the matter himself he was contented to be the stock whereon Wolsey should be graffed whom he made heir to his favour commending him to King Henrie the seventh for one fit to serve a King and command others And hereupon he was entertained at Court Soon after when Henrie his sonne came to the Crown Wolsey quickly found the length of his foot and fitted him with an easie shoe He perswaded him that it was good accepting of pleasure whilest youth tender'd it let him follow his sports whilest Wolsey would undertake every night briefly to represent unto him all matters of moment which had passed the Counsell-table For Princes are to take State-affairs not in the masse and whole bulk of them but onely the spirits thereof skilfully extracted And hereupon the King referred all matters to Wolsey's managing on whom he conferr'd the Bishopricks of Duresme Winchester and York with some other spirituall promotions Nothing now hindred Wolsey's prospect to overlook the whole Court but the head of Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham who was high in birth honour and estate For as for Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk he stood not in Wolsey's way but rather besides then against him Brandon being the Kings companion in pleasures Wolsey his counsellour in policy Brandon Favourite to Henrie Wolsey to the King Wolsey takes this Buckingham to task who otherwise a brave Gentleman was proud and popular and that tower is easily undermin'd whose foundation is hollow His own folly with Wolsey's malice overthrew him Vainglory ever lyeth at an open guard and giveth much advantage of play to her enemies The Duke is condemned of high treason though rather corrivall with the King for his Clothes then his Crown being excessively brave in apparell The ax that kills Buckingham frights all others who turn contesting into complying with our Archbishop now Cardinall Legate à latere and Lord-Chancellour All the Judges stood at the barre of his devotion His displeasure more feared then the Kings whose anger though violent was placable the Cardinalls of lesse furie but more malice yet in matters of Judicature he behaved himself commendably I heare no widows sighes nor see orphans tears in our Chronicles caused by him sure in such cases wherein his private ends made him not a party he was an excellent Justicer as being too proud to be bribed and too strong to be overborn Next he aspires to the Triple Grown he onely wants Holinesse and must be Pope Yet was it a great labour for a Tramountain to climbe over the Alps to S. Peters Chair a long leap from York to Rome and therefore he needed to take a good rise Besides he used Charles the fift Emperour for his staff gold he gave to the Romish Cardinalls and they gave him golden promises so that at last Wolsey perceived both the Emperour and the Court of Rome delay'd and deluded him He is no fox whose den hath but one hole Wolsey finding this way stopt goes another way to work and falls off to the French King hoping by his help to obtain his desires However if he help not himself he would hinder Charles the Emperours designes and revenge is a great preferment Wherefore covertly he seeks to make a divorce betwixt Queen Katharine Dowager the Emperours Aunt and King Henrie the eighth his Master Queen Katharines age was above her Husbands her gravity above her age more pious at her beads then pleasant in her bed a better woman then a wife and a fitter wife for any Prince then King Henrie Wolsey by his instruments perswades the King to put her away pleading they were so contiguous and near in kinred they might not be made continuous one flesh in marriage because she before had been wife to Prince Arthur the Kings brother Besides the King wanted a male heir which he much desired Welcome whisperings are quickly heard The King embraceth the motion the matter is enter'd in the Romish Court but long delayed the Pope first meaning to divorce most of the gold from England in this tedious suit But here Wolsey miscarried in the Master-piece of his policy For he hoped upon the divorce of King Henrie from Queen Katharine his wife which with much adoe was effected to advance a marriage betwixt him and the King of France his sister thinking with their nuptiall ring to wed the King of France eternally to himself and mould him for farther designes whereas contrary to his expectation King Henrie fell in love with Anna Bullen a Lady whole beauty exceeded her birth though honourable wit her beauty piety all one for his love not lust so that there was no gathering of green fruit from her till marriage had ripened it whereupon the King took her to wife Not long after followed the ruine of the Cardinall caused by his own vitiousnesse heightned by the envy of his Adversaries He was caught in a Premunire for procuring to