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A13394	Rapta Tatio The mirrour of his Maiesties present gouernment, tending to the vnion of his whole iland of Brittonie martiall.	Skinner, John, Sir, fl. 1604, attributed name.; Skene, John, Sir, 1543?-1617, attributed name.; Douglas, N., attributed name.	1604 (1604)	STC 23705; ESTC S118166	26,573	62

say as Demetrius Phalerius said heu inquieta negotia actionesque nostras quorum causa hactenus tantum virū nosse non licuit Well hath hee spent his time in this time who ere he was and worthily who wrote the tractate of the vnion wherein hee hath performed his taske and made his worke proue his title Many good lawes hath hee giuen vs to tye the vnion by For besides what he writes like a Philosopher lernedly of the Kings goodnes multipliciously let the soule of his Common-wealth be tryed and you may easily discerne whether iudgement can or ought recommend his worke to a Parliament to be made an Acte of yet since he will needes trye his owne inference by his owne applications wee will likewise examine his whole worke by the rule of his owne inuention And first what cōscience can beleeue that he who could not be drawne to meddle with clannes in Scotland would be content to abet a faction in England These factions were of heate and as they drew bloud so sooner tēpted the bloud made the motiues more strong the partakers more passionate wheras in factions cold discretiō can abide much pause the time giuen for respite giues it selfe a meanes for determinatiō of vprightnes What conscience can beleeue that he who by the English bloud in a Grand mother got three kingdoms will not as much loue the English as the Scottish by whō he had but prefermēt to one what cōscience can perswade it self that he who hath ad uāced many here without desart towards himself will not continue his honors for daily seruices for his own behoofe performed what reasō can deny that the quiet we now enioy riches by that quiet may not both be encreased when our kingdom shall be abroad more feareful the more hāds shal bring the greater profits into the land what reason can pierce into that no reason hath diued into to take Gods prouidence away from cōtinuing what only by his prouidence he hath setled To a worke diuine adde not thoughts humane what reasō can discerne that men long combined shall not rather holde together thē men neare in oportunities held off farre for sleight seeming respects And do any examples teach that richer subiects are not more fearefull of offending lawes teach any examples that men by nature fight language condition occasion vnited are vnunited by vniō Or teach any exāples that Monarchies well setled cannot represse any ils as they are growing wel hath he ther fore taught you to settle preuention where domestiquely ye gouerne not Frāce Spaine haue their moments to be cōsidered further thē into this our owne is to be looked The one he tels you hath a custome the other a pretext against Englād shal England refuse aide against them all others whē God ordinarily extraordinarily offers it not obscurely Thē increase none helps England be thou my countrey vnthankful care not if Scotland stand as Ireland fell disvnite Wales as not needing it seek abroad for friends though they be Turkes maintaine others quarrels to preserue your own safeties set vp garisōs againe make new Lords of Marches draw more from the rich frō the poore what they only haue acte or exact as if it were the last acte liue as poore as Spaine yet haue none Indies as vncertaine as Italy but lesse friended and fruitfull desire helpe one day who may giue helpes now cry out then when your own haue lost you they who are vpō you shall not know your language Then may you war like the Switzers when other Countries who haue imbraced what you refused shall enioy with scorne of you what you held and might haue held before them and them to either in dearenes or at their deere rate My natiue countrey I craue pardon for my boldnesse zeale hauing transported me as farre into passion of after successes to be doubted if this stand thus doubtfull as I hope it is to their surmises euent who deeme that for want of issue in this Kings loyne the two Countries may againe be seperated though this now be embraced But let me be tryed whether I perswade honest things I hope my vehemency shall not be imputed faulty Soone do they breake vpon fit occasion who are too soone repelled for no knowne cause Why should not we wish them so wel as our Lawes why shuld we wish our selues so ill as their not being one with vs Many will be the marriages in time to make our Nations fully one as many are the houses they bring in with them of our own What was it made the Romans and the Sabines friends but the Romanes getting to wiues the Sabines daughters they tooke them by violence these haue opportunitie for loue and thinke you we shal spare to goe for marriages into Scotland when their daughters shall bee rich to maintaine vs in England Thinke you many thousand occasions will not make vs enterchange