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A69135	The last vvill and testament of the Marquis d'Ancre Together with his araignment. His obsequies. His wifes teares on his death. The re-union of the King with his men of warre. The rousing of the soldat françois. All declaring the diuine iudgement of God on the death of the said Marshall d'Ancre. Out of the French copies printed at Paris and Roan.; Testament et dernière volonté de sieur Conchini de Conchino. English.	Concini, Concino, maréchal d'Ancre, ca. 1575-1617, attributed name.; Galigaï, Léonora, ca. 1571-1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 5621; ESTC S108607	6,141	20

so a peace would haue turned bad into good Hee ended his life in the beginning of a week as if therby the heauens did presage vnto vs that his end was to be the beginning of our happinesse Before moone in token that we were to re-behold the Easterne part of the Sonne of Iustice which was eclipsed by the earth of his auarice and now began a new to peepe out vpon the Horizon of France in the Orient of the happie raigne and Empire of our good King whose admirable vertues shal neuer bee seene to set and is to raigne in all prudence and absolute authoritie hauing rather his head on his Crowne then his Crowne on his head and his hand rather within his Scepter then his Scepter in his hand and moreouer to gouerne himselfe by the graue aduice of his best and principal Officers and so much the rather for that by bad counsell most commonly a great King is made a little one and contrariwise by good counsell a pettie King is made a great one He is confined to the centre of death rather in the moneth of Aprill then March in regard that hee had no thing in him that was martiall or generous and could better lay his hands on the Kings coffers and treasure then on a sword and to conclude was constrained to giue vp the ghost in the midst of the spring in the flower of his age who was altogether thornes in his heart as if the ground were not able to beare any longer among those pleasant flowers and faire Flower-deluces which are displaied in this milde season this Cantharide and mortall poyson of the Flowers of France FINIS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF Sr. CONCHINI DE CONCHINO the late pretended Marshall of France brought into the world by one of his Gentlemen who was slaine neere to Nanterre and appeared vnto the Pesant that slew him WHEREIN ALSO IS DISCOVRsed the meeting of the said Conchini with Rauiliack in forme of a Dialogue Out of the French Copie BY WISDOME·PEACE BY PEACE PLENTY LONDON Printed by Felix Kyngston for William Arondell at the Angell in Pauls Church-yard 1617. THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF Sr. CONCHINI DE CONCHINO the late pretended Marshall of France brought into the world by one of his Gentlemen who was slaine neere to Nanterre and appeared vnto the peasant that slue him Wherein also is discoursed the meeting of the said Conchino with Rauailac in forme of a Dialogue THis very night about twelue a clocke as I walked in the Moone-light there appeared vnto mee a fearfull vision it was a very tall man whose head seemed to look out at the window of a Towre in which hee was inclosed and his feet appeared beneath it I was greatly amazed at the first sight of him hauing neuer seene so strange an Apparition before neuerthelesse hauing somewhat better aduised my selfe and considered this Towre I be thought me Might not this bee some one of the Conchinies seruitors for they were accustomed in fighting to arme themselues with Cittadels Thereupon I resolued to draw neere vnto him and tooke a long pole in my hand which I had no sooner done but in a broken voice I vnderstood these words Stirre not my friend stirre not I pray thee wilt thou twice kill me By his voice I knew the coward and said Behold this lustie Champion who being the other day ouerthrowne is now returnd againe it boads him no good lucke I came neere him and he retired so much are those kind of men vsed to turne their backes and would haue shooke off his vnweeldy currasse that compassed him round about to bee so much the lighter I ranne after him being assured hee was some poore diuell of very little courage that would thus runne away Then began hee to cry aloud Downe with your weapon downe with your weapon I threw away my pole that serud me for a sword and being neere him I said Whosoeuer thou be thy humour is but base and cullion-like to feare death hauing no life at all in thee but in a trembling note he answered me It is the nature of cowards especially of rich ones to feare blowes and auoid quarrels but said I let 's leaue this talke and tell mee wherefore thou commest hither is it to reuenge thy masters death Ghost No but he hath armed me as thou seest and sent mee to the Parisian Gentlemen to giue them notice that hee hath made them Executors of his last Will and Testament Peasant Wherefore then dost thou repaire to me and not to them Ghost I did alwaies feare those men who haue so often hardly dealt with my master and his seruants Peasant But tell me where is thy Master Ghost He is below where he breakes ruines and makes hauocke of all saying hee 'le come and reuenge his death and Cerberus finds much adoe to withhold him Peasant What thy master then is become a very shrewd fellow Ghost Somewhat more couragious then my selfe for hee is perswaded that being once dead he can be slaine no more therfore was he not very valiant but hee reserued himselfe to giue the last stroke for Soissons if others could not haue compassed it and had very shortly besieged it had not the riuer preuented him Moreouer did hee not alwaies remaine in Normandie expecting the enemies comming hither to surprise him besides hee was so good a seruant to the King