The history of the League. . o Religion Ann^t^-with the veil of Piety. Yet the Leaguers were not the one-ly men, who were icandalizd atthefe new forms of Procellions, whichare not much to the humour of theFrench. They were a 1 moll generallyblamd by all the World, and tholewho fpoke the lead harm of them icoud not hold from open ridiculous part of them,and whichmade a kind of Tragicomedy, where-in there was matter of Mirth aridMourning, was that the Lacquics ofthefe Courtiers, who in complianceto the King , had inrolld themfelvesin this Brotherhood of Penitents , hadthe infole
The history of the League. . o Religion Ann^t^-with the veil of Piety. Yet the Leaguers were not the one-ly men, who were icandalizd atthefe new forms of Procellions, whichare not much to the humour of theFrench. They were a 1 moll generallyblamd by all the World, and tholewho fpoke the lead harm of them icoud not hold from open ridiculous part of them,and whichmade a kind of Tragicomedy, where-in there was matter of Mirth aridMourning, was that the Lacquics ofthefe Courtiers, who in complianceto the King , had inrolld themfelvesin this Brotherhood of Penitents , hadthe infolence to mimick it, in derifionof their Mailers, even in the Court ofthe Louvre, making fhew of killingthemfelves luftily, as if they had beenFlageHants in earned. But the Kinghaving heard of it, before the FarceWas quite playd out * causd fourfcoreof them to be feizd , whom theydrew into the Cour desCuifines, wherethey were fo well belaboured withWhips, that they were left in a wayreprefetiting to the Life, that conditi- N on. The Hi/lory of the League. on into which the ancient Flagellantsput their bodies by their bloudy pe-nance. This, notwithftanding, hinderdnot others , from doing fome*what much more criminal, than thepoor Lacquies had attempted. Forfome malicious Wits there were a-mongft the Leaguers, who had theimpudence to expofe publiquely, aPidure where the King was feencloathd in his penitential Robes, pul-ling the Honey combs out of an Hive,faying thefe words, which were writ-ten over his Head, as the Motto ofthe Embleme, Sic eorum aculeos evzto,Tis thus I cover my felf from theirStings. As if they defird to be un-derftood in this witty, but very fpight-full expreffion, That as a man who in-tends to rob a Hive, muft cover hisFace and Hands to avoid Stingingfrom the Bees, who Aflbciate them-felves againfl the Thief: So the King,who drew the vital nourifhment of hisKingdom to laviih it prodigally onhis Minions, and who endeavoured toruine Religion, by the fecret intelli
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