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A31383	The holy court in five tomes, the first treating of motives which should excite men of qualitie to Christian perfection, the second of the prelate, souldier, states-man, and ladie, the third of maxims of Christianitie against prophanesse ..., the fourth containing the command of reason over the passions, the fifth now first published in English and much augemented according to the last edition of the authour containing the lives of the most famous and illustrious courtiers taken out of the Old and New Testament and other modern authours / written in French by Nicholas Caussin ; translated into English by Sr. T.H. and others.	Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; T. H. (Thomas Hawkins), Sir, d. 1640.	1650 (1650)	Wing C1547; ESTC R27249	2,279,942	902

he had done in all the Courts of the world besides Excess of virtues stand in the account of crimes with malign eyes so as to be culpable one must be an able man Galerius resolved to overthrow Constantine for those qualities which made him amiable to all the world and not thinking it safe to take him away by main force he made war against him like a fox persecuting him in that manner as sometimes Saul did the invincible David He found by chance that a King of the Sarmatians made an incursion on the territories of the Roman Empire and shewed himself ●o furious that none durst any more encounter him than an enraged beast Galerius gave commission to Constantine to bid him battel thinking it was a most honourable pretext to be freed from him and that he had a reasonable excuse with Constantius the father when he should shew him his son dead in the bed of honour The young man who shut up his eyes to danger and onely opened them to glorie went thither readily and all succeeded so prosperously that he not onely brake the troops of the Sarmatians but also led this King along enchained to Galerius This man who received not so much joy to see an enemie at his feet as sorrow for the prosperitie of a friend very coldly commended this encounter and determined with himself to involve the virtue of Constantine in other battels still seeking in his valour the matter of his ruin It was at that time a thing very ordinarie to make condemned men to fight with savage beasts in an Amphitheater thereby to give contentment to those who are delighted to behold such spectacles Galerius called for a combat of Lions and beheld it with Constantine who was very impatient to see that such as undertook the assault of those beasts performed it in his opinion so coldly He therefore had a desire to adventure himself therein Galerius who observed him over-strong for men thought he might find his tomb in the bellie of Lions Note how under colour of withholding him he thrust this young virtue further on alreadie much enkindled with his proper flames The valiant Prince descendeth in person into the list and assaileth the Lion whom he slew with an incomparable strength whereupon so loud acclamations and such extraordinary applauses were raised through all the Amphitheater to the honour of brave Constantins that it alone was sufficient to make the treacherous Caesar burst with anger Envie is a mischievous vice it resembleth those mountains which throw their burning entrails against flowers that blossom on their tops as the envious Envie dart gall and flames against those men who bravely bloom over their heads Galerius made the son of his friend reign in hearts by the same ways wherewith he endeavoured to deprive him of life and Scepter In the end he still persisting in his wickedness and not ceasing to prepare new ambushes some men of good understanding advised Constantine to withdraw himself from the malignity of this wicked man which he did forsaking his Court without leave taken and speedily returning into England where at that time his father expected him with much impatience Zosinius saith that in this voyage he took the post-horses which best fitted him and maimed all the other to take from his enemies the means of pursuit The fourth SECTION His entery into the Empire IT was in this revolution of times that Diocletian and Maximian having dispossessed themselves of the Empire and Constantius having swayed certain years with a most prosperous and peaceable government died at York a Citie of England to the great grief of the West which he had so prudently governed Constantine by good chance was there and nominated by his father for the Empire a little before his death which judgement was approved with such consent of the souldiers and all the people that he had scarcely as yet wiped away his tears when the purple was cast on his shoulders and he saluted Emperour The good son who thought on nothing but to render the last duties of his piety to the memory of his father found this honour unseasonable and would have declined it by all means but a grave Oratour hath said in his Panegyrick there Quis te Cyllarus aut Arion posset cripere quem sequebatu● Imperium Eumenius is no horse so swift which can steal from mortal eyes a man whom the Providence of God pursueth with Empire in hand He is constrained to yield though through modesty he would not be absolutely pronounced Emperour but contented himself with the title of Caesar well foreseeing he was to have many great affairs upon his hand before he could be peaceably established in his throne The first shock he had came from two Kings of Germanie to wit Assacar and Gaisus who passing the Rhene with huge troups endeavoured to overwhelm the Gauls thinking to