THE TOCSIN, OR, WATCHBELL: Sent TO THE KING, QUEEN Regent, Princes of blood, to all the Parliaments, Magistrates, Officers, and loyal Subjects of FRANCE.  
Against the book of the Pope's temporal power, not long since set forth by Cardinal BELLARMINE jesuite.  
By MEMNON'S Statue.  
With the permission of the best Genie of France. And done into English by I. R.  
Notate: Verbae  
Signate: Mysteriae  
Ecce enim mysterium vobis dico.  
LONDON, Printed for Edward White the younger, and are to be sold at the little North door of Paul's, at the sign of the Gun. 1611.   

THE TRANSLATOR TO THE LOYAL Hearted Subjects of ENGLAND.  
AS the Author of this small Treatise testifieth himself to be a true hearted subject to the Crown of France, by composing it; I will likewise (in emulation and imitation of his fidelity) approve myself to be no less to the Crown of England, by translating it. For sith this bloody book of Cardinal Bellarmine (ambitiously arrogating to himself the Title of the Pope's Temporal power) though particularly sent to France, is nevertheless meant, and doth concern all other Kingdoms, Sovereignties and free States whatsoever; I thought in honour to God, in allegiance to my Prince, in love to my Country, and in duty to all, I was bound to despoil out of his French habilements, and to suit in our English attire this judicious and compendious Treatise, which so worthily opposeth and impugneth it. Come, nay then run, if not fly hither, you loyal hearted English men, and as the choice of the wisest, chiefest and loyallest hearted French have already, so in religion, in zeal, in discretion and justice do you now commit and sacrifice to the fire both Bellarmine's book, and the thought, much more the practice of those irreligious, usurping and sanguynat speeches and positions therein contained, tending to the disgrace, prejudice, and destruction both of our Kings & Countries; yea for ever (in your hearts and souls) not only spit at, but defy the wrongful, tyrannical, Jesuitical and Diabolical pretence of this (Sophistical traitor, and treacherous Sophister) Bellarmine, who (as subtly as inveterately) aimeth, not to reach at, but to take off the Crowns of Kings, and (injustly) to place them upon the heads of Popes; yea to trample their Sceptres and Regal Ornaments under their feet, and to bring their Dominions and subjects, both into a woeful desolation and a miserable subjection and slavery.  
For alas, shall we permit to see, or live to permit that our Royal Kings of England (not inferior to any, but equal with the greatest Kings of the world) should now (through our negligence) be made homagers, subjects, nay slaves unto Popes (Gods mortal enemies, and our deadly professed foes) as was our King john, the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, the King of Navarre, and Earl of Tholouse, etc.)  
No, no, illustrious and generous Nobility, judicious and faithful privy Counsellors, learned and upright Judges, reverend and religious Prelates, valorous and warlike Gentry, incorruptible and watchful Magistrates, faithful and vigilant Officers, obedient and loyal Commons; join all in one, yea, let every mother's son (if occasion require) with an unanime consent, Viva Voce, cheerfully and courageously, with Drums beating, Trumpets sounding, and Canons roaring, denounce War to that Cardinal, nay to that Pope, nay to that devil, which presumeth or durst presume to deprive either our King of his sovereignty, or our Country of her independency: yea next and immediately to the zeal of the glory of God, let us be zealous & watchful, watchful and courageous, courageous and resolute, for the security and preservation of King JAMES our dread Sovereign, and his heirs for ever; and for the conservation and maintaining of the Sovereignty, both of his Crown and Kingdom of England, the Paradise of the world, and our sweet native Country.  
And the more to incite, and powerfully encourage you in the performance of this your religious and sworn duty; I have translated, published, and here present you this Tocsin, (or Watchbell) that when you chance to sleep in your beds of security, it may arouse and awake you to stand upon your guard, with sword drawn, Muskets charged, Match lighted, and hearts eager sharpened and animated to destroy and confound the Pope and his adherents, and to subvert and overthrow all other hostile enemies whatsoever, which shall either encroach upon our Temporality, or attempt to deprive us of our Sovereignty; to the end that neither the fame and renown of our deceased triumphant and victorious warriors (which hath heretofore spread itself to the farthest and remotest parts of the world, and is for ever characterized upon the never-dying Records of immortality) may not deservedly taunt & tax us with the scandalous imputation of cowardice, nor our posterity hereafter, revile and curse us for leaving them inheritors and heirs, only to Tyrannical slavery, and Presbyterial servitude: from the which God of his mercy preserve & defend both ourselves and them. And hereunto let all the loyal hearted subjects of King james clap hands, and say Amen, Amen.  
By I. R.   

THE TOCSIN OR, WATCHBELL.  
FRance, it is high time (without delay) that this Tocsin (or Watchbell) sound shrilly in the hearts of all thy people, to awake and give the Alarm to all those which ought to defend thee; sith Cardinal Bellarmine the jesuite (as impudently as unjustly) hath chosen the right of thy King's minority, to give the assault to thy Sovereignty, and to fix the Petard to the gates of thy Majesty, hitherto inviolated.  
He hath watched the time that thy Hercules Henry the great, was translated to a better Kingdom than thine, to leave the Supreintendency thereof ill assured to the young King his heir, the Regency uncertain to the Queen Regent, the succession doubtful to the Princes of blood, the authority decrepit and feeble to the Parliaments, the care voy de of honour to the Magistrates, the loyalty without assurance to the Officers, the obedience without fidelity to the Subjects, and the peace without continuance to our neighbours. For this book published of late in Rome, under the title of The Pope's Temporal power, hath performed all, yea far worse than all this.  
This proud Cardinal in his book, depainteth us Popes, as if each were a Cyrus, that is to say, inflamed with a desire, both to have and to command all: but our Queen Mary shall be to them a Tomiris, which authorised and encouraged in the right of her son, shall not only cut off the complots of those Usurpers, but also the intrusion of all others whatsoever. An act both just and necessary, sith it is not done in contempt of the Apostolic authority, but contrariwise, to exempt us from that bondage whereunto this Cardinal through his book would bring us: yea, and which he would cause to steal in to the buds of the Flower-deluces, thereby to yoke and curb the free necks of the Kings of France, which more justly than all other Kings of the world may say, filii Abrahae sumus & nemini seruivimus unquam. A judicious parsonage of this Kingdom, as soon as he saw the diabolical parricide committed and perpetrated upon the sacred person of our late King Henry the Great, and the Queen mother declared Regent, he said, that she would be unto our young King, as the branch of the Plane tree, or as the Stork is to yer young ones, from whom she keepeth off all infection and venom.  
And now it is that France expecteth of the said Queen Regent, the fruits of the aforesaid prediction. For if ever deadly poison spread itself over the Crown of France, it is now through this Cardinal's Book, which endeavoureth that the Majesty and sovereignty of the Flower-deluces, should temporally be made subject unto Popes. But alas, great Queen, what pity, nay what grief would it be to you, (you being the Tutrixe both of King and Kingdom) negligently to permit all France to be empoisoned through one only book?  Impia nam Pietas posset sic vestra videri. 
For may it please your Majesty to consider, that in France there are a great number of false hearted French men, unto whom the perusing of this book is as dangerous as the foam of a mad dog, when it falleth on any part of a man's body, being already either diseased or ulcerated.  
