February speech to the queen in the house of lord your majesty S most love  subject the knight citizen and burgess of the house of commons have nominate I  your grace poor servant and subject to be their speaker though their  nomination have hitherto proceed that they present I to speak before your  majesty yet this their nomination be only as yet a nomination and no election  until your majesty give allowance and approbation for as in the heaven a star  be but in the shade corpus until it have receive light from the sun so stand I  corpus in the shade a mute body until your highness bright shine wisdom have  look upon I and allowedme how great a charge this be to be the mouth of such a  body as your whole Commons represent to utter what be speak full royal power  my small experience be a poor professor of the law can tell but how unable I  be to do this office my present speech do tell that of a number in this house  I be most unfit for among they be many grave many learned many deep wise man  and those of ripe judgement but I be untimely fruit not yet ripe but a bud  scarce blossom so as I fear I your majesty will say neglect worthy  to pluck out folia among so many fair fruit you have pluck a shake leaf if I  may be so bold as to remember a speech which I can forget use the last  parliament in your majesty S own mouth many come hither have  to meet and consider who not to know quid sit to meet and consider a just  reprehension to many as to myself also a untimely fruit my year and judgement  ill befit the gravity of this place but howsoever I know myself the mean and  inferior unto all that ever be before I in this place yet in faithfulness of  service and dutifulness of love I think not myself inferior to any that ever  be before I and amid my many imperfection yet this be my comfort I never know  any in this place but if your majesty give they favour God who call they to  the place give they also the blessing to discharge it consider the great and  wonder blessing beside the long peace we have enjoy under your grace most  happy and victorious reign and remember with what wisdom and justice your  grace have reign over we we have cause daily to praise God that ever you be  give we and the hazard that your majesty have adventure and the charge that  you have bear for we and our safety ought to make we ready to lie down  ourselves and all our live at your foot to do you service after this he relate  the great attempt of her majesty S enemy against we especial the pope and the  king of Spain who adhere unto he how wonder we be deliver in and what a favour  God therein manifest unto her majesty his speech after this tend whole to show  out of the history of England and the old state how the king of England ever  since Henry III S time have maintain themselves to be the supreme head over  all cause within their own dominion and then recite the law that every one  make in his time for maintain their own supremacy and exclude the pope he draw  down this proof by a statute of every king since Henry III to Edward VI this  end he come to speak of law that they be so great and so many already that  they be fit to be term elephantinae law therefore to make more law it may seem  superfluous and to he that may ask quid cause ut to come into being tot great  book law it may be answer in readiness cause be to come into being in orb  malum the malice of our arch enemy the devil though it be always great yet  never great than now and that dolus et malum be creep in so far among man it  be requisite that sharp ordinance shall be provide to prevent they and all  care be use for her majesty S preservation now be I to make unto your majesty  petition in the name of the Commons saint that liberty of speech and freedom  from arrest accord to the ancient custom of parliament be grant to your  subject d that we may have access unto your royal person to present those  thing that shall be consider among we last that your majesty will give your  royal assent to the thing that be agree upon and for myself I humble beseech  your majesty if any speech shall fall from I or behaviour find in I not decent  and fit it may not be impute blame upon the house but lie upon I and pardon in  I April speech to the queen at the house of lord the high court of parliament  most high and mighty prince be the great and most ancient court within this  your realm for before the Conquest in the high place of the west Saxon we read  of a parliament hold and since the Conquest they have be hold by all your  noble predecessor king of England in the time of the west Saxon a parliament  be hold by the noble king Ina by these word I Ina king of the west Saxon have  cause all my fatherhood alderman and wise Commons with the godly man of my  kingdom to consult of weighty matter c which word do plain show all the part  of this high court still observe to this day for by king Ina be your majesty S  most royal person represent the fatherhood in ancient time be these which we  call bps and still we call they rev father a ancient and chief part of our  state by alderman be mean your nobleman for so honourable be the word alderman  in ancient time that the nobility only be call alderman by wise Commons be  mean and signify knight and burgess and so be your majesty S writ de  discretioribus to greater extent to put under by godly man be mean your  convocation house it consist of such as be devote to religion and as godly man  do consult of weighty matter so be your highness writ at this day pro  a certain steep place roll up pain our position a defending royal power  our men  church tangent  your highness wisdom and exceed judgement withal  careful providence needs not our council but yet so urgent cause there be of  this parliament so important consideration as that we may say for that we can  judge never parliament be so needful as now nor any so honourable as this if I  may be bold to say it I must presume to say that which have be often say but  what be well say can be too often speak this sweet council of we I will  compare to that sweet commonwealth of the little be such for parvis   to bring together great to use the little be have but one governor who they  all serve he be their king because side to have to bear he be place in the  amid of their habitation ut in to look at tower they forage abroad suck honey  from every flower to bring to their king inactive sham sheep a crib to shut up  the drone they drive away out of their hive non to have sting and whoso assail  their king in he to send in sting yet king ipse be without sting your majesty  be that princely governor and noble queen who we all serve be protect under  the shadow of your wing we live and wish you may ever sit upon your throne  over we and whosoever shall not say amen for they we pray ut to turn round ne  to pass away ut to pour together ne to do harm under your happy gout we live  upon honey we suck upon every sweet flower but where the be suck honey there  also the spider draw poison some such venom there be but such drone and door  be we will expel the hive and serve your majesty and withstand any enemy that  shall assault you our land our good our life be prostrate at your foot to be  command yea and thank be God and honour be to your majesty for it such be the  power and force of your subject that of their own strength they be able to  encounter your great enemy and though we be such yet have we a prince that be  without aculco so full of that clemency be your majesty I fear I have be too  long and therefore to come now to your law the law we have confer upon this  session of so honourable a parliament be of two nature the one such as have  life but be ready to die except your majesty breathe life into they again the  other be law that never have life but be void of life do come to your majesty  to seek life the first sort be those law that have continuances until this  parliament and be now to receive new life or be to die for ever the other that  I term capable of life be those which be new make but have no essence until  your majesty give they life two law there be but I must give the honour where  it be due for they come from the noble wise lord of the upper house the most  honourable and beneficial law that can be desire the one a confirmation of all  letter patent from your majesty S most noble father of all ecclesiastical live  which that king take from those superstitious monastery and priory and  translate they to the erect and set up of many foundation of cathedral church  and college great further the maintenance of learning and true religion the  other law to suppress the obstinate recusant and the dangerous sectary both  very pernicious to your gout last your love and obedient subject the Commons  of the low house humble and with all dutiful thank stand bind unto your  gracious goodness for your general and large pardon grant unto they wherein  many great offence be pardon but it extend only to offence do before the  parliament I have many way since the beginning of this parliament by ignorance  and insufficiency to perform that which I shall have do offend your majesty I  therefore most humble crave to be partaker of your majesty S most gracious  pardon