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<P>The Speech which was to have been delivered to the Kings Maje&s;tie, at his coming to HOLY-RUD-HOUSE the 14 of Augu&s;t, in the name of the citie of EDINBURGH, By <HI>A. G.</HI> Cler.</P>
<P>But by the &s;pent day, and other importunities, was interrupted.</P>
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<FIGDESC>Robert Bryson's device</FIGDESC>
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<P>EDINBURGH Printed by <HI>Robert Bry&s;on.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>The Speech which was to have been delivered to the Kings Maje&s;tie, at his coming to HOLY-RUD-HOUSE the 14 of Augu&s;t, in the name of the citie of EDINBURGH, By <HI>A. G.</HI> Cler. But by the &s;pent day, and other importunities, was interrupted.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is not without great rea|&s;on that Politians parallel the government of Kings in the little world of man, to the government of the Sun in the greater; the &V;niver&s;e, Though by many arguments this re|&s;emblance may be demon&s;trated, experience a|bove all others hath lately proven it to be true unto us: Since your Maje&s;tie turned from our Tropick, we have &s;uffered a &s;harp Winter, ma|ny Ecclip&s;es, as many long and tedious nights
<PB REF="3"> in the darkne&s;&s;e of which, we have wandered in many by-paths, and have been a&s;&s;aulted with many uncouth fears and gho&s;tly &s;hadows: But &s;ince it plea&s;ed Almightie God to bring your Maje&s;tie again to glance upon us; our &s;pring beginneth, di&s;&s;ipate is our darkne&s;&s;e, our feares all evani&s;hed, and we are as men tran&s;ported to &s;ome other world; and truly in one of the fortunate I&s;lands; the Golden age is renewed unto us, Justice and Peace begin to ki&s;&s;e one another, every man returning to his wonted trade and lawfull calling: Of what during your ab&s;ence hath among&s;t us fallen forth, no imputation can be laid to your Ma: &s;uch who pre&s;umed to take the reins of government and rule in your place, not being &s;ufficie~t for &s;o great a charge; like &s;o many <HI>Phaetons</HI> have wrought their own down fall, and our trouble, their weakne&s;&s;e interrupted and cut off, that mutual intelligence which &s;hould have been between You, our Head and Prince, and us the bodie your Subjects; meere accidents occa&s;ioned many &s;urmi&s;es and great mi&s;takings, all being in|crea&s;ed
<PB REF="3"> and blown up by a panicall terrour and fear of &s;ervitude, which combyning with religious zeal, went near to produce an abor|tive chaos.</P>
<P>Doubts now are re&s;olved, all damps and mi&s;tes cleared, and wee hope that &s;aying &s;hall prove true, <HI>Amantium irae amoris redin|te gratio;</HI> this a&s;&s;urance is wrought in us by that confidence we have of your Maje&s;ties cle|mencie, which vertue is more proper to you then any Prince living: You are the common Father of your people, we are your children; ingratitude of children towards their Father, is accur&s;ed, and crueltie of Fathers towards their children, unnaturall, though every ver|tue be requi&s;it in a Prince, yet Ju&s;tice and clemencie are mo&s;t in him to bee de&s;ired, by which he is made good and wi&s;e, and approaches neare&s;t to the excellencies of his Maker, who is mo&s;t ju&s;t and mo&s;t mercifull.</P>
<P>We are here in a &s;ublunarie place, &s;ubject to alterations, producing occa&s;ions, which wrought upon by others produce many mi&s;-in|telligences,
<PB REF="4"> and at length bringeth forth unex|pected &amp; marvellous abortives in State: God, Prudencie and Occa&s;ion are the three princi|pall cau&s;es in the moderation of all e&s;tates, and the&s;e three concurring together, are called <HI>fa|tum:</HI> And certainly God to &s;hew the uncon|&s;tancie of the world, hath &s;uffered this birth of mi&s;-intelligence, which hath &s;o long e&s;tranged and parted us from your Maje&s;tie; but now as ever we confe&s;&s;e you are our Saveraigne Lord, and we &s;wear and declare we will live and die loyall Subjects to your Maje&s;tie, acknowledg|ing you are ordained and placed over us by Al|mighty God, the King of kings: who lea&s;t he &s;hould dazell our weak &s;ight by his exceeding brightne&s;&s;e, did not here below e&s;tabli&s;h the throne of his excellency, but granted us to look upon it, by the repre&s;entation of one Sunne in the heaven, and one Prince in the Common|wealth.</P>
<P>Accept <HI>Sir</HI> of our obedience, receive us into your wontid favour, and u&s;ing your clemencie pa&s;&s;e by what is by pa&s;t, your ju&s;tice al&s;o in this
<PB REF="4"> &s;hall appear if you gather together and unite the di&s;per&s;ed members of this Kingdome, if you calme all apparent troubles, e&s;tabli&s;h a la&s;ting peace and tranquilitie among&s;t your Subjects, who now put up their cryes to &s;ave and relieve them. It being more expedient thus to do, then by any rigour to exa&s;perat &s;ick mindes, <HI>&amp; melius &s;avare vitio&s;as partes quam ex&s;e|care,</HI> remembring that to Princes, <HI>qui be|nignitate &amp; clementia nuperium tenuere candida &amp; laeta omnia fui&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>As the clemency of King <HI>Henrie</HI> the 4. your Father in law is perpetually prai&s;ed, &s;o the ri|gorous and great &s;everitie of <HI>Charles</HI> Duke of <HI>Burgundie</HI> again&s;t Liege, and the Emperor <HI>Charles</HI> the 5 again&s;t his people of <HI>Gant,</HI> is to all po&s;teritie branded and made blacke, <HI>qui vult amari languid&acirc; regnet manu. Pericles</HI> before his death is &s;aid to have accompted him|&s;elf happie, that during his government none in <HI>Athens</HI> by wrong from him did wear a mour|ning weed: It is more expedient for the good of Your Crown to pre&s;erve your whole people,
<PB REF="5" MS="y"> then to &s;acrifice to your wrath any part of them, and &s;o to loo&s;e that Gordian knot of difficulties, not with the &s;word of furie as <HI>Alexander</HI> did, but with the knife of prudencie as <HI>Solomon. Sir</HI> wee have long conceived hopes of your &s;weetne&s;&s;e and debonaritie, but now is the time in which we &s;hall finde the effects, Clemencie is the true and only prai&s;e of a Prince, his ne|ver fading lawrels which recommendeth him to all Nations, and after times.</P>
<P>Accept then of us your humble and faith|full Subjects; and thus <HI>(Sir)</HI> you &s;hall be &s;till obeyed, we a&s;&s;ured, all your people &s;hall redouble their prayers and vows for your pro&s;perous Reigne, and acknowledge you not onely their King, but their deliverer, pre&s;erver, and fa|ther, Your de&s;ignes &s;hall have a happie &s;ucce&s;&s;e upon earth, and your &s;elf an immortall crowne of Glorie, when the curtaines of this mortall &s;tage &s;hall be drawn in Heaven.</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the King.</CLOSER>
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