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A11808	The second part of Vox populi, or Gondomar appearing in the likenes of Matchiauell in a Spanish parliament wherein are discouered his treacherous & subtile practises to the ruine as well of England, as the Netherlandes faithfully transtated [sic] out of the Spanish coppie by a well-willer to England and Holland.; Vox populi. Part 2	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 22104; ESTC S116994	34,288	68

stormes You are not ignorant how there is now a Parliament holden in England that bode vs no good in Holland a dayly consultation with present preparation In France a Councell together with an vnaminity of Kings and Peeres for some great vndertaking How nerely then concernes it vs of Spaine to be vigilant and to looke about vs first for the maintenance and aduancement of the Catholique Religion and holy Church Secondly for the defence of his Maiesties Kingdomes and Territories Thirdly to heare the grieuances of the people groaning vnder the heauy burthen of exaction and oppression though the couetuousnesse of publique offices Fourthly for the supply of the Treasury which a late hath beene much exhausted partly by preparation by Sea against our Common enemies Turkes and Hollanders and partly by the extraordinary entertainment of Charles Prince of Wales the charge wherof amounted to 49. thousand Ducates Fift and lastly for giuing the world satisfaction and the taking away of those vile scandales and imputations which euen within these few dayes haue beene and are hourely cast vpon vs especially as they giue it out in dealing doubly and dishonorably with England concerning the Treaty of the Match He hauing ended the D. of Braganza the next began thus I am sorry that I liue to see the day that the Honor of Spaine which was wont to dazle the eye of Europe with the vnsufferable splendor of its brightnesse should now be ouer cast with the blacke cloud of disgrace and the name of a Spaniarde so redoubted ouer the world become branded with the infamous attributes and epithites of false ambitious proud and cruell and those Nations who were wont to adore vs for our faith contemne and scorne vs now for treachery and falshood Certes loyalty and the Religious obseruance of our promises and faith was anciently held our prime vertue insomuch that Fey de Spagna grew into a Prouerbe like the gold of Ophir out valewing any other that I speake no new thing or vntruth you may plainely perceiue it by the multitude of discourses pamphlets and pasquills that are dayly vented against vs from all parts of the World wherein wee art iested at derided disgraced by verses and vnseemely Pictures especially of late dayes from Holland France and England yea as I vnderstand in songs and Ballades sung vp and downe the Streetes in many places whence this imputation vpon so iust and braue a Nation so potent a Monarch at the brandishing of whose sword Europe trembles should proceede I cannot ghesse yet desire to be satisfied herein in the King my Mr. and kinsmans behalfe my kinsman for you all know my neere alliance vnto his Maiesty and my Poesie may intimate no lesse vnto the world which is Pues vos nos after you we being next in blood if the issue Royall should faile But I am a fraide the ill carriage of some priuate men at home perhaps our Embassadors in For. raine parts haue throwne this aspersion vpon vs hauing eyther giuen abroad to many ouertures of our designes or attempted their ends with ouermuch hast and violence which in time and by gentle hand might haue beene easier won as a bough whose fruite we meane to gather is brought downe by degrees which else might breake and we loose our longing Surely in the first me thinke our Nation should not easily offend we being esteemed the most close and reserued to our selues in the world as the euent of our greatest and most important actions haue sufficiently shewne Did we not in 88. carry our businesse for England so cunningly and secretly as well in that well dissembled treaty with the English neere Ostend whereto for vs were deputed Aremberge Champigny Richardot and other as in bringing our Nauy to their shores while their Commanders and Captaines were at bowles vpon the hoe of Plimouth and had my Lord Alonso Guzman the Duke of Medina Sidonia had but the resolution but in truth his Commission was otherwise he might haue suprized them as they lay at Anker and the like In Ireland when Don Ivan d' Aquila had gotten footing in the Irish ground ere any of the mist How were our plots and correspondence with Biron carryed with infinite the like examples Touching the latter the Spanish