devotions and in making the Round of his Army to marke the disposition and countenance of his souldiers and encourage them to fight manfully Comming to the Quarter of the Swedes and Finlanders he put them in Battaile Ray and with a voice and countenance alike chee efull he thus bespake them Camerades is in English Chamber-fellowes My friends and Camerades this is the day that invites you to demonstrate what you are shew your selves men of valour keepe your rankes and fight couragiausly for your selves and your King If this day the bravery of your spirits shine forth you shall find the heavenly Benediction perched on the poynts of your swords Honour and a recompence of your valour On the contrary if you turne backe and basely and foolishly commit the armed hand to the protection of the unarmed foot you shall find Infamy my disgrace and your owne ruine and I protest to you on the word of a King that not the least piece of you or of your bones shall returne againe into Swedeland This Exhortation delivered in a high and piercing tone wonne from the Swedes and Finlanders onely these generall acclamations That they would approve themselves men of Honor that they had lives only for him which they were ambitious to preserve in the obteining of victory and his good graces The Swedes being placed in Rank and File the King embattailes the Alman Regiments and thus in few wordes exhorts them My friends Officers and Souldiers I conjure you by your love to heaven and me this day to manisest whose you are You shall fight not only under me but with me my bloud and life shall marke you out the way to Honour Breake not your rankes but second me with courage If you performe this Victory is ours with all her glories you and your posterity shall enjoy it if you give backe your lives and liberties have one period This Speech was answered with an universall shout and vowes reciprocall That they would make it appeare they knew the way to Victory or to death that the King should receive all satisfaction in their service and the Enemy should acknowledge hee had to doe with men of Honour Walstein and his principall Officers discovered quickely by his Scouts the resolution of the King and the countenance of his and thereupon grounded this resolution that they must needs come to blowes Walstein was infinitely desirous to avoyd the Combate but hee was wisely admonished by some about him that every step his men made in a retreat would take from their courage and give it to the Enemy and bring upon his Army a Panicke feare and an utter confusion Hee spent that whole night in digging and intrenching in embattailing his Army and planting his Artillery in diverse places advantagious the better to sustaine the shocke of the Enemy Pappenheim was sent for backe in post hast who was gone to Hall being very desirous to invest it not believing that the King would give or accept of battaile before the Forces of Saxon were arrived In the meane time the utmost endeavours of Walstein were not wanting to hearten his men and layd before them Honour Reward their advantages their Forces the justice of their cause which God the Catholike Church the Emperour and the whole Empire justifyed against the violence and usurpation of a stranger and all this and more he uttered in his Litter which his Gowt would not permit him to forsake This was subject to diverse interpretations Some believing that indeed he felt some symptomes of that sickenesse very familiar to him others maintayned this posture to have no good grace on a day of Battaile and judg'd that Walstein was very willing to preserve himselfe safe and sound that hee might hereafter serve his Master and his party others averred he was much indebted to his Gowt which did warrant his retreat without his reproach necessity commanding the stoutest courage to yield to such an Enemy On the other side the King being ready at all poynts and his Army embattail'd hee would take no refection because he would be an example to his men and lose no time Being placed in the head of Steinbocks Regiment hee thus spake with avoyce audible Now now is the time Camerades wee must goe on undaunted let us charge let us charge in the name of God Iesus Iesus Iesus aide me in fighting this day and favour my right These words were no sooner pronounced but he gave spurres to his horse and with his head inclined gave a charge to a Battalion of foure and twentie Companies of Cuirassiers which were esteemd the flower of the Imperiall Army Two Swedish Regiments had order to second him The Artillery of the King was advanced and five Cannon shot discharged upon the Enemy who answered them with two hundred which went off with a horrid noyse and lightning but with small losse to the Swedes the Cannoniers of Walstein not having well taken their aime But the first shocke was fatall to the King and all the Army For though the Squadrons led by so brave a Chiefe with an unheard of resolution gave on like Thunder on the