is in simplicitie and perfection one but the Devil neither dwelling in this Center nor sitting in this Circle is carried in duallitie nay contrariety of numbers opposing evil against good whose Cēter being falshood the circumference cannot be truth his is a kingdome divided and must fal being not a Monarchie it cannot stand And yet we reiect not the number of two so they continue persist in vnion as it is written they shall be two in one flesh but reprobate is that duallitie that maketh war in peace begetting and ingendring diuision and contrarietie controuersie and confusion and either of ambition senslesnes hatred quarrel open discorde or rebellion doth hinder that sweete Harmony of vnion most pleasing to God and most profitable for men of whom saith Tacitus In publicum exitiosi nihil spei nisi per discordias habent tamen libert as praeciosa nomina praetexuntur But do we not see by this vnfolding of things how the perpetual course of trueth and vnitie throughout al in the world doth euen now conduct and lead me by the hand to the matter now in hand And verily I wil follow thee sacred vnion whither soeuer thou leadest me into what soeuer Region of vertue thou intendest I wil not leaue thee being never vnlike thy selfe alwaies wel accompanied adorned and beautified with diversitie of things and never alone and yet stil but one It is thy doing that Prudence the chiefe head and governour of vertues the rule and direction of al wel doings and prescribing to every vertuous action the manner order and course of doing wel doth so knit and ioine togither al moral vertues as that by thy secret influence they al may be found iointly in al wife Subiectes and in everie one particulerly with one heart to performe that duety which both yeeldeth right to the king and maintaineth peace and loue among men Siquidem communis vitae societas in vnione consistit And seeing it hath pleased his Maiesty by publique proclamation to assume the name and stile of King of Great Brittaine iure haereditario it is meete that al loving Subiects not only acknovvledge the clearenesse of his right but ioyfully applaude and cheerefully follow him herein least murmuring they like evil and base minded souldiers follow their Emperor with an evil wil according to that saying malus miles imperatorem Senec. sequitur gemens We see some noble men yea the gentlemen in our State daily to purchase vnite Land to Land and Lordship vpō Lordship to seeke by al meanes to shake of the Tenure in Capite and to hold al their Lands in some other one more free Tenure And it cannot bee denied that to al their several Courts al Tenants and free holders willingly performe their several services or els are fined by the Lord of the Mannor or by his Steward And may the inferiour Lord expect more homage from a Tenant then a King require both of Lordes and Tenants al Subiects to him and holding al they haue from Tac. 1. Hist by and vnder him pacis interest omnem potestatem ad vnum referri But al gaine-sayers murmurers qui contumaciam potius cum pernicie quā obsequium cum securitate malunt are not vnlike Mesech and Kedar spoken of in the Psalme in respect of whom the good King complained to God and to himselfe saying woe that I dwel with Mesech and Kedar I labour for peace and they prepare them to battell I studdy vnion and they Liv. 1. Dec. 2. lib. striue to make division Non placeo concordiae author said that good Valerius But alas why should Ephraim beare evill vvillto Iuda or Iuda vex Ephraim fratres'enimsumus should not they rather both togither vnited nowe into the name of Esa 11. Britaines as into the name of the beloued Israel of God flee vpon the shoulders of the Philistines and make spoile of their enemies so that the Idumites Moabites and Ammonites euen al their enemies might be subdued vnto them Duo enim sunt quibus omnis respub servatur in hostes fortitudo domi concordia And verily the vniting the two kingdomes into the name of Brittaine is not vnlike that chariot drawne with two horsemen Es 21. mentioned in Esay at sight whereof the watch-man cried Babilon is fallen Babilon is fallen all the images of her Gods are smitten down to the ground For so ' except we wil smother the childe of Vnion in his first birth both English Scottish wil soone heare him sound alow de into the whole world that al great Brittaine is like Ierusalem which is as a cittie at vnitie within it selfe and Babilon even divisiō disorder discord and confusion are confounded and overthrown and what King Egbert did write in Sand King Iames hath blotted out and troden vnder foote al the dishonour thereof and engraven as in a marble Srone the perpetual honor of great Brittaine by Royal restitution This verily commeth of the Lord of hosts which worketh with wonderfull wisedome and bringeth excellent thinges to passe Alexander asked King Porus his captiue how he would be entertained Porus answered like a King Alexander demaundeth againe Porus answereth againe in Kingly manner Alexander asketh what els