An Oration Gratulatory to King James
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AN ORATION GRATVLATORY TO the High and Mighty JAMES of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the faith, &c. On the twelft day of February last presented, when his Majesty entered the Tower of London to perform the residue of the solemnities of his Coronation thorough the city of London deferred by reason of the plague: and published by his Highness special allowance.
Wherein both the description of the Tower of London and the union of the kingdoms is compendiously touched: By WILLIAM HVBBOCKE.
AT OXFORD, Printed by Joseph Barns, and are to be sold in Paul's Church-yard at the sign of the Crown, by Simon Waterson. 1604.
POTENTISSIMO IACOBO ANgliae, Scotiae, Galliae, & Hiberniae Regi, fidei Defensori, &c. Oratio duodecimo Februarij, cum Arcem Londinensem ingrederetur, vt inaugurationis suae reliquas solennitates per vrbem perageret, dilatas ob grassantem pestem, gratulatoria; eiusque auspicijs praelo mandata.
In qua & totius Turris succincta descriptio, regnorum{que} vnio perstringitur:
Authore Gulielmo Hubbocke.
D ABO ait Dominus per Hoseam Prophetam vallem Achor pro foribus spei. Erat autem vallis Achor primus aditus Israeli in promissam terram. Et hoc quidem vallum (potentissime Rex) est vestibulum tāquā terrae promissae tibi: et primum inaugurationis tuae vestigium, ad regnū tibi coelesti decreto ante te natum destinatū. Cuius ad has valvas salutant te meis verbis, nō solum locum hic tenens tuus fidissimus, belli pacis{que} ornamētis illustris miles, tota{que} armata cohors circumstipantium regium latus tuum, servientes hoc loco tui: sed consalutant vno nutu, Anglia tota, Gaul, Hibernia, quarū omnium supremumius, huius vnius loci complexu prensas, & quasi manu tenes. Haec enim arx, hoc castrum regale, arra est omnium: & porta non modo bonae spei, sed portus totius rei. Hic magnificae & regales bestiae, leones Anglicani, adorāt leonē Scotiae; ô vere de leone Iudae oriūde, ô vere atavis edite regibus: Hic numisma cuditur, nervi & artus belli, quod Caesareum tuum nomē & vultum iampridē gestavit: Hic chartophylacium regni, scrinium actorum & diplomatum principum nostrorum, illustrissimorū maiorum tuorum, ê quibus emendatior historia, ausim dicere, quam quae vlla extat, perpoliri possit. Existunt hic etiam circumquaque, per anfractus huius loci, sparsae rotundatae turres ad sontium laesae maiestatis custodiā: vnā hanc citimam maiores nostri sanguinolentam dixere, ob cruorem, vt aiunt, infātū Edouardi quarti, quos Richardus tertius execrādae memory, horresco referens, immaniter cōtrucidavit. Prostat inde officiose in te desuper spectans, sed aheneis tormentis propositis flammarum vomitus & tonitrua hostibus minitans, grandiusculum & quadratum Martis propugnaculum, robur loci, vigil vrbis, custos pacis, moderator circumiacentis regionis, cuius caniciem facies ipse attestatur, in quo prisca fama Romani Caesaris praecipue aulam concelebravit. Hic gemmarum domus & gaza regni, innumera complectens maximi pretij vtensilia, totam{que} auream & argenteam supellectilem vnà cum opulentissima re vestiaria regia, quae omnia sese in sinum tuum vt iustissi ni domini & haeredis ex asse iamdudum effuderunt. Hic, ne singula cōmemorem, globorum monticuli: armorum supra, infra, amplissima domicilia, bombardis, spiculis, hastis, arcubus sagittis, loricis, galeis, pulvere tormentario, toto deni{que} apparatu militari, equestri, pedestri, terrestri, navali, refertissima: ad hosts tuos subiugandos, ad amicos, cives, subditos, socios & foederatos tuos defendendos: ad pericula, iniurias, vim, metum à capite tuo (fortissime Rex) à cord tuo, charissima clarissima{que} Regina, à liberis, à fortunis, à toto comitatu propulsanda. Quamobrem gratias, quantas animus noster capere possit, ei inprimis habemus, per quem Reges regnant, per quem amplitudo tua, Iacobe apud alios sexte in hac sexta aetate mundi, apud nos prime, in cōstanti aetate tua, nutāte aetate Regni nostri regnum init, & regnat: & quidem quod in tam dissitis studijs, dissectis sectis, distractis animi • , incredibili omnium ordinum assensu, vnoquoque acclamante, nullo reclamāte, sine omni castrensi strepitu ita pacifice regnet. Nulla regio, municipium, praefectura, vrbs, pagus, ex quo non publice venerunt, omniū generum, aetatum, ordinum, omnis fortunae & loci, etiam ex remotissimis gentibus legati, gratulatū. Quantae effusiones hominum ex oppidis, concursus ex agris patrum-familias cum cōiugibus & liberis, quasi dei immortalis dies festi & solennes agerentur. Vt non major fuerit Israelis & Judah olim officiosa concertario ad reducendum Davidem Regem suum, quàm est nostrum totius Regni, tanquam vnius viri, praesto obsequium ad inducendum Davidem nostrum secundum cor Dei regem.
