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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

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

Imperiall Maiestie of our mightie Soueraigne so long looked for and so much longed for in which Shee might haue a Sister by mariage though not by birth with whom She might make a mutuall exchange of intire affection that She might finde one true friend that might bee her Sister both in deed and vertue that hauing found one so neere Herselfe so like Herselfe her ioy might euen almost exceed Herselfe and who more fit to be Sisters than those who are so concording in vertuous conditions the least of whose rare exquisite perfections cannot bee imitated by any but by one another for who so modest so bountifull so beautifull so chaste so constant so wise and euerie waies so worthie as Elizabeth but Henrette Maria all that they differ is in that which notwithstanding in either of Them is a vertue for the one is a chaste Matron the other a pure Virgin the one the Mother as well of many children as of many holy deeds the other the mother onely of vertuous actions The Almightie of his mercie grant that as Shee is her perfect Patterne in the one so Shee may truely resemble Her that so Shee may bee the happie Mother of many children and Hee the fortunate Father and Progenitour of many Princes that Shee being like a fruitfull Vine vpon the wall-side his children may bee like Oliue Branches round about his table and that in his Posteritie not onely his Highnesse but all the world may bee happie so also the Pfaltz-graues Princely Babes and hopefull Issue reioyce in regard all their Friends are not likely to decease with their Parents but that from their mightie Vncle Prince Charles his loynes shall spring such Princely Sprigs who will take their parts against all those which with an enuious eye and a malicious minde behold their persons For euer therefore let this Contract bee chronicled in the Register of Fame which hath thus imposed an Epilogue to the dolefull Tragedie so passionately acted in the bosomes of the Royll King and Queene of Bohemia and hath begun a Prologue to a ioyfull Comedie the beginning of which shall bee warre and bloudie dissention but the last act containeth the peace of the Church the releefe of the oppressed the ruine of Antichrist and the aduancement of Christian Religion Thus from these two most excellent Princes spring tides of happinesse ouerflowing many Countries and good fortune of which they are the Authours crownes many forraigne Nations but most especially this our Iland and all his Maiesties of Great Brittaines Dominions For if wee shall but behold France with the eye of mature iudgement wee shall finde it stored with all kinde of commodities fit for commerce and traffique being as it were Gods garden in which Hee had planted all his blessings and benefits for what rare blessing is it not richly furnished with as corne cattell fish fowle and all manner of fruit either pleasing to the eye or delightfull to the taste whose soyle is cloathed in a greene mantle decked and adorned with all kinde of various delectable sense-delighting odoriferous flowers Indeed no Kingdomes soyle hath more beautie and bountie than France no Countrey better situated more abounding with excellent wits both in the time of warre and peace than France there is no Kingdome established with godlier Lawes no Monarchie more mightie of authoritie more absolute Soueraigne being a Kingdome so well fortified with power and so well qualified with pietie Indeed neuer was the foundation of any Empire laid with more wisdome and being built vpheld and the ruines repaired with more discretion than France Doe you inquire after the greatnesse of her Prouinces They are like so many Kingdomes yet all vnited in one Neuer were there any Soueraignes of any Kingdomes which haue more constantly laboured for the propagation of the Gospell and the planting of Religion than the French Kings who haue made cleane the floore of Christen dome swept away so much filthinesse and diuerted that great Deluge of Infidels which threatned shipwracke to the French Nation from whence they haue their deserued titles of most Christian Kings What worthie men yea and most excellent Kings hath France produced of whom wee may truely report that they were most valiant in warre most wise in counsell carrying themselues not insultingly in their prosperitie nor yet deiectedly in their aduersitie but being almost conquered in shew they became Conquerours in effect and when they were most in despaire yet neuer despaired of the Common-weale who as they manifested great loue to their subiects so their subiects expressed great loue and affection to them Doe you search who were the Ancestours of the French and inquire after the originall of that Nation you shall finde them neither in the ruines and ashes of Troy neither in the Fens of Moolides but were principally descended from them in Germany a Nation mighty in strength and valour who by defending themselues and succouring others came to be a people powerfull in Armes who still maintained their liberty with their sword from whence they were called by the other Germanes Fraunce which signifies free or reiecting seruitude and bondage And it may bee spoken truely and without flatterie that neuer Kingdome might better boast of so many worthie Princes as this may As Pharamond the first Layer of the Foundation of this Monarchie Clodion his Successour