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A20596	The masque of the League and the Spanyard discouered wherein, 1. The League is painted forth in all her collours. 2. Is shown, that it is not lawfull for a subiect to arme himselfe against his king, for what pretence so euer it be. 3. That but few noblemen take part with the enemy: an aduertisement to them co[n]cerning their dutie. To my Lord, the Cardinall of Burbon. Faythfully translated out of the French coppie: printed at Toures by Iamet Mettayer, ordinarie printer to the king.; Masque de la Ligue et de l'Hispagnol decouvert. English	L. T. A., fl. 1592.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1592 (1592)	STC 7; ESTC S100421	72,125	152

treades your state vnder his feete but you drawe your weapons to helpe him to his enterprise Knowe ye not that alteration in all things but chiefelie in these publique affaires is most dangerous Without wandring for farre fetcht examples Phillip de Commines deliuereth one of the Realme of England where thorow the partialities betweene the Houses of Lancaster and Yorke each aspyring to the Crowne dyed in eyght and twenty yeeres more then four-score persons all of the blood royall with the verie flower of the English Nobilitie and infinite other valiant men the onely and best Souldiours in all the Land The other Lords were thrust in prison or banished passing the remainder of theyr liues very miserably in strange Coūtries In the end the two Houses being vnited by the marriage of Henrie the seauenth with Elizabeth daughter to King Edwarde the fourth all these troubles ceased See the hurt that ensueth by such deuisions what more strange matter are wee then to expect in such a huge rebellion as this is of the Leaguers Find you it any way reasonable that the true and naturall successour of the Crowne shold endure any other to call his right in question by force of Armes to take it from him that is the most hardie valiant Prince on the earth and who hath learned to haue his Armour oftner on his bodie then the habit royall or the pompe and seruice that other Princes haue which lyue in quiet It is the common cause of all Monarchies to maintaine against the Subiects the estate of a iust and lawfull King and you beeing Noble-men that holde assuraunce of your noblesse goods and faculties of your King will not you maintaine the same against his Subiects and rebellious enemies The Lawe and custome of Fraunce receiued at the first establishing of the Kingdome dyd alwaies refer the Crowne to the next Male issue of the blood royall our Kings then heerin beeing giuen vs by nature mee thinkes there is no reason that any occasion shoulde remooue our estate The Crowne is seated in this so ancient illustrious and royall House of Burbon next succeeding that of Valoys discended of the linage of Orleance In the time of K. Charles the sixth thorowe the practises of the Duke of Burgundie who had made a League with the King of England against Charles Dolphine sonne to the King beside the exheriditation his Father made of him depriuing him of succession in the kingdome there was a certaine iudgment giuen against him in an assembly held at Paris wherby he was exiled banished the Realme beeing declared vnworthy there to succeede On this vniust iudgement he appealed to God and hys sword when the iustice of his cause beeing assisted by the inuincible power of GOD the Crowne was preserued for him and hee established with very wonderfull victories thorow all all his kingdome from whence hee chased the Englishmen beeing reconciled to the Duke of Burgundie and deceassed to the great griefe of all his Subiects leauing them in good peace quiet Whereby you may perceiue that albeit euery one was set against the true heyre to the Crowne yea the Father himselfe yet God in his admirable prouidence woulde not permit that the kingdome should be trans-ferred from the race and linage of S. Lewes neither is it to be doubted that his grace preuenting with the deuoire of all good and faithfull French-men but that it will be continued to all his posterity whereof this most famous and royall House of Burbon is the very neerest and onely heyre to the Crowne What cause then is there to prolong these ciuil warres troubles for the estate seeing we haue the legittimate successour Ah nothing els but absurd and monstrous ambition But some zealous Rebel tels me that he is an Heretique tush these are old stale lyes thys poynt if he were so seeing he demaundeth and offereth to be better instructed is not as yet discided To be an heretique as els where I haue said is obstinately to holde an opinion concerning Religion and rather to die then to forsake it Seest thou in our King any such headdie or obstinate resolution Howe many times hath hee giuen thee to vnderstand his ready will and intent Moreouer this is no argument and good consequent The King is not of our Religion therefore hee is dishabled from succeeding in the Crowne Thou argumentest very ill not like any good Logitian The debate thou vrgest for the Crowne makes a greater breach blemish into Christian religion then if willinglie thou didst consent giue him place as in dutie thou art bound to do seeing that right neither thou or hee can hinder from him to whom it appertaineth which thou