gaue not a blow euery one fearing to smite first least the rest should make that an occasion to kill him for beginning the quarrell But at the last drunâ—…nes were heard to thunder and trumpets to sound alarums murmure ran vp downe euery streete and confusion did beate at the gates of euery City men met together and ran in heards like Deere frighted or rather like Beares chased or else seeking for prey But what wild beasts thinke you were these that thus kept such a roaring it was a people sauage and desperate a nation patchd vp like a beggers cloake of the worst péeces that could be gathered out of all nations and put into one They were more scattered then the Iewes and more hated more beggerly then the Irish and more vnciuill more hardy then the Switzers and more brutish giuen to drinke more then the Dutch to pride more then the French to irreligion more then the Italian They were like the Dunkirkes a mingle mangle of countries a confusion of languages yet all vnderstanding one another Such as the people were such was the Princesse whom they followed she had all their conditions they all hers seeming to be made for no other purpose then to gouerne them because none else could be bad inough to be their gouernour They obeyed her not for loue nor feare but made her onely great amongst them because it was their will to haue it so she amongst a number of vices that reigned in her hauing onely this vertue of a Prince not to see her people take wrong Into armes therfore as well for her owne chastity as defence of her subiects doth she doteâ—…ine to put her selfe presently A faithful serious â—…tion madâ—… I to vnderstaÌ„d the cause of this suddaine and vniuersall vprore and by true intelligence from persons oâ—… 〈◊〉 side found that the quarrell was old the eâ—…ty mortall the enemies puissant and fierce many leagues had béene made and all were broken no conditions of peace would now be looked vpon open warre must be the the sword to stâ—…ke open wrong The fires kindled by Guizian Leagues set not France in hotter combustions then these are likely to proue if the flames in time be not wisely quenched The showers of bloud which once rained downe vpon the heads of the two kingly families in England neuer drowned more people not that braue Romane tragedy acted in our time at the battel of Neuport not the siege of Bommell where heads flew from sholders faster then bullets from the Cannon No nor all those late acts of warre and death commenced by Hispaniolized Netherlanders able to make vp a Chronicle to hold all the world reading did euer giue rumour cause to speak so much as the battailes of these two mighty enemies so mortally falling out will force her to proclaime abroade vnlesse they grow to a reconcilement to which by the coniecture of all strangers that haue trauailed into both their dominions and know the hot and ambitious spirits of the quarrellers they cannot easily be drawne for no one paire of scales being able to hold two Kings at one time and this law being ingrauen on the very inside of euery Kings crowne because it is the wedding ring of his Empire to which hee is the Bride-groome that Nulla fides socijs Regni omnisque potestas Impatiens Consortis erit At the sterne of a kingdome two Pilots must not sit nor principality endure a partner and againe that Non capit Regnum duos A Kingdome is heauen and loues not two suns shining in it How is it possible or how agréeable to the politick grounds of state that two such potentates should be vnited in firme friendship sithence their quarrel is deriued from an equall claime of soueraignety Ouer Citties is there ambition to bée Superiours yet not together but alone and not onely ouer London the great Metropolis of England but also ouer Paris in the kingdom of Fraunce ouer Ciuil and Madril in Spaine ouer Rome in Italy Francfurt and Colin in high Germany Antwerp in Brabant Elsinor in Denmarke Prage in Bohemia Craconia in Poland Belgrad in Hungary and so ouer all the other Capitall Citties that bewtifies the greatest Kingdomes of Europe For Signority in these doe they contend Haue you not a longing desire to know the names of the generals that are to commaund these expected armies and from what countries they come what forces march with them and what warlike Stratagems they st and vpon I haue a little before roughly drawne the picture of one of them the Princesse her selfe being barbarous néedy of great power by reason of her people but far vnable to keepe them in pay or in order they themselues how valiant soeuer they bée being likewise all together vntrained and indisciplinable yet full of courage and desire to set vpon the Enemy Whose Army though it consist not of such multitudes number being oftentimes the confusions of battailes yet is the Empresse vnder whose collours they fight full of riches which are the sinews of Warre of great commaund feared and loued yea adored as a Dieâ—…y of a Maiesticall presence of incomparable bewty Such a one that euen the very sight of her is