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The Augustan Reprint Society

John Evelyn_An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); and_A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661)

With an Introduction byGeoffrey Keynes

Publication Number 28

Los AngelesWilliam Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryUniversity of California1951

_GENERAL EDITORS_

H. RICHARD ARCHER, _Clark Memorial Library_RICHARD C. BOYS, _University of Michigan_EDWARD NILES HOOKER, _University of California, Los Angeles_JOHN LOFTIS, _University of California, Los Angeles_

_ASSISTANT EDITOR_

W. EARL BRITTON, _University of Michigan_

_ADVISORY EDITORS_

EMMETT L. AVERY, _State College of Washington_BENJAMIN BOYCE, _Duke University_LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, _University of Michigan_CLEANTH BROOKS, _Yale University_JAMES L. CLIFFORD, _Columbia University_ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, _University of Chicago_LOUIS A. LANDA, _Princeton University_SAMUEL H. MONK, _university Of Minnesota_ERNEST MOSSNER, _University of Texas_JAMES SUTHERLAND, _Queen Mary College, London_H. T. SWEDENBERG, JR. , _University of California, Los Angeles_

INTRODUCTION

On October 24, 1659, a quarto pamphlet was published in London with thefollowing title: "The Army's Plea for Their present Practice: tendered tothe consideration of all ingenuous and impartial men. Printed andpublished by special command. London, Printed by Henry Hills, Printer tothe Army, dwelling in Aldersgate Street next door to the Peacock. 1659". Three days afterwards, on October 27, John Evelyn had finished writing ananswer, which was published a week later, on November 4, under the title:"An Apologie for the Royal Party . . . With a Touch At the pretended Pleafor the Army. Anno Dom. MDCLIX". No author's name, printer or place wasgiven. Evelyn afterwards made the note in his Diary under the dateNovember 7, 1659, that is, three days after the actual publication: "Waspublish'd my bold Apologie for the King in His time of danger, when it wascapital to speak or write in favour of him. It was twice printed, souniversaly it took. "[1] Evelyn was by conviction an ardent royalist, butby temperament he was peaceable, and the publication of this pamphlet wasa courageous act on his part, involving considerable risks. 

The _Apologie for the Royal Party_ contains an eloquent and outspokenattack upon the parliamentary party, the depth of the author's feelingsmaking his style of writing more effective than it usually was. 

Events were at this date nearing their climax, and Evelyn, soon after thepublication of his pamphlet, made persistent attempts to induce ColonelHenry Morley, then Lieutenant of the Tower of London, to declare for theKing. In the edition of Baker's _Chronicle of the Kings of England_, edited by Edward Phillips, 1665, is given the following account of thenegotiations (p. 736): "Mr. Evelyn gave him [Col. Morley] some visits toattemper his affection by degrees to a confidence in him, & then byconsequence to ingage him in his designes; and to induce him the morepowerfully thereunto, he put into his hands an excellent and unanswerablehardy treatise by him written and severall times reprinted, intituled _AnApology for the Royall Party_, which he backed with so good Argument anddextrous Addresses in the prosecution of them, that, after some privatediscourse, the Colonel was so well inclin'd, as to recommend to him theprocurement of his Majestie's Grace for him, his Brother-in-law Mr. Fagg, and one or two more of his Relations". Phillips added an account of aletter written by Evelyn to Colonel Morley, and gave him great credit forthe influence which he exerted, though Evelyn endorsed a draft of thenarrative with a statement saying there "was too much said concerning me". Nevertheless part of the narrative was confirmed by Evelyn when he wroteon the title-page of the copy of the pamphlet here reproduced: "Deliveredto Coll. Morley a few daies after his contest w^th Lambert in the palaceyard by J. Evelyn". The "contest" with General Lambert took place onOctober 12 or 13 when Morley, pistol in hand, refused to allow him at thehead of his troops to pass through the Palace Yard. 

Evelyn also wrote on the title-page of this copy of his pamphlet "threetymes printed". In fact there were four printings, all described in thewriter's _John Evelyn, a Study in Bibliophily & a Bibliography of hisWritings_, New York, The Grolier Club, 1937, the one here reproduced beingthe fourth and final form. Nevertheless all four issues are now extremelyscarce, the first printing being known in three copies (one in the UnitedStates), the second in seven (two in the United States), the third in one, and the fourth in one. This apparently unique relic of Evelyn's boldgesture on behalf of his King is in the writer's possession and is stillas issued, edges untrimmed and with its eight leaves stitched in acontemporary paper wrapper. It has been reprinted only in Evelyn's_Miscellaneous Writings_, 1825, pp. 169-192. 

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When Charles II actually returned to England in 1660 Evelyn's feelingswere deeply stirred. He had played some part in the restoration of themonarchy, and, with his literary instinct, naturally felt impelled to beamong those who wished to present the King with an address on the day ofhis Coronation. This took place on April 23, 1661, and on the followingday Evelyn recorded in his Diary: "I presented his Ma^tie with hisPanegyric in the Private Chamber, which he was pleas'd to accept mostgraciously: I gave copies to the Lord Chancellor and most of the noblemenwho came to me for it. "[2] Evelyn's _Panegyric_ was thus distributedprivately and no doubt in small number, so that it is today extremelyuncommon, being known only in five copies, not more than one of which isin the United States of America. Evelyn possessed a copy in 1687 accordingto his library catalogue compiled in that year, and a copy (notnecessarily the same one) is now among his books in the library of ChristChurch, Oxford, but it seems to have been unknown in 1825 and was notincluded in the _Miscellaneous Writings_. William Upcott, the editor, infact erroneously identified the _Panegyric_ with the anonymous piece infolio: "A Poem upon his Majesties Coronation . . . Being S^t Georges day . . . London, Printed for Gabriel Bedel and Thomas Collins . . . 1661". Thismistake was not put right until a copy of the true _Panegyric_ withEvelyn's name on the title-page was acquired for the British Museum in1927 from the Britwell Court Library. The copy here reproduced is in thewriter's collection, and has a few corrections in Evelyn's hand: (a)_XXXIII. Of April_, on title-page corrected to _XXIII_; (b) p. 6. L. 18_Family_ altered to _Firmament_; (c) p. 8. L. 16 from bottom _suffer_altered to _surfeit_. 

When the _Panegyric_ was identified it was realised that it was not apoem, but an eloquent and extravagant composition in prose, in whichEvelyn invested Charles II with every conceivable virtue and all wisdom. This was no doubt written with sincere enthusiasm, though Evelyn suffereda profound disillusionment in later years; and if he ever read hiseffusion again it must have caused him some distress. The _Panegyric_ isnow reprinted for the first time. 

Geoffrey Keynes

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Evelyn's _Diary_, ed. Wheatley, vol. II, p. 108. 

[2] Evelyn's _Diary_, ed. Wheatley, vol. II, p. 130. 

ANA P O L O G YFOR THEROYAL PARTY:Written in aL E T T E RTo a Person of the LateCOUNCEL of STATE. 

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_By a Lover of Peace and of his Country. _

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WITHA T O U C HAt the PretendedPLEA FOR THE ARMY. 

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[HW: Delivered to Coll: Morley, a few daiesafter his contest w^th Lambert in thePalace Yard: by J. Evelyn:]

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_Anno Dom. MDCLIX. _

ANA P O L O G I EFOR THER O Y A L P A R T Y:Written in a LETTER to a Person of the late_COUNCEL_ of _STATE_, By a Lover of Peace and of his Countrey:With a Touch at the _pretended Plea_ for the Army. 

_SIR_, The many Civilities which you are still pleased to continue to me, and myvery great desire to answer them in the worthiest testimonies of my zealfor your service, must make my best Apology for this manner of Addresse;if out of an extream affection for your noblest Interest, I seemtransported a little upon your first reflections, and am made to despisethe consequence of entertaining you with such Truths, as are of thegreatest danger to my self; but of no less import to your happiness, and, which carry with them the most indelible Characters of my Friendship. Forif as the Apostle affirms, _For a good man, some would even dare to dy_, why should my Charity be prejudged, if hoping to convert you from theerrour of your way, I despair not of rendring you the Person for whosepreservation there will be nothing too dear for me to expose?

I might with reason beleeve that the first election of the Party whereinyou stood engaged, proceeded from inexperience and the mistake of yourzeal; not to say from your compliance to the passions of others; because Iboth knew your education, and how obsequious you have alwayes shewed yourself to those who had then the direction of you: But, when after theexample of their conversion, upon discovery of the Impostures whichperverted them; and the signal indignation of God, upon the severalperiods which your eyes have lately beheld, of the bloudiest Tyrannies, and most prodigious oppressors that ever any age of the world produc'd, Isee you still persist in your course, and that you have turn'd about withevery revolution which has hapned: when I consider, what contradictionsyou have swallowed, how deeply you have ingaged, how servilely you haveflatter'd, and the base and mean submissions by which you havedishonour'd your self, and stained your noble Family; not to mention theleast refinement of your religion or morality (besides that you have stillpreserved a civility for me, who am ready to acknowledge it, and nevermerited other from you) I say, when I seriously reflect upon all this; Icannot but suspect the integrity of your procedure, deplore the sadness ofyour condition, and resolve to attempt the discovery of it to you; by allthe instances, which an affection perfectly touch't with a zeal for youreternall interest can produce. And who can tell, but it may pleaseAlmighty God, to affect _you_ yet by a weak instrument, who have resistedso many powerfull indications of his displeasure at your proceedings, bythe event of things?

For, since you are apt to recriminate, and after you have boasted of theprosperity or your cause, and the thriving of your Wickedness (an Argumentfarr better becoming a _Mahumetan_ then a _Christian_) let us state thematter a little, and compare particulars together; let us go back to thesource, and search the very principles; and then see, if ever any causehad like success indeed; and whether it be a just reproach to yourEnemies, that the judgments of God have begun with them, whilst you knownot yet, where they may determine. 

First then, be pleased to look North-wards upon your Brethren the Scots, who (being first instigated by that crafty _Cardinal_ [SN: Richlieu] todisturb the groth of the incomparable _Church of England_, and soconsequently the tranquility of a Nation, whose expedition at the Isle of_Ree_, gave terrour to the French) made Reformation their pretence, togratifie their own avarice, introduce themselves, and a more then_Babylonish_ Tyranny, imposing upon the Church and state, beyond allimpudence or example. _I_ say, look upon what they have gotten, bydeceiving their Brethren, selling their King, betraying his Son, and byall their perfidie; but a slavery more then _Egyptian_, and an infamy asunparallel'd, as their treason and ingratitude. 

