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A68445	The triumphs of King Iames the First, of Great Brittaine, France, and Ireland, King; defender of the faith Published vpon his Maiesties aduertisement to all the kings, princes, and potentates of Christendome, and confirmed by the wonderfull workes of God, declared in his life. Deuoted, dedicated, and consecrated to the most excellent prince Henry Prince of Wales.	Marcelline, George.	1620 (1620)	STC 17309; ESTC S111857	40,901	114

Prophesies bee vnderstoode The one of Cataldus Finius which is more then a thousande yeares since Iste solus Clare aperiet librum scriptū digito Dei viui He onely shall euidently open the book written with the finger of the liuing God As plainly appeareth by his Learned Preface The other of Sybilla on the destruction of Antechrist Miserum inde tempus quia linum ipsum perdet Miserable in time shall he be because linnen or a Lyne shall destroy him By Linnen his Maiesties Booke is vnderstoode the Paper whereof is made of olde decayed linnen Or else the Line or Cord is threatned thereby to hang him vp according to the example of Achitophel His Scepter which is in his right hand is not of wood made fast with Iron nayles as were the ancient Scepters in Homer Virgil nor yet of Juory such as the Kings of Rome carried and sent to their Kindred and friendes nor of Ebony like that of the Jndians nor of Iron Copper or Siluer but of fine Golde like that of Marke Anthonie in Florus and such as Ahasuerus stretched foorth to Hester in the Bible to shew vs that his is one of the verie Noblest Scepters in the world As His length plainly telleth vs that euen so shall his power extend it selfe and make it selfe to be felt very farre off It beareth on the top not any Eagle like that of the Tarquins nor a Crosse as that did of Constantines nor yet a Storke or the straunge beast liuing in the Riuer Nylns called Hippopotames as others haue caried nor yet a hand like to that of France But a Lilly or Flowerdeluce thereby to assure vs that his power and manner of gouernment is full of sweetnesse mildnesse and good order The most precious garment of his Trophies is a Royal Mantle or Cloake the onely sacred ornament of Kings for the more sumptuous decking of potent Maiesty made of Veluet Azure and Gold which are the onely sightly things that can be vsed in the habit of princes It traineth along vpon the ground after him to expresse the amplitude of his royall benignity being called of God to couer not onely the members of his owne estate from the Tiranny of Antichrist but likewise those people that are strangers and of other Countries His colours vnder are of Scarlet and white as the Spouse in the Canticles saieth That her Best-beloued is all white and Vermillion white in Innocency Red Vermillion in Charity For euery colour else looketh pale and deade or looseth his beauty being neere to these yea though it be Purple twice dipt in his tincture As in like maner the religion of Popery doth being compared with that which Our King embraceth as being without both sound and luster vanishing of it selfe away euen as dusky clouds do before the beames of the worlds greatest light The White of this Mantle royall is Ermins which are more perfect in faire luster then any other and those furies do testifie not the coldnesse of his Original countrey as some haue scornfully saide but his generous and resolued grauitie as full of bounty As the skin of little blacke spots Admonishing vs thereby that there is nothing so prosperous but sometime it meeteth with sinister accident as the Ermine which is white ouer all the body and yet directly on the top of his tail hath that smal touch or mark of blacknes Vnder this Mantle or Cloake he weareth the Palmata Toga or Dalmatian Vesture proper to some Ministeriall Office because the sleeue reacheth so far as the elbow only The which may teach and perswade vs that in despight of the Pope of Anabaptists of al haire-brain'd mutinous opiniotiue and frantique Preachers whome his Maiesty calleth and vnderstandeth to bee Puritanes onely hee is an absolute Monarch as well of the Spirituall as of the Temporall euen as in elder times the Caliphes were and that in him is verified the saying of the Poet Rex Anyus Rex idem hominem Phoebique Sacerdos King Anyus is the same man King and yet Apollos Priest For Kinges are the Coombes of the Estate belonging to God euen as well as of that appertaining to their kingdomes and their Authority is the bases and foundation which vpholdeth the Church in fauour and regard whereof they were at first established by God who had neuer created or preserued the worlde but for this