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A67349	The second part of Mr. Waller's poems Containing, his alteration of The maids tragedy, and whatever of his is yet unprinted: together with some other poems, speeches, &c. that were printed severally, and never put into the first collection of his poems.	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.; Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687. Maid's tragedy. aut	1690 (1690)	Wing W521A; ESTC R219928	35,197	139

the Crown from danger to preserve Members expose themselves to save the Head This way he shall be satisfy'd or dead Melantius to his Brother apart Tho foul Injustice Majesty did stain This noble carriage makes it bright again When Kings with Courage act something divine That calls for Reverence does about them shine Diph. Were we born Princes we could not expect For an affront receiv'd greater respect They that with sharpest Injuries are stung If fairly fought withal forget the wrong A thousand pitties such a Royal pair Should run this hazard for a wanton fair Mel. Let us fright so as to avoid th' extream Either of fearing or of killing them Lucippus apart to his Brother Sir you should wield a Scepter not a Sword Nor with your Weapon kill but with your Word The Gods by others execute their will K. Yet Heav'n does oft with its own Thunder kill And when Necessity and Right command A Sword is Thunder in a Soveraign's hand Let us dispatch lest any find us here Before we fight or he grow less severe Here they all Fight Lucippus to the King Hold Sir they only guard and still give place To them Fight us as Enemies or ask for Grace Mel. I never thought I could expedient see On this side death to right our Family The Royal Sword thus drawn has cur'd a wound For which no other Salve could have been found Your Brothers now in Arms our selves we boast As satisfaction for a Sister lost The blood of Kings expos'd washes a stain Cleaner than thousands of the Vulgar slain You have our pardon Sir and humbly now As Subjects ought we beg the same of you Here they both kneel Pardon our guilty Rage which here takes end For a lost Sister and a ruin'd Friend Luc. Let your great heart a gracious motion feel Is 't not enough you see Melantius kneel I 'll be a pledge for both they shall be true As heretofore and you shall trust 'em too His Loyal Arm shall still support the State And you no more provoke so just an hate King Rise brave Melantius I thy pardon sign With as much Joy as I am proud of mine Rise Valiant Diphilus I hope you 'll both Forget my fault as I shall your just wrath Diph. Valour reveal'd in Princes does redeem Their greatest faults and crowns them with esteem Use us with Honour and we are your Slaves To bleed for you when least occasion craves King With Honour and with Trust this Land shall know After my Brother none so great as you Enter the Kings Guards Mel. If these approach us Sir by your command Take back your Pardon on our guard we stand The King steps between ' em King What over-diligence has brought you here Captain of the Guards Such as you 'll pardon when the News you hear Amintor is retir'd Aspasia gone And a strange humour does possess the Town They arm apace Sir and aloud declare Things which we dare not whisper in your Ear. The Council met your Guards to find you sent And know your pleasure in this Exigent This honour'd person you might justly fear Were he not Loyal and amongst us here They say his merit 's ill return'd and cry With great Melantius they will live and dye Mel. Sir not your Power but Vertue made me bow For all he tells you I did kneeling know Tho now the faithfulst of your Subjects we Have been the cause of all this Mutiny Go comfort Sir Amintor while we run To stop the rage of this revolting Town And let them know the happiness they have In such a Royal pair so just so brave Lend me your Guards that if perswasion fail Force may against the Mutineers prevail K. to the Guards Go and obey with as exact a care All his commands as if our self were there He that depends upon another must Oblige his Honour with a boundless trust Exeunt King and Lucippus Mel. How vain is Man how quickly changed are His wrath and fury to a Loyal care This drawn but now against my Soveraigns Breast Before 't is sheath'd shall give him peace and rest Exeunt Brothers and Guards And the Scene changes into a Forrest Enter Aspasia Asp. They say wild Beasts inhabit here But Grief and Wrong secure my fear Compar'd to him that does refuse A Tyger's kind for he pursues To be forsaken's worse than torn And Death a lesser ill than scorn Oh! that some hungry Beast would come And make himself Aspasia's Womb If none accept me for a Prey Death must be found some other way Not long since walking in the Field I and my Nurse we there beheld A goodly fruit which tempting me I would have pluck'd but trembling she Whoever pluck'd those Berries cry'd In less than half an hour dy'd Some God direct me to the Bough On which those useful Berries grow Exit Enter Amintor alone Am. Repentance which became Evadne so Would no less handsome in Amintor show She ask'd me pardon but Aspasia I Injur'd alike suffer to pine and dye 'T is said that she this dangerous Forrest haunts And in sad accents utters her complaints Not ev'ry Lady does from Vertue fall Th' Injurious King doesn't possess 'em all