if this one occasion had but made the Kings roade to the rest Be of courage therefore honourable Cities and your friends of all qualities and bee what you are such an Iland as were a world to you knew you no part of the world besides Be what you are and desire nothing rather to be Quod sis esse velis nihil que malis Knowe this rather to be done then intreaty finished aboue not imperfect beneath all else howsoeuer seeming more vncertaine then this yet not appeared Let the honestie of this cause intice you the honour moue you the profit snatch you to it Then gratitude know nothing better the larger the Iland the nobler the Nation and who knoweth not that Concordia res paruae crescunt discordia maximae dilabuntur leaue not these faggot stickes out of your band these arrowes out of your sheafe Better is that borne a great deale whereof men are ashamed then that whereof they repent If any should thinke it a shame to loose the name let him know their helpe lost would make vs more repent The people to be called by the name of the Countrey is but Cognatum vocabulum rei Now is this vnion on foote much hath beene said therein much written thereupon Our Kinges affection is setled thereto All these will do hurt if this now do not good If any should gesse many the meanes which should debarre inconueniences to come are now already taken from our good he may haply fall into their opinion who haue deemed either this should haue begun with the vnsetling of the rest or with the setling of this onely expedient the other haue beene vnsetled hand in hand They were onely the Fpicures sect who would neuer enter into any other profeson of Philosophy yet were the Stoikes and the Academickes both more learned and lesse vitious It is written of Alexander that when it was tolde him that an handsome man had gotten his sister with childe hee made aunswere that it was to bee graunted him to enioy his kingdome too

write instruction of occurrents and priuitie to haue made right vse my paynes should haue been imployed to haue giuen that satisfaction to this cause which now I ayme at and but onely for the gladnesse of the popular duety to so gratious a Soueraigne I could not haue been thrust vpon And herein I will not deale with my loue to them as the Sleeper did with the Coniurer who hauing told him that a dreame of an Egge signified treasure sent him onely of siluer and gould whereof he had found some quantitie a portion of the siluer and put him to aske for newes of the Yolke numquid de vitello for euen all the substaunce in my Shell is wholly this argumentes and the more deuoutly since with Deiotarns our King is not building of Citties at the thirteenth houre of the day nor with Crassus at sixtie yeeres olde beginning to march against the Partheans but euen at his first entraunce doth so addresse himselfe to his gouernement as all are proude at this instant who spake well before and they who see him now find abilitie to speake for euer It shall not be sayd of him he beares his time well as if somewhat were to be allowed to his new enteraunce but he vseth his time well It was Damasippus fault to giue Cicero so much aduantage hauing bidden him to supper as by hauing kept his Wine fourtie yeeres in his house to be subiect to his guestes censnre that it bore the age well This Kinges time came when it should be vsed and is vsed when it is come England allured not him to it till it sent to him for it He hath taken a state Captiue by Gods prouidence and his Maiesties good vsage of his guifts was not taken prisoner as Policrates was by Eurotes Therefore he pertakes Gods blessinges not against the Fates but by direction of the Heauens Before his Highnesse is treasure in his comming hither some I hope will finde it behinde him if God blesse the golden Mynes in Scotland Cefellius Bassus applauded Nero for being deere vnto the Gods as in whose time onely Gold long time hidde came to light There are I cannot denie who are so vnhappie as to coniecture that some that hath seene light is gone that way to be hidde But neither shall fayle the vse of this Kingdome if God blesse the ones finding and graunt meanes to the others returning since now the King hath propounded that an vnion may be confirmed the only meanes to draw al vses from thence to the good of vs heere without our losse in any thing which with the gaine by this cause will not be well requited nor will it be long to the appearance thereof when his Maiesties subiectes shall be all conioyned which are borne and inhabite within one continent haue and long may they haue the same soueraigne suffer noe deuision nor which euer did other then what the Diuell drew on for the punishment of both and it seemes Gods sacred ordinance to mooue the Kings Maiestie to affect the amendes of for the good of either They haue reason to follow where their King is wee cause to imbrace them who come with him The Countrey besides is honored in his Highnesse which bredde such a King as liues to prooue hath not a bare testimonie of a thing forgotten more abilitie