would we garlands of Laurell greene To welcome them more for the common good Than for affection priuate that we beare Loue To meet them comming wil not be amisse But what know we how they will take such work Con. Report may be much more than there is cause We may them méete and gréet with ioyfull heartes And make them garlands when we know their mindes Enter the three Lords with the Spanish Shieldes and Diligence Ne. And here they come with new ymprezed shields My Lords wel met and welcome from your foes Lucre Lord pomp wel met and welcome home againe Loue Lord pollicy wel met and welcome home againe Con. Lord pleasure welcome with vnfained heart ple. Faire ioy and Lady xx. thousand thankes pol. Faire Loue and Lady twise as many thankes· Pom. Faire and beloued Lucre though I speake last As kindly I thy welcome do accept As heart can thinke pen write or tongue can tell Ne. Now speak my Lords how haue ye sped pol. Right wel thanks vnto him that gaue the day to vs The pride of Spaine was cloak'd with Maiestie And Shame his page nicknamed Modestie Spanish Ambition Honor would be cal'd And Treacherie his page term'd Action Their Tyranny was cleped Gouernment Terror his page was falsly nam'd Regard But God aboue hath giuen them their reward They with dishonor left their shields behind The onely prises purchast by vs now And those faire Ladies we present to you Loue this is thine and he that giues it thee Ne. In lieu whereof your gift and her I giue Againe to you that merite more than both pol. The greatest gift and good could me befall pom. Fair lucre loe my present and my self Lucre Which I with Nemos license gladly take Ne. Take her Lord pomp I giue her vnto thee Wishing your good may ten times doubled be pom. the wished good this world could giue to me ple. Of dutie I my deere must giue thee this that art my comfort and my earthly blisse Ne. Now Lords I hope you are contented all pomp with his Lucre pollicie with Loue pleasure with Conscience ioy fall you from aboue And thus to you my promise is perfourm'd And I expect that yours aswell be kept That present preparation may be made to honour those with holy mariage rites that I in presence of the world may giue these as my daughters vnto you my sonnes Pol. By my consent one day shal serue vs all Which shall be kept for euer festiuall pom. And on that day in honor of these Dames these shields in triumph shall be borne about Plea with pageants plates and what delights may be to entertaine the time and companie Ne. So it please you Lordings me thinks it were méet that the Ladies tooke care to prouide their owne toies My selfe néede to helpe them who know their mindes well For I can kéepe women both quiet and constant pol. It pleaseth vs well that you wil take the paines Faire ones for a while we betake you to your busines Pom. Ladies adue the Lords bring thē to the doore they go out Ne ple. Beloued farewel Fra. giues Pol. a paper which he reads then saies pol. It seemes by this writing sir you would serue me Is your name Skil whom did you serue last Frau. An ill maister my Lord I serued none but my selfe pol. Haue ye neuer serued any heretofore Fra. Yes diuers my Lord both beyond sea and here with your patience my good Lord not offending the same I thinke I am your poore kinsman your Lordship pollicy and I Skil if it like ye pol. You say verie well and it is verie like I will answere yee anon Diss. giues Plea a paper which he reades and saies ple. Is your name faire semblance that wish to serue me Dis. Please it your Lordship fair semblance I am wel séen though I say it in sundry languages méet for your Lordship or any noble seruice to teach diuers tongues and other rare things Plea I like ye verie well stay a while for your answere Enter Vsurie and giues a paper to Pompe which he reades and saith pom. Maister Vsury I thanke ye that ye offer me your seruice it séemes to be for your old maistresse sake Lady lucre stay but a while I will answere you with reason The three Lords go together and whisper and call Diligence Diligence goes out for a marking yron and returnes Frau. How now my hearts think ye we shal spéed pol. Diligence Come hether Vsu. I cannot tell what you shal but I am sure I shal Dis. I am as like as anie of ye both Vsu. Fraud Dis. Whist man he 's Skil Vsu. Skil Why doest thou séeke to serue Lady Loue What profite wil that he Fra. Cut hold thée content I le serue but a while and serue mine owne turne and away pom. Maister Vsury come hether you desire to serue me you haue done Lady Lucre good seruice you say but it was against God and Conscience you did it neither euer in your life did ye anie thing for Loue Well to be short serue me you shall not and I would I could banish you from London for euer or keepe you cloase prisoner but that is not in me but what is or may be that strait you shall see By pollicies counsell this