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 fâ—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
him back his gifts againe In others they had good vse as when Fabius Maximus bestowed on Marsus a valiāt souldier no very great gifts to keep in very great spirits The antient boone of Leuidense none begs which was a warme but light yet cōmon garment Many now craue in many places not so much for want of sufficient as because though they know some haue more then inough yet they would bee loath to haue lesse then theyr fellowes striuing as Otacilius did to equall Torquatus of whom it is written that as the ox burst the toade so the one of them would split in emulation of the other vt bos ranam rumperat olim sic puto Torquatus rumpet Otacilium Milesius was wont to say there was no such way to make a man quietly suffer aduersity as the knowledge that his enemy was in worse prosperity and think you that emulatiō in this works not as much as in the other malice For this cause did the brethren of Ioseph sell the son of Iacob vnto the Arabian merchants For the other did Casselius find out that a Pyne tree nut was an apple if it were to be thrown at Vatinius his enimies head Horace bestoweth much description vpon those who wold haue none so great as thēselues and tels the tale of the toade vituli pede pressus who told her dam when she saw her swell to be as great as the calfe Non si te ruperis inquit Par eris But though it were vnfit in kings causes Martials counsell to Flaccus was vnhappy which aduised to keep that to himselfe which hee had purposed amongst others when as the offence of many who should not get was dangerous the bestowing vpon al burdensom Demeruisse duos votum est offendere plures vix tutum Cunctis mittere dona graue Our Soueraigne as his goodnesse is great so his rewards his gifts his aduancements haue not bin smal Tully had not so great cause to brag of his Quaestorship well discharged in Sicily when he came home to Rome as some giue shew of our Soueraigns bounty who passe from one of you to another Howsoeuer it may truly be said it hath rather bin a Royall king then an yeares Magistracy yet performed hath aduanced Tully to salute Roome so glorified from Sicily so enuyed at home Take it not ill then Tully if no body at Roome woulde talke to thee of thy Quaestorship of the news of thy cariage wherin thou thoughtst to haue found all men full And why should not such gifts as they cary be bestowed by him who hauing long staied for power ought now only to affect glory and good will Priùs said Antigonus mihi opus erat potentia nunc verò gloria et beneuolentia What other humane indeauour hath this worthy king more seriously taken in hand then the benifiting of his the countries friends the recōcilemēt agreemēt of the enemies of both whereof the one as they were made vp partely by his loue to his country his desire to honour it to aduāce hir faln nobility to requite such as had deserued best of her to giue many more then theyr own since the country had so gladly giuen him his own partly by those he brought with him who had some of them bin rescuers of his life som extraordinary assistants of his estate others such as he could not but reward here for seruices performed there where memory was the rewarde hee cold properly giue was all in their honors they would willingly take So enimies to kings do oftnest grow either by wāt of what ambition made them desire or for lacke of what expenses had drawn into waste Els some somtimes affect what blind zeal makes them think fit or fals iudgement rather false harts will not let them see pertinent proper But as his Maiesty hath no more then was fit rewarded the first vnlesse they can say to him as the yong man saith in Terence Nescis quid mihi obtigerit you cannot tell Sir what hath lighted vpon me So hath he mercifully spared the other insomuch that he hath neither cōfiscated them as Tiberius the Emperor did the kings of Spaine Sicily Greece ob leue impudensque calumniarū genus for any light or shamefull kind of slander nor fined them as Cassius did Sylla Calphurnius from one of whom he took quinquagies sestertiū frō the other sexagies Himselfe being for any riot he is addicted vnto as free frō wāt either of ought belonging to himself or for his couetousnes frō need of any thing others possesse But either at pe titions of faire Ladies none offenders or for som respects laid before him by his wiser Nobility either else for pure inclinatiō vnto mercy hath benefited Sylla been steward of his estate kept others vp who would haue kept others downe Thanks to so high discerning which found that when Soueraigntie could not represse liberty benefits could more strictly then treason take it prisoner Nor hath hee yet inflicted so much as exile vpon any of them knowing it a banishment that they forsooke his iustice And that he detaineth them is out of his mercy for boulder were they and of better countenāce could they be when each had his discontent then now when they haue proofe in themselues the world sees it apparātly how vnworthily they had placed it Marcellus the Ciuilian wrighting vpon a booke of the Digestes shewes three kindes of banishment either from certaine places or from al places besides certain either else a cōfining to some Iland And though all these be vpon them yet they had nothing of this punishment did not one certaine place restraine them