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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68221	Antisixtus An oration of Pope Sixtus the fift, vppon the death of the late French King, Henrie the third. With a confutation vpon the sayd oration, wherein all the treacherous practises of the house of Lorraine, are largely described and layde open vnto the view of the world, with a briefe declaration of the kings death, and of many other things worthy the noting, which neuer yet came to light before. Translated out of Latin by A.P.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.	1590 (1590)	STC 14002; ESTC S114241	39,544	58

and lust and that therefore all things were readie easie vnto her But that all things crost the Friar that in euery thing was great trouble and trauell but yet more daunger that he alone surely without any bodies helpe or induction had conceiued secretly the boldnesse of this desperate enterprise That he had not only to go through the watches of the ennemie but by the Citizens straight wardes Sentinels and if his face his words or his pace had bewrayed there any token of vnconstancie which oftentimes is séene in those that doe attempt high and great matters he had to looke for nothing but for present death destruction Here if the letters had béene found about him he had no lesse to feare the like of those that were ignorant of the matter and being besiedged were afeard of euery trifle So that as Homere sayth as Aeneas was carryed by the helpe of Neptune out of the battell euen so Sixtus leadeth this Fryar through the Citie the Campe couered with a cloud that he could not be séene of any body I maruaile that he hath not set him vpon the winges of angels to carry and bring him in safetie to the kinges tente I appeale vnto your authoritie O honourable and reuerent antiquitie what is become of shamefastnesse Who thinkes now a dayes a lie to be a discredite Come to heare a historie not a fable Clement by a great summe of money by further hope by a notorious harlot was solicited taketh counsell with the chiefe conspirators of the kings death and it is knowen now who were present at that instant who were the coūsellers who were the furtherers It were iniurious that our posterity should be deceiued depriued of the memory of this cruell act and as I hope cre long of the example of the execution thereof They did counterfaite letters from certaine prisonners vnto the King bewraying some great matters to be declared by the mouth of the Fryar the which when he had receiued taketh the knise which he had made and poysoned to kill the king withall and goeth out of the Cittie but first hauing lest charge that all those that were suspected might be kept within that by these meanes the life of a bloodie murtherer should be in safetie with the danger of thousande innocents if he should haue fallen a liue in the enemies handes This is the first part of this miracle these are the diuine motions this is the celestiall inspiration and this the infallible argument of the present assistance of Gods power He commeth in the kings campe no man letting him and at that troublesome time when Fryars onely were frée and had onely safe conduct to goe where they would themselues But why goe I about to spend my time in confuting Sixtus his lyes where so many blasphemies doe offer themselues before me All these are toyes of the common people Let euery mans vertue separate and distinguish him from the common sort but the Bishop of Rome let him be knowen by his notorious and extraordinarie villanies It is an old saying where lawfull things are onely permitted vnto gouernours there they command by intreatie a Priest doth not differ from a Lay-man but onely in libertie of offending It is sayth hee speaking of the murthering of the Prince a most famous and a memorable act and not atchieued without the particular prouidence and disposition of the Almightie pardon me Oeuerlasting holy and omnipotent God pardon me Opietie and naturall affection rehearsing wordes which are impious and full of blasphemie what Sixtus if thou hadst onely sayde that this befell by his permission vnto whom it is casie to hinder all thinges although it be true it were not godly and lesse godly for thée to affirme this that knowest not all thinges that are present and therefore the more that thou callest in witnesse and defence of thy villanyes him whom thou callest good and almightie Hei thou Doctor in Israell art thou ignorant of this that all good things are ascribed vnto God only and that all the rest is attributed vnto our selues Who can suffer then that vnto the same God who is good onely onely omnipotent the bloudie offence of an outcast from all man kinde is referred And yet thou doest estéeme it but small to saye that the King was slaine not onely by thy knowledge but by thy counsell not dissembling at it but commaunding it and hauing set a side all celestiall and infernall care that it hath béene thy will onely and procurement that at thy pleasure such a haynous and execrable murther was committed in France Doe the heauens heare this and suffer it for whom are the gulphes of the earth the vnluckie rockes and the fearefull whirlpooles and déepes of hell reserued Lightnings and thunderbolts should be wanting if no part of these villanies were left vnpunished Nowe long agone my eares are hardened and acquainted with these execrable wordes And what is all this which I haue sayde but vulgar and common nothing worthie of high Ioue his anger nothing notorious nothing pontificiall I would willingly follow childrens fashions when they are to drinke a medicine they inuent delayes they leaue nothing vndoone they turne the cup and oftentimes put it vnto their mouth to taste it then they shake their heads as if they were angry they aske for swéet things to ouercome or to mitigate the bitternesse of the potion But finally they being wearied with the continuall cryings of the standers by turning their head aside stopping their nostrels do not drinke the medicine but powre it in The like happeneth vnto me at this time I would if I might Sirtus passe by thy horrible blasphemies impious wordes wherewith thou hast polluted by an abhominable comparison of a most villainous offence the holy mysteries of our Sauiors birth and buriall I would to God that Christian eares had only hard it who are déeper grounded in religion better perswaded of faith who neuer would haue giuen credite to thy impious Dration if it were vnknowen to the Barbarians Heathen and Turkes who will hereafter make a mocke of the true Christian doctrine by thy authoritie Sixtus and example Art thou not ashamed that thou being the Pastor of the redéemed flocke by whose guiding it draweth the water of life out of the holy well whose wordes should haue sounded nothing but that which was sainct pure and godly that thou the liuely interpretor of the written lawe of God and the seuere punisher of blasphemies and of those that falsefie and corrupt the sense of the holy Scriptures and moreouer of those that abuse or vse too fréely wordes taken out of the booke of GOD I will not say hast deluded the Prophetes and Apostles hast called in doubt the trueth of the hystorie hast corrupted the holy Scriptures wrested and falsefied them by a false interpretation by godly examples hast coulloured impious offences and hast protected them by thine authoritie these are but small