a Charme strong enough to make me venture their liues in the quarrell of her right Kings are to her beholden for she often sends them suplies and therefore pay they homage vnto her Her Captaines are pollitik fight rather vpon aduantages then vpon equâ—…lity her soldiers braue resolute hardly drawne to venture into dangres but when they are in a thousand Stratagems vse they to saue themselues what they get they kéepe which is one of the noblest points belonging to a soulder for it is more hard to vse a victory wel after it is gotten then it is to get it The name of this latter Princesse is the renowned Empres Argurâ—…on Mony The name of the former is that warlike Viâ—…agoâ—…amd â—…amd ouer all the earth for her hardines called Pâ—…uerty Now to the intent that the whole world as an indifferent Iudge may arbitrate the wrongs done betwéene these two states by that meanes find out which of them both come into the field w e vniust armes you shal vnderstand the Pouerty being sundry waies dâ—…eply indebted to the kingdome of Money as hauing bâ—…ene from time to time relieued by her and not being well able to maintaine herselfe in her owne dâ—…minions but that Money hath sent her in prouision it had bâ—…ene neither policy neither could it stand with her honour that Pouerty should first breake the league neither indéede hath she but hath euer had a desire to be in amity rather with the excellent Princesse then with any other Monarch whatsoeuer But the golden mines of the west east Indies ouer which the other Empresse is sole Soueraigne swelling vp her bosome with pride couetousnesse and ambition as they doe her coffers with
VVORKE FOR Armorours OR The Peace is Broken Open warres likely to happin this yeare 1609 God helpe the Poore The rich can shift Sauit toto Mars impius Orbe Written by THOMAS DEKKER IN DOMINO CONâ—â—â—DO LONDON Printed for Nathaniel Butter dwelling in Poules Church-yard at the signe of the Pide bull neere S. Austins gate 1609. The chiefe things contained in this Booke The preparation of two mighty Armies to come into the field Their leaders names Their Discipline The place of Battaile The manner of their weapons The Euils that follow both Armies To the Worthy deseruer of that Antient and honorable Title Sir THOMAS HEVVET Knight SIR THOMAS YOu shall behold drawne on this paper certaine Plat-formes of ground vppon which two mightie and almost inuincible Armies are this present Summer to ioyne Battaile Here you may knowe what Trenches they cast vp what fortifications they raise what Rampires what Parapets what Counterscapes c. Let it not appeare strange that from the Regiment of knights Military I make choise of you to be a Chiefe in â—…e best of these armies you beeing no professed Warriour But I my selfe serue on the one side and the World markes you out to be an able Commaunder in the other Before the Allarum be strucke vp behold I offer my selfe and all the forces which I leade into your hands With the Pen a most daungerous peece of Artillery doe I vse to come into the field That shall be discharged to do you all the Honour it may and I be ready in any seruice fitting such a souldier to Fight Yours vnder the Cullors of your Loue Thomas Dekker To all that either haue bene or still are the professors of Armes And to all those that to winne Fame haue now an intent or desire to follow the Warres SOVLDIERS ANd to a Name more full of antient Honour or of more Honorable worth I cannot speake You haue for a long time scarce made sauing voyages into the Field So far as the Red Sea of bloud haue you venturde and yet instead of Purchasing Glory haue brought home nothing but Contempt and Beggâ—…ry or atleast little or no money The Hollander and the Spaniard haue bene and I thinke still are your best Lords and Maisters If euer Captaines did pray they haue prayed for them onely Cutlers and Armorers haue got more by them within these few yeares then by any fowre Nation besides them in Christendome all their whole liues But for this Beyond-sea quarell the people of this vtmost end of the world if all the Fence Schooles had bene put downe too had I thinke forgotten how to handle their weapons The Low-Countries therefore haue in Renowne gone beyond kingdomes of higher Fame onely for thus repairing and keeping open those old and Ruinated Temples of Bellona which had beene shut vp in these latter Ages and stood despised because defaced Yet euen those Dutch warres haue bene vnto you that seru'd in them but as wares in these dead times are to Merchants and Tradsemen you were the richer for hauing them in your hands but you had not such hot doings as you desired You came often to the cracking of crownes but neuer to the true cutting of throats your Commanders had too much of the Martiall Theoricke your souldiers too little of the Practicke But be of good courage the wind shifts his point better dayes are comming vp the sicke world lies on the Mending hand For in this present yeare of 1609 drummes will be strucke vp and cullors