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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00734	The Spaniards monarchie, and Leaguers olygarchie. Layd open in an aduerisement [sic], written by Signor Vasco Figueiro a gentleman of Portingale to the rebellious French: wherein is discouered the tyrannie of the one ouer the kingdome of Portingale, and the treacherous rebellion of the other in the kingdome of France, with a patheticall persuasion to the French to returne to the obedience of their naturall and legitimate king. Englished by H.O.	Figueiro, Vasco, gentleman of Portingale.; H. O., fl. 1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 10865; ESTC S102056	35,479	50

were if néedlesse vnto you because you are more vertuous then the Athenians But it is to you that it is more then néedfull not to speake but to cry out O you senslesse Thebans you rebellious Frenchmen you traiterous brokers of your goods your friends your parents your wiues your children your selues your countrey which ought to be more deare vnto you then mischieuously to deliuer ouer to a cruell tyrannie But you are runne further then the Thebans of Graecia for they being grosse heads and without any foresight couetous and such as only respected their profit enriched them selues by the harmes of their fellow citizens but you faile not for want of understanding or of ignorance but rather through rage fellonie and fore determined malice like certaine Orators among the Orithains or like the Olympians among y e Atheniās so you being once infected by this pernicious League haue stirred vp by your flattering orations and lying pamphlets the most simple to rebellion and therein detaine them as it were by force and violence For these poore idiots are so drunken by your mellified and seducing sermons that they suffer them selues to be led by the snoute like beares and elephants What say you now you unfaithful Frenchmen abused by the Sorbonical seducers because you haue once shaken off the yoke of obedience to your king will you neuer more receiue it Well may you be likened to a sauage and outragious beast séeing you haue taken such vnbridled libertie or if you submit your selues to obedience you will chuse a head to your owne fancie And in déed better it is to obey in what sort soeuer it be thē euilly to cōmaund and continue so long time confusedly in a chaos of Anarchie which is most perillous Nihil anarchia periculosius saith Plato and herein you follow the aduice of Tacitus Praestat sub malo Principe esse quam sub nullo I perceiue then you would acknowledge a superiour but not he whom God and nature hath giuen you being induced to this resolutiō by the prattle of your Preachers And why forsooth he is not of the Catholicke religiō which it may be he will take away from vs and constraine vs by violence to embrace his religion as the Quéene of England hath done in her Realme but as for the Spaniard he is a Catholike whom we loue better then our naturall king aswell for that respect as for the promise he hath made to gouerue vs with all clemencie for that he desireth not to be our king but only to maintaine vs in the Catholike religion Briefly nothing leadeth vs hereinto but the conseruation of this religion he being at this time the eldest sonne of the Romish Church I haue before satisfied you concerning the first part of your obiection when I declared that your king will entertaine you in libertie of conscience vntill a Councell haue determined of both religions and assure your selues for certaine that herein he wil inuiolably obserue his faith and promise Touching the second obiection that the example of the Quéene of England causeth you to mistrust y t your king notwithstanding his promise will force you to obserue the religion reformed I perceiue that you haue bin misinformed of the state of England touching this point for the Quéene neuer made promise vnto her Catholicke subiects to continue their religion but contrariwise the Estates of her Realme caused her at her coronation to sweare to maintaine the religion reformed yet for all this it was neuer yet found that she constrained the conscience of one onely Catholicke to renounce his religion to liue in the reformed true it is that according to her oth she hath forbidden the Masse to be publikely said As for the Catholikes which haue bene executed they haue bin condenmed with all the solemnities requisit to the procéeding of rightfull iustice as being attainted and conuinced by their owne confessions of high treason against her Maiestie either for rising in armes against their Soueraigne or for being so detestable as to dare make attempt vpon her sacred life How much had it auailed your late king if by this laudable example he had chastised the perturbers of his state who now finally haue digged his graue Herein this sage and vertuous Princesse hath caried her selfe so discréetly modestly that she is cherished and reuerenced by all the Princes of the earth And surely her actiōs are so vertuous and laudable that all men beléeue vndoubtedly that the spirit of God guideth her alwayes as it were by y e hand Yea I am perswaded that y e greatest Prince in the world would estéeme him selfe happie if he might second or imitate her