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A08514	An oration to the most illustrious and mightie prince Frederick King of Bohemia. Made by Martin Opitius of Silesia. Translated out of Latin; Oratio ad serenissimum ac potentissimum principem Fridericum, Regem Bohemiæ. English	Opitz, Martin, 1597-1639.	1620 (1620)	STC 18831; ESTC S121204	10,382	23

Fire and Sword and because they will spare to spill mens bloud to bury men aliue and to iumble all Diuine and Humane things together These men first crept into the Courts after into the Consciences of our Gouernours These were the Directors and Presidents of all the Counsels These mingled with them fraudes dissimulations perfidy without which they teach that none can rule well These theeuish Mates and masked Murtherers were of late continually whispering into the eares of our Magistrates against vs that common Sentence of their Sect Vre Seca Burne Cut off With the Lyes and craftie Conueyances of these fellowes as with excellent Arts were wee gouerned Vnto these also were adioyned some Seians euill and pestilent Counsellors who itching with Ambition and Lust of Eminence thought no kind of perfidie against vs too much And hence was it that our Churches were abused and shut vp Our Priuiledges violated the innocent clapt vp in Prison and many wayes fined and punished All accesse to our Princes shut vp against vs the Decrees of Rodulph the Emperour eluded and shifted off Of men that were contrary minded to them some were assailed by threatnings some corrupted with Dignities and Rewards All right of Nations vvas broken the Cōmon-wealth was ouer-flowne with an inundation of wickednesse and Religion was disturbed with maruailous Treacheries We intreated we besought we wept we were instant in petitioning without any licence to depart and vpheld our labour without hope of ease and redresse But all in vaine wee were any where safer then at home and we got nothing by our vaine prayers but onely tyring of our selues with intreating and of them with hearing When then wee preuailed nothing by this milde course but saw that heauier burdens were daily imposed vpon vs as on such who by custome of bearing were growne to beare them with more ease all the matter and fuell of our Patience being spent we did perfunctorily reprehend some of them Hence came the kindling of those Firebrands of Warre which the disturbers of Peace had so long desired and sought Hence were Ianus his gates of Warre opened Hence was it that all things were defiled with burning with Carcasses of the slaine with horrour and bloud or as they please to terme it corrected I wys and amended I trēble to relate the sauage immanity committed by thē such as Barbarisme neuer hard of which perhaps shall not find credit hereafter with Posterity Neither could the crying of Infants the sobbing of Children the teares of Matrones or the gray haires of the old men any whit mooue these out-ragious and sauage beasts Virgins were abused in common strong and weake were killed together the Fields were wasted the Wealth and Strength of the Kingdome was worne out and what the Sword had left was consumed with fire Hitherto haue wee reckoned vp things to be bewayled with sorrow now I must come to relate things that are to be blushed at for shame How a Mother hurles her Children into the Riuer and drownes them because they shall not bee hewed in pieces before her face with the Swords of the Murtherers The bodies of the dead are pulled out of their Graues in the middest of the Church The dead bodies of Women lately buried let Christians shake for horror vvere layd naked vpon the Altars tyed by the hands and feet and set vpright vvith proppes to stay them at the doores of the Churches And many other things vvith as much abominable out-rage were perpetrated O Age more ingenious then Mezentius his Tiberius his Neroes Domitians and other Monsters of Men to deuise Crueltie Our liue men suffice not to these shames of Mankinde to act their abominable barbarousnesse vpon the dead must be pulled out of their Graues to endure their villanie We thus prouoked with their vnspeakable villanies doe then first flye to Warre and then doe vvee let them know that vvee can fight for our Countrey and that vvee that had ceased to feare them did beginne to hate them That these things freed vs from our Oath to the King none vvill deny but such as are altogether ignorant of the Rights and Priuiledges of this Kingdome Men vvill rather laugh at our Lenitie and all men fret at our folly vvho haue so long digested such intollerable out-rage Novv doe we not vvithout heauenly instinct and inspiration retyre our selues into the bosome of thy Clemencie vvhose very * Name Frederick which signifies Rich Peace or Rich in Peace doth novv promise Peace vnto vs. God be mercifull vnto thee most louing Prince and revvard this thine extraordinarie gentlenes vnto vs We will shew our thankfulnesse vnto thee in Seruice and Obseruance if we can do no more He that hereafter cals vs Bohemians Morauians Silesians Lusatians shall say much but more if he call vs thine we are thine while we are And to goe away and dye for thee whensoeuer God please