Look neerer home on those whom they had ingaged amongst us here, & tell meif there be a Person of them left, that can shew me his prize, unless itbe that of his Sacriledg, which he, or his Nephews must certainly vomiteup again: What is become of this ignorant and furious zeal, this pretenceof an universall perfection in the Religious and the Secular, after allthat Blood and Treasure, Rapine and Injustice, which has been exhausted, and perpetrated by these Sons of Thunder? Where is the King, whom theyswear to make so glorious, but meant it in his _Martyrdome_? Where is theClassis, and the Assembly, the Lay-elder; all that geare of Scottishdiscipline, and the fine new Trinkets of Reformation? Were not all thesetaken out of their hand, while now they were in the height of their prideand triumph? And their dull Generall made to serve the execution of theirSovereign, and then to be turn'd off himself, as a property no more of useto their designes? Their riches and their strength in which they trusted, and the Parliament which they even idoliz'd, in sum, the prey they hadcontended for at the expence of so much sin and damnation, seizd upon bythose very instruments, which they had rais'd to serve their insatiableavarice, and prodigious disloyalty. For so it pleased God to chastisetheir implacable persecution of an excellent Prince, with a slavery undersuch a _Tyrant_, as not being contented to butcher even some upon theScaffold, sold divers of them for slaves, and others he exild into cruellbanishment, without pretence of Law, or the least commiseration; thatthose who before had no mercy on others, might find none themselves; tillupon some hope of their repentance, and future moderation, it pleased Godto put his hook into the nostrills of that proud _Leviathan_, and send himto his place, after he had thus mortified the fury of the Presbyterians. For unlesse God himself should utter his voice from Heaven, _yea, and thata mighty voice_, can there any thing in the world be more evident, thenhis indignation at those wretches and barefac't Impostors, who, one afteranother, usurped upon us, taking them off at the very point of aspiring, and præcipitating the glory and ambition of these men, before those thatwere, but now, their adorers, and that had prostituted their consciencesto serve their lusts? To call him the _Moses_, the _Man of God_, the_Joshua_, the _Saviour_ of _Israel_; and after all this, to treat the_Thing_ his son with addresses no lesse then blasphemous, whose Father (asthemselves confess to be the most infamous Hypocrite and profligateAtheist of all the Usurpers that ever any age produc'd) had made them hisVassalls, and would have intaild them so to his posterity for ever?

But behold the scean is again changed, not by the Royall party, the CommonEnemy, or a forreign power; but by the despicable _Rumpe_ of a Parliament, which that _Mountebanke_ had formerly serv'd himself of, and had rais'dhim to that pitch, and investiture: But see withall, how soon thesetriflers and puppets of policy are blown away, with all their pack ofmodells and childish _Chimæras_, nothing remaining of them but theirCoffine, guarded by the Souldiers at Westminster; but which is yet lesseempty then the heads of those Polititians, which so lately seemed to fillit. 

For the rest, I despise to blot paper with a recitall of those wretched_Interludes, Farces and Fantasms_, which appear'd in the severallintervalls; because they were nothing but the effects of an extreamgyddiness, and unparallel'd levity. Yet these are those variousdespensations and providences in your journey to that _holy land_ ofpurchases and profits, to which you have from time to time appeal'd forthe justification of your proceedings, whilst they were, indeed, no otherthen the manifest judgments of God upon your rebellion and your ambition:I say nothing of your hypocriticall fasts, and pretended humiliations, previous to the succeeding plots, and supposititious Revelations, that_the godly might fall into the hands of your Captains_, because they werebugbears, and became ridiculous even to the common people. 

And now _Sr. _ if you please, let us begin to set down the product andsurvey the successe of your party and after all these faces and vertigo'stell me ingenuously, if the single chastisment which is fallen upon oneafflicted man, and his loyall subjects, distressed by the common event ofwar, want of treasure, the seizure of his Fleet, forcing him from hisCity, and all the disadvantages that a perfidious people could imagine;but in fine the crowning him with a glorious _Martyrdome_ for the Churchof God and the liberty of his people (for which his blood doth yet cryaloud for vengeance) be comparable to the confusion which you (that havebeen the conquerours) have suffered, and the slavery which you are like toleave to the posterities which will be born but to curse you, and to groanunder the pressures which you bequeath to your own flesh & blood? For towhat a condition you have already reduced this once flourishing kingdom, since all has been your own, let the intolerable oppressions, taxes, Excises, sequestrations confiscations, plunders, customes, decimations, not to mention the plate, even to very thimbles and the bodkins (for evento these did your avarice descend) and other booties, speak. All thisdissipated and squandred away, to gratifie a few covetous and ambitiouswretches, whose appetites are as deep as hell, and as insatiable as thegrave; as if (as the Wise-man speaks) _our time here were but a market forgain_. 

Look then into the Churches, and manners of the people, even amongst yourown _Saints_, and tell me, if since _Simon Magus_ was upon the earth, there were ever heard of so many _Schismes_, and _Heresies_, of _Jewes_and _Socinians_, _Quakers_, _Fifth-monarchy-men_, _Arians_, _Anabaptists_, _Independents_, and a thousand severall forts of _Blasphemies_ andprofessed _Atheists_, all of them spawned under your government; and thentell me what a Reformation of Religion you have effected?

Was there ever in the whole Earth (not to mention Christendom alone) aperjury so prodigious, and yet so avowed as that by which you have takenaway the estate of my L. _Craven_, at which the very _Infidels_ wouldblush, a _Turke_ or _Sythian_ stand amaz'd?

Under the Sun was it never heard, that a man should be condemned fortransgressing no law, but that which was made after the fact, andabrogated after execution; that the Posterities to come might not bewitnesses of your horrid injustice: Yet thus you proceeded against my _L. Stafford_. How many are those gallant persons whom after articles of war, you have butchered in cold-blood, violating your promises against theLawes of all Nations, civill or barbarous; and yet thus you dealt in thecase of my L. _Capel_, Sr. _J. Stawel_ and others. 

Is not the whole nation become sullen and proud, ignorant and suspicious, incharitable, curst, and in fine, the most depraved and perfidious underheaven? And whence does all this proceed, but from the effects of your ownexamples, and the impunity of evill doers?

I need not tell you how long Justice has been sold by the _Committees_, and the Chair-men, the Sequestrators and Simoniacall Tryers, not tomention the late Courtiers, and a swarm of _Publicans_ who _have eaten upthe People as if they would eat bread_. 

Will you come now to the particular mis-fortunes, and the evident hand ofGod upon you for these actions (for he has not altogether left us withoutsome expresse witnesses of his displeasure at your doings, ) Behold thenyour _Essex_ and your _Warwick_, your _Ferfaix_, and your _Waller_, (whomonce your Books stiled the _Lord of Hosts_) Cashiered, Imprisoned, Suspected and Disgraced after all their Services. _Hotham_, and his _Son_came to the block; _Stapleton_ had the buriall of an Asse, and was throwninto a Town Ditch; _Brookes_ and _Hamden_ signally slain in the very actof Rebellion and Sacriledge; your atheisticall _Dorislaw_, _Ascam_ and theSodomiticall _Ariba_, whom though they escaped the hand of Justice, yet_Vengeance_ would not suffer to live: What became of _Rainsborough_?_Ireton_ perished of the Plague, and _Hoyle_ hanged himself; _Staplie_'tis said, died mad, and _Cromwell_ in a fit of raging; and if there wereany others worthy the taking notice of, I should give you a list of theirnames and of their destinies; but it was not known whence they came whichsucceeded them; nor had they left any memory behind them, but for theirsignal wickednesses, as he that set on fire the _Ephesian Temple_ to berecorded a Villain to posterity. Whereas those noble souls whom yourinhumanity, (not your vertue) betrayed, gave proof of their extraction, Innocency, Religion and Constancy under all their Tryals and Tormentors;and those that dyed by the sword, fell in the bed of honour, and didworthily for their Country; their _Loyalty_ and their _Religion_ will berenowned in the History of Ages, and pretious to their memory, when yournames will rot with your Carkasses, and your remembrance be as dung uponthe face of the Earth. For there is already no place of _Europe_ whereyour infamy is not spread; whilst your persecuted brethren rejoyce intheir sufferings, can abound, and can want, blush not at their actions, nor are ashamed at their addresses; because they have suffered for thatwhich their Faith and their Birth, their Lawes and their Liberties havecelebrated with the most glorious Inscriptions, and Everlasting Elogies. 

And if fresher instances of all these particulars be required, cast youreye a little upon the _Armies pretended Plea_, which came lately a birdingto beat the way before them, charm the ears of the Vulgar, and captivatethe people; That after all its _pseudo-politicks_ and irreligiousprinciples, is at last constrained to acknowledg _your open and prodigiousviolations, strange and illegal Actions, (as in termes it confesses) oftaking up Armes, Raising and Forming Armies against the King, fightingagainst his Person, Imprisoning, Impeaching, Arraigning, Trying andExecuting Him: Banishing his Children, abolishing Bishops, Deans andChapters; taking away Kingly Government, and the House of Lords, breakingthe Crowns, selling the Jewells, Plate, Goods, Houses and Lands belongingunto the Kings of this Nation, erecting extraordinary High Courts ofJustice, and therein Impeaching, Arraigning, condemning, and Executingmany pretended notorious Enemies, to the publick Peace; when the Lawes inbeing, and the Ordinary Courts of Justice could not reach them: By strangeand unknown practises in this Nation, and not at all Justifiable by anyknown Lawes and Statutes_, But by certain diabolical principles of latedistilled into some person of the Army, and which he would entitle to thewhole, who (abating some of their Commanders, that have sucked the sweetof this Doctrine) had them never so much as entred into their thoughts, nor could they be so depraved, though they were Masters only of the Lightof Nature to direct them. For Common sence will tell them, that whoeverare our lawful Superiours, and invested with the supreame Authority, either by their own vertue, or the peoples due Election, have then a justright to challenge submission to their precepts, and that we acquiesce intheir determinations; since there is in nature no other expedient topreserve us from everlasting confusion: But it is the height of allimpertinency to conceive, that those which are a part of themselves, andcan in so great a Body, have no other interests, should (without themanifest hand of God were in it to infatuate all your proceedings) fallinto such exorbitant contradiction to their own good, as a child of fouryears old would not be guilty of; and as this Pamphleter wildly suggestsin pp. 6. 11. 27, &c. Did they steer their course by the known laws of theLand, and as obedient Subjects should do, who without the King and hisPeers, are but the Carkass of a Parliament, as destitute of the Soul whichshould inform and give it being. And if so small a handful of men asappeared in the Palace-Yard, without consent of a quarter of the EnglishArmy, much lesse the tenthousand'th part of the Free-people that are notclad in red, shall disturb and alter your Government when it thinks fit toset aside a few imperious Officers, who plainly seek themselves, andderive their Commissions from superiours to whom they swear obedience; howcan you ever hope, or live to see any government established in thesemiserably abused Nations? Behold then with how weak a party you arevanquish'd, even by those very instruments you had so long flatter'd withthe title of the _Free-people_; imputing all the direful effects of yourdepraved principles to their desires, when as I dare report my self to theingenuity of the very Souldiers themselves, if they, who have effected allthese changes by your wretched instigations, and blind pretences, imaginethemselves the People of this Nation, but are{1} a very small portion ofthem, compared to the whole, and who are maintained by them to recover, and protect the Civill Government, according to the Good old Lawes of theLand; not such as they themselves shall invent from Day to Day, or as theinterests of some few persons may engage them. 

