of Traytours from all motions of mischaunce that may any way annoy it and that as God hath blessed it hither to with the glorious beames of his sacred Gospell through her who is the mother and maynetainer of our ioy by the same euen so that he wyll long lend vs her to increase it long blesse the Realme to enioy it and vs all faithfully to looue it and her Maiestie And whereas he sayth they were all fables and no trueth not able to bee prooued any way notable testimony remaineth how theyr treasons were manifestly prooued bothe by their owne confessions and writings vncorrupted witnesses and euident proofe of euery thing that was obiected against them and not that they were condemned for their religion as this false reporter saythe but for high Treason intended practised and conspired against her Maiestie and the Realme the summe whereof is so odious that any good minde loatheth to heare it Agayne he sayth That when the witnesses where produced and sworne to witte Munday Cradocke Sled and Hill all of very base condition who were so well seene in lyes that they seemed to be borne and nourished therein they had the foule ouerthwart albeit with shamelesnes and vehemencie they mainetayned theyr accusation against these good and innocent men As for our basenes or simplenes we will not stande to contend with him though wee knowe we haue all one father and that we are all made of one mettall Againe we know God hath chosen the despised of the world to confoūd them that thinke themselues moste mighty But where he saith We were so well seene in lyes that we seemed to be borne and nourished therein I can leuell at his meaning How that bothe he and they beléeuing in lyes obeying the Author of lyes and dayly fed and nourished with lyes hate nothing so much as the trueth so that when they are truely and faithfully reprooued of their owne wicked and naughtie dealings then they storme and keepe a coyle exclayme defame and vse vnreuerent spéeches so that what toucheth them with moste trueth is starke false and nothing but lyes If this be not his meaning I take it so and can prooue it so for that bothe impudentlie and shameleslie they denied all manifest truethes brought and prooued against them and neither had we a fowle ouerthwart or any motion of a disproofe but in déede Maister Campion oftentimes would offer to trippe me in my tale and would question with the other subtillie according to his vsuall wunt and if this was a fowle ouerthwart when no reason was made or showen of any such occasion let the learned iudge who can discerne trueth from falsehood and traytours from true and loyall Subiects but we must suffer him to kéepe his ordinarie course of vntrueth least perhaps he shoulde chaunce to forget it Then he setteth downe y e Euidēces giuen which you may sée in my other Booke with more trueth then he vseth the matter reporting that which Sled neuer spake nor thought wherfore we let it passe among the number of vntruethes And then vnreuerentlie he cōmeth to Maister Seriant Anderson and Maister Popham the Quéenes Maiesties Attorneye generall wherein our Historian aptlie discouereth him selfe but as Enuie braggeth and draweth no blood so he thinking to iniure others sheateth his venemous blade in his own brest And all this whyle sayth he the good religious Campion shewed him selfe so prudent and aunswered with such pietie and modestie that he not onely astonied the people there present but also brought the Iudges into admiration of him he was so present to him selfe and defended with so great equitie bothe his owne and his companions cause that it was esteemed they should be declared guiltlesse In deede I wyll not denie but this good irreligious Campion handled euerie cause with a smoothe and cullorable countenaunce béeing verie present and quick to him selfe in Sophistical conueyances and farre fet déepe pointes of Logique and indéede he did it with such a modest showe as Iudas when with a kisse he betrayed his Maister And I am perswaded that the people there present were astonied to heare and perceyue that so modest a countenaunce coulde harbour such a false and trayterous heart to God his Princesse and Countrey yea the Iudges dyd admire that a man as he was professing learning and looue in outwarde appearaunce shoulde be so ouercome by the Deuil as to séeke the spoyle and ruine of his Princesse and Countrey Good cause had the people to be astonied that so wicked members as they should be found among them who were true and faith full Subiectes and more cause had the Iudges of admiration to sée their owne Countreymen in a matter so horrible to appeare before them little dyd any there thinke to heare them declared guiltlesse their treasons so apparant and the proofe so euident but rather thought no torment sufficient to reward them who were so haynous offendours and therefore woorthilie and according to desart they were giuen vp guiltie And whereas he sayth It was since reproched to one of the twelue for the yll aduise vsed in searching their cause and that he should make aunswer he could doo no otherwise least he should not be thought a freend to Caesar We adde this to the trothlesse number lykewise the men béeing