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A07892	A breefe aunswer made vnto two seditious pamphlets, the one printed in French, and the other in English Contayning a defence of Edmund Campion and his complices, their moste horrible and vnnaturall treasons, against her Maiestie and the realme. By A.M.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18262; ESTC S112998	24,614	78

seruants so Happy are we that haue such comfort woon curssed are they that thought to work vs woe Bounden we be to giue eternall prayse To Iesus name who did such refuge rayse FINIS ¶ An other vpon the same WHat iron hart that would not melt in woe what stéele or stoone could kéepe him drie from teares To sée a Subiect fall from duetie so And arme him selfe vnto his Coūtries feares In their thrée deaths y e standers by might sée The ende of hatred and disloyaltie England may mone a Subiect erred so Without respect of God and Natures lawe And we our selues may show some signe of woe That treason should our brother frō vs draw That Antichrist should gain our Cāpiōs hart And make him Soldier to his coūtries smart The skowling skies did storme and puffe apace they could not beare y e wrōg y t malice wrought The Sun drew in his goldē shining face y e moistned clowds shed brinish teares w t thought The riuer Thames against his course would rū To count the treasōs Cāpion would haue doon Nature her selfe with teares bedewd her face Duetie in countenaunce looked pale and wan Shée for to think her worke should her disgrace He to be wanting in an English man Euen Antichriste the eldest childe of hell Began to blush and thought he did not well For loe beholde when Campion made his end His hardned hart refused soueraigne grace His owne reproche did so his minde offend That treason did appeare vpon his face An yrksome spectacle was presented then In sight of God of Angels Saints and men The heauens did cléere y e Sun like gold did shine The Clowdes were drie the fearfull Riuer ran Nature and Vertue wipte their watred eyne To sée that Iustice cut off such a man Men Angels Saints and all that saw him die Gaue thankes to God in heauenly melodie They saw Peruersenes had withdrawn his minde And Treason quite supplanted Dueties awe Presumptuous thoughts did hūble Patience blind There was no place for Graces well they sawe His falsehood treasons and impietie With blame and shame did ende in infamie By whose example euerie Subiect maye Be warned howe they fall in such abuse And all their thoughts on loyaltie to staye Least they likewise doo taste like sharpe refuse For Honour dooth exalt the Subiect iust When Horrour throwes y e Traitour in y e dust Reioyce be glad triumph sing Himnes of ioy Campion Sherwin Brian haue their due They are supprest that sought our great annoy I hope their fellowes shortly shall ensue For faithfull minds doo lothe y t they should liue Who to their Countrey doo dishonour giue FINIS A Dialogue betweene a Christian and Consolation Christian speaketh first IS chaste Susanna in the Iudges handes Is Daniell left vnto the Lions iawes Doo Subiects breake bothe God Natures bādes And Enuie séeke to put downe Peace her lawes Dooth perfect awe and true Religion fayle Then may I feare that falsehood will preuayle Consolation No Susans foes the Lord will cut in twaine and stop the mouthes of Danielles enimies Reioyce therfore thou hast a noble trayne Armde by the Lord in most triumphant wise Whose life and death thy quarrell will begin To vanquish falsehood Sathan hell and sinne Beholde of late a Champion of their traine Confuted foyled yea and vanquished With those who did like tretcheries maintaine In their deuises they soone perished Lament not then for Iustice holds y e swoord Who to them all will like desert affoord Christian. Alas I mourne and sit with sighing minde To sée my natiue Countrey men rebell Against the onely Phaenix of her kinde Who dooth in grace and goodnesse all excell And could proud Cāpion thinke to worke her woe O Lord cōfoūd them all y t séeke it so What were his giftes if we recount ech one A pregnaunt wit I graunt to tretcherie A bad Diuine seeking promotion A lustie man detesting chastitie A gracelesse impe sprung vp of basest kinde A simple man to beare a loftie minde His pithie wisedome style and eloquence Comparde with those of fame and dignitie Dooth open plaine his fréends insipience His confutation prooues it woorthilie All the reportes whereby his fame began Were neuer found to harbour in the man Then boast no farder of his dreadlesse minde Which rack nor roape could alter as you say Recount his treasons cruell and vnkinde And then his