THE FRENCH HERALD SVMMONING ALL TRVE Christian Princes to a generall Croisade for a holy warr against the great Enemy of Christendome and all his Slaues VPON THE OCCASION OF the most execrable murther of HENRY the great TO THE PRINCE LONDON Printed by E. Allde for Mathew Lownes and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bishops head in Pauls Church-yard 1611. TO THE PRINCE SIR THis Herald whose very phrase bewraies him enough to be french though he neuer spoke his owne french yet and who rather chose vpon so vrgent a necessity to speake ill in a strange language then not at all now most rightly presents himselfe first vnto your highnes because aswell by your merit as by your fortune you are one of the chiefest if not euen the first vpon whome he calls for the performance of the greatest most Christian and most royall duty that euer was yeelded to the greatest person deceased to the greatest persons living It is no lesse then the cause of God no lesse then the cause of the Gods seing Princes are stiled so by him that onely is so and who by a most excellent fashion aboue all other men after his owne Image made them so And what a more godly ground for all Christians to take the crosse on them against him that vnder a gawdy show of many false crosses the more crossely because closely crosseth the onely and true Crosse of Christ Wherein if it be not your selfe vnder the happy auspices of your glorious father or rather hee himselfe by you then I see no Generall in the world when our Christian Army must come into the field An other reason I haue more especially and wholy to apply to your highnes that which is intended to many A most speciall and holy zeale to your Princely seruice which euen eight yeares agoe brought me into your Country and still working in my hart now enforces me rather to giue you a small touch therof how meane soeuer then it should be longer hid from you how much I am YOVR HIGHNES Most humble most obedient and most ready to be commaunded seruaunt ✚ THE FRENCH HERALD Summoning all truly Christian Princes to a generall Croisado for a Holy VVarr against the great Enemy of Christendome and all his Slaues WHo shall giue me an yron-voice that I may sound out to the foure corners of the Earth the greatest peece of infamy the strangest the wonderfullest treachery the rarest treason which euer was since the foundations of the world were laid But alas who will beleeue my report And now to repeat that which the very Infamy thereof long since hath made so famous through all Nations Is it not in some sort most needles Oh that it were so But since so great so pregnant so extraordinary a cause hath not yet produced conformable effects Needs needs I must remember you as though you knew it not or had forgotten it That that King that King of Fraunce that great King of Fraunce that mighty that tryumphant that victorious that famous Monarch that Thrice-great HENRY honor of his time horror to his enemies that faithfull one to his friends is alas shall I say is when he is no more or if he be yet is nothing but a very nothing dead ô mischiefe twenty yeares before his time in the strength of his age in the current of his glory in the beginning of a new course for more more victories in the very time when most we needed him He is dead but ô Lord how is he dead It is a great thing when a King euen a meane King dyes a thing that shakes often the deepest foundations of his Kingdome sometimes of his neighbours a thing where of all the world will speake thinke much though dead euen leasurely and by the ordinary way But when a great King and such a great one as our great HENRY If euer the like haue ben or shall be comes to an vntimely end not by that easy course of Nature but suddainly snatched violently plucked away from his owne from the very armes of his owne by the base desperat attempt of a mad beast who not able not daring to endure the beames of his royall face giues him his death before from behind It is a case so strange so rare so vnheard of that if there can be any such wonder it were onely not to wonder at it and would to God we might passe no further We wonder at the furious fashion of Lyons euen if tame or when we looke vpon them thorow their grates we wonder at the roaring of the waters euen a farre off But if we see them once let loose and enraged vpon vs If the streames ouerflowing their bankes haue once couered our champions and we be caryed away by the currents swimming between the apprehensions of a weake hope and the pangs of a deadly Ship-wrack Then leaue we wondring and begin fearing by so much more fearfull as the former wonder was great and full of it selfe Who shall giue me an yron-voyce that I may thunder out the most high the most lamentable complaint that euer was heard in the world since our losse is the greatest that euer was in the world Alas not the Lyons not the fiercest beasts of Affrick but the infernall Furies the enchained spirits of the bottomles pit the Dogs the Wolues the Tygers the Lyons the Vipers the Serpents the Dragons of hell are let loose vpon vs walke and wander among vs vnder the shape and name of Frenchmen to worke our mischiefe for french must needs be that hand that must kill Fraunce though Strangers thrust it on as though they could find no where els so much boldnes or so much desperate wickednes Alas not one riuer not many but a whole Ocean of miseries hath ouerwhelmed our whole land now that royall