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A06678	An ansvver to the vntruthes, published and printed in Spaine, in glorie of their supposed victorie atchieued against our English Navie, and the Right Honorable Charles Lord Howard, Lord high Admiral of England, &c. Sir Francis Drake, and the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, captaines, and soldiers of our said navie. First written and published in Spanish by a Spanish gentleman; who came hither out of the Lowe Countries from the service of the prince of Parma, with his wife and familie, since the overthrowe of the Spanish Armada, forsaking both his countrie and Romish religion; as by this treatise (against the barbarous impietie of the Spaniards; and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Majestie) may appeere. Faithfully translated by I.L.; Respuesta y desengano contra las falsedades publicadas en España enbituperio de la armada Inglesa. English	D. F. R. de M.; Lea, James, fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 17132; ESTC S109021	42,817	64

But in this war of Spaine against England Spaine comming with armed hand to deprive hir Majestie of Sceprer and crowne what injustice should she do in causing all to be slaine that shall come to hand for tyrants deserve no lesse then death And sith Spanyards in this war shew themselves tyrants though naturally they be not so they should have no wrong done them had they all bin slaine But in fine such as the fountaine is such are the streames if the fountaine be sweete the streames are sweete and if the fountaine be brackish the rivers are brackish The fountaine of England which is the sacred Majestie of Queene Elizabeth whom the Lord long preserve is a sweete fountaine full of love compassion clemencie and benignitie and so are hir subjects for such as the Lord is such is the vassall This is verefied in the sacred Scripture Herademas troubled and all Ierusalem with him And Achab and Iesabell being wicked so were the people so that a good king hath good subjects and so as hir Majestie is merciful so are hir subjects and hence it groweth that the Englishmen not respecting the tyrannie of this war nor the blouddie hands of the soldiers but using clemencie with the prisoners they have not taken their lives but rather as though the wars had bin such as was betweene Charles and Francis so have they bin well intreated and succoured with meate with apparell hose and shooes shirts firing and other necessaries Englishmen seeming to be sorie and to bewaile the poore Spanyards which perished in Ireland by the hands of the savage Irishmen and to serve for meate some in the sea for the fish and others on the land for the carrion Crowes so that they sorrowe the losse of the dead and succour the necessitie of the prisoners And all this for being hir Majestie full of love and not of rigor and so aboundant in clemencie and not in revenge a greater friend to pardon then to punish and using more of mercie then justice she shewes hir selfe most Christian and fearing God Vnto whom his divine Majestie graunt long yeeres of life augment and prosper hir estate as is needfull for the holie church sake she being a true defender thereof and as hir humble and loiall subjects desire Amen The translator I Am to request thee courteous Reader to beare with the translations of the blinde mans songs and their answers for I know the verse will seeme somewhat harshe unto thee wherin I was overshot in tieng my selfe so much to the Spanish at the authors request as you may see the English to answer verse for verse with the Spanish to avoide which inconvenience receive these verses following I humblie beseech thee in good parte with the rest of the translation which verses follow almost verballie though not in meeter in stead whereof I pray thee also accept with good will certaine verses of my owne to the same effect wherein thou shalt both pleasure and incourage me fare well Thine in good will I. L. A song in the praise of the English Nobilitie ARraied in sundrie colours white red and incarnation blew green yellow and murrie colour fine Plumes of feathers brave displaieng foorth their minds streamers fringd with gold and silver round about Armor shining white helmets fine and graven swords broad and sharpe daggers strong and large Launces great and long and sharpned steele at end targets faire of steele iacks of proofe of male Ensignes brave advaunst with red crosse in field white and a rose for devise set out in colour read With letters which do saie Let him be punisht and correct which evill thinks doth not do all what that he is boūd For to defend enlarge his cuntry faith unto the deth From great Brytaine issueout gentlemen of fame Youths desirous of honor and vsde the same to win do take their leave of friends with many a brace kisse From Father from mother from brothers and from sisters from kindred from neighbors frō their houshold chere They go towards the sea their enimies to seeke to die or overcome regarding life in little They go thinking upon war and upon deeds of old of their fathers grandfathers and others of their bloud They print in their memorie the facts of their forefathers to shew themselves no cowards but bold fierce and stout And they who thus do go are Gentles passing brave the Earles of Oxford Northumberland Cumberlād Of valor force and courage they beare the pricke and prise three famous woorthy Earles wel known and tried at armes Lord Dudley Henry Brook Arthur Gorge and Gerard which