the blessed Virgin with S. Brigid S. Andrew why not S. George to with a high hand to carry from God such things as she now vpō better information knowes most to be eschewed Together of the same feather you haue there one Becanus the more wicked because the more witty so apt are these monster-men to turne to ill vses the very blessings of God A little lower there is Carolus Scribanius who most iustly ashamed of his trayterous name hath ben faine to faine another in his Ample Theater of dishonour yet neuer forgetting herein the ambitious pride naturall to the society in taking of the best when they choose One who as though he were not able of himselfe to be wicked enough therein is he more wicked that he praises the wickedest Poland Sweth-land Trans-siluania Bohemia at their owne cost will contribute to the publicke shame those by whome they haue receaued and stil receaue so much smart though some haue paide deere enough for it And after these farther countries the remotest part of that famous Iland penitus toto orbe remota will not be ashamed to stake her peny Haies and Hamilton though not a peny worth to the common reproch of Nations But belike her sister would be too proud if she could not name for herselfe or rather against herselfe red-hatted or rather red-harted Allens Campion Hart Parsons Creswell Hall Tesmond Gerrard Hammond all bloody or fiery Traytors and their superior in all Garnet And now Sir among all them perhaps you thinke your Fraunce will escape free But alas shall we not finde within our owne bowels one Kakodemono-zannes apoligising for this Garnet and Franciscus Verona for Ian Chastell both which we know whence they are but since they themselues condemne their owne deeds by counterfeiting their names and therein the onely thing they haue done well in some sort redeeme their Countries shame let them dye for euer vnknowne indeed and vnnamed let those that haue any part in them disclaime it let them perish in their blood let me not haue their names within my lips But oh but we haue such as glory in their owne infamy those cursed ones that call euil good and good euill who least they and their villanies should not be knowne enough by their writings haue preached it openly from Towne to Towne before all the world and shamelessely taught it with a brazen face in their publicke lessons to showe that Fraunce owes nothing to the rest in treason wickednes But because holy father Cotton was come of late as it were with a blast of his sweete breath and in a sheete of paper to gainesay and disanull all his predecessors mis-doings and seeme to recouer the honor of the society though if his Amphibologious Equiuocations be rightly tryed he speakes as trayterously as any of them all yet least they should take to much hold of him and interpret his double meaning in the better part or rather to checke him as a false brother one that had yeelded to much to the time Behold out of Italy the great Iebuzit Cardinalised the great Cardinall shortly to be Papised who not contented with that which he hath formerly written as well he might for any new thing hee sayes but because it was onely done by the way and among his other controuersies a load to big for any man to carry comes out now as the Triarij in that great Army of forlorne hopes with a booke by it selfe and of set purpose sounding and denouncing from the Vatican to al Princes they are subiect to the Pope in temporalibus True it is that in Atheus tOrtus that is he himselfe had first made the way before him but it was vnder an obscure name that could not carry great waight But since the Chapleine was so bold as to vndertake no lesse then a great king for his share to write against Do you thinke Sir that his Illustrissime Lord and Maister hath it against Barclay onely No no poore Barclay is but the poorest part of his booke yet his sonne takes it in hand as his fathers cause and I am sure will not leaue the Cardinall vnpaid Neither is it against the king your braue father They haue his hart fast and haue don as some Barbarians were wont They haue executed him first then comes forth this sentence of death against him But there is nothing more to be had of him but your selfe your selfe Sir It is against your selfe directly that this booke is written against all kings aliue against al kings yet vnborne The haukes of a Cardinall will not flie for lesse then at the birds of Paradice And you holy father oh is it after that maner you wil haue your sons harts Sure sure that great father of mankind of whom you pretend your self so wrongfully to be the general Vicar did neuer meane it so when he said My son giue me thy hart But you sweet childe since you see two Barclaies two priuate men none of them a Protestant nor nothing neere the one vndertake it so vertuously against the Pope vpon no other particuler offence but the meere loue of the truth the other follow it so dutifully against Pope Cardinall and all onely as his fathers quarrell