eat i So 4* A Satyr on the So when a Vice ridiculous is made, Ourl^'eighioms Shame keeps usfrom growing bdd> But wholfome Remedies hw Palates pkaky Men rather love what flatters their D/feafe ; PimpSy Parajifes, Buffoons, and alltheCrw That under Fricnd(h'tps Name, weak Man undd^ Find their falfe Service kindlier underftood, Than fuch as tell bold Truths to do us good ; Look where you will, and you fhall hardly find A Ma», tl^ithont fomeSicknefsof the MinJ: In Vain we Wife would feem, while ev'ry Luft Whists us about, as Whirlwinds do the Dult. Here for fome necdlefs Gain, the Wretch is hurl'd From Pole to Pole^ and flav^d about the H^orlJ, While the Reward of all his Pains and Care^ Ends in that defpicable Thing, his Heir. There a vain Fop Mortgages all his Land, To buy thatgawdy play-things z<:ommanJi To ride a Cock-horfe^ wear a Scarf at's Arfe, Anci play the Pudding ia a May-daj Farce. Here On the Follies of Men. 49 Here ohe whom God to make a Fool^ thought fit, In (pight of frovtdence,^ will be a Wit ; But wanting Strength f uphold his ill made Choice, Sets up with Lewdnefs^ Blafphemy and l^oi[c ; There at Ijis Mrs. Feet a Lover lyes, And for a tawdry painted Baby dies; Falls on his Knees, adores, and is afraid Of the vain Idol he himfelf has made : Thefe, and a Thoufand Fools unraention'd here, Hate Poets all, becaufc they Poets fear ; Take heed (they cry) yonder mad Dog will bite, He cares not whom he falls on in his fit; Come but in s way, and ftraight a new Lampoon Shall fpread your mangled Fame about the Tow^. But why am I this Bughearto you all? My Fen is dip'd in no fuch bitter GalL ?' He that can rail at one he calls his Friend, " Or hear him (abfentj wrong'd and not defend . E Who 50 ASATY^ ** Whoforthefakeof fomelll-natur'd feif^ " Tells what he fliould conceal,invrenis the reft j *' to fatal Mid-night Quarrels can betray ^' His brave CompanioHy and then run away, ** Leaving him to be murdered in the Street, " Then put it off with feme Buffoon Conceit* '* This this is he you fhould beware of allj f* Yet him a pleafant, Witty Man you call; To whet your dull Debauches up and down^ You feck him as top Fidler of the town : But if I laugh when the Court-Coxcombs fhow To fee the Boohy Sotus dance Provoc ; Or chattering Porus from the Side iox grin, Trickt like a Lady^s Monkey new made clean t To me the KamcoiRailer ftrait you give. Call me a Man that knows not how to live. But Wenches ro xh^it Keepers true fhall turn, St2ih Maids oi Honour proffer'd Husbands fcorn , Great States-men Flattery and Clinches hate, And long in Ofice, dye without Eflatey Againft On the Folliis of Men. 51 Againfta Br/^^ Court-JuJges fhall decide, The City Knavery want,the Clsr^ FriJe: E*re that black Malice in my Rhymes you find, That wrongs a Woi^thy Matty or hurts a Friend. But then perhaps you'll fay, Why do you write ? What you think harmlefsiW/V/^, the World thinks Spight. Why (hpuld your Fingers itch to have a la(h At SimiuSj the Buffoon, or Gully Ba/h> What is*t to you, if Alidore*s fine Ifhore^ Lies with fome Fopy whilft he's fhut out of Door : Confider pray, that dang'rous Weapony tVit^ Frightens a Million, when a few you hit: Whip but a Curr, as you ride thro' a Toivn^ And ftrait his fellow Currs the[Quarrel own; Each Knave, or Fool that's confcious of a Crime,' Tho' he fcapcs now, looks for't another time. Sir, I confefi all you have faid is true, But who has not fome FoJUy to purfue? E z MiU 51 ' A SATr^Ii, Milo turn'd Quiyot^ faftcyM Battels^ Fighu^ When th^ jfjfth Bottel had encreas'd the Lights^ War like D/r^ Pyes our //^r^ F<2r/jr forms. Which defperate Beffus without Atmoux ftorms, Cornusy the kindeft Hushand eVe was bornj Still Courts the Spark that does his Brows adorn • Invites him home to Dine, and fills his Feins •With the hot Blood whichhis dear Doxy drains: Grandio thinks himfelf a BeauCarcoH^ 1 Goggles his Eyes, writes Letters up and down, > And with his fawcy Love plagues all the Town ; y While pleafcd to have his Vanity thus fed, He's caught with G- - that old Hag, a Bed. But (hou'd I all the crying Follies tell, That roufe the fleeping Satyr from his Cell, I to my Reader ihou d as tedious prove, Asthat old 5/^r/r Alhanus making Z.^^^; Or florid Rofciusy when with fome fmooth Flam, He gravely on the PubUc ftrives to fhara. Hold On the Follies of Men. 5 ] Hold then my Mafe, 'tis time to make an end, Lcaft taxing others, thou thy felf offend. The World's a m)oJy in which all lofe their way Though by a different Path each goes afir^iy. riMON, a SAT YR, In Imitation of Monfiear Boieau, upon fever alPaffages in fome ne\x\ Plays then Acted upon the Stage. By the Duke of Buckingham. A. \]\JH^^ Timon, Joes Old Age begin to V \ approach^ That thus thou dvoofsi under a Nights debauch ?/ Ha^ thou ieH deep to needy Rogiics on Tick, yvhoneercoudpayj and muji be paid next Week^ Timon. Neither alas, but a dull dining Sot Seiz'd me ith' Mall, who juil my Name had got ; E 3 He 54 J S J 7 r (!(. He runs upon me, cries, Dear Rogue, Vm thine, With me fome ^ifs of my Acquaintance Dine: I tell him Vm engagd, but as a Whore, With Modcfty enflaves her Spark the more: The longer I deny'd, the more he preft, At laft, I e'en confent to be his Guefi: ; He takes me in his Coach, and as we go. Pulls out a Lilel of a No, but there were above Halfwit and Huffcy Kicium, and Dingloy : Oh ! that^s well enough ; ThevVe are all brave Fellows^ cryes mine HoH^ let s Dine, I long to have my Beily fall of Wine. They 11 finartly fVriteyZnd F/g^/Jdare ailure you, They're Men Tfaith ,• Tarn Marte qnum Mereurio. \ faw my Error, but twas then too late, No Means, nor Hopes appear'd for a Retreat : Well, we Salute, and each Man takes his Seat ; Boy, cries my Sot, is my Wife ready yet? A Wife^ good Gods! a Fop^ and Bullies too, For one poor Meal^ what muft I undergo? E i' la 56 A sArr% In cpmes my Lady ftrait, ihe had been Fair, fit to givehovG^ and to prevent Defpair; But Age, Beauty's incurable Difeafe, Had lefdier more Defire, than PowY to pleafe. As Cocks will drive, altho* their 5purs be gon, 5he with her One blecr Eye to friiite began • Tho* nothing elfe, 5he (in defpight of time) Prefervy the Affeilaticn of her Prime i Howev,€r you begun, flie brought in Love^ And hardly from that Subjed would remove. .We chanC'd to fpeak of the Trench Kings Succefs, My Lady wonder d much how Heavn could blefs A Man that lov'd Two Women at one time j But more, how he to them excused his Crime. 5he ask'd Huf^ If Loves Flames he ever felt .^ He anfwerd bluntly, Do you think Tm 6eh> 5he at his Plainnefs fmifd, then turn d to me, Love in young Minds precedes evn Poetry-^ Tou to that Pafffon can no Stranger le^ But Wits are given to Inconftancy* She A SAXr% 57 She had run on I think till now, but Meat Came up, and fuddenly fhe took her Seat: I thought the Dinner would make fome Amends, When my good Hoft cry d out, '* YouVe all my Friends: *^ Our own plain Fare, and the beft Terfe the BuU ** Affords,! give you, and your Bellies full; *' As for French Kick-Jhaws^ Cellery^ and Champaitfy f ' Ragous and Frkajfes^ introth we ave none : Here's a good Dinner tov/ard, thought I, when ftrait, Up came a piece of Beef, full Horicman wieght ; Hard as the Arfe oi M—^ under which The Coaclr man fweats, as ridden by a Witch ; A Difh of Garrets, each of ^em as long, . As T — /that to fak Countefs did belong;. )Vhich her fmall Pillow could not Co well hide, But Vifiters his flaming Head efpyd ; Pig, Goofe, and Capon follbw'd in the Rear, With all that Country Bumpkins call good Cheer; Serv'd 58 4 S ATY(I(, Scrv'd up with Sauces all of Eighty Eight, When our Tough Youth, wreftled, and threw the Weight: And now the Bottle briskly flyes about, Inflead of Ice, wrapt up in a wet Clout; A Brimmer follows, the third bit we eat. Small Beer becomes our Drink, and Wine our Meat: The Tabic was fo large, that in lefs fpacc, A Man might fix old Sage Italians place : Each Man had as much Room as Porter Blunt Or Harris had in CuUens Bufliel C And now the Wine began to work, mine Hoft Had been a Colloncl, we mud hear him boaft, Not of Towns won, but an Eftate he loft For rhe King's Service, which indeed he fpcnt, Whoring, and Drinking, but with good Intent j He talkt much of a Plot, and Money lent In Crmwtlh time : As for my lady, fhe Ckjmplain'd our Lov^ was courfe, our Poetry, Unfit I'i Unfit for piodefl: Ears, fmall Whores, and Play'rs, Were of our Hair brain'd Youth the only Cares; Who were too wild for any Virtuous League, Too rotten toconfummatethc Intrigue- Falkland file prais'd, and Suckling^s eafy Pen, And fcem'd to tafte their former Parts again : Mine Hoft drinks to the bed in Chriftendom, And decently my Lady quits the Room. Left to our felves, of feveral things we prate. Some regulate the Stage, and fome the State : Halfwit y cries yp my Lord of Orrery, Ah! how well Muflapba^ and Zanger dye,- His Senfc fo little forc'd, that by one Line You may the other eafily Divine : And which is worfe^ if any worfi can le^ He never faid one word of it to me : There's lafci'ous Poetry! you'd fwear twas Profe, So little on the Senfc the Rhimes impofe : Dame 6q a s a Tr % D m me (fays Dinghoy) in my Mind, G-ds-zns, Ether idge writes Airy Songs^ and Sojt Lampoons ^^ The beft of any Man-^ as for your Nouns, Grammer, and Rules of Art, he knows em not, Yet writ two taking Plays, without one Plot. fiuffe was for Settle^ and Morocco prais'd, Said rumbling Words, like Drums, his Courage rais'd ; Whofe IroaJhuilt Bulks the boyjl^roHS Billows iear^ Zaphee, W Sally, Mugadore, Oran, 7hefam^d Arzile, Alcazer, Tituan; Was ever braver Language writ by Man ? Kickum for Crown declared, faid in Romance, He had out-done the very ^'lis /cfi France : Witnefs Pandion^ and his Charles the Eight, Where a young Monarch, carclefs of his pate, Tho' Forreign Troops, and Rebelslfhock his State ; Complains another Sight afflicits him more, (^/2.) The Queen* s Galleys rowing from ih^Shorey Fitting fitting their OarSj and tacking to be gert^ Whilst /porting Waves fmttd en the RiJingSun. Waves fmiling on the Sun! I am fure that's new. And twas well thought on, give the DevUhxsDue. My Hoft, who had faid nothing in an hour, Rofe up, and prais'd the Indian Em^ot : As if our Old World modeflly withdrew^ And herCy in private had brought forth a Uew. There are two Lines, who but he durft prefumc To make th' Old World a New Withdrawing Room} Where oi znothtt World Q\ts brought to Bed; What a brave Midwife is a Larueat's Head ! But Pox upon thefe Scriblers ^^^hzi d'ye think, WiWSouches this Year any Champain drink? Will Turene fight him? Without doubt, fays If they two meet, their Meeting will be rough. D-m me (fays D/V/^^^?)*; the />-^«r;& Cow^d^ are. They Pay, but th' Englifh , Scots, and Sii^tzs make Warf la In Gawdy Troops, at a Review they fliine. But dare not with the Germans Battle joy n : What now appears like Courage, is not fo, Tis a fhort Pride which from Succefs does grow. On their firft Blow, they'll flirink into thofe Fears They fhew'd at Crefy, Agin-courty Poitiers ; Their Lofs was infamous. Honour fo ftain'd Is by a Nation not to be regained. What they were then, I know not, now they're brave, He, that denys it, lyes, and is a Slave, (Says Huffeyznd fro wnM ;) Says Diffghy ^thu do I > And at that word, at t'others Head let fly A greafie f /^^,^when fuddenly they all, Together by the Ears in Parties fall : Hdlfivity with Diftgioy joy nsy Kickum,mth Huffet Their Swords were fafe, and fo we let 'em Cufi^^ Till they, my Hoft, and I, had all enough. Their Rage onceover, they begin to treat. And fix frefli Bottles muft the Peace compleat ; I ':^ s AT r % 6i I ran down Stairs, with a Vow never more. To drink Beer-Glafles, and hear HeSors roan Jn EVISTLE to tk Bifhops, on Calamy V being releafed from Imprifonmenty andWiXd^s Foetry, By Mr, Butler, Author of Hudibras, MOft Reverend Lords, the Churches Joy, and Wonder, Whofe lives aife Lightning, and whofe DoQirine Thunder; The rare EfFedis of both in this are found. Ye break Men's hearts, yet leave their Bodies found : And from the Court (as David ^\^ they fay Do with your Organs fright the Devil away : A wake, for tho* you think the day's your own. The Cage is open, and the Bird is flown: That ^4 ^« E

and fee a holy Cheat, Tiie Enemy fowes Tares among your Wheat t Do not you hear the Sons of Ecfom Cry, Down with the A(5t of Uniformity > We will compound, and worihip God by halves Take you the Temples, and give us the Galvcy. Thus you behold the Schifmaticks Bravadoes, {Vj/J ipcaks in Squibs, arid Calamy in Granadoes: Kirk Itill thcfe Bearns, lead under TyhurnhtdgQ^ The Lfquire oi Newgate rock them oft a Sledge. The '"W^ The Duke oiBuck^n^hams LETTERS To the "Right Honour ahk the Earl of Arlington, Vrincipnl Secrdary of State to His Majefty. Wricten by his Grace when he was £m- baflador at the Court of France. St. Germanic Auguit 1 5. 1 670 MY LORD, IF I had had the igood Fortune to bring my Lord Taulknhridges Secretary with me, he uou d have entertaind ycurLordihip with a whole Sheet of Paper full oF the Particulars of my Re- ception here; fjr, I ha-'^e had more Honours done iney than ever were given to any Suhje^. You will receive, m two or three Days, a proportion ixom tins Court, concerning the mak'r/jg War upon Hol- land only^ which you may enlarge as you pleaje, Mounfieur de Lionne (liew'd me the Model of it laft Night, and I (hall fee the Particulars before they are (ent; ¥ % Id 68 Ti^e 2)«Ae o/ Buckingham'^ Lctten. In the mean time, having not your Cipher, I ftiall only tell you in general, that nothing but our being Mealy mouthed can hinder us from find- ing our Accounts in this Matter. For you may ah njofi ask what you pleaje, I have written more at large in Cipher to my Lord AJhleyy and when you have dilcourftd together, \i ycu think my flay here will be of u^e to his Majtrfly, let me know it ; if not, I will come away. 1 am^ my Lord, Your Lord(hfs mo[i HumMe^ and inojl Faithful Servant j Buckingham. To the Same. St. Germa7!s, AuguR 17. MY LORD, I Have nothing to add to what I writ laft, but that I am every Day convinced ot the happy Conj unsure we have at prefcnt in our hands of any Conditions from this Court ^ ihat we cart m Reajon demand. The King of France is To mightily 7k Duke of Buckingham^f Letters. 69 mightily taken with the DifcourffS T make Co him of hi' Great fjcfi by Land, that he talks to mc twenty times a day ; all the Courtiers here wondet at it, and I am very glad of it, and am very much My LORD, tour Lord(h\f$ mofi HwriUe and moft Faithful Servant^ . Buckingham To the Lord Bercley, Imuft needs beg your Lordfhip's Excufe, for. not waiting upon you next Sunday at Dinner, fortwoFeafons; the firll is, Becaufe Mrs. ^ — lefufts lohear me preach; which I take to be a lundofa Slur upor^ lo learned a Divin«i as I anK The other, That Sir Roierf C — is to go into the Country upon Monday, and, has defired me to Itay within to morrow, about Signing fome Papers, which muft be difpatcli'd, for the clearing fo much of my Eftate, as (in ipire of my own Ncg! gence, and the extraordinary Perquifus I have received from the Court) is, yet left me. F 3 ' iVn 70 Tl)e Duke of Buckingham'^ Letters. I'm Ture your Lordfliip is too much my Friend, not to give me leave to look afetr my Temporal Affairs, if you bu' conrider how little I am like to get by my Spirituality, cxctpt Mrs. B - be very much in the wrong: Pray \ABoxAee^ teii her, I am refolvcd hereafter Uoufe. never to Uear by any or her but by f Jo Ajb-^ and if that be a Sin, it's a^ o 1 J a one as ever ihe heard of. I am, My Lord, Jour Lordjhips tnofl Humble^ and moft Faithful Servant^ Buckingham* 7t A Letter from Nevill Payne to a Dmejiic of the Duf\e ^/ Buck- ingham^, upon Occfifm of bis Gracis Difcourie concern- ing FoUeration. In the Year 1686. SIR, Mud confefs my felf enraged, when I Tee (b great a Peer treated with fo little Kefpefl-, efpecially in a publick Good that may com- pofe Animofitics and prevent Diftra£lions. Among other fa lie Conceits of the Anfwerer, I remember he is p'eafcd to aderr, That Tolera* lion is permitted no where but in Common- Wealths; (mtaning, I fuppofc, Holland-,^ not confidermg that it is otherwife in Vdand^ and many Principahtics of Germany:^ where rhe Ca- tbolicks ferve God in the Morning, and the Dif {enters have their Liberty in the Afternoon, in rhe fame Church. The French gave Liberty to the /yAge?;r(?/j, till of late ; and thole whom many Years War could not (ijbdue, Permiflion decrees d. F 4 Ic 7X N. Payne on Buckingham'^ It might be wondrcd at, That Calvintfls, Lu-^ theramt, and other SeGs, fubfift in other Coun, tries in Comnnon wealths with Cathol-cs; yet the Church of England, that is no wher- to be found but here, will not admit CoTp tirors. The Caii'e was m re vifible, when I ferioufly confi- derrd it : The Church of E^iglayid is only a ^<7«;'/- hventiofiy^ndxh^w MiniOe^-sare afnrt of an tccle- fiaftical Guard to the Pnnce. When Hen ViII. was firii pofleOed by his Scruples, hke Numa^ confulting with his Goddtrs,hea^krd advice of their Oracle, which he knew ivouM fuit with his own Opinon; and this made them acceptable; efpecially when Sacrilege, that was no little Game without Courtiers and Gentry, countenanced the Innovation. Extravagant Opinions (Lke D.f- eales) have their Riie, Increa-e, and Declinati- ons; refembhng great Comets, that conJiime them Tel ves. But upon this unexpeSed Turn in Matters of Religion, every Man ufing his owti Conceits in facred Controverfie, divers Opinions enlued- The DifTenter (that diltinguilheth not between Devotion and Intention, having his IVtnd fixtand intent upjn an ex tempore Prayer or SiiTmon,and With great harnedncts and Djficulty exprefleth his Conceptions : is ( by himltlf and his Audi- tors) ace unted Z^^/^i^, and contcpins all Forms as mlipid and without Edification. . To anfwer thtfe Oojtaions,^ the Churchman produceth .^u honty and Antiquity from Catholic Authors : Bu V. iicn riiL* Papilt returns his own Arguments againft f)ifcourfe of To!eratm. 7^ againft his Novel y, then he turns Phanatic, and believes no more than Realon and Scnfe; whicfi in different 1 era s-^ is the Quakers Light \^ ithin them, or the Frtfbyters divine ImpuUeor lllunii- narion. Gonfiderin^ then, r^^a* fh? cannot fubfift fcut by aregaJ Power and Adiilana,he cannot admit a Toleration .where by her fpecious Pretences may be dilcovered - and a Prince that will be engqgtd for her Caufe, muftdifobligethegreatefl pare of the Nation.Since thefe Setlarks have not I ruchand Eloquence fufficient to defend ihem^tlves, tias moft necedarily follows; The mod zealous and fainrheartedParty of 'em forfal'e the Land,as they did formerly to New England, and now to Caro- lina or Penfelvama. The ftubborn and crafty re- main, expedmg an Opportunity to be reveng'd of that King that upholds them. Neithei; can it be for the ilecurity of a K ng to uphold a Couit- Religion, becau'e his butjtds u ill h.t a-aaies jeal(;Ui of them both; fince thcfe are ready for their own in^ercll and lucre, to preach the Prin- ce's Will for Gofpel ; as m my Hearing before CHARLES the FtrH : Do^ox Sheldon, the late Arc;ibilhop, upon that Text oi Samuel, HoceH Domim Regis — provVj That Kngs might take away any Man's Pollcflions: Beiides, 'tsiinpoflTi* ble that any Security can be to a Protcftant King, becau-e the Dillenters being more Numerous, will bealway; plutiing his D.ftfudion; as ihey did to CHARLES the F'lrji^ and wer^ near,ac- complifliing that oi CHARLES the Second. How much 74 N. Ts;yne on the Duke of Bukmgham: inuch better is it, that Things, purely fo^ be ccmmitfcd to them that are truly Ecclefiaftics* U'heiem the Prince is freed from the vain Scruples- ard Pretenfions of his Subjeds, in Religion. When the K.ng gives the beft Example of Piety, and chegreateft Devotion, he Ihews us how much need u te have of God's Grace and Mercy. ^ My moft humble Duty to his Grace, wifhing fcim a perfcQ Recovery, much Health and Hapr pinefs. 1 am Kours^ Sec. N. P. On Mr. Edward Hotpard^ By the Earl of Dorfit. T HOU damn d AntipoJes to common Sence, 1 hou Foyle to FUckn9^ prethee tell me whence Do*s Do's all this mighty Ma^s of Dulne£ fpring, Which in fuch loads thou to the Stage doft bring? Is't all thy one? Qr haft thou from Snow hiS Th' AiTrlance of forae Ballad makingQuill? N^, they fly higher; yet thy Mufeis (uch, I'd fwear it was tranilated out of Dutch: And whotheDivel was e'er yet to drunk, To own the Volumns of Mine Httr Van Junk I Fain would /know what Diet thou doft keep. If thou doft alwaies, or doft never fleep: Sure Hafiy-fudding is thy chiefeft Dili, With Lights^ and Livers^ and with flinkiitg Fijh^ 9x Cheeksy tripes^ Garlijh^ thou doft treat thy JBrain, Which nobly pales this Tribute back agaJn ; With Datfy Roots thy dwarfilh Mufe is fed, A Giant's Body with a Pygmy's Head. Canft thou not find 'mopgft all thy numVousrace, One honeft Friend to tell thee that thy Play's Hifs'd j6 A S AT r %. Hifs'd ^t by Box, Pit,Galkry, nay the Stage, And grown thenauoreus Grievance of thfe^ge: Think on t a while,and thou wilt quickly find Thy Body made for Labour, not thy Mind: No other ufe of Paper thou ihouldfl: make. Than carrying Loads of Reams upon thy Back; Carry vaft Burdens till thy fhoulders fhrink, But cur ft be he that gives thee Pen and Ink- Such dangYous Weapons fliould be kept from Fook, As Nurfes from the Children keep edg'd Tools. For thy dull Mufe a Muckinder is fit, To wipe the driv'lings of its infant Wit; Which ii^o' its late, if Juftice could be found, It like to new-born Puppies Ihould be drown'd : For were it that we muft RefpeQ: afford, To any Mufe that's Grandchild to a Lord, ^ J Thine in the Ducking-ftool (hould take her feat, Drench'd like thy felf in a great Chair of State; Where ASJ7r(I(, 77 Where, like a Mufe of Quality ftie»lldy, And thou thy felf fhalt write her Elegy, In the fame drain thou writft thy Comedy. Vpon a Ladjs king di[afpointed by a young Scotch Lord. !B)i Mr. T. Brown. I. "VTOUNG Caledon has all the Cfiarms Jl That can engage the Fair, ^ A Tongue that every Heart difarm^ A (oft bewitching Air. But fee what Fate attends a Drone! He lofes what he takes, And when the Fortrefs is his own His YiStovy forfakes. IL 7% A s n G. II. At her expehce this fttal Triith Afeliffk late did prove. Neither her Beauty nor her Youth Could long flcure his Love*. The lavilh Hero fii'd too faft, So vain was his Ambition, That when three poor Attacks were pafl:^ He wanted Ammunition. in. Were it inconftancy alone, Art ^ighc the Youth reclaim* But when Love's vital Oyl is gon. What can revive the Flame? Ye Gods, by whom ray Hopes are curfti Once grant me what I pray^ tivc CaUJon lefs Heat at fitfl^ Or bettet Funds to pay. I To A IComg LADY. 79 To a yoimg Lady, who appeared frequently leaning out of ber Chant' ber (VindovD. !By Captain AylofFe* T 7\ 7HEN rems naked from thcSeaarofe, She did not half fo many Charms expofe Nor when for the decifive Fruit She ftrove, Shewed P^tis half fo rich a View of Love; Nay when fhe clafpM Acfo^is in her Arms, The melting Goddefs had not half your Charms: Left firm her fnowy Breads, her Skin lefs white. Her lovely Limbs left tempting to delights How fliall we then cxprefs thoie Charms below,' Which you and Nature both forbear to (how ? So fair an Hoftels, and fo fair a fign, 'Would tbrce a Trade,and recommend bad V VI^^ VVata 8o An E T 1 S T L E Water fro ti fuch a Spring is. Tweeter far. Than all the CluOers of the Vintage are. Let Bacchanalans and the empty Beaux, Hunt out Champain, Burgundy^ and Bourdeaux^ To fetch fome drops from that dear (hady Well Wou'd all the t^dar of the Gods excelL Your eyes afliire us that you can difpence, Peculiar Joys for each peculiar Senfe: Then having let us fee, pray lefclS^" tkft Thofe dear concealed Delights below the Waft. Twere Madnefs to expedl to keep ones Heart, When Cupid Lies intrench'd in every part. How (hall we ^uar:' our ficedorn from furprize, When your leaft Charms are in your conquering Eyes? On A SONG. 8t O/i a band/', me Tfljcre^ By the Same, f^ATV LL A's ylnyy hit J and young, ^^ Yet no Man for her die5, A thoufand happy Shepherds' Sung CatuUas wicty, fair, and young, Yet no Man for her dies. For every Lover there was found A foveraign Balfanivfof his Wound; She from no Lover flies. Her Arms ftill cure the Mifchiefs of her Eyes, il. Were flie not yielding as flic's fair. Mankind were all undone; For Hell is nothing but Defpair, " Were flie nor yielding as flies fair, hiankind were all undone. G If 8i J S AT r ^. If fhe a real Lover find. She takes a pride in being kindj And is as free as air; Her Beauty's a Delight, but not a Snare. Upon an old afctled C^^urt Lady. ©> Sir Fleetwood Shepherd. ^^Ourage, Dear Moll^ and drive away defpair, ^^ Mopfa^ who in her Youth was fcarce thought fair, In fpight of Age, Experience, and Decays, Sets up for Charming in her fading Days- . tJnufFs her dim Eyes to give one parting Blow, Have at the Heart of every ogling Beau. This goodly Goofe, all feather'd likea Jay^ •So gravsly vain, and fo demurely gay, Lift Night, to grace the Court, did over- load Her bald Buff-forehead with ^ high Commode: Her Steps Were managed with fuch tender Art, As if each Board had been a Lover's Heart. In all her Air, in everv Glance was Teen A Mixrure ftrange, 'twixt fixty and fixtecm Crowds of admiring Fops about her prefs, Harnden hi mfeif delivers their Addrefs; Which flie accepting with a nice Difdain, (Dwn'd em her Subjffls, and began to reign. Fair Queen o^ Copland is her royal Stil'', Fopland the greateft part of this great Ifle, Nature did neV more equally divide, A female Heart 'twixt Piety and Pride. Her watchful Maids prevent the Peep of Day, And all in order on her Toylet Lay Pray'r-Books and Patch- Box, Sermon-Notes and Paint, At once t* improve the Sinner and the Saint, Farewell, Friend MoS^ expcft no more from mc But if you would a full defcription fee, # You'll find her fomewhere in the Litany^ With Pride, Vain-glcry, and Hypocrifie. Q % A 84 A TAHEGr^ICIi A PANEGYRICK ON King WILL I A M. ■*"^ ■ ■ — I — nn— nr r "By the Honourable J. H. Efq; H AIL happy IfiHiam \ thouart ftrangely great. And art the Caufc thy Virtues are thy Fate: For Thee the Child the Parents Hearts will firing For Thee the Favourite will defert the King, For Thee the Patriot will fubvert the Laws, For Thee the Judge will ftill decide the Caufc, For Th^ the Prelate will his Church betray, For Thee theSouldier fights without his Pay, For Thee the Freeman mortgages his Hold, For Thse the Milcr lavifhcs his Gold, F6f Upon J^ing WILLIAM, 85 For Thee the Merchant lofes all his Store, For Thee the Saylor'sfpreft, andftarveson fhore; for Thee our Senate our Beft Laws fufpend^ And will make any new to ferve thy End : The chief defign of 111 their loyal Votes, Is toinxcntnew Ways, new Means, and Plots, Nor Credit in the Land but thine will pafs, No ready Money if it wants thy Face, Thy loyal Slaves love thy OpprefTion more Than ali thrir Wealth and Liberty before: For Thee and Tyranny they all declare, And beg the Blcffing of eternal War. And that this Wonder may more wondrous feem Thou never yet didft one good thing for them. Rebells (like Witches) having fign'd the Rolls, Mud ferve their Mafter tho' they damn their fouls. A, 3 The 86 A S n G. The ROYAL KNQTTER S) Sir Charles 5idley. '' \ H happy People ye mud thrive, ^ ^ Whilft thus the Royal Pair does (Irivc Both to advance your Glory ; While he (by's Valour) conquers /t'j;^^^, She Manufafturersdoes advance, And makes Thread-fringes for ye. IL Blefs'd we! who from fuch Queens are freed, Who by vain Superftition led, Are always telling Beads; But here's a Queen now, thanks to God, . Whoj when fhe rides in Coach abroad. Is always knotting Threads. lU A S K G. 87 Then haft, viaorlous iJaJau, haft,. And when thy Summer Show is paft, ' Let all thy Trumpets found: The Fringe which this Campain has wrought, The it coft the Nation fcarce a Groat, Thy Conquefts will lurround. The Opinion of one that wore {or his Motto, Semper Idem^ Written in the Year 1689. A LL in amaze at what is done I flood, Doubting within my felf what's bad, j|^ JSl what's good ; Surpriz'd at this fo ftrange and fudden Turn, At which fuch Numbers joy'djfo few did mourn^ Where am I now, thought I? What ! have I pad So long in Truth's plain Path, and now at laft, G 4 After 88 A feriou^ Thought After a Race of fifty Years and more, Doubt that fame Truth the bed Men own d be- fore? That lawf jl Kings God's own Anointed are, And have from Him that regal Crown they Wear; From Him their Scepter,and from Him their Sword, Are Truths dirpcrs'd througout the facred Word; That calls them God's, and bids us them obey. To honour them is a juft. Debt wg pay 5 That bids us not refift, and if we do, Tells us we fliall Darnn'd for doing To. If Kingscommand whafsill, we muft 0" ihort) Not do'f, becaufe its ill, but luffer forV Now leir me, learned Priefts, if this be'nt true. And it it be. What will become of you? You, Reverend Clergy, that have heretofore, With thefe fame Dodtrines made the Pulpit roar : And boldly to ihc World tfaefe Truths mad^ known, This is the ScnpiuresjSenfe,and was your own: Your On the late ^evoJwtionj. 89 Your oWttjUntill that fatal Turn of State, ^ T' our Wonder and our Ruin, came of late; Your own,until that Tryal came, and then ( Tho' caird Divines ) you (hew*d your felvcs but Men: "' Then, (when, like Truth's old Champions, brave ly you Should, tho' to Death, thofe facred Points purfue) Tamely and bafely, you the Caufe forfook, Betray 'd the Church, and your Allegiance broke. Good Heav'ns! u hat Fear, what Thirfl; of Wealth can doe, E'en 'mongft fuch zealous holy Men as you! Poor me! What'lhall I do? What fhall I fay? Where (hall I go, when thus our Guides do ftray ? But God bethanked, they are not ftray'd all, Some yet remain, who have not bow'd to Baal^ Whofe Praifes for a loftier Mufe doe Call. But let them flray that will, Til keep the Road, And tread thofe fteps our late Fore-fathers trod. I'll 90 ASA TY ril fear my God, Honour my lawful King, And meddle not with thofe, who Changes bring • Fix'd on this Rock, I'm fure I firmly ftand. Let the Storm rage by Sea, or roar by Land- Here then Til fix, here fhall my Center be. And let^the World turn which way twill for me. A long Prologue to ajhort Plaj^ fpoken by a Wormn at Oxford, drefs^d like a Sea Ojjicer. w ITH Monmouth cap, and Cutlace by my fide. Striding at lead a yard at every Stride, Tm come to tell you, after much Petition, The Admiralty has given me a Commiflion: And now with Bully TourvWe FlI ingage, And try my Fortune on a flioating Stage* WhathiuftringTarr at this dares take Offence, While I ftand thus to prove my juft Pretence? Will On the Sea. Officers. 91 Will he pretend to fight better than I ? Ad's death, I'd tell him, Damn you Sir you lye, And then I'd ask him, How they fought at Rye. Your Bantry bufinefs too was but a Fetch, Where you Call'd Running, Battering at a ftretch But you'll reply your Leaders were to blame. While I condemn you all to bear the ihame. For who the Devil e'er refusM his meat, Becaufe another had no mind to eat? The Dutch were Drunk, you barbaroufly fay, Pray, next, do you be drunk too, fo you flay, For twas yoqr fober fighting loft the daj; Old Allemarle wou'd fay. That Men of War, In Navy flunk not half enough of ^Tarr. Your o'ergrown Pages and Attorneys Clerks, To fight and govern Fleets are proper 5parfc. Then let the fpruce Land-Pirats be content To fwaggcr in their Native Element, AndletTarpawlingsruleby my Confent: For pi ASA rr^ For things now look as if Men took Commiflion, To damn all Difciphne, aqd fow Sedition, And fighting was the lead of their Ambition, No matter v/ho comes home with broken bones, So yo i but come to touch the Patacoons. The Pitch of Honour is defire of Money, That paltry Coward Vice has quite undone ye. Vou court Preferment on no other fcore. But to be poorly rich, or balely poor : For who wotild not propofe a Trip to Spain^ That has within Tiis Profpeft double Gain, To line his Pockets, and to fave his 'Skin For none muft fight with Merchants Money in> Your Heads run round with Mexico and Sevilj I wiihthis (hipping Plate was at the Devil. Wou*d the good King had but a juft Relation, What Infamy, what Sums *tas coft the Nation, He'd quickly damn your Trade of Importation, And add it to the A(3: of Navigatioii But On the Sea Officers. 93 » 3ut how then fhall we live, ye MurmVcrs fay P 'S life can't ye be content with double Pay ! Shew us your twofold Merit, Sirs, I pray. Some have got two Commands by Land and Sea, While one might fafely fwear might one be free, They're neither Flelh, nor Fifh, nor good Red Herring; Thofe are yoiir Coll'nels, Captains with a mur rain. Boldly to thofe two Elements y'afpire, But at an awful diftance then you fire. A few there are, and they are very few, To whom a fairer CharadJer is due. Time was when Captains went on their own Errands, And in their Pockets carried their Prefs- War- rants. Now you imploy the Villains of the Fleet, While you date from the Doms in BeJford-ftreet, Bnt times are alter'd, tis not now as then. For now you prefs the Money, (pare the Men; Thofe 94 A S AT Y^. Thofe plain dull Fellows nofuch Secrets found, To make Preft Warrants worth a hundred Pouild. It is our Fate, our Frailty, or Difeafe, To truft our Honour in fuch hands as thefe* Raw in their Trade, their Principles not right, / With Hearts too tender^and withiHeads too light,r Too weak for Councej, and too n ce to fight. J ■> Their Bodies are not made of Battering-ftufJJ Their cracknel Carcalles not Splinter -Proof; And yet will fairly tell a Sailor's Tale, But muft attempt it in a Coat of Mail. Some fwaggcring Bully fnaps me fliort and fwears, ** Damn me thefe Fellows would be kick'd down Stairs. Sir, by your leave, do but you fight at Sea, And then kick down the Monument for me. The Parhament may plague us with Taxation j But till they cure the Grievance of the Nation, Monfieur will make the narrow Seas hisStatiod. On the Sea Of^cers. 95 Then what becomes of all our antient Rule> Our right from EJgar^Md command from Thnle^ Believe me, Sirs, ic will be then confeft. Your Flag a Difliclout, and your Claim a Jeft. The hardy Duke we mentioned, whole great Name Stretch'd the blown Cheeks of Trumpet-founding Fame, Once boldly try'd what E»gl/(i Men could doj Butfuch Examples who dare now purfue? A four dales fight he glorioufly maintain d, And what he loft in Blood, in Honour gain'd. To Keep that fpotlefs he the Ocean ftain»d. Each Day he tack'd,and fought from Sun to Sun Againft the odds at lead of two for one ; Hadye been there,Sirs,what wou d ye have done: He ne'er ftood fliall I, {hall I keep a loof, But fought as if hi? skin was Cannon-Proof. Then all that can be faid to do you right, Youllkeep a Wind as long as he did fight. EPILOGUE 'f6 At EflLOGUE. EPILOGUE ;At THE T H E A T R E J !B> Mr. Otway. WHEN Cleopatra did her To?fy take, /? She was no Virgin, flie was dowdy} Black, r And thirty Years Ihe had upcn her Back. J True, ihe could hop, and dance, and fing, and leer And had a Trick, they fay, I know not where. No more fuch Cleopatras now are feen, Our Whores are laid in pickle at eighteen * And Ladies of the Age of twenty one, Muft Stick to their dull Lords, or lye alone; Sitrt Jn EflLOgUE. 97 Sure there is fome decay in Lovers Hearts, For ye, fair Ladies, feldora tail your Parts. Brave Boys we had that could Love's Caufe main- tain> Till Englifli Ale was routed by Champaign: Ragous and Kickfliaws bring us poor Relief, Our lufty Grandfiers put their truft in Beef^ Defi'd our Grandames in their native Brawn» And ftiot twelve (core m long Bow sftifly drawn. Our limber Age falls fhortof their high Play, Yet we can flander twice as well as they. And he who gets a Harlot in his Clutches, Can take his Oath he has enjoy 'd a Dutcheft. The Man means well that bid fo high for Vice,. A hundred Guineys is a Ladies Price. Truth is, — ^^ v< Since Pence grow fcarce, and Claps are fall'n of late, Wife Men would get them at a cheaper Rate. But Times are coming, Heav'n have Mercy on ye, When Toyes will not be had for Love nor Moneys H The 98 An EflLOGVE. The Brethren will monopolize the Game, And th' ableft HoUer^jorth (hall win the Damjf- They will not whore according to the Letter, But in a Corner mumble Si,fter better. This Houfe will handiell the new Reformation, You only dam us for your own Recreation, Put there's no Damning like Predeftination. Then will the Whigs be hang d upon a String, For they hate Poets as they hate a King. Laftly 1 fpcak ir with a heavy Heart, ^c and our faithful Yokc«fellows muft part, For in fome leaky Veflels they will lade us, Virginia We Ihall plant, and they BarhaJoes. A PROLOGUE. Written ly Jo. Haines, and fpoken Ij h\m^ Inding bad Plays the beft Succefs have had, To make this Tragedy exceeding fad, Our Author doom'd me to be hang d to night, Anal oh ! who woud not weepatfuch a fight, But now 1 hop'd 1 fhould be hang'd out-right. I have three Plagues that Fhili and Blood cann'c bear, I am a Poet^ Married, and a Player: Marriage was e'er, fince^^j?w,thoughtan Evil, The firft that daac d at Weddings was the Devil, At the firft Wedding all Mankind mifcarry'd, Old^^j/wneVr was wicked till he marry *d, And Poetry of Curfes never faii'd. Homer his Kagson all his Race entaifd; H 7. H too ©y Jo. Haines. He was an old bJind Begger, and fo poor He ftarv'd the Dog that led him, and the Curr To be f eveng d on Poets, got in fpite, Cr//ifh that worry all that dare to write. But till of late a Player was a Toy, That either Sex lik'd well enough t' enjoy : Happy the Fop that cou d a night caroufc, With a whole Sharer then of either Houfe. The Women too int' our Acquaintance crept, You'll hardly think it — I my feif was kept. But / and all of us arc falln fo low, Nothing will keep us but Bum-bay liffs now. Now no Divertifement will Pleafure bring, The Pope has fet his Foot in every thing: His Priefts,with Poets, have confpir'd our Fall ; Priefts by bad Plots, Poets by hone at all Yet Poets like the Jefuits of the Times, Will hang&damn before they'll own their crimes. Like Fryer Eacotis brazen Head they'll fpeak Juft u hen they pleafe, and then in pieces break. It's A T^OLOGUE. lo, It's ftrange fond Nature Dbould take fo much Pains, To build brafs Foreheads to defend no Brains, 'Tis ftraoge to you, but 'tis not ftrange to Haines. Ladies fome Journeys to High-Park might Tpare, Our empty Play-Houfe has enough frefli Air. Well then, damn Plays and Players if you pleafe, Butyouil uphold the Play-Houfe for your eafe, To fee fair Ladies upon dirty Days. A PROLOGUE. By Mr. Congreve , voritten for ]o. Haines, and fpo\en hj h'lm at a nttt> Comedy of Mr. Powel'j. H Erts a young Fellow here^ an ASor^ Povvel Whoje virtuous face^ perhaps^ yon all may know Weill And^ he has writ a Play — this very Play Which yon are all come here to fee to Day: H % And loi A T(110L0GUE. And (o it being an ufual thing to [peak Somtthing or other ^ for the Author s fake^ Before the Play^ in hopes to makt it takcy Vm come^ being his Friend and FellowPlay^ry to fay what {if you pledfs) you re like to hear. Firft, know, that Favour which Td fain have fliown, ask not for in his Name, but my own, For, without Vanity, I'm better known. Mean time then, let me beg that you'd forbear your Cat-calls, and the inftruments of War. For Mercy y Mercy ^ at your Feet wefall^ Before your rearing Gods deflro^ us all. Fl fpeak with Words fweet as diftyiing Honey, With Words— as if I meant to borrow Money* Fair, gentle Sirs, moft foft, alluring Beaus, Think tis a Lady that for Pitty fues. Bright Ladies,. But to gain the Ladies Grace, 1 think I need no more than (hew my Face. Ncxi J T\OLOGVE, 10} ISlext then you Authors, be not you feVere; Why what a fwarm of Scriblers have we here ! One,two,three,four, five, fixjreven,eight,nine,teD, All in one row, and Brothers of the Peri. All would be Poets, well, your Favour's due To this Da} 's Author, for he's one of you. Among the few, which are of noted Fame^ I'm fafei for I my felf am one of them: You've feen me fmcak at W//rs among the fVitSf I'm witty too, as they are, that's by Fits. Now ye, our City Friends, who hither come By three a Clock to make fure Elbow- room^ While Spoufe,tuckt up>does in her pattens trudg it- With Handkerchief of prog,Iike Trull with Budget. And here by turns ye eat Plumb-cake and judge it, Pray be ye kind, let me your Grace importune, Or el(e, I gad, Ml tell ye all your Fortune. Well, now, I have but one thing more to (ay^ And that's in reference to our third bay; H 4 An I04 A ^4LLJT>. An odd requeft, may be you 11 think it fo, Pray come whether you like the Play or noj And if ye»ll ftay, we (hall be glad to fee ye, fnot, leave your Half crowns, and i^tacebe wi'ye Jo, HainesV ballad upon the Dif^ banding of the Royal Regiment L ALL you that have Proteftant Ears to hear E ach of you prepare to ihf d a fait Tear^ For know that our Monarch intends to disband The orJy brave Heroes cou'd conquer Ireland, IL The fierce Royal Regiment as brave and willing As Dutch Men, or Danesy or thofe of Iniskillmgy Muft now be caftiierd without any Rew-ardsj Who only did pretend to precede the K-s Guards, HI Jo. Haines'^ BALLAD. 