Sacra fames Where is the time that the kings of France and their Magistrates yea all good Christians had in such indignation those which dared to take either rewards or pensions of forraine Princes that if any were noted with this crime he was sure without either grace or remission ignominiously to loose his life for this iustice hath bene one of the firmest pillers which haue so manie ages sustained the excellencie of this Monarchy But sithence that kings and their officers haue neglected this vertuous obseruation it may easily be perceiued how the state of their Monarchie hath bene more and more shaken All other kings princes obserue inuiolably this maxime he which infringeth it is punished according to the rigor of the law for vnder shadow of these liberalities strangers take knowledge of the estate of the realme and so seduce the subiects And in this manner Cambyses espied deceiued the Ethiopians Now the preachers by meanes of their mercenarie tongues forget no art that may serue their purpose to suborne France but vse all meanes possible to make the king odious vnto her in altering by little and little by their flattering discourses the sincere amitie and faithfull loyaltie which she hath alwayes held entirely towards him either exalting euerie pettie imperfectiâ—â— aboue his great perfection either in blaming accusing or attributing vnto another the glorie onely due vnto him and contrariwise in all things magnifying the greatnes and vertues of this amorous Spaniard whom they paint out accomplished with all the perfections that may be imagined Briefely they omit nothing wherby they may substract France from her king who séeing vnderstanding and knowing all the practises that were managed against him notwithstanding flattereth himself or rather is so bewitched by this League that he will neither beléeue nor chastise y e opprobrious iniuries which were publikely attached against him yea euen oftentimes to his face so much as it séemed did he feare to displease or offend her which gaue such audaciousnes and courage to these naughtie packes that no man was accounted of vnlesse he ranged himselfe with the League to vomite out a world of iniuries against the authoritie of the king and he which could gorge out most whether in preaching or writing was accounted the most honest man yea euen those who are his owne creatures and fedde at his table are not ashamed to set themselues against him and rent his renowne by all manner of iniuries slanders As namely one called Roze bishop of Senlis the true portrature of ingratitude who among manie other iniuries vttered one worthily meriting a corporall punishment yet this good prince was content onely for his chastisement to banish him the court Likewise an Aduocat of Paris named Breton was so impudent as to publish to the world a book against him repleate with mischieuous calumniations notwithstanding it was eueÌ„ against his will that iustice was executed vpon him But for these holy preachers did they approue this act of iustice nothing lesse but rather reprooued it as a tyrannicall act so that one of them named Boucher was so shameles as to preach that the cord wherwith the Aduocat Breton was strangled was a thousand times more honorable then the scarlet robe of the president which condemned him I cannot here forget a certain Parisian instructed and prompted by Madame de Mompensier who faigning himselfe mad entered y e Louure vttering a thousand detestable words against the person of the king yet for his knauerie he was but simplie whipped in one of the oâ—â—…ces of that place Behold how this prince brooketh these iniuries which were disgorged and that impudently against him and his authoritie Behold how careful he is to extinguish the fire which kindleth to borne him and the estate of his realme so that well may it be said of him Malum est quidem habere imperatorem sub quo nemini licet quicquam facere sed multo peius est quando omnia licent omnibus The League hauing now had a long time to practise vpon France ouer whom she had alreadie gotten this aduantage that it easily gaue her credite in whatsoeuer aduised with her selfe that it was now high time to let them which had set her a work sée some better fruits of her trauell So that leauing off words such like matters she will now venter vpon practise wherein the dice chanced so well that her enterprise fortuned euen to her wish And this was when she called the Duke of Guise with his other partakers into the citie of Paris against the will of the king who as well for the more assurance of his person as to ferret out certaine mischeiuous naughtipackes lurking priuily in the said citie which put in feare the good seruants of the king whom the League termed by the name of Polliticks placed the guards of his body in certain places of the citty but the League caused him soone to know that shée had so throughly altered the will of the people that they were farre more affectioned to the said Guysard then to him himselfe which he then perceiued when it was too late to remedy Thus within lesse then thrée or foure houres the Parisians were so animated against the kings guard by the instigation of the Duke of Guise as himself vaunted and braued in certaine letters directed to the nobility of France that they killed hurt diuers of them yea y e king himselfe was scarsely spared for the Barricados were planted within the gate of his Louure in