a speech when the house be in great heat and much trouble about the undertaker  which be think to be some able and forward gentleman who to ingratiate  themselves with the king be say to have undertake that the king business shall  pass in that house as his majesty can wish in the parliament oh James I have  be hithero silent in this matter of undertake wherein as I perceive the house  be much enwrap first because to be plain with you I do not well understand  what it mean or what it be and I do not love to offer at that that I do not  through conceive that private man shall undertake for the Commons of England  why a man may as well undertake for the four element it be a thing so giddy  and so vast as can enter into the brain of a sober man and special in a new  parliament when it be impossible to know who shall be of the parliament and  when all man that know never so little the constitution of this house do know  it to be so open to reason as man do not know when they enter into these door  what mind themselves will be of until they hear thing argue and debate much  less can any man make a policy of assurance what ship shall come safe home  into the harbour in these sea I have hear of undertake in several kind there  be undertaker for the plantation of derry and Colerane in Ireland the better  to command and bridle those part there be not long ago some undertaker for the  north west passage and now there be some undertaker for the project of die and  dress clothes and in short every novelty use to be strengthen and make good by  a kind of undertake but for the ancient parliament of England which move in a  certain manner and sphere to be undertake it pass my reach to conceive what it  shall be must we be all die and dress and no pure white among we or must there  be a new passage find for the king business by a point of the compass that be  never sail by before or must there be some fort build in this house that may  command and contain the rest I know but two fort in this house which the king  ever have the fort of affection and the fort of reason the one command the  heart and the other command the head and other I know none I think Aesop be a  wise man that describe the nature of the lie than sit upon the speak of the  chariot wheel and say to her self what a Dust do I raise so for my part I  think that all this Dust be raise by light rumour and buzz and not upon any  solid ground the second reason that make I silent be because this Susicion and  rumor of undertake settle upon no person certain it be like the bird of  paradise that they have in the Indies that have no foot and therefore they  never light upon any place but the wind carry they away and such a thing do I  take this rumour to be and last when that the king have in his two several  speech free we from the main of our fear in affirm direct that there be no  undertake to he and that he will have take it to be no less derogation to his  own majesty then to our merit to have the act of his people transfer to  particular person that do quiet I thus far that these vapour be not go up to  the head howsoever they may glow and estuate in the body nevertheless since I  perceive that this cloud still hang over the house and that it may do hurt as  well in fame abroad as in the king ear I resolve with my self to do the part  of a honest voice in this house to counsel you what I think to be for the best  wherein first I will speak plain of the pernicious effect of the accident of  this bruit and opinion of undertake towards particular towards the house  towards the king and ward the people second I will tell you in I opinion what  undertake be tolerable and how far it may be justify with a good mind and on  the other side this same rip up of the question of undertaker how far it may  proceed from a good mind and in what kind it may be think malicious and  dangerous three I will show you my poor advice what mean there be to put a end  to this question of undertake not fall for the present upon a precise opinion  but break it how many way there be by which you may get out of it and leave  the choice of they to a debate at the committee and last I will advice you how  thing be to be handle at the committee to avoid distraction and lose of time  for the first of these I can say to you but as the Scripure say si in turn  to bite ab in turn consumemin if you fret and gall one another reputation the  end will be that every man shall go hence like coin cry down of less price  than he come hither if some shall be think to fawn upon the king business open  and other to cross it secret some shall be think practiser that will pluck the  card and other shall be think papist that will shuffle the card what a misery  be this that we shall come together to foul one another instead of procure the  public good and this end not in particular but will make the whole house  contemptible for now I hear man say that this question of undertake be the  predominant matter of this house so that we be now accord to the parable of  Iotham in the case of the tree of the forest that when question be whether the  vine shall reign over they that may not be and whether the olive shall reign  over they that may not be but we have accept the bramble to reign over we for  it seem that the good vine of the king grace that be not so much in esteem and  the good oil whereby we shall salve and relieve the want of the estate and  crown that be lie aside too and this bramble of contention and emulation this  Abimelech which as be true say by a understanding gentleman be a bastard for  every fame that want a head be thread poplar tree this must reign and rule  among we then for the king nothing can be more opposite ex a diameter to his  end and hope then this for you have hear he profess like a king and like a  gracious king that he do not so much respect his present supply as this  demonstration that the people heart be more knit to he then before now then if  the issue shall be this that whatsoever shall be do for he shall be think to  be do but by a number of person that shall be labour and pack this will rather  be a sign of diffidence and alienation then of a natural benevolence and  affection in his people at home and rather matter of disreputation then of  honour abroad so that to speak plain to you the king be better call for a new  pair of card then play upon these if they be pack and then for the people it  be my manner ever to look as well beyond a parliament as upon a parliament and  if they abroad shall think themselves betray by those that be their deputy and  attorney here it be true we