be Legate de latere and advancing the Popes power against the Laws of the Realm and eight other Articles were framed against him for which we report the Reader to our Chronicles The main was his Ego Rex meus wherein he remembred his old profession of a Schoolmaster and forgot his present estate of a Statesman But as for some things laid to his charge his friends plead that where potent malice is Promoter the accusations shall not want proof though the proof may want truth Well the broad seal was taken from him and some of his spirituall Preferments Yet was he still left Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop of York so that the Kings goodnesse hitherto might have seemd rather to ease him of burthensome greatnesse then to have deprived him of wealth or honour which whether he did out of love to Wolsey or fear of the Pope I interpose no opinion Home now went Wolsey into Yorkshire and lived at his Mannour of Cawood where he wanted nothing the heart of man could desire for contentment But great minds count every place a prison which is not a Kings Court and just it was that he which would not see his own happinesse should therefore feel his own misery He provided for his enstalling Archbishop State equivalent to a Kings Coronation which his ambition revived other of his misdemeanours and by command from the King he was arrested by the Earl of Northumberland and so took his journeys up to London By the way his soul was rackt betwixt different tidings now hoysed up with hope of pardon then instantly let down with news of the Kings displeasure till at Leicester his heart was broken with these sudden and contrary motions The Storie goes that he should breath out his soul with speeches to this effect Had I been as carefull to serve the God of Heaven as I have to comply to the will of my earthly King God would not have left me in mine old age as the other hath done His body swell'd after his death as his mind did whilest he was living which
in The names which Homer gives the Grecian Ceryces excellently import their virtues in discharging their office One was called Asphalio such an one as made sure work another Eurybates cunning and subtle a third Theotes from his piety and godlinesse a fourth Stentor from his loud and audible pronouncing of messages Therefore of every Heathen sacrifice the tongue was cut out and given to the Heralds to shew that liberty of speech in all places was allowed them He imbitters not a distastfull message to a forrein Prince by his indiscretion in delivering it Commendable was the gravity of Guien King of arms in France and Thomas Bevolt Clarenceaux of England sent by their severall Princes to defie Charles the Emperour For after leave demanded and obtained to deliver the message with safe conduct to their persons they delivered the Emperour the lie in writing and defying him were sent home safe with rewards It fared worse with a foolish French Herald sent from the Count of Orgell to challenge combat with the Count of Cardonna Admiral of Arragon where instead of wearing his Coat of Arms the Herald was attired in a long linen garment painted with some dishonest actions imputed to the said Count of Cardonna But Ferdinand King of Arragon caused the Herald to be whipt naked through the streets of Barcelona as a punishment of his presumption Thus his indescretion remitted him to the nature of an ordinary person his Armour of proof of publick credence fell off and he left naked to the stroke of justice no longer a publick Officer but a private offender Passe we now from his use in warre to his imployment in peace He is skilfull in the pedigrees and descents of all ancient Gentry Otherwise to be able onely to blazon a Coat doth no more make an Herald then the reading the titles of Gally-pots makes a Physician Bring our Herald to a Monument ubi jacet epitaphium and where the Arms on the Tombe are not onely crest-fallen but their colours scarce to be discerned and he will tell whose they be if any certainty therein can be rescued from the teeth of Time But how shamefull was the ignorance of the French Heralds some fourty years since who at a solemn entertainment of Queen Mary of Florence wife to King Henrie the fourth did falsly devise and blazon both the Arms of Florence and the Arms of the Daulphin of France now King thereof He carefully preserveth the memories of extinguish'd Families of such Zelophehads who dying left onely daughters He is more faithfull to many ancient Gentlemen then their own Heirs were who sold their lands and with them as much as in them lay their memories which our Herald carefully treasureth up He restoreth many to their own rightfull Arms. An Heir is a Phenix in a familie there can be but one of them at the same time Hence comes it often to passe that younger brothers of gentile