A
BRIEFE
DIScourse
,
touching
the
happy
vnion
of
the
Kingdomes
of
England
,
and
Scotland
.
DEDICATED
IN
PRIuate
to
his
MAIESTIE
.
I
DOE
not
finde
it
straunge
(
excellent
King
,
)
that
when
Heraclitus
,
hee
that
was
surnamed
the
obscure
,
had
set
foorth
a
certaine
booke
,
which
is
not
now
extant
:
many
men
tooke
it
for
a
discourse
of
Nature
,
and
many
others
tooke
it
for
a
Treatise
of
Policie
,
and
matter
of
estate
.
For
,
there
is
a
great
affinitie
and
consent
,
betweene
the
rules
of
Nature
,
and
the
true
rules
of
Policie
:
The
one
being
nothing
els
but
an
order
in
the
gouernement
of
the
world
,
and
the
other
an
order
,
in
the
gouernment
of
an
estate
.
And
therefore
,
the
education
and
erudition
of
the
Kings
of
Persia
,
was
in
a
science
,
which
was
termed
by
a
name
,
then
of
great
reuerence
,
but
now
degenerate
and
taken
in
ill
part
.
For
,
the
Persian
Magicke
,
which
was
the
secret
literature
of
their
Kings
,
was
an
obseruation
of
the
contemplation
of
Nature
,
and
an
application
thereof
to
a
sense
politicke
〈◊〉
taking
the
fundamentall
lawes
of
Nature
,
with
the
branches
and
passages
of
them
,
as
an
originall
,
and
first
modell
,
whence
to
take
and
describe
a
copie
and
imitation
for
gouernement
.
After
this
manner
,
the
foresaid
Instructors
fet
before
their
Kings
,
the
examples
of
the
celestiall
bodies
,
the
Sunne
,
the
Moone
,
and
the
rest
,
which
haue
great
glorie
and
veneration
,
but
no
rest
or
intermission
,
beeing
in
a
perpetuall
office
of
motion
,
for
the
cherishing
,
in
turne
,
and
in
course
,
of
inferiour
bodyes
.
Expressing
likewise
,
the
true
manner
of
the
motions
of
gouernement
,
which
though
they
ought
to
bee
swifte
and
rapide
in
respect
of
occasion
and
dispatche
,
yet
are
they
to
be
constant
and
regular
,
without
wauering
or
confusion
.
So
did
they
represent
vnto
them
,
how
that
the
Heauens
do
not
inritch
themselues
by
the
Earth
,
and
the
Seas
,
nor
keepe
no
dead
stocke
or
vntouched
treasure
,
of
that
they
drawe
to
them
from
belowe
,
but
whatsoeuer
moysture
they
doe
leuie
and
take
from
both
the
elements
in
vapours
,
they
doe
spend
and
turne
backe
againe
in
showers
,
onely
houlding
and
storing
them
vp
for
a
time
,
to
the
end
to
issue
and
distribute
them
in
season
.
But
chiefely
they
did
expresse
and
expound
vnto
them
,
that
fundamentall
lawe
of
Nature
,
whereby
all
things
doe
subsist
and
are
preserued
:
which
is
,
that
euery
thing
in
nature
,
although
it
hath
his
priuate
and
particular
affection
and
appetite
,
and
doth
follow
and
pursue
the
same
in
small
moments
,
and
when
it
is
deliuered
and
freed
from
more
generall
and
common
respects
:
yet
neuerthelesse
,
when
there
is
question
or
cause
,
for
the
sustaining
of
the
more
generall
,
they
forsake
their
owne
particularities
and
proprieties
,
and
attend
and
conspire
to
vphold
the
publike
.
So
,
we
see
the
Yron
in
small
quantitie
will
ascend
and
approach
to
the
Load-stone
,
vpon
a
particular
Sympathie
.
But
,
if
it
bee
any
quantitie
of
moment
,
it
leaues
his
appetite
of
amity
with
the
Load-stone
,
and
like
a
good
Patriott
,
falleth
to
the
earth
,
which
is
the
place
and
region
,
of
massy
bodies
.
So
againe
,
the
water
,
and
other
like
bodies
,
doe
fall
towardes
the
center
of
the
earth
:
which
is
,
as
was
saide
,
their
region
or
Country
.
