❧
The
last
wyl
and
Testament
of
the
Princes
of
Conde
.
SO
soone
as
reason
and
gods
worde
mighte
commaund
mine
eies
,
and
that
this
paper
,
watered
ouer
with
my
teares
,
mighte
drye
it selfe
:
I
dyd
take
my
penne
in
hande
to
answere
the
request
that
so
instantlye
you
made
vnto
me
,
to
wrytte
you
a
brief
discourse
of
the
maner
&
course
of
my
Ladye
the
Princes
of
Condes
sicknes
:
For
the
greate
desier
you
haue
(
as
you
saye
)
that
the
shadowe
of
hyr
death
,
maye
serue
you
for
a
lighte
to
lighten
your
doings
,
against
the
thicknes
of
the
darknes
of
oure
lyfe
in
this
perillous
pilgrimage
.
But
I
pray
you
(
yf
I
do
not
satisfice
your
expectation
accordynge
to
the
sufficiencye
of
the
subiect
)
accuse
the
basenes
of
my
wytte
rather
then
the
good
wyl
I
haue
to
content
you
,
and
to
gyue
by
this
priuate
letter
(
since
better
I
cannot
do
it
)
a
faythfull
testimonye
of
hyr
vertue
,
which
wel
deserueth
a
publike
setting
forth
.
The
prophane
auncientes
were
wont
to
saye
when
they
dyd
lose
suche
patternes
and
examples
of
vertue
,
that
God
,
beinge
angrye
wyth
men
,
dyd
beareft
them
of
so
great
a
good
before
the
tyme
.
And
you
shall
gyue
me
leaue
to
say
to
you
,
that
in
very
conscience
I
beleue
he
iudged
vs
vnworthye
of
a
thinge
of
so
great
valure
.
And
nowe
,
leauynge
to
speake
of
the
reste
of
hyr
lyfe
,
&
of
the
first
and
furthest
causes
of
hyr
euell
,
that
is
to
saye
the
extreame
sorowes
whiche
she
was
dryuen
to
deuoure
,
in
that
firste
peryllous
tyme
of
the
imprisonment
of
my
Lorde
the
Prince
hyr
husbande
,
and
lykewyse
of
Madame
de
Roye
hyr
mother
(
the
same
being
a
right
worthie
argument
of
a
great
historye
,
whereby
might
be
eternised
,
and
made
perpetuall
,
the
singular
graces
which
God
had
endued
this
noble
Princes
wyth
,
and
the
vnspeakable
force
and
constancye
of
hyr
mynde
in
all
hyr
aduersities
)
I
wyll
begynne
with
the
most
euidentes
and
freshest
.
I
doubt
not
,
but
you
haue
harde
how
that
after
she
had
letfe
my
Lord
hyr
husbande
at
Meaux
(
at
the
same
tyme
that
he
resolued
to
goo
to
Orleans
)
as
she
was
traualynge
towardes
hyr
house
,
called
Muret
,
and
passynge
by
a
vyllage
named
Vanderay
,
nere
vnto
Lizy
&
vpon
the
ryuer
of
Ours
,
a
companye
of
paisants
(
whiche
then
were
goinge
in
procession
)
dyd
set
vpon
hyr
and
the
Marquis
of
Conty
hyr
eldest
sonne
,
wyth
staues
,
stones
,
crosses
and
banners
,
and
that
without
any
occasion
geuen
,
but
that
there
was
a
malicious
&
naughty
priest
emongest
them
,
who
for
the
hatred
that
he
bare
to
the
religion
,
incited
&
set
on
the
sayd
troupe
of
paisants
so
to
outrage
hyr
and
hyr
companye
,
at
this
very
tyme
the
fyer
of
the
troubles
for
religion
did
begynne
to
kyndle
,
and
in
the
moste
partes
of
all
Fraunce
the
sparkelles
thereof
dyd
alreadye
appeare
.
Thys
furor
and
populous
rage
,
dyd
so
moue
and
vnquiet
this
good
Lady
,
that
hauynge
gonne
to
the
ende
of
cyghte
monethes
,
she
was
the
same
daye
,
by
feare
,
and
before
hyr
tyme
,
delyuered
of
two
boyes
,
at
a
village
called
Gandalu
,
before
she
could
recouer
any
of
hyr
owne
houses
.
And
within
fewe
dayes
after
(
as
she
was
naturallye
of
greate
courage
and
harte
)
she
toke
hyr
waye
towardes
Orleans
,
to
mete
wyth
my
Lord
hyr
husbande
:
Whether
she
came
in
the
ende
by
longe
and
dangerous
iourneis
.
For
you
must
imagine
,
that
all
the
wayes
and
passages
were
alreadye
taken
and
kepte
.
And
that
therfore
she
was
dryuen
to
vse
great
circumspection
,
and
to
expose
hyr
person
to
verye
great
daunger
to
make
that
hasardous
voiage
.
Note
you
that
,
of
this
same
inconueniencye
:
Of
the
second
tyme
of
the
imprisonment
of
my
Lord
hyr
husband
,
after
the
cruell
conflict
of
a
battail
:
Of
the
besiegyng
of
the
towne
of
Orleans
,
and
so
of
the
paynes
and
continuall
trauailes
,
which
she
dyd
suffer
&
abyde
duryng
the
whole
tyme
of
the
troubles
(
besyde
that
she
dyd
not
diligentlye
inough
loke
to
hyr
selfe
,
when
she
had
the
last
yere
the
smale
pokes
at
Galleon
)
hath
growen
and
proceaded
,
by
course
of
tyme
,
all
hyr
sicknes
and
indisposition
:
But
chyefly
an
Issue
of
bloud
,
caused
by
a
Carcinome
,
or
eatyng
canker
,
in
the
Matrice
:
whiche
hyr
shamefastnes
and
chastitie
,
woulde
neuer
suffer
to
be
dressed
as
it
was
requisite
and
necessarye
.
This
fluxe
of
bloud
,
which
was
faier
,
redde
,
and
of
good
substaunce
,
beganne
the
.xxvj.
daye
of
April
last
past
,
but
toke
hyr
more
aboundauntlye
the
thursdaye
and
Sonday
nexte
followynge
,
and
so
continued
and
lefte
of
,
at
certain
times
vntyll
the
.xxiij.
daye
of
this
present
moneth
of
Iuly
:
At
what
tyme
hyr
forces
were
so
abated
and
weakened
,
that
she
lost
vtterly
the
power
retentiue
:
so
as
the
same
then
runnyng
oute
vnto
the
droppe
of
that
lyttell
that
remayned
of
the
former
great
voydynges
,
she
yelded
happelye
vp
hyr
sprite
to
God
,
throughe
lacke
of
natural
heate
,
at
Conde
about
xj
.
of
the
cloke
in
the
mornynge
.
This
euacuation
was
very
muche
hastened
by
a
dyet
whiche
a
lyttell
before
she
had
taken
in
hande
,
and
would
nedes
continue
the
same
after
hyr
retourne
from
Troye
:
where
settinge
asyde
all
other
thynges
,
she
had
bene
in
great
hast
to
see
my
Lord
her
husband
,
then
newly
,
fallen
into
a
sicknes
:
which
dyet
was
cleane
contrarye
to
hyr
,
&
the
drinke
that
she
toke
dyd
greatly
heate
&
chafe
hyr
bloud
,
whiche
of
it selfe
was
ouer
subtil
.
Herein
I
canne
assure
you
that
after
the
Phisitions
and
Chirurgiens
were
on
s
made
acquainted
with
all
,
they
dyd
omite
nothynge
of
that
,
that
order
and
knowledge
might
commaunde
:
And
it
had
bene
very
easye
at
the
beginnynge
to
haue
remedyed
and
healed
it
,
if
the
matter
had
been
so
soone
declared
as
it
was
requisite
.
In
the
tyme
of
this
sicknes
manye
accidents
happened
,
as
the
laske
,
the
feuer
Hetique
,
whiche
was
with
some
accesse
,
payne
of
the
raynes
,
with
great
vnquietnes
,
faintinges
and
soundings
throughe
the
venimous
vapours
caried
from
the
diseased
part
to
the
stomacke
,
to
the
lyuer
,
to
the
harte
,
and
to
the
braine
.
You
muste
thynke
that
I
canne
hardlye
expresse
vnto
you
all
her
griefs
,
for
they
were
by
the
iudgement
of
them
that
be
most
expert
in
that
arte
,
so
dyuerse
and
violent
,
that
they
had
bene
vndurable
to
any
other
.
Wherin
,
I
pray
you
marke
wel
,
how
greatlye
God
dyd
assist
and
strengthen
her
,
for
she
neuer
opened
her
mouthe
to
murmur
,
nor
made
any
shewe
or
countenaunce
of
impacience
.
I
did
alwayes
see
her
in
her
greatest
paines
with
drye
eyes
,
without
cryinge
,
without
teares
,
and
without
complaintes
:
whiche
be
ordinary
to
all
sicke
folckes
,
yea
to
the
most
strongest
and
constants
.
And
because
I
knowe
,
it
wyl
be
great
pleasure
vnto
you
,
to
heare
me
particularise
somwhat
of
her
behauiours
,
I
wyl
shewe
you
,
that
the
most
egre
and
lamentable
voice
,
that
in
all
the
time
of
her
sicknes
I
euer
harde
her
pronounce
(
and
yet
as
you
know
I
was
very
litell
from
her
)
was
that
one
tyme
about
an
eyght
dayes
before
her
death
,
beynge
pressed
with
extreme
payne
,
she
addressed
her selfe
to
God
,
in
raising
her
voice
a
lyttell
more
then
she
was
accustomed
(
when
she
could
not
fynde
in
two
beddes
with
al
her
often
chaungyngs
,
any
one
place
where
she
might
rest
one
minute
of
an
houre
)
and
sayde
.
