speake more properly monsters of men being iustlie and as deservedlie as ever anie the most haynous malefactors that ever were bannished out of this Realme by a generall decree of Parliament without hope of being ever recalled home or to creepe againe into anie grace or favour of my great Soveraigne which they had so foulely forfaited are nowe againe a wonder it is to heare after a few yeares exile come not submissiuely but triumphantly home glorying in the spoiles of my heauie and sad fall dying and lying prostrate at their proud feete And thus are they growne into great credite and aucthoritie by the distraction of my Soveraignes late singular favour towardes mee which I surelie hoped should nay could never haue been withdrawn being so fast tied and conglutinate to my person as a publique decree of the wisest humane wits could devise and ingraven besides in letters of Gold and Azure for the more honour and ornament to vs both But what shal I say Nibi sub coelo durabile et Regum gratia saepe mutabilis For my craftie enemies had so closed vp and stopped the princelie eares of my Soveraigne which should haue beene open alike to all Complayners with a fine and subtil kind of black Cotton cunningly wrought by the finest and most expert Esauiticall Artificers that were in all Italie and Spaine who bore his Maiestie in hand that my brused bones broken all to peeces would bee the most effectuall preservatiue for resisting all pestilent venome of such Hereticks as should oppose thēselues against the wholesome and sound reestablishment of the Iesuites adding moreover no small falsehoode that these would prooue heereafter the most profitable and serviceable people vnto him that were vnder his obeysance So my dread Liege being fully possessed by little and little with the slie insinuations of this counterfet Cotton neither the credite of sundrie of his faithfull Counsailors neither the waightie arguments of the most graue and iuditious Presidents of his Parliament nor the eloquence and smooth reasons of learned Advocates neither the subtile inventions and scholastick Sophistrie of the Sorbonist Doctors nor the pittious plaints of poore Schollers who delighted their eyes refreshed their mindes and filled their papers and bookes with the learned Muses that guarded my square bodie all these my favourers I say and continuall intercessours could prevaile nothing with my dread Soveraigne whose pittie my enemies had captiuated wholy to their crueltie and malice that no place was left for prayers nor meanes anie longer for my continuance there but Discere dura pati and comfort my selfe with that encouragement that vertuous Aeneas gaue to his Sea-beaten Souldiours Durato et temet rebus seruato secundis Pluck vp thy heart and driue from thee both care and feare away To think of this may pleasure bee to thee another day Thus remained then no other comfort to me neare halfe dead before hand through dispaire but that of necessitie as I well perceaved it behooved one to die for the sinnes of this people and who should that be but even I poore Pyramis who not long before had life with the promise of a long life but what mortall men can promise life to another that are not assured of their owne given vnto mee for recording their barbarous crueltie and now againe must loose my life even in that place alas where I first receaved life and for no other thing then for testimonie of the truth and to giue them a surer and longer life by my speedie death and withall a greater honour and credit by my downefall then ever they had since their first originall or ever could hope for themselues in this worlde And thus is the worlde there turned topsie turvie The good and faythfull are taken away and and the wicked and vngratious are hoysted vp in their roomes O scelus O mores O tempora perversa in quibus vixi O poore and miserable wretch that I am what haue I committed that I should suffer so cruell a punishment I haue continued there but a small time considering the eternitie of yeares I should haue indured erected also in the most eminent place of our Monarchie to the amazement of my professed enemies where I indured dailie opprobrious railings and infamous Pasquils on my frontispice taxing both King Counsell Parliament and State for my sumptuous building in so famous a place besides my nightlie danger for witnessing the decree of their bannishment for so infamous a fact to be dismembred and by the Sturre tumults of their adherents pulled downe before the morrow that not perchance without the shedding of innocent bloud All this and much more it behooved me to indure yea and much more would I patiently haue suffred so as I might haue continued there vntill I had either receaved some recompence for my faithfull service or had beene bestowed in some other famous place to haue served for a perpetuall memorie of that infamous treacherie that can never be forgotten Nec tamen annorū series nec flamma nec ensis Aeternum poterit hoc abolere scelus Thus ending my discourse to Neptune and craving his favourable ayde for my passage to great Brittaine my last and onelie refuge left vnto mee The God smiling spake with a gratious countenance vnto me Fauet fortuna votis And so by the favour of Aeolus and the swift winges of his windes I was vpon the suddaine before I could bethinke my selfe where I was set vpon the white pleasant Brittaine Coast where vpon a greene mountaine not far from the place of my arrivall was first presented to my view a goodly companie of frollique Shepheards who as they drew somewhat neare me cast off their mourning garments which they had