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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

not onely of my preferment but the certain accomplishment of all those great matters before spoken of assuredly consisteth that I may be receaved and brought to the presence and most comfortable favour of his princely mercies that by thē I may haue a new life breathed into me and be preferred to that eminent place where I may best performe as dutie and thankfulnes shall binde me both to his Highnes and thy excellencie that worthie and faithfull service that shall neuer be but exceedingly well thought highly comended to all posterity And to my auspitious mind no fitter place for demōstration of my dutifull seruice I speak not I protest out of ambition or anie vicious humor can be assigned me thē that Parliament house which these Monsters of mankinde the Pope his miscreant crue had meant to haue subverted demolished by Plutoes Vulcans violent and boystrous fires flashing thunderbolts and so to haue made consecrated it as a ruinous fit Pallace for the habitation of the black infernall Prince his damned spirits and Ministers of darknes But that I may with the greater right and without cavill of curious or captious heads stand there aucthorized Let me also request this favour at your handes most mightie Monarchie to move stir vp the wel affected mindes fierie zeales of the States of your Parliament that at the next Session I being as yet but an Alian heere may by Statute decree be naturalized and infranchized as a borne subiect within your territorie so thereafter to be erected and stand in the place that was destinated for Plutoes Pallace as a perpetuall monument and Record of this horrible conspiracie of thine our Monarchs most happy cōservation as a caveat to the ages following of the Papistical treasons of the Romish Church which I hope shall shortly inferre an end to that long vsurped tyrannicall raigne And so perswading my selfe that if neither my poore and pittious distressed estate neither the fine eloquence of the bannished Pyramis it selfe speaking to you in his owne French language newly set forth in your owne tongue cannot perswade you to immortalize your own deliverie from the greatest apparant daunger that ever befell to you I say if this above mentioned reason cannot move you to testifie in some measure the earnest desire you haue to make this notable deliverie of GOD to bee knowne to the ages subsequent by my publike erecting again in a glorious Pyramis by testifying your inward thākfulnes to him by this outward monument for your preservation Yet I beseech you although I seem perchance a strāger in outward shew suffer me neverthelesse as a loving Patriark simpathizing Christian in the common cause that these two great wonderfull works of the Almightie God may at least move and touch your hearts from the highest degree to the lowest from the head to the bodie and so to all the members of this your Monarchie I meane his great mercie towards you all and his fearefull iudgement against your enemies in this never to be forgotten thrice happie and admirable deliverie His mercie I say appeares not onely in discoverie of your danger but in disappointing of their cruell Parricide and in preserving your lyues from the snares of the bottomlesse Locusts of hellish Babilon his iudgement againe in the other part is to be admired in suffering a great part of them to bee apprehended and made a perpetuall spectacle to all posteritie by a iust and most severe punishment and the chiefest of them to haue suffered that same crueltie of punishment by Gun-powder which they ordained for your death Psal 17. Blessed therefore be the Lord of Hostes in all his workes for his mercies be everlasting and his iudgements vnsearchable And let this againe be your morning and evening sacrifice recommended to all Christians of mercie and of iudgement both O Lord Psal 10● my song shall bee But if all this cannot perswade you to erect mee for a publique Monument of your deliverie yet let the godlie example of Abraham Jsaack Jacob stir you vp to this who in their often deliveries favours receaved at the hands of God erected both Altars and Monumēts of stones as witnesses of Gods inestimable favours blessings towards them to their posteritie and seeing also that that spirituall Monument of publique prayers religiouslie ordained by his sacred Maiestie to bee celebrated through all his Kingdomes for stirring vp of all mens affections in thankfulnesse to GOD appeares almost in the verie beginning to bee neglected both in Court Countrie and Citie at least permitte then the erection of this temporall and materiall Monument to bee an occasion and a meanes not onelie to lifte vp your externall eyes to GOD but also rather to lift vp the eyes of your mindes and hearts to the memorie of GODS mercie towardes you all and of his iudgement vpon your enemies I could speake farre more in this so ample and worthie Subiect if I should not bee thought too forward in so good a cause but howsoever I or the Pyramis that hath made mee thus to speake bee liked of so that I haue preserved my selfe farre from Joue et fulmine I care the lesse the censure of the rude and vnlearned that knowes not but extra crepidam neither would I wish the covetousnesse of the rich nor the envie of the malecontent nor the partialitie of the indifferent neither the favourer of Poperie hinder so good a worke neither dislike of mee the Patronizer thereof adding onelie this short caveat with your good leaue and friendlie favour that if the least countenaunce of clemencie shall bee showne to the Romaine conspiratours and their associates either nowe or heereafter it is to bee feared that your clemencie shall bee called crueltie and your courage cowardnesse and your loue hatred And last of all your Religion and Zeale towardes Christes Church and your Countrie shall bee thought Atheisme and Poperie Which GOD forbid should ever come to passe in such a Christian and flourishing Monarchie where Christes word is so vniuersallie religiouslie preached And if that you either saue any of the greatest or meanest sort of those coniured Traytours that bee nowe in hands but especiallie the Iesuites and Seminarie Priests the chiefe inventours of all those pestilent plots ringleaders of the rest to this damnable Rebellion either for feare favour or for anie other worldlie or politick respect I feare not onely all such that feares God truly at home but all sincere and faithfull Christian neighbours abroad shall suspect you as betrayers both of Christes Church his true religion your gratious King Countrie yea your owne lyues to your verie enemies and to this end surelie the eies and eares of all those which be bound by the band of Vnitie in true religion in all forraigne Kingdomes are bent to attend and heare of the good successe of so great a worke put in your hand at this time so