of your Majefty of Cares, which is as much as to fay, the cafing of you to be Queen and Sovereign; I think every body perceives this way either to be full of Hurt, or void of Help. Now refteth to confider, what be the Motives of this fudden Change; as I have heard you in most sweet Words deliver. Fear of standing alone, in respect of Foreign Dealings; and in them from whom you fhould have Refpect, Doubt of Contempt. Truly standing alone with good Forefight of Government, both in Peace and warlike Defence, is the honourableft Thing that can be to a well established Monarchy. Thofe Buildings being ever moft ftrongly durable, which lean to none other, but remain from their own Foundation.

So yet in the Particulars of your Eftate prefently, I will not altogether deny, that a true Mafiniffa were very fit to countermine the Enterprize of mighty Carthage. But how this general Truth can be applied unto Mounfieur, in truth I perceive not. The Wifeft, that have given beft Rules where fureft Leagues are to be made, have faid, That it must be between fuch as either vehement Defire of a third Thing, or as vehement Fear doth knit their Minds together. Defire is counted the weaker Bond; but yet that bound fo many Princes to the Expedition of the Holy Land. It united that invincible Henry V. and that good Duke of Burgundy; the one defiring to win the Crown of France from the Dauphin, the other, defiring to revenge his Father's Murder upon the Dauphin, which both tended to one. That coupled Lewis XII. and Ferdinando of Spain, to the Conqueft of Naples. Of Fear, there are innumerable Examples. Mounfieur's Defires, and yours; how they fhould meet in public Matters, I think no Oracle can tell: for,

as the Geometricians fay, that Parallels, because they maintain divers Lines, can never join; so truly, two having in the Beginning contrary Principles, to bring forth one Doctrine must be fome Miracle. He, of the Romifh Religion; and, if he be a Man, must needs have that manlike Property, to defire that all Men be of his Mind. You, the Erector and Defender of the contrary, and the only Sun that dazleth their Eyes. He, French, and defiring to make France great; your Majesty, Englih, and defiring nothing less than that France fhould grow great. He, both by his own Fancy, and his youthful Governors, embracing all ambitious Hopes, having Alexander's Image in his Head, but perhaps evil painted. Your Majefty, with excellent Virtue, taught what you should hope; and by no lefs Wisdom, what you may hope; with a Council renowned over all Chriftendom, for their well tempered Minds, having fet the utmost of their Ambition in your Favour, and the Study of their Souls in your Safety.

Fear hath as little Shew of outward Appearance, as Reason, to match you together; for in this Eftate he is in, whom should he fear? His Brother? Alas! his Brother is afraid, fince the King of Navarre is to ftep into his Place. Neither can his Brother be the fafer by his Fall; but he may be the greater by his Brother's; whereto whether you will be an Acceffary, you are to determine. The King of Spain, certainly, cannot make war upon him, but it must be upon all the Crown of France, which is no likelihood he will do. Well may Mounfieur (as he hath done) seek to inlarge the Bounds of France upon his State; which likewife, whether it be fafe for you to be a Countenance to, any other way, may be seen. So that

if neither Defire nor Fear be fuch in him, as are to bind any public Faftnefs, it may be said, that. the only Fortress of this your Marriage, is of his private Affection; a a Thing too incident to the Perfon laying it up in fuch Knots.

The other Objection of Contempt in the Subjects, I affure your Majefty if I had not heard it proceed out of your Mouth, which of all other I do moft dearly reverence, it would as foon (confidering the Perfections both of Body and Mind have fet all Mens Eyes by the Height of your Eftate) have come to the Poffibility of my Imagination, if one fhould have told me, on the contrary Side, that the greatest Princes of the World fhould: envy the State of fome poor deformed Pilgrim.. What is there either within you, or without you,. that can poffibly fall into the Danger of Contempt,. to whom Fortunes are tried by fo long Defcent of your Royal Ancestors? But our Minds rejoyce with the Experience of your inward Virtues, and our Eyes are delighted with the Sight of you. But because your own Eyes cannot fee yourself, nei-. ther can there be in the World any Example fit to blaze you by, I beseech you vouchfafe to weigh the Grounds thereof. The natural Causes are Lengths of Government, and Uncertainty of Succeffion. The Effects, as you term them, appear by cherishing fome abominable Speeches which fome hellifh Minds have uttered. The longer a good Prince reigneth, it is certain the more he is esteemed. There is no Man ever was weary of well-being; and Good increafed to Good,. maketh the fame Good both greater and ftronger;. for it ufeth Men to know no other Cares, when either Men are born in the Time, and fo never faw other; or have spent much part of their flourishing

flourishing Time, and fo have no Joy to seek other. In evil Princes, Abufe growing upon Abufe, according to the Nature of Evil, with the Increase of Time, ruins itfelf: but in fo rare a Government, where Neighbours Fires give us Light to fee our Quietness, where nothing wants that true Adminiftration of Juftice brings forth, certainly the Length of Time rather breeds a Mind to think there is no other Life but in it, than that there is any Tedioufnefs in fo fruitful a Government. Examples of good Princes do ever confirm this, who the longer they lived, the deeper ftill they funk into the Subjects Hearts. Neither will I trouble you with Examples, being fo many and manifeft. Look into your own Eftate; how willingly they grant, and how dutifully they pay fuch Subfidies as you demand of them; how they are no lefs troublefome to your Majesty in certain Requefts, than they were in the Beginning of your Reign: and your Majefty fhall find you have a People more than ever devoted to you.

As for the Uncertainty of Succeffion, although for mine own Part, I know well I have caft the utmost Anchor of my Hopes, yet for England's Sake I would not fay any thing against fuch Determination; but that uncertain Good fhould bring Contempt to a certain Good. I think it is beyond all Reach of Reason: nay because, if there were no other Caufe (as there are infinite) common Reafon and Profit would teach us to hold that Jewel dear, the Lofs of which would bring us to we know not what: which likewife is to be faid of your Majefty's Speech of the Rising-sun; Speech first used by Scylla to Pompey in Rome, as then a popular City, where indeed Men were to rife or fall, according to the Flourish and Breath

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of a many headed Confufion. But in fo lineal a Monarchy, wherever the Infant fucks the Love of their rightful Prince, who would leave the Beams of fo fair a Sun, for the dreadful Expectation of a divided Company of Stars? Virtue and Juftice are the only Bonds of Peoples Love: and as for that Point, many Princes have loft their Crowns, whofe own Children were manifeft Succeffors; and fome, that had their own Children ufed as Inftruments of their Ruin. Not that I deny the Blifs of Children, but only to fhew Religion and Equity to be of themselves fufficient Stays. Neither is the Love, borne in the Queen your Sifter's Days, any Contradiction hereunto; for fhe was the Oppreffor of that Religion which lived in many Mens Hearts, and whereof you are known to be the Favourer. By her Lofs, was the most excellent Prince in the World to fucceed; by your Lofs, all Blindness light upon him that fees not our Mifery. Laftly, and moft properly to this Purpofe, fhe had made an odious Marriage with a Stranger; (which is now in queftion whether your Majefty fhould do or no) fo that if your Subjects do at this time look for any After-chance, it is but as the Pilot doth to the Ship-boat, if his Ship fhould perish; driven by Extremity to the one; but, as long as he can with his Life, tendring the other. And this I fay, not only for the lively Parts that be in you, but even for their own Sakes, fince they must needs fee what Tempests threaten them.

The laft Proof of this Contempt should be the venomous Matter certain Men impoftumed with Wickedness fhould utter against you. Certainly not to be evil spoken of, neither Chrift's Holiness, nor Cæfar's Might, could ever prevent or warrant ;

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