all knowne to be no one of them such as woulde make any such aunswere but as they sayd then they thāked God that they had liued to doo their Princesse such seruice as to cut off such rotten braunches from such a quiet common wealth so they saye styll and wyll continue therein let the aduersarie report what he can And héere he bringeth in That the next day Collington was found not to be at Rheimes in the specified time for that Maister Lankaster of Grayes Inne witnessed him then to be there with him by which meanes sayth he he delyuered this innocent man from death whereto he was already condempned Howe false this is it is sufficientlie knowne for so soone as the question was mooued Maister Lankaster béeing by made aunswer and neither was Collington condemned nor any of them there that was as then condemned for that all the matters were not heard neither had the Iewrie determined vppon any thing wherefore you maye sée howe he kéepeth his hande in vre with his accustomed vntruethes Vppon this sayth he one William Nicholson Preest standing by and knowing well that Foorde one of the prisoners was as wrongfullie accused as this other earnestly moued with a cōsciēce of veritie would as wel defend the innocencie of Foorde as the other before had done of Collington but it would not fadge with him for he was takē sent to prison Now shal you perceiue what trueth can be gathered of this place which if he were not so confounded in shame he would haue showen some signe of more discretiō rather then to set it so falsely downe after this manner When as Alexander
Brian was manifestly founde to be present at the trayterous Sermon which Iohn Hart made at Rheimes as an especiall encouragement to them all there sitting in audience to great disobediēce and hate of their Princesse and Countrey the sayd Alexander offered denial therof which notwithstanding Charles Sled defended truly to his face Whervpon this William Nicholson standing by amōg the people would take vppon him to affirme that Brian was not at y e sayd Sermon graunting him selfe to be present there then béeing euidentlie disprooued of his bolde attempt the treason of Brian appearing so manifest he was committed to prison according as rightly he had deserued He neither offered woorde on the behalfe of Foord either to defend his innocency or appeach his guiltines but euen as I haue set you downe so it was and no otherwise As for the determination of the Pope to replenish his Seminaries with such aboūdance of Schollers as he can cōueniently attaine vnto It is largely hādled in my other Booke to his shame all such as follow his humour in so traiterous perswasions Neuerthelesse this Sophister would smooth the matter after an other manner as that The Pope dooth it for meere looue and pittie to our Countrey to encrease such as shal profite in his seruice and to ayde the Church sayeth he which is so afflicted I would wishe him to kéepe that looue and pittie to him selfe for any good Subiect loatheth to heare a motion which maye offer disobedience to their Prince and Countrey and therfore loatheth him who offereth them such vnchristianlike seruice And héere I must not forget to answer his deepe iudgement as concerning Alexander Brian and the Crosse made of a peece of a Trencher which he had in his hande at the Arraignement which this fellowe sayth To be a great Crosse and that Maister Brian as Auncient bearer bare it there in the behalfe of them all vntyll sayth he he was corrected for it and because he woulde not laye it away a naughtie man by force tooke it from him to whome Brian sayde Thou hast taken from me my Image neuerthelesse I wyll fight vnder the Standarde thereof to the death Oh most impudent and shamelesse woordes it is so well knowne to be be vntrue that is héere rehearsed as I néede not to waste tyme in so vaine a matter For when he was reprooued for his shauen crowne and that stubbornlie and obstinatlie hee made aunswer He had good hope to doo it againe The Crosse was taken from him with so swéete a rebuke for such an idolatrous spectacle as if he had had any grace in him woulde haue constrayned him to be hartilie sorie for his follie And neither spake he the woordes héere falselie imputed to him or any matter to that intent onelie these woordes which haue béene rehearsed he spake verie scornefullie and without any showe of wisedome or modestie And because I wyll not be ouer tedious to the fréendlie Readers the vntruethes by him auouched at their execution I wyll bréestlie touche in rehearsall of the other Booke which is imprinted in Englishe as concerning the same matter shortlie knitting vp this slaunderous Libell to be as you maye perceyue by the confutation thereof the wryter thereof to be shamelesse in his shame one of the right broode as they all are of and his Booke equall with him in any euyll condition so that as the Trée is such is his fruite and as the wrighter is suche are his woorkes In the ende hée knitteth vp his Booke with a breefe reporte intituled The martirdome of Euerard Haunce an English Preest in An. 1581. And nowe you shall heare what most impiously he alledgeth on his behalf which is as followeth Euerard Haunce beeing a