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A13394	Rapta Tatio The mirrour of his Maiesties present gouernment, tending to the vnion of his whole iland of Brittonie martiall.	Skinner, John, Sir, fl. 1604, attributed name.; Skene, John, Sir, 1543?-1617, attributed name.; Douglas, N., attributed name.	1604 (1604)	STC 23705; ESTC S118166	26,573	62

write instruction of occurrents and priuitie to haue made right vse my paynes should haue been imployed to haue giuen that satisfaction to this cause which now I ayme at and but onely for the gladnesse of the popular duety to so gratious a Soueraigne I could not haue been thrust vpon And herein I will not deale with my loue to them as the Sleeper did with the Coniurer who hauing told him that a dreame of an Egge signified treasure sent him onely of siluer and gould whereof he had found some quantitie a portion of the siluer and put him to aske for newes of the Yolke numquid de vitello for euen all the substaunce in my Shell is wholly this argumentes and the more deuoutly since with Deiotarns our King is not building of Citties at the thirteenth houre of the day nor with Crassus at sixtie yeeres olde beginning to march against the Partheans but euen at his first entraunce doth so addresse himselfe to his gouernement as all are proude at this instant who spake well before and they who see him now find abilitie to speake for euer It shall not be sayd of him he beares his time well as if somewhat were to be allowed to his new enteraunce but he vseth his time well It was Damasippus fault to giue Cicero so much aduantage hauing bidden him to supper as by hauing kept his Wine fourtie yeeres in his house to be subiect to his guestes censnre that it bore the age well This Kinges time came when it should be vsed and is vsed when it is come England allured not him to it till it sent to him for it He hath taken a state Captiue by Gods prouidence and his Maiesties good vsage of his guifts was not taken prisoner as Policrates was by Eurotes Therefore he pertakes Gods blessinges not against the Fates but by direction of the Heauens Before his Highnesse is treasure in his comming hither some I hope will finde it behinde him if God blesse the golden Mynes in Scotland Cefellius Bassus applauded Nero for being deere vnto the Gods as in whose time onely Gold long time hidde came to light There are I cannot denie who are so vnhappie as to coniecture that some that hath seene light is gone that way to be hidde But neither shall fayle the vse of this Kingdome if God blesse the ones finding and graunt meanes to the others returning since now the King hath propounded that an vnion may be confirmed the only meanes to draw al vses from thence to the good of vs heere without our losse in any thing which with the gaine by this cause will not be well requited nor will it be long to the appearance thereof when his Maiesties subiectes shall be all conioyned which are borne and inhabite within one continent haue and long may they haue the same soueraigne suffer noe deuision nor which euer did other then what the Diuell drew on for the punishment of both and it seemes Gods sacred ordinance to mooue the Kings Maiestie to affect the amendes of for the good of either They haue reason to follow where their King is wee cause to imbrace them who come with him The Countrey besides is honored in his Highnesse which bredde such a King as liues to prooue hath not a bare testimonie of a thing forgotten more abilitie in him selfe then Darius on his Tombe was commended for I was a f●iend to my friends an horseman and bowman excellent I was best of Huntsmen and in my person could doe all thinges And shall not Cirus his counsaile to Cambises his sonne make vs more assured to haue a Scepter compacted of multitudes of Friends then of quantitie of Gold And how can we compact them but to make them like Niobees Tombe being the Marble This Tomhe hath no dead body this dead body hath no Tombe but the one is the other and either is each And if friendship be as Senica saith Negotiatio quae ad comodum accedit The King hath greatest cause if their ingratitude shall not giue him cause to be weary of both to ioyne them in strrct bandes of all comfortable all entire equall Loues betwixt them since the greatest profite which euer can come to either of them must be in seeing the welfare and enioying the lyfe of him alone Nor is it fitte that his friendes should not be vnited I presume to call his Subiectes his friendes as by a deare tytle as well as humble since better it is the King were not of agreeing harmonie in himselfe then where his friendes were naught the King himselfe were of good disposition And if the difference were any for the exchange some haue sayd Procul a loue et a fulmine the conuersations of Kinges haue euer been helde like the nature of the Flames warme further of and burning neerer The King shall better represse further off in this forme by this meanes giue greater scope to the Subiect neerer hand by that course his further people shal be made more ciuill I speake of the priuater of them these not so great flatterers I speake not much of the publicker of these whose so often kneelinges his Maiestie it is sayd hath so much forbidden as if he had seene Tiberius the Emperour fall on his face running away from a fellow who hung vpon him kneeling A Woman did the like vpon this our King at Royston whose Husband that he might liue disorderly with his Grey-hound against the Kings Proclamation left to liue orderly with his wife according to the institution of Marriage Yet as for the one I meane not altogether the men of the Lues part of whose Countrey I had hoped that ere this time the battered Garrison of Barwicke should haue had so I feare not much the other who can onely alledge Offa me monet the King hauing Subiectes of whom his Maiesties owne note is that they were borne to haunt shame and starue himselfe of able meanes to reforme them by cutting off allowaunces The condition of those I professe to be more dangerous who can amende mistakinges And to the question quid brachium can reply illud dicere volui femur who can either turne an Argument of strength into lasciuiousnesse or can alter with occasion and flatter euen vice if they could here find it But while ill thinges ought not to be commended ill men can be allowed no fitte praysers Seneca in his Tractate of the honest lyfe sayth Wee ought to be as much ashamed to be commended of bad men as if we were praysed for ill conditions Reuerend and Worthy men hath the King to heare as euer King was serued withall both graue and wise and wise and stoute such as of whom it can not be sayd that they haue lesse of Eloquence then of Fayth being as excellent speakers as carefull doers neither lesse Honor then may commaunde duetie being many by him selfe aduaunced others better then alwayes confirmed or more then before increased They are they to whom the Law

