the field whom martialling in the best order of warre they marched forward with full resolution either to take Money and her subiects prisoners or else neuer to come out of the field so long as they Pouertie their mistresse and powrefull commander could be able to hold life and soule together The Preparation strength and stratagems of the second Armie NO treason was euer so secretly contriued so cunningly carried nor so resolutely attempted but either in the very growing vp it hath beene discouered or the head of it cut off where it was at point to come to the full ripenesse The workes of Princes are great and require many hands to finish them and a number of engines cannot be set going so closely that no eare shall heare them Ioue may talke in his big voice of thunder as soone and not be vnderstoode as a kingdome may call vp her owne subiects with the yron tongue of warre and not awaken those people that are her neighbours The eies of a true State do neuer sléepe Princes are quickest of hearing the blowes that forraine enemies giue are broken for the most part because the weapon is alwaies séene and put by otherwise they would cut déepe and draw blood where by such preuention they scarce giue bruises This mercilesse tyrant therefore Pouerty could not kindle such fires of vprores and ciuill mischiefes but that the flames like burning beacons armed her enemies with safetie euen as they put them into feare Her ragged troopes were more apt to betray themselues and their procéedings then polliticke to betray the foe into any danger With swift wings therefore did the newes of this inuasion fly abroad into all countries and at last alighted before that glorious and most adored Empresse Money whom néerest it concerned because all the arrowes of their enuie and intended malice were shot at her bosome The drom of warre beate in her eare not in the dead of night when her glories and beauties were darkened and eclipsed but when she was seated in the throne of all her pleasures which a whole world was rifled and trauailed ouer to maintaine in height and fulnesse when her pallate surfeited on the variety of dishes and delicacy of féeding when her body shone brighter then the sunne it selfe who in his lusty heate begot her strucke an amazement into those that behâ—ld 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 sate 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 small 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 lay 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
bald by mens abusing it O Histories you soueraigne balmes to the bodyes of the dead that preserue them more fresh then if they were aliue kéepe the fames of Princes from perishing when marble monuments cannot not saue their bones from being rotten you faithfull entelligensers betwéene Kingdomes and Kingdomes your truest councellors to Kings euen in their greatest dangers Hast thou an ambition to be equall to Princes read such bookes as are the Chronicles of Ages gone before thée there maiest thou finde lines drawre if vertue be thy guide to make thee paralell with the greatest Monarch wouldest thou be aboue him there is the scale of him ascending Huntst thou after glory marke in those pathes how others haue run and follow thou in the same course Art thou sicke in minde and so to be diseased is to be sicke euen to the death there shalt thou finde physicke to cure thée Art thou sad where is swéeter musicke then in reading Art thou poore open those closets and inualuable treasures are powred into thy hands Whilest I dwelt vpon the contemplation of this happinesse the dreames of Infants were not more harmelesse then my thoughts were nor the slumbers of a conscience that hath no sting to kéepe it waking more delicate then the musicke which I found in reading but the swéetest flower hath his withering and euery pleasure his ending This full Sea had a quicke fall and the day that was warme and bright in the morning had frosts and gloomy darknesse to spoile the beauty of it ere it grew to be noone for on a suddaine all the aire was filled with noise as if heauen had bin angry and chid the earth for her Villanies people rush headlong together like torrents running into the sea full of fury in shew but loosing the effect of doing violence because they know not how to do it their rage and madnesse burning in them like fire in wet straw it made a great stinking smoake but had no flame Wildnesse and afrightment were ill fauouredly drawne in euery face as if they had all come from acting some fresh murder and that at euery step they were pursued Arme was cryed and swords were drawne but either they had no hearts to strike or no hands for like so many S. Georges on horse-backe they threatned but 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 drummes 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 séeking 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 séeming 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 determine to put her selfe presently A faithful serious inquisition made I to vnderstād the cause of this suddaine and vniversall vprore and by true intelligence from persons of either side found that the quarrell was old the enmity mortall the enemies puissant and fierce many leagues had béene made and all were broken no conditious of peace would now be looked vpon open warre must be the the sword to stricke 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 hée 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 stand vpon I haue a little before roughly drawne the picture of one of them the Princesse her selfe being barbarous néedy of great power
