Both Indies,[74] rivals in your bed, provide With gold or jewels to adorn your bride; This to a mighty king presents rich ore, While that with incense does a god implore. Two kingdoms wait your doom; and, as you choose, This must receive a crown, or that must lose. Thus from your Royal Oak, like Jove's of old, Are answers sought, and destinies foretold: Propitious oracles are begged with vows, And crowns that grow upon the sacred boughs[75]. Your subjects, while you weigh the nation's fate, Suspend to both their doubtful love or hate. Choose only, sir, that so they may possess With their own peace their children's happiness. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 68: Note I.] [Footnote 69: The first edition reads _and_ for _all_.] [Footnote 70: Note II.] [Footnote 71: Note III.] [Footnote 72: Note IV.] [Footnote 73: Note V.] [Footnote 74: Spain and Portugal, both desirous to ally themselves with Charles by marriage.] [Footnote 75: Note VI.] NOTES ON THE PANEGYRIC ON THE CORONATION. Note I. _Some guilty months had in your triumphs shared._ After the Restoration, several of the regicides were condemned to death; but the king, with unexampled lenity, remitted the capital punishment of many of these deep offenders. Only six of the king's judges were executed; and, when to that number are added, the fanatic Peters, who compared the suffering monarch to Barabbas, Coke, the solicitor, who pleaded against Charles on his mock trial, and Hacker, who commanded the guard, and brutally instigated, and even compelled them to cry for execution, we have the number of nine, who suffered for a fact, the most enormous in civilized history, till our age produced a parallel. There was also an insurrection of the fierce and hot-brained sect of fanatics, who called themselves fifth-monarchy men, and devoutly believed, that the Millennium, and the reign of the saints, was about to begin. Willing to contribute their share to this happy consummation, these enthusiasts, headed by the fanatic Venner, rushed into the streets of London; and, though but sixty in number, were not overpowered without long resistance, and much bloodshed. These incidents, Dryden, always happy in his allusion to the events of the day, assigns as a reason for deferring the coronation to an untainted year. Perhaps, however, he only meant to say, that, as Charles was not restored till May, 1660, the preceding months of that year were unworthy to share in the honour, which the coronation would have conferred upon it. Note II. _The jealous sects---- You for their umpire, and their synod take, And their appeal alone to Cæsar make._