number about him and therin surely he did well Neuerthelesse the writers of histories find fault with him in this that he gaue too muche authoritie to his mother Mámea which otherwise had bin a good woman but that shee was not only greedy in gathering of goods from the poore people but also a couetous niggarde towards such as serued the Emperour hir sonne beside the which she was very ambitious aspiring altogether to the gouernement of the affayres euer sorie to see hir sonne so curteous gentle in his gouernemente for where hee was surnamed Seuerus hee tooke that aswell of his predecessor Septimius Seuerus as of his seuere obseruing of warlike discipline but otherwise he was the most affablest and geÌ„tlest prince in the world Neuerthelesse by his yeelding so much authoritie to his mother Mámea he so gate the euill will of hys gentlemen and men of warre as by way of a conspiracie they slew them both togyther Truely it was a spectacle very piteous to see this gentle yong Prince when the conspiratours entred the chamber to kill him runne and cast him selfe betweene the armes of his mother lamentably crying Ah mother mother you are heereof the cause So were they wretchedly flayne the one in the others armes to the greate damage of the Empire for the losse of so good and gentle a prince who in al other things gouerned him selfe aswell as might be possible through the good and wise aduises of such excellent personages as were of his priuie counsell Amongst whome the chiefe was doctor Vlpian a maÌ„ singularly learned in the ciuil law and very well practised in matters of the state and issued of the house and stocke of Alexander whome hee serued as his chanceler This maÌ„ was not an old doterd of a straÌ„ge nation ignorant of the lawes manners and customes of the countrie draweÌ„ out of Vulcans shop to deale with sealing he was one made of another manner of metall But in summe as I sayd the fault of this good Emperour Alexander in giuing his mother too much authoritie cost both him and hir theyr liues And truely that fault of his was not small For Alexander ought to haue considered what hee had learned of Heliogabalus his cosin and predecessor which Heliogabalus gouerning by his mother Semiamira without whose aduise nothing passed touching the common wealth was incontineÌ„tlye despised of all the worlde and after he had raigned not passing three yeeres was by certaine rebels slayne very yong and had his body togither with his sayde mothers drawen through the fylth of the riuer Tiber. And therevpon it was decreed by the Senate that neuer woman should enter into the counsel The gentle King Edward of England the thirde of that name gouerned himselfe farre otherwise He was sonne to Edward the seconde a cruell king that was depriued of his kingdome by his subiects and to the Lady Isabell daughter of Philip the fayre king of France This Lady Isabell Queene of England was the cause that hir sonne was crowned King by the estatâ—… of the Realme and therefore thought he should doe nothing but by hir councell as in very deede he dyd not for a tyme but gaue to hir the chiefe authoritie touching the gouernement of his realme But it happened that this good Queene mother to reuenge hir selfe of certayne of the nobilitie at hir pleasure caused hir sonne to committe certaine cruelties for the whyche hee was misliked and muche blamed of his subiectes Whiche when thys gentle King Edwarde perceiued iudging it best rather to loose the fauour of his mother than of his people he neyther woulde fall into like perill as did Nero and Alexander Seuerus nor yet put his mother to death as Nero did but made hir to be bestowed in a strong howebeit a very faire and pleasant castell of large circuite wherein there were many goodly courtes gardens and walkes inclosed with walles and appoynted hir a good companie of Ladies and gentlewomen with men of worship and honour to serue hir after hir state And bycause she was of the house of France and Queene mother of Englande he assigned hir a sufficient reuenue for the maintenance of hir estate And to honour hir as his mother hee went to visite hir twice or thrice a yeere But neyther woulde he euer suffer hir to passe out of the precinct of the castell nor to meddle any more with the gouernment of the realme And he was muche esteemed as well of strangers as of his subiects for his valiant and manly heart in that he would not submit himselfe vnder the rule of a woman But let vs returne againe to our former matter touching such Princes as haue vndone them selues by making warre against their subiectes The Emperour Vitellius ouerthrewe and made a great slaughter of the Romanes in his battell had against Otho his souldiers seeing so many deade bodyes in the fielde were therefore verie sorowfull but especially for that there was of them few or none that founde not amongst those deade bodies some of their parents friends for they were all Romanes whose death ministred to them muche cause of griefe vpon the which occasion they generally detested those ciuill warres had betweene Vitellius and Otho Vitellius one day walking through the field wher the dead bodies of that ouerthrow lay and seeing some stop their noses did as it were in mockage thereof and as one glad of the slaughter vtter this detestable saying the body of a slaine enimie hath a good sent but the body of a slain citizeÌ„ hath yet a better