&amp;gt;86 OBSERVATIONS ON A LIBEL. 



be transported with passion, than to make moderate 

 and just resolutions in the beginnings. 



But now if a man look on the other part, it will 

 appear that, rather, as it is to be thought, by the 

 solicitation of traitorous subjects, which is the only 

 poison and corruption of all honourable war between 

 foreigners, or by the presumption of his agents and 

 ministers, than by the proper inclination of that 

 king, there hath been, if not plotted and practised, 

 yet at the least comforted, conspiracies against her 

 majesty s sacred person ; which nevertheless God s 

 goodness hath used and turned, to shew by such 

 miraculous discoveries into how near and precious 

 care and custody it hath pleased him to receive her 

 majesty s life and preservation. But in the other 

 point it is strange what a number of libellous and 

 defamatory books and writings, and in what variety, 

 with what art and cunning handled, have been 

 allowed to pass through the world in all languages 

 against her majesty and her government ; sometimes 

 pretending the gravity and authority of church 

 stories to move belief; sometimes formed into re 

 monstrances and advertisements of estate to move 

 regard ; sometimes presented as it were in .tragedies 

 of the persecutions of catholics to move pity ; some 

 times contrived into pleasant pasquils and satires to 

 move sport : so as there is no shape whereinto these 

 fellows have not transformed themselves ; nor no 

 humour nor affection in the mind of man to which 

 they have not applied themselves ; thereby to in- 



