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A06875	Epithalamium Gallo-Britannicum or, Great-Britaines, Frances, and the most parts of Europes vnspeakable ioy, for the most happy vnion, and blessed contract of the high and mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Lady Henrette Maria, daughter to Henry the fourth, sirnamed the Great, late King of the French and Nauarre, and sister to Levvis the thirteenth: now king of the said dominions. Manifesting the royall ancestors and famous progenitors of the mighty Prince Charles, and the most illustrious princesse, the Lady Henrette, explaining the sweete interchanges of mariages, as haue beene betweene France and Great Britaine. ...	Marcelline, George.	1625 (1625)	STC 17308; ESTC S111979	61,352	158

before the Conquest there was a mutual exchange of these contracts betweene the ancient famous Saxons and our pious Kings Princes ancestors haue bin famous matches for the good benefit of both Kingdomes for both the Lines of Egbert the Saxon K. of England Alphin K. of Scotland met in the mariage of Malchol the 3 and Margaret sister of Edgar Ehelin right heire to the Crowne of England who died an 1093. Which Malchol was the son of Duncan who vanquisht Mackboth in fight yet afterwards himselfe was slaine in anno 1092 whose Father Dunken the 1. king of Scotland heire of Beatrix who succeeded Malchol was slaine by Makbeth in anno 1046. Beatrix eldest daughter and co-heire of king Malchol the 2 was maried to Abineth Crinathany of the West Ilands of Scotland Malchol the second king of Scotland sonne of Kenneth the 3 subdued king Trim was slaine in anno 1034. Kenneth the third king of Scotland succeeded king Culen became a tyrant and was murthered 994. Malchol the first sonne of king Donald was the successour of Constantine the 3 and was murthered in the yeare 958. Donald the sixt king of Scotland next after king Gregory was his predecessour who died anno 904. Constantine the second king of Scotland after the death of Donald his Vnckle was slaine in anno 874. Keneth the second king of Scotland called the great succeeded his Father king Alphen and died in anno 894. Alphin sonne of K. Achai who made the first league w th France after the death of king Dongallies hee likewise recouered the kingdome of Scotland anno 830 and was afterwards slaine in anno 834. This is the royall descent of our renowned Prince by the Fathers side being sprung by the Fathers and Grandfathers side from so many glorious stemmes of the kings of Scotland By the Grandmother from the renowned race of the Kings of England to whom Scotland hath beene often lincked by the performance of Hymens rites and the celebration of happie nuptials but now it hath found by the meanes of our gracious Soueraigne a more blessed and assured vnion Whose ancestours the true obiects of admiration haue euer beene famous for vertuous actions for what haue they beene defectiue in which sauoured of perfection what worth haue they wanted that might make them esteemed to bee the most noble worthies that euer liued For he hath beeneallyed to so many mighty Kings of England and Scotland and in fine doth heire rightfully the vertues and renownes of both Kings and kingdomes for who can be silent but dumbe men in his praises or can any be tongue-tide whose heart is lincked to him by the bond of obedience and can any one which is a true subiect but make such a Soueraigne the subiect of his praises and obiect of his duty But to the intent that all may know the highnesse of this Princes birth as well as the goodnesse of his minde examine but the greatnesse of his ancestours and allyes of the mothers side whose remembrance to vs is like Myrrhe vnto the body which it embalmeth incorruptible but wonderous bitter for how can it bee better then bitter vnto vs seeing it reduceth into our reminiscence her Name which was so delightfull seeing that putting vs in minde of her perfections the which making vs see how necessary she was for vs manifests vnto vs how miserable we are for her Oh no it is impossible for vs to remember her and to forget her vertues or to retaine the losse of them in our minds and to forget sorrow but to haue weeping eies and bleeding hearts considering that the perpetual welfare of England required that she had bin immortall frō whose death our griefe hath birth and from whose tombe floweth our sorrow But why should I thus produce this mournful dish at this mariage feast vnlesse it should be like sowre sawces tobeget vs better stomackes to our sweeter dainties and to make the beautie of our solace more amorous and excellent by the proposing of the palenesse of our sorrow So doth a faire stately Steede seeme most to bee esteemed being amongst a number of ill-fauoured Iades So doth it serue as well as a painting for a faire Lady to haue a foule Chamber-maid so doth a passionate speech delight in a pleasant Comedie and a sorrowfull passage thrust in amongst a company of merrie scenes And no doubt this serues like the face of a blacke-Moore to his teeth makes them seeme more white and comely This sorrow for the losse of our Queene Anne makes our ioy for the enioying of this Princesse the greater who is like her for perfections as She seemeth most fortunate in being