made more happie in themselues more blessed in their people than this Prince and Princesse who are so like in themselues and their Countries their people their loues their vertues as this rare Ladie and her Prince who by his supreme vertues might seeme only to challenge Her and Shee for her exquisite qualities to enioy Him So that from this Match may be deriued all happinesse and all felicitie as also all vertues ioyne in them for hath his greatest indignation and choler beene euer made a crime against them whom Hee hath hated No no but his royall Soule which had nothing in it but courage seemed to faile in his reuenge and though that with the eyes of his minde He may apprehend offences yet his mercie is as readie to forget them as his wisdome to apprehend them And for his valour I doubt not but hereafter as well as in times past the eyes of all men shall see it and eares conceiue it and succeeding ages shall publish his present valour and it is not to bee feared that this assertion shall need confirmation since there is hope it is not only without contestatiō but comparison who hath also clemency ioyned with his courage hath as much pleasure in pardoning as glory in vanquishing so that it is to be expected that as the acts of the one shall be signed with bloud so the other shall be sealed with teares And for his pious life the world knowes that he hath no superiors few equals but multitudes of inferiours who as if he made it his onely happinesse to serue God doth only please himselfe in pleasing him esteeming his seruices his greatest freedome and deeming it a thing most vnworthy to bee a Soueraigne of men and not a seruant of God And a thing most requisite in a Prince to be as eminent in grace as in place and in vertue as in dignity than the which there cannot be a greater honour nor any thing which doth more proue or improue the stocke He came of who is like pure pearly water flowing from a Crystall fountaine or like an Apple of gold hanging vpon a goodly Cedar which brancheth it selfe into all the parts of Christendome For how royally descended and neerely allied is He for how frequent haue the interchanges of Mariages with England and other the chiefest and noblest Families of Christendome being the onely sonne of Iames the sixt of that name King of Great-Britaine France and Ireland lineally descended from multitudes of most mighty Monarchs the vndoubted Heire of the said Dominions being issued from Marie Queene of Scotland and Dowager of Francis of Valoys the second French King who departed this life 1586 marrying Henrie Steward Lord Darnely her second Husband eldest Son to Mathew created Duke of Albany in an 1565 and slaine in the yeare 1566 the which Q. Mary was the daughter of Iames Steward the 5. king of Scotland whose first wife was Magdalen daughter of Francis the 1. French king who dyed in the yeare 1541 The which Iames the 5. was descended from Iames the 4. king of Scotland who married Margaret eldest daughter of king Henrie the 7 and sister to king Henrie the eighth in the 11. yeare of her Fathers reigne 1489. and was slaine in battle at Flowden anno 1514 in the sixt yeare of king Henrie the 8. his reigne The which Iames 4. was issued from Iames the 3. king of Scotland who maried Margaret daughter of Christian the 1. king of Denmarke marke who was descended from Iames Steward the 2. King of Scotland who maried Marie daughter of Arnold Duke of Gelders and was slaine anno 1460 who was sprung from the loynes of Iames Steward the first king of Scotland who maried Ioane daughter of Iohn Earle of Summerset In the which England and Scotland in those times also gaue the kisses of peace in mariage for the said Ioane was descended from Iohn Plantagenet sirnamed of Gaunt Earle of Richmond Duke of Lancaster called king of Castile who maried three wiues and died in anno 1398. being issued from the royall stocke of Edward Plantagenet the 3. king of England and France who quartered the Armes erected the Order of the Garter maried Philip of Henault and deceased anno 1377. But to returne vnto our former discourse this Iames the first was issued from the loynes of Robert Steward the third king of Scotland sometimes called Iohn maried Annibell daughter to Iohn Drummond and dyed in anno 1406 who was descended from Robert Steward the 2 who after Dauid Bruise 1370. was king of Scotland whose second wife was Elizabeth daughter of Adam Marre knight who dyed 1309. was descended from Gualter Steward Lord Steward of Scotland who maried Margerie daughter of Robert Bruise sister and heire to Dauid-Bruise both kings of Scotland by which meanes the royall name of the Stewards was matcht into the bloud royall and made apparant heires of the Crowne in which worthy and noble Name it doth still vnto this present day continue Which honourable and euer to be reuerenced Name