But he which hath written it (Madam) is a Cardinal: and if the consideration thereof take place in your generous heart, it will befall you as it did sometimes unto King Demetrius, (whom Historians have surnamed the indiscreet Prince) because after having a long time laid a siege, yea, sweated before the town of Rhodes, and employed both his blood and treasure, to become Master thereof; he nevertheless at last did lose both the honour and fruit of his victory; for the respect which he bore unto a naked picture of Protogenes, which he very ardently loved, and desired to conserve; and so desisted from battering that part of the town, where that table was: by which quarter of the town he might easily have surprised and taken it.  
In the self same manner (you Madam) unto whose children the precedent Kings of France have (for the space of twelve hundred years) with much care and travel, reduced the Crown thereof to all Sovereignty, and acknowledging to hold it of none but of God (though otherwise most religious) have both daunted and brought to reason, the Bonifaces and Julies (authors of ambition, and bladders puffed up with the wind of vain glory) are now brought to lose the liberty of the King your son, if you incline and bend yourself to admire the dignity of this Cardinal; who is to be esteemed no other than a vain picture in respect of the matter whereof he treateth: unless courageously you sacrifice not to the fire, the rod wherewith this impudent Cardinal doth employ his best endeavours, to scourge the Sovereignty of France.  
When question is to assault a strange City, or a Castle esteemed impregnable, none undertake to attempt it without great and notable preparatives: so this Cardinal hath long since both premeditated and propensed to assault the sovereignty of the Crown of France; which cannot be won without good & valable conditions. For it is a Cat that cannot be surprised without gloves: But sift we more narrowly their proceed.  
First at Rome they watered and mollified the Majesty of his chief court of Parliament (esteemed at all times the Palladium of France) in the water of the pretext of Religion; contradicting & censuring his ●rest, so religiously and justly given against that Parricide Castle; and since perceiving that France was thereof become insensible, and as it were sick of a Lethargy, because she had swallowed down this sweet and sugared pill of Respect and Piety, towards the See of Rome, (as the royal Dolphin, king of fishes, who having eaten the sweet fish Pompilia, doth with the sweetness thereof become so drunk, that all his senses are benumbed, and as it were surprised with a Lethargy; so as falling upon the Sand of the shore, he there dieth, and is devoured of the birds of the air) they resolve to advance further, and continuing to allure him with the sugar of the same devotion, they definitively determine wholly to exterminate this independent Monarchy, thereby to make him the prey and benefice of all those Sophisters and flatterers, whom the Pope pleaseth to replenish and surfeit.  
But as the poor Dolphin amidst his pangs of death, (of all his natural faculties) hath still his eyes open to behold his misery: right so, Lethargique France, at least before thou die, retain thy sight that thou mayest see the misery wherinto the book of this Cardinal will bring thee.  
Cardinal, a splendent & glorious name: but unto whom? why only unto ignorant people, as the deceit of the Fowler dasleth the eyes of Larks and Linits with the reflex of pieces of a Looking-glass, which they represent them, but never dasleth the eyes of generous Lions, which are not affrighted at the removing shadow of a light Ensign, nor at the apparition of a nocturnal Ghost.  
And who will not repute thee feeble, and tax thee of cowardice generous France, Lion of all Crowns (as the Lion is King of all beasts) if the respect of a Red Hat should have power to stop the course of thy independency? It is reported of the Lion, that with the sound of his voice he assembleth all beasts to appear before him; and therefore thou French Lion, assemble, require, and invite all the Potentates and Princes of Christendom, to see the fraudulency of this second Meneclides, who insensibly would throw effeminatnes into the spirits of Princes, of purpose to make them become, not tributaries, but subjects to a Priest: to a Priest worthy indeed to be beloved, as long as he maintaineth himself Priest of the world, and Lord or King of his own territories, without extending his shoe in Idumea; and striving that those which in temporal matters are but strangers to him, should nevertheless in that regard be as homagers and subjects unto him.  In Idumeam extendam Calciamentum meum, mihi alieni genae subditi sunt. 
We read of the Trozenians, that in Hercules' Club they heretofore saw an Olive branch marked with repose and security: and France I say unto thee, that out of thy resistance, as of a warlike weapon, will spring up thy conservation and peace. And although at first it seem somewhat strange unto thee, to see a Cardinal's book publicly burnt by a common hangman; I nevertheless advertise thee, that this thy anger will prove unto thee as the sweetness of most medicinal herbs, as the taste of the most effectual Antidotes, which are sharp in the palate, and distasteful in the mouth; but worketh strongly with nature, and exceedingly nourisheth and comforteth the whole body.  
Caesar, that renowned Caesar had never conserved his dignity, if he had not considered what it was to have passed the river Rubicon with his Army.  
And France thou shalt never uphold thy Sovereignty, if thou found the passage of the profound Amelyte river of negligence; upon the banks of which thou hast a long time slept, and as it were thyself at ease, stretched to receive the filth of the first which attempteth to blemish thy incomparable beauty.  
And if the Naramones seeing the South wind had dried up all their Cisterns (in battle array) resolved to seek out his Origine, thereby to fight and be revenged of him: O France, France, what oughtest thou to do against the pestiferous wind of this Cardinal's book, which attempteth to dry up the perpetual source of thy Crown and kingdoms Sovereignty?  
Steneleides Ephore of Lacedemonia counseled the Spartans', to bear to the gates both the weapons and wounds of those which violate their liberties: but at the ●●st I am not so bloody, nevertheless did occasion require, I would not be the last for so good a subject. But France, I with Publius the Syrian content myself to advertise thee, that the injury first received and not revenged, draweth on a second, and that this second will soon bring thee a third, if thou wink thereat and dissemble it under the cloak of Religion.  
Briefly I tell thee, that this Cardinal's book is the same to thee that Epeus' horse was to the Troyans', that is to say in good French, he will be thy ruin: for in his entrails he hideth a thousand sharp weapons, to subvert the Majesty of thy Kings, and consequently to metamorphose thy tranquillity into a combustion. I have read that Pythagoras adored the Altars of Apollo's Temples in Delos, because they were never sacked nor ruinated: and I believe likewise that the world will reverence France, because she was never brought under the yoke of subjection and slavery.  
But alas poor France, thou now remember'st not, that as anciently for sacrifices the quietest beasts were soon done to death and immolated: so likewise at present thy excessive piety to the See of Rome, proveth to be the chiefest cause of thy destruction.  
Cardinal Bellarmine should have addressed himself to the King of Spain, to have practised these pranks in his Dominions, for he hath showed us how we should bear ourselves. For when Baronius (likewise Cardinal) wrote a Treatise of the Sicilian Monarchy: this King which for Sicilia is the elected and feuditorie heir of the Popes, so well ordered his affairs, that the most audacious durst not presume to publish what the said Baronius had written of that matter. Many countries subject to his obedience, yea, and his Officers bore themselves so bravely in the discharge, that neither the Pope nor Cardinal hath since reaped any benefit thereof; yea and will or nill, they were forced so to content themselves both within Italy, as also in Kingdoms which yearly contribute many hundreds to the Church of Rome And yet we in France are afraid of our shadows. If there be reply made, that the king of Spain hath as just cause to except at this Book, as the king of France; in a word, I answer, that the quality of the estates of these two kingdoms are very much different, and that Rome hath not rounded France in the ear as she hath done Spain. The wiser sort understand me, Et ecce mysterium quod vobis dico.  
But now, what will the adversaries of the Roman Religion say, seeing that the Sea of Rome, which was heretofore the tree of life, is now become an Oleander and a Ugh tree, whose contagious shadow killeth those which think to repose themselves under the sweetness of their branches.  
