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A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

lately in the Realme of France yet it were easie to proue out of the histories of al times that traytors seditious persons howsoeuer they haue been so bold that they durst in the field incounter the Lords annoynted yet he whom the scripture calleth the author of victorie and the God of battell shall make them to flie when no man followeth shall cause ten thousand of them to bee chased with a thousand and in the day of battell giue victorie to his owne annoynted The rebelliō that was made in Spayne against the Emperour Charles the 5. in the beginning of his raigne together with the happie successe of his Maiestie may serue as apparant proofe to confirme this seeing the seditious faction was foyled and the most of thē taken captiue It shall be needles to adde this that in the daies of Queene Mary when first she came vnto the Crowne finding the people to be mutinous and in the land nothing almost but flat rebellion in shorter time then the space of two moneths worthely she was conqueror ouer all her enemies such was the state of Flanders 1566. and three yeares after yet neuer heard of that rebellious sedition preuailed against a lawfull Soueraigne all ages afoorde multitude of examples in this kind the vnnaturall riot of Duras the wonderfull successe of the battell of Dreux in France and after of Poncenas and not to stand in particulars of that country the euent of things hath made known vnto vs that rebellion builded vpon a weake foundation cannot possibly stand if the Lord in anger do blow vpon it neither speake I this to make a Prince more seuere against his rebellious subiects to make the Scepter of a King plow vp the bowels of his owne countrie men but to shew that Loyaltie cannot brooke rebellion that sedition is odious to a good subiect that treason is intollerable in a Commō wealth if I lincked with Religion a thing hardly to bee hoped for in this bad age coulde but liue for a small time safe from treason if some of Englands subiects had continuallie remained in my fauor then durst I boldly haue compared with the proudest nation and hauing religion a crowne and loyaltie as a strong defence she might valiantly haue incountered her stoutest foes for I may confidently auouch in the reuerend securitie of an vpright minde that excepting treasons blowne into the heartes of her subiects by forraine enemies England hath been as free from danger as far from distresse in as great prosperitie as euer was Iland in so bad an age Then countriemen giue mee leaue to perswade thus much that the benefite of treason shall bee this if vnhappilie which God forbid you obtaine your purpose your countrie shall bee desolate you your selues shall bee feared and suspected of your enemies and these ample ornaments garlands of long peace shall crowne your enemies for the victories obtained in your conquest I that haue made your children dutifull in whose mindes the name of a Father did extinguish disobedience I that haue made your friendes trustie in whome the name of sacred Friendship was wont to banish all deceite I that haue made your wiues in the honorable reuerence of your loue to respect no perswasion of strangers thereby wantonly to commit adulterie I I say intreate you by these fauours that being children in duetie you bee not disobedient to so good a mother being friendes by promise and that confirmed with a sacred vow you bee not found deceitefull to so dread a Soueraigne lastly being those whom nature religion time and countrie haue matched nearlie for this 36. yeares with so gratious a Prince that you bee not seene to prostitute your bewtie to a stranger to admit Tarquin into your fauour and neuer to bee vnpunished to violate so great an oath for what the seuen Ambassadors commended in their common wealths vnto King Ptolomey that England may iustly vaunt she professeth at this day and where as they in three things compared which should excell England possessing one twentie may iustly in comparison out strip the proudest that Europe hath The Ambassadors of Rome boasted that their Temples were honoured their gouernours obeyed and their wicked punished may not England doe it more iustly if you compare it with those times And yet for honouring our Temples I cannot so much commend vs but onely that that little honor which they haue amongst some it is in true sinceritie The Ambassadors of Carthage iustly boasted that their Nobilitie was valiant to fight their Cōminaltie to take paynes and their Philosophers to teach was there euer countrie I except not Carthage in his best estate where either the Nobilitie is more valiant the Cōminaltie more laborious or the teachers more profound then in England at this day The Ambassadors of Cicely boasted that their countrie executed iustice loued trueth and commended simplicitie neuer Common wealth I dare auouch since the first societie that man had was ruled with more vpright iustice was honored with greater trueth and admired for more simplicitie then generallie is the state of England the Ambassadors of the Rhodians bragged that the old men were honest the young men shamefaste and the women peaceable and may not England