Minister of the Heretiques and a benefactour in England beeing in a verie greenous agony of sicknesse as it were neere to the death fell in a sound wherein he remained so long that his freendes altogeather reputed him for dead During the tyme he was in this traunce he seemed in a vision to see the infernall pit of hell and the Soules which were there tormented bothe night and daye with intollerable and greeuous paines yea the Soules of his freendes and most familliars which he verie well knewe in their lyfe time But that which is most straunge he sawe there the places assygned for some other of his freendes who were as then lyuing in the world and in sound and good estate of their health After this vision beeing come againe to him selfe he called for a Catholique Preest who beeing come vnto him how be it his Kinsfolkes were against it greatly as well for his Religiō as for loosing his benefice which was woorth much with great sorrowe repentaunce of his former lyfe he made his confessiō to the Preest wholy renounced his benefice embracing the Catholique faith It so chaunced that he forsooke his Coūtrey admonishing those verie earnestly whose places he had seene prepared for them in hell to amende their liues which they refusing to do dyed within short space after and wēt to hell to their places Then went he to Rheimes in Champaigne for to study Diuinitie where hauing stayed about two yeares and made Preest he felt a great zeale in him selfe to returne into his Countrey where not long since he was taken condemned to death and beeing executed he was ript vp and quartered and as his heart was throwen into the fire it leaped foorth againe three seuerall tymes This is one of our Historians faithfull reportes carrying as great credite as all the other doo these are the myracles of theyr Church whereof in my Englishe Romaine lyfe I wyll rehearse diuers of like aucthority and allowaunce which albeit they wyll vrge many to woonder and meruaile yet shall they be set downe in no other order then as them selues haue reported them and my self haue séen As for Euerard Haunce what he was how he lyued and how he dyed is already so largelie set downe in print that it were but double labour to rip it vp againe Traytour he was to her Maiestie and the Realme and so lyke a Traytour he ended his lyfe as all the rest of them shall I hope except God turne their heartes as I praye hartily he maye that they maye sée their horrible abuses and be hartilie for their haynous offences ¶ An Aunswer vnto an other seditious Pamphlet printed in Englishe and named A true report of the death and Martirdome of Maister Campion Iesuite and Preest Maister Sherwin and Master Brian Preests at Tiborne the .1 of Decemb. 1581. Obserued and written by a Catholique Preest who was present thereat TO rippe vp all the circumstances contayned in this Booke as the whole course thereof is Trayterous false and no trueth at all in it so would it séeme yrksome to any modest eare to abyde the rehearsall of such vnreuerent matter Yet neuerthelesse I wyl bréeflie touche some pointes thereof whereby
with forraine Princes might Would vse our England as him pleasde and put our Queene from right Howe that these men were sent before by his perswasion To make all ready gainst the tyme of his inuasion So that destruction suddenlie should come vpon vs all Those onely sau'd had holie Graynes or could the watch woord call All this did Iustice playne discerne with many matters more Where through they had the iust desart that they deseru'd therefore God saue Elizabeth our Quéene God sende her happie raigne And after earthlie Honours héere the heauenlie ioyes to gaine And all that séeke her secrete harme or to annoy her Grace God turne their hearts or that they may enioy but lyttle space Anthony Munday FINIS Honos alit Artes. Not for their religion but for high treason The manner of the afâ—resayde trayâ—erous Booke To buylde vpon heare say prooueth but a slender foundation His Maister was then in the Iayle at Reading iudge then howe Campion could be within with his Mâ—â—ster By that which followeth written by George Eliot him selfe consider of the trueth of this report Who frequenteth their company shall finde all their dealings disloyall and trayterous It is very vnlike that he which neuer sawe Campion in all his life nor knew where he was could make any promise to bring him foorth I sawe the warrant my selfe and neither was Campion Payne or any one named therin but all Preestes Iesuits and such seditious persons A holy kinde of Church whereof the Deuill is Uicar The father of lyes hath made his Children so prompt in his Art that they cannot chuse but make knowledge thereof These horrible treasons which were manifestly prooued to their faces are but fables and lyes sayth he All good Subiectes will say as much as I doo but as for such as will not God cut them off or turne their harts Heere he describeth him selfe and all chose of his sect and condityon 1. Cor. 1. If he had applyed this vnto themselues he had spoken but trueth for they had the fowle ouerthwart euerie way It is their cheefest glorie to reuile and slauÌ„der but therein they aptly shewe themselues The true