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A08083	The tocsin, or watch-bell sent to the king, queene regent, princes of blood, to all the parlaments, magistrates, officers, and loyall subiects of France. Against the booke of the popes temporall power, not long since set forth by Cardinall Bellarmine Iesuite. By Memnons Statue. With the permission of the best genie of Fraunce. And done into English by I.R. ...; Tocsin au roy. English	Le Jay, Nicolas.; I. R., fl. 1611.; France. Parliament (Paris)	1611 (1611)	STC 1845; ESTC S113759	24,586	62

which is in the lustre of her Soueraignty causeth her to be no longer France and maketh the valuation of her worth to be exceedingly debased and diminished Bellarmines booke for a time will be but a small pepin or kernell but with growth of yeares he will grow to be a very thicke Forrest full of trees and branches and if it be not in time lopped and prun'd it will finally ouertop and beate downe the fruit of the French trees life and infect it as the Salamander which lurketh in the hollow of some fruit tree and so through his extreme coldenesse doth by little and little cause him to wither and die When Iupiter gaue the marueilous rodde vnto Mercury his Messenger he accompanied it with shame to beare it vnto human persons immediatly after Epimetheus had framed man But I thinke that Iesus Christ the true God was no lesse careful when he gaue authority to Popes to accompany them with modesty in bearing themselues discreetly towards men I know well that as the Egyptians made Virgins to sit on Lyons so the diuine prouidence of God hath placed Ecclesiasticall authority aboue temporall but so as Popes ought alwayes to remember that this spirituall authority is without issue or earthly production as a Virgin which hath no children yea and ought no more forget that Kings are Lions And as it is easie for a Lyon at one fastening of his teeth to crush in sunder the bones of a Virgin if she affright him so it is easie for Princes to bound vp Popes in their limits if they once presume to anger them in any thing which concerneth their temp oraltie for therein consisteth their force and power A good Christian both indeede and name named Prudence said Non eripit mortalia qui Regna dat caelestia Would not Popes in these daies resemble Aaerons rodde which voide of leaues moth eaten and drie did neuerthesse in one night budde forth and become greene in such sort that the next morning the children of Israell perceiued not a branch without leaues not a Troncke depriued of humidity and separated from his sappe but contratiwise a tree greenly flourishing and loden with fruit This present time wherein we liue is not litterally the season of the Israelites but spiritually of the Iewes which miraculously retaine this rodde by miracle but make no vse of the vertue thereof since it was put into the Arke of the Couenant as faith Sjt. Paul to the Hebrewes chap. 9. it was neuer imployed nor vsed that we reade of in Scriptures There are no more Predericks in the world besides it is long since that Iuno Nucerene was extinguished the which in the warres of the Cymbrians in the turning of a hand made her withered rodde flourish And the Popes deceiue themselues to thinke that they alone can make the harmony of the Church wherein there must likewise be Kings and Princes as said Zeno hearing the Musitian Amebeus playing on his instruments that the entrailes sinewes and bones of beasts yea wood laid by accordant number and arrang'd by equall proportion make a pleasant and compleat harmony It is reported of Dragons that they rot by alwaies eating of their tailes and yet without eating any other flesh then their owne they cannot againe become yong So who will beleeue that the Popes for feare of rotting will not circumference themselues within the circle of their power but to become againe young they desire to eate the power of the Princes of the world Alas must it so fall out that I a Romane Catholique should see the Popes reproached and that in permitting the publishing of this Cardinals booke wherein France is vsed as the basest countrey of the world They haue forgotten that it is that holy Abicoboes and mountaine of refuge that stone of defence which Mahomet in his Alcoran not knowing notwithstanding the sense of his word said to be built by the hand of the Almighty for the sure and inexpugnable guard of his Ierusalem to wit the Church Yea yea as said Hanniball to Antiochus but to another purpose speaking of the forces of Syria towards the Romanes there are but too many Doctors in France capable to resist Bellarmine although copious and abundant in allegations yea there are in France enough to feather him and more then enough to feare him Cur spolieris erit non cur metuaris ab hoste O wise Villeroy vnder the branches of whose fanour and greatnesse lurke all those of the Romane faction which would wound our countrey seest thou not that the confused light of this Bellarmine sent amidst the cloud of the variablenesse of France doth presage our tempest and that the fire of his breath falling vpon the poopes of our vessels is the prognostication of the turbulency of our waters But I foresee that in the end the tempestuous storm of these waters will beare downe the Arke of their irregular power of Rome so farre