to assault win are fower woorthy soldiers The valorous Cicill which Thomas hath to name who in affaires of wars did never feare his foe Charles Blunt William Hatton two soldiers noted well Walter Rawleigh not the least nor used lesse in armes Robert Cicill and William that is his brothers son whose valor goes beyond that of the wrathfull Mars Two famous Roberts eeke Carie and Harvie cald of whome Fame proclaimes affaires strange and great Of Darcy the valiant whose name is called Edward Heaven beareth witnes and all the British Ile And Horatio Palavezino a gentleman well used in letters counsell and armes a gallant knight of strength These and many other with Charles the Lord Admirall accompanied with Drake in armes are all as brethren One bodie one resolute minde the one hath care of thother and one doth courage each in such so brave a case Now my harts go to they saie remember we are bound rather to die then flie for flight belongs to base Better to die with honor then live long dishonored tis life to a gentleman to die in such a quarrell To serve God and his prince the loyall subject fights and for his deere countrie the citizen yeelds his life To this then and more we present all are bound sith that we be gentlemen and serve so brave a Queene In such conversation the saile and passe the time when sodainely with sailes they see the sea bespread They know it to be the Armada of the mightie Spaniard whose ships are like strong castels full of artillerie Provided well with men and loaded with munition in despite of raging sea they part in two the waves Reparted into squadrons and marching in good order and with their pleasant musicke rejoicing skie and sea They put feare and dread on all that them behold such a number of ships as furrow up the sea Fraunce feares and Almany the force of Spanish king so doth the Turcke and all the world save England faire If Fraunce feare it is for civill wars and Almany hath not hir Signiories unite And the Turcke bicause great Canne doth make him wars and if the world be afraid the world is a coward But famous England which in peace hath all estates and full of martiall men hir cities and hir townes Which live one with another as faithfull loving brothers they

them also glad Every one did goe the way that he thought best and then the flaming ships came burning from the rest They came with loftie pride with fire which they brought but our Armada gone behind they leaving nought And their pretended ill on us tooke no effect for all their hidden harme in vaine flew up direct Now all this past and donne and that the night was spent and the resplendent Pheb his beames abroad had sent There blew a pleasant gale great joie unto all but chiefely our Armada did need it most of all So came the adverse ships that were not far behind and at this very time as fortune had assignd Both Armadas went with power and courage braue by a chanell straight made by the brackish wave And in the sight of Dunkerck appeerd another fleet and the gallion S. Martine for the duke a ship so meet Knew that they were of England the fleet which all descrie and all the rest do know them to by flag that stands on hie And in this sort they sailed on their waie untill the twelfth of August after which said daie Befell as heerafter my pen shall you declare that day into Callis a ship arrived there Which said they sawe togither the two Armadas fierce and after hir another ship which did the same rehearse And that he sawe much stuffe and riches cast in sea and that in boates to shore the English ran away To save themselves from harme which came on them so fast and then the thirteenth day more newes there came in haste From the kingdome of England most certaine and most sure by our spies and toongs which there for us endure That fifteene of their ships were sent unto the ground and that the Gallion wherein our duke was found Called the Sant Martine which is hir proper name had grappled with the ship wherein the great theefe came Cald Francis Drake who brought in his consort of all the men of England those of the highest sort Marqueses Dukes Counts and men of honor great and our great duke him tooke and did him ill intreat And then towards Scotland bicause he thought it well he went with winde in poupe as I do heare tell These lordings are the newes which hitherto we know of the estate of war that this our church doth follow Beseeche we Iesus blessed Marie divine to give us victorie for she can do it fine And preserve our great mornarch Don Phillip of Spaine and give us his grace and glorie for that must be our gaine The end of the second song The Answer BY sayeng the furious sea and Phebus shining bright by calling policie treason which is not so in fight A blind dolt and foole a foole in highest degree doth now become a Poet his verse that we may see A perfect Iewe by due descent borne in Cordova which is a Citie in the kingdome of Andaluzia And to give us to understand that verse he could devise he writs in ragged rime approoved filthy lies And singeth them in streets with musicke in his laies the people clapping hands then in his song he saies After the great battle was ended as before the second of August a fight most fierce and sore How much better mightest thou say unprofitable blind sith that there was no battaile but flying with the wind After that our Armada the English had descride they began themselves to lighten and fast away they hied Cables cut and sailes they hoise to scape awaie with vita their backs they