A
SPEACH
,
Deliuered
to
the
Kinges
most
excellent
Majestie
,
at
his
Entry
into
his
good
Towne
of
EDINBVRGH
,
&c.
HOw
joyfull
your
Majesties
returne
(
Gracious
and
dread
Soueraigne
)
is
to
this
your
Majesties
Natiue
Towne
,
from
that
Kingdome
due
to
your
Sacred
person
by
Royall
discent
,
the
countenances
&
eyes
of
these
your
Majesties
loyall
Subjects
speake
for
their
hearts
.
This
is
that
happie
Day
of
our
New-birth
,
euer
to
bee
retained
in
fresh
memorie
,
with
consideration
of
the
goodnesse
of
th'
Almightie
our
God
,
considered
with
acknowledgement
of
the
same
,
acknowledged
with
admiration
,
admited
with
loue
,
&
loued
with
joy
;
wherein
our
eyes
behold
the
greatest
humane
felicitie
our
heartes
could
wish
,
which
is
to
gaze
vpon
the
Royall
countenance
of
our
true
Phoenix
,
the
bright
Starre
of
our
Northerne
Firmament
,
the
Ornament
of
our
Age
,
wherein
wee
are
refreshed
,
yea
reuiued
with
the
heat
and
bright
Beames
of
our
Sunne
,
the
powerfull
Adamant
of
our
Wealth
;
by
whose
remouing
from
our
Hemisphaere
,
wee
were
darkened
,
deepe
sorrow
and
feare
possessing
our
heartes
(
without
enuying
your
Majesties
happinesse
and
felicitie
)
our
places
of
solace
euer
giuing
a
newe
heat
to
the
feuer
of
the
languishing
remembrance
of
our
wonted
happinesse
:
The
verie
Hilles
and
Groues
accustumed
of
before
to
be
refreshed
with
the
dewe
of
your
majesties
presence
,
not
putting
on
their
wonted
Apparrell
;
but
with
pale
lookes
representing
their
miserie
for
the
departure
of
their
Royall
King
.
I
Most
humblie
begge
pardon
of
your
Sacred
Majestie
,
who
most
vnworthie
and
vngarnished
by
Arte
or
Nature
with
Rethoricall
coloures
haue
presumed
to
deliuer
to
your
sacred
Majesty
,
formed
by
Nature
,
and
framed
by
education
,
to
the
perfection
of
all
eloquence
;
the
publike
message
of
your
majesties
loyall
subjectes
,
heere
conuened
vpon
the
verie
knees
of
mine
heart
:
Beseeching
your
sacred
majestie
,
that
mine
obedience
to
my
Superiours
command
may
be
a
sacrifice
acceptable
to
expiate
my
presumption
:
your
Majesties
wonted
clemencie
may
giue
strength
and
vigour
to
my
distrustfull
spirites
,
in
gracious
acceptance
of
that
which
shall
bee
deliuered
,
and
pardoning
mine
escapes
.
REceiue
then
,
dread
Soueraigne
,
from
your
Maiesties
faithfull
and
loyall
Subiectes
,
the
Magistrates
and
Citizens
of
your
maiesties
good
Towne
of
Edinburgh
,
such
Welcome
as
is
due
,
from
these
who
with
thankfull
hearts
doe
acknowledge
the
infinite
blessinges
plenteouslie
flowing
from
the
paradise
of
your
maiesties
vnspotted
goodnesse
and
Vertue
,
gouerned
with
the
Scepter
of
Wisedome
,
nowe
fiftie
yeeres
to
this
your
maiesties
natiue
Towne
,
wishing
your
maiesties
eyes
might
pearce
into
their
verie
heartes
,
there
to
beholde
the
excessiue
ioye
inwardlie
conceiued
of
the
first
messenger
of
your
maiesties
princelie
resolution
to
visite
this
your
maiesties
good
Towne
,
increased
by
your
maiesties
constancie
in
prosequuting
what
was
so
happily
intended
,
and
nowe
accomplished
by
your
maiesties
fortunate
and
safe
returne
,
which
no
tongue
,
howe
liberall
so
euer
,
is
able
to
expresse
.
