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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94190	A panegyrick on the most auspicious and long-wish'd-for return of the great example of the greatest virtue, the faithful Achates of our royal Charles, the tutelar angel (as we justly hope) of our church and state, the most illustrious James Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Ormond, &c. Lord Lieutenant and General Governour of His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland, His Grace. / By F.S.	Synge, Francis.	1661 (1661)	Wing S6382; ESTC R184784	7,536	17

A PANEGYRICK On the Most Auspicious and long-wish'd-for Return OF The Great EXAMPLE of the Greatest Virtue The FAITHFUL ACHATES Of Our ROYAL CHARLES AND The Tutelar Angel as we justly hope of our CHURCH and STATE The Most Illustrious JAMES Duke Marquess and Earl of ORMOND c. Lord Lieutenant and General Governour of His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland His Grace BY F. S. Nemo confidet nimium secundis Nemo desperet Meliora lapsis Seneca Deus nobis haec otia fecit Virg. Dublin Printed by John Crook Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty for Sam. Dancer Bookseller in Castlestreet A Panegyrick To the Most Illustrious JAMES Duke Marquess and Earl of ORMOND Lord Lieutenant and General Governour of His MAJESTIES KINGDOM of IRELAND His GRACE TO speak Your Welcome most Illustrious Sir in as high a Key as our Hearts conceive it is as nigh a kin to an impossibility as to speak Your Merit The one the unkinde Fate of our feeble Organs deny us to reach unto the other the expanded Glory of Your Heroick Actions and the unexemplar'd Magnanimity of Your Great Soul will not admit Yet herein do we finde our Wants reprized whilst Heaven sweetly indulging our Inabilities looks on the Quality not Quantity of our Returns and from an humble grateful Heart values the cheerful Sacrifice of a pair of Mites more then the hidden-Treasures of the lower World If Heaven then be so propitious to the incurable Malady of our Natures how can we despair of a candid Acceptation from You who are her Favorite and One who in the various Assaults of the most imminent Dangers and severest Temptations have born the signal Impress and Character of her Love and Favour Were not this true this happy hour had ne'er been ours that now seems to secure our Harvest of Joy for our Seed of Tears and Promises us as much of Earthly Foelicity as can possibly be expected under the best of Kings and the best of Subjects Think not then most redoubted Sir our Duties Flattery nor the dilated Joys of our Loyal Hearts a Design upon Your Power Let those that juggle with their Allegiance that Obey because 't is not safe for them to Rebel and love their King Religion and Laws because they dare not do otherwise feel the smart Effects of that whilst we lose our Selves in the Contemplation of that Blessing we have received a Blessing of that miraculous Magnitude that our Posterity must have the Influence We onely the Wonder Thus Zion's Captivity when revers'd became a Dream being like ours so far above their Merit or their Expectation that it was above the Capacity of their subtilest Faculty to believe it Real Contraries put together saith the Philosopher are their own best Illustration and if we be not afraid to look back upon our former Bondage it may perhaps endear the Blessing of our Redemption the more unto us by how much we dispair'd of ever seeing it effected What rigid Stoick can reflect on our past Distractions without Distraction Three Kingdoms which for Riches Strength and Policy were no way inferiour to the greatest of Europe how have we seen like Joseph sold to Uncircumcised Ishmaelites and their Beauteous Garments their Cities Temples and fertile Fields like his Coat dy'd in the Blood of their own Children How have we seen Religion degenerate from its Primitive Simplicity and the ravishing Beauty of its Coelestial Features vitiated with the Paint and Fucus of our own Frantick Imaginations How have we seen the Arms of the Church from Preces and Lachrymae converted into Sword and Pistol the Pulpit by its Bloody and Sophistical Oratory seeming to re-invest the lying Author or the Father of Lyes in his lost Oracles How have we seen the Face of Majesty bespatter'd with the virulent Poyson of the Tongue and Asps the sworn Subject of His Crown and Scepter How have we seen our now Glorious Master bely'd by those that began the second Massacre of Innocents but something bloodier then that of Herod's when they made the credulous World believe they had the Royal Assent for their unheard-of Cruelties How have we seen Him sold Cum petiit Fato supplice nudus opem And such a