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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

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

off and ended in this Charles Duke of Bourbon and Constable of France who died at the siege of Rome Now the Dutchie of Bourbonois being incorporated into the Crowne of France it fell to the line of Iames of Ponthieu Constable of France they youngest son of Lewis Duke of Bourbon the which Iames had by Ioane daughter of the Earle of St. Paul Iohn his Successour Earle of La March Iohn had of Catherine the onely daughter and heire of Iohn Earle of Vendosme Iames King of Naples who leauing no Issue Male the right of inheritance was transported to Lewis the younger brother Lewis had no Issue by Iane of Russy his first wife but by his second mariage he had Iohn his Successour and Earle of Vendosme Iohn the second had by Iean of Beauire Francis his Successour and Earle of Vendosme and Lewis Prince of La Roch Syr-you who of Louise of Bourbon the daughter of Gilbert of Bourbon left Lewis of Bourbon Earle of Montpensiere you was father to Francis Duke of Bourbon and Earle of Montpensiere who was father to Henrie last Duke of Montpensiere Prince of Dombos Daulphine of Auergne Lieutenant Generall for the King in Normandie and husband to Catherine Henrette of Ioyeuze a Prince so famous for all vertues as hee was admired of all To Francis were borne by Marie of Luxenburg Countesse of St. Paul and daughter of Peter of Luxenburg Charles Earle but created Duke of Vendosme by King Francis the first Francis Earle of St. Paul who by Adrian Dutchesse of Esterhout ville had Francis who died young Lewis Cardinall of Bourbon Antoniette wife to Claude of Lorraine Duke of Guise also Louis Abbas of Fonteuaraux Charles the first Duke of Vendosme had by Louis the daughter of Rene Duke of Alancon Lewis who died at the age of seuen yeeres Anthonie who succeeded in his right and was afterwards King of Nauarre Francis Earle of Anghien Charles Cardinall Arch-Bishop of Rouan Iohn who lost his life at the battell of St. Quintin and Lewis Prince of Conde Anthonie the Successour of Charles first Duke of Vendosme and King of Nauarre had by Ioane of Albret Queen of Nauarre daughter to Henrie the second of that name King of Nauarre Henrie the fourth of that name French King as his Fathers Successour and the third of that name King of Nauarre by the right of his Mother This is the Royall Root from whence this Princely Branch is sprung which shewes the noblenesse of her descent so that as Shee graceth her parentage by her vertues so They grace Her by her birth For howsoeuer wine be good out of a woodden dish yet we esteeme it better if we drinke it out of a golden vessell So howsoeuer vertuous noble personages though ignobly borne ought to bee respected yet those which haue vertue ioyned with their nobilitie of birth are worthie of double honour Then who more to bereuerenced in our hearts extolled in our speeches than this noble and neuer-enough to bee honoured Ladie who is descended by the fathers side from Henrie the fourth French King who no whit vnworthie of his famous renowned Ancestors added luster to their former glorie who respecting the Common-wealth more than Himselfe indeed onely louing Himselfe because He loued the Common-wealth was not onely the Father of his Countrey but also of the peace and tranquillitie of his Kingdome But perhaps some will say the childe is not alwayes the inheritour of the fathers worth For neither the soule nor the vertues of it come by propagation and the onely iuyce wee draw from our parents loynes is their infirmities Moreouer though the childe hath not often the fathers wisdome yet for the most part it hath the mothers wit will and affections Doe but search Chronicles and Histories for her mothers vertues and you shall finde Her afore her mariage the most vertuous Virgin after her mariage so worthie a Matron as Heauen could ioy in or earth be proud of To speake her vertues in particular were a burthen heauier than Aetna to passe them ouer in generall were a wrong to her perfections to vndertake to write of them seuerally were pride in my pen and to speake of them but ioyntly and briefly were an argument of pouertie of inuention To auoyd therefore both these enormities let it be my ambition to vse that commendations of Her at her entertainment and arriuall in France formerly vttered by Monsieur du Varais who making an Oration to Her in which hee seemed to build the whole felicitie of France vpon her mariage with the King