Pageant featly playd Meane while the Royals and the Peeres they Practise to betray Some in the bloodie Massacre at Paris made away But what offend I Christian Eares with horror of that deede From Sarazens nor Sauages did euer like proceede Let that black Marrage-Feast when were so many Thousands slaine Oâ— Saints at peace with God and men be neuer nam'd againe Let be a Law in euery Land to punish such as speake That ChristiaÌ„s should like Hel-houÌ„ds so with God Nature breake Farre be it that Posterities should heare that Charles the King For such â—oule Murthers bon-fiers bod and caused Bels to ring Yeat tell the Popes Procession and his Iubilee for this For Popes be impudent and bads their blessings neuer mis To haue them Fathers of those Acts no Newes at all it is But more than twise sixe yeares ere this the ciuill Warres begun When on the Lambes of Vassie did the Guizian Butchers run 〈◊〉 when the Edict had giuen Peace vnto the Church reform'd And odious to the Papists seem'd that Peace who therefore storm'd And then the Duke of Guize who earst had figur'd for the Crowne Hence calculating hopes did set his bad Designements downe Alonly quarrelling till then the Princes of the blood Who partly quail'd were yet vnkild and to their tackling stood So with the Papists band 's the Duke himselfe not for Deuotion But aduantagious seem'd that Meane for blood-Drifts Promotion This Faction thus had Heart and Head the Other yet vnborne Till to the Prince of Condie flockt the Hugenotz forlorne And tolde the sauage Butcheries at Vassie newly made By ruthles and seditious Guize on Thousands whilst they prayde Like skathed Sheepe escaped from blood-sucking Dogs they quake Imploring his Protection which he then did vndertake Thus through Necessitie this Part had also Heart and Head Euen after hundreds thousands such good Christians so were dead This knowne to him from euery Part the Persecuted flie So was the Prince of vertuous Troopes possessed by and by CHAP. LVIII NOt Spayne this while that held for France great Signories did sleepe But through the Fingers into It with lusting Eyes did peepe At least by nourishing those Broyles all got She hopes to keepe For It whose Scituation so Spayns scattred Realmes disioynes Her Teeth had watred long and now to weaken France her Loynes Gainst France she France doth streÌ„gtheÌ„ with the Soother of her gold And for that Purchace to the Diuell is fear'd her Soule is sold. Directions also came from Rome that setteth all on fier That by what Right or wrong so ere the Guize should still aspier To send the royall Bloods to Heauen or Hell it skils not how Were Pardons sent for Murthers Buls to clear Alleageance vow That on Damnation none perswade much lesse of Peace allow And not alone gainst France this League was halowed but gainst all That worke the Gospell to erect whereby the Pope might fall Was more than time troe we to goe should not the Church vs call But call did they and come did we and to their labors fall When weare their Townes demolished with Slaughters thear not small This busie Head of that bad League for yet the monstrous Beath Of Sextus Quintus and the Diuell the grand League had not breath This Guize bereft vs Calice and in France our Peeces all Then fell in hand with Scotland thence with vs in hand to fall This in his Neece the Scottish Queene her Claime did all he might To dispossesse Elizabeth our Queene of regall right This on the infant-Person of his naturall King had seazde And prosecuted now in France what Violence him pleasde The Popes sworne Butcher and proud Spayns fore-Runner to prepare Her waies for France England which their Owners cannot spare This with the blood of Innocents made Channels ouer-floe Against this Cham and his Beau-Peeres inuited English goe Els saue that God can all was feard Religion should haue quaild And Spanyards nestling ouer neere had easlier vs assaild For on the Theator of France the Tragedie was ment Of England too Wherefore our Queene her Interruptors sent How Ambrose Earle of VVarwick did in FraÌ„ce high Feates not few How bloodie Claudie Duke of Guize a common Souldier slew How Francis sonne of that Guize did ciuill Broyles renew The persecuting Francis Charles and Henries hence