was first aduanced to the dignity of Lord Stewardship by king Malchol the 3. who conferred that honour vpon Walter borne in Wales at his returne into Scotland for some memorable and worthy seruices which hee performed But they were intituled in the Crowne by the mariage of the abouesaid Margerie daughter to Robert Bruise Earle of Carrick the first king of Scotland who maried Elizabeth sister to the Earle of Marre and died in anno 1329. Whose Ancestour Robert Bruise Lord of the Valley of Anandie in Scotland and Cunnington in England maried Martha daughter to the Earle of Carrick Hee also married Isabel the sister and co-heire of Iohn the Scot Earle of Chester who brought vnto him Cunnington in England for her Dowry being of the stocke of Dauid Earle of Angus and Huntingdon the 3. sonne of Henrie Prince of Scotland who married Margaret daughter and coheire of the Earle of Chester and dyed in anno 12 19. William king of Scotland sirnamed the Lion second Son of Prince Henrie succeeded his brother king Malchol in anno 1160 and dyed without issue Henrie Earle of Huntingdon married Ada the daughter of William Earle of Werren hauing a period prefixt to his daies by the Almighty afore the expiration of his Fathers life anno 1152. Dauid the first king of Scotland sonne of Malchol married Maud daughter and heire of Waltheof Earle of Huntingdon and dyed in anno 1153. in the 19. yeare of the Reigne of king Steuen so Maud Queene of England daughter of Malchol and brother to Dauid the first king of Scotland was espoused to Henrie the first king of England sonne to William the Conquerour who dyed anno 1119 from whose loynes sprung the famous race of the Brittish Kings who haue for their valour and their fortunes beene famous and admired throughout the world Neither was here a beginning of the loue and amitie betweene them who now by one are for euer made one For likewise
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
righteous Dauid in all his trauell and troubles how constantly did he attend on Him being almost as inseparable an Adiunct to his Highnesse as heat to the fire or light to the Sunne being as Ruth to Nahomi readie to goe whither soeuer He went Neither did his person onely but his care accompanie Him watching continually lest any treason might bee plotted against Him lest any trap might be laid to ensnare Him lest any subtill Serpents as those hot Countries are full of them might sting Him It was hee that tooke the least disgrace done vnto the Prince more heauily and hainously than the greatest indignitie could be offered vnto himselfe It was he which discerned all the politique proceedings of Spaine and it is hee vnder God to whom wee owe eternall gratitude for the welfare of this our Kingdome and the people are perpetually bound for this their prosperitie and I doubt not but those who are not like Swine which eate the acornes vnder the tree but neuer looke vp to the tree from whence they fall doe most worthily acknowledge and heartily affect that most Illustrious Duke for his tender and zealous loue both of his Princes safetie and Countries good Truth it selfe speaketh it and therefore who but the enemies of Truth can oppose it that promotion neither commeth from the East nor the West but onely from the Lord. Moreouer the hearts of Kings are in the hands of God to turne them at his pleasure and it is as farre from doubt as Heauen from Hell that indeed our King hath honoured you but it was by Gods appointment He hath preferred you but it was by Gods directions and God directed Him to aduance you that you might benefit this Countrey in being an Instrument to finde out the intendments of Spaine as also to further this blessed Contract with France and I dare say or if my word may not be taken I can produce millions of witnesses to testifie and depose that the gaping earth after a long parching drought did neuer more acceptably entertaine a liuely showre than the Brittish Nation this Vnion Neither was euer the dew of Hermon distilling vpon the Hill of Sion more welcome to it than this happie and hopefull Coniunction to vs. Neither let me omit to render in the behalfe of our Countrey-men all possible thanks to my Noble Lord of Doncaster who hath so well and worthily behaued and carried himselfe in the effecting of this blessed Confederation as in making this Match and effecting this Contract hee hath robbed multitudes of their soules and won the hearts of all the people for should hee liue neuer so long and all his life time studie and euer studie effectually and all his studies should be wholly to benefit his Countrey hee could neuer haue excogitated a meanes more likely to bring whole showres of all kinde of Blessings vpon these Kingdomes than this whereby England is ioyned to France and France to England the most fertile Countries of the world are