spirits intermingle and cast the thunder betweene and within the clowdes in which they make these straunge and fearfull fires that doe very farre and much passe the materiall and elementarie fire I will not say that you were he that chose particularly that wicked fellowe which hell created He meaneth Frier lames Clement to goe and giue that execrable blowe which the very furies of hell themselues would haue feared to haue done But it is very euident that before he went about this accursed enterprise Sometimes it is not amisie to be a blabbe of a mans tongue you saw him and I could well tell the places where and the times when if I would You incouraged him you promised him Abbeyes Bishoprickes mountaines and meruailes and ye left the rest to bee done to Madame your sister to the Iesuits and to the Prior of his order who passed somewhat further promised him nothing lesse thē a place in paradise aboue the Apostles if it fell out that he were martyred That it was so that ye were very well aduertised of all the mysterie or secret you caused the people that spake of yeelding themselues to be preached vnto and taught Good reason all lead by one murthering spirit that they would yet haue patience but seuen or eight daies and that before the ende of the weeke they should see some great matter that should set vs in our former rest and quietnes The preachers of Roan of Orleans and of Amiens preached it at the same time and in the same tearmes Afterwarde so soone as your Frier possessed with a diuell was departed you caused to bee arrested and apprehended for prisoners in this citie more than two hundred of the principall citizens and others whom yee thought to haue goods friends and to be of credit with them of the Kings side as a precaution or forewarning wherwith you purposed to serue your selues The name of some diuel signifying therby the murtherer Clement to redeeme that wicked Astaroth in case he were either taken before the facte or after the facte For hauing the pledge of so many honest men you supposed that they durst neuer put that murtherer to death because of the threatning which yee had giuen out that yee would cause to die in the way of change for him those whom you kept prisoners who in truth are much bound to them that in a headlong heate or choller slewe with the blowes of their rapiers that wicked wretch after hee had giuen his stroake And you your selfe ought not lesse to thanke them For had they suffred him to liue as they might haue done and put him into the hands of iustice It is almost as wel discouered now we had had the whole thread of the enterprise naturally and liuely deducted and you had beene there incouched in white clothes for a marke of your disloyaltie and felonie that neuer would haue beene blotted out But God did not so permit it and we know not yet the end wherto he keepeth you A very large assertion but yet for the most part true For if the examples of former times doe carrie with them any consequence to iudge of the affaires of the time present wee neuer sawe yet vassall or subiecte that enterprised to driue his Prince out of his kingdome to die in his bed I will not strengthen this maxime or rule by many histories nor resute those which our preachers alledge to defende and iustifie that horrible act I will speake of no more but two the one out of the Bible and the other out of the Romane histories You haue heard it may be some preach that those that slew Absalom though he were vp in armes against his father his King and his countrie were notwithstanding punished with death A man shall hardly see such justice in Frāce or Spaine by the commaundement of Dauid against whom hee made warre If you haue read the conflicts that were made between Galba Otho and Vitellius for the Empire of Rome you haue read found that Vitellius put to death more then sixe hundred men who bragged that they had slaine Galba his predecessor had presented a petition to be recompenced therfore It may be he meaneth Machiuel which he did not as saith the author who at this day serueth insteede of an Euangelist to many for the friendship that he caried to Galba nor for the honour that hee ment to doe him but to teach all princes to assure their life and their present estate and to cause them that shuld dare to attempt any thing against their persons to know vnderstand that an other prince their successor though perhaps their enemie after some one sort or other would reueng their death And this is the cause wherefore you Monsieur the Lieutenant had great wrong to make shew of so great ioy Woe to them that laugh now for they shal weepe hauing knowne the newes of that cruell accident that befel him by whose death you should enter into the waies of the kingdome You made bonfires or fires of reioycing where you should indeed haue obserued funerals you tooke indeed a greene scarfe in token of reioycing whereas ye ought to haue doubled and redoubled your blackes in signe of mourning Good imitable exāples You should haue imitated Dauid who caused Saules bones to be gathered together and to bee honorably buried although that by the meanes of his death he remained a peaceable King and lost thereby his greatest enemie Or to haue done as Alexander