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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

respect him the more hee rebelled against him Is it possible then that her minde can euer lose the impression of her fathers remembrance And can Shee remember Him and yet forget his death Or can reminiscence retaine his death and not thinke of the instrument of it Or can the instrument of that murther be in her memorie and the setters on work of that wicked Instrument the Instigatours of that bloudie Butcher to that beastly cursed cruell fact be out of her minde And can Shee remember them and not abhorre them And can She abhorre them and not relinquish their religion which hold that lawfull which Gods Law hath forbidden For God prohibiteth the murther of any priuate person but these Doctors maintaine it to be lawfull to kill Kings which are publique persons Neither doe they permit it as a worke not impious but perswade men to it as a deed meritorious For Rauilack had no sooner playd his part in that bloudie Scene but hee was so confident in the blessednesse of the act as hee thought immediately to haue flowne to Heauen and beene crowned a Saint by God as well as canonized a Saint by the Pope Such is the leauen of the Popish Doctrine that sowres all the subiects of the Prince which doth professe it For what treacherous attempt against any King either Protestant or Papist hath beene made by a Protestant in our memories Oh no we are taught to feare God to honour the King wee must follow Dauids example to Saul not lift vp our hands against the Lords Anointed wee know Hee is Gods Vice-Gerent placed there by God and therfore to be displaced by none but Him But on the contrarie what plots haue beene laid What treasons haue beene committed either for the destruction of a King or subuersion of a Kingdome in which the Papists haue not only been Parties but principall Agents Who were they which plotted so many treasons against the Person of Queene Elizabeth but Papists But what treasons were plotted against Queene Marie by any Protestant notwithstanding shee was a cruell persecutor of that Profession What was Gowrie that conspired the ouerthrow of the Sacred Maiestie of King Iames but a Papist What were the plotters of that horrid Gun-powder Treason who sought with one puffe to blow away both the Prince and Peeres of our Kingdome but all professors of the Romish Religion What was hee which murthered King Henrie the third of France but a Papist Iacobin In a word what treasons haue beene committed which are contained in the Register-booke of mans memorie which haue not beene plotted and performed by them And no maruell the Priests and people practise it since they preach it and it is an orthodoxall opinion and position amongst them that the Pope hath power both to dispose of Kingdomes and depose Kings and that King-killing is not onely a lawfull but a holy and honourable calling Who then can suspect that a Princesse of her peerelesse part of her pious disposition of her matchlesse vnderstanding and discretion doth affect truly that religion which doth infect the hearts of Princes subiects which doth teach men to be monsters in gouernment and not to subiect themselues to higher powers but to rebell against the rule and authoritie of the Regall Scepter How can those Princes haue any peace with God that doe so little respect and much hazard their liues as to harbour and foster such murtherous rebellious minded men in their Kingdomes How can Princes haue any peace with men when they suffer men which are so wicked to preach such doctrine and practise such villanie How can they haue any peace within thē when they may iustly feare that each one which smiles in their face may smite their heart when they nourish vp such vipers in their bosome as are readie each moment to eat out their bowels How can then this Royall Princesse affect that religion or the professors of it which was the death of her Father and his Predecessor which may be a disturbance to the peace of her Prince and the safetie of his person if it be tolerated which may impaire the securitie of her posteritie who are neuer like to possesse their Princedomes in peace vnlesse such vermine bee hunted out of their Territories for peace and such people cannot inhabit in one Kingdome or dwell together no more than wine and poyson in a crystall glasse but the glasse will bee broke and the wine spilt and spoiled If then a Prince will possesse his soule and soueraigntie in peace he must banish these breakers and disturbers of it Neither is it a strange or vnheard of matter for France and England to shake hands of amitie and vnitie in those blessed Contracts for since almost the beginning of either Monarchie there haue beene continually these friendly and fortunate interchanges of mariage For it was not concealed from our Ancestors how beneficiall peace was betweene France and England therefore Steuen Earle of Bloys was linked in the bond of mariage w th Adela daughter to William the Conquerour And on the other side William Waren Earle of Surrey sonne of Gunred daughter to William the Conqueror maried the daughter of Hugh Vermandoys brother to the King of France For in like manner William Duke of Normandie did marrie Marie daughter to Foulke Earle of Anjou Maud the