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A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

graced Anthonie deserueth immortall praise from the hād of that diuine Lady who like Corinna contēding with Pindarus was oft victorious Sir Dauid Lynsay Matilda honorably honored by so sweet a Poē Diana Procul hinc procul ite profani England to be defended by schollers Your learned Doctors Cherish your youth The fault of Vniuersities England too kind She speaketh not to those that haue fled the land Rome altered The commō wealth miserable that hath her foes within her selfe Excesse of these times Not safe for a countrey to bragge of weal●h if the Spaniard know it The fault of Empires Lawes for sobrietie the sinewes of a Kingdome Plentie and ease the Ca kers of a Kingdome Proud Kingdomes must fall How Rome fell Loose pleasure begets treason Discord vntieth the armour of a common wealth Happy daies Miserable state that is so Let the traitors accuse me if they can A thing done in other countries Yet these no causes to be rebellious Discorde Whom God keepeth in despigth of them A thing oftē attempted Lybels No Iland cā remember greater benefits to her inhabitants Elizabeth No pen able to praise sufficiently No land so many Graue and wise Counsellers hath England still had The strēgth of a kingdom are lawes and their execution the meanes to expell feare from her subiects England may iustly glory of her three daughters 1. Cābridge 2. Oxford 3. Innes of court Note this A thing miserable when the Vniuersities are poore A wicked policie An vndoubted truth The Spaniard Pope Frenchmen Scots and all laugh at our discord The cause of discorde A Kingdom can not stand without inequalitie The moderation of inequalitie Lamemtable times Greece perished by discord Beware true English mē Dangerous cause of vuion The praise of inequalitie Equality not to be hoped for of strangers Low countries dangered by emulation Discord * And chalenge him 1594. If Christians ioyne not together A true rule Note A thing to be respected As some haue done A thing lamentable If we our selues be vnited A thing too miserable if it should be so England can not perish but by English men The Spaniard is foolish to hope so Note this Trust him not Giue him an inch he will take an ell An vsuall policy at this day Offered to Iudas to betray his Master True English men Truth in a few is often victorious Ualour begets loue As still you haue beene Note this Dangerous to ioyne with Spaine Fraunce poore by warres Not so faithfull as they should be Why Spaine is so constant in her free offers No great ods betwixt thē if they had equall peace Beware of them both To Parry Babington c. Lopez executed the 7. of Iune 1594. Spaine not onely an enemie for religion Too great simplicitie to thinke so Take heede by others Inconstancie in religion is the mother of Atheisme The Spanish colonie Note this An exhortation to England Spaniards like Iewes Spanish Haman They pretēd Religion but intend trechery Absolon a right Spaniard Take heede trust thē not Let Spaine answere Note this Note this Impossible to be so Let the Spaniard credit me S. George Fides Hispanica God himselfe will punish traytors Note this O happie England if this happen Discord fatall to great attempts The late mortalitie more lamentable then the losse of Aegypts first borne Religion brought frō heauenly loue Religion falsly accused Religions Apologie Religion no true cause of miseries in a common wealth Note this Mans ignorance makes false religiō Superstition Religion and superstition at continuall warres In England many religious fanorers Harmes for religion grieue not either the dooer or the sufferer Miserable blindnes So doth Romoaldus Scotus Superstition is most zealous Among the Atheists of this age Afalse accusation of religion Xerxes Zealte false Religion impatient of an indignitie The wrongs are infinite which religion hath suffered for being called relig Religion hath had cōtinuall and great enemies Anno mundi 1517. God knoweth how to deliuer his Affliction may endure for a time but deliuerance is not farre from Gods church So the fier for the three children Superstition maketh dissention in the Church Libertatis amor stultū quid decipis orbem ● King 24. 2. Chron. 36. Religion still perfecuted How Gods enemies seek to deface all parts of religion The Romans enemies to religion The Iewes sinne the cause of their punishment Iewes Vsurers A miserable state where there is no religion Many of thē still persist in their sinnes Religion in great danger amongst her owne friends Contention the ground of Atheism Arrius and so Heretikes grow mighty in the middest of contentions Heretikes neuer want followers Constantius an Arrian 105. Bishops Arrians Holar contra Constātium Alex. Athan Iudge if religion haue not suffered wrong Religion no where safe in earth A famous victory After King of France Godfrey of Bolloygne Whereof sweet Tasso song Martyrs all Religion hateth discord England the seate of religion The happines of England by religiōs meanes The discorde of other countries England in peace Peace the child of religion begetteth plentie that kils the grandmother England note this In the dayes of our dread Soueraigne Essex Willowbie Norris Sir Francis Uere c. A false slander to make traytors Martyrs Neuer martyr was a traytor Iustitia Britannica Campia Martyrium Anvsuall fault Gregorie 13. Pius 5. Sixtus 5. Exceeding pittie Miraculous preseruation of Gods Church I feare to thinke of it Iusticia Britannica A greater number Stapleton Parsons This can not be denied In Queene Maries time Slander is neuer tongue tied In their libel against the English Iustice Papa pius moritur quintus res mira tot inter pontifices tantum quinque suisse pios Leaue giuen to Parsons Campion by Gregorie 13. 