mound now that brazen wall now that sacred trench is broken which with-held it from swelling against vs. What poore hope now if feare may be so tearmed but of a huge if not a generall flood of woes Terror and death enuiron vs round about which could not enter vpon vs but by that gap And we are left swimming together among the direfullest monsters of the deepe in such a heauy case as those which the merciles mouth of the sea will spare shall not escape their hungry bellies And yet French-men there is a small sparke left vs of a better hope if we can be wise Who shall giue me an yron-voyce that I may break into their minds whose eares the sound of my doleful cōplaint hath pierced That I may stir them vp no longer to a silent wonder no longer to a melting compassion but to a bloody anger and no lesse pittiles then iust reuenge of so wonderfull so pittifull so wrongfull a treason The so miserable losse I say of so great a King a losse alas I cannot say it enough so great so publick so generall so vniuersall so farre and
all his Enemies to pouder Good Lord how many high dissignes ouerthrowne how many threds cut with that of his life and what a wretched Remora staies now a great ship He was so full of life and vigor he had so many friends and so many meanes so many men and so many horses so many armes and so many cannons besides so much courage and valour so much iudgment and dexterity so much resolution and wisedome so much experience and readines in warre in state Campe Counsell and euery where as it is vnpossible to discerne whether he was more valiant or more wise more polliticke or more martiall being a like excellent and perfect euery way And all that could not helpe but a forlorne wretch a man of nothing a nothing and not a man hath stayed the course of so great so mighty and so matchlesse a Monarch to whom euen the most dreadfull elements had yeelded who sent a trembling Ague into the harts of all those who were conscious to haue deserued his anger At Melun he shunned the attempt of Barriere At Fontainebleau that of a Spanyard who would haue rewarded him with a trecherous death euen when he healed him of the Kings euill At Paris that of a mad fellow yet liuing and whom he would neuer suffer to be punished so naturally was he giuen to compassion and clemency Al these attempts thogh missing indeed together with that which really and effectually did beat out his very teeth were sufficient to prouide him against this last and fatall blow But alas that to braue minde could neuer learne how to feare And yet the very day of his death had he some secret feeling of his end Hee laye downe twise or thrise vpon his bed against his custome rysing againe as oft kneeled and prayed hartely to God that morning as if he had foreknowne it would be his last For that morning he was intreated not to stirre abroad and fore-warned by a learned Astronomer called La Brosse that that day was dangerous to him but he trusting his owne goodnes and after so Christian a preparation resolued to any thing his maker would lay vpon him made so small account thereof as going after noone to the Arsenall even he refused to take any Guard Neuerthelesse an hower before he could not well frame with himselfe if he would goe or tarry being deuided between the with-drawing counsell of his good Angell the impulsiue force of his destiny a thing altogether vnvsuall to the promptnes of his wit neuer before hauing ben seen to stagger vpon any occasion At last his courage and our mischance got the vpper hand When he receaued the blow he was reading a letter from the Arch-duke who offered him passage for his Army and to defray all charges through his Country And in the very feeling of his ioy our sorrow ouertooke him Oh! how farre was he in the world when he went out of it But sure those cruell blowes were more against our selues then against him and God in his wrath took that inestimable iewell from vs whose worth wee neuer rightly valued Yet O Lord stay heere at the least we indeed are worthy of a sharper punishment but altogether vnable to beare it Giue vs leaue now to lament for our worthy Prince for whom forgiue vs ô father if perhaps our sorrow be more then is due to any mortall And yet deere Country men thus farre may we ioy in our sorrow and thanke God for many comforts which cannot easily be taken from vs we suffer a great losse indeed most senceles stony were we if we should not feele it But I pray you looke ouer me with mee both the fortune and nature of our state Whensoeuer any new line of our Kings hath ben about to set vp it selfe by his own strength these great changes haue neuer ben without great troubles and some extraordinary great conuulsion For as in the naturall so in the Politicke body as a chiefe bone cannot be broken without much violence but when it comes once to knit againe there growes a certaine hardnes callosity more strong then euer the bone it selfe was So when after such aebreach the Kingdome hath once taken root ben well established the father euer left it surer to his fonne and a fonne greater then his father aboue whome as per excellentiam he alwaies got the surname of great indeed We had but three lines since our stories began to be written by our owne men for in those times our fore-fathers more carefull to do then curious to speake rather gaue then tooke occasion of writing So that if euen those that most would haue concealed it had not ben forced to tell