Empresse was linked in mariage with Iefferie Plantaginet Earle of Anjou And for the happinesse of his Kingdome the tranquillitie of his Countrey and felicitie of his Countrey-men Steuen King of England maried Constance daughter to the King of France Henrie the second maried Elenor sole heire to William Duke of Aquitaine Henrie sonne to King Henrie the second maried Margaret daughter to Lewis the French King Richard Cordelion maried Berenger daughter to Sanches King of Nauarre Iohn King of England maried Isabel daughter and heire of Amorie Earle of Angoulesme Arthur nephew to King Iohn maried the daughter of Philip King of France Edward the second maried the daughter of Philip King of France Isabel daughter to Edward the third maried Ingelram de Guisnes Earle of Soysson and Bedford Richard the second maried Isabel daughter to Charles the French King Henrie the fourth maried Iane the daughter of Philip the third King of Nauarre Henrie the fifth maried Catherine daughter to Charles the French King Henrie the sixth maried Margaret the daughter of Reiner Valois Duke of Anjou Marie daughter to Henry the seuenth maried Lewis the twelfth French King Charles Prince of Great Britaine betrothed to Maria Henrette daughter to Henrie the fourth and sister to Lewis the thirteenth Kings of France Thus hath there been a long and sweet continuance of blessed Contracts between France and England fortunate in each mariage producing peace and plentie to each Dominion so haue these matches beene prosperous to former so is this like to bee to future ages that all happinesse to either Kingdom shall be the issue of this most longed for and liked Vnion For who can bee

made more happie in themselues more blessed in their people than this Prince and Princesse who are so like in themselues and their Countries their people their loues their vertues as this rare Ladie and her Prince who by his supreme vertues might seeme only to challenge Her and Shee for her exquisite qualities to enioy Him So that from this Match may be deriued all happinesse and all felicitie as also all vertues ioyne in them for hath his greatest indignation and choler beene euer made a crime against them whom Hee hath hated No no but his royall Soule which had nothing in it but courage seemed to faile in his reuenge and though that with the eyes of his minde He may apprehend offences yet his mercie is as readie to forget them as his wisdome to apprehend them And for his valour I doubt not but hereafter as well as in times past the eyes of all men shall see it and eares conceiue it and succeeding ages shall publish his present valour and it is not to bee feared that this assertion shall need confirmation since there is hope it is not only without contestatiō but comparison who hath also clemency ioyned with his courage hath as much pleasure in pardoning as glory in vanquishing so that it is to be expected that as the acts of the one shall be signed with bloud so the other shall be sealed with teares And for his pious life the world knowes that he hath no superiors few equals but multitudes of inferiours who as if he made it his onely happinesse to serue God doth only please himselfe in pleasing him esteeming his seruices his greatest freedome and deeming it a thing most vnworthy to bee a Soueraigne of men and not a seruant of God And a thing most requisite in a Prince to be as eminent in grace as in place and in vertue as in dignity than the which there cannot be a greater honour nor any thing which doth more proue or improue the stocke He came of who is like pure pearly water flowing from a Crystall fountaine or like an Apple of gold hanging vpon a goodly Cedar which brancheth it selfe into all the parts of Christendome For how royally descended and neerely allied is He for how frequent haue the interchanges of Mariages with England and other the chiefest and noblest Families of Christendome being the onely sonne of Iames the sixt of that name King of Great-Britaine France and Ireland lineally descended from multitudes of most mighty Monarchs the vndoubted Heire of the said Dominions being issued from Marie Queene of Scotland and Dowager of Francis of Valoys the second French King who departed this life 1586 marrying Henrie Steward Lord Darnely her second Husband eldest Son to Mathew created Duke of Albany in an 1565 and slaine in the yeare 1566 the which Q. Mary was the daughter of Iames Steward the 5. king of Scotland whose first wife was Magdalen daughter of Francis the 1. French king who dyed in the yeare 1541 The which Iames the 5. was descended from Iames the 4. king of Scotland who married Margaret eldest daughter of king Henrie the 7 and sister to king Henrie the eighth in the 11. yeare of her Fathers reigne 1489. and was slaine in battle at Flowden anno 1514 in the sixt yeare of king Henrie the 8. his reigne The which Iames 4. was issued from Iames the 3. king of Scotland who maried Margaret daughter of Christian the 1. king of Denmarke marke who was descended from Iames Steward the 2. King of Scotland who maried Marie daughter of Arnold Duke of Gelders and was slaine anno 1460 who was sprung from the loynes of Iames Steward the first king of Scotland who maried Ioane daughter of Iohn Earle of Summerset In the which England and Scotland in those times also