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A01406	The vision and discourse of Henry the seuenth Concerning the vnitie of Great Brittaine. Diuided into foure chapters. 1. Containing an introduction. 2. Inducements to vnitie. 3. The policy, deceit, and mischieuous spite of the vnderminers hereof. 4. The danger of diuision. Related by T.G.	Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?; Henry VII, King of England, 1457-1509.	1610 (1610)	STC 11526; ESTC S105669	39,084	72

their great noise their open passe doth tell So friends and countrymens great hate delay'd Workes strong effects if once it be displai'd VVhere greatest loue is any where expected If thence proceed no shew of kinde intent They which do faile herein are soone suspected And feare seemes wise suggesting some contempt Then strangenesse growes from th' one vnto the other And both will shortly secret enuie smoother For as the glasse through which the eye doth peere Makes all things seeme of colour with the same So do all actions good or ill appeare As good or ill conceit the minde doth frame And this is commonly the vsuall course That ill doth waxe and growe from bad to worse Some-times a fa●se report is blowne abroad Of wrong which doth incense the hearts of men And then reuenge is like the hellish goade Which makes the wronged rouse him from his den That mischiefe often-times he brings to passe To quitte a wrong which neuer offred was Then wrong with wrong and bloud with bloud repai'd Makes euery place the stage of butcherie Whole families thus often are decai'd Oft kingdomes are thus wasted vtterlie For where one lawe of concord doth not binde Bellona still will vent for mallice finde As windes of heate or coolenesse doe partake With sands or waters where they lately pass●d As breath a sauour good or ill doth make As from the teeths Percullis it is cast So are our thoughts as our presumptions seeme O● as our iealousies do them esteeme When after seauenty yeares in bondage pass●d The Iewes had leaue their Citties to repaire Some ma●e-contents ●broad false rumors cast And forg'd strange tales to make them all dispaire But all deuices could not hinder them From building of the faire Ierusalem So England seeing many lets to muster If those be lets which euery fancie venteth And seeing from these lets new le ts do cluster Wher●by the world at Englands good relenteth The more should all to Vnitie incline In spite of those which at our weale repine The different iudgments of the Vnion And other discontentmens haue so wrought That Romists are imbould'ned here-vpon Of Brittaines discord to retaine a thought And to divulgate on a publike stage The brainsick vapours of the Romaine rage So wise a king such Councellers of state As at this day few kingdomes do maintaine T●e Romists prize them at so meane a rate That personall Quaeres they will not refraine Who with their Popes and Cardinals would be bold V●to the world strange stories might vnfold But for the scandall of the Christian weale Which labours now of her vnworthie guide Some Christian Satyre would such acts reueale As modestie hath heretofore denide Yet if the Romists daily shall prouoke They must expect a wel-deserued stroke Thy wrongs my deare Eliza shall inflame Those hidden sparkes which seeme extinguished Since by thy grace the Muses honour came They cannot heare thy honour blemished Eu'n they which of these times do most complaine In thy defence may sing a pleasing straine Thy due no honest Papist shall offend Some of their Popes haue rightly thee esteemed All they which do vnpartiall censure spend Of thy most princely vertues well haue deemed Though Parsons clamorous and fugitiues Would staine such princes and depraue their liues As for my Iames which sees his foes despite And tries the valour of approoued friends If with respect their seruice he requite They for their silence will make such amends That in her strength Rome shall assaulted be And at her doores al'armaes she shall see So cast a cause such bombast furniture Such proude brauadoes from Romes painted flourish These iustly may all Christians hate procure D●●esting falshood which blind zeale did nourish Who onely at his owne defence doth lie Such ward his owne defence shall not supply When Hanibal neere Rome his armie brought He put the Romans vnto more distresse Then at the siege of Carthage where he fought With all his power her thraldome to redresse So when the Popes V●aligon doth burne He well may feare t' will shortly be his turne So many towring wits incouraged So many souldiers readie for the charge Might soone throughout all Christendome be spred And might some Romane prisoners inlarge Since Rome by pamphlets al the world doth threaten