But not long after that tyrant which found so muche sweetnesse in the sauour of his slaine citizens was him selfe slaine as shamefully as he possibly might be For being taken and bound by suche as conspired against him he was brought into the market place with a halter about his necke all naked from the waste vpward his apparell all to torne and his handes fastned behinde him his chin also being vnderset with a bodkin to make him hold vp his head With which furniture hee was in derision harryed through the streetes not without dirt and filth flung in his face till he came to the coÌ„moÌ„ gibet where he was slaine and cut in peeces lastly cast into Tyber That was the rewarde that he reaped of his pleasure taken in the smel of the dead bodies of his citizens The Emperour Gallien made war against the inhabitants of Bizance his subiectes Bizance was then a goodly florishing citie which was after named Constantinople by Constantine the great This Gallien hauing gotten the possession of this goodly citie the townsmeÌ„ wherof had yelded themselues to his deuotion caused to be slain murthred contrary to his word al the inhabitantes of the same yong and olde without mercie none other escaping than such as he coulde not come by And he vsed like crueltie against many other good towns wherin his maner was to leaue no male vnkilled so bestly a
than to agree to suche a peace as might to each parte be both profitable and agreeable which would cause it to be of continuāce In this respect the great warrior Hāniball demanded peace of the valiant happy Scipio after this maner It is I Hānibal that do demaund the peace which I would not demaunde if it might not be profitable and hauing obteyned such a one I wil willingly keepe it for the very same profit for the which I required it for to bee shorte a good peace ought not to be made in hast but rather to be digested with meere deliberation loking to none other end than the profite of the common weale And for this cause was it by Tullus Hostilius king of the Romanes saide that the mutual entercourse of commodities was the true band of peace But cōming now to intreat of those three points whiche before I proponed as subiect to this declaration Touching the first whiche is that a prince ought not to take in hand the making of wars against his subiects I set down for a true cōsequēce that a people do neuer die The perticulars or seueral parts of the same do die in deede but they leaue alwayes behind such as do succeede them not only in their inheritāces but also in their quarels passions so as seldome or neuer dieth ther any so very a caytife vnfortunate wretche that leaueth not another yea two or three eyther children brethren parēts or friēds which wil be sorie for his death seeke reuēgemēt of it if it wer violētly procured Wherfore who soeuer hath to do with a people by killing of the perticulars profiteth little bicause they leaue alwais to succede thē such as are as it were maried to their quarels The same is at thys day to be sene by the Gospellers so do I tearm them in stead of Hugonots and catholikes in stead of Papists as did the Lord of Valence in his declaratiō made to the Poloniās for within these .xv yeres what by the warres what by iustice and what by murthers there hath bene done to death more than 200000. and yet for all that there are still so great a number of them as it may seeme there hath not any one dyed There is very apparant reason why it should be so namely for that a people dyeth not bicause the perticulars haue alwayes other perticulars to succede them not onely in their inheritances but also in theyr maners instructions and other conditions But contrarywise the great Princes dye as the late king your brother is deade and many of his best seruitors are deade your selfe also are mortall and your best seruitors be mortall wherthrough it is commonly seene that great mens great deuices vanish away in the smoake bycause that for the moste parte their successours are not of the same humor and will but vse their gouernment farre otherwise the one vndoing what by the other was done In so much as it is sene that ordinarily they pull downe whome their predecessours had set vp Whereof among others master Enguerran of Marigny may be a witnesse which hauing bin in great credite and authoritie in the time of king Philip the faire was by his brother and successor king Lewes Hutin so abased as he therethrough became a poore man without any cause apparant other than for the enuie hate borne to the greatnesse that he had gotten Also the wise Courtiers which will not their liues honors and goods to depend vpon the life of one onely man are accustomed not onely to please him that presently raigneth but also him that is like to succede him For as Pompei said vnto Scilla there be moe that doe worship the sunne rising thā the sunne setting Alexander the great did in his time many wonderful incredible things For with an armie of .30000 Macedons he ouercam Darius the great monarch of al the east leuant in three battels In the first wherof Darius had 300000. mē which was twentie against one In the .2 he had .600000 which was .20 against one And in the third he had a Missiō which was thirtie against one He subdued al the Empire of Darius as the Persians the Medes the Parthians the Armenians the Babylonians with Egypt Palestine and Syria and generally all the lande habitable