hee praiseth her perfections in these words Seeing in you so many graces wherewith Nature hath endowed you admiring the beautie wherewith shee hath adorned you considering that naturall sweetnesse wherewith shee hath tempered your royall grauitie and hearing with our eares the voice renowned by fame which proclaimes the quicknesse of your spirit the soundnesse of your iudgement the eloquence of your discourse and that which exceeds all the incomparable commendation of your holy and religious disposition wee perswade our selues that you are Shee whom the Heauens had appointed by your pleasing companie to mollifie the life of the King to prolong his dayes by his content and to make his reigne perpetuall by the continuance of a great and happie posteritie Wee beleeue that you are onely She vpon earth worthie to make the life of the most triumphant King in the world to rest in your chaste bosome and that He aboue all others did merit to embrace the most vertuous and pleasing Princesse in his victorious armes Whereby we presage we shall soone see a number of goodly children carrying in their fore-heads their fathers valour their mothers vertue the greatnesse and abilitie of the house of France whereunto you are allied the happinesse and power of the house of Austria from whence you are issued and the wisdom of Florence in which you were borne To the beleefe of this presage all things seem to inuite vs but cheefly the Heauen the Sea for we see at the arriuall of your Maiestie the Sea full of stormes is growne calme the Heauen ouercast with clouds is cleere as if they woud with a pleasing eye celebrate with vs the magnificence of your reception For in good time then oh great Queene are you come into our coasts long may you liue happie in France and to France that the age in which wee liue may terme you a happie wife to a King and future ages a happie mother of Kings Here then you may discerne the most excellent perfections of this most excellent Princesses mother who caried herselfe so submissiuely to her Lord the King that nothing was more deere or neere vnto Him than Herselfe so louingly and royally to her Subiects that Shee won the hearts of all those whose soules and affections were sealed and deliuered to her Maiestie so worthily to her children that not onely by her instructions but her example which children are most apt and readie to

into oyle It is not hidden from Her that Nature and Grace hath giuen man the superiority that the strength of his body the stoutnesse and courage of his minde the stayednesse of his affections the wisedome of his soule the pregnancy of his wit the dominion of his will the soundnesse of his iudgement the ripenesse of his vnderstanding in a word all the powers of his soule and the perfections of his body doe pleade for and claime a Diadem of dominion and gouernment ouer women which are the weaker sex She desires but to rest in his bosome to be his heart and not his head She knowes that is his peculiar and therefore She will not challenge it She is the heart and He is the head the head in which is the eye of knowledge the eare of vnderstanding the gift of discretion and will not the heart thinke as the eye informes it as the eare certifies it as discretion tels it Yes surely and She will do as her Prince instructs her for will not She which loued himselfe for himselfe loue God for him and for herselfe also may not He which hath drawne her heart to loue him perswade her soule to embrace God Yes surely there is small doubt great hope nay almost assurance that not onely She but many millions will be brought and wrought to embrace the Christian faith to fauour and follow the true Religion by the meanes of this happy vnion and blessed contract Neither are these all the euidences for this ground of our happinesse but wee haue more mighty motiues to induce and perswade vs that She will open her brest to entertaine the truth and vnfold Her armes to embrace affectionately this our ancient Catholicke Apostolicke and reformed Religion For can She call to remembrance her Grandmother Ioanna Albrettana Q. of Nauarre the louing chaste modest sober discreet wife of Anthony Duke of Burbon her Grandfather can She I say retaine in her mind that delight of Heauen and light of earth her Grandmother and yet forget her Religion in the profession of which She was constant and vnmoueable And what was it but that which wee now professe to wit the faith which is according to knowledge and not ignorance for how can they be good which know not what goodnesse is as the Layty