worne as seemed before for the great horrible daunger they apprehended by their long experience knowledge and insight of the heavenlie constellations caelestiall signes of some great fatall coniurations plotted by Pluto and his Stygian furies for the totall subuersion of this ancient Kingdome and State and were all presentlie cloathed in white playing and singing sweete and melodious congratulalions for the happie deliverie both of their native Countrie from that great imminent perill as also for my fortunate arrivall in so fit a season wherby I might not onelie testifie to them my Countries crueltie and her ingratitude towards mee but that I might likewise in short successe of time eternize my name by offering my service in publishing by open testimonie both to the great and little World a more horrible and damnable fact then before I served for And so being a little comforted and put in some good hope by this their newes my faint spirit begins to take fresh courage and to strengthen my weake limbes so that I began to march a faster pace then before I was accustomed to with desire to learne more certaintie of this newes which yet was a mysterie vnto me and casting mine eyes round about mee to see if I could discerne
and mannaged by the subtill and Machiavillian practises of some few maleconted Gentlemen ioyned to the Iesuites and Seminarie Priests who had the chiefe imployment for matters both of Counsell execution that it was brought forward vnknown vnrevealed even to the space of a verie few houres before the time of putting the same in execution according to the relation of the chiefe Counsailours of our Estate if the Almightie God had not miraculously made our gratious Soveraigne by divine inspiration rather then by humane wisedom and fore-sight to cause diligent inquirie to bee made of such suspect places of the Parliament house as his Maiestie greatlie misdoubted after the reading of a misticall strange letter out of the which his Highnes collected apprehended more then a great part of his Counsell could doubtlesse this monstrous contrived treason would haue sorted to that wicked destinated event Therefore O glorious wise and ever famous King preserved wee hope for a greater worke of God that by thy providence and sacred experiences hast saved thy selfe thy succession Kingdomes a worke which time and memorie shall never deface but shall be eternized to the worlds end to thy immortall glorie and renowme But O thou mightie Iehouah to whom the highest glorie shall be ascribed that so miraculously hast preserved thy own annointed and with him thy deare Church which was environed with such incomparable daunger that never was heard of before neither was ever hatched the like by all the cursed brood of Sathan vntill this never before expected wicked time Thus ending his tragicall discourse I became so astonished and amazed thereat as I became speechlesse and as halfe dead vntill these Currors began friendly to comfort mee assuring mee that the Almightie of his great providence had brought me here that whereas my enemies the Iesuites Seminary Priests and their bloudie associates and followers hoped to haue gotten credit and eternall reputation by the downe-cast of me poore Pyramis at home in Paris that now I should be in a sure way of preferment by the gratious assistance of the most High and the favour and pietie of the great mightie and religious Monarch and this estate of the new Monarchy little world to receaue heere a greater glorie and honour by my newe erection in so famous an ancient Countrie and place then the disgrace I had in France by my overthrowe and that where my enemies intended to haue raced out vtterly all remembrance of me they should make me Jpsis invidis etiam nolentibus to be more renowned then ever I was before and more infamie to redound to them in the succeeding ages thē did to Erastratus that made himselfe infamous to this day by burning that rare sumptuous temple of Diana in Ephesus held for one of the seaven mervailes of the world and whereas I had continued there scarce the quarter of a mans age they hoped that I should stand heere and indure to the worlds end whereas I was builded there in the ruines of a Merchants house that heere I should be erected in the ruines of Plutoes destinated Pallace to stand as a witnesse of their damnable plot for the perpetuall ruine downefall of many hundred faire houses of Nobility Gentrie and that where my erection was there decreed by one Court of Parliament of Paris consisting only of Presidents Lawyers that here I should be ordained confirmed by the Soveraigne Monarch and three Estates of Parliament solemnlie to stand in Amphitheatrick forme after the ancient Romane manner PROPTER REGEM REGNVM ET SVBDITOS SERVATOS For preserving the King Kingdom Subiects in that same place where the fact cruell conspiracie was intended to haue beene put in execution And thus having discoursed vnto me this strāge conspiracie of all conspiracies that ever were the most capitall incouraged me vpō an assurance of my advancement they courteouslie took their leaues after they had directed me to the famous Abbey of Westminster whitherward I hied me fast that there I might cōplaine lament among the graues of the dead therby to move all zealous and well affected Brittaine Commissioners of all the three States in Parliament that detest the crueltie of so great horrible a crime hate the mischievous plotters of such haynous treason to be intercessors and petitioners to their dread Soveraigne for my erection and advancement to the Office of High Recorder of the preservation