sticke not to call it be put downe And I might name a great person among them a true Catholike Apostolike and not Roman of whose worth and great vertue not only his owne country to whome it hath ben most beneficiall but euen Germany Italy Flanders and by reflection Spaine finally England it selfe takes an honorable notice of with whome talking not long ago after a free opening of the soares of their Church which he could not well conceale otherwise hee would he tolde me a common saying of his to shew how freely and honestly soeuer he acknowledges the simple truth he is not crackt in his own beleefe and religion That he thankes God with all his hart that hauing had great dealings at Rome Geneua and great friends of both sides yet God hath euer kept him in that truest surest middle that he euer was a good Catholike nor a Huguenot or a Leaguer I answered him good my lord oh would to God we were all catholiks after your fashion for me if I were borne so I would scarce beleeue I could change my religion for a better Come then come out most noble king come out by so much the sooner as you see the matter easy you haue so many men so many meanes you are the only Monarch in the world who can set vp as many as good both horse foot of his owne subiects without begging supply either of Albanians or Ruyters of Landsknechts or Suytzers And yet need you not much trouble your selfe you need not stirre out of your royall Whitehall There we wil send you the newes of the ruine of your Enemies Your arms are long enough to chastise them all a farre off most especially your right Arme the sonne of your thigh the flower of your strength the excellency of your dignity and power Let 's but haue him let him but haue himselfe and he will come to vs let him goe for the publique good of all Christendome for your interest for his owne We haue none else to be the head of our Croisado ANd you young Sunne rysing to all glory and happynes hope of the earth ioy of the sea eye of the world wonder of mindes loue of harts sweet comfort and delight of mankinde my most noble my most braue Prince all hart God forbid I should forbid learning and lesse in a Prince then in any priuate man and where it may easily be gotten without hinderance to further and more necessary ends But thus much I dare say with their good leaue who are more wise then I As times stand now as vrgent occasions require you are learned enough for a Prince and if any Prince in the world euer had lesse need of learning it is your selfe you shall neuer want it as long as you giue vp your self wholy to be ruld as a second wheele as an inferior Globe by that first Motor by that heauen of wisedome by that matchles Father of yours which hath learning enough for you both And let it not grieue you needs to yeeld vnto him in that kinde It is a wonder scarce seen in many ages to see a king learned a wonder that was neuer seen but once to see a king so learned as he Our great and our first Frauncis had scarce more learning then you and yet did not leaue to be a great king yet did not leaue to be called the great father and restorer of learning And that great Prince also for whome we now mourne was he not a great Captaine a great King though not a great Scholler True it is he euer fauoured true learning where he found it without any acception of persons no not of his rebells if they would be reconciled And euen in his latter daies greedy of Apolloes bayes as of the palmes of Mars had he not vndertaken I dare say by the Councell of a great Cardinall for all Cardinals are not Iebuzits to build in euery Citty a great Colledge and free-schoole for all kinde of learning and to that end hire and gather to himselfe all the famous learned men of Christendome Which royall designe our wise Queene now most aduisedly following there is a mighty great one already building in Paris which euen by anticipation some call the Cut-throte of Iesuits It is enough for a Prince though otherwise not so extreamely learned himselfe if onely he fauor learned men and so he shall be sure neuer to want learning at his need Once more farr be it from my thoughts to diswade learning in a Prince I know he can scarce fauor learned men if he haue no learning himselfe And great Alexander with his braue Grecians great Cesar with his brauest Romans tell me the Souldier who hath it and manages it well hath a more easy a more open a more ready way and a greater aduantage ouer him that hath it not to be a better Soldier the Captaine a valianter Captaine the Prince a greater Prince But that it is not so essentially indiuiduall vnseparably incident to a King as without a great aboundance thereof he cannot be a great king indeed and truly performe the duties of his great charge It is onely that which I stand vpon A thing whereof the contrary hath ben seen in euery age And our owne fathers and we our selues can