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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) + +Author: John Evelyn + +Editor: Geoffrey Keynes + +Release Date: February 23, 2006 [EBook #17833] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK APOLOGIE, THE ROYAL PARTY (1659) *** + + + + +Produced by David Starner, Louise Pryor and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +{Transcriber's notes: + +All material added by the transcriber is surrounded by braces {}. + +The original has many inconsistent spellings. A few corrections have +been made for obvious typographical errors; they have been noted +individually at the end of the text. Some words are unclear; they have +also been noted. + +The caret character (^) indicates that the remainder of the word is +superscripted. The word Tyranny (Tyrannie, Tyrannies) is sometimes spelled +with only one 'n', the other being denoted by a diacritical mark. The +spelling has been regularised to 'nn'. + +The original contains some handwritten corrections and additions (see the +Introduction for details). They are represented [HW: like this]. + +Sidenotes are represented [SN: like this]. } + + + + +The Augustan Reprint Society + + +John Evelyn +_An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); and +_A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661) + + +With an Introduction by +Geoffrey Keynes + + +Publication Number 28 + + +Los Angeles +William Andrews Clark Memorial Library +University of California +1951 + + + + +_GENERAL EDITORS_ + +H. RICHARD ARCHER, _Clark Memorial Library_ +RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_ +EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_ +JOHN LOFTIS, _University of California, Los Angeles_ + + +_ASSISTANT EDITOR_ + +W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_ + + +_ADVISORY EDITORS_ + +EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_ +BENJAMIN BOYCE, _Duke University_ +LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_ +CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_ +JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_ +ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_ +LOUIS A. LANDA, _Princeton University_ +SAMUEL H. MONK, _university Of Minnesota_ +ERNEST MOSSNER, _University of Texas_ +JAMES SUTHERLAND, _Queen Mary College, London_ +H. T. SWEDENBERG, JR., _University of California, Los Angeles_ + + + + +INTRODUCTION + +On October 24, 1659, a quarto pamphlet was published in London with the +following title: "The Army's Plea for Their present Practice: tendered to +the consideration of all ingenuous and impartial men. Printed and +published by special command. London, Printed by Henry Hills, Printer to +the Army, dwelling in Aldersgate Street next door to the Peacock. 1659". +Three days afterwards, on October 27, John Evelyn had finished writing an +answer, which was published a week later, on November 4, under the title: +"An Apologie for the Royal Party ... With a Touch At the pretended Plea +for the Army. Anno Dom. MDCLIX". No author's name, printer or place was +given. Evelyn afterwards made the note in his Diary under the date +November 7, 1659, that is, three days after the actual publication: "Was +publish'd my bold Apologie for the King in His time of danger, when it was +capital to speak or write in favour of him. It was twice printed, so +universaly it took."[1] Evelyn was by conviction an ardent royalist, but +by temperament he was peaceable, and the publication of this pamphlet was +a courageous act on his part, involving considerable risks. + +The _Apologie for the Royal Party_ contains an eloquent and outspoken +attack upon the parliamentary party, the depth of the author's feelings +making his style of writing more effective than it usually was. + +Events were at this date nearing their climax, and Evelyn, soon after the +publication of his pamphlet, made persistent attempts to induce Colonel +Henry Morley, then Lieutenant of the Tower of London, to declare for the +King. In the edition of Baker's _Chronicle of the Kings of England_, +edited by Edward Phillips, 1665, is given the following account of the +negotiations (p. 736): "Mr. Evelyn gave him [Col. Morley] some visits to +attemper his affection by degrees to a confidence in him, & then by +consequence to ingage him in his designes; and to induce him the more +powerfully thereunto, he put into his hands an excellent and unanswerable +hardy treatise by him written and severall times reprinted, intituled _An +Apology for the Royall Party_, which he backed with so good Argument and +dextrous Addresses in the prosecution of them, that, after some private +discourse, the Colonel was so well inclin'd, as to recommend to him the +procurement of his Majestie's Grace for him, his Brother-in-law Mr. Fagg, +and one or two more of his Relations". Phillips added an account of a +letter written by Evelyn to Colonel Morley, and gave him great credit for +the influence which he exerted, though Evelyn endorsed a draft of the +narrative with a statement saying there "was too much said concerning me". +Nevertheless part of the narrative was confirmed by Evelyn when he wrote +on the title-page of the copy of the pamphlet here reproduced: "Delivered +to Coll. Morley a few daies after his contest w^th Lambert in the palace +yard by J. Evelyn". The "contest" with General Lambert took place on +October 12 or 13 when Morley, pistol in hand, refused to allow him at the +head of his troops to pass through the Palace Yard. + +Evelyn also wrote on the title-page of this copy of his pamphlet "three +tymes printed". In fact there were four printings, all described in the +writer's _John Evelyn, a Study in Bibliophily & a Bibliography of his +Writings_, New York, The Grolier Club, 1937, the one here reproduced being +the fourth and final form. Nevertheless all four issues are now extremely +scarce, the first printing being known in three copies (one in the United +States), the second in seven (two in the United States), the third in one, +and the fourth in one. This apparently unique relic of Evelyn's bold +gesture on behalf of his King is in the writer's possession and is still +as issued, edges untrimmed and with its eight leaves stitched in a +contemporary paper wrapper. It has been reprinted only in Evelyn's +_Miscellaneous Writings_, 1825, pp. 169-192. + + * * * * * + +When Charles II actually returned to England in 1660 Evelyn's feelings +were deeply stirred. He had played some part in the restoration of the +monarchy, and, with his literary instinct, naturally felt impelled to be +among those who wished to present the King with an address on the day of +his Coronation. This took place on April 23, 1661, and on the following +day Evelyn recorded in his Diary: "I presented his Ma^tie with his +Panegyric in the Private Chamber, which he was pleas'd to accept most +graciously: I gave copies to the Lord Chancellor and most of the noblemen +who came to me for it."[2] Evelyn's _Panegyric_ was thus distributed +privately and no doubt in small number, so that it is today extremely +uncommon, being known only in five copies, not more than one of which is +in the United States of America. Evelyn possessed a copy in 1687 according +to his library catalogue compiled in that year, and a copy (not +necessarily the same one) is now among his books in the library of Christ +Church, Oxford, but it seems to have been unknown in 1825 and was not +included in the _Miscellaneous Writings_. William Upcott, the editor, in +fact erroneously identified the _Panegyric_ with the anonymous piece in +folio: "A Poem upon his Majesties Coronation ... Being S^t Georges day ... +London, Printed for Gabriel Bedel and Thomas Collins ... 1661". This +mistake was not put right until a copy of the true _Panegyric_ with +Evelyn's name on the title-page was acquired for the British Museum in +1927 from the Britwell Court Library. The copy here reproduced is in the +writer's collection, and has a few corrections in Evelyn's hand: (a) +_XXXIII. of April_, on title-page corrected to _XXIII_; (b) p.6. l.18 +_Family_ altered to _Firmament_; (c) p.8. l.16 from bottom _suffer_ +altered to _surfeit_. + +When the _Panegyric_ was identified it was realised that it was not a +poem, but an eloquent and extravagant composition in prose, in which +Evelyn invested Charles II with every conceivable virtue and all wisdom. +This was no doubt written with sincere enthusiasm, though Evelyn suffered +a profound disillusionment in later years; and if he ever read his +effusion again it must have caused him some distress. The _Panegyric_ is +now reprinted for the first time. + +Geoffrey Keynes + + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] Evelyn's _Diary_, ed. Wheatley, vol. II, p. 108. + +[2] Evelyn's _Diary_, ed. Wheatley, vol. II, p. 130. + + + + +AN +A P O L O G Y +FOR THE +ROYAL PARTY: +Written in a +L E T T E R +To a Person of the Late +COUNCEL of STATE. + + * * * * * + +_By a Lover of Peace and of his Country._ + + * * * * * + +WITH +A T O U C H +At the Pretended +PLEA FOR THE ARMY. + +[HW: three tymes printed.] + + * * * * * + +[HW: Delivered to Coll: Morley, a few daies +after his contest w^th Lambert in the +Palace Yard: by J. Evelyn:] + + * * * * * + +_Anno Dom. MDCLIX._ + + + + +AN +A P O L O G I E +FOR THE +R O Y A L P A R T Y: +Written in a LETTER to a Person of the late +_COUNCEL_ of _STATE_, +By a Lover of Peace and of his Countrey: +With a Touch at the _pretended Plea_ for the Army. + +_SIR_, + +The many Civilities which you are still pleased to continue to me, and my +very great desire to answer them in the worthiest testimonies of my zeal +for your service, must make my best Apology for this manner of Addresse; +if out of an extream affection for your noblest Interest, I seem +transported a little upon your first reflections, and am made to despise +the consequence of entertaining you with such Truths, as are of the +greatest danger to my self; but of no less import to your happiness, and, +which carry with them the most indelible Characters of my Friendship. For +if as the Apostle affirms, _For a good man, some would even dare to dy_, +why should my Charity be prejudged, if hoping to convert you from the +errour of your way, I despair not of rendring you the Person for whose +preservation there will be nothing too dear for me to expose? + +I might with reason beleeve that the first election of the Party wherein +you stood engaged, proceeded from inexperience and the mistake of your +zeal; not to say from your compliance to the passions of others; because I +both knew your education, and how obsequious you have alwayes shewed your +self to those who had then the direction of you: But, when after the +example of their conversion, upon discovery of the Impostures which +perverted them; and the signal indignation of God, upon the several +periods which your eyes have lately beheld, of the bloudiest Tyrannies, +and most prodigious oppressors that ever any age of the world produc'd, I +see you still persist in your course, and that you have turn'd about with +every revolution which has hapned: when I consider, what contradictions +you have swallowed, how