of this new Monarchie of great Brittaine and that place no longer to be a Parliament-house that was dedicated to Pluto and his infernall Furies but that I may succeede thereto after that it shall by a generall decree bee cast downe as a iust demolisher of that Stygian field I say no more now for very faintnes but Misericordia Dei super omnia opera giving thankes in the meane time to the Author of my first life and to him next whosoever he be that hath preserved my reliques and broken bones to so happy a time thereby to giue me a second life as if I were a new Phoenix rising out of my burnt ashes to make the world hereafter wonder at detest more and more the crueltie of the Pope that bloudy Dragon and his divelish children and from terrifying such miscreants ever hereafter in any age subsequent to attempt the like against the Lords annointed his Church fully perswading my selfe that this great worke of the Lord in discovering so horrible a fact by which they promised to themselues a finall infallible overthrow of Christs Church and true religion in this Island shall be the meanes by Gods wonderfull favour iudgement that out of this Isle shortlie shal march that mightie and fearefull Lyon that beares in his Scutchion that martiall poesie Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos who shall overthrowe the bloudie Dragon that Antichristian beast with all his whelps in his devouring denne and shall establish Gods word there which they purposed to haue extinguished heere And I thinke verily that this is their last blow that ever they shal be able to strike and which by the reverberating force of it shall be the most dangerous deadlie to themselues for their owne overthrow yea sorer then Luthers that was the greatest wound that the Romish Antichristian Church receaved in our memorie and which as I trust shall drive them in time to acknowledge their wickednes and blindnes and to embrace the true faith in humilitie and to craue me pardon for my downe-cast and bannishment from my native Countrie And thus having made relation to thee O renowned Monarchie of great Brittaine both of my passed and present fortunes and of the strange accidents that haue hitherto happened vnto me I implore thy gratious ayde accustomed bountie never denied to any oppressed stranger in vouchsafing to become an earnest intercessor for me to the high most sacred Maiestie of thy great Soveraign in whose potencie your authority the hope
anie thing I perceaved betwixt mee and the skie beeing then the dawning of the day before Phoebus had sent abroade his rayes for the clearing of the ayre with vniuersall light the whole companie of the sacred Muses adorned with their ever flourishing greene Lawrel Garlands who holding in their hands sundry severall instruments of musique made the hils valleyes and groues to resound with their heavenly harmonie melodious Songs sweet sonnets and shrill Ecchoes of their learned Poeticall inventions in all languages and all this they did to signifie the exceeding ioy they had lately conceaved of the thrice happie deliverance of that their great friend darling favourer the most wise prudent learned mightie worthie and in all heroicall vertues and valour the most rare and great Apollo whom Mars that sterne God of bloudie battaile evermore envied and hated even to the death for no other cause as can bee coniectured or as I could learne out of their rare Ditties and Sonnets then onelie for that he was entred into a sincere league and sweete societie of the caelestiall Graces the devine Muses and sacred Peace whereto hee was preordayned at the verie houre of his nativitie and thereby and by meanes of the common tranquillitie thereof ensuing had brought and deduced from aboue into this little world from thence derived to all the most famous parts of the great world such manifold and exceeding rich gifts bounteous favours and invaluable benefits blessings as the like had either seldome or not at all beene enioyed in anie former age for which he was as he well deserved vniuersallie admired honoured and blessed over all And therfore the greater indignation boiled in the breast of angrie Mars who ever more grudging at humane felicitie left no meanes or waies vnsought or vnattēpted whereby to bring our great Patron Benefactor and consequentlie this little world to confusion And such was his innated hatred against him even when he was yet in his Mothers bellie knowing by the favourable aspects of Sol Venus that he should proue a most potent prudent wise blessed Prince of Peace beloved both of Gods mē that he this wicked Mars set on his cruell Sergeant the elder Gowrie to haue murdered that most noble Heroine the Queene his mother this blessed fruit of her womb at one stab And being prevented by divine providence of his malignitie in this his abhominable intention after manie other mischievous plots and practises all of them as all other shall ever be made frustrate by the high hand of iust Joue he conspired with that variable Aeolus GOD of the windes who either by faire meanes or sharpe menaces of anie great Power is lightlie wonne to worke the worst mischiefe he can to giue full scope and free licence to his turbulent and vnrulie windes at such time as our bright day-starre Apollo having accomplished the notable solemnitie of those famous nuptialls in the strong Dacian Kingdome the middle Region of Europa with his peerelesse Paragon of all rich perfection the divine Cynthia otherwise then by himselfe immatchable had imbarqued him with his most lovelie beloved above all other sailing from thence through the Ocean towards