A TRUE COPY OF THE LATIN ORATION OF THE EXcellent Lord George Ossolinski, Count Palatine of Tenizyn, and Sendomyria, Chamberlain to the King's Majesty of Poland, and Suethland, and Ambassador to the Kings most Excellent MAJESTY.  
As it was pronounced to his MAJESTY at White-Hall by the said Ambassador, on Sunday the 11. of March. 1620.  
With the Translation of the same into English.  
Commanded by his Majesty to be published in Print.   printer's device of William Lee (similar to Robert Estienne's) with olive tree, branches falling and a man NOLI ALTUM SAPERE 
LONDON, Printed for William Lee: and are to be sold at his Shop in Fleetstreet, near Sergeant's Inn, at the sign of the golden Buck. 1621.   


Serenissime REX,  
SAcra, Regia Poloniae, & Sueciae Maiestas, Dominus meus clementissimus integram diuturnamque valitudinem, foelicissimos votorum omnium eventus, florens ac tranquillum latissimarum ditionum Imperium, M. V. precatus, singularem fraterni animi, & rerum, M. V. studiosissimi, propensionem, maximà quà potest particularis ergà M. V. affectus testificatione declarat, ac his obstring it literis. Quibus praeviis, ut reliqua Legationis meae expedienti mihi, M. V. benignas aures praebere dignetur, humilimè postulo.  
TAndem erupt Ottomanarum iam diu celatum pectore virus, & depositâ simulatae multis abhinc annis amicitiae laruâ, publico Barbarorum furore, validissimum Christiani orbis antemuräle, petitur Polonia. Perstrepit bellico apparatu Oriens, onerantur classibus maria, iungitur Europae Asia, Africanarum si quid est virium in nostram armatur perniciem. In societatem tanti belli veniunt haereditarij nominis nostri hostes, Scythiae; venit & uterque Dacus; Seruij, Bulgari, Bosnenses, Illyrij, Thraces, Epirotae, quicquid ferarum usquam est gentium, vi, praemijs, pollicitationibus, spe praedae, cupiditate vindictae cogitur, pellicitur, accenditur. Paratus nuper lamentabilis cruentae tragoediae prologus; hausit immitis primum cruorem Dacia, cùm perfidus hostis veterum ac recentium solenni iureiur ando firmatorum immemor foederum, innumeris copijs Regiae Maiestatis Domini mei clementissimi petens ditiones, appositam sibi paruam quidèm, sed bellicosissimam nostrorum manum caecîdit, ingenti Christianae Reip. detrimento.  
Creuêrunt etenim eâ victoriâ barbari spiritus, & tam faustis insolentes primordijs universam spe concipiunt Europan, eô provecti vel arrogantiae, vel amentiae, ut nec assentiente quidem Deo, delere gentem nostram se posse arbitrentur. Tanto non suarum duntaxat, sed Christianarum omnium provinciarum commota sacra Regia Maiestas Dominus meus clementissimus discrimine, eo fuit animo, ut & reliquos Principes impendentis metus commonefaceret, & inprimis ad M. V. nullâ interpositâ morâ, referret.  