deeply you have ingaged, how servilely you have +flatter'd, and the base and mean submissions by which you have +dishonour'd your self, and stained your noble Family; not to mention the +least refinement of your religion or morality (besides that you have still +preserved a civility for me, who am ready to acknowledge it, and never +merited other from you) I say, when I seriously reflect upon all this; I +cannot but suspect the integrity of your procedure, deplore the sadness of +your condition, and resolve to attempt the discovery of it to you; by all +the instances, which an affection perfectly touch't with a zeal for your +eternall interest can produce. And who can tell, but it may please +Almighty God, to affect _you_ yet by a weak instrument, who have resisted +so many powerfull indications of his displeasure at your proceedings, by +the event of things? + +For, since you are apt to recriminate, and after you have boasted of the +prosperity or your cause, and the thriving of your Wickedness (an Argument +farr better becoming a _Mahumetan_ then a _Christian_) let us state the +matter a little, and compare particulars together; let us go back to the +source, and search the very principles; and then see, if ever any cause +had like success indeed; and whether it be a just reproach to your +Enemies, that the judgments of God have begun with them, whilst you know +not yet, where they may determine. + +First then, be pleased to look North-wards upon your Brethren the Scots, +who (being first instigated by that crafty _Cardinal_ [SN: Richlieu] to +disturb the groth of the incomparable _Church of England_, and so +consequently the tranquility of a Nation, whose expedition at the Isle of +_Ree_, gave terrour to the French) made Reformation their pretence, to +gratifie their own avarice, introduce themselves, and a more then +_Babylonish_ Tyranny, imposing upon the Church and state, beyond all +impudence or example. _I_ say, look upon what they have gotten, by +deceiving their Brethren, selling their King, betraying his Son, and by +all their perfidie; but a slavery more then _Egyptian_, and an infamy as +unparallel'd, as their treason and ingratitude. + +Look neerer home on those whom they had ingaged amongst us here, & tell me +if there be a Person of them left, that can shew me his prize, unless it +be that of his Sacriledg, which he, or his Nephews must certainly vomite +up again: What is become of this ignorant and furious zeal, this pretence +of an universall perfection in the Religious and the Secular, after all +that Blood and Treasure, Rapine and Injustice, which has been exhausted, +and perpetrated by these Sons of Thunder? Where is the King, whom they +swear to make so glorious, but meant it in his _Martyrdome_? Where is the +Classis, and the Assembly, the Lay-elder; all that geare of Scottish +discipline, and the fine new Trinkets of Reformation? Were not all these +taken out of their hand, while now they were in the height of their pride +and triumph? And their dull Generall made to serve the execution of their +Sovereign, and then to be turn'd off himself, as a property no more of use +to their designes? Their riches and their strength in which they trusted, +and the Parliament which they even idoliz'd, in sum, the prey they had +contended for at the expence of so much sin and damnation, seizd upon by +those very instruments, which they had rais'd to serve their insatiable +avarice, and prodigious disloyalty. For so it pleased God to chastise +their implacable persecution of an excellent Prince, with a slavery under +such a _Tyrant_, as not being contented to butcher even some upon the +Scaffold, sold divers of them for slaves, and others he exild into cruell +banishment, without pretence of Law, or the least commiseration; that +those who before had no mercy on others, might find none themselves; till +upon some hope of their repentance, and future moderation, it pleased God +to put his hook into the nostrills of that proud _Leviathan_, and send him +to his place, after he had thus mortified the fury of the Presbyterians. +For unlesse God himself should utter his voice from Heaven, _yea, and that +a mighty voice_, can there any thing in the world be more evident, then +his indignation at those wretches and barefac't Impostors, who, one after +another, usurped upon us, taking them off at the very point of aspiring, +and praecipitating the glory and ambition of these men, before those that +were, but now, their adorers, and that had prostituted their consciences +to serve their lusts? To call him the _Moses_, the _Man of God_, the +_Joshua_, the _Saviour_ of _Israel_; and after all this, to treat the +_Thing_ his son with addresses no lesse then blasphemous, whose Father (as +themselves confess to be the most infamous Hypocrite and profligate +Atheist of all the Usurpers that ever any age produc'd) had made them his +Vassalls, and would have intaild them so to his posterity for ever? + +But behold the scean is again changed, not by the Royall party, the Common +Enemy, or a forreign power; but by the despicable _Rumpe_ of a Parliament, +which that _Mountebanke_ had formerly serv'd himself of, and had rais'd +him to that pitch, and investiture: But see withall, how soon these +triflers and puppets of policy are blown away, with all their pack of +modells and childish _Chimaeras_, nothing remaining of them but their +Coffine, guarded by the Souldiers at Westminster; but which is yet lesse +empty then the heads of those Polititians, which so lately seemed to fill +it. + +For the rest, I despise to blot paper with a recitall of those wretched +_Interludes, Farces and Fantasms_, which appear'd in the severall +intervalls; because they were nothing but the effects of an extream +gyddiness, and unparallel'd levity. Yet these are those various +despensations and providences in your journey to that _holy land_ of +purchases and profits, to which you have from time to time appeal'd for +the justification of your proceedings, whilst they were, indeed, no other +then the manifest judgments of God upon your rebellion and your ambition: +I say nothing of your hypocriticall fasts, and pretended humiliations, +previous to the succeeding plots, and supposititious Revelations, that +_the godly might fall into the hands of your Captains_, because they were +bugbears, and became ridiculous even to the common people. + +And now _Sr._ if you please, let us begin to set down the product and +survey the successe of your party and after all these faces and vertigo's +tell me ingenuously, if the single chastisment which is fallen upon one +afflicted man, and his loyall subjects, distressed by the common event of +war, want of treasure, the seizure of his Fleet, forcing him from his +City, and all the disadvantages that a perfidious people could imagine; +but in fine the crowning him with a glorious _Martyrdome_ for the Church +of God and the liberty of his people (for which his blood doth yet cry +aloud for vengeance) be comparable to the confusion which you (that have +been the conquerours) have suffered, and the slavery which you are like to +leave to the posterities which will be born but to curse you, and to groan +under the pressures which you bequeath to your own flesh & blood? For to +what a condition you have already reduced this once flourishing kingdom, +since all has been your own, let the intolerable oppressions, taxes, +Excises, sequestrations confiscations, plunders, customes, decimations, +not to mention the plate, even to very thimbles and the bodkins (for even +to these did your avarice descend) and other booties, speak. All this +dissipated and squandred away, to gratifie a few covetous and ambitious +wretches, whose appetites are as deep as hell, and as insatiable as the +grave; as if (as the Wise-man speaks) _our time here were but a market for +gain_. + +Look then into the Churches, and manners of the people, even amongst your +own _Saints_, and tell me, if since _Simon Magus_ was upon the earth, +there were ever heard of so many _Schismes_, and _Heresies_, of _Jewes_ +and _Socinians_, _Quakers_, _Fifth-monarchy-men_, _Arians_, _Anabaptists_, +_Independents_, and a thousand severall forts of _Blasphemies_ and +professed _Atheists_, all of them spawned under your government; and then +tell me what a Reformation of Religion you have effected? + +Was there ever in the whole Earth (not to mention Christendom alone) a +perjury so prodigious, and yet so avowed as that by which you have taken +away the estate of my L. _Craven_, at which the very _Infidels_ would +blush, a _Turke_ or _Sythian_ stand amaz'd? + +Under the Sun was it never heard, that a man should be condemned for +transgressing no law, but that which was made after the fact, and +abrogated after execution; that the Posterities to come might not be +witnesses of your horrid injustice: Yet thus you proceeded against my _L. +Stafford_. How many are those gallant persons whom after articles of war, +you have butchered in cold-blood, violating your promises against the +Lawes of all Nations, civill or barbarous; and yet thus you dealt in the +case of my L. _Capel_, Sr. _J. Stawel_ and others. + +Is not the whole nation become sullen and proud, ignorant and suspicious, +incharitable, curst, and in fine, the most depraved and perfidious under +heaven? And whence does all this proceed, but from the effects of your own +examples, and the impunity of evill doers? + +I need not tell you how long Justice has been sold by the _Committees_, +and the Chair-men, the Sequestrators and Simoniacall Tryers, not to +mention the late Courtiers, and a swarm of _Publicans_ who _have eaten up +the People as if they would eat bread_. + +Will you come now to the particular mis-fortunes, and the evident hand of +God upon you for these actions (for he has not altogether left us without +some expresse witnesses of his displeasure at your doings,) Behold then +your _Essex_ and your _Warwick_, your _Ferfaix_, and your _Waller_, (whom +once your Books stiled the _Lord of Hosts_) Cashiered, Imprisoned, +Suspected and Disgraced after all their Services. _Hotham_, and his _Son_ +came to the block; _Stapleton_ had the buriall of an Asse, and was thrown +into a Town Ditch; _Brookes_ and _Hamden_ signally slain in the very act +of Rebellion and Sacriledge; your atheisticall _Dorislaw_, _Ascam_ and the +Sodomiticall _Ariba_, whom though they escaped the hand of Justice, yet +_Vengeance_ would not suffer to live: What became of _Rainsborough_? +_Ireton_ perished of the Plague, and _Hoyle_ hanged himself; _Staplie_ +'tis said, died mad, and _Cromwell_ in a fit of raging; and if there were +any others worthy the taking notice of, I should give you a list of their +names and of their destinies; but it was not known whence they came which +succeeded them; nor had they left any memory behind them, but for their +signal wickednesses, as he that set on fire the _Ephesian Temple_ to be +recorded a Villain to posterity. Whereas those noble souls whom your +inhumanity, (not your vertue) betrayed, gave proof of their extraction, +Innocency, Religion and Constancy under all their Tryals and Tormentors; +and those that dyed by the