respect onely They haue like power therin as Iosias had and like preheminence as Constantine who published himself Byshop of exteriour occasions They haue I say Soueraign iurisdiction ouer Prelates to keepe an eye vpon their Discipline on the manners or behauiour of the Clergy to take acknowledgement of their differences Which is very easie to be proued as wel by Testimonies and solid Reasons as by the examples and effectes of all most venerable Antiquitie Finally Our King in signe of diligence that he shal very shortly triumph in all trueth Iustice and power euen as far as that proude Tarpeiane Tower To kil the Dragon and deliuer the male childe from his throat as manifestly appeareth by the Angell mounted vppon the white horse to whom was giuen the Crown of victory He is circkled with a Girdle of Golde hanging before his breast which is The Collar of Saint George which was not forgotten by the Romaines themselues of the round Table speaking of the two Dragons white and red deliuered out of prison by Merlin in the time of k. Vter Pendragon father to King Arthur who after a long deadly fight the white at length ouercame the red And now we may see a second surprize them That reiected Esau otherwise called Edom which signified the Red Dragon that old vsurper that Tyraunt ouer so many Nations the Pope himselfe commeth to the succour of his vanquished Legions with two Breeues and a Letter from the Cardinal Bellarmine which are Gerions with three bodies or Cerberus with three heads and throats casting fire out at the eyes the nose the mouth They would faine fasten on Our white King Iames the Childe of Blessednesse euen in his Cabinet and pursue him thence to his Bed-chamber in seeking to set free all his Subiects from their obedience to him yea and to turne his very housholde Seruants from their duty Monarchy being not so pleasing to his tast as Aristocratie Order as Anarchie Behold how Our King dealt in this manner with them as others haue done in the like To day for him to morrow for them And their to morrow should haue bin much neerer if they coulde haue attained to what they pretended But his Maiesty stopt their way with a Mattock and a Wedge as the Romaine Captaine said or in applying Triplici nodo Triplicem Cuneum in cleauing a Triple knot of Iron with a Triple wedge of Brasse or in cutting The Gordian knot with the sword of Alexander His Apologie verily and of good right ought to be helde for the support defence Rampant and Fortresse of all the Kings Monarkes

Religion as fitly as the Buskins of Theramines would do for walking Behold how like another Orpheus Amphion and Arion he draweth to the true knowledge of God very saluage Beasts Forrests Trees and Stones by the sweet Harmony of his Harp the most fierce and wilde the most stupid and insenced the most brutish and voluptuous are changed and ciuilized by the delectable sound of his Musicke The which may transport and rauish our cares at his mellodious touchinges and concordes and not tickle them with any delicate noyse tending vnto voluptuous and sensuall pleasure but rather such as by well tempered proportions are able to reduce all extrauagant rudenesse and circuites of our soules though they had wandered from the right way to the true path of dutie and settle all thoughts in such a harmony as is most pleasing vnto them For this is that Ladie indeede saith Zoroastres which doth make a man leap with ioy when he feeleth in himselfe an agreement like a sweet consort of Musicke whereunto he is admitted with God and his Angels But according to Proclus so soone as hee sinneth she absenteth her selfe and he remain eth depriued of her company Heereupon the euill Spirit or proud Demon in the iudgement and saying of the Cabalists in his fall lost wholly the Musicall harmony which was in him In like manner there are no soules wel born but in them this harmony may haue place so saith Pyndarus and that the bad spirits cannot endure a sweete concording Musicke because it is quite contrary to their disproportioned nature This may bee witnessed by Saule King of the Israelites when hee was possessed with the euill Spirit Dauid by the sound of his Harpe compelled him to depart from the King or at the least to let him be quiet Pythagoras according as Cicero and Boetius recordeth I knowe not by what Mellody but by a Musicall Ayre thereto apt and proper brought a young man into his perfect sences that had bin before mad and distracted The like we read of Terpander Arion Ismenius and Linus Musicians of Thebes who thus reduced very many bad distempered and most peruerse people into the right way of vertue It is likewise said that Thales the