Die Mercurij 29. Junij, 1642.  
IT is this day Ordered by the Commons now assembled in Parliament, That M. Ash and M. Hampden shall return thanks to M. Ash for the good pains he took in the Sermon he preached the last Fast day but two at the entreaty of the said Commons, and that he be desired to print his Sermon, And that no man presume to print it, but such as he shall appoint, till the House shall take further Order.  
H. Elsing▪ Cler. Parl. D. Com.  
I appoint Edward Brewster and John Burroughs to print my Sermon.  
Simeon Ash.   

THE PRINCE OF ORANGE HIS royal ENTERTAINMENT TO THE QVEEN OF ENGLAND.  
WITH, The true Description, how the Nobles inhabiting within the Hague, Rotterdam, Leyden, Amsterdam, Delft, Vtricke, Schedam, and divers others congratulated Her Majesty into HOLLAND.  
Also the Prince of Orange His royal Speech to Her Majesty at the Hague, and Her majesty's gracious Answer unto the same.  
Lastly, the manner how Her Majesty with the Lady Elizabeth were Feasted at the Prince's Palace in the Hague, March. 1. 1641.  
First imprinted at the Hague in Holland, and now Reprinted in London for Henry Berwick. 1641.   

THE Prince of Orange's Royal Entertainment to the Queen of ENGLAND.  
THe Prince of Orange having credible intelligence concerning the Queen of England's arriving at the Territories of Holland, waited in expectation of her coming a long time. But at length having information of her majesty's resolution, and the Parliament of England's dubious suspicion, he began to be ambiguous till afterwards being informed by an Embassage from her Majesty, he began to be in preparation of some Royal Entertainment, correspondent, and respectively congruent to the merits of so illustrious a Queen First then with the concommitant association of many Peers and Nobles attended her coming 〈◊〉 the Go●st, where she landed, and after some intercedent expressions of alacrity▪ and triumph on each side, he consummated his salutations in a brief and succinct Speech, which he alloquated her Majesty▪ to the substance of these words following.  

Illustrious Queen of England:  
THe resplondent irradiation of your ineffable virtue, and the obsequious adoration, which I owe as tribute to your sacred Person, have by the delicious compulsion of your attractive splendour respectively induced me to present the engagement of my service, and devotion to your gracious Majesty. For maturely finding not only the liberal hand of Nature, boasting her masterpiece in each lineament of you, (which is sufficient to dazzle the captive eye of the amazed beholder in a repercusive astonishment) but also the singular admiration of Art, exceeding herself in the facetious eloquence of those rhetorical elocutions, which are included in your faecundious brain (which transcends amazement itself) I conceive here from that either my tongue is too barren of expressions to describe the virtuous accent of your worth, or Our Country too indigent to afford a correspondent entertainment for your Majesty  
Yet let the discreet reflection of your clemency be more propitious, and what in perfection we are deficient, in the embryo of Our desired exoptations shall be consummated. For the obsequious respects due unto your liege, the royal Monarch of Britain, and the singular obligation of my devotive affection to Elizabeth, our delicious Spouse, had been sufficient Arguments of instigation to have enjoined us to declare Our affectionate humility of ardent devotion unto you. But ●hen I perspicuously behold both the majestic presence of him, inhabited in the candied structure of your heroic countenance, and the real Effigies of Her angelical fabric, delineated in the perfect Symmetry of each arterial dimension naturally in you, we are in a triplicity of engagements induced coactively to recommend Our submissive extent of gratitude unto you.  
For when we apparently consider the various multiformity of virtues compendiously included in the rich Storehouse of your mature perfection, we thence-from conclude, that you are the abstracted Quintessence of artificial Nature: your glorious countenance is crowned with majesty, your brow interwoven with occasional Lenity, and discreet austerity, your eye (like mounted Phoebus in his meridian pride) shoots such reflective beams of radiant brightness, that it captivates the dazzled beholder: your Cupidinean cheeks are clothed with intermixed lilies, and Roses: your purpureous lips (like a Nectarean current) do redound with expressed Oratory: your Mercurian tongue is guided with such admirable rhetoric, that the Muses themselves seem to inhabit there, and make it their Helicon: your aromatic smelling-breath is so odoriferous, that it exceeds the Arabian Odours, and seems rather celestial, then breathed from a mortal creature, your melodious voice is so harmonious that Apollo may now lay down his harp, and the spheres themselves become astonished.  
Yea should I dilate this continued expansion of your meritorious virtues, I might become infinite for these particulars already declared, do respectively read captivity to my admiring thoughts. This Country was lately desolate of all consolation, but being now honoured with your presence, it seems a paradise. But not to presume to far on your clement patience in a preliminary or tedious discourse; I will consummate our dutiful intentions, and grateful devotion to your M●jesty, in a concise and conclusive period.  
We are transported with joy having the happiness of your enjoyed presence; We do likewise present our affectionate gratitude unto you, in regard you would vouchsafe thus to honour us with your illustrious person: and finally (in presentation of our humble duty) we commend all our Provinces to your Gracious acceptation, which shall be at your command and pleasure, none interdicting you: yea we do lay Our Royal sceptre at your feet, submissively beseeching you to accept respectively, what Our Country doth afford: while we offer the Sacrifice of devotive thankfulness to your Deity.   

The Queen of England's gracious Answer to the Prince of Orange's Speech.  
Thrice noble Prince,  
THe heroic Dialect of your rhetorical expressions have been so incomparably ingenious, that you seem to me the God of eloquence. For my part Our desirous intent would regratulate you, but only we are barren of expressions, for you have contracted the Monopoly of famous elocutions to yourself, and some Language from your facundious words. You have honour●d us too greatly, and more than either Nature or Art have contributed to us in their various dispensations, have been by you augmented. But as you have honoured us in this place, so you have honoured yourself more, and the place likewise is honoured by your eloquence▪ And now give me leave to applaud your more meritorious worth: you seem to me Cicero in your fluent words, Virgil in your seraphic Raptures, Cupid in your face, Venus in your eye, Mercury in your tongue, Apollo in your voice, Diana in your chastity, Hector in your magnanimous mind, Paris in the stateliness of your body, and lastly in your eloquence a younger Jupiter, out of whose redundant brain the Minerva of eloquence is extracted. Your several parts are so admirable, that I went Oratory to express them. But for your modesty in declaring the indigency of this Country, we find it otherwise; for rather then deficient (as you confessed) it seems superfluous of all fertility. And we do most respectively gratify you, for your sedulous pains, and will to the largest extent of our power endeavour to remunerate your royal courtesies.   
These Speeches being ended, the Nobles ●nhabiting within the Hague, Rotterdam, Leyden, Amsterdam, Delft, Vtrick, Schedam, and divers others congratulated her Majesty with the Lady Elizabeth, and were conducted to the Prince of Orange's Palace at the Hague in a stately triumph, every one welcomming her, and showing submissive salutations to her Majesty. She was likewise Royally feasted at the Prince's Palace, showing her the greatest honour and respects, that can possibly be conceived. And she likewise gratefully thanked him, and the other Nobles associating him for their liberal munificence. God grant that she may safely return to England again, to the comfort of His Majesty, and increments of the kingdom.  
FINIS.