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A20596	The masque of the League and the Spanyard discouered wherein, 1. The League is painted forth in all her collours. 2. Is shown, that it is not lawfull for a subiect to arme himselfe against his king, for what pretence so euer it be. 3. That but few noblemen take part with the enemy: an aduertisement to them co[n]cerning their dutie. To my Lord, the Cardinall of Burbon. Faythfully translated out of the French coppie: printed at Toures by Iamet Mettayer, ordinarie printer to the king.; Masque de la Ligue et de l'Hispagnol decouvert. English	L. T. A., fl. 1592.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1592 (1592)	STC 7; ESTC S100421	72,125	152

could alleadge so that Saule acknowledging his humanity by the demonstrations he had of Dauid at his comming forth of the Caue he fell into teares and thus spake vnto Dauid Thou art more righteous then I for thou hast rendred me good whereas I intended thee euill and thou hast shewed mee this daie the good thou hast doone me for asmuch as when the Lord had gyuen me into thy handes yet thou wouldest not kill me For who shall find his enemie and let him depart into a good waie wherefore the Lord will reward thee with good for that which thou hast done vnto me this day And nowe I beholde and knowe for a certaintie that thou shalt be King and the kingdome of Israell shall be stablished in thy hands Such were the words of Saule to Dauid beholding the humanitie Dauid had vsed towards him by which pardoning of hys enemy he aduaunced hym and was so farre of from beeing auenged as hee withdrewe himselfe from his right of raigning in the Kingdome which God had giuen him I cannot omit in thys case another deede of Dauid toward Saule The Ziphians being come to Saule in Gibea aduertised him that Dauid was hid in the Mountaine of Hachilah which was face to face before the Desert of Iesimon Then Saule renuing hys mortall enmity against Dauid accompanied himselfe with three thousand able men and pitched his Campe on the Mountaine of Hachilah Nowe Dauid dwelled in the wildernes and knew by hys espials that Saule was come neere him wherfore in the night hee came to the place where Saule had placed his Campe and hymselfe slept within the Fort hys Tents beeing pitched rounde about him and very neere him was Abner the sonne of Ner the chiefe Captaine of hys Armie Which Dauid perceiuing discended into that place with Abisay approched neere his enemy Saule when Abisay thus spake to Dauid God hath closed thine enemie into thy hand this day now I pray thee let me smite him once with my speare to the earth and I will not stirre a foote from thee wherto Dauid answered I will not haue him smitten for what is he can lay his hand on the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse And Dauid said furthermore So truelie as the Lorde liueth no harme shall be doone him but rather God shall smite him or his day shal come to die or he shall discend into battaile and there perish The Lord will keepe me from luying my hand vpon his holie and annointed but I pray thee onelie take hys Speare that standes at his heade and his Cruse of water and so let vs depart Thus Dauid contented hymselfe wyth thys brauado euer-more declaring hym to be no way excusable that should attempt any thing against the person of the King Let me say beside that Saule beeing slaine in the fight against the Philistines and Dauid hearing tydings of hys death was very sorrowfull and vsed meruailous lamentations commaunding him to be brought before hym that had cut off his heade who thought to delight hym with bringing the head of Saule saying that he had doone him to death when Dauid mooued with pitty and anger How is it quoth he that thou wast not afraid to lay thine hand on the Lords annointed Thy blood be vppon thine owne heade for thine owne mouth hath testified against thee saying I haue slaine the Lords annointed All the water of the Sea cannot then serue to wash the murderers of the late King neyther shall any of them be held excusable that pursue the life and estate of hys successour our vertuous and most valiant Prince But thou alleadgest the Prouerbe common among the barbarous Si ius violandum est regnandi gratia violandum est If right be to be violate for a kingdoms sake it is to be violate Wherfore then vsest thou the pretence of Religion and common-good to ouer-throw the most simple with these deceits Thys prouerbe is of Tyrants and Atheists who regard not that God is the reuenger of Kings and returneth euill to such as enterprise against theyr estates VVhat aduauncement receiued Absalon listning to the pernitious counsell of Achitophell and following it attempted against the person of King Dauid hys Father What happened to Adonia who thought to vsurpe the Realme against Salomon hauing deceiued the Mother of the King as very well it was made knowne vnto him afterward How is it chaunced to those who to the hard hap of Fraunce taking a morsell wyth the Spanish enemie and the trecherous League haue troubled thys estate Howe will it fall out with such who after beeing in fauour wyth the coniuration dyd by a Monke murder the late King let them not now stand doubting seeing that GOD is iust But to confute the colloured