obedient Eares and Eyes The rather for knowne Humorists Sots noted Mal-Contents Here innouate and each one to a diuers Sect conuents Too much irreu'rent in and to the Church and Sacraments But leauing these retier we to ill-drifting Rome and Spayne WhoÌ„ doth our Queene next vnder God froÌ„ Europs Spoyle detayne THE TENTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. LIV. IN Scotland France Netherland whilst Phillip and the Pope Did Swordes and ciuill Tumults broach of prizing them in hope Her Highnes through the highest Power inabled was to ayde Those Countries to defend her owne and Phillips to inuayde Of Scotland first and then of France and Belgike shall be saide When first of otheâ— things shall be this short Remembrance made It is a saying auncient not autenticall I win That who-so England will subdew with Ireland must begin Imagine Stukelies onely name includeth all that 's ill He forging worth and to our State Maleuolent in will Of bounteous Pensions was therefore possest in Spayne long while Vntill for it a Nature was in Stukelie to begile The King whom he had cozen'd long him purpos'd to exile Then for the Pope the Fugitiue a welcome Agent was For nothing ill might worke vs ill hath Spayne and Rome let pas Of him he had an Armie that for Irelands Conquest sayles When through a fight in Barharte that Expedition fayles But how had guiltles England then deseru'd such hostile Spight Her Rebell why relieued they why arm'd they him to fight Why did why doe I aske that know the Spanyard so ambitious The Remaine Prelate pompious and which more is auaticious Why did I say Pope Pius Bull and Gregories Calfe disqueate Our Sou'raigne and her Subiects that did neuer them mis-treate Vnles for Princes to giue Lawes to theirs be to offend Proud Spayne and Rome if so as so let God the Quarrell ende What else had England done wheÌ„ they did foster there with more Our Traytor Moereton sent from them to stirre an here-Vprote Which cost the North two northerne Earles and their Consorts full sore He whispring how that Bull had made Anathema our Queene Deptiu'd her all Authoritie discharg'd her Subiects cleene Blest all her Foes curst all her Friends left England Anies praye And all for damned that did ayde or her in ought obaye So arrogant malitious and mischieuous is that Bull That Belzebub the Prince of hell appeares in it at full Why sent they it by Felton to be bishoped at Paules Why fe'ed they Fitz-Morrice that in Ireland marshal'd Brawles Saunders that false seditious Priest that fortified theare Why march't hee with their Ensignes Why did they those charges beare They shooke our Hiue forst vs forth to sting theÌ„ when they fee'd False Desmond and the Rebell now that as the rest shall speede For God against all Traytors hath assured wrath decreede These Sturres and more in Ireland and a many Treasons heere Haue they abetted to the King of Catholikes full deere More than his paper Pellets too the Pope hath been at cost His Alchumie a dram to win a pound of Gold hath lost Was it for loue they did erect Receptacles for Ours Or so by schooled Treacheries to adde vnto their Powrs Their Iesuists our Iudasses act so remote from Loue As Faiths Relaps Rebellion and to Rege-cide they moue Story insatiate of the blood of Martyrs and a many Blood thirstie Priests bloodier than whom nor hath nor might be any Tutting their Naturall Princes death and Ruine of our State Doe they and then did nourish when twixt vs seem'd no debate That Spanish-Iewish Atheist and Lop-heauie-headed Leach Vnworthy a Physitions name fowle Lopas we impeach And Parret that aspyring Knight hence bryb'd for duties breach Hence haue been poysned of our Peeres whom Bribes could not ore-reach But what are these and more than these to it the Guizian Scot Fatall to Seas of blood and to her owne by earned lot Did with our Foes against our State and Soueraignes life complot Wherein King Phillip and the Pope especially weare hot Here but in Reuerence of her Sonne an happie Prince in all Religion Peace his Subiects Loue of Emperie not small Precelling his Progenitors a Iusticer vpright Yea ouer-long it weare we should Particulars resight How Nature Wit and Virtue decke his body words and minde Or if his Fames Deminatiue in any thing