a brief discourse touch the happy union of the kingdom of England and Scotland  dedicate in private to his majesty I do not find it strange excellent king  that when Heraclitus he that be surname the obscure have set forth a certain  book which be not now extant many man take it for a discourse of nature and  many other take it for a treatise of policy and matter of estate for there be  a great affinity and consent between the rule of nature and the true rule of  policy the one be nothing else but a order in the government of the world and  the other a order in the government of a estate and therefore the education  and erudition of the king of Persia be in a science which be term by a name  then of great reverence but now degenerate and take in ill part for the  Persian magic which be the secret literature of their king be a observation of  the contemplation of nature and a application thereof to a sense politic take  the fundamental law of nature with the branch and passage of they as a  original and first model whence to take and describe a copy and imitation for  government after this manner the foresay instructor fetch before their king  the example of the celestial body the sun the moon and the rest which have  great glory and veneration but no rest or intermission be in a perpetual  office of motion for the cherish in turn and in course of inferior body  express likewise the true manner of the motion of government which though they  ought to be swift and rapide in respect of occasion and dispatch yet be they  to be constant and regular without waver or confusion so do they represent  unto they how that the heaven do not inritch themselves by the earth and the  sea nor keep no dead stock or untouched treasure of that they draw to they  from below but whatsoever moisture they do levy and take from both the element  in vapour they do spend and turn back again in shower only hold and store they  up for a time to the end to issue and distribute they in season but chief they  do express and expound unto they that fundamental law of nature whereby all  thing do subsist and be preserve which be that every thing in nature although  it have his private and particular affection and appetite and do follow and  pursue the same in small moment and when it be deliver and free from more  general and common respect yet nevertheless when there be question or cause  for the sustain of the more general they forsake their own particularity and  propriety and attend and conspire to uphold the public so we see the iron in  small quantity will ascend and approach to the load stone upon a particular  sympathy but if it be any quantity of moment it leave his appetite of amity  with the load stone and like a good patriot fall to the earth which be the  place and region of massy body so again the water and other like body do fall  towards the centre of the earth which be as be say their region or country and  yet we see nothing more usual in all water work and not natural then that the  water rather then to suffer any distraction or disunion in nature will ascend  forsake the love to his own region or country and apply it self to the body  next adjoin but it be too large a digression to proceed to more example of  this kind your majesty your self do fall upon a passage of this nature in your  gracious speech of thank unto your Council when acknowledge princely their  vigilancy and well deserve it please you to note that it be a success and  event above the course of nature to have so great a change with so great a  quiet forasmuch as sudden and great mutation as well in state as in nature be  rare without violence and perturbation so as still I conclude there be as be  say a congruity between the principle of nature and and of policy and least  that instance may seem to to put at to this assertion I may even in that  particular with your majesty favour offer unto you a type or pattern in nature  much resemble this present euet in your state namely earthquake which many of  they bring ever much terror and wonder but no actual hurt the earth tremble  for a moment and sudden establish in perfect quiet as it be before this  knowledge then of make the government of the world a mirror for the government  of a state be a wisdom almost lose whereof the reason I take to be because of  the difficulty for one man to embrace both philosophy I have think good to  make some proof as far as my weakness and the straight of time will suffer to  revive in the handle of one particular wherewith now I most humble present  your majesty for sure as have be say it be a from of discourse ancient use  towards king and to what king shall it be more proper then to a king that be  studious to conjoin contemplative virtue and active virtue together your  majesty be the first king which have have the honour to be lapis  angular vessel to unite these two mighty and warlike nation of England and  Scotland under one sovereignty and Monarchy it do not appear by the record and  memory of any true history nor scarce by the fiction and pleasure of any  fabulous narration or tradition that ever of any antiquity this island of  great Britain be unite under one king before this day and yet there be no  mountain or race of hill there be no sea or great river there be no diversity  of tongue or language that have invite or provoke this ancient separation or  divorce the lot of Spain be to have the several kingdom of that continent  Portugal only except to be unite in a age not long pass and now in our age  that of Portugal also which be the last that hold out to be incorporate with  the rest the lot of France have be much about the same time likewise to have  reannexed unto that crown the several duchy and portion that be in former time  dismember the lot of this island be the last reserve for your majesty happy  time by the special providence and favour of God who have bring your majesty  to this happy conjunction with great consent of heart and in the strength of  your year and in the maturity of your experience it rest therefore but that as  I promise I set before your majesty princely consideration the ground of  nature touch the union and commixture of body the correspondence which they  have with the ground of policy in the conjunction of state and kingdom first  therefore that position vis unite strong be one of the common notion of the  mind needs not much to be induce or illustrate we see the sun when he enter  while he continue under the sign of leo cause