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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05062	The favorites chronicle; Chronique des favoris. English	Fancan, François Dorval-Langlois, sieur de, ca. 1576-1628.	1621 (1621)	STC 15203; ESTC S108220	28,775	46

Nuncius Bentivole resident in Paris is wholy for Luynes who hath made him Cardinall and Comprotector of the French nation in Rome to the prejudice of the Prince Cardinall of Savoy to whom the King had given that protection Thus Luynes is upholden on that side And to the end that the King of Spaine should not be offended to see the Queene his sister governed by Luynes and his wife he hath consented to let him lay hold upon the Grisons the Palatinate and Iuliers which is under the protection of France and which the Queene mother following your designe hath kept out of the Spaniards clawes whereas on the contrary that villaine suffers so important a country bordering upon the Realme to be lost He hath alienated 120000 crowns yearely rent of the Church whereof he hath imbursed 200000 crownes for his part of your sonnes revenues he and his brethren possesse at the least 500000 franks yearely rent without disbursing one penie for it How this discourse grieves me said the King I would you had neuer spoken to me thereof let us leave for this time here comes the Duke de Mayenne and a great number of Noblemen to visit me All these said the Marquis de Termes will confirme that which I have said unto your Majestie and you may know of them what hath past since I left them at Clerac The Duke de Mayenne coming neare with all his companie made humble obeysance to the King and his Majestie bowing his head welcomed them with teares in his eyes Cousin said the King and all you my faithfull servants it grieves me that you have bin deceived by three villaines who as I heare untill this time have abused the favour and bountie of my sonne and generally your free spirits The Duke speaking for them all said Sir I know not who hath made your Grace so wel acquainted with the pride of those three Falconers that have used all the meanes they can to put all men both great and meane out of the King your sonnes favour by their devices sold all France by their covetousnes and brought all the realm into disorder by their monstrous ambition All men know how litle cause I have to speake wel of the Marquis d' Ancre but I may well say that he was an Angell in respect of these three divels incarnate enemies both to men and all valour and such as never employed them but to their overthrow all they that have past over the river with me know what they are besides that for mine owne part I have every way tried and proved their divellish malice in that respect It is true that Marquis d' Ancre was wicked as wel as they but yet he had some humanitie in him he did good to many hee was a man of his word if hee crost some great persons he made much of others but these three plagiaries have bin a scourge to them all thinking it a glory by their dissembling salutations to deceive all the world with brazen faces I will not trouble your Majestie with the rehearsall of their detestable actions nor put you in minde of the rude dealing that they have shewed to the Queene your wife neither how they have scorned my Lord the Prince nor of their ingratitude against my Lady the Countesse nor what trickes they have played with all the Nobilitie it suffiseth Sir that you generally know their proud proceedings they have fully gotten the government of the King your son and of the authoritie royall into their hands making him beleeve that they three onely held the Crowne upon his head as if those of his blood had conspired the usurpation thereof For the space of foure yeares they have caused all the affaires of importance to passe under their hands they have made the King march with them in all places for their owne particular interest vpon the frontiers of the Realme Luynes hath bin so proud as to make his entrie into townes accompanied with a Prince of the blood and in rhe presence of the King his Soveraigne he sent his brother Cadnet into Flanders under pretence to go seeke his wife where he spake with Marquis Spinola and after that with a most incomparable pride covered with precious stones appertaining to the Crowne he hath bene in England not one of the Kings Councell knowing the secret of his embassage after that voyage he undertooke to make himselfe Duke of Britaigne and it is not knowne whether since he hath bin keeper of the Seales hee hath dispatched letters patents for the same In favour of Castille he hath neglected all ancient alliances of the Crown he hath suffered the Palatinate and the Grisons to be lost to make the Spaniard favourable to him The Queene mother preserved Iuliers under the protection of the King your sonnes forces and those three villaines have suffered it to be besieged by Spinola To the disgrace of your glorious memorie Branthe a meane fellow that never had 200 franks yearely rent hath bin so audacious as to ravish the heire of Luxeburg and to force that yong Princesse being but eleuen yeares old and at such a time when all France was in armes by their meanes and if the ravishing of a maide be punishable as it is her action in all circumstances is much more punishable Luynes hath exposed the King and the Prince his brother into the inconveniences of a long voyage and into the perils of the bad aire in the armie in such maner that the Prince was there sick and like to die and yet he would not suffer him to be carried out of the infections of the campe he hath resolved upon the warre against the Huguenots without taking yea and against the advice of your old Councellers hee hath bin so audacious as to keepe the Kings seales in his hands to promise them to many but gives them to no man busying himselfe during the dangers of the siege before Montauban with sealing expeditions in stead of going to the warre for which cause the souldiers made these foure verses of him What shall we of this valiant Warrier say That vseth vs like slaves both night and day He that in peace the Constables office hie And in warre doth the Chancellers place supplie In such maner that if there be any capitall crime that may be objected against a bad servant that is one of the most notorious and greatest All the mony appointed for paying of the souldiers in the armie he stayed in Blayes in such sort that more souldiers have died of want and necessitie then of wounds for want of reliefe To be short their covetousnes and villanies are the cause of all the bad successe hapned as wel during that siege as in other publicke affaires That which I finde to be most strange said Balagny is that not one of them hath bin hurt in any of the exploits of their conquests I will shew you a pertinent reason for that said the Duke it is because they neuer sought after

