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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01145	A caueat for France, vpon the present euils that it now suffereth Together with the remedies necessarie for the same. Translated out of French into English by E. Aggas.	Aggas, Edward.	1588 (1588)	STC 11259; ESTC S122364	21,115	30

hundred townes more which their best armies durst not once looke vpon would yeeld thereto Thus was al broken off and note in the inequalitie of the persons and causes the arsiuersie inequalitie of the proceedings that which ought to haue set forward this negotiation was the cause to breake it off For they of the league who feare nothing so much as a peace feared also the shadow thereof and indeede to the ende to trouble it the shuffeled they cardes anew they procured the seising vpon some strong holdes in Picardie missed of others places free from suspition especially farre from religion yea by practises they attempted against the kings person and life matters knowne both to their maiesties and all others whervpon the Queene founded an argument to returne to his maiestie to preuent it and so did the negotiation resolue vpon nothing for feare of displeasing them whereas truely it had been the meanes to reunite al France into one to ioyne togither againe all the blood against the common enimie of this estate and to giue the abused euidentlie to weet that there was no longer question of religion and that these men had bewrayed themselues in seising vppon the Catholike townes and in opposing themselues against the king at that verie instant when by their suggestion he warred most sharply vpon the Protestants Thus to the ende againe to restore those of the league to the countrie was the whole treatie of peace begunne with the king of Nauarre set aside albeit the Queene had promised to sende passeports for the safetie of the deputies whom the saide king purposed to send for assistantes of that treatie whereof we haue neuer since heard any speech What then must we will you say to the ende to obtaine peace tollerate that religion I would to God we were well so and that we had no other matter then that to decide We shall like wel enough that the Pope for a miserable gaine shal suffer the Iewes freely in Rome and yet be tearmed Most holie That the king of Spaine to the end to be at rest with his Hollanders by expresse treatie shall not only graunt them their religion throughout their countrie but also abolish his own and yet be neuerthelesse Catholike And yet our king must forfeit his name of Most Christian because he suffereth the Christians that beleeue the same scriptures and beleefes that he doth he may not forbeare vntill the decision of a councell in consideration of the Princes of his bloud who offer thereby to bee instructed and taught in consideration of so many thousandes of soules that haue tryed both fire and sworde and that so manie yeares not for the obteyning of some I wot not what gaine but for the redeeming of a totall losse neither for the sauing of some corner of an estate farre off but for the warranting of al his owne realme from vtter and ineuitable ruine yea to be briefe euen all that he is and all that he hath And while wee dispute and play the Sophisters about the difference betweene a knights fee and a simple tenure or betweene the suburbes the citie and the shire towne wee perceiue not like doltes as we are that al retayneth into one by the confusion of the nobilitie fallen into villenage the townes and suburbes into heapes of destruction and this estate if wee prouide not betimes into peeces Let vs not flatter our selues in the state of our France wee I say who doo peraduenture corrupt our selues in her and with her can not well perceiue her diminution to be such as it is so as if we had taken a nappe of fiue and twentie yeares long at our waking wee should knowe neither her nor our selues The manners dissolued and neere to a Gangrene the lawes no lesse venall than the offices the consciences more than the benefites the riches which aforetime haue beene a good state of the bodie brought into a small number and that by bad wayes tumours properly against nature and verie plagues to the bodie The forces a token of weakenesse our fathers regimentes thirtie yeares ago stronger than our armies and their companies then our regiments their capteines more presumpteous at their first issue out of their pageship then their fathers after three battailes moreouer no respect either to labour either to desert or to yeares neither to degrees of either honour or nature no more reuerence to the name of God loue to the Prince or dutie to the countrie These are now the diseases sufficiently discerned in our estate but who is he that careth for it So farre is euerie one from setting to his hande earnestly but euerie mans delight is priuately to discourse that the state is sicke that it falleth into decay that he must looke to his affaires euerie man I say with his handes in his bosome standeth gasing vpon the shipwrecke giueth ouer his worke looketh to cast aside some coffer or table for himselfe and thence thinke vpon our hereditarie gouernments one of a castle an other of a towne an other of a whole prouince The small wasters do march vnder the great and the great for the atteyning to their purpose doe league themselues vnder one head O miserable estate O miserable king when his owne either citizens or subiectes in lieu of dying for him will abandon O miserable both citizens and subiects that build your greatnesse vpon their destruction a destruction vndoubted and who can warrant you from it that will oppresse you all vnder it selfe Weene not that euer you who vppon a rage rather then by discourse doo wish for it shall euer bee able to haue anie ioy of it The vapours of your ambition doo ingender those dreames in you kingdomes and mightie estates according to the proportion of their greatnesse haue also their periods long whereto mans age cannot reach Their crises or iudgments are not gathered vpon odde daies as ours are for their sharpest diseases doo outlast our whole dayes After the phisitions haue giuen them ouer they burie them yea before themselues doo they burie those that are the causers of their death with all their ambition vanitie and glorie Marius and Cesar are downe but the senate was at iarre long time after and the common wealth which they had wounded did still pant These changes are whole worlds The fathers do die by the way The sonnes after infinite calamities staie at the borders yea the childrens children when they weene to haue woone all they are readie to be beaten from all according to the prouerbe To be at rest you thinke peraduenture that the vtter extinguishing of our race may breed your peace and yet doo not marke that the eldest of them is yonger then you and when you shall be stroken in age they shalbe yong Or I pray you doo you thinke your selues onelie in this realme ambitious Is there euer a gentleman in France but when you haue brought the crowne to spoile will not thinke to haue as good right to it as you