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A panegyrike congratulatorie to the Kings Maiestie Also certaine epistles, by Samuel Daniel.
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Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.
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cunning this Which so imbroyles the state of truth with brawles And wrappes it vp in strange confusednesse As if it liu'd immur'd within the walls Of hideous termes fram'd out of barbarousnesse And forraine Customes the memorials Of our subiection and could neuer be Deliu'red but by wrangling subtiltie Whereas it dwells free in the open plaine Vncurious Gentile easie of accesse Certaine vnto it selfe of equall vaine One face one colour one assurednesse It 's Falshood that is intricate and vaine And needes these laborinths of subtilnesse For where the cunningst cou'rings most appeare It argues still that all is not sincere Which thy cleere ey'd experience well discries Great Keeper of the state of Equitie Refuge of mercie vpon whom relies The succour of oppressed miserie Altar of safegarde whereto affliction flies From th'eger pursuite of seueritie Hauen of Peace that labourst to withdraw Iustice from out the tempests of the Law And set her in a calme and euen way Plaine and directly leading to redresse Barring these counter-courses of delay These wasting dilatorie processes Ranging into their right and proper ray Errors demurs essoines and trauerses The heads of Hydra springing out of death That giues this Monster malice still new breath That what was made for the vtilitie And good of man might not be turn'd t' his hurt To make him worser by his remedie And cast him downe with what should him support Nor that the State of Law might loose thereby The due respect and reu'rence of her porte And seeme a trap to catch our ignorance And to intangle our intemperance Since her interpretations and our deedes Vnto a like infinitie arise As be'ng a Science that by nature breeds Contention strife and ambiguities For altercation controuersie feeds And in her agitation multiplies The field of Cauell lying all like wide Yealds like aduantage vnto eyther side Which made the graue Castillian King deuise A prohibition that no Aduocate Should be conuaid to th' Indian Colonies Lest their new setting shaken with debate Might take but slenderroote and so not rise To any perfect growth of firme estate For hauing not this skill how to contend Th'vnnourisht strife would quickely make an end So likewise did th'Hungarian when he saw These great Italian Bartolists who were Call'd in of purpose to explane the Law T' imbroyle it more and make it much lesse cleere Caus'd them from out his Kingdome to withdraw With this infestious skill someother-where Whose learning rather let men farther out And opened wider passages of doubt Seeing euen Iniustice may be regulare And no proportion can there be betwixt Our actions which in endlesse motion are And th'Ordinances which are alwayes fixt Tenne thousand Lawes more cannot reach so farre But Malice goes beyond or liues immixt So close with goodnesse as it euer will Corrupt disguise or counterfeite it still And therefore did those glorious Monarchs who Deuide with God the Stile of Maiestie For being good and had a care to do The world right and succour honestie Ordaine this sanctuarie wherevnto Th' opprest might flie this seate of Equitie Whereon thy vertues sit with faire renowne The greatest grace and glory of the Gowne Which Equitie being the soule of Law The life of Iustice and the Spirite of right Dwell's not in written Lines or liues in awe Of Bookes deafe powres that haue nor eares nor sight But out of well-weigh'd circumstance doth draw The essence of a iudgement requisite And is that Lesbian square that building fit Plies to the worke not forc'th the worke to it Maintaining still an equall paralell Iust with th' occasions of humanitie Making her iudgements euer liable To the respect of peace and amitie When surly Law sterne and vnaffable Cares onely but it selfe to satisfie And often innocencie skarse defends As that which on no circumstance depends But Equitie that beares an euen raine Vpon the present courses holds in awe By giuing hand alittle and doth gaine By a gentle relaxation of the Law And yet inviolable doth maintaine The end whereto all constitutions draw Which is the well-fare of societie Consisting of an vpright pollicie Which first being by Necessitie compos'd Is by Necessitie maintain'd in best estate Where whenas Iustice shal be ill dispos'd It sickens the whole body of the State For if there