spread vnder which you may all fight and all haue good pay Forsake therefore the townes where you lye ingarison'd during this Abstinence from warre leaue your drinking there sithence here you may be in action and drinke healths in bloud The battaile is expected the place appointed the General 's well knowne the Armie 's leauying their munition preparing If you desire either to be Voluntaries or to be Prest giue your names presently for this is the Muster-booke Farewell T. D. Warres THe purple whip of vengeance the Plague hauing beaten many thousands of meÌ„ women children to death and still marking the people of this Cittie euery weeke by hundreds for the graue is the onely cause that al her Inhabitance walke vp downe like mourners at some great solome funeral the Citie her selfe being the Chiefe mourneâ—…s The poyson of this Lingering infection strikes so déepe into all mens harts that their cheekes like cowardly Souldiers haue lost their colours their eyes as if they were in debt and durst not looke abroad doe scarce peepe out of their heads and their tongues like phisitions ill payd giue but cold comfort By the power of their Pestilent Charmes all merry meetings are cut off All frolick assemblyes dissolued and in their circles are raised vp the Blacke Sullen and Dogged spirits of Sadnesse of Melancholy and so consequently of Mischiefe Mirth is departed and lyes dead buryed in mens bosomes Laughter dares not looke a man in the face Iests are like Musicke to the Deafe not regarded Pleasure it selfe finds now no pleasure but in Seghing and Bewailing the Miseries of the Time For alack what string is there now to bée played vpon whose tench can make as merry Play-houses stand like Tauernes that haue cast out their Maisters the dores locked vp the Flagges like their Bushes taken down or rather like Houses lately infected from whence the affriâ—…ed dwellers are fled in hope to liue better in the Country The Players themselues did neuer worke till now there Comodies are all turned to Tragedies there Tragedies to Nocturnals and the best of them all are weary of playing in those Nocturnall Tragedies Thinke you to delight your selues by kéeping company with our Poets Proh Dolor their Muses are more Sullen then old Monkeys now that mony is not stirring they neuer Plead chéerfully but in their Tearme times when the Tâ—…o-peny Chents and Peny Stinkards swarme together to héere the Stagerites Playing vocations are Diseases now as common and as hurtful to them as the Fowle Euill to a Northen Man or the Pox to a French man O Pittifull Poetry what a lamentable prentiship hast thou serued and which is the greatest spite caust not yet be made Free no no there is no good doings in these dayes but amongst Lawyers amongst Vintners in Bawdy houses and at Pimlico There is all the Musick that is of any reckning there all the meetings there all the mirth and there all the mâ—…ny To walke euery day into the fields is wearisome to drink vp the day and night in a Tauerne loathsome to bée euer rydiug vpon that Beast with two Heades Letchery most damnable and yet to be euer idle is as detestable What merry Gale shall wée then wish for vnles it bée to Ferry ouer the Hellespont and to crosse from Sestus to Abidus that is to say from London to the Beare Garden The company of the Beares hold together still they play their
lusty heate begot her strucke an amazement into those that beheld her by the splendor of those maiesticall roabes which she wore when musicke went into her eare in ten thousand seuerall shapes when her walkes were perfumed her sports varied euery hower when her chéekes were dimpled with laughters at her iesters her Parasites her Pandors and all the rest of those seruile soothing Apes that in pide colours waite vpon and shew trickes to fate the appetite of that Lord of flesh and bloud the blacke Prince of the world her husband Then euen then in the full sea of all these iollities pompes and whorish ceremonies the onely bewitchers of mankinde came sayling in the newes of a suddaine insurrection and an vnexpected inuasion by that common fatall and barbarous spoiler of so many kingdoms infamous amongst al nations by that beggerly name of Pouerty These newes vpon the first arriuall did no more moue the great Indian Empresse Money then the bleating of a shéepe terrifies the king of forrests the Lyon Money was rich strong in friends held league with Princes had whole countries at her becke nations were her slaues no people but did loue her On the contrary side Pouerty her enemy had sinall reuenues fewer friends a world of followers but none of any reckoning except a few Philosophers Alchemists c. She held many townes and was obeyed in most kingdomes but how as théeues are obeyed by true men for feare and because they cannot otherwise choose her owne strength therefore being so good and her enemies fuller of spite then of power she onely laughed at the thunder of her threates and resolued that her pleasure should spread larger sailes But her