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A01175	The restorer of the French estate discouering the true causes of these vvarres in France & other countries, and deliuering the right course of restoring peace and quiet to all Christendome: wherein are handled these principall questions touching religion, policie, and iustice: whether it be lawfull to sweare, and keepe promise to heretikes, to force mens consciences for religion sake, to liue with, and dwell nigh heretikes, to breake the order of succession to the Crowne bycause of religion, or no. Who be schismatikes; and of the chiefe poincts of religion. How we are to iudge of the schisme in Christendome at this day. Lastly, the conclusion conteining notable admonitions to the clergie, nobles, magistrates, people, and King of France. Translated out of French. Ecclesiæ & reipub. D.	Hurault, Michel, d. 1592, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 11289; ESTC S102588	139,883	174

doth all things the good th'euil but those things that we call euill and are euill in vs are good in him All actions considered in God are most iust and most good they come from on high most pure and most cleane they corrupt and defile themselues here below vnder the Sun amid the malice of men of Satan According to this Isay 10. after God in Isay had said that Senacherib should serue him to chastise his Church he addeth but he thinketh not so neither doth his heart esteeme it so but he imagineth to destroy and cut of not a few nations for he saith are not my Princes altogether kings and a few lines after shall not I as I haue done to Samaria and to the idols thereof so do to Ierusalem and to the idols thereof but when the Lord hath accomplished all his worke vpon mount Sion and Ierusalem I will visit the fruict of the proud heart of the king of Assur and his glorious and proud lookes Likewise though th'actions of Cyrus were euill considering he made warre for his owne ambitions sake spoiled nations of that whereto he had no right yet were those actions good in God For those peoples had well deserued this punishment through their wicked life and aboue all their Idolatry and namely the Medes who had entreated his people so roughly and therefore he deliuered them out of captiuity by such actions of Cyrus which is another reason of the goodnes in them Isay 45. I haue raised him vp saith the Lord in righteousnesse The actions of Pharao in that he rebelled so often against the ordinance of God were most euill but if we consider them as comming from God they are most good most iust profitable to th'edifying of the Church Exod. 9.10.11 For by these means the Lord plagued Pharao for the wrongfull oppression done to his people he multiplied his wonders in the land of Aegypt he shewed his power to his Church and his loue towardes the same he made his power knowen in Pharao that his name might bee declared throughout the worlde In like sort Rom. 9. Gen. 27. Ioseph was sold by his brethren prouoked thereto with enuy they bare him but God by this their sinne brought Ioseph into Aegypt preserued Iacob and his whole Church from the dearth Gen. 45. saued their liues by an excellent deliuerance This deede was most lewd in the brethren of Ioseph but most good in God profitable and necessarie to his Church this is that which Ioseph faith to his brethren when ye purposed euill against me God disposed it to good The euils and miseries which God sendeth to his Church to his Elect being considered in the will and intention of the persecutors are actions most euill but if we weigh them by the iustice and bounty of God they are iust and profitable For by the same are th'Elect admonished of their faults and instructed that they can not stand without Gods grace and that th' effect of their hopes is reserued them in an other world in the meane while they are by those afflictiōs stayed in th' obedience of God their feare is renewed and their loue and deuotion made more earnest then afore The children of God do marke and espie in all the sinnes and imperfections of men as it were through the clouds certaine beames of iustice and bountic comming from God which make them affirme that all commeth from God 2. Cor. 12. So S. Paul saith that God had giuen him a prick in the flesh the messenger of Sathan to buffet him and that it was to th' end he should not glorifie himselfe aboue measure and that the power of Christ might be made perfect in his infirmitie Rom. 11. Whereunto that hath relation which he saith that the Lord hath enclosed all in vnbeliese to th' end he might haue mercy vpon all So the stubbernesse of the Iewes in them is most bad in God it is good and necessary for vs being Gentils By the fall of the Iewes saith S. Paul saluation commeth vnto the Gentils This is saith he a great secret that partly blindnesse of heart is come to Israel vntil the fulnesse of the Gentils