Women are govern'd by a stubborn fate Their Love 's insuperable as their hate No merit their aversion can remove Nor ill requital can efface their Love If I can find her e're she perish I Will gain her pardon or before her dye Well I deserv'd Evadne's scorn to prove That to Ambition sacrific'd my Love Fools that consult their Avarice or Pride To chuse a Wife Love is our noblest Guide Exit Enter Aspasia alone with a Bough in her hand ful● of fair Berries Asp. This happy Bough shall give relief Not to my hunger but my grief In colder Regions men compose Poyson with Art but here it grows How lovely these ill Berries show And so did false Amintor too Heav'n would ensnare us who can scape When fatal things have such a shape The Birds know how to chuse their fare To peck this fruit they all forbear Those chearful Singers know not why They should make any haste to dye And yet they Couple Can they know Love without knowing Sorrow too Nothing in vain the Gods create This Bough was made to hasten fate 'T was in compassion of our woe That Nature first made Poysons grow For hopeless Wretches such as I Kindly providing means to dye As Mothers do their Children keep She feeds us and she makes us sleep The indispos'd she does invite To go to Bed before 't is night Death always is to come or past If it be ill it cannot last Sure 't is a thing was never known For when that 's present we are gone 'T is an imaginary Line Which does our being here confine Dead we shall be as when unborn And then I knew nor Love nor Scorn But say we are to live elsewhere What has the Innocent to fear Can I be treated worse below Than here

Legacy to Britain left The Ocean which so long our hopes consin'd Could give no limits to his vaster mind Our bounds enlargement was his latest toil Nor hath he left us Prisoners to our Isle Under the Tropick is our Language spoke And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our Yoke From Civil Broils he did us disingage Found Nobler Objects for our Martial Rage And with wise Conduct to his Country show'd Their ancient way of Conquering abroad Ungrateful then if we no tears allow To him that gave us Peace and Empire too Princes that fear'd him griev'd concern'd to see No pitch of Glory from the Grave is free Nature her self took notice of his Death And sighing swell'd the Sea with such a breath That to remotest Shores her Billows rowl'd Th' approaching Fate of her great Ruler told To Chloris The two following Copies are in the Edition Printed 1645. CHloris what 's eminent we know Must for some cause be valued so Things without use tho they be good Are not by us so understood The early Rose made to display Her blushes to the youthful May Doth yield her sweets since he is fair And Courts her with a gentle Ayre Our Stars do shew their Excellence Not by their Light but Influence When brighter Comets since still known Fatal to all are lik'd by none So your admired Beauty still Is by effects made good or ill Madam AS in some Climes the warmer Sun Makes it full Summer e're the Spring 's begun And with ripe fruit the bending boughs can load Before the Violets dare look abroad So measure not by any common use The early love your brighter eyes produce When lately your fair hand in Womans weed Wrapt my glad head I wish'd me so indeed That hasty time might never make me grow Out of those favours you afford me now That I might ever such Indulgence find And you not blush or think your self too kind Who now I fear while I these joys express Begin to think how you may make them less The sound of Love makes your soft Heart affraid And guard it self though but a Child invade And innocently at your white Breast throw A Dart as white a Ball of new faln Snow An Epigram On a Painted Lady with ill Teeth WEre Men so dull they could not see That Lyce Painted should they flee Like simple Birds into a Net So grosly woven and Ill set Her own Teeth would undo the knot And let all go that she had got Those Teeth fair Lyce must not show If she would bite her Lovers though Like Birds they stoop at seeming Grapes Are disabus'd when first she gapes The rotten bones discover'd there Show 't is a Painted Sepulcher To my Lady MADAM YOur Commands for the gathering of these sticks into a Faggot had sooner been obeyed but intending to present you with my whole Vintage I stayed till the latest Grapes were ripe for here your Ladiship hath not only all I have done but all I ever mean to do in this kind Not but that I may defend the attempt I have made upon Poetry by the examples not to trouble you with History of many Wise and Worthy Persons of our own times As Sir Philip Sidney Sir Fra. Bacon Cardinal Perron the ablest of his Country-men and the former Pope who they say instead of the triple Crown wore sometimes the Poets Ivy as an Ornament perhaps of lesser weight and trouble But Madam these Nightingals sing only in the Spring it was the diversion of their Youth As Ladies learn to Sing and Play when they are Children what they forget when they are Women The resemblance holds further for as you quit the Lute the sooner because the posture is suspected to draw the body awry so this is not always practised without some Villany to the mind wresting it from present occasions and accustoming us to a Still somewhat removed from common use But that you may not think his case deplorable