may they be confined to an Ilād if further mercy shall deliuer further occasion shal not imploy them that Iland so prepared the one by their Soueraignes grace the other in his prudēce they are not only like to be inlarged to a country but find their country inlarged to them Touching whome pittie is it they rather were not free for this argument then bound by the other offēce There are of them whose births courages blouds experiences and conditions as they were noble before they lost them so nobly could they haue spoken of this argumēt I hope by this time haue found much cause to bee much forward hereabout Yet is there one of thē wold bring much griefe vnto me though I wish him all good in his weldoing if he or his abettor his Steward or Protector or his faction so many as are of the olde haunce for his cause should be able to preiudice me more for compassion then I could draw safegard to my selfe by refraining euill desart laboring good merit But howsoeuer these some of them much vnhappy before in this estate at this time haue all tryed the Kings Maiesties grace in their seuerall particulars in that notwithstanding they haue beene absent from the true ioyes of their Countrey and from the affaires in hand they may
for though Darius could not get the Grecians to eate their dead Fathers for any golde nor the Indians to burne theirs for any iron because of the contrarieties of their vses in both yet assure I my selfe this Nation honours the King with so much zeale he is able to teach thē with so much skill embrace vs with so much affection especially if wee bee once vnited in indissoluble bounds as I knowe not any custome may be fit for them to leaue shall not be discontinued nor any new lawe to be put in vse to which the first day shall not finde them accordant Si fingere me putas istud salutemus They do many of them vnderstand what was Cyrus his counsell to leaue those mountaines Countries and descend into the plaines there with the times to change the manners as Tully writes to Atticus where as the seedes are like the plants the liues of men are like the countries There shal they best learne to obey where the King sits highest to rule there shall they heare him clearely where Ille regit dictis animos pector a mulcet For this deede done none shall need to looke backe into his conscience with affrightment For this name taken none shall need to vnderstand the Nation to be embased For this kingdome inlarged none shall finde their owne states impaired As touching vnion with others and their abbetments ye may there iudge of your aduices among those who haue learnedly and grauely refuted that fourth question of the booke intituled Vindictae contra tyrannos Wherein is discoursed whether one Prince may ioyne with the subiects of an other who take vpon them armes for defence of defending religion My purpose being to be short shall rather insinuate my zealous wish of home-combining then forraine vses the one naturall and politique the other politique alone if so much I aske your body but within your girdle your head couered onely with your hat your garment to be grauer then partie-coloured and offer you Fraunce and Spaine for examples limited by those bounds nature her selfe hath appointed vnto them the Montes Perrenaei the Sea the Alpes with the rest Nor is it constantly held that our name of Britans should bee deriued of Brutus rather some hold we are called Prittons of a word which signifies a Marte or Fayre of stuffe for which this whole Island as well al parts as any one part Wales and Cornwall as England and Scotland is in one kinde or other replenished Nor ought that worde of Marte seeme to haue lesse boundes then Ciuitas which as Aristotle writeth signifieth a whole Common wealth As for our priuate goods thogh I could answere Publica priuatis sunt anteponenda yet let the stories bee but searched how our forteine conquestes haue bene hindred by the opportunities the Scots haue taken in our absences and how iealousies haue onely made vs diuersely combine our selues they with Fraunce wee with the house of Burgondie they shall finde how likely it is that priuate mens marchandize may be lost in the wracke of the generall fleete Other obiections should I goe about to frame such as pride or curiositie might suggest vnto me as much as I haue heard should I endeuour to answere the necessary themes of some mens seeming wise I doubt much how I could swim from out their deluge Noahs Arke or Chawcers Trough being vnbuilt against such an inundation Steeples stand not vp here as in the drownd countries of our lowe neighbours There are no sea-markes appearing to direct no castles no forts no citties to protect hilles and mountaines are here ouerwhelmed and the solutions of these following would be the dissolution of the time spent about them and no resolution of any thing for the applying of Gods blessings to our vses Animo volenti nihil difficile while we say all will be subuerted the lawes ouerthrowne mens states taken away the nations honor lost and our dish well serued in sliced into a gallemawfrey ouerpeppered and salt buttered wee spread feares doubtes God grant not hatreds largely but discusse vpon inconueniences slowly If to forward accordes the debate of this question happen you will finde that neither the number of the Scottishmen forreiners from their countrey nor the ambition of the Nobles though by some