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Show A Speech, in the Ho~{e ~ moviugfo,. fupply to the King. your Minds, then in my Mouth. But this, give me leave to fa~; That, whereas the Example, of CJY'H.f, was ufed; \Yho fought hts supply, from thofe,upon whom he had befiowed hts Benefit!; We mutt always, rem,ember; That ther~ ~re' as well Be11efits of ~he s cepter, as Eencjitr of the Hand; ~swell of Government, a.s ofL1berallty. Thefc:) I am fure, we ~Ill acknowledge, to have come, plena nMnu, amongft us All; And all th?fe, ~hom we reprefent·; And therefore, it is every Mans Head, tn thts Cafe> that mufr be his Counfellor; And every Mans Beart,his Ora~or ~ And thofe in ward Powers, are more forcible, then any Mans speech; I leave it, and wHb, it may go to the ff2.!!.eflion. ----------------------------------------·-- A Speech, delivered by the Kings Atturney, Sir Francis Bacon, in the Lower Houfe; When tiJe Hou[e WttJ in gre~t heat, a~d much troubled, about the undertakers ; which were thought to be,Jome a hie, and forwttrd Gen ticmen ; Wbo, to ingratiate themfelve'.t, » .. ith the King, were Jetid, to ht~ve undert11k.!n, tbat the Kings Bufinefs, ftJould paJi in that Houfe,M hiJ Majefly could wijJ). Tn the Parlianlent, 1 ~0• Jac. (Mr. Speak._er,) . · ' . J.Have been h_irher~o filent,_in this Matter of nndertakfng;wherw, 2s I percetve, the Houfe, ts much enwrapped. Firfr, becau fe, ( to ·be plain with you,) I did not well underftand , what it meant, or what it was; And, I do not love, to offer at that, that I do not throughly conceive. That Private Men, fhould tmdcrtak.._e, for the Com1Jzonr of England: Why? A Man mought as well undertake, for the four Elements: It is a thing, fo giddy1 and fo vafr, as cannot enter, into the Brain, of a fober lVlan. And fpecially, in a new Parli~ment; When, it was impo!Iible to know, who fhould be of the Pa~liament; And when aU Men~ that know never fo little, the Confritution of this HoHfe, ldoknowitto befoopen toReafon; As Men, donotknow, when they enter into thefe Dores, what mind themfelves will 1 be of, un.till they hear Things argued, and debated. Much leffe, I ' c~n any Man make, a pollicy,of Affurance; what Ship,fhall come .fafe hom~) into the Harbour~ in thefe Seas. I had heard of 111!-- 1 fl.ertal{jngs, in feverall kinds :' There were Hndertak.§rJ, 'for the Plantations,ofDerry; and ColerantJ, in Ireland, the better to com-mand, and bridle, thofe Parts : There were, not long ago, fome undertak._ert,fortheNorth.weft Pajfage. And now, there are fome undertak!rs, for the Project, of Died, and Drejfed, cloathr. And, in fhort, every Novelty ·ufeth to be frrt;ngthened, and made good, \ ' A Speech, when the HouJe, waJ troubled about undertakcrJ good, by a kind of undtrtakjng. But, for the Ancient Parliamcn; of England, w:hich l!Ioves, in a certain Tv.fanner, and Sphear;To be undertal{§n, 1t pafles my reach, to conceive, what it fhould be. .t\1nfr we be all Died, and Drejfed; And no pure 1/lhites amongfr us ? 0~ mufr there be,a new pa!fage found, for the Kings Bujinefs, by :t pmnt of the Compafs, t.hat.was ~ever failed by, before? Or mufi there. be, fome Forts butlt, tn thts Houfe, that may command; and C(lntain the refi? (Mr. Speak...cr) I know .. but two Forts in this Houfe, which the King ever hath; The Fort of AlfetJion: and the Fort of Rcafon; The one, Commands the Heart1 and the other, Commands the Heads; And others, I know node. J think Aejop was a Wife Man; that defcribed, the nature of the Fly,~ th:lt fat upon the Spo~le, of the Chariot Wheele, and faid to her felt; What a Du{tdoiraijP.? So, for my part, lthink thatall this Duft, is rai(ed, by light R.umours, and Buzzes~ and ~ot upon any folid Ground. , . The fecond Rea (on, that made me filent, wai, becaufe this Sufpidon, and Rumor, of undertaking, fettles upon no Perfon certain. It is like, the Birds of raradife, that they have in the Indies, that have no ~eet, an? therefore, they never light upon any place, but the wind, carnes them away: And fuch a Thing do I take, this Rumour to be· ' And laitly, when that the King,had in his two feveralljpeeche.r freed us, from the main of our Fears, In affirming, directly tha; there was noundertakjng to him; And that, he would have t~ken it jto be flo lefs derogation, to his own Majejfy,then to our Merits· To have the Acts; ofhis people, transferred, to particular per? fons; That did quiet me, thus far; T.bat thefe Vapours were not gone up to the Head, howfoever, they might glow, Dand efiuate, in the Boiy. Ne'tertheleO'e, finct; I perceive, that this Cloud,friH hangs over the Houfe; And that it may do hurt, as well in Fame abroad as in the Kings Eare' I refolvcd with my felf, to do the part, of an honefr voice, in this Houfe, to co1.:1nfell you, what I think~ to be for the bert. \Yherein firll, I will fpeak plainly, of the pernicious-Effects of the Accident, of this Brute, and 0 pinion', of undertakjng; Towards l'drticulars; Towards the Ho11je; Towards the King; ·And wards the People. Secondly, I will tell you, in Mine Opinion., wbatnndertakjng, is tolerable; And how far,it may be jufrified, with a good mind· And, on the 9ther fide, this fame Ripping upJ of the ~eftion, o VH~ertak.._erJ; How far it may proceed, from a good Mind; And in what kind, it may be thought Maltcious, and Dangerous. Thirdly, I will iliew you, my poor advice, what Meanes there are, to put an end, to this Quefrion ot VndertAI(jng; Not falling, for the prefent, upon a preaife Opinion; Bnt breaking it :1 how many wayes there be:t by which you may get out of.. ·i t; And Jea .. H vin§ 4-9 |