WHo
shall
consider
with
an
vnpartiall
eye
the
continuall
carefulnesse
your
maiestie
hath
had
ouer
vs
from
the
first
houre
that
Nature
opened
your
maiesties
eyes
:
The
setled
temper
of
your
maiesties
gouernament
,
wherein
the
nycest
eye
could
finde
no
spot
,
your selfe
as
the
life
of
the
Countrey
,
as
the
father
of
the
people
,
instructing
not
so
much
by
precept
,
as
by
example
,
your
maiesties
Court
,
the
marriage
place
of
Wisedome
and
Godlinesse
:
without
impietie
hee
can
not
refuse
to
auouch
,
but
as
your
maiesties
prudencie
hath
wonne
the
pryze
from
all
Kinges
and
Emperoures
which
standeth
in
degree
of
comparison
:
So
hath
your
maiesties
gouernament
beene
such
,
that
euerie
mans
eye
may
bee
a
messenger
to
his
minde
,
that
in
your
maiestie
standeth
the
Quint-essence
in
ruling
skill
,
of
all
prosperous
and
peaceable
gouernament
,
much
wished
by
our
Fore-fathers
;
but
most
aboundantlie
,
praised
be
God
,
enjoyed
by
vs
,
vnder
your
Sacred
maiestie
.
For
if
wee
shall
in
a
view
lay
before
vs
the
times
past
,
euen
since
the
first
foundation
of
this
Kingdom
,
and
therein
consider
your
maiesties
most
noble
progenitoures
;
they
were
indeede
all
renowned
princes
for
their
vertues
,
not
inferiour
to
anie
Emperoures
or
Kinges
of
their
time
,
maintained
and
deriued
their
Virgine
Scepters
vnconquered
,
from
age
to
age
,
from
the
inundation
of
the
most
violent
floods
of
conquering
Sworde
,
which
ouer-whelmed
the
rest
of
the
whole
Earth
,
and
carried
the
Crownes
of
all
other
Kinges
of
this
Terrestriall
Globe
captiues
vnto
thraldome
:
But
farre
short
of
your
sacred
maiestie
,
nature
hauing
placed
in
your
sacred
person
,
alone
what
in
euery
one
of
them
was
excellent
,
the
senate
house
of
the
Planets
being
,
as
it
would
seeme
,
conuened
at
your
maiesties
birth
,
for
decreeing
of
all
perfections
in
your
Royall
person
:
The
Heauens
and
Earth
witnessing
your
Heroicall
frame
,
none
influence
whatsoeuer
beeing
able
to
bring
the
same
to
anie
higher
degree
.
IF
wee
shall
call
to
minde
the
tumultuous
dayes
of
your
maiesties
more
tender
yeeres
,
and
therein
your
maiesties
prudencie
,
wisedome
and
constancie
in
Uniting
the
disjointed
members
of
this
Common-wealth
,
who
will
not
with
the
Queene
of
Scheba
confesse
hee
hath
seene
more
wisedome
in
your
Royall
person
,
than
report
hath
brought
to
forraine
eares
.
There
is
not
of
anie
estate
or
age
within
this
your
maiesties
Kingdome
who
hath
not
had
particular
experience
of
the
same
,
and
as
it
were
,
sensiblie
felt
the
fruites
thereof
:
The
fire
of
ciuile
discorde
,
which
as
a
flame
had
deuoured
vs
,
beeing
thereby
quenched
,
euerie
man
possessing
his
owne
Vineyarde
in
peace
,
reaping
that
which
hee
hath
sowne
,
and
enjoying
the
fruites
of
his
owne
laboures
:
Your
maiesties
great
vigilancie
and
Godlie
zeale
in
propagating
the
Gospel
,
defacing
the
monumentes
of
Idolatrie
,
banishing
that
Romane
and
Antichristian
Hierarchie
,
and
establishing
of
our
Church
,
repairing
the
ruines
thereof
,
protecting
vs
from
forraine
inuasion
.
The
rich
trophees
of
your
maiesties
victories
,
more
powerfullie
atchieued
by
your
sacred
wisedome
,
and
deserued
more
worthilie
by
your
vertue
,
than
these
of
the
Caesars
,
too
much
extolled
by
the
ancients
;
all
ages
shall
recorde
:
and
euen
our
posteritie
shall
blesse
the
Almighty
our
God
,
for
giuing
to
vs
their
Forefathers
:
A
King
in
heart
vpright
as
Dauid
,
wise
as
Salomon
,
and
godlie
as
Iosias
.
