THE
LAST
SVMMONS
OR
an
Oration
sent
to
the
Inhabitants
of
the
Towne
of
Rochell
.
MOnsieur
.
You
that
make
profession
to
vnderstand
,
and
to
know
the
Scriptures
well
;
if
it
be
true
,
I
wonder
how
you
perseuere
in
your
rebellion
and
disobedience
,
seeing
that
therein
,
it
is
expresly
sayd
,
he
that
disobeyeth
the
commandements
of
Kings
,
holy
contradicteth
the
commandement
of
God
,
whose
liuely
Images
they
are
;
know
for
certaine
,
that
the
Soueraigne
Maiestie
of
God
,
doth
so
much
abhorre
all
those
that
reuolt
and
rebell
against
their
Soueraigne
Princes
;
that
if
his
mercy
,
did
not
hinder
the
force
and
effects
of
his
Iustice
,
hee
would
suddenly
discharge
the
arrowes
of
his
wrath
,
to
exturpe
and
destroy
all
those
,
that
are
the
perturbators
of
the
will
and
pleasure
of
there
Soueraigne
Kings
.
Cast
your
eyes
vpon
him
,
against
whom
you
are
disobedient
,
(
it
is
nothing
but
shame
that
withholds
you
from
it
)
I
beseech
you
,
to
the
end
that
you
may
put
away
from
you
,
all
those
that
loue
the
trumpet
of
Rebellion
and
were
into
your
eares
,
and
thereby
to
diuert
you
from
so
dangerous
an
enterprise
,
consider
,
with
whom
you
haue
to
doe
.
It
is
your
King
,
Louis
the
Iust
;
Sonne
to
Henrie
the
Great
,
who
already
in
his
young
age
,
is
as
great
as
his
father
,
great
in
power
,
great
in
courage
,
great
in
counsell
,
great
in
friends
,
and
specially
in
these
affaires
,
and
most
great
in
Iustice
,
the
point
,
which
thereby
is
to
be
decided
consisteth
herein
,
to
know
whether
hee
ought
to
be
obayed
of
his
subiects
:
or
not
,
in
a
thing
whereas
he
vseth
no
violence
whatsoeuer
.
Then
it
is
to
this
great
King
that
you
are
disobedient
and
rebellious
,
against
his
Maiesties
commandements
,
who
in
this
great
and
puissant
Realme
,
is
beloued
,
feared
,
and
obayed
of
all
men
,
vnlesse
it
be
of
a
handfull
of
men
,
who
being
prouoked
and
incited
by
diuers
interests
and
pretences
,
vnder
a
false
pretence
Religion
seeke
to
molest
and
disturbe
the
state
of
the
land
.
Thinke
not
to
oppose
your
armes
against
his
,
your
forces
against
his
,
and
your
Souldiers
against
his
:
In
what
places
can
you
maintaine
your selues
against
him
,
but
that
the
same
places
will
put
you
in
minde
of
your
faults
?
will
you
alwayes
be
those
onely
that
resist
and
opugne
his
Maiestie
in
his
Realme
?
will
you
alwaies
in
some
of
his
Prouinces
warre
against
your
Prince
,
his
Townes
,
and
his
name
of
a
King
:
cannot
be
thinke
you
,
cause
your
armes
to
fall
ouer
off
your
hands
,
and
dompt
the
courage
of
your
heart
?
For
my
part
,
I
am
not
of
opinion
,
neither
can
I
be
perswaded
,
that
any
of
you
once
so
much
as
imagine
,
that
you
are
able
to
raise
a
sufficient
armie
,
to
withstand
that
which
his
Maiestie
in
a
moneths
time
is
able
to
bring
into
the
field
.
Remember
I
pray
you
,
what
past
and
fell
out
the
last
yeare
,
in
those
commotions
,
that
seemed
to
spread
and
extend
themselues
ouer
the
whole
Realme
,
which
was
a
strong
and
puissant
complet
as
it
then
fell
out
.
The
King
issued
out
of
Parris
,
accompanied
onely
with
two
thousand
men
,
but
his
Princely
presence
,
that
was
worth
a
hundred
thousand
,
in
such
maner
in
all
places
drew
the
courages
and
hands
of
euery
man
,
vnto
him
that
in
lesse
then
a
moneths
time
,
hauing
pacified
the
whole
Realme
of
Fraunce
,
he
had
so
great
a
force
about
him
,
that
if
then
he
would
haue
set
vpon
your
Towne
of
Rochell
,
and
other
places
of
refuge
which
you
hold
by
his
fauour
,
to
execute
that
,
which
now
you
faine
to
feare
,
he
should
not
haue
found
any
one
that
once
durst
to
haue
conceiued
so
much
as
a
thought
to
shut
their
gates
against
him
.