in the administration of her estate Yet notwithstanding that impudēt lyer and slanderous deceiuer who at the entrance of the League published foorth a booke intituled the English Catholicke to the French was plunged into such impudencie as falsly to alledge actes so cleane contrary to the procéedings of this famous Quéen as I durst sweare she neuer once imagined onely to the end to cause you to feare redoubt the gouernment of your legitimate king a prince as vertuous as any this day liuing vnder the sun And lest any man thinke that any particular affection hath incited me to take her cause in hand I protest that nothing but the plaine and sincere truth which hath caused her innocencie to be knowne against these calomnious falshoods maketh her praise-worthie in all her workes hath incited me to sustaine the equity of her cause and albeit that God and nature do otherwise sufficiently bind me yet should I be too ingratefull if I should forget the royall magnificence and more then sisterlike amitie which her benigne clemency hath demonstrated and dayly doth demonstrate to our king secluded from his kingdome as also the gracious benefits which we his poore exiled countrimen haue receiued and yet do receaue of her vnspeakeable liberalitie The last part of your obiection is that nothing occasioneth the Spaniard to be so desirous to command ouer you but only to cōserue among you y e Catholike religion ah poore senslesse souls for gods sake do but giue eare to what I shal briefly recoūt touching his actions in this point then shall you plainly perceiue whether the zeale that he beareth towards your religion solliciteth him to be so charitable vnto you Hath this great Catholike king spent the treasures or hazarded the life of his subiects only for the aduauncement of the Christian faith against vnchristian Princes nothing lesse To verifie this to be true Pope Gregore 13. proposing him selfe to the ayd of certaine Christian Princes to make an enterprise vpon the Persian for the augmentation of the Church requested this Spaniard to giue them some succours which he not onely flatly denied but which is more would not lend any of his galleys albeit the holy see offred to fraight them at her owne charges Moreouer how dealt he with our late king Don Sebastian whose

as Homer writeth of y e prince Agamemnon Is this to be like the good housholder Is this to vanquish his will to handle those so rigorously whom he hath conquered by force of armes Surely it is farre worse then that pagan Cyrus who curteously intreated the Caldeans whom he had vanquished It were good he went to the schoole of that excellent historiographer Xenophon who teacheth this good lesson to all vsurpers Noui populi bello parti sunt beneficio afficiendi quo lubentius nobis parere velint Néedlesse it were to set before your eyes the dammages and miseries which you haue supported in these warres for the Spaniards sake you doubt not that the rich are become poore that the néedie haue spoyled other of their goods to reuest and possesse thē selues therof The poet Theognides yéeldeth the principall reason thereof when speaking of the like sedition vnto yours he saith Baiuli imperant mali super bonos I néed not to rehearse the taking of townes by the armie of your king of townes I say wherinto the souldier was constrained to enter by assault wheras you the inhabitants haue not only lost the most part of your goods but also your own honor and the honor of your ancestors who had some interest therein And verily vnworthie you are to receiue any milder chastisement albeit all be against the intentiō will and expresse commandement of the king séeing you are so hardned in your rebellion that you make all the resistance y t possible may be vntil y e soldier hauing first escaped a thousand a thousand deaths which you leuell vpon his head surmount you by violence of armes And yet which is more to be deplored few towns become sage by the misfortune of others wherin may be noted the iust vengeance of God which permitteth not long vndelayed the punishmēt due to your mischieuous offences yet do I not think that you would continue so obstinate were it not for those treacherous preachers and others who haue Hispaniolized harts like Philistides Menippus certaine other orators and partakers of Philip of Macedon amōg the Orithains for carelesse are they of all your miseries so they may satisfie the desires commandements of the Spanish king their Master who desireth nothing so much as the finall destruction of France which he litle estéemeth so he may possesse it and wold sée it wholy ruinated so he might loose nothing of his owne the more it shalbe disfurnished of power and disabled with men the more easily may he Hispaniolize ouer it knowing then that he cannot subuert it being vnited and conioyned he whetteth his wits to the end to diuide it Thus could not France be subuerted but by it self like the common wealth of the Romans of whom it is said Mole sua ruit Salust hath left written that the auncient Romans were accustomed to say y t they felt themselues strōgly enflamed with vertue when they beheld the monuments of their ancestors In imitation of these noble Romans behold ye rebellious Frenchmen the images of your ancestors their