sword, fell in the bed of honour, and did +worthily for their Country; their _Loyalty_ and their _Religion_ will be +renowned in the History of Ages, and pretious to their memory, when your +names will rot with your Carkasses, and your remembrance be as dung upon +the face of the Earth. For there is already no place of _Europe_ where +your infamy is not spread; whilst your persecuted brethren rejoyce in +their sufferings, can abound, and can want, blush not at their actions, +nor are ashamed at their addresses; because they have suffered for that +which their Faith and their Birth, their Lawes and their Liberties have +celebrated with the most glorious Inscriptions, and Everlasting Elogies. + +And if fresher instances of all these particulars be required, cast your +eye a little upon the _Armies pretended Plea_, which came lately a birding +to beat the way before them, charm the ears of the Vulgar, and captivate +the people; That after all its _pseudo-politicks_ and irreligious +principles, is at last constrained to acknowledg _your open and prodigious +violations, strange and illegal Actions, (as in termes it confesses) of +taking up Armes, Raising and Forming Armies against the King, fighting +against his Person, Imprisoning, Impeaching, Arraigning, Trying and +Executing Him: Banishing his Children, abolishing Bishops, Deans and +Chapters; taking away Kingly Government, and the House of Lords, breaking +the Crowns, selling the Jewells, Plate, Goods, Houses and Lands belonging +unto the Kings of this Nation, erecting extraordinary High Courts of +Justice, and therein Impeaching, Arraigning, condemning, and Executing +many pretended notorious Enemies, to the publick Peace; when the Lawes in +being, and the Ordinary Courts of Justice could not reach them: By strange +and unknown practises in this Nation, and not at all Justifiable by any +known Lawes and Statutes_, But by certain diabolical principles of late +distilled into some person of the Army, and which he would entitle to the +whole, who (abating some of their Commanders, that have sucked the sweet +of this Doctrine) had them never so much as entred into their thoughts, +nor could they be so depraved, though they were Masters only of the Light +of Nature to direct them. For Common sence will tell them, that whoever +are our lawful Superiours, and invested with the supreame Authority, +either by their own vertue, or the peoples due Election, have then a just +right to challenge submission to their precepts, and that we acquiesce in +their determinations; since there is in nature no other expedient to +preserve us from everlasting confusion: But it is the height of all +impertinency to conceive, that those which are a part of themselves, and +can in so great a Body, have no other interests, should (without the +manifest hand of God were in it to infatuate all your proceedings) fall +into such exorbitant contradiction to their own good, as a child of four +years old would not be guilty of; and as this Pamphleter wildly suggests +in pp. 6. 11. 27, &c. did they steer their course by the known laws of the +Land, and as obedient Subjects should do, who without the King and his +Peers, are but the Carkass of a Parliament, as destitute of the Soul which +should inform and give it being. And if so small a handful of men as +appeared in the Palace-Yard, without consent of a quarter of the English +Army, much lesse the tenthousand'th part of the Free-people that are not +clad in red, shall disturb and alter your Government when it thinks fit to +set aside a few imperious Officers, who plainly seek themselves, and +derive their Commissions from superiours to whom they swear obedience; how +can you ever hope, or live to see any government established in these +miserably abused Nations? Behold then with how weak a party you are +vanquish'd, even by those very instruments you had so long flatter'd with +the title of the _Free-people_; imputing all the direful effects of your +depraved principles to their desires, when as I dare report my self to the +ingenuity of the very Souldiers themselves, if they, who have effected all +these changes by your wretched instigations, and blind pretences, imagine +themselves the People of this Nation, but are{1} a very small portion of +them, compared to the whole, and who are maintained by them to recover, +and protect the Civill Government, according to the Good old Lawes of the +Land; not such as they themselves shall invent from Day to Day, or as the +interests of some few persons may engage them. + +But if the essential end of Rulers be the Common peace, and their Lawes +obliging as they become relative: Restore us then to those under which we +lived with so much sweetness and tranquility, as no age in the World, no +Government under Heaven could ever pretend the like. And if the People (as +you declare) are to be the Judges of it, summon them together in a Free +Parliament, according to its legal Constitution; or make a universal +_Balott_, and then let it appear, if _Collonel Lambert_ and half a dozen +Officers, with all their seduced Partizans, make so much as a single +_Cypher_ to the _Summe Total_. And this shall be enough to answer those +devious Principles set down in the porch of that specious Edifice; which +being erected upon the Sand, will (like the rest that has been _daubed +with untempered mortar_) sink also at the next high wind that blowes upon +it. But I am glad it is at last avowed, upon what pretexts that late +pretended Parliament have pleaded on the behalf of themselves and party, +their discharge from all the former Protestations, Engagements, solemn +Vowes, Covenants, with hands (as you say) lift up to the most high God, as +also their Oaths and Allegiance, &c. because I shall not in this discourse +be charged with slandering of them, and that the whole World may detest +the Actions of such perfidious Infidels, with whom nothing sacred has +remain'd inviolable. + +But there is yet a piece of Artifice behind, of no less consequence then +the former, and that is, a seeking to perswade the present Army, that +_They_ were the men, who first engaged thus solemnly to destroy the +Government under which they were born, and reduce it to this miserable +condition: whereas it is well known by such as converse daily with them, +that there is hardly one of ten amongst them, who was then in Armes; and +that it was the Zelots under _Essex_, and the succeeding Generals, who +were the persons whose perfidiousness{2} he makes so much use of, and that +the present Army consists of a far more ingenuous spirit, and might in one +moment vindicate this aspersion, make their conditions with all advantage, +and these Nations the most happy People upon the Earth, as it cannot be +despaired but they will one day do, when by the goodness of Almighty God, +they shall perfectly discern through the mist which you have cast upon +their eyes, lest they should discover the Imposture of these _Egyptian_ +Sorcerers. + +And now, _Sir_, if after all this injustice, and impiety on your parts, +you have prosecuted that with the extreamest madness, which you esteemed +criminal in your enemies, _viz._ _To arrogate the supream power in a +single person;{3} condemn men without Law; execute, and proscribe them +with as little: Imprest for your Service, violate your Parliaments, +dispense with your solemn Oaths_; in summe, _to mingle Earth and Heaven by +your arbitrary proceedings_: All which, not only your printed books, this +pretended _plea_; but your Actions have abundantly declared; have you not +justified the Royal party, and pronounced them the only honest men which +have appeared upon the stage, in Characters as plain, that he which runs +may read, whilst yet you persecute them to the death? _Therefore, thou +art inexcusable, O Man, that _perpetratest_ these things; For wherein thou +judgest another, thou condemnest thy self, seeing thou that judgest doest +the same things. But thinkest thou this O Man, that thus judgest them +which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the +_vengeance_ of God? I tell ye nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all +likewise perish._ + +Truly, _Sir_, when I compare these things together, and compare them I do +very often, consider the purchases which you have made, and the damnation +you have certainly adventured; the despite you have done to the name of +Christ, the Laws of Common humanity which you have violated, the malice +and the folly of your proceedings; in fine, the confusion which you have +brought upon the Church, the State, and your selves; I adore the just and +righteous judgment of God; and (howsoever you may possibly emerge, and +recover the present rout) had rather be a sufferer among those whom you +have thus afflicted, and thus censure, then to enjoy the pleasures of your +sins for that season you are likely to possess them: For if an Angel from +Heaven should tell me you had done your duties, I would no more believe +him, then if he should preach another Gospel, then that which has been +delivered to us; because you have blasphemed that holy profession, and +done violence to that Gracious Spirit, by whose sacred dictates you are +taught to live in obedience to your Superiours, and in Charity to one +another; covering yet all this _Hydra_ of Impostures with a mask Of Piety +and Reformation, whilst you breath nothing but oppression, and lye in wait +to deceive. But _O God! how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour, +how long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy name, for ever? They gather them +together against the soul of the Righteous, and condemn the innocent +blood. Lo these are the ungodly, these prosper in the World, and these +have riches in possession: And I said, then have I cleansed my heart in +vain, and washed my hands in innocency. Yea, and I had almost said as +they; but lo, then I should have condemned the generation of thy Children. +Then thought I to understand this, but it was too hard for me, untill I +went into the Sanctuary of God; then understood I the end of these Men. +Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places, castest them down and +destroyest them._ + + * * * * * + + _O how suddenly do they consume, perish, and come to a fearfull end!