The sighs of France for the death of their late King, HENRY the fourth.  
The true manner of his Murder: The form of the Coronation of Prince LEWES at S. Augustine's.  
With the Oration made by monsieur Seruin, Attorney general to the King, exhorting both the Peers and people to allegiance.  
Printed in the King's Palace. JOHN MORRIS.   depiction of a two-horse carriage, the driver holding a whip, in a mourning procession: two gentlemen are inside the coach, attended by a footman 
LONDON Printed for john Budge, and are to be sold at his Shop at Britain's Burse. 1610.   

THE murder OF HENRY THE FOURTH, THE LATE FRENCH KING.  
MY Liege, I had made myself ready to write of the Pomps and Royalties at the Coronation of the Queen, from which purpose I am so altered, that I am at this time bound to speak of the great grief of France, and of the faithfulness of the French Nation. But it grieves me to represent that unto you, which is too much in your memory: yet the King your father hath left such an estimation of his life, that I cannot refuse the last duties of my pen.  
It is true that there should be an Apelles to paint worthily so great and conquering an Alexander▪ and therefore I bear the praises of his Palms, to them that shall sit down to write of his victories? if there can be a pen found to fly as far as the brute of his arms, and the renown of them doth sound. And if a tongue could have as many good sayings, as this Prince had valour and clemency to conquer and pardon his enemies, how many tongues could be heard of your subjects, that have felt the fruits of the peace, the which his courage procured them, and which his grace preferred them unto? The remembrance of which, should call them to come and water his Tomb with their tears, and then render the testimony of their faithfulness to your Majesty, and beginning, by their plaints for their losses, an acknowledgement of the lawfulness of your succession.  
My Liege, as the birds testify by their silence the displeasure they have, by the loss of the sun, and how they do salute the Spring, like rejoicing Citizens with their melodious harmony; even so your Subjects prove the just sorrows that they apprehend by the death of his Majesty, and come at the beginning of your Reign, crying for joy, Vive le Roy, long Live the king.  
And you, Lady, if you can promise to yourself, that you may give truce to your griefs, mark the loss of your Spouse, and the zeal of the Princes of your kingdom, that having no sooner seen the lying down of the king your husband, but are as soon come to salute the rising up of your son, as their Sovereign.  
The Princes (I do not name them) have been the first that have offered him their swords, so recommendable are the effects that have been seen, under whose defence he is so strengthened, they by him so supported, & all France defended, that not a heart that need to fear, if heaven do not fall.  
The Officers of the Crown, the Peers of France, and all the noble French (that all other Nations may take example to obey their Prince) they have witnessed courageously, that death hath had no power to shake their constancy and fidelity.  
The chief of justice and the sovereign Senate have found & acknowledge, that you showed them pity, when you had all might to command.  
And he that hath the government of policy, hath put order to disorder, that where it did appear, the whole world was resolved to weep for the dead Prince, they are now as ready to honour the living.  
And you Frenchmen, that are come from all parts, to see the Coronation of your Queen, are the eye-witnesses of her establishment, the which you have beheld celebrated in greater glory and pomp, than you could imagine, on Thursday the thirteenth of May (according to the French computation) yet you have seen her on Friday the fourteenth following, in a more violent affliction, then may be named or expressed.  
They than that had the curiosity to see her triumph on the one day, cannot choose but have compassion, to behold her widowhood on the next.  
But great calms are ever the forerunners of great storms. The Mariners are not proud to make their sails swell with a prosperous wind, neither lose they their courage in the violence of tempest. So, as you have looked with great modesty on the Coronation of your Queen, regard her loss with constancy, and let the thought of obedience never slide from your duties; whereby it may appear that the Union of France is a terror to all other Nations: that you can conquer, as well as fight, & know how to give law to your enemies with force, as you can take it from your king with humility.  
And that this may serve you as a proof, that you have had the most valiant king, the most merciful, the most wise, and the most judicious that ever was beloved of his people, feared of his enemies, and admired of all the world: It is your duties, & by your duty a benefit to desire, that his Son succeed him in his perfections, as well as in his kingdoms; that the virtue of the Queen, established as Regent in those kingdoms, do supply the youth of the king, and he with her prudence make good to France the promises by the birth of a Son. In the mean time we shall endour complaining for him, whose loss we begin to find, and tell this history to our posterity.  
In Paris the chief city of France, whom all Provinces do owe homage unto, for the marvels which be found in her, being more properly to be termed, & more soon to be found, a little world, than a great City; A miserable Assasin, and a damnable Parricide, borne at Angoulesme, named Francis Ravaillart, hath bereaved us of the Father of our Patrimony, taken away the Pearl of kings, and undone us of the perfection of the world.  