Sed ea est M. V. singularis vigilantia, tantum communis Christianorum boni studium, ut & illos, ad quos ipsa potissimùm vel temporum, vel locorum ratione pertinent pericula, animaduertat. Antevertit M. V. & hunc Serenissimi Regis mei nuncium, idque ultrò praestitit quod postulandum erat, cùm eidem hosti se Regiae M. Domini mei clementissimi amicum esse, nec ei ullo in discrimine deesse posse, nunciavit. Quâ in re agnoscit R. M. verè magnum, verè regium, verè Christianum M. V. animum; agnoscit fraternum ergàse affectum, quem gratissimi testificatione animi prosequitur, ac profitetur, nihil tam graue, nihil tam difficile, nihil tâm periculosum fore, quod vicissim M. V. causâ aggredi recuset. Moveantur utinam tam praeclaro M. V. exemplo reliqui Christianorum Principes, velintquè potius tam gloriosi laboris esse cooperatores, quàm segnes & otiosi spectatores alieni periculi, pessundaturi quandoquè propria, dum vicina negligunt. Id verò usu venire nostro, si Dijs placet, credant cautiores, exemplo, quos neglecta Graecia, deserta Pamnonia, in has coniecit angustias. Et nos quidèm eam quam coelum tulerit, sortem feremus, renovaturi Saguntinorum fidei, Tyriorum constantiae, & si quid usquam fortiter actum, exempla; caeterùm vicini nostri provideant, quaratione animos firmare possint, ad fimiles, vel (avertant omen superi) graviores casus tolerandos. Nequè putent tyrannum, evius animuum humiles Sarmatarum casae ad tam detestandum impulêrunt periurium, sanctiora habiturum vicinitatis iura quae cum eis iecerit, quorum urbibus mercaturâ florentissimis, opibus praestantissimis, aedificiorum cultu splendidissimis, iamdudum inhiat. Non detinebunt haec, sed allicient, non extinguent, sed inflammabunt, sacrilegam per nefas propagandi imperij sitim. Quis enim non videt hoc unum Tyrannum intendere, quod in maiorum eius multo tempore agitatum constet fuisse confilio, ut occupatâ patentissimâ in omnes Europae partes regione, omnis grani feracissimâ, omnium ad classem instruendam, armandamque necessariorum refertissimâ, innumeris suis copijs opima apperiat horrea, navium ingentem praeparet copiam, quibus Balthicum occupet sinum, transiturus in Oceanum, ut sic binis classibus, velut alis, ab vtroquè mar. Europam premat, & opprimat; terrestres copias per apertissimos, quà Poloniam spectat, campos, in Germaniam effundat, quà euntem non montium claustra retinere, nonfluminum rapacitas poterit retardare? Voluebat haec Solymannus animo, agitabanteius posteri, nec ullâ aliâ ab eo consilio deterritos eosfuiss▪ constatratione, quàm quòd crederent universos conspiraturos Christianos, ad tuendum hoc Regnum, excuius salute totius Europae pendeat integritas. Nedeerantillo votam magnanimi Principes, qui maluissent opum, ac vitae propriae detrimentum facere, quàm vicini sibi populi salutem periclitantem deserere. Haec nostrâ aetate, proh dolor! multi non intelligunt, negligunt nonnulli, & quod dolendum magis, accersunt ultrò ad communem omnium perniciem, persidum nominis Christiani hostem, indigni Christiano nomine, Barbaris ipsis execrabiliores. Vnum Te habent, Serenissime Rex, haec nostra tempora, qui pro singulari tuâ prudentiâ animaduertisti, & iudicâsti per latus Poloniae universam peti Europam, ac eius periculum ad omnes pertinere Christianos; solenne Ottomanorum esse bella ex bellis quaerere, & regna regnis cumulare, qui non contenti Asiae, Africa, & maioris Europae partis imperio, quicquid reliquum est praedae destinant: nec sibi per religionem licere aliter posse opinantur.  
Videt haec M. V. singula, unde & hanc gloriam est consecuta, ambigentibus caeteris Principibus quid sentirent, solam M. V. quid Christianae Reip. expediret, maximè & vidisse, & eligisse, autoremquè reliquis extitisse, ut, dum licet, mutuis auxilijs, communibus subsidijs tantae imanissimi hostis obuiam eant libidini, cuius opes intestinis ipsorum dissidijs eô creuêrunt potentiae.  