we finde It is but part of Maiestie through Puratizme declynde Yea if for him whom and deseru'd we haue so firme a frend It might I say be spoke not thus of Marie should we end Her Fauoures vnto Dauid Rize offensine to the King His Highnes Father but for him in Storie would we bring With hers and Bothuels double wrong to Eithers married Bead How they wrought Paricidie how the treacherous Couple wead How odious to their Owne with hard escape of liues they flead How since our Prisnor blood she sought much through her was head Yea all that BuchanaÌ„ doth wright should largely here be read Yeat not her Infancie should be vpbraided with the blood Of many thousand slaughtred Soules when periur'd Scots withstoode Her Marriage with Prince Edward which Eight Henrie swore theÌ„ to When they esteem'd vs Hereticks so Papists Oathes vn-doe But for th' aforesaid Reuerence touch we but Hers and Her That indirectly heer did her abortiue Clame prefer CHAP. LV. KIng Iames the fourth that fayld his faith and lost for it his life Had Iames the Fift by Margaret our Daughter and his Wife Fift Iames through Melancholy ends for Ours gainst him good chance And left this Marie whom the Scots an Infant wead to France Thus from Seuenth Henries Daughter she her Title did aduance But howsoere by blood or by our Lawes she here could clame T' is sure too soone and treacherously she did preferre the same And first and last vnto our Queene her selfe a Foe did frame Our Marie was no sooner dead but that her Gâ—izards arme And into Scotland Locusts-like in her Pretext did swarme Whilst she in France did vndertake our royall Armes and Stile Behoou'd therfore our Queene to stand vpon her Guard meane while Lord VVilliam Graie our English Mars not Martiall more than wise Did with an Armie hence pack theÌ„ce our daÌ„gerous Neighbour Guise Nor died few of Either part whilst Marie thus would rise Since when the League did oft her Right with wrong too much surmise Of CoÌ„quests Spayne of CoÌ„uerts Rome our Queene doth cheefly baâ—r Gainst her therefore they chiefely wrought Conspiracies and Warre And not for Maeries Title or her any virtuous Giftes Thinke that they her inleagued but from her to plot their Driftes Her selfe meane while false-Paradi'zd besybbing Aesops Croe Vain-glorious through the Foxes gloze did ende her song in woe Sufficeth what is said before to shew wherefore she flead Here was she taken whom if Scots had taken had been dead Put vnder Guarde and so was meete should one that quarreld Ours And not her selfe alone but had Abbettors forren Powrs Yeat
her Homager may England Scotland call Which ouer-passe not now possest in this Accompt we shall Of either Land the Marches and much more for most now Ours The warlike Picts possessing Here built Castles Towns Towers 〈…〉 tes Scots and Romaines then our Lords oft daunting with their Powers Tâ—â—â—â—stly ciuil Strife Scots disskingdom'd theÌ„ froÌ„ Hence Whom Orkney Ilands as is sayd haue harbour'd euer sence The Brâ—â—aines by these Picts of long opprest with thraldome sore To be deliu'red of such Foes did Saxon Aides implore So playing as did Aesops Horse that angrie with the Hart To be reueng'd did craue in ayde of Man to take his part Till when the Horse was neuer back't nor bitted Either now He hauing suffered would haue helpt but then he knew not how The Brataines hauing called so the Saxons to their aide Could not be rid of them to whom they had themselues betraide But by the same were they at length debelled into VVailes Each of whose Kings of long time Three in Englands Monarch failes The Saxons getting Brutaine thus which they did England name At once of them in seuerall Parts Seauen Kings did rule the same All which by VVesterne Adelstane in Monarchie was got Which since saue Iron-sids the Danes once DeuideÌ„t chang'd not Fiue Irish KingdoÌ„s likewise add now drown'd in Englands Crowne The Seauenteenth was the Isle of Man in Ours now also downe Our Mandeuil here cited of Earle Mandeuil exact In Stephens Raigne so famous Man in Scots Possession sack't And with the Spoyle of al that Isle thence and his Brother pack't Consent of times Names and Records affirme may seeme no lesse But Monteacute Count Salsburie it wonne and did possesse Of Percies after