O deceitful verdure of religion, which like that of the North Sea, dost cover by the fair green passages of the holy Scriptures wrested, the shelves and rocky places where all the Lordships of the world ruin themselves, and suffer shipwreck.  
No, no France, it is no longer time to dissemble: for as Pyndarus violated the peace contracted betwixt the Greeks and Troyans', through the levelling of one arrow at Menelaus, so this Cardinal through the arrow which he hath shot forth against the liberty of France (the which he hath not exempted from the Pope's bondage) induceth us to esteem the familiarity of the Sea of Rome, to be full of fear and suspicion.  
I have heretofore heard the Abbot of Boys Olivier report (being a person sufficiently known for the good offices which he daily performeth, both to the Church of Rome, and his King) that this present Pope Paulus Quintus, is very affectionately addicted to France, and that this Cardinal Bellarmine is a man very devout, and of a most innocent life and conversation. But now I begin to suspect and doubt the fidelity of this Abbot; for the book now published by Bellarmine, and approved and authorized by the Pope, doth apparently testify the contrary. For doth his Holiness love France? why then permitteth he that this Cardinal's book set it on fire? and if the Cardinal himself be a devout and innocent man, why giveth he not to France that which he oweth? I mean by separating and distinguishing it from other kingdoms (which for the most part) are feuditory and tributary to Popes.  
I will yet further tie myself to the relation of this Abbot (for he is known to be a Prelate so sincere and faithful, that he will rather die then speak one thing and think another) and will rather believe that a great part of this fault proceeded through the negligence of the king's intelligencers at Rome, and namely of Monsieur de Marquemont, Auditor of Rota, which hath yearly great pensions from the king, and nevertheless was not so well advised to discover the imprinting of this book: whereof if he had certified Monsieur de Breves (his majesties Ambassador) he would so powerfully and valably have conferred with the Pope, that his Holiness weighing his allegations and reasons (at least) if he had loved France, would have prevented the impression thereof; and the Cardinal, were he so devout and innocent, would himself have abhorred the publishing thereof: especially sith both the one and the other well knew what trouble this unnecessary book would occasion in all Christendom. And as for us (respecting our King's minority wherein it was published) we can say no other than Scorpius insidias illa sub caute tetendit.  
Those amongst us which esteem themselves clearer sighted than others, think that the publishing of this book is a trick merely invented by the society of jesuits, purposely to replunge France in the miseries, from whence the late deceased King had miraculously withdrawn it: esteeming that sect to resemble frogs, which are never well before they are in the mire. Which if it be so, the jesuits may properly be paralleled to the trees of the Forest Lytania, which invite travelers to come and repose themselves under the delectable shadow of their branches, and then being set down, instantly fall on them and kill them; for all their speeches are nothing but of peace, of matters of state, and of the dignity of France, (which indeed draweth many of their side and faction) so as if in the mean time they sell us, we shall be cunningly deceived: but my comfort is, that there is a great difference and distance betwixt the sale and delivery of us.  
I say if this come to pass, to avoid their enteprises it were better we surprised them: for otherwise it will befall us, as it did the Mariners of the Lake of Laumont (in the Province of Escovie) in Scotland, which as long as the said Lake was tempestuous they pass without danger, but being calm they always endure shipwreck. And alas, who hath better and fit means to annoy us then the jesuits, who confess the King, importunately solicit the Queen, live as companions with Monsieur the Chancellor, and Monsieur Villeroy? of whom through their dexterity they may obtain many things, which may tend to our ruin, as advice and agents to those which employ them thereunto.  
I am not ignorant that their speeches and books are more sweeter than the Sirens songs, and that many good spirits (pricked forwards with the spur of Religion) throw themselves headlong into the Sea of their acquaintance, morefully to participate of their harmony: But I know likewise that as the wind sprung up which conducted Butes out of danger, and saved him in Lybia: so the wind which at present bloweth against them in France, hath drawn many excellent spirits forth the Sea of their captivity, and hath fortunately brought them to the port of happiness.  
For considering more narrowly why they are so applauded, and with a circumspectious eye beholding the form of their comportments yea and not only in their faces, but in their lives and doctrines, yea in their very hearts and actions; they affirm they have found nothing but death for life, evil for good, the loss of the Church for her preserving, and the loss of the estate for his conservation.  
As for me, if such they are, I am of opinion, that there was never spell nor charm more stronger and powerful, then that wherewith they practise. For when I do see a Sillery and Villeroy, (both spirits shining with brightness, and on all sides enuitoned with piercing sights, which as two Argus, have rather their heads in their eyes, than their eyes in their heads) to be so enchanted and lulled asleep with the dissembling songs of those treacherous Mercuries; which perceive not that in shutting their eyes to their practices, they both close up and finish the days of their own honour, and eclipse the splendour of the dignity of France their dear mother and sweet Country, which hath so honourably imparted them the choice of her chiefest dignities, and yet of whom they will ravish her chiefest Io (to wit) her independency and sovereignty, whereof this great jupiter in Bellarmine's book doth demonstrate himself desperately enamoured.  
I am beside myself, and believe all and more too, which antiquity hath reported of Circe's the Magician.  
This Capitolian jupiter durst never have assaulted our French Hercules in the face, but when he perceived his back turned, then hesent this courageous canker Sophister Bellarmine, sweeting with the blood of Princes, to wound him in the heel. But courageous, courageous, the wound is not yet mortal: for ((jolaus) the inflexible Parliament of Paris will cure him: yea and so manage and operate, that this Ixion which thought himself cocksure, to have embraced our French juno, shall in stead thereof only embrace a cloud, from whence shall issue Centaurs, that shall go through all countries, blessing those which will receive them, yet nevertheless shall not be entertained in France, which was never ordained to be Augeas stable.  
And as thereon King of Spain, knocking at the gate of Hercules Temple, was with his whole Fleet miraculously consumed by a clap of lightning from heaven: right so this book beating at the Sovereignty of France, shall judicially be consumed to cinders, together with all his Sophistical reasons. This being incident and fatal to France, that as never vicious person entered into the Temple of Vulcan on mount Aetna, but was by the guardians thereof destroyed and rend in pieces: so there was never any ill affected to the Flower-deluces, which heretofore hath published their impostures, but by the vigilancy of the Parliaments have been both defaced and burnt. And although the late troubles have opened the doors of France, and so let in some indiscreet and pernicious books: as sometimes foreigners came and cast ancre in Diomedes islands, wherein the habitation was only permitted to the Grecians, because there were certain birds which Diomedes brought thither, which would not endure that any others should peaceably reside there, except those which were of Diomedes country: so as if they found any foreigners or strangers there, those careful birds would violently fall on them, picking and tearing their faces, yea and biting their arms and breasts, and never forsake them until they had slain them. In the same manner in this Kingdom are careful and watchful Parliaments and Magistrates, which our Kings have established, that will never permit that the enemies of the state should violate their privileges, or infringe their authority. And although for a time either through importunity or protection of great personages, they wink as if they saw nothing, & so permit them to inhabit amongst us: Nevertheless they will never tolerate themlong to dwell peaceably amongst us, but will closely and violently pursue them, until they have both extenuated and exterminated them, yea and never weary themselves to bite and sting them continually, but prove as faithful as the dogs being Porters of Minerva's Iliadnes' Temple in Dulia, which by a natural instinct always bitten those which came to profane the Temple: yea although they were brought in by her Priest, which under colour of religion was deceived by those detestable profaners.  