his ancient Kingdom the lesser Albion lying to the north of Albion maior now both by his Highnes happilie reduced to one Monarchie then was seene the boisterous rage of blustring Boreas and his rude companions domineering with might and maine vncontroled in Neptunes maine dominion but without that great Gods assent or knowledge as somtime by the like permission of their flexible Master Aeolus at the request of angrie Juno they practised the like peremptorie pranks vnwitting to Neptune vpon the vertuous and valorous Prince Aeneas in the Tyrrhene Seas So that colleaguing themselues with that great Sorceresse Circe and a great number of her most impious and detestable impes all practising to drowne and destroy our Apollo and his fairest Cynthia with all their noble traine as after vpon their conviction they freely confessed they sturdilie heaved tossed and tumbled the fearefull billowes hoysing one while his drearie ships vpon the high-raised waues almost to the azure skie and then throwing them downe againe as lowe as the foundations of the earth Yet notwithstanding all their furious tumults and violent commotions Almightie Joue whose name be therefore magnified for ever beholding this outragious tempest and knowing the wicked occasion thereof brought them safe and sound to their own desired continent Country Which when Mars vnderstood he stāped stared foming at the mouth and his eyes sparkling like fire for verie anger that his conspiracie prevailed not he fared like a mad man and vowing still to pursue him with immortall hatred swore by the black river of Stix that his day of Mars wheron he was born should ever proue the most fatall day of all other vnto him And for that purpose he combined himselfe with Pluto that dreadful Prince of Erebus who complotting together brought it so to passe vnder cunning pollicies and faire shewes of great matters that cōcerned his own person state and Kingdome to bring him by the earnest labour of one of his deare favourites to the dishonourable and disloyall house of the other Sergeant of Mars the younger last Gowry the bloudie nephew of a cruel trayterous Grandsire where having locked him vp in a close roome in the hands of their sworne friends his mortal enemies he had no way nor meanes to escape but even miraculously by his own stout manhood or rather Heroick magnamitie the succour of a few of his faithful servants but chiefly againe by the almightie providence of high Joue waiting over him at all times and places for his safeguard hee was also delivered out of that danger Then were Mars Pluto more enraged then ever before gnashing their teeth and cursing and banning the fiends and furies that had no more pollicie or power to accomplish their infernall plot they were almost at a point to haue giuen over anie lōger pursuit of their cōspiracies but that Pluto bethought himselfe of his deare son the red bloudy Dragon who throgh long continual practise for manie ages of all sorts of hellish stratagems horrible massacres blacke murders deceitfull lies and false miracles was growne to bee as much famed and feared in the world as himselfe so as it might be a question disputable in Schooles whether Sathan the roaring and devouring Lyon or his sonne the Pope that red bloudie Dragon was to be held for the greatest and chiefest lier and murtherer Pluto therefore crying out Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta mouebo they began to be recomforted in his deare sonne of their wicked hopes divellish drifts for the acting of their bloudie Tragedie as the last hope of all their mischiefes And so adioyning themselues to this other great enemie of mans welfare who was exceeding proude to haue the mannaging of that action referred to him wherein the Prince of Devils
AN HVMBLE Petition offered to the right reuerend honourable and vvorshipfull estates of this present Parliament assembled at Westminster Pallace Wherein the wandring Ghost of the late Pyramis demolished lately in Paris discourseth his hard fortunes trauailes and strange accidents to the new Brittaine Monarchie to whom he wisheth all peace wealth and prosperitie Written by Philopatris pittying his downfall and perswading his new erecting and building vp againe in Westminster At London Printed for Matthew Lownes 1606. To ancient and famous Troynovant WIth sunburnd Afrike Europe bore debate And France with fertile Egipt did cōtend With Memphis old Lutetia stroue of late For Monuments but now that strife hath end The Pyramies of Paris doo decay But Memphis stones remaine stand for aye Shall Afrike thus tryumph in Europes shame Can Brittaine braue endure so great disgrace No Troynovant flie thou on wings of fame From Memphis both and Paris take thou place Build monuments in spight of Popish fire Which Afrike both and Asia may admire To the high Court of Parliament AFter that my suddaine downfall vnexpected overthrow most ancient and famous great Brittaine was plotted secretly in Rome prepared cunningly in France and executed ignominiously not long since by publique aucthoritie in the chiefe Cittie of the French Kingdome This favour yet I had for my continuall and faithfull service done to so great a King and State that some of my dearest friends and favourers whose long pleadings in Lawe strong reasons in equitie and earnest sute in Court nothing prevailing for the saving of my faultlesse and innocent life should bee permitted at last after my death to gather together the fatall reliques and ruines of my sumptuous builded corps to be secretly laid vp in some sure place there to be shrouded vnto a better and more favourable