obiection of the Leaguers at thys day who say that the King is of a contrary Religion and thereby pretende an excuse for theyr conspiracie Haue they not read in the holy Scripture that Ieroboam king of Samaria had raiected the auncient Religion VVhat Prophet perswaded to make war against hym Hys Sonne dyed of disease because of hys sinne the ruine of his Realme was fore-told him but not executed by hys Subiects offenders against the Law of God Great euils befell to Achab the Realme of Israell for hauing brought in new Religion by the perswasion of Iezabell Daughter to the King of the Sidonites false Prophets were permitted the Altars were destroyed and the better sort of people put to death Neuerthelesse Elias the chiefe Prophet of that tyme albeit he was of wonderfull zeale yet did not hee cōmaunde that any one shoulde rise against the King The Prophets of God were hid in Caues an hundred in one place and an hundred in an other secretly nourished with simple breade and water the good men of behauiour afflicted on all sides and yet was none of them offended with the King or any enterprise prepared against hys person The Prophet onely shewed him his sinne and that GOD would punish it by drought three yeeres and a halfe but who euer read that hee incited any one to contend against his Prince Farre off from him was quae vim vi repelleret he willed none to repulse violence with violence and so to deliuer their Countrey but hearing that Iezabell sought for him to put him to death he referred vengeance to the hand of God only who sheweth himselfe a Reuenger when any one is vniustlie punished by the Magistrate whome no man is permitted to resiste with armes according as it happened to Achab and Iezabell For besides the death of many Prophets they caused righteous Naboth to bee murthered thereby vniustly to gette his Vineyarde and then our God who reserued the punishments heereof till conuenient time suffered Achab to endure such necessitie as hee ouerthrewe himselfe and was slaine As for Iezabell shee was throwne from the height of a Towre by her Eunuches rent in peeces with dogs her members

most part made prodigall expence of theyr bloode for the defence of thys most royall estate see ye not now how a stranger would rauish and carry it away Will ye be so blinded as to imploy your forces in so bad a cause Are ye so vnnaturall as willingly to betray your King and Countrey Will ye turne your backes in so true and iust a cause and subiect your selues to the iniurious rebellion of the Leaguers The other Lordes and confederates of this Crowne are mooued with vs and resolued to pursue such monstrous iniustice will you then be so blinded deceiued with the false inducements and perswasions of the League as to maintaine the ruine and ouerthrow of the estate and of your owne selues likewise Ah that it might please yee to lende your eares a while to this my simple and not deceyuing declaration perhaps some one of you being touched either with hate enuie or some other discontentment or the bond of affection he beares to the chiefe of the contrary part vvill enter into consideration that he cannot do this without blemish to his honour and reputation which hee ought to esteeme more deere than any thing else so that rather then he will consent to such a detestable rebellion generall spoile of his natiue Country the loue wherof he ought to preferre before all other vaine passions hee will imitate the example of worthy Scipio Africanus who thought it better to withdraw himselfe to Linternum then bee the cause of trouble and sedition in Rome albeit the Common-wealth had dealt with him very vnthankfully Would yee my Lords purchase the tytles of Rebelles with this rude heape of people which cannot agree with you in that betweene your courage and those of the vulgare sort there is no simpathie or likelihoode but euen so great a difference as is betweene vice vertue Wold ye my Lords haue the dishonored name of factious enemies against the king the estate Ah thinke what a hell and eternall infamie followes such as are cōdemned of high treason breach of faith and rebellion are ye ignorant that the end of all pernitious complots deuised by rebels by the help of God return to their own euerlasting shame and confusion In euery Kingdome Common-wealth we ought principally to regard the benefit therof For if the Estate be in prosperitie as saith Thucidides euery one particulerly shal profit feele the blessing therof but if it be destroyed ouerthrownt all the particuler members notwithstanding whatsoeuer Treasure or riches they haue shall therwith bee lost and vtterly spoiled When I speake of the good of the Common-wealth I meane not onely the riche hazarde of fortune but also ●ne good more firme and assured to the better part of man which is of the Spirit wherby the commōwealth is made more happie and is defended against all the assaults of Fortune In a priuate mans house are these vertues in a Common-wealth good lawes and manners prescribed and established by wise Kings Princes Gouernors and soueraigne Magistrates to well order command gouern their seruants in a direct compasse y e people likewise to obey dutifully thereby to liue in peace and tranquillitie For the felicitie of men and of the Common-wealth