in him selfe then Darius on his Tombe was commended for I was a f●iend to my friends an horseman and bowman excellent I was best of Huntsmen and in my person could doe all thinges And shall not Cirus his counsaile to Cambises his sonne make vs more assured to haue a Scepter compacted of multitudes of Friends then of quantitie of Gold And how can we compact them but to make them like Niobees Tombe being the Marble This Tomhe hath no dead body this dead body hath no Tombe but the one is the other and either is each And if friendship be as Senica saith Negotiatio quae ad comodum accedit The King hath greatest cause if their ingratitude shall not giue him cause to be weary of both to ioyne them in strrct bandes of all comfortable all entire equall Loues betwixt them since the greatest profite which euer can come to either of them must be in seeing the welfare and enioying the lyfe of him alone Nor is it fitte that his friendes should not be vnited I presume to call his Subiectes his friendes as by a deare tytle as well as humble since better it is the King were not of agreeing harmonie in himselfe then where his friendes were naught the King himselfe were of good disposition And if the difference were any for the exchange some haue sayd Procul a loue et a fulmine the conuersations of Kinges haue euer been helde like the nature of the Flames warme further of and burning neerer The King shall better represse further off in this forme by this meanes giue greater scope to the Subiect neerer hand by that course his further people shal be made more ciuill I speake of the priuater of them these not so great flatterers I speake not much of the publicker of these whose so often kneelinges his Maiestie it is sayd hath so much forbidden as if he had seene Tiberius the Emperour fall on his face running away from a fellow who hung vpon him kneeling A Woman did the like vpon this our King at Royston whose Husband that he might liue disorderly with his Grey-hound against the Kings Proclamation left to liue orderly with his wife according to the institution of Marriage Yet as for the one I meane not altogether the men of the Lues part of whose Countrey I had hoped that ere this time the battered Garrison of Barwicke should haue had so I feare not much the other who can onely alledge Offa me monet the King hauing Subiectes of whom his Maiesties owne note is that they were borne to haunt shame and starue himselfe of able meanes to reforme them by cutting off allowaunces The condition of those I professe to be more dangerous who can amende mistakinges And to the question quid brachium can reply illud dicere volui femur who can either turne an Argument of strength into lasciuiousnesse or can alter with occasion and flatter euen vice if they could here find it But while ill thinges ought not to be commended ill men can be allowed no fitte praysers Seneca in his Tractate of the honest lyfe sayth Wee ought to be as much ashamed to be commended of bad men as if we were praysed for ill conditions Reuerend and Worthy men hath the King to heare as euer King was serued withall both graue and wise and wise and stoute such as of whom it can not be sayd that they haue lesse of Eloquence then of Fayth being as excellent speakers as carefull doers neither lesse Honor then may commaunde duetie being many by him selfe aduaunced others better then alwayes confirmed or more then before increased They are they to whom the Law

as Tubero the Pretors Pye did which came strangely to his hand and of which the Southsayers foretolde that much good would come with her were shee accepted if otherwise much ill to the Pretor her hee pulled in peeces but not without his owne mischiefe In Phrigia and Silenus was a great earthquake which consumed many houses and mortalles The Oracle saide some rich thing must bee throwne into it Death of a Kinges Sonne onely stopped the gaping of the earth in those places Here is no earth-quake but heauens shine here is life and renowne to our Kings Sonne our worthy Prince ours and many more kingdoms hope The Oracle sayes not dye sonne but liue all friendly together Tully in the dreame of Scipio saith that all they who haue saued their Countrey haue helped their Countrey haue encreased their countrey haue in heauen a place appointed them where euerlastingly they shall ioy That was the cause why the Ambassadors of the Carthagenians and the Sirenenses were contented to make the condition of being buried quicke where they challengd their bounds So great was their loue to the inlargement of their Countrey a desire euer prosecuted and neuer but weakely by Darius in Quintus Curtius his time only gaine-said that a kingdome might be too great On the other side remember but how Themistocles dealt with Zerxes for the ouerthrow of al Greece because his countrey had ingratefully respected him And had not Artaxerxes hung vp my Hamon Mardocheus had beene betrayed in his owne Countrey beyond the Kings disposition but that did I beare though it cost me deare As I forgiue so I forget and