surprize a young Emperour as yet uncollected in the uncertainty of his affairs But he nothing amazed speedily encounters defeats and takes them leading them enchained in a triumph whereupon succeeded an accident which I should rather attribute to the humour of Diocletion than of Constantine For after he had taken his pleasure Constant an 2. upon these two Kings he delivered them over to wilde beasts in a combat which he caused to be presented for the entertainment of the people And although the Oratours of his time much applauded this in him as an act of justice for the great havock they both had made notwithstanding having regard to the qualitie of the persons this proceeding cannot be excused from cruelty never made familiar to the manners of Christians This forreign war drew along with it civil wars A wonderful spectacle of the affairs of the world wherein the powers of the earth encountered together with incredible servours and terrible 〈◊〉 Behold a marvellous game and a great spectacle of the vanities of the world you shall see seven Princes who aspired to the Monarchy haling each one to himself a piece of the purple which they r●nt in pulling and despoiled themselves of it in seeking to put it on The most fiery of them all who would swallow the whole earth could not have so much as five foot to cover his body Maxentius the son of Maximian companion of Diocletian a man lost in conscience and reputation condemned by the judgement of his own father who thought him unworthy to succeed in the Empire understanding that Constantins was dead and that they had chosen his son the young Constantins born of an English mother entereth into desperate furies and being then at Rome ready for the purpose caused himself to be declared Emperour by the souldiers whom he had gained alluring them by the means of large promises Galerius who after the death of Constantius and the retirement of Diocletian and Maximian thought himself the nearest to the Monarchie laboureth speedily to hinder the tyranny of Maxentius and having already made two Caesars to succeed

by a writing signed under their own hands have authentically protested to the Queen of England that the Earls of Murray Morton and Lidington were the Counsellers and Authours of the horrible Parricide committed against the King the good Queen always professing that she did forbid them to do any thing whatsoever that might any way reflect upon her honour or offend her conscience Also this unfortunate Earl of Morton who was afterward Cambden part 3. pag. 336. convicted and executed for this murder did totally discharge the Queen from having any hand in the Kings death and named the Conspiratours who by writing had obliged themselves one to another to defend the murder of his Royal Majesty John Hebron Cambden pag. 128. an 1567. Paris and Daglis who prepared the Myne being put to the Rack to accuse the Innocent Queen did absolutely discharge her protesting before God and his Angels that she was free from all fault and that Murray and Morton did give them commandment to perform it Buchanan a Pensionar of Murrays who Cambden pag. 105. cried down this Queen by his venemous pen being touched at last with the remorse of conscience with tears demanded pardon of her Son King James And being sick to death desired that his life might be prolonged either to clear the integrity of Queen Mary by the light of Truth or by his own bloud to wash away the stains of his reproches Some Protestants being amazed to hear him speak in this manner in the apprehension he had of Gods judgements to fall upon him did give forth that his old age had made him to doat This which I now write was afterwards acknowledged as we shall see anon by a publick and solemn sentence of the principal Nobility of England who although Lutherans and enemies being chosen to examine the business did highly publish the Innocence of this Queen And now Detractours what have you to say Do you not behold wherewith to make your shame to blush and the despite of so many infamous Historians to increase who have made black her whiteness Nay some of the Catholicks themselves being but little versed in the discerning of History having suffered themselves to be surprized concerning this subject not considering that all this calumnie is derived from the Book of Buchanan being corrupted to it by the bastard Murray who promised to make him Patriarch of Scotland if ever he should come unto the Crown And this is it which made this Apostate to write a detestable libel against the honour of this Queen which was condemned afterwards by the Estates of Scotland and retracted by the Authour himself But some Hugenots of the Consistory who are the most pestilent slanderers that ever the earth brought forth have not ceased to give some countenance to this fable and illusion of mankind although it was legally condemned of falshood by the most apparent of all their party It is an unhappiness of most men that they are wilfully given to believe the worst whether by an inclination they have unto it or whether by a difficulty to forsake and to put off that which first they entertained in their belief The most virtuous Queen Dido doth pass perpetually through the world for a woman lost in love although indeed she died in the defence of her chastity chusing rather to be devoured by the flames of fire than to be given in marriage as Tertullian doth affirm 6. But to take into my hand again the thread of The rash love of the Earl of Bothuel my discourse Some time after the Kings death Bothuel who was one of the most powerfull Earls