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Show .A Speech in f arlia~ent tostching fi rn Gates. whereby they ught. have approach' and En-l t: -ce to a~noy us Fra11ce had scotland, and spain had IrelAnp/: ~~;th~fe were the ~wo Accefies, ~hich did comfort, and encourage both thefe Enemies, to affatl~ and .tro'!Jble us. _.We fee~ that of scotland, is cut off, by the VRion, of both tht:fe J<..m~doms' If that, it {ball be now made conftant, an~ permanet?t· 1 hac of Ireland, is likewife cut off, by th~ convenient fituatlo~, of ~h~ Northofscotland,toward the North of Ireland~ where .th~Sore .\\iaS. Which we fee being fuddainly dofed, hath contmued clofe~, b me;ns of this Salve; So as now, there ~re no.Parts ~ o~~hts slate expofed to Danger, to be a Tempt.atlon, to the f\~bltlOll ofFo:rainers, but their approaches,and Avenues,~re taken a~ay · Fnr, I do little doubt, but thofe Forrainers, ~~nch fu~ fo httle fucceff.:, when they had thefe advantages, will have much leffc comfort now, that they be taken from them. And fo llluch for suret;. r k · [I b For Greatnefs, (Mr. spea/ter ,) I th~nk ~ Man rna~ 1 pe;;\ tt o .er- 1 y and without Bravery; That thts Kmgdom of.Ensland, havmg sc~tland united Irel11nd reduced, the Sea Provmces oft he Low· countreys contr~fred,and shipping maintained; Is one of the.grea · tell: Monarchies, in Forces, truly efi:eemed, that hath been tn the world. / For certainly, the Kingdoms here o~ Earth, h~ve a ltefemblance with the Kingdome ofHea11en; whtch our Saviour co~paretb, not to any ~reat Ker~ull, or N~tt, but to a very fntaO Gram; yet fuch an one, as ts ~pt,.to grow? an~ fpread •. And fucho do I rake to be the Confi:ttutton of thts Ktngdome; If tndeed, we ihall refer our Counfels, to Greatnefs, .and Po we~;. And not que~ch them too much ·with Confideratton, oflltthty, and Wealth. For(Mr. speak.§;,) was it not,Jthink you~ a true An~wer, that Solon of Greece made to the R.tch King Cr£fos of Lydra, when bee fhewed unt~ him ~ greatQ!_lahtity of Gold, that he had gathered together=>in Ofientati?n ofhis G~eatnefs,& ~~ght? Butlolon faid to him., contrary to hts Expefratron; Why Str~if another ~o_me, that hath better Iron then you, he will be Lor~, of all your G~!d. Netther is the Authority of MachiaveO to be defptfed ; W~lo fcorn~th the Proverb of efiate taken firfr from a Speoch of Muctauus; That Moneys are the sine;s of War : And faith, The~e are no true Sinews of T¥ar, but th.e very Sinews, of the .Arms'· of valiAnt M_en • • Nay more, (Mr. speafter,) whofoever ilialllook, tnto theSemtnanes,and Begjnnings, -of the Jlrfonarchies, of the world, be ihall find .them faun· ded in Poverty. Perfta, a Country barren, and poor, 10 r~fpefr of the llfedes) whom they fubdued. JiJacedon, a King dome tgqoble, and Mercenary, untill the Tim~,o~Philip, the Son of A_mynt4s. Rime had poor, and pafroraH Begmnmgs • . _The Turk.!, · a Band of sarmatian scythes, that, in a vagabond manner, m~de I~preffion, upon that part of.Aji.a, whicq is yet called THrcom4nTa. Out <?f which after much variety ofF01tune, fprung the otto-mon Fanuly no,;theTerrouroftheworld.: Soweknowthe Gothes, Y~n· ' ~L th~ Naturaiir:.,ation of the Scottifo Nation. dais:> A lanes;, Huns; tom bards, Normans, and the refi: of the Northern People, in one Age of the World, made their Defcent, or Expeditiop., upon the· Roman Empire; And came not, as Rovers~ to carry away prey, and be gone again; But planted themfelves, in a n~mber, offruitfull;, a_nd rich, Provil!ces? W?ere, not ~=mely then Generations, but thetr Names, remam, till thts Day: wunef:3 Lombardy; Ctttalonia, A name compounded of Geth & .Alane; Andt~ luzia, 4 name corrwpted from Vandelicia; Hungary; Normandy; and others. Nay, the Fortune of the Swizzes, <:>flate years, (which are bred, in a barren~ and Mountanous Countrey,) is not to be forgotten ; Who firll: ruined the Duke of Burgundy ; The fame, who had a1mofr ruined, the King.dome of Fr11.nce : what tif!le, after the Batt ail of Gran Jon, the Rich Jewell of Burgundy, pnzed at many T houfands, was fold for a few pence, by a com .. mon swizze, That knew no more, what a Jew~ll meant, then did Ffops Coclt: And again, the fame Nation, in revenge of a Scorn, was the Ruin of the French Ki11gs Affaires in Italy~ Lewu the 1 2t!l. For that King, when he w.as preffed fomewhat rudely, by an Agent of the swizzes, to raife their Penfions, brake into Words of Choller; What, (faid he,) will thefe Villaines of the Mountaines, put a Tax upon me .2 which words, loll: him his Dutchy of Mdlain:~ and chafed him out of Italy. All which Examples, (Mr. Speaf<_er,) do well prove SolonJ opinion,of the Authoriry, and Malhy, that Iron hath over Gold. And therefore, if I lhall fpeak, unto you, mine own Heart; Me thinks) we fhould a little difdain, that the Nation of spain~ (which, howfoever of late, it hath grown to Rule, yet of ancient time ferved many Ages; Firfr under Carthage, then under Rome, after under Sarazens, Gothu, and others;) fhould, oflate years, take unto themfelves that Spirit, as to dream, of a Monarchy, in the weft, according to that Devife; Video Solem Orient em in Occidente •· One1y, becaufe they have ravifhed, from fome wild:> and unarmed, People, Mines,and Store, of Gold: And;, on the other fide,tha~ this Iiland ofBritanny,feated, and manned, as it is) and that hath, (I make no quefrion,) the befr Iron in the world; (That is, the befi: seuldiers of the world;) fhould think of nothing, but Reckonings, and Audits, and Meum and Tuum, and I cannot tell what. Mr. spea/zer,) I have, (I takei~)gone through die Parts, which I propounded to my Self; Wherein; if any Mag, fhall think, that I have fung Placebo; For mine own particular, I would have him know, that I am not fo unfee1,1 in the world, but that I difcern, it were much alike, for my private fortune, to relt a T~cebo, as to fing a Placebo, in this Bufinefs. But I have fpoken, out of the Fountain~ of my Heart: Credidi, propter qu~d locutHs fom; I believed, thereforelfpt~~e. So as my Duty is performed.~ The Judgement is. yours ; God direct it for the befi._ A -. |