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A07268	The historie of S. Elizabeth daughter of the King of Hungarie. Written in French by Peter Mathieu and translated into English by Sr T.H.; Elizabeth, fille du roy d'Hongrie. English	Matthieu, Pierre, 1563-1621.; T.H., Sir (Thomas Hawkins), d. 1640.	1633 (1633)	STC 17663; ESTC S101124	24,992	96

dispensed not with her without aboundance Many great Lords of Germany Sicely who had perfourmed this last office to this great Prince seeing his widowe was reduced to straights vnworthy the House from whence shee sprang gaue Henry to vnderstand they would not depart the Country vntill she were restored to an estate suteable to her worth that they resolued to enforce him thereunto Hee allowed her one of the good liest houses of the Country for her habitation whereof she made vse not to liue but that shee might learne to dye therein Piety which with her was of more valew then life chaunged this Castle into a monastery where she liued with vnspeakable austerity Good bloud makes not more hast to the wounded part then the king of Hungary aduertised of the Landtsgraues death did to the sorrowes of his daughter to comfort her He dearely loued her and although hee had other children hee kept most loue in store for her as the Eagle euer affecteth one of her young more then the rest But being informed she despised the world he dispatched a principall lord of his Court to intreat her and if commaunds were not powerfull enough to adde thereunto the authority of a king to cause her to retourne into Hungary as also in the meane tyme to assure her that as the glory and meritt of the seruices which the Prince her Husband had done to Christendome remayned for a Comfort increase of state patrimony to his children so it inclyned his disposition to let her see this accident should not in any sort impayre her condition But he found her nothing flexible to his perswasions nor well pleased with his propositions Her eyes were too cleare not to knowe that the gould of worldly promises is sophisticate and that as the Sunne canot be better seene then in cleare pure water soe true content of minde may not rightly be estimated but in Soules purged purifyed from the cares and embroylments of the world Behold her Fathers letter Daughter Fortune assayleth not for slight causes the courages of those who are of your quality she hath inuaded you on that side where she thought to ouercome your constancy and triumph ouer your vertue It is the death of the Landtsgraue which extreamely grieues me because you haue lost a good Husband and the Christian world a great Captayne My affliction is so much the more harsh and insupportable to me in that I heard of his death before his malady and that one and the same instant sawe me to applaude the successe of his voyage the miracles of his life and to bewayle the accident of his death I should wrong your iudgement to comfort you in matters which you vnderstand to be remedilesse I had rather assure you that he who called your Husband to heauen reserueth a Father for you on earth more desirous then euer to make you so happy by a second mariage as you had occasion to be pleased with your first Abillity in me shall not be more difficult then will But I shall euer leaue your disposition at liberty most confident you will not inclyne it to resolutions contrary to the age wherein you are nor to the counsells of those who loued you before you were capable of loue Come hether then to reape the fruits afford this contentment to the desires and prayers of your father Andrew SHe was not much troubled what aunswere she should make to this letter with the same hand wherewith she receiued it she wrote these lynes saying as Olympius that if God had been pleased she should haue continued in the company of a man he neuer had bereaued her of a husband S. r sayd she I cannot thinke God hath called one moity of my selfe to heauen to suffer the other any long tyme to languish heere and though for his iustice sake the punishment of my sinnes it should please him to prolong my dayes it will not be to reduce me backe againe into the seruitude from which I am freed As to satisfye you I loued no man but my Lord the Landtsgraue so for his loue none liuing shall be affected by me to possesse either my heart or body I gaue vnto the world the flowers fruits of mine age you ought not to thinke it amisse if I reserue for heauen the last honour of the tree and that poore verdure which in the spring-tide thereof already beginneth to waxe pale withered an euident signe that the immutable renouation which I hartily wish is not farre of If you hinder the vowes I haue made of perpetuall continency you shall be the sole authour of my death as you were one of the causes of my life Your Court whereūto you inuite me shall be to me a death life a prison the world a hell you shall chaunge the name of a Father into that which can noe way belong to you but by forcing a will