it vs we should haue knowne nothing of our selues afore Faramond But looke how soone came in our first Clovis but the second after Merouee from whom the first line tooke name and how iustly deserued he the surname of great if in that golden age of simplicity those swollen titles had ben in vse And afterward was not our Charles great indeed the second of the second line to which euen in double respect he gaue name Now in the third was not our Robert both King and surnamed great euen during his fathers raigne who neuer so worthy had but a sorry surname as though his sonne had ben the very soule of the Kingdome and the father could not truly be a King without him And howsoeuer the accession now of Bourbon to the Crowne cannot rightly be tearmed the change of a line no more then that of Valois being iust both alike after the successiue decease of three brethren without heire male successiuely Kings after their father but only the ingrafting of a natiue bud vpon his owne stock yet the example may hold because it is a new branch and name and more especially because one braue Prince was more stood against more powerfully and more passionately then euer any of all those before or euen all they together He had wonderful smal meanes whē he came to the crown and no better friend but Dieu son droit with his owne sword he was of a religion contrary to that which was formerly professed in his kingdome he had not only the bodies but which is worse harts mindes and soules strongly preoccupated wholy bent against him all which oppositions he must needs ouercome one by one And howbeit in the end he setled his affaires was a better Catholique then the Pope himself yet the weake faith of some incredulous soules could not as yet well receaue it and the wily craft of those deceitful Foxes or rather rauenous Wolues accustomed to make aduantage as ill of silly mens weakenes as of desperate wretches resolutions and whose wide clawes nothing escapeth be it neuer so hot or cold light or heauy dissembling their owne knowledge did foster and further the others vnbeleefe made away to make him away Yet his vertue strength are not dead but with a fame
was when the Councell of Nicea did graunt it him and then let him haue the precedency of al our Patriarchs as the ancientest Let him keepe still the keyes of his owne gates as an ecclesiasticall Prince yea and the sword within his owne scabberd as a secular Prince to And let him draw it when he list and flourish with it in his owne territories I am sure this is the best this is the shortest way to reforme many abuses which the reasonabler sort auow are crept into the Churche the surer way to reconcile that wilfull diuersity of opinions which hath so long distracted the harts and mindes yea the bodies of Frenchmen into seuerall factions bringing your two flocks againe into one folde and vnder a shepheard of your owne And there shall not be a Huguenot in Fraunce For the Iebuzits which I wil neuer grace with their vsurped name If you will not deale with them as all Christian Princes did once and at once and vpon farr lesser reasons with the poore knight-Templers If you will not renew that wise sentence of your father pronounced against them with his own mouth yet full of blood when they did beat out his teeth rather imitate his hurtful clemency that call'd them againe to strike at his hart If you wil not followe the laudable example of that graue Senat Common-wealth whose Catholicity none can cal in question Then at least at least for a great worke of supererogation transcendency of kindnes let them be brought vnder a new General of our own Natiō let them take a new oath to him he to your Patriacrh your Patriarch to your selfe so let it be seuerally through al Nations without hauing any thing either to medle or correspond one with another But Sir the Tyrant is in such so long a possession of his vsurped power as he will thinke these most equall conditions vniust and there is no hope of all this to take effect without the sword If faire meanes would do it the better It is written Beati pacifici and most happy be they indeed But if peace cannot be had with peace If an vncertaine but honorable war be to be preferred to a certainly dangerous but dishonorable peace To the sword then in Gods name to the fire if need be And blessed ô thrice-blessed be the war war-makers whose end is so happy desired a peace But all the fier that can euer be kindled all the blood we can euer shed will not giue vs our king againe True but let vs be wise after the blow at least since we haue receaued so mighty a one That which can not bring back HENRY may preserue LEWIS you shall make your own life sure by reuenging the death of your father and yeeld vnto whome you owe your selfe the iustice you owe to all So Cesar made sure his owne Statues by setting vp againe those of Pompey And if any crooked soule or weake minde will still wilfully contend that you are young and your affaires engaged to other ends Once more for all I aunswer whatsoeuer they be they cannot they must not they ought not to admit other or more conuenient and necessary ends then those of your honor life and safety wherein all ours is included and with yours and ours that of all Christendome For your person I haue shewed you are great both for your age Kingdome fauoured besides of heauen and earth in so iust a quarrell namely of other Princes your good friends and neighbors all touched in this