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A06875	Epithalamium Gallo-Britannicum or, Great-Britaines, Frances, and the most parts of Europes vnspeakable ioy, for the most happy vnion, and blessed contract of the high and mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Lady Henrette Maria, daughter to Henry the fourth, sirnamed the Great, late King of the French and Nauarre, and sister to Levvis the thirteenth: now king of the said dominions. Manifesting the royall ancestors and famous progenitors of the mighty Prince Charles, and the most illustrious princesse, the Lady Henrette, explaining the sweete interchanges of mariages, as haue beene betweene France and Great Britaine. ...	Marcelline, George.	1625 (1625)	STC 17308; ESTC S111979	61,352	158

a Den of theeues for when the Body fasteth the Soule feasteth and the earthly members being mortified the faculties of the Soule doe grow more liuely and powerfull Thus being Master of his owne lusts Hee scornes to be a seruant to his substance but at his pleasure can part from it and turne it out of his seruice yet neuer but vpon a iust occasion for that were to haue too little and light respect of his seruant being a meere prodigalitie but when Hee seeth it requisite for the reward of Vertue or the maintenance of Honour to part from it the Sunne is not more liberall of his light at high noone-day than He of his meanes for Hee loues not money like your couetous man whose eyes are out and he can neuer see when he hath sufficient who like a Danaïdum dolium is neuer fill'd or satisfied but onely for necessitie like a wife Mariner prouiding in a calme against the comming of a storme and in the sunne-shine of peace preparing to welcome the turbulent tempestuous time of warre And for his wisdome as who should say it were likely Hee should bee in nothing vnlike to his father He outrunneth his age and leaueth all those of his yeeres behinde Him in knowledge for Hee sitteth in counsell like a sage Senatour and a Law-making Lycurgus that it seemeth a wonder but wonders are no wonders in a wondrous subiect how in the blossome of his yeeres He should haue such ripenesse and maturitie of Iudgement and in his greene youth bee such a graue Counsellour For did not his Gracious Highnesse in the last Parliament not only in appearance but in truth so well prouide for the safetie and securitie both of his Friends and Countrey that Hee was generally applauded both of Counsellours and Commons as being the most wise and watchfull Prince for the welfare of his people First shewing his ardent zeale to Gods Glorie and Religion to make wholsome salutiferous Lawes for the suppressing of the Sowers of Sedition and the Interminglers of the tares of their owne inuentions amongst the pure graine of Gods Word And thus hauing exprest his loue to God aboue all vnder God He prouides for his Peoples prosperitie enacts Lawes as Antidotes against former exactions so customarily and vnconscionably practised in this our Common-wealth as if He were soly and wholly happie in making his people fortunate and in easing them of the heauie burthens of oppression imposed vpon them bound vpon their backs and laid vpon their shoulders And indeed there neuer was Prince in Christendome more commended by mortall men in speeches or commended to the immortall God in prayers than is our mightie inuict Prince whose worth is such that if I should liue to the age of Nestor and in the whole course of my life doe nought but praise Him praise Him in nothing but that which He is worthie of vtter his worth compendiously yet my pen would still bee a debter to his deserts for He is not like the vulgar sort as the vulgar Prouerbe tels vs Constant in nothing but inconstancie but his minde once fixed on a worthie obiect is like a Starre which moueth not out of her orbe but is euer the same in her motion The little shrubs are shaken with eueric little puffe of winde but the stately Cedar which is firmely rooted and fastned in the ground as it is more noble so it is more stable Many Feathers and Weather-cocks in our daies who are not resolute in any determinations or determinate in any resolution doe in an instant loathe that which they haue loued but our Prince as He doth not lightly settle affection so He will not easily remoue it for He deemes the one a defect of wisdome the other an excesse of wauering and an ouer-plus of inconstancie Therefore Hee being alwayes balanced and counterpoysed with due premeditation in affecting cannot be induced in an instant to relinquish and distaste that which Hee affecteth Then hath not France great reason and