Enemy and made him recoyle yet one shot from a Pistoll gave him new courage which pierced the Kings arme and broke the bone When those next the King saw him bleed they were amaz'd and cryed out The King is wounded Which wordes the King heard with much distast and repining fearing it would abate the valour of his men wherefore dissembling his griefe with a joyfull and undaunted looke hee sought to quallify the feare of his Souldiers with these masculine words The hurt is slight Camerades take courage let us make use of our oddes and returne to the Charge The Commanders that were about him with hands lifted up earnestly besought him to retire but the apprehension of frighting his men and his ambition to overcome prevailed The Assault being rebegunne with vigour and fervour and the King fighting againe in the head of his Troopes once more to breake those Rankes that were againe made up the losse of bloud and the griefe which hee felt in the agitation of his body enfeebled much his spirits and voyce which caused him to whisper these wordes in the eare of the Duke of Saxon of Lavenburg Convey me hence for I am dangerously wounded Hee had scarcely ended his speech and turned head to retire when a Cuirassier marking this retreat advanced upon the gallop from the Battalion of the Enemy and discharged his Carabin full in the shoulder of the King with this insulting speech And art thou there then long it is that I have sought thee Some imagined that it was Pappenheim that gave the blow by reason hee had often vaunted that an auncient prediction was found amongst the Records of his Family That a Stranger King should dye by the hand of a Pappenheim with diverse scarres in his body and mounted on a white Horse And for this cause having many scarres in his face and
Kings comming downe into Germany and extends his Story to his death Of all the Moderne Histories I dare make it the Chorus for it is written in a stile so Attick and so judiciall that it may well be called The French Tacitus What hath been before deliver'd in other Discourses concerning this Subject is to this nought else but a Faile The full and perfect Translation of this rare piece I heere promise the Courteous Reader and in the meane time intreat him to weare as a favour this Branch by which hee may judge the whole body Dixâ— The great and famous Battell of Lutzen fought betweene the renowned King of Sweden and Walstein vvherein were left dead vpon the place between 5. and 6000 of the Swedish party and betweene 10. and 12000. of the Imperialists where the King himselfe was vnfortunately slaine whose death counterpoyz'd all the other Pappenheim Merode Islonain and divers other great Commanders were offered vp like so many sacrifices on the Swedish Altar to the memory of their King Here is also Inserted an Abridgment of the Kings life and a Relation of the King of Bohemia's Death THE King having mustred his Troups and those of Duke Bernard of Saxon-Weymar about Erffurt the Armie received command to advance towards Naumburg The King came thither in person on Saint Martins day and cutt in pieces two Regiments of Merode that oppos'd him by the way Hee was no sooner arrived at Naumbourg but hee received Intelligence that the Enemies forces lay encamped at Leipzig and Noerspurg and stretched thence in length as farre as Weissenfels and that they were entrenched in a place advantageous Which proceeding of theirs obliged the King to doe the like at Naumbourg and to seeke the meanes to joyne his Armie with the Electorall which then lay about Torgau consisting of fifteene thousand men and reenforced with two thousand Horse belonging to the Duke of Lunebourg Hee sent divers Postes to informe them of his comming and of the courses were to bee taken for their vniting Walstein and Pappenheim being lodg'd between them had an eye on them both and made it their onely studie to hinder their coniunction On the fourteenth of November the Scours of the King brought him word the Enemie had sack'd and abandon'd the Citie and Castle of Weissenfells layd plaine his Trenches and retyred himselfe towards Lutzen two German miles from Leipzig The King hearing this newes resolved no longer to delay the Fight his courage not permitting him to temporize any further nor to attend the returne of his Posts sent to the Electour That which confirm'd him in this his Resolution was the assurance of certaine prisoners brought him by Relinguen that Pappenheim was gone to Hall with sixe Regiments Wherefore his Armie had order to march toward the enemie the fifteenth three houres before day and to dare him to a Battaile The diligence of the Van was such that it reached the enemie by the second houre after Noone and began the Assault The Imperialists failed not to make head and a strong resistance Many charges were giuen with advantage and losse equall the victorie enclining now to this side then to that till at length the Swedes gaue fire to their small Field-pieces which