iustlie boaste of all these The Ambassadors of Athens that they consented not that their rich should be partiall their people should be idle their gouernours should be ignorant and is not all this now as true in England amongst vs as euer it was in Athens amongst them The Ambassadours of Lacedemon vaunted that there was no enuie because all were equall no coueteousnes because all were common no idlenes because all did labour and are not the same banished from our land howsoeuer procured by a better cause For England wanteth enuie in her selfe not because all are equall but all friends England is not couetous not by reason of communitie but because of conscience And idlenes out of this land was banished long since with the Lorde Dane The Ambassadors of Sictonia glorified iustlie in these three wherein England is supposed to bee farre shorte that they admitted no strangers inuentors of new toyes that they wanted Phisitions to kill the sicke and aduocates to make their pleas immortall wherein I must needes confesse for trueth onely becommeth my talke that howsoeuer in the aboundance of her wealth England hath giuen strangers money for very toyes yet it was not for loue of them but to shew the world that their plentie was not debarde from euery stranger for Phisitions I may truly say thus that the Aesculapins honoring Pad●●●● in the aboundance of her skill is vnequall to make comparison with vs in England and lastly for our aduocates a slaunder I confesse common but yet most vntrew men so learnedlie wise so wiselie religious and so respectiuely learned wise and religious as if Europe would seeme to contend in this doutles shee should bee

oppose himselfe against the Persian Cyrus This being done the Assyrians Empyre was spoyled Croesus conquered and the Monarchie translated to Cyrus There is one especiall example farre surpassing all that antiquitie mentioneth of Satans subtiltie whereby apparantly he shewed the intent and effect of his whole treacherie It was that of the great contemplatiue diuine Iamblicke who desirous to knowe the name of him that should in the Empyre succeede the Emperour Ualens that then raigned he made trial of it by a certain foolish be it spoken with reuerence to so wise a man and most vnlearned diuination in this manner He caused the Greeke Alphabet written to bee put by distinct letters in the ground and vpon euery one he placed a graine of Barley in the midst a Cock the letters where the Cocke scraped the Barley should signifie the thing he so much desired Now it happened that the Cock bared these foure letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet now likewise he remained vncertain of the name which these letters should portend to discerne whether it were Theodosius or Theodotus Theodorus or Theodectes The Emperour Ualens seeing the euent of all this fearing some false play made Herod like all such to be put to death as those letters did poynt out He commaunded likewise to search foorth the Diuine Iamblicke fearing the crueltie of the Emperour by reason of the fault which he had committed for it was not lawfull in Rome to enquire into the succession of the Empyre during the life of the Emperour poysoned himselfe But we shall finde for the most part that the diuell the more to delude men by these diuinations gaue his answers hid darke double and doubtful especiallie when himselfe which often happened was vncertaine of the euent being only led by suspicious and sleight coniectures without euidence of diuine reuelation as appeared by the doubt of that name which those foure letters might portend for not knowing the trueth he talketh by circumstances and darke signes sometimes telling the trueth to gaine credit to his false lyes seeing by a malicious instinct he striueth to obscure the trueth to the great dammage of mortall men For his delight is in falshood and his ioy is in our fall That is the reason why hee vseth these doubtfull vncertaine answers to the intent to abuse men by his ridiculous apish mockeries and finally to bring them by a certaine feare and a sorrow of things to come to most abominable wickednesse in executing the self same euil which before he had told vnto him that inquired of it We haue a most famous example and worth the marking of an Oracle in respect of their doubtfull answers which was found in Greece vnder the shadowe of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth both man and light if the accent be not rightly placed for the ancient Greekes were not careful in this as it is well noted by Iustus Lypsius then the doubt of the foresayd Oracle by reason of the ambiguitie of the word made them vncertaine whether their sacrifice should be of humane flesh or some other thing euen so now we see oftentimes that he hath told the euent of things whereof he is the author yet notwithstanding for al that because God hath admirable meanes in his counsell for to gouerne all that is in the world and because Satan is ignorant of the euent or chaunge of things disposed by GOD himselfe whether it bee a punishment or a release of his rigor which he vseth sometimes in the execution of his iustice he vttereth his diuinations predictions in obscure manner ballanced with an equal yet difficult