A
LETTER
WRITten
by
a
French
Catholike
gentleman
,
to
the
maisters
of
Sorbonne
at
Paris
:
Concerning
the
late
victories
obtained
by
the
king
of
Nauarre
aswell
against
the
Duke
of
Ioyeuse
at
Coutras
vpon
tuesday
the
twentieth
of
October
.
1587.
as
els
where
.
MY
maisters
,
I
shal
not
be
,
as
I
thinke
,
the
first
Reporter
of
the
lamentable
newes
of
the
death
of
the
Duke
of
Ioyeuse
,
and
the
ouerthrow
of
his
whole
Armie
:
and
so
consequently
may
reioyce
that
I
shall
not
be
the
author
of
your
heauinesse
,
albeit
I
will
not
neuerthelesse
faile
in
the
discharge
of
my
duetie
,
neither
bee
the
last
that
shall
giue
you
aduice
vpon
so
straunge
an
accident
,
to
the
end
to
testifie
vnto
you
,
that
for
my
owne
part
I
bewaile
this
publike
calamitie
,
howbeit
,
not
so
as
to
despaire
of
whatsoeuer
this
heauy
day
hath
left
vs
,
but
rather
to
séeke
after
the
most
firme
and
stedfast
kinde
of
hope
,
that
we
may
and
ought
to
conceyue
,
to
the
ende
to
bring
forth
the
peace
of
this
miserable
realme
.
In
as
much
therefore
as
your selues
are
the
most
notable
company
among
whome
the
principall
point
of
the
estate
,
namely
religion
,
is
intreated
vpon
,
I
doe
direct
my selfe
especially
to
you
,
to
the
end
you
may
iudge
of
my
zeale
,
and
if
any
profit
may
be
taken
thereof
,
you
may
impart
the
same
to
those
that
still
harken
after
you
for
the
vnderstanding
of
their
saluation
:
also
that
it
may
bee
the
foundation
whereupon
againe
to
build
vp
our
ruines
to
the
common
reliefe
of
the
people
,
and
the
discharge
of
your
consciences
.
But
before
I
come
to
these
remedies
,
I
will
lay
open
vnto
you
the
new
wounds
that
we
haue
receyued
in
the
late
battaile
of
Coutras
the
twentieth
of
this
moneth
by
the
King
of
Nauarre
,
with
the
assistance
of
the
Lords
the
prince
of
Conde
,
the
Earle
of
Soissons
,
the
Lord
of
Turenne
,
Trimouille
,
and
other
Lords
and
gentlemen
their
partakers
.
The
saide
King
being
returned
from
Monsoreau
where
he
had
happely
soiorned
for
the
space
of
fiftéene
dayes
or
more
after
the
ouerthrow
of
the
troupes
of
the
late
D.
of
Ioyeuse
,
and
the
Marquesse
of
Renel
as
they
retired
from
their
voyage
of
Poictou
,
also
hauing
through
the
conduct
of
the
L.
of
Turenne
seased
vpon
the
rich
carriages
of
the
D.
of
Mercoeur
neare
to
Saumeur
,
who
was
comming
out
of
his
gouernment
of
Bretagne
to
ioyne
with
his
brother
in
law
,
the
saide
D.
of
Ioyeuse
yet
being
at
Tours
,
and
withall
had
receyued
the
saide
L.
Earle
of
Soissons
with
all
his
troupes
:
after
(
I
say
)
that
the
said
king
was
thus
vpon
his
return
&
led
had
his
armie
into
Sainctonge
,
he
tooke
two
Cannons
from
Rochell
,
and
in
the
end
determined
to
march
into
Gascogne
as
well
for
the
reenforcing
of
his
troupes
,
as
to
ioyne
with
his
forraine
power
vpon
the
borders
of
those
prouinces
that
fauored
him
.
Now
because
,
as
you
know
,
that
that
was
the
onely
thing
which
the
K.
did
most
feare
,
he
gaue
charge
to
the
said
D.
of
Ioyeuse
to
stoppe
this
his
course
by
all
meanes
possible
,
yea
if
all
other
opportunities
failed
,
not
to
spare
the
extremitie
of
the
battaile
,
which
he
vndertooke
to
performe
,
and
to
the
same
end
marched
with
those
troupes
which
hee
had
before
,
together
with
the
other
that
his
maiestie
had
newly
graunted
him
,
as
well
for
the
better
strengthening
,
as
to
banish
from
him
all
feare
of
those
that
the
K.
of
Nauarre
did
leade
.
The
ground
of
this
enterprise
consisted
in
the
passage
ouer
the
riuers
of
Droune
and
L'Isle
,
and
the
most
diligent
to
feaze
thereon
was
to
prescribe
law
to
the
more
slothfull
.
In
respect
hereof
the
saide
D.
of
Ioyeuse
after
he
had
a
while
at
the
héeles
followed
and
costed
the
K.
of
Nauarre
his
armie
,
in
the
end
fet
forwarde
towarde
Roche-Chalays
,
entending
according
to
the
good
aduise
giuen
him
by
the
L.
Marshal
of
Matignon
to
seaze
vpon
Coutras
,
which
was
the
place
of
most
importance
,
in
respect
of
the
situation
so
fauourable
to
the
passage
ouer
Droun
,
but
he
lost
his
time
by
reason
that
as
his
light
horsemen
were
ariued
and
taking
their
lodgings
,
the
K.
of
Nauarres
being
the
stronger
came
vpon
them
,
and
became
maisters
thereof
on
Monday
night
the
nyntenth
of
October
.
Thus
besides
the
said
kinges
diligence
which
is
the
most
necessarie
parte
in
warrelike
attempts
,
and
the
thing
that
hath
bred
him
great
credit
among
his
partakers
,
his
force
was
also
preiudiciall
to
the
said
D.
of
Ioyeuse
:
who
neuertheles
being
desirous
to
yeeld
al
dueties
of
obedience
to
his
maisters
commandements
,
and
imagining
that
the
K.
of
Nauarre
being
inclosed
betweene
the
two
riuers
,
might
be
easily
ouercome
,
〈◊〉
the
next
day
to
giue
him
batfaile
,
and
to
the
same
end
appointed
his
whole
armie
their
méeting
place
betweene
Roche-Chalays
and
Coutras
,
whither
hee
came
earely
in
the
morning
,
at
leasure
and
without
anie
impeachment
of
the
said
kings
troupes
,
and
tooke
his
battaile
ground
within
halfe
a
league
of
Coutras
to
his
most
aduantage
possible
.
The
K.
of
Nauarre
as
I
was
informed
,
hauing
the
first
aduertisement
thereof
earely
enough
in
the
morning
,
stayed
vntil
he
had
also
the
second
yea
and
the
third
before
hee
woulde
once
stirre
,
albeit
hee
made
no
lesse
shew
to
be
desirous
of
battaile
than
our selues
:
And
in
déed
he
had
giuen
vs
occasion
twise
before
,
which
wee
found
not
to
hee
for
our
aduantage
.
Howbeit
,
so
soone
as
the
saide
K.
was
by
these
diuers
reportes
assures
thereof
,
he
tooke
horse
,
and
departing
from
Coutras
,
went
to
méete
the
saide
D.
of
Ioyeuse
,
set
his
armie
in
hattaile
aray
,
and
in
the
meane
time
commanded
the
L.
of
Clermont
maister
of
his
ordinance
to
passe
it
ouer
vnto
his
side
of
the
riuer
,
which
hee
cold
not
doe
the
day
before
.
Then
hauing
brought
it
into
the
fore
front
,
he
so
ordered
it
that
without
anoying
any
of
his
own
part
,
about
eight
of
the
clocke
it
played
for
eight
or
nine
belees
verie
conueniently
vpon
the
first
squadron
of
oure
horsemen
,
and
so
carried
away
a
great
number
of
our
gentlemen
,
which
made
the
rest
to
resolue
rather
to
goe
to
the
charge
,
then
so
miserably
to
dye
without
anie
fight
.
Thus
about
nyne
of
the
clock
our
light
horsemen
with
foure
,
hundreth
horse
gaue
vpon
the
K.
of
Nauarres
,
which
after
some
blowes
,
was
in
the
end
shaken
and
our
men
made
glasse
windowes
therein
:
the
rest
of
the
saide
kinges
army
consisted
of
foure
square
battailes
,
whereof
that
of
the
L.
of
Turenne
was
smelt
to
by
the
L.
of
Lauerdine
.
The
other
thrée
wherin
were
the
thrée
princes
of
the
blood
,
kéeping
their
standing
did
behold
the
ioyning
,
and
by
and
by
after
the
D.
of
Ioyeuse
marched
furiously
to
the
charge
for
the
generall
conflict
,
whereto
these
three
Princes
each
in
the
face
of
his
squadron
came
a
soft
pace
,
only
vpon
the
trot
as
close
and
with
as
good
assurance
as
euer
I
see
men
of
warre
martch
.
When
they
came
to
handy
blowes
,
our
men
sodenly
turned
their
backes
,
whether
it
were
that
the
speares
stopped
them
at
the
strait
of
the
conflict
,
or
that
we
were
reencountered
somewhat
rudely
.
Finally
,
the
fight
was
sharpe
and
so
violent
that
it
continued
the
lesse
while
,
and
as
warres
are
vncertaine
,
the
whole
victorie
remained
with
the
king
of
Nauarre
.
And
it
is
a
maruellous
matter
that
by
ten
of
the
clocke
neuer
a
one
of
our
men
stood
to
the
sight
,
neither
so
much
as
appeared
in
the
field
,
which
lay
couered
with
a
great
number
of
the
dead
,
and
those
very
notable
.
Such
as
escaped
the
extremitie
of
the
weapone
,
either
fledde
with
shame
,
or
fell
into
their
enemies
handes
,
some
wounded
and
some
not
,
whereas
in
so
notable
an
ouerthrow
there
were
lost
on
the
king
of
Nauars
part
very
few
,
and
not
so
much
as
any
one
of
name
or
commaundement
:
but
of
our
part
all
the
Captaines
were
either
wounded
or
slaine
or
taken
,
bestoos
the
D.
of
Ioyense
the
Generall
,
whose
only
loue
might
suffice
to
make
vs
earnestly
to
lament
,
as
for
such
a
mishap
as
hath
striken
a
shrewde
blow
at
such
of
our
affaires
as
were
ordered
and
set
vp
again
by
the
king
vnder
the
conduct
of
his
fortune
.
Howbeit
it
is
also
replemished
to
infinite
other
our
losses
,
whereby
we
haue
the
lesse
meanes
left
to
helpe
vs
to
rise
againe
from
so
miserable
a
fall
.
I
will
name
vnto
you
the
most
notable
of
those
the
I
can
remember
that
are
slaine
,
to
the
end
that
considering
of
them
,
you
may
the
better
contemplate
this
mishappe
which
shall
peraduenture
be
but
the
way
to
many
more
whereunto
we
doo
runne
,
if
God
withhold
vs
not
.
Amongst
our
dead
there
are
besides
the
D.
of
Ioyeuse
,
the
L.
of
Saint
Sauiour
his
brother
,
the
L.
of
Bressay
who
carried
the
white
Cornet
.
The
L.
of
Ronsay
the
yonger
Pienne
Guidon
to
the
said
D.
of
Ioyeuse
.
The
Earles
of
Suze
,
Gouuelo
,
&
Aubigeou
,
the
L.
of
Fumell
,
the
L.
of
Neufuy
the
elder
of
Perigord
,
Croyset
sonne
to
the
L.
of
Rochfort
,
the
L.
of
Gurat
Cornet
of
Maumont
,
The
L.
of
S.
Fort
Guidon
to
the
L.
of
S.
Luc.
The
L.
of
Vaux
Lieutenant
to
the
L.
of
Bellegarde
.
The
L.
of
Montignyes
Ensigne
,
Tiercelin
maister
of
the
field
,
Chenet
his
chiefe
Captaine
,
Vallade
one
of
his
Captaines
,
Captain
Baccullard
,
yong
Campels
,
who
carried
a
cloth
.
The
L.
of
Pluuault
and
Brangerie
,
al
Officers
in
our
army
.
More
there
were
whom
I
cannot
well
call
to
minde
:
but
my
masters
,
those
were
braue
Gentlemen
,
those
were
the
kings
good
seruants
:
these
were
the
good
pillers
of
our
countrey
,
whom
we
haue
lost
in
this
battel
,
whose
death
doeth
also
make
our
liues
so
wretched
,
that
vndoubtedly
they
are
happier
than
we
that
breath
foorch
this
aire
that
is
†infected†
with
our
miseries
.
I
thinke
that
they
whom
this
losse
doth
most
concern
,
shuld
also
be
most
fouthed
with
the
griefe
that
they
ought
to
conceaue
therof
:
and
your selues
doe
I
accoumpt
so
affectionate
to
the
benefit
of
your
country
that
for
your
partes
you
will
powre
forth
a
whole
riuer
of
teares
which
will
not
bee
dried
vp
a
great
while
,
considering
that
the
losse
which
you
receiue
doe
stretch
so
farre
,
and
spreadeth
farther
than
the
most
passionate
can
well
imagine
.
Wee
doe
well
know
what
assurance
we
had
conceiued
,
that
all
should
haue
succéeded
otherwise
to
vs
then
it
hath
done
,
wherby
wee
are
to
bee
the
more
sory
because
we
were
deceiued
.
