Excerpt from The Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England, Vol. 5: Being a Faithful Account of All the Most Remarkable Transactions in Parliament, From the Earliest Times, to the Restoration of King Charles II, From the Accession of King James I. To the Twenty-First Year of His Reign

I. ¿aming nothing but Sparkles of Affection, their Mouths and Tongues uttering nothing bu tsounds of Joy, their Hands, Feet, and all the reft of their Members in their Gefiures, difcovering a pa¿ionate Longing, and Earneftnefs to meet and embrace their new Sovereign. Quid ergo nm'. Brmm? Shall I allow in myfelf that which I could never bear with in another? No, I mult plainly and freely confefs here, in all your Audi ences, that I did ever naturally {0 far mi¿ike a Tongue too fmomh, and diligent in paying their Creditors, with lip-payment and verbal Thanks, asi ever fufpeéied that Sort of People, meant not to pay their Debtors in more fubfiantial Sort of Coin. And therefore for exprefiing of my Thankfulnefs, I mutt refort unto the other two Reafons of m convening of this Parliament, by them in A 'on to utter my Thankfulnefs: Both the faid Reafons having but one Ground, which is the Deeds whereby all the Days of my Life, lam, by God's Grace, to exprefa my {aid Thankfulnefs towards you, but divided in this, That in the firf't of thefe two, mine Actions of Thanks are fo infeparably conjoined with my Perfon, as they are in a Manner become indwr dually annexed to the fame. In the Other Rea fon, mine Afiions are fuch, as I may either do them, ot leave them undone, tho' by God's Grace, I hope never to be weary of the doing them.

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