Nam quae duo in Davide eximia fuerunt, artis & martis ornamenta, domi piae doctrinae laus prophetica, in bello fori arma victricia; hae virtutes duae iam coepêre esse tuae, qui & sine bello superbos debellans, amplissima regna, ipso audito nomine, assequeris, & in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 piarū artiū & politioris literaturae, eos vere aureos libellos cōscripseris, vt bonae literae; quae antea veluti plebeiae, spretae apud multos iacebant, iam nobilitari & te regnante regnare videātur. Est autem vt in coeli medio Sol pulchrior quam vlla alia in parte: ita in regali persona eruditionis splendor illustrior, fructus copiosior, quam in reliquo hominū ordine: Cum inde et iustitiae praeses, et scholae princeps (vt nuper ad nostrū omnium decus) ipse esse possit, tum ad ius suis oculis pervidendum, tum ad literas fovēdum, et literatis favendum multo amplius. Et quanquam non possumus non affici summo desiderio Divae Elizabethae; tamen cùm, illâ maturo die suo, vt sole nostro occidente et abeunte à nobis, ita brevis & serena nox sit interposita, tot regniluminibus vnam viam Regiam, tanquam coelestem galaxiam et plane Iabobaeam designantibus illustrata: alius{que} ita mane nobis exortus sit Sol, cuius beneficio, adeo pulcher iam hic integer ferme annus, tanquam vnus dies illuxit, nobis sine vlla nubecula tempestatis obfuturae, nisi quae in ipsa coitione Dei presidio evanuit: vt nihil nisi Elizabethicum in hac rerum cōversion sentiatur, nec in posterū nisi bona omnia Elizabethica de maiestate tua expectemus, pre • erquam quod mascula tua virtus & viriles dotes, maiora quaedam & augustiora polliceantur: Deo, cuius in faemore scriptum est, Rex Regum & Dominus dominantium, principi Electorum tuorū imperialiū (nam non hominis hoc factum sed numinis) gratissimis animis acquiescimus; in te vncto Dei (sacrosancte Rex) conquiescimus. Haec est enim omnium congratulātium lo et triumphalis ovatio nostra.
