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The Duke of Buckingham his speech to the King in Parliament Aprill 4. 1628.
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Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628.
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Wing B5308B; Thomason E196_46; ESTC R9744
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THE Duke of Buckingham HIS SPEECH To the King in Parliament Aprill 4. 1628. LONDON Printed Anno Domini 1641. The Duke of Buckingham having beene all the day ill disposed in his health and his countenance verie sad stood up and said Sir ME thinks I now behold you a a great King for love is greater then Majestie Opinion that your people lov'd you not had almost lost you in the opinion of the World but this day makes you appeare as you are A glorious King loved at home and now to be feared abroad This falling out so happily give me leave I beseech you to be an humble Suitor to your Majestie that I who have had the honour to be your Favourite may now give up that title unto them They to be your Favourite and I to be your servant My second suit is That they having done so well you will account of them all as one A body of many Subjects but all of one heart Opinion might have made them differ but Affection did move them all to joyne with like love in this great gift which though for proportion it be lesse then your occasions may aske Yet is it more then ever subjects did give in so short a time Nor am I perswaded it will rest here For this is but as an earnest of their affections to let you see and the World know what subjects you have and that when your Honour and the good of the State is engaged and Aid askt in the ordinary way of a Parliament you cannot want This gift not being five Subsidies alone but the opening of a Mine of Subsides which lyes in their hearts This good beginning hath wrought alreadie these effects That they have taken your heart Drawne from you a Declaration that again you will love Parliaments and this will be met I make no question with such respect that their Demands will bee just dutifull and moderate For they that know thus to give know well what is fit to aske Then cannot your Majestie but out-go their Demands or else you doe lesse then your selfe or them For your Message begot trust Their trust of your promises must then beget performance And this beeing done then shall I with a glad heart hold this work as well ended as it is now begun Then shall I hope that Parliaments shall bee made hereafter so frequent by the effects and good use of them as shall have this further benefit to deterre from approching your eares those Projectors and inducers of innovation that disturbe both Church and Common-wealth and who dare not appeaer but at these times when they judge there is no Vnion of hearts and affections between your Majestie and your people And give mee leave Sir to say that this Parliament hath given mee more then your felf since they have now by giving themselves to you given mee liberty to serve both in one without jealousie in either So that now I am in more then a hope to re-gaine that which I esteeme dearer then my life that is their love And Sir to open my heart and ease my griefs May it please you to pardon me a word more I must confesse I have long lived in pain Sleep hath given me no rest Favours and Fortunes no content such have bin my secret sorrows to be thought the man of seperation which divided the King from his people and them from him But I hope it shall appeare They were but some mistaken minds that would have made me the evill spirit that wrought ill Offices betweene a good Master and his Loyall subjects whereas by your Majesties favour I shall ever endeavour to approve my selfe a good spirit breathing nothing but the best of services to them all And therefore this day I account more blest to mee then my birth day to see my selfe able to serve them To see you brought in love with Parliaments And a Parliament to expresse such love to you Love them I beseech you And God so love me and mine as I joy to see this day FINIS