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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44733	Lustra Ludovici, or, The life of the late victorious King of France, Lewis the XIII (and of his Cardinall de Richelieu) divided into seven lustres / by Iames Howell, Esq.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing H3092; ESTC R4873	198,492	210

most humble servant From the prison of the Fleet this Midsommer day 1646. HOVVELL Historiae Sacrum IMmortal Queen great Arbitresse of Time Bright torch and Herald of all-conquering Truth Which things yeers thousands pass'd kepst in their prime And so bear'st up the world in constant youth Making that Morn Man first was made of clay Appear to us as fresh as yesterday Rich Magazin of Patterns that may serve As spurs to Vertue or as curbs to Vice Which do'st brave men embalm and them conserve Longer then can Arabian gumms or spice And of their memory dost Mummy make More firm then that hot Lybia's sands do cake Rare Garden and rich Orchard wherein grow Fame's golden apples Honor's choisest flow'rs Which twistest ghirlands for the learned brow And with thy branches mak'st triumphant bow'rs Inoculat this bud on thy great Tree That it may burgeon to Eternity I. H. OF THE LATE FRENCH King and his CARDINALL The Proem I Attempt the life of a potent King with the sway of a prodigious Favorite for there are prodigies in Fortune as well as in Nature If the exploits of the one and the policies of the other were cast into counterballance I know not which of the scales would outpoise Both of them have got high seats in the Temple of Immortalitie and registred their names though in deepe sanguine characters I confesse in the great booke of Fame Concerning the first As I disdaine to be a Parasite to my owne Prince in any sordid way of flatterie much more to a forreiner though living so I shall be very carefull not to detract any thing from the honour of this great Prince who had inhaerencies enough and realities of his owne without need of any forc'd encomiums or flourishes of art to render him glorious And had the strength of naturall parts and gift of expression been answerable to the successe and bravery of his outward actions had his theoricall knowledge of vertue been equall to his ignorance of vice he had been a miracle among Monarks For the second his plenipotentiary minister had he been as active for the universall good and incolumitie of Christendome as he was for the interests and safety of his owne Countrey Or had he been of another coat and in lieu of being a Priest Bishop and Cardinal had he been Knight Baron and Marshall it had put a farre clearer lustre though with lesse noise upon his abilities which were not common And he had the opportunity and advantage to shew them upon so high and open a theatre that he made the whole Europaean world his Spectator Indeed a sword hangs not handsomly by a Churchmans side and a morrion upon a mitre shewes ill-favouredly But me thinks I heare this martiall Prelate passe it over as Pope Iulius the second did upon like occasion who having had a long feud with the Emperour Frederick against whom he had fought twelve battels and being one day gently admonish'd by the Archbishop of Ostia who had consecrated him and whose peculiar jurisdiction it is to consecrate all Popes how S. Peter his first predecessor was commanded to put up his sword T' is true said Iulius Our Saviour gave the prime Apostle such a command but t' was after he had given the blow and cut off Malchus eare So this adventrous Cardinall got out his Masters sword to cut off the excrescencies and to loppe the luxuriant boughes of that broad-spreading Austrian Tree fearing they would extend and shoot out into France As also to clip the wings of the Imperiall Eagle who was in a faire way to recover some of his old feathers I meane those Hansiatick and other free Townes in Germanie who had emancipated themselves time out of minde for money and by other meanes from the Empire But having not finish'd the worke Both of them have left the weapon still unsheath'd and dropping pittifully with Christian blood and Heaven onely knowes when it will be put up againe Now to proceede more regularly in my intended storie I will begin with the Monarch and then fall upon the Minister it being consentaneous to reason and congruous to good manners that the Master should have prioritie of the Servant though I am not ignorant how some mercenary Chroniclers would hoise the Cap above the Crowne They seeme to attribute the successe and glorie of things more to the Minister praising him with greater industry and heat They would cut his name in marble and his Masters but in freestone By a new Astronomy they make such a Constellation of him as should give a greater lustre in the French firmament then the Sunne from whence he had deriv'd all his light Others goe further and seeme to idolatrize him by calling him the good Genius and tutelar Angel of his Countrey and that he was as necessarie for the government of France as God Almighty was for the universe Nay some soare higher and by monstrous parasiticall reaches of prophanenes would make the world believe that the Almightie had imparted unto him some of his own peculiar attributes as to make him omniscious cardiognostick and to worke without the concurrence of second causes which made one futilous pamphleter fall into an egregious bull while scruing up his wit to hoise him aloft he call'd Him the person in the Trinitie Such Scriblers as these are a more sordide sort of Flatterers then those we read of who lick'd up Dionysius his spittle and in my judgement are a scandall to the noble French nation besides they rather eclipse then illustrate his worth for his very enemies confesse that his merit had matter enough for modestie her selfe to work upon without such ridiculous hyperbolies and forc'd transcendencies For Vertue whereof there shin'd in him many eminent pieces is of her selfe so amiable and powerfull that shee attracts all eyes upon her and extorts praise and admiration from foe as well as friend The truth is that all those yeares this great minister sate at the helm may be term'd a time of miracles by that prodigious course of constant successe matters had abroad and at home as if he had struck a nail in Fortunes wheele that shee should not turne all the while Yet let me tell you there wanted not those that writ as satyrically of him as others did sycophantically as will appeare in his life for though his habit was in grain yet there were many foul spots cast upon it insomuch that the Spaniard with other nations thought it would never be fit to make reliques of because it was so deeply drencht in blood Nay some of his owne Countreymen specially the poore face-grounded Peasan doe much doubt whether he that was so much deified upon earth will ever be a Saint in Heaven But now to the maine designe the life of Lewis the thirteenth and to take him in all his proportions we will go first to his cradle and begin with his nativitie and Dauphinage Then we will on to his minoritie or bassage and thence to