but by the doctrine proofe and good example which greatly wanteth in your false Apostles I beleeue there is not any Christian Catholique a faythfull member to the Crowne but would earnestly desire that the King enriched with such store of vertues required in so great a Prince as he is shold likewise be a Christian Catholique to the end that as we ought to haue but one King so wee might also haue but one fayth and Religion wherein as in the feare of God our Prince earnestly labours to haue vs liue Heereof not only the Philosophers and Christian Doctors but also Emperours are assured witnesses by many constitutions recited as well in the Ecclesiasticall hystories as also in the bookes of Theodosius Iustinian who greatlie trauailed to maintain the vnion of the Christian Catholique Church When there is vnitie in religiō in an estate who doubts but al things do prosper the better We desire without offending our selues against them that are contrary to our religion that they would louinglie become partakers with vs and not pursued to the death by the animositie wherwith the Rebels follow both them and vs subiect vs together vnder one selfe-same detection or Categorie VVe desire I say that according to the good and holy custome helde of olde the King should be sacred and annointed at his Corronation and take the oath of a Catholique Prince that is to maintaine the Catholique Church all the rights franchises and priuiledges thereof We know well that since the raigne of Clouis Fraunce hath beene constantly maintained in the Catholique Religion which is the same as say the Emperours Gracian Valentinian and Theodosius that was giuen and taught by Saint Peter to the Romaines and vvhich both holy Emperours Bishops and Councels haue euer since followed for which cause it is yet called Apostolique and Romaine We are not ignorant although some call vs heretiques because that acknowledging the Princes authoritie according as God hath commaunded vs we haue withdrawn our selues to his side that many great personages haue shewen as much by authority of the holy Scripture that the ancient Fathers and Doctors of the Church both Greekes and Latines that the Catholique Religion is the onely and true Religion which hath beene from the Apostles vnto this present by continuall succession alwaies taught preserued in the Romaine Church But we are certaine withall that through the vices which haue slipt thereinto by fault of the Pastours the estate of that Church hath much more neede of reformation thē others We know likewise that we are admonished by Iesus Christ and hys Apostles to liue in concord and vnity with God as S. Paule witnesseth in these words The God of patience and of consolation giue you the grace to know one onely thing amongst ye according to Iesus Christ to the ende that with one sole courage and with one mouth you may glorifie God his Father Religion is a constant vertue teaching the true adoration of God which is done with an intire spirit and the vnity thereof is figured by the garment of Christ Iesus wouen without a seame that it was not to be cut or deuided This is in truth a faire assembly of such as are knit in one brotherly vnanimity consent as well in religion as policie whereof the Prophet Dauid singeth beeing assured that to such God wil send blessings and lyfe euerlasting To this effect Plato and Cicero albeit they were both Pagans haue written That there is nothing more agreeable to the highest God that gouerneth the whole world than the assemblies of men that associate and meete together in selfe same will and affection There is but one Catholique Church sayth S. Paule which frameth all Christians of one minde and spirite concerning the doctrine whereof it were in vayne to dispute after so many auncient Doctors of the Church and religious Counsels We desire nothing more then that the King according to the most Christian tytle of hys Predecessors and his people shoulde be vnited in Christian Religion as for preseruing peace in his Kingdome he is declared the Defender and Protector of the Catholique Religion with protestations so oftentimes reitterated so to preserue it as his proper life Nor is he ignorant what Cicero sayth That Religion beeing troubled the whole Common-wealth is troubled because the disquiet and change that happeneth therein dooth nothing else but cloy the spirites of men with disorder and confusion whence proceedeth contempt of Gods true worshippe and hee beeing offended punisheth and afflicteth with diuers woundes and calamities the Countrey that is fallen into such a miserie This therfore his Maiesty wold fore-see by his wisdome desiring that Religion shoulde bee preserued euen as before God the gouernment of the estate is put into his hande God hath giuen vs such a one adorned with so many heroycall vertues as makes him