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A03893	A discourse vpon the present estate of France together with a copie of the kings letters patents, declaring his mind after his departure out of Paris : whereunto is added the copie of two letters written by the Duke of Guize / translated out of French and now newly reprinted, and corrected by E. Aggas.; Excellent et libre discours sur l'estat present de la France. English. 1588	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Guise, Henri, duc de, 1550-1588.; Aggas, Edward.	1588 (1588)	STC 14004; ESTC S120854	55,651	70

of succession must needs be altered his daughters the kinges Nieces ought to haue the better part That which I say of the K. of Spaine may likewise be applied to the duke of Sauoy his son in law who is of much lesse power and hath no other deuises then his father in lawes These are all that either doo good or euill vnto France These are her good or bad humours These are the prosperous or contrary windes which torment trouble it And of their discordes and passions as diuerse as themselues as differing and contrarie as they are dependeth her good or euill happe Oh mightie Empire the glorie of Europe to the which the course of 1200. yeares could bring nothing but encrease thy enemies nothing but glorie there was some reason that after so manie victories thou shouldest ende by thy owne handes thou shouldest stoupe vnder thine owne force seeing destinie had not created in the world any conquerour ouer thee But leauing of this maner of speech which rather prouoketh me to weepe than to write seeing that the diuision of religion doth serue for a pretence in the alteration of our Realme and so consequently in his destruction if God suffer it so this euill being almost cōmon to all the states of Europe I will slippe a little a side to speake somewhat of the generall affaires of Christendome in that which cōcerneth these two great factions the one resting yet vnder the obedience of the Pope the other hauing cast it off I will not entreat hereof as a Diuine I knowe verie well that God commonly tryeth his by affections as the meanes to keepe men in their dueties and immediatly to haue recourse vnto him whom they thinke but little vppon whiles their necke is swollen vp with prosperitie Neither am I ignorant that the sonne of God pronounceth these wordes My kingdome is not of this worlde thereby teaching to the true Christians that it is not here that they ought to seeke their ease and although they finde themselues afflicted yet must they not mistrust of their cause as if God did detest them and were purposed to roote them out from the face of the earth albeit contrariwise they see the Turkes the Heathen the poore blinded ones in Popish superstitions haue all at will and conquer Realmes furnish Prouinces and them of veines of golde which neuer drie vp and their armies prosper euerie where That their good happe procureth them such men as to doo them seruice will attempt vppon those Princes liues that are their enimies euen in the middest of their Gardes Finally they scarse haue yet wished when God suffereth them to see their desire fulfilled Where cleane contrariwise hee hath laide this necessitie vppon his true seruantes that they shall take his crosse vpon their shoulders if they will followe him passe through the straight gate and after his example passe away their whole life in griefe affliction in necessitie According to these rules and tokens which cannot be applyed to any other then those that make profession of the true reformed religion it might suffice me to conclude that they whom God afflicteth after this sort are his true children whom hee will afflict but not vtterlie cast away whom he will chastice but not punish whom he vseth as his children that offended him in doing otherwise than he commanded them and not as seruantes that haue robbed him And after such a maner that although at this day throughout all Christendome the greatest potentates of the worlde bee confederated vnited and ioyned togither against them it is all in vaine God will neuer suffer that which is his to bee cast away they are his hee well may dippe them two or three fingers in the water but presently hee will stretch foorth his arme of deliuerance to pull them out of the gulph and that could I besides the indubitable trueth of that promise which he made vnto his prooue by the course of things that are passed in the church since the foundation of the world But as I haue said my purpose is not to reason like a diuine It sufficeth me to prooue that we haue not only that great supernatural piller of Gods power for our defence as an impenetrable shield against the which all the dartes of the worlde turne their points backwards but also euen in the worlde it selfe and among all humaine meanes he hath giuen vs without comparison more then our enimies so that if we suffer that they afflict vs it is but our fault because we cannot helpe our selues with that power that he hath giuen vs. All Christendome which is vnder the Popes obedience is at this day ioyned togither to roote out those of the religion Who are those wicked ones let vs iudge of their power and see whether it be so great as that we need to feare it It is the Pope it is the Emperour it is the king of Spaine there be certaine Potentates of Italie In France are the duke of Guize and his kinsmen who make the king and the realme to serue their turnes as they list In Switzerland there are certaine Cantons In Germanie diuers princes I haue named all and them by the most glorious names that I could deuise there are Popes Emperors Kings and numbers of Princes It is saide that all these terrors of the worlde are gathered togither to this purpose onely to make an end of those which professe the true religion God grant it so be it The more enimies the greater glorie But let vs search them a little nearer wee shall finde that all these men haue some particular intent which they keepe to themselues and that to ●●intaine their vnitie they all agree onely in the generall What intentes let vs specially consider of them The Popes is manifest Luther Zuinglius and Caluin haue abridged him of two partes of his reuenues the thirde is in great danger they labour about it He would both recouer that which he hath lost if it were possible and assure against hereafter that which he holdeth The whole realme of England is slipped out of his handes if the king of Spaine could plant there againe the catholike religion it were so much recouered for him France hath neuer shewed him anie great obedience the church of France had alwaies her priuiledges by her selfe yet it is nothing thinketh hee in respect of that it shoulde bee if euer the king of Nauarre should come to bee king of it He feareth least he should come ouer the Alpes he is of the race of Bourbon fatall vnto Rome besides that hee is alreadie egged on against the Popes for his kingdome of Nauarre which most vniustly they haue passed ouer vnto the Kinges of Castile Moreouer he feareth least that a mightie Prince like vnto this doo one day bring a great reformation in religion which can not bee doone without diminishing the authoritie of the sea which notwithstanding will bee as easie for him to doo as it was for Philippe the

