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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55902	The history of France under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarine containing all the remarkable and curious passages in the government of that state, from the death of King Louis XIII, which happened in the year 1643, to the death of the cardinal, which was in the year 1664 / written in Latine by Sieur Benjamin Priolo ... ; done into English by Christopher Wase.; Ab excessu Ludovici XIII de rebus Gallicis historiarum libri XII. English	Priolo, Benjamin, 1602-1667.; Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing P3506A; ESTC R7055	242,261	471

th● minds of men They complain grievously t● Mazarine whom they did now obliquely reflect upon For the Grandees and Leading-men in the House drove at this to cast all the blame upon him out of a mischievous and bad design not to expe● him which was then scarce thought of by any but to over-awe him and render him subservient to their Interests I do not deny that some there were who wished him turned off through the frai● temper of humane Spirit that always judgeth that best which it wants There was one Peter Broussel a Member of the Parliament of Paris most single in his carriage easie of access a vertuous and most honest man of no ill Principles but easie to be led by the designing party Therefore he seemed fit to be made the subject of the tinkling Cymbal to sound for the publick discontent The seeds of Civil discord are fomented every day more than other The Masters of Requests publish a Libel very derogatory to the Kings Authority They unite with the Parliament and joyn together in disobedience to the Kings Prohibition They agitate about the male-administration of the Kingdom That the publick money was misemployed to private uses thereupon there was no Treasury no Common-wealth that burdens were laid upon the people such as they were no longer able to bear That there was an end of the French Empire some person must be found out to relieve the distressed State Now if any one thought the Kings Revenue too small it would have the defect supplied not by oppressing the Subject but by good husbandry that every one should limit his expences not after his lusts which are unlimited but according to his means That it was but a pretended complaint that the Kings Revenue was not sufficient for his Disbursements whenas so many former Kings have lived upon them with credit and splendour have been renowned in the Field and terrible to their Enemies both in Peace and War The more strictly these Meetings were prohibited the more often were they held Blammeny Charton and Broussel speak more boldly than the rest That in the Minority of the King the Charge of the Kingdom lay upon the Parliament time would come as heretofore hath fallen out that the King coming to Age and entring himself upon managing the Government would call the Parliament to an account for the mis-government of the State of France Therefore they should provide to be found such as had the courage to be good Patriots in bad Times such would they be as should pity the publick misery and prevent future Troubles How it reflected upon the French Name and was scandalous in the face of Europe that none could be found within so famous a Kingdom worthy to be intrusted to set at the Helm of that State but they must be put to make use of a strangers head That it a hard a hard case cry they Country-men and if there were any drop of true French Blood running in our veins intolerable that a Spanish Woman and a Foreigner Roman be he or Sicilian should tread upon her Kingdoms That the Princes of the Blood should be so tame as that none of them should dare to open his mouth but let it be stopped with promises In the mean time the Common-wealth goes to wrack no man ventures with the publick Fortune but every one shifts for himself They make indeed say they many and fair offers but as soon as a crust is thrown before them they are still and sleep soundly over the publick Sufferings What have we to do with Italian Fidlers with Players and Comedians The Manners of France are of themselves more than enough corrupt and do not need Out-landish debaucheries These carry out our money and bring in their vices To what purpose are there so many Scenes and Operas to represent incestuous Amours whose subjects for the most part contain adulterous Acts A custom of seeing such sights grows into a boldness of imitating such practices Our young Gentry learns nothing from thence but names of new lusts and unbandsom Ribaldry Our Country-manners are by degrees abolished and utterly turned out by taking in lasciviousness from abroad so that whatever means of corrupting or being corrupted is any where had may be seen in the City and our Youth degenerates into foreign fashions by having no business wherein to be employed Nor is there only a liberty ●o all loosness but a kind of constraint For persons have been taken notice of that did not come to see Comedies Are they not likely to prove rare Judges that attend upon wanton Tunes and Melody of Voices That nights too farther were taken up with these disgraceful entertainments that so no time might be left to modesty but in a promiscuous Company what every debauched Wretch designed in the day he might take the boldness to effect in the night For Mazarine himself that he perhaps was of a blameless life and had a profound Wit but that it was through his indulgence that the Court swarmed with Italians the Streets ●rung of nothing but their unknown Gibbrish which grates upon our ears That the money is spent upon Plays whilst brave men are left to struggle with extreme indigence Where are those ancient Statesmen that assisted the needy that did not count the Church-Revenues their private Possessions but the reward of Vertue What is more shameful than for men of Honour to wait in the Ante-Chamber without any distinction from the mean Attenders day and night to stand to the mercy or scorn of Porters and discontented to take Coach left the babling Servant should unhappily blaze abroad the misadventure of a Visit attempted without success That Biragues the Mila●nite heretofore was intrusted with the Management of our Affairs but he was of integrity no Scholar indeed nor trained up to Arts or Sciences only supported the Person of Chancellour and no more And this practice was in good time used to win the Transalpine Galls to bear our yoke The Marquess d' Ancres never presided over our Counsels but was tolerated for the Queens particular favour which he enjoyed and had been longer if he had not so far forgot himse●● and us as to turn all to his own ends and within left posterity this Caution not over-much to trust the deceitful Complements of French-men Now the master sounds far different abroad the world that 〈◊〉 have put our necks under a foreign yoke that 〈◊〉 France depends upon Julius Mazarine that he keep under the same Roof with the King is called Prime Minister a name unknown to us under that preten●● that he deals about War and Peace about the Exchequer the Dignities and Revenues of the Church the Principal Offices of the State as about his own Concernment without any controul That the King and Queen are not to be applied to but by his permission And what is more scandalous that the Italian Ministers carry them so loftily as that no man of any understanding can endure their