But if the essential end of Rulers be the Common peace, and their Lawesobliging as they become relative: Restore us then to those under which welived with so much sweetness and tranquility, as no age in the World, noGovernment under Heaven could ever pretend the like. And if the People (asyou declare) are to be the Judges of it, summon them together in a FreeParliament, according to its legal Constitution; or make a universal_Balott_, and then let it appear, if _Collonel Lambert_ and half a dozenOfficers, with all their seduced Partizans, make so much as a single_Cypher_ to the _Summe Total_. And this shall be enough to answer thosedevious Principles set down in the porch of that specious Edifice; whichbeing erected upon the Sand, will (like the rest that has been _daubedwith untempered mortar_) sink also at the next high wind that blowes uponit. But I am glad it is at last avowed, upon what pretexts that latepretended Parliament have pleaded on the behalf of themselves and party, their discharge from all the former Protestations, Engagements, solemnVowes, Covenants, with hands (as you say) lift up to the most high God, asalso their Oaths and Allegiance, &c. Because I shall not in this discoursebe charged with slandering of them, and that the whole World may detestthe Actions of such perfidious Infidels, with whom nothing sacred hasremain'd inviolable. 

But there is yet a piece of Artifice behind, of no less consequence thenthe former, and that is, a seeking to perswade the present Army, that_They_ were the men, who first engaged thus solemnly to destroy theGovernment under which they were born, and reduce it to this miserablecondition: whereas it is well known by such as converse daily with them, that there is hardly one of ten amongst them, who was then in Armes; andthat it was the Zelots under _Essex_, and the succeeding Generals, whowere the persons whose perfidiousness{2} he makes so much use of, and thatthe present Army consists of a far more ingenuous spirit, and might in onemoment vindicate this aspersion, make their conditions with all advantage, and these Nations the most happy People upon the Earth, as it cannot bedespaired but they will one day do, when by the goodness of Almighty God, they shall perfectly discern through the mist which you have cast upontheir eyes, lest they should discover the Imposture of these _Egyptian_Sorcerers. 

And now, _Sir_, if after all this injustice, and impiety on your parts, you have prosecuted that with the extreamest madness, which you esteemedcriminal in your enemies, _viz. _ _To arrogate the supream power in asingle person;{3} condemn men without Law; execute, and proscribe themwith as little: Imprest for your Service, violate your Parliaments, dispense with your solemn Oaths_; in summe, _to mingle Earth and Heaven byyour arbitrary proceedings_: All which, not only your printed books, thispretended _plea_; but your Actions have abundantly declared; have you notjustified the Royal party, and pronounced them the only honest men whichhave appeared upon the stage, in Characters as plain, that he which runsmay read, whilst yet you persecute them to the death? _Therefore, thouart inexcusable, O Man, that _perpetratest_ these things; For wherein thoujudgest another, thou condemnest thy self, seeing thou that judgest doestthe same things. But thinkest thou this O Man, that thus judgest themwhich do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the_vengeance_ of God? I tell ye nay, but except ye repent, ye shall alllikewise perish. _

Truly, _Sir_, when I compare these things together, and compare them I dovery often, consider the purchases which you have made, and the damnationyou have certainly adventured; the despite you have done to the name ofChrist, the Laws of Common humanity which you have violated, the maliceand the folly of your proceedings; in fine, the confusion which you havebrought upon the Church, the State, and your selves; I adore the just andrighteous judgment of God; and (howsoever you may possibly emerge, andrecover the present rout) had rather be a sufferer among those whom youhave thus afflicted, and thus censure, then to enjoy the pleasures of yoursins for that season you are likely to possess them: For if an Angel fromHeaven should tell me you had done your duties, I would no more believehim, then if he should preach another Gospel, then that which has beendelivered to us; because you have blasphemed that holy profession, anddone violence to that Gracious Spirit, by whose sacred dictates you aretaught to live in obedience to your Superiours, and in Charity to oneanother; covering yet all this _Hydra_ of Impostures with a mask Of Pietyand Reformation, whilst you breath nothing but oppression, and lye in waitto deceive. But _O God! how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour, how long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy name, for ever? They gather themtogether against the soul of the Righteous, and condemn the innocentblood. Lo these are the ungodly, these prosper in the World, and thesehave riches in possession: And I said, then have I cleansed my heart invain, and washed my hands in innocency. Yea, and I had almost said asthey; but lo, then I should have condemned the generation of thy Children. Then thought I to understand this, but it was too hard for me, untill Iwent into the Sanctuary of God; then understood I the end of these Men. Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places, castest them down anddestroyest them. _

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 _O how suddenly do they consume, perish, and come to a fearfull end!_

We have seen it, indeed _Sir_, we have seen it, and we cannot butacknowledge it the very finger of God, _mirabile in oculis nostris_; andis that, truly, which even constrains me out of Charity to your Soul, aswell as out of a deep sense of your Honour, and the Friendship which Iotherwise bear you, to beseech you to re-enter into your self, to abandonthose false Principles, to withdraw your self from these Seducers, torepent of what you have done, _and save your self from this untowardGeneration_: There is yet a door of Repentance open, do not provoke theMajesty of the great God any longer, which yet tenders a Reconciliationto you. Remember what was once said over the perishing _Jerusalem_. _Howoften would I have gathered you together, as a hen doth gather her broodunder her winge, and ye would not? Behold, your _House_ is left unto youdesolate. _--For do not think it impossible, that we should become the mostabandon'd, and barbarous of all the nations under heaven. You know who hassaid it: _He turneth a fruitfull land into a Wildernesse, for the iniquityof them that inhabit therein. _ And truly, he that shall seriously considerthe sad _Catastrophe_ of the _Eastern Empire_, so flourishing in piety, policy, knowledg, literature, and all the excellencies of a happy andblessed people; would almost think it impossible, that in so few years, and a midst so glorious a light of learning and Religion, so suddain, andpalpable a darknesse, so strange and horrid a barbarity should over-spreadthem, as now we behold in all that goodly tract of the _Turkish_dominions: And what was the cause of all this, but the giddinesse of awanton people, the Schisms and the Heresies in the church, and theprosperous successes of a rebellious _Impostor_, whose steps we havepursued in so many pregnant instances; giving countenance to those unheardof impieties, and delusions, as if God be not infinitely merciful, mustneeds involve us under the same disasters? For, whilst there is no orderin the Church, no body of Religion agreed upon, no government established, and that every man is abandoned to his own deceitfull heart: whilstlearning is decried, and honesty discountenanc'd, rapine defended, andvertue finds no advocate; what can we in reason expect, but the mostdirefull expressions of the wrath of God, a universall desolation, when bythe industry of _Sathan_ and his crafty Emissaries, some desperate_enthusiasme_, compounded (like that of _Mohomet_, ) of Arian, Socinian, Jew, Anabaptist, and the impurer _Gnostick_, something I say made up ofall these heresies, shall diffuse it self over the Nation, in a universallcontagion, and nothing lesse appear then the _Christian_ which we haveingratefully renounced?

_For this plague is already beginning amongst us, and there is none totake the Censer, and to stand between the living and the dead, that we benot consumed as in a moment; for there is wrath gone out from the Lord. _Let us then _depart from the tents of these wicked men_ (who have broughtall this upon us) _and touch nothing of theirs, lest we be consumed in alltheir sins_. 

But you will say, the King is not to be trusted: judg not of others byyour selves; did ever any man observe the least inclination of revenge inhis breast? has he not betides the innate propensity of his own nature togentlenesse, the strict injunctions of a dying father and a _Martyr_, toforgive even greater offenders then you are? Yes, I dare pronounce it withconfidence, and avouch it whith all assurance, that there is not anindividuall amongst you, whose crimes are the most crimson, whom he willnot be most ready to pardon, and graciously receive upon their repentance;nor any thing that can be desired of him, to which he would not cheerfullyaccommode, for the stopping of that torrent of blood, and extreamconfusion, which has hitherto run, and is yet imminent over us. Do butreason a little with your self, and confider sadly, whether a youngPrince, mortified by so many afflictions, disciplin'd by much experience, and instructed by the miscarriages of others, be not the most excellentlyqualified to govern and reduce a people, who have so succeslesly tried somany governments, of old, impious and crafty Foxes, that have exercisedupon us the most intollerable Tyrannies that were ever heard of?

But you object further, that he has lived amongst Papists, is vitiouslyinclin'd, and has wicked men about him: What can be said more unjustly, what more malitious? And can _you_ have the foreheads to tell us he haslived amongst Papists to his prejudice, who have proscrib'd him fromProtestants, persecuted him from place to place, _as a Patridg on theMountains_? You may remember who once went to _Achich the King of Gath andchanged his behaviour before them, and fain'd himself mad in their hands_;had many great infirmities, and _was yet a man after Gods own heart_;Whilst the Catholick King was your Allie, you had nothing to do withPapists, it was then no crime: _God is not mocked, away with this respectof persons_: But where is it you would have him to be? The _Hollander_dares not afford him harbour, lest you refuse them yours: The _French_ maynot give him bread for fear of offending you; and unless he should go tothe _Indies_, or the _Turk_ (where yet your malice would undoubtedly reachhim) where can he be safe from your revenge? But suppose him in a PapistCountrey, constrained thereto by your incharity to his Soul as well asbody; would he have condescended to half so much, as you have offered fora toleration of Papists, he needed not now have made use of this Apology, or wanted the assistance of the most puissant Princes of _Christendome_ torestore him, of whom he has refused such conditions as in prudence hemight have yielded to, and the people would have gladly received; whilstthose who know with what persons you have transacted, what truck you havemade with the _Jesuites_, what secret Papists there are amongst you, mayeasily divine why they have been no forwarder to assist him, and how fardistant he is from the least wavering in his Faith. But since you have nowdeclared that you will tollerate all Religions, without exception; do notthink it a sin in him, to gratifie those that shall most oblige him. 