gaue the kisses of peace in mariage for the said Ioane was descended from Iohn Plantagenet sirnamed of Gaunt Earle of Richmond Duke of Lancaster called king of Castile who maried three wiues and died in anno 1398. being issued from the royall stocke of Edward Plantagenet the 3. king of England and France who quartered the Armes erected the Order of the Garter maried Philip of Henault and deceased anno 1377. But to returne vnto our former discourse this Iames the first was issued from the loynes of Robert Steward the third king of Scotland sometimes called Iohn maried Annibell daughter to Iohn Drummond and dyed in anno 1406 who was descended from Robert Steward the 2 who after Dauid Bruise 1370. was king of Scotland whose second wife was Elizabeth daughter of Adam Marre knight who dyed 1309. was descended from Gualter Steward Lord Steward of Scotland who maried Margerie daughter of Robert Bruise sister and heire to Dauid-Bruise both kings of Scotland by which meanes the royall name of the Stewards was matcht into the bloud royall and made apparant heires of the Crowne in which worthy and noble Name it doth still vnto this present day continue Which honourable and euer to be reuerenced Name was first aduanced to the dignity of Lord Stewardship by king Malchol the 3. who conferred that honour vpon Walter borne in Wales at his returne into Scotland for some memorable and worthy seruices which hee performed But they were intituled in the Crowne by the mariage of the abouesaid Margerie daughter to Robert Bruise Earle of Carrick the first king of Scotland who maried Elizabeth sister to the Earle of Marre and died in anno 1329. Whose Ancestour Robert Bruise Lord of the Valley of Anandie in Scotland and Cunnington in England maried Martha daughter to the Earle of Carrick Hee also married Isabel the sister and co-heire of Iohn the Scot Earle of Chester who brought vnto him Cunnington in England for her Dowry being of the stocke of Dauid Earle of Angus and Huntingdon the 3. sonne of Henrie Prince of Scotland who married Margaret daughter and coheire of the Earle of Chester and dyed in anno 12 19. William king of Scotland sirnamed the Lion second Son of Prince Henrie succeeded his brother king Malchol in anno 1160 and dyed without issue Henrie Earle of Huntingdon married Ada the daughter of William Earle of Werren hauing a period prefixt to his daies by the Almighty afore the expiration of his Fathers life anno 1152. Dauid the first king of Scotland sonne of Malchol married Maud daughter and heire of Waltheof Earle of Huntingdon and dyed in anno 1153. in the 19. yeare of the Reigne of king Steuen so Maud Queene of England daughter of Malchol and brother to Dauid the first king of Scotland was espoused to Henrie the first king of England sonne to William the Conquerour who dyed anno 1119 from whose loynes sprung the famous race of the Brittish Kings who haue for their valour and their fortunes beene famous and admired throughout the world Neither was here a beginning of the loue and amitie betweene them who now by one are for euer made one For likewise

righteous Dauid in all his trauell and troubles how constantly did he attend on Him being almost as inseparable an Adiunct to his Highnesse as heat to the fire or light to the Sunne being as Ruth to Nahomi readie to goe whither soeuer He went Neither did his person onely but his care accompanie Him watching continually lest any treason might bee plotted against Him lest any trap might be laid to ensnare Him lest any subtill Serpents as those hot Countries are full of them might sting Him It was hee that tooke the least disgrace done vnto the Prince more heauily and hainously than the greatest indignitie could be offered vnto himselfe It was he which discerned all the politique proceedings of Spaine and it is hee vnder God to whom wee owe eternall gratitude for the welfare of this our Kingdome and the people are perpetually bound for this their prosperitie and I doubt not but those who are not like Swine which eate the acornes vnder the tree but neuer looke vp to the tree from whence they fall doe most worthily acknowledge and heartily affect that most Illustrious Duke for his tender and zealous loue both of his Princes safetie and Countries good Truth it selfe speaketh it and therefore who but the enemies of Truth can oppose it that promotion neither commeth from the East nor the West but onely from the Lord. Moreouer the hearts of Kings are in the hands of God to turne them at his pleasure and it is as farre from doubt as Heauen from Hell that indeed our King hath honoured you but it was by Gods appointment He hath preferred you but it was by Gods directions and God directed Him to aduance you that you might benefit this Countrey in being an Instrument to finde out the intendments of Spaine as also to further this blessed Contract with France and I dare say or if my word may not be taken I can produce millions of witnesses to testifie and depose that the gaping earth after a long parching drought did neuer more acceptably entertaine a liuely showre than the Brittish Nation this Vnion Neither was euer the dew of Hermon distilling vpon the Hill of Sion more welcome to it than this happie and hopefull Coniunction to vs. Neither let me omit to render in the behalfe of