of Europe and Asi from Macedonie eastwarde vnto India But all those faire conquestes vanished like smoke and in the ende came to nothing for he him selfe died yong and left not successors of like noblenesse and valiācie as he was Whervpon Titus Liuius putteth forth this question If Alexander the great had taken in hande the warres of his time against the Romanes whether he should as easily haue ouercome them as he did Darius he answereth no. For though saith he Alexander was a valiant king and a stout braue warriour yet was he but one in hauing to do with Darius he had to do but with one head Where had he had to do with the Romanes he must haue fought with a number of braue Captaines one after another As Valerius Coruinus Martius Rutilius Caius Sulpicius Manlius Torquatus Publius Philo Papirius Cursor Fabius Maximus Lucius Volumnius the two Decians Marcus Curius and many other which would from hand to hande haue receyued him so as he shoulde haue knowne that they vnderstoode the mysteries of the warres And as concerning Councell Alexander whiche was a yong Prince could haue no better than they that were guided by the heades of a whole Senate The conclusion saith Titus Liuius is That the Macedons had but one Alexander but the Romanes had many captaines which woulde haue matched him of whome euerie one should haue liued and dyed without perill or danger to the state publike Whereas by the death of Alexander the state of his Monarch was rent and torne in peeces The experience of this discourse of Titus Liuius was well seene in the warres that Hanniball had against the Romanes For he was a wise and valiaunt Captaine and knewe as well howe to guide his armie as when to fight Neyther was he ignorant of the stratagemes or policies of warre And in deede he ouerthrew many of the Romane Captaines as Flamminius Paulus Emilius Terencius Varro Marcellus and many other But in the ende he was repulsed by Claudius Nero Fabius Maximus and other and last of all so vtterly ouerthrowne by the great Scipio the Affricane as he founde well that it was no small thing to haue to doe with a people which do dayly breede newe Captaines and men of warre And that wel the perticulars of a people may be vanquished and ouerthrowne but the whole people neuer According to this saying of the philosophers A generall kinde is immortall by reason of the succession of perticulars which succeede one another though euerie perticular in it selfe be mortall And this reason aduiseth a Prince not onely to forbeare to striue with his people but also to shunne the euill will of
A DECLARAtion concerning the needfulnesse of peace to be made in Fraunce and the means for the making of the same exhibited to the most Christian king Henrie the second of that name King of Fraunce and Polande vpon two Edictes put forth by his Maiestie the one the tenth of September the other the thirtenth of October Anno. 1574. Translated out of Frenche by G. H. Esquire ¶ Jmprinted at London by Henrie Bynneman for Raufe Newberie dwelling in Fleetstreat a little aboue the Conduit ¶ To the right worshipfull his especiall good father Sir Pearciuall Hart Knight one of the Sewars and Knight Harbinger to hir Maiestie his humble and obedient sonne G. H. wisheth health and long lyfe IT is now Syr long time since I not onely desired but fully determined to testifie the acknowledgement of my dutie towardes you by some peece of my trauell in this present kinde of exercise The bringing whereof to passe although I haue oftē sought by perusing many bookes yet could I not light vpō any to answere my contentment which stood alwayes on the choyce of some such matter as J thought myght best like you vntil there chanced into my hands this little frenche aduertisement The which I had no soner read ouer but by and by there was kindled in me a certaine desirousnesse to take it in hād partly for the argumēt therof which caryeth great cause of likelyhoode to please the reader in generall but chiefly for my perticular purpose to delight you whom I know to haue a special inclination to heare and reade the discourses of the frenche affayres bycause you youre selfe in youre yong dais hauing serued the kings Grandfather Francis of Valoys in his Courte and trauayled that countrey haue had good occasion to be acquainted with the customs thereof and with the nature of the people there And I doubte not but it will like you so much the better for the varietie of foraine histories applyed most aptly to the groūd of the present mater wherwith it is I say not poudered or filled but fraughted Neuerthelesse althoughe my liking of the worke did hale forward my labour to the translating thereof yet I must needes say that after I was somewhat entred thereinto straitwayes there stoode vp such a number of doubts and so huge a heape of imperfections to withstand me as had not my desire to pleasure you preuayled againste all those stoppes and stayes my trauell and deuotion therein had lyen in the dust before my race had halfe bin runne But yet notwithstandyng the reasons aforesayd and the desire I had to do the thing and the delight I tooke in doing it wrought such persuasion and incouragemēt in me and did so keepe me still in breath as I neuer gaue it ouer till J had turned it into Englishe in suche sorte as you my good father may nowe vouchesafe to see to whome J moste humbly present it as a newyeeres gift Therewithall