which yet is no such matter you I say which are so great so noble so auncient and so mighty a king will you not reuenge your fathers death will you not reuenge your owne quarrel against one that was but a Cardinall fiue yeares ago one that was but a base priest once It is he It is he that speakes in that booke it is he that made it Bellarmin is vnworthy of your anger He is but a meane instrument he is but a slaue and dares not do otherwise then his master bids The Pope himselfe the great Lord the great God of al not Acquaviva a slaue too hath viewed it corrected it allowed it caused it to be printed at his owne charges vnder his owne nose least there should be any fault in the print To what end then tarry any longer what will you haue more when they haue kild you also you shal no more be able to take reuenge Take it while you can and while you may Yet am not I of those hot-burning spirits though a strong Protestant I confesse that would set Rome all in blood and fire and dig vp her foundacions a thousand fathomes vnder the ground I would haue Rome reformed not Rome ruyned And what can the poore walls do withal for the inhabitants sinnes Yea I will vnparcially deale with the Pope and with more kindnes then he dares looke for at any Protestants hand Let euery Prince according to the law of God of Nature and of Nations establish a good and holy Patriarch within his owne dominions to whome all his Church men shall answer to none els without and he answer for them Let the Bishop of Rome reduce himselfe or be reduced to that estate wherein he
Ancetors yea in the very time of their thickest darkenes ought to moue you Do you not amōg many heare the mighty voice of that braue Coeur de Lyon a French man by father and mother and the first Prince orderly born English since the conquest How strongly doth he call vpon you How farre went he to conquer the holy land How many daungers how many troubles how many paines did he passe and ouercome But now since it is Gods pleasure the holy land is by two third parts neerer then it was then A most fit a most holy a most easy subiect of your conquest And wil you not take the crosse on you to go thither now in this shining brightnes of the Gospell There is no more a doe but go and take possession And what land now in the world more sacer more holy then holy Rome which hath ben so much watred by so much holy blood of so many Saints and Martyrs Behold and why els doth shee call herselfe Romala Santa he Padre Santo or his holynes GReat men if you be but men not worthy of a higher title whose braines harbor so much wisdome whoso breasts so much temperance iustice faithfulnes vertues so rare now adaies anywhere els which haue wrought in the world the only miracles of these latter times fauorits of heauen spirits of lead of brasse of hard steele purer then the very gold seauenty times refined in the fornace who as it were fetching euery yeare by thousands whole ships laden with a new wisedome out of India are wiser then their auncient Gymnosophists you that shaking off a most cruell and yet more vniust yoke are risen from a base and seruile bondage now to be equall with Princes by your owne hands making your selues such as you would be setting a most lawfull bound to your high desires as though anything besides your selues were not worth your ambition were contented to haue but your owne selues Generous Helots farr better and more noble then your proud Lacedemonians If euer you did kindely and faithfully helpe vs at our neede If euer our great king did Kindly faithfully and gratefully helpe you againe at yours if vertue liue euen after death and a loyall loue grounded vpon the same to so royall a friend Come come ioyne hands with vs Our case our cause is your owne your strong bull worke the Rampier of Christendome hath ben most vnluckily throwen downe Ere it be long the enemy will giue you a furious if not trecherous assault And euen though you would though you could forbeare loue to others yet shew now your wisdome for your selues if euer you had any You also peereles couple of Princely bretheren both florishing in age much more in worthy and warlike deeds you great not Citty-razer as the other was but Citty-rayser strong Nestor wise Aiax the honour of armes the loue of Souldiers now without controuersie the first Captaine in the world your taske is not yet at an end To the field to the fire to the sword once more as glorious as I haue seen you many times the sicknes is more sharp then euer it is in relaps And you martial Henry Henry doth not your hart rise at that great name Doe you not remember who gaue it you as though our great HENRY would not grace with it other then great Princes and such as he fore-knew would be most worthy of the same Henry if yet you remember his personall kindnes to you Henry if yet you haue a drop of French blood of that right noble blood of that high Admirall your Grandfather in his time the Captaine of Captaines And after these