THis
also
your
majesties
Good
Towne
of
Edinburgh
is
not
the
lest
witnesse
of
your
majesties
royall
beneficence
,
and
superexcellent
wisedome
,
which
beeing
founded
in
the
dayes
of
that
worthie
King
,
Fergus
the
first
,
builder
of
this
Kingdome
,
and
famous
for
her
vnspotted
fidelitie
,
to
your
maiesties
most
noble
progenitours
was
by
them
enriched
with
manie
Freedomes
,
Priueledges
,
and
Dignities
,
which
all
your
maiestie
hath
not
onelie
confirmed
,
but
also
with
accession
of
manie
more
enlarged
,
beautifying
her
also
with
erecting
of
a
Colledge
,
famous
for
profession
of
all
liberall
Sciences
:
So
that
shee
justlie
doeth
acknowledge
your
majestie
as
the
author
and
conseruer
of
her
peace
,
her
sacred
Phisition
,
who
bound
vp
the
woundes
of
her
distracted
Common-wealth
,
the
onelie
magnes
of
her
prosperitie
,
and
the
true
fountaine
from
whence
,
vnder
God
,
all
her
happinesse
and
felicitie
floweth
,
and
doeth
in
all
humilitie
recorde
your
majesties
Royall
fauoures
extended
towardes
her
aswell
absent
as
present
.
WEe
should
prooue
most
vngratefull
,
if
wee
should
passe
ouer
in
silence
your
maiesties
sacred
wisedome
,
in
disposing
of
the
gouernament
of
this
your
maiesties
natiue
Kingdome
,
during
your
maiesties
absence
,
and
placing
such
subalterne
magistrates
and
officers
of
the
Crowne
,
within
the
same
,
who
haue
shined
as
cleare
Starres
in
this
firmament
,
keeping
euer
the
prescript
of
your
maiesties
Royall
commandes
,
watching
for
the
good
of
your
maiesties
Subiectes
,
and
squaring
all
their
actions
to
your
maiesties
frame
,
as
their
paterne
:
and
returning
all
their
springes
to
the
same
fountaine
from
whence
they
themselues
receiued
influence
of
vertue
:
beeing
vigilant
in
nothing
more
than
in
procuring
the
good
and
peace
of
this
Church
and
Commonwealth
:
To
approue
their
loyaltie
to
your
maiestie
and
to
knit
vs
your
maiesties
Subiectes
in
a
more
firme
knot
of
obedience
to
your
sacred
authoritie
.
NEither
hath
the
oceane
of
your
maiesties
vertues
contained
it selfe
within
the
precinct
of
this
I
le
:
What
eare
is
so
barbarous
,
that
hath
not
heard
of
the
same
?
What
forraine
Prince
is
not
indebted
to
your
sacred
wisedome
?
What
reformed
Church
doeth
not
blesse
your
maiesties
Birth-day
,
and
is
not
protected
vnder
the
winges
of
your
maiesties
sacred
authoritie
from
that
Beast
of
Rome
and
his
Antichristian
locustes
,
whose
walles
your
maiestie
by
the
Soueraigne
wisedome
wherewith
the
Lord
hath
endewed
your
sacred
person
hath
battered
&
shaken
more
than
did
the
Gothes
and
Vandales
,
the
olde
frame
othe
same
by
their
sworde
:
Would
God
as
your
maiestie
hath
made
happie
beginninges
in
drying
vp
their
Euphrates
,
laying
the
nakednesse
of
that
hoore
open
to
the
view
of
the
world
,
&
ruinating
of
that
Lernean
hydra
:
So
your
maiesties
dayes
may
bee
prolonged
,
to
see
the
accomplishment
of
the
same
.
ALl
this
your
Majesties
Royall
Storehouse
of
vertues
perpetuall
vigilancie
in
managing
of
the
publicke
affaires
,
your
prudencie
in
your
actions
,
your
vertue
in
your
life
,
and
your
felicitie
in
all
the
Lord
hath
crowned
,
not
onelie
with
continuance
of
your
maiesties
peaceable
gouernament
ouer
vs
,
your
natiue
Subiectes
more
yeares
nor
anie
of
your
predecessoures
reignes
attained
vnto
:
But
also
with
accession
of
three
great
Kingdomes
,
and
made
your
name
famous
thorow
the
whole
Earth
aboue
all
the
Princes
of
your
time
.