our Countrey-men all possible thanks to my Noble Lord of Doncaster who hath so well and worthily behaued and carried himselfe in the effecting of this blessed Confederation as in making this Match and effecting this Contract hee hath robbed multitudes of their soules and won the hearts of all the people for should hee liue neuer so long and all his life time studie and euer studie effectually and all his studies should be wholly to benefit his Countrey hee could neuer haue excogitated a meanes more likely to bring whole showres of all kinde of Blessings vpon these Kingdomes than this whereby England is ioyned to France and France to England the most fertile Countries of the world are ioyned together with the kisses of peace and amitie To you therfore most Noble Lord as the Conduit by which meanes God hath conueyed this happines we present our well wishes For who is it but you most Honoured Lord to whom we are more indebted than to your care for the finishing of this Vnion It was the eyes of your Indgement which foresaw what prosperitie it would bring to the Prince and what happinesse it would bring to England to haue her Lyons adorned with Frances Lillies and the Flower-Deluce and the Rose bound vp and conioyned What bed so sweet as that which is composed of Lillies and Roses What kisses more delightfull than when they are linked together And what Contract could haue been more consolatorie than this of France and England To you therfore Great Britaine sendeth the best of her wishes to attend you and most powerfull prayers to guard you and preserue you from all perils that you may liue to doe God glorie and your Countrey good in performing many profitable offices vnto it Here then if it please France and this most Royall Ladie to take but a suruey of the incomparable excellencie of the Peeres and Nobles by whom She shall bee attended in Great Btittaine Shee shall happily and to her great comfort and content vnderstand that She shall shine like Phoebe in this our Orbe enuironed round about with these glorious starres and resplendent lights the Nobles of our Kingdome But to the end they may conceiue and consider of their happinesse Capape as I may so say and weigh but the worth of our Commons and vulgar sort of people in this our Iland it will soone appeare that euen in the lowest sort of people they shall finde highest degrees of happinesse First in regard of the mutuall affection which is likely to be between Her and our Nation whether it bee for ne●●●nesse of bloud or aequiparancie of conditions Moses when he saw the two Iewes at dissention one with another hee could excogitate no meanes more forcible to moue them to reconcilement than reducing their affinitie to their remembrance telling them they were brethen then surely ought there not to be great affection betweene the two famous Nations of the Brittish and the French since there is so much affinitie Yes surely and to the end that there may bee as there ought to bee eternall concord let vs remember we are brethren and of the same bloud For there be verie few in England who either directly from their Fathers and Progenitours or indirectly by some contract haue not some of the French bloud lodged in their bosomes And if we examine the dispositions of either Nation wee shall finde them not like Iacob and Esau or Caine and Abel of opposite qualities but wee shall see an absolute agreement betweene them in their vertuous inclination and conditions Doe we seeke for valour who of more perfect prowesse than the French and the English Who haue been so often Combatants and Conquerours both for their Countrey and conscience as France and England The French are true-hearted neuer carrying two faces vnder one hood but deeming it rather cowardice than true valour to ouercome by deceit and policie for the most part carrying their hearts at their tongues-end and though they speake not euerie thing which they know yet they speake nothing with their tongues but that which they thinke in their hearts Our English are not deceitfull and hypocriticall cooling their pottage and warming their hands with the same breath but their speeches are the mirrours of their mindes in which you may see their intentions and by their words you may attaine to the science of their conscience The French are vpright and iust deeming it the losse of their worth not to keep their word and the most base seruility not to be their words Masters scorning fraud and truce-breaking not seeking to rush vpon another mans possessions or to encroach vpon others Dominions The English are performers of that which they promise

