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also to be curbers of the people s rustic stubbornness, if 

 they should prove insolent, which cannot likewise 

 happen to a nation that hath so lately smarted for such 

 inconveniences, as, had the Lords former greatness 

 and power been continued in them, could never have 

 happened ; for, as I hold with the old saying, No Bishops, 

 no King, so may I boldly aver that no power of 

 temporal Lords being extant, there will be neither 

 Bishop nor King. But I am too tedious, my Lords ; yet 

 what I further shall presume to say, will need no 

 eloquence, being upon a theme pleasing, as I humbly 

 conceive, to the minds of all your Lordships, there 

 being none of you whose birth brings you unto this 

 place, but so much generosity possesses your hearts, 

 that you conclude and harbour a firm resolution to 

 believe and follow that noble and heroic maxim 

 Beatius est dare quam accipere, since Beneficium accipere 

 est libertatem vendere, a thing beneath your Lordships. 

 According, then, to which maxim, as having the honour 

 to be a member of this House, esteeming in the first 

 place the right of Peerage, even before the titles of 

 Earl, Marquis, or Duke as a Peer, therefore, I say of 

 this House, I shall (with your Lordships approbation) 

 humbly offer a present unto his most excellent Majesty, 

 our most gracious Sovereign, a present, my Lords, which 

 cannot be done without you, and fit to be owned by a 

 House of Lords, it being no less than to raise an auxili 

 ary troop for his Majesty s Life-guard, of an hundred 

 horse, and commonly called in France an hundred 

 Meistres ; that is, each Cavalier to keep a servant with 

 a led horse, as well as his own, and one of them to be 

 worth 100. The whole troop shall amount the first 

 day unto upwards of ten thousand pounds, besides arms 

 and equipage accordingly ; nay, my Lords, every one 

 of this troop shall be of that quality and power as to 