And
therefore
,
wee
your
maiesties
most
humble
Subjects
doe
in
all
submission
of
minds
acknowledge
your
maiestie
,
not
onelie
for
our
just
and
lawfull
Prince
;
but
also
the
first
founder
of
the
United
Monarchie
of
this
famous
I
le
,
borne
for
the
good
of
the
same
;
who
during
the
whole
time
of
your
maiesties
most
happie
reigne
,
hath
so
in
publicke
carried
your selfe
ouer
vs
your
maiesties
Subiectes
,
as
if
yee
were
priuate
,
no
man
could
lay
anie
imputation
or
blotte
to
your
vnspotted
life
,
who
neuer
more
desired
to
bee
aboue
vs
than
for
vs
,
nor
to
bee
accounted
great
than
good
:
joyning
euer
to
your
maiesties
power
modestie
and
true
pietie
:
And
that
as
for
your
sacred
vertue
,
your
maiestie
deserueth
to
bee
Monarch
of
the
worlde
:
So
for
your
pietie
and
vnfained
zeale
in
propagating
and
maintaining
of
the
Gospel
,
doth
of
due
appertaine
the
true
titles
of
the
most
Christian
and
Catholicke
King
.
FOr
the
which
all
your
Majesties
Royall
fauoures
hauing
nothing
to
render
but
that
which
is
due
,
We
your
Majest.
humble
Subjects
,
prostrate
at
your
Majest.
sacred
feete
,
lay
downe
our
Liues
,
Goods
,
Liberties
,
and
whatsoeuer
else
is
most
deare
vnto
vs
:
and
doe
vow
to
keepe
vnto
your
sacred
Majesty
vnspotted
Loyaltie
and
Subjection
,
and
shall
euer
bee
readie
to
sacrifice
and
consecrate
our selues
for
maintainance
of
your
Royall
Person
and
Estate
:
Praying
th'
Eternall
our
God
,
that
Peace
may
bee
within
your
Majesties
Walles
,
Prosperitie
within
your
Majesties
Palaces
,
Length
of
Dayes
to
your
Sacred
Person
,
One
from
your
Majesties
Loynes
neuer
wanting
to
weigh
the
Scepter
of
these
your
Majesties
Kingdomes
,
And
that
Mercie
may
bee
to
your
Majestie
and
your
Seede
for
euer
.
FINIS
.
ORATIO
PER
EVNDEM
SERENISSIMO
REGI
EXHIBITA
.
REditum
tuum
(
Rex
Maxime
)
fortunatissimum
,
in
Regnum
hoc
tuum
,
&
vibem
hanc
diu
&
anxie
probis
omnibus
expetitum
,
Obvius
gratulatum
tibi
hic
prodit
confessus
:
O
foelicem
hunc
diem
,
albo
notandum
lapillo
,
&
altissimis
pectoribus
ad
perpetuam
divini
beneficii
memoriam
insculpendura
,
qui
te
sospitem
&
salvum
iam
pene
post
tria
lustra
in
patriam
reducem
tuis
,
tuosque
tibi
subditos
arctissimo
amore
,
&
obsequio
obnoxios
,
restituerit
.
Venisti
tandem
tuaque
expectata
popello
Vicit
iter
durum
pietas
.
Difficilis
admodum
mihi
imposita
est
provincia
publicam
omnium
laetitiam
,
benignos
singulorum
affectus
,
innatam
animorum
in
patrem
patriae
benevolentiam
,
coram
Rege
ipso
non
orationis
elegantiarum
modo
,
sed
&
rationis
ponderum
scientissimo
,
tanto
etiam
doctissimorum
stipato
comitatu
verbis
exprimere
:
In
hanc
tamen
partem
,
vt
officio
promptus
dicar
,
peccare
malui
&
paupertini
ingenii
maciem
obsequendo
publicare
,
quam
sub
rustico
pudore
in
tanta
omnium
oblectatione
,
in
tam
celebri
&
quasi
insperato
totius
patriae
gaudio
obmutescere
:
quamvis
tuarum
laudum
testimonia
,
quae
ego
ingenii
culpa
enarrando
non
deteram
,
in
subditorum
pectoribus
inhaerescere
,
quam
in
linguis
versari
malueris
.
Ludet
operam
profecto
&
frustra
fuerit
,
qui
ineffabilem
Scotorum
&
devotissimae
huius
vrbis
voluptatem
sermone
commemorare
,
nedum
exaequare
studuerit
Verus
amor
nullum
novit
habere
modum
.
Quocunque
oculos
circumflexeris
,
quocunque
gressum
contuleris
,
circumspice
,
omnium
ora
,
oculosque
in
te
vnum
admiratione
veneranda
&
amico
intuitu
defixa
invenies
,
—
utinamque
oculos
in
pectora
posses
Inserere
&
sanctos
intus
deprendere
amores
.