1580. April 14. to interpret the bull of Pius 5. Henry the 2. King of Fraunce his edict against the Pope Anno. 1550. King Philip once feared not the Popes Buls Duke of Albany with an armie against the Pope 1527. Whom he kept in Adrians tower 7 moneths Let the Pope marke this Cardinall Pole offended with the Pope Henry the 8. shaked off the Pope Religions enemies The Atheist and the Puritan so called Religion no states man but of counsell with thē Dangerous for a Prince Machiuell confuted States in Europe ruinated by Machiuell A certaine prophesie Note this Relig Princes doe still triumph Gen. Exo. Ios. Iudg. King Machab. Aug lib. 5. de ciuit cap. 25. Cap. 26. Lib. 5. histor cap. 24. Socrat lib. 7. histor cap. 18. Euagr. lib 4. histor cap. 16. ibid. cap. vlt. By sundry Doctors of great learning Brownists a sect to support Atheisme As since they haue written in their bookes Ambr. Catharinus Archiep. Cōpusonus Ioh. Molanus Ioh Boterus Anonymos Petrus Corotus Posseuinus Iesuit Learned Puritans By wise authoritie and learned answers L. Archb. of Canturbury Bancroft Bilson Sutcliff Hooker c. A true fault in Englands Church Cruell patrons pittie the church hath not the fauour of an ordinarie ward Loyaltie vrgeth her benefits Loyaltie can not abide to heare of treason or sedition Understanding misled begets treason What is rebellion What men are traytors False pretenses in traytors and rebels Note this As may appeare by the six articles written in french Sir Iohn Cheeke wrote of Sed. Alex. Neuill Euer bad things haue good pretenses So may I say to the English traytors By Ket A thing vnlikely and impossible Reade the chronicles Mercy vndeserued Peace to enemies but not to traytors With open enemies out of her selfe Rome fell by clemencie to traytors If we can not suffer the lie much lesse treason An exhortation A necessary caueat Mercy often cruell Not safe to trust a traytor Charles the fift Some of the nobilitie Note this A thing lamentable What loyalty hath done Plutar. in lib. de exi●io 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Enuied of other nations Lourdane 7. Learned Iudges Serieants Counsellers As they account it Tell it not in Gath c. The ancient and graue counseller The misery of captaines Elius Spar. Loyaltie vehement against treason Traytors cōpared with Uerres God A happie sight 4. King 15. Iudg. 4. 23. Iudg. 5. 20. 21. So the Spanish fleete In confutat Summarij Rat. Against my L. Keeper others The conclusion

preseruation of their estate It is most certaine that GOD permitteth Satan somtimes to tyrannize ouer one or other as we see in the King of Babylon who was giuen into his power for seuen yeares yet notwithstanding whē it pleased him hee made a restraint and brideled his vnruly will We see sometimes how hee keepeth and vpholdeth the Realmes of wicked Kings for to make them a meanes to maintaine his Church as appeared in the kingdomes of Babylon Persia and the Romanes in the time of Nero Natures most strange monster in respect whereof it is sayd that the societie of man is resembled to a flocke of sheepe whereof though some indaunger themselues yet the faithfull shepheard endeuoureth himselfe by all meanes possible to saue his flocke whole and defend it against the rage of the wolues which would deuoure it For if wee would but consider the matter a little further we shall finde by the scripture in the time of Noah after the building of the tower of Babylon that Nimrod was elected by diuine prouidence to guide and gouerne the people then when as the children nephewes and linage of Noah wandered without townes to dwell in destitute of cities or houses liuing by hunting and vpon the fruites of the earth without any tillage who then represented a maiestie force and valour in his person by reason wherof the holie scripture saith that hee was Robustus venator Domini aut Coram Domino a strong hunter of the Lord by reason of the might and puissance that hee had to tame the sauage and wild beasts Whereby we may well conclude that Common wealths had their beginnings by violent Tyrannies that Nimrod by force violence obtained the soueraigntie Notwithstāding we find in scripture that he was a most heroicall King and no Tyrant howsoeuer some doe intend otherwise because that by his meanes was established the forme of a Common wealth most durable to gouerne and to keepe the people in order and discipline And so from this first diuine wisedome humane societie was kept vnited from time to time This likewise is the cause why the Prince is tearmed Gods Vicegerent vpon earth Finally he was garded with such force that the Empyres which wee call Monarchies by this meanes were ordained then of the selfe same Monarchies by reason of an insatiable ambition and desire to rule proceeded Tyrannies But although that Tyrants by the permission of God seemed sometimes by reason of their horrible murders and destructions to bee willing to cancell all law and peruert all iustice that tended to the maintenance of a Common-wealth and whereby Empyres flourished yet notwithstanding wee finde by the discourse of histories that the verie Tyrants themselues by a diuine prouidence haue oftentimes left behinde thē good lawes as the true markes of Iustice tending to the maintenance and conseruation of kingdoms to the intēt that humane societie should not either be disperst or raced out God hath the meanes to vs vnknowne to keep them from such wickednesses that he turneth the euil of present ruling Tyrants vnto the especiall good of gouerning posteritie for his will is the perfect rule and the infallible direction of all right and equitie By reason whereof some are of that mind that although the Empyre of the Turkes in dignitie and greatnes exceeded the foure Monarchs of the worlde yet notwithstanding it could not bee reputed for a true Monarchie because that amongst those barbarous people there was neither humanitie nor forme or shewe of iustice but a meere deuastation of Empyres and a reall destruction of all lawes and policies which were established and dreamingly obserued of other Monarchies vnder whom notwithstanding their enormities God had continually preserued miraculously a forme of iustice to the intent to preserue his owne people I will onely alleadge two examples not to bee too troublesome without touch or mention of the Romane lawes afterward brought in to shew by them the equitie and iustice which Tyrants and Infidels themselues haue somtimes in the gouernment of their