Mylesian appeased the ciuil dissentions among the Lacedemonians by the sweete mellody of his Harpe onely From whence wee may collect the maruailous effects of Musick by Instruments thereby acknowledge that it is able very extreamly to excite humain affections as being ful of high and hidden misteries if we may giue credit to the Hebrewes Cabala and the very learnedst Rabines For this Harpe of MY KING is made in a triangle hauing ten strings which being touched aboue doe resound beneath and deliuer such an acceptable mellody as it pierceth all the Celestiall Spheares euen by sanctified desires conceiued to the honour of God and it trauerseth all Countries of the whole world for the defence and support of all Kinges Princes and Commonweales of Christendome Such are the accents of this misticall simphony and the lofty tunes of the Diapenthes Diatessarons and Diapasons of our Royall Harpe Therefore Bestirre ye euerie faithfull hart To the Harpes Musicke beare apart Hanging in his Silken twine Sing his praise that is Diuine With Lutes and Organes mellodie And holy Songs sweete Harmonie All laud his name continually And so Ad Triarios ventumest and vnto the third voice of his Triumph which prepareth the Trophees of out Iacob for his victory ouer Gog or the hidden and couert Esau for all Demons and Monsters mentioned neither could nor can do any thing God bee thanked with their overt power against his sacred person Heere we must looke for Hags Goblins Deuils Night-walkers as Plancus saide against Pollio armed with not visible weapons but with venemous thoughts lying tongues and pennes more daungerous then the fire then the Iron barres or then the barrels of Gun-powder to tax him in his Name and Honour One is a Critick Anonymus and insensed Censurer hauing the eyes of his vnderstanding so masked or hudwincked that he could no more see the Author of the Royall Apollogie then hee saw his Right to the Crowne of England Another is a wry-treading Tortus so Crooked in heart and Lame in spirit that he cannot walke vpright or directly in his Doctrine And both of them Andabates or purblinde Fencers who for the vglinesse and deformity of their soules are glad to hide themselues vnder the cloake of those borrowed false names to the end that they may bestow their blowes where best they please lying impudently and belying as well the Gods as men And because his maiesty doeth fight but with Chimaeraes and shadowes he breaks through all the daunger of their mallice because hee can no neerer grapple with them for the first hath as yet escaped for some time the hands of Justice and the Hangmans halter These wicked and detestable men to whom nothing is deare prouided that it may do hurt to such as they maligne and malice do inuent crimes forge offences hurle Pelion vpon Olympus to ouerthrow the Gods but it is an infallible maxime that a lye liuing but an houre onely may yet beget some friuolous effect and so they feare not but woulde faine perswade the people that the King is not the Author of the Booke and therefore they repay him with iniuries instead of honest Reasons But the modesty of his Maiesty scorning horse-play to strike with his heels like the foolish Fencer Ctesiphon was content to auouch the Booke by his learned Monitory Preface which is not onely an aunswere to such base fellowes but also written in iust contempt of thē wherein he imitateth Caesar in Lucan who to commit nothing vnbeseeming the greatnesse of his corage and renowne of his Armies did the like to Cowardly Metellus beeing desperate of his glorie lying then at the stake to be foyled Vanam spem mortis honestae Concipis haud inquit iugulo se polluet iste Nostra Metelle manus Neuer did he triumph with greater pompe then in refusing this fight euen as did Fabius Maximns in refusing to triumph For the impudent and false calumnies of both these Libellers are so notorious through the world as ther is no man who hearing the children of Beliall disgorge their blasphemies but doth know will confesse it openly yea and loud enough to bee heard that it is the naturall property of them who after they haue beene so long time nourished in blaspheming against GOD doe do thinke they may be iustly dispensed withall in rayling lying and speaking falsely of their Princes Who could beleeue that in Great Brittaine they had an Harpocrates one of the Indian Astomi or a King with a Shut-mouth that could not make answere to two Breeue of the Pope and to a Letter sent from a Cardinall Had not his silence in this case seemed as little important as if he had giuen consent thereto And coulde any thinke him so weake in wisedom as to say with the Romain Emperor