A
SPEACH
DELIVERED
,
TO
THE
KINGS
MOST
EXCELLENT
MAIESTIE
,
AT
HIS
NEERE
APPROACH
TO
LONDON
,
IN
THE
NAME
OF
THE
SHERIFFS
OF
LONDON
AND
MIDDLE
SEX
.
THe
common
feares
&
difficulties
which
perplex
most
confident
Orators
,
speaking
before
Princes
,
would
more
confound
my
distrustful
spirit
speaking
to
your
high
Maiestie
(
most
mighty
King
&
our
dreade
soueraigne
Lord
)
did
I
not
know
that
the
message
which
I
bring
is
to
a
good
King
alwayes
gratefull
.
Curiosity
of
wit
and
and
affected
straines
of
Oratory
I
leaue
to
those
,
who
more
delight
to
tickle
the
Princes
eare
,
then
satisfie
his
deeper
iudgement
.
To
me
(
most
gracious
Soueraigne
)
your
Maiesties
meanest
subiect
,
vouchsafe
your
milde
and
Princely
attention
,
whiles
in
the
names
of
these
graue
Maiestrates
(
your
Maiesties
faithfull
Sheriffes
of
London
and
Middle
SeX
)
I
offer
to
your
benigne
grace
that
loyall
and
harty
welcome
,
which
from
that
Honorable
and
ancient
Cittie
(
the
heart
of
this
kingdome
)
is
brought
by
them
,
whose
deepe
and
inward
griefe
,
conceaued
for
the
losse
of
our
Peerelesse
and
renouned
Queene
Elizabeth
,
is
turned
into
excessiue
ioy
,
for
the
approach
of
your
excellent
Maiesty
,
by
whom
the
long
and
blessed
peace
of
fiue
and
forty
yeeres
is
made
perpetuall
.
Great
is
thac'knowledgement
we
owe
to
the
memory
of
our
late
Princes
gouernement
,
whose
far
spread
fame
,
as
it
shall
liue
recommended
to
posterity
for
euer
,
so
of
her
flourishing
raigne
no
other
testimony
neede
be
required
,
then
that
of
your
high
Maiestie
(
since
none
can
be
more
honourable
)
that
the
like
hath
not
beene
read
or
heard
of
in
our
dayes
,
or
since
the
raigne
of
great
Augustus
:
So
that
,
euen
glorious
and
victorious
Kings
haue
iust
cause
,
to
enuy
the
glory
and
virtue
of
a
woman
.
But
she
is
gathered
in
peace
to
her
fathers
,
a
memorable
instance
of
your
Maiesties
diuine
obseruation
,
that
Princes
differ
not
in
stuffe
,
but
in
vse
from
common
men
.
Out
of
the
Ashes
of
this
Phenix
wert
thou
King
Iames
borne
for
our
good
,
the
bright
starre
of
the
North
,
to
which
all
true
adamantine
harts
had
long
before
turned
themselues
.
Whose
fame
(
like
a
new
Sunne
rysing
)
dispersed
those
cloudes
of
feare
,
which
either
our
politicke
friendes
,
or
open
enimies
,
or
the
vnnaturall
factors
for
the
fift
Monarchy
,
had
giuen
vs
some
cause
to
apprehend
:
yea
our
nobility
,
Councellors
,
and
Commons
(
whose
wisedome
and
fidellity
is
therefore
renouned
as
farre
as
this
Iland
is
spoken
of
)
with
a
generall
zeale
poasted
to
your
Maiesties
subiection
:
not
more
incited
heere
vnto
by
the
right
of
your
Maiesties
discent
&
royall
bloud
,
drawen
to
this
faire
inheritance
from
the
loynes
of
our
ancient
Kings
;
then
enflamed
with
the
fame
of
your
Princely
and
eminent
virtues
,
wherewith
(
as
a
rich
Cabinet
with
precious
iewels
)
your
Kingly
minde
is
furnished
,
if
constant
fame
haue
deliuered
vs
a
true
inuentory
of
your
rare
qualities
.
A
King
whose
youth
needes
no
excuse
,
and
whose
affections
are
subdued
to
his
reason
:
A
King
which
not
onely
does
iustice
,
(
which
euen
Tyrants
doe
some
times
)
but
loues
iustice
;
which
habit
none
but
vertuous
Princes
can
put
on
.
Who
(
immitating
the
free
bounty
of
the
King
of
Kings
)
inuites
all
distressed
people
to
come
vnto
him
,
not
permitting
Gehaezie
to
take
talents
of
siluer
,
nor
change
of
garments
.
In
some
Princes
(
my
Soueraigne
Lord
)
it
is
inough
that
they
be
not
euill
,
but
from
your
Maiesty
wee
looke
for
an
admirable
goodnesse
,
and
particular
redresse
,
so
strange
an
expectation
(
forerunning
your
Maiesties
comming
)
hath
inuested
the
mindes
,
of
good
men
with
comfort
,
of
bad
with
feare
.