a-dew Which Kings as said to work themselues French Monarchs Atheists playd Or doting ouermuch on Rome their Realme selues betrayd The skarlet Borbone whom the Guize a painted French King made Salcedo fayling Monsiurs Death which did the League conspier The Prince of Orenge murthred through Farnesian Parmas hier Renoumed Condie poysned in his time the Leaguers feare How Pope-sent Saunders gainst our Queene in Ireland Armes did beare For Leaguers then in Pollicie preuented Lettes each-wheare By Armies or Armadas or their scattred Iesuists who Haue had small cause to brag that they with England had to doe The often sworne and for-sworne Peace that hapned in the while Queene-Mother Phillip Pope and Guise the French Kings did begile Queene-Mother for Ambition of imployment King of Spayne To make his Vsurpations sure yea France it selfe to gaine The Pope to keepe his pompe in plight Guise for the regall Ring How all though drifting dâ—ffringly at length to ende did bring The House Valoys of Capets Stocke which Stocke had quite decaide But that it pleaseth God the Crowne in Bâ—rbons House is staide How till the Barricados Feast when Guise vn-vizard was Vnder Religions Cloake the Routes in wasted France did pas And after then both Hugenote and Papist too if frend Vnto Valoys or Burbon sound like Enmitie or end Of Sauoy hoping France his Aydes and â—ll successe in all How Guise and Lorraine in the Pit for Henrâ—e dig'd did fall How Frier Iames Pope-blest and brib'd of Mayâ—e did Henrie kill How vnto Mayne pursewing Broyles it wrought not to his will The Massacres and Stratagems did in these Tumults chance How God in all his Warres did blesse Nauar now King of France And how next God that FraÌ„ce is French our Queene is Author cheef All These thus blanch't we leaue and shall of Belgick be as breefe But be it first remembred how euen for the Parents sinne God plagueth in Posteritie as came to passe I winne In second Henries of the Church reform'd a bloudie Foe Though otherwise a worthie Prince nor tache we him but so And Katherine de Medâ—â—â—s whose Athisme wrought much woe These had sowre Sonnes not one of which did die a naturall death All 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Males none extant on the Earth No maruell euen to Dauids Seede for Dauid sinne hap't such And though the holy Writ containes that Storie yeat to tuch This Purpose let vs heare it here Example vrgeth much CHAP. LIX OF holy Dauid and his House the Man approu'd to be By Gods owne Mouth to Gods owne heart the â—y Troubles see His Soule was euer godly firme though fraile in flesh as Man For who
the other Succeeded but in life and death moretragicke than his brother IN Scotland Fraunce Ireland and VVales he warred wearied lesse Than by the Pope and English Priests wronged without redresse Nor was saue from their Soueraignes death their malice out of date Yeat Iohn faine they hut they felt Iohn did trouble Church and state When for as Gaylers with Conuicts so Popes deale with a faulter Their sin-salue like the setting loose from Shackles to the haulter When Masse and all the Sacraments were Strangers many a day And that so farreforth as it in the triple Myter lay Euen God himselfe was barred hence and that prostrate before His Vassall Bishop Langtons feete the King did grace implore When Peter pence were graunted and the English Crowne to hold By rent and Homage of the Pope and that for sums of gold The French Kings son was cursed hēce who els had wore y e Crowne And that the reconciled King did seeme on surest ground Then he whil'st he in progresse did at Swinshed Abbey lye Was poysned by a Monke that baend himselfe that Iohn might dye The Monke more solemnely inter'd and song for than the King Was cause that diuers diuersly did consture of the thing Some charg'd the Popes of Auarice for that when Rings offend They sell them peace of pride for that to them euen Monarks bend Of meere incharitie for that to wreake their priuate spight Gainst Kingdomes Kingdomes they incense and worser do acquite Euen subiects to allegiance sworne against their Lords to fight Of Treason for that to intrap such as from them discent With othes and al things they dispence Some bid vs thus preuent Their sinnes and