councell being prouident carefull and iealous of their owne estates wisely considering the dangers that a weake enemy being desperate and hauing little to loose may put the best fortefied kingdome to the most valiant nation did in the end with one consent fall on their knées most humbly intreating thier Soueraigne Mistresse to giue ouer her reuellings maskes and other Court-pleasures for a time and that aswell for the safety of her owne royall person to take héede of them for many plots were now and had oftentimes bin laid as also for themselues whose liues and liberties wholly depended on her either to leuy present forces which should méete this beggerly Monarch in the field and so vtterly to driue her out of the kingdome or else to giue the rich men of her Empire leaue to make strict and seuere lawes to take away the liues of that wretched scattered people that follow Pouerty in these commotions wheresoeuer or whensoeuer they take them medling in any of her wealthy dominions These words brake forth with such lighning that Money stampd for very anger that so base an enemy should put her subiects into feare Their vigilance awaked her and like a good Prince that would loose her life rather then her subiects should perish she began with the Eagle to shake her royall wings and to be rouz'd out of her late golden slumbers securities that â—…ay vpon her like enchantments To their requests she yéelded and thereupon to fortifie her kingdome against all the shot of Villany Vengeance shee summoned those of her councell together whom shee know to be most faithfull and most seruiceable in a busines of this nature state importance Her councellors names were these Councellors to Money Couetousnesse Parsimony Deceipt Prouidence Monopoly Violence Vsury Couetousnesse was an old wretched leane fac'd fellow that seldome sléep'd for his eyes though they were great and suncke at least two inches into his head neuer stood still but rolled vp and downe expressing a very enuious longing gréedinesse to enioy euery thing that they looked vpon He neuer pared his nailes and being often asked the reason why he alwaies answered that he saued them for his heire for béeing cut off after hée himselfe was dead they might be put to sundry good thrifty purposes as to make hornes being thinly scraped for a Scriueners lanthorne to write by a nights or to nocke arrowes c. Hée kept not so much as a Barber but shaued his owne head and beard himselfe and when it came to wey a pound hée sold it to a Frenchman to stuffe tennis balles Money his Soueraigne cared not so much for him as he did for her she could make him do any vile office how base soeuer but because he was saucy and would often checke her for taking her pleasures séeking to restraine her of her liberties she hated him and was neuer more merry then when one brought her newes once that Couetousnesse lay a dying Yet was he well beloued af the best Citizens and neuer rode through the city but he was staid and feasted by many Aldermen and wealthy Commoners few Courtiers loued him heartily but onely made vse of him because he was great and could do much with Money their empresse Prouidence was but of meane birth the ladder by which he climbd to such high fortunes as to be a councellor to Money being made by himselfe much giuen to study yet no great scholler as desiring rather to be frée of the City then to serue a long thréed-bare Prentiship in the Universities He is rarely séene in Minerals and distillations and will draw Aurum potabile or fetch quick-siluer out of horse-dung he will grow rich and be in time the head warden of a company though he were left by his friends but thrée shillings thrée pence stocke to set vp such another he was as Whittington a very cat shall raise him if he be set vpon t He is the best that writes Almanackes in these times and where the rest write whole Calenders of lies for bare forty shillings a yéere seruingmens wages he foreséeing what will happen buies vp all the commodities of one or two Countries at one bargaine when he knowes they will bee déere and so makes vp his owne mouth and for it gets much fauour at the hands of Couetousnesse his elder brother Parsimonie is kinsman to those two that go before he is not vp yet for he vseth to lie a bed till afternoone onely to saue dinners when he rises which will be presently the motion shall be shewen and interpreted to you Monopoly is a very good man where he takes that is to say 9. maner of waies Deceipt lookes a little a squint yet is of déeper reach then any of the rest for he doth oftentimes fetch ouer Couetousnesse himselfe He is great in Lawyers bookes and tradesmen not onely loue him but their yongest wines thinke themselues highly happy if at a running at Tilt at a maske or a play at Court or so as he ofteÌ„ doth he will but voutchsafe to place them and the sports done he commonly sends them home lighted He hath more followers then the 12. Péeres of France he studies Machiauell and hath a french face Violence hath borne