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A05463	The complaint of England Wherein it is clearely prooued that the practises of traitrous papists against the state of this realme, and the person of her Maiestie, are in diuinitie vnlawfull, odious in nature, and ridiculous in pollicie. In the which they are reprooued of wilfull blindnes, in that they see not the filthines of the Romish gouernment: and conuinced of desperate madnesse, in that they feare not the mischiefe of Spanish inuasion: the former whereof is exemplified by the Popes practises both here in England, and abroad in other countries: the later by the Spaniards outrages, in his exactions raised vpon Naples, and his tyrannies executed in the Indies. Lastly the necessitie, equitie, and benefits of the late proceeding in iustice are set downe; with a friendly warning to seditious papists for their amendment; and an effectuall consolation to faithfull subiectes for their incouragement. Seene and allowed.	[Lightfoot, William].	1587 (1587)	STC 15595; ESTC S108556	45,440	70

superstition then might you haue shaped out some shadow of reason pretended argument of probability for the opposing of your selues and the deposing of her who had sought to forment you with such hellish miseries yet were the foundatiō too too weak for to build either open rebellion Psalme 10 5. or secret conspiracy therupon Are ye not expresly forbidden to touch the Lords annointed and can it then be warranted vnto you to lay violent hands and griping pawes vpon her I warrant you it is a leaden warrant for the basenes and brasen for the impudencie trie it when you list at the touchstone you shall finde it not currant but counterfeite and they will in fine proue them selues Calues that hope to sucke anie comforte or confidence out of such a Bull. Know ye not that he who dwelleth in heauen Psalme 2. laugheth them to scorne that furiously rage or so much as take counsell together against him and his annointed and annexeth to his derision burning wrath and sore displeasure bruising them with a rod of yron and breaking them in péeces like a potters vessel Suppose ye that the quarrel of the Lords annointed concerneth him not or toucheth him not to the verie quicke will not he thinke ye redresse the wrong and take the cause into his owne handes haue ye liued so long and learned so litle or doe ye know this perfectly and yet practise the contrarie purposely O blind as Béetles if ye sée not this O faithles as Atheists if ye belieue not this O foolish as Idiots if ye beware it not Would it not be accounted I will not say a point of ridiculous follie but an euident proofe of extréeme madnesse in the highest degrée if a séely person enféebled by long sicknesse should in the beldem rage and franticke bitternesse of his maladie presume to encounter a valiant champion and to wrest the weapon out of his handes And can it in common estimation be thought lesse then detestable impietie that men long languishing in a consumption of reason but abounding with a contagious humor of innouation forlorn in hope fallen from grace and reprobate in sense shall in the fit agonie of their brainsicke disease reare vp ladders to scale the Monarchie combining them selues by force to seaze vpon the awfull scepter and with tooth and naile to bite and scratch after the crowne on their Princes head What is it to wage battaile They that resist a lawful Prince make war against the liuing God and maintaine wars with God if this be not This is to verifie the fable of the giants who are saide to haue rampired bulwarkes and mounted their engins threatning to dislodge Iupiter of his throne It is manifest that Dauid the chosen seruant of God 1. Sam. 24. notwithstanding that Saule causelesse pursued him and like an enraged Tigre gréedily hasting after his pray so hunted after his soule yet at such time as Saule at vnwares entred into the caue where Dauid with his seruants were couertly hidden albeit Dauid was by his men of war animated and by incessant importunitie vrged to laie hold vpon present occasion and so to preuent future peril who in most vehemēt maner inforced their purpose saying See the daie is come whereof the Lord said vnto thee Behold I will deliuer thine enimie into thine hand and thou shalt doe with him as it shall seeme good to thee This example of Dauid ought to be throughlie waighed and trueite followed yet neither the ruthfull consideration of his perplexed estate nor the peremptorie threats of his sworne enimie nor the effectuall obtestations of his approued souldiours could any iote preuaile with him for the accomplishment of an action so hainous and accursed But he was touched in his hart because he had touched and cut off the lap of his Lords garment And thereupon discouering himselfe hee inclined his face to the earth and bowed himselfe before Saule manifessing his