Stanlies next and still gesse I holds Man From honorable long Descents and from they first began All loyall hospitalious lou'd still powre-full and I pray That in that Noble house those Termes may neuer-more decay This Man was diuers hundred yeares a Kingdome and not small Rul'd Hebrides the Orcades to Thul the Islands all And chances there and Changes worth the note did oft befall As how the naturall Incolants the Iselanders subdew Them Norses â—rish them them Scots and English them in few Beauchamp the Earle of VVarwick first and last and but a while Was King of VVight Sixt Henries Gift that Honor and that I le VVhich added Eighteene Kingdoms al possest ieke Englands Stile These now thus couched all in One saue Parcell Scots withhold Of Penthland and some barren Isles subdu'd to Man of old Since hath one Monarch ruled vs hath rendered secure VVhereas Pluralitie of Kings did euer Losse procure Twise ioyn'd our Ilanders in one when twise did Caesar faile Disioyning He Picts Saxons Danes and Normaines did preuaile The Spanyard in Conceit deuoures our Countrie in no hope But of Disiunctiues who thinks he lesse loue their Prince than Pope Let France admonish England turn'd Religion turnes not Spayne From thirsting France Neutralitie brought late-lost Calice Baine And Spanish't-French liue Peasants-like that French did Princes raign Our Elders illy did they well for so should not be done Much lesse to causeles Armes against their Prince ought Subiects ron So badly brook't this Spanyards fam'd Espousall with their Queene That euen at VVestminsters Law-Barres were harnest Pleaders seene Fear'd with the trooped Bands y t wold that Banes with swords forbid Of which were pittied those that dide the Rest winkt-at and hid Their meaning had it Praise had not the Manner bin in fault The Manner now doth hold may none in selfe-same Meaning hault But arm'd be euery hand and heart hence Englishly to beate Spayn that our Bodies wold inthral Rome that our Soules doth threat Yeat which hath blinded bridled and beguil'd them many a day Their Inquisition wish I from the Spanyards rid away What good remaines to wish the Pope this that had none bin borne From him to steale his ill-got Coyne from vs to ship our Corne. The best things brought from Rome to vs conuert troe I to ill But new Rome left of old Rome now abreuiat we will CHAP. LXXIV WHen Stafford and his double Charge to Italie were come In health and rich for hence brought they in Coine no little Some With Iewels of rare estimate and else-what of great worth For Mandeuil they seeke and him at last did listen forth That in Constantinople yet he was a Marchant saide And thither Staffords Letter was to him with speed conuaide Purporting only that himselfe at Rome his comming staide Meane while in Rome the Mistris once of all the world they view Such wonders couch't in Ruins as vnseene might seeme vntrew Once was it compast as is read with fiftie miles of wall Now some to twentie some to lesse in that accompt doe fall It hauing Towers so many as the yeare hath dayes in all From fortie miles was water brought in Pipes oâ— Arches thether Were vaulted walkes through euery Streete gainst Sunne and rainy weather The sumptious Bathes with Pallaces thereto of rare delight The roomesome Ponds where very Ships some Festiuals did fight The Trophie Arches where to life Triumphants were purtraide The Statures huge of Porphyrie and costlier matters made The Theaters Pyramides the Hill of halfe a mile Raisde but of tribute Pot-sheards so to boast their Power long while The Obelisks of one whole Stone neere fortie yards or more Huge Pillers caru'd in Masonrie with Prowse of Knights before The stately Bridges sometimes Eight now fewer Tyber crosse The Thirtie goodly Gates of which is now of number losse The huge Colosses Conduites and else-what that shew'd a State Beyond beleefe of ruin'd Rome in part repair'd of late They wonder at how the world could yeeld such Pomp debate Though some the seauen inclosed Hils did ancient Rome containe Lye waste or Vine-yards more doth yeat of Maiestie remaine Euen in the Rubble of the old than in the now renew'd Though Rome retaines a Statelines nor fairer Pyles are view'd The round Pantheon once the House of all the Heathen Gods