This villain, who having been prevented of the violence of this fatal blow, and the fury of his intent in four several attempts, by the protection of the highest & vigilance of his Guards, the Friday the fourteenth of May, weighting his opportunity, he found him in his Caroche in the end of the street of Ferronnerie, who seeing the Caroche stayed by the meeting of a Caroche and a Cart, as the King should pass, he came out of a shop, where he had kept himself against the kings coming, although somewhat distracted in show of face before the attempt, and so came to the Caroche where his Majesty was, & as he was then in earnest talk with other Peers, who were then present in company with him, & himself dreadless of such an imminent danger, leaning on the Column, he gave him two blows with a knife, with so sudden an execution, that the murder was sooner found then the murderer: yet in the end by diligent search he was taken, and the king carried back to the Louu're, with the tears of the Lords, & received with plaints at his coming back.  
The Counsel rose, all the City was in an uproar at this untimely accident, while his Guards with a mournful diligence, came and yielded themselves before the Louu're, to receive (& be ordered by) the commandments of the Counsel, which appointed unto them this especial charge, that they should let none pass but the Princes of the blood, & men of eminent place. Then came the Soldiers and Court of Guard, offering voluntarily both their Arms and lives, and to complain & mourn the most monstrous murder of their deceased king, and for the firm establishing of the living Prince his son.  
On Saturday the fifteenth of May (according to the French computation) the young Prince Lewes the thirteenth, and of the offspring of S. Lewes, did transport himself clothed in purple to S. Augustine's, where the Court of Parliament had formerly been kept, concerning the Coronation of the Queen, and the former triumph. When being set in his Chair of justice, he was proclaimed king in the presence of the Queen mother, being set by his side, veiled over in a veil of black Cypress, assisted with four Cardinals, four Peers of the Church, sundry Bishops, Prelates, & some princes of the blood, and other princes who were then resident in Court, the Constable of France, divers Dukes, the Marshal of France, officers of the crown, and governors of the provinces, where was declared by an act, pronounced by the mouth of the Lord chancellor, by the advice of the cardinals, the princes, peers, and Lords hereupon named and of this Court of parliament, that the Queen received the title of Queen mother regent of France, for the government of the king her sons body, his kingdoms, and his needful affairs. After which, the gates were opened, that the people might see the young king in his throne. When Mounsiere Seruin the king's Attorney general, made an admonishing Oration to the people upon the business in hand, and in especial of the good that France should receive by the government of the said Queen, concluding that what was passed should be notified in the provinces, and withal requiring them ●o pray, that God may preserve us our king Lewes. And that his age may make him gather the fruits of our obedience, we do swear him so 〈◊〉 ●●●●●ulnes of constancy and of zeal, that we find we have more pain in the speaking of it, than we know we shall have in the executing of it.  
And to begin in good time, let us in his glory pray that he may in good time come to the protection of Christ, and in this hope we must be contributary with tears on the Hearse of the dead King, since the will of heaven doth lead us thither, saying, that since he hath dealt with us like a father and like a prince, we entreat of the divine Majesty, that having established him to be a shield to his people, it would please him to receive him to his glory. And as he forgave them that had offended him, so he will forgive him his offences, using his mercies sooner, than his justice, that having had so many and so fair victories in the world, both in foreign Countries and at home, he may be yet victorious reigning in heaven, and having enjoyed the peace of so flourishing an Empire, he may enjoy the felicity of the happy.  
After which, let us offer our vows and our suffrages, for the continuing prosperity both of the king and the Queen, that it may please God so to further and prosper the king, that he may hold his people under the yoke of his Commandments, and so see him augment in perfection as in age, always to be beloved of his subjects, favoured of his Allies, and feared of the Nations barbarous; that one day he may spread & hang out his ensigns in the Land of Misbelievers, and that he may keep the promises of his birth in the overthrow of the Ottomans.  
That the Queen asssisted with the gravity of the Counsel, may reap the rest of the fruits of his virtues, that she may enjoy his authority with so much prosperity, that it may prove to the advancement of the king to the honour of her, and to the comfort of the people. That the achievements the which the dead king her husdand held from heaven, may serve her for a Model and be the fair example for her to imitate, applying herself to the occasions of them that have most merit, and not of them that use most importunity: that she may hearken to all men's requests but not to all men's flatteries, whereby all may have occasion to say, that she is capable to reign. That as the Moon holds her light, which she hath borrowed of the Sun; yet stilled 〈◊〉 ●●●eth her Orb to communicate it unto us: So she hath held the perfections, she hath seen practised in the dead king, to serve herself in his ab●ace, in her glory, to the profit of her son and his subjects. And also that as the Touchstone that ●oueheth the gold, the silver and trieth it, she may keep in properly this prudence and this goodness which she hath borrowed of his dead majesty.  
Ve●uri● had grea●●●●nour in Rome to have returned the army of his son, which he had prepared for the ruin of his Country, and Mary of Medici's, our Queen shall receive a great praise of all the world to have governed the state of our king her son, with so great wisdom, that there shall be no difference found in the reign passed and the reign to come, that no sex may hereafter speak of the reign of a woman more than of hers, seeing an others have not preceded her by 〈◊〉, & she advanced by merit, & that the fairest actions of others 〈…〉 the predictions of the effect; of her that 〈◊〉 may see the 〈…〉 time of her reign through her sorrow and S●●●e●●e sees her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through a 〈◊〉 and say by Augurism that which you shall expect and we joy in.  
FINIS.