be come in So the condemnation and passion of Christ is our iustification and soule-health Antichrist and his doctors by their seducings commit most detestable sinnes and yet do such seducings serue to the glory of God 2. Thess 2. S. Paul writeth that God will send a strong power of delusion to the doctrine of Antichrist that all might be damned which beleeued not the trueth Then let vs acknowledge with the Scripture that whatsocuer is done God doeth it and that both the good and the euill are done for his iustice This is that great secrete of the Apostle Paul which hath not bene communicated to the Pope This is that which Dauid speaketh of Psal 76. that the rage of mā shal turne to the praise of God But albeit cuill actions doo turne to Gods iustice let vs not for all that be the lesse carefull to eschew them For men cease not to be culpable of the euil in their actions seeing that in the deede doing they are not moued thereto by the true zele of Gods iustice but by the deuill by sin by their concupiscences wicked desires They serue God not thinking of his seruice at al as hath bene noted of Senacherib for our selues let vs serue him in deede and in will of set purpose and not at auenture and as though we thought not of it let vs betake our hearts and hands to the mouing and guyding of his holy spirit let vs obey his word and we shall doe well Iud. 1. Whether mā may do that which is good and how let vs serue him as Iuda and not as Adonibezec The Pope teacheth vs that man of himselfe may doe that which is good Thus it sufficed him not impiouslie to abridge the power of God by the former partition he proceedeth yet to another abridgement thereof by this doctrine Whereas he affirmed before that all good actions come from God now he learneth vs that man may also doo them of himselfe But the holy Scripture teacheth vs quite contrarie that man neither can nor doeth bring any good thing to passe that he is the seruant of sinne that it is God which worketh the good that is in vs and that commeth from vs that by the sinne of Adam we haue bene made subiect to sinne that sinne and Gods curse haue so corrupted our nature that it neither knoweth nor can nor doeth any thing cls saue sinne but that God by his grace by his holy spirite geueth vnto those that are his a certaine light of vnderstanding which striueth against sinne howbeit sinne most often ouercommeth this light that God will haue it so to the end his power may be perfected in our infirmitie and that we glorifie our selues in him and his grace and not in our selues

there is no humane wit nor might which would not sooner melt and consume then be able to preserue this Realme otherwise then by obseruing that hath bene bene couenaunted and sworne Moreouer if ye be resolute to practise this doctrine ye shall make all our warres endelesse and immortall as well ciuill and domesticall for the reasons afore touched as the warres we may haue with the stranger be it the Switzer Almain Fleming English Scot Spaniard Italian or Turke for in manner all our neighbors doo differ in religion from vs and consequently heretikes or Infidels in our opinion perhaps they also esteeme vs for such Who then will treate with you concerning peace knowing this your resolution They will rather choose to miscary or make you miscary vnder the chargeable toile and daungers of warre then bee choked in the nets of your disloyaltie But how will ye excuse your selues towards God If it be euill done to promise faith to the Reformed wherefore haue yee sworne to them so solemly by actes often reiterated and by long spaces of time distinguished If ye alleage they compelled you ye can not auerre nor iustifie this compulsion yee haue alwaies bene maisters of the field of the townes and gouernments and which is to be noted the most part of the Pacifications haue bin made in their greatest weakenesse If it were impietie to agree with them yee should haue sooner suffred a thousand deaths then done it If yee say it was done to make them difarme and afterward to surprise and destroy them to th' aduancement and exaltation of your religion as many beleeue yee are abominable persons so to profane the othe which God hath ordained for a witnesse and assurance of the truth for an end of all variances for renewing of charitie offended and restablishment of peace and rest among men ye make it a bait for lying for treason and cruelty yee shall not ascend into Gods holy hill for ye sweare in deceipt The Romains in their auncient fashion of swearing and contracting alliances were wont to say ô Iupiter smite with thy lightening blast him whosoeuer in this company shall haue brought hither an intent to beguile his companion what must Pagans with more holinesse deale in a sacred oth then we Ye take not alone the name of God in vaine but ye also defile it so much as in you lieth making it the auctor