And
albeit
Gods
will
was
apparant
therein
,
also
that
it
were
our
partes
rather
to
yeeld
thereto
than
to
murmure
against
it
,
yet
can
I
not
but
feele
that
such
was
the
pleasure
of
God
,
to
the
end
sharply
to
punish
vs
for
reposing
more
trust
in
our
fleshly
arme
then
in
his
inightie
power
,
yea
and
which
is
more
,
because
wée
haue
fought
and
neuer
asked
counsell
at
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
.
Would
you
haue
any
more
notable
testimonies
to
confirme
my
saying
,
then
the
death
of
this
braue
nobilitie
?
The
same
is
but
too
sufficient
to
wrest
from
you
this
belief
:
and
if
you
doo
but
beholde
the
rest
that
remaineth
captiue
with
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
you
shal
as
a
man
would
say
sée
our
sorrow
more
liuely
,
as
if
their
captiuitie
should
vnchaine
those
mischiefes
which
come
in
poste
to
our
oppression
.
The
most
notable
of
them
wil
I
also
name
vnto
you
.
There
is
the
L.
of
Bellegarde
,
Gouernor
of
Xantonge
and
Angoumois
,
who
was
wounded
,
taken
and
since
deceased
.
The
L.
of
S.
Luc
,
Gouernour
of
Brouages
&
of
the
Iles
of
Xantonge
taken
.
The
Marquesse
of
Piennes
:
The
Earle
of
Monsoreau
wounded
and
taken
.
The
L.
of
Sansac
taken
.
The
L.
of
Cypierre
,
The
L.
of
Saultray
of
the
house
of
Lude
.
The
L.
of
Montigny
Captaine
of
the
kings
gate
.
The
L.
of
Ville
Comblin
Lieutenant
to
the
L.
of
Souuray
.
The
L.
of
Castle
Renaud
Guidon
to
the
L.
of
Sansac
.
The
L.
of
Maumont
Captaine
of
the
light
Horse
.
The
L.
of
Patriere
Guidon
to
the
L.
of
Lauerdin
.
The
L.
of
Ould
Castle
.
The
L.
Chastelu
.
The
L.
of
Lauuerdiere
Guidon
to
the
L.
of
Suze
.
All
these
were
Captains
&
men
of
authoritie
,
&
so
acknowledged
of
all
,
among
when
I
recken
not
the
Captaines
of
the
foolemen
,
neither
many
other
priuate
Gentlemen
that
had
no
charge
,
and
are
either
taken
,
wounded
or
slaine
.
As
for
those
that
yet
liue
,
it
may
be
ye
shall
hereafter
haue
some
comfort
of
them
,
as
hoping
they
may
returne
into
the
kings
seruice
:
but
I
do
much
feare
their
comming
to
the
spéech
of
the
king
of
Nauar
,
whose
particular
seruants
they
all
,
or
the
most
of
them
,
haue
long
béen
,
neither
did
euer
beare
armes
against
him
,
but
against
their
willes
:
such
at
the
least
are
their
ordinary
protestations
,
which
in
effect
they
haue
often
confirmed
.
Yea
did
they
beare
but
one
sparke
of
good
affection
to
the
said
king
of
Nauarre
,
he
is
skilfull
inough
thereof
to
kindle
a
whole
flame
:
so
shall
he
winne
from
vs
these
relikes
of
our
ruines
,
where
with
to
preuaile
against
our selues
,
if
not
directly
against
vs
,
yet
indirectly
for
him selfe
,
but
not
for
vs
.
For
you
know
what
a
voice
is
generally
giuen
out
of
his
wonderfull
grace
in
winning
mens
minds
and
quenching
the
malice
of
his
enemies
,
in
case
hee
can
but
once
come
to
let
them
taste
of
his
courtesie
.
Yee
may
belieue
that
most
of
these
our
masters
being
so
much
bounde
vnto
him
,
will
hereafter
continue
their
bonds
,
also
that
there
be
but
few
amongst
them
to
whom
the
curtesies
of
this
Prince
may
not
prescribe
whatsoeuer
lawes
he
lift
.
In
the
meane
time
he
shall
haue
his
passage
frée
:
For
as
for
the
L.
Marshall
of
Matignon
,
how
good
a
seruant
so
euer
hee
be
to
the
king
,
hee
is
tied
to
Gascogne
:
and
besides
his
forces
are
not
sufficient
to
stop
the
said
king
from
executing
whatsoeuer
his
purposes
as
easily
as
he
would
wish
,
neither
can
he
at
this
day
desire
or
put
in
execution
any
thing
whatsoeuer
with
greater
honour
,
hauing
obteined
such
a
braue
victory
against
vs
,
which
is
perfect
in
all
notable
parts
.
The
death
and
imprisonment
of
all
the
chiefe
Captaines
,
except
the
L.
of
Lauerdin
who
séeing
our
conflict
a
far
off
,
went
to
saue
him selfe
and
few
others
,
the
winning
of
the
field
,
the
taking
of
the
artillery
,
the
burning
of
our
armies
lodgings
,
the
chace
pursued
foure
leagues
,
and
a
thousand
other
particularities
which
I
heere
omit
.
Concerning
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
I
haue
heard
credibly
reported
that
hée
was
one
of
the
sharpest
in
fight
,
&
buckled
earnestly
,
yea
so
farre
foorth
as
by
force
to
cary
away
Chasteau-renauds
Cornet
,
also
to
haue
receiued
a
taint
in
the
necke
with
a
speare
&
other
blowes
that
bruised
his
hands
and
face
.
To
be
briefe
,
that
hee
shewed
himselfe
a
Captaine
in
ordering
his
battailes
and
a
souldier
in
fight
.
As
for
the
Prince
of
Conde
that
hee
fought
valiantly
&
had
one
horse
killed
vnder
him
,
also
that
being
horsed
againe
he
tooke
the
L.
of
S.
Luc
prisoner
who
had
before
borne
him
downe
.
That
the
Earle
of
Soisons
in
this
first
reencounter
shewed
so
good
proofe
of
his
courage
that
he
greatly
contented
his
partakers
&
gaue
them
good
hope
of
himselfe
,
for
he
ioyned
earnestly
,
and
with
his
owne
handes
tooke
the
Marquesse
of
Piennes
prisoner
,
so
as
these
thrée
Princes
fighting
with
their
enemies
,
fought
so
reciprocally
whose
vertue
should
best
appeare
,
that
they
haue
no
cause
one
to
enuy
an
other
,
sith
they
all
shewed
all
duetie
according
as
the
occurrences
ministred
occasion
,
Neither
is
it
to
be
doubted
,
but
these
so
assured
Captaines
did
greatly
assure
their
members
,
among
whom
the
L.
of
Turenne
also
had
his
horse
slaine
in
the
battell
and
entered
verie
farre
,
as
also
did
the
L.
of
Trimouille
who
was
noted
of
great
courage
and
assurance
in
the
front
of
his
light
horsemen
.
Finally
that
there
was
no
troope
in
all
their
army
but
had
a
share
in
the
glorie
of
our
ouerthrow
.
Herein
haue
wee
cause
to
be
sory
,
sith
the
hurt
that
we
do
to
them
do
but
prouoke
our
men
,
and
that
either
early
or
late
they
will
finde
meanes
to
requite
vs
:
howbeit
at
this
time
it
is
much
more
then
a
requitall
,
neither
is
there
any
comparison
betwéene
all
the
harme
that
we
haue
done
them
,
yea
albeit
you
set
togither
all
that
haue
happened
since
the
beginning
of
the
troubles
,
and
the
same
which
wee
haue
receiued
in
this
battell
.
One
onelie
short
day
hath
recompenced
all
that
they
haue
lost
in
two
yéeres
and
a
halfe
,
which
is
the
time
since
the
league
was
reuealed
,
and
as
farre
as
I
sée
,
wee
are
yet
farre
in
their
debts
.
We
haue
séene
all
the
mightie
armies
which
the
king
hath
sent
out
of
all
the
prouinces
of
the
realme
to
make
an
ende
.
But
shew
mee
now
what
fruit
hath
come
of
them
?
The
taking
of
townes
?
wee
haue
taken
none
but
such
as
they
made
no
great
account
to
kéepe
,
and
all
but
loures
which
were
neuer
,
as
a
man
should
say
,
of
any
name
,
but
through
mishap
.
And
how
haue
we
gotten
them
?
with
large
time
,
excessiue
expences
,
and
a
world
of
labor
and
pollicie
,
which
heeretofore
would
not
haue
béen
practised
at
the
siege
of
Metz
,
S.
Quintins
,
and
other
good
Townes
in
our
daies
.
What
haue
we
gained
?
we
haue
taken
nothing
by
assault
,
and
all
our
sieges
haue
ended
by
profitable
and
honourable
composition
for
the
besieged
.
Neither
haue
our
sieges
any
whit
diminished
their
number
,
sith
the
lawes
of
warre
haue
freed
them
from
the
fury
of
our
weapons
.
And
which
is
worse
,
Castillon
the
Duke
of
Mayns
proudest
trophee
,
the
taking
whereof
cost
sixe
weekes
worke
and
six
hundred
thousand
francks
hath
the
Lord
of
Turenne
recouered
in
one
houre
,
&
without
any
expense
.
The
king
of
Nauarre
hath
in
lesse
then
thrée
wéekes
taken
Tallemōt
,
S.
Messan
,
Fontenay
,
Maillezay
,
Mauleon
,
&
fiue
or
sixe
good
Castles
more
.
The
said
D.
of
Ioyeuse
came
to
recouer
these
losses
,
but
hee
spent
most
of
his
time
in
preparatiues
,
and
in
the
end
at
the
siege
of
S.
Maissā
was
driuen
to
discharge
113.
Cannon
shot
,
against
the
which
it
had
not
cost
the
said
▪
king
two
hundreth
Harquebuze
shot
:
and
had
it
not
béene
for
the
ouerthrow
that
the
said
D.
of
Ioyeuse
gaue
to
the
Mothe
of
his
two
regiments
of
Collters
and
Clounes
,
togither
with
the
controuersies
among
the
besieged
,
we
had
not
had
it
so
soone
or
so
easily
.
As
for
Maillezay
which
the
said
Duke
of
Ioyeuse
also
tooke
,
he
did
rather
suprize
then
take
it
,
besides
that
the
smal
number
of
souldiers
therein
feared
his
purposes
.
But
Fontenay
was
of
ouer
hard
digestion
,
&
the
Catholike
forces
gaue
place
to
the
Protestants
,
of
whom
wée
made
so
small
account
.
And
whereas
there
died
a
good
number
of
them
,
as
could
not
be
otherwise
chosen
,
so
if
wée
peruse
the
rowles
of
our
army
,
we
shal
find
,
the
the
rule
of
substraction
may
séem
sufficient
to
finde
out
our
accounts
.
The
swoord
,
the
bad
weather
,
pouertie
,
pestilence
or
other
diseases
haue
taken
away
so
many
that
wee
haue
but
fewe
left
to
habandon
to
the
like
mishappes
:
and
the
woorst
is
,
wee
neuer
séeke
to
spare
,
but
rather
doo
séeme
to
practise
this
detestable
saying
:
Let
our
friends
perish
,
so
as
our
enemies
may
perish
also
.
Moreouer
,
wherein
are
their
affaires
empaired
?
Wee
haue
kept
the
field
,
but
how
?
For
the
most
part
in
such
seasons
as
the
retraite
into
the
Townes
had
béene
more
fit
and
safe
against
the
iniuries
of
wind
and
snow
:
in
such
a
season
I
say
,
as
albeit
they
had
béene
as
well
able
to
haue
kept
the
field
as
we
,
yet
had
it
béen
wisedome
to
to
habandon
it
vnto
vs
,
so
to
suffer
vs
to
consume
our selues
,
with
a
million
of
inconueniences
which
fought
against
vs
,
although
they
meddle
not
at
all
.
Likewise
when
the
time
fauoured
our
voyages
,
besides
that
the
same
was
but
ouer
short
,
we
haue
found
such
resistance
in
them
,
&
they
haue
giuen
vs
so
small
hold
,
that
our selues
haue
beaten
our selues
with
our
owne
paines
,
and
haue
reaped
but
the
dishonour
of
doing
nothing
,
and
blame
for
working
too
much
mischiefe
:
and
to
be
briefe
,
all
our
fires
are
in
the
ende
conuerted
into
smoake
which
hath
choked
vs
.
The
raising
vp
of
our
bucklers
were
haughtie
,
but
when
we
came
to
the
matter
&
to
take
hold
,
wee
brought
foorth
nothing
but
confusion
&
disorder
,
wherein
the
king
of
Nauarres
part
hath
béene
rather
vpheld
then
shaken
,
so
as
we
séeme
to
bee
but
the
winds
which
breake
vpon
their
constancy
or
magnanimitie
.
Twentie
yeares
ago
&
more
might
I
haue
learned
how
hard
a
matter
it
was
vtterly
to
ouerthrow
him
:
but
I
neuer
thought
it
vnpossible
vntill
these
our
last
trials
,
wherein
he
hath
taught
vs
that
hée
either
is
a
greater
one
then
wée
,
or
else
that
he
hath
more
supporters
then
wée
haue
force
:
or
both
.
