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love_n	affection_n	love_v	see_v	4,893	5	3.4092	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01260	The French herald summoning all true Christian princes to a generall croisade, for a holy warr against the great enemy of Christendome, and all his slaues. Vpon the occasion of the most execrable murther of Henry the great. To the Prince.	Loiseau de Tourval, Jean.; Marcelline, George, attributed name.	1611 (1611)	STC 11374; ESTC S111986	28,778	56

Ancetors yea in the very time of their thickest darkenes ought to moue you Do you not amōg many heare the mighty voice of that braue Coeur de Lyon a French man by father and mother and the first Prince orderly born English since the conquest How strongly doth he call vpon you How farre went he to conquer the holy land How many daungers how many troubles how many paines did he passe and ouercome But now since it is Gods pleasure the holy land is by two third parts neerer then it was then A most fit a most holy a most easy subiect of your conquest And wil you not take the crosse on you to go thither now in this shining brightnes of the Gospell There is no more a doe but go and take possession And what land now in the world more sacer more holy then holy Rome which hath ben so much watred by so much holy blood of so many Saints and Martyrs Behold and why els doth shee call herselfe Romala Santa he Padre Santo or his holynes GReat men if you be but men not worthy of a higher title whose braines harbor so much wisdome whoso breasts so much temperance iustice faithfulnes vertues so rare now adaies anywhere els which haue wrought in the world the only miracles of these latter times fauorits of heauen spirits of lead of brasse of hard steele purer then the very gold seauenty times refined in the fornace who as it were fetching euery yeare by thousands whole ships laden with a new wisedome out of India are wiser then their auncient Gymnosophists you that shaking off a most cruell and yet more vniust yoke are risen from a base and seruile bondage now to be equall with Princes by your owne hands making your selues such as you would be setting a most lawfull bound to your high desires as though anything besides your selues were not worth your ambition were contented to haue but your owne selues Generous Helots farr better and more noble then your proud Lacedemonians If euer you did kindely and faithfully helpe vs at our neede If euer our great king did Kindly faithfully and gratefully helpe you againe at yours if vertue liue euen after death and a loyall loue grounded vpon the same to so royall a friend Come come ioyne hands with vs Our case our cause is your owne your strong bull worke the Rampier of Christendome hath ben most vnluckily throwen downe Ere it be long the enemy will giue you a furious if not trecherous assault And euen though you would though you could forbeare loue to others yet shew now your wisdome for your selues if euer you had any You also peereles couple of Princely bretheren both florishing in age much more in worthy and warlike deeds you great not Citty-razer as the other was but Citty-rayser strong Nestor wise Aiax the honour of armes the loue of Souldiers now without controuersie the first Captaine in the world your taske is not yet at an end To the field to the fire to the sword once more as glorious as I haue seen you many times the sicknes is more sharp then euer it is in relaps And you martial Henry Henry doth not your hart rise at that great name Doe you not remember who gaue it you as though our great HENRY would not grace with it other then great Princes and such as he fore-knew would be most worthy of the same Henry if yet you remember his personall kindnes to you Henry if yet you haue a drop of French blood of that right noble blood of that high Admirall your Grandfather in his time the Captaine of Captaines And after these high respects if priuate ones may take place If yet you remēber these innocent plaies but still sauouring of warre or learning wherby we were wont to recreate and stirr vp your minde while you were a childe If yet you remember your many promises so kindly made to me since you are a man Vp vp I lay downe al particular pretentions I claime all for the publique Come auenge the death of your royall God-father withall remember your owne father was killed so And that a trayterous murtherer euen before you saw did for euer bereaue you of the sight of that most excellent Prince who had giuen you the power of seing and whome to haue seen so many eyes would haue thought themselues most happy IMperiall Princes right honest Sycambrians our ancient Bretheren from whome when we departed with dint of sword to get vs a new habitation happy we if we had not left our integrity plainenes behinde or rather had kept aswel as you that which indeed we brought with vs Happy soules blessed remnant of the golden age if euer you pittied our hard case who thinking to conquer other mens lands lost our owne mindes and were ouercome euen by those we ouercame If there remain in you any spark of that ancient loue which once made vs all Germans when we liued vnder the same heauen But if old respects serue not if that feruent loue our most Christian King did so lately witnes vnto you who set vp so great an army endangered his whole estate ventured his owne life lost it euen in your quarrell and for your sakes if the help we brought you at so fit a time if the neuer enough lamented damage we suffer yet and shall suffer longer for your occasion can be of some effect in your noble harts Come come and let vs all gather as one man to reuenge our common losse preuent the common euill for though