and protector of your murderous disloyalties yee thinke yee may sport with mens liues by your othes it is with God with his glorious and magnificent name and with your owne saluation that yee sport it is your owne saluation that yee lose imagining to draw men on to their death make them fall on the poynt of your weapons lurking in the pit of your treasons yee draw on your owne heads the curse of God and plunge your selues head long in the fearefull dungion of darkenesse and eternall woe No euill ought to be done that good should come of it The very Paynims could say that no religion is accomplished by mischieuous wickednesse faithlesnesse is an impe of impietie impietie is directly opposite to religion then monstrous is their errour that thinke to vphold and augment religion through impietie Yee condemne the iudge that with his oth promiseth impunitie to malefactors prouided that they confesse and acknowledge the crimes they are accused of yee disanull all his processe reuerse it as erronious thus by your owne sentence yee incurre condemnation in that by othe yee haue assured rest and peace to the Reformed to the end that hauing abandoned their defences yee might afterward murther them by surprise and with more aduantage Neither can yee also pretend excuse by ignorance as not knowing the nullitie of your othes at the time ye sware for the doctrine and examples alleaged by your selues are of a date far more ancient then the troubles and Pacifications of this Realme Moreouer after your goodly fearch for that holesome doctrine to warrant you from shame and reproch vpon the breach that yee made of the former Pacifications yee haue againe notwithstanding treated and sworne peace with them manifold times that with more banning if yee brake it then euer afore But the likelihood is great that your violation of the peace comes not through religion more credible it is that your vnreconcileable enmities greedy aspiring mindes are the cause so that yee speake for God in fraud and plead for him in iniquitie yee enterprise to make the holy Scripture stoupe to the windes of your will and bende to the billowes tempests of your naughty passions yee force it to serue your commodities and fit your purposes to execute your r●uenges and satisfie your ambition and auarice Let vs see notwithstanding if the doctrine yee propose is so necessary and certaine as ye make it I graunt you and aduow it that euery oth ought not to be obserued specially when the same importes therevpon the performance of some hainous sinne and doth directly preiudice the free passage of Gods word which we all are bound to seeke but reseruing these two inconueniences aboue we may in all things els giue our faith vndoubtedly to any whosoeuer being once giuen we ought to keepe it So that when we contend not directly against Gods glory and our owne saluation faith must be obserued Now the couenants with Heretiks and Infidels by letting them liue in peace and quiet without attempting them by materiall armes do not hinder the hope of our saluation nor offend the glory commaundements of God when we are vnable to cut them of by the ordinary way and power of the magistrate easily and without trouble detriment to the Church For though it be commaunded in the law that the Heretike be cut of which importeth a more strong reason forbidding to conuerse or deale with an heretike that ought to be vnderstood when we may commodiously destroy or expell him not disturbing the Church It is more tollerable more reasonable and agreable to Gods pleasure to suffer the heretike and infidell to liue and dwell by him then to make hauock in the Church and set a way wide open to a thousand a thousand confusions impieties other mischieuous villanies which warres brings with it leaues beit namely warre Ciuill This is that which the Patriarch of Constantinople named Atticus said vpon the like occasion that we must sometimes vpon some necessitie holde vs content with that which hapneth not to our liking that we must sometimes preferre vtilitie before strict iustice sometime encline to agreement to the peace and tranquilitie of the people preferring the peace of a Realme the peace of all the world before the precise obseruation of the wordes after the example of the Apostles that wisely dispenced with occasions and circumstances Better it is then to continue the vlcer open than close it vp to the hazard of the whole bodie Better it is to strike saile in the storme than