And
see
how
bounteous
heauen
hath
assined
foure
kingdomes
,
as
proper
subiects
for
your
Maiesties
foure
Kingly
vertues
.
Scotland
hath
tried
your
prudence
,
in
reducing
those
things
to
order
in
the
Church
and
Common-wealth
,
which
the
tumultuous
times
of
your
Maiesties
infancie
had
there
put
out
of
square
.
Ireland
shall
require
your
iustice
,
which
the
miseries
(
I
dare
not
say
the
pollicies
)
of
ciuil
wars
haue
there
defaced
.
France
shall
prooue
your
fortitude
,
when
necessary
reason
of
state
shall
bend
your
Maiesties
Counselles
to
that
enterprize
.
But
let
England
be
the
schoole
,
wherein
your
Maiesty
will
practize
your
temperance
and
moderation
:
for
here
flattery
will
essay
to
vndermine
,
or
force
your
Maiesties
strongest
constancie
and
integrity
:
base
assentation
the
bane
of
virtuous
Princes
,
which
(
like
Lazarus
dogs
)
licks
euen
the
Princes
soares
,
a
vice
made
so
familiar
to
this
age
by
long
vse
,
that
euen
Pulpits
are
not
free
from
that
kinde
of
treason
?
A
treason
I
may
iustly
call
it
most
capitall
,
to
poyson
the
fountaine
of
wisedome
and
iustice
,
whereat
so
many
kingdomes
must
be
refreshed
,
Nor
can
I
be
iustly
blamed
,
to
lay
open
to
a
most
skilfull
and
faithfull
Phisition
our
true
griefes
,
nay
it
shall
bee
the
comfort
of
mine
age
,
to
haue
spoken
the
truth
to
my
Lord
the
King
,
and
with
a
hart
as
true
to
your
Maiestie
as
your
owne
,
to
make
knowne
to
an
vncorrupted
King
,
the
hopes
and
desires
of
his
best
subiects
.
Who
(
as
if
your
Maiestie
were
sent
downe
from
Heauen
to
reduce
the
golden
age
)
haue
now
assured
themselues
,
that
this
Iland
(
by
strange
working
and
reuolution
now
vnited
to
your
Maiesties
obedience
)
shall
neuer
feare
the
mischiefes
and
misgouernments
,
which
other
countries
and
other
times
haue
felt
.
Oppression
shall
not
be
here
the
badge
of
authoritie
,
nor
insolence
the
marke
of
greatnesse
.
The
people
shall
euery
one
sit
vnder
his
owne
Oliue
tree
,
and
anoynt
himselfe
with
the
fat
thereof
,
his
face
not
grinded
with
extorted
sutes
,
nor
his
marrow
suckt
with
most
odious
and
vniust
Monopolies
.
Vnconcionable
Lawiers
,
and
greedie
officers
,
shall
no
longer
spinne
out
the
poore
mans
cause
in
length
to
his
vndoing
,
and
the
delay
of
iustice
.
No
more
shall
bribes
blinde
the
eyes
of
the
wise
,
nor
gold
be
reputed
the
common
measure
of
mens
worthinesse
:
Adulterate
gold
,
which
can
guild
a
rotten
post
,
make
Balam
a
Byshoppe
,
and
Isachar
as
worthy
of
a
iudiciall
chaire
as
Solomon
,
where
he
may
wickedly
sell
that
iustice
,
which
he
corruptly
bought
.
The
money
changers
and
sellers
of
Doues
,
(
I
meane
those
which
trafique
the
liuings
of
simple
and
religious
pastors
)
shall
your
Maiestie
whip
out
of
the
Temple
and
common
wealth
:
For
no
more
shall
Church
liuings
be
pared
to
the
quicke
,
forcing
ambicious
Church-men
(
pertakers
of
this
Sacriledge
)
to
enter
in
at
the
window
by
simonie
and
corruption
,
which
they
must
afterwards
repaire
with
vsurie
,
and
make
vpp
with
pluralities
.
The
Ports
and
Hauens
of
these
kingdomes
which
haue
long
beene
barrd
,
shall
now
open
the
mouthes
of
there
riuers
,
and
the
armes
of
there
seas
,
to
the
gentle
amity
and
iust
trafficke
of
all
nations
,
washing
away
our
reproach
of
vniuersall
pirats
,
and
sea-wolues
,
and
deryuing
(
by
the
exchange
of
home-bred
commodities
with
forraigne
)
into
the
vaines
of
this
land
,
that
wholesome
blood
and
well
gotte
treasure
,
which
shall
strengthen
the
sinnews
of
your
Maiesties
kingdomes
.
The
neglected
(
and
almost
worne
out
)
nobility
shall
now
(
as
bright
Dyamonds
and
burning
Carbunckles
)
adorne
your
Kingly
Diadem
.
The
too
much
contemned
Clergy
,
shall
hang
as
a
precious
earing
at
your
Princly
eare
,
your
Maiesty
still
lystning
to
their
holy
Councels
.