shall be done Diligence bring that yron helpe me my Lords Enter Diligence pol. Giue me the yron Pomp Cosen Skil help to hold him Fraud laies hold on him but Diss. slip away Sirra pollicy giues you this marke doo you sée A litle x. standing in the midd'st of a great C Meaning thereby to let all men vnderstand that you must not take aboue bare x. pound in the hūdred at any hand And that too much too and so be packing quietly And know that Londons Pomp is not sustained by vsury But by well ventured marchandize and honest industrie Vsu. I would I had neuer seene ye if this be your curtesie Exit Vsurie pol, Now Cosen Skil alias filthy Fraud No kinsman to Pollicie nor friend to the state In steed of seruing me Diligence take him to Newgate Aske not whie sir but Diligence if he doe striue Raise the street he 's vnweaponed and thou hast a weapon on And now Lordes when ye wil about our affaires let 's be gone ple. Agréed but what 's become of faire semblance my man pom. A craftie villaine perceiuing how we meant to Vsurie slipt away Enter Simplicitie in hast and giue the Lords a paper to read Simp. All hail all raine all frost all snow be to you thrée Lordes of London on a row Read my supplantation and my suit yee shall know Euen for Gods sake aboue and three Ladies sakes below Frau. M. Diligence Do me fauour you know I am a gentleman Dil. Step aside til my Lordes be gone I le doo for you what I can slip aside pom. What 's here my boy what 's here pleasure this suit is sure to you for it 's mad
if thou be wise thou wilt not tarie the reckoning for seest thou not vs three Dissimulation simony and my selfe Vsu. Yes What meanes these canuas suites Will yee be Sailers Fra. Vsury make one this is our intent let 's sée that none heare vs now the Spaniards are comming thou hearest with great power here is no liuing for vs in London men are growen so full of conscience and religion that Fraud Dissimulation and Simony are disciphered and being disciphered are also dispised and therefore wee will slip to the sea and meet and ioine with the enemie and if they conquere as they may for they are a great armie by report our credite may rise againe with them if they faile and retire we may either goe with them and liue in Spaine where we and such good fellowes are tollerated and vsed or come fitly again hether so long as none knows but friends Vsu. But wil you do thus you two Dis. And thou too I hope why what should we do Vsu. Whatsoeuer ye doe be not traitors to your natiue countrie Simo. T is not our natiue countrie thou knowest I Simony am a Roman Dissimulation a Mongrel half an Italian halfe a Dutchman Fraud so too halfe French and halfe Scottish and thy parentes were both Iewes though thou wert borne in London and here Vsury thou art cried out against by the preachers ioine with vs man to better thy state for in Spain preaching toucheth vs not Vsu. To better my state nay to alter my state for here where I am I know the gouernment here can I liue for all their threatning if strangers preuaile I know not their lawes nor their vsage they may bée oppressore take al I haue and it is like they are so for they seek that 's not their owne Therfore here will I stay sure to keepe what I haue rather than be a traitor vpon hap and had I wist and stay you if ye be wise and pray as I pray that the preachers and all other good men may die and then we shall flourish but neuer trust to strangers curtesie Fra. We shal trust but to our friends kin yo 'il not go with vs yet for old acquaintance keep counsel betray vs not for we 'il be gone to sea I am affraid yen foolish knaue haue belaied the stréets for vs Vsu. Let me go afore ye if any such thing be I le giue ye inkling Exit Fra. Do farewel Vsury and as he goes one way we 'il go another follow sirs neuer trust a shrinker if he be your owne brother Exeunt omnes Enter the three Lordes with their Pages and Fealtie a Herald before them his coat hauing the armes of London before and an Oliue tree behind pol: Fealty thou faithfull Herald of our towne Thou true truce-kéeper and sure friend in peace Take downe our shields and giue them to our boies Now Fealty prepare thy wits for war he deliuers them To parlie with the proud Castillians Approching fast the frontiers of our coast Wit here my Page in euerie message shall Attend on thee to note them and their déedes I néed not tel thée they are poore and proud Vaunters vaineglorious tyrants truce-breakers Enuious irefull and ambitious For thou hast found their facing and their brags Their backes their coffers and their wealth their rags But let me tell thee what we craue of thée To scanne with iudgment what their leaders be To note their presence and obserue their grace And truly to aduertise what they seeme Whether to be experienced in armes Or men of name those three that lead the rest the rest referre we to thy owne