Herbae
&
semina
hiberno
frigore
&
nive
obtecta
,
quae
in
terrae
visceribus
hieme
,
quasi
sepulta
&
obruta
delituerunt
,
vbi
primum
ab
austro
ad
Septentrionem
mundi
ille
oculus
,
qui
accessu
&
vitali
calore
suo
inferiora
reficit
,
vegetatque
,
ascenderit
,
protinus
capita
sua
exerunt
,
&
in
dias
auras
luminis
erumpentia
advenientem
quasi
Phoebum
virore
suo
&
colore
ver.
no
salutant
:
Scotia
tua
illuvie
,
vastitudine
,
quotidiano
moerore
propter
dilectissimi
Regis
absentiam
hucusque
squalida
&
lugubris
in
lessu
&
tristitia
contabuit
:
verum
exoptatissimo
tuo
in
patriam
audito
reditu
,
tanta
omnium
animos
laetitia
invasit
,
tam
subitum
&
certum
exortum
est
gaudium
,
vt
divino
quodam
afflatu
repente
immutatos
dicas
:
ipsaque
Scotia
quae
fuerat
globus
&
sine
imagine
moles
Nunc
redit
in
faciem
membraque
digna
Deo
.
In
risus
abeunt
lachrymae
,
sua
gaudia
quisque
sermone
&
vultu
celebrat
:
Quare
,
ne
in
tanta
animorum
exultatione
,
Nos
,
quos
potissimum
tua
praesentia
beasti
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
hac
scaena
videamur
praefectus
,
Consules
,
Senatores
,
Populusque
tuus
Edinburgenus
,
quem
vndatim
ex
aedibus
erumpentem
ad
solis
tui
iubar
spectandum
:
Cernis
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
suum
clamant
,
fausta
omnia
&
foelicia
adventui
huic
&
adventanti
ex
intimo
pectoris
sensu
comprecantur
&
vovent
:
vt
si
prius
torpore
,
in
senium
effaeta
quasi
,
&
desita
haec
tua
vrbs
(
Serenissime
Princeps
)
diuturna
tua
absentia
vergere
quotidie
&
marcescere
hucusque
caeperat
,
dum
cui
se
ornaret
,
cui
aedes
instrueret
,
cui
lautius
se
decoraret
:
Te
,
suis
orbata
delitiis
,
non
haberet
.
Gratissimi
tamen
reditus
vix
rumor
levissimus
,
incerto
authore
,
fuerat
dispersus
,
cum
Templa
,
forum
,
compita
,
privatae
aedes
,
quantum
contracti
temporis
tolerare
posset
angustia
,
ad
testandam
hilaritatem
non
aspernando
nitore
refecta
sunt
,
quin
&
caementa
jam
ipsa
,
&
parietes
gestire
videntur
&
adventum
tibi
gratulari
;
quod
fortasse
vehementiore
delibuti
gaudio
tui
cives
,
licet
explicata
&
serena
fronte
prodeant
,
iucunditatis
magnitudine
&
nimietate
pene
obruti
viva
voce
explicare
non
possunt
.
I
am
sylvae
iamque
antra
loqui
,
iam
vivere
fontes
,
I
am
sacer
horror
aquis
,
aditisque
effunditur
echo
Clarior
,
&
faustae
spirant
praesagia
rupes
.
Tullianam
fidem
apud
plerosque
in
hunc
diem
ancipitem
,
pro
certa
hodie
confirmandam
contendam
:
Diagoram
Rhodium
cum
tres
filios
Athletas
eodem
die
vincere
&
victores
coronari
vidisset
,
populumque
gratulabundum
flores
in
eum
vndique
iacere
,
in
stadio
spectante
populo
in
manibus
&
oculis
filiorum
animam
prae
laetitia
efflavisse
:
Plerique
sic
proculdubio
immensa
aspectus
tui
voluptate
correpti
ac
meritissimae
incolumitatis
delectatione
perfusi
repente
exspirarent
,
si
non
salutiferâ
regiae
tuae
munificentiae
aura
afflati
:
Respirare
denuo
&
reviviscere
cogerentur
:
Innumeris
tuis
beneficiis
,
quibus
Scotiam
tuam
praesens
absens
cumulate
affecisti
,
maius
aut
gratius
accidere
nullum
potuit
,
quam
recens
&
continuata
nativi
soli
recordatio
,
quam
non
maximi
imperii
altitudo
,
non
charissimae
coniugis
amplexus
,
non
dilectissimi
filii
lachrymae
,
non
vicinorum
turbatis
suis
rebus
opem
petentium
preces
,
non
vaticani
Iovis
minae
,
non
Harpyarum
Societatis
proditoris
illius
Iudae
verius
quam
IESV
subdolae
fraudes
,
non
longissimi
itineris
taedium
,
non
quod
in
humanis
tibi
charissimum
,
extinguere
aut
delere
valuerunt
:
Quin
Scotos
tuos
,
quorum
frequenti
sermone
fidelitatem
,
&
amorem
publice
praedicâris
,
praedicando
collaudâris
,
collaudando
memori
pectore
collocaris
,
&
natalitiam
hanc
tuam
vrbem
inviseres
,
&
totius
hujus
regni
administrationem
,
non
auribus
sed
oculis
subjiceres
.