in like whereof no Prince in the world is knowne to equall him I may truely say as he is farre from taking aduantages vpon those from whose indiscreete and vnworthy vsages the haynousnesse of their crimes haue giuen their states and safeties away so might so much moderation in cause of iust anger haue giuen true tryall of none ouer great violence in matter of affection And were it not for the good of eyther since hee hath charge of both it would neither bee the draught of the one to what they seeke not nor of the other to what they like not that would make either Fancies seeme Faces or Reasons almost Treasons Nor can I gesse whence no better satisfaction groweth vnlesse Opinion may be helde of the highest estate to be as Pliny writeth of Fortune that shee is the Goddesse who in the whole world in all places at all howers with all voyces alone is called out vpon alone is named alone is accused who hath the onely guylt the onely estimation the onely prayse the onely blame and with inuectiues is worshipped with slaunder cherished in inconstancie thought constant to whose charge is layde the maintayning the vnworthiest the accompt of all expences the catalogue of all receites and the filling vp of each Leaues either part in the blottes of all reckonings and the setting vpon all Audits If not so with reuerence and loue may I speake it to your Cittie-assemblies Tables as you may thinke priuate and secure be too little prouident no lesse was the Frenches confidence who to shew their not fearing Alexander could instaunce in nothing to giue them doubt but in the heuens falling Yet certainely as Abimelech being hurt by a Stone from the Castle whereinto the Israelites fledde throwne downe by a Womans hand desired rather that a Souldier would kill him then that by so weake an hand he should perish So is it euer to be feared that greatnesse can no where suffer contradiction with content where the cause is reasonable and affection Royall in the vnderstanding It may be neuerthelesse that Pompilius thought a Circle scoared by a Rod could giue lymits to consultation as Intra hunc consule The intendment of such Circles were to combine mens seates and endeuours by freedomes to assist euery one the most he could not with liberties to forestall singular men peremprorily those propositions which come but newly into consultation being neither rashly nor meanely commended Those ends had no Celticke boldnesse appoynted to them they were not to be ioyned with contempt of safetie There was not intended that with the blood of Hanniball should be made strong the league with Rome There was no Priuiledge to engadge that offence which no memory could euer remit if the after successes should accuse the then resolued iudgements The Scottish in this age nor in those to come shall in this Kingdome get the best offices alone feare ye not nor let others affright you therewith But as the Kinges Maiestie contendes to haue the State generall and publique weale of the whole Iland to which he is equally by God appoynted in best order so propounds he that it may be free for the best man of those who are his natiue Subiectes borne and inhabiting within the same continent and none otherwise deuided by Tweede then others of his Subiectes are by Trent may haue place for his goodnesse to serue the Common-wealth in Such is his Maiesties royall disposition to chuse the best from the most and to get it enacted that the left hād though not so much heretofore vsed shall now bee knowne to bee a parte of the same body receiue the same nourishmēt by the same passages and do naturall seruices as none artificiall member But why we should so much doubt them see I not so much cause In all men now liuing is not the appetite of Diogenes deceased he being asked what kinde of wine he wold gladliest drinke of answered of another mans for of those there are many wil not change their own setlings too many who haue pensions elswhere already some are going further for better profits all of whome great offices in this kingdome doe not expect nor wold they euer be suters for them to sit about them Yet do you thinke it better and lesse dāgerous to admit too great hopes at home then safe for a common wealth to permitte too much certaintie of engagement abroad This was it of which Horace said that the hornes had hey vpon them flie those beastes Foenum habet in cornu longè fuge This Frenchman is black Hunc tu Britāne caueto Nay I may tell you that this nation is so well traueld hath so much addiction to see further as it wil well ioin to draw your looser abroad by encrease of strength your richer home with support of wealth And whether such dispositions are likely to hold they who haue traueiled can best discern who haue seen vs foraignly loue take parte against all natiōs ech with other when we liued domestickly scarce friends daily occasions giuen why we shold be more disjoyned Too much occasion hath ben geuē why secret remēbrances might hold some in act some in fact but so blessing of vs is God so gracious to vs is our King so prouidēt are they cā forsee this as the storye moderne may now be corrected as Martials epigrams might be amēded which whē many interlineations many scorings could not perfit vna litura potest spongia sola potest many apologies many periuries many simple denials many beings out of the way many facings to the teeth many accusatiōs of his better subjects many combinations of packes together though all these shold be many more can neuer or not alwaies hold all in or all men only this asks pardō saies nothing this takes reuenge doth good together Now let vs haue none aliens none attainders be al free as wee may bee noble as wee shold be Let the same hād which endeuored hurt or was mistaken heal be rightly vnderstood If there be impedimēts outward remooue them if imward aduise them Licurgus being demaunded how the enemies forces might be abādoned answered if they would continue poore which this age yeelds no disposition to if they woulde lay by ciuill dissentiōs which is best done where singuralities are auoided good only affected But if the best should come to the eagerest satisfaction yet it is lesse valew to defend then assault lesse hability to deny then to proue that very to do good is more suspected then ill doing deemed faulty the wisdome of Pisistratus must yeeld to the wilfulnesse of his childrē or else others must take aduātage by their debate The story saith that whē as Pisistratus had giuen right aduise vnto his children could not get theyr cōsent vnto it therby was vrged to stād in some question with them for their disobediēce finding his enimies reioiced therat as hopeful that frō that dissētion som