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A11795	Sir VValter Ravvleighs ghost, or Englands forewarner Discouering a secret consultation, newly holden in the Court of Spaine. Together, with his tormenting of Count de Gondemar; and his strange affrightment, confession and publique recantation: laying open many treacheries intended for the subuersion of England.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 22085; ESTC S116986	20,870	44

euery symptome of death about him as a body trembling a stomach swelling fore-head turnd yellow eyes dead or sinking a mouth gaping what not that could say our Don is now vpon the pitch of departing They say that great Princes should neuer see the portraiture of feare but vpon their enemies backes sure I am Gondomar now sawe both feare and cowardise vpon his owne heart But why should I driue you off with more circumstance the nakednes of the truth is that as he gazed thus fearefully about there appeared or seemed to appeare before him the Ghost of Sir Walter Rawleigh Knight a Noble famous English-man and a renowned Souldier at this apparition the Earle fell downe flat to the earth vpon his face for backeward he durst not least he might giue an offence to his Surgion and yet the posture in which this Noble Gentleman appeared how euer fearefull to the guilte of Gondomars conscience yet it was amiable and louely to any pure and honest composition for he was armed at all peeces and those peeces of siluer which is the ensigne of innocence and harmlesnesse In his right hand he brandished his sword which was an instrument that had beene euer fatall to Spanish practises and had not the edge beene taken off by this Foxes subtilities I perswade my selfe by this time it had neere made a new conquest of the West Indies in his left hād be seemed to carry a cup of gold fild with blood which blood he sprinkled some vpon Gondomar and some vpon the ground vttering in an hollow and vnpleasant voyce these or the like words following Cresce Cruor Sanguis satietur sanguine Cresce quod Spero Sitio ah Sitio Sitio Gondomars attendants who had all this while a farre off beheld their Lords actions seeing him now falling downe in this trance came with all possible speede running vnto him but ere they could offer an hand to his assistance they might heare him vtter words of that strange nature and qualitie that their feares bridled their charities and they were rather willing to let him lye still bending their attētions to his words then by a too officious disturbance to break off any parte of that discourse which might either make for the bettering of the knowledge of the State or otherwise be applyed to future seruice at which these vnnaturall and abortiue accidents euer point therefore fixing their eyes and their eares constantly vpon him as he lay groueling on the earth they might heare these or like words much like vnto these proceed from his perplexed and amazed spirit Blessed soule Noble Sir Walter Rawleigh what haue I to doe with thy goodnesse or wherefore hast thou left the peacefulnesse of thy rest to torment and call me to account ere the prefixed and full day of my tryall be comed and that I must stand face to face with thee and a world of others before the greatest Tribunall I can confesse mine iniquities and that I haue beene to the King my master as Borgia Caesar was to Pope Alexander the sixt an instrument willing to take vpon me any or all manner of sinnes how odious or vild soeuer so I might but make Spaine looke fresh that those imputations which otherwise might haue drownd her might be but put into the Catalogue of my seruices though defame and curses were heaped vpon me in much greater quantities then Ossa Pelion or Pindus I doe confesse I haue beene the very Nose of the Spanish State through which hath beene voyded all the excrements both of the head and the whole body I haue beene a channell or a Common-shoare to the Church of Rome and what either Pope Priest Knaue or Iesuite could inuent I haue not left to put in practise I knew the odiousnesse of conspiracies and how hatefull they are both to God and man yet had I neuer the power to leaue conspiring I knew both that the Law of God and the law of Honour tyed Princes to detest conspiracies and had many times read ouer that notable Historie of Lewis the eleuenth and could my selfe repeate the noble and famous praises which all Europe gaue him for aduertising his Arch-enemie the Duke of Burgundie of an attempt against his person but what hath this wrought in me certes nothing but more flame and more fuell so long as my thoughts were busied with the studie and remembrance of an vniuersall Monarchie I confesse I haue many times said how euer I haue beleeued that those great ones which seeke to make away their enemies otherwise then by Iustice or the euent of warre shewes mind base and coward and that their soules are emptie of true courage fearing that which they should scorne I confesse I haue admired the goodnesse of Faritious who deliuered into Pirrhus hand the slaue that should haue poysoned him I haue made Tiberius Caesar a demy-god for answering a King of the Celtes which made him an offer to poyson Arminius That Rome did not vse to be reuenged of her enemies secretly and by deceite but openly and by armes but haue I pursued this honorable tracte haue any of my ghostly fathers the Iesuites or my masters the Inquisitors giuen examples for these restrictions no their lessons are of a cleane contrarie nature they say Flaminius was an honest man when hee made Prusias the King of Bithinia violate all the lawes of hospitalitie and vertue in the murther of Haniball but the whole Senate condemd the action for most odious accusd Flaminius of crueltie and coueteousnesse of vaine glory and of ostentation and questionlesse had they had any touche or feeling of Diuinitie or Christianitie they could not haue found any other ranke for him then that next vnto Iudas these faire paths I haue knowne but these I haue forsaken and as Flaminius was the cause of Hanibals death out of an ambitious emulation that he might in the Histories of succeeding times be made notorious and eminent for so soule an action So I must confesse I that haue the whole course of my life labourd continually in the deep myne of pollicie haue not spared any blood how excellent soeuer so I might be remembred in our after Annals for one of the chiefe master workemen which went to the building vp of the King my masters Vniuersal Monarchy And in this I must confesse most blessed soule that thy death thy vntimely to the Kingdom of Great Britane much too early death which with all violence with all the coniurations perswasions exāples that could tye bind together the hearts and bodies of Princes I did both plot pursue effect and consumate was one of the greatest masters peeces in which I euer triumphed I haue made my selfe fat with thy downefall and the blood which issued from thy wound was Nectar and Ambrosia to my soule for from thy ending I knew rightwell must proceed Spaines beginning for neuer could the Spanish King say as the French King did Iesuis Roy seul I am King