Quare arcesse tibi pacis triumphos; capesse claues regni, clavum imperij teneto: possideto principatus tui cameram & metropolim Londinum: conscende hanc terrae acropolim & armamentarium praecipuum, turrim Londinensem. Hibernia praesaga tui partim subacta, partim dedititia tua facta est. Rosae duae Anglicanae, & Lancastrensis vere rubens, quia vulneribus suis cruentata, exhausta prope erat: & Eboracensis recte albicans dicta, quae amisso bellis intestinis sanguine, ad mortem fere expalluit, & quae ambae coniunctis aculcis, saepiù • quam par est, compungentes, cum Leone Scotiae conflictatae sunt, iam vt corollae & serta capitis tui se offerunt. Tanquam Deus iam complêsset, quod vaticinatus est olim per Ezechielem in hanc sententiam: Tu fili hominis, cape tibi duo ligna, in vno inscribe Iehudae; in altero inscribe Iosepho cum tota domo Israelis: tum compinge ea in vnum, vt sint vnum in manu tua. Nam sic ait Jehovah: accepturus sum domum Iosephi cum tribubus Israelis, & domum Iehudae, cum tribubus eius, & componam ease coniunctas in manu mea, & efficiameas gentem vnam: & Rex vnus nempe David servus meus pastor erit illis, ne{que} erunt amplius duae gētes, nec dividentur amplius in duo regna. Quis non videt hic amat{que} similem dei nutum? Improbi, myrmillones, bustuarij putabant in interregno turbam in turbas conijcere: Pontificij sperabant totam insulam arsurā bello civili: & e tumultu aureum suū diem vtrique insolēter praedicabant. Sed frustratae adhuc divinâ virgulâ & prudentissimis Senatorum Regni consilijs sunt spes omnium.Adhuc iustitia & pax occurrūt inter se; veritas & fides osculantur se. Regnū Angliae etiamnum est regnū Evāgelij, Regnū Regis mei est regnū Dei mei, adhuc vivit Defensor fidei à fide defensitatus: Iustitiae assertor, & in iustif simâ Regni causâ acceptissimus: pacis cultor, & à pace excultus pater Ecclesiae Jacobus, filius eiusdē: Elizabethae haeres regnorū & virtutū. Deus tibi regnū, regno pietatem, pietati pacem, & quidem cuncta haereditario tradidit: vicinā hanc patriae nostrae gentem, Sororem non paene sed plene nostrā, tanquā vnius parentis geminam, Religion, sanguine, solo, solio, lingua, communibus officijs, cōmunibus periculis, mari vt vno muro coniunctissimam, Angliam inquam & Scotiam, seu vt vere dixerim, Angliā & Sociam vno aureo & amabilissimo rectionis tuae nexu in aeternū, nisi peccata nostra intervertāt, colligavit. Socrates execrari solebat eos qui vtile et honestū naturâ cohaerentia, animis segregabant. Christus major Socrate cōminatur: Ne homo separet quod Deus coniunxit. Paries intergerinus inter haec duo regna, te regnante, Dei digito recessit. Israelem & Iudam in te fecit vnum: non duo regna amplius, nec duos reges: non duos pastores, nec duos greges: non duas gentes, nec duas mentes: nō duas regiones, nec duas religiones. Vnus Rex, vnus grex, vna lex, & vt erat ab initio, vna Albiō. Omnia in vno deo caelesti vnū. om nia in vno deo terrestri, ( dixi vos deos, ait scriptura) vnū:
Quocirca vtere, augustissime monarcha, hac magnificentia tua, potire, fruere: Spartā quā nactus es, partē naturae iure tuam optimā adorna: macte ista virtute regia: perge porro initiorum laude egregia: Deum tanto beneficiorum cumulo admirabiliter Deum tuum, eius{que} Regnū in his ipsis Regni primordijs, se data iam peste et patefactis coniuratorū cōsilijs, perfecto cord, totis{que} viribus impensiùs, si fieri potest, quaerito: Religionem non illibatā solum tuere, sed adauge: Evāgelium per omnes oras propagato: Arts & Academias honestato: Christi patrimonium amplificato: vt Deo e postliminio reddatur, quod Dei est, vbicūque tuū est avita iura in Ecclesia, in Republica, nisi quid ex Adamo, aut Romulo faecis cōtraximus, rata & grata esse iube: iustitiā omnibus imperato: tenuiū vero accisas res in prosequenda lite sublevato: non concordiā dūtaxat, sed arctissimam amicitiam inter sororias has gentes & earum consobrinos omnes, firmiter modis omnibus constabilito: Recipe nos denique & nostros in clientelam tuam: vt Deo semper cōcinamus sacrū paeana & alleluiah: inter nos autem de te circumsonemus: vivat, vincat, vigeat, valeat, floreat diutissime Jacobus Rex Anglia, Scotia, Galliae & Hiberniae cum serenissima Domina Anna Regina vxore cū Hērico filio Walliae Principe, cū tota reliqua regali sobole: viuat inquam Jacobus Anglia Rex & Scotiae, seu vt vno verbo dicam, Britanniae. dixi.