kindlers of your choler motioners of your cōmotions I was afraide to anger you ouermuch at the beginning of my discourse I haue examined your actions as if they wholy aymed at heretiks It is time to wink no more nor to conceale my meaning the salues haue mortified the inflamation of the wound your hot cōtentious humors begin to coole and qualifie ye begin to know your malady that furie reigned in your zele among your determinations being not leueled by the word and cōmandements of God that the same zele of yours was without warrant in danger of reproose curse punishment the knowledge of your owne cuill lessening thereof should haue purchased in you an hope of recouery and extreme longing to attaine thereto by any paines what so euer Th' acknowledgement of your errors ought to haue brought withall your trust and desire of repentance and your will redie to yeeld to seuere aduertisements requisite for that end Ouerrule therefore your passionate mindes and listen to me Let vs search your wounds throughly let vs encounter your disease with medicines of true contrarietie and fight with it to the vttrance let vs proceed to the soundations of your errors and see whether they be well grounded Examine we frankly whether the Reformed be heretikes and schismatiks either one or other without pausing on formalitie or proceedings to be had against them for of such matters inough is spoken asore and therein the iudgementes of trueth are not most often found Ye mainteine that they are heretikes and schismatikes for so much as they allow not the doctrine of the Catholik Apostolik and Romane Church and will not become of the body and yeeld to the discipline of that Church They say they are of the Catholik or vniuerfall Church doe beleue in the doctrine of Iesus Christ of his Apostles and of the whole Primitiue Church and doe yeeld to the gouernment and order of the same They repute the Roman Church at this day most abhominable We will limit your controuersie and say frankly that ye suppose thē heretikes and schismatikes because they auow not the Pope and his doctrine nor will bow vnder his authoritie nor enter into his Church For it shall appeare by the conclusion of this treatise more cleerely that herein consisteth the controuersie Forbeare me a little while to discourse with you as if I were a Reformed and to declare in breefe the reasons why the Reformed will none of the Pope nor his doctrine And be not offended if now and then I vse their tearmes and manner of speech for since the question in this behalfe leadeth vs to speake for them we must speake like them The Prophesies say they were not written for nothing the holy Ghost is trueth it selfe there shall not one onely word of all that he hath endited remaine vnperformed heauen earth shall faile Mat. 24. Marke 13. Luke 21. but the words of the Lord shall not faile Now so it is that himselfe hath forewarned vs how there should happen a great oppression in the Church a seducing almost generall and an abhomination most great The same is likewise foretold by the Prophets Dan. 7. 4 Esd 11. Apo. 13.17 chiesly by Daniel Esdras and S. Iohn in his Reuelation that immediatly after the first comming of the Lord a certaine power should arise that should bruise and spoyle the Lorde Saints thinking to change the times and the law and which should reigne with great tyrannie This is that great beast which speaketh high things and blasphemies against the Lord which should maintaine battell against the faithfull and vanquish them and should seduce or misleade by words fables false miracles and fauors of this world and should with armes subdue many Nations This is that strūpet so proud in attire in precious ornaments of gold stone in painted shew in word in power full of abhomination with whō the kings dwellers vpon earth haue committed whoredome and haue made themselues drunke with the wine of her leacherous dissolutenes in her cup of abhomination Of her haue th'Apostles aduertised vs 2. Pet. 2. 2. Thes 2. 1. Iohn 2.4 Iude. chiesly S. Peter S. Paul S. Iohn and S. Iude who haue spoken so manifestly of Antichrist that they conceale nought saue the name they haue described the Apostasie or reuolt the sonne of perdition his originall the cause of his perdition his pride his power the departing his manifestation or reuealing his fal Let vs then beleeue that there hath bene and now is an Antichrist which oppresseth this long time the trueth the Church and the faithfull which hath cut of Christ and taken all from him as Daniel faith It is written by Daniel and Esdras Dan. 9.7 4. Esd 11.10 how Antichrist should spring out of the fourth Monarchie and should as it were contemne and set vp the same againe no man doubteth that the fourth Monarchie is that of Italie or Rome the dreame of Nabuchodonosor expounded by Daniel makes it vndoubted Daniel 2. The Pope was aduaunced at Rome first by Phocas the murtherer of his Prince the Emperors succeeding some of their owne will others by his cunning fetches the rest through plaine force left him Italie and the citie of Rome where he stablished his court these Emperours made themselues their Empire subiect to the Pope together withall the Kings I ords and people of Christendome he calleth himselfe neither Emperour nor King but claymeth a soueraingtie ouer Emperours and kings and this is proued by infinit histories apparant by the Bull sent from Pope Boniface to Philip the Faire as also by Pope Clements proud answere to th'Embassadours of Lewis of Bauaria the Emperour Behold the greatnes of Rome the sourth Monarchie thus renewed and replanted behold also the Prophesie Apoc. 17. that Antichrist should be set aboue kings accomplished It is written by S. Iohn and S. Peter 1. Iohn 2. 