turne to death the soldiers of Medina While Charles and his many to death do turne their breast like valiant stout champions brought up in Mars his nest And there like men couragious esteeming life in little preferring first their honor before a thing so brittle The duke flies Drake followes by order that he had of Charles the great Admirall whose sight the Drake did glad With whose onely presence Drakes valor did increase doing immortall deeds which I cannot rehearse And so the woorthy Drake like eagle high that laie closing his two wings fals downe upon his praie In this same maner and sort on Spainyard he laieth load he closeth up his wings his tallons are abroad The tallons that he opens are courage and attempt his closed wings are feare from which he is exempt His wings he doth resigne his tallons serve him best wherewith he takes or kils all them that do resist Let Valdes heerof be witnes and those with him that were also Don George Manrique which fled away for feare The Sant Phillip and S. Mathew ships of great account and all those who ruled them whose fame in Spain did mount If such be Drakes valor why then thou toong of snake dost thou defame for theefe and of no account him make But he that is base can never defame the valorous man nor yet the coward the bold nor king the rustick swaine If thou this hadst knowne thou wouldst not be so bold so openly to speake and such foule lies have told The good tree good fruite doth yeeld with blossoms faire gaie the ill yeelds none but leaves wormes and webs alwaie Thou art an evill tree thy roote all rotten lies the fruits that come from thee are false and shameles lies The English Navie to be overcome I saie it is a lie thou liest in saieng in boats the English then did flie Thou liest in calling theefe him that deserves so much and him that by his courage hath gotten honor such Thou liest in saieng you tooke prisoners that same day fourteene English ships and all they brought to sea Thou liest both loud and lowe at first and in the midst thou liest all in all thou liest in all thou didst Dogs eate thy toong the ants eate thine eares hungrie ravens eate thy guts as hellish griffen teares Thy head uppon a gibbet in heat and whorie frost let stand in desert place like one forlorne and lost Thy hands chopt off aliue thy feete and yeke thy knees thy shoulders all bewhipt thy belly burnt and thies The rest of thy members consumde to dust and Ashe the eies which thou dost want let them remaine as trash The end of the Answer to the second song The Author yelds the reasons that mooved him to answere matters so fabulous and base LEast anie man should blame me for imploieng my pen in answering matters so base as are these five letters and especially the blind mans songs and should saie that it had bin better imploied in matters of greater moment Not gainsaieng him that shall thus correct me I give him to understand that the good tennis plaier labors as much and useth as great diligence to reach that ball which commeth aloft in the aire as for that which commeth close by the grounde So that neither for the height it passeth from his sight neither for the lownes it escapeth him the consideration of this comparison hath lifted up my minde not to

of Don Ieorge Manrique veedor general who fled out of the Galliasse which was lost before Callis a place not far from Roane I shew you not particularly the matters of Ireland for it would be long and greevous to your hearing The losse of the ship called La Rata and the Venician and the ship Santa Maria and many other and so likewise it will be yerksome for you to heare of so many noblemen which there are perished Don Antonio Manrique Don Beltran de Salto Don Garcia Davila Don Gaspar his Brother Don Alonso Luson Don Rodrigo Laso de la Vega of the habite of Saint Iames and innumerable other gentlemen and souldiers some slaine by the Irish others drowned in the sea This storie being so lamentable I proceede no farther therein but I pray you that this may be a warning for another time and let that which is said serve you for a rod. And verily if thou knewest who the Admirall is under whose governmēt the English Navie resteth I beleeve that though he had beene taken or lost that thou wouldst skant credite it and consequently not write as thou didst And know that he is the Lord Howard Knight of the order of the Garter and to the end it slip not out of thy memorie I send thee heere this Sonet lay it up in thy breast not for that which the Sonet containeth nor for the arts sake but for that with a sound intent I present thee therin some part though the least of the valor of this excellent Gentleman the Lord high Admirall THE SONET THe Lion fierce his eies against the sunne Like Eagle bold for pray prepard to flight And round about the noble garter donne With sword and crowne to shew the more his might From end to end he throweth downe and levels all Famous is his ensigne bright on earth and brackish wave And Mars the jarring God resignes his right and all Both honor arms and resteth as his slave Neptune now afraid and skared in his flood By view of noble Charles and his famous fleet Resignes his name of God his rule and all his good To Howard he that of the same was meet With everlasting name and scepter he remaines For serving so his Queene in hazard great and paines The copie of a letter which Diego Perez Post-master of Logron̄o wrote in confirmation of the victorie against England in the Ocean sea dated the 2. Septemb. 