CERTAIN 

 ARTICLES OR CONSIDERATIONS 



TOUCHING 



THE UNION OF THE KINGDOMS 



OF 



ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. 



Collected and dispersed for his Majesty s better Service. 



YOUR majesty, being, I doubt not, directed and con 

 ducted by a better oracle than that which was given 

 for light to yEneas in his peregrination, &quot; Antiquam 

 &quot; exquirite matrem,&quot; hath a royal, and indeed an 

 heroical desire to reduce these two kingdoms of 

 England and Scotland into the unity of their ancient 

 mother kingdom of Britain. Wherein as I would 

 gladly applaud unto your majesty, or sing aloud 

 that hymn or anthem, &quot; Sic itur ad astra ;&quot; so in a 

 more soft and submissive voice, I must necessarily 

 remember unto your majesty that warning or caveat, 

 &quot; Ardua quae pulchra :&quot; it is an action that re- 

 quireth, yea, and needeth much, not only of your ma 

 jesty s wisdom, but of your felicity. In this argument 

 I presumed at your majesty s first entrance to write 

 a few lines, indeed scholastically and speculatively, 

 and not actively or politicly, as I held it fit for me at j 