The
wearied
Commons
shall
be
worne
as
a
rich
ring
on
your
royall
finger
,
which
your
Maiesty
with
a
watchfull
eye
will
still
gratiously
looke
vpon
.
For
we
haue
now
a
King
that
will
heare
with
his
owne
eares
,
see
with
his
own
eyes
,
and
be
euer
iealous
of
any
great
trust
,
which
(
being
afterwardes
become
necessary
)
may
be
abused
to
an
vnlymmitted
power
.
O
my
gracious
Leige
,
let
neuer
any
wrye
Councels
dyuert
or
puddle
the
fayre
streame
of
your
naturall
goodnesse
.
Let
wicked
vsurpers
seeke
lewd
arts
,
to
mayntaine
their
lewd
purchases
:
To
your
Maiesty
(
called
to
this
Empyre
by
the
consent
of
God
and
men
,
and
now
King
of
so
many
faithfull
harts
)
plaine
and
dyrect
vertue
is
the
safest
pollicy
,
and
loue
to
them
,
who
haue
shewne
such
loyalty
to
you
,
is
a
wall
of
brasse
.
They
meane
to
sell
the
King
to
his
subiects
at
their
owne
price
,
and
abuse
th'
authority
of
his
maiesty
to
their
priuate
gayne
,
&
greatnes
,
who
perswade
him
,
that
to
shut
himselfe
vp
from
the
accesse
of
his
people
,
is
the
meanes
to
augment
his
state
.
Let
me
not
seeme
tedious
to
your
Maiesty
(
my
gracious
Soueraigne
)
nor
yet
presumptuous
,
for
I
counsell
not
.
But
whiles
your
Maiesty
hath
bin
(
perchance
)
wearied
with
the
complaints
and
insinnuations
of
perticulars
,
for
pryuate
respects
;
let
it
be
lawfull
(
my
leige
)
for
a
hart
free
from
feare
or
hope
,
to
shew
your
Maiestie
the
agues
which
keepe
lowe
this
great
body
,
whereof
your
Maiesty
is
the
sound-head
.
Nor
are
we
fed
with
hopes
of
redresse
by
immagination
(
as
hungry
men
with
a
painted
banquet
)
but
by
assurance
of
certaine
knowledge
,
drawne
out
of
the
obseruation
of
your
Maiesties
forepast
actions
,
and
some
bookes
now
fresh
in
euery
mans
hands
,
beeing
(
to
vse
your
Maiesties
owne
wordes
)
the
Viue
ideas
or
representations
of
the
minde
.
Whose
excellent
wholesome
rules
your
Maiesty
will
neuer
transgresse
,
hauing
bound
your
Princely
sonne
by
such
heauy
penalties
,
to
obserue
them
after
you
,
nor
dooth
any
wiseman
wish
,
or
good
man
desire
,
that
your
Maiesty
should
followe
other
Counselles
or
examples
then
your
owne
,
by
which
your
Maiestye
is
soe
neerelye
bound
.
To
conclude
therefore
,
what
great
cause
haue
we
to
welcome
to
the
territories
of
our
Cittie
your
most
excellent
Maiestie
,
who
(
to
make
vs
the
glorious
and
happie
head
of
this
Iland
)
haue
by
your
fyrst
entrance
brought
vs
th'
addition
of
another
kingdome
,
which
warre
could
neuer
subdue
.
So
your
Maiesties
vpright
gouernment
,
shall
make
vs
partakers
of
that
felicitie
,
which
diuine
Plato
did
onely
apprehend
but
neuer
see
,
(
whose
king
is
a
Philosopher
a
Philosopher
beeing
our
King
)
Receiue
then
(
most
gracious
Soueraigne
)
that
loyall
welcome
,
which
our
Cittie
sendeth
out
to
meete
your
Maiestie
;
our
Cittie
which
for
the
long
tryall
of
her
loyaltie
,
obedience
,
and
faithfull
readinesse
in
all
occasions
,
your
maiesties
royall
progenitors
haue
honoured
with
the
title
of
their
Chamber
:
whose
faythfull
Citizens
,
with
true
and
well
approued
harts
,
humbly
lay
at
your
royall
feete
their
goods
and
liues
,
which
they
will
sacrifice
for
your
maiesties
seruice
and
defence
,
with
longing
eyes
,
desiring
to
receiue
your
Maiestie
within
their
walles
,
whom
they
haue
long
since
lodged
in
their
harts
:
praying
to
heauen
that
your
Maiesties
person
may
be
free
from
practize
,
your
soule
safe
from
flaterie
,
your
life
extended
to
the
possibilitie
of
nature
:
and
that
if
not
your
naturall
life
,
yet
your
royall
line
may
haue
one
period
with
the
world
,
your
princely
ofspring
sitting
vpon
the
throne
of
their
fathers
for
euermore
.
And
we
your
Maiesties
faythfull
seruants
,
humbly
surrendring
into
your
Maiesties
hands
that
authority
,
which
we
holde
from
you
,
wishing
from
our
harts
that
all
plagues
may
pursue
his
posterity
,
that
but
conspires
your
Maisties
daunger
.