cause of ioy and exultation who hath found out such a Mate for their incomparable Princesse who is one which hath stoutnesse and courage of minde ioyned to the strength of his bodie wisdome accompanying his valour vertue his soule who is a Prince as well in worth as birth excelling in bountie and beautie and in all his actions obseruing the golden meane who is constant in his loue firme in his resolutions whose worth few can conceiue no man vtter all men may admire the descent of whose bloud doth ennoble his birth the excellencie of whose birth doth enthronize and dignifie his vertues whose vertues as I may so say doe almost Deifie his Soule the inestimable price of whose Soule doth adorne his bodie by inhabiting in it the rare temper of whose bodie doth blesse his soule by being the Mansion-place of it And thus Hee which hath all vertues is to be all Hers and that Princesse to bee blest with the admirable constitution of his bodie and the incomparable condition of his minde Had his body been of vnequall vnproportionable mixture by the elements the soule might haue loathed such a muddie building would soone haue forsaken her habitation or hath the minde beene corrupt and filthie it would soone haue ruinated the rare bodie in regard it would haue employed it to such ryotous ruinous courses as it would soone haue produced her ouerthrow and demolisht this mortall Edifice of Nature by which meanes and likelyhood the shortnesse of the Princes life might haue made an abridgement of her happinesse and haue cut short the continuance of her ioyes but Nature hath so tempered and framed Him of such an equall proportion of heat and moysture that the excessiue heat of the one doth not threaten a Combustion nor the abundance of the other a Deluge but for his complexion Hee may bee another Methuselah and She most superlatiue of her Sex in all felicitie in the possession of so louing a Husband so long a time as He is like to inioy this vital transitorie vncertaine breath Had He beene like a Rose or a Flower De-luce which though they bee faire things yet they are of short continuance for the one is no sooner blowne but it sheddeth the other fadeth in the bud her ioy might haue found sorrow in the fear of the losse of her Ioy but He alreadie is growne to ripenesse and we hope as may be coniectured both by the temper of his bodie temperance of his minde is not onely pleasing to the eye but is also likely to be a lasting fruit It is the office of an husband to liue with his wife as a man of knowledge and what Prince wiser than his Highnesse who squares out all his actions according to the Rule of Gods Word who is so verst in each verse of Scripture so well read in Diuinitie as Hee is not onely a Prince to command but for his learning might be a Priest to enstruct his people Feare not then oh renowned France

fauourer of all good and worthy proceedings by which your name is embalmed with fame and your memory will bee immortall Not doubting therefore but you will grace this worke with milde acceptance though not for the manner of writing yet the matter written of in it I cease to trouble you but alwaies rest an humble suiter to your grace for acceptance and to God for the continuance of your happinesse in the present and your increase of it in the future that you may bee blessed internally externally and eternally and that the highest would multiplie all temporall and spirituall graces vpon your Grace Your humbly deuoted George Marceline To the Reader GEntle Reader I hope I shall not miscall thee the ioy conceiued by mee for this contract the loue to my Country the zealous affection I beare to the vertues of our hopefull Prince and his happy Princesse haue ioyntly enforced mee to vndertake this Enterprize in the which though many calumniating censures may blame my Pen yet they must honour the Persons handled in it in the blazing of whose perfections if they tax me with flattery they brand themselues with follie and an ill affection to their King Prince and Countrey and manifest themselues either to haue their eares stopt and their eyes blinded or their Iudgements defectiue for they ought to account it their chiefest honour to honour if it bee possible to adde honour to their names whose vertues honour themselues more than lieth in the power of any Pen to honour them their soueraigne and his onely Sonne and our onely hope But sure I am that multitudes will loue and honour this worke if it be onely for the Subiects handled in it the loue of whose worth may claime an obseruant looke on these my labours in which are shewed the fortunate consequences likely to