murther KIng you ô most mighty most wise most excellent King of yonder fortunat Ilands which by nature as so many little worlds most fortunate in themselues are yet more fortunate by your gouernment Bright morning-starre of humane learning holy Oracle of heauenly wisdome purified light of the finest and most refined iudgements vnto whome there is not any crowned head at this day liuing but will must needs stoope in acknowledgement of superiority Thrice worthy Monarch whose name I need not otherwise set downe since euen those that most are loath must needs acknowledge you by your own marks Do you not really feelingly lament for our losse Do you not aboue all take it in deed as your owne Haue I not often heard you tel it to others Haue you not often told it to my selfe Alas so very wel you may Our braue father your deare brother was taken but in exchange It was but his lot to goe before The enemies did yet at this time do pretend no lesse against your life You knowe it of olde by the blessed miscarrying of their hellish plots and you knew it of late euen by himselfe who more carefull of his friends safety then of his owne as though he had done enough to warne you was since negligent in garding himselfe Monarch o double Monarch equally ouer soules by that worth which makes you a king thogh you had not ben borne so as ouer bodies by right of blood Time is now past writing forbearance longanimity clemency pardon and all pen-worke are now out of season the sword the sword must cut the knots of this busines They make themselues worthy to write against you who are most vnworthy you should looke vpon them And while you striue to cut their taile contrary to the weakest Serpents their venom lies in the head They get a name by being ouer-come by so famous an Aduersary and yet liue They dare bite you againe they dare ruffle your honor who were better to be ruffled by a hangman a most fit decyder of their quarrels Alarum Alarum Hee himselfe hath throwen into the Tiber his most lawful weapons as too kinde setting all his rest vpon Pauls sword but S. PAVLS sword euen that sword of the spirit is ours and will not cut for him His sword is but vaine imaginary blunt broken borrowed though very hurtfull Yours is your owne euen the royall euen the reall and sharp sword of the iust reuenge of God which shall breake his asunder like brittle glasse and that scepter of yron which the sonne of the Almighty hath put into your hands shall crush his in pieces as a Potters vessell On on sword against sword let 's try which cuts best Euen the greatest euen the best part of Christendome all the honest Catholicks not papists wil followe you who looke for nothing els but to see somebody in the field to break the first yce Now they grieue now they are ashamed to haue bene so long nusled vp in so many grosse errors now they confes them now they begin to see somewhat cleere and where they had of old an Aegiptian darknes before their eies they haue now but cobweb-lawnes which yet God will remoue in his good time Long since haue many great learned men earnestly long'd for reformation in their owne Church who yet affirme they cannot hope for so great a good vnlesse the Tyranny of Rome for so they
instrument Our King Frauncis the great had no other ground for that bloudy warr he made against the Emperor but only the reuenge of a seruant of his Merueilles The death of that man alone cost the liues of an hundreth thousand and shooke the very foundacions of Europe And now shall the death of the greatest king that euer wore the Crowne of France be so meanely regarded so slightly past ouer euen by his owne feruants by his owne sonne without more feeling without more stirring then for a glasse broken And shall all posterity see the story our Nephewes read therein without blushing at the impassibility of their Fathers What would so many Nations say which do so honorably esteeme of the French name if they should see vs drinke vp such a shame What would we say our selues to the sacred ghost of that famous Prince if as once that of Achilles to the Greeks it returned and would reproch vs we sacrificed nothing vpon his Tombe Wil we say it is want of mony The Bastille is heaped full with it want of men Fraunce ouerfloweth with them want of friends Neuer any King had more or better want of Armes and munition Neuer store-house was better furnished both for quantity and goodnes What want wee then but that rare King hath most aboundantly left it vs to reuenge his death Ah Sir I can well tell what we want nine or ten yeares more nothing els you should haue had them for vs if that vnhappy wretch had not so vntimely preuented the natural death of your healthful father But what Did we neuer beat our Enemies euen vnder yonger Kings then your selfe what then vnder the infant Clotaire whom our Queene his mother carried hanging on her breast in his swadling bands at the fore-front of the battell crying aloud French-men this is your King She was a Queene indeed and he a king neuerthelesse though young nor those olde French daunted euer the more And yet by the way I would wish you to note that this young King this sucking babe being scarce foure moneths old when he wonne battells was the first afterwards who for his greatnes valor and worth got the glorious surname of great amōg his French thogh yet in those dayes of a general goodnes they were more ready to nich-name their kings for one onely vice then to honour them