yet remember the same Do not therefore mold any longer among your bookes no not among your tiltings and fained combats though otherwise in peace honorable delightfull needfull To horse to horse the quarter is broken the bloody Trumpet hath sounded True mortall warre is open They haue killed your valorous God-father who missed to kill your selfe yea euen him who by mutual agreement was appointed to be your second father by your first if the vnhappy blow had lighted vpon him so assured were these two great Princes greater friends that their liues were sought It is time it is high time to put on your Armour and make your Enemies and ours iustly to feele the smart which so much they feare and by so vniust meanes seeke to preuent Our young LEWIS will not be long after you and though he can not yet accompany you hand in hand as he would if we would let him in the thickest throng of the enemies to scatter and ouerthrow them both vpon a couple of their best Gennets both in like Armor both in huge mighty feathers all blacke with their burnt blood at the cōming out of the battell white before for your mutuall loue and faith yet he wil not be farre off He will visit you in your Campe if need be And will euen glory and ioy to lend his tender hand to gird your sword when you goe out meete you on horsebacke when you come in bring you victorious vnder your Tent againe and weeld your bloody sword after the battell as if he thought by that to enter into part of your glory as the profit must needs be common The noble presidents of your royall
the blessed Virgin with S. Brigid S. Andrew why not S. George to with a high hand to carry from God such things as she now vpō better information knowes most to be eschewed Together of the same feather you haue there one Becanus the more wicked because the more witty so apt are these monster-men to turne to ill vses the very blessings of God A little lower there is Carolus Scribanius who most iustly ashamed of his trayterous name hath ben faine to faine another in his Ample Theater of dishonour yet neuer forgetting herein the ambitious pride naturall to the society in taking of the best when they choose One who as though he were not able of himselfe to be wicked enough therein is he more wicked that he praises the wickedest Poland Sweth-land Trans-siluania Bohemia at their owne cost will contribute to the publicke shame those by whome they haue receaued and stil receaue so much smart though some haue paide deere enough for it And after these farther countries the remotest part of that famous Iland penitus toto orbe remota will not be ashamed to stake her peny Haies and Hamilton though not a peny worth to the common reproch of Nations But belike her sister would be too proud if she could not name for herselfe or rather against herselfe red-hatted or rather red-harted Allens Campion Hart Parsons Creswell Hall Tesmond Gerrard Hammond all bloody or fiery Traytors and their superior in all Garnet And now Sir among all them perhaps you thinke your Fraunce will escape free But alas shall we not finde within our owne bowels one Kakodemono-zannes apoligising for this Garnet and Franciscus Verona for Ian Chastell both which we know whence they are but since they themselues condemne their owne deeds by counterfeiting their names and therein the onely thing they haue done well in some sort redeeme their Countries shame let them dye for euer vnknowne indeed and vnnamed let those that haue any part in them disclaime it let them perish in their blood let me not haue their names within my lips But oh but we haue such as glory in their owne infamy those cursed ones that call euil good and good euill who least they and their villanies should not be knowne enough by their writings haue preached it openly from Towne to Towne before all the world and shamelessely taught it with a brazen face in their publicke lessons to showe that Fraunce owes nothing to the rest in treason wickednes But because holy father Cotton was come of late as it were with a blast of his sweete breath and in a sheete of paper to gainesay and disanull all his predecessors mis-doings and seeme to recouer the honor of the society though if his Amphibologious Equiuocations be rightly tryed he speakes as trayterously as any of them all yet least they should take to much hold of him and interpret his double meaning in the better part or rather to checke him as a false brother one that had yeelded to much to the time Behold out of Italy the great Iebuzit Cardinalised the great Cardinall shortly to be Papised who not contented with that which he hath formerly written as well he might for any new thing hee sayes but because it was onely done by the way and among his other controuersies a load to big for any man to carry comes out now as the Triarij in that great Army of forlorne hopes with a booke by it selfe and of