families live in low wayes clouded often amongst the Yeomanry and yet those under-boughs grow from the same root with the top-branches It may happen afterwards that by industry they may advance themselves to their former lustre and good reason they should recover their ancient ensignes of honour belonging unto them For the river Anas in Spain though running many miles under ground when it comes up again is still the same river which it was before And yet He curbs their Vsurpation who unjustly entitle themselves to ancient Houses Hierophilus a Ferrier in Rome pretended himself to be nephew to C. Marius who had seven times been Consul and carried it in so high a strain that many believed him and some companies in Rome accepted him for their Patron Such want not amongst us who in spight of the stock will engraff themselves into noble bloods and thence derive their pedegree Hence they new mould their names taking from them adding to them melting out all the liquid letters torturing mutes to make them speak and making vowels dumbe to bring it to a fallacious Homonomy at the last that their names may be the same with those noble Houses they pretend to By this trick to forbear dangerous instances if affinity of sound makes kinred Lutulentus makes himself kinne to Luculentus dirt to light and Angustus to Augustus some narrow-hearted Peasant to some large-spirited Prince except our good Herald marre their mart and discover their forgery For well he knows where indeed the names are the same though alter'd through variety of writing in severall ages and disguis'd by the lisping of vulgar people who miscall hard French Sirnames and where the equivocation is untruly affected He assignes honourable Arms to such as raise themselves by deserts In all ages their must be as well a beginning of new Gentry as an ending of ancient And let not Linea when farre extended in length grow so proud as to scorn the first Punctum which gave it the originall Our Herald knows also to cure the surfet of Coats and unsurcharge them and how to wash out stained colours when the merits of Posterity have outworn the disgraces of their Ancestours He will not for any profit favour wealthy unworthinesse If a rich Clown who deserves that all his shield should be the Base point shall repair to the Herald-office as to a drapers shop wherein any Coat may be bought for money he quickly finds himself deceived No doubt if our Herald gives him a Coat he gives him also a badge with it WILLIAM CAMBDEN Clarenciaux king of Armes He dyed at Westminster Anno Dni 1623 Aged 74 yeares W Marshall sculp CHAP. 23. The life of M r W. CAMBDEN WIlliam Cambden was born Anno 1550 in old Baily in the City of London His Father Sampson Cambden was descended of honest parentage in Staffordshire but by his Mothers side he was extracted from the worshipfull family of the Curwens in Cumberland He was brought up first in Christ-Church then in Pauls School in London and at fifteen years of age went to Magdalen Colledge in Oxford and thence to Broadgates Hall where he first made those short Latine Graces which the Servitours still use From hence he was removed and made student of Christ Church where he profited to such eminency that he was preferred to be Master of Westminster School a most famous seminarie of learning For whereas before of the two grand Schools of England one sent all her Foundation-scholars to Cambridge the other all to Oxford the good Queen as the Head equally favouring both Breasts of Learning and Religion divided her Scholars here betwixt both Universities which were enriched with many hopefull plants sent from hence through Cambdens learning diligence and clemency Sure none need pity the beating of that Scholar who would not learn without it under so meek a Master His deserts call'd him hence to higher employments The Queen first made him Richmond Herald and then Clarenceaux King of Arms. We reade how
a masculine word to so heroick a spirit She was very devout in returning thanks to God for her constant and continuall preservations for one traitours stabbe was scarce put by before another took aim at her But as if the poysons of treason by custome were turn'd naturall unto her by Gods protection they did her no harm In any designe of consequence she loved to be long and well advised but where her resolutions once seis'd she would never let go her hold according to her motto Semper eadem By her Temperance she improved that stock of health which Nature bestowed on her using little wine and lesse Physick Her Continence from pleasures was admirable and she the Paragon of spotlesse chastity what ever some Popish Priests who count all virginity hid under a Nunnes veil have feigned to the contrary The best is their words are no slander whose words are all slander so given to railing that they