A SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT, UPON THE 

 MOTION OF SUBSIDY. 



39 OF ELIZABETH. 



AND please you, Mr. Speaker, I must consider the 

 time which is spent ; but yet so, as I must consider 

 also the matter, which is great. This great cause 

 was, at the first, so materially and weightily pro 

 pounded ; and after, in such sort persuaded and en 

 forced ; and by him that last spake, so much time 

 taken, and yet to good purpose ; as I shall speak at 

 a great disadvantage : but because it hath been 

 always used, and the mixture of this house doth so 

 require it, that in causes of this nature there be 

 some speech and opinion, as well from persons of 

 generality, as by persons of authority, I will say 

 somewhat, and not much : wherein it shall not be fit 

 for me to enter into, or to insist upon secrets, either 

 of her majesty s coffers, or of her council ; but my 

 speech must be of a more vulgar nature. 



I will not enter, Mr. Speaker, into a laudative 

 speech of the high and singular benefits, which by 

 her majesty s most politic and happy government we 

 receive, thereby to incite you to a retribution ; 

 partly because no breath of man can set them forth 

 worthily ; and partly because, I know, her majesty 

 in her magnanimity doth bestow her benefits like 

 her freest patents, &quot; absque aliquo inde reddendo ;&quot; 



