Orations of divers sorts accommodated to divers places written by the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.

An Oration to prevent Civil Warr.

Noble Citizens, and Dear Country-men,

GIve me leave to tell you, I do fore-see a Ci∣vil Warr, if not timely hindred or preven∣ted; the chief signs of this Warr are Vanity, Pride, Luxury, Ambition, Corruption, Extor∣sion, Envy, Faction and Poverty. As for Vani∣ty, Pride, and Luxury, they are amongst our young Nobles; Envy, Ambition, and Faction, amongst our States-men; Corruption and Extor∣sion, amongst our Magistrates and Officers, and Poverty is amongst our Commons, as also in our Common and Publick Treasury; All which will bring our City and Kingdome to ruine, if the Disorders and Grievances be not timely re∣ctified. Wherefore Noble Citizens, and Dear Country-men, prevent your own ruine, by refor∣ming your own State both of publick and pri∣vate Mis-demeanors; but the chief Rectifiers must be the States-men, Magistrates, and Offi∣cers; for wise States-men and good Magistrates will not only indeavour to abolish Vanity and Luxury by their frugal Examples, but by their wise and severe Laws; for without strict and severe Laws, wise Government cannot be; also

wise States-men and honest Magistrates will in∣deavour to fill the publick Treasury by just and regular means, and not their private Purses by Extorsion and Corruption, for the one relieves the Poor, the other starves them, and not only relieves the Poor, but is a means to supply the publick Wants, to guard the publick State, and to keep the publick Peace; all which makes wise and honest States-men and Magistrates to be provident to Inrich, and sparing to Spend the publick Treasure, that the publick State may have Means and Wealth for necessary occasi∣ons. Also wise States-men and Magistrates will imploy the Common people to keep them from Want and Idleness, which will keep them in Order and Peace; But the greatest good, and greatest scarcity in a Common-wealth, is wise States-men and just Magistrates, which are free from private Interest and ambition of particular Power, not making their self designs the gene∣ral ruine: but such men, if any such there be, ought to be chosen out from the rest of the Peo∣ple, to Govern and Rule so, that Prudence, Fortitude, Justice and Temperance, as also Cha∣rity, Love, and Unity, may be the Bond and Se∣curity of the publick Weal, which I pray the Gods to give you, and bless you with Peace, Plenty, and Tranquillity.