ioyned together with the kisses of peace and amitie To you therfore most Noble Lord as the Conduit by which meanes God hath conueyed this happines we present our well wishes For who is it but you most Honoured Lord to whom we are more indebted than to your care for the finishing of this Vnion It was the eyes of your Indgement which foresaw what prosperitie it would bring to the Prince and what happinesse it would bring to England to haue her Lyons adorned with Frances Lillies and the Flower-Deluce and the Rose bound vp and conioyned What bed so sweet as that which is composed of Lillies and Roses What kisses more delightfull than when they are linked together And what Contract could haue been more consolatorie than this of France and England To you therfore Great Britaine sendeth the best of her wishes to attend you and most powerfull prayers to guard you and preserue you from all perils that you may liue to doe God glorie and your Countrey good in performing many profitable offices vnto it Here then if it please France and this most Royall Ladie to take but a suruey of the incomparable excellencie of the Peeres and Nobles by whom She shall bee attended in Great Btittaine Shee shall happily and to her great comfort and content vnderstand that She shall shine like Phoebe in this our Orbe enuironed round about with these glorious starres and resplendent lights the Nobles of our Kingdome But to the end they may conceiue and consider of their happinesse Capape as I may so say and weigh but the worth of our Commons and vulgar sort of people in this our Iland it will soone appeare that euen in the lowest sort of people they shall finde highest degrees of happinesse First in regard of the mutuall affection which is likely to be between Her and our Nation whether it bee for neâ—â—â—nesse of bloud or aequiparancie of conditions Moses when he saw the two Iewes at dissention one with another hee could excogitate no meanes more forcible to moue them to reconcilement than reducing their affinitie to their remembrance telling them they were brethen then surely ought there not to be great affection betweene the two famous Nations of the Brittish and the French since there is so much affinitie Yes surely and to the end that there may bee as there ought to bee eternall concord let vs remember we are brethren and of the same bloud For there be verie few in England who either directly from their Fathers and Progenitours or indirectly by some contract haue not some of the French bloud lodged in their bosomes And if we examine the dispositions of either Nation wee shall finde them not like Iacob and Esau or Caine and Abel of opposite qualities but wee shall see an absolute agreement betweene them in their vertuous inclination and conditions Doe we seeke for valour who of more perfect prowesse than the French and the English Who haue been so often Combatants and Conquerours both for their Countrey and conscience as France and England The French are true-hearted neuer carrying two faces vnder one hood but deeming it rather cowardice than true valour to ouercome by deceit and policie for the most part carrying their hearts at their tongues-end and though they speake not euerie thing which they know yet they speake nothing with their tongues but that which they thinke in their hearts Our English are not deceitfull and hypocriticall cooling their pottage and warming their hands with the same breath but their speeches are the mirrours of their mindes in which you may see their intentions and by their words you may attaine to the science of their conscience The French are vpright and iust deeming it the losse of their worth not to keep their word and the most base seruility not to be their words Masters scorning fraud and truce-breaking not seeking to rush vpon another mans possessions or to encroach vpon others Dominions The English are performers of that which they promise
endowed with all gifts and rare qualities requisite for the restoring of a Kingdoms sicke and languishing estate to the former health and happinesse who succeeding Henrie the third the last of the Royall Race of Valois who was slaine by a Iacobine in the Crowne and Dignitie of a King found the Kingdome pestered with so many pestilent euils which was like a bodie surfetted and weakned with all kinde of diuersitie of diseases surcharged with melancholy and diuers other bad humours which did so contend for predominancie as it was full of intestine broyles and ciuill dissentions the which being fed with choller of the people did daily threaten the ouerthrow and destruction of the whole Continent if God had not in time sent that good Physitian Henrie the fourth whose might and mildnesse composed such wholsome medicines and rare remedies for the recouerie of his Kingdomes welfare that by his valour hee encountred