who had made Verses we are told that Tully the greatest Wit among the Romans was once sick of this Disease and yet recover'd so well that of almost as bad a Poet as your Servant he became the most perfect Orator in the World So that not so much to have made Verses as not to give over in time leaves a man without excuse the former presenting us with an opportunity at least of doing Wisely that is to conceal those we have made which I shall yet do if my humble request may be of as much force with your Ladiship as your Commands have been with me Madam I only whisper these in your ears if you publish them they are your own and therefore as you apprehend the reproach of a Wit and a Poet cast them into the fire or if they come where green Boughs are in the Chimney with the help of your fair Friends for thus bound it will be too hard a task for your hands alone to tear them in pieces wherein you shall honour me with the fate of Orpheus for so his Poems whereof we only hear the form not his limbs as the Story will have it I suppose were scattered by the Thracian Dames Here Madam I might take an opportunity to Celebrate your Vertues and to instruct you how Vnhappy you are in that you know not who you are how much you excel the most excellent of your own And how much you amaze the least inclined to wonder of your Sex But as they will be apt to take your Ladiship for a Roman Name so would they believe that I endeavoured the Character of a perfect Nymph Worshipp'd an Image of my own making and Dedicated this to the Lady of the Brain not of the Heart of your Ladiships most humble Servant E. W. Mr. Wallers Speech in Parliament 1641. about Innovations in Doctrine and Discipline c. WE shall make it appear the Errors of Divines who would that a Monarch can be absolute and that he can do all things ad libitum receding not only from their Text though that be wandring too but from the way their own Profession might teach them Stare super vias antiquas and remove not the ancient bounds and Landmarks which our Fathers have set If to be Absolute were to be restrained by no Laws then can no King in Christendom be so for they all stand obliged to the Laws Christian and we ask no more for to this Pillar be our Priviledges fixt our Kings at their Coronation having taken a Sacred Oath not to Infringe them I am sorry these men take no more care for the informing of our Faith of these things which they tell us for our Souls Health whilst we know them so manifestly in the wrong way in that which concerns the Liberties and Priviledges of the Subjects of England They gain Preferment and then it is no matter though they neither believe themselves nor are believed by others but since they are so ready to let loose the Conscience of our Kings we are the

Majesty than to any of us by how much the Law has invested his Royal State with a greater power and ampler fortune for so undoubted a truth it has ever been that Kings as well as Subjects are involv'd in the confusion which Necessity produces that the Heathen thought their Gods also obliged by the same Pareamus necessitati quam nec homines nec dii superant This Judge then having in his charge at the Affize declar'd the dissolution of the Law by this suppos'd Necessity with what Conscience could he at the same Assize proceed to condemn and punish men unless perhaps he meant the Law was still in force for our Destruction and not for our Preservation that it should have power to kill but none to protect us a thing no less horrid than if the Sun should burn without lighting us or the Earth serve only to bury and not to feed and nourish us But my Lords to demonstrate that this was a supposititious impos'd necessity and such as they could remove when they pleas'd at the last Convention in Parliament a price was set upon it for twelve Subsidies you shall reverse this Sentence It may be said that so much money would have removed the present Necessity but here was a Rate set upon future Necessity for twelve Subsidies you shall never suffer necessity again you shall for ever abolish that Iudgment Here this Mystery is revealed this Vizor of Necessity is pull'd off and now it appears that this Parliament of Judges had very frankly and bountifully presented His Majesty with twelve Subsidies to be levied on your Lordships and the Commons Certainly there is no Priviledge which more properly belongs to a Parliament than to open the Purse of the Subject and yet these Judges who are neither capable of sitting among us in the House of Commons nor with your Lordships otherwise than your Assistants have not only assum'd to themselves this priviledge of Parliament but presum'd at once to make a present to the Crown of all that either your Lordships or the Commons of England do or shall hereafter possess And because this man has had the boldness to put the power of Parliament in ballance with the opinion of the Judges I shall intreat your Lordships to observe by way of comparison the solemn and safe proceeding of the one with the precipitate dispatch of the other In Parliament as your Lordships know well no new Law can pass or old be abrogated till it has been thrice read with your Lordships thrice in the Commous House and then it receives the Royal Assent so that 't is like Gold seven times purified Whereas these Judges by this one resolution of