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A01260	The French herald summoning all true Christian princes to a generall croisade, for a holy warr against the great enemy of Christendome, and all his slaues. Vpon the occasion of the most execrable murther of Henry the great. To the Prince.	Loiseau de Tourval, Jean.; Marcelline, George, attributed name.	1611 (1611)	STC 11374; ESTC S111986	28,778	56

worse because masked with Religion had not surprised their simply-honest soules and sooner burn'd their bodies then ouercome their mindes you that now trenched within your owne waters as it were for feare of an other such accident where also neuer any body could come to hurt you no body can And euen when that great Deluge of the Gothes spred it selfe round about you were left to your selues safely swimming in your land-no-land or rather so many Ilands Sacred Ephores sharp-sighted Areopagits graue Senate who not to haue one King subiect in a deadly stroke to wound all his subiects haue a Prince as it were in name only but are so many Kings your selues and Kings indeed since you commaund Kingdomes which yet you should command in no lesse quantity then once that auncient Monarcichall Common-wealth a part of your Type seeing your MarTial power is no lesse then theirs if your Marcial equitie had not made you as moderate as they were greedy Truly sonnes of Mars in deed for valour Truly children of Marc for piety and againe of Mercury for industry riches If euer you remember that auncient alyance between both our States If euer you remember the recent loue true friendship of the fourth his offers endeauours to you and for you when the third and the fift seemed to plott your ruyne If you haue euen of late felt the sharpe stings of that Tyrannicall ambition seen and felt trayterous murthers within your own bowels though not against your King when you haue none yet against your best men and those that most soundly haue maintayned your Kingly authority If the innocent wounds of that learned wise and good Padre Paolo yet aliue in spight of their hart If the holy ashes yet almost hot of that happy martyr your worthy Fulgentio burned in yonder hilly Citty for that quarell though vpon other farr fetched fayned and most false pretences If the royall blood of your greatest of your best friend crye yet aloud Vengeance Vengeance in your eares Come come braue and wise men shake hands with so many and so great Princes Be none of the last to take the Crosse on you The matter is of State not of Religion And let not that staine for the first time be cast on your spotles name that you once forsooke your friends euen fighting for your quarel as much as for theirs that you once forsooke your owne selues And when was such a thing euer seen either in you or others Come come I say you shall be still as good Catholicks as you were afore if not better They tremble already for feare They are ours And though they cannot stand against vs and though thanks be to God we haue no need of more help hauing equitie strength valour riches and all aduantages of our side yet we call yet we summon you not to exclude you of your part of the glory Conclusiō to the yoūg King of Fraunce NOw Sir if any will yet grudge saying I take to much vpon me and that yourselfe and all those great Princes are wise ready enough in that which concerneth them without neede either of my counsell or summoning First I say I pray God in this sence I may be a needles Herald indeed and you gather your selues without calling though otherwise truth be euer truth well beseeming and to be followed in any mans mouth For the rest I am neither a Councellor nor worthy to be so but a silly worme and poore Soldier as once I was I am a piece not only of your State but of the Christian Common-wealth and as a feeling though vnprofitable member of that great bodie interessed in the losse of so excellent and needfull a head by so much the more as I euer preferred the publike good before my priuate welfare the honor of my Country before my perticular aduancement and the life of my Soueraigne and of all good Christian Kings aboue mine owne all others of my neerest deerest kindred who yet being already crosse-signed and the least of an hundred thousand which are ready to crosse-signe themselues for so lawfull and so generall a cause when either by this my summoning or some other more effectuall meanes I see a iust army in the field am most ready to embrace againe my auncient profession which I had forsworn to scowre my old weapons rusty with our ●ong peace which I thought neuer to vse againe And taking in hand my sharpest speare of all most boldly venture my life as farr as any most happy to be lost in this quarrell the right quarrell of God and Gods annoynted ✚

THE FRENCH HERALD SVMMONING ALL TRVE Christian Princes to a generall Croisade for a holy warr against the great Enemy of Christendome and all his Slaues VPON THE OCCASION OF the most execrable murther of HENRY the great TO THE PRINCE LONDON Printed by E. Allde for Mathew Lownes and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bishops head in Pauls Church-yard 1611. TO THE PRINCE SIR THis Herald whose very phrase bewraies him enough to be french though he neuer spoke his owne french yet and who rather chose vpon so vrgent a necessity to speake ill in a strange language then not at all now most rightly presents himselfe first vnto your highnes because aswell by your merit as by your fortune you are one of the chiefest if not euen the first vpon whome he calls for the performance of the greatest most Christian and most royall duty that euer