Chapman, George / Shirley, James · published 1639 · first performed or written 1612 [1611-1613; revised by Shirley and licensed for stage, Apr 29, 1635] (Annals) tragedy · Unknown · Phoenix/Cockpit unassigned nearest T53 The crown: kingship claimed, resigned an · 451 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T53: crown, king, state, life, lord, lords, live, queen, tullia, prince.
You express your Oratory Mr. Proctor, I ray come presently to the matter. Thus with your Lordship's pardon, I proceed; and the first thing I shall glance at, will be worth your Lordship's reflection, his ingratitude, and to whom? to no less person than a King, and to what King, his own, and our general Sovereign Proh deum atque hominum fidem; a King, and such a King, the health, life, and soul of us all, whose very mention draws this salt water from my eyes; for he indeed is our eye, who wakes and watches for us when we sleep, and who will not sleep for him, I mean not sleep, which the Philosophers call, a natural cessation of the common and consequently▪ of all the exterior senses, caused first and immediately by a detension of spirits, which can have no communication, since the way is obstructed, by which these spirits should commearce, by vapours ascending from the stomach to the head, by which evaporation the roots of the nerves are filled, through which the annual spirits, to be poured into the dwellings of the external senses; but sleep I taken for death, which all know to be Vltima linea, who will not sleep eternally for such a King as we enjoy? If therefore in general as he is King of us all, all sharing and dividing the benefits of this our Sovereign: none should be so ingrateful as once to murmur against him, what shall be said of the ingratitude more monstrous in this Chabot, for our Francis hath loved, not in general in the crowd with other subjects, but particularly this Philip advanced him to the supreme dignity of a Statsman, lodged him in his very heart, yet Monstrum horrendum; even to this Francis hath Philip been ingrateful. Brutus the loved son hath stabbed Caesar with a Bodkin: Oh what brute may be compared to him? and in what particulars may this crime be exemplified; he hath, as we say, chopped Logic with the King, nay to the very teeth of his Sovereign advance his own Gnat-like merits, and justified with Luciferous pride, that his services have deserved more than all the bounty of our Munificent King hath paid him. Observe that my Lords. Nay he hath gone further, and most traitaerously hath committed outrage and impiety to the Kings own hand, and royal character, which presented to him in a bill from the whole counsel, he most violently did tear in pieces, and will do the very body and person of your King, if our Justice make no timely prevention, and strike out the Serpentine teeth of the high and more than horrible monster. This was enforced home.
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You expreſſe your Oratory Mr. Proctor, I ray come preſenly to the matter. Thus with your Lordſhips pardon, I proceede; and the firſt thing I ſhall glance at, will be worth your Lordſhips reflection, his ingratitude, and to whom? to no leſſe perſon than a King, and to what King, his owne, and our generall Soveraigne Proh deum atque hominum fidem; a King, and ſuch a King, the health, life, and ſoule of us all, whoſe very mention drawes this ſlt water from my eyes; for hee indeede is our eye, who wakes and watches for us when we ſleepe, and who will not ſleep for him, I meane not ſleepe, which the Philoſophers call, a naturall cſſation of the common and conſequently▪ of all the exterior ſences, cauſed firſt and immediatly by a detenſion of ſpirits, which can have no communication, ſince the way is obſtructed, by which thēſe ſpirits ſhould commearce, by vapours aſcending from the ſtomacke to the head, by which evaporation the rootes of the nerves are filled, through which the annuall ſpirits, to be powred into the dwellings of the externall ſences; but ſleepe I takē for death, which all know to be Ʋltima linea, who will not ſleepe eternally for ſuch a King as wee enjoy? If therefore in generall as hee is King of us all, all ſharing and dividing the benefits of this our Soveraigne: none ſhould be ſo ingratefull as once to murmre againſt him, what ſhall be ſaid of the ingratitude more monſtrous in this Chabot, for our Francis hath loved, not in generall in the croud with other ſubjects, but particularly this Phlp advanc'd him to the ſupreme dignitie of a Statſman, lodg'd him in his very heart, yet Monſtrum horrendum; even to this Francis hath Philip beene ingratefull. Brutus the loved ſonne hath ſtabbed Caeſar with a Bodkin: Oh what brute may be compared to him? and in what particulars may this crime be exemplified; hee hath, as wee ſay, chopt Logicke with the King, nay to the very teeth of his Soveraigne advance his owne Gnat-like merits, and juſtified with Luciferous pride, that his ſervices have deſerved more than all the bounty of our Munificent King hath paid him. Oſerve that my Lords. Nay he hath gone further, and moſt traitaerouſly hath commitred outrage and impiety to the Kings owne hand, and royall character, which preſented to him in a bill from the whole counſell, hee moſt violently did teare in peeces, and will doe the very body and perſon of your King, if our Juſtice make no timely prevention, and ſtrike out the Serpentine teeth of th high and more than horible monſter. This was eforced home.