in this building Meroued the Continuer and Augmenter of the Edifice Clouis whose memorie is to bee reuerenced of all posteritie and whose worthie deeds are to bee had in an euerlasting remembrance as being the first that added Christian religion to others conquests and adorned that rare foundation with the faith of Christ the primest ornament of any Principalitie by which meanes the hearts of the Gaules who for the most part embraced the Gospell were as much vnited to him by fauour as his was to God by faith who by this meanes obtained from them voluntarie obedience and was made assured possessour of the others victories who likewise receiued the name of his new Dominions and were called by the name of France To omit that renowned Prince Charlemaigne who being inriched with singular gifts both of bodie and minde repaired the ruine of the Empire was confirmed King of France and Emperour of Rome to the great aduancement of Religion and comfort of the Common-wealth whose issue although it did not alwaies inherit either their Fathers valour or his honour yet God who though He may alter the persons yet still guardeth and guideth the state of Monarchies did raise vp a worthie Successour of that Race to wit Hugh Capet a Prince adorned both with wisdome and modestie ioyning wholsome Lawes to his force of armes and well-gouerned equitie to his authoritie did so ouercast this erected Kingdome with such both godly and goodly Ordinances as it withstood the stormes of many miserable ages And of late yeeres Henrie the fourth the prime Prince of the bloud and first King of the Royall Race of Burbon a Prince

life in his doctrine and doctrine in his life for He appeares to his Subiects vertuous as He would haue them be and labours to be such as He appeareth that as his Lawes giue life vnto his people so he giueth life to his Lawes for they be but as Maximes deriued collected out of his life for it is as a great Volume in which they may reade whole Lectures of wholesome Precepts Neither doth He driue his Subiects on the path of Vertue so much with the Rod of Law as He doth draw them with the Adamant of Loue for can they chuse but dearely and nearely affect Him who as Hee is aboue them in place so Hee exceeds them in loue who being the Head cannot see one of the members hurt but Hee doth sympathize in sorrow with it not placing his gaines in their paines or esteeming Himselfe most a King when they are most basely subiected Neither is his Estate with the peoples welfare as it were in an vniust ballance so that his goes highest when theirs goes lowest but the seat of all his happinesse is situated in their good fortunes Neither doth Hee rule them with a Rod of Iron but a Scepter of Gold neuer restraining their libertie vnlesse it tended to licenciousnesse nor pulling goods from any particular vnlesse it were for a generall good In fine Hee hath brought all his Subiects to such a passe that though He takes nothing by force yet He hath all by loue for who would not venture either his purse or his person to performe his pleasure which of his Subiects would not entertaine his death with sweet embracement so that his Princes or Soueraignes Successours and Posterities welfare might haue birth from his death and spring out of his ashes Certes there is none but would willingly shake hands with life libertie or estate in a gratefull requitall of those blessings we here enioy by the meanes of his Maiesties most gracious gouernment Indeed they are so vnited vnto him by the inviolable bonds of feare and loue that all his Subiects as his Pulses doe beat according to the motion of his heart For ought not they willingly to performe his will who denieth to grant none of their wishes for hath his Kingdomes desired peace how long haue they possest it yea in such a turbulent time when almost all Europe hath had warre in her owne bowels But doe our people thirst for reuenge vpon those which haue iniured their Soueraignes Issue and wronged the Princely Branches sprung from their Royall Stocke for feare they should not be deliuered of that which they trauell of but lose their longing Hee assumeth Armes for the restauration of his Sonne to doe that by force which Hee could not purchase by fauour And sithence He findeth his Enemies not to be like Flints which may be broken vpon the feather-bed of perswasions but as Nettles the which by how much more they are easily handled by so much the more violently they sting He resolues to handle them more roughly lest they as much hurt him as they iniured his Neighbours Then surely what vnspeakable ioy ought this to be to that matchlesse Princesse of France and all her Nation She not more reioycing that Shee hath found such a royall wise and euerie way accomplisht Father than they that they haue found such a noble worthie Friend She may exult that She is ingrafted into such a Stocke they of such Alliance for He is not onely potent in men but powerfull in money and munition that as his money wants not men so his men want not money Howsoeuer indeed some may suggest and obiect that his bountie hath almost exhaust his Treasurie Yet as the candle though it giues another light yet it selfe is not darkened So though our Soueraigne hath enricht many of his Subiects yet Hee hath not impouerisht Himselfe for Hee hath so bestowed it vpon such persons as were not so willing to receiue it but they will be as well content to surrender it vp into his hands againe if either their Kings pleasure or their Countries