of the Romish Church which is nurst and nusled vp in blindnesse the faith which teacheth vs to put on the roabe of Christs righteousnesse to relye wholly and solely vpon his merits to abandon our selues and our owne actions as death and darknesse vnlesse Christ giue life and light to vs and them Thus was she in practise pious in profession a Protestant in which shee liued in which she dyed by which now she resteth in peace shall rise in power and reape a crowne of immortall glory Was not likewise that Royall King Henrie the fourth the great late French King in education and profession a Protestant and though he might afterwards to preuent ciuill broiles and intestine and vnnaturall warres in his Dominions for the peace of the Kingdome for the safety of his Subiects let policy a little get the vpper hand of Piety and did somewhat conniue and fauour the Romish Religion yet no doubt hee did neuer truly affect it And howsoeuer some blacke-mouthed monsters are not ashamed to say that he was like the Church of Laodicea neither hot nor cold yet charity and equity may depose that he did not like to the Church of Ephesus which forsooke her first loue No surely but though in externall shew he might countenance the Popes Prelates in regard most of the Princes of his Countrey were of that factiō yet we may say of him as it is said of Dauid his heart was with God no doubt his soule soared vpon the wings of the Protestants profession vnto the hill of God Mount Sion In so much as that cursed murtherer Rauilack though he might wound him mortally yet could not kill him eternally but God did turne the hate of that monster of men or rather Furie of hell to the well-fare of this mighty Monarch who did but leaue a crowne of thornes to gaine a Crowne of glory who did but lose a kingdome subiect to so many alterations by time and troubles to finde a Monarchy subiect to no mutability Oh happy Henrie if thou hadst neuer beene the nourisher of such a viperous brood which haue eaten out the bowels of thee which was thy foster-Father Oh had the valour of thy soule beene equall to the courage of thy minde thy Countrey had neuer beene wounded so much by thy losse nor thou by that monster but thou hadst blessed it with a longer life and a more timely death Oh happy if thou hadst laboured to haue purged Gods floore and rooted out these tares out of Gods field for had not these tares stood the teares of sorrow had not so ouerflowne thy Kingdomes whiles thou didst valiantly professe and maintaine the Gospell of Christ How secure and free thou wert from danger How secure in thy estate and how did all things fall out prosperous to thee How vainely did these King-killing Caitiffes attempt to hurt thee No surely the loue of God did shield thee from all thy enemies but when thou shewedst too little loue to God in throwing too many fauours vpon them then the Lord did shew thee that the effects of thy loue to them was their hate to thee For the father doth not alwayes beget a childe like himselfe no more hath loue alwaies birth from affection God did take away the guard of his protection and the bulwarke of his defense exposing thy brest to an open enemie both to himselfe and thee Wheras Queene Elizabeth who beyond the valour and constancie of her sex maintained and continued the Christian Religion How many dangerous treasons did the hand of the Lord conduct Her thorow and still Shee was preserued For the Deuill and his instruments are like the Crocodile which flyes if a man pursues it but pursues if a man persist not in his pursuit Or as a shadow the which if a man flies will follow him but if hee run after it will run from him In a word God no doubt brought that famous pious King Henrie the fourth to eternall durable life through the purgatorie of a sharpe and sudden death So doth the Physitian giue bitter potions to procure the better health So doth the Chyrurgian launce the wound to heale the sore so are sharpe copperas waters giuen to salue sore blinded eyes so is the ground harrowed to make it fruitfull and so no doubt God suffered this affliction of sudden death to be effected by that cursed hand that He might be more sound in his soules resolution that his eyes might be opened to see the sorditie of the Popish Iesuiticall Sect and that Hee might bee better instructed by their crueltie in his death than He could by their flatterie his life who shewed themselues true Absolons who the more Dauid did

