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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02478	Of golds kingdome, and this vnhelping age Described in sundry poems intermixedly placed after certaine other poems of more speciall respect: and before the same is an oration or speech intended to haue bene deliuered by the author hereof vnto the Kings Maiesty.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1604 (1604)	STC 12607; ESTC S106139	24,599	66

OF GOLDS KINGDOME AND THIS VNhelping Age. Described in sundry Poems intermixedly placed after certaine other Poems of more speciall respect And before the same is an Oration or speech intended to haue bene deliuered by the Author hereof vnto the Kings Maiesty Ipse licet venias Musis comitatus Homere Si nihil attuleris ibis Homere foras Though Homer thou do come thy selfe with Muses waiting on thee Yet Homer if thou nothing bring then Homer God be with thee Animus virtutis studiosus ad●nuenit artem Carminum ad la●dandum bona ad vituperandum vero 〈◊〉 Arist. De poet●● lib. 1. THOV SHALT LABOR FOR Imprinted at London 〈…〉 A SPEECH INTENDED TO HAVE BENE MADE VNTO THE KINGS MAIESTIE in the Towne of Windsore but not spoken MOST Gracious and renowmed King if we your Highnesse subiects of this place be for the present to seeke in what sort to applaud the incomparable blessing of your royall presence we are most humbly to beseech your Highnesse to impute the same vnto two causes The one the consideration we haue of our owne imperfections as the same are now to be exposed vnto the censure of your Princely perfections The other the abundance of our ioy which hath so possessed euery part of our thoughts as that thereby we are vnable to retaine in our speaking either Methode or Decorum For it cannot be told most gracious Soueraigne with what insatiable power of our minds we do imbrace entertaine this ioyfull time of your Maiesties personall repayre into this land and now particularly to this your Towne and Castell of Windsore This time I say most brightsome and cleere not ouercast with any the least cloud of either trouble present or danger to come For it may truly be said of your Maiesty and that to the glory of God as it was sometimes said of M●urici●● the godly Romaine Emperour that true piety and felicity haue so met together in your royal person as that true piety hath forced felicity to be present at a l your royall solemnizations whatsoeuer And why surely because your Maiesty hath not onely couered your head with the Imperiall Diademe and inue●ted your person with the Royall Ornaments of the Crowne but hath also adorned your mind with the inestimable Iewels of true Religion and Iustice But what shall I say Among all the inexplicable blessings which we are now by the goodnesse of God to inioy by your Maiesty there is one amongst the rest so full of blessednesse as that it ouerreacheth the measure of common comprehension to dilate it in speech And what is that Euen the knitting togither of your two Kingdomes England and Scotland which are now so closed in one Harmony as well of Religion as of their confining borders and agreeing languages as that according to the saying of the Prophet Bone is ioyned to Bone Ioynt to Ioynt Most gracious king our most beloued Soueraigne there is one thing that your Maiesty may hold as an vndoubted certainty namely this that you are entred into your rule and raigne ouer Englād with as great cōformity of harts of English subiects as euer King or Queene within this Realme Long may your Highnesse liue Long may the Scepter sway in your Princely hands And vnto the King of Kings we bow the knees of our hearts that he will vouchsafe to graunt vnto your Maiesty a long a peaceable and renowmed Raigne ouer vs. I will not take vpon me to particularize vnto your Maiestie the Nature of Englands gouernement but generally vnder your Princely fauour this thereof may be sayd that by the most ancient vsage of England the king hath bin accounted to be persona mixta hoc est vnita cum Sacerdotibus aunswerable to that of Homer and Aristotle Suprema potestas antiquitus fuit regia Sacerdotalis And for that that is holden thereof ciuilly at this day it is this we say that our supreme power is principatus tam regalis quam politicus the one respecting times of warre and the other times of peace And we say also that principatus regalis politicus paris sunt potentiae sed principatus regalis difficilioris est exercit● 〈◊〉 securitatis But of this as also of the Equity of your Maiesties Common lawes o● Engl●●d and ●o o● the Equity of your ●ig● Court of Chauncery with their differences and therewithall also of Equity in generall as the same is to be vsed in euery humane law I your Maiesties most humble subiect a professor of those Common lawes some certaine yeares past did imploy my labours in writing a plaine open Treatise thereof in English whichbe ing here contained in this written Volume if it might stand with your Princely pleasure to vouchsafe your reading of it I make no doubt but that your Maiestie will find sundry things therein not impertinent no nor yet vnnecessary for your Princely perusing The simplicity of the handling alwayes excepted for the which I must and do most humbly beseech your Maiesties gracious pardon After this there should haue followed some priuate and particular matters on the behalfe of the sayd Towne TO THE RIGHT WOR'SHIPFVLL HIS very kind and curteous friend Edward Uaughan Esquire Deputy Officer of the Office of the Pipe of the Kings Maiesties Eschequer GOOD Sir my occasions staying me so long in London this last vacation as that according to the bill of Certificat there died aboue 19 hundreth of the Plague in one weeke Although I then thought it not fit to imploy that time in any serious Study yet I was vn●●lling to passe it wholly ouer without some exercise of my Pen. Whereupon resorting to a few odde trifles which I had penned about a yeare or two sithens I added euery day for diuerse dayes together sundry others vnto them And causing my man to write them out after me in the end I found the whole thereof to arise vnto a proportion of a litle Booke which thus written as it is I send vnto you as a token of my assured goodwill being ready from time to time to expresse the same by better meanes as I shall be enabled thereunto And whereas in one or two places of the booke I haue made mention of outragious fees let that light where it will As for you you are knowne to be a giuer of fees But an extreame exacter of fees I am perswaded in my heart you neuer were nor euer will be And so with my best wishing vnto you I cease This First of Ianuarie 16●● Your true and hearty welwiller E. Hake The Authors Prologue to such of his Poems in this booke as concerne Golds Kingdome ALthough that Gold can closely creepe where th' aire could neuer come And cause that vice and vertue be of equall poise with some Yet noble and true gentle minds with Gold will not be won To do the thing that is vniust or leaue good things vndone A proofe hereof me selfe haue seene in one that noble is And