pierc'd and broke sundry Imperiall Companies and forc'd them to a Retreat The Swedes became Masters of the Field and brought to the King a Standard taken from the Enemie with this Deuise La Fortune l'Aigle Romain Fortune and the Roman Eagle Hence some drewe this Prognosticke that the enemie should ere long part with the one and the other A thicke miste and the night comming upon them the Swedes were hindered in the pursuit of the enemy and the victory The King remained in the Field and stood in order of Battaile all night having no other shelter then his Caroach resolved to follow close his Designe and engage the enemie to a generall Combate Hee communicated his Intention to the Dukes of Saxon-Weymar and other remarkeable Commanders who passed away that night neere his Caroach having nothing over their heads but the Heavenly Arch nor any thing under them but trusses of strawe layd upon the earth Their field furniture they left behind believing they should returne to lodge in Naumbourg But the patience of their Generall made them with ease passe over these inconveniences Some of the principall Officers endeavour'd to diswade the King from giving Battaile alleadging that the Forces of the Enemie were great his Seates advantagious their owne Armie feeble and wearied with continuall Marches and that it was farre safer to wayt for the arrivall of the Saxon and make so strong an vnion as may promise successe in the equalitie of their Armies Their reasons were not received but crossed by the King with many more solid derived from the Experience of the times past and the present astonishment of the enemie from the courage of his Souldiers and his advantages obteined from the Iustice of his Armes from the Benediction from aboue from the absence of Pappenheim and the discommodities he should bee subiect to in that season now waxing bitter in case hee should suffer the enemie to perfect his Trenches which hee had alreadie begun in many places To which hee added his Reputation and how important it was to hasten the Combate saying alowd That hee could not suffer Walstein to beard him without calling him to an account and letting him see by proofe he was not to be faulted that ere this hee had not seene him with his sword in his hand that hee desired to make tryall of his ability in the Field and ferret him out of his burrowes The Commanders perceiving by the language and tone of the King that his decree to fight was inevitable and their opposition fruitlesse conformed their wills by an humble obedience to his not without reiterated protestations to subscribe themselves his in their owne bloud and seale it with the losse of their lives Whereat the King rejoyced extreamely nor could he containe his joy from appearing in his face but by his cheerefull lookes expressed his inward content and forth-with called for a new sute of Chammois which hee presently put on Then they presented to him his Armes and the Duke Bernard of Saxon Weymar and sundry other Princes and Officers conjur'd him by all things deare and holy to weare his Helmet and Cuirasse but they could not winne him to it hee objecting the incumbrance and laying his hand on the Musket bullet still remaining in his shoulder which to him made the least weight unsupportable The Kings designe was to beginne the combate by the peepe of day but so thicke and darke a mist arose that it confin'd the eye to a small distance and rendred any enterprise not onely difficult but dangerous Wherefore the King was constrained to expect till the Sunne had chased it away which till then had deprived him of all sight of the Enemy The interim according to his custome hee imployed in his
diverse other parts of his body stitcht up hee reflected on himselfe and beleeved the Prophecy should bee accomplished by his hand But this needes no other confutation then the absence of Pappenheim and the time when the King received his hurt which was in the very beginning of the Assault before Pappenheim could make one of the adverse party I may add that the discretion of this worthy Count would not have sufferd him to runne into an errour so uncivill as to speake so undecently to a Prince of that eminency When the King had received this mortall wound which pierced him through and through he fell from his Horse and gave up the Ghost with nothing but my God in his mouth He that made this accursed shot was beaten downe with a storme of Harquebusados and sacrifised to the indignation of the Swedes But while the Groome of the Kings Chamber and diverse others lighted to raise the body the charge beganne againe more furiously then ever the Enemy having taken notice of this blow and concluding that all was now finisht and that hee should have Swedes good cheape This hindered the Kings servants from bearing of his body and summond every man to regaine the stirrupe and withstand the foe so that the King could not bee defended from receiving another pistoll shot in the head and being