admirable to all Nations of the world Would you then haue vs goe ranging about and vrge a beleefe contrarie to that we doe beleeue Is it possible we should doe so Faith is the gift of God and is not imprinted in mens consciences by stroakes of swordes or any other weapons it is necessary that the spirit of God should be in quiet all the harts of men especially of vs that are his subiects would herein dye and be consumed Of necessitie is it that this grace commeth from aboue and we can do no otherwise but pray to God for his Maiestie and that he will graunt vs to be still mindefull of our dueties hee is our King wee ought to obey him and he ought to preserue maintaine vs according to the Laws statutes of the Countrey as all other Kings hys predecessours haue doone But what shalt thou gaine by desiring the thing thou doost I beleeue that if the King were such a Catholique as thou wouldest haue him and for one Masse he should dispose himselfe euery day to heare two yet the Rebels would say no lesse of him then they did of the late King that he did it for hypocrisie and to be quiet in hys estate What can we else iudge seing their intent is to exterminate his life with all the generous and royall linage of Burbon to follow the seruice of a Stranger But as I haue sayde GOD hath euer-more preserued that race euen for sixe hundred yeeres and more to this present and yet by hys holy will stil continues it for the good quiet of this poore distressed kingdome These Armes that you haue taken against him ô Rebels will turne to your owne ruine and confusion seeing God forbids ye so to doe what-soeuer pretence ye make of Religion Religion should moue ye to pitty and not to rage to compassion and not furie to loue regard of your King and not to rancour or hatred to a naturall French-affection of hys seruice and not to an obstinate will to wound destroy and take his life from him if ye could Now say my Lords
of Pilate the auarice and hypocrisie of the Scribes and Pharisies notwithstanding he euer-more commaunded to obey them Dyd he find fault with the Scribes and Pharisies sitting in Moises chayre or that the people should not do what they sayd albeit theyr workes were very contrary Beeing brought before Herode dyd he murmure When he was bounde to be presented before the wicked Iudges as well Iewes as Pagans Did not he forbid S. Peter to vse the sworde yet neuerthelesse he knew himselfe to be innocent the other vile men he iust the other vniust he trueth it selfe the other full of lyes and corrupted by false witnesses He could with one word haue ouer-thrown them as sometime hee did the imperious Rulers he could haue past thorow the middest of them as he dyd in Nazareth hee coulde haue made the earth swallowe them as of olde the mutinous were with Dathan Corah and Abiram Notwithstanding to leaue an example to such as were his he esteemed it better to suffer and councelled rather to flye then vse violence against the Magistrate So other-whiles seeing his Disciples began to animate themselues against the Pharisies Let them alone quoth hee they be the blinde leaders of the blinde and so taught them rather to Arme themselues with pacience then to offer any violence He very often fore-told them That they should be brought before Kings Princes and Iudges for his sake Did he therefore bid them finde some meane to sette footing in the Realmes they entred to the end they shold cōplot and practise the death of the Lordes that there ruled Did he councell them after theyr entraunce into speech to aduaunce theyr complaints afterwarde Armes and then treasons Did hee euer aduise to vse humaine forces to such as had nothing but the two weapons in the time of their furie To take from any for such as had left their owne to lift such to the seates of the earth as war-fared onely but for heauen He told them that they should be happy when they endured persecution when they were afflicted and chased Did he ioyne hereto that they should be happy when they had murthered a King spoiled a faire Countrey prayed on all the goods of poore people massacred and killed all such as withstood them In what place of the Scripture canst thou finde one onely point for confirmation of such deedes Where canst thou shew that the Apostles made themselues heades of such enterprises From what word dost thou gather that the Subiects may bandye themselues against their Prince If we shall come to the Apostles wee shall read sufficiently howe they endured perpersecution by Tyrants yet shall wee not read that by corporall armes they offered rebellion The Apostle S. Peter was helde prisoner by King Herode the Armes of the Church was fasting and Prayer for his deliuerance The selfe same Herod put to death S. Iames the brother of S. Iohn yet did not the Church in any case mutinie against him S. Stephen was stoned by the