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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19208	The French iubile: or, The ioy and thanksgiuing of all France, to God and their king, for the death of the Marquise d'Ancre. Translated out of the French copie printed at Paris		1617 (1617)	STC 5618; ESTC S108610	4,482	16

THE FRENCH IVBILE OR THE IOY AND THANKSGIVING of all France to God and their King for the death of the Marquise d'Ancre Translated out of the French Copie printed at Paris BY WISDOME PEACE BY PEACE PLENTY LONDON Printed by Felix Kyngston for Nathanael Newbery and are to be sold at his shop vnder S. Peters Church in Cornehill and in Popes-head Alley 1617. TO THE READER HOnest and well affected Reader for thy greater contentment I am bold to present thee with this Iubile of the whole French Nation vpon the death of the Marquise de'Ancre this ioy hath been manifested on all hands by all sorts and degrees The King to shew how acceptable the seruice of Mounsier de Vitry was to him in this execution hath made him thereupon Marshall of France in the place of the Marquise d'Ancre And Mounsier d'Hailler who accompanied d'Vitry in that action hath hee caused to be sworne Captaine of his Guard and many other of the ancient Officers of the Crowne hath he restored to their places absolutely taking the gouernment to himselfe and leauing as he saith all childish sports to his brother he hath caused to be set at liberty those little Birds wherein hee formerly delighted that so they may haue their libertie as well as himselfe The Princes vpon it are some of them returned to Court and others expected daily euery one laying downe Armes presently and amongst others the Duke d'Mayen presented the King with the keyes of Soysons a towne which he had fortified The generall and extraordinary reioycing of the common people cannot be sufficiently expressed but because I list not to trouble thee good Reader with vncertaine and slender reports I referre thee for the full manifestation of their generall ioy to the discourse following intreating thee to be perswaded of my honest fidelitie and care in these publications for J assure thee J am not desirous to shew my selfe both false and foolish in Print Farewell THE FRENCH IVBILE OR THE IOY AND THANKSGIVING of all France to God and their King for the death of the Marquise d'Ancre SIR Amongst many conformities betweene your Maiestie and Alexander the Great these are the most euident first that he was the sonne as you are of a famous Captaine and a great King then he succeeded him very young as your Maiestie did to great Henry and after his death the most part of his subiects reuolted as yours did And yet aboue all the rest this is the most particular obseruation that in his youth some Grecians and Demosthenes amongst the rest not vnderstanding him well calld him an infant euen as some Frenchmen conceiuing lesse of your Maiestie haue been so impudent to say as much yea though hee shewed himselfe to be a man and the greatest man of the world euen as your Maiestie giues euident testimonie that you are no lesse Sir It is true there is this difference that Alexander made his greatnesse appeare to the Grecians to their losse and preiudice but you manifest yours to the French for their benefit and preseruation Alexander made it knowne by the losse of their libertie but you display your greatnes by the supplantation of a Tyrannie established in your State by the most insolent outragious and insupportable stranger that euer was knowne Sir in conclusion Alexander employed his first armes against the Grecians who then were enemies to the Barbarians and you haue applied yours against a barbarous enemie to your royall authoritie who trampled vnder his feet the fairest flowers of your Crowne and did so mastiue-like teare France in peeces as she can neuer sufficiently enough expresse the Tyrannie Sir I will not exclaime vpon a dead body but so true it is I neuer lou'd him when he was aliue yet I hated him but as a meere French man interessed onely in the generall oppression of your subiects I grieued together with them to see a man of small worth one of little reputation in any respect not commended for any vertue a man of no esteeme or reckoning in the world especially in France into which he came without any qualitie or place to rise in a moment to such a redoubted power and greatnesse that there was not a gentleman in your Court who adored him not nor a knee which did not idolatrously bend not only to himselfe but to his meanest creatures there was no Officer of your Crowne that trembled not before him no Court nor Councell that feared him not no places which hee sold not no royall reuenewes that he did not poll no Seales nor Keepers of Seales which he did not depriue or conferre nor no Territorie within your Estate which hee was not able to rase and tumultuate at his owne will and pleasure I haue read the History of our Kings from Faramond and obseru'd the Mayors of the Royall Palace which in the end dispossessed their Masters the Grecians and Romans haue had but few Tyrants of whose liues and histories I haue not a reasonable vnderstanding and knowledge but neither in them nor elsewhere did I euer reade or heare of such a like Tyrannie as this for these were contented to tyrannize ouer the people whom they had wickedly subdued but this man being a stranger and lesse then a subiect in France did rule and sway ouer the King and the people He was full gorg'd with abundance in your necessities he would haue an hundred men at his heeles when you should haue but ten and that in your presence and before the very beames of your Maiestie where no other lustre should appeare euen as no starre nor light appears in the firmament before the Sunne Briefly he so beleaguerd your Maiestie as there was no entertainment into your seruice but by his meanes neither had you a seruant in your house whom you almost durst receiue from any other then his recommendation Nay if he had staied here it might haue bin tolerable but to replunge vs into our intestine warres to open the gates of Ianus Temple which you shut to kindle againe those furious ciuill flames which at first were set on fire by his meanes and by your Maiestie happily extinguished and after the raising vp of a dangerous storme among the French racking of their substance and purloining of your owne treasure in the view and knowledge of all the world he further coueted to glut himselfe with their blood and yet to vaunt and brag impudently how hee spent his owne goods in your seruice he that in your Fathers dayes was but a base companion And what French-man was there whose heart did not bleed to see these opprobies Yet neuerthelesse Sir both great and small though they were his capitall enemies and besides the common apprehension of a publike iniurie daily either in generall or particular wronged yet they swallowed these indignities Heauen reseruing the glory and reuenge thereof onely to your Maiestie But thankes bee giuen to God Sir who hath made you looke so circumspectly into your people and