must be dumbe if they do not blaspheme Magistrates One Jesuit made this false Anagram on her name Elizabeth Iezabel false both in matter and manner For allow it the abatement of H as all Anagrams must sue in Chancery for moderate favour yet was it both unequall and ominous that T a solid letter should be omitted the presage of the gallows whereon this Anagrammatist was afterwards justly executed Yea let the testimony of Pope Sixtus Quintus himself be believed who professed that amongst all the Princes in Christendome he found but two which were worthy to bear command had they not been stained with heresie namely Henry the fourth King of France and Elizabeth Queen of England And we may presume that the Pope if commending his enemy is therein infallible We come to her death the discourse whereof was more welcome to her from the mouth of her private Confessour then from a publick Preacher and she loved rather to tell her self then to be told of her mortality because the open mention thereof made as she conceived her subjects divide their loyalty betwixt the present and the future Prince We need look into no other cause of her sicknesse then old age being seventy years old Davids age to which no King of England since the Conquest did attain Her weaknesse was encreased by her removall from London to Richmond in a cold winter day sharp enough to pierce thorow those who were arm'd with health and youth Also melancholy the worst naturall Parasite whosoever seeds him shall never be rid of his company much afflicted her being given over to sadnesse and silence Then prepared she her self for another world being more constant in prayer and pious exercises then ever before yet spake she very little to any sighing out more then she said and making still musick to God in her heart And as the red rose though outwardly not so fragrant is inwardly farre more cordiall then the damask being more thrifty of its sweetnesse and reserving it in it self so the religion of this dying Queen was most turn'd inward in soliloquies betwixt God and her own soul though she wanted not outward expressions thereof When her speech fail'd her she spake with her heart tears eyes hands and other signes so commending herself to God the best interpreter who understands what his Saints desire to say Thus dyed Queen Elizabeth whilest living the first maid on earth and when dead the second in heaven Surely the kingdome had dyed with their Queen had not the fainting spirits thereof been refresh'd by the coming in of gratious King James She was of person tall of hair and complexion fair well-favoured but high-nosed of limbes and feature neat of a stately and majestick deportment She had a piercing eye wherewith she used to touch what metall strangers were made of which came into her presence But as she counted it a pleasant conquest with her Majestick look to dash strangers out of countenance so she was mercifull in pursuing those whom she overcame and afterwards would cherish and comfort them with her smiles if perceiving towardlinesse and an ingenuous modesty in them She much affected rich and costly apparell and if ever jewells had just cause to be proud it was with her wearing them CHAP. 16. The Embassadour HE is one that represents his King in a forrein countrey as a Deputy doth in his own Dominions under the assurance of the publick faith authorized by the Law of Nations He is either Extraordinary for some one affair with time limited or Ordinary for generall matters during his Princes pleasure commonly called a Legier He is born made or at leastwise qualified honourably both for the honour of the sender and him to whom he is sent especially if the solemnity of the action wherein he is employed consisteth in ceremony and magnificence Lewis the eleventh King of France is sufficiently condemn'd by Posterity for sending Oliver his Barber in an Embassage to a Princesse who so trimly dispatch'd his businesse that he left it in the suddes and had been well wash'd in the river at Gant for his pains if his feet had not been the more nimble He is of a proper at least passable person Otherwise if he be of a contemptible presence he is absent whilest he is present especially if employed in love-businesses to advance a marriage Ladyes will dislike the body for a deformed shadow The jest is well known When the State of Rome sent two Embassadours the one having scarres on his head the other lame in his feet Mittit populus Romanus legationem quae nec caput habet nec pedes The people of Rome send an Embassy without head or feet He hath a competent estate whereby to maintain his port for a great poverty is ever suspected and he that hath a breach in his estate lies open to be assaulted with bribes Wherefore his means ought at least to be sufficient both to defray set and constant charges as