was yeelded to the greatest person deceased to the greatest persons living It is no lesse then the cause of God no lesse then the cause of the Gods seing Princes are stiled so by him that onely is so and who by a most excellent fashion aboue all other men after his owne Image made them so And what a more godly ground for all Christians to take the crosse on them against him that vnder a gawdy show of many false crosses the more crossely because closely crosseth the onely and true Crosse of Christ Wherein if it be not your selfe vnder the happy auspices of your glorious father or rather hee himselfe by you then I see no Generall in the world when our Christian Army must come into the field An other reason I haue more especially and wholy to apply to your highnes that which is intended to many A most speciall and holy zeale to your Princely seruice which euen eight yeares agoe brought me into your Country and still working in my hart now enforces me rather to giue you a small touch therof how meane soeuer then it should be longer hid from you how much I am YOVR HIGHNES Most humble most obedient and most ready to be commaunded seruaunt ✚ THE FRENCH HERALD Summoning all truly Christian Princes to a generall Croisado for a Holy VVarr against the great Enemy of Christendome and all his Slaues WHo shall giue me an yron-voice that I may sound out to the foure corners of the Earth the greatest peece of infamy the strangest the wonderfullest treachery the rarest treason which euer was since the foundations of the world were laid But alas who will beleeue my report And now to repeat that which the very Infamy thereof long since hath made so famous through all Nations Is it not in some sort most needles Oh that it were so But since so great so pregnant so extraordinary a cause hath not yet produced conformable effects Needs needs I must remember you as though you knew it not or had forgotten it That that King that King of Fraunce that great King of Fraunce that mighty that tryumphant that victorious that famous Monarch that Thrice-great HENRY honor of his time horror to his enemies that faithfull one to his friends is alas shall I say is when he is no more or if he be yet is nothing but a very nothing dead ô mischiefe twenty yeares before his time in the strength of his age in the current of his glory in the beginning of a new course for more more victories in the very time when most we needed him He is dead but ô Lord how is he dead It is a great thing when a King euen a meane King dyes a thing that shakes often the deepest foundations of his Kingdome sometimes of his neighbours a thing where of all the world will speake thinke much though dead euen leasurely and by the ordinary way But when a great King and such a great one as our great HENRY If euer the like haue ben or shall be comes to an vntimely end not by that easy course of Nature but suddainly snatched violently plucked away from his owne from the very armes of his owne by the base desperat attempt of a mad beast who not able not daring to endure the beames of his royall face giues him his death before from behind It is a case so strange so rare so vnheard of that if there can be any such wonder it were onely not to wonder at it and would to God we might passe no further We wonder at the furious fashion of Lyons euen if tame or when we looke vpon them thorow their grates we wonder at the roaring of the waters euen a farre off But if we see them once let loose and enraged vpon vs If the streames ouerflowing their bankes haue once couered our champions and we be caryed away by the currents swimming between the apprehensions of a weake hope and the pangs of a deadly Ship-wrack Then leaue we wondring and begin fearing by so much more fearfull as the former wonder was great and full of it selfe Who shall giue me an yron-voyce that I may thunder out the most high the most lamentable complaint that euer was heard in the world since our losse is the greatest that euer was in the world Alas not the Lyons not the fiercest beasts of Affrick but the infernall Furies the enchained spirits of the bottomles pit the Dogs the Wolues the Tygers the Lyons the Vipers the Serpents the Dragons of hell are let loose vpon vs walke and wander among vs vnder the shape and name of Frenchmen to worke our mischiefe for french must needs be that hand that must kill Fraunce though Strangers thrust it on as though they could find no where els so much boldnes or so much desperate wickednes Alas not one riuer not many but a whole Ocean of miseries hath ouerwhelmed our whole land now that royall mound now that brazen wall now that sacred trench is broken which with-held it from swelling against vs. What poore hope now if feare may be so tearmed but of a huge if not a generall flood of woes Terror and death enuiron vs round about which could not enter vpon vs but by that gap And we are left swimming together among the direfullest monsters of the deepe in such a heauy case as those which the merciles mouth of the sea will spare shall not escape their hungry bellies And yet French-men there is a small sparke left vs of a better hope if we can be wise Who shall giue me an yron-voyce that I may break into their minds whose eares the sound of my doleful cōplaint hath pierced That I may stir them vp no longer to a silent wonder no longer to a melting compassion but to a bloody anger and no lesse pittiles then iust reuenge of so wonderfull so pittifull so wrongfull a treason The so miserable losse I say of so great a King a losse alas I cannot say it enough so great so publick so generall so vniuersall so farre and