A SPEECH, Delivered by Sir AUDLEY MERVYN His Majesty's Prime Sergeant at Law in IRELAND, and Speaker of the House of Commons, to his Grace JAMES Duke of ORMOND, Lord Lieutenant of IRELAND, in the presence Chamber in the Castle of DUBLIN, the 29. of July 1662.  
DUBLIN Printed by WILIAM BLADEN, by special Order, Anno Dom. 1662.   

30 July 1662.  
ORdered nemine contradicente, that the Speech delivered by Mr. Speaker yesterday, to his Grace JAMES Duke of ORMOND, Lord Lieutenant of this Kingdom, being so fully agreeable to the sense of the House, be forthwith Printed and Published.  
PHIL. FERNELEY. Cler. Parliam.   

May it please your Grace;  
IT was truly said, in Numero, Pondere, & mensurae Creavit Deus omnia; His Majesty, God's Vicegerent intending a new Creation to this poor Kingdom, (for who knows not the Chaos we have been involved in) hath assembled these Honourable persons that now attend your Grace, in Numero, representing the Commons of this Kingdom, in Pondere qualifyed with judgement and experience to treat and advise about the weighty Affairs thereof; In Mensura, according to their mite, offering to his Majesty measure pressed down, and running over: This Assembly have commanded me, (O that I could wave this word command, my own inclination leading me to the ready performance of this duty,) but I must not, I have received their command, a strict one, they have left me no discretionary Latitude, they have entrusted me with a rich jewel to present your Grace, and only recommended the moduling the case unto me: and this under a limitation too; For they know that Logic sits at the forge and hammer, Rhetoric at the file and polishing, and this in favour of the Laws they have forbidden me, knowing I ought not to practice in that mystery wherein I have not served out my time; and though this be una, it is not unica ratio, for truth, and such a truth as must be stamped by the authority of that House, they judge according to the rules of Heraldry, it must be emblasoned in a plain co●t: Next Sir, the House in this address follows not the tract of common principles; For, that beauty of the universe we behold, arises out of jarring Elements, Dancers concordia ●aetibus apta est; the most ravishing Harmony is composed of discords; But when this House raises structure, the noise of a hammer must not be heard in the building; when they set a lesson it must be perfected out of unisons: Nemine contradicente is the Key of our descants, and by a Nemine contradicente I am commanded this day to publish to your Grace, a, Dicite Jo Paean, & Jo bis dicite Paean.  
Welcome, welcome, welcome Great DUKE is the Anthem appointed by the House of Commons for this great Festival; This is multum in parvo, and according to that rule veritatis syllabas oportet esse breves: This is above the task of a single tongue, Non mihi si centum lingu is centum oraque. No, so many faces as attend your Grace, are the volumes in which this record of welcome is enrolled; Flesh must be the Parchment, and blood the Rubric to register this day, without Erratas, or any Index expurgaterius:  
Our Prayers were, you might come, Our inquiries were, when will he come● Our joys must be complete to welcome you now you are come.  
The Laconism of Caesar's letter I have heard admired, who wrote veni, vidi, vici; But Sir, You may write much shorter, and much truer, vici only, for so forcible an operation hath Your virrues, that many worthy persons this day, of whom you could not write either veni or viai, have entertained an Honourable contest who should first resign the devotion of their services to your Commands; so that I may say, 
Hoc, Caelo commune tibi est, dux magne, deisque  
Distantem influxu posse serire tuo.   
I remember I thrice repeated your Grace's Welcome; there is more of Logic than Rhetoric in it, for there are three Estates concerned in it; The Lords Spiritual have welcomed you into the bosom of the Church: The Lords Temporal have welcomed you into the bed of Honour, The Commons do welcome you into the recesses of their Hearts, perfumed with Loyalty to his Majesty, and with submissive affection to your Person; What hinders then, But it be Enacted, But here I want expression when I consider the divided passions of our Sovereign in giving the Royal assent.  
May it please your Majesty, you must either deny yourself or deny us, and you have rather denied yourself, than you would deny us: you are contented though under some impatience to want his Grace, rather than we should want him under ●spair: Th●n since we have the Royal assent, let your Graces' welcome be Enacted, not by a temporary act, but to continue to us and our posterity.  
But what a crowd of ingredients compound the present consistency of our joys, and even these have their just advantages; The Sun breaking forth from an imprisoning cloud returns with a coveted light, and we are taught many times to enhance the value of former enjoyments by their absence; this weakness of our judgement being recompensed with an improvement of our affection: Thus Sir, when we considered you exiled from whatsoever might have yielded you a sublunary satisfaction; when we consider you divorced from your Lady, whom Grace and Nature had fitted to transmit your Name and Honours to future ages, in an issue like to you both; when we consider you ravished from those large haereditary territories conveyed through the channels of ancient, pure, and Noble blood; and not only thus divorced from Rachel, but exposed to Leagh, to a blear-eyed condition, and for what crimes? your virtues were your crimes: This is the imprisoning cloud; But now to behold you breaking forth with Rays, Rays reflected from the solar aspect of his Majesty, Rays that awaken and call up the sleeping virtue in the roots of the several interests in this Kingdom, Rays that gild the Church, Rays that we doubt not but will segregare heterogenea, burn up schisms, Heresies, & congregare homagenea, wed doctrine and discipline; Rays that warm the civil Government, Rays not contracted to the Cedars of Lebanon, but proportionably influencing the lowest shrubs, what return for such general benefits, than the general acknowledgement of all the Commons in this Kingdom.  
