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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12676	A discourse more at large of the late ouerthrovve giuen to the King of Spaines armie at Turnehaut, in Ianuarie last, by Count Morris of Nassawe, assisted with the English forces whereunto is adioined certaine inchauntments and praiers in Latine, found about diuerse of the Spaniards, which were slaine in the same conflict: Translated out of French according to the copy printed in the Low Countries. Seene and allowed.		1597 (1597)	STC 22993; ESTC S101965	8,011	20

MAVRITIUS PRINCEPS ORANGIAE COMES NASSAVIAE ETC. A discourse more at large of the late ouerthrovve giuen to the King of Spaines armie at Turnehaut in Ianuarie last by Count Morris of Nassawe assisted with the English forces Wh●●●●o is adioined certaine inchauntments and praiers in Latine found about diuerse of the Spaniards which were slaine in the same conflict Translated out of French according to the copy printed in the Low Cou●●●ies 〈◊〉 and allowed P S ET V●●●●●D N●●●● V●RI●●● TVA Printed at London and are to be solde in Paules Churchyarde at the signe of the blacke Beare 1597. A discourse of the victorie which it pleased God to giue vnto the Prince of Nassaw captaine generall of the vnited Prouinces of the Low countries in the ouerthrowe of the Armie of the king of Spaine at Turnhaut in Brabant the 24. of Ianuarie last Tandem bona causa Triumphant IF the euents of the affairs of the worlde did succeede according to the iudgementes and reason of men it would fal out by an infallible maxime of that which we call the order reason of things that the smallest shoulde bee surmounted of the greatest the most simplest poore and meekest by the most craftiest subtilest and richest and the weakest by the strongest But when wee see the contrary to happen that the smallest or poorest the moste simple and weakest to ouercome the greatest the most subtill richest and most mightiest it is an euident signe whereby the Atheists contemners of the prouidence of God may acknowledge the actions of men to be gouerned by a higher power then their weake discourses can reach vnto and likewise to Princes which professe themselues to bee Christians an aduertisement not to grounde themselues vppon their owne greatnes and worldly wisedome but narrowlie to examine themselues whether the foundation of their warres be iust holy necessarie and void of all tyrannical passions not opposing themselues obstinately without yeelding to any thinge vnder hope that their great extraordinary meanes will bringe vnder those who by comparison haue not the hundreth part in respect of themselues But that great God which doth sustain those whose causes are iust how weake soeuer they be knoweth well how to abase their hauty presumptions and enuie in making their determinations vaine and to consume like smoke whereof we might alledge infinite examples of times past if one which is presented vnto vs in this age would not suffice Wee see the Spanish Nation so puffed vp with ambition and ouerwhelmed with desire of conquering almoste all the world for the great treasures which yearlie hee draweth to himselfe that not finding any thing impossible he doth vndertake at once to conquer three or foure Realmes by waie of armes besides this heauy warre which he hath against the vnited prouinces of the Low countries And albeit that these Spaniards in this pursute of conquest haue vnprofitablie consumed in two of their principal enterprises as much treasure and receiued as muche dammage as euer did any prince that rained these thousand yeares in Christendome yet notwithstanding as in despite of their mines of golde they continue to force themselues againe to strike on the rockes which haue caused their shipwracke Is it to be founde in any historie whatsoeuer these thousand yeares that one prince in one onlie exploite or enterprise hath employed so many millions of golde as the king of Spaine hath doone in France a few yeares since during those follies of the league for to catch or rather dismember that goodly realme one of the ornaments not of Europe but of the worlde In all the streetes of the legued townes euery tenth man did scarse receaue wages of the Spaniard and at euery receit thereof were two or three mutinies at the leaste As for that proude and extraordinarie armie by Sea prepared the yeare eightie eight and set foorth with so great charges was there euer the like by any Christian prince these thousand yeares Notwithstanding al that the king of Spaine as I say more obstinate then euer or rather entering into a reproued course of iudgement doth he not yet prepare another the like Wherof howbeit that he hath already lost almost the one halfe yet doth he repaire it without any sparing of charges for to ariue at a place where it shal be I assure my selfe better receiued then welcome He doth leuie great extraordinarie forces for this next summer to the end to ouerthrow destroy all Fraunce Fraunce I say which is at this present so defensible an estate as it was at that time when as the Emperour Charles the fift his father imploying all his forces for to make a breach in it and those of an host of the princes of Germany was constrained to returne as shamefullie as hee did enter couragiouslie and with hope to swallow vp the goodlie estate of France I say againe which is at this present commaunded by a king so braue worthie warlike and wise as euer it hath hadde vnder colour that his armies beeing conducted the last summer past by his nephewe and brother in lawe the Cardinall of Austria haue hadde some fauourable successes by the taking of two Townes in France and one on this side the which notwithstanding hee hath bought deerely and with his iuste valour and giuen money inoughe for either of them and yet is the cardinal puffed vp with so high imaginations and filled him with so great desseins that esteeming the Frenchmen as people made of strawe or snowe and as they say not vnderstanding the affaires of estate do cast as they thinke dust in their eies by the meanes of trifling propositions of peace or truce thinking this next summer to enter far into their realme and so to make a breach into the vnited Prouinces But that God as I said at the beginning which can ouerthrow the paradoxes of their tyrannical and arrogant powers hath alreadie made it appeere by a notable euent in this beginning of the yeare that their determinations take not suche effect as they beare themselues in hand for that his best regiments of men of armes haue bin cleane ouerthrowne and cut in peeces by the Prince Maurice of Nassau which had atchiued such aduenturous deeds of war to the good successe of the Cardinall and of the earle of Fueintes and amongst others those Rodomons soldats Neapolitans of the regiment of the marques of Treuicques and of Borlot which are said to tear armed men with their teeth This victorie then is as happy honourable and profitable for vs as it befell vnto them shameful and domageable the 24. of this moneth of Ianuarie 1597. in the Prouince of Brabant at Turnhaut in maner as followeth The Cardinall during the season of Winter did thinke that he might being fauoured by the yce and frost attempt some notable thing in the partes of Holland and Zeland resolued with himselfe to sende vnto the said Turnhaut a good troope of his best foote and horsse commanded by the earle of