age following from the cruell persecution of my bloudie Esauiticall enemies seeking and pursuing like vnto Herod through all Iuda from corner to corner for the anatomie of my brused bones to be offred vp as a sweete smelling sacrifice to that Antichristian bloudie Dragon who daily thirsteth for the poore lyues of such harmlesse creatures as I am manifesting to the world his foule shame and monstrous parts But may it not seeme ouer-strange and meruailous to the eyes and eares of the world that dumbe and insensible creatures should speake and crie out of cruell iniustice vsed against them Mervailous indeed it is because against nature but not therfore vntrue nor yet vnlikely considering what the Prophets haue truly fore-told howe in the latter dayes there should many miraculous thinges fall out and wonderfull visions appeare both in heaven earth And surely thou new Monarchie the eclipse of the Sunne seene here of late with the new starre but more likelie a prodigious Cōmet in thy Hemisphere the extraordinarie rednes of the firmament like to bloud the continuall raines and land flouds the monstrous births of children and beastes on the earth and of fishes in the Sea but more notable that a new and vnknowne Astrologer in his Prognostication set out in our Cittie of Paris should fore-shew such strange and incredible matters to come to passe three moneths before this wonderfull accident was knowne among you to wit that this yeare 1605 heere should bee a turbulent Parliament a black Christmas and a bloudie Lent Did not all these things agreeing as it were and conspiring together speake and fore-warne you beloved great Brittaine even as they had beene reasonable creatures of the great disastre likely to fall out comming to my eares Mervaile not then if I that had my erection established by the sound advisement and firme decree of the gravest wisest and most learned Parliament of the world perfected by the sacred influence and infusion of all the Muses through every member of my bodie life given to mee by my Soveraigne King to witnesse the safetie of his life should not as wel speake at least my Ghost as did the counterfet spirit of Samuel and rather to bee better thought of then it because both my warrant and cause is approovedly good But while I stoode long time in a muse pondering betwixt hope and dispaire what should become of my wandring soule and at length thinking with my selfe to finde out some Pythagorean Philosophers if anie were yet aliue for consulting what bodie should be fittest for my receptacle certaine my loving friends in this time inspired as the sequell shall testifie with some divine instinct convayed me safely to great Brittaines Ocean Sea where Neptune receaving me courteouslie at their hands commaunded Aeolus with his fairest and readiest windes safelie and speedilie to transport me from that dangerous shore I was on to the famous Microcosme of ancient Brittaine the great Conquerour somtime of my ingrate Countrie as to the chiefe harbour of all poore distressed Pilgrimes But while Aeolus was preparing all things necessarie for my safe conduct Neptune willed me brieflie to report the causes of my suddaine flight and departure from my native Countrie which though at first I was in doubt what to doe as fearing that hee might either bewray me to mine enemies when I had told him all or might stop my passage if I told him not at last I resolved vpon all hazards that might follow to satisfie his demaund as farre foorth as the shortnes of the time and perill of the place would permit Then thus I spake vnto him The causes that haue compeld mee O great Neptune thou great God of the Ocean to seeke thy favour in this my miserie are trulie and vpon my alleagiance vnto thee the extreame and more then inhumane persecutions of my bloudie enemies the Iesuites both before and since my lamentable and vndeserved death overthrow procured for no other cause then for truly witnessing to the world but more particularly to true Catholique Hugonets and to all forraine Strangers who might dailie beholde mee in the prime of my tryumphant estate in the most famous Cittie and place of the vniuersall world how this mightie King martial Monarch Henry the fourth that now raigneth was treacherously wounded but yet miraculously preserved of his life frō the Esauitical plot executed by Chattell one of the novices trayned vp in their tragicall Schoole erected latelie for teaching of bloudie precepts for the killing of all such Kings and Princes as being either Romanists or true Christians shall be stumbling blocks to hinder the politick courses of their new established Machiavillian Government Me miserûm vox faucibus haeret I cannot vtter the one halfe I would say such hast I haue to be gone for the feare danger I am in by the furious pursute of my professed enemies who tyrannouslie triumphing in mine overthrow mangled all the members of my bodie as was pittifull to see and yet not so satisfied will not suffer my broken bones no nor my verie Ghost to remaine in rest or safetie within anie part of this ample Kingdom These men or to