Oh
Lord
God
almightye
,
forasmuch
as
in
all
the
places
of
this
terrestriall
abydynge
(
how
great
and
spacious
soeuer
it
be
,
and
wherof
thou
arte
onlye
creatour
)
I
cannot
fynde
by
all
my
diligence
one
littell
corner
of
quietnes
nor
voyde
of
grief
(
wherby
I
might
lyberally
pronounce
,
as
I
was
wont
,
thy
great
goodnes
and
mercye
)
I
leaue
and
gyue
ouer
wyllingly
my
longer
dwellynge
and
abode
here
,
to
retourne
,
yf
it
please
thee
,
at
this
tyme
to
that
heauenvly
rest
whiche
thou
hast
prepared
for
me
,
by
the
death
and
passion
of
thy
welbeloued
Sonne
.
Make
my
God
my
Father
by
his
meanes
,
that
my
soule
and
body
be
both
content
and
at
rest
:
The
one
,
to
be
free
and
at
libertie
goyng
straight
to
thee
,
who
I
see
doth
alreadye
stretche
out
his
armes
for
me
:
The
other
abydynge
insensible
here
belowe
,
vntyl
thou
doest
waken
it
at
the
sounde
of
thy
commynge
.
I
cannot
tell
whether
this
her
talke
wyll
seame
to
you
oute
of
order
or
no
,
but
I
canne
assure
you
I
neuer
harde
her
speake
worse
wordes
in
the
myddes
of
her
greatest
extremities
.
This
chast
Ladye
,
for
so
I
may
right
well
cal
her
,
as
accomplished
in
euerye
degrée
and
in
al
circumstaunces
in
that
excellent
gifte
and
matronall
modestie
,
whiche
dyd
followe
her
euen
vnto
her
graue
,
as
you
see
Iustice
doth
Kynges
to
theyr
buryals
(
wherof
I
requyre
no
better
prouffe
then
the
very
confession
of
her
ennemyes
(
and
I
do
nothynge
maruell
if
in
your
countrey
so
manye
wyse
and
graue
Ladyes
doe
determine
to
set
her
before
their
eyes
,
for
an
image
&
mirrour
of
chastitie
in
the
bringyng
vp
&
nurturynge
of
their
daughters
,
euen
as
we
here
emongst
our selues
desire
to
do
the
lyke
.
For
to
speake
trulye
,
she
doth
excell
all
those
that
euer
haue
bene
celebrated
by
any
hystorie
:
And
at
one
worde
there
was
neuer
nothynge
that
founde
place
in
hyr
harte
but
vertue
only
:
And
therof
I
may
be
a
sufficient
wittnes
,
hauynge
had
the
honor
,
euen
from
her
cradell
and
most
tender
yeres
,
to
be
alwayes
about
her
personne
.
She
,
I
say
,
dyd
well
forsee
,
so
soone
as
this
Issue
of
bloud
beganne
to
take
her
,
that
the
disease
was
mortall
:
And
besydes
her
owne
iudgement
(
hauynge
harde
the
opinion
of
them
that
had
the
charge
of
her
health
)
she
resolued
incontinently
to
gyue
order
in
her
householde
affaires
,
to
th'
intent
she
mighte
the
more
lyberallye
thynke
of
God
.
And
to
this
effect
she
sent
for
my
Lorde
the
Prince
her
husbande
,
desiryng
hym
most
humbly
to
come
to
her
:
which
he
dyd
forthwith
and
in
great
hast
,
after
he
had
receaued
the
newes
thereof
at
Vitry
:
from
whence
on
the
morow
the
court
remoued
to
Bar.
And
after
he
had
ben
a
two
or
three
dayes
at
home
with
her
,
&
that
she
had
made
many
chereful
shewes
and
countinaunces
of
the
Ioye
she
had
to
see
hym
(
for
you
knowe
there
was
neuer
woman
that
loued
,
cheryshed
,
honored
,
or
respected
more
her
husbande
then
she
dyd
hym
)
she
prayed
two
personages
,
towardes
the
lawe
,
whiche
she
knewe
dyd
loue
and
honor
theyr
house
,
to
goe
and
declare
vnto
hym
the
greate
danger
of
death
wherin
she
thought
her selfe
to
be
(
fearynge
it
shoulde
greue
hym
muche
more
if
she
her selfe
dyd
tell
him
it
)
:
To
th
yntent
it
mighte
please
hym
to
gyue
her
leaue
to
ordeyne
and
dispose
of
certaine
thinges
whiche
she
desired
to
haue
executed
after
her
decesse
.
And
I
do
very
well
remember
that
when
she
sent
these
two
counsellors
to
hym
,
she
desired
them
to
saye
vnto
hym
emongest
all
the
rest
)
these
woordes
whiche
I
dyd
well
note
.
Since
,
the
good
pleasure
of
God
was
that
the
separation
of
hym
,
&
her
should
be
made
as
touchinge
the
body
,
yet
she
desired
him
that
theyr
soules
might
continue
together
inseparable
,
in
that
charitie
which
they
dyd
owe
alike
to
theyr
father
Iesus
Christ
:
who
had
so
miraculouslye
deliuered
them
in
the
sight
of
all
the
worlde
,
from
so
many
troubles
and
dangers
as
they
had
passed
and
escaped
by
his
grace
:
That
he
had
lefte
vnto
them
children
the
sure
gage
of
theyr
amitie
:
And
that
to
beginne
her
testament
,
she
dyd
make
hym
vniuersal
inheritor
of
that
Masse
of
loue
that
she
had
hitherto
bo●●e
them
:
To
the
end
that
after
her
death
he
shold
loue
them
both
for
hym selfe
and
for
her
to
:
recommendynge
them
vnto
hym
principally
for
their
bringing
vp
and
instruction
in
the
feare
of
God
:
whiche
she
assured
to
be
the
most
certaine
good
and
patrimonie
that
she
coulde
leaue
them
.
They
haue
,
sayd
she
,
good
beginnings
,
and
that
at
the
handes
of
a
sufficient
master
(
meanynge
the
minister
de
l'Espine
)
who
in
dede
hath
of
late
taken
great
paynes
with
them
,
interpretynge
vnto
them
euery
mornynge
(
with
great
dexteritie
)
the
prouerbes
of
Salomon
:
And
in
the
afternone
the
Commentaries
of
Iulius
Caesar
,
whereby
my
Lorde
Marquis
theyr
eldest
sonne
hath
so
wel
profited
,
that
he
is
one
of
the
best
learned
that
is
to
be
founde
of
his
age
.
She
added
vnto
these
(
as
she
was
alwayes
a
well
spoken
woman
)
manye
other
godly
sayenges
&
exhortations
:
whiche
the
force
of
the
streame
that
issued
out
of
myne
eyes
dyd
lette
me
to
beare
awaye
.
And
do
you
not
marueil
at
all
,
if
I
dyd
then
weepe
so
aboundantly
,
for
the
two
persons
before
spoken
of
,
dyd
no
lesse
,
before
they
departed
to
goo
thether
as
she
had
desired
them
.
Soone
after
I
sawe
them
retourne
agayne
to
make
reporte
of
the
honest
&
wyse
talke
,
that
my
Lord
the
Prince
had
vsed
vnto
them
vpon
this
sorowful
subiect
:
Wherof
the
good
Ladye
receaued
a
most
greate
contentation
&
comfort
:
And
they
both
tolde
me
apart
:
that
it
was
impossible
for
any
man
to
speake
more
eloquentlye
then
the
Prince
had
done
to
them
(
as
euerye
man
knoweth
how
wel
spoken
he
is
,
of
how
good
iudgement
he
is
,
and
howe
gentil
a
Prince
he
is
)
True
it
is
,
said
they
,
that
we
haue
very
wel
perceaued
,
that
the
amitie
and
loue
whiche
he
beareth
to
this
his
dere
spouse
&
compagnion
,
did
oftentimes
breake
the
thryd
of
his
Oration
,
by
the
many
and
depe
sighes
he
gaue
,
whiche
doe
sufficientlye
wytnes
his
iust
&
profound
sorowe
.
God
,
sayd
he
,
who
hath
conioyned
vs
together
,
separate
&
sonder
vs
since
it
doth
so
please
him
:
it
is
reason
that
we
do
wholly
conforme
our selues
to
his
holy
wyl
:
It
is
certaine
that
he
is
more
happy
that
goeth
to
hym
,
then
he
that
caryeth
here
and
abydeth
an
other
passage
:
Oh
happye
houre
that
God
shal
ordayne
vs
to
be
reunited
in
heauen
,
in
the
place
of
euerlastinge
felicitie
.
In
the
meane
tyme
,
I
wyll
studye
to
kepe
wel
the
gages
which
she
hath
lefte
me
,
and
wyl
continue
them
in
the
same
maner
of
teachinge
that
so
christianlye
they
haue
begonne
,
to
th
intent
,
that
the
vse
and
the
propertie
of
the
mother
,
of
the
father
,
and
of
the
children
,
be
all
to
God
:
who
by
his
puissaunt
hande
hath
so
oftentymes
deliuered
and
conserued
this
house
of
ours
.
If
I
do
consider
&
waye
the
rarenes
of
my
good
fortune
herin
(
whiche
doth
present
it selfe
incessauntly
before
myn
eyes
:
and
wherof
I
sée
my selfe
vtterlye
spoyled
by
this
separation
)
It
can
not
be
,
that
I
cane
fynde
here
sufficient
or
egall
consolation
:
when
no
man
is
able
to
nomber
by
all
the
millions
that
may
be
assembled
,
the
infinitnes
of
so
notable
a
losse
.
I
will
therfore
haue
my
recourse
to
hym
(
if
I
dare
saye
so
)
that
hath
geuen
me
the
wounde
,
who
shall
,
and
please
hym
,
fournishe
me
of
aswaging
plaister
of
his
word
to
heale
the
same
:
as
it
is
saide
of
them
that
be
bytten
by
the
Scorpion
,
must
seale
the
remedie
of
the
Scorpion
.
And
as
to
that
she
prayeth
me
,
by
you
,
to
double
my
good
wyll
towardes
our
children
:
I
dyd
feale
in
my
harte
at
the
very
same
instant
that
you
spake
these
wordes
to
me
,
I
can
not
tell
what
maner
of
hydden
infusion
,
that
hath
encreased
in
me
the
fyer
of
fatherlye
loue
:
whiche
I
dyd
before
beleue
,
coulde
not
haue
receaued
anye
encrease
,
persuadyng
alwayes
my selfe
,
that
it
was
not
possible
to
augment
it
in
me
.