for many good qualities so rife were these so scarce those What and vnder Lewis your owne Ancetor whose happy name you carry as well as his Scepter Did not he succeed in this same State and very neere at the selfe-same age as your selfe And did he leaue to chastise his Enemies abroad his rebels at home and afterwards to vndertake vpon Palestine and Egipt Then comming backe into Fraunce make a new iourney into Affrick yet found he at his entry to the Crowne all his kingdome in trouble neuer more quiet then at this present his Princes and great ones deuided from him vnited against him which doe not deuise any thing now but generall vnion and your seruice and did neuerthelesse most happily ouercome all those difficulties his kingdome being not so great as yours by much nor his renenue the tenth part of that which you possesse Do you thinke Sir that that braue Prince which so valiantly vndertooke so great warres as farre from his interest as from his limits would haue demurred vpon the reuenge of so high an iniury Foraine examples would euen shame our owne being so faire and so worthy of imitation as among many I cannot heere deny due place to one most famous and very neere our case Philip of Macedon a great Captaine and a great king as our eyes haue seen our great HENRY hauing conquered all Greece as he Fraunce is murthered euen as he in his own chiefe Citty in a publick reioycing and vpon the very instant when he was to execute the greatest enterprise he euer had in hand His sonne Alexander the great yet a childe for so Demosthenes cals him ascended vpon the Throne of Philip as our LEWIS vpon that of HENRY but he feeles it shake vnder his feete sees Greekes and Barbarians vp against him on euery side his Counsell dismayed wish him to leaue off the affaires of Greece and quietly compound the rest Nay saith he but if I be perceiued to shrink at the beginning I shall euer haue my hands full of them and following this braue resolution ouer-throwes the Barbarians in a great battaile ouer-runnes all Greece like a fire and destroyes the Empire of the Persians the greatest then in the world with a small Army of thirty thousand men at the first and a stocke of thirty Talents Yet with so small meanes neuer would goe out of the Hauen but he would requite olde seruants and get newe giuing all away saue hope which he only kept for himselfe And when he had endeludged the world with a generall inundation of bloud yet is not contented if Iupiter from heauen do not assure him the death of his father is fully reuenged and his Manes fully appeased And you Sir who haue more Captaines then he Souldiers more Millions then he Talents more stedfastnes in your estate more obedience in your subiects more loue in your Nobility more wisedome in your Counsell then euer Alexander had with so many aduantages wil you not resolue your selfe to the execution of that vengeance wil you not steele your selfe in that resolution and will you rather be faint-harted at this first tryal will you winck at your Fathers murther and tarry till another knife forged perhaps vpon the same Anuile send you the same way tell his dolefull Shadow that for contemning the reuenge of his death you your selfe lost your owne life Oh! let me rather loose mine eyes then see it rather my senses rather my vnderstanding rather all then feele it or at any time come to the knowledge thereof This puts me out of frame this kills me when in the fit of this burning Ague in the sharpnes of this paine those who but yesterday armed them selues for some Duch come tell me now we must not speake of warr for the Kings death for what els then Country-men for a foote of ground for Cleves or Iuliers which are none of ours I neuer spoke of Naples Millan and Navarre which are ours indeed there they stand stil there shal we euer find thē But where shall we recouer that great HENRY who hath ben taken so traiterously taken from vs Yet if we had lost him in war where the heat of the fight spares none Pacience Armes are doubtfull oft-times number surmounts valour But to haue him murthered in cold bloud in a full peace before the eyes of al the world that we durst not and that we should not reuenge it it would be the shamfullest and greatest dishonour that euer hapned vnto vs to cover darken kill bury for euer the whole French name and what-soever glorious we haue done
heretofore Moreouer we do neuer so sensibly esteeme of other mens losses as of our owne All those peeces were indeed lost for vs not by vs they were taken from our Fathers vpon some colour of right at least right of warr which as our Brennus was wont to say is the most auncient and vniuersall Law The griefe thereof is past long since But if any would encroch now but one foot of land vpon our Borders in what an other sort would we stirr for it then for all those kingdomes And will wee not stirre for the death of our Kings who woulde not without feare vnder-take against their sacred liues if wee valued them cheaper then their Lands Yet haue wee a kinde of comfort in those losses they were so deerly solde that the possessors dare not much boast of it And shall we not make them pay more deerly for the pricelesse life of our deere Prince Shall they laugh it out to our faces whilst we sit basely weeping And shall not their insolency sharpen our anger O French-women no more French men if that might euer be reproched vnto vs But now what relation what proporcion of the losse