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religion_n	england_n	king_n	parliament_n	3,428	5	6.3449	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55902	The history of France under the ministry of Cardinal Mazarine containing all the remarkable and curious passages in the government of that state, from the death of King Louis XIII, which happened in the year 1643, to the death of the cardinal, which was in the year 1664 / written in Latine by Sieur Benjamin Priolo ... ; done into English by Christopher Wase.; Ab excessu Ludovici XIII de rebus Gallicis historiarum libri XII. English	Priolo, Benjamin, 1602-1667.; Wase, Christopher, 1625?-1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing P3506A; ESTC R7055	242,261	471

Walks paved with bright Diamonds and bordered with the Green of Emraulds From the barren Land comes no Vintage but without bearing increase it blesses the Vine-dresser and never fails his hope being content with being gleaned by the eye only There was at this time a Staple so that many of our Merchants went over to Agra and came back in a blessed condition There were also Operas for Comical Scenes splendidly built and Actors fetched from all parts Nothing was happier than Paris at that time It triumphed abroad fearing nothing at home Nomischiefs of Factions no cruelty of Plots the serenity of the Court being clouded by no discontent The Queen-Mother not yet exercised by the Fates through their clemency found by experience that nothing was more delightful than her Government Mazarines Justice appeared in determining of Causes and his singular affability towards those who brought their Complaints and Requests to him Every hour he admitted to Audience without any surly Introducer would never interrupt any one in his Speech till the modesty of the Suitor warned him to be silent His glory was yet unspotted with any slander He healed whatever was wounded not rip'd up nor would examine strictly every trivial matter that he might be thought to have found and not made us good Money flew about him plentifully in the City for Julius was not yet given out to think of the hoarding up of it who though he were naturally tenacious acquired a reputation of bounty by a niggardly way of giving He had not as yet avowedly abandoned himself to a desire after Wealth He seemed to possess not to be possessed As malice and envy afterwards spoke falsely of the man Publick Charges Ecclesiastical and Secular Dignities not dismembred not with a large portion of them intercepted were the rewards of only vertue The faith of the Courtiers was not yet engaged by Bribes Who would think of such a sudden that all should change and this Summer-calm turn into storms more grievous than Winter-tempests First of all the Tribe of the Scholars to whom yet he had founded and dedicated his Library jear and defame Mazarine in divers Pamphlets but such as are not long-lived as most pieces of the French This hath been observed that almost nothing hath proceeded from the Wits of that Nation which promises immortality whereas in other things France is one of the most famous Countries of the whole World and fruitful in so many Commodities it is barren in this only Spirits naturally inclined to Drollery and Jest a faculty of talking extempore with some appearance perhaps of raillery They haunt great mens Tables wander about their Academies trick and trim their native tongue without end and boast of having refined their Language they trot about this way and that way to make Visits do not delight in secret solitude which is the only ferment of studies They contend in most barbarous Emulations whereupon ariseth unhandsom detraction and ridiculous saucines They are the very Ophiogenes and Psilli that 〈◊〉 out only the poyson of Books The Women following Scholars in tongue would use detraction upon their Couches and in their Circles they would curiously unravel the Government watch the words and actions of Mazarine study his Nature and more and more question the mans Honesty Some of them prostitute themselves to search our some State-secret infect their Husbands unawares with the malignancy These were the means that gave birth these that gave growth to the distempe● spreading through the Provinces for after our Example the Kingdom is fashioned At that time four not ill-humor'd but such as did more hurt by their life than good by their Wit set all France in a Combustion The far extended ugliness of the scandal should have been redressed by severity and had they been duely punished they would have brought as much credit to the State as by their ill government they wrought shame They afterwards when their designs failed as is usual precondemning themselves turned Nuns by a false dissembling of Religion and a gross superstition the door being shut to their vices grown out of season when rotten old age condemned by the Looking-glass by its own peremptory sentence doth dread it self It is a high task not to fight with but flye from sin nor to moderate but mortifie lusts The Parliament not of Paris only but of Rouen Bourdeaux and Britanny with others even murmured The people watching for Changes and Troubles follow their Examples as is common Openly that Mazarine must be removed by whom the work of Peace was obstructed that the subtle man loved War that so he might conceal his Robberies The Princes under-hand abetted him yet did the like by their Creatures and Emissaries nay even gave out that they would not have Mazarine removed but awed that so they might fish from him kept in fear what they listed that they could not have a more able Minister they must take heed lest banishing away the Italian they should come into the hands of some bold French-man who would restrain their unreasonable Suits which were infinite Mazarine took no notice of all this and by a prudent moderation withstood the storm Scattered all about embers covered with ashes upon which they like blind men and not well versed in Politicks walked as the issue proved I do not think that ever any Insurrection supported by so great preparation and strength did ever so vanish away ●n smoak nor a Faction discussed with such dexerity So many Nobles so many Princes the Parliaments of the whole Kingdom all the Capital Cities a great part of the Armies all not able to ●on-plus a Stranger Either must that man have ●xcelled in the Art of Government or sloth and Cowar●ise have reigned in these There were not wanting that took encouragement to enter upon these troubles from the English who prospered although they had revolted from their King Charles I. King of England ruled over three Kingdoms with the affections of his Subjects Not being contented with this happy state of Affairs he would innovate some things in Worship that so Calvinism which is sapless and slovenly might look fine in a handsom dress trimmed up with the Ceremonies Scotland first opposes the new Liturgy which the Parliament of England affirmed was bending towards the Catholick Religion Popery they call it the same way also did the Scotch Parliament lean These were the first beginnings of the Trouble Nothing is more certain then that neither the King nor Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of England had any inclination towards the turning Catholicks but leaving the Doctrine unaltered would have put a Pale of Reverence about the Church of England There had been thoughts perhaps about retaining the solemn Sacrifice as we call it retrenching the multitude of Masses which through the unpreparedness of the people and impurity of the Priests bring Scandal to Religion especially of barring it out of private Houses since it is clearly observed the oftner there is Massing in private the