theirs would perswade His Majesty that by naming Necessity he might at once dissolve at least suspend the great Charter 32 times confirm'd by his Royal Progenitors the Petition of Right and all other Laws provided for the maintenance of the Right and Propriety of the Subject a strange force my Lords in the sound of this word Necessity that like a Charm it should silence the Laws while we are dispoyl'd of all we have for that but a part of our goods was taken is owing to the grace and goodness of the King for so much as concerns these Judges we have no more left than they perhaps may deserve to have when your Lordships shall have passed Judgment upon them This for the neglect of their Oaths and betraying that publick trust which for the conservation of our Laws was reposed in them Now for the cruelty and unmercifulness of this judgment you may please to remember that in the old Law they were forbid to seeth a Kid in his Mothers milk of which the received interpretation is that we should not use that to the destruction of any creature which was intended for its preservation Now my Lords God and Nature has given us the Sea as our best Guard against our Enemies and our Ships as our greatest glory above other Nations and how barbarously would these Men have let in the Sea upon us at once to wash away our Liberties and to overwhelm if not our Land all the propriety we have therein making the supply of our Navy a pretence for the ruine of our Nation for observe I beseech you the fruit and consequence of this judgment how this Money has prospered how contrary an effect it has had to the end for which they pretended to take it On every County a Ship is annually impos'd and who would not expect but our Seas by this time should be covered with the number of our Ships Alas my Lords the daily complaints of the decay of our Navy tell us how ill Ship-Money has maintained the Soveraignty of the Sea and by the many Petitions which we receive from the Wives of those miserable Captives at Algier being between four or five thousand of our County-Men it does too evidently appear that to make us Slaves at home is not the way to keep us from being made Slaves abroad so far has this judgment been from relieving the present or preventing the future necessity that as it changed our real Propriety into the shadow of a Propriety so of a feigned it has made a Real necessity A little before the approach of the Gaules to Rome while the Romans had yet no apprehension of that danger there was heard a voice in the Air lowder then ordinary The Gaules are come which voice after they had Sack'd the City and Besieged the Capitol was held so ominous that Livie relates it as a Prodigy This Anticipiation of necessity seems to have been no less ominous to us These Judges like ill boding Birds have call'd necessity upon the State in a time when I dare say they thought themselves in greatest security but if it seem Superstitious to take this as an Omen sure I am we may look on it as a cause of the unfeigned necessity we now suffer for what regret and discontent had this judgment bred among us And as when the Noise and Tumult in a private House grows so loud as to be heard into the Streets it calls in the next dwellers either kindly to appease or to make their own use of domestick strife so in all likelihood our known discontents at home have been a concurrent cause to Invite our Neighbours to visit us so much to the expence and trouble of both these Kingdoms And here My Lords I cannot but take notice of the most sad effect of this oppression the ill influence it has had upon the Antient Reputation and Valour of of the English Nation And no wonder for if it be true that oppression makes a Wise Man Mad it may well suspend the Courage of the Valiant The same happened to the Romans when for renown in Arms they most excell'd the rest of the World the story is but short 't was in the time of the Decemviri and I think the chief troubles of our State may make up that number The

more carefully to proceed for our Protection against this Pulpit-Law by declaring and reinforcing Municipal Laws of this Kingdom It is worthy the Observation how new this Opinion or rather this way of Rising is even amongst themselves For Mr. Speaker Mr. Hooker who was no Refractory man as they term it thinks that the first Government was Arbitrary until it was found that to live by one mans Will becomes all mens Misery these are his Words and that these were the Original of inventing Laws And Mr. Speaker if we look farther back our Histories will tell us that the Prelates of this Kingdom have often been the Mediators between the King and his Subjects to present and pray redress of their grievances and had reciprocally then as much love and reverence from the People But these Preachers more active than their Predecessors and wiser than the Laws have found out a better form of Government The King must be a more Absolute Monarch than any of his Predecessors and to them he must owe it though in the mean time they hazard the hearts of his People and involve him into a thousand Difficulties For suppose this form of Government were inconvenient Mr. Speaker this is but a Supposition for this five hundred years it hath not only maintained us in safety but made us Victorious over other Nations But suppose this form of Government were