of some land to the losse of a King and of such a King as he was Neuertheles who knowes not but the least of those peeces hath often set all Christendome in fire and bloud our Kings them-selues not sparing their owne liues for them Againe I neuer spoke in the yong daies of your Maiesties raigne Then we could not choose but greatly be amazed at the greatnes at the suddennes of our blow and somwhat yeild to the fury of the storme Then were we rather to looke to assure our selues then to trouble others rather to defend then to assaile and panting vnder the waight of our ruyne take holde as it were for a time of that hand that had drawen it vpon vs as not knowing or rather not seeming or rather not striving to knowe our enemies But now since there is nothing to be apprehended since in their lowest degree of weakenes misery they had no further end then onely to take him away esteeming they had gotten enough if we might but loose him as to his perpetuall glory they feared him alone more then all France besides or els thinking that he being gone all things would go away after him of themselues be turned vpside downe Since it pleased God in his diuine mercy to confound their thoughts shewing them and vs and all the world that he can scourge and haue pitty wound to death with one angry hand hauing the other still ready to apply the plaister and against all hope to heale that he can kill and make aliue bring downe to the graue and raise vp againe since we are now as strong and as strongly setled as euer in your fathers time if not more Why should we not speak boldly Why should we not point at our enemies with the finger and call them by their owne names Why should we not goe and yet more boldly fall vpon them all There is no more doubt no more difficulty who hath forged that parricidious steele we know alas now we know to much their doctrine and practise and cannot say worse against them then they haue written themselues Time was and in King Henry the thirds time it was when we feared only secret confessions priuate conferences hidden chambers of Meditacion All these works of darknes were as yet done in the darke and could catch none but some weake and brain-sicke soules But now Time is that he that can transforme himself in an Angell of light hath set an open schoole thereof and sent his black Doctors thorough all nations more safely to deceiue falsely carrying the sweete name whose person they persecute because when he put them out of hell he told them A Iesu ite Now it is publikely taught and as a thirtenth article of faith maintained and commanded to be added to the Creede vnder paine of eternall damnation And if we do not at last open our eyes if wee doe not set our selues against it if we let it coole any longer and not put it downe in hot blood Time shall neuer be nor so good nor so fit as it is now Mariana was the first who was bold to reduce it in art and precepts in three set bookes De regis destructione And though many almost as pestilent as he both of his owne nation and Society both before and after him haue written vpon that vnhappy subiect as Ribadeneyra Toledo Valencia Vasquez Azor Sa and others yet because with them he that can worke most mischiefe is worthy of the highest title this most vnworthy villaine shall goe in the fore-front since he without them and aboue any of them or rather aboue all them hath wrought most villany and kild so great a King That execrable monster could not be borne very far from Affrick And Indè prima mali labes Yet because Spayne shall not be disgraced alone by breeding such royall Dragons such venemous Basiliskes which kill not men simply but kings not with their sight being not otherwise so resolute or religiously minded as to venture so neere but with their breath only and a farre off And whose infectious stinck can still murther not during their liues onely but a thousand yeares after their death very farre from those old Prophets whose dead carkases did raise others to life There is no Nation in the world but hath a share in the shame Germany euen honest Germany that golden Latium of old Saturnus and who hath kept herselfe more vnspotted of this newer world wil acknowledge she hath no small part therin There you shall find one of those doting indeed and yet no lesse proud yet no lesse wicked serpents who dares not onely vomit his venome against kings but inueighing against them vsurpe euen their very title and phrase as in a kinde of comparison or as if he would play the king himselfe But oh how farre commest thou short impudent Gretzerus No Iebuzit but one only Araunah could euer bring forth a Royall Gift and farre better hadst thou done to keepe thy selfe within thine owne rancke adding the most crooked letter of the Alphabet and most like thy serpent-like dealing to thy title more fitly call it Basiliscon Doron But God would not haue thee both wicked and wise at once for when thou hast broke thy head at the very head and first word of thy booke it is not enough but thou must needes break thy neck also in thy foolish dedication to such a one as thou neuer sawest to such a one as thou shalt neuer see for that great soule being departed penitent no doubt but where she is Gretzerus there shalt thou hardly come finally to such a one as shall neuer heare of it and if she should could neuer but greatly abhorre to be cogged from heere below perswaded to make a party there aboue for the Loyolists and Cabalise with