Amongst many conformities , betweene your Maiestie , and Alexander the Great , these are the most euident : first , that he was the sonne ( as you are ) of a famous Captaine , and a great King ; then , he succeeded him very young , as your Maiestie did to great Henry ; and after his death the most part of his subiects reuolted , as yours did . And yet aboue all the rest , this is the most particular obseruation , that in his youth some Grecians ( and Demosthenes amongst the rest ) not vnderstanding him well , calld him an infant : euen as some Frenchmen conceiuing lesse of your Maiestie , haue been so impudent to say as much : yea though hee shewed himselfe to be a man , and the greatest man of the world , euen as your Maiestie giues euident testimonie that you are no lesse .

Sir : It is true , there is this difference , that Alexander made his greatnesse appeare to the Grecians , to their losse and preiudice ; but you manifest yours to the French , for their benefit and preseruation .

Alexander made it knowne by the losse of their libertie ; but you display your greatnes , by the supplantation of a Tyrannie established in your State , by the most insolent , outragious , and insupportable stranger that euer was knowne . Sir : in conclusion , Alexander employed his first armes against the Grecians , who then were enemies to the Barbarians ; and you haue applied yours , against a barbarous enemie to your royall authoritie : who trampled vnder his feet , the fairest flowers of your Crowne , and did so mastiue-like teare France in peeces , as she can neuer sufficiently enough expresse the Tyrannie .

Sir : I will not exclaime vpon a dead body ; but so true it is , I neuer lou'd him when he was aliue , & yet I hated him but as a meere French man , interessed onely in the generall oppression of your subiects : I grieued together with them to see a man of small worth , one of little reputation in any respect , not commended for any vertue ; a man of no esteeme or reckoning in the world , especially in France ( into which he came without any qualitie or place ) to rise in a moment , to such a redoubted power and greatnesse , that there was not a gentleman in your Court who adored him not ; nor a knee , which did not idolatrously bend not only to himselfe , but to his meanest creatures : there was no Officer of your Crowne , that trembled not before him ; no Court nor Councell that feared him not , no places which hee sold not , no royall reuenewes that he did not poll ; no Seales nor Keepers of Seales , which he did not depriue or conferre ; nor no Territorie within your Estate , which hee was not able to rase , and tumultuate at his owne will and pleasure .

I haue read the History of our Kings from Faramond , and obseru'd the Mayors of the Royall Palace , which in the end dispossessed their Masters : the Grecians , and Romans haue had but few Tyrants , of whose liues , and histories , I haue not a reasonable vnderstanding and knowledge : but neither in them , nor elsewhere , did I euer reade , or heare of such a like Tyrannie as this : for these were contented to tyrannize ouer the people , whom they had wickedly subdued ; but this man being a stranger and lesse then a subiect in France , did rule , and sway ouer the King , and the people . He was full gorg'd with abundance in your necessities , he would haue an hundred men at his heeles , when you should haue but ten ; and that in your presence , and before the very beames of your Maiestie , where no other lustre should appeare : euen as no starre , nor light appears in the firmament before the Sunne . Briefly , he so beleaguerd your Maiestie , as there was no entertainment into your seruice , but by his meanes ; neither had you a seruant in your house , whom you almost durst receiue , from any other , then his recommendation .

Nay , if he had staied here , it might haue bin tolerable : but to replunge vs into our intestine warres , to open the gates of Ianus Temple , which you shut , to kindle againe those furious ciuill flames , which at first were set on fire by his meanes , and by your Maiestie happily extinguished : and after the raising vp of a dangerous storme among the French , racking of their substance , and purloining of your owne treasure , in the view and knowledge of all the world , he further coueted to glut himselfe with their blood ; and yet to vaunt and brag impudently , how hee spent his owne goods in your seruice , he that in your Fathers dayes was but a base companion . And what French-man was there , whose heart did not bleed to see these opprobies ? Yet neuerthelesse , Sir , both great and small , though they were his capitall enemies , and besides the common apprehension of a publike iniurie , daily either in generall or particular wronged , yet they swallowed these indignities ; Heauen reseruing the glory , and reuenge thereof onely to your Maiestie .