thought to challenge antiquitie before ours neither the customes of the Nation differing from ours in whatsoeuer wil debarre this proceeding or not admit time and will for fitnesse The like said of our auncient statutes of the stories auncient of vs of our reasonable affections as wee now stand for our goods and I dare boldly say eyther their intendmēts lesse needfull or their applications more profitable or alterations more beneficial will make vs more enioy this mornings breakfast then all last weekes dyet For neither doth the King affect other then our goods or is himselfe vnable to iudge of them nor doubteth but that there ought much deliberation to bee taken in a cause so important much circumspection touching the proportioning out the particulars These reasons haue moued me seeing that the King is to be defended in his desire as a good father of the Common-wealth hath spared the bloud of our good countreymen turned ill hath incouraged the seruices of the well deseruing shewes himselfe wise in his gouernment louing in his affection and industriously carefull of the weale publike to take vpon me this license in writing this zeale to my countrey in perswading Which if it happen to mindes affected to let Lucilii pecus esse liberum qua velit pasci I hope with them mine endeuour shall finde fauour for the rest as it no waies becomes me to be vnciuill as Democrates was to Philip so if they shall thinke it rather an impotencie in me not to spare mine affection to this argument then in themselues to afflict me by whatsoeuer meanes their wisdomes are of force to giue themselues content and this being out and past from me and dislikte shall make me not like to passe out more to be submitted to censure To conclude long liue yee right honourable Citties keeping peace in you fiers from you and traffique with you so may you build your houses faire keepe them neate haue good store of money and bonds in your chestes your Prentices grow free your liueries Aldermand your wiues Ladies your children made Gentlefolkes and your Cittie commodities be exchanged into the Courtiers reuenewes as at this marriage if you will daunce you make the contract sure and till death depart For though they and you lye in one an other of your houses nay should they and you lye with one an other of your wiues and daughters beleeue me non concubitus sed consensus facit Matrimonium say the Ciuilians Marry them and make the bond holy and vnuiolable or expect no securitie that the grand-children in time to come shall alwaies proue comfortable to the old folkes Catullus Hymen ô Hymenaee Hymen adest ô Hymenaee Sir Philip Sidney God Hymen long your coupled ioyes maintaine FINIS
can not be vnpleasing that Amasis King of Egypt made vti singuli apud praesides prouinciae ostenderent vnde viuerent That is in England on capitall head of many manifolde vices when men may liue by what meanes they can onely answearing vnto publicke accusations whereas how they get what they spende how they spende what they get how they outface meaner Magistracie how they blinde greater in causes of danger how they find many and the Common-wealth few friendes how they shift causes and the Iudge neuer heates of them for these how much God is angrie their courses how easie it is in beginngs to preuent if counsaile of Counsellours finde other thinges more vrgent to their wisedomes I remember what I wish the Common-wealth should haue cause to thanke them for These people will goe as neare Iustice and Lawes and scape them as Domitian could shoote neare through by a Boyes fingers and misse them This reuerend counsell for hauing liued in Coutts may they be more honored then to be reuiled in Woodes So let them know their seruices rewarded in lyuing that dead they be not abused by the lyuing And if they may be amongst vs who would be wise like them let vs not put them from amongst vs who haue more experience and haue had more priuitie then wee Zenophones Colophonius who was called Homeromastixe in lamentation of his pouertie told a King of Cecely that he was scarce able to keepe two Seruantes Yet quoth the King he whom you rayle vpon feedeth 10000. being dead so are worthy men by meane ones defaced so pratchantnesse knowes not it is sawcie so come faultie humours to be vnpunished because not seene and not seene because not regarded In Rome it is written Rutilius and Scaurus had petition for a Consulship and at last Rutilius gaue way to Scaurus Scaurus accused Rutilius of Canuace because in Rutilius his Tables was written A. F. P. R. which Scaurus did interpret as signifying done by the fayth of Publius Rutilius actum fide Publij Rutilij as if Rutilius had corrupted the voyces and Scaurus could not haue been made Consull without Rutilius had renounced vnto him But Rutilius made this interpretation ante factum postea relatum that first it was had afterwards restored as if Scaurus had by his name framed his Office and he had been but the pronouncer of his reputation Caius Caninius a Romaine Knight being on the part of Rufus notwithstanding held that neither interpretation was true vpon those Letters but that they imported Aemilius fecit plectitur Rutilius Aemilius did it and Rutilius suffered for it that was tooke the repulse But I thinke both then for neither are heere now In that time where was the curtesie passed betwixt Largius and Caelius when they two spent the day so in