wicked sentence with what Armes did he reuenge himselfe He knewe that the Prophet had sayd Leaue vengeance to me for I will doe it therefore he spake no euill but prayed to God for his persecutors Thys charity dyd hee learne of hys Maister Christ Iesus who kissing the Traytour Iudas called him friende and prayed vpon the Crosse for hys tormentors Likewise he had learned of him that he which sheddeth blood is the child of the deuill such as the Iewes were in following the desires of their fathers For quoth he the deuill your father was a murderer from the beginning And because that light and darkenesse Christ and Beliall God and the deuill are not alike Therefore our Sauiour gaue his Disciples manifestly to vnderstand that they ought to abhorre bloode and slaughter VVhich S. Paule well witnessed when he gloried not in temporall Armes but spirituall not in the honours of thys world but in afflictions for Iesus Christ in prisons fastings shyp-wracks hatred perrils on the way daunger of spoyles deceite of false bretheren and other persecutions assuring himselfe that these were the meanes whereby a Christian man was to be exalted Hee sayth he shall be hated and despised of the world Likewise He is as a sheep appointed for the slaughter Great difference is betweene the Apostles and the false Apostles at this day in seeking the meanes to surprize Kings gainst whom they no way practised any reuenge We endured persecution sayth Saint Paule yet were we not vanquished in that as witnesseth S. Iames That the persecution of our fayth moulded vs in patience whereby all the worke of a Christian is accomplished For thys cause he taught hys scholler Timothie to make prayers for Kings Princes and Gouernours to the end hee might liue peaceaably albeit such as then raigned in hys tyme were Pagans and Idolaters S. Peter enioyned the lyke to the Churches to honour their Kings acknowledging that they were established of GOD who ordained that all persons shoulde be subiect to the higher power He commaunded they should be obeyed and if any one offered to resist them he went against the ordinaunce of God Notwithstanding who ruled in hys tyme Was hee a Christian Prince or any King that looued true Religion Hee was a barbarous Nero inhumaine an Idolater the most cruell of all the worlde Dyd the Apostles resist his tyrannie by Armes although he was not theyr naturall Prince S. Paule reuerenced Agrippa and Felix he honoured Lithius the Proconsull he neuer lifted weapon against the Princes after he had rid himselfe of those Armes which at first he bare against Christ Iesus Of a Woolfe he became a Lambe of a blood-seeker peaceable of a sedicious humble and obedient of a mutiner soft and tractable thys chaunge hee made of himselfe after he was brought into the yoke of the Euangelicall doctrine On the contrary madly these false Apostles haue throwne off thys manner of life forsaken Christian Religion gyuen place to rebellion enemies to GOD the Church Princes sedicious robbers spoylers murderers and in all points lyke to the Prince of dissention For who-soeuer commeth into the Church is conducted by the Spirit of peace endureth all things rendereth good for euill and according to the words of Christ loueth his enemies doth good to them that hate him pray for them that persecute and afflict him surmounting the wicked not in euill but in good But he that is abandoned to the euill spirit is ruminating on bad thoughts prepareth traines for his brother and by force seeks to lay hold on hys enemy And in all these actions is not foūd any one more detestable against God and man then to rise against the person of a King or Prince to smite or murder him for he is hallowed and annointed of God of whom he representeth the maiestie though he be but a man and mortal as others are Thou vnder-proppest thy hatefull
will to kill thys King as thou didst the last with the examples of Iaell and Iudith the first whereof kylled Sisera chiefe of the Armie to Iabin King of Chanaan he flying to saue hys life in her house and she perceiuing him a sleepe tooke a nayle of the Tabernacle and a hammer in her hand and so droue it thorow the temples of his head The other leauing the Cittie of Bethulia and brought into the Pauillion of Holophernes Captain of the Armie to Nabuchodonozer seeing hym drunke and a sleepe occasion presenting it selfe she cut off his head and brought it away in a bagge by her seruaunt These actes truly were very gracious in these Dames and worthy of great commendation in respect they attempted not against theyr King or Prince but against such as wold ouer-throw the estate royall of theyr Country and there-against opposed theÌ„selues with all their strength Do these examples excuse thy villanie faith-breaking with thy King In those tymes Iabin Nabuchodonozer had no right ouer those people