2. Pet. 2. that out of the Church Antichrist should arise that he should be a successor of th'Apostles speaking of Antichrist and his retinue they say they are gone forth from vs but they were not of vs for if they had bene of ours they would haue taried with vs. Verily if they after they haue escaped from the filthinesse of the world thorough the acknowledging of our Lord Sauior Iesus Christ are yet tangled againe therein and are ouercome their later end is worse with them than the beginning For better had it bene for them not to haue acknowledged the way of righteousnes then after they haue acknowleged it to turne from the holy commaundement giuen to them But it is come to them according to the true prouerb The dogge is returned to his owne vomit the sow that was washed to the wallowing in the myre The Pope is borne and descended of the Church and of the Apostles of the Church of Rome built by the Apostles he hath exalted himselfe in th' order and

in the holy place that all nations should band themselues against his elect that there should be warres noise of warres nation should rise against nation kingdome against kingdome the brother should deliuer his brother to death and the father the childe and children should rise against their parents and should cause them to die th'elect should be hated of all men great earth-quakes should be in many places dearth pestilence and great feare and that the seducing and tribulation should be so great that if it were possible the elect should be deceyued and except those dayes should be shortned there shall no flesh be saued such things saith he must needs be but th' end shall not be yet Dan. 7.9 Antichrist saith Daniel shall speake words against the most High and shall consume the Saincts of the most High and shall thinke that he may change times and lawes and they shal be giuen into his hand vntill a time times and the diuiding of time This is that which is written in Esdras 4. Esdras 5. that the way of truth shal be hid and the land shal be barren from faith and iniquitie shal be encreased more then thou hast seene now or hast heard in times past and all friends shall fight one against another then shall wit hide it selfe and vnderstanding depart into his secret chamber it shal be sought of many and yet not be found then shall vnrighteousnes and voluptuousnes haue the vpper hand vpon the earth one land also shall aske another and say is righteous iustice gone through thee and it shall say no at the same time shall men hope but not obtaine 4. Esd 16. they shall labour but their enterprises shall not prosper they shal be like mad men they shall spare none they shal spoile and wast such as yet feare the Lord for they then shall wast and spoile their goods and cast them out of their houses then shall the triall of my chosen appeare as the gold is tried by the fire Heare ô ye my beloued saith the Lord behold thy daies of trouble are at hand but I will deliuer you frō them be not ye afraid doubt not Apoc. 13.17.18 c. for God is your captaine This is the chiefe matter contained in th'Apocalips for there is described the great and long-continuing Reuolt of the later times how all the world shall wonder at the great Beast and worship him how this beast shall blaspheme against God how he shall allure and retaine on his side kings and peoples how he shall make warre on the Saincts and ouercome them how he shall haue power ouer all kindreds and peoples ouer all tongues and nations that this beast shall put to death them that will not worship him that he shall haue power to worke false miracles that he shall cause all both small and great rich and poore free and bond to beare his marke againe the kings and inhabitants of the earth shal kisse the great Whore that sitteth on the great Beast they shall commit fornication with her and shall be drunke with the wine of her fornication and the Marchants of the earth shal be enriched with the pompe and riot of her and of her citie of Babilon God shal put in the harts of kings to do the pleasure and will of this great Beast and to giue him their rule power vntill the word of the Lord be fulfilled The man of sinne or Antichrist saith S. Paul shall come with al power and signes and lying wonders 2. Thes 2. and in all deceiueablenes of vnrighteousnes among them that perish because they receiued not the loue of the truth that they might be saued and therefore God shall send them strong