With true reports shee 's worthie to be beaten The Romists and the Schismatickes agree To raile at those whose cause they cannot wrong The worthiest Prince from these cannot be free In subiects loue they will not haue them strong On th' one side Parsons Martins on the other All awfull loue of gouernours would smother And whilst thrice-famous England doth prepare To countermine the Romane policie VVhilst th' English in the front their strength declare Vpon their flanke the Schismatickes will flie So that they 'le giue assistance vnto Rome VVhich once victorious would worke their doome Then let conceits and idle groundlesse feares Be held as mutinies in armies raised Or like to haruest showers procuring teares Of those which would their timely helpe haue praised By others harmes let Britaines sects be warned VVhich till their ruine Concord haue not learned Though Brittaine like to famous Tyre do stand All moted by a neuer-failing riuer Though woodden walles her bayes coasts command Though Truth feare neither Rome nor Satans quiuer Yet if some pore-blind factions be not true Their fond diuision all the rest may rue What was the cause that Greece so soone had lost That great commaund which Alexander gained What great misfortune could so soone haue crost That power which throgh the world was not restrained How did her glorie suddenly decline Which in the view of all the world did shine Her riches and her prowesse did exceede All kingdomes of the world which then were knowne Her name did euery where great terrour breed And who withstood her headlong downe were throwne Yet want of Concord did her frame dissolue And she againe to weaknesse did reuolue Her captaines did themselues with broyles consume Which had conioyn'd themselues in forraine fight To th' Empire euery one would needs presume And euery one made equall claime of right As ships in whirlewinds quickly strike the saile So Greece did stoope when hers did her assayle And as the first great Emperour of Rome In greatest conflicts neuer was dismai'd But when he sawe that in his chiefest bloome By his disloyall friends he was betraid He hid his eyes and would not make defence But left the scourge to heau'n for this offence So Greece when she perceiu'd her home-bred iarres To waste her cities and her wealthie store She then foresawe that shortly forraine warres Should make her captiue which was queene before Then widow-like whose Lord and sonnes were slain Of Concords breach she onely did complaine Diuision both a breach and passage made First for the Roman after for the Turke Now Ottoman all Greece doth ouershade Where he the Christians ouerthrow doth worke Whose policie all Europe might

This is the cause why Rome such paines doth take Her braine is lymbeck't for some queint deuice Her search doth diue into the Stygian lake Her broken strength she musters in a trice As flyes on sores or waters in a breach So are her troopes this Ile to ouer-reach Amōgst those lands which haue disclaim'd her power This land hath still maintain'd most worthy spirits Whose valour wisdom truth aloft did towre And challeng'd fame and glory for their merits As farre as Titan sends his lightsome rayes So farre the world resoundeth Englands praise How oft haue th' English curb'd the Spanish pride And vanquisht them in their owne seas and lands Who still did hope all Europe to diuide By colonies for Austria's line to stand But England onely hath them ouer-throwne And euer since their powre hath backward grown The Mid-earth sea the Indies East and West Haue seene and felt their prowesse and their force Their policie hath made them safely rest Within their bowres though Rome did them diuorce Though Spanish force and Romish curse agreed Yet England hath it selfe from bondage freed For since the Welsh all former hate did bury And loyall loue did vow to new made friends All Englands foes since that haue felt their fury And Wales like walls the English coast defends That now the Church and Vniuersities Do triumph dayly in these firme allies So now the English haue a new increase Of Northren friends in vallour like the rest So that all broyles of bordering warres must cease And now this I le may more aduance her crest What power so euer dares her Lions wake T is in their power a due reuenge to take Their bloud shall with the English bloud be matcht New bonds of loue shall cancell former hate They shall not now by fearfull eye be watcht All scorne shall dye the fuell of debate Like Gerion they shall their force vnite And loue with loue and faith with faith requite Thus from the world this once diuided I le Is now become a famous monarchie Though long it did it selfe with bloud defile Now is it crown'd with peacefull amitie