_ + +We have seen it, indeed _Sir_, we have seen it, and we cannot but +acknowledge it the very finger of God, _mirabile in oculis nostris_; and +is that, truly, which even constrains me out of Charity to your Soul, as +well as out of a deep sense of your Honour, and the Friendship which I +otherwise bear you, to beseech you to re-enter into your self, to abandon +those false Principles, to withdraw your self from these Seducers, to +repent of what you have done, _and save your self from this untoward +Generation_: There is yet a door of Repentance open, do not provoke the +Majesty of the great God any longer, which yet tenders a Reconciliation +to you. Remember what was once said over the perishing _Jerusalem_. _How +often would I have gathered you together, as a hen doth gather her brood +under her winge, and ye would not? Behold, your _House_ is left unto you +desolate._--For do not think it impossible, that we should become the most +abandon'd, and barbarous of all the nations under heaven. You know who has +said it: _He turneth a fruitfull land into a Wildernesse, for the iniquity +of them that inhabit therein._ And truly, he that shall seriously consider +the sad _Catastrophe_ of the _Eastern Empire_, so flourishing in piety, +policy, knowledg, literature, and all the excellencies of a happy and +blessed people; would almost think it impossible, that in so few years, +and a midst so glorious a light of learning and Religion, so suddain, and +palpable a darknesse, so strange and horrid a barbarity should over-spread +them, as now we behold in all that goodly tract of the _Turkish_ +dominions: And what was the cause of all this, but the giddinesse of a +wanton people, the Schisms and the Heresies in the church, and the +prosperous successes of a rebellious _Impostor_, whose steps we have +pursued in so many pregnant instances; giving countenance to those unheard +of impieties, and delusions, as if God be not infinitely merciful, must +needs involve us under the same disasters? For, whilst there is no order +in the Church, no body of Religion agreed upon, no government established, +and that every man is abandoned to his own deceitfull heart: whilst +learning is decried, and honesty discountenanc'd, rapine defended, and +vertue finds no advocate; what can we in reason expect, but the most +direfull expressions of the wrath of God, a universall desolation, when by +the industry of _Sathan_ and his crafty Emissaries, some desperate +_enthusiasme_, compounded (like that of _Mohomet_,) of Arian, Socinian, +Jew, Anabaptist, and the impurer _Gnostick_, something I say made up of +all these heresies, shall diffuse it self over the Nation, in a universall +contagion, and nothing lesse appear then the _Christian_ which we have +ingratefully renounced? + +_For this plague is already beginning amongst us, and there is none to +take the Censer, and to stand between the living and the dead, that we be +not consumed as in a moment; for there is wrath gone out from the Lord._ +Let us then _depart from the tents of these wicked men_ (who have brought +all this upon us) _and touch nothing of theirs, lest we be consumed in all +their sins_. + +But you will say, the King is not to be trusted: judg not of others by +your selves; did ever any man observe the least inclination of revenge in +his breast? has he not betides the innate propensity of his own nature to +gentlenesse, the strict injunctions of a dying father and a _Martyr_, to +forgive even greater offenders then you are? Yes, I dare pronounce it with +confidence, and avouch it whith all assurance, that there is not an +individuall amongst you, whose crimes are the most crimson, whom he will +not be most ready to pardon, and graciously receive upon their repentance; +nor any thing that can be desired of him, to which he would not cheerfully +accommode, for the stopping of that torrent of blood, and extream +confusion, which has hitherto run, and is yet imminent over us. Do but +reason a little with your self, and confider sadly, whether a young +Prince, mortified by so many afflictions, disciplin'd by much experience, +and instructed by the miscarriages of others, be not the most excellently +qualified to govern and reduce a people, who have so succeslesly tried so +many governments, of old, impious and crafty Foxes, that have exercised +upon us the most intollerable Tyrannies that were ever heard of? + +But you object further, that he has lived amongst Papists, is vitiously +inclin'd, and has wicked men about him: What can be said more unjustly, +what more malitious? And can _you_ have the foreheads to tell us he has +lived amongst Papists to his prejudice, who have proscrib'd him from +Protestants, persecuted him from place to place, _as a Patridg on the +Mountains_? You may remember who once went to _Achich the King of Gath and +changed his behaviour before them, and fain'd himself mad in their hands_; +had many great infirmities, and _was yet a man after Gods own heart_; +Whilst the Catholick King was your Allie, you had nothing to do with +Papists, it was then no crime: _God is not mocked, away with this respect +of persons_: But where is it you would have him to be? The _Hollander_ +dares not afford him harbour, lest you refuse them yours: The _French_ may +not give him bread for fear of offending you; and unless he should go to +the _Indies_, or the _Turk_ (where yet your malice would undoubtedly reach +him) where can he be safe from your revenge? But suppose him in a Papist +Countrey, constrained thereto by your incharity to his Soul as well as +body; would he have condescended to half so much, as you have offered for +a toleration of Papists, he needed not now have made use of this Apology, +or wanted the assistance of the most puissant Princes of _Christendome_ to +restore him, of whom he has refused such conditions as in prudence he +might have yielded to, and the people would have gladly received; whilst +those who know with what persons you have transacted, what truck you have +made with the _Jesuites_, what secret Papists there are amongst you, may +easily divine why they have been no forwarder to assist him, and how far +distant he is from the least wavering in his Faith. But since you have now +declared that you will tollerate all Religions, without exception; do not +think it a sin in him, to gratifie those that shall most oblige him. + +For his vertues and Morality, I provoak the most refined Family in this +Nation to produce me a Relation of more piety and moderation; shew me a +Fraternity more spotlesse in their honour, and freer from the exorbitances +of youth, then these three Brothers, so conspicuous to all the world for +their Temperance, Magnanimity, Constancy, and Understanding; a friendship +and humility unparallel'd, and rarely to be found amongst the severest +persons, scarcely in a private family. It is the malice of a very black +Soul, and a virulent _Renegado_ (of whom to be commended were the utmost +infamy) that has interpreted some compliances, to which persons in +distress are sometimes engaged, with those whom they converse withall, to +his Majesties disadvantage: _whilst these filthy dreamers defile the flesh +themselves, and thinking it no sin to despise dominion, speak evill of +dignities, and of the things which they know not. But woe unto them, for +they have gone in the way of Kain, and run greedily after the errour of +Balaam, for reward, having mens persons in admiration because of +advantage._ + +For the rest, I suppose the same was said of Holy _David_, when in his +extream calamity, he was constrain'd to fly from _Saul_. _For every one +that was in distresse, and every one that was in debt, and every one that +was discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became Captain over +them._ And to this retinue, has your malice and persecution reduced this +excellent Prince; but he that preserv'd him in the Wood, _and delivered +David out of all his troubles_, shall likewise in his appointed time, +deliver him also out of these distresses. + +I have now answered all your calumnies, and have but a word to add, that I +may yet incline you to accept of your best interest, and prevent that +dreadfull ruine which your obstinacy does threaten. Is it not as +perspicuous as the Sun, that it lies in your power to reform his Counsell, +introduce your selves, make what composition you can desire, have all the +security that mortall men can imagine, and the greatest Princes of Europe +to engage in the performance? This were becoming worthy men, and +honourable indeed; this ingenuous self-denyall: And it is no disgrace to +reforme a mistake, but to persist in it lyes the shame. The whole Nation +require it of you, and the lawes of God command it, you cannot, you must +not deferr it. For what can you pretend that will not then drop into your +bosomes? The humble man will have repose, the aspiring and ambitious, +honours: The Merchant will be secure, Trades immediately recover, Aliances +will be confirm'd, the Lawes reflourish, tender Consciences consider'd, +present purchasers satisfied; the Souldier payed, maintained and provided +for; and what's above all this, Christianity and Charity will revive again +amongst us, _Mercy and Truth will meet together; righteousness and peace +shall kiss each other_. + +But let us now consider on the other side, the confusion, which must of +necessity light upon us if we persist in our rebellion and obstinacy; We +are already impoverisht, and consum'd with war and the miseries that +attend it; you have wasted our treasure, and destroyed the Woods, spoyled +the Trade, and shaken our properties; a universall animosity is in the +very bowells of the Nation; the Parent against the Children, and the +Children against the Parents, betraying one another to the death; in +summe, if that have any truth which our B. _Saviour_ has himself +pronounced, _That a Kingdome divided cannot stand_, it is impossible we +should subsist in the condition we are reduc'd to. Consider we again, how +ridiculous our late proceedings have made us to our neighbours round about +us. Their _Ministers_ laugh at our extream{4} giddinesse, and we seem to +mock at their addresses: for no sooner do their _Credentialls_ arrive, +but behold the scean is changed, and the Government is fled, he that now +acted King, left a fool in his place, and they stand amazed at out +_Buffoonery_ and madnesse. + +What then may we imagine will be the product of all these disadvantages, +when the Nations that deride and hate us, shall be united for our +destruction; and that the harvest is ripe for the sickle of their fury? +shall we not certainly be a prey to an inevitable ruine, having thus +weakned our selves by a brutish civill war, and cut off those glorious +_Heros_, the wise and the valiant, whose courage in such a calamity we +shall in vain imploar, that would bravely have sacrificed themselves for +our delivery? Let us remember how often we have served a forraign people, +and that there is nothing so confident, but a provoked God can overthrow. + +For my part, I tremble, but to consider what may be the issue of these +things, when our iniquities are full, and that God shall make inquisition +for the bloud that has been spilt; unlesse we suddainly meet him by an +unfained repentance, and turn from all the abominations by which we have +provoaked him; And then, it is to be hoped, that he who would have +compounded with the _Father of the faithfull_, had there been but ten +Righteous men in _Sodom_; and that spared _Nineveh_ that populous and +great City; will yet have mercy on us, hearken to the prayers, and have +regard to the teares, of so many Millions of people, who day and night do +interceed with him: The _Priests_ and Ministers _of the Lord weeping +between the porch and the Altar, and saying, Spare thy people O Lord, +spare thy People, and give not thine Inheritance to reproach_. + +And now I have said what was upon my Spirit for your sake, when, for the +satisfaction of such as (through its effect upon your soule) this Addresse +of mine may possibly come