that it will finally fixe and establish it vpon the toppes of the mountaines of Armenia where it cannot possibly any longer annoy the Kings of the earth He which foundeth this Toosin or Watch bell wise Villeroy is one which hath long admired thee which knoweth very much of thy proceedings and who daily weepeth at the diminution of the honor of our natiue countrey to the security and preseruation whereof thy too too great inclination to Rome giueth terrible assaults and aduantage But wherof should we feare the Clergy of France is rich But now the question is of the dignity of the Crowne of France which some endeuour to annihilate and extinguish and therfore who can hinder vs with Themistocles neither to put distinction of wealth places nor persons against the rash assertions of Bellarmine which seeke thereof to depriue vs and who can iustly reproue vs if with the Syracusans we holily vse our weapons consecrated to the Temple of the Olympian Iupiter especially sith it concerneth the defence of our liberty And if as said Publius Curulius it was lawfull to sell those trees which were most deuoutly consecrated to Apollo in the I le of Coee to build shippes for the warres doubt not Holy Father but that the Church of France vse both Fer feathers her treasures to reuenge her selfe of the wrongs which Bellarmine in his booke hath offered to the crowne of France and as the Athenians saued themselues by the pretious stones of the monuments of their deceased so we likewise will stone this Bellarmine to death with the stones of great Henry our late Kings tombe during whose life if he had published that which he hath since written that inuincible King would personally haue gone and fetched him out of Rome and so in expiation of his irremissible offence haue immolated and sacrificed him vpon the Altar of the Soueraignty of France O Bellarmine the warre is now denounced betwixt France and thee and remember that we will vse thee as the Argeans did the Spartans for whether thou recant liuing dead or otherwise

my comfort is that there is a great difference and distance betwixt the sale and deliuery of vs. I say if this come to passe to auoyde their enteprises it were better wee surprised them for otherwise it will befall vs as it did the Marriners of the Lake of Laumont in the Prouince of Escouie in Scotland which as long as the said Lake was tempestuous they passe without danger but being calme they alwayes endure shipwracke And alas who hath better and fitter meanes to annoy vs then the Iesuites who confesse the King importunately solicite the Queene liue as companions with Monsieur the Chancellor and Monsieur Villeroy of whom through their dexterity they may obtaine many things which may tend to our ruine as aduice and agents to those which employ them thereunto I am not ignorant that their speeches and bookes are more sweeter then the Syrens songs and that many good spirits pricked forwards with the spurre of Religion throw themselues headlong into the Sea of their acquaintance morefully to participate of their harmony But I know likewise that as the winde sprong vp which conducted Butes out of danger and saued him in Lybia so the winde which at present bloweth against them in France hath drawen many excellent spirits forth the Sea of their captiuity and hath fortunately brought them to the port of happines For considering more narrowly why they are so applauded and with a circumspectious eye beholding the forme of their comportments yea and not onely in their faces but in their liues and doctrines yea in their very hearts and actions they affirme they haue found nothing but death for life euill for good the losse of the Church for her preseruing and the losse of the estate for his conferuation As for me if such they are I am of opinion that there was neuer spell nor charme more stronger and powerfull then that wherewith they practise For when I do see a Sillery and Villeroy both spirites shining with brightnesse and on all sides enuitoned with piercing sights which as two Argus haue rather their heads in their eyes then their eyes in their heads to be so inchanted and lulled asleepe with the dissembling songs of those treacherous Mercuries which perceiue not that in shutting their eyes to their practises they both close vp and finish the dayes of their own honor and eclipse the splendor of the dignity of France their deere mother and sweete Countrey which hath so honourably imparted them the choyce of her chiefest dignities and yet of whom they will rauish her chiefest Iö to wit her independency and soueraignty whereof this great Iupiter in Bellarmines booke doth demonstrate himselfe desperatly enamoured I am besides my selfe and beleeue all and more too which antiquity hath reported of Circes the Magician This Capitolian Iupiter durst neuer haue assaulted our French Hercules in the face but when he perceiued his backe turned then hesent this couragious canker Sophister Bellarmine sweating with the blood of Princes to wound him in the heele But couragious couragious the wound is not yet mortall for Iolaus the inflexible Parliament of Paris will cure him yea and so manage and operate that this Ixion which thought himselfe cock-sure to haue embraced our French Iuno shall in stead thereof onely embrace a cloud from whence shal