Stands yet a Temple but lesse deckt for rich by too much ods On Auentine the down-fals are of Temples store to see On Tarpie of the Capitol were wont their Guild to bee On Palantine of Pallaces on Caelius signes of Playes Quirinall Exquell Viminall of Bathes shew braue decayes These Hils with Vatican and old Ianiculum ore-past Shew we how Rome did rule was rul'd and ruin'd at the last FRom Ianus called Noe of some â—aphet of some Noes Sonne And Iaphets sonne of others Rule in Tuscan first begonne Raign'd in sixe hundreth twentie yeares of Latines Twentie one Son of the Eight of which was Brute first Soueraign of our Throne The last of these Numitor was whome Romulus did kill And building Rome slew Remus there to lord-it at his will * This Citie then Receptacle for all how vile skils not Of Italie by one and one the Sixteene State-Lands got Tarquinius raign'd the Seauenth in Rome
eschew All Practises and Policies for thence her Sorrowes grew True Romish Scottish and true French tell all my Friends I die When Meluin vnto whom she spake did weeping thus replie The wofulst Message Madame this that euer me befell When of my Queene and Mistresse Death I shal the Tidings tel She kissing him sayes pray for me and bids him so farewell Then of a debt was due from her she did the payment craue And that her Seruants might enioy those Legacies she gaue And to attend her at her death some of her Owne to haue All which the Earles commissoned did yeeld vnto and so She to the black-clad Scaffold there to take her death did go Now Mary Stewards Troubles shall haue ending once or twise She sayd and not to mone for her did giue to Hers aduise And whilst the Writ in reading was no more regarded it Than if it had secured or concerned her no whit Beades at her Girdle hung at end of them a Medall and An Agnus-Dei bout her necke a crost-Christ in her hand They prayed her to set a-part those popish Toyes and pray In saith to Christ in only whom her whole Saluation lay And offring then to pray with her that Offer she withstood Alleaging that our Prayers can doe Catholiques no good So doth the Popes false Calendar of Saints of Sense bereaue Our Traytors who dye Papists that therein it them receaue Was neuer yet Religion heard so pestilent as this Their murdring vs for Lawfull of their Creed a portion is So had they schooled her and that her bloodie Mischiefs past Were meritorious which the Pope would honor so at last That euen then the Gospels Light illuminate her heart Was prayd of Ours whilst she with hers prayd as pleasde her a-part Then to her wofull Seruants did she passe a kind a-dew And kissing oft her Crucifix vnto the Block her drew And fearles as if glad to dye did dye to Papisme trew Which and her other Errors who in all did euer erre Vnto the Iudge of Mercie and of Iustice we referre If euer such Conspirator of it impenitent If euer Soule Pope-schooled so that Sea to Heauen sent If euer one ill-liu'd did dye a Papist God-wards bent Then happie she But so or not it happie is for vs That of so dangerous a Foe we are deliuer'd thus The brauely mannag'd Iorney of the Countie Sussex who Did merit praise beyond my Penne Sir VVilliam Druries too Made into Scotland added to Lord Grets sayd-Prowesse theare Did lesser rid our Queene and Realme their Realme King of feare Than Maries end Who of her selfe all Treasons did prefer Gainst either State our forraine Foes deriu'd Pretexts from her But thus Elizabeth hath salu'd Ours and Scotch Troubles Now Ensues we shew her Aids to FraÌ„ce who wrought their Broiles how CHAP. LVII IT by a Polititian a Germaine to whose lore Haue Machiuilian French-Euents since sorted euer-more Before Queene-Mother Charles the King and others priuate was Aduisde a Monarch absolute in France to bring to pas Aristocratick Gouernment nor Democratick pleasde But where to one Mans Emperie is Monarchia seasde He told his Ttauels and in States his Obseruations how Besides the only Turke he none a Monarch did allow Who suffreth none by Might by Wealth or Blood to ouer-top Himselfe giues all Preferments and whom listeth him doth lop His Bands of Ianizaries who are form'd and nourisht still From Childhood his owne Creatures hold all at his owne will He out of these his Captaines and his Bassies