twice runne through with a sword The Imperiallists fearing him even after death and cowardly suspecting his speedy resurrection The poore Groome of his Chamber never forsooke him but breath'd his last upon his Masters carcasse after the receipt of an infinity of wounds But neither the Kings death nor the great oddes that the enemie had being strongly entrenched in divers places could let the Swedes madded with their inestimable losse from assaulting the Imperiallists with an unspeakable furie insomuch that they compelled the Battalion of Cuirassiers which made the left Wing to retire into their Trenches whom they dislodged about noone and gayned seven of their Cannon together with many Colours and Cornets Lieutenant Coronell Relinguen received commaund to advaunce and with three hundred Horse to charge foure Regiments of Crabbats commaunded by Isolani which made the right wing of the Enemy which hee performed with so much braverie and courage that hee twice pearc'd through them and brought backe three Standards leaving behinde one of his owne All his Officers were wounded and hee himselfe in the second onset had his arme shot through with a Pistoll bullet which forced him to retyre Isolani Generall of the Crabbats lost his life with a great number of his men Eighteene of his Companies charged some Germane Regiments that guarded the Baggage but they were stoutly opposed the Combate fierce the Assaults reiterated the earth dyed crimson and burdened with carkasses the Crabbats driven backe though not without some disorder of the Germane Horse recoyled amongst the Carts but this disadvantage the Enemy could not espie by reason of a thicke cloud which then arose and gaue the Germanes opportunitie to ranke themselues The Imperiall Commaunders Galas Merode and Holok longing to recover their Seat and Cannon loâ—â— tooke selected Bands fired the foure Corners of Lurzen to blinde the Swedes and keepe them from piercing that side to the succour of their friends This Essay was followed by successe the Trench force by the Imperiallists the seven pieces of Cannon lost regained and some Swedish Regiments disordered The Duke Bernard of Saxon Weymar seeing the confesion of his men and beeing advertiz'd by Kinphausen of the Kings death was extreamely incensed and protesting hee had not so base a wish as to surviue him hee ranne with his head couched on the enemy seconded by the Regiments of the Prince of Auhalt and Count Lowenslein Then the fight became obstinate on both sides the Charges redoubled the Carkases piled up the Pikes broken and the difference come to bee decided by dint of Sword The eye of man nor that greater of the World ever beheld a Ioust more furious The Imperialistes stroue to hold their advantage recover'd and the Swedes to dispossesse them of it The Duke Bernard did wonders that day Thrice like Lightning shot hee through the Forces of the Enemie nor could a wound received on the left Arme cause him to leaue the field before hee had constrained the Enemie to abandon the Cannon and his Post The winning of this opened him the way to the conquest of another For this valiant Prince pressed the Imperialist so hard that hee againe disrank'd them and compelled them to quit another Post guarded with thirteene Cannon His dexteritie in the drilling of his men in the opening and shutting of his rankes was such that they received little or no hurt from the Enemies Cannon The Duke undaunted pierc'd through the clouds of smoke displac'd the enemie and made himselfe Master likewise of this place and of the Cannon and droue the enemie to a confused Retreat The slaughter was great and the Swedes well blouded made good life of their advantage and the disorder of their foes passing over their bellies killing all that came in their way and stopping their eares against all motiues for quarter The Duke possessed of this place and Master of the Field betweene two and three in the afternoone thinking there was but one Post to force seared by a Windmill and guarded by three Imperiall Regiments endeavoured to remooue them sending in the meane time sundry Squadrons to chase the fugitiues But then the fight grew more cruell then ever For Pappenheim was returned from Hall and came upon the gallop with certaine fresh Regiments His Reputation and his concouragement gaue new spirits to the Runawayes and call'd them to the combate The Duke having notice of this quits this place new ranks and encourages his men and giues Pappenheim a meeting in the mid-way All the Charges past were nothing in respect of these latter Pappenheim imployed his utmost cunning and diligence and shewed himselfe in all places in the Head of his Troupes to embolden them On the other side the Duke Bernard fixt a resolution either to die or overcome and the Swedes and Finlanders enrag'd for the death of their King fought like Lions and desperately ranne upon the enemy The Artillery advanced and began to thunder and to enter divers Battalions and to make legges and Armes to flie from one place to another The smaller shot was also se violent that the Squadrons encountred in the palpable darknesse caused by the smoake without knowledge of their parties This furious shocke continned two houres with equall losse to both Victorie opening her armes to imbrace now one side then another Galas Merode and Holok were wounded to death and a Cannon shot cut off Pappenheim by the middle His death and the losse of divers other Commanders stagger'd the Imperialistes as much as that of the kings incensed the Swedes Then the enemy upon the receite of a newe salute from foure and twenty Cannon which pierc'd their thickest Troupes