such sort that he thought his stay would be far more perillous then his departure This is that infortunate day which y e preachers haue extolled as the most fortunate day which happened of a thousand yeares in France and which they themselues in open sermon baptised by the name of Barricados as in truth it hath beene very aduantagious for the master whom they serue The king hauing receiued this indignitie of his France in y e capitall cittie of his realme and in the sight of all the Princes in Christendome who were there resident in the person of their Ambassadours or Agents did he shew himselfe to be mooued or angrie not at all but as if he had too much let loose the bridle of his malignant affections fearing a worse euent he is content to put vp the wrong and to accuse himselfe So seeking to reconcile himselfe with her he made it knowne that he would assemble the estates of his realme by whose aduise and counsell he would hereafter rule all his actions and that he might shew some confirmation of his will he casheard in one morning about 33. of his Edicts At the first bruit of this declaration the League séemed somwhat male content fearing that if Fraunce being admonished and reprooued by her king should haue any remorse of conscience for her fault shée would returne to her former duety yet considering that she had so practised her nearest counsailors that they would speake
and religious partly killed in diuerse maners partly detained in perpetuall prison partly banished the Realme part chained in galleys and part vagabonds wandering in the forrests and hiding themselues in dens for feare lest they should fall into the hands of these mercilesse hangmen do sufficiently testifie his cruel and sanguinarie ambition I will content my selfe with naming of some few hereafter referring them which would know farther to the copie of an Epistle written by our king to Pope Gregorie the thirtéenth albeit that was but in the beginning of our miseries and slaughters which are sithens so multiplied that the number is now infinite The Spaniard séeing him self enriched with the spoiles of our king contenting not him self with this pray imagined it should serue but as a ladder to mount vp to the top of an absolute monarchy And being drunke with the greatnesse of this happy successe he began to plot higher attemps in his spirit as ambition neuer wanteth matter proposing France for the marke of his other enterprises but knowing well that he might not attempt openly and that herein force of armes might turne rather to his dammage then profite he resolued to follow the aduise of Lisander namely where the lyons skin is not strong enough to patch it with a péece of the fores But then he imagined that nothing could more securely and more soone eleuate him to the top of this greatnesse then a forcible ladder of gold vnderpropped with a more then Punicke subtilty and masked with a false semblance of integritie Likewise séeing that he had principally two great obstacles in France namely the late king and Monsieur his brother he deliberated to remooue the lesser And to come to the point of this enterprise knowing the naturall auarice and ambition of the Dukes of Guise and Maine who following the trace and instruction of their father and their vncle the Cardinall pretended to enrich their Bonnet with the thrée floure deluces and if not of all three yet at least of a part he easily corrupted thē with rewardes and promises in so much that shortly they accorded vpon the death of Monsieur either by poyson or otherwise and that by a Gentleman of his own traine named Salsede who being attainted and conuicted of the said enterprise was drawne in péeces with horses in the citie of Paris hauing first discouered and accused those which had practised with him But your king who ought according to the enormitie importance of the cause to haue made exact search iustice vpon the culpable ouer whom at that time he had sufficient puissance caried not him selfe toward the truth with that diligence that the importaunce of the cause did merit Et haec prima mali labes For he knowing the humour of the abouesaid he ought infallibly to haue held them suspect of great mischiefes in his Realme For all this the Spaniard altered not his enterprises but cōtrarily continuing and more and more augmenting the pensiōs of his two partakers practised euery day new matters Finally a few yeares after he obtained that which he had long expected for lo Monsieur being made away not without euident suspitiō of poison now y e Spanish king not being able any longer to cōtaine the heat of his ambition enclosed or hidden shewed himself so amorous of France that without ceassing he cheared courted it solliciting continually his partakers to venter and briefly leauing nothing vndone which he thought might conduct him to the port of his desires which being not able to reach vnto it hammered his head gnawed his inwards with a tedious torment Suppressing his passions as impatient that his partakers could not withdraw or diswade her from her fidelitie he had recourse vnto that remedie which customablie foolish and desperate louers vse namely some fine Dariolette or Magician and indéed he searched so much and so curiously that at last he recountred with a mischieuous and craftie harlot not ignorant in Magicke who had bene engendred nourished brought vp and entertained in the proud and magnificke Pallaces