had failed conceaued presently a more horrible plot then all the Stygian furies called together in a common Counsell could haue devised not onely against the sacred person life of Apollo but also his divine Cynthia and all their Godlike progenie all the Heroes Prelates Nobles Statesmen and chiefe Gentrie vnder his Domination all whom and manie moe by force of his invention he made sure account to haue destroyed vpon that ominous day of Mars with one blow of his fatall engine Which complot hee gaue in charge for the more suretie to certaine of his trustie Enginers the Esauiticall band whose charge profession and practise is nothing else but the vndermining and blowing vp of Princes great States and Kingdomes to see the same with all secret conveyance and diligence put in execution Never before was heard of the like inhumane stratagem though manie cunning cruell conspiracies proceeding from this terrible Dragon had often been attempted against our Apolloes Predecessour his most honoured and hallowed virgin sister the great mightie Diana whom hee most maliced and hated deadlie aboue anie other Potentate on the earth for that she as a most vertuous and couragious Princesse and Faiths valorous Championesse had not onelie given to him a wide dangerous wound that still still shall ever to his dying day put him to most grievous paine but also destroyed a great number of mischievous monsters that were conceaved and crept forth out of his foule mouth All his practises notwithstanding and though he did the verie worst he could could nothing prevaile against her most blessed life raigne state governement but that for 44 yeares together and vpward while she ruled the famous Kingdome of Albion maior to the high pleasure of Almighty Joue a more flourishing and blessed estate was there seene then was ever heard of in those times when divine Astraea lived and ruled among earthly men And in this meane time while as the Almightie God perceaving this earthly Kingdome of her most happie and gratious Maiestie to bee compassed and clogged with so many daily conspiracies and dangers and that her sacred person having by the due course of nature runne out ended the glasse of her thrice happie and most renowmed government than it pleased him in his great and loving favour and mercie most happily and peaceably without anie danger or disturbance to her well long governed Kingdomes to translate her hence to the highest Emperiall heaven there to live and raigne in the greatest glorie with his Angels to all eternitie Constituting in her place this our Apollo whom hee hath predestinated to vanquish and finally destroy this monstrous red Dragon whereby he shall purchase so much the greater glorie and immortall renowme to himselfe then did the olde Apollo by killing the huge serpent Python by how much this Dragon is a thousand folde more great virulent violent terrible strong and horrible then that was This is the great cause indeede why Mars fretteth Pluto fumeth the Dragon rageth and all iointlie conioyne and conspire with all their forces against the life and state of Apollo for whose most happie preservation from all their intended mischiefes the melodious Muses sang Jo Pean with manie heavenlie notes sweeter farre then the concentfull harmonie of the sphericall Orbes full of ioy and tryumph But reserving the residue of the rarest and secretest matter of their divine songs vntill I shall see the end of my travailes I will briefelie shewe what further befell mee Thus being heereby somewhat more confirmed of the trueth of so woonderfull newes and advauncing my steps forward to see the end and successe of these strange incounters I cast my sleepie eyes here there the day being all spent and blacke and raynie clouds covering the bright starres in the firmament when loe in an instant there appeared to me as it were Vulcan in fierie sparkes shining flames of great burning fires environing me on all parts where I went I misdoubting at first that Vulcan and Pluto had conspired the burning of the whole Island I was entred into resolved with my selfe if it were possible to returne and escape so great and imminent a danger But being soone advertised that the matter was nothing so as I supposed but that these fires were kindled onlie for ioy according to the commendable custome of this Island when any good newes happeneth to the State or Countrie Behold I was no sooner rid of this feare and perplexitie but that I might see three severall Currors of sundrie nations as appeared by their cognizances on their brest going for France Spaine and Jtalie and seemed to bee verie passionate and sad by their countenance and cariage whither it were for the ill successe of the plot then discovered or for that they feared the passages were all stopt so as they could not giue the first advertisement to their Maisters I leaue them to your good and friendly consideration great Brittaine who can better iudge in their matters and tell by the Weathercocke what quarter the wind holdeth thē I poore Pilgrime Yet thus farre I can say of them that their courtesie and favour was such to me a poore stranger that they could not afford me one Aue but making sighes and crosses vpon their faces and breasts looked and beckened so on me as to a Hugonet But I sore fearing that they had beene Sergeants at armes sent after me for my apprehension where soever they might finde me was glad to make a low curtsie and passe by them with as much speed as my wearie feet could carie mee and having posted a mile further without once looking backe It was my good hap to meete with two English Postes bearing the red rampant Lyon on their brests who were so full of indignation as that after my double salutations they could not for anger speake vnto me and shewing a sad sorrowfull countenance whither it were that the stranger Postes had got the start of them or fearing that thorough favour they might get passage before them to carrie the first newes to their Maisters and other forraine Princes or for what other cause I know not nor was it fit for me being a stranger and a bannished Pilgrime to be nimis curiosus in aliena republica Yet staying and viewing one another more nearlie I began to remēber my selfe that I had seene these two English Postes oftentimes not onely passe by me in their going to the Pallace of Paris but that they had bin also accustomed theretofore in pointing out their fingers to me as to a rare myracle to shew to their Coūtrie men newly come over my whole Genealogie birth memorable storie And on the other side one of thē being well travaild in all Countries by his imployment in the service of the late renowned Queene your Ladie given withall to the observations of antiquities abroad drew out his bookes of those matters which hee ever caried about him into forraine parts and turning the