the wife of such a Prince descended from such a mother who although dead yet liue in Her as being the true Mirrour of her most gracious qualities He also most happie in Her in finding a kinde of a mother in a wife so like Her who may serue Him for his mothers picture all times to looke on with a respectiue louing ioyfull remembrance to see his mother liuing in Her For surely her beautie and vertue cannot die so long as this famous Princesse shall liue And thus like Isaak with Rebecca Hee shall bee comforted after the death of his mother who for the goodnesse and the greatnesse of her bloud was almost vnparalleld For how many royall Kings which weilded their regall Scepters with policie power and pietie is Shee descended from How neerely allied was She to multitudes of potent Princes in so much as walls of friendship were erected by her meanes round about these Kingdomes as the King of Denmarke who for his place and person is both wealthie and worthie and able both for men and money to raise a friend or ruine an enemie but howsoeuer to defend an Allie who was the naturall and most affectionate brother of our most royall Queene who by this most happie Contract is vnited to France as we to Him who will be alwayes in readinesse to doe any office of friendship and fraternitie vnto it What should I speake of the Ancestors of our Queene as Fredericke the second King of Denmarke Norway Goths and Vandalls sonne to Christian the third who died in that menacing memorable yeere 1588. and the 32. of the reigne of Queene Elizabeth of neuer-dying fame and memorie who maried Sophia not vnworthily so called in respect her disposition did answer her denomination for indeed Shee was all wisdome as her name importeth Queene of Denmarke sole heire to Vlrick Duke of Meckleburg in anno 1572. from whose blessed loynes and fruitfull as from a fertile Soyle hath flowed such a noble Progenie as seemed to promise to people the world with Princes as that Princely royall religious pious prudent Queen Anne the mostrespected chaste meeke mercifull Maiestique Wife of the Sacred Maiestie of our most mightie Monarch Iames the first and the most happie Mother of our most promising Prince Charles the Felicitie of his Father and the Pledge of our

life in his doctrine and doctrine in his life for He appeares to his Subiects vertuous as He would haue them be and labours to be such as He appeareth that as his Lawes giue life vnto his people so he giueth life to his Lawes for they be but as Maximes deriued collected out of his life for it is as a great Volume in which they may reade whole Lectures of wholesome Precepts Neither doth He driue his Subiects on the path of Vertue so much with the Rod of Law as He doth draw them with the Adamant of Loue for can they chuse but dearely and nearely affect Him who as Hee is aboue them in place so Hee exceeds them in loue who being the Head cannot see one of the members hurt but Hee doth sympathize in sorrow with it not placing his gaines in their paines or esteeming Himselfe most a King when they are most basely subiected Neither is his Estate with the peoples welfare as it were in an vniust ballance so that his goes highest when theirs goes lowest but the seat of all his happinesse is situated in their good fortunes Neither doth Hee rule them with a Rod of Iron but a Scepter of Gold neuer restraining their libertie vnlesse it tended to licenciousnesse nor pulling goods from any particular vnlesse it were for a generall good In fine Hee hath brought all his Subiects to such a passe that though He takes nothing by force yet He hath all by loue for who would not venture either his purse or his person to performe his pleasure which of his Subiects would not entertaine his death with sweet embracement so that his Princes or Soueraignes Successours and Posterities welfare might haue birth from his death and spring out of his ashes Certes there is none but would willingly shake hands with life libertie or estate in a gratefull requitall of those blessings we here enioy by the meanes of his Maiesties most gracious gouernment Indeed they are so vnited vnto him by the inviolable bonds of feare and loue that all his Subiects as his Pulses doe beat according to the motion of his heart For ought not they willingly to performe his will who denieth to grant none of their wishes for hath his Kingdomes desired peace how long haue they possest it yea in such a turbulent time when almost all Europe hath had warre in her owne bowels But doe our people thirst for reuenge vpon those which haue iniured their Soueraignes Issue and wronged the Princely Branches sprung from their Royall Stocke for feare they should not be deliuered of that which they trauell of but lose their longing Hee assumeth Armes for the restauration of his Sonne to doe that by force which Hee could not purchase by fauour And sithence He findeth his Enemies not to be like Flints which may be broken vpon the feather-bed of perswasions but as Nettles the which by how much more they are easily handled by so much the more violently they sting He resolues to handle them more roughly lest they as much hurt him as they iniured his Neighbours Then surely what vnspeakable ioy ought this to be to that matchlesse Princesse