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A06144	The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier.	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1607 (1607)	STC 16631; STC 16631.5; ESTC S108782	59,286	110

axe But the Bishop of Rome which had more Kings and Kingdomes vnder his obeysance vseth much more tyrannie than Tamberlane of Scythia or Sapor of Persia Yea greater tyrannie than Adonibezek who had 70 Kings feeding like dogs vnder his table without either toes to their feet or fingers to their hands but he had legem Talionis This man of Rome commaundeth his Embassadors as Nabuchadnezar commaunded Holofernes Ne par●at oculus tuus vlli regno to make Acheldama of England and great Britane This is that Ashuerus that willed proude Haman De populo age quod placet Doe what thou wilt with the Iewes The like condition is betweene the Pope and his people who sends his Heraulds abroade tanquam cursores with his Buls and Agnus Dei pardoning and absoluing all murtherers that will destroy all Kinges and Kingdomes that are not of his Catholike Religion This hath beene practised in Fraunce vppon their cheefe Peeres by the Massacres in Paris and by a Friar in auricular consession of a King In England vpon the best learned men of England and vpon our late gracious and renowned Queene if their often practises by many pretended had not fayled them And now of late vpon our Soueraigne Lord and King vpon our Queene vpon our Prince and vpon their children the sacred and stayed anchor of three Kingdomes and vpon these three Kingdoms it selfe At illos Deus è Coelo subsannauit Is this the Catholike fruit of their Catholike Religion Is Treason and Murther the profession of Papists We thanke God with Paul that hath deliuered vs from the snares of Sathan and from the practise of his fierie Souldiers and from these Dreamers Caligula that Monster wished but one necke vnto Rome one Citie that hee might cut it off with one stroke That proud Haman sought of king Ashuerus but to destroy the remnāt of one nation that vpon one day within a hundred and seuen and twentie Prouinces in Persia. But these Serpents in one houre with one flame of fier fully decreed to destroy England Scotland and Ireland three flourishing Kingdomes Quis non meminisse horret Who laments not to thinke much more to haue seene the terror of that day The inuenter thereof could not be but a Diuell and not one Diuell vnlesse it bee that Diuell which Christ commaunded exi hominem whose names was Legio a legion of Diuels Such a Diuell might draw many Diuels after him Such a treacherous Catelin had more with him to destroy Rome rather thā 300 faithfull Fabians to defend it Who seeth not the monstrous intentions of these Traytors after long lurking in many secret Labyrinths of Britane where so longe they were hidden vntill they had decreed to bring their last Pageant of ostentation not only with their great Colossus from Rome to England and there to rest but also with their huge Pyramides from Egipt to bee buried in England and to make a Chaos of Great Britane sometime called Insula fortiū and to christen it againe after their own name Insula Serpentum the Isle of Serpents which is an Isle in Arabia where such Serpents breed that are of 120 cubites long And yet now in Britane my heart bleedeth to speake of them wee finde longer Serpents that their bodies bee in Britane and their heads at Rome I will not say their heart and hands at Spaine These are worse than the Athenians that had certaine Priests named Mantes which caried Firebrands in their handes and went before the Magistrates of Athens and threw about their Firebrands in signe of battell between the cities of Greece These are worse then the Priests of Rome called Faeciales that went before the Consulls with bloudy darts in their hands which they threwe towardes the Confines of their neighbours to pronounce warre And these our late Iesuits and Seminaries as Embassadors came from Rome with Firebrands and bloodie darts not in their hands but in their harts to destroy their Countrey and Countrey-men and glad when they finde meanes by any policie to practise mischiefe But these hellish Harpeis these cruell Crocodiles worse than Pharoh that sayd Quis est Dominus and worse than the Athiests that say in their hearts there is no God Such double faced Ianus children such two-fronted Cecrops broode say with the foole Non est Deus who can onely deliuer vs from these that are double-hearted double tongues double faced Such the law of God punished so that fire from heauen deuoured them the earth gaped and swallowed them vp aliue Such the lawes of men amonge all Nations haue punished as in Athens by Solon in Sparta by Lycurgus and in Rome by so many lawes that tortures and torments were inuented to punish these tanquam sacrilegos in patrios lares focos deos penates The Egiptians with long sharpe needles per singula patricidae membra torment such Offenders the Grecians threwe such headlong downe from high rockes the Macedonians stoned them to death The Romanes drewe them in peeces either between fower horses or 4 boughes of a tree and yet sayd Cicero Quae nex tanta tanto sceleri inueniri potuit And should not these false and forsworne Gibeonites be punished with seruitude and bondage and be reiected from the house of Iudah as Ioshua vsed them And should not these dissembling Giliadites which could not pronounce Scibboleth bee vsed as Ieptha vsed the Ephramites at the riuer Iordan The Tyrant Antiochus gaue them time by tormenting the seuen brethren either to eate Swines-flesh or to die The tyrant Phaleris in like manner torturing them with his frying-panne and with Perillus his brazen Bull were not in such a rage insuch a furie and that against the rule of reason so long I neuer remember of the like that in a whole yere and a halfe they could not call vpon God and repent of this their determined tyrannie worse than Esau who would haue repented and sought it with teares but yet could not worse than Pharoh for hee desired Moses to pray to his God for him But these refuse all mens praiers but such as be Catholikes like themselues Cain felt his conscience so to afflict him that hee thought that euerie man that mette him would haue killed him and faine would die but could not But these without feeling of any conscience are worse than Cain neither fearing God nor man worse than Esau for they seeke not to repent with teares and worse than Pharoh as I sayd before who sought Moses to pray for him These I say stood to their first longe pretended tyrannie to the very day most vnhappy for them and most happie for vs. Dies quem fecit Dominus Dies solus supra Gabaon the day of Ioshua when the Sunne stood ouer Gabaon And Dies Lunae when the Moone stood ouer Atalon And Dies Martis not onely in Scotland