commeth both from one selfe same fountaine to wit reason which ought to rule in all things and such are the Citties as are the Cittizens whose liues and behauiour makes the Cittie happie or vnhappie Plato in the Cittie which he reformed instituted two kind of disciplines the one for the exercise of the spirit which he called Musique to wit an harmonie or concordance of the spirite when the actions agree consent with the vertues The other was for the exercise of the bodie which he tearmed Gymnas●eum which augmented and maintained the strength of the body to declare y t these two exercises coupled together did vpholde an estate pollitique as they make a man fit and aptly composed Will not you my Lords trauaile to recouer this good quiet for your coūtry Will ye yet longer time consent to their disorders and insolencies that doe nothing else but hinder vs from this good Ma●e ye so little account of your honour as to hold hand with them in their execrable complots You should immitate the Pilot who least the shippe should be altogether rent and mangled wisely fore-seeth aduiseth least he should be accounted wise after the hurt is receiued For it is a most simple and foolish kind of speech to say after the iniurie and daunger is gotten I neuer thought on this When the ship is beaten with outragious tempests so fiercly assailed with the windes as there remaines no hope of bringing her to some Porte whereby she might escape the perrill and ship-wracke the skill of the Pilot then serues him to no purpose The shun you these Rockes flye from these tempests dangers in due time although yee beginne when it is almost ouer-late yet me thinkes he saide wisely that better is late then not at all But if on the side you now follow you vainlie promise your selues some happie issue of your guilefull deseignes imaginations consider my Lordes what our Elders haue saide Man hath desire in his power but not Fortune for what shall happen is unknowen to man Let the Leaguers purpose what they will deuise theyr enterprises and the execution of them leuey so many men and strange forces as they can and vse what stratagemes shall come into their heades yet the diuine prouidence who hath established in this estate the order of Sup●rioritie and the Maiestie royall whereby to command vs with the most happie and assured forme of a Common-wealth As I haue already saide will dispose of all according to his infallible and neuer changing will In vaine then doe these Rebels repose their trust on strange forces against him that can consume them all and their imaginarie deliberations which are no other as Pindarus saieth of man then a dreame or shaddowe The hopes of mortall men remooue many thinges sometimes high sometimes lowe feeding but on vaine fantasies and oppinions There is no man living in the worlde that canne conceiue a certaine signe of his future actions because of things to come the councels are concealed and many occasions happen to men farre different from their liking and expectation Yet some there are that being smitten with tempests of griefe and sorrowe immediatly the euill is turned into as great a good These thinges you shoulde thinke on that attende an vniust cause of Rebelles who haue troubled the estate slaine their King and nowe continue disobedient to their Prince whome GOD by lawefull succession hath giuen vs that they will bee deceiued in their attempts and all theyr opinions are but vayne and friuolous They imagine one thing and an other will happen they thinke to ouer-goe the Estate by the force and assistance of the Spanyard and the Spanyard will vanquish and spoile

affection But who would not dis-robe thee of thy shadow false Venus seeing it is nothing else but gold siluer all sorts of stones about thee with Perfume Amber Muske and Ciuet that thus makes thee smell so sweete as violets Thy garment is bordered about with certaine Ciphers onely vnderstoode by thy principall Cabalists with diuers Letters and Charracters wrought on the imbroyderie carrying thys report This is the Sanctuarie or defence of the Catholique religion and of the Common-weale All the forepart and exteriour shew of thy body is fayre yet semblable to painted and guilded Sepulchers that containes within them nothing but loth-some smels and rotten bones farre dyffering from theyr goodly appearaunce yet like to that deceite shrowded with the Mantle of hypocrisie Thou hast gotten Archers for the guard of thy person who on their best coates beare the double Crosse of Ierusalem but on the other the red Crosse with teares In what part soeuer thou marchest thou art followed wyth a great Court of all sorts of people because thou giuest heere and bestowest there Thou makest some Marshals of Fraunce others Gouernours others Chauncellours others Presidents others Secretaries at commaund others Counsellers of thy Priuie counsell and the brotherhood despoyling the better sorte of their Offices and substituting thy seruaunts So manie boot-halers so many Banck-rupts so manie shamelesse persons come to kisse thy hande each one striuing who shall beare thy Commissions so full of profit who shall first extort a gyft by falsly giuing the Pope to vnderstand the fulminations against the death of the Prince who is in Spayne who is in Flaunders