construction of the former woordes vttred so highlie on the behalfe of Campion A notable vntrueth made on our secrete Authors fyngers endes This is so well known to be false that it scant deserueth any aunswere at all A manifest vntrueth as the reproofe thereof succeeding doth euidentlye declare VVilliam Nicholson his presumptioÌ„ to defend a Craitours cause at the barre wherby he brought him selfe into y e same pâ—edicament I would the Pope would keepe his meere looue to him selfe for we might very well be without it A meete Auncient bearer for such an Idolatrous and superstitious thing Of him that accustometh him selfe in lyes it is verie harde to heare any trueth A verie straunge vision Too straunge to be true Note this This is as true as all the rest is Learning enough in so small a time to be a Preest A notable lye In my English Romaine lyfe you shall reade many of theyr wunderfull miracles Bothe the right honorable and woorshipful with y e great number of people that were there present can witnesse the fearfulnesse and timeriousnesse of Campion Our reporter maketh Campion a wunder to the world in rehearsing those giftes which were neuer in him Campions owne woordes to those of woorship whyle hee was in the Tower Campions estate beeing beyond the Seas whiche if euerie one consider with iudgement they shall well perceyue his glorious reportes to be but fables This Reporter behaueth him selfe vnreuerently to my Lord bishop of London mislyking his iudgement on Campions learning and Master Whitakers Booke A notable lye on the behalfe of Campion Math. 5. An other manifest vntrueth applied on the behalfe of Alexander Brian The maÌ„ner of the Papists charitie to Christes members In my booke which shall shortly come foorth you shall reade the cruelty lately vsed to an English maÌ„ at Roome for the christian faith I would they all bare as true hartes to her Maiestie as he dooth I was not called by the name of Anthony Munday but by an other name which they set downe in their Table A verie trayterous Booke secretly imprinted and made by a Catholique preest They that haÌ„dle pitch will be defiled therewith
kingdome of heauen no more are they all good Subiectes that saye God saue the Queene but they doo this for a face to couer the fowle blemish ensuing by their treason God saue her Maiestie from all such as they are her honourable Coūcell and the whole Realme from that bloody Antichrist and his wandering shauelinges An aunswere to his Caueat concerning me and my Discouerie AFterwarde hée commeth with a Caueat to the Reader concerning me and my Booke of the Discouerie of Campion where he is verie lauish of spéeche of such a man as he nor the prowdest of his secte dare auouch the woordes to his face saying lykewise that he perused my Booke which on my Faith he neuer sawe tyll it came abroade Then he beginneth to rip vp the course of my life Howe I was an Apprentise and serued my tyme well with deceyuing my Maister I referre my selfe to the iudgement of all men reading this which my Maister vnrequested hath héere set downe on my behalfe This is to let all men vnderstand that Anthony Munday for the tyme he was my Seruaunt dyd his duetie in all respectes as much as I could desire without fraude couin or deceyte if otherwise I should report of him I should but say vntrueth By me Iohn Allde AGaine he sayth That wandering towardes Italie I became a Coosener For my discharge I will appeale to one of their owne secte nowe he that went with me all the way by name Thomas Nowel who knoweth this to be a false and malicious slaunder When I came to Roome he sayeth I was charitablie releeued but neuer admitted into the Seminarie You shall heare the woordes of Lucas Kerbie Preest one of the condempned prisoners in the Tower taken before Sir Owen Hopton on Tuesday beeing the .6 of March last 1582. AT what tyme we were excluded the Seminary and sent for againe before the Pope he demaunded of vs how many we were in nūber which was presentlie giuen him to vnderstande in which number Thomas Nowell and Anthony Munday were named He commaunded we should all be receyued into the Seminarie againe and gaue vs our desire in all thinges we requested the Iesuites to be our Rectors and to gouerne vs. Then was a Table made called The Table of the names of all the Schollers in the Englishe Seminarie Where euerie mans name was placed by the Alphabet and therein was the names of Thomas Nowell and Anthony Munday set downe lykewise although he professed an other name then Nowe let men iudge whether I was admitted or no for before that time neither my fellowe nor I might be receyued into the house nor suffered to haue our Uiandes with the Schollers but were in déede maintayned by the Schollers when they sawe me so wylling to returne from thence againe which made them promise vs that they would labour both to the Pope and Cardinall for vs. This made vs the more wylling to take parte with them in their expulsion from the Seminarie Then were wee allowed among the number of the Schollers At their receyuing in againe our names were put in the Table for Schollers obseruing all orders that the Schollers dyd bothe in going to the Schooles in walking for our