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A00505	A discouery of the great subtiltie and wonderful wisedome of the Italians whereby they beare sway ouer the most part of Christendome, and cunninglie behaue themselues to fetch the quintescence out of the peoples purses: discoursing at large the meanes, howe they prosecute and continue the same: and last of all, conuenient remedies to preuent all their pollicies herein.; Traité de la grande prudence et subtilité des Italiens. English	G. B. A. F.	1591 (1591)	STC 10638; ESTC S101803	74,257	108

passing the time in al voleptuous pleasure neuerthelesse they haue the most pretious and fayrest fléece of their conquestes reserued for them euen as well as if they themselues had bine the onely attempters and atchiuers of theise so hawty and dangerous exploytes But let vs looke a little yf there were euer any Kinges or Emperours who griped so easily whole countries and kingdomes from others as these doe Cyrus one of the first after hee had sustayned infinit turmoyles and trauels lost his life and had his head put in a bole of bloud to quench it so insaciable desire of blood Alexander the great found himselfe in oftē Ieoperdies to lose his also and was many times ouer matched and put to the worst Iulius and Augustus Caesars the most politicke and wisest heads of the world neuer made any conquest but by bloody fightes and victories exposing themselues to a thousand dangers both by sea and land But now the counsell of Rome taking there ease at thir owne home neuer approching any dāger for the matter haue inuested themselus with the Seigniorie and Domination of the greatest countres that euer haue bine conquested by the sword O subtill heades more subtil and cawtelous then subtiltie it selfe O that the high reache of thine inuentions are eleuated many degrées abone all other nations of the earth O that thou forséest long before the euent of things and canst choose the gaynest wayes to attayne thy desires few or none there be that can discouer thy meanning thou winnest first the heart of the greatest part of those the third of whose ruine thon meanest to spin afterwardes to vnderprop thy selfe against those that refuse thy Domination and will not become thy tributary vassals Thon wilt knowe all things and yet thou wilt kéepe other people in such ignorance that they shall know nothing thus thou vsest them at thy pleasure lest they should bewray thée in thy subtill shifts and beware of them hereafter This is they reason why a long time thou hast layd a blocke in the way that all matters of great consequence either concerning Religion or otherwise of any other great importance could not be registered but in thine old mother toung the Latine and sore against thy will it hath bine if the haue bine written or Printed in any other language because that it maketh a breach and sheweth a readie way for many to come to discouer the fertilitie of thy spirit abounding with so many subtilities fetches drifts and deceites Sée this is the cause also why thou wilt not permit the nations of the new conquested countries to vnderstand any thing concerning religion or matters of State that thou maist lead them by the noses and handle them as if they were so many bruit Animals that had neither wit nor reason Cap. 22. The causes why the mony that is transported to Rome is called by the name of Quintessence NOw we haue sufficiently spoken of the Dominations of the Romanes we will passe to the next point touching the extraction of the Quintessence of purses where ye must note that I take purses for the gold and siluer that is put in them speaking by a figuratiue spéech for I borrow these termes by a similitude for euen as in all liquers be it of Wines Oyles Plants Sulpheres Allums Antymoines and other Mynerals they who are skilled to draw out the tinctures or proprieties and can seperate them from the terrestriall and elementall bodie as could that great Philosopher Paracelsas Gesnerus and he that wrote the booke intitled le Medecin Liebant these haue the swéete fruition of the finest and most precious part of the bodies and naturall substances whereof the more celestiall and spirituall part is called Quintessence In like maner the Romanes hauing learned by incomparable skil and artistry to draw vnto themselues the most noble portable the most desirable and fairest coyne of all Christendome leauing the grosser and more terrestriall sort of baser monies to the Kings Princes and people of Christendome for their vsage appropriating to themselues the more spirituall and celestiall part which they can tell how to seperate from the temporall and earthly are verie well said to draw the Quintessence out of their purses Cap. 23. Of the excellencie of the mony which is carried to Rome out of other countries and how the Italians onely can fetch it thither TO shewe this by a familiar example regarde but a man that is of base condition who hath onely but fiftie or sixtie crownes of yéerly rent for a péece of land that he holdeth by féefarme lying within the demaines of some Baron or Countie he will make more account of that péece then of thrée or foure times so much lying among Pesants or that he gathereth among country Farmers bragging of it euerie where Now sée we some Bishop or poore Monke comming to bée Pope to haue rentes and tributes out of the kingdomes of Spaine Portugall Naples Sicily and Polonia and as hée was woont also out of the kingdome of England where as all Christian Kings and Princes take no tribute but for the most part of poore base and miserable people their subiects readier to take then to giue and this must they do by Taxes Subsidies Fiftéenes and such like paiments Herein we may sée the marueilous excellencie of the Popes tributes aboue those of all our Kings And to shew how the swéetest mony and most desired of all goeth still to the partes of Rome marke but the common fashion of euerie one that falleth into want of mony hée wisheth straight but to haue a hundred or two of crownes out of the Abbots or Bishops purse who is next to the place where he dwelleth as being such fellowes which haue least néed and yet haue the greatest plentie of all albeit they may wish for it long inough before they haue it to fill their purses because they can deuise no shift proper for the obteining of their desire although they be his verie next neighbours But the Italians they can worke such a way and handle their matters so well that they can scrape hooke to them a thousand crownes from one place and twise as many from another the distance of an hundreth leagues or more and the difficultie of passing ouer the mountaines cannot hinder them a iote Cap. 24. How that this mony when it is transported to Rome doth flie with an incredible swiftnesse YEt to prooue better that the name of Quintessence is properly attributed to the gold that they share from other people of Christendome I pray thée gentle Reader consider that the substance of Quintessence is of so celestiall a nature that if it be not verie closely kept and enclosed within some vessell for that purpose it léeseth straight the vertue and flieth away by vapours into the ayre so this gold which they fetch so farre to Rome hath such an excellencie more then all other money hath and hath both value vertue none like it that we