may bind they and conclude they but it will be  with such murmur and insatisfaction as I will be loath to see these thing may  be dissemble and so thing leave to bleed inward but that be not the way to  cure they and therefore I have search the soar in hope that you will endeavour  the medicine but this to do more through I must proceed to my second part to  tell you clear and distinct what be to be set on the right hand and what on  the leave in this business first if any man have do good office to advice the  king to call a parliament and to increase the good affection and confidence of  his majesty towards his people I say that such a person do rather merit well  then commit any error nay further if any man have out of his own good mind  give a opinion touch the mind of the parliament in general how it be probable  they be like to be find and that they will have a due feel of the king want  and will not deal dry or illiberal with he this man that do but think of other  man mind as he find his own be not to be blame nay further if any man have  couple this with good wish and proposition that the king do comfort the heart  of his people and testify his own love to they by fill off the harshness of  his prerogative retain the substance and strength and to that purpose like the  good householder in the scripture that bring forth old store and new have  revolve the petition and proposition of the last parliament and add new I say  this man have sow good seed and he that shall draw he into envy for it sow  tares thus much of the right hand but on the other side if any shall mediate  or immediate infuse into his majesty or to other that the parliament be as  Cato say of the Roman like sheep that a man be better drive a flock of they  then one of they and however they may be wise man several yet in this assembly  they be guide by some few which if they be make and assure the rest will easy  follow this be a plain robbery of the king of honour and his subject of thank  and it be to make the parliament vile and servile in the eye of their  sovereign and I count it no better than a supplant of the king and kingdom  again if a man shall make this impression that it shall be enough for the king  to send we some thing of show that may serve for colour and let some eloquent  tale be tell of they and that will serve and faciendum poplar tree any such  person will find that this house can well skill of false light and that it be  no woo token but the true love already plant in the breast of the subject that  will make they do for the king and this be my opinion touch those that may  have persuade a parliament take it on the other side for I mean in all thing  to deal plain if any man have be diffident touch the call of a parliament  think that the best mean be first for the king to make his utmost trial to  subsist of himself and his own mean I say a honest and faithful heart may  consent to that opinion and the event it seem do not great discredit it  hitherto again if any man shall have be of opinion that it be not a particular  party that can bind the house nor that it be not show or colour can please the  house I say that man though his speech tend to discouragement yet it be couple  with providence but by your leave if any man since the parliament be call or  when it be in speech shall have lie plot to cross the good will of the  parliament to the king by possess they that a few shall have the thank and  that they be as it be buy and sell and betray and that that which the king  offer they be but bait prepare by particular person or have raise rumour that  it be a pack parliament to the end nothing may be do but that the parliament  may be dissolve as gamester use to call for new card when they mistrust a pack  I say these be engine and devise nought malign and seditious now for the  remedy I shall rather break the matter as I say in the beginning then advice  positive I know but three way some message of declaration to the king some  entry or protestation among our self or some strict and punctual examination  as for the last of these I assure you I be not against it if I can tell where  to begin or where to end for certain I have often see it that thing when they  be in smother trouble more then when they break out smoke blind the eye but  when it blaze forth into flame it give light to the eye but then if you fall  to a examination some person must be charge some matter must be charge and the  manner of that matter must be likewise charge for it may be in a good fashion  and it may be in a bid in as much difference as between black and white and  then how far man will ingenuous confess how far they will politic deny and  what we can make and gather upon their confession and how we shall prove  against their denial it be a endless piece of work and I doubt that we shall  grow weary of it for a message to the king it be the course I like best so it  be careful and considerate handle for if we shall represent to the king the  nature of this body as it be without the vail or shadow that have be cast upon  it I think we shall do he honour and our self right for any thing that be to  be do among our self I do not see much gain by it because it go no further  then our self yet if any thing can be wise conceive to that end I shall not be  against it but I think the purpose of it be fit to be rather that the house  conceive that all this be but a misunderstand then to take knowledge that  there be indeed a just ground and then to seek by a protestation to give it a  remedy for protestation and profession and apology I never find they very  fortunate but they rather increase suspicion then clear it why then the last  part be that these thing be handle at the committee serious and temperate  wherein I wish that these four degree of question be handle in order first  whether we shall do any thing at all in it or pass by it and let it sleep  second whether we shall enter into a particular examination of it three  whether we shall content our self with some entry or protestation among our  self and fourthly whether we shall proceed to a message to the king and what  thus I have tell you I opinion I know it have be more safe and politic to have  be silent but it be perhaps more honest and love to speak the old verse be nam  no one to be silent to do harm to do harm be a speaking but by your leave  David saih silvi a good dolour of me to renew be when a man speak he may be  wound by other but if he hold his peace from good thing he wound himself so I  have do my part and leave it to you to do that which you shall judge to be the  best