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A panegyric to Charles the Second presented to His Majestie the xxxiii. [sic] of April, being the day of his coronation, MDCLXI.
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Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
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Zenith and exaltation and as we Augure you will by Gods blessing prove to your Subjects hereafter For even through all these does our prospect lead us Nor may it be objected that what shall be spoken of your Majesty can be applied to any other since the Fortune and Events of the rest of Princes have been so differing from yours as seeming to have been conducted by Men alone and second Causes yours only by God and as it were by Miracle I begin then with your early Piety to that Kingly Martyr whose Sacred dictates did institute your tender years and whose sufferings were so much alleviated by your Majesties early proficiency in all that might presage a hopefull and glorious Successor For so did you run through all his Vicissitudes during that implacable war which sought nothing more then to defeat you of all opportunities of a Princely education as fearing your future Virtues because they knew the stock from whence you sprung was not to be destroy'd by wounding the body so long as such a Branch remained Duris at ilex tonsa bipennibus Nigrae feraci frondis in Algido Per damna per caedes ab ipso Ducit opes animumque ferro Whilst he Reign'd and Govern'd you learn'd only to obey Living your own Princely Impress as knowing it would best instruct you one day how to Command and which we now see accomplish'd These then are the effects when Princes are the Sons of Nobles since only such know best to support the weight who use to bear betimes and by degrees not those who rashly pull it on their shoulders because they take it with less violence less ambition less jealousie None so secure a Prince as he that is so born But no sooner did that blessed Martyr expire then our redivive Phoenix appear'd rising from those Sacred Ashes Testator and Heir Father and yet Son Another and yet the same introsuming as it were his Spirit as he breath'd it out when singing his own Epicedium and Genethliack together he seem'd prodigal of his own life to have it redouble'd in your felicity Thus Rex nunquam moritur O admirable conduct of the Divine Providence to immortalize the image of a just Monatch Ipsa quidem sed non eadem quia ipsa nec ipsa est Since that may as truly be apply'd to your Majesty which was once to the wisest of Kings Mortuus est Pater ejus quasi non mortuus similem enim reliquit sibi post se. But with how much prudence is serenity attributed amongst the titles of Princes and the beams of the sun to irradiate their Crowns That the Scepter bears a Flower since as that glorious planet produces so does it also wither them and there is nothing lasting save their vertues which are indeed their essential parts and only immortal For even yet did the clouds intercept our day with the continuance of so dismall a storm as it obnubilated all those hopes of ours It is an infinite adventure if in a Princes Family once overcast it ever grow fair weather again but by a singular and extraordinary providence I mention this to increase the wonder and reinforce your felicity Empires passe Kingdomes are translated and dominions cease The Cecropides of old the Arsacides the Theban Corinthian Syracusian and sundry more lasted not to the fourth Age without strange and prodigious tragedies but why go we so far back when a few Centuries present us with so many fresh Revolutions How many nests has the Roman Eagle changed Bulgarian Saracen Latine In the Comneni Isaaci Paleologi c. even till it dash'd it self in pieces against the Oetoman rock What mutations have been in the house of Arragon How many Riders has the Parthenopean horse unsaddl'd and flung How many Sicily What changes have been in Italy What in France and indeed through all Europe by Vandals Saxons Danes Normans by external invasion internal Faction Envy Ambition treachery and violence The Consulate degenerated into Oligarchy which occasion'd the Aventine sedition Democraty into Ochlocraty under the Tribunes and wicked Gracchi and Monarchy it self the very best of Governments into Tyranny Indeed your sacred Majesty was cast out of your Kingdoms but could never be thrown out of our hearts There you had a secure seat and the Prince that is inthron'd there is safe in all mutations Keep there Sir and you are inexpugnable immoveable And how should it otherwayes be A Prince of your virtue could not miscarry that being truly verified of Your Majesty as well in your perfections as your person Certe videtis quem elegit Dominus in Regem quoniam non sit similis illi in omni populo Nature design'd your Majesty a King Fortune makes others nor are you more your peoples by birth and a glorious series of Progenitors then by your merits This appeared in all those digits of your darkest Eclipse The defect was ours not your Majesties For the Sun is alwaies shining though men alwaies see him not and since the too great splendor and prosperity did confound us it pleased God to interpose those clouds till we should be better able to behold you with more reverence and security For then it was that you prepar'd your self for this weighty government and gave us those presages of your Virtue by what you did for your people and what you suffered for them signalizing your Courage your Fortitude Constancy Piety Prudence and Temperance upon all occasions Your Travels and Adventures are as far beyond those of Ulysses as you exceed him in Dominions Si quis enim velit percensere Caesaris res totum profecto terrarum orbem enumeret For he must go very far that would sum up your perfections Your skill in the customes of Nations the situations of Kingdomes the Advantages of places the temper of the Climates so as the Ages to come shall tell with delight where you fought valiantly where you suffered gallantly Quis sudores tuos hauserit campus quae refectiones tuas arbores quae somnum saxa praetexerint quod denique tectum magnus hospes impleveris and all those sacred Vestigia of yours Thus what was once applyed to Trajan becomes due to your Majesty and I my self am witness both abroad and at home of what I pronounce having now beheld you in both fortunes with love and admiration But this is not halfe and to stop at single perfections were to give jealousie to the rest yetuntouched and should I but succinctly number them all were not to weave a Panegyrick but an Inventory But amongst all your Vertues none was more eminent then your constancy to your religion which no shocks of Fortune no assaults of sophisters events and successe of adversaries or offers of specious Friends could shake so great a thing it was that you did persevere so much greater quod non timuisti ne perseverare non posses But whilst Armies on earth fought for the Usurper the Hosts of Heaven fought in their