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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00983	[The fleur de luce.]; Collection Fleur de lys.	Forget, Pierre, 1544-1610, attributed name. aut; Arnauld, Antoine, 1560-1619, attributed name. aut	1593 (1593)	STC 11088; ESTC S116011	15,272	28

receiue from their good maister causeth them to acknowledge him and to terme him The mightie king the vniuersall king the Catholicke king the king of kings the great Monarck victorious both by sea and by land and whatsoeuer other flattery may be inuented they will heape vppon him in exchange of his duckats What more assured testimony cā we craue to proue that such people are no frenchmen The Achayans bring already entered into acknowledgement of the Romane empire Aristaenetus the Megapolitain a man of great credit amongst them on a time in open connsaile said that it were good to honour the Romans and not to shew any ingratitude toward them whervpon Philopoemen a man who iustly was by the history-graphers termed the last Grecian hearing this speech a while held his peace but in the end so pressed with impacience and choller that he could no longer keepe silence said Aristaenetus why makest thou such hast to see the wretched destiny of Greece For thefe thirty yeares haue there bene among vs a geuerall complaint prosecuted not only by the nobility but euen by al men of courage for y t the king of Spaine hath presumed to thinke to cause his Embassadors to take the precedence from ours What frenchman hath not with iust indignation complained hereof and yet now euen at once he that intituleth himselfe the pretector and liutenant of the crowne of the mightienesse and maiestie of France hath shewed himselfe such a coward or rather such a traytor to terme the king of Spaine the great king and in what comparison but that the king of France must be little Why Charles of Lorraine canst thou find any example that by letters patents sealed with the Flower de Luce the title of Great was euer attributed to any forreine kings nay but contrariwise many times haue the fields flowed with blood for the preseruation of the title of Augustus to the kings of France the first the ancientest and the most mighty princes in Christiandome who doe inioy the crowne of liberty and glory aboue all other kings yet now aloud publiquely in letters patents sealed with the Flower de Luce by thee falsified thou callest the Spanyard the great king a title which in our fathers dayes would alone haue cost thee thy life Why Duke of Mayenne art thou in such hast to aduance the wretched destinies of France He hast sayst thou succoured our Catholicke religion nay say thy ambitious and the practizes of thy family against this estate To the ende to vndermine a crowne of many yeares standing and to lay hould againe vppon the sundrie vaine pretences euer since Charlemagne by histories conuicted of falshood as shewing that it is not past sixe score yeares since the race of Vaudemont entered into the house of Lorraine which in lesse then 460. yeares haue fallen into seauen seuerall families To strike I say so great a stroke to extinguish the blood royall and to stepe into their place it is requisite to haue great support and a woonderfull plausible pretence this forteresse is not to be assaulted with weake battery considering that in such actions the lest errors are so perilous The support hath bene the king of Spaine the ancient enemie to France and one who by inheritance purposeth to become Monarck ouer all Christiandome The onely pretence any way to be taken was for religion all others being farre to weake Vpon this ground haue they long since hired those whose tounges haue bene saleable in the pulpits dedicated to the truth by whose meanes they haue cast vppon the people al those charmes that haue brought this estate so neere to distruction Herevppon likewise haue they long since sent the Ieswistes very Spanish Colonies who haue shed forth the poyson of their consperacy vnder the shadow of holinesse and vnder the colour of confession O woonderfull policie haue abused the deuotion of the French nation whom by seceret othes they haue bound to their league Who also in liew of instructing our people in the Catholike religion are become trumpets of warre firebrands of sedition protectors and defenders of murther and robbery to be briefe who are waxen forein leuine to sower the dowe of our France and to alter the fedility into trechery and rebellion so cunningly conducting their masters affaires that they haue filled this realme before flourishing with fire and blood and euen with the French swords murthered so much braue and valiant nobility as had bene of force and power sufficient to reconquer Naples and Millan which this Gothicke race hath stollen from our fordfathers These cursed policies did long lie hidden but at y e last the war begun with all extremity about the yeare 85. against a most Catholicke king and so acknowledged by those that most hated him against a king yet in the flower of his age together with the detestable murder committed vppon his person fower yeares after haue too euidently declared this pretence of religion to be vtterly false and of no apparance This cruell and horrible murder of their king hauing brought them into execration with all courageous persons now to couer their subtilties vsed in the compassing thereof they doe in their declarations giue out this impression to the people that the kings death was a blow from heauen Oh abhominable impiety Oh mightie king whome all the subtilties of thy enemies who abusing thy authority and too much lenity were become masters of thy best townes could neuer stop from inclosing them in the capitall city of thy realme where they found themselues brought into such extreamity that without that knife forged in hell the had bene already chastized for all their notable treazons Oh mightie king who couldest not haue any fuller confession of the victory euen at thy enemies hands then the kinde of thy death is it possible that thy subiectes euen thy children who yet do speake the french language should endure this cruell parricide the like whereof was neuer seene neither any thing so detestable which hath replenished all men with sorrow and teares to bee termed a blow from heauen O God who neuer without punishment sufferest thy holy name to be abused in such and so horrible transgrassions canst thou permit the inuention euen a blow of the diuel who tormenteth mankind to be attributed vnto thee and that thou who art protector of kings shouldest be proclaimed their murderer Suffer not O Lord such blasphemies but with a stripe of thy mightie arme euen a blow indeede from heauen breake the cursed head of these traytors to their king of these bloody paricides who seeke to couer their detestable coniuration and conspiracie vnder the vayle of thy holy name What an indignity is this O ye french nation that they who impudent and shamelesse dare yet though falsey cause themselues to be called as you should bewayle the death of the Duke of Parma whome they intitle of happy memorie a title neuer publickely attributed to other but kings and contrariwise wish vs to beleeue