THE FAVOVRITES CHRONICLE * ⁎ * Printed according to the French Copie M.DC.XXI THE FAVOVRITES CHRONICLE CVrious Gentlemen that spend your time and take pleasure to recreate your spirits with the consideration of the Tragedies that are acted vpon the Theater of this World I cannot be perswaded but that you haue heretofore read that which learned Aesope rehearseth in his Fables of certain Hares who running away when they heard the hounds open by chance past along by the side of a ditch where there were great store of frogs vpon the grasse who as soone as they saw the hares leapt as fast as they could into the water This action being noted by the timorous hares did in such maner encourage them that the same onely sufficed to make them stay their running any further at which time one of them who it may be had studied the French eloquence practised by Master William du Vair told them that from thence forward it behoued them to esteeme more of their valours then euer they had done before that it was a shame for them alwayes to haue bin held esteemed to be fearfull and a signe of reprochfull dastardlinesse vnto their auncestors continually to haue vsed to runne away and neuer durst looke in their enemies faces seeing they were capable to ouercome and subdue others as they might well perceiue by experience of these croaking frogs whose onely presence had put them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without any stroke given 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his notable oration as plausibly pronounced as that which my Lord Constable made to those of Thoulonze so much encouraged his companions that presently they resolved not to set vpon Montaubon but in time to come to shew themselues more valiant and to magnifie and exalt their generositie and from thenceforward determined to act some glorious enterprise against those accursed hounds and to turne their faces against their enemies to assaile them which counsell put in execution tooke so bad effect and fell out so vnfortunately for the authors thereof that thereby they were not onely taken but torne in peeces to serve for a prey unto their enemies and a jest unto other more judicious and subtill beasts This fable in my opinion may properly be applied unto the levying of armes at this time whereinto so improvidently we have bin led by the plausible inducements of certaine prating companions that have so much advanced and magnified the Favourite Hares that they have made them to busie their braines about the ambitious reach of their prowd fortunes Every man knowes what discontentment the great personages of this Realme have had to beholde the Crowne of France within these foure yeares to be as it were besieged by Luynes and his brethren who to the great prejudice of the Kings affaires and the Common-wealth absolutely disposed both of the ordinarie and casuall matters of State to the great desolation of the whole monarchie which to oppose and prevent the greatest part of the Princes and principall Officers of the Realme in Anno 1620. made a kinde of league But the number of the Leaguers being extreme great the businesse could not be so securely managed as the case required whereupon it fell out so that it was presently discovered by the infidelitie of certaine persons that betrayed them In pursuite whereof the vanquishers had the victorie without combat and the vanquished ouerthrew themselues Now appropriating the sence of this fable to my present discourse I must tell you that my Masters the Favorite Hares the last yeare being made afraid and abashed with the apprehension that they conceived of so many yong Princes that sought to overthrow and crosse their insolent fortune they were constrained to abandon the delights of the Court to seeke and finde out some meanes to shadow and cover themselves from the great tempest which as then seemed to menace them And so shaking and trembling with feare they went into Normandie where by good fortune they met with certaine people that like true frogs hid themselves in the reedes at the noise of their horses feete Which made the Favorites set up their eares and from that time forwards to conceive a wonderfull opinion of their affaires But when they entred into the medowes in Anger 's and perceived that at their onely presence the frogs of Pont de See slipt downe from off the bridge of Pont to hide themselves in the water they did then begin upon that occasion to conceive so great an opinion of their valours that they were of the minde presently in a maner to set forward to fight against the great Turke without once staying till the Duke de Nevers vessels were made readie or the new Knights of the Christian warre were prepared to fight imagining themselves to be three Caesars able to overcome and rule over all men whereupon they resolved to lay hold vpon all occasions and to command all and so farre as to presume to make not onely the Princes of the blood but also the Regall authoritie to serve them for a footstoole or a step unto their greatnesse Whereupon our neighbours hauing Argus eyes being alwayes vigilant and neuer sleepe and with their spectacles continually beholding our proceedings to draw some profit from thence accommodating them to the interest of their affaires perceiving the haughty deseignes of the Favorite Hares and that the pride which they conceived in their hearts of those ridiculous victories was available to thrust them forward and embarke them into some great enterprise how dangerous soever it were so the perill that should be ministred were well gilded over they advised with themselves that a civill warre in France would fall out well to the purpose to be a meanes for them to attaine to the end of the Germane revolts and of the vsurpation which they pretended to make vpon the Palatinate Inlliers and Valtolina And to make them the more eagerly and easily to catch at the baite they practised to re-assemble all the old rags and peeces of the holy league therewith to make a faire cloake of religion finely sowed by the fathers of the Iesuiticall societie and thereof to make a rich present unto the eldest Favorite shewing him what a glorie it would be vnto him to weare the same as in times past a certaine Duke of Guise had done and that the onely way for him without any trouble to attaine the Constables office was to gild the scabberd of his sword with the spoiles of the foolish hare-braind heretickes without speaking of the great summes of mony that he might by that meanes levie of the people vnder pretence of so pious a quarrell as that of religion would be besides the hazard that he incurred to be canonized according to the ordinarie maner with the Cardinals de Ioyense and the Earle de Fiesque This glorious advice presented with as plausible words as those of father Cotton moved our new warriers to a desire and great appetite to be doing somewhat and their deseigne was presently confirmed by