A Kings Speech to Rebellious Subjects.
I May call you Well-beloved Subjects, but I cannot call you Loving Subjects; for al∣though I have been Carefull, Watchfull, Pru∣dent, and Just for your Safeties, Peace, Prosperi∣ties,
Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.
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- Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.
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- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- 1662.
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"Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53051.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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and Rights, yet you regard not my Safety. my Peace, nor my Rights; Neither can I call you Good, for you are Factious, Complaining, and full of Malice; nay, it may be a question whether I may call you Subjects, for you Dis∣obey all Authority, Resist the Laws, and will Obey no Command, unless you be Forced; and though you have not Actually Rebell'd, yet you are in the Way to it, for you Dispute my Pow∣er, and would if you could, take away my Pre∣rogatives, but will not quit any of your Privi∣leges, which shews your Unconscionableness, Ungratefulness, and Unkindness to me, your Soveraign; Besides, you are so Unreasonable, and so Evil, as you murmur at my Harmless and Lawfull Pleasures, but will abate none of your own Vanities, Vices, and Wickednesses. The truth of it is. I have done like an Over-fond Fa∣ther, who through extreme Love and Tender∣ness to his Children, hath given them their Wills and Liberties So much, as they forget their Duties, and become Disobedient through VVantonness; but had I used Severity instead of Clemency, and had Rigorously kept you in Fear, and had Exacted More from you, and had Yielded Less to you, and had I Curbed your Liberties, you had been more Obedient, which would have been more Happy both for Me and for You; for then you would have been Go∣vern'd Easily, and Obey'd Willingly, by which we should have Lived Peaceably, whereas now we are like to Ruine each other with Civil
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VVarrs, unless Heaven open your Eyes of Un∣derstanding, to see your Faults, Errors, and Dangers, you are like to fall into; but I hope Heaven will give you Grace to Reform your Lives, and Conform your Manners to Live Peaceably.