The history of the League. . hat then he had no other way to take, ^^^but to retire into Germany with whatfpeed hecoud. But the Queen Mother,who held a Correipondence at that timewith the Gu/fes^and that fatal love whichthe King had to a lazy quiet life, whichhe cou d not quit without extreme re-pugnance, and which immediatelyreplung d him into his pleafant dreams,wherein he feemd to be enchanted,renderd fruitlefs fo wholfome an ad-vice. Infomuch that he fatisfied him-felf with snaking a feeble and timo-rous Declaration, wherein anfweringthe Confpiratours i5 a kind of a re-fpedfull way, as if
The history of the League. . hat then he had no other way to take, ^^^but to retire into Germany with whatfpeed hecoud. But the Queen Mother,who held a Correipondence at that timewith the Gu/fes^and that fatal love whichthe King had to a lazy quiet life, whichhe cou d not quit without extreme re-pugnance, and which immediatelyreplung d him into his pleafant dreams,wherein he feemd to be enchanted,renderd fruitlefs fo wholfome an ad-vice. Infomuch that he fatisfied him-felf with snaking a feeble and timo-rous Declaration, wherein anfweringthe Confpiratours i5 a kind of a re-fpedfull way, as if he feard to givethem any manner of offence, he feemdrather to plead his Innocence beforehis Judges, than to fpeak awfully tohis Rebels like a King; and in the meantime gave leifure to the Duke otGuifeto form a Body of Ten or twelve thou-fand Foot, and about Twelve hundredHorfe. The King of Navarre, at whom theLeaguers particularly amid, did in-deed make his Declaration, which headdrefsd to the King, and to all theI 3 PriEsei. The Hiftory of the League. Princes and Potentates of Chriflen-* dom ; but he made it in a manner,which was worthy of the greatnefs ofhis courage, by the mafculine andeloquent Pen of Du Plejfis Mornay ;who particularly underftood how toferve his Mafler according to his Ge-nius. For, after having generoufly ref u»ted the calumnies, with which the Facti-ous charged him, he made proteftationthat he was no wTays an Enemy to theC a tholiques,nor to their Religion,w7hichhe was moil ready to embrace, when-foever he ihoud be inftru&ed byanother method, than what was usdto him after St. Bartholomew, by hol-ding the Dagger to his Throat, Afterwhich, he deciard, that aiithofe whohad the malice, or the impudence,to fay that he was an Enemy to Reli-gioii and to the State, and that he de-li gnd to opprefs either of them, byan imaginary League, which was fall-!y fupposd to have been made to thatintent at Madgburg, withrefpecft tothe Kings Honour , Eyed in theirthroats, a
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