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A73138
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Robert Earle of Essex his ghost, sent from Elizian to the nobility, gentry, and communaltie of England.
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Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.
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happy Reigne of that Virgin Empresse Queene Elizabeth my gracious Soueraigne The lamentable Relation whereof if you would particularly know I wish you haue recourse vnto the sayd Booke And of their cruelties and Tyrannies exercised by their Arch-Tyrannous Generall Duke D' Alva towards the Netherlanders if you know them not looke but into their Chronicles And for their plots and practises towards England before my time looke but into your owne Chronicles But before I come to my Catalogue I must commend vnto your consideration When I was but an Infant there came a certaine Bull from Pius Quintus that impious Pope of Rome against Queene Elizabeth The Copy of which Bull is also to be seene in your Chronicles But the Copy of her Sacred Maiesties Answere vnto the sayd Bull because you haue not elsewhere seene it as most Worthy your reading and obseruation I here insert it The Lord that Reignes on high in Heauens Throne Doth Kingdomes rule below 't is He alone That Earth doth gouerne with high thundring might And moderates the staffe of Kingdomes right 'T is H◠that guides with his Almighty Name The wheele of all this Vniversall frame 'T is He that Kings annointed and Elect And sacred Captaines strongly will protect Why should this Bull-head Bishop therefore full Of rage against me roare with Basan Bull To plucke me from my Sacred Seate and Throne T' out root the Plant which Christ himselfe hath sowne Why doth this Pius seeke with impious guilt To pull downe that which God himselfe hath built Christ me annointed and annoint I hope Will keepe me from the jawes of this proud Pope His powerfull Hand hath kept me yet from harme Nor will the Lord make short his out-stretcht Arme. If God be on my side why doth this Popish wonder Seeke to affright me with his beastly Thunder Why doth this new-borne Gyant seeke to ride Aboue the Clouds with his prodigious pride Gainst Heauen why doth this Nimrod make new warrs And with Iehovah breed these impious jarrs Pius this Anchor of thy Peters bote Is broake thy hope and faith doth floate Yee An Exhortation to other Princes in whose hands the Almighty God ordaines To put the peoples and the Kingdomes reines Do not your selues and people bring Vnder the yoake of this vile borbarous King Away with him that doth for Scepter fight And royall Crowne that is not Bishops right What must the Pope so many States deuoure It s not Priests part to vse the Carnall powre To make these madding Buls fits not their names And set on fire these hote rebellious flames Their Sword the Word should be the words interpretation Their Key should be this is the foundation Whereon Christs Saints do fight such men Christs sword do weare Such do his holy keyes and Standard beare Oh Kings the fathers blessed sonne then kisse Psalme 2. The King of Kings the Head of Heads he is Who serues not him not reignes a shadow vaine And Cyphar is learne this all by my Reigne He 'le neuer faile you whom a woman bore Psalme 24. Away with Popes to them set ope the doore Set wide the Gate shut forth these new made Kings Let in the Lord which with him Iustice brings Deere England mine owne Bowels Daughter Mother Feare not this bulling Pious or such other What haue I done that Thou shouldst angry be Oh England cause th' art happy hatest thou me Cause God by me so many gifts hath giuen And I these gifts on earth God loath'd in Heauen Why do my English loue the Egyptian Pot Why lookes on Sodome backe the wife of Lot Whiles that my Sister was at Romish call There was a Stage and Scoene most Tragicall Religion was corrupted all your Rite Diuine was stain'd Faith wrapt in errors night Home jarrs and strange my Muse now shall not show Euen I my selfe dranke cupps of Gall with you Now Manna raines from Heauen Heauenly food Now floweth Peace and Ioy and euery Good Hee that feedes Rauens makes my Lillyes flourish Haires of my Head and Diadem doth nourish Iuda's strong Lyon keepes our Lyons nest The Romish Leo's but a fearefull Breast Feare yee the Ensignes of a Mitred Priest Can we with Sword Keys Club be ere opprest Rather thanke Christ pray him that he all euill He would resist all Ambushes of th'Deuill Double your prayers to Christ that he would deigne T' assure your good and let no Rhombus reigne Double your prayers for Church purest Faith Powre forth your prayers for Queene Elizabeth I haue inserted this answere of Queene Elizabeth not onely for the worth of it though I hold it worthy to be written in Letters of Gold nor will I say that Philip King of Spaine was an instigastour of Pius Pope of Rome to send that cursed Bull But it was plaine and more then probable that that Bull was the ground which set on fire the hearts of her Popish Romish-Subjects to rise in Rebellion against her and sure I am that Spaine soone backed them and subborned them in their Rebellion and cruell practises against her Sacred Person and flourishing State Witnesse the Bead-roll of their cruell Practises here following In the yeare of our Blessed Sauiour 1583. and 25. of Queene Elizabeth her Reigne Francis Throkmorton being sollicited by Bernardine Mendoza the then Spanish Embassador Lieger lying in Londō vndertook a most dangerous designe against his Dread Soueraigne and Natiue Country which was to bring in a Forraine Spanish Army and to alter Religion with alienation of the Crowne and State And for the charges of which attempt the sayd Mendoza promised that the King his Maister would beare halfe the charge of the Enterprize In the next yeare viz. 1584. William Parry as he named himselfe being instigated by Benedicto Palmio Christofero de Salazar Secretary to the Catholicke King Philip vndertooke to murther her Sacred Maiesty and one Haniball Codreto a Spanish Priest approued the same Diabolicall Designe In the yeare 1586. Babington and Ballard and their fellowes complotted with the aforesayd Mendoza to betray the Land to a Spanish Invasion Which being discouered they enter into a new resolution to kill the Queene Whereof they were preuented But Phillip of Spaine seeing that all former attempts fayled In the yeare 1588. hee set forwards his long premeditated Invasion of England sending a mighty Armado which hee tearmed the Invinsible Nauy meaning then as it were to deuoure England at a Bit But hee found so many bones in the Bit that in attempting to swallow it they stucke so fast in his throate that he was the worse for it euery day of his life after This great noble and invincible Army as Pope Sixtus termed it and Terrour of Europe as the Papals both terme it and tooke it to be consisting of 134. Sayle of lofty Towring Ships besides Gallies Galliasses and Gallions threatning as it were the Heauens and spreading in the Wind their Flaggs Streamers and Ensignes seemed to darken euen the