the great who caused sumptuous obsequies to bee made for Darius or as Iulius Caesar who wept with hotte and bitter teares vnderstanding of the death of Pompey his competitor and deadly aduersary and put them to death that had slaine him What could a man of a base and bad mind doe els But you cōtrarie to the practises of these great personages did laugh make feastes and bonfires and all sortes of ioy when you vnderstoode of the cruell death of him from whome you held all that you and your predecessors had or haue of wealth of honour and of authoritie And not content with these common reioycings which did sufficiētly witnesse how much you approued this accursed acte you caused the murtherers picture to be made shewed it publikely abroad All this whatsoeuer is but the reward of iniquitie as if it had beene of a canonized saint You caused his mother and kinred to be sought out that you might enrich them with publike almes to the end that this might be a lure and a baite for others that would vndertake to giue yet such an other blowe to the King of Nauar vnder hope assurāce which they might receiue by the example of this new martyr that after their death they shuld be so sanctified their kinred wel recōpensed But I wil not further examine your conscience nor prognosticate vnto you A plaine and true speech that
it did belong to none but to him to speake that day of the barricades and that they were neuer accustomed in Fraunce to make more than three estates and so hee let that the deputie of the new nobilitie was heard as being but a dependence and a member of the saide third estate The said Lord of Angouleuent disputed long time on his part saying that euery one was there for his money and began againe sundry times these three wordes Monsieur the twelfth and at euery time he was interrupted At the last as the rumor increased and the factions for the one and the other were alreadie heate so farre as to come for it to the blowes of the fist the aduocate of Orleans remonstrated that it was no more time now to rest vpon the auncient formes which were but for shoemakers and coblers nor yet vpon the ceremonies of times past saue onely in the fact of faith and religion A strong exception or else that will down also and that the assembly of the said estates should be vnprofitable if they did not all things therein after the new manner And as for him that hee had seene the remembrances and instructions of the new nobility which deserued very well to bee considered of Notwithstanding considering now that it was some what late and that Monsieur the Lieutenant was fresh and fasting and the houre of Monsieur the Legates dinner was past hee required Well added for it is not easilie done that the said Lord of Angouleuent should put his speech in writing and deliuer it vp and should holde his tongue if he could otherwise and for defaulte thereof he should be sent to the Countie de Choysie which thing Monsieur the Lieutenant approued with his head And the rumor being by little and little ceased and the foresaide d'Angouleuent hardly set downe againe the saide Lorde d'Aubray deputie of the third estate hauing laid aside his sword spake his oration very nigh after this manner The oration of Monsieur d'Aubray for the third Estate BY our Ladie Messieurs A patheticall exordium you haue giuen vs a goodly speech There is no neede now that our Curats should preach vnto vs that we ought to drawe our selues out of the mudde and to make our selues cleane As touching that which I see by your discourse It is a maruaile if euer they can come out the poore Parisiens haue enough of it already within their bootes and it will be very hard to pull them out of the mudde and mire From hence forth it is time for vs to perceiue that the false Catholicon of Spayne is a drugge that taketh men by the nose and that it is not without cause that other nations call vs little quailes because that as poore quailes that are hooded and very credulous the preachers and Sorbonists No vnfit resemblance by their inchaunting quaile pipes haue caused vs euen to giue our selues into the nettes of tyrants who haue afterwards put vs into a cage and shut vs vp within our walles to teach vs to sing wee cannot but confesse that wee are at this time taken and made greater seruants and slaues than the Christians in Turkie or the Iewes in Auignon We haue no more either will or voyce in the chapiter or assembly We haue no more any thing proper or that wee may well say this is mine You Messieurs that set your foote vpon our throate and fill our houses with garnisons haue and possesse all Our priuiledges franchises freedomes and auncient liberties are ouerthrowne and taken away Our towne house which I haue seene to bee the sure refuge of the succors of our kings in their vrgent and weightie affaires A sore change is become a but cherie our court of Parliament is none at all our Sorbonne is a brothell house and the vniuersitie become sauage or wilde And yet the extremitie of our miseries is this that in the middest of so many mischiefes and needes it is not permitted vs to complaine nor to demaunde succor and hauing death as it were betweene our teeth we must of necessitie say that we are in good health