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: [Page]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; [Page]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 [Page]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, [Page]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, [Page]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, [Page]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: [Page]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 [Page]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 innocēts, 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 [Page]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, [Page]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.