It is reported that the Lisards crooked teeth, having once taken hold, cannot be removed without breaking them. Let us therefore break the crooked teeth of this Lisard Bellarmine, to the end he leave us in our ancient liberty and freedom.  
It agreeth well with Rome to have a Pantheon wherein to adore the generality of Gods; but France can serve only one Master. And to speak truly, the causes which concern the Temporality of France ought not to be censured, much less decided in the Consistory of Rome. For were that tolerated, it were the direct way to put in practise the cozenage of subtle Ithacus, who before the Grecian army, would plead the process of generous and ingenious Palamedes, to the end the subtler to depose & stone this innocent Prince, and notwithstanding all this while to cloak treason with a dissembling show of justice and equity, resembling the Popes which overuaile their usurpation with the scarf of Religion.  
But if jupiter inflamed with choler, commanded the River Acheron to remove and descend into hell, because the water thereof refreshed the Tytans his mortal enemies, which rebelled against him. So what judge is there in France which will not be cheerful, yea willing to control, yea confound such Stationer's Libraries, & running Book sellers, which cause seditious and pernicious pamphlets to alight on the hearts of those which are enemies and rebels, to their Prince and country, to encourage and harden them in the execution of their wicked plots and projects?  
Aeneas (surnamed the Pious) threatened with a cruel death those Ruteloys, which furnished his enemy Turnus with armour and weapons; and the corcyrians burned the city of Cillena, because the Helenians being Lords thereof, had aided the Corinthians their enemies: and shall our judges wink at the assistance and aid which these Booksellers give the enemies of France, by dispersing and selling this book of Bellarmine, which most secretly and dangerously they sow and distribute?  
No France, no: if the jesuits participate of this wickedness, entertain them no longer as companions and friends: for being advanced and risen through the favour which thou hast bestowed on them, they use thee as the Scythian slaves did their Masters; esteeming themselves worthy to aspire to their nuptial beds: so the jesuits believe they may both sport and do what they please with the Sovereignty of France. But once curb and correct them with the whip, and thou shalt see they will take heed to offend thee. For I cannot more properly compare them then to the beasts Teuterydes, which fear and fly at those which assault them, and vehemently assault and follow those which permit them to repose and rest in peace.  
Anciently, wise Ulysses conceived an extreme horror, when his servant Eumenius informed him, what theft and riot the lovers of his wife Penelope committed and acted in his house. But now King, Queen Regent, Princes, judges, Magistrates, Officers, and commons of France, would we might be shown the dangerous Maxims of this Cardinal's book, & the spoil of subversion, which it pretendeth to do in France; if you, I say, foresee not and procure the suppression and extirpation thereof: yea, be ye all inflamed thereat with just anger; for there is therein included and comprehended such dangerous positions and bloody propositions, that it is to be feared, they will occasion the King's Palaces and Cities to resemble the Cities and Palaces of Adonia, wherein was nothing heard but cries and sighs, nothing seen but lamentations and tears.  
judicious Queen, let not the apparent and dissembling remonstrances of a Nuncio, deceive your vigilancy: For herein your Majesty may please to remember the Egyptian fable of the Crocodile, who upon the shores of Nilus having surprised a child from his mother, cried out as he bore him away, I will render him thee again, if thou canst define what I think: the mother bitterly weeping, answered, I define thou wilt not render him me, therefore restore him me, for I have defined aright. The Crocodile replied, If I restore him thee, than thou hast lied, I will therefore keep him both for thee and me. So when the censure of the Arrest of Parliament was complained of, and made known to our Bride and Lord the late King; what promises did the Pope's Nuncio make him, that he would cause it to be both remedied and revoked? yea what sugared speeches gave he to Monsieur Chancelier and Monsieur Villeroy, who only hindered, and withheld that the Court of Parliament imposed and bent not their authority against it? and which of all those fair promises hath he since accomplished and performed? No, no, he well knoweth the humour of the French to be sensible in new wounds, and forgetful when they are become more aged, and when they should seek for revenge thereof: he believeth that amongst us he which hath time, hath life: or to say more properly, He which is reprined is pardoned. And so much will he now likewise do to prevent the burning of Bellarmine's book: but when the shame and fear thereof is past, you shall never obtain the honour of the liberty of France, whereof this book will deprive you; yea his promises will vanish away as smoke, knowing well that as Denis the tyrant had rather permit himself to be pulled and drawn down from his Throne, then to mount upon a furious and warlike horse: so the Popes (his Masters) have determined never to abandon their pretension, which they have of the Sovereignty of France, or to see themselves reduced and brought to an authority purely Apostolic and Sacerdotal; except by mere force of the faithful Officers of Kings, Potentates and Princes. It is an Axiom (Madam) incident to all Ambassadors, whereon dependeth either the glory or the interest of the Princes their Masters.  Turpe est vinci, sed non cessisse Decorum. 
And to arrive to a Cardinalship, there is no director way, then effectually to occasion Kings to submit themselves to the authority of Popes, which falsely apply and attribute to themselves this verse of David's Psalm: Adorni abunt eum omnes Reges terrae, omnes gentes seruient ei. Which nevertheless belongeth not properly to any of them, but on the contrary to jesus Christ.  
And for Cardinal Bellarmine, he well knoweth that he hath not always taught that which in his book he now teacheth, concerning the Sovereignty of Popes over Kings. For were not Sixtus the fift dead, he would make him wed the prison of the Inquisition, because he then taught more conformable to the truth than he now doth.  
But seeing this Cardinal's book now in the hangman's hand, ready to be converted into ashes; I would willingly demand of him the sense of the same demand which Cyrus made unto Croesus, whom he had vanquished and taken in battle.  
Bellarmine, who hath called thee without reasonable motives, to war against the temporal Sovereignty of France? And I answer myself (if his book could speak it would answer for him) The advancement and security of the Sovereignty of France, the augmentation of her honour (but without thought thereof) and for ever the eclipsing of the renown of my author, with the eternal banishment of all his Aahaerents from the Territories of the Flower-de-Luce: of which saith the Evangelist, Solomon in all his majesty was never so majestical as it is.  
When Antipater would have reduced the Lacedæmonians to his subjection, they said unto him, Use us as Citizens, worthy of Lacedemonia, and let our truce be as prejudicial unto us as it pleaseth thee, so f●rre forth as it redound not to our shame.  
So France saith at present to the Pope: Use me as France, which hath temporally made thee what thou art; and on that which is spiritual, extend thy authority as far as thou canst: but beware, make not this Crown thy slave, which (in many parts of Italy) hath made thee King. Otherwise thou must needs believe, if thou durst undertake it, that (as Augustus said to those which dissuaded him from hating Cassius and Brutus, the murderers of his adopted father Caesar) God which hath esteemed our King Lewes the twelfth, worthy the Sceptre of great Henry his father, will make him as worthy a successor of his valour, to conserve the crown which he hath left him, free from all domination, except that of heaven.  
For France resembleth precious stones, the least crack or hair which is in the lustre of her Sovereignty causeth her to be no longer France, and maketh the valuation of her worth to be exceedingly debased and diminished.  
Bellarmine's book for a time will be but a small pepin (or kernel) but with growth of years he will grow to be a very thick Forest, full of trees and branches; and if it be not in time lopped and pruned, it will finally overtop and beat down the fruit of the French trees life, and infect it as the Salamander which lurketh in the hollow of some fruit tree; and so through his extreme coldness, doth by little and little cause him to whither and die.  
