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A80306	A conference betweene the Pope, the Emperour, and the King of Spaine. Holden in the castle of St. Angelo in Rome, upon the entertainment of some great persons after mentioned, touching the subverting of the Protestant profession in England, and other parts of Christendome. And concerning the present distractions here in England between the King and Parliament.		1642 (1642)	Wing C5727; Thomason E155_10; ESTC R11137	4,890	8

feare to be put downe wherefore I pray you see now if any meanes be left to set me free Pope An uncouth shivering makes my blood to chill and strange amazement doth fill my sinewes I wonder much that they are so skilfull against us thus to apply this Prophesie I also doe admire how they would frame such Anagrams on Swede but though those hopes doe cheare their froward mindes yet let our Emperours thoughts contemne all feare for it is not Fortune turning of her wheele can make our noble resolutions stagger I wonder much those blinde Heretiques cannot remember in their hardned minde how I am on Saint Peters Chaire so plac't that they can neither waste nor ruinate the place which is within my grave protection though for a time they put them to perplexity for I will so trouble them with my band of Jesuits they shall not withstand them doubt not but I will finde a Stratagem to save Romes Caesars and the Diadem of Spaine King of Sp. But holy Father I am certified that they deride your Councell and Policy and how of you they make an Anagram can frame the best and betterest of their wits as thus Supremus Pontifex Romanus ANAGRAMMA O non sum supra Petram fixus Most sacred Pastor of the flock of Christ They say thou art not fixed on the Rocke but I suspect that they are all inclin'd that they doe believe in minde what they say alas for Rome alas for Ferdinando alas for Philip must I be forced to withstand my owne the Emperours and the Churches enemies and so lose both my selfe the Church and Empire all at once Pope And they finde out such strange prodigies to fill the Cathliques with feare and doubt I le make them know that I am fixed firme upon Saint Peter and shall never be cast downe my benediction or my malediction can raise a State or ruine a Nation The Heretiques on Saint Peters doe build their faith and I am upheld as from his person and from him all power is given unto me to binde and loose to shut and open heaven And whilst I keepe the Keyes none shall come in that have beene in those mad rebellious wars Emp. All you can say and all you can devise they value not but despise it utterly the Duke of Saxon is gone from our side and joyned with the King of Sweden and why should we expect for more from him then Charles my Predecessor did before who gave them all and more then I can tell yet shortly after in that great contention twixt him and Luthers Rebels hee forsooke his benefactors and turned against them and by these Civill Warres what is our gaine more then millions of our people have been slaine Dampiere Bucqu●y and valient men whose like we have no hope againe to injoy our subjects with great taxes are compelled our Provinces laid waste our Cities sackt our fruitfull fields untild and unmanured past hope to be recured maids wives and widowes defloured ravished our Lands with spoile and ruine all destroyed fire sword and famine hath these twelve yeares raigned ore mine Empire in every place our friends fall off our treasure is rackt and all we have wel neare consumed and wasted and all the mischiefes that can fall we and our people by warre have endured whilst many thousands that were wont to give doe beg or starve or live miserably and late that most unluckie overthrow my trusty Tilleys losse and deadly stroke Prague and Bohemia Kingdomes all is lost our Townes of Franckford and of Anow won Hall Hervested and Hurst with mighty Mentz out chiefe Elector Bishop fled away my Generall W●lstan and Don Balthazar fled to Polonia from the Swords fury This makes our foes to swell with victory and all is worse then tongue or pen can tell King of Sp No Prince can compare with my losses for I have had more then a double share great damage have I had in Asia in Brasill and in Farnambuck the furious Rebels have caused me to feel with places of importance their civill hatred to our State and Realme by foyling spoyling and ruinating them my India is surprised and taken by them wherein subsisted all the hope of Spaine besides at Belgia I have had misfortune my Towne of Weazell's taken in a trap the Busse a place of great importance lost long time defended with exceeding charge and late that unrecoverable blow in Zealand where our forces all were broke Sloopes Puicks and Lighters 78. perished 6000. men tane prisoners many wounded 4000. hand Granadoes and of Brasse 430. peeces was taken eleven harrells of good money likewise taken and many hundreds of our souldiers slain with store of Ammunition shot and powder all lost in that unlucky expedition all this past the last September for which our foes rejoyce our friends are grieved whilest onely Dunkirke are rude Rennegadoes have made bravadoes against mine enemies they onely have done things of speciall moment taken from Merchants and small fisher boats and now and then a Collier or a Catch of Oysters seldom meeting with their equalls for which rare acts their fame abroad is spread as though they had subdued and won the world when every wise man knowes their Townes and Ships to be but dens of Thieves Have all my Ancestors to sixe discents by conquest wedlocke and such like other Ligaments tyed fast Earldomes Dakedomes Crowne and Empire hoping for Westerne Monarchy at last and is the period of our greatnesse hope and our declining now begin to haste Nassaw Nassaw you hatefull Father and Sonnes cursed be your name and house you first did gather the fearefull Rebels into warlike bonds which now doe State it in the Netherlands there where you writ nil ultra once more and set sterne pillars barres to Spaine Emp. Thus holy Father have you briefly heard the cause of all our anger and our griefe by reason of those dangers now related which so perplext our mindes and hearts by these so many losses and we feare ere long will befall us wherefore if Rome have any sercret wisdome laid up in store for evill times or evill did make wicked Heretiques feele the power of the Church then Father now is the time and houre Remember how Fredericke heretofore frighted thy Predecessors this may hazard thy fortune more utterly suppresse thy selfe the Romane Church and us except by some prime stratagem fetcht from beneath thou mayest thy selfe and friends from danger keep for if these Heretiques be once our masters then farewel Pope and Papall dignity Pope And are our friends so few and false and be our foes so many and so lusty Once Innocent of Rome in former ages hath us'd three Kings for Lackies and dare they now make warres against Caesar without our leave Then our furies wake helpe me to store of Pistols poysoned knives to fire and powder and Manacles bid Raviliack and Clement high them hither let Guido Faux and Garuet all come all those that doe excell in policie are Sonnes of Iskariet and Achitephel FINIS