sleights doe not as they not deale with them for why Who doth must liue their Vassal or their Victorie must die A merrie mate amongst the rest of cloysterers thus told THis cloystring and fat feeding of Religious is not old Quoth he Not long since was a man that did his deuoire giue To kill the passions of his flesh and did in penance liue And though beloued of the King he liued by his sweat Affirming men that would not worke vnworthy for to eate He told the erring their amisse and taught them to amend He counselled the comfortlesse and all his daies did spend In prayer and in pouertie Amongst his doings well High-waies he mended doing which this Accident befell A dosen Theeues to haue beene hang'd were lead this Hermite by To whom he went exhotting them as Christian-men to dye So penitent they were and he so pitifull good man As to the King for pardon of the Prisoners he ran Which got he gaue it them But this Prouiso did he add That they should euer worke as he They graunt poore soules glad He got them gownes of countrey gray and hoods for raine and cold And hempen girdles which besides themselues might burthens hold Pick axe and Spade and hard to worke the Couent sell together With Roabes Ropes eu'rie toole for eu'rie worke wheather So did they toyle as thereabout no Causie was vnwrought Wherefore new labours for his men the holie Hermite sought But at departure prayed them to fast to watch and pray And liue remote from worldly men and goeth so his way The holy Theeues for now in them had custome wrought contēt Could much of Scripture and indeede did hartely repent But when the countrey folke did heare of these same men deuout Religiously they haunt their Celles and lastly brought about That frō the woods to Buildings braue they wound the Hermits crew Who was from found-out worke returnde and their Aposta knew He going to their stately place did finde in euery dish Fat beefe and brewis and great store of daintie fowle and fish Who seeing their saturitie and practising to winne His Puples thence Excesse he sayd doth worke accesse to sinne Who fareth finest doth but feeed and ouer-feedeth oft Who sleepeth softest doth but sleepe and sometimes ouer soft Who clads him trimmest is but clad the fairest is but faire And all but liue yea if so long yeat not with lesser care Than formes backs boanes bellies that more hōely cherisht are Learne freedome and felicitie Hawkes flying where they list Be kindlier and more sound than Hawkes best tended on the fist Thus preacht he promist abstinence and bids them come away No hast but good well weare they and so wel as they would stay The godly Hermit when all meanes in vaine he did perceiue Departing sayd I found you knaues and knaues I doe you leaue Hence sayd this merrie fellowe if the merriment be trew That Cloystring Friers cloathing and a Couents number grew This heard a simple Northerne-man no friend to Monke or Frier Or preaching Lymmer for his speach disclosed thus his yre AFowle ill on their weazens for the Carles garre syke a dinne That more we member of their iapes than mend vs of our sinne At Ewle we wonten gambole daunce to carrole and to sing To haue gud spiced Sewe and Roste and plum-pies for a King At Fasts-eue pan puffes Gang tide gaites did alie Masses bring At Paske begun our Morrise and ere Penticost our May Tho Roben hood liell Iohn Frier Tucke and Marian deftly play And Lard and Ladie gang till Kirke with Lads and Lasses gay Fra Masse and Eensong sa gud cheere and glee on ery Greene As saue our wakes twixt Eames and Sibbes like gam was neuer seene At Baptis-day with Ale and cakes bout bon-fires neighbors stood At Martelmasse wa turnd a crabbe thilke told of Roben hood Till after long time myrke whē blest were windowes dares lights And pails were fild hathes were swept gainst Fairie-elues sprits Rock plow Mōdaies gams sal gāg with saint-feasts kirk-sights Iis tell yee Clearkes earst racked not of purpoe ne of pall Ylke yeoman fed moe poore tume wambes than Gentiles now in Hall Yea ledge they nere sa hally Writ thilke tide was greater wrang Than heretoforne tho words had sooth na writing now so strāg Iis na Wizard yet I drad it will be warse ere lang Belyue doone lyther Kirk-men reaue the crop and we the tythe