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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00734	The Spaniards monarchie, and Leaguers olygarchie. Layd open in an aduerisement [sic], written by Signor Vasco Figueiro a gentleman of Portingale to the rebellious French: wherein is discouered the tyrannie of the one ouer the kingdome of Portingale, and the treacherous rebellion of the other in the kingdome of France, with a patheticall persuasion to the French to returne to the obedience of their naturall and legitimate king. Englished by H.O.	Figueiro, Vasco, gentleman of Portingale.; H. O., fl. 1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 10865; ESTC S102056	35,479	50

nothing but by her mouth like a good scholler that Fortune had put in her hands to mount the more easily whether she aspired made shew to wish nothing more then the conuocation of the estates meane while letting not slippe an houre vnimployed either in resolliciting her old partakers or purchasing new but especially watching that none might be at this assembly but those whom she knew to be of her partie whom shée instructed from point to point what they had to do Whilest y e Prouinces were assembling to prepare their Articles she suffered not the time to passe vnprofitably giuing aduise to her partarkers in those things which were necessarie for their Articles to some to besiege Boulogne to others to beleager and batter Iamets and to others to possesse themselues of the Marqueship of Saluce yet not forgetting to aduertise her Master what she had happely negociated as also the good estate of the affaires which she then managed requiring him with all spéede to imbarke that puissant army which he had so long equipped to that end whether to vsurpe England or to visite France in forme of an Ambassage whereby to make proofe of her good affection and to encourage her reuolt against her king but either the one or the other might haue bene preiudiciall to the French king if the issue had fitted their expectation but God by his grace myraculously ouerturned it for this great Armada which was termed inuincible was broken defeated and dissipated beyonde all humaine expectation by the valiauncie and magnanimitie of the fléete which the Quéene of England had sent forth to defend the coastes of her realme Albeit the defeating of this Armada somewhat vexed the Spanyards and not without cause for that it clipped the wings of their other enterprises notwithstanding the League was not any whit dismayed but pursued more hotly her affaires as willing to repaire this ruine by double diligence And indéede shée effected so farre with the king that he solemnely sware and protested to vnite himselfe with her and hereafter to be solely ordered by her counsell so that the king was so blinded that he sware the destruction of himselfe and the extirpation of his by an Edict ensuing named for this cause the Edict of reunion The time being come where the estates ought to assēble their Deputies showed themselues at Bloys where the assignation was giuen Then was question made in this assemblie that the king and his France or rather the League should giue vnderstāding of their affaires to those which were called to determine thereof For this part of France had alreadie retired their affection from their naturall king to yéeld it to the king of Spains yea from their owne children and heires to commit it to the said Spaniards in such manner did they effect that the kings established a foundamentall law of his kingdom whereby no heretike or fauourer of heresie might euer come to the Crowne In this sort excluding the king of Nauarre whom the League held for an hereticke and the residue of the house of Bourbon his cousins except some few from their naturall and legitimat right to the Crowne of France Thus the League not onely depriuing him but also employing all their might to root them out by force of armes Briefly the French League might not abide the sight of her owne children but hated them with a most mortall hate So that hauing giuen away her soule from her owne king like an vniust stepmother she disherited her legitimat children to inuest bastards or straungers in their fathers heritage And which is more she is not contēted to haue drawen away this great corner stone from the foundations of the kings estate for in stéede of adding another good foundation for this vniust law she haled away one of the best to the end to ouerthrow it as may be séen in that she bound his hands in the administration of his Realme yea euen to the taking away of those few which remained of his most faithfull auncient and domesticall seruants placing in their stéed those whom she thought most affectionat towards her Thus was this good Prince depriued of his legitimat successours fallen in a manner frō his dignitie diminished of his puissance abandoned of his most faithfull and loyall seruants What resteth now therefore for vnfaithfull France but to cast herselfe betwéene the armes of her good friend the Spaniard the king so timerous that he dare not hinder her and albeit he durst all his meanes are remoued hauing not one onely heire nor one or at least few seruants that either would or could aide him to retaine her Furthermore she hath bin so shamelesse as to enterprise vpon the life of the king for that being vtterly impatient and transported with a foolish affection she sought all meanes to rid him away so that treading vnder feete the feare of God and shame of men she resolued vpon his death what euer came of it She néeded not greatly trouble her selfe to séeke one to execute her mischieuous will a thousand are readie to enterprise it euen to the perill of their life Albeit among so great a nūber she discouered her selfe but onely to one whom she especially loued put most affiance in who was a hundreth times more readie to obey then she to commaunde Yea such a one as most inflamed her to practise vpon the enterprise Behold then this good Prince ordained by this French League to a miserable death and who must be the bloudie parricide but the Duke of Guise onely the execution thereof remained which had not bin long delayed had it not bin for the prouidence mercy of our God who as he hath a care especially ouer the person of kings Rex venerādus curae est Deo saith the Poet manifested vnto the king this bloudy conspiracie giuing him meanes by the aide of some of his faithfull seruants which yet remained to preuent the traiterous murtherer parricide who had vowed to take away his life or at least his libertie And thus was he taken in the nett which he had spread for others yea the hand of the Lord stretched euen vpon the Cardinall his brother a man of the same stampe But surely they had the reward which they had rightly deserued wherewith Hermeas was payed by the king Antiochus As also accustomablie it happeneth that Nimium potētes regibus suis formidofi proceres aut auditi miserum tragicum tādem vitae exitum ab ipsismet regibus à quibus se formidari metui voluerunt consequuntur If France at the fall of this man were meruailously moued much more were the League and Phillip Hauing lost the best feather of their wing and the strongest piller which supported their attempts Now France seing that her floud was discouered knew neither what countenance to make nor what way to take whether to entreate pardon of the king whom she had so detestably offended or following on with her mischieuous resolution