profit giue them summons to make such a redeliuerie Then surely not onely the Throne but the Footstoole not onely the French Prince but the People may swimme I had almost said surfet with delight in this Blessed Vnion for what hindrance is there whereby that most Christian King Lewis the thirteenth may expect but that as our Princes Highnesse ioynes hands with his Sister so our Kings Maiestie will ioyne Armes with him for the regaining of those Kingdomes which vniustly an vsurping hand detaineth from him for Vis vnitafortior and that I may vse our Prouerbe Many hands make light worke Diuerse threds twisted together as they doe more strongly binde so they are not so easily broken of an enemie It was King Richards comparison A bundle of arrowes bound together could not be broken but disseuered with much facilitie they may be cracked and I may make application to these Kingdomes as Hee did to that his Kingly Issue It is not to bee doubted but that since Iames and Lewis two Kings so valiant Great Brittaine and France two Kingdomes so potent are vnited and ioyned in this bond as well of affection as affinitie their enemies shall not bee of power to preiudice them nor of strength to withstand them And howsoeuer the whole world is an eie-witnesse of the beautie and bountie of both their mindes which is so great that each of them doe esteeme it a greater honour to giue a Kingdome than to get it yet where there is wrong offered them and their Allies all the might of their foes shall be as a stone dasht against steele which shall rebound in their owne faces to their owne disgrace and ruine Neither let their enemies thinke but that howsoeuer they doe not loue to seeke others Dominions yet they will not lose their owne without stirring For will our dread Soueraigne when both amitie and equitie religion and affection doe giue him loud summons to restore his children to their inheritance detaine his helping hand from his hopefull issue Will He or can He see without sorrow and by consequence labour to redresse it that his posterities Countrey which formerly was the garden of the world vnpeopled ruinated and made a desolate Desart his Issue to be exiled from their inheritance and hope banished from them his childrens children forced to flie before they were taught to goe Can he I say see this and not sorrow at it Can he sorrow at it and yet suffer it Can he haue power and yet want will to reuenge it Oh no his hand is full of vigour and hee is fraught with valour his subiects soules doe thirst for reuenge and all his foes shall haue wofull experience that he is as valiant to maintaine a warre as wise to entertaine a peace and he can as well sacrifice at the altars of Mars as Ceres and is as well Achilles for his courage as Vlysses for his counsell Then who

prouing the truth of their words by the triall of their deeds accounting it a deep wound to their reputation not to performe their promises and that the lie deserues more than is in the Prouerbe not onely a stab but damnation they are content with that which the Lord hath allotted to them and doe not so much seeke to offend their neighbours as to defend themselues In a word Are the French affable sober wise modest temperate pious prudent couragious constant magnanimous mercifull iust The English doe answer them in all these worthie qualities and are full of courtesie in their carriage of sobrietie in their countenances of modestie in their behauiours of temperance in their diets of pietie in their religion of prudence in their practises of courage in their combats and controuersies of constancie and stayednesse in their affections of magnanimitie in their enterprises of mercie in pardoning those offences which may possibly be forgiuen and of Iustice in punishing those offences which may not be permitted Therefore of a certaintie no earthly blessing is able to counteruaile your happinesse whose Princesse is combined and conioyned with our Prince whose people is so worthie that Hee doth not seeme like a Royall Golden Pillar built vpon a Base of Lead but a worthie Prince set ouer a worthie people Happie therefore is France in her companie happie the Princesse in her command They extraordinarily fortunate that they shall haue commerce with a Nation who will not be to them as a strange people of a differing disposition but will bee of a correspondencie of condition with them and happie She that shall haue such subiects so wise so worthie so iust so honest that Shee may well thinke this her Kingdome to be a little Heauen in which She sits as Queene and her Subiects as so many Saints Neither doe the sweet-pleasing streames of ioy and solace flow onely to France from this fountaine but as the stomacke though it bee the proper resident place and receptacle of the meat yet doth not only feed and satisfie it selfe but likewise doth nourish and content all the parts about it so this blessed Vnion and sweet Coniunction doth not onely benefit the particular Countries betweene whom it is made but doth likewise reioyce the neighboring Nations and the rest of the League Confederacie Cast but an eye vpon Venice and there euen of one halfe blinde may bee discerned how all in generall applaud and laud it infinitely reioycing that their Friends and Confederates should be so fortunate that England and France should bee so ioyned together in the knot of true loue and amitie From this Contractariseth a hope of the vanquishing of their foes and that by this meanes a happie successe