doth elect They to deserue their Founders trust his only Weale affect The rather for their Dignities and all that All possesse Determine at his will behooues therefore not to transgresse Saue his Religion none is vsde vnlesse in Conquests late And that of Policie thereby to adde vnto his State Nor euen there permits he of Religion to debate Nor walled Townes nor Forttesses his Empier doth digest Except vpon the Fro 〈…〉 ires for securing of the rest His Subiects thus Theirs and the whole at his Deuotion needs No Imposts Taxes or the like whence Tumult often breeds Discourst of his Experience thus he then descends to it Whereby of Monarchia might himselfe the French King fit Whereas quoth he French Policie consists of Three Estates The Princes Nobles Commons and each one of th' other wates For hearts and helpes and oft the King is bridled of those Three Himselfe therefore such Lets remou'd sole Monarch thus might bee Of ancient Peeres of valiant Men great Lords and Wisemen all By forced Warre or fraudfull peace to temporize the fall Whereto Religions quarrell then presented meane not small Meane while vntill of them by turnes weare Riddance did behoue To worke them Mal-contents the King to labor vulgar Loue. Immediatly euen from himselfe No whit at their Request To passe Preferments not to them but els as likes him best And but of Peeces ruâ—ous the Great-Ones to possesse And when his Creatures shall grow to more those Great to lesse To quarrell then those Nobles when in them great hearts would lurk That for the Souldier or the sword of Iustice should make work So to prouide that of the States be no Conuention nam'd Religion not disputed of Strong Townes which oft haue tam'd The French Kings be dismantled And when things as thus be fram'd His Maiestie quoth he shall hit the Marke whereat is aim'd WHen this worse than thus this worse than Machiuel had said With that Conuenticles Applause so working was not staid For hence if Accidents we shall obserue may be collected The ciuill Warres and Butcheries in France to haue effected Religion gaue the colour whear though infinite were slaine The Church reform'd did not resist yeat still by losse did gaine For blood of Martyrs well is sayd to be the Churches Seede Where Massacres haue plashed there is spread a triple Breede In Sense it seem'd a sillie Spring should Europe ouer-floe Whence Luther his occasion tooke against the Gospels Foe As Scotlands foresaid Guizian Broyles euen France her Tumults so From other then Religions cause did at beginning groe So 〈…〉 ph sold and Christ betrayd was meeter than was ment Of Ben-Iamests or by the false Iscarots foule Intent But howsoeuer ill haps well Woe stayes whence ill is sent French second Henries Fauorites the Constable and Guize The one of them ambitiously the others Hight enuies Each growing crosse and crossing it to Factions grew at length Poore Hugeâ—â—tz vndoubted then nor dreamed they of strength Alone in Henries Francis and ninth Charles their Raignes of them French Papists as our Maries did to Martyrdome condemne But by such Law as Wolues doe Lambes those Innocents for most Were slaughtered whole Townes sometimes with these in theÌ„ they rost And like now threatned Guize against the Saints in euery Cost The Guizians so that Faction shall in this Report be sayd Through Nonage of the Pope-taught King grew Mighty obayd Queene-Mother Mischief-Mistres in their
Faith Faiths fruites selfe-aptly shonne When such a faith is but the faith of that faith-fruitles Deuill That cited Scripture vnto Christ applying good to euill Tell whether that the Leuite or Samaritane did better Tell wherein Diues liu'd and dide to Lazarus a Debter Vnknot sententious Salomon his Parable which is Full Cloudes will rayne vpon the Earth How thus is meant by this Rich meÌ„ by Cloudes poore men by Earth els Clerks expound amis Tell how some Cloudes but misell Rayne that is if so they giue A peny Almes or twaine a yeare they thinke they much releeue Som Clouds flash down their Shewres that is som set vp two or three And begger so themselues and theirs say such are foolish free Some Clouds hayle downe their Raine beate flat hurt helpe not y e ground That is vpbraid whoÌ„ they releeue hold theÌ„ seruile bound Some Cloudes giue