otherwise the losse must still be of our side yet looke how much your dearest honour remaines ingaged therein And you braue Ernest of Brandenburgh Illustrious Prince whose princely aspect told me once you were such when most you would haue hid it and for your better concealement made me an hundred times sit at the vpper end of your table while I told you as often I was scarce good enough to waite at it Neuertheles did it though with a willing kinde of shame and vnwillingnes when you commaunded me once for all it must needs be so If euer you loued our nation in generall If euer most especially you admired and protested affection to that hart-rauishing Prince as many times as I brought you to the sight of him as a priuate Gentleman If euer you repeated at night with loue and passion that which you heard that which you saw of him that day Ernest I earnestly beseech Ernest I earnestly adiure you And with you and in you and by you all your most noble house and those of your princely name Come out to reuenge the publique iniury And let me see you at the fore-front of our Croisade No Princes haue such an interest in this quarrell nor among them any so much as your selfe VVOrthily worthy and all praise-worthy Heroes True remnant of those old euerliuing Troians who inuincible to all force had neuer dyed if subtilty and treason the

worse because masked with Religion had not surprised their simply-honest soules and sooner burn'd their bodies then ouercome their mindes you that now trenched within your owne waters as it were for feare of an other such accident where also neuer any body could come to hurt you no body can And euen when that great Deluge of the Gothes spred it selfe round about you were left to your selues safely swimming in your land-no-land or rather so many Ilands Sacred Ephores sharp-sighted Areopagits graue Senate who not to haue one King subiect in a deadly stroke to wound all his subiects haue a Prince as it were in name only but are so many Kings your selues and Kings indeed since you commaund Kingdomes which yet you should command in no lesse quantity then once that auncient Monarcichall Common-wealth a part of your Type seeing your MarTial power is no lesse then theirs if your Marcial equitie had not made you as moderate as they were greedy Truly sonnes of Mars in deed for valour Truly children of Marc for piety and againe of Mercury for industry riches If euer you remember that auncient alyance between both our States If euer you remember the recent loue true friendship of the fourth his offers endeauours to you and for you when the third and the fift seemed to plott your ruyne If you haue euen of late felt the sharpe stings of that Tyrannicall ambition seen and felt trayterous murthers within your own bowels though not against your King when you haue none yet against your best men and those that most soundly haue maintayned your Kingly authority If the innocent wounds of that learned wise and good Padre Paolo yet aliue in spight of their hart If the holy ashes yet almost hot of that happy martyr your worthy Fulgentio burned in yonder hilly Citty for that quarell though vpon other farr fetched fayned and most false pretences If the royall blood of your greatest of your best friend crye yet aloud Vengeance Vengeance in your eares Come come braue and wise men shake hands with so many and so great Princes Be none of the last to take the Crosse on you The matter is of State not of Religion And let not that staine for the first time be cast on your spotles name that you once forsooke your friends euen fighting for your quarel as much as for theirs that you once forsooke your owne selues And when was such a thing euer seen either in you or others Come come I say you shall be still as good Catholicks as you were afore if not better They tremble already for feare They are ours And though they cannot stand against vs and though thanks be to God we haue no need of more help hauing equitie strength valour riches and all aduantages of our side yet we call yet we summon you not to exclude you of your part of the glory Conclusiō to the yoūg King of Fraunce NOw Sir if any will yet grudge saying I take to much vpon me and that yourselfe and all those great Princes are wise ready enough in that which concerneth them without neede either of my counsell or summoning First I say I pray God in this sence I may be a needles Herald indeed and you gather your selues without calling though otherwise truth be euer truth well beseeming and to be followed in any mans mouth For the rest I am neither a Councellor nor worthy to be so but a silly worme and poore Soldier as once I was I am a piece not only of your State but of the Christian Common-wealth and as a feeling though vnprofitable member of that great bodie interessed in the losse of so excellent and needfull a head by so much the more as I euer preferred the publike good before my priuate welfare the honor of my Country before my perticular aduancement and the life of my Soueraigne and of all good Christian Kings aboue mine owne all others of my neerest deerest kindred who yet being already crosse-signed and the least of an hundred thousand which are ready to crosse-signe themselues for so lawfull and so generall a cause when either by this my summoning or some other more effectuall meanes I see a iust army in the field am most ready to embrace againe my auncient profession which I had forsworn to scowre my old weapons rusty with our ●ong peace which I thought neuer to vse againe And taking in hand my sharpest speare of all most boldly venture my life as farr as any most happy to be lost in this quarrell the right quarrell of God and Gods annoynted ✚