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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00009	The coppie of a letter sent into England by a gentleman, from the towne of Saint Denis in France Wherein is truely set forth the good successe of the Kings Maiesties forces against the Leaguers and the Prince of Parmas power. With the taking of a conuoie of victuals sent by the enemie to succour Paris. And the grieuous estate of the said citie at this present.		1590 (1590)	STC 10004; ESTC S118410	10,990	22

that populous and great Citie Resolued therfore to finish their dolefull dayes or to finde reliefe for maintenance of their loathed liues with leaue of the cruell gouernours they issued as I said before out of the Citie and presenting them selues before the kings souldiers fel downe at their féet yéelding them selues to the kings mercy about the number of a score at a time men women and children who being brought incontinent before his roial maiestie so soone as they entered his sight with bitter teares trickling downe their chéekes they prostrated themselues at his féete and as loude as their féeble voices woulde serue they cried Viue le Roy God saue the king His maiestie amazed at the view of so pittifull a spectacle The kings mercifull heart and moued with a kingly compassion towards them sawe with his eies and conceiued in his heart what intollerable famishment the obstinate Citie had alredie endured but hauing a desire to learne further of the state thereof after he had wel viewed the persons of these miserable men he demanded of them the intent of their comming Wherevppon they returned this answere that forasmuch as they were not able anie longer to indure the grieuous famine whereinto they were brought by the long and deserued siege which his Maiestie mainteined about their City and being brought so low that the gouernours could not by reason of their weaknes imploie them in any seruice they had frée liberty to depart the Citie if so they thought it conuenient as being people that were likely with many more in the Citie to cause an infection to arise by means of sicknes among the rest of the inhabitants wherefore sayd they most noble and victorious king wee are come vnto your Highnes acknowledging that wee are vnworthie of anie longer life by reason we haue bin most vniust and rebellious subiects The Citizēs kept by constraint and vnworthie that so gracious and mercifull a prince should open his mouth vnto vs neuertheles most mighty king had it not bin through wicked perswasions we had neuer yéelded to holde on so cursed a side but with whome perswasions could not preuaile they vsed meanes to inforce being well assured that they holde the most parte by constraint whose bodies being enclosed within the stonie walls of Paris haue euerie daie their heartes infolded with their king considering within what small compas there is foode inough with fauour and gentlenes to be gotten and yet they be at the point of death euen for a small quantitie of bread that may with their eyes beholde euen plentie among beasts while they themselues pine and cannot come by it whereby the difference is shewed betwixt the fauour and furie of a king and therewithall the recompence of obedience and rebellion We confesse therefore most noble king that th mightie and iust God hath bent himselfe against vs and poured foorth the violl of his wrath ouer these traiterous confederates of the Leagures of which number we must of force account and acknowledge we haue too long béene and therefore we humblie submit our selues into your maiesties hands to deale with vs as it séemeth good in your sight His Maiestie hauing heard this lamentable complaint reuiued their hearts with a fauourable countenance and according to his princely disposition in a milde manner demaunded what prouision of victuals in their iudgements remayned yet in the citie and what it was wherewith they hoped to sustayne the liues of so infinite a multitude as remayned in the towne wishing to declare the same in all trueth and simplicitie of heart euen as they would hope to finde mercie at his handes for their knowen and manifest rebellion and how long time they supposed the same would last Before the mightie and dreadfull God of heauen who knowes the secrets of the harts and shall iudge the thoughts that are hatched by vntruth so wil we said they shew and declare this to the king as farre as our memorie and knowledge doth stretch And if your maiestie find vs false let the same be recompenced with the vildest death that euer anie did endure And herewithall one of them who was knowne of best iudgement and that had béen of great account in times past put forth his voice before the king and most part of the princes and nobles about him Necessitie findes many shiftes speaking as followeth Necessitie the whetstone of mans wit hauing inforced me among these my companions and sorrowful associates with an infinite multitude of my friendes kinsfolke and neighbours to search for sustenance for the maintenance of me and my poore wife and children Necessity finds many shiftes inquired by all meanes after foode when it became scant in the Citie being the onely care that euery person had to séeke for the same and albeit after a small time that we were beséeged wholesome foode was kept wonderfull close and scant among vs yet our eares were euer so diligent to hearken after it that by one meanes or other we alwaies heard where it was to bee had for money and although the prouision was great within the citie yet by reason of the marueilous multitude of inhabitants within fiue monethes after there was no wholesome foode to be had for gold nor treasure for the Nobles and principall of the citie suspecting a long séege got as much thereof as they could for their owne prouision and the cloysters with the vniuersitie did the like and as for the Clargie they stayed not behinde any in that matter being men wise enough to take the choice before all other by which meanes the common sorte of the Citizens soone found the smart thereof and in vaine sought they after that they could not finde when flesh failed butter and chéese began to grow precious at rich mens tables though at the first they much repined thereat as people that had not béene much acquainted with such course cates But the iust God séeing our vnthankfull hartes that scorned his gifts and despised his blessinges in two monethes after sent such a change Rats mice other vermine good meate in Paris that the flesh of Horses Asses Dogges Cats Rats Mice Weasels and Moles became daintie dishes at gentle mens tables and bore such a price that no poore person was able to compas any then our queasie stomacks began to be contented with any thing were it a frying panne full of Frogs a dish of snailes or a Skellet full of garden wormes sod in broth she that went in her hoode would haue béene glad to haue licked her lippes after them and would haue bidden her dearest friend to the banquete had hee not béene of her owne houshold so swéete a sauce and so sauory did hunger make the same to taste and yet many of those that thus haue fled and yet woulde bee glad to méete with the worst of these thinges rehearsed before they felt the force of hunger with many othes said they would starue vnto death before any