his enemies and reduced his distracted and almost destroyed subiects to their dutifull obedience in so much as his most gracious gouernment was likely to haue brought that Kingdome to a most peaceable and prosperous estate if a cursed cruell murtherer had not imposed an vntimely end by an vnfortunate stab to his life and by consequence to his gouernment with whose life the present prosperitie of the Kingdome was ended in regard He left none to weild his Scepter but his Sonne then Daulphine now King Lewis whose tender yeeres though they promised much yet they could performe verie little in the ruling of such a mightie Nation But God who is euermore a Father of the fatherlesse and a Husband to the Widow became a mightie Protectour of this fatherlesse Countrey still preseruing it from all perills guarding the Daulphine from all dangers till at length Hee attaining to the ripenesse of yeeres and vertues was fit to bee the Gouernour of such a Kingdome in so much as now it may bee truely stiled The most flourishing and fortunate Common-wealth in Christendome Then what better or fitter amitie than betweene Nations and People so faithfull and two Countries so fruitfull as France and Brittaine What greater likelyhood can there be of loue than between men so like in qualities as the French and English and two Countries so rich as France and England It is an ancient approued Maxime in Philosophie Simile simili gaudet The like reioyceth in the like and it is as receiued an axiom in Moralitie Amicitia debet esse inter aequales For if a rich man be in the bond of friendship with a poore man their loue is not likely to bee of any long continuance for the want of the one will wearie the good will of the other and like Pharaohs kine the leane ones will eat vp the fat But when two fertile Kingdome which are the Palaces of Ceres and Temples of Bacchus shall ioyne together it is not onely likely to bee great for the quantitie but durable for the time when as they shall not onely haue the interchanges of peace but also of plentie when as neither of them shall impouerish but both of them ioyntly enrich each other This is the ioy of our most mightie wise inuict Monarch King Iames who is as well the father of his Countrey England as of his Sonne Prince Charles who cannot chuse but reioyce to see his Countrey so well matched to a Kingdome so commodious and profitable There is no father but desireth and ioyeth to see his daughter wealthily bestowed vpon one of equall worth and meanes then well may his Royall Person reioyce at this Mariage of his Kingdom which hath found a Mate so powerfull so plentifull so abounding with all riches so enriched with all benefits as France Doth He desire peace it is able in the time of peace to send Him rich commodities out of her store-house Doth He desire warre what is wanting there to maintaine it It is populous for men powerfull for money plentifull for prouision there are men to bee procured for money money for men sustenance to be had for money that nothing might be wanting requisite for the vpholding for the beginning or continuance of a iust warre Then how is England for euer obliged to the Almightie who hath thus directed our King thus affected our Prince to chuse and select so blessed a Princesse in so happie a Countrey which is the fertile Mother of such excellent wits which is the Continent of such affable debonaire and courteous people a rich Fountaine From whence all necessarie benefits flow to neighbouring Nations which wanteth neither a fat fruitfull soyle to yeeld increase nor laborious painfull industrious men to till it which hath beene the seat of so many mightie wise valiant vnconquered Monarchs Oh happie Brittaine which though thou wert most happie in thy selfe yet if it be possible art more than most happie in such a Sister which is the Palace of pleasure the Mansion-place of delight which sendeth all rare delicates as gifts vnto thy People and the rarest Gemme of Nature the most exquisite Fruit that euer that Countrey could make it selfe or other Countries happie in The Ladie Henrette Maria to thy Prince whose vertues shew themselues to the life more to the eyes of all than the most perfect eloquence is able to declare them to the eares of any who in her virginitie was wedded to Vertue and is now marched with the most vertuous Prince that euer liued who for vertue parentage education proportion and portion stands as a matchlesse Mirrour to all her sex and no whit vnworthie of such a Husband Consider but her vertues and you will say and yet speake nothing but that which you thinke that Shee is rather an Angell sent from Heauen for to bee a Miracle and Oracle of her time for all to admire than borne of mortall seed for any to imitate in whom wisdome sits in her perfection and all to make Her perfect whose words are all weighed