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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67124	A panegyrick of King Charles being observations upon the inclination, life, and government of our Soveraign Lord the King / written by Sir Henry Wotton ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3645; ESTC R34764	12,099	132

CAROLUS D. G. Anglia Scotia Francia et Hibernia Rex Fidei Defensor A PANEGYRICK of King CHARLES Being Observations upon the Inclination Life and Government of our Soveraign Lord the KING WRITTEN BY Sir Henry Wotton Knight Provost of EATON Colledg A little before his death And Printed for Richard Marriot London TO OUR Young CHARLES Duke of Cornwall And Earle of CHESTER Henry Wotton Wisheth late dayes THese following Vowes and Acclamations wherewith Your Father the best of Kings was wellcomed at his return from Scotland I dedicate to Your Highnesse not unadvisedly that when you shal bee indued with erudition the ornament long since of your ancestors you may draw from this smal memorial whatsoever it bee a more glorious treasure then a triple Crown namely an hereditary image of vertue To the Reader Reader KNOW that this piece was by the deceased Author writ originally in Latin and was received generally with applause and satisfaction then And by a person highly and deservedly valuing the Authors Memory taught to speak our English tongue which ought not to blush even in these times for owning the thoughts of this much renowned Patriot and true servant to his Royall Master yet in beeing Whose vertuous and happy reign was no less the admiration of his neighbors then the just subject of this learned pen to transmit the true lights therof to after ages And if it fail of an effect suitable now upon the Readers of these dayes in generall the Publisher doubts not of one in thee whom he hopes art neither byassed by desperate Interest nor dazled with false Illumination Farewell TO THE KING at His return from SCOTLAND Sir Henry Wottons VOTES and ACCLAMATIONS Imperiall CHARLES my Soveraign King and Master I. IT was an ancient custom among the civill nations so oft as they were blessed with a just and a gracious King lest their felicity should bee mutely smother'd and moulder in their brests to pour sorth their affections and joyes in elogies in hearty wishes and in applauses especially when any occasion did excite their acclamations By emulation of which sacred custom being rapt and my very bowells in this my frozen age being warmed therewith I have taken a flagrant confidence to celebrate this day which hath restored your Majesty to us and us unto our selves being so little daunted with the weaknesse of mine own elocution that almost I am ready to esteem my self thereby the fitter to perform it For what need is there here of any rhetoricall stuff or why should I too curiously ballance words by weight it will be enough this day simply to rejoice Sincerity is a plain and impolite thing by how much the lesse tricked so much the more joying in her owne naturall alacrity and fine speech while it adorneth corrupteth our gladness Neither do I fear that this duty shall appear a flattering blandishment or to proceed from one ambitiously projected at the feet of fortune which intruth were unworthy of that ingenuity that I have received from my parents and likewise of that blessed contentment which liberall studies have taught me Yet one thing I confesse●d oh involve my thoughts at the very entrance in a kind of Solicitude namely lest I should with true praises offend that verecundious modesty wherewith Your Majesty doth so sweetly season all your other vertues for although your fortitude bee great against any thing that requires either Constancie of spirit or validity of body yet I cast some doubt lest you should bear these applauses the more tenderly by how much they are the more justly due II. We read that Germanicus and yet what a man somewhat before the battel against the Catti went disguised with a beasts skin about his shoulders to listen behind the souldiers tents what opinion they had of him So as they seem the weakest receivers of their own commendations that are the worthyest to receive them Whence I easily foresee that I must prepare a way for your Sacred Eares by more severe arguments then I can borrow from the shop of light Rhetoritians I will therefore roundly affirm that neither the fair nor the deformed lives of Princes should be suppressed under ignoble silence but that both the good and bad should bee delivered to posterity with the same liberty in writing which themselves used in living and with no less reverence of truth then of majesty the good lest by subducting the examples of vertue from our knowledge vertue it self by little and little should decay the bad that being exempt while they live from all danger of laws they might at least be attempered with some awe of future records This I dare speak to your self most excellent Soveraign and even that I dare say so much as this I owe only to your self who have now so lived 33 and reigned almost nine yeers that you are not afraid of truth III. Most famous it was of old and wil eternally live that answer of Virginius Rufus to Cluvius You know Virginius saith hee what credit is due to history wherefore if you read any thing in my books otherwaies then you would have it I pray pardon me To whom replies Virginius Cluvius knows this that I have done those that I have done that it might be free for you writers to write what you list Which was the security I must confess of a brave gentleman indeed but of a private personage How much more may this day rejoice at the reception of a King of whose life and whole deportment wee may speak both openly and safely Yea let me add this boldly that if nature her self the first Architectres had according to Vitruvius his conceit windowed your brest if Your Majesty should admit all mens eyes not only within the walls of your priviest chamber but into the inward'st closet of your heart nothing would there appear but the splendor of goodness and an untroubled serenity of vertues What said I if you would admit why can they whom the supreme power hath set in a high and lucent throne bee secluded from the eyes of men or the course of your life and government be hidden in a mist certainly in this point obscurity of degree and solitude it self is more vailed then Majesty Doth that Emperor of Abyssine who they say is seen but once a yeer abroad think that it is lesse known what he doth with in Doe wee not know even at this day that Domitian even in his secret retied room whither hee dayly in private resorted did nothing but stick flies with a bodkin Lay Tiberius hid in his recesse to the Islands of Capreae when among so many wounds and tortures of his conscience with which he was vexed like so many furies many tokens of a distracted mind did daily break forth Surely no Your Majesty hath taught the Princes both of your own future times the only and most wholsome way of concealing your self in this that you indeavour nothing that is to bee concealed There are certain creatures of