of Scotland did prevent to court this Queen in the way of marriage and the rather because the Earl of Murray had promised her unto him for the recompence of this treason This motion came directly cross to her heart although as yet she did not know that this pernicious man had imbrued his hands in her Husbands bloud having always found him most faithfull in his service But as the report thereof increased she grew very angry with all those who offered to renew the motion to her alledging that there was no apparance that he should be propounded for a husband to her who is suspected for so detestable an act no although he indeed were innocent Besides that she urged that he was already tied in marriage to another woman But Murray the Bastard and other of the conspiratours who with an obstinate resolution had undertaken this business did justifie this Crime by the Judges of their faction and gave the Queen to understand that his first wife was not lawfully contracted to him and therefore she was removed from him All this was not able to perswade her who was wonderfully troubled with the dismalness of these late events which was the occasion that Bothuel being transported with love and assured of the high reputation which he had in the Kingdom did draw forth into the fields with five hundred horse where corvetting before them a wild presumption did invade him to take away the Queen as she returned from Sterlin to which place she was gone to see her Son and to bring him with her to her Castle at Dunbar At which place having with strange submissions demanded pardon for his boldness He represented to her the contract of his marriage signed by the Earl of Murray and the principal of the Nobility of the Kingdom who thought very well of it by that means to remedy the publick calamities of the Kingdom Moreover he protested to her that he would never over-value himself for the Honour he should receive from her Majesty nor for the greatness of his unexpected fortune with which the greatest Monarch on the earth might proudly content himself but that he would always continue her most humble and most obedient servant In this manner did this Philistine adore the Ark in its captivity But she moderating her passion did represent unto him that to proceed in this nature was to overthrow the whole business before it was established that she would be absolutely brought to Edinborough the chiefest Citie of her Kingdom where she would take a resolution to do that which should seem good unto Her On this occasion it came about that the Earl of Murray who had removed himself a little to be the less suspected of the murder did return to Court and brought with him the Suite of the Assassinate rewarding him for it with the obtainment of the bravest Lady in the world as the recompence of his murder He ceased not to importune her to take Bothuel Cambden part 1. pag. 3. doth shew that this marriage was brought about by the fraud and the pressing solicitations of the Earl of Murray for her husband declaring his innocence publickly avouched the splendour of his house the exploits of his courage the proofs of his fidelity which did render him most worthy of her love He added that being alone and without assistance she was no

unfold according to the succession of Ages the Elogies of great men who in the practice of the world flourished in all piety to cast confusion upon the foreheads of such who being heirs of their bloud and fortunes alienate themselves so far from their merit Yet cannot I absolutely promise any thing First because the exercise of preaching and other ministeries afford me little leisure to write and although I might have some time for this purpose yet have I some other labours upon the holy Scripture of a longer task which would require their season Secondly I see many worthy men who much more ably can perform it than my self my talent is small and my pen is slow it can hasten nothing I must ponder my works before I publish them though very imperfect They ever seem to me too soon to take flight and light I would as it were perpetually hold them by the wings Briefly it is no small labour to find so many Saints in Courts You know the Philosopher who searched for men with a candle at noon-tide and had much ado to find any How much more difficult think you is it to meet with Saints especially in the decrepitness of this Age wherein there is little vigour and many maladies If you require books of me I say give me Saints although verily I rather should endeavour to engrave sanctity in my manners than writings The time will come when books shall be gnawn by moths on earth and works in Heaven esteemed LAUS DEO THE HOLY COURT THE SECOND TOME TREATING OF The PRELATE The SOULDIER The STATES-MAN The LADIE Written in French by NICHOLAS CAUSSIN of the S. of JESUS Translated into English by Sr. T. H. DEUS EST NOBIS SOL ET SCUTUM LONDON Printed by WILLIAM BENTLEY and are to be sold by John Williams at the Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard 1650. