• - / O~"the GuN~POWD.KR,TREASON, Ser-- '1 · rnon Io --~----:--~B=·_-ur-,-t~h-o-ug~h~i~n~th~i-~-r~h-e-y~fl~e-em--e-to~b-e-ev_e_n_(~b~o-r~h-o_u_r_w_t~s-,-)-y-~-~· ours 1s the long~r, fenfibly. For, though HattJAn prefumed very neere h em, ca~er~ the_King's fide, touched the ~eenes life; Yet well-Eire Hama~(raenl)hee this, the Kmghe touched not ; No harme to Him; the King was om·of / 1, 11 _r l . :Buttheird:~y I(t:D'WI!.f~ Q~!'!!!! l t H h · · 0 6J.. aman s ot ery. ere, t e Kmg was m, too; urs went to ..<!!_eene, and Prince p andPrelates,andCommons, yea, King and all. Omnem 'l{gtioliem, butno;/"es, there. Omnem Nationem, & Regem, here. This was univerfall indeed: And ,;;m, this,beyondrhem. . ,m Th.ei1:s was<ndi~m,_againll: aday: Ours was fo, wo. So, the lots even. Wuli H_aman, t}l1ijja eH fors m urnam, fJ"D dte deberent gcns-interfici; exiit t...Adar. D1e rhey mu!t, that was refolved; That was not enough. . (See h·– ther pride will carry inen! ) Hee would call: the dice (as it were) draw ;:;t~ make a lottcrie, of no leffe-matter rhan mens lives. And char, not of adozm or~ Jkore, but ofawhole 'l{atton, wluchday and whtch moneth, they fl10uld die all. And in this cafftng, they wentfom moneth to •noneth, andfi'em dAy toddy, rill, arla!t, ther~ (withHdman) the lotfell on the fotmeenth of LAdar: and with ours, on thefifth of 2(gvember. · ·· And,takeihis with you too: IianMn'siottery was inNi{an (that is, tMArch) rhe firJl mmeth, but it fell not till Adar (that is, Febrteary) the !aft moneth : fo at 1 velve– monethbetweene. And, was it no~ fo wi:h us~ A yeare before, nay,m~rerhan a yeare, was our day fer. And firfi; lt was •n the moneth Adar, mFebmary (as theirs was, jull:;) bhlt, by proroguing the ParliAment, we [caped,andwere reprieved once and againe. But, to it againe they went, and fo at !all: the lot fell on this veryday, to bethe d,ryof our Pnrim. . Thusfarrechelots Even. · But then hereagainethere fell oddes on our parts, twowayes: x. One, the !ewer had riotice oftheir d.iy; It wasproclaimed: fo, they that could, might have!lipped away fecretly,and fo fcaped. And they that were watched,rhat they could not,well; yet, they might make. their {oulesready, and die prepared. And even that, when there is no remedie but die wemull:, it is good not to be furprized on thefuddcn, but ,to have fome warning, thatfowemaymakeusreadyforGoo. Bmfeeourcafe now :W.e know n'?t of.ourday, we. ThedaJ was kept as clofe, as thepowder.- We h~d gone offfuddenly, to the greathazard (as it may be feared) ofmany aJoule, that for default ofthis, hadperifhea(indeed : )perifhedhere, andperijbedeternally. Againll: a lingringdearh we pray not; ab improvifa'morte, we doe: And morsimprovifahad beene our lot then. Here is then our firll: oddes. Both were in diem; bur, theirs in diem certum, certainty knswne to them all. Ours (as I may fay) in diem certttm, and yet inc~rtpm: Certaine,to Haman, to them; they knew it perf~cHy :Yncertaine, to m; · · We k'new not whether any fuch d&y or no : We had gone to tt, We had drawne our . lot blind-fold. So, oursworfethancheirs. ' . . .~..-; . ~pot.her .oddes there is ( wo;fe yet than this) in the dayes. For, what was ·~-'~"·.., .,. the fourteenth of <.Adar, but an ordinary commonday~ But, thefifth of '14vem– ~:::'iParlia- her (as it fell out) .~v.as thejirff day of a Parliament; .a fa,mous day, as comesmma– m•nr-d•J· ny yeares. That, not onely when we fhould havefa1d Pa:,; &{ecrmta.q but wben ! Thea.f·S. wei: fhould havebeen~ in all our glory,.then even at the time, Repentinm vmtetfi~- - · per eor(pteritHO, the moll: unfea(onable rune of all had be~neour lot; a heavJe lot •f ~~~ ;· r it hacUt~ht" . . ,.. . ., · Wnen men go·eto their death, they would goe rno11rning, all mblacke, as the , manner is.:But, when they are going inallpompf andmagnificence, r~ento bejbototf, ·' i .• ·an>1ftieallin peeces! no man would draw that lot ifhe couldfcapw. Yet,that was ·our /;t,and atthat've1'Ytime. · . .For·a!(ingtobe mad~away,is athing rioturiheard of:bur,inrbismanner,~Kmg tobe '!Uaae away;inHis robes royal/, the Imperial! crowne on lli; heMi,,rhe Scepter m Hd han<j,fittina on theThrone ofHis K ingdome, in the midll: ofall H1s States, then, and the\:e,:dna i~that manner; that patTes all :that, the lot, that never yet ha~beene hea; 9f._ Alid, let lt never be qeard of; Let never K.ing have the lo~ fo to pcnlh: PltlC:v~
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