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A14602	Martine Mar-Sixtus A second replie against the defensory and apology of Sixtus the fift late Pope of Rome, defending the execrable fact of the Iacobine frier, vpon the person of Henry the third, late King of France, to be both commendable, admirable, and meritorious. VVherein the saide apology is faithfully translated, directly answered, and fully satisfied.	R. W., fl. 1591.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.; Wilson, Robert, d. 1600, attributed name.	1591 (1591)	STC 24913; ESTC S119314	34,762	46

diuination but because it is in his hand to acquit or condemne him and so I may iustly say that Sixtus did not Prophecie but threaten for if eury prediction should make a Prophet then should the diuell bee a great one who beholding the necessary concurrence of the causes dooth many times foretell aright of the effects in this order Sixtus and in no other didst thou Prophecie I apeale to thine owne conscience when the first relation of the Guize his death was made when the first newes were brought didst thou not then vow thy selfe to auenge it Didst thou not afterward contriue the meanes to work it Didst thou not encourage the Leaguers to it Didst thou not promise a perpetuall pardon to him that should attempt it And being now done hast thou not endited a sweete Apology for it And yet who now is Sixtus Whome shall men say that he is Is he not Elias or some one of the Prophets But not he alone but many other did thus Prophecie among whom let Gregory himselfe be one who as he now succeedeth Sixtus in his seate so did he exceede him in the murder for which by a French Cardinall his holines is now notoriously appealed Thus treacherie and murder is impaled with a triple crowne thus traitors and murderers sit in Peters chaire beside we are to note that he did not onely and barely Prophecie it but with some griefe and feeling of his fall alas poore Sixtus how forely his heart was grieued But shall we pittie him then or shall wee rather disdaine and detest him Foule hipocrite and Crocodile as thou art couldst thou weepe for him when as thou didst intend so mortally against him Full well thou mightest haue redressed that griefe if thou hadst been truely aggrieued but as Absolon feasted Ammon and Iudas kissed Christ so didst thou lament his fall for if thou didst indeede lament it what moued thee to endite so triumphing an Apology vpon it and to erect a Trophe where greater cause was to write an Epitaph Why didst thou debarre him from all dirges masses and trentalls from al dead mans rites and funerall solemnities Did the feare of the losse so afflict thee and could the losse be so pleasing to thee Fie Sixtus fie dissemble not with the world thy hipocrisie is too manifest thou didst not prophecie thou wast not aggrieued nor canst thou so easily bleare our eyes Hauing thus foolishly mooted and declamed of thine own propheticall spirit thou preparest at length by a personall inuectiue to disgordge thy gall agaynst the King by the impeachment and defamation of whose honour thou addressest thy selfe to conuince the execution done vpon him for iust and warrantable His great offences his shamefull death his finall impenitencie but albeit I must in part confesse some of these as true yet I loath to see thee raking in the dust of a dead mans bones whose sinnes if they ought to be buryed in silence much lesse should they be misreported and maliciously amplified Wee confesse the offences of the King were grieuous and heynous and of necessitie we must confesse what all the world so euidently sawe because the sinnes of Kings and Princes cannot be vnseene neither can a citie bee hid that is set vpon a hill but neuerthelesse we doo not acknowledge those for sinnes in wreake and reuenge whereof this direfull tragedie was performed For shall we say his Maiestie did offend in executing iustice vpon that recreant Guize a furious and braynsicke rebell together with Lodwicke his brother then Cardinall of Lorraine As though a King may not correct the misdemeanour of his subiects but an Italian Priest shall step out to countermaund and controll it but how had the Guize then misdemeaned himselfe or wherein had he passed beyond his bounds Ah God is that now called in question Or shall wee now begin to endite him at whose boldnes rebellion all Kings in Christendome for these twentie yeares haue stood amazed whome neyther reuerence of authoritie nor feare of lawes nor law of nature could keepe within his bounds But let that goe wee speake of later attempts euen of the treacherie which then he intended against the King when he was apprehended and murthered which vndoubtedly hee had effected had not his brother Charles d' Maine opened disclosed it before Yea but suppose the Guize had offended yet was it tyranny without formall and iudiciall processe of lawe preceding to fall to execution Indeede Sixtus it is true when delay is voyd of danger but if a route of theeues haue so beset my way as I must eyther immediatly slay or be immediatly slayne I hope there is no lawe agaynst me if in that distresse I neglect the triall of lawe and worke out my deliuerance with my sword for that is a law which we haue not learned not receaued not heard but a lawe which wee haue suckt out of our mothers breasts in which we were not informed but bred not instructed but inspired not by discipline composed but by nature prepared that no honest way of defending our life and state should bee left vntryed and shall wee then condemne the speedie execution vppon the Guize and Lodwicke his brother for vnhonest which could not bee one day deferred without indaungering the life and dignitie of the King No Sixtus no we confesse the offences of the King were grieuous yet this was no offence but if we list endite him wee could vbrayd and charge him with matters of greater moment which albeit wée are loath and grieue to doo yet in regard of that Antichristian tyranny which in his life he practised and for which he was punished in his death we may not be ouer silent and so much the lesse for that we would prouoke ye to repentance least as ye haue excéeded him in his sinne so ye receaue a greater measure of iudgement When in his life tyme we called to minde how sorely and bitterly he did afflict the Church how freely he suffered the confederates of the League to assault and insult vpon them and how often himselfe had personally vnsheathed his sword agaynst them we could not expect but that though God winked for a time yet in time he would manifest his iudgements on him and when the fulnes of time was expired it fell out as wee feared for so soone as in his last Parliament holden at Bloys he had most wickedly vaunted of his victories agaynst the Church and boastingly reported what harme and scath hee had done them which was in deed the fulnes of his sinne this vengeance immediatly fell vpon him euen as Sixtus himselfe a strange thing to consider within lesse then a yeare after his Apologie and triumphing in so notorious a murther was dispatcht and taken out of the world beside we could report how he secretly encouraged the Leaguers to effusion of bloud how himselfe was vp in armes before the walles of Rochel and that for no other cause but for the Gospell and that which neuer will