in the balance of consideration in her minde afore they be vented by her lips for Shee knowes words are like time once past they cannot be recalled and howsoeuer the tongue bee an vnruly euill and that euill most predominant in a woman yet Shee deeming it most vnworthie to command others and not to command Her selfe alwaies premeditating of whom to whom where and what She speakes and as Shee suffers not her tongue to be the key of her mindes closet where silence is a vertue so Shee will not neglect to let her tongue bee the testament of her minde where necessitie enforceth Thrice happie Kingdome at this instant in which there is such a Princesse extant so fully accomplisht with such rare vertuous qualities It is She whose chastitie doth challenge the superioritie of all her Ancestours and stands as a Patterne to future ages whose heart neuer harboured the least thought of vncleannesse whose Iuorie Alablaster Soule hath not beene toucht or tainted with the least impuritie can be imagined but from her infancie hath been
soueraigntie whose cheekes are like gardens of Roses and Lillies and Alablaster besprinckled with Vermilion both of which are the ineffable ornaments of Nature Alas what should I say more of the rare composure of her Angell-like celestiall countenance in the framing of which Nature hath shewed herselfe no step-mother but hath manifested the perfection of her affection vnto that sex in Her whose praises since I cannot vtter in speeches let it be sufficient to admire in silence Not to omit the proportion of her bodie in the discourse of which the most eloquent Oratour might finde a most spacious field to walke in the which is like her minde neither too loftie nor too excessiue low but her stature is indifferent and in the meane as if Nature in framing of Her had beene the Ape of Vertue and intended to dwell in the meane and shame both extremes each ligament and lineament of her bodie is so strongly and yet so sweetly framed as indeed they claime the admiration of all and the affections of the most Peerelesse Prince in the world As for the portion which indeed is in the last and least place to be respected what Princesse can equall Her For what greater portion than happinesse and what greater happinesse than that which Shee will bring tome Kingdome into which She shall match and in the which She shall be resident whose Allies shall bee as strong Bulwarks to the place to whose Prince She shall be conioyned in wedlocke in the time of warre and in the time of peace the meanes of the transporting of all necessarie and requisite benefits to that Kingdome Thus her vertue her parentage her education proportion and portion proue Her worthie to be linked with the Worthiest in mariage these make Her fit to bee a Wife but the intire affection which Shee beareth to our Prince proue Her worthie to bee his Wife and no doubt but as there is the highest degree of loue betwixt Them so no doubt they shall haue the pledges of true loue and shall liue and giue life to this Kingdome hereafter by their posteritie Thus it appeareth that as now She is euerie wayes a most excellent Virgin so if vertue education parentage portion proportion loue all these or any of these may make a happie Spouse She is likely to make a most blessed Yoake-fellow these make Her fit to be a Wise but her loue to Prince Charles his Wife her vertues ioy the world in generall but her loue to Him doth solace Him in particular and who is able to describe her loue not man for they are not so violent in their passions not women for few or none of them are so vertuous to loue so chastely affectionate no surely neither man nor woman can relate it to the measure althogh they may vtter some part of the manner of it for her loue is euen like her vertues infinite Oh the incomprehensible wisdome of the Deitie which euen afore our birth doth not onely foreknow but doth also predetermine all the actions and affections or vs mortals effecting things and that for our welfare euen by almost seeming impossible meanes beyond our hope or imagination Who would haue thought that Saul should haue found a Kingdome when he went to looke his fathers Asses Or Dauid a Crowne when hee went to carie releefe to his brethren God oftentimes shewes vs our home in the midst of our iourney for so did Hee deale with our mightie Prince who manifesting a high degree of wisdome in looking afore He leapt and shewed no lesse religion than discretion in vndertaking though a tedious iourney to view the Cabinet into which Hee was to put his Soule and to place his perpetuall welfare before He trusted it with the custodie of it most fortunately met with the Center of his affections euen in the mid way Hee aimed but God directed the arrow of his loue at a more happie marke more happie and lesse dangerous for Himselfe more happie more