our deceased king to haue bene such a one that God who is all good yea the fountaine of all goodnes hath caused the throat of his annointed to be cut euen his who vpon his head did beare the chiefe crowne of all the nations that are baptized in his name So that a petty forrein Prince the vsurper of Saint Peters patrimony is not onely compared with the king of France with the king of the Flower de Luce but is also magnified by the same tongue that blasphemeth against the memory of our deceased king Yet were this tongue spanish in sound as it is in affection it were the more tollerable but a french tongue to be polluted with such impure speaches Oh what an indignity what a sorrow The reason of these so contrarie speaches is very apparant The death of this Farnese who signed no otherwise but Alexander haue giuen a great blow at the affaires of this warre as finding no successor that can approch to his reputation so that for want of all others Don Philip hath bene constrained to set in such a Captaine as is not otherwise knowne but onely that he hath bene the chiefe executioner of the poore Indians by him murdred without resistance whome also the inhabitants of the country will not receiue as fearing his extreame cruelty On the other side the Guysardes imagined that the death of the late king should haue brought them to the royalty and that by their pollicies they should soone disunite vs each from other making vs to beleeue that no man can be a good Catholicke vnlesse he be a spanyard or a Lorraine vnlesse he weare the red crosse or the duble crosse They haue aboue two yeares deteyned the people in Paris vpon an opinion that there was no masse said at Tours and haue drowned those that durst testefy y e contrary But sith all their purposes are grounded vpō falshood they be to be excused for the cruell punishmēt by them inflicted vpon those that testifie the trueth their capitall ennemy Many who since the death of our late king neuer liued in this city of Paris may perhaps geue credite to this declaration by them published namely that they haue labored to bring his Maiesty now raigning into the bosome of the Church But we who for these foure yeares haue continually heard their Sermons doe know the contrary also that they neuer preached vnto vs any thing so much as that albeit hee should become as good a Catholike as S. Lewes these bee their very woordes the Curate of S. Bennets saide in S. Mederickes as good a Catholicke as I take him to be yet is hee by no meanes to be receiued as being a Relaps and impenitent Such as would seeme the mildest said that hee might be admitted into the Church but it was requisite for pennance of his fault that he should resigne his crowne to those that had reclaimed him That hee might bee a Catholicke but no king Thirty thousand persons not onely haue heard but do daily heare these speeches from the mouthes of Boucher and Comolet the Ieswistes and yet would they faine perswade the rest of all France y t they haue endeuoured to conuert him O ye hipocrites as you are know you not in your consciences that you neuer desired his conuersion but his estate that you care not whether he haue a crowne in heauen so you may get y t which he hath vpon earth do not your consciences beare you witnesse that you could wish that tumulteously at his returne from some warlike exploit he should enter into our church to the end for euer hereafter he might be though an Atheist vsing religion as a cloake to play his personage in and so lose his credit with all Christian people In your consciences doe you not know that of all things in this world you must feare least in some lawfull counsell by the working of the holy ghost his errors should be laid open before him If you stand not in wonderfull feare therof why do you so shrinke away why had you rather see all France on a flame and shortly brought into combustion and so many miserable persons ouerwhelmed with the intollerable burden of these tedious warres and brought into such pouerty that their misery hath farre surmounted the misery of their frendes deceased why I say had you not rather trie this remedie which only is proper and hath bene practised by the ancient fathers in the cure of such diseazes A remedy often times reiterated for one selfe error for the truth which is alwaies like it selfe in all places and at all times is neuer tyed to one onely counsell A remedy that might serue not him onely but all other of his religion Why I say had you not rather vse this gentle and holesome medecine then fire and sworde whereto mans conscience is no way subiect weapons doe neuer breed any conuerts but rather deniers of their faith To bodely vlcers bodely matters and to the wounds of the spirite spirituall remedies doe agree To seeke by maine force to plucke vp error in religion is to seeke to cure the soule by the body nay rather to kil then to cure by darkenesse to shew light and by cruelty to teach clemency If yee list to destroy error it is requisite you should instruct the man and the way to instruct is in a free counsell to heare his reasons and to let him vnderstand yours Yet if God by the successe of your armies would declare y e same to be acceptable in his sight If he would graunt you great aduantages ouer our king and minister hope to force so many mightie townes which do daily encrease and fortefie with the ruine and spoyles of our poore Paris your heat to prosecute your warres might some way be excusable But hauing vtterly lost a great and notable battaile euen when yee were assisted with the power of Spaine Germany Switzerland Lorraine yea the selfe same day as it were miraculosly hauing also lost a second battaile in Anuergne Againe this last yeare the Duke of Ioieuse one of the principall pillers of the Spanish faction beeing defeated and slaine in a pitched field with the losse of three thousand men either drowned or left dead in the field among whome were found all the Capteines of the rebells throughout the whole country wherevpon they were forced to vncoule frier Angell who in the end shall receiue like recompence for breaking his vowe solemnly made vnto God as his brother had for violating his faith to his king who had so highly cherished and exalted his ingratefull famely Likewise in the same moneth of October the generall of the armie of Lorraine hauing lost both his owne life and his masters armie who were ouercome by a handfull of men who for 10000 accompted the Duke of Bouillon for their head of whose good fortune and aduancement I meruel not though the Duke of Lorraine his neighbour maketh so many complaints considering that in so short