of Rome whom hauing furnished in abundance with all that was requisite for her affaires recommending vnto her all the artificialnes of her craft but especially to keepe her selfe disguised vnder the maske of the Catholike religion he presently sends her into France And this is that mischieuous and traiterous harlot which is called the holy league a name truely fatall and pernitious to euerie well ordered Monarchie and common wealth This sorcerie and subtletie of the League is incontinently receiued with great applause of the partakers pensionaries of Philip king of Spaine who leaue nothing vndone that they may make her séeme plausible vnto France The king himselfe maketh semblance of a faire countenance in entertaining it courteously yea making great difficultie to giue credite to his most faithfull subiectes friends and seruants who pertinently declared that it was not begun for other end but to withdraw France from his obedience and finally to rauish her from betweene his armes But the good prince is alreadie so charmed by her alluring speaches that contrarily he sweareth onely by her and acteth whatsoeuer shée commandeth at least giuing outwardly sufficient demonstrations like to that infortunate Priamus who was so bewitched with the sorceries and subtleties of Helena that instéed of giuing credite to the true speaches of his owne daughter Cassandra who prophesied vnto him the misfortunes that should in the end fall vpon him and his kingdome by meanes of this faire Dame he not onely taunted her as a foole but also detained her in prison Alas you Frenchmen how manie true Cassandras hath your king had which foretold him the ruine both of him and you Notwithstanding it is manifestly séene what small estimate both he and you haue made of their holy and profitable aduertisements nay you haue bin so far frō giuing credit to this infallible Oracle y t otherwise you haue mocked searched for y e authors as mē guiltie of some capital crime And herein you may be compared to the Orithains who after they had whooted and hissed at Euphraces the Orator they imprisoned him as a perturber of the people for that he aduertised thē to take héed least they submitted themselues vnder the tyrannie of Philip king of Macedon as afterward they found it too true Now this damnable League this impudent courtisan proposing her selfe to corrupt the fidelitie of France gained first of all secretly those whom she knew gaue most credence vnto her as manie of the nobilitie some of the officers as well of the kings as of the cities and in a manner all the Ecclesiasticall persons who oh horrible shame made no conscience to sell for ready money their eloquence and knowledge which they ought to haue imployed in preaching the gospel and instructing the simple people in the feare of God and obedience to their king to corrupt the constancie and fidelitie of France but Quid non mortalia pectora cogis auri
Corinthes had not fallen into a tyrannicall gouernement if they had not submitted thēselues vnder Timophanes a forraine leader The Brittaines were chased their Realme by the English Saxons The Spaniards by the Moores and the Gréekes by the Turkes onely by crauing succour of them in their warres yet this Frēch League passeth a degrée further she not onely calleth in the Spaniard to aide to destroy her owne children but she will wholy submit her self vnto him and make him her soueraigne Lord which because she might not as yet openly and absolutly doe for some considerations she aduiseth vpon some fit expediēt to couer her mischieuous intention and to the end to cloke her theft which she secretly desireth to commit with the said Spaniard she elected for her king by forme of acquit Charles Cardinall of Bourbon a man ouerworne with age whom she had purchased to no other end but to alienate the Crowne being wel assured that he could not hinder but rather profit much for the negociatiō betwéene the Spaniard and her as before times he had alwayes done for this Prince she had expreslie reserued for this affaire But the late king hauing as it séemed foreséen this accident to hinder him from disturbing the state any more had committed him to a place where being surely guarded neither his rebels nor the Spaniard might aide him at their deuotion which meruailously disquieted them For Fraunce of her selfe could do nothing to any effect without the authoritie of her beane king as I may terme him whom she onely vsed as a couert for her traiterous monopolies and inuentions against her legitimate and naturall king albeit he had not right or title to the Crowne the king being liuing whom to be deliuered of they would euen remoue heauen and earth if it were in their power but seeing all this was to no purpose because the said Cardinall was surely guarded by the good faithfull seruants of the king she recoursed vnto force of armes and setteth a great armie in the field which charged vpon the king being at that time with a small cōpanie at Deipe and there abouts promising vnto themselues either to slay him to captiuate his person or at the least to cause him flie the Realme but God so assisted him by his own prowesse and the valour of his owne souldiers with the succours sent vnto him by the Quéene of England that his enemies had but onely the wil to hurt him the grief because they were altogether vnable to hurt him for the king defeated and repulsed them valerously and afterward