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A68221	Antisixtus An oration of Pope Sixtus the fift, vppon the death of the late French King, Henrie the third. With a confutation vpon the sayd oration, wherein all the treacherous practises of the house of Lorraine, are largely described and layde open vnto the view of the world, with a briefe declaration of the kings death, and of many other things worthy the noting, which neuer yet came to light before. Translated out of Latin by A.P.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.	1590 (1590)	STC 14002; ESTC S114241	39,544	58

sorrowe was seene in al the Campe but greate ioye among the ennemy whose reioysing voices were hearde at that instant demanding one of another whether the Friars knife was sufficiently sharpe or not The King thus wounded was laid in his bed wher he yeelded by his ghost vnto God the next night following hauing before made his will and set al things in good order Here haue you hearde the ende of this mighty Prince and here may you beholde as in a looking glasse the ouerthrowe of a whole Realme I see many thinges in it to bee lamented Wheresoeuer I turne my selfe I can perceaue nothing but a dreadfull horrour a cruell and blouddy spectacle yet nothing more heauily doth present it selfe afore vs then thine Oration Sixtus an ouerplus to the common griefe Farre bee such a shame from vs lette it suffice vs to haue lost a good Prince and that by our owne faulte and negligence as to suffer the name of the dead to bée slandered and defamed and the Monuments of so many worthy acts destroyed Therfore I demand first of thée Sixtus by what lawes that I shall contend with thée With Christian lawes But what hast thou to doe with Christ whose birth and buriall thou ●landerest with a most detestable murtherers comparison With the lawes of nature but by what bandes of nature can bee vpholden the maintainer of willfull murther Howe then with the ciuil lawes The statutes of Princes and the ciuill lawes haue enacted diuers and seuere punishmentes vnto those that offended but by chaunce but vnto those that reuenged their priuate quarrell by their own authoritie fearfull torments What punishments doe they alot then vnto those who violat ouerthrow the welfare af a common wealth truly almost incredible But I see that I am constrained to séeke out new lawes to deale with thée I am ready for it Thou the autor of new offences shalt bée my lawe and witnesse Europe the court and the Heauens the Iudges and vpon these equall conditions I will pleade against thée Come then and hearken first vnto this It séemeth verie straunge vnto mee and therefore make me somewhat better acquainted with it that thou so oftentimes vsurpest the worde of Gods iudgement Could not this suffice thee to know God to bée the best of all goodnesse but to say that hée willed such a detestable and wicked act In déede wée sée euerie where his wonderful iudgements and we know that Princes the larger their gouernement hath béene the greater accounts they haue to make Besides if kinges had committed any offence that not onely themselues did smart for it but sometimes all their subiects felt the punishment thereof Both is to be séene in the holie Scriptures I will not deny but that this prince hath suffered deserued punishment if thou doest regard God onely in whose eies all thinges are corrupt naught and crooked nothing entire or vndefiled But leaue the iudgement hereof vnto God not vnto thy selfe Sixtus How knowest thou whether this is in stéede of a blessing and benefit which thou thinkest to be a curse and a punishment Did not Iosias also die an vntimely death doth not God most often cal them first vnto him whom he loueth Are tirants not séene oftentimes to raigne and liue longest and good princes seldome come to great age Superfluous nay too curoius it were Sixtus to search examin these things more impious to iudge them But let it be so I grant this vnto thée Shall therfore the excuse and cloake of Gods iudgement protect defend the cause of a murtherer the king of France for his offences hath deserued some heauy punishment at Gods hāds doth it follow therfore the he is to he accounted godly great famous happy and worthy the title of an Emperor whosoeuer of the common people the most abiect and vilest shall haue murthered his Prince Then with thée that sonne shall be accounted innocent that is a reuenger of his fathers offence by his fathers death and the indignation of those children estéemed iust spilling the bloud of their parentes in Gods quarrell What is he worthy any longer to be reuerenced and honored with the title of a father who liketh the example of naturall affection violated and quite extinguished Herewith thou art touched Sixtus but wherfore art thou so soone afeard thou hast no cause yet to tremble these are but toyes and trifles come but néere for to heare that which shall not make thée pale but altogether senselesse Let first the lawes of bloud and nature which are the sacred bandes of humaine societie depart and goe aside for as long as they are present I haue no reason to speake any word at all I grant againe that it is lawfull by thy lawes to kill parents condemned by iudgement and an executioner not to be wanted in the citie as long as the offenders sonne is found present Let thy iudge then pronounce sentence and say That lawfully the sonne may kill the father but let him adde vnto it at the least accused noted and condemned of a notorious offence as an enemie vnto the cōmon wealth that by these meanes the priuate lawes of a familie may be disanulled by those which concerne the publike vtilitie But contrariwise if thou destroyest the publike commoditie by a publicke offence away with thy lawes for they cannot be exogated with the welfare of a common wealth Let vs now sée then Here lyeth wallowing in his bloud not the father of a priuate familie but hée of a great kingdome not the griefe of one household but the heauinesse and sorrow of a whole realme most trecherously procured And yet doest thou commende this and sayest that he is murthered worthely Well let it be so so that he for whom we mourne be too worthy for to die after such a manner But what was the offence in the reuenge whereof the diuine the ciuill the common and priuate lawes did cease and loyter Thou sayst that he hath commanded Lodouick the Cardinall the Guise his brother to be executed whose consecrated head was not to be touched but only by full authoritie from the Bishop of Rome Thou cruell beast dost thou say that it is not lawfull for a King ruling onely by Gods grace and authoritie to punish traytors against his Maiestie and conuicted so oftentimes to haue troubled the publike peace and that it is permitted vnto a gracelesse Friar to stabbe a Prince for to haue iustly executed a Cardinall What say ye to this O ye Princes of Europe vpon whose neckes this cruell and bloudie Lyon treadeth If he were to be punished it was not to be done after that order witnesses were to be produced the offender was to be heard iudges to be chosen no hast was to be made vpon the execution of so great a Potentate As if he wanted witnesses by whose ambition now 3. yeares together France hath béene disquieted with ciuill warres but his execution was to be delayed to what end To the