recreation all other thinges we did as the Schollers did The manner of their expulsion the cause and howe thinges happened you shal reade at large in my Englishe Romaine lyfe In all the course of his Caueate which he séemeth to publishe against my Booke of the Discouerie he offereth no reproofe to any thing that I haue written therein albeit he would haue Campion and his fellowes to be thought such holie wise and discreet men Me thinkes he shoulde first haue examined theyr horrible treasons theyr trayterous practises from tyme to tyme bothe against her Maiestie her honourable Councell and the Realme and then haue shaped his defence according For in couering their faultes without any reason to the contrarie and in making a man a Saint not purging him from the wickednesse planted in him by the Deuill he sheweth a rashe and partiall opinion concealing their guiltinesse to him selfe and séeking to make them famous by a fewe commixed tearmes whose odious offences hath made them moste infamous Their venemous nature maye be séene in a Booke secretlie imprinted made by a Catholique Préest not lōg since where in two seuerall places he calleth her Maiestie a Deuill in an other place Macheuillian and in an place plainlie Iezabell these are good Subiectes that can crie God saue the Queene with their mouthes and wishe her death in their heartes yea they will sweare they are no such fellowes when for more proofe of them selues they set it downe in print but such as theyr heade the Pope is such are they all for they that once enter into oath to him can hardlie after be good Subiectes to their Prince Yet if they had any sparke of looue to their Princesse and Countreye in them they might take example by Maister Shelley the graund Priour in Roome among the Englishe men who flatlie tolde the Pope to his face That it neither stoode with his holynesse nor honour to will any Subiect to be a Traitour to his Prince and Countrey for quoth he be shee neuer so euyll wee must acknowledge her for our Princesse and our selues for her Subiectes For this if he had not presently fled vpon it he had béene murdred or some way dispatched so great was the mallice of his Countrey men towards him Wel I pray God to illuminate them with his grace that they maye see their wickednesse and blindnesse and though they haue strayed a long time lyke lost Shéepe yet that they may at length come home againe to the shéepfolde saying We haue sinned O Father against heauen and against thee vnwoorthy we be to be called thy chyldren God preserue her Maiestie her honourable Councell send his Gospel a ioyfull and frée passage turne the heartes of all Traytours stop the mouthes of all backbiters and slaunderers and make vs all his faithfull Seruauntes Amen FINIS Verses in the Libell made in prayse of the death of Maister Campion one of the societie of the holie name of Iesus heere chaunged to the reproofe of him and the other Traitours WHy doo I vse my paper inke and pen and call my wits in coūcell what to say Such memories were made for woorthy men And not for such as séeke their Realms decay An Angels trumpe exalts y e Subiects trueth When shame rings foorth y e Traitors fearful rueth Pardon my want I offer naught but will To note downe those at whome the Skies do skowle Cāpion his treasōs do excéed my skil The cause his comming the déede too fowle Yet giue me leaue in base and homely verse His lewd attempts in England to rehearse He came by vowe the cause his Princesse foyle His armour Treason to his Countryes woe His comfort blood slaughter gréeuous spoyle The Deuill his Author had incenst him
so His triumphe Englands ruine and decay The Pope his Captaine thirsting for it aye From ease to paine from honour to disgrace From looue to hate to daunger béeing well Thus dyd he fall flying his natiue place and Countrey where by duty he should dwell Our no Apostle comming to restore The bloody sway was sometime héere before His natures flowers were mixt with hūny gall His lewd behauiour enimie to skill A climing minde reiecting wisedomes call A sugred tongue to shrowde a vicious will A Saintlyke face yet such a deuillish hart As sparde no trauaile for his coūtries smart With tongue and pen the trueth he did suppres Stopping the way that Christians did desire Which pleased God for his great wickednes To stay his race wherein he dyd aspire Then his behauiour witnessed the more What he was then as also long before His fare was good yet he a scornefull cheare His prison fayre yet he a froward minde His councell good yet deafned was his eare Perswasions large he obstinate and blinde Oh stubborne mā oh minde nature straūge Whome wisdom pittie grace nor looue could chaunge After great pause they brought him to dispute With Bookes as many as he could demaund His chéefest cause they quickly did confute His proofe layd downe reprooued out of hand So that the simplest present there could say That Campions cause did beare the shame away After his foyles so often to his face It was thought good Iustice his déedes should trie Upon appearaunce of so fowle a case Nature her selfe wild doome deseruedlie Traitour he was by prooues sufficient foūd The Iewrie sawe his Treasons