cleered your sight in so mistie a season causing vs also plainly to discerne that the harts of Kings are in his hands and that he hath touched yours causing your Maiestie to vnderstand that your beare not the hand of Iustice in vaine seeing you now begin to yeeld vnto your subiects so good a testimonie thereof when Sir it was impossible but that the wishes and prayers of so many good men should at last bee heard and ascribe not the principal hereof to your selfe but let God haue his part and hand therein And his exceeding great long and slow Iustice being now wearie with the patient enduring of so odious a reproach to all France meant to employ your Maiesty for the restitution of his owne honour and to make this Tyrant together with his owne blood to discharge the generall substance of your subiects which hee hath before so greedily deuoured But who euer saw so vast a gulph what profunditie can bee imagined which might not haue been filled with his rapines Or what insatiable and monstrous famine might not be satisfied with the things that hee did deuoure So that after God Sir your Maiestie in one blow hath remedied all these disorders with so much Iustice happinesse and prudence as can no more bee desired You haue made all the world see that you are truly a King and that you will raigne and execute Iustice you haue remoued all pretext and colour of discord from amongst the French who will now knit and vnite themselues to serue your Maiestie conuerting the sword they had drawne one against another to the augmentation of your Crowne and Scepter Wee hope Sir that vnder so valiant and so iust a King who is so deere to his subiects and his subiects to him wee shall display the ensignes of your glorious armes ouer all the world that in stead of murthering one another in Ciuill warres whereof can ensue no other but Cadmean victories and your Maiesty in winning but loose and beweakened wee shall make strangers to acknowledge that the Flowers de-luce hauing bin buried in obliuion for a time amongst them shall flourish againe vnder the felicities and fortunes of your Maiestie more fragrantly then euer they did vnder the Kings your royall Progenitors who planted them with the sword in the remotest parts of the earth that vnder an inuincible Prince we shall also be victorious and that the French generositie resuming new vigor and force vnder such a King shal make you greater then Henrie the great more holy then Saint Lewys more Imperiall then Philip and more victorious and conquering then Charlemaine your Realme shall bee greater and more redoubtable then euer was his Empire your Scepter then his sword and your reputation then his name And because Sir you haue first satisfied herein the Iustice of God who not content with the blood and life onely of this common enemie of all your subiects and your royall selfe but persecuting him further after his death hath depriued him of his funerall rites which your Maiestie granted vnto him who put into the peoples mindes without any warrant or order giuen nay contrary to a prohibition to take his carcasse out of the graue whereof it was vnworthie and out of the earth which but yesterday he thought vnworthie to beare him and to traile it ignominiously along the streets and hanging it vpon the same Gibbet himselfe had formerly caused to be erected to burne the miserable remainder of his body with all the madnesse and furie that an inraged people could vse vpon an infamous Carrion And besides this you haue heerein giuen good satisfaction to men in reuenging the honour of the French Nation and in his owne blood quenching so many firebrands as hee meant to kindle in France That by the death of such a criminall partie you haue saued the liues of so many innocēts stopped the course of so many euils appeased so many commotions secured so many townes brought peace to your Kingdome and repose to your people securitie to the Clergie contentment to the Nobilitie and authoritie and reputation to Iustice purchasing by this onely meanes more loue amongst your subiects and reputation with strangers then the victorie of ten fought fields could haue gotten you Wee most humblie acknowledge that this was truly the Lords day wherein he did and doth continually great things and wee beseech him that as it hath pleased him so sacredly to inspire your Maiesty he may vouchsafe to continue euer the same fauours towards you to preserue him who hath preserued vs and to multiplie vpon your life all the benedictions of true happinesse And Sir wee most sincerely protest that as you haue in this action preserued the Frenchmens blood so they shal neuer be more desirous of any thing then to shead the same in your Maiesties seruice that seeing your are their Prince as well in effect as name and title no more violent passion shall euer possesse them then to make it euidently appeare that they are your loyall subiects that they will neuer brooke any other Soueraigne nor neuer swarue from the fidelitie they haue sworne to you That the Nobilitie will euer recognize you for their head the people for their Father the Church for her eldest Sonne Iustice for her protector and all of them ioyntly together for the best King that this day liues They wish that your faire destinies may spin as long a thred of your life and glory of your Conquests as there be ages in the continuance or climates in the worlds large extent That your Maiestie being a new Alcides amongst the French may purge the earth of all monsters restore the honours of armes augment the estimation of learning punish your enemies and cherish your subiects That your prosperities may surmount our wishes and your owne desires that you may not onely obtaine victory but possesse the States of those that would enioy yours FINIS