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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21002	A buckler against adversitie, or, A treatise of constancie written in French by the Right Honourable the Lord Du Vair ... ; and now done into English by Andreuu Court.; De la constance et consolation és calamites publiques. English. 1622	Du Vair, Guillaume, 1556-1621.; Court, Andrew.	1622 (1622)	STC 7373; ESTC S786	88,690	171

euery one hath run to it not to quench it but to carry away his share as out of a generall firing Must we wonder if an old state dieth of such a disease we ought rather to admire if it should recouer it Adde vnto this old Prophesies which long agoe were made touching its destruction which to our great griefe haue proued so true that they haue got glory vnto the Art and credit vnto such people as haue euer beene held for Cheaters Which teacheth vs that reuolutions of great States come from aboue and are delared euen afore they come to passe I say then when as that which you feare should happen it were but an ordinary thing naturall foreseene therefore we ought to beare it patiently as we doe the vicissitude of seasons the alteration of elements and other changes wee dayly see in all parts of the world And notwithstanding I doe not say it is a thing must come to passe vpon necessitie despaire not yet of the well-fare of my poore France nor of my poore Paris yea I perswade my self that if her end and ruine cannot be auoyded God will put it off till some other season for although the signes of this disease not onely contagious but also pestilent and infectious that hath seized on this State are deadly for the most part neuerthelesse it seemeth Nature now beginneth to helpe her selfe and the noble parts shew yet some strength and liuelinesse to endure the remedies The people which suffered themselues to bee carryed away with this ruinous commotion and by the windes of Feare and Hope Feare to lose their Religion and Hope of some ease and reliefe see plainely they haue by their mad counsels drawne on the mischiefes they shunned and put backe the good they expected Let vs suffer the humours to ripen and you shall see Nature will worke of her selfe and bring forth wholesome effects moreouer the leaders of the people begin to lose the hope that moued them to this proiect that beame of popular fauour which had rowzed their spirits is past like a lightning and Fortune hath shewed she did not fauour them so much for their good as for our mischiefe They see more and see it euidently that strangers with whom they made account to vnder-proppe their greatnes wish for nothing so earnestly as for their ruine and borrow their armes onely to make vse of them to doe their worke hauing resolued not to doe them any other fauour but what the Cyclope of Homer promised to Vlysses which was to eate him vp last of all Doe you thinke them so vnwise to their owne good and so vnnaturall to their owne countrey so ingratefull to the people who haue loued them so well that seeing things in this case they chuse not rather to make France beholden to them restoring peace and rest vnto her and keeping still those great and honorable titles which they may haue then to make their name and memory odious for euer casting themselues vnder the shamefull bondage of an ambitious Spaniard and tumble downe headlong with them such as haue put their life and safetie in trust vpon their fidelitie No I will neuer beleeue they intend to staine their reputation with so base an action and therefore I hope they will bend themselues vnto the wishes of the people that inuite them to quietnesse if they doe it what should not wee hope for and when they doe it what should wee despaire of seeing that God hath brought foorth in our dayes and iust vpon the nicke of this fatall commotion a Prince to succeed this crowne onely in the world able to raise vp either by peace or warre the burthen of this decaying State For peace he hath the name of that Great and Royall familie of Saint Lewes which calleth backe to his obedience all the Subiects of this Kingdome which cannot hope to bee gouerned by a happier auspice then of the Race of that great King that hath raised vp to heauen our French Scepter and hath lifted himselfe on high by his pietie to bee as the Guardian and Tutelarie Saint of this State Hee hath a naturall goodnesse and clemency that reacheth euen to extremitie and would make him to be suspected of negligence if his valour and generositie which appeareth in all the parts of his life did not blot out this suspition For though his Fortune more crossed then any Princes of his time hath brought him foorth amidst ciuill armes and amongst iniuries you cannot marke one onely example of Reuenge being so farre from doing it that hee hath not so much as sought for it thinking himselfe to be sufficiently reuenged in despising his enemies and taking away from them the meanes to doe harme so that he hath made it doubtfull whether it bee more happy for him to ouercome his enemies or for them to be vanquished by him Now if with all this God that keepeth the hearts of Kings in his hand doe dispose his to that which is yet necessarie for the perfect vnion of his Subiects and to that end conuerteth him to the Catholicke Faith and Religion of the Kings his predecessours who can hinder our happinesse and repose Now wee haue great reason to hope well of it as they report of the nature of this Prince who is very capable of reason and easie to bee perswaded vnto that which they make appeare to him to bee fit to bee done Wee know what hee hath promised about it to all his Nobilitie hee hath bin euer commended to bee a faithfull Prince and who neuer breakes his word I assure my selfe in the end wee shall haue what wee ought to desire at his hands in this respect and by those meanes shall beate downe the armes of such who protest to haue taken them onely for this occasion If notwithstanding the obstinacie of those who seeke their greatnesse in publike ruines doth inforce him to trie out by the edge of the sword what the edge of reason ought to decide who could succeede to this State more sufficient to settle the Kingdome anew againe and couer vnder the shaddow of his buckler this poore crowne assaulted on all sides God hath giuen him a heart full of valour and inuincible courage in aduersitie and least his courage should bee slackened with ouer-much rest hee hath exercised him from his childe-hood in continuall trauels and dangers with such Fortune that so many hazardous passages haue beene to him in stead of a Schoole of Vertue and a Haruest of Glory and seemeth certainely seeing the progresse of his Fortune that she hath on purpose raised this warre and called to it so many seuerall nations to behold the spectacle of an extreame valour and an extreme good fortune No no beleeue it you neuer obserued in the succession of times and course of ages that States are ouerthrowne when God sendeth such Princes to command them They haue perhaps beene shrewdly shaken and tossed but afterwards they haue setled themselues againe by the