When jupiter gave the marvelous rod unto Mercury his Messenger, he accompanied it with shame to bear it unto human persons (immediately after Epimetheus had framed man.) But I think that jesus Christ the true God was no less careful when he gave authority to Popes, to accompany them with modesty, in bearing themselves discreetly towards men.  
I know well that as the Egyptians made Virgins to sit on Lions, so the divine providence of God hath placed Ecclesiastical authority above temporal: but so, as Popes ought always to remember that this spiritual authority is without issue or earthly production, as a Virgin which hath no children: yea and ought no more forget that Kings are Lions. And as it is easy for a Lion at one fastening of his teeth to crush in sunder the bones of a Virgin, if she affright him: so it is easy for Princes to bond up Popes in their limits, if they once presume to anger them in any thing which concerneth their temporalty; for therein consisteth their force and power. A good Christian both indeed and name, named Prudence, said, Non eripit mortalia, qui Regna dat caelestia.  
Would not Popes in these days resemble Aaerons' rod, which void of leaves, moth eaten and dry, did neverthesse's in one night bud forth and become green, in such sort, that the next morning the children of Israel perceived not a branch without leaves, not a trunk deprived of humidity, and separated from his sap: but contrariwise a tree greenly flourishing and laden with fruit. This present time wherein we live is not literally the season of the Israelites; but spiritually of the jews, which miraculously retain this rod by miracle, but make no use of the virtue thereof: since it was put into the Ark of the Covenant, as faith Sjt. Paul to the Hebrews, chap. 9 it was never employed nor used, that we read of in Scriptures.  
There are no more Predericks in the world: beside it is long since, that juno Nucerene was extinguished, the which in the wars of the Cymbrians, in the turning of a hand made her withered rod flourish.  
And the Popes deceive themselves, to think that they alone can make the harmony of the Church, wherein there must likewise be Kings and Princes; as said Zeno, hearing the physician Amebeus playing on his instruments, that the entrails, sinews, and bones of beasts, yea wood laid by, accordant number, and arranged by equal proportion, make a pleasant and complete harmony.  
It is reported of Dragons, that they rot by always eating of their tails, and yet without eating any other flesh than their own, they cannot again become young. So who will believe that the Popes for fear of rotting will not circumference themselves within the circle of their power, but to become again young, they desire to eat the power of the Princes of the world?  
Alas, must it so fall out, that I a Roman Catholic should see the Popes reproached, and that in permitting the publishing of this Cardinal's book, wherein France is used as the basest country of the world? They have forgotten that it is that holy Abicoboes and mountain of refuge, that stone of defence, which Mahomet in his Alcoran, not knowing notwithstanding the sense of his word, said to be built by the hand of the Almighty, for the sure and inexpugnable guard of his jerusalem, to wit the Church. Yea, yea, as said Hannibal to Antiochus (but to another purpose) speaking of the forces of Syria towards the Romans: there are but too many Doctors in France, capable to resist Bellarmine, although copious and abundant in allegations; yea there are in France enough to feather him, and more then enough to fear him.  Cur spolieris erit, non cur metuaris ab host. 
O wise Villeroy (under the branches of whose fanour and greatness, lurk all those of the Roman faction, which would wound our country) seest thou not that the confused light of this Bellarmine, sent amidst the cloud of the variableness of France doth presage our tempest? and that the fire of his breath, falling upon the poops of our vessels, is the prognostication of the turbulence of our waters? But I foresee that in the end, the tempestuous storm of these waters will bear down the Ark of their irregular power of Rome, so far, that it will finally fix and establish it upon the tops of the mountains of Armenia, where it cannot possibly any longer annoy the Kings of the earth.  
He which foundeth this Toosin (or Watch bell) wise Villeroy, is one which hath long admired thee, which knoweth very much of thy proceed, and who daily weary at the diminution of the honour of our native country: to the security and preservation whereof, thy too too great inclination to Rome giveth terrible assaults and advantage.  
But whereof should we fear? the Clergy of France is rich. But now the question is of the dignity of the Crown of France, which some endeavour to annihilate and extinguish: and therefore who can hinder us with Themistocles, neither to put distinction of wealth, places nor persons, against the rash assertions of Bellarmine, which seek thereof to deprive us? and who can justly reprove us, if with the Syracusans we holily use our weapons, consecrated to the Temple of the Olympian jupiter, especially sith it concerneth the defence of our liberty.  
And if as said Publius Curulius, it was lawful to sell those trees which were most devoutly consecrated to Apollo in the I'll of Coee, to build ships for the wars: doubt not Holy Father, but that the Church of France, use both Fer feathers & her treasures to revenge herself of the wrongs which Bellarmine in his book hath offered to the crown of France: and as the Athenians saved themselves by the precious stones of the monuments of their deceased: so we likewise will stone this Bellarmine to death with the stones of great Henry, our late King's tomb; during whose life, if he had published that which he hath since written, that invincible King would personally have gone and fetched him out of Rome, and so in expiation of his irremissible offence, have immolated and sacrificed him upon the Altar of the Sovereignty of France.  
O Bellarmine, the war is now denounced betwixt France and thee: and remember that we will use thee as the Argeans did the Spartans': for whether thou recant living, dead, or otherwise, as long as France is France, not such as thou wouldst have it to be, but such as God hath established it: thy name amongst the French shall be as horrible and detestable as that of Erostratus in Ephesus, who endeavoured in one hour to sack and raze down all which rich Asia had erected and built in two hundred years.  
And if thou desirest that thy other books (indeed profitable) and thy name (formerly honourable) should remain and live with us, we say unto thee, as the Romans said to Pyrrhus, which entreated them for truce: first forsake the liberty of France, whereon thou hast set foot and intruded, and then motion us for peace. Otherwise nor thou, nor thine shall ever have repose in France, sith thou hast watched the time of our mourning to make us slaves, as did those wicked slips of war (detested of old jacob) viz. Simeon and Levy,) which destroyed the Sichemites in their greatest miseries and calamities.  
Cursed Tarentula, lo we denounce thee war, and will no longer use thee as a Cardinal, because thou hast not used us as free French men, the first borne of the Church. Dost thou imagine to lull us asleep, thereby to bring our most sensible members into a Lethargy? But what speak I? thou art a jesuite, and therefore canst not do otherwise: Simia semper Simia, etiam si paurpura vestiatur.  
O felonious jesuits, which resemble the Nubian Marmorike, that groweth about the body of man purposely to destroy it. Sarcophanges of Trod, which will inhabit alone, and destroy all others that dwell near you: Combustible Pyraustes which by the rays of your books, dart forth a thousand incendies and fires into Kingdoms: envious Daemons, Telcbnes or Alastor's, which to deceive the simple Commons of France, cover yourselves with the thick cloud of religion, and exhausting the water of stinking Styx, power it out on our heads; not only of purpose to engender a thousand mischiefs, but also to make us forget the wholesome Antidotes and remedies, which great Henry hath administered to our miseries. But alas, your water resembleth the water of the fountain of Tellos, which is so thick that it cannot be intermixed with wine, no more than can your hellish and King-killing Doctrine agree with the French.  
For although you seem fair in your conversations and books, yet God preserve our Sovereign Monarchy from being wrapped and enveloped, either in your positions, or in your exterior appearance; as a Historian said, that the rich walls of Babylon (that seventh wonder of the world) were never overspread or touched with ivy. For as an expert Mason (of all things) ought not to beautify his building with that ruinous herb, because in stead of strengthening it, it will destroy it. So a politic Prince ought in no wise permit or tolerate the sect and society of jesuits to reside in his Dominions, what colour of Religion, of spiritual fruit, or of salvation of souls, soever they propose him; because it is to wed his estate to the utter ruin and manifest destruction thereof, in respect they undertake too much, and busy themselves too much with the affairs of the State.  