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE EDWARD D'SACKVILE Earl of DORSET Baron of BUCKHURST Lord Chamberlain to the Queens Majestie Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter and of his Majesties most Honourable PRIVIE-COUNCEL RIGHT HONOURABLE THe eminent and well deserved place your Honor holds in the Court of her Majesty to whose gracious favour the first part of my Work was heretofore humbly consecrated emboldens me in the adventure of this present address to your Honour nor shall there I hope any notable disproportion appear to the eyes of the judicious that I thus purposely select your Honour to wait on her HIGHNES in a printed Dedication who at Court in so near a degree daily attend on her Sacred person The great and general applause with which France hath entertained the whole Work in the original gave encouragement to my pen to continue that first labour in the translation of this Second piece Here may be seen the Court of a great and glorious Prince standing conspicuous to all eyes like a goodly fabrick raised on four fundamental columns two of which the Souldier and the Sates-man may not improperly seem to reflect on your Honour The first when in the fair occasions of his Majesties fit employments his just reason shall at any time call you forth into action The second in the present and frequent use he hath of your well matured counsels Both which by masculine courage and sober wisdom aptly personated in CONSANTINE and BOETIUS are here presented to the life as strong patterns for imitation It is your Honours patronage that thus brings them with the rest into the fruition of English air and me by this opportunity into the grateful acknowledgement of many favours received from your Honour which since I cannot make known by more real demonstrations I offer this poor endeavour to supply the plentifull desires of him who resolves to persist The humble devoted servant of your Honour T. H. TO THE WISDOM of GOD INCARNATE ETernal WISDOM Supream INTELLIGENCE behold me prostrate before the abyss of your great and Divine lights to offer up the homage of my person and book acknowledging the nothing both of the one and other and protesting to have neither spirit nor pen which is not of You and for You who are the source of good thoughts and accomplishment of all praise-worthy discourses The Design and Order of this BOOK WE have to speak properly but two great Books Heaven and the Bible which shall never perish The rest bear some sway and have some lasting among men yet in conclusion we find their ends but the most part of those which are written in these days fall into the world as drops of rayn into the sea of which the Ocean neither feeleth the approach nor departure I exposed my first Tome of the HOLY COURT amidst such a throng of Writers as it were with this conceit thinking I carried a little dew into a great River and that when I had spoken some truths as it were passing along I should in my birth bury my self in the tomb of so many volumns which is excusable by the law of necessity and honourable for the multitude and quality of those which are there to be found Notwithstanding I see that God who guideth our lives and pens hath been pleased this work should gain some estimation and that as it hath exceeded the merits of its Authour so hath it surmounted his hope exposing it self with some fruit and comfort by an endeavour which I shall never think ill employed This hath again put the pen into my hand to continue what I had begun whereunto such Honourable personages have perswaded me with motives so reasonable that having small ability to undertake a second labour I had likewise less power to refuse it Such as complain my pen hath not soon enough satisfied their desires must remember that though tardiness be a mother somewhat unpleasing yet are not the children therefore deformed The production of good Books should not resemble that of certain birds which according to the saying of an Ancient issue from their mothers before they are born Symposius but we must a long time form and foment them in our minds that they may appear in publick for it is a very poor business by precipitation to be able to hope no other thing but through haste to fail that you may repent at leisure I rather fear the reproach of rashness than delay because in this mortal state wherein we live all our perfectest actions are no other than gross essays of perfection This may be spoken without extenuating the worth of some celestial wits who make expedition and goodness walk hand in hand it being absurd that those who are unable to imitate them should boast infirmities opposite to their abilities For my part I content my self to afford good liking and admiration to the Works of others reserving nothing else but labour for mine own And although notwithstanding my endeavour I never find sufficient satisfaction in this Book to please those Readers whom I have found so propitious yet doubt not but I have in some sort

propose three Remedies to take away the differences and to re-establish the true Queen in her Kingdom The first was That she should give assurances to the Queen Elizabeth no ways to disquiet her in the Succession of the Crown of England The Second was That she should grant an Act of Pardon and Forgetfulness to her rebellious Subjects for fear the punishment should otherwise extend to a number that was infinite The third was That the Marriage with Bothuel being condemned to be unlawfull she should consent to be espoused to some Illustrious Person in England who should be answerable in all conditions and maintain both Kingdoms in a perpetual friendship to which Queen Mary shewed a singular inclination 9. But the Queen of England was wonderfully The labyrinths of the hypocrisie of Elizabeth amazed at this Sentence and proceedings and although in publick she seemed to be much contented at the justification of her Cousin yet in secret she much raged at it and encouraged the Accusers to prosecute their complaints in full Parliament telling them They were both lazy and impertinent to begin their Suit and not to accomplish it The Process