interpretatiō which may as well agree to this as to that not only for the doubtfull sense but for the double reading of it Of this kind was this Croesus Halym penetrans magnā peruertit opum vim Likewise the fraudulent example of the answere which the diuel gaue vnto Pope Borgias of eleuen yeares and eight moneths may serue to confirme this Furthermore the diuell not only knoweth by diuine prophesies the subuersions ruines and restroings of Monarchies but he intrudeth himselfe often into the handling of them entermedleth in the counsel of Kings and Princes enforcing them by all means possible to bring in a confusion to trouble the estate to oppose themselues one against another to disperse Realmes to debase lawes tending to the good gouernment of the Common wealth He is alwayes hammering of some newes daily to hinder good and sound counsell and in stead of them to set abroach other fatall to the Church and the Common wealth he enflameth the hearts of the mightie with an ambitious desire of ruling to this end he perswades them to followe bad counsell seruing for the execution of their dissignments Such as these are plentifull in the holie scripture Thus he moued the Chaldeans to come to rob and spoyle Iob of his riches and to sley his seruants Thus he plotted like an anciēt states man to hinder the rebuilding of the Temple of Ierusalem after the returne from Babylon perswading king Cambyses by meanes of the Courts flatterers to make warre against the Aegyptians which hee did And for feare lest the Iewes should enter into alliance with them of Aegypt the king commanded in plain termes to hinder the work of the Temple which was then begun and thus Satan compassed his intended scope When he asked leaue to enter into the heard of swine hee had more craft then a common politicke He did the Gaderens a displeasure in their religion by that meanes foreseeing they would entreat Christ to go out of their kingdome and so runne headlong with their swine into eternall destruction Againe he stood at the right side of the Sacrificer in Ierusalem to hinder that no good thing might bee done in that citie Hee attacheth as it were with a contagious infection the most part of publique persons the better by that meanes to obtaine his purpose by reason of the charge which they sustaine for to preserue others Then seeing that Satan intermingleth himself in the midst of affayres publique and that by a diuine permission he insnareth both one and other ayming continually to subuert the state especiallie of Monarches knowing besides that their ruine and change shall happen it is no meruaile that hee oftentimes foresees the euents whereof he is the cause and afterward forgeth Diuinations to the intent to deceiue both one and other But although that God oftentimes permit Satan by reason of our demerits to exercise his tyrannie ouer the principall states of the world yet notwithstanding that permission is not infinite for God keepeth gardeth and defendeth Realmes to the intent that being shaken they may not be altogether ruinated causing his holie spirit to watch ouer them against an enemie so mightie in giuing them wholesome counsel for the

peace at too high a rate I will sooner ioyne with France and lend him as I haue done the riches of my land thē intrapped by Syrēs songs haue my beautie so long cōmended with Aesops Crow to let fall the foode whereupon I liue And howsoeFrance by too much sweating is growne drie and by too great bloudletting is waxen pale and that for one crowne she hath spent so manie that now she is scarce able to giue her souldiers pay And howsoeuer Flanders falsely will sel their friends to buy their peace yet let vs make this a rule of estate that when the might of one kingdome extr̄a ordinarilie groweth great the lesser should vnite themselues as the smaller beasts against the enemies they feare And though Spayne may seeme constantlie prodigall a wonder prodigalitie to be constant and neuer possible without supplie of the Indian gold and France too poore and needie yet thinke that ciuill warres hauing been so long within her bowels are only the causes of all this miserie I compare not the greatnes of these two kingdomes howsoeuer there may bee matter wherein to ballance them but I am sure of this as the case stands I haue farre lesse cause to suspect the Frenchman then the Spanyard for his intent hath been as it was towards them of the Lowe Countries when Charles the fift and the Pope concluded to ouerthrow and disperse them by their owne meanes the pretence was religion the commission was granted to the Bishop of Terracina such like policies as they thought were not easily found out I cease to repeate and shame to vtter the sundrie offers that haue been made to my owne countrie men feeding them with vaine hope and vncertaine promises to sell my wealth my honour my dignitie and what I reputed excellent to the enemies hand the present times and the feare danger scarce past make me I must remember it Nor are the malicious practises against me such as zeale somtime kindled for Religions sake but in those daies when Spayne and I were both of one minde he courted me with tearmes halfe deceiuing my simplicitie he ambitiously sued to obtaine my fauour he spake me