issue Centaures that shall go through all countries blessing those which will receiue them yet neuerthelesse shall not be entertained in France which was neuer ordained to be Augeas stable And as Theron King of Spaine knocking at the gate of Hercules Temple was with his whole Fleete miraculously consumed by a clap of lightning from heauen right so this booke beating at the Soueraignty of France shall iudicially be consumed to cynders together with all his Sophisticall reasons This being incident and fatall to France that as neuer vitious person entred into the Temple of Vulcan on mount Aetna but was by the guardians thereof destroyed and rent in pieces so there was neuer any ill affected to the Flower-deluces which heretofore hath published their impostures but by the vigilancie of the Parliaments haue beene both defaced and burnt And although the late troubles haue opened the doores of France and so let in some indiscreet and pernitious bookes as sometimes forrainers came and cast ancre in Diomedes Ilands wherein the habitation was onely permitted to the Grecians because there were certaine birds which Diomedes brought thither which would not endure that any others should peaceably reside there except those which were of Diomedes country so as if they found any forrainers or strangers there those carefull birds would violently fall on them picking and tearing their faces yea and biting their armes and breasts and neuer forsake them vntill they had slaine them In the same manner in this Kingdome are carefull and watchfull Parliaments and Magistrates which our Kings haue established that will neuer permit that the enemies of the state should violate their priuiledges or infringe their authority And although for a time either through importunity or protection of great personages they winke as if they saw nothing so permit them to inhabite amongst vs Neuerthelesse they will neuer tolerate themlong to dwell peaceably amongst vs but vvill closely and violently pursue them vntill they haue both extenuated and exterminated them yea and neuer wearie themselues to bite and sting them continually but proue as faithfull as the dogges being Porters of Mineruaes Iliadnes Temple in Dulia which by a naturall instinct alwayes bit those which came to prophane the Temple yea although they were brought in by her Priest which vnder colour of religion was deceiued by those detestable prophaners It is reported that the Lisards crooked teeth hauing once taken hold cannot be remoued without breaking them Let vs therefore breake the crooked teeth of this Lisard Bellarmine to the end he leaue vs in our auncient liberty and freedome It agreeth well with Rome to haue a Pantheon wherein to adore the generality of Gods but France can serue onely one Master And to speake truely the causes which concerne the Temporalitie of France ought not to be censured much lesse decided in the Consistorie of Rome For were that tolerated it were the direct way to put in practise the cousenage of subtle Ithacus who before the Grecian army would pleade the processe of generous and ingenious Palamedes to the end the sub●●ller to depose stone this innocent Prince and notwithstanding all this while to cloake treason with a dissembling shew of iustice and equity resembling the Popes which oueruaile their vsurpation with the scarfe of Religion But if Iupiter inflamed with choler commanded the Riuer Acheron to remoue and descend into hell because the water therof refresht the Tytans his mortall enemies which rebelled against him So what Iudge is there in France which will not be cheerefull yea willing to controlle yea consound such Stationers Libraries running Book sellers which cause seditious and pernitious pamphlets to alight

on the hearts of those which are enemies and rebels to their Prince and countrey to incourage and harden them in the execution of their wicked plots and proiects Eneas surnamed the Pious threatned with a cruell death those Ruteloys which furnished his enemy Turnus with armor and weapons and the Corcyriens burnt the citie of Cillena because the Helenians being Lords thereof had aided the Corinthians their enemies and shall our Iudges winke at the assistance and aide which these Booke-sellers giue the enemies of France by dispersing and selling this booke of Bellarmine which most secretly and dangerously they sow and distribute No France no if the Iesuites participate of this wickednesse entertaine them no longer as companions and friendes for being aduanced and risen through the fauour which thou hast bestowed on them they vse thee as the Scythian slaues did their Masters esteeming themselues worthy to aspire to their nuptiall beddes so the Iesuites beleeue they may both sport and doe what they please with the Soueraignty of France But once curbe and correct them with the whip and thou shalt see they will take heed to offend thee For I cannot more properly compare them then to the beasts Teuterydes which feare and flie at those which assault them and vehemently assault and follow those which permit them to repose and rest in peace Anciently wise Vlisses conceiued an extreme horrour when his seruant Eumenius informed him what theft and ryot the louers of his wife Penelope committed and acted in his house But now King Queene Regent Princes