began to flie and the Swedes pressed and pursude them far within night which favour'd the retreat of the fugitiues and hinder'd the Swedes from ranging further in the chase Indeede they were so tyred that they had neither breath nor force furtherto follow them The Imperiallists giving fire to their campe and part of their baggage tooke some the way of Leipzig others that of Leutmeritz towards the Frontiers of Bohemia whither it was thought Walstein was gone having heard of the losse of the Battell to find a safe place of retreat and to gather together his dispersed Troupes The Swedes remained in possession of the Enemies campe and most of his Baggage of one and twentie exquifite Cannon besides inseriour ones and a multitude of Standards and Corners Vpon the mustering of their Armie they found wanting over and aboue the incomparable and irreparable losse of their King the Major Generall Isslet and other Coronells and Officers A Prince of Anhalt a Count of Nilis the Coronels Brandestein Wildenstein Relinguen and Winchell received that day deepe and honourable wounds The Duke Bernhard of Weymar also was hurt to whose valour and conduct the Swedian partie after God owes the glorie of that day more bloudy by far then that which was sought the yeare past in the neighbouring fields of Leipzig The Duke Ernest of Weymar also infinuated himselfe into the hearts of all men by his courage and leading that day The Regiments of these two Princes and those of the Prince of Anhalt of the Count of Lewestein of Coronell Brandestein and the two Swedish Coronells surnamed The Blew and the Yellow bore the brunt of that day The Swedes lost betweene fiue and sixe thousand men and the enemie betweene ten and twelue thousand remaining on the place and two thirds of their Armie ruin'd and dispersed besides the death or mortall wounds of divers of their remarkable Commaunders as Calas Merode Holok Piccolomini ' Isolani and divers others Pappenheim aboue all the rest was bewayled by his partie and not without just cause his courage his Conduct his Vigilancie and Experience having conspired to ranke him in the Souldiers esteeme amongst the bravest Generalls of these times But this glorious Victory of the Swedian Armie suffered an Ecclipse by the death of that truely great King who was the soule of his Friends and the terrour and scourge of his Enemies His bodie could not bee found till the next day when after a curious search it was discover'd amidst the dead heapes rifled and halfe naked and so disfigur'd with bloud and durt that hee could hardly bee knowne This at once so dolefull and glorious a spectacle of the end of so great a Monarch work'd so strongly and effectually on the hearts of his Souldiers that with teares and lamentations for a losse so irreparable they made an unanimous Vow upon the place to revenge his death and make him reviue in the rigorous pursuite of his Designes which hee had so often conjur'd them to continue especially a little before this Battell when hee seem'd to presage his ende touching which hee discoursed often and seriously with many of his familiars Amongst other passages the King marking the multitude of people that flock'd about him at his entry into Naumbourg three dayes before the Battell and hearing their shouts of Ioy and this generall acclamation Long liue the King as if now they had nothing to feare since hee was present hee made to the standers by this short but memorable speech Our Affaires answere our desires but I doubt God will punish mee for the folly of the people who attribute too much to mee and esteeme mee as it were their God and therefore hee will make them shortly see I am but a man Hee bee my witnesse it is a thing distastfull to mee What ever befall mee I shall receiue it as proceeding from his divine will In this onely I rest fully satisfied that hee will not leaue this great Enterprise of mine imperfect The seventeenth of November immediately following the day of Battaile and the Kings death Duke Bernard of Weymar retir'd to Weissenfels to take a generall review of his Army and to give rest and breath to his over wearyed Troopes By the review of his Regiments it appeared that his Army was be tweene fifteene and sixteene thousand strong The Duke imparted his present estate and all