set purpose sounding and denouncing from the Vatican to al Princes they are subiect to the Pope in temporalibus True it is that in Atheus tOrtus that is he himselfe had first made the way before him but it was vnder an obscure name that could not carry great waight But since the Chapleine was so bold as to vndertake no lesse then a great king for his share to write against Do you thinke Sir that his Illustrissime Lord and Maister hath it against Barclay onely No no poore Barclay is but the poorest part of his booke yet his sonne takes it in hand as his fathers cause and I am sure will not leaue the Cardinall vnpaid Neither is it against the king your braue father They haue his hart fast and haue don as some Barbarians were wont They haue executed him first then comes forth this sentence of death against him But there is nothing more to be had of him but your selfe your selfe Sir It is against your selfe directly that this booke is written against all kings aliue against al kings yet vnborne The haukes of a Cardinall will not flie for lesse then at the birds of Paradice And you holy father oh is it after that maner you wil haue your sons harts Sure sure that great father of mankind of whom you pretend your self so wrongfully to be the general Vicar did neuer meane it so when he said My son giue me thy hart But you sweet childe since you see two Barclaies two priuate men none of them a Protestant nor nothing neere the one vndertake it so vertuously against the Pope vpon no other particuler offence but the meere loue of the truth the other follow it so dutifully against Pope Cardinall and all onely as his fathers quarrell which yet is no such matter you I say which are so great so noble so auncient and so mighty a king will you not reuenge your fathers death will you not reuenge your owne quarrel against one that was but a Cardinall fiue yeares ago one that was but a base priest once It is he It is he that speakes in that booke it is he that made it Bellarmin is vnworthy of your anger He is but a meane instrument he is but a slaue and dares not do otherwise then his master bids The Pope himselfe the great Lord the great God of al not Acquaviva a slaue too hath viewed it corrected it allowed it caused it to be printed at his owne charges vnder his owne nose least there should be any fault in the print To what end then tarry any longer what will you haue more when they haue kild you also you shal no more be able to take reuenge Take it while you can and while you may Yet am not I of those hot-burning spirits though a strong Protestant I confesse that would set Rome all in blood and fire and dig vp her foundacions a thousand fathomes vnder the ground I would haue Rome reformed not Rome ruyned And what can the poore walls do withal for the inhabitants sinnes Yea I will vnparcially deale with the Pope and with more kindnes then he dares looke for at any Protestants hand Let euery Prince according to the law of God of Nature and of Nations establish a good and holy Patriarch within his owne dominions to whome all his Church men shall answer to none els without and he answer for them Let the Bishop of Rome reduce himselfe or be reduced to that estate wherein he
heretofore Moreouer we do neuer so sensibly esteeme of other mens losses as of our owne All those peeces were indeed lost for vs not by vs they were taken from our Fathers vpon some colour of right at least right of warr which as our Brennus was wont to say is the most auncient and vniuersall Law The griefe thereof is past long since But if any would encroch now but one foot of land vpon our Borders in what an other sort would we stirr for it then for all those kingdomes And will wee not stirre for the death of our Kings who woulde not without feare vnder-take against their sacred liues if wee valued them cheaper then their Lands Yet haue wee a kinde of comfort in those losses they were so deerly solde that the possessors dare not much boast of it And shall we not make them pay more deerly for the pricelesse life of our deere Prince Shall they laugh it out to our faces whilst we sit basely weeping And shall not their insolency sharpen our anger O French-women no more French men if that might euer be reproched vnto vs But now what relation what proporcion of the losse of some land to the losse of a King and of such a King as he was Neuertheles who knowes not but the least of those peeces hath often set all Christendome in fire and bloud our Kings them-selues not sparing their owne liues for them Againe I neuer spoke in the yong daies of your Maiesties raigne Then we could not choose but greatly be amazed at the greatnes at the suddennes of our blow and somwhat yeild to the fury of the storme Then were we rather to looke to assure our selues then to trouble others rather to defend then to assaile and panting vnder the waight of our ruyne