I
will
not
be
ashamed
to
confesse
that
at
the
beginning
of
these
troubles
our
great
preparatiues
for
war
against
him
did
make
me
stedfastly
to
belieue
that
hee
could
haue
no
means
to
kéep
himselfe
from
vs
,
wherevpon
my selfe
as
well
as
many
other
did
according
to
my
duetie
bring
in
whatsoeuer
I
was
able
togither
with
my
own
person
:
and
notwithstanding
all
our
delaies
and
the
lingering
of
our
purposes
,
yet
did
I
not
neuertheles
dispaire
of
good
successe
:
but
now
am
I
forced
to
pluck
my
pin
from
the
stake
,
and
earnestly
to
open
mine
eies
to
perceiue
the
causes
of
our
misfortune
,
togither
with
the
necessitie
of
a
farther
cause
of
mischiefe
,
wherof
this
late
one
is
but
the
first
,
or
at
the
least
the
most
apparant
beginning
.
Not
my
maisters
that
I
will
resemble
those
foules
which
so
soone
as
colde
weather
commeth
on
doe
habandon
euerie
climate
,
by
anie
rash
alteration
of
my
wil
which
so
long
and
resolutely
I
haue
alwaies
kept
.
For
I
protest
,
that
of
all
the
reasons
that
may
bee
imagined
in
this
noueltie
I
do
admit
onely
the
same
which
setteth
before
me
the
preseruation
of
that
estate
,
for
the
which
so
farre
I
am
from
all
feare
of
the
losse
of
my
first
pretence
,
that
I
wish
rather
to
lose
my selfe
:
and
in
the
name
of
God
doo
exhort
you
so
wel
to
try
my
aduice
,
that
you
may
allow
therof
,
and
ensuing
the
same
,
shew
so
good
an
example
to
the
rest
of
France
,
that
sith
your selues
are
the
light
that
should
lighten
vs
,
this
estate
may
also
by
your
meanes
recouer
her
auncient
brightnesse
,
and
this
oppressed
people
perfect
reliefe
from
all
their
afflictions
.
To
enter
therefore
into
the
matter
,
my selfe
haue
alwaies
béene
through
zeale
to
religion
thrust
for
ward
,
&
whensoeuer
there
fell
out
any
spéech
of
the
defence
thereof
,
I
came
as
hotely
as
might
be
desired
.
Now
this
religion
I
alwaies
held
in
such
sort
as
I
receiued
of
my
predecessors
,
and
as
I
account
it
true
saluation
of
my
soule
,
I
preferred
it
before
all
other
whatsoeuer
worldly
considerations
.
Wherein
I
was
confirmed
not
onely
by
this
domesticall
example
,
but
also
by
that
doctrine
which
your selues
haue
alwaies
deliuered
vnto
vs
,
referring
al
that
possibly
I
might
vnto
the
authoritie
which
long
you
haue
obteined
and
kept
among
our
nation
.
I
will
not
bee
ashamed
to
say
that
in
this
case
I
haue
willingly
reposed
my selfe
vpon
you
,
as
imagining
that
you
would
not
damme
your selues
in
sport
,
as
also
that
in
so
good
company
I
could
not
doo
amisse
.
In
consideration
wherof
I
neuer
troubled
my selfe
much
about
the
search
into
the
depth
of
these
misteries
and
difficulties
wherein
your
schoole
is
as
it
were
plunged
,
leauing
to
you
the
arguing
in
words
,
and
reseruing
to
my selfe
the
decisions
in
action
,
wherewith
as
néede
required
,
to
yéeld
authoritie
to
your
decrées
,
and
for
my
part
stoutly
to
oppose
my selfe
against
all
those
that
woulde
withstand
you
,
howbeit
vnder
the
authoritie
of
the
soueraigne
magistrate
,
to
whom
I
neuer
doubted
of
my
due
obedience
.
Hereupon
I
alwaies
supposed
that
our
warre
was
not
lawful
against
al
such
as
shot
against
you
and
sought
to
subuert
your
doctrine
,
accounting
them
verie
heretikes
&
Apostataes
from
the
Church
,
with
whom
we
were
to
striue
euen
for
life
,
considering
that
their
opinions
did
for
the
most
part
kill
vs
,
by
rauishing
from
vs
through
their
frowardnesse
,
that
which
I
supposed
you
had
imparted
vnto
vs
in
sincere
and
faithful
consciences
.
For
this
which
I
haue
often
heard
you
say
,
did
I
take
for
an
infalible
principle
:
that
is
to
say
,
That
our
Church
can
not
erre
,
also
,
that
to
accuse
you
of
error
,
was
such
an
error
as
deserued
to
be
pursued
with
fire
and
sworde
.
Thus
was
I
neuer
of
any
other
mind
,
but
that
we
had
a
most
firme
and
more
than
necessarie
foundation
euery
way
to
persecute
those
whom
men
tearme
Protestants
.
So
presumpteous
a
title
could
not
I
like
of
:
&
as
in
these
latter
ages
,
Gods
spirit
threatneth
vs
with
sundrie
seducers
,
so
haue
I
alwaies
accounted
these
men
to
be
,
whereupon
I
haue
detested
their
companies
:
so
farre
haue
I
béene
from
sparing
,
whatsoeuer
I
could
possibly
doe
,
to
vse
against
them
all
rigors
whereby
to
roote
them
out
.
For
this
cause
doe
I
make
great
account
of
the
deuotion
which
diuers
of
our
kinges
haue
at
sundrie
times
shewed
.
But
séeing
that
the
more
we
striue
,
the
more
this
people
increase
:
the
large
expertence
of
these
affaires
maketh
mee
the
more
stacke
in
these
matters
,
and
their
late
victorie
which
God
hath
giuen
them
,
causeth
me
to
imagine
that
hee
doth
wholy
fauor
their
cause
,
also
that
whatsoeuer
crosses
hee
doth
by
our
hands
lay
vpon
them
,
hee
doth
neuerthelesse
reserue
vnto
them
a
happie
&
a
comfortable
end
.
Disorder
(
saith
a
certaine
auncient
)
breedeth
good
decrees
,
and
the
reiteration
of
our
transgressions
when
wee
finde
them
doe
worke
vs
,
to
our
knowledge
,
wisedome
:
yea
the
apprentiship
of
our
owne
losses
is
more
strong
and
forceable
then
that
which
proceedeth
of
others
harmes
.
I
doe
therefore
willingly
suffer
my selfe
to
bee
carried
away
with
that
whose
effects
doe
teach
me
to
procéede
further
,
not
that
I
will
search
out
all
the
contentious
pointes
betwene
the
one
and
the
other
:
for
as
yet
I
haue
not
taken
so
much
paines
:
but
onely
in
respect
of
the
proceedings
vsed
against
their
persons
and
goods
.
First
you
are
all
to
debate
in
matter
of
religion
:
you
differ
in
sundrie
articles
,
and
yet
doe
agrée
in
the
ground
,
which
is
,
one
onely
Iesus
,
Christ
mediator
betwene
God
and
man
,
and
sole
head
of
the
Chruch
.
I
pray
you
,
is
this
a
matter
to
be
decided
by
your
murders
?
is
it
such
a
controuersie
as
may
bee
so
determined
?
how
can
you
graunt
life
to
his
soule
,
whose
bodely
life
you
haue
taken
away
?
how
can
you
saue
those
to
whom
you
graunt
no
time
to
belieue
?
or
how
would
you
haue
them
to
belieue
without
preaching
vnto
?
These
be
the
ordinarie
complaintes
wherewith
they
vsually
appeale
from
our
pursutes
,
which
notwithstanding
they
séeme
iust
,
yet
doe
we
stop
our
eares
against
them
as
against
the
maremaids
song
.
But
why
doe
you
denie
them
all
frienndly
conference
for
the
decision
of
your
controuersies
?
I
know
you
will
answere
that
it
is
a
matter
that
hath
already
beene
preferred
,
and
yet
hath
not
profited
.
But
the
Lawiers
haue
taught
me
,
that
whatsoeuer
hath
béene
fraudulently
done
,
is
accounted
as
wonne
:
for
in
all
our
assemblies
our
procéedings
haue
béene
vnperfect
,
for
proofe
whereof
I
referre
my selfe
to
the
acts
of
the
Councel
of
Trent
,
and
lately
to
the
parley
at
Poyssy
.
Concerning
the
first
,
there
was
neuer
action
more
impertinent
,
then
that
wherein
they
were
condemned
,
and
yet
neither
were
or
could
be
heard
,
considering
that
their
aduersaries
were
also
their
iudges
:
as
also
your selues
doe
know
,
that
the
French
Church
did
neuer
in
all
and
through
all
alow
of
it
,
witnesse
the
appeales
there
against
made
:
albeit
I
say
nothing
of
the
opposition
of
our
kings
,
whereby
this
counsaile
may
not
be
admitted
as
irreuocable
in
Fraunce
:
otherwise
we
shall
reueale
our
partialitie
in
ruling
their
condemnation
after
our
owne
fantasies
,
and
not
according
to
the
nullitie
of
the
iudgement
which
vndoubtedly
is
generall
,
vntill
by
the
reformation
of
those
articles
which
we
allow
not
,
there
can
bee
no
fault
found
therein
.
For
otherwise
by
taking
and
leauing
what
wee
list
,
wee
shoulde
play
too
open
.
Such
also
the
like
priuiledge
groweth
of
the
same
reason
,
why
will
you
not
suffer
the
professors
of
the
pretended
reformed
religion
to
enioy
the
like
libertie
of
iudgement
as
your selues
?
As
for
the
parley
at
Poyssy
I
remember
that
the
chiefe
controuersie
which
concerned
the
sacrament
of
the
altar
,
was
in
a
manner
agréed
:
also
that
looking
into
our
owne
consciences
,
wee
shall
finde
that
our
owne
partakers
vpon
a
politike
discretion
interrupted
it
,
lest
the
ouerthrow
of
that
foundation
shoulde
haue
pulled
downe
the
whole
building
.
Euer
since
that
time
,
I
imagined
that
it
was
well
doone
to
sticke
to
antiquitie
,
but
since
calling
to
mind
that
the
ministers
pleaded
their
cause
out
of
the
holy
scriptures
and
the
auncient
Doctors
conformable
thereto
,
I
can
not
thinke
but
that
,
except
in
respect
of
the
time
,
in
case
they
verifie
their
allegations
,
they
can
not
be
but
well
grounded
,
and
contrariwise
,
that
if
wee
speake
but
of
the
opinion
of
our
Popes
only
,
who
besides
for
the
most
part
haue
not
béene
the
honestest
men
in
the
world
,
we
shall
lose
our
cause
outright
.
But
when
I
doe
more
nearely
consider
of
your selues
,
I
doe
runne
into
some
further
mistrust
:
for
can
you
that
professe
the
vnderstanding
and
teaching
of
the
scriptures
,
want
iudgement
to
comprehend
them
,
or
fidelitie
to
deliuer
them
?
Shall
these
reformed
persons
haue
that
priuiledge
aboue
you
,
to
whome
it
hath
béene
purchased
so
long
agoe
?
Are
you
learned
like
to
those
high
priestes
mentioned
in
the
holy
scriptures
,
among
whom
Gods
law
was
perished
?
Will
God
conceale
his
mysteries
from
your
greatnes
,
and
reueale
them
to
their
basenes
?
Can
you
forge
vnto
your selues
anie
Cabal
in
lew
of
the
doctrine
of
Gods
spirite
?
Haue
the
subtilties
of
the
serpent
made
you
to
rebell
against
your
creator
?
I
dare
not
imagine
thus
much
of
you
,
albeit
your
aduersaries
doe
sufficiently
cast
it
in
your
téeth
.
But
I
coulde
rather
wish
them
to
abstaine
from
iniuring
of
you
,
and
to
bee
content
simply
to
expound
their
owne
sayings
,
as
also
that
you
did
the
like
by
them
:
howbeit
you
haue
growne
so
far
into
wordes
with
them
,
that
we
haue
beene
at
handiblowes
for
your
sakes
,
whereby
these
braules
doe
séeme
to
bee
the
more
irreconciliable
,
wherein
I
said
that
hetherto
we
haue
taken
a
verie
wrong
course
,
in
ministring
a
corsiue
to
the
wound
before
we
tryed
such
suppliant
ointments
as
might
peraduenture
haue
yéelded
some
ease
.
The
mischiefe
was
but
in
bréeding
,
but
we
through
our
hastie
and
headlong
procéedings
haue
sodenly
brought
it
to
extremitie
:
so
that
in
lew
of
appeasing
these
troubles
of
the
Church
,
wee
haue
also
brought
in
the
troubles
of
the
Estate
;
as
if
our
peace
depended
onely
vpon
confusion
:
yea
we
haue
so
shusled
the
Cardes
,
that
we
can
not
finde
againe
the
principall
.
We
all
haue
beene
forced
to
grow
so
obstinate
in
your
obstinacies
,
that
for
the
preseruing
of
you
,
some
haue
hazarded
,
and
others
quite
lost
them selues
:
for
the
maintaining
of
your
rents
,
we
haue
spent
our
owne
:
for
your
amitie
,
we
haue
entred
enmitie
with
our
owne
kinsmen
:
vnder
the
pretence
of
the
honour
of
God
,
men
haue
shamefully
entreated
men
:
to
be
briefe
,
Religion
hath
caused
vs
in
the
insolencies
of
our
warres
to
treade
all
religion
vnder
foote
:
also
whereas
it
had
béene
more
méete
and
profitable
gently
to
haue
reduced
those
that
were
strayed
,
to
the
folde
,
wee
haue
beene
their
butchers
.
