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A panegyrick to the King's Most Excellent Majesty by Charles Cotton.
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Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.
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good men in this life to wit Religion Prince Laws and Country disciplin'd to nothing but Blood and Rapine Plunder and Insolence till He who is indeed the Glory of Military Commanders taught a new Army a new lesson appeased their fury moderated their ambition and reformed their riots * Corrupta erat disciplina castrorum ut ille Corrector Emendatorque contingeret 'T was his Conduct that has made up an honorable body out of the most infamous Army in the world an Army formidable to all but beloved of none an Army employed to destroy them they pretended to defend and to subject a Nation not to be subjected by other then the spurious issue of her own bowels But now by the prudence and integrity of their Leader become an Army faithful to their Prince such an one as may be useful and necessary to the most important affairs of all Christendom What things with Your own courage Your Kingdoms wealth and Your Peoples fidelity may Your Majesty not do Secure Your Subjects at home and enlarge Your Dominions abroad repay injuries reward friendships and shake foreign Scepters as well as defend Your own Your clemency may nourish us whilst Your arms chastise Your Enemies and when Your Royal pleasure shall summon Your Subjects to the test they who have smiled at Your misfortunes may see that You can command and that You govern men who dare and will obey A Prince that grasps three Scepters in one hand may conquer all he will with both Neither is there any thing so impossible to do or so hard to suffer that You have not already suffered or done and although Your Majesty cannot out-do Your self in the quality yet You may increase the number of Your glorious actions at your own generous choise We have found Your Majesty a King throughout in all Your trialls and misfortunes Nothing in all your dangers and calamities unworthy Your birth and greatness no low addresses to Your florishing Neighbors no unprincely offers or unmanly apprehensions no more abated with Your mishaps than we find you elated with Your success but constant and unshaken in all the stormes and violencies of fortune * Nihilabque magis à te subjecti animi factum est quà m quod imperare coepisti These vertues of Your Sacred Majesty as they have made You the best Prince so they must consequently make us the happiest people A people that are to be governed by a Prince that has begun His Empire in himself and made himself absolute Soveraign over his own passions A Prince that has made all the world to admire but left none to dispute the prerogative of His vertues A Prince that in the youth beauty and carriage of his own person without any addition of His more lasting graces speaks himself truly and magnanimously what he is * Jam firmitas jam proceritas corporis jam honor capitis dignitas oris ad hoc aetatis indeflexa maturitas nec sine quodam munere deûm festinantis senectutis insignibus ad augendam Majestatem ornata caesaries nonne longè latéabque Principem ostentant In fine Sir there is nothing we could desire either in the Majesty of Your person the experience and stability of Your mind or the sweetness of your Royal disposition that God and Nature have not prevented our prayers in and blest us withall even if it be possible beyond the weak aim of our own wishes And we were certainly the most stupidly ignorant and impiously ungrateful of all that ever wore the characters of men if we should not acknowledge it in our Devotions to God our Loyalties to Your Majesty and endeavors by all the obedient affection and industrious services of a good and Loyal people to deserve it in our selves Live then Great King the true Defender of the Catholick Faith the Sacred and uncorrupted Fountain of the Law and the Gratious and tender Father of Your people May Your Majesty prosper by sea and land at home and abroad in all You design and enterprise and the merciful omnipotent and only-wise God fortifie Your arm in Warr and direct Your Justice in Peace May Your Majesty live long and fortunate full of Peace Honour and happy daies ever secured by the same waking Providence from the malevolence of wicked men May Your Crown and Dignity shine brighter to the distant World by the addition of a hopeful and numerous Posterity A Posterity to inherit their Fathers Vertue and the great Name of their illustrious Ancestors Lastly may there never want a Prince of Your Royal Line to govern these Kingdoms from Race to Race in the same Justice and Reputation while there are men to obey or a man to rule upon the face of the earth and may that disloyal Subject perish in his ingratitude to God and You that will not sincerely joyfully and heartily say AMEN FINIS * Seneca de Clem. lib. 1 * Plin. Pan. Tra. * Erasm Ep. 17. lib 3. * Plin. Pan Tra. * Plin. Pan Tra. * Plin. Pan. Tra. * Plin. Pan. Tra.