that hee would neuer leaue his companie Peasant But for my part I beleeue heloued his Crowne better Ghost Hee made mee not priuie to all his secrets but this I can tell you that he hath already stirred vp many warres in hell yea hee attempted to vsurpe the very seate of Pluto and quarrelled a great while with Rauaillack for precedence Peasant That name is odious among the French but there is no remedie let vs heare the storie of it Ghost Vpon a time being all assembled to take some order for the sending hither of a furie to redeeme my mistrisse hee offered to take place before Rauaillack for two persons of one humour can neuer agree together Rauaillack maintained that in the world hee had done Pluto better seruice then my master that he had killed a great King and had filled all France with troubles my master truly answered that he indeed began the troubles but if that himselfe had not for many yeeres together carried a great hand in the businesse the peace had soone returned and though he had not giuen such a blow yet his heart was good enough to doe it for it plainly appeared that he the King could not raign together with other such reasonings that were by Rhadamant thus determined that it was to bee confessed that if Rauaillack were taken for the master his apprentice would in the end surpasse him Peasant O my God how I feare his return being banished out of hell which if it happen on my faith I 'le sell all I haue and goe to hell for I esteeme nothing so great a hell as to be subiect to the power of that Tyrant These things are detested by all good-minded French men I pray thee let vs there leaue them returne we to the cause of thy comming and first of all let vs heare a word of the estate and fortunes of thy Master Ghost My Master hath been raised in this world from the lowest to the highest degree of state and in hell he argued for precedence with Pluto himselfe Pesant It is said that at best he was but a Gentleman Ghost Yes if there be any in Florence vnder the great Duke his father was Secretarie to his Excellence Pesant And is that nothing Ghost Not in regard of Marshal of France Pesant And his grandfather was hee not a mechanicall fellow Ghost Bee it so I may say of him as was said of an ancient Romane he was not made noble by his race but his race was ennobled by him to conclude he that burned the Temple at Ephesus was neuer so famous as he Pesant Is his wife as well descended as hee Ghost No she at first was a School mistrisse Peasant I beleeue it well for yet shee very well loues to play the Mistrisse Ghost But I haue heard in hell that her name Galliga signifies sorrow to Frenchmen for Gaya in Italian is sorrow and the Latine word Gallis is to Frenchmen But to returne to our purpose this is his will First and formost he giues all men to vnderstand that in dying God did grant vnto him that grace which he doth not to all the world that is not to see the diuell at the houre of his death Pesant Truly I beleeue it for as I haue heard he had not so much leisure Ghost Item he willeth and ordaineth that all his goods be distributed to each one in this manner that all and euery Castle and strong hold which hee vsurped vnder colour of the Kings will and pleasure bee restored to his Maiesty Item to his wife he giueth his beautie because he knowes she stood in need of it and for her comfort hee hoped to see her shortly and that to come to him her way lies by the Greaue Item to his sonne hee giueth and bequeatheth the high way to Florence to walke in prouided alwaies that it may bee lawfull for him so to doe Item to his brother the one halfe of his cowardize because he was too valiant and the other halfe to the regiment of Normandie But now tell me what hath been done here in the world since his death that I may report it vnto him Pesant A strange metamorphosis euery thing is changed warres into peace thunder lightening raine and haile into faire weather The dumbe speake and those that did speake are taken speechlesse hee that was taken but for a child hath appeared to bee the most valiant and magnanimious King in the world the true sonne of Henry the Great and those that erected gallowes for the Kings good seruants are hung theron themselues FINIS Phoebus once mounted Phoebe decline's her state Cut-throtes and Theeues are now quite out of date Truth 's spoken freely to the shame of liers Good men at length haue got their long desires Vpon CONCHINI his descent into Hell When Conchini came to Hell The Fiends withstood him and did yell And cried out on God amaine Doe not we here suffer paine Enough already in this place Where we haue no resting space In these Caues we wer't thou contented Enough already are tormented

THE LAST VVILL AND TESTAMENT of the Marquis d'Ancre TOGETHER WITH HIS Araignment His Obsequies His Wifes teares on his death The Re-union of the King with his men of Warre The rousing of the Soldat François All declaring the diuine iudgement of God on the death of the said Marshall d'Ancre Out of the French Copies printed at Paris and Roan BY WISDOME·PEACE BY PEACE PLENTY LONDON Printed by Felix Kyngston for William Arondell at the Angell in Pauls Church-yard 1617. THE DIVINE IVDGEment of God in the death of the Marquis d'Ancre OH the iust iudgements of God! oh profound and incomprehensible counsell of the Almightie oh soueraigne decree of the diuine prouidence That man is vnhappilie perished that sought to ouerwhelme vs in miserie He that with a disloy all heart would haue procured a tragicall end to France hath tragically ended his daies by the hands of true-hearted Frenchmen and hath buried himselfe in his owne pride that would haue buried the greatnes of Princes and built an absolute power in the ruines and decay of this perpetuall Monarchie But what do I say buried O