And
yet
,
we
see
nothing
more
vsuall
,
in
all
water-workes
and
Ingens
,
then
that
the
water
(
rather
then
to
suffer
any
distraction
,
or
disunion
in
Nature
,
)
will
ascend
:
forsaking
the
loue
to
his
owne
region
or
Country
,
and
applying
it selfe
to
the
body
next
adioyning
.
But
,
it
were
too
large
a
digression
,
to
proceede
to
more
examples
of
this
kinde
.
Your
Maiesty
your selfe
,
did
fall
vppon
a
passage
of
this
Nature
,
in
your
gratious
speech
of
thankes
vnto
your
Councell
.
When
acknowledging
Princely
,
their
vigilancye
and
well
deseruinges
,
it
pleased
you
to
note
,
that
it
was
a
successe
and
euent
aboue
the
course
of
Nature
,
to
haue
so
great
a
change
,
with
so
great
a
quiet
:
forasmuch
as
suddayne
and
great
mutations
,
as
well
in
state
as
in
Nature
,
are
rarely
without
violence
and
perturbation
.
So
as
still
I
conclude
,
there
is
,
as
was
saide
,
a
congruity
betweene
the
principles
of
Nature
,
and
and
of
Pollicie
.
And
,
least
that
Instance
may
seeme
to
appone
to
this
assertion
,
I
may
,
euen
in
that
perticular
,
with
your
Maiesties
fauour
,
offer
vnto
you
a
Type
or
Patern
in
Nature
much
resembling
this
present
euent
in
your
state
:
namely
earthquakes
,
which
many
of
them
,
bring
euer
much
terror
and
wonder
,
but
no
actuall
hurt
;
the
earth
trembling
for
a
moment
,
and
sodainely
stablishing
in
perfect
quiet
,
as
it
was
before
.
This
knowledge
then
,
of
making
the
gouernment
of
the
world
,
a
mirror
for
the
gouernement
of
a
state
,
beeing
a
wisedome
almost
lost
(
whereof
the
reason
I
take
to
be
,
because
of
the
difficulty
,
for
one
man
to
imbrace
both
Philosophies
;
)
I
haue
thought
good
to
make
some
proofe
,
(
as
farre
as
my
weakenesse
,
and
the
straights
of
time
will
suffer
,
)
to
reuiue
in
the
handling
of
one
particular
wherewith
now
I
most
humbly
present
your
Maiesty
.
For
,
surely
,
as
hath
beene
said
,
it
is
a
forme
of
discourse
,
anciently
vsed
towardes
Kings
.
And
,
to
what
King
,
should
it
be
more
proper
then
to
a
King
,
that
is
studious
to
conioyne
contemplatiue
virtue
and
actiue
virtue
together
.
Your
Maiesty
is
the
first
King
,
which
hath
had
the
honour
,
to
be
Lapis
angularis
,
to
vnite
these
two
mighty
and
warlike
nations
of
England
and
Scotland
,
vnder
one
Soueraignety
and
Monarchy
.
It
dooth
not
appeare
by
the
recordes
and
memories
,
of
any
true
history
,
nor
scarcly
by
the
fiction
and
pleasure
of
any
fabulous
narration
,
or
tradition
:
that
euer
,
of
any
antiquity
,
this
Iland
of
great
Brittaine
was
vnited
vnder
one
King
,
before
this
day
.
And
yet
,
there
be
no
Mountaines
or
races
of
hils
,
there
be
no
seas
,
or
great
riuers
,
there
is
no
diuersity
of
toung
or
language
,
that
hath
inuited
or
prouoked
this
ancient
separation
,
or
diuorce
.
The
lot
of
Spaine
was
,
to
haue
the
seuerall
Kingdomes
of
that
continent
(
Portugal
onely
except
,
)
to
be
vnited
in
an
age
,
not
long
past
:
and
,
now
in
our
age
,
that
of
Portugal
also
,
which
was
the
last
that
held
out
,
to
bee
incorporate
with
the
rest
.
The
lot
of
France
hath
beene
,
much
about
the
same
time
likewise
,
to
haue
reannexed
vnto
that
crowne
,
the
seuerall
Duchies
and
portions
,
that
were
in
former
times
dismembred
.