Nation hath of all other in the world beene held for the most sober stayd and wise and were wont neuer to attempt any thing but vpon great and long aduice accounting it with Quintus Fabius more honorable to bee accounted droanes or cowards then to hazard our affaires or Armies French like onely in a vaine-glorious hastinesse to gaine the Honor of charging the first So that it seemeth strange to me that we haue I know not vpon what grounds incurred the hate and scorne of other Nations and that we especially of the Nobility should be thought ill of since of Nobility ours of Spaine hath beene euer held the most illustrious and eminent of the world The Duke hauing made an end Gondomar easily raysing himselfe from his chayre wherein he sat vpon two downe pillowes and resting himselfe vpon a little Brasill staffe spake as followeth My Lords I can deriue this slaunder of our Country and hate of our selues from no other fountaine then the Fanaticall humors and distracted spirits of some of the English who find themselues not a little gall'd and vexed with our politique delayes heretofore and now our finall reiection and I hope shaking hands with that Hereticall Nation for euer for if your Alteses and Honors will but consider what aduenture and boote we haue made by them I thinke you will say we might well endure these British Northen and cold blasts meane time in so suffering for our Catholique King and in the Catholique cause we ought to take such approbry rather as an Honor vnto vs then otherwise Moreouer if we shall consider who are the Authors of these lying Plamphlets wee shall finde to proceede from the pennes of light and vnstayed wits with intent eyther to winne the opinion of good intelligencers and statistes together with the aiery applause of the Vulgar or to rayse to their desperate Fortunes when the tempest is ouer as it oft hath happened and now likely we being fallen off from England and the Treaty at an end Yea but quoth the Duke of Medina Caeli what should be the reason of that inbred and Naturall hate the common people of England should beare to vs and our Country aboue any Nation in the world the Hollanders Turkes and Indians excepted Arch. B. Toledo Quoth the Arch-bishop of Toledo herein we are much deceiued for his Catholique Maiesty and our selues all haue very many faithfull and fast friends in England who would not sticke to hazard their liues and fortunes in the Seruice of his Maiesty might time and occasion be offered yea and some none of the meanest The Marquesse of Castello Rodrig then arising vp with a graue countenance and a deliberate vtterance said is it possible that any place

or the Treaty of the Match a whit since he found here the greatest content he could deuise he had a sight of the Lady Maria la Infanta his Mistris whose selfe knowne and seene exceeded her fame he was entertained and attended vpon by the most compleate and generous Nobles of Europe and had that entertainment no Nation could afford the like Lastly Maiorem habemus fidem ijs quae occulis vsurpamus quam quae auribus haurimus Quoth the Duke of Escalonia the effect hath fallen out quite contrary for the English report since their comming home they neuer came into a baser Countrey in their liues where they could get meat neither for themselues nor their horses Great want of victuall prouision in Spaine nor saw so much as one handfull of grasse in two hundred miles riding and if they dined at one place they were faine to goe 30. or 40. miles ere they could get any thing to their supper He that surfers are a Spaniards Table trust me I will pay for his physicke and then perhaps a peece of leane Kid or Cabrito a Tripe Tone's or such like indeede I remember when the Prince lay at Madrid wee were faine to send seauenteene miles off for a Calfe for his Highnesse dyet as for Mutton we may kill none without especiall Licence from the King for fish our Riuers affoord none and wee being most temporate our selues how should our dyet agree with their stomackes who are accounted the greatest feeders of the World I verily beleeue indeede quoth Gondomar that those places they call in England East-cheape and Smith-field Barres kills and vtters more Beefe and Mutton in a month then all Spaine cats in seauen yeares which plenty our men meeting withall at our first comming ouer into England and since some who attended Don Iniosa as I lately heard did ouer eat themselues and died shortly after The poore and miserable surface of our Country The Princes going ouer in person was happy for England quoth Escalona the scarcitie of victuall and hardnesse of lodging was not all the Prince of Wales by