Snow that lights and lies a moysture moystles so Doe those that say alas God helpe and nothing els bestoe Some Cloudes doe shewre into the Seas say such do giue to such Whom Almes make idle or belike to recompence as much Som Clouds with lightning thunder lowd winds drip down their raine That is giue sildom almes those proclam'd seene ere â—ayne Some Clouds retayne but forme of clouds with figure black as Coale That is looke bigge Examine long but Scriptum est their doale Some gracious Clouds shed temprate Shewres on thirstie earth indeed That is the Orphant Widow Thrall succour protect and feed Say also whatsoere wee giue to whosoere it bee Though giuen in sight of men if not because that men should see But with Deuotion as a worke from Faith that cannot seuer God for such cheerfull Almes wil be our bounteous Almner euer Say make not as it weare a Quest of quere ere Yee giue But giue yee Almes as men be poore not as poore men to liue Prouided common Beggers nor disordered Lossels who Men know prouided for or can but labour none will doe Than whom doe say for so is sooth no Creatures worse desatue Take you no Orators for them but that they hang or statue And thus for this Our Ouerture to it reduceth mee The Vncles ofthis Orphant King so long as they agree Vphild Religion King themselues and Realme in happie state Which then began to ruinate when they begun debate CHAP. XL. SOme say their falling out was through two haughtie womens strife The Admiralls Queene Bigama Lord Protectors wife These for what glorie enuies not one woman in an other Began a brawle that ended in the blood of either Brother T is thought the Earle of VVarwick threw close fewell to this fire And nourisht it to cut off them that so he might aspire For when the one had lost his head he forthwith tooke in hand To forge the Lord Protector false vnto the King and Land Who though he tryed by his Peeres of treason was acquited Yeat also of a Statute new he being then indighted Was hardly found a Felon and too stricktly sentenc'st so For meanest fault is high offence vrg'd of a mightie Foe The King thus lost his Vncles both to his no little woe Now VVarwick was become a Duke feared of high and lowe Full little thinking that himselfe the next to Blocke should goe The two Prince-loyall Semers erst made let vnto his lust But now remayned none whose faith or force he did mistrust The Orphant King fell sicke but here suspend what some suspect The new Duke of Northumberland meane while did all direct It was contriu'd King Edward from his Sisters gaue the Crowne Their Fathers Former Act and Will by wrested law put downe The Sisters Daughters Daughter of Eight Henry Ladie Iane Was publisht heire apparant and that right from Mary tane And from Elizabeth though both collatrally preceed her And when by ful Confedracie the Crowne-right was decreed her And Gylford Dudly fourth-borne Sonne vnto Northumberland Had married her and nothing seem'd the Plot-forme to withstand King Edward entred seauenteene yeares of age seauen of Raigne Departed to that endles rest his vertuous life did gaine The Councel then conuent But who wil think perhaps that one Should alter All to alter true Discents vnto a Throne â—ane Suffolks Daughter Gylfords wife One worthie such estate For righteous and religious life who nerethelesse should wate Her Intrest after others Two The younger of which twaine Did match yea Mate her vertues was proclamed Queene to raigne And in the tower of London hild Estate and princely Traine Meane while fled Mary doubting lesse her Scepters losse than life But sildome fayles a rightfull cause that comes to open strife The Commons knew our either Law prefer'd a Sisters Right Before a Cosens and fot it did many fadge to fight Northumberland with Armes pursu'd the Ladie Mary and Obseru'd directions from the Peeres who when they vnderstand Of Maries strength of flocking Friends on sudden came to pas That they proclamed Mary Queene and Iane her Prisner was And well was he that late did seeme a Foe might first salute The Queene and all vnto the Duke did their Amis impute For soothly more the Peeres did feare than fauour alway Who though he seem'd as forward now in Maries cause as thay Yeat was he taken and in-towr'd and lost his head