inconvenient and they have another Idea of one more convenient we all know how dangerous Innovations are though to the better and what hazards those Princes run that enterprize the change of a long Established Government Now Mr. Speaker of all our Kings that have gone before and of all that are to succeed in this Happy Race why should so Pious and so Good a King be exposed to this trouble and hazard Besides that King so diverted can never do any great matters abroad But Mr. Speaker whilst these men have thus bent their Wits against the Law of their Country have they not neglected their own Profession What Tares are grown up in the Field which they should have Tilled I leave it to a second consideration not but Religion be the first thing in our purposes and desires But that which is first in Dignity is not always to preceed in order of time for well-being supposes a being and the first impediment which men naturally endeavour to remove is the want of those things without which they cannot subsist God first assigned unto Adam maintenance of life and added to him a title to the rest of the Creatures before he appointed a Law to observe And let me tell you that if our Adversaries have any such design as there is nothing more easie than to impose Religion on a People deprived of their Liberties so there is nothing more hard than to do the same upon Freemen And therefore Mr. Speaker I conclude with this motion that there may be an Order presently made that the first thing this House goes about shall be the restoring of this Nation in general to the Fundamental and Vital Liberties the Prosperity of our Goods and Freedom of our Persons and then we will forthwith consider of the supply desired And thus shall we discharge the Trust reposed in us by those that sent us hither And His Majesty shall see that we will make more than ordinary haste to satisfie His Demands and we shall let all those know that seek to hasten the matter of Supply that they will so far delay it as they give no interruption to the former Mr. Waller's Speech in Parliament at a Conference of both Houses in the Painted Chamber July 6. 1641. MY LORDS I Am commanded by the House of Commons to present you with these Articles against Mr. Justice Crawley which when your Lordships shall have been pleased to hear read I shall take leave according to custom to say something of what I have collected from the sense of that House concerning the Crimes therein contained Here the Charge was read containing his extrajudicial Opinions subscribed and judgment given for Ship-money and afterward a Declaration in his charge at an Assize That Ship-money was so Inherent a Right in the Crown that it would not be in the power of a Parliament to take it away MY LORDS Not only my Wants but my Affections render me less fit for this Imployment for though it has not been my happiness to have the Law a part of my breeding there is no Man honours that Profession more or has a greater reverence towards the Grave Judges the Oracles thereof Out of Parliament all our Courts of Justice are governed or directed by them and when a Parliament is call'd if your Lordships were not assisted by them and the House of Commons by other Gentlemen of that Robe experience tells us it might run a hazard of being stiled Parliamentum indoctorum But as all Posessions are obnoxious to the malice of the Professors and by them most easily betrayed so my Lords these Articles have told you how these Brothers of the Coyf are become fratres in malo how these Sons of the Law have torn out the Bowels of their Mother But this Judge whose charge you last heard in one expression of his excels no less his Fellows than they have done the worst of their Predecessors in this Conspiracy against the Commonwealth Of the Judgment for Ship-money and those extrajudicial Opinions preceding the same wherein they are jointly concern'd you have already heard how unjust and pernicious a proceeding that was in so publick a Cause has been sufficiently express'd to your Lordships but this man adding despair to our misery tells us from the Bench that Ship-money was a Right so inherent in the Crown that it would not be in the power of an Act of Parliament to take it away Herein my Lords he did not only give as deep a wound to the Commonwealth as any of the rest but dipt his Dart in such a Poyson that so far as in him lay it might never receive a Cure As by those abortive Opinions subscribing to the Subversion of our Propriety before he heard what could be said for it he prevented his own so by this Declaration of his he endeavours to prevent the Judgment of your Lordships too and to confine the power of a Parliament the only place where this mischief might be redress'd Sure he is more Wise and Learned than to believe himself in this Opinion or not to know how ridiculous it would appear to a Parliament and how dangerous to himself and therefore no doubt but by saying no Parliament could abolish this Judgment his meaning was that this Judgment had abolish'd Parliaments This Imposition of Ship-money springing from a pretended Necessity was it not enough that it was now grown Annual but he must entail it upon the State for ever at once making Necessity inherent to the Crown and Slavery to the Subject Necessity which dissolving all Law is so much more prejudicial to His