A pitifull and iust complaint and that we are very happie to be so wretched for so good a cause O Paris that art no more Paris but a denne of outragious beasts and a citadell of Spaniards Wallons and Neapolitanes a sanctuarie and sure retrait of robbers murtherers and killers Wilt thou neuer thinke againe of thy dignities and remember thy selfe what thou hast been in comparison of that thou art Wilt thou neuer cure thy selfe of this frensie that for a lawfull and gracious king hast begotten vnto thy selfe fiftie little kings or wrens rather and yet fiftie tyrants Beholde thou art in irons The spanish Inquisition beholde thou art in the inquisition of Spayne more intollerable a thousand folde and more hard to bee borne and indured of spirits that are borne liberall and free as French men are than the most cruell deaths that Spaniards can deuise Thou wast not able to beare a small augmentation and increase of taxes and offices or some new edicts The fruites of senseles treason that did not much import thee and yet now thou indurest men to poll thy houses to pill and to sacke thee euen vnto blood to imprison the Senators to driue away and banish thy good citizens and counsellors yea to hang and to murther thy principall magistrates Thou seest this thou indurest this yea thou doest not onely indure it but thou doest approue it and praise it and thou darest not neither canst thou tell how to doe otherwise Thou couldest not support and beare with thy king so gracious so gentle so easie so familiar that made himselfe a fellow citizen with thee and burgesse of thy towne that hee inriched thee that he hath garnished thee with glorious and sumptuous buildings increased thy forts and stately ramperts and adorned thee with honorable priuiledges and immunities What say I couldest not support and beare with It is much worse Kindenes rendred for good Thou hast chased him out of his owne towne out of his owne house out of his owne bed What say I chased him thou hast pursued him what pursued thou hast murthered him and canonized the murtherer for a saint and made bonfires for his death And now thou seest how much that death of his hath profited thee For that is the cause why another is ascended into his place much more watchfull much more laborious and a far better warriour that knoweth better to keepe thee in somewhat more straitely as to thy damage and hurt thou hast alreadie proued I pray you Messieurs if it were permitted to cast yet these last abois in libertie let vs a little consider what good or what profit hath come vnto vs by this detestable death which our preachers did make vs beleeue was the sole and the onely meane to make vs blessed The great difference betweene good gouernement
am a friend to my coūtry as becōmeth a good burgesse citizen of Paris I am iealous for the preseruation of my religion and am in all that I am able your seruāt the seruant of your house To be short euery one is wearie of warre in which we now very well perceiue there is no more question touching our religion That is the point indeed but concerning our bondage and to whom amongst you the carcases of our bones shall remaine Thinke not to finde in time to come so many men as you haue done that in liuelines of heart will cast themselues away and betroth or marry themselues to desperation for the rest of their life and of their posteritie also Wee very well perceiue that you your selues are in the snares of the King of Spaine and that ye can neuer come out of them but wretched and as it were forlorne You haue done like the horse A fable but yet good in the morall and meaning of it who to defende himselfe from the hart who he perceiued was more liuely and full of strength than he called for man to his succour But man put a bridle in his mouth sadled him and betrapped him afterwards he put on his spurs backed him brought him to the hunting of the hart and to euery other place where he thought good neuer comming off of his backe nor taking off his bridse and saddle and by this meanes made himselfe subiect to the hollie crap and to the spur to serue his turne in euery worke in euery charge yea and in the very cart it selfe as the King of Spaine hath done with you And doubt ye not of this This is no lye for be hath practised it vpon others as nigh to him as he but if by your meanes be were once made master of the kingdome but that he would very quickly be rid of you by poyson by slaūders or otherwise for this is the fashion that he vseth wherwith he commonly saith hee must needes recompence them that betray their prince and their countrie Let them serue for witnesses and examples that wickedly deliuered vnto him the kingdome of Portugall who comming vnto him to demaund the recompence which hee had promised them before he was in possession of it sent them vnto that councell of his which is called the councell of conscience where answer was giuen them that if they had brought Portugall into the hands of the King of Spaine as a thing appertaining vnto him they had done nothing but that which good and loyall subiectes should haue done and they should haue their recompence and hire for it in heauen But if they deliuered it vp beleeuing that it did not appertaine vnto him