be a passage once disclos'd That Wrong may enter at the selfe-same gate Which serues for Right cladde in a coate of Law What violent distempers may it draw And therefore dost thou stand to keepe the way And stoppe the course that malice seekes to runne And by thy prouident Iniunctions stay This neuer ending Altercation Sending contention home to th' end men may There make their peace whereas their strife begun And free these pestred streets they vainely weare Whom both the State and theirs do need elsewhere Lest th'humor which doth thus predominate Conuert vnto it selfe all that it takes And that the law grow larger then debate And come t' exceede th' affaires it vndertakes As if the onely Science of the State That tooke vp all our wits for gaine it makes Not for the good that thereby may be wrought Which is not good if it be dearely bought What shall we thinke when as ill causes shall Inrich men more and shall be more desir'd Then good as farre more beneficiall Who then defends the good who will be hir'd To intertaine a right whose gaine is small Vnlesse the Aduocate that hath conspir'd To pleade a wrong be likewise made to runne His Clients chaunce and with him be vndunne So did the wisest nations euer striue To binde the hands of Iustice vp so hard That lest she falling to prooue Lucratiue Might basely reach them out to take reward Ordaining her prouisions fit to liue Out of the publike as a publike Guard That all preserues and all doth entertaine Whose end is onely glory and not gaine That eu'n the Scepter which might all command Seeing her s' vnpartiall equall regulare Was pleas'd to put it selfe into her hand Whereby they both grew more admired farre And this is that great blessing of this land That both the Prince and people vse one Barre The Prince whose cause as not to be withstood Is neuer badde but where himselfe is good This is that Ballance which committed is To thy most euen and religious hand Great Minister of Iustice who by this Shalt haue thy name still gratious in this land This is that seale of pow're which doth impresse Thy Acts of right which shall for euer stand This is that traine of State that pompously Attends vpon thy reu'rent dignitie All glory else besides ends with our breath And mens respects scarse brings vs to our graue But this of doing good must out-liue Death Aud haue a right out of the right it gaue Though th' act but few th' example profiteth Thousands that shall thereby a blessing haue The worlds respect growes not but on desarts Powre may haue knees but Iustice hath
region of your selfe remaine Where no vaine breath of th'impudent molests That hath secur'd within the brasen walls Of a cleere conscience that without all staine Rises in peace in innocencie rests Whilst all what malice from without procures Shews her owne ougly heart but hurts not yours And whereas none reioyce more in reuenge Then women vse to doe yet you well know That wrong is better checkt by being contemn'd Then being pursu'd leauing to him tauenge To whom it appertaines wherein you show How worthily your Clearenesse hath condemn'd Base malediction liuing in the darke That at the raies of goodnesse still doth barke Knowing the heart of man is set to be The centre of his world about the which These reuolutions of disturbances Still roule where all th'aspects of miserie Predominate whose strong effects are such As he must beare being powrelesse to redresse And that vnlesse aboue himselfe he can Erect himselfe how poore a thing is man And how turmoyld they are that leuell lie With earth and cannot lift themselues from thence That neuer are at peace with their desires But worke beyond their yeares and euen deny Dotage her rest and hardly will dispence With Death that when ability expires Desire liues still so much delight they haue To carry toile and trauaile to the graue Whose ends you see and what can be the best They reach vnto when they haue cast the summe And recknings of their glory and you know This floting life hath but this Port of rest A heart prepar'd that feares no ill to come And that mans greatnesse rests but in his show The best of all whose dayes consumed are Eyther in warre or peace conceiuing warre This Concord Madame of a wel-tun'd minde Hath beene so set by that all-working hand Of heauen that though the world hath done his worst To put it out by discords most vnkinde Yet doth it still in perfect vnion stand With God and Man nor euer will be forc't From that most sweete accord but still agree Equall in Fortunes inequalitie And this note Madame of your Worthines Remaines recorded in so many Hearts As time