not onely of my preferment but the certain accomplishment of all those great matters before spoken of assuredly consisteth that I may be receaved and brought to the presence and most comfortable favour of his princely mercies that by thē I may haue a new life breathed into me and be preferred to that eminent place where I may best performe as dutie and thankfulnes shall binde me both to his Highnes and thy excellencie that worthie and faithfull service that shall neuer be but exceedingly well thought highly comended to all posterity And to my auspitious mind no fitter place for demōstration of my dutifull seruice I speak not I protest out of ambition or anie vicious humor can be assigned me thē that Parliament house which these Monsters of mankinde the Pope his miscreant crue had meant to haue subverted demolished by Plutoes Vulcans violent and boystrous fires flashing thunderbolts and so to haue made consecrated it as a ruinous fit Pallace for the habitation of the black infernall Prince his damned spirits and Ministers of darknes But that I may with the greater right and without cavill of curious or captious heads stand there aucthorized Let me also request this favour at your handes most mightie Monarchie to move stir vp the wel affected mindes fierie zeales of the States of your Parliament that at the next Session I being as yet but an Alian heere may by Statute decree be naturalized and infranchized as a borne subiect within your territorie so thereafter to be erected and stand in the place that was destinated for Plutoes Pallace as a perpetuall monument and Record of this horrible conspiracie of thine our Monarchs most happy cōservation as a caveat to the ages following of the Papistical treasons of the Romish Church which I hope shall shortly inferre an end to that long vsurped tyrannicall raigne And so perswading my selfe that if neither my poore and pittious distressed estate neither the fine eloquence of the bannished Pyramis it selfe speaking to you in his owne French language newly set forth in your owne tongue cannot perswade you to immortalize your own deliverie from the greatest apparant daunger that ever befell to you I say if this above mentioned reason cannot move you to testifie in some measure the earnest desire you haue to make this notable deliverie of GOD to bee knowne to the ages subsequent by my publike erecting again in a glorious Pyramis by testifying your inward thākfulnes to him by this outward monument for your preservation Yet I beseech you although I seem perchance a strāger in outward shew suffer me neverthelesse as a loving Patriark simpathizing Christian in the common cause that these two great wonderfull works of the Almightie God may at least move and touch your hearts from the highest degree to the lowest from the head to the bodie and so to all the members of this your Monarchie I meane his great mercie towards you all and his fearefull iudgement against your enemies in this never to be forgotten thrice happie and admirable deliverie His mercie I say appeares not onely in discoverie of your danger but in disappointing of their cruell Parricide and in preserving your lyues from the snares of the bottomlesse Locusts of hellish Babilon his iudgement againe in the other part is to be admired in suffering a great part of them to bee apprehended and made a perpetuall spectacle to all posteritie by a iust and most severe punishment and the chiefest of them to haue suffered that same crueltie of punishment by Gun-powder which they ordained for your death Psal 17. Blessed therefore be the Lord of Hostes in all his workes for his mercies be everlasting and his iudgements vnsearchable And let this againe be your morning and evening sacrifice recommended to all Christians of mercie and of iudgement both O Lord Psal 10◠my song shall bee But if all this cannot perswade you to erect mee for a publique Monument of your deliverie yet let the godlie example of Abraham Jsaack Jacob stir you vp to this who in their often deliveries favours receaved at the hands of God erected both Altars and Monumēts of stones as witnesses of Gods inestimable favours blessings towards them to their posteritie and seeing also that that spirituall Monument of publique prayers religiouslie ordained by his sacred Maiestie to bee celebrated through all his Kingdomes for stirring vp of all mens affections in thankfulnesse to GOD appeares almost in the verie beginning to bee neglected both in Court Countrie and Citie at least permitte then the erection of this temporall and materiall Monument to bee an occasion and a meanes not onelie to lifte vp your externall eyes to GOD but also rather to lift vp the eyes of your mindes and hearts to the memorie of GODS mercie towardes you all and of his iudgement vpon your enemies I could speake farre more in this so ample and worthie Subiect if I should not bee thought too forward