conceit Feal, I hope in this my dutie to discharge as heretofore Simplicity make a great noise within and enter with three or four weaponed Simp. Clubs clubs nay come neighbours come for here they bee here I left them arrant theeues rogues cosoners I charge ye as you wil answere prebend them for they haue vndone me and robb'd me and made me the poorest free man that euer kept a ballad stall A Constable I charge ye keepe the peace and lay downe your weapons To the three Lords pomp Who rais'd this tumult Speake what meanes this stir simp. O I am vndone robb'd spoil'd of all my stocke let me see where be they Keepe euerie street and doore samine all that comes for Fraud that cosoner pol, Maisters what meane you in these troublous times to keepe this coile Const, Alas my Lord her 's a poore man rob'd or cosoned simp. I am rob'd O my boies my pretie boies I am vndone saw ye no theeues nor no craftie knaues what be all these Wit Simplicity away these be our Lordes offend them not for feare Simp. I séeke not them I séeke for Fraud that rob'd me plea. Go seeke els where for here 's no place for such Pol. My friends depart and qualifie this stir And see peace kept within the walles I charge ye Const. I wil my Lord come Simp. we came too late to find your losses Exeunt simp. Pray for me my boies I think I shal hang my selfe I come euer too late to speed pol. Now Lordes let Honors fire enflame on thoughtes And let vs arme our courage with our cause And so dispose our selues to welcome them Doe me the fauour if I may intreat To be the first to front the foe in face The Vauntgard let be Pollicies this once Pompes the maine baitaile pleasures the Rereward And so bestow vs if you thinke it good Pom. I think it good and time that it were done Plea I think it good and wish the enemie come Enter Diligence Dil. And here they come as braue as Philips sonne And his Ephestion woont to be arraied In glittering gold and party coloured plumes With curious pendents on their Lances Ext Their shieldes Ymprez'd with gilt copertiments Their Pages carelesse plaieng at their backes As if with conquest they triumphing came Pol. If they be conquer'd greater is their shame But Diligence go post alongst the coast To tell the newes and looke to welcome them Let vs alone My Lords you heare the newes More words were vaine I know ye wel resolu'd Exit Dil. Pom. And here they come Oh proud Castillians Enter first Shealty the Herald then Pride bearing his shield himself his ympreze a Peacocke the worde Non par illi His Page Shame after him with a Launce hauing appendent gilt with this word in it Sur lé Ciel Ambition his ympreze a blacke Horse salliant with one hinder foote vpon the Globe of the earth one fore foote stretching towards the cloudes his woorde Non sufficit orbis His page Treacherie after him his pendent Argent and Azure an armed Arme catching at the Sun beames the woorde in it Et gloriam Phoebi Last Tyrannie His ympreze a naked Childe on a speares point bleeding his woord Pour sangue His page Terrour his pendent rules in it a Tygers head out of a cloud licking a bloody heart The
in his shield his blacke disordered beast Scaling the skies scornfull to tread the ground And both his words proud words prooue perfectly Action his page to be but Treachery Euer attendant on Ambition but to the third Sheal. The third ground Caualiero is Gouernment Seuere in Iustice and in iudgment déepe His ympreze is a naked Infant goar'd Vpon a Lance signifing seueritie His word pour sangue for blood of enemies He bendes his sorces on his pendent is A Lyger licking of a bleeding heart And Cura Cruor is the word thereon His care 's for blood of those that dare resist Yet hight his Page that followes him Regard and he for Conscience to this conquest comes pol. The Gouernment of spaine is Tyrannie as doo his ympreze and his words declare His Page is Terror for a Tyrant feares His death in diet in his bed in sleepe In conscience Spight the Spanish tyrannie Hath shed a sea of most vnguilty blood Wel what 's the end Shea. The end is best you yeeld submitting you to mercy of these Lords Pom. Before we fight soft sic ye braue too fast Castilians know that Englishmen wil knock but say Dooth Spanish Pride for Londons Lucre gape ple. And would their Tyranny Conscience captiue haue pol: Doth their Ambition Londons loue affect sheal. All this they will and pray vpon your towne And giue your landes away before your face alas what 's England to the power of spaine a Molehil to be placed where it pleaseth them pom. But in this Molehil many Plsmyres be All which will sting before they be remoou'd What is thy name sheal. Shealty pol. An Irish word signifieng liberty rather remisnes loosnes if ye wil why hath thy coat a burning ship behind shea. to signify the burning of your fléet by vs Castilliās pol: It rather means your common wealth 's on fire