Know we not by experience, that as the most orientest pearls, by the long and often touching them with lead, are converted into dust and earth, so the souls of the most resolutest and purest subject becometh either silent, perfidious or disloyal through their long fequenting and familiarity with the jesuits? which have for their traditive and rule (like unto Philip King of Macedonia, who desirous to make peace with the Grecians, required their chiefest Orators to estrange them from them;) that immediately as soon as they come near great personages, they might by their tongue and art so contrive it, that their most loyal and faithfullest servants should be withdrawn from them, to the end that futurely without danger according to his desire, he might the better plot and manage his projects, without being discovered.  
For proof whereof, how many excellent men hath father Cotton caused to be removed from the Court, to the end he might domineer alone? Great Cardinal Perron (the lamp of learning) speak and say freely, how often hath this Sparrowhauke assayed to out-soare you; yea to outbrave and eclipse you near the deceased King? Renowned Portugal, how many elbow-thrusts hath this impudent given your reputation? thereby to separate you from your King, which never advanced you because of the malicious importunity and importunate malice of this Harpy, which would engross up all for himself and his adherents. And thou, O sweet spirit, golden tongue, the ornament of our time Fenovillet, how many times have you been assaulted by this Ishmael, which could not endure that (near the King) your pure eloquence should obscure his Comedian style, whom you being a Bishop (nay a worthy Bishop) esteem no more than a poor ignorant Priest. And thou Coeffeteau, so nearly inward with this hunter of Benefices, Priories, and Court preferments, hath not the purity of thy pen been so far suspected and envy by him, that he sought to tie thee to live by the price of blood, which is established to purchase a field to bury and inter those pilgrims which concur to the Church? And as for thee Valladter, with thy desultory method of writing, thou hast affrighted this Courtier, which hath brought thee to thy last extremity. As for the Bishops of France, he hath always been their plague, yea they know the complants which they have made of him, so far as in their Synod to suspend him à Divinis. But there was none but the Abbot of Boys which hath repulsed and repelled his assaults; yea and forced him to hearken to reason, and become tractable and conformable; seconded by the judicious assistance of the Pope's Nuncio, which soon perceived that this masculine and vigorous spirit, was not of the mind nor metal to adore Cotton, Beelzebub, God of the flies of the Court; which hath always his Altars imbrued and tainted, with the blood of the Oxen and Bulls of the Church, to wit, of her most learned and excellentest Preachers. It is not long since, that to imprint in the heart of our young King, he should make use of none but the jesuits, and reject and cast off all others: this juggler reported his Majesty, that the King of Polonia (being a magnanimous and heroic Prince) had with his own hand over thrown and slain the great Duke of Muscovia, because, quoth this tale-teller, the said King had with him four jesuits, which never forsook him: as if the shadow of these four lesuites represented him the presence of Aymons four sons, which heretofore made Charlemagne so renowned and feared. And yet notwithstanding this fable, it is apparently known, that this aforesaid Polonian King (which by the means of these four jesuits, this liar hath made so victorious) hath been himself both vanquished and slain.  
Briefly as we read that jupiter with one small chain, very easily drew all the other Gods after him, and himself could be drawn by none of them: so the jesuits in their Troublexive of Gretzerus, report and write (Being a barrel of wine, and a filthy lodge stinking of lies and blasphemies) that this Cotton is the King's Master; that his Majesty heareth no other Masses than his, and that he governeth the Queen Regent; and yet the learned Prelates of France well know that he himself is a puny, and in effect nothing. For otherwise great Cardinal Perron the King's spiritual Master, and great Almoner, and the prudent and grave Bishop of Bayone his first Almoner, and the rest of the king's Almoners, (amongst whom there are personages, always ready not only to dispute, but convict him, and render him all the days of his life their scholar) should be highly debased and blamed: and his majesties Chaplains appear not to be much employed and busied.  
But notwithstanding this, I see not that either the king or Queen govern or rule the jesuits, and that for all the multitude of Benefices & favours bestowed upon them, they cannot yet draw them to love them, much less to live as good subjects, & contain themselves in peace, without innovating some things amongst us: but rather I see they alone think to draw all France to them, and believe themselves able at one blow, yea and with high wrestling now in the king's minority, to obtain that, whereof during the life of great Henry, they durst not presume to have dreamt. For hardly had this great king shut his eyes (and God knoweth if by their means, because he at Rome pursued the reparation of the injury done to his Majesty, in censuring the Arrest of his Court of Parliament, and threatened Cotton, that unless he changed maxims, he would dispatch him:) yea no sooner, I say, had great Henry given his last adieu to this world, but they built a Citadel in the suburbs of St. Germans, (without that either the king or Queen knowing at whose expense and charge (whereunto some peradventure contributed, which were least doubted of) with strong and crafty force and policy endeavouring to violate the authority of the Parliament of Paris, that thereby they might be permitted to open their College in despite, & maugre the whole body of the University. As if to overcome all, they thought it sufficient to allege they were jesuits, as the Temple of Trophonius built in Mnatinea needed no other stay then the thread of a Spider's web.  
Already through their confidents they enjoy the principal offices both of the Parliament and politic authority, esteeming by means hereof, during the King's minority, so to secure and envelop themselves in the state, that through their intelligences it will be lawful for them to divert and turn it as they please. But I will give them an advice, which if they are wise, may perchance much stead them: and this it is; Vindekint Duke of Saxony, heretofore a sworn enemy to France, in the reign of King Charllemaine, seeing the King to be gone in person to the wars of Spain, addresses himself to a certain Prince of Denmark, and solicited him to invade France, in respect the King was absent, and his kingdom left desolate for a prey. But the Danish Prince better instructed in the conduction of the affairs of France, replied, No, no; reject (Sir) those simple opinions, and deceive not yourself: for the kingdom of France is never unprovided of his guard. It is I confess a prey; but (I assure you) a subtle dangerous prey, which destroyeth and ruineth those which attempt to surprise it.  
In like manner it is true, that our king is a Minor, yea I acknowledge it: but it is also true that the Magistrates of France are very quick sighted, and marvelous resolute and vigilant in his majesties affairs. And amongst these Magistrates there are civil Lieutenants, which cannot dissemble any thing indamageth or preiudiceth France: in respect whereof the jesuits are not yet arrived where they desire, nor have not strooken the mark whereat they aim; yea I know a certain Magistrate which heretofore reposed upon the vigilancy of the late king, without removing or stirring for any matter which passed in Paris, that now watcheth day and night to keep king Lewes the thirteenth from danger; whom God preserve and protect. Yea and I persuade myself, considering it was a jay, which by his cries hath discovered the assault which Bellarmine hath given France: that it may likewise be true, that a Goose by his voice hath heretofore saved the Capitol of Rome, from the surprising of the French: and I believe also that the jesuits with all their snares and nets, shall never surprise this jay; to whom France ought to contribute and afford an yearly memory (as at Rome they yet remember the Geese which guarded and preserved the Capitol:) because through his cry so effectually and fitly made, he hath awakened and aroused France from her slumber, wherein through this Cardinal's wicked book, she was on the point to lose the life of her liberty.  
