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<P>A STATE DISCOVRSE vpon the late hurt of the French King. Faithfully tran&s;lated out of French, by E. A.</P>
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<P>LONDON Printed for E. Aggas, dwelling nere the We&s;t end of Saint Paules Church. 1595.</P>
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<HEAD>&para; <HI>To the mo&s;t noble Lord, the Lord of Harlay,</HI> one of the Kings priuye Coun&s;aile, &amp; of the Coun&s;aile of E&s;tate, knight: Prince of the Senate of <HI>Paris,</HI> and <HI>chiefe Judge of the Realme.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_MY Lord, the League is a di|&s;ea&s;e as &s;urely vnited to french mindes, as the feuer is vnto the corrupt humours of vn&s;ound bodies: and in con&s;ideration hereof, I haue framed this di&s;|cour&s;e, wherein the remedie is more apparant then the di&s;ea&s;e it &s;elfe, in ca&s;e rebellious eyes wil vouch&s;afe to imparte it to their mindes, who ha|uing dige&s;ted the &s;ame, shall finde them&s;elues cured &amp; me &s;atisfied: the rather if your &s;elfe like hereof, a&s;well as you are deuoted to the kinges &s;eruice. In hope wherof I shall pray vnto God (my Lord) to graunt vnto you his grace, &amp; vn|to me yours.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t affection at &s;eruant, <HI>Pont-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ery.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A STATE DISCOVRSE, <HI>vpon the late hurt of the French</HI> KING.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_AFrica</HI> no longer engendreth mon&s;ters. The Ayre of <HI>Europe</HI> conceiueth them: <HI>France</HI> nouri&s;heth &amp; bringeth them vp: <HI>Spayne</HI> aduoweth them: and <HI>Italy</HI> &s;anctifieth the~: of Ba&s;tards &s;he legitimateth them: and of &s;imple vntimely birthes, maketh them perfect men: By them is Chri&s;tiandome mole&s;ted: Chri&s;tian<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ie &s;candalized &amp; the Church deuided. To be &s;hort, all order<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s &s;o peruerted, that traitors are named Confederates: &s;editious per&s;ons, good Catholickes: New|ters, tru&s;tie and well adui&s;ed per&s;ons: Rebels, riualls in e|&s;tate: &s;eruants, home-borne Children: &s;trangers, naturall and originaryes of the Realme: yea euen &s;upporters of the e&s;tate &amp; pillers of the Church: Euery one complayneth of the di&s;ea&s;e, but no man &s;eeketh remedie. The Gangrene ta|keth holde of the vlcer, &amp; in liew of a burning coro&s;iue they applie hurdes dipped in oyle and viniger. Phi&s;itions &s;corne the di&s;ea&s;ed per&s;on, and the &s;earch of the Surgions penetra|teth not to the quicke: Nature &s;eeketh to ouercome the vi|olence of the &s;ickne&s;&s;e, and no man &s;econdeth her. The me|dicines are contrary vnto it: The cri&s;is or iudgement is not noted: None is in doubt vpon the thing that is not feared:
<PB N="2" REF="3"> Feare neuer &s;urmounteth de&s;ire, de&s;ire &s;urpa&s;&s;eth dutie: &amp; to conclude in one worde, all things are indifferent to a &s;oule euil borne, &amp; to a corrupt &amp; depraued minde: We had bene lo&s;t if we had not &s;o bene. The felicitie of <HI>France</HI> is like the <HI>Phaenix:</HI> who in her death procureth another borne like to her &s;elfe, and out of her mortall a&s;hes draweth a flame of life which cannot be quenched in her po&s;teritie.</P>
<P>The late King of happie memory, when he relieued vs found him&s;elfe ouer-whelmed: In ea&s;ing vs. he found him &s;elfe oppre&s;sed: and returning vs into life, him&s;elfe dyed. He dyed I &s;ay, not in the midde&s;t of his victories: but in the beginning of his tryumphs he &s;tumbled vpon the ruynes of his enimyes: and he found none &s;o repugnant to his good, as tho&s;e who&s;e &s;afetie &amp; peace him&s;elfe had e&s;tabli&s;hed: The &s;oules of the rebels do yet &s;igh in the playnes of <HI>Jarnac</HI> and <HI>Moncontour,</HI> &amp; do ari&s;e again&s;t the murderer that &s;lue him, becau&s;e &s;u&s;picion hath condemned them: yet this tre&s;pa&s;se it &s;elf is not able to make this man guilty, euen in the &s;ight of tho&s;e for who~ this great King abandoned his lyfe to &s;o many hazards which the hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">gno&s;ticated vnto vs: who&s;e ver tues were inuinci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> victoryes were mo&s;t certaine: to whome the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> of his were vnknowne: &amp; his triumphes do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="6 letters"> &amp; daylye. With him was infamye a &s;tranger, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">gither inuiolable &amp; mo&s;t holy: Our cowardlyne&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">eated him, whome the enimies army dur&s;t neuer <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> the Church who had lo&s;t her voice, had not he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> rument thereto, hath iniuriou&s;ly con|demned hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ction is extreame, the exce&s;&s;e &s;tealeth away the cre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> honour is ingadged: The po&s;teritye will di&s;advo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &amp; &s;uch as &s;hall be borne of vs into this worlde, &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> are in a better to name them&s;elues our children, Y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ying of the <HI>Poet</HI> will be found true.</P>
<Q><L>Thou <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oune who thy father is tearmed,</L>
<L>In thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> bed thy per&s;on was changed:</L>
<L>Or in ad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="5 letters"> thy &s;elfe wert conceiued,</L>
<L>And by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="5 letters">ing, here wert thou receiued.</L></Q>
<P>Againe, it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> knowne what enterpri&s;es and practi&s;es haue bene wro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> again&s;t his Maie&s;tie who now reigneth,
<PB N="3" REF="3"> whome the heauens do &s;o manife&s;tlye fauour, that all that doubt thereof are Athie&s;ts, and &s;uch as doe not admire &amp; re|uerence him, euen prophane &amp; vngodly per&s;ons. We may euidently perceiue and as it were palpablye feele, that many gouernours haue their perticuler deui&s;es concerning the K. death, &amp; ea&s;ilye may we iudge how much they are deceiued, con&s;idering the onely iniu&s;tice of their conceits doth con|found them, that the apprehen&s;ion thereof dooth de&s;troye them, and that their con&s;ciences do torment them with a &s;courge, which ingratitude layeth about their &s;houlders, as an in&s;trument de&s;tined to that onely end. I be&s;eech you tell me, what became of the inheritours, not of the de&s;ert but of the dominions of great <HI>Alexander?</HI> All the Princes &amp; Lords of <HI>Grece</HI> thought to finde a &s;econd life in his fir&s;t death: but hardly was him&s;elfe buried, before they were all found in their graues: In &s;tead of gaine, reaping nothing but repen|tance: for a kingdome, the de&s;ire of one: for a&s;&s;urance, di&s;|paire: for a place of retract, the tombe: &amp; for choi&s;e from bad to better, onlye death. Such were <HI>Eumenes, Demetrius, Ptolomie, Antigonus, Saleuchus,</HI> of whom &s;ome lo&s;t both liues &amp; kingdomes, &amp; &s;ome endured tribulations more forcible, and torments more cruell and bitter then death. And ther|fore that Poet, &s;emeth to haue &s;ome rea&s;on, that &s;aid:
<Q><L>A Captaine for glory it maye well be&s;eeme,</L>
<L>After his conque&s;t &s;till to &s;utuiue:</L>
<L>Or if by fortune men daunted him dee me,</L>
<L>In fame of vertue after death to reuiue.</L></Q></P>