delusion that they should beleeue lies and further in that chapter he sheweth that there must be a departure from the faith before the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ and because the same departure was to happen shortly after hee warneth them that the mystery of iniquitie did then already worke He foretelleth also that in the last daies shal come perilous times 2. Tim. 3. wherin men of corrupt mindes and reprobates concerning the faith shall resist the truth but they shall preuaile no longer saith he for their madnesse shal be euident to all men and after that he saith the tyme will come 2. Tim. 4. when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine but hauing their eares itching shall after their owne lustes get them an heape of teachers and shall turne their eares from the truth and shal be giuen vnto fables It is written in S. Peter there shal be false teachers among you 2. Pet. 2. which priuely shall bring in damnable heresies euen denying the Lord 1. Iohn 2. that hath bought them and in S. Iohn as ye haue heard that Antichrist shall come euen now saith he are there many Antichrists Leaue then to demaunde how that may come to passe which ye see is come to passe and which is agreeable to mans naturall corruption to the ordinary conditiō of the Church and which must needes come to passe as the Prophecies must needes be true But iudge now if it be graunted you frō aboue whether we liue in the time of all these prophecies or no. See whether the branch of the fig-tree is tender and the leaues come forth Weigh whether ye breathe out any words but the words of men who seeke the ransome of your soules elswhere than in Christ who are not learned nor deuout but in your fansies and desires for your munkeries doctrines and deuotions are onely founded on the desire of man iudge whether ye that enioy this world at pleasure do persecute are of the crue of Antichrist or els the Reformed whom ye pill spoyle and sacke whom ye cast out of their houses whom ye chase out of the world who suffer at your hands endlesse vexation and who breathe out nothing but the word of God My children let vs do as Ezechias Iosias and other good kings of Israel did when they went about to set the Church in order they ouerskipped all mens traditions receiued and practized in the Church and searched out the word of God that lay before buried in darkenes and according to that word alone reformed the Church let vs looke back on the stone from whence we were cut of let vs bring our mother back to her former husband let vs returne together to the water of Siloe to wit Iesus Christ and his word Saint Iohn biddeth vs not to stand fast in the traditions and commaundements which we shall finde in the Church but in that which we haue heard from the beginning that which we haue heard from the beginning is the word of God Let vs hie fast and stand to it prescription of time or contrary custome cannot abate one iote of th'auctoritie trueth and power thereof it cannot deceiue vs we shall neuer want excuse before God if we rule our selues by

their naturall kings after a forrein maner Charlemaine was borne king of Fraunce he descrued and obteined th' Empire he would haue gouerned this Realme with th'Impetiall lawes and haue enclosed Fraunce within th' Empire your forefathers as Frenchmen in deede iustly ielous of their name franchise and libertie could not abide it and though he was one of the most redoubted kings that euer were yet they stood against it most freely One of my childrē stept vp boldly and vsed such speaches to th'Emperour Charlemaigne their king in the middes of his army As thou appointest vs ô sacred Mareshe we will folow thine ensignes in what part soeuer they are borne for there is no monster nor thing so fearfull that can keepe vs back Thou beganst at Rome to be Emperour of other nations but thou art borne Prince and King of the Frenchmen whose valiance I wot not with what destiny al strangers do enuie thinking our freedome to be the cause of their seruitude although that before thy reign not one onely part of the land could call it selfe free Thou hast power to giue the Hungarians a king the Greekes demaund of thee but amitie thou commaundest in all Europe for the feare that Astrike hath of thee the alliance thou hast in Asia thou holdest all the earth in peace men in safety Thou causest religion to be obserued And yet thou vndertakest one care wherewith all the world may be troubled We that are Frenchmen though we see thee so great demaund nothing of thee but to cōtinue Frēchmē as afore If thou employest vs not in thy warres we shall thinke our selues aboue all others most vnhappy infamous Why thē wilt thou that thy souldiers thy realme thy Frāce should fall into the subiectiō of th' Empire O French mē are ye bastards are ye degenerated are ye chaungelings what haue ye not one sparke left of