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A06875	Epithalamium Gallo-Britannicum or, Great-Britaines, Frances, and the most parts of Europes vnspeakable ioy, for the most happy vnion, and blessed contract of the high and mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Lady Henrette Maria, daughter to Henry the fourth, sirnamed the Great, late King of the French and Nauarre, and sister to Levvis the thirteenth: now king of the said dominions. Manifesting the royall ancestors and famous progenitors of the mighty Prince Charles, and the most illustrious princesse, the Lady Henrette, explaining the sweete interchanges of mariages, as haue beene betweene France and Great Britaine. ...	Marcelline, George.	1625 (1625)	STC 17308; ESTC S111979	61,352	158

haue many pleaders for Her yet non-suites them all but One being so diuine a Creature as in her affection Shee resembleth her Creatour who whom He loueth He loueth to the end The beames of her loue as they bee most bright so they are of long continuance being no wayes wauering nor speedily fading but constant and durable Neither is Shee constant in her affections onely but also in her vertuous actions for what vertue more naturall or necessarie in a Prince than liberalitie and who more liberall than Shee Her bountie like the Sunne shines vpon all She sees She knoweth none are more miserable than they which are miserably couetous who starue in a Cookes shop pine in the midst of plentie who Tantalus-like haue golden apples aboue and Crystall Fountaines beneath his chin but yet can neither taste the apples to satisfie his hunger nor touch the water to allay his thirst She therefore holding it a thing inconuenient to command others and not to command her passions and her purse Shee therefore esteeming riches but the exiles of Fortune the which Shee can keepe no longer because Shee must part from them doth liberally and freely giue to such whose either earnest petitions or silent deserts doe plead for them For reason teacheth Her that they are giuen Her onely to giue to others therefore with most incomparable bountie and yet discretion Shee doth bestow them and like the Heauens being full Shee powreth and showreth downe the dew of her pitie vpon the gaping necessitie of poore people She well remembreth that the faithfullest friends She can make are her charitable deeds for her goods leaue Her at her death nothing we brought and nothing we must carrie away Her Friends and Allies forsake Her at her graue they may accompanie Her to her tombe but they will not dwell with her in darknesse but her almesdeeds and pious actions follow Her saying vnto her soule as Ruth to Nahomi Whithersoeuer thou goest I le follow thee It is that which moues Her to shew such pietie in her pitie that makes Her a Prop to the poore a Staffe to the needie It is from hence that the blessings of the Lord doe still accompanie Her She is so much fauoured of Him because vertue is so much fauoured in Her and it is as far from doubt as truth from falshood that Shee shall be the most fortunate most blissefull and happie Princesse that euer was extant in this Christian world Thus haue you seene her vertues in some part deciphered though not to the full described for that were as impossible to containe her praises who though Shee bee young in yeeres yet is old in Grace in this small volume as to confine the boundlesse Ocean to a cesterne But because howsoeuer Vertue is true Nobilitie yet Nobilitie is an ornament to Vertue examine but her Princely Parentage which is lineally descended from so many Kings and Emperours neuer was Branch sprung from a more Regall Imperiall and Royall Stocke than She therefore not to make any troublesome search into ancient Chronicles but to looke into those later moderne times it will appeare that neuer had childe greater cause to ioy in a father than this Princesse in hers whose Father Henrie the fourth of the royall Race of Burbon a Prince so truely fully and nobly accomplisht as Hee deserueth to bee stiled the Worthiest of the French Monarchie for finding the Kingdome fraught with hatred rebellion infidelitie treason and such like but Hee by his moderate and discreet gouernment like a wise Husband-man of that his vineyard rooted out those enormious weeds planting in stead of them loue to his Person submission to his Soueraigntie faithfulnesse to his Crowne and loyaltie to his Gouernment and howsoeuer some did so farre oppose Him as they sought to depose Him yet He being directed and protected by a Higher Power in spight of all humane violent oppositions did triumph both ouer domestique forraigne foes and France may confesse truely and without flatterie that she languished with the want of such a Prince vntill He like another Hercules