You
shall
now
retourne
,
and
saye
to
her
,
I
pray
you
,
that
this
oration
,
whiche
she
hath
made
me
,
by
your
mouthes
,
hath
so
resolued
me
,
that
I
feale
in
me
the
effectes
of
the
force
of
her
noble
courage
:
and
that
I
do
praise
God
greatly
for
the
inestimable
constancye
,
that
he
hath
geuen
her
:
but
I
praye
her
that
in
any
wyse
she
do
not
omitte
nor
forsake
any
of
those
meanes
,
whiche
God
hath
departed
to
men
by
art
and
industrie
,
for
the
recoueringe
of
her
health
:
to
th
intent
she
do
not
leaue
behinde
her
an
encrease
of
my
sorowes
,
when
I
shoulde
vnderstande
hereafter
the
fault
of
her
remedye
.
This
discourse
was
muche
more
great
&
graue
as
you
may
well
thinke
:
but
excuse
(
I
praye
you
)
the
memorye
of
a
woman
so
greuouslye
troubled
and
attainted
.
This
done
,
she
caused
two
Notaries
to
come
vnto
her
,
vnto
whom
she
spake
from
worde
to
worde
her
last
wyll
and
Testament
commaundynge
them
to
write
in
this
sorte
followinge
.
COnsideryng
the
fragilitie
and
vncertaintie
of
this
lyfe
,
and
that
God
,
by
this
greuous
sickenes
(
wher
wyth
it
hath
pleased
him
to
visite
me
)
hath
warned
me
as
it
were
by
a
callynge
vpon
,
to
prepare
my selfe
,
&
to
take
order
in
my
worldlye
affaires
,
that
I
might
be
ready
with
spede
to
followe
his
wyll
,
when
it
shall
please
hym
to
call
me
:
I
haue
made
,
sayd
,
and
ordayned
,
this
whiche
followeth
,
for
the
declaration
of
my
laste
will
and
testament
,
reuokynge
all
others
in
any
sorte
made
heretofore
.
First
,
I
beseche
thee
my
good
God
,
that
when
it
shal
please
thee
to
delyuer
me
of
the
miseries
and
peynes
of
this
lyfe
,
&
to
take
my
soule
out
of
the
prison
of
this
bodye
(
wherin
it
is
closed
,
but
for
a
tyme
)
that
of
thy
goodnes
&
mercye
,
thou
wylte
vouchsafe
to
receyue
it
into
thy
handes
,
and
to
place
it
in
the
possession
and
enioyinge
of
that
felicitye
,
whiche
thy
deare
Sone
hath
bought
vs
by
his
death
and
passion
:
And
by
this
meanes
to
assure
,
the
stedfast
faith
,
which
thou
hast
geuen
vs
by
thy
promisses
,
&
sealed
,
as
wel
by
the
sacrament
of
Baptysme
,
as
by
the
same
of
thy
holy
Supper
,
of
the
generall
remission
of
oure
synnes
:
all
whiche
we
beleue
to
be
so
defaced
by
the
bloude
&
obedience
of
thy
Sonne
,
that
they
shall
neuer
come
in
accompte
before
thee
.
Secondly
,
I
recommende
vnto
thee
our
children
,
praying
the
,
that
(
accordyng
to
thy
promisse
)
thou
wylte
be
theyr
God
,
theyr
Father
,
and
protector
:
&
that
extendyng
thy
blessyng
vpon
them
,
it
may
please
thee
to
illuminat
,
&
instruct
them
in
the
knowledge
and
feare
of
thy
holy
name
:
and
to
serue
thy selfe
of
them
,
as
thou
hast
donne
of
their
father
,
to
exalte
thy
glory
,
to
procure
and
conserue
the
reapose
and
quietnes
of
thy
churche
,
and
to
plucke
vp
by
the
roote
al
that
which
thou
hast
not
planted
therein
:
Make
them
by
thy
speciall
goodnes
,
instrumentes
and
vessels
of
thy
glorye
,
&
replenishe
them
with
thy
heauenly
graces
,
commandyng
them
by
the
authoritie
which
thou
hast
geuen
me
ouer
them
,
that
they
do
aduowe
and
dedicate
all
their
lyfe
to
thy
seruice
and
to
the
same
of
thy
churche
.
I
referre
the
buryinge
of
my
bodye
to
the
good
wyl
&
pleasure
of
my
Lord
my
husbande
,
knowing
wel
that
where
so
euer
it
doth
lye
,
it
wyll
reste
there
in
a
verye
certaine
hope
of
his
resurrection
.
Then
she
disposed
her
goodes
to
my
Lordes
her
chyldren
,
and
gaue
many
charitable
Legacies
:
And
emongest
others
one
for
the
entertaynynge
of
the
Colledge
of
la
Ferté
au
Col
,
which
a
littel
before
my
Lorde
her
husbande
,
and
she
had
instituted
and
erected
.
She
dyd
also
ordeyne
that
vpon
her
landes
,
a
certaine
pencion
shuld
be
yerely
leauyed
towards
the
fyndynge
of
the
Ministers
of
gods
worde
:
and
dyd
her selfe
heare
the
accomptes
of
al
her
seruaunts
,
to
th
ende
she
might
helpe
them
to
that
,
that
in
any
sorte
might
be
due
vnto
them
:
so
great
was
her
care
to
do
right
to
euerye
bodye
,
and
to
vnderstande
her
houshold
affaires
:
wherunto
she
wold
be
made
preuye
euen
vnto
the
last
extremitie
:
geuing
as
good
order
in
them
,
and
with
as
sounde
a
iudgement
,
as
at
any
tyme
she
was
accoustumed
to
do
in
her
most
perfect
health
.
That
beinge
donne
she
caused
the
minister
Perrucel
to
be
called
,
and
declared
vnto
hym
howe
glad
she
was
to
vnderstand
that
she
shold
very
shortly
go
to
her
God
,
by
the
ende
of
this
sicknes
:
And
that
therfore
she
woulde
consider
of
the
state
of
her
conscience
:
Not
sayd
she
,
thankes
be
to
God
,
that
I
do
feele
my selfe
otherwyse
than
well
disposed
towardes
my
creatour
,
&
readye
to
go
to
hym
when
it
shall
please
hym
:
but
to
the
end
that
you
father
,
whome
god
hath
ordeyned
shepheard
in
my
Lorde
my
husbands
house
and
myne
,
may
knowe
the
face
of
this
shepe
of
your
flocke
:
and
that
I
dye
contented
,
that
I
haue
geuen
before
the
Minister
of
the
churche
of
the
Lorde
,
a
true
testimonye
of
my
fayth
&
hope
of
health
,
whiche
by
hys
grace
and
goodnes
I
receyue
of
hym
.
Then
with
ioined
handes
,
and
eyes
lyfted
vp
on
highe
,
she
made
humble
confession
of
her
fayth
:
declarynge
that
she
dyd
beleue
&
confesse
God
to
be
,
and
in
beinge
to
be
God
only
,
distinct
,
notwithstandynge
in
thre
persons
,
which
are
the
Father
,
the
Sone
,
&
the
holy
Ghost
:
that
he
is
creatour
,
conseruer
and
gouernour
of
heauen
,
the
earthe
,
the
Sea
,
and
all
that
is
in
them
:
without
whose
wyll
&
pleasure
no
creatures
(
be
they
Aungels
,
Dyuels
,
or
any
other
)
canne
make
or
moue
any
thinge
:
and
yet
neuerthelesse
he
can
not
be
sayd
,
nor
ought
to
be
sayd
,
the
procurer
to
euyll
,
or
the
cause
or
author
of
synne
,
whiche
doth
proceade
of
the
corruption
&
malice
,
that
man
hath
purchassed
to
hym selfe
.
After
this
,
she
protested
that
she
dyd
not
thynke
,
that
ther
was
any
other
meane
or
waye
,
by
the
whiche
men
might
haue
remission
of
their
synnes
,
health
,
and
euerlastynge
life
,
but
by
Iesus
Christ
only
:
and
that
there
is
no
other
name
geuen
to
man
for
his
saluation
,
but
that
only
:
and
that
as
he
is
very
God
,
he
is
also
only
sauiour
and
redemer
,
mediatour
&
aduocat
of
man
towardes
God
,
and
sole
sacrificatour
&
sacrifice
:
who
hath
ones
for
all
satisfysed
&
appaised
the
wrathe
and
strayte
iudgement
of
God
the
father
,
by
his
death
for
vs
,
&
hath
fully
iustified
vs
in
his
resurrection
.
Wherfore
I
take
him
,
sayd
she
,
for
my
only
and
notwithstandyng
sufficient
ransom
,
for
my
peace
,
for
my
wisdome
,
for
my
iustice
&
for
my
santcfication
:
assuryng
my selfe
that
he
dyd
prepare
a
place
for
me
in
heauen
,
when
he
ascended
thyther
,
&
that
he
doth
there
tarye
me
with
his
father
&
mine
by
hym
,
with
the
holy
Ghost
,
the
Aungels
and
the
saints
:
where
I
desyre
to
be
with
all
my
harte
,
and
whether
I
am
sure
I
shal
go
or
it
be
longe
,
Thyrdly
she
gaue
to
vnderstand
that
we
ought
not
to
serue
God
,
otherwyse
or
in
other
sorte
then
as
he
hath
appointed
vs
by
hys
worde
:
And
therfore
that
she
did
acknowledge
two
partes
in
the
true
seruice
of
God
:
Wherof
the
first
and
principall
is
to
trust
and
beleue
stedfastly
in
him
:
to
obey
his
holy
commandements
:
to
cal
vpon
him
in
all
our
necessities
:
&
to
giue
thankes
to
him
onlye
as
the
only
author
of
all
goodnes
.
Thother
is
to
exercyse
in
the
churche
those
thinges
whiche
he
hath
established
:
as
the
ministery
of
his
worde
and
of
his
Sacramentes
,
the
ecclesiasticall
Discipline
in
her
purenes
,
followynge
his
order
therin
,
withoute
mynglynge
eyther
of
the
witte
or
inuention
of
man
:
and
therfore
addressynge
her
speache
a
newe
to
God
she
sayd
further
on
this
sort
.