searched them euen at the gates of Paris from whence they durst not appeare to answere him in battaile which he presented vnto them The Spaniard for his part continually entertaineth France with faire wordes great hope of new forces sufficient enough aswell to set the fained king at libertie as to defeate him which truely and by good title is called king And in déede fiue or six mouethes after the charge vpon Deipe was the Countie Egmond sent with a great troupe The Pope also sent his Legate to comfort encourage her In such manner that a puissant armie presented it selfe to the king who sodainely set him selfe in battaile aray in the plaine of Yury where God once againe so miraculously fauoured him although his enemies forces were twise as great as his that he gained y e victorie hauing slaine the greatest part of his enemies amōg whom was the Countie Egmond and put the rest to a shamefull flight which sore troubled Frāce and yet behold another worke of God who working for his annointed about two monethes after tooke the Cardinall to him selfe This vnexspected death of the Cardinall rechargeth her with diuers and troublesome thoughtes She saw that the king had a puissant armie which so encreased euery day that he had conquered a good part of his kingdome and which more tormented her she saw that he had blocked on all sides the Citie of Paris which then suffered an extreme defect both of victuals and other commodities which occasioned the people to open their eyes which superfluitie of ease the charmes of the League vntill then had shut vp and vailed and surely they would willingly haue yéelded to the king had not the damnable League by her subtelties the force of her partakers retained thē in their obstinacie whether they would or no. Thē began France to perceiue the fraude of the Spaniard and the illusions of the League acknowledging that being foolishly perswaded she had committed vnpardonable faultes against her king and that perseuering in her follie she had rashly takē armes against him whom she ought to haue cherished more then any Prince in the world who notwithstāding is so mercyfull that she might haue promised her selfe that he would forget all that was passed So that she fully determined to send to his Maiestie to entreate of peace but that she was so watched by the League and intāgled in her laberinthes that she might doe nothing without her knowledge or consent who counselleth her to propose vnto the king among other Articles these two following 1. That he should change his Religion into the Romish Catholike Religiō a thing that she knew well that the king would neuer accorde vnto especially at that time 2. That he should pardō all those which are coulpable of y e death of the late king a thing which he neither might nor ought to do And as touching the changing of his Religiō albeit he holdeth it for the most true and holy notwithstanding he hath alwayes protested that he would submit him selfe to the decrées of a holy frée Councell generall or nationall assembled to determine of the two Religiōs which are professed in his kingdome to the end to embrace that which shalbe iudged most Christian to reiect the other But that he is an heretike he denieth for that no Councell hath condemned the Religion which he professeth to be heresie But put case his Religion were hereticall yet it maketh not either him or any other person incapable to possesse those goods which naturally and lawfully belong vnto him and to force his conscience in regard of Religion were a thing vneasie to doe If his Religion be not good they néede not feare for that he cannot long vphold or maintaine it in his Realme séeing Iesus Christ hath said Euery plant which my heauenly father hath not planted shalbe plucked vp by the roote They may sée a faire plea vpon this question in the 5. of the Actes where a Doctour of the law named Gamaliell speaking of the Religion and doctrine of the Apostles said vnto the high Priest and to the Iudges If this counsell or worke be of men it will come to naught but if it be of God ye cānot destroy it least ye be found euē fighters against God And doe not you manifestly resist the word of God to sustaine a Religion by the point of the sword and enforce men
honor It would highly content me might I vnderstand that ye haue followed my sincere and faithfull aduertisement beléeue that I haue brotherly aduertised and faithfully counselled you to your great vtilitie and profit and that all the rigorous more then barbarous cruelties of the Spaniard which you haue heard are as true as his tyrānous iniquities are manifest to the whole world These things haue I discouered vnto you as an eye witnesse hauing remained in Portingale after the departure of our king no lesse miserable then poore Achamenides abandoned of his Prince Vlysses in the deserts of Sicilie For I haue alwayes euen to this present liued poorely in dens most often in forrests rockes and caues and sometime in some litle corner of my friends house like a languishing prisoner which hath continually hanging before his eyes y e apprehension of a cruell death Shew not your selues lesse credulous to my true spéech then were the Troians to that of the Gréeke Achamenides Most happie the man which keepeth a care By other mens harmes to learne to beware Sirs I haue declared vnto you how mischieuously you haue bin seduced by the Spanish faction which pretendeth to vsurp