to, I have religiously declared, that the Person +who writ it, had no unworthy or sinister design of his owne to gratifie, +much lesse any other party whatever; as being neither _Courtier_, +_Souldier_, or _Church-man_, but a plain Country Gentleman, engag'd on +neither side, who, has had leisure, (through the goodnesse of God) +candidly, and without passion to examine the particulars which he has +touched, and expects no other reward in the successe of it, then what +_Christ_ has promised in the _Gospels_: The _Benediction{5} of the peace +maker_; and which he already feels in the discharge of his Conscience +being for his own particular, long since resolv'd with himself, to persist +in his Religion, and his loyalty to the death; come what will; as +wrongfully perswaded, that all the persecutions, losses, and other +accidents which may arrive him for it here, _are not worthy to be compared +to that eternall{6} weight of glory which is to be revealed hereafter_; +and to the inexpressible consolation, which it will afford on his +_Death-bed_, when all these guilded pleasures will disappear, this noise, +and empty pompe, when God shall _set all out sins in order before us_; and +when, it is certain, that the humble, and the peaceable, the charitable +and the meek shall not loose their reward, not change their hopes, for all +the Crownes and the Scepters, the Lawrells and the Trophies which +ambitious and self seeking men contend for, with so much Tyrannie and +injustice. + +Let them therefore no longer deceive you, dear Sr. and as the guise of +these vile men is, tell you they are the Godly-party, under which for the +present they would pass, and _courage themselves in their wickedness_, +stoping their ears, and shutting their eyes against all that has been +taught and practised by the best of Christians, & holiest of Saints these +sixteen hundred years: _You shall know them by their fruites, do men +gather Grapes of Thornes, or Figs of Thistles?_ But so, being miserably +gall'd with the remembrance of their impieties, and the steps by which +they have ascended to those fearfull precepices, they seek to allay the +secret pangs of a gnawing worme, by adopting the most prodigious of their +crimes into a Religion fitted for the purpose, and versatile as their +giddy interest, till at last, encourag'd by the number of thriving +Proselytes and successes, they grow feared and confident; swallowing all +with ease, and passing from one heresie to another; whilst yet they are +still pursued, and shalt never be at repose: For Conscience will at last +awake, and then how frightful, how deplorable, yea, how inexpressably sad +will that day be unto them! _For these things have they done, and I held +my tongue _(saith God)_ and they thought wickedly, that I am such a one as +themselves; but I will reprove them and set before them the things that +they have done. O consider this ye that forget God, least he pluck you +away, and there be none to deliver you!_ + +And now _Sir_, you see the liberty which I have taken, and how farr I have +adventured to testifie a friendship which I have ever professed for you: I +have indeed been very bold; but it was greatly requisite; and you know +that amongst all men there are none which more openly use the freedom of +reprehension, then those who love most: Advices are not rejected by any, +but such as determine to pursue their evill courses; and the language +which I use, is not to offend, but to beseech you to return. I conjure you +therefore to re-enter into your self, and not to suffer these mean and +dishonourable respects, which are unworthy your nobler spirit, to prompt +you to a course so deform'd, and altogether unworthy your education and +Family. Behold your friends all deploaring your misfortunes, and your +Enemies even pitie you; whilst to gratifie a few mean and desperate +persons, you cancell your duty to your prince, and disband your Religion; +dishonour your name, bring ruine and infamy on your posterity. + +But when all this shall fail (as God forbid a title of it should) _I_ have +yet this hope remaining; that when you have been sufficiently fated with +this wicked course, wandred from place to place, government to government, +sect to sect, in so universal a deluge, and find no repose for the sole of +your foot (as it is certain you never shal) you with at last with the +peaceful _Dove_, return to the Arke from whence you fled, to your first +principles, and to sober counsels; or with the repenting _Prodigall_ in +the Gospel, to _your Father_ which is in heaven, and to the _Father of +your Countrey_: For in so doing, you shall not only rejoyce your servant, +and all good men, but the very _Angels_ which are in heaven, and who are +never said to rejoyce indeed, but _at the Conversion of a sinner_. + +_This 27. Octob. 1659_ + +_Et tu conversus, converte Fratres._ + + +PSAL. 37. + +_10. Yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone, thou shalt +look after his place, and he shall be away._ + +_36. I my self have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like +a green Bay-tree._ + +_37. I went by, and lo he was gone; I sought him, but his place could no +where be found._ + +_38. Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right: For that +shall bring a Man peace at the last._ + + * * * * * + +I request the _Reader_ to take notice, that where, mentioning the +_Presbyterian_, I have let fall expressions, somewhat relishing of more +then usuall asperity; I do by no means intend it to the prejudice of many +of that Judgment, who were either men of peaceable spirits from the +beginning; or that have of late given testimony of the sense of their +errour, whilst they were abused by those specious pretences I have +reproved; but I do regard them with as much charity and affection, as +becomes a sincere Christian, and their Brother. + + * * * * * + +FINIS. + + * * * * * + + + + +A +P A N E G Y R I C +TO +Charles the Second, +PRESENTED +TO HIS MAJESTIE +The [HW: 1st X crossed out]XXXIII. of _APRIL_, being the Day +OF HIS +CORONATION. +MDCLXI. + + * * * * * + +By _JOHN EVELYN_, Esquire + + * * * * * + +_LONDON_, +Printed for _John Crooke_, and are to be sold at the Ship in +St. _Paul's_ Church-Yard. + + + + +A +PANEGYRIC +TO +CHARLES the II. +PRESENTED +TO HIS MAJESTY +On the Day of His INAUGURATION, +_April 23._ MDCLXI. + + +I have decreed with myself (O best and greatest of Kings!) to publish the +just resentiments of a heart, perfectly touch'd with the Joy and Universal +Acclamations of your People, for your this dayes Exaltation and glorious +investiture. And truly, it was of custome us'd to good and gracious +Princes, upon lesser occasions, to pronounce and celebrate their merits +with Elogies and Panegyrics; but if ever they were due, it is to your +Majesty this Day; because as your Virtues are superiour to all that pass'd +before you; so is the Conjuncture, and the steps by which you are happily +ascended to it, Miraculous, and alltogether stupendious: So that what the +former Ages might produce to deprecate their fears, or flatter the +Inclinations of a Tyrant, we offer spontaneously, and by Instinct, without +Artifice to your Serene Majesty, our just and rightfull Soveraign. And if +in these expressions of it, and the formes we use, it were possible to +exceed, and so offend your Modesty; herein only (great Sir) do we not fear +to disobey you; since it is not in your power to deny us our rejoycing, +nor indeed in ours, to moderate. Permit us therefore (O best of Kings) to +follow our genius, and to consecrate your Name, and this dayes exaltation +to that posterity which you alone have preserved, and which had certainly +seen its period, but for your happy Restauration; so that your Majesty +does not so much accept a benefit from, as give it to your Subjects. For +though the fulness of this Dayes joy, be like the seven years of plenty; +yet, is that bread far more sweet, which is eaten with remembrance of the +past Famine (too bitter, alas! to be forgotten on the suddain) especially, +when it may serve to illustrate our present felicity, and conduce to your +Majesties glory: For so the skillful Artist, studious of making a +surprising peice, or representing some irradiated Deity, deepens the +shadowes sometimes with the darkest touches, and approaching to horrour +it self, thereby to render his lights the more refulgent, and striking in +the eyes of the Spectator. + +Let us then call to mind (and yet for ever cursed be the memory of it) +those dismal clouds, which lately orespread us, when we served the lusts +of those immane Usurpers, greedy of power, that themselves might be under +none; Cruel, that they might murther the Innocent without cause; Rich, +with the publick poverty; strong, by putting the sword into the hands of +furies, and prosperous by unheard of perfidie. Armies, Battails, +Impeaching, Imprisonment, Arraining, Condemning, Proscribing, Plundring, +Gibbets and Executions were the eloquent expressions of our miseries: +There was no language then heard but of Perjury, Delusion, Hypocrisie{7}, +Heresie, Taxes, Excises, Sequestration, Decimation, and a thousand like +barbarities: In summe, the solitudes were filled with noble Exiles, the +Cities with rapacious Theives, the Temples with Sacrilegious Villains; +They had the spoiles of Provinces, the robbing of Churches, the goods of +the slain, the Stock of Pupils, the plunder of Loyal Subjects; no +Testament, no State secure, and nothing escaped their cruelty and +insatiable avarice. For if it be sweet in prosperity, to consider of the +past adventures, if tempests commend the Haven; War, Peace; and our last +sharp sickness, our present Health and Vigour; why should it not delight +your Majesty to hear of the miseries we have suffered; since they +re-inforce your own felicity, and the benefits which we receive by it? +where then should I begin but with thy Calamities, O unfortunate +_England_! who hadst only the priviledge of being miserable, when all the +World were happy: But I will not go too for in repeating the sorrowes +which are vanish't, or uncover the buried memory of the evils past; least +whilst we strive to represent the vices of others, we seem to contaminate +your Sacred purple, or alloy our present rejoycing; since that only is +sign of a perfect and consummate felicity, when even the very remembrance +of evils past, is quite forgotten. + +Miraculous Reverse! O marvel greater then Mans Counsel! who will believe +that which his eyes do see? what before a twenty years confusion had +destroy'd; behold a few moneths have restor'd: But the wonder does yet so +much more astonish, that the grief was not so universal for having +suffer'd under such a Tyranny, as for having been so long depriv'd of so +excellent a Prince: No more then do we henceforth accuse our past +miseries; All things are by your presence repair'd, and so reflourish; as +if they even rejoyc'd they had once been destroy'd, _Auctior tuis facta +beneficiis._ So as not only a Diadem binds your sacred Temples this day; +but you have even crown'd all your Subjects too; so has your auspicious +presence gilded all things; our Churches, Tribunals, Theaters, Palaces, +lift up their heads again; the very fields do laugh and exalt. O happy, +and blessed spring! not so glorious yet with the pride and enamel of his +flowers, the golden corn, and the gemms of the pregnant Vine, as with +those Lillies and Roses which bloom and flourish in your Chaplet this day, +to which not only these, but even all the productions of nature seem to +bend, and pay their homage. + +And let it be a new year, a new _AEra_, to all the future Generations, as +it is the beginning of this, and of that immense, _Platonic_ Revolution; +for what could arrive more justly, more stupendious, were even the eight +sphear it self now hurled about? For no sooner came our _CHARLES_ on +shore, but every Man was in the Haven where he would be; the storm +Universally ceas'd, and every one ran forth to see our _Palladium, tanquam +coelo delapsum_: Virgins, Children, Women, trembling old Men, venerating +the very ship that wafted our _Jason_ and his _Heroes_, ravish'd with the +sight, yet hardly believing for astonishment; the greatness of the +miracle, oppressing our sences, and endangering our very faith. + + _Credetne hoc olim ventura posteritas?