endowed with all gifts and rare qualities requisite for the restoring of a Kingdoms sicke and languishing estate to the former health and happinesse who succeeding Henrie the third the last of the Royall Race of Valois who was slaine by a Iacobine in the Crowne and Dignitie of a King found the Kingdome pestered with so many pestilent euils which was like a bodie surfetted and weakned with all kinde of diuersitie of diseases surcharged with melancholy and diuers other bad humours which did so contend for predominancie as it was full of intestine broyles and ciuill dissentions the which being fed with choller of the people did daily threaten the ouerthrow and destruction of the whole Continent if God had not in time sent that good Physitian Henrie the fourth whose might and mildnesse composed such wholsome medicines and rare remedies for the recouerie of his Kingdomes welfare that by his valour hee encountred his enemies and reduced his distracted and almost destroyed subiects to their dutifull obedience in so much as his most gracious gouernment was likely to haue brought that Kingdome to a most peaceable and prosperous estate if a cursed cruell murtherer had not imposed an vntimely end by an vnfortunate stab to his life and by consequence to his gouernment with whose life the present prosperitie of the Kingdome was ended in regard He left none to weild his Scepter but his Sonne then Daulphine now King Lewis whose tender yeeres though they promised much yet they could performe verie little in the ruling of such a mightie Nation But God who is euermore a Father of the fatherlesse and a Husband to the Widow became a mightie Protectour of this fatherlesse Countrey still preseruing it from all perills guarding the Daulphine from all dangers till at length Hee attaining to the ripenesse of yeeres and vertues was fit to bee the Gouernour of such a Kingdome in so much as now it may bee truely stiled The most flourishing and fortunate Common-wealth in Christendome Then what better or fitter amitie than betweene Nations and People so faithfull and two Countries so fruitfull as France and Brittaine What greater likelyhood can there be of loue than between men so like in qualities as the French and English and two Countries so rich as France and England It is an ancient approued Maxime in Philosophie Simile simili gaudet The like reioyceth in the like and it is as receiued an axiom in Moralitie Amicitia debet esse inter aequales For if a rich man be in the bond of friendship with a poore man their loue is not likely to bee of any long continuance for the want of the one will wearie the good will of the other and like Pharaohs kine the leane ones will eat vp the fat But when two fertile Kingdome which are the Palaces of Ceres and Temples of Bacchus shall ioyne together it is not onely likely to bee great for the quantitie but durable for the time when as they shall not onely haue the interchanges of peace but also of plentie when as neither of them shall impouerish but both of them ioyntly enrich each other This is the ioy of our most mightie wise inuict Monarch King Iames who is as well the father of his Countrey England as of his Sonne Prince Charles who cannot chuse but reioyce to see his Countrey so well matched to a Kingdome so commodious and profitable There is no father but desireth and ioyeth to see his daughter wealthily bestowed vpon one of equall worth and meanes then well may his Royall Person reioyce at this Mariage of his Kingdom which hath found a Mate so powerfull so plentifull so abounding with all riches so enriched with all benefits as France Doth He desire peace it is able in the time of peace to send Him rich commodities out of her store-house Doth He desire warre what is wanting there to maintaine it It is populous for men powerfull for money plentifull for prouision there are men to bee procured for money money for men sustenance to be had for money that nothing might be wanting requisite for the vpholding for the beginning or continuance of a iust warre Then how is England for euer obliged to the Almightie who hath thus directed our King thus affected our Prince to chuse and select so blessed a Princesse in so happie a Countrey which is the fertile Mother of such excellent wits which is the Continent of such affable debonaire and courteous people a rich Fountaine From whence all necessarie benefits flow to neighbouring Nations which wanteth neither a fat fruitfull soyle to yeeld increase nor laborious painfull industrious men to till it which hath beene the seat of so many mightie wise valiant vnconquered Monarchs Oh happie Brittaine which though thou wert most happie in thy selfe yet if it be possible art more than most happie in such a Sister which is the Palace of pleasure the Mansion-place of delight which sendeth all rare delicates as gifts vnto thy People and the rarest Gemme of Nature the most exquisite Fruit that euer that Countrey could make it selfe or other Countries happie in The Ladie Henrette Maria to thy Prince whose vertues shew themselues to the life more to the eyes of all than the most perfect eloquence is able to declare them to the eares of any who in her virginitie was wedded to Vertue and is now marched with the most vertuous Prince that euer liued who for vertue parentage education proportion and portion stands as a matchlesse Mirrour to all her sex and no whit vnworthie of such a Husband Consider but her vertues and you will say and yet speake nothing but that which you thinke that Shee is rather an Angell sent from Heauen for to bee a Miracle and Oracle of her time for all to admire than borne of mortall seed for any to imitate in whom wisdome sits in her perfection and all to make Her perfect whose words are all weighed in the balance of consideration in her minde afore they be vented by her lips for Shee knowes words are like time once past they cannot be recalled and howsoeuer the tongue bee an vnruly euill and that euill most predominant in a woman