shall accompany all their iust enterprises against their enemies also being mounted vpon the wings of glorie they shall bee seated vpon the necks of their subdued aduersaries and that such conquests shall follow this Contract and such victories these Nuptialls and the posterities of men now liuing and succeeding ages shall see and say It was the mariage of the mightie Prince Charles and the Ladie Henrette Maria which were the Parents and Producers of Religions comfort of the restoring of the wronged to their right for God or the verie day in which Hymens Rites were solemnized betweene Them did matchall good people to happinesse crowned Them with victorie to the consolation of all true Christian Princes friends to equitie enemies of ambition fauourers and followers of vertue But if our intelligence trauell a little lower and you make recourse into the Low-Countries no tongue is able to vtter what they conceiue nor any pen almost to write the ioyous speeches they vtter for the confirmation of this Contract than which nothing could haue been more desired no newes better accepted And whereas the speeches of the former Match did seeme vnto them as hideous as Hell and as terrible as Thunder this is a lightning vnto their hearts for now in stead of feares they haue friends on all sides Allies and Confederates which are of will and power to assist them and to make resistance against their enemies The former Match did seeme vnto them as a storme of warre threatning to demolish the Architect of their welfare this as a Calme of peace promising securitie to their prosperitie Oh happie Brittaine in such a blessed Prince who is by so much more fortunate by how much more He is a meanes to make others happie and from whom can more happinesse bee deriued than from our Prince who cloathes so many Kingdomes at his Mariage-day in robes of comfort and giues to so many Common-wealths such great fauours as neuer did any Potentate in former nor is likely to doe in following time who hath lifted out of the mire of miserie so many drooping hearts and discontented soules Indeed neuer was Mariage more hopefull than this of these two most hopefull Princes by the coniunction of which two propitious Planets in this our firmament of Christendom it presageth the sweet distillation of the drops of happinesse vpon so many especially the Low-Countries whose Inhabitants are filled with heaped measure of mirth for this consolatorie most ioyfull and happie Coniunction The famous Prince of Orange Graue as well naturally as nominally as well really as titularly who is not onely graue and to bee honoured for his yeeres but graue and to be imitated for his vertues being not onely adorned with the grauitie of his head but with the grace of his heart doth heartily praise the God of Heauen by whom all marriages especially of Princes bee made for constituting and appointing this Contract and crossing that which was pretended with Spaine For that had laid his brest open to his enemies it had beene a way which had led to the wasting of his Countrey had it proceeded he might haue saluted it and said as Ahab spoke to Eliah Hast thou found me ob mine enemie But hee may welcome this with the speech of Dauid to Ahiah He is a good man and bringeth glad tydings Neither can it minister any small ioy to the most illustrious Sonne of our most gracious Soueraigne the King of Bohemia who hath along time beene rackt vpon the racke of hard misfortunes and endured the grimme looks of aduersitie but now he hopes safely to saile in the Ocean of pleasure and to see the smiling countenance of Ioy and Solace He doubteth not but now his noble affectionate Father is not onely powerfull in his owne proper forces but strong in Alliance with that mightie potent French King who both of them being so puissant in meanes men money and munition so sufficiently stored with wise graue Counsellours to aduise with young able men to act and put their counsell in execution They will ioyne forces to reioyne his detained Diadem to his head and to restore Him to his Countrey and Dignitie This was the day likewise which the onely Sister of our prosperous mightie Prince and Daughter of the

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

sit vpon thy Throne so long as the Sunne and Moone endureth which hast likewise the number of thy friends increased more than the multitudes of thine enemies is augmented Oh happie France who gauest birth to a Princesse which giueth life to thee promiseth safetie to thy Confines which is the Ornament of thee as thou art the Ornament of the world which mayst ioy in each benefit thou affoordest yet in nothing more than Her Happie in this Contract is Christendome for although now it may for a time endure the corrosiue of war yet it shall be healed with the plaster of peace and a wrangling mother shall beget a quiet daughter and the purifying of the aire shall bee the issue of storme and lightning Happie in this Contract are Christians for they see the bow of the wicked broken and the horne of the righteous exalted the woman in trauaile shall forsake the desert the Church shall put off her mourning weeds and put on the robes of comfort the name of Christ and the Gospell shall bee exalted and the man of sinne and perdition cast into euerlasting destruction But still me thinks there be some sicke queasie stomackt people who distaste all sweet delicates and onely delight in sowre and vnsauory sallets who haue such timorous tender consciences