And mykell bukish ben they gif they tache our lakines blithe Some egge vs sla the Prince and shewe a Bullocke fra the Pape Whilke gif it guds the sawle Iis sure the cragge gangs till the rape Syke votion gyles the people sa but sylde gud Princes scape Sa teend our King his life and song is Requiem for the Monke Gud King God rest thy sawle but Feēds reaue him bath sawle trōke Such talke was long on foote and still was quittance tale for tale Dunstone quod one made Edgar earst an English Monarke quale For matter of lesse moment euen for wedding of a Nunne Whom in her Cell the King espi'de lou'de wooed and thus wonne THe same quod he that rules this Land the same intreateth thee Thou maist sweet Wench vnto thy selfe deriue a Queene
our pollicie wear small That they should florish nay should liue could we procure their fall Theare be they great alreadie wheare we only great must be Whom should they equall woe to vs when we shall disagree Now that therefore which we cannot with honestie contriue Our Foes shall finish if of them they leaue not one aliue Thus said he not gaine-saide for hang who shall so they may thriue This Maxime hath hild and good wheare they haue ouerthrone By trecherous Agents of the same they haue not trusted one Adde than the Spaniard prouder and more cruell People none Euen Cortes that with cost and payne rich India did subdew And gaue to Spayne his Conquest found false Meede for Seruice trew So they that wonne them Portugale and Naples spead in few And too imperiously doe they oppresse their Conquests new Yeat boast not perpetuitie but Spayne this Patterne vew Caldea priz'd Assiria and Assiria priz'd the same The Medes and Persians both and them the Macedons orecame The Romaines theÌ„ that Empier next had France the Germaines now Which onely Title hardly doe the Spanyards them alowe Spayne hath Nauarre that once had Spayne wheare once crown'd wee their King And once did Spanish-Irish-Scots vs to subiection bring We Scots French Irish too and fro thus often Scepters flye Yea to Posterities old names of Lands and Peoples dye Sicambries Gawles Picts Vandels Gothes Astrogothes known late In Europ by these names haue chang'd those names Europs State And with the Spanyards part of those may alter in like rate Each Birde shall then remaunde her Plumes and naked leaue your Iaye At least when Phillip shall decease and why not eare that daye For power and prowse lacke Turnus Peere yeat when his Fates withstoode Iturna no not Iunos-selfe could doe him any good But Godhoode none in Indian Golde pope-buld hopes shall mis Nor Macedonian Phillips Sonne Castilian Phillip is But one who whil'st he warres for ours hath lost euen part of his Not onely Spayne thinke destinate in Pompe not to impaier Our liued long that breathes enuied not els but odious Ayer And which is monstrously too trew Religion is pretext Where through the Spanyard and the Pope all Christendome haue vext Witnes their Powers by Land and Seas that threatned vs er'while Of it a word and note how God did patronize our Ile CHAP. XLIX THe Spanyards long time Care Coste inuincible surnam'd Was now a flote whilst Parma to froÌ„ Flanders hither aim'd Like Fleete of eightscore Ships od the Ocean neuer bore So huge so strong and so compleate in euery Strength and Store Carikes Gallions Argosies and Galliasses such That seem'd so many Castels and their tops the cloudes to tuch These on the Lizardes shewe themselues threaten Englands fall But theare with Fistie Shippes of ours that Fleete was fought withall Howbeit of a greater sorte our Nauie did consist But parte kept Dyet in the Porte that might of health haue miste Had Spayns Armada of our wants in Plimmouths Hauen wiste The rest had eye on Parma that from Flanders armour threates Meane while Lord Charles our Admiral and Drake did worthy Feats Whose feareles fiftie Moole-hils bod their trypeld Mountaines bace And euen at first so pleas'd it God pursewde as if in chace By this for ouer-idle seemd to English hearts the Shore Our Gallants did imbarke each-wheare and made our Forces more But in such warlike Order then their Shippes at Anker laye That we vnles we them disperse on bootles labor staye Not lacked Pollicie that to that purpose made vs waye