ensue vpon this contract which are the destruction of the Foes of Christ and the Enemies of Christians the tranquillity of the Truth the Peace of the Church the prosperity of all people which sheweth though in an Epitome the vertues of thy King the Happinesse of the Father in the enioying of such a ioyous Sonne as the mighty Prince Charles whose names offer not so much as to reade without a true loue ioynd with a trembling feare for it is they by whose meanes thou dost enioy thy meanes vpon whose life dependeth thy welfare rather therefore shew thy wisedome in silence for if thou termest me a Parasite thou prouest thy selfe a Parrat which speakest Epithalamium Gallo-Britannicum OR GREAT BRITTAINES And FRANCES Joy THE Felicitie of a Kingdome is placed in the Prosperitie of the Prince and the welfare of a Prince either made or mangled in his Matching But neuer was Kingdome more happie in a Prince neuer Prince more fortunate in his Choyce than the Treasure and Store-house of our hopes the Summe and Substance of our future blisse the high and mightie Prince Charles in obtaining this Princesse who vnparalell'd for perfections both externall of her bodie and internall of her minde stands as a matchlesse Mirrour to all her Sex if not to be adored yet at the least admired hath made a Contract between three Kingdomes and happinesse which were a long time diuorced from it being like the house of Abraham troubled vntill their Isaak had found out a Rebecca Oh Peerelesse Prince fortunate beyond the imagination of mans minde then surely more transcending the limits of my pens relation could you but pry into the hearts of millions of people you should see all the veines streets of those Metropolitan Cities of those little worlds swell'd and full with ioy who formerly found no tranquillitie of minde though in the peace of the State because your Royall Selfe had not found out a Second Selfe whereby their posteritie might shroud and refresh themselues hereafter vnder the shadow of your Branches and that from your Issue fountaines of fortunate ioy might flow to succeeding ages How many Kingdomes doe bathe themselues in the sunne-shine of solace and finde more than earthly happinesse in those resplendent beames which shine from this blessed Contract conceiuing no leffe ioy in your relinquishing of the Ladie Maria of Spaine and matching and vniting your Soule which is the Court of the Highest and King of Kings the Temple of the Holy Ghost vnto the heart of that vnparalell'd Princesse the Ladie Henrette Maria of France which is a rich Cabinet fill'd with the Gemms and vnualuable Iewels of morall vertues and diuine graces If it please your hopefull Highnesse to retire a little from home and to cast an eye of consideration vpon France there may be seene such an infinite ineffable measure of mirth and an incomparable treasure of true ioy found by them in this Coniunction and from the highest to the lowest from the Peere to the poore nothing but applause and triumph For can they chuse but reioyce to see that Vertues Paramour and Darling of Venus whose vertue ennobleth her birth whose birth doth make her vertues eminent whose countenance and whose conditions doe mutually grace and adome each other so worthily bestowed and their perfectly accomplisht Princesse vnited to so glorious so gracious a Head as who is the Ioy of his Friends the Terrour of his Enemies the Comfort and Hope of his Country the Patterne of Princes the Admiration of the world the mightie Prince Charles For what Countrey could haue beene the Emissarie of such a Prince or what Prince the Possessour of such a Countrey as Great Brittaine of Charles or Charles of Great Brittaine the which as Hee is blest with all graces so it aboundeth with all blessings that He might be happie in it and it fortunate in Him that as He blesseth that with peace so it might satisfie Him with plenty Had she forsaken a fat fruitfull soile to come into a barren Countrey it might somewhat haue impaired her happinesse and beene a wound to her welfare but this is a Paradise of pleasure a Land like Canaan flowing with milke and honie Had she found such a fertile Kingdome destitute of so royall a Prince shee could not haue had so much ioy in the one without enioying the other if the ring be void of a precious stone it is not so much esteemed neither hath a Diamond set in lead such store of luster But our Prince seated and planted in such a pleasant place is like a Diamond set in Gold the one of which makes the other of more estimation Oh fortunate France if thou doest not vndervalue thy happinesse that art linked in the bond of amitie with faire Albion whose climate is temperate whose aire serene and cleare here is not heat so excessiuely parching in Summer but that any constitution may endure it nor the cold so piercing in Winter but that the most tender may withstand it How many Crystall fountaines and running streames bee there like so many veines in this bodie of our Kingdome and to the intent that none of the elements might be defectiue

