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A06678	An ansvver to the vntruthes, published and printed in Spaine, in glorie of their supposed victorie atchieued against our English Navie, and the Right Honorable Charles Lord Howard, Lord high Admiral of England, &c. Sir Francis Drake, and the rest of the nobles and gentlemen, captaines, and soldiers of our said navie. First written and published in Spanish by a Spanish gentleman; who came hither out of the Lowe Countries from the service of the prince of Parma, with his wife and familie, since the overthrowe of the Spanish Armada, forsaking both his countrie and Romish religion; as by this treatise (against the barbarous impietie of the Spaniards; and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Majestie) may appeere. Faithfully translated by I.L.; Respuesta y desengano contra las falsedades publicadas en España enbituperio de la armada Inglesa. English	D. F. R. de M.; Lea, James, fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 17132; ESTC S109021	42,817	64

he died we would saie that the howre were come wherein the Lord almighty had called him unto himselfe but finally he is both free and alive and as loyall a vassall to hir Majestie as ever Farther your Honor saith that the Queene commanded that there should be no talke of hir Navie giving thereby to understand that it was in regard of the great dammage hir said Navie had received She commanded no such matter but had she so commanded it had bin a thing both holie and iust for as she is an enimie to all vaine-glorie even so the spoiles of hir victorie and triumph she offered it all to God from whom it came And if for not receiving these letters so plentie as at other times you gathered that it was ordained by hir Majestie that they should not write you gathered amisse for the cause was no other but that for the generall repairing of all people to give thanks to God at the Churches from whom all their good proceeded they became unmindful of all worldly affaires Great ods between this celebration of victorie and that which was used in Spaine where in steed of singing Psalmes and praises unto God they made fire and sports and blinde men in open places pirkt up upon fishmongers stals soong songs making the people beleeve that they were victors the contrarie where of is true Your letter relates farther that hir Majestie had 30000. men betweene Dover and Margate rawe soldiers heer to I answere that this ballance runneth too fast for that hir Majesties campe was hard by Tylberrie in the province of Essex a far different place from Dover Margate And that hir Majestie was with them it was so and marke your Honor what I saie that the sight of Iulius Caesar in his hoast wrought not so great effect as did the sight of hir Majestie amongst hirs for she being a valiant Mars and shewing hir selfe a most expert warrior clad hir soldiers with the webs and fels of Hercules where there was not any that esteemed himselfe in lesse than a Hanniball or a Cevola whereunto they were invited by the sight of a tender woman being the first that put hirselfe to such a travell for Christendome the peace of hir countrie and for the quietnes of hir subiects And who so had seene hir Majestie I say not that he should have seene an angrie Mars a Iulius Caesar or Charlemaine for all this is winde in comparison of hir But he should have seene a Debora a Hester a Ruth and a Iudith and finally he should have seene a Valour second to none You said farther in your letter that hir Majestie went to and from the Campe bicause the Catholikes had made a mutinie Your Honor knowes that it is an old Proverbe that when you see your neighbours beard a shaving prepare yours to the washing basen And in this countrie they remember what the Gospell saith Everie kingdome divided against it selfe shall be desolate And the experience heereof they finde in their neighbors the french men that for not having peace amongst themselves their poore kingdome is destroyed Concerning this matter I have heard it questioned in this countrie by some persons of no base calling who say plainly that while your Honor was heer they never had any perfect quietnes amongst them and since your departure they have had no broyles nor strife and it may be that the going of matters in such sort in the kingdome of Fraunce so troubled and kindled as they are that it is by reason your Honor is there and that your absence might quench so great a fire You saie farther in your letter that there was none other ship brought hither but that of Don Pedro de Valdes Heerin is the