also to make sallies and excursions of expenses on extraordinary occasions which we may call Supererogations of State Otherwise if he be indigent and succeed a bountifull Predecessour he will seem a fallow field after a plentifull crop He is a passable scholar well travell'd in Countreys and Histories well studyed in the Pleas of the Crown I mean not such as are at home betwixt his Sovereigne and his subjects but abroad betwixt his and forrein Princes to this end he is well skill'd in the Emperiall Laws Common Law it self is outlawed beyond the seas which though a most true is too short a measure of right and reacheth not forrein kingdomes He well understandeth the language of that countrey to which he is sent and yet he desires rather to seem ignorant of it if such a simulation which stands neuter betwixt a Truth and a Lie be lawfull and that for these reasons first because though he can speak it never so exactly his eloquence therein will be but stammering compar'd to the ordinary talk of the
interpreter Object not that the French tongue learnt in England must be unlearnt again in France for it is easier to adde then begin and to pronounce then to speak Be well settled in thine own Religion lest travelling out of England into Spain thou goest out of Gods blessing into the warm Sunne They that go over maids for their Religion will be ravish'd at the sight of the first Popish Church they enter into But if first thou be well grounded their fooleries shall rivet thy faith the faster and Travell shall give thee Confirmation in that Baptisme thou didst receive at home Know most of the rooms of thy native countrey before thou goest over the threshold thereof Especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables But late Writers lack nothing but age and home-wonders but distance to make them admired 'T is a tale what Josephus writes of the two pillars set up by the sonnes of Seth in Syria the one of brick fire-proof the other of stone water-free thereon engraving many heavenly matters to perpetuate learning in defiance of time But it is truly moralized in our Universities Cambridge of Brick and Oxford of Stone wherein Learning and Religion are preserved and where the worst Colledge is more sight-worthy then the best Dutch Gymnasium First view these and the rest home-rarities not like those English that can give a better account of Fountain-bleau then Hampton-Court of the Spaw then Bath of Anas in Spain then Mole in Surrey Travell not beyond the Alps. Mr. Ascham did thank God that he was but nine dayes in Italie wherein he saw in one citie Venice more liberty to sinne then in London he ever heard of in nine years That some of our Gentry have gone thither and returned thence without infection I more praise Gods providence then their adventure To travell from the sunne is uncomfortable Yet the northern parts with much ice have some crystall and want not their remarkables If thou wilt see much in a little travell the Low countreys Holland is all Europe in an Amsterdam-print for Minerva Mars and Mercurie Learning Warre and Traffick Be wise in choosing Objects diligent in marking carefull in remembring of them yet herein men much follow their own humours One askt a Barber who never before had been at the Court what he saw there Oh said he the King was excellently well trimm'd Thus Merchants most mark forrein Havens Exchanges and Marts Souldiers note Forts Armories and Magazines Scholars listen after Libraries Disputations and Professours Statesmen observe Courts of justice Counsells c. Every one is partiall in his own profession Labour to distill and unite into thy self the scatterd perfections of severall Nations But as it was said of one who with more industry then judgement frequented a Colledge-Library and commonly made use of the worst notes he met with in any Authours that he weeded the Library many weed forrein Countries bringing home Dutch Drunkennes Spanish Pride French Wantonnesse and Italian Atheisme As for the good herbs Dutch Industry Spanish Loyalty French Courtesie and Italian Frugality these they leave behind them Others bring home just nothing and because they singled not themselves from their Countreymen though some years beyond Sea were never out of England Continue correspondency with some choyce forrein friend after thy return As some Professour or Secretary who virtually is the whole University or State 'T is but a dull Dutch fashion their Albus Amicorum to make a dictionary of their friends names But a selected familiar in every Countrey is usefull betwixt you there may be a Letter-exchange Be sure to return as good wares as thou receivest and acquaint him with the remarkables of thy own Countrey and he will willingly continue the trade finding it equally gainfull Let discourse rather be easily drawn then willingly