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majesty s royal person being a noble confluence of 

 streams and veins wherein the royal blood of many 

 kingdoms of Europe are met and united. But no 

 name is more worthy of you, nor may more truly 

 be ascribed unto you, than that name of father of 

 your people, which you bear and express not in the 

 formality of your stile, but in the real course of 

 your government. We ought not to say unto you 

 as was said to Julius Caesar, &quot; Quas miremur, habe- 

 &quot; mus ; qua? laudemus, expectamus :&quot; that we have 

 already wherefore to admire you, and that now 

 we expect somewhat for which to commend you ; 

 for we may, without suspicion of flattery, acknow 

 ledge, that we have found in your majesty great 

 cause, both of admiration and commendation. For 

 great is the admiration, wherewith you have pos 

 sessed us since this parliament began in those two 

 causes wherein we have had access unto you, and 

 heard your voice, that of the return of Sir Francis 

 Goodwin, and that of the union; whereby it seemeth 

 unto us, the one of these being so subtle a question 

 of law ; and the other so high a cause of estate, 

 that as the Scripture saith of the wisest king, &quot; that 

 his heart was as the sands of the sea ;&quot; which though 

 it be one of the largest and vastest bodies, yet it con- 

 sisteth of the smallest motes and portions ; so, I say, 

 it appeareth unto us in these two examples, that 

 God hath given your majesty a rare sufficiency, both 

 to compass and fathom the greatest matters, and to 

 discern the least. And for matter of praise and 

 commendation, which chiefly belongeth to goodness, 