In
lew
of
shewing
the
way
to
those
that
went
amisse
,
wee
haue
thrust
them
into
the
mire
:
in
lew
of
presenting
Ioseph
vnto
Iacob
,
wee
haue
shewed
onely
his
garment
tainted
in
bloud
,
whiles
him selfe
mourned
in
the
pitte
:
in
lew
of
receyuing
the
angels
with
the
conuersion
of
these
miserable
persons
,
we
haue
made
them
sorrowfull
through
their
deathes
,
neuerthelesse
,
God
desireth
not
the
death
of
a
sinner
,
but
rather
that
he
may
bee
conuerted
and
liue
.
The
holy
Ghost
speaketh
of
the
spirituall
death
,
whereof
we
are
the
cause
when
we
preuent
their
repentance
with
their
destructions
.
What
profit
haue
you
found
in
giuing
vs
counsell
,
euen
from
the
beginning
to
take
arme
against
the
pretended
reformed
?
Did
you
not
meane
that
they
should
haue
béene
rooted
out
and
we
preserued
?
haue
yee
your
desires
?
Are
not
you
,
I
pray
you
,
guiltie
of
the
deathes
of
so
many
as
vpon
simplicitie
haue
followed
your
counsels
?
with
what
consciences
doe
you
staye
vs
to
kill
others
:
are
not
you
the
executioners
to
both
parties
?
sée
you
not
that
in
lew
of
diminishing
their
number
you
lessen
ours
?
that
wee
lose
as
many
friendes
on
our
owne
partes
as
enimies
of
theirs
?
that
we
can
not
weaken
them
without
weakening
of
our selues
?
what
profit
is
there
in
this
equalitie
?
They
render
you
blow
for
blow
:
assault
for
assault
:
battell
for
battell
:
victorie
for
victorie
:
and
in
the
end
you
are
alwaies
forced
to
accept
of
their
conditions
of
peace
:
yet
is
there
nothing
that
can
make
vs
giue
ouer
.
We
still
play
the
kites
with
their
bowels
,
which
neuerthelesse
doe
dayly
grow
vp
againe
:
we
ordinarily
draw
away
their
bloud
,
which
neuer
dryeth
vp
:
and
which
is
worse
,
we
still
incurre
as
much
losse
as
we
procure
them
,
and
consuming
our
enimies
,
doe
wast
our
owne
bloud
,
and
yet
can
not
perceiue
that
you
be
any
whit
moued
at
our
miseries
,
as
if
our
labours
were
your
rest
,
and
our
sorrowes
your
contentation
:
you
laugh
when
others
wéepe
,
and
neuer
cease
thrusting
forward
the
wheele
of
these
calamities
,
whereby
to
assure
your
felicitie
.
But
I
can
not
finde
that
we
haue
any
profit
in
all
this
,
and
I
wonder
that
our
long
expence
which
we
haue
had
these
twentie
or
twentie
and
fiue
yeares
can
not
instruct
vs
in
our
lesson
.
This
is
the
seuenth
ciuill
warre
that
wee
haue
leagued
against
these
reformed
,
and
yet
we
are
now
to
beginne
.
True
it
is
that
we
haue
wun
some
victories
,
but
all
is
but
vanitie
:
if
we
haue
gotten
the
field
,
alas
!
wee
haue
séene
it
couered
likewise
with
a
great
part
of
our
owne
men
:
and
returning
into
our
tents
,
wee
haue
heard
the
mournings
at
our
owne
families
.
At
our
departure
thence
,
what
haue
we
done
but
made
warre
to
the
end
to
purchase
peace
?
what
is
become
of
all
our
purposes
to
roote
out
this
people
whom
wee
haue
found
so
resolute
in
their
defence
?
we
haue
returned
thence
into
our
closets
then
with
shame
and
misfortune
:
then
haue
we
sodden
them
againe
,
but
they
that
haue
endeuoured
to
digest
them
,
haue
found
them
to
bee
but
fish
.
And
yet
are
wee
so
farre
bewitched
,
as
among
all
these
diseases
to
thinke
that
we
be
in
health
:
still
there
are
some
firebrands
readie
to
kindle
our
dissentions
,
and
they
that
shoulde
cast
on
water
,
doe
poure
on
oyle
,
brimstone
,
and
pitch
,
least
the
fire
should
goe
out
.
When
I
examine
all
these
procéedings
,
I
leaue
to
the
persecuted
,
and
in
my
doubt
of
religion
,
I
doe
the
more
fauor
their
cause
because
of
the
onely
token
of
persecution
.
Thus
haue
I
learned
to
iudge
by
a
place
that
lately
I
redde
in
S.
Hierom
heretofore
,
one
of
the
famous
priests
of
the
Romish
Church
.
He
(
saith
he
)
that
is
pursued
,
doth
imitate
Christ
,
but
he
that
pursueth
or
persecuteth
is
Antichrist
.
Not
that
I
meane
to
iustifie
all
those
heretikes
whom
our
kinges
haue
suppressed
,
as
the
Gothes
who
were
Arrians
,
and
of
late
the
Anabaptists
,
for
they
were
monsters
,
of
whom
the
first
subuerted
the
groundes
of
our
saluation
,
namely
the
diuinitie
of
Iesus
:
an
intollerable
case
among
Christians
,
and
yet
the
warre
that
hath
béene
leauied
against
them
,
had
other
foundations
than
religion
.
The
Anabaptists
besides
their
apparant
errors
in
religion
did
also
peruert
the
right
of
magistrates
,
and
both
the
one
and
the
other
were
by
one
consent
condemned
euen
in
the
most
reformed
Churches
.
As
for
the
Albigeois
following
such
ancient
recordes
as
I
haue
found
contrarie
to
the
writings
of
our
Historiographers
,
I
feare
they
were
oppressed
rather
vppon
stomacke
then
equitie
.
But
I
wil
leaue
those
passed
examples
and
come
onely
to
the
reason
of
things
present
.
I
could
well
like
to
haue
our
Church
purged
from
heresies
and
heretikes
:
but
I
must
withall
mistike
the
polluting
of
it
with
our
owne
bloud
:
neither
can
I
thinke
these
so
violent
meanes
to
be
either
lawfull
or
sufficient
.
Iesus
Christ
tooke
a
whippe
to
driue
the
money
chaungers
out
of
the
temple
,
but
wee
are
farre
inough
from
doing
the
like
.
For
those
men
did
not
falsifie
the
Law
,
or
the
Prophets
:
but
verie
vnfitly
,
they
made
the
house
of
God
which
was
ordained
onely
for
prayer
,
their
market
place
.
They
did
abuse
the
holy
place
,
with
profane
trafike
,
and
so
consequently
this
punishment
of
Iesus
Christ
was
but
politike
.
Considering
that
in
the
meane
time
he
was
ordinarily
conuersant
among
the
priests
,
Scribes
,
and
Pharisies
,
entring
and
disputing
in
their
Sinagogues
,
and
yet
neuer
laying
hand
vpon
them
,
albeit
they
were
the
verie
falsifiers
of
the
doctrine
of
Moses
and
the
Prophecies
of
his
own
coming
.
Our
sauior
Christs
kingdom
is
not
of
this
world
:
the
weapon
wherewith
he
fighteth
with
his
enimies
,
are
spirituall
:
neither
is
his
saluation
purchased
by
mans
arme
:
how
much
more
necessarie
then
were
it
to
defend
religion
by
the
true
vnderstanding
of
the
scriptures
,
by
reformation
of
our
liues
,
by
prayers
and
holy
deuotion
to
the
seruice
of
God
,
by
teaching
the
ignorant
,
setting
reasons
against
opinions
,
and
antiquitie
against
noueltie
:
and
to
be
briefe
,
by
hearkening
to
the
voice
of
our
shepeheard
,
in
lew
of
those
who
to
the
end
to
bewitch
vs
with
their
dreames
doe
shroude
them selues
vnder
that
title
?
This
is
the
cause
,
why
from
henceforth
I
doe
protest
to
depart
from
these
cruelties
which
are
but
too
ordinarie
among
vs
,
and
to
begge
pardon
of
the
God
of
mercie
,
whom
I
beséech
with
the
truth
of
his
word
to
shine
into
the
bottomlesse
gulses
of
my
ignorance
,
to
the
end
that
leaning
no
longer
to
the
outward
shew
of
men
,
I
may
behold
the
righteousnes
of
this
cause
,
for
the
which
these
poore
reformed
persons
doe
so
long
and
so
constantly
abide
whatsoeuer
the
torments
to
them
afforde
:
notwithstanding
all
our
torments
,
they
shake
not
,
and
that
is
it
that
shaketh
me
,
yea
and
I
wonder
that
the
losse
of
their
goods
,
maketh
them
not
to
abandon
their
religion
.
Their
benefit
must
be
verie
great
,
sith
so
many
calamities
can
not
make
them
to
giue
it
ouer
:
and
we
may
well
say
,
that
they
haue
a
verie
bright
and
large
knowledge
,
in
that
notwithstanding
whatsoeuer
hope
of
domesticall
ease
we
propound
,
they
can
neuer
mistake
.
I
sée
them
lurke
in
euerie
place
,
depriued
of
their
rents
,
and
beseeged
with
a
thousand
necessities
,
and
yet
can
neuer
be
banished
their
assemblies
and
patient
bearing
of
their
opressions
.
Surely
they
are
not
so
senselesse
as
vpon
pleasure
to
suffer
so
many
inconueniences
,
so
that
of
necessitie
they
must
bee
inuited
and
strengthened
by
some
stronger
matter
then
the
frailtie
of
this
world
.
Willingly
could
I
ioine
with
Gamaliel
,
and
say
,
That
if
this
reformed
religion
be
of
God
,
it
is
in
vaine
for
man
to
labour
to
destroy
it
,
if
it
be
not
of
him
,
it
will
vanish
of
it selfe
.
Howbeit
,
I
séeke
not
to
take
the
sword
from
the
magistrate
,
but
gladly
I
would
beat
iudgement
into
his
head
,
wherby
he
might
discerne
the
bonds
of
his
duetie
:
for
it
is
not
inough
to
doe
a
mans
duetie
,
but
he
must
doe
it
conueniently
,
according
to
the
circumstances
of
time
,
place
and
persons
which
are
the
ordinarie
rules
of
our
actions
.
Extreame
law
is
extreame
iniurie
,
say
the
lawers
,
and
that
vpon
good
reason
.
Nothing
can
be
more
iust
then
to
punish
the
rebels
of
a
common
wealth
,
as
men
guiltie
of
treason
:
but
it
may
so
happen
that
this
iustice
may
be
pernitious
,
and
as
a
man
may
say
,
vniust
.
If
the
whole
bodie
of
a
towne
or
prouince
shoulde
rise
against
their
Soueraigne
,
yet
if
they
should
fall
againe
into
his
hands
,
he
ought
to
preferre
the
conseruation
of
so
many
persons
before
their
destruction
,
because
of
the
great
benefit
that
would
ensue
therof
,
namely
the
preseruation
of
one
portion
of
his
realme
,
as
lately
did
the
L.
Constable
at
Burdeaux
,
and
the
Romane
Senate
many
times
with
the
peoples
mutinies
:
whereas
contrarie
wise
the
violences
of
Silla
and
Marius
who
put
their
fellow
citizens
euen
by
thousands
to
the
sword
,
were
detestable
and
almost
vnworthie
to
be
spoken
off
.
When
the
mischiefe
is
so
great
as
it
can
not
be
cured
without
euident
danger
,
it
is
better
to
tollerate
it
in
the
weake
parte
,
than
to
lose
all
:
as
it
happeneth
to
those
,
of
whom
when
the
palsie
hath
taken
hold
of
halfe
the
bodie
,
no
wise
phisition
will
counsell
to
diuide
it
from
the
other
halfe
that
is
yet
in
health
.
Now
if
this
consideration
may
take
place
in
all
diseases
simply
,
much
more
then
in
such
as
are
of
long
continuance
,
and
lightly
more
vncurable
then
the
later
:
euen
so
then
when
one
parte
of
a
state
is
by
whatsoeuer
meanes
deuided
from
the
other
,
wee
must
bee
verie
warie
of
making
them
to
méete
,
especially
when
such
means
bringeth
now
vtter
confusion
to
the
whole
bodie
,
and
that
the
infected
partes
be
noble
and
essentiall
:
for
in
a
mischiefe
,
in
a
maner
vniuersall
,
tolleration
in
it selfe
is
farre
more
necessary
then
the
triall
of
the
vtter
rooting
of
it
out
when
it
passeth
our
strength
,
&
that
there
is
so
great
equalitie
that
the
combat
ought
still
to
be
in
doubt
.
And
such
are
those
which
we
terme
necessarie
euils
,
which
beeing
preserued
,
doe
also
preserue
the
subiect
whereto
they
are
adioyned
,
and
ought
as
a
man
should
say
,
to
be
more
curiously
entreated
then
health
it selfe
.
Howbeit
this
similitude
may
in
one
respect
be
maimed
:
for
such
an
inconuenience
may
grow
in
a
state
,
that
it
will
be
most
necessarie
to
oppose
the
whole
for
the
whole
,
and
not
before
trial
of
the
gentle
&
most
louing
means
.
And
in
a
monarchie
wee
must
aduenture
euen
the
crown
and
scepter
against
him
that
aduentureth
wrongfully
to
take
it
away
.