faire but ment falsely he was treacherous I suspitious and so we parted and doe those now within my bounds who tearme themselues Catholikes at this day perswade themselues that any religion were able to protect them from Spanish tyrannie Looke a little into the Low Countries these I mention often as tasting fullie of the Spanish furie how did religion warrant them from the crueltie of Landeburg Grisler Rottenburge and others and how haue they of late time bin free from inuasion for religions sake Haue they not readilie imbraced that which they call the Catholike religion are they for all this free from the enemies inuasion Haue they not yeelded their townes payd sufficientlie for their presumption and hath not Spayne maintained her straggling souldiers by their spoyle Haue they not intertained any religion nay is it not feared they are willing to forsake all to please the King of Spayne and are they for all this any more quiet Did poore America who powred foorth her bowels to content them purchase her quiet with the imbracing of their religion nay together with the intrals of her earth did she not shed the purest of her bloud to satisfie those Spanish bloud-hounds This trueth hath tolde vs out of the vntrue mouth of their owne Bishops Hath religion saued lawfull Princes that they haue not violently been expelled their owne kingdomes by the Spanish tyrannie What countrie soeuer had to deale with them as fewe there bee which are free from them haue been forced to confesse that Spayne is humble till she get footing but thē ambitiously proud that she pretends religion and promiseth largely but that she cares for no religion and performes it sparingly yet her false zeale smoothing her face ouer to the simple view hath made her vnited to some deare to many and vnsuspected to all But such practises haue been a tyrants cloake which they haue cast about thē to deuoure the Church Such pretēces haue bin masking weeds which they haue worne in policie the better to cast lottes for the Common-wealth then credulous vnwise countrie men for so I may iustly tearme you if you beleeue them if either you meane to haue me liue or see amongst you my sister the Church to remaine and florish credit no pretence whatsoeuer admit no strangers to see the secrets of my land approue none in hope to gaine your falsely pretended religion when you shal findethey slander me but of inconstancie your brethren of heresie themselues of pietie and only to this end the more easilie to spoyle mee and the more deadly to poyson the Church did not the Babylonians thus accuse Gods people of false religion the Iewes and the Romaines haue they not vnder this pretēce accused our Sauiour and his owne disciples Is not damned Mahomet a cause at this daye why the Turke hath conquered so many countries and if there be one amongst them as it may bee there are some few who are desirous of our good and wish vs the trueth as they terme it of the catholike religiō yet there are a thousand Hamans who will enterprise the ruine of the Iewish nation accuse them to the King of Persia that they haue a religion differing from his but it is by reason of the hate conceiued against iust Mardocey thus religion was made a cloake for treacherous and intollerable pride thus Absolon the patterne of these courtly politicks stoode pittying the Iewes at the courte gate as though he had desired the helping of their estate but it was nothing else but an ambitious humour to obtaine a kingdome in like manner deale the Spaniards with my catholikes so tearmed at this day they stand and court them and say with Absolon your cause is good but there is none that pitties you O if I had the gouernement of these things then should England obtaine hir auncient religion and then would followe their former plentie and thus the Iland that is now distressed euery day in feare of forraine inuasion should be able to meete the enemie in the gate the consciences that are now distracted bee quieted by obtaining of true pardon so shuld heresies be rooted out from amongst you peace should be within your walles and plentie within your gates false-deceiuing smooth-tonged heart-stealing SpanishAbsolon I deserue pardon if my weake womanish nature in feare of my state in loue to mine inhabitants in care of so good a cause should carrie mee to tearme thee by worser titles but answer treacherous and state-corrupting golde-offering Spaniard dost thou perswade thy selfe fondly deceiued to bee so perswaded that my true inhabitants can be resolued of thy good meaning Dost thou thinke that euer they hope for peace in the middest of strangers For