hit on it Amongst these the first is the Queene mother vnto the king who for her credits sake and in shew keepeth her selfe on her sonnes side as she did alwaies when shee had many sonnes hold with him that was king but who notwithstanding hateth nothing more than his absolute power as beeing the worse for it When France was in peace she was faine to spin her rock at home her son left her no charge nor deling in any matter That she might recouer her authoritie she was fain to shuffell the cardes or haue intelligence with those that shuffeled them otherwise she was of no vse which her mind that could not thinke on small matters could neuer brooke And of this Princesse whose race hath ruled ruleth at this day ouer the best parts of Europe it may be saide as it was of Agrippa V●●ribus curis mu●ebria vitia exuisse If that alreadie were not a vice in a woman it hath beene alwaies her custome in France to stirre vp one against another that in the meane while she might rule in these diuisions The mightie against the mightie Princes against Princes yea her owne children against her children For she know wel enough that our state standeth so as that a woman except it be by some extraordinarie waies is of no credite therein In the time of the late king Charles this that nowe is was then her protector whose power she did increase as much as she could to the end she might vse him to make her selfe necessarie vnto the other The king at length perceiued it but too late Since that this beeing come vnto the Crowne wherein to speake the truth hee was infinitely bound vnto her whiles he was in Polande being as well assured that except shee had wisely prouided for it there had beene such stirringes in France as perchance at his comming home hee had beene kept from getting in Shee kept her credite for three or foure yeares whilest this yoong king dreamed of nothing but the pleasures of his age and the deliciousnesse of his newe estate but since beginning to take vppon him the affirmatiue voice and to seeke to rule alone she was forced to haue recourse vnto Mounsieur her yoonger sonne who for a while vphelde her and made her to be esteemed necessarie He being deade shee chose other remedies for howsoeuer it bee shee hath euer wished two thinges The one to make him that was in possibilitie of the Crowne to bee beholding vnto her for to keepe him in when hee were come to it The other to make him in the meane while so great that he that were master of the State should bee forced to vse her helpe in brideling the other employing after this manner verie quietly both their powers one against the other that betwixt them shee might rule and be sought to such a councell as particularlie for her selfe was as full of wisedome as often full of troubles and inconueniences for the commons Nowe if after Mounsieurs death shee had founde the king of Nauarre fitte for these practises she had made her buckler of him but seeing that his religion and many other considerations did hinder her she hath cast both her eyes and her heart on the house of Lorraine and her daughters children whereunto the hatred that shee did beare vnto this Prince euen from his infancie hath beene a great helpe So that esteeming her selfe not able to bee reconciled with him shee consequently dooth feare him and is fully resolued to hinder him in all that shee can from getting anie part in France Shee can neuer doo it without the ouerthrowe of the order of the Realme For as I saide after this hatred commeth in the loue shee beareth vnto the children of the D. of Lorraine who are her daughters children towards whome she hath a secret inclination neuer ceasing day nor night to reproch vnto the king that he ought rather to loue as his heires his Nephewes his Sisters children then a stranger vnto his house so dooth shee terme the king of Nauarre The daughters of Spaine are also her daughters children vpon whome she would likewise be glad to bestowe some part of the same not being grieued in the meane while that her sons state is in trouble to the ende that he should haue refuge vnto her and that she may be imployed Now in this manner she agreeth well with the Duke of Guize to crosse her sonne to stirre vp and open the way to confusion and about the meanes to alter the order of succession in our realme but to wish that hee shoulde waxe so great that he might ouerthrow the king himselfe dispossesse him and himselfe afterward to inuade the whole state it is not likely I cannot beleeue that she desireth it Now vnder this the Queene mothers intent I comprehend also that of the Marquise du Port her little sonne sonne vnto the Duke of Lorraine who likewise hath no intelligence or hope in this our state any further then she his grandmother doth procure him to conceiue Next there is the king of Spaine who from the beginning of these wars seeing the Queene of England to knit a straite alliance with our king seeing in the same time also the Commissioners of the low countries at Paris to offer him the soueraigntie ouer their prouinces it came in his head to cast three or foure thousand crownes into the hungrie hands of the league so to set France in troubles as being assured that by these meanes he should keepe the king from thinking vpon Flanders the which he did most feare as indeed there is but the onely king of France so he be in peace that can easily take these Prouinces from the Spaniarde This is that which brought him in and consequently that somewhat ouerhastned the Duke of Guizes deuises Besides that hee feareth now extremely least the king of Nauarre should attaine to the crowne of France hee is his enimie by nature he detaineth a kingdome from him which no doubt if the others ●●awes may growe on will bee wholly pulled away and more perchance withall Hee knoweth well enough that he being olde his children yoong his state deuided and scarse setled small matters after his death will trouble it much more a king of Nauarre if he were king of Fraunce Therfore he is glad to frame himselfe vnto those of Lorraine to finde them meanes to stirre vp coales that in the meane while he may more freely goe about his warres of the lowe countries and of Englande to molest the king of France thereby to ouerthrowe the king of Nauarre to the end that afterward the realm being left for a pray he being the mightiest might catch the greater part This is his drift as cōcerning our state but that he would proceede so farre as being burdened with many other particular expences he wold yet draw his treasors drie to make the Duke of Guize king he I say who is perswaded that if it were so that the maner