But Sir, in the Van of particulars, your care of that Religion professed in your Mother Church opens our arms, and Encircles you in Embraces as fast, and durable, as those with which you Embraced it: That Religion of which you use to say; 
Illa meos, primum quae me sibi junxit, amores  
Abstulit, illa habeat secum-servatque Sepulcro.   
And had we no other instances of his Majesty's tenderness to this Kingdom, nor other evidences of his, Religious S●ul this even this single act were enough to confirm our affections and Loyalty, and to regulate our imitation: We may well judge his Majesty expects us to write in a Canonical hand, by sending us over such an Orthodox Copy;  
Black mouth Detraction thou that feedest upon the consciences of Kings, and gnawest the breasts of great Ministers of State, hid thy mouth in the dust; this day thy Tragedy bears date: Behold him placed over us by our Sovereign, upon whom Temptations in the wilderness, in foreign parts, after many days fasting in a necessitated condition, left no other Impression, than their foam and malice: And Ireland harken not unto unwarrantable fears (if any such be) behold him that in his single Person dared the French Cardinals power, and rage in rescuing that Illustrious Prince of fresh and glorious memory, the Duke of GLOUCESTER from the snares laid for his tender years: What mayest thou not now expect from him, armed with power, fenced with Laws, and both designed by the most religious of Kings, Nil desperandum tali duce & auspice tali:  
Thus Sir you arrive to us Commissioned from God, for they that honour him, he will honour them:  
Religion hath an unseperable companion, Loyalty: These are like Ruth and Naomi, wheresoever thou goest, I will go, and God having joined them in your Grace I dare not separate them; This was Ariadne's Clue that led you through all the Labyrinths and vicissitudes of your life: this hath returned you to us with the same countenance and complexion, Sic oculos sic ora ferebat, as when you left us, I wonder at those that wonder at it, for how should the face alter, when the Hear, and noble parts retain their primitive healthful temper: How can consumptive impressions seize that body that keeps within itself a feast, a ●east (with reverence I say it,) dressed by Gods one hand, for your good conscience was a continual feast: God preserved you and reserved you for this day, therefore your eye must not grow dim or your natural heat decay:  
Impregnable Castles and walls of Brass are but Emblems of this single virtue:  
The Poets feigned that jupiter, the better to compass his Rapes transformed himself into several shapes; Fit Taurus, Cygnus, Satyrus, aurumque ob amorem:  
Let the Fable go, but the Moral holds, that the usurped powers at home, and confoederated powers abroad run all those Metamorphoses for the Triumph of a single Rape upon your Allegiance, and all in vain, If we listen unto the S●ren air of their Promises and Invitations, they are Swans, if we consider the merit and weight of them, they are showers of Gold, they learned the plausible Dialect from their Father, all this will I give you, if you will fall down and worship: If we reflect on their menaces, and (which is more) their practices they appear in shapes more fierce, and antic, than Bulls, and Satyrs: But your Grace made good by practice what deserves the praises of a speculative fancy, be pleased to attend it, it is the Epistle appointed by the House for this present day, 
justum & tenacem propositi virum,  
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,  
Non vultus instantis Tyranni,  
Mente qualit solida, se fractus,  
Illabatur orbis Impavidum,  
Fereunt ruinae.   
Your Grace knew you were a star, of the first magnitude in the guards of CARLS his wain, and those must not be Erratic, but fixed: Thus you are Commissioned from the King unto us, and then what shall be said, nay, what must be done to the man, whom the King intends to honour:  
Now be pleased to give us leave to lay aside these general Topics of Religion and Loyalty, and to recreate ourselves with the remembrance of those benefits we enjoyed under your Grace's government:  
It was not still music, or bonfires lighted for Triumph, that ushered your Grace into your government; No, it was the warlike noise, of Trumpets, sounding of Drums, neighings of barbed Steeds, and the screeches of the half-slain that Proclaimed your entrance upon a stage of blood: And when you were thus but a Graduate in your Government, you were put upon terms of disadvantage and necessity to dispute with the Doctors of the Chair, for your enemies wanted neither dolus, or virtus: And if we who in a direct line partake of the prudence of your Counsels and the success of your sword should be silent, even England that is but collaterally interested, might, nay, would upbraid our ingratitude, since the Lords and Commons, assembled in Parliament, there pregnant with the sense of your merits were humble suitors to his late Majesty of ever glorious memory as an earnest of his further favours to confer on you the honour and dignity of a Marquis, and that the rise of that honour might survive to be at the instance of the Parliament in England, they presented your Grace with a jewel to be worn upon your breast, the better to direct the esteem of men to the inward-jewel-by the richness of the case.  