your realme and captiuate your libertie for this is the finall end of the plots Monopolies which he hath practised and of the dissentions which he hath ingeniously sowed among you Now therfore my desire is to aduertise you in few words but especially those which may carrie an opinion that I haue compiled this discourse not so much for your good as for the affection that I haue to sée your king to the particular contentatiō of him and his peaceably to possesse his kingdome that nothing hath incited me to this admonition but the brotherly charitie the good wil that I haue to sée your troubles asswaged to the end that you be not hereafter tormented by ciuill warrs that the Spaniard possesse not any more your sottish affections but rather after so many so great trauels which willingly you haue heaped vpon your selues you may enioy a long peaceable trāquillitie which all good men ought to wish for with hands lifted vp to demand of the diuine goodnes of God and not maliciously to nourish and enkindle warre which finally heapeth most miseries vpon those which do most séeke after it Behold thē your case taking all things that I haue said in the worst sort touching the estate of your king flattering your selues y t without great difficultie he shal neuer become Master of his kingdome whilest you are his aduersaries fauorise the partie of the Spaniard or any other his enemies that for this occasion I haue takē in hand to induce you to reconcile your selues towards his Maiesty require pardō of your follies But y e case is farre otherwise then either you think or your preachers giue you to vnderstand He is not thanks be to God so disfurnished of courage of good and faithfull subiects nor of the assistance of his affectionat friends who are puissant many but that he can both easily speedily bring you to what reason he will and wholly purge his realme of this lothsome Spaniolized League yea and follow the Master thereof by the trace were he neuer so litle pushed forward by ambition For you know wel how many townes he hath forced reduced to his obedience and that euen at the first sight Neither are you ignorant that his only clemencie hath retained his puissance frō forcing subuerting saccaging the citie of Paris herin shewing himself rather a father then a king not willing to do that against his people which he well might do their obstinat rebellion had iustly deserued But me thinketh it is now more thē hie time not any longer to abuse his patient clemēcie lest at length it happen to your own great harm as saith the prouerbe Patientia nimium laesa conuertitur in furorem The example of many kings yea of your own kings who haue chastised their people according to their merites ought long agoe to haue brought you to this consideration amēding your selues rather to day then to morrow And indéed there is great apparence that he wil now betake himself to rigor séeing his clemencie cā not vanquish your obstinate courage by y e great preparatiōs of war which forrain Princes addresse to assist him as the Q of England who hath already sent good auantcurrors all the Princes of Germanie many Princes of Italy the kings of Scotland Denmark Sueueland other septentrional Princes Yea if he would require the succors of the great Turk it is certain he might be furnished In such sort that I sée that if you do not shortly remedy it in submitting your selues to his Maiestie the most terrible storme that euer lighted vpon France is euen now readie to light vpon you to breake a sunder subuert the very eybrow of your proud and detestable rebellion No no looke not that the Spanish king with all his double pistolets craftie subtleties arrogant brauados shalbe sufficient to turne away neuer so litle this impetuous cruell tempest hanging within two fingers of your head Recourse therfore spéedily to your Prince before he hath exiled his mercie and clemencie I verily hope that by this you are become wiser then you were so shall your monarchie herafter become more excellent then euer before vnder the gouernement of so vertuous magnanimous a king FINIS
commandeth them not to meddle with the estates of Princes to seduce their people causing them to reuolt against thē nor to cause their doctrine to be obserued by armes committing cruel and bloodie butcheries vpon all persons without any exception as these our venerable masters haue done for these thirtie yeares and do yet sollicite others to do and herein must I néeds commend the policie of all other kingdomes which forbid vpon grieuous penalties that diuines should in their sermons dispute vpon matters of state But how dare I take in hand to beate downe so puissant a Prince redoubted to all Europe who hath so great commaundement ouer me bieng subiected vnder his puissance your naturall and legitimate king of whom it may be well said Rex quo iustior alter Nec pietate fuit nec bello maior armis He onely it is that may vaunt as sometime that great chieftaine Abarius vaunted Sweat dust and such like things are more delectable vnto vs then the most delicate fare And briefly this is he who from his cradle hath followed the counsell that Plinius secundus giueth to a magnanimous Prince which desireth to be skilfull in militarie affaires Princeps saith he vt sit Militaris debet prius multum dium bello periclitatus esse sic enim disciplina militaris scientissimus erit This is he which is more then sufficient to breake all the