Certe
verius
de
te
praesagiuisse
,
quam
de
se
dixisse
videtur
Vespasianus
,
Imperatorem
stantem
mori
oportere
:
vtpote
qui
sicut
militares
stationes
in
excubiis
contra
hostem
,
in
perpetua
es
vigilia
&
assidua
Reipublicae
cura
,
nec
tam
praeesse
,
quam
semper
prodesse
vis
,
nec
tibi
tam
subditos
datos
quam
te
subditis
arbitraris
:
vt
non
solum
tui
,
sed
&
exteri
dubitent
,
tuamne
magis
nunquam
intermissam
pro
Reipublicae
bono
vigilantiam
,
in
actionibus
prudentiam
,
in
vita
virtutem
,
an
in
omnibus
foelicitatem
admirentur
,
&
vere
exclament
.
Quae
te
cum
laeta
tulerunt
Secula
;
qui
talem
tanti
genuere
parentes
!
Solus
ex
omnibus
mortalibus
placuisti
;
electusque
es
,
qui
supremi
Regis
vice
in
terris
fungere
,
vitae
necisque
gentibus
arbiter
,
cujus
in
manu
qualem
quisq
.
statum
sortemque
habeat
,
est
positum
:
O
dignitas
vicarium
Dei
esse
&
non
esse
aemulum
!
In
vnius
animum
totius
Reipublicae
curam
admittere
,
&
vniuersi
populi
suscipere
fata
,
oblitumque
quodammodo
sui
,
gentibus
vivere
,
innumerabiles
vndique
nuntios
accipere
,
Totidem
mandata
dimittere
,
Noctes
omnes
,
Diesque
perpeti
solicitudine
pro
salute
omnium
cogitare
:
Absque
quo
esset
antiquissima
gens
Scotia
diuturna
ista
pace
,
sincero
religionis
cultu
,
Incorrupta
Iustitia
tam
placide
non
frueretur
.
Nulla
rel
cta
foret
Scotorum
nominis
▪
umbra
Ni
pater
hic
gentis
iamiam
ruitura
subisset
Pondera
,
turbatamque
ratem
,
certaque
levasset
Naufragium
commune
manu
.
Permagna
equidem
,
immortales
Deo
Optimo
Maximo
,
in
perpetuum
nobis
agendi
gratias
offertur
occasio
,
sive
illibatam
illam
iam
quinquaginta
annos
aequissimi
tui
dominatus
foelicitatem
ante
oculos
proponamus
,
quum
&
ciuili
dissentione
&
Ecclesiae
exitio
miserè
labefactaretur
respublica
:
Tu
protinus
vt
alter
Asclepiades
exortus
es
,
qui
salutarem
ei
dexteram
medicinamque
porrexisti
:
A
vi
&
tyrannide
exterorum
qua
frequentius
infestabamur
,
vindicasti
,
sive
elapsa
á
regni
conditu
revocemus
tempora
▪
Maiores
tui
strenui
omnes
&
egregii
licet
principes
praecipuis
illa
tempestate
regibus
quibuscunque
aut
Caesaribus
conferendi
vixerunt
:
Tibi
tamen
longe
secundi
cedunt
:
quicquid
enim
in
omnibus
aut
singulis
insigne
&
divinum
fuerat
:
Natura
rerum
opifex
,
id
omne
simul
&
semel
in
te
vnum
tanquam
archetypum
congessit
:
Illi
equidem
,
vt
tempora
ferebant
,
domi
,
boni
,
militiaeque
,
foelicibus
auspiciis
imperitarunt
,
quorum
tamen
res
gestas
fulgore
tuo
ita
praeradias
,
vt
si
cum
tua
regni
gerendi
peritia
componantur
Quanto
nauem
qui
temperat
anteit
Remigis
officium
,
quanto
dux
milite
major
Tantum
omnes
superas
.