publishing of victorie gainsaid and losse evident the which ship had your Armada bin victors they had not permitted to be brought hither neither was Don Pedro de Valdes so ill a soldier nor for so little as to suffer himselfe to be taken by a people alreadie overcome and running awaie neither the soldiers which he had with him which were fower hundreth at least of lesse valor then the rest of those of the Armada they were rather everie man to conquere a kingdome and to give a thousand victories But the thrise noble Lord high Admirall not flieng but assaulting and he the captive or slaine Drake his fetters broken and risen from death fettered the conquerers and bereaved their life who lived a little before In conclusion there were no more ships brought into England but that of Don Pedro as for the rest for a better demonstration of the truth they were contented that their friends and neighbors should participate with them and so they left a Galleasse at Callis wherein amongst others was slaine Don Hugo de Moncada and Don Georje Manrique being Veedor Generall escaped to carrie the true relation thereof unto Spaine And the Saint Matthew and S. Philip being two most strong Gallions were carried to Flushing out of one of the which escaped Don Francisco de Toledo with sixe and thirtie soldiers which were the remainder of fower or five hundreth which he had with him and in the other was taken Don Diego Pimentel with all his men save those that were slaine and many other ships by divine providence by force of wind and sea were destroied upon the coast of Ireland If I have bin large in answering your Honor the occasion excuseth me and the matter which is wider then the sea makes me thinke to be woorthy reprehension for being so short Yet notwithstanding time which gave an end to these my wearisome reasonings seemed to call upon me to passe on farther And having cast about I fell into consideration with my selfe what occasion I might have to enlarge farther sith though briefely I had answered to the letter and I perceived that the lawe of love and Christianitie in the Lord did binde me to admonish you like a true neighbor The lawe of love in Christ saith Love your enimies And this said Christ after that he had said Yee have heard that it hath bin said thou shalt love thy friend and hate thy enimie and he passeth on saieng and do good to them that hate you There is another lawe which saith Yee shall not render ill for ill but good for evill These and such other sacred words do binde me to love your Honor but not your condition proceedings for if I should have respect thereunto I should followe the lawe of old Thou shalt love thy friend and hate thy enimie and I should be more bound to hate then love you But for that the Gospel commandeth me To do good to those that hurt me and to render good for evill and to love my enimies I will do both the one and the other so that I will both love and do you good I meane not to do you good by bestowing treasures upon you bicause I have them not but I wil give you of

got it against reason justice and the will of God But that thou camest with thy mightie Armada by the ordinance of God and government of the holie Ghost and therefore thou camest to destroy and kill and that thou shouldst have enjoied that which thou hadst gotten If of so vaine a presumption thou couldst alleage anie place of the sacred Scripture in thy defence then neither would I call thy presumption vaine nor gainsaie thee But I gainsay thee bicause thou hast no reason I cal it vain bicause they are smokes of thy vainglories like those of them of whom Moyses speaketh that woulde builde a tower whose top should reach unto heaven who in rewarde of their pride were punished and destroied When the Lords people went foorth of Egypt remaining in the wildernes amongst other things that the Lord spak unto Moyses their guide and captaine generall this was one as appeereth That they should not encline to the Gods of the Gentils but that they should destroy and breake their altars And afterwards the Lord saith unto Moyses Take heede to thy selfe that thou make no compact with the inhabitants of the land whether thou goest least they be the cause of ruine amongst you But you shall overthrowe their altars and breake their images in peeces and cut downe their groaves God commanded Ioshua to destroy the citie of Iericho even to the overthrowing of the wals All the inhabitants of Ai were destroied and the citie laid waste God commanded Gideon to destroy the altar of Baal and he did it So then these and others which I might alleage If