wonderfull prodigie O prodigious wonder That same man hath bin by the people vnburied and depriued of the sweete repose of the dead who in his life time had depriued France of a peaceable tranquillitie hath bin ignominiously hung vp as a treacherous and calumniating Haman on the same erected gallowes which his owne naturall crueltie and art of wickednesse had ordained for such good Mardocheoses as vndertooke to complaine of his tyrannie or to discouer the many practises of his treasons and disloyaltie against our King Moreouer they hung him with his heeles vpward as if his head so monsterously culpable durst not so much as behold the heauens was with great disgrace and infamie shamefully dragged through the stinking puddles and dunghils of the Citie of Paris he that long since had drawne vpō himself the cords and snares of the diuine iustice and who had infected France with the ordure corruption and stinking sauour of his vices hee which sought to dismember the body of the State himselfe was dismembred and torne in peeces was burned and consumed in the flaming fire who would haue burned and consumed the libertie of the people with the fire of his violence his ashes were scattered in the winde to shew the puffe of his own ambition which was so suddenly turned to ashes He beleeued that the bright skie of his authoritie was free from any cloudes the cleere sunne of his dominion without eclipse the lightsome day of his glorie voyd of darknesse the vast sea of his greatnes without tempest the roses of his good fortune grew without pricks and that all the felicities of the world were perpetually to shine vpon him But hee suddenly found his authoritie lost his dominion smothered his glorie extinguished his greatnesse troden down his good fortunes changed and felt that his former prosperities were but a sweete impoysoned baite of fortune turned into the gall and bitternes of all mishaps Hee was put to death by the Kings command that would haue commanded the King hee ended his daies with violent death that violated the respect due vnto his Maiesty violated Iustice violated the lawes and hee that was indeed altogether nothing but violence it selfe hauing climbed so high that hee could not well be brought low but by death it selfe which Iustice confirmeth the Law approueth and equitie commandeth Right counselleth Reason ordaineth Histories allow and that precedents teach and that cannot be taken in euill part without contradicting the approbation authoritie commandement counsell ordinance confirmation and teaching of the whole world and to accuse of iniquity Iustice law equitie right reason histories examples and all that may be termed vprightnes in the whole vniuerse The infection of his life therfore hath been most iustly but yet with too much honour mingled with his bloud in the midst of his as I may terme thē Court-gallyslaues who did inconsideratly adore the blind Idoll of his greatnes Whence may be learned that vice neuer goes vnpunished although to be vicious of it selfe is punishment sufficient Mounsier de Vitry most faithfull to the King hauing brought both his heart and hand together to the execution of so heroicke an act that Histories shall perpetually record to the memorie of men and shall flow from the pen of the most learned within the Temple of immortalitie No no it was not earth but Heauen had the greatest stroke in his death it was the hand of Angels more then men and the sentence of his tragicall end was first pronounst in Gods counsell before the King decreed it By which it may be gathered how neere this good and wise Monarke is vnited vnto the eternall God in his minde and soule seeing that the will of the most High who holdeth the harts of Princes in his hand agreeth so well with the Kings and that the Protector of the whole world hath been well pleased with the desires of this great King thereby to manifest his consent vnto his wishes Hee ended the course of his life entring into the Louure where he thought himselfe so firmely anchred that hee was neuer to depart thence and felt the icie stroke of death by pistols and fiery weapons who in the midst of his frostie cowardise and temeritie was the kindler and flaming fire-brand of sedition who with an ardent appetite greedily longed to trouble all France with the fire of Ciuill warre And whereas the skie had bin long before euen in the fairest moneth in the yeere ouerspread with a gloomie darknes as being inwardly touched with remorse of our sensible griefes which ascended thither seemed to mourne at our sinister mishaps and to mingle its continual drops with the bitter teares which ouerflowed the eyes and hearts of all true-hearted Frenchmen who could not without extreame griefe vndergoe that vnreasonable tyrannie or as if it would ioyne its moysture together with the bloud which the ouerruling of this execrable Tyrant caused to be spilt by a furious and more then Ciuill warre euen at this instant begā it to re-assume the brightnes of its countenance and to cherish the earth with its seasonable mildnes euen at the fearfull image of this mans death neerely resembling that Herennius who was strook with lightning the skie being without cloudes and the ayre bright and cleere as if by the calmenes of the weather the calme of Peace would be represented vnto vs which France is shortly to enioy by meanes of this long wisht for death and that with his bloud he was to extinguish the flames of warre which his ambition had vnhappily kindled a warre that fought against the publike peace the vnion of subiects the ioy of friends the Kings authority the strēgth of Frenchmen and the good of France a warre that was the motiue of many wars and such a warre whereof his Maiestie desired as much to see an end as of a warre that turned good things into bad