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
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 Printed at Brittaines Bursse for Iohn Budge and are there to be solde 1610. To the High Mighty and Magnanimous Prince Henry Eldest Sonne to the King Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay Earle of Chester and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter c. ¶ Most generous and redoubted Prince The Honour and Ornament of your age The Hope of your people The Subiect and Obiect whereon their most happy wishes dependeth The STARRE of their fairest Fortune The COMMET of dreadfull terrour to their enemies The Index Abstract or Compendium of the very greatest Princes whatsoeuer HEere vpon the rich Piller of your glorious name do I hang vp The Trophees the Honour of MY KING your Father sowne through France and dispersed ouer the whole world Such holie spoiles are worthie your auouching because they are due vnto none other but onelie vnto your HIGHNESSE in regarde that a person who is so neere vnto you hath conquered won them And his Triumphant Triumphes are the auguries harbingers vant-currers of your infallible fortunes to come euen as your owne Vertues do serue for a pattern and example to them of MY LORD the Duke your Brother Accept them then My Lord by your fauorable looks giue them all a speaking-power as the Sunnes reflectiō did on the Image of Memnon And beleeue that as one of yours you shall finde me readier to lay hand on my sword for you then on my pen and would rather spend my blood then mine Inke for your honour and seruice in al and by all My young CAESAR and great ALEXANDER THou Eye of Europe the Soule the Heart the delight of all thy neighbours France Mother of curtesie and our ancient friend Suffer that with a voice of Brasse I may make heard through all the Corners of the earth euen to those worldes which yet are furthest off cry out to that Iacobine Monke and that Proselite PELLITIER Do no euil at al vnto my King For so cryed out the Sonne of Croesus dumbe all his life time before vntill hee saw the sword drawne to wound his father If the childe for the Father why not then the Subiect for his Prince Their loue ought to be alike or equall in semblable actions alike also ought to bee their duties because the people are helde to be the Princes Children For I see that these two audacious and presumptuous Phaetons do labour by their flattering answeres as with a Delphian sword to open the bosome or breast of MY KING to strike at his heart with a deadly stab and to giue him the lie more couertly then Tortus to his shame hath doone coueting to impresse lies and falsities in the soules of euery one Their painted speeches and goodly protestations makes my haire stand vp as affrighted pales my countenance smites my hart teares open my lippes to entreat you good Frenchmen to credite them no further then Our King hath done Hee alwayes deriueth sound iudgement from words by the verie mouing of the toong he knoweth the harts of them that make such Orations to him Wherfore in beholding their books he hath saide with God Hilabijs me honorant cor autē eorum longe est a me These men honor me with their lips but their harts are far off from me In like maner there is nothing more daungerous then the teeth of a Serpent hid vnder greene hearbes and the throat of a wolfe hauing on a sheeps habit Wo be to them that cal euill good and good euill that make darknesse light and light darknesse and that call bitternesse sweetnesse and sweetnesse bitternes Wo be to you Scribes and Pharisies Hypocrites for you compasse both sea and land to the end to make one Proselite and when he is made you yeild him vp as the Sonne of Hell doouble worse then your selues What impudence was it in a cloistred Priest in a priuat person to shew himselfe in open field to cope with a great and powerful king when Kinges haue beene at all times without Peere and free from fight except it were with others kings Honor is not to be had but by an equal Alexander being desirous to win the prize in the course of the Olimpian games demanded continually Is there any kings that runne The like may our King very well question Is there any Kings that answere Jt is to them to whom his Maiesty hath directed his aduertisement and it is to them only to make answere Monarkes Kings Princes and Potentates of Christendome where are your Prouost Marshals then Where are your Lictours and Sergeants to seize on these saucy gamesters Where are your Lawes and Edicts to punish these proud presumers that durst set footing within your Lists to steppe before you in so faire a Race or Carriere Stirre Magistrates lay hold on these base Hackny-runners in so braue a fight and do you beat downe the insolence of these rash headed Athletes or malepart Champions There lackes Tortures for Tortus to breake the bridles of such silly naked soules and bolster their crazed braines a little better to the end to make Coeffeteau confesse and Pelletier professe the