returne to this If the English haue not generall peace which they shall not till they bee knowne generally strong for yet forreiners may bee suspected but to prye into our state to breake or holde resoluing neither but by the first instructions they will ere long grow so vnanswerable of Taskes and Subsidies that the Collectors shall finde them as in another common-wealth was seene playing in the streetes a shrewd signe that they be no money keepers But if they once see our fortune sitting they will then thinke she will so finde the benefit of her ease as shee will euer be knowne where to bee found Now is our ground ready what seede wee sow we shall reape This cause talkes nothing of inconuenience yet the man though good though iust though innocent is feared vir bonus iustus innocens timetur pouertie is pretended saith Martiall it is not pouertie to haue nothing Non est paupertas Nestor habere nihil The fault sure is this the poore seekes friendships vnworthy affections quòd colit ingratas pauper amicitias Nay they haue their peculiar riches where they are in as large a maner as we make account of ours here But this is to tennice freely but not to denise kindly Many I see knowe how to counsell few finde I who can tell how to make the Consull The King should haue long hands as farre reaching as Kent and Kentile and would you haue the King feed with one gloue on another off It would be said of him Totus in toto per totum totus omnis Esse omnis dū vis incipis esse tuus that he then beginneth to be his owne when he will be all and in all and by all and all euery where And though some pretend fables how the Wolfe by at the first getting an house to breede in at the last hauing many litters helde it by strength against the owner Yet what can these things moue in ordered cōmon wealthes where no more interest is attained then the lawes admit right to Tully in his pleading for Roscius shewes how many wayes the lawes punish those whose demaundes are greater then the lawes doe allow The like doth Crassus in Tully Our lawes will maintaine vs in our owne well enough though our conditions I hope will not make them pay so deare as the English did when they went to fetch the King and Queene from Scotland This may be giuen to the King for them indeede to them for vs the rest they shall enioy as the lawe will for what they buy by the law they may call their owne Demurre then no longer my great and deare friendes vpon this argument but returne this aunsweare that Neptune did by the Raine-bowe Terram esse communem Which though he durst not defend against Iupiter yet you haue Iupiter on your side against whome to contend were madnesse as with an equall doubtfull with an inferiour base Seneca sayth of power that if it inuite to any thing nay if it intreate ought it compelles it Easie it is not to write against him in his gouernment who can score a man out of his gouernment Non facile est in eum scribere qui potest proscribere Fauorinus the Philosopher admitteth Hadrian the better iudgement because he commaunded thirtie Legions The matter then being euen let vs not contend vnequally for had not nature seated this kingdom within you you might well haue helde it without you Well had Scipio Emilian discharged this Censorship had the Quirites giuen him a fellow Pretoorr not giuē him one Think not vpō what Cato saith that it is not to be marueiled at if what a man thinkes an excellent good he be loath to share with another But let Plutarch teach you to gaine authoritie and power with expedition so neither smoake shall make the fire vnpleasant in the kindling nor enuie lay snares to impeach glorie by in the framing If longer you stay vpon further deliberation this businesse hauing beene determined by the Comittee in heauen Scipio Emilian must nedes tell the Senate that neither of the Consules is fit for the seruice of the Common-Wealth For Seruius Sulpitius Galba was poore and had nothing and Valerius could neuer thinke he had enough Yet since the men on both sides are seruiceable make their conditions as agreeing amongst themselues so fit for the Common-Wealth let the one inioy more the other couet lesse so shall both encrease apace and Rome be well serued If any obiect their affections bee vnlike ours that comes not out of nature but custome As the Ayre is tempered sayeth Tully in his Diuination so are the children spirited their wittes formed their maners their minds their bodies and the actions of their life Looke in the English and Scotchmens faces see whether Caucasus haue begot them vpon hard rockes Our climate is the same our temperatures alike if any thing within our gouernment make vs differ it is but custome They haue not so many Cities as we they followe feeds which we do not yet finde I not but we are prickers as well as they and if it be obserued what store of Ritters we haue got it may be feared that two Cheuallers being not Castor and Pollux may be driuen to one Chiual to ride on besides the saddle But let Herodotus write as much as he will of the kingdom of custome