Porus answereth nothing else for in this kingly manner euery thing els is cōtained And though God be praised for it the cause be not betweene English and Scottish in Conquest aud captivity as betweene Alexander and Porus but two famous kingdomes in right of bloud vnder one mighty Monarch yet our great Alexander in his high wisdome considering how these two might best bee governed hath in his owne roial heart best resolued it namely by vniting them into one Monarchie into one government and into one name and if any demaunde how els verily he must be answered no way else for in this vnion whatsoeuer else is contained Nā in istoc sunt omnia euen as the Stoiks who I thinke neither were in iest nor arrogantly conceited contained vnder Prudence both iustice and fortitude and temperance and whatsoever vertue els accounting also him who was perfectly wise an Orator a Poet a rich man a very King and an Emperour All blessings and graces may be thought attendants and companions to vnion who alone knoweth how to order al things in government and is a princely commander of Subiects obedience and subduer of gainsaiers ordering vnrulie affections bridling vntamed lustes restraining swelling pride composing rebellious appetites determining al doubts rights within the compasse of her iudgement and yet giving to euerie one his due by her discretion And therefore is like the Sunne in the middest of heauen among the Stars and as the Stars take light of the Sun so al blessings of Weale publique proceede from this sacred thrice happy vnion into the name of great Brittaine whose glorious light shineth to all and every one hath comfort thereby It is also not vnlike the Soule in the body of man for
in the whole common Weale it is wholly and in every part thereof whither it be of English or Scottish entire Tota in toto tota in qualibet parte As a shining light it sheweth a way for common good and as a reasonable soule giveth vnderstanding to the blindest body to see the full fruition of al worldly happinesse let no man shut his eies against the Sun nor refuse a living soule for his Carcas If I could expresse the image of this vnion in liuely colours I would surely make her a Goddes faire and beautiful having a garland crowne of al blessings vpō her head sitting in a Chaire of State with al good fortunes vertues and graces attending her and as a Goddes in triumphant chariot going into the capitol or temple of mighty Iupiter where also the Poets haue found her but called by another name even Pallas who is also named Monas that is vnitie because having Macrob. one only parent shee resideth in Iupiters braine even in the chiefe seate of his wisedome where al the Muses are her companions so called Musae quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is altogither in one where al the Graces go hand in hand congratulating to vnion their mutual societie where al vertue and knowledge are neere of affinitie but Iustice and government of cōsanguinity to her her selfe stil holding primacy over al as England Scotland are cheerefully looking one towards the other in the name of great Brittaine as the two Cherubins did looke one towards the other in one propitiatory And thy royal state ô great Ezech. 28. Brittaine is as the annointed Cherub And as in the hart of man is placed fortitude in his liver temperance and in his minde Iustice yet al these with al other vertues are annexed to Prudence the common ligament of al so is great Brittaine by vniting al his kingdomes principalities countries and honours the compleate proportioned forme of al and al in it both vniversally and particulerly are fashioned and made fit on every side for happy coniunction and mutual correspondence For this renowned name of great Brittaine standeth in steede of a Loadstone drawing al into one chaining them togither with links of loue as Lisippus made an image of fowre mettals mixed togither gold silver brasse and yron expressing hereby absolute perfection of vertue putting in gold to signifie Prudence silver Iustice brasse Fortitude and yron Temperance whereof they are altogither ignorant as if they had never seene vertue so much as painted who to overthrow vniō in the name of great Brittaine bring no vnion of vertues euen excellencies of many Countries to this so excellent worke But skilful Zeuxes going about to depaint an absolute worke of a perfit virgin tooke not onlie view of one womans beautie but had varietie of many the fairest to accomplish out of al these a more excellent and consummate forme of bodie Shal we not thinke the kingdome of Fraunce containing Pickardy Normandie the I le of France Champaigne Averne Dalphenie Bry Bloys Turin the Dutchie of Aniow Xantoin Burgundie and vniting to it little Brittaine to be more glorious in al these being made one then if but one only of al these were that kingdome Doe we not see that the enlarging of the dominions of Spaine in vniting and establishing diverse kingdomes and territories as those of Aragon Castile and that of