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<P><HI>THE</HI> SPEECHE WHICH THE FRENCH KING <HI>made to the Lords of the</HI> Parliament on the fifth of Ianuary. 1599.</P>
<P>Faithfully tran&s;lated out of French, by H.W.</P>
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<P>Imprinted at London by <HI>Iohn VVolfe,</HI> and are to be &s;olde at his &s;hop in Popes head Alley, neere vnto the Ex|change. 1599.</P>
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<HEAD>The &s;peech which the King made to the Lordes of the Parlement, on the 5. <HI>of Ianuarie</HI> 1599.</HEAD>
<P>_BEfore I &s;peake of that, for which I cau&s;ed you to be h&eacute;ere a&s;&s;embled, I will tell you a hi&s;torie, which euen now I put the Mar&s;hall <HI>De la Cha&s;tre</HI> in minde of.</P>
<P>Pre&s;ently after S. <HI>Bartholmeus,</HI> foure of vs playing at Dice, &s;awe &s;ome drops of blood appearing on the Table, the which being wiped twice out, they &s;till returned againe. And for the third time, I &s;ayd I would play no longer, and that it was an Augure again&s;t them which had &s;pilt it: The Lord <HI>Gui&s;e</HI> being one of the companie.</P>
<P>This talke ended, his Maie&s;tie &s;aid as followeth.</P>
<P>YOu &s;&eacute;e me in my clo&s;et, where I come to &s;peake with you, not in Royall habitements, with my Rapier and Helmet, as my predece&s;&s;ors, norlike a Prince who in|tendeth to &s;peake to forraigne. Emba&s;&s;adors: but appar|relled like a father of a familie, in a doublet, to &s;peake fa|miliarlie to his children. That which I haue to &s;ay, is to pray you, to verifie the Edict which I haue graunted vn|to tho&s;e of the Religion. That which I haue doone, is for the good of the peace, which I haue concluded with|out, and I will now haue it within my Realme. You ought to obay me, although there were no other con&s;ide|ration, but my qualitie, and the obligation of all my &s;ub|iects, and e&s;pecially you of my Parlement. Some I haue replaced in their hou&s;es, from which they were bani&s;hed: and other &s;ome in the faith which otherwi&s;e they would
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not haue had. If the obedience was doone to my predece&s;|&s;ors: as much or more is dew to me, becau&s;e that I haue ree&s;tabli&s;hed the e&s;tate: God hauing cho&s;en mee, to &s;et me in the kingdome which is dewe to me by inheritance and purcha&s;e. The Lordes of my Parliament &s;hould not be in their &s;eates without me. I will not vaunt nor boa&s;t, but thus much I will &s;ay, that I haue no other example to imitate, but my &s;elfe: I know full well, that there hath b&eacute;ene great briberie: and that &s;editious preachings haue b&eacute;ene rai&s;ed vp. But I will &s;et good order for tho&s;e men, and will not referre the &s;ame to you: It is euen the way which was taken, to make the Barricadoes, and to come by degr&eacute;es to the murther of the late King. Naye I will looke to all that, I will cut the roote of all tho&s;e factions, and of all factious Sermons, and will &s;horten all tho&s;e which &s;hall rai&s;e them. I haue leaped vpon the walles of Citties, I &s;hall al&s;o be able to leape vppon your Barrica|does, which are not &s;o high. Alleadge not vnto me, the Catholique religion: I loue it better then you: I am more Catholique then you: I am the elde&s;t &s;onne to the church, which none of you is, nor cannot bee: you deceiue your &s;elues greatly, in &s;uppo&s;ing your &s;elues in the Popes fa|uour: I am in it better then you. (If in ca&s;e that I will vndertake it, I will cau&s;e all you to be declared hereticks for not obeying me. I haue more intelligence at <HI>Rome</HI> then you: you may doe enough, I &s;hall know what eue|rie one of you &s;aye: I know all what is in your hou&s;es: I know all what you doe and &s;ay: I haue a little Demon, who reuealeth it all vnto me. Tho&s;e which will not haue my Edict to pa&s;&s;e, &s;&eacute;eke warres. I will declare them to morrowe to tho&s;e of the Religion: but I will not make the warres. You your &s;elues &s;hall goe thether, with your gownes, and gather againe the proce&s;&s;ion of the Cappu|chins, which &s;hall carrie their Mu&s;kets vpon their gar|ments: It will bee a goodly &s;ight to &s;&eacute;e you. If you will
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not pa&s;&s;e my Edict, you will make me goe to the Parlia|ment: You &s;hall be vnkinde, when you &s;hall haue engen|dred me this enuie: Witne&s;&s;e tho&s;e of my coun&s;aile which haue found the Edict good and needfull, for the e&s;tate of my affaires: my Lord the Con&s;table, my Lord Chaunce|lor, my Lords of <HI>Belliure,</HI> of <HI>Sancy, de Sillery</HI> and <HI>Villeron,</HI> I haue doone it by their aduice, and of the Dukes and Peeres. There was not one of them, that dur&s;t name him&s;elfe Protector of the Catholique Religion, or that dur&s;t denie to haue giuen me his aduice therein. I am the onely con&s;eruator of the Religion. I will, well enough di&s;&s;ipate the commotions which will bee <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">owed. They haue complained at <HI>Paris,</HI> that I would make &s;ome leuy|ing of Switzers, or other gathering of troopes. Well, I haue doone it: It ought to bee well thought of, and it &s;hould be to a good end, by rea&s;on of all my forepa&s;&s;ed de|meanors. Witne&s;&s;e what I haue doone for the reconque&s;t of <HI>Amiens:</HI> where I haue employed the moneys of the Edicts, which you would not haue pa&s;&s;ed, had I not gone to the Parliament. Nece&s;&s;itie con&s;traind me to make this Edict: through the &s;ame nece&s;&s;itie I haue at other times playde the Souldier. It is &s;poken of, and yet I haue not made any &s;emblance thereof. I am King now, and &s;peak like a King. I will be obeyed.</P>
<P>In d&eacute;ed I confe&s;&s;e, that the Iu&s;tice is my right arm. But if now the right arme be infected, the left ought to cut it off. When my regiments doe not &s;erue me, I ca&s;heere them. What &s;hall you gaine by not verifying the Edict? for a&s;well will I pa&s;&s;e it. The Preachers may preache their fill, and brawle: as the brother to my Lord of <HI>Silery</HI> hath doone, to whome I will &s;peake in this companie. And hauing called the &s;aide Lorde of <HI>Sillery,</HI> he &s;aid.</P>
<P>I haue before aduerti&s;ed you of &s;ome complaints doone again&s;t your brother, as al&s;o I had commaunded you to admoni&s;h him to re&s;traine him&s;elfe, and to bee wi&s;e.