they came as strangers and enemies against them as at thys day thy aliens and confederate Leaguers come against our King against his estate and against his subiects and therefore were they so entertained by them But after that God had permitted that one of them should commaunde his people what was he that would not endure it paciently and as we haue said before did not vse prayers in Ierusalem for Nabuchodonozer Balthasar his Sonne I could stand long vpon the reasons and examples of elder times to testifie the obedience and reuerence that the first Christians bare to theyr Emperours and Kings they that were both Pagans Ethnicks acknowledging their dignity to be venerable albeit they would not follow theyr Religion Which hath beene approued by the Canons of auncient Popes and deliuered in theyr owne Decretalles as before me hath beene very well noted by the Authour of the Labyrinth of the League They all haue agreed that the pretence of Religion what soeuer it be coulde not giue any collour to a Christian man to mutinie and rebell against hys Prince to take his life from him and hys estate They ordinarilie pronounced this sentence Malumus occidi quam occidere that they loued rather to be kild then to kill For although they were vniustly afflicted by their Princes rather woulde they submit themselues to the death then lyft Armes against them Therfore not to grow tedious to the Reader by prolixitie I will cease from bringing in the auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories and testimonies of the Fathers considering that diuers other haue largely discoursed thereon Thou pretendest a collour of libertie and ease of the people but doost thou therefore bring any remedie Doost thou discharge them when thou pillest and ransackest the poore and burnest what-soeuer thou canst not cary away Thou wouldest call the King to iudgement according to the fable of the Woolfe and the other Beastes to the end that vnder the shadow of reason thou mightest vse violence and murder him Doe we reade of the auncient Prophets that they complained of exactions of their Princes and that thereon they grounded occasions to make warre against them All theyr care was to shew the Princes their faults and to admonish them of Gods vengeances not to prouoke the people and to incite theÌ„ to lift Armes against them And it is not to be doubted but such as gouerned in theyr time were well worthy of reprehension for which cause Esay in the beginning of hys prophecie thus deliuered his words to the people of Israell Thy Princes are wicked and companions of theeues they loue gifts altogether and gape after rewards As for the fatherlesse they helpe him not to his right neyther will they let the widdowes causes come before them Therefore saith the Lord God of Hostes the mightie one of Israell Ah I must ease me of mine enemies and auenge me on my aduersaries and set thy Iudges againe as they were sometime and thy Councellers as they were from the beginning and then shalt thou be called the righteous Cittie the faithfull Cittie Thus this good Prophet fore-told the iudgment of God against these Princes and the restoring of the good Iudges and Counsellours considering that the reprobate were the cause of the euill happened in Israell A little after he sayth My people thy Leaders deceiue thee and corrupt the way of thy foot-steps The Lorde shall enter into iudgement with the Elders and Princes of the people and shall say vnto them It is you that haue burnt vp my Vineyarde and the spoyle of the poore is in your houses The Prophet Ezechiell sufficientlie witnessed noted the vices of the Princes in his time saying they weâ—â— as Woolues that rauished the pray that effused blood that they lost their soules and gaue themselues to auarice Hee brought in GOD speaking against their exactions and imposts and admonished them to keepe onely a iust ballance Amos calleth them Kine of Basan outragious to the needie oppressours of the poore Micheas deliuering them before God reprooueth them that they hated the good loued the euill they pluckt off the skinnes of the people their flesh from their bones Sophonia calleth theÌ„ roring Lyons all which tytles sufficiently testifie that the Gouernours and Iudges in theyr times were verie wicked Yet notwithstanding none of the Prophets although they beheld the people to sincke vnder the exactions as despoyled of all and brought into pouertie did at anie tyme vnder pretence of the Weale-publique counsell the people to mutinie or rebel against theyr Princes but rather vehemently perswaded them to pacience Callest thou in question any Pagans or of the doctrine of Mahomet or Heretiques who for maintenaunce and aduauncement of theyr deceitfull false opinions haue wickedly conspired against their Princes Alexander who was slaine by a Souldiour that prostrated