And
why
?
because
that
euerie
defensiue
warre
is
most
lawfull
,
and
especially
when
your
whole
state
is
called
into
question
.
Yea
,
which
is
more
,
you
are
by
nature
bound
therto
,
and
in
case
you
bee
retchlesse
therein
,
you
do
inwardly
betraie
your
country
.
The
like
is
it
in
all
matters
wherevpon
dependeth
your
authoritie
,
togither
with
the
preseruation
of
your
rightes
,
which
ought
to
be
inuiolable
.
It
is
therfore
the
duetie
of
euerie
soueraigne
magistrate
diligently
to
watch
,
and
vpon
necessitie
stoutly
to
employ
himselfe
.
But
so
long
as
the
state
is
not
touched
,
there
can
be
no
cause
sufficient
to
set
the
Monarke
against
his
subiects
,
so
farre
must
hee
be
from
shrowding
himselfe
with
the
vaile
of
religion
to
oppresse
his
realme
,
notwithstanding
whatsoeuer
the
diuersities
thereof
,
especially
if
the
number
of
the
contrarie
partie
bée
innumerable
,
also
that
tolleration
may
be
a
manifest
occasion
of
rest
.
Wherefore
albeit
these
pretended
reformed
,
were
the
most
damnable
heretikes
in
the
worlde
,
yet
considering
the
multitude
of
them
,
the
good
Townes
,
and
almost
all
the
good
prouinces
which
they
enioy
,
with
the
mightie
&
valiant
Captaines
that
support
them
,
it
were
but
in
vaine
for
vs
to
enterprise
to
assaile
them
,
from
whom
we
can
bring
nothing
but
the
tokens
of
their
stomackes
,
notwithstanding
whatsoeuer
forrain
succour
we
haue
had
to
support
vs
,
&
that
they
haue
hitherto
resisted
vs
with
the
faction
onely
that
they
haue
in
France
.
So
far
shall
we
be
from
doing
them
anie
harme
at
all
,
if
they
get
their
forren
helpe
.
Besides
this
,
we
cannot
well
cast
them
off
from
amongst
vs
without
extreme
inhumanitie
:
for
,
for
the
most
part
they
be
conioyned
vnto
vs
by
consanguinitie
,
and
all
generally
by
like
participation
of
one selfe
countrie
.
Far
are
we
from
conforming
our selues
to
the
Israelites
,
who
by
a
certaine
iust
permission
of
God
suffered
the
Iebusites
to
dwell
in
Ierusalem
:
albeit
the
proportion
betwéene
vs
and
the
reformed
,
were
without
comparison
greater
then
betwéene
them
:
either
to
the
great
Emperor
Theodosius
,
who
as
witnesse
Epiphanius
and
Tertullian
,
Doctors
of
the
Church
and
men
woorthie
credite
,
during
his
Empire
tollerated
an
hundred
sectes
,
but
especially
the
Arrians
,
whom
thrée
or
foure
Emperors
before
him
had
fauoured
,
who
wer
founded
both
by
prescription
of
time
,
and
by
eight
Councels
which
had
confirmed
their
heresie
after
the
same
of
Nice
,
and
namely
the
Councell
of
Arimini
,
where
sixtie
Bishops
mainteined
Arrianisme
,
&
onelie
thrée
persons
stucke
to
the
trueth
:
and
yet
Theodosius
himselfe
perseuered
constantly
in
true
religion
,
wherin
he
caused
his
children
to
bee
instructed
,
and
so
did
more
weaken
Arrianisme
then
hee
coulde
haue
done
by
anie
violence
of
decrées
,
which
he
surceased
.
I
will
not
bring
in
for
example
the
Turke
,
who
tollerateth
all
kindes
of
religion
,
for
that
I
minde
to
kéepe
the
Christians
within
Christendome
,
but
surely
he
doeth
the
more
stedfastly
establish
his
estate
,
for
that
men
being
glad
of
libertie
,
care
not
for
troubling
his
estate
that
graunteth
them
peace
.
Behold
Germany
&
Poleland
:
you
shal
sée
no
nation
so
diuers
in
religion
as
they
,
and
yet
can
they
ioyne
in
a
common
peace
,
neither
doo
the
diuision
of
opinions
diuide
their
estates
.
As
for
the
Catholike
king
,
he
at
the
first
established
his
Inquisition
so
surelie
that
these
reformed
haue
had
no
great
opportunitie
to
settle
themselues
in
Spaine
,
but
for
the
low
Countries
hée
cannot
yet
compasse
it
there
,
which
redoundeth
to
the
great
detriment
&
confusion
of
his
affaires
,
how
good
a
face
soeuer
hée
set
vpon
the
matter
.
But
God
hath
giuen
him
that
bone
to
gnaw
vpon
,
least
he
should
imploy
his
great
wealth
to
the
destruction
of
any
his
mightie
neighbor
,
which
with
the
incredible
treasure
that
this
Flemish
warre
hath
wasted
,
he
might
peraduenture
haue
done
:
yet
doe
I
not
thinke
but
euerie
of
you
doe
abhorre
the
infinite
mischiefes
which
his
obstinacie
hath
bred
:
for
through
the
naturall
loue
that
is
rooted
in
vs
,
we
iudge
more
fréely
of
others
then
of
our selues
:
and
in
déede
wee
haue
taken
pittie
of
them
:
witnesse
the
French
troupes
at
sundrie
times
led
thither
,
and
euen
lately
the
same
which
the
late
Monsieur
brought
,
albeit
the
whole
haue
had
but
had
successe
,
either
for
our
honors
or
the
profite
of
those
poore
tirannized
people
.
Howbeit
,
we
haue
alwaies
in
apparance
shewed
what
griefe
wee
haue
conceyued
of
their
desolation
:
and
therfore
notwithstanding
whatsoeuer
controuersie
of
religion
the
Catholike
French
could
runne
to
their
succour
,
albeit
we
haue
conuerted
our
furie
against
the
same
faction
among
vs
:
so
diuers
haue
wee
beene
to
helpe
some
,
and
to
oppresse
other
some
,
euen
those
to
whom
we
were
more
bound
to
shew
fauour
and
curtesie
.
Neuerthelesse
I
will
not
say
,
that
the
Catholikes
tended
chiefely
to
aide
the
reformed
in
Flanders
,
simply
in
respect
of
their
religion
:
but
I
pretend
thereby
onely
to
shew
that
they
haue
all
great
reason
to
maintain
their
felow
countrimen
,
who
shroud
them selues
vnder
the
same
cloake
of
reformation
,
as
to
succour
strangers
.
Concerning
these
men
,
they
propound
to
them selues
charitie
towardes
their
neighbors
,
and
hatred
of
the
Spaniard
with
the
desire
of
his
destruction
:
neither
haue
wee
feared
to
make
the
Catholikes
protectors
of
the
Reformed
against
the
Catholikes
,
and
yet
doo
we
make
a
conscience
to
vse
the
like
curtesie
to
ours
against
our selues
,
which
wee
might
with
much
more
ease
,
profit
and
commoditie
,
doe
:
considering
that
thereof
doe
depend
the
preseruation
&
eminencie
of
the
estate
.
Thus
much
haue
I
thought
good
now
to
say
vnto
you
concerning
this
matter
,
beséeching
you
,
my
maisters
,
to
examine
my
reasons
,
&
thereto
to
adde
suche
as
your
discretions
are
able
to
performe
,
whereby
wee
all
may
procure
the
restoring
of
our
affaires
.
In
the
name
of
God
doe
I
exhort
you
to
enter
into
so
déepe
consideration
of
our
miseries
,
and
the
difficultie
or
rather
impossibilitie
of
our
purposes
,
that
we
may
shortly
after
manie
stormes
taste
of
some
tranquillitie
,
bearing
faithfull
counsels
to
the
king
in
this
matter
,
according
as
by
the
duetie
of
your
functions
you
are
bound
.
The
kingdome
of
Christ
is
destinate
to
troubles
:
true
:
but
woe
vnto
those
that
are
the
causers
thereof
.
This
sacred
shepeheards
shéepe
ought
not
to
become
wolues
:
or
they
to
whom
Christ
hath
commanded
peace
,
to
make
warres
:
or
Gods
children
to
murder
their
bretheren
.
But
I
speake
only
to
you
my
maisters
,
whom
I
acknowledge
to
bee
the
principall
court
which
at
this
day
doe
minister
whatsoeuer
motion
you
list
to
our
affaires
:
consider
that
it
is
your
parts
to
become
mediators
in
all
these
funerall
diuisions
:
to
reunite
,
if
not
in
religion
,
yet
at
the
least
in
peace
al
these
partakers
,
which
are
so
fleshed
one
against
an
other
.
Hitherto
haue
you
béen
content
to
cast
your
torches
betwéene
our
armies
,
and
sodenly
after
the
maner
of
the
auncient
Priests
of
Rome
,
to
retire
into
place
of
safetie
.
Now
is
it
time
for
you
to
run
and
quench
them
:
otherwise
you
shall
daily
lose
your
great
supporters
,
and
in
the
ende
grow
so
weake
,
that
they
whom
you
thinke
weakest
shall
ouer
rule
you
:
your
force
dependeth
onely
vpon
peace
,
whereas
in
the
warres
,
besides
that
these
reformed
doe
catch
from
the
Clergie
infinite
treasures
,
euen
those
that
are
left
do
vanish
with
the
aire
,
&
séem
only
to
fatten
vp
such
as
vnder
colour
of
fauouring
of
you
,
doe
but
séeke
to
get
their
liuings
.
Many
of
our
Popes
haue
agreed
our
kings
with
the
Emperors
and
English
men
,
when
we
had
but
forren
warres
:
greater
reason
then
haue
you
in
these
ciuill
and
domesticall
dissentions
,
the
most
intollerable
or
odious
in
the
world
,
to
séeke
some
way
so
to
do
.
Whosoeuer
shall
say
to
his
brother
,
Racha
,
is
by
God
himselfe
accursed
,
what
then
shall
you
hee
,
if
not
onelie
in
wordes
,
but
in
déede
also
you
build
the
dissipation
of
your
neighbours
?
And
what
clemency
can
you
looke
for
of
God
that
are
so
cruell
to
men
?
so
cruell
I
say
euen
to
your selues
?
I
will
speake
boldly
vnto
you
my
maisters
.
I
feare
if
you
long
continue
this
sauage
life
,
it
will
happen
to
you
as
it
did
to
Esau
,
that
for
want
of
being
in
Gods
house
,
you
wil
loose
your
birthright
.
For
so
long
as
you
pursue
these
reformed
,
you
are
as
it
were
in
the
wildernesse
,
where
you
runne
thirsting
after
their
blood
,
and
the
whiles
haue
no
care
to
serue
your
heauenly
father
.
So
as
vnlesse
I
bee
deceiued
,
at
your
returne
the
gate
of
his
mercy
wil
bee
shutte
against
you
:
you
shall
bee
knowne
,
but
not
acknowledged
to
bee
his
children
:
and
finally
these
cruelties
will
inherite
crueltie
,
these
oppressions
oppression
,
and
these
iniquities
vengeance
.
Beware
my
maisters
,
for
albeit
you
deceiue
men
,
God
seeth
your
hearts
,
and
to
him
all
secrets
are
open
:
suffer
not
religion
to
be
the
belweather
vnto
the
subuerters
of
this
state
,
and
as
the
shortest
follies
are
the
best
,
so
content
your selues
that
you
haue
brought
things
into
that
dispaire
wherein
wée
now
sée
them
,
and
so
long
as
there
is
any
likelihood
of
recouerie
,
delate
not
your
abilitie
anie
longer
,
least
it
fléete
away
in
the
violence
of
our
mishaps
.
As
for
the
league
whereto
you
haue
lent
the
vizard
of
religion
,
consider
that
you
cherish
the
serpent
that
killeth
you
:
you
haue
swallowed
henbane
which
maketh
you
to
die
without
féeling
.
Remember
you
not
that
when
it
was
first
reuealed
,
you
were
not
named
?
as
indéed
what
religion
could
they
think
on
that
purpósed
onelie
impietie
?
Could
they
that
shot
onelie
at
your
kings
person
your
head
&
protector
,
and
his
state
to
order
it
after
their
fantasies
,
call
you
to
warrant
their
religion
?
you
that
should
preach
nothing
but
obedience
to
the
magistrate
?
Hereunto
doo
the
blind
sée
as
clerely
as
the
daie
.
These
shamelesse
persons
thought
vpon
nothing
lesse
then
religion
:
The
death
of
the
Lords
annointed
,
the
spoile
of
his
crown
did
they
leuell
at
:
witnes
their
practises
against
the
best
and
most
Catholike
Townes
in
France
,
for
they
neuer
medled
with
the
reformed
or
attempted
against
anie
thing
to
them
apperteining
.
And
I
maruaile
how
beeing
so
fierce
against
these
partakers
of
common
quiet
,
as
ye
were
at
the
beginning
you
can
now
be
so
drunke
with
their
hipocrisie
as
yee
are
,
albeit
you
serue
them
but
for
a
vailet
and
to
say
truth
,
you
haue
but
the
fooles
part
in
the
tragedie
that
they
plaie
vpon
the
Theater
of
France
.