Master that his price was far above Rubies or the Gold of Ophir How have we seen him murder'd and the Parricide afterward justified by a Law A Crime so opposite to to Nature and Humanity that a Heathen Law-Giver could not conceive the thought of it could enter into the Heart of Man much less the perpetration and therefote made no Law against it Nonne haec sufficiunt Is not this Impiety enough for one Age Yet we may say as the Queen of Sheba of that great King's Wisdom Ecce non indicatum est nobis dimidium We have but a part though a large one of our inlarged Sorrows Methinks I hear a Voice behinde me asking where were those Teneri Agnelli the surviving Hope and Props of the mourning Diadem Though the Hand of Violence had seiz'd the Life of the Father yet Hae Oviculae quid fecerunt What had They done to be Disfranchis'd from their Royal Right Where was then CHARLES the Little now greater then Charles the Great but like young Joash hid in the Temple of Divine Providence from the merciless Hands of a cruel Usurper Where were those Twin-Reserves of the British Crown but seeking Protection in a Forreign Air whilst their Unnatural Nurse bestows her Milk upon the Bastards of her Lust at Home Where went the Widowed Mother but to the Solitary Grove of a Recluse Life there to bewail Her Glorious Princes Fate and her Childrens Danger Where lay the Honest Man when the Artifice of Hell was invok'd to Unrivet his Allegiance What Oaths Rapines Murders Sacriledges did every Day present us with Nay what gross Impiety was there if it had a name that wanted a Professor Peaceable and Inoffensive Carriage and as Innocent as the Doves would not be trusted without a Perjury The demolishing of Churches was nothing without shaking the Foundation of the Peoples Faith The Estates of Gentry and Nobility without their Blood and Exile nay the Crown it Self without the Life of the Prince of little value What Hyperbolical Crimes were here Such as Vix novit Ethnicus vel publicanus Yet these and more most Renowned Sir if more can be imagin'd Your Grace too sensibly knows to be the sad Product of our late Confusions But why do we grate Your Ears with the Repetition of our past Miseries and instead of welcoming You ashore afflict Your Eyes with the Landskip of Your own Shipwrack Against such melancholy Entertainment though from the fair Hands of a Beauteous Queen we finde a great Reluctancy in the most courtly Trojan Infandum Regina jubes c. Yet as that Noble Prince would rather cruciate his own Soul then disoblige so sweet a Lady that lov'd him the more passionately for his Sufferings So we my Lord do hope that You whom we equally love

for Yours will not onely pardon us for what we have done but from the General give us leave to touch at those Particulars that concern this Kingdom if for no other Reason yet because it has been the Theatre of Your own Misfortunes and that without an olim meminisse of what we have suffered by your long-mourn'd-for Absence we shall hardly with Moderation manage that Joy and Contentation Your long'd-for Presence has brought amongst us Be pleas'd then to remember most Excellent Sir when our Royal Master of Glorious Memory prick'd at the Heart for the sad Calamities of this Bleeding Kingdom had sought by all means possible by stopping the Flux of her bloody Issue to restore her to her former Health and after a strict and earnest search found no way properer then to put her under the Tuition and Care of an Able and Faithful Physitian How welcom how generally applauded was His Royal Choice when he pitch'd upon Your Grace as the fittest Person for so Knotty and Mysterious a Piece of Service And if it be not a Sin to speak Truth What was there wanting in that Election if we had not been wanting to our Selves and frowardly spurn'd our own Happiness that might give a Disgust to the most cross-grain'd Humorist Was High Blood flowing from the Veins of as Noble as Ancient Progenitors inferiour to no Subject and that without the least Attainder of Disloyalty for so many Hundreds of Years of no consideration Were rare Endowments of Minde the special Marks and Tokens whereby wise Kings chuse Instruments for their most weighty Services as Wisdom to Contrive Courage and Resolution to Execute Sweetness and Affability to Invite and Win Bounty and Clemency to Reward and Cherish and a just Fidelity that crowns all the rest of the Sister-Graces of no Value nor Estimation Yet these and many other Ornaments of no common Lustre most Noble Sir which the unblinded part of the Kingdom saw like Coelestial Diamonds made up the Constellation of Your Gallant Soul could not with their Harmonious Influence charm the Serpentine Spirit of that froward Age. May we be so bold