truth perforce according to the rule of truth it selfe These prooues are to bee vanquished with other Reasons then those whereby they labor to refute them else it wil neuer be done Heresy findeth daily something to re-say and to confound Paper withall some meanes to saue himselfe either by flight or obstinacy of opinion because he wil neuer confesse his errour much lesse deliuer vp his Armes Euen so the Pharisies and the Saduces being beaten downe by the mouth Diuine would yet suddenly exalt themselues again without confessing either their fal or the offence So Pericles throwne headlong downe and euen almost buried in the dust would yet perswade the whole Theater that he deserued to be crowned So that Hippomachus of whome Plinie speaketh and the other of the Acolians would needs be proclaimed victorious conquerors after they had breathed forth their 's soules vnder their enemies feete And so this Antaeus and his companions already stifled in the gripes of our Christian Hercules would faine perswade the worlde that being themselues vanquished yet they stand vp still as vanquishers All such brablings and contentious disputes doe but whet on Choller and harden bad spirits as being more apt to moue sedition and disobedience then to affoorde anie fruitfull edifying Let then their shamelesse fore-heads bee circkled with Crownes such as the Romains vsed in their Consull festiuals for their Arcadian Monsters rather then any answeare bee made vnto them except it be by the hand of Thomas Dury
our Maister Guillaume Let the Laurell wreaths be wrung out of their hands to impale the victorious head of our IAMES truely Triumphant ouer Pagan Idolatrie and Popish Heresie which is the subiect of this my present labour and the whole desseign of this discourse as appeareth in the Frontispice of the main building Thus are His Trophees gathered and limmed through by an vnexperienced Pensill in his victories deriued from the writing of his Royall Aduertisement This is the full ayme of mine intention Religious French-men and that which I desire to shew vnto you Deare Children of Heauen to the end that you may not suffer your selues to bee perswaded in the contrarie by the deceiuing Language subtle Arguings Sophistries and captious arguments of this Doctor Diuinity-destroyer and the discoursing Enthusiaste least of wise French-men you becom with them mad and insensed Galathians The very written book it selfe doth furnish vs with strength sufficient to vanquish and conuince all the answerers of the worlde and their answers not turning any one leafe of his book but it deliuereth many most expresse Texts of the holy Scriptures as many goodly places out of the holy fathers as many Canons of the chiefest Counsellers with many rich strong arguments and al set downe by his Maiesty It is to you Generous French-men that I speake this and to whom I desire to make it manifest for though the speaking or willingnesse to make it knowne to you of my Country should be but in me as lost labor yet must J needs speake it againe beeing no more but what you know what you haue seene and what hath bin published So many mouthes are as so many Trumpets of his greatnesse in great Brittaine so many hearts they are as so many Temples of his vertues and so many soules are as many Vowes and Sacrifices to his faire name Among them J am but as one voice yet now driuen to the vniuersall consort of the whol worlds voices For if my voice could bee vnderstoode from the East to the West from the North to the South nay if it could pierce from this low center of the earth to the highest circumference of the Jmperiall heauen I would cal al Noble Spirits to com to see Idolatry subdued and Heresie vanquished and I would entreate them to beeleue that which I say vnto you for an assured verity whereof Heauen Earth Men and Angels are faithfull and vnreprooueable witnesses My words do sauour rather of the salt of a pure affection then the Oyle of supple flattery My penne shal neuer be Ioabs Dagger to stab Abner backward My life is innocent my heart Christian My tongue to Scottish he is too good and wise a King to bee flattered by any But to accommodate my selfe to the ignoraunce of these insolents who haue made French answeres to a Latine Booke I shall labour to expresse my conceite of their Idiome and imitate as wel as I can the steppes of our French Orators Wherein I will loose no time for excusing my selfe either for my harsh and vnelegant language fearing the reply in elder time made by Cato vnto the Historian Albinus The courteous and Charitable Frenchman in considering the good and free will wherewith I march on in this matter and for his instruction will amiably correct the Errours of my Penne and the Presse which manie in like fauour haue amended in our Language In this affaire their blowes do touch vs their Iests and Sportes do inuite vs their Reasons do driue vs and their daily desires ought to mooue vs. But if any base and creeping soule if anie deiected spirite or