What
protection
néeded
you
when
no
man
seemed
to
molest
you
?
who
gaue
them
this
office
ouer
your
soueraigne
?
néeded
he
to
be
constrained
to
your
defence
,
which
hee
euer
so
willingly
tooke
vpon
him
?
could
not
you
be
defended
but
by
war
?
had
you
not
for
certaine
yéeres
tried
the
defence
of
peace
?
was
it
not
possible
to
liue
in
so
faire
a
path
without
murthering
all
the
world
?
All
France
before
the
last
troubles
did
wee
sée
in
so
good
peace
that
the
controuersies
in
religion
did
nothing
impeach
the
concord
of
one
or
other
:
trafick
was
growne
common
againe
,
the
waies
were
frée
through
all
parts
of
the
realme
,
what
losse
had
you
by
it
:
wherin
were
you
troubled
?
who
molested
you
,
either
in
your
goods
or
persons
?
Enioyed
you
not
your
church
rents
euen
among
these
reformed
?
did
you
not
eate
and
drinke
togither
without
outrage
?
who
euer
complained
of
this
contentation
?
As
for
these
reformed
,
which
of
them
during
this
time
refused
the
obedience
that
the
subiect
oweth
to
his
Prince
?
who
haue
defrauded
him
of
his
roiall
prerogatiues
?
what
taxes
or
ordinarie
Subsidies
haue
they
reiected
?
who
amongst
them
followed
not
the
ordinarie
course
of
iustice
?
who
conspired
against
the
state
?
your selues
my
maisters
will
confesse
there
was
no
fault
in
them
.
If
by
obseruing
their
religion
they
did
amisse
,
it
was
by
the
consent
of
the
king
and
all
the
soueraigne
Courtes
of
this
realme
:
by
the
consent
,
I
saie
,
so
solemnely
sworne
:
the
infringing
whereof
séemeth
to
mende
their
cause
:
not
that
I
will
laie
the
blame
vpon
the
king
:
but
onelie
vpon
those
whose
violence
haue
brought
him
to
this
extremitie
,
to
falsefie
his
word
for
the
breaking
of
their
pernitious
drifts
,
and
to
turne
to
these
rebels
,
so
to
turne
the
storme
that
they
had
moued
against
him
into
the
innocencie
of
these
peaceable
persons
.
Thus
doe
such
as
are
in
danger
of
shipwracke
,
abandon
their
owne
goods
to
relieue
their
vessell
,
albeit
this
forced
will
be
a
will
,
sith
the
first
motions
rest
in
him
that
executeth
it
.
But
I
will
enter
no
farther
into
the
considerations
which
the
king
may
haue
had
to
gainsay
himselfe
,
and
yet
will
I
boldly
say
,
that
hee
neuer
did
thing
so
preiuditiall
to
his
state
,
wherof
he
hath
most
euident
proofes
,
and
I
beséech
God
to
bee
content
with
that
is
past
,
and
to
withdraw
his
hand
from
of
his
people
,
and
grant
vs
some
release
from
these
oppressions
.
As
also
your selues
doe
in
déede
know
,
notwithstanding
the
pursuit
of
the
Pensioners
of
the
leagued
remaining
about
his
person
,
what
adoo
there
was
to
make
his
maiestie
resolue
himselfe
thereto
.
This
his
cléere
iudgement
perceiued
the
pernitious
consequence
of
assotiation
,
but
hee
wanted
supporters
to
vphold
himselfe
,
considering
that
the
chiefe
Officers
of
his
counsell
,
who
before
had
bound
their
faith
to
these
Princes
,
neuer
desisted
from
bending
of
him
that
way
,
neither
haue
I
alwaies
béene
of
that
minde
,
but
did
long
persuade
my self
that
the
stedfastnesse
of
our
affaires
consisted
in
this
inconstancie
,
howbeit
I
was
forced
to
bee
as
it
were
sheitle
witted
,
and
by
diuorcement
from
vanitie
to
marry
with
reason
.
For
sith
the
king
knew
well
inough
that
there
was
no
quarell
but
at
his
estate
,
hee
should
haue
made
no
difficultie
to
call
about
him
such
as
haue
most
interest
therein
,
as
the
Princes
of
the
blood
and
their
power
,
at
the
least
vpon
extremitie
,
according
to
their
own
offers
.
That
was
the
way
to
haue
suppressed
the
insolent
proceedings
of
these
partakers
,
who
fish
only
in
puddle
water
,
and
vse
our
confusions
to
their
own
establishment
.
For
the
people
would
easily
haue
belieued
that
in
truth
there
was
no
quarrell
but
at
the
state
,
if
the
king
had
vnderpropped
himself
with
the
pillers
of
the
state
and
not
béene
beaten
downe
with
the
winde
of
religion
,
albeit
some
of
the
princes
of
his
blood
do
professe
no
other
then
himselfe
:
also
that
they
which
professe
anie
other
,
are
so
affectionate
to
his
seruice
and
the
seruice
of
his
crowne
,
that
they
would
not
haue
béene
anie
whit
more
slacke
in
effect
then
in
will
.
Had
there
not
béen
more
apparance
that
hée
should
haue
ioined
with
these
,
them
with
the
leaguers
?
that
is
,
with
his
friends
then
with
his
enemies
?
with
the
French
then
with
the
Lorrains
?
with
his
own
blood
then
with
these
bastardes
?
with
the
true
Officers
of
his
Crowne
,
then
with
those
that
haue
béen
so
vndutifull
to
him
?
The
Romans
alwaies
appeased
their
domesticall
quarrels
,
to
agrée
against
those
that
assailed
them
,
whether
the
Gaules
,
the
Thuscans
,
or
the
Carthaginians
.
The
like
did
the
Spaniards
,
when
the
late
king
Frances
the
first
,
during
their
reuolt
from
the
Emperour
Charles
the
fift
gat
from
them
the
realme
of
Nauarre
.
The
discent
of
the
English
at
Newhauen
,
1562.
bred
the
reunion
of
the
Frenchmen
,
so
to
returne
them
away
:
and
when
wée
haue
séene
these
monsters
of
Lorrain
waste
our
country
,
must
we
néeds
ioyne
with
them
to
help
to
destroy
our selues
?
what
is
become
of
that
auncient
French
vertue
that
was
woont
to
goe
to
fight
with
the
enemy
at
his
owne
doore
,
where
now
we
call
him
in
,
wee
nourish
him
,
we
flatter
him
,
and
the
more
harme
hée
dooth
vs
,
the
more
we
binde
our selues
to
him
?
This
nation
which
heretofore
hath
triumphed
ouer
the
Emperours
,
the
Solimans
,
the
Sarasins
,
the
Gothes
,
and
the
Normans
,
hath
not
now
béene
able
to
withstand
a
handfull
of
Guizards
,
and
this
scepter
exalted
ouer
a
million
of
trophees
,
stoopeth
to
these
rebels
,
yea
they
haue
almost
trod
it
vnder
foote
.
All
the
honor
of
valiancy
and
courage
which
our
predecessors
haue
in
twelue
hundreth
yeares
atchieued
and
kept
,
haue
wee
wretchedly
lost
in
one
houre
,
and
these
Lions
that
feared
no
bulles
,
are
now
terrefied
only
with
the
crowing
of
a
Cocke
?
Our
estate
doo
I
now
compare
to
the
Rocke
mentioned
by
Pliny
,
which
if
ye
thrust
with
your
whole
bodie
neuer
shaketh
,
but
when
you
touch
it
onely
with
one
finger
,
or
rather
to
that
stone
which
being
whole
fléeteth
vpon
the
water
,
but
broken
sinketh
.
The
whole
world
,
as
a
man
shuld
say
,
was
not
able
to
make
France
to
shake
,
and
now
these
Mushromes
doe
quite
ouerthrow
it
.
We
altogither
haue
fléeted
vpon
the
floodes
of
infinit
forrein
warres
,
yet
our
diuisions
doo
drowne
vs
.
This
miserable
realme
séemeth
to
be
growne
to
her
last
periode
,
and
as
that
auncient
Astrologer
by
the
noyse
weules
that
did
gnaw
the
posts
,
iudged
of
the
destruction
of
the
house
wherein
he
was
,
so
many
wee
boldly
say
,
that
sith
these
vermine
still
consumeth
vs
,
our
fall
is
at
hand
.
What
then
?
must
the
French
men
become
strangers
one
to
an
other
?
can
we
finde
any
soules
so
disloiall
as
to
abandon
the
true
stock
of
S.
Lewes
,
to
embrace
these
wrongfull
vsurpers
of
their
right
?
Those
that
haue
béen
our
true
and
lawfull
Lordes
these
thrée
hundreth
and
sixtie
yeares
,
(
for
so
long
is
it
since
the
raigne
of
S.
Lewes
head
of
that
race
,
who
also
gathereth
his
discent
from
Merouee
)
to
those
whom
we
haue
not
knowne
these
fiftie
yeares
?
shall
we
carry
vpon
our
Targets
&
shoulders
,
those
whose
vnworthinesse
and
vniustice
should
make
to
cleane
to
the
earth
?
shall
wee
plucke
away
these
braue
branches
of
the
Flowerdeluce
which
yet
remaine
,
to
graft
in
their
places
these
wildings
,
who
as
they
haue
begun
,
will
yéeld
foorth
nothing
but
thornes
?
Oh
,
who
can
wish
this
horrible
chaunge
?
This
onelie
reason
might
mooue
vs
to
detest
the
ambition
of
these
busie
bodies
:
they
aspire
to
the
Crowne
,
but
they
cannot
haue
it
without
murther
,
and
the
death
of
a
million
of
men
:
those
that
vphold
it
,
are
like
to
be
the
first
that
must
stoope
:
and
they
that
imagine
by
their
meanes
to
get
preferment
,
shall
haue
peraduenture
no
other
recompence
then
the
losse
of
their
liues
.
To
be
briefe
,
for
the
fulfilling
of
their
ambition
,
we
must
heape
vp
our
tombes
with
carkases
:
the
heapes
of
their
oppressed
partakers
are
the
staies
whereby
they
climbe
vp
to
heauen
.
Ought
wee
not
to
abhorre
these
cruelties
?
to
spit
in
the
faces
of
these
shamelesse
persons
that
bereaue
vs
of
our
libertie
?
To
honor
those
that
may
peaceably
and
without
disorder
ascend
vnto
the
type
of
that
authoritie
which
the
lawes
of
the
realme
&
their
desert
haue
purchased
for
them
?
Let
vs
hardlie
touch
the
chiefe
string
of
this
game
,
and
sith
these
men
are
not
ashamed
to
doe
,
let
not
vs
be
ashamed
to
speake
.
The
Guizardes
would
,
to
the
preiudice
of
the
house
of
Burbon
,
inuade
this
realme
,
euerie
man
knoweth
it
,
neither
is
there
any
thing
so
common
in
the
peoples
mouthes
:
wherefore
,
because
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
who
is
the
néerest
and
the
Prince
of
Conde
,
doo
professe
the
reformed
religion
,
and
so
consequently
are
are
heretikes
.
I
am
sory
that
I
am
no
great
Doctor
,
that
I
might
finde
out
this
point
of
heresie
which
so
oft
is
cast
in
their
téeth
:
but
in
my
mind
the
chief
disputations
of
these
reformed
,
doo
tend
only
to
make
the
simple
word
of
God
of
more
force
then
mens
traditions
.
That
is
it
whereto
they
call
vs
,
and
I
belieue
they
haue
great
reason
,
neither
that
wee
are
so
sufficiently
shrowded
vnder
the
cloake
of
the
Church
,
as
to
thinke
that
the
beautifull
title
can
in
effect
stop
all
errors
:
neither
is
there
any
thing
so
easie
to
corrupt
as
the
mysteries
of
religion
,
whereof
I
report
my selfe
to
Noahes
family
,
which
was
so
holily
instructed
,
and
yet
whence
grew
all
the
Idolatrie
of
the
Chaldeans
,
and
consequently
of
all
the
rest
of
the
worlde
,
except
those
whom
God
reserued
for
his
people
?
yea
I
referre
my selfe
to
the
same
people
:
was
there
euer
thing
so
fraile
as
those
wretches
?
whence
then
came
the
foure
hundreth
false
Prophets
against
one
onely
Micheas
?
the
worshipping
in
the
high
places
,
and
the
abhominable
superstitions
wherein
these
libertines
did
ouerflow
?
neither
was
it
euer
otherwise
,
but
that
the
trueth
vpon
the
beginning
of
the
light
thereof
,
hath
had
the
darknesse
of
lying
opposite
thereto
:
yea
,
if
I
durst
be
so
bolde
,
as
to
passe
common
spéech
,
it
is
the
trueth
that
of
necessitie
bringeth
forth
lyes
,
euen
as
light
bringeth
forth
a
shadow
.
For
this
cause
,
so
soone
as
Jesus
Christ
reuealed
him selfe
to
be
the
sonne
of
God
,
al
men
accounted
him
a
blasphemer
,
and
the
whole
course
of
his
life
séemed
to
those
blinde
people
but
a
merrie
enterlude
:
so
soone
as
the
Apostles
had
preached
the
pure
doctrine
,
the
diuel
sowed
his
impurities
:
yea
no
man
driue
them
more
out
of
the
Church
,
then
they
that
named
them selues
the
Church
.
Simon
the
magitian
opposed
himselfe
against
S.
Peter
:
Cerinthus
against
S.