The
lotte
of
this
Iland
,
is
the
last
reserued
for
your
Maiesties
happye
times
,
by
the
speciall
prouidence
and
fauour
of
God
:
who
hath
brought
your
Maiesty
to
this
happy
coniunction
,
with
great
consent
of
harts
,
and
in
the
strength
of
your
yeares
,
and
in
the
maturity
of
your
experience
.
It
resteth
therefore
,
but
that
,
(
as
I
promised
)
I
set
before
your
Maiesties
Princelye
consideration
,
the
grounds
of
Nature
,
touching
the
Vnion
and
commixture
of
bodies
;
&
the
correspondence
which
they
haue
with
the
groundes
of
Pollicie
,
in
the
coniunction
of
states
and
kingdomes
.
First
therefore
that
Position
,
vis
vnita
fortior
,
beeing
one
of
the
common
notions
of
the
minde
,
needeth
not
much
to
be
induced
or
illustrate
.
We
see
the
Sunne
(
when
he
enters
,
&
while
he
continues
vnder
the
signe
of
Leo
)
causeth
more
vehement
heates
,
then
when
he
is
in
Cancer
:
what
time
his
beames
are
neuerthelesse
,
more
perpendicular
.
The
reason
whereof
,
in
great
part
,
hath
beene
truely
ascribed
,
to
the
coniunction
and
Corradiation
in
that
place
of
heauen
,
of
the
Sunne
,
with
the
foure
Starres
of
the
first
magnitude
,
Syrius
,
Canicula
,
Cor
Leonis
,
&
Cauda
Leonis
.
So
,
the
Moone
likewise
,
by
ancient
tradition
,
while
she
is
in
the
same
signe
of
Leo
,
is
saide
to
be
at
the
heart
,
or
,
to
respect
the
hart
.
Which
is
not
for
any
affinity
,
which
that
place
in
heauen
can
haue
,
with
that
part
of
mans
body
:
But
onely
,
because
the
Moone
is
then
(
by
reason
of
the
coniunction
and
neerenesse
with
the
starres
aforenamed
)
in
greatest
strength
of
influence
:
and
so
worketh
vppon
that
part
,
in
inferiour
bodyes
,
which
is
most
vitall
and
principall
.
So
,
wee
see
waters
and
liquors
,
in
small
quantity
,
do
easily
purrifie
and
corrupt
:
but
,
in
large
quantity
,
subsist
long
,
by
reason
of
the
strength
,
they
receiue
,
by
Vnion
.
So
,
in
Earthquakes
,
the
more
generall
doe
little
hurt
,
by
reason
of
the
vnited
weight
,
that
they
offer
to
subuert
:
but
,
narrow
and
particular
Earthquakes
,
haue
many
times
ouerturned
whole
townes
and
Citties
.
So
then
,
this
point
touching
the
force
of
Vnion
is
euident
.
And
therefore
it
is
more
fitte
to
speake
of
the
manner
of
Vnion
.
Wherein
againe
,
it
will
not
be
pertinent
,
to
handle
one
kinde
of
Vnion
,
which
is
Vnion
,
by
victory
:
when
one
body
,
doth
meerely
subdue
another
,
and
conuerteth
the
same
into
his
owne
Nature
,
extinguishing
and
expulsing
,
what
part
so
euer
of
it
,
it
cannot
ouercome
.
As
,
when
the
fire
conuerteth
the
Wood
into
fire
,
purging
awaye
the
Smoake
and
the
Ashes
,
as
vnapt
matter
to
inflame
.
Or
,
when
the
bodye
of
a
liuing
creature
dooth
conuert
and
assimilate
foode
and
nourishment
:
purging
and
expelling
whatsoeuer
it
cannot
conuerte
.
For
,
these
representations
doe
aunswere
in
matter
of
Pollicie
,
to
Vnion
of
Countreyes
by
conquest
:
where
the
conquering
State
dooth
extinguish
,
extirpate
and
expulse
any
parte
of
the
estate
conquered
,
which
it
findeth
so
contrarye
,
as
it
cannot
alter
and
conuerte
it
.
And
therefore
leauing
violent
Vnions
:
wee
will
consider
onelye
of
naturall
Vnions
.