Imperiall Maiestie of our mightie Soueraigne so long looked for and so much longed for in which Shee might haue a Sister by mariage though not by birth with whom She might make a mutuall exchange of intire affection that She might finde one true friend that might bee her Sister both in deed and vertue that hauing found one so neere Herselfe so like Herselfe her ioy might euen almost exceed Herselfe and who more fit to be Sisters than those who are so concording in vertuous conditions the least of whose rare exquisite perfections cannot bee imitated by any but by one another for who so modest so bountifull so beautifull so chaste so constant so wise and euerie waies so worthie as Elizabeth but Henrette Maria all that they differ is in that which notwithstanding in either of Them is a vertue for the one is a chaste Matron the other a pure Virgin the one the Mother as well of many children as of many holy deeds the other the mother onely of vertuous actions The Almightie of his mercie grant that as Shee is her perfect Patterne in the one so Shee may truely resemble Her that so Shee may bee the happie Mother of many children and Hee the fortunate Father and Progenitour of many Princes that Shee being like a fruitfull Vine vpon the wall-side his children may bee like Oliue Branches round about his table and that in his Posteritie not onely his Highnesse but all the world may bee happie so also the Pfaltz-graues Princely Babes and hopefull Issue reioyce in regard all their Friends are not likely to decease with their Parents but that from their mightie Vncle Prince Charles his loynes shall spring such Princely Sprigs who will take their parts against all those which with an enuious eye and a malicious minde behold their persons For euer therefore let this Contract bee chronicled in the Register of Fame which hath thus imposed an Epilogue to the dolefull Tragedie so passionately acted in the bosomes of the Royll King and Queene of Bohemia and hath begun a Prologue to a ioyfull Comedie the beginning of which shall bee warre and bloudie dissention but the last act containeth the peace of the Church the releefe of the oppressed the ruine of Antichrist and the aduancement of Christian Religion Thus from these two most excellent Princes spring tides of happinesse ouerflowing many Countries and good fortune of which they are the Authours crownes many forraigne Nations but most especially this our Iland and all his Maiesties of Great Brittaines Dominions For if wee shall but behold France with the eye of mature iudgement wee shall finde it stored with all kinde of commodities fit for commerce and traffique being as it were Gods garden in which Hee had planted all his blessings and benefits for what rare blessing is it not richly furnished with as corne cattell fish fowle and all manner of fruit either pleasing to the eye or delightfull to the taste whose soyle is cloathed in a greene mantle decked and adorned with all kinde of various delectable sense-delighting odoriferous flowers Indeed no Kingdomes soyle hath more beautie and bountie than France no Countrey better situated more abounding with excellent wits both in the time of warre and peace than France there is no Kingdome established with godlier Lawes no Monarchie more mightie of authoritie more absolute Soueraigne being a Kingdome so well fortified with power and so well qualified with pietie Indeed neuer was the foundation of any Empire laid with more wisdome and being built vpheld and the ruines repaired with more discretion than France Doe you inquire after the greatnesse of her Prouinces They are like so many Kingdomes yet all vnited in one Neuer were there any Soueraignes of any Kingdomes which haue more constantly laboured for the propagation of the Gospell and the planting of Religion than the French Kings who haue made cleane the floore of Christen dome swept away so much filthinesse and diuerted that great Deluge of Infidels which threatned shipwracke to the French Nation from whence they haue their deserued titles of most Christian Kings What worthie men yea and most excellent Kings hath France produced of whom wee may truely report that they were most valiant in warre most wise in counsell carrying themselues not insultingly in their prosperitie nor yet deiectedly in their aduersitie but being almost conquered in shew they became Conquerours in effect and when they were most in despaire yet neuer despaired of the Common-weale who as they manifested great loue to their subiects so their subiects expressed great loue and affection to them Doe you search who were the Ancestours of the French and inquire after the originall of that