1588. THis day is the English newes confirmed by a letter from the governor of Roan who writeth that he hath in his power the chiefe Pilot of captaine Drake and that he knoweth that all the English Navy was utterly discomfited 25. ships sunke and about 40. taken and Francis Drake prisoner having chased them as far as Abspurg and put manie to the sword saieng that there was found in Drakes ship a peece of 25. spans of one kintall of munition made of purpose with one onely shot to sinke the Admirall of Spaine but it pleased God though she was hurt therwith yet she was repaired againe and overcame the English fleete The Answer I Would never have thought Sen̄or Diego Perez that so wittingly a man of your account and Postmaster of Logron̄o shoulde settle himselfe so lightly to write matters so voide of reason But I marvell not for that your post horses are such yerkers whose plungings have set you quite besides the saddell In the examining of Notaries intreating of the manner how to examine them it is recorded that one being demanded by the examinars how he would make a false writing that yet should be available he answered By bringing for witnes the dead and those of strange countries and unknowen of such an occasion me thinks you would advantage your selfe but let us see master Post how you shamed not to bring for witnes of such a falshood the Governor of Roan which is not a man of such lightnes as you paint him to be sith you lade him with such a lie for he is rather a man of a verie ripe understanding a sharpe wit considerat and very warie and finally accompanied with many perfections and so you have overseene your selfe in bringing such a witnes for the making your false writing good for though he be of a strange countrie yet he is well knowen and his vertues every where I can tell thee one thing that when the English Armada should have been lost and the Governor of Roan certainly advised thereof yet would he doubt and never have written it for that it would be hard for him either to write or beleeve it not so much in regard that the English Navie should simply be invincible or more strong than the Spanish but for that it belongs to a Catholike Queene and so justly imploied as in the defence of Christian religion their houses people and subjects and in defence of the goods of the poore the lives of the afflicted pilgrims and disinherited strangers If in many places of the sacred scripture God commandeth a regard to be had of the widowe the poore the pupill of the orphan and stranger and if this English Armada was in defence of all these and for the propagation of the Christian religion matters wherof the Governor of Roan was not ignorant how then would you have him to write you a thing which in his opinion is contrarie to the will of God You alledge a notable reason to confirme the losse of the English Armada as to say that Francis Drake is prisoner I grieve not a little to see now how apparantly Spaine is given to lie For what Iulius Caesar what Scipio or what Alexander assaulted the Admirall under whom Drake was to take him but a Duke that knew no better than to flie him thereby to bereave him of a woonderfull victorie yea one of the greatest that had ever beene atchieved in the world and if thou knowest it not it is good that thou know that now Iulius Caesar liveth not Pompeie is dead Scipio forgotten Alexander banished Iudas Machabeus sleepeth Hector is slaine Achilles is no more Nor none of those whose theaters fame so adorned live now in remembrance of this present age and the reason is for as the stars shine not by reason of the force of the sunne so all those aforenamed in respect of the valor of the Lord high Admirall and Sir Francis Drake are of no account For more than Achilles Charles more than Hector Drake more than Machabee Charles more than Alexander Drake more than Scipio Charles more than Pompey Drake more than Caesar Charles and finally more than al the rest and for that thou maist comprehend part of the greatnes and valor of Drake Read this Sonet seeing you may have read that of the excellent Lord high Admirall SONET SO was the name of Salomon disperst and spred at large By winged fame in voice and stately song So that no wight alive but gladly was at charge And tooke the paine to see him still among From

Themistocles and the Siracusans to Hermocrates and Dion and the Romanes to Camillus and Rutilus and to Metellus And Cato Vticensis being nothing covetous nor Hercules at any time a coward Plutarch mentioneth that they noted Cato for covetous and Hercules for a coward Finally all men of great and heroicall virtues are envied and wounded by the evill toong for even as the shadow accompanieth the bodie so doth envie pursue vertue and from hence it groweth that the vertuous are so murmured at and persecuted by the wicked O England England and how art thou bound to give immortal thanks to God in seeing thy selfe persecuted and murmured at by so many an evident signe and probable token that thou art the citie of the most highest To those whome God loveth he sendeth troubles prooving them as Gold in the fornace And to his beloved people in Egypt he sent many and sundry scourges and this bicause he loved them The troubles of the just saith David are great and addeth foorthwith but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Even so thee O England hath the Lord delivered frō all thy troubles from so mightie an Armada from so much death from so many and sundrie kinds of torments as having bin overcome thou must of