Common-wealths vsed as well in regard of their ciuill and politicke order as Militarie The one long since famous is the example of the execution of iustice in King Cambyses otherwise a great Tyrant which he executed vpō the Iudge corrupted with bribes in the person of Sysannes who after he was put to death he was fleyed and his skinne hung ouer the Iudgement seate where his sonne was commanded to sit as Iudge that in iudging he might remēber the offence of his father The other is the famous and memorable example of Anaxilaus whom the Lacedaemonians vsed thus He seeing that in the time of the siege of the citie Byzance Clearchus the Gouernour begā to take the goods of the Burgesses that dyed for famine to diuide amongst his Souldiers to the intent to hold the towne longer he dealt in the absence of Clearchus with the enemie to yeeld vp the towne vpon good conditions which soone yeelded without pillage or shedding of bloud Afterward Anaxilaus was accused to thē of Sparta for rendring the towne who vsing a most honest excuse answered that they ought to make warre against the enemie and not their owne selues and that it was a thing most vniust to handle the Burgesses more rudely then the enemie And for these excuses full of reason they absolued him This example may serue at this day sometimes to excuse publique persons whō some indeuour to accuse and blame slanderously without discretion not considering that God miraculously gouerneth the heart of those whom God hath placed to gouerne others to the intent to hinder and preuent the totall ruine of his people and Common wealth as we may reade of the Prophet Ieremiah who gaue counsell to the King Zedechias when he was besieged in Ierusalem to yeeld himselfe to the Chaldeans to the intent to preserue the people and the towne notwithstanding many others perswaded the contrarie Many such examples full of naturall equitie are largely handled by Saint Ambrose in the third booke of his Offices On the other side to returne to our former subiect it is knowne vnto all that the diuell hath knowledge concerning the ruines and changes of Common wealths and that he hath learned much by the periods of yeares and the fatall age of Realmes and Empires knowing by obseruation of times that they are limited and because their state is subiect to change that serues him for all occasions Cicero in the twelft of the Nature of gods speaking of the inuention of sundrie diuinations and superstitious obseruations hath these wordes Multas res diuturnus vsus ita notauit vt artem Diuinationis efficeret in another place he saith Obseruatio diuturna notandis rebus fecit artem The histories of all times doe teach vs in case wee would carefully obserue them search them throughly that the most parte of the

greatest kingdomes haue not endured fiue hundred yeares Many haue light short of that full time none or very few haue passed it but haue fallen either at that period or not long before it some hauing perished in whole some onely changed in some forme the gouernment of the Kings of Iuda beginning with Saule the first kingdome continued to the captiuitie of Babylon which was fiue hundred yeres The same space of time was likewise againe marked after the Captiuitie beginning at Esdras and continuing to the Emperor Uespasian which ruinated Ierusalem from the very grounde and then were the Iewes dispersed and scattered from one part of the world to another and since that time their common wealth was neuer perfectly restored notwithstanding the indeuours and extreame paines they imployed therein The Commonwealth of the Athenians from Cecrope to Codrus continued foure hundred fourescore and ten yeares which was then changed to a Democratie The Common wealth of the Lacedaemonians changed about that time vnder the Kings Heraclides till the time of Alexander the Great The Romayne Consuls gouerned fiue hundred yeares from the banishment of the Kings vntill the time of the monarchie of Augustus the same was obserued since Augustus till the fall of Ualentinian the last Emperor of the West and that then the West Empire fayled and that the barbarous Uandales Alaius and others inuaded the countries of Spayne and in the ende all Italie with the citie of Rome The same number of yeares were obserued a little after from the time that Constantine the Great transported the Italian Empire to Constantinople vntill Charlemaine who restored the Empyre of the west hauing chased the Lombards out of Italie Likewise wee may call to minde by histories that many realmes and Common wealthes haue endured not past the halfe period of those fiue hundred or there about as that of the Persians which from Cyrus to the last Darius flourished but in the two hundred and thirtie yeares it was fully ruinated by the force of Alexander the Great On the other side the Monarchie of the Greekes which began with Alexander and afterward successiuely was deriued to diuers kings as of Syria and Aegypt continued two hundred and fiftie yeares which after that time was subuerted by the might of the Romans Furthermore if we would search the Chronicles of France we shall finde the same period after that Syagre last Proconsull and Lieutenant for the Romans in France was deposed till Clowis the first christian king vntill Pepin father of Charlemaine and then after vntil Hugh Capet was numbred 237. yeres Further besides all this we may see in the discourse of histories that the period of seuen hundred yeares brought notable change to states The Common wealth of the Carthaginians then when it was wholly spoyled by Scipio had continued seuen hundred yeares The warre betwixt Caesar and Pompey which is some sort decayed the state of the Romayne Empire happened in the seuen hundred yeares after Romes foundation and at the same time two periods met together the one of fiue hundred from the beginning of the Consuls the other of seuen after the foundation of Rome In like sort about seuen hundred yeares after the destruction of Carthage Totilas the king of the Gothes robbed the citie of Rome carying captiue with him the principall Lordes of the citie which Scipio had long before