if some Monke or Priest shall recreate his leysure by this writing and purge his salt soule of those foule slaunders breathed foorth with so many wry mouthes apish faces with such bending the browes and snuffes in the nose and which no doubt he will vse in reading this worke One Lawrell braunch of MY KING onely shall bee my Warrant from the sparkeling flashes of such false fires and his glorious Name shall serue me as the Shield of Minerua against all their impoysoned Arrowes of Nessus and Philocteres Let euery Momus Zoylus and all insenced Censurers examine this little Booke Letter by letter let them measure the Syllables weigh the Words controule the points and Virgulers let them peruse the Periods count the Pages and turne ouer the leaues I will protest onely for my Apology that I haue taken the Rule Squire Plummet and compasse in forming it only to enform them in a solid truth Wherefore cruell apprehensions bristle not vppe your haires against mee affrighted horrours seeke not to shake my soule anie more panicke terrours leaue my heart at large and my tongue at libertie to the end that I may bidde them Go out go out of Babylon flye from behind her Be not ouerthrowne in her iniquities But publish this with a loude voyce as a Song of Tryumph and speake it vnto the vtmost part of the Earth THE ETERNALL HATH RRDEEMED HIS SERVANT IAMES Farewell then France My well beloued and take this for thy present and the guift of my remembrance ¶ From Alethia towards the VVinter Solstice or the decreasing of the Romish Religion and ascending of the truely Catholique and Reformed King IAMES Triumphant OR The Trophees of the KING of great BRITTAINE c. VP on your Palm-trees ô ye mortals run all to Lawrels or flourishing Bayes on to the wild Oliue let vs fill our handes with flouring braunches of the Pine all which neuer wither to plaite Wreathes Châ—plets and Coronets of honor for this worthy Pancratiaste Gather greene Maple to beset round about the body of this Triumphant VVrastler Cal for Trumpets and Clarions to celebrate the victory blessing of our KING IAMES Let vs found forth the praises of that inuincible Monarch who inuiteth all Kings vnto his Royall Triumph Let vs passe thorough a lustrall fire of venomous tongues bee it eyther the poison of Heresie or of enuy or of slanderous detraction or of immolated Beasts Let vs prepare the hauty Trophees of his heroick actions farre more surpassing in noise sound and glorie then all the pompous Triumphes of Pompey Aemilius Scipio or Vespasian Let vs insculpe and carue them not in the Marble of Quarrera the Alablaster of Venice the Porphiry of Guinea nor yet in Iuory not in Brasse or Copper nor yet in Siluer or in the richest enammeled Golde but in the Temple of Memory and in the hearts of all men To the end that altogether in one vnanimity may sing with mee not in an halfe or lowe but in a full and lowde voyce cheerfully sounding out these two Wordes these ioyfull Words this IO PAEON Let all mortals now reioyce And applaud with hands and voyce When they heare the noise and sound Which like thunder doth rebound Of King JAMES the honour great To whom God from his mercies seat Beyond all other else hath showne Such loue as like was neuer knowne Chast
learnedly testifieth vnto vs Was there euer any Prince more forgetfull of wrongs and more apt to remit iniuries done against him then his Maiesty euen then when he might be very easily reuenged How many Actes of Parliament full of benignitie clemency and kindnesse hath hee set toorth since his happy comming to the Crowne of England euen towards his very enimies themselues which is the onely reason that his subiects both loue and obey him the more willingly and that straungers ought to bee the more respectiue of him For my selfe J may say that by good right of him which the Romaine Orator did of Iulius Caesar Hee is a great Iusticer Vpright Equall true But in all his vertues there is none more Great more Excellent or more commendable then is his Clemency and Benignity I speake not this as a Learner or beeing Tutored thereto but out of knowledge and good experience and as one willing with poore Vzza to set a hand to helpe the Arke whereof J feared the falling And if I haue done it with out any great paine yet am I glad that it hath returned me no danger and so long as I shall haue any iot of life in mee I will publish euerie where and sing in heart though it bee to my selfe En tibi praepetibus foelix victoria pennis Quae volat laet am adducit Clementiapacem Vnde salus populis te Rege Iacobe beatis But fearing the like inconuenience as that which happened vnto the High-Priest Cecilius Metellus for hauing dared to be so bold as to put his hand neere to the Statue of the Goddesse Pallas I am constrained to turne my sight from the faire Eye of the Worlde His Beams do force me to kisse the very liddes of those eyes euen as the perfection and proportion of his other Visible parts do restraine my tongue from deliuering the misticall and