prosperous for his Countries In so much me thinkes that so soone as the louely pourtraicture of this Peerelesse Prince though by his picture should bee conucyed thorow those Crystall Casements of her affections into the closet of her secrecies it should cause her intellectuall facultie thus to rationate with it selfe in silence Whither wanderest thou sweet Prince so far from thy home Thou art lodged in my heart Oh let it be thy perpetuall habitation Why doest thou carrie my heart so far from my bodie It is thou which doest now possesse it for I am no more Mistresse of that which was mine owne Why shouldest thou seeke far for that which isneerer home Expose not thy selfe to the dangers troubles of trauel saile not into an Ocean of sorrowes when thou mayst lie at roade in a more quiet Harbour Oh let my loue be the load-stone of thy person the Remora of thy affections But if thou wilt needs trauell into the Westerne parts and make a night of sorrow in our Hemisphere yet returne turne to vs againe and let the brightnesse of thy beames expell the darknesse of our dolour No doubt but our Prince was inflamed before He saw the smoake of her desire her lookes were the messengers of loue and his heart was open to entertaine the embassage They were the darts of Cupid and his heart was ioyous in being wounded with such weapons Thus did they meet in their affections and the Almightie seeing if mortals can merit any thing that The deserued what They desired will ioyne their hands as well as their harts make Them one really as they are mentally Happie there fore oh royall King which shall liue to see your childrens children flourishing in your Palaces these Kingdoms eternally conferred confirmed vpon your posteritie Happie ô Prince who shall be linked to one which is the Golden Chaine of Vertue this Diamond of the world whom Nature hath so preciously set in the eyes of men to bee the chiefe worke of her workmanship and the Ornament of the world Oh happie Princesse so happie in finding such a Head whose welfare shall be guarded by such a Prince that you shall seeme like sweet Rose-water kept in a crystall glasse Who when you reioyce shall see your ioy shine in an other and when you grieue shall see the face of your sorrow in anothers melting liquid heart Oh happie both of you when like two heauenly Strings conioyned together you shall make a sweeter harmonie Oh how delightfull will the name of Parents bee vnto you when they shall see your Children flourish in whom they are Oh what an ineffable blisse it will bee when they shall see their children with awfull loue runne about them and like little modells of themselues carrie themselues about them Oh happie pie England which art like neuer to bee like a flocke of sheepe without a Shepherd or an armie discomfited without a Leader but hast more than hopes neuer to want one of thy blessed Kings Race to
his lusts with the bridle of wisedome others if they be distasted in the strength of their youth haue such heat of bloud and doe boyle in anger that they seeme to haue enough fury to furnish all the furies in hell and yet notwithstanding themselues still haue heaped measure throwing themselues vpon each apparent danger without consideratiō or feare doing any iniury without conscience and religion but wisely foresees a danger and seekes to preuent it and is so valiant that Hee dares not fight but vpon iust occasion This is the royall Brother of so vertuous a Sister this is that mighty Monarch with whom England shakes not only the hands of friendship but fraternity And who is it but the most Illustrious Princesse the Lady Henrette Maria which puts the hands together It is She whose twinne was happinesse and whose birth brought in felicity to all this part nay to all the world especially to France and England to France for God no doubt foresaw that he had sufficiently stored it with Sonnes issued from that fountaine of goodnesse Henrie the fourth whereby that blessed Countrey might seeme sufficiently strengthned and fortified in it selfe God therefore in due time sent it a daughter so excelling and transcending in vertue beauty to make it strong without it selfe and to make walls of friendship about it to England for it was not obscured from the All and al wayes All-seeing eye of God before the beginning of the world much more Her being what need England should haue to helpe her Allies and Neighbours though not her selfe and therefore ordained two such Potentates as K. Lewis of France Prince Charles of England and likewise sent this worthy Princesse to ioyne these two together and to make them Brothers who are so like one another in vertuous conditions who are both magnanimous both wife both valiant and no doubt both of them shall be fortunate they will draw their swords in Iustice handle them with such courage as each blow