foretolde when Carthage was besieged So likewise doe we reade that the Moores dealt with Spayne the yeare after Christ seuen hundreth after that were they all chased out by Ferdinand of Arragon grandfather by the mother to Charles the fifth For example of our times we see that it is seuen hundred yeares past that Charles the Great established the westerne Empyre which period considering the change of the times present seemeth to threaten some great ruine although there is nothing so of necessitie but as it pleaseth God to dispose all things for the best Now it is needefull likewise to examine more nearely the Qualitie of the foresaid periods for it is questioned of at this day if there be any such period necessarily certaine and fatall for Empires likewise why some fayle before their prefixed time without expecting their ordinarie fall The Philosophers not knowing how to finde out the reasons because of their incredulitie haue so incombred their true vnderstandings that they haue forged arithmetical aenigmes other imposing to starres and coelestiall causes But for the true vnderstanding of it let vs consider the testimonies and examples of holy Scripture besides the meere coniectures of heathen Philosophie The vniuersall period of Empyres is declared vnto vs by the Prophet Daniel speaking of the seauenty weekes containing about fiue hundred yeares since the restoring of the Temple after the returne from Babylon vntill the time of Christ. But because the period is not generall and perpetuall by reason that we see some Empyres not attaine halfe their period notwithstanding we shall finde by the discourse and testimonie of histories that the period as by a diuine institution is fatall to the most Empyres for their beginnings and endings as may bee apparantly manifest both by the examples alleadged before by many others here and there which may bee alleadged to that purpose The reason of the difference in regarde of time and the diuersitie of change which happeneth in them is likewise grounded vpon the holy scripture of Gods word we haue saide before that GOD giueth the Scepter of realmes as it pleaseth him and taketh them away as his pleasure is Likewise the change of kingdomes happeneth not by chaunce but by diuine prouidence by reason of the causes which goe before the ruines of them by meanes whereof God so disposeth of Realmes and Empyres that whomsoeuer he hath installed for gouernement are by him defended with might and authoritie as the especiall gift of God accompanied with many vertues requisite thereunto namely wisdom happines goodwill iustice clemencie c. all which ioyntly sustaine the pillars of the Empyre for it is written Misericordia veritas custodiunt regem clementia fulcitur thronus eius In such sort that the Common wealths of Kings and Princes defended with this authoritie are for a long time flourishing and in most prosperous estate On the contrarie if the Common wealth be gouerned by wicked kinges vitious or tyrants and that the subiects to the imitation of their Prince are infected with the same faultes and plunged so deepe that they can no way get out then authoritie failes vertues are abandoned and punishment doth ensew hereupon GOD hasteneth his iudgementes which preuent the reuolutions and changes in that they had apparance to continew longer he punisheth sinnes both of the Prince and people ordinarily by the chaunge and ruine of the Common wealth for being not bound to the

plentie in the middest of tirants For religion in the middest of Atheists Nay it neuer hath been nor neuer shall be therefore resolue thy selfe that howsoeuer some within my borders doe heartilie desire and earnestlie expect a freedome of their conscience yet these are neuer so foolish to thinke it possible to be obtained by your meanes nor so profanelie wicked to admit of so bad a cause And although some few and I perswade my selfe they are very fewe may be found perhaps as either being Atheists without God or Iewes without Christ or monsters without naturall affection who can bee content to pearce my bowels through my Princesse side and so let forth my peace or laie violent hands vpō mine anointed to make my children to eate themselues yet resolue thy selfe and vainelie foolish to resolue otherwise that the most estranged Englishman from naturall loue who hath lost his affection by long trauaile or the loose stchristian I harbor who hath lent his affection to all pleasure or the most desperate whom need and extremitie haue made careles or the deuoutest Catholicke whom deceiuedlie zeale and conscience haue made religious shal euer so farre estrange them selues from an English minde So much be alienated from my long bred loue And lastlie so cruellie to wish me euill That they would open my gates to strangers Prostrate my wealth to the Spaniard and exchange my peace for most cruell tirannie Nay if they were all in armes and had vowed to admit a stranger and the stranger readie as perhaps you were 1588. to accept by policy what you intended to keep by crueltie yet if I should but frowne as discontented say quid agitis And name but England the worthie loue of me deriued from their forefathers would so farre pearce into the English harts that their swordes drawne forth against mee their mother would speedilie bee sheathed in you their murtherers for if in all ages sauing onelie in this last and amongst you faith and promise hath been religiouslie obserued to their verie enemies then can you thinke they will falsifie the same to mee that bred them And as for you who haue surpassed the false punicane gaining that brand of trecherie which once was Carthage due resolue vpon this poynt that hee which punished the faith broken to the Turkes at the Popes perswasion by them of Hungarie by putting to flight Sigismund the Emperor and slaying Cardinall Iulian the Popes Legate who brought the message hee I say shall neuer suffer so great an iniurie vnpunished to me their mother Let me then in kindenes perswade you my deare countrie men that if trecherie be most odious thē that especiallie which ouerturneth a Common wealth if ingratitude bee hatefull both