hast neither eyes to behold or wit to conceiue If heerin thou mightst preuaile couldst thou be tearmed a good Christistian that flyes and abhors as a plague the ininfamous note of rebellion yea fosakes landes goods wife children and all to follow his King That tearme thou maist returne vpon thy selfe though now thou callest his Highnesse followers pollitiques and heretiques as pleaseth thee to baptise thē notwithstanding they are more assured of their fayth then thou art and better Chritians then any that take part with thee Of what Religion were our first Kinges of the Merouingians race vntill Clouis the fi●t king of Fraunce and first Christian King VVere they any Christians or knewe they what the name of a Christian was What were their subiects hauing receiued the Christian fayth Dyd they for thys cause refuse the obedience they ought in dutie Did they reiect chase or kyll them Ye shall not find one such poynt or anie History that maketh such mention But you Rebels that are too much at your case will not acknowledge your King who so many times hath protested to ye to preserue maintaine ye in your estates and in the Christian Catholique Religion vnder a shadow saist thou himselfe not beeing a Catholique Doost thou know the inward of his words purpose Is there any one can say that euer he falsified his fayth Hee hath sollemnely sworne to defende the Catholique religion as his proper life thinke then if it should be hindered although he neuer will goe against his owne commaundement thy selfe must be the onely cause therof Obey thē the King let the estate be brought againe into quiet and then thou maist assure thy selfe that when the King would alter any thing in Religion whereon I am perswaded he neuer so thinks he cannot do it nor is it any part of his intent You rather ought to pray to GOD with vs that he will graunt him grace stedfastly to embrace the Catholique religion to plant it heere mildly by reason and not force violence or fyre likewise to loue and esteeme so many valiant good French of contrary opinion that sell not as our zealous Leaguers doe theyr King and Countrey to the Spanyard It is not by blood and death to winne mens consciences

will to kill thys King as thou didst the last with the examples of Iaell and Iudith the first whereof kylled Sisera chiefe of the Armie to Iabin King of Chanaan he flying to saue hys life in her house and she perceiuing him a sleepe tooke a nayle of the Tabernacle and a hammer in her hand and so droue it thorow the temples of his head The other leauing the Cittie of Bethulia and brought into the Pauillion of Holophernes Captain of the Armie to Nabuchodonozer seeing hym drunke and a sleepe occasion presenting it selfe she cut off his head and brought it away in a bagge by her seruaunt These actes truly were very gracious in these Dames and worthy of great commendation in respect they attempted not against theyr King or Prince but against such as wold ouer-throw the estate royall of theyr Country and there-against opposed thēselues with all their strength Do these examples excuse thy villanie faith-breaking with thy King In those tymes Iabin Nabuchodonozer had no right ouer those people they came as strangers and enemies against them as at thys day thy aliens and confederate Leaguers come against our King against his estate and against his subiects and therefore were they so entertained by them But after that God had permitted that one of them should commaunde his people what was he that would not endure it paciently and as we haue said before did not vse prayers in Ierusalem for Nabuchodonozer Balthasar his Sonne I could stand long vpon the reasons and examples of elder times to testifie the obedience and reuerence that the first Christians bare to theyr Emperours and Kings they that were both Pagans Ethnicks acknowledging their dignity to be venerable albeit they would not follow theyr Religion Which hath beene approued by the Canons of auncient Popes and deliuered in theyr owne Decretalles as before me hath beene very well noted by the Authour of the Labyrinth of the League They all haue agreed that the pretence of Religion what soeuer it be coulde not giue any collour to a Christian man to mutinie and rebell against hys Prince to take his life from him and hys estate They ordinarilie pronounced this sentence Malumus occidi quam occidere that they loued rather to be kild then to kill For although they were vniustly afflicted by their Princes rather woulde they submit themselues to the death then lyft Armes against them Therfore not to grow tedious to the Reader by prolixitie I will cease from bringing in the auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories and testimonies of the Fathers considering that diuers other haue largely discoursed thereon Thou pretendest a collour of libertie and ease of the people but doost thou therefore bring any remedie Doost thou discharge them when thou pillest and ransackest the poore and burnest what-soeuer thou canst not cary away Thou wouldest call the King to iudgement according to the fable of the Woolfe and the other Beastes to the end that vnder the shadow of reason thou mightest vse violence and murder him Doe we reade of the auncient Prophets that they complained of exactions of their