105 HI. Oh had you but feen 'em march wl th that decorum^ That no Roman Triumph cou'd e'er go before em ; Some fmoaking, fome whiftling, all thinking no Harm, Like Xorkjhin Attorneys coming up to a Term, IV. On I-ong-tailesj oii Bob-tailes, on Trotters> on Pacers, On Pads, Haukers, Hunters^ on Higlers, on Racers, Youd have fworn Knights, 'Squiresj Prigs, Cuck- olds, and Panders, Appeared all like fo many great Alexanders. V. Thefe Heroes who through all Dangers durft go, Moft bravely defpifing Blood, Battle, and Foe, Were mounted on Steeds the lafl: Lord-Mayor's Day, From Turkeyy from Bariarji ft o^n Coach, Cart and Dray, vj; io6 On the ^oyal Regiment', VI. Twas on that very day their Prowefs \vas fhownj For guarding the King through the Fire- Works of - the Fovvn; The Sparks were iinhors'd, and their lacM Coats were fpoyl'd, Yetthefe fear'd no Squibs of Man,Wonian^ or Chili VIL The Cornetj whofe Nofe though it fpoke him no Roman, Was mounted that day ona Horfefeared no Man* Believe me^ for all o'er his Trappings fo fump- tuous, Hety'd Squibs and Crackers; 'twas mighty t>rc- fumpiuous ! VIII. But note his defign 'twas worth your admiring, Twas to let the Queen fee how his Horfe wou'd ftand Firing; Not wifely confidering'what Was to be marry *d, For at firing the Squibs his own Wife mifcarry'd. IX. Jo. Haines'j S ALL AD. 107 The Anabaptift who fquirts his Zeal into his maid. In his Jack-boots, both night and day, preach'd, ilept, and pray'd ; For tingling his Spurrs chim'd 'em all in as well To Sermon, or Prayers, as any Saints-Bell. X. The Leivtenant-Collonel being thrown by his Gennet, His Son-in-law thinking feme Treachery in it. Did tender him the Oaths ; which the Horfe took they fay. But fwore, by the Lord, they went down like chopM Hay. XI. He the Bead of an Iri/h Papift did buy, Sodoubting his Courage and his Loyalty, Taught him to eat with his Oats Gunpowdero, And prance to the Tunc of old UllihulUro. XIL A noble ftout Scri v'ner, who now /hall be namelefi Thatintimeofaaion he might be found blamelcft. h 1 08 On the ^oyal (Regiment:. A War-horfe of timber from a Dutch Carver buy^. To learn with more Safety the Horfe Exercife. XIII. With one Eye on his Honour,the other on his Gain^ He fixes a Desk on Bucephalus^s Main • That (b by that means he his Palfrey beftriding. Might practice at once both his writing and riding; XIV. But oh the fad News that our Heroes confounds, To Ireland their own,like the laft Trumpet founds, The K. has invited Lord- may or and SherifF HuUln^ To dine on Midfummer-day with him in Dublin. XV. Good Lord ! how this News fet the Champions i trembling, And now quite forgetting their wonted Diflem- bling. Can think 'em of nothing but Suits and Petitions^ Of humble Addrefies^of Terms, and Conditions- xVl Jo. Haines'i . loj XVL Oh who'll march for me? Now (peak any that dare, A horfe and a hundred Pounds for him, that's fair. Dear Courtier, excufe me from Teagueland and Slaughter, And take when you pleafe my Wife and my Daughter. XVIL Some feignM to be lame, fomefeign'd to be clap'd, At laft finding tbey themfelves had thus trapM, Unanimoufly they to the King all addreft, And told the bare truth, 'twas all but a Jeft. XVIIL A Jeft, quoth the King; and with that the Kins fmil'd* ^ It ne'er fliali be faid fuch a Jeft fiiall be fpoyl'd. Therefore now I bid you in peace all depart. For 'twas more your Goodnefs than 'twas mv Deferr. ^ XIX jio Tie foS MJire/s. Thus happily freed frcm that dreadful Vexatio n Of being Defenders of this or that Nation, They kifs'd royal Fift, were drunk all for Joy, They broke all their fwords, and cry 'd Five k Roy. LOST MISTRESS, COMPLAINT Againft the Countels of — !B> the Duk 0/ Buckingham, in the lear 167 5, June the nth. FOrfaken Strephon in a lonefome glade, By Nature for defpairing Sorrows made. Beneath a blafted Oak had laid him down, By lightning that, as he by Love o'er thrown. Upon i Ihe loft Mijlrefs. HI Upon the mofly Root he leaned his Head, While at his feet a murmuring Current lead Her Streams, that fympathiz d with his fad Moans The neighboring Echoes anfwer'd all his Groans* Then as the dewy Morn redor'd the Day, Whilft ftretcht on Earth the filent Mourner lay, At lafl: into thefe doleful Sounds he broke, Obdurate Rocks diflblving whilft he fpokc, IT^Hat Language can my injur'd Paffion frame^ That knows not how to give its wrongs a Name; My fuffring heart can all Relief refufe, Rather than Her, it did adore, accufe. Teach me, ye Groves, fome Art to eafe my Pain, Some foft Refentments that may leave no Stain On her lov d Name, and then I will complain. Till then to all my Wrongs I will be blind. And whilft 'he's ^ruel call her but unkind. As all my Thoughts to plcafe her were imploy'd, When of her Smiles the BleiSng / enjoy'd, So Ill 7he lojl MJire/s. So now by her forfaken and forlornjj 111 rack invention to excufe her Scora While flie to Truth and me unjuft does provej From Her to Fate the blame I will remove; Say, *twas a Deftiny ihe could not fhun, Fate made her change that I might be undone. E'er with perfidious Guilt her Soul I'll tax, ril charge it on the Frailty of her Sex; Doom'dher fir ft Mothers Error to perfue: She neV was falfe,<:ou'd Woman have been true Let all her Sex henceforth be ever fb. She had the Power to make my Blifs or Wo, And (he has given my Heart its mortal Blow. In Love the Bleffing of my Life I clos'd. And in her Cuftody that *Lovc difpos'd. In one dear Fraight all's loft ! Of her bereft, I have no Hope, no fecond Comfort left. If fuch another Beauty / could find, ABeauiy too that bore a conftant Mind, Even A SONG. "J Evn that could bring me Med'cine fqr my Paib, I lov'd not at a Rate to love again. No Change can Eafe for my fick Heart prepare, Widow'd to Hope, and Wedded to Defpajr- Thus figh'd the Swain, at length his o'ef- watchM Eyes A (oft beguiling Slumber did furprife • Whofe flattering Comfort prbv'd both ftiort and vain, Refrefli'dj like Slaves from Racks, to greater Pain. A SONG* JB; my Lord D— t. PHTLLISy the faireft of Love's Foes, Yet fiercer than a Dragon, FhiSis, that fcojrn'd the powdcr'd Beaus, 114 A SGNG. What has Ihe now to brag on ? Since while fhe kept her Legs fo clofe> Her Breech had fcarce a Rag on. IL Compeird by Want; this wretched Maidj Did fad Complaints begin ; VVhich furly Strephon hearing, faid, It wis both fliame and fin To pity fuch a lazy Jade, That wou d neither kifs nor fpia AN An BflG<^A}4U iif AN EPIGRAMM On the Lord L-1 -ceV feg- beaten^ and not (as be falfly pretends) roFd at Tyburn. . ■ . I. . t. _L . ^ By Col 5— A S by the rigid Laws of Rome^ l\^ Ic'was the Ma!efa(aor's Doom To feel the Rods before the Ax, And bear their Burden on their Backs ^ And that, by ancient Coriftitution, Done at the Place of Execution: So thole dry Druhis on th' noble Peer, Portehd his Lordfliip's Fats is near. I X ADVICE ii6 A SONG. ADVICE to LOVERS. !By Sir Charles Sidley. DAMON, if thou wilt believe me, Tis not fighing round the Plain> Songs and Sonnets cann t relieve thee, Faint Attempts in Love are vain. II- Urge but home the fair Occafion^ And be Matter of the Field,- | To a powerful kind invafion 'Tis a Madnefs not to yield. IIL Love gives out a large Coramiffiori, • Still indulgent to the brave- "* But one Sin of large Omiffion, Never^Woman yet forgave, IV A 50NG, iir IV. Though /he fwears fhe'll ne'er permit you, Cries you're rude, and much to blanae. Or with Tears implores your Pity, Be not merciful for fliame. V. When the fierce Aflault is over, Chloris foon enough may find This her cruel furiot^ Lover Mu,ch more gentle, not fo kind. AGAINST HIS Miftrefss Cruelty. ©) the fame Hani. LOVE, How unequal are thy Laws, That Men that leaft endeavour Thou favour*ft, and negledl'ft the Caufe Of thofe that moft perfever ! I 3 II. 1,8 A SONG, u. What carelefs Lovers have been blefl, Untouch'd with Grief and Anguilb^ Since cruel ^fo/^,Charm'd my Breaft, Unmov'd to fee me languifh ! III. I find my fatal Error now" In thinking e'er to move her, Too great the Difficulty grew For any mortal Lover. IV. But what Advantage can it bring That I at laft perceive it? Twas ralh to undertake the thing, And its too late to leave it. The PETITION. O H Lyciclas^ why thus alone With Arms a crofs, doft figh and moan ? Can The PETITION. up Can thy Cofmelia prove unkind, Or ought prevail to change her Mind? She was, fhe is great Natures Pride; In I to the Duke of Buckingham. 115 knew, conversed with finer Women, kept politer Company, poilefs'd as much too of the true real Greatnefs of the World as ever he enjoyed ) (hould in age ftill capableofPleafure, and under a For- tune whofe very Ruins would make up a comfort- able Ekiiorate here in Germany, Is it poflibic, I fay, that your Grace ihould leave the Play at the Beginning of the fourth Aft, when all the SpeSators are in Pain to know what will be- come of the Hero, and what mighty Matters he is referv'd for, that fet out fo advantageoufly in the firft ? That a Perfon of your exquifitc Tafte, that has breathed the Air of Courts ever from your Infancy, Ihould be content, in that Part of your Life which is mcft difficult to be pleafed and moft cafie to be di/guftcd, to take up with the Converfation of country Parfons; a fort of Peo- ple, whom to my Knowledge, your Grace never much admir'd; and do penance in the naufi:ous Company of Lawyers, whom I am certain you abominate. To raife our Aftonifliment higher. Who cou d ever have prophecy'd (though he had a double Giftof Nc'/?r^^^w^'sSpirit)that the Duke o^Bkck- ingham who never vouchfafed his Emxbraces to a- ny ordinary Beauty, wou'd ever condefcend to figh and languifh for the Heirefs apparent of a thatch'd Cottage, in a ftraw Hat, flannen Petticoat, Stockings of as grofs a thrum as the Blew-Gtiar Boy's Caps at the Hofpital, and a Smock (rhe Lord defend me from the wicked Idea of it ! ) of as sourft a Canvas as ever lerv'd an Apprentice- fhip h6 Sk George Etfieregie fhip to a Mackarel Boat > Who could have bfe' lieved, till Matter of Fac^ had eonfinned the Belief of it, ( and your Grace knows chat Matter of Fafit is not to bedifputed) that the moft poMhrd. re- fined Epicure of his Age, that had regale.^ h mfelf in the moft exquifite Wines of Itaiy^ Greece, and Splaift, would, in the laft Scene ot his Lift, debauch hisConflitution in execrable Torkfhire Ale ? (Knd that He, who all his Life Time had ( ither (een Princes his Play-fellows or Companions, would fubmit to the nonfenfical Chat, and barbarous Language of Farmers and Higlers ? This, I confefs, fo much Ihocks me that I can- not tell what to make on't; and unkfs the news came to me confirmed from fo many Authentic Hands, that I have no room left to fufped the Veracity of it, I fliould ftiU look upon it to be A- pocryphal. Is your Grace then in earneft, and re- ally pleafed with fo prodigious an Alteration of Pcrtonsand Things? For my Part, I believe it,- fori am certain that your Grace can ad any Per*- fon better than that of a Hypocrite. But I humbly beg your Graces pardon for this Familiarity [ have taken with you: Give me leave therefore, if you pleafe, to tell you fome- thing of my felf. I prefume that an Account of what pafles in this bufie Part of the Worlds will not come unacceptable to you, fince all my Cor- refpondents from England ^{^urt me, your Grace does me the Honour to enquire often after mey a!nd has exprefs'd (bme fort of a Defire to know- how my new Charader fits upon me. ttn to the Duke of Buckingliam. 117 . Ten Years agoe I as little thought that my Stars defigned to make a Politician of me, and that it would come to my fhare to debate in pub- lic Aflemblies, and regulate the Affairs of Chrift- endom, as the grand Signior drcam'd of lofing Hungar)^ But my royal Matter having the Cha- rity to believe me Mafter of fome Qiialities, of which I never fufpecScd my felf, I find that the Zeal and Alacrity I difcover in my felf, to fupport a Dignity which he has thought fit to confer upon me, has fuppl} 'd all other Dtfeds, and given me a Talent, for which (till now) I juftly fan- cied rpyfelf uncapable. I live in one of the fined, and befl: manner^ Cities in Germany^ where tis true we have not Pleafure in that Perfeftion as we fee it in London SLtidPar/s, yet to make us amends, we enjoy a no- ble ferene Air, that makes us hungry as Hawks ; and though Bufinefs, and even the word Sort of Bufinefe, wicked Polities, is the diflinguilhihg Commodity of the Place, yet I will fay that for thG Germans, that ihey manage it the beft of any People in the World; they cut off and retrench all thofe idle Preliminaries and ufelefs Ceremo- nies that clog the Wheels of it everywhere elfe: And I find, that, to this Day, they make good the Obfervation that Tacitus made of their Anceftors; I mean, That their Affairs (let them be^ never fo ferious and preffing ) never put a flop to good Eating and Drinking,' and that they debate their weightieft Negotiations over their Cups, 128 Sir George Ethetegc 'Tis true, they carry this Humor by much too far for one of my Complexion, for which Reafon I decline appearing among therti, but ^ hen my Maftet's Concerns make it neceflary for me to come to their Aflembhes. They are, indeed j a free heartej open fort of Gentlemen that compofe the Diety wrchout Refer ve, Affedation, and Aiti- fice^ but they are fuch unmerciful Plyers of the Bottle, fo wholy given up to what our Sots call Good-feIlowflnp,that 'tis as great a Conftraim up- on my Nature to fit out a Night's Entertainoient with them, as it would be to hear half a fcore long-winded Presbyterian Divines Cant fuccef^ ficely one after another. To unbofome my (elf frankly and freely toyouf Grace, I always looked upon Jrunkennefs to be an unpardonable Crime in a ycung fellow, who without any of tliefe foreign Helps, has Fire e- noughin his Veins to enable him. to do Jultice to Ca^ia whenever Ihe demands a Tribute from him. In a middle aged Man, I confider the Bottle only ^s iubfervient to the nob'er Pleafure of Love; and he that would fuffer himfelf to be fo far infatu* ated by it, as to rieglcd the Purfuicofa more a- greeable Game, I think deferves no Quarter from the Ladies: In old Age, indeed, when tis convenient very often to forget and fleal from our felves, I am of Opinion, that a little Drunkennefs, difcreetly ufed, may as well contribute to our Health of Body as Tranquillity of Spul. Thus I have given yoiir Grace a fhdrt Syftem of my Morals and Belief in thefe ii^i'm Bat the gentlemen to the Duke of Buckingharti, f 2 9 Gentlemen of this Country go upon a quite dif- ferent Scheme of Pleafufe; the ^)efl: F' rnirure of their Parlours Cinftead of innocent Qhina) are rail overgrown Rummers, and they rake more care to enlarge their Cellars than their patrimo- nial Eftates: In (hort, Dunking is the Hereditary Sin of this Country, andthar Heioe of a Deputy here, that can dcmoliih (at one Sitting) the refl of his Brother Envoys, is mentioned with as much ^pplaufe as the Duke of Lorain for his noble Exploits againft the Turksy and may claim a Statue erecled at the public txpence In any Town in Germany, Judge then, my Lord, whether a Perfon of my fober Principles, and one that only ufes Wine ( as the wifer fort of Roman Catholics do Images ) to raift up my Imagination to fomething more exalted, and not to terminate my Worfhip upon it, muft not be reduced to very mortifying Cir- cutnftancesiri this Place; wheVe f cannot pretend to enjoy Con verfation, without pra(il-iCing that Vice that direQly ruines it. And as I have jufl: Reafori to complain of the Men for laying fo unreafonable a I ax upon Plea- fure, fo I have no lefs Qccafion to complain of the Women for who^y denying.it. Could a Man find cut the Secret to take as long a Leafe for his Life as Methufelah and the reft of the Anti-diluvian Gentlemen, who were three hundred Years in growing up to the Per- feSion of Vigour, enjoy 'd it the fame Number of Years, and w^ere as long a decaying, fomething K n^ighf i^o »RV George Etherege might be faid for the two crying Sins of both Stxts here; T mean Drunkennefs in the Men, and Re(er- vec^nefs in the Ladies. What woMid it fignify to throw awav a Week's, nay, a Month's Enjoyment upon one Night's De- baiichafa Man could promile hin:vrelf the Age of a Patriarch? Or where wou'd be the mighty Penance in dancing a dozen Years Attendance after acoy Fe- male, watching her mofi: favourable Moments, and moll acceiiible Intervals, at laft to enjoy her, iflnfirrrines and old Age were to come io late upon us? But fince Fate has given us fo (hort a Period to taft Pleafiire with Satisfaftion , three or four Davs Sicknefs is too great a Rent-cha^-ge upon humane Nature, and Drunkennefs cannot pretend (out of its own Fund) to ^icquit the Debt - And, my Lord, lince our Gayety and Vigour leaves us fo (bon ih the lurch, fince Feeblenefs attacks us without giving -s fair Warning, and we no fooner pats the Mr idian of Life but begin todecluie, its hardly worth a Lover's while to ftay as long fa rompalTing a Miftrefs, as Jacoi did for obtciinirg a Wife; and without this te- dious Drudgery and Application, I can afTure your Grace that an Amour is not to be ma- naged here. But, my Lord, I lorget that while /take upon me 10 play the Moralifl, and to enlarge fo Rhcto- fKally upon the Prccicufneis of Time, / have al- ready made bold with too much of your Graces 2 For to the Vuh of Buckingham,' 151 For which reafon I here put a flop to my Difcourie, and will endeavour the next Pacquet that goes from this Place, to entertain your Grace with fomething more agreeable. I am^ My LO%V, J Tour Grace's moft obedient Seryant G. Etherege. A LETTER From Sir George Ftherege, to his Grace ths Daf\e of Buck- inghaiii, I{ansbcne^ Oclober lu 1689. MY LORD, IN^^ver enjoy my felf fo much, as when / can fteal a few Moments, from, the Hur- ry of public Bufinefs, to write to my Friends in England; and as there is none there to whom / pay a profounder Refpeci than to your Grace, wonder not if /afTordmv K z felf iji Sir George Etfierege (cl the SatisfaOiion of conver/lng wfth you by way of Letters, (the only Relief I have left me to fupport your Ablence at this diftance) as often as I can find an opportunity. You may guefs by my laft, whether I don't pafs my Time very comfortably here; forc'd as I am by my Charader, to fpend the better part of my time in Squabling and Deliberating with Perfons of Beard and Gravity, how to preferve the Ballance of Chriflendomc, which would go well enough of its felf, if the Divines and Mini- fters of Princes would let it alcne: And when I come home fpent and weary from the Diet^ I have no Lord D — ^'s, or Sir Charles S y^s to fport away the Evening with ; no Madam Z*---^ or my Lady A- — 's ; in Ihort, none of thofe kind charming Cx^;m\xts London affords, in whofe Em- braces I might make my felf amends for fo many Hours murdered in impertinent Debates ; io that not to magnifie my fuflerings to your Grace, they really want a greater ftock of Chriftian Patience to fupport them, than I can pretend to be Ma* fter of. I have been long enough in this Town ( one would think) to have ma^e Acquaintance e- nough with Perfons of both Sexes, ioas never to be at a lo(s how to pafs the few vacant Hours I can allow my lelf: But the terrible Drinking that accompanies all our Vifirs, hinders mq.from Converfing with the Men (o often as I would o- rherwifc doc; and the German Ladies are lo in- tollerably rcferv'd and virtuous, [^ with Tears in my to the Duke 0/ Buckingham. 153 my eyes I fpcak it to your Grace) that 'tis next to an impoflibility to carry on an In- trigue with them: A Man has fo many Scru- ples to conquer, and fo many Difficulties to iur- mounr, betore he can promife himlelf the leati: Succefs, that for my part I have given over all Purfuits of this Nature: Befides, there is io uni- verfal a Spirit of Cenforioufnels re'gns in this Town, that a Man and a Woman cannot be feen at Oml>re or Pzcquet tcgether,but 'tis immediately concluded fome other Game ha^ been played be* tween them ; and as this renders all manner of Accels to the Ladies atmoft impra^icable, for fear of expofing their Reputation to the Mercy of their ill-natur'd Neighbours, foit makes an mno- cent Piece of Gallantry often pafs for a criminal Correfpondence. So that to deai freely with your Grace,among fb many noble and wealthy Families as v\e have in this Town, I can only pretend to be truly ac- quainted but with one: The Gentleman's Name was Monfieur Hoffman^ a frank, hearty, jolly Companion; his father, one of the moftemment Wine-Merchants o^ the City, left hira a confide- rable Fortune, which he improved by marrying^a French Jeweller's Daughter of Lyons\ To give you bis Charadler in Ihorc, he was a ivnfible inge- nious Man, and had none of his Country Vices, which I impute to his having travelled abroad and feen Italy ^ France^ and Ennjand. His Lady is a moft accomplilVd ingenious Perfcn, and not- withftanding {he is come in to a Place where fo K 3 much 134 Sir George EthcJege ] much Formality and Stiffnefs are prafticed, keeps up all the Vivacity, and Air, and good Humor of France, I had been happy in my Acquaintance with this Family for (ome Months, when an iil tavour'd Accident rob'd me of the greateft Happmefs I had hitherto cnjoy'd in Germany, the lois pi which /can never fuffic ently regret Monfitur Hoff- man^ about three Weeks ago, go ng to make mer- ry with fome Friends (at a Viiiage iome 'three Leagues from this J^lace) upon the Datjuhe^ by the Unskilfuinels or Negligence of the Water* \ men, the Boat, wherm he was, uofonun^rcly chanced to over- let, and of fbme twenty Per- fons, not one efcaped to bring home the News but a Boy that miracul ufly 'd I might pp up to her. When I came into the Room, 1 fancy 'd my felf in the Tertitories of Dedih, every thing looked fo gloomy, fo difmal, and (o melancholiy. There was a grave Lutheran Mmifter^ with her, that omitted no Arguments to bring her to a more compofed and more Chrifiian Difpofuion of Mmd. Madam (fiys he) you done -confider that by abandoning your felf thus to Defpair, you aQually rebel againfl Providence; I cann'c help it, f fays fhe) Providence may e'en K 4 thank 136 Sir George Etherege thank it felf, for laying fo infupportable a Load upon me: O fye, Madam, (cries the or her) this is down right impiety ; What would you fay now, if Heaven fliould punifli ir by fome more ex- emplary Vifiration? That is impoffiblcs replies the Lady fighing, and finceit has rob*d me of the onc^y De!ignt I bad' in this World, the only Fa- vour it can do me is to level a Thunderbolt at my Head and put an end to all my Sufferings. The Parfon findmgher'in this extravagant Strain, and feeing no likelihood of Perfwading her to come to a better Temper, got up from his Scat and took his leave of her. - ' It came to my turn now to try whether 1 was notcapableof com'^ort!ngher,and bemg convin- ced hy folate an 'nftance that Argumnrs brought from Religion were not like to work any extra^ ordinary Effeds upon her, 1 refolved to attack her Ladifhip in a more (enfible parr, and repre- fent to her the great inconveniences (^not which her Soul, but ) her Body received from this inor- dinate Sorrow. ' Madam, faies / to her, next to my Concern for your worthy HusbandV untimely Death, I am griev'd tofte what an Alteration the Bemoaning of his Lofs has occafion'd in J ou^ TheleVVords raifing iier Curiofity to know what this Altera- tion was, / i hui continu'd my '-'ifcourfe; In en- deavouring, Madam, to extinguhh, or at lead to alleviate J our Grief, than which nothing can be more prejudicial to a beauriiul Woman, 1 intend s publick Benefit, for if the Public is interelted, as to the T>uh of Buckingham, 137 as moft certainly it is, in the preferving of a beau- tiful Face, that Man does the Public no little j Service who contributes mod to its Prefervation. This odd Beginning operated fo wonderfully upon her, that fhe dellred me to leave this gene- ral Road ot Complements, and explain my felf more particularly to her. Upon this (delive- ring my felf with an unufual Air of Gravity, which your Grace knows / feldom carry about me in the Company of Ladies) /told her, that Grief ruines the finert Faces fooner than any thing whatever ; and that as envy it felf could not deny her Face to be the mofl charming in the Uni- verfe, fo if flie did not fuflFcr her felf to be com- For (bmething, continues fhe, we owe to the Me- mory of the Deceafed, and fomething too to the World, which expedis at lead the common Ap- pearances of Grief from us- By your leave, Madam, (aies /, all this is a Mif- take, and no better; you owe norhmg to -your HusiDand, fince he is dead, and knows nothing of yojr Lamentation; befides, cuuid you Ihcd an Ocean of T ears upon his Hearle, it would not do him the leaft Service; much iefs do you lye un- der any fuch Obligations to the World, as to fpoil a good Face only to comply with its tyran- nic Cuiioms: No, vladam, take care to pre- ferve your Beauty, arkJ then let the World fay what it pleares,your Ladyship may be revenged wpon the World wliene'er you fee jfit. I am re- folved, anfwers fhe, to be incirely governed by you,ther^fore tell me frankly what fort of aCourfe you'd have me (leer? Why, Madam faits 1, in the firft place forget the DefunQ; and in order to bring that about, relieve Nature, to which you have beenfo long unmerciful, with the mofl cxquifit Meats and the moft generous Wines. Upon Condition you'll fup with me, cries our St^icSed Lady, I will fubmit to your prefcription. But to the Vuke of Buckingham. 159 But why fliould I trouble your Grace with a Nar- ration ot every Particular? In fliort, we had a noble Kegaje that Evening in her Bed chamber, and our good Widow puth'd the Gkfs fo ftrenu- Gufly about, that her Comforter ( meaning my felf) could hatdiy findthe way to his Coach. To conclude this Farce, ( which I am afraid begins now to be too tedious to your Grace) this Pho^- ntx of her Sex, this Pattern of Conjugal Fidehty, two Morning*: ago was marry 'd to a Imooth-chind Enfign of Couni Trautmandorfs Regiment, that had not a .arthirg u\ the World but his Pay to depend upon: I aiiifted at the Ceremony, tho' I little imagm'd the Lady wou d take the Matri- monial Receit (o loon. I was tiie eafier perfwaded to give your Grace a large Account of this Fragicomedy, not only becaule \ wanted better Matter to entertain \fou with at this Lazy Conjundure, but alio to IIkiw y^ur Grace, that not only Ephefus in ancient, and England in la er Times, have aiforded tuch fanta- ftkal Widows, but even Gfrw^^y It ielf; where, if the Ladies have not more yirtue than tliofe of their Sex m other Countries, yet they preterd at leaft a greater. Management of the ourfide of it. By my laftPacquetfrom E^glatidyimot]g2L heap of nau eous Frafh, I received the Three Dukes of Dunjiable^ which is really fo rponflrous snd iqfi- pid, that I am (orry Lapland or Livonia had not the Honou; of producing it ; but if I did Pen- nance m reading it, [ rejoyced to hear that it wag fo folemnly inter^M to the Tune of Catcalls. The ^Squire 140 Sir George Etherege, 0*c. 'Squire of Al fat ia however, which came by the fol- lowing Poft, made me fome amends for thecurfed impertinence of the Three Dukes ; and my witty Friend Sir C--- ^-7's ^ella msra gave me that in- tirc Satisfadion that I cannot read it over too often. They tell me cny old Acquaintance Mr ^ Dry Jeit has left off the Theatre, and wholly applies him felf to the Study of the Controverfies between the two Churches. Pray Heaven! thisftrange alterati- on in him portends nothing difaftrousco the State; but I have all along obferved, That Poets do Re- ligion as little Service by drawing their Pens for it, as the Divines do Poetry by pretending to VerfifiCation. But I forget how troublefome I have been to your Grace, I (hall therefore conclude with aflb- ring you that I am, and to the laft Moment of my Life fhall be ambitious of being, My LORD, Your Grace's moft obedient y and mofi obliged Servant ^ G, Etherege, The Temperate EPICURE. i^^ The Temperate EPICURE. Written by that Celebrated W I T of France, Monfieur La Fontai?ie, when troubled WITH A RHEUMATISM. Imitated in Bngltfl) by Mr. T. Brown. ■- - - ■ SINCE myDaysfpent fo near the Night^ Why fhould I beat my Brains to write? Tis better far with prying Look, To read the Word's amazing Book; And 1 \4Z Ttoe "temperate EPlCURei And Nature's myftic Springs to know, And the vaft.Mind that does bellow Motion and Life on all below. ^When this is donfe, What thould deriy To take our fill of harmlefs Joy? Joy we may tad a Thoufand Ways, And ftill find fomething new to pleafe. ^Whether by fome cool River's fide, We fee the filver Waters glide. The Fifties fport, and Sun beams gay On the fraooth liquid Surface play; Or fcek fome lonely Sylvan Shade, Or glimmering Bower, or ruflet Glade, Where the dark Horrours of the Wood Solemn Thoughts infpire and good. Sometimes at Table, when we dine, We may diflblve our Gates in Wine, And o'er the generous NeQar fport. And laugh at City and at Court : And fometimes too a new Amouf May ftrve to pafs an idle Houh Idng n?e temperate E P I C tl R E. 14? Long with the Fafr we muft not flay, But from the Charmers part away. Love does unleen the Flame impart, And finds a Paflage to the Heart. But is it not alas high Time To chafe the Calias from my Ryme, When the grave City is preparing To give our. DamTells * IftJiaft Airing. Oh! that my perfecuting Pain, Would with thefe Ladies crofs the Main, And never vifit me again. Cruel Difeale ! old Saturn^s Son, Quit this Abode and get thee gon. Some lazy Prelate's Limbs invade, Or Lawyer's bact'ning on h:s Trade; Or with thy dire Attendants wait On fome dull Minifter of State ; * He means the Magiftrates of Paris, who had ordered that ail co7ivicted H^jores Jhould be tranjported to the WiA- Indies» But i44 T7;^ Temperate EPICURE. JBut why thy Vifits nevei* timing, Should'ft. thou intrude to fpoil my Ryming.* (The Devil a Verfe can from me creep, IBut fliows what cortipany I keep. If this be thy fcllonious Aim, [To chill my Mufe^ and damp her Flame, iPrithee to fotfte new Hoft repair, iAnd all this ticedlefe Trouble fpare: In few Months more v/ithout thy Aid, pld Age will fpoil me for that Trade. CALENDER The Calendar Refomd: o R, A fleafam Dialogue between Pluto andthe Saints in the E- lyfian Fields aftpr LucianV manner^ Written by Sir FL Sh — -d in the Tedr 1 687. SCENE the Elyftan fields. Enter a Mejjknger to Pluto.. Me/ ^^Tn i S well your Majefty's at \. . hand to fupprefs the Riot newly begun in the garter of the Saints yonder : There is fuch calling of Names and living the Lye, fuch Roaring and Screaming, luch Swaggering and Bouncing, both among the Men-Saints and the Women-Saints, that for my part I e^tpefted every minute, when it wou'd come to downright Kicking and Cuffing among em. If you dont give immediate Orders to have a ftop put to this Hvibbub, the Lord knows where it may end, ^ This is all Sir. L Vluto. -2 1 8 The Calendar Reformed^ Sec. Phao. Come, Friend, leave that Affair tcr my mffiagement. But who are the Prin- cipal Bell-weathers of the Mutiny ? Mejf: Why firft of all, an't pleafe you, there's St. George of Cappadociuy a notable Fellow of his Inches, and Metal to the Back^ I warrant him. A World of angry Words have pafs'd between him and a huge two- handed Lubber, St. Chriftopher^ I think they call hi'm^ but uuiefs I am mightily miftaken- in my Man, I dare fwear the dapper Cappa- docian will bang half a dozen fuch bulky Rogues as to'ther, and hardly fweat for't. Then there's a Tcrgamant Fury, St. TJrfuU by Name, at the Head of eleven Thoufand Red-hair'd Bona Rohas, and every one of them Virgins forfootb, ready to fall upon the Thebean Legion. The Soldiers call 'em Vagrants, threaten to pluck up their Petti- coats, and fend them to the Houfe of Cor- reftion. The Women on the other hand, exclaim againft Lobfters and Tat terdemal li- ons, anddefie 'em to prove 'twas ever known in any Age, or Country in the World, that a Red-coat died for his Religion. Pluto. This is odd enough 3 but go on, Afo^ In another Corner of the Room^ there's notliing, but Fire and Defolation de- nounced on both fides between th^fevm Slee- pers and the three Kings oiColen. The latter call the former a pack of drowfy fleepy Sot^, who getting Drunfc with Poppy-water and* Bj-grvi-? The Calendar Reform* dy &C. aip JBrandy, fancied they flept feveral fcorcs of Years at one go-down, when 'twas all Whim- fey and Imagination. Ay, ay, Gentlemen, cry the Sleepers^ you have great reafon in- deed to pick holes in yout Neighbours Coats, when if you were ftript of your fine Names dnd Titles, wliich never honeftly belonged to you^ you'd be found to be no better, nor no worfe than three ftfov^. ^ Fortune-tel- lers. But the oddeft and moft Comical Scene is ftill behind. Plnfo^ Come, out with it then; Mef. A venerable old Gentleman , who they foy had been high Pontiff of Rome iii the days of yore, pointiiig to a rufty Spear, and a Cloak of fingular Antiquity and Fa- ftlion, / commanJL yon^ good People^ faj/f he^ to pay yom Rejpelf to thefe two moft incompa- rable Saints and Martyrs ^St, Longinus and St. Amphibalus. Vpon my Infallibility they have not their fellows in the Almanack. Why fure-^ ]y, reply'd I to him, you have a mind to banter Folks out of their Senfes. What is not this a Spear? Ni?, Sir, his Nam is Lon- ginus,^ and he was one of the earlieftfnfferers for the Cbrijiian Faith, Very well , biit won't you own this to be a Cloak > k Cloak S/r / Have a care what you fay. A Cloak ! Why, <"e was the undaunted Companion of St. Alban, hif N^e ^mphibdilmjufferd with himrredr v^erii- latHj and for this Ipteferd him to the Calen- dar. But why do I trouble your Ma- L 7 jefty 2 20 The Calendar Reform' dy &c. jefty with thefe particulars > If you doa't- fend a Battalion or two of your Guards to reduce thero out of hand, thefe Revolters, for all I know, may prove a damn d Thorn in your Royal Foot : Don't you hear, what a curfed Hurricane they make. Pluto. Thou art more afraid than hurt. Thefe Saints,thou talkeft of,may do adamn'd deal of mifcb; hattheHead of a parcel of Fools, that wou d be led by the Nofe by them 5 but by themfelves they can do nc^ more harm than a Phyfician without his Powders and Pills, or a Lawyer without his Parchments.-. However fince, as it hap- pens, 1 have a fpare Afternoon, no Bufinefs upon my Hands, and fomeof my difafFefted Subjefts may improve this Mole-hill into a Mountain, to the prejudice of my Affairs J am refolvedto trythem myfelf 5 therefore or- der them to repair to me immediately : For all their Heftoring and making this boifte- rous Noife, I know they dare not difobey me. [jExiL- Enter St. George and St. Chriftopher. St. CtOT^Q plucking St. ChxiOiophtT Bji the Ce.'] Well, Infolence, I (hall be even witli v*^j before I have done. Dark Mights will Y^^ % and then Til fubftantially thralh your cotnv^ t for you. What ! fuch a Booby as thou >^- '^ art The Calandar Reform d^ &c. 221 pretend to difpute the precedence with a perfon of my Quality? Tluto. Why, how now, Bnlly Royfter ! What's the meaning of this Outrage in the Face of Juftice ? St. Qeorge. This over-grown Beaft here, an't pleafe your Highnefs, has not only re- flected upon my Parentage, but calls my Valour in Queftion. Tis known to all the World, that I am the doughty Heroe that de- Jiverd the King of JEgj/pfs Daughter, kiird the Dragon upon the fpot, and carried off the Royal Virgin for my Reward. To jufti- fie this Truth, I need urge no other Tefti- monies than the common Signs in mod Towns of Enrope , where I am to be feen moft magnificently beftriding my Steed with the Dragon under my Feet. St. Chrijlopher. For all his bouncing and bragging, I believe your Majefty will put him ftrangely to his Trumps, if you'll but ask him where he was Born, what Profeffion he was off and what fort of an Animal it washeKiird? ^luto. Come hither,Friend,and refolveme a Queftion or two 3 Where were you Born? St. George. Some fay in Capphdocia^ others in Coventry. Pluto. Why truly Coventry lies very near Cappadocia. But what a plague, can't you tell where you were Born ? L 5 St. George ^ai T^f^^ Calendar ^eforntdy &€. St. GeSrge. -^ knA. others have affirmed, that Alexandria in Mgypt was the place of my Nativity : For ray parti cannot precifely tell where I was Born, but that I was Born fome where or other, I hope your Majefty has the Charity to believe. Fluto. Moft certainly : But what was thy Pr ofeffion ? St. George. Some make me a great Officer in the Emperor's Array, and others an Arriafi Bp. and a Perfecutor. Pluto. Thou art enough to diftriaCIc tha greateft patience. Til allow thee indeed not to know the place of thy Birth, becaufe Children doii t ufe to come into the World with their Ink-horns and Pocket-books about them ^ but the Devirs in thee if thou canft not re- member whether thou wer't a Biftiop or a Soldier: ThofetwoProfeffionsare not fo like Qne another, that there (hou'd be any great danger of miftaking them. St. George, 'Tis my misfortune, that I can not. — — PUto. Come then, under what Emperor didft thou "Hve ? St, George. Some fay under the Emperor Dioclefiatt'^ fome— ^ Pluto. How ! at your Somes again. Thou art a true Oris^inal, I fwear. Well, I have but one Queftion more to ask thee, What fort of an Animil was the Dragon which thou valueft thy felf fo much for flaying. Had 7he Calendar Reform^ d^ &c. 223 Had it Wings,* as 'tis comaionly painted in the Signs, or was it a Reptile > St, Ueorge. Not cxadly refembling it in every particular, nor yet altogether different. As for Wings I can fay nothing to the mat- ter 5 for I confefs I was under fo great an agitation ' Vluto. I underftand your meaning,youwere fo terribly fcarU in the time of Engagement, that you had not leifure to confider the (hape of your Monfter.-Come,come,honeft Friend, thefe (hams are too grofs to pafs upon the World any longer, your Dragons and flying Monfters won't go down at this time of day, therefore take my word for't Fll take care to fee thee turn'd out of the Almanack. St. George. Well then if it's my fate to be ejefted out of ray ancient Free-hold, I hope your Majefty will be fo juft, as to make that huge two-handed Fellow keep me Com- pany. I dare engage, that if you ask him the iameQueftionsyou put to me, you'll find him as deficient. 