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

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 ne●●●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

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

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

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