TWO SPEECHES; The One spoken by Sir Audley Mervin, SPEAKER Of the Honourable House of Commons, Upon the Reception and Return of JAMES, Duke of ORMOND, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, july 27. 1662.  
The Other, At his Grace's Entrance into the Castle of Dublin, By Mr. NORRIS JEPHSON.  
Published by Authority.  
LONDON: Printed for Samuel Speed, at the Rainbow in Fleetstreet, near the Inner Temple-Gate. 1662.   

Sir AUDLEY MERVIN'S SPEECH.  
May it please your Grace:  
IT was truly said, In Numero, Pondere, & Mensura 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 ●●●olved in:) hath assembled these honourable Persons that now attend your Grace, in Numero, representing the Commons of this Kingdom; in Pondere, qualified 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 hath 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 modelling the Case of it 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 forbid me; knowing I ought not to practise in that Mystery wherein I have not served out my time. And though this be una, it is not Vnica ratio; for Truth, and such a Truth as must be stamped by the Authority of the House, they judge according to the Rules of Heraldry, it must be emblazoned in a plain Coat. 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: Discors Concordia foetibus apt● est; the most ravishing Harmony is composed of Discords. But when this House raises a 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 for our Descants; and by a Nemine contradicente, I am commanded this Day to publish to your Grace, a Dicite Iô Paean, & Iô 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 Linguas, 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 Errata, or any Index Expurgatorius.  
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 Virtues, that many worthy Persons this Day, of whom you could not write either Veni or Vidi, have entertained an honourable Contest, who should first Resign the Devotion of their Services to your Commands. So that I may say, 
Hoc, Coelo commune tibi est, Dux magne, Deisque  
Distantem influxa posse ferire tuo.   
I remember I thrice repeated your Graces Welcome: there is more of Logic than Rhetoric in it; for there are three Estates concerned in it: The Lords Spiritual have welcomed you to 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 that 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 Despair. Then 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 inhanse the value of former Enjoyments by their absence: this weakness of our Judgement, being recompensed with an improvement of our Affection. Thus when we consider 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 Hereditary Territories conveyed through the Channels of ancient, pure and noble Blood; and not only thus divorced from Rachel, but espoused to Leah, 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 gilled the Church, Rays that we doubt not but will segregare Heterogenea, burn up Schisms, Heresies; and congregare Homogenea, 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 fitter 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 Sepulchro.   
And had we no other Instances of his Majesty's tenderness to this Kingdom, nor other Evidences of his religious Soul; 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-mouthed Detraction, thou that feedest upon the Consciences of Kings, and gnawest the breasts of great Ministers of State, hide 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 mayst thou not now expect from him, armed with Power, fenced with Laws, and both designed by the most Religious of Kings!  Nil desperandum tali Deuce, & auspice tali. 
Thus, Sir, you arrived to us Commissioned from God: for, they that honour him, he will honour them.  
Religion hath an unseparable 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 heart and noble parts retain their primitive healthful temper? how can Consumptive impressions seize that body, that keeps within itself a Feast, a Feast (with reverence I say it) dressed by Gods own 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 aniorem.  
Let the Fable go; but the Moral holds, That the usurped Powers at Home, and confederated Powers Abroad, run all those Methamorphoses for the Triumph of a single Rape upon your Allegiance; and all in vain. If we listen to the Syrene-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 praise 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 quatit solida:— Si fractus  
Illabatur Orbis, impavidum  
Ferient ruinae.  
Your Grace knew you were a Star of the first Magnitude in the Guards of Charles 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, neighing 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 farther 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 Longboat, to make provision for your own Safety: no, you made honourable and secure Articles for those that had embarked upon your account.  
Many that stand here this day, that owe a lasting Sacrifice to your Piety, whose age, wants, family-dependencies, or the like, only accompanying your Grace with their Prayers, under the Lee of those Articles, in the continued violence of those Storms, embarked 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 Queen 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 vivens.  
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 malo fuit usus in illo) neither shall I mention your frequent and steadable 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 were living? How our Fundamental Laws were administered? And in the conclusion of all, how careful you were to return us with our moneys in our sack's mouths, with his Majesty's gracious Declaration 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 premise, 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 we are now upon one of the Master-Wheels: and happy is the Kingdom, when the Wheels move 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 fivefold 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 aid to your advice? Ireland 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 served. When Clauses and Prouisoes 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 Eagle, to try the legitimation of her brood, dares their eyes with the Sunbeams. 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 C●… 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 Swadling-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 were to it. It remembers how powerfully instrumental you were to give it a Body, and now waits until your Grace by the Royal Assent breathe a Soul into it.  
It is now time to take in my Sails, and make ready an Anchor, especially since methinks 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 Enquest to present Criminals, so they are the great Records to preserve Virtue and Merits. Could your Grace have been contented to have acted less, my Commission would have been to have said 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 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 those, centre in the ever-prayed-for Happiness of his Majesty and his other Kingdoms.   

30 JULY.  
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 this House) be forthwith Printed and Published.