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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61726	The two last speeches of Thomas Wentworth, late Earle of Strafford, and deputy of Ireland the one in the Tower, the other on the scaffold on Tower-Hill, May the 12th, 1641.	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5800; ESTC R9625	6,309	11

ambitious men can bee never good Counsellours to Princes the desire of having more is common to great Lords and a desire of Rule a great cause of their Ruine My Lords I am now the hopelesse President may I bee to you all an happy example For Ambition devoureth gold and drinketh bloud and climbeth so high by other mens heads that at the length in the fall it breaketh its own neck therefore it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble For more precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy For what are wee but meere vapours which in a serene Element ascend high and upon an instant like Smoak vanish into nothing or like Ships without Pilots tost up and downe upon the Seas by contrary winds and tempests But the good husbandman thinks better of those eares of Corne which bow downe and grow crooked than those which are streight and upright because he is assured to finde more store of graine in the one than in the other This all men know yet of this how few make use The defect whereof must be now my paine may my suffering prove to others profit For what hath now the favour of my Prince the familiarity with my Peeres the volubility of a tongue the strength of my memory my learning or knowledge my honours or Offices my power and potency my riches and treasure all these the especiall gifts both of Nature and Fortune what have all these profited mee Blessings I acknowledge though by God bestowed upon man yet not all of them together upon many yet by the Divine providence the most of them met in me of which had I made happy use I might still have flourisht who now am forc'd immaturely to fall I now could wish but that utinam is too late that God with his outward goodnesse towards mee had so commixed his inward grace that I had chused the medium path neither inclining to the right hand nor deviating to the left but like Icarus with my waxen wings fearing by too low a flight to moysten them with the Waves I soared too high and too neare the Sunne by which they being melted I ayming at the highest am precipitated to the lowest and am made a wretched prey to the Waters But I who before built my house upon the the sand have now setled my hopes upon the Rock my Saviour by whose onely merits my sole trust is that whatsoever becomes of my body yet in this bosome my soule may be Sanctuaried Nimrod would have built a Tower to reach up to heaven and cald it Babel but God turned it to the confusion of Languages and dissipation of the people Pharaoh kept the Children of Israel in bondage and after having freed them in his great pride would have made them his prey but God gave them a drie and miraculous passage and Pharaoh and his hoast a watrie Sepulcher Belshazzer feasted his Princes and Prostitutes who drunke healths in the Vessells taken from the Temple but the hand of God writ upon the wall Mene Tekel Phoras and that night before morning was both his Kingdome and life taken from him Thus God lets men goe on a great while in their owne devices but in the end it proved their own ruine and destruction never suffering them to effect their desired purposes therefore let none presume upon his power gl●ry in his greatnesse or bee too confident in his riches These things were written for our Instruction of which the living may make use the dying cannot but wit and unfruitfull wisedome are the next neighbours to folly There can bee no greater vanity in the world than to esteeme the world which regardeth no man and to make slight account of God who greatly respecteth all men and there can bee no greater folly in man than by much Travell to increase his goods and pamper his body and in the interim with vaine delights and pleasures to lose his soule It is a great folly in any man to attempt a bad beginning in hope of a good ending and to make that proper to one which was before common to all is meere indiscretion and the beginning of discord which I positively wish may end in this my punishment O how small a proportion of earth will containe my body when my high minde could not be confined within the spacious compasse of two Kingdomes But my houre draweth on and I conclude with the Psalmist not ayming at any one man in particular but speaking for all in generall How long will you Judges bee corrupted how long will yee cease to give true Iudgement c. Blessed is the man that doth not walke in the Councell of the wicked nor stand in the way of sinners nor sit in the seat of the scornfull therefore they shall not stand in the Iudgement nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous c. About the houre of 12. a Clocke the aforesaid Lord of Strafford was conveyed to the Scaffold on Tower-Hill where was a Court of Guard made by the severall Companies of Souldiers of the City of London and the Hamlets of the Tower on each side as he passed to the Scaffold before marched the Marshalls men to make way then the Sheriffes of Londons Officers with their Halberds after them the Kings Guard or warders of the Tower Next came one of his Gentlemen bare headed in mourning Habit the Lord Strafford following him clad in blacke cloath with divers others in the same habit which were his attendance then the Lord Bishop of Armagh and other good Divines with the Sheriffes of London and divers honourable parsonages When he came to the Scaffold he there shewed himselfe on each side in full view to all people and made this short speech with as much alacrity of Spirit as a mortall man could expresse viz. The Earle of Straffords last speech on the Scaffold MY Lord Primate of Ireland and my Lords and the rest of these Gentlemen it is a very great comfort for me to have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been knowne to you a long time I should be very glad to obtaine so much silence as to bee heard a few words but I doubt I shall not my Lord. I come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almightie God to pay that last debt I owe unto sin which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise again through the merits of Christ Jesus to eternall glorie And hee being disturbed by the people hee said What is the matter and sate downe in a chaire some replyed The Souldiers kept most stir If they said he would be quiet all the rest would be quiet I wish I had been private that I might have beene heard my Lord if I might be so much beholding to you that I might use a few words I should ●ake it for a very great courtesie my Lord I come hither to submit to that judgement which hath past against me I