Iohn
,
and
so
consequently
sundrie
heretikes
against
the
Church
,
as
Ebion
,
Basilides
,
Marcion
,
Montanus
,
Carparates
Sabellicus
and
many
other
,
who
all
for
the
most
part
endeuored
to
ouerthrow
the
ground
of
our
saluation
,
Iesus
Christ
:
neither
hath
the
Church
wanted
exercise
onely
against
her
enimies
,
but
also
she
hath
,
as
I
find
,
béene
often
molested
by
her
owne
household
seruants
:
Nouatian
the
Priest
,
denyed
to
receyue
,
such
as
had
reuolted
,
to
penauce
:
and
so
with
the
helpe
of
Nicostratus
a
Priest
of
Carthage
,
caused
a
great
schisme
in
the
Church
.
Samosatenus
,
being
Bishop
of
Antioch
,
renewed
the
errors
of
the
Ebionites
.
Arrius
a
Priest
of
Alexandria
,
had
the
assistance
of
many
Bishops
and
Emperors
,
yea
,
and
since
of
whole
nations
in
his
heresie
.
Now
if
in
these
beginnings
,
the
treasons
of
such
as
séemed
to
serue
God
were
so
great
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
this
mischiefe
hath
still
slipped
in
and
béene
maintained
in
the
Church
.
Yea
if
you
can
well
thinke
vpon
it
,
it
may
bee
you
will
not
iudge
your selues
cleane
exempt
from
all
corruptions
:
but
I
will
say
no
more
for
feare
of
incurring
your
censures
.
Howbeit
I
am
sory
you
neuer
proue
the
decision
of
the
processe
which
the
reformed
haue
entred
against
you
,
and
haue
long
hung
vpon
the
file
,
also
that
we
must
belieue
some
rather
then
other
some
without
any
further
notice
of
the
matter
:
for
so
should
we
be
no
longer
troubled
to
know
whether
these
two
princes
be
heretikes
or
not
.
Howbeit
admit
they
be
(
which
hardly
and
without
preiudice
to
their
replication
I
can
belieue
)
is
it
your
partes
to
shrinke
from
their
obedience
?
So
did
neuer
any
Christians
in
the
Primitiue
Church
against
the
heathen
Emperors
,
to
whom
in
all
publike
gouernment
they
submitted
them selues
,
albeit
there
could
bee
no
greater
difference
in
religion
than
was
betweene
them
.
Did
they
reuolt
against
Constantin
the
great
,
who
in
the
end
fauoured
Arrius
?
against
Licinius
?
against
Iulian
the
Apostata
:
against
Valentinian
and
many
others
that
exercised
tyranny
against
their
religion
?
But
the
king
of
Nauarre
is
farre
from
dealing
so
with
vs
:
for
he
is
not
yet
come
to
that
which
wee
feare
.
Thus
we
cry
without
a
cause
before
we
be
beaten
:
not
that
foresight
is
not
an
effect
of
wisedom
,
but
because
it
is
in
vaine
to
preuent
that
which
wee
neither
can
nor
ought
to
eschewe
.
Howsoeuer
God
giueth
vs
our
kings
we
must
suffer
it
:
neither
is
there
anie
law
or
lawfull
example
in
the
world
,
that
teacheth
vs
to
doe
otherwise
.
Herein
the
reformed
may
séeme
to
beare
themselues
but
badly
,
in
that
they
take
armes
against
their
soueraigne
,
in
defence
of
their
religion
.
But
besides
that
they
are
iustly
grounded
vpon
the
defensiue
vnder
the
magistrats
authority
:
also
that
nothing
is
more
naturall
then
to
expulse
violence
,
they
doe
besides
alledge
the
peremptorie
reasons
which
often
enough
they
haue
giuen
vs
to
vnderstand
of
,
neither
is
their
any
fault
but
in
our
negligence
that
wee
are
not
sufficiently
enstructed
thereof
.
Moreouer
,
the
king
of
Nauarres
and
the
P.
of
Condes
maner
of
dealing
with
our
Catholikes
,
might
make
you
to
hope
of
all
good
entreatie
,
whensoeuer
things
may
come
to
that
passe
.
Truely
the
king
of
Nauarre
hath
alwaies
tollerated
Catholike
religion
in
his
Realme
,
which
is
the
lawer
Nauarre
,
that
is
to
say
,
a
portion
of
all
Nauarre
,
the
rest
thereof
lying
beyond
the
Pirinean
mountaines
,
the
Spaniards
vniustly
detaine
from
him
.
And
this
can
myselfe
testifie
,
as
hauing
séene
it
with
my
owne
eyes
:
for
vpon
a
certaine
curiositie
I
trauailed
thither
two
yeares
since
,
euen
to
know
whether
that
which
I
had
heard
to
the
contrarie
,
were
true
or
no.
True
it
is
,
that
matters
are
otherwise
ordered
in
his
soueraignetie
of
Bearne
:
which
is
,
because
at
his
comming
thereto
,
he
so
found
them
:
yea
&
so
well
established
for
the
space
of
certaine
yeares
during
the
life
of
his
late
mother
the
Quéene
of
Nauarre
,
that
it
were
very
hard
,
yea
vnpossible
to
make
any
alteration
,
which
also
is
dangerous
vnlesse
any
greater
benefit
be
verie
apparant
.
Secondly
,
his
house
is
full
of
Catholike
gentlemen
which
serue
him
,
euen
in
his
most
priuate
and
notable
offices
,
neither
did
hee
euer
make
anie
difficultie
with
great
courtesie
to
receyue
all
those
that
offered
them selues
.
This
is
no
token
that
he
will
otherwise
deale
whensoeuer
hee
shall
obtaine
our
estate
,
neither
will
I
vse
any
more
then
one
reason
gathered
of
the
likelihood
,
yea
,
vnlesse
I
be
deceiued
,
of
the
verie
trueth
.
It
is
not
likely
that
this
Prince
séeing
himselfe
exalted
vnto
the
throne
,
would
after
so
many
troubles
,
séeke
other
then
peace
,
so
farre
would
he
be
from
taking
occasion
of
warre
with
his
subiects
,
whose
affections
he
had
rather
captiuate
,
then
estrange
:
whereupon
he
will
alwaies
like
that
his
subiects
should
maintaine
their
accustomed
religion
,
prouided
,
that
the
insolencie
of
these
harebraines
who
séeke
but
to
trouble
the
water
,
and
then
to
blame
the
lambes
,
least
they
should
faile
of
some
pretence
to
deuoure
them
,
doe
permit
him
the
like
.
He
may
alwaies
consider
that
the
Catholikes
parte
is
well
vnderpropped
:
that
if
his
were
inuincible
,
so
is
the
other
,
and
therefore
that
hee
shall
haue
a
better
hand
by
maintaining
of
it
,
then
by
drawing
vpon
his
estate
the
cursse
of
the
people
,
and
vpon
his
conscience
the
destruction
thereof
:
as
also
I
will
adde
the
other
of
his
house
being
Catholikes
,
hauing
so
good
part
therein
,
hee
will
be
the
more
careful
for
their
sakes
.
But
what
?
we
doe
,
according
to
the
prouerbe
,
striue
for
the
Bishops
cope
,
and
to
no
purpose
doe
deuide
the
inheritance
of
the
liuing
,
who
peraduenture
may
outline
all
those
that
dispute
of
thinges
to
come
after
his
death
:
yea
it
séemeth
,
we
share
out
the
webbe
of
his
life
at
our
pleasures
:
but
albeit
it
bee
not
lawfull
to
moue
this
question
,
yet
may
we
resolue
it
,
to
the
end
to
take
away
all
doubts
from
those
that
bréeds
preiudice
to
peace
and
the
common
wealth
.
And
indéede
,
it
is
as
much
as
to
complaine
of
ease
.
Well
you
sée
that
the
king
of
Nauars
troupes
doe
at
this
day
consist
as
well
of
the
one
as
of
the
other
sorte
,
likewise
that
concord
remaineth
amongst
them
,
whereas
the
best
of
their
profession
that
cometh
amongst
vs
must
bee
imprisoned
&
ransomed
from
all
his
goodes
,
yea
and
finally
suffer
that
death
which
hee
hath
not
deserued
.
These
be
monsters
,
they
must
be
choaked
vp
:
and
many
times
for
the
satisfying
of
the
rage
of
the
enimies
to
the
State
,
we
are
forced
to
iniurie
our
owne
selues
.
I
know
that
the
most
malicious
among
them
doe
vse
to
gird
at
this
the
king
of
Nauarres
facilitie
,
as
if
the
same
were
the
baites
wherewith
he
séeketh
to
draw
vs
into
his
nettes
:
but
no
man
can
doe
so
wel
as
to
please
all
men
:
still
there
is
some
thing
to
be
misliked
,
and
mens
fansies
must
be
tormented
for
their
pleasures
.
How
would
it
haue
béene
,
if
in
the
beginnig
abandoning
his
owne
religion
for
our
pleasures
,
he
had
taken
ours
?
Then
would
they
haue
said
it
had
béen
to
curry
fauor
with
vs
:
that
he
so
counterfeited
to
the
end
to
deceiue
vs
:
that
outwardly
hee
had
beene
a
Catholike
,
and
inwardly
reformed
in
his
conscience
:
that
he
had
not
cast
his
olde
skin
:
that
yet
he
smelt
of
the
faggot
:
that
we
must
waite
for
his
perseuerance
,
so
to
know
whether
he
were
to
bee
trusted
:
In
summe
,
the
poore
Prince
had
beene
wide
in
his
account
.
And
in
truth
,
that
had
béene
the
onely
way
,
to
haue
vnhorsed
him
outright
:
for
the
reformed
would
not
haue
trusted
him
,
but
would
haue
plaied
their
partes
alone
:
and
the
Catholikes
woulde
not
at
the
first
blow
haue
committed
them selues
to
him
,
no
peraduenture
not
at
all
.
Yea
if
the
Captaines
of
the
league
were
before
their
ghostly
father
,
they
would
say
they
should
haue
béene
verie
sorie
if
they
thought
that
the
Catholikes
would
take
his
part
:
and
I
am
sure
they
would
soone
labour
to
be
of
the
other
side
as
heretofore
they
haue
done
,
so
to
lay
a
foundation
for
their
ambition
.
But
surely
thereby
the
king
of
Nauarre
could
haue
reaped
neither
honor
nor
profit
:
and
therefore
I
doe
not
thinke
it
had
béene
any
good
counsaile
for
him
so
to
haue
done
,
least
he
might
by
that
means
haue
lost
those
of
whom
he
is
alreadie
assured
:
neither
can
it
be
any
let
to
any
that
affect
onely
the
preseruation
of
the
state
to
ioine
with
him
,
as
of
late
did
the
Earle
of
Soissons
.
Also
in
as
much
as
which
way
so
euer
he
turne
him
,
the
present
state
of
his
affaires
will
still
furnish
him
of
enimies
,
it
wil
better
beséeme
him
to
cleaue
constantly
to
that
wherein
from
his
infancie
he
hath
béene
brought
vp
,
then
lightly
to
intrude
him selfe
into
pernicious
and
vncertaine
nouelties
.
Moreouer
,
the
lesser
is
neuer
to
prescribe
lawe
to
the
superior
,
and
except
the
kings
person
(
whom
I
speeke
not
of
)
it
is
greater
reason
that
all
Frenchmen
endeuour
to
conforme
themselues
to
the
K.
of
Nauarre
,
then
he
to
stoupe
to
their
discretion
,
and
bend
to
their
violences
:
as
also
his
dignitie
and
courage
can
not
digest
such
reproches
as
they
procure
him
,
or
rigor
as
they
vse
towarde
him
.
This
hath
he
alwais
shewed
,
but
now
more
then
euer
.
You
sée
how
God
hath
lately
blessed
him
,
in
deliuering
vs
into
his
hands
,
so
as
if
his
forraine
helpe
should
once
ioine
with
him
,
his
discretion
,
valour
,
and
dexteritie
would
set
our
spurres
close
inough
to
our
héeles
.
It
is
therefore
most
necessarie
for
you
to
dispose
your selues
to
preuent
the
mischiefe
which
God
hath
prepared
for
vs
in
the
reencounter
of
these
armies
,
the
hazard
whereof
can
not
but
redound
greatly
to
the
kinges
losse
:
for
if
he
get
the
victorie
,
it
wil
be
with
horrible
slaughter
of
his
subiects
:
and
if
he
lose
it
,
his
state
is
gone
,
neither
shall
wee
peraduenture
hereafter
finde
such
fauor
at
the
Conquerors
hands
as
we
would
desire
.
Take
heede
it
fall
not
out
with
vs
,
as
it
did
with
the
Tyrians
,
who
refusing
the
honest
composition
that
Alexander
offered
,
were
afterward
taken
by
assault
and
cruelly
entreated
:
rather
leade
the
way
to
these
reformed
in
this
godly
work
of
compassion
by
offering
vnto
them
such
vnion
and
concord
as
heretofore
haue
beene
among
you
:
or
els
follow
their
steps
,
who
from
the
beginning
haue
cryed
for
,
and
desired
nothing
but
the
way
to
be
ioyned
againe
vnto
you
,
namely
a
Councell
lawfully
called
,
wherein
all
points
of
religion
may
be
decided
of
the
scriptures
,
and
not
by
opinions
:
by
reason
,
not
by
rage
:
by
the
quietnesse
of
amitie
,
not
by
the
bitternesse
of
malice
:
neither
alledge
that
,
as
is
aforesaide
,
that
is
done
alreadie
:
for
the
Councell
of
Nice
,
the
first
general
after
the
Apostles
time
within
that
space
of
thrée
hundreth
yeares
,
was
no
preiudice
to
the
calling
of
diuers
other
according
to
the
exigents
of
the
affaires
,
as
the
same
of
Constantinople
,
egainst
Macedonius
bishop
of
the
same
citie
,
who
denied
the
diuinitie
of
the
holy
Ghost
:
of
Ephesus
against
Pelagius
&
Nestorius
bishop
of
Constantinople
,
who
denied
the
diuinitie
of
Iesus
Christ
:
of
Chalcedon
against
Eutiches
also
a
priest
of
Constantinople
,
who
confounded
the
two
natures
of
Iesus
Christ
:
the
second
of
Constantinople
against
Anthemius
bishop
of
the
same
place
,
who
denyed
that
the
virgin
Mary
had
brought
forth
Iesus
Christ
Man
&
God
:
to
be
briefe
,
many
other
generall
Councels
,
often
called
.