attempts and enterprises of the Spaniard yea euen to pursue him into his owne countrie if neede were which he knowing full well hath for this long time sowed discention betweene you and hath enterprised to make him odious vnto you fearing that if you should both march vpon one foote he should be constrained to take héede to himselfe without enterprising vpon his neighbours so that he should fal from this high attempt to become Monarch of the world It is méere simplicitie in you to redoubt the said Philip séeing his greatnes is growne onely by the negligence floath and malice of those ouer whom he hath tyrannically vsurped as namely ouer vs Portingales In like manner would he waxe great by your ciuill dissentions which are vnto him as a bridge to passe ouer vnto your soueraintie For making you beléeue that he wil as a friend succour you against him whom falsly you intitle your enimie he will vse the same subtletie that this other Philip of Macidone vsed who vnder colour of assisting diuers people of Grecia against their neighbours saying that it was the dutie of a friend confederate to lend succours to others in their vrgent affaires easily possessed himselfe of their common wealths And thinke you I pray you that Philip of Spaine will tell you by his hyred preachers for you will not hearken to any other that he wil first reduce you vnder his gouernment afterward handle you rigorously for my part I thinke him more wise neither doubt I that you thinke otherwise but rather to the end to intrappe you he promiseth you more good then you dare hope or wish for of your legitimate king But if you haue any discretion be it neuer so little you will make no receit of such excessiue promises for that they are too much suspect and too full of distrust which in this case ought to finde some place in you Men haue inuented diuers thinges conuenient for the defence and conseruation of their citties as wals ditches trenches bulwarks bastiles engines artillerie and such like which haue not bene done without great charges by ingenious mechanickes and workmen But sage discretion findeth naturally in it selfe an inexpugnable rampire especially in a free people against the assaults and inuasion of a tyrannous vsurper and what rampier is this a distrustfull foreséeing wherewith if you be thoroughly fortified no encombrance shall annoy you but you shal conserue your deare libertie wherof the Spaniard is a sworne enimie and vsurper Good God how grieuous would it be vnto you if after al this you make the Spaniard possessour of you and yours and that by your owne meanes murthering one king reiecting another who is your legitimate king disaduowing your owne children contemning your nobilitie disdaining your most faithfull people ouer whom you haue made innumerable extorsions And briefly after hauing suffered all the mischiefes in the world on your members afféebled with trauell Instéede of finding in this Spaniard all recreation pleasure swéetnes courtesie rest and tranquilitie he should cause you to enter from a feuer to a frenzie For to deliuer you from warre which you most desire what face soeuer you set vpon it for that it is grieuous and wearisome vnto you he cannot doe it though he would for that he hath too strong parties not to speake of strangers which thing if it may go by vsurpation haue as good right in your kingdome as he You haue good example of my saying at your doore euen Flaunders his patrimonie which is now a thousand times lesse in peace then it was in the beginning of their troubles I assure my selfe that the least warres that you haue vpon you as well of his part as by his occasion shall be more tedious vnto you then all those which for this thirty yeares you haue supported yea comprising the last albeit in good earnest they felt the extraordinarie rigour of the Spaniard which notwithstanding in comparison of these future haue bene but as childes play albeit it was long of those which first began them to the great griefe of the most faithfull who were forced to defend themselues against the arrogancy of the Guysards who would tread them vnder their féete And albeit herein they had committed some fault which cannot be said for that they did it for their defence yet are they neuerthelesse in some sort excusable for that they are houshold children For like as he which is borne in a rich and puissant family if he happen to do any thing vnfitting and contrarie to his duetie is not to be blamed or reprehended so sharply as a stranger but if some seruant or stranger hath lost or wasted that whereunto he hath not any right how much more foully should he fault and how much more grieuously were he to be reprehended Now it goeth farre otherwise with the Spaniard for not onely he is not French but also he hath nothing in him worthy to be simbolized in the least degrée to the good and laudable nature I say not of the Princes but of the meanest gentlemen of France All this notwithstanding is nothing in regard of the dolourous heartbreaking which incessantly shal torment you hauing in stéede of the master one of his seruaunts to rule and gouerne you by the name of a Viceroy Yea albeit he should giue you some French Lord but make account he will take héede to that he wil not handle you better thē vs Portugales or the Neapolitans and Milannois and all those which are vnder his subiection If the Grecians found it strange to haue Philip of Macedone