Howe
aboundauntly
,
oh
Lord
,
hast
thou
vouchsaft
to
shewe
thy
mercies
vpon
me
,
that
by
thy
holy
sprite
hast
made
me
vnderstand
and
see
,
that
thy
holy
worde
,
the
holy
Baptisme
&
the
holy
Supper
(
whiche
be
the
two
Sacramentes
,
that
thy
Sonne
Iesus
Christe
hath
lefte
to
thy
churche
his
spouse
&
body
)
the
discipline
and
correction
of
sinners
,
ordeined
by
hym
in
his
Gospel
,
be
purelye
and
sincerely
administred
in
the
reformed
churches
of
Fraunce
:
&
also
that
in
the
same
churches
,
the
true
doctrine
of
obedience
,
of
repentaunce
,
of
faythe
,
and
iustification
by
the
same
,
through
the
merite
of
Iesus
Christ
(
wythoute
that
there
may
be
anye
thynge
at
all
allowed
of
ours
for
payment
)
is
there
preached
and
constantlie
declared
:
that
Gods
name
is
truly
called
vpon
there
,
that
is
to
saye
,
in
the
onlye
name
of
Iesus
Christ
:
and
that
to
hym
alone
begyuen
al
thankes
for
al
his
goodnes
receyued
:
For
these
causes
I
say
,
Oh
my
Lord
,
&
delyuerer
,
I
do
acknowledge
that
these
reformed
churches
,
with
all
other
lyke
vnto
than
(
wher
soeuer
they
be
)
do
make
togethers
the
spouse
and
the
body
of
thy
Sonne
Iesus
Christ
,
thy
chosen
vyne
,
thy
flocke
,
thy
holy
Ierusalem
,
and
thy
lawfull
assemblye
:
thankynge
thee
wyth
al
my
hart
,
that
thou
haste
called
me
to
this
moste
happye
knowledge
:
yea
and
I
thanke
thee
more
,
that
thou
haste
made
me
one
of
the
stones
of
this
thy
buyldynge
&
humble
Citie
,
one
of
the
shepe
of
this
thy
flocke
,
one
of
the
braunches
of
this
thy
vyne
,
and
one
of
the
members
of
this
body
&
and
of
this
spouse
of
thy
Sonne
Iesus
Christ
.
Make
me
so
to
perseuere
(
oh
dyuine
goodnes
)
and
continue
in
me
these
graces
euen
vnto
the
last
sighe
of
my
lyfe
:
to
the
ende
that
accordynge
to
thy
promesse
,
I
may
be
receaued
of
the
into
the
kyngdome
and
heritage
of
thy
most
happy
chyldren
.
The
ende
of
the
wyll
.
Wythin
an
houre
after
she
sent
for
,
and
caused
to
come
into
her
chamber
,
the
Minister
de
l'
Espine
,
of
whome
I
haue
already
spoken
to
you
:
and
continuynge
(
in
one
maner
of
feruencye
&
affection
)
the
talke
which
before
she
had
entamed
,
she
began
to
recite
the
fauours
whiche
God
had
shewed
her
,
hauynge
as
vnto
the
worlde
made
her
greatly
honorable
,
and
imparted
largely
inoughe
vnto
her
of
the
goods
of
the
same
:
assisted
her
in
all
her
affaires
,
defended
and
susteyned
my
Lord
her
husbande
,
my
Lady
her
mother
,
her selfe
,
her
children
,
her
kynsfolks
and
frindes
,
against
all
the
enterprises
and
conspiracies
of
their
ennemyes
:
and
yet
that
al
these
his
graces
,
dyd
seame
lyttel
vnto
her
,
in
respect
of
the
knowledge
which
he
had
geuen
her
of
hym
&
of
his
Sone
by
his
holy
worde
:
for
in
that
only
consisted
al
her
felicitie
,
&
it
was
the
certaine
and
true
foundation
of
all
her
hope
.
And
being
by
all
these
reasons
infinitly
bounde
to
serue
God
,
that
notwithstandyng
she
had
not
done
her
dutye
to
acknowledge
and
confesse
the
author
from
whome
so
many
and
sondrye
blessyngs
came
vnto
her
,
to
giue
vnto
him
for
them
all
thankes
,
praises
and
glorye
.
Neuerthelesse
for
all
these
greate
ingratitudes
which
she
had
vsed
towards
God
,
she
dyd
verely
hope
that
by
hys
mercy
and
the
merite
of
his
Sonne
the
same
and
all
other
his
fautes
shulde
be
entyerely
pardoned
,
assurynge
her selfe
to
be
in
the
nomber
of
his
shepe
,
by
the
grace
she
had
receyued
to
heare
the
voice
of
her
sheppeard
,
&
pastour
,
and
that
by
his
callynge
of
her
,
she
was
assured
of
her
Iustice
and
glorie
.
For
these
causes
she
sayd
,
she
desired
nothing
more
earnestly
than
to
be
quicklye
out
of
this
worlde
,
that
she
might
go
into
the
armes
of
her
Sauiour
:
&
that
notwithstanding
,
she
dyd
leaue
behynd
her
my
Lord
the
Prince
her
husbande
,
my
Ladye
her
mother
,
&
my
Lords
her
children
(
whiche
she
dyd
loue
as
muche
and
as
well
as
nature
and
dutye
might
beare
)
yet
she
preferred
God
to
all
them
:
And
that
there
was
nothing
so
deare
vnto
her
,
as
to
followe
redilye
and
chearefullye
his
good
wyll
and
pleasure
.
The
Dyuel
she
said
dyd
set
before
her
eyes
many
sondry
imaginations
,
touching
the
kyngdome
of
heauen
:
&
went
about
to
persuade
her
,
that
it
was
not
the
same
that
she
toke
it
to
be
,
that
by
that
meanes
he
might
brynge
her
to
be
lothe
to
leaue
the
vaine
pleasures
&
delightes
of
this
worlde
:
But
for
al
that
,
she
dyd
remayne
ancred
in
that
faith
,
that
eye
neuer
sawe
,
care
neuer
harde
,
nor
harte
of
man
could
euer
conceaue
,
which
god
hath
prepared
for
his
elect
.
As
she
had
thus
made
an
ende
,
came
into
the
chamber
my
Lorde
the
Prince
(
as
he
was
very
diligent
in
visitinge
of
her
)
and
after
that
he
had
spent
a
fewe
wordes
,
in
the
coumfortyng
of
her
,
she
sayd
vnto
him
,
there
were
fowre
things
which
dyd
greatly
satisfice
and
content
her
.
The
firste
was
the
assuraunce
,
she
had
of
her
saluation
,
for
by
the
hope
and
hande
of
fayth
,
she
dyd
alreadye
enioye
eternall
lyfe
.
Her
second
contentation
was
,
in
the
reputation
of
an
honest
woman
,
whiche
she
had
alwayes
had
,
by
the
grace
of
God
.
Thyrdly
,
she
dyd
assure
her selfe
,
that
euen
,
as
she
had
as
faythfully
serued
hym
,
loued
hym
,
and
honored
hym
,
as
anye
woman
in
the
worlde
coulde
doo
her
husbande
:
so
she
dyd
as
verily
beleue
that
on
his
part
,
he
dyd
holde
hym selfe
very
well
content
,
&
satisfised
of
her
:
And
for
the
last
point
,
she
dyd
greatlye
reioice
,
that
God
dyd
leaue
suche
a
father
to
her
children
,
and
suche
a
Grandmother
,
as
would
bring
them
vp
in
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
which
was
the
chefest
of
her
desiers
.
My
Lord
the
Prince
could
no
longer
abyde
to
heare
this
maner
of
talke
,
and
therfore
after
hauynge
felte
her
poulse
,
he
retired
hym selfe
vpon
this
worde
which
she
said
to
hym
:
Syr
,
thus
I
must
ende
my
course
,
to
wynne
the
price
,
whiche
I
sée
prepared
for
me
at
the
end
of
the
lysts
of
this
painfull
carire
.
After
the
Prince
was
thus
retourned
into
his
chamber
,
he
sent
vnto
her
my
Lord
Marquis
their
sonne
to
make
her
merye
,
vnderstanding
that
she
had
sent
for
hym
,
&
that
she
toke
greate
pleasure
to
sée
hym
(
as
he
is
very
amiable
&
doth
promesse
many
good
thynges
,
whiche
ought
to
be
desired
in
a
good
Prince
:
When
she
had
asked
hym
howe
he
dyd
,
and
the
Seigneur
of
Garannes
,
his
gouernour
,
how
he
vsed
hym selfe
:
she
demaunded
of
him
,
yf
he
woulde
not
be
content
,
that
,
accordyng
to
the
order
of
nature
,
she
dyd
first
go
to
God
,
since
it
was
so
his
pleasure
to
call
her
,
that
beinge
our
Father
,
he
dyd
nothynge
but
for
our
aduauncement
and
profit
.
I
praye
you
my
sonne
,
sayde
she
,
feare
hym
aboue
all
thinges
,
&
honor
hym
as
author
of
all
goodnes
:
at
whose
handes
you
ought
to
looke
for
all
fauour
,
since
it
hath
pleased
him
to
leaue
in
our
house
so
greate
an
earnest
of
his
beneficence
,
whiche
you
shall
muche
better
iudge
with
more
yeres
.
Growe
in
vertu
,
my
lyttel
frynde
,
whiche
is
the
true
ornament
of
the
great
:
to
the
ende
you
may
be
capable
to
do
the
Kyng
agreable
seruice
:
In
whose
face
euery
man
may
sée
the
printe
and
marke
of
a
well
borne
Prince
and
of
a
litell
Iosias
,
of
whome
you
haue
harde
me
so
often
speake
.