high respects if priuate ones may take place If yet you remēber these innocent plaies but still sauouring of warre or learning wherby we were wont to recreate and stirr vp your minde while you were a childe If yet you remember your many promises so kindly made to me since you are a man Vp vp I lay downe al particular pretentions I claime all for the publique Come auenge the death of your royall God-father withall remember your owne father was killed so And that a trayterous murtherer euen before you saw did for euer bereaue you of the sight of that most excellent Prince who had giuen you the power of seing and whome to haue seen so many eyes would haue thought themselues most happy IMperiall Princes right honest Sycambrians our ancient Bretheren from whome when we departed with dint of sword to get vs a new habitation happy we if we had not left our integrity plainenes behinde or rather had kept aswel as you that which indeed we brought with vs Happy soules blessed remnant of the golden age if euer you pittied our hard case who thinking to conquer other mens lands lost our owne mindes and were ouercome euen by those we ouercame If there remain in you any spark of that ancient loue which once made vs all Germans when we liued vnder the same heauen But if old respects serue not if that feruent loue our most Christian King did so lately witnes vnto you who set vp so great an army endangered his whole estate ventured his owne life lost it euen in your quarrell and for your sakes if the help we brought you at so fit a time if the neuer enough lamented damage we suffer yet and shall suffer longer for your occasion can be of some effect in your noble harts Come come and let vs all gather as one man to reuenge our common losse preuent the common euill for though otherwise the losse must still be of our side yet looke how much your dearest honour remaines ingaged therein And you braue Ernest of Brandenburgh Illustrious Prince whose princely aspect told me once you were such when most you would haue hid it and for your better concealement made me an hundred times sit at the vpper end of your table while I told you as often I was scarce good enough to waite at it Neuertheles did it though with a willing kinde of shame and vnwillingnes when you commaunded me once for all it must needs be so If euer you loued our nation in generall If euer most especially you admired and protested affection to that hart-rauishing Prince as many times as I brought you to the sight of him as a priuate Gentleman If euer you repeated at night with loue and passion that which you heard that which you saw of him that day Ernest I earnestly beseech Ernest I earnestly adiure you And with you and in you and by you all your most noble house and those of your princely name Come out to reuenge the publique iniury And let me see you at the fore-front of our Croisade No Princes haue such an interest in this quarrell nor among them any so much as your selfe VVOrthily worthy and all praise-worthy Heroes True remnant of those old euerliuing Troians who inuincible to all force had neuer dyed if subtilty and treason the
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
remember and reproach to our taynted memory that we were such Traitors to our King to our selues as to wincke at such an iniury For if we be so faint-harted as to suffer those attempts vpon our Princes without making mercilesse vengeance to light as quickly vpon the Authors heads we are gone for euer there are no more French in Fraunce no men no Monarchy none of that auncient freedome and franchise from whence we deriue our name there is no Fraunce in the world They will boast we complaine but dare not say who hath hurt vs. They will pronounce sentēce of death in their owne Chaires at their pleasure against our deerest Kings they will send to kill them when they list and all our straightest guards all the cruellest punishments we can inuent shall not be able to keep them For the earth will neuer cease to bring forth murtherers so long as it brings forth golde or religious arguments nor our enemies to set them against vs so long as they stand in feare of our greatnes What must we doe then in so lamentable a case Take onely a fearfull punishment of that cursed caytiue Make euen with the ground the infamous den wherein he was borne lay waste the vnhappy soyle that brought him forth cut downe the trees of so hurtful a shade sowe al the ground ouer with salt leaue no rēnant no memory of al that cursed brood most iustly punished to haue any part in so portentuous a monster Alas yet this hath not ben done yet it were but a small suplice a sory reuenge farr farr inferiour farr farr vnanswerable to our great ruine It were onely to whip the clothes as the Persians vsed and to punish the instrument without passing to the cause as one that would breake the sword and forgiue the murtherer Doe you beleeue if we had spared him he would euer haue refrained the like attempt