loue their Soueraigne Haply indeed afore they were acquainted with his vertues and the light of his royall worth shined amongst them they might attempt some thing vnworthie of themselues nay base in the highest degree as to be the death of Him which gaue life to so many and with the pulling downe of the Primus Motor ruine all the inferiour orbes of our Kingdome but when they saw that his vertues made God his Friend it was in vaine for them to bee his enemies for all their treacherous attempts were but as sowing the shoare or washing a Blackmoore labour in vaine It is folly for Balaam to curse Israel when God blesseth him and for them to ruine when God preserueth in so much as now his gouernment pleaseth the Romish Catholiques whom formerly their palates distasted and all our Nobles if their bad consciences doe not infringe that title doe honour Him and beare a most affectionate respect to all his Posteritie especially our royall Prince whom all our Nobles labour in all their actions to please and imitate Oh blessed Kingdome where the Nobilitie doth so affect the Prince and the Prince doth so much respect the Nobilite and both of them are in loue with vertue where the Peeres are so peerelesse in their courtesie loue to their Kingdome and loyaltie to their King who are neuer more happie than when they vndertake some enterprise for the happinesse of both who are not seruants to seruile feare but Master-peeces of valour so that they are as much feared abroad as fauoured and honoured at home and how can they want honour so long as our King and Prince to whom true honour is due honour them Or haply if they should as they neuer doe neglect to respect them yet then owne vertues would in silence speake them worthie who are so wisely valiant that they will not refuse to hazard their liues for the safetie of their Countrey their estate for the preseruation of a limbe nor the cutting off of a limbe for the welfare of the whole bodie who though they can actiuely suffer prines to preuent other dangers which would passiuely fall vpon them yet they will not submit themselues to any base kinde of miserie No surely they know valour is vertue and vertue hath euer more her limits and therefore as the Eagle preyeth not vpon flies so they which are nobly bred and haue their great birth seconded with good education scorne to aime at atchieuements of small import but shoot at high marks of great consequence Some of them valiantly defend the walls as I may so terme them of their Countrey lest their enemies too neere approach might make their Countrey too neere a ruine Others like Hercules doe not sticke to forsake their natiue soile their wiues their children their lands and their possessions to seeke for honour in a foraigne Countrey and restore the wronged to their right to reuenge a Prince great in his vertues though meane in his fortunes his fortunes not so meane by birth but by oppression oppression of a Tyrant vsurping his Dominions Dominions the which I cannot name nay not so much as thinke on but it forceth brinish teares forced and banisht from a grieued heart to see Religion so defaced a Countrey so dispeopled the people so massacred and murdred Then on braue Brittaines Heroes runne in your intended course and being prickt on with valour continue vntill you come to your iournies end that so future ages may erect Trophees to the eternall memories of your famous names that children yet vnborne may say These were the Worthies by whose meanes a desolate Countrey was repeopled a wronged Prince releeued an oppressing Tyrant discomfited Consider oh yee truly ennobled the cause of the war the iustnesse of the cause the vertue of the Prince the rare perfections of his Spouse the hopefulnesse of their Issue the neere affinitie they haue with your Soueraigne being deriued and propagated from his loines the consanguinitie with your Prince and surely these motiues cannot chuse but inflame you with courage and accend your furie to make you fight valiantly and conquer victoriously the enemies of him who is a fauourer and follower of your true religion a Sonne to your Soueraigne a Brother to your Prince a friend to you all But alasse what a needlesse