Nation you shall finde them neither in the ruines and ashes of Troy neither in the Fens of Moolides but were principally descended from them in Germany a Nation mighty in strength and valour who by defending themselues and succouring others came to be a people powerfull in Armes who still maintained their liberty with their sword from whence they were called by the other Germanes Fraunce which signifies free or reiecting seruitude and bondage And it may bee spoken truely and without flatterie that neuer Kingdome might better boast of so many worthie Princes as this may As Pharamond the first Layer of the Foundation of this Monarchie Clodion his Successour in this building Meroued the Continuer and Augmenter of the Edifice Clouis whose memorie is to bee reuerenced of all posteritie and whose worthie deeds are to bee had in an euerlasting remembrance as being the first that added Christian religion to others conquests and adorned that rare foundation with the faith of Christ the primest ornament of any Principalitie by which meanes the hearts of the Gaules who for the most part embraced the Gospell were as much vnited to him by fauour as his was to God by faith who by this meanes obtained from them voluntarie obedience and was made assured possessour of the others victories who likewise receiued the name of his new Dominions and were called by the name of France To omit that renowned Prince Charlemaigne who being inriched with singular gifts both of bodie and minde repaired the ruine of the Empire was confirmed King of France and Emperour of Rome to the great aduancement of Religion and comfort of the Common-wealth whose issue although it did not alwaies inherit either their Fathers valour or his honour yet God who though He may alter the persons yet still guardeth and guideth the state of Monarchies did raise vp a worthie Successour of that Race to wit Hugh Capet a Prince adorned both with wisdome and modestie ioyning wholsome Lawes to his force of armes and well-gouerned equitie to his authoritie did so ouercast this erected Kingdome with such both godly and goodly Ordinances as it withstood the stormes of many miserable ages And of late yeeres Henrie the fourth the prime Prince of the bloud and first King of the Royall Race of Burbon a Prince

haue many pleaders for Her yet non-suites them all but One being so diuine a Creature as in her affection Shee resembleth her Creatour who whom He loueth He loueth to the end The beames of her loue as they bee most bright so they are of long continuance being no wayes wauering nor speedily fading but constant and durable Neither is Shee constant in her affections onely but also in her vertuous actions for what vertue more naturall or necessarie in a Prince than liberalitie and who more liberall than Shee Her bountie like the Sunne shines vpon all She sees She knoweth none are more miserable than they which are miserably couetous who starue in a Cookes shop pine in the midst of plentie who Tantalus-like haue golden apples aboue and Crystall Fountaines beneath his chin but yet can neither taste the apples to satisfie his hunger nor touch the water to allay his thirst She therefore holding it a thing inconuenient to command others and not to command her passions and her purse Shee therefore esteeming riches but the exiles of Fortune the which Shee can keepe no longer because Shee must part from them doth liberally and freely giue to such whose either earnest petitions or silent deserts doe plead for them For reason teacheth Her that they are giuen Her onely to giue to others therefore with most incomparable bountie and yet discretion Shee doth bestow them and like the Heauens being full Shee powreth and showreth downe the dew of her pitie vpon the gaping necessitie of poore people She well remembreth that the faithfullest friends She can make are her charitable deeds for her goods leaue Her at her death nothing we brought and nothing we must carrie away Her Friends and Allies forsake Her at her graue they may accompanie Her to her tombe but they will not dwell with her in darknesse but her almesdeeds and pious actions follow Her saying vnto her soule as Ruth to Nahomi Whithersoeuer thou goest I le follow thee It is that which moues Her to shew such pietie in her pitie that makes Her a Prop to the poore a Staffe to the needie It is from hence that the blessings of the Lord doe still accompanie Her She is so much fauoured of Him because vertue is so much fauoured in Her and it is as far from doubt as truth from falshood that Shee shall be