Singulare
etenim
illud
&
eximium
,
si
cum
reliquis
terrarum
gubernatoribus
conferantur
,
Majores
tui
tenuerunt
,
quod
in
tanta
&
tam
frequenti
,
rerum
&
naturae
ipsius
vicissitudine
,
cum
omnia
susque
deque
multoties
raperentur
&
migrarent
,
subitaeque
regnorum
mutationes
euenirent
,
nulli
vnquam
externo
imperio
vi
aut
armis
subacta
Scotia
tua
paruerit
,
sed
suo
sibi
regi
hereditario
(
quod
atavorum
omnium
beneficium
commune
est
)
per
duo
millia
annorum
libera
&
obsequens
,
liberum
&
immune
sceptrum
conservarit
.
Illud
tamen
tui
vnius
proprium
ac
vnicum
fatemur
,
quod
vt
acceptum
&
traditum
per
tot
saecula
regnum
incolume
retinueris
:
Ita
solus
&
primus
sis
:
qui
vniversam
insulam
,
armis
&
dissidiis
antea
distractam
&
inimicam
,
in
amicam
ditionem
redegeris
.
Avitamque
insuper
Hyberniam
,
cui
primas
Cunas
&
Originem
Scoti
debent
,
vectigalem
&
morigeram
reddideris
.
Neque
enim
Deus
Optimus
Maximus
,
Te
tantummodo
parta
tueri
voluit
sed
Qua
latam
occidaus
Naereus
circumsonat
oram
Augere
dilatare
,
&
venturis
nepotibus
per
te
subiicere
decrevit
.
Quam
iniqua
conditione
sub
tuis
(
Rex
Invictissime
)
natalibus
haec
patria
vastitatem
spectans
iaceret
,
&
quam
exinde
indulgentem
tuo
ductu
fortunam
habuerit
,
examussim
si
perpendamus
,
neminem
arbitror
candidiorem
paulo
qui
non
privatim
se
fructum
vberem
imperii
tui
percepisse
fatebitur
:
Nonne
commune
illud
implacabilis
odii
incendium
,
quod
vltroque
citroque
conflagrabat
,
restinctum
est
:
Nonne
absque
furto
&
rapinis
vnicuique
fortunis
suis
secura
fruendi
facultas
est
?
Tutus
bos
etenim
rura
perambulat
Nutrit
rura
Ceres
,
almaque
faustitas
Pacatum
volitant
per
mare
navitae
Culpari
metuit
fides
.
Haec
illa
nimirum
tantopere
majoribus
&
toties
exoptata
tempora
,
nobis
etiam
priusquam
obtigerant
,
suspiriis
&
fletu
advocata
sunt
.
EDINBVRGVM
etiam
Regiam
tuam
in
se
fusius
munificentiam
testabitur
:
Cujus
licet
eadem
cum
Fergusio
Cunabula
&
spectata
in
principes
&
Majores
tuos
(
Rex
Serenissime
)
fidelitas
&
obsequium
,
novas
subinde
dignitatum
accessiones
&
incrementa
fecerunt
,
Solus
tamen
tu
extitisti
,
qui
paeonia
manu
Ecclesiae
nostrae
cladem
,
Reipublicae
eversionem
,
obductasque
cicatrices
&
plagas
in
integrum
persanisti
,
Academiam
insuper
omnibus
praeclaris
florentem
studiis
,
quae
vt
Hermodorus
ille
Ephesius
virtute
&
aemulatione
solummodo
displicet
,
ampliasti
:
Inhumanum
esset
&
illiberale
admodum
hic
consultissimam
tuam
silentio
praeterire
prudentiam
,
qui
Consilio
,
solertia
,
longissimoque
rerum
vsu
edoctos
integerrimos
huic
Regno
absens
Consiliarios
&
Magistratus
praefecisti
,
qui
dies
noctesque
te
tanquam
prototypum
,
ad
cujus
exemplar
omnem
suam
administrationem
&
actiones
conforment
,
statuisti
ne
quid
temere
aut
inconsulto
,
sed
omnia
ad
praescriptum
tuae
voluntatis
,
&
rationis
perpendiculum
&
subditorum
emolumentum
tanquam
vnicam
impositi
muneris
metam
collimarent
:
vt
si
non
praesenti
nutu
,
Iussu
tamen
&
mandato
tuo
tu
ipse
omnia
dirigeres
.