yet Shee deeming it most vnworthie to command others and not to command Her selfe alwaies premeditating of whom to whom where and what She speakes and as Shee suffers not her tongue to be the key of her mindes closet where silence is a vertue so Shee will not neglect to let her tongue bee the testament of her minde where necessitie enforceth Thrice happie Kingdome at this instant in which there is such a Princesse extant so fully accomplisht with such rare vertuous qualities It is She whose chastitie doth challenge the superioritie of all her Ancestours and stands as a Patterne to future ages whose heart neuer harboured the least thought of vncleannesse whose Iuorie Alablaster Soule hath not beene toucht or tainted with the least impuritie can be imagined but from her infancie hath been

before the Conquest there was a mutual exchange of these contracts betweene the ancient famous Saxons and our pious Kings Princes ancestors haue bin famous matches for the good benefit of both Kingdomes for both the Lines of Egbert the Saxon K. of England Alphin K. of Scotland met in the mariage of Malchol the 3 and Margaret sister of Edgar Ehelin right heire to the Crowne of England who died an 1093. Which Malchol was the son of Duncan who vanquisht Mackboth in fight yet afterwards himselfe was slaine in anno 1092 whose Father Dunken the 1. king of Scotland heire of Beatrix who succeeded Malchol was slaine by Makbeth in anno 1046. Beatrix eldest daughter and co-heire of king Malchol the 2 was maried to Abineth Crinathany of the West Ilands of Scotland Malchol the second king of Scotland sonne of Kenneth the 3 subdued king Trim was slaine in anno 1034. Kenneth the third king of Scotland succeeded king Culen became a tyrant and was murthered 994. Malchol the first sonne of king Donald was the successour of Constantine the 3 and was murthered in the yeare 958. Donald the sixt king of Scotland next after king Gregory was his predecessour who died anno 904. Constantine the second king of Scotland after the death of Donald his Vnckle was slaine in anno 874. Keneth the second king of Scotland called the great succeeded his Father king Alphen and died in anno 894. Alphin sonne of K. Achai who made the first league w th France after the death of king Dongallies hee likewise recouered the kingdome of Scotland anno 830 and was afterwards slaine in anno 834. This is the royall descent of our renowned Prince by the Fathers side being sprung by the Fathers and Grandfathers side from so many glorious stemmes of the kings of Scotland By the Grandmother from the renowned race of the Kings of England to whom Scotland hath beene often lincked by the performance of Hymens rites and the celebration of happie nuptials but now it hath found by the meanes of our gracious Soueraigne a more blessed and assured vnion Whose ancestours the true obiects of admiration haue euer beene famous for vertuous actions for what haue they beene defectiue in which sauoured of perfection what worth haue they wanted that might make them esteemed to bee the most noble worthies that euer liued For he hath beeneallyed to so many mighty Kings of England and Scotland and in fine doth heire rightfully the vertues and renownes of both Kings and kingdomes for who can be silent but dumbe men in his praises or can any be tongue-tide whose heart is lincked to him by the bond of obedience and can any one which is a true subiect but make such a Soueraigne the subiect of his praises and obiect of his duty But to the intent that all may know the highnesse of this Princes birth as well as the goodnesse of his minde examine but the greatnesse of his ancestours and allyes of the mothers side whose remembrance to vs is like Myrrhe vnto the body which it embalmeth incorruptible but wonderous bitter for how can it bee better then bitter vnto vs seeing it reduceth into our reminiscence her Name which was so delightfull seeing that putting vs in minde of her perfections the which making vs see how necessary she was for vs manifests vnto vs how miserable we are for her Oh no it is impossible for vs to remember her and to forget her vertues or to retaine the losse of them in our minds and to forget sorrow but to haue weeping eies and bleeding hearts considering that the perpetual welfare of England required that she had bin immortall frō whose death our griefe hath birth and from whose tombe floweth our sorrow But why should I thus produce this mournful dish at this mariage feast vnlesse it should be like sowre sawces tobeget vs better stomackes to our sweeter dainties and to make the beautie of our solace more amorous and excellent by the proposing of the palenesse of our sorrow So doth a faire stately Steede seeme most to bee esteemed being amongst a number of ill-fauoured Iades So doth it serue as well as a painting for a faire Lady to haue a foule Chamber-maid so doth a passionate speech delight in a pleasant Comedie and a sorrowfull passage thrust in amongst a company of merrie scenes And no doubt this serues like the face of a blacke-Moore to his teeth makes them seeme more white and comely This sorrow for the losse of our Queene Anne makes our ioy for the enioying of this Princesse the greater who is like her for perfections as She seemeth most fortunate in being the wife of