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A05074	The politicke and militarie discourses of the Lord de La Nouue VVhereunto are adioyned certaine obseruations of the same author, of things happened during the three late ciuill warres of France. With a true declaration of manie particulars touching the same. All faithfully translated out of the French by E.A.; Discours politiques et militaires du Seigneur de la Noue. English	La Noue, François de, 1531-1591.; Aggas, Edward.	1588 (1588)	STC 15215; ESTC S108246	422,367	468

and Sclauons haue bene forced to proceede farther as to submit themselues to the Turkes to the ende to eschue their furious cruelty for want of meanes of defence and of them wee ought to take compassion Some would peraduenture think that this proud nation would be loth to enter amitie with the Christians But the contrarie is most true For albeit they be barbarous yet doe they herein imitate the auncient pollicie of the Romaines who vnder coulour of confederacies set foote in Greece and Gaule which afterwarde they subdued The lyke would these doe if they might but at the least in their haunting among Christians they discouer our affaires diligently considering our forces and meanes which afterward doe the more kindle their desire to enterprise against vs neither doe our men through their conuersation among them reape any other fruit than apprentiship of most wicked customes which doe infect particular persons with corruption and entangle the mindes of those whome they gouerne with tyrannous precepts I will yet alleadge other of the most notable examples of such as haue abused thēselues found inconuenience in reposing too much confidence in Turkish infidelitie One shall bee of the last king of Hungarie named Iohn whome the Hungarians chose after that Lewes was slaine in battaile against the Turkes This king soone after his election did Ferdinand expulse vnder some pretended title to the Realme which forced him to haue recourse to put himselfe into the protection of Sultan Soliman who thereby had a good occasion For he waited only how through the meanes of the Christians to get accesse into those places where he sought to establish his greatnesse Thus hauing for the time restored him into his dignity and beaten Ferdinandes men he kept not his promise long for after the decease of Iohn he dispossessed the Queene his widow his orphane who had craued his helpe against Ferdinand that had besieged them and euer since haue the most part of Hungarie continued in the hands of the Turkes In this their deede the grieuous iniuries offred by y t aforenamed may to some seeme to excuse their submissiō to Soliman howbeit they were not free frō blame in that for their owne particular interest they were the cause on that side to aduance the destruction of the Christians peraduenture 30. yeres sooner thā it would haue happened besides that they ought rather to haue summoned the Christian princes to take order for their controuersies or else to haue growen to composition with Ferdinand But how should these confederaties be other than mishaps to those that put them in practise sith such Princes as haue made them only to the end to reuenge themselues of or resist their enimies haue come to euil ends Of whom Alphons king of Naples is one who fearing the power of Charles the 8. king of France did after the imitation of Pope Alexander the 6. who before had done the like sent his Embassadors to Baiazet to craue helpe As also Lewes Sforza who to the end to molest the Venetians sought to y e Turks of whom he brought a certaine number into Italy but neither of thē attained to their pretences as being preuented by the subiection of themselues and their estates It is no meruayle that shame and destruction doe followe such deliberations and who so liste well to consider the causes thereof shall see that a vehement desire of reuenge stirred vp these Princes to call them in Is it not as much as if a man should go into the woods to hier theeues to murther his kinseman or friend in his owne house for some debate risen betweene them Either to open the windowe to the wolfe and so to bring him into the flock to deuour the sheepe Those that were at the first war in Hungarie when Soliman came in person doe affirme that in that one onelie voyage there were aboue 200000. persons of that onely Realme either slaine or caried awaie captiue which violences together with innumerable other more haue bene such pastimes as these horrible monsters haue within these two hundred yeeres taken to our costs Who is he that reading or hearing of the cruelties villanies torments which the poore Christians indured at the taking of Constantinople but will euen faint for sorrow and pittie In this shipwracke neither the greatnesse nobilitie and affabilitie neither the teares nor lamentations of the olde yong women or children could any whit mitigate their crueltie vntill that hauing glutted theyr desires and reuenges with the bloud riches beautie of the youth of each kinde they graunted some small release to those miserable persons that remayned of that furie who had ben farre more happy to haue bene swallowed vp among the rest I could heere adde sundrie other deeds wherewith to describe the fiercenesse of this nation but it shall not greatly neede because wee are to beleeue theyr proceedings to haue bene almost alwaies alike as if theyr onely drift tended to tread all mankinde vnder their feet Our neighbours alwayes haue and still doe thinke it wonderfull strange how such learned wise men as haue continually florished in France could counsayle our kings to enter league with these yea and so long to perseuere therein considering how infortunate such confederacies haue bene Some auncient persons haue in this sort reported the cause That king Frances the first seeing himselfe stil beset with the Emperour Charles a mightie Prince Henrie king of England and diuerse other enimies who oft brought his state in to daunger was for his owne saferie counsailed to confederate himselfe with Sultan Seliman to the end when they should molest him to oppose agaynst them so mightie an enimie And this treatie was concluded about the yeere 1535. by vertue whereof wee haue often times had succour from the Turkes which haue greatly hindered those that troubled France and without the which it must needes haue indured much more through the ambition of them that ought not to haue brought our Kings into necessitie to employe so terrible armies All these accusations and iustifications haue moued me to peruse some histories to the ende to see what profite or hurt wee haue reaped by their succour I haue noted three or fower armies by Sea brought into Christendome at the pursuite as they say of the French men vnder the conduct of Barberossa and other Admiralles who haue bred great terror The most notable of al their exployts in my opinion was the taking of Boniface in Corse But I haue laboured to learne of diuers auncient Captaines and other skilfull persons both Italians and Spanyards what their nations either thought or sayd of these Turkish tempestes who all reported vnto me that these barbarous people wrought lamētable desolations as hauing burned sacked yea and led into perpetuall bondage a merueilous number of poore Christians for the most part which was worse were forced to renounce Christianitie and to embrace the false doctrine of Mahumet a most lamentable