For his vertues and Morality, I provoak the most refined Family in thisNation to produce me a Relation of more piety and moderation; shew me aFraternity more spotlesse in their honour, and freer from the exorbitancesof youth, then these three Brothers, so conspicuous to all the world fortheir Temperance, Magnanimity, Constancy, and Understanding; a friendshipand humility unparallel'd, and rarely to be found amongst the severestpersons, scarcely in a private family. It is the malice of a very blackSoul, and a virulent _Renegado_ (of whom to be commended were the utmostinfamy) that has interpreted some compliances, to which persons indistress are sometimes engaged, with those whom they converse withall, tohis Majesties disadvantage: _whilst these filthy dreamers defile the fleshthemselves, and thinking it no sin to despise dominion, speak evill ofdignities, and of the things which they know not. But woe unto them, forthey have gone in the way of Kain, and run greedily after the errour ofBalaam, for reward, having mens persons in admiration because ofadvantage. _

For the rest, I suppose the same was said of Holy _David_, when in hisextream calamity, he was constrain'd to fly from _Saul_. _For every onethat was in distresse, and every one that was in debt, and every one thatwas discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became Captain overthem. _ And to this retinue, has your malice and persecution reduced thisexcellent Prince; but he that preserv'd him in the Wood, _and deliveredDavid out of all his troubles_, shall likewise in his appointed time, deliver him also out of these distresses. 

I have now answered all your calumnies, and have but a word to add, that Imay yet incline you to accept of your best interest, and prevent thatdreadfull ruine which your obstinacy does threaten. Is it not asperspicuous as the Sun, that it lies in your power to reform his Counsell, introduce your selves, make what composition you can desire, have all thesecurity that mortall men can imagine, and the greatest Princes of Europeto engage in the performance? This were becoming worthy men, andhonourable indeed; this ingenuous self-denyall: And it is no disgrace toreforme a mistake, but to persist in it lyes the shame. The whole Nationrequire it of you, and the lawes of God command it, you cannot, you mustnot deferr it. For what can you pretend that will not then drop into yourbosomes? The humble man will have repose, the aspiring and ambitious, honours: The Merchant will be secure, Trades immediately recover, Alianceswill be confirm'd, the Lawes reflourish, tender Consciences consider'd, present purchasers satisfied; the Souldier payed, maintained and providedfor; and what's above all this, Christianity and Charity will revive againamongst us, _Mercy and Truth will meet together; righteousness and peaceshall kiss each other_. 

But let us now consider on the other side, the confusion, which must ofnecessity light upon us if we persist in our rebellion and obstinacy; Weare already impoverisht, and consum'd with war and the miseries thatattend it; you have wasted our treasure, and destroyed the Woods, spoyledthe Trade, and shaken our properties; a universall animosity is in thevery bowells of the Nation; the Parent against the Children, and theChildren against the Parents, betraying one another to the death; insumme, if that have any truth which our B. _Saviour_ has himselfpronounced, _That a Kingdome divided cannot stand_, it is impossible weshould subsist in the condition we are reduc'd to. Consider we again, howridiculous our late proceedings have made us to our neighbours round aboutus. Their _Ministers_ laugh at our extream{4} giddinesse, and we seem tomock at their addresses: for no sooner do their _Credentialls_ arrive, but behold the scean is changed, and the Government is fled, he that nowacted King, left a fool in his place, and they stand amazed at out_Buffoonery_ and madnesse. 

What then may we imagine will be the product of all these disadvantages, when the Nations that deride and hate us, shall be united for ourdestruction; and that the harvest is ripe for the sickle of their fury?shall we not certainly be a prey to an inevitable ruine, having thusweakned our selves by a brutish civill war, and cut off those glorious_Heros_, the wise and the valiant, whose courage in such a calamity weshall in vain imploar, that would bravely have sacrificed themselves forour delivery? Let us remember how often we have served a forraign people, and that there is nothing so confident, but a provoked God can overthrow. 

For my part, I tremble, but to consider what may be the issue of thesethings, when our iniquities are full, and that God shall make inquisitionfor the bloud that has been spilt; unlesse we suddainly meet him by anunfained repentance, and turn from all the abominations by which we haveprovoaked him; And then, it is to be hoped, that he who would havecompounded with the _Father of the faithfull_, had there been but tenRighteous men in _Sodom_; and that spared _Nineveh_ that populous andgreat City; will yet have mercy on us, hearken to the prayers, and haveregard to the teares, of so many Millions of people, who day and night dointerceed with him: The _Priests_ and Ministers _of the Lord weepingbetween the porch and the Altar, and saying, Spare thy people O Lord, spare thy People, and give not thine Inheritance to reproach_. 

And now I have said what was upon my Spirit for your sake, when, for thesatisfaction of such as (through its effect upon your soule) this Addresseof mine may possibly come to, I have religiously declared, that the Personwho writ it, had no unworthy or sinister design of his owne to gratifie, much lesse any other party whatever; as being neither _Courtier_, _Souldier_, or _Church-man_, but a plain Country Gentleman, engag'd onneither side, who, has had leisure, (through the goodnesse of God)candidly, and without passion to examine the particulars which he hastouched, and expects no other reward in the successe of it, then what_Christ_ has promised in the _Gospels_: The _Benediction{5} of the peacemaker_; and which he already feels in the discharge of his Consciencebeing for his own particular, long since resolv'd with himself, to persistin his Religion, and his loyalty to the death; come what will; aswrongfully perswaded, that all the persecutions, losses, and otheraccidents which may arrive him for it here, _are not worthy to be comparedto that eternall{6} weight of glory which is to be revealed hereafter_;and to the inexpressible consolation, which it will afford on his_Death-bed_, when all these guilded pleasures will disappear, this noise, and empty pompe, when God shall _set all out sins in order before us_; andwhen, it is certain, that the humble, and the peaceable, the charitableand the meek shall not loose their reward, not change their hopes, for allthe Crownes and the Scepters, the Lawrells and the Trophies whichambitious and self seeking men contend for, with so much Tyrannie andinjustice. 

Let them therefore no longer deceive you, dear Sr. And as the guise ofthese vile men is, tell you they are the Godly-party, under which for thepresent they would pass, and _courage themselves in their wickedness_, stoping their ears, and shutting their eyes against all that has beentaught and practised by the best of Christians, & holiest of Saints thesesixteen hundred years: _You shall know them by their fruites, do mengather Grapes of Thornes, or Figs of Thistles?_ But so, being miserablygall'd with the remembrance of their impieties, and the steps by whichthey have ascended to those fearfull precepices, they seek to allay thesecret pangs of a gnawing worme, by adopting the most prodigious of theircrimes into a Religion fitted for the purpose, and versatile as theirgiddy interest, till at last, encourag'd by the number of thrivingProselytes and successes, they grow feared and confident; swallowing allwith ease, and passing from one heresie to another; whilst yet they arestill pursued, and shalt never be at repose: For Conscience will at lastawake, and then how frightful, how deplorable, yea, how inexpressably sadwill that day be unto them! _For these things have they done, and I heldmy tongue _(saith God)_ and they thought wickedly, that I am such a one asthemselves; but I will reprove them and set before them the things thatthey have done. O consider this ye that forget God, least he pluck youaway, and there be none to deliver you!_

And now _Sir_, you see the liberty which I have taken, and how farr I haveadventured to testifie a friendship which I have ever professed for you: Ihave indeed been very bold; but it was greatly requisite; and you knowthat amongst all men there are none which more openly use the freedom ofreprehension, then those who love most: Advices are not rejected by any, but such as determine to pursue their evill courses; and the languagewhich I use, is not to offend, but to beseech you to return. I conjure youtherefore to re-enter into your self, and not to suffer these mean anddishonourable respects, which are unworthy your nobler spirit, to promptyou to a course so deform'd, and altogether unworthy your education andFamily. Behold your friends all deploaring your misfortunes, and yourEnemies even pitie you; whilst to gratifie a few mean and desperatepersons, you cancell your duty to your prince, and disband your Religion;dishonour your name, bring ruine and infamy on your posterity. 

But when all this shall fail (as God forbid a title of it should) _I_ haveyet this hope remaining; that when you have been sufficiently fated withthis wicked course, wandred from place to place, government to government, sect to sect, in so universal a deluge, and find no repose for the sole ofyour foot (as it is certain you never shal) you with at last with thepeaceful _Dove_, return to the Arke from whence you fled, to your firstprinciples, and to sober counsels; or with the repenting _Prodigall_ inthe Gospel, to _your Father_ which is in heaven, and to the _Father ofyour Countrey_: For in so doing, you shall not only rejoyce your servant, and all good men, but the very _Angels_ which are in heaven, and who arenever said to rejoyce indeed, but _at the Conversion of a sinner_. 

_This 27. Octob. 1659_

_Et tu conversus, converte Fratres. _

PSAL. 37. 

_10. Yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone, thou shaltlook after his place, and he shall be away. _

_36. I my self have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing likea green Bay-tree. _

_37. I went by, and lo he was gone; I sought him, but his place could nowhere be found. _

_38. Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right: For thatshall bring a Man peace at the last. _

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I request the _Reader_ to take notice, that where, mentioning the_Presbyterian_, I have let fall expressions, somewhat relishing of morethen usuall asperity; I do by no means intend it to the prejudice of manyof that Judgment, who were either men of peaceable spirits from thebeginning; or that have of late given testimony of the sense of theirerrour, whilst they were abused by those specious pretences I havereproved; but I do regard them with as much charity and affection, asbecomes a sincere Christian, and their Brother. 

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AP A N E G Y R I CTOCharles the Second, PRESENTEDTO HIS MAJESTIEThe [HW: 1st X crossed out]XXXIII. Of _APRIL_, being the DayOF HISCORONATION. MDCLXI. 

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By _JOHN EVELYN_, Esquire

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_LONDON_, Printed for _John Crooke_, and are to be sold at the Ship inSt. _Paul's_ Church-Yard. 

APANEGYRICTOCHARLES the II. PRESENTEDTO HIS MAJESTYOn the Day of His INAUGURATION, _April 23. _ MDCLXI. 