upon this was brought again to the Councel of England where the bastard Murray armed with the outragious pen of Buchanan used all his power even to the affrighting of the Agents of Queen Mary by the Authority of Elizabeth But the best sort of people began to murmure saying that it was necessary that the Traitours should be taken off and the innocent Queen re-established in her Kingdom On the one side Elizabeth ceased not to make delays and on the other she pretended that she would understand what should be the conditions of her Inlargement whether it were to appear civil and humane or whether she would sound the minds of those further whom she thought did talk with too much liberty concerning that affair In the mean time the Spirits which could not clearly enough discover the labyrinths of her dark heart conceived that Truth had now prevailed to publish the innocence of the Queen of Scotland that the Deceitfull hopes Storm was grown into a Calm and that she now began to arrive at her desired haven she now was looked on by every one with another eye and the greatest personages in England did passionately desire an Alliance with her The Earl of Liecester an intimate favourite of Elizabeths observing that his Queen had no intention to be married and that the Scepter of England did look upon this Prisoner did entertain a delicate Ambition to court her in the way of Marriage but the Transalpine humour of his most jealous Mistress did so perplex him that he durst not tell to his own heart what his own thoughts were He most passionately desired that the Queen would make some overture to him of it to submit all things to her discretion and to make her understand that this would be a happy means to take away all doubts and misapprehensions that should arise from Scotland But so it was that he durst not proceed in it so well he understood the spirit of Elizabeth who was as apt to receive an evil impression as she was cruel to revenge it The Duke of Norfolk who was President at the Treason against the Duke of Norfolk and his ruin Trial of Queen Mary was advanced above all others in Dignity and remarkable over all the Realm for his great and gallant qualities The bastard Murray did flatter him with the hope of his Sisters marriage The Earl of Liecester began to dive into his heart concerning that suit and gave him some touches of it whether it were that by that means he would know the pleasure of Elizabeth or whether he were resolved to destroy the Duke who onely was able to cast a shadow on his light Throgmorton who was a friend unto them both did first carry the message and acquainted Norfolk that Leicester had a desire to speak with him on a business of high importance which was concerning his marriage with the Queen of Scotland he told him That he spoke this unto him as of himself but counselled him as a friend to refer the further proceedings on that marriage to the Earl of Leicester who though it was thought did pretend himself to it yet he desired that his modesty would give way that the Earl might advise him because there was no great apparence of any thriving in that motion without his direction He believed this counsel and as soon as the Earl began to open his mouth concerning it he did comply unto him with all honour and submission and did express himself to be indifferent and cold enough concerning that marriage although to speak the truth her Innocence so much persecuted had kindled already the first fire of love within his heart Leicester touched with this courtesie did increase his flame and did remonstrate to him that this Marriage would highly conduce to the benefit of the State because it would prove a happy means to divert all strange Alliances which might carry the Queen of Scotland to pursue her pretensions to the Crown of England and serve absolutely to confirm her in the good opinion of Queen Elizabeth The Duke who was indued with a natural freedom of disposition and knew not how to dissemble beholding himself at one time betwixt two violent fires of Love and Honour did entertain the heat which too soon he did evaporate and besought the Earl since he pretended no more to that affair and that he himself would not proceed in it without his assurance that he would do him a courtesie worthy of the place which he had near the Queen for which he never would be ingratefull This the Earl did promise him and if men may judge by apparence very heartily which did so blow up the heart of the Lover that in thinking of it he did adore his own thoughts It was indeed a strange temptation to propose unto himself so accomplished a Beauty and so eminent a Virtue on whose trayn two Kingdoms did attend The world is not capable to be governed by two Suns and the heart of man suffers more than mortal Agonies when it sustains the shock of two violent passions who unite their forces and designs to make a war upon him The Duke beholding himself flattered with these Great passions of Love and Ambition loves by divers other Agents did write unto the Queen of Scotland with magnifick complements and offers of unparallel'd service with the greater pomp sweetness to enter into the secrets of her thoughts The Prisoner who laboured for nothing more than to break her chains asunder did desire rather to see the end of that affair than to understand the beginning of it but the experience which she had of the dissimulation and jealousies of Elizabeth did make her to go upon these considerations as on a fire covered with ashes Wherefore without being much moved at it she made answer That she must commit the