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An oration to the most illustrious and mightie prince Frederick King of Bohemia. Made by Martin Opitius of Silesia. Translated out of Latin; Oratio ad serenissimum ac potentissimum principem Fridericum, Regem Bohemiæ. English
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Opitz, Martin, 1597-1639.
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of sinning Let them wallow in adulterous embracings passe ouer the nights in Lasciuiousnes and their dayes in Gluttony You are wholy Sobriety and Continence Needes must these vertues be in the height of excellence that doe issue from a Fountaine so cleere so mudlesse so pure To these may bee added your ardent loue to Learning and Knowledge which how much you doe esteeme so many learned men about you doe abundantly testifie That I say nothing of that Sanctuarie of Learning your Librarie of admired greatnesse which you are not onely content to maintayne but doe also as a new Philadelphus daily adde vnto it and adorne it Neither doe I touch your skill in diuers Languages diuers of which you speake with that facility that euery on seems to be your Natiue Tongue Herein you are farre more fortunate then Alexander who when hee had subdued so many Nations did scarce vnderstand the Tongue of any one of them And let these suffice as a small taste taken out of the infinite ranke of your Vertues wee will leaue the true commendation of them to such whose abilitie and assurednesse in speaking is bounded within the same limits with your eternall praise which praise if Marbles and Books were not too hard your selfe haue engrauen with the golden Chesill of Loue in the most inward affections of your Countrymen These Eies of mine are witnesses how old and young men aswell as women followed you departing from them out of your Pallatinate with a sad gladnesse In such strange manner did the publike safetie and priuate Orbitie set ioy and sorrow to fight together with diuers affections One would haue thought that euery man in the Countrey had beene depriued of his Parent You were not yet gone away most desired Prince and yet we did desire your return Neckar the gentlest of all Riuers seemed as in times past to the Romans so now to it selfe barbarous Euen this Heroick Seate of thine these Temples these Towers followed after their Sun in a mournfull manner That I speake not of men whose infinite multitude powred out it selfe in euery place where you came in the very vast Wildernesse and yet euery one thought himself to be sorsaken when you left them sighes and teares stroue to breake out in abundance And whereas in bodie not very many of those multitudes did follow you yet all with heart and prayers for otherwise they might not did attend you departing from them And did not your Wife the Heire of the Name and Vertues of that euer renowned Queene great Elizabeth seeme now againe to her selfe to leaue Brittaine onely glad in this that it was with you How had Rednesse the Painter of cheekes dyed her face more then ordinary Milke white how had a pious shower of teares violated her eyes cleerer then the Stars shining wi thout the Moone sighes gaue the farewell because words sufficed not And for your selfe I cannot say whether greater Piety perswaded your stay or your iourney You left your Mother that Princesse of highest birth who is yet higher then her birth for that shee hath borne you You left your children that is to say a great part of your heart you left your Subiects euery of which could wish to liue and die with you You went from peace to Warre from Acquaintance to Strangers from the most peaceable Shore of Rheine to Mulda whose streames were swelled with the bloud of the Inhabitants from Vineyards and a Garden of admirable beautie to Fields stayned with the Robberies of sauage Murtherers and couered with the carkasses of the slaine from a most pleasant Castle to a vast yet desolate and despoyled Place An vnhappy change saue that thereby you bring with you splendor to the Place a perpetuall spring to the Fields tranquillitie to Mulda a friend to strangers and peace to men in Armes You come then into this Scene into this most intricate Tragedie as a very God out of the Engine Pietie hath ouercome this bard iourney the loue of vs hath ouercome the sharpe and high Mountaines of Bohemia within which Nature hath entrenched it Your Clemencie hath ouercome the Inclemencie of the place with much better luck then Hannibal the brauest of Commanders who in old time passed his Armie ouer the tops of the high Alpes thorough the Cloudes that seemed to touch Heauen For at the sight of him all Italie trembled as at the falling of a Thunderbolt But by your comming the Tempest is appeased the winde are layed all things are become calme and cleare Hee brought with him Troupes of Souldiers that he might cut vp the Romans but you come attended with Troups for our preseruation He had sharpned his Sword against the Citie but your back doth blunt the Swords of our Enemies Sauage and sworne hatred opened the way to him but incredible loue laies it open to you He seemed to be borne to the murder of men and the wasting of Cities but you are borne to the infinite good of the Common-wealth His approch to the gates raysed feare and horrour You they would be glad to beare in their very eyes into the Throne of so many Emperers and Kings Him the fearefull Mothers Children Virgines women and men ranne away from You they come out to meet in Triumph His presence all did detest with mourning and pittifull yellings yours they doe celebrate with gladnesse and great reioycing They that haue ouer-liued their former sorrow are now scarce able to beare their present ioy I doe also verily beleeue that if there be left in dead men any sence of things on earth that the ghosts of those men that haue sacrificed their heart bloud to the publique libertie are now replenished with vnspeakable ioy and doe thinke that they haue spent their liues to good purpose O braue King this is not enough O King worthy of the Empire of the whole World worthy of the fauour worthy also of the admiration of thy very Enemies O thou pious Prince whom not our felicitie and prosperitie but the hardnesse of our fortune the wounds engrauen in our bodies with the Swords of our Enemies hath sollicited to accept our Diadem O most happy you not because you haue already subdued the whole furie of our Enemies but because you seeme to deserue happinesse for vs all O happy day that brought you forth into the World and first designed you vnto this Kingdome Which birth day of so great a Prince beginnes to bee vnto vs also another birth day which hath brough forth so diuine a Mansion for Vertue and did also consecrate it to the whole Christian World All Haile O Lord For we haue not cast off Rule but outrage and crueltie ruling ouer vs. Wee can well enough obey but we cannot beare Tyranny we will serue thee that we may be freed All haile O King all haile O Father of our Countrey All haile thou Darling and Minion of Mankind For thee O Illustrious Honour of our Age for thy safetie doe we pray