we wlll esteeme it a happy signe They say that the Sardi by taking the iuyce of a certaine Herbe doe laugh at their passage out of life For you deare Prince we will willingly and chearfully goe out to meete Death it selfe if need require We long to fight for you We shall want no courage that fight vnder so valiant a Prince no will vnder so vndaunted a Captain no good successe vnder so iust a King We shall haue the better in Armes that haue the better Cause It shal not be our wearines but the death of our enemies that shal put an end to our pursuit And our Armes that we tooke vp so slowly wee will lay downe as leisurely If our number bee lesse our courage shall bee greater They are neuer many which be slaine with the Sword In the meane time wee haue a Suite to thee O Prage which art the Nurse and Hostesse of so many Emperours and Kings that thou vvilt no longer detaine this best Prince from our Silesia vvhich without question doth euen now earnestly expect and ardently desire to see his face Enter into our Countrey O King enter Thou shalt come most welcome vnto all who commest for the good of all Enter enuironed with Guards and Armies vvee vvill neuer be afraid of them vvho haue learned to liue vnder so modest and iust a King Enter vvithout them if you please heere shall you finde your owne people your owne Seruants Surely me thinks I see that most pleasant Countrey vvholy rising vp and comming to meet thee Me thinkes I behold the great affection of the Princes the emulation of the Nobles the Assemblies of Senatours and those innumerable multitudes of people powred out to behold you some going before some going by some following after all eagerly pressing to enioy your presence and the vvals of the fairest Citie Vratislauia receiuing with long-vvished embracings their so much desired Prince and the tops of the highest Turrets as it were bending dovvne themselues to do you Honour and the Citie not a little proud that it hath the Honour to entertayne thy Maiesty But all these things I leaue to the Learned vvhereof vve haue very great plentie And vvell knovving and vveighing both your greatnesse most mightie King and the vveaknesse of mine ovvne vvit I vvill reuerence thy heauenly Vertues vvith admiration onely and silence Novv let vs all vvith publike voyce humbly beseech the Lord of all vvhich alters the times and courses of times which puls downe and sets vp Kings that Hee would keepe preserue and protect thy Maiestie gouerne thy Counsels and Cogitations Long and much may Religion flourish vnder thee and let it receiue increase and credit from thy Pietie Let bee rooted vp all stemmes of Superstition and doting toyes of traditions abominations before the eyes of God Let thine Enemies be confounded and come following those Banners that they came out to meet in the Field Bee more victorious in Battell then that braue Zisca that rock and terrour of euill men And excell your selfe in Peace and increase that Kingdome gowned which you haue set at Libertie armed But if thou O God dost prepare some heauier crosse for vs and wilt not yet by reason of our sinnes put an end to our labours yet grant that for the defence of thy Name for our Prince for our Libertie for our Countrey we may either ouercomevaliantly or dye blessedly or both Defend his Gouernment that defends thy Glorie and after Hee hath happily passed through a long Race in this mortall life and shall haue layed aside this most happie burthen of the Common-wealth translate him from this mortall Scepter to a Crowne of life which shall not bee taken from him for euermore And let all that loue Christs Truth say AMEN FINIS

for vnder thy Gouernment are wee secure of our owne safetie God grant vnto thee that by thy hand our tottering State may be vnderpropped and restored that thou mayest be partaker of that Vow which Octauius did once so much desire that thou mayest truly be styled Optimi Status Auctor The Founder of a most happle State And let late olde Age draw in the swelling Sailes of thy glorious Reigne which in your Youth you haue now hoysed vp to so fauourable a wind And beare away with you this hope when by death you shall leaue vs That the happy foundations which you haue layed shall abide for euer in their proper place God saue thee O Queene Daughter of that most Illustrious Heros whose Prayses cannot bee pent vp in the Straits of this Age who hath ioyned profound Learning to incredible Wisdom of gouerning who vnder a happie Starre hath added England vnto Scotland God saue thee O Wife of this Prince who doth now couple our Kingdomes to his owne Countrey with like glorie I would to God it may be with equall fortune God blesse you both who are by consent of God and man a most choice paire All haile to you Sunne and Moone How sweet a sight is it to our Citizens to see what a Lord to our Souldiers to see what a Leader they haue with vniuersall consent elected and with such longing desire expected How pleasant O King is it to vs to heare these words out of thy blessed mouth That this Acceptance of the Kingdome proceeded from the loue of Peace and not of Empire that you are drawne into these stirres by our miserie and