vertues laudable actiōs pourtrayed and grauen in the quiers of your histories and you shall sée that they haue alwayes combated to maintaine the libertie of France sauing in y e raigne of Charls the sixt by reason of the dissention betwéen the Dukes of Orleans Burgundie at what time they made a great breach in their ancient constancie diuiding themselues and permitting the king of England to take déep rooting in the kingdome of France which notwithstanding Charles the 7. sonne of y e forenamed wholy rooted out and all the French like men awaked out of a profound sléep which had a long time securely detained them remēbred them selues to be true and naturall Frenchmen which haue neuer at least very seldome suffred thē selues to be gouerned by forrain Princes If you be curious to search more anciently the immouable constancie of the French or Gaules it is all one you shal sée it liuely depainted for more then 1650. yeares ago in Caesars commentaries who without great trauell difficultie could neuer subiect them to the Romane Empire which maketh me promise vnto my selfe that you séeing these things wil blush for shame so entirely to degenerate from their braue courage and constancie being rather in euery thing contrary vnto them They conspired they reuolted they tooke armes they warred without fearing any kind of death And why To conserue their libertie their fréedome especially not to receiue the garrisons of the Romane Empire redoubted and commanding ouer the whole world of whom the greatest kings held them selues happy to be called the friends and confederats Briefly nothing was more odious vnto them then forraine garrisons as Ambrorix the Captains of Tournay demonstrated to Titurius and Cicero the Lieutenants of Caesar But contrariwise you league your selues you rebel you run to armes you enter into warre and expose your life to a thousand dangers Against whom Euen against your natural and legitimate king whole vertue is a thousand times more cōmended of strangers then of his owne subiects To what end To murder him as you haue done his predecessor or to chase him out of his realme that you might seruilely subiect your selues To whom To Philip a Spaniard odious for his ambition tyrannie to the whole world after to admit his garrisons will you nill you into your townes proud garrisons arrogant garrisons insolent garrisons insupportable garrisons and briefly garrisons more then barbarous who wil vse you your wiues your children goods after their own appetite you not daring to shew the least semblance to take it in euil part I speake not idlely neither do I recount fables or lies you shall not be handled more curteously then your neighbours the garrisons which shal bridle triumph ouer you shall not be compounded of lesse tyrannous and cruell soldiers then those whice presse vs so hardly y t scantly we can take our breath nay happy shall you be if it be not worse Your french soldiers which haue conuersed any time in the army of the Prince of Parma wil witnesse if so be they will tell truly that I am not a lier Yet if you desire to haue more sufficient testimony of my spéech informe your selues of the towns of Brittaine where the Spaniards haue long inough soiorned yea which is a country which the said Spaniard wold make you beléeue were appertaining to him albeit he hath no more right then to the other prouinces of France for y t king Francis the first since that king Henry his sonne vnited this dutchie by the consent of y e Estates of the countrie to the Crowne of France in such sort that it is of the essence of that Crowne which neuer falleth vnto the distaffe If you submit your towns to the tyrannie of Philip looke hardly to sée in thē by these impudēt garrisons that which we dayly sée in ours the churches profaned by a thousand filths

villanies and horrible sacrileges virgins violated matrons defloured briefly the places and stréets regorging w t the blood of poore slaughtered innocents Yea these infamous soldiers haue borne so litle affection to the Catholike religion as to fix publikly vpō the gates of y e Cathedral church of Lisbon execrable propositions against the doctrin of y e Gospel the decrées of holy Coūcels Yea but if these garrisons be so rigorous as you say we wil chase them out of our townes retire our selues from the seruitude of the Spaniard I pray you was it easie or possible to your ancient Gauls notwithstanding they enterprised it to deliuer them selues from the subiection of the Romans vntil after many ages at such time as the said Romanes had worke cut out for them in other prouinces of their Empire To the Grecians from that Philip of Macedon and at this day from that of the Othomans To the Brittains from that of the English Saxons And sée you not that we haue not bin able to recouer our fréedom whatsoeuer our king might do either by the succours giuen him by your late king or by those giuen him by y e Quéene of England about some 26. months past No no when you haue once suffred your selfe to be troden vnder foot by such a proud puissant vsurper it is more then difficult to raise vp your selues It is not easie to remoue the bridle when it is once put within the mouth no more thē for Horaces horse who permitted himselfe to be bridled for