'Pluto. Nay, I won't favour one more than another, that I aflureyou. [TdhisOf" ficers. Bring up that tall well-ftiaped Gen- tleman yonder to the Bar — Well, Sir, un» der whofe Reign did you live? What Oc- cupation did you follow? Who was your Father ? Come refolve me immediately, for my Time's precious. L 4 St. Chriliophpr. 224 The Calendar Reform d^ &c. St. Chrifiopher I liv'd near an Arm of the Sea. Pluto. Very particularly anfwer*d. And in what part of the World 5 for I fuppofe, you know there are more Arms of the Sea than one? St. Chr. I can't tell, an't pleafe you. Pluto. That's honeft however. But pro- ceed. ' St. Chr. I was a Ferry-man by my Calling, if I may call that a Calling, which never got me a Farthing 5 for I was fo good Natured a Hackney, that I ufed to carry the Folks o- ver for nothing. Pluto. Why, how did you maintain your Boat and Tackle all this while > St. Chr. I kept none, but carried the good people upon my Shoulders. Pluto. A very pretty ftory, and fo you waded through this imaginary Arm of the Sea, and whipt over your Guftomers dry- fhod. Well, I (ball ask you no more Que- ftions, for this has given me enough. Turn out both thofe Fellows there, and Mr. Re- corder , pray remember to expunge (heir Names out of thQ Calendar. [Exit St. George, and St. Cbriftopher. P.'fltO. l[he Caknddt Kefotm^d^ Zee* 225 ^ter St, Urfula, 4/ the head ef the eleven ThopifdHd l^irghf, and St. Mauritius in the Front of the Thebean Legion. Pluto. Blefs me ! what a Fantaftick fight is here ! What a itiotly Chequered Affembly of Red-Coat$ atid Waftcoateers ! Sure it muft be fomeQuarrel of importance, that ha$ put fuch numbers of both Sexes intofo gr^at a Ferment. Come Miftrifs (for I know you'll have the firft and laft word whether I grant it you or no) what is the occafion of thi$ Diforder and Mutiny, that you have lately made in my Dominions ? St. Vrfula. Why that furious fierce Heroe Col. Kicknm had the impudence to tell ifl§, that all thofe ilMook'd (hittlefs Rafcals there, loft their Lives for the Chriftian Religion. A very probable Story indeed ! That a pack of Vermine bred up to plundering of Hedges, nimming of Cloaks, rubbing out of Milk- fcores,'and bilking of their Landladies, fhould on thefudden be fo ftrangely troubled witri qualms of Gonfcience a$ to lay down theit Lives .• For what — Why for their Religion forfooth? whereas I always thought that a Soldier had no other Religion but his Pay. St. Manritms. Very pert Mifs, Termagant^ and is it not altogether as probable that E- leven Thoufand Virgins (hould come out of a little pimping Corner of Britain^ when fom.e ^26 The Calendar Refomdy &c. Tome lioneft Gentlemen of that Nation but to tiier Day affured me, That the whole Kingdom hardly affords a quarter fo many at prefent, tho' 'tis ten times as populous, as when the Legend fuppofes you, and your Sifter Trollops to have lived there. St. Vrfuta. *Tis fome Comfort to me how- ever, Bfil/j'fpit fircy that thou can'ft not abufe me, without falling foul upon my Country. St. Mauritius. Now, if it would not be too great a trouble to your Ladyfhip, I would delire you to inform the Court, how you, and your fandy-pated Companions made a Ihift for to crofs over into France ? Swim- ming Girdles and Cork Shoes, as I take it, were not then in fafllion 5 and the Britijh Princes, put em all together, had not Ship- ping enough to tranfport fuch an Army of Viragoes. St. Vrfda. Come, come, you're imper- tinent, and I won*t refolve you. St. Mauritius. In the next place, Madam, you would .fingularly oblige your humble Servant, to explain to him after what manner you fubfifted your Cloven Regiment, when you had got them over. What! Had you ready Ca(h enough among you to pay off yonr Scores as you march'd along, or did you manage it a la militaire^ and lay the Country under Contribution ? St. Vrfula. Thou everlafting Coxcomb ! why we beat the Hoof as Pilgrims, and the people The Calendar Reform dy Sec. a 27 people Charitably relieved us as we pafs'd, St. Mauritius. Nay, the Frepich^ I know, are extreamly Charitable to the Fair Sex, and forward to relieve their Neceffities -^ but under Favour, fuch numbers as you had with you were enough to cat up the Country, For my part, I wonder that the Wives and Grande mothers did not lock up their Doors, as you pafs'd, for fear their Husbands and Relations might be tempted to trefpafs upon Pilgrim*$ Flefli. St. VrfuU. Spdce like a Soldier. Youaro of the Opinion, I find, that f and my vcr- tuous Attendants are like thofe lewd Pro^ ftitutes, thatufe to follow your Armies 5 but rde have you to know we had nofucb' Folks among us. • St. Mauritius. Well, Madam, your Sold ie^, as unmannerly a Fellow as he appears to be in thefe wicked Habiliments, knows fome- what of his Trade, for which reafon he's impatient to know what fort of Difciplinc you obferved in your Troops 5 for having fo jolly plump Laffes under your Care methinks 'twas highly neceflary tor you to order fufEcient Out-Guards, and ftrongly intrench your felves every Night, to hin- der the wicked from attacking you by fiy- prize. St. Vrfiila. One muft have nothing to do, that has leifure enough toanf«ver fuch infig- jiificant Queftioas. Sf. Mauritius* pa8 The Calendar Reforn^dy &e. St. Mauritms. Befides, 'tis wdrth anX Man's while to enquire, whether you were fingle or double Officer'd3 whether you march*d in one main Body or in feveral Go- Iumns5 how you behav'd your felves towards the Magiftrates of the refpeftive Cities, thrtf ; which you pafs'd 5 what fort of watch.words ^ you gave, and laftly, who wa(h*d your Smocks upon the Road 5 for. Madam, I can Jiardly believe,that fuch nice, well-bred La- dies, as thofe are , would ftoop to fo vile a Drugery, if they could help it. \ St. Vrfula. Well, Sir, go on with your fenfelefs Raillery. St. Mauritius. -— - And when you had tra- versed the whole length of France ("which by the by was none of the eafieft Journeys for fo many (illy Women to undertake J it rejoycesme to confider, with what wonderful Alacrity you fcamper'd over the Alps^ and without a farthing of Money in your Po- ckets ^ Guides to conduft you, and Safe- guards toproteftyou, made your way peace- ably over thofe Hills, where none but Anm- ^d and a few Generaliffimo's after him with all their Power and Wealth, were able to march any confiderable numbers. St. Vrfnla. Have you done } St. Mauritius. No, no, the moft whimfi- cal Scene of the Farce is ftill behind, and therefore. Madam, I moft humbly defire you to confider, what a noble fight it was when you Ithe Calendar Keform'dy &cc. o.i<^ f ou and your Tribes were at KorHe^ to fee the Pope and Cardinals vifiting your Squa- drons, running into your Tents, feeling your Pulfes, and rummaging -^ — St. Vrfufa. Well; and where was the harm^ on't ? St. Mauritius. Nay, there was no harm Jh^t, that's certain 3 the Pope's a civil wor- thy Gentlertian, and his Cardinals a par- eel of as complaifant perfons as any in the world. They do any you Harm ! Heavens forbid -y for tho' they fubfift chief- ly by the Spirit, yet no people ;in the llni- verfe know better, how to reconcile the Flefb to the Spirit than they, St. Vrfula. I fee, there's no {lopping> your licentious Tongue, otherwife you wou'd not make fo familiar with the Head of the Church. St. Mauritius. But not to dwell any longer upon this fubjeft. Having received the Pa- pal Benedidion, and been often refreflied by the Cardinals, 'twas now high time for you and the reft of your She-Myrmidons, to think of fettling in one part of the world, or ocber^ fo turning your Faces towards the North, and clambering over the fame Moun^ tains again, you directed your courfe by the Banks of the Rhine towards Lojrer Germa??f^ where not far from the noble City of Cokn, a p: ck of heath enifli Rogues, calfd Goths ^w^Vartdals^ finding you were not for their pr.rpole,-- 3^6 ihe Cdlendar Keformd^ ttc. purpofe, fell upon you with Sword in hani' and ma-de a total Deftruftion of yeu and your Virtuous Heroines. Is not this, Madatu^ the Truth, and the whole Truth, and no- thing but the Truth? St. Vrfda. Why fo they did, and 111 ftand by't. St. Mauritius. No matter what you'll ftaad or fall by ^ but I will appeal to this Ho- nourable Bench, whether ever in this world Eleven thoufand Virgins, grow»'^ to Wo- men's eftate, were feen in a Body together^ travelled fo many thoufand Leagues, and at laft made fd foolifti ain end. -— ^ No, Madam, talk no more of the riiatter, but own your felfand the teft of your Sifter- hood to be Cheats, and the Court perhaps may be fo merciful, as to foi^give you the Ducking-Stool. St. Vrfula. Cheats ! know thou huffirig, puffing. Sconce-building Ruffian, know I am a Princefs, and of Royal ExtraSion. St. Mauritius. A Princefs ! Ha ! ha ! ha f a very pretty Princefs indeed : You'd break a Man s Sides with Laughing, I vow and fwear. A Princefs > Good Lord ! Nay real- ly you look as like a Princefs, upon fecond thoughts I fay it, as ai Hedghog looks like a Rhinoceros. St. Urfula. And the raeaneft of my Corii- panions arc Gentlewomen born and bred. But why do I ^Vaft my Lung^ to no pUPf)ofe in talking the Calendar l^e form' dy &c. 031 talking to an Impertinent . Gome, my dear Sifters, f^U on, Vil^oria is the Word, and let us drubb thcfc Lobftcrs into better manners* Pluto. How f what offer at a Riot in the face of Juftice. To his Guards^ Carry off thofe Waft-coateers, and make them atone for this Mutiny with a fortnight's beating of Hemp. As for tl^e Soldiers, fend em to their refpeftive Homes, if they have any. [Exeunt. Enter the feven Sleeper s^ and three Kings of Colen. Pinto. High day! who have we got here? Such a fet of drowfy ill-look *d Sots I have not feen this long while. Come, Gentle- men, what's your buGnefs. Where the Devil are they > Pope. On my Right-hand, an t pleafe your Ma jefty. Don't you fee 'em there > Pluto. Not I, and yet I can dive as far into a Millftone as any of ray Neighbour Princes. Tis true, I fee a Spear, and an old greafy Cloak yonder, but where are your Martyrs with a murrain to you > Pope. This it is to want the Eye of Faith : I can affure your Majefty, (and I hope you don t queftion my Infallibility, which all the upper World confents to ownj that neither is one a Spear, nor t other a Cloak, but two as worthy perfonsas ever faid the Confiteor 5 and their Names are St. Longinns and SuAm- phibaUis. Pluto. Old Gentleman you may give 'em whac Names you pleafe, but I am not to be banter a out of my Senfes. I tell you then, in The Calendar Keform'd^ &c. 235 in the face of the Court, they are no more Saints, than thou art an Elephant or a Dro- medary. To his Officers^ Carry that mufty Cloak and Halbard there to my Lumber- Office 5 and To the Pope 3 I muft advife you. Friend, for -the future, not to be fo free of yonf Almanac. Abundance of worthlefs and fabulous Scoundrils have crept into it through your Connivance 5 but I am refolv'd to undeceive Mankind, and reform thefe Diforder^. The World (hall no longer be imposed upon with fuch idle Impoftures. Tis pitty it has been led by the Nofe and Cheated by them for fo many Ages. Faljhood dijgnis'd under Religion s Veil^ May for a time with fertfelcfs Sots prevail 2 But Trnth at laji mil gain imperial fway^ As Mills are fiatterd by ApoUoV Ray. U 2 Tht i^4 The Militant Couple : O R, The Husband may tban\ bimfelf. Written by the late Duke of Buckingham. IftaDUlogue betn^een Freemaa dnd Bellair. Freeman. TTTELL! if thefe are the bleC- VV fed Effefts of Marriage, the Lord keep vm and all good Chriftians, fay I, out of the pale of Matrimony. But -pri- thee. Bell-air^ is this their conftantcourfc of Life? Bellair. Why really Yes. Only with thif difference, that what thou faw'ft yefterday, was nothing but meer Sport and Paftime to the terrible Tragedies I have feen. Freeman. For my part, I can't comprehend how the Scene could poffibly be worfe. Me- thinks Sir John and my Lady threw Whore and Rogue at one another very plenti- fully. Bellair. P(haw,p(haw ! Cuftom and ufe have made thofe Words fo familiar ro them, that now they have loft all the poignancy of their fignification. The Militant Couple^ &c. 537 fignification. Alas ! 'twas a meer Galm, if compared to what Tempeftuous Bluftering Weather I have feen in the Family. Thou may'ft as well think there runs as high a Sea in Cielfea-Kcsichj as in the Bay of Bifcaji, as conclude from yefterday's Bickering what noble Exploits are done among 'em, when both fides are Heroically inclined. Freeman. I fubmit, fince there's no difpu- ting againft Matter of Fad. However, pray inform me, what can be worfe than what I beheld yefterday. Can any thing be more provoking, than for a Man to infult his Wife after that mercilefs rate^ or more odious, than for a Woman to expofe her Husband's Infirmities > BeOair. Yes, I tell you Blows are more provoking and odious. What fignifie a few foolifh angry Words ? they don't break Bfines, Hor give black Eyes. Befides, as I told you before, this fort of Language is now become fo habitual to this worthy Couple, that it makes no man#er of impreffion upon them. Mithridates^yoa know, by accuftoming hinj- felf to Poilbn, brought his Body to fach 9 pitch at laft, that he could regale himfelf with Opium^ and Feaft upon Ratsbane. Freeman. So Hiftorians fay indeed. Tis frue, with the generality of Conftitutions, Blows go a great deal farther than Words. But, does Sir John beftow fuch Favours often upon my Lady > M 3 Bsl/air. "1 ajS T^f^^ Militant Couple^ &g. Bell air. I have feen him deliver her over to the fecular Arm more than once. I re-: member, I Din'd there laft Winter, by the fame token a Quarrel happen d about dref- fing of a Difli of FiQi. Sir Jalm fwore the. Gook deferved to be Crucified for fpoiling fo noble a brace of Carp. My Lady juftified him, faid the Savvce was of her own prdcr- ing, and rally*d Sir John very pleafantly up- on the vicioufnefs of his Pallate. Freemafz. Why, this is neither better nor worfe than what 1 have feen in moft Families. BtUair. This nettled Sir 3^;6/^ wonderfully, who you muft know values himfelf upon the Orthodoxy of his Taft. After abundance of good-naturd Compliments had paft be- tween em upon this Head, Yes Madam, fays he, I muft own you are in the right ; My Palate is very vicious, and I (how'd with a witnefs, when I married fuch a compofitioa of Pride, Malice, and Luft, as your Lady- (hip. FreemA77. Ah worthy Kt. that was fpoke like a Heroe ! But what reply did ray Lady make to it ? Bell air. At leaft fays (he, I have fomething more to plead for my felf than thou haft. I knew thee, to be a worth! efs Sot, an empty, guzzling, fmoking Wretch. But a Villain of an Uncle, whom I hope the Devil has rewarded tor his pains, forced me to take thee for nsy Husband 3 otherwife I had foo- ner The Militant Couple^ &€. 039 ner courted an Infeftion, and bedded a Le- profie, than fufFered my felf to be polluted \j^iththy naufeous Embraces. Freeman, The true Spirit of an Amazon^ upon my word. BelUir. I thoughr/twas now high time to interpofe between the Knight and his Lady. So addreffing my felf to Sir John, I told him, that Women had their odd Fancies fome^ times, which a wife Man ought to connive at: Then turning to my Lady, I reprefented to her the Duty of her Sex 5 but finding that my Preaching up of Peace and Mode- ration rather aggravated matters,thon fof rend them, Irefolved toiit ftill, and leave all to the over-ruling Wifdom of Providence. Freeman^ A very Chriftian Difpofition, But proceed? Bellair. The Gloth was no fooner remov- ed, but the War broke out with greater fury than ever. Sir John extreamly provok d at fomething my Lady had faid to him, fwore and blufter'd like aHeroe in one of ourModern Tragedies. My Lady, on her fide, exercifed her Lungs with equal Vigour, and was no lefs Obftreperous. At laft the Knight, unable to contain himfelf any longer, ftruck oiF her Commode, with Courtefie her Lady (hip immediately requited, by throwing Sir Johns Periwigg upon the Fire. M 4 Freeman 040 The Militant Coiiple^ &c. Freemdn. This was doing Bufincfs tofome purpofe. Bel/air. With that Sir John piifties roy iMn dy againft a fine new Pendulum-Clock, thii ftood in the Roop, and broke the Olivc Cafe all to pieces. My Lady foon rallied and beat back Sir Johtt upon a huge Japan Looking-glafs, which was demolifhd in an Inftant^ to retaliate which Favour, the Knight finifh'dall her C/ji//;^ althree or fout ftrokes of his Cane. But now they came to a clofer Engagement, diftribu ting their Blows to one another with incredible Gallantry, while I Freeman. That is, what I long to hear 5 for methinks I fhou d have found my felf Hnpeu emhdrafse how to behave my felf in fo nice aConjundure. Bel/air. Liften then. All this while I fat un- concerned upon my Chair, keeping up to my old Maxim of being Neuter, between the two contending Crowns. At laft, after an Hours dir')Ute, tho' with fome (hort Intermiffions, Heaven was pkas*d to declare it felf in Fa- vour of my Laiy, who retired Triumph- antly out of the Parlour, and left her Lord and Matter groveling upon the Floor with a brace of black Eyes 5 and all this to (hew tLe vehemence of her AfFeftion; freewa//. Well ! 'tis a Myftery to me, that Married people, however they behave them- felves to one another in private, Ihou'd not tak« '•f' ■ - The Militant Couple^ &c. 141 take care to preferve a fair out-Gde at* leaft before Strancers. I knew a Gentleman and his Wife, who treated one another in pub- lick with all the refpeft and Civility^ thatcau be imagined, fo that you'd fwear they were the raoft affeftionate Couple that ever grac- ed the State of Matrimony, fince the Con^ catenation of Ada»t and Eve in Paradife : But when they were by themfelves the cafe was alter'd, and they (how'd themfelves in their proper Shapes. — 'But prithee Bel/air ^how long have Sir John and ray Lady been Married > Bellaier. Somewhat better than five Yearj^ Sir John was the fame numerical Bealfl: thct> you behold him now : But my Lady one of the moft agreeable fweet Tempered Geajures the Sun ever faw, and if (he's alter^ for the wor(eSir]^^Ai/mayeentha^^-.L ^ '' 71a- nagement, Alas ! I know the whole Eiftoruite of their Inteftine Broils, and what occaficxi'd them. I was invited to the Wedding. Freeman. And what did you obferve re- markable at this Ceremony? Bellair. Nothing as I know ofF^ but wfcai happens at all Weddings. There was a World of Noife and Impertinence, of Scan* daland Bawdy, attended with Dancing, Fid- dling, Swearing, Drinking, Smoaking, and the like. One thing indeed was fomewhat particular. The Bride's Brother, who h a true Country Rake, without the leaft (hare of good 242 ^^ Militant Couple^ Zee. good Senfe or Manners to atone for hisVi^ ces, was pleas'd to tell all the Company, how he had confummated (but he ufed a moife familiar Exprcffion for't) the Night before with a Farmer's Daughter upon a Hay- Cdck 5 and this he delivered in fuch Beaftly Language, that I wonder none of the grave ancient Matrons at the T»bie did not rebuke him for't. Freeman. Why Marriages, you know, are like the Fcafts of Saturn^ devoted to Merri- ment and Liberty, and as in the latter. Slaves were permitted to fit down with their Ma- tters^ fo in the Former, the Language of Slaves [iox what better name does obfcenity defer ve J is allow'd, I can t tell why, to come for a (hare. Bellair. The Parfon of the PariQi led up the Dances all the Afternoon in hisCaffock, for both the Weather and Sport were too hot for him to whisk it about in all his Ec- clefiaftical Harnefs. But what makes mc dwell upon fuchinfignificant Trifles as thefe > In four Days all the Company parted, and had Sir 'john been a Man of tolerable Dif- cretion, he would certainly have been the happieft Man in the Univerfe. But I con- fefs, his behaviour upon the Nuptial Day, gave me a vile Omen of his future Con- dua. Freeman. Why ^ what. was that ? Be/L atr. The Militant Couple^ &c. 243 Bel/air. Inftead of faving himfclf from the Bottle, (which any Man of common fenfe in his Circumftances would have done) he muft needs vifit you every Company in theHoufe^ and like a Northern Innkeeper, drink with all his Guefts 5 fo that when he came to bed to his Bride, he was as Drunk as a Chaplain of tbfj^ Army upon wetting his Commiffion 5 and ftunk of Tobacco worfe than a Foot-Soldier, that Breadfafts, Dines, and Sups upon the Weed. Freeman^ This wasfoolifli enough. How- ever, this may be faid in Sir Johns excufe, that the Day of Marriage being a Day of Hurry and Tumult, 'tis no wonder if the Perfon chiefly concerned in all this came to fuffer by it firft. Befides, I need not tell you that 'tis the wicked way of this World for the Men to combine againft the Bridegroom on thefe Occafions, in order to difable him from paying the Tribute of the Marriage- Bed. Bellair. For which very reafon, Freemaffy a Man ought to fet a double Guard upon himfelf, and avoid the Train that is laid to blow him up. Freem. That's right, but a Spirit of Good- nature and Hofpitality may foraetimes carry a Man beyond the Rules of Decorum. Well but if Sit John made this falfe ftep upon the Day of Marriage, I hope be has made amends for it fince. BcUnir. ^44 ^^^^ Militant Couple^ Zee. Bellair. Why truly, if continuing one Fault with anotlier, is making amends for*t» I know no Man in the three Kingdoms that has made more fubftantial amends than Sir John. In (hort, he minded his Dogs, his Cocks, his Horfes, c^^. more than his Lady 5 was feldom or never at Home 5 and when he 'was, fuch a Utter of Sccjdndrils ftill accom* mnied him, there was fuch a fquabbling a- Dout the Merits of Thunder and Ringwood^ fuch a profufion of groundlefs Calumny tnd Scandal, that a Woman of any Breech- ing would much rather fubmit to fit out three naked Prizes at the Bear-Garden, than be forced to do Pennance in this naufeous Ribbaldry- Freeman. And yet a Woman muft endure thereH?.rd(bips as v/ell as (he can, fince the generality ot our Country-Gentlemen inure them to't. BcUair. Never tell me what the generality of Brutes do. Don't you think a fine Wo- ni3n, ia the bloom of her Age, that haf brought a noble Fortune into a Family, if fhe has any Spirit, or refeatment of Injuries, muft not abominate the ftupid, ungrateful Sot that negkfts and flights her, that pre- fers the Company of the vileft Scoundrils to hers, that can hardly afford her a civil Word when he s Sober, and always infults her when he s Drunk ? Don t you think, I fay, that a Woman muft have fomething very The Militant Couple^ tkc. ^45 vety Angelical in her Conftitution, not to retaliate upon her Husband that ufes her thus, when an Opportunity is offered hcr> Freemaff. Tfaith I muft own 'tis unfup* portable Ufage 5 and if I were a Woman, and treated fo barbaroufly, for all the Chri- ftianity I pretend to, I am afraid, I (hould riebell. Bellair. To return now to my Difcourfe, from which thefe Reflexions have infenfi- bly led me. Sir Jokn was generally abroad at his Cock-matches, and Horfe-raccs, projeft- ing New-market Affignations, Tippling with his Brother Juftices of the Peace, managing Eleftions, punifhing the Interlopers upon G^me, while his Lady lived as melancholy a Life at home, as if (he had been confined to a Nunnery 5 with this improvement too of her Perfecution, That fhe had nothing to Converfc with, but and old, hefted, ma- licious Aunt of Sir John, who continually entertain d her with the dull infipid Hiftories of the Heroes and Heroines of her Family. Freeman. And how did (he bear it ? BelUir, With a Patience hardly to be pa- rallel d. I know fome malicious People ia the Neighbourhood talkfhrange things of a private Intrigue between her and a certain Gentleman ^ with which they have fo cf- feftually polTelTed the Knight, that this has occafiond all the ill Blood between them^ tho' I can t imagine what pretence Sir Joh/z has S^j^ The Militant Couple^ &c. has to be Jealous 5 for why fliould a Man be Jealous, that never was capable of Love 5 . or be concern d to have that Property inva- ded, which he always flighted ? Freeman. As ill an opinion as I have of the Fair Sex, yetlbelieve,their Mifcarriages, generally fpeaking, are purely owing to the Men. A State muft be troubled with Civil Diflentions at home, before any Foreigner will pretend to invade it 5 and-tbere muft be an in underftanding between the Wife and the Husband, before a Gallant can hope to fucceed in the Family. hellair. After all, if my Lady hasaftually trefpafs'd againft Sir Johus Honour, the Kt. has none to thank but himfelf 5 for let a Husband be never fo much the Superiour, and flatter himfelf never fo much with an imaginary pre-eminence, yet if he affefts a defpotic Sway, takes more upon him than the Laws allow him, and violates the Origi- nal Gontraft, 'tis as natural for Wives as for Subjefts to Rebell. The 24-7 "the Belgic Heroe ZJnmafJ^d : O R, The Deliverer fet forth in his proper Colours. In a Dialogue Bctwccn.Sir Walter Raleigh and Aaron Smth. Sir W. Ral. rr OLD thy impertinent JL X Tongue, I fay, thou ever- lading Babbler, or A. ^mith. Come, come, we Lawyers arc not fo eafily filenced as you think. Liberty of Speech is one of the eldefl: Branches of Magna Chart a. Therefore I will once more maintain it, before all the World, that the Reign of my late Bat avian -Mafy-tv was in every refpeft eqiial to that of the famous Elizabeth. Sir W. Ral. Not that it's worth my while to enter the Lifts with fuch a Pettyfogging Dog as thou art, or the Caufe in debate ad- mits any manner of parallel. But fince thou haft the Impudence to defend fo monftrous a Paradox before all this Company, inform us \Yhat noble things this Heroe i^as per- formed. 248 the Belgic Ueroe VnmasJ^d^ &c. forrn'd, to dcfcrve all that naufeous idle Flat* tery, which hardly none but Se^aries, DcOfs, RepfiblkaftSy and particularly the Raskals ef thy Kidney, when he was alive, confpir'd to give him. A. Smith. Why in the firft place, he de- livered England^ then juft upon the brink of being devoured by Arbitrary Power and Popery. He won the noble Battle of the Boyne^ reduc'd Ireland, appeas'd the Difor- ders of Scotland^ reap'd a new harveft of Glory every Campagne in Flanders^ and at laft, after an obftinate expenfive War, forc'd a haughty Tyrant, who had infulted and bullied the whole Chriftian World for al- moft forty Years, to clap up a Peace with him upon his own terms at Ry/wkk, by which he was obliged to vomit up number- lefs Provinces and Towns, which he had diflionourably ftolen from their true Pro- prietors. Sir W. RaL And as for jhis perfonal Qua- lities, what have you to fay of them? A, Smith. Whether you behold him at Home or Abroad, in the Cabinet or the Field ^ in fine, whether you confider him ^ a King, a General, a Statefman, a Huf- band, or as a Ma(ter, you 11 find his Cha- rafter uniformly bright in all thefe Relative Stations rijl^ffeaionace to his Qjeen, Mer^ €iful to his Subjeds, Libenl to his Servants;, eareful (^ his S jldiers, and providing, by his The !BeIgic BeroeZfnmaskedy &c. a 4^ his great Wifdcm, againft all future Con- tingencies, that might hereafter difturb the Tranquillity of Europe. But as for his Mu- nificence to his Servants and Favourites, I may venture to fay. That few Princes in Hiftory ever went fo far as he. Sir W. Ral. Thislaft Claufeis notXo great a Commendation to him, as you imagine. — Well, and is this all, for I would not willingly interrupt you, till you have gone the full length of your Panegyric > A. Smth. ^Tis all I think needful to fay upon the Occafion, and enough in my opi- nion to eftablifli his Reputation to all fuc- ceeding Ages. Sir W. Rdl. Let us carefully examine the feveral Particulars 5 and when we have fo done, we (hall be able to determine, on what fide the truth lies. — Imprimis^ You tell mc he delivered Englmd from Tyranny and Po-- pifti Superftition : But, was there no other way of accomplilhing this DeHverance, but by fending ^ certain Relation to Grafs, and wounding the Monarchy in fo tender a part, which had fuffer'd fo terribly in the late unnatural Rebellion of 41. ? If what one pf the ancient Fathers fays, be true. That thf whole World is not wo^tI^the faving at the expence of a fingle Lye 5 furely Qreat Bri- tain^ which makes fo fmall a part of the Univerfe, hardly deferv'd to be Delivered from an imaginary Ruine with fo ipuchPer- ^ jury. ^lyO The Belgic Heroe UnmasJ^d^ &c.' jury. Infidelity, and Ingratitude. Befides* he foleoinly protefted in hisDeclaration,that he had no Intention to make himfelf King, yet exercis'd the Regal power the very mo- ment he landed : So that, unlefs there had been a Crown in the cafe, I am afraid, he would hardly have crofs'd the Water to ReC- cue the Church of England. A. Smith. This is indeed what his Ene- mies and fome Envious people have objefted to him. Sir W. RaL Nothing of that can be laid to my charge, who was never known to your Heroe either Benefich or Injuria -^ but as I ftill preferve an invincible Afteftion for my Native Country, ray Zeal for the Welfare of that makes me aflume this Free- dom. To be plain with you then, I can hardly believe he had any extraordinary Concern for the Profperity of England, upon whom he threw the greaceft burthen of the VVar^ whofe Troops he fuffer'd to Fight without their Pay in Flanders^ at the fame time when a parcel of unworthy Foreigners had ftore of Gold and Silver in their Pockets. Neither can any Man perfuade me, he had the leaft Affeftion for the Royal Family, from vvhichhe was defcended, who fuffer'd fuch numberlefs Inveftives and Libels to be piiblifh'dagainilhisRoyal Grandfather, both his Uncles, and, in (hort,^ tfce whole Family of the Suiarts^ yet never call'd any of the Authors The Belgic Ueroe Vnmasl^ct^ &c. a 5 1 Authors or Printers to an account for*t, du- ring the whole courfe of his Reign. A. Smith. Ay, but a Heroe, you know, has other Bufinefs to mind, than the Baga- telles of the Prefs. Sir JV.RaL And yet this Heroe could con- defcend to mind thefe Bagatelles^ as you call them, with a witnefs, whenever they were levell'd againft Himfelf, or his Favou- rites. But to proceed, Gan any one in his Senfes believe, that this Deliverer ever fht the Monarchy and true Conftitution of England to heart, under whofe Reign all the Democratical Treatifes both of this and the laft Age were not only publilh'd with impunity, but the Abettors of fuch villanous Doftrines thought the only perfons, that were in the true Intereft of the Nation, and deferving to be preferr d ? Was England fo utterly deftitute of able Generals, that a Pvegicide^ profcrib'd by Ad of Parliament, muft be tent for over to Head our Forces in Ireland / A. Smith. You'll never leave off harping upon this ftring^ Sir W. Rat. And laftly, Have we not very violent reafons to fufped:, that he never had any true hearty Concern for: the Proteftant Intereft, whatever he pretended to the con- trary, who fo notorioufly facrificed it at the Treaty oiRyfmc^ who to enable hirii to carry on the late Rci^lution againft his N 2 UncW 5^:^ The Belgicheroc Vnmssh^d^ &c, Unch and Father-in-Lavv, enter'd into a Leagae^ one of the firft Articles of which, \vas to oblige the King of France to do Ju- fticeto the Ufurpations of the Romm Se^. And laftly, who if he had no Averfion, had certainly no Affeftion for the Church of England^ the Support as well as Ornament of the whole Reformation, which evident- ly appeared by his bellowing its beft Prefer- ments upon illos quos pingQre polo^ a, fet of moderate lukewarm Gentlemen, that were willing (good Men) to throw up the Con- ftitution, whenever their Enemies (hould ask them the Queftion. What ftall I fay of Others, that were advanced for no other Me- rit, but becaufe they had be^n juftly pu- nifli'd in former Reigns for their Seditious pra&ifes, of defcended from OUverian Pa- rents 5 or laftly, becaufe they held Antimo- narchical and Antihierarchical Doftrines, |30th in the Pulpit and the Prefs, which they honeftly call'd. Free Thinking. A. Smith. Nay, this is mere Calumny ^ for, can any thing but the blackeft Envy prefume to attack him upop the fcore of Re- ligion.^ Sir W.Ral.Y ox or\zQ III fpare his Religion, yet 'tis certain his Minifters had notthe leaft tinfture of ;t. To the eternal Honoqr of his Reign be it obfery'd, All the Soci^ian Treatifes, that ftole into the World ip the late accurfed times of Licentioufnefs and Diforder, The Belgic Heroe Vmmsh^d^ &c. ^53 Diforder, were fairly reprinted, and thefe, together with the modern Improvements of Deifm, fold in the Face of the Sun, withou t the leaft check oc» difcountenance from any at the Helm. Twas come to that pitch at laft, that a Man might better call the Divi- nity of our Saviour into queftion, than the Legality of the Revolution 5 and fafer in- fult the afhcs of K. James the I. Charles the Martyr, and the whole Royal Line, than attack fuch a lewd, perjur'd, infamous Scoun- drilas Oates. 'Tis a general Maxim, that the Court always fleers its courfe ad Exempluff^ Cafaris 5 and that a fhrewd guefs may be made of a Prince's Morals, by thofe of his Minifters. If this Obfervation holds good, a Man would find himfelf ftrangely tempted, to fay fome harfli things of your Monarch, \vhich good Manners and Decency oblige me to pafs over in filence. A, Smth. But ftill you fay nothing of Ire- land. Sir W. RaL Far be it from me to detraSi in the leaft from any Man's Aaions5 but this I think I may affirm without the leaft fufpicion of Malice,. That the Exploit of the Boyne^ every thing confider'd, is not altoge- ther fo miraculous, as his flattering Divines and Courtiers would reprefent it 3 for after all, Where was the wonder, that a well-dif- ciplind Regular Army (hould. defeat an un* fortunate difpirited Monarch; 1^-ith none but O afcvV 0^4 ^^^ Belgic Heroe VnmasJ^dy &c. a few raw, unpraftis'd, naked Troops about him? And then his giving the forfeited E- ftates there to his Minions, in open Contra- diftion to what he had pr«mis*d the Parlia- ment, does not Teem to argue fo great a Concern for keeping his Word. As for Scotland^ the fubverfion of Epifcopacy, and murder of the Glencovp-M^n^ (not to men- tion the perpetuating of the Gonvention during his whole Reign, and by that means depriving the Country of Elefting proper Members) will, I believe, look fo frightful in future Story, that few of your Heroe's Flatterers will mention the Adminiftrationof that Kingdom to his Credit. A, Smithy Well then, but Flanders. Sir W. RaL I thank you for reminding me of it. I am of opinion then, that bating Ndmir^ he might have put all the glorious Harveftshe yearly reap'd there into his Eye, and not have prejudic d his Royal Sight in the lead. However, as I know full welJ, what a mighty advantage one powerful Prince, that Commands by his own fingle Au- thority, has over a many-headed Confedera-* cy, where all are Commanders, I fcorn to infift upon this point. For this reafoni wili not enumerate, nor enlarge upon the content ill Saccefs, that everlaftingly attend- ed him in Flanders^ but come to the Peace of Ryfivtc^ which was his own proper Aft and Deed. And here 'tis worth our obfer- vmg. The Belgic HeroeVnmasJ^d^ &c. 255 ving, that by liis leaving the poor Emperor in the lurch, the City of &r^/W^ unluckily continued in the French Hands 5 and that cither out of want of Politics, or of a real Zeal for their Religion, he made no Stipula- tions for the German Proteftants, nor took the leaft Gare to have them reftor'd to thofe Churches, of which they had been unjuftly difpoffefs'd in the War. A. Smith. Well, but Neceffity, you know, may make a Man fometimes ad contrary to his Inclination. SirJf. JR^/. Why then did his Parafites give out. That he was the Controller of the Peace, and forc'd the French King to accept of it upon his own Terms. But not to mention a thoufand other things, that might be faid upon this Occafion, (for I begin to grow weary of the fubjeft) to flop thy Mouth for good and all^ and convince thee, how far fuperior, in all the arts of Governing, the immortal Eli%a was to thy taciturn Heroe^ Til firft give thee a (hort sketch of her Golden Reign, and afterwards honeftly and impar- tially fliow thee a profpcft of the other. A. Smith. With all my heart, proceed. Sir W. Ral. As my Miftrifs had a true Englijh Heart, and made the Profperity of her people the only Bufinefs of her Life, (he fuffer'd none of her Minifters to carve to thumfelves extravagant Fortunes out of the public Purfe. Tho' Foreigners flock'dinto her Dominions as a certain Afy- O 'z lum. Ct<6 TheBelgic Heroe Z^nmashfdy &c. lum, yet (he never encouraged them to th"^ detriment of her Native Subjeds, nor em- ployed them in Foreign Embaffies, nor ad- mitted them into her Councils ^ her Affairs being managd with equal Prudence and In- tegrity, and Encouragements properly diftri- buted, no wonder flie was fo Fortunate in all her Attempts : Thus we find (he fuppor- ted the Proteltants in France againft the Oppreflion of the Guifes 5 and fo weil aflifted the Dntch in the Infancy of their Republic, that P/jilip II. of Spaw, with all his Forces, was not able to reduce them. She was fo far from beftowing her Royal Favours upon the Seftaries, that (he {upprefs*d their grow- ing Infolence with wholefbm Laws-, and was as careful to fee them put in execution. She could difplayall her Father's Magnificence, when th^re was a proper occafion to exert it 5 at other times, (lie obferv^d a ftrift Par- fimony, equally advantageous to her own Subjefts, and eafie to herfelf. The eftablifht Church flourifh'd fo well under her aufpici- cusAdminiftration, that England never faw fo glorious a Conftellation of Reverend Bi- fhops and Learned Divines, as in her Reign. She retrieved the honour of the Exchequer, and mariag d her Payments fo wifely, that her people thought their Money as fafe in her Coffers, as in their own. "— — -Now, your Deliverer's Reign was the exaft reverfe of this happy Seene. Schifm and Faftion ad- The Belgic Ueroe Vnmashfd^ &c. 257 vanc'd, Hypocrifie and Dullnefs, under the difguife of Reformation, promoted to the higheft Honours, Deifm propagated, the true genuine Sons of the Church difcourag'd. Foreigners admitted into our private Coun- cils, Trade neglefted, our narrow Seas daily infulted, the Public empoveri{h*d, the Trea- fury exhaufted and pillaged by infatiable Cormorants, the reputation of our Arms de- cayed and funk, the Seamen ftarv'd, the Sol- diers paid with Paper ^ in Ihort, nothing but ill management and poverty at Home, and infamy Abroad. And this, I think, is fufficient to (how you, that you were plaguily miftaken, when you cOmpar'd,you know who, to the Immortal Blizabefb. Speeches ^rr-'r ^^ Speeches in the Houfe of Lords, AND UPON Conferences with the Commons. ■ '■' ■ I I By His Grace George late Duke of Buckingham. To which is added A ColleSion of the mofl Remarkable Spec- ches^ fpoken in both Honfes of Parlia^ went^ by feveral Noblemen and Commoner s^ in relation to the Government and the Li- berty of the SubjeB^ in the Reigns of King^ Gharles I. The Vfurpation of the Rump ana Oliver Cromwel. King Charles 11. and William III. &c. 1 THE DUKE O F Buckingham % Speech I N T H E Houfe of Commons? UPON The occafion of fome Queftions pro* pofed by that Honourable Houfe to his GRACE; together with his Reply there- unto, in Relation to feveral Mifmanage- ments ot State Affairs, by Advice of fomd of the Miniftry, January i^th, 1673. The Duke of Buckingham being called into the ^ Houle, after having given his Refpe8:s to the Speaker, of each Hand, and behind Him, exprtC fes Himfelf : Mr. Speaker^ T Give the Houfe my Humble Thanks for , J. the Honour you have twice done me, efpe- daily Expreffing my felf fo ill Yefterday. I A a hop$ a The J), of Buckingham's Speech hope you will confider the Condition I am in, in danger of pafling in the Cenfure of the World tor a vicious Perfon, and a betrayer of my Country ; I have ever had the Misfortune to bear the blame of other Men's Faults. I know the revealing the King's Councils, and correfponding with the King's Enemies, which are laid againft me; but I hope for your Par- don if I fpeak Truth for my felf; I told you Yefterday if the Triple League had any ad- vantage in it CI fpeak it without Vanity ) I had as great a Hand in it as any Man. Then upon the inftance of the Fre^tch Embaflador, I was fent into Fraitce upon the fad Subjeft of Condoling the Death of Madam^ where I urg'd for the fervice of the King, that the French ought not to endeavour to make themfelves confiderable at Sea, of whom we had reafon to be more jealous than of the Dutch^ be- caufe the French then would have power to Conquer us. When I return'd, I found all De- monftrations that the French had no fuch thoughts, but that the Kingof£;;g/^;7^fliould be mafter at Sea. I do not pretend to judge whether I or other Men were in the right, I leave the Judgment of that to this Honourable Houfe. At this time my Lord Shaftslury and my felf advifed not to begin a War without the advice of the Parliament, and the AfFe- ftions of the People, ( for I look upon the King at the head of his Parliament, to be the greateft Prince in the World ) this was my Lord to the Houf? of Commons. 