Errs more in their Rebellion for the Greatest Tyrant that ever was was never so Destroying or Cruel as a Rebellion or Civil Warr for this makes a Dissolution whereas the other makes but some Interruptions but now we have found our Errors we shall mend our Faults I in Governing You in Obeying and I Pray the Gods to Bless us with Industry and Uniformity Unity and Love Plenty and Tranquillity that this Kingdome and People may Flourish in all Ages and have a Glorious Fame throughout the World A Generals Oration to his Chief Commanders Fellow Souldiers and Gallant Commanders I Have Required your Assembly at this time to Perswade you to Practise both Riding and Fencing when you have Spare time from Fighting for it is impossible you should Atchieve any Brave or Extraordinary Actions by your Single Persons in the day of Battel unless you be Excellent and Skilfull in the Manage of your Horses and in the Use of your Swords for your Horses well Managed and well Rid shall not only Overthrow your Opposites as Man and Horse that are Ignorant in the Art but any One of you will be able to Disorder an Enemies Troop 'T is true an Ignorant HorseCommander hath less Assurance than a FootCommander besides it is a Double Labour and Requires a Double Art as to Manage a Horse and to Use a Sword Skilfully at one time but then he hath a Double Advantage if he can Ride well and hath a good Managed Horse that Obeyes well the Hand and the Heel that can tell how to Turn or to stop on the Hanches or to go Forward or Side-wayes and the like The truth is a good Horse-man although not so well Skill'd in the Use of the Sword shall have Advantage of an Ignorant Horse-man although well Skill'd in the Use of the Sword but to Know both Arts is best for a good HorseSouldier As for Foot Commanders they must Chiefly if not only Practise the Use of the Sword for it is the Sword that makes the greatest Execution for though neither Horse nor Sword is either Defensive or Offensive against Canon Bullets yet they are both Usefull against Bodies of men for all sorts of Bullets either from Canons Muskets or Pistols will Miss ten times for Hitting once whereas an Army when Joyning so Close as to Fight Hand to Hand the Sword is the Chief and Prime Executor insomuch that a Sword Skilfully or Artificially Used hath the Advantage over the Strength of Clowns or their Clubs or the But-ends of their Muskets Wherefore a Compleat Souldier should be as Knowing and well Practised in the Use of the Sword and the Management of his Horse as in Drawing up a Body of Men and Setting or Pitching an Army in Battel Aray for by the fore-mentioned Arts you will make a great Slaughter and a Quicker Dispatch to Victory and Gain a great Renown or Fame to each Particular Person that are so well Bred or Taught to be Horse-men and Sword-men SCHOLASTICAL ORATIONS PART XV. A Sleepy Speech to Students Fellow Students WHo Study to Think and Think to Dream As there are three Sorts of Worlds so there are three Kinds or Sorts of Life viz. the Material Poetical and Drowsie World and the Dreaming Contemplating and Active Life but of all these three Worlds and three Lives the Drowsie World and Dreaming Life is most Wonderfull for it is as a Life in Death and a Death in Life and this Drowsie World and Dreaming Life is a Type of an Unknown World and an Unknown Life for Sleep is a Type of Death and Dreaming is a Type of the Rewards and Punishments in the other World Good Dreams are like as the Rewards for the Blessed and Bad Dreams are like as Punishments for the Wicked the One Receives Pleasure and Joy the Other Fear and Torments and these Joys Pleasures Fears and Torments are as Sensible to the Senses and as Apparent to the Understanding and Knowledge as when Awake also Memory and Remembrance and the same Appetites and Satisfactions are as Perfect in Dreams as when Awake the Passions of the Mind as Forcible the Dispositions and Humours of the Nature as Various the Will as Obstinate the Judgement as Deep the VVit as Quick the Observation as Serious Reason as Rational Conception as Subtil Courage as Daring Justice as Upright Prudence as VVary Temperance as Sparing Anger as Violent Love as Kind Fear as Great Hopes and Doubts as Many Joys as Full Hate as Deadly Faith as Strong Charity as Pitifull and Devotion as Zealous in Perfect Dreams as Awake also they are as Uncharitable VVicked Foolish Cowardly Base Deboist Furious and the like in Perfect Dreams as Awake but Dreams in Sleeping Senses are Shorter than the Actions of VVaking Senses and not so Permanent for they Suddenly Fade and their Sudden Fading Oftentimes makes a Confusion and more Disorder than in the VVaking and Active Life But to Speak of the Sleeping Senses Generally and Particularly have we not the same Appetites and Satisfactions are not we Sensible of Dying Living Suffering Injoying Mourning Weeping Rejoycing Laughing are we not as Sensible of Pain and Ease of Accidents