they conquered kingdomes slew the people and raced cities unto the grounde it was by the commandement of God For such kingdomes people and provinces lived prejudiciall to the honor of God But who commanded thee ô Spaine to come to make war upon Englishmen If it were by the commandement of God and for their idolatrie give us testimonie and shew us the place where God spake and shew us thy Moyses thy Ioshua or thy Gideon and if it were by ill counsellers punish them and repent thee of that which is done and amend from hence foorth I would gladly know which of these two causes stirred up this war whether the commandement of God or ill counsell To the first I saie if thou saiest it was by the cōmandement of God that thou errest in so saieng sith heaven earth shall faile but the word of God shall never faile and so had his divine Majestie commanded thee to come he had given thee victorie he gave it thee not then he was not pleased with thy comming He promised the land of promise to the children of Israel and though the countrie was strong and the defenders strong and many and they weake and weary yet he gave it them and to thee would he have given this Iland had he promised it thee Besides this thy comming could not be acceptable to God neither was it with his consent For God now is not a blouddy God but a God of love he punisheth not nowe in a strong arme as he was woont under that hard lawe but with a hand of compassion and thy comming was throwing lightnings thunders and thunder bolts and saieng let them die let them die let not a man remaine alive a matter most abhominable to God ergo without his consent That God commanded the captaines of his people to destroy the gods altars wals and groves of their enimies and to put them to the sword the cause was as I saide a little before bicause God was offended and dishonored by them But we according to the povertie of our strength blesse give God thanks and the honor that is his we give it not to creatures Then it is likely he would not command us to be destroied by thy wrathfull hand When his people of Israell committed idolatrie he put them into his enimies hands and when they acknowledged their sin he delivered them But God delivered not his people of England into the hands of the Spanyards then God cōmanded them not to com against England neither is this kingdome an enimie to God The Gentiles had many gods but Englishmen onely one God Father Sonne and holie Ghose three persons and one onlie true God omnipotent and creator of the universall And in such sort we beleeve in this God that we confound not the persons for one person is of the Father another of the Sonne another of the holie Ghost and so we beleeve three persons that yet we make not three Gods but one God as the scripture doth teach us where he saith Heare ô Israel the Lord our God is Lord onely He nameth God three times bicause he consisteth of three persons and bicause these three persons are one God and not three gods he saith is Lord onely and for that of this blessed Trinitie the second person was incarnate and clothed himselfe with our humanitie for our salvation therefore he saith in the second place our God If then we have one God whose pursons we confound not and whose substance we separate not and say that this God cloathed himselfe with our miseries for our salvation and reconciled us with the everlasting father whom according to our small power we worship and serve and obeie him according to his lawes and not after the lawes of men Then we have not manie gods with the Gentiles neither are we idolators why God should send you to make war upon us and hence I conclude that seeing God sent you not that it is the second cause that mooved you Which is ill counsellers who mooved by some secret hatred deceiving their king and destroie his kingdome The destroiers of kings and kingdomes are ill counsellers Three hundred yeeres the Romanes made wars upon thee yet never werst thou overcome of them but alwaies victor till such time as ill counsellers deceived thee sowing in thee hatred and division The ill counsels of the false prophets destroied Iezabel Achab and others And so thee ô Spaine have thy il counsellers and false prophets washed and destroied One of the chiefest causes why thou hast obtained so many victories against Turkes Moores the French and other nations hath bin bicause of thy good counsellers the conservation of the prince and people depends upon good counsell And so many honorable personages have exalted manie for their good counsell and utterly rejected il counsellers and flatterers Octavius Augustus gave the dignity of Consulship to the philosopher Frontonius with sundry other dignities for giving good counsel Marcus Antonius caused a Statua to be erected which might remaine for a memorie for the celebration of his name for the excellencie of his learning and good counsels as recordeth Iulius Capitolinus The Emperor Domitian made Scillus oftentimes Consul for his good counsell as may be gathered by certaine verses of Martial Trajan caried with him in his chariot triumphall Dion Prusio as affirmeth Suidas for his good