Ours fyred diuers Shippes that downe the Currant sent so skaerd That Cables cut and Ankers lost the Spanyards badly faerd Dispersed thus we spare not shot and part of them we sinke And part we boord the rest did flye not fast enough they thinke Well guided little Axes so force tallest Oakes to fall So numbrous Heards of stately Hearts flye Beagles few and smal Nine dayes together cha'ste we them not actious saue in flight About Eight thowsands perished by famine sea and fight For Treasure Shippes and Carrages lost Honor Prisners tayne The Spaniards hardly scaping hence scapt not rebukes in Spaine Well might thus much as much it did cheere England but much more Concurrancie from one to all to stop that common Sore Euen Chatholiques that erred name doth please the Papists waer As forward in this Quarrell as the formost Armes to bear Recusants and Suspects of noote Of others was caer And had not our God-guided Fight on Seas preuailed yet The Spaniards land whereso they could had with our Armies met Our common Courage wisht no lesse so lightly feard we Foes Such hope in God such hate of them such hearts to barâ—er bloes Heere flam'd the Cyclops Forges Mars his Armorie was heere Himselfe he sheads in vs and with our Cause our selues we cheere But which had scarâ—â—fide our wounds if wounded with the Balme Of her sweete Presence so applaus'd as in Sea-stormes a Calme Her royall-selfe Elizabeth our Soueraigne lawfull Queene In magnanimious Maiestie amidst her Troupes was seene Which made vs weepe for ioy nor was her kindnes lesse to vs. Thinke nothing letting then that might the common Cause discus Wheare Prince and People haue in Loue a Sympathie as thus Howbeit Force nor Policie but Gods sole Prouidence Did cleare fore-bosted Conquest and behighted Thraldome hence He in Saneherib his nose did put his hooke and brought Him backe againe the way he came without performing ought He fought for vs Alonely we did shout and Trumpets sound When as the Walles of â—â—rico fell flat vnto the ground Yâ—a least for earst did neuer heere like strong Supplies befall Like loyall hearts in euerie one like warlike mindes in all Lesse spaer of Purses more Fore-sight and valiant Guides to act As shewde our hardie littell Fleet that battell neuer slackt Leaste these I say might haue been sayd the cause that we subdew'de Euen God to Glorifie himselfe our gayned Cause pursew'de Without our losse of Man or Mast or Foe once touching Shore Saue such as wrackt weaâ—e Prisnors or but landing liu'd not more And as in publique Praiers we did his defence implore So being Victors publiquely we yeelded thanks therefore Her Highnes selfe good cause she had in viewe of euerie Eie On humbled Knees did giue him thanks that gaue her Victorie Remaineth what she wonne what Spaine Rome did lose in fame Remaineth Popes vse Potentates but to retriue their Game CHAP. L. IF not with minds preiudicate but holding in suspence A while the Papacie that takes and giues so much Offence With single hearts and Eies and Eares al christian Princes would Peruse the sacred Scriptures as in verie deede they should Then might they iustly censure how in â—owlines or Pryde In Charitie or Crueltie how straite to God or wide In Doctrine and in Discipline Rome hath and now doth guide With still Prouisoes from the Laie the Scriptures light
gadde But better course than either weare secure at home to staye And theare with loyall hearts attend what Subiects should obaye Wheare no tyrannizing is ore the Conscience though it straye And Men of ciuill Carriage though in bodies not imployde Win good Report they shiftles shame that wish their Home distroyde Young English Fooles for cause too trew we pittie you in deede First for ye are our Countriemen then for that ye proceede Gainst Scripture Lawe and Nature and Fooles palpable in that Ye note not how your Follies make our English Foxes fat Allen at Rome Others els-wheare that liue hand-ouer-heade By tasking you to broach those Faultes for which themselues be feade Whilst these lie burrowed safe froÌ„ skath mongst you adoptiue Cubs They doe obserue the pregnanst witte whom Discontentment rubs Of Atheist factious desprate or vaine-glorious him they schoole And then transport to England thear