to God and man then that which is of children to their mother if credulitie bee a fault and argues want of experience then to trust a stranger a false dissembling and deceitfull tirant must reproue vs of great leuitie loue peace then loue my peace follow vnitie but within my walles for if neither inequalitie of condition emulation of partakers nor religion ought to disunite vs then this onely remaineth for you that you be vnited with loue amongst your selues tyed with affection towards your mother bound with a sacred reuerence towards your Soue raigne and carried with a wise suspition towards a stranger so shall prosperitie bee mine inheritance plentie the legacie bequeathed to my meanest friends and England as a citie at vnitie within it selfe thus shall the vnion of Iuda Israel make the people round about them to quake and tremble this made Rome to cōquer Africa the Greekes to preuaile against Xerxes the Princes of Europe to preuaile against the Turke at Lepantho which victorie had been farre more glorious if vntime lie discord had not fallen amongst them Thē banish this vnite your selues yeeld not to gilded colours and false pretences whether of religion or of friends or of promise and especially with them whō we know to be our enemies let vs bring against glittering hate-working gold the anciēt magnanimitie of braue Fabricius who would neuer bee moued by the offers of King Pyrrhus Thus ought you couragiously to vnite your selues if you loue the glorie of your conquests the sweetnes of your libertie the happines of your quiet the liues of your wiues and children and if none of all these can moue you yet thinke that I weepe for your sake the milke that sometime was your foode that I sweate for your feare the bloud that bred yours that I sigh for your cause the ayre that gaue you breath And as for my owne part sillie destressed as I am I haue considered the threatnings of God against my subiects liues the tokens sent me not long since the wonders that heauen shewed the lowde speech that the dumbe creatures vsed and all onely for this end that I fearing might perswade you and you perswaded might make mee to liue without feare yet I relie not so farre vpon Astrologicall reason as vpon the strange starre 1572. the Comets that haue appeared since the great thunder 1584. the terrible Earth-quake the first of March the same yeare the strange inundations not long since the fearefull mortalitie that hath hewed downe my tallest Cedars and moued as it were the lesser plants yet I take these to bee meanes to humble me least in pride of courage I ouerweiningly doe loue my selfe And now daughters seeing I grow faint I will cause two to speake in my behalfe committed to me from eternities bosome Religion and Loyaltie daughters hearken and these briefly shall speake vnto you RELIGIONS SPEECH TO ENGLANDS CHILDREN AT what time Loue brought mee from Eternities bosome and commaunded me like a Queene to dwell in earth I then easelie foresawe which I now finde that all harmes miseries wants tragedies and what else soeuer the worlde deemeth hatefull should bee falsely supposed to proceede out of my wombe and seeing I haue now liued so long till I finde it trew pardon mee to make mine apologie thus farre that since the day of my first birth since I first shined weekely in these coastes since the time I was called as I am by Religions name I neuer caused either Kingdome to be desolate Prince to bee distressed people to despaire or any priuate persō to be malecontent In deede I must needes acknowledge thus much that at what time I was sent into earth sinfull man by reason of his immortalitie desirous of a deitie and not able by the weakenes of his vnderstanding to admit of me forged vnto himselfe a false cruell irreligious vaine proud superstitious strumpet and fondly deluded tearmed her by my name then seeing her to haue such prerogatiue finding her to rule ouer so many subiects and fearing shee would banish mee to Heauen from whence I first came wee haue been still in continuall warres I found those

thing in all the worlde one answered the water another saide the sunne another saide the hill Olympus another sayd the giant Atlas another saide Homer but the last and wisest answered nihil aliud in rebus humanis magnum nisi magna despiciens nothing is great in humane things but a minde that contemneth great things M. Curius whē the Ambassadours of the Samnites offered him golde in great abundance answered I had rather bee Lord ouer you that are Lordes ouer it then onely possesse it selfe and did not this speech of his deserue better then the action of Lucullus to rob the Spartans Did not Crates gaine more glorie by casting his riches into the sea then King Nabuchadonozor for taking the treasure out of the temple Is it not more honor for the rich Indians to contemne their golde then for the greedie Spanyards so to couet it which if it were not vsed to the preiudice of forraine princes all countries could wish him to bee glutted with it and that the Iberian sands were like vnto golden Tagu● and their little riuers like vnto Pactolus streames but since hee makes it the sinew of his warre and his warre nothing but an intended triumph ouer the greatest Empyres it behooueth Princes to crosse his Argoses that goods lewdlie gotten may not be worse spent but whilest these ruinating ambitious plotts grounded vpon treason haue risen vp like a Pyramides in the greatest Kingdomes Englands Soueraigne hath sitten confident without presumption conquering without crueltie and victorious without contention Whilest in the meane time Sedition shal be ruinous Rebellion shall haue an end and Treason shall be fatall to him that thought it for when heathen writers haue flatteringly perswaded that treason may haue successe then shall the Scripture say That neuer traitor was mentioned and left vnpunished Sellam conspired against Zacharias the King of Israel and slew him but within one moneth after hee himselfe was slaine of Manahem Peka conspired against Pekaiam and after was slaine of Oseas and Oseas the last king of Israel was taken bound and brought into Assyria Infinite