prayse will soone be layd away Your praise his pōpe nor al you haue in store Can make the man the woorthier ere y e more Consolation Tis true in déede their follie is in sight vnto their shame that take like thing in hand We néeds must win our Lord himself doth fight The Cananites shalbe expulst the Land Yea all the déedes of such vngodly men Shalbe confounded nere to rise agen Campion his quarters on the gates doo showe His treason doctrine and his lyfe too yll His head set vp dooth daylie call for moe Of those that leane vnto like wicked wyll Well may they flaunt florish for a space But trueth in ende their dealinges will disgrace Not hell it selfe our iniurie can frame But we shall prosper as the sprouting Baye God can of stones rayse séede to Abraham He is our hope and he wyll helpe vs aye Christian. Fiat voluntas Dei then saye I I trust in God whether I liue or die FINIS The Complaint of a Christion remembring the vnnaturall treasons of Edmund Campion and his Confederates O God from sacred throne beholde our secrete sorrowes héere Regard with grace our helplesse grace amend our mournfull chéere Thy Creatures whome thou hast appoint to liue in Princesse awe Forsake their duetie looue and feare and spurne at dueties lawe Alas I rue to thinke vppon their factes so lately scand Howe they did séeke their Princesse death and spoyle of natiue Land Thy Treasons Campion is bewaylde of many farre and néere To thinke what vnkinde actions thou wouldest haue perfourmed héere Bohemia Land may well reioyce Rodulphus Court be glad That thou to recompence thy paine such due desart hast had Germania maye leaue off to mourne yea Spayne to muse and Italie And Fraunce may rent that false report of thy surmised Tragedie They that would make these men to séeme as not her Highnesse foes O Lorde it is a world to sée the fayned fraude of those For when as Campion had presumde to challenge a dispute His craftie cloake was soone pulde off Learning did him confute Albeit his cauilles skornes and coyle he bare with shamelesse face Yet trueth pulde off his craftie vayle and shewed his wretched case So that although they did withstand eche cause of right and reason Yet Iustice soone found out the depth of their most wicked treason Iustice perceiu'd how vnder cloake of their Religion They comprehended trayterous guile and false sedition Iustice perceyued howe they sought within their natiue Soyle To mooue rebellion and debate to worke our secrete spoyle Iustice perceyued howe the Pope

so His triumphe Englands ruine and decay The Pope his Captaine thirsting for it aye From ease to paine from honour to disgrace From looue to hate to daunger béeing well Thus dyd he fall flying his natiue place and Countrey where by duty he should dwell Our no Apostle comming to restore The bloody sway was sometime héere before His natures flowers were mixt with hūny gall His lewd behauiour enimie to skill A climing minde reiecting wisedomes call A sugred tongue to shrowde a vicious will A Saintlyke face yet such a deuillish hart As sparde no trauaile for his coūtries smart With tongue and pen the trueth he did suppres Stopping the way that Christians did desire Which pleased God for his great wickednes To stay his race wherein he dyd aspire Then his behauiour witnessed the more What he was then as also long before His fare was good yet he a scornefull cheare His prison fayre yet he a froward minde His councell good yet deafned was his eare Perswasions large he obstinate and blinde Oh stubborne mā oh minde nature straūge Whome wisdom pittie grace nor looue could chaunge After great pause they brought him to dispute With Bookes as many as he could demaund His chéefest cause they quickly did confute His proofe layd downe reprooued out of hand So that the simplest present there could say That Campions cause did beare the shame away After his foyles so often to his face It was thought good Iustice his déedes should trie Upon appearaunce of so fowle a case Nature her selfe wild doome deseruedlie Traitour he was by prooues sufficient foūd The Iewrie sawe his Treasons so abound Her Maiestie to be depriu'd of lyfe A forraine power to enter in our Land Secrete rebellion must at home be rife Seducing Préests receiu'd that charge in hād All this was cloaked with Religious showe But Iustice tried and found it was not so Then rightfull doome bequeathed them to dye Whose treasons put her Maiestie in feare Out on the fiend whose mallice wrought so slie Hath wun a number part with him to beare But thinketh he his enuie can preuaile No little Dauid did the Giaunt quaile My gratious Princesse sée your Subiects mone Such