to examine Quae causa indigna serenos Faedavit vultus What it was that re-immerg'd this unfortunate Island when her Head began to appear above the Deluge her own Blood had made What it was that made You my Lord who had so freely sacrific'd the Life of Your Estate as well as Person in her Vindication to be the Object of her foul Ingratitude as the murmuring against Your Power at that time must necessarily infer We confess Sir when we think on You and the wining Candour and attractive Sweetness of Your Nature we are all Wonder but when we cast the Nature of Treason and of those State-Insidiaries that then lay in wait to rob us of our Peace and Satisfaction our Wonder ceaseth For 't is no new thing to see Machiavil confute St. Austin and Modern Policy to laugh at Christian Simplicity and the Innocence of Obedience though an indifferent Eye may through the Prospective of a Rash Enterprize see the just Fate of Phaeton and Icarus in the foolish Undertakers We need not trouble our Selves much in the search It was because we distasted Your Vice-Regencie over us And what was the Reason of that Because You my Lord would have had us Christian Subjects that is so obedient to our Religion and Laws as not to be our own Carvers and stain with an Hot and Unwarranted Prosecution what before was Ennobled with a Matchless Innocence and Justice our Cause and Quarrel A Cause that a good Christian would have gloried more to have suffered wrongfully in then we have since unjustly to have fought in A Cause that History it self could not produce a better nor a good One so much abus'd But where Ambition and Covetousness pretend under the Veil of Piety like the Jesuites in the Indies the Cure of our Distempers we may be sure to finde them worse For where were the Symptoms of our Destruction more apparent then in that grand Exigence of Affairs when Ingratitude and Disloyalty affronted CAESAR and CAESAR's Image for so You were then most Worthy Sir aspersing the Paternal Care of the one and the Loyal Duty and Fidelity of the other with the bitterest Invectives Malice could invent or Madness durst publish Was not the Act of Cessation all the Hope we had to recruit our lost Breach and Strength cry'd down as a Design against the English Interest Though a more probable means to preserve the Remnant of our Brethren that had escaped could not be found then in the nick of time to stop the Bloody Hands of their Powerful and Desperate Pursuers Yet this was the Divinity then of the raving Pulpit but so Haeretically Calumnious as it hath since plainly appear'd that I might as rationally conceive that Man mine Enemy that should interpose his Life between my Safety and the Fury of an Enraged Lion Surely those shrill Trumpets of Sedition those Mushrome-Levites sprung up in a Night Matriculated Graduated and Ordained all in a Breath had very much forgot themselves when in their Clamorous Devotions they set forth their Condition in such pity-craving Terms calling Themselves a Flock of Kids an Handful One to a Thousand but their Adversaries the Children of Anak for Proportion and for number like the Grashoppers of the Field not considering that those Allegations if true were the onely Motives that induc'd the King to compass that Act of Accommodation So that next the Sin of those that made the Fire theirs must needs be that kept it in with the violent Breath of Frowardness and Dissention and prolonged the War by obstructing those Aids that were then intended and which very likely if legally follow'd had soon put a period to the Force and Heat of that Unparallel'd Rebellion But such a Preposterous and Unevangelical Zeal they are the Royal Martyrs own Words as some Men were then endu'd with could not endure any allay of Moderation but had rather be counted Cruel then Cold the Confiscation of the Irish Estates being more Beneficial then the Charity of Saving their Lives or Reforming their Errors Well! They had their Will and the Cheat succeeded The Kings Angelical Disposition could deny them nothing whom he thought Friends to Truth and really touch'd with the Severity of this Kingdoms Sufferings The Throne shall do Homage to the Footstool and the Indispensable Jewels of the Crown shall be ingag'd for their Satisfaction But what do we finde to be the Fruit of this Royal Bounty Why the very same that a Graceless Child most commonly returns an Indulgent Parent to grow the Worse the Better he is us'd and to gratifie his Sordid Lusts and Unworthy Desires prefers the Gold and the Estate before either the Life or the Honour of the Unfortunate Father Mutato nomine de quibus fabula Who more oblig'd then we Who less concern'd What Monarch like ours did ever divest himself of his Prerogative to