hartely wishing that your earnest zeale towardes all wise worthy and vertuous proceedynges whereof neerenesse in bloud forbiddeth me to speak according either to your desert or to my knowledge desire and duetie may encrease to Gods glory the profit of your countrey And the same God prosper you and all youre doinges and blesse you with manye moe newe yeeres to the contentation of your owne harts desire This first of Ianuary .1575 Your humble and obedient sonne George Harte ¶ The fyrste Edicte the tenth of December of the wil and intent of the most Christian King of France and Poland Henry of Valoys the third of that name HEnry by the grace of God Kyng of France and Poland To all that shall see and reade this present Edict greting The brotherly amitie whyche alwayes hathe bene mutually betweene our late most honorable Lord and brother king Charles whose soule God pardone and vs and the naturall inclination and duetie whiche we haue to the conseruation and quietnesse of thys realme hathe heretofore not only made vs mindfull of the welfare of our sayde late Lorde and brother and of his subiects but also inforced vs to neglect our owne commodities and to participate the care trauell of managing all affayres as wel publike as priuate and as well of wars as of peace in which we haue willingly imployed not only al our means but also our own proper person as appereth by diuers encounters battailes which God by his holy grace hath alwais fauored according to the right equitie of the cause which we defend Whereas notwithstanding it is most certain euident that the losses in that case so happening as wel on the one part as on the other did altogether tend to the diminishing weakning of the forces of the realme Our sayde late brother knowing this had at sundry times assayed to qualifie the sharpnesse of that inconuenience by benignitie and clemencie indeuouring to bryng agayne the hartes of his subiects to their due obedience by gentlenesse and to reconcile their willes to good vnitie and concorde whiche were at oddes before specially the yeere passed when I was his Liefetenant generall before Rochel we following his mind and commandement by the aduice and counsell of Princes Lords notable persons which at that time wer with vs did thē again accept that gētle means of pacification which we thought most meetest as the thing which we specially desired to be firme durable knowing that the most part of the subiects of the realme had sufficiently tried felt proued the miseries calamities which ciuil inwarde war bringeth with it And that was the very cause vpō hope wherof we tooke our iourney into Polande whither the states of the countrey that alittle before had elected vs for their king did call vs wheras if we had thought that the warres shuld haue seased rested so short a time we had not abādoned our said lord brother nor yet the realm But rather we wold haue preferred the conseruatiō defence thereof aboue al aduancemēt or perticular benefite that could touch vs or apertain vnto vs Yet notwithstāding some being seduced by euill councel haue vnder diuers pretēces renued the troubles and entred again into armes Wherby it is come to passe that the realme is immediatly falne into the same malady of whiche it was but newly crept out the means that had bin attēpted for the redresse thereof brought not the fruite that was looked for and desired Nowe for asmuche as it is the duetie of a good king as well as of a good father and pastor to strayne him selfe to the vttermost of his power and to imploy all his doyngs to the benefyte and preseruation of those whome God hathe put vnder hys charge specially at the beginning of hys raigne And seeing that it hath pleased the deuine bountie to call vs to the rule and gouernment of this realme We haue thought good fyrst of all to proue all meanes possible to bryng our subiectes agayne to the righte
was al one as if they them selues had made them When the Emperour Iustinian collected the ciuill lawes into certayne volumes which he called Code è digeste generally vsed at this day he coÌ„mitted the doing thereof to Tribonian Theophile Dorothe and other notable lawyers for him selfe vnderstoode nothing thereof as witnesse the Historiographers that saye he coulde not reade so is it very certaine that hee neuer vnderstoode the thousande part of these matters contayned in the saide Code è digeste Yet were those bookes neuerthelesse by hym aucthorised in his allowing of that whiche his commissioners by his commaundement did And it was neuer fayde that those Romane people had done any derogation to their souereigntie in their authorising of those ten persons to the composing of those twelue tables nor that the Emperour Iustinian nor youre predecessours did any whit derogate their soueraigne authoritie by deputing commissioners to make lawes and ordinaunces that passed vnder their princes names and commaundementes who as it appeareth alowed of what their deputies so by their commissions had done Wherefore me thinkes the saying may be holden for voyde that youre maiestie may not make an Edict of peace by commissioners withoute any derogation to youre royall authoritie or soueraigntie No more shall be any thing againste the same youre giuing to the Gospellers the nomination of the sayde number of persons whereout your maiestie to choose the moytie for the ioyning with the like number by your