not carryed by your owne disposition that the Modestie of your refusing was ouercome by the obstinacie of our offering That you haue preferred the publique Securitie before your owne priuate ease That it is but a small matter to desire a people but not so easie to defend them And that it is almost better to let goe an Empire that is in right ones owne then to purchase a new one with the bloud of the Citizens But now sith this Scepter can neither be possest nor forsaken without perill that now our estate and condition is your owne and that therefore you will now vse your best endeauour that wee should not neede to desire another King while God shall giue you life We know we know very well most gracious Prince that you did vnwillingly enter vpon this Kingdome which was vnwillingly left We also were compelled we came not of our own accord to implore your fortitude and defence who were not ignorant of your Clemencie We call God and men to witnesse that by compulsion we tooke vp Armes to defend the safetie of our Countrey and that Liberty which is allowed to the besest Nations and lastly our Religion which is to be preferred before all other Causes and whose name was in time past so sacred among the very Gentiles that at the time that the French were spoyling Rome Lu. Albunius one of the common people putting out of his Cart his Wife and Children tooke vp into it the Vestall Virgines which did follow vpon their bare feet the sacred things which fled from the furie of their Enemies So much at that time in the meanest men did publique Religion excell priuate affections To be assailed in body and estate is grieuous but in Conscience is intollerable And such we see is the nature of Liberty that no good man will lose it but with his life As courage and strength vses to increase to wilde beasts broke out of their Dennes and doth become in a maner double So is it with our Nation it could no longer dissemble their manly courage the due prayse of which none could euer depriue vs of when besides the iust hatred it bore to cruell counsels and practises against vs it burnt in desire of regaining the Libertie of the Countrey desperately lost and oppressed Which it is alwayes lawfull for them to repurchase who by nature were borne to liue free and had also their Libertie established vnto them by the fundamentall Lawes and Priuiledges of the Kingdome confirmed vnto them with the sacred Bond of Othes and ratified by the Charters and great Seales of Kings and Emperours Wee doe very well know that the prayse of obedience is enough in Subiects that good Princes are to be wished for that euill if they fall to their lot are to bee endured But these things doe in no sort concerne vs this is not our Case We wee haue taken vp Armes after incredible Patience not with any mind of rebelling but at the Exigence of extreme Necessitie Not in any priuate Conspiracie of some few but with the vniuersall and ioynt consent of the whole State not in any contempt of Magistracie but in defiance of most damnable practize against our Liues Libertie and Religion Neither did we doe this against a lawfull King but to escape the deuillish deceits of bloudie Murtherers who doe openly profesle that no Faith is to be kept whereby we haue receiued vnvaluable damage who gaine time and coozen well-meaning people by Periurie as Cheaters doe Children with false Dice and Cards We haue now at length learned to distrust being taught by too many wofull Examples Wee know very well what horrible Thunderbolts are darted from the Tarpeian Rock at Rome And that Romes Iupiter can by the way transferre Principalities and Kingdomes from whom and to whom he please like the Deuill his Master All this will I giue thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship me And that he doth damme soules to Hell for his Recreation and to make his Holinesse sport Who knowes not how small protection Hus a Citizen of this Kingdome found in the safe conduct of Caesar No lesse Tempest had ouer-taken Luther at Wormes had not the braue Emperour put on a resolution neuer to stampe such a staine vpon his honourable Name Had not Lewis also the most clement Prince of your Progenitors withstood the Romish dishonourable determination to breake faith By the very like Game and foule Play should we haue bin coozened and in the like Trap did Iesuites these men endeuour to haue caught vs who doe vsually inuade Lords of Nations with Poniards and Parricidiall Arts which grow remarkable in the World and glorious Martyrs at Rome by the bloud and murther of Kings who by superlatiue horrible wickednesse did destroy great Henry of France that Thunderbolt of Warre subiecting him whom the huge weight of his whole Countrey when he stood vnder it could not moue to the butcherie of one desperate Villaine who did their best to haue dasht to the wals of his Kingdome with fire and Gunpowder your Father-in-Law the matchlesse Monarch of great Britaine who haue perswaded themselues and others that Saluation of Soules consists in Murders of Kings and wasting of Kingdomes who make it but sport and play to murther the poore to condemne the innocent to take away mens liues with Rack