I have decreed with myself (O best and greatest of Kings!) to publish thejust resentiments of a heart, perfectly touch'd with the Joy and UniversalAcclamations of your People, for your this dayes Exaltation and gloriousinvestiture. And truly, it was of custome us'd to good and graciousPrinces, upon lesser occasions, to pronounce and celebrate their meritswith Elogies and Panegyrics; but if ever they were due, it is to yourMajesty this Day; because as your Virtues are superiour to all that pass'dbefore you; so is the Conjuncture, and the steps by which you are happilyascended to it, Miraculous, and alltogether stupendious: So that what theformer Ages might produce to deprecate their fears, or flatter theInclinations of a Tyrant, we offer spontaneously, and by Instinct, withoutArtifice to your Serene Majesty, our just and rightfull Soveraign. And ifin these expressions of it, and the formes we use, it were possible toexceed, and so offend your Modesty; herein only (great Sir) do we not fearto disobey you; since it is not in your power to deny us our rejoycing, nor indeed in ours, to moderate. Permit us therefore (O best of Kings) tofollow our genius, and to consecrate your Name, and this dayes exaltationto that posterity which you alone have preserved, and which had certainlyseen its period, but for your happy Restauration; so that your Majestydoes not so much accept a benefit from, as give it to your Subjects. Forthough the fulness of this Dayes joy, be like the seven years of plenty;yet, is that bread far more sweet, which is eaten with remembrance of thepast Famine (too bitter, alas! to be forgotten on the suddain) especially, when it may serve to illustrate our present felicity, and conduce to yourMajesties glory: For so the skillful Artist, studious of making asurprising peice, or representing some irradiated Deity, deepens theshadowes sometimes with the darkest touches, and approaching to horrourit self, thereby to render his lights the more refulgent, and striking inthe eyes of the Spectator. 

Let us then call to mind (and yet for ever cursed be the memory of it)those dismal clouds, which lately orespread us, when we served the lustsof those immane Usurpers, greedy of power, that themselves might be undernone; Cruel, that they might murther the Innocent without cause; Rich, with the publick poverty; strong, by putting the sword into the hands offuries, and prosperous by unheard of perfidie. Armies, Battails, Impeaching, Imprisonment, Arraining, Condemning, Proscribing, Plundring, Gibbets and Executions were the eloquent expressions of our miseries:There was no language then heard but of Perjury, Delusion, Hypocrisie{7}, Heresie, Taxes, Excises, Sequestration, Decimation, and a thousand likebarbarities: In summe, the solitudes were filled with noble Exiles, theCities with rapacious Theives, the Temples with Sacrilegious Villains;They had the spoiles of Provinces, the robbing of Churches, the goods ofthe slain, the Stock of Pupils, the plunder of Loyal Subjects; noTestament, no State secure, and nothing escaped their cruelty andinsatiable avarice. For if it be sweet in prosperity, to consider of thepast adventures, if tempests commend the Haven; War, Peace; and our lastsharp sickness, our present Health and Vigour; why should it not delightyour Majesty to hear of the miseries we have suffered; since theyre-inforce your own felicity, and the benefits which we receive by it?where then should I begin but with thy Calamities, O unfortunate_England_! who hadst only the priviledge of being miserable, when all theWorld were happy: But I will not go too for in repeating the sorroweswhich are vanish't, or uncover the buried memory of the evils past; leastwhilst we strive to represent the vices of others, we seem to contaminateyour Sacred purple, or alloy our present rejoycing; since that only issign of a perfect and consummate felicity, when even the very remembranceof evils past, is quite forgotten. 

Miraculous Reverse! O marvel greater then Mans Counsel! who will believethat which his eyes do see? what before a twenty years confusion haddestroy'd; behold a few moneths have restor'd: But the wonder does yet somuch more astonish, that the grief was not so universal for havingsuffer'd under such a Tyranny, as for having been so long depriv'd of soexcellent a Prince: No more then do we henceforth accuse our pastmiseries; All things are by your presence repair'd, and so reflourish; asif they even rejoyc'd they had once been destroy'd, _Auctior tuis factabeneficiis. _ So as not only a Diadem binds your sacred Temples this day;but you have even crown'd all your Subjects too; so has your auspiciouspresence gilded all things; our Churches, Tribunals, Theaters, Palaces, lift up their heads again; the very fields do laugh and exalt. O happy, and blessed spring! not so glorious yet with the pride and enamel of hisflowers, the golden corn, and the gemms of the pregnant Vine, as withthose Lillies and Roses which bloom and flourish in your Chaplet this day, to which not only these, but even all the productions of nature seem tobend, and pay their homage. 

And let it be a new year, a new _Æra_, to all the future Generations, asit is the beginning of this, and of that immense, _Platonic_ Revolution;for what could arrive more justly, more stupendious, were even the eightsphear it self now hurled about? For no sooner came our _CHARLES_ onshore, but every Man was in the Haven where he would be; the stormUniversally ceas'd, and every one ran forth to see our _Palladium, tanquamcoelo delapsum_: Virgins, Children, Women, trembling old Men, veneratingthe very ship that wafted our _Jason_ and his _Heroes_, ravish'd with thesight, yet hardly believing for astonishment; the greatness of themiracle, oppressing our sences, and endangering our very faith. 

 _Credetne hoc olim ventura posteritas?_

I would prayse you Great Prince, but having begun; where shall I make anend? since there remains not a Topic through all that kind, but one mightwrite Decads of it, without offending the truth, were it as secure of yourmodesty; since I am as well to consider what your ears can suffer, as whatis owing to your Virtues: On what heads shall I extend then my discourse?your Birth, Country, Form, Education, Manners, Studies, Friends, Honoursand Fortune run through all partitions of the Demonstrative: An Oratorcould have nothing more to wish for, nor your Majesty to render you moreaccomplish'd. 

Shall I consider then your Majesty as you were a Son to that gloriousFather before his _Apotheosis_? As you were your self a Confessor afterit; As you are now thus day in your Zenith and exaltation; and as weAugure you will by Gods blessing prove to your Subjects hereafter: Foreven through all these does our prospect lead us; Nor may it be objectedthat what shall be spoken of your Majesty, can be applied to any other;since the Fortune and Events of the rest of Princes, have been sodiffering from yours; as seeming to have been conducted by Men alone, andsecond Causes; yours only by God, and as it were by Miracle. 

I begin then with your early Piety to that Kingly Martyr whose Sacreddictates did institute your tender years, and whose sufferings were somuch alleviated by your Majesties early proficiency in all that mightpresage a hopefull and glorious Successor: For so did you run through allhis Vicissitudes, during that implacable war, which sought nothing morethen to defeat you of all opportunities of a Princely education, asfearing your future Virtues; because they knew the stock from whence yousprung, was not to be destroy'd by wounding the body, so long as such aBranch remained. 

 _Duris ut ilex tonsa bipennibus Nigræ feraci frondis in Algido, Per damna, per cædes, ab ipso Ducit opes, animumque ferro. _

Whilst he Reign'd and Govern'd, you learn'd only to obey; Living your ownPrincely Impress; [SN: _ICH DIEN. _] as knowing it would best instruct youone day how to Command, and which we now see accomplish'd: These then arethe effects, when Princes are the Sons of Nobles; since only such knowbest to support the weight, who use to bear betimes, and by degrees; notthose who rashly pull it on their shoulders; because they take it withless violence, less ambition, less jealousie: None so secure a Prince, ashe that is so born. 

But no sooner did that blessed Martyr expire, then our redivive_Phoenix_ appear'd; rising from those Sacred Ashes Testator and Heir;Father and yet Son; Another, and yet the same; introsuming as it were hisSpirit, as he breath'd it out, when singing his own Epicedium andGenethliack together, he seem'd prodigal of his own life to have itredouble'd in your felicity: Thus, _Rex nunquam moritur_. O admirableconduct of the Divine Providence, to immortalize the image of a justMonarch: _Ipsa quidem, sed non eadem, quia & ipsa, nec ipsa est. _ Sincethat may as truly be apply'd to your Majesty, which was once to the wisestof Kings: _Mortuus est Pater ejus, & quasi non mortuus, similem enimreliquit sibi post se. _

But with how much prudence, is serenity attributed amongst the titles ofPrinces, and the beams of the sun to irradiate their Crowns; That theScepter bears a Flower; since as that glorious planet produces, so does italso wither them; and there is nothing lasting, save their vertues, whichare indeed their essential parts, and only immortal; For even yet did theclouds intercept our day with the continuance of so dismall a storm, as itobnubilated all those hopes of ours. It is an infinite adventure, if in aPrinces Family [HW: Firmament] (once overcast) it ever grow fair weatheragain, but by a singular and extraordinary providence. I mention this toincrease the wonder, and reinforce your felicity. Empires passe, Kingdomesare translated, and dominions cease: The _Cecropides_ of old, the_Arsacides_, the _Theban_, _Corinthian_, _Syracusian_, and sundry morelasted nor to the fourth Age without strange and prodigious tragedies; butwhy go we so far back, when a few Centuries present us with so many freshRevolutions? How many nests has the _Roman_ Eagle changed? _Bulgarian_, _Saracen_, _Latine_; In the _Comneni_, _Isaaci_, _Paleologi_, &c. Eventill it dash'd it self in pieces against the _Oetoman_ rock. Whatmutations have been in the house of _Arragon_? How many Riders has the_Parthenopean_ horse unsaddl'd and flung? How many _Sicily_? What changeshave been in _Italy_, What in _France_, and indeed through all _Europe_ by_Vandals_, _Saxons_, _Danes_, _Normans_, by external invasion, internalFaction, Envy, Ambition, treachery and violence? The _Consulate_degenerated into _Oligarchy_, which occasion'd the _Aventine_ sedition;Democraty into _Ochlocraty_ under the _Tribunes_ and wicked _Gracchi_; and_Monarchy_ it self, (the very best of Governments) into Tyranny. 

Indeed your sacred Majesty was cast out of your Kingdoms, but could neverbe thrown out of our hearts; There, you had a secure seat; and the Princethat is inthron'd there, is safe in all mutations; Keep there Sir, and youare inexpugnable, immoveable. And how should it otherwayes be? A Prince ofyour virtue could not miscarry, that being truly verified of Your Majesty, as well in your perfections, as your person, _Certe, videtis quem elegitDominus in Regem, quoniam non sit similis illi in omni populo. _ Naturedesign'd your Majesty a King, Fortune makes others; nor are you more yourpeoples by birth, and a glorious _series_ of Progenitors, then by yourmerits: This appeared in all those digits of your darkest Eclipse; Thedefect was ours, not your Majesties. For the Sun is alwaies shining, though men alwaies see him not; and since the too great splendor, andprosperity did confound us, it pleased God to interpose those clouds, tillwe should be better able to behold you with more reverence and security;For then it was that you prepar'd your self for this weighty government, and gave us those presages of your Virtue, by what you did, for yourpeople, and what you suffered for them; signalizing your Courage, yourFortitude, Constancy, Piety, Prudence and Temperance upon all occasions. Your Travels and Adventures are as far beyond those of _Ulysses_, as youexceed him in Dominions; _Si quis enim velit percensere Cæsaris res, totumprofecto terrarum orbem enumeret_: For he must go very far that would sumup your perfections: Your skill in the customes of Nations, the situationsof Kingdomes, the Advantages of places, the temper of the Climates; so asthe Ages to come shall tell with delight, where you fought valiantly, where you suffered gallantly, _Quis sudores tuos hauserit campus, quærefectiones tuas arbores, quæ somnum saxa prætexerint, quod denique tectummagnus hospes impleveris_, and all those sacred _Vestigia_ of yours: Thuswhat was once applyed to _Trajan_, becomes due to your Majesty, and I myself am witness both abroad, and at home, of what I pronounce, having nowbeheld you in both fortunes with love and admiration; But this is nothalfe, and to stop at single perfections, were to give jealousie to therest yet untouched, and should I but succinctly number them all, were notto weave a Panegyrick, but an Inventory. 

