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A07765	A letter written by a French Catholike gentleman, to the maisters at Sorbonne. Concerning the late victories obtained by the king of Nauarre, aswell against the Duke of Ioyeuse at Coutras vpon Tuesday the twentieth of October, 1587. as els where	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.	1588 (1588)	STC 18144; ESTC S107518	29,846	82

winde of religion albeit some of the princes of his blood do professe no other then himselfe also that they which professe anie other are so affectionate to his seruice and the seruice of his crowne that they would not haue béene anie whit more slacke in effect then in will Had there not béen more apparance that hée should haue ioined with these thē with the leaguers that is with his friends then with his enemies with the French then with the Lorrains with his own blood then with these bastardes with the true Officers of his Crowne then with those that haue béen so vndutifull to him The Romans alwaies appeased their domesticall quarrels to agrée against those that assailed them whether the Gaules the Thuscans or the Carthaginians The like did the Spaniards when the late king Frances the first during their reuolt from the Emperour Charles the fift gat from them the realme of Nauarre The discent of the English at Newhauen 1562. bred the reunion of the Frenchmen so to returne them away and when wée haue séene these monsters of Lorrain waste our country must we néeds ioyne with them to help to destroy our selues what is become of that auncient French vertue that was woont to goe to fight with the enemy at his owne doore where now we call him in wee nourish him we flatter him and the more harme hée dooth vs the more we binde our selues to him This nation which heretofore hath triumphed ouer the Emperours the Solimans the Sarasins the Gothes and the Normans hath not now béene able to withstand a handfull of Guizards and this scepter exalted ouer a million of trophees stoopeth to these rebels yea they haue almost trod it vnder foote All the honor of valiancy and courage which our predecessors haue in twelue hundreth yeares atchieued and kept haue wee wretchedly lost in one houre and these Lions that feared no bulles are now terrefied only with the crowing of a Cocke Our estate doo I now compare to the Rocke mentioned by Pliny which if ye thrust with your whole bodie neuer shaketh but when you touch it onely with one finger or rather to that stone which being whole fléeteth vpon the water but broken sinketh The whole world as a man shuld say was not able to make France to shake and now these Mushromes doe quite ouerthrow it We altogither haue fléeted vpon the floodes of infinit forrein warres yet our diuisions doo drowne vs. This miserable realme séemeth to be growne to her last periode and as that auncient Astrologer by the noyse weules that did gnaw the posts iudged of the destructiō of the house wherein he was so many wee boldly say that sith these vermine still consumeth vs our fall is at hand What then must the French men become strangers one to an other can we finde any soules so disloiall as to abandon the true stock of S. Lewes to embrace these wrongfull vsurpers of their right Those that haue béen our true and lawfull Lordes these thrée hundreth and sixtie yeares for so long is it since the raigne of S. Lewes head of that race who also gathereth his discent from Merouee to those whom we haue not knowne these fiftie yeares shall we carry vpon our Targets shoulders those whose vnworthinesse and vniustice should make to cleane to the earth shall wee plucke away these braue branches of the Flowerdeluce which yet remaine to graft in their places these wildings who as they haue begun will yéeld foorth nothing but thornes Oh who can wish this horrible chaunge This onelie reason might mooue vs to detest the ambition of these busie bodies they aspire to the Crowne but they cannot haue it without murther and the death of a million of men those that vphold it are like to be the first that must stoope and they that imagine by their meanes to get preferment shall haue peraduenture no other recompence then the losse of their liues To be briefe for the fulfilling of their ambition we must heape vp our tombes with carkases the heapes of their oppressed partakers are the staies whereby they climbe vp to heauen Ought wee not to abhorre these cruelties to spit in the faces of these shamelesse persons that bereaue vs of our libertie To honor those that may peaceably and without disorder ascend vnto the type of that authoritie which the lawes of the realme their desert haue purchased for them Let vs hardlie touch the chiefe string of this game and sith these men are not ashamed to doe let not vs be ashamed to speake The Guizardes would to the preiudice of the house of Burbon inuade this realme euerie man knoweth it neither is there any thing so common in the peoples mouthes wherefore because the king of Nauarre who is the néerest and the Prince of Conde doo professe the reformed religion and so cōsequently are are heretikes I am sory that I am no great Doctor that I might finde out this point of heresie which so oft is cast in their téeth but in my mind the chief disputations of these reformed doo tend only to make the simple word of God of more force then mens traditions That is it whereto they call vs and I belieue they haue great reason neither that wee are so sufficiently shrowded vnder the cloake of the Church as to thinke that the beautifull title can in effect stop all errors neither is there any thing so easie to corrupt as the mysteries of religion whereof I report my selfe to Noa hes family which was so holily instructed and yet whence grew all the Idolatrie of the Chaldeans and consequently of all the rest of the worlde except those whom God reserued for his people yea I referre my selfe to the same people was there euer thing so fraile as those wretches whence then came the foure hundreth false Prophets against one onely Micheas the worshipping in the high places and the abhominable superstitions wherein these libertines did ouerflow neither was it euer otherwise but that the trueth vpon the beginning of the light thereof hath had the darknesse of lying opposite thereto yea if I durst be so bolde as to passe common spéech it is the trueth that of necessitie bringeth forth lyes euen as light bringeth forth a shadow For this cause so soone as Jesus Christ reuealed him selfe to be the sonne of God al men accounted him a blasphemer and the whole course of his life séemed to those blinde people but a merrie enterlude so soone as the Apostles had preached the pure doctrine the diuel sowed his impurities yea no man driue them more out of the Church then they that named them selues the Church Simon the magitian opposed himselfe against S. Peter Cerinthus against S. Iohn and so consequently sundrie heretikes against the Church as Ebion Basilides Marcion Montanus Carparates Sabellicus and many other who all for the most part endeuored to ouerthrow the ground of our saluation Iesus Christ neither hath the Church wanted exercise onely