hymselfe at his feet before the Cittie of Tauris Amurath the first King of that name in Turkie who after hee had discomfited the Despote of Seruia and Bulgaria was traiterously put to death by a slaue of Bulgaria who feigned that he came to saue his life King Sigibert enuironed with all his people who at the motion of Fredigonde was assailed and murdered by two aduenturous Gentlemen Certaine people of Phenicia holding the Law of Mahomet called murderers otherwise Beduines dwelling in hollow nookes of the most spacious MouÌ„tains lyuing vnder a Lord whom our predecessours knew by no other name then the Auncient or Great of the Mountain they vnder imagination of a Paradise of pleasure which he had perswaded into theyr heades bare this marke on them that they made a sollemne vow to massacre all Princes they could lay holde on that were contrary to theyr sect and opinion By them was the County of Tripoli put to death Edward of Englande taken and many other great Lords who by them were either slain or held as prisoners From them
are allyed with such as thou callest Huguenotes for maintenaunce of the royall authority in the house of Burbon the most famous of the world Didst thou imagine them to be so mad after the slaughter of theyr most Christian King as to defend the cause of murderers And then when no question was to be made of the estate wouldest thou haue them falsely breake theyr bond to theyr naturall legittimate Prince to whō by dutie they owe all fidelity Thy tearme of Religion ought not hinder the assistance due to him by allegeance for the Prince is elected of God what is he thē that shal refuse be disobedient to the heauenly appointment And who hath made this alliance or coniunction of the Kings Catholique faithfull seruaunts together for the placing him in his estate but thy selfe Leaguer that didst betray and kill a most Catholique King to trans-fer the Crown whether thou pleasest Art not thou thy selfe leagued with certaine Protestants who euery day make a preaching in thine Army commit great indignities in the Churches which thou both knowest and beholdest But heereof I neede not make anie wonder for thou art content that thy zealous Catholiques shall spoile euen to the high Altare and yet not be sacriligious Thou pillest Churches our King vseth them as a defence for hys person so according to thy mallice inuetterated by nature thou immediatly turnest all hys good works into poyson as all things els likewise of thys vertuous Prince The Pope himselfe did he make any dyfficultie in matters of estate to cōsent heretofore with the Huguenotes by meanes of a certaine anuall pension for the conseruation of the Countie of Auignon which appertained to him The Emperour Charles the fift and Phillip hys sonne King of Spaine the source and support of the League did they find any fault in assembling their troupes and Armes composed of men of all religions for the ayde and defence of theyr busines Thou Sorcerer doost thou oppose to mee by the mouthes of thy false Prophets that Iosaphat was contented by the Prophet Iehu to ioyne in affinity with Achab And by the prophet Elizeus he was likewise vnited to Ochozias King of Israell he beeing giuen to do ill That King Asa for making a couenaunt with Benhadad King of Assiria was tempted That God by the mouth of Esay as also by the Kinges of Iuda sayd Euill be on you that walke to goe downe into Egipt and haue asked no question at my mouth but seeking strength in the ayde of Pharao haue knit your selues with the number of Egipt therefore shall the strength of Pharao be your confusion That in Ieremie we read the like words and how GOD commaunded hys people not to make any alliance with the Cananites Amorites and other Infidell Nations I aunswer to these arguments that the prohibition made to King Iosaphat reached no further then to himselfe particulerly because hee was ioyned with a King not onelie irreligious but also impious And Asa is reprooued because forgetting God he trusted in humane power whereto in lyke manner tendeth the reprehension of Esay But a Christian Prince that beleeueth in God may not hee according to occasion and time receiue the amitie and alliance of another Prince different in Religion especially in the affayres of the estate Said not Moises When thou cōmest neere to a Cittie to fight against it thou shalt offer them peace If then they aunswere thee againe peaceably and open the gates to thee then let all the people that is founde therein be tributarie to thee and serue thee Dyd not Iosuah receiue the Gabaonites into alliance which albeit hee had discouered their fraude and treason he woulde neuer after breake What sayst thou to the alliance Abraham made with King Abimelech Was not Dauid in such sort ioyned in amity with king Achis as himselfe was made of the Guarde to the person of the King