might examples bee in this kinde who vpon false perswasion haue risen vp against the Lords anoynted and haue perished like Iabin in the day of battaile and wee may sing with Deborah They fought from heauen euen the starres in their course fought against Sisera the riuer of Kishon swept them away the auntient riuer the riuer Kishon O my soule thou hast marched valiantlie Hitherto haue I been tossed in the dangerous waues of swelling Treason where iust occasion was offered to speake of sundrie by name famous to the worlde for such foule offences but I am loath to rippe vp the hatefull memorie of our countries enemies whome though rayling brainsicke Romoaldus the Scot seem to cleare by his fond defence yet it is so friuolous idle without learning reading or experience as I can tearme it nothing but Catilins oration against Tullies Consulship and when profanely by his defence hee hath encouraged traytors the best hee can yet then with indifferent and wise readers he shall bee deemed foolish and England florish ouer all her enemies I am willing Countrimen to speake more largely vnto you but fearing to bee troublesome I onely desire but this fauour that according to the Hon. Examples of your famous forefathers Loyaltie may dwell in the heartes of English subiects FINIS The cause why many write not Ignorance sits idle and will iudge In vaine doe we complain of multitude of bookes Vales. Zanch. N. D. B. Gallici My L. Henry Howard For such a Coxcombe What Diuination is God alone absolutely knoweth things to come Satan Gods Satan falsely a Diuiner The power of Satan Satan a perpetuall enemie to mankinde Man inferiour in knowledge to Satan Spirits Note Foretold Oracles Satans subtiltie Satan an Ambidexter Satan knoweth the scripture Croesus conquered Iamblich A thing vnlawfull A foolish proofe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diuination will beget Tyrannie Vnmeete it should be Doubtfull answers argue deceite or ignorance A Caueat Ambiguitie in oracles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man light God disproueth his sophistrie Pope Borgias Satan cunning in diuine prophesies A states mā The author of ill lawes Ieroboam Iob. 1. 17. Note Satan vseth great men sometimes for his turne A foreseeing Polititian Rather them then others to make thē hurt by example 1. King 22. Satan buzzeth into mens hearts that which he hath plotted himselfe God is the sure rocke of defence to a kingdome Dan 4. 29. So at this day Spayne a stay for Christians against the Turke Nero. The societie of man compared Gen. 10 1● Gen. 10. 9. Or as some say tyrānize ouer men A monarchy easily a tyranny His beginning A Prince Gods Vicegerent A thing vsuall Tyrants haue often had a care of good lawes The Turke no Monarch Without Iustice no Monarchie Iustice somtimes amongst Tyrants Cambyses Herodotus lib. 1. Anaxilaus But not to excuse treason Not absolutely Cicero de Natura Deorum Obseruation hath begotten this Diuination 500. yeares the common period of a Kingdome in former time The Kings of Iuda Saul Esdras Vespasian Ioseph de Bell. Iud. Gods iudgement The common wealth of Athens continued 490. yeares The common wealth of the Lacedemonians Romaine Consuls 500. yeares Valentinian West Empire Uandales Constantine Charlemaine Persians continued 230. Monarch of the Greekes 250. yeeres Fraunce 237. yeeres The periode of 700. yeares obserued by some The Carthaginians had continued 700. yeares Caesar and Pompey his warre was in the 700. yeare after Romes foundation Two Periodes met together Tot●las The Moores with Spaine in the yeare after Christ 700. Ferdinand Charles the great Note this The qualitie of periods Todin and others Ignorance of true causes faineth false ones The touchstone of periodes According to our view The change of Kingdoms not by chāce Prosperous Kingdomes The punishment of sinne is the change of the state God not tyed to periods Wisdome the stay of a land M. Peucer Causes of the fall of Kingdomes three 1. Impietie 2. Iniustice 3. Lecherie Aristotle Inequality Plato Celestial influence Bodin de Rep. lib. 4. Harmonie Aequiuocation in Harmonie Plato expounded by M. Augier Harmonie not the ground of Kingdomes The fall of a citie is the breach of good lawes The Cynethian commō wealth The effect of Musicke Pythagoras Asclepiades Musicke expelleth the feare of danger Musick not so nimble as it hath beene The Horoscopy of cities bad rules to iudge by of chaunges A 100 vnprofitable curiositie September Augustus M. Anthony conquered the 2. day of September 13. September September not so fatall as Bodin writeth In euery moneth some great states haue dyed In Fraunce the greatest alterations betwixt December and August The Duke of Alenson dyed in Iune The Prince of Orange A hatefull proscription Crocotas A fact that for it the greatnes of Spaines fall cannot satisfie the measure of Gods wrath Katherine of Medices Vnder pretence of

treason they tearmed by the name of Gods Church their phantasticall opinions Gods knowne trueth and their poysoned heresies the inspiration of Gods spirit It were tedious too long to repeate their names who continually haue slaundered Loyaltie with base tearmes when themselues haue deserued most badly both of the Church and of the Common wealth Thus might I with teares remember the wrong that I suffered in the Northerne Rebellion where though the fact was so infamous as the memorie is odious to this day yet did they pretend a reforming of religion a freedome of consciēce and a bettering of the Common wealth I passe ouer without speech but neuer to be remēbred without sighes the lamentable rebellions made in Lincolneshire the disorder in Norffolke by Ket his bad companie the intollerable boldnes in Kent by Iacke Straw and his accomplices These and such like haue laboured to roote me from the place of mine abode to pull out Loyaltie from the mindes of subiects to make them offend thinke there is no fault to raise a flame that may giue light whilest the Common-wealth shall burne to stirre vp those vnder pretence of right who haue desired to subuert the state of the whole land Iosephus an ancient writer setting downe