Ha ye jesuits, what presage is this for you, that birds pick and war at you? Peruse, I say, the fortieth chapter of Genesis, what was the dream of Pharaohs Baker; and thereunto add this other place of Scripture: Speak not evil of the King in secret, for the birds of the air will reveal it, and the news thereof: and so applying all this together, fear the discovery and torment thereof.  
It may be you think that as Dragons cannot obtain to be Dragons, before they have eaten a Snake; so likewise you cannot become the most furious and redoubtable of the world, before you have swallowed down and devoured France. But let me certify you, that this book of Cardinal Bellarmine hath awakened us from our Lethargy, and hath brought us to the knowledge why the Pope's Nuncio favoured us so much: and not many months since was so afraid, lest the Preachers would have stirred up the Parisians to have expelled and banished you the City. For as an Arrest of the Court of Parliament is of small efficacy and power, without sergeant or pursuivants to execute him; so were Bellarmine's book of small or no virtue, were you not in France (under colour of religion and conscience) to put in practise the execution thereof. For the mask is taken off, and we are advertised at our Lady's Church in Paris, if any one deceive us.  
No, no France, think not that when question was to suppress the sellers and distributers of Cardinal Baronius his book at Naples, written against the Sicilian Monarchy, that then the Pope's Nuncio remained silent or idle with his arms a cross: for there are many hundreds now present, which then saw his doings and come, yea which overheard his threatenings. But as those which dwell at the foot of the mountains of Egypt, are deaf by reason of the cataracts & sluices of Nilus; so the Magistrates of Naples seemed to be deaf, and gave no occasion of laughter to the Court of Rome, which triumph when they see people tremble, and fear at the threatenings of their Nuncios, and feed themselves with this vain vanity, that they do so stand in awe of them.  
Ha, ha, Citizens of Paris, send your children to the jesuits schools to be trained up by them for good French men, (as Archelaus, who sent Xenophons' children to Lacedemonia to learn the Majesty of Sparta) and you shall see what doctrine they will imprint in their hearts and spirits. And this is the lesson which came from Rome, that the youth of France should be taught by them at the opening of their schools. But rush, this instruction came too soon in the morning: for it findeth the College doors not yet open: wherefore it is pity, being she was so lately borne (for the ancient Christians knew not the name of those jesuits) lest before the College be open to cover, she should take some Rheum or Catarrh, and so we should have need to apply some ustions and cupping to warrant her from all diseases, thereby to prevent that she infect not others.  
You Sirs (to wit) you jesuits, you have been principally assisted by women in the managing and conduction of all your actions, as also by those which have finished the production thereof. For without the favour and assistance of such people, your affairs had gone still backwards. But now since your mask is discovered, that by Bellarmine's book you teach that France is no longer France, to wit, Sovereign and independent, the very women themselves will both overthrow and vanquish you, (as the women of Lacedemonia, who in battle array discomfited the Messenians, which came to sack and raze their City) and if there were but the marchioness of Verneull, the Countess of Moret, and the holy Beave your Agent in the world, they have too much tasted the odoriferous smell which the Flowers-de-luce yieldeth, to permit them to whither by your breathe (I say not contagious breaths) for the word had almost escaped my tongue. And you Lord of Varrane, and Ladies of Garenne: who had there been of your trade if France had been no Sovereignty? For had it pleased the Pope that you should have been banished the Court, and that it had not been performed; the King then without the Sovereignty of France was disposable to the Pope's pleasure, and consequently then unable to do you good or assist you. Whereby it manifestly appeareth, that it is the Sovereignty of France, which hath assisted you, nay enriched you and placed you at your ease and pleasures. In respect whereof, you then ought and are bound to maintain and defend it. I say further that the Marchionesses of Guerchuille, and Maignelet, Ladies of greater respect, and far higher renown than the former, would before the others, have incited the very dogs against the jesuits, as soon as they had heard the tenor of this Cardinal Bellarmine's book: and the Bishop of Paris, whom I believe to be a loyal French man, will die with grief, if his approbation of their innocency, have any way advanced so infamous a crime, as to endeavour by writing to ravish and deprive France of her independent sovereignty, unto whom both he and his own all, both their wealth and honour. And for the Duke of Espernon, he hath so far experience in the destruction of King Henry the third, his most dear and debonair master, what misery and desolation this opinion and unjust position hath occasioned, that maketh Pope's the Sovereigns of the kings of France; that I durst believe he well acknowledgeth, that to be a true French man, he loseth not the essence of a good Catholic. I come now to Monsieur Precedent Signior, which notwithstanding he hath been the king's Advocate and Lieutenant civil of Paris: and therefore well knoweth with what balances Magistrates ought to weigh such drugs: yet I most assuredly know, that of late he hath vowed to a man of good respect and fame, that it were profitable, if the jesuits be permitted to live in France, they should swear to observe the French Maxims, or else that they should be exiled and banished France. But there is another scruple, to wit, that the Protestants will rejoice to see the jesuits pursued: which nevertheless doth not astonish me, that we fear to annoy them which by their books and actions seek to deprive us of our liberty, and have no compassion of us, whilst the considerations which nearly concern them, withhold and restrain us: but of two evils let us always choose the least. The Protestants laugh to see the jesuits pursued, and the jesuits en devour to make us the Pope's bondslaves, who at their pleasures should lift up and throw down our Kings, when, and as often as they list. Let us therefore give the Protestants leave to laugh, and in the mean time let us defend ourselves from the jesuits: for the one importeth us more than the other. And as for me, I had rather (because we cannot do otherwise) that the Protestants should laugh to see Catholics pursue the jesuits, then that the jesuits should triumph to have the means and audacity (through one book, yea and without shot of Musket or Pistol) to make the Crown of France slave and bondman to the Pope.  
And for you of the Clergy, you have cause to rejoice, in that your pension is ill bestowed on the Neophyte Pelletier (for so Cotton styleth him) in respect thereby you entertain him, which (to his power) endeavoureth with Rhapsodies, and unapt Apologies, to cover the shame of these jesuits, being the enemies of your country: who was borne in Valoine in low Normandy, whereof (as some report) judas which betrayed his Master and our Saviour Christ was native.  
But father Coeffeteau (of the order of jacobins) the once great Minion of the jesuits, hath reaped profit thereby: who (as a second Themistocles, seeing that the love which the Persians bore him, and all the royal entertainment which they showed him, was but only to serve themselves of him, to the overthrow of the Athenians and Greeks': the which he at last perceiving, made a show to sacrifice to their victory, and so sacrificed himself for the good of his country, by excessively drinking of the blood of the Bull.) Right so I say this valiant Coeffeteau deeply conceiting and considering whereunto tended the courtesy, and intimate familiarity of the jesuits, and at last perceiving they meant to make use of him, as the chief of the faction, against the liberty of France, he very wisely maketh semblance to sacrifice to the Roman victory, through his acquaintance with the Pope's Nuncio; he discovered this Cardinal's pernicious book, and the author thereof to the Commissioner L'Angloys, whereby he hath made himself both memorable and remarkable, and hath (undoubtedly) approved himself to be a loyal hearted and true French man, contrary to the nature of the water of the Cephuscen fountain, which no sooner is poured into a narrow vessel, and lost his running current, but is instantly transformed into green ye, and so by little and little obdurating is changed into flint stones. For the inward friendship which since the King's death the said Coeffeteau hath borne and vowed the jesuits conditionally they should make him a Bishop, hath not made him insensible of his countries wound, but the love thereof hath caused him to produce and bring to light the book and the matter which it contained, as also those which had of them, which the politic Magistrate hath found out and seized; and so hath delivered them up to the Precedents of the high Court of Parliament, which will soon perceive that this detestable pamphlet is like those huge Pageants, erected at Rome against the Carmenien feasts, which represented Chariots of triumph, that withinside were only full of straw and hay; being as combustible as the matter of this Cardinal's book, which by his title vaunteth himself a Giant, but in effect (as will appear by his refutation) will prove but a collection and heap of screeds and fragments of I know not what profane authors unbound and torn.  