flow from thee That thou mayest not seem weak to hold or desirous to vent news but content to gratifie thy friends Be sparing in reporting improbable truths especially to the vulgar who insteed of informing their judgements will suspect thy credit Disdain their pevish pride who rail on their native land whose worst fault is that it bred such ungratefull fools and in all their discourses preferre forrein countreys herein shewing themselves of kinne to the wild Irish in loving their Nurses better then their Mothers CHAP. 5. Of Company COmpanie is one of the greatest pleasures of the nature of man For the beams of joy are made hotter by reflection when related to another and otherwise gladnesse it self must grieve for want of one to expresse itself to It is unnaturall for a man to court and hug solitarinesse It is observed that the farthest Ilands in the world are so seated that there is none so remote but that from some shore of it another Iland or Continent may be discerned As if hereby Nature invited countreys to a mutuall commerce one with another Why then should any man affect to environ himself with so deep and great reservednesse as not to communicate with the societie of others And though we pity those who made solitarinesse their refuge in time of persecution we must condemne such as chuse it in the Churches prosperity For well may we count him not well in his wits who will live alwayes under a bush because others in a storm shelter themselves under it Yet a desert is better then a debauch'd companion For the wildnesse of the place is but uncheerfull whilest the wildnesse of bad persons is also infectious Better therefore ride alone then have a thiefs company And such is a wicked man who will rob thee of pretious time if he doth no more mischief The Nazarites who might drink no wine were also forbidden Numb 6.3 to eat grapes whereof wine is made We must not onely avoid sinne it self but also the causes and occasions thereof amongst which bad company the limetwigs of the devil is the chiefest especially to catch those natures which like the good-fellow planet Mercury are most swayed by others If thou beest cast into bad company like Hercules thou must sleep with thy club in thine hand and stand on thy guard I mean if against thy will the tempest of an unexpected occasion drives thee amongst such rocks then be thou like the river Dee in Merionethshire in Wales which running through Pimble meere remains entire and mingles not her streames with the waters of the lake Though with them be not of them keep civil communion with them but separate from their sinnes And if against thy will thou fall'st amongst wicked men know to thy comfort thou art still in thy calling and therefore in Gods keeping who on thy prayers will preserve thee The company he keeps is the comment by help whereof men expound the most close and mysticall man understanding him for one of the same religion life and manners with his associates And though perchance he be not
drive more from him then Nassaw's courtesie invited to him His popular nature was of such receipt that he had room to lodge all comers In peoples eyes his light shined bright yet dazled none all having free accesse unto him every one was as well pleased as if he had been Prince himself because he might be so familiar with the Prince He was wont to content those who reproved his too much humanity with this saying That man is cheap bought who costs but a salutation I report the Reader to the Belgian Histories where he may see the changes of warre betwixt these two sides We will onely observe that Duke D'Alva's covetousnesse was above his policy in fencing the rich inland and neglecting the barren maritime places He onely look'd on the broad gates of the countrey whereby it openeth to the continent of Germany and France whilest in the mean time almost half the Netherlands ran out at the postern doore towards the sea Nassaw's side then wounded Achilles in the heel indeed and touch'd the Spaniard to the quick when on Palm-sunday as if the day promised victory at Brill they took the first livery and seasin of the land and got soon after most cities towards the sea Had Alva herein prevented him probably he had made those Provinces as low in subjection as situation Now at last he began to be sensible of his errour and grew weary of his command desiring to hold that staff no longer which he perceived he had taken by the wrong end He saw that going about to bridle the Netherlanders with building of castles in many places they had gotten the bit into their own teeth He saw that warre was not quickly to be hunted out of that countrey where it had taken covert in a wood of cities He saw the cost of some one cities siege would pave the streets thereof with silver each city â—ort and sconce being a Gordian