more vehement heat then when he  be in cancer what time his beam be nevertheless more perpendicular the reason  whereof in great part have be true ascribe to the conjunction and corradiation  in that place of heaven of the sun with the four star of the first magnitude  syrius Canicula cor lion cauda lion so the moon likewise by ancient tradition  while she be in the same sign of leo be say to be at the heart or to respect  the heart which be not for any affinity which that place in heaven can have  with that part of man body but only because the moon be then by reason of the  conjunction and nearness with the star aforenamed in great strength of  influence and so work upon that part in inferior body which be most vital and  principal so we see water and liquor in small quantity do easy purify and  corrupt but in large quantity subsist long by reason of the strength they  receive by union so in earthquake the more general do little hurt by reason of  the unite weight that they offer to subvert but narrow and particular  earthquake have many time overturn whole town and city so then this point  touch the force of union be evident and therefore it be more fit to speak of  the manner of union wherein again it will not be pertinent to handle one kind  of union which be union by victory when one body do mere subdue another and  convert the same into his own nature extinguish and expulse what part so ever  of it it can overcome as when the fire convert the wood into fire purge away  the smoke and the ash as unapt matter to inflame or when the body of a live  creature do convert and assimilate food and nourishment purge and expel  whatsoever it can convert for these representation do answer in matter of  policy to union of country by conquest where the conquer state do extinguish  extirpate and expulse any part of the estate conquer which it find so contrary  as it can alter and convert it and therefore leave violent union we will  consider only of natural union the difference be excellent which the best  observer in nature do take between agreement and Miltio put together and  mingle the one be but a conjunction of body in place the other in quality and  consent the one the mother of sedition and alteration the other of peace and  continuance the one rather a confusion then a union the other proper a union  therefore we see those body which they call imperfect miltio last not but be  speedy dissolve for take for example snow or froth which be composition of air  and water in they you may behold how easy they sever and dissolve the water  close together and exclude the air so those three body which the alchemist do  so much celebrate as the three principle of thing that be to say earth water  and oil which it please they to term salt Mercury and sulphur we see if they  be unite only by composition or put together how weak and rude they do  incorporate for water and earth make but a unperfect slime and if they be  force together by agitation yet upon a little settle the earth reside in the  bottom so water and oil though by agitation it be Beatrice into a ointment yet  after a little settle the oil will float upon the top so as such unperfect  minglinges continue no long then they be force and still in the end the worthy  get above but otherwise it be of perfect mixture for we see those three body  of earth water and oil when they be join in a regetable or mineral they be so  unite as without great subtlety of be and force of extraction they can be  separate and reduce into the same simple body again so as the difference  between agreement and a mixing clear set down be this that agreement be the  join or put together of body without a new from and a mixing be the join or  put together of body under a new from for the new from be common vinculum and  without that the old from will be at striefe and discord now to reflect this  light of nature upon matter of estate there have be put in practice in  government these two several kind of policy in unite conjoin of state kingdom  the one to retain the ancient from still sever and only conjoin in sovereignty  the other to superinduce a new from agreeable and convenient to the entire  estate the former of these have be more usual and be more easy but the latter  be more happy for if a man do attentive revolve history of all nation and  judge true thereupon he will make this conclusion that there be never any  state that be good commixture but the Roman which because it be the best state  in the world and be the best example of this point we will chief insist  thereupon in the antiquity of Rome virgil bring in Jupiter by way of oracle or  perdiction speak of the mixture of the Trojan and the Italian conversation  a distinguished poet native land moresque to hold where be nomen to be comisti  corpore so much subsident Troy custom ritusque dedicated to throw to to make  all to make one over latino thy genus Ausomo abl. sing. quoth sanguine to rise  above man above ire a god responsibility to see wherein Jupiter make a kind of  partition or distribution that Italy shall give the language and the law Troy  shall give a mixture of man and some religious rite and both people shall meet  in one name of Latin soon after the foundation of the city of Rome the people  of the Roman and the sabines mingle upon equal term wherein the interchange go  so even that as Liui note the one nation give the name to the place and the  other to the people for Rome continue the name but the people be call quirite  which be the Sabine word derive of cure the country of Tacitus but that which  be chief to be note in the whole continuance of the Roman government they be  so liberal of their naturallizations as in effect they make perpetual mixture  for their manner be to grant the same not only to particular person but to  family and lineage and not only so but to whole city and country so as in the  end it come to pass that Rome be common native land as some of the civilian  call it so we read that saint Paul after he have be Beatrice with rod and  thereupon charge the officer with violation of the privilege of a citizen of  Rome the captain then say to he be thou then a Roman that privilege have cost  I deer to who saint Paul reply but I be so bear and yet in another place saint  Paul profess of himself that he be a Jew by tribe so as it be manifest that  some of his ancestor be naturalize to he and to his descendent so we read that  it be one of the first despite that be do to Julius Caesar that