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<P>M^r. <HI>Vice-Chancellors</HI> SPEECH TO HIS MAIESTIE, AT Chri&s;t-Church in Oxford, ON New Yeares Day: When in the name of the whole Vniver&s;itie, he pre&s;ented his Maje&s;tie with a faire Guilt Cup, and two hun|dred pounds of Gold in it.</P>
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<P>Printed at <HI>Oxford</HI> by <HI>Leon ard Lichfield.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<Q LANG="lat">DOCTRINA PARIT VIRTVTEM</Q>
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<HEAD>Ma&s;ter <HI>Vice-Chancellors</HI> Speech to His &s;acred Maje&s;tie at his entertainment at <HI>Chri&s;t Church</HI> in <HI>Oxfo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d</HI> on Newyeers day.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_MAy it plea&s;e your &s;acred Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>that I in the name of this Univer&s;ity, may &s;alute your Highne&s;&s;e with the &s;ame words and wi&s;hes that the Noble Poet <HI>Horace</HI> once of old u&s;ed to that great favourite of <HI>Augu&s;tus,</HI> and Pa|tron of de&s;ert, <HI>Maecenas,</HI> according to that Poets te&s;tinmony <HI>atavis edite regibus;</HI> namely, <HI>&s;pectaum &s;atis e&s;t &amp; donatum cum rude quaeris.</HI></P>
<Q LANG="lat"><L>Maecenaes iterum antiquo me includere ludo,</L>
<L>Non eadem e&s;t aetas.</L></Q>
<P>Never any words ever &s;uited our purpo&s;e with a more ef|ficacious aptitude: for now wee may ju&s;tly &s;ay in this Uni|ver&s;ity, <HI>non eadem e&s;t aetas,</HI> the face of times are &s;o wrinckled on the &s;udden, that they who not long &s;ince beheld them young, faire and flouri&s;hing, looke upon them now, as if thy were quite bani&s;hed their memory, they appeare &s;o decayed, aged and uncomely, as if the Chaos were re|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">urned againe, and the fabricke of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> world &s;ha|ken into a rude and undige&s;ted ma&s;&s;e of confu&s;ion.</P>
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And not without rea&s;on, when that all illu&s;trating Sunne of your Maje&s;ties Royall pre&s;ence hath, as it were, &s;uffered a long and hideous eclip&s;e, been obvolved and &s;urrounded with cloudes and darkne&s;&s;e, in re&s;pect of the diminution of that light of obedience which was refulgent in the bo&s;omes of all your Subjects, darkned are the beames too of your Royall countenance in regard of the ab&s;ence of your deare Con&s;ort the Queen her Maje&s;ty, who hath ble&s;&s;ed your Maje&s;ty with &s;o many faire and hopefull pledges of your loves; &s;o many &s;weet and gracious Princes of both &s;exes, that they doe as tho&s;e in the P&s;almi&s;t, &s;it like Olive bran|ches round about your table; darkned they are al&s;o in regard of the &s;till increa&s;ing and over-flowing troubles and di&s;tractions that &s;o riot in your Maje&s;ties Domini|ons, a &s;treame of blood which hath i&s;&s;ued from the bo|dies of your wounded and &s;laughtered Subjects, like a purple cloud, &s;hadowing the accu&s;tomed rayes that u&s;ed &s;o cheerfully to i&s;&s;ue out from your Maje&s;ties eyes, which now &s;eeme all to be transformed into the very Ideas of pen&s;ivene&s;&s;e and &s;adne&s;&s;e; &s;o that we may with much griefe of heart &s;ay of your Grace, <HI>O quantum mutatus ab illa;</HI> How much are you altered from that King you were, when you u&s;ed before the&s;e civill warres to grace our Univer&s;itie with your Royall pre&s;ence, when nought was heard in our Colledges, Halls and Hou&s;es, nay, in this whole City, but the voyce of joy and gladne&s;&s;e; but now, <HI>non eadem e&s;t aetas,</HI> the gallant and learned Orati|ons made here in entertainment of your Maje&s;tie, are now reduced to this poore unworthy Speech of mine, the meane&s;t of your Highne&s;&s;e Subjects, in&s;tead of tho&s;e pregnant i&s;&s;ues of wit and fancie which the nimble brains of our Poets have invented to fill the Scene of your wel|come hither. Nothing is heard here at this great Fe&s;tivall of our Redeemers nativity, but the tongue of mourn|ing, the Univer&s;itie being a very theatre of &s;ilence, though wee mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e our &s;elves more obliged to the boun|ty
<PB N="5" REF="3">of the Almighty then any Citie in your Maje&s;ties Kingdomes, in that he hath ble&s;&s;ed us thus long with being e&s;teemed worthy to injoy your Maje&s;ties pre&s;ence; and &s;o that never forgotten benefit hath a little revived and refre&s;hed our drooping &s;oules; yet the &s;en&s;e of our neigh|bours &s;ufferings comes like the ill <HI>Gemi</HI> into our imagi|nations to affright them with the horror of their gho&s;tly and hideous countenances; <HI>Non nobis &s;olum nati &s;umus,</HI> wee were not worthy the Religion wee profe&s;&s;e, if wee &s;hould not have a fellow-feeling of the afflictions of our Country and its inhabitants, who groane as the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> did under the <HI>Egyptians,</HI> under the oppre&s;&s;ive weight of their burthens, &s;o in&s;upportable, that they would cracke the &s;houlders of another <HI>Atlas</HI> to &s;u&s;taine them; their burthens which comprehend the contracted weight of all mi&s;eries incident to mortality; &s;ince all of them are cha|ractered in this civil