this braue and couragious ielousie of your Ancestors is there lesse heart in you then was in the Burguinions that reiected the rule of Conrad th'Emperour for this onely cause that he was a stranger to them Frenchmen since when came ye out of kinde to become cowards and bondmen ye sell one another ye sell your selues ye sell me also Doubtlesse ye wil consume in these warres the price of my sale and with it whatsoeuer ye haue els and in th' end if your misfortune be so great as to deliuer your selues and me also to the Buyer ye must afterward repay to him that which he gaue you and whatsoeuer pouertie ye alleage yet must ye restore to him the price of my sale with excessiue vsury besides and yee must disburse all the charges Ye seeke the ruledome of straungers if ye be so wretched as to find it ye shall know what a straunger may and is woont to do in a countrie wonne by conquest he will not vnderstand your language he will not heare your complaints in fine deuouring fire to your destruction will come from him Determine to resigne the honour of gouernments iudgements to yeeld your triumphant swords and stately robes to straungers Determine to loute vnder the Lordly looke vnder the threatnings and stripes of the cruell Spaniard Beginne by times to harden your tender hands with all toyles handy-crafts and day-labour determine to deliuer all the fruicts of your lands and hands into the grype of the greedy Spaniard then to wayt without daring to open your mouth till he takes pitie on you shares you out a poore pittance to liue by Leaue to straungers the ancient seat the commodious site and stately building of your castles gotten with so great trauaile possessed with so great honour and cōtentation stored and enriched with stories armes and statues of your worthy sorefathers Dreame no longer of degree of place of nobilitie Take ye the carke and care of housekeping and leaue the profite and pleasure to them Stoupe like drudges and giue account to them like vnderlings of your day-works with trembling at their sterne lookes and enduring their maister full demeanour Abandon your faithfull feeres your deere and delicate daughters to ferue and please them in all their abhominable lusts Let your sonnes be pages and lackeyes to sterne and lord-like strangers None shal be seen within your houses castles palaces and townes within the Courts of Princes and courts of Iustice if any iustice be but strangers they will carie all the swinge and then Iacke wil be a Gentleman if he can speake Spanish Think not that the Courts Royall and those of Iustice will haue any other speech but how to keepe you vnder to vexe and torment you more and more to ouer-burden you with new taskes and tallages and though ye be fleesed and flayed yet if ye venture to come neere them to complaine ye shal be set backe with store of blowes It were a follie to hope that all these miseries yea worse then these shall not fall on your heads Such curses scourges of God ye cā not escape in cases like to these they are ordinary and vnauoidable yet further the Lord will lay his hand on you more heauily by oddes then on them which caried away through impatience alone seeke the Rule of strangers Because the hatred you beare to him and to the puritie of his word and Gospel pricks you on to runne after strangers The Lords of the houses of Loraine of Guise trim you vp this banqueting dish and lay before you this poysoned bait they are the brokers of these your miseries neuertheles ye say they beare a marueilous louing hart towards me and towards you and are honest and vertuous Beleeue me they loue you like strangers as they are that is for profit and aduancement that they hope to reape of you Their vnpacified malice their vnsatisfied auarice and gaping ambition is that which they pursue and not your cause quiet contentment and profit This is the truth of their commodities which they only seeke vnder the name visour and lying counterfeit of your cōmoditie For what are their propositions but vaine shewes and empty shadowes If they haue bene well affectioned and honestly minded towards you they haue fairely left them both whatsoeuer good affection or minde they had it gaue vp the ghost at least when this goodly enterprise of the league began If it be not permitted them from aboue to shew no other kindnesse then hitherto they haue done God saue me mine from it and graunt by his grace that the feare may issue from you and deuour them Come on let vs teach them that the noble hart of Frenchmen is not quayled nor the ielousie of their name quenched that the loue charitie zele of Frenchmen towards their countrie and Princes are not yet vanished away Let vs teach them that such a realme as this can not be sold nor payd for that that is not surely bought of some particular persons which belongeth to so many braue couragious and valiant Princes Lords and Gentlemen