<P>What will become of &s;o many ingratefull Lordes if our prince &s;hould mi&s;carie: or what will become euen of the princes them&s;elues, when all obedience is violated, &s;ubiecti|on buried, the ambitio~ of perticuler per&s;ons encrea&s;ed, malice in generall accompli&s;hed, and di&s;order perfected? Among the princes of <HI>Jtaly</HI> &s;ome doe acknowledge the empire, and &s;ome are of the popes homage: They can encurre no di&s;plea|&s;ure neyther &s;u&s;teine any iniury, but either the one or the o|ther will &s;upport them: but who &s;hall protect the&s;e men, con&s;idering that only one <HI>Charles</HI> the fift triumphed ouer all the princes of <HI>Germanie</HI> within the &s;pace of four monthes,
<PB N="4" REF="4"> who in effect &amp; apparance had all bene lo&s;t, had it not beene for the &s;uccour that they receiued from <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;econd? If they frame the &s;ub&s;tance or bodye of an army, who &s;hall be the head? If they haue none, who can fight without a head? But if there be a head, who will endure it, con&s;idering they coulde not brooke a lawfull King? And in the meane tyme what &s;hall become of the people? Shall not they be led as beares or bulles by the no&s;es to be the pa&s;times of the pa&s;&s;i|ons of &s;ome <HI>Cha&s;telaine</HI> or warder, in who&s;e forhead tirannie &s;halbe written with the verie blood of his fellow <HI>Citizens?</HI> yea whereto &s;hall the church be reduced, when euery &s;ouldi|er wilbe curat of his owne village, &amp; euery Captaine By&s;hop of his owne gari&s;on? Where I be&s;eech you &s;hall wee finde la|bour, &amp; due reward for the &s;ame? May tirantes re&s;t in &s;a&s;tie, where kinges are debarred that felicitie? will men practize that cour&s;e toward them which they haue abhorred toward others? Coun&s;ailers &amp; Pre&s;ide~ts &s;hould become factionaries to tho&s;e that liue vnder their iuri&s;dictions: and they that are the protection of kinges &s;hould liue vnder the halbarde of &s;ome Corporal, or paraduenture of &s;ome watchman or &s;cout.</P>
<P>All this had almo&s;t come to pa&s;&s;e in the hurt of our King (whom heauen would in our behalfs immortalize, in ca&s;e our &s;elues were as worthy as his de&s;ertes doe bind vs to wi&s;h it &amp; our nece&s;&s;itie do inuite vs) His death would haue quailed our libertie: his fall would haue ouerwhelmed our felicitie: his lo&s;&s;e would haue made de&s;olate our families: his ab&s;ence woulde haue acquainted vs with that which wee feare: his &s;hip wrack would haue &s;wallowed vs vp: and the breaking of &s;o great a body would haue bred a rocke in <HI>Europe</HI> where|vpon Saint Peters &s;hip would haue bene quite &s;plit and vt|terly wrecked. Beleeue me not my mai&s;ters: I woulde to God I might be found a lyer in all that I am to tell you. And this is it: namely that certaine Capucines, Peuilians &amp; other fryers of this towne dare freely confe&s;&s;e that they neuer pray vnto God for the King: becau&s;e (&s;ay they) the pope hath not ab&s;olued him: as if it were lawfull for him to condemne in|nocency: to iudge of that which is not in controuer&s;ie: &amp; to alienate from Gods grace the per&s;on that in &s;uch humilitie
<PB N="5" REF="4"> doth beg it: That &s;urely ther is &s;uper&s;tition in this &s;o vaine &amp; pre&s;umptuous rigour, con&s;idering all coun&s;ailes doe mayn|taine that it is not the Bull that excommunicateth the man, but the fault: al&s;o that the fault is taken away when repen|tance taketh place, which &s;erueth as a beginning of ab&s;oluti|on and an end of puni&s;hment (my &s;peech is of the &s;ame which &s;pirituall Iudges may inflict) why doe they therefore ende|uour to bewitch our &s;oules, by mini&s;tring vnto them a food &s;o vn&s;ea&s;onable for a chri&s;tian, who ought to pardon the of|fence euen before it bee accompli&s;hed, and rather to com|plaine and grow bitter again&s;t the peruers nature of the per|&s;ecuter, then to returne vpon the per&s;ecuted: for it is writen: <HI>I will wait vntill the Sunne goe downe, and J will be a light vnto his &s;teps, lea&s;t he &s;hould fall.