other necessary particulars to the Court of Saxon and urg'd the Electour to an uniting of their Forces to the end they might follow close their designe and pursue Walstein to the remotest parts of Austria After this all the Army as well Swedish as Germane agreed in the election of Duke Bernard for their Generall and tooke a new Oath faithfully to serve him who had deserved so well of the Swedian party by so many benefits by his vigilancy his conduct and the greatnesse of his same in Warre but above all by his resolution and incomparable valour of which he made so oportune and cleare a demonstration on that bloudy day of Battaile The Chancellour Oxesterne who lay when about Frankfort was sent for in all hast to manage the affaires of the Chancery Royall removed to Erfurt but chiefely to serve and counsell the desolate and disconsolate Queen environ'd wih griefes and crosses inexprimable yet but equall to the greatnesse of her losse The said Chancellour and the Chevalier Rache served happily to rectify sundry disorders and to raise the spirits of such as were dejected but principally to stop the floud of teares flowing from the eyes of this most vertuous Princesse and to replant in her mind generous and masculine resolutions De la Gorde was sent for in post hast who was imbarked in Swedeland with certaine Regiments of Swedes and Finlanders to bring a supply to the Campe Royall and reinforce it the dead King beeing anchor'd in this maxime to make continuall levies notwithstanding the number of his Armies that so hee might have men at will to fill up those empty Companies which the Sword mortallity and many other militarie miseries might unhappily depopulate But notwithstanding the death of this mighty Prince the astonishment and fright of the Enemy was such that hee basely forsooke diverse strong and impregnable places in the Electorate of Saxony Amongst others the City of Leipzig was forsaken and the Castle rased to the ground Chemnits was taken Zwickaw invested and forced the Duke Bernard following close his good fortune and making good use of the Enemies amazement To this hee was animated the more by the fixt decree of the consederate Princes to make all fast and more and more to knit a firme Vnion with the Swedes that so joyntly that so both of them joyntly might execute and fulfill the intentions and exhortations of the deceased King Walstein having notice betimes of his mens infortunity and the advantage of the Swedes recovered Leipsig that night and before day tooke the way of Leutmeritz where hee recollected is disbanded men and added to them
hee was never weary though ever busied as if action had been his nourishment I will close up the Pannegyricke of this Worthy with this affirmation that in him all imaginable brave parts conspired to make him the greatest and most able Captaine of Christendome There was nothing in him the least way blameable but his choller to which the least provocation gave fire an humour familiar to fiery spirits chafed with continuall businesse which often falls out crosse But hee had a corrective ever ready which was an overflowing courtesy and sweetnesse to him naturall which stopp'd and repair'd the breach his Anger had made For any hasty speech he would give satisfaction not onely to men of eminency who might justly be offended but to those also of the meanest condition borne to suffer In acknowledgement of his nature so apt to take fire at the least distast he would often say That hee was willing oftentimes to beare with others infirmities as the flegme of some and the wine of others and that therefore reciprocally his choller deserved some support And to say truth this passion may challenge and winne connivence from him who shall duely consider his working spirit never weakned though ever bended as also his extraordinary vertues and his gentlenesse which upon occasion made him familiar with the meanest of his souldiers so farre was hee from being pufft up with prosperity or raysing his mind with his fortune Some note another oversight in this Prince that he did not better distinguish betweene the dueties of a Carabin and a Generall but exposed himselfe to all dangers and was too prodigall of a bloud so precious To confesse the truth it is not so much to bee wondred at that he lost his life in this famous Battail as that he parted not with it long before in so many Encounters where his life ranne the same hazard with the basest of his souldiers And in his defence this may worthily bee annexed that the valour of his men depended on his example and all his victories had for their originall his presence and forwardnesse in all Battailes which like a heavenly aspect sent downe influences and irradiations into the spirits of his souldiers and terrour and amazement into those of his Enemies The Souldier hath attempted to draw this Prince to the life and assures himself that they who have had the honour to see and serve him in his wars wil confesse that