I will give saith the Lord by nosea the prophet, the vale of Achor for the gate of hope. Now the vale of Achor was the first entrance for the people of Israel into the land of promise. Semblably this fort of the Tower (O mighty King) is the threshold, as it were, of the land of your behest: and the first step of your investiture unto a kingdom, determined unto you by divine decree, before you were borne. At the porte gates whereof there saluteth you by my words, not only your faithful Lieuetenant a Knight graced with ornaments of war and peace, and the whole troop of armed men, that surroūd your princely person, your servants the Gard in this place: but together also there welcomes you, as it were with one obeisance, whole England, France & Ireland, the sovereign authority of all which by the possession of this one place, you do clasp and as it were gripe in your hand. For this Tower and royal Castle is the pledge for them all, & not only the gate of good hope, but the haven of the whole scope. Here the stately and princely beasts the Lions (couchant) of England do bow down to the Lyon (Rampant) of Scotland: even to you a true offspring of the Lyon of Judah, and rightly descended of Kings your great-great grandfathers. Here is money coined, the joints & sinews of war, which now a good while since hath borne the image and superscription of you our Caesar. Here are the Records of Estate, the closet of the acts & patents of our princes, your renowned progenitors, out of which, I may boldly avouch it, a truer story of our nation by far may be compiled, then any is yet extant. Here are dispersed in the several quarters of this place, certain round turrets for the custody of offenders against the king. This which is next, our elders termed the bloody Tower, for the bloodshed, as they say, of those Infant Princes of Edward the fourth, whō Richard the third of cursed memory (I shudder to men • ion it,) savagely killed two together at one time. Then there present h •• sel • e looking dutifully from a great height upon you, but holding out brazen pieces of shot, threatening slashings of fire and thunderbolts to your enemies, a great and square Tower for martial service, the strength of this place, a watchman for the City, a keeper of the peace, a commander of the country round about, wherein antiquity hath especially made memorable the hall of the Romaine Caesar. Here is the Jewel-house and the wealth of the kingdom, containing implements of great value above number, and all the gold and silver plate, with a most rich princely wardrop; all which have now long since poured themselves into your bosom, as the just owner & full heir to thē all. Here are, that I may not name everything, mountains of bullets, and most large places above and below for receipt of armor, with ordinance, darts, pikes, bows arrows, privy coats, helmets, gun-powder, finally with the whole furniture of chivalry, for service on horse, on foot, by land by sea, exceedingly stoared: (& all these) to subdue your enemies▪ to defend your friends, citizens, subjects, associates and confederates: and to propulse danger, annoyance, violence, fear from your own person (most puissant King) from your dearest spouse, our Sovereign Queen, your progeny, estate, and whole train. Wherefore we give thanks as many as our heart can conceive, to him first, by whom Kings reign, by whom your Majesty, O James a sixth among others, to us a first, in this sixth age of the world, in your own constant age, in the declining age of our kingdom, doth enter your reign & now fully reigneth: and the rather, that in so great ods of dispositions, so many sects cutting from one another, such distractions of men's minds, you do with such wonderful agreement of all degrees, everyone acclaming to it, no man reclaiming at it, and without any stirring of weapon so peaceably reign. There is no country, burrough, precinct, city, hamlet, out of which there have not come openly of all sorts, ages, degrees, of all estates & conditions even from the most utmost foreine parts, ambassadors to congratulate. What wonderful resort out of good towns: what concourse out of the field country of farmers with their wives & children, as though some great & festival day of the everliving God were now celebrated. So that there was not a more dutiful striving between Israel and Judah to bring home David there king: then there is ready obsequiousnes of the whole kingdom of England as of one mā for the bringing in of our David a King after God's own heart. For these two ornaments of arts and arms, which in David were eminent, namely the praise of holy learning to the height of a prophet, the honor of victorious exploits abroad in war: these two do begin to show themselves to be with you: who without war vanquishing the proud, have upon the hearing of your name attained unto most mighty kingdoms: and have written such worthy gold̄ books out of the circle of sacred sciences, & the finer learning, that good literature which, as vulgar, lay despised, seemeth now to be ennobled, and by your reign to reign it self. And verily as the son is brighter then, when it is in the midst of heaven, then whē it is in any other part: so the shine of learning is both more orient, and the fruit more abundant in a king, thē in any other estate of men: seeing thereby he may be president in the courts of Justice, and chief moderator in schools; (as of late you were to all our glory:) both to discern the right with your own eyes, and also to foster learning, and to favor learned men much more. And although we cannot but be affected with the miss of (now) S t . Elizabeth (our late Queen) yet seeing, whē as she, as our sun setting & departing frō us in the ripe time of her days, there followed so short and so clear a night enlightened with so many stars of the kingdom, chalking out one kings way, as the milken way in heaven, plainly (as the old saw hath been) S t . James way: and seeing another sun rose so carely unto us, by comfort whereof this whole now a year almost hath continued as one fair day, without any stormy cloud towards, but such an one, as vanished in the very gathering of it through the protection of God: so that in this change we feel no alteration frō the reign of Queen Elizabeth, neither may we expect any other things at your Majesty's hands, but even all the good things of Queen Elizabethes time, saving that your manlie prowess, and the induments of nature in the superior degree of your sex above her, doth promise both greater and more notable attempts: Unto God (first) in whose thigh is written King of Kings and Lord of Lord's (the chief Prince among all your imperial electors (for it was the doing of divine power and not human) with most thankful minds we yield our selves, and next in you, O sacred King the anointed of the Lord, we set our hearts at rest. For this is the shouting and triumphant applause of all your subjects, that jointly welcome you unto the crown.