</HI> The Curates of all pari&s;hes do powre foorth their praiers to God for the King: All lawes both of God and man doe ordaine the &s;ame: And his benefites doe in generall bind vs thereunto: yet &s;hall the&s;e men as re|bels and men guiltie of trea&s;on make a diuorce in the church &amp; e&s;cape, I wil not &s;ay vnpuni&s;hed, but eue~ vnreproued? The kinges &s;ubiectes doe feed them: yea the kinges them &s;elues haue e&s;tabli&s;hed them: and now &s;hall they vpon &s;ome bar|barous error, togither with a malitious pretence, free them|&s;elues from that duety wherto nature bindeth them and the generall &s;ocietie of men doth call them? Shall they commit &s;uch impietie only in France: becau&s;e the contempt of the lawes &amp; royal dignitie is &s;o great that the princes are not re|garded but vpo~ humours: neither the laws ob&s;erued, but for a fa&s;hion, &amp; yet that al&s;o rather in aparance the~ in effect? The &s;imple people who&s;e minde is not capable of any profound rea&s;oning &amp; which beleueth no more then it&s;elf imagineth, is incontinently drawen to the purpo&s;e of the&s;e fryers, who for bread doe preach vnto them a reuolt: terrifying the wea|ker con&s;ciences, &amp; &s;haking the bea&s;t founded by I wot not what manner of threatning, which &s;erueth as a torture to de|uout con&s;ciences, an ambu&s;h to the kings life, trouble to the common wealth, and argument of &s;uper&s;tition and offence to the Church, who&s;e iu&s;t &amp; holy weapons are neuer emploi|ed again&s;t &s;uch as acknowledge their dueties to her, and li|uing vnder her &s;tanderd are re&s;olued there vnder to fight, e|uen
<PB N="6" REF="5"> to the death. Can any thing be more impertinent or of a more cowardly di&s;po&s;ition, then that &s;ome of the kings of|ficers who barking at the &s;hadowes of Miters &amp; red hattes with eloquence rather artificiall then naturall &amp; with farther fetches then rea&s;on, haue hitherto maintained the Ie&s;uites with &s;uch feruency that they enflamed the &s;peches of theyr mai&s;ters faithfull &s;eruants &amp; conuerted the~ into &s;moke, eue~ at &s;uch time as the kings life was in que&s;tion, &amp; that me~ pro|te&s;ted again&s;t them in re&s;pect of the &s;male accompt that they made, to the end they might re&s;t in credite with the pope &amp; his formall creatures the Ie&s;uites? A little thing woulde make me to tearme you the vnthankfull Pyes or layes of this great cadge: I haue couradge enough to vndertake it &amp; more then &s;ufficient argument to put it in effect: But I will for|beare you, for the honor of <HI>France,</HI> as al&s;o for that albeit yee e&s;cape the hand of man, yet is not Gods hand &s;ubiect to any pal&s;ey: you &s;hal haue no greater enemies then your &s;elues: &amp; albeit your offices &amp; dignities doe free you from temporall puni&s;hment, yet wil men iudge you worthy therof. For the puni&s;hment make not the martir but the cau&s;e: but it is en|nough that your ententes do make you parties, &amp; that al the worlde doth &s;ee that you haue wrongfully &s;upported the Ie|&s;uites, out of who&s;e hou&s;e as out of an Arcenal or &s;torehou&s;e is i&s;&s;ued that accur&s;ed piece, who in only one per&s;on had al|mo&s;t with lightening kindled al <HI>France</HI> from whe~ce al <HI>Europe</HI> &s;hould haue bene &s;et in combu&s;tion &amp; in &s;uch vniuer&s;all de|&s;olation your &s;elues (as I think) haue bene brought into ruine. yet doth one thing put me in comfort &amp; make mee to hope wel: namely that our mai&s;ters of <HI>Paris</HI> haue in this la&s;t e&s;&s;ay of trea&s;on made full proofe of their fidelitie. For there was not any familye but re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oiced at the pre&s;eruation of the king and the puni&s;hment of the paricide. The &s;alutations by bonfyers &amp; praiers, in that re&s;pect powred foorth, do induce a perpetual obliuion of al former tran&s;gre&s;&s;io~s of the enhabi|tants of <HI>Paris,</HI> who in one onely might haue made a perfect day of that credit which his maie&s;ty is to take of their &s;eruice, wherein affection &s;itteth as pre&s;ident, with &s;o much truthe, that the te&s;timonie therof is wonderfull, &amp; the hope of their continuance certaine and infallible.</P>
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