in so good a cause but howsoever I or the Pyramis that hath made mee thus to speake bee liked of so that I haue preserved my selfe farre from Joue et fulmine I care the lesse the censure of the rude and vnlearned that knowes not but extra crepidam neither would I wish the covetousnesse of the rich nor the envie of the malecontent nor the partialitie of the indifferent neither the favourer of Poperie hinder so good a worke neither dislike of mee the Patronizer thereof adding onelie this short caveat with your good leaue and friendlie favour that if the least countenaunce of clemencie shall bee showne to the Romaine conspiratours and their associates either nowe or heereafter it is to bee feared that your clemencie shall bee called crueltie and your courage cowardnesse and your loue hatred And last of all your Religion and Zeale towardes Christes Church and your Countrie shall bee thought Atheisme and Poperie Which GOD forbid should ever come to passe in such a Christian and flourishing Monarchie where Christes word is so vniuersallie religiouslie preached And if that you either saue any of the greatest or meanest sort of those coniured Traytours that bee nowe in hands but especiallie the Iesuites and Seminarie Priests the chiefe inventours of all those pestilent plots ringleaders of the rest to this damnable Rebellion either for feare favour or for anie other worldlie or politick respect I feare not onely all such that feares God truly at home but all sincere and faithfull Christian neighbours abroad shall suspect you as betrayers both of Christes Church his true religion your gratious King Countrie yea your owne lyues to your verie enemies and to this end surelie the eies and eares of all those which be bound by the band of Vnitie in true religion in all forraigne Kingdomes are bent to attend and heare of the good successe of so great a worke put in your hand at this time so
perswading themselues in this meane time that seeing it had pleased God to haue blest you by all other Nations and Kingdomes of the earth with so wise learned and religious a King so graue godlie expert foreseeing a Parliamēt wherein I wish Abrahams faith Salomons wisedome Davids zeale Jonathans faithfulnes Iosuahs courage and Judiths spirit and resolution may appeare in everie one of you at this present having also so faithfull and obeysant Magistrates and Subiects to execute whatsoever your sacred King and three Estates shal decree in this present Parliament expecting in this meane time at your hands such godlie necessarie and strict lawes with their due execution without delay acception of persons as Christes Church and true religion may be without all feare of danger and on the other part the Papists your enemies may be in such sure guard with a care to disarme them and inable them of all such meanes whatsoever as in anie way heereafter may giue but the least suspition of anie thing that may indanger his Maiesties persō succession Kingdoms either by thēselues heere at home or otherwise abroad by their favourers and associates And so consider with thy selfe beloved great Brittaine the singuler goodnes of thy God towards thee and thine annointed King in delivering you both who were appointed as Sheepe to the slaughter from that most barbarous savage imminent massacre and vnnaturall conspiracie no age ever yeelding example of like cruelty that thy deliverie safetie came not of thy merit but of Gods great mercie not thy foresight but his providence not thy loue to God but his to thine annointed King and his chosen people Forget not therefore to praise thank and glorifie the Lord of Hostes continuallie for his mervailous and most mercifull work of thy preservation and safetie for his mercie endureth for ever Which that thou and thy faithfull people and their seed after them may not onelie the better remember and be taught to doe but learne also to abhorre the odious hainousnes of so foule a fact Let it be as it is most worthie to be written and engraven in my Piller of lasting Marble ad perpetuam rei memoriam And so praying the most High to blesse our good proceedings and well intended indevours with happie prosperous successe to his glorie the good of his Church our owne comforts and the conversion if it may be or else the confusion of his and our enemies I conclude with this my last request that such obdurate stiffe-necked Papists as will not be yoaked or reclaimed from their grosse abhominable idolatries and wicked superstitions but still like Swine swill and swell themselues with the filthie dregs that the great whore of Romish Babilon giveth vnto them refusing to be cured by the healthie and wholsome potion of Gods most holie truth may not bee suffred to dwell together with mee in this land for neither is it lawfull for such to liue amidst Gods chosen Heritage to defile the Land with their filthines nor if they should can my life bee without continuall hazard and danger by their secret and villainous attempts Call vpon thy King therefore to execute iustice iudgment in cutting off these workers of iniquitie whose religion is rebellion whose faith is faction whose pietie is wicked pollicie and practise of murdring both soules bodies of Kings and all estates of people and to roote and rid them cleane out of the confines and limits of thy whole Monarchie which being clearely purged of them may ever heereafter growe vp prosper and flourish in quiet safetie sound health and invincible strength in everie member of the whole bodie of all true and truly devoted subiects with their righteous and religious Head and Soveraigne Deo soli gratia laus