Misfortunes Dangers and Escapes in Dreams as in Active Life for if we Dream of Thieves and Murderers are not we Sensible of the Loss of our Goods and of our Bonds and Wounds do we not See our Loss Feel our Bonds and the Smarts and Pains of our Wounds as much as if we Saw and Suffered Awake and do not we Indeavour to Help our Selves and do not we Beg for Life Call for Help and Strive with Resistance as much in Dreams as Awake though not Vocally Verbally Locally nor Materially yet Spiritually for it is the Sensitive Spirits and not the Senses Gross Bodies or Parts that Travel into Forein Countries and Unknown Lands and make Voyages by Sea in Dreams do not we Hear and See in Dreams Lightning Thunder Wind Storms and Tempest Seas Billows Waves Ships Ship-wracks and are not we Drown'd in Dreams and do not we see Huge Precipices Barren Deserts Wide Forests and VVild Beasts and Serpents and other hurtfull Creatures and Indeavour to Escape and Avoid the Danger do not we feel Stinging Serpents and Flies Striking Tearing Clawing Biting Beasts as Sensibly in Dreams as Awake do not we see Flowry Meddows Low Vallies High Hills Corn-fields Green Meddows Grazing Pastures and Beasts Clear Springs Fruitfull Orchards and Small Villages Labouring Husbandmen Great Cities and Many People do not we see Light Colours Sun Moon Stars Clouds Rain Frost Snow Hail Shade Dawning Mornings and Closing Evenings in Dreams as Awake do not we see Fish Swim Birds Fly Beasts Run VVorms Creep in Dreams as Awake do not we see our Friends Living and our Friends Dying and those that be Dead in Dreams as Awake do not we feel Drought VVetness Heat Cold Itching Scratching Smarting Aking Biting Sickness in Dreams as Awake do not we hear all Warring Sounds and see all Warring Actions and feel all Warring
Liberty by Rebellious Actions yet you may be Deceiv'd and in the end thrust your selves in Absolute Slavery but it seems you had rather be Base Slaves than Loyal Subjects or else you would not be so apt to Mutiny as you are yet if you once Rebell I will indeavour to Destroy Every man that Opposes me or Stands Neuter and if I cannot Destroy you with that Power I have I will call in Forein Nations that shall Devour you for believe I will not be Ruined Alone but the Ruine of the whole Kingdome shall Accompany me A Recantation of the Poor Petitioning Subjects Most Dread Soveraign YOur most Sorrowfull and poor Petitioning Subjects hearing your Majesty was Displeased at their Complaints and Angry with them for coming in a Company together imploring your Majesties Favour and Redress of their Poor Condition not imagining that their Complaints would be taken as Factious and Seditious Murmurings or their Desires of Redress as Presumptuous Demands or that their Petitioning in a Company together would be taken for a Rebellious Insurrection they have sent Me a Poor man not daring to Come Together as they did to let your Majesty know how much Afflicted they are for your Displeasure which Displeasure they are more Grieved for than for any other Affliction that could come either upon their Lives Bodies Goods Wives or Children for they do Assure your Majesty and call Heaven to Witness for them that they came not for any Evil design to your Majesty nor your Majesties Government but only out of a Good Intent believing your Majesty did not Know what they did Suffer but if they had Known or but Imagined it had been your Majesties Will and Pleasure they should Suffer they would never have Complain'd and rather have Starved or Indured any Torment than Opposed your Majesty in any thing and if your Majesty thinks their Ignorant Fault is beyond a Pardon they are ready and willing to Indure any Punishment or to Dye at your Majesties Command Repenting Subjects to their Soveraign Most Gracious Soveraign VVE your most Penitent Subjects crave Pardon for our Faults not only with Tears in our Eyes but Sorrow in our Hearts for our Murmuring Speeches and Rebellious Actions for which we confess we Deserve to Die or worse as to indure great and grievous Torments but if your Majesties Clemency Spare our Bodies from Pain and our Lives from Death we are doubly nay trebly bound to your Majesty first by our Duties next for your Mercy and last for our Pardon to be not only your Majesties Loyal Subjects but Loyal Slaves And since there is no man so Perfect but is Subject to Offend and not in Light or Small Offences but Great and Grievous as not only against Man and man or against Nature but against God himself We hope your Majesty will Consider our Frail Natures and will rather blame Nature for Making us so than Us for Being so But since Repentance is the way to Forgiveness and Absolution follows Contrition we with Contrite Hearts and Humble Spirits crave your Mercy A Kings Speech to his Good Subjects MY Beloved and most Loving Subjects for so you are I have required your Assembling together that I may see You and you Me for I do not Love to