secret foes among them should be found Who serue your Grace in duety euery one though treasō séek to make their harts vnsoūd The bloody woolf prayes on y e harmles shéepe So treason séekes in loyall harts to créepe England looke vp thy Children doo rebell Unreuerent actes haue entred in their minde The subiect séekes his rightfull Prince to quell Yea to his natiue Countrey prooues vnkinde Campiō who somtime y u didst swéetly sourse Prepares his venome to destroy his Nourse Eliot reioyce that God prolonged thée To take the man who meant vs all such yll As for thy slaunders take them patiently Enuie drawes blood and yet hée can not kyll Those who by words he séemde to put in feare Haue washt their hāds in iudgement soūd and cleare My selfe as witnesse Sled and all the rest who had their treasons noted in our Booke Account our selues of God most highly blest who gaue vs grace to such attempts to looke And hauing giuen our witnes sound plaine We feare not mallice nor his spightful train The well aduised Iewrie on this cause Who with discretion pondred euerie thing Behelde their treasons with such héedfull pause That they foūd out the depth of Enuies sting Whereby they saw the stirrers of this strife Were farre vnwoorthy any longer life Yea Elderton dooth deskant in his rime The high offences of such gracelesse men Which causeth him to yrke at euerie crime And gainst their treasons to prouide his pen. Yet not without wisedome and modestie To warne all other that liue wickedlie Remember you that would oppresse the cause Our Church is Christes his honour cānot die Though hell him selfe reuest his griefly iawes And ioyne in league with treason poperie Though craft deuise and cruel rage oppresse Christe will his chosen styll in safetie blesse You thought perhaps presūptious Cāpiō could disseuer those whom Christ hath ioynd in one And that our gratious louing shéepheard would Before the woolfe forsake his flock alone No he preserues his Shéepe for greater good And drownes y e rauener in his enuious blood We knowe that Campion liuing did intreate The Subiect from his vowde humilitie Nowe therefore shame his dealings dooth repeate Throughout the world to his great infamie The skies thēselues with lowring angry face Adiudge his déedes woorthy of all disgrace All Europe woonders at this shamelesse man England is fild with rumor of his race London must néedes for it was present than whē Iustice did thrée Traiterous minds deface The stréets y e stones y e steps they halde thē by Pronounst these Traitours woorthy for to die The Tower sayeth he Treason did defend The Barre beares witnesse of his guilty minde Tiborne dooth tell he made a Traitours ende On euery gate example we may finde In vaine they work to laude him w t such fame For heauen earth beares witnes of his shame The rightful sentence giuen of him héere Will charge his conscience in the time to come Although they say he is excused there And shall not taste Gods iudgemēt his doome Saint Paul dooth say in reuerence of y e highest We all shall come before the seate of Christ. There to make aunswer vnto euerie thing And to receyue reward accordinglie If well the Cittie of our heauenlie king Shall recompence our former miserie Where we with Angels voice continuallie Shall laude the gaine we haue so happilie Then blinded mallice shall perceyue and sée His owne deuises Author of his rueth And how true Subiects haue felicitie In recompence of their assured trueth The one condemnd for his disloyaltie The other crownd for his fidelitie Can Treason then preuent our happy peace Or blustring winds assayle our sprouting Trée No soueraine Faith sends down her due encrease And shroudes her Plant in swéete tranquilitie So that the foe presuming on his might Is forste to know Faith can preuent him quite Let vs not feare a mortall Tirant then Séeing Faith Trueth dooth eleuate our harts God hath reserued one to conquer ten Let vs then learne to play true Christiās parts The head of him that sought our Coūtries wo Dooth witnesse shame to all that seeke it so His youth dooth byd vs bannish filthy pride his fleeting hēce to serue our Prince in trueth His lew● profession dooth lay open wide To fall from God how gréeuous is the rueth His home returne his Challenge deface Saith Subiects keep true harts in euery place His Hardle drawes his sect vnto like ende His spéeches there vnfolde their tretcherie His death dooth say Who so his life dooth spēd In faith and trueth reapes ioy eternallie His first and last and all agrée in one Ther's none to helpe vs but our God alone Blessed be God who cut him off so soone Thāked be Christ which blest his