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Show 44 A Speecb, about Jfl'ardJ, and LiverieJ. to your Lordj!Jips; l\nd many Commij]ioners, that h.ave been tor A1u.fterJ and Levies, That can tell us, tha~ the Service, and o ~ fence, ~fthe Realm, hath, in thefe da~e~) httle dependa~ce u ~ on Temtres. So then we perceive, that tt ts no B.ond, or L1g~men t, of Governmeut; No Spur ofHonour ; No Brtdle of~b~dtence : Time was> when it had other ufes, and the N~me of Knrght1 se;vice imports it: But, Vocabula manent, Res j11gmnt. But ~11 tht.' , which we have fpoken, we confefs to be, but in a vulgar Capact ~ . ty; which, neverthelefs, may fer:ve, f<;>r ou~ E::'cufe ~Though we fubmit, the Thing it fclf~ wholy t.o ~1sMcycfttes Ju?gemc.. ~. t .. For Matter of confcience, Far be It from us, to ~afr 1n ~:ny I ?tnP.;> willingly that may trouble, th~t clear Fountam, of hts JUaJejiie; confcien~e. We do confefs, it is a n oble Protection, that theft young Birds, of the Nobility, and good Families, fhould be gar hered and clocked under the wings of the Crown. But yet, Nat:t rte ;.is maxima: And,fuuJ cuique difcretur fanguh. Your Lordjbrps will favour me to obferve my former Methode. The Common Law it felf, which is the heft Bounds of onr wifdom, dot~ even, in hoc brdividao, prefer the prerogative of the F ath~r, b~fore the prertJgative of the King: For if Lands defcend, held m chtef, from an Anceftour, on the part of :;t Mother, tG a Mans eldefr Son, the Father being alive; The Fa.ther)fball have _th.e Cufiody of the Body, and not the King. It IS true, that thts IS only !o1: the Father; And not~ any o ther Parent, or Ancej/01~r: But then, 1fy~u look,to the high Law of Tutelage , and Prote[/ron; . An~ ofpbed;erJce, and Duty which is the Relat1ve thereunto; lt IS not faid ; Hono1tr thy Fath;r alone· But Honour thy Father, and thy kJother, &c. Agaio,tht civilians ca~ tell' us, that there was a fpeciall Ufe, of the Pretorian Power for P1tpills and yet no Tenures. The Citizens of Londo11, can teli us; Ther;be COitrts oforphantJ, and y~t no Tenures. ~ut all this while, we pray your Lordfhips, to concetve;That ~e thn~k our felves not competent, to difcern of the Hono1tr, ofhts 11JajeftiesCrow1:, or the shrine ofh!s Confcien_ce; But leave it, wholy :>un. to him, and alledge thefe thmgs, but.In our own Excufe. . For Matter of Petition we do contmue our moft humble futt, by your Lordfh[ps loving C~njunltion, th~t his ll1afefly will be I pleafed_, to op~n unto us !this entrance of hts Bounty,an~ Gra~c:, As to g1ve us hberty, to treat. And lafily, we know hts Maje ljties Times, arenotfubordinateat,all, ~uttothe. Globe abov~: 1 About this time, the Sun hath got even wuh the N1ght, and .will 1 rife apace; And we know, solomons Tempt:J (whereof your !-ord-fbip, my Lord1.reafurer=> fpake) was not built 1n a day =.And IfWe fhall be fo happy, as to take the A~e to hew, and th; fbmm~r to fr~me, in this Cafe ; We know) tt cannot be, w1thot1t Tune; And therefore, as far, as we may, with Duty, and without Importunity~ we mo~ humbl,Y defire,_ an Acceleration of his .lllaje-. flie.t Anfwer,accordtng to hts good ttme, -and Royall Pleafiue. A A Speech about receivi11g the King!' M~Jftl!.e.J. A Speech, of the Kings Sollicitor, perf wading th~ f-Toufc ofCo~mons, to d~fift from furtber 0ieftiun, of rtceiving the Ktngs Meifages,by their Speaker; And from the Bo.:o dy ofthe Councell ; AJ well a1 from the Kings Perfon · In the Parliament ;o.Jac. ' IT is my Defire,that if ::~ny the Kingr Buflnefs,either ofHonout or Profit, fh all pafs the Houfe; It may be, not onely with externall prevailing; But with fati sfaction1 of the In ~ard Man. For in Confent, where 'Tongue firings, not Hart-firings> make the 1VJJ1ic/z; That Harmony may end in DifaJrd.. To this I !hall alwayes bend my Endeavours. The Kings Soveraignty, Jnd the Liberty of Parliament are; as the two Elements, and Principles of this Fji.lte; which, though the one be more Active~ the other more Paf11ve, yet they do not cro.ffe,<?r ddhoy, the one the other; But they firengrhen, and mamtam, the one the other. Take away Liberty of Parliament theGriefes, oftheS1$bjetJ, will bleed inwards. Sharp and E age/ J-Iumours, will not evaporate; And then they muft 'exu1cerate' and fo may indanger~the Sover,tignty, it felf. On the other fide if the King~ Sovenl(rz.nty, receive Diminurio n,_or any Degree ofC~ntempt, with us, that are born under an Hereditary .Jl.fonarchy; (So as the ~otions of our Eftate, cannot w01k, in any other Frame, or En&m~;) It mufi ~ollo~,that we ~all be a Meteor~,or Corpus itJtperfclte miflum ~ which kwd ofBod!es} come fpeed1ly to Confufion and Diffolution. And herein, it is ou:.Happin~ffe, that we may make, the fame Judgement of the 1\.mg, which 1acit1u made of Ncrva; Divllf Nerv-x , res olim Difsociabiles mifcuit, Imperi• mn, 0" Libertato.n.. Nerva did temper things, that before were thought incomputiblc, Soveraignty, and Liberty. And it is not amiiie, in a great Councell, and a great Catilfe, to put the other part of the Diff~rencej ' which was lignificant~y expreifed, by the Judgem~nt, which Apolloniw made ofNero; which was thus. When Vejj;ajian came out of judea, towards Italy, to receive the Emph·e: As he pafied by Alexandria, he fpJke wit-h Apolloniur, A Man much admired ; And asked him a Qpefiion, of State. What zvasNero's Fall, or.overthrow? Apollonius {aid, NerocoulcJtune the Harp ~veil, but in Government, he alwa.ies, either wound up the Finns too high, and flrain.ed tbeflri~gs too far; or let them down too low,and fl!lc/zened the firings too m1tch. Here we fee the Differ~nce, between Regular, and Able, Pri11ces; And Irregular,and Incapable; Nerva, and Nero. The one tempers, and mingles, the Soveraignty, with the Liberty, of the Subje{J, wifely; And the other, doth inter· change it, and vary it unequally, and abfurdly. Since therefore, we have a Pr·ince of fo excellent Wifdom, and Moderation; Of whofe |