requested it might be at beggers bush But euery soldier swore that was a lowzy place and so for a day or two it rested vncertaine and vndetermined In which Interim a murmuring went vp and downe that not onely Pouerty had maintained this terrible Siege against the City but that Dearth also Famine and the Plague were lately ioyned with the same Army besides many strange and incurable diseases were crept into the camp that followed Money for Ryot her minion was almost spent and lay in a consumption A hundred in a company were drowned in one night in French bowles fiue times as many more were tormented with a terrible gnawing about their consciences All the Usurers in the Army had hung themselues in chaines within lesse then three howers and all the Brokers being their Bastards went crying vp and downe The Diuell the Diuell and thereupon because they should not disquiet the rest of the Soldiers they were fetched away These and such other vnexpected mischifes put Money into many feares doubts and distractions so that she inwardly wished that these vnlucky warres had either neuer béene begun or else that they were well ended by the conclusion if it might be of some honourable peace And as these stormes of misery fell upon Money and her troopes so was the army of Pouerty plagued as much or more on the other side nothing could be heard amongst the Souldiers but cries complaints cursings blasphemies Oathes and ten thousand other blacke and damned spirits which euer hawnted them and their Generall herselfe Want pinched them in the day and wildnesse and rage kept them waking and raueing all the night Their soules were desperate their bodies consumed they were weary of their liues yet compelled to liue for furder miseries and nothing did comfort them but a foolish hope they had to be reuenged vpon Money So that so many plagues so many diseases so many troubles and inconueniencies following both the armies by meanes of the tedious Siege a perpetuall truce league and confederacy was confirmed by Money and Pouerty and the councellors on either part that in euery Kingdome euery Shire and euery City the one should haue as much to doe as the other that Pouerties subiects should be euer in a redinesse as the Switzers are for pay to fight for Money if she craued their aid that Money againe should help them whensoeuer they did néede and that sithence they were two Nations so mighty and so mingled together and so dispersed into all parts of the world that it was impossible to seuer them A 〈…〉 presently enacted that Fortune should no longer bee blinde but that all the Doctors and Surgeons should by waters and other 〈◊〉 helpe her to eies that she might see those vpon whom shee bestowes her blessings because fooles are serued at her doale with riches which they know not how to vse wise men are sent away like beggers from a misers gate with empty wallets The Armies hereupon brake vp the Siege raised the Citty gates set wide open Shop keepers felâ—â—â— their old What doe you lacke The rich men feast one another as they were wâ—nt and the poore were kept poore 〈◊〉 in pollicy because they should doe no more hurt FINIS 〈◊〉 Elizaâ—ethâ— death King Iames his Coronation * A Booke so called written by the Author describing the horror of the Plague in 1602 when there dyed 30578. of that disease King of England and Christierne King of Denmarke The maner how Bankâ—uptisme is entertained and at what Gate Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris Misery makes men cunning His qualities His disguises His policy Against forced Mariages Against cruell Creditors Against vnconsionable Maisters 2700 and odde yeeâ—es since London was first builded by Bâ—ute Against want of places for Buriall in extremity of sicknes 1602. Against want of prouision for those that dye in the fields The Conclusion The miseres that a Plague brings to Men. Play-houses stand empty Poets walke in meâ—ancholy Neâ— dant proceres â—eque histriones Ignauum corrumpunt otia corpus The Beares are hardly put downe Paris garden an Image of hell Poore men coÌ„tending with rich men are as dogâ— fighting with Beares Innocence punished No slaue like the soothing vp of fooles in their vices Nulla est sincera â—aiâ—â—taâ— Excellence of Histories Et quae mox imitêre legas Discitur hinc nullos merâ—tis obsifiere casus Discitur hinc quantum pauâ— Pertas sobreâ— possit A Commotion O quantum cogit egestus VVhat vices are companions for the most part with pouerty The quarrel betweene money and pouerty Diuitis hoc vitiâ—â—â— eâ—t auri Ciuell waâ—res of Fraunce Diuision of the two Houses Low country warres The chiefe Cities of Christendome The Princes that raise these warres Pouerty her Army Mony and her Army Auri sacra â—ames quid non mortalia cogâ—s Pectora Poore men fall not first out with the rich but the rich with them Rich men hate poore men The poore may begge O nosiri infami◠〈◊〉 Onites Diomediâ— Equi Eusidis â—ra Clementes Sors vbi peâ—â—iâ—â— riâ—um sub pedibus timor est Qui nil potest sperare desperet nihil Money hard to be spoken with Open warre Pouerties speech to her councell The villany of Bank-routes Dum ciuitas erit pauperes er unt Pouertie brings any man on his knees Discontent described Aâ—â—â—icâ—â—â—gaâ—dereget Despaire Hunger Sloth Repining Industry Beggery Misery A presse for soldierâ— to serue Pouerty Low country soldiers come from thence to fight vnder Pouerty here Hals of euery company furnish men on both sides Carelesnesse Learning held â—n contempt Yonger brothers Old Seruingmen the gaurd to Pouerty Banckrowtes come to Pourty but as spies Masters vndon by seruants serue in the Rareward Poore Attorneys Pandors euer poore Baudes seldom rich The life of a sensuall man Riches make men cowards Councellors to Money Couetousnesse Couetous men are slaues to that which is a slaue to them Prouidence Parsimonie Monopoly Deceipt hath many great friends in the Cittie Violence Might ouercomes right Nullum violentum perpetuum Vsurie A Broker is an Vâ—â—â—ers Baude Parsimony Praises of Money 〈…〉 mana 〈…〉 parenâ— Money entertayned into the Citty And by whomâ— Mercers Silkemen Goldsmiths Hee is wise enough that hath wealth enough Any thing to be had for money Old men most greedy of mony when money they are vpon paâ—ting for euer Some for money will sell religion Riches are yong mens Harâ—ots How carefull rich men are of their wealth Strangers Pouerty layes siege to the City Rich men are deafe and cannot heare poore mens cries Scatter good â—ent to mony They that haue nothing enâ—y 〈◊〉 that are wealthy Money giues men courage How scarcity of victuals groâ—â—â— in the Land Couetousnesse of â—â—ch Farmers makes the country poore and the people to pine How corne riseth in prise maketh deere the markets Cruelty of Land-lords in â—acking of 〈◊〉 is the vndoing of many â—ousholders How 〈◊〉 cheeâ—e grow deere Hagglers Bakers Euery man pin 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Pouerty comforteth her followers Paupertatemque ferendo â—ffeâ—ere leâ—em nec iniqua mente ferendo Et laris et sundi paupertas mapulet aâ—dax vt versus face em No trade loues one another The Citty besiâ—ged Tutum carpit inanis Iter Prodigall heirs meete soonest with Pouerty Dead termes times that are cold in doings pinch the rich as well as â—he poore A supplication from the inhabitants of the Suburbs Mony takes a view of all her army Lords Knights Lawyers Aturnies Brokers come well armde Famine and the plague come along with Pouerty to besiege the City Nulla salus bâ—llâ— pacem to poscimus omnes A Truce The Siege is raised