for this A Warrior braue But than his Sier himselfe one Sonne of his Like rare Politians seldome liu'de who in three seuerall Raignes Successiuely did shew them such though losse did proue their gaines THe Duke thus dead Suffolke Lord Gray Lord Gylford Lady Iane Weare executed But we blanch the rest excepting twaine That is Lord Gylford and his wife yong and lesse worthy blame Because the Dukes their Fathers all the Councell all of name Yea and King Edwards Pattents seald for them not they did frame What so was done in this yeat they must perish for the same Who higher then this Couple late and who more wretched now Of more then much remayned nought nor law did life allow Vnhappie Youths not for they die but for the mutuall greefe Of him for her of her for him which tortur'd them in cheefe Come was the day the tragicke day wherein they both should die When Either passing to their end ech other did espie Shee in her lodging waiting death prepared her that day And he in being lead thereto he Lodging in his way Assending and dissending Signes then fly and fall apace And each bemones the other more than mindes their priuate cace Their Eâ—es that looked Loue ere while now looke their last adew And staine their faces faultles ere this dismall enter-vew Their Eares earst listning ioies are deafe vnles to sighes profound Their tongs earst talking ioies those looks sighes did now coÌ„found What parts soere of them had felt or tasted ioyes ere this Wheare senceles now of any ioy saue hope of heauenly blis Whilst Either thus for Earthly Pompe no longer time did looke He passeth
ariu'd when as the Belgies send To Philip their Submission and their Loyaltie defend If ought were done contrarie to his Edicts as indeede Weare some too busie Protestants did order-les proceede They did transpose that Fault vpon those Innouators rude Protesting all that Subiects should and humbly too they sude Vouching his Father Vncle Kings and Emperors of old Who let their Liege-men diffring from their own Religion hold To suffer Consciences in them to God-wards vncontrold For which and for their Charters did they offer Masses large And euermore to vndergo all Truage Taxe and Charge But Theirs to alter quite in all was it that Philip ment To plague therfore those seauenteene Shires was war-flesht Alua sent This like a pleasing poysning Aspe to act as he did arme At first Ariuall Pardons did for passed Crimes proclaime That tractable kind People so he to his bent did frame Who wear not then by hostile Meanes men easily to tame He thus of them possest did then by she Degrees surprise Their Townes puts Garisons in them built Cittadels likewise Inducts the Inquisition and strange Imposts did deuise Cals pardon'd Crimes in question faines the Guiltles to offend And thus an Aspe and poysnous more prou'd Alua in the end For why ambitious men seeke get possesse and practise State With restles minds by fawning Meanes enuide in haughtie rate This priuiledged Prouince and this Paradized Earth Thus stripped of her golden Fleece and faintly drawing breath Was phisickt of Elizabeth who with her English Balme Then much the poysnous biting of that Spanish Aspe did calme Euen Pittie preaching thus to her that Nature is reuerst When as her selfe is not amongst her owne Consorts disperst She to that Countries Father to that honorable Knight The Prince of Orange armed then in Christ his cause to fight And for his Countries Weale permits first Voluntarie Aides And lastly when that neighbour Fier too neerly her inuaides And their extreame Oppression did her Charitie inuite By Ambassies Spayne often mou'd to doe the Belgies right Howbeit touching Peace in vaine she franklier friends their Cause Who were inforced to defend their Faith their Liues and Lawes Against their Soules and Bodies foes and which might all perceaue Our cause was handled then in theirs then theirs were ours to leaue And which had often ayded vs in many a Field and Fleete In ancient Loue with Burgundie to breake was thought vnmeeâ—e How thence tyrannous Aluâ— was reuoked all too late When pitiously declined was their flourishing Estate Ere which Oppression where the King had countles Profits thence Now Ownes he nothing there not held with infinit Expence The Slaughters