the most fortunate most blissefull and happie Princesse that euer was extant in this Christian world Thus haue you seene her vertues in some part deciphered though not to the full described for that were as impossible to containe her praises who though Shee bee young in yeeres yet is old in Grace in this small volume as to confine the boundlesse Ocean to a cesterne But because howsoeuer Vertue is true Nobilitie yet Nobilitie is an ornament to Vertue examine but her Princely Parentage which is lineally descended from so many Kings and Emperours neuer was Branch sprung from a more Regall Imperiall and Royall Stocke than She therefore not to make any troublesome search into ancient Chronicles but to looke into those later moderne times it will appeare that neuer had childe greater cause to ioy in a father than this Princesse in hers whose Father Henrie the fourth of the royall Race of Burbon a Prince so truely fully and nobly accomplisht as Hee deserueth to bee stiled the Worthiest of the French Monarchie for finding the Kingdome fraught with hatred rebellion infidelitie treason and such like but Hee by his moderate and discreet gouernment like a wise Husband-man of that his vineyard rooted out those enormious weeds planting in stead of them loue to his Person submission to his Soueraigntie faithfulnesse to his Crowne and loyaltie to his Gouernment and howsoeuer some did so farre oppose Him as they sought to depose Him yet He being directed and protected by a Higher Power in spight of all humane violent oppositions did triumph both ouer domestique forraigne foes and France may confesse truely and without flatterie that she languished with the want of such a Prince vntill He like another Hercules did ruine and root out those hideous monsters which did seeme prodigious to her owne proper progenie and restored France to her former reputation and crowned her with her pristine beautie It is He whose acts may stand to instruct Captaines their duties in succeeding ages It is Hee that was like Dauid in his reigne full of afflictions and blessings that resembled Him in his zeale of pietie and iustice the prime and principall pillers of a Royaltie who ruled his people happily to the glorie of God the good of his Subiects and the consolation of his owne Soule Indeed infinite were the vertues of this royall Prince who succeeded his famons Ancestours who were so worthie as they may adde glorie to his immortall fame and memorie For He was lineally descended in direct masculine and lawfull line of Lewis for his singular pietie sirnamed Saint the 44th French King whose quiuer was full of such arrowes as Dauid calleth blessings to wit children as Philip the Hardie his Successour in the Crowne Peter Earle of Alancon Robert Earle of Alancon through Peters vntimely decease and also Robert the eldest and the youngest were fortunate in leauing Issue in whom they might liue after their deaths the other died without heires sprung from their owne loynes The Issue of the forenamed Philip the Hardie succeeded lineally vntill Henrie the third King of France Poland in whom the name and family of the Valor being extinct the Crowne fell to the Race of Robert Earle of Cleremont who by Beautrix sole heire and daughter of Archibald Earle of Burbon had Lewis afterwards created Duke The which Lewis Duke of Burbon had Issue by Marie daughter to Iohn the eighteenth Earle of Hainhault had Peter Duke of Burbon and Iames Earle of Ponthieu Constable of France Peter had by Isabel daughter of Charles Earle of Valois Lewis and Iames Lewis sirnamed the Good Duke of Burbon had by Anne Countesse of Auergne Lewis Earle of Cleremont deceasing without Issue Iohn and Iames Iohn had by Bonne Dutchesse of Auergne Countesse of Montpensiere Charles and Lewis of Montpensiere father of Gilbert of whom issued Charles the last Duke of Burbon the which Charles Duke of Burbon had by Agnes daughter of Iohn Duke of Burgoigne Iohn and Peter Iohn the second of that name was linked in mariage with Ioane of France daughter to Charles the seuenth who dying without lawfull Issue the name and armes of Duke went to Peter his younger brother Peter the second of that name Duke of Burbon maried Anne of France daughter to Lewis the deuenth and had Issue by her one onely daughter Susan the generall heire of Bourbon who was wife to the abouenamed Charles the youngest sonne of Lewis abouenamed Earle of Montpensiere and brother to Charles Duke of Burbon but no children issuing from this mariage the branch of the eldest sonne of Lewis Duke of Burbon was broken