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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08514	An oration to the most illustrious and mightie prince Frederick King of Bohemia. Made by Martin Opitius of Silesia. Translated out of Latin; Oratio ad serenissimum ac potentissimum principem Fridericum, Regem Bohemiæ. English	Opitz, Martin, 1597-1639.	1620 (1620)	STC 18831; ESTC S121204	10,382	23

for vnder thy Gouernment are wee secure of our owne safetie God grant vnto thee that by thy hand our tottering State may be vnderpropped and restored that thou mayest be partaker of that Vow which Octauius did once so much desire that thou mayest truly be styled Optimi Status Auctor The Founder of a most happle State And let late olde Age draw in the swelling Sailes of thy glorious Reigne which in your Youth you haue now hoysed vp to so fauourable a wind And beare away with you this hope when by death you shall leaue vs That the happy foundations which you haue layed shall abide for euer in their proper place God saue thee O Queene Daughter of that most Illustrious Heros whose Prayses cannot bee pent vp in the Straits of this Age who hath ioyned profound Learning to incredible Wisdom of gouerning who vnder a happie Starre hath added England vnto Scotland God saue thee O Wife of this Prince who doth now couple our Kingdomes to his owne Countrey with like glorie I would to God it may be with equall fortune God blesse you both who are by consent of God and man a most choice paire All haile to you Sunne and Moone How sweet a sight is it to our Citizens to see what a Lord to our Souldiers to see what a Leader they haue with vniuersall consent elected and with such longing desire expected How pleasant O King is it to vs to heare these words out of thy blessed mouth That this Acceptance of the Kingdome proceeded from the loue of Peace and not of Empire that you are drawne into these stirres by our miserie and not carryed by your owne disposition that the Modestie of your refusing was ouercome by the obstinacie of our offering That you haue preferred the publique Securitie before your owne priuate ease That it is but a small matter to desire a people but not so easie to defend them And that it is almost better to let goe an Empire that is in right ones owne then to purchase a new one with the bloud of the Citizens But now sith this Scepter can neither be possest nor forsaken without perill that now our estate and condition is your owne and that therefore you will now vse your best endeauour that wee should not neede to desire another King while God shall giue you life We know we know very well most gracious Prince that you did vnwillingly enter vpon this Kingdome which was vnwillingly left We also were compelled we came not of our own accord to implore your fortitude and defence who were not ignorant of your Clemencie We call God and men to witnesse that by compulsion we tooke vp Armes to defend the safetie of our Countrey and that Liberty which is allowed to the besest Nations and lastly our Religion which is to be preferred before all other Causes and whose name was in time past so sacred among the very Gentiles that at the time that the French were spoyling Rome Lu. Albunius one of the common people putting out of his Cart his Wife and Children tooke vp into it the Vestall Virgines which did follow vpon their bare feet the sacred things which fled from the furie of their Enemies So much at that time in the meanest men did publique Religion excell priuate affections To be assailed in body and estate is grieuous but in Conscience is intollerable And such we see is the nature of Liberty that no good man will lose it but with his life As courage and strength vses to increase to wilde beasts broke out of their Dennes and doth become in a maner double So is it with our Nation it could no longer dissemble their manly courage the due prayse of which none could euer depriue vs of when besides the iust hatred it bore to cruell counsels and practises against vs it burnt in desire of regaining the Libertie of the Countrey desperately lost and oppressed Which it is alwayes lawfull for them to repurchase who by nature were borne to liue free and had also their Libertie established vnto them by the fundamentall Lawes and Priuiledges of the Kingdome confirmed vnto them with the sacred Bond of Othes and ratified by the Charters and great Seales of Kings and Emperours Wee doe very well know that the prayse of obedience is enough in Subiects that good Princes are to be wished for that euill if they fall to their lot are to bee endured But these things doe in no sort concerne vs this is not our Case We wee haue taken vp Armes after incredible Patience not with any mind of rebelling but at the Exigence of extreme Necessitie Not in any priuate Conspiracie of some few but with the vniuersall and ioynt consent of the whole State not in any contempt of Magistracie but in defiance of most damnable practize against our Liues Libertie and Religion Neither did we doe this against a lawfull King but to escape the deuillish deceits of bloudie Murtherers who doe openly profesle that no Faith is to be kept whereby we haue receiued vnvaluable damage who gaine time and coozen well-meaning people by Periurie as Cheaters doe Children with false Dice and Cards We haue now at length learned to distrust being taught by too many wofull Examples Wee know very well what horrible Thunderbolts are darted from the Tarpeian Rock at Rome And that Romes Iupiter can by the way transferre Principalities and Kingdomes from whom and to whom he please like the Deuill his Master All this will I giue thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship me And that he doth damme soules to Hell for his Recreation and to make his Holinesse sport Who knowes not how small protection Hus a Citizen of this Kingdome found in the safe conduct of Caesar No lesse Tempest had ouer-taken Luther at Wormes had not the braue Emperour put on a resolution neuer to stampe such a staine vpon his honourable Name Had not Lewis also the most clement Prince of your Progenitors withstood the Romish dishonourable determination to breake faith By the very like Game and foule Play should we haue bin coozened and in the like Trap did Iesuites these men endeuour to haue caught vs who doe vsually inuade Lords of Nations with Poniards and Parricidiall Arts which grow remarkable in the World and glorious Martyrs at Rome by the bloud and murther of Kings who by superlatiue horrible wickednesse did destroy great Henry of France that Thunderbolt of Warre subiecting him whom the huge weight of his whole Countrey when he stood vnder it could not moue to the butcherie of one desperate Villaine who did their best to haue dasht to the wals of his Kingdome with fire and Gunpowder your Father-in-Law the matchlesse Monarch of great Britaine who haue perswaded themselues and others that Saluation of Soules consists in Murders of Kings and wasting of Kingdomes who make it but sport and play to murther the poore to condemne the innocent to take away mens liues with Rack