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A39716 The idea of His Highness Oliver, late Lord Protector, &c. with certain brief reflexions on his life / by Richard Fleckno, Esq. Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678? 1659 (1659) Wing F1226; ESTC R6875 19,504 84

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solicitude of the Common wealth then either age or sickness untimely for us but timely for himself in height of all his fortunes and prosperities having never known misfortune nor adversity After he had refus'd the Crown and acquird more glory by 't then ever any did by accepting it in which as in all his other Actions he might well be compar'd to Caesar both alike fortunate and victorious in war both prudent alike in ordering the Civil Government as many prodigies devancing tons as to theirs death onely their ends were different Caesar dying a violent death he a natural Caesar satiate with living he desirous onely to prolong his life untill he had finished the great work he had in hand extending in manner beyond death it self his care and solicitude of the publique good Caesar finally leaving the Commonwealth all imbroyl'd in Civil wars through multiplicity of Competitors to the Government he to prevent it leaving the Government to his Son out of the way of all competition for who else could he have left it to but some ambitious or other might strait have start up and said And why not I as well as he now 't is answer sufficient to say He is his Son so are not you and sufficient to say of him that he is the worthy Son of such a Father and more worthy the Government the lesse he sought and courted it One capable of all the honours of peace and war born with the seeds in him both of civil and military Government as time and occasion will soon produce to light for that only 't is and the office which shews the man and many had never been thought so fit for Government had they never governed For example who would ever have imagined our Henry the fifth who seem'd only to mind his pleasures all his youth would afterwards have prov'd so brave a man yet we see how great a Souldier he became and how occasion was rather wanting unto him then he unto occasion during his Fathers life Or that Spinola coming from a City that had more commence with gold then steel should the first day of his going to Field become an accomplisht General and ever afterwards one of the renownedst Souldiers of his Age To say nothing of Card. Mazzarin nor his predecessor Card. Richelieu both superintendants of the Arms of France both by their diligence gaining more victories then their greatest Generals with all their experience A man of courage as easily becomes a Souldier as a wise man a Politique and 't is not the man but the Country makes the war and rather the Treasurer then General let them not be wanting to supply the Armies wants and they 'l nere be wanting to bring them home victories And this in vindication of his Fathers leaving him the Government which yet was rather others seeking then his own and rather his obedience then command putting no natural affection in the scale in weighing the interest of the Commonwealth and so far from partial for any interest of his own as we may well say of him nature it self was not more natural to him then his affection to the publick good Neither did he this without the example of other elective States the Polander still continuing the Government in the house of Iagalonii the Germans in that of Austria and Hollander in the Family of Nassan though no less jealous of their liberties then we of ours wisely imagining a certain Omen in that name as we may well in that of Cromwel to preserve that Liberty which it had purchast them they well foreseeing the harms and mischiefs still follow all changes of Families when new Officers and new Houses are introduc't new interests new factions to the destruction of the old new humors to comply with new Avarices to satisfie so as if the people but rightly understood how dangerous and pernicious all change and alteration is to States they would not change although 't were offred them to be well if they were but tolerably ill nor to be better if they were well To conclude with his Character he was of stature rather well set then tall strong and robustous of constitution of visage Leonin the true phisiognomy all great and martial men yet as much Lamb in the Chamber as Lion in the Field courteous affable and obliging to all nor can any Records shew a better Child unto his Parents Parent to his Children nor Husband to his Wife and no less a Friend to all but those who would needes make themselves his Enemies Bounteous of himself but frugal for the Commonwealth avoiding all superfluity in a State where superfluity is counted manificence living in the condition of a Prince with the moderation of a private man and free from all vice even in an Age when he is counted a good Prince who is not altogether vitious These were his vertues when living and who would find any fault with him now he 's dead assuredly shall find no other when th 'ave sought all they can but only his leaving so many ill tongues in England which yet he could not remedy leaving them the liberty as he did of free born English men Thus have we brought his life in its Idea all under one prospect of the eye and by brief glimpses reflexions given light to see how great a person he was no humain body being scarcely capable of a greater soul how fortune and vertue never more concur'd to the advancement of a man how never any past to the temple of honor by more directer ways through that of his own vertue and Heroick deeds how much he merited of England by his serving conserving it in its most dangerous times finally how both at home and abroad he was the honour of our Nation wherefore our Nation should be most unworthy and ungrateful should it not always honour him FINIS OF HIS BIRTH PARENTAGE OF HIS EDUCATION OF HIS PRIVATE FORTUNES OF HIS MARIAGE OF HIS BEING CHOSEN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT HOW HE BETOOK HIMSELFE TO THE MILITIAE HOW HE WAS CAPTAIN FIRST HOW HE WAS MADE COLONEL HOW HE WAS MADE LIEVTENANT GENERAL OF THE ARMY Amat victoria curam THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER HOW HE WAS MADE GENERAL OF HIS ACTIONS WHILST HE WAS GENERA● OF THE DISSOLVING THE PARLIAMENT HOW HE WAS MADE PROTECTOR OF THE HOLLAND WAR OF THE SPANISH WAR OF THE CONSPIRACIES AGAINST HIM OF THE CONSPIRACIES AGAINST HIS GOVERNMENT THE REASON WHY PRINCES ARE NOT BELOV'D OF REFORMATION OF HIS CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMON PEOPLE OF HIS DEATH HIS CHARACTER THE CONCLUSION