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cause_n	believe_v	great_a	see_v	1,615	5	3.0323	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91712	France no friend to England. Or, The resentments of the French upon the success of the English. As it is expressed in a most humble and important remonstrance to the King of France, upon the surrendring of the maritime ports of Flanders into the hands of the English. Wherein, much of the private transactions between Cardinal Mazarin and the late Protector Oliver, are discovered. Translated out of French.; Très humble et très importante remonstrance au roi, sur le remise des places maritimes de Flandres entre les mains des Anglois. English.	Retz, Jean François Paul de Gondi de, 1613-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1186; Thomason E986_21; ESTC R203406	16,767	27

then half the considerations they should have made upon this subject and that they have acted after the manner of them who deceiveth the sight by taking away one half of the day from the objects they would have shown and that your Minister keeps from your knowledg the most solid and the most important part of your interest We cannot deny but that your Maj. had a great deal of Reason to wish the falling out betwixt Spain and England but we maintain you had none at all to buy the Rupture at the price of a publick Scandal which eclipseth the glory of your Reign by such unparallell'd baseness which obscureth the splendor of your Renown by such tyes as makes you lose your ancient Allies by such unnecessary condescentions which makes the Protector of England Protector of the Hugonots in France by the unbridled licentiousness which made them build more then forty Temples since the death of the late King your Father of Sacred Memory and by the giving up of those places which gives the entry in the nearest places to your Capital City to the ancientest and mortallest enemie of your State Sir If all the forces of the Empire and Spain were triumphing in the midst of your Provinces if our fields were covered with the multitude of their Legions if all Europe had conspired against the Lillies we should never have look't for any succor from England and if we had certainly we should have shed tears of blood to be reduced to so great a straight as to seek for consolation in the infidelity of Rebels who would never have granted us any but to our destruction And we do firmly believe Sir that we shall never be brought to such Extremities as might make our interests depend from the good will of such people as have principles so directly opposite to ours The Divine Providence which so diffusively spreads its benediction upon the Piety and Valour of your Majesty hath ordained far more auspiciously the events of your happy destinie still Victorious over the indiscreet follies of your Minister shall more and more mark your dayes with continual Victories But Sir Is this to answer those blessings of heaven Is this to be sensible of the glory of your Reign Is this to know the advantages of your Victories to end them with the loss of your Conquests with the surrendring of Mardike and those other preambles to the Siege of Dunkirke which they forced out of your hands even with terrible menances You exhaust your Treasures you ransome your Subjects you expose all your Nobility all your Army is endangered every day they fight against the element they combat with the Rigour of the season and all those strugglings more then humane hath no other motive but the surrendring of the Key of Flanders unto a Nation which in two hundred years could not comfort themselves of the loss of that of France in being deprived of Callais Sir whosoever would had seen that which is done to day upon the Frontire of France drawn in a Table he would certainly have considered it as a Capricious fancie of a Painter who would have taken pleasure to play with his own imaginations or rather of a description of a Masquerade where those who enter the Lists do only make their Swords glister for the divertisement of the beholders If one would have shewn on the one part those vast fields of Dunkirke covered with Battalions and on the other part that little Territory of Mardike covered only with fourteen or fifteen hundred men which looketh upon the motions of the others with their hands hanging loose by their sides should not one have greater reason to believe that the later were Senators of old Rome who would for their own pleasure and recreation cause an Army of Gladiators and slaves to fight before them than to imagin that this great multitude were composed of free borne-men who with all their hearts sacrificeth their lives and fortunes for the conservation and glory of this handful of people We see the remnant of 4000 men flying up and down the banks or dunes of Flanders only for the service of 2 or 3000. Goviats or Crackropes which England sent in this small number We see them daily continue those sad engines and projects of this bloody spectacle wherewith they make account to feed the greedy eyes of Cromwell towards the beginning of the next Campain we see that this false Prophet beholdeth from the top of the Tower of London all those combats where all the blood that is spilt whether Spanish or French is drawn as if it were in a sacrifice which we our selves do offer to his illusions And which is more deplorable in these transactions it seems we are not contented to subject this age wherein we live to the will of this tyrant but that we do also affect to enslave our posterity to the English servitude by surrendring those places so famous and so considerable in the world Those places are so considerable Sir that France could not endure they should remaine in the power of Spain whose Naval forces are well known to be nothing dreadful to your Maj. and your Minister is pleased to deliver them unto England which is already Mistress of all the Seas and who doth only consider them as the first step or degree upon which they will hereafter mount up the bastions of Callis if the weakness of your Minister doth not prevent them by opening the gates by virtue of a treaty But Sir We humbly supplicate unto you that you would be pleased not to receive this which we now offer unto your Maj. as any spightful exaggeration carried on by the wings of malice It being evident that there is not so long a way between Dunkirk and Callis as there is between London and Dunkirk The Protector who makes the Pavillion of France humble it self before him which neither the Henryes nor the Edwards could ever have done cannot behold with a good eye those places in the hands of the French which the aforesaid Kings of England had enjoyed in your Kingdom wherein he keepeth by his Intelligence a party which those Kings had not And without doubt Sir he exasperates daily that Ulcer which knaweth incessantly our own entrails within us and the interest he assumes in the sylliest creature that belongeth to those of the reformed R●l●gion proveth pregnantly that Mardike and Dunki●k are not the bounds he puts to his designs God grant Sir that when this Daemon of ambition is once established in the main Continent by your Maj. own forces which gives him more advantages against your self then he could have hoped for in thirty years of open War against your Crown That after he hath made parties of his own within your Kingdome through the connivance or at least the ignorance of your Minister who doth even Idolatrize him God grant I say Sir that he doth not convert all his forces against France it self which is without contradiction the object which