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A57224
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The English orator, or, Rhetorical descants by way of declamation upon some notable themes both historical and philosophical in two parts.
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W. R. (William Richards), 1643-1705.
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Consul still for the Junior in manners must hearken to the Senior compliment him so far and the inferior Family give way to the Collegue of the noblest Extraction Oh! but now they are free from Tyranny and a single Person Alas Two are but one degree removed from Tyranny and two may agree to be Tyrants why not as well as thirty we have heard of thirty Tyrants in Greek story What remedy have you Oh for that trick they shall be elected annually they shall hold their Dignity but for a year Mark the fears and jealousies of People with their new devise the Administration of a Consulate must be annual least they should design to retrieve Monarchy so have I seen watch and ward observed in a house to keep possession against the true Owner Lo the difference of Monarchy from other Governments behold and love it for if Fears and Jealousies may be created sometimes under it other Governments are meerly founded upon them whilst Monarchy alone is founded upon Law Natural Age Authority Love Prudence c. Take the Venetian State behold the Italian jealousies not of their Wives but of their Governors the grand Duke must not budge out of Town without the leave of the Senate O pitiful grand Duke O pitiful Venetians For if the Duke should once go out of Town the Ducal Coronet blossoms into a Crown and call you This Liberty he lives in Slavery who lives in perpetual fears a very Gyrus and Geta who always dreads his Masters coming Nor let any man tell me this Estate hath lasted a great while What is inferred from thence Nothing of Nature or right Reason in it t is a forced Government still wherefore t is wonderful it hath lasted so long t is true because things against Nature use to have a shorter period Now admit that annual Government were not founded in fears and jealousies yet still in a Soveraign t is unreasonable and ridiculous unreasonable because all Government requires Use and Experience besides Authority to answer that infinite dispatch that is expected but an annual Magistracy is confined to so short a term that the Governor scarce learns how to behave himself till he is ready to lay it down All the benefit is that the annual administration is very convenient for Chronology indeed but the same convenience would be greater if they were stated yet shorter let the Consuls therefore be chosen to hold a month or as the Decemviri were to rule in turn for a day 'T is All Boyes-play Picture and Pageant Princes of Revels and Lords of a May time rather than Government in earnest intended Nor do we intend to say that Monarchy is more excellent on the account of its Antiquity but also for its intrinsick perfection the most sufficient and responsible to all intents and purposes which brought Government at first into the world I have said t is the Government solely intended by Nature it cannot be denied but t is the Standard of all the rest for in Aristocracy and Democracy all plurality of votes effect nothing but by virtue of the single Form They must be of One head and one mind as if One single person else they can determine nothing Now seeing a nemine contradicente is seldome seen they must be concluded by the major part which major part rightly apprehended is the spurious Monarch an Individual multiplied though but One in it self or rather the many playing Mercuries part to the Auditors while all wise men know there is but one Sosia And what can be required at the hands of Government which is not here found Justice we have it in Monarchy for Kings and Judges of old were the same persons Honour we have it in Monarchy Liberty yea even Liberty as I shall shew we have it in Monarchy Safety from civil discords and seditions we find in Monarchy Safety from Enemies abroad who must go in and out before us but the Monarch And this the Antimonarchists could never wipe off Three hundred heads in time of exigency in time of war are feign to have recourse to a single person the Romans not long after their Regifugium that they might see that their Rebellion was senseless when they stood in need of the Government which they had lately expelled were forced to pitch upon a General whom they called indeed a Dictator to blind poor people when none could be more absolute King than he Here is the tryal of Government as of the Pilot in a storm In a calm we may have Liberty to fish if we please but in a Storm we must receive the word of Command Was it ever heard of in the world that an Army was led by a Committee to march up before their Divisions and menace death to the opposer O Alas poor souls they must in their Rank observe the Right hand Man and so seeming Commanders are indeed Common Souldiers as soon shall so many Ganders marching before their Divisions be terrible to the Foe Yet this is not All without Monarchy they cannot so much as raise an Army for the Enemy being at door To see the ill luck of it when the Consul musters and the Tribune disbands as fast they must chuse a Dictator to make a muster You will say this is pro tempore only But what will be said if all new Forms and Models return at last to their old Monarchs as the River will run in its own alveus I must not here recount what Piques and Stratagems there are or have been laid against Venice much less will I divine how near our unhappy Neighbours are to their Reduction to de united not against but under their Head All the world knows that the Roman State of Royal became Popular and at last Imperial Here we should be Injurious to the Auditors if they be not Reminded That those who have been zealous in violating Monarchy have commonly given the world sad warning by their remarkable Exit Not one of them who assassined Caesar which came not to a violent end and the surly ill principled Family of Bruti shew that this is Heavens perpetual Method since Caesars assassinate was slain in battel by Octavius as four hundred years before his Ancestor was slain by Aruns to teach us that if we list not to be ruled by the Publick the Indignation of Heaven will commissionate a private hand to order us where the Seepter will not sway the Sword must And who can forget the Dire but most just Fate of our late Regicides who deserved to be pitied but that some others do more deserve it I mean such as will not take warning from their lamentable period Never shall I wonder if a dry Gallows frighteth not a Thief when Exenteration and Quartering deterre not a Traytor From such a tender Conscience Heaven deliver us Yea but to be free from Tyranny and Arbitrary Rule of a single Person who often invades Liberty and Property violates the Priviledges of the Subject is not this desirable