The
difference
is
excellent
,
which
the
best
obseruers
in
Nature
doe
take
,
betweene
Compositio
and
Miltio
;
putting
together
and
mingling
.
The
one
beeing
but
a
coniunction
of
bodyes
in
place
,
the
other
in
quality
,
and
consent
:
the
one
,
the
mother
of
sedition
and
alteration
,
the
other
of
peace
and
continuance
:
The
one
rather
a
confusion
,
then
an
Vnion
,
the
other
properly
a
Vnion
.
Therefore
we
see
those
bodies
which
they
call
Imperfectè
miltio
,
last
not
,
but
are
speedily
dissolued
.
For
,
take
for
example
,
Snow
or
froth
,
which
are
Compositions
of
ayre
and
water
:
in
them
you
may
behold
,
how
easily
they
seuer
and
dissolue
,
the
water
closing
togeather
,
and
excluding
the
ayre
.
So
,
those
three
bodies
,
which
the
Alchymists
doe
so
much
celebrate
,
as
the
three
principles
of
things
,
that
is
to
say
,
Earth
,
Water
and
Oyle
,
(
which
it
pleaseth
them
to
terme
Salt
,
Mercury
and
Sulphur
:
)
wee
see
,
if
they
bee
vnited
onely
by
composition
,
or
putting
togeather
,
how
weakely
and
rudely
they
doe
incorporate
.
For
,
water
and
earth
,
make
but
an
vnperfect
slime
,
and
,
if
they
be
forced
togeather
by
agitation
,
yet
,
vpon
a
little
setling
,
the
earth
resides
in
the
bottome
.
So
,
water
and
Oyle
,
though
by
agitation
it
be
beaten
into
an
Oyntment
.
Yet
,
after
a
little
setling
,
the
Oyle
will
floate
vppon
the
toppe
.
So
as
,
such
vnperfect
minglinges
,
continue
no
longer
,
then
they
are
forced
:
and
still
in
the
ende
,
the
worthiest
getteth
aboue
.
But
,
otherwise
it
is
,
of
perfect
mixture
.
For
,
wee
see
those
three
bodies
,
of
Earth
,
Water
and
Oyle
;
when
they
are
ioyned
in
a
regetable
or
Minerall
,
they
are
so
vnited
,
as
without
great
subtiltie
of
Arte
,
and
force
of
extraction
,
they
cannot
bee
seperated
and
reduced
into
the
same
simple
bodyes
againe
.
So
as
,
the
difference
betweene
Compositio
and
Mistio
,
cleerelye
set
downe
is
this
:
That
Compositio
,
is
the
ioyning
or
putting
togeather
of
bodyes
,
without
a
new
Forme
:
and
Mistio
,
is
the
ioyning
or
putting
togeather
of
bodies
,
vnder
a
new
Forme
.
For
,
the
new
Forme
,
is
Commune
Vinculum
:
and
without
that
,
the
oulde
Formes
,
will
be
at
striefe
and
discorde
.
Now
,
to
reflect
this
light
of
Nature
,
vpon
matter
of
estate
:
there
hath
beene
put
in
practise
in
gouernment
,
these
two
seuerall
kindes
of
pollicie
,
in
vniting
&
conioyning
of
states
&
kingdomes
.
The
one
to
retaine
the
auncient
formes
still
seuered
,
and
onely
conioyned
in
Soueraingtie
;
the
other
,
to
superinduce
a
new
forme
agreeable
and
conuenient
to
the
entire
estate
.
The
former
of
these
hath
beene
more
vsuall
,
and
is
more
easie
:
but
the
latter
,
is
more
happy
.
For
,
if
a
man
doe
attentiuely
reuolue
histories
of
all
nations
,
and
iudge
truly
therevpon
:
hee
will
make
this
conclusion
,
that
there
were
neuer
any
State
that
were
good
commixtures
,
but
the
Romaines
:
which
because
it
was
the
best
state
in
the
worlde
,
and
is
the
best
example
of
this
pointe
,
wee
will
chiefely
insist
therevpon
.
In
the
Antiquities
of
Rome
,
Virgill
brings
in
Iupiter
,
by
way
of
Oracle
or
perdiction
,
speaking
of
the
mixture
of
the
Troyans
and
the
Italians
:
Sermonem
ausonij
patrium
,
moresque
tenebunt
.