Dyd hee not beare like amitie to Nahan King of the Ammonites allied himselfe with him Hys Sonne Salomon did not he the lyke with Hyram King of the Tyrians Of whom by the meane of alliance he receiued both matter and worke-men to build the Temple of God in Ierusalem It is not then vnnecessarie that Catholique faithfull Subiects should ioyne themselues with their naturall and legittimate Prince although he differ from them in Religion and with those also of contrary opinion in so iust a cause and if they should doe otherwise who doubts but they are to be attainted and conuinced of the selfe same crime as Rebels are What saist thou then now Wilt thou make the Law appertaineth it not to the King to do it who relieth on no bodie els but God Darest thou attempt against his Maiestie Darest thou yet oppose thy selfe against Gods annointed Hydra dooth more heads stil bud foorth hauing alreadie lost so many Who doubts but hell is called hell Thou hast murdered Henrie the third a Christian King and yet thy violence is not therewith pacified Thou hast striuen still doost daily striue to glut thy false and most cruell hart with the blood of our present King who hath been so kind and debonnaire to thee and beeing able to doe nothing by force thou hast recourse to Magique-artes and Charmes but the goodnesse of God is farre beyonde thy mallice and in pittie he wil not permit but that the King and his poore Subiects who suffer by thee so many abuses and enormities shall haue the vpper-hand in these waighty affayres and that it is his pleasure to let vs shortly see thy nose flatted to the earth wyth thy neck broken and neuer heere-after to be better then thou art as I am fully perswaded thou canst not be beeing clothed with such cruell passions and violent executions Spare not for vs still to lighten the warre with thy ambition that thou take to thee thy Spanish King Maister that thou bestow on him the supreame power that thou associate thy selfe with men of spoile and fit for the halter robbers theeues murderers such like and that all such are the most gratefull and welcomest guests to thee we expect no other but the ende of thee and them at the Fourca or Gallowes Thou braggest a little that thou hast some Gentlemen of good birth whose Fathers with the price of their liues did valiantly defende the crowne these hast thou in such sort inueigled by thy wicked wrappings enchaunting perswasions as their fault and themselues are alike and their crime of Lesae Maiestatis beares witnes of their vertue They Idoll-like honour thee and willingly are charmed with thy Siren perswasions thy sweet songs affecting blandishments because thou layest thy selfe wide open to theyr lightnes But I attende the time that according to the good nature they receiued from their Auncestors if any at all be left within them they comming to discouer how hidious thou art how false and full of
most part made prodigall expence of theyr bloode for the defence of thys most royall estate see ye not now how a stranger would rauish and carry it away Will ye be so blinded as to imploy your forces in so bad a cause Are ye so vnnaturall as willingly to betray your King and Countrey Will ye turne your backes in so true and iust a cause and subiect your selues to the iniurious rebellion of the Leaguers The other Lordes and confederates of this Crowne are mooued with vs and resolued to pursue such monstrous iniustice will you then be so blinded deceiued with the false inducements and perswasions of the League as to maintaine the ruine and ouerthrow of the estate and of your owne selues likewise Ah that it might please yee to lende your eares a while to this my simple and not deceyuing declaration perhaps some one of you being touched either with hate enuie or some other discontentment or the bond of affection he beares to the chiefe of the contrary part vvill enter into consideration that he cannot do this without blemish to his honour and reputation which hee ought to esteeme more deere than any thing else so that rather then he will consent to such a detestable rebellion generall spoile of his natiue Country the loue wherof he ought to preferre before all other vaine passions hee will imitate the example of worthy Scipio Africanus who thought it better to withdraw himselfe to Linternum then bee the cause of trouble and sedition in Rome albeit the Common-wealth had dealt with him very vnthankfully Would yee my Lords purchase the tytles of Rebelles with this rude heape of people which cannot agree with you in that betweene your courage and those of the vulgare sort there is no simpathie or likelihoode but euen so great a difference as is betweene vice vertue Wold ye my Lords haue the dishonored name of factious enemies against the king the estate Ah thinke what a hell and eternall infamie followes such as