shall seeme to be the postilion of death vnto their enemie so that they shall satisfie their thirstie blades with the bloud of Tyrants and die their swords with the death of the enemies to truth and equitie And who is the foundation vpon whom these hopes are erected but vpon this gracious Princesse who hath not onely vertue in Herselfe highnesse of birth and good education in and from her Ancestours greatnesse of estate but also hath beautie to moue loue wit to apprehend to loue and excellent bodie to content it and a gratefull minde to reward it For had She all these rare endowments and aptitudes of mariage and yet had no inclination to wedlocke her rare gifts would be like precious iewels which lose their luster for want of wearing like fragrant flowers in a most delightfull garden which are neuer gathered but sinde their tombe where they had their birth like a root buried vp in the ground which neuer brancheth if She were resolued not to make an exchange change of virginall for coniugall chastitie She should doe the world too much iniurie in cloystering vp Christendomes ioyes whose hopes are chiefly in Her with Herselfe Moreouer her vertues would returne to the King of Heauen of whom they all hold in capite for want of heires and could onely finde life after her death in the mouth of Fame her nobilitie of bloud would die in Herselfe for want of posteritie to whom it might still be deriued Shee would lose the worth of her education in not teaching that to others which She hath beene taught Herselfe all that Shee could well dispose of would be her Dowrie to the which the poore would be rightfull heires and as for her beautie it would perish without blessing any but a multitude of wounded admiring spectators And howsoeuer indeed it may bee Death could not take it away with her soule yet the graue would consume it with her bodie She therefore as Shee was the childe of a mother so desireth to be the mother of a childe Moreouer let no man bee guiltie of such a foolish suspition once to doubt or imagine that our Princes wisdome should be ouercome by a womans weaknesse that the eye of his reason and religion should bee put out with the eye of affection Or farre be it to commit such blasphemie against his Highnesse either so much to diminish his constancie in the truth or derogate from the soundnesse of his knowledge and iudgement that euer Hee should bee brought to forsake that in the defense of which He would deeme the losse of his life and bloud precious Will Hee relinquish that which is built vpon the ground of Gods word which is disagreeing in nothing agreeing in euerie thing with the holy Scriptures to be the Follower of mens traditions and an Obseruer and Seruer of the foolish inuentions of humane fancie to reuerence that termed Holines which is but true Insanctitie to relye vpon any thing but the merits of Christ to trust to his owne workes or deeme them meritorious and so to make Himselfe his owne Sauiour and by consequence the comming of Christ of no necessitie to forsake that faith which was founded by Christ and his Apostles vpheld and followed by the Fathers whose antiquitie is such that it was preached by our Heuenly Father to our earthly parent in Paradise by the which all former and future ages must bee saued to follow that which is but an vpstart Irreligion which was set vp by Couetousnesse and Ambition which is to bring gold to the Popes coffers not God to the peoples consciences which is only to hide the light of the Gospell vnder the bushell of an vnknowne tongue to starue the soules of poore people which makes Ignorance the mother of Deuotion which is Author of destruction which maketh people thinke it nothing to sinne because they thinke themselues sure of a pardon which maketh adultery Sodomie fornication more honourable than marriage allowable which maketh Moses inferiour to Aaron which bringeth the neckes of Princes and Kings vnder the foot and follies of Antichrist which is the Nurse of rebellion in Subiects against their Soueraigne and maketh him a God which is but a deuill incarnate who Lucifer-like prefumeth to sit in the seat of God Or what heart can be such a detractor from Her vertue to thinke that this Phoenix of her age this noble Princesse whose brest is the Cottage of humility and the quiet harbour of lowly thoughts will offer to seeke to guide Him by whom She is to be directed to be the sterne when She is but the vessell of which Hee is the Pilot to be the Sun when she is but the Moone which must borrow light frō his knowledge can She which esteemes him to be all worth thinke that the greatest ornament in him is vnworthy No surely She knowes that She may be the crowne of the head but She will not presume to be the head of the body She desires not to metamorphise water
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