plentie in the middest of tirants For religion in the middest of Atheists Nay it neuer hath been nor neuer shall be therefore resolue thy selfe that howsoeuer some within my borders doe heartilie desire and earnestlie expect a freedome of their conscience yet these are neuer so foolish to thinke it possible to be obtained by your meanes nor so profanelie wicked to admit of so bad a cause And although some few and I perswade my selfe they are very fewe may be found perhaps as either being Atheists without God or Iewes without Christ or monsters without naturall affection who can bee content to pearce my bowels through my Princesse side and so let forth my peace or laie violent hands vpō mine anointed to make my children to eate themselues yet resolue thy selfe and vainelie foolish to resolue otherwise that the most estranged Englishman from naturall loue who hath lost his affection by long trauaile or the loose stchristian I harbor who hath lent his affection to all pleasure or the most desperate whom need and extremitie haue made careles or the deuoutest Catholicke whom deceiuedlie zeale and conscience haue made religious shal euer so farre estrange them selues from an English minde So much be alienated from my long bred loue And lastlie so cruellie to wish me euill That they would open my gates to strangers Prostrate my wealth to the Spaniard and exchange my peace for most cruell tirannie Nay if they were all in armes and had vowed to admit a stranger and the stranger readie as perhaps you were 1588. to accept by policy what you intended to keep by crueltie yet if I should but frowne as discontented say quid agitis And name but England the worthie loue of me deriued from their forefathers would so farre pearce into the English harts that their swordes drawne forth against mee their mother would speedilie bee sheathed in you their murtherers for if in all ages sauing onelie in this last and amongst you faith and promise hath been religiouslie obserued to their verie enemies then can you thinke they will falsifie the same to mee that bred them And as for you who haue surpassed the false punicane gaining that brand of trecherie which once was Carthage due resolue vpon this poynt that hee which punished the faith broken to the Turkes at the Popes perswasion by them of Hungarie by putting to flight Sigismund the Emperor and slaying Cardinall Iulian the Popes Legate who brought the message hee I say shall neuer suffer so great an iniurie vnpunished to me their mother Let me then in kindenes perswade you my deare countrie men that if trecherie be most odious thē that especiallie which ouerturneth a Common wealth if ingratitude bee hatefull both to God and man then that which is of children to their mother if credulitie bee a fault and argues want of experience then to trust a stranger a false dissembling and deceitfull tirant must reproue vs of great leuitie loue peace then loue my peace follow vnitie but within my walles for if neither inequalitie of condition emulation of partakers nor religion ought to disunite vs then this onely remaineth for you that you be vnited with loue amongst your selues tyed with affection towards your mother bound with a sacred reuerence towards your Soue raigne and carried with a wise suspition towards a stranger so shall prosperitie bee mine inheritance plentie the legacie bequeathed to my meanest friends and England as a citie at vnitie within it selfe thus shall the vnion of Iuda Israel make the people round about them to quake and tremble this made Rome to cōquer Africa the Greekes to preuaile against Xerxes the Princes of Europe to preuaile against the Turke at Lepantho which victorie had been farre more glorious if vntime lie discord had not fallen amongst them Thē banish this vnite your selues yeeld not to gilded colours and false pretences whether of religion or of friends or of promise and especially with them whō we know to be our enemies let vs bring against glittering hate-working gold the anciēt magnanimitie of braue Fabricius who would neuer bee moued by the offers of King Pyrrhus Thus ought you couragiously to vnite your selues if you loue the glorie of your conquests the sweetnes of your libertie the happines of your quiet the liues of your wiues and children and if none of all these can moue you yet thinke that I weepe for your sake the milke that sometime was your foode that I sweate for your feare the bloud that bred yours that I sigh for your cause the ayre that gaue you breath And as for my owne part sillie destressed as I am I haue considered the threatnings of God against my subiects liues the tokens sent me not long since the wonders that heauen shewed the lowde speech that the dumbe creatures vsed and all onely for this end that I fearing might perswade you and you perswaded might make mee to liue without feare yet I relie not so farre vpon Astrologicall reason as vpon the strange starre 1572. the Comets that haue appeared since the great thunder 1584. the terrible Earth-quake the first of March the same yeare the strange inundations not long since the fearefull mortalitie that hath hewed downe my tallest Cedars and moued as it were the lesser plants yet I take these to bee meanes to humble me least in pride of courage I ouerweiningly doe loue my selfe And now daughters seeing I grow faint I will cause two to speake in my behalfe committed to me from eternities bosome Religion and Loyaltie daughters hearken and these briefly shall speake vnto you RELIGIONS SPEECH TO ENGLANDS CHILDREN AT what time Loue brought mee from Eternities bosome and commaunded me like a Queene to dwell in earth I then easelie foresawe which I now finde that all harmes miseries wants tragedies and what else soeuer the worlde deemeth hatefull should bee falsely supposed to proceede out of my wombe and seeing I haue now liued so long till I