But amongst all your Vertues none was more eminent then your constancy toyour religion, which no shocks of Fortune, no assaults of sophisters, events and successe of adversaries, or offers of specious Friends couldshake; so great a thing it was that you did persevere, so much greater_quod non timuisti ne perseverare non posses_. 

But whilst Armies on earth fought for the Usurper, the Hosts of Heavenfought in their courses for your Majesty; [SN: _Spaine. _] dashing yourgreatest enemy upon that Rock, which afforded you shelter, till thatTyranny was over past: And how welcome to Us was that blessed day _quityrannum abstulit pessimum, Principem dedit optimum_! He liv'd by stormingothers, dyed in one himself, _& post Nubila, Phoebus_. Yet did not thatquite dissolve our fears, till that other head of _Hydra_ was cut off, that despicable Rump which succeeded, not by the sword, or any humaneaddresse, least we should sacrifice to our own Nets; but by the immediatehand of heaven, without noise, without Armes, or stratageme, the fame ofyour vertues, more then the sense of our own misery, universally turningthe hearts even of your very Enemies; and then that Northern Star beganthe dawning of this day, till your nearer approach did guild our Horizon, brighter then the rayes of the Eastern sun, from whose spicy coast, like atrue Phoenix you were to come; For so at the sight of that Royal Birdwas the memory of _Sesostris_, of _Amasis_ and _Ptolemy_ ever fortunate, and so was yours to us;

 _----Tum rusticus ergo Suspicit observans volucrem; nam creditur annus Ille salutaris----_

the happy presages of our glorious Returne, stupendious indeed and almostindicible: For no sooner did your _Argo_ hoise sail, that the Eaglesthemselves fled not swifter, then the report of your approach from tenthousand mouthes of brasse, echoing from ship to ship, and shore to shore, with their thundring voices, out done yet with the shouts and acclamationsof your glad people, when our shaken Republique rushed at once into yourprincely Armes for safety and _Asylum_, not by the occult power ofDestiny, or blind revolution, but the extraordinary hand of Providence, whose _pathes are in the great Waters, and whose footsteps are not known:O novum atque inauditum ad principatum iter_, who that shall write Annals, or Verses can ever forget that day? not decrepit age, not the sick, notthe tender Sex were kept back from resolving to behold that miraculousentry of yours; The very little children pointed to you, the striplingsand young men exsulted, the Antient men stood amazed, and those who wereunder the empire of a cruel disease, leaped out of their beds, to have thesight of you, that were the safety of the People, returning with cure andrefreshment: Others protested, they had even now lived long enough, andwere ready to expire with joy, and the transports of their spirits; assatisfied that this Ball could not present them with an other objectworthy their admiration; others wished now to live more then ever, thatthey might still enjoy their desired object; and women forgetting thepains of childbirth, brought forth with joy, because they gave Citizens totheir Prince, and Souldiers now to their lawful Emperour. 

Your Majesty must needs remember, nor is the sound yet out of your sacredears, when the houses of this your August Metropolis were covered with theloud and cheerful spectators, because the earth was too narrow to containthem; the wayes and the trees were filled with the shouting of yourpeople, LONG LIVE KING _CHARLES_ THE _II. _ _tamque æqualiter ab omnibus exadventu tuo lætitia percepta est, quam omnibus venisti_. For when the wiseArbiter of things began to look down upon us, all things conspir'd to makeus happy; our Deliverance by your Majesty as by another _Moses_, leadingus out of that _Ægyptian_ bondage; or by a nearer resemblance that of the_Babylonish_ captivity, if not yet farr greater; since God did there onlyturne the heart of a Prince to let a nation go: Here, the hearts of awhole Nation, to invite a banish'd Prince to come, when no other visiblepower interpos'd. Let others boast then of their miracles; we can producesuch, as no age, no people under heaven can shew; God moving the hearts ofhis most implacable Enemies in a moment as it were, and those who had beenbefore inhumanely thirsty after your blood, now ready to sacrifice theirown for your safety; _Digna res memoratu! ibat sub ducibus vexillisqueRegiis, hostis aliquando Regius, & signa contra quæ steterat sequebatur_. But I suffer [HW: surfeit] with too much Plenty, and what eloquence isable to expresse the triumph of that your never to be forgotten Entry, unlesse it be the renewing of it this day? For then were we as those whodream, and can yet hardly be perswaded, that we are truly awake: _Diesille æternis seculis monumentisque mandandus_, A day never to be forgottenin all our Generations, but to be consecrated to posterity, transmitted tofuture Ages, and inserted into Monuments more lasting then Brasse. Awaythen with these Woodden and temporary Arches, to be taken down by thePeople at pleasure; erect Marble ones, lasting as the Pyramids, andimmovable as the mountains themselves, and when they fail, let the memoryof it still remain engraven in our Hearts, Books, Records, _novissimo haudperitura die_. 

And yet not this altogether, because we have received a Prince, but such aPrince, whose state and fortune in all this blessed change, we so muchadmire not, as his mind; For that is truly felicity, not to possessegreat things, but to be thought worthy of them: And indeed Great Sir, necessity constrains me, and the laws of _Panegyric_, to verifie it inyour Praises, by running over at least those other Appellations, whichboth your vertue has given to your Majesty, and your Fortune acquir'd. Forhe is really no King who possesses not (like you) a Kingly mind, be hisother advantages what they may: If the Republick belong then to _Cæsar_, _Cæsar_ belongs much more to the Republick; and of this you have givenproof. 

For no sooner were we possess'd of your sacred Majestie, but you suddainlygave form to our confused _Chaos_: We presently saw when you had taken thereigns into your sacred hands, and began to sit at Sterne, our deviatingand giddy course grow steady, and the fluctuating Republick at drift readyto put into a secure Port. 

You began your Entry with an act of general Clemency, and to make good theadvice of your Martyr'd Father, and the best Religion, forgave youbitterest Enemies; and not only barely forgiving, but by an excesse ofcharity, doing honour to some, _ut nemo sibi victus te victore videatur_. This was plainly Godlike: For so rare a thing we find it, that Princesthink themselves oblig'd; or if they think it, that they love it; thatyour example will reproach all who went before you: As you promis'd, soyou perform'd it, punctually, and with advantage. Nor indeed do you desireany thing should be permitted your Majesty, but what is indulg'd yourVassals, subjecting even your self to those Lawes by which you oblige yourSubjects; For as it is a great felicity to be able to do what one will, sois it much more glorious, to will only what is just and honourable. Allother Princes before your Majesty spake as much; you only have performedit; nor is there a Tittle of your engagements, which even your veryenemies diffide of, much lesse your Friends suspect: They enjoy, and thesehope; because those were to be conciliated by present effects, these aresecure by past promises; and none that receives them of your Majestyreckons from the time they injoy it, but the period of your promise;because it proceeds (they know) from a Princely and candid mind; and if itseem long in acquiring, it is not (I perswade my self) because you aredifficult, much less unmindful; but that the benefit may be moreacceptable, and the sense of it more permanent; since too suddain felicityastonishes, and sometimes renders the Recipient ingrateful, whilst yourfavours are not fugitive but certain. It was only for Your Majestie to becompleatly happie, when you began to be so; and yet your subjects had asmuch as they could well support; since you have made it your onlybusinesse to sublevate the needie, and give them as it were a new Fate, your piety not more appearing in pardoning your Enemies, and receiving thePenitent, then your justice in restoring the Oppressed: For how many aresince your returne, return'd to their own Homes, to their Wives, Children, Offices, and Patrimonies? _Addiditque Dominus omnia quæ fuerant Jobiduplicia_; some of them with immense advantages; and of this thelanguishing _Church of England_ is a most eminent instance; That she, which was first and most afflicted, should be first and chiefly refreshed. 

You have taken away the affluence to the Committees, Sequestrators, Conventicles, and unjust Slaughter-houses, and converted their zeal to theTemples, the Courts, and the just Tribunals: Magnanimity is return'dagain to the Nobility, Modesty to the People, Obedience to Subjects, Charity to Neighbours, Pietie to Children, Fidelity to Servants, andReverence to Religion; In summe, You are the Restorer of Your Countrie. 

The lawes that were lately quiescent, and even trampled under foot, yourMajesty has revived; and been yet so prudent in reforming, that even thosewhich your Enemies made upon good deliberation, you permit to stand, shewing your self rather to have been displeased with the Authours, thenthe Things. 

As to Discipline (after the sacrifice due for that innocent blood of yourglorious Father) you are not only careful to reject vice your self; butare severe to discountenance it in others; and that yet so sweetly, as youseem rather to perswade then compell; and to cure without a corrosive. 

The Army is disbanded, and the Navy paid off without Tumult; because youare trusted without suspicion, and are more secure in the publick love andaffection of your people then in men of Iron, the locks and Bars ofTyrants Palaces: And truely Sir, there is no protection to innocency, which is a fort inexpugnable: In vain therefore do Princes confide in anyother; for Armes invite Armes, Terrour, suspition. To this only do youtrust, and the few which you maintain about your person, is rather forstate, then fear. _Quid enim istis opus est, quum firmissimo sis muroCivici amoris obtectus?_ Here is then the firm Keeper of our Libertiesindeed, whom the Armies love for His own sake, and whom no servileflattery adores; but a simple, and sincere devotion; and verily such aPrince as Your Majesty, deserves to have friends, Prompt, steady andfaithful; such as You have, and which Virtue rather then Fortune procures. Of this I obtest the fidelity of Your own inviolable Party, distinguishedformerly by the invidious name of _Cavalier_, though significant andglorious; but I provoke the World to produce me an example of parallelLoyaltie: What Prince under heaven, after so many losses, and allimaginable calamities, can boast of such a party? The _Grecians_ forsooktheir Leaders upon every sleight disaster; the very _Romans_ were notsteady of old, but followed the fortune of the Common Victor. The _German_and the _French_ will happily stick to their Prince in distresse, as faras the Plate, the Tapistry, or some such superfluous moveable may abidethe pawn; But where shall we find a Subject that hath persisted like YourMajesties, to the losse of Libertie, Estate, and life it self, when yetall seem'd to be determin'd against them; so as even their enemies were atlast vanquish'd with their constancy, and their very Tormentors weariedwith their insuperable Patience; nor can they in all that tract of Time, hardly brag of having made one signal _Proselyte_ in twenty Years thatthis difference continu'd; and that because the obedience of yourMajesties Subjects, is engraffed into their Religion and Institution, aswell as into the adoration of Your Virtues. 