knot which would make Alexanders sword turn edge before he could cut thorow it so that this warre and the world were likely to end together these Netherlands being like the head-block in the chimney where the fire of warre is alwayes kept in though out every where else never quite quench'd though rak'd up sometimes in the ashes of a truce Besides he saw that the subdued part of the Netherlands obeyed more for fear then love and their loyalty did rather lie in the Spanish Garisons then their own hearts and that in their sighes they breathed many a prosperous gale to Nassaw's party Lastly he saw that forrein Princes having the Spaniards greatnesse in suspicion desired he might long be digesting this break-fast lest he should make his dinner on them both France and England counting the Low-countreys their outworks to defend their walls wherefore he petitioned the King of Spain his Master to call him home from this unprofitable service Then was he called home and lived some years after in Spain being well respected of the King and employed by him in conquering Portugall contrary to the expectation of most who look'd that the Kings displeasure would fall heavy on him for causing by his cruelty the defection of so many countreys yet the King favourably reflected on him perchance to frustrate on purpose the hopes of many and to shew that Kings affections will not tread in the beaten path of vulgar expectation or seeing that the Dukes life and state could amount to poore satisfaction for his own losses he thought it more Princely to remit the whole then to be revenged but in part or lastly because he would not measure his servants loyalty by the successe and lay the unexpected rubs in the allie to the bowlers fault who took good aim though missing the mark This led many to believe that Alva onely acted the Kings will and not willed his acts following the instructions he received and rather going beyond then against his Commission However most barbarous was his cruelty He bragg'd as he sate at dinner and was it not a good grace after meat that he had caused eighteen thousand to be executed by the ordinary minister of justice within the space of six years besides an infinite more murthered by other tyrannous means Yea some men he killed many times giving order to the executioners to pronounce each syllable of torment long upon them that the thred of their life might not be cut off but unravell'd as counting it no pain for men to die except they dyed with pain witnesse Anthony Utenhow whom he caused to be tied to a stake with a chain in Brussells compassing him about with a great fire but not touching him turning him round about like a poore beast who was forced to live in that great torment and extremity roasting before the fire so long untill the Halberdiers themselves having compassion on him thrust him through contrary to the will both of the Duke and the Spanish Priests When the city of Harlem surrendred themselves unto him on condition to have their lives he suffered some of the Souldiers and Burgers thereof to be starved to death saying that though he promised to give them their lives he did not promise to find them meat The Netherlanders used to fright their children with telling them Duke D'Alva was coming and no wonder if children were scared with him of whom their fathers were afraid He was one of a lean body and visage as if his eager soul biting for anger at the clog of his body desired to fret a passage through it He had this humour that he neglected the good counsel of others especially if given him before he ask'd it and had rather stumble then beware of a block of another mans telling But as his life was a miroir of cruelty so was his death of Gods patience It was admirable that his tragicall acts should have a comicall end that he that sent so many to the grave should go to his own die in peace But Gods justice on offenders goes not alwayes in the same path nor the same pace And he is not pardoned for the fault who is for a while reprived from the punishment yea sometimes the guest in the inne goes quietly to bed before the reckoning for his supper is brought to him to discharge FINIS Maxime 1 * Comineus lib. 4. cap. 8 Rodinus De Repub. lib. 5. p. 782. 2 * Erasmus Dial. in nausragio 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. * August confess lib. 9. c. 8. * August confess lib. 9. c. 9. * August confess lib. 6. c. 2. * August lib. 1. De ordine c. 8. * August confess lib. 9. c. 10. Maxime 1 * Plin. Nat. hist. lib. 10. cap. 62. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 * 1. Sam. 1.11 Maxime 1 * Eccles 12.11 2 3 * Giveâ— each child a part Versteg Oâ— decayed intell cap 3. 4 * Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 8. c. 18. 5 6 * Exod. 2.4 7 8 9 Maxime 1 * Stapleton in vita Tho. Mori cap. 1. 2 *