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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70743	The speech (without an oath) of Philip Herbert, late Earl of Pembrooke, at his admittance (as a Member) into the honorable House of Commons in Parliament assembled, April the 6th, 1649 After he had been duely elected a burgess for Bark-shire, instead of Sir Francis Pile, lately deceased. Taken verbatim by Michael Oldisworth. Printed in the year 1649.	Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 1584-1650.; Oldisworth, Michael, 1591-1654?	1680 (1680)	Wing O257A; ESTC R24440	4,390	4

THE SPEECH Without an OATH OF PHILIP HERBERT LATE Earl of Pembrooke At his Admittance as a Member Into the Honorable House of Commons in Parliament Assembled April the 6th 1649. After he had been duely elected a Burgess for Bark-shire instead of Sir FRANCIS PILE lately deceased Taken Verbatim by Michael Oldisworth Printed in the year 1649. Many worthy Members coming out of the House recived his Honour in with all respect as a Member Elected by the County of Barkshire and instead of Sir Francis Pile Deceased where being no sooner Entred but he speak as followeth GENTLEMEN FOr so I can but now rightly call you all though I know there be amongst you many worthy Lords Knights and Burgesses yet since all Dominion and Lordship is cryed down by the People I think it my duty to lay down the Vanity of my Titles at the feet of this Supream Authority and Sink me I hold it the best Pollicy so to do and the best honesty too Lords Earls Kings Dukes are all but Markes of the Gentiles and cannot be proper to us Christians that should have wit enough to Rule our selves and not exercise Lordship over our Brethren He that would be Chief among you let him be your Servant Dam me I have been your Servant and will be your Servant till death I am an Elect Member of this House and no Ruler neither have I any desire to Rule for a Ruler should have his Rule Z'blood do you make a Carpenter or a Coxcomb on me that ye think I 'le be a Ruler Sink me I grow Old it is enough for me to Rule my Horse and nor to Assume a Power to Rule others for ruling Lords in an over-ruling sence is a thing that stands neither with Reason Law Justice nor Christianity Dam me I think I am Lawfully Elected and have as good qualities as another and therefore may claim have and make use of any Priviledge of Parliament either in relation to my Person Quality or Estate Sink me and dam me if I exercise Lordship over a Worm Judge me I am as proud of Philip Herbert or Burgess of Barkshire as I am of Earl of Pembroke and my reason Mr. Speaker is this I was Philip Herbert before I was Earl of Pembroke and now I am Burgess for Barkshire and if I bark not and bawl not if I see occasion as well as the best of you all then let the County that chose me their Minister and Servant complain of me or turn me out and chuse another No Sink me the Country ought not to be at the Charge of keeping Dogs and bark themselves or feed their Dogs so high and lusty that like Actaeon's they devour their Master Pardon me Mr. Speaker I hope you do not conceive that I call the Parliament Dogs I speak concerning their Vigilancy to preserve their Master's Estates and in that point I may in my blunt Language liken them to Dogs but every like is not the same Mr. Speaker Conceive me aright I would have you not to be Dogs but as Dogs that is as I conceive not to be dumb Dogs I shall ever hate a dumb Dog But Sir I know you are no dumb Dog because you are Speaker Gentlemen I am now received in and made a Member of this Honourable House of Commons though it be a thing strange and not common in England for an Earl as not long since I held my self to be and a Member of the Lords House to be made a Commoner or removed from the Upper-end to the Lower-end of the Table I am not so void of Understanding or Common Sense as not to think my self highly honoured therewith I am no respecter of Persons or Places Sir I know how to humble my self and do acknowledge it my duty not only to lay down my Titles and Dignites but my Life and Honours for the good of the Common-weath Dam me 't is not my Wealth that I prize above the Common-wealth though I love both and would do my utmost to preserve both which I take to be the chief cause of the Peoples chusing me to be their Representative 'T is true I was formerly chosen Chancelor of Oxford not only by this Honourable House but the House of Lords then being but considering my weak Abilities in Divinity being I thank God little troubled with the same nor guilty of any more confused or confounding Languages than my own Mother-Tongue and for Arts and Sciences they never shall trouble my head I hold it my best Art and Science to preserve my Self and my Estate and get more if I can Dam me he that cares not for his Wealth can never care for the Common-wealth for how can he that will not do good for himself do good for others Charity ought to begin at home Mr. Speaker Truly Gentlemen I know not what Errours are lately crept into that University but at my last Visitation I think I plagu'd them to purpose Confound me they had as good to have been Visited with the Plague as with me for I spared none right or wrong Dam me I think the University was never better weeded since it was an University I pulled up all the Popish Poppies the Malignant May-weed the Thistles and Hemlock that choaked the Wheat Dam me they had nigh choaked me with Fuming and Swearing at them A Pox of their Reasons they were Logick to me for I could understand not one of them and if I could I would not I had no such Order in my Instructions I acted as vigorously as God would give me leave I spared ne'er a Son of Rome amongst them all Dam me not my own Godson ' Zblood If my Father had been there a Scholar and Popishly affected as I was told they were he should have turn'd out with the rest Mr. Speaker I hate a Turn-coat and a Black-coat too I love a Buff-coat or Mrs. May's Petty-coat better than Popish-Canonical Coats Dam me If ye were all of my minde Gentlemen you would pull down the Universities they are but the Nurses of Learning and Superstition Dam me Learning and Superstition hath occasioned all these Wars and Bloud Refuse me I had rather be a Sculler than a Scholar these Arts and Sciences as they call them are dangerous Enemies to the State and steal and draw away the Hearts and Affections of the People from Martial affairs and therefore in my simple judgment it would redound much to the strengthening of the State to change the property of them and instead of making them Nurseries of Learning to make them Fencing-Schools or Nurseries of War Dam me This Kingdom hath more need of Warring than Learning for all Christendom threatens us therefore Mr. Speaker let us not be always Fools Z'blood I have so much Wit in my Blockhead that if I see a Storm a coming I can provide for shelter the very Hogs teach me that Gentlemen I hate humane Learning Dam me I can learn as good a Lesson from a Hog a Horse