to play the dangerous Foole Seduciugly insisting on performance of their vow That doth Rebellion Regecide and breach of Othes allow Though Dauid knew his Soueraigne Saul disfauored of God And might haue kild and then bin crownd such sin his soule for-bod Which of the Paâ—riarks Prophets or Gods People whilst they saru'd Euen Ethnicks traytrously vnto their owne Affections caru'd But thus do ye nay worser for your Darnell giddeth so As Gods Annoynted and Belou'd ye censure for his Foe But woorst of all by murthring her to merite Heauen ye troe Put case the diulish Act were done to scape yeat lacks your Charter And dead with TormeÌ„ts not the pain but cause doth make the Marter Say that the Pope lacks Malice Say your selues doe loue the State Too grosly yeat your Doctrine faults in things of greatest wate Which your Absurdities do our Diuines confute I wot Ye say his Popeship cannot erre We proue ye erre in Not. Nor in the Sacrament that Christ is really we hold Your Transubstantiation we iustly haue controld Yours for the Liuing and Deceast Propitiatorie Masses And Purgatorie should we graunt ye might conclude vs Asses Your Worshipping of Images and Inuocating Saints And Supererogation vs with your Defects acquaints Besides the Supper of our Lord and Baptisme we reiect Moe Sacraments Howbeit ye Fiue other doe erect As Confirmation Penance with Priest-Order Marrage too And extreame Vnction Ouer more too much applause ye doe Works Meritorious Of the Cup the Laye ye do bereaue And of translated Scriptures so vnspied to deceaue Dâ—â—ges Vowes Indulgences Confession in the eare Dissoluing Subiects from the Faith they should their Princes beare Dispensing with the Scriptures for Reuenge to please or gaine Your Pardons Pilgrimages and your halowed Paltries vaine Pope and what-so is Papistrie well may we call profaine Ambitious Rome that for thy Pompe not sparest Soules to baine Once weart thou truly Catholique corrupted fouly now Not outed quite the Church A Sparke in her we thee allow And wish thou weart as then thou weart when as the Fathers good As touching Anti-christ and whence in both mis-vnderstood No Maruell euen to Daniels-selfe in Mysterie it was And dye did those good Fathers ere that Scripture came to pas But now who-so can Anti-christ but etymologize And knowes the Pope and Rome the Place and Man of sinne descries Sheep-clothed Wolues Christs Pro-contra the Popes haue bin be No place but Rome for Anti-christ none but the Pope is he CHAP. LII BVt humaine Purenes none is such but it to errâ— is knowne Thinke not we labour here your Faults and oâ—uer-leape our Owne For in the best of men the Flesh and Spirit combat still One thing the Spirit and the Flesh the contrarie doth will We Vertue praise but practise Vice possessed weale we flye And tract off woe At Heauen we ayme but with a worldly Eye Our selues we loue yeat than our selues we haue no crosser Foe For peace we warre a peruerse warre that doth our selues ore-throe At once we burne and are key-cold We seeme to stand that fall To heale that hutt We brag of bad We dye ere death doth call We triumph while we are subdude We blisse our proper baine We gladly doe subiect our selues vnto each giddie Vaine Our gadding Thoughts conceite the Cloudes our selues meane while for got Our Nay is Yea our Yea is Nay we will and then will not Our Soules like this our Flesh lusts that As Proteus changeth so Doe our Affections and our Thoughts be shifting too and fro Euen Hydra-like we flesh our Faults our Mindes doe wauer still Our selfe-Conceits be winged and we flie from good to ill Our Peace with Discorde breedes our woe the Contrarie our Ease We neuer doe but plague our selues whilste that our selues we please We would be we as if not we Vs Plentie maketh poore We partiall blame inable and disable vs eremore All these and wilfull Sinnes besides to vs with you and all Too common we confesse But of our Doctrine speake we shall Propitious be to vs O God that Faith haue practise too Which we omit as Publicanes as Pharisies ye doe Our Doctrine though is Gospell yours Traditions but of Men Enough of Yours Examine Ours by Touch of Scripture then VPon the onely Scriptures doth our Church Foundation lay Let Patriarchs Prophets