thing it is to cast a drop into the Ocean or to adde a sparke to the fierie region My words are but as wind to blow the fire which is sufficiently kindled for I and all this Realme and Dominion with me are verily and really perswaded that your valour is at so high a pitch it cannot bee raised higher such be our Nobles and therefore fit obiects for such a Princesse who thogh her sex will not permit her to be an actor yet her noble minde doth incite her and no doubt shee cannot chuse but delight to see her Court composed of nothing but such vndaunted and couragious Captaines who though they bee most affable courteous in Court yet they are most terrible couragious in combat I doubt not but it is a delectable spectacle to see your braue Martiallists as Caesar Pompey Alexander and such like though painted that not vnto the life for time hath wasted and worne out the true pictures of them But in these your Nobles most illustrious Princesse you may see them all liuing for if vertue can make one like there is none suruiuing hath a neerer resemblance to them than your noble Seruants and obseruant Nobles haue of them Is it the care of their Countrey which wee should make the subiect of our comparison the Publique good hath beene respected of them more than their priuate commoditie They know they are not borne to themselues onely but to the benefit of the place in which they haue had birth and being This is their resolution in generall but giue me leaue As the whole Kingdom is bound by dutie and gratitude to nominate some particulars as he who is the Fauourite of God his King Prince and Countrey the Duke of Buckingham who is not so stiled vnworthily for hee doth truely deserue it Hath he not beene loyall to our Soueraigne And wheras other subiects which haue beene though neuer thus aduanced haue sought to flie too high vpon the waxen wings of ambition higher than either modestie or his Maiestie permitted hee neuer rose higher than it pleased the King to lift him so that he hath gained more honour by his honestie and vertue than the King could giue him by his meanes for goods may bee giuen by an earthly Soueraigne but grace is an effect of a higher power comming immediately from God the King might preferre him but it was God onely could make him humble in his performances the which hee hath alwaies beene shewing no lesse loyall affection to the King than louing affection to his kinred But looke into his loue which hee beareth to our Prince and you shall finde him to be as a faithfull Ionathan vnto our

Hee is her God for pitie whose will is not frustrate for want of power nor his abilitie vnexercised for want of will but being omnipotent He is omniuolent to helpe Her in all her necessities It is He which hath commanded Her to call vpon Him which hath promised to heare and to helpe Her and surely She will not forsake the fountaine of liuing water to seeke the puddles which were digged by humane inuentions which are as drie as the barren Arabian Desert in which is no comfort Neither is it to be despaired of that She will vnderstand that each Christian soule hath its purgatorie in this life for he runneth thorow a world of miseries and afflictions that his soule is purged and cleansed by the bloud of Christ from all our sinnes that our Sauiour Christ maketh mention but of two waves the straight and narrow leading to euerlasting blisse the other broad bringing vs to the pit of destruction and if there bee but two wayes there be but two homes to wit Diues his infernall and Lazarus his resting place Abrahams bosome It may be indeed some Deuill in the shape of an Angell of light may perswade Her of a third place alledging Scripture wrested from the proper sense for their positions viz. that of St. Peter Christ hath once suffered for our sinnes the Iust for the vniust that He might bring vs to God and was put to death concerning the flesh but quickned in the Spirit by the which Spirit He went and preached vnto the spirits which are in prison which were sometimes disobedient in the dayes of Noah while the Arke was preparing wherein few that is eight soules were saued in the water But how can they from hence proue Purgatorie for was not Christs Spirit from the beginning Hath not his Spirit from the beginning beene in the mouths of his Ministers Prophets and Preachers And is not Noah in the second Chapter of the next Epistle termed a Pracher of righteousnesse Did not also Noah preach faithfully to that incredulous and impious people which stopt their eares would not bee reformed Therefore the Text saith were then drowned and are now in prison and without Gods