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A14292	The golden fleece diuided into three parts, vnder which are discouered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of. Transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the southermost part of the iland, commonly called the Newfoundland, by Orpheus Iunior, for the generall and perpetuall good of Great Britaine.	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1626 (1626)	STC 24609; ESTC S119039	176,979	382

smelt out your drift and banished your Iesuites to requite some part of your hospitalitie to strangers in that for the space of a whole yeere and better you restrayned their Embassadour at Lisbone from entring into your Hypocriticall Church And as he wrot to Damianus a Goes such was your insolencie that by no meanes you would admit them to communicate nor keepe companie with you as if they were the arrantest Heretickes of the world The Romish Church much agrieued that the Patriarke of Alexandria had preuented her in a Suit which shee had cunningly canuased and almost brought to perfection pleaded that all the world ought to be vnder her Gouernment For our Sauiour Christ after his Passion said that all Power was giuen vnto him in Heauen and Earth And this Power with the keyes did Hee before his Ascension into Heauen commit vnto Peter Which Soueraigne Authoritie after Peters death rested like the Spirit of Elias on Eliza the Prophet vpon the Successors of Peter For proofe of which Princely preheminence shee alledged the testimonie of Pope Gregorie the ninth who flourished in the yeare 1225. how God made two great Lights in the firmament of Heauen that is to say of the Catholicke Church the which two Lights are the Pontificall Authoritie and the Regall Power whereby men might know that there is as much difference betwixt Popes and Kings as betwixt the Sunne and the Moone At these words the Patriarke reioynd and said these arrogant words of yours pronounced now in your drooping and declining Age doe decipher you to be like an old Bawd and gracelesse Strumpet Was not the cure of Soules sufficient for you but you must also domineere ouer their bodies and more ouer their Purses This last is the cause of your discontent How doth the Spirit of Saint Peter rest on you more then the Spirit of Saint Matthew or Saint Philip rest on mee or my Aethiopian Clergie By that similitude Caiphas might vaunt that he had the spirit of Aaron But their Glorie ought not to countenance our Infirmities Neither as Saint Chrysostome said is the Place able to sanctifie the Successor nor can the Chaire make a Priest Saint Peter was of a higher Function then a Pope an Apostle to trauell from one place to the other hauing the charge of the Circumcision as Saint Paul of the Gentiles Hee was not tied to any one peculiar City O I would that both of vs were able to follow his godly steps and to labour vp and downe the world in conuerting of Idolaters and to preach nothing but Christ crucified without collaterall Mediators and worldly respects of Dignities Pompes or in hunting for Superioritie Gaine and fat Benefices Saint Peter had no Gold nor Siluer to giue as himselfe told the Creeple in Salomons Porch Hee wore no Triple Crowne but reioyced in the Crowne in his Masters thornie Crowne the Crowne of Martyrdome Hee wore no filuer Crucifixe but in his heart hee bore the contemplation of the bloudie Crosse which day and night hee earnestly beheld He taught his conuerted Flock to bee subiect vnto Kings The Pope exalts himselfe aboue all Kings aboue the Generall Councels Saint Peter would not suffer Cornelius to kneele vnto him The Pope expecteth that euen the mightiest Monarchs should kisse his Feet Et mihi Petro. Saint Peter willingly endured reproofe at the hands of Paul But who dares rebuke the Pope and tell him of his faults Saint Peter acknowledged the rest of the Apostles for his Brethren and Fellowes The Pope allowes of no Patriarch nor Bishop to be his equall nor of any Clergie man to be made but by his Authoritie Saint Peter and Saint Paul preached that Christ was the Head of the Church as the Husband of the Wife and for that end hee sent the Holy Ghost as his Vicar generall to direct the Soules of the Elect in spirituall mysteries during his residence in Heauen without apointing any Earthly Potentate or visible Head to execute that high Office and left their bodies to the Gods of the Earth to bee tried as Gold in the fornace It is the Soule the noblest part of man which hee takes most care of Why should He then ordaine a visible Head an ambitious Pope to domineere nay to tyrannize ouer that I●uisible Part What neede any other Head as ministeriall ouer our Consciences He that ouerlookt the seuen