Pike bringing of Grosses bodie to bodie and hand to hand the exercise of euery priuate strength and the fortune of Battles Things which the English must of necessitie be exposed vnto Hoc raro aut nunquam And therefore my Lord I tell you I more quake when I see an old Irish Commander drilling an English Company who neuer beheld an enemie but he felt his Sword and knew his Target then when I see infinits of golden fellows teaching men onely dance to the tune of Posture or framing Chimeras in their braines whether the Pike and the Bowe or the Pike and Dragoone or Pike and long Pistoll be of greater importance But of these things wee shall haue a larger time to discourse thinke vpon it sufficeth me that I knowe my Royall Masters pleasure your honorable instructions all which I will studie to satisfie onely diuers things are through other imployment laid as it were aside from my memory not vtterly forgotten therefore I beseech I may haue the respite of some fewe houres to recken with my former knowledge `and so yeeld vp the whole summe of my duty and seruice To this Oliuares seemed exceeding willing so the Earle to make choise of his best time they departed one from the other Oliuares returning to satisfie the King Gondomar taking his Litter went backe to Madrill where what contention grew betwixt him his old acquainted mischieues how euery minute hee produced new and vnnaturall Cocks-egges brooded them from the heat of his malice hatche them with the deuilishnes of his Policie and brought forth Serpents able to poyson all Europe is a Discourse monstrous and almost inexpressable I will therefore omit this mutinie of his troubled thoughts and onely pitch vpon this one accident no lesse strange then memorable wherein as in a Mirror euery eye may behold the weakenesse of a guilty thought and how easily frailty is surprised and ouercome when it encounters with these two maine enemies of our blood Feare and Amazement It so fell out that the Morning before the Noone on which Gondomar was to appeare before the designed Commissioners partly to refresh his perturbed spirits with the pure Ayre and to recollect vnto himselfe all those thoughts and circumstances which might make a glorious passage for the huge and monstrous bodie of mischiefe where withall he was that day in labour he caused his attendants to bring him in his Litter to the Prada neare vnto the Cittie of Madrill being a place of recreation and pleasure for the Nobilitie and Gallantrie of Spaine not much vnlike to our new More field walkes neare to the Cittie of London onely that this is more priuate and reserued for as ours is common to all men of all sorts so is this Prada onely but for the King the Grandies of Spaine the Nobilitie and some Gentlemen of the vppermost or best qualitie After Gondomar had in this place of recreation taken a turne or two in his Litter whether hee found his ruminations disturbed with the vneasie pace of his Mules or that he had not elbow roome enough in his Litter to giue action and grace to many of those damnable thoughts which in that houre gaue him singular contentment for the Spaniard is not of our dull English qualitie to let his words passe from him as neglected strangers or thoughts out of the compasse of his dearest familiaritie but rather as deare children or choicest friends to lend them admiration with his eyes and hands to adorne them with expectation in the shrugge of his shoulders and with a thousand other minicke gestures to make a speech that is as triuiall and vnseasoned as folly it selfe to appeare as serious as if it were a Delphan Oracle vpon some one or other of these Spanish disgusts this Fox our Earle vnkennels himselfe and makes his seruants take him from his Litter then placing his chaire the true sworne brother or at least the nearest kinsman that might be to a closse-stoole vnder the shadowe of certaine trees in a walke more reserued then the rest he commanded his attendants to withdraw themselues and he had reason so to doe for two principall respects the first least his anticke postures mumps moes and Munkey-like wrye faces might drawe laughter or scorne from his vassals or lastly least the violence of his studie and meditations might make some words fall from him which he thought too precious for another mans bosome Being obeyed in all his commandements and seated thus alone by himselfe onely guarded by his two choise friends Malice and Mischiefe he had not cald vp many euill thoughts to appeare before him when on a sodaine according to the weakenesse of his apprehension there shined round about him a most glorious and extraordinary light which might be taken rather for fire or flaming then shine or glittering and this appeared so sodainely spred it selfe so largely and increased so violently that terror feare and amazement at one instant raised vpon the heart of the Earle and with their colde qualities did so stupifie dull and contracte all his spirits that as if he had seene Medusas head the poore Don was become altogether a peece of yce or marble he had no spirit to remember there were spirits his crossings and blessings his holy water and his Agnus Dei his Monks charmes and his Iesuites coniurations were all now turnd to quaking and trembling to staring starke madnes to gaping and groaning to wante of words through strife for words and indeed to what not that might shew the singularnesse of a perplexed astonishment his night-cap throwes his hat in the dust and his haire makes his cap fly into the aire like a feather he doth reuerence but sees no Saint would faine vtter either salutatiōs or curses but knows not by what name to cal his controller In the end starting and standing vpright seeming to see what he would not see or to finde out that with curiositie which he had rather loose with the best care of his spirits stradling like a Colosses as if he neither respected present perils nor feared those which were further off he lookt as if he would look through the pure ayre and though it haue truely no colour yet was his searche so diligent that he appeared to find out a constant complexion yet all was but his new feare which neither the manner of his life which had euer beene desperate subtile and reserued the condition of the times at that time and in that place free from perplexities and incumberance the state of his affaires rather rising then declining nor his present negotiations strong enough to haue encountred with any Goliahs amazement was able now to keepe constant any one ioynt about him I haue read that the Duke of Burgundie had like to haue dyed at the sight of the nine Worthies which a Magician had discouered but our Don Gondomar is like now to dye at the sight of nothing but aire and his owne imagination for he had