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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14602	Martine Mar-Sixtus A second replie against the defensory and apology of Sixtus the fift late Pope of Rome, defending the execrable fact of the Iacobine frier, vpon the person of Henry the third, late King of France, to be both commendable, admirable, and meritorious. VVherein the saide apology is faithfully translated, directly answered, and fully satisfied.	R. W., fl. 1591.; Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.; Wilson, Robert, d. 1600, attributed name.	1591 (1591)	STC 24913; ESTC S119314	34,762	46

by and rime vpon it it selfe at a bare sight will shew it selfe let me speake it without offence in a case so weightie and grieuous from a person so learned and famous I haue not heard a more artles and slight defence wherein if you looke for proofes it is drie and barren if for stile it is harsh vnpleasant and vntrimmed if for method confused and independent if for matter loose impertinent Stultorum plena sunt omnia not a wise word in a whole Oration and yet sometimes I heare him discoursing like a graue Diuine profoundly sometime florishing like an Orator with Tropes and figures brauely sometime as one inspired with a propheticall spirit diuinely sometime me thinks I heare the ghost of Aquinas very scholastically sometime one quoting Scriptures learnedly and at the shutting vp of all one praying like a Saint deuoutly but the diuell had Scripture Caiphas did prophecie and Iudas made many a prayer but what is that to come neere to God with thy lips giue me thy heart In the front and entrance of this painted processe to stirre vp the mindes of the hearers not so much to attention as to admiration a place in Abacuk to vse but his owne phrase is vsurped A worke is done in your dayes which no man will credit when it shall be reported The application whereof if it poynted to the impossibilitie of the work in the sequell of this discourse I wil make it plaine that it was both false and friuolous and to compare it with the incomprehensible mysterie of Christes incarnation I tell thee Sixtus it was blasphemous but if thou didst onely respect the rarenes the foulenes and deformitie of the worke then mightest thou iustly say A worke is done in our dayes and who will beleeue our report Such a barbarous murther committed vpon the sacred person of a Prince Scythians and Cannibals will hardly beleeue it and the posteritie perhaps will repute it for a fable and so in regard of that detestation which euery man at the first hearing will conceaue I graunt it was a worke incredible but when I call to minde on the other side and consider the Authors of the worke when I heare that the rebellious and bloud-thirstie Leaguers had contriued it that Sixtus himselfe the high Priest of Rome had dispensed for it and that a murtherous and wretchles Iacobine did performe it then all is credible and probable enough we are easily drawne to beleeue it And surely I see nothing therein but as in a matter of ordinary euent nothing so exceeding the reach of mans capacitie nothing so declining from the common course of nature and of the world for which you should compare it with the incarnation and resurrection of Christ and in euery leafe to cry out A worke is done in our dayes and who will beleeue our report Nay rather who will not beleeue it It is no strange or vnusuall thing to see your hands distayned with bloud your lawes are written in bloud your rising vp in armes it is for bloud your courtes of Inquisition are for bloud you muse you meditate you hunger and thirst for nought but bloud or if that adde any wonder to the worke or make it more incredible that it was wrought in the bloud of a King yet for that the assiduity of euery thing taketh away the admiration I cease to wonder at that to indeed the elder adges did so admire and reuerence the person of a King that but to touch the Lords annoynted was irreligious and prophane but see the calamitie of our times wherein there is nothing more vsuallie thought of with lesse remorse attempted or with more boldnes atteyned then the slaughter of Kings and Princes it beseemeth not the Sea of Rome to shoote at euery shrub they haue learned to ayme at fayrer markes they I say whose practicall and pragnatical heads can speculate of nothing else but Kings and Kingdomes to dispose depose to place and displace what men or by what meanes they like or list and as easily they proceede to practise vpon a Prince as vpon the head of a meaner man the bleeding wounds of Orange and Conde yet crying for vengeance from Heauen can witnes well that these practises are no nouelty or if they list but recount the sundry and successeles attempts against the Crowne and person of our Soueraigne Elizabeth they must sound a retrait and cease for shame to cry A worke is done in our dayes past beliefe impossible incredible but what is it then that maketh this worke so incredible so strange and wonderfull was it for that it was atchieued by a Monke Indeed it was a worke vnfitting that profession but neither was it in regarde of nature vnpossible neither in regarde of their common practise strange or vnprobable for why His accesse being as free as it was too free his minde being as malicious and his toole as sharpe as another mans I see no reason why hee might not strike as deepe a stroake and yet no rule in nature violate but neither was it so strange or vnwonted but that your diuelish practises doo daily patterne and match it who was it that tempered and presented an empoysoned cup to Iohn King of England but Simon of Swinstead a Cistercian Monk of the order of the Bernardines Who made away young Charles the Sonne of Phillip now King of Spayne but the accursed Friers of the order of Saint Iherome For how would they spare to suck the bloud of the Sonne who imposed it as a penance vpon the Father to suffer a veyne in his body bee cut to voyde out a little heretick bloud Or tell me else how oft of late your predecessors and your selfe haue hallowed the hands of Priests and Iesuites to offer violence and most vnreuerently to rampe vpon the person of our Queene why therefore Sixtus albeit the worke were odious and accursed yet was there neither wonder nor nouelty in it onely this was rare and wonderfull to heare that Sixtus should be a patron and defender of it But let vs proceede and come to his narration A Monke saith Sixtus hath slaine a King Make roome good people heare comes a figure A Monke hath slaine a King not a painted King where note that Kings are of two sorts either painted Kings or liuing Kings not one figured out vpon a peece of paper or vpon a wall where wee learne agayne to our great comfort that Kings are paynted two wayes either vpon a peece of paper or vpon a wall but he hath slaine the King of France in the middle of his armie hedged in and garded on euery side Claudite iam riuos sat dixit And brauely was it spoken but alacke that such a figure should haue such luck This figure in rethorick we call a Preoccupation the speciall vse and grace whereof is to preuent an obiection and yet not euery one but such as iustly might arise or els to preuent a false vnderstanding of our