the rebellious reuolting which the Iewes made from the Romanes vnder colour of rude and vntoward dealing which they found in Florus their gouernour he setteth downe the particular remonstrance that King Agrippa made touching the small apparance of occasion which they had rebelliously to exempt them from their lawfull obedience the Iewes replied that it was only against Florus and not the Romanes that they bare armes whom Agrippa tolde it was easie to say so but their actions were such as worse could not haue been by the greatest enemies of the Romane Empire for the townes they sacked the treasuries they robbed the houses they burnt the fields they wasted neither were the townes the treasuries the houses the fields of Florus and no man had wrong but the Romanes to whom these belonged In like manner when in former times for I am loth to mention these later faults wrong openly was offered to them of our countrie the townes takē the churches robbed the houses burnt the men slaine and not so much sacred as the very sepulchers of our forefathers the pretence was onely this not a wrong or disobedience to the Prince but a reuenge and reformation of the oppressing cormorant And thus lately for I must needs touch it whilest Lopez most Iewishlie nay Iudaslie had concluded with the Spanish Pharisies to sell his Soueraigne yet shamefully hee protested this whereunto common sense will hardly allow credit that he onely ment to deceiue them of their coyne and to saue her from harme Can we thinke the Spanyard so credulous as in a matter of so great importance to credit without good cause Can wee thinke it likely that he who had concealed it hetherto from her Councell ment after to impart it to her Maiestie These things and manie such howsoeuer smoothed ouer with a faire shewe haue been committed by vnnaturall subiects since her Maiesties raigne that our very enemies for the state of our countrie could by no meanes possible haue deserued worse And howsoeuer the lawe tearme them not enemies but simplie as rebels and seditious to their owne countrie yet they ought not to be honored with the name of peace nor as subiects any way to be made partakers thereof vnles the infinitly ouerflowing mercie of their Prince vouchsafe them vndeserued so great a fauour When Anthonie rose vp in armes against his countrie he was iudged condemned worthilie by the Senate to bee a rebell and when some intended to send vnto him to intreate of peace Tully thought it was most strange farre differing from the state of the Senate to affoord a rebel the priuiledge of an open enemie France can testifie of the like when trayterous subiects vndeseruedly giue mee leaue to tearme them by that name haue been so mightie to withstand the King that he hath sent without cōtrolling tearms as to an open enemie England hath not now and I happilie wish as I hope it neuer shall any cause to deale in the like manner But the time was in the dayes of Edward the sixt when a base pesant so braued the Kings armie that they vouchsafed them parle as if Rome had sent Ambassadors to the men of Carthage But rebellion being the canker of a Common wealth time hath taught vs by lamentable experience in the warres of Rome That sedition doth grow by suffering and that clemencie is rebellions spurre which if it had not bin a state so florishing had not so soone failed And for France in the time of holie Lewes sedition had not been so soone cut off no rebellion had been rooted out if the sword had not been made sharpe for to cut them off for it be commeth a Prince like a good Surgion to cut off the putrified parts least the sound bee infected with the like contagion Furthermore to groūd my seueritie vpon the tearmes of honor for Loyaltie cā hardly indure clemencie towards treason there is no Gentleman vnles degenerate that will indure the lye of his companion without recanting and shall the Prince not onely suffer this but wrongs dammages iniuries despitefully at the hands of traytors Then band your selues Honorable Lords wise Prelates braue Captaines worthie Gentlemen resolute Soldiers trustie Citizens and painful Cominaltie that the smallest part of treason may not take strength in our time and all of you rather hazard the last droppe of your dearest bloud then by treacherous dealing the least wrong may bee offered to her sacred Maiestie This is a iust quarrell wherein Loyallie we are to vnite our selues for loosing but the bridle to such dangerous treasons our Prince our liues our Countrie our fortunes are all indangered at the same instant Besides either to pardon these at home or fondly to credit those abroad can bring no other benefite to the land but this a contempt of our authoritie a certaine danger to the Princes person a perpetuall and needfull feare of some new attempts yet euer I must reserue a prerogatiue to my gracious Soueraigne for gracious clemencie a worthie vertue to a subiect but dangerous to a traytor giues them but leasure to fortifie themselues graunts them but time to renew their force the storme is no sooner past but there is present feare of as great a tempest For it is great simplicitie to suppose at least the extremitie of follie to beleeue that those who are once plūged in the gulfe of treason and haue throughly plotted for a kingdomes conquest can possibly be reclaimed with the greatest kindnes or let goe their hope before their liues giue vp the latest gaspe If a kingdome were so weake or a Prince so timerous as almost it was