which God him selfe permitts to be free in her who remayning his faithfull seruant desires also to rest your most humble Daughter Elizabeth The king of Hungary hearing this resolution did all he could to diuert her from it Many Princes vpon the bruit of soe aboundant perfections wherewith she replenished all Europe sought her in a second wedlocke Shee continually expressed she neither could nor would marry That if her excuses were not taken for denyalls and her resolutions for reasons she would slitt her nose thrust out her eyes so disfigure her selfe that not any should desire her From that tyme forward she became the fable and floute of the world the scorne of great ones the shame and rebuke of her nearest Allyes her zeale was accounted folly her deuotion hypocrisy her simplicity sottishnesse her retirednesse melancholy Some sayd vnto her she did well to liue more vertuouslie piously then the rest of her sexe but to liue lesse noblie was basenesse and in this extraordinarie manner meere giddinesse Another life another manner of liuing We must in matter of religion as in nauigation beyond the Pole arctique haue another heauen other starres another Pole When one is arriued to this point of forsaking the world another science must be learned another spiritt another intention when we loose the North starre of will wee must take vnto vs that of obedience The life of those great soules which liue in Heauen although they breath on earth hath a course much contrary to that of the world as the starres All the actions of this Princesse directed to the honour of God stood out the shott of the arrowes of enuy and Calumny She no whitt regarded what the people bad censurers of good workes sayed of her She reioyced when those bladders of slaunder emptyed them selues on her of the poyson wherewith they were filled Besides her heart was soe large and ample that these petty iniuryes were quite lost vpon her her Soule onely liuing on wormewood had noe gall in it The innocency and simplicity of her life had the same vertues against calumnyes which the little stones of Nilus that keepe dogges from barking The wicked in the end were constrayned to chaunge their scorne into admiration of a life more like to that of Angells then of mortalls She raysed her arme to the highest triumph whereunto vertue might reach not onely tollerating iniuryes but doing good to any that wronged her Some maleuolent tongues thinking to fixe the sting of their slaunders vpon her memory the more to afflict her spake ill of her and touched her to the quicke although the innocency of her life and the purity of her actions made her insensible of such woundes but naturallie falshoods vexe and penetrate the Soule more then truthes All her reuenge was to pray to God for the calumnious and in this her oraison shee heard a voyce from heauen assuring her that of soe many prayers as were made by her that which she offered in the behalfe of her enemyes had been the most acceptable Euery one sawe the euill she suffered and not any the good she did her night watchings and austerityes Such holy actions are lighted torches suddenlie put out with the first blast of vanity and presumption if humility couer them not In this long and tedious way she neuer looked backward nor stayed at the golden apples to slacken her speed The more she drewe nigh ro her end the more she desired to attayne it The nearer she approached to the center the more stable she became She was a widdowe at twenty yeares of age she vowed her selfe to the third order of Saint Frauncis at twenty one wherin she liued and died happily She went out of the world as out of a Babilon finding nothing therein to satisfye her soule nor to ease the langours or shorten the length of the miserable condition of life where the most prosperous waxe olde rather with anxiety then yeares A resolution truly worthy of a heart so resolute It onely appertayneth to generous hearts to resolue vpon so violent chaunges and to make such leapes from earth to heauen She liued and died so blessedly the sanctity of her life was testifyed by so many miracles that Pope Gregory the nynth in full Counsell declared her a Saint and ordayned the 27. of Nouember for her festiuall Her body fower yeares after her death wholly entire and odoriferous was taken out of the earth and sett vpon the Aultar of a Church dedicated to her name by the Archbishops of Colen Mentz and Breme The Emperour was present at the ceremony and to this Princesse who liuing despised regall crownes for that of thornes hee presented a triple crowne of gould as a witnesse of the perfections which had crowned the three conditions of her life Shee had three children Herman who succeeded his Father and dyed at the age of Eighteene yeares Sophia that was marryed to the Duke of Brabant another Sophia who following the piety of her mother became religious at Kitzing in Franconia Behold how impossible it is to speake ill of those who haue liued well FINIS