76 A SPEECH ON THE MOTION OF A SUBSIDY. 



not looking for any thing again, if it were in respect 

 only of her particular, but love and loyalty. Neither 

 will I now at this time put the case of this realm of 

 England too precisely ; how it standeth with the 

 subject in point of payments to the crown : though I 

 could make it appear by demonstration, what opi 

 nion soever be conceived, that never subjects were 

 partakers of greater freedom and ease ; and that 

 whether you look abroad into other countries at this 

 present time, or look back to former times in this 

 our own country, we shall find an exceeding differ 

 ence in matter of taxes ; which now I reserve to 

 mention ; not so much in doubt to acquaint your 

 ears with foreign strains, or to dig up the sepulchres 

 of buried and forgotten impositions, which in this 

 case, as by way of comparison, it is necessary you 

 understand ; but because speech in the house is fit 

 to persuade the general point, and particularly is 

 more proper and seasonable for the committee : 

 neither will I make any observations upon her ma 

 jesty s manner of expending and issuing treasure ; 

 being not upon excessive and exorbitant donatives ; 

 nor upon sumptuous and unnecessary triumphs, 

 buildings, or like magnificence ; but upon the pre 

 servation, protection, and honour of the realm : for 

 I dare not scan upon her majesty s actions, which it 

 becometh me rather to admire in silence, than to 

 gloss or discourse upon them, though with never so 

 good a meaning. Sure I am that the treasure that 

 cometh from you to her majesty is but as a vapour 

 which riseth from the earth, and gathereth into a 