be as a Stranger to my Subjects nor I would not have my Subjects as Strangers to me and if it were possible I would be acquainted with their Faces Degrees Qualities and Professions and not only be their King but their Friend not to Govern them in General but to Counsel and Advise in Particulars Indeed I have Reason to give you often Publick Visits as also Publick Thanks for your Loyalty and Love for your Obedience seems such as you seem to Watch for my Commands and your Love is such as you seem to prefer my Safety before your Own Lives and my Pleasures before your Own Profits in so much as you seem you did Desire only to Live to Serve me for which I Thank the Gods for making me so Happy to be a King of such Subjects whose only Strife is for my Favour who are Ambitious only for my Fame and take a Pride in my Glory whose Valours Inlarge my Dominions whose Industries Inrich my Treasuries whose Delights are my Pleasures whose Love Protects my Person and whose Prayers are for my Health and Long Life I can only say that your Loyalty Obedience and Love is not to a King that doth not Regard it nor to a Tyrant that had rather be Fear'd than Loved but assure your selves my Affection to my People is such as a Fond Fathers to his Only Son who had rather Die for his Sons Good than Live to his Own Pleasure and that all the Indeavours of his Life are for his Sake as to make his Son Rich Noble and Powerfull that he may have Respect Renown and Fame amongst Strangers The like do I for my Subjects Indeed a King is the Common Father of his People and I Rejoyce to See you as a Loving Father doth his Children and so I Pray the Gods to Bless you SPEECHES OF Dying Persons PART VII A Kings Dying Speech to his Noble Subjects FAithfull Counsellours Just Magistrates Loving Friends Noble Men and Loyal Subjects you see me here Death's Prisoner yet though I must part with my Subjects they shall not part with their Soveraign for I shall leave them a King though I Die I have been your Crown'd King this Thirty Years a Heavy Weight and a Long time of Trouble But a King hath more Title than Power and more Power than Pleasure for were all his Subjects Slaves and all did Obey his Will yet to Order and Govern them to his Will requires Pains Care and Study but my Desire and Will was to make my Subjects Happy to which end I bent all my Industry the which I wish my Successor may do the like for good Subjects deserve a good Soveraign Indeed all good Subjects have not at all times good Soveraigns nor all good Soveraigns good Subjects for all Soveraigns are not Wise nor all Subjects Loyal for though good men make good Subjects yet good men do not alwaies make good Soveraigns as being not Piety nor Moral Honesty that makes good Kings but Industry Observation Understanding Judgement Wit Prudence and Courage that makes Kings Wise Rulers also Counsels Experience and Practice which makes an Old King a Better Governour than a Young King and yet all Subjects for the most part grow weary with their Soveraigns Age and so consequently with their own Happiness but their Folly and Ingratitude is often Punished in having their Desires Indeed most of mankind through Ignorance and Inconstancy desire their own Hurt which when they Feel they are Displeased with the Gods for Granting that they were Earnest with the Gods to Give them so that they are seldome Contented But I wish they may have good Desires contented Minds and happy Lives and I pray the Gods they may Flourish with my Successors in
Peace and Plenty as they have done with Me to whom I leave You and Him to you Farewell A Daughters Dying Speech to her Father FAther Farewell and may that Life that Issues from My young and tender Years be added to Your Age may all your Grief be Buried in my Grave and may the Joys Pleasures and Delights that did attend my Life be Servants unto Yours may Comfort Dry your Eyes God Cease your Sorrows that though I Die you may Live Happily Why do you mourn that Death must be your Son-in-Law since he is a Better Husband than any you could Choose me or I could Choose my Self it is a Match that Nature and the Fates have made Wherefore be Content for it is not in your Power to alter the Decrees of Fate for Destiny cannot be Opposed but if you could you would Rob me of the Happiness the Gods intend me for though my Body shall dwell with Death my Soul shall dwell in Heaven and Holy Angels that are my Marriage Guests will Conduct it to that Glory for which you have cause to Joy and not to Grieve for all Creatures Live but to Die but those that are Blessed Die to Live and so do I. Farewell A Souldiers Dying Speech to his Friends Dear Friends YOu are come to see me Die but I am sorry you shall see me Die in the Bed of Sloth and not in the Field of Action for now I shall Die like a Coward whereas had I Died in the Field of Warr I should have Died as a Valiant man indeed the Field of Warr is the Bed of Honour wherein all Valiant and