Now if France desire to know what I am that have sounded this Tocsin, I answer I am Memnon's Statue, erected not in Thebes of Egypt, but in Paris of France: and as Memnon's old Statue at the rising of Apollo was no sooner warmed with his beams, but he gave so marvelous a cry, as made the Citizens to concur together: so at the rising and apparition of the least fire whatsoever, which pretendeth to burn France, I will no sooner be therewith warmed and touched, but I will cry out Alarm to stir up all the world to the dispelling and extenuating thereof. And put the case I am therefore persecuted and tormented, I notwithstanding will never cease to sound and ring out my Tocsin as loud as I can, no more than did Memnon's Statue when it was half dismembered, & rend in pieces by Cyrus.  
Thus Reader, whatsoever thou art, thou seest what I am: but if thou art a loyal hearted French man (as Pythagoras by the measure of Hercules foot could imagine the greatness of his whole body) so by this small Treatise conceive thou the greatness of my love to France: the which if it be either tried or provoked by the King or Council (without departing from my obedience, faith and communion of the Church of Rome) shall produce very terrible effects: not believing nevertheless that which is reported at Rome, that they are either Lutherans or Caluinists, which give unto God that which is Gods, and will not also take away some things from Kings to give to Popes, not yet to bow their knees, humbly to reverence the jesuits, Reddite que sunt Caesaris Caesari, & quaesunt Dei Deo. Otherwise we must conclude, that all Magistrates of the Crown of Spain, and of the renowned Commonwealth of Venice, which diminish not any thing from their sovereignty to please the Pope were todos Lutheranos (all Lutherans:) which no man of judgement will report, much less affirm. And so farewell without farewell.  
FINIS.   

AN extract OF THE REGISTERS OF THE Court of Parliament of PARIS: Against the book entitled, Tractatus de Potestate summi Pontificis in temporalibus, adversus Guilielmum Barclaium, auctore Roberto Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae Cardinali Bellarmino.  
Imprinted at London by William Stansby. 1611,   

AN EXTRACT OF THE REGISters of the Court of PARLIAMENT.  
Seen by the Court, the great chamber of the Tournelle and Edict, assembled, the book entitled Tractatus de Potestate summi Pontificis in temporalib' adversus Guilielmum Barclaium, auctore Roberto Sanctae Ecclesiae Roman Cardinali Bellarmino, imprinted in Rome by Bartholomew Sanet, the year 1610 the conclusions of the King's Attorney General, all heard and considered.  
The said Court hath and doth prohibit, and defend all manner of persons of what quality or condition soever, upon pain of Crime De Laese Majesty, not to receive, retain, communicate, imprint, cause to be imprinted or sold the aforesaid book, containing a false and detestable opinion, tending to the subversion of Sovereign powers, ordained and established by God; stirring up of subjects against their Princes, withdrawing of their obedience, provoking them to set violent hands upon their royal persons and estates, and to trouble the repose and tranquillity of the Weal public. enjoining and commanding also all those which have copies of the aforesaid book, or know who possesseth them, speedily to reveal and declare them to the Ordinary Judges; that according to the requests of the said Attorney General, perqursition may be made, and execution done upon the offenders, as reason shall require.  
Also the said Court hath and doth make the like prohibition, and defence, upon pain of the aforesaid penalty, to all Doctors, Divines, Schoolmasters or others, not to confer, dispute, writ, or teach, either directly or indirectly in their Schools, Colleges, or any other places, the aforesaid proposition.  
Ordained likewise by the said Court, that this present Arrest shall be sent to the Bailiffs and Shrieffes of this Kingdom, to be read, published, enregistered, kept and observed according to the tenor and form thereof; enjoining also the substitutes of the said King's Attorney General, to be careful to see the execution thereof: and to certify the Court monthly of their diligence therein.  
Given in Parliament the six and twentieth of November. 1610.  
SIGNED. DV TILLET.   

THE EXTRACT OF AN AUTHOR, which hath written the history of our time.  
A Great number of French were Leaguers, under colour of Religion, until the Duke of Feria (the Spanish Ambassador) discovered and took off the King his Master's Mask, when in the assembly of the pretended states in Paris, he demanded the Kingdom of France in propriety and succession for a daughter of Spain; contrary to that which is written in sacred Scripture, Let not the Lilies spin. And then it was that the chief Precedent (in danger of his life) pronounced that good and notable Arrest the eight and twentieth of july, 1593., whereby upon pain of death it was defended to mention or speak of transporting the Crown to any other unless to the true heirs thereof; declaring all matters tending to the prejudice of the Salic law: and all other fundamental laws, appertaining to the crown of France, to be of no power, value, force or virtue. And exhorting the Duke of Mayene, to employ his authority of lieutenantship, that under colour of Religion the Crown of France might not fall into the possession of a stranger, contrary to the laws of the Kingdom in that behalf extant and provided.   

THE APPLICATION thereof, made by MEMNON'S Statue.  
A Great and notable number of Catholics, under colour of religion adhaered with the jesuits until now Cardinal Bellarmine, taking off the mask and discovering the reason why the Pope his Master, so sharply insisted for the re-establishment of the jesuits in France, when thinking they had assuredly opened their College in Paris, he under colour to answer a certain person of Hercles, sent the form of that which the said jesuits should teach our youth concerning the Sovereignty of the Crown of France, which he brought in subjection to the Pope's pleasure; against that which is written of the Lilleyes Quae non laborant, they are no villains, hired servants nor slaves. And then it was when (with danger of his life) the starve of Memnon sounded, and rung out this shrill sounding Tocsin, being the seventeenth of November, 1610. Which upon pain to be declared Felons and Traitors, dissuaded all loyal hearted French men, neither to speak nor teach any way, or for any cause whatsoever, that Popes can temporally dispose of the Sovereignty of France: declaring all books tending to the prejudice of the French fundamental Maxims, to be wicked and Diabolical, and exhorting the Bishops of Paris, N.N.N. of Guerchville, Maignelet, the marchioness of Verneul, Countess of Moret N. & others to whom it appertaineth, to employ the honour which they enjoy to be borne in France; as also their goods, to the end that under colour of Religion, the Sovereignty of France (against the laws of God and the kingdom) fall not into the hands of Priests: and particularly admonishing the Sieurs N.N. no more to affright and daunt the Magistrates which watch for the good of the French Monarchy: nor by artificial impiety to abuse the authority which they have near the person of the Queen Regent, to the great prejudice of the Princes of blood, Lords, loyal Officers, and faithful subjects of the Crown: which as much as in them lieth they disgrace and cast down, to the end they may domineer and govern alone after their own humours. Otherwise if after this admonition they neglect to take heed, the Statue of Memnon shall reveal many packets of secrets: and they shall see that Mordocheus although poorly appareled in Canvas, shall preserve both King and State, yea and discover and reveal the treacherous complors of those two Teresh and Bigthon: For France is now weary, and resolved no longer to endure their juggling tricks, and sleights of Legier Du. Main.