Portugal with others hath so enlarged that kingdome as that the like hath not befallen other Christian Potentates Hath not the King of Denmarke beside the Cimbrian Chersonese where Holsatia Theutomartia the Dukedome of Sletia Flensburgh Friesland and Iuthland doe lie other spacious Ilands fifteene in number all comprehended vnder the name Denmarke and vnited to that Crowne Did not Iagello taking to wife in the year 1380. the princes Hedingee the last of the blud Royal of Polonia after he was installed king there vnite al his owne principalities of Lithuania and Samotgathia Provinces of Russia to the kingdome and Esth 1. Crowne of Poland Did not Ahasuerus raigne from India to Ethiopia over an hundred twenty and seaven diuerse Provinces And was not he so mightie by reason of this varietie subiected and vnited to his sole government that hee was an hundreth and fowrescore daies shewing the riches and glorie of his Greatnesse to al his Princes and to the mightie men of Persia Media But to take example of one only Rome for all How hath it beene renowned through the whole world by ioyning al the nations of the world into one euen to it selfe Herehence it was called terrarum dea gentiumque Roma communis patria mundi compendium Omnia Romanae cedant miracula terrae Propertius Natura hîc posuit quicquid in orbe fuit But the Maiestie of this Empire grew so great by adioining other nations and bringing them all into one Haec est in gremium quae victos sola recepit Humanumque genus communi nomine fovit Matris non dominaeritu civesque vocavit Quos domuit nexuque pio longinqua revinxit And againe Fecisti patriam diversis gentibus vnam Dumque offers victis proprij consortia iuris Vrbem fecisti quod prius orbis erat And so may wee say of this renowned name of great Brittaine comprehending vs all of diverse nations in one vnder our gracious King Huius pacificis debemus moribus omnes Quod cuncti gens vna sumus I could set forth and confirme by sundry examples this vniting of many into one and thereby shew that the enlarging of dominion consisteth in vniting altogither into one name and establishing diverse Territories vnder one Soveraignetie and government and that the greater states and Imperial powers of larger extent and far spreading domination are the more durable Arist Pol. and that the Monarchie of great Brittaine is like to be hereafter of more durance strength honor as partly comming vnder our Kings government without conquest or constraint nam errat longè mea quidem sententia qui credat imperium stabilius aut firmius quod vi adiungitur quam quod facilitate clementia so now especially it beeing vnited in the whole then heretofore divided in parts his contexture being of a greater frame thē before holding by more then one naile and vp-holding it s own greatnes even as great buildings endure and subsist by their owne weight as the Poet speaketh Pondere tuta suo est But I thinke it here as needeful to lay open that great fault imputed to Constantine dividing the Empire among his Children whereby of one Empire hee made three and withal a memorable diminution of his authoritie and forces which part Brutus also played dividing this whole Empire of great Brittaine among his three Sonnes of which though two parts afterward namely England Wales were againe in good time vnited yet Scotland stood till now divided from the rest the rest from it till God in special goodnes nowe restored to
hurt can be wished to our enemies then to be disvnited among themselues and if they will not be at one with vs that they may bee at oddes betweene themselues mane at quaeso duretque gentibus si non amor nostri at certe odium sui Quando nihiliam praestare fortuna maius potest quam hostium discordiam And nowe farther to enforce this vnion into both nations the rather because we are both alike vnder one head and governour hath not his Maiestie two eies to respect both kingdoms two eares to heare a like the cause of both two shoulders to beare alike the burden and care of both two hands to distribute honours alike to both two feete to goe one before the other yet both alike to support but one body The inequalitie only is if we are not alike duetifull and thankeful neither doe we as the Apostle Rom. 12. exhorteth carrie like mindes one towardes another nor make our selues in our owne conceipts equal to them of the lower sorte And where Xenophon calleth Magistrates and mighty men the kings eies the kings ears the kings shoulders yea also his hands and his feete it is not thereby meant that they should thinke they also had two eies to envie one the other two eares to listen after advantages or offenses one against the other two shoulders to shoue at and shoulder out one the other two feete to outrunne and preuent one the other to hands two catch snatch one from the other or to carrie fire in one hand and water in the other or to builde with the one and to pull downe with the other or with the one to offer a guift and with the other a stab altera manu panem