are coÌ„demned of high treason breach of faith and rebellion are ye ignorant that the end of all pernitious complots deuised by rebels by the help of God return to their own euerlasting shame and confusion In euery Kingdome Common-wealth we ought principally to regard the benefit therof For if the Estate be in prosperitie as saith Thucidides euery one particulerly shal profit feele the blessing therof but if it be destroyed ouerthrownt all the particuler members notwithstanding whatsoeuer Treasure or riches they haue shall therwith bee lost and vtterly spoiled When I speake of the good of the Common-wealth I meane not onely the riche hazarde of fortune but also â—ne good more firme and assured to the better part of man which is of the Spirit wherby the commoÌ„wealth is made more happie and is defended against all the assaults of Fortune In a priuate mans house are these vertues in a Common-wealth good lawes and manners prescribed and established by wise Kings Princes Gouernors and soueraigne Magistrates to well order command gouern their seruants in a direct compasse y e people likewise to obey dutifully thereby to liue in peace and tranquillitie For the felicitie of men and of the Common-wealth commeth both from one selfe same fountaine to wit reason which ought to rule in all things and such are the Citties as are the Cittizens whose liues and behauiour makes the Cittie happie or vnhappie Plato in the Cittie which he reformed instituted two kind of disciplines the one for the exercise of the spirit which he called Musique to wit an harmonie or concordance of the spirite when the actions agree consent with the vertues The other was for the exercise of the bodie which he tearmed Gymnasâ—eum which augmented and maintained the strength of the body to declare y t these two exercises coupled together did vpholde an estate pollitique as they make a man fit and aptly composed Will not you my Lords trauaile to recouer this good quiet for your couÌ„try Will ye yet longer time consent to their disorders and insolencies that doe nothing else but hinder vs from this good Maâ—e ye so little account of your honour as to hold hand with them in their execrable complots You should immitate the Pilot who least the shippe should be altogether rent and mangled wisely fore-seeth aduiseth least he should be accounted wise after the hurt is receiued For it is a most simple and foolish kind of speech to say after the iniurie and daunger is gotten I neuer thought on this When the ship is beaten with outragious tempests so fiercly assailed with the windes as there remaines no hope of bringing her to some Porte whereby she might escape the perrill and ship-wracke the skill of the Pilot then serues him to no purpose The shun you these Rockes flye from these tempests dangers in due time although yee beginne when it is almost ouer-late yet me thinkes he saide wisely that better is late then not at all But if on the side you now follow you vainlie promise your selues some happie issue of your guilefull deseignes imaginations consider my Lordes what our Elders haue saide Man hath desire in his power but not Fortune for what shall happen is unknowen to man Let the Leaguers purpose what they will deuise theyr enterprises and the execution of them leuey so many men and strange forces as they can and vse what stratagemes shall come into their heades yet the diuine prouidence who hath established in this estate the order of Supâ—rioritie and the Maiestie royall whereby to command vs with the most happie and assured forme of a Common-wealth As I haue already saide will dispose of all according to his infallible and neuer changing will In vaine then doe these Rebels repose their trust on strange forces against him that can consume them all and their imaginarie deliberations which are no other as Pindarus saieth of man then a dreame or shaddowe The hopes of mortall men remooue many thinges sometimes high sometimes lowe feeding but on vaine fantasies and oppinions There is no man living in the worlde that canne conceiue a certaine signe of his future actions because of things to come the councels are concealed and many occasions happen to men farre different from their liking and expectation Yet some there are that being smitten with tempests of griefe and sorrowe immediatly the euill is turned into as great a good These thinges you shoulde thinke on that attende an vniust cause of Rebelles who haue troubled the estate slaine their King and nowe continue disobedient to their Prince whome GOD by lawefull succession hath giuen vs that they will bee deceiued in their attempts and all theyr opinions are but vayne and friuolous They imagine one thing and an other will happen they thinke to ouer-goe the Estate by the force and assistance of the Spanyard and the Spanyard will vanquish and spoile