Gospell and th'Apostles for vs say For Soule and Body we affirme are all sufficient thay Yeat ye adde Canons part corrupt some Bookes ye quite denaye We by the Hebrew and the Greeke their primer Pennes expounde Each Scripture by the eldest Clarks wheÌ„ doubtful Textes be found Not by the Latin onely as ye would that all weare bounde So farforth yeat the Fathers and the Councels we approue As doe their Expositions tende to sincere Faith and Loue. Els fully Scriptures in themselues explaine themselues say we Iâ— searched with that humble Spirit by which they written be Through which is ofte from literall speech a spirituall sense set free Vpon which sense the Catholique Church did doth and must agree Nor doth our Church admit at least allow of those in her That teach not Faith sincerely winne to Heauen from Hell deter That with new Glozes tainte the Text or such as be vnreade In that sweete Promise of the Seede should broose the Serpents head The Alpha and Omega of all Scriptures and whereby Of grace through faith in Christ our Soules reuiue and Sin doth die Our Church affects how so effects such pure Theologie And Guides and to our Naturall Prince graunts sole Supremacie Gods Cou'nant with the Patriarchs and extending to the Seede Vs Gentiles to coequall is a Primate in our Creede And Christ we know the ende of it In Circumcisions place Is Baptisme And intirely we the Tables Two imbrace Which God himselfe in Synai wrote and gaue to Moses then To publish to the people Two Commandements in Ten Scriptures Idea couched in our Loue to God and men Th'Apostles Athanasian Nice and Bizain Creeds we hold Autentick by the holy Spirit in sacred Writ inrowld One Godhead of three Persons in
eschew All Practises and Policies for thence her Sorrowes grew True Romish Scottish and true French tell all my Friends I die When Meluin vnto whom she spake did weeping thus replie The wofulst Message Madame this that euer me befell When of my Queene and Mistresse Death I shal the Tidings tel She kissing him sayes pray for me and bids him so farewell Then of a debt was due from her she did the payment craue And that her Seruants might enioy those Legacies she gaue And to attend her at her death some of her Owne to haue All which the Earles commissoned did yeeld vnto and so She to the black-clad Scaffold there to take her death did go Now Mary Stewards Troubles shall haue ending once or twise She sayd and not to mone for her did giue to Hers aduise And whilst the Writ in reading was no more regarded it Than if it had secured or concerned her no whit Beades at her Girdle hung at end of them a Medall and An Agnus-Dei bout her necke a crost-Christ in her hand They prayed her to set a-part those popish Toyes and pray In saith to Christ in only whom her whole Saluation lay And offring then to pray with her that Offer she withstood Alleaging that our Prayers can doe Catholiques no good So doth the Popes false Calendar of Saints of Sense bereaue Our Traytors who dye Papists that therein it them receaue Was neuer yet Religion heard so pestilent as this Their murdring vs for Lawfull of their Creed a portion is So had they schooled her and that her bloodie Mischiefs past Were meritorious which the Pope would honor so at last That euen then the Gospels Light illuminate her heart Was prayd of Ours whilst she with hers prayd as pleasde her a-part Then to her wofull Seruants did she passe a kind a-dew And kissing oft her Crucifix vnto the Block her drew And fearles as if glad to dye did dye to Papisme trew Which and her other Errors who in all did euer erre Vnto the Iudge of Mercie and of Iustice we referre If euer such Conspirator of it impenitent If euer Soule Pope-schooled so that Sea to Heauen sent If euer one ill-liu'd did dye a Papist God-wards bent Then happie she But so or not it happie is for vs That of so dangerous a Foe we are deliuer'd thus The brauely mannag'd Iorney of the Countie Sussex who Did merit praise beyond my Penne Sir VVilliam Druries too Made into Scotland added to Lord Grets sayd-Prowesse theare Did lesser rid our Queene and Realme their Realme King of feare Than Maries end Who of her selfe all Treasons did prefer Gainst either State our forraine Foes deriu'd Pretexts from her But