_ + +I would prayse you Great Prince, but having begun; where shall I make an +end? since there remains not a Topic through all that kind, but one might +write Decads of it, without offending the truth, were it as secure of your +modesty; since I am as well to consider what your ears can suffer, as what +is owing to your Virtues: On what heads shall I extend then my discourse? +your Birth, Country, Form, Education, Manners, Studies, Friends, Honours +and Fortune run through all partitions of the Demonstrative: An Orator +could have nothing more to wish for, nor your Majesty to render you more +accomplish'd. + +Shall I consider then your Majesty as you were a Son to that glorious +Father before his _Apotheosis_? As you were your self a Confessor after +it; As you are now thus day in your 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 ut 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; [SN: _ICH DIEN._] 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 +Monarch: _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 [HW: Firmament] (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 nor 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 yet untouched, 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 courses for your Majesty; [SN: _Spaine._] dashing your +greatest enemy upon that Rock, which afforded you shelter, till that +Tyranny was over past: And how welcome to Us was that blessed day _qui +tyrannum abstulit pessimum, Principem dedit optimum_! He liv'd by storming +others, dyed in one himself, _& post Nubila, Phoebus_. Yet did not that +quite dissolve our fears, till that other head of _Hydra_ was cut off, +that despicable Rump which succeeded, not by the sword, or any humane +addresse, least we should sacrifice to our own Nets; but by the immediate +hand of heaven, without noise, without Armes, or stratageme, the fame of +your vertues, more then the sense of our own misery, universally turning +the hearts even of your very Enemies; and then that Northern Star began +the dawning of this day, till your nearer approach did guild our Horizon, +brighter then the rayes of the Eastern sun, from whose spicy coast, like a +true Phoenix you were to come; For so at the sight of that Royal Bird +was the memory of _Sesostris_, of _Amasis_ and _Ptolemy_ ever fortunate, +and so was yours to us; + + _----Tum rusticus ergo + Suspicit observans volucrem; nam creditur annus + Ille salutaris----_ + +the happy presages of our glorious Returne, stupendious indeed and almost +indicible: For no sooner did your _Argo_ hoise sail, that the Eagles +themselves fled not swifter, then the report of your approach from ten +thousand mouthes of brasse, echoing from ship to ship, and shore to shore, +with their thundring voices, out done yet with the shouts and acclamations +of your glad people, when our shaken Republique rushed at once into your +princely Armes for safety and _Asylum_, not by the occult power of +Destiny, or blind revolution, but the extraordinary hand of Providence, +whose _pathes are in the great Waters, and whose footsteps are not known: +O novum atque inauditum ad principatum iter_, who that shall write Annals, +or Verses can ever forget that day? not decrepit age, not the sick, not +the tender Sex were kept back from resolving to behold that miraculous +entry of yours; The very little children pointed to you, the striplings +and young men exsulted, the Antient men stood amazed, and those who were +under the empire of a cruel disease, leaped out of their beds, to have the +sight of you, that were the safety of the People, returning with cure and +refreshment: Others protested, they had even now lived long enough, and +were ready to expire with joy, and the transports of their spirits; as +satisfied that this Ball could not present them with an other object +worthy their admiration; others wished now to live more then ever, that +they might still enjoy their desired object; and women forgetting the +pains of childbirth, brought forth with joy, because they gave Citizens to +their Prince, and Souldiers now to their lawful Emperour. + +Your Majesty must needs remember, nor is the sound yet out of your sacred +ears, when the houses of this your August Metropolis were covered with the +loud and cheerful spectators, because the earth was too narrow to contain +them; the wayes and the trees were filled with the shouting of your +people, LONG LIVE KING _CHARLES_ THE _II._ _tamque aequaliter ab omnibus ex +adventu tuo laetitia percepta est, quam omnibus venisti_. For when the wise +Arbiter of things began to look down upon us, all things conspir'd to make +us happy; our Deliverance by your Majesty as by another _Moses_, leading +us out of that _AEgyptian_ bondage; or by a nearer resemblance that of the +_Babylonish_ captivity, if not yet farr greater; since God did there only +turne the heart of a Prince to let a nation go: Here, the hearts of a +whole Nation, to invite a banish'd Prince to come, when no other visible +power interpos'd. Let others boast then of their miracles; we can produce +such, as no age, no people under heaven can shew; God moving the hearts of +his most implacable Enemies in a moment as it were, and those who had been +before inhumanely thirsty after your blood, now ready to sacrifice their +own for your safety; _Digna res memoratu! ibat sub ducibus vexillisque +Regiis, hostis aliquando Regius, & signa contra quae steterat sequebatur_. +But I suffer [HW: surfeit] with too much Plenty, and what eloquence is +able to expresse the triumph of that your never to be forgotten Entry, +unlesse it be the renewing of it this day? For then were we as those who +dream, and can yet hardly be perswaded, that we are truly awake: _Dies +ille aeternis seculis monumentisque mandandus_, A day never to be forgotten +in all our Generations, but to be consecrated to posterity, transmitted to +future Ages, and inserted into Monuments more lasting then Brasse. Away +then with these Woodden and temporary Arches, to be taken down by the +People at pleasure; erect Marble ones, lasting as the Pyramids, and +immovable as the mountains themselves, and when they fail, let the memory +of it still remain engraven in our Hearts, Books, Records, _novissimo haud +peritura die_. + +And yet not this altogether, because we have received a Prince, but such a +Prince, whose state and fortune in all this blessed change, we so much +admire not, as his mind; For that is truly felicity, not to possesse +great things, but to be thought worthy of them: And indeed Great Sir, +necessity constrains me, and the laws of _Panegyric_, to verifie it in +your Praises, by running over at least those other Appellations, which +both your vertue has given to your Majesty, and your Fortune acquir'd. For +he is really no King who possesses not (like you) a Kingly mind, be his +other advantages what they may: If the Republick belong then to _Caesar_, +_Caesar_ belongs much more to the Republick; and of this you have given +proof. + +For no sooner were we possess'd of your sacred Majestie, but you suddainly +gave form to our confused _Chaos_: We presently saw when you had taken the +reigns into your sacred hands, and began to sit at Sterne, our deviating +and giddy course grow steady, and the fluctuating Republick at drift ready +to put into a secure Port. + +You began your Entry with an act of general Clemency, and to make good the +advice of your Martyr'd Father, and the best Religion, forgave you +bitterest Enemies; and not only barely forgiving, but by an excesse of +charity, doing honour to some, _ut nemo sibi victus te victore videatur_. +This was plainly Godlike: For so rare a thing we find it, that Princes +think themselves oblig'd; or if they think it, that they love it; that +your example will reproach all who went before you: As you promis'd, so +you perform'd it, punctually, and with advantage. Nor indeed do you desire +any thing should be permitted your Majesty, but what is indulg'd your +Vassals, subjecting even your self to those Lawes by which you oblige your +Subjects; For as it is a great felicity to be able to do what one will, so +is it much more glorious, to will only what is just and honourable. All +other Princes before your Majesty spake as much; you only have performed +it; nor is there a Tittle of your engagements, which even your very +enemies diffide of, much lesse your Friends suspect: They enjoy, and these +hope; because those were to be conciliated by present effects, these are +secure by past promises; and none that receives them of your Majesty +reckons from the time they injoy it, but the period of your promise; +because it proceeds (they know) from a Princely and candid mind; and if it +seem long in acquiring, it is not (I perswade my self) because you are +difficult, much less unmindful; but that the benefit may be more +acceptable, and the sense of it more permanent; since too suddain felicity +astonishes, and sometimes renders the Recipient ingrateful, whilst your +favours are not fugitive but certain. It was only for Your Majestie to be +compleatly happie, when you began to be so; and yet your subjects had as +much as they could well support; since you have made it your only +businesse to sublevate the needie, and give them as it were a new Fate, +your piety not more appearing in pardoning your Enemies, and receiving the +Penitent, then your justice in restoring the Oppressed: For how many are +since your returne, return'd to their own Homes, to their Wives, Children, +Offices, and Patrimonies? _Addiditque Dominus omnia quae fuerant Jobi +duplicia_; some of them with immense advantages; and of this the +languishing _Church of England_ is a most eminent instance; That she, +which was first and most afflicted, should be first and chiefly refreshed. + +You have taken away the affluence to the Committees, Sequestrators, +Conventicles, and unjust Slaughter-houses, and converted their zeal to the +Temples, the Courts, and the just Tribunals: Magnanimity is return'd +again to the Nobility, Modesty to the People, Obedience to Subjects, +Charity to Neighbours, Pietie to Children, Fidelity to Servants, and +Reverence to Religion; In summe, You are the Restorer of Your Countrie. + +The lawes that were lately quiescent, and even trampled under foot, your +Majesty has revived; and been yet so prudent in reforming, that even those +which your Enemies made upon good deliberation, you permit to stand, +shewing your self rather to have been displeased with the Authours, then +the Things. + +As to Discipline (after the sacrifice due for that innocent blood of your +glorious Father) you are not only careful to reject vice your self; but +are severe to discountenance it in others; and that yet so sweetly, as you +seem rather to perswade then compell; and to cure without a corrosive. + +The Army is disbanded, and the Navy paid off without Tumult; because you +are trusted without suspicion, and are more secure in the publick love and +affection of your people then in men of Iron, the locks and Bars of +Tyrants Palaces: And truely Sir, there is no protection to innocency, +which is a fort inexpugnable: In vain therefore do Princes confide in any +other; for Armes invite Armes, Terrour, suspition. To this only do you +trust, and the few which you maintain about your person, is rather for +state, then fear. _Quid enim istis opus est, quum firmissimo sis muro +Civici amoris obtectus?