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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60752	Solon secundus: or, Some defects in the English laws with their proper remedies. By a hearty lover of his country.	Hearty lover of his country.	1695 (1695)	Wing S4463; ESTC R221573	20,620	36

SOLON SECUNDUS OR SOME DEFECTS IN THE English Laws With their Proper REMEDIES By a hearty Lover of his Country LONDON Printed for the Author And are to be Sold by John Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1695. The Epistle Dedicatory To all hearty Lovers of their Country zealous Assertors and Pursuers of the known and certain Interests thereof and in a Word without any more Distinction To all True English Men. Gentlemen 'T IS to You I recommend this small Treatise of plain easie and profitable Politicks 't is to You alone I dedicate it and it was for your Sake and the Service of my dear and entirely-belov'd Country I have engag'd my Pen and appear in Publick at this time when we have something else to do than to write or publish Books News is now the only Theme and by it's Noise drowns all other Talk the French the Spaniards the Savoyards the Dutch the English France Flanders Catalonia Italy and the Rhine employ all our Tongues and almost our very Thoughts too The Sea and the Land-Services give full Employments to and Entertainment for our Noddles the Coffee-Houses are cramm'd the Exchange crouded all the cry is News the Streets echo nothing else the Town is diverted and so is the Country too After this manner the Bath Astrop Tunbridge and Epsom all filled with Inquirers of this kind Quelle Novelle is now the Salutation The Ladies are in too they attend the News with impatience the Post is too slow and the Wind too calm and too contrary to hinder the Packet-Boats return and to detain them so long on that side Nay the Fair Sex are become most exquisite Geographers and can give an Account where Cales and Catalonia are where Cazal and Pignerol as well as most Men they can hardly attend the mutation of their Modes and as a Witty one among them said when ask'd why the Fashion continu'd so long and with so little alteration Truly the French the usual Fashion-Mongers of Europe were now otherways employed The strong Stream and chief Current being now wholly bent upon News what hopes can a new Author have of being handled or read Oh there 's time and leisure enough for that in the intervals of News and Business besides now the Summer is past and the Autumn and short Days with long Nights approach the Town will suddenly fill the Men of Business will haste hither Soldiers States-men Scholars Merchants all come here this is the Rendezvous the Winter-Quarters then the Word will be What new Books have been lately printed The Answer return'd but few Trading is dead Paper and Printing dear and Money very scarce and bad into the Bargain sad Times indeed But pray when were we without Complaints and Murmurings And tho' they may generally have Reason now I hope they had the less then in those glorious Days of Peace and Plenty but there always was and ever will be Repiners none Rich or Great enough not content with their State and Condition always uneasie never satisfied or long pleas'd But here lo here 's a Piece of Politicks not drawn from Cabinet or Copy of the great Richelieu or greater Mazerine no nor from the Florentine Secretary Here are no Politicks laid to encrease but to conserve Empire not to make new Conquests but to secure old Ones not to invade and destroy our Neighbours Dominions but to permit them peacefully to enjoy them not to subvert but to preserve a Kingdom not to depopulate but to well-people an Island happy in it self the happiest in the World surrounded with Salt-Water environ'd with floating Bulwarks invincible in the Courage of the Men and renown'd for the Beauty of the Women but above all fam'd for the Mildness and Lenity of its Government no Absolute and Arbitrary Treatments here all bounded by Laws Prerogative and Privilege have their Limits their ne plus ultra Noble and sweet Constitutions no Wooden Shooes no Dragoons no Gallies no Stat pro Ratione voluntas no sic Volo sic Jubeo but the King Commands with Sweetness and Gentleness and Rules by Law and the Subjects Obey with Cheerfulness Duty and Affection And tho' we are not for changing all yet we are for mending some of our Laws which will apparently tend to the Publick Good and for that very Reason will freely admit of some Alteration and preserve our People much exhausted by Wars and other Means Gentlemen As I told You at the beginning of my Dedication so I now confirm to You 't is to You alone I write no Jacks no Haters of their Native Country no Lovers of Lewis the Fourteenth with his Mahumetan League but to the Lovers of WILLIAM the Third who Wish Talk and Fight for the Prosperity of Old England You merit my Services my Pains are Your due indeed You deserve my best Endeavours You shall have more You bear a true Love to your own Country You are an Honour to it and the poor sneaking whining Jacks a Shame Scandal and Discredit to it They are Vipers Monsters unnatural Births they enfeeble but You strengthen the Hands of the Government to carry on the sharpest bloodiest and most expensive War that ever Britain was engag'd in or after this I hope ever will be You bravely stand by your King and Country some with your Swords in your Hands others with your Purses full drawn and wide open to defend our Native Land our Darling Religion and our Civil Rights Alas our Liberty is above Price beyond Value And as for those silly and contemptible Wretches that whine and bawl and seem to long for French Government or King James's which would be much at one for he copied exactly after the Versalian Original he set up too soon for Omnipotent he had not serv'd seven Years his Apprentiship to his Master King Lewis besides he run too fast was soon out of Breath he was too hasty too fleet to hold long and his Horse was resty Alas the People of England are not Beasts of Burthen Asses to be rid upon let the Romish Priests find out their Men of Patience and Flegm in other Countries with easie flat Backs and tame servile Tempers they were mistaken in their Men the English are too mettlesome to be Slaves they have not been used to Servitude and cannot endure it they 'll kick and wince and fling their Rider as they did their late King Nothing but Quo Warranto's and Mandamus's the King will have it I 'll make ye know I am your King as he told the Fellows of a certain College tho' as it fell out they did not know him very long 'T is dangerous to violate and break in upon Establishments it has ever been fatal to the Aggressors Charles II. of England that begun that Work had like to have been unhors'd the Times were violent and had like to have broke out into Civil as they call them tho' I think they are Rude Commotions Lucan the Pharsalian Poet calls them Plusquam Civilia Bella and I think he