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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54322	A collection of some brave actions and memorable sayings of King Henry the Great. Writ in French by the Bishop of Rodez, as a supplement to the history of that King, formerly publish'd by the same author. Done into English. Licensed, June 6. 1688	Péréfixe de Beaumont, Hardouin de, b. 1605.	1688 (1688)	Wing P1465AA; ESTC R218232	15,617	73

A COLLECTION OF SOME Brave ACTIONS AND Memorable SAYINGS OF King Henry the Great Writ in French by the Bishop of Rodez as a Supplement to the History of that King formerly publish'd by the same Author Done into English Licensed June 6. 1688. LONDON Printed for Abel Roper at the Bell over against the Middle Temple-Gate near Temple-Bar 1688. Advertisement THE Glorious Name of Henry the Great is sufficient to recommend to the the Public any thing concerning him Nor is it the least of those Glories which Crown his Memory that not only the most Christian King now reigning in France is his Grandson but also our own most Gracious Sovereign King James II. whose true and lively Character we may read in what is here said of his Grandfather King Henry IV. This Collection of that famous Prince's Words and Actions I find Printed at the end of the French Edition of his Life and writ by the same Author Hardovin de Perefixe Bishop of Rodez tho it seems it has not been hitherto rendred into our Language Certainly the Remarks here collected are worthy the Applause of all Nations and the Imitation of the greatest and bravest of Men. As he was not inferiour except only in time to the best of those Heroes of Antiquity whose Actions and Sayings Plutarch hath with great Industry collected so are these Particulars of his Life no less worthy of Observation But I will detain the Reader no longer from perusing the Author premising only that the Bishop of Rodez was formerly Preceptor to his Present Majesty of France King Lewis XIV and the occasion of his making these Collections he hath sufficiently set forth in his Epistle Dedicatory to that King as follows TO THE KING SIRE WHEN I observed your Majesties Care and Delight in reading the Summary of the Life of Henry the Great to have given your Majesty some Satisfaction and caused so great Joy in all France who saw her King follow such glorious Examples I thought my self obliged to add thereunto this little Collection which I have made of the bravest Actions and the most memorable Sayings of that August Monarch That so the Picture which I have already presented to your Majesty may appear more finisht and perfect In effect Sire these particulars do represent the Interior of his Soul and express his Genius and his Inclinations more lively than all that has been said in the most glorious part of his History and discovering to us the bottom of his Heart and Spirit they at the same time make us see that this generous Prince was such within as he appeared without and that he was not at all like those who have nothing good but the Exterior and who disguise dangerous Vices under beautiful Appearances But Sire it must necessarily be acknowledged that you have made a much better Picture of him in your Person and Conduct beyond the performance of all the Pencils and Pens of the World. Further let me add that in regard your Majesty is not displeased that I have the Honour to be near your Person and that thereby I have the Joy to see such great and glorious Actions at so little distance I find my self engaged to commit them to writing that so I may one day attest them to all Europe and to Posterity I believe that when the Public shall see the History which I design to give them they will confess that the Parallel of your Majesty with Henry the Great will be most just and that even the Glory of the Grandfather will receive new Splendor from that of his Grandson I shall be at no trouble to invent any Artifice or false Ornaments to embelish the Work I shall not need to employ therein any thing but Candour and the simple Truth and if I have any Reproach to fear it will be that I have said less than Renown it self has publisht In effect Sire seeing that so noble Ayr and that profound Wisdom with which your Majesty proceeds I dare boldly and without Flattery fore-tell that your Heroic Vertues will in a little time surpass those of Augustus of Charlemagne and of Henry the Great and I hope also that the Favours of Heaven continuing I shall see your Glory and your Posterity to equal the Desires which I daily make with that Zeal which ought to appear in SIRE Of your Majesty The most humble most obedient most faithful and most obliged Servant and Subject Hardovin B. of Rodez A COLLECTION OF CERTAIN Brave ACTIONS AND Memorable SAYINGS OF King Henry the Great IT would be a Task mighty painful and without end to him who aims to express every thing that 's Brave in the Life of Henry the Great More than Fifty Historians and above Five Hun● Panegyrists Poets and Orators have endeavour'd it and yet have not exprest half what the Subject affords Amidst so great variety we collect here some Flowers not the most beautiful perhaps but however such as please best and we will put them together without Art and Order the Confusion of pleasing Objects having its proper Beauty as well as the best Method Some have observ'd that this Great King excell'd the Emperor Augustus in Goodness and Mercy and that like him after a long Intestine War he closed up the Wounds of the State allay'd the Tempest that disturb'd it and restor'd the Force of the Laws the Authority of the Magistrate and the Discipline of his Soldiers Many also have compared the begining of his Reign to that of David for the great Revolutions that exercis'd his Courage The Middle to that of Solomon for the Order and Beauty of his Government and for the Plenty and Riches which he procured to his Kingdom And his mournful End to that of Josias Three of the best and most religious Kings that ever Govern'd God's People Others have put him in parallel with Cyrus the Founder of the Persian Empire with Alexander the Great with the Emperors Constantine I. Charlemagne Otho and Henry IV. Certain it is there is not one of these Princes to whom he may not be equall'd and perhaps in some particulars he much excells It is a curious Observation that never any Prince arriv'd to the Succession of a Crown at so great a distance from it nor ever saw so many Princes of the Blood die before him But it is a more important Remarque that never King of France united so many fair Possessions into his Dominion as he He only brought more Additions to the Crown than Philip de Valois Lewis XII and Francis I. who all like him were of the collateral Line He annext that part which was left him of the Kingdom of Navarre the Soveraignty of Bearn the Dutchies of Alanson Vendosme Albert Beaumont Vicomte I know not how many rich Counties Foix Armagnac Bigorre Rovergue Peigord la Fere Marle Soissons Limoges Conversan and so many other Lands that to name them would be troublesom It is easie to say what was the most prevailing Passion of this