But thankes bee giuen to God Sir ; who hath made you looke so circumspectly into your people , and cleered your sight in so mistie a season ; causing vs also plainly to discerne , that the harts of Kings are in his hands , and that he hath touched yours , causing your Maiestie to vnderstand , that your beare not the hand of Iustice in vaine , seeing you now begin to yeeld vnto your subiects so good a testimonie thereof ; when Sir , it was impossible , but that the wishes and prayers of so many good men should at last bee heard : and ascribe not the principal hereof to your selfe , but let God haue his part and hand therein : And his exceeding great , long , and slow Iustice being now wearie , with the patient enduring of so odious a reproach to all France , meant to employ your Maiesty , for the restitution of his owne honour ; and to make this Tyrant , together with his owne blood , to discharge the generall substance of your subiects , which hee hath before so greedily deuoured . But who euer saw so vast a gulph ? what profunditie can bee imagined , which might not haue been filled with his rapines ? Or what insatiable and monstrous famine might not be satisfied with the things that hee did deuoure ?

So that ( after God ) Sir , your Maiestie in one blow hath remedied all these disorders , with so much Iustice , happinesse , and prudence , as can no more bee desired : You haue made all the world see , that you are truly a King , and that you will raigne and execute Iustice : you haue remoued all pretext and colour of discord from amongst the French , who will now knit and vnite themselues to serue your Maiestie , conuerting the sword they had drawne one against another , to the augmentation of your Crowne and Scepter . Wee hope , Sir , that vnder so valiant , and so iust a King , who is so deere to his subiects , and his subiects to him , wee shall display the ensignes of your glorious armes ouer all the world ; that in stead of murthering one another in Ciuill warres , whereof can ensue no other but Cadmean victories , and your Maiesty in winning but loose and beweakened , wee shall make strangers to acknowledge , that the Flowers de-luce hauing bin buried in obliuion for a time amongst them , shall flourish againe vnder the felicities and fortunes of your Maiestie , more fragrantly , then euer they did vnder the Kings your royall Progenitors , who planted them with the sword in the remotest parts of the earth : that vnder an inuincible Prince we shall also be victorious : and that the French generositie resuming new vigor and force vnder such a King , shal make you greater then Henrie the great ; more holy then Saint Lewys ; more Imperiall then Philip ; and more victorious and conquering then Charlemaine : your Realme shall bee greater , and more redoubtable then euer was his Empire ; your Scepter then his sword , and your reputation , then his name .

And because Sir , you haue first satisfied herein the Iustice of God , who not content with the blood and life onely of this common enemie of all your subiects , and your royall selfe , but persecuting him further after his death , hath depriued him of his funerall rites , which your Maiestie granted vnto him : who put into the peoples mindes ( without any warrant , or order giuen , nay contrary to a prohibition ) to take his carcasse out of the graue , whereof it was vnworthie , and out of the earth , which but yesterday he thought vnworthie to beare him ; and to traile it ignominiously along the streets , and hanging it vpon the same Gibbet himselfe had formerly caused to be erected , to burne the miserable remainder of his body , with all the madnesse and furie , that an inraged people could vse vpon an infamous Carrion .

And besides this , you haue heerein giuen good satisfaction to men , in reuenging the honour of the French Nation ; and in his owne blood quenching so many firebrands , as hee meant to kindle in France . That by the death of such a criminall partie , you haue saued the liues of so many innocents , stopped the course of so many euils , appeased so many commotions , secured so many townes , brought peace to your Kingdome , and repose to your people , securitie to the Clergie , contentment to the Nobilitie , and authoritie and reputation to Iustice ; purchasing by this onely meanes , more loue amongst your subiects , and reputation with strangers , then the victorie of ten fought fields could haue gotten you .

Wee most humblie acknowledge , that this was truly the Lords day , wherein he did , and doth continually great things : and wee beseech him , that as it hath pleased him so sacredly to inspire your Maiesty , he may vouchsafe to continue euer the same fauours towards you , to preserue him , who hath preserued vs , and to multiplie vpon your life , all the benedictions of true happinesse . And Sir , wee most sincerely protest , that as you haue in this action preserued the Frenchmens blood ; so they shal neuer be more desirous of any thing , then to shead the same in your Maiesties seruice : that seeing your are their Prince as well in effect , as name , and title , no more violent passion shall euer possesse them , then to make it euidently appeare that they are your loyall subiects ; that they will neuer brooke any other Soueraigne , nor neuer swarue from the fidelitie they haue sworne to you . That the Nobilitie will euer recognize you for their head , the people for their Father ; the Church for her eldest Sonne , Iustice for her protector ; and all of them ioyntly together , for the best King that this day liues .

They wish , that your faire destinies may spin as long a thred of your life , and glory of your Conquests , as there be ages in the continuance , or climates in the worlds large extent . That your Maiestie being a new Alcides amongst the French , may purge the earth of all monsters , restore the honours of armes , augment the estimation of learning , punish your enemies , and cherish your subiects . That your prosperities may surmount our wishes , and your owne desires : that you may not onely obtaine victory , but possesse the States of those that would enioy yours .