_ Here is then the firm Keeper of our Liberties +indeed, whom the Armies love for His own sake, and whom no servile +flattery adores; but a simple, and sincere devotion; and verily such a +Prince as Your Majesty, deserves to have friends, Prompt, steady and +faithful; such as You have, and which Virtue rather then Fortune procures. +Of this I obtest the fidelity of Your own inviolable Party, distinguished +formerly by the invidious name of _Cavalier_, though significant and +glorious; but I provoke the World to produce me an example of parallel +Loyaltie: What Prince under heaven, after so many losses, and all +imaginable calamities, can boast of such a party? The _Grecians_ forsook +their Leaders upon every sleight disaster; the very _Romans_ were not +steady of old, but followed the fortune of the Common Victor. The _German_ +and the _French_ will happily stick to their Prince in distresse, as far +as the Plate, the Tapistry, or some such superfluous moveable may abide +the pawn; But where shall we find a Subject that hath persisted like Your +Majesties, to the losse of Libertie, Estate, and life it self, when yet +all seem'd to be determin'd against them; so as even their enemies were at +last vanquish'd with their constancy, and their very Tormentors wearied +with their insuperable Patience; nor can they in all that tract of Time, +hardly brag of having made one signal _Proselyte_ in twenty Years that +this difference continu'd; and that because the obedience of your +Majesties Subjects, is engraffed into their Religion and Institution, as +well as into the adoration of Your Virtues. + +I would not therefore that Your Name should be painted upon Banners, or +Carved in stone, _sed Monumentis aeternae laudis_; and Your Majesty did well +foresee, and consult it, when you furnish'd a Subject for our +_Panegyrics_, and our Histories, which should outlast those frail +materials. The Statues of _Caesar_, _Brutus_ and _Camillus_ were set up +indeed because they chased their enemies from the Walls of a proud Citie; +You have done it from a whole Kingdom; not (as they) by blood and +slaughter, but by your prudence and Counsels: Nor is it lightly to be +passed over, that your Majesty was preserved in that _Royal Oak_, to whom +a Civical Crown should so justly become due. + +But I now arrive to the _Lawes_ you have made, and the excellent things +which your Majestie hath done since you came amongst Your people. Truely, +there is hardly an hour to be reckoned wherein your Majesty has not done +some signal benefit. I have already touch'd a few of them, as what +concern'd the most, I would I could say the best; for you have oblig'd +your very Enemies, You have bought them; since never was there, till now, +so prodigious a summe paid, a summe hardly in Nature, to verifie a Word +only; and which the zeal of Your good Subjects (had you taken the +advantage of the fervour which I but now mentioned, at Your wonderful +Reception) might easily have absolv'd You of; had You paid them in kind, +and as they were wont to keep faith with your Majestie. I provoke the +World again to furnish an instance of a like generositie, unlesse he climb +up to heaven for it. How black then must that ingratitude needs appear, +which should after all this, dare to rebell; Or, for the future once +murmur at Your Government? Since it was no necessity that compell'd You, +but an excesse of your good nature, and your charitie. + +Your Majestie has abolished the _Court of Wards_; I cannot say we have +freed ourselves in desiring it, if it were possible to hope for so +indulgent a Father as Your Majestie is to Your Countrie, in those who +shall succeed You. + +The _Compositions_ You have likewise eased us of, if that could be +esteem'd a burthen, to serve so excellent a Prince, who receives nothing +of his Subjects but what he returnes again in the Noblest and worthiest +Hospitality, that any Potentate in earth can produce; Thus what the Rivers +pay to the Ocean, it returns again in showers to replenish them. But Your +Majestie would dissipate even the very shadows, which give us umbrage; and +rather part with your own just right, then those few of your Subjects +which it concern'd, should think themselves aggreiv'd, though by a mistake +even of their duty. + +[SN: _His Majesties Declaration._] But I should first have mention'd your +settlement of the _Church_, and Your bringing back the Ark of God: Your +Majesties wise composure of our Frailties, and tendernesse as well in the +Religious as the Secular; whilst yet You continue fervent to maintain what +is decent, and what is setled by Law. But what language is capable to +expresse this Article? Let those who wait at the Altar, and to which you +have restor'd the daily sacrifice, supply the defect of this period, and +celebrate your piety. + +Nor has yet Your zeal to the Church, lessen'd that which is due to the +Common-wealth; witnesse your industry in erecting a _Counsel of Trade_, by +which alone you have sufficiently verified that expression of your +Majesties in your Declaration from _Breda_, That You would propose some +useful things for the publick emolument of the Nation, which should render +it opulent, splendid and flourishing; making good your pretence to the +universall Soveraignty by Your Princely care, as well as by your birth and +undoubted Title. + +You have Restor'd, Adorn'd, and Repair'd our Courts of Judicature, +turning the Shambles where your Subjects were lately butcher'd, into a +Tribunal, where they may now expect due Justice; and have furnish'd the +Supreame seat there with a _Chancelour_ of antient candor, rare +experience; just, prudent, learned and faithfull; in summe, one, whose +merits beget universal esteem, and is amongst the greatest indications of +your Majesties skill in persons, as well as in their Talents and +perfections to serve you. Thus you have gratified the long robe, so as now +again, + + _Te propter colimus leges, animosque ferarum + Exuimus_----And there is hope we may again be civiliz'd. + +For you are (we hear) publishing _Sumptuary Lawes_ to represse the +wantonness and excess of Apparel, as you have already testifi'd your +abhorrency of _Duelling_, that infamous and dishonourable gallantry: In +fine, you have establish'd so many excellent constitutions, that you seem +to leave nothing for us to desire, or your Successor to add either in the +_Ethicall_ or _Politicall_. + + ----_Similem quae pertulit aetas + Consilio, vel Marte virum?_---- + +O happy _Greece_ for Eloquence, that hast celebrated the fortune of thy +_Heroes_ trifling Adventures! who shall set forth and immortalize the +glory of our illustrious Prince, and advance Great _CHARLES_ to the skies? +You had Poets indeed that sung the fate of an unfortunate Lady, the theft +of a simple fleece; what wouldst thou have done, had the glorious Actions +of such a King been spread before thee, who has not robbed with Armies, +depopulated Cities, or violated the Rights of Hospitality; but restor'd a +broken Nation, repair'd a ruin'd Church, reform'd, and re-establish'd our +ancient Laws; in summe, who has at once render'd us perfectly happy? What +then have we to do with _Augustus_, or _Titus_, with _Trajan_, _Hadrian_, +_Antoninus_, _Theodosius_ or even _Constantine_ himself? There is not in +any, there is not in all these Subjects more worthy of praise, and to +which your Majesty; O best of Princes, ought at all to render. + +We are told _Periculosae rem aleae esse, de iis scribere quibus sis +obstrictus_; because it is so difficult to observe a mediocrity, where our +affections are engaged: But your Majesty is as secure from flattery, as +your Virtues are above its reach; and to write thus of ill Princes, were +both a shame and a punishment: For this the _Senate_ condemn'd the History +of _Cremutius_ to the flames; and _Spartianus_ told _Dioclesian_ boldly, +how hard it would be to write their Commentaries, except it were to record +their Impudence, Murthers, Injustice, and the (for most part) fatal +periods of Tyrants; which if any esteem a glory, you envy not, whilst your +Majesty is resolv'd to secure your own by your virtue and your Justice; so +as no age to come shall possibly find an aemulator, or produce an equall. + + ----_Fuerint aliis haec forte decora, + Nulla potest Laus esse tibi quae crimina purget._ + +But I shall never have done with your obligations of the publick; and the +measure which is assign'd me, would be too narrow but to mention briefly +those your private and interiour perfections which crown your Majesties +Person, and dazle our eyes more then the bright purple which this day +invests you. To give instance in some; you are an excellent Master to your +Domesticks. Their Lives, Conversations and Merits as well as Names, and +Faces, are known to your Majesty as the Companions of _Caesar_ were: Honour +is safe under your Banner, and the Court so well regulated, that there is +no need of _Censors_ to inspect Mens Manners; _vita principis pro censura +est_. He who knowes that every body eyes, speaks and writes of him, cannot +in prudence, or think, or act things unworthy and abject: You Sir direct +all your objects and motions so, as may recommend you to posterity; and +even burn with desires of immortality, so as Histories may relate the +Truth without fear or adulation. + +How happy then those Servants of yours, whose fidelity and Industry is +known to your Majesty, not from the interpretation and reports of others, +but your own experience! So as you Reward as well with Judgment, as +Bounty; and verily that is true Beneficence to place your Recompense as +well equally as freely: Most other Virtues are competent to the rest of +Men; Beneficence only to a Prince, as his most Essential property, and the +noblest ingredient of his _Elogy_. Hence that great Saint, as well as +Courtier and Prelate has directed, _Si quis Principem laudare vellet, +nihil illi adeo decorum adscriberet quam Magnificentiam_; [SN: _S. +Chrysost._] and _Criticks_ observe, that where the wise King _Solomon_ +sayes, _Multi colunt personam Principis_, the _Hebrew_ version reads it, +_personam Benefici_, as importing both; and in that of his Who was greater +then _Solomon_, _Qui dominantur eorum Benefici vocantur_, the _Chaldy_ +turnes, _Principes vocantur_, as if by a convertible figure, He could not +be a Prince who were not Beneficent; nor he that is truly Beneficent, +unworthy of that Title. I remember 'tis somewhere said of _Saul_ that he +Reign'd but two years; because he was so long it seems good to his people, +and reigned in their hearts; For as the Sun himself should not be the Sun, +if he did not shine; no more should a Prince be worthy of his dignity, if +he unjustly Ecclips'd his influence, or abused his Magnificency. But as we +said, this virtue is added to your Majesties also; who know so well to +adjust its Definition by your constant practice, rendering it (as indeed +it ought) productive of your will for glorious and honest ends only; But I +now proceed with the rest. + +There is such a Majesty in your Countenance, such Lenity in your Eyes, +gravity in your speech, as that for your gracefull presence that may be +truly affirm'd of you what was once appli'd to a great Prince resembling +you, _Jam firmitas, Jam proceritas corporis, jam honor Capitis & dignitas +oris, ad hoc aetatis indeflexa maturitas, nonne longe lateque principem +ostentant?