Besides
all
which
,
our
kinges
haue
also
béene
careful
to
call
some
particularly
for
Fraunce
.
Vnder
Pelagius
the
first
,
there
were
two
holden
at
Paris
:
seuen
or
eight
at
Orleance
:
two
at
Tours
vnder
Paule
the
first
,
and
an
other
by
the
authority
of
Pepin
against
the
Greekes
,
concerning
the
trinitie
:
vnder
Adrian
the
first
,
and
by
the
authoritie
of
Charlemaigne
seuen
at
Magence
,
Reimes
,
Tours
,
Chalais
,
and
Arles
for
the
reformation
of
the
state
of
the
Church
:
vnder
Gregory
the
fourth
,
by
the
authority
of
Lewis
the
méek
,
one
at
Aix
the
Chapel
,
wherein
the
superfluitie
of
the
Clargie
was
restrained
,
whereupon
they
grew
to
mutiny
,
&
procured
the
cursed
reuolt
of
Lewis
his
children
.
Others
haue
there
béene
holden
for
the
reformation
of
the
Clargie
vnder
Leo
the
ninth
at
Rheims
:
but
since
as
the
Popes
authoritie
increased
,
the
Kings
diminished
,
and
so
consequently
,
disorders
were
more
tollerated
in
the
Church
:
and
vnlesse
I
be
deceiued
,
of
the
corruption
of
maners
,
which
euery
one
confesseth
,
and
all
histories
doe
testifie
,
some
part
may
haue
crept
euen
into
the
doctrine
,
either
throug
ambition
or
couetousnes
of
the
Doctors
:
howbeit
I
also
said
that
Vrbane
the
second
came
personally
into
Fraunce
to
hold
the
Councel
at
Clermont
in
Auuergne
:
Pascall
to
holde
that
of
Troy
:
Innocent
the
fourth
to
hold
that
of
Lyons
:
Gregory
the
tenth
to
hold
another
in
the
same
towne
:
as
for
Clement
the
fifth
,
he
held
his
seat
at
Auignion
,
and
celebrated
the
vniuersall
Councel
at
Vienna
in
D'Aulphin
.
Afterwarde
Sigismund
the
Emperor
procured
the
holding
of
the
Councel
of
Constance
vnder
Iohn
the
23.
who
was
there
deposed
.
That
of
Basill
vnder
Eugenius
the
fourth
who
also
,
was
there
deposed
.
That
of
Florence
vnder
Amedee
or
Felix
the
fifth
.
After
all
these
there
was
one
holden
at
Orleance
by
the
French
Church
against
Pius
the
second
,
who
would
haue
abolished
the
Pragmaticall
sanction
,
as
an
heresie
which
was
but
the
dependance
of
the
Councell
of
Basill
:
an
other
at
Tours
against
Pope
Iuly
the
second
:
an
other
at
Lions
by
king
Lewis
the
twelfth
,
&
the
last
at
Trent
afore
mentioned
.
You
sée
then
my
M.
whether
the
first
Councels
were
euer
any
law
to
the
second
,
the
second
to
the
third
,
&
so
forth
as
néed
hath
required
.
It
is
which
the
Church
as
with
our
bodies
:
if
the
bodie
be
sicke
,
we
must
call
the
phisition
:
if
the
Church
be
diseased
,
we
must
haue
recourse
to
the
Councels
,
&
therin
to
consult
vpon
most
conuenient
remedies
:
But
as
it
is
not
enough
to
haue
once
heard
the
Phisitions
opinion
,
but
that
according
as
the
sicknesse
encreaseth
,
we
must
also
haue
still
recourse
thereto
:
euen
so
must
we
vpon
euerie
occasion
gather
againe
togither
these
soueraigne
Phisitions
of
whom
the
Councell
must
consist
,
heare
them
without
passion
,
commaund
the
diseased
to
silence
,
take
reason
in
paiment
,
and
perseuere
to
the
ende
in
their
firme
resolutions
.
If
the
Church
fall
againe
,
wée
must
again
call
for
these
helpes
to
raise
it
vp
,
and
so
continually
without
intermission
vnto
the
end
of
the
world
,
when
the
head
of
the
Church
shall
holde
his
last
Councell
.
Not
that
I
would
at
euerie
word
so
trouble
the
Bishops
,
or
for
the
least
ache
that
may
happen
to
our
fingers
end
:
but
when
the
mischief
is
vniuersall
,
we
must
séeke
the
like
remedie
.
The
Gréeke
and
Latine
Church
met
fouretéene
or
fiftéene
times
to
conclude
vpon
an
agréement
:
and
albeit
there
rested
some
difficultie
,
as
yet
there
is
,
they
neuerthelesse
neuer
denounced
warre
each
to
other
.
There
are
nous
but
these
reformed
who
haue
swallowed
vp
all
iniurie
,
in
being
debarred
this
soueraigne
salue
of
reunion
by
a
Councell
:
I
saie
by
one
onely
Councell
,
so
farre
are
wee
from
graunting
them
many
vpon
necessitie
.
What
can
you
terme
this
refusall
but
stomake
and
iniury
.
I
would
neuer
haue
thought
they
had
had
so
much
reason
on
their
side
.
Wee
haue
wished
to
arme
the
king
of
Nauarre
,
yea
euen
by
force
to
compell
him
,
rather
then
to
straine
our selues
to
condiscend
to
so
iust
a
demand
.
Touch
me
hath
he
said
to
you
if
I
be
ignorant
,
and
ye
haue
beaten
him
:
hee
hath
harkened
to
you
and
ye
haue
stopped
your
mouthes
:
hée
hath
asked
you
the
way
to
heauen
and
yee
haue
stopped
your
eares
.
Your
voice
hath
béen
like
to
the
voice
of
the
Edomites
,
at
the
taking
of
Hierusalem
,
and
all
men
haue
heard
you
cry
:
on
,
sacke
,
blood
and
fire
.
Out
of
your
schooles
as
out
of
the
Troyan
horse
haue
sodenly
stepped
forth
these
armies
wherewith
ye
haue
threatened
this
prince
,
yea
they
haue
béen
almost
vpon
his
armie
before
he
hath
béen
readie
to
beate
them
of
.
This
is
a
matter
in
fresh
remembrance
,
and
euery
man
can
beare
me
witnesse
of
the
truth
:
the
more
I
consider
it
,
the
better
ground
doe
I
And
for
their
taking
of
armes
,
yea
there
was
neuer
thing
more
iust
then
their
procéedings
.
He
defendeth
himselfe
,
but
being
assailed
.
He
pursueth
vs
,
but
after
he
had
reculed
:
hée
taketh
reuenge
,
but
being
iniured
.
He
calleth
the
stranger
,
but
when
his
haue
driuen
him
away
.
Who
then
can
mislike
his
resolution
after
so
long
patience
?
Wee
shoote
at
him
,
who
can
then
blame
him
for
looking
to
himselfe
?
Wee
vndermine
his
honours
and
dignities
,
why
then
shall
not
hee
rampier
them
vp
againe
?
Oh
,
how
deare
will
these
brawles
bee
to
France
?
all
the
forces
of
the
world
doe
séeme
on
euerie
side
to
fall
vpon
vs
for
our
confusion
and
dissipation
.
And
albeit
I
can
comprehend
the
domesticall
,
yet
doe
I
more
feare
the
forrein
,
namely
the
Spanish
,
who
by
little
and
little
groweth
licorous
of
the
delicaties
of
our
country
.
Long
haue
they
enuied
vs
,
neither
wil
they
obserue
the
league
vntill
their
enuy
be
contented
.
For
these
enemies
of
the
peace
of
France
,
where
they
can
by
nothing
but
by
vniustice
&
violence
,
will
make
a
good
peniworth
of
so
much
as
shall
be
at
their
discretions
to
cast
it
into
the
throates
of
these
Marans
,
in
hope
still
to
retaine
the
superioritie
.
But
that
nation
is
subtill
enough
to
vse
this
meane
to
their
owne
aduantage
,
and
as
within
these
fewe
yéeres
while
they
haue
had
a
faire
wind
they
haue
not
accustomed
themselues
to
serue
,
so
wil
it
be
hard
for
the
French
men
to
escape
their
dominion
vnlesse
they
looke
the
sooner
to
it
.
And
this
is
it
that
king
Philip
barketh
at
:
this
it
is
that
he
wanteth
to
accomplish
his
most
large
conquests
:
this
is
the
floure
that
hee
wanteth
in
his
nosegaie
:
hee
hath
long
since
cast
an
eie
at
it
,
and
now
is
the
time
that
hée
will
stretch
foorth
his
hand
to
take
it
.
And
indéed
France
is
now
but
an
Antes
nest
of
Espaniolized
persons
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
Traitors
and
periures
to
France
:
their
cofers
doe
swel
with
Spanish
Duccats
,
and
these
wretches
are
not
ashamed
for
readie
mony
to
sell
the
libertie
which
our
Fathers
so
painfully
purchased
,
yea
vnles
God
breake
off
the
purposes
of
these
corrupt
persons
,
we
shal
in
the
end
find
our selues
the
Turkes
Ienissaries
and
this
Pirats
slaues
.
If
it
were
as
easie
to
shake
off
the
yoake
as
to
take
it
,
I
could
wish
these
goodly
perturbers
a
while
to
try
the
tiranny
of
these
Busires
,
and
so
I
hope
we
should
soone
sée
them
runne
back
to
their
franchize
:
but
it
lieth
is
vpon
to
kéep
them
from
that
,
yea
from
making
euen
the
least
motion
that
may
be
:
for
these
Foxes
wil
easily
set
fast
wheresoeuer
they
can
but
reach
their
nailes
,
&
all
the
bodie
where
they
set
their
féete
.
And
sith
part
of
vs
do
alreadie
stoope
vnder
the
burthen
,
I
hope
that
God
will
so
strengthen
the
king
of
Nauar
,
and
all
the
princes
of
the
blood
,
the
these
staruelings
shall
loose
but
their
longing
.
Also
if
the
princes
do
but
continue
their
braue
exploits
,
I
wold
wish
these
pernitious
Counsailors
of
that
state
to
put
vp
their
pipes
&
sounde
their
retrait
betimes
,
lest
the
night
of
our
common
mishaps
ouertake
them
.
And
as
for
you
my
maisters
I
doe
once
againe
beséech
you
to
take
pitie
of
this
miserable
realme
.
Consider
of
what
importance
it
is
to
kéepe
a
stranger
armed
about
you
:
giue
eare
to
the
wofull
cries
of
so
many
widowes
,
Orphanes
,
and
friendles
,
laide
desolate
by
the
warres
.
Measure
not
others
mishappes
by
your
ease
,
neither
vnder
the
pretence
that
the
blowes
touch
you
not
,
thinke
that
those
of
your
neighbors
should
not
moue
you
to
compassion
.
If
euer
you
loued
this
realme
in
her
greatest
eminency
,
alas
cherish
those
small
beames
that
yet
remaine
:
Reare
vp
the
old
walles
of
this
building
with
all
your
power
:
suffer
not
these
Erostrates
to
waxe
noble
in
our
ashes
.
And
behold
the
king
of
Nauarre
watcheth
vpon
the
conseruation
therof
,
beware
ye
sléepe
not
in
your
miseries
,
when
carefully
you
should
looke
for
the
meanes
to
make
vs
all
to
take
rest
in
the
swéetnes
of
peace
.
Otherwise
my
masters
looke
for
nothing
but
Gods
iudgements
against
your
hardned
harts
,
and
for
the
fire
of
your
seditions
which
you
haue
kindled
,
the
flame
of
condemnation
which
neuer
will
be
quenched
,
also
the
like
punishment
as
Chore
,
Dathan
and
Abiram
,
for
going
about
to
diuide
the
Lords
Tabernacle
.
For
my
part
I
will
get
mée
to
my
owne
home
,
as
into
a
safe
port
,
from
whence
I
may
behold
your
shipwracke
,
and
if
in
short
space
I
can
not
sée
you
disposed
to
your
safetie
,
and
that
by
your
industry
these
warres
do
continue
,
I
protest
to
yéeld
my selfe
to
these
princes
,
to
encurre
like
fortune
as
they
,
vntill
they
haue
reaped
the
fruits
of
those
labors
which
you
laie
vpon
them
,
which
shal
be
a
peace
crowned
with
contentation
,
by
the
helpe
of
God
,
whom
I
beséech
,
my
maisters
,
to
enspire
you
with
his
grace
,
and
generallie
to
take
pitie
of
his
Church
.