to that end that Clement might be superextolled and commended aboue them both for both men were inferiour to him and many wemen haue come vnder him But see how Sixtus extenuateth the fact of Iudith which before he had so highly magnified and all to enlarge the honour of a Monke Iudith was a woman and therefore more gratious therefore for her sex and excellent beautie might shee bee more easily admitted into the presence of Holofernes I smile to thinke how Sixtus tickleth at the remembrance of Iudith but who would not breake out and laugh to see how hee beateth himselfe with his owne weapon for if a Frier were therefore to be commended aboue a Souldier if Clement aboue Eleazar for that being a man of peace and neuer trained vp to the field he had ventured as far as a profest Souldier then doubtles by the same reason was Iudith to bee preferred before Clement for that being a woman and therefore by nature more timerous shee attempted as much and more than hee yea but consider that as she was a woman so she was faire and as her sexe on the one side did dispose her to feare so her beauty on the other side made her secure yea Sixtus wee consider it very well and knowe that in Rome the argument is forcible ful well we knowe that your Lateran pallace was neuer so surely lockt but a woman at midnight might boldly and freely haue accesse I let passe to speake of Iohn the twelft and mistris Rainera of Pope Sergius and his Morozia I come to the matter wherein against the beauty of Iudith I doo oppose the profession of Clement for neuer was woman more welcome to Holofernes then Monkes and Friers were to Henry Ah silly man I rue to speake it his deuotion was fantasticall his affection was ouer foolish to them and longer doubtles had he liued if hee had neuer loued nor reposed any confidence in them and that those caitifs knew full well for which most in humanely they repayed him that il therfore I say there was no cause why a Frier might not as securely aduenture himselfe into the hoast of the King as did Iudith into the tentes of Holofernes therefore consequently there was no cause why his exploite should be extold aboue hers as farre more difficult and impossible but what doo we speake of difficulties Sixtus saith it was full of wonders for after that letters of commendation from them of the contrary faction were fayned which hee falsely saith were procured see what a wonder fell out Frier Clement passed out by that gate of the citie which lead vnto the enemies campe O wonderfull as if he should haue saide he went but two miles when hee might haue gone ten hee tooke the nearest way when he might haue gone the farthest way about whereas hee might haue passed out at a back or pofierne gate and so might haue gone from thence to Rome from Rome to Iericho from Iericho to Vrsa maior from thence to Tyburne from Tyburne to the diuell and from him with a dispensation to the campe of the King yet he I say tooke the nearest way euen passing out by that gate of the citie which lead vnto the enemies campe Monstrum horrendum I thinke there was neuer such a wonder why Sixtus doost thou wonder that he went not the farthest way about Or that hee went to the campe about such a worke his feete being naturally so swift to shed bloud Or doost thou wonder that through that gate especially hee should passe without examination I should rather haue wondred if any had been so bold to examine him considering that they who set him about the worke were not so vnwise but to take order for his safe conduct out of the citie and so there was as free passage for him out of Paris as there was for Iudith out of Bethulia but see see here commeth another wonder he did not onely passe through the gates of the city but also through the campe of the enemies through the seueral watches and sentinells and through the garde which was next the body of the King how say ye by this Was not this a terrible wonder His holines meruaileth that the Frier was so freely receaued in the enemies campe that he was not examined that hee was not killed as though no man should looke vpon a Frier but presently hee should drawe out his dagger and slabbe him I answer his holines againe that happely those watchmen and warders did not see him perhaps he wēt inuisible When the first dag was discharged at the Prince of Orange a priest in Antwerp had suborned a base scullian for the feate to whome very charily he deliuered a stone of great valew affirming that while hee had it about him hee could not choose but goe inuisible yea though he were in the Princes chamber I knowe not whether your Frier had such a stone or no but suppose hee had not yet comming as an intelligencer for the campe with letters of credence from the friends of the King in a Friers weede peaceably with all counterfeit submission friendly I knowe not why hee should not be as easily admitted into the Kings owne pauilion as Iudith was into the tent of Holofernes but this thing in Iudith was wonderfull which his holines neuer considered that notwithstanding she aduentured her selfe as farre as shee did yet vnpolluted vnhurt vntouched she returned home safe and aliue againe and if it had so fallen out with Clement that after the murder committed hee had handsomely escaped and come away then had it been somewhat then had it been a wonder but see the hard hap when it came to the issue when it stoode vpon the making or marring either to proue a wonder or no wonder why then the miracle was marred the Monke was slaine O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnes and declare what wonders are done among the sonnes of men But lift againe me thinkes I heare Balaams asse speaking the Pope is become a Prophet and to commend this impious act hee alleageth a prophecie of his owne conspiring with the end and fall of the King wee did heretofore with some griefe foretell that he was like to come to some strange and shamefull end how can wee now but accept his censure vpon the fact who did so diuinely prophecie and foretell of the fact but will ye not beleeue that his holines did so prophecie Wil ye require our witnesses Wil ye put vs to our proofes Why then we call to witnes the Cardinalls of Ioyeuse of Paris and of Lenoncort Ah Sixtus thou canst not so deceaue vs the signes are many the proofes are too pregnant against you your self foretold his end we beleeue it for wel might you diuine of his death whose death your selfe had contriued and yet bee no more a Prophet then a Iudge which sitteth vppon the bench and saith this thiefe shall dye to morrow not because hee seeth it by