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A03893	A discourse vpon the present estate of France together with a copie of the kings letters patents, declaring his mind after his departure out of Paris : whereunto is added the copie of two letters written by the Duke of Guize / translated out of French and now newly reprinted, and corrected by E. Aggas.; Excellent et libre discours sur l'estat present de la France. English. 1588	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Guise, Henri, duc de, 1550-1588.; Aggas, Edward.	1588 (1588)	STC 14004; ESTC S120854	55,651	70

prisoner in the great tower of Bourges when he was proclaimed king neither is it credible by anie humaine apparance that the king of Nauarre should euer bee brought so lowe and yet will not all this suffice A lawfull right in succession is a marueilous point These considerations doo breake the Dukes ambitious braine He seeth that he must not onely make the place for the Crowne voide but also he must make himselfe capable both to enter and vsurpe The one consisteth chiefely in the king of Nauarres subuersion the other in the encrease of his owne wealth and credit which will grow on but slenderly so long as he is content with gouerning the armies vnder the kings authoritie and of himselfe to warre against the Protestants A thousand other things there are that may fall out in such an enterprise which would vtterly disgrace all his affaires and as I haue saide there is not much to bee wonne from those that knowe howe to defende themselues Againe he mistrusted that sith he had perforce brought the king into this warre he would neuer furnish him of thinges necessarie for the performance thereof but against his will and yet that so long as himselfe had the leading of the armies if he compassed not such effectes as might be woorthie the great hope and brags that he had giuen foorth he were quite ouerthrowen These things cōsidered he was content to send his brother into Guyenne against the king of Nauarre while himselfe did here set vpon the kings person at whose hande he first hoped by sinister meanes to gaine more with lesse losse Hereupon at his brother the Duke of Maines returne out of Guienne where he had done nothing but encreased the credit of the king of Nauar his lieutenant general the lord of Turraine with whom he had chieflie had to do they both togither with their kinsmen and partakers doe openly set at iarre with the king albeit still vnder their generall pretence viz. of warring against the heretikes whereupon the holines of their weapons did depende and whereby they still retayned the catholike faction on their side Nowe at the first blush to set vpon the king it is a shame they can haue no colour There is neuer a prince of the bloud among them neither is any of them so great an officer of the crowne as that it may beseeme him to reforme the king the realme and yet without this their generall pretence against him is to no purpose The king is no catholike he is superstitious he hateth not the Huguonets the Huguonets are poyson vnto him he thinketh it a sinne to talke with any of them and that day that he hath so done he must goe to shrift hee hath brought more of them to their ends then the Duke of Guize hath seene he hath done them more harme than the duke of Guize wisheth them of him haue they more cause to complaine than of any of the league the heads whereof haue alwayes shewed more fauor and courtesie to them particularly than he a commendation which cannot be denied them What is the remedy then Immediatly vpon the duke of Maines returne out of Guienne he publisheth a libell against the Marshall of Matignon the kinges lieutenant in that prouince whom the king had ioyned with him in office wherin he accuseth him of treason and intelligence with the king of Nauarre the protestāts that saith he was the cause that in all that iorney he could performe no great matter yea he accuseth him so couertly that he also taxeth the king of whō he complaineth saying that he cut him short of coyne victuals and munition and so taketh from him all meanes to atchiue anie thing yea he proceedeth so far as to say that he is the best friend that the heretikes could haue Hereupō the duke of Guize on the other side crieth out that it is the D. of Espernon who for malice toward him fauoreth his enimie the king of Nauar and therefore restraineth the king maketh him to haue no care of this warre thus for that he dareth not beat the master he striketh the dog That man saith he is the support of al the heretiks in France so he stirreth vp all the world against him and presumptuouslie he protesteth that he will not suffer him to haue any part towne or gouernement in France Yea albeit the kings garde be free of all suspition of heresie yet because that lord had the rule of them he causeth thē twise or thrise to be assaulted ouerthrowen in Picardie and vpon this pretence doth he as well in that gouernement as else where seise vpon as many townes as he may Well the king would peruert him and retaine his townes in obedience to that end doth vse such power as he hath about him which are as I said his gards those regiments wherof the duke of Espernon is coronell Hereupon is the quarrell proclaimed against the king himself things brought to such passe that the duke of Aumale besiegeth Bulloin the duke of Guize taketh Paris expelleth the king slaieth taketh and strippeth his guards as himselfe boasteth By his account euerie one that hath any townes or gouernements which he will not hold to his vse is an heretike whosoeuer endeuoureth to keep him from the kingdome is an heretike These be new articles of faith It is said that the D. of Espernon hath since resigned his gouernements into the kings hands namely that of Normandy which was giuen to the D. of Monpensier I know not whether it may make him an heretike also which were somwhat strange Wel to conclude this matter the D. of Guizes intent is to be king if he can his proceedings and meanes are the ciuill wars and diuision of the french catholikes against the protestants whereby he becommeth captaine of the first with whome hee is in greater credite then the king himselfe or any catholike Prince of the blood Herein let them not mistake for of these two things by his deuises hee hopeth for one either so to satisfie himselfe during the kings life and so to settle his affaires that after his decease he may ouerthrow the king of Nauar keep him from the estate or else if he cannot keepe him from it at the least to force him to parley with him who wil stil be protector of the catholike faction that now without example for it hee once ouerthrow him and with him the rest of his house this must needs ensue for the one dependeth vpō the other that either he will possesse the kingdome alone or else he will deuide it with his partakers stil keeping the greatest and best part to himselfe To this banquet doth he inuite the king of Spaine the Pope the Potentates of Italy and al catholike princes near hand to whom the mightines of the realm is as preiudicial the kings prosperity and the king of Nauars hope is as greatly to be feared as the ouerthrow of

