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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13394	Rapta Tatio The mirrour of his Maiesties present gouernment, tending to the vnion of his whole iland of Brittonie martiall.	Skinner, John, Sir, fl. 1604, attributed name.; Skene, John, Sir, 1543?-1617, attributed name.; Douglas, N., attributed name.	1604 (1604)	STC 23705; ESTC S118166	26,573	62

say as Demetrius Phalerius said heu inquieta negotia actionesque nostras quorum causa hactenus tantum virū nosse non licuit Well hath hee spent his time in this time who ere he was and worthily who wrote the tractate of the vnion wherein hee hath performed his taske and made his worke proue his title Many good lawes hath hee giuen vs to tye the vnion by For besides what he writes like a Philosopher lernedly of the Kings goodnes multipliciously let the soule of his Common-wealth be tryed and you may easily discerne whether iudgement can or ought recommend his worke to a Parliament to be made an Acte of yet since he will needes trye his owne inference by his owne applications wee will likewise examine his whole worke by the rule of his owne inuention And first what cōscience can beleeue that he who could not be drawne to meddle with clannes in Scotland would be content to abet a faction in England These factions were of heate and as they drew bloud so sooner tēpted the bloud made the motiues more strong the partakers more passionate wheras in factions cold discretiō can abide much pause the time giuen for respite giues it selfe a meanes for determinatiō of vprightnes What conscience can beleeue that he who by the English bloud in a Grand mother got three kingdoms will not as much loue the English as the Scottish by whō he had but prefermēt to one what cōscience can perswade it self that he who hath ad uāced many here without desart towards himself will not continue his honors for daily seruices for his own behoofe performed what reasō can deny that the quiet we now enioy riches by that quiet may not both be encreased when our kingdom shall be abroad more feareful the more hāds shal bring the greater profits into the land what reason can pierce into that no reason hath diued into to take Gods prouidence away from cōtinuing what only by his prouidence he hath setled To a worke diuine adde not thoughts humane what reasō can discerne that men long combined shall not rather holde together thē men neare in oportunities held off farre for sleight seeming respects And do any examples teach that richer subiects are not more fearefull of offending lawes teach any examples that men by nature fight language condition occasion vnited are vnunited by vniō Or teach any exāples that Monarchies well setled cannot represse any ils as they are growing wel hath he ther fore taught you to settle preuention where domestiquely ye gouerne not Frāce Spaine haue their moments to be cōsidered further thē into this our owne is to be looked The one he tels you hath a custome the other a pretext against Englād shal England refuse aide against them all others whē God ordinarily extraordinarily offers it not obscurely Thē increase none helps England be thou my countrey vnthankful care not if Scotland stand as Ireland fell disvnite Wales as not needing it seek abroad for friends though they be Turkes maintaine others quarrels to preserue your own safeties set vp garisōs againe make new Lords of Marches draw more from the rich frō the poore what they only haue acte or exact as if it were the last acte liue as poore as Spaine yet haue none Indies as vncertaine as Italy but lesse friended and fruitfull desire helpe one day who may giue helpes now cry out then when your own haue lost you they who are vpō you shall not know your language Then may you war like the Switzers when other Countries who haue imbraced what you refused shall enioy with scorne of you what you held and might haue held before them and them to either in dearenes or at their deere rate My natiue countrey I craue pardon for my boldnesse zeale hauing transported me as farre into passion of after successes to be doubted if this stand thus doubtfull as I hope it is to their surmises euent who deeme that for want of issue in this Kings loyne the two Countries may againe be seperated though this now be embraced But let me be tryed whether I perswade honest things I hope my vehemency shall not be imputed faulty Soone do they breake vpon fit occasion who are too soone repelled for no knowne cause Why should not we wish them so wel as our Lawes why shuld we wish our selues so ill as their not being one with vs Many will be the marriages in time to make our Nations fully one as many are the houses they bring in with them of our own What was it made the Romans and the Sabines friends but the Romanes getting to wiues the Sabines daughters they tooke them by violence these haue opportunitie for loue and thinke you we shal spare to goe for marriages into Scotland when their daughters shall bee rich to maintaine vs in England Thinke you many thousand occasions will not make vs enterchange if this one occasion had but made the Kings roade to the rest Be of courage therefore honourable Cities and your friends of all qualities and bee what you are such an Iland as were a world to you knew you no part of the world besides Be what you are and desire nothing rather to be Quod sis esse velis nihil que malis Knowe this rather to be done then intreaty finished aboue not imperfect beneath all else howsoeuer seeming more vncertaine then this yet not appeared Let the honestie of this cause intice you the honour moue you the profit snatch you to it Then gratitude know nothing better the larger the Iland the nobler the Nation and who knoweth not that Concordia res paruae crescunt discordia maximae dilabuntur leaue not these faggot stickes out of your band these arrowes out of your sheafe Better is that borne a great deale whereof men are ashamed then that whereof they repent If any should thinke it a shame to loose the name let him know their helpe lost would make vs more repent The people to be called by the name of the Countrey is but Cognatum vocabulum rei Now is this vnion on foote much hath beene said therein much written thereupon Our Kinges affection is setled thereto All these will do hurt if this now do not good If any should gesse many the meanes which should debarre inconueniences to come are now already taken from our good he may haply fall into their opinion who haue deemed either this should haue begun with the vnsetling of the rest or with the setling of this onely expedient the other haue beene vnsetled hand in hand They were onely the Fpicures sect who would neuer enter into any other profeson of Philosophy yet were the Stoikes and the Academickes both more learned and lesse vitious It is written of Alexander that when it was tolde him that an handsome man had gotten his sister with childe hee made aunswere that it was to bee graunted him to enioy his kingdome too