take holde as it were for a time of that hand that had drawen it vpon vs as not knowing or rather not seeming or rather not striving to knowe our enemies But now since there is nothing to be apprehended since in their lowest degree of weakenes misery they had no further end then onely to take him away esteeming they had gotten enough if we might but loose him as to his perpetuall glory they feared him alone more then all France besides or els thinking that he being gone all things would go away after him of themselues be turned vpside downe Since it pleased God in his diuine mercy to confound their thoughts shewing them and vs and all the world that he can scourge and haue pitty wound to death with one angry hand hauing the other still ready to apply the plaister and against all hope to heale that he can kill and make aliue bring downe to the graue and raise vp againe since we are now as strong and as strongly setled as euer in your fathers time if not more Why should we not speak boldly Why should we not point at our enemies with the finger and call them by their owne names Why should we not goe and yet more boldly fall vpon them all There is no more doubt no more difficulty who hath forged that parricidious steele we know alas now we know to much their doctrine and practise and cannot say worse against them then they haue written themselues Time was and in King Henry the thirds time it was when we feared only secret confessions priuate conferences hidden chambers of Meditacion All these works of darknes were as yet done in the darke and could catch none but some weake and brain-sicke soules But now Time is that he that can transforme himself in an Angell of light hath set an open schoole thereof and sent his black Doctors thorough all nations more safely to deceiue falsely carrying the sweete name whose person they persecute because when he put them out of hell he told them A Iesu ite Now it is publikely taught and as a thirtenth article of faith maintained and commanded to be added to the Creede vnder paine of eternall damnation And if we do not at last open our eyes if wee doe not set our selues against it if we let it coole any longer and not put it downe in hot blood Time shall neuer be nor so good nor so fit as it is now Mariana was the first who was bold to reduce it in art and precepts in three set bookes De regis destructione And though many almost as pestilent as he both of his owne nation and Society both before and after him haue written vpon that vnhappy subiect as Ribadeneyra Toledo Valencia Vasquez Azor Sa and others yet because with them he that can worke most mischiefe is worthy of the highest title this most vnworthy villaine shall goe in the fore-front since he without them and aboue any of them or rather aboue all them hath wrought most villany and kild so great a King That execrable monster could not be borne very far from Affrick And Indè prima mali labes Yet because Spayne shall not be disgraced alone by breeding such royall Dragons such venemous Basiliskes which kill not men simply but kings not with their sight being not otherwise so resolute or religiously minded as to venture so neere but with their breath only and a farre off And whose infectious stinck can still murther not during their liues onely but a thousand yeares after their death very farre from those old Prophets whose dead carkases did raise others to life There is no Nation in the world but hath a share in the shame Germany euen honest Germany that golden Latium of old Saturnus and who hath kept herselfe more vnspotted of this newer world wil acknowledge she hath no small part therin There you shall find one of those doting indeed and yet no lesse proud yet no lesse wicked serpents who dares not onely vomit his venome against kings but inueighing against them vsurpe euen their very title and phrase as in a kinde of comparison or as if he would play the king himselfe But oh how farre commest thou short impudent Gretzerus No Iebuzit but one only Araunah could euer bring forth a Royall Gift and farre better hadst thou done to keepe thy selfe within thine owne rancke adding the most crooked letter of the Alphabet and most like thy serpent-like dealing to thy title more fitly call it Basiliscon Doron But God would not haue thee both wicked and wise at once for when thou hast broke thy head at the very head and first word of thy booke it is not enough but thou must needes break thy neck also in thy foolish dedication to such a one as thou neuer sawest to such a one as thou shalt neuer see for that great soule being departed penitent no doubt but where she is Gretzerus there shalt thou hardly come finally to such a one as shall neuer heare of it and if she should could neuer but greatly abhorre to be cogged from heere below perswaded to make a party there aboue for the Loyolists and Cabalise with