3 Lord Shaftslfirfs Opinion and Mine, but not my Lord Arlingtons. My next advice was not to make ufe oi French Ships, halt their value in Money would have been more fer- viceable. I alleadged they would be of no ufe to Us, by reafon of their want of Expe- rience in our Seas, and there would be great danger in their learning the ufe of them, which advice my Lord Arlington oppofcd, not- wirhflanding the King was fo defirous of a- voiding a Breach with France^ that he fent me to Dunkirk^ and my Lord Arlington to Vtrecht^ where I ftill endeavoured to get Money in- flead of Ships. At my firft Audience, the King of France was willing to comply, but after fome Returns and Letters from hence it was altered, but I make no Refleftions upon Perfons, but barely ftate matters of Faft. Then it was my Lord Shaft shurf% advice and mine fo to order the War, as that the French fliould deliver us fome Towns of their Conquefts in- to our Hands, a ufcful Prefident in former times. Lord Arlington would have no Towns at all for one Year, and liere is the caufc of the Condition of our Affairs. We fet out a Fleet with intention to land Men in order to the taking of Towns. The French Army go on Con- quering and get all, and we get nothing not agree for any. Pray confider who it was that '&lwas fo often lockt up with the FretKh Embaf- ^''Ifador. My Spirit moves me to tell you, when ^5,|we were to confider what to do, we were to A a % advife 4 The D. of Buckingham's Sfeech advife with the French Embaflador: I will not trouble you with Reports, but pray look not upon me as a Peer, but an honeH E^gli/h Gen- tleman, who has fuffered much for my Love to my Country. I had a Regiment given me which was Sir Edward Scott\ I gave him i^ooA for it: There is no Papift Officer in it, nor Irijh Man. I (hall fay nothing of my extraordinary gaines, I am fure I have loft as much Eftate as fomc Men have gotten, ( and that is a big word I am Honeft, and when I appear otherwife, I defire to Die. I am not the Man that has gotten by all this ; yet af- ter all this I am a Grievance : I am thee heap- eft Grievance this Houfe ever had ,- and fo I humbly ask the Pardon of the Houfe for the trouble I have given. The Speaker then proceeded to ask the Duke the following Q^eftions by Order of the Houfe. Queftion I. Propcfcd to the Duke of Buch-I imham, % Whether any Perjons declared to your Grace any ill Advices afainfi the Liberties and privi- leges of this Hotije^ or to alter the Government y ivho the) werey and what they Advifed^ Duke A. to the Houfe of Commons. 5 Duke of Buckingham'i^ Anfwer. There is an Old Proverb, Mr. Speaker, over Boots over Shooes. This reflefts upon one that is not now living, and fo I defire Par- don for faying any thing farther, fearing it may be thought a malitious Invention of mine, the perfon being Dead. I have faid nothing yet but what I can juftifie, but this I cannot. Queftion II. Some ivords fell frem your Grace TeflerJay^ wherein jou were pleafed to fay fome had gotten 3, 4, A a 3 X)uke 6 The D. 0/ Buckingham'ir Speech Duke of Buckingham's Anfwer. I cannot fay by whofe Advice, but upon my Honour not by mine. I was told by a Man that's Dead, that my Lord Arlington fent for him, and it will be eafily proved. Queftion IV. By whofe Advice was this Army brought up to awe the Delates and Refolutions of the Houfe of Commons 1 £)/i^(?<9^Buckingham'j Anfwer. I muft make to this the fame Anfwer as I did before ,• it was a difcourfe from a Man dead of one now living. If I had delcrv'd the Honour I think I might have had the Command of that Army before him, but SchomlergWdiS told my Lord Arlington .would have the Government by an Army. Queftion V. Who made the French League ? Duke of Buckingham'^ Anfwer. My Lord Arlington^ and my Self were on. i^ ejpploy'd to Treat, and finding the danger ' : ' ■ we to the Houfe of Commons. j we were in of being Cheated, we prefled the Embafladours to Sign before they had power ; and though an odd Queftion, yet they did Sign. Quftion VL Who made the firjl Treaty with France, hj jvhkh the Tripple Alliance was hroken ? Duke of Buckingham'5 Anfwer, I made that Treaty. Qucftion VII. By whofe Advice was the Exchequer Ihut np^ and the order of payment there hroken ? Duke of Buckingham'^ Anfwer. I was not the Advifer, I am fure I loft 3000 /. by it. Queftion VIII. Who advifed the Declaration in matter of Re- ligion ? A a 4 puke 8 The D. 0/ Buckingham's Speech Duke of Buckingham's Anfvoer. I do not difown rhat 1 advifed it : Being always of Opinion that fomething was to be done in chit Nature in nnatters of Confcience, but no farther than the King might do by Law, Queflion IX. Who advifed the Attacking the Smyrna- Fleet hefore the War was P reclaimed l Duke of Buckingham's Jnfiver. It was my Lord Arlingtorh Advice, I Was utterly againft it, as careful of the Honour of the Nation, and incurred fome Anger by it. My Lord ^;/i;;g/rA very well how your Lordftiips were then difpbafcd with the Houfc of Commons, and ^ remember too as well, what reafons they gave you to bt^fc It is not fo long fince, but that I fuppofc your Lordlh^s may call to mind, that after feveral odd paflages between us, your Lordihips were fo inceafed, that a motion was made here, for an Addrefs to His Majefty,, about the Diflblution of this Parlia- ment; and though it'fail'd of being carried in the Affirmative by two or three Voices, yet this in the Debate was remarkable. That it prevaird much with the major part of your Lordiliips that were here prefent, and was on !y over power'd by the Proxies of thofe Lords, who never heard the Arguments. What change there has been finfce either in their be- haviour, or in the ftate of our Affairs, that Ihould make your Lordfhips change your Opi- nion, I have flot yet heard. And therefore if I can make it appear (as I prefume I Ihall) tha%l)y Lav. die Parliament is Diflblved, I pic. fume your Lordihips ought not to be offend- ed ^t me for Ir. I have often wondred how It fhould come to paft, that this Houfc of Commons, in which there are fo many ho- neft, and fo many worthy Gentleriicn, ftiould yet be lels refpedlful to your Lordiliips, as certainly they have been, than any Hoi^ of Commons that were ever chofen in England ^ and yet if t|p matter be a little enquired into, rlit reafon of it will pUinly appear. For my Lords, in the Houfe of Lords. ti Lord, the very nature of the Houfe of Com- mons is changed,- they do not think now that they are an Allcmbly that are to return to their own homes, and become private Men agaia^ C as by the Lawi of the Land, and the Anci* ent Conftitution of Parliaments they ought to be ) but they look upon themfelves as a Han- ding Senate, and as a number of Men picked out to be Lcgifiators for the reft of their lives. And if that be the Caufe, my Loids, they have reafon to believe themfe'rves our Equals. But, my Lords, it is a dangerous thing to try new experiments in a Government : Men do not fore- fee the ill confequences that mud happen when they go about to alter thcfe eflential parts of it, upon which the whole Frame depends, as now in our Cafe, the Cw- fioms anil Conflituiions of Parliament : For all Governments are artificial things^ imd every part of them has a dependance one upon ano- ther. And is with them as with Clocks and Watches ; if you ihould put: great Wheels in the place of' little ones, and little ones in the place of great ones, all the Movement would ftand full ; So that v^e cannot alter any one part of a G^ernment without prejudicing the motions of the Whole. If this, my Lords, were well confidered, People would be more cautious how they went out of the Old, Ho- neft, EngUp? way and method of proceeding. But it is not my bufinefs to find Faults, and therefore if your Lordiliips will give me leave, B b 2 I flial! 12. 2 The D of Buckingham's Speech I Ihall go on to {hew you, why, in my Opi- nion, we are at this time no Parliament. The Ground of this Opinion of nniine is taken from the ancient and uoqueiiionable Statutes of this Realm, and give me leave to 'tell your Lord- fliips by the way, That Statutes are not like Women^ for they are not one jot the mrfe for be- ing Old, The firft Statute that I fhall take not ice of is that in the 4^th. Year of Edward III. Chap. 1 4. thus fet down in the Printed Book : Item^ it is Accorded, That> a Parliament [hall he holden every year once^ and more often if need he. Now though thele wor3s are as plain as a Pike-ftaff^ and no Man living that is not a Schobr could poffibly miftake the meaning of them, yet the Grammarians of thofe days did make a ihift to explain, that the words if need he^ did relate as well to the w^ords every year once^ as rbnhe words more often y and fo by this Graryimat^cal Whimjey of theirs, had made this Staru|e to fignify juft nothing at all. For this Re^fon, my Lords, in the 36//;. year of the lame King's Reign, a new Aft of Parliament was made, in which thofe unfor- tunate words if need he are left out, and that Aft of Parliament, relating to Magna Charta and other Statutes, made ior the PublickGood. Item^ ' For maintaina%ce of thefe Articles and Statutes,^ and the redrefs of divers Mifchiefs and Grievances^ which doyly happen^ a Parliament O^all he holden every year 5 as at other time was ordained hy an other Statute. Here now, my Lords. in the Houfe of Lords. 2 3 Lords, there is not left the leaft Colour or Shadow for any further miftake, for it is plaid^ ly declared, That the Kings of England muft call a Parliament once within a Year ; and the reafons, why we are bound to do fo, are as plainly fet down, Namely, For the Maintain- ance c/ Magna Charta and other Statutes of the fame Importance^ and for preventing the mifchiefs and Grievances which dayly happen- The Q^eflion then remaineth, Whether thefe Statutes have been fince repealed by any other Statutes or no ? The only Statutes I e- ver heard mentioned for that, are the t ^'o Triennial Bills^ the one made in the laft Kings, and the other in this King's Reign. The Tri- ennial BUI in the laft King's Reign, was made for the confirmation of the two above menti- oned Statutes of Edward III. for Parliaments having been omitted to be called every year according to thofe Statutes, a Statute was made in the laft King's Reign to this purpofe. That if the King [heuld fail of calling a Parlia^ menty accordijig to thefe Statutes of Edw. HI. then thethirdyearthe People (hould meet of them- Jelves without any Writs at all^ and choofe their Tarliament-Men. This way of the Peoples choofing Parliament-Men of themfelves, be- ing thought difrepeftf ul to the King , a Sta- tute was made by this laft Parliament, which Repealed the Triennial Bilh, and after the Re- pealing Claufe ( which took notice only of the Triennial Bill^ made fin the laft King s B b 4 Rejgn > 24 The D. of Buckms^^^^ speech Reign, there was in this Statute a Paragraph to this J^urpofe : That hecaufs ly the Ancient Statutes of the Realm^ made in the Reign of Edw. in. Parliaments MY e to he held very often^ itjhouldle EnalUd^ That within three tears af' ter the determination of that "^prefent Parliament^ Parliaments fhould not be difcontinued ahovi three Tears at mvft^ and fhould he holdcn oftner^ if need required. There have been feveral half kind of Arguments drawn out of thefe Triennial Bills againft the Statutes of Edw. IlL which I confefs I could never remember, nor indeed thofe that urged them to me erer durft own : For they always laid their Faults upon fome body elfc, like ugly foolifh Children, whom becauie of their Deformity and want of Wit, ^he Parents are afliamed of^ and io turn them out to the Parifli. But, my Lords, let the Arguments be what they will, I have this (hort anfwer to all that caa be wrefted out of thefe Triennial Bills^ Thfit the ftrfl Triennial Bill vi>as Repealed hefore the matter 710W d if pitted of was in Qufflion^ and the lafl Tri- ennial Bill void not he inforce^ till the Queflun r ' decided^ that isy till this parliamfhi is Dij- jolved. The whole matter, my Lords, is re- duced to this Ihort Dilemma; either the King's of England are bound by the Afts mentioned of Edw. IIL or elfe the whole Government of England by Parliaments, and by the Law is sbfolutely at an End: For if the Kingf of England have Power by an Order of theirs to inva- in the Houfe of Lords. £5 ii^aUdatc an Ad made for the maintainance o^ Magna C^j^^jft, they have alfo Power by an Order of theirs to invalidate Magna Charta it fclf ; and if they have Power by an Order df theirs to invalidate Magna Charta^ they have alfo Power, when they pleafc, by an Order of theirs to invalidate the Statute it felf, De TaU Ugio mn Concedendo ; and then they may not only without the help of a Parliament raife Money when they pleafe ; but alfo take away any Man's Eft ate when they pleafe^ and de- prive every one of his Liberty or Life as they pleafe. This, my Lords, I think is a Power that no Judge' nor Lawyer will pretend the King's of England have j and yet this Power muft be allowed them, or elfe we that are met here this Day cannot zGt^s a Parliament. For we are now met by virtue of the laft Pro- rogation, and that Prorogation is an Order of the King's point-blank contrary to the two Ads of Edw. IlL for the Acts fay, Jhat a Tarliament jhall le holden once within a year ; and the Prorogation faith, A Parliament p?all not le held within a year^ but feme Months after ; and this ( I conceive ) is a plain Contradifli- on, and confequently that the Prorogation is void. Now if we cannot aft as a Parlia- ment, by virtue of the laft Prorogation, I Ife- fcech your Lordihips by virtue of what elfe can we aft? Shall we aft by virtue of tlie King's Proclamation ? Pray my Lord?, how fo? Is a Proclamation of more force than a Pro- 26 The D. of Buckingham'5 Speech Propagation ? Or if a thing that hath been ordered the firft time be not valid, doth the ordering it the fecond time make it good in Law? I have heard indeed, That two Nega- tives makes an Affirmative^ hut I never heard lefore that two nothings ever made any thing, Well, but how then are we met ? Is it by our own Adjournment ? I fuppofe no body has th« confidence to fay that: Which way th«n is it: Do we meet by Accident? That I think may be granted, but an accidental Meeting can no more make a Parliament, than an ac- cidental clapping a Crown upon a Man's Head, can make a King. There is a great deal of Ceremony required to give a matter of that moment a legal Sanihon. The Laws have repofed fo great a Truft, and fo great a Power ill the hands of a Parliament, that e- very Circumftance relating^ to the Inanner of their Elefting, Meeting and Proceeding, is look'd after with the niceft Circumfpedtion imaginable. For this reafon the King's Writs about the Summons of Parliament, are to be iflued out Verlatim according to the Form prefcribed by the Law, or elfe that Parlia- ment is Void and Null. For the fame reafon, if a Parliament fummoned by the King's Writ, do not meet the very fame day that it is Sum- moned to meet upon, that Parliament is Void asd Null: And fay the fame reafon, if Parlia- ments be not legally adjourned De die in Diem^ thofs Parliaments mull be alfo Void and Null. Oh! in the Houfe of Lords. z 7 Oh! but fome fay. There is nothing irfthe two Afts of l^dw- IIL to take away the King's Power of Prorogation, and therefore the Pro- rogation IS good. My Lords, under favour this is a very grofs miftake^ for pray examine the words of the Aft ; The Aft fays, A Par- liament fhall he holAen once a year ; now ta whom can thefe words be directed, but to them who are to call a Parliament? And who are they but the Kings of England^ It is very true, this does not takeaway the King's Power of proroguing Parliaments ; but it moft certain- ly limits it to be within a year. Well then, but it is faid again, if that Prorogation be Null and Void, then things are juft as they were before, and therefore the Parliament isftill in being. My Lords, I confefs there would be fome weight in this but for one thing, which is, 'that not one word of it is true ,• for if when the King had prorogued us, we had taken no notice of the Prorogation, but had gone on like a Parliament, and had Adjourn'd our felves De die in Diem ; then I confefs things had been juft as they were before : But fince upon the Prorogation wc went away, and took no care of our felves for our meeting a- gain, if we cannot meet and afl: by vertue^of that Prorogation, there is an impofiibility of our meeting and afting any other way. One may as properly fay, that a Man that is killed by Aflault is.ftill alive, becaufe he was killed unlawfully ,- as that the Parliament is ftill a- live. -J 8 The D. of Buckingham'^ Steech live, becaufe the Prorogatm was unlawful The next Argument that thofe are reduced to, w&o would maintain this to be yet a Parlia- meat, is, that the Parliament is Prorogued Jine Dk^ and therefore the Kingmay call them again by proclamation. In the firft part of this Propofniom I ftiall not only agree with them, but alfo do them the favour to prove that it is fo in the Eye of the Law, which I never heard they have yet done. For the Sta- tutes fay, That a Parliament jhall he bolden once within ayear ; and the Prorcgathn having put them off till a day without the year,^ add confequently excepted againft by the I-aw,1that day in the Eye of the Law is no day at all, that is, Jifie Die : ' And the Prorogation might as Weil have put^hera off till fo many Months after Doom-daj; and then I think no body would have doubted, but that had been awcry fiiffi- cient Diflblution. Befides, my Lords, i Ihall defire your Lordihips to take notice, that in the former times the ufual way of Diffolving Parliaments was to Difmifs them /?^^ Dic^ for the King, when he Diflblved them, ufed to fay no more, but that hedefired them to go h,ome till he fent for them again, which is a Difmif^ fion JJne Die. Now if there were forty ways of Diflblving Parliament s^ if I can prove this Parliament has been Diflolved by any one of them, I fuppofe there is no great need of the other thirty nine. Another thing,which they much infift upon, is, that thev have found ouc a Fre- in the Houfe of Lords. t^ a Prefident in Queen Elizaheth'^s time, whgn a Parliament was once prorogued three days be- yond a year. In which I cannot chufe but obfcrve, that it is a very great confirmation of the value and efteem all people ever had of the forementioned Afts of Edw. III. fince from that time to this, there can but one Fr^- fdent be found for the Proroguing a Parliament above a year^ and that was but for three days neither. Befides, my Lords, ttiis Pnfident is of a very odd kind of Nature 5 for it was in time of a^ very great Plague, when every bo- dy 9/ a fuddain was forced to run away ono froflii another, and fo being in haft, had not leafure to calculate well the time of the Proro^ gat ion ^ though the appointing it to be within thrte days of t)ie Year is an Argument to me, that their defigti was to keep within the bounds of the ^^ of Parliament. And if the mi- ftakc had been taken notice of in Queen £//. zahetlPs time,! make no aueftion but flic would have given S lawful Ri Nowlbefeech your LordihipX what more can be drawn from the (hewing this Frefdent^ but only that bc- caiifc orice upon a time a thing was done ille- gally^ therefore your Lordihips fliould do fo again now : Though^ my Lords, under Fa^ voiir. ^^'^-r is a very different Cafe from thcif*s; for I . ' jjident they mention was never ta- ken notice of, cad all Lawyers will tell you, that a Preftdent that pafies fub ftUntio is of ao validity at all; and will never be admitted in any 50 The D.o/ Buckingham*^ Speech any Judicial Court where its pleaded. Nay Judge Faughan (aies, in his Reporcs, That in CafeSy which depend upon Fundamental trinciples^ from which Demonftrations may he drawn^ milli^ ens of Prefidents are to no purpofe. Oh ! but fay they, you muft think Prudential ly of the Inconveniences which will follow upon it : For if this be allowed, all thofe A£ls which were made in that Seffion of Parliament will be then Void. Whether that be fo or no, i fliall not now Examine; but this I will pre- tend to fay. That no Man §ught to pafs for a Prudential Perfon who only take notice of the Inconveniencies of one fide. It is the part of a Wifeman to examine the Inconveniences of both fides, to weigh which are the greateft, and to be furcto avoid them. And, my Lords, to that kind of Examiaation I willingly fub* mit this Caufe ; for I prefume it will be eafy for your Lordfhips to Judge, which of thefc two will be of the moft daingerous Confe- qucnce to the Nation ; cither to allow, that the Statutes made in that particular Seflion in Qneen Elizabeth's time are Void, ( which may eaSiy be confirmed by a lawful Parliament ) or to lay it down for a Maxim, That the Kings of England h a particular Order of theirs^- have power t0 Ireak all the Laws of England when they pleafe. Apd, my Lords, with all the Duty we owe to His Majefty, it is no difrefpedl to him to fay, That His Majefty is bound up by the Laws of England-^ for the great in the Houfe of Lorcfsi ji great King of Heaven and Earth, God Al- mighty himfelf, is bound by his own Decrees : And what is an A£b of Parliament but a De. cree of the King made in the moft folcmn man- ner it is poffible for him to make it, that is- with the confent of the Lords and Commons. It is plain then, in my Opinion, that we are no more a Parliament, and I humbly con- ceive, your Lordihips ought to give God thanks for it, fined it has thus pleafed him by his Providence to take you out of a Conditi- on, wherein you mufl; have been entirely ufe- lefs to His Majefty, to your Selves, and the whole Nation: For, I do befecch your Lord- ihips, if nothing of this I have urged were true, what honpurable Excule could we find for our afting again with the Houfc ef Com- mons\ Except we could pretend to fuch an Exquifire art of forgetfulnefs as to avoid call- ing, to mind all that pafled between us the laft -Seflions, and unlefs we could have alfo a fa- culty of teaching the fame art to the whole Nation. What Opinion could they have of us, if it ftould happen that the very fame Men, who were fo earned the laft Scflion, for ha- ving this Houje of Commons Diffolvcd, when there was no queftion of their lawful Sitting, Ihould be now willing to joyn with them f X gain, when without queftion they arc Diffol- ved ? Nothing can be more dangerous to a King or a People, than that the Laws fhould "^be made by an AflembJy, of which there can be 52 The D, of ^'^h^^^s speech, &c. be a doubt whether they have powfir to make Laws or np : And it would be in us unexcu- fable, if we Ihould over look this danger, fince there is for i|^ fo eafie a remedy which the Law requires, and which all the Nation longs for. The callinga nemiParliament it» is, That on- ly can put His Majefty into a poffibility of receiving Supplies ; that can fecurc your Lord- fliips the Honour of Sitting in this Houfe like Peers, and of being ferviceable to your King and Country I and that can reftore to all the People of England their linBoubted Rights of chufing Men frequently to rtprefent their Grievances in ParUament : Without this, all we can do would be in vain ; |:lie Nation may languifh a while, but muft perifh at laft: We Ihould become a Burden to our felves, and a Prey to our Neighbours. My motion there- fore to your Lordftiips Ihall be, that we hum- bly Addrefs our felves. to His Majcfty, and beg of him for his own fake, as well as for the Peoples fake, to give us fp^^edily a New Parliament; that fo we fnay unanimoufly, be- fore it is too late, ufe our utmoft Endeavours for His Majefty's Service, and for the Safety, the Wellfare, and the Glory of the Engli(h Nation. Wh'djt a not her was /peaking^ the Duke of Buckingham t€oka?Qr\ and Writ this Syllogifm : And then appealed to the Bifhops, whether it: m^0 The Syllogifm. 33 were not a true Syllogifm and to the Judges whether the Propofitioas were not true in Law ? The Syllogifm. IT is a Maxime in the Law of Eng- land, that the Kings cf England are hound up by all the Statutes made Pro bono Publico ^ that every Order or Dired:ion of theirs contrary to the Scope and full intent of any fuch Sta- tute, is Void and Null in Law. But the laji Prorogation of the Parliament was an order of the King's^ contrary to an A6t of Ki?ig Edward the Third, made for the greatefi Com- mon Good, viz^. The Maintenance of all the Statutes of England, and for the Prevention of the Mifchiefs itnd Grievances which daily happen. C e There' 54 The Syllogifm. Therefore the laji Prorogation of ihe Parliament /s Void ^/^^ Null in Law. Spoken in the Houfe of Lords^ Feb. isth. 1676. Suffering is Sweet, when Honour doth Adorn it j Who flights Revenge ? not he that Fears but^ Scorns />. ne 35 The Speech of George Earl of Briftol to the Houfe of Commons, 1 66^, Mr. Speaker^ WEre I to be wrought upon by the Arts and Menaces of my Enemy s, or by the Alarms in my behalf of my Friends, con- trary to the firmnefs and afliiranccwhicha clear Heat and a good Confcience does al- ways uphold in dL Man oi Honour^ I ftiould have f appeared in this place with fuch fear and trem- bling^as could not chufe but diforder any Man's Reafon and Elocution. The nicenefe of the Subjeft upon which I am brought hither, were enough to difcompofeone; but over and above that, I am not igfiorant, what perfon- d prejudices I am under, and how induftri- oufly they have been improv'd among you* But when I look round this illuftrious Affem- bly, and fee three parts of it corapofed of \ Men, who wear as I do a Sword by their fides» and who have drawn it fo often for the King's Service; Gentlemen of Birth, Integrity, and Fortune, all apprehenfions vanifli from a Man ♦ who hath ferv'd, and fuffered for the King as *I have done ; Mr. Speaker^ I know the time of this Houfe, upon whofe prudent Deliberati- tions the Happinefs of the King and King- dom depends, is too precious to have any C € a part ^6 The Speech of G. Earl of Bti&iol part of it fpent in vindication of me: Bui fince not only the Reputation and Innocence of one of your Members depends upon what I (hall fay, but even His Majefty's Ho- nour may in fome fort be concerned in the right apprehenfion of it, I hope it will be thought no prefumption in me to beg of you, as f do, in all humility one quarter ^ of an hours Patience and Attention* — Mr. Speaker j I am here expofed as the bearer of a MelTage to His Majefty from Sir Richard Temple^ which he hath thought worthy to be com- plained of to this Houfe, and which Sir Rkh^ ard Temple affirms he never fent. Lay your hands upon your hearts, Gentlemen, and fay truly; does not your innate Candour pitiy my Condition, brought into a flraight in all ap- pearance fo inextricable? For on the oriefide, if I avow to have carried from Sir Rich' ard Temple the Mefipge, which His Majefty has been plcafed to make fo high and fo un- ufual an expreffion of his being offended at, and which Sir Richard Temple denies to have „ fcnt ; how can Men of Honour forgive me fo | ungentlemanly a proceeding towards a Per- fon who hath truftcd me as a Friend to do him (^ as he thought) a good office with His Majefty? On the other fide, Mr. Speaker^ ihould I difavow the having delivered the MelTage from Sir Richard Temple^ which His Majefty hath thought fit to affirm that he re- ceiv'd from him and by me, what Subjedt can be to the Houfe of Commons^ 1 66 3. 3 7 be ftrong enough, not to fink for ever under the weight of fuch a contradiction ro his So- vereign ? I ask you again, Gentlemen, does not the condition you fee me brought into, by xhe Arts of my Enemys, move you at the fame to pitty and indignation ^ Mr. Speaker^ when David was put to his choice of one of the three Calamities, he made Ele£>ion of the Plague. And why ? That he might fall into the hands of God, and not of Men. In like manner, Mr. Speaker, if one of the two ex* treams, with which f am threatned, be, as it appears, unavoidable, let me fail mto the hands of God's Vicegerent, the King. The World never pardon me an unworthy Aftion; his Goodnefs, I am fure would in time par- don a generous fault. But when you have heard me out, Gentlemen, T am confident you will find, that I fhali need neither the World's Pardon, nor the King's, but only yours. Iruhe firft place, Mr. Speaker^ I am bound to clear Sir Richard Temple ^ which I here do upon my Honour; that he never fent by me a Mcflage to the King, that had in ir, the leaft tinfture of an undertaking of his, which I conceive could be the only part, that could give offence to His Majefty, or xie a ground for the Complaint made againft him. — fin the next place, if the King, who, the Law fays, can do no wrongs hath thought fit to affirm, that I brought him that undertaking Mcflage from Sir Richard Temple^xt muH needs .' C c 3 ^'^ be 38 The Speech ofG. Earl o/Briftol, be true, tnd I do with all Submiflion avow, whatever His Majefty is pleafed to afEr^l of me ; but having difcharg'd that Duty towards my Soverign, I hope I may be allowed to lay the fault home upon my felf, and to .tell you that my Tongue, I know not by what Diftemper, deliyered that, which 1 proteft to God, was never in my thoughts ; I was fo far from thinking to deliver fuch a meHage from Sit Richard Tetnple^xhoLi I did not think my felf chargM with any thing by way of Menage. It is true, Mr. Speaker^ that being full of in- dignation at ill Offices done him, I made a warm Addrefs to His Majefty in Sir Rich- ard Templets behalf, wherein I exprefled his Grief that His Majefty fliould be offended with him, and having joyn d therunto fome reafon- ingsof his to juftifie his Conduft, in relation to His Majefty's Service, very agreeable to my own fentiments, I purfu'd his Expreflions with fuch of my own, as C all circumftances confidered ) the moft attentive perfon, and the moft void of Paffion againft Sir Ric- hard Temple might have eafily underftood it to be no undertaking of his, but only a warm difcourfe, and confident undertaking of my own." Sir Richard Temple being thus clear d without the leaft contradiftion to His Majefty, if to undertake for you, Gentlemen, be a Guilt, it is only I that ftand guilty before you. But you are too Noble, I am fure, and roo jufl to condemn me in your Judgments, before tQ the Hpvfe of Commons] S9 before you hjive heard th^ Nature and Cir- cumftances of my undertaking ; which with your leave I ihall declare to the full, taking the matter T as I muft needs, to be right- ly underftood ) from an higher Original. Mr- Speaker J having had the Honour hereto- fore of difcharging with Approbation a place of fo high Truft, as that of Secretary of State to His Majefty's Father of Bleflcd Memory, and tohimfclf: And ifmce my quitting that place, being admitted fo frequently to the happinefs of his Princley Coiwcrfation, you cannot imagine but that fometimes he vouch- fafed to fpeak to me of Bufmefs, efpecially of Purliar/ients where I have th^ Honour at pre- fent to be a Peer, and have heretofore been as much verfed, as fome of my Contempora- ries, in the proceedings of the Honourable Houfe of Commojis. I confefs, that before this lail: AlTembling, he did it more than once, and the Opinion I moft conftantly delivered concerning this Houfe was, that never King was fo happy in a Houfe of Commons, as he was ia you; a Houfe compofed of fo many Gen- tlemen of Birth, and rortune, eminent in their faithfulnefs to him, and fuch as could . never be fufpeQed of any Sinifter defigns, or of any other dependance but upon the Crown, and upon their Duty to thofe that chofe them, and fuch as in the lafl: Seffions had manifeft- ^ed their Affeftions to him by fuch large Aids, ,%nd Supplies ; adding that nothing could be C c 4 more 4© The Speech of G. Earl of Br iftol, rnore important to his Service, than to make, and prefejve you rtill popular with thofc that fent you. To ^vhica end I rook the liberty i^o tell him, that if che neceiTity of his 4^irs ( of which I, having no part in his Council, 'was no good Judge) could admit of it, he ought not ia prudence to let you give hini any ivloney this Sitting, but rather to oblige you wholly to apply your felves to the making of fuch Laws, as might indear both him and you to the People; by which means, at ano- ther meeting, he would be Mafter of the Hearts and Purfes of his Subjefl^s. But that in cafe his neceffities fhould urge him to prefe you before the rifmg for a new fupply, that he ought by a!l means to let it be accompa- nied, if not preceded by fome eminent A(ks for the reformation of former abufes, and for the fecuring his Subjefts from the like for the future. ~I perfifted, Mr. Speaker^ in pref fing upon all occafions this Advice to His Ma- jefty, till within fome few weeks after their meeting, when finding my felf ( I know pot by what misfortune) fallen under fome prejudices, I thought that a total forbearance from fpeaking to him oF any Bufmefs, would be the bed way. of my (cTving him, and I pro- teft unto you, Gentlemen, with all fincerity, that from that fime, untill that of His Maje- fty's cxpreiTing to me fome difpleafure againfl: Sir Richard Temple J I never once opened my J-ips to him of any publick affair whatfoever; to the Houfe of Commons* 41 ft is true ( Mr. Speaker ) that a ground being given mc to enter again with His Majefty, upon a fubjefl:, which my heart was ftill full of, I laid hold upon the occafion, and in pur- fuance of what I had faid in behalf of Sir Kich^ arJ TempU, told His Majefly, perhaps with more freedom and fervour, than did become me, that I found his Courtiers gave him wrong meafures, both of the temper of the Houle of Commons y and of the means to attain from them any new fupplics, whether by way of Prefent, Gift, or of fuch Eftabliib- ments in his Revenues, as might indeed put him out of neccffity ; fincc there could be no n^afonable hopes of obtaining from them any fuch afliftance, but by a Concomitance, if not a precedence of fuch Adcs^ as might be grate- ful and beneficial to his Subjefts, and fecure them that what fliall be given hereafter, fiiould be better managed for his Majefty's Service, than thofe vaft lums that had been formerly • granted : That if His Majefty in his Princely Wifdom fliould think fit to drive on his Bufi- nefs upon folid grounds, and not upon the falfe andJelf intcreflcd meafures of fome Cour- ters. He had a Houfe of Commcns 'compofed of Members fo full of Affeftion to his Perfon, and of 2eal for his Profpenty and Glory, that not only Sir Richard TemfU^ but the mod unprejudiced, and wifefl/Men of the Kingdom, as well as my felf durfl: undertake for them. See here. Gentlemen, the ' bold undertaking, that 41 TheSpeecbofG. fi^r/o/ Briftol, that fuch a Houfe of Commons would never let him want fuch prefent Supplies, asthefrqene- ceflity of his affairs ftiould require, nor fuch an eftabliftied Revenue, as was fit to fupport the Greatnefs and Honour of his Crown. If this was a Criminal Undertaking, you have before you, Gentlemen, Confitentem reum ; but whilft I am endeavoring to clear Sir RkhMrd Temple^ and to Vindicate or Arram my felf, according as you ftiall be pieafed ta underftand it, by telling ypu what pafs'd from me to^His Majefty, I mull not emit to give him the Honour due to him for the Kingly reply he made to me upon this occa* fion, which was. That he had a fence of the merit of the Houfe of Commons towards him^ even far heyofid what I had exprejfed^ and this was the reafon^ why relying fo entirely as he didy upon the affe^ions of that whole hodyy he was^ and 'ever fhould he offended at any propofition to carry en his Bufinefs there hy officious Undertakings ^and Caiallsj either of his Courtiers or others. An ex- preffion fit to be written with the Raies of the Sun,thatallthe World may read it; an expreffion which cannot chufe, but inflame the affedions of all this noble Aflembly that hear me^and carry you to make good thcfe happy impreffio ns of you, which are fo deeply ftampt in his Royal 3reaft:Such as I (hould think it a Crime to doubt but that all fufpitions being now vanifhed of His Majefty's owning the fupply defired by anv to the Houfe of Commons. 43 any Afts or Contrivances of others, your own Zeal for his Service, will even in the propor- tion and timelinefs of that exceed the vain propofals of all pick-thank undertakers. Mr. Speaker, I fliould have here put a period to your trouble of hearing me, did I not think, I might not incur the imputation of much wcakncfs, and fupinefs in my own higheft concernments, if valluing'J as I do, above all earthly concernments, the favour and the e- fteem of my Country, of which you are the illuftrious Reprefentatives, and knowing what induftry has been ufed to blaft rae with you, I ftiould not lay hold on this juft occafion to remove from me fome unjuft prejudices, un- der which I have labour'd. And this, Mr. Speaker I humbly beg leave to do in a very few words. I appeal, Gentlemen, to numbers of you, that hear me, whether I have not been reprefented unto you for the giver of Advice of a far different tenour from what you have heard upon this occafion ; whether I have not been painted out unto you for an Inflamer of His Majefly againfl his Parliaments ; for an Enemy of the Church of England^ and for a dangerous driver on of the Papjfikal Intereft, It is true, Mr. Speaker^ I am a Catholick of the Church of Rome^ not of the Court of Rome--, no Negotiator there of Cardinal's Caps for His Majefty's Subjefts and Domefliques, a true Roman Catholick as to the other World, but a true EngHfhman as to this : Such a one, as 44 T^^ Sfeech of G. Earl of Briftol, as had we a King inclined to that profelfion, ( as on the contrary, we have one the moft firm and conftant to the Protcflant Religion, that ever fat upon the Throne. ) I would tell him as freely, as the D. of Sh/Z/^ being a Proteftant, told his Grandfather Henry IV, That if he meant to le a King^ that he mujt be a conflant profejfor and mainta'tner of the Religi* on eflallifhed in his Dominions. Believe me, Gentlemen, Roman Catholick as I am, there is no Man amongft you all more throughly perfwaded than I am, that the true Pillars that can uphold this Monarchy mufl ever be the maintaenance of the Subjefts juft Rights and Liberties, and the careful prelervation of that ftate Ecclcfiaftical, whereof His Majeftyisthe Supreme Governour ; and I do clearly profefs, that fliould the Pope himfelf invade that Ec- clefiaftical right of his, I fhould as readily draw my Sword a^ainfl him as againft the late U- lurper. Mr. Speaker., one prejudice more I am under^ which ought to have great weight in- deed with this Honourable Houfe, if there be a real ground for it: And that is, that the E. o( Brijiolis one of thofe, who by the vaft Grants that he hath got of the King, hath in part contributed to the groans of the People, to find their King ftill in fuch neceflity, after fuch unexampled charges laid upon the Sub- je£t for his fupplies. It is true, Mr. Speaker^ that though I have neither Offices to keep, aor OlTices to fell. His Majefly's Gifts to me have to the Houfe of Commons. 