the portraict hath some aire of his face if not drawne to the life And hee beleeves withall that they who have felt the puissance of his Armes will be the first to extoll and magnify his worth that thereby they may lessen their owne losses justify their disgraces and shew to the world that so powerfull an Organ was required to operate on them with such successe Amongst other circumstances this is the most agreeable and worthy of observation that this Prince hath left his affaires in an estate so prosperous and advantagious The Swedian party is possessed of two thirds of Germany of the best Cities of most of the Rivers from the Vistule to the Danube and Rheine It hath also ten Armies dispersed through the higher and lower Saxonies Silesia Moravia Bavaria Franconia Suabe Alsatia and the Circle of the Rhein This party is also back'd and countenanc'd within by the principall Forces of the Empire and without by great Kings and States who thinke themselves interested in the support of it and preferre sure friends before doubtfull and wavering who will eternally remember the least losse or affront received and opportunity serving bee ready to revenge it To this may be adjoyned the experience of the times past which demonstrates unto us how well in the Mantuan warre they requited the benefits received from that house at a dead lift which serves for an infallible argument of their dealings It now remaines that the Princes and States united continue to make good the advantages bequeath'd them by banishing all jealousies suppressing of factions extirpating of Schismes and partiallities deciding of all disputes arising from their Genealogies by conferring offices on men not of great discent but ability by making use of the times present and past by quickly seconding their consultation with action and by a straight conjunction of their Councells and Forces to seeke their owne preservation in that of the Empire In any of which being wanting neither the care and paines of the deceased King nor their owne Armies or advantages can secure them from being a miserable prey to their Enemies and wretched spectacle to their friends The truth is hitherto the Princes and Generalls united have much abated the pride of the Enemy by deceiving his hopes and apprehensions and making it evident by their proceedings that they were not in vain so long train'd up in the Kings schoole but were still mindfull of his instructions and discipline and that his death did but concenterre and redouble their vigour The Dukes of Weymar tread on Walsteins heeles whom some report to bee wounded others dead in the Forrest which lyes betweene Fravestein and Klostergrappe If he be deceased he serves as another sacrifice due to the Kings tombe Tubal keeps the greatest part of Silesia and Moravia in obedience The Prince of Birkenfield shuts up all passages to the Bavarians within the circle of Ingolstat and Ratisbone Horne is Master of Alsatia and hath joyned to it the Conquest of Schletstatt Colman and Kentzingen have Senfeld nothing remaining in those parts unconquer'd but Frebourg which they batter and Brissack which they play with Baudisin marcheth through the Archbishopricke of Cullen without resistance and traverseth his Galleries maugre the Count of Gransfield from the river of Wesper even to the gates of Cullen The Troopes of Wirtenberg advance towards the Lake of Constance and are resolved to make good proofe of their courage To be briefe the Swedes shew that they have no great desire to repasse the Sea no more then have the Germans to refall into their wonted slavery But though the King of Sweden hath left his partie in an Estate prosperous yet wee must needs confesse that the enemie deriues from his death great Advantages and that the expense of a little Lead hath profited him as much as the gaining of many millions in that the severall Heads of the Swedish Armies are subject and prone to jealousies and misconceptions which giues him meanes and opportunitie to preserue what hee yet holds to calme seditions to recall long-banisht peace and once more to replant her in the Empire If hee make good use of his losses and imfortunities wee shall see him foorthwith to abandon all counsells tending to blood or violence to haue a care left by the oppression of Princes he make them desperate to recall his strayed Subjects by a generall Pardon of all their offences and seeke to raigne by Loue not Feare Hee will then no more violate Peace and the publique Faith under the pretext of Conscience which ought to be perswaded not forced as depending on another Tribunall then that of men This way to rest and quiet he is invited also to take and persist in because he may now peaceably enjoy all his due rights and Titles the death of the King having cur'd him of the deadly Feare hee was in lest this magnanimous Prince should yet fore higher and aspire to new Diadems and make good his Anagram by changing the name of Gustavus into Augustus FINIS