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A55438 The Pope's advice to his sons a conference in the Castle St. Angelo between the Pope, the Emperour, and the King of Spain : printed from an ancient manuscript. 1679 (1679) Wing P2926; ESTC R8672 6,767 13

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untrusty And be our Foes so many and so lusty One Innocent in Rome in former Ages Hath us'd three Kings for Lacqueys and for Pages And dare they now against our liking make Both Kings and Caesars Then ye Furies wake Help me to store of Pistols Poisons Knives To Fire and Powder Manacles and Gives Bid * Raviliac murder'd Henry III. and Clement Henry IV. of France Lopez was executed for attempting to poison Qu. Elizabeth And Faux and Garnet the Provincial of the Jesuits were the chief Actors in the Powder Plot. Ignatians Jesuits so called from Ignatius Loyola their first Founder Ravilac and Clement hie them hither Let Lopez Faux and Garnet come together Come ye Ignatiuns bring Assissinates Left-handed Eliuds that do rule the Fates And cut the Threds of Princes Lives asunder These Roman Scevola's shall make men wonder To see the upstart King with his Partakers In every Nation slaughter'd by Massacries I 'll raise up Parsons Parsons wrote a Book against King James 's Succession to the Crown of England in behalf of the Infanta of Spain Suarez Bellarmine Loyola's self their Father and refine All Humane Wit to one pure Quintescence Against whose Virtue shall be no defence Therefore Fair Sons at nothing be dismay'd Remember what your Father now hath said You to Vienna you to Sivil go Help as you may to give the Fatal Blow King of Spain Come Lerma look not sadly on thy Friend But let 's with Spanish Patience wait the end Pope and Cardinal Cardinal Father what news with Caesar what with Spain Why are they both so soon gone home again What strange Disaster makes thee look so sad Whose Fair Aspect was wont to make men glad Pope Thou art my Son my Friend my Cabinet Of Secrets lock'd from others Thou I 'll let Know all my hidden Thoughts my Doubts my Fears And how these Austrians left me drown'd in tears Yet in their presence I my Sorrow hid Seem'd fearless careless confident and bid Them second Roman Wisdom with their Strength And they should see these Dutchmen bleed at length But now a thousand thoughts upon me seize Concerning Friends and Foes which much displease Wherefore say some thing prethee to relieve me For thou wer 't wont to help when ought did grieve me Cardinal 'T is not for King nor Caesar thou art sick Thou dread'st the Name of Emp'rour Spain's a Prick In both thy sides whose Neighbourhood and Growth Rome ever hated Why then art thou loth The Dutch should pare their Nails unto the quick E'r they be longer grown and then do kick At thy Authority like Charles their Father Who like the Heathen Goths sack'd Rome Nay rather If France again claim Naples seize on Milain Or on Navar. Let me me be held a Villain If I see cause of shedding but a Tear For weak'ning him whose Strength so much we fear But thus the Faction of more feared Foes Thou 'lt say is stronger and more dreadful grows And Bohemians and Hungarians Losses Make open way to further nearer Crosses First to the Iron then to the Triple Crown And so we hazard all if Fortune frown As though Bohemian's King were like the Day-star Forerunning Phoebus and must needs be Caesar Or that from Prague or Hidelburg he will Adventure o're the Alps to us and fill The World with Tumult Italy will fear To see his Lance-Knights or his Reysters here These are Chimera's Bugbears Fancies Toys Fit to fright Absaloms or some little Boys Not wise Italians Cardinals or Popes Who know that Towns are not pull'd down with Ropes Think you the Palsgrave or this * Prince of Dacia claiming the Hungarian Crown and commanding a puissant Army against the Emperour Bethlem Gabor Will not account their Wages worth their Labour If he Bohemia this Hungaria keep And in their new Possessions safely sleep Is' t like they will adventure all their Winnings T' aspire the Empire on so small beginnings Or if they should when Ferdinand is dead Set the Imperial Crown on Frederick's Head Another Adolph he were like to be When Error in their Choice th' Electors see For who shall guard their Frontiers ' gainst the Turks But Austria whose they are What danger lurks Under the Greatness of this Transylvanian Who to the Turk 's a Friend and a Companion The Hereticks themselves would see their Error When once the Heat were past and that new terror From Turks and Catholicks had hem'd them round And then to our advantage they 'd compound But say the Turks be still and we endure To see the Palsgrave triumph seated sure In Caesar's Chair can any one suppose That he 's not yet contented with our Woes Or that he 'll elevate his thoughts so high To think on Rome or look towards Italy Why 't were a harder task to undertake Than Caius Julius Caesar's self did make When o're the other Alps from France he came ' Gainst Rome and Pompey to his lasting Fame Yet let 's admit this Youth dares more than he Or like Macedon's Alexander be Must his Success he like why nothing less For one may dare that 's dying you 'll confess The Romans then were most of Caesar's Faction He had their Heads for Counsel Hands for Action But Frederick now hath neither Head nor Hand 'Twixt Trent and Rheggium on his part to stand And if the modern Action of the Gauls Th' old being fearless now thy Heart appales To think how Charles of Valois came like Thunder Brought Milan Naples Genoua Florence under Within few months Or how another Charles Of Bourbon did besiege and after Parles Assaulted won and sack'd this famous City Whose Souldiers to the Clergy shew'd no pity Alas thou know'st Valesius was invited By Lod'wick's Force when he was disunited From Naples for usurping Milan's Crown And so the State of Italy went down And as for Bourbon 't was a Civil War He manag'd here at home came not from far Who to relieve his own and Souldier's need To unprovided Rome he runs with speed Our Land is now united rich and strong Who can who dares to do us any wrong Porsenna a King of Hetruria who besieged Rome on Tarquin 's quarrel Mutius Scaevola a Nobleman of Rome went into Porsenna 's Camp in the habit of a Beggar with an intent to kill him And if Porsenna could revive once more We'd have a Mutius Scaevola in store Thus is the Falshood of thy Fears detected And I have answer'd all can be objected Not from the Promises to Peter's Chair Which we in secret count not worth an hair But from sound Reasons whereon we may rest And at the Folly of our Foes may jest Wherefore put on the Spirit of * This Hildebrand made the Emperour Henry IV. wait before his Palace bare-footed without any food from morning till night before he would admit him into his Presence Hildebrand And neither King nor Prince can thee withstand Pope Ah my dear Heart thy words are passing sweet