the Iacobits and the Iamnites had their gods in their bosomes when they went to any battel so found in their bosomes when they were dead and slaine in the field and the Iewes imagined they were slaine therefore It is to bee doubted that the Papists haue their Crucifixe their Crosses their agnus Dei in any foule fact or in any treacherous actions they take in hand imitating Infidels and Pagans as Silla who had the picture of Apollo as Scipio had the picture of Iupiter to animate their souldiers to any hard enterprise These therefore are not well to be trusted lest they deceiue vs as the people called Iapyges in the borders of Italie who vnder colour of yeelding certaine Townes and Villages and some number of souldiers in pleadges of their submission to Publ Licinius the Romane Proconsul these souldiers were placed in the rereward of the armie hauing agreed that when these people came to submit themselues on both sides the armie and also they of the rereward fell suddenly vpon the Romanes that many were slaine and the Generall hardly escaped These Ismalites are backt with Rome on the one side with Spaine on the other side I trust they bee not backt in Britane for we wish them as the Grecians wished to the Persians to be out of Greece or as the Romanes wished to the Affricans to be out of Italie and so we wish them to bee in Rome or in Spaine if they cannot be quiet in Great Britane King Philip of Macedon the last doubting that his souldiers durst not abide the great hoasts of the Scithians appointed certaine horsemen to backe the timorous Macedonians and commanded them not to let one liue that would flee from their company But the Britanes being better backt than King Philips armie were and stronger wald than the Macedonians as Iosephus saith yea then either Carthage or Africa murus maior quo septi Britanni yet wee may not trust neither Friers nor Monkes which are now called Iesuits and Seminaries the onely cause of all sedition and quarrels And therefore was Heraclitus requested by some of his friends to make some speech in the pulpit to perswade loue friendship concord and amitie among the people being at variance by some seditious persons that loue discord Heraclitus knowing the cause of this discord and varience went vp to the pulpit and called for a cup of cold water and a handfull of flowre or meale and mingled it together and dranke it and came down without further speech Some of his friends said that his sermon was very short said it was a dum sermon yea said Heraclitus short speeches and dum shewes perswade most if men vnderstand it omes seditiones ex luxu nasci vnderstand that the water the mingled meale that I drank in the pulpit are as much as the words I spake that all seditions grow of too much wealth and of abundance There was an old man in Greece called Cleanthes which alwaies brauled and chid with himselfe his neighbor Theodectes asked Cleanthes with whō he so brauld chid awaies with an old friend of mine said Cleanthes which hath a white beard and a graye head These gray heads white beards which we haue in great Britane might find their owne falts as well as Cleanthes did if they were as carefull of their heads as Philetas was of his feet or Cinesias was of his back Rhodiginus writes that one Philetas of Coos was so light and so little of bodie that they put lead vnder the soles of his shooes lest any great wind should haue blowne him from the earth And of another that was so long and so slender named Cinesias that he was bound with strong barkes of Oakes about his backe to keep his bodie streight lest he should bend and breake his backe I wish that our Countreymen had either Philetas lead vnder their shooes to stay in England or Cinesias corke vnder their backs to hold vpright their backs in England for all men see that they goe not about to find out their faults or to chide with themselues with Cleanthes for their fault Neither wil they heare the speech of Augustus audite me senem iuuenes But they are euer laughing for their own wits wisdome with Democritus in finding out their own destruction and euer weeping with Heraclitus for their folly when they bring these to destruction Archimedes after long studie if he had found in any hard or difficult conclusion to satisfie his mind he would for very ioy cry out in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I found I found Many doe studie how to find meanes not as Archimedes to inuent Engines to feare the Romanes from Syracusa the citie where he dwelt but like Dinocrates who mused how hee might bring mount Atho to the forme and figure of a man to please their great Alexander Some such there be that studie how to bring great mountaines and hie hilles as low as mould hilles but they so worke vnder ground that the ground falles vpon them It is written that Tho Aquinas was at dinner at Paris with Philip the Frence king musing long with silence suddenly he so stroke the Table with his hand and said ego vici ego vici the king asked him what he ment Aquinas answered and said an argument to ouerthrow the Maniches I would they should be so occupied to ouerthrow heresies heretickes but their heads are fraughted with greater things to ouerthrow Kings and kingdomes This Aquinas being a young boy in schoole was called of his schoole fellowes bos mutus ye sayd his schoolemaster when this dumbe oxe begins to lowe totum 〈◊〉 suo boatu replebit Such diuelish scholemasters haue bin and I doubt are in great Britan that brought vp many such dumb oxen as Aquinas was to bring vp their children not for their countrey Such a schoolemasters was Apion in Alexandria that moued sedition among the Greekes and the Iewes And in Phaliscu another schoolemaster that brought all the noble mens children being his schollers to Camillus the Romane Consul that then besieged Phalisius And such schoolemasters had we I pray God wee haue not that bring vp their schollers for Rome for Spaine and not for great Britane in caues and coniholes as conicatchers not onely vnder ground but on the ground It was an exercise in Rome among the sword plaiers called exercitium laqueatorū and after much vsed in war in Finelan and in many places of the North these souldiers were called laquearij milites because they vsed stratagems with ropes halters in throwing them vp to the wals and forts of the enemies Such souldiers were the Spaniards with their halters and ropes marching towards England to hang vs in England our owne natiue countrey such were the Massacres of Paris that slue and kild the chiefe men of Fraunce and such souldiers doe daily come from Rome to Great Britane to