of France and all her Nation She not more reioycing that Shee hath found such a royall wise and euerie way accomplisht Father than they that they haue found such a noble worthie Friend She may exult that She is ingrafted into such a Stocke they of such Alliance for He is not onely potent in men but powerfull in money and munition that as his money wants not men so his men want not money Howsoeuer indeed some may suggest and obiect that his bountie hath almost exhaust his Treasurie Yet as the candle though it giues another light yet it selfe is not darkened So though our Soueraigne hath enricht many of his Subiects yet Hee hath not impouerisht Himselfe for Hee hath so bestowed it vpon such persons as were not so willing to receiue it but they will be as well content to surrender it vp into his hands againe if either their Kings pleasure or their Countries profit giue them summons to make such a redeliuerie Then surely not onely the Throne but the Footstoole not onely the French Prince but the People may swimme I had almost said surfet with delight in this Blessed Vnion for what hindrance is there whereby that most Christian King Lewis the thirteenth may expect but that as our Princes Highnesse ioynes hands with his Sister so our Kings Maiestie will ioyne Armes with him for the regaining of those Kingdomes which vniustly an vsurping hand detaineth from him for Vis vnitafortior and that I may vse our Prouerbe Many hands make light worke Diuerse threds twisted together as they doe more strongly binde so they are not so easily broken of an enemie It was King Richards comparison A bundle of arrowes bound together could not be broken but disseuered with much facilitie they may be cracked and I may make application to these Kingdomes as Hee did to that his Kingly Issue It is not to bee doubted but that since Iames and Lewis two Kings so valiant Great Brittaine and France two Kingdomes so potent are vnited and ioyned in this bond as well of affection as affinitie their enemies shall not bee of power to preiudice them nor of strength to withstand them And howsoeuer the whole world is an eie-witnesse of the beautie and bountie of both their mindes which is so great that each of them doe esteeme it a greater honour to giue a Kingdome than to get it yet where there is wrong offered them and their Allies all the might of their foes shall be as a stone dasht against steele which shall rebound in their owne faces to their owne disgrace and ruine Neither let their enemies thinke but that howsoeuer they doe not loue to seeke others Dominions yet they will not lose their owne without stirring For will our dread Soueraigne when both amitie and equitie religion and affection doe giue him loud summons to restore his children to their inheritance detaine his helping hand from his hopefull issue Will He or can He see without sorrow and by consequence labour to redresse it that his posterities Countrey which formerly was the garden of the world vnpeopled ruinated and made a desolate Desart his Issue to be exiled from their inheritance and hope banished from them his childrens children forced to flie before they were taught to goe Can he I say see this and not sorrow at it Can he sorrow at it and yet suffer it Can he haue power and yet want will to reuenge it Oh no his hand is full of vigour and hee is fraught with valour his subiects soules doe thirst for reuenge and all his foes shall haue wofull experience that he is as valiant to maintaine a warre as wise to entertaine a peace and he can as well sacrifice at the altars of Mars as Ceres and is as well Achilles for his courage as Vlysses for his counsell Then who

respect him the more hee rebelled against him Is it possible then that her minde can euer lose the impression of her fathers remembrance And can Shee remember Him and yet forget his death Or can reminiscence retaine his death and not thinke of the instrument of it Or can the instrument of that murther be in her memorie and the setters on work of that wicked Instrument the Instigatours of that bloudie Butcher to that beastly cursed cruell fact be out of her minde And can Shee remember them and not abhorre them And can She abhorre them and not relinquish their religion which hold that lawfull which Gods Law hath forbidden For God prohibiteth the murther of any priuate person but these Doctors maintaine it to be lawfull to kill Kings which are publique persons Neither doe they permit it as a worke not impious but perswade men to it as a deed meritorious For Rauilack had no sooner playd his part in that bloudie Scene but hee was so confident in the blessednesse of the act as hee thought immediately to haue flowne to Heauen and beene crowned a Saint by God as well as canonized a Saint by the Pope Such is the leauen of the Popish Doctrine that sowres all the subiects of the Prince which doth professe it For what treacherous attempt against any King either Protestant or Papist hath beene made by a Protestant in our memories Oh no we are taught to feare God to honour the King wee must follow Dauids example to Saul not lift vp our hands against the Lords Anointed wee know Hee is Gods Vice-Gerent placed there by God and therfore to be displaced by none but Him But on the contrarie what