since euen amidst the rack and tortures and in the apprehension of a direfull death he had ben so powerfully taught and perswaded as he stood fast to his damned resolution what thinke you then of them that set him on worke but that loosing such an Instrument as they were well content their losse is so little their profit so great as they will euer most gladly venture like losses for like gaines Once more what must we do then stay till that furious serpent onely cut by the taile returne more fierce then before to sprinckle our Louure afresh with the blood of France Ah! let vs rather dye or bruise a thousand times his mischieuous head then fall into the like extremity againe and rather kill al in reuenge of the present outrage although there were none henceforth to be feared SIR I must needs speak vnto you the first though the youngest you haue the first the greatest and the neerest interest in the quarrell And I am your most humble and faithfull Subiect Of al abhominations in the world treason is most to be abhorred The king your father hath often seen al christendome wholy bent to his ruine ready to ouerwhelme him yet cold that neuer stop the current of his victorious fortune But now as he was going as a mighty whirl-wind to ouerthrow al his enemies there he is stopt by one only Traytor who shewed to truly as Augustus sayd that there is nothing so dangerous as the resolutiō of a coward A coward indeed but such a one as hauing no particular quarrell that might cast him into so high an extremity must needs be moued to it by some higher powers If that may euer be found Sir if it were possible that the feeling losse of such a Father to whose blessed memory all your subiects dayly sacrifice their deerest teares all your Allies their hottest sighes and generally all honest men their deepest mourning could not moue you to take Armes against the Authors of our mis-haps the meere reputation of your kingdome the safety of your owne life ought to do it And let not the consideratiō of your vnder-age hinder so iust a war Your own father scare exceeded your yeares whē he began to be a souldier when both he and the Prince of Condé in regard of their youth were called the Pages of the Admirall Do not venture your life in an imaginary peace more then in open warr your life I say no lesse is the mark they aime at The noble examples of your predecessors yet recent and before your eyes the best hart-blood of your so louing father yet hot-smoking vp to your owne nostrills challengeth that duty of you Open or suspected Enemies our Kings haue alwaies laughed at but secret and hidden ones euer made vs to weepe and better it were to haue a million in an open battell before you then one alone lurking in a corner And better yet seeke a noble death in the midst of all daungers through a thousand speares and as many muskets then dayly looke for it in feare and suspition Suspition Sir is not the Element of the kings of France They cannot be mued vp all day in their closets without taking the aire but at a window or speaking to their people through a reed They cannot liue but free euer abroad euer on horsebacke fighting is more pleasing to them and lesse daungerous then playing They can dye in Tiltings neuer in Battells in their owne Citties in their Chambers with a violent death neuer in warr but by sicknes or a naturall course True it is few kings dye in warr also for few goe thither but the kings of Frāce haue sought it in the remotest Affrick carried it into the very hart of Asia euer returning victorious triumphing ouer their vtmost extremities while death durst neuer be so bold as to assaile them but by the ordinary way There haue ben some sick some prisoners some dead Neuer any one killed much lesse ouercome yet was it not for want of vēturing throgh the hottest perills Neuer any Princes went more freely nor further into them But it was that they haue euer ben inuincible and as it were immortal when they stood vpon their guard But were it not so and that our kings free and farre from all mistrust and harme could liue altogether safe and out of the shot of all trecherous designes into what contempt I pray you wold fal the blood of France in times past so honorable among all nations if they should but once see that it durst not reuenge it self against those that caused it so trayterously to be shed If this should not nerely touch it what would what iniuries would it reuenge hereafter if this were now so lightly passed ouer would it not belye it self with it self the publick voice of the world afirming that neuer any offred it disgrace or iniury without deere repentance And would it not harten his enemies to continue their mischieuous blowes if they saw the whole vengeance light vpon one only the inferior and weaker
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 ConclusioÌ„ to the youÌ„g 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 â—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 ✚