When
Kings
march
through
their
Realmes
;
they
are
like
haile
stones
,
lying
vpon
the
tops
of
hills
and
mountaines
,
which
the
further
you
goe
from
them
,
still
waxe
thicke
and
fearefull
vnto
those
,
vpon
whom
they
fall
.
But
if
he
had
no
other
power
,
then
his
guards
of
Frenchmen
Switzers
and
Scots
,
and
his
foure
regiments
of
Souldiers
,
continually
entertained
,
that
haue
no
other
occupation
,
then
the
skill
how
to
beate
and
kill
their
enemies
.
It
were
sufficient
against
you
.
Remember
also
that
when
this
great
Monarch
would
raise
new
troupes
,
when
he
would
make
new
regiments
,
he
can
and
is
able
to
doe
it
with
such
facilitie
and
promptnes
,
that
you
shall
sooner
see
the
ensignes
displayed
in
the
aire
,
sooner
heare
the
drumes
beate
in
the
fields
,
sooner
heare
the
horses
neighy
:
The
cannons
roare
,
and
the
souldiers
ready
to
assaile
you
,
then
you
could
imagine
or
once
conceite
that
any
armie
were
raised
against
you
.
I
would
for
your
sakes
that
your
Towne
of
Rochell
were
an
impregnable
Rocke
,
and
Saint
Iohn
Dangely
so
strong
as
that
the
Angels
were
not
able
to
ouercome
it
.
I
would
for
your
sakes
that
all
the
places
wherein
you
enclose
yourselues
,
were
not
able
to
be
vndermined
,
not
able
to
be
scaled
,
not
to
be
battered
,
and
to
conclude
,
inuincible
,
wherein
I
graunt
you
more
then
you
your selues
demaund
,
and
much
more
then
is
true
:
The
strongest
of
them
being
no
other
,
but
such
as
tenne
thousand
men
,
within
the
space
of
6.
weekes
would
force
you
to
yeild
.
It
is
not
as
it
was
in
times
past
,
the
manner
of
besieging
of
times
at
this
present
is
brought
to
such
a
fashion
and
perfection
,
that
there
is
not
any
one
,
which
is
impregnable
,
and
may
not
be
woone
.
If
you
had
seene
how
men
vse
to
raise
Trenches
,
how
they
make
mounts
of
earth
;
how
they
fill
vp
deepe
ditches
,
how
they
draw
riuers
drie
,
and
stop
chanels
of
water
.
And
to
conclude
,
if
you
had
seene
how
men
enclose
and
presse
vpon
Townes
that
are
besieged
,
you
would
neuer
say
nor
report
that
yours
are
impregnable
:
They
are
of
to
good
metall
to
be
such
;
the
fields
,
the
vignes
which
enuiron
them
,
alway
giue
meanes
to
those
that
besiege
them
to
berry
them
therein
.
There
is
nothing
impossible
to
our
victorious
Monarch
Louis
the
thirteenth
within
this
Realme
,
where
all
men
,
employ
all
their
forces
to
execute
his
wil
,
for
I
can
assuredly
tel
you
,
that
if
you
enter
not
into
that
obedience
,
which
you
owe
vnto
his
Maiestie
,
and
giue
him
not
free
entraunce
into
his
Towne
of
Rochell
,
that
you
will
thereby
giue
his
Maiestie
cause
;
in
short
time
to
raise
vp
&
erect
a
great
number
of
forces
about
your
Townes
of
refuge
,
according
to
militarie
Art
,
furnished
with
men
,
Artillerie
,
and
all
maner
of
prouisions
,
that
shall
so
straightly
on
all
sides
enclose
you
about
,
that
you
must
either
burst
or
yeild
.
In
the
meane
time
you
shall
want
victuals
,
you
shall
consume
your
powder
and
bullets
,
you
shall
try
the
insolence
of
souldiers
,
the
brauadoes
of
Captaines
,
the
mutenies
and
murmorings
of
the
poore
people
,
lesse
furnished
with
prouision
for
the
mouth
,
then
with
riches
.
What
will
you
expect
after
all
this
,
but
onely
,
that
hauing
abused
and
refused
the
Kings
mercy
,
you
shall
trie
and
feele
his
Iustice
:
It
makes
me
quake
and
tremble
for
you
,
when
I
call
to
minde
,
the
speedy
execution
of
the
most
culpable
,
and
those
that
were
the
raisers
&
seducers
of
such
rebellion
and
disobedience
,
which
will
then
be
done
.
