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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00220	A bloodie tragedie, or Romish maske. Acted by fiue Iesuites, and sixteene young Germaine maides. Presented in a church (within the dukedome of Bauaria) at the high altar, in the citie of Miniken in Germanie, in March . 1607. / Translated out of the High-Dutch, and printed at Nuremberg by Iohn Lankenberger.		1607 (1607)	STC 14526.5; ESTC S93353	11,019	28

A BLOODY Tragedie OR Romish Maske Acted by fiue Iesuites and sixteene young Germaine Maides Presented in a Church within the Dukedome of Bauaria at the high Altar in the Citie of Miniken in Germanie in March 1607. Translated out of the High-Dutch and Printed at Noremberg by Iohn Lankenberger LONDON Printed for E. E. and are to be sold at the little shop at the Exchange 1607. TO THE Reader THe Circle of the yeare is closed vp with Christmas to celebrate vvhich time onely w●…h more magnificence and solemnitie It is a custome in the Courts of Kings to make preparation for Maskes Playes and Reuolts But the Jesuites who are the only Reuellers in the Court of Rome disdaining to be tied to order time or ceremonie haue taken vpō them to play the Lordes of Misse-rule in the very midst of this yeare 1607. as if it had bin their yeare of Iubile At Lyons in Fraunce did they in person Act a Play at Min●ken in G●…many did they set forth a Maske The Play was full of State the Maske full of Sratagemes In the Play a newe God-amightie had a part in the Maske the old Diuell was a Torch-bearer The Play was stuft with blasphemy irreligion scandall the Maske was apparrelled with suites of Lust prophanation bloud and Treason Thunder claps from heauen strucke the Players yet the Iesuites called them Plaudities A common Hangman desrobed the Masquers and discouered them to bee diuells yet the Iesuites say they are Saints Since then God himselfe brands this Iesuited flocke with letters of infamie to shew it is none of his and sincs as being giuen ouer they set markes on their owne forebeads to make them odious and ridiculous to the world vvho vvould not detest their pride vvho does not euen at hand see their dovvnefall The scarlet-coloured beast of Rome hath had many of her heads strucke off shee hath walked vpon a number offeete vvhich gaue her strength to tread vpon the neckes of Kinges but a number of those feete are fallen lame many haue beene cut off and those vpon vvhich shee novv stands are but vveake for your Francistan Dominicans Benedictines Mendicants Jacobines and many a rabbie more of the Romish Armie vvere nor long since the very sinevves to the legs of that Papall Monster and the ribs to her body but novv like leaues shaken by the breath of Autume hang they quiuering and haue but little hold else lye they scattered on the earth the tree from vvhich they drop tottering euery day more and more and ready with her fall to bruise them for euer The Iesuites onlie are the Pillers against which shee leanes if they shrink shee shrinkes for euer And that their great sudden swelling vp in the Romaine Sea shall be but as bubbles in a Riuer who doth not see it who doth not laugh at it France did of late driue them out of her dominions yet like the Horse of Troy were they pulled in againe and she feares alreadie they will proue as fatall Italia knovves them to be Machiauels Germany to be monsters Spaine to be diuels Portugal knovves thē to be bloudily ambitious vvitnesse Sebastian vpon vvhom they vvould haue strangly vvrought Ireland knovves them to be seditious Scotland knovves them to be treacherous England knovves them to be Iesuiets All coūtries you see haue taken their pictures yet because al countries haue not seene them in all their true collours I present to the vvhole vvorld this one Protraiture more vvhich you may behold a far off because it is penciled dovvne in bloud Vale A MASKE OF FIVE Iesuites THe Nest of Iesuites like a bed of Serpents that when their egges are hatched are full of nothing but poison is now opened to the eyes of the world and their venimous tallants haue drawne bl●…d almost of all the Kingdomes in Christendome Their feathers which at the first comming forth were thin as not able to couer their backes weake and sickely as not ●f force to make them flie are now spread into large mightie and dreadfull wings so that they dare presume to kéepe flight with the Falcon and to pearch side by side with the princely Eagle the beating of their pinneons in the ayre is so lofty and so lewd that it affcighteth all Nations who know not of what breeding they are But God who with a spurne of his foote can at his pleasure breake the neckes of proud and ambitious climbers hath a little of late shaken them the wings of their insolence hath hee plucked and will in time turne them out naked and discouer their vilenesse This Iniesuated Fratry thinke themselues worthy to be companions with Kings they looke to bee Lordes ouer Cities to controle States with the bending of their browes to bee as Gods Porters vpon earth carrying in their hands the keyes of heauen and to let in none but whom they shall like But listen vnto mee O you people of the Germaine Empire and all the Nations vpon earth beside listen vnto mee and I will in few words giue you the pedegrée of these Iesuiticall Aspirers that comparing the basenesse of their birth with their present bearing themselues and their brauings because they serue in chiefe place vnder the Romaine Empire you may take héede how you let such dangerous enemies into your gates or lay such snakes in your warme bosomes Vnderstand therefore that Ignatius Layola a Spaniard borne in Biscay was the father and first founder of them This Layolo being befiedged among others by the French happened in an assault to be wounded in the thigh with a Gunne and so grieuously to bee hurt in the other that at length hee was taken prisoner But being not worth the kéeping for hee had neither any command among the Spaniards hee was of no birth that might challenge a ransome neither had hee any friends that were able or willing to lay downe money to redéeme him he was in the end therefore set frée for nothing Being then as he was lame and vnfit for the warres he thought himselfe a man not fit for the world and thereupon making away all the goods and wealth which hee had he betooke himselfe to the Church of our Ladie in Mount Serrat resoluing there to mortifie the flesh and to dedicate the remainder of his daies to the seruice of deuotion Whilst thus he continued it is said that hee had a vision forsooth of a strange light which descended from heauen and shonevpon him wrapt with which apparition hee vowed to make a pilgrimage to Ierusalem and to kisse the Sepulchre of Christ Hée did so and then returned into Spaine where hee gaue himselfe being but young to his booke knowing that the authoritie of learning would carry him out in the enterprise which in his minde he had to himselfe purposed From Spaine he came into France and studied ten yeares in Paris in which space hee got companions and fellowes who trauailed with him backe againe into his owne Country from whence hee went