commending one another either for others worth to be elected Dictators that scarce either of them could be appoynted on the second day of their choyce Where was then that humanitie which Pompey shewed who being appoynted vnto Metellus his charge because Metellus was elder and more noble in glorie would not accept his preferment appoynted vnto him vnlesse Metellus would desire his companie in taking share of his care This case had much other pleading when it was and howsoeuer Rutilius was stucke vnto yet Cicero gaue not all to that speaker but in decision of the cause hauing iudicially delyuered turned his countenaunce vpon a worthy man of his fauour concluding directly in the behalfe of Scaurus More did not Tully in any day shew himselfe maister of his eares nor better at any time commaunde his tongue to vtter his iudgement Yet was that tryall onely brought in to take experience of duetie fully necessarie for greater causes soone after to be propounded This onely being like Alcibiades Dogge sent through the Cittie of Athens with his tayle cut off vpon purpose That as it was to try what woonderors were there in that body so this to discerne whether free tongues were walking or not walking in your free Cities But howsoeuer had Angustus his Iudgement been helde as good as Claudius his benefite the decision had found authoritie not the authoritie decision Then might the Souldier haue come to Caesar to aske his rewarde of pleasuring him in a fitter time then after he had lost one of his eyes at Munda But it may be in times foregoing it hath been thought that cleane obseruance was more worth then holy duetie to be honored rather skilfully then deuoutly coli scite quam sancte Yet doubt I that word Cleane had drunke too lately in the Low Countries and signified rather litle in the scite then mannerly in the obseruaunce Or else as it befell Martiall would haue his rule of louing accept Familiaritie but admit no reuerence Tu vis coli Sexte volebam amore Sed si te colo Sexte non amabo If otherwise which I well beleeue and you great Cities may happely heare of that not want of particuler duetie but care of generall good makes refusall of that for the Countries cause wherein a Kinges commaund had otherwise readely preuayled ouer his Subiectes while the euent of the ones desire the others refusall stood vpon vncertaine successes and the fathers care might be thought impartiall touching his owne lawfull Children though issued from diuers venters what Vigil could not scite Virgill what Watchman could not discerne day then in view then to follow his collours with Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro Nor could it be sayd O socij neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum for of the contrarie wee haue had experience lamentable of this which would haue yeelded comfort such hath been our vnhappinesse though the Histories can tell you how sought neuer occasion to any could wee take Better directions then happie directions men can not receaue such as either are affected to be followed for loue by hope or men are wonne to imbrace by reason vpon ground Him examine by his owne remember his life past so blessedly runne through so mischieffously attempted take view of his estate present of our hopes of blessednesse by him and thereby frame coniecture how fortunate his Highnesse may be in these his desires not withstood but submitted to by those who must leese liberties as deare as life thereby And should you not take him Kingly but Philosophically the rule for his condition fittes him as his Scepter for a King becomes him A body strong fortunes ritch the heart stoute and braines learned Milesius thought to be the seate of happinesse Plato he platted fiue kindes of Felicities good Counsell good Health good Fortune good Reputation good and falsely esteemed but neuer before other louers of Wisedome loued them better then Philosophers aboue all Goodes Goodes I might add to make these goodes better as greater for their qualitie maketh not their price more then their quantitie aduaunceth their reputation euen goodes hanging vpon Ropes Of which kinde to leaue the Kinges Maritine riches
as Tubero the Pretors Pye did which came strangely to his hand and of which the Southsayers foretolde that much good would come with her were shee accepted if otherwise much ill to the Pretor her hee pulled in peeces but not without his owne mischiefe In Phrigia and Silenus was a great earthquake which consumed many houses and mortalles The Oracle saide some rich thing must bee throwne into it Death of a Kinges Sonne onely stopped the gaping of the earth in those places Here is no earth-quake but heauens shine here is life and renowne to our Kings Sonne our worthy Prince ours and many more kingdoms hope The Oracle sayes not dye sonne but liue all friendly together Tully in the dreame of Scipio saith that all they who haue saued their Countrey haue helped their Countrey haue encreased their countrey haue in heauen a place appointed them where euerlastingly they shall ioy That was the cause why the Ambassadors of the Carthagenians and the Sirenenses were contented to make the condition of being buried quicke where they challengd their bounds So great was their loue to the inlargement of their Countrey a desire euer prosecuted and neuer but weakely by Darius in Quintus Curtius his time only gaine-said that a kingdome might be