Honor
my
lord
Cardinal
of
Bourbon
,
my
Lorde
your
father
,
my
Ladye
youre
grandmother
,
your
vncles
my
Lordes
of
Chastillion
&
Rochefoucault
,
whiche
be
men
that
feare
God
,
and
haue
made
good
prouffe
of
their
vertues
in
fondry
sortes
:
Loue
well
the
common
wealth
,
and
procure
it
by
all
iust
meanes
,
without
offendynge
your
conscience
:
Loue
your
two
brethern
and
your
sister
,
not
as
a
brother
,
but
as
a
father
,
for
so
you
must
be
to
them
,
since
you
are
the
eldest
and
be
no
more
a
child
:
Talke
the
ofteneste
,
that
you
may
with
the
Ministers
Perrucel
&
de
l'Espine
,
for
your
soules
health
,
&
beleue
the
councel
of
thre
men
of
Lawe
,
whiche
you
knowe
to
be
beloued
and
estemed
of
my
Lorde
youre
father
and
me
:
Beware
that
you
neuer
do
any
thinge
vnder
collour
or
procurement
,
that
any
man
shall
saye
to
you
,
that
your
gouernour
(
be
he
neuer
so
watchful
)
shall
not
here
nor
knowe
of
it
:
For
your
Father
who
is
in
heauen
doth
sée
,
vnderstand
,
and
know
all
thing
,
&
therfore
you
should
be
ashamed
to
do
euell
,
as
if
he
were
alwayes
present
&
by
you
,
accordyng
to
the
godlye
instructions
of
your
booke
of
Salomon
,
which
you
shuld
neuer
leaue
out
of
your
handes
,
to
the
ende
that
in
all
your
lyfe
and
conuersation
,
you
may
speake
&
recite
to
euerye
body
,
that
whiche
is
conteyned
therein
:
Be
gentyll
and
tractable
to
suche
as
be
so
:
abatinge
the
pryde
of
them
,
whose
audacitie
should
make
them
forget
them selfs
:
Let
your
mouth
be
the
house
of
truth
,
your
hande
open
to
the
poore
,
&
your
gates
closed
to
flatterers
.
If
you
do
this
,
my
Iuell
,
you
shall
haue
as
Abraham
,
Isaac
,
&
Iacob
had
gods
blessinge
and
mine
:
whiche
I
do
gyue
you
with
this
ringe
of
Diamant
,
that
you
shall
kepe
for
my
sake
,
and
in
remembraunce
of
that
which
I
haue
said
to
you
:
Wherof
your
gouernour
is
wytnesse
,
&
canne
wel
put
you
in
minde
of
it
,
in
tyme
and
place
conuenient
,
as
he
is
most
carefull
of
your
well
doinge
.
She
dyd
then
tourne
her
talke
to
my
Lady
her
daughter
,
and
wylled
her
to
marke
diligentlye
that
whiche
she
had
sayd
to
her
brother
:
and
that
she
should
beleue
the
councel
and
aduise
of
the
Ladye
of
sainct
Cir
her
gouernesse
,
no
lesse
than
as
if
she
were
her
naturall
mother
.
These
lyttell
children
,
whiche
sometymes
kyssed
her
mouth
&
somtymes
her
handes
,
were
by
her
commaundement
taken
oute
of
her
sight
,
least
they
should
haue
bene
made
more
sorowfull
,
and
because
,
with
all
that
she
could
doo
she
could
note
stay
them
by
any
meanes
from
most
bytter
weepynge
.
After
she
had
thus
sayd
to
her
children
,
she
beganne
with
a
newe
admonition
to
her
maydes
and
Gentilwomen
:
but
you
shall
holde
me
excused
if
I
doo
not
tel
you
the
hoole
:
for
I
dyd
then
go
forth
to
prepare
a
thing
whiche
the
physitions
had
appointed
for
her
:
And
I
came
againe
,
as
she
was
praying
them
to
remember
the
good
bringing
vp
and
nourriture
which
they
had
had
in
her
house
,
and
the
example
whiche
she
had
geuen
them
:
Haue
alwayes
(
my
daughters
,
saide
she
)
the
reuerence
of
God
before
your
eyes
:
and
let
your
honor
be
more
dere
vnto
you
then
your
lyfes
:
Loue
my
Lady
my
mother
&
my
daughter
,
for
thei
loue
that
,
that
toucheth
me
,
and
you
shall
continue
with
them
vntyl
you
be
maried
.
Farewell
my
maydens
:
thinke
me
happye
and
contented
,
and
learne
you
to
dye
wel
.
At
night
,
féelyng
her selfe
troubled
with
a
great
laske
,
with
a
shorte
breath
,
&
with
a
peyne
in
her
throte
,
she
caused
the
Minister
Perrucel
to
come
to
her
,
&
to
talke
to
her
of
God
,
as
oftentimes
he
dyd
:
and
as
he
was
in
comfortynge
of
her
,
she
lifted
vp
her
handes
to
heauen
,
and
with
a
softe
sighe
,
said
in
this
sorte
.
Ha
my
God
my
Father
,
it
is
nowe
that
I
shal
come
to
thee
:
I
haue
foughten
a
good
combat
:
I
haue
kepte
my
faith
:
I
haue
ended
my
course
,
and
all
by
thy
grace
and
fauour
:
for
the
whiche
,
I
assure
my selfe
that
I
shall
haue
,
or
it
be
longe
,
the
crowne
of
Iustice
,
and
shall
lyue
of
the
lyfe
,
that
thou
kepest
for
me
,
and
hast
hidden
for
me
in
Iesus
Christ
.
Then
stretchynge
out
her
hande
to
maister
Perrucell
she
sayde
:
Father
,
praye
to
God
,
to
gyue
me
perseuerance
and
encrease
in
all
his
graces
:
that
he
wyll
strengthen
me
against
all
assaults
and
temptations
:
that
he
wyl
alwayes
holde
his
hande
ouer
me
,
as
I
do
sée
he
doth
in
his
sonne
Iesus
Christ
:
that
he
do
make
me
continuallye
féele
his
loue
towardes
me
,
that
he
do
deliuer
me
from
all
grief
&
sorowe
,
which
might
trouble
me
for
the
leauynge
of
any
corruptible
thing
of
this
worlde
,
and
that
the
violence
of
my
sicknes
,
do
not
hynder
me
from
the
magnifyinge
of
his
name
and
hyghnes
.
In
this
sorte
she
spake
to
the
Minister
,
for
that
she
thought
her
spéeche
shoulde
soone
after
be
taken
from
her
,
iudgynge
the
same
so
,
by
that
she
felte
inwardlye
.
So
,
as
immediatlye
after
they
had
prayed
,
she
sent
for
my
Lorde
her
husbande
,
who
was
then
a
bed
(
for
it
was
nere
vnto
one
of
the
clocke
after
mydnight
)
and
for
all
the
request
that
Madame
de
Roye
dyd
make
vnto
her
,
to
deferre
the
matter
vntyll
the
mornynge
,
she
continued
styl
in
the
contrary
,
assuryng
her selfe
,
as
she
sayd
,
that
he
wold
not
be
sory
to
be
wakened
for
so
greate
an
occasion
:
&
that
it
was
not
good
to
tarye
vntyll
she
coulde
speake
no
more
,
least
she
coulde
not
declare
vnto
hym
those
thinges
whiche
God
had
put
into
her
harte
.
Thus
was
my
Lorde
the
Prince
called
,
at
whose
commyng
al
the
company
gaue
place
,
and
suffered
them
to
speake
together
.
I
cannot
declare
vnto
you
the
talke
that
then
passed
betwexte
them
:
for
albeit
I
was
very
nere
,
yet
I
coulde
vnderstande
nothyng
,
her
voice
was
so
muche
decayed
,
and
to
tell
you
true
,
I
dyd
somtimes
slomber
,
as
you
maye
imagine
,
we
had
no
great
rest
,
neyther
night
nor
day
.
I
remember
very
well
that
this
discourse
betwexte
them
dured
almoste
an
houre
,
for
it
was
nere
the
breake
of
daye
before
they
lefte
of
,
and
about
that
time
she
was
wonte
to
fall
to
a
lyttell
rest
,
as
she
then
dyd
.
In
the
afternoone
her
peyne
dyd
take
her
againe
(
whiche
all
the
mornyng
before
was
slaked
)
whervpon
she
beganne
to
say
to
maister
Perrucel
.
It
is
,
now
,
father
,
that
God
wyll
haue
me
,
wherof
I
do
most
reioyse
:
but
alas
I
am
sory
,
that
my
shorte
breath
,
&
the
rume
which
falleth
from
my
brayne
,
do
let
me
to
praise
hym
:
praye
hym
,
as
you
dyd
this
nighte
past
,
that
it
maye
please
hym
to
gyue
me
a
lyttell
respite
to
cal
vpon
him
,
not
that
I
do
desier
to
lyue
any
longer
,
for
he
knoweth
my
thoughtes
,
and
readeth
in
the
tables
of
my
harte
.
So
soone
as
the
prayer
was
made
,
she
felte
her selfe
muche
eased
,
&
at
the
same
instaunt
she
gaue
God
thankes
in
thys
sorte
.
Is
it
not
thou
(
Oh
immortall
Lorde
,
mightye
God
,
wise
&
good
)
that
without
the
helpe
of
man
appaisest
in
one
moment
of
tyme
my
trauaile
and
peines
?
Oh
inestimable
goodnes
,
which
doest
make
thy selfe
to
be
so
openlye
séene
,
touched
&
féelte
of
me
,
fortifie
my
soule
,
since
thou
dost
abate
my
body
.
In
this
sorte
she
continued
a
good
time
in
praising
and
thankyng
of
God
:
Afterwardes
she
framed
and
made
her
prayers
for
my
Lorde
her
husband
,
my
Lordes
her
children
,
my
Ladye
her
mother
,
for
al
the
Churche
,
and
finally
,
for
all
them
of
whome
God
had
moste
speciallye
bounde
her
to
haue
care
:
as
her
kynsfolks
,
her
frindes
,
her
allyes
,
her
seruauntes
and
subiectes
:
which
prayer
was
at
the
lest
an
houre
longe
,
togethers
with
the
same
,
she
made
for
the
Kynge
,
and
for
the
tranquillitie
of
the
Realme
.
So
great
were
then
the
sorowes
,
wepynges
,
and
lamentable
voyces
of
all
those
that
were
present
,
that
I
coulde
beare
awaye
neyther
the
substaunce
,
nor
the
forme
of
it
:
but
this
I
canne
assure
you
,
that
it
is
impossible
to
heare
more
humble
,
pure
and
feruent
prayers
,
then
she
made
at
that
time
:
&
I
knowe
very
well
,
that
all
the
hole
companye
had
their
hartes
no
lesse
heauy
then
I
,
whiche
may
be
a
sufficient
testimonye
to
you
of
the
same
.
