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A09609	An humble petition offered to the right reuerend, honourable, and vvorshipfull estates of this present Parliament assembled ar [sic] Westminster Pallace wherein the wandring ghost of the late pyramis demolished lately in París, discourseth his hard fortunes, trauailes, and strange accidents to the new Brittaine monarchie, to whom he wisheth all peace, wealth, and prosperitie. Written by Philopatris, pittying his downfall, and perswading his new erecting, and building vp againe in Westminster.	Philopatris, fl. 1606.	1606 (1606)	STC 19884; ESTC S115283	18,010	50

AN HVMBLE Petition offered to the right reuerend honourable and vvorshipfull estates of this present Parliament assembled at Westminster Pallace Wherein the wandring Ghost of the late Pyramis demolished lately in Paris discourseth his hard fortunes trauailes and strange accidents to the new Brittaine Monarchie to whom he wisheth all peace wealth and prosperitie Written by Philopatris pittying his downfall and perswading his new erecting and building vp againe in Westminster At London Printed for Matthew Lownes 1606. To ancient and famous Troynovant WIth sunburnd Afrike Europe bore debate And France with fertile Egipt did cōtend With Memphis old Lutetia stroue of late For Monuments but now that strife hath end The Pyramies of Paris doo decay But Memphis stones remaine stand for aye Shall Afrike thus tryumph in Europes shame Can Brittaine braue endure so great disgrace No Troynovant flie thou on wings of fame From Memphis both and Paris take thou place Build monuments in spight of Popish fire Which Afrike both and Asia may admire To the high Court of Parliament AFter that my suddaine downfall vnexpected overthrow most ancient and famous great Brittaine was plotted secretly in Rome prepared cunningly in France and executed ignominiously not long since by publique aucthoritie in the chiefe Cittie of the French Kingdome This favour yet I had for my continuall and faithfull service done to so great a King and State that some of my dearest friends and favourers whose long pleadings in Lawe strong reasons in equitie and earnest sute in Court nothing prevailing for the saving of my faultlesse and innocent life should bee permitted at last after my death to gather together the fatall reliques and ruines of my sumptuous builded corps to be secretly laid vp in some sure place there to be shrouded vnto a better and more favourable age following from the cruell persecution of my bloudie Esauiticall enemies seeking and pursuing like vnto Herod through all Iuda from corner to corner for the anatomie of my brused bones to be offred vp as a sweete smelling sacrifice to that Antichristian bloudie Dragon who daily thirsteth for the poore lyues of such harmlesse creatures as I am manifesting to the world his foule shame and monstrous parts But may it not seeme ouer-strange and meruailous to the eyes and eares of the world that dumbe and insensible creatures should speake and crie out of cruell iniustice vsed against them Mervailous indeed it is because against nature but not therfore vntrue nor yet vnlikely considering what the Prophets haue truly fore-told howe in the latter dayes there should many miraculous thinges fall out and wonderfull visions appeare both in heaven earth And surely thou new Monarchie the eclipse of the Sunne seene here of late with the new starre but more likelie a prodigious Cōmet in thy Hemisphere the extraordinarie rednes of the firmament like to bloud the continuall raines and land flouds the monstrous births of children and beastes on the earth and of fishes in the Sea but more notable that a new and vnknowne Astrologer in his Prognostication set out in our Cittie of Paris should fore-shew such strange and incredible matters to come to passe three moneths before this wonderfull accident was knowne among you to wit that this yeare 1605 heere should bee a turbulent Parliament a black Christmas and a bloudie Lent Did not all these things agreeing as it were and conspiring together speake and fore-warne you beloved great Brittaine even as they had beene reasonable creatures of the great disastre likely to fall out comming to my eares Mervaile not then if I that had my erection established by the sound advisement and firme decree of the gravest wisest and most learned Parliament of the world perfected by the sacred influence and infusion of all the Muses through every member of my bodie life given to mee by my Soveraigne King to witnesse the safetie of his life should not as wel speake at least my Ghost as did the counterfet spirit of Samuel and rather to bee better thought of then it because both my warrant and cause is approovedly good But while I stoode long time in a muse pondering betwixt hope and dispaire what should become