Vtque
est
,
nomen
erit
:
comisti
corpore
tantum
Subsident
Teucri
,
morem
,
ritusque
sacrorum
Adijciam
,
faciamque
omnes
vno
ore
Latinos
.
Hine
genus
Ausomo
mistum
quod
sanguine
surget
,
Suprà
homines
,
suprà
ire
deos
pietate
videbis
Wherein
Iupiter
maketh
a
kinde
of
partition
or
distribution
,
that
Italy
should
giue
the
language
and
the
lawes
;
Troye
should
giue
a
mixture
of
men
,
and
some
religious
rites
,
and
both
people
should
meete
in
one
name
of
Latines
.
Soone
after
the
foundation
of
the
Citie
of
Rome
,
the
people
of
the
Romaines
and
the
Sabines
mingled
vppon
equall
termes
.
Wherin
the
interchange
went
so
euen
,
that
(
as
Liui
noteth
)
the
one
nation
gaue
the
name
to
the
place
,
and
the
other
to
the
people
.
For
,
Rome
continued
the
name
:
but
,
the
people
were
called
Quirites
,
which
was
the
Sabine
worde
deriued
of
Cures
,
the
countrie
of
Tacitus
.
But
,
that
which
is
chiefly
to
be
noted
,
in
the
whole
continuance
of
the
Romaine
gouernment
,
they
were
so
liberall
of
their
naturallizations
,
as
in
effect
,
they
made
perpetuall
mixtures
.
For
their
manner
was
,
to
graunt
the
same
,
not
onely
to
particular
persons
,
but
to
Families
and
linages
:
and
not
onely
so
,
but
to
whole
Citties
and
Countries
.
So
as
,
in
the
end
it
came
to
passe
,
that
Rome
was
Communis
patria
,
as
some
of
the
Ciuilians
call
it
.
So
,
we
read
,
that
Saint
Paul
,
after
he
had
beene
beaten
with
Roddes
,
and
therevpon
charged
the
Officer
with
violation
of
the
priuiledge
of
a
Citizen
of
Rome
:
the
Captaine
then
sayde
to
him
;
Art
thou
then
a
Romaine
?
That
priuiledge
hath
cost
mee
deere
!
To
whome
Saint
Paul
replyed
:
But
I
was
so
borne
.
And
yet
,
in
another
place
Saint
Paul
professeth
of
himselfe
that
hee
was
a
Iewe
by
tribe
.
So
as
it
is
manifest
that
some
of
his
Ancestors
were
naturallized
,
to
him
and
to
his
descendents
.
So
,
wee
read
,
that
it
was
one
of
the
first
despights
that
was
done
to
Iulius
Caesar
,
that
whereas
hee
had
obtayned
Naturalization
for
a
Cittye
in
Gaul
,
one
of
the
Cittizens
of
that
Cittye
,
was
beaten
with
roddes
,
by
the
commaundement
of
the
Consul
Marcellus
.
So
wee
read
in
Cornelius
Tacitus
,
that
,
in
the
Emperour
Claudius
time
,
the
nation
of
Gaul
,
that
part
which
was
called
Comata
,
the
wilder
part
,
were
suters
to
bee
made
capable
of
the
Honours
of
beeing
Senators
and
Officers
of
Rome
.
His
wordes
are
:
Cùm
de
supplendo
,
Senatu
agitaretur
,
Primoresque
Galliae
quae
Commata
appellatur
,
foedera
et
Ciuitatem
Romanam
pridem
assecuti
,
ius
adipiscendorum
in
vrbe
honorum
expeterent
:
multus
ea
super
re
,
variusque
rumor
,
et
studijs
diuersis
apud
Principem
certabatur
:
and
,
in
the
ende
,
after
long
debate
,
it
was
ruled
,
they
should
be
admitted
.
So
likewise
,
the
authoritie
of
Nicholas
Machiauell
,
seemeth
not
to
bee
contemned
:
who
,
inquiring
of
the
causes
of
the
growth
of
the
Romaine
Empire
,
dooth
giue
iudgement
,
there
was
not
one
greater
then
this
,
that
the
state
did
so
easily
compound
,
and
incorporate
with
straungers
.