receiued great certainly to see himselfe driuen out of the chiefest cittie of his kingdome by his owne subiects to see himselfe banished in the midst of his estate to see himselfe depriued of his authoritie and of his commodities To be reuenged he made the second stroke at Blois which was a great wound to his enemies but was no cure to his He thought by this deed to haue blowne vp all the contrary party and smothered in the blood of those two Princes the firebrands of ciuill war but it fell out far otherwise for he kindled them by it did let out by this wound the torrents of blood which haue since ouerflowne all France For you know how that presently after this almost all the great townes of this kingdome rebelled combined themselues and conspired together you remember how that soone after he was besieged and almost taken in Tours Truely all things were so bent against him and Fortune seemed to be so fauourable to the league that those which were on that side thought they had wonne all and behaued themselues very insolently in their Fortune But the battell of Senlis cooled them plucked downe the pride the hope of those that were gone from hence to buy the pillage of that towne which wee accounted already euen as taken Afterwards followed the siege of this Cittie which brought vs within two fingers of our destruction and truely there was no meanes to auoyd it when the Chance began to turne and that the king was treacherously killed with that fearefull blow that ended his life pittifully and put all his into a great confusion The heart of the League began then to increase and new hopes appeared vnto their leaders specially when as the King that now is was besieged in Diepe and that they reported in the market place hee should bee brought forthwith prisoner to Paris That good time lasted not long for euery one wondred to see him and feele him in the Suburbs of Paris and almost within the citty it selfe Certainly that amazed vs much but we grew neuer the wiser for all that The League had presently after a mightie Armie and tooke Vincennes and Pontoise they promised themselues no lesse in Paris then that the King should bee instantly taken for they thinke here that to giue a battell and winne it is all one They were taught full well they are two sundry things for the League gaue the battell but it was terribly beaten This losse was seconded with others to wit that of Mante Corbeil and Melune neuerthelesse the Fortune of the vanquisher was not such but that he found a thorne at Sens that stayed his course Now behold Paris is beleagred suffring all the calamities that one may not onely say but imagine they looke at this present for the succour of strangers that will come and spoyle the countrey and seize vpon France if they can What is all that but an Ebbe and Tide of misery a turne and returne of calamitie that will swallow vs vp in the end if God hath no more pittie of vs then wee haue our selues who is so blinde either of body or vnderstanding that seeth not that all is nothing else but the hand of God which whippeth vs one after another by turnes with the roddes of warres without any body bee able to exempt himselfe from it who iudgeth not plainely that hee makes vse of our mallice and wickednesse to punish vs one by another Kings Princes and Nobilitie are chastised by the insurrection of the people which shake off the yoake of obedience seize vpon their houses cause them to wander vp and downe with their desolate and ruined families they are chastised by the wounds vnto the which they are exposed euery day by the effusion of their blood wherewithall the field is stained almost all ouer The people on the other side are chastised by the souldiours that robbe spoyle and ransacke them townes are taken againe and againe and those that may bee kept and eaten vp with Garrisons surcharged with Watching harried with Toyles afflicted with Pouertie and Famine and which is worst the Inhabitants Robbe Sacke and Eate vp one another As for the Church-men whose Vices haue as much as any thing else inflamed the wrath of God against vs and kindled this warre which they maintaine still as much as they can they are the common play-game of all the rest and as the subiect of the insolencies and iniuries both of the Nobilitie and Commons I forbeare to say that the seruice of God is forsaken euery where that impietie and blasphemies increase that all manner of sacriledge and pollution is committed in holy places and whereas that should bee the most grieuous and and sensible sorrow yet it is that we do lesse complaine of But as for their wealth and temporall goods for the which we haue beene so tormented and to say truely raised for their cause all these Tragedies how are they dealt with all Their Benefices their Lands and Rents are seized on ouerthrowne and burnt in the countrey and their bodies imprisoned ransommed and wronged in the Citties the greater dignitie and honour they haue so much the more are they vexed and tormented And which is more remarkeable they are yet worst vsed by those of the faction they haue raised then by those which they deeme their enemies No title no qualitie no order no holinesse can protect them from the insolency of the seditions of townes and citties or souldiours of armies or countrey Gentlemen Now behold how God ouerthroweth the designs of men and how he can punish them at his pleasure one by another what is lacking to giue contentment and satisfaction vnto those that haue made any question of diuine Iustice but onely to see a few lewd villaines that liue in peace and practise their wickednes vpon innocent people punished in their turne Wee are not yet in the end of this Tragicall play let vs haue patience but vntill the last Act we shall see what we expect we shall see I say that the same people which they haue stirred against good men shall purchase their owne ruine For people in commotion are like vnto the Sea which in a storme and tempest raiseth to the top of the water all the filth that is in the bottome but by little and little it casteth it on shore Wee haue seene the example of some already whose ambition and couetousnesse hath bin requited by the disdainfull contempt and iniury of the base multitude We must hope the rest shall haue their turne too and shall participate vnto the afflictions they haue procured to so many honest mē That which is most to be feared is that God wil wrap vs altogether in one and the selfe-same ruine as wee are much threatned and exterminate all at once so many euill consciences that are amongst vs being no otherwayes able to amend them The surest remedie we haue left is to prostrate our selues deuoutly before his diuine Maiestie and by