18 A SPEECH ABOUT UNDERTAKERS. 



puties and attorneys here, it is true we may bind 

 them and conclude them, but it will be with such 

 murmur and insatisfaction as I would be loth to 

 see. 



These things might be dissembled, and so things 

 left to bleed inwards ; but that is not the way to 

 cure them. And therefore I have searched the sore, 

 in hope that you will endeavour the medicine. 



But this to do more throughly, I must proceed 

 to my second part, to tell you clearly and distinctly 

 what is to be set on the right hand, and what on the 

 left, in this business. 



First, if any man hath done good offices to advise 

 the king to call a parliament, and to increase the 

 good affection and confidence of his majesty towards 

 his people ; I say, that such a person doth rather 

 merit well, than commit any error. Nay further, 

 if any man hath, out of his own good mind, given an 

 opinion touching the minds of the parliament in 

 general ; how it is probable they are like to be found, 

 and that they will have a due feeling of the king s 

 wants, and will not deal drily or illiberally with 

 him ; this man, that doth but think of other men s 

 minds, as he finds his own, is not to be blamed. 

 Nay further, if any man hath coupled this with 

 good wishes and propositions, that the king do 

 comfort the hearts of his people, and testify his own 

 love to them, by filing off the harshness of his pre 

 rogative, retaining the substance and strength ; and 

 to that purpose, like the good householder in the 

 Scripture, that brought forth old store and new, 



