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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94191	A synopsis, or contact view, of the life of John Armand, Cardinall of Richlieu, great favorite and minister of state to Lewis the 13th. King of France. To bee engraven on his tombe. First written in Latine, and now verbatim rendered English.; Joannis Armandi Plessaei Richelii ... Vitae synopsis inscribenda tumulo. English	Morgues, Matthieu de, sieur de Saint-Germain, 1582-1670.	1643 (1643)	Wing S6387; Thomason E90_10; ESTC R13130	3,395	8

A SYNOPSIS OR CONTRACT VIEW Of the Life of John Armand Cardinall of RICHLIEU great Favorite and Minister of State to LEWIS the 13th King of FRANCE To bee Engraven on his Tombe First written in Latine and now verbatim rendered English Quis leget haec Vel duo vel nemo PERSIVS Printed in the Yeare 1643. Cardinall RICHLIEU his Epitaph THe first thing requested of thee O Passenger is that thou wouldest blesse Almighty God that in France thou maist now read these lines securely Next wonder that He whom the Earth was too angust for when he was alive should be imprisoned in so small a space of ground now he is dead When he had commoved Earth he aspired to rule even Heaven it selfe as appeares by his arrogating to himselfe this Symbolum or Motto MENS SIDERA VOLVIT And that thou maist understand what kind of Intelligence this was know that he was of a sagatious industry but unquiet an Enemy both of the Publike and of his Privare tranquillity In a great Wit by many revered not a few that knew him found a great mixture of madnesse Hee had a minde that was made worse by every thing bettered by nothing He stood thus long not so much through favour as his power with a mightie King and was happy in the event of things rather then in a prudent mannage of them Onely he was unhappy in the dis-favour of Almighty God For having continually conflicted with noysome diseases he was ignorant of the seat of happines which yet to the rendring both himselfe and others unhappy he sought after Nor did he ever seeme happy even in his owne eyes as not honest in the eyes of those who called him happy He was vexed with two great tormentors of life Choler and Melancholly In the flames of the former and the fumes of the latter he continually suffered So that venome which he spit out to the perdition of others he could not keepe in without hurt to himself He outwent most men in Covetousnes all men in ambition A Waster of the Royall Exchequer but a niggard of his owne Purse Cruell if offended but more cruell where he offended others By the conferrings of the Queene Mother he was made rich by her plottings preferred and by her power made more potent Yet her did hee deprive of the Kings favour of her liberty of her estate of France and at last of her life she being an exile at Colleine And lest he should spare her when she was dead he null'd her last will and caused her corps to lie five months at the end of which himselfe followed her in her chamber unburied The honour of Monsieur the Kings Brother he violated and endeavoured to supplant even his Person King of France He not onely withdrew the affections of * Sonne from Mother and of * Brother from Brother but of * Husband from Wife Mariliack he caused to be beheaded by the greatest wrong Montmorancy by the greatest right Cinkmart partly by right partly by wrong M. de Thow whether by right or wrong no man knowes Some Noble men he condemned to perpetuall imprisonment more to banishment but those he drave from Court were innumerable He proscribed many least they should hinder his designes Nor did milder France ever behold so frequent Punishments Building upon the power of a great King whom with a great deale of art and study he deceived and suppeditated with the wealth of a most fruitfull Kingdome he spent an infinite number of Arrowes in aiming to hit the maine Marke which he had missed A continuall working and agitation of mind backt with many mad attempts together with a rigid severity and an all-trying boldnes produced a few fortunate issues But hee had soone beene supplanted if among forreigne Enemies he had found some more wary or among French men scarse any of whom but were averse to him had met but with one Adversary It well besteaded him that hardly any body knew him or beleeved those that did He was so fortunate that those of the Nobility as well as of the Army whom he had irritated did yet for his honour shed their owne and others blood whilest himselfe mingled his with the Kings He had perished in the same designe in which Sejanus once perished had he not taken out of the way O griefe to thinke on the Royall Count of Soisson Germany Spaine Italie and the Low Countries but especially France will hardly be able in a whole Age to efface the bad impressions of so hurtfull an Autoritie Taking pleasure in the miseries