45 hav« been great, in proportion to my Merit, which is none. For in ferving and fuffcrbg for him with faithfulncfs, I did tut my Duty, which carries a reward with it felf, enough to raife a comfort to me, from the very ruine of my Fortune. It is alio true, I have had the fttisfaSion from His Majefly, that he never reius'd me any thing I ask'd him for my felf : But I hope I fliall make it appear alfo, that I ^ have not only been a very modeft asker, but alfo a mod careful one, to ask nothing confi* derable but what carried advantage with it, as well to His Majefty's Intereft, as my own. 1 know well, Mr. Speaker^ that with fo kind and fo generous a Nature as our King's is, an ill proportion of bounty to Mcrrit, and confe- quently the largenefs and kindnefs of his Roy- ai heart that way, may have contributed much to the prefent ftreights he is in, Happy is the Nation, that hath nothing to fear for the Publick, but from the Virtues of their Prince. It is your proper work, Gentlemen, to re- duce the effefts of them, to a right tempe- ratement by your prudent infpefVion, and may you begin it with all my Concernments , which 1 mod readily lay at your feet, hum- bly begging of you, to appoint a time, when I may difplay them all faithfully before you : In hopes that no Man,who hath been a partaker of His Majefty's bounty, will prove himfelf fo unworthy of it, as not to follow the ex- ample, Mr. Speaker^ if having thus pcwred out 4^ The Speech of G. Earl of Briftol. out my Soul before you, I have been fo hap- py, as to have begot in this Honourable Houfe a right perfwafion of the fincerity of my heart, I expeil and implore two gracious effcfts of it. The firft, that you will be plea- fed to grant racyour pardon, if the fame Zeal for His Majefty's Service, and the good of my Country, which made me prefume ( be- ing no Counfellor ) to prcfs upon His Maje- fly my Opinion in matters of fuch importance, has tranfported me alfo at this time in fomc fort as to become your Advifer. You have heard, Gentlemen, of the Dumb Man whofe Tongue was fet free, by an eminent danger of his Father's Life ; wonder not then, Gentle- men, that fuch a lover of his King and Coun- try as I am, having feen them within thefe three years in a profpeft of fuch glory and happinefs both at home and abroad, and find- ing to what a fad condition things are now reduced ( by what means its more proper for you to enquire, and may Heaven blcfs your iufpeftion) wonder not, I fay, Gentlemen, that a Man fo affefted as I am, fhould by fome eruptions of heart, let you fee, thzx. perkulum , patriae ought to have a more powerful effeft upon a Man of Publick Soul, than perkulum pairisj and is capable, if I were a mute, to make me become a Counfellor: The next is, Mr. Speaker^ that if ( as I faid before ) I have been lb happy in what I have exprefs'd, as to have raisM in you fome more favourable thought' in the Houfe of Commons. 47 thoughts concerning me, you would vouch- fafc mc feme dcmonftration of it, whereby I may no more be made by my Enemies fuch a Bugbear as I am : As if a gratious look of His Ms^efty upon me, were enough to ruin all his affairs with you. I (hall then continue th» way I am in with comfort ; but if I be fo unfortunate, as that there ftill remains in this Incomparable Reprefentative of my Country any Umbrage of danger to it by my accefs to His Majefty, as dear as the Converfation of ithe amiableft Prince that ever breath'd is to me, I (hall banifli my felf for ever from his light, into the obfcureft part of his Domini- ons, rather than continue upon me the jea- ioufy of thofe, on whom his profperity de- pends ; or if this be not enough, I (ball once more try my Fortune abroad, where I truft this Sword, this Head, and this Heart, fhall make me live as heretofore, in fpight of my Enemies with Luftre to my Self, and fome Honour to my Nation. The 48 The Earl of Briftor^ Letter to King Charles II. upon his being Banijhed his Royal Prejence. May it fleafe your Majejly, During the feven Months fufferancc under the misfortune of Your Majefty's hea- vy Difplcafure, banifli'd from your prefence^ deprived of the fruits of your former bounty^ branded by Proclamation as guihy of high Crimes againft your Perfon and Government^ and laflly profecuted to fuch extreams for my Religion, I have chofen to live mod of the time a clofcr Prifoner, then, I dare fay, your Clemency would have me, and to undergo all with Submiflion and Silence, rather than feek advantages from my Enemies, by expo- fing to cenfure any thing ( how irregular fo- ever ) wherein Your Majefty'« Name hati: been ufed; Asd fliould have continued to do fo ftill, expcfting ( with an entire refignation to your Will and Pleafure ) Your Majefty's own time for Grace and Favour, did not the approaching Seffion of Parliament impofe up- on me this Addrefs by way of Duty to your Service, fincc it appears to me impoffible, that the Privilege of Peers in Parliament can fuffer one of their own Members to lye under an imputation of Crimes, without being either Par^- The E ofWiMs L toK. Ch. IT. 4p pardonM, punHh'd, or vindicated. This it is which makes me prefume at this time, to caft my felt at your Majefty's Feet, and moft hum- bly to beg your Pardon for my rafll and indifcrcet Behaviour, in being more earneft Ihan became me, when I had laft the Honour to wait upon you in your Clofet ; fuch as I muft confefs might very juftly move your In- dignation againft me; fince no Provocation, nor excefs of Zeal whatever can juftify fuch a Freedom from a Subjeft to a Sovereign. And if my Sufferings and Submiffions have not jet been fufficicnt to expiate that Indifcretion, t ani ready to undergo what ever your Majcfty Ihall think fit further to inflift upon me by way of Difpleafure, fo that it draw along with it no imputation of Crjme : for as to that, i muft ever crave leave to defend my Innocence againft all the World, fince this Truth I muft juftify to my laft Breath, That neither then, nor at any time hath my Heart ever been fu- fceptible of a Thought, either to diflerve or difpleafc you. But as God himfelf, whole Vice- gerent you are, doth in the judging of Sin ad- mit of Extenuation from high Temptations of Frailty j fo*"! hope your Majefty will be pleased to confider how far the Nature of io faithful and paflionate a Servant of Yours, a$ I am, could bear that Provocation of finding his Matter, not only fo incenfed againft him by his Enemies, but continued ftill in the dan- ger of being bctray'3 by their Unfaithfulnfcfs, ^D^ in 5 o The Earl of Briftal'^ Utter in the higheft Intcrcfts of his Eftate and Pcr- fon. Rcflcfting upon this, I bcfcech you Sir, whathonefl: Man, loving you ts I do, misfit not have been tranfportcd even to Frenzy and Madnefs? As for my C|j^rging your Lord Chancellor in the Houlc of Peers, I mufl: con- fefs to have done it without Leave, was a Fai- lure, fincc no Man ought to thinjk that he is t better judge of his Matter's higheft Concern- ment than nirafclf ; I do therefore in all Hu- mility beg your Pardfon alfo for any the leaft appearance of fuctf Prefumption. But that donfe, 1 muft humbly befeech you to weigh in your Princely Thoughts, from what other Mo- tive it could poffibly proceed, but from my Zeal to your Service. From particular Spleens your Majefty cannot think it, fmcc jou have ifo often vouchfafed me the Cbaradter of a ve- ry unvindiftivc Man ; andltnow fo well with what Patience I have born all his malicious Pra- £tices againft mc, without falling upon him pubiickly, till I thought it could be no longer forborn, without eminent Hazard to your Ser- vice and Safety ; from Intereft much lefs, fmce it is evident, that by forbearing to do it, I might have enjoyM Plenty and Quiet, with Marks of your Favour ; and that by doing it, 1 hazarded and ruined my Fortune, then up- on the point of Settlement, and reduced my felf either to be a Prifoner, or a Vagabond. Nor do I think that any body will fay, "that finding my felf loft witfe you, I made my Court to King Charles li 51 Court by it to the next in Power, r Laftly, be pIcasM to vouchfafc me one Moment of of Reflcftion back upon the .whole Tcnour of my Life, in Your Royal Father's Service and Yours ; and if in the intire Progrefs of k Your Princely Heart can accufe me of the lead Failure in true Zeal for Your Intereft, and Glory of Yoiir Crown, or in Affeftion for the Honour and Happinefs of Your Perlon, I am fo far from defiriiig Your Pardon, that I defire not to Lire. But if on the contrary, Your Excellent Judgment, as well as Nature (hall bear me the Teftimony within Your Self of a Conftant Fervour, aad* Faithfulnefs in them both, I hope that with fo Gracious 1 Mafter, I (hall not be ruined for one Tranf- portment of Love beyond the Bound of Dlf- cretioH' You know, as well as Solomon^ that £wir covers a multitude of Faults: it is that which I cannot but promife my felf from Your incomparable Goodnefs, whom I befcech C^d to Blcfs, and dircft^to what may *- nno(^ ! r the Honour and Prbfperity of Your Affairs, tho it were to be with the certain Deftruftion of Your Maje^y's Humble Servant, BRISTOL Dd 52 My Lord Lucas'^ Speech ^m t A Speech in the Houfc of Peers, by the late Lorc/Luc2is^ Feb. it, 1^70. Vp^ on occafion for a Bill for his Ma- jcfty'j prefent Supply fent up from the Commons. My LirJsj WH EN by thc^^rovidence of God hU mighty this Nation recalPd his Maje^ fly to the Exercife of his Regal Power it, was the Hope of all good Men that we fliould not only be reftor'd to his Majejlfs Royal Pre- fence and to our Laws, but alfo that we fliould be free from thofe heavy Burthens un- der which we had lain fo long opprefs'd. We did believe that from thencc-forth every Man Ihould fit under his own Vine, enjoy the fruits of Peace and Plenty, and Allrea her felf long fmce for the Sins of Men fled up to Heaven, fliould have been invited by his A'UjeJlfs moft Gracious and Happy Reign, to return hither and dwell with us, and converfe here with Mortals again. But alas ! we ^e fallen very fliort of our Expeftations ; and our Burthens are fo far from being made lighter to us, that ihey are heavier than ever they were: and as our Burthens are not eas'd, fo our Strength aifo is diminiflied/ and we are lefs able to fupport tlicm. I or in tha Time of the in the Houfe (f Peers. ^ 55 the late Vjurping Powers^ tho great Taxes were exafted from us, yet we had the mcani to pay them: we could let our Lands, and fell our Corn and Cattle, and there was plenty of Moiicy through the Nation ; now there is nothing of this. Brick is required of uSy and no Straw allow* J to make it. That our Lands arc thrown into our hands, and Corn and Cattle of little value is notorjipus to all the World, and »tis evident there is a fcarcity of Money : For all the Parliament's Money calPd Breeches Ca fit Stamp for the Coyn of the Rump) is wholly vanilh'd, the Kia'gs Proclamation and the Dutch have fwept it all away : and of his Majeftfs New Money there appears but very little; fo that in effca: we have none left for common ufe, but a Little old lean Coyn of the late three former Princes : And what Sup* fly is preparing for it. My Lords^ I hear of none, unlcfs it be of Copper Farthings. This is the Mettal that is to vindicate^ according to the Infcription of it, the Dominion of the Four Seas ; and yei if amidft the prefent Scar- i:ity, the vaft Sums given were all imploy'd for the Advantage of the King and Kingdom, k woud not much trouble us: But we cannot without infinite regret of Heart, fee fo great part of it hoarded up in the Purfes of Pri- vate Men, and behold them flourifh with our Eftates. How many at the time of his Majejly\ moft Happy Rejiauratiort were worth very little or nothing, and now the fame Men Dd 3 pur* 54 My LorcflMQ^^^s Spenh purchaTC Lend, keep rheir Coaches and fix HjOt^es-, their Pages and Laqueys, and Jivc in all AiBuence and Plenty j while in the n>eaa time thofe that have fcrvM the King, are in penury and want, and ijave fcarce, Ibfficient to buy thera Bread : And is this {My LorJf} the Reward of our Services ? Have we for this born the Heat of the Day, been' Impri- fon'd, Sequeftrcd, Ventured our Lives, our Families, our Eflat^s,' and our Fortunes; and muft we after all this facrifice lb much of our poor^Aemainder, to the will of a few particular^ Men, and to the Mainrainance of their Vanities? But fuppofc all the Money given were imploy'd for the Ule of his Ala- jifty^ wA his jyjajejiy were not cheated, as without doubt he is ; is there no Bound or Moderation in giving? ^ Will you fay yet, If we fhall not plemiiully fdpply his Majejty^ he ^ill not be able to defend us, or to maintain tht Triple League^ and we ihall thereby run the hazard o\ being conquered ?v'ris ttuc, /Hy Lordsy that this perhaps nnay be a Reafon for giving fcMHething, but it is fo far from be- |ng an Argument for giving fo much, that it may be clearly made out to your Lordfhips that it is the dircft and ready way to be con- quered by a Forreigncr ; and it may be a Po- licy of the French King by thofe often Alarms of Armies and Fleets, to induce us to confume our Treafurcs in vain Preparations againft him, and after he hath by this means made us to the Houfe ofVccxs. SS us poor and weak enough, the true Alarm may core; he may then thunder upon xjfiy and dcftroy us. Ic is not (My Lonls) the gi- ving of a great deal, but the well-managing of the' Mjney given that muft keep us fafc from our Enemies, Your LorJIhips may be pleas'd to call to Mind the Story of Samfon^ who while he prcferv'd his Hair, wherein his Strength lay, was ftill^Viftor over his Ene- mies : But when by the inticement of hisD^i" lahlx\s Hair was once cut off, the rhilijlhs came upon him, and overcame him. And fo. My Lords^ if we ihall preferve and husband well our Trcafures, wherein our Strength and the Sinews of War lye, and apply it to the right ufe, we (hall be ftill redoubted by, and fupe^ riour to all our Enemies ; but if we ftiall vain- ly and prodigally mifpend it, we (hall be- come an cafy prey to them. BeGdcs, My LorJsj what is this but Ne mortare mori^ and for fear of being conquered, to put our lelves into a condition almod as bad as if we werp fo? My Lordsy pardoa me, if I fay in fome refpefts t great deal worfe ; for when we are un- der the power of the Viftor, we know wc cap fall no lower, and the certainty of our Mi- fery is fome kind of diminution of it ; but in this wild way we have no certainty at all : for if you give thus much to day, you may give as much to morrow, and fo you may never leave giving, until you have gif enali that we have 'away. Now this anxiety of Dd4 Mind^ 5 tf My Lord Lucas' J Spech Mind, which arifeth from this our (doubtful cftate, is a high addition to our Affliftions* All that we beg {^My Lords) is that wc may be able to iriake (ome cftimate of our Sclvrs. Would his Majejty be pleas'd to have a Quar- ter' of our Eftatcs, for my part he (hall liav« It : Would his Majefty have half,* for my part upon a good occafi ^n, he Ihall have it : But I befeech your Lerdjhips then that we may h vc fomc Affurance of the quiet enjoyment of the remainder, and know what we have to trufl to. My Lords^ the Commons have here fent OS up a Bill for giving his Majefly the twen- tieth part of our Eftates for a Year, at the full extended value, and I hear there are other Bills for Money a!fo preparing, which lo ga- ther, according to the beft Compute, will a» mount to little lefs than 3 Millions of Money : a prodigious Sum,and fuch that if your Lord/hips Ihall not afford relief, wc muft of neccflity fink under the weight of fo great a Prcffure, My Lords^ thf bcripture tells us that G(>d Al- mighty fets bounds to the Ocean^ and fays un- to ic, Hither fhall thy proud Waves come^ and no farther '^ and fo I hope your Lordfhipsm imi- tation of the Divinity, will fet fome Bounds, fome Limits to this our over-liberal humour of the Commons \^nA fay to them. Hither Jha/l your Profufenefs tomCy and no farther. My Lords ^ your Lordfhips can either deny or moderate % Bill jpr Money, coming frrm the Commons; pr if you cannot, then all your great Eilates are to the Houfe of Peers. 57 are at their Difpofal, and your Lordfhifs have nothing that you can properly call your own, and then let us pafs this Bill without further Examination : But if you can deny or mode- rate (a{i without qucfl ion you can) your Lord^ Jhips t\t\tr had, nor poflTibly ever will have fuch a fair Occafion to fhew your fclvcs My LorJs^ upon the whole matter, I mod hum- l>ly propolc to your Vordfhifs^ that your Lord- (htps will be picas'd at leaft to reduce the \%d. per Pound to 8 d. and truly. My Lords^ I have rcafon to hope that your li Lord/hips duly refleft upon it, you will find it fit to do accordingly : for in the firft place it will be fo far from be- ing a diflervice to his Majejiy^ that ywt Lord' fh7p$ will do his Majefly in it the hig|(bft Ser- vice in the World ; for tho' you fliall thereby take from his Majejij a part of the Sum, you will give him a great deal more in the Love and Hearts of his Subjcft, and there his Ma- jciiy muft Reign if he will be Great and Glorious; and next your Lordjhipi will ac- quire to your Selves eternal Honour, You (hall hereby indear your Selves to the whole Nation, who for the future will lock upon you as the Antients did upon their Tutelary Gods ; nor Ihall the Houfe of Commons^ but the Houfe of Peers be hereafter precious in their Sight, when your Lorjhips (hall thereby exprefs your tender C are of the People, who are at this time in fo fad a Condition, and lye under fo many Difadvaiitagcs and Preflufes.-T-^^- — My 58 My Lorc/Uxc2^'s Speech, Sec. My LorJsy give me leave to mind your Lord- fitfSy that Noble Afts arc the fteps whereby the Great Men of the World afcend the Throne of Glory ; and can there be a Nobler Aft, than to releale a diftreffed Kingdom, which by lan- guifting under fo many harftiips, is going a- bout to be fo much oppreft ? I do detam your LorJjhrps too long, and therefore (hall fay no more j but muft beg your Pardon, and fub- mit to all your better Judgments. This tvds ordered to be hurnt iy the Hands ,6f the Common Hang^man, The S9 The Earhf^hzd^xxxys Speech in tlie Houfe of Lords, upon the Debate of appointing a Day for the hearing Dr. ^hiiihy s Caufe 0(5t. 20, 1^75. My LorJsy OUR A/i \s at Staki^ and therefoiifc you mufl give me leave to fpcak freely be- fore we part with it. My Lord BifhopUf Sa- I'tshury >is of Opinion, That we (boulc^ rather appoint a day to confider what to do upon thd Petition, than to appoint a day of Hearing : and My Lord Keeper SciK I may name them^^a Corti- mittcc of the whole Houfe, tells us in very E- loqucnt and Studied Language, TMt he ^ill propofe to us a way far left liable to Exception, and much Icfs offenfive and injuritius to our own Priviledges, then that of appointfag a day of Hearing. And I befcecb you. My Lords ^ Did you not after all the ji fine Words expeft fomc Admirable Propofals, but it ended in this: That your Lordfhips fliould appoint a day, nay a very long day, to/ confider what you would do in it: And Mj Lord hiath un* dertaken to convince you, That this is your oa- ly Courfe, .by feveral undenijlble Reasons ; the firft of which is, That it'lagainji 7cur Judi^ €atur€ to bear this Canfe^ finxe it do^s not come properly before VSy nor eufht to Ic relieved hy Vs. 6o The E. (?/Shaftsbur/5 Speech ZJs> To this, Ms Lords^ give me leave to an* fwer, That I did not expedl: from a Man pro* feffing the Law, that after an Anfwer by or- der of the Court was put in, and a Day had beea appointed for Hearing, which by fomc Accident was fet afidc, and the Plaintiff mo?'d for a fecond day to be affigncd, that ever with- out hearing Council on both fides, the Court did enter into the Merits of the Caufe. And if your Lordjh'tps fhould do it here in a Caufe attended with fuch Circumftances as this is, it would not only be an apparent Injuftice, but a plain Subterfuge to a void a Point you durft not maintain. But, My Loris\, the fccoifid Reafon fpeaks the Matter more clearly, for that is, Becaufe it IS a douUfui Caje^ Whether the Commons have not Fr'tvikdge ; and therefore My LW would have you to appoint a further and a very long day to confider of it ,• which in plain Englijh vs^ That your LorJfhips ihould confefs upon your Books, That you conceive it on Second thoughts a doubtful Cafe : for fo your appoint- ing a day to confider will be interpreted ; and ! hat for no other Reafon, but becaufe My Lord Keeper thinks it fo; which I hope will not be a Reafon to prevail with your LordfbipSy fince wc cannot yet by Experience tell that his Lord- fbip is capable of thinking your Lordjhips in the right in any Matter againft the Judgment of the Houfe of Commons ; fo hard a thing it is even for the ablefl of Men to change ill habits. But in the Houfe of Lords. 6i But My Lord'% third Rcafon is the mcft Ad- mirable ot all, which he lliles Unanfwerable ; viz. That your Lordihipi are all 'convinced in your Cofifciencej that this (^if profecuted) will caufe a Breach. I befeech your Lordjhips con- iider, Whether this Argument thus apply'd, would not overthrow the Law of Nature, and all the Laws of Right and Property in the World : For it's an Argument, and a very good one, that you (hould not ftand or infift on Claims, where you have not a clear Right; or where the Queftion is not of Confequcncc or Moment, in a matter that ma^produce a dangerous or pernicious Breach between Rela- tions, Perfons, or Bodies Politick, joyn'd ia Intereft, and high Concerns together. So on the other hand, if the Qbftinacy of the Party in the wrong, (hall be made an unanfwerable Argument for the other Party to recede and give us their juft Right, how long- ftiall the People keep their Liberties, or the Princes', and Governours of the World their Prero- gatives ? How long fliall the Husband main- tain his Dominion, or any Man his Property from his Friend or Neighbour's Obftinacy > But, My Lordsy when I hc^rd My Lord Keepor open fo Eloquently the fatal Confequence of a Breach, I cannot forbear to fall into feme Admiration how it comes to pafs, that (if tho Confequ^ces be fo fatal) the King^sMi^i^fier'S in the Houfe of Commonf^ of which there are feveral that are of the Calmt^ and have daily rcfort ^2 The E. of Shaftsbury V%gr^ refort t6 his Majefty^ and have the Oireaion and Truft of his Affalrs>.r fay, that none of thefe fhould prefs tbcfe Confeq fences, there, or give the lead ftop to the Career of that Houfe in this Bufinefs ; but that all the Votes concerning this Affair, nay even that very Vote, viz. Thaf No Apped^ from the Court of Equity^ is cogk^Jallehy the Houfe of Lor is ^ fhould ^2SsJ fcr Judges may be made, not Men of Ability or Integrity, but Men of Relation and Dependance, and who will do what they are commanded,- and then all Mens Caufes will cOme to be judged, and Eftates difpos'd on, as Great Men at Court pleafc. My JLords^ the Conftltution of our Govern- ment hath provided better for Us; and I can lacver believe fo wife a Body as the Houfe of Commons to the Houfe cf Lords. 6^ Commons will prove that Foolijh Woman which plucks down kcr Houfe with her Hands. My Lordsy I muft prefume in the next place to fay fomething to what was offer'd by the Bijhop dSal'ishury^ a Man of great Learning and Abilities, and always Vers'd in a ftronger tnd clofer way of Reafoning, than the Bufinefs pf that Noble Lord I tnfwcr'd before did ac- cuftom him to. ^^W have they pajfed the Vote ? And being asked what Vote, he an- fwered. The Vote for no Private Bufinefs for fix Weeks. My Lords^ if this be your Bufinefs, fee where you are, if you are to poftpone our Judicature for fear of offending the Houfe of Commons for fix Weeks, that they in the interim may pafs the Mony, and other acceptable Bills that his Majefly thinks of importance. Are fo many Wife Men in the Houfe of Commons to be laid afleep, and to pafs all thefe acceptable things ; and when they have done, to let us to be let loofe upon them ? Will they not remember this next time when there is a want of Mony ? Or may not they rather be alTured by thofe Mi- nifters that are amongft them, and go on fo unanimoufly with them, that the King is on their Jide in this Controverfy ^ And when the pubhck Bufinefles are over, our time (hall be too fhort to make a Breach, or vindicate our felves in the matter. And then I beg your Lordjhips^ where are you, if after you have aflerted but the laft Scflions your Right of Ju- dicature fo highly^ even in this Point, and af- ter the Houfe of Commons had gone fo high againft you on the other hand, as to poft up their in the Houfe of Lords. tf 7 their Declaration and Remonftrances on Weft- mhJier^HaH Doors, the very next Seflion after you poftpone the very fame Caufes : and not only thofe but all Judicatures whatfoever; I befeech your Lordfbips will not this prove a full Prefident and Confeffion againft our felves. 'I is a Maxim, and a Rational one amongft the Lawyers, That one PrefiJenty where the Cafe has been contefted^ h worth a thoufand where there has leen not Conteft, My Lords^ in fayin this, I humbly fuppoie I have given a fufficient An- fwer to My Lord Bifl^op's Second Queftion : Whether the appointing a Day to confider what you will do with this Petition, be of that Confequence to your Right, For it is a plain Confeflion, that it is a doubtful Cafe ; and that infinitely ftronger than if it were a new thing to you never before heard of: for it is the very fame Cafe and every thing defir'd in that Cafe, that you foemerly ordered, and foftrongly averted, fo that upon time and all the Deliberation imaginable, you declare your felves to become doubtful, and put your felves out of your own hands into that Power that you have no reafon to believe on your fide in this Queflion. My Lords ^ I have all the Duty imaginable to his Majefty^ and fliall with all Submiffion give way to any thing he (hall think of Importance to his Affairs: But in this Point it is to alter the Con dilution of the Govern- ment, if you are ask'd to lay this afide ; and there is no Reafon of State can be an Argu- Ee z ment 6S The E. o/Shafrsbury ^ Speech ment to your felves out of that Fntereft you have in the Conftitution of the Government,- 'tis not only your Concern that you maintain your felves in it, but 'tis the C oncern of the pooreft Man in Englcmd that you keep your Station : 'Tis your LordJhips\ Concern, and that fo highly, that 1 will be bound to fay, the King can give none of you a Requital or a Recompenfe for it. What are empty Titles, what is this prefent Power or Riches, and a great Eftate, wherein I have no firm nor fixed Property ? 'Tis your Lord/hip* s and every Mr elfe in what he hath : The pooreft Lord, xi the Birth-right of the Peerage be maintained, has a fair profpedt before him for himfelf or his Pofterity : but the ^reateft Title with the greateft prefent power ami Riches ^ is hut ^ mean Creature, and mazntiun thofe in Ahfolute Mo- 7^archi€s^ no other wife than hy fervtle and low \ Flattery^ and upon uncertain Terms, My Lordsy 'cis not only your Imereft, but the Intereft of the Nation, that you maintain your Rights: for let the Houfe of Cmr/ions and Gentry of EtigUml think what they pleafe. The e is no Trince that ever Why he is in Scotland^ raifmg Forces upon the Terra Firma^ that can enter dry foot upon us, without hazard of Wind or Seas, the very place he Ihould be in to raife a Party here, to be ready when from hence he fhaU have Notice : So that this being the Cafe, where is the Trufl? We all think the Bufinefs is fo Ripe that they have the Garrifons, the Arms, Ammunition, the Seas, and Souldiery all in their Hands ; they want but one good Sum of Money, to fet up and Crown the Work, and then they have no further need of the People j and I believe, whether they are pleas'd or no, will be no great trouble to them. My Lords^ I hear of a Bargain in the Houfe of Commons, an Addrels made to the King ; but this I know, and upon the Bill of Exclufion, &c. 8 1 and muft borldly fay it, and plainly, That the Nation is betray'd if upon any terms we part with our Money, till ue are fure the Ktng.k ours,- have what Laws you will, arid what Conditions you will, they will be of no ufe but Waft-paper before Eajiery if the Court has Money to fet up for Popery and Arhi- trary Dehgns in the mean while. On the ether hand, give me leave to tell your Lordp^ipSy the KtPig hath no reafon to diftruft his People; no Man can go home and fay, That if the King comply with his People, they will do nothing tor him, but tear all up from him: We want a Government, and we want a Prince that we may truft, even with the fpending of half our Annual Revenues, for fome time for the Prefervation of thefe Nations. The growing Greatnefs of the Frevch cannot be ftopt with a little Expence, nor without a real and hearty Union of the King and his People. Ft was never known in England t\\zt our Prince want- ed Supplies either for their foreign Defigns, or for their Pleafures; nothing ever fhut our Eng-- Itfh Purles, but the Fears of having their Mo- ncy^ ufed againfl: thcm.^ The hour that the Kitig fhall latisfy the People, that w^hat we give is not to make us Slaves and Papiftsy he may have what ever he will ; and this your Lord- y^//)jknow, and all Mankind that know us: Therefore let me plainly tell your LordfhipSy the Arguments the prefent Minifters ufe, are to dcftroy the King^ not to prefervc him : For Ff if 8 2 The E. o/Shaftsbtiry'5 Speech.Scc. if the A^iHg will firft fee what we will do for him, it is impoflible, if we are in our Senfes, we ftiould do any thing. But if he will firft fliew tbat he is intirely ours, that he Weds the Interejl and Religion of the Nation^ it is ab- folutely impofTible he ftiould want any thing he can ask, or we can give. But I plainly fee how the Argument will be ufed: Sir^ they mil do nothing for you^ what fhould you do voith thefe Men > But on the other hand, 1 am bold to fay, Sir^youmaj haz^e any thiugof this Par* liamenty put away thefe Men^ change your Priu' ciplesy change your Court ^ and he your felf again 5 for the King himfelf may have any thing of us. My Lords^ if I have been too plain, I beg your Pardons ; I thought it the Duty of a true Born Englifhman at this time to fpeak plainly or never. I am fure I mean well ; and if any Man can anfwer and oppofe Reafon to what I alledge, I beg that they would do it : For I do not defire or propofe any Queftion merely for Talking.fake. I beg this Debate may laft fomc Days, and that we may go to the very Bottom of the Matter, and fee whether thefe things are fo or no ; and what care there is for the Evil that we are in; and then the Refult of our Debates may produce fome proper Queftion. However we know who hears, and 1 am glad of this, That your Lordjhips have dealt fo honourably and fo clearly in the I(in£s Pre- fence, and in the Kin^s Hearing, that he can't I fay he wants a right State of Things : he hath it Sir F.Pcmber ton ^ Opinion Sec. 8 3 it before him, and may take Counfel as he thinks fie. The Opinion of Sir Francis Pembcr- ton concerning the King'^ Right of Accepting or Refufing ^a Speaker for the Houfe of Commons, March the lo^^ 1^78. TH E Honourable Houfe ofComm0}?s may be pleafed to underftand, That from its Firji Conftitution (ready to be made out and proved by the beft and mofl authcntick Re- cords of the Kingdom) which was in the ^gth year of the Reign of K. Henry the III. and not before, when He and the Prince his Son and hi$ Great Seal of Etfgland were for an year and a quarter together kept prifoners in the Ar- my of Sjmon de Montfort^ and the Rebellious Barons. And which after an Interval of 30 years (fome for the County of Tork only meeting upon Chat enforced Firfl Summons, and doing nothing) had a Second \w^\x.wViOX\ with fome Al- terations in the xid year of the Reign of King Edward the Ftrfl^ in a more modeft and peti- tioning way, than hath been of late ufcd. It had no Speaker until the 5-1(1 year of the Reign of King Edward the Third^ which was F f 1 near §4 Sir EVQinbcnons Opinion near 114 years after its Firft Inftitution. And from the firft year of the Reign of King HcNry the Fourth have, faith Eifing an ancient Clark of the Houfe of Commons^ been Commanded (or Willed^ which words in the Language of Kings have ever received a like Signification ) ta choofe their Speaker^ which appearing to have been a well-oydered and neceflary Method to avoid Incertainty as well as Confufion. Twas for the Intereft of the Commons ("who before and after were for want of accefs to their King not feldom accuftomed to have the Lords to be the Receivers of their Peti- tions and Triers of them whether to be dif- allowed or fit to be prefented to him, and upon Requeft interceeded for them) to have a Speaker of their own, who might have Free- dom of Speech and accefs unto his Majefty^ ^nd could not without it have that together with a Continuance of their Priviledges (which were not granted by Magna Charta^ but merely of Grace) and a Protefticn and Freedom from i\rrefts,whilft they were bufied in an Obedient Attendance of his Affairs. However, tho' our Kings gave them a Li- berty of Bkcllon^ the Approbation was of ne- ceffity to be his ovt^n lodged in the Crown, otherwife in a Matter that fo highly conduced to the Security of the Prince, and the publick Tranquility 5 unlefs the King fliould have been debarred of that Freedom, which all Mankind not under any Vadahge or Tics of Obedience, are of the K. Accept, or Ref. a Speaker. 8 5 sre univerfally allowed to be Mafters of. So by the Laws of Nature and Nations are the Credentials of Ambafladors from Foreign Princes, to be allowed or difallowed ; fo by the Laws of England is the Regal Aflent to the Elcftions of BiJhopSy of the Lord Maprs of London J Recorders or Prolocutors of Cities and Corporations, and fo are the Knights^ Citizens and Burgejfes clefted, to fervc and do their Duty in the Houfe of Commons in Parl/aryient^ when they are to (loop under the Oaths of jillegiance and Supremacy^ before they can be ad- mitted into the Houfe. 'Tis acknowledged on all hands. That fince that long continued Cuflom of C hoofing and Prefenting their Speaker^ and Licenfe obtained for the Exercife of that Place, conftant Ufe hath made it fo Neceffary and Material, that the Houfe of Commons do not, faith Eljing^ fo much as begin to Aft or do any Bufinefs of Importance, as it appears in the Cafe of Thorpe the Speaker i[\ the 3 \Ji year of the Reign of King Henry the VL who being taken in Exe- cution , during a Prorogation of Parliament^ was for Juftice fake detained in Prifon, altho' the Commons petitioned for his Enlargement, who were yet notwithftanding commanded by the King by certain Lords of the Vpper Houfe fent unto them, to choofe a new Speaker^ which they did accordingly. And the Commcns in the Reign of Queen Eli- zakethy upon the death of their Speaker^ before F f 3 they 86 Sir F. Pemberton*5 Opinion they would proceed to any Bufinefs, acquaint- ed the /iWj therewith, defiring them to inti- mate it to the Queen, and thereupon they were commanded to choofe a new Speaker. Bur to return from this Digreflion : The Com^ ^7> 5 certainly being, as they lliould be, a part of tne collefted Wifdom of the Nation, would never m f > many hundred years, and fucceffive Kings and Queens Reigns have petitioned for an dlluwance of their Speakers^ with a conti- nuance of their Priviledges and Freedom of Speech, and from Arrefts, if they had not un» derftood and believed that they were to be granted or refufed as the King and the Supreme Authority refted in him {hould judge requifite. It cannot be imagined but King Edwanlxht Second had been inverted with his Regal Power and Authority in Parliament^ and not impri- foned, V* hen Sir William Trujfel the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons^ who was not then al- lowed confiant Speaker^ came in their Names to renounce their Homage and Allegiance un* to him, would have been fo far from receiving his Speech and Renounciation, that he would hi:ve punifhed him feverely as he deferved, for fuch a Treafonable Attempt, and the Va- nity and Folly of it, for which the Commons needed not to have given their Procitrator{bting then only made uie of) any Thanks for that 'new Trick of Rebel Policy, when at that in- flant they did by the Feudal Laws and the Cuftoms 'and. Laws of their own Countrey, forfeit cfthe K. Accept, or Ref. ^Speaker. 87 forfeit not only all their own Lands and Eftates, and all their Rights and Liberties claimed by Magna charta^ and the often Confirmations thereof^ but reduce the Kingdom again into as Arbitrary and Unbounded a Monarchy, as it was when William the Conqueror fubdued it; and inftead of depofing him, would have de- pofed themfelvcs. The like being done in the deplorable con- dition of the imprifoned King Richard the Se^ condy after a definitive Sentence of Deprivation from his Crown and Dignity by the Faftion of Henry Duke of Lancafier his Coufin, after- wards King Henry the Fourth^ with a Refigoa- tion thereupon, followed by a Renunciation of the People's Homage and Allegiance, to as goodly a purpofe to deftroy themfelves as that of Trujfel the Procurator for the Commons in King Edward the Second his time had efTefted. Nor could the late Blefled Martyr King Charles have prognofticated any better Succefs to himfelf, if John Pym^ a plotting Member of the too long laftingfeditious Farhament had been by him chofen and approved to have been their Speaker , whom if he fliould have refufed, their Defign would have been but the more encouraged, and the raifled and deluded People by his Powder and Tinder the more cafily in- flamed, and fet on with their Clamors and Out-cries of the King^s Endeavours to fubvert the Fundamental Laws and Priviledges of Par- liament ; and by that his denying of one, and F f 4 fuch 3 8 Sir E Pemberton'^ Opinion fuch an one as Mr. Pym to be Speaker^ he might one after another deny them all, and by that means not to be lufpeded in a Prince of his Wildom and Goodnefs, who in his choice would have been contented with a Icfler num- ber) the Power and Authority of the Houic of Comnwns \r\ Parhameyit ; by which to im- pofe' upon him a Necelhty upon the Ring to choofe wherehe will out of the Bundle fome that (haJI be as dextrous and willing to undo him as the other. For which Reafon it is humbly offered to Confideration, Whether it may not be as Pru- dential as Convenient, Rehus (icflantilns^ when by the blefled Influence of the late Rebellion, the Stream of Monarchy runs fo low, and the Popular Tide fo high,when the Hoiife has (lam- ped the Name of Prmledge upon that, which at firft was mere Grace and Favour, That His Majefty before the contending Parties fall into heats and choole and prefent another Speaker^ would by iome Meflage conveyed to the Houfc o\ Commons^ fignify to them, that upon Second 7 houghts he will be willing to acceptor t he 5/'fj- ker^ whichthey formerly prefented unto Him, And this will be no Disparagement either to his Judgment or Authority, fince the Law hath provided that the King fhould not be deceiv'd in his Grants, nor ho\xnA by general Words, and that he may caufe even Afts of Parliament prepared before he gives them the Royal San* (3:ion and Aflent, to be altered or amended : And of the K. Accept or Kef. a Speaker. 