Gallant men should Die but Fortune hath denied me that Honour she hath spar'd my Life to my Loss for those that Die in the Warrs have Greater Renowns and Gloriouser Fame than those that Die in Chambers of Peace for whatsoever Heroick Acts men have done for the most part Die if they Out-live them for such Actions Live by the Deaths of the Actors I do not say Alwaies but for the Most part which makes me fear the Service I have done my King and Country will Die with me and be Buried in Oblivions Grave yet should the Service I have done be quite Forgotten I should not Repent my Actions for Honourable persons and Gallant men should do what they Ought to do although they were certain Never to be Rewarded for though few men are Rewarded according to their Merits and many have Favour that did Never Merit a Reward so Unjust is the World Fortune and Fame yet their Injustice must not make men Unworthy but I have done my Part and Death will do His. Farewell A Dying Speech of a Loving Mistress to her Beloved Servant SErvant This day I should have been your Wife and so Your Servant as you have been Mine but Death hath Robbed Hymen of his Rights and now he Fights with Life which he will Overcome for Death is Conquerour of All and Triumphs in his Spoils Yet Death by taking my Life Prisoner will set your Person Free to choose an other Mistress to make a Wife in whose Imbraces I shall be Buried and utterly Forgotten I speak not this in Envy to Her Happiness nor Yours for Envy dwells with Life and not with Death nor am I Loth to Die nor Grieve to be Forgotten no not by those that I Loved most and equal with my Soul for those I Love I would not have them Mourn in Melancholy thoughts and Sad remembrance of my Death I only wish that She that you Love next may return Love again with as much Truth Constancy and Purity as I have Loved you and may she be the Glory of her Sex and Honour of her Husband and may you Live to Love each Other and Love to Live for One an others Sake may Nature Time Fortune Fate and the Gods joyn in your Happiness Farewell A Forein Travellers Dying Speech Dear Friends I Have Travelled Farr and have seen Much of the World and have gone Round about the World but now I shall Travel Out of the World from which I shall bring no News I shall not come back to Relate my Journies or to tell you what Strange Creatures there are in the Other World or what Dangers I escap'd or what Adventures I have made or what several Countries there are and which is good for Plantation or what Commodities there are or what Traffick there is or may be for though all Creatures are Transported yet no Returns are Sent back in Lieu of them unless we believe New-born Creatures are sent out of the Other World into This but that is not Probable because they are Made in this World and of the same Substances of the World But howsoever those that are Sent thither as by Sickness Casualties Fortune and Age Return no more wherefore I must take my Last leave of you for though I have been at the Confines of Death and am Return'd to my Friends again yet I never was in the Region of Death a place I never was Ambitious or Desirous to go to for though I had the Curiosity to see the several Countries Kingdomes and Places in the several parts of the World yet I never had the Curiosity to Travel into Death's Kingdome no nor to see the Mansions of the Gods which may be Accounted a Sin Indeed Travellers are accounted Atheistical but if they were yet when they come to Die they would change those Atheistical Opinions and as Bad as they are thought to be yet they are not Afraid of Death for then they would not Venture their Lives so Often as they do indeed Travellers have as Great Courage as Souldiers have and 't is believed as Little Religion but not so much Hate Envy Malice Revenge nor Covetousness unless they be Merchants nor they are not Robbers and Murderers they do not Take away mens Lives nor Goods as Souldiers do but of all men Travellers have most reason to Adore and Worship God Best for they see Most of his Wonderfull works which shew his Power Might Wisdome and Majesty the which makes his Creatures Admire him Praise him Fear him Love him and Pray to him as the Great Omnipotent Infinite Eternal Incomprehensible and Everlasting God to whom I Resign my Soul and Leave my Body to Death Farewell A Lovers Dying Speech to his Beloved Mistress Dear Mistress THough I must Die I leave my Life to Live with You for You are the Life of my Love and the Love of my Life you are the Palace of my Soul wherein it Lives and will Remain though Death doth take my Body hence for Souls Live though Bodies Die yet do not Drown my Soul in Tears nor Cloud it with your Sorrows but give it Light of Joy and Please it with your Kind remembrance But O my Jealous thoughts do Torture more my Mind than Pains of Death do Torture my Weak Body lest you should Banish the Love of Me to Entertain a Stranger which if you do the Gods