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At the fir&s;t, I bel&eacute;eued that there was no &s;uch matter, that he had preached again&s;t the Edict: becau&s;e there were no proofes, yet was it true: And at la&s;t, he got to S. <HI>An|drew,</HI> where my Generall Atturney hath heard him preach &s;editiou&s;ly, again&s;t the Edict, but it was not taken vp as it ought, they will accu&s;e him to be mooued by an incon&s;iderate zeale. But be it of purpo&s;e or otherwi&s;e, it is alwaies euill, and this incon&s;iderate zeale de&s;erues a puni&s;hment. This complaint done, his Maie&s;ty returning to the Lords of his Parlament, &s;aid: There is not one of you but findes me good, when he n&eacute;edeth me, there be|ing not one amog&s;t you but n&eacute;ed me once a yeere: And yet notwith&s;tanding to me which am &s;o good, you are bad. If the other Parlements, for hauing re&s;i&s;ted my will, haue b&eacute;en cau&s;es that tho&s;e of the Religion, haue de|maunded new thinges: I will not that you al&s;o bee cau|&s;es of other nouilties, by your refu&s;all. <HI>Anno.</HI> 94. and 95. when I &s;ent you a declaration vpon the Edict of <HI>Anno</HI> 77. for the proui&s;ion of the Officers. I had promi&s;ed not to prouide any of the religion, with the E&s;tates of the court of Parlement: Since that, the time hath changed the af|faires: yet neuerthele&s;&s;e I will haue good a&s;&s;uraunce of tho&s;e vnto whom I commit charges, that they &s;hall be|haue them&s;elues as they ought. Speake not &s;o much of the Catholike Religion. All tho&s;e great Catholike and Eccle&s;ia&s;tical cryers, if I giue but to the one, a benefice of 2000. crownes, and to another 4000. pounds of rent, they wil play mum, they will not &s;peake a word more. I iudge of this &s;ort of all the re&s;t which &s;peake again&s;t the Edict. There are fomelewde, which &s;&eacute;eme to hate &s;inne, but it is, for feare of the paines: and the good hate it for the loue of vertue. I remember once I learned two Lattin ver&s;es.</P>
<Q><L>Oderunt peccare male formidine pene,</L>
<L>Oderunt peccare boni virturis Amore.</L></Q>
<P><PB N="5" REF="4">I haue not repeated the&s;e ver&s;es the&s;e twenty y&eacute;ers, but at this pre&s;ent, becau&s;e I know that &s;ome of you which hate &s;inne, do beare the hate for loue of the vertue: and I wi&s;h puni&s;hment to tho&s;e which &s;hall hate it for feare of the paine. And afterwards (as doth a &s;onne to his Fa|ther) they will thanke me for the puni&s;hment. I had not thought to haue &s;ent for you but ye&s;ter night late. S&eacute;eing the Edict whereof I tell you, is the Edict of the late King: Al&s;o it is mine: for it hath this day b&eacute;en done by me, and I doe yet confirme it. I finde not good to haue one thing in my mind and to write another. And although &s;ome others haue done &s;o, yet will I not doe it. The la&s;t words which you &s;hall haue of me is. That you follow the exa~ple of <HI>Mon&s;ieur du meyne:</HI> who, whe~ &s;ome de&s;iring him to make &s;ome enterprizes again&s;t my wil: an&s;wered that he was too much bound vnto me, as al&s;o all my &s;ub|iectes, among&s;t the which he would alwaies be one, who &s;hould expo&s;e his life to plea&s;ure me: Becau&s;e that I haue ree&s;tabli&s;hed Fraunce, in di&s;pight of tho&s;e which &s;ought the ruine thereof: Although that in times pa&s;t, he would haue a&s;&s;ayed all wayes and meanes to ouerthrow the E|&s;tate. If then the head of the league, hath &s;poken &s;o: how much more ought you which I haue ree&s;tabli&s;hed? Tho&s;e which alwaies haue b&eacute;ene faithfull vnto me: Tho&s;e which I haue replaced in their hou&s;es: In fine what ought they to doe? Finally, grant vnto my reque&s;ts: what you will not graunt to threates, yet &s;hall you not haue a|ny of me: doe what I commaund you, and what I pray you. Yee &s;hall not onely doe it for me, but al&s;o for your &s;elues, and to the good of the peace.</P>
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