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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02405	The great and famous battel of Lutzen fought betweene the renowned King of Sweden, and Walstein; vvherein were left dead vpon the place between 5 and 6000. of the Swedish party, and between 10 and 12000. of the Imperialists, where the King himselfe was vnfortunatly slain ... Here is also inserted an abridgment of the Kings life, and a relation of the King of Bohemia's death. Faithfully translated out of the French coppie.		1633 (1633)	STC 12534; ESTC S103558	19,504	46

THE GREAT AND FAMOVS BATTEL OF LVTZEN Fought betweene the renowned King of Sweden and Walstein Wherein were left dead vpon the place between 5 and 6000. of the Swedish party and between 10 and 12000. of the Imperialists where the King himselfe was vnfortunatly slain whose death counterpoyz'd all the other Pappenheim Merode Isolani and divers other great Commanders were offred up like so many Sacrifices on the Swedish Altar to the memory of their King Here is also Inserted an Abridgment of the Kings life and a Relation of the King of Bohemia's Death Faithfully translated out of the French Coppie ❧ Imprinted 1633. To the Reader VVEE see that in the greater Maps things are expressed more plainly then they can be in the smaller though they be drawen all by one skill So Vertue in Princes is more perspicuous then in Plebeians in the sormer shee is drawen at length with all her dimensions in the latter shee is limn'd in little being invisible vnlesse you approach very neere her And indeed this is consonant to Natures owne Wisedome who suffers the vitali spirits in the body to go to the least member yea to the very fingers end yet doth shee most plentifully bestow them where shee hath the greatest imployment for them so on the vulgar shee conferres gifts sutable to so lowe a Calling But in Princes and Monarchs shee centuples and irradiates her ornaments because by them she speakes and giues Lawes to Humanitie Yet is not this Rule so generall that it often suffers not an exception for as Nature distinguisheth betweene the Subject and the Prince by Soveraigntie so doth shee betweene Prince and Prince by Vertue and Abilitie That this is true this our deare Tragicall subject will serue for a liuely and cleare demonstration whom neither this Age nor any of the former could paralell in the management both of the Scepter and the Sword In his whole Reigne his Prudencie at home hath not deserued more admiration then his Prowesse abroad For indeede from his Youth vpwards Mars hath beene the Spheare wherein he hath mooved into which violated Iustice first hall'd him and out of which nothing but shee appeased or Death could remooue him Hee was a Generall ere a Man and with a yet vnreaped Chin mowed downe his Enemies before him With many Kingdomes at once hee waged warre from all which hee forced conditions advantagious to him and his This was not without the amazement of all men to see a Poynt oppose and conquer so vaste a circumference In his warres I will onely obserue three things His Way to Victory his behaviour in it his Carriage after it For the first hee did animate his Souldiers rather by Fighting then Exhorting nor did hee challenge to himselfe any advantage aboue the meanest of them but Honour and Commaund Hee knew that it is in Empire as in the Bodie where the most dangerous diseases flowe from the Head Wherefore hee work'd on their manners by his owne the onely firme Ciment of a Generall and his Armie Hee well understood that Faith and Loyaltie are not to bee expected where wee impose thraldome and servitude and therefore at times he would bee familiar as wel with the Common Souldier as the Commaunder His Invention and execution of all Military stratagems were ever twinnes for in all his Conquests hee owed as much to his Celeritie as Valour When his foes were in their Tents securely discoursing of him as a farre off hee like the Wolfe broke into their fable to their irrecoverable astonishment They could not withstand the force of his Fame much lesse that of his Armes One feather more I must adde without which his Victories had not been fully plumed nor could haue soared so high and that was this Hee never perswaded any man to an Enterprise in which hee would not himselfe make one Hee taught them as well by Hand as Tongue I may adde that neither Antiquitie can nor Posteritie ever shall produce a Prince so patient of all Military wants as of meate drinke warmth sleepe c. all which are necessary to the maintenance of life In divers sufferings of his hee recalls to my mind the most accomplisht of the Romans Cato who leading his Troups through the contagious and poysonous Deserts was ever the last of his Army that dranke saue once when he began to them all in water taken from a spring suspected to be envenomed Thus much of his way to Victorie now let vs come to his Deportment in it After all his Conquests such a calme immediately ensued that the passed storme was soone forgotten and the Enemie appeared rather like one suddenly wakened then frighted There was not any of his Victories that washed not her hands of all cold and innocent blood He was so severe a Iusticer that he ofen revēged the violating of his mercifull Decrees euen vpon the place sometime on men of qualitie whom he affected The Lawes of Retaliation hee knew so well that hee gaue to all men punctuall satisfaction for all offences received from his partie according to the nature of the wrong done For this cause his Tribunall like the Roman stood euer open All his great Atchieuements were ever attended by Devotion within and Circumspection without He first praised God and then provided for man at once having an eye on his enemies next designes his souldiers present necessities The greatest of his glories purchased with blood sweat could neither change the estate of his mind or copie of his countenance The true greatnesse of his spirit was such that in all his actions he placed Ostentation behind Conscience before him sought not the reward of a good deed from Fame but from the deed it selfe I conclude this poynt with this assertion That Honestie had as strict and great a command over him as Necessitie over mankind He was a Prince of so great cleare a fame that Envie her selfe blushed to oppose it and therefore was forced to assume the maske of Religion under which she might securely display her invectiues Religion Religion it is thou that shouldst vnite but dost estrange hearts and makest us seeke to take away euen those liues that gaue us ours Let a man haue in eminency all the Cardinall and Theologicall vertues he of a contrary sect looks on all these through a mist raised by his malice which makes him either not see them at all or not as they are O Iesus Iesus in thy best blessed time gather thy straied flock into one fold let Truth and Peace kisse each other This testimony the perfections of this Prince drew from me who was abstemious continent in euery thing saue in the search of Glory and Vertue It now remaines that I say something of the ensuing Treatise in which is contained the last and greatest Battell of this King his deplored Death and other weightie Circumstances The Originall is French written by one of the ablest Pennes of that Nation Hee begins at the