whereas he  have obtain naturalize for a city in Gaul one of the citizen of that city be  Beatrice with rod by the commandment of the consul Marcellus so we read in  Cornelius Tacitus that in the emperor Claudius time the nation of Gaul that  part which be call county the wild part be suitor to be make capable of the  honour of be senator and officer of Rome his word be cam de to fill up senate  to set in violent motion the first galliae who commata to drive to bond  et  community of Rome some time ago to follow justice to come up with in  a walled town honor to seek after many she super re Of color and appearance  rumor et eagerness to visit at Princeps  to match and in the end after long  debate it be rule they shall be admit so likewise the authority of Nicholas  Machiavelli seem not to be contemn who inquire of the cause of the growth of  the Roman empire do give judgement there be not one great then this that the  state do so easy compound and incorporate with stranger it be most true that  most estate and kingdom have take the other course of which this effect have  follow that the addition of further empire and territory have be rather matter  of burden then matter of strength unto they yea and further it have keep alive  the seed and root of revolt and rebellion for many age as we may see in a  fresh and notable example of the kingdom of Aragon which though it be unite to  Castille by marriage and not by conquest and so descend inhereditarie union by  the space of more then a hundred year yet because it be continue in a divide  government and not well incorporate and cement with the other crown enter into  a rebellion upon point of their Fueros or liberty now of very late year now to  speak brief of the several part of that from whereby state and kingdom be  perfect unite they be beside the sovereignty it self four in number union in  name union in language union in law and union in Employmentes for name though  it seem but a superficial and outward matter yet it carry much impression and  enchantment the general and common name of grease make the Greek always apt to  unite though otherwise full of division among themselves against other nation  who they call barbarous the hetian name be no small band to knit together  their league and confederacy the fast the common name of Spain no doubt have  be a special mean of the better union and conglutination of the several  kingdom of Castille Aragon Granada navarra Valencia Catalonia and the rest  comprehend also now late Portugal for language it be not needful to insist  upon it because both your majesty kingdom be of one language though of several  dialect and the difference so small between they as promise rather a enrich of  one language then a continuance of two for law which be the principal sinew of  government they be of three nature justice which I will term freedom or  ability law and more for ability and freedom they be among the Roman of four  kind or rather degree justice marriage justice community justice a voting and  justice candidacy or justice honor justice marriage be a thing in these time  out of use for marriage be open between all diversity of nation justice  community answer to that we call denization or naturalize justice a voting  answer to voice in parliament or voice in election of such as have voice in  parliament justice candidacy answer to place in Council and office and the  Roman do many time sever these freedom grant justice marriage without  community and community without vote vote without justice candidacy which be  common with they the last for law it be a matter of curiosity and  inconvenience to seek either to extripate all particular custom or to draw all  subject to one place or resort of judicature and session it suffice there be a  uniformity in the principal and fundamental law both ecclesiastical and civil  for in this point the rule hold which be pronounce by a ancient father touch  the diversity of rite in the church for find the vesture of the queen in the  psalm which do prefigure the church be of diverse colour and find again that  Christ coat be without a seam he conclude well in veste varietas sit cleft non  fit for manner a consent in they be to be seek industrious but not to be  enforce for nothing among people breed so much pertinacy in hold their custom  as sudden and violent offer to remove they and as for employment it be no more  but a indifferent hand and execution of that verse tros Tyriusue I nulle  crisis to put in motion there remain only to remember out of the ground of  nature the two condition of perfect mixture whereof the former be time for the  natural philosopher say well that agreement be opus man and a mixing be opus  nature for it be the duty of man to make a fit application of body together  but the perfect fermentation and incorporation of they must be leave to nature  and time and unnatural haste thereof do disturb the work and not dispatch it  so we see after the grift be put into the stock and bind it must be leave to  nature and time to make that continuum which be at first but bordering and it  be not any continual press or thrust together that will prevent nature season  but rather hinder it and so in liquor those mixture which be at the first  trouble grow after clear and settle by the benefit of rest and time the second  condition be that the great draw the less so we see when two light do meet the  great do darken and drown the less and when a small river run into a great it  lease both his name and stream and hereof to conclude we see a excellent  example in the kingdom of Judah and Israel the kingdom of Judah contain two  tribe the kingdom of Israel contain ten king David reign first over Judah for  certain year after the death of Isbosheth the son of Saul obtain likewise the  kingdom of Israel this union continue in he and likewise in his son Salomon by  the space of seventy year at least between they both but yet because the seat  of the kingdom be keep still in Judah and so the less seek to draw the great  upon the first occasion offer the kingdom break again and so continue divide  for ever after thus have in all humbleness make oblation unto your majesty of  these simple fruit of my devotion and study I do wish and I do wish it not in  the nature of a impossibility to my think that this happy union of your  majesty two kingdom of England and Scotland may be in as good a hour and under  the like divine providence as that be between the Roman and the sabines Finis