Sed
quid
his
terminis
basilicas
tuas
circumsepio
virtutes
:
Cujus
fama
orbem
terrarum
cum
laude
pervagata
est
,
cum
longissimi
principes
regendi
prudentiam
tibi
debeant
,
Orthodoxae
Ecclesiaete
vt
Cynosuram
,
vbique
terrarum
sequantur
,
Constantinumque
rediuivum
praedicent
:
qui
eloquio
&
stilo
altae
moenia
Romae
plus
,
quam
prisci
illi
Gothi
&
Vandali
cohortibus
&
armis
dirueris
&
everteris
:
Tu
tu
es
ille
,
quem
Romuleus
ille
Triceps
cerberus
,
qui
latratu
trifauci
nationes
personat
,
solummodo
praeter
caeteros
perhorrescit
.
Tu
es
,
qui
harpyas
obscaenas
illas
volucres
,
quae
rapinis
contactuque
omnia
foedant
immundo
(
Iesuitas
scilicet
vel
Esuitas
potius
intelligo
)
tuis
finibus
abegeris
,
&
exterminaris
:
Atque
utinam
sicuti
foeliciter
hosce
polypos
&
stelliones
profligare
occaeperis
,
ita
ad
vltimum
persequi
perdures
,
praecamur
.
Proprias
tuas
,
quibus
te
ornarit
Deus
,
animi
dotes
enarrandas
suscipere
ingenii
esset
nimium
confidentis
:
Nemo
adhoc
opus
aggredietur
,
qui
non
laborare
mentis
vitio
existimetur
,
vbi
&
Demostheni
facultas
&
Ciceroni
suum
eloquentiae
flumen
exaresceret
,
cui
praemia
virtutis
eximios
honores
,
tria
opulentissima
&
florentissima
●egna
adjecit
sine
internecione
aut
sanguine
Don
inus
,
vitamque
tuam
insidiis
toties
dolisque
hinc
inde
petitam
▪
vltra
proauorum
omnium
,
qui
sceptra
〈◊〉
●tinuerunt
aetatem
,
salvam
&
incolumem
produxit
producatque
vovemus
ad
perpetuam
huius
orbis
tranquillitatem
&
continuum
benefactorum
in
subditos
incrementum
.
Sed
quia
singula
percensere
nequeo
,
Timanthem
imitabor
,
quod
dicendo
consequi
non
possum
,
Taciturnitatis
&
silentii
velo
tectum
involutumque
relinquam
,
pa●ia
facere
non
opis
est
nostrae
.
Nos
nostraque
omnia
salutem
,
libertatem
,
divini
cultus
indulgentiam
,
fortunas
,
opes
,
vitasque
nostras
secundum
Deum
tibi
soli
accepta
referimus
:
Tua
esse
dona
agnoscimus
&
fatemur
:
Pro
quibus
meritis
quas
tibi
laudes
gratesque
persolvemus
,
quae
vindici
&
assertori
nostro
praemia
rependemus
.
O
qua
Sol
habitabiles
Illustrat
oras
maxime
principum
Quo
nihil
majus
meliusve
terris
Fata
donavere
bonique
divi
,
Nec
dabunt
quamvis
reddant
in
aurum
Tempora
priscum
.
Quam
in
hodiernum
diem
maioribus
tuis
illabatam
fidelitatem
servavimus
,
quodque
tibi
obsequii
nostri
sacramentum
inviolabile
nosipsi
diximus
,
in
perpetuum
tibi
tuisque
praestituros
nos
vovemus
.
Quare
quod
reliquum
est
(
Serenissime
Princeps
)
cives
tuos
devotissimos
ad
pedes
advolutos
aeterno
mancipi
nexu
addictissimos
quo
solitus
clementiae
&
beneficentiae
favore
dignare
:
Quaeque
semel
munifica
liberalitate
indulsisti
,
Religionem
,
Iustitiam
,
Immunitates
,
Privilegia
,
Academiam
,
tuere
,
confirma
,
adauge
.
Nos
coelestem
parentem
suppliciter
&
jugiter
precibus
&
suppliciis
,
vt
Patriae
te
patrem
incolumem
,
integrum
,
valentem
,
diu
esse
velit
,
&
iubeat
,
comprecamur
.
DIXI
.