Princes and that thereon they grounded occasions to make warre against them All theyr care was to shew the Princes their faults and to admonish them of Gods vengeances not to prouoke the people and to incite thē to lift Armes against them And it is not to be doubted but such as gouerned in theyr time were well worthy of reprehension for which cause Esay in the beginning of hys prophecie thus deliuered his words to the people of Israell Thy Princes are wicked and companions of theeues they loue gifts altogether and gape after rewards As for the fatherlesse they helpe him not to his right neyther will they let the widdowes causes come before them Therefore saith the Lord God of Hostes the mightie one of Israell Ah I must ease me of mine enemies and auenge me on my aduersaries and set thy Iudges againe as they were sometime and thy Councellers as they were from the beginning and then shalt thou be called the righteous Cittie the faithfull Cittie Thus this good Prophet fore-told the iudgment of God against these Princes and the restoring of the good Iudges and Counsellours considering that the reprobate were the cause of the euill happened in Israell A little after he sayth My people thy Leaders deceiue thee and corrupt the way of thy foot-steps The Lorde shall enter into iudgement with the Elders and Princes of the people and shall say vnto them It is you that haue burnt vp my Vineyarde and the spoyle of the poore is in your houses The Prophet Ezechiell sufficientlie witnessed noted the vices of the Princes in his time saying they we●● as Woolues that rauished the pray that effused blood that they lost their soules and gaue themselues to auarice Hee brought in GOD speaking against their exactions and imposts and admonished them to keepe onely a iust ballance Amos calleth them Kine of Basan outragious to the needie oppressours of the poore Micheas deliuering them before God reprooueth them that they hated the good loued the euill they pluckt off the skinnes of the people their flesh from their bones Sophonia calleth thē roring Lyons all which tytles sufficiently testifie that the Gouernours and Iudges in theyr times were verie wicked Yet notwithstanding none of the Prophets although they beheld the people to sincke vnder the exactions as despoyled of all and brought into pouertie did at anie tyme vnder pretence of the Weale-publique counsell the people to mutinie or rebel against theyr Princes but rather vehemently perswaded them to pacience Callest thou in question any Pagans or of the doctrine of Mahomet or Heretiques who for maintenaunce and aduauncement of theyr deceitfull false opinions haue wickedly conspired against their Princes Alexander who was slaine by a Souldiour that prostrated hymselfe at his feet before the Cittie of Tauris Amurath the first King of that name in Turkie who after hee had discomfited the Despote of Seruia and Bulgaria was traiterously put to death by a slaue of Bulgaria who feigned that he came to saue his life King Sigibert enuironed with all his people who at the motion of Fredigonde was assailed and murdered by two aduenturous Gentlemen Certaine people of Phenicia holding the Law of Mahomet called murderers otherwise Beduines dwelling in hollow nookes of the most spacious Moūtains lyuing vnder a Lord whom our predecessours knew by no other name then the Auncient or Great of the Mountain they vnder imagination of a Paradise of pleasure which he had perswaded into theyr heades bare this marke on them that they made a sollemne vow to massacre all Princes they could lay holde on that were contrary to theyr sect and opinion By them was the County of Tripoli put to death Edward of Englande taken and many other great Lords who by them were either slain or held as prisoners From them

came first the word of murder as whē one cōmitteth slaughter or such like crueltie by watching for spoile I knowe that dyuers other raised themselues against theyr Kings and Princes vnder the couerture of Religion but I deny that such murderers seeing necessarily we must so call thē were Christian Catholiques or that for the true faith they enterprised such massacres so oft and many times condemned in the holy Scripture Moreouer Alexander and Amurath were not Princes and Superiours to such as slewe them the other likewise were led by a sathanicall spirit euen as these murderers or Beduines were And the Anabaptists who within thys little while preached the aduauncement of the Kingdome of GOD teaching all Princes to crowde in with theyr feete likewise Then tell me Leaguer what remedy is left for thy euill What excuse can saue thee for thy late murder Thy leueying of al thy Armes and hostility against thy last Prince and hys so worthy successour our Alcides the restorer of the estate and the Father of hys Countrey Sayst thou he is a Tyrant or an Heretique if thou gyuest him these tytles it is onely but thy passion that leades thee because of the death of the Duke of Guyse hys brother for before their death the pernicious booke which thou didst cause to be imprinted in fauour of thy tyrannie intituled An aunswer of the true Catholique Frenchmen to the aduertisement of the English Catholiques for excluding the King of Nauarre from the Crowne of Fraunce published abroade in Paris since the Barricados