about your eares and you were best looke home a common wealth 's compared to a ship If yours do flame your countrey is hot beware Feal. I see Castilians that you maruel much at this same Embleme of the Oliue tree Vpon my backe Lo this it signifies Spaine is in warres but London liues in peace Your natiue fruit dooth wither on your soile and prospers where it neuer planted was This Londons Fealty dooth auouch for trueth Herald of war and Porter of their peace Commaund ye me no seruice to my Lords S. Pride Quid tibi cum domini mox seruient miseri nobis diseede Feal. Quid mihi cum dominis seruietis miseri meis pom. shealty say vnto yen Thrasos thrée The Lordes of London dare them to the field Wittieng their pride and their Ambition Scerning their Tiranny and yet fearing this That they are come from home and dare not fight But if they dare in ioint or seueral armes Battaile or combat him that Lucre seekes Your Spanish pride him dare I from the rest ple. That bloodie curre your Spanish Tyranny That Londons Conscience would force with crueltie I challenge him for Conscience sake to fight a Lord of London and I pleasure hight And shealty when Citizens dare them thus Iudge what our Nobles and our courtiers dare Pol. Say if thou wilt that Londons pollicy Discernes that proud Ambition of spaine And for he comes enflamde with Londons loue In combat let him conquere me and haue her this is Loues fauour I her seruant am pom. This Lucres fauour Pomp for her will fight Plea this Conscience fauour she my mistresse is shea. You crauen English in your donghils crowe Pom. You Spanish Fesants crow vpon your pearch But when we fire your coates about your eares And take your shippes before your walled townes We make a donghill of your rotten boanes And cram our chickens with your graines of gold shea. You will not yéeld ple, Yes the last moneth shea. Farewel Retire Heraldes with the pages to their places S. Pride Vade pol. Herald how now Fea. Yen proud Castillians looke for your seruice Pom. So do we for theirs but Fealtie canst thou declare to me the cause why all their pages follow them when ours in showes do euer goe before Fea. In war they followe and the Spaniard is warring in mind pol. But that 's not now the cause yen three are Pride Ambition Tyranny shame followes pride as we a prouerbe haue pride goes before and shame comes after Treachery euer attendes vpon Ambition And Terrour alwaies with a fearfull watch Doth wait vpon il conscienced Tyranny But why stay we to giue them space to breath Come Courage let vs charge them all at once Let the three Lordes passe towards the Spaniards and the Spaniardes make show of comming forward and sodainly depart Pom. What brauing cowards these Castillians be My Lordes let 's hang our Scutchens vp againe And shroud our selues but not farre off vnséene To prooue if that may draw them to some deed Be it but to batter our ymprezed shieldes plea. Agréed here Fealty hang them vp a space They hang vp their shieldes and step out of sight The Spaniardes come and flourish their rapiers neer them but touch them not thē hang vp theirs which the Lords of London perceiuing take their owne and batter theirs The Spaniards making a litle showe to rescue do sodenly slippe away and come no more pol. Facing faint-hearted proud and insolent That beare no edge within their painted sheaths That durst not strike our sillie patient shieldes Pom. Vp haue they set their owne sée if we dare Batter on them and beat their brauing Lordes ple. Let them not yonder hang vnbackt my Lords Pol. With good aduise that we be not surprised and good enough pom. My selfe wil onset giue on Prides at your Peacocke sir plea. At Tyrannies wil I bestow my blow wishing the maister Pol. I at Ambitions strike haue at his pampered Iade Enter S. Pride S. Pride Fuoro Viliagos fuoro Lutheranos Angleses fuoro sa sa sa Pom. Their shieldes are ours they fled away with shame But Lordings whiles the stratageum is fresh And memorie of thir misfortune greene Their hartes yet fainting with the nouell griefe Let vs pursue them flieng if you say it Haply we may preuent their passage yet pol. With spéed and héede the matter must be done ple. Therefore you Pollicie shall our leader be Exeunt omnes Enter three Ladies and Nemo Ne. The day is ours faire Ladies let vs ioy The ioyfull day that all men may reioice Yet onely I am thankfull for this good And your good day at hand approcheth fast Wherein you shall be ioinde to thrée such Lordes As all the cities vnder heauens bright cope Cannot with all their glorie match in worth Lucre Lord Pomp a victor comes to thee Loue looke thou for Lord pollicy aswell And Conscience for her well reformed Fere pleasure that onely made his choice of her Vpon that day triumphant shall we feast Wherein Madames your honors nil be least Lucre Against their comming might my read be hard Prepare