meaning so to take it from their master they deserued to be hāged as traytors A good reason for of like sins there should be the like punishment And this is the wages that you must looke for after that you shall haue deliuered vs vp vnto such people which we for our parts are not purposed to endure We knowe too well that the Spaniards and Castillians and Bourguignons are our auncient and deadly enemies which of two thinges demaund the one either to bring vs vnder Spaine hath a double practise and purpose in assaulting Fraunce and to make vs slaues if they can that so they may ioyne Spaine Fraunce and the low countries in one tenure and vnder one gouernement or else if they cannot as indeed the best aduised and most wise amongst them doe not hope for that yet they may at the least in weaken vs and bring vs so low that neuer or for a long season we should neuer bee able to relieue our selues nor withstand them to the face For the King of Spaine which is an old fox knoweth wel the iniurie that he doth vs vsurping against all right and iustice the Kingdome of Naples the Duchy of Millan and the Countie of Roussillon which belong vnto vs he knoweth the natural disposition of the french nation that knoweth not how any long season to continue in peace without setting vpon their neighbours Whereof the Flemmings haue made a prouerbe A wittie sentence which saith that when the Frenchman sleepeth the diuell rocketh the cradle Besides he seeth his estates and countries deuided and almost all of them vsurped by violence against the good will and liking of the inhabitants who are ill affected to him ward He seeth himselfe to be olde and brittle and his eldest sonne smally valiant of euill health and the rest of his familie to be in two daughters one whereof he hath married with the most ambitious The Duke of Sauoy and yet needie prince of Europe and the other that maketh a partie and cannot faile but find a great one If after his death which cannot in the very course of nature be very farre off his estates and countries should bee deuided and that one of his sonnes in law should set vpon his owne sonne he knoweth that the Frenchmen would not sleepe and that they would wake againe their olde pretenses titles and claimes Doth hee not then herein play the part of a very prudent foreseeing prince to infeeble vs by our selues to bring vs to so low an estate that wee shall not bee able to hurt him no not after his death You see also how hee hath caried himselfe in the succours that hee hath sent vs All bewraieth the treachery of Spaine the greatest part in paper and in hope the waiting for whereof hath wrought vs more euil then the comming thereof hath done vs good His double duckets and his men came not but euen whē we had a long time drawn our breath and were not able to doe any more although hee might much more soone haue succoured relieued vs. He maketh vs not fatte to sell vs as the butchers doe their hogges but for feare we should die ouer soone and minding to reserue vs to a greater destruction hee prolongeth our languishing life Weigh these comparisons with a little water brued and tossed with crummes of browne bread which also hee giueth vs with a licked or cleane finger as iaylors nourish and feede condemned persons the better to reserue them to the execution of punishment What is become of so many millions of double duckets which he braggeth he hath spent for the safetie of our estate And why should not the people haue them seeing it is the price of themselues except you wil sell them for nothing We see none of them amongst the people the greatest parte thereof are in the hands of our aduersaries or amongst you Messieurs the princes gouernors captaines and preachers who keepe them very fast locked vp in your coffers there remaineth to the people nothing but redde or copper coyne for the stamping whereof we haue imployed al our kettles caldrons chafers weights chaynes and copper vessell and will imploy therein our gunnes and our belles if
and that into a grieuous ruine and decay Whither Gods wrath did carrie him and harry him away At S. God is known by executing iudgement the wicked is snared in the workes of his owne hands Higgaion Selah Denis he is founde starke and stone dead Fallen also into the snares that for others himselfe spread For his pride there fell vpon him this grieuous wrath and vengeance Neare vnto the tombes of the auncient Kings of France Whose brused and broken bones in that same place doe rest And seeme Gods iustice therein religiously to haue blest Who for the truth and faith that this wretch did violate Would haue this sacrifice to the Kings there to be immolate And that his bodie with mise eaten vp should be As Hatto the Archbishop of Mentz was deuoured with rattes while he liued As great a wanton of the dames of Paris as was he Before that to iust buriall men could in season bring His bodie full of filth and rottennes stinking To cause the greatest of the leaguers to vnderstand That thus dooing still they shall be punished by his hand Another touching the same matter written in Latine and translated out of the same As the virgine of Priamus did fall vpon the Phrygiā shore Two examples as before applied And at the