both of the Citizens and Suburbers that he might fleece these he lanc'd the very entralls of those Nor did he any whit indulge to the sacred health of of the King but disturbed that whilst with anxieties and various Passions of mind he wore out his owne The Divine justice first ulcerated his arme which he●●ad stretched out against heaven Next it tooke from him the use of his right Hand which had subscribed to unnecessary warres His arme eight moneths before his death rotted by reason of which his hand withered And yet which is a sad thing he that so plainely felt God an avenger would not plainely enough acknowledge him This appeares in that he more hotly exercised his fury upon his private Enemies In that Death approaching rather out of a politick Prudence then a Christian Piety he commended his Favorites to the King more then his Soule to God In that a few daies before the Catastrophe of his Tragicke life he caused a Play of his owne devising which he called Europa Triumphata to be Acted in the most Royall Pompe that could bee though himselfe could not behold it In that being a Cardinall he afflicted the Church being a Priest he Shed Bloud being a Christian he forgave no injuries and being a Man he yet would not remember himselfe to be mortall even when the wormes crawling out of his many Ulcers did admonish him to how fraile and noisome a mortality he was obnoxious When by all waies the most impious not unassaied he had for the space of eighteene yeares prosecuted his private ends to the undoing of the Publicke hee at length arrived to the ordinary end of Men by a death to appearance peaceable but more lingring then that of many whom he had sent before him He died at Paris where he had beene borne fifty seven yeares and three moneths before Forsaking France and his owne house he seemed to endeavour the combustion of them both of that by an extorted Declaration against the Kings Brother of this by a will framed to a womans fancie * The Dutchesse of Eguillon For the rest nor did the Kingdome of France being opulent ever deale with any so bountifully not being of a Genius impatient did it ever beare with any so continuedly nor affecting quietment did it ever part with any so gladly I assert these things openly which thou ô Passinger didst priviely suspect and in wisdome keptst to thy selfe If thou encounterest any one who still doubts entreat him not to give credit to abused men nor to corrupted flatterers but rather to Me who speake nothing but truth and that out of a conscientious sincerity And I would have all men perswaded that the least justice is more acceptable to God than the greatest power that a name is to be esteemed not for being far and wide diffused but for being good that to trouble and unsetle many things is not to doe much but being unsetled to compose them more to keepe them from being unsetled most of all Prosperous wickednesses are by the multitude accounted for vertues but doe thou on the contrary thinke nothing more wretched then such thriving impieties This egregious Artisan of cheats Richlieu deceived many for a while and himselfe haply to eternity Who alas shall reduce to order that infinity of things which he hath confused who deemed of Peace because it suited not with his turbulent braine that it was disagreeable even to his fortune From whence sprang those many evills which for these last fifteen yeeres have so oppressed the Christian World Pray that God would not eternally avenge it upon the Author who needed much mercy and many of Gods compassions amid his many and great crimes Doe thou O Christan seriously perpend what a Nothing that is which is subject to a momentary vanish * None of those whom thou seest clad in Purple Seneca is therefore happie no more than they whose part in a Comedy allowes them a Robe and Scepter who having buskind and on tip-toes strutted it before the staring spectators as soone as they come to their Exit are un-pantoffled and returne to their owne stature Furthermore see how small an ash heape he now is who once was so great a Fire how fetid a streame he now sends forth who lately darted a splendor so coruscant that every ones eyes were thereby dazzled I wish he prove not a Fire-brand to himselfe in another world who was so to Europe in this Poore Europe now hopes for Peace the fuell of her warres being extinct I should entreat thee ô Passinger to pray for Pe●ce to this so mortal an enemie even of his own peace but that I feare thou wouldst but trouble him in wishing a thing to him which he so greatly hared Yet Pray notwithstanding in that thou are commanded to live thy enemies If the Peace thou prayest for reach not Him it will returne unto thy selfe Such was the Commandment of our Saviour Luke 10. in whom I wish thee Peace whilst thou livest that thou mayst sweetely rest in him when thou dyest In the meane time Farewell