A speech spoken to His Excellency the Lord General Monck at Skinners-Hall on Wednesday, being the 4th. of April 1660 : at which time he was nobly entertained by that honourable company / written by Thomas Jorden. Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A46273 of text R36858 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing J1066A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A46273 Wing J1066A ESTC R36858 16144128 ocm 16144128 104842 2248505775

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A46273) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 104842) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1595:110) A speech spoken to His Excellency the Lord General Monck at Skinners-Hall on Wednesday, being the 4th. of April 1660 : at which time he was nobly entertained by that honourable company / written by Thomas Jorden. Jordan, Thomas, 1612?-1685? 1 broadside. Printed by Thomas Leach, London : [1660] In verse. Date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library. eng Albemarle, George Monck, -- Duke of, 1608-1670 -- Poetry. Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688 -- Poetry. A46273 R36858 (Wing J1066A). civilwar no A speech spoken to His Excellency the Lord General Monck. At Skinners-Hall on Wednesday, being the 4th. of April 1660. at which time he was Jordan, Thomas 1660 1 585 3 0 0 0 0 0 51 D The rate of 51 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-02 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-06 Sampled and proofread 2003-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A SPEECH Spoken to His EXCELLENCY The Lord General Monck . AT SKINNERS-HALL On Wednesday , being the 4th . of April 1660. At which time he was nobly entertained by that Honourable Company . Written by Thomas Iorden . I Can forbear no longer , out it must , If I shall prove ingenious or Just . I have with wary eys observ'd your steps Your stands , your turns , your pauses and your leaps And find ( how ever you may mask your brow ) You are a Statesman , and ambitious too , A right Self-ended person , for be 't known Yours and the Publick safety , are all one You are ambitious to be good , that feat Our Statesmen mist , for they were to be great . But yet , as Solomon made that choice , which Commanded all , VVisdome shall make you rich , And great , and glorious , and these shall last As long as Time , and after Time is past . VVhen such as have their Countries Rights betray'd Shall receive pay , in Lucifers Brigade . My Lord , I scorn to flatter , I 'le be trae t' ye , All the good deeds y' have done , are but your Duty , But yet your hand stretch'd in Iehovah's name Hath snatch'd three burning Kingdoms from the flame . Our Laws , our Liberties , or what to us And all Mankind , may be held precious , VVas at the Stake , this Action hath out run All thought ; VVe cannot tell you what y' have don Nor you your self , it may not be exprest Till divers years have made it manifest : Those ravenous Beasts that our destruction wrought VVhen Church and State were to the Barebone brought ( Prayse God ) you ransom'd , and ( without a Club ) Beat down the daring Doctrine of the Tub The sinking Pulpit too You did restore : Our Apron Prelates must come there no more ; And now the Ironmonger will not rush in But cease to make an Anvill of the Cushin , This you have done quite unknown to the Silly Prognostications of Booker and Lilly ; VVho know not ( with all help their Arts can do ) VVhat 't is guides Charles his Wa●ne so well as You ▪ But I forget my Message , Sir by Mee This faithful Hospitable Company Doth bid you Welcome , VVelcome as the Spring As you your self wou'd Welcome home — the THING VVee all expect , without the which each Nation Subsi●teth onely by Anticipation . These ten or twelve years our three Kingdoms have Liv'd in a Darknesse equall to the Grave , Stifled for want of Breath untill the bright Beames of your presence gave a little light , 'T is yet but Twilight , could we gain the Sun , And the clear wholsom Air the work were done ; You can dispell these Mists , and make all fair , VVe sue for nothing , but the Sun and Air . Spoken by VValter Youckney . FINIS . VVhereas there are three several Pamphlets in Verse , Pretended to be spoken to my Lord General at Skinners-Hall , The Reader is desired to take notice , that this is the true and only Speech made to his Excellency there .

LONDON , Printed by Thomas Leach .