altera lapidem but that their eies eares shoulders feete and hands are or should be mutuall helpers one to the other for the common good and publique service of the whole State And I perswade my selfe that all Magistrates vnder his Maiestie of the one or other nation vnited now in one common name of Brittaines will for publique Administration of the common Weale so see with their eies heare with their eares beare vp the head with their shoulders and walke vprightly having pure and cleane handes that as the fingers in the hande are distinctly divided and yet doe clap and claspe themselues togither for more strength so all of commande and in authority within great Brittaine though they haue distinct offices yet will so concurre and agree togither that though there appeare among Aug. de Chatizandisrudibus them and their distinct publique services as in digitis divisio it shall not bee ab vnitate praecisio And verily the two kingdomes are like tvvo handes warming and enfolding each other continuing two yet in one bodie vvhere if the right hand challendge more necessarie vse and service in the bodie then the left or the left hande more then the right one not readyly yeeld to ioine with the other as is meete the head may in his good pleasure make choice and vse of either as in the Romane Storie when Tribunes Liv. 1. Dec 4. lib disagreed for chiefest honour Quintus Servilius Consul of much lesse dignitie and authoritie then a king tooke the matter into his own hands saying patria maiest as altercationem istam dirimet Here Prudence among Subiectes hath neede intermeddle with all other vertues and shew the power of vnion in her selfe where Iustice demaundeth righte fortitude tollerateth what ought be borne temperance reformeth wil subdueth anger moderateth passion and represseth ambition and al in vnitie of obedience coupled togither bring forth plentiful fruit for societie honour and ioy Which thing wel pleased Marcus Furius Camillus Dictator of Rome seeing all the Senate and Subiects of Rome not only accorde in the common execution of each office for common good of al but willingly and lovingly both highest and meanest to embrace one the other saying that the common Weale was flourishing Liv. 1. Dec. 6. lib and most happie sitales viros in magistratu habeat tam concordibus iunctos animis parere atque imperare iuxtaparates laudemque conferentes potius in medium quam excommuni ad se trahentes whereof the Senate Consuls and Tribunes gaue testimonie and good proofe vvhen they all submitted all authorie to Camillus perswaded in themselues nec quicquam de maiest ate sua detractum quod maie statieius viri concessissent In Brittaines vniō England may not exalt it selfe aboue Scotland nor Scotland striue against England but both as mēbers of one body vnder one head ought to haue the same care one for the other as if one member suffer all suffer with it and if one be honoured all the members reioice with and as in the church so in the common Weale one is my doue one is my darling shee is the onely beloved of her mother deere to her that bare her so I know there are diversities of guifts and differences of administrations and diverse manners of operations in both and God hath set the members of the whole body everie one of them several in the body as it hath pleased him but omnia ab vno ad vnum All from one head and to one ende He that is wise will consider this Qui Aug. de cōsensu evāg vero curiosiores sunt quam capaciores quaedam magis contentiosè obiectanda quà m prudenter consideranda esse arbitrantur And nowe seeing I haue waded so farre in the vnion of Brittaines English may not mislike that Scottish beare office among and with them as if they were of a farre Countrey hunting after others Treasures serving the king of Babilon and not as the same Subiects to Hezechias for they are of and for England as we and wee of and for Scotland as they and both for both being made one Nay rather we ought desire their society reioice in this community setting before our eies for example that saying of Austin of the communiō of Saints made fellow heires with Christ through the mercie of our good God Deus cum haberet vnicum noluit esse vnum sed habere fratres And if in humane matters humane examples more mooue remembring that Scipio was as glad of his Brothers preferment as of his owne and that Castor would not be a God without his brother Pollux but would be only Semideus that his brother might partake with him as Aug. de bo no viduit is wel said habent oculi in corpore magnum honorem sedminorem haberent si soli essent Tac. 11. An. In the time of Claudeus the Emperor when it was consulted that the Senate should be supplyed with more Senatours the Peires and Nobles of France long before enfranchised free denisons of Rome sought also to participate in honours magistracies and dignities with Romanes and the matter beeing handled on both sides with greate consideration the Romanes alleadged against the French that Italie wanted no sufficient men