I would not therefore that Your Name should be painted upon Banners, orCarved in stone, _sed Monumentis æternæ laudis_; and Your Majesty did wellforesee, and consult it, when you furnish'd a Subject for our_Panegyrics_, and our Histories, which should outlast those frailmaterials. The Statues of _Cæsar_, _Brutus_ and _Camillus_ were set upindeed because they chased their enemies from the Walls of a proud Citie;You have done it from a whole Kingdom; not (as they) by blood andslaughter, but by your prudence and Counsels: Nor is it lightly to bepassed over, that your Majesty was preserved in that _Royal Oak_, to whoma Civical Crown should so justly become due. 

But I now arrive to the _Lawes_ you have made, and the excellent thingswhich your Majestie hath done since you came amongst Your people. Truely, there is hardly an hour to be reckoned wherein your Majesty has not donesome signal benefit. I have already touch'd a few of them, as whatconcern'd the most, I would I could say the best; for you have oblig'dyour very Enemies, You have bought them; since never was there, till now, so prodigious a summe paid, a summe hardly in Nature, to verifie a Wordonly; and which the zeal of Your good Subjects (had you taken theadvantage of the fervour which I but now mentioned, at Your wonderfulReception) might easily have absolv'd You of; had You paid them in kind, and as they were wont to keep faith with your Majestie. I provoke theWorld again to furnish an instance of a like generositie, unlesse he climbup to heaven for it. How black then must that ingratitude needs appear, which should after all this, dare to rebell; Or, for the future oncemurmur at Your Government? Since it was no necessity that compell'd You, but an excesse of your good nature, and your charitie. 

Your Majestie has abolished the _Court of Wards_; I cannot say we havefreed ourselves in desiring it, if it were possible to hope for soindulgent a Father as Your Majestie is to Your Countrie, in those whoshall succeed You. 

The _Compositions_ You have likewise eased us of, if that could beesteem'd a burthen, to serve so excellent a Prince, who receives nothingof his Subjects but what he returnes again in the Noblest and worthiestHospitality, that any Potentate in earth can produce; Thus what the Riverspay to the Ocean, it returns again in showers to replenish them. But YourMajestie would dissipate even the very shadows, which give us umbrage; andrather part with your own just right, then those few of your Subjectswhich it concern'd, should think themselves aggreiv'd, though by a mistakeeven of their duty. 

[SN: _His Majesties Declaration. _] But I should first have mention'd yoursettlement of the _Church_, and Your bringing back the Ark of God: YourMajesties wise composure of our Frailties, and tendernesse as well in theReligious as the Secular; whilst yet You continue fervent to maintain whatis decent, and what is setled by Law. But what language is capable toexpresse this Article? Let those who wait at the Altar, and to which youhave restor'd the daily sacrifice, supply the defect of this period, andcelebrate your piety. 

Nor has yet Your zeal to the Church, lessen'd that which is due to theCommon-wealth; witnesse your industry in erecting a _Counsel of Trade_, bywhich alone you have sufficiently verified that expression of yourMajesties in your Declaration from _Breda_, That You would propose someuseful things for the publick emolument of the Nation, which should renderit opulent, splendid and flourishing; making good your pretence to theuniversall Soveraignty by Your Princely care, as well as by your birth andundoubted Title. 

You have Restor'd, Adorn'd, and Repair'd our Courts of Judicature, turning the Shambles where your Subjects were lately butcher'd, into aTribunal, where they may now expect due Justice; and have furnish'd theSupreame seat there with a _Chancelour_ of antient candor, rareexperience; just, prudent, learned and faithfull; in summe, one, whosemerits beget universal esteem, and is amongst the greatest indications ofyour Majesties skill in persons, as well as in their Talents andperfections to serve you. Thus you have gratified the long robe, so as nowagain, _Te propter colimus leges, animosque ferarum Exuimus_----And there is hope we may again be civiliz'd. 

For you are (we hear) publishing _Sumptuary Lawes_ to represse thewantonness and excess of Apparel, as you have already testifi'd yourabhorrency of _Duelling_, that infamous and dishonourable gallantry: Infine, you have establish'd so many excellent constitutions, that you seemto leave nothing for us to desire, or your Successor to add either in the_Ethicall_ or _Politicall_. 

 ----_Similem quæ pertulit ætas Consilio, vel Marte virum?_----

O happy _Greece_ for Eloquence, that hast celebrated the fortune of thy_Heroes_ trifling Adventures! who shall set forth and immortalize theglory of our illustrious Prince, and advance Great _CHARLES_ to the skies?You had Poets indeed that sung the fate of an unfortunate Lady, the theftof a simple fleece; what wouldst thou have done, had the glorious Actionsof such a King been spread before thee, who has not robbed with Armies, depopulated Cities, or violated the Rights of Hospitality; but restor'd abroken Nation, repair'd a ruin'd Church, reform'd, and re-establish'd ourancient Laws; in summe, who has at once render'd us perfectly happy? Whatthen have we to do with _Augustus_, or _Titus_, with _Trajan_, _Hadrian_, _Antoninus_, _Theodosius_ or even _Constantine_ himself? There is not inany, there is not in all these Subjects more worthy of praise, and towhich your Majesty; O best of Princes, ought at all to render. 

We are told _Periculosæ rem aleæ esse, de iis scribere quibus sisobstrictus_; because it is so difficult to observe a mediocrity, where ouraffections are engaged: But your Majesty is as secure from flattery, asyour Virtues are above its reach; and to write thus of ill Princes, wereboth a shame and a punishment: For this the _Senate_ condemn'd the Historyof _Cremutius_ to the flames; and _Spartianus_ told _Dioclesian_ boldly, how hard it would be to write their Commentaries, except it were to recordtheir Impudence, Murthers, Injustice, and the (for most part) fatalperiods of Tyrants; which if any esteem a glory, you envy not, whilst yourMajesty is resolv'd to secure your own by your virtue and your Justice; soas no age to come shall possibly find an æmulator, or produce an equall. 

 ----_Fuerint aliis hæc forte decora, Nulla potest Laus esse tibi quæ crimina purget. _

But I shall never have done with your obligations of the publick; and themeasure which is assign'd me, would be too narrow but to mention brieflythose your private and interiour perfections which crown your MajestiesPerson, and dazle our eyes more then the bright purple which this dayinvests you. To give instance in some; you are an excellent Master to yourDomesticks. Their Lives, Conversations and Merits as well as Names, andFaces, are known to your Majesty as the Companions of _Cæsar_ were: Honouris safe under your Banner, and the Court so well regulated, that there isno need of _Censors_ to inspect Mens Manners; _vita principis pro censuraest_. He who knowes that every body eyes, speaks and writes of him, cannotin prudence, or think, or act things unworthy and abject: You Sir directall your objects and motions so, as may recommend you to posterity; andeven burn with desires of immortality, so as Histories may relate theTruth without fear or adulation. 

How happy then those Servants of yours, whose fidelity and Industry isknown to your Majesty, not from the interpretation and reports of others, but your own experience! So as you Reward as well with Judgment, asBounty; and verily that is true Beneficence to place your Recompense aswell equally as freely: Most other Virtues are competent to the rest ofMen; Beneficence only to a Prince, as his most Essential property, and thenoblest ingredient of his _Elogy_. Hence that great Saint, as well asCourtier and Prelate has directed, _Si quis Principem laudare vellet, nihil illi adeo decorum adscriberet quam Magnificentiam_; [SN: _S. Chrysost. _] and _Criticks_ observe, that where the wise King _Solomon_sayes, _Multi colunt personam Principis_, the _Hebrew_ version reads it, _personam Benefici_, as importing both; and in that of his Who was greaterthen _Solomon_, _Qui dominantur eorum Benefici vocantur_, the _Chaldy_turnes, _Principes vocantur_, as if by a convertible figure, He could notbe a Prince who were not Beneficent; nor he that is truly Beneficent, unworthy of that Title. I remember 'tis somewhere said of _Saul_ that heReign'd but two years; because he was so long it seems good to his people, and reigned in their hearts; For as the Sun himself should not be the Sun, if he did not shine; no more should a Prince be worthy of his dignity, ifhe unjustly Ecclips'd his influence, or abused his Magnificency. But as wesaid, this virtue is added to your Majesties also; who know so well toadjust its Definition by your constant practice, rendering it (as indeedit ought) productive of your will for glorious and honest ends only; But Inow proceed with the rest. 

There is such a Majesty in your Countenance, such Lenity in your Eyes, gravity in your speech, as that for your gracefull presence that may betruly affirm'd of you what was once appli'd to a great Prince resemblingyou, _Jam firmitas, Jam proceritas corporis, jam honor Capitis & dignitasoris, ad hoc ætatis indeflexa maturitas, nonne longe lateque principemostentant?_ since even all these assemble in your Majesties personage; Norhas fortune chang'd you after all your Travels and Adventures abroad; butbrought you back to us not so much as tinged in the percolations throughwhich you have been forc'd to run, like the Fountain _Arethusa_ throughthe River _Alpheus_ without commixture of their waters. None having moreconstantly retained his vertue then your Majesty, nor guarded it with morecaution. 

And now in all this height of glory, you receive all Men with so muchhumility, that the difference of your change seems to be only this; thatyou are now beloved of more, and love more, treating every man, as ifevery man were your proper care, and as becomes the Father of so great aFamily; Sometimes you are pleased to lay more aside the beams of Majesty, that you may descend to do mutual offices of Friendship; as consideringthat these Virtues were not concredited to you by God, for your self only, but for others also: In short, you are so perfect a Prince, that those whocome after you, will fear to be compared to you, _Experti quam sitonerosum succedere bono Principi_; since to possess your Virtues, theymust support your sufferings; nor can every head know how to sustain theweight of such a Crown as yours, where the thornes have so long perplextthe Lillies and the Roses of it. 

I might here mention Your Heroic and masculine Spirit in dangers, and yetYour foresight of them; Your tenderness to compassionate, Your Constanciein suffering, Your Modestie in Prosperitie, Equalitie in Adversitie, andthat sweetness of access which attracts both love and veneration from allthat converse with You; but these have already adorn'd your Character bythat excellent Hand who did lately describe it. [SN: _Col. Tuke. _]

You are frequent at Councels, Patient in hearing, pertinent in answering, judicious in Determining, and so skilfull in the several Languages, thatYou many times transact by Your self, what others do by Interpreters;affecting rather expedition in Your affairs, then insignificant State, which these acquired parts of Your Majesties do yet augment so much themore. 