of my wandring soule and at length thinking with my selfe to finde out some Pythagorean Philosophers if anie were yet aliue for consulting what bodie should be fittest for my receptacle certaine my loving friends in this time inspired as the sequell shall testifie with some divine instinct convayed me safely to great Brittaines Ocean Sea where Neptune receaving me courteouslie at their hands commaunded Aeolus with his fairest and readiest windes safelie and speedilie to transport me from that dangerous shore I was on to the famous Microcosme of ancient Brittaine the great Conquerour somtime of my ingrate Countrie as to the chiefe harbour of all poore distressed Pilgrimes But while Aeolus was preparing all things necessarie for my safe conduct Neptune willed me brieflie to report the causes of my suddaine flight and departure from my native Countrie which though at first I was in doubt what to doe as fearing that hee might either bewray me to mine enemies when I had told him all or might stop my passage if I told him not at last I resolved vpon all hazards that might follow to satisfie his demaund as farre foorth as the shortnes of the time and perill of the place would permit Then thus I spake vnto him The causes that haue compeld mee O great Neptune thou great God of the Ocean to seeke thy favour in this my miserie are trulie and vpon my alleagiance vnto thee the extreame and more then inhumane persecutions of my bloudie enemies the Iesuites both before and since my lamentable and vndeserved death overthrow procured for no other cause then for truly witnessing to the world but more particularly to true Catholique Hugonets and to all forraine Strangers who might dailie beholde mee in the prime of my tryumphant estate in the most famous Cittie and place of the vniuersall world how this mightie King martial Monarch Henry the fourth that now raigneth was treacherously wounded but yet miraculously preserved of his life frō the Esauitical plot executed by Chattell one of the novices trayned vp in their tragicall Schoole erected latelie for teaching of bloudie precepts for the killing of all such Kings and Princes as being either Romanists or true Christians shall be stumbling blocks to hinder the politick courses of their new established Machiavillian Government Me miserûm vox faucibus haeret I cannot vtter the one halfe I would say such hast I haue to be gone for the feare danger I am in by the furious pursute of my professed enemies who tyrannouslie triumphing in mine overthrow mangled all the members of my bodie as was pittifull to see and yet not so satisfied will not suffer my broken bones no nor my verie Ghost to remaine in rest or safetie within anie part of this ample Kingdom These men or to

anie thing I perceaved betwixt mee and the skie beeing then the dawning of the day before Phoebus had sent abroade his rayes for the clearing of the ayre with vniuersall light the whole companie of the sacred Muses adorned with their ever flourishing greene Lawrel Garlands who holding in their hands sundry severall instruments of musique made the hils valleyes and groues to resound with their heavenly harmonie melodious Songs sweet sonnets and shrill Ecchoes of their learned Poeticall inventions in all languages and all this they did to signifie the exceeding ioy they had lately conceaved of the thrice happie deliverance of that their great friend darling favourer the most wise prudent learned mightie worthie and in all heroicall vertues and valour the most rare and great Apollo whom Mars that sterne God of bloudie battaile evermore envied and hated even to the death for no other cause as can bee coniectured or as I could learne out of their rare Ditties and Sonnets then onelie for that he was entred into a sincere league and sweete societie of the caelestiall Graces the devine Muses and sacred Peace whereto hee was preordayned at the verie houre of his nativitie and thereby and by meanes of the common tranquillitie thereof ensuing had brought and deduced from aboue into this little world from thence derived to all the most famous parts of the great world such manifold and exceeding rich gifts bounteous favours and invaluable benefits blessings as the like had either seldome or not at all beene enioyed in anie former age for which he was as he well deserved vniuersallie admired honoured and blessed over all And therfore the greater indignation boiled in the breast of angrie Mars who ever more grudging at humane felicitie left no meanes or waies vnsought or vnattēpted whereby to bring our great Patron Benefactor and consequentlie this little world to confusion And such was his innated hatred against him even when he was yet in his Mothers bellie knowing by the favourable aspects of Sol Venus that he should proue a most potent prudent wise blessed Prince of