thus Elizabeth hath salu'd Ours and Scotch Troubles Now Ensues we shew her Aids to FraÌ„ce who wrought their Broiles how CHAP. LVII IT by a Polititian a Germaine to whose lore Haue Machiuilian French-Euents since sorted euer-more Before Queene-Mother Charles the King and others priuate was Aduisde a Monarch absolute in France to bring to pas Aristocratick Gouernment nor Democratick pleasde But where to one Mans Emperie is Monarchia seasde He told his Ttauels and in States his Obseruations how Besides the only Turke he none a Monarch did allow Who suffreth none by Might by Wealth or Blood to ouer-top Himselfe giues all Preferments and whom listeth him doth lop His Bands of Ianizaries who are form'd and nourisht still From Childhood his owne Creatures hold all at his owne will He out of these his Captaines and his Bassies doth elect They to deserue their Founders trust his only Weale affect The rather for their Dignities and all that All possesse Determine at his will behooues therefore not to transgresse Saue his Religion none is vsde vnlesse in Conquests late And that of Policie thereby to adde vnto his State Nor euen there permits he of Religion to debate Nor walled Townes nor Forttesses his Empier doth digest Except vpon the Fro 〈…〉 ires for securing of the rest His Subiects thus Theirs and the whole at his Deuotion needs No Imposts Taxes or the like whence Tumult often breeds Discourst of his Experience thus he then descends to it Whereby of Monarchia might himselfe the French King fit Whereas quoth he French Policie consists of Three Estates The Princes Nobles Commons and each one of th' other wates For hearts and helpes and oft the King is bridled of those Three Himselfe therefore such Lets remou'd sole Monarch thus might bee Of ancient Peeres of valiant Men great Lords and Wisemen all By forced Warre or fraudfull peace to temporize the fall Whereto Religions quarrell then presented meane not small Meane while vntill of them by turnes weare Riddance did behoue To worke them Mal-contents the King to labor vulgar Loue. Immediatly euen from himselfe No whit at their Request To passe Preferments not to them but els as likes him best And but of Peeces ruâ—ous the Great-Ones to possesse And when his Creatures shall grow to more those Great to lesse To quarrell then those Nobles when in them great hearts would lurk That for the Souldier or the sword of Iustice should make work So to prouide that of the States be no Conuention nam'd Religion not disputed of Strong Townes which oft haue tam'd The French Kings be dismantled And when things as thus be fram'd His Maiestie quoth he shall hit the Marke whereat is aim'd WHen this worse than thus this worse than Machiuel had said With that Conuenticles Applause so working was not staid For hence if Accidents we shall obserue may be collected The ciuill Warres and Butcheries in France to haue effected Religion gaue the colour whear though infinite were slaine The Church reform'd did not resist yeat still by losse did gaine For blood of Martyrs well is sayd to be the Churches Seede Where Massacres haue plashed there is spread a triple Breede In Sense it seem'd a sillie Spring should Europe ouer-floe Whence Luther his occasion tooke against the Gospels Foe As Scotlands foresaid Guizian Broyles euen France her Tumults so From other then Religions cause did at beginning groe So 〈…〉 ph sold and Christ betrayd was meeter than was ment Of Ben-Iamests or by the false Iscarots foule Intent But howsoeuer ill haps well Woe stayes whence ill is sent French second Henries Fauorites the Constable and Guize The one of them ambitiously the others Hight enuies Each growing crosse and crossing it to Factions grew at length Poore Hugeâ—â—tz vndoubted then nor dreamed they of strength Alone in Henries Francis and ninth Charles their Raignes of them French Papists as our Maries did to Martyrdome condemne But by such Law as Wolues doe Lambes those Innocents for most Were slaughtered whole Townes sometimes with these in theÌ„ they rost And like now threatned Guize against the Saints in euery Cost The Guizians so that Faction shall in this Report be sayd Through Nonage of the Pope-taught King grew Mighty obayd Queene-Mother Mischief-Mistres in their