It
is
most
true
,
that
most
Estates
and
Kingdomes
,
haue
taken
the
other
course
:
of
which
this
effect
hath
followed
,
that
the
addition
of
further
Empire
and
territorie
,
hath
beene
rather
matter
of
burden
,
then
matter
of
strength
vnto
them
;
yea
,
and
further
;
it
hath
kepte
aliue
the
seede
and
rootes
of
reuoltes
and
rebellions
,
for
many
ages
:
As
,
wee
may
see
in
a
freshe
and
notable
example
of
the
kingdome
of
Aragon
,
which
though
it
were
vnited
to
Castile
by
mariadge
,
and
not
by
conquest
,
and
so
descended
inhereditarie
vnion
by
the
space
of
more
then
a
hundreth
years
:
yet
,
because
it
was
continued
in
a
diuided
gouernement
,
and
not
well
incorporated
and
cemented
with
the
other
Crownes
;
entred
into
a
Rebellion
,
vpon
point
of
their
Fueros
,
or
liberties
,
now
,
of
very
late
yeares
.
Now
,
to
speake
briefely
,
of
the
seuerall
partes
of
that
forme
,
whereby
states
and
kingdomes
are
perfectly
vnited
:
they
are
,
besides
the
soueraignety
it selfe
,
foure
in
number
.
Vnion
in
Name
,
Vnion
in
Language
,
Vnion
in
Lawes
,
and
Vnion
in
Employmentes
.
For
Name
,
though
it
seeme
but
a
superficiall
and
outward
matter
;
yet
it
carrieth
much
impression
and
inchantment
.
The
generall
and
common
name
of
Grecia
,
made
the
Greekes
alwayes
apt
to
vnite
(
though
otherwise
full
of
diuisions
amongst
themselues
:
)
against
other
nations
,
who
they
called
Barbarous
.
The
He●●●tian
name
,
is
no
small
band
to
knit
together
,
their
leagues
and
confederacies
,
the
faster
.
The
common
name
of
Spaine
,
no
doubt
hath
beene
a
speciall
meane
of
the
better
Vnion
and
conglutination
,
of
the
seuerall
kindomes
of
Castile
,
Aragon
,
Granada
,
Nauarra
,
Valencia
,
Catalonia
,
and
the
rest
:
comprehending
also
now
lately
Portugall
.
For
Language
,
it
is
not
needfull
to
insist
vpon
it
:
because
both
your
Maiesties
kingdoms
,
are
of
one
language
,
though
of
seuerall
Dialects
:
and
the
difference
so
small
betweene
them
,
as
promiseth
rather
an
inriching
of
one
Language
,
then
a
continuance
of
two
.
For
lawes
,
which
are
the
principall
Synewes
of
gouernment
,
they
be
of
three
natures
.
Iura
,
which
I
will
terme
Freedomes
,
or
abilities
,
Leges
,
and
Mores
.
For
abilities
and
Freedoms
,
they
were
amongst
the
Romans
;
of
foure
kindes
,
or
rather
degrees
Ius
Connubij
,
Ius
Ciuitatis
,
Ius
suffragij
,
and
Ius
Petitionis
,
or
Ius
honorum
.
Ius
Connubij
,
is
a
thing
,
in
these
times
,
out
of
vse
.
For
,
marriage
is
open
betweene
all
diuersity
of
Nations
.
Ius
Ciuitatis
answereth
to
that
we
call
Denization
,
or
Naturalization
.
Ius
suffragij
answereth
to
voyce
in
Parliament
,
or
voice
in
election
of
such
,
as
haue
voyce
in
Parliament
.
Ius
petitionis
,
aunswereth
to
place
in
Councell
and
office
.
And
,
the
Romanes
did
many
times
seuer
these
freedoms
,
granting
Ius
connubij
,
sine
Ciuitate
,
and
Ciuitatem
sine
suffragio
,
&
Suffragium
sine
Iure
petitionis
,
which
was
commonly
with
them
the
last
.
For
lawes
,
it
is
a
matter
of
curiosity
and
inconuenience
,
to
seeke
eyther
to
extripate
all
particular
customes
,
or
,
to
draw
all
subiectes
to
one
place
or
resort
of
Iudicature
and
Session
.
It
sufficeth
,
there
be
an
vniformity
in
the
Principall
and
fundamentall
Lawes
,
both
Ecclesiasticall
and
ciuill
.
