A SPEECH ABOUT UNDERTAKERS. 



hath revolved the petitions and propositions of the 

 last parliament, and added new ; I say, this man 

 hath sown good seed ; and he that shall draw him 

 into envy for it, sows tares. Thus much of the 

 right hand. But on the other side, if any shall 

 mediately or immediately infuse into his majesty, or 

 to others, that the parliament is, as Cato said of the 

 Romans, &quot; like sheep, that a man were better drive 

 &quot; a flock of them than one of them :&quot; and however 

 they may be wise men severally, yet in this assembly 

 they are guided by some few, which if they be 

 made and assured, the rest will easily follow : this is 

 a plain robbery of the king of honour, and his sub 

 jects of thanks, and it is to make the parliament vile 

 and servile in the eyes of their sovereign ; and I 

 count it no better than a supplanting of the king and 

 kingdom. Again, if a man shall make this impres 

 sion, that it shall be enough for the king to send us 

 some things of shew that may serve for colours, and 

 let some eloquent tales be told of them, and that will 

 serve &quot; ad faciendum populum ;&quot; any such person 

 will find that this house can well skill of false lights, 

 and that it is no wooing tokens, but the true love 

 already planted in the breasts of the subjects, that 

 will make them do for the king. And this is my 

 opinion touching those that may have persuaded a 

 parliament. Take it on the other side, for I mean 

 in all things to deal plainly, if any man hath been 

 diffident touching the call of a parliament, thinking 

 that the best means were, first for the king to make 

 his utmost trial to subsist of himself, and his own 