nor malice cannot wrong your right In th inheritance of Fame you must possesse You that haue built you by your great desarts Out of small meanes a farre more exquisite And glorious dwelling for your honoured name Then all the gold of leaden mindes can frame S. D. TO THE LADY LVCIE COVNTESSE OF BEDFORD THough virtue be the same when low she stands In th' humble shadowes of obscuritie As when she either sweats in martiall bands Or sits in Court clad with authoritie Yet Madame doth the strictnesse of her roome Greatly detract from her abilitie For as inwalld within a liuing tombe Her handes and armes of action labour not Her thoughts as if abortiue from the wombe Come neuer borne though happily begot But where she shath mounted in open sight An eminent and spacious dwelling got Where shee may stirre at will and vse her might There is she more her selfe and more her owne There in the faire attyre of honour dight She sits at ease and makes her glory knowne Applause attends her hands her deedes haue grace Her worth new-borne is straight as if fulgrowne With such a goodly and respected face Doth vertue looke that 's set to looke from hie And such a faire aduantage by her place Hath state and greatnesse to doe worthily And therefore well did your high fortunes meete With her that gracing you comes grac't thereby And well was let into a house so sweete So good so faire so faire so good a guest Who now remaines as blessed in her seate As you are with her residencie blesst And this faire course of knowledge whereunto Your studies learned Lady are addrest Is th' onely certaine way that you can goe Vnto true glory to true happines All passages on earth besides are so Incumbred with such vaine disturbances As still we loose our rest in seeking it Being but deluded with apparances And no key had you else that was so fit T' vnlocke that prison of your Sex as this To let you out of weakenesse and admit Your powers into the freedome of that blisse That sets you there where you may ouersee This rowling world and view it as it is And apprehend how th'outsides do agree With th' inward being of the things we deeme And hold in our ill-cast accounts to be Of highest value and of best esteeme Since all the good we haue rests in the mind By whose proportions onely we redeeme Our thoughts from out confusion and do finde The measure of our selues and of our powres And that all happinesse remaines confind Within the Kingdome of this breast of ours Without whose bounds all that we looke on lies In others Iurisdictions others powres Out of the circuit of our liberties All glory honor fame applause renowne Are not belonging to our royalties But t'others wills wherein th' are onely growne And that vnlesse we finde vs all within We neuer can without vs be our owne Nor call it right our life we liue in But a possession held for others vse That seeme to haue most in t ' rest therein Which we do so disseuer parte traduce Let out to custome fashion and to shew As we enioy but onely the abuse And haue no other Deed at all to shew How oft are we constrained to appeare With other countenance then that we owe And be our selues farre off when we are neere How oft are we forc't on a clowdie hart To set a shining face and make it cleere Seeming content to put our selues apart To beare a part of others weaknesses As if we onely were compos'd by Arte Not Nature and did all our deedes addresse T'opinion not t'a conscience what is right As fram'd b'example not aduisednesse Into those formes that intertaine our sight And though Bookes Madame cannot make this minde Which we must bring apt to be set aright Yet do they rectifie it in that kinde And touch it so as that it turnes that way Where iudgement lies And though we cannot finde The certaine place of truth yet doe they stay And intertaine vs neere about the same And giue the Soule the best delights that may Encheere it most and most our spirits inflame To thoughts of glory and to worthy ends And therefore in a course that best became The cleerenesse of your heart and best commends Your worthy powres you runne the rightest way That is on Earth that can true glory giue By which when all consumes your fame shal liue TO THE LADY ANNE CLIFFORD VNto the tender youth of those faire eyes The light of iudgement can arise but new And yong the world appeares t'a yong conceit Whilst thorow th'vnacquainted faculties The late inuested soule doth rawly view Those Obiects which on that discretion waite Yet you that such a faire aduantage haue Both by your birth and happy powres t'out-go And be before your yeares can fairely guesse What hew