feare at all no force nor Spanish mightie arme But with boldnes valor and force that is seldome seene regarding them in nought to foe they set their breast And with fewer men and ships to sea themselves commit determind all to die before they flie a foote And like to Tygres fierce and Lions fraught with ire they presse unto the fight armed with armor brave And this determination perceived by the foe they flie like little conie before the cruel graiehound And better for to flie they hoise sailes and cut cables and of their treasure rich yeeld part unto the sea They flie without all order like soldiers yoong and rawe some heere some there as best may serve their turne And the nobles of England do follow at their heeles chasing and charging glorie and honor they gaine Winning from them their ships and captiving their men returning with great victorie unto their English Ile Whereas they land with joie their banners brave advanst and with heavenly musicke their trumpets sound aloud Crieng with voice most shrill long live our royall Queene live live and God preserve hir from all forraine foes That all hir subjects true may long hir grace enjoie and that almightie God augment hir lands and state Then all the spoile which in the war they gained have they offer it unto the Lord their triumph and their joie And in the church they yeeld him thanks as is their due for so great grace on them bestowed so free Sundrie songs they sing to him and Davids Psalmes in verse which lives for ever and ever and raignes without all end FINIS The translator to the same effect VVHen from the Hesperian bounds with warlike bands the vowed fo-men of this happie Ile with martiall men drawne foorth from many lands gan set their saile on whom the winds did smile the rumors ran of conquest war and spoile and haplesse sacke of this renowmed soile From foorth his chanels glide the Ocean gasd To see the furrowing keeles beate on his breast And Thetis wept hir tides as one amasde To see hir watrie bosome overprest The spreading pendents and the flags from far With braieng trumps so threaten balefull war Dictimne wakened by their bitter threats Armd with hir tooles and weapons of defence Shaking hir launce for inward passion sweates Driving the thought of woonted peace from hence And gliding through the circute of the aire Vnto Elisas pallace did repaire As when the flames amidst the fields of corne With hidious noise awakes the sleepie swaine So do hir threatnings seldome heard beforne Reviue the warlike courtiers harts againe So foorth they presse since Pallas was their guide And boldly saile upon the Ocean glide The Admirall with Lion on his creast Like to Alcides on the strond of Troy Armd at assaie to battell is addreast The sea that sawe his frownes waxt calme and coy As when that Neptune with three forkedmase For Trojans sake did keepe the winds in chase De-Vere whose fame and loyaltie hath pearst The Tuscan clime and through the Belgike lands By winged Fame for valor is rehearst Like warlike Mars upon the hatches stands His tusked Bore gan fome for inwarde ire While Pallas fild his breast with warlike fire Percy whose fame the northren Albane kings With bleeding creast report and publish foorth Prest then in place him Pallas armor brings And bids him boldly to avowe his woorth Laieng hir lip upon his Ivorie browe Enjoining Fate his fortunes to allow A-downe his shoulders hang his ambar locks Like Phoebus golden tresses feately spread Manly he stands to bide the Spaniards shocks Awarlike helmet fixt upon his head May Aesculapius with his cunning charmes Preserve the toward Lord from future harmes Next him the matchlesse Clifford shakes his sword Like to Alcides faire Alcmenas sonne His lookes are sterne his locks do feare affoord Within his breast doth manly courage woone Vpon his crest the dragon list to frowne Empald and compast with a golden crowne On sodaine gan haught Howard presse in place His argent lion couched at his feete Oft lookt he backe and from his honored face The trickling teares dropt downe