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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02479	An oration conteyning an expostulation as well with the Queenes Highnesse faithfull subiects for their want of due consideration of Gods blessings enioyed by meanes of her Maiestie: as also with the vnnaturall english for their disloyaltie and vnkindnesse towards the same their soueraygne. At the first pronounced vpon the Queenes Maiesties birthday in the Guyldhall of the burrowe of Newe Windsore, by Edward Hake of Grayes Inne Gent. then Mayer of the same burrowe: and now newly imprinted this xvij. day of Nouember, in the xxx. yeere of the Queenes Highnesse most happie raigne.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1587 (1587)	STC 12608; ESTC S103614	19,433	32

AN ORATION conteyning an Expostulation Aswell with the Queenes Highnesse faithfull Subiects for their want of due consideration of Gods blessings enioyed by meanes of her Maiestie As also with the vnnaturall english for their disloyaltie and vnkindnesse towards the same their Soueraygne At the first pronounced vpon the Queenes Maiesties Birthday in the Guyldhall of the Burrowe of Newe Windsore by Edward Hake of Grayes Inne Gent. then Mayer of the same Burrowe And now newly imprinted this xvij day of Nouember in the xxx yeere of the Queenes Highnesse most happie Raigne ¶ Imprinted at London for Edward Aggas To the right Noble and vertuous his singuler good Lady the Lady Anne Countesse of Warwicke THE time being now growen long right noble Countesse since J first endeuoured to shewe my self vnto my honorable good Lorde and your Ladiship in some acceptable course of seruice and finding alwaies some one or other vnkind let thereunto I haue now at length as one ouer wearyed with the fruitlesse expectation of my hopelesse mynd euen to the vpbrayding as it were of myne ill happe desperatly attempted to present your Honor with this slight and slender booke not that I reckon it a sufficient supplye of the thing I want and desired but rather as an occasion to shewe how greatly grieued J remayne that my happe hath not bene all this while to doe better especially vnto such and so noble a 〈…〉 it self vnder the respect of my zeale and dutifull meaning protesting that it hath not proceeded from me as the fruite of an ydle brayne but as the true effect of a most zealous mynd and well affected heart And so hoping your Honor will conceiue of it J forbeare the further lengthening of this my rude Epistle From London this ioyfull xvij day of Nouember beginning the xxx yeere of her Maiesties most happie Raigne Your Honorable La. in all humble seruice Edward Hake To the Reader AVT quam minima aut quam dulcissima Either the fewest or the sweetest words thou canst vse It was the saying of Aesope to Solon wherewith hee enfourmed Solon how hee should frame and order his speech to King Croesus I assure thee gentle Reader the consideration of this speech of Aesope somewhat for a while withdrewe me from the printing of this my Oration as knowing how much I had therein swarued from the sayd two prescripts of Aesope namely of shortnesse and sweetnesse But being agayne perswaded that inasmuch as the same my Oration not being made vnto a Prince but of a Prince had receiued allowance amongst the hearers in speaking it could not but receiue some allowance also in reading I was cōtented to yeeld it to the presse and the rather to satisfie therein the earnest solicitations of such my good friends whom I knewe to be well affected both to the person and the cause I knowe there is a people amongst vs whom in no wise the matter of this my Oration will content as whom neither the admyrable blessings of God towards vs our Prince and Countrey can moue nor the excelling mercies of our gracious Soueraigne allure but of these I seeke no allowance at all but rather content my self to be seene herein an vtter enemie to their disloyall and vndutifull dealings And touching their auouchment of such vnnaturall Treasons and Conspyracies as haue bene heretofore intended agaynst this our well prospering gouernment and State whereof this little booke discourseth If I should speake as taking vpon me to aunswer them therein in fewe I would say with the Athenian Cleon If these men haue had cause to conspire or rebell agaynst vs as they haue done then must it be confessed that we haue ruled vniustly And agayne if when they haue conspyred they shall yet thinke that mercie belongeth vnto them I say with the same Cleon that mercie should be vsed to them that doe the like and not to them that haue it not but rather haue brought themselues into necessitie to be our perpetuall enemies But for these I leaue them as I found them and to our selues I wish as much in thankfulnesse and obedience of life as we haue receiued in benefites at the hande of the almightie An Oration c. SUch is the state of our tymes right Honorable and beloued that whiles euery man ordreth himselfe after his particuler occasions and euery man plotteth out his owne purposes to the pretence of his calling God the high orderer and wise disposer of all things looketh downe from his holy seate calleth vnto vs expostulateth with vs y e great cause of our ingratitude towards him and in his wonderfull workes as it were doth thus say vnto vs O ye men of the earth why are ye so earthly Why see you not that euen in these earthly descending bodies there are implanted heauenly ascending myndes wherewith you might looke vp to your maker and giue glorie to the highest Why rather drawe you downe the height of the Spirite to the basenesse of the flesh O ye vnthankfull why why haue you so abandoned the sence of your Soules and the feeling of your Spirites that therewith you may neither contemplate nor consider the wonders that I worke the wonders I say which I your Iehoua in whom you liue and haue your being haue wrought brought to passe as this daye in the middest of your land and habitations Bretheren and friends This vii daye of September witnesseth vnto vs that there is a Heauen This day telleth vs there is a God This day I meane the Birthday of our Elizabeth whome the highest hath vpholden to see therein the approching daye that chaungeth the yeere of her most happie raigne this day I say hath offred to assure our sences that from God not from man from heauen not from earth hath bene our defence The power of man hath bene agaynst vs The strength of the earth hath attempted to inuade vs Princes haue conspyred Nations haue combyned Subiects haue become Traytors haue rebelled but God hath protected If Princes if forrayne Princes haue fretted themselues agaynst vs he the Iehoua hath tamed them If they haue deuised to hurt vs he hath bridled them If their deuises haue bene secrete he hath reuealed them And what more If Princes if forrayne Princes haue bene wise he hath made vs and our Prince wiser If rich our riches haue not bin small but rather haue abounded O good God what heart can behold these things and wonder not What eye can looke vpon England and meruaile not But what English Subiect can partake these so rare blessings of our GOD and still remayne vnthankfull By what heauie iudgement it is come to passe that men enioying so great and so manifolde benefites feele them not or feeling them are so grossely blind that they know not at whose hands they receiue them this surely to me is so straunge and intrycate that following the rule of reason I conceiue it not Nay Reason is therein so reasonlesse that Rule it yeeldeth none