Physiognomicall sence of euery one of them In like maner it was neuer mine intention to note al the Anatomical considerations of his Imperial Body or to pierce any further then vnto the subtiltie of our owne reach and apprehension which dooth sufficiently content it selfe to referre all the functions of his parts to the apparent appearance thereby to erect a Triumph not onely fully rich but also morral to following posterity We will beginne with his Crowne which is the Ornament for the Head the chiefest member and that which is most honourable of all the body euen that part wherein are composed al the principal instruments of life by the perfection of numbers This rich chief part is crowned to the end that his enemies beholding the same should enter into the apprehensions of Cassander King of Macedon who hauing founde the Statue of Alexander entred into such a fear that he trembled at the verie sight thereof And to let bee seene that meere glory hath defended him from his greatest aduersaries they shoulde bring him no such fraile Crownes wherewith in elder times they were wont to honor the Conquetors in the Olympian Pythian Ismyan and Nemean games but that duety which shineth in heauen and can neuer bee withered because it was first wrought and wouen with the verie fingers of the sonne of God himselfe It is a Crown of Gold enriched with Pearls and precious Stones Of Gold which reioyceth the heart healeth all putride Vlcers Woolfes or rotted corruption To declare thereby that this King shall beare the precious Balme the Cataplasme and Seare-cloath to heale vlcered hearts and consciences euen those which are most fired and cauthorized thereby to bring the new birth againe of the former Golden dayes of Saturne The Pearles are the Hieroglyphickes of his soules immaculate whitenesse or integrity do testifie vnto the whole worlde that hee is Protector of Innocency and Truth The Diamonds do shine and deliuer a clear white luster which cheareth the eye The Rubies do dart foorth to sight very straunge flaming beams which may offend some perhaps more then they please These are the two most precious Stones aboue all other the Symboles or Creeds of our Churches Nothing can bite or cut the Diamond but the Diamond it selfe neither can we shape or figure any thing else therby of any indamagement or hurt towards vs but it must come by our owne selues The Diamond is inuulnerable and not to be bruised by hammers on the Anuile but wil enter farre into the Ruby who is subiect to be wrought therewith penetrated cut carued or imprinted thereon in whatsoeuer a man pleaseth euen as our beleese worketh the like effectes in vnbeleeuing harts which they may very aptly signifie The Sphear-like forme of his Crowne doth denote the euen roundnesse wherein hee proceedeth to euery one as well towards the smal as the great the poore as the rich That he is the Common Father of all his people ordering all his affections in an equall partage like vnto the Geometricall point which beholdeth all his circumference in one the same proportion Answerable to the Sun which shineth equally vpon all Or as the heart which furnisheth all the other members with life heat Or like vnto the Palme-tree which distributeth his nourishment to his leaues and braunches euen as if it were by iust weight measure Before that Parliament he contented himselfe to expresse vnto the Papistes themselues rather the power of his Authority then the rigour of his Iustice Hee permitted to all the free communication of his fauour as of his Conntreyes ayre and the enioying of his presence as the sweet breath of his fertile kingdome The Booke and the Scepter which his Maiesty holdeth in his hands do represent Reason and Rigor which are the two Engines wherby all men are drawne to their dutie For if Reason profit not recourse must then be had to Power According vnto the example of our Lord Iesus Christ and of his Apostles For they presenting peace in all mildnesse thorough all places where they came shooke off in the spirit of Justice the dust frō their feet on them which resisted thē Saying for reason of the first That be was soft and gentle and for the second That he was vpright or iust In the first that he is good gracious in the second That he is terrible In the first That hee helpeth the desolate in hart bindeth vp their wounds In the second That he is Dominus percutiens a Lord that smiteth In like maner Our King Gestans leua decus wil neuer presse with his Scepter of authority which he beareth in his right till he may vse his pen no longer and that the left hand be wholly despised He applyeth not the Rasor to the Canker and Gangrena of Heresie so long as Reason and soft and lenitiue remedies may serue the turne Throughout antiquity The Scepter hath bin common to al Kings on the earth The Booke perticularly and for the exclusion of others appertaineth to our Mercuriall Heros to enstruct vs that of him properly ought the double
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