In
the
ende
she
asked
pardon
of
all
the
worlde
,
namely
of
my
Lady
her
mother
,
and
of
her
good
sister
,
Madame
de
Rochefoulcault
,
who
was
ther
with
her
as
continuallye
,
as
if
she
had
bene
tyed
to
her
.
Whyle
these
thinges
were
in
doing
,
there
came
vpon
her
againe
greate
difficultie
for
the
takyng
of
her
breath
,
with
a
sore
griefe
in
her
syde
,
whiche
put
her
sodenly
to
silence
:
but
this
euel
dyd
immediatly
cease
by
the
remedie
of
praier
:
A
thinge
worthye
of
great
marueil
:
&
as
she
her selfe
did
well
acknowledge
,
at
whose
handes
she
receyued
that
ease
and
fauour
.
And
I
remember
how
curiouslye
,
at
the
same
tyme
,
she
caused
l'Espine
to
recite
vnto
her
the
passages
of
the
Scripture
,
whiche
be
proper
and
mete
for
the
consolation
of
them
,
which
dye
in
Iesus
Christe
:
Of
all
whiche
I
wel
bare
awaye
the
same
of
the
Apocalipse
,
and
that
of
Esaye
in
the
last
chapters
:
whiche
you
shall
for
my
sake
,
and
please
you
,
rede
ouer
at
your
leasure
.
I
wil
not
write
you
here
the
diuine
dialogues
,
that
passed
betwexte
her
and
my
Ladye
her
mother
,
duryng
the
course
of
this
sicknes
:
as
of
the
greatnes
of
God
,
of
hys
wisedome
,
goodnes
and
mercye
,
of
hel
,
of
the
consciences
of
suche
as
haue
not
his
feare
before
their
faces
,
of
the
difference
of
true
&
false
seruice
,
of
the
assuraunce
of
the
faythfull
soule
at
the
article
of
death
:
And
of
suche
other
highe
matters
,
whiche
well
deserue
hole
and
longe
letters
:
but
I
wyll
kepe
them
in
store
for
you
against
an
other
tyme
:
and
beleue
I
praye
you
,
that
I
shoulde
fynde
my selfe
greatlye
troubled
,
if
I
shoulde
come
to
gyue
my
iudgement
whether
of
them
saide
better
,
For
you
know
what
swetnes
there
is
in
the
mouth
of
Madame
de
Roye
,
and
howe
graue
her
discourses
be
.
The
night
before
the
death
of
oure
religiouse
Princes
,
about
two
of
the
clocke
after
midnight
,
the
Minister
Perrucel
(
perceyuynge
it
shoulde
be
verye
harde
for
her
to
passe
the
day
followyng
)
declared
vnto
her
(
as
she
had
alwayes
desired
hym
)
that
the
houre
in
his
opinion
dyd
drawe
nere
of
her
departyng
:
that
she
shuld
be
or
it
were
longe
at
her
desired
rest
:
that
in
any
wise
she
toke
a
good
harte
to
her
,
without
hauyng
feare
of
the
lawe
,
of
sinne
,
of
hel
,
or
of
anye
other
ennemie
of
her
saluation
:
that
all
suche
theues
and
robbers
had
bene
put
to
flyght
,
by
the
Lambe
of
God
Iesus
Christ
,
together
with
the
emperour
of
death
,
the
Dyuell
&
his
empyre
,
who
was
made
cursednes
and
condemnation
,
for
all
them
that
put
theyr
trust
and
confidence
in
hym
.
And
when
the
Minister
asked
her
,
if
she
felte
not
her selfe
by
the
vertue
and
grace
of
the
holy
Ghoste
,
armed
of
the
pieces
whiche
sainct
Paule
writteth
of
,
to
the
Ephesians
:
and
aboue
all
of
the
buckler
of
fayth
,
and
the
sharpe
sworde
of
the
worde
of
God
:
She
aunswered
,
yea
trulye
father
,
I
haue
in
my
harte
that
whiche
God
,
since
my
youth
,
hath
put
in
it
,
the
assurance
of
my
saluation
:
and
so
she
sayd
these
foure
verses
of
Dauid
.
My
Lorde
my
God
by
vertue
thine
Ys
made
to
flye
this
foe
of
myne
Discomfited
of
force
and
might
,
At
thyne
aspect
and
only
sight
.
That
donne
she
continued
her
talke
to
maister
Perrucel
,
and
sayd
therfore
,
father
,
aske
of
god
for
me
,
and
I
wil
in
harte
praye
with
you
,
that
he
wyll
alwayes
lende
me
the
burninge
lampe
,
to
th
intent
,
that
when
the
spouse
shalcōme
,
I
may
enter
in
with
hym
to
the
weddynge
:
that
he
wyll
gyue
me
the
grace
to
watche
continually
,
to
the
ende
,
I
be
not
taken
sodenly
,
when
my
Lorde
shal
comme
:
that
he
wyl
gyue
me
the
whight
garment
,
that
I
may
follow
the
lambe
with
the
lyuerey
,
whersoeuer
he
goeth
:
that
he
wyl
make
me
to
be
borne
of
his
Aungels
,
that
I
do
not
falle
,
and
that
he
wyll
take
me
from
hence
belowe
,
puttyng
his
lefte
hande
vnder
my
heade
,
&
embrasinge
me
with
his
right
.
Then
they
prayed
,
and
aunswere
being
made
,
so
be
it
,
she
sayd
.
Oh
my
god
my
Sauiour
,
now
is
my
wynter
past
,
and
my
springe
tyme
is
come
:
Open
therfore
the
gate
vnto
me
of
thy
celestial
garden
,
that
I
may
taste
of
the
fruit
of
thy
euerlastyng
swetnes
:
repetynge
these
wordes
thre
tymes
.
At
this
same
tyme
maister
Perrucell
toke
his
leaue
to
goo
,
to
prepare
himselfe
to
preache
,
which
he
should
do
that
morninge
,
&
in
his
place
came
l'Espine
,
accordyng
as
they
disposed
of
the
houres
,
to
be
about
her
,
tourne
by
tourne
,
togethers
:
with
the
minister
la
Bossiere
.
It
was
then
about
.vij.
of
the
clocke
in
the
morning
,
beinge
Sonday
.xxiii.
daye
of
this
moneth
.
L'espine
continued
in
prayers
and
exhortations
,
and
as
you
knowe
he
is
ritche
and
copious
in
similitudes
&
comparisons
,
so
he
spake
things
more
celestiall
then
humaine
:
whiche
lasted
for
the
space
of
an
houre
,
&
vntill
they
gaue
to
this
couragious
pacient
some
lytell
sustenaunce
:
who
was
accoustumed
to
says
.vj.
or
.vij.
dayes
before
,
that
notwithstandinge
,
she
knewe
welinough
,
that
that
she
did
eate
&
take
,
was
vnprofitable
,
&
a
lost
thinge
,
that
neuerthelesse
she
would
styll
entertaine
her
bodye
with
nourishment
,
vntil
it
should
please
God
to
dispose
of
the
issue
of
her
soule
:
and
that
it
was
not
in
vs
to
leaue
this
garison
without
the
leaue
of
our
Captaine
.
Soone
after
this
repast
,
her
flux
of
bloud
toke
her
againe
,
whiche
by
no
meanes
coulde
be
stopped
,
for
that
her
forces
were
ouermuche
abated
:
she
her selfe
dyd
then
also
iudge
,
that
the
former
remedies
,
vinaiger
nor
boxinges
coulde
any
longer
preuayle
.
Maister
Perrucel
(
being
in
his
Sermon
)
was
sent
for
,
because
,
before
,
she
had
desyred
that
in
any
wyse
he
mighte
be
by
her
in
that
extremitye
,
notwithstanding
,
that
de
l'Espine
was
then
there
with
her
.
Her
difficultye
of
breathinge
came
vpon
her
againe
:
and
seinge
first
her
right
hande
dye
,
&
then
her
lefte
,
she
put
them
one
vpon
the
other
,
and
sayde
to
me
,
it
is
now
,
my
good
frynde
,
that
I
doo
go
to
god
.
Maister
Perrucell
came
in
greate
haste
,
and
so
soone
as
she
had
perceyued
him
,
she
sayd
,
my
good
father
,
speake
for
me
,
do
your
office
,
you
haue
had
the
charge
of
my
soule
,
my
hearyng
is
hardened
,
my
tonge
fayleth
me
,
but
I
wyl
make
you
signs
with
my
head
,
if
I
can
not
aunswere
.
These
two
Ministers
vsed
vnto
her
many
godly
&
conuenient
exhortations
,
as
they
be
both
notoriouslye
learned
,
&
full
of
zeale
:
after
whiche
they
asked
her
,
if
she
had
wel
vnderstode
al
that
they
had
said
,
&
whether
her
hart
did
so
beleue
it
,
&
féele
it
:
Yea
I
thanke
god
,
said
she
,
liftyng
vp
her
eyes
to
heauen
:
make
your
prayers
for
me
,
accordynge
as
you
both
knowe
my
soule
desiereth
.
Which
prayers
ended
,
she
called
vnto
her
one
of
her
maidens
of
her
chamber
,
that
she
loued
very
dearely
,
&
saide
vnto
her
(
to
the
ende
she
might
receyue
with
all
the
contentations
that
she
coulde
,
the
ease
and
benefite
of
death
)
that
she
shoulde
take
her
legges
,
&
stretche
them
forth
,
whiche
the
rigor
of
mortall
colde
had
already
drawen
vp
.
And
sodenlye
she
pronounced
these
wordes
.
Into
thy
handes
,
oh
Lord
,
I
commende
my
soule
:
And
so
beganne
to
enter
into
the
pangs
of
death
:
wherin
she
continued
not
so
longe
as
halfe
a
quarter
of
an
houre
,
durynge
whiche
tyme
,
these
two
good
men
,
togethers
with
la
Boissiere
,
dyd
declare
vnto
her
sondry
good
and
godly
sayings
,
of
the
assuraunce
of
her
saluation
,
and
to
aunswere
them
,
&
to
let
them
knowe
that
she
vnderstode
them
well
,
she
enforced
her selfe
to
speake
,
but
could
not
:
so
as
she
gaue
them
in
steade
of
wordes
the
signe
of
the
head
,
whiche
she
had
before
promised
.