so ambar sweete That faire Elisa viewing of his will Avowd my Howard will be faithfull still Seymor the chiefetaine next supplied his roume A wreath of Baie his temples did adorne His arme to war Minerva first did dombe His pen by proofe brought forraine stiles in scorne Phoebus so shine upon his courage now As each his skill and poems do allow What neede I write of Brooke or Gorges praise Of Hattons will of Dudleys skill in armes Of Gerards hope of Cicils haught assaies Of Darcies power of Harvies hot alarmes Of Rawleighs art of Caries skill in lance Of haught Horatios stately checke of chance From foorth the Oxens tract to courtly state I see the treasure of all Science come Whose pen of yore the Muses stile did mate Whose sword is now unsheathd to follow drumbe Parnassus knowes my Poet by his looke Charles Blunt the pride of war and friend of booke Moorne not thou matchlesse parragon of war In these descriptions to be placed last Thy glories take their essence from a far Haught Drake himselfe the brunt of war hath past Ynough to arme these nobles to the deed Whilst matchlesse thou command advise and lead Helpe Muses now with fruitefull lines to note This warlike worke the fleets are both in sight The canons rore makes ring the trembling flote The armies ioine and grapple to the fight As he that sees the windes with bitter blast The stately towers in winter time to taste Nought sounds or ecchoeth in the woondring aire But noise of death and dreadfull drirement As when the sons of Cham sought heavens repaire Ech neighboring regions heares of languishment Thus opened Pandoras boxe of scath That fild the seas with bloud with spoiles and wrath At last the heavens gan cleare the foes gan flie Iehovahs hand assisted Englands right Our thankefull peeres lift up their hands on hie Avowing still in countries cause to fight Blessing our God that on his people spreads His grace and heapes his ire on envious heads And home returnd the dastard Spaniards gon They humbly bend at faire Elisas feete Whose praiers meane while had piersd the heavenly throne Ech one with dutie do their Princes meete Whiles midst their joie true peace gan soone returne Intending with Zabetha to sojorne Long maist thou rest sweete Nymph within hir bowre Whilest forraine countries woonder at hir wit That swaies hir Scepter with a matchlesse power Sweete muse now cease though scarsely wakened yet That when hir fame by vertues conquest shines Thou maist eternize hir within thy lines FINIS Esdras 4. Psal 119. * The word Drago which signifieth a Dragō made the Author thus to run upon Draque whom the Spaniards doo not let to call also Drago Luke 11. * Save such as he left kindled before his going Matth. 5. Matth. 5. Aristotle Hierom. Mar. Tu. Pericles Plutarch Aul. Gel. Bruson Publius Rutilius Ho ho master lier not too fast I pray you for 40. is much at one clap for them to take which stil ran away Iam. 4. Exod. 14. Judith 16. No lie Prov. 27. * Heerin they shew their pretence if they had had their will Psal 5. 1. Cor. 6. Psal 34. Matth. 12. Gen. 39. Num. 16. 2. King 15. 4. King 18. Mundanorum mundo gratiarum actio A thanksgiving of worldlings to the world a The virgin in hir song calling God hir Savior confesseth to be a sinner b There passed no such thing in England it was at sea c False witnes is no proofe d An error to call on anie saving Christ of whom Saint Paul saith we have an advocate with the father Christ Iesus e Bicause they came not in the service of God but to distroy his Church f The Armie was not vnder the government of Sir Francis Drake but under the Lord high Admirall a To flie b Assaulting the Spanish c They of the Galliasse threw themselves into the sea without boats to escape ashoare d There are no Dukes in England Luc. 3. 3. King 12. 4. King 10. Gen. 11. Exod. 23. Exod. 34. Ioshua 6. Ioshua 8. Deut. 6. 2. Kings 20. Iud. 16. Num. 33. Psal 141. * My author is a Spanyard and therfore whatsoever you thinke or know to the contrary yet you must beare with his parenthesis in this point Mat. 2. 4. King * I thinke he meaneth the posie of the gatter * The Ladie of the sea * The goddesse of war * Vnder the name of Elisa is ment our gratious Queene Elizabeth L. Admirall Earle of Oxford Earle of Northumberland * God of Physicke Earle of Cumberlād * Hercules the sonne of Iupiter and Alcmena L. Thomas L. Honrie M. Henrie Brooke M. Gorge Sir William Hatton L. Dudley M. Gerard. Sir Thomas Cicill M. William Cicill M. Darcie M. R. Harvie Sir Walter Rawleigh M. Robart Carie. * Oxford Sir Charles Blunt Sir Francis Drake * Goddesse of discorde * Peace