they haue giuen the name of Cardinals to the priestes of Rome granting the sonnes and brethren of kinges and christian princes to be honoured with the same title and estate suffering them also to remaine with their traine amongst them To the end that by these their creatures they might handle and turne the other at their deuotion make them arme their people and march against their neighbours at their pleasure and disarme againe and retire their forces when they should serue God Considering also that by such persons the Councels wils and determinations of kinges and christian princes to the which they are called should thereby be reuealed and manifested to them The quicke spirited Venetians hauing long time since discouered this pollicie being a people of Italie verie subtill and well aduised would neuer permit that any ecclesiasticall person should be admitted into their Councell because they had all taken the oth of the Pope of Rome Sée then it appeareth that the Romanes are priuie to all the counsels and enterpriser of the princes of the earth and of their highest and soueraine courtes they discouer all their actions as well as if they were present where on the contrary not one of these can come within them to vnder féele their consultations and dealinges they are so close and secrete whereby we may iudge clearely how farre they surpasse all other people in inuention and subtiltie of wit Cap. 19. The great force of Excommunication to put the kinges of the arth in feare to make them their tributaries and the magnanimitie of our kinges in France NOw I come to another deuice of theires by the which they haue so cunningly triumphed ouer the kinges of the earth neuer striking stroke for the matter and without any daunger at al and yet they haue brought them vnder as much or more then euer the auncient Romanes did by their Trophées and great victories to wit by excommunication with the which they so frighted them that if they had neuer so little displeased them by and by they were threatned with rebellion of their subiectes to haue their scepters taken from them and others to be inuested therewith incontinent hauing no way in the world to resist or saue them selues but in humbling them selues vnder the greatnesse of their Bishops yéelding them selues to be the Popes vassals or in paying them otherwise some great and intollerable tributes By this meanes they exacted from Iohn king of England that all his subiectes should pay him a penny sterling for fire for the murther by him committed on the person of Arthure Duke of Britanie his owne Nephew and heire which tribute the Italians mined from them more then the terme of trhée hundred yeares albeit the fault of this murther was not in the people therefore they payed this tribute verie vniustly and against all reason Yet they found meanes to augment this tribute verie much by the death of the Archbishop of Cauterburie who was executed by command of the king Yet had the Italians nothing to doe in the matter hauing no interest at all therein being neither his heires nor children Another tribute was exacted of the Polonians for the murther committed on the person of Stauislaus their Arch-bishop to which is paide for S. Peters tongue The Pope hauing thundered by excommunication against the duke of Venis he was faine to make him quiet to créepe on all foure like a Dog hauing a rope about his necke to be absolued The kinges of Nauarre and Granade for disobeying him were dispossessed of their kingdomes which were bestowed on Ferdinand king of Spaine yet the Italians did not forget themselues in this match as in déed they must nener for it was vpon this condition that they should afterwarde be held of their Pope of Rome Pope Nicholas excommunicated the kinges of Naples and Sicilie and making them turne ouer a new leafe inuested the Duke of Aniow brother to Lewes the ninth yet not forgetting him selfe as we saide before vpon condition to pay him eight thousand ounces of gold yearely reuenue He excommunicated also Philippes le Bel king of France because hee would not hold his kingdom of him as his vassall but he being discended of the race of Hue le grand Countie of Paris quaked not a whit at the matter but with a magnanimious courage proper to the kinges of this race constantly resisted and neuer trembled at the hearing thereof as other christian kinges did whose great magnanimitie hath béene continued by his successours This was the cause that the Italian Councell laide their heades together to doe their vttermost to ruine this Monarchy by forraine forces making it to bee assailed on euerie side and hauing set the Armies of the Empire of Spaine and England to thrust this race out of their kingdom which séemed to them inuincible But perceiuing all that tooke not effect as they did wish they haue filled the State full of ciuill warres thereby to weaken and diminish the force of this kingdome and to make way to inuest some other with y e Crowne who should thinke him selfe borne vnder an happie planet and greatly beholding to them to come by it so easily yéelding him selfe therefore there vassall and homager hauing purloyned a kingdome by there meanes Who also would be easily entreated to let slip the accords confirmed betwéene our kings and the popes for the priuiledges and liberties of the French Churches and touching the presentations of Benefices reserned to the Nobilitie and other patrones of the Layty onely translating them ouer wholy to the Pope and so to enrich more and more the citie of Rome And by this meane we should sée this flourishing kingdom parted as a bootie pray betwéene the Italian kéeping for his part the spirituall and his confederates who shoulde haue the temporall for their shares Cap. 20. That it is a verie false pretext that they take to refuse the King for his religion sake seeing they haue a spite at all his race and wish them no more well although they were neuer so great catholikes THat this hath béene the drift of the Italians the proofe is most manifest in this that although Charles the ninth and Henrie the third of this name his brother were the most religious obseruers of the ceremonies of the church of Rome and more precise then any kinges that had béene before them sparing nothing to ruine and rout out the religion of the protestant Huguenots not so much as their owne persons life treasure nor liuings nor their faith and honour beside which is more Yet for all that could they neuer winne the fauour and good will of the Italians nothing neare other princes who had wrought little in comparison of them And what was the cause hereof but that the Italians foresaw that a race of auncient and so long time inuested with the Crowne of France would neuer abide that they should haue anie rule or prerogatiue ouer them nor in no waies permit that the liberties and