too great On the other side remember but how Themistocles dealt with Zerxes for the ouerthrow of al Greece because his countrey had ingratefully respected him And had not Artaxerxes hung vp my Hamon Mardocheus had beene betrayed in his owne Countrey beyond the Kings disposition but that did I beare though it cost me deare As I forgiue so I forget and returne to this If the English haue not generall peace which they shall not till they bee knowne generally strong for yet forreiners may bee suspected but to prye into our state to breake or holde resoluing neither but by the first instructions they will ere long grow so vnanswerable of Taskes and Subsidies that the Collectors shall finde them as in another common-wealth was seene playing in the streetes a shrewd signe that they be no money keepers But if they once see our fortune sitting they will then thinke she will so finde the benefit of her ease as shee will euer be knowne where to bee found Now is our ground ready what seede wee sow we shall reape This cause talkes nothing of inconuenience yet the man though good though iust though innocent is feared vir bonus iustus innocens timetur pouertie is pretended saith Martiall it is not pouertie to haue nothing Non est paupertas Nestor habere nihil The fault sure is this the poore seekes friendships vnworthy affections quòd colit ingratas pauper amicitias Nay they haue their peculiar riches where they are in as large a maner as we make account of ours here But this is to tennice freely but not to denise kindly Many I see knowe how to counsell few finde I who can tell how to make the Consull The King should haue long hands as farre reaching as Kent and Kentile and would you haue the King feed with one gloue on another off It would be said of him Totus in toto per totum totus omnis Esse omnis dū vis incipis esse tuus that he then beginneth to be his owne when he will be all and in all and by all and all euery where And though some pretend fables how the Wolfe by at the first getting an house to breede in at the last hauing many litters helde it by strength against the owner Yet what can these things moue in ordered cōmon wealthes where no more interest is attained then the lawes admit right to Tully in his pleading for Roscius shewes how many wayes the lawes punish those whose demaundes are greater then the lawes doe allow The like doth Crassus in Tully Our lawes will maintaine vs in our owne well enough though our conditions I hope will not make them pay so deare as the English did when they went to fetch the King and Queene from Scotland This may be giuen to the King for them indeede to them for vs the rest they shall enioy as the lawe will for what they buy by the law they may call their owne Demurre then no longer my great and deare friendes vpon this argument but returne this aunsweare that Neptune did by the Raine-bowe Terram esse communem Which though he durst not defend against Iupiter yet you haue Iupiter on your side against whome to contend were madnesse as with an equall doubtfull with an inferiour base Seneca sayth of power that if it inuite to any thing nay if it intreate ought it compelles it Easie it is not to write against him in his gouernment who can score a man out of his gouernment Non facile est in eum scribere qui potest proscribere Fauorinus the Philosopher admitteth Hadrian the better iudgement because he commaunded thirtie Legions The matter then being euen let vs not contend vnequally for had not nature seated this kingdom within you you might well haue helde it without you Well had Scipio Emilian discharged this Censorship had the Quirites giuen him a fellow Pretoorr not giuē him one Think not vpō what Cato saith that it is not to be marueiled at if what a man thinkes an excellent good he be loath to share with another But let Plutarch teach you to gaine authoritie and power with expedition so neither smoake shall make the fire vnpleasant in the kindling nor enuie lay snares to impeach glorie by in the framing If longer you stay vpon further deliberation this businesse hauing beene determined by the Comittee in heauen Scipio Emilian must nedes tell the Senate that neither of the Consules is fit for the seruice of the Common-Wealth For Seruius Sulpitius Galba was poore and had nothing and Valerius could neuer thinke he had enough Yet since the men on both sides are seruiceable make their conditions as agreeing amongst themselues so fit for the Common-Wealth let the one inioy more the other couet lesse so shall both encrease apace and Rome be well serued If any obiect their affections bee vnlike ours that comes not out of nature but custome As the Ayre is tempered sayeth Tully in his Diuination so are the children spirited their wittes formed their maners their minds their bodies and the actions of their life Looke in the English and Scotchmens faces see whether Caucasus haue begot them vpon hard rockes Our climate is the same our temperatures alike if any thing within our gouernment make vs differ it is but custome They haue not so many Cities as we they followe feeds which we do not yet finde I not but we are prickers as well as they and if it be obserued what store of Ritters we haue got it may be feared that two Cheuallers being not Castor and Pollux may be driuen to one Chiual to ride on besides the saddle But let Herodotus write as much as he will of the kingdom of custome