warre. This civill warre that hath robbed the Kingdome of the ancient tranquillitie, the Church of its &s;o de&s;pi&s;ed ornaments, the Subjects of their e&s;tates quite, nay, lives, and many of them undone pa&s;t all reparation or recovery by the&s;e military tumults, your facred Maje&s;tie will be plea&s;ed to afford mee an indul|gent pardon for my expatiating &s;o much on this point of the Subjects calamity, it is not that I dare be &s;o di&s;|loyall, to believe any fault of it re&s;ts in your Maje&s;ty, but out of the tender compa&s;&s;ion and hearty con&s;idera|tion of their afflictions, which wee all hope your Ma|je&s;ties paternall and pious care will in good time recti|fie, for this particular City, but e&s;pecially for the body of this Univer&s;ity, which this yeere is under my govern|ment, unworthy as I am of that charge, had not your Maje&s;ties comfortable and all-quickning &s;ight removed away the clouds that &s;hadowed us; certamly ere this darkne&s;&s;e had encompa&s;&s;ed us round about: here would have beene no need of a Vice-chancellor, when there would have been no Students to governe; no need of
<PB N="6" REF="4">Schooles, when there would have been none to have been taught in them. No Science Liberall practi&s;ed in the Col|ledges, whence all the Practi&s;ers were fled for feare of per|&s;ecution, of being plundered of their &s;ub&s;tances; nay, de|prived (as it was probable enough) of their lives, for being loyally affected to Your Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie.</P>
<P>In that great de&s;ection of the I&s;raelites from the Tribe of <HI>Indah</HI> and Family of <HI>David,</HI> the Tribe of <HI>Levi</HI> &s;tuck clo&s;e to their rightfull King, &s;o hath it in England to your Highne&s;&s;e, in all the&s;e dome&s;tick broyles, not one of the Clergie (but &s;ome of factious &s;pirits) de&s;erting your cau&s;e: The two Univer&s;ities, this and that of Cambridge, decla|ring them&s;elves in your Maje&s;ties behalfe; and &s;urely wee in Oxford had been ju&s;tly branded with the title of ingrati|tude, if we &s;hould have relinqui&s;hed your Grace, who have formerly, and at this pre&s;ent time, heaped upon us &s;o many evident te&s;timonies of your Royall Benignity to us, and your deare affection to the advancement of good literature, which as I before related, was here reduced to the la&s;t ga&s;p, labouring as it were for life, till your Goodne&s;&s;e, by tran&s;|ferring your Per&s;on and Pre&s;ence hither, making this your winter re&s;idence, infus'd new life into the langui&s;hing Aca|demy. The Fellows of Hou&s;es now returne to their cham|bers, &s;ecur'd by your Maje&s;tie from any feare of dangers. The young Students, that for their &s;afeties were retired home to their fathers hou&s;es, ha&s;te back to the Colledges, proud that they &s;hall have the happine&s;&s;e to re&s;ide where they may &s;ee the light and favour of your Royall Counte|tenance; So that (thanks be to God and and your Maje&s;tie) decayed learning begins here againe to re&s;pire and re|flouri&s;h.</P>
<P>The Romans in a noble gratitude to that great <HI>Camillus,</HI> who re&s;cued them from the tyranny and ruine of the Galls under the conduct of <HI>Brennus</HI> brought upon them, would needs have conferr'd upon him the title of the &s;econd <HI>Ro|mulus,</HI> the Founder of the Citie, and allowed him equall
<PB N="7" REF="4">honour with him. The &s;ame mu&s;t wee, in&s;pir'd with no le&s;&s;e a gratefulne&s;&s;e, tender to your Maje&s;tie, you are our &s;e|cond <HI>Alured,</HI> the &s;econd Founder of our Univer&s;itie; and if to &s;ave when lo&s;t, in &s;ome opinion, was as great an action of the Almightie, as to create man-kind out of nothing; Surely our rea&s;on mu&s;t enforce us to acknowledge our &s;elves as much indebted to your Highne&s;&s;e, for our pre&s;ervation and re&s;titution, as to <HI>Alured</HI> for our foundarion and in&s;titu|tion. And &s;o with the generall votes of the whole Univer|&s;itie, this new yeere I pre&s;ent your Maje&s;tie in their names, with the&s;e wi&s;hes; Grace and Peace this yeare be multi|plyed upon Your Selfe, your ab&s;ent Queene, and Royall Progenie. May the dew fall upon you all, and the ble&s;&s;ings of <HI>Iacob</HI> be in your inheritance. May all the&s;e tumultuous and civill di&s;tractions end with the beginning of this yeere, and the re&s;t of it be &s;pent in imbalming and curing the ma|ny wounds of our Engli&s;h I&s;rael. And to conclude, may Heavens be&s;t bountie be &s;howred downe on you, its mightie and out-&s;tretched Arme protect you. And as an humble and zealous te&s;timony of the Univer&s;ities de&s;ires to &s;erve Your Sacred Maje&s;tie in their names, and as the be&s;t expre&s;&s;ion, they for the pre&s;ent can make of their loyaltie, I here be|&s;eech Your Highne&s;&s;e, to accept this widdows mite, ca&s;t as this New Yeares Oblation into Your Trea&s;urie, this Cup with two hundred pounds in gold, which is contained with|in it. 'Tis all, Royall Sir, our Univer&s;ities decay'd debilitie hath to tender as an offering to Your Gracious Hands; our wi&s;hes de&s;ire it were an unexhau&s;tible Indies: And &s;o wee hope the intention of the gift will make us win favour in Your Eyes, &s;o that Your Maje&s;tie will vouch&s;afe to accept it as graciou&s;ly, as we pre&s;ent it humbly.</P>
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