A SPEECH OF THE KING S SOLICITOR, 

 PERSUADING THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO 



DESIST FROM FARTHER QUESTION 

 OF RECEIVING THE KING S MEESAGES BY 



THEIR SPEAKER, AND FROM THE 



BODY OF THE COUNCIL, AS WELL AS FROM 



THE KING S PERSON. 



IN THE PARLIAMENT 7 JACOBI- 



IT is my desire, that if any the king s business, 

 either of honour or profit, shall pass the house, it 

 may be not only with external prevailing, but with 

 satisfaction of the inward man. For in consent, 

 where tongue-strings, not heart-strings, make the 

 music, that harmony may end in discord. To this I 

 shall always bend my endeavours. 



The king s sovereignty, and the liberty of parlia 

 ment, are as the two elements and principles of this 

 estate; which, though the one be more active, the 

 other more passive, yet they do not cross or destroy 

 the one the other ; but they strengthen and maintain 

 the one the other. Take away liberty of parliament, 

 the griefs of the subject will bleed inwards : sharp 

 and eager humours will not evaporate ; and then 

 they must exulcerate ; and so may endanger the 

 sovereignty itself. On the other side, if the king s 

 sovereignty receive diminution, or any degree of con- 



