insuperable Patience; nor can they in all that tract of Time,
hardly brag of having made one signal _Proselyte_ in twenty Years that
this difference continu'd; and that because the obedience of your
Majesties Subjects, is engraffed into their Religion and Institution, as
well as into the adoration of Your Virtues.

I would not therefore that Your Name should be painted upon Banners, or
Carved in stone, _sed Monumentis aeternae laudis_; and Your Majesty did well
foresee, and consult it, when you furnish'd a Subject for our
_Panegyrics_, and our Histories, which should outlast those frail
materials. The Statues of _Caesar_, _Brutus_ and _Camillus_ were set up
indeed 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 and
slaughter, but by your prudence and Counsels: Nor is it lightly to be
passed over, that your Majesty was preserved in that _Royal Oak_, to whom
a Civical Crown should so justly become due.

But I now arrive to the _Lawes_ you have made, and the excellent things
which your Majestie hath done since you came amongst Your people. Truely,
there is hardly an hour to be reckoned wherein your Majesty has not done
some signal benefit. I have already touch'd a few of them, as what
concern'd the most, I would I could say the best; for you have oblig'd
your 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 Word
only; and which the zeal of Your good Subjects (had you taken the
advantage of the fervour which I but now mentioned, at Your wonderful
Reception) 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 the
World again to furnish an instance of a like generositie, unlesse he climb
up to heaven for it. How black then must that ingratitude needs appear,
which should after all this, dare to rebell; Or, for the future once
murmur 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 have
freed ourselves in desiring it, if it were possible to hope for so
indulgent a Father as Your Majestie is to Your Countrie, in those who
shall succeed You.

The _Compositions_ You have likewise eased us of, if that could be
esteem'd a burthen, to serve so excellent