8^ And in the yearly Nomination of Sheriffs^ when the Judges have prefcnted the Names of Six m every County to the Lord Chancellery and iUvers of the Ktn^s Privy Counfel allem- bied svith them in the Court of Exchequery and the SiX being reduced to Three, and afterards prefented unto him, out of every Three he doth appQint One, and may and doth often upon Interccffion and Reafonable Caufe (hewed, alter his former Choice, and Conflitute an- other. My Lor^Chamberlainj to his Grace the late Duke of Ormond 5 a Letter of Condole ance upon the Death of his Son the /?^/-/o/ OfTory, Father to the nox^ Duke o/Ormond* July 3 i^S 1^80. MY Laft gave your Qract fome Hopes of My Lord your Sor?^ Recovery, and the next day after thofe Hopes were ftrengthened by the concurrent Opinion of all Phyfictans^ but we at length were undecelv'd. On Friday at a Qijarter part Seven in the Evening it pleafed GO D to take him from us, to whofe Will we refign our felves, as I hope your Grace will do in fo extraordinary an Occafion, fortify your Chrjflianity with your Prudence and Es^erience of po The Zor^Chamberlain'j Letter of the Vanity of this World, which we take more pains than we ought to render pleafant and acceptable to us, and value our felves up- on Poffeilions which in a Moment we may lofe* His Difeafe was fo ftrong in his Head ( being a High Malignant Fever 3 that he had but few Intervals free from the Delirium^ tjiat troubled him more or lefs all his Sicknefs, which Dr. Floyd with much Care and Prudence laid hold of, for the compofing his Mind, and to render him capable of Receiviog and Doing other A£ts of a Good Chrifitan, In the middle of his Sick- nefs he fpoke of making a Will, but finding him foill, I diverted him from it, in the pre- j fence of fome of his Servants, by telling hint m the Circumftances, in which he was, did not make it fo neceflary for him as another Man : For faid I, My Lord, I think you have nothing of that Nature to do, but to ^commend your Wife and Children to your Father, and to him likewife the Payment of your Debts, and Gra- tification of your Servants; and this, if you pleafe, I will do in your Name ,- which he feem'd very well to accept of, and never more meiitionM it: and I the rather humour'd this way with him, becaufein the times he hath hereto- fore put himfelf into any extraordinary Aftions at Sea or Land, he ufed to leave a Short-paper with me, which contained the fame things in effeft, and particularly befeeching your Grace to increafe his Wife's Joynture, which I know not to his G. the Duke of Ormond. ^ i not whether Ihe was ever acquainted with ; fo I told him the afore- mentioned Points would be over fecured by your Graces Generofity. I have caufed his Body to be prepar'd to be laid in a Vault in Weflmifjlier-Albey^ that it may be in a condition of being Buried here- after here, or carried to Eufion^ otXo*Kilkennyy as your Grace fliali think fit to diredh What I have farther ordered concerning his Affairs, you will find in a Memorandum I have put into M. M 's hand to receive your orders thereupon : In the mean ^^r. pen sijho^ time I have prefum'd to fend to «/ Oxford, uni to th.lBiJhop to let My Lord ^^^^ James come -thither to ihew coUedgciAyLord him to the World, whilft they are >mes, th pre. fo much in love with his Father's ^ZX'J,i?,l' Memory, and lament to fuch an ^/^ Ediumon. Excefs the Lofs of him, that it would look like Flattery, if I (hould tell your Grace half the truth. I cannot end this Letter without adding, That I never faw a better Set of Orderly, Af- feftionate, and Deferving Servants, who have fufficiently fhown it in his Sicknefs, each of whom I have promjfed to recommend to your Grace^ as any occafion offers for their Prefer- ments and Advantages. And thus I will dif- mits your Grace for the prefent , and my felf from this UnpleafingTheam, refeving my felf to Compliment my Lady Dutchefs, and Lady Offory upon it, (as my Wife docs alfo) until we have p 2 The D. of Oi'mond'^ Anfxper have better recolle(9:ed our felves a Matter of fo hard Digeftion ; and in the mean time only offering my felf to obey all the Commands your Grace (hall be pleafed to lay upon rtie in this or any other Occafion, I am Tour GraceV, S'c The Duke'^ Anfwey to my Zor^ Cham- bcrlain* Kilkentiy Aug. 9*^ , 1 6 80. TH O' I had much more Fear than Hope of my Son Offorfs Recovery from yours of the 27^'^ of the laft Month, and did all I could to prepare my felf- for what yours of the 31/f brought me; yet I find I was miftaken in my felf, and that I want that Cora- pofure I ought to have. The Breach that the Death of fuch a Son has made in my Family, with all the Confequences of it, come into my Thoughts as fall as Grief will allow them en- trance. I confider my own Age,and my Grand- Son's Youth, and how unfit we are to con- tend with Publick and Domeftick Difficulties,- but GOD having let me fee the Vanity and Sinfuhiefsof any Confidence and Reliance upon that Son, will I truft upon a hearty Submiffion to his Blefled Will, extend hjs Protedion to thofe to My Ior/^» of the People, whom that only reprefents ; whicli if he had not done, in all probability what fo Grave and Judicious an Affemlly might have oflered to the Confideration of fo Gracious, and foGcod ^6 The Lord Falkland'^ Speech a Frince had occafioned the Redrefs of thd Grievances they then fufFercd, and prevented thofe which we have fince endured. According to the ancient Maxim of od/ffe quod UferiSy he purfued this Offence towards the Parliament^ by inveighing againft the Members, by fcan- dalizing the Proceedings, by trampling upon the Afts and Declarations, by ufurpmg and by de- volving the Right, by dmimfblng and ahroga^ ting the Power both of that and other Farlia- ments^ and making them as much as m him lay, both ufelejs and odious to his Majefly^ and pur- fued his Hatred to this Fountain ot Juilice by corrupting the Streams of it, the Lam^ and by perverting the Conduit-pipes^ the Judges. He praftifed the annihilating of the ^«aV»i^ and notorious Perambulations of particular /b- Forejlsy the better to prepare and enable him- felf to annihilate the Ancient and Notorious Perambulations of the whole Kingdom^ the Metes and Bounds between the Liberties of the Subjefts and Sovereign Power; he endeavoured to have all the Tenures Durante hene placito^ to bring all Law from his Majeflyh Doctors into his Majejly's Breaji ; he gave our Goods to the Kingy our Lands to his Deer^ our Liberties to his Sheriffs ; fo that there was no way by which he did not, equal to his Power, overthrew the Common-wealth in his Crime, that this being out- thrown, In optimi prin^ apis finum occidity is not fo much as his Eicufe. He againft the Lord Keeper Finch. 9 J He not only by this Means made us liable to all the elScfts of an Invafion from withiti, but by a Deftruftion of our Induflry made us liable to the terribkfl of all Invafions, that of Want and Poverty ; fo that if what he plotted had taken root^ and he made as fure, as his Declaration would make it that himielf wa^ not Parliament- proof in this Wealthy aiid Happy Kingdom, there would have been left no abundance but of Grievances and Difcontent^ mcntSj no Satisfaliion but amongft the Guilty, It is generally obferved of the Plague^ that the inferioHT of others is an earneft and conftant Defire of all that are feifed by it, and as this Defign refembles that Difeafe^ in the ruine and diflblution it would have wrought, fo it feems no lefs like it in this EfFeft ; he having fo la^ loured to make others p^are in that Guilt, that his Sollieitations were not only his Accounts, but his Works, making ufe both of his Autho- rity, his Intereft, and Importunity to perfwade^ and of his A/^;V/?/sNameCwhofe/'/>(y is known) to give that extraordinary and godly Prercga- tive to his Perfon that the Law gives to his place, not to be able to do wrongs to threaten the reft of the Judges to fign Opinions con- trary to Law, to alfign Adfwers contrary to their Opinions, to give Judgment which they ought not have given, and to recant Judge- ment when they had given as they ought ; la that whatfoever this confiders his Care of our Concernment both in the Growth and Im- G g mortality ^ 8 The Lord Falkland'^ Sf^ch mcrtality of this Projeft, cannot but by thtT fame way, by v^hich the Wifejl Judgment found the true Mother of the Child^ difcover him not only to have been the Fojierer^ but the Father of this moft pernicipus and envious Defign. I fliali not need to obfcrve that this was plotted by an Englifhman againft England^ which in- creafeth the Crime to no Icfs a degree, than parricide is beyond Murder : That this was done in the greateft Matter againft the greateft Trtiji^ joyn'd to the greateft Bold^ being againft the general Liherty and Publick Propriety^ by a Sworn Judge ; and if Salt it felf become unfa-^ voHrjy the Gojpel it felf hath decided whither it muft be caft; that he poifoncd our very Antidotes^ and turned our Guard into a De- firu^ion^ making the Law the ground of Illega- Itty-: That he ufed this Law not only againft Vsy but againft it fetj\ making it (as I may fay) Felo de-fe^ making the Preteytce (for I can fcarce fay the Appearance^ of it fo to contribute to tiie Utterance of it felf. I ihall not need to fay, that this either or no. thing can be of the higheftA/W,and in the highejh Degree of Parliamentary Treason ,• a Treafott^ which needs not a Computation of many fevc- ral accounts, that alone were not Treafon to prove a Treafon altogether^ and by what Dc- raonftratioa of the Intention to make xhu for- mally Treafon which was materially but Mifde- meanor, a Treafon^ as well againft the King^ as sgaiaft the Kingdom*^ for whatkDever is againft the Whoie^ again/i the Lord Keeper Finch. 99 Whole^ is undoubtedly againft the i^(?jrf'', which takes firom his Majejiy the ground ot his Rule, the Law Cfor if Foundation be deftro) ed, the Pinnacle^ are moft endangered ) which stakes from his Majefl^ the principal FiohOHr of his ^ Rule, the ruling over Freemen y a Power as much nobler than that over Villaim^ as that is over Beafts:, which endeavoured to rake trom hi$ Majefty the principal Support of his Rule, their Hearts znA Affe^hns ow^t whom he rules a better and iuitt Strength and Wall to tht- ^^^g, than the Sea is to the Kingdom, and by cr -ating a mutual Di/lruft^ and by that a mutual £>//- affe^ion between them, and to hazard the dan- ger even of the Dejlruhion of Both. My Lords^ I iliall the lefs need to prejs this, becaufe Vnreajonalle in any Cafe to fujped your Juftice, and your Intereft fo nearly united ; your great Share in the PofTeffions giving you an equal Concerment in the Propriety , the Cares, and Pains ufed by your Noble Ance- ftors in the Founding and Aflerring of our Common Liberties, rending the ]\j& Defence of them your moft proper and peculiar Inhe- ritance^ and both exciting you to oppofe and extirpate all fuch Defigns, as did introduce^ and would havefetkd^in Arbitrary, that is, an in- tolerable Form of Government, and even made your Lord/hips and your P&Jiertty but Right Honourable Slaves. My Lords^ I will fpdnd no more words hflando cum larv^y in accufing the Ghoft of a! Gg a dc- loo The Lor^,Falkland'5 Speech departed Perfon, whom his Crimes accufe more than I can do, and his Ahfence accufeth no lefs than his Crime ; neither will I excufe either the Length of what I have faid, becaufe I cannot add an Excufe without adding to the Fault of my own Inyperfefl-ions, either in the Matter or Manner of it, which I know mufi appear the greater by being compared with that Learned Gentleman's great Ability, who hath preceded me at this time : I will only defire by the Command y and in the Behalf of the Houfe of Commons^ that this Proceeding againft the Lord Finch may be put in zsfpeedy a way of difpatch, as in fuch Cafes the Courfe of Par^ liament will allow. My L* Falkland^ Speech the f^ of De- cember 1640. in the Houfe of Com" mons, again ft the Lord Keeper Finch and others of the Judges. Mr, Speaker y IRejoyce very much to fee this day, and the want hath not lain in my Jjfeclions, but in my Ltmgs : if to all that hath paft my lea hath not been as lokd as any Man's in the Iz^oufe^ yet truly my Opinion is, We have yet done nothing if we do no more : I fliall add what I humbly conceive ought to be (i^^^^y as foon againjl the L Keeper Finch,^^. i o i foon as I have faid fomething with reference to him that faid it. I will fifft defire the Forgivencfs of this Hokfej if in ought I fay I feem to intrench up- on another's Frofejfwn, and enter upon the Work of another to le^ fince I have been en^ trufted by the Report of a Learned Committee^ and confirmed by the uncontradi^ied Vote of the whole Houfe; fince I fliall fay nothing of this kind but in order to fomewhat further : And (what moves mc moft to venture my Opinion and to expeft your Pardon,") fince I am confi* dent that this Cafe alone is fufficient to fhew this Judgment contrary to our Lam^ and Lo- g/c/t alone is fufficient to prove it deftrudiveto our Propriety^ which every free and J^clle Per^ fon values no lefs than his Pofleffion. I will not profcls that I know my felf, yet all thofe who know me, know this of me, that my Natural Difpofition is far from inclining to Severity^ much leis to Cruelty ; that I have i no particular Provocation from their Perfons^ and have particular Obligations to their Call- ingSy againft whom I am to fpeak ; and that tho' not fo much, yea for more than all I have, fo I hope it will be believ'd , that only the Publick Interefl hath extorted this from me, which I would not fay, if I conceived it not both fo true and neceffery, that no Meat un- digefted can lye heavier upon the Stomachy than this unfaid would have lain upon my 0»- Science^ Gg 3 Mr, 102 yiy Lord Falkland'^ Speech Mr. Speaker^ the Conjl'ttution of this Common- wealrh hath eftabUfhed, or rather endeavoured to eftabU(h to us the Security of Goods^ and the Security o( good Laws^ which ftiould fecure us our Goods, by appointing for us JtiJges^ fo 1 fetlcd, fo fworrt, that there can be no Oppref- fion^ but they of necefTity muft be necejfary ; fince if they neither deny nor delay us Juftice J ( which neither for the Great nor little they 1 ought to do) the greateft Perfon in the King- \ dom cannot continue the leaft violence upon ' the Meaneft. But this Security^ Mr. Speaker y hath almoft been our Ruine : This bulwark for us hath been turn'd or rather hath turn'd it ielf, < into a Battery againft us ; and thofe Perfons that fliould have been as Dogs to defend the Flock, have become the Wolves to worry it. Thefe Judges, Mr. Speaker, ' to inftance not in them 0}?ly, but their greateft Crime) have dehvered an Opinion and a Judgment : the Firfl: in an Extrajudicial Manner , and both upon Extrajudicial Matter ; that is, fuch as came not within their Cognizance : they being Judges of Law and not of neceffity (that is, be- ing Judges, and neither Philofophers, not Poli- ticians) in which, when it is evident and ab- folute, th6 Lawof the IWceafeth, and that pf general Reafon^ni Equity^ by which Particu- lar Laws at firft were framed, returns to her Throne and Government; I mean which is, the Salus Populgy becomes not qnly the Supreme but Sola' Sex; at which time, and to which againft the L Keeper Finch,^^. 1 03 €nd,whofoever would difpenfe with the Ifing to make ufe of our Money, difpenfeth equally with us to make ufe of his and one another^ In this Judgment they ContraJiHed many and Clear Acl^ and Declarations of Parliament^ and thofe in this very Reign ; fo that for them they needed to have Confulted with no other Re- 'cords but their own Memories. Secondly, They have Contradifted appa- rent Ev/Jencesy by fuppofing Mighty and Emi- nent Dangers in the moft Serene, Quiet, and Halcion Days that could poffibly be imagined ; few Contemptible Pirates being our moft for- midable Enemies^ and there being neither Prince nor State^ which and from whom we had not cither Amlp[fadors^ or Amity^ or both. Thirdly, They Ct)ntradifted the Writ it feif, by fuppofing thefe Suppofed Dangers to be fo fuddain,^ that they could not ftay for a Par^ liament^ which required but Forty Days ftay; the Writ being in no fuch hafi^ but being con- tent to ftay Seven Months^ which is that time four times over. Mr. Speaker^ It feemed generally Jlratige that they who faw not the Law^ which all Men elfe faw, fliould fee that davger^ which no Man elfe faw but themfelves ; yet tho' this begot the more general Admiration^ the other Particulars begot the more general Indignation. The Firfi of all their Reafons for this Judg- ment was fuch, that they needed not any from the Adverfe Partto help them, to convert thefe G g 4 few 104 The Lord Falkland's S^feech few who had before the leaft Sufpicion of the Legality of that moft Illegal Writ ; there being fewer that approved of the Judgment, than there were that Judged it ; for I am confident they did not that Jhemfelves. Secondly^ When they had allowed to the King the Sole Power in neceflity, and the Sole Judgment of neceflity, and by that enabled him to take from us both what he would, when he would, and how he would, they yet Contemned us enough to offjbr to perfwade us they had left us our Proprieties. The Third znd laft, Cand that which, I con- fefs, moved me moft) that by the Transforma- tion of this from the State of Free Suhje£isy (jl good Purchafe, Mr. Speaker ^ under Dr. Hejlin*% Favour) into that of Villains ^ they difebled us by illegal and unvoluntary Supplies to exprefs our Afleftions to HiSiWd[/V//y,and by that to che- riflb his to us,- tliat is, to Parliaments. Mr. Speaker y the Caule of all the Miferies we have fuffered, and the Caufe of all the Jealoujies wp have had that we ftiould yet fuffer more^ is, that a moft Excellent Prince hath been moft infinitely ahufed; his Judges telling him that in LaWy his Divines telling him that in Confci* eme^ and \xis 'Counfellors telling him that in Po' licy he might do what he pleafed. With thq Firji of thefe we are to deal now ; which may be a good Leading Card to the reft, and fure the Pen nig of thefe Laws upon which thofc Men have trampkd, our Anceftorshave Ihewed the againfithe LKeeperViwch.istc. 105 ^he utmoft Care and Wifdom, fo an uneffedied Security, Words having done nothing, and yet have done all that Words could do, we mu2: now be forced to think of the Aboliftiing of our Grievances, by Aboliibing our Grievoio s, by taking away this Judgment^ and thefe Judges together, and of Regulating their Succefles by their moft Exemplary Punifhment^ who would not Regulate themfelves by moft Evident /.??>;, Of the Degree of this Punifliment, Iwiil u.: fpeak ; I will only fay we have accufed a Great Perfon of High Treafon^ for intending to fubverc our Fundamental Laws, and introduce Arhi- trary Government; whereas what we fitffofe he meant to do, we are fure they have dune ; there being no Law more Fu7idmental than that they have already Suhverted^ and no Go- vernment more Alfoliite^ than they have really introduced. Mr. Speaker^ - Not only the Severe Punifh- ment of thefe Men, but the (uddain Removal of them will have a very large Effed in one very important Confideration. Mr. Speaker^ we only Accufe, and the Houfe of Lords Con- demns ; in which Condemnation they ufually receive Advice ^ tho' not DiretUon from the Judges^ and I leave it to every Man to imagine how Prejudicial this would be to us, that is, to the Common-wealth, and how Partial to their Fellow-Malefaftors. The Advice of fuch Judges is like to be moft undoubtedly for their own Sakes ; they will con- I o^ The Ior^FalkIand'5 Speech conduce to their Power that every Account be adjudged to be a lefs faulty and each Perfon to be lefs faulty^ than in Juftke they ought to be. Amongft thefe, Mr. Speaker^ there is one I muft not Iqfe in the Crowd, whom I doubt not but we lhall/«rp/?//«W his own Confcience, and the keepings of the Kin^s^ and he who hath undoae us already by Whole-fale^ hath Power left in him to undo us by Retayl. Mr. Speaker^ In the beginning of this Par^ liameat^ he told us, and I am confident every Man here helkved ir, before he told it, and not the wore for his telling of it, tho' a forry Witnefs is a good Teflimony againft himfelf. That his Majefly never required any thing from any of his Mmifters but Juftke and Integrity^ againft which if any of them have tranfgreffed^ upon their Heads, and that defcrvedly^ it was to fall : And truly after he hath in this Saying pronounced his own Condemnation^ we fliall be more io8 The Lore/ F^ilkhnd' sSpeech^Scc. more partial to him, than he is to Himfelf, if we be flow to purfue it. It is therefore my Jujl and Humble Motion, That we may Choofe a Selell Committee^ to draw up his and their Charge^ and to examine the Carriage of this particular, to make ufe of it in the Charge ; and if he Ihall be found guilty of Tampering with Judges again againft the puhlick Security, who has thought Tampering with Witnefles in a Private Caufe worthy of fo fcvere a Fine ; if he (hall be found not only to have gone hefore^ but beyond the reft in his Judgment, that in the Punilhment for it, the Jujiice of this Houje may not deny him that due Honour both precede and exceed the reft. The 10^ The Famous Sfeech fpoken in the High Court of Parliament in the Fir ft year of the ^eign o/Hcnry the IV'^ by the Pious and Learnec/Thom2iS Mereks Eifhop of C^tlilt. Wherein he declares his Opinion upon the Queftion, What (hould be done with the Depofcd King Richard the Second. Right Honourable^ THIS Queftion conccrneth a Matter of great Confequence and Weight, the De- terminig whereof will afluredly procure either Quiet or Turmoil, both to the Publick State, and our particular Confciences. Therefore be- fore any Refolution thereof be given, I befeech you to take into your more Serious Confide- ration thefe two things : Firft, Whether King /?/fi&^r^befufficiently Depofcd, or not: Seconcl- ly. Whether King//\A he not profecutehis faithful Ser- vant, and dutiful Son-in-law, yet was not he fpared, nay, protefted by h'un ? And was not David much grieved for but taking away the Lap of his Garment, and afterwards caufed the Mcflenger to be (lain, that upon RequefV, and for Pitty did lend his Hand ^ as he himfelf re- ported) to haften the voluntary Death of that Sacred King ? As for the contrary Examples, of Jehu , they were done by exprefs Oracle and Revelation from God, and are no more fet down for our Imitation, than the robbing of the Egyptians or any other particular or priviledged Commandment ; but in the Gene- ral Precept, which all Men mufl generally fol- low, not only our Aftions, but our Speeches alfo, and our very Thoughts are ftriftly char- ged with Duty and Obedience to Princes, whe- ther they be good or evil. The Law of God ordainea, That he that doth prefumptuoufly a^ gaififi the prince^ JhaS iie^ Deut. 1 7. 1 2. And the Prophet pj^i^/forbiddeth both by Precept and Praftice, to touch the Lord's Anointed : Thou /halt not (faith the Lord) rail upon the Judges^ fieither fpeak evil of the Ruler of the People. And the Apoftles do demand further, that even our Thoughts and Souls, be obedi- ent to Highsr Powers. And left any fliould imagine, that they meant of good Princes on- ly, they fpeak generally of all. And further, Hh t^ 114 The Famous Speech of TMcrcks to take away all doubt, they make cxprd mention of- the evil: For the Power and Au^ thority of wicked Princes, is the Ordinance ol God. And thetcfore Chrift told Filatey^^l^i the Power which be had, was yvm him froi above* And the Propphet Ejay called Cyrus, being a Prophane and Heathen Prince, the Lord's Anointed: For, God turncth the Hearts even of wicked Princes to do his Will. And as Jehofaphat faid to his Rulers^ They exe- cute not the Judgment of 'Man, but of the Lord. In regard whereof DaviJ calleth them Gods, becaufe they have the Rule and Autho- rity ever from God ; which if they do abufc, they are not to be adjudged by their Subjefts, for no Power wiriiin their Dominion is Supe- rioar to theirs. But Godre ferveth them to their foreft Tryal, Horribly andfuddcnly ( faith the Wifeman ) wUl the Lord at fear to them^ and a hard Judgment (hall they have. The Law of God commandeth, that the Child fhould be put to death, for any contumely done unco the Parents : but what if the Father be a Robber ? if a Murtherer ? if for excefs of Vil- lanies, odious and execrable both to God and Man? furely he deferveth the greateft degree^ of Paniflimenr, and yet Hiuft not the Son lift up his Hand againft him, for no Man can be fo great an Ofender as to be puniftied by Par- ricide. But our Country is (or ought to be) more dear to us than our Parents. And the Prince is the Father of the Countrcy, snd there- fore againfl Vepofing Kings. 115 'fore more facred and dear to us, than our Pa- rents by Nature, and muft not be violated, how imperious, how impious Ibever he be? Doth he command or demand oar Purfes or Perfons ? we muft not (liun the one, nor ihrink from the other : for zsNehmrah faith. Kings have dominion over the Cattel of their Sub- jefts at their plcafure. Doth he injoyn thofe A- dioDSjWhich are contrary to the Laws of God, we muft neither wholly obey, nor violently refift; but with a conftant Courage, fubmit our felves to all manner of Punilhment, and Ihew our Subjection, by Suffering and not Per- forming; yea, the Church hath declared it to be an Herefy,,ro hold, that a Prince may be flain, or depofed by his Subjects, for any De- fault or Diforder of Life, or Default in Govern- ment. There will be Defaults fo long as there be Men ; and as we endure with Patience a Barren Year, if it happen, and Unf ' ' le Weather ; fo muft we tolerate the Ir^- . .^ a- ons of Rulers, and quietly expedl either Refor- mation or Alteration. But alas! what ftj^, Cruelty, what fuch Impiety hath King RkBard committed? examine the Imputatiuns object- ed, with the falfe Circumftances of A^rava- tion, and you ihall find but little ot Truth, ox of great monricnt : it may be many Ovcrfights have efcaped (as who lives without ofleniiuig) yet none fo grievous to be termed Tyranny^ as proceeding rather from uncxpcneoced fgno ranc^, or corrupt Counfe], than trom any Na- Hh 2, tural 1 1 6 The Famom Speech o/T.Mcrcks tural or Wilful Malice. Oh ! how Ibould the World be peftcrcd with Tyrants, if Subjects might be permitted to rebel, upon Pretence of Tyrtnny; how many good Princes (hould often be fupprefled by thofe by whom they ought to be fupportcd ? if they but levy a Subfidy, or any other Taxation, it fhail be judged Op- preffion ; if they ^ut any to death for traire- rous Attempts againft their Perfons, it {hall be exclaimed at for Cruelty ; if they Ihail do any thing againft the good- liking of their People, it fhall be proclaimed Tyranny. But let it be that without Dcfert in him, or Authority in us, King Richard muft be Depo- sed ; yet what Right hath the Duke of tan- cafler to the Crown ? or what Reafon have we^ without Right, to give it him > If he make Title as Heir to King Richard^ then muft he ftay King Kkh/ird's Death; for no Man can fuccced as Heir to the Living: But 'tis well known to ail Men, who are not wilfully blind, or grofly ignorant, That there are fome yet alive, Lineally Defcended from LioKcl Duke of Clarence, whofe liTue by the Judgment of the High Court of Parliament^ in the 8*^ year of King Richard's Reign» was declared Heir apparent to the Crown, in cafe King Richard fhould die without liTue. The Claim from £^- mund Crouch-hack J f pafe over the Authors there- of, themfelves being afihamed of fo abfurd an Abufe ; and therefore all the Pretence now on foot, is by Right of Conqueft ; aad the King's Re. againft Bepofing Kings. 117 Refignation and Grant, and the Confent of the many : it is bad Stuff that will take no Colour, what Conqueft can a Subjeft make againft a Sovereign, where the War is Infui region, and the Viftory high Treafon? King Rkhard^si Refignation, being in Prifon, is an Aft of Ex- aftion by Force, and therefore of no Force to bind him : And by the Laws of this Realm, the King by himfelf cannot alienate the an- cient Jewels and Ornaments of the Crown, much lefs ^ve away his Crown and Kingdom. And Cuftom we have none, for the Vulgar to eleft their King, but they are alwayes ty'd to accept of Him, whom the Right of Succeflion enables to the Crown, much lefs can they make good that Title, which is by Violence ufurped; tor nothing can be faid to be freely done, when Liberty is reftrained by tear. As -for the Depofiog of Edward the Second, it is no more to be urged, than the Poyfoning of King Johny or the Muathering of a Lawful Prince : we muft live according to Laws, not Examples, yet the Kingdom then was not taken from Lawful SuccefTors : But if we look back to Times paft, we Ihall find that thefe Titles were more ftrong in King Stephen^ than they are now in the Duke of Lancafler ; for King H€nry the Firft being at Liberty, neither re- ftraiaed, nor conftrained, the People af^nted to this Deftgnment, and thereupon without Fear or Force he was anointed and Crowned King. Yet Henry Fitz-Emprefs^ having a nearer Hb 3 Right 1 1 8 The Famous Sfeeth o/XMercks Ri.jhr to the Crown by his Mother (notwith- ftanding his Father was a Stranger, and' he born beyond the beas^ never ceakd the Pro- fecmioa of bloody Wars, to the great Effu- fion of Bloody and fpoiling thfe Countrey, un- til bis Lawful Inheritance v/as allured him. It terrifieth n:;- but to think, how many flourifh- ing Kingdoms have been by iuch Contentions, either rent by Inteftine Divifion, or Subdued^ to Foreign Princes, under Pretence pf Affiftance and Aid. This Kingdom hath had too wofiil Experience Qf thefe feveral Mifchiiefs,- and yet neither Examples 6f other* Countreys, or Mi- ferics of our own, are fufficient to make us be wary. Certainly, I fear, it will betide us as it did to Efop^s Frogs, who being defirous to j have a King, had a Beam given them, the firfl Jail afTright them ; but when they law it lye ftill, they contemptuoufly infulted thereon, and defired a King of more Aftive Spirit: Then a Stork was fent them, which {talking amongft , them daily devoured them. King Richard's \ Mildnefs hath bred in us this Scorn, interpre- ting it to be Cowardife and Dulnefs of Nature ; I dare not fay Cyet give me leave to fufpeft) with greater Courage, we may find greater Cruelty. And thus have I declared my Opi- nion with more Words, you may perhaps con- jefture than Wifdom; yet fewer than the weight of the Caufe did require. And I do refolutely conclude , that we have neither Power nor Policy, either to Depofe ]i»RicharJ^ againjl Depofing Kings. 1 1 ^ or in his place to Ektl Duke Hefiry. That King RkharJ remaincth ftill our Sovereign Lord, and therefore it is not Lawful for us to give Judgment againft him : That the Duke, whom you are pleafed to.ftile Khgy hath more tranfgreflcd the King and Realm, than Richard hath done either againft him or us : For he be- ing bantlhed the Realm for ten yt^ts by the King and Councel (amongft whoni his own Fa- ther was Chief j and given Oath not to return without Special Lincenfe ; he hath not only broken his Oath, but difturbed the Peace of the Land, difpoileffed the King of his Royal Eftate, and now demandcth Judgment againft his Perfon, without Offence proved, or De- fence heard : if this Injury move not, yet let both our Private and Publick Dangers fome- what withdraw us from thefc violent Pro- ceedings. Hh 4 King 120 KEdwAtd the Vomth's Speech, King Edward the^ Fourth'^ Speech to his Privy-Councel ^^^rf^Nobility, to ferfwacfe a War with France. By which it will appear that the prefent French King cfoes net degenerate from one of his Predeceffors. My LorJs^ TH E Injuries I have received arc divulg'd every where, and the Eye of the World is iixt upon me, to obferve with what Coun- tjsnancc 1 fuffer. And I muft confefs they are of fo ftrange a Nature, that I remain rather amazed, than enraged : Had I dealt with any Princej not CivH'izedhy Laws^or inured to Com- ' n>erce^ I had yet the Religion of fo many Oathsy and the Reafon of every Politick Circumftance fo clear, that I could no way have fufpeftcd this foul and foolifh Breach of Faith. But in a Chrrflian King (and who pretends to be Mofi Chrijlian') I have met with fo horrid a Perjury^ and fo difgraceful to our Nation, that as all Mankind muft abhor him as Barbarous ; fo in my own particular I muft negleft the Principal Office of a Prince, if I omit to Chaftifc him. Moft of you (My Lords; are Witnefles to the Solemnity of his V^ws^ when humbly he de- clined the Ruine to his Kingdom : and I, to avoid fo great a Maffacre, as the War would to ferfvpade a War with France. 121 have endangered, condefcended to end all Gon- troverfies by Accord. My Clemency is now become my Scorn: and I reap Indignities where I fowed Favours. For this Vngrateful Man, (Prince I muft not term him, who hath by Perjury forfeited that Sacred Title) in con- tempt of all Law, both Humane and Divine, denies not only the Marriage of the Dauphin to our Daughter, which would have proved fo great an Honour to his Blood, and Security to his Kingdom ; but even the Annual Tribute of Fifty Thoufand Crowns ; a (lender for fo large a Country, as by our Permiflion he hath hitherto cnjoy'd. This Contumely I am refolved to punifli ; and I cannot doubt Succcfs, Almighty GOD ftreftgthem ftill his Arm5who undertakes a War for Juflice. In our Expeditions heretofore a- gainft the French, what Profperity waited upon the Englifh Armies, is known to all the World : and yet Ambition then appcar'd the Chief Counfellor to War. Now befides all that Right, which led Edward the Third, our Glorious Anceftor, and Henry the Fifth, our Predeceflor, we feem to have a Deputi/hip from Heaven, to execute the Office of the Supreme Judge in chaflifing the Impious. When we were laft in France^ an innate Fear in this Falfe Man forcM him down to a fordid purchafe of Security : How low will' a wicked Confcience, (which even makes the Valiant Cowardly to tremble) bend him now? Now when i 2 £ A;Edward the Fourth*^ Speech, when an implacable Refolution for Revenge kt a far fharper Edge upon your Swords : Now when he hath no Hypocrifies left undif- covered, norSuherfrge for his former Perjury^ nor Art to gain Belief to new Diffimulation : Now when our Ears (hall be deaf to all Sub- miliion, and when our Confcience is (o well refolv'd for the neceflity of this War ; that Mercy will be thought a vicious Lenity, and the moft fcivsge Cruelty, but an Aft of Juftice. I need not repeat how much Age hath in- formed him (and indeed I think it was his Do- rage committed this foolifh Crime) nor yet how hated he is rendered Abroad by his un- faithful Dealing, at Home by his Severe Go- vernment. The Commonalty funk down by heavy Impofitions; the Nobility 'by proud Negleft, exafperated to defire any Innovation But we want not Advantage ; in the Judice of our Caufe, and Valour of our People we have enough. It is confcft our Confederacks 4re ijuite diffolv^d; and I recjoyce in that we Jha/l undertake this great Bufinefs alone : For Expe- rience in our laft Attempt fliewcd, that Pnnces of fever al Natkns (^hoiv ever they pretend the fame ) have ftill fever al Aims. And oftentimes a Corfederate is a greater Enemy to the Profpe^ rity of a War^ than the Enemy himfelf: ^ Envy begetting more difficulty in a Camp, than any Oppofition from the adverfe Army. Our Bro- ther of Bi^rgundy and Uncle of Sait^t Paul, are both dead. How little their Amity advanced U5^ to perftpacfea War xpiih France. 125 us, nay how a juft Jealoufy of their fecret Pra- Crxcts hindered our Defigns then on France^ you may well remember : and how in our Re- turn towards EnglarfJ^ We had mote fear to be aiFaulred by their Trayterous Weapons, than by any Arms from the Enemy. But we will fpare their Memory ; they laboured their own Safety, not our Glory. This I am fecure, that as by death they are rendred unprofi fable to us, jfo hkewife not dangerous. And as for Br'fttahi^ if his Weaknefs difables him as to our aid, I am confident it will continue him a Neuter. Neither is it to be forgot, how fe- cutely now we may leave Effgland rather than heretofore, confidering our lb entire Friend- fir p with the Scots: whofe Hoftility was al- ways iharp upon us at home, when we at- tempted Vidorie abroad. But I detain you by my Speech roo long from Aftion. I fee the Clouds of due Revenge gathered in your Brows, and the Lightning of of Fury break from your Eye§ ; which abodes Thunder againft our Enemies. Let us there- fore lofe no time^ but Yuddenly and feverely fcourge this Ferjiired Coward to a too late Re- pentance; and regain Honour to our Nation, and his Kingdom to our Crown. Quecft, 124 ^^^^ Elizabeth^ Sfeech Qtieen Elizabeth'5 Speech to her Laft Parliament, upon her Reafumption of fever al Grants that vpere a Grievance tothe Subjetl^ &c. Mr. speaker J WE perceive your coming is to prefcnt Thanks unto Us ; Know I accept them with no lefs Joy than your Loves can have defire to offer fuch a Prefent , and do more efteera it than any Treafure or Riches; for thofe We know how to prize, but Loyalty, Love and Thanks, I account them invaluable : and tho' God hath raifed Me high , yet this I account the Glory of my Crown, that I have reigned with your Loves. This makes that I do not fo much rcjoyce that God hath mada Me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over fo Thankful a People ; and to be the mean under God to confcrve you in Safety, and preferve veil from Danger; yea, to be the Inflrument 10 deliver you from Diflionour, from Shame, and from Infamy : to keep you from out of vServitude, and from Slavery under our Ene- mies, and cruel Tyranny, and vile Oppreflion intended againft Us : FoV the better withftand- ing whereof. We take very acceptably your intendended Helps, and chiefly in that it ma- nifefteth your Loves and Largepefs of Heart to to her Laft Parliament. 125 to your Sovereign. Of My felf I muft fay this, I never was any greedy fcraping Grafper, nor a ftrift Fall- holding Princefs, nor yet a Waftcr : My Heart was never fet upon any Worldly Goods, but only for My Subjcfts Good. What you do beftow on Me, I will not hoard up, but receive it to beftow on you a- gain: Yea, Mine own Properties I account yours, to be expended for your good, and your Eyes ftiall fee the Beftowing of it for your Welfare. Mr. Speaker^ I would wifli you and the reft to ftand up, for I fear I fhall yet trouble you with longer Speech. Mr. Speaker^ You give meThanks, but I am more to thank you, and I charge you thank them of the Lower- Houfe from Me; for had I not received Knowledge from you, I might had fallen into the iapfe of an Eerror, only for want of true Information. Since I was Queen yet I did never put My Pen to any Grant, but upon pretext and fem- blance made Me, that it was for the good and avail of My Subjefts generally, tho' a Private Profit to feme of My ancient Servants, wha have deferved well : But that My Grants fhall be made Grievances to My People, and Op- preffions, to be priviledged under colour of Our Patents, Our Princely Dignity fhall not fufFer it. When I heard it, I could give no reft unto My Thoughts until I had reformed it , and thole iz6 Queen Elizabeth'^ Speech thofe Varlets, lewd Perfons^ abufers of My > Bounty, ihall^now I will not iuffer it. And, " Mr. Speaker, tell the f/oufe froni Me, I take it exceeding grateful, that the knowledge of thcfq, things are come unto Me frorh them. And the' amongft them the Principal McfBbers are luch as are not touch'd in Private, and there- fore need not fpeak from any feeling of the Grief; yet We have heard that other Gentle- men alfo of the Houfe^ who ftand as free, have fpoken as freely in it : which gives Us to know that no Refpeils or Interefts have moved them other than the Mindes they bear to fuffer no diminution of our Honour, and our Subjefts Love unto Us. The zeal of which affedtion^ tending to eafe My People,and knit their Hearts unto Us, I embrace with a Princely Care far above all earthy Treafures. I efteem my People's Love, more than which I dcfire not to merit : And God that gave me here to fit, and placed Me over you, knows that I never refpcfted My Self, but as your Good was con- fer ved in Me ; yet what dangers,, what pra- ftifes, and what perils I have pafled, fome, if not all of you know : but none of thefe things do move me, or ever made me fear, but it is Goji that hath delivered me. And in My Governing this Land, i have ever fet the laft Judgment-day before Mine Fyes, and fo to Rule, as I fiiall be judged, and anfwer before a higher Judge, to whofe Judg- Enent Seat I do -appeal in that never thought was to her Laft Parliament. 