did ruine and root out those hideous monsters which did seeme prodigious to her owne proper progenie and restored France to her former reputation and crowned her with her pristine beautie It is He whose acts may stand to instruct Captaines their duties in succeeding ages It is Hee that was like Dauid in his reigne full of afflictions and blessings that resembled Him in his zeale of pietie and iustice the prime and principall pillers of a Royaltie who ruled his people happily to the glorie of God the good of his Subiects and the consolation of his owne Soule Indeed infinite were the vertues of this royall Prince who succeeded his famons Ancestours who were so worthie as they may adde glorie to his immortall fame and memorie For He was lineally descended in direct masculine and lawfull line of Lewis for his singular pietie sirnamed Saint the 44th French King whose quiuer was full of such arrowes as Dauid calleth blessings to wit children as Philip the Hardie his Successour in the Crowne Peter Earle of Alancon Robert Earle of Alancon through Peters vntimely decease and also Robert the eldest and the youngest were fortunate in leauing Issue in whom they might liue after their deaths the other died without heires sprung from their owne loynes The Issue of the forenamed Philip the Hardie succeeded lineally vntill Henrie the third King of France Poland in whom the name and family of the Valor being extinct the Crowne fell to the Race of Robert Earle of Cleremont who by Beautrix sole heire and daughter of Archibald Earle of Burbon had Lewis afterwards created Duke The which Lewis Duke of Burbon had Issue by Marie daughter to Iohn the eighteenth Earle of Hainhault had Peter Duke of Burbon and Iames Earle of Ponthieu Constable of France Peter had by Isabel daughter of Charles Earle of Valois Lewis and Iames Lewis sirnamed the Good Duke of Burbon had by Anne Countesse of Auergne Lewis Earle of Cleremont deceasing without Issue Iohn and Iames Iohn had by Bonne Dutchesse of Auergne Countesse of Montpensiere Charles and Lewis of Montpensiere father of Gilbert of whom issued Charles the last Duke of Burbon the which Charles Duke of Burbon had by Agnes daughter of Iohn Duke of Burgoigne Iohn and Peter Iohn the second of that name was linked in mariage with Ioane of France daughter to Charles the seuenth who dying without lawfull Issue the name and armes of Duke went to Peter his younger brother Peter the second of that name Duke of Burbon maried Anne of France daughter to Lewis the deuenth and had Issue by her one onely daughter Susan the generall heire of Bourbon who was wife to the abouenamed Charles the youngest sonne of Lewis abouenamed Earle of Montpensiere and brother to Charles Duke of Burbon but no children issuing from this mariage the branch of the eldest sonne of Lewis Duke of Burbon was broken

a Den of theeues for when the Body fasteth the Soule feasteth and the earthly members being mortified the faculties of the Soule doe grow more liuely and powerfull Thus being Master of his owne lusts Hee scornes to be a seruant to his substance but at his pleasure can part from it and turne it out of his seruice yet neuer but vpon a iust occasion for that were to haue too little and light respect of his seruant being a meere prodigalitie but when Hee seeth it requisite for the reward of Vertue or the maintenance of Honour to part from it the Sunne is not more liberall of his light at high noone-day than He of his meanes for Hee loues not money like your couetous man whose eyes are out and he can neuer see when he hath sufficient who like a Danaïdum dolium is neuer fill'd or satisfied but onely for necessitie like a wife Mariner prouiding in a calme against the comming of a storme and in the sunne-shine of peace preparing to welcome the turbulent tempestuous time of warre And for his wisdome as who should say it were likely Hee should bee in nothing vnlike to his father He outrunneth his age and leaueth all those of his yeeres behinde Him in knowledge for Hee sitteth in counsell like a sage Senatour and a Law-making Lycurgus that it seemeth a wonder but wonders are no wonders in a wondrous subiect how in the blossome of his yeeres He should haue such ripenesse and maturitie of Iudgement and in his greene youth bee such a graue Counsellour For did not his Gracious Highnesse in the last Parliament not only in appearance but in truth so well prouide for the safetie and securitie both of his Friends and Countrey that Hee was generally applauded both of Counsellours and Commons as being the most wise and watchfull Prince for the welfare of his people First shewing his ardent zeale to Gods Glorie and Religion to make wholsome salutiferous Lawes for the suppressing of the Sowers of Sedition and