Perge porrò, Inuictissime Rex! & hanc dextram non armis magis quàm pietate notam, tuam sidem imploranti, porrige Poloniae. Defensor fidei es, commune Numen ne blasphemetur, prouide; imitêre maiores tuos, quibus haud graue fuit è proprijs Barbaros eruere latebris, & ultimae Syriae finibus Britannici nominis gloriam terminare. Abundè amplissimis Maiestatis Vestrae ditionibus suppetunt, quaecunquè ad reprimendas potentissimi hostis vires requiruntur. Procerum copia, populi multitudo, omnis generis apparatus, vis immensa; ne patiatur Maiestas Vestra peritissimos rei militaris Anglos, bellicosissimos Scotos, Hybernos ferocissimos, coniunctissimi Maiest. Vestrae Regis, & amicissimae gentis, discrimina spectare otiosos, ac tàm latè serpens incendium in propriâ potiùs opperiri domo, quàm in vicinâ, dum licet, restinguere. In alieno discrimine propria curare pericula, nec praesentia duntaxat intueri, sed futura prospicere, erit celebratae Maiestatis Vestrae prudentiae, erit & magnanimitatis, quam vterquè admirabitur orbis, quam sera praedicabit posteritas, quam seruata venerabitur Polonia. Serenissimus verò Rex meus uti nunc particularem Maiestatis Vestrae ergà se affectum, quâ potest maximâ animi gratitudine, complectitur, it à in posterum cum se Maiest. Vestrae declarabit amicum, qui & secundis Maiestatis Vestrae rebus ex animo faveat, & adversis, si quae impendeant, non secùs quàm proprio commoveatur discrimine.   

Most Renowned KING,  
THE sacred, royal Majesty of Poland, and Suethland, my most gracious Lord and Master, wishing unto your Majesty perfect, and long health, most happy success in all your desires, a flourishing, and peaceful government over your most large dominions, declareth, by the most ample testification he may of particular affection to your Majesty, the singular propension of a mind, brotherly, and most studiously addicted to your Majesty's affairs, and obligeth himself by these Letters. And this Preface past, I most humbly beseech your Majesty, while I briefly declare the rest of my Embassage, to vouchsafe me your benigns' attention.  
THE long concealed poison in the breast of the Ottomans, hath now at length broke forth, and the mask of many years feigned friendship laid aside, Poland, the strongest bulwark of the Christian world, is assaulted with the universal fury of the Barbarous. The East is filled with noise of preparation for War, the seas are loaden with Navies, A●●a is joined to Europe, and what forces Africa affords, are armed for our destruction. Into the society of so great a War there come the hereditary enemies of our name, the Tartars; there comes also both the Dacians; the Seruians, Bulgars, Bosnians, Illyrians, Thracians, Epirotes, all wild, and barbarous people whatsoever, by force, rewards, promises, hopes of prey, desire of revenge, are compelled, allured, enraged. A lamentable prologue to this bloody tragedy hath lately been acted; cruel Dacia hath greedily drunk the first blood, where the perfidious enemy mindless of his past and present leagues solemnly sealed, and sworn, invading with innumerable troops the territories of the King, my most clement Master, slew, to the singular loss of the Christian Commonwealth, our small, but most warlike Army opposed against him. For by that victory the courage of the Barbarous, 
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But such is the singular vigilancy of your Majesty, so great is your study of the common good of Christians, that you do advertise them, to whom the dangers in respect either of time, or place chiefly belong; and your Majesty preventeth even this message of my most renowned King, & of your own accord You have offered what we should have sought, when to this selfsame enemy, you declared yourself Friend to the Regal Majesty of my most gracious Master, and that you would not forsake him in any danger. Wherein his Regal Majesty acknowledgeth your truly great, truly royal, truly Christian mind; wherein he acknowledgeth your Majesty's brotherly affection, which with the testification of a most thankful heart, he embraces, and professeth there is nothing so grievous, so difficult, so dangerous, which he would not likewise for your Majesty's cause undertake. I would to God other Christian Princes might be moved by this most famous example of your Majesty, and that they would rather be fellow labourers in so glorious a work, then idle and slothful spectators of others danger, since by neglecting their neighbours, they cannot but at length ruin themselves. Which how likely it is to come to pass, they may, if Heaven be pleased, believe, forewarned by the example of ourselves, whom neglected Greece, forsaken Hungary have cast into these present . And surely we shall suffer whatsoever Heaven imposeth with resolution to renew the examples of the Saguntines faith, Tyrians constancy, or of