You are curious of brave and Laudable things; You love shipping, Buildings, Gardens (having exceeded _Cyrus_ already in Your Plantations)Piscinas, Statues, Pictures, Intaglias, Music: You have already amass'dvery many rare collections of all kinds, and there is nothing worthy andgreat which can escape Your research. 

Nor must I here forget the honour You have done our _Society_ at _GreshhamColledge_ by Your curious enquiries about the _Load-Stone_, and otherparticulars which concern _Philosophy_; since it is not to be doubted butthat{8} so Magnanimous a Prince, will still proceed to encourage thatIllustrious Assembly; and which will celebrate and eternize Your memory tothe future Ages, beyond Your Majesties Predecessors, and indeed all theMonarchs on the Earth, when for You is reserv'd the being Founder of something that may improve practical and Experimental knowledg, beyond allthat has been hitherto attempted, for the Augmentation of Science, anduniversal good of Man-kind, and which alone will consummate Your Fame andrender it immortal. 

What shall I superadd to all these? That You rise early, that You arealwaies employ'd, that You love Hunting, Riding, swimming, manly Robustand Princely Exercises, not so much for delight, as health and relaxation. _Et vitæ pars nulla perit. _

O best Idea of Princes, sit to me yet one moment, that I may add this lasttouch to Your fair Table; nor wonder that I should attempt so bold anenterprise; since he that would take the height of _Olympus_, must standbelow in the plain: Subjects can best describe their Princes Virtues;Princes best know their Subjects, and therefore most fit to rule them. Andlong may You live to rule us great Sir. We wish that all you do, or maydo, be propitious to you, to us, to the public; or in a word, to your_M_ajesty alone, in which both we and the public are mutually concern'd. Time was (and too long alas it was!) that what was fortunate to theTyrant, was unhappy to your Subjects: now they are common to both andreciprocal; nor can we more be happy without you, then you without us; andtruly all Princes have known, that they are seldom beloved of God, who arehated of their People; nor can they be long secure. _Vox Populi, vox Deiest. _ But you have seen the Effects of our Prayers against an Usurper;hear now, O Heaven our Vowes for a just Prince. Not for peace, not forRiches, not Honours, or new conquests do we supplicate; but for all thesein one, The Safety of _CHARLES_. You alone snatch'd him out of those cruelhands, now preserve him from them: Render him fortunate to us, to ourChildren, succeeding Generations give him a late Successor, and when Youdo it, let it be such a one as himself. 

Let your Majestie now proceed in his Triumph, and hear the Acclamations ofhis people; what can they more expresse who are ready to pave the verystreets with their bodies, in testimonie of their zeal? behold all aboutYou, the Gratulating old Fathers, the exulting Youths, the glad mothers;And why should it not be so? Here's no goods publicated, none restrain'dor mulcted of their Libertie, none diminish'd of dignitie, none molested, or exil'd; all are again return'd into{9} their houses, Relations andProperties, and which is yet more then all, to their antientinnocencie{10} and mutual charitie. 

If the _Philosopher_ in the _Ethicks_ enquiring whether the felicity ofthe sun, do any whit concern the happinesse of the defunct progenitor, after much reasoning have determin'd that the honour only which his sonacquires by worthie and great actions, does certainly refresh his Ghost:What a day of Jubilee, is this then to Your blessed Father! Not the odorof those flowers did so recreate the dead _Archemorus_ which the _Nymphs_were yearly wont to strow upon his watry Sepulcher, as this daiesInauguration of Yours, does even seem to revive the Ashes of that sacred_Martyr_. 

Should some one from the clouds that had looked down on the sad face ofthings, when our Temples lay in dust, our Palaces in desolation, and theAltars demolished; when these Citie Gates were dashed to pieces, Gibbetsand Executions erected in every Street, and all things turned intouniversal silence and solitude, behold now the change of this daiesglorious scean; that we see the Churches in repair, the sacred Assembliesopen'd, our Cities re-edified, the Markets full of People, our Palacesrichly furnished, and the Streets proud with the burden of their TriumphalArches, and the shouts of a rejoycing multitude: How would he wonder andstand amaz'd, at the Prodigie, and leap down from his lofty station, though already so near to heaven, to joyne with us in earth, participateof our felicitie, and ravish'd with the Ecstasie, cry out aloud now withUs. 

Set open the Temple-Gates, let the Prisoners go free, the Altars smoakperfumes, bring forth the Pretious things, strow the Waies with Flowers, let the Fountains run Wine, Crown the Gobblets, bring Chapplets of Palmesand Lawrells, the Bells ring, the Trumpets sound, the Cannon roar, O happyDescent, and strange Reverse! I have seen{11} E_nglands_ Restorer, Great_CHARLES the II. _ RETURN'D, REVENG'D, BELOV'D, CROWN'D, RE-ESTABLISH'D. 

 _Terrasque Astræa Revisit. _

And O that it were now in my power to speak some great thing, worthy thisgreat day; I should put all the flowers of _Orators_ and Raptures of_Poets_ into one lofty & high Expression, and yet not Reach what I wouldsay to Your Majestie: For never since there was a Citie, or Kingdom, did aDay appear more glorious to _England_, never since it was a Nation, and inwhich there either was, or ought to be so universal a Jubilation: Not thatYour Triumphal Charriots do drag the miserable Captives, but areaccompanied by freed Citizens; perfidie is now vanquished, popular furychayn'd, crueltie tam'd, luxury restrained, these lie under the spondellsof Your Wheeles, where Empire, Faith, Love, and Justice Ride Triumphant, and nothing can be added to Your _M_a_j_esties glory but its perpetuitie. But whence, alas! should I have this confidence, after so many _Elogies_and _Panegyricks_ of great and Eloquent men, who consecrate the memorie ofthis daies happinesse; and (were the subject, like that of all otherthings) would have left me nothing more to add, unless he who wassometimes wont to employ his pen for Your _M_ajestie being absent, shouldnow be silent that you are present, and inflame me with a kind of newEnthusiasme: I find myself then compell'd out of a grateful sense of mydutie for the publick benefit, and if your _M_ajestie forbid not, orwithdraw your influence, who shall hinder, that even my slender voiceshould not strive to be heard, in such an universall{12} consort, whereineverybody has a part, every one a share?

Permit me therefore (O best of Kings) to present, and lay these my vowesat your sacred feet, to exsult, and to Rejoyce with the Rest of your LoyalSubjects; not as I desire, but as I am able, and as I would do it to God, and as he best loves it, _Sentiendo copiosius, quam loquendo. _

_DIXI. _

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: University of California

THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

_General Editors_

H. RICHARD ARCHER William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

R. C. BOYS University of Michigan

E. N. HOOKER University of California, Los Angeles

JOHN LOFTIS University of California, Los Angeles

The society exists to make available inexpensive reprints (usuallyfacsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works. 

The editorial policy of the Society continues unchanged. As in the past, the editors welcome suggestions concerning publications. 

All correspondence concerning subscriptions in the United States andCanada should be addressed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2205 West Adams Blvd. , Los Angeles 18, California. Correspondenceconcerning editorial matters may be addressed to any of the generaleditors. Membership fee continues $2. 50 per year. British and Europeansubscribers should address B. H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England. 

Publications for the fifth year [1950-1951]

(_At least six items, most of them from the following list, will bereprinted. _)

FRANCES REYNOLDS (?): _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles ofTaste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, &c. _ (1785). Introductionby James L. Clifford. 

THOMAS BAKER: _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709). Introduction by JohnHarrington Smith. 

DANIEL DEFOE: _Vindication of the Press_ (1718). Introduction byOtho Clinton Williams. 

JOHN EVELYN: _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); _APanegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661). Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. 

CHARLES MACKLIN: _Man of the World_ (1781). Introduction byDougald MacMillan. 

_Prefaces to Fiction_. Selected and with an Introduction by BenjaminBoyce. 

THOMAS SPRAT: _Poems. _

SIR WILLIAM PETTY: _The Advice of W. P. To Mr. Samuel Hartlib forthe Advancement of some particular Parts of Learning_ (1648). 

THOMAS GRAY: _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751). (Facsimile of first edition and of portions of Gray's manuscripts of thepoem). 

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

First Year (1946-1947)

1. Richard Blackmore's _Essay upon Wit_ (1716), and Addison's _Freeholder_No. 45 (1716). 

2. Samuel Cobb's _Of Poetry_ and _Discourse on Criticism_ (1707). 

3. _Letter to A. H. Esq. ; concerning the Stage_ (1698), and RichardWillis' _Occasional Paper No. IX_ (1698). (OUT OF PRINT)

4. _Essay on Wit_ (1748), together with Characters by Flecknoe, and JosephWarton's _Adventurer_ Nos. 127 and 133. (OUT OF PRINT)

5. Samuel Wesley's _Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry_ (1700) and_Essay on Heroic Poetry_ (1693). 

6. _Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage_ (1704) and_Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage_ (1704). 

Second Year (1947-1948)

7. John Gay's _The Present State of Wit_ (1711); and a section on Wit from_The English Theophrastus_ (1702). 

8. Rapin's _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech (1684). 

9. T. Hanmer's (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_ (1736). 

10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc. _(1744). 

11. Thomas Purney's _Discourse on the Pastoral_ (1717). 

12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph WoodKrutch. 

Third Year (1948-1949)

13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud. ), _The Theatre_ (1720). 

14. Edward Moore's _The Gamester_ (1753). 

15. John Oldmixon's _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_ (1712);and Arthur Mainwaring's _The British Academy_ (1712). 

16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673). 

17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear_(1709). 

18. Aaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_; and Thomas Brereton's Prefaceto _Esther_. 

Fourth Year (1949-1950)

19. Susanna Centlivre's _The Busie Body_ (1709). 

20. Lewis Theobald's _Preface to The Works of Shakespeare_ (1734). 

21. _Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Gradison, Clarissa, and Pamela_(1754). 

22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two _Rambler_papers (1750). 

23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681). 

24. Pierre Nicole's _An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which fromSettled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and RejectingEpigrams_, translated by J. V. Cunningham. 

{Transcriber's notes:

1. Word unclear in original. 

2. Original reads "perfidiousuess"; changed to "perfidiousness". 

3. Original reads "single person condemn"; changed to "single person;condemn". 

4. Original reads "extram"; changed to "extream". 

5. Word unclear in original. 

6. Word unclear in original. 

7. Original reads "Hypocrsie"; changed to "Hypocrisie". 

8. Original reads "butt hat"; changed to "but that". 

9. Original reads "ito their houses"; changed to "into their houses". 

10. Original reads "innocenie"; changed to "innocencie". 

11. Original reads "I have seens"; changed to "I have seen". 

12. Original reads "univresall"; changed to "universall". }