innocencie Saule astonished at the matter and déepely rauished with the contemplation of such vndeserued fauor and inexpected curtesie lift vp his voice and wept saying vnto Dauid Thou art more righteous then I for I haue wrought thee euil and thou hast rendered me good for who shall find his enimie and let him depart free And afterwarde as appeareth in thesequel of the historie when Saules power fighting against the Philistines was discomfited and himselfe despairing of victorie and wearie of life fell vpon the point of his sword at such time as a young man of the Amalekites thinking to deliuer an acceptable message and hoping he should haue reaped a gladsome welcome for reporting such ioyfull tidings tolde vnto Dauid that he at the intreatie and instant request of Saule had dispatched him of his life the enioying whereof was irkesome and full of anguish vnto him and more lest he should haue omitted anie thing that hee thought might gratifie Dauid or worke his singuler contentment he presented him with the crowne that he had taken from Saules head thereby both confirming the truth of his spéeches and also after a sort installing Dauid in possession of the same yet was he so farre from reioycing either in that his aduersaries death had finished his troubles and assured him of his life with securitie or that none other could forestall him in obtaining the kingdom that he rent his clothes wept fasted vntill euening and then said to the messenger 2. Sam. 1. How wast thou not affraid to put forth thine hand to destroie the annointed of the Lord Thy bloud be vpon thine owne head for thine owne mouth hath testified against thee And therewith commanded one of his seruants to fall vpon him who smote him that hee dyed This one example if the volume of Gods booke which is the testament of his trueth and the storehouse of his promises did not afforde any greater plentie might alone suffice for the deciding of a question so néedlesse and so vngodlie This alone might serue for the suppressing of such hatefull conspiracies as the gracelesse broodes of mongrell monsters I meane English Italianates doe ingender and hatch within their diuelish conceites This yea this being authentike vndoubted and entangled with no scruple might alone serue for a most exquisite president whereto ye ought to conforme your thoughtes and whereby ye ought to confirme that reuerend opinion which all men are to carrie of lawfull Princes being Gods deputies In the which sithence there are diuers occurrents well worthie the obseruation it will not be impertinent slightly to glaunce at and briefly to comprise the resemblances and differences which shew themselues in this fact of Dauid and this faction of yours that for so much as the nature of contraries is best tryed by matching and comparing the one with the other therefore by how much the fact of Dauid shall appeare more iust and righteous by so much will your faction be proued more odious and damnable Saule because he disobeyed the commandement of

periured senator I am the more willing to cōceale passe ouer the application of these examples because it doth redouble my sorrows to think the heathens should ouercome Christians or Romanes Englishmen in pietie deuotiō to their coūtry But O vnspeakable grief I can neither find in you Curtius faith nor Scaeuolas zeal nor Horatius courage nor Regulus cōstancy You attempt my destructiō contrary to Curtius you imagine your soueraigns death cōtrary to Scaeuola you desire to bring in strāge forces cōtrary to Horatius you deny loialtie to your frends wheras Regulus performed faithfulnes to his enemies Regulus kept promise w e his foes because he wold not indamage his coūtry you break promise w e your frends enter league w e your foes because ye wold ruinate your country Unworthy therfore are ye to be numbred among such men Traitors are men in shape but beasts in behauiour vnworthy to liue amōg christian men nay vnworthy to carry the names of men hauing litle in effect but the outward shape of men Ye haue defaced the beautie of humane nature in deforming your minds with brutish behauior Ye haue learned to weaue Spiders webbes and to hatch Cocatrices egges Ye haue lerned of the Tode to swell aboue natural proportion of the Wolfe to barke against the Moone of the wilde Asse to braie against the thunder of the Owle to eschue the light of the Sun and of the Viper to gnaw through the bowels of your mother Much more I might say but I willingly refraine least my spéeches should séeme rather to be distempered with partial choler then seasoned with louing affection I could neuer yet vnderstand that any traitor closed vp his last daies with honor or the his gray haires went downe to the graue in peace The end of Traitors nuserable but though for a time hée so florished in pomp of worldly felicitie the there might séem neither to haue bin place for better