lately in the Realme of France yet it were easie to proue out of the histories of al times that traytors seditious persons howsoeuer they haue been so bold that they durst in the field incounter the Lords annoynted yet he whom the scripture calleth the author of victorie and the God of battell shall make them to flie when no man followeth shall cause ten thousand of them to bee chased with a thousand and in the day of battell giue victorie to his owne annoynted The rebelliō that was made in Spayne against the Emperour Charles the 5. in the beginning of his raigne together with the happie successe of his Maiestie may serue as apparant proofe to confirme this seeing the seditious faction was foyled and the most of thē taken captiue It shall be needles to adde this that in the daies of Queene Mary when first she came vnto the Crowne finding the people to be mutinous and in the land nothing almost but flat rebellion in shorter time then the space of two moneths worthely she was conqueror ouer all her enemies such was the state of Flanders 1566. and three yeares after yet neuer heard of that rebellious sedition preuailed against a lawfull Soueraigne all ages afoorde multitude of examples in this kind the vnnaturall riot of Duras the wonderfull successe of the battell of Dreux in France and after of Poncenas and not to stand in particulars of that country the euent of things hath made known vnto vs that rebellion builded vpon a weake foundation cannot possibly stand if the Lord in anger do blow vpon it neither speake I this to make a Prince more seuere against his rebellious subiects to make the Scepter of a King plow vp the bowels of his owne countrie men but to shew that Loyaltie cannot brooke rebellion that sedition is odious to a good subiect that treason is intollerable in a Commō wealth if I lincked with Religion a thing hardly to bee hoped for in this bad age coulde but liue for a small time safe from treason if some of Englands subiects had continuallie remained in my fauor then durst I boldly haue compared with the proudest nation and hauing religion a crowne and loyaltie as a strong defence she might valiantly haue incountered her stoutest foes for I may confidently auouch in the reuerend securitie of an vpright minde that excepting treasons blowne into the heartes of her subiects by forraine enemies England hath been as free from danger as far from distresse in as great prosperitie as euer was Iland in so bad an age Then countriemen giue mee leaue to perswade thus much that the benefite of treason shall bee this if vnhappilie which God forbid you obtaine your purpose your countrie shall bee desolate you your selues shall bee feared and suspected of your enemies and these ample ornaments garlands of long peace shall crowne your enemies for the victories obtained in your conquest I that haue made your children dutifull in whose mindes the name of a Father did extinguish disobedience I that haue made your friendes trustie in whome the name of sacred Friendship was wont to banish all deceite I that haue made your wiues in the honorable reuerence of your loue to respect no perswasion of strangers thereby wantonly to commit adulterie I I say intreate you by these fauours that being children in duetie you bee not disobedient to so good a mother being friendes by promise and that confirmed with a sacred vow you bee not found deceitefull to so dread a Soueraigne lastly being those whom nature religion time and countrie haue matched nearlie for this 36. yeares with so gratious a Prince that you bee not seene to prostitute your bewtie to a stranger to admit Tarquin into your fauour and neuer to bee vnpunished to violate so great an oath for what the seuen Ambassadors commended in their common wealths vnto King Ptolomey that England may iustly vaunt she professeth at this day and where as they in three things compared which should excell England possessing one twentie may iustly in comparison out strip the proudest that Europe hath The Ambassadors of Rome boasted that their Temples were honoured their gouernours obeyed and their wicked punished may not England doe it more iustly if you compare it with those times And yet for honouring our Temples I cannot so much commend vs but onely that that little honor which they haue amongst some it is in true sinceritie The Ambassadors of Carthage iustly boasted that their Nobilitie was valiant to fight their Cōminaltie to take paynes and their Philosophers to teach was there euer countrie I except not Carthage in his best estate where either the Nobilitie is more valiant the Cōminaltie more laborious or the teachers more profound then in England at this day The Ambassadors of Cicely boasted that their countrie executed iustice loued trueth and commended simplicitie neuer Common wealth I dare auouch since the first societie that man had was ruled with more vpright iustice was honored with greater trueth and admired for more simplicitie then generallie is the state of England the Ambassadors of the Rhodians bragged that the old men were honest the young men shamefaste and the women peaceable and may not England iustlie boaste of all these The Ambassadors of Athens that they consented not that their rich should be partiall their people should be idle their gouernours should be ignorant and is not all this now as true in England amongst vs as euer it was in Athens amongst them The Ambassadours of Lacedemon vaunted that there was no enuie because all were equall no coueteousnes because all were common no idlenes because all did labour and are not the same banished from our land howsoeuer procured by a better cause For England wanteth enuie in her selfe not because all are equall but all friends England is not couetous not by reason of communitie but because of conscience And idlenes out of this land was banished long since with the Lorde Dane The Ambassadors of Sictonia glorified iustlie in these three wherein England is supposed to bee farre shorte that they admitted no strangers inuentors of new toyes that they wanted Phisitions to kill the sicke and aduocates to make their pleas immortall wherein I must needes confesse for trueth onely becommeth my talke that howsoeuer in the aboundance of her wealth England hath giuen strangers money for very toyes yet it was not for loue of them but to shew the world that their plentie was not debarde from euery stranger for Phisitions I may truly say thus that the Aesculapins honoring Pad●●●● in the aboundance of her skill is vnequall to make comparison with vs in England and lastly for our aduocates a slaunder I confesse common but yet most vntrew men so learnedlie wise so wiselie religious and so respectiuely learned wise and religious as if Europe would seeme to contend in this doutles shee should bee