_ since even all these assemble in your Majesties personage; Nor +has fortune chang'd you after all your Travels and Adventures abroad; but +brought you back to us not so much as tinged in the percolations through +which you have been forc'd to run, like the Fountain _Arethusa_ through +the River _Alpheus_ without commixture of their waters. None having more +constantly retained his vertue then your Majesty, nor guarded it with more +caution. + +And now in all this height of glory, you receive all Men with so much +humility, that the difference of your change seems to be only this; that +you are now beloved of more, and love more, treating every man, as if +every man were your proper care, and as becomes the Father of so great a +Family; Sometimes you are pleased to lay more aside the beams of Majesty, +that you may descend to do mutual offices of Friendship; as considering +that these Virtues were not concredited to you by God, for your self only, +but for others also: In short, you are so perfect a Prince, that those who +come after you, will fear to be compared to you, _Experti quam sit +onerosum succedere bono Principi_; since to possess your Virtues, they +must support your sufferings; nor can every head know how to sustain the +weight of such a Crown as yours, where the thornes have so long perplext +the Lillies and the Roses of it. + +I might here mention Your Heroic and masculine Spirit in dangers, and yet +Your foresight of them; Your tenderness to compassionate, Your Constancie +in suffering, Your Modestie in Prosperitie, Equalitie in Adversitie, and +that sweetness of access which attracts both love and veneration from all +that converse with You; but these have already adorn'd your Character by +that excellent Hand who did lately describe it. [SN: _Col. Tuke._] + +You are frequent at Councels, Patient in hearing, pertinent in answering, +judicious in Determining, and so skilfull in the several Languages, that +You many times transact by Your self, what others do by Interpreters; +affecting rather expedition in Your affairs, then insignificant State, +which these acquired parts of Your Majesties do yet augment so much the +more. + +You are curious of brave and Laudable things; You love shipping, +Buildings, Gardens (having exceeded _Cyrus_ already in Your Plantations) +Piscinas, Statues, Pictures, Intaglias, Music: You have already amass'd +very many rare collections of all kinds, and there is nothing worthy and +great which can escape Your research. + +Nor must I here forget the honour You have done our _Society_ at _Greshham +Colledge_ by Your curious enquiries about the _Load-Stone_, and other +particulars which concern _Philosophy_; since it is not to be doubted but +that{8} so Magnanimous a Prince, will still proceed to encourage that +Illustrious Assembly; and which will celebrate and eternize Your memory to +the future Ages, beyond Your Majesties Predecessors, and indeed all the +Monarchs on the Earth, when for You is reserv'd the being Founder of some +thing that may improve practical and Experimental knowledg, beyond all +that has been hitherto attempted, for the Augmentation of Science, and +universal good of Man-kind, and which alone will consummate Your Fame and +render it immortal. + +What shall I superadd to all these? That You rise early, that You are +alwaies employ'd, that You love Hunting, Riding, swimming, manly Robust +and Princely Exercises, not so much for delight, as health and relaxation. +_Et vitae pars nulla perit._ + +O best Idea of Princes, sit to me yet one moment, that I may add this last +touch to Your fair Table; nor wonder that I should attempt so bold an +enterprise; since he that would take the height of _Olympus_, must stand +below in the plain: Subjects can best describe their Princes Virtues; +Princes best know their Subjects, and therefore most fit to rule them. And +long may You live to rule us great Sir. We wish that all you do, or may +do, be propitious to you, to us, to the public; or in a word, to your +_M_ajesty alone, in which both we and the public are mutually concern'd. +Time was (and too long alas it was!) that what was fortunate to the +Tyrant, was unhappy to your Subjects: now they are common to both and +reciprocal; nor can we more be happy without you, then you without us; and +truly all Princes have known, that they are seldom beloved of God, who are +hated of their People; nor can they be long secure. _Vox Populi, vox Dei +est._ But you have seen the Effects of our Prayers against an Usurper; +hear now, O Heaven our Vowes for a just Prince. Not for peace, not for +Riches, not Honours, or new conquests do we supplicate; but for all these +in one, The Safety of _CHARLES_. You alone snatch'd him out of those cruel +hands, now preserve him from them: Render him fortunate to us, to our +Children, succeeding Generations give him a late Successor, and when You +do it, let it be such a one as himself. + +Let your Majestie now proceed in his Triumph, and hear the Acclamations of +his people; what can they more expresse who are ready to pave the very +streets with their bodies, in testimonie of their zeal? behold all about +You, the Gratulating old Fathers, the exulting Youths, the glad mothers; +And why should it not be so? Here's no goods publicated, none restrain'd +or mulcted of their Libertie, none diminish'd of dignitie, none molested, +or exil'd; all are again return'd into{9} their houses, Relations and +Properties, and which is yet more then all, to their antient +innocencie{10} and mutual charitie. + +If the _Philosopher_ in the _Ethicks_ enquiring whether the felicity of +the sun, do any whit concern the happinesse of the defunct progenitor, +after much reasoning have determin'd that the honour only which his son +acquires by worthie and great actions, does certainly refresh his Ghost: +What a day of Jubilee, is this then to Your blessed Father! Not the odor +of those flowers did so recreate the dead _Archemorus_ which the _Nymphs_ +were yearly wont to strow upon his watry Sepulcher, as this daies +Inauguration of Yours, does even seem to revive the Ashes of that sacred +_Martyr_. + +Should some one from the clouds that had looked down on the sad face of +things, when our Temples lay in dust, our Palaces in desolation, and the +Altars demolished; when these Citie Gates were dashed to pieces, Gibbets +and Executions erected in every Street, and all things turned into +universal silence and solitude, behold now the change of this daies +glorious scean; that we see the Churches in repair, the sacred Assemblies +open'd, our Cities re-edified, the Markets full of People, our Palaces +richly furnished, and the Streets proud with the burden of their Triumphal +Arches, and the shouts of a rejoycing multitude: How would he wonder and +stand amaz'd, at the Prodigie, and leap down from his lofty station, +though already so near to heaven, to joyne with us in earth, participate +of our felicitie, and ravish'd with the Ecstasie, cry out aloud now with +Us. + +Set open the Temple-Gates, let the Prisoners go free, the Altars smoak +perfumes, bring forth the Pretious things, strow the Waies with Flowers, +let the Fountains run Wine, Crown the Gobblets, bring Chapplets of Palmes +and Lawrells, the Bells ring, the Trumpets sound, the Cannon roar, O happy +Descent, and strange Reverse! I have seen{11} E_nglands_ Restorer, Great +_CHARLES the II._ RETURN'D, REVENG'D, BELOV'D, CROWN'D, RE-ESTABLISH'D. + + _Terrasque Astraea Revisit._ + +And O that it were now in my power to speak some great thing, worthy this +great day; I should put all the flowers of _Orators_ and Raptures of +_Poets_ into one lofty & high Expression, and yet not Reach what I would +say to Your Majestie: For never since there was a Citie, or Kingdom, did a +Day appear more glorious to _England_, never since it was a Nation, and in +which there either was, or ought to be so universal a Jubilation: Not that +Your Triumphal Charriots do drag the miserable Captives, but are +accompanied by freed Citizens; perfidie is now vanquished, popular fury +chayn'd, crueltie tam'd, luxury restrained, these lie under the spondells +of Your Wheeles, where Empire, Faith, Love, and Justice Ride Triumphant, +and nothing can be added to Your _M_a_j_esties glory but its perpetuitie. +But whence, alas! should I have this confidence, after so many _Elogies_ +and _Panegyricks_ of great and Eloquent men, who consecrate the memorie of +this daies happinesse; and (were the subject, like that of all other +things) would have left me nothing more to add, unless he who was +sometimes wont to employ his pen for Your _M_ajestie being absent, should +now be silent that you are present, and inflame me with a kind of new +Enthusiasme: I find myself then compell'd out of a grateful sense of my +dutie for the publick benefit, and if your _M_ajestie forbid not, or +withdraw your influence, who shall hinder, that even my slender voice +should not strive to be heard, in such an universall{12} consort, wherein +everybody has a part, every one a share? + +Permit me therefore (O best of Kings) to present, and lay these my vowes +at your sacred feet, to exsult, and to Rejoyce with the Rest of your Loyal +Subjects; not as I desire, but as I am able, and as I would do it to God, +and as he best loves it, + + _Sentiendo copiosius, quam loquendo._ + +_DIXI._ + + + + +William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: University of California + +THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY + +_General Editors_ + +H. 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