[1] And if anie forren power, prince, or potentate,Further in|ducements to make the Scots for|ward in this mariage. or whosoeuer be your aider to nourish still discord, send you an armie also, how shall they oppresse you, fill your houses, waste your grounds, spend and con|sume your vittels, hold you in subiection, & regard you as slaues, which without them could not liue, & will take your quéene to bestow as they lust, & spe|ciallie if their ruler or king (as perchance he may be) in other warres be otherwise occupied, to be a preie to vs, & a true conquest, then it should be too late to saie; We will haue a mariage and no conquest, We wish peace & amitie, We are wearie of battell and miserie.A true saieng. The stubborne ouercommed must suffer the victors pleasure, and pertinacitie will make the victorie more insolent, whereof you your selfe haue giuen the cause, if they send monie and capteines, but no souldiers. First if they be capteins, who ru|leth and who dooth obeie? Who shall haue the honor of the enterprise, and if it be well atchiued? But whe|ther it be well atchiued or no, which number is that which shall be slaine? Whose bloud shall be shed? Their monie peraduenture shalbe consumed, & their commandements obeied. But whose bodies shall smart for it? Whose lands shall be wasted?The lord pro|tector pointeth (as it were) at the inconueni|ences which he would haue the Scots to preuent. Whose houses burned? What realme made desolate? Re|member what it is to haue a forren power within you, a strong power of your enimies vpon you, you (as it were) the campe & plaine betwixt them to fight on, & to be troden vpon, both of the victor, and of the ouercommed. And imagine you see before your eies your wiues & daughters in danger of wantonnesse & insolencie of the soldiors, the proud looks of the cap|teins & soldiors, whom you call to helpe you, the con|tempt you shall bring your nation in, then take heed least indeed that follow which you feare, that is, that you shall be by them conquered, that ye shall be by them put from your holds, lands, taxes & offices, that your laws by them shall be altered, that your nation shall be by them destroied. Consider in this realme,Examples confirming the former as|sertion. did not the Britons call in the Saxons for helpe, & by them were put out? Where be the Picts, once a gret nation betwixt you and vs? How did the nation of France put out the Galles out of all France? How got the Turk first all Grecia, & now of late all Hun|garie, but being called in for to aid & helpe? And did not the Goths by like meanes get all Italie, and the Lombards one part therof now called Lombardie? What looke you for more? Néedie soldiors, & hauing their weapons in their hands, and knowing that you cannot liue without them, what will not they com|mand you to doo? What will they not incroch vpon you? What will they not thinke they may doo?Insolencie o [...] soldiors and l [...]wlesse licen|tiousnesse. And what will they thinke that you dare doo? This forren helpe is your confusion, that succour is your detri|ment, the victorie so had is your seruitude: what is then to be thought of losse taken with them? The strangers and forren soldiors shall oppresse you with|in, our power and strength without; and of your owne nation, so manie as loue quietnesse, godlines, and wealth of your realme, shall helpe also to scourge and afflict you.The issue of the lord pro|tectors e [...]t [...]tation. Is it not better to compose and ac|quite all this calamitie and trouble by marriage, to end all sorrows and battels by such and so honorable a peace? Hath not the emperor Spaine & Burgun|die by title of marriage? How holdeth the French king Britaine now latelie annexed to that crowne, [page 1001] but by title of marriage? How haue all the great princes of the world happilie and with quiet made of two kingdoms one, of diuerse lordships one, of nations alwaies at warre with themselues, or else in doubtfull peace, one well gouerned kingdome, rule, and dominion, but by that godlie, most quiet, and most amiable composition of marriage? Two meanes there be of making one rule,Two meanes or waies of making one regiment or [...] wherto title is pretended, and perfect agréement betwixt two nati|ons, either by force or superioritie, which is conquest; or by equalitie and loue, which is by parentage & ma|riage: you hate the one, that is, conquest; and by refu|sing the other, you inforce vpon you hatred & malice.