such a Prince descended from such a mother who although dead yet liue in Her as being the true Mirrour of her most gracious qualities He also most happie in Her in finding a kinde of a mother in a wife so like Her who may serue Him for his mothers picture all times to looke on with a respectiue louing ioyfull remembrance to see his mother liuing in Her For surely her beautie and vertue cannot die so long as this famous Princesse shall liue And thus like Isaak with Rebecca Hee shall bee comforted after the death of his mother who for the goodnesse and the greatnesse of her bloud was almost vnparalleld For how many royall Kings which weilded their regall Scepters with policie power and pietie is Shee descended from How neerely allied was She to multitudes of potent Princes in so much as walls of friendship were erected by her meanes round about these Kingdomes as the King of Denmarke who for his place and person is both wealthie and worthie and able both for men and money to raise a friend or ruine an enemie but howsoeuer to defend an Allie who was the naturall and most affectionate brother of our most royall Queene who by this most happie Contract is vnited to France as we to Him who will be alwayes in readinesse to doe any office of friendship and fraternitie vnto it What should I speake of the Ancestors of our Queene as Fredericke the second King of Denmarke Norway Goths and Vandalls sonne to Christian the third who died in that menacing memorable yeere 1588. and the 32. of the reigne of Queene Elizabeth of neuer-dying fame and memorie who maried Sophia not vnworthily so called in respect her disposition did answer her denomination for indeed Shee was all wisdome as her name importeth Queene of Denmarke sole heire to Vlrick Duke of Meckleburg in anno 1572. from whose blessed loynes and fruitfull as from a fertile Soyle hath flowed such a noble Progenie as seemed to promise to people the world with Princes as that Princely royall religious pious prudent Queen Anne the mostrespected chaste meeke mercifull Maiestique Wife of the Sacred Maiestie of our most mightie Monarch Iames the first and the most happie Mother of our most promising Prince Charles the Felicitie of his Father and the Pledge of our

succeeding Peace the Propagation of Religion also the fortunate Mother of many hopefull Children the most Gracious Queene Elizabeth hath borne vnto Frederick King of Bohemia Also the aforenamed Christian the fourth the now King of Denmarke who maried Anne Catherine Queene of Denmarke daughter to Ioachim Frederick Marquisse of Brandenburg borne in anno 1575. who hath now reaped the fruits and pledges of his mariage-bed the most warlike and worthie Prince Frederick Christian Heire of Norway Duke of Holst and Sleswick and is still suruiuing a most prosperous hopefull and honourable Prince As also Vlrick Heire of Norway Duke of Holst Knight of the noble order Brother to Queene Anne and Vnckle to Prince Charles second sonne of King Frederick the second And in like manner Iohn Duke of Holst and Sleswick Brother to Queene Anne and Vnckle to Prince Charles who was borne 1583. and died vnmaried in Muscouia Also Elizabeth eldest Daughter of King Frederick the second Sister to Queene Anne and Aunt to Prince Charles who was espoused to Henrie Iulio Duke of Brunswicke and Luneburg father of two brothers the elder Duke of Brunswicke and Luneburg and Christian Duke of Brunswicke and Bishop of Halberstadt who hath manifested his infinite loue and courage for the defense of the true religion and his Allies exposing his brest to open dangers and infinite perils hazarding his substance and himselfe beyond ordinarie valour or vertue for the restoring of his so much beloued and so much worthie to bee beloued kinswoman Q. Elizabeth O worthie Prince neuer enough to be commended by the weaknesse of a humane pen for I thinke no Tullian no surely nor Tertullian eloquence could sufficiently compile thy commendations and I doubt not but thy vertues haue engrauen more noble thoughts on Thee in the hearts of all than can be expressed by the hands of any But to returne to the famous Off-spring of this happie King Frederick the second and not to forget Augusta third daughter to King Frederick the second and Sister to Queene Anne and Aunt to our worthie Prince Charles borne in the yeere of Christ 1580. Hedwige fourth and youngest daughter to King Frederick the second Sister to Queen Anne and Aunt to Prince Charles maried to Christian Duke Elector of Saxonie Marquisse of Mismia all which Princes issued from the loynes and are the posteritie of the famous King Frederick the second and Sophia his chaste Spouse and worthie Wife Christian the third King of Denmarke c. sonne to Frederick the first King of Denmarke who maried Dorothie Queene of Denmarke daughter to Magnes the second Duke of Saxonie Angry and Westphaly Frederick the first King of Denmarke maried Sophia of Pomerland Queene of Denmarke his second wife daughter to Bugslane the tenth by Anne of Poland Christian the first King of Denmarke c. maried Dorothie Queene of Denmarke daughter to Iohn Marquisse of Brandenburg widow of Christopher Palatine of Rhine Theodore the fortunate Earle of Holdenburg maried Hedwige his second wife daughter of Gerard Duke of Sleswicke Henrie the elder Duke of