127 was chcrilhed in my Heart, that tended not to my People's Good- And if My Princely Bounty have beca abu- fed, and my Grants turned to the hurt of Mjr People, contrary to My Will and Meaning; or if any in Authority under Me have negleded, or converted what I have committed unto them, I hope God will not Jay their Gulps to my Charge. To be a King, and wear a Crown, is a thing more Glorious to therp that fee it, than it is pleafant to them ths.t bear it : For My Self, I never was fo much inticed with the Glorious Name ot a King, or the Royal Authority of a Queen, as delighted rhat God hath made me His Inftrument to maintain His Truth and Glory, and to defend this Kingdom from Dif- honour, Dammage, Tyranny, and Opprcffion. But ihould I afcribe any of tliefc things unto My Self, or My Sexly Weeknefs, I were not worthy to Live; and of all moft unworthy of the Mercies I have received at God's Hands, but to God only and wholly all is given and afcribed. The Cares and Trouble of a Crown I cannot more fitly refemble than to the Drugs of a Learned Phjfician^ perfumed with fome Aro- matical Savour ; or to Bitter Pills gilded over, by which they are made more acceptable, or lefs offenfive, which indeed are bitter and un* pleafant to take ; and for My own Part, were it not for Confcience-fake, to difcliargc the Duty that God hath laid upon me^and to main- taia 1 2 8 Queen Elizabeth'^ Speech^ &c. tain his Glory, and keep you in Safety, in Mine own difpofition I (hould be willing to re- fign the Place I hold to any other, and glad to be freed of the Glory with the Labours ; for it is not My Dcfire to Live nor to Reign lon- ger, than My Life and Reign (hall be for your Good. And tho' you have had, and may have raany Mightier and Wifer Princes fitting in this Seat, yet you never had, nor fliall have any that will Love you better. Thus, Mr. Speaker^ I commend me to your Loyal Loves, and yours to my beft Care and your further Councels ; and I pray you, Mr. ControuUer^ and Mr^ Secritary ^ and you of My Counccl, that before thefe Gentlemen de- part into their Countrcys, you bring them all to Kifs My Hand^ Sit 12^ Sir Edward Deering'j Speech in Pir-< li^mcntyConcerning the Liturgy of the Church of England, ancfa National Synods i6^i. Mr. Speaker^ THE Queftlon 16, Whether this Claufe concerning fome pretended Erroneous Paflaget in our Liturgy (hall be laid by, or not^ I am of opinion to deltne them here, but not to bury them in perpetual filcnce. In this Period,you give us (in general Terms) a promife of a N^//^»d/ Synod: I do ftill Wifh the prefence of it ; it brings to my Underftand* ing the only proper Cure and Remedy for all our Church Diftra£Hons. The promifed Synod is too far offj let me have better Adurance than a Promife ; which that I may obtain, I will be bold to give you Reafons to induce that AfTembly, and fpeed it alfo. Mr. Speaker^ Much hath been faid, and fomc- thing attempted to be done, to regulate the exteriour part of Religion ; but, Sir, we bleed inwardly, much endeavour hath been to amend the deformed Forms, and to New-govcrn the Government Yet, Sir, this is but the Leaves of good Re* ligion, fit (I confefs notwithftanding) to be li taken 130 5/V Edw. Deering'5 Speech taken care of, for Beauty and Ornament : Nay fome Leaves are fit and neceflary to be pre- ferved for ftiadows and for flielter to the Blof- foms and the Fruit. The Fruit of all is a good Life, which you muft never expeft to fee, unlcfc the Bloffoms be pure and good ; that is, unlefs your Doftrine be found and true. Sir, I fpeak it with full Grief of Heart, whilfl we are thus long pruning and compofing of th6 Leaves, or rather vvhilft fome would pluck all Leaves away, our Bloflbms are blafted; and whilft we fit here in cure of Government and Ceremonies, we are poifoned in our Doftrinals > And on whofe door will the Guilt and Sin of this lye? Qui non vet at feccar&cumfoieji ; julet, ^itlitc. It is true that this Mifchief growes not by our Confent, and yet I know not by what un- happy Fate,there is at prefent (uch an All-daring' Liberty, fuch a lewd Licentioufnefs for venting all Mens feveral Sences (fencelefs Sences) in Religion, as nc^^er was m any Age or Nation, until this prefeat Parliament was met to- gether. Sir, it belongs to us to take heed, that our Countena-ncing ( the Countenance of this Ho- nourable Hou^e ) be not proftituted to fmifter ends by bold Offenders: if it be in our Power to give a Remedy, a timely and feafonable Re- medy to thefe dangerous Evils , and if we (being concern, a National Synod, ^Q* 151 (being alfo put in Mind (hall negleft to do it, we pluck their Sins on our ow^n Heads. Altcnum quifertfcelHS^facitfuum, Senec. Shall I be bold to give pou a very few In- ftances? one for a hundred, wherewith our Pulpits and our Prefles do groan ? I. Mr. Speaker f There is a certain New-born, Unfeen, Ignorant, Dangerous, Defperate way of Independency : Are we, Sir, for this Inde* pendency > Nay, Sir, are we for the Elder Bro- ther of it, the Preslyterial Form ? I have not yet heard any one Gentleman within thefe Walls ftand up and affert his Thoughts here, for ei- ther of thefe fo different, fo repugnant Inno- vations, witnefs the feveral Dedications to us. Nay, both thefe Ways, together with the Eptfcopat^ conne rufliing in upon us, every one pretending a Forehead of Divinity; 1. Epijcopacy {2iys, It is by Divine Right: and certainly. Sir, it comes much nearer to its i Claim than any other. 2. Treshytery^ that faith. It is by Divine Right. 3. Nay, this illegitimate thing, this New- born Independency^ that dares to fay it is by Divine Right alfo. Thus the Church of England^ (not long fince the Glory of the B.eformedReltgton) is milerably torn and diftrafted ; whither ihall we turn for Curc,^ If % i.An- 132 Sir Ed w. Deer ing'^ Speech z. Another Inftance : If I deal vi^ith a Frf- pifly to reduce him, he anfwcrs, I have been anfwered fo already : To what Religion would you perfwade me ? what is the Religion you profefs ? Your XXXIX Articles, they are con* tcfted againft ; your Publick Solemn Liturgy that is detcfted ,• and, which is more than both thefe, the Three Eflcntial, Proper, and only Marks of a True Church, they are proteftcd againft ; What Religion would you perlwadc me to ? where may I find, and know, and fee, and read the Religion you profefs? I bcfeech you, Sir, help me an Anfwer to this Papifi. ^ Nay ,Sir,the Papijl herein hath afliftance even amongft our felves, and doth get the Tongues of fome Men, whofe Hearts are far from them : For at one of our Committees I heard it pub- Kckly aflerted by one of that Committe, that fome of our Articles do contain fomc things contrary to Holy Scripture. ^. Mr. Speaker J Sunday is a Sabbath: Sun Jay no SabhMth : both true,both untrue in their fevc- ral acceptions, and the knot, I think, too hard for our Teeth. Shall I give you an eafier In- fiance > d. Some fay it is lawful to kneel at Re- ceiving the Elements of our Holy Comma- nion : and others plead it as expedient : fome do prefs it as neceflary : and there wants not others who abhor it as idolatrous. And, Sir, I am confident you cannot fo ftate this eafy Queftion concern, a National Synoct^ &c. 133 Qucflion to pafs amonft us, but that there will te many Contradkentes. 5-. I he fccond Epiflle ofSt.Pefer is now newly denied to be the Apoftle's : our Creed^ the holy Apo flies Creed ^ is now difputed^ denied, inverted, and exploded by feme who would be thought the Befi Chriftians araongft us. I flartled with Wonder and with Anger, to hear a bold Me- chanick tell me, that my Creed is not my Creed: he wondred at my Wonder, and faid, I hope your Worfhip is too wife to believe that which you call your Creed. Deus lone^ in (^ua tempora refervafti nos ! [Polycarp^ Thus tv@^ drtjTTii ^o3-lvl@<. (C TzxAAa (Tvuiauivi* Arift, One Abfurdity Icadls in a thoufand. And when you are down the Hill of Errour, there is no bottom but in Hell^ and that is bottomleft too. 6. Sir, I fliall be bould to give one ( and but one) Inftance more. Much clamour now there is againft our Publick Liturgy^ tho' HaUovoed with the Blood of fome of the firft Compofers of it. And furely. Sir, fome parts of it may be very well cor reft ed; but the clamours now go very high; Impudence or Ignorance is now grown fo Frontiers, that it is loudly cxpcdlecj by many, that you fhould utterly abrogate all Forms of Publick Worfliip : As for Extirpation of Epifcopacy^ that hope is already fwallowed ; and now fomcMen are as greedy for the Abo- li 3 lifhing 134 ^^^ Edw, Deering'5 Speech liftiing of the Liturgy^ that fo the Church of England in her Publick Prayers^ nay her Offer^ ture^ may be as a Babbler at all adventures ;1i a brainlefs, ftupid, and an ignorant Conceit jl of feme. f Mr, speaker^ The Wifdom of this Houfe will I (I am confident) never fink fo low, never fall j into fuch a dcliquency of Judgment and Piety : when you do, I Ihall humbly fubmit my felf unto the Stake and Faggot ; I mean for cer- tamly. Sir, I ihall, then be a parliament He^ retkh Thus much for a Tafte of that whereof^ there is too much abroad : for the divifions of Reuhen^ there are great things of that abroad. - Sir, thus we are engaged, enclofed in Points of Divinity, and with tne favour of that Gentle- man who did laft time difcufe it, I mufl again propound my doubtful Qmre to be rclolrcd by the Wifdom of this Hoa^e^ Whether we be Idonei & ccmpetentes Jud'ices^ in Doflrrinal Re- folutions ? in my Opinion we are not ; let us maintain the Doftrine Eftabliihcd in the Churchy cf England^ it will be neither Safety nor Wif- dom for ns to determine new. Sir, I do again repeat and avow my former Words, aPxd do confidently affirm, That it was never feen, known in any Age, in any Nation throughout the World, that a fet of Lay- fn'en^ Gentlemen, Souldiers, Lawyers of both Gowns, Phyficians, Merchants, Citizens, all Profefnons admitted, or at leaft admittable. concern, a National Synod^^c 135 but the profeffors of Rel gion alone excluded, that we fhould determine upon Doclrinal Di- vinity, Shall the C/f/-gy held difFerent Dodrine from us ? or ftiall our determination bind them alfo > they are a confiderable Body in the Kingdom. They are herein furely as much concerned as we , and ought not to be thought fit for no other than for Spiritual Employment: how (hall we anfwer it to God and a good Con- fcience, if we Ihut them out of that, which we our felves pretend to be only their proper Work ? Mr. Speaker^ We cannot brag of an Unerring Spirit: ' Infalithility i$ no more tied to your Ciiair, than to the ?ope\. And if I may fpeak Truth, as I love Truth, with Clearnefs and with Plainnefs, I do here ingenioiifly profefs unto you, that f fliall not acquiefce^ and fit down upon the Doftrinal Refolutions of this Houfi^ unlefe it be where my own Genius doth lead and prompt me, to the fame Conclu- :. fions. Mr, Speaker^ We are here convened by his Majejiy'^s Writ to treat Super arduis negotiis Regni & Ecclefia ; I befeech you let us not turn Ncgptia Ecclefi^ into Dogmata Fidei : there is a great difference /» ol'jeao, between the A- gends and the Credends of a Chriftian : let us fo take care to fettle the Government, that we do not unfettle the Doftrines. The 1 1^ SirEd. Dccrmgs Speech,8cc^ The fhort Clofe of all with a Motion, is but this : We are poifoned in many Points of Do- ftrine, and I know no Antidote, no Recipe for Cure but one ^ A Well-chofen and a Wei! tem- pered Natioftal Synod, QJI& 6 D^s Bleffing there- on : this may cure us, and without this (in my poor Opinion England is like to turn it felf into a great Amfierdam ; and unlefs this Counfel be very fpeedy , the Difeafe will be above the Cure. Therefore that we may have a full Fruition of what is here but promifed, I do humbly move, That you will command forth the Bill for a t^ational Synod^ to be read the next Morn- ing. I faw the Bill above five Months fincp in the Hand of a Worthy Memher of this Houfe ; if that Bill be not to be had, then my humble Motion is (as formerly) that you would name a Committee to draw up another. This being once refolved, I would then de- fire, that all Motions of Religion ( thjs about the Liturgy efpecially) may be transferred thither ; and you will find it to be the way of Peace and Unity amongft us here. Sir «I7 Sir John Wt^ys Sfeech the 1 3^* of No* vember^ 16^1. concerning the Vvr lavpfulnefs of Bi/hops, and Epifcopal Authority. TH E firfl: Challenge for Lordly Primacy hath of old been grounded out of the Great Charter^ by which they hold an Epifco- pal Primacy or Jurifdiftion to belong to their States of Prelacy : this is their Temporal Foun- dation and main Objcftion. Here I demand of them. Unto wliat Church this Great Charter was granted, and, Whether it were not granted to the Church of Ged in England; let the Words of Magna Chart a decide this, which are thus, Conceftmus pro nolh & in perpetHum quod Ecclejia Anglic am libera Jit ^ habeat omnia Jua Jura integra^ © lihertates fuas illafas. Now by this Charter, if it be rightly in- terpreted, there is firft Provifion made, the Ho- nour and Worlhip Ihould be yielded unto God, as truly, and indeed it belongs to him. ^. Secondly, That not only fuch Rights and Liberties as the King and his Progenitors, but alfo fuch as God had ordained the Church of England, which fliould be inviolably preferved. And indeed fuch only are to be preferved, in- deed fuch only are to be called the Rights and Liberties of the Church of England, which God himfelf 13 8 Sir John Wray'^ Speech himfelf hath given by his Law unto the Uni- verfal Church. And not that which the Kings of England by their Charter have bequeathed to the particular Church of England. And this no doubt y^zs the Caufe that moved Henry the Eighth fo effeftually and powerfully to bend himfelf agiinft the Pope*s Supremacy ufurped at that time over the Church of England r For, faith the King, we will withhazard of our Life, and lofs of our Crown, uphold and defend in our Realms, whatfo^er we fliall know to be the Will of God. The Church of God in England not being free, according to the Great Charter^ but in bondage and Servitude to the See of Rome^ con- trary to the Law of God^ the King judged it to fland highly with his Honour, and with his Oath, to reforr^i, redrefs, and amend the a- bufes of the fanjie See. li therefore jt might pleafe our Gracious So- vereign Lord Ring Charles^ in imitation of thofe his Noble Progenitors, to vouchfafe an abolifti- ment of all |-ordly Supremacy, executed by Archiepifcopal and Epifcopal Authority, over the Minifters of Cbrifl : his Highnefs in fo do- ing could no more rightly b^ charged with the Violation of the Great Charter^ than might K. Henry the Eighth with the Banifliment of the Pope'^s Supremacy, or then our late Sovereign Queen Elizabeth could bejuftly burthened with the Breach of her Oath, by the Eftablifhnient oftheGofpel. Now againfi Epifcopacy^ &c. 13^ Now if the Kings of England by reafon of their Oath, were fo ftraitly tied to the words of the Great Charter^ that they might not in any fort have difannulled any fuppofed Rights or Liberties of the Church than ufed, and con- firmed by the faid Charter^ unto the Church that then was fuppofed to be the Church of God in England: Then belike King Henry the Eighth might be attainted to have gone againfi the Great charter^ and againfi his Oath, \^hen by the overthro\V of Abbies and Monafteries, he took away the Rights ad Liberties of Abbots and Priors I for by the exprefs word of the Great Charter^ Abbots and Priors^ had as large and ample a Patent for their Rights and Li- berties, as our Archbifliops and Bilhops can at this day challenge for their Primacy. If-then the Rights and Liberties of the one, as being againfi the Law of God^ be duly and lawfully taken away, notwithflanding any Matter, Claufe, or Sentence contained in the Great Charter*, the other have but little reafon under the colour of the Same, to fland upon their PantablesJ and contend for their painted Sheaths: For tliis is a Rule and Maxim in God's Laws, Oucd in omni Juramentofer/tper ex-- cipitur Authontas Majoris : Unlefs then they be able to juflify by ttie Holy Scriptures, that fuch Rights and Liberties, as they pretend for their Spiritural Supremacy over the Minifters of Chri/l^ hQ in deed and truth conferred unto them by the Holy Law of God, I fuppofe the 140 Sir Benj.KudyeTd's speech Kift^s Highncfs, as Succeffor to flenry the Eighthy and as more juft Inheritor to the Crown of Englandy by the words of the Great Charter^ and by bis Oath, is bound utterly to to abo- lifh ail Lordly Primacy as hitherto upheld, and defended, partly by Ignorance, and partly by unrcafonable and evil Cuftom. Sir Benjamin Rudyerd'i Speech con* cerning Bi/hopSy Deans and Chapters^ at a Committee of the v^hole Houfc* Mr. Hyde, WE are now upon a very great Bufinefej fo great indeed, as it requires our founded, our faddeft Confideration ; our bed Judgment for the prefent, our utmoft Forc- fight for the future. But, Sir, one thing doth exceedingly trouble me, it turns me round about, it makes my whole Reafon verriginous, which is, that fo many do believe, againft the Wifdom of all Ages, that now there can be no Reformation Without Deftruftion ; as if every fick Body muft be prefcntly knockt in the Head, as pad hope of Cure. Religion was filrd and bed planted in Cities,* God did fprcad his Net where mod might be caught. Cities had Bifhops and Presbyters: Presby- concerning BiJhops^DeanSydcc. 141 Presbyters were the Seminaricf out of which were fent Labourers by the Biftiops to propa- gate and cultivate the Gofpcl. The Clergy then lived wholly upon the Free-will Offerings and Bounty of the People- Afterwards, when Kings and States grew to be Chriftians, the outward Settlement of the Church grew up with them. They ercfted Bi- fliopricks, founded Cathedral Churches, en- dowed them with large Poflcffions : Landlords built Parifti Churccs gleab'd them with fomc Portion of Land, for which they have ftill a Right of Prefentation. I do confefs that fome of our Bifliops have had ambitious, dangerous aims, and have (o ftill, that in their Government there are very great Enormities: but I am not of their Opi- nion who believe, that there is an innate ill Quality in Epifcopacy, like a fpecifical Proper- ty, which is a Refuge, not a Reafon. I hope there is not Original Sin in Epifcopacy ; and tho' there were, yet may the Calling be as well Reformed, as the Perfon Regenerated. Biftiops have governed the Church for fifteen hundred years without interruption ; and no Man will fay, but that God hath faved Souls in all thofe times under their Government. Let them be reduced accof ^ng to the Ufage of ancient Churches in the belt times, fo reftrain- ed as rhey may not be able hereafter to Ihamc the Calling, I love not thofe that hate to be Reformed, and do therefore think them worthy of 142 SirBcn'j.Kxxdycrd's speech of the more ftrift , the more clofe Refof- mation. We have often complained, That Bilhops are too abfolute, too fingular. Altho' Cathe- dra! Churches are now for the mod part but Receptacles of Drones, and Non-re(idents ; yet fome good Men may be found or placed there to be Allcflbrs with the Bilhops, to affift them in Aftions of moment, and in Caufes of Importance ; there is Maintenance already provided for them. If either in Bifliopricks, or Cathedral Churches there be too much, fome may be pared off,to relieve them that have too little. If yet more may be fpared, it may be imployed to the fetting up of a Preaching Miniftery thro' the whole Kingdom. And until this be done, altho' we are Chriflians, yet wc are not a Chriftian State. There are fome Places in England xhzt are not in Chriften- dom, the People are fo ignorant, they live fo without God in the World ; for which Parlia- ments are to anfwer both to God and Man. Let us look to it, for it lies like one of the Bur- dens of the Prophet Efay^ heavy and flat upon Parliaments. I have often ferioufly confidered with my fclf, what flrong concurrent motives and caufes did meet together in that time ; when Abbeys and Monafteries ^were overthrown ? Certainly God's Hand was the greatefl, for he was moft offended. The prophane Superftitions, the abo- minable Idolatries; the filthy nefendous wicked- nefs' concerning Bifhops^VeanSj^cc. 143 jfiefs of their Lives did (link in God's Noftrifts, did call down for Vengeance, for Reformation. A ^ood party of Religious Men were zealous Inftruments in that great Work, as likcwife many Covetous Ambitious Perfons, gaping for Fat Morfels, did luftily drive it on. But, Mr. Hyde^ there was a Principal Par- liamentary Motive, which did facilitate the reft : For it was propounded in Parliament, that the acceflion of Abby Lands would fo en- rich the Crown, as the People ftiould never be put to pay Subfidies again. This was plau- fible both to Court and Countrey : Befides, with the overplus there fhould maintain a ftand- ing Army of forty thoufand Men, for a perpe- tual defence of the Kingdom. This was Safety at Home, Terrour and Honour Abroad : the Parliament would make all fure. God's Part ; Religion by his Bleffing, hath been reafonably well prefervad; but it hath been faved as by Fire : for the reft is confumed and vaniihed : the People have payed Subfidies e- ver fince, and we are now in no very good cafe to pay an Array. Let us be ware, Mr. HyJe^ that we do not look with a Worldly, Carnal, Evil Eye upon Church Lands; let us clear our Sight, fearch our Hearts, that we may have unmixt and fin- cere Ends, without the leaft thought of iaving own own Purfes. Church Lands will ftill be fitteft to maintain Church Men, by a propor- tionable and orderly Diftribution. We 144 SirBcnj.Kudyct:'s Speech,8cc. Wc arc very ftrift and curious to uphold our own Propriety, and there is greater Reafonfor it : arc the Clergy only a fort of Men who have no Propriety at all in that which is called Theirs? I am fure they are Ertglijh Men^ they are Sub- jeds. If we pull down Biihopricks, and pull down Cathedral Churches, in a fhort time we muft be forced to pull down CoUedges too; for Schollars will live and die there as in Cells, if there be not confiderable Preferment to invite them abroad. And the Example we are mak- ing now, will be an eafy Temptation to the lefs-preffing NeceflSties of future Times. This is the next way to bring in Barbarifm, to make the Clergy an unlearned contemptible Vocation, not to be defired, but by the bafeft of the People ; and then where ihall we find Men able to convince an Averfary ? A Clergyman ought to have a far greater Proportion to live upon, than any other Man of an equal Condition. He is not bred to mul- tiply Three-pences, it becomes him not to live mechanically, and fordidly: he muft be given to Hofpitality. I do know my felf a Clergy- man , no Dignitary , whofe Books have coft bim a thoufand Pounds, which when he dies, may be worth to his Wife and Children, about two hundred. It will be a fliameful Reproach to fo Flourilb- ing a Kingdom as this, to have a poor beggarly Clergy. For my part, I think nothing too much noting Alderman Atkins'5 Speech^^c* 145 nothing too good for a good Miniller, a good Clergyman. They ought Icaft to want, who bed know how to abound Burning and (hining Lights do well deferve to be let m good Can- dlefticks. Mr. Hyde^ I am as much fi^r Refo»'mation, for Purging and Maintaining Religion, as any Man whatlocver; but I profefs, I am not for Innovation, Demolition, nor AboliiioD. A Seafonable Speech fpo^en by Alderman Atkins in the Rump-Parliament. ^ Mr, Speaker^ AFTER fo many DJJpenfations znA Out- goings of Providence, we are now the Third time retum'd to fit in this Honourable Henfe again ; but how long we (hall do fo, I believe the wifeft of us all cannot tell ; For the SouU'ters have of late fet up Governments^ as I Boyes do Nine-pins^ to throw Vw down again. But how oft foever they turn us out here- I after, I ftiall never doubt to get in again : for I I perceive thofe Changes, and Revolutions as- I they call them) are juft like cafting of Knaves at Cards, where fome play^ and lome fit out till the Set be up, or till the Gamefters fall out and throw up their Cards, and th^^n they (land fair to be in again. But notwithflanding fo Kk maay 1^6 Alderman Atkins s Speech ^ many Interruptions, and Difturbances, many mightj and great Works have been carried on by Us iVorms and No-r/fen. You, Sir, have a a New-waiafcot Chair, and our Seats that were but covered mth Mats^ when we came jRrft to fit here, are now lined with good Broad Clath of \6Sh.per Yard, and the whole Houfc Is hang'd in a better manner, than any Maa expefted. But this is not all that we have done, ibr we have reform'd Religion^ and ^ brought the Church as nigh to what it was in the Primitive Timts amongft the Jews and Pa^ \ gans as may be ; for the Chrifttans have fold all they have long fince, and laid it at our Feet, and we begin once more to have all things , in Common. Befides, Str^ we have done Strange Juftice on the late Tyrant^ and transform'd the ^ Kingdom into a Common-wealthy as Nebuchadnez- zar was into a Beaft- But there is one thing that we have omitted^ and which indeed the People have much more reafon to expefl: from us ; for Reformation^ as well as Charity^ begins at home : to hold forth my Meaning in brief to you, Sir^ 'tis the Cleanfing of cur Houfe of Office ; and if that Name be not Mannerly enough for this Place, it is in your Power to help it: for j there is a fpare Name that hath been lately ; conferr'd upon this Honourable Houfe by the People, which was once call'd The Houfe of Par- liament^ as it is now the Rump. This Name, 1 in my Opinion, we cannot better difpofc of i ifaan in conferring it on the Houfe I fpoke of; J for 1 in the Rump-Parliament, 1 47 for not only that, but all other Houfes of the fame Quality, (of which ours is the Reprefen- tative) may in the Right thereof hercatter be callM a Ruwp^ as being a Name more proper and Significant in regard of the Relation it hath to the Part: And truly, Sir^ I believe the Wif- dora and Juftice of this Houje can do no lefs, if you pleafe but to confider the near and inti-^ mate Corrcfpondence that Houfe has ever held with thii^ as having ever been intruded witH the moft urgent and weighty Matters that we have ever carried on, and fo necejfary^ that I may boldly fay, without that recourfe which we have had to it in our greateft Extremities^ this Houfe might hvjQfufferdiot it many time and oft. it is now, Sir^zsfuSzs this Honourable Houfe was once of Members, and as unufeful; until we take fome Courfe to empty it, as we did this, which I humbly conceive, we can by no means avoid. For, under favour, I do not think we can ufe this Houfe as we did the Houfe of Lords • I mean, Vote it down^ when it will ferve our turns no longer : No, this is a matter of a higher Nature, and more weighty Con- cernment 5 and as the Difference is great in Rea* fon of State^ fo it is alfo in Poiat ox Confcience : For tho' it is true we engag'd znd fwore to main- tain the Hofjfe of Lords J yet we did it not af- ter a right Manner; for we read it wasaCu- ftom among the Jem^ when they made any Solemn Vow, to put their Hands under one an- other's Hams ; and if we had done fo when we Kk ^ fwore 1 48 Alderman Arkins'5 Spech fwore that, and kifsM the Book, I grant we had been bound in Confciencc to have upheld it longer thao we did, I mean longer than we had need of it ^ but we^ .quite contrary, held up our Hands, and fo were not bound to keep it otherways than we took it, ^iz. Hand over Head; for unlefs we diffet'^dhom the Jews in other Matters, more than we do, I know no Reafon why we Ihould in this. But row I Ipcak of the Jewi^ give me leave by obferving one Paffage in their Hiftory, to hold forth unto you the Danger of SupprelFing the aforefaid Houfe. Sauly for want of Xuch a Convenience, going into a Cave where David had hid him- lelf, had like to have loft his Life ; for if Da- uid had been One of us, I know what would have become of Saul\ he would rather have cut off his fiead^ than a piece of His Coat; as I wonder he did nor, fince being a /"a-^^^^/^, he might have made Serif ture of purpole to have proved him a Tyrant^ and a Tray tor ^ as we did Law to Condemn the late King after he was put to Death. But tho' David was wifer than his Teachers, he wis not fo wije as we were : Tis true, for his own Advantage he knew how to "make the filly Tbilillians believe he was Mad\ but I am miflakcn if we have not outdone him this Way too, and made the Wiftft think us fo. But to return to the Purpofe: Suppofe, Sir^ the Army ihould have cccafion to give this Ho- nourahk Houfe a Fitrge again, you would be loth it ftiould work here, and truly I do not know in the Rump- Parliament. 14^ know what othcf way you have to avoid it, unlefs we fliould make ufe of that Place where the Affemhly of Divwes hltXy fate, which for my part f like very well, if it were nearer; and certainly they have no reafon to take it ill, for it is according to the txample of the beft Reformed Churches, r. nd Lknow no reafon why we may not as well S/t there, and mdktfoiver Faces at our own charges^ as they did at the charge of the Common wealth. For my own part (did not the common Good provoke rae to it) I have as httle reafon to fpcak as another, and perhaps lefs ;' for my Breeches are made clofe at the Knees and fo better fitted againft a Mifchame, Befides I know the worfi of it ; for I believe you have often heard what I have fuffer'd in the Service of my Country. But let that pafs, tho' it were the worfe for my Reputation and my Breeches, it was the better for my Body and my Soul too, for I hzvt eJi- fed much by it : 'Tis true the Boys hold their Nofes, and cry, fcgh when they fee me in the Streets ; but whit of that ? a wife Man knows how to make advantage of the grcateft Difa- fters, and fo have I done. For there was a time, Mr, Speaker^ when this Homurahle Houfe had like to have been a Fcul Hsufe ; and when was that? why truly it was when the Appren- tices came hither to ftie w us one Trick more than ever we taught them : then did I take this Worfhipful Chain off my Neck, and very Po» litickly put it into my Codpiece ; foif I knew Kk 3 well 150 Alderman Atkins'5 Speech well enough that No-body in this Town,whcrc I am fo well kaown, would venture to look for it there ; and I was not miftaken, for here you fee I have it Hill. The fame thing I did at another time, and that was when, (dA you well remember) apiece of Plaifter falling from the Roof, fome of the Members cry'd, Treafon^ and many made hafte to get out of the Houfe, as faft as they could, fo did not I, No, 5/r, I refolv'd to ftay by it ,• and therefore having put my Chain into my Codpiece^ I crept under the Bench, in this very place where I now fit, and there I lay clofe till I heard fome that were bear me fay, they fmelt Gun-powJer ; but then I knew it was a M'tflake, and fo it proved in- ded : but if it had been otherwife, no Danger ihould have made me forfake my Duty. No, 5//, ! have been fo Faithful to this Houfe, and fo Corflant to my Principles, that I have not changed fo much as my Seat fmce the happy Bf ginning of this Parliament : In this very f^lace did I fit then, on both fides of me fate two Members, that prov'd Maligyiants Jot xhty took fnufF at fomething that fell from me in my Zeal to the Cauje^ and ran to Oxford to the KiKQi: their Eftates are long fince fold, for which the Common wealtfi may thank me ; for verily, Sir^ I have not been altogether an Zinprnfiiahle Member according to my Talent^ and the Difpofition of what was in me: for tny Hoiveh have been oft pot^red out for the Proijperity of this Houie, and I hope, my, Con- veriation w in the Rump-Parliament. 151 verfation hath held forth much of the Inward Maa, as may be fufficient to fatisfy the WcU- afiected by whom I am intruded : and as for any Backbiters, I forgive them freely. Alas! they hurt thenifclves, and not me ; for if they get any th'mg by dealing with me that way, they mud have Good luck, Sir^ I have ufed the more Freedom with you, becaufe I have fome Pretence of your Pardon ; for I believe you have often obferv'd. That when any thing hdiS fallen from any of my Fellow.Members,that the Houfe has refcnted^ it has been prefently laid to my Charge^ and I have always taken it upon me freely ; for I fliall never refufe to ferve this Houfe in'any Sence whatfoever. I fliall therefore humbly move, That you would be pleafed to order this Honourable Houfe to Ad- journ for a Convenient time, until the Houfe be emptied^ and made fweet again ; for if we fliould fit here before, it will not be in the Power of any one Man to own fo much Sthjk as will be laid to my Charge. Kk 4 Thre^ 1 5 2 Alderman Atkins'i Speech Three Notable Speeches at Grocers-Hall, on the late So- lemn Day of Tbankfgiving, Thurlday June f^, i6^^. Alderman Atkins'5 Speech before Dinner to the Speaker, the Gencral> Lieute- nant, General, and Lord Prefident Brad (haw, at Grocer s-HalL Mr. Speaker^ OH ! this i$ a blefled Day (Mr. Speaker') and marvazIoHs in our eyes, to fee you become pur Supreryje Head and Govermur^ now that we have cut ofF the Kin^s Head. And ( as I take it) it is one main Reafon of this Heavenly Thankfgiving to My Lord Lieutenant General, and Mr. Generate Excellency for their great Pains, in the Bufinefs. Verily (Mr. Speaker') \ cannot chufe but weep for joy to think on't; and yet I cannot tell you for what, tho'Ijhall tell you by and by In the mean time Frethee Mr. Steward^ fet; ajjde a couple ofCuftards and a Tart for my Wife In the mean time (Hay) I fee no reafon but why I may cry as |A^ell as bawl. I lay, Sir^ I caa bawl as well as before Dinner to the Speaker ,^9*^. 1 5 3 as my Lord Pembroke here, or any Man elfe : my Mouth was made for Bawling, and I think you all know it well enough in the Houje upon occafion : For you may remember, Mr. Speaker^ how I bawi'd at the Apprentices^ two year? fincc, when the Houje of Comtyiofjs had like to have gone to wrack like a Baivdy-hcufe, I am fure I was Mr, Speaker*x\xtn ; for you lookt as white as the Driven CujlarJ^ and had neither Ton^ue^ nor EjeSj nor Ears^ nor Nofe^ nor Brains^ nor any thing elfe, but were in the fame pickle as when the King came to demand the Five MemherS' I wonder he did not fmell me out too for a Traytor : For I had my Breeches full on't then, as I had half a year before in Finf hury^ at the General Mufter of the New Mili- tia : At which time, I pray, Sir^ I was one of the City-Collonels^ and came off cleanly (tho** I fay it: ) For, being wounded in the Belly, I retreated home ; and having asked Counfcl of a Surgeon ^^^ Malignant Knave would nor under- take me ; and fo the State might have loft a Ser- vant for want of a Flaifler^ but that my Kit chin- wench made a Ihift to cure me with a Difh-clout. But having fcap't this Scouringiyix. Speaker) and lived to fee this Glorious Day, now letusfing the Song of old Simeon^^nd depart in peace ; but firft let's have our Belly-fulls. O Death, I defy thee, for here's a good Dinner coming in. Twelve Bucks out of Eltham Park, befides thofe of the City; not a Preshjterian Bit Cl promife you) therefore fit down Gentlemen^ and eat luftily ; 1 5 4 Alc/erman A tkins'5 Speech luftily; I promife you 'tis well feafon'd PlI pafs my Word for the Cooks '^ for I was one of the Committee that examined them, and put them * every Man to their Oaths^ ^Jfwiu^^ to forfwear Rat-lane^ Mercury and Monarchy. , Befidcs, here's My Lord Frefident (for more Security) hath brought a dozen Taflers along with him. I hope he will lend us fome of them. And now, Mr. Speaker^ you are Wellcome ; in the Name of my Brethren Reprefentattves of the City^ I bid you heartily Wellcome ; you may eat, drink, and be merry ; for, you have laid up Goods for many years, and now you are laying up the Kin^s Goods. More Sacks to the Mill fi ill. Sit down M. Speaker^ you are a good old Speaker ; you are the Repre- fentative of the Supreme Authority. It was the Pope^s firft, next it was the Kin^s, and now it is yours, thank the Army. How daintily things are come about, Mr. Speaker^ as well as you and I ! For, as I take it, you and I, and many more here have been at all Jhankf* givirjgs thefe Seven Years. We have waited upon his old Excellency EffeXy and the Admiral Warwick^ and fung Pjalms with the Ajfemily- Men here over and over : And now thofe Black- hirds are all flown, and out of Tune: here's not a Man of them but Thomas Goodwin^ and he is every jot as honeft a Man as his Name-fake Johyj ; for neither of them cares much for fay- ing Grace I Therefore fit down, Mr, Speaker^ we have \i\sNew Excellency here now, and Ge- neral before Dinner to the Speaker,^^. 155 rieral Cromwelfs Honour-, that cares as little as they. Indeed you muft fit down firft, and My Lord Mayor next; for the Army ( I am fure) made us vote it fo, and that the City^Sword lliould be yielded up to you to make a Thankf- giving Trencher-Ktfey and fo you were as good a Man as the Kifjg^ and a better Man than My Lord Mayor, and fo you might have been ftill, had you not given him his Sword again ; for you lofe your place in yielding up the Sword^ and leave the Supreme Authority in My Lord Mayor and the Army. Howfoever fit ftill, Sir^ I hope the General will not oppofe the Fotes of the Houfe^ now that it is the Armyh own Houfe, but let them pafs aii't be hwtfor Fafhions fake : and therefore (Mr. Speaker) for Fafhions Jake you may fit uppermolt, and next to you My Lord Mayor. I think too, for Fafhions fake (My Lord Ge- neraC) your Excellency o^ay fit down next. I would be loth to difpleafe Mr. Lieuiena;it Gene- ral's Honour, I hope he will not be angry at your Excellency^ nor me. I coulJ wifta you had voted all your Places before you came hi- ther : But your Excellency may fir, I fuppofe ; for Mx.Lieutenant General looks as if he gave you Leave. On my Confcience, that's a meek humble Soul , and will take fome other time to fet you befide the Saddle. And for you ( My Lord Prefident^ I (hould have placed you uppermoft ; for I know none fo fit to have reprcfcnted the Supreme Autho- rity, 1^6 A/c/erman Atkins's Speech rity, as you that commanded the Cutting off that f/eae/ of it! Oh, this Scar let ^Govon be- comes your Honour i It (bits exceeding well with mii^e and My Lord Mayerh ; for you fen- tenced the Old King as a Traytor^ and we have proclaimM the You^g /f//?g to be no King^ and a Traytor^ when we can catch him. It was a dangerous piece of Work indeed ; I was as a- fraid as you were of following Dr. Doriflaus^ the People did fo threaten, as if they would have torn us for the very Rags of Autbority^ and cried up Charles the Second louder than we could cry him down. I think the reft of my Brethren carried it a little better than my felf ; for my Guts began to crow after their old tune, and wrought like Bottle-beer, infomuch that I vviflit for Coll. pride to ftop the Bujig-hole^ till the Troopers relievM us. But now (my good' Lord Prefide^t) let's comfort one another : And tho' you deferve to be upper moft, yet fit down and be content with your Place. For Fajhlon^s fake Mr. Lieu- iciiant GentraPs Honour is content to let it be fo, till he find it convenient to turn you off as well as his Excellency. Pray take it not ill that I whifper this in your Ear ; for, now that he hath made you ferve his Ends, he cares not fo he were rid of you, fince you may ferve them all as you did the King^ in a new High Court of Jufiicej becaufe you are pleafed to let it be fo. The before Dinner to the S^cAciCyiyc. 