fortune nor feare of worse yet was his iollitie nought els but grins to intangle his desires withall the being dronken w e excesse of vanitie furfetting vpō al varietie of plesure he might be pampred vp like an Oxe the in the stall is made fat for the slaughter To which purpose if I should begin to discourse besides the I should enter into a wide open field I should also light a candle at noone day in reporting that wherof these times haue made you eiewitnesses Therfore I wil only point w e the finger at one or two examples takē forth of our own Chronicles which for the they are in their kinde passing notable ought not to be buried in silence Richard the vsurper raging like a foming Boare sought by force to open the waie to his wilfull inordinate desire of soueraintie sparing neither age sexe affinitie nor degrée till hee had inuested himselfe with the regal Diademe was then perswaded that he had so firmely established his regiment that hee might without daunger giue fortune the defiance yet sée a litle cloud rising from the sea did on the sodaine so darken the Sunshine of his deuises that as one surprised with trembling feare and wéelded in an endles Labyrinth hée sound no issue to wade through but was affrighted with guiltie suspicion by day and terrified with fearful visions by night neither felt he any release vntil death hastned to demaund his right to take iust reuenge vpon him Who though he were a king yet being slain in the field was disaraied of his armor robes stript naked was throwne ouerthwart a horsback with his face groueling to the earth and so besmeared with mire and gore was hurried from Bosworth to Lecester there in stead of funerall solemnities he had black fame for his herault shame for his shrouding shéete neuer dying obloquie for his sepulchre Neither were the executioners of his commaunds exempted from penaltie For Syr Iames Tarrell who was by him aduanced for the murther of the yoong king his nephew was in the raigne of king Henry the seuenth beheaded at the Tower hill for treason A vicious life endeth sildom with a happie heath Miles Forrest péece-meale rotted away Iohn Dightons death though it be not certainly specified yet we may weout any breach of charitie suppose the it was not greatly discrepant from the former course of his life And no maruel if the Lord of hostes be so ielous ouer his Vicegerent poure out such rigorous punishments vpon archtraitors conspiring against his annointed séeing he suffreth not petie trecheries though in degrée far inferior to escape vnreuenged As may appear by Henry Banester seruant to the Duke of Buckingham who though he were brought vp vnder the Duke had from him receiued many benefites yet at such time as the Duke being encountred with great extremities and on euery side maruellously distressed committed his life to Banesters secrecie thinking it the safest refuge and sanctuary that he could repaire vnto Banester in expectation of the reward that was promised by proelamation to him that could discouer him readely cōdescended to befraie his Lord. But shortly after it came to passe the his sonne and heire fell mad died in a Bores stie his eldest daughter was striken with leprosie his second sonne was takē lame his yoongest son drowned in a pudle lastly Banester himselfe was arraigned for murther and with much adoe escaping was frustrated of that golden recompence which he preferred before his Lords life and his owne reputation I speake not this to patronage the Dukes action the equitie of whose cause I refer to the censure of the wise but séeing all déeds are to be measured by the intent of the doer and the sequele of the fact néeds must he be noted for a faithles caitife that began his action in wretched auarice and ended it in shamefull miserie If I should draw these and such like particulars into the forme of an induction and thereupon grounding a generall conclusion should say that neuer traitor to his prince atchiued happie and prosperous end I thinke it would be hard for you to giue an instance to the contrarie vnles haply you please to reply by nominating any of the stragling extrauagants Iesuites by profession are in condition Iscariotes that carying the title of Iesuites lead the liues of Iscariots and either by raunging abroad or dissembling at home chance to escape the whip But they must imagine that forbearance is no quittance and the longer they run on the score the harder will the reckoning proue when it comes to paiment Howsoeuer one traitor list to descant vpon the fall of another imputing his ouerthrow to second causes ascribing it to fatall influence and angrie stars wresting it either to want of pollicie or neglect of opportunitie or default of secresie or his too much carelesnes or his too litle courage and with these vaine illustons flatter his conceite hoping that he shal ouerleap that stumbling blocke