the Interminglers of the tares of their owne inuentions amongst the pure graine of Gods Word And thus hauing exprest his loue to God aboue all vnder God He prouides for his Peoples prosperitie enacts Lawes as Antidotes against former exactions so customarily and vnconscionably practised in this our Common-wealth as if He were soly and wholly happie in making his people fortunate and in easing them of the heauie burthens of oppression imposed vpon them bound vpon their backs and laid vpon their shoulders And indeed there neuer was Prince in Christendome more commended by mortall men in speeches or commended to the immortall God in prayers than is our mightie inuict Prince whose worth is such that if I should liue to the age of Nestor and in the whole course of my life doe nought but praise Him praise Him in nothing but that which He is worthie of vtter his worth compendiously yet my pen would still bee a debter to his deserts for He is not like the vulgar sort as the vulgar Prouerbe tels vs Constant in nothing but inconstancie but his minde once fixed on a worthie obiect is like a Starre which moueth not out of her orbe but is euer the same in her motion The little shrubs are shaken with eueric little puffe of winde but the stately Cedar which is firmely rooted and fastned in the ground as it is more noble so it is more stable Many Feathers and Weather-cocks in our daies who are not resolute in any determinations or determinate in any resolution doe in an instant loathe that which they haue loued but our Prince as He doth not lightly settle affection so He will not easily remoue it for He deemes the one a defect of wisdome the other an excesse of wauering and an ouer-plus of inconstancie Therefore Hee being alwayes balanced and counterpoysed with due premeditation in affecting cannot be induced in an instant to relinquish and distaste that which Hee affecteth Then hath not France great reason and cause of ioy and exultation who hath found out such a Mate for their incomparable Princesse who is one which hath stoutnesse and courage of minde ioyned to the strength of his bodie wisdome accompanying his valour vertue his soule who is a Prince as well in worth as birth excelling in bountie and beautie and in all his actions obseruing the golden meane who is constant in his loue firme in his resolutions whose worth few can conceiue no man vtter all men may admire the descent of whose bloud doth ennoble his birth the excellencie of whose birth doth enthronize and dignifie his vertues whose vertues as I may so say doe almost Deifie his Soule the inestimable price of whose Soule doth adorne his bodie by inhabiting in it the rare temper of whose bodie doth blesse his soule by being the Mansion-place of it And thus Hee which hath all vertues is to be all Hers and that Princesse to bee blest with the admirable constitution of his bodie and the incomparable condition of his minde Had his body been of vnequall vnproportionable mixture by the elements the soule might haue loathed such a muddie building would soone haue forsaken her habitation or hath the minde beene corrupt and filthie it would soone haue ruinated the rare bodie in regard it would haue employed it to such ryotous ruinous courses as it would soone haue produced her ouerthrow and demolisht this mortall Edifice of Nature by which meanes and likelyhood the shortnesse of the Princes life might haue made an abridgement of her happinesse and haue cut short the continuance of her ioyes but Nature hath so tempered and framed Him of such an equall proportion of heat and moysture that the excessiue heat of the one doth not threaten a Combustion nor the abundance of the other a Deluge but for his complexion Hee may bee another Methuselah and She most superlatiue of her Sex in all felicitie in the possession of so louing a Husband so long a time as He is like to inioy this vital transitorie vncertaine breath Had He beene like a Rose or a Flower De-luce which though they bee faire things yet they are of short continuance for the one is no sooner blowne but it sheddeth the other fadeth in the bud her ioy might haue found sorrow in the fear of the losse of her Ioy but He alreadie is growne to ripenesse and we hope as may be coniectured both by the temper of his bodie temperance of his minde is not onely pleasing to the eye but is also likely to be a lasting fruit It is the office of an husband to liue with his wife as a man of knowledge and what Prince wiser than his Highnesse who squares out all his actions according to the Rule of Gods Word who is so verst in each verse of Scripture so well read in Diuinitie as Hee is not onely a Prince to command but for his learning might be a Priest to enstruct his people Feare not then oh renowned France