Charles IX

Similarly, a few years before, Lorenzo de’ Medici, duke of Urbino, father of the Queen, the King’s mother, at the siege of Mondolfo, a town under imperial vicarship in Italy, spotted a cannon aimed at him being fired and managed to throw himself on the ground.

) were at Rouen at the time that the late King Charles IX was there.

They said, that in the first place they thought it very strange, that so many tall men wearing beards, strong, and well armed, who were about the king (’tis like they meant the Swiss of the guard), should submit to obey a child, and that they did not rather choose out one among themselves to command.

As to Seneca, among a million of little pamphlets that those of the so-called reformed religion disperse abroad for the defense of their cause (and which sometimes proceed from so good a hand, that ’tis pity his pen is not employed in a better subject), I have formerly seen one, that to make up the parallel he would fain find out betwixt the government of our late poor King Charles IX and that of Nero, compares the late Cardinal of Lorraine with Seneca;