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Mr. Waller's Speech

it shews, as if never King had been worse supply­ed. So that we seem to have endeavoured the filling of a Sieve with Water. Whosoever gave Advice for these courses, has made good the saying of the Wise Man, Qui conturbat Domum suam, possidebit ventum. By new ways they think to accomplish Wonders; but in truth they grasp the Wind, and are at the same time cruel to us, and to the King too. For if the Commonwealth flourish, then he that hath the Sovereignty can never want nor do amiss: so as he govern not according to the Interest of others; but go the shortest and the safest Ways to his own and the Common Good.

The Kings of this Nation have always go­verned by Parliament: And if we look up­on the Success of things since Parliaments were laid by, it resembles that of the Grecians,

Ex illo ftuere & retrò sublapsa referri Rês Danaum————

especially on the Subjects part. For though the King hath gotten little; they have lost all.

But His Majesty shall hear the Truth from us; and we shall make appear the Errors of those Divines, who would perswade us, that a Mo­narch must be Absolute, and that he may do all things ad libitum; receding not only from theirText

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