Golden Candlestickes that is the seuen Churches in the Reuelation and further promised the presence of his God-head I am with you to the Worlds end no doubt but hee will supply the place of a spirituall Head and infuse both spirituall nourishment into our Soules as also afford food and necessaries to our bodies though not according to the vaine desires of flesh and bloud which gape after superfluities yet enough to content nature O miserable state of Rome In what danger lyes thy Soule Saint Bernard long agoe reprehended this aspiring humour of the Romish Clergie And yet such is the force of tempting Gaine dolosinummi that if Moses himselfe and the Prophets arose from the dead they would not heare them as long as they spake against their worldly profit At first you beganne saith he to vsurpe as Lords ouer the Clergie contrary to Saint Peters admonition and within awhile after against Saint Pauls counsell who was Peters fellow Apostle yee got the rule ouer the Faith of men Nor yet doe yee stay heere but yee haue gone further and obtained a peremptorie dominion ouer Religion it selfe What remaines now but that yee climbe on high to bring into subiection the very Angels of Heauen Apollo very well approued the Catriarkes reproofe of the Romish Church and fell into such detestation of her intolerable ambition that he made this speech against her Three things haue wrought this absurditie in the Religion of the Westerne Christians the one hapned by the Opinion of the Popes extraordinarie Power imprinted in mens minds by their Ghostly Fathers that his Holinesse as Saint Peters Successour cannot erre in matters of Faith The second and most craftie that all men whatsoeuer who beleeue not in the Catholick Church which you must perswade your selfe to bee onely the Romish are vndoubtedly in the state of Damnation The third are the lyes of Purgatorie the which being at his dispose as Iudge Iayler made euery man specially the melancholick to take heed of angring him or any of his tribe as on the contrarie to appease his humour with Gifts and the buying of his idle Pardons But now my Beloued of Par nassus the vaile is taken from his painted face and you shall see and read in his eyes the affections of his heart And least some of you bee not so quicke sighted as others I will briefely runne ouer the two first causes of his Greatnesse After our Sauiours death for the space welnigh of three hundred yeeres the Christian Religion was so persecuted by the Romane Emperours specially at Rome it selfe

to make them habitable then to find out Marianaes hole except you haue the Spirit of Eliza the Prophet But I guesse at a readie way indeed how we may come by this hidden Traitor and that is this I haue lately reteyned into my seruice old Argus whom the Poets faigne to see with an hundred eyes because of his watchfulnesse and indesatigable cares about any matter committed to his trust hee sees by night aswell as by day and neuer goes without a perspectiue glasse through which hee will discouer aboue thirtie miles off Euer since his misfortune in loosing his sweet charge The most beautifull lō hee wandred vp and downe the world very melancholick and deiected in mind as one much ashamed that hauing so many eyes in his noddle he could not keepe one creature in sa●ecustodie Yet many noble Personages haue offered him large Stipends to looke vnto their wiues and daughters which he would neuer more vndertake by reason of the losse of lō whom he made full account to guard against the cra●tiest soliciter of the world For as he saith let a man looke vnto a woman neuer so narrowly nay let him lock her vp in a close chamber after the Italian manner her owne free heart cannot say nay if she be wantonly dis●osed and meetes with an earnest Suiter This old Lad will I imploy sentinell or scout about the Iesuites houses in one of the which he resides without question In the meane time repaire you to your friend Master Secretarie Walsingham get of him a warrant dormant and let him alone to act the rest At these words they departed And the next day meeting together againe Orpheus Iunior acquainted them that Argus had spied about an houre before day a man with long locks like a swaggering Gallant disguised in a light coloured suit of apparell entring into Claudius Aquauiuaes house the Generall of the Iesuits and by all likelihood it could be no other then Mariana whereto Florio all rauished with ioy said O happie man borne vnder a luckie constellation and reserued by destinie for great enterprizes It is not for nought that thy surging seas refused to swallow the honest corpse when in a violent storme thou didst fall ouerboord the ship It is not for small or ignoble effects that thou wert saued as