For
,
in
this
point
the
rule
houldes
,
which
was
pronounced
by
an
ancient
Father
,
touching
the
diuersity
of
rites
in
the
church
.
For
,
finding
the
vesture
of
the
Queene
,
(
in
the
Psalme
)
which
did
prefigure
the
church
,
was
of
diuerse
colours
:
and
,
finding
againe
,
that
Christes
Coate
was
without
a
seame
:
hee
concludes
well
,
In
veste
varietas
sit
,
scissura
non
fit
.
For
Manners
,
a
consent
in
them
is
to
be
sought
industriously
;
but
,
not
to
bee
inforced
.
For
,
nothing
amongst
people
,
breedes
so
much
pertinacie
,
in
houlding
their
customes
,
as
suddaine
and
violent
offer
to
remooue
them
.
And
,
as
for
Employments
;
it
is
no
more
,
but
an
indifferent
hand
,
and
execution
of
that
verse
:
Tros
,
Tyriusué
mihi
,
nulle
discrimine
agetur
.
There
remaineth
onely
,
to
remember
out
of
the
grounds
of
Nature
,
the
two
conditions
of
perfect
mixture
:
whereof
the
former
is
Time
.
For
,
the
naturall
Philosophers
say
well
,
that
compositio
,
is
opus
homines
:
and
Mistio
,
is
opus
Naturae
.
For
it
is
the
dutie
of
man
,
to
make
a
fitte
application
of
bodies
together
.
But
,
the
perfect
fermentation
and
incorporation
of
them
,
must
bee
left
to
Nature
and
Time
:
and
vnnaturall
hasting
thereof
,
dooth
disturbe
the
worke
,
and
not
dispatche
it
.
So
,
wee
see
,
after
the
grift
is
put
into
the
stock
,
and
bound
;
it
must
bee
left
to
Nature
and
Time
,
to
make
that
continuum
,
which
was
at
first
but
contiguum
.
And
,
it
is
not
any
continuall
pressing
,
or
thrusting
together
:
that
will
preuent
Natures
season
,
but
rather
hinder
it
.
And
so
,
in
liquors
,
those
mixtures
which
are
at
the
first
troubled
:
growe
after
cleere
and
setled
,
by
the
benefit
of
rest
and
time
.
The
second
condition
is
:
that
the
greater
drawe
the
lesse
.
So
wee
see
,
when
two
lights
doe
meete
,
the
greater
dooth
darken
and
drowne
the
lesse
.
And
,
when
a
smaller
riuer
,
runs
into
a
greater
,
it
leeseth
both
his
name
and
streame
.
And
hereof
to
conclude
,
we
see
an
excellent
example
in
the
Kingdomes
of
Iuda
and
Israel
.
The
Kingdome
of
Iuda
contained
two
Tribes
;
the
Kingdome
of
Israel
,
contained
ten
.
King
Dauid
raigned
first
ouer
Iuda
,
for
certaine
yeeres
:
&
,
after
the
death
of
Isbosheth
,
the
sonne
of
Saul
,
obtayned
likewise
the
Kingdome
of
Israel
.
This
vnion
continued
in
him
,
and
likewise
in
his
sonne
Salomon
,
by
the
space
of
seuentie
yeares
at
least
,
betweene
them
both
.
But
yet
,
because
the
seate
of
the
kingdome
was
kept
still
in
Iuda
,
and
so
the
lesse
sought
to
drawe
the
greater
;
vppon
the
first
occasion
offered
,
the
kingdomes
brake
againe
,
and
so
continued
,
diuided
for
euer
after
.
Thus
hauing
in
all
humblenesse
made
oblation
vnto
your
Maiestie
of
these
simple
fruites
,
of
my
deuotion
and
studies
:
I
do
wish
(
and
I
do
wish
it
,
not
in
the
nature
of
an
impossibilitie
,
to
my
thinking
,
)
that
this
happye
vnion
of
your
Maiesties
two
Kingdomes
of
England
and
Scotland
;
may
bee
in
as
good
an
houre
;
and
vnder
the
like
diuine
prouidence
,
as
that
was
,
betweene
the
Romaines
and
the
Sabines
.
FINIS
.