so abound Her Maiestie to be depriu'd of lyfe A forraine power to enter in our Land Secrete rebellion must at home be rife Seducing Préests receiu'd that charge in hād All this was cloaked with Religious showe But Iustice tried and found it was not so Then rightfull doome bequeathed them to dye Whose treasons put her Maiestie in feare Out on the fiend whose mallice wrought so slie Hath wun a number part with him to beare But thinketh he his enuie can preuaile No little Dauid did the Giaunt quaile My gratious Princesse sée your Subiects mone Such secret foes among them should be found Who serue your Grace in duety euery one though treasō séek to make their harts vnsoūd The bloody woolf prayes on y e harmles shéepe So treason séekes in loyall harts to créepe England looke vp thy Children doo rebell Unreuerent actes haue entred in their minde The subiect séekes his rightfull Prince to quell Yea to his natiue Countrey prooues vnkinde Campiō who somtime y u didst swéetly sourse Prepares his venome to destroy his Nourse Eliot reioyce that God prolonged thée To take the man who meant vs all such yll As for thy slaunders take them patiently Enuie drawes blood and yet hée can not kyll Those who by words he séemde to put in feare Haue washt their hāds in iudgement soūd and cleare My selfe as witnesse Sled and all the rest who had their treasons noted in our Booke Account our selues of God most highly blest who gaue vs grace to such attempts to looke And hauing giuen our witnes sound plaine We feare not mallice nor his spightful train The well aduised Iewrie on this cause Who with discretion pondred euerie thing Behelde their treasons with such héedfull pause That they foūd out the depth of Enuies sting Whereby they saw the stirrers of this strife Were farre vnwoorthy any longer life Yea Elderton dooth deskant in his rime The high offences of such gracelesse men Which causeth him to yrke at euerie crime And gainst their treasons to prouide his pen. Yet not without wisedome and modestie To warne all other that liue wickedlie Remember you that would oppresse the cause Our Church is Christes his honour cānot die Though hell him selfe reuest his griefly iawes And ioyne in league with treason poperie Though craft deuise and cruel rage oppresse Christe will his chosen styll in safetie blesse You thought perhaps presūptious Cāpiō could disseuer those whom Christ hath ioynd in one And that our gratious louing shéepheard would Before the woolfe forsake his flock alone No he preserues his Shéepe for greater good And drownes y e rauener in his enuious blood We knowe that Campion liuing did intreate The Subiect from his vowde humilitie Nowe therefore shame his dealings dooth repeate Throughout the world to his great infamie The skies thēselues with lowring angry face Adiudge his déedes woorthy of all disgrace All Europe woonders at this shamelesse man England is fild with rumor of his race London must néedes for it was present than whē Iustice did thrée Traiterous minds deface The stréets y e stones y e steps they halde thē by Pronounst these Traitours woorthy for to die The Tower sayeth he Treason did defend The Barre beares witnesse of his guilty minde Tiborne dooth tell he made a Traitours ende On euery gate example we may finde In vaine they work to laude him w t such fame For heauen earth beares witnes of his shame The rightful sentence giuen of him héere Will charge his conscience in the time to come Although they say he is excused there And shall not taste Gods iudgemēt his doome Saint Paul dooth say in reuerence of y e highest We all shall come before the seate of Christ. There to make aunswer vnto euerie thing And to receyue reward accordinglie If well the Cittie of our heauenlie king Shall recompence our former miserie Where we with Angels voice continuallie Shall laude the gaine we haue so happilie Then blinded mallice shall perceyue and sée His owne deuises Author of his rueth And how true Subiects haue felicitie In recompence of their assured trueth The one condemnd for his disloyaltie The other crownd for his fidelitie Can Treason then preuent our happy peace Or blustring winds assayle our sprouting Trée No soueraine Faith sends down her due encrease And shroudes her Plant in swéete tranquilitie So that the foe presuming on his might Is forste to know Faith can preuent him quite Let vs not feare a mortall Tirant then Séeing Faith Trueth dooth eleuate our harts God hath reserued one to conquer ten Let vs then learne to play true Christiās parts The head of him that sought our Coūtries wo Dooth witnesse shame to all that seeke it so His youth dooth byd vs bannish filthy pride his fleeting hēce to serue our Prince in trueth His lew◠profession dooth lay open wide To fall from God how gréeuous is the rueth His home returne his Challenge deface Saith Subiects keep true harts in euery place His Hardle drawes his sect vnto like ende His spéeches there vnfolde their tretcherie His death dooth say Who so his life dooth spēd In faith and trueth reapes ioy eternallie His first and last and all agrée in one Ther's none to helpe vs but our God alone Blessed be God who cut him off so soone Thāked be Christ which blest his