marble of her foes tombe was constrained to dye therefore And as Caesar with many wounds at his son in lawes picture Hauing conquered others for all that fell at the feete of the conquered sure So at the tombe of his own Kings a foe to Kings in breath Falles dead and imbloodeth the ground with a iust de serued death Wherfore ye godly men euen now reioyce for why this offring odde Both at kingly tombes is punished sheweth there is a God Against the same Cheualier d'Aumale This man by mightie guile did take S. Denis towne of fame Oh how vnsearchable are Gods waies and his iudgements past finding out But taker he in taken towne was caught and perished in the same A Sonnet vpon the retiring of the Duke of Parma But where is now this power so huge so mightie so great An abrupt patheticall exdium but fitte for the purpose That when it came to vs it seemed all the Gods themselues to threat And that promised to itselfe to breake and downe to the ground to fling The famous french nobility with their armed prince or king This preparation great proud to smoke or winde is turnd And that great Duke that thought himselfe So God confoundeth pride of hart all the worlde to haue burnd Without dooing ought constrained is into Flanders to retire Hauing lost his people his time his fame that hee did desire Henrie our great king as a hunter good doth him pursue and chase He presseth him he followeth him and the fox flieth apace With his nose to the ground ashamd despised and blamed brought to danger Yee Spaniards proude learne this of mee Spaniards learne in time neuer yet did any stranger Intrap or take a Frenchman but with losse dāger shame The Frenchman is not vanquished but by one of the same name A Sonnet to all them of the League O ye vnnatur all Frenchmen To all French generally and bastards of this land That tamed cannot be but by your owne force and hand Now put ye off this courage inhumane and vnnaturall That puss you vp with pride by ignorāce destroyes you all Ye pettie princes of Lorraine To the Lorrainists He meaneth the Pope or the Spanyard or both To the Parisiens shake off your hope therefore The error of that Cumane asse follow ye not any more Who clothed with the skinne of the Romane lion great Seeing the very lion stout doth hart and hope forget And you ô ye Parisiens recourse whither will you haue You must needs whether you will or no voyd of hope your selues to saue Subiect your selues to that dutie to which the laws you bind But if against your selues you stirre your king that is sokind Chastened you shall sure be for on babes and fooles we spend Some chastisement or els indeed they will neuer sure amend Touching the Lords of Vitry and of Villeroy who haue acknowledged the King The vnion her selfe her force doth still vntie Vitry and Villeroy witnesse doe this thing To God therefore alone be infinite glorie Praise vnto them honour to the King This Lieutenant in false conceit This great piller sweld with wind and no more That thought the King to counterfeit Shall be grosse Iohn euen as before The Duke du Mayne The League it selfe to destroy goes about Wherewith confounded are the wicked race The seede thereof shall sure be put out A house diuided in it selfe can not stand By torture sharpe swords or some other strange case Ye people of bloud of spoyle and the rope And still will be named zealous as yet The Leaguers Cry the King mercie so may you haue hope Or els from hence ye shall goe to the gibbet Ye sixteene Mount-falcon calleth for you The sixteene appointed to gouerne Paris To morrow the crowes will crie very lowd The sixteene pillers of his chappell new Shall be your tombes wherein you shall be shrowd To the King concerning his very great clemencie Amongst the goodly virtues this is one very excellent Pitifull to be to the vanquisht and to pardon all But take heed of too much chieflly to rebels impenitent Too much pitie spoyleth a citie yea a kingdome For Caesar as great a prince as your selfe did thereby fall Concerning the same matter in Latin and turned into English Pitie in a great prince is a great virtue indeed A good thing can hardly be too oftē repeated And to be willing alwaies his enemies to spare But yet too much pitie is not safe as we may reade By the bloudie death of Caesar a prince very rare Vpon the same matter Heretofore it was a virtue fit for a cour agious king To the greatest of his foes grace and pardon to show But sith Caesar was murthered and that for this thing From a virtue to a vice it is become as many moe In Latin but translated out of it In former time for captains great pity was a virtuous trade But sith that Caesar was destroied this virtue a vice is made To the King O thou victorious prince and now the best of all that liue God out of his hand into thine two scepters great doth giue France Nauarre And in a throne of long'st indure hath placed thee againe In spite of all the sore attempts of that coniured Spayne The wishes of all Frenchmen good are heard yet at the last Thou race of Lewes S. shalt reigne in peace and sit full fast That which the heauens giue thee sure no man can take frō thee Though voyd of scepter and of crowne thou shouldst commād with glee Notwithstanding all this ô King a King