Sackings Mutinâ—es the Kings Vice-Gerents sence How Horne EgmoÌ„d CouÌ„ties braue through Aluas Athisme spead How Orange through our Soueraigns Aids preuaild how lastly dead How Anioy also through her Meanes became that Peoples head How now her Highnes only-selfe next God doth them secure Her valiant Warriors there whose Laudes might special Pens allure And here mean-while should ours saue that I cannot but deuine Their Chiualrie to be reseru'd for higher Muse than mine To which though some we leaue yeat by their leaues of some is sayd Themselues they haue misgouern'd and their Companies beâ—rayd Some More regard of Tents and Trash in their Retreats haue made Then of our craised men may such Conductors low be laide And some too ruthles rioteus and of their Charge râ—misse Haue starued vp in number moe than Foe-slaine number is Thus some of some report perhaps not true in all as told But somewhat somewhere faulteth for no fier no smoake be bold To be officious getteth Friends plaine Dealing hated is Yeat better plainly to reproue than fainedly to kisse We cannot also loue our Friends and flatter their A-misse How these and thus-like passed Thear we ouer-passe it heere Note in our Queene Religion wrong'd it selfe did euer cheere And whear the Spanish Nimrod hunts in Monarchie to hold All Christendom through God that Drist she chiefly hath controld Nor did nor doth nor shall it need that thus to her be told Who would to God but works no good who seeketh fame by ease Comes short of both no lesse than Mappes to very Lands and Seas Not only thus but in this while her Fleetes haue oftentimes Set prosprously her Men on Shore euen in the farthest Climes WheÌ„ce haue they brought by fayr CoÌ„merce great riches to our Land Or glorious Spoyles from such as did their peace or Prowse withstaÌ„d Of which shall be digested here the Progresse in some parte Though stately be the Subiect and too slender be our Arte. THE ELEVENTH BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. LXII INexplicable Nature by the God of Nature wrought Makes things seeme Miracles to some by some not Wonders thought And euery Climates People both as they are Men and liue Do differ nothing if obseru'd She not admir'd doth giue The VVorkman rather than the VVork extoll we though in her Not curiously and all things to his Prouidence refer VVho reades Sir Iohn de Mandeuil his Trauels and his Sights That wonders not and wonder may if all be true he wrights Yeat rather it beleeue for most now modernly approu'd Than this our Storie whence suppose he was to Trauell mou'd Not contradicting though such Pens that write perhaps more trew That Pennance him to Pilgrimage hence of Deuotion drew Of noble Parentage and rich was Mandeuil exact To whom nor Feature Actiuenes not Peoples fauour lackt A Ladie of the royall blood Third Edwards Cozen say her On whom for rarest Raritie might Arte-spent Nature stay her Inamours him who held it sinne if ought he should omit Might please and prize his Ladie coucht in Courage Coste or Wiâ— But quite it quail'd his hopes to thinke he strain'd to reach a Starre Oft Reason therefore did with Loue Loue did with Reason warre She is too high and what of that it hath thinks he bin seene As High haue stoopt as Low For Loue right-labourd wins a Queene And can I hope that Beautie which is Adamant to all Yea Beautie Natures Iuy-bush each Passenger doth call But should she loue Foole that I am to hope that should despaire Such Births as she not else must loue but as they licen'st are Yeat were it Mandeuil she lou'd mislike it then that list Our vertuous Loue else-where as here should render vs as blist O would she loue it should suffise such not of vulgar Moulds WhoÌ„ once she blesseth with her Loue for him she Sooth-fast holds The only vertue of which Loue all other Lacks controules Such were his Ebbes Floods and down although in Loue he sits Yeat fearing Death and her disdaine his Heart deuour'd his Fits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not meanly passionate he fared not as those Whose melancholy Fooleries be Pylots to their Woes Alreadie was he gratious both with her and all the Court And more to be did exercise Armes and each actiue Sport Nor was he Stoicall in ought but affable in all