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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54322	A collection of some brave actions and memorable sayings of King Henry the Great. Writ in French by the Bishop of Rodez, as a supplement to the history of that King, formerly publish'd by the same author. Done into English. Licensed, June 6. 1688	Péréfixe de Beaumont, Hardouin de, b. 1605.	1688 (1688)	Wing P1465AA; ESTC R218232	15,617	73

of it and to that purpose he would make it known to them in the kindest manner imaginable Thus when Heaven had given him a Dauphin he caused him to be carry'd thorough the Streets in an open Cradle that the People might behold him at their ease and enjoy the pleasure of the sight of that Blessing which they had so long desired for the love of the Father I will here also observe some of his memorable Sayings some of which discover the Sentiments and very bottom of his Soul as others the quickness of his Wit. At such times as he was taken up in pressing Affairs so that he could not assist at Mass I mean upon the Worky-days for upon Holy-days and Sundays he never fail'd he used by way of excuse to say to the Prelates who were then at Court When I am employed for the Publick methinks I leave God for God himself Sometimes he used to say to his Confidents and most intimate of his Servants The French do not know me sufficiently they will know better when they have lost me what I am worth Then lifting up his Eyes to Heaven Lord I am ready to depart this World when you please but what will become of this poor People When any advised him to be more careful of the preservation of his Person than he used to be and not to go so often alone or so slenderly accompanyed as his custom was he would answer Fear ought not to be admitted into a Royal Breast He that fears Death will never attempt any thing upon me and he that despises his own Life may be always Master of mine in spight of a thousand Guards I commit my self to God when I rise and when I lie down I am in his Hands after all I live in such a manner that I ought not to distrust it belongs to Tyrants to stand continually in Fear The Duke of Orleans his second Son being extream sick and at the point of Death he declared That if he should die he would not have any go about to comfort him for he had entirely resign'd himself to the Will of God. Within two or three years after his coming to Paris all the Suburbs which were old ruinous Houses were repaired and the particular and publick Buildings which he rais'd in that great City made it become more Beautiful than ever The Spanish Ambassadors that came thither to swear the Treaty of Vervins were astonished to behold it in so good a Condition and so different from what it was in the War insomuch that they told him one day Sir Here 's a City mightily chang'd from what it was when we saw it last Do not admire at that said he when the Master is not at home all is in disorder but when he returns to his House his Presence becomes its Ornament and all things there feel the Advantage He was in very great streights at the beginning of his Reign in such manner that he was heard to say That he seemed once a King without a Kingdom a Husband without a Wife and a Warriour without Mony But since that God had shewn him so great Blessings as to give him his Arsenal he might boast that he had there wherewith to Arm Fifty Thousand Men with all sorts of Munition and in the Bastile which is near the other wherewith to pay them for three Years He said That he had crost the Imaginations of three sorts of People The Huguenots who thought he would be always of their Religion The Leaguers who hoped he would not suffer himself to be converted And the third Party who believed he would never be married to a second Wife I have deceived them all three said he I have left the Huguenot Opinions I am become a good Catholique I am married again and I have Children that shall succeed me if God pleases He said also That when he first came to the Crown he found three Parties that he had united all three into one without any Terms of distinction that he was the King of these as well as those that he believed them all equally affected to his Service but that it belonged to him to make the Difference and to chuse those that he thought most capable Nerestan a very gallant Gentleman having raised him a Regiment and as he protested that he desired no recompense but only the Glory to serve him The King Replyed Good Subjects ought to speak as you do they ought to forget their Services but it belongs to the Prince to remember them and if he desires that they should continue faithful he ought to be just and acknowledging The Huguenots requiring of him some places of security he told them I am the only Security of my Subjects I never yet broke my Faith with any And when they replyed That King Henry III. had given them such The Times then said he were such that made him fear you and not love you but as for me I love you and fear you not Some have made him give the same Answer to other Persons They told him one Day of a certain Captain who had been of the League and was really a very gallant Man but tho he had been pardoned by him and had obtained from his Favour many other Benefits yet for all this he loved him not at all I will said the King do him so many good Offices that I will force him to love me whether he will or no. 'T was thus that this Prince used to gain back the greatest Revolters And he was used to say to those who admired at such Proceedings That a Man catches more Flies with one spoonful of Honey than twenty Tun of Vineger But as Policy obliged him to do thus to those who loved him not so his Generosity caused him always to grant an easie Pardon to those who humbly sought it by Submission And he had often that excellent Verse of Virgil in his Mouth Parcere Subjectis Debellare Superbos He jeer'd those extremely who pass the Bounds of their Profession and meddle with those things that do not belong to their Science A Bishop one Day discoursing of Martial Affairs very ill-favouredly he turn'd from the Cock to the Ass as the Saying is and askt him To what Saint does the Office of that day belong in your Breviary At another time his own Taylor having printed a little Book of certain Orders which he thought necessary for the Public Good and presenting it to the King he took it laughing and having run over some Pages he called to one of his Valets de Chambre Go says he fetch hether my Chancellor to make me a new Suit since you see here my Taylor has undertook to make Orders for Government A Gentleman of Provence having purchased at a dear Rate a Presidents place for which he was fain to borrow Mony being come to wait upon the King he said softly to a Lord that was near him Behold here a good Judge I doubt not but he will discharge the Duty that he owes very honestly in a small time A Famous Physician being converted from Huguenotism to the Catholique Religion he said to Sully My Friend your Religion is desperately sick the Physicians have given it over The Huguenots of Poictou and Zaintonge having sent to him certain Deputies to request some Succours soon after his Conversion he bid them Apply your selves to my Sister your Government is now fallen to Distaff that Princess remaining still a Huguenot The Queen making a Ball in the first Year after her Marriage for which she made choice of Fifteen of the most Beautiful and best qualified Ladies of the Court he said thus to the Nuncio Sir I never beheld a more Beautiful Squadron nor in all my Wars one more dangerous than this A certain Lord who had a long time stood Neuter during the troubles and took part with neither side coming to him one time into the Room where he was playing at Cards he call'd to him thus Come Sir you are welcom if we win you shall be on our side A Lady of Condition but very old and dry being come to a Court-Ball in a green Dress he told her merrily That he was much obliged to her for having reconciled Verdure and Driness to honour the Company A Spanish Embassador saying by way of Menace that the King his Master would maintain such an Action at the Head of an Hundred Thousand Men He replyed angerly You deceive your self they are not Men in Spain but Shadows Once when the Prevost de Merchands and the Eschevins came to demand of him his permission for the raising a small Imposition upon the Water-pipes in Paris towards the defraying the Expences of the Entertainment of Forty Swisse Deputies lately arrived there for the renewing the Allyance he answered Find some other expedient it belongs only to our Lord to change Water into Wine Behold here a small part of the renowned Actions and memorable Sayings of Henry the Great There is an infinite number of others which are graved in immortal Characters in the Hearts of all good French-men who pass them from Father to Son through all Posterity to serve for a Model to Sovereign Princes who aim as they ought to reign happily and measure their Power by the Rules of Goodness and Justice FINIS