the desire he had to vanquish the hart in his course but it fell out otherwise then he expected for he could neuer since affranchise him selfe from the bridle nor seruice of man For Gods sake ye Frenchmē after the example of your ancestors be iealous in kéeping your precious liberty be faithful to your prince and banish away from you this disordinate appetite of nouelty in desiring to assay the dominion of a stranger what euer he be For if it be dangerous as Salust saith to make experience of new seruants it is without comparison farre more dangerous to proue a new maister and principally so seuere and rigorous as is the Spaniard If in the time passed you haue offended studie to repaire this fault you shall soone and with facilitie do it if you rid from your heart this indiscréet affection of change this foolish persuasiō that the king wil take away the Catholike religion and this pestilent root of auarice which hath wholly wasted and corrupted you as it hath done many other people Do so hereafter that Philip may not say of France as Iugurth somtimes reproched the citie of Rome where for money he had wrought all things to his aduantage and departing from it oftentimes looking backe brake forth into these words O Citie readie to be sold and sodeinly to perish if it find out a marchant But your auarice hath alreadie done so much that France is in farre worse estate for that it hath found a marchant that hath alreadie gone through with it Notwithstanding thanks be to God he hath not yet taken possessiō therof and I thinke the earnest money he hath giuen will proue a desperat debt for that the sellers might not warrant the sale hauing no right thereunto nor repay the money without great difficulty and albeit they had some right yet the good counsell that Scipio gaue to Iugurth who laboured by rewards to purchase particularly the amitie of the people of Rome ought to haue made him more wise It is dangerous said Scipio to buy that of a few persons which appertaineth to many Take good héed that this mischieuous auarice take no further hold on you lest you cause your posteritie and forraine nations to say of this Philip as of ancient was said of Macedon Non Philippum sed aurum Philippi subegisse Graeciam And of our Philip Non Philippū Hispanum sed eius aurum subegisse Galliam I am not ignorant that many among you know not of what force this money of Philips is hauing neuer touched it as his partakers many Captaines officers preachers and others haue throughly done For these are they which haue miserably sold you and assure your selues that you shall haue daily more more mischiefs heaped vpon you till you stop the mouth of these faithlesse preachers or banish them as a mortall pestilence if they will not as I haue aforesaid teach onely the pure word of God reprehending vices for that is their vocation and no other Which if you do and withall craue pardon of your king for your rash rebellion and offences I dare promise that he will vse his accustomed clemencie towards you and receiue you not only as a benigne king his faithfull subiectes but as a charitable father his welbeloued children As for our lamentable and desolate Realme the blood of our nobilitie and of our best citizens the imprisonment exile and banishment of others our losses miseries and briefly our hard captiuitie which so hardly restraineth our throte that scantly can we speake and albeit we could yet is it forbidden vs least we loose that benefit to cōplaine exaggerating and redoubling the paine of our insupportable martyrdomes either by losse of life imprisonment or at the least exile banishment Let all this I beséech you be as a cleare mirrour to the end looking therein you may sée may feele touch and apprehend that which you contemplate and then I doubt not but it may be sayd of you Post infoelicem rebellionis successum populus facilè inclinari solet ad vetus obsequium repetendum Suffer not your selues any longer to be seduced by the subtleties presents nor faire promises of this Spaniard who herein as in all other things is farre more malicious then the Ciclops Polyphemus for he vsed no artificiall subtletie to draw men to him and deuour them but Philip like an ingenious architect of all iniquities inuenteth millions of meanes to deceiue and tyrannize ouer you Sed fugite ô miseri fugite yea euen so soone as possible may be lest hereafter you be constrained to do that which willingly you would not do Be mindfull to recouer and preciously to reserue that gorgeous title which you haue alwayes carried aboue all other people namely inuiolable fidelitie towards your king retaine euen with both hands that inestimable libertie which your ancestors haue conquered by a million of dangers and left intailed frō hand to hand to your posteritie Finally let this be engrauen in your hearts that you are French men that is to say most affectionatly zealous of your countrey king and libertie yea redoubted to all other nations as being issued out of the stocke of y e ancient warlike Gaules who oftentimes by force of armes haue terrified the Romane commō wealth being the terrour of all other nations The Romanes saith Salust conquered all other nations but as for the Gaules with them they combated for safetie and not for