finde it trew pardon mee to make mine apologie thus farre that since the day of my first birth since I first shined weekely in these coastes since the time I was called as I am by Religions name I neuer caused either Kingdome to be desolate Prince to bee distressed people to despaire or any priuate persō to be malecontent In deede I must needes acknowledge thus much that at what time I was sent into earth sinfull man by reason of his immortalitie desirous of a deitie and not able by the weakenes of his vnderstanding to admit of me forged vnto himselfe a false cruell irreligious vaine proud superstitious strumpet and fondly deluded tearmed her by my name then seeing her to haue such prerogatiue finding her to rule ouer so many subiects and fearing shee would banish mee to Heauen from whence I first came wee haue been still in continuall warres I found those

who haue been forward in my cause who haue plentifullie bestowed their wealth to maintaine mee and who haue not feared to dye to doe mee good And shee perswading that Trueth sent her to direct them hath so much preuailed with a great number that howsoeuer for other faultes in the bloodie woundes of an afflicted conscieuce there is none either so careles without remorse or so profanely wicked without feare but that relenting at the faultes which they haue done remaine grieued yet falselie suborned by her meanes neither the most fatall warres dragging the infants from their mothers breasts drawing them from out their wombes slaying them in their cradles rauishing their wiues and daughters wasting their countries burning their houses defacing their temples violating their sepulchers performing all crueltie forgetting all curtesie to those that were borne amongst them nor the ciuill slaunders in the time of peace performed against them in malicious manner who sought my prosperitie aboue their owne safety these and such like I say and if ought else can bee thought of greater then these are are done and without remorse vpon the false surmife of true Religion Iudge now if euer creature of my innocencie and I may boldly stand to iustifie my own integrity hath had greater cause to complaine of wrong more iust reason to suspect violence more true grounds of vndoubted feare then I that haue sued and am not heard haue lowdely spoken and not regarded haue infinitelie deserued and not rewarded It is obiected against me that the first murder was committed by my meanes that Cayn had neuer laide violent hands vpon Abel if in religion he had not been farre more righteous And if the Persians had not supposed that to bee prophane which the Greekes beleeued to bee most holy Xerxes had not come from Asia to Grecce he had not spoyled their townes burnt their temples and done them thousand wrongs but falsely supposed by my meanes Thus discord grew betwixt the Egyptians and the Hebrues and both contended which should bee my followers but if I had not been proudly confronted with a base strumpet and that my honour had not been therein hazarded wherein it was infamie to cōtend I had quietly rested though with some disgrace and had liued contented though with losse of credit Nay rather giue me leaue womanlike to complain though hopelesse without reliefe of wrongs offered to my person in stead of offering I haue suffered in stead of doing I haue receiued such manifest violence such apparant wrongs such secret disgraces such open iniuries as when I shall make report what I haue indured for my names sake the red sea shall disagree as once it did and part a sunder the Sunne shall be amazed as sometimes it was and stand still Nay shame shall darken it and it shall hide it selfe to heare the reports but what I haue suffered at first I was put to flie out of Aegypt with sixe hundred thousand besides women and children pursued by Cencres the King of Aegypt and if heauen in the middest of my distresse had not made the raging sea to be a drie land so many had perished for my sake But then I must needes confesse after a tempest came a calme for humiliation I had honor authoritie for feare and in stead of Aegypt I possessed Canaan and although the power of my almightie from whence I came casting a snaffle into the mouth of the red sea made him that he durst not attēpt to doe me violence yet I liued not long in the land of Canaan but like a Nightingale I had thornes to awake me to keepe me singing and soone after false she that tearmed herself by my name caused dissention amongst her children brought me in daunger by my owne followers thē were my fauorers diuided together with Roboam and Ieroboam their Kings not long after was I with Israel cut off from the house of Dauid and first transported into Assyria where I remained captiue then with Iuda making my habitation within Ierusalem I was pitifully afflicted lamentablie spoyled cruellie taken by Nabuchadnezzar the King of the Assyrians who pulled downe her walles burned her temple the Kings pallace tooke away the golden vessels dedicated by Salomon to my vse put out Sedechias eyes bound him with brasen chaines and spoyled the bookes of my lawe which after miraculously were restored by my Scribe Esdras thus was I handled by the Greekes Alexanders successors ruling in Syria who would haue