Spirit did preach vnto them as it doth now by his Ministers There is also great hope that She will be won neither to feare the Popes Bull or esteeme his pardons for who can forgiue the offence but he which is offended Can the Subiect remit any fault committed against the Soueraigne We know Gods Ministers haue a great prerogatiue and that whatsoeuer they binde or loose on earth shall be bound or loosed in Heauen and wee reade that Balaams blessing was of great estimation yet Balaam must haue a care not to blesse those whom God curseth nor to curse those whom God blesseth for then it is in vaine and shall light vpon his owne head Neither hath the Pope or any Priest power to absolue any absolutely but only such as God doth pardon and conditionally vpon faith and repentance I doe confesse that sinnes vnconfessed are as winde in the earth the which if not vented will cause an earthquake in the conscience and it is a great ease to acknowledge our sinnes to Gods Minister and absolution from his lips is as a kinde of confirmation and seale of the pardon of them in regard he is Gods Angell for so God termes the Ministers of the seuen Churches in the Reuelation they are his Messengers and Embassadours sent vnto mortalls to bring vnto them glad tydings of peace and to preach unto them remission of sinnes but when his pardon fals where there is no penetecie his absolution on a soule which is not broken and on an vncontrite heart it is like drops of raine and timely showers distilled vpon a slintie rocke the which in regard it is denied entrance it makes no abode vpon it for is any man so mad to thinke his sinnes to be forgiuen which is giuen ouer to worke vncleannesse Or any man to beleeue that he is a holy vessell when hee is filled with the dregs of Satan and his owne corruptions Is any man so mad to thinke his sinnes are pardoned when hee hath not wept for those sinnes which hee hath committed and doth still commit sinnes and that willingly which he ought to weepe for And therefore She will be and is truely penitent that She may be truely absolued She is abstinent that She might be continent and temperate that She might not be brought or wrought vnto vnchastitie And me thinkes She speakes to our Prince as the Church to Christ in the Canticles Draw me and I will follow after thee such is her conscience For looke into her education for her cariage and you shall see that Shee is enstructed in all manner of courtly and courteous behauiour carying Herselfe humbly to her inferiors yet honourably amongst her equals that her ouerstately cariage to the one might not make them deiected nor her too much submissiue behauiour to the other make them too high conceited for as her excellencies put all pride out of her countenance so She is not voyd of pride by being ignorant of her excellencies but by making all her excellencies voyd of pride and howsoeuer Nature hath so framed her heauenly lights that there appeares a Parisetene when her eyes be open yet the two more shining guests of meeknesse and Maiestie like two good Inhabitants beautifie and adorne that lodging And howsoeuer her breath is more sweet than gentle Zephyrus creeping vpon the bosome of Flora yet the sweet delightfull Philomels staying tunes caried in that breath are more pleasing And as Grace hath taught Her to rule the passions of her minde so Art hath enstrustructed Her to rule the parts of her bodie and like a well-framed Engine each part obserues the due and true motion Indeed what can be that is worthie in a Princesse which is not in Her What rarenesse of education and behauiour either for the captiuating or the keeping a Princes affections for though indeed vertue is the greatest beautie yet had She nothing but her beautie yet no mortall whose ambitious eye durst soare at so high an obiect could consider of it but hee must confesse nor confesse but admire nor admire but loue so rare perfections as are pourtrayed in her beautifull countenance and amiable proportion A creature so faire as except Fame it selfe will be infamous it dares not stile any fairer and that which makes an addition to her fairenesse is that her beautifull bodie is but the cloathing of a more beautifull minde a minde fraught and full of wit more readie to censure than to shew it selfe her words being as rare as precious who is silent but not sullen modest without affectation shamefaste without ignorance whose eyes are like the palaces of Cupid and yet sets reason vpon the desires of all the beholders and teacheth the spectatours chastitie whose face being the true frontispice of her minde is the seat of sweetnesse and