exalted him and called him the enemy of heresie in the leafe 125. beside named hym the most religious and deuout of all the Kings of Fraunce or thorowe the worlde leafe fiue hundred seauentie-three and fiue hundred sixtie-one That he was verie foolish and a beast who shoulde imagine him to fauour an heretique leafe one hundred fortie-sixe and fiue hundred sixtie-two That the Catholiques ought to serue him faithfully and by all manner of good words to adore him leafe thirty How comes it to passe then thou art so suddainlie changed and gone so farre from thy dutie toward thy Prince by thee acknowledged so Catholique and voyde of all suspicion of heresie But if belying thy selfe thou wouldest notwithstanding tearme him to be a Tyrant lysten the resolution of Thomas of Aquine agaynst Tyrants Truely sayth hee if there be an excesse of tirannie it were much better to suffer for a time thys mys-gouerned tyrannie then in contending against it to be wrapped in many great dangers more full of griefe and trouble then the tyrannie it selfe For it may so fall out that they which make head against the Tyrant and lift themselues in reproofe of hym cannot get the vpper-hand and so by that meane the Tyrant shall be irritated and prouoked to become more cruell But if any one should goe beyond the Tyrant and vanquish him from the same successe often-times ensueth great discorde and dissention among the people eyther meane-while the presumption is offered against the Tyrant or after he is brought vnder for then the multitude deuide thēselues in diuers parts touching the qualitie and manner of theyr gouernement It happens also sometimes that when the people giue chase to the Tyrant by the ayde and Armes of any assistant the helper attributeth the power to himselfe and becommeth tyrannous likewise so that the feare to endure another considering what they did with him against the first presseth downe the people with a more troublesome and grieuous thought of seruitude For it falleth out by custome in tyrannie that the last is more insupportable then the first when the Tyrant giues not ouer hys predecessors extortions but himselfe following the mallice of hys own hart inuenteth new and farre more worse For this cause as oft-times els it happeneth in the Cittie of Siracusa each one desired the death of Dionisius the Tyrant yet a certain old Woman prayed continually for his health and desired that he might lyue after her The Tyrant beeing aduertised of the earnest prayer of thys olde Woman demaunded of her wherfore she did so and what was her meaning thereby whereto she thus aunswered When I was a young Mayden and our Countrey at that tyme had a verie troublesome Tyrant I desired hee might die when not long after he being slaine there succeeded him another farre beyond him in cruelty Then thought I we should be most happy indeede if we might behold likewise the death of him but he beeing deade the thirde Gouernour became worse then both the other Nowe therfore if you should die doublesse one more cruell would come in your sted and therfore I pray that we may keepe you still But if the excesse of tyrannie bee too intollerable some are of the opinion that it appertaineth to the vertue of couragious and valiant men to kill the Tyrant and expose themselues to the danger of death for deliueraunce of the people as of the like we haue example in the old Testament For Aioth gaue a stroke with his dagger in the belly of Eglon King of Moab who oppressed the people of God with exceeding great seruitude and killing him himselfe was made Iudge ouer the people But thys deede is not conuenable neither dooth it agree with the doctrine Apostolicall For S. Peter teacheth vs to be obedient not onely to good and ciuill Lords or Princes but also to the wicked and troublesome For this is most gracious when for the cause of conscience and loue of God any one endureth iniurie or suffereth vniustlie In thys case then when so many Romaine Emperours persecuted tirannously the fayth of Iesus Christ and a great multitude as wel of the Nobles as also the meaner sort were conuerted thereby to this fayth they were praised commended because they resisted not but endured pacientlie and with courage the death for the loue of Christ Iesus as we may see manifestly in the holy Legion of the Thebanes Shoulde we then rather iudge and esteeme that Aioth had kild an enemie then one that was a Gouernour of the people albeit he was a Tyrant By this reason we read in the old Testament likewise that they were put to death which killed Ioas King of Iuda although hee had left the seruice of God and the sonnes of them were reserued aliue according to the cōmaundement of the Law Now thys shall be dangerous to the people and theyr Gouernours if any one by particuler audaciousnes and presumption attempt the death of such as present the chiefe office although they bee Tyrants for often-times in such dangers the bad commeth sooner in place then the good and the Empire or signeurie of Kings is as burdenous and intollerable vnder the wicked as vnder tyrannie therfore according to the sentence of Salomon The wise King doth dissipate the wicked and vngodlie Then by the like presumption the losse of the King bringeth more daunger and damage to the people then profite