Peace beloved both of Gods mē that he this wicked Mars set on his cruell Sergeant the elder Gowrie to haue murdered that most noble Heroine the Queene his mother this blessed fruit of her womb at one stab And being prevented by divine providence of his malignitie in this his abhominable intention after manie other mischievous plots and practises all of them as all other shall ever be made frustrate by the high hand of iust Joue he conspired with that variable Aeolus GOD of the windes who either by faire meanes or sharpe menaces of anie great Power is lightlie wonne to worke the worst mischiefe he can to giue full scope and free licence to his turbulent and vnrulie windes at such time as our bright day-starre Apollo having accomplished the notable solemnitie of those famous nuptialls in the strong Dacian Kingdome the middle Region of Europa with his peerelesse Paragon of all rich perfection the divine Cynthia otherwise then by himselfe immatchable had imbarqued him with his most lovelie beloved above all other sailing from thence through the Ocean towards his ancient Kingdom the lesser Albion lying to the north of Albion maior now both by his Highnes happilie reduced to one Monarchie then was seene the boisterous rage of blustring Boreas and his rude companions domineering with might and maine vncontroled in Neptunes maine dominion but without that great Gods assent or knowledge as somtime by the like permission of their flexible Master Aeolus at the request of angrie Juno they practised the like peremptorie pranks vnwitting to Neptune vpon the vertuous and valorous Prince Aeneas in the Tyrrhene Seas So that colleaguing themselues with that great Sorceresse Circe and a great number of her most impious and detestable impes all practising to drowne and destroy our Apollo and his fairest Cynthia with all their noble traine as after vpon their conviction they freely confessed they sturdilie heaved tossed and tumbled the fearefull billowes hoysing one while his drearie ships vpon the high-raised waues almost to the azure skie and then throwing them downe againe as lowe as the foundations of the earth Yet notwithstanding all their furious tumults and violent commotions Almightie Joue whose name be therefore magnified for ever beholding this outragious tempest and knowing the wicked occasion thereof brought them safe and sound to their own desired continent Country Which when Mars vnderstood he stāped stared foming at the mouth and his eyes sparkling like fire for verie anger that his conspiracie prevailed not he fared like a mad man and vowing still to pursue him with immortall hatred swore by the black river of Stix that his day of Mars wheron he was born should ever proue the most fatall day of all other vnto him And for that purpose he combined himselfe with Pluto that dreadful Prince of Erebus who complotting together brought it so to passe vnder cunning pollicies and faire shewes of great matters that cōcerned his own person state and Kingdome to bring him by the earnest labour of one of his deare favourites to the dishonourable and disloyall house of the other Sergeant of Mars the younger last Gowry the bloudie nephew of a cruel trayterous Grandsire where having locked him vp in a close roome in the hands of their sworne friends his mortal enemies he had no way nor meanes to escape but even miraculously by his own stout manhood or rather Heroick magnamitie the succour of a few of his faithful servants but chiefly againe by the almightie providence of high Joue waiting over him at all times and places for his safeguard hee was also delivered out of that danger Then were Mars Pluto more enraged then ever before gnashing their teeth and cursing and banning the fiends and furies that had no more pollicie or power to accomplish their infernall plot they were almost at a point to haue giuen over anie lōger pursuit of their cōspiracies but that Pluto bethought himselfe of his deare son the red bloudy Dragon who throgh long continual practise for manie ages of all sorts of hellish stratagems horrible massacres blacke murders deceitfull lies and false miracles was growne to bee as much famed and feared in the world as himselfe so as it might be a question disputable in Schooles whether Sathan the roaring and devouring Lyon or his sonne the Pope that red bloudie Dragon was to be held for the greatest and chiefest lier and murtherer Pluto therefore crying out Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta mouebo they began to be recomforted in his deare sonne of their wicked hopes divellish drifts for the acting of their bloudie Tragedie as the last hope of all their mischiefes And so adioyning themselues to this other great enemie of mans welfare who was exceeding proude to haue the mannaging of that action referred to him wherein the Prince of Devils