compelled my people to haue yeelded to their maners especially that proudly famous and so tearmed King Antiochus who tooke the ornaments and vessels of the Temple which had been restored by them of Persia ruinating againe Ierusalem new built forbad my burnt offerings sacrifices and such like to deface me and make me basely an exile to the Greekish ceremonies neither was I onely thus handled by them but those who at this day are my sworne enemies I meane the Romanes who extended their Empire into that corner where I dwelt placing their Images within my Temple setting their Eagles ouer my portals from whence proceeded abundance of superstitions but I had been throughly wounded before that by my owne countrimen at Christs death who had giuen mee so great a blow as that in iustice for my sake they were sacked by the Romanes and to this present wheresoeuer they abide they are poore practising base trades as Usurie and Broaking made subiect to extreame tributes paying continual tasks and yet without houses lands or other possessions not retaining so much as the shadowe of a Common wealth since that I cruelly was banished frō amongst them yet notwithstanding all the calamities which they suffered could not keepe them from contending amongst the Christians they grounded their false poynts vpon the old Testament so that after al this they were chased from France England Spayne by reason of blasphemies which they vomited out against Christ Iesus thus the Mahometists tearmed my people Miscreants vowed themselues for their sworne enemies And howsoeuer these were harmes which in the weaknes of my fauourers I could not defende without flight yet if among Christians themselues I had not been pursued with as great hatred at this time I should not neede to haue complained of wrong But now seeing bloudie warres haue happened betwixt those that were my owne children where I their mother intreating in most kind tearmes was not free from daunger nor could exempt them from spoyle let the world iudge if euer any receiued greater wrong thē I haue suffered The Greekes and the Romanes both contended so long for my fauour till both were content to forsake me quite and to make me perish if it had been possible for vndoubtedly I had dyed but that I was immortall Arrius came from Aegypt to sheath his sword within my

graced Anthonie deserueth immortall praise from the hād of that diuine Lady who like Corinna contēding with Pindarus was oft victorious Sir Dauid Lynsay Matilda honorably honored by so sweet a Poē Diana Procul hinc procul ite profani England to be defended by schollers Your learned Doctors Cherish your youth The fault of Vniuersities England too kind She speaketh not to those that haue fled the land Rome altered The commō wealth miserable that hath her foes within her selfe Excesse of these times Not safe for a countrey to bragge of weal●h if the Spaniard know it The fault of Empires Lawes for sobrietie the sinewes of a Kingdome Plentie and ease the Ca kers of a Kingdome Proud Kingdomes must fall How Rome fell Loose pleasure begets treason Discord vntieth the armour of a common wealth Happy daies Miserable state that is so Let the traitors accuse me if they can A thing done in other countries Yet these no causes to be rebellious Discorde Whom God keepeth in despigth of them A thing oftē attempted Lybels No Iland cā remember greater benefits to her inhabitants Elizabeth No pen able to praise sufficiently No land so many Graue and wise Counsellers hath England still had The strēgth of a kingdom are lawes and their execution the meanes to expell feare from her subiects England may iustly glory of her three daughters 1. Cābridge 2. Oxford 3. Innes of court Note this A thing miserable when the Vniuersities are poore A wicked policie An vndoubted truth The Spaniard Pope Frenchmen Scots and all laugh at our discord The cause of discorde A Kingdom can not stand without inequalitie The moderation of inequalitie Lamemtable times Greece perished by discord Beware true English mē Dangerous cause of vuion The praise of inequalitie Equality not to be hoped for of strangers Low countries dangered by emulation Discord * And chalenge him 1594. If Christians ioyne not together A true rule Note A thing to be respected As some haue done A thing lamentable If we our selues be vnited A thing too miserable if it should be so England can not perish but by English men The Spaniard is foolish to hope so Note this Trust him not Giue him an inch he will take an ell An vsuall policy at this day Offered to Iudas to betray his Master True English men Truth in a few is often victorious Ualour begets loue As still you haue beene Note this Dangerous to ioyne with Spaine Fraunce poore by warres Not so faithfull as they should be Why Spaine is so constant in her free offers No great ods betwixt thē if they had equall peace Beware of them both To Parry Babington c. Lopez executed the 7. of Iune 1594. Spaine not onely an enemie for religion Too great simplicitie to thinke so Take heede by others Inconstancie in religion is the mother of Atheisme The Spanish colonie Note this An exhortation to England Spaniards like Iewes Spanish Haman They pretēd Religion but intend trechery Absolon a right Spaniard