Within
a
minute
of
an
houre
after
,
she
departed
,
by
a
swete
sighe
vp
into
heauen
,
into
the
heritage
whiche
God
hath
prepared
for
his
elect
:
Leauyng
to
vs
all
,
a
desier
to
ende
as
she
had
donne
.
I
can
not
but
tell
you
that
,
because
whylst
I
lyue
here
,
I
canne
sée
her
no
more
,
I
must
remaine
for
euer
in
an
extreame
sorow
and
heauines
,
and
yet
in
a
ioye
moste
greatest
,
that
I
haue
appertayned
in
seruice
to
so
vertuous
a
Princes
.
Nowe
cometh
to
my
remembraunce
the
talke
which
maister
Perrucel
had
to
this
Ladye
,
at
the
article
of
her
death
,
which
I
esteame
worthy
to
be
written
.
Madame
,
sayd
he
,
you
must
&
please
you
acknowledge
the
goodnes
of
this
great
god
towardes
you
:
not
only
for
all
the
goodnes
&
graces
whiche
he
hath
donne
for
you
in
all
your
lyfe
hytherto
:
but
also
for
the
special
fauour
which
he
doth
presently
shewe
you
:
for
hauynge
put
you
into
his
vyneyarde
,
there
to
laboure
&
trauayle
all
the
hole
day
,
he
wil
take
you
from
thence
,
at
the
midds
of
the
day
,
to
bring
you
to
reste
and
quietnes
.
You
haue
scantly
yet
attayned
to
the
middes
of
your
age
,
which
you
haue
by
the
grace
of
god
,
well
&
faithfullye
employed
in
the
labour
of
his
vyneyarde
:
Ought
not
you
to
thanke
him
,
&
thinke
well
of
hym
,
if
he
wyll
excuse
you
of
the
sweate
&
traueaile
of
the
rest
of
the
day
,
&
gyue
you
lyke
wages
,
and
payment
as
if
you
had
laboured
all
the
daye
longe
.
I
had
also
forgotten
to
tell
you
,
that
about
a
moueth
before
her
death
:
she
sayde
to
a
personage
of
greate
qualitie
,
her
kynsman
,
and
a
very
iuste
man
,
that
she
had
hard
a
voice
in
the
night
,
which
sayd
to
her
in
very
plaine
wordes
,
that
she
should
dye
,
or
it
were
longe
,
&
that
therfore
she
should
prepare
her selfe
:
and
so
muche
it
lacked
,
that
those
newes
did
make
her
any
thing
sadde
or
sorowfull
,
as
that
euer
after
she
dyd
moste
desier
the
ende
of
this
holy
separation
.
I
must
tell
you
truly
,
that
without
flatterynge
of
those
of
our
sexe
&
sorte
,
her
magnanimitye
herein
,
hath
shamed
,
and
put
to
foyle
the
great
courage
wherof
men
so
ordinarily
do
vaunt
them selues
:
for
her
members
dyinge
one
after
an
other
before
her
eyes
,
she
dyd
lesse
care
for
the
feare
of
death
,
then
the
brauest
of
them
euer
dyd
.
She
spake
as
francklye
and
boldly
of
this
great
terror
of
death
,
as
if
it
had
bene
of
any
thinge
,
that
euery
daye
is
most
comen
to
vs
,
and
that
doth
appartaine
to
oure
most
familier
&
domesticall
matters
.
And
two
dayes
before
her
death
,
notwithstandynge
,
that
the
dangerous
beatynge
of
her
poulce
did
make
her
perfect
of
that
,
which
soone
after
should
come
to
her
,
neuerthelesse
she
caused
to
be
brought
to
her
the
plote
of
the
castell
of
Amsi
:
whiche
she
had
commaunded
to
be
made
a
lytel
before
her
sicknes
:
wherin
she
did
deuyse
with
my
Lord
her
husbande
,
as
curiouslye
,
&
as
particularly
,
of
all
the
desseins
,
deuises
,
and
orders
,
as
that
you
would
haue
thought
,
to
haue
séene
her
speake
wyth
her
ordinary
laughyngs
and
smilyngs
,
that
she
would
haue
accommodated
her selfe
to
haue
dwelt
there
,
some
long
time
:
And
yet
dyd
she
not
this
,
but
that
she
knewe
welinough
,
that
her
true
&
most
assured
buyldyng
was
in
heauen
:
But
she
sayd
it
was
not
to
be
marueled
at
,
if
she
dyd
so
speake
and
deuise
of
all
matters
,
as
thoughe
she
had
not
set
at
al
before
her
eyes
,
the
daunger
wherin
she
sawe
her selfe
:
For
that
god
had
geuen
her
the
grace
euer
since
she
had
the
knowledge
of
him
,
and
his
worde
,
that
she
dyd
thinke
,
she
was
as
well
subiect
to
death
at
one
time
,
as
at
an
other
:
&
that
the
true
christian
will
also
beleue
,
that
therof
doth
depende
the
greatnes
of
of
his
blessednes
and
contentation
.
She
was
borne
at
Chastillion
,
vpon
the
ryuer
of
Loing
the
,
xxiiij
.
daye
of
Februarye
.
1535.
And
was
maried
to
my
Lord
the
Prince
,
the
.xxij.
day
of
Iune
.
1551.
Of
ths
mariage
be
issued
seuen
children
in
sixe
times
of
greatnes
:
that
is
to
say
,
thre
daughters
,
Catherine
,
Marguerit
&
Magdalene
,
and
fowre
sonnes
,
Henry
,
Fraunces
,
&
at
her
last
deliuerye
,
Charles
and
Lewes
,
twynnes
.
Henry
,
Fraunces
,
Charles
&
Marguerit
be
lyuyng
:
God
hath
taken
the
others
.
She
lyued
.xxviij.
yeres
.iiij.
monethes
.xxvij.
dayes
and
.xj.
houres
.
In
the
time
of
her
sicknes
,
she
was
visited
of
many
greate
personages
&
good
folks
:
namely
of
my
lords
her
three
vncles
of
Chastillion
,
who
did
to
her
al
the
good
,
godlye
and
charitable
offices
,
that
were
possible
to
haue
bene
desiered
.
I
will
not
here
discouer
vnto
you
the
noblenes
of
her
race
,
as
wel
French
,
as
strange
,
for
euery
one
vnderstandeth
it
sufficiently
,
and
you
knowe
as
wel
as
I
that
of
her
fathers
syde
,
she
is
descended
of
the
righte
lyne
,
by
the
woman
of
Lewes
the
sixth
,
Kynge
of
Fraunce
.
Yet
I
will
write
vnto
you
thus
much
more
,
which
hath
seamed
vnto
me
to
appartaine
to
that
,
that
goeth
before
,
&
which
you
shall
receyue
as
vsurye
of
my
good
wyll
.
This
death
was
declared
to
my
L.
the
Prince
,
who
had
retired
himselfe
alone
into
his
chamber
,
&
was
gone
to
bed
after
his
retourne
from
the
preaching
.
At
the
comming
vp
of
the
Minister
la
Bossiere
,
(
who
was
made
messenger
for
the
purpose
)
he
suspected
,
that
whiche
was
in
dede
happened
,
neuertheles
he
continued
somtime
in
readynge
in
a
booke
of
praiers
,
which
he
had
in
his
handes
:
soone
after
,
tourning
his
face
towards
the
minister
,
he
asked
him
howe
his
wyfe
did
,
she
is
my
L.
said
he
,
with
god
,
whether
you
shall
go
also
one
day
:
At
this
worde
he
coulde
not
kepe
himselfe
from
sighing
&
sorowing
,
In
so
much
the
two
or
thre
gentilmen
,
and
the
minister
Perrucel
,
who
then
came
in
,
were
greatly
troubled
to
sée
him
in
that
heauye
case
:
&
yet
neuertheles
durst
not
approch
to
breake
of
his
bitter
cōplaits
,
&
lamentations
,
vntil
such
time
as
a
certain
man
towardes
the
lawe
,
came
vnto
him
,
&
prayed
him
to
resolue
&
coūforte
himselfe
,
as
he
had
done
in
all
his
other
great
aduersities
,
&
herevpon
the
two
ministers
toke
occasion
to
continue
this
maner
of
talke
,
according
to
the
largenes
of
the
scope
,
that
was
offered
them
:
notwithstandyng
,
he
remained
for
a
good
tyme
sylent
,
and
after
puttyng
his
handkerchyef
to
his
face
,
he
said
.
He
trusted
the
god
wolde
not
impute
vnto
him
,
the
infirmitie
,
&
that
good
men
wolde
support
him
,
in
those
his
greuous
passions
:
seinge
that
his
sorowes
proceaded
not
,
but
of
the
loue
of
vertue
.
That
in
very
dedede
he
had
great
reason
to
content
him selfe
,
for
the
assurance
he
had
of
the
good
rest
of
hys
deare
wyfe
&
moitye
,
who
had
dyed
the
death
of
a
sainct
:
but
also
that
he
was
excusable
for
his
heauines
,
to
lose
the
companye
of
so
wyse
&
vertuous
a
Lady
,
that
had
alwayes
honored
him
aboue
al
things-&
loued
him
so
derely
,
as
she
wold
haue
sacrificed
her
owne
lyfe
for
hym
:
that
had
gouerned
his
house
in
all
holynes
,
and
brought
vp
his
children
in
al
wisedome
,
in
rendering
to
him
all
due
obedience
.
He
added
to
this
(
turning
his
face
to
heauen
)
a
lyttel
prayer
to
God
:
the
sentence
wherof
,
as
I
was
writynge
this
vnto
you
,
is
fallen
into
my
mynde
in
these
foure
verses
,
without
,
as
it
were
thinkynge
of
it
.