But
I
assured
my selfe
,
and
am
verily
perswaded
,
that
when
you
shall
once
behold
your
King
,
as
iust
,
as
martiall
,
and
armed
magnanimitie
,
runne
from
rancke
to
rancke
,
as
a
forerunner
of
the
victorie
,
to
annimate
his
troupes
to
fight
,
what
countenances
you
will
shew
,
and
what
will
be
your
behauiours
;
but
onely
that
of
a
miserable
company
of
sheepe
appointed
to
a
bloody
slaughter
,
altogether
trembling
,
all
bleating
,
all
desirous
to
run
away
,
but
by
meanes
of
your
fearefulnes
,
hauing
not
the
hardines
to
doe
it
,
so
that
we
cannot
be
perswaded
,
that
if
you
did
but
once
call
to
minde
and
thinke
vpon
all
these
things
together
,
you
could
be
so
hardy
as
to
withstand
this
funerall
blow
:
the
best
that
you
could
doe
is
,
to
shut
your selues
vp
,
like
fearefull
sheepe
,
within
3.
or
4.
of
your
strongest
Townes
;
and
there
,
being
obstinately
bent
,
seeke
to
saue
your
infortunate
liues
,
behind
the
ramparts
and
walles
of
the
same
.
But
good
Lord
,
what
remedy
is
this
,
to
haue
all
the
rest
of
your
faction
,
enclosed
with
you
in
Rochell
,
Saint
Iohn
Dangely
,
Montauban
,
Nismes
,
and
in
such
Townes
as
you
haue
made
choise
of
,
leauing
and
abandoning
the
others
,
as
lesse
strong
,
or
to
many
in
number
,
to
be
kept
by
so
small
a
number
of
mutuous
persons
,
leauing
within
them
all
the
nest
of
the
reformed
Sext
,
who
wiser
then
you
,
and
it
may
be
more
affected
to
their
Religion
,
will
content
themselues
,
(
obaying
the
King
)
to
deplore
and
lament
your
neere
approching
vnfortunate
state
.
But
doe
I
say
shut
vp
in
those
places
,
what
thinke
you
thereby
to
doe
?
O
,
it
is
possible
you
perswade
your selues
to
wearie
the
armie
Royall
,
by
the
tongues
of
a
siege
which
you
pretend
to
endure
.
Doe
you
set
before
your
eyes
the
happy
deliueranc
,
that
you
haue
tryed
in
like
distresses
in
the
former
warres
?
You
say
and
blase
it
abroad
,
that
Rochell
is
as
strong
as
euer
it
was
,
that
Saint
Iohn
Dangely
is
able
to
defend
it selfe
,
that
all
your
Townes
are
in
better
state
,
to
resist
and
withstand
the
forces
of
a
puissant
army
,
then
euer
they
were
,
that
it
is
which
you
say
,
and
the
same
wherwith
you
nourish
the
stubbornnes
of
these
among
you
,
that
haue
least
insight
in
these
matters
:
Whose
eyes
,
if
they
be
capable
to
conceiue
it
,
I
must
open
,
and
cause
them
to
see
,
that
they
are
lulled
a
sleepe
with
deceitful
words
,
which
wholy
leade
them
vnto
the
path
of
their
most
certaine
and
assured
destruction
.
Open
your
eyes
then
(
I
pray
you
)
but
you
specially
,
that
are
engaged
in
this
dangerous
enterprice
;
call
your
duties
to
remembrance
,
and
showe
forth
that
obedience
which
lawfully
you
owe
to
our
King
,
you
are
his
Subiects
,
he
is
your
Prince
,
ordained
here
on
earth
to
gouerne
and
rule
ouer
you
.
There
is
nothing
in
his
Kingdome
,
whereof
he
is
not
to
haue
the
full
and
free
possession
.
The
Towne
wherein
you
are
enclosed
is
as
much
his
as
all
the
rest
:
Therefore
it
makes
me
wonder
,
to
see
that
you
are
so
much
blinded
,
as
to
be
rebellious
against
,
and
obstinate
to
execute
his
Royall
commandements
.
I
summon
and
inuite
you
once
againe
,
to
know
your selues
,
and
to
yeild
that
vnto
him
and
into
his
hands
,
which
belongeth
vnto
him
;
not
that
his
Maiestie
will
in
any
sort
takeaway
your
notable
and
ancient
priuiledges
,
but
rather
to
the
contrary
,
if
he
seeth
you
become
Loyall
and
obedient
Subiects
,
he
will
giue
you
many
others
.
Send
an
honorable
number
of
Deputies
to
his
Maiestie
,
humbly
to
craue
pardon
of
him
for
all
the
rebellions
,
that
you
haue
made
;
and
I
am
assured
,
that
his
clemencie
is
such
and
so
great
,
that
he
will
accept
of
your
submission
,
pardon
your
offences
,
and
forget
all
your
fault
.
If
you
will
doe
it
speedily
,
and
in
the
meane
time
,
I
beseech
God
to
giue
you
the
grace
,
to
humble
your selues
,
and
to
obay
the
King
.
1621.