Take heede trust thē not Let Spaine answere Note this Note this Impossible to be so Let the Spaniard credit me S. George Fides Hispanica God himselfe will punish traytors Note this O happie England if this happen Discord fatall to great attempts The late mortalitie more lamentable then the losse of Aegypts first borne Religion brought frō heauenly loue Religion falsly accused Religions Apologie Religion no true cause of miseries in a common wealth Note this Mans ignorance makes false religiō Superstition Religion and superstition at continuall warres In England many religious fanorers Harmes for religion grieue not either the dooer or the sufferer Miserable blindnes So doth Romoaldus Scotus Superstition is most zealous Among the Atheists of this age Afalse accusation of religion Xerxes Zealte false Religion impatient of an indignitie The wrongs are infinite which religion hath suffered for being called relig Religion hath had cōtinuall and great enemies Anno mundi 1517. God knoweth how to deliuer his Affliction may endure for a time but deliuerance is not farre from Gods church So the fier for the three children Superstition maketh dissention in the Church Libertatis amor stultū quid decipis orbem ● King 24. 2. Chron. 36. Religion still perfecuted How Gods enemies seek to deface all parts of religion The Romans enemies to religion The Iewes sinne the cause of their punishment Iewes Vsurers A miserable state where there is no religion Many of thē still persist in their sinnes Religion in great danger amongst her owne friends Contention the ground of Atheism Arrius and so Heretikes grow mighty in the middest of contentions Heretikes neuer want followers Constantius an Arrian 105. Bishops Arrians Holar contra Constātium Alex. Athan Iudge if religion haue not suffered wrong Religion no where safe in earth A famous victory After King of France Godfrey of Bolloygne Whereof sweet Tasso song Martyrs all Religion hateth discord England the seate of religion The happines of England by religiōs meanes The discorde of other countries England in peace Peace the child of religion begetteth plentie that kils the grandmother England note this In the dayes of our dread Soueraigne Essex Willowbie Norris Sir Francis Uere c. A false slander to make traytors Martyrs Neuer martyr was a traytor Iustitia Britannica Campia Martyrium Anvsuall fault Gregorie 13. Pius 5. Sixtus 5. Exceeding pittie Miraculous preseruation of Gods Church I feare to thinke of it Iusticia Britannica A greater number Stapleton Parsons This can not be denied In Queene Maries time Slander is neuer tongue tied In their libel against the English Iustice Papa pius moritur quintus res mira tot inter pontifices tantum quinque suisse pios Leaue giuen to Parsons Campion by Gregorie 13. 1580. April 14. to interpret the bull of Pius 5. Henry the 2. King of Fraunce his edict against the Pope Anno. 1550. King Philip once feared not the Popes Buls Duke of Albany with an armie against the Pope 1527. Whom he kept in Adrians tower 7 moneths Let the Pope marke this Cardinall Pole offended with the Pope Henry the 8. shaked off the Pope Religions enemies The Atheist and the Puritan so called Religion no states man but of counsell with thē Dangerous for a Prince Machiuell confuted States in Europe ruinated by Machiuell A certaine prophesie Note this Relig Princes doe still triumph Gen. Exo. Ios. Iudg. King Machab. Aug lib. 5. de ciuit cap. 25. Cap. 26. Lib. 5. histor cap. 24. Socrat lib. 7. histor cap. 18. Euagr. lib 4. histor cap. 16. ibid. cap. vlt. By sundry Doctors of great learning Brownists a sect to support Atheisme As since they haue written in their bookes Ambr. Catharinus Archiep. Cōpusonus Ioh. Molanus Ioh Boterus Anonymos Petrus Corotus Posseuinus Iesuit Learned Puritans By wise authoritie and learned answers L. Archb. of Canturbury Bancroft Bilson Sutcliff Hooker c. A true fault in Englands Church Cruell patrons pittie the church hath not the fauour of an ordinarie ward Loyaltie vrgeth her benefits Loyaltie can not abide to heare of treason or sedition Understanding misled begets treason What is rebellion What men are traytors False pretenses in traytors and rebels Note this As may appeare by the six articles written in french Sir Iohn Cheeke wrote of Sed. Alex. Neuill Euer bad things haue good pretenses So may I say to the English traytors By Ket A thing vnlikely and impossible Reade the chronicles Mercy vndeserued Peace to enemies but not to traytors With open enemies out of her selfe Rome fell by clemencie to traytors If we can not suffer the lie much lesse treason An exhortation A necessary caueat Mercy often cruell Not safe to trust a traytor Charles the fift Some of the nobilitie Note this A thing lamentable What loyalty hath done Plutar. in lib. de exi●io 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Enuied of other nations Lourdane 7. Learned Iudges Serieants Counsellers As they account it Tell it not in Gath c. The ancient and graue counseller The misery of captaines Elius Spar. Loyaltie vehement against treason Traytors cōpared with Uerres God A happie sight 4. King 15. Iudg. 4. 23. Iudg. 5. 20. 21. So the Spanish fleete In confutat Summarij Rat. Against my L. Keeper others The conclusion