It
is
I
good
Lorde
,
not
she
hath
done
the
faulte
And
reason
wold
,
that
I
shuld
therfore
gryeue
Yet
I
do
wronge
vnto
thy
prudence
hault
,
For
to
saye
truth
,
I
dye
and
she
doth
lyue
.
Here
vpon
,
after
hauing
deuotly
vowed
the
rest
of
his
life
in
the
seruice
of
God
,
he
sent
for
my
lords
his
children
,
but
being
desired
to
eate
somwhat
(
for
it
was
then
past
noone
)
he
defferred
to
sée
them
tyll
after
his
dinner
,
whiche
was
,
God
knoweth
,
a
smale
thinge
,
&
ful
of
sighes
and
heauines
.
After
grace
being
said
,
his
children
my
Lords
Marquis
&
Fraunces
,
with
theyr
sister
were
brought
in
to
him
:
his
daughter
was
sette
vpon
his
bed
,
&
my
Lordes
,
his
two
sonnes
stode
by
him
,
whether
the
litel
soules
were
no
sooner
comme
,
but
they
fel
so
into
wéepyng
,
that
al
those
that
were
present
could
not
withholde
them selfes
from
it
,
no
more
could
my
L.
the
Prince
their
father
,
&
as
for
me
,
I
can
not
now
tel
it
you
,
but
I
melte
awaye
in
teares
.
You
shuld
haue
séene
this
litle
Ladye
(
who
is
a
liuely
picture
of
beautye
)
take
my
L.
her
father
about
the
necke
,
&
washe
his
face
&
berde
with
the
aboundaunce
of
her
teares
,
wythout
hauynge
power
to
speake
to
him
,
but
in
halfe
&
broke
;
words
.
My
L.
her
father
vsed
suche
wayes
to
her
,
as
the
in
the
end
he
appaised
her
wéeping
,
&
did
drie
her
face
with
som
prety
admonitions
,
mete
for
her
age
,
whiche
I
will
tel
you
,
if
I
haue
caryed
them
well
away
.
My
daughter
,
we
must
wéepe
no
more
,
our
good
God
wyl
be
angrye
with
vs
:
do
not
you
remember
that
you
say
to
him
euery
daye
,
Thy
wyl
be
done
,
he
hath
taken
your
mother
out
of
prison
,
to
set
her
by
him
in
libertie
,
because
he
loued
her
wel
,
&
wyl
you
be
angry
with
it
?
he
is
so
wise
,
that
we
shuld
neuer
aske
why
he
doth
any
thinge
:
he
hath
lefte
you
here
for
the
image
of
her
:
&
as
I
haue
loued
her
,
aboue
all
the
women
of
the
world
,
so
I
wil
loue
you
:
but
you
must
not
be
only
the
image
of
her
face
,
but
also
of
her
spirit
and
vertu
:
for
although
she
were
fayre
of
personage
,
it
was
nothinge
in
comparison
of
her
gentil
&
wel
disposed
minde
,
which
neuer
did
office
,
but
of
chastitie
,
no
more
then
her
hart
,
her
tonge
,
her
handes
,
&
her
eares
.
As
you
shall
waxe
great
&
growe
,
enquire
diligentlie
,
what
maner
of
woman
this
good
mother
was
:
And
when
you
shal
here
,
that
she
neuer
loued
man
but
her
husbande
,
that
she
dyd
alwayes
lyue
without
any
blote
of
dishonestie
,
yea
without
suspition
,
that
all
her
doings
&
countinaunces
,
haue
bene
holy
,
chast
,
modest
,
playne
&
vertuous
:
Then
enforce
your selfe
,
my
minnion
,
to
resemble
her
,
to
th
intent
god
may
assist
you
,
as
he
hath
done
her
,
that
euery
body
may
esteame
you
,
and
that
I
may
loue
you
more
and
more
,
as
I
wyll
not
fayle
to
do
,
if
you
be
suche
a
one
.
Then
he
called
to
hym
the
Ladye
of
sainct
Cir
,
her
gouernes
,
&
embracinge
her
,
&
her
daughter
de
Fosses
,
he
praied
them
to
continue
their
care
in
the
education
and
bringyng
vp
of
her
,
as
one
of
the
thinges
,
which
were
moste
precious
vnto
hym
.
After
this
,
puttynge
his
hande
vpon
my
Lord
Marquis
head
,
my
sonne
,
said
he
to
him
,
you
are
the
firste
testimonye
which
God
gaue
of
his
blessynge
,
and
fauour
,
of
the
mariage
of
your
mother
and
me
,
and
the
greate
encrease
of
our
loue
.
Séeke
alwayes
to
gyue
me
ioye
and
consolation
,
as
you
shall
do
,
if
you
wyl
followe
the
stepps
,
which
your
mother
hath
troden
before
you
,
in
the
way
of
vertue
:
Marke
wel
the
path
&
tracke
therof
,
lest
you
lose
your selfe
,
and
fall
into
the
wayes
of
the
dangerous
dedal
of
this
worlde
.
The
sonnes
commenlye
conforme
them selues
to
the
doinges
of
the
father
:
but
you
shall
principallye
study
to
resemble
in
maners
and
vertue
your
mother
.
For
one
maye
tell
you
,
&
you
may
somtimes
here
of
youre
father
,
and
of
his
life
,
things
which
you
ought
not
to
follow
(
as
in
others
again
you
oughte
to
imitate
him
)
but
in
your
mother
(
of
the
lyfe
and
death
of
whome
God
hath
vouchsafed
to
serue
himselfe
)
you
shal
finde
nothing
,
that
is
not
worthy
to
be
followed
and
straitly
kepte
,
as
she
was
most
worthy
to
be
placed
in
the
first
rancke
of
the
moste
vertuous
women
.
My
sonne
,
vertue
hath
made
Princes
,
&
the
Heroicall
dedes
of
their
auncesters
,
&
those
that
were
before
them
.
For
the
rest
,
we
be
all
the
children
of
Adam
,
of
sinne
&
of
death
,
to
kepe
well
then
this
principalititye
,
it
behoueth
vs
to
lyue
vertuously
,
&
to
flée
from
vice
,
as
a
thinge
most
horrible
and
abhominable
to
all
noble
hartes
.
Therfore
,
it
is
,
that
a
Prince
should
alwayes
thinke
,
that
he
is
in
this
worlde
,
as
vpon
a
scaffolde
,
to
be
beholden
of
al
folkes
:
So
as
his
fautes
be
more
séene
and
marked
,
then
theirs
be
that
be
vnder
him
:
And
as
a
blote
that
in
an
other
part
might
be
hydden
,
is
easelye
perceiued
in
the
face
,
and
doth
make
one
diformed
(
be
it
neuer
so
lyttel
)
so
is
it
in
the
actions
&
doinges
of
Princes
,
which
be
(
howe
smallye
reprehensible
soeuer
they
be
)
séene
&
perceyued
of
euery
one
,
by
the
highe
place
in
degrée
,
that
they
holde
emongest
the
commen
&
vulgare
people
.
Lo
,
my
Iuel
,
how
you
may
prosper
,
and
so
you
shal
be
to
me
an
agreable
childe
.
Then
in
the
absence
of
his
gouernor
,
he
committed
him
to
the
charge
of
the
Seigneur
de
Buisson
,
whome
he
gaue
hym
for
his
stuarde
,
praying
him
,
that
aboue
all
thinges
,
there
were
good
eye
geuen
,
that
ther
came
nere
him
,
no
contempnor
of
God
,
nor
of
the
reuerence
,
whiche
we
owe
to
his
holy
commaundements
.
On
Sonday
after
,
whiche
was
yesterdaye
her
body
was
put
into
the
Sepulchre
of
her
predecessours
at
Muret
,
without
other
pompe
or
ceremonie
,
but
that
maister
Perrucel
dyd
make
an
excelent
Sermon
vpon
the
fifty
seuenth
chapter
of
Esaye
,
wherat
there
was
a
good
nomber
of
nobilitie
,
and
people
of
the
churches
,
nere
there
abouts
.
The
sermon
ended
,
which
was
about
nyne
of
the
clocke
in
the
mornyng
some
parte
of
the
Gentilmen
went
,
&
fetched
the
body
(
which
laye
,
leaded
in
a
hawle
nere
vnto
that
,
where
the
preachynge
was
)
and
so
brought
it
to
the
place
chosen
and
made
for
the
reapos
,
and
rest
therof
vnto
the
consummation
of
the
worlde
.
The
rest
of
the
nobilitie
and
people
followed
the
body
in
order
to
the
graue
,
and
so
after
retourned
in
lyke
sorte
into
the
court
of
the
Castel
,
where
maister
Perrucel
declared
vnto
them
howe
worthy
a
worke
of
Christians
they
had
done
,
by
thys
theyr
accompanying
of
the
body
to
his
buryal
,
of
the
great
edification
,
the
same
was
to
them
of
the
churche
:
Howe
pleasaunt
a
thing
it
was
to
god
,
&
how
agreable
to
my
Lord
the
Prince
:
thankyng
them
all
in
his
name
,
and
in
the
name
of
all
the
kynsfolkes
of
the
decessed
Lady
.
I
could
send
you
in
this
pacquet
sondry
consolations
,
which
were
sent
as
wel
to
my
late
decessed
Lady
,
as
to
my
lord
her
husbande
,
since
her
death
,
by
the
most
wyse
,
learned
and
apparaunt
personages
of
Christendome
:
but
I
vnderstand
by
your
good
kynsman
,
that
you
haue
had
the
copyes
of
them
from
other
places
.
This
is
then
asmuche
as
you
shall
haue
of
me
at
this
time
,
prayinge
you
to
excuse
my
wyt
,
my
eyes
,
my
memory
,
my
hande
,
and
my
penne
,
all
which
in
their
natures
and
offices
,
do
féele
the
sorowe
and
peyne
of
me
,
their
passionnate
mystres
:
who
it
maye
please
you
,
may
remaine
in
your
fauour
and
good
grace
.
God
graunt
you
to
lyue
wel
,
and
to
dye
well
in
his
Sonne
Iesus
Christ
.
From
Conde
,
in
the
countrey
of
Brye
the
last
daye
of
Iuly
.
1564.
Your
entyer
and
good
frind
to
obeye
you
.
I.
D.
V.