comming in Person discouered our plot and found how faire soeuer wee pretended wee meant nothing lesse when he thinking as also did the King of Great Brittaine his Father nothing had beene wanting to the absolute consummation of the marriage but the Rites of the Church he found all as Raw and as backward as he had beene all this while in a dreame and no such matter euer thought of so that he found the Honnor of our glorious entertainment to be but as a delicate sawce to help digestion The Marques of Castello Rodrigo then stepping vp said I will adde one thing more and whereof if he liues he vowes not to be vnmindfull of and that is as I am inform'd Adde moreouer the digging vp of tho bodies of our buried dead casting them into the Sea some affronts done him by the Clergie as that rude and barbarous putting him out of a Church which his Highnesse came in to view the arresting and taking away of a young youth a Page who attended I think on Maister Mounteague in a manner from his heeles which young Gentleman they say cannot be heard of to this day with that insolent and affrican pride of restraining him from that liberal accesse and conuerse not denied elsewhere to a meane person with the Lady Maria Infanta his Mistris which Princes by their his owne right may Challenge he being equivalent in birth and the rarest endowments of body and minde to any Prince whatsoeuer in the world with whom in all his time of his being here he had not aboue twice talked and then before either the Queene or your selfe Signior Olivares or some other if he had any thing to say afterward it was by vs to be penned to his hand and to be spoken before witnesse we must assuredly think and expect that so great and eminent a Prince and the darling of that Nation howsoeuer he could wisely smoother his discontent among vs in Spaine we may one day perhaps finde the fruites of our double dealing and the effects of his haught and incensed courage well knowing how like a young Lion though yet in his Denne and scarce acquainted with ranging his teeth and nayles are growne to that length that he is past iesting or playing withall Indeede my L. Olivares you are much blamed for that discouery and light you gaue to Buckingham of our designe The Infanta by her Faherts will bequeathed to the Emperors Sonne and the secret and tenor of the last Kings will wherein he charged vs not to match with England But rather to hold a faire Treaty with them hauing as you all know bequeathed Maria the Infanta to the Emperours Sonne so that now the English suppose themselues manifestly deluded Quoth the Duke of Sesa they know it well enough and I beleeue wee shall finde them so sensible of it that wee had beene better to haue playd faire then to hazard the loosing of our rest by such an encounter Now I pray you let vs take into our considerations the mischeifes which are like to follow First it is thought herevpon they haue called a Parliament which consisteth of the King Prince all the Lords Spirituall and Temporall or the Gentry and Commons of the ablest iudgments and vnderstanding in the Land vnto this Parliament the King they say hath wholy referred himselfe not onely for the examination and redresse of all abuses and misdemeanors at home but for the discussing and searching into all plots and practices of others abroad The Vnity sweet consent of the King his people in this present Parliameent obserued that may seeme any way to preiudice the quiet and well gouerned estate of his Kingdomes without interposition or mediation so that the King and people goe all on and together with that alacrity and constancy in prouiding for the good estate of the Kingdome as the like hath no beene seene these nany yeeares Prince CHARLES himselfe being there early and late assiduus accubuus amongst them whom I am informed with the Duke of Buckingham wee haue our prime and principall opposers A diffiernce betweene the Duke of Buckingham and Count Olivars which the Papist giue out though falsly to be the first occasion of the breach of the match I must confesse quoth Count Olivares there fell a difference betweene the Duke of Buckingham and my selfe which some haue rashly and inconsiderately giuen out to be the onely cause of this breach for they say before that time all things went forward in as faire a way as might be Indeede quoth Toledo the Catholikes of England haue so giuen it out laying all the fault vpon the Duke of Buckingham who is not guiltie of any such thing I will excuse him that peece was hammered vpon our owne Anuile Buckingham is a Noble Wise and Generous Prince vpon whom the King his Maister hath deseruedly conferred his grace