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cause_n	call_v	great_a	power_n	1,386	5	4.4255	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18485	An admonition giuen by one of the Duke of Sauoyes Councel to his hignesse, [sic] tending to disswade him from enterprising against France. Translated out of French, by E.A.; Remonstrance d'un conseiller. English.	Aggas, Edward.	1589 (1589)	STC 5043; ESTC S120920	14,197	22

An Admonition giuen by one of the Duke of Sauoyes Councel to his Hignesse Tending to disswade him from enterprising against France Translated out of French by E. A. LONDON Printed by Iohn VVolfe 1589. An Admonition giuen by one of the D. of Sauoyes Counsell to his Highnesse tending to disswade him from enterprising against France MY Lord Sith I am borne your subiect and that nature and reason doe binde me to serue and obey you also that next vnto the seruice of God I am to frame and direct whatsoeuer my actions and thoughts to the preseruation of your estate the greatnesse and prosperitie thereof and the peace and benefite of all that are likewise borne vnder your obedience I can not in this late entrie into the warre which your highnesse do begin but bring for my part such seruice and abilitie as I may as well to auoide idlenesse whilest other are busied as to shew some proofe of my fidelitie and to beare witnesse of those benefites and commodities which all your subiects as also my selfe haue hitherto receiued and made triall of vnder your gouernement Some one will bring in his weapons and valiancie some other wil contribute his coine and commodities some other his arte and industrie and all generally whatsoeuer may aduaunce and set forward your enterprise But I contrarie to the rest doe come with a most humble admonition conteining the most apparant reasons which on a sudden I could imagine to withstande and contrarie them so farre as in me lieth and peraduenture as a new Cassandra in fewe wordes to set before you the importance and weight of that matter wherein you nowe shippe your selfe as being steadfastly perswaded that by diswading you I shall doe more then all your captaines and armie whether for your highnesse particularly either for the benefite and quiet of your poore subiects who stand amazed at the motion mistrust the continuance but especially doe doubt and feare some great mishappe and calamitie in the ende and indeed I might well thinke my selfe periured and a traitour to that seruice which I owe to your highnesse in case I shoulde not also contribute and purposing to doe well I should not at the least stay the mischiefe and annoiance to my power Your highnesse whether of your owne motion to extende your limittes and by the right of good scituation and commoditie to appropriate vnto your selfe sundrie countries holdes and townes so to purchase reputation and after the example of your predecessours to atchieue notable and immortall memorie either else by the perswasion and inducement of others haue seised and gotten possession of Rauell Carmagnolle and generally the whole Marquisate of Saluces also of Brianson and some other fortresses in Daulphine and now with the like full winde doe thither leade a great and mightie armie in hope to multiplie your conquests and annexe this prouince of Daulphine which for the greatnesse and importance thereof haue long since beene dedicated to the eldest sonne of the house of France to your territories of Piedmont and Sauoy You finde all things requisite for the intertainment of this armie as you woulde wish the hearts of your souldiers men of warre well disposed your treasurie and storehouses well furnished France so diuided turmoiled and fleshed in and against it selfe that in your owne iudgement you haue no cause to feare and which is more sundrie of the greatest and most mightie with weapon in hand doe call and fauor you assurāce also of all helpe succor from the Catholike maiestie our holy father whose authoritie power weapons means are terrible to the whole worlde with great apparance and coniectures you foresee a dissipation and partition of the state and crowne of France and that euerie man will carrie away his morsell and you presuppose that you haue as good right as the rest as beeing sonne and husband to Princesses of the blood of Fraunce and house of Valois finally mooued and led by a holy and religious intent you purpose to preuent the ruine and subuersion of the holie Catholike Apostolike Religion in this prouince which is halfe banished and cannot long subsist without speedie remedie Thus doe you find your purpose to bee both honest and easie The successe hitherto doeth also put you in great hope of as happie an ende and that at the least by the lawe of shipwracke and waste so much as maie lie nearest your coast must belong to you These indeede are great and mightie motions sufficient to encourage the most fearefull to stirre vp the least ambicious and to moue euen the slowest and most duetifull sithe such facilitie is found to concurre with honour and commoditie as also it is the cause of worldly matters and the naturall order of generation that springeth of corruption and in such cases especially the taking holde of fitte occasion is it that woorketh the fairest and most permanent effectes Yea I will graunt that the Gangrene hauing seised vpon the middest of this great bodie as it hath the members and outwarde partes maie well bee cut off for the preseruation of the rest But yet if your Highnesse will consider and weigh such reasons difficulties and empeachments as are therein I am assured you shall finde them to bee of farre greater importaunce then all that haue yet beene propounded First it is but too certaine that all changes from a long peace into a sudden and great warre are most dangerous the rather because the peaceable person is lesse trained to warre lesse accustomed to suffer and beare and lesse fit to endure anie tedious enterprise and this if it be true in states that are in strength and power equall which through a certaine mutuall feare doe mainteine and vpholde themselues much rather then among vnequall Lordshippes of whome the lesser most looke to keepe and maintaine themselues rather then to enterprise against or assaile the greater This is the verie lawe of nature imprinted euen in all creatures among whom the small doe yeeld to the great and are to account it a fauour and courtesie that they bee not bruised and euen swalowed vp Nowe therefore what proportion is there betweene your highnesse power and the power of Fraunce which is twentie or thirtie times greater then all that you possesse peopled and abounding accordingly trayned and exercised in warres these thirtie yeares continuallie Haue not wee without seeking anie further an example euen of late of the losse of all the landes that you possesse as well on this side as beyonde the Alpes also of the extremitie whereto your late father of happie memorie was for a long time brought onely in hauing too mightie an enemie of the Frenchman Doe not the sounde of the warres of Piemont which the passage of the power and troopes through this countrie still ring in our eares Is there any thing more easie or commodious for the French man then to bound and limit the confines of his realme euen with the Alpes as it were