THE
VISION
AND
DISCOVRSE
OF
HENRY
the
seuenth
.
Concerning
the
VNITIE
OF
Great
BRITTAINE
.
Diuided
into
foure
Chapters
.
-
1.
Containing
an
Introduction
.
-
2.
Inducements
to
Vnitie
.
-
3.
The
policy
,
deceit
,
and
mischieuous
spite
of
the
vnderminers
hereof
.
-
4.
The
danger
of
Diuision
.
Related
by
T.G.
Seneca
ad
Nouatum
,
lib.
1.
deir●
.
Beneficijs
humana
vita
constat
,
et
concordia
,
nec
terrore
,
sed
amore
muiu●
in
foedus
,
auxiliumque
commune
constringitur
.
AT
LONDON
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by
G.
Eld
,
for
Henry
Fetherstone
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
the
signe
of
the
Rose
in
Paules
Church-yard
.
1610.
To
the
truly
religious
and
resolute
Gentlemen
of
England
,
louing
their
Country
and
the
Truth
therein
professed
.
WOrthy
Gentlemen
,
which
by
your
words
,
actions
,
or
writings
,
shew
your selues
worthy
of
so
good
a
cause
:
to
you
which
loue
vertue
for
vertues
sake
,
without
any
other
collaterall
respect
:
to
you
which
are
the
stationarie
soldiers
of
this
Kingdome
,
contemning
the
thundering
cannon
of
Romish
excommunication
,
and
the
crosse-battery
of
domesticall
artillery
:
to
you
(
next
to
the
maine
columnes
of
this
state
)
I
dedicate
this
short
Poem
,
as
an
applause
to
your
constancie
,
and
as
a
Perdu
to
giue
notice
of
the
motions
of
our
Aduersaries
.
The
reasons
vrging
me
thus
to
expose
my selfe
to
an
infinitie
of
censures
are
these
.
First
the
variety
of
floting
humors
generally
discontented
.
Secondly
,
the
diligence
of
Romish
Pirats
to
surprise
them
.
Thirdly
,
the
drousie
security
of
these
dangerous
times
.
Lastly
the
vnseasonable
curiosity
of
Sectaries
,
which
(
like
Archimedes
)
seriously
busie
themselues
in
drawing
circles
whilst
their
Country
is
in
danger
.
These
considerations
haue
beene
the
weights
,
and
plummets
,
to
set
my
poore
inuention
on
worke
,
to
performe
some
dutifull
office
to
the
State
,
in
the
perswasion
of
Vnitie
,
the
chiefest
bond
of
peace
,
and
happinesse
,
and
the
surest
fortresse
against
a
million
of
straglers
,
which
hope
to
prey
vpon
vs
in
our
disorder
and
confusion
.
The
Clergie
hath
already
done
their
most
faithfull
,
and
most
commendable
deuoire
:
many
of
whose
bookes
will
neuer
bee
answered
.
It
remaines
,
that
vertuous
Gentlemen
,
hauing
ioyned
experience
to
their
learning
,
and
valour
to
their
experience
,
should
shew
themselues
in
the
first
rankes
,
to
beat
back
the
golden
hopes
of
the
Romish
Alcumists
,
Cum
semiviro
Comitatu
:
Neuer
did
England
inioy
a
King
more
iudicious
in
matters
of
Diuinitie
then
now
it
doth
.
Neither
was
there
euer
a
more
happy
proiector
●f
the
Vnion
,
and
Vnitie
of
these
kingdomes
then
Henry
the
seauenth
,
du
Bartasse
his
Poem
.
in
●ife
of
〈◊〉
.
Besides
it
was
the
practise
of
Solon
by
Thales
,
in
pleasing
rimes
to
giue
the
Athenians
the
wholsome
pils
of
vertuous
precepts
:
Orpheus
,
Linus
,
Pythagoras
,
Theognis
.
did
the
like
.
Amongst
the
Diuines
,
Prudentius
,
Sedulius
,
Iuueneus
,
Paulinus
.
Lastly
,
that
King●y
Diuine
Poet
,
which
was
after
Gods
owne
heart
,
did
martiall
his
heauenly
meditations
in
a
kinde
of
primordiall
verse
.
And
although
the
number
of
Ballad-mongers
,
and
frothy
Poems
strained
for
ga●ne
to
please
the
vulgar
,
may
seeme
to
impaire
the
reputation
of
the
auntient
Vates
,
yet
there
is
no
question
,
but
that
perspicuous
verse
well
couched
,
comprising
much
matter
in
a
narrow
roome
,
full
of
Historie
,
naturall
Allegories
,
fit
similes
,
and
materiall
obseruations
,
shall
alwayes
winne
respect
in
the
most
wa●ward
&
new-fangled
age
.
Not
in
this
assurance
(
Gentlemen
)
do
I
recommend
these
lines
vnto
y●ur
view
,
but
hoping
that
being
Schollers
yee
will
not
misconster
,
being
generous
yee
will
not
carpe
,
being
loyall
yee
will
not
disallow
my
dutifull
deuotion
.
Eminent
fortunes
haue
eminent
place
to
shew
their
loyalty
,
In
privato
publicum
negotium
agere
.