Iudges Magistrates Officers and commons of France would we might be showen the dangerous Maximes of this Cardinals booke the spoyle of subuersion which it pretendeth to doe in France if you I say foresee not and procure the suppression and extirpation therof yea be ye all inflamed thereat with iust anger for there is therein included and comprehended such dangerous positions and bloudy propositions that it is to be feared they will occasion the Kings Palaces and Cities to resemble the Cities and Palaces of Adonia wherein was nothing heard but cryes and sighes nothing seene but lamentations and teares Iudicious Queene let not the apparent and dissembling remonstrances of a Nuncio deceiue your vigilancy For herein your Maiesty may please to remember the Egyptian fable of the Crocodile who vpon the shores of Nylus hauing surprised a childe from his mother cryed out as he bore him away I will render him thee againe if thou canst define what I thinke the mother bitterly weeping answered I define thou wilt not render him me therefore restore him me for I haue defined aright The Crocodile replied If I restore him thee then thou hast lied I will therefore keepe him both for thee and me So when the censure of the Arest of Parliament was complained of and made knowne to our Bride and Lord the late King what promises did the Popes Nuncio make him that he would cause it to be both remedied and reuoked yea what sugred speeches gaue he to Monsieur Chancelier and Monsieur Villeroy who onely hindred and with-held that the Court of Parliament imposed and bent not their authority against it and which of all those faire promises hath he since accomplished and performed No no he well knoweth the humour of the French to be sensible in new wounds and forgetfull when they are become more aged and when they should seeke for reuenge thereof he beleeueth that amongst vs hee which hath time hath life or to say more properly He which is reprined is pardoned And so much will he now likewise doe to preuent the burning of Bellarmines booke but when the shame and feare thereof is past you shall neuer obtaine the honour of the libertie of France whereof this booke will depriue you yea his promises will vanish away as smoake knowing well that as Denis the tyrant had rather permit himselfe to be pulled and drawne downe from his Throne then to mount vpon a furious and warlike horse so the Popes his Masters haue determined neuer to abandon their pretension which they haue of the Soueraignty of France or to see themselues reduced and brought to an authority purely Apostolike and Sacerdotall except by meere force of the faithfull Officers of Kings Potentates and Princes It is an Axiome Madam incident to all Ambassadours wheron dependeth eyther the glory or the interest of the Princes their Masters Turpe est vinci sed non cessisse Decorum And to arriue to a Cardinalship there is no directer way then effectually to occasion Kings to submit themselues to the authority of Popes which falsely apply and attribute to themselues this verse of Dauids Psalme Ador abunt eum omnes Reges terrae omnes gentes seruient ei Which neuertheles belongeth not properly to any of them but on the contrary to Iesus Christ And for Cardinall Bellarmine he well knoweth that he hath not alwaies taught that which in his booke hee now teacheth concerning the Soueraignty of Popes ouer Kings For were not Sixtus the fift dead hee would make him wedde the prison of the Inquisition because hee then taught more conformable to the truth then he now doth But seeing this Cardinals booke now in the hangmans hand ready to be conuerted into ashes I would willingly demaund of him the sense of the same demaund which Cyrus made vnto Craesus whom he had vanquished and taken in battaile Bellarmine who hath called thee without reasonable motiues to warre against the temporall Soueraignty of France And I answere my selfe if his booke could speake it would answere for him The aduancement and security of the Soueraignty of France the augmentation of her honour but without thought thereof and for euer the eclipsing of the renowne of my authour with the eternall banishment of all his Aahaerents from the Territories of the Flower-de-Luce of which saith the Euangelist Salomon in all his maiesty was neuer so maiesticall as it is When Antipater would haue reduced the Lacedemonians to his subiection they said vnto him Vse vs as Citizens worthy of Lacedemonia and let our truce bee as preiudiciall vnto vs as it pleaseth thee so f●rre forth as it redound not to our shame So France saith at present to the Pope Vse me as France which hath temporally made thee what thou art and on that which is spirituall extend thy authority as farre as thou canst but beware make not this Crowne thy slaue which in many partes of Italy hath made thee King Otherwise thou must needes beleeue if thou durst vndertake it that as Augustus said to those which disswaded him from hating Cassius and Brutus the murtherers of his adopted father Caesar God which hath esteemed our King Lewes the twelfth worthy the Scepter of great Henry his father will make him as worthy a successor of his valour to conserue the crown which he hath left him free from all domination except that of heauen For France resembleth pretious stones the least cracke or haire