157 The next Place [Ut.Lteut.Gen.) muft needs be yours. By his Excelltncfs Leave, you are the Saviour of the Three Kingdoms, You are he that hath filled our Hearts this Day with Thankfgiving and Gladnefs. You trained the King into a Snare at Carishrook Caftle.and fooled and routed all his Party, You fet up a High Court to cut him off, and you lie at catch for his Son. You have made us a Commm-wealtb^ that is (as Malignant s fa) ) have given us Power to put a Finger in every Man's Purfe and Pocket, You have made the People the Supreme Autho^^ rity^ and left them no Laws. And well done (.Sir) for what ftiould we do with any Law but the Sword > Or what Law like Liberty of Confcience and Power met together ? You it is that lead his EscelUncy by the Nofe like a Bear^ and at laft will bring him to the Stake. You have new Moulded the City. You are the Joy of our Hearts^ the Li}bt of our Eyes, and the Breath of our Ncjirils^ tho' Cavaliers call you the Cut-throat of our Lives and Liberties. For all which we fet this.Day apart to give Thanks to GO D^ and a Dinner to you, and fomewhat elfe into the Bargain, as you {hall fee after Din- ner. In the mean time fall to; a Short Life and a Merry • ( may it pleafe your Hemur ) a Short Life ayid a Merry -^ and fo give me leave to conclude heartily with part of the Lord'^s prayer ( tho' I do not ufe it ) ""Thy Kingdom come; or as the Thief did upon the Crofs, Re- member me when thou comefl into thy Kingdom^ and 1 5 8 Alderman Pennington'^ Spech 1 I I and I promife you faithfully I will never befliite |1 the Palace. % Alderman Pennington'^ Sfeech at t prefenting of the Golden Bafon am Ewer unto the Gznt^dX^mth a Plate of 300 /. value, and 200 /• in Gold in a Purfe to the Lieutenant General. Give Ear O Heavens, and regard O Earth • May it pleafe your Excellency to open your Mouth wide, and I (hail fill it. I Ifaac Pennifigton Alderman of London^ confefs my felt altogether unable to fpeak the Praifcs due unto your felf, Mr. LkHtenant General^ and all the faithful Officers and Souldiers of your Ar- my. Yet why fliould I hold my peace ? I will fpeak, tho' I cannot fpeak; and tho' I cannot fpeak, I will not keep filence. Some have been fo bold as to brand me for a Crackt Feffel^ yet I have been meet for my Mafler'^s ufe^ and they ftiall find me as found as foundhg Brafs^ or as a tinkling Cymhal. Mofes was a Man flow of Speech, yet he was a Great Leader ; and fo have I been, and fo is your Excellency. But as for ^iv. Lieutenant General^ tho' he be fuch a one too^yet he hath theTonguesof Men and Angels fo much at his Devotion^ that the very noifc of them drowns the Fame of your Excellency^ and fwallows up your Senfes, Fof at theprefenting the G.Bafony&cc. 1 5^ I or my part, I bkfs GOD exceedingly for you both, for all your Labour of Love in Gm- poivJer and Gcfpel^ and carrying on that Glo* rious Work of Reformation; which tho'I began in Defperation , yet you have brought it to Pcrfci^ion. Hencrforth therefore all Genera- tions {hall call you Blefled, and me no MaJ Man^ thcf I have been as mad as any of you all ; and yet I think I am fit enough to deliver the S^nk of the Citj^ who by me returns you Thanks for the great Pains you have taken in purging the Malignant Preshjterzans out of the Common Council^ as Well as the Houfe ; by which means you made fliift to New-moJd the C//y, as you did the Army^ turning out all that were not of your own Temper : fo that we are all now of one Soul and one Mind, and lay all Things in Common for the ufe of the State^ but what is our own. Add to thefe things your Borrowing Money of the City, but never paying them again, your breaking all their Privilcdges, and putting dai- ly afFronts upon them, your iraprifoning, fining, afle/Iing, taxing, cxcifing, free-quartering, and fleecing all their Fellows; your conquering thcnt by treachery, and riding thro' their Streets in triumph, your over-awing them with the M* litary Power, and deftroying their Trade by Land, and Traffick by Sea. For all which un- expreffible Favours, with the Extirpation of Presbytery, and the Suppreffing of Levellers^ they i6o Alc/ermanVcnningtons Speech ^ they conceive themfelves bound to return an Acknowledgment, and rejoyce in the Oppor- tunity of Dedicating this Day of Thankfgrjing unto you and your Bellies. But fince Man lives not by Bread on]y^ but by killing of Kings and Lojal Suhjeits^ and fei- zing on their Goods and Eftatcs, and turning them into Money; fince Gold is the only God- defs of this Reformation^ and the Saints cannot cftabliih their King without it ; fince your Ex- cellency^ and your Lieutenant>General Guar- dian, have vouchfafed this Favour of a Vifit, which you denied to the ?reshyters;^z\i^x^ pre- fent your Excellency^ with the izmt golden Bafon and Evoir^ which you refufed from their hands. It coft them one Jhoufand Founds; and becaufe it was of their Providing, we can the more freely beftow it you. I have been an old Thankfgiving'Sinner^ as well as Mr. Speaker^ or any of them all, in the days of old EJfex^ who (I am fure) never received fucb a Prefent for all his Pains, but was concent to be fobb'd ofF with a Clofe-flool and a Pipe of Toiacco; which was the reafon, I conceive, why my Brother Atkins here in thofe days, kept fo clofe to him after Dinner. And as for you (Mr. Lieutenant Generaf) tho' your Merits out- weigh whatever we can pre- fent unto you 5 and tho' in all the before-named Exploits we muft allow you the greateft ^Ihare, yet be pleafed to accept of the lefs Requital, a^ poor dt theprefenting the G,Bafon,6cc. i ^f poor Pittance of 300 /. in Plate, and a Fifion of GoUeft Artgels in a Purfe^ to the value of lOO /. at the coft of our own Fraternity. As for the reft of the Lords and GentlimcH here prefent, I hope they will excufe us^ and chink themfelves well fatisfied with their Din- tier : And in particular you. My Lord Prehdent^ who deferve much in the Settling of this Repub- tick. But having done but one fingle Aft to- wards it, if you expeft more than a Dinnery we muft leave you to the Gonftderatiori of M. Lieutenant General^ who fet you on Work, and in the end, no doubt, will pay your Wages. I have but one Word more to fay, and that is this: We have great caufe to rejoyce in the happy Settlement of this Common^wealth^ but I fear we (hall not be quiet yet. God blefs us from untoward Dreams and reftlefs Nights; and fend us well to digcft this Thank/gtving- Dinner^ and to have no more of them, nor oc- cafion for them in haft : for the frights they put us into before-hand are terriblc,and the Dinners themfelves are chargeable, and will prove very chargeable indeed, if Malignants fpeak truth^ who fay this very Day's Thankfgiving will coft us no lefs than our Heads^ if not our Souls too into the Bargain. Therefore, Gentlemen^ in a word, I think wc have but one PlayJ and that is to hold up the State as long as we cari, and td ^akc fure of our Heads and Iftates, aind {)^illage other Men's, when we can hold it 00 longed; LI Hu^ I ^2 H Petcrs's Thankf giving Speech Hugh Pcters'5 Tbanl^fgivirfg Speech for a Farawel to the City, in the behalf of the General and Lieutenant Ge- neral. Mr. Alderman Pennington, and the refl of the Reprefentatives of the City, IMuft tell you, I have been half the World over, and yet I come back again ; and by my Faith, Sirsy I muft tell you, I never faw. fuch a godly jolly Crew as^are there, all Heigh 1 fellows wellmettogethcr.'Tis merry when Malt" men meer; and , they fay) fomc of us here have been Br ewer s^ and worfe Trades too: But uh— • uh — let that pafs. I defy Brewings for I have been all over your Wine Cellar^ and that's another World, but it's as flippery a World as this, and runs round too. What a Nkodemus is the Butler I he was loth to own me but by Night ; he bad me ftay till Night, and then I fliould have my Belly-fidl .- Now, Sirs^ I con- ^ ceive a Beth- full is a Belly ^f nil ; and if a Man have not his Bdlj full^ it is no Tbatikfgivkg: And if you, Gentlemen of the Ctty^ have not a Bellj'fuiroi this tbahkfgivtng^ I % may you have a Belly fdL Had i)r. DoriflaUs been fo vvifeastohaveflaid at home, he niight have had another kind of Belly full than he had at the Hague : But a Belly- full for a Farewel to the City. 1 6^ full &i\l is a Belly-fml; and Grocer s-Hall is a bet- ter Ordinary than a Di^tch Ordinary for a Belly full. Pox o' your Dutch OrdinarieSy I think they will become Engiifh^ and give us all 4 Belly-full; but in another kind, i fear, than I gave my Dutch Land Lady and her Daughter. But no matter for that, a Belly fuUis a Bf//y- /«// : their E^Z/yj were ertipty, and fo was mine ; for I had not fo much as a Stiver to blefs my felf, and they would never lee me be quiet^ and i fcor'd up ftill, and fo I got my Belly fu//^ and they got their Belly full ; which was one Belly full for another, and fo at length I was; ^uit with them. Then I went to New-England^ and there I faw a blefled Sight ; a World of Wild Women and Men lying round a fire in a ring flark naked. If this Cuftom (hould come up in London (as I fee no retfon but it may, if the State will vote it) then every Woman may have her Belly- full; and it would be a certain cure for Cuckolds and Jealoufy^ and fo the City would lofe no- thing by this Thankfgiving, But now to come home in the Point in hand: My Lord May or ^ and you Gentlemen of the City I am commanded to give^you Thanks: but I would know for what ? for your Dinner > yes, I will when I have my^^//y-/«// ; but your Butler is no True Trojan ; he knows not how to tap and tofs the Stingo. Sure, he is fome Presbyterian Spie that is flinkt into Office ; fome Cowardly Fellow that pines away at Scandalous Sins^ and LI % the i^4H.Pcters'5 Thankf giving Speech the St0ol of Repentance^^nd he will never do well till he be drcnch'd for the Humour ; fo that now I fee 1 am like to go away without my Bellj'full^ and have never a Jig to the Tune of Arthur of Bradley. Sing 0! hrave Artker of Bradley Sing ! But if things go thus, what ftiould I lee you for ? The States forefaw that forry Good fellows you would be, or elfe fome of you had been Knighted^ as wxll as My Lord ef Pembroke. Nay it was GOD^s Mercy you had not all been Knighted: for it was put to the Vote (I tell you) whether My Lord Mayor fliould be Knight- ed ; and whether, you Alderman Pemhgtonj and Alderman Atkins^ fliould be Dubb'd Sir Ifaac and Sir Thomas of the States own Crea- tion. But fince it's refolved otherwife, I pray you bid the Butler bring up his CamikhSy and ni make you all Lords like my felf, for now I am no lefs in Title than Hugo de Santo Pk" fro funtado^ and every jot as merry as forty Beggars. Now I warrant, you expect I fliould thank you for his Excellency's Golden Bafon and Ewer, Tis true, I was commanded to do fo ; but what care for I a Bafon and Eiver ? Give me a P/pe and a Chamher-pct : I mean a Pipe of Canary into the Bargain, or elfe it fliall be no Thankf- giviffg Day for mc. Oh! for a Conduit from Malaga^ and we knew how to convey Midle- ton*s Pipes to thf Canary Iflands^ then there 'Wonld ^- ^•^-',' <^':4 oiJhankfgtving, lam for a Farewcl to the City, i ^5 r am commanded likewife to thank you for the Lieutenant GeneraPs Plate, and his Purfe of Gold : and I am fo much the more willing to do ic, becaufe I hope to have a feeling out of it anon when we come home: But \^s I take it} you have more reafon to thank him, than he you. For you gave him a little Furfe of Money, and 'tis his Goodnefs he does not take all. I obftrve too you have given him but the value of 500 /. and his Excellency^ forfooth, as much more. Do ye know what you do? Could you not have askt my Councel before ? You may chance to be fwitch^t, P faith, for not fetting the Saddle upon the Bight Horfei and well you deferve it , if I be not furnifti't with a Pipe of Canary. Let me not be put off ' with nothing, like My Lord Pre/ident, and Mr. Speaker ; you know where to fend, Shs. My Lodging is fometimes at St. James\ but mod an end m Tharyies Street. There my Maid^ a handfom Lafs, I tell you, will take it in, as well as my fclf, or elfe I would ntver keep her. Farewell, Sirs , here's nothing to do, I fee. A Pox on your Butler and his lean Jowls, There* s Liberty lies in the bottom off Bowls. Thusitisinone of our Modern Authors -, but I profefs I can have none of this Liberty^ tho' it be the Firft Year of freedom ; and then judge you Whether the State or the State's Servants have any caufe of Thanks. Farewel, Sirs^ I am gone. O! for a Milk-bowly or his Excels LI 3 lency^ 1 66 Sir Charles Sedley'^ Speech kncj\ Bafon and Ewer now to fpew in,and make an end of Thank/giving. A Speech in the Houfe of Commons, on Occafion cf the Bill for raifing Mo^ ny for the Civil Lifty in the Firji Tear of the Reign of K. William the Thir4 : By Sir Charles Sedley BK Mr. Speaker^ ^ WE have provided for the Army; We have provided for the Niivy; And now, at laft, a new Reckoning is brought us; We muft provide likewife tor the Civil Lift. Truly, Mr. Speaker^ it's a fad Reflexion, that fome Men fliould wallow in Wealth, and Places ; whilft others pay away in Taxes the Fourth Part of their Revenue for the Support of the fame Government. We are not upon equal Terms for his Majefty^s Service : The Cour- tiers and great Officers Charge^ as it were in Ar* wour , they feel not the Taxes, by reafpn of their Places, whilft the Country Gentlemen are Shot thro^and thro* by them. The King is pleafed to lay his Wants before us, and I am confident experts our Advice up- on it : We ought therefore to tell him what Penfions are too Great ; what Places may be extin- againft Foreigners. i6y extinguifh'd, during the time of the War and Publick Calamity. His Majefty is encompafled with nothing but Foreigners ; His Majefty fees nothing but Coaches and Six Horfes, and great Tables, &c. and therefore cannot imagine the W^nt and Mifery ot the reft of his 5ubje6ls, Hp is a Brave a ad Generous Prince ; but he is a Young King, encompafs'd and hcmm'd in by a CoiUpany of ( raity vJid Couriiers, to fay no more. Same have Places of jao© /. fome of 6000 / and othe/s 6'SooLper Amtm ;*and I am told the Commiflfioners of the Trealury have 16000L per AfiKum apitcQ. Certainly Publick Penfi )ns, whatever they have been formerly, are much too great for the prefent Want and Calamity that Reigns evere-where. And it s a General Scandal, that A Govern- merit fo fie k at Hearty as ours is^ Jhouldlookfo well in the Face. We muft fave the King Money where ever we can ; for I am afraid the War is too great for our Purfes, if things be not managed with all imaginable Thrift: When the People of England fee all things are faved that can be faved ; that there are no exorbitant Penfions, nor unneceflary Salaries: And all this appIyM to the Ufe to which they are given , we (hall Give, and they fliall chearfully Pay, whatever His Majefty can want to fecure the Proteflant Religion, and to keep out the King of France, and King Jannes too ; whom (by the way) I LI 4 have I ^S Sir John Knight'5 Speech have not heard named this Seffions ; whether out pf Fear, Difcretion, or Refpeft, I cannot tell. 1 conclude, Mr. Speaker^ let us favc the King what we can ; And let us proceed to give him what we are able. A Speech in the Houfe ^/Commons, a^ gain ft the Naturalizing of Foreigners'^ fhewing the ill Confequences of faf- fing any fuch A^y &c. By Sir John Knight. In the Tear i6^3r Mr. Speaker^ IHave heard of a Ship in a violent Storm, in danger of perifliing every moment ; [it was not luch a Sham-ftorm as we were entprtain'd with in the Gazette^ which deceives the People, that many Ships going for France^ laden with Corn, were call away, tho' thofe Ships, and many njorc are fince fafely arrived in Fraytce ; but it was fuch a real Storm,as the Seventh of the laft Month, deftroy'd on the Coaft oiCom- wall^ upward of 70 Sails of our Englijh Ships, moft of which were laden with Corn, and feve- ral (orts of Provifions, for the ufe of our Dutch Allies, tp enable them to live cheap, by making the fame dear at Home : (perhaps fome was for the Support of our halt-ftarv'd and unpay'd M^glijh Souidiers iiow in Flanders ;) when pe- riled againfl Foreigners. i6^ rilhed likewife more than 700 Sailers, who have left Thoufands of Widows, Children and poor Relations, to curfe our Conduft at 6ea, the caufe of this Calamity : ] In fuch a dreadful Storm it was that the forefaid Ship was in, when the good Commander feeing the Danger, and apprehending Death, defircd his Crew to Aflift with Refolution, and preferve Themfelves and the Ship ; which the Sailors refufing to do, he retired to his Cabbin, hum- bled himfelf in Prayer,and implored the Powers, that alone can Save in time of Need 5 that tho* the Ship and the Company might be fwallowed up, for the Difobedienceof the Sailors, yet that he, and his Cabbin might fufFer no Damage. 5/r, I cannot, as that good Commander did, be fo vain as to hope, that either my felf, or the Place for which I ferve, can be preferved from the General Inundation, which this Bill, we are now debating, lets in, on the Liber- ties of my Native Country and Countrymen ^ and therefore be unconcerned for the good of England f provided Briflol were, fate : To hope for and exped Happinefs in Life, when all Mankind but my felf are dead, would not be more deceiving, than to propofe Comfort and Security to my felf and Corporation^ when Strangers are admitted to pofiefs and enjoy, by a Law, all that's valuable in this Kingdom ; for this J5?///doth enfranchize all Strangers,that will fwear and proteft againfl: Popery^ with the Liberties of every EnglTfl? Man, after the vaft expencce 170 Sir John KnightV Speech expencc of Treafure, and Engiijh Blood, it hath coft tliis Kingdom in all Times and Ages of our Fore-father, 10 fecure them tothemielves, and their Pofterity. Wherefore, Mr. Speaker^ I muft beg Pardon, if at this time I cannot fit filent, but exprefs a jealous Concern, as well for the Kingdom in general, as for the Place I reprefent in parti- ticukr; and I am more moved thereunto, whilfl I fee fo many Members, fent here by their Country^ for the Confervation of the Eng- lifh Men's Liberties, fo warm as to part with all to Strangers with one Vote. The Argument of the Honourable Perfon near me, to render all the Care of our Fore- father of no Efleem amongft us, who are, or ought to be the Reprefentatives of the King- dom, was to prove, That this Age and Gene- ration are Wifer (he did not fay Honefler) than the former. I remember a Weft Countryman, many years paft , undertook to prove the fame to me, and my Company beyond Sea , by de- daring his Father was a Fool to him ^ I yielded him that Point, by concluding both to be fuch, and yet our Fore-fathers might be Wife Men ; I fliall not at this time queflion the Wifdom of thofe who promote the /?///, or their Fathers. iFor my felf, I declare in behalf of the Wif- dom and Honefty ol our Predeceflbrs ; nor can 1 aflent to the yielding up of the Liberties and Laws they derived unto us^ only becaufe fomc Gen- again ft Foreigners, 171 Gentlemen think better of themfelves Cand perhaps miftakingly ) ih^n of their Parents. Sir^ I was early inftrudted in a Principle of Deference to the Wifdom of our Ancefiors ; and at this time I tremble, when I reflcft on the Correftion given me by my Mailer, that I might not forget, but imitate and defend in all times thefe Rules : Let them he accounted Good^ Juflj and Wife Men^ who Regard and Defend the StatuteSy LawSy Ordinances, and Liierties, which our Fore-fathers IViJdom and Experience ohtained for themfelves and Foflerity. Now it is my O- pinion, Mr. Speaker ^th^t if thofe Gentlemen, who approve of this JS///, had not only been taught that Rule, but as well Correfted as my felf, they would be of my Judgment; and I wifti that they who depart from that Rule, and facrifice our Engli/h Liberties, to a number of Mercenary Foreigners, may not meet with a much more Rigorous and Exemplary Chaftifement from their Enraged "^nd Ruined Countrymen. The Arguments ufed for the Bill, are in fub- fiance ; F/rJf, A want of Purchafers for our Lands. Secondly, Of Merchants. Thirdly, Manu- fafiurers who can work cheaper than the Eng- lijh, Fourthlj, of Husbandmen to till theGround. To all thefe I Ihall return ftiort Anfwers : But it I debate not on them, with that Advan- t^e and Reafon, as our Land-Admirals can, no doubt, with great Ingenuity on Sea Politicks ; I hope the Houfe will pardon me, Tor my Ob- fervations, 1/2 Sir John Knight'^ Speech Nervations never coft the Kingdom fuch Ex- pence of Money at Home, and Lodes at Sea, as hath the Experience of thofe Honourable Perfons in Sea Affairs. Fir/i^ It's argued by (ome, That we virant Purchafers for our Lands : This is a melancholy Confideration, I therefore defire thole Gentle- men, who approve of this Bill^ to tell me what it is hath brought us to this Condition, that the Landed Men of England are Reduc'd ro fo low an Ebb, that they muft Sell, and none !eft able to Buy, unlefs Foreigners and Naturalized ? Doth this prove our Fore fathers wanted Un- dcrftanding:Or, doth it not rather conclude it»s occafioncd by our want of theirs, and not fol- lowing their Examples, who never Taxed their Country to the Ruin both of themfelves and their Pofterity ; nor did they Expend the Mo- ney of the Kingdom on fuch Allies as ours, who, as we have been informed by fome of the Prwy Comjcil^ are not in our Intereft, and will fpare us none of their Men for our Pay, without greet Penfions likewife for themfelves > Can any Man hope to perfwade me, that our Fore- fathers would have brought Foreign Souldiers into England^ and pay them, and Naturalize them likewife, and at the fame time fend the Englijh Souldiers abroad to fight in a flrange Land without their Pay > Let us abate our Taxes, and after the wife Prefident of our Fathers, pay our own Seamen at Home, and fend the Foreigners back. Then the again ft Foreigners. 175 the Money will be found Circulating at Home, in fuch E^gl/Jh Mens Hands, who may Buy the ] ands that are to be Sold, without Naiura- hzing Strangers. Second/y^ If s faid We Want more Merchants : Whom we may thank for bringing fo many to Poverty ? but I Ihall forbear grating, and de- fire the Liberty to confider in fliort how the Trade of England hath hitherto been carried on. Gentlemen have placed their Younger C hildren to Merchants, and their Matters obfer- ving heir Honefty and Diligence, when they have gamed fome Experience in the Nc- ceilary part of Trade, generally fend them A- broad to Turk)^ all parts of the Levant^ Spah^ to Fcrtuqal^ the fcaft and Weft Indies^znA all parts where England holds any confiderable Com- merce : there the Young Men are employed by, and entrufted with the Stocks and Eftates of their Matters and Friends, whereby all Par- ties, both the Principals at Home, and the Fa- dors Abroad are advantaged, and England tw- riched for therein the end all Centers) and at latt, when they are fatisfied with Gain, they return to their Native Soil, their Friends, and Relationsjfor Eafe and Enjoyment,making room for a Younger Generation to fucceed them in their Profitable Employments. Thus hitherto this Kingdom hath advanced in Riches, whilft Foreigners could not wirh fucccfs plant their Faftories on us, thro' the Advantage wc had by our Laws : let us but turn the Tables,- and sonfi- i 74 ^^^ J^hn Knight'^ Speech confidcr the Confequence. Suppofe we pafs this Bill and the Dutch^ (who no doubt will take the Oaths, as this £/// direfts, and proteft againft Popery and Paganifm^ and on occafion Chrtftianity too, as at Japarf) fend their Servants and Factors hither, and we Naturalize them, and let the Capital Stock, which gets an Im- ply to thefe New made Englifhmen belong to their Matters and Friends, who never did or ever will live amongft us: Will it not then folio w,that rheProfic will be theirs and notE^g' lartd\znA Will not the New-made Englijh{ytt Dutchmen ftill) return to their Country and Friends with their Gain, as our People hitherto have done ? We may obferve by our Inland Trade, that it's feldom they who make the Manafaftories gain Eftates, but chofe who im- ploy their Stocks in Buying and Selling what others make, and it's the fame with the Mer- chants, thofe that Export and Import are the Gainers; the Firft-maker very feldom, the Con- fumptioner never. The Conclufion of this Experiment muft be this: That what hath hitherto been Gain ta Englandhy Englijh Merchants and Faftors, will be turned to a Foreign Land, by the Foreign Merchants being Naturalized , tor their own good, not England^. But this is not all, for at once the Art of Navigation will be rendred ufelefs. Whence then will be Nurfery for Sea Men ? For Fo- reign Merchants will Naturalize Foreign Sea Men; againft Foreigners^ 175 Men, and when the Prefs-Maftcrs find them, they will Dutch Jpraken^ Ta min Heer, and avoid the Service ; but at the Cuftom-Houfe, iSx- change^ and in all Corporations, they will be- found as good Englifh Men as any be in this Houfe ; from whence it foilowcth, that Trade will be carried on by Foreign Merchants and Sea Men, and the Englijh Sea Men condemned to our Men of War, and perhaps live there, as hitherto without their Pay, till another Million be owing them for Wages, and in the interim have this only Confoiatioa and Reward for Service done, and to be done, that their Wivca and Children may be fubfifted wjib the Alms of the Parifti, whilft Foreign Souldiers are main- tained at Home and Abroad with tbtir Pay* A Third Argument for admitting J^orelgntrs^ is upon a fupp ){ed want we have of Manuf^" iiurers, efpecially of fuch as will work cheaper than the EngUJh : In my Opinion thisfReafon* ing is extraordinary, and ought not to take air out of the Houfe J leaft the Old Englijh Spirit fliould exert it felf in de^nce of its Liberties j for at this time, when all Provifions are become exceflive dear, by the great quantities exported to Holland^ which puts the poor Englijh Manu- fadlurers on ftarving in moft parts of England^ for want of a full Employ to enable them to fupport their Families by their honeft and painful Labour and Induftry, ihall an Englifti Parliament let in Strangers to undcrfell our Country? which they may eafily do,^ whilft they 1 75 Sir John Knight^i Speech ihey live in Garrets, pay no Tdxes, and arc bound to no Dutie : How fhall we arifwer this to our Country, who fent us here ? when by fo doing, inftead of making the Kingdom more Populous, we Provide only for th'^Subfiftence of Foreigners, and put our Countrymen to the Choice of ftarving at Home, or to turn Souldiers, and be fent to Flanders^ and ftarve there for want of their Pay ; for it's well known that at this time, more Commodities are made in England than can be confumed Abroad, or at Home, which makes the poor ManufadVu- xcT^ fo miferable. All Country Gentlemen within this Houje have for feveral Seffions la- boured what they could to raife the Price of the ProvifionJ which their Lands produce, and fome think it not great enough yet, and they would defpife that Man, who Ihould endeavour to lower the Rates, by propofing a free Impor- tation of Irifh Cattel and Corn, tho' he had no other Defign, than that Charitable and Nc- ccflary one of Relieving the Poor ; and yet thefe very Gentlemen are for this Billy becaufe they would have the Labour of the Poor brought to a lower advantage. In my Opi- nion this is a very unequal way of Reafoning, that whilft we raife the Price of the Produft of the Land,for the Gentlemen to live in greater State, at the fame time our Confults are how to make the halfdarved Manufafturers, that Hve by their daily Labour, more and more mi- ferable. What Opiniod will the Common People again ft Foreigners. 177 People of ENg/anJhavQ of this Hoi(fey and the Gentlemen of the Kingdom, whom nothing can pleafe, but what is made by Foreigners, or comes from Abroad ? Our Palats for a long time have bren fo nice, that nothing but Frerjch Cooks could pleafe,nor could we perfwade our felves that our Cloath-^ ing was good, unlefs from Head to Foot we were a la Mode Je France : The Gentleman was not well ferved without a Frenchmayt^ and the Lady's Commode could not fit right, if her Frenchwoman did not put it on : Now on a fudden, the Change is as violent in favour of the Dutch^ who are great Courtiers, and the only Taking People: and our Engltjh are a fort oF Clumfy-fifted People, if compared with the Modiih Dutch Hans and Frovo ; in Ihort, fit for nothing, but to be fent to Flanders^ and there either to fight, fieal, or ftarve for want of Pay. There is one thing, Mr^ Speaker^ which comes into my Mind, with which 1 Ihall clofc this Confideration. What reafon was there to blame the Mayors, Al- dermen,'^ Common-Councils, and other Gover^. nours of Corporatioiis,for furrendring the Char« rers, tho' they ftill retain the Rights for Englijh-: men only to come into New Charters, and at the fame time hope to juftify our Proceedings, tho' we throw up the Great Charter of our Englijh Liherties^ to ^dmit Strangers ? A Fourth Pretence for this Bill is, A want of Husbandmen to Till the Ground : I (hall fay Mm little 1 7 8 Sir John Knight'5 Sfeech little on this Head, but requeft the Honour- able Perfon below me, to tell me of the Forty Thoufand French^ which he confefleth are come into England^ how many does he know, that at this time follow the Plow- tail ? for it's my firm Opinion, that not only the French^ but any other Nation this Bill iliall let in upon us, will never tranfplant themfelves for the Be- nefit of going to Plow; they will contentedly leave the Ei^glijh the fole Monopoly of that Slavery. Upon the whole, 5/r, it's my Judgment, that {hould this Bill pafs, it will bring as great Affliftions on this Nation , as ever fell upon the /Egyptians ; and one of their Plagues we have at this time very fevere upon us. I mean that of their Land bringing Frogs in abundance, even in the Chambers of their Rings,- for there is no entring the Courts of St. James and White- Hdl^ the Palaces of our Hereditary Kings, for thegreat noifc and Croaking of the /^rcg-L^»^, We are callM by the King, and fent up by the People,and ought to regard no Interefts but theirs ; which, as I told you before, are al- ways the fame. Let us therefore proceed ac- cordingly. The late Propofals of the Courtiers them- 1 8 tf Upon the Bill for Retrenching themfelves, to fave the King Money, was, by applying the Profits, Salaries, and Fees of their Places, that exceed 800 /. per Annum ^ to the War : thus will the Publick Charge iye cafier upon the People, and the prefent Reign be more and more endear'd to 'em. What ib neccflary We fliall chearfully fupply, when we fee all Men fct their Shoulders to the Burthen, and ftand upon an equal Footing for our Common De- fence, and what we give apply'd to thofe Ufes for which we gave them, and the Army pay'd. This Offer, 5/>, as I remember, began when an Obfervation was made by you of the long Accounts, and that a great part of the King's Revenue remained in the Hands of the Recei- vers; to which a Worthy Member anfwer'd, It could not be helpt, by reafon fome Recei- vers were Members of Parliament, and flood upon their Priviledges. To which another Member anfwer'd. That we could not deprive Members of their Priviledge ,• but that to re- medy fhe like for the future, we were ready to pafs a Vote, That no Member of Parliament IhouPd be a Receiver of the King's Revenue. This alarum'd the whole Body of Men in Of- fice ; fo that fome flood up, and ( to prevent the Houfe from harping any longer upon that String) faid, They fo little valuM their own Profit, that they were willing to refign all their Fees, Salaries, and Perquisites, exceeding 300/. per Ammm^ toward the next Year's Charge, This if really intended, was very generous; Vnnecejfary Exp. of the Crown. 1 87 generous ; but if it were only a Compliment, Shift, or Expedient, to avoid the prcfent Vote we were upon, That no Member of Parliament fhould be Receiver of the Revenue, nothing was more difingenuous ; nor could a greater Abufe be ofFer'd to Us ; for the Houfe proceed- ed fo far as to Vote, the Spreaker^ J^dges^ and fome others fhould not be comprehended. Peo- ple abroad, that receiv'd our Votes, will think ftrange of it, if, after all thofe Preparations, we do nothing in it, and fuffer our felves to be thus gullM : But I hope better of the Wor- thy Gentlemen, and cannot but think they were in earneft with this Houfe upon fo So- temn a Debate. 1 8 8 Sir Alex. BruceV Speech A Nob/e Speech in the Parliament of Scotland 5 by Sir Alexander Bruce, againji the Presbyterian Govern- ment 5 for which he was Expelfd the Houfe for the Remaining fart of that Parliament. Mj Lord Chancellory IHave the Honour of being an Old Servant to the Crown, and to my Country ; and I am very forry to fee what has now happened amongft us. There was never fuch a Conjun- fture in this Kingdom ; nor can Imagination form a more Difmal Profpeft. I own that my Wifhes agrce'd with the Uni- verfal Opinion for a New Parliament; judg- ing that to be mofl for the Honour and Service of the Queen , and for the Satisfaftion of the whole Nation ; with which the Saving or Sup- porting a few Unhappy Inftruments of the late Adminiftration is never to be put into the Ba- lance. Yet without Knowing or Enquiring into the Motives for Continuing Us, 1 fubmit my own Judgment, and choofe to ftay within Doors, that Malice it felf may find no Objcftion a- gainft my Obedience to the Queen^ or my Re- fped to Her High CommilTioner. But ^^^/»y? Presb. Government. i8p But by flaying in this Aflembly, I do not mean in the lea(t to renounce my Liberty of Speaking my Thoughts very freely, tho' they may be very different from thofe of others. And the Subjeft at prefent before Us being the Presbyterian Government, I (hall give my Opi- nion on that Head in very few Words, and ve- ry plain Language. My Lord^ We may all Remember in what Manner, and for what Reafons, the Zeal of this Houfe puUM down Epifcopacy at the Revo- lution. It had been the Legal Eftablifhment for many Years before : And it was always for- merly the Government of our Church in Or- derly Times of Peace and Loyalty. It is a very Melancholy Refledlion, to con- fider how many Excellent Paftors We Loft by that Alteration: For, pray give tne leave to fay it impartially, that our Pulpits were filPd with a Set of Men at that time, who for good Life and good Doftine, were Inferiour to no Church in Chriftendom, in proportion to our number. The Mifery of thefe poor Gentlemen , and their Starving Families at Home, or their Wan- dring in Want over the World, has brought a Reproach on our Country ; and it is but a very indifferent Charm to Invite any Country in the World to Unite with Us, while we are in this Situation. The Reafon we gave to the World for our New Fabrick of Prtshytery^ was its being Suit- able to the Inclinations of the People, and both our 1^0 Sir Alex. Br uce'^ Speech our Neighbour-Nation , and Strangers gene- rally believe it to be fo. But I wifli we had firft Poird the Kingdom, to know their Incli- nations, The Epifcopal Clergy have alwas offered to put the Caufe upon that Iffue, being very con- fident of a vaft Inequality ,• and truly the Force, and the other extraordinary Methods that were us'd in moft Places to pull them from their Pa- rifhes, were no great Proofs of the Inchnations of their People againft them. But feeing We pretend to go by this Rule ; and feeing the Inclinations of all the People are Changeable ; perhaps cho' Preshyrery has been the Inclinations of the People at the Revolu- tion, it may be very far from it at prefent. And therefore, that We may not Support an Error hy PubUck Authority, My humble Opinion is, That it is both Juft and Neceflary at this great Period of time, and in the Beginning of Her Majefly's Reign, to Addrefs Her Majt fly to rake the prbpereft Methods of Confulting the Inclinations of the Kingdom in this Matter. I'm afraid our Spiritual Rulers will Oppofe it as an Ungodly Numbering of the People; and they are not ignorant how little Ground they have gain'd by their late Domination. But it is neither Fair nor Excufable, not to put it to a Tryal, now when themfclves are in the Sadie, and poffefs'd of the Chair with the means pi Influence. • For again ft Prcsb. Government, i ^ i For my part, without waiting for that Oc* cafion, I declare my own Judgment freely. I was formerly pretty Indifferent, as many of us Gentlemen usM to be,' in thefe Points. We fancy'd it a kind of Generofity too, to pitty thofe that were under the Hatches. But now wc have feen them in their own Colours, and, there is No Argument like Matter of Fail. When our Blood and our Stomachs are in Diforder, we are for Extraordinary Meats, and fometimes for Mountebank-Receipts and Expe- riments. But when our Pulfe comes to beat more calmly, and wc have a little Recovered our Health, with a Sedate Temper ; our Plain and Natural Ordinary Food is not only more Nou- riihing and Healthy, but alfo more Agreeable. To be very plain, My Lord Chancellor^ I have Read, and Heard, and Seen a great deal of the Old Preshyteriafis , and I have Praftis'd many of the New ones , and for my part , I have enough of them. Vm perfwaded that King James the VI. had reafon for what he faid and wrote againft the Pu- ritans. He was Bred by the Bigots of that Sed, and his Experience and Knowledge of theni brought him to hate them: As indeed the Breeding a King to any fort of Bigottry, is the readied way to give him an Averfion to it, when he comes to make ufe of his own Reafon, and has a more Liberal Converfation. Nor can I reflect without Indignation on the Presbyterians of the late Rebellious Times, whc I p 2 Sir Alex. Bruce'^ Speechy &cc. who hatch'd and promoted , and too late re* pented the Deftruftion of the Bed of Kings^' Whofe Birth was an Honour to this Country. I fliall fay nothing of the Nature of this Go- vernment it felf while it is by Law" Eftablifh'd : And perhaps our Modern Vreshyteria^ mv] be brought to Renounce the Maxims of-i:heir Predecelfors. But of former Times I may fafely fay. That fuch Hellifli Principles were advanced, and the Praftifes fo fuitable to the Principles, as gave a full Demonftration to the Sober part of the World, that Presbytery was Inconfiftent with Monarchy ; that it maintain'd a conftant Op- pofition to the Rightful Sovereign, and that like Vice and Hypocrify and the other Pefts of Mankind, it fpred and flourilhed moft in tur- bulent times of Anarchy and Rebellion. And I do not wonder that our Predeceffors, in cold Blood, and taught by woful Experience, preferred Order and Decency in the Houfe of God to the Pride and Infallibilty of a Pope in every Parifh. I fliall have one Reafon to believe that the prefent Presbyterians have renounc'd thofe Principles, if lam not pcrfecuted for this Free- dom: But if I am, I have the Satisfaftion of having difchargd my Duty. And Thanks bp to thofe Pcrfons that contrived the taking the Sting out of the Excommunicatioa. FINIS. ^ i 7-7. ^ \- mkm