what fortitude hath else been found; but let our neighbours forethink how they shall prepare their minds to endure the like, or (which Heaven forbidden) greater calamities. Neither let them once imagine the Tyrant, whose mind the poor Sarmatian cottages drew to so detestable perjury, will esteem more holy the rights and laws of neighbourhood which he shall make with them, after whose cities most flourishing in Merchandise, most excelling in riches, most beautiful in buildings, he hath long gaped. These things will not keep back, but draw him on, they will not quench, but inflame his sacrilegious thirst of enlarging his Empire by all both inhuman, and irreligious wickedness. For who sees not the Tyrant only to intent that which is known to have been long time debated in the counsel of his predecessors, that by possessing a country yielding easiest access into all parts of Europe, most fertile of all kind of grain, most replenished with all necessaries to build, and arm a Navy, he might open plentiful granaries to his numberless Armies, and prepare infinite shipping, by which being Master of the Balthike Sound, he might pass into the Ocean, and so with two Navies, as it were with two wings, by both the Seas, press, and oppress Europe; that he might through most open Countries, and Plains pour into Germany, by those quarters it bordereth with Poland, his Land forces, where are no closure of Mountains to restrain, no swiftness of Rivers to foreslowe his journey? This, long since, Solyman and his successors cast in their mind, neither were they, as it is manifest, by any other reason deterred from that purpose, then for that they believed, all Christians would conspire to defend that Kingdom, on whose safety the good estate of all Europe depended. Neither did there want in that age Princes so magnanimous, that they rather chose to suffer loss of substance, yea of life, then to forsake the endangered safety of their neighbour Nation. But many in this our age apprehended not, with grief I speak it, these things, some neglect them, and which is more to be lamented, industriously invite this faithless enemy of the Christian name, of which they are unworthy, and then the Barbarous themselves more execrable, to the common destruction of all. These our times, most Renowned King! find only You, who in your singular wisdom have considered, and understood that all Europe is strooke at through the sides of Poland, and that the danger toucheth all Christians; that to seek Wars after Wars, and heap Kingdoms to Kingdoms, is customary with the Turks, who, not satisfied with the Empire of Asia, Africa, and greater part of Europe, design what e'er remains for prey, and according to their religion, imagine it is not lawful for them to do otherwise. All these things your Majesty well sees, and thereby hath attained the glory, whiles other Princes stand doubtful what to think, alone to have understood, and chosen what was behooveful for the Christian Commonwealth, and to have been Author to the rest, of resisting, by mutual aids, and common succours, the so great rage of a most cruel enemy, whose fortunes have grown unto this height of power by their intestine discords. Proceed then, O most invincible King! and reach out this your hand, not more known by Arms then Piety, to afflicted Poland imploring your help. You are Defender of the Faith; take then care that our common Deity be not blasphemed; imitate your Predecessors, who held it not burdensome to rouse the Barbarous out of their own dens, & stretch unto the bounds of farthest Syria, the glory of the British name. In your Majesty's most ample Territories all things abound which are required to repress the force of the most potent enemy; store of Nobility, multitude of people, provisions of all kind, immeasurable power. Let not your Majesty suffer the English most experienced in military affairs, the most warlike Scotch, the fierce & most courageous Irish idly to behold the dangers of a King most joined in friendship, & of a Nation most-affected to your Majesty; and rather to expect in their own roofs so large a spreading flame, then, whiles they may, extinguish it in their Neighbours. To provide in others danger for your own, nor to cast your eye only on present, but also on future things, belongs to your Majesty's celebrated Wisdom, belongs to your Magnanimity, which either world shall admire, which long posterity shall report and praise, which preserved Poland shall reverence. And my most Renowned King, as for the present he embraceth with all possible thankfulness, the particular affection of your Majesty towards him, so in all time to come, he will declare himself that Friend, which shall from his soul both favour your Majesty prosperous successes, and in adverse, if any such should chance, be no less moved then with his proper danger.   
FINIS.