Wherefore take unto you, the triumphs of peace: receive (here) the keys of the kingdom: take into your hand the helm of this Empire: Enter into the possession of the chamber of your kingdom, the chief city London: go up into the chief fort of your land, the Principal armor house of the Realm; this Tower of London. Ireland wisely foreseeing your approach, partly subdued, partly yielding, is become totally yours. The two Roses of England, both the red Rose of Lancaster, rightly called ruddy, as being embrued in blood by wounds from her self, til she was almost spent: and that other white Rose of the house of York, rightly named white, as which having lost much blood by civil war waxed pale well nigh unto death: which both with their prickles stinging together encountered oftener then was fit with the Lion of Scotland; do now offer themselves as coronets & garlāds about your head. As though God had now fulfilled that, which he forespake by Ezekiel to this purpose: Son of man take unto thee two pieces of wood; write in one to Iohuda: in the other write To Joseph with all the house of Israel: Then frame them together in one, that they may be one in thy hand. For thus saith the Lord. I will take the house of Joseph with the tribes of Israel, & the house of Judah with his tribes, and will join them by one fabric in my hand, & will make them one nation, and one king, namely David my servant shall be Pastor over them neither shall they be anymore two nations, nor henceforth divided into two kingdoms &c. who doth not see & love the like proceeding of God with us? The wicked, the desperate ruffins thought in the change to cast all in a hurly-burly: the Popish crew hoped that the whole Island would have been on fire with civil war & both of them out of the midst of the stir, did gloriously brag of their golden day. But through the rod of God's providence over us, and by the prudent advice of the counselors of estate, all their hopes hitherto have been made frustrate: Yet justice and peace do greete together truth & faithfulness do kiss each other: the kingdom of England is still the kingdom of the Gospel: the kingdom of my king is the kingdom of my God: yet there liveth the Defender of the faith, defended by the faith: the mainteiner of Justice, and most acceptably entertained in his most just title to the kingdom: a promoter of peace & promoted by peace, evē James the father of the church, & son of the same: the heir of Queen Elizabeth in her kingdoms and virtues. God hath given unto you a kingdom: unto the kingdom a holy Religiō: to a holy Religion peace: and all these to you even by inheritance. This neighbor nation to our native country, not out half but full sister, evē as it were a twinne of the same mother, most near of all other to one another in Religiō, in blood, in soil, in right of crown, in language, in common services, and common hazards, surrounded with one sea as one wall, I mean England and Scotland, or to speak more truly, One land, hath God plotted into one by the golden and most loving knotte of your government: and that if our sins do not overturn it, even forever. Socrates was wont to curse them, who severed honesty and profit a sunder in their purposes, which by nature cleave together. Christ greater then Socrates doth command; Let no man separate, that which God hath joined together. The partition wall between these two kingdoms by the finger of God at your coming to the crown is gone: he hath made Israel and Judah one in you: no more two kingdoms, nor two kings: nor two pastors, nor two flocks: nor two kinds nor two minds: nor two Regions, nor two Religions. One King, one people, one law, and as it was in the beginning, one land of Albion. Al things in one heavenly God one: all things in one earthly God, ( for I have styled you God's, as the scripture speaketh) One.