who in Lorraine who in Sauoy When thou shewest thy selfe in publique these poore Brokers of thy Colledge these Carriers of rogations these Graplers for benefices and pencions these Fishers with Crosses these Preachers for reward with the gesture habite and Castillane countenaunce goe publishing with hart and voyce See heere the blood of Charlemaine see heere the enemie to the Heretiques and Pollitiques And thys is but to beguile the valiant Princes that take part with thee as some haue written to wit the Authour of the Booke called Stemmata Lotharingiae in thus blazing thy discent euen as thou deceiuedst brought to a poore end the couragious Duke of Guyse his Brother who but for thee the onely cause of their losse had much credite and many honours in thys Realme And not long since vnder thy shadow I saw a band of Armed men breaking and renting the armes of Fraunce vnder the authoritie and conduct of a simple Attorney at this day named Bussi who hauing doone violence to iustice forced perforce the Senate against the Senate alas led captiues and prysoners the chiefe of Harley the example of constancie and only president of vertue as also the other principall Officers of the Court to the Dungeons in the Bastille which at thys day remaineth in his hand Fayre Goddesse one can heare nothing more openly cryed by thy back-bearers then thy cōmendations and panegiricall prayses and contrariwise the execrations of Henrie of Valeys and of the Bearn-nish-man he is not the sonne of a good Mother that rayles not against them who so holdes his peace is thought a suspicious person a pollitique and a Huguenot By how many sundry waies hast thou dealt against the very cinders and ashes of that good King since thy violent hands so bloodily murdred him And how at this instant doost thou baffle and abuse our lawfull King his successour who deserues not this Empire alone but as Alexander had the whole world Albeit thou art throwne down from this thy greatnes and that notwithstanding thy pollicies thou canst not reach I will not say to thy desseignes but to the step frō which thou art with-held by by the strength of our Alcides very neer vanquished yet neuertheles thou presumest neere Paris with thy Duke of Parma whome thou tearmest thy Deliuerer thou makest the earth tremble where thou pacest thou hastest to the succour but indeede the generall ruine rather of this sincke of all filth this Babylon Paris where as a Shyp without a guide thy followers flote alofte with euery guscke of winde ready to endure shyp-wracke and fall from Scilla into Charibdis or run on the ineuitable rocke of thy imminent end and destruction Nowe the Spanyards discerne thee abounding infurie like the wounded beast at the wild Bore pursued or the chafed bul therfore they nourish thee with the succour of thy sworne enemie execrable Enion furthering thy charmes wherwith continually thou bewitchest the people that thou with them mayest be confounded together What need thy borne-foe stir further thy selfe holdest the weapon on thy peoples throats if they speake of peace or returning to duetie thou dis-armest them thou killest them thou hangest them thou cuttest their throats thou castest them into the Riuers Thou hast no care of the extreame calamitie of so many poore people of the strange necessity want wherby thou hast and still doost send forceably to wracke so many innocents so many artizans and Husbandmen who liue as it were but from this day vntyll to morrowe If they leaue thee thou watchest them with Spyes to robbe spoile and lastly kill them but let vs not abash our selues hereat for at all times thou hast been cruell and onely feedest thy selfe with theftes spoiles blood and pittilesse murders Thou deuillish Circes hast had recourse to one like thy selfe to be maintained and conserued in nature and reason alike but heere thou wilt prooue to haue a contrary and far different issue Thou art cruel and callest to thy helpe all kinde of crueltie to holde for euer if thou couldest thy Babylon slaue like to thy tyranny if thy associats did not surmount out-goe thee Thou now makest thy selfe strong with Spanyards thy freendes who at all times haue beene enemies to the honest minded French the cruelties of them committed in Fraunce in Italie and in Flaunders haue beene manifested enough vnto vs and as yet remaine fresh in our memorie But if wee would see how they haue imployed their industrie to make themselues renowmed with the Prototype first patterne and mould of all barbarous crueltie let vs read the hystorie of the horrible insolencies and detestable tyrannies exercised by them of late memorie in the West Indiaes vnder the raigne of Charles the fift and Phillip his sonne they Atlas and thy chiefest Minnion Thys Historie is written by a Spanyard himselfe named D. F. Bartholmew de las Casas a religious man and a Bishop and out of the Castilliane tongue was turned into French Good GOD how cruell did this Sarrasin shewe himselfe in his tyrannous conquest of Portugale where hee murdred and massacred the faithfull Subiects of the King Don Antonio and martyred an hundred or sixe-score Ecclesiasticall persons men of worth and good qualitie as also the poore religious men that tooke not part with him Thou shouldest forsake this