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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12545	Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia With the tragicall ends of two emperors, and one empresse, within one moneth during his being there: and the miraculous preseruation of the now raigning emperor, esteemed dead for 18. yeares.	Smith, Thomas, Sir, 1558?-1625.	1605 (1605)	STC 22869; ESTC S111002	46,009	102

hee being there vnto elected by so generall a consent and the like importunitie and besech of the Byshops Counsellours Nobles and Commons of their Empire vndertaking the gouernment thereof meerely of pittie without the least motion of pride or popularitie onely to sati●fie them all in generall rather then in any p●rticular to please himselfe but in happying and blessing them withall his Princely and contionerie conditions thereafter that wee his onely Sonne so beloued of the mightie and many so reuerensed of the good and religious will f●r many princely arguments approued of by our selfe and our grauer Counsell notwithstanding a double oath of the most to our Emperiall dignitie lawfull succession and inheritance in person come into the field with an inuincible Armie to make good our cause against thee yet doth it not befit such a mightie Prince as thou eyther art or wouldest bee thought so cruelly and vniustly to determine of our selfe our royall Moth●r and no lesse deare and princely Sister of which wee are informed thou thy selfe of vs art resolued Thou shouldest wisely and thankefully haue remembred thy ow●e hard fortunes and as myraculous a prese●uing with our inn●censie and youth and that wee b●th were or have thought our selues if so to bee wee are yet worthy great Princes Sonnes and Christians yea and more happynes and glory would it haue been to thee sitting on thy deare Fathers Throne to rule his p●ople with equitie and iustice then to haue b●en accounted his Sonne in tyrranie a●d blood Litle cause shall this Nation haue to hope of a mercifull and iust Prince that begins thus to terrifie and condemne the Innocent What ● it were graunted Wee haue no right yet our Father was el●cted Doe wee resist thee Dost thou not or will not blood-thirstie greatn●ss let thee vnderstand what an Innocent in yeeres and Counsell wee then were and yet haue been What if wee were perswaded thou art the right yet there are many many that neuer will bee and the greater are their arguments as thy cruelties a●d pollicies But that thou shalt perceiue wee neuer did resolue to keepe thee from thy Inheritaunce if of thy Iustice and true Title thereunto wee were but reasonably le● notwithstanding our Princely and safe Intelligence behold for thee our only Enimy we sacrifize our selfe behold how Innocencie Youth like the Twins of affection are ma●e guiltie in themselues and wee are an Vsurper to our selfe onely Yet be not thou hardned here with nor yet reioyce herein least neither bemeetes thy dignitie but bee thou rather if not at least the true heire to Vertue yet like a King in Pittie and assure thy selfe wee die not for feare of thee but for loue to our selfe not desparing of thy mercy but for our preuenting thy iustice as he that thinks hopelesse benefite a comfort then presumption fo● wee die but to conteyne our owne burthen yet with a much better resolution then eythe● sel●e-co●ceite or inthrald cowardize can be witnes of as he that had much rather be condemn●d than by accusing En●mies spared to be ius●ified inde●d on●ly for thy expected Seruants our beloued and louing Subictes who wee know dearely would purchase our life and libertie for them wee doe thus lay violent hands on our p●ttied but not hatefull l●fe as hee that esteemes it more worth to die an innoce●t then liue it but deemed death worthy for greater sorrow shoul● wee sustaine to suffer without desert then thus to die without compassion Shall not the Earth say Thou weart the cause yes yes All Pri●ces wordes are Lawes or should be yet oft times vnlawfull or vnmercifull be their entents and actions May the world report wee were our owne murderer If they can yet let them remember onely if our selfe iustice but of our innocent selfe and better were it for any one Innocent then many Innocents should perish for so thy freinds shall be more and thy loue greater when wee that are thy Ryuall are departed yet imagine with what ioy or sorrow wee imbrace death that breath our last in that bosome wee first receiued our beeing and be perswaded our selfe our deare Mother and sweete Sister drinke onely for thee this Cupp of Lyres So bee thou a King and thy posteritie Princes as thou hast right to our late Empire and art iust to thy Enemies louing to thy Subiectes mercifull to the poore and so be thou euer p●osperous Thus thou mayst be assured of vs. Lo thus wee dearely go to Heauen These Funerall speeches being afterward deliuered to the Emperour h●e fell into teares vppon reading them mixing much gracious language of the young Prince amongst his bemoninges of his fortunes And hearing some speake vnreuerently of his Father hee checkt them in these wordes It ill beseemeth any much lesse his Subiectes and those who had elected him to wound his Honour now hee lyes dead whom lyuing they kneeled to as their lawfull Emperour if not as right Heire but as approued by the generall voyces of the States Then he gaue commaundement that all those who had the keeping of the yong Prince should be imprisoned till his further pleasure were knowne and that the Mother and Sonne should bee basely and obscurely huried which accordingly was done The old Emperour Borris his body being likewise taken from the royall Monument where it first was layde to bee buryed with theirs in a meane Church within the Mosco Before we carry you any further it shall not bee amisse to place before your eye the picture of the young Prince who was in countenaunce effeminate in tongue faire and quicke his speach like his body high and great charitable to the poore which his Father was not bountifull to the mightie an indifferent rewarder both of the Vertuous and Valorous The lyuing thus hauing made the dead serue as Stayres to lift him vp into a Throane each one held ●t safest insudome to flye with the formost into ●he Campe there to make their peace by which meanes they flocked in troopes beeing dryuen therevnto eyther through feare of present dangers or of tempestes to come But their rightfull Emperour casting behinde him all thoughts of precedent actions onely ●pplyed himselfe to the present receiuing those that came vnto him with princely and kind embracementes esteeming himselfe then to be an absolute Prince when hee could so subdue his owne affections as to forgiue his Enemies yea those that were accounted Arch-traytors and Bloody-tyrantes Besides hee held it a good part of wisedome not to detaine any by force as his predecessors did within the Countrey not suffering any to enter but rather made it knowne that all his Dominions should be free for euery Subiect to goe foorth and euery Stranger to come in by which meanes besides the honour of beeing styled the First Emperour that made the State Free he should through commerce with other nations inrich his owne and propagate the fame and greatnesse of his name and Empire Thus suddenly he became of a Poore and il-attended