a firebrand taken out of the flames in that fatall accident when thy house was battered about thy eares with thunder and lightning those fearefull artilleries of GODs glorie My mind giues me it can be no other then Mariana And here is a straight warrant for his apprehension Let vs immediatly get some Pegasean horses for delayes breed danger And so without more words they procured post horses for themselues and a dozen more of their friends in whom they reposed most confidence and about the dawning of the day the next morning they arriued neere Claudius Aquauiuaes house which lay about tenne leagues distant from his Maiesties Court at Parnassus where finding Argus very circumspect and watchfull they certainly vnderstood of him that the partie was still within without the least mistrust or alteration Whereupon as soone as the Iesuites meniall seruants had opened the Gates they suddenly rushed in not omitting to leaue Argus and a competent companie without doores for feare of an escape at the Posterne After some search they found Mariana closely cubd vp in Aquauiuaes Librarie with a new begun Treatise before him wherein these Questions of maine consequence were to be decided Whether it were more commodious for his Catholick Maiestie to bend his forces against his Neighbours the Moores or against the Lutherans The other Question was whether it were expediens for the better maintenance of Saint Peters Chaire and for the propagation of the societie of Iesus at whose name all Creatures were to bow to seize vpon the reuenues and liuings of all other inferiou● orders whatsoeuer and to conuert the same to nobler vses the one moytie betwixt his Holinesse and the Catholick Princes and the other to the most worthie In his Maiesties name both Mariana and Aquauiua were arrested and presently set vpon a couple of Pegasean S●eeds who no sooner mounted and placed in the saddle but the horses began furiously to winch and fling like mad creatures and the Riders were most violently cast downe from their backs so that if the standers by had not rescued them from the furie of these incensed horses doubtlesse they had there breathed their last with their Braines about their Eares For the nature of these kind of Horses which are bred in Hellicon and alwaies watered at Bellerophons Well is to hate kicke and trample vnder their feete all factious proud and presumptuous spirits As on the contrarie to shew themselues as obedient as Bucephalus to Alexander very tractable and milder then Lambes vnto the learned Riders who acknowledge their owne infirmities with a lowly conceit of their braines capacities and vertues though neuer so much extolled by others These new Officers informed by Argus of the Horses disposition would no longer contend against nature nor worke against Antipathie but made my two graue Gentlemen for all their bruises verie orderly to march a foote vntill they came to Parnassus where being returned about foure in the night they deliuered them ouer to the Lieutenant criminall at the Tower ergastulare who immediatly committed them to Sysiphus his rowling mount which the Poets called the Roome of little Ease CHAP. II. The Conuiction of Mariana the Iesuite by the Testimonies of the Scriptures and of the Ancient Fathers Apollo condemnes Mariana the Iesuite to be tortured in Phalaris his Brazen Bull and banisheth the pernicious Sect of Iesuits out of the Territories of Parnassus APollo being informed by his Marshals That both the Iesuites were now in safe custodie assembled all his Estates vpon the fifth of Nouember last 1625. in the great Senate House at Parnassus and caused Mariana and Claudius Aquauina to be brought forth Vnto whom his Maiestie spake in this manner How long O disloyall Ignatians haue yee tempted our Patience in broaching out your virulent doctrine for the dethroning and destroying of Princes whom the Eternall Mouer and King of Kings had ordayned out of his inscrutable prouidence to be his Deputies here on earth for sweet or for sowre as a blessing or a plague Could not their awfull state and Maiesticall Authoritie dazle your corporall eyes and astonish your inward senses from scribling such prodigious positions as did animate subiects against their Natiue Kings euen to seeke their dearest bloud Could not the example of Machiauell whom yee knew to bee banished from our peaceable Court terrifie your turbulent spirits from putting Dogges teeth in Sheepes mouthes to the apparant danger of their Sheepheards and the vnspeakable discommoditie of all humane kinde who must now defend themselues from these profitable beasts as from rauenous Wolues By your meanes Garnet and many others lost their liues who might haue succoured and relieued your owne Sect