and religious partly killed in diuerse maners partly detained in perpetuall prison partly banished the Realme part chained in galleys and part vagabonds wandering in the forrests and hiding themselues in dens for feare lest they should fall into the hands of these mercilesse hangmen do sufficiently testifie his cruel and sanguinarie ambition I will content my selfe with naming of some few hereafter referring them which would know farther to the copie of an Epistle written by our king to Pope Gregorie the thirtéenth albeit that was but in the beginning of our miseries and slaughters which are sithens so multiplied that the number is now infinite The Spaniard séeing him self enriched with the spoiles of our king contenting not him self with this pray imagined it should serue but as a ladder to mount vp to the top of an absolute monarchy And being drunke with the greatnesse of this happy successe he began to plot higher attemps in his spirit as ambition neuer wanteth matter proposing France for the marke of his other enterprises but knowing well that he might not attempt openly and that herein force of armes might turne rather to his dammage then profite he resolued to follow the aduise of Lisander namely where the lyons skin is not strong enough to patch it with a péece of the fores But then he imagined that nothing could more securely and more soone eleuate him to the top of this greatnesse then a forcible ladder of gold vnderpropped with a more then Punicke subtilty and masked with a false semblance of integritie Likewise séeing that he had principally two great obstacles in France namely the late king and Monsieur his brother he deliberated to remooue the lesser And to come to the point of this enterprise knowing the naturall auarice and ambition of the Dukes of Guise and Maine who following the trace and instruction of their father and their vncle the Cardinall pretended to enrich their Bonnet with the thrée floure deluces and if not of all three yet at least of a part he easily corrupted thē with rewardes and promises in so much that shortly they accorded vpon the death of Monsieur either by poyson or otherwise and that by a Gentleman of his own traine named Salsede who being attainted and conuicted of the said enterprise was drawne in péeces with horses in the citie of Paris hauing first discouered and accused those which had practised with him But your king who ought according to the enormitie importance of the cause to haue made exact search iustice vpon the culpable ouer whom at that time he had sufficient puissance caried not him selfe toward the truth with that diligence that the importaunce of the cause did merit Et haec prima mali labes For he knowing the humour of the abouesaid he ought infallibly to haue held them suspect of great mischiefes in his Realme For all this the Spaniard altered not his enterprises but cōtrarily continuing and more and more augmenting the pensiōs of his two partakers practised euery day new matters Finally a few yeares after he obtained that which he had long expected for lo Monsieur being made away not without euident suspitiō of poison now y e Spanish king not being able any longer to cōtaine the heat of his ambition enclosed or hidden shewed himself so amorous of France that without ceassing he cheared courted it solliciting continually his partakers to venter and briefly leauing nothing vndone which he thought might conduct him to the port of his desires which being not able to reach vnto it hammered his head gnawed his inwards with a tedious torment Suppressing his passions as impatient that his partakers could not withdraw or diswade her from her fidelitie he had recourse vnto that remedie which customablie foolish and desperate louers vse namely some fine Dariolette or Magician and indéed he searched so much and so curiously that at last he recountred with a mischieuous and craftie harlot not ignorant in Magicke who had bene engendred nourished brought vp and entertained in the proud and magnificke Pallaces of Rome whom hauing furnished in abundance with all that was requisite for her affaires recommending vnto her all the artificialnes of her craft but especially to keepe her selfe disguised vnder the maske of the Catholike religion he presently sends her into France And this is that mischieuous and traiterous harlot which is called the holy league a name truely fatall and pernitious to euerie well ordered Monarchie and common wealth This sorcerie and subtletie of the League is incontinently receiued with great applause of the partakers pensionaries of Philip king of Spaine who leaue nothing vndone that they may make her séeme plausible vnto France The king himselfe maketh semblance of a faire countenance in entertaining it courteously yea making great difficultie to giue credite to his most faithfull subiectes friends and seruants who pertinently declared that it was not begun for other end but to withdraw France from his obedience and finally to rauish her from betweene his armes But the good prince is alreadie so charmed by her alluring speaches that contrarily he sweareth onely by her and acteth whatsoeuer shée commandeth at least giuing outwardly sufficient demonstrations like to that infortunate Priamus who was so bewitched with the sorceries and subtleties of Helena that instéed of giuing credite to the true speaches of his owne daughter Cassandra who prophesied vnto him the misfortunes that should in the end fall vpon him and his kingdome by meanes of this faire Dame he not onely taunted her as a foole but also detained her in prison Alas you Frenchmen how manie true Cassandras hath your king had which foretold him the ruine both of him and you Notwithstanding it is manifestly séene what small estimate both he and you haue made of their holy and profitable aduertisements nay you haue bin so far frō giuing credit to this infallible Oracle y t otherwise you haue mocked searched for y e authors as mē guiltie of some capital crime And herein you may be compared to the Orithains who after they had whooted and hissed at Euphraces the Orator they imprisoned him as a perturber of the people for that he aduertised thē to take héed least they submitted themselues vnder the tyrannie of Philip king of Macedon as afterward they found it too true Now this damnable League this impudent courtisan proposing her selfe to corrupt the fidelitie of France gained first of all secretly those whom she knew gaue most credence vnto her as manie of the nobilitie some of the officers as well of the kings as of the cities and in a manner all the Ecclesiasticall persons who oh horrible shame made no conscience to sell for ready money their eloquence and knowledge which they ought to haue imployed in preaching the gospel and instructing the simple people in the feare of God and obedience to their king to corrupt the constancie and fidelitie of France but Quid non mortalia pectora cogis auri