Brunswicke and Lunenburg was maried to Catherine of Pomerland Dutchesse of Brunswick Albert sirnamed the Achilles of Germanie Marquisse of Brandenburg maried Margaret Marchionesse of Brandenburg youngest daughter of Iames Marquisse of Baden Fredericke Earle of Zolern Burgraue of Norrenburg maried Elizabeth of Bauaria daughter of the Duke of Bauaria who died in the yeere 1457. Fredericke the Hardie Landtgraue of Thurin maried the daughter of Henrie Earle of Henneburg Iames Marquisse of Baden Earle of Spanheim maried Catherine the daughter of Charles Duke of Loraine Henrie the first Earle of Holst and Scaumburg maried Agnes daughter of Florence Earle of Bronchersteine Albert of Habsburg Arch-Duke of Austria and Emperour maried Elizabeth of Carinthia who was murthered 1308. Otho the first Palatine Elector of Rhine Duke of Bauaria maried Agnes daughter of Henrie sonne of Henrie Leo. Lewis Duke of Bauaria maried Lowisa daughter of Primislay King of Bohemia widdow of Albert Boggai and died in 1231. Henrie Bureuen Prince of the Obotrites Meckel maried Maud daughter of Henrie Leo Elector of Saxonie Otho the Rich Earle of Ascanie Marquisse of Salisquetie maried Helica daughter of Beling the Great Elector of Saxonie So likewise Squantiber the first Prince of Vandalls Sclauonie Duke of Pomerand and Stetin one of the prime Progenitors and Roots of these royall Branches died in the yeere of Christ 1107. being the first yeere of the reigne of Henrie the first of England Here then the blindest man may see the famous Genealogie of our mightie Prince the which I haue related in a compendious manner fearing to be tedious or troublesome yet not so briefly but it is void of obscuritie so that the most ignorant may conceiue the most illustrious mariages betweene the Ancestors of this Royall Prince and all parts of Christendome For the Progenitors of his deere Father and our dread Soueraigne haue matched into the most famous Families of the house of Burbon French King and of Nauarre Arragon Castile Loraine and Hapsburg now called Austria of the Emperour and King of Spaine Also by the way the houses of Luxenburgh Gelders and Dowglasse all the which manifest vnto thee how often they haue beene graced with the participation and ioyning in the Imperiall stemme of his sacred Maiesty the King of Great-Britaine Also the noble Line out of which sprung the Kings of Denmarke as Saxonie Pommerland Brunswicke Plantagenet Oldenburg Shamburg Holst and Sleswicke Zelerne and being descended from the Electors of Brandenburg Bauare and Mackleburg in former times the Kings of the Orbotrites Also you may see Austria Baden Oldenburg Thurin Bohemia Also the house of Austria springeth forth from Poland that her branch might be inoculated into Pomerland and so be grafted into Denmarkes stocke This is the neuer-enough to be illustrated descent of our most royall Prince whose famous Predecessours and Allies doe like so many burning Lamps shine to keepe his vertues from obscurity but that being so high of birth all men might looke vpon and loue his worthy disposition and pious inclination the which if I should offer to produce vpon the Theater Stage of these my labours it would be too little to be contained in it and I could not tell where to make a Prologue or an Epilogue to my storie Oh no let such ambition be as remote once to thinke or vndertake to penne his praises to the full which desires no praise but deserues all Let it only be my comfort that I haue payd some duty to him vnto whose perfections my affections are deuoted and whose I am Millions of times more then my owne of whose worth I am an admirer vnto whose Highnesse it is my onely desire to expresse my seruice and manifest my duty and likewise to that high borne Royall Princesse his intended and contracted Spouse whose Royall Person includes all high beatitudes for her birth is most excellent and yet her fortune exceeds her birth and also her vertues her fortunes whose beauty darkens the beames of mundane luster draweth all humane lights to it to behold it with admiration Alas what shall I say If I should vndertake such an endlesse enterprise as to expresse her vertues to the full which are aboue measure except I should take in hand a taske infinit for her praises must bee infinite because her worth is such and sure I am my worke is infinite in nothing but weaknesse let me therfore haue leaue to make that the Omega which was the Alpha of my worke and end with that with the which I did begin humbly besseeching the Giuer of all good gifts and Father of lights in whom is no variablenes or shadow of turning to blesse this Vnion with a happy processe which he hath happily begunne to make their vertues permanent which now are peerelesse and howsoeuer man can scarcely conceiue how they should be more vertuous yet that they may still increase and grow in goodnesse in which there is euermore a plus vltra Long may they liue and loue together and bring forth such golden Apples of Posterity and haue such a happy off-spring that they may be iustly ioyous and all the world fortunate in it that they may haue length and prosperity of dayes here Peace at the time of their passage out of this world and a happy resurrection to eternall life the which that it may be let all good Subiects say as I pray Amen FINIS