as they feare where there is no danger making that which otherwayes well applied should be the cause of their rest the mother of disquiet fearing lest this Contract should bring an innouation of religion For say they was not I pray you Salomon seduced and brought to idolatrie by marying Did not Abraham forbid Eleazar his seruant nay bound him by an oath not to take his sonne a wise amongst the Canaanites but his owne kinred and were not the Iewes forbidden to match with the Heathen T is true but it is a question whether this was any otherwayes ceremonially enioyned to the Iewes and not necessarily imposed vpon the Gentiles Moreouer if the seruant of Abraham could not haue found a woman for Isaak that would haue come with him hee had beene discharged of his oath Likewise Prince also are publique persons and ought to be Supporters of the publique welfare and therefore that mariage may be lawfull for Him which seemeth inconuenient for a priuate man in regard that Hee is not so much to respect that which may bee for his owne but his peoples welfare No doubt could Ioseph haue well forsake Aegypt without the preiudice of the Country inferring a generall discommoditie he would haue disposed himselfe it may be with more ioy and contentment but God had allotted that by his meanes Aegypt should be preserued nay and I may well say not so much Aegypt as Israel might haue safetie therefore Ioseph must bee brought into Aegypt by a strange meanes matched with a strange women and what was all this to intimate but that Ioseph was sold to Aegypt that Israel might be preserued frō famine and no doubt Gods wisedome doth oftentimes see beyond the reach of mans apprehension and may match a diuersity of Religion to make an vniformity of faith to the end that there may bee one Shepherd one sheepefold one Christ one Christian faith For is not in her brest the whole globe of this worlds worth contained is not her bosome a stately Theater in which each seuerall vertue acteth a liuely part is not the Iuory compared to her whitenes and Aurora pale being ioyned to her blushes her blushes the which modesty doth alwayes dye which notwithstanding doth alwayes liue in her countenance whose matchlesse vertue is not like a Pearle found in a dunghill but dwelling in so faire a lodging It is she only whose beautiful form is such rare physicke as it is able to make an old Prince young and to make a young Prince liue till he be aged True but it is an ancient position that stately buildings must haue great meanes to maintaine them and such rare beauties rich reuenues to vphold their luster for the whitest cloth doth soonest take soyle the richest vesture soonest spoyled if not well looked to and the fairest creature most subiect to be deformed and wrinckled with want pouerty and afflictions It is requisite therefore that your most curious workemanships should be most curiously kept that pictures excellently drawne should be excellently preserued God therefore with whom all things past and to come are present foreseeing the excellency of this modell of true perfections gaue her beautie to her vertues and meanes to her beauty for what Princesse in Europe shall haue a richer dowry The treasure which followes her as a seruant whithersoeuer shee goeth is in finite and as shee wanteth no wealth her selfe so that Kingdome shall want no riches which doth enioy her for what greater riches than happinesse and what greater happinesse than that which she bringeth to the place shee shall inhabit Is it worth or same which they thirst after what greater fame than her beauty and yet her beauty lesse than her least vertue Surely that Kingdome shall need no sunne in which her vertue shineth that Hemisphere no light in which such a light is resplendent no riches in which is such a Iewel Neither is she meanely powerfull in her mighty Allies for as she is neere to all men in affection for what heart can hate so harmlesse a creature so she is deare to many Princes by affinity as to her brother in vertues as well as by birth Lewis the 13 King of the French and Nauarre a Prince so vertuous so valiant that the one might make him prosperous in peace the other triumphant in victories for hee is not onely his Fathers heire in his Kingdome but is like to be his successour in his conquests for though his face as yet doth scarce shew his sex yet his fortitude prooues him a man a man of such inuict courage and incredible force that few can equall none exceed him for though time as yet hath not much outstript him in regard of his tender yeares yet hee hath outstript time who indeed so farre goes beyond all his time and yeares that whereas others seeme to watch and catch time which alwaies stealeth away with a gliding slie pace yet hee seemeth to flie from time time to run after to catch him in so much as when following times shall reade the storie or rather the beginning of his life they shall admire to see one so young in yeares and courage so old in wisdome and experience and shall thinke by his president that discretion hath shaked hands with the gray head hoarie haires as an house ouerweake and vnworthy of such an inhabitant and taken the Castle to defend her selfe against her enemies intemperance and vnchastitie rage fury and diuers other such like troopes of aduerse enemies and enuious aduersaries for though intemperance and vnchastitie are vsuall I had almost said for so they are accounted veniall sinnes yet He is a rider and ruler of his affections reyneth in