plots haue beene laid What treasons haue beene committed either for the destruction of a King or subuersion of a Kingdome in which the Papists haue not only been Parties but principall Agents Who were they which plotted so many treasons against the Person of Queene Elizabeth but Papists But what treasons were plotted against Queene Marie by any Protestant notwithstanding shee was a cruell persecutor of that Profession What was Gowrie that conspired the ouerthrow of the Sacred Maiestie of King Iames but a Papist What were the plotters of that horrid Gun-powder Treason who sought with one puffe to blow away both the Prince and Peeres of our Kingdome but all professors of the Romish Religion What was hee which murthered King Henrie the third of France but a Papist Iacobin In a word what treasons haue beene committed which are contained in the Register-booke of mans memorie which haue not beene plotted and performed by them And no maruell the Priests and people practise it since they preach it and it is an orthodoxall opinion and position amongst them that the Pope hath power both to dispose of Kingdomes and depose Kings and that King-killing is not onely a lawfull but a holy and honourable calling Who then can suspect that a Princesse of her peerelesse part of her pious disposition of her matchlesse vnderstanding and discretion doth affect truly that religion which doth infect the hearts of Princes subiects which doth teach men to be monsters in gouernment and not to subiect themselues to higher powers but to rebell against the rule and authoritie of the Regall Scepter How can those Princes haue any peace with God that doe so little respect and much hazard their liues as to harbour and foster such murtherous rebellious minded men in their Kingdomes How can Princes haue any peace with men when they suffer men which are so wicked to preach such doctrine and practise such villanie How can they haue any peace within thē when they may iustly feare that each one which smiles in their face may smite their heart when they nourish vp such vipers in their bosome as are readie each moment to eat out their bowels How can then this Royall Princesse affect that religion or the professors of it which was the death of her Father and his Predecessor which may be a disturbance to the peace of her Prince and the safetie of his person if it be tolerated which may impaire the securitie of her posteritie who are neuer like to possesse their Princedomes in peace vnlesse such vermine bee hunted out of their Territories for peace and such people cannot inhabit in one Kingdome or dwell together no more than wine and poyson in a crystall glasse but the glasse will bee broke and the wine spilt and spoiled If then a Prince will possesse his soule and soueraigntie in peace he must banish these breakers and disturbers of it Neither is it a strange or vnheard of matter for France and England to shake hands of amitie and vnitie in those blessed Contracts for since almost the beginning of either Monarchie there haue beene continually these friendly and fortunate interchanges of mariage For it was not concealed from our Ancestors how beneficiall peace was betweene France and England therefore Steuen Earle of Bloys was linked in the bond of mariage w th Adela daughter to William the Conquerour And on the other side William Waren Earle of Surrey sonne of Gunred daughter to William the Conqueror maried the daughter of Hugh Vermandoys brother to the King of France For in like manner William Duke of Normandie did marrie Marie daughter to Foulke Earle of Anjou Maud the Empresse was linked in mariage with Iefferie Plantaginet Earle of Anjou And for the happinesse of his Kingdome the tranquillitie of his Countrey and felicitie of his Countrey-men Steuen King of England maried Constance daughter to the King of France Henrie the second maried Elenor sole heire to William Duke of Aquitaine Henrie sonne to King Henrie the second maried Margaret daughter to Lewis the French King Richard Cordelion maried Berenger daughter to Sanches King of Nauarre Iohn King of England maried Isabel daughter and heire of Amorie Earle of Angoulesme Arthur nephew to King Iohn maried the daughter of Philip King of France Edward the second maried the daughter of Philip King of France Isabel daughter to Edward the third maried Ingelram de Guisnes Earle of Soysson and Bedford Richard the second maried Isabel daughter to Charles the French King Henrie the fourth maried Iane the daughter of Philip the third King of Nauarre Henrie the fifth maried Catherine daughter to Charles the French King Henrie the sixth maried Margaret the daughter of Reiner Valois Duke of Anjou Marie daughter to Henry the seuenth maried Lewis the twelfth French King Charles Prince of Great Britaine betrothed to Maria Henrette daughter to Henrie the fourth and sister to Lewis the thirteenth Kings of France Thus hath there been a long and sweet continuance of blessed Contracts between France and England fortunate in each mariage producing peace and plentie to each Dominion so haue these matches beene prosperous to former so is this like to bee to future ages that all happinesse to either Kingdom shall be the issue of this most longed for and liked Vnion For who can bee