Thus we enjoyed in the heat of war, the shades of peace until fatal divisions among ourselves, (and a divided Kingdom cannot stand) rend your grace from us, and then when the shepherd was smote, how miserably were the sheep scattered?  
But when your Grace saw this Royal vessel sinking, you leapt not into the Long boat to make provision for your one safety: no, you made honourable and secure articles for those that embarked upon your account.  
Many stand here this day that own a lasting sacrifice to your piety, who through age, wants, family dependencies, or the like only accompanying your Grace with their prayers under the L●e of those articles in the continued violence of those storms, Embayed themselves and their fortunes.  
And yet when the flagging sails carried you unwillingly from this Coast, when you lost the sight, yet you retained the sense of this Land: Length of time, or distance of place, could not abate the intensiveness of your spirits for this Kingdoms good.  
It is said that upon the dissection of Q. Mary in order to her embalming, Calais was found written on her heart: I shall not dispute the truth, but sure this is, Ireland at your Grace's departure was ultimum moriens, and upon your return Primum venèns.  
I shall pass by that familiar reception your Grace afforded to the Commissioners of the General Convention of Ireland, (for the name of it I can only say, aliquisque male fuit usus in illo) Neither shall I mention your frequent and stedable advices, your constant readiness upon all occasions to bring them into his Majesty's presence: I forbear your Grace's passionate and repeated Questions, How little Benjamin did? how all things were in Ireland? whether the old man was living? how our fundamental Laws were administered: And in the conclusion of all, how careful you were to teturn us with our moneys in our sack's mouths, with his Majesty's gracious Declarations, and Instructions, so that the addresses from this Kingdom went out like the Bow of jonathan that never returned empty.  
Witness the address from this House by their Commissioners to his Sacred Majesty, in reference amongst other things, to that great Bill of Settlement, (for that adopted title it retains) Sir, I am not this day speaking of his Majesty, we still praemise, Rex nobis haec otia fecit: of him we say, Omnium domus illius vigilia defendit, omnium otium illius labour, omnium delitias illius industria, omnium vacationem illius occupatio; His Majesty is the Spirit that moves the wheels, and Wear now upon one of the Master-wheels, and happy is the Kingdom when the wheels moves as the Spirit moves; His Majesty is the waters of healing, and we applaud a tutelar Angel that stirred the waters, and helped in this paralytical Kingdom in the crowd of Patients: And here give me leave to remember the five fold mess of your time that you afforded Benjamin: Did the morning require your Graces attending in Parliament? IRELAND must be first served: Did afternoon Committees pray in and to your advice? IREIAND must be first served; were there particular causes designed for hearing at the Council Board? you have successfully employed your mediation that IRELAND might be first ferved: when clauses and Provisoes were offered to be inserted in that great Bill, your first care was to see if they were Declaration touch, and held them up before it, as the E●gle to try the legitimation of her brood, dares their eyes with the Sun beams; and in the throng of such addresses, I have observed your Grace in civility to hear all persons, but in justice to see none; And if upon pretensions of Profit, any intrenchments upon the Declaration had been offered, your Grace knowing the nature of your Great Master's standard, wherein a carack of honour, outweighed pounds of profit, you endeavoured to transmit the Bill as a seamless coat.  
And now Sir, I need not have recourse to any Rhetorical Figure, to make that great Bill to speak; your Grace may take notice, that as, many days you waited upon it, so it hath to this day waited upon your Grace; It remembers how often when it was in the Cradle and swaddling bands, you visited it; It remembers when it was in the state of its minority, and under a Committee of the Council Board, how faithful and tender a Guardian you was to it: It remembers how powerfully instrumental you was to give it a body, and now waits until your Grace by the Royal assent breath a Soul into it.  
It is now time to take in my sails, and make ready an anchor, especially since me thinks I see a cloud rising upon your brow; I know your Grace's temper, that you place your reward as well as your recreation in doing good, and not in hearing of it being done; But be pleased to remember, it is the Commons of this Kingdom speak, and then, Vox populi, nay more, Vox populi Dei, is Vox Dei; As they are the great inquest to present criminals so they are the great records to preserve virtue and merits: Can your Grace have been contented to have acted less, my Commission would have been to have 〈◊〉 less; But it is fit we give your Grace an Essay of that obedience that so unanimously we devote to your Commands; and therefore, I shall only add, That as this House most submissively acknowledgeth the repeated obligations from his Majesty; so they look upon this as the fermentation of them all, that he hath put those Laws and Estates he hath so graciously bestowed on us, under your Grace's Government and Protection: And that while it shall seem expedient to his Majesty, to continue us in a Parliamentary way, His Majesty shall find the effects of his great wisdom and goodness in giving your Grace unto us, a Governor after our own hearts; That so, as we have been happy in your Grace, your Grace may be happy in us, and the union of both these, Centre in the ever prayed for happiness of his Majesty, and his other Kingdoms.  
FINIS.