necessitie have tasted from these tribulations hath he delivered thee by his strong hand giving thee such valiant captaines If he gave to the people of Israell for they bringing out of Egypt a Moyses an Aaron and a Marie To thee he hath given a most Christian and puissant Queene adorned with sundrie vertues a Charles Howard a Francis Drake and manie others whom the Lord had ordained kept long before for the defence of his universal church this particular kingdome which all he yet stil preserveth for greater matters and what these thy woorthies ô England made not an end of in performing thy totall deliverance the rest did the wind the sea the rocks the sand the heavens the fowle and the fish and now lastly he delivereth thee of the untruthes wherein thine enimies boasted and slandered thee putting time for the unfolding of deceit fame for the proclaimer and truth for the certaine proofe and so their slanders and false publications remaine al untwisted But returning to my purpose Saint Anastasius saith that even as he who taketh up a viper in his hands to throw to another to bite him is first bitten of the viper himselfe so the malicious and murmurer that would persecute and infame the just doth first persecute himselfe and remaines infamed and desirous to bite the fame of another slaieth his owne soule for there is no byting of Viper or Aspe so poisonsome as the malice of the perverse But this cannot sinke into their understanding which murmur at vertue charge hir with vice and with falshood make that which is good seeme ill and of stocks make stones like to the fountaine in Almaine whereof Albertus Magnus maketh mention Of the number of these me seemeth that the Postmaster is seeing of the peace and affinitie which is betweene the English and the Scots he wil make wars saieng that the Scottishmen had taken weapon against the English a most inconvenient thing and utterly unwoorthie to be beleeved for it were the very instrument for the Scots to strike off their owne heads withall to favor their enimies in arms and religion whereby to make them Lords of their houses and possessions And without all doubt had the Spaniards taken sure footing in this land they would never have staid till they had beene Lords also of Scotland and who can doubt it for the onely blazon now adaies amongst Spaniards is nothing els but NON SVFFICIT ORBIS as if they should say All the world is too little and they cannot see that their grave sufficeth them But such was the malice of him that wrote this letter that therwith he meant to stir up the minds of English men that there might be wars betweene two kingdoms borne of one bellie brethren in religion confederate in perfect peace and of one language in a maner and the health of the one depending in not damaging the other And this the Scottishmen knowing well when the Spanish ships passed by their coasts the King commanded to take weapon against them forbidding to permit any Spaniard to land this is the truth go not then about to make of stocks stones neither to give us to understand things so contrarie to reason In this prevention the King of Scots shewed plainly that he knew the kindled and loftie minds of the Spaniards who if they had landed imitating the Goads of whom they descend though it had been under the title of peace they would soone have reacht the crowne not so much to depose the King as to become Lords of the whole world and to shew their greatnes and courage Now in fine he that will see cleerly who these glosers are let him behold what they say and be attentive to their speeches and he shall see their putrified harts laid open Saint Ambrose saith that most commonly the looking-glasse of the soule shineth in the words Saint Hierom saith that the words which issue foorth are the signes of that which remaineth within this is also asentence of Aristotle Saint Bernard saith that the mouth is a gate and servant of the hart Socrates saith that such as the man is such is his talke Themistocles compareth men that be silent unto pictures rold up and inclosed and those who talke and use speech to pictures spred abroad and laid open If thou wilt know what pictures there are in a linnen cloth painted in Flaunders spread it abroad would you know whereof the hart of a man is painted be conversant with him What need we more Christ our Saviour saith that Of the abundance of the hart the mouth speaketh and that by our words we shall be justified or condemned Well knowen and manifestly do the writers of these letters shew heere their want of charitie and as to the sonnes of leazings it may be said unto them You have the Divell for your father This seemeth unto me like that which we reading the sacred Scripture where the incontinent mistresse of chaste Ioseph condemned him of incontinencie and the proud Hebrewes condemned divine Moses of pride and the unruly Absolon reprehended David of ill government and the mischievous Rabshaketh living by deceit accused the innocent king Hezechiah of deceit Even so the writers of these fabulous letters they being the vanquished publish themselves victors and the Englishmen by the divine favor being conquerors they accuse them for vanquished and they being those that disquiet this kingdome and make war against it lay the fault upon the Scottish men publishing them for our enimies and that they tooke armes against English men and they being the swift inventors of these novelties so false they accuse the Governor of Roan of an inventor and lightnes and the like they lay