selfe to be named and chosen as legates or deputies for the bringing to passe of thys good worke Your predecessors haue giuen the nomination to two or three persons of their courtes of Parliaments whom they would to choose for them meete men to supplye the offices of Presidentships counsellours roomes that were void in the said courtes as they haue also done to Maiors Consuls Shireses and other like officers of Townes for the choosing of vnder Baylifes vnder stewardes other like petie officers yet hath it neuer the more bin said that your saide predecessors in graunting the saide nominations to theyr subiects haue taken ought from their authoritie royall which lieth asmuche in creatyng of magistrates as in making of lawes as any man of iudgemente maye both see and vnderstand The Pope whiche saieth hymselfe to haue full power ouer the giftes of benefices leaueth the nomination of the incumbent not to two or three but to one not to princes but to perticular persons whiche commonly in benefiers haue the right of nomination and the presenting of such persons to the same as to theÌ„ semeth good without reseruatioÌ„ to the said Pope of any election but only the institution and if by suffering of the same he thought any whit to derogate the soueraigne power and authoritie whiche he hath ouer the said benefites he woulde not I warrant you permit any such nomination So may it playnely be seene to youre maiestie that your authoritie royall shall no whit bee deminished by the graunting of your good fauour to the gospellers in the sayd nomination Withall is to be considered that it were a thing vnreasonable with youre fauour that all the sayd Commissioners shoulde be Catholiques for by the ordinaÌ„ce of the kings your predecessours by all the fourme of iustice here and else where and by the lawes deuine naturall and ciuil it is lawfull for the partie to accuse his iudge suspect be it in matter criminal or ciuil And a iudge may be holden for suspect not only if he be of kinred alied or Gossip a friende to the partie adurrse but also if he be enemie to the partie that refuseth him or if hee or any of hys kinne haue any interest little or much in the cause yea if he haue at any time shewed hym selfe more affectionate on the one syde than on the other as he may also in diuers other lesse causes of refusall And who is he that seeth not that there is neuer a Catholique in Fraunce against whome these poore gospellers cannot alledge not one but many and sundry causes of recusation And if it be thought tollerable to holde a iudge for suspect and vpoÌ„ that suspition to refuse him in matters of mean weyght ought he not then to be refused wheÌ„ he shal haue to deale with conscience honor landes goodes wiues children and life And it ought not to seeme straunge that I said it should be meere that the said peace by the said commissioners were entreated of without the Realme for there be many reasons that require the same Fyrst for that it is better as sayeth Master Philip de Comines a man wel experimented in the affaires of an estate it shoulde be done farre off than meere and that for diuers considerations namely for the keepyng close of that whyche shall from tyme to time be agreed vpon till all be concluded and finished For as in a paynted table he that veweth the first draught shall finde in the same little or nothyng to hys contentment yet after the whole work beeing perfited doth please him very well Euen â—o if during the time of the treatie and before the conclusion of all thynges therein to be argued some peece thereof agreed vppon shoulde bee published many were lyke ynough to gaynesay and controll that peace that vpon the sight or bearing of the hole resolution woulde fynde good cause of contentment bycause that he which is not satisfyed in one poynte may be satisfyed in another And as the Doctors of the lawe say it standeth not with good reason that any should iudge of a lawe or of an Edict without hauing redde the same from the one ende to the other And as it were a thing very hard to decide or deale with any thyng within the Realme that should not incontinent be deuulged â–ª so the reprehensions and sclaunders that would follow suche diuulgation might be an infallible cause that nothyng shoulde bee done but that entended good worke broken off and laide aside Besyde that there is no place within youre Realme but is suspected of the one syde or of the other For the Catholiques will not goe to Nismes nor to Rochell and the Gospellers will bee as vnwilling to come at Paris Lions Tholosa or other like place so that for the doing thereof such a place is to be chosen as may be sure and free for al that shall there in haue to doe And therefore it was that in times past when they woulde holde any councill for the examining of any newe doctrine newly come abroade for place where the councell shoulde be holden was chosen within the prouince where suche doctrine was abroade or else in some other such place neere therevnto as was both sure and commodious Therefore was it also that by the ordinaunce of your predecessors no inquest mighte be taken nor any iustice proceede in a place by any of the parties holden suspected as in the house of the kinsman ally or speciall friend to him that caused the inquest to be enpauelled but
an indifferent place therefore by the iudge was to be chosen and by shal reason may all the townes in Fraunce be suspected For if the suspition of a place be curiously to be looked to and aduoyded in small things how muche are they to bee looked to in a matter of so greate a weight as is the seeking and concluding of a peace And where I sayd it should be meete that when the commissioners coulde not 〈◊〉 vpon some articles of the treaty they whiche refused to agree and goe through shoulde giue out by their writings the reasons of their dissenting and standing aloofe to the end the worlde mighte see who were in the fault it is not a matter vnreasonable For such as shall yeeld as meete is to the agreement of all things that right and reason shal finde expedient for the common profit shall not finde it euill that a reason be rendred by them that otherwise in their passions will bee wilfull and therefore if any refuse so to do it shal seeme that they want good wil to see the way that shuld bring al things in froâ— that are to be fouÌ„ded vpoÌ„ equitie coÌ„mon profit Neyther aught to to be euil taken what I spake touching othes For as the common saying is he that wil wel pay wil willingly become bound And your maiesty already by youre saide last Edict of October approued this poynt when ye promised in the word of a king to cause to be obserued whatsoeuer should be agreed vpon and to make the fame passe in maner of a recorde with the consents of your Parliamentes towns and commonalties of your realme I shall thinke my selfe wel â—…iffied syr in all humilitie and reuerence to haue shewed vnto you as to my naturall prince the three poyntes whereof I haue before entreated Most humbly beseeching your Maiestie to take the saâ—… in good part as in that is proceeded from the heartie affection of a good french subiect that wisheth all encrease of honor and prosperitie to your crowne and quietnesse to your poore subiectes And if it shall please God to moue you to thinke so well of this plot layd for the building of a peace as you will appoint and charge commissioners with the dealing in the same I wil settle my selfe to the opening of suche other perticular meanes for the bringing thereof to passe as are not meeâ—e at this present in writing to be discouered But amongst other things I will open vnto them howe needfull it were that a good 〈◊〉 should be made for the banishing of Machiâ—aeâ— for euer out of Fraunce as one that hath bene the greatest lyar imposture that euer was in the World the ancient Romanes Greekes and Frenchmen and all other well ruled commonwealthes hauing bin ruled â—leane contrarie to his doctrine And that his disciples whiche haue brought into Fraunce the obseruation of his precepts haue bene the very cause of the ciuill warres and miseries of the realme It may be that his precepts be good and necessarie for those of his nation for they reach among other things the nonmaking of account of any religion otherwise than for the keping of the people in a superstitious feare and obedience vpon which his opinion might be inferred that the Turkish religion wherefrom God deliuer vs might safely of any be receiued for by the same the Turks holdeth his subiectes vnder suche feare and obedience as they refuse not at his commaundement the murthering of them selues thinking therevpon to flee straight to their Paradise that floweth with mylke and hony He sheweth also that a Prince should beare good countenance to all promise muche and keepe touche in nothing more than sireâ—th to his aduantage Moreouer his disciples vse these faire persuasions If it be profitable to a Kyng say they to tooke out and destroy such houses and such olde him doe it without taking any aduise 〈◊〉 what may folowe of his so doing Such as haue brought into Fraunce the obseruation of Machiauels precepts haue not well considered that the Frenchmen in nature farre differ from their nation The French are naturally religioÌ„s louers of vertue and take no pleasure neyther in falsifying of their fayth contemning of their honor and reputatioÌ„ nor in the sheading of bloud If the Macheuilians be endued with those good qualities let them there kepe them and folowe their Doctors doctrine that was the greatest Atheist that euer the worlde bred with his companion the Aretine as their writings doth openly shew so as they keepe them selues from poysoning of our Frenche nation with those their abhominable vices But I will reserue till another time when it shall better fall out to the purpose the speaking more largely to my Lords Maisters the Macheuilians whome I will then shew that al their policie sufficieÌ„cie is none other than a brutish ignorance accompanyed with a wicked heart and will and that they neuer read the good histories writteÌ„ in Greeke Latin or Frenche or if they haue read they neuer well vnderstoode them I will for this time proceede no further but make an end of this present declaration the which I once againe most humbly beseech your Maiestie to take in good part so as it may passe from this good towne of Frankford to your handes Praying the Creatour of all things to endue you with his grace shortly to establish a good peace in your poore Realme so muche torne and spoyled by these warres paste by meane whereof all your subiectes may render vnto you their good and willing obedience The same also preserue you in happy prosperitie and encrease you with much power and honour FINIS i. 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