pacified whom thou oughtest to haue punished Who could so mischieuously perswade thee that the remedy of my mischief was the ciuil war● that by that course thou shouldest recouer thine authoritie ouer thy subiects Alas how art thou deceiued There is nothing more dangerous in a building then fire in a bodie then a continuall feuer and in a state then a ciuill warre If thou wilt remedie these euils quench the fire which burneth thy house asswage the continuall feuer of the bodie of thy estate giue it peace For that is the onely meane to preserue thy realme Thou saist that if thou shouldest but pronounce this worde of peace to them of the religion thou shouldest haue presently vppon it all the catholike armies of Christendome against thee which wil spoile thee of thy state Yea if thou pronouncest it as hee that latelie fled away from Paris before the duke of Guize But pronounce it as he that wanne the battailes of Iarnac and Moncontour who alone wert more dreadfull then all the rest of thine armie vtter it onely after that sort that thou shalt finde all men to tremble If vpon this good and holie resolution thou wilt arme thy selfe England Germanie Suitzerland will couer all thy plaines with horse and armed men for thy seruice They will send thee sufficient forces to beate Spaine and Italie yea and thy France if it were ioyned with them Thinke thou that this will be first the benefit of thy realme and it will be easie afterward so to perswade thy people when thy selfe shalt belieue it And thy people if thou bee willing of it they will account all such as shall wish the contrarie to bee their enimies and thine But thou fearest the league Who then shall bee bolde for thee whence shall wee take courage but from thine Grant a reasonable peace and quietnesse vnto thy subiectes begin with thine owne first with the catholikes make them to bee content with reason and feare not then but the rest wil be brought to it they are too weake to stand against thee in an euill cause Such a one will theirs be if they refuse an indifferent peace but they will not doo so they neuer did it It is too common a prouerbe in thy court Let them be pleased with a sermon Thou art yet afraide good Lord of whom of the king of Spaine Shew him the pictures of thy father and thy grandfather and he will tremble euen to the farthest of Castile Of the Pope Hast thou not yet about thee some heires of Charles of Bourbon these are but toies How can it bee possible that thou who hast seene so much who hast handled so many matters who hast so great experience canst haue this apprehension engraued so deepe within thee and vppon so small an occasion Beleeue these two principles the one that thy enimies haue their best friende of thee the other that if it were not for that blacke cloud which thou seest about Rochell which they feare more than thee they would haue buried thee long agone but yet adde this third also and beleeue it that whensoeuer thou shalt earnestly wish the good and rest of thine estate it shall lie in thy power to be master to bring as well the one as the other so farre vnder in respect of thy obedience and thy place that they shall not be able to turne an Egge without thy leaue They perswade thee that the strongest side is the catholikes and that thou must needs ground thy selfe verie deepe therein and become chiefe of it to take away this title from the Duke of Guize They perswade thee but they deceiue thee The parties ought not to receiue thee neither thou to go vnto them They ought to come to thee thou to receiue them To be a king is thy part thou hast no need of any other let all the rest yeeld vnto this What meaneth this that a king of France shoulde enter into gelousie with a Duke of Guize that he should be put in danger of loosing his credit by his meanes Doest thou not know that this gelousie maketh thee equal and presently being equal inferiour well may there be steps to clime vp to a crowne but there is none to come downe it is a downe right fal If a king come neuer so little downeward he falleth down right They counsell thee to feigne thy selfe sore angred against vs after thou hast feigned a while thou becommest so in earnest They yet deceiue thee more and were it not for thy affection to thy religion thou mightest iudge easily of it Assure thy selfe that this D. which becommeth so mightie in thy realme keepeth to no otherend the best part of that which he hath with him but onely because it is to thy selfe that he hath a meaning to Doost thou thinke that those which serue him haue no other scope then the destruction of the Huguonets No no. What is there to be gotten against them If I had giuen my selfe ouer to follow him for my part I would thinke to haue done it in respect of his hope to be king one day For that he should be thought well of in respect of his zeale towards his catholike religion in putting manie Huguonets to death it will serue to raise vp all the porters of Paris and make them crie Haue amongst the Huguonets Those which are sufficient to helpe him to turne vp a realme haue other considerations then that Now these considerations are not put out of their heads by thy fierce countenance against those of their religion and thy quaking lookes towards the league This is contrariwise the way to encrease them their helpes their seruants and their authoritie When men see that thou shewest that thou art thy selfe afraide of them who then shall not feare them What emboldeneth men but impunitie Of nature wee loue to be at libertie There was neuer any realme but that it did striue to become if it were possible a popular estate There is nothing that a prince ought to keepe more preciously then his respect his maiestie and his feare which being once lost can neuer bee recouered but onely by such things as breed feare that is to say by violence and crueltie Mightie king thou shalt accept this speech as it shall please thee it belongeth not to mee to limit thy purposes But if thou readest it with as much passion for thine owne good as I write it thou shalt thinke if any too violent a word dooth escape me yea against thee that it is the verie indignation and hart burning that forceth mee vnto it when I see the wrong and iniuries that are done vnto thee to the which it seemeth after a manner thou doost consent by thy patience Do not thinke that I did meane to accuse the courage which is in thy selfe all Europe woulde giue me the lie and if thou wouldest haue any witnesses of it thou shouldest neede none but our selues whome thou hast beaten so often to speake of it