"But he hath not used his patron Duke much better; for he hath put
him under a most dismal and unfortunate character of a successor,
excluded from the crown by act of state for his religion, who fought
his way to the crown, changed his religion, and died by the hand of
a Roman assassinate.
"It is enough to make his great duke's courage quail, to find
himself under such an unlucky and disastrous representation, and
thus personated; besides, he hath offered a justification of an act
of exclusion against a popish successor, in a Protestant kingdom, by
remembering what was done against the king of Navarre.
"The Popish religion, in France, did, _de facto,_ by act of state,
exclude a Protestant prince, who is under no obligation, from his
religion, to destroy his Popish subjects.
"Though a Popish prince is, to destroy his Protestant subjects.
"A Popish prince, to a Protestant kingdom, without more, must be the
most insufferable tyrant, and exceed the character that any story
can furnish for that sort of monster: And yet all the while to
himself a religious and an applauded prince; discharged from the
tortures that ordinarily tear and rend the hearts of the most cruel
princes, and make them as uneasy to themselves as they are to their
subjects, and sometimes prevail so far as to lay some restraints
upon their wicked minds.
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