Thus by the Lord of hoasts her stormes are calmed Thus are her wounds by his owne hand embaulmed Shal then earths wormes contend with heauens great king Shall flitting vagrants breake a setled peace Who for themselues a weake defence do bring Who see their Patrons power still to decrease Shall Rome declining to that height aspire To set a world within it selfe on fire Who cannot quench a flame so neere begun But yeeld to time and temporize for feare Shall others to her wayning power be wonne And on their necks this helplesse idoll beare Like to the Rocks whereon the waues do beat So are all those whom Romane curse doth threat The birds of th' aire and those caelestiall legions Which ouer vertuous Kings do alwayes houer These heare the speeches of the lower regions And to the highest will these wrongs discouer All power 's from heauen heauen will it defend And ill shall be to those that ill intend CHAP. 2. Inducement to vnitie WHen vapours moist and exhalations hotte Into the ayres mid regiment are hail'd The fierie fume cloud smoothered scornes his lott And breakes the prison where it was inthral'd Then ayery Cannons in such sort do thunder As if the firmament would cleaue a sunder So different humours on this earthly stage Send from their fantasies such store of vollies As if the world in his old wayward age Should make a rendz-vous of all his follies Yet their assaults the truth can no way scarre Nor fruitlesse passions reasons strenght can marre For Vnitie from heauen her selfe deriues And there her truest image doth remaine Who seekes her breach against himselfe doth striue And on his head his shafts returne againe Yet selfe-conceit strange paradoxes houlds As wandring Goates delight in change of foulds The first reason from the Trinity THe onely One distinct in persons three In glorious essence neuer is diuided Three Tapers light in one doe all agree And by this light th'elect to blisse are guided For mans dull thoughts heauens mysteries cannot see Except faiths windowes thence tralucent be Where quintessence of all perfections dwels How can there any difference arise Man blinde and fraile with sullen enuie swels His minde doth varie as his bodies guise Which is the cause that vnderneath the sunne There 's nothing soundly or in order done The generall Councels of the worlds great Clearkes Where publick good so fairely is pretended They are but pageants of some priuate querkes Where vice is masked and no fault amended The world growes weake and art must now sustaine What natures strength and vigor did maintaine When motions are on foote though neu'r so good And though propounders often merit praise Yet still by factions they are so with-stood That truth and right them-selues can hardly raise Some witts consent though somewhat they will adde Some witts triumph to make good causes bad But with Iehouah the true square of right The eye of truth the arme of strength and force Which sees all falshood in the darkest night And doth vprightly iudge without remorce How can their odds by any weaknesse be As man with man in strife too oft we see The second reason from the Heauens HEre is the perfect view of Vnitie To which the worthiest creatures do aspire The Heauens and Elements do mooue hereby Else to their Chaos they would soone retire If these should not their place and order keepe Men should not here on earth so soundly sleepe The circled motion of the spangled wheeles Which primum mobile about doth carry Proou's heau'ns great concord for ther 's none that reeles Out of his place or that maine course doth varie The changing Moone which earthly things presents Her course with other starres no whit preuents As maskers when they heare sweet Musick 's sound They tread their Measures by so perfect Art As if their bodies were by trauise bound Or that they were all guided by one heart So heau'ns great Orbs together runne their rings As they are charged by the King of Kings From th' Empyreall heau'n which doth imbrace The other heau